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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-15
To the Mining and Mineral Land
Companies Of Washington and
Jefferson Counties.

More than twenty years ago the
writer. then mining editor of a Joplin
journal, arranged with the owners of
lead mines in Joplin. Mo, to introduce
the 10 per cent royalty system on the
sale of black jack or zinc blende by the
miner. At that Time most of the zinc
smelling companies in the country
were using only the silicate and car
Donate OF zinc ores mined in Newton
county and Southeast Missouri. The
Mattlliesen Hegeler Zinc Co, of La
Sale. ILL.,, agreed to establish per-
manent agency for the purchase OF the
blackjack at Joplin if the companies
would consent to let the miner who
had leased mining lots sell the ore
himself, the company receiving the 10
per cent royalty. Quite number of
the prominent land owners. headed by
the Pitcher Lead Co. Moi1it & Sargent,
and Davis 4 Murphy, consented to
adopt the plan. and they were soon
followed by others. The result. up to
date, has been the creltion of the
greatest zinc market in the world:
whereas before that time the stuff was
Il worthless waste Oh the dumps, 1t
first fetched only 500 ton, but com-
petition grew with business and Is
much as $,1 or SIS has been paid, s2S
being about the price at present.
Lead is sold in Il similar way, and adj
vcnturous labor which cost the land
owner nothing. has made Developments
deposits were there to encourage and
maintain the business. The counties
of Washington. Jefferson and others
in Southeast and Central Missouri
have also asineral deposits, chiefly lead.
some Wdth baryta. Numerous old
diggingS and mines, as well as ship
mentS in the past and at present have
proves this. but with the great fall in
| tho price of lead from & and cents to
cents and below, Southeast Missouri
mines of this kind fell wss behind and
new ones are but little sought for.
TIC deposits here of thiS character
are small, but they are generally very
near the surface. With the present
advance of the lead market it would
be wise on the part OF the owners of
such mines to adopt the Joplin system
OF 10 per cent royalty. This ought to
:. and undoubtedly vould largely in
crease the output of these counties
The chance to establish it now may
never occur again. The so-called sur
face mining as now conducted leaves
the miner too little, with the land
owner not much more. The total @!
their annual production tells the story
1t has been getting less from year t.
year. BE liberal, gentlemen, and al
the same time help yourselves by
adopting the 10 per cent royalty. Life
is too short to fool it away on "a petty
output. Try the change and see if il
don't work -Farmingter
| Herald"
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-15

about that general activity Of enter
prise and employment of idle labor
which are popularity associated
with good times" How this con
summation, so devoutly to be wish
ed, and now apparently in the pro-
cess of realization, is to be accelcr-
ated or aided by a doubling of the
price of everything and a halfing
of the value of the dollar is still, to
us, one of the unsolved mysteries.
The New York Tribune.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-15

BRYAN thinks that the improved
times are but temporary and re-
sultant from India's famine. In
India people have starved year in
and year out for centuries, but the
s'boy thinker is the only man who
has ever thought the thought that
the prosperity and progress of the
greatest country on earth is infiu-
enced by the increasing OF decrcas-
ing miscries Of these people. A
lnan who was smart enough to get
himself nominated for President
ought to talk with more sense.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-15

of the greenback currency. This
is more than five times the value
of the annual silver product of the
country. What folly is it then for
cotton growers to think that their
prosperity depends upon doing
something for sifver,'' when all the
silver produced in the country
would not buy one in five Of their
cotton bales!!-N. Y. World Dem. }
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-15
CHAS. H. RICHESON
Attorney at Law.
POTOSI, MO.
Will, practice in all courts OF the &tsnA
and U. S. District Court and
Court OF Appeals.
Office in Court House.
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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-15
Defects in Bryan's Argument
About Silver and Wheat.

