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Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1899-06-15

Si0drrcnfabrifamt,

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oeutIt'titb. &irhe sese1ibsr.
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Narming.

Nu6 bier tOmmcn Die Normer ;ur
lleber;eusuns, ouB eiu Sboa6 iiir oOS
@etreibe cine Not5Wenpi9teit lit. 20
last min auf l.>err Srau; @loltermanll
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b~eitsOuelle %betommer, beiBt eS ia,
paB 6err youiS Srimmel oieien Nerbit
Elm S6art9eitdit eroiiueu miro.
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s%1 sfsa Or. E. NJ. Johnson. s;';: : s ':s's" ;

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auslebenoen Wuno id6n gu MAIDEN. SD babe IS serne, wenn bic Boulder
Nrasen OIL mid ieQsn otr ibe 6runoe nit it'd brinscn.
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ct. NidOlas.

G6elih perbunoen purpen Sien'ta0
our6 Ben bohw. Eiarrer SaEbino
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Elm b~siisrer @eiit einseSosen; mebrere
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oefebrt une anoere pereeu ipl9en.
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WSdnner' uno an06en sebrau:
den oem0bnlit ;mei VaQr III


elHeln NnSu9e. Naber b0ben mir cine ertra Sorte
SrouIers, %bieielben iinp in jeoer l>iniitt ertra out
9emadt uno paiien gut.
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Ct Glouo, ben 3 Suut. 1893.
Ser Serta9ung aemlb trdt Der Sparo Su'
iammen; ale Witglieosr dnpeieno. Phi
Nntra9 purpcn iols noe &etnu gen erlnubt
rlo iur 9ab!ura anaewleier:
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Saton9emaBe @epi6te. Sieie t0nnt ibr piel biQiser
lauTen as Die Nrei'e limb, bic ionitwo iIr Die ndmli6e
Eualitdt perlan9t weroer.
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ben Tam, unb ebrbar, uie ie ie in Der Gjsiditte bes
&leioerbanoels betanrt paren.
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Hiamuun.

Sien'tas Morsen 5 Itbr purbc
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JOURNAL PUBLISHING co.
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6saeerptQe.

Wontos Worsen wurpe pom Der
Nbteitirde aus bic ,Sruu oeS in bie=
lem Sopn wobneRben Serrn q. 60
bert 81 @rabe setrasen. Die Ser
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SsS. Gem 10 bart sepriiten Sutten
entbieteu mir un'er berSlides Ssiz
leio.
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Gin sepiiisr Gbriit. Helicn pcu
IinneapoliS bat oie bieIise Greamsro,
wsl6e swei Sabre lang auBer Setvieb
mar, aui erei Sabre in Fa6t senom=
men uno wiro bielelbe iciort wieoer
in Sang lepen.
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BOX 397 PHILADELPHIA, PA.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
IDAHO.

AS a mining state, a producer of pre-
cious and useful metals, Idaho has
shared the general growth and prosper
ity of the mountain section. But Idaho
has beaten her record this year. The
mines were never more f1ourishing than
they are today. Prices might be better.
fairer, and they ought to be; but the
output could not be more encouraging
under the circumstances.
In farming and fruit-raising Idaho is
rapidly forging to the front. The great
Snake river valley, which for hundreds
of miles is being put under irrigation,
contains some of the richest soil in the
west 1t is .decomposed lava and sedi-
ment from the timber clad mountains
which drifts over the bottoms in the
June freshets, and very productive.
a great many cattle and sheep are
raised in Idaho and the state has
shared the profits of the year in these
lines with sister states.
During the year several railroads,
looking to the further development of
the state, were begun and their compile
ton this year insures an r of pros
perity hat only those who are &C
quainted with the districts to be thus
opened UP can appreciate. a.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
FIGURES.

In his article on Utah as a place for
investment, Mr.. Brainard gives some
interesting immigration statistics. He
shows that the population of Utah was
14S,963 in 1880; that in 1890 it was 2O7.-
9O5, and 247, 324 in 1896. At the same
ratio it is in the neighborhood of 1885,
900 now.
He attributes this steady growth
during financial depression largely to
1.-THE general belief in the sincerity of
the leaders of the dominant church. as
expressed in the manifesto, ~aboIishing
polygamy."
Whether the efforts Of certain sore
headed and revengeful politicians to
stir up a storm of religious prejudice in
the east. to discredit the sincerity of
the leaders and the honor of the domi-
nant church will serve to check this
healthy growth of the state remains to
be seen.
If these petty differences and this
spite work of disgruntled politicians
could be done away with for the time
being Utah would make such strides to
the front in every way that her old
defamers would scarcely recognize the
state in five years more.
A little more common sense and a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
TIE GROWING CAMPS.

The railroads are splendid witnesses
for the side of prosperity in Utah min
ing camps. They have been crowded
to supply the demand for freight
facilities TO and from the mines. The
supplies, machinery and material being
hauled to the various camps and the
amount of ore being shipped away
constitute the best evidence of mining
activity.
Another witness for the prosecution
Of business is the dealer in mining
machinery. The call for such goods
was never greater in Utah than it has
been for three months past. Founda-
tons for more extensive work are be-
ing laid and the next twelve months
will be full of hum and hustle in the
mining localities of the state.
Recent developments in Tintic, Park.
Mercur and Bingham show that the
Oldest camps of the state are still in
their infancy, and that the millions
they nave yielded is o a 1.-THE of
what they hold in escrow for the future.
Among the lesser districts, Fish
Springs, Ophir and Alta are gaining
strength, while the outlook in the
newer discoveries of Gold Hill, the La
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
THE WHOLESALE TRADE.

Wholesale merchants in Salt Lake
City are abreast of the times. In trade
expansion they have kept pace with
the nation. They have been spreading
over new territory, reaching out for
business all the year.
Salt Lake City has benefited by their
enterprise. 1t is the trade center of the
intermountain region, the distributing
point for a vast area embracing five
growing, thriving states.
The business of the wholesalers of
this city almost reached the S14, 900. 900
mark in the year just ended. They
nave been more aggressive this year
than ever before and results amply rec
mpense the extra efforts put forth.
The amount of groceries solo to re-
tailers by local jobbers is about SO, 000,-
600; dry goods, 5 800, 600, and farming
implements the same. Other lines have
increased proportionately. A hundred
travelling statesmen are kept on the
road by the jobbing houses of this city,
and ogden is also doing considerable
business of the same character.
The outlook for Utah wholesalers was
never more fiattering than it is today.
With activity in the mines, and a new
resolve among the people to live within
their means, this trade will continue to
improve each year..
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
ADVERTISING.

Thousands of copies of today's Her
aid will be sent by friends of the paper
and of the state to other friends and
other states.
Besides, there will be 40 900 copies
circulated, through the medