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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-04-04
It's the Simple,
Trivial Inventions
That Yield Fortunes

such as De Longs Hook
and Eye, "See that Hump"
"Safety Pin" ''Pigs in Clo-
ver." "Air Brake" etc.
Almost every one conceivee
a bright idea at some time or
other. Why not put it in prac-
tiCal use? YOUR talents may
lie in this direction. May
make your fortune. Why not
try? :: :: :: :: ::
grite for further information and
mor&iNV1 this Danpr
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-04-04
Dtdn,t Like Fruit.

Miss Giggle-Your husband, Mrs.
Royalston, is a dire flatterer. He
told me last night that | was q
peach" "
Mrs. Royalston (dryly)-I Indeed.
But you know my husband never
did like fruit of any kind.
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SUBSCRIBE FOR THE TIMES.
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Profit to the Miner.

can take so cents worth of silver to
the mint and get dollar for it.
This claim is based upon the sup
position that conditions, under free
coinage, would remain the same as
without free coinage, and that silver
bullion, after free coinage has been
Ifrestored, will continue to bear sub
stantially the same relation to coin
ed silver as before. But free coin
age at once makes coin and bullion
equal, ounce for ounce, and nobody
can then buy bullion for less than
its coinage value. For instance a
bar of standard silver weighing a
hundred ounces, will make 116 sill
yer dollars of 4123 grains each and
leave few cents over; consequently,
if it costs nothing to convert bullion
into coin the value anywhere of
hundred ounces of standard silver
will be little over 116 dollars.
This is the case now with gold. 1t
costs nothing to have gold bullion
converted into gold coin, and con-
sequently there is no difference be-
tween the value of a given weight
of gold bullion and the same weight
of gold coin An ounce of gold bull
lion, nine-tenths fine, is worth $751;
60 because it will make that in
coins. This is the value of the bull
lion at the mint and hence is called
the mint price" Of course, what
ever it costs to transport bullion to
the mint must be deducted from
the mint price, to get at the actual
price of bullion in coin, at any
point distant from the mint.
From these facts is derived the
law of the value of either gold or
silver bullion, under free coinage.
If the stamping of bullion and
thus turning it into coin is done
free of all expense, at the will of
any one who chooses to present it to
the mint. eve have," says Macleod,
"this fundamental principle of
coinage"
'Any quantity of metal in the
form of bullion must be of exactly
the same value as the same guam
tity of metal in the form of coin."
Whether the coins of the two
metals will remain at par, one with
the other, depends on another law,
but that there can, under free coin
age, be no difference between the
value of given weight of bullion
and the same weight of coin of the
same metal, is too plain to be dis
puted, and hence the claim that the
miner of silver or anybody else,
under free coinage, can take less
bullion to the mint than is required
to make a dollar, or that. is worth
less than a dollar, and get a dollar
for it, must stand among the explod-
ed fallacies of the advocates of the
gold standard; and for one to repeat
this fallacy is simply to expose
profound ignorance on one of the
simplest principles relating to coin
age. OF course, if any one has
bought silver bullion at it's gold
price while it was only commodity,
he could, after free coinage has been
restored, make profit on such
bullion. But free coinage once
established, profits to bullion deal
ers would disappear. The miner OF
silver thereafter would make some
what more and the miner of gold
somewhat less. The object of the
free coinage of both gold and silver,
however, is not especially to give
profit to the miner of either gold or
silver, but to supply the world with
primary money.
A. ]. WARNER.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-04-04
Bucklen's Arnica salve.

The best salve in the world for cuts, bruis-
es, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tet-
er, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and
all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles
or no pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price IS cents per box. For sale by Flaws.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-04-04
night with $50 worth of mica.
Blocks worth 5000 have been found
after a shot, Western Mining World.

