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Mohave County miner., 1897-01-16
Economy m the Mining of Gold.

One of the most remarkable instances of the applica tion of science to the indus trial arts, and the advantage resulting therefrom, is afforded by comparison of the methods of reducing gold from quartz now and say quarter of a cen tury ago. When quartz mining was in augurated in California, ore that ran be- low a common standard of sos ton was committed to the dumps as being too low gaade to work. Millions and millions of dollars of ore running from los to sos a ton were thus cast aside, and enough yet remains to enrich the state on the deserted piles of discarded ore from the old mines which were operated many years ago.
 The contrast also in the extravagant cost of plants tor hoisting and handling ores is even more marked When the Allison Ranch mines were first opened the cost of the plant for operating forty stamps was fully 250,000$. The mill then gave employment to forty men, who were paid wages of from 5$ to POS day.
 A new plant of even larger capacity was recently placed in another mine, which cost less than 3O,000$, with better ma chinery and more perfect appliances tor extracting ore than the old ones, and such is the perfection to which automatic devices have been applied to this class of machinery that two men and a boy operated all the machinery and quite as effectively as forty men used to operate the old style The ore which the first miners neglected as being too poor to he worked is now regarded as rich enough for the present generation. Even ore that runs AS per ton can be worked by present processes and at profit. Years ago if 75 per cent of gold was saved, it was considered fairly good result; now manager who cannot save from 90 to 95 per cent of gold IS regarded as not being up to present standards, and has to back out.
 The perfection to which gold extraction has been brought and the economy with which mining operations are now con- ducted are most encouraging. The ip- creasing gold production of the state is thus accounted fo--Call.
Mohave County miner., 1897-01-16
Wonderful Mining Process.

The quantity and value of the mineral products of the United States form a good barometer of industrial prosperity. Mineral industries are more directly af- fected by commercial changes than al, most any others, since the crude products of the mines serve as the starting point for most manufacturing enterprises. Any industrial expansion must he anticipated by a corresponding increased supply of the crude minerals necessarily involved. This is a different condition of affairs from that prevalent only a few years ago, and, in the minds of many, the mineral product still consists of whatever the prospector happens to discover and mine. To these mining means speculation nothing more. Perhaps even the ma- jority ot business men fail to recognize that there is less speculation al out the coal product than in any agricultural crop, the volume of which is affected by every change in the weather-accidents to which the miner is practically indif ferent.
 Formerly we mined what we could of our mineral wants, and imported the rest. Now, on the contrary, the United States IS the greatest mineral producer, furnishing nearly two thirds of the worlds petroleum, more than one-half of all It's copper. one-third of the pig iron and coal and nearly one fourth of the gold, iron ore and zinc We export far greater values than we import. Not only are our mines we'll equipped, but the re- sources known, though undeyeloped, give assurance of continued mineral sup plies, even without the prospecting which, aided by more exact geological exploration, is constantly becoming more effective One we'll recognized condition necessary for mining prosperity is to find a market for the continually growing sup ply. Full activity for the enormous min ilg plant of the country means great prosperity. But, alter several years of declining industrial activity, a glance over the field shows a great aggregate of capital invested in idle mines and their accessories. That thls is a serious, even critical, condition for the capital in- volved will be appreciated by considering the rapidity with which an Idle mining plant depreciates. Mining machinery is rendered worthless more rapidly than that of a we'll protected factory. Ere. quently the mine water is so acid as to quickly corrode metals to a worthless condition, and in the deeper mines the encroachment of water alone frequently amounts to more than the mineral is worth, and then a shutdown means abandonment-Dr. David T. Day in the Engineering Magazine
Mohave County miner., 1897-01-16
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Andrew FranZOn. Adam StrOh. and Frank A. Muhlbeyer. their heirs a adm ini s | ra | rS OF aSSignS.

