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Sc. Paul Union stock Yards.
SOUTH ST. PAUL, Jan. ID
HOGS-Market about &c lower; quail
ity not so good. Range Of prices, S.s59
j 10.
CATTLE-M Market strong and active;
not enough fat cattle, stockers and feed
,rs to supply demand. Everything sold
at good prices.
sales ranged at $2.40 d 3 - for cows;
a. 15a3 40 for stockers; $3.50 G3.so for
steers.
SHEEP-Steady; good demand for fat
sheen and lambs. Muttons, $40; lambs,
$4.0J@4.55.
200; calves, 81.
Chicago Union stock Yards.
CHICAGO, Jan. ID
HOGS - Market steady to SC lower.
Opening slower.
sales ranged at S.25@3.4 As for light;
so 10. 10 for rough; 1926 I3.42H for
mixed; 1906 $40 for heavy.
CATTLE-Market weak and generally
SC lower.
sales ranged at 81. 4O95. 20 for beeves;
81. rs "A. % for cows and heifers; $3.OOG
Ais for Texas steers; 81 OO0 10 for stock
ers and feeders
SHEEP-Market strong to a shade
higher.
Receiprs: Hogs $1,000; cattle, 1900;
sheep, IA, 900.
Chicago Grain and Provisions. =
CHICAGO, Jan. IL
CLOSING PRICES.
WHEAT-January, 77Hc; May, '9ssc;
July, ,5xc; September, 74c.
CORN-January, 22Ac; May, "a 30;
July, 25Hc.
OATS-January, 1890; May, 1870.
PORK January, S7.67K; May, S7.9)@
SI.S21.
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Minnssuolis Grain.

/ MINNEAPOLIS, Jan IA
WHEAT January closed q Nkc;
Nay. 77Xc- On Track-Ho. ] hard
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771c; NJ. i Northern, 6Hc; No >
Northern, 74Xc.
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of the Madison Building and Loan Association of
Madison, south Dakota, for the year ending Dec
pmber 81, 1896:
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the fact that the steam shovel is work
ing three-quarters of a mile from the
works proper 1t is somewhat down
the hillside, but it is eating its way on
a level straight into the hill.
1T will take US a year to reach the
hills, but when we do get that far in
we will have q trench with walls 100
feet deep. suppose we Will take
out over 100000 tons of rock before we
get there Then when the trench is
completed we can blast off the walls
with dynamite, taking off $4,000 tons 81
time"
AS intimated above. the ore bearing
rock is blasted into boulders and then
laid on fiat cars with steam shovel.
It is then conveyed to the crushing
plant. The trays containing the rock
are lifted by the cranes to the second
story Of the mill where the rock il
dumped into a large square pit. Ten
feet below the edge of the pit revolve
immense iron rollers weighing 100 tons.
The surface of these rolls are studded
with teeth, and the space between them
is less than foot wide. Nevertheless
a six ton rock dropped into the pit
passes between the rolls in less than
three seconds. Far down beneath these
rolls is another set of smaller size, but
nearer together. From the heavy rolls
above the rock falls into this lower
set and is crushed still smaller. 1t has
now been reduced TO pieces the size of
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was on his lap and his mind was drift
ing away from the subject in hand.
when suddenly he noticed the point OF
the needle dip violently towards the
earth, and remain pointing downward
He wondered how this could be, for, as
"a" as he knew there VAS no iron ore
anywhere aear him He tested the
needle and found it all right He was
driving over the gneiss rock at the
time, and he noticed that whenever he
was above this rock the needle contin-
ued to point towards the earth. His
a9aZement became great, for if the
needle did not err. il simply meant that
the ground under him was underlaid
with immense deposits of iron Deter
mining to find out III this was so, he set
a corps Of men at work making a mag
neJic survey of the rocks OF New Jer-
sey- as q result OF this survey it was
found that the iron ore, in a finely di-
yided state. existed in nearly all Of the
older rocks of New Jersey. He then
planned a magnetic survey of the whole
east, and Il remains probably the most
comprehensive undertaking of its kind
ever accomplished
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machines are huge cylinders in which
operate great iron paddles. The ore is
fed into the cylinder from the TOP and
the adhesive material (tire nature of
which IS q secret with Mr.. Edison)
drops also from above. and the Whole
mass is churned together until every
particle of the ore has come IN contact
with a due portion of the adhesive SUBJ
stance. II becomes, in fact. q sticky
mass which is pushed out of one end
of the cylinder and conveyed away 80
the bTfciung house to be made into lit
tie briquetGes-. II may be said in
passing, inasmuch as 1T throws a side
light on the character OF the great
inventor. that Mr.. Edison performed
over sixey-six hundred experiments
before ne struck upon the right adj
hesive material for use in binding The
Gre together.