DlOCKS WORM PZUU nave D0en IOunQ
after a shot, Western Mining World.
Quartz Mining i'm CariboO District.
The next season will undoubtedly
advance the quartz mining interests
of this section of the province more
than is generally supposed. It is a
fact not generally known to the out
side world that as rich samples of
quartz have been taken out of Burns
and Island mountains, out of Hixon
creek and many other sections of
the upper country, as can be found
in any quartz mining camp in the
world. But very little work on
quartz has been done SO far. Placers,
rich and easily worked, in early
days, with rich drifting and hy-
draulic ground, have occupied the
attention of mining men, to the
almost total, exclusion of quartz.
All this will, however in the near
future be changed. Several COM
panies will this season begin the
systematic prospecting and develop
ing of quartz propositions. We have
seen pieces of quartz of several
pounds weight, taken from Burns
mountain, of which the weight of
gold was greater than that of the
silica. 1t is fair to presume that
with the hundreds of small quartz
lodges on Burns and Island noun
tains, development will show some
of them, at least, to be mines. No
country in the world where the sur
face showing is as good as in this
section, has lain so long without
more work in the way of develop
ment being done With the build
ing of mill to treat ore with the
cyanide process near Barkerville,
with the work on Hixon creek,
where the rock is SO rich that it was
worked in early days with an aras-
ira, and the prospecting to be done
on large number Of claims in the
Bald mountain range, now in the
hands of English capitalists, with
Major Dupont's company, and var
ious other companies in the field,
we think it a fair statement that
the next season will prove to the
world that Cariboo has rich and
valuable quartz mines. 1t is held
and conceded by all that the placer
gold of Cariboo comes from foun-
tain head of gold bearing quartz.
The gold of Williams and Lightn-
ing creeks surely did not wash very
far. Quartz is found in nearly, if
not all, of the gravel benches work
ed as hydraulic propositions in Car
iboo. Surely the source of the $780,
100000 taken out can be at least
in part traced to the veins of quartz,
from which the golden harvest was
slowly ground out by centuries of
glacial action. No better country
today exists for quartz prospector,
saying nothing of it's magnificent
placer and drift mines, than Carl
boo, and the demand for gold bear
ing quartz mines is now SO great in
British Columbia that proposition
having merit can he easily placed
at fair price. If the 5000 men
going into the Alaskan country
knew as we'll as we do the actual
condition of affairs, they would very
quickly change front and march in
body for Cariboo, Omineca and
the Peace river country in prefer
ence to Drawing the rigors of the
Artic Yukon and the numerous
difficulties of successful trip to the
upper gold fields of Alaska.-Ash-
croft Miming Journal.
Didn't Like Fruit.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-04-04
$4,000
Given Away
Every Month

to the person submitting the
most SneritoriOus invention
during the preceding month.
WE SECURE PATENTS
FOR INVENTORS, and the
object of this offer Is TO en-
courage persons Of an invent
i've turn of mind. At tho
same time we wish TO impre IS
the fact that :: :: ::
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-04-04

The mining of mica in the West
ern country is a new business and
but few really understand its man
agement, and also are of the opinion
that it requires expensive machin
cry and other appliances to handle
it.
/ At Bakersville, in Western Caro-
lima, forty miles from any railroad,
is the center Of an important min
ing interest. The mica business is
SO com monplace and affords such
smalls how of machinery that it is
not unusual for one to be skeptical
when told of its actual magnitude.
1t looks insignificant, and yet it is
one of the greatest industries in the
state, and has yielded fortunes to
those engaged in running it. 1t re-
quires no capital to set going; all
that is needed is to own or get con-
troll of deposit. 1t can be mined
cheaply, as the labor of that region
is low in price. The dealers who
handle mica occupy little shacks,
which are amply furnished with a
crude work bench and a pair of
shears. This is all that is needed;
million dollars would not secure
better outfit for the work. The
wild and apparently worthless
mountain region, of which Bakers
vile is the metropolis, is the main
source of supply for the United
States. The town looks as if it
might have been built of mica, or
! else stands on the site of ruined
city that was erected of it, 1t can
be seen scattered in more or less
quantities all about the city and
suburbs. The river is full of the
shining particles, and the streets
and alleys are strewn with heaps of
the refuse Its formation is like
that of stone, and can be seen crop
ping out in cliffs.
In the granite, however, it seems
to have taken great pride in making
it's fancied eternal home, but it has
been disturbed by the volcanic
eruptions of the earth in ages past,
and now tits being surprised by the
agencies of man. 1t can be found
in all sorts of blocks of various
thickness and shapes, and can be
split and resplit almost ad infinitum,
or until it becomes the thin, trans
parent, flexible wafer of commerce.
It is imbedded in or scattered
through the feldspar in blocks large
or small, close together and far
apart, and is blasted from the rocks
with dynamite. The purer veins
are found between walls of slate
It is taken from the mines to lit
tie shop by means of various con-
veyances, from the shoulder of a
native to the cart drawn by bride
and harness steer. Here it is split
into thin sheets, trimmed into re-
gular shapes and is prepared for
the market. The price varies with
the size and color of the sheets.
The Barkersville product is known
to trade as rum mica. A two-by-
four sheet, good, clear quality, is
worth about 50cents a pound, while
ten-by twelve will bring 81 to $6.
Sheets of these dimensions are extra
size, as the average is only about
four-by-six. Rare sheets twenty
four by eighteen inches have been
found. Occasionally mine is
found where the mica is too much
scattered in the bedrock to make
its operation profitable, hence there
is a possibility of man sinking a
little money without the expected
tenfold; but generally the expert
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06
pses rt,es Make naa Honey.