You, and each of you are hereby not fled that the undersigned co-owners of the mining claim hereinafter described, have expended three hundred dollars. to- wit: One hundred dollars in each of the years 1894, 1895, and 896, in labor and money by way of improvements upon said mining claims, in order to hold said min- quirements of section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, being the amount required to be expended upon said mining property in each of said years, in order to hold the same. Said mining prop erty consists of the East Seven Hundred and Fifty feet of that certain mining claim lnown as the Hulda mining claim, and the east Seven Hundred and Fifty feet of that certain mining claim known as the Mayfower claim. All said mining property being situate and located in In dian Secret Mining District, County of Mohave, Territory of Arizona. And you are further notified that if, within ninety days after the service of this notice, if per sonally served, or within ninety days after the service of this notice by publication, you fail. refuse or neglect to contribute your, and each of your proportion of said expenditures, your entire interest in said claim will be forfeited and become the un- dersigned co-owners under and by virtue of said section 2324.
 HENRY ANDERSON
 HANS BLOCK,
 HARRY CLAUSEN,
 ANNA BECKER.
 First insertion January 2d, 1897.
Mohave County miner., 1897-01-16

The secret service has uuearthed a most dangerous plot by counterfeiters of flooding the country with silver dollars The coins are not worthless, for they con- tain more silver than the one cast at our hints. and they are s) perfectly made that only an expert can detect the differ ence between one of them and one coined by the government Buffalo, Chicago and San Francisco were simultaneously flooded with these ins; the perpetra tors have not been apprehended, and it is thought they are operating either on the island of Java or in Canton, China, where It is said three Americans have an extensive counterfeltng plant. The scheme must be immensely profitable, for silver is now away down.-Spokane Miner.
Mohave County miner., 1897-01-16
Secret Societies.

K OF P.-WEsTERN LODGE, NO. 12; KA. meets every Tuesday evening in the Lake Hall at 500 o'clock. Visiting brothers, ip good standing cordially invited.
 W. G. BLAKELY, c. c. A. E. EALY, K. of R. and s. r O. G. T.-KINGMAN LODGE, NO. 22 l. meets every Thursday evening in M. E. Church at 500 o'clock. Visiting members cordially invited.
 Mss MAGGiE FISHER, c. T. Mss LENA BROBANT, Sec. r O. O. F.-KINGMAN LODGE, NO. - l. Meets every Wednesday night in the Lake Hall at 500 o'clock Visiting brothers invited. JAS. ROsBORoUGH, !. G. A. E. EALY, Sec.
Mohave County miner., 1897-01-16
Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the Hiber- mia mine, or the owners thereof, will not be responsible for any debts contracted by the parties having lease thereon.
 w H. ROGERS. Kingmap, Nov. 18th, 1896 6mo.
Mohave County miner., 1897-01-16
NO l
PrOfe3S1Ona.
T M. SANFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW.
 I' PRESCOTT, ARIZONA,

~ Special attention to land and mining liti gation. Collections and Conveyancing. Office in Lake building.
Mohave County miner., 1897-01-16

NTOHAVE CITY-Semi-weekly. Leaves WI Needles Monday and Friday
Mohave County miner., 1897-01-16
Stage L1nes.

SIGNAL LINE-Semi-weekly. Leaves Yuc- oca Monday and Friday, returning Tuesday ana Saturday. HOSEA STOUT.
Mohave County miner., 1897-01-16
Subscribers
 So She RI Miqer

Who are Tn trears should make some effort to pay up. We need the money and must have it.
Evening journal., 1897-07-28
Up THE HUDSON.