The bricfing machines are simple
looking affairs ard, for the purpose of
comparison may be said to be just as
simple in their appearance as is the
incandescent lamp. Like the latter,
however. they passed through multi
tude of changes before their final form
was agreed upon AS is usually the
case with inventions of the kind, this
final form is probably the simplest that
could be devised, and in view of the
cumbrous machines which were con-
stl1lced and discarded in the course of
the evolution, one wonders that this
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oovery years ago and biologists ever
since have amused themselves With
proving how perfectly ineXhaustible is
the supply. But the ore is scattered
about in such fine particles that it
could not be mined with the ordinary
methods and hence has been looked
upon as one Of the few great wastes OF
nature This state of affairs was very
aggravating in view of the peculiar
conditions which prevailed in the iron
trade in the extreme east For some
years past the bulk of the Bessemer-
steel trade has been drifting westward
by reason of the discovery and opening
up Of immense deposits of high-grade
ore in the upper peninsula of Michigan,
suitable for making Bessemer steel,
cheaply produced. and carried at small
cost by water transportation to fur
naces contiguous to the lake ports The
furnaces east of the Alleghanies we're
compelled to depend on "a few small,
isolated deposits of Bessemer ore in
the east and ores imported from foreign
countries The ore deposits of the
southern states. as well as the non
magnetic ores of New Jersey, and New
York, are suitable for making Besse-
mer steel
For time the cost of the ore at the
eastern furnaces was not greatly diff
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and a like number are ready for use
and seized by Il dozen natives at once.
Bundles of bamboo, cut into proper
lengths, have already been prepared,
three or four men straishten the snake
and lay him on d bamboo. sometimes
placing three or four smaller splints
around him, and then lash him securely
down with bamboo withes every inch
of his length. Generally the lashins is
found to be sufficient. and only when
the serpent is very large and powerful
are the extra bamboos tied around him
for fear he might break the stick 20
which he is fastened. This operation
is not carried on without an immense
amount of protest from the snake
which Kisses in the most terrifying
manner and wriggles wildly in an effort
to escape. But kissing and WrigglinS
are all in vain; the HtndoOS lash him
down, finishing the operation by fore
ing his upper jaw upon the lower and
tying the two together to the stick in
such a way that he can not even hiss.
After all the best specimens have been
selected and tied, the remainder are
killed. beheaded and the heads sent TO
the nearest government station for the
bounty, and the captives are loaded
into carts for transportation to Bonn
bay. where they are disposed of to the
European agents.
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distant Further over, on q half cleared
section of land, a great stream Of
water PUSHES through a hose With
mighty force from a hydraulic pump
and washes the debris free from the
rocks. Steam drills rattle and the boom
of dynamite resounds when the rock is
riven into boulders and laid on five
ton sl1ips or trays, to be transmitted to
the crushing plant. The steam shovel
does the work of loading. and as it has
capacity for lifting ten tons of free
rock a minute, the local activity is ire
mendous- Fiat cars carrying two skips
each move along al lively speed A
long line of them is constantly leading
up 10 the crushing plant, where big
electric cranes ria them of their load
and a little switching engine pushes
them around loop and allows them ia
run down an incline into the cut again.
MAKING A YOSEMITE OF HIS OWN.
Edison is found watching the steam
shovel We are. making a Yosemite Of
our own here We Will soon have one of
the biggest artificial canyons in tf,s
world" This remark is occasioned BY
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EDESONS LATEST ACHIEVEMENT
is Reducing Iron Mountains to Dust and Extracting the
Ore With Powerful Magnets

tasted it, but he could find no reason
for its inky hue. With the zeal Of the
scientific investigator. he carried some
Of it home to his laboratory for the
purpose Of testing it. He was on the
point Of putting it aside when sud-
denly he became possessed Of an idea.
