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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-15
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HISTORY
Of the New Sonora S. P.
Coal Fields
TOLD BY JUDGE SANFORD
Preach, English And AmeriCdnsIhaVe
Successfully Tried To Mine the
Coal.

A visitor of note in the city wa
Judge E. M. Sanford of Prescott
Arizona, who stopped over at the
Orndortf yesterday on his way back from
Mexico City where he has been to
obtain certain mining concessions in
Sonora.
In regard to the new Southern
Pacific coal fields the Judge, who is
familiar with their location, said:
These fields are wonderful In one
respect. From one certain shaft the
com pany is now taking silver and coal.
This instance is soualled ouly by q
Wisconsin copper mine from which
coal is taken. Here there are many
veins of both bituminous aad anthra-
cits coal, and the strata are so divert
ed that they come to the surface In al
most vertical direction.
'Quite d history attaches to the coal
de oosits which are immense, but which
have never been successfully worked
because of their inaccessibility. The
first concession was obtained from the
Mexican government by a
man who conceived the
ides of an independent repu bile in
Sonora, who got himself much disliked
in consequence, aud who escaped to
the Pacific coast and took refuge on an
American man-Of-war.
IAN English syndicate next took the
matter up, and the region was prospect
ed and shown to be worth tremendous
effort. but disagreement among the
stock holders put an end to their
scheme.
"When the Santa Fe sent its Sonora
road down, 1t took up the coal matter,
and did lots of diamond drill work
which showed the coal to be
there.
"Now that the Southern Pacific,
after trading the Santa Fe the Mojave
stretch for this Sonora road, has got
settled down in it's new possessions it
is getting to work in earnest on the
coal proposition and is bound to
make it go.
"Some 40 miles east of Ortiz and
west o. the present IS. P. shaft sinking
backed by the Pennsylvania company
is busy doing diamond drill work,
and they may be equally success
full.
THE DAM CASE.
'Mexico City officials are indif-
ferently interested in the trial of the
Elephant Butte Dam case at Las CRU
ces. 1t seems to me, at casual glance,
that the English company has the best
of the argument. One important point
has occurred to me that has not yet
DSSa Oub W o hoThCo oOSESO
aud that is the question of seepage.
The construction seems chiefly to be
that the various dams and reservoirs
diminish the supply of water lower
down, when az a matter OF fact, this
water cannot be diverted to another
water shed, and must, in time
seek it's level, after being once used,
and flow liz to the stream below as be-
fore. AS to evaporation, no more
would evaporate from the reservoirs
than from the river bed when filled.
FORMERLY IN Ell PASO.
81 lived in FL Paso Is years ago,
when It was merely an adobe town,
and L remember the block Of adobe
buildings which was built opposite the
old Grand Central by Dutchmsn we
called 'Pronto.' The stores had glass
fronts and so were the first Amer
icanizsd' buildings ia the new Ell
Paso. 'Propto' came here with 81, 900.
and made $4,000 out of those build
ings.''
Judge Sanford left for Prescott this
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-15

to change the plans and use brick walls
for support instead.
Mr.. Cowan says that he visited sew
eral big mills and all of them were
working on orders which will keep
them in q rush until next June. No
new work could be promised until after
that time.
The high price aud big orders for
iron and steel will keep back lots OF
railroad projects just now.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-15
LINK AND PIN.
NOTHING TO 1T
Positively Stated That the Visit OF
Gen. Dodge Does Not Mean a
Sierra Mddre Extension.

Sierra Madre Extension.
Gen. Dodge and Morgan Jones hav,
returned from their trip up the line o
the Ell Paso and Northeastern sni
| their private car Is standing on the
White Oaks tracks, This morning
they had long conference with Cen
eral Manager Eddy, after which Mr.
Eddy Immediately went out on the
line and could not be seen.
Gen. Dodgei is suffering from severe
attack Of indigestion aud cannot be
seen. The party will not go out until
he has recovered.
Morgan Jones was seen late this af-
ternoon. He spoke quietly yet DECEIVE
ly In regard to the extension rumor,
and he spoke for General Dodge as we'll
as for himself.
"This trip" he said ''has never In
the remotest degree been connected
with the Rock Island or any outside
road. We went out on the Sierra
Madre because We were asked in
friendly way to do 80. There may be
nothing of it nor, probably, will we be
connected with 1t in any capacity.
GEL Paso does not seem to realize
what e good thing che has in these
two local roads which are really
making the city. It is to them she
owes her progress and she
ought not to wish for an ex-
tension until the tributary territory
is developed and she has the trade of
this territory secured.
I'VE went up the White Oaks road
more especially because there are
many large coal mines along the Col
orados and Southern in which the
directors and stockholders
are interested.
1--WE think thesWhite Oaks road a
inc proposition, with excellent pros
poets for'developing a fine county.
''As to the coal-it looks good, but
more development work will have to
De done before the quantity of output
Jan be determined upop.''
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-15
Sending For Coal.