On August 5. 12, 10 and 26, the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company Will run lts
uslral midsummer excursion to the Up
per Hudson" under personal escort.
Special train will leave Broad Street
Station, Philadelphia, at 7.34 a. m,
stopping at principal intermediate
points between Philadelphia and Iren-
ton.
A stop will be made at Cranston's
Dock. at West Point, giving those who
dlsembark an hour and a-half at that
point. and enabling them to view the
world-renowned United States Military
Academy.
In order to insure an early return to
Philadelphia, the stop at Newburg Will
be omitted, although steamer will run
to a point off Newburg and there turn,
arrangement having proved very
satisfactory last year.
Tickets will be sold at the following
round trip rates: From Philadelphia
Bristol and intermediate stations, $3.50;
Philadelphia market Street Wharf)
Florence and intermediate stations
$50: Bordentown, 1925; Trenton
81. 90; Tulpohocken, Westmoreland ano
intermediate stations, $3.50; Upsal
Carpenter and Aliens Lane, $3.50; Wis
sahicl1on Heights, Highland and Chest
nut HILL S270.
At Germantown Junction connection
will be made with regular trains from
Chestnut Hill Branch, and at Trenton
with 60 a. m. train from Philadelphi;
! market Street Wharf) via Camden
! Connection will also be made at Frank
ford with 7.40 a. m. train from Ken
sington.
Evening journal., 1897-07-28
LEssENlNe STATURE IN EUROPE
One of the CHIEF Contributing Causes
Is The MiIItnry Service Exncted.

One of the Chief Contributing Causes
Is the Military Service Exncted.
This relation between stature and
health is brought to concrete express
sion in the armies of Europe through a
rejection of all recruits for service who
fall below certain minimum standard
of height, generally about five feet, says
Popular Science Monthly. The re-
suit of this is to preclude the possibility
of marriage for all the fully developed
men during their three years in the
barracks, while the understood indi-
viduals, exempted from service on this
account, are left free to propagate the
species meanwhile. Is it not apparent
that the effect of this artificial selection
is to put distinct premium upon in
feriority of stature III so far as future
generations are concerned? This en-
forced postponement of marriage for
the normal man implies not merely that
the children of normal families are
born later in life-that would not be of
great moment in itself-it means far
more than this. The majority of chill
dren are more often born in the earlier
half of married life, before the age OF
35. Hence a postponement of matri-
mony means not only later children
but fewer children. Herein lies the
great significance of the phenomenon
for us. Standing armies tend in this
respect to overload succeeding genera
tions with inferior types of men.
Evening journal., 1897-07-28
nANaER lN NEWSPAPERS.
One Causes Loss OF Eighty Quarts
OF Milk.

one Causes n Loss OF Eighty quarts
of Milk.
For several weeks the streets iu the
extreme southern section Of the city
have. been Uttered with papers, hand
bills and other rubbish of all sorts and
sizes, says the Philadelphia Record. The
evil was due in a measure to the habit
of certain merchants Of the neighbor-
hood who, to advertise their wares,
have flooded the district with printed
dodgers" both large and small. This
condition of affairs led to an accident
recently which might have proved seri-
Gus. A milk wagon drawn by meek
looking brown horse was jogging peace
fully along the street, when sud
denly a double sheet Of newspaper
borne along by the wind swooped down
upon the horses head. The paper
stuck there. and twisting itself about
the frightened brute's head trans
formed the formerly peaceful animal
into a perfect demon. With wild
flourish of its hind legs which shattered
the dashboard of the wagon the horse,
| blindfolded as it was with the paper
tore furiously down the street. The
wagon struck pile of stones, and, al
though it was not overturned, the milk
cans were, and their contents poured
into a mortar bed which lay along the
south side Of the street where a row o-
new houses was being erected. At thu
same time the trees broke and the horse
fioundering into bed of sand, fell il
heap. Then another gust of winI
came along, whisbed the newspaper OF
the horses head and carried it over al
adjoining housetop. The horse wa
; captured and found to be uninjured
but the millman bemoaned the loss o
30 quarts of milk.
Evening journal., 1897-07-28
NEW pAsToR CALLED.

