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Mohave County miner., 1891-07-04

OF gold and silver.
There are several shafts sunk ON these
claims from IS to 120 feet in depth the
veins are quite large and the groupings
bold and constant. The surface ore is a
soft carbonate, becoming more concen-
trated with depth. They are very favor
ably situated for reduction, plenty of
water being running out of the mountain
only few hundred feet distant.
Here is a great opportunity for some
furnace mining men with capital. The
Champion, Twins, Blue Lode and New
London mines, all on the same mountain
and within 1000 feet of each other, and
all carrying gold, silver and lead, and
right on the very edge of the main stage
road, with good wagon roads TO the
dumps and only nine miles to the Allan.
tic & Pacific railroad. These properties
are being worked by Judge j. NJ. Murphy,
who is also the owner.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-07
A DOGS STRATAGEM.
His Ingenious Manner of Securing a Mes

His Ingenious Manner of Securing a Meal.
I observed an example of intelligence
in dog the other day, which. though
exercised at theexpense of another dog,
struck me as showing a degree of
shrewdness not unworthy of a human
being. He was a Newfoundland, and
when | first saw him he had his eye on
mongrel who was standing guard over
a basket which had apparently some
thing good to eat in it. When he shifted
at it, the mongrel growled. and showed
sufficient evidence of a fighting ten
dency to make the nobler animal draw
back from the basket, not perhaps be-
cause he feared an encounter. but because
he wished to use strategy rather than
force in the accomplishment of his
plans. Having occasion to pass the
spot some ten minutes later, | noticed
that the Newfoundland had put his
scheme in operation. He had brought
a numb er of other dogs into the neigh
borhood, and the mongrel was so far
attracted by them as to venture little
distance from his basket. on which.
however. he kept watchful eye, and
returned to it from time to time when
ever the treasure seemed to be too near
the presence of the other dogs.
At last, however, the Newfoundland
secured his opportunity. He rushed
past the basket, which he did not at
tempt to seize, though he almost
knocked it down, and was followed by
the other dogs One of these, of
course a small dog, of poodle-like
appearance, stopped to sniff at the
contents of the basket, and the mongrel
evidently thought the time had come to
vindicate his courage in the defense of
his owners property. So he bounced
upon the poodle and a brisk little fight
ensued, and the latter, proving to have
a good deal of pluck and strength, bore
his antagonist to the ground. While
this contest was going on the other
dogs. with the exception of the New
foundland, looked on approvingly and
were too absorbed by the spectacle to
paw any attention to the basket This
was the strategist's chance. He ran TO
the basket, tore off enough of the cover
to get his head in, and when last saw
him he was rushing away, with its con-
tents. what appeared TO be piece of
meat, in his nouth.-Washingto Post
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-07
The Law of Rent.

This is the law of rent: As individ-
uals come together in communities,
and society grows, migrating more
and more it's individual members, and
making general interests and general
conditions of more and more relative
Importance, there arises over and "a bove
the value which individuals can create
for themselves. value which is created
by the community as a whole, and
which, attaching to land, becomes
tangible, definite and capable of COM
putation and appropriation. AS society
grows, so grows this value, which
springs from and represents in tangible
form what society as a whole contri-
butes to production, as distinguished
from what is contributed by Individual
exertion. By virtue of natural law in
those aspects which it is the purpose of
the science we call political economy to
discover, as it is the purpose of the
sciences which we call chemistry and
astronomy to cover other aspects of
natural laval social advance neces-
sari1y contributes to the increase of
this common value; to the growth of
this common fund.
Here is provision made by natural
law for the increasing needs of social
growth; here is an adaptation of nature
by virtue of which the natural progress
of society is progress toward equality,
not toward inequality; centripetal
force tending to unity, growing out of
and ever balancing a centrifugal force
tending to diversity. Here is a fund
belonging to society as a whole from
which, without the degradation Of aims,
private or public, provision can be made
for the weak, the helpless, the aged;
from which provision can be made for
the common wants of all as a matter of
common right to each, and by the ntili-
cation of which society, as it advances,
may pass, by natural methods and easy
stages from rude association for pur-
poses of defense and police. into CO.
operative association, in which COM
bined power guided by com bined intel
Igence can give to each more than his
own exertions multiplied many fold
could produce.
BY making land private property, by
permitting individuals to appropriate
thi- fund which nature plainly intend
ed for the use of all, we throw the chill
dren's bread to the dogs of greed and
lust: we produce a primary inequality
which gives rise in every direction to
other tendencies to inequality: and from
this perversion of the good gifts of the
Creator, from this ignoring and defying
of his social laws, there arise in the
very heart of our civilization those hor-
rible and monstrous things that betoken
social putrefaction.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-07
Taxing Vacant Lots in Burlington,
Iowa.

Frank S. Churchill, Of Burlington,
Iowa, writes: Our morning paper i'll
reporting the proceedings of the city
council at their regular meeting, con.
tains the following:
A resolution was introduced which
will warm the hearts of the single tax
advocates, and shows the effect of the
published arguments of the local adher-
ents of the theory. twas introduced by
Alderman Mercer, and reads as follows:
Resolved, That the assessor of the
city of Burlington, Iowa, be and is here
by directed and instructed to mark his
books before presented to the city coun-
Gil, so as to indicate which lots have inn
provements and which are vacant, so
that the council, when acting as a
board of equalization, may act intelli-
gently and place upon vacant lots held
for speculative purpose their share of
municipal taxation" The ordinance
was adopted without dissent.
Our single tax men feel that they
have not labored in vain, and we will
now do our best to drive home the
wedge and aid the city council in plac-
ing upon vacant lots their share of mu-
nicipal taxation
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-07
oINo-. LAX DEPARTMENT.
SINGLE TAX AND SOCIALISM,.

Commenting on Mr.. Shearman's article
on The Coming Millionaire" the Gal
weston Daily News thinks that the in
evitable corruption and ineficiency that
would attend an attempt to raise all
public revenues by single tax on in
comes would cause general disgust.
After that, if the people still adhered to
direct taxation, the News says they
would necessarily be confronted with
the alternative plan Of a single tax on
land values" We can not quite make
out whether or not the News thinks
that such a contamination would be
alarming to Mr.. Shearman. It apparently
would alarm our Galveston contem-
porary, for it thus continues:
'And here, if the tax problem is to
wax to this shape and complexion. the
final struggle must come between the
party of individualism and the party of
socialism over the issue of taxation.
The individualists will insist that tax
alton on any kind of value shall be for
no other purpose than to supply the
fiscal needs of government limited to
its primary and necessary functions of
police authority. The socialists will in
is adopted, for the purpose of an all
round social readjustment. They will
propose to tax away for the benefit of
the community all value accrning from
social wants, social congregations and
Industrial concentrations"
If the News will familiarize itself
with the theory and programme of the
single tax movement it will dismiss all
such fears The single takers are in
dividualists, not socialists. They are
utterly opposed to the assumption by
government of the conduct of private
business. Most of them, however, pro-
test against the continuance of the
practice that transfers to private indi-
viduals and corporations the transac-
ton of public business and the perform
ance of public functions, and they de-
mand that the government shall resume
its proper functions and cease to farm
out the taxing and other powers to pri-
vate individuals to be used for their
personal advantage and profit, On this
general principle they are all agreed,
though there may be differences as to
detail. For instance, they are all
agreed that the maintenance of public
mig HNdys Is d Iuhctlon vi tiie sldte, ou1
many insist that highways thus main
tanned shall be operated by private en-
terprise, while some, mistakenly, we
think, regarding this as impracticable,
insist that the state shall not only own
the road bed, but that it shall operate
its own rolling stock on railways. All
are, however, agreed that the principle
involved is that private parties shall
not own and monopolize public high
ways. If the Galveston News calls this
socialism it ought to insist on the sale
of the Mississippi and other rivers to
private parties, who would doubtless
pay the federal government an enor-
nous sum for the privilege of exacting
tribute from all craft sailing on their
rivers.-The Standard.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-07
Why the Farmer Should Favor the
Single Tax.

The farmer is apt to cry out against
what he calls the injustice of exempt
ing the magnificent buildings, some
times erected in cities from all taxa
ton. forgetting that such buildings al
ways stand upon the most expensive
land, while his own farm house and
barns stand upon land of utterly insignifi-
cant value. In adjusting taxation, the
only question of Importance is as to
the relative proportion which will be
borne by different classes. and it is of
no Importance whatever that any single
piece of property should pay much or
little, provided all other properties of
the same kind pay in exact proportion
with it. farm house, costing 81, 500
to build, will stand upon piece of land
which, including the surrounding gar
den, on an ample scale, would not be
worth more than SIS. But an average
city house, costing SO, 900 to build, will
stand upon a lot worth at least SIS, 900;
while warehouse, costing $4,000 to
build, will frequently stand upon lot
worth $50, 900. So far, therefore, as the
mere value of the land which is req uir-
ed for the purpose of supporting
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-07
DEEDS OF A DUELIST.
Astonishing Encounters of the Marqu
de sainte Maria.