1--WE expect more of our new equip
meut in February said General
Manager Eddy, of the E. P. & N. E..
yesterday, "but we do not anticipate a
famine in coal cars, for the simple
reason that the railroads are so
anxious to get coal that they will be
glad to comply with our require ments
to send up their own cars after it,"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-15
THE PRICE OF IRON
Makes Necessary the Use OF Brick
At the Colorado And Southern
Shops

If Gen. Dodge has any idea OF doing
railroad building in this bsiliwick, it
probably won't be for some time, De-
cause of the price of steel alone.
On his own road Chief Engineer
Cowsn, of the Colorado & Southern, in
planning for the new shops at Denver,
designed to use considerable structural
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-15
THEY WANT HIM OUSTED.
Effort To Remove Francisco
VilIdlobos As a Justice OF The
Peace.

w. M. Baker and others are trying
to have Francisco Villalo Dos ousted
from the Office of Justice of
the peace of the 4th pre-
cinct, alleging in their petition to
Judge Walthall that he was not citi-
zen of the United States, at the time of
hit election, Nov. s, 1898.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-15

OF the Vaticau's many rooms, Pope
Leo has reserved for his personal use
only three a small parlor, little
dining-room and bed room.
Stikeen River journal., 1899-06-17
Approved, May II, 1898.

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Stikeen River journal., 1899-06-17
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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-22
Utility of the North Pole.

:: s ss5: tie: :: e; IL :';:::; +:
j sources of power and innumer-
able have been the failures of those
who have tried to solve the problem.
Now comes Evelyn B. Baldwin, an
Arctic explorer, who proposes to seize
the world natural electric currents
and make them do mans bidding.
Speaking of the aurora borealis, he de-
clares the phenomenon to be the mani
festation of a great force which can
be brought under control and dis-rib-
uted to any part of the world. Tint
this force is electrical" says Mr. Bald
win. land that the polar regions serve
as great reservoirs Of it, l have no
doubt, and when this supposition is
established 1t must also follow that
there are great and comfortable cur
rents flowing within the earth between
the two great polar reservoirs, cur
rents which could be utilized in the
propulsion of machinery and the work.
ing of dynamos quite as readily as by
the lesser power houses of our great
cities. The great currents Of the ocean
have been made of practical advan-
tage to man, and there is no reason
why he cannot make the great polar
electrical currents also serve his rur-
poses.'
But the trouble Is to reach the North
Pole and fasten onto this wasted au
roral energy Once that is accomplish
ed, there's no doubt, as Mr.. Baldwin
says. there would be practically no end
to the purposes for which this great
force could be utilized. Indeed, it
could be used to light up the Arctic
regions themselves throughout the
long Arctic night, and thus afford the
explorer far greater opportunities for
polar research of every kind. for dur
ing the winter the surface conditions
are at their best. This, however, Is
but a minor consideration in view Of
the great results that would follow
from the application of this force to
commercial affairs In the populous sec
tons of the earth, and why could not
this force be led along great wires or
lines as readily as the electric fluid is
now conducted in cables from contin-
ent to continent? Why. indeed? There
is no earthly reason why, if you will
only first catch your North Pole and
its oceans Of electricity. That, per-
haps, is to be one of the accomplish
ments of the twentieth century.
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FRIDAY. DECEMBER q, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.
A CommendabIe Action.


~HERE will be general and very
warm commentator of the ac-
ton taken by Judge Clancy OF
Silver Bow county yesterday in dis
solving the injunction restraining the
Anaconda Mining company from ope-
rating the Anaconda, st. Lawrence
and Never Sweat mines in Butte. To
hundreds Of homes in Butte the news
of the dissolution of the injunction
will be most welcome. Not only will
the news be welcome to the miners and
other workingmen of Butte, but to the
merchants who found the holiday trade
yesterday sadly affected by the grant
ing of the injunction. Not only will
the news be most welcome in Butte
but also in Anaconda, Belt, Hamilton
and, in fact, in all parts of the state,
for the state of Montana cannot pros
per when Butte is under a cloud.
There are about $500 miners employed
at the Anaconda, st. Lawrence and
Never Sweat mines in Butte. In all the
mines of the Anaconda company there
are 5000 men employed. Owing to the
popularity Of the suit brought on
which the injunction was asked, not
alone the Anaconda, ST. Lawrence and
Never Sweat mines. but all the mines
of the Anaconda company might have
been closed. This would have necessi-
tated the closing soon Of the Anaconda
smelters and of other works of the
Anaconda company through the state.
This condition of things has been hap
PLY averted by the praiseworthy con-
clusion reached by Judge Clancy yes
terday.
It would seem that the action brought
otherwise than characterized as ma
licious, for to throw thousands Of men
out of employment in Butte and
throughout the state at the edge of
winter would entail untold hardships
and privations. Apparently the back
ers of this movement aimed their blow
at this time in a devilish desire to in
jure the holiday trade in Butte and
Anaconda and to make gloomy
Christmas season which should be most
Joyous.
Through the sensible view taken by
Judge Clancy yesterday, thousands of
workingmen will find their employment
continued and their wages assured,
merchants will find a ready sale for
holiday goods, and the people of Mon
tana will have joyous Christmas
after all.
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A Short Armistice,