West Chester, July 2S.-At a cOngre-
gational meeting Of the members Of the
First Baptist Church, of this borough,
call was extended Rev. Joshua E.
Wills, of Swarthmore, Delaware county,
to become their pastor and It is thought
that lie will accept. The pulpit here has
been filed by him a number of times
since the withdrawal of Rev. j. III.
Chambers last Spring, and at present
ne is without a charge. The salary was
fixed at 81 500 per year. Mr.. Mills at one
time vas pastor of the North Chester
Church, and another time had charge
of one in Pittsburg.
Evening journal., 1897-07-28
NEWS OF NEW CASTLE
FOR The NEW YORK CRUISE.
STEAM YACHT NYDIA, OF BALTI-
MORE, COMES UP THE CANAL.

At 4 O'Clock this morning Dr. Isaac
E. Emerson's steam yacht Nydia start
ed from Baltimore for New York to
join 300 or more yachts which are to
take part in the annual cruise of the
New York Yacht Club.
The Nydia will fly the New York
Yacht Club colors. She will go to New
York by way OF the Chesapeake and
Delaware and Delaware and Raritan
canals AT 10 a. m. she was at Della
ware City, and passing up the Delaware
will reach Philadelphia at p. m. AT
G D. m. she will anchor off Burlington
or Bristol At 6 a. m. Thursday the
iNydia will start Through the Delaware
and Raritan canal and go the route
of forty-four miles at four miles an
hour. New York will be reached at 3
p. m. Friday.
Early i'm the afternoon Of Saturday
the Nydia will await Or. Emerson and
his guests al the foot Of Twenty-siXth
street. New York. August 2 will find the
Yacht at The rendezvous of the New
York Yacht Club. The cruise will be
to such points as Glencoe and Hunt.
ington bay. L. l.; New London, Conn.
Newport, Vineyard Haven and Ban
Harbor DR.. Emerson usually enter
tains lavishly on his yacht.
Evening journal., 1897-07-28
Hi. IittIo Mistake.

An exchange tells of clerk who was
showing n lady some parasols. He had
a good command of language. and knew
how TO commend his goods. As he
picked up a parasol from the lot on the
counter and opened it, he struck an at
titude of admiration, and holding it up,
said: Now. there, isn'tit lovely? Look
at that silk. Particularly observe the
quality, the finish, the general effect.
Pass your hand over it." he said, as he
handed it to the lady; isn't it a
Seauty?" YES" said the lady; "that's
my old one. ] just laid it down there
Evening journal., 1897-07-28
POOR MANUAL TRAINING.
No Systematic Instruction I'm Reform
ntory InstItntIons.

During September l visited several
of the reformatory institutions to sec
what was being done for the younger
boys in regard 10 manual training, says
writer in the Altruist Interchange.
/ found very little systematic instruc-
ton. The principal occupations were
gaming chairs, knitting stockings by ma
chinery and other purely mechanical
work. In none of the schools was there
systematic instruction in manual train
ing as it is now carried on in education
al institutions. In fact. there were so
many young boys who could notIbe kept
busy at machine work that a large
part of the time which might have been
usefully employed was spent in idle
ness. During these hours the boys
found occupations on their own ac-
count for their hands to do to limited
extent.
In one institution the boys had taken
from their hat bands the broad steel
wire which kept them in shape, broken
It into pieces from three to six inches
in length, ground these upon the door
steps or walls of the building and used
them as knives to whittle such bits Of
wood as they could pick up about the
ward or secure from the janitors when
they made the fires. They made han
die by winding on the rawlings OF
stockings or binding two bits of wood
on either side. Little boats, paper
knives, household furniture, were rude
ly shaped by these crude instruments.
Some of the boys were put there Tor
wrecking trains, for burglary, etc, and
their tendencies were sometimes eN-
pressed in the things they tried to
make. For instance, pistols, small
knives and weapons such as boys might
use in Indian raids, etc.
Evening journal., 1897-07-28
SHOT AND STOPPED THE FIGHT.