"Lovers Of the product Of the busy
Doe will find it wise pgecaution 20
have their honey tested as to its purity
before they cas- It or use 1t in CULINARY
way" Professor Remington gays a
warning something like this at recon.
meeting Of pharmacists, and at the same
time told Of o German VINO was exten-
sively engaged In bee culture, and who
bad his apiary close to sagar refinery.
A lot Of rank molasees was accessible TO
fhe bees, and they gorged themselves On
II. The result was their honay was
equally rank, and unfit Tor use. On an-
ether occasion the bees fed on blooming
digitalis. and their honey proved to bs
poisonous Natural honey therefore ia
liable to vary very much, and occasion
ally, when il looks best and Is sweetest.
st may be loaded with poison. Unserupu-
b1s bee farmers are accustomed to foac-
ing their bees to increase their outputs
by feeding them sweetened watar. The
honey Of course is scarcely ilb for use.--
Philadelphia Record
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06
Dore's Memory.

Dore educated bis memory by observ-
ing things as he walked with the ;nten-
ton Of remembering all he could OF
them. He 6issected subjects by division
and subdivision, On system Of his own,
20 as to Lay them by in good order, to
be found when he wanted them In sbeir
right places. Hamerton Quoted by Jer-
rold) related that "by long practice" OF
this kind he could carry away wonder
full quantity of facts and had even test
ed his memory In contest with pho
Geographic apparatus, friend of his pro-
tographing cathedral, Dore looking at
it and drawing 1t afterward at his home.
while his friend developed his photo
graph. On comparing the two, drawing
and photograph, it appeared. much to
the establishment Of the photographer,
Chat Dore had omitted no detail OF I'm
portance, few minor inaccuracies be
ing alone Observation-Disclosures Hattoo
Ia Idlor.
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Reading y

said Lord Bacon, ''maketh full
man." That is, man of knowl-
edge. knowledge is power.
Do you want to be powerful
Textbooks in school furnish
knowledge, but they can give
only the skeleton. The flesh
must be put on by the teacher
Tor by reading), in the way of
illustration. To get this addi-
tional information one must read
many special books, which are
not to be found outside of big
libraries. Each month the Bur-
lington Route issues a printed
sheet containing articles Of thirty
to forty lines, compact, reliable
and interesting, on geographical
scientific and historical subjects.
If you send your name and ad-
dress to w. j. G. Kenyon, G. T,
and 2. A., St. Paul, MINI, one
Of these sheets will be sent to
you every month during 1896.
n. B.-The Burlington Route
is the best line from st. Paul
and Minneapolis to Chicago or
ST. Louis.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06

g face It, and It b said That Il 30 CO:
cpmposes them thss their limbs fall
s5sunder. The approach Of IL il indicated
by thick haze in the hcri8oa, and trav-
saers, if they have time, throw them
selves ON their faces, with their feet to-
ward il, till it has passed. The sirooco
Is another bighting wind. which pre-
walls in Italy and adjoining districts.
ebout April The West Indian hurzi
danes are of totally different descrip-
sm, being simply vurtsxas Of great
force, and they have been know to blow
heavy cannon ont Of battery and carry
@ man over ten foot wail-Brooklyn
Eagla
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06