He procured an electro magnet and
held it near the mass Immediately
little dark grains separated themselves
from the heap and scurried across like
so many black ants to the spot over
which the magnet was held.
The little ants were really grains of
iron ore and. strange as il may seem,
Edison had discovered Il bed Of finely
divided iron ore cast uD BY the sea.
This sand covered the shore in spots
for Is miles along the coast. It was due
to the erosion of Connecticut rocks by
Water-for magnetic is one Of the con-
stituents of the primal rocks found in
Connecticut. Edison calculated that the
deposits must contain millions OF tons
of iron which, if it could be 6melted.
would become a valuable product. On
the basis Of his find he evolved his ia
nous magnetic ore separating machine,
which he exhibited at the last Paris
exposition. Then he let out the priv
ilege of using it TO q contractor who
set up a plant on the beach and pro-
ceeded to separate the iron ore from the
sand with every prospect of developing
an extensive industry But the sea
proved TO be less generous than it had
at first promised to be, for one dark
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800
ROYALTY CARDS.
Emperor William of Germany De
signs HIS Own Pastboards.

Berlin. Oct. 90.-Emperor William of
Germany is unique in all things. even to
the little adJuncts that go to make up
material for his daily pleasures. A
peculiar demonstration of this was his
gift of a box of playing cards to his
uncle, the Duke of Cambridge, and
those who have never had d glance at
these "pa5teboard5" hardly realize the
royal cards in every respect and made
at the famous German government
card factory at AItenburg, near Berlin,
from designs furnished by the emperor
himself. The kings are actual pictures
of royal personages, so are the queens
( and the jacks are the existing prime
ministers. The emperor loves the
German game of 'skat" and can out
play almost any of his associates at
'shaafskopf," and in these games he
seems to take a particular delight
when clubs happens to be trumps. for
the king of clubs is none else than his
own imperial phiz. The king Of hearts
pictures Leopold OF Belgium. while
his majesty of Italy is the king of
diamonds. and the czar Of Russia
stands for the king of spades Of
course the German names for the
c0lors and shapes of the spots are en-
tfrely different from those in
America and England, but the above
are the exact corresponding titles
a visit to this German card factory
at Altenberg is of extreme interest.
The TeutonS are enthusiastic card
players and the consumption is said TO
sum up from 100000 TO 5000, 600 packs
annually. Many of these. of course.
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Serent from the cost in the Pittsburg
district: but in the last few years the
cost of the foreign ores. which are ap-
preaching exhaustion. has reached the
prohIEitory point Then the discovery
of the great deposits in the MaSaba
range Of Minnesota in the 'ast three
years. and the tremendous cheapening
in the cost of mining and transporta-
fion Of these deposits have apparently
raised insurmountable obstacles in the
way of the eastern iron mills meeting
the competition of the great mills Of
the central West, even in the eastern
market, and many mills have ceased to
operate. The condition is not q trivial
one. for many thousands Of persons
depend upon these mills and furnaces
for living.
IRON ORE CAST Up BY THE SEA.
Edison's interest in the matter dated
from romantic episode which occurred
I6 years ago. lie WAS walking along
the seashore on Long Island one day
wflen he noticed a strange pile OF black
sand piled high UP on the beach He
had never seen such remarkable sand.
He examined it, sifted it and even
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-31
BY THEODORE WATERS.
Copyright, 1897, by S S Mcclure COM
pany.)

Thomas A Edison has just completed
what may prove to be the greatest
achievement of his life. After eight
years of incessant work night and day
in the face of discouragements which
seemed almost insurmountable, in spite
OF obstacles which only a genius could
overcome, he has given to the world
an industrial invention which III the
seriousness OF its intention may come
to rival the kaleidoscope, the phono-
graph or even the electric light. Moth
ing he has done heretofore has required
SO much of his individual attention,
taxed his inventive ingenuity so fully,
OF in the aggregate consumed his vital
powers more than this latest accom-
plishment. Thousands Of poor work.
men will bless the ateadfastness Of 3ur
pose which made him carry his ideas
to a successful issue He has in short
at last pointed out a commercial way
OF utilizing the immense deposits of iron
ore which lie under the New Jersey
hills
Billions of tons of iron ore lie scat
tered through the rocks Of the eastern
spurs Of the Allegheny mountains. Edi-
son himself made this remarkable dis
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are sold in other countries. where the
German cards are esteemed as far
superior to those CT any other country.