Bridgeville, July 2S-While two men
were fighting at Middleford camp meet
ing, near here, the wife of one of them
rushed upon the scene, drew a revolver
from her pocket and fired four times
over the fighters heads. This. as had
been anticipated, ended the combat and
the woman took her husband home
Evening journal., 1897-07-28
METHODIST SAILING PARTY.

Crisheld, Md, July 2S.-A sailing
party was given yesterday afternoon by
the members Of the class of A. B. Coch-
rane, Of the Methodist Episcopal Sun
day school, in the schooner Charlie
Banks, commanded by Captain George
r. Nelson. About 100 persons were in
the party
The Board Of Town Commissioners
have completed their appointments.
George Brown was appointed night
watchman for the upper part of the
town and Samuel Sterling for the lower
Evening journal., 1897-07-28

The Epworth League hack parity,
which was to have been given last
evening, was postponed. Ii will be
given later on in the season.
1t is probable that there will be no
more baseball games here this season.
The attendance at the c. A. c. games
has bsen insufficient to pay expenses
and on account of the shut down i'm the
iron works. the possibility of continu-
ing Is lCssened.
Evening journal., 1897-07-28
a NEW PHARMAcY I-Aw

Snow Hill, Md, July 2S.-Winiam
Cottinsham Powell, of Snow Hill the
newly elected president Of the Mary
land State Pharmaceutical Association
is already making plans looking toward
the passage by the next Legislature of
a suitable pharmacy law for the state
Under the present conditions the sale
of drugs is practically under no restric-
tiOns whatever
Evening journal., 1897-07-28
CRUISE OF MlRYLsND'S GOVERNOR,
STEAMED FROM COLCHESTER TO
OCEAN CITY. WHERE HE WILL
REMAIN UNTIL FRIDAY.

INH4NltAAAN IIAN LIZ II iiAlDAI
Ocean City. Md, July Ex-Governor
Lloyd Lowndes, accompanied by Judge
David w. Sloan and r. r.. Henderson,
of Cumberland, arrived at Ocean City
yesterday morning. The governor will
remain until Friday morning, when he
will proceed to Annapolis to give for
NAL hearing in the case of Monahan,
the condemned wife murderer.
The governor made a cruise Ia the
state steamer McIane from COLCHESTER
to st. Mary's City, where he arrived
Saturday night, and attended church
Sunday in Leonardtown. He visited
Blackstone's Island, where the first
landing was made by the Maryland Pill
grims, who afterward established
themselves ah st. Mary's City. Black
stones Island was then called st. Glenn
ent's Island The governor said he felt
great interest in seeing both these his
toric spots. and felt much refreshed by
Hhe outing. He left LeonardtOwn on
Monday for Crisdeld, where he spent
the day overlooking the crab and fish
industry and informing himself in re-
gard 10 the oyster-planting question
He reached Salisbury early yesterday
morning and came over on the traif
with Judge Henry Page, from whom h'
learned of the courts action Monday II
the Sheriff Wooleyhand case at Cam
bridge. The governor said he was sat
ished with the result and PARTICULAR.
so with the admonition which the cour
had administered He said it was tim
that public officers should be taugh
their duty and held responsible to tn
law for violations.
Evening journal., 1897-07-28
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NOTES.

Samuel Roberts has returned home
from a visit to relatives in Philadelphia
City Treasurer William j. Ferris went
to KirkwoOd yesterday to attend the
wedding of his cousin, Miss Sue w
Ferris, daughter of ID. Bernard Ferris
storekeeper Of chemicals at the aims
house at Farnhurst. The groom is a
professor in The Western Maryland Col
lege. of which Miss Ferris was an in
struclor
Evening journal., 1897-07-28
NEW CHURCH FOR WEST CHEs-
TER.