It is said that he or she who admits
the possession Of secret has already
half revealed it. Certainly it is a great
deal gained toward the acquisition of a
treasure to know exactly where it is
SimmS.
Busy people have no time, and
sensible people have no inclination to
use slow remedy. One Minute
Cough Cure acts promptly and gives
permanent results. For sale by A. S.
James s. Co.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06
Eleven,

The Republican National Conyen-
tion to be held in St. Louis June 10th
will be the eleventh held by that
party. The Burlington Route trains
run to the principal points in eleven
states-a coincidence. Another fact
is that from ST. Paul, Minneapolis and
all points in the Mississippi valley,
the Burlington is the best and the
direct line to ST. Louis.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06
One way of Getting Bullseye.

One way Of Getting Burseyc.
A sporting gentleman, who had ths
reputation Of being a very bad shot, in
vited some Of his friends TO dine with
him.
Before dinner he showed them tar
set painted on barn door, with bull
let right in the bullseye.
This he claimed to have shot ct 1900
yards distance.
As nobody believed him he offered to
bot the price Of an oyster supper en- it
On one of his guests accepting the wager
he produced two witnesses whose We
raoity could nos be doubted to prove HIS
assertion
Since they both stated that he had
done what he claimed he won his bet
During dinner the loser Of the wager
inquired how the host had managed to
FIRE such an excellent shot.
The host answered:
'Well, shot the bullet at the door
at distance of 1000 yards, and then 1
painted the target round it "-Tit-Bita
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06

Minneapolis Journal: Col Sellers
and Baron Munchausen have joined
forces and have organized a company
in Duluth, if the news columns and a
twO-column scare head in the D luth
Herald are to be relied on. They
have associated with themselves a
company of local capitalists of the
Zenith City who propose, also accord
ing to our valued Duluth contempor-
airy, to build a canal from Duluth to
Winnipeg via the Lake Of the Woods.
They propose to run tunnel through
the Mesaba range from which they
will take out 4, 285, 600 tons of iron ore
which will help to pay the $lS,O00,O0O
the canal is to cost. A request for
paltry 100000 in negotiable bonds
will be made Of state and national
goyernments-an an indication Of
good faith, and the difference between
this money, plus the receipts from the
ore in the Mesaba tunnel, and the
total cost will be gladly advanced by
the Duluth millionaires who are con-
nected with the scheme, provided the
canal does not cut some Rainy Lake
gold mine, in which case, Of coure,
there will be nothing to advance. 1t
j h lrd at first blush, to tell whether
Munchausen, Sellers, our esteemed
friend, Col. e. G. Gridley, or a Grim
son-brained reporter is at the bottom
Of this truly magnificent plan which,
thu Herald say IS, lis to utterly re-
yolutionize the Northwestern carry
ing trade"
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Entered at the post Office at Ely, Mime
sofa as second class matter.
Subscription $2per Year.

1t is said that there is an effort
being made to induce the Pennsyl-
vania board of pardons to commute
the death sentence of Murderer
Holmes to life imprisonment. 1t is
another manifestation of the maudlin
sentiment that has made its appear
ance in recent years in nearly every
murder case. A similar instance is
the movement now on foot among
certain people here to get commu-
tatiOn of the death sentence of Soular
and Verill, the two young tiends who
wantonly murdered and robbed the
old Frenchman, De Mars, at Biwabik.
These sentimental people lay great
stress upon the beauty of exercising
mercy, but what mercy did the two
murderous wretches extend to the
old man whom they shot down in cold
blood for the money that he possessed?
The Minneapolis Journal relates that
sat a public school in Michigan
town not long ago, a boy who had
been repremanded by his teacher drew
revolver on her, and examination
showed that thirteen of the young
pupils carried pistols in their pockets!
Is it any wonder that there were some
1900 persons murdered in this
country during the past seven years?
Verify reform is necessary in this
respect and all true citizens should
organize against the propagation Of
maudlin, mushy sentiment as to the
death penalty, and as to child
criminals"
There were AZ 469 homicides in this
country during the past seven years,
an increase from 58.1 per cent to 1888
per cent while the number Of legal ex-
ecutions during that period was 722
and of lynchings was Ills. 1t has
been demonstrated that as legal eX-
ecutions decrease. the number of
murderers who escape the gallows in
creases the record of bloody crimes
grows in length. The thug believes
that the death penalty is ''barbarous"
and is rejoiced to see others sharing
his sentiments. If the death penalty
were abolished, the greatest fear
which he now has would be removed
and he would practice his vocation
with greater industry. And every
murderer who eScaDes the death SEN
tence adds to the sense Of security
experienced by the lawless clement
which is now much encouraged by the
maudlin sentiment which manifests
itself on nearly every occasion where
a murderer is condemned to death.
Let the laws be strictly enforced, and
crime will decrease. Let every muir
derer be subject to the punishment
which the law provides, and there
will be less murders.
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Kind OEer.