Astonishing Encounters of the Marquis
de sainte-Naria.
The recent record of the field of
honor in western Europe has been I'M
varied by unique meetings The Ger
man is too serious by nature to trife
with the code. Even in escaping from
duel already arranged he shows his
reverence for the fitness of things by
applying for dueling permit from the
local princeling, whose inevitable re-
fusal terminates hostilities in the pom
derously dignifed manner desired. To
be sure some years ago an American
student in Leipsic, when challenged,
named baseballs as the weapons, and,
in reckless disregard of all precedents.
doubled up his antagonist with a
down curve in the stomach; but then
he was an American. and on Germany's
field of honor Americans don't count.
The Swiss are too busy to think up
original modes of duelling: the Dutch are
too stolid. The French and Italians are
too fond of the heroic, even in the
bloodlessness of prearranged fiasco,
to upset the accepted methods of pitting
man against man. Everything be
tween gentlemen" has been done so de-
Gently and in order for very many years
that most foreigners have come to think
that it was always thus. and only the
American has been frivolous and ir
reverent enough to treat the code ex-
perimentally.
A Frenchman has, however, discov-
cred that to a certain extent these sup
positions are wrong, and that there
lived in the days of the first empire
man whose masterwork on the field of
honor had all the originality and pictur-
esqueness that characterized the duels
of early American history. Marquis
Marie de SainteMaria was his name.
which, like his deeds, lives only in the
traditions of the region selected by him
for the scene of his proves. The mar
quis was a royalist and civilian In
those DAYS the bitterest hatred prevailed
between royalists and Bonapartists,
between soldiers and civilians. word,
a smile, or nothing at all was sufficient
to cause one Frenchman to stake his
life against another's when a question
of politics or military policy was at is
sue. One day NJ. Pierrot d'Issac, an I'M
compromising and eager duelist, called
on the marquis and said: Marquis,
you are royalist and | am a Bona
partist- My name is Pierrot and yours
is Marie Don't you consider that
misunderstanding?
Without doubt, SIR" answered the
marquis, rising threateningly to his full
height. Challenge me and I choose
pistols, Moreover, 1 regard it as
proper that two wandering birds like
US should fight it out from the tree
tops"
The next morning the principals
| went with their friends to the woods
of Vasest and each climbed tree The
witnesses stretched their necks and
noses sLyward as the bullets whistled
high overhead from tree top to tree
top. A minute passed, and then NJ.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-07
The Indians and the Land.

With the Indians, land was the prop
erty of all. It was one of the original
elementary gifts of the Creator to man,
and hence the birth-right of every child
born. 1t was grouped 10y them with
air. sunshine. wind and rain. 1t was a
wealth, a right, property that no
power could ALLEVIATE from them. The
earth under their feet on which they
were born in which were the graves of
their sires aud in which their dust
would finally repose, was Gods gift tc
them and loved with passionate devo-
ton. Even war could not obe.erate
this primal right. No victorious tribe
ever took the land from the conquered
band They might not take what the
Great Spirit had bestowed Sell a
country" Indignantly exclaimed Te-
cumseh, when protesting against the
sale of land to the whites: "Why not
sell the air, the clouds, the sea as we'll
as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit
make them for all his children?"-Mr.
Murray, in New York World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-07

the mouse or building OF any
kind is concerned, the farmer
would gain largely by concen-
trating taxes upon that and exemptlng
all buildings. But he holds in addition
to the land upon which his house stands
a number of acres, which he uses for
farming purposes; and he assumes that
these will be heavily taxed under
system of taxation upon land values
alone, and that thus larger proportion
of the burden will be thrown :1pon him.
This is an entire mistake. Wien build
ings are exempt from taxation, all other
improvements on the land must also be
exempted; and the result of this would
be to assess improved farm lands at no
higher value than perfectly wild, uncul-
tivated land, in the same lmm edlats
vicinity. All fences, all growing crops,
all improvements of every kind would
be left out of account; and his land
would be assessed only at the value
which it would bring if it had been just
swept clean by a prairie fire. Very
little consideration is required to enable
any one to see that, under such a rule
of assessment, the taxes levied upon
farms would be much less. in proportion
to those levied upon town lots, than
they are to-day, and that such a change
in the methods of assessment and tax
alton would result in lessening the bur-
den of farms and increasing that of the.
large towns.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-07
NOTES FROM THE PRESS.