West Chester, July 2S.-The mem
bers OF OliYet Baptist Church. of this
place, have about decided to purchase
a lot Of the Everhart estate on West
Market street, on which to erect a
large and handsome new church build
ing. The members of this body lately
withdrew from the First Baptist
Church, and the pastor, Rev. j. H.
Chambers, followed them. They now
hold their services in the Opera House
but hope to have a building Of theil
own by next Summer.
Evening journal., 1897-07-28

All Trains ihuhilaeeu U
sExpress trains.
TRAINS LEAVE WILMINGTON, DELLA
NEW YORK, week days, sS.ls, s.4o
t1O35 a. m; t12.H, r229, .3.Z9, '9.22i "A45, L
D. m. Sundays, '3.lS, 's.4O' 'n.26 a. m
1929 t522 @7.43, IL p. m.
PHILADELPHIA, week days, BIB 5.5S
$40, f715 7.35, 'S25, 9.C0, s9.40s 1922 lilo q
III III Ii dY0 D. '2 m Sun sgadSyS SSs .sis I S sss
$50, $40, %11.25, 11.25 a. m; 'S.2s, S5O '5.A
$50, s7.43 9.15, I'll p. m. o
CHESTER, week days, .3;lS, b.55, b.4O
'715, 735, 'S25, 800, $40, '1o.25, lilo a. m.
1.2O, .2.29, 800, f5.22, 6.39, .d4S s;l9. II p m
sundays gds lS5 go .g49 z9; X Iii neo ~ ra
ATLANTIC CITY, week days, Ills a
m. ~S25 a. m, f12.2l, t2.29, '329, 'ozz p. m.
s9nSapP{5 P5 NAY asS a. Week @ "a days p a7B a. m.
BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON
SOL S0I. i4OS '457, '6l6 'S17, 'S53 p. m
sundays, '4.ls, 71O ss.49 a. m; '12.56, '2.O7
80 ssAIT7M9R Itgii ,SH5 'S,IS %Sb P Way STATIONS
7.10 a. m 3.04 p. m daily; -,o 90 .o
,1oo e. M, "a Is SS9 Sys SUNDAYS iVS s2is & 7iS
! sS49 a. M; $3.50, 304. '4.57, 7S5, 'S,17 p. m
! PITTsBURG, week days, 'sl6 D. m
Sundays, t45l d. m.
! CHICAGO, daily, s45l ?; M -
! CHICAGO via CINCINNATI and IN
DdAMAP3LIS, s, s.lg M a I m 1o1Iis edis .i2s
m. and sS.17 p. m. daily -
| TOLEDO AND DETROIT, 'S.17 p. m.
daily to Toledo and daily except Sunday
NEW ORLEANS AND MEMPHIS via
BRISTOL AND CHATTANOOGA, 'S.1
%. m, daily. Through sleepers to Mem
phis and New orleans. NO., -.
| SINGERLY ACCOMMODATION, week
days, 7.1O a. M. 3.04. 1856 1o46 p. m. Sun
DAYS 40 a. m; 3.04 7.35 y. m.
| LANDENBERG ACCOMMODATION
week days, 40 a. m; 1000 a. M; 3.O4, 4k
o. m Sundays. 1000 a. m; A5l p. m.
LEAVE MARKET STREET STATION
for
BALTIMORE, week days, $40 a. m.
i. 'iI.ANDEiNBERG. week days. Gas. s55 a
m; 255, 5.Ss p. m. Sundays s5S a. m.
LEAVE PHILADELPHIA FOR Will
/, MINGTON week days, $3.50, $40, 10
's15, 600, s10.26. 1130 a. m; 1920, sl36, 200
$3.50, '420 4.30, *5.15, s5.n, 600, $50, =. 40
'S.19, e.45, F1135 p. m. Sundays, $3.50, -. Is
800 H. 80 a. M. f12.20, 'i36, 200, '4.2O, IS. b
$780, '740. 'S.19. 1870 p. m.
Telephone, No. 1893.
Rates to Western points lower than via
any other line.
w. NJ GREENE, d. b. MARTIN,
Gen. Manager. Man of Pass Traric