OF course there are hundreds Of diff
ferent designs and patterns. The first
thing I noticed on the occasion of my
visit was the vast quantity of paper
1t was there in thousands and thou
sands of reams. for there Is literally
no end to the making of playing cards.
| was than conducted into the paste
making department.. Every week the
astonishing quantity of 1000 gallons of
paste is made, in which countless sacks
of the finest flour are consumed. My
cicerone was courtesy perSonif1ed, but
he gently refused 70 work cut how
many packs of cards equalIed a pound
loaf of bread in point of flour used. In
the pasting department. the sheets of
paper are pasted together and subse-
quentl squeezed in a hydraulic press
to remove the superfluou5 paste. These
sheets are then taken to the drying
room, which is heated according 10
the state of the atmosphere; the dry
ing has to be most carefully looked
after, for if the Temperature is too
high the board begins to curl.
When thoroughly dry the rough
boards are ready for the rolling ma
chimes, and after having been rolled
they are enameled and printed on the
faces. Common cards require but two
printings. but the best require FIVE.
The backs are subsequently printed in
a spacious room crowded with intri-
cate machinery; and then the big
boards are stacked in piles. each sheet
being d complete pack of cards. In
this state they are left for some little
time in order that the ink may become
perfectly dry. At length they are
ready for glazing and finishing. and
when this is done the boards are cut
transverseiy by an ingenious bladed
machine. and swept aside by q liltle
girl who manipulateS a lever.
The long sections are then passed to
another girl, whose machine stamps
out the Single cards OF identical de-
nomination with marvellous rapidity.
Yet another girl is intrusted with the
laying out" of the cards Sine takes
the piles of newly cut cards and sorrs
them on counter into their various
denominations. keeping a sharp look
out meanwhile for marked or dam
aged cards. When all the piles con-
tain 80 of the same card, they are
again "ldid out" but this time each
pile gradually becomes a complete
pack
The cards made for royalty are
made in a separate apartment and are
generally finished off with fine silk 1t
is said that in the royal palace at
PotgsGam there are always at hand at
least hundred packs of these cards,
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sonaIly TO Mr.. Edison. 1 have heard it
stated that Mr.. Edison is an organizer
who uses the brains of other men.
Nothing could be further from the truth
than this. If this place was preserved
as g. monument for him, his memory
would be placed upon no false ped
estal. | have seen him by night and by
day, in all Weathers, and under all con-
dItions, and I have found him always
the same, the personification of con-
centration Of purpose. and with a long
distance Judgment at his beck and call.
which, however strained it may seem at
the time, we have all learned to re-
spect as being sure to prove right IN the
end And what has been said of his
personal magnetism has not been over
stated. I doubt if there is another man
living for whom his men would do as
much. l suppose it is the power Of
example. We have here many men who
have left we'll kept homes TO come I'D
into the back woods and toll day and
night mainly out of loyalty to Mr.. Ed
ison. The fact that the old man does
it seems to be sufficient reason for them
TO do it: for what is good enough for
This, at least, is the spirit that pre-
walls"
That this is the spirit which pervades
the community can be easily seen by
anyone who visits the place. Up on
the hilltop. in the shantieS of Summer
vile. dwell laborers of the poorer class
Far over on the other side of the mine
stands the white House" It is q
little dwelling in which Edison lives
with his chief men. at intermediate
spots stand the shanties in which live
the workmen of intermediate class. But
from all of these dwellings comes a
reverence for the master which is quite
as strong and healthy in one place as
in the other As he moves among them
all, none of them can have q true con-
ception of the great things he is con
stantly planning. but they all know it
is for their good and for the good of
the world at large
No mas: has done more than Edison
to benefit his generation. He essen
TALLY is the man of his time Other men
may do great things in the time to
come. but whatever these things may
be. they can never create more radical
changes in the conduct of human life
than have Edisons Inventions His old
buster and his older straw hat can be
seen fitting hither and thither about
the works. their owner apparently in
tent upon nothing out of the ordinary.
but the constant suggestions which he
makes to the heads of the various de-
partments show that the wonderful
brain is never inactive. The present
enterprise was planned years ago, and
now that it is finally completed, Mr..