New York, Dec. 21.-A dispatch to
the Herald from Chieveley Camp, Dec.
16, says: There is an armistice till
midnight in order to bury the dead and
remove the wounded. Meanwhile the
enemy is placing fresh guns SO they
may cover our ambulance parties. They
express themselves as satisfied with
yesterdays battle and boast that they
cannot be turned out of their present
position. The Dutch stripped our dead.
During the lighting some heroic deeds
were performed, the irregulars vieing
with the regulars for distinction. Lieu
tenant Ponsonby of Thornycroft' S
mounted infantry and Private Farrer
of the Natal carbineers attempted to
save some of their comrades at imni-
nent peril to their own lives. An in
jured man carried by Lieutenant Pom
sonby was mortally wounded while in
the arms of the officer
A dispatch to the Herald from
Chieveley Camp dated Dec. II says:
General Buffers army moved back
five miles to-day, the march beginning
at II o'clock this morning. two brt-
gades going to Frere in order to defeat
a possible attempt on the part of the
Beers to execute a flank movement to
destroy the railroad on the British
rear"
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Overlooked Something.
Z N Wednesdays issue the Standard
commented upon the address of the

IN Wednesdays issue the Standard
commented upon the address of the
silver republican leaders. and the
attitude of the republican party in not
only stultifying itself upon the silver
question, but denouncing every silver
man in the country as a swindler and
thief because of his advocacy Of de-
based and dishonest money.
Our comment was closed with the
suggestion that while a man might
crawl back into the ranks of a party
the leaders of which do not hesitate to
denounce him as a swindler and a thief,
may be honest, but where he carries
his self-respect it is not easy to dis
cover"
OF course the organ in Butte feels
1t necessary to reply, which 1t does
with its usual elegance of diction, fair
ness and logical force. In nearly a
column editorial 1t charges the Stand
ard with just about every Offense
known to the calendar of infamy. eX-
cept two.
1t does not accuse the Standard of
fawning and cringing at the feet Of
an administration that is using its
utmost endeavor to destroy silver as
money, and the silver mining industry
at the same time, meanwhile charac-
terizing those who object to the defect
able scheme as lacking in personal in
tegrity. Neither does it charge the
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-22
She Struck 1t Rich,

Chicago, Dec. 21.-Dr. Luella Day
who two years ago left here for the
Klondike and whose death in a snow
slide was reported later arrived at the
istered by Edward Mcconnell, also a
"Klondiker," as his wife. Mrs. McCon-
nell struck it rich near Dawson and
her husband, who had already been
years in the Alaskan gold fields, owns
several rich claims. Mrs. Mcconnell
declared that after couple of years
which she and her husband intend to
spend in travel she will return to Chi
cago and erect home and hospital for
the treatment of crippled children.
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detailed replies. He declared that the
Increased rates would not in his opin-
ion compensate the railroads for the
increased cost of transpor alton.
+. S. Monnett. attorney general of
Ohio, questioned Mr. Gill as to the cost
OF shipping petroleum. evidently en-
deavoring to elicit from him some
statements to the effect that the STAN
dard Oil company was favored by the
railroads at the expense of the small
shippers. Mr. Monnett said that in
less than carload lots Of petroleum the
Western classification increased the
rate 1853 per cent, depending on the
distance. This. he said, was a discrim-
nation which would break UP the small
shippers. Mr.. Gill explained that his
committee had nothing to do with the
carload rate in petroleum, and that the
changes in the classification Of less
than carload lots had been made by
the committee on a suggestion of ]. f.
Tucker, chairman OF the Central
Freight association of Chicago.
Nathan Clifford traffic manager of
the New York Central and Boston &
Albany railroads. made long state
ment to the commission in the course
of which he said he did not care to de-
fend the proposed classifications be-
cause he realized there might be in
consist sncies and mistakes in them. He
declared the readiness of the railroads,
however, to correct any inequalities or
injustices that might be found to exist.
He did not thinh the railroads ought
to be asked to lose three months reve-
nues from the new classi1catfons be-
cause operating expenses and expenses
of maintenance We're constantly in
creasing. He said that his company
was now building 10000 cars for which
they would have to pay nearly double
the amount they formerly had paid for
car construction. The increased cost
to the railroads of transportation made
it absolutely necessary for them TO Sc
cure increased revenues. While the
revenues of many railroads had in
creased from month to month the net
earnings had not proportionately in
creased because of the heavy increase
in operating expenses and in mainte-
nance. When his attention was called
to- The statement of the earnings for
the last quarter of the New York Cen
trail, as compared with the correspond
ing quarter of one year ago. showing
an increase in this year Of the net
earnings, he said the railroads had not
felt yet as they would feel the in
creased cost of operation and con-
struction of the plant.
The commission adjourned until $50
tomorrow morning.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-22
Nilln,I in a OnnrrcI.