AT last the boy thinker from
Nebraska has emerged from a long,
and, to the public, most gratifying
retirement with labored cx-
PLANTATION of how it has happened
that wheat and silver have parted
company. Iti is the result, he wise
ly declares, of the operation of the
law of supply and demand.
Wheat is higher than it was a year
ago because, with an equal demand,
the supply has been largely re-
duced by the failure of the crop in
nearly every quarter of the globe
except the United States. Silver
is lower because the supply has con-
tinued to increase and the demand
to diminish. Fos: this startling in
formation an eagerly waiting pub
lie will doubtless he grateful. All
that Mr.. Bryan need do now to en-
shrine himself finally and forever in
the affections of the American
people will be to discover and pro-
mulgate the rule that two and two
make four. When he has achieved
this dizzy height of intellectual
effort he may well afford to rest on
his laurels as a full grown thinker.
| In the meantime it may do no
harm to record the fact that Mr..
Bryan still believes in cheap money
as panacea for unnamed woes from
which the country can not, he
thinks, be wrested by the quicken
ing of the pulse of commerce, the
reopening of the mills, the enhanced
demand for labor and the widening
of the markets for farm products.
"a rise in the price of a few ar
ticles may" he admits, ''bring ad
vantage to those who produce such
articles" but what about "those
who are engaged in the production
of articles which do not enjoy q
corresponding rise!" They must
still be lifted up by their bootstraps.
A year ago Mr.. Bryan's heart bled
for the farmer, who could not get q
living price for his wheat. Now il
bleeds for the consumer, who has to
pay the increased price to the farm
er. Then the low price of wheat
was an evil. Now the high price is
the cause of hardship. Then the
remedy was a general uplifting Of
the level of prices by chcapenine
of the dollar. Still, it is general
} uplifting of the level of prices by
the same process.
1t may be possible that this logic
is satisfying to the Boy Thinker
mind, but it yet fails to carry con
viction to those who see in thu
prosperity of the farmer and th'
restored confidence of the mer
chant and manufacturer the key t.
| the present business revival. l
has been our fond delusion thai
, when the farmer got good price
for his crop he would spend th'
, money to buy the products of the
, mill and factory, of which he wa
) before deprived, and that this infu
? sion of the blood of life into tn
{ other industries would help to brin:
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-15

WHAT about that assertion that
under Il continuation of the gold
standard policy frequent bond sales
would be necessary to keep up the
reserve fund! 1t seems to have
been dropped along with a lot of
other wornout theories Of the sill
,-oaif1,.,
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-15

THE stories about the great for
tunes picked up on the Klondike
should be taken with a grain Of salt.
The piles Of gold brought out
thus far have dwindlc,l wonderfully
while en- transit.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-15

EVEN our own ''Dick" Bland
the Columbus of the 16 to l theory,
has gravitated down the easy in
cline from unlimited coinage of
silver to unlimited printing of
greenbacks.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-15

BRYAN is assuming the defensive
where year ago he was very ag-
gressive. He feels himself called
upon to explain why it has all
turned out different from what he
said it would.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-15
$l.OO Per Annum.
WAsHINGToN COUNTY offers 4
good field for the investor in these
,rcviving times.

The get-some-t thing for nothing
spirit has apparently as firm Il hold
on the Bryanites as ever, and is
likely to hold on until the party
goes broke.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-15