Edison's mind will revert to even
greater schemes of conquest: and at
this moment it is safe to say that he is
planning out some great achievement
which Will take the world more by
storm than have the great things he
has already accomplished
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THOMAS & EDISON AND WILLIAM s. MALLORY
CFrom a Photograph Taken in ..Edis on" N. -

night there came storm such as had
not visited the place for many years,
and when the contractor come to visit
his plant the next morning. not a yes
tige OF the black sand remained. 1t
had all been swept into the sea from
whence it came.
When the above mentioned curious
condition OF affairs in the iron trade
was brought to Mr. Edison's attention,
eight years ago. he thought Of the III
fated Long Island enterprise. and of
his discarded magnetic separator, and
wondered if it might not in the end
present true solution of the difficulty
In order to assure himself of the exact
condition of the iron mines in the east
he made a tour of the mines in New
Jersey for the purpose of seeing how
much ore there was left in them. and
how long it would last 1t was on this
memorable trip that he made the dis
coyery that most Of the rocks of New
Jersey were underlaid With immense
deposits of iron. He invented a mag
netic needle which would dip towards
the earth whenever it was brought
over a large deposit Of iron ore.
DISCOVERED HIS NINE.
He was driving along in a buggy one
day between two mines. The needle
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on the emperors yacht. HohenzoIlern.
and on his special car
1t is esteemed g great honor to re-
ceive an ebony card case, filed with
these royal decks from the hands Of
the emperor, and only few have them
IN theiT possession The royal arms
adorned one sent last April as n gift
to Prince Bismarck. who, now when he
feels particularly sour. can play the
deuce with the king of clubs, that is il
his card companion. Baron Rantzan,
permits It.
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REMARKABLE THINGS.

Only 145 attendants are required to
operate the plant, and these men are,
after all, merely watchers, to see that
the machinery does not get out of or
der The crushing capacity of the Ed
ison plant is more than 20 per cent
greater than the combined crushing ca
pacity of all the stamp mills of Cali
fornia. The long mile of magnet faces
have enough pulling power to tear a
modern cannon from its stanchions,
and the great steam shovel can clean
out more rock from the mountain side
in a given time than any other like
piece of machinery III the world. Yet
all these great affairs seem as moth
ing to the masterful control of the man
who planned it all. Edison moves
about among his men with not the
slightest consciousness of having done
anything great. 1t viii be but a Ques-
ton of time when the little plant on
the hill top will be the center of the
great iron industry of the east The
pockets of ore from which the United
States has drawn its chief supply are
rapidly becoming exhausted. There is.
it must be understood. plenty of iron
ore in the country. but it is not the
kind of ore from which steel can be
made. Steel can only be made from
ores in which the per cent of phosphorus
Is very Sluau- EulSOu- WIIn MS CRUSH
ing process, has entirely eliminated the
phosphorus element from the ore. It,
therefore. remains inevitable that this
must ultimately become the only SER
ious method of producing ores from
which steel will be made. It would
seem from the prospect that Edison will
become the head of a vast industry, as
great as that brought into existence by
the invention Of the incandescent light.
and in a measure more imposing. as it
embraces the production of what, in
commercial circles, is, after all, the
most valuable metal on earth. In spite
of this. however. the man who planned
1t all does not, from his demeanor, ap-
pear to have been over impressed with
its Importance. His position in the
matter is well summed up by Mr.. w. S.
Mallory, his second in command:
EDIsoN's ATTITUDE IN THE MAT
TER.
q want to say says Mr.. Mallory.
land I know whereof I speak. for I
have been with MIN night and day for
several years, that SO per cent of the
credit of all the invention and new
work of this establishment is due per-