st. Louis, Dec. 21.--A Post Dispatch
special from Dallas, Tex, says F. NJ.
Ethridge, one of the most prominent
lawyers in the city. to-day shot Attor-
ney Edwin 0. Harrell, who is equally
well known, four times in a crowded
elevator in the North Texas building.
Harrell died later at his home. Har-
rell had a pistol half cooked in his
hand as he fell. Ethridge Is in Gus
tody. The men were employed as
counsel on opposite sides in a litigation
involving cotton mill property, and
quarreled over professional affairs.
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is a plea that is heard nowhere now
except right here in the state of Mon
tana. The insincerity of 1t is palpable
to any person who has sense enough to
not to touch a red hot stove. No
party can make an issue paramount"
All it can do is to declare itself in
convention with reference to it, and
then the issue must take just such
prominence In the campaign as public
interest attaches to it.
The democratic party might. 1t Is
true, meet in convention and simply de-
clare for the free coinage of silver
without a single word on any other
subject This seems to be the idea
of Mr.. McKinley's Butte organ. and
the mere suggestion shows it's mon
strosity. The silver republicans in 1895
never thought of putting forward SO
outrageous a demand. They took the
position that silver was the most i'm
and they said to the democratic party
give US a satisfactory declaration con-
corning it and we will support your
ticket, even though you may say some
other things that we do not entirely
believe in"
Aside from the injustice involved in
such a proposition, it would be to in
vite certain defeat. With other i'm
portant questions pressing for settle
ment a party that would ignore every
thing but the financial question could
not possibly command the necessary
votes to win. Even If the democrats
held together, with substantial unan-
unity, the money power would have
nothing to distract or divide 1t, but
could bring every gun to bear upon
the shining target that was presented.
One would naturally suppose that a
silver republican would desire the dem
ocracy to take a course that would
give reasonable assurance of success,
but instead some of them urge a pol
icy that would make defeat about as
certain as anything in politics can be.
The whole paramount issue plea"
Is so specious, and is supported by so
many false and misleading statements,
as to furnish the most induhitable evil
dence of its insincerity. No matter
what the attitude of the democratic
party might have been, these people
would be shouting for Mckinley just
the same, except that they would have
one more charge to hurl at the dem
ocracy. They would denounce 1t as
having only one idea, and therefore,
being unfit to control the destinies of
this great country, with multitude
of important and even vital questions
before it for solution.
There Is only one conclusion to draw
These people do not in fact make sill
yer the paramount ISSUE" and never
did, in good faith. They simply went
with the tide. They have now reached
the conclusion that Mr.. Mckinley is
going to be elected and they don't in
tend to be on the losing side of the
game In saying this we fully recog-
nize the fact that there are honest and
sincere silver republicans in Montana.
We know that there are some and hope
that there are many. But they are
arguing the silver cause and not sing
ing the praises of the man who is using
the whole power of his position to
81 rike it a mortal blow.
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Big Sale of Timber,

Chicago Dec. 2o.-The Ontario gov
eminent had a. sale of 39S,0o0 square
miles OF timber limits in the districts
of Algoma, Nipissing and Rainy river
here to-day. 1t was attended by all
the leading American lumbermen IN
Michigan, who bought freely, notwith-
standing the fact that the terms Of
sale prohibited export of saw logs, the
expectation being that the scarcity Of
lumber and increased demand in tnr
United States would necessitate a larg
er demand of manufactured stuff from
Canada. The prices of limits showed a
good advance.