By our Washington Correspondent.
The silverites insist that the rise
in wheat is due to scarcity only.
But how about wool.
Those wretched Ohio editors will
not stop talking about John Me-
Leans gold bond.
The farmers are getting back
the $50, ,0O0,OoO which they lost in
the value Of their sheep under free
trade.
Bland, Tillman, and Bryan admit
that their is Temporary pros
perity. a year ago they said even
that couldn't come without free
coinage.
Speaking of the ''growth Of ex-
ports of manufactures under free
trade" will the Democrats claim
the recent foreign sales Of American
tin as due to their non-protcctive
theory.
The Democrats have laid aside
their usual cry about increased
prices under the new tariff law.
They see that low tariff is no long
popular, even with their own
people.
People who arc wondering what
the Democrats will find for an issue
in 1900 should postpone their
worry, as there may be TO Demo
cratic party by that time, the way
things are going.
Why don't Professor Debs and
his associates call on the trainers of
the Wilson law to help out the
miners! 1t was clearly the reduc-
ton of the tariff that caused the re
duction in the miners wages.
Oh, by the way, have the Ohio
and Iowa and Maryland and Ken.
lucky and Nebraska and New
jersey and New York Democrats
forgotten about the tariff! They
seem to be strangely silent On the
subject.
''Because it is my deliberate
judgment that the prosperity OF
America is mainly due to its system
of protective laws, | urge tha
Germany has now reached th'
point where it is necessary to i'm
itate the tariff system of the Cnitet
| States. bismarck.
''The benefit of protection goe:
first and last to the men who carr
their bread in the sweat of theil
faces. The auspicious and momen
tous result is that never before il
the history of the world ha;
comfort been enjoyed, education
acquired, and Independence secured
by so large a majority of the tota
! population as in the United State
of America. james G. Blaine.
Mexican workmen, who get les
than half what those of the Unitet
States get, are having a hard tim,
now that they must take their pay
in 4O-cent dollars. Tie American
carpenter gets $3.50 per day il
good 1O0-cent dollars. while tn.
Mexican carpenter gets S1.25 il
coin worth 40 cents on the dollar
The real value of the $1.25 whicl
the Mexican gets is just 80 cents
against 81. so which the American
carpenter gets.
| Uncle Richard Bland says th'
rise in wheats is due to scarcity
and that the silver question has no
thing to do with it. 1t is no
possible, Uncle Richard, if hig]
prices are produced by scarcit,
and have no relations to silver, tha
low prices were due to plenteous
ness and also had no relation t
silver! Its poor rule that does n
work both ways, Uncle Richard
| We all know that wheat was plent
and that the cost of producing i
much less than ever before.
The statistics of the cotton c rol
for last year show it to have bee1
IS,757,964 bales. 1t has been sol
for about $3.50, 900, 900, or some
thing more than the total volam
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-15
Political Points.

By our Washington Correspondent.
The silverites insist that the rise
in wheat is due to scarcity onl ly.
But how about wool.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-15

Those wretched Ohio editors will
not stop talking about John Nc
Leans gold bond.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-15

The statistics of the cotton crop
for last year show it to have been
s,757, 1854 bales. 1t has been sold
for about $3.50, 900, 900, or some
thing more than the total volume
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-09-15

The farmers are getting back
the $4,000, 900 which they lost in
the value Of their sheep under free
trade.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-28
The Selden Dam.

Contractor Bradbury is down from
Selden. enveloped in the soft fleecy
folds of a fine beaver overcoat-the
kind of an overcoat that would be just
the thing in Montana. Mr. Bradbury
has over 100 teams at work at the dam
and along the pipe line, and there is q
force of fifty men working on the dam
alone. The dam will rest on very
secure foundation, the basis being
heavy piling driven down twenty two
feet into the bed Of the river, close
together and cut off five feet from the
bottom. On this is a solid bed of con-
crete npOn which the dam prop.r rests.
The main canal is supplied through
six iron four feet pipes, the water be-
ing taken from the river over piling
that rises two feet above the river bot
tom so that no silt or dirt gets into the
canal, but is washed out through the
sluice gates.
The pipe line crossing is six miles
below the dam. The water is taken
across the stream through four 80 inch
wooden pipes, 400 #. long, to the other
side OF the river, then the Santa Fe has
laid tracks over the river from the
main line so that material can be car
ried over there, ana the contractor has
1000 yards of concrete ready to lay "a
the dam. Work al Elephant Butte has
not commenced yet. Mr.. Brad bury re
turns north tomorrow.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-28
STRANGE, BUT TRUE.

Tennyson could take worthless sheet
OF paper. write a poem on it and make
it worth S65, 000-that's genius.
Vanderbilt can write few words on a
sheet of paper and make it worth
So, 000 000-that's capital.
Uncle Sam can take SlS worth OF gold
and stamp upon it an Eagle Bird" and
make it worth $20-that's money.
Mechanics can take material worth So
and make it into watch springs worth
S1000-that's skill.
A merchant can take an article costing
Is cents and sell it for $l-that's bust
pess.
a lady can buy hat for So, but she
prefers one that costs S30-that's foolish.
A ditch digger works 10 hours day
and handles several tons of dirt, for s.
that's labor.
The writer of this could write a check
! for SO, 900. 600. but it wouldn't be worth
| two bits-that's tough.
| Any one can get more "REAL VALUE
and "BETTER GOODS" at our store
| than at any other place in Ell Paso-
| that's economy and common sense.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-28
An Interesting Talk.