The decided Blaine color of the
convention of republican clubs at Gin
cinnati suggests a decided green tinge
to the thoughts of Uncle John Sherman.
Chicago Times.
If President Harrison really
wants to learn who is the republican
favorite he should propose three cheers
for James G.. Blame at the close of one
of his rear-platform speeches. But, of
course, the little man never mentions
the lingo man.-Sioux City Tribune.
The boys who cheered for ''Cleve-
land and democracy" while Mr.. Har-
rison was in TeXarkana We're better
fed than bred. Texas is anxious to be
polite to its presidential guest, and it is
no more courteous to mention Cleveland
and democracy in his presence than it
is to throw holy water on another emf
nent republican.-St. Louis Republic.
-Republicans express with delight
the opinion that the spring elections in
dictate that republicanism is reviving.
Do the republicans realize the condi-
ton of affairs when they clutch at the
returns Of a town election to assure
themselves that ''the grand old party OF
patriotism. purity" etc, ad nauseam, is
reviving liz the north?-Chicago Times.
Secretary Foster, confronted with
the empty treasury, which Reeds reck-
less congress depleted, is scheming hard
to make both ends meet when IS, 000,-
900 AZ per cent. bonds fall due in Sep
tefa Der. So far he is basing his plans
upon the idea that the holders of the
bonds shall keep them at lower rate
of interest, , per cent.-Louisvlle
Courier-J olrnal
At every point in his journey
throughout thn south President Har-
rlson has been received with warmth
of welcome that ought in some degree
to thaw the ice out Of him. His recep-
ton has been as sincere as it was
gracious and should convince him that
the people of the south are as devoted
to the republic as the people of any
other section of the country. He should
be now convinced of the unwisdom of
any attempt to chain down the grow
ing and prosperous south or to cheek
its development with any such meas
ures as the force bill. There is for the
president in his southern trip an OPP
portunity to broaden and elevate him
self 1t is to be hoped that he will use
it.-Kansas City Times.
MIR. (Blaine's friends are much
amused at the manner in which Mr..
Harrison. in his peram bulatory ad-
dresses from the rear platform of his
palace car and on other occasions,
takes care to claim credit for himself
in connection with the reciprocity
movements of this administration.
They also point out, with many shrugs
of their shoulders, the somewhat sig
nificant fact that in all his addresses
the president has not once had the gem
crosby. justice or temerity, according
as one views it, to mention the name Oh
Blaine. The inference which Mr..
Blaine's friends draw is that little
Benny is a very narrow, jealous and
am bilious person, devoid of wit enough
to conceal his shortcomings Chicago
Berald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-07
New York Board of Trade on Per-
sonaI Property Tax.

The tide of opposition to the taxation
OF personal property rises steadily
every day. Senator Linson, of Kings
ston. has introduced a bill in the New
York Legislature which will levy tax
on all personal property without allow
ing any deduction for Just debts ow-
ing" as now provided by law. The
New York city board of trade and
transportation is bitterly opposed to it,
and has sent circular to 1877 CONNER
cial organizations throughout the state
protesting against it. Among other
things, the circular sets forth the fol-
lowing arguments against the passage
of the Linson bill:
If, for instance Messrs. A. 3. & Co.
have stock of $500, 900 worth of goods
in store, and they owe thereon bills
payable to the amount of $50, 600. and
on open account another 500, 900, their
actual ownership in such goods is but
10000, on which they now pay at, say
2 per cent, a tax of S.. 900. If Mr. Lin
sons bill becomes a law the tax will be
$4,000. The true title of this bill
should be IAN Act to Discourage Com
meIce and Manufactures in the State of
A<C" jim -'isiiiy Vi oii man
facturers now find it tc their advantage
to have their factories in New Jersey.
Pass this law and the number will he
largely increased. There are many
classes Of goods handled in this city
that pay profit of only fraction of l
per cent. to the merchant. If, then,
such goods are taxed per cent and up
ward, as the rate may be, it would to-
tally destroy the business. Any BUSH
ness done would be by sample alone
and the goods themselves would be
stored in New Jersey or other States
and shipped direct without coming into
New York. The loss of employment to
our people in handling the goods would
be enormous, and that portion of our
population depending on such employ
ment would. with the goods, also be
transferred to New Jersey
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-07

Syrup
FOrThrOat andLungs

ForThroat andLungs
Il have been i'll for
Hemorrhage "about FIVE years,
"have had the best
FIVE Years. medical advice,
land took the first
"dose in some doubt. This result
led in a few hours easy sleep There
twas no further hemorrhage tillnext
day, when 1 had slight attack
(Which stopped almost immediate
"ly. By the third day all trace of
blood had disappeared and had
recovered much strength. The
fourth day I sat up in bed and ate
my dinner, the first solid food for
two months. Since that time I
have gradually gotten better and
{" am now able to move about the
house. My death was daily ex-
"pected and my recovery has been
" a great surprise to my friends and
" the doctor There can be no doubt
about the effect of German Syrup,
I" as I had an attack just previous to
"its use. The only relief was after
A." the first dose" J.R. LoUGHHEAD,
Adelaide, Australia. q
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-07

THE greatest glory of America
said Carlyle, lis that there every peas.
ant can have turkey in his pot" Alas,
that glory is passing away and pe are
rapidly tending towards conditions in
which the lot of the maasses will be
harder than it is in Europe.