Impoliteness may sometimes perhaps
be answered properly with impertinence.
A struggling author went to an editor
with a manuscript.
"Oh," exclaimed the editor, "don't
bother NE now. I've other fish to fry. :"
"Well, I'll fry your fish for you, +"
said the author, while you read my
manuscript. !"
So the editor had to read it.-Youth's
Companion.
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SKETCHES BY M.QUAD.
The Story Of . Trunk.

was baggageman on passenger
train on the c., B. and O. read for five
years before came east" said the one
story man with the yellow goatee. SIN
my day no man ON the face of this earth
could beat me at trunk handling, and I
got the name along the route Of '1'he
Destroyer l expect did smash few
hundred trunks yearly, but I wasn't
half as bad as they tried to make me
out. had curious notion about new
trunks. never got hold Of one that
didn't just ache to smash it, while I
handled the old ones with all mothers
care I think l got malicious about it,
but the feeling was beyond my control. {"
"And what queried.
"Well, one day on the run up to Chi.
cago there came aboard particularly
overgrown and particularly handsome
Saratoga. I was mad that day anyhow,
and l no sooner got hold of Chat big
trunk than I saw a way to work off my
bile. AS soon as the train got under way
and I had checked off my numbers took
off my coat and vest and went in for 8
| row with Saratoga banged her and
slammed her and knocked her about and
| jumped on her, and in the course Of is
minutes she was the saddest wreck you
ever saw. By and by, when I got cooled
| off, began to wonder how / could ex-
plain the damages to the owner, and
while thus engaged it seemed as if some
| Of the contents scattered about had q
familiar look"
eyes, I'm listening
81 gathered them up and hunted up
the end of the trunk to look for name.
found certain initials which sent cold
chills up my back. wasn't dead sure
yet, but was feeling like fool, when a
woman came into the car, saw that
wreck and uttered wild shrek"
''She was the owner, Of course?''
eyes, of course. T"
"And how did you get out of the
scrape?"
"Inever got out of the scrape. I'm in
it yet 1t is thrown up to me every day
Of my life. !"
"Then the woman was''-
"My wife? Yes; she was going up
| to Chicago ON o visit, and, unbeknown
to me, had planked down $20 for that
Saratoga to pack her buds in. I had
tackled and wrecked our own family
property, and though have bought her
silks and satins and diamonds since
then she won't let up on me. 1t got out
among the boys, and I just had to leave
the road. It got into the papers, and
have to leave Burlington. Say!''
"Well?'
tNever mind, though I'm out Of the
railroad business and running @ butcher
shop, and it won't hurt me to have the
story republished If it does, must
stand it I'm a chump, and churnps
have no rights which newspapers are
bound to respect. You needn't even try
to make it easy for me, for my wife has
81 newspaper articles about it in a
scrapbook, and every time I get little
off she points to that book and says:
Young man, come down. You are
the chap who knocked the stuffing out
S a truak which cost you a month";
wagesl"
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st. Louis

Is one of our largest and most at
tractive cities. A good time to visit
it is at the time Of the Republican
convention in June, or the Peoples
Party convention in July. The Bur-
lington Route is the best line. Your
home ticket agent can tell you ali
about it and sell you ticket via the
Burlington.
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Nansen and the Pole.

1t is sad to think that there is no
telephone connection with the Arctic
regions, otherwise it would be possible
to learn whether Nansen has really
discovered the Pole. Just what he
VIII Go with it # he finds it does not
apn'a ard fcly poonlc care. for the
fa,~,>e. ..A-.. -, nl.Ai 1888 more for