Rev. H. W. Moore gave an interest
ing talk last night at the regular We'd
nesday evening meeting in the Pres
byterian church. He took as his text
the Sunday school lesson of next SUNDAY,
the pith and kernel of which is the
statement of the apostle, There is no
other name given under heaven among
men where we must be SaVedp'
The speaker referred especially in
this connection to the saying of the
Jewish dignataries at the time of the
arrest of Peter and John that these
two men were ignorant and unlearned,
which made them wonder the more
how they could accomplish such
miracles. The reason was that these
men were educated by the holy spirit,
and that was the secret of the success
of Mr.. Moody. This great evangelist
cannot read proba bly, line of Greek,
or Latin or Hebrew, and yet look a
the wonders he has accomplished. so
that the New York journal has ranked
him as a second ST. Paul. And that,
continued the speaker, is also one of
the reasons of the success of the great
Methodist denomination, ministry
educated so largely by the holy spir-
it.
At the same time, the speaker held
that did not invalidate the necessity of
an educated ministry. Men have their
uOuOIS as Vdf1eu as can De IN JnelF
scope and intensity. and these doubts,
these skepticisms must be met and ex-
planned away. And to do this you must
have an educated ministry and it is this
educated ministry that is the glory of
the Presby terian denomination. The
fact that the apostles were unlettered
IN the educational sense of the term
does not excuse us from an educator
ministry. Were that so the Quakers
would not be dying out as church.
The Quakers believe in speaking on ly
as inspired by the spirit: and sit in
silence until there comes what they
believe to be that Inspiration. The
great desideratum was ministry not
only educated and trained in the col
leges and seminaries but inspired,
trained and actuated by Gods holy
spirit
Mr.. Moore closed with several fine
thoughts on the expression, land they
took knowledge OF them that they had
been with Jesus" This being with
Jesus was a most precious thing, and
all present were urged to place them
selves in closer, closer proximity to the
cross, that they may be with the mast |
err.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-28
ReyiyaIin Progress.

City Missionary Adams, Of the Meth
odist church, Is conducting a successful
revival every night in Hope mission on
South Oregon street, where men from
all walks of life are Undergraduates
ed as by magnet, and the interest
seems to be Increasing.
Evangelist Adams is an untirin g
worker and exceedingly Jealous in the
cause of his master. For long time
he has not seen really marked results
from his labors, and at times the out
look has appeared discouraging, but
his courage never failed him, and new
there are promises of a good harvest.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-28
THE WEATHER.
What Metal Is Worth.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Blank books cheap at Twins.
Fresh oysters at Smiths creamery.
Hot cakes at Smiths creamery.
Go to Irwin for window glass.
Juicy steaks at Smith IS creamery.
Straw berries at Smiths creamery.
Wrights' butter at Smiths Cream
cry.
Typewriter paper at the HERALD Of
fee.
Mining Location Blanks for Sale at
This Office.
Stoves and Steel Ranges; low prices.
Momsen & Thorne's.
Try the bread made by the Dickin-
son Home Bakery.
Ell PASO STEAM LAUNDRY,
Telephone No, At.
Ask for "EL PASO TRANSFER"
the best cent CIGAR on the market.
legal size at S1.20 at HERALD job Office.
Home made cakes, pies and dough
nuts at Smiths creamery.
The best Mexican and Havana cigars
are made by the Ell Paso Cigar Mfg.
Co.
Pleasant furnished room, private
family, privilege of parlor, 403 N. Ell
Paso St.
FoUND-Keys with chain attached.
Owner can have same by paying for
this ad, HERALD
For RENT-One nicely furnished
large sunny room, with bath: reason
able price; board if wanted. 319 Texas
treet.
Fresh eggs 15c per dozen, packages
Lyon coffee 81, 10 lbs Monogram pure
leaf lard Coo, at the Ell Paso Grocery
Co., 112 East Overland st.
Payne Badger Coal company, Nc
Alester, Cerillos and anthracite coal,
cord and stove wood, yard Second and
chihuahua streets. Telephone No. IL.
Fresh eggs 15c per dozen, packages
Lyon coffee 81, 10 lbs Monogram pure
leaf lard 65c, at the Ell Paso Grocery
Co., 112 East Overland st.
Payne-Badger Coal company, Nc
Alester, Cerillos and anthracite coal,
cord and stove wood, yard Second and
chihuahua streets. Telephone No. IL.
Fresh eggs 15c per dozen packages
Lyon coffee 81, 10 lbs Monogram pure
leaf lard Csc, at the E. Paso Grocery
Co., III East Overland st.
Ell Paso Fuel Co., are 1.-THE" agents
for the celebrated Cerrillos White
to Cerrillos Coal r. r. Co. Phone
ITO.
PayneBadger Coal company, Nc
Alester, Cerillos and anthracite coal,
cord and stove wood, yard Second and
Chihuahua streets. Telephone No Ii.
FoUND-A lady's gold watch.
Owner can have same by describing
property, and paying for this ad.
Norton, Drake & Co., 2l5 North Stan
ton street.
"CerrIllosCoal. We sell the celebrat-
ed white ash and anthracite and make
a specially of screened Jumps for do
nestle uses. Phone 8.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-28
The War Still on.

Q. PrietO, the man who put the thief
Conrrado Apodaca to sleep the other
night, had another adventure last
night. Two of Apodaca's gang showed
up from the bosque, and tried to steal
Prieto's horse. However, Prieto WELD
ed his gun with such effect that the
thieves were driven back into the
bOsque.
Prieto was held today by Justice Nc
Kie in S400 on the charge of murder
which, however, the grand jury will
ignore. 1t Is said the gang will try to
murder him.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-28

quired. The law only requires the
city clerk to be in his Office from 9 to
u and from to 5. but the work of the
Office requires him to be at the Office
from TO II and from l to & and some
times later. If he falls behind two
days in the work, it will take d week
for him to catch up. [ do not expect
nor want the Office for a second term.
l would quit now if L could get other
employment. The Office is thankless
one and with the salary cut it is a
worthless one.'
AROTTND ABOJTT.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-28
Don't Get Left.

All the weather prophets declare
that the cold weather is not yet over,
and the cold March winds will chill as
badly as if the temperature was low.
We have only q horse blankets left,
aud will close them out at cost. We
will not get any more till next year.
Be sure and get one of the West Texas
Saddlery Co., corner Overland and
Oregon streets.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-28
For Over Fifty Years.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for children teething.
1t soothes the child, softens the
gums, allays all pain, cures wind
collie. and is the best remedy for diar-
rhoea. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-28

OVERHEARD AT THE COURT HOUSE
Two jurors were talking ct the noon
hour yesterday in regard TO some move
for self protection and the pre7erVatlon
of life during the progress of the SUIT
for attorneys fees, that has occupied
the attention of the district court for
the past two DAYS. AS the suit pro-
crossed the array of legal talent on
either side became more aggressive
and their remarks of a personal char
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-28

Read Ayers Almanac, which your
druggist will gladly hand you, and note
the wonderful cures of rheumatism, ca
tarrh, scrofula, dyspepsia, eczema, de-
bility, humors, and sores, by the use of
Ayers sarsaparills, the only sarsap arilla
admitted at the Worlds Fair.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-28

Mr.. Jacobo Blanco, chief of Mexican
international boundary survey and
known in this city, met with a painful
accident in the City of Mexico while
out on his wheel.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-28

There was a social and hop given at
Fort Bliss last night by the officers in
honor of the new quartermaster, Lieut..
Griffith of San Antonio. Quite num-
Der of people went up from this city,
and an epjoyabl9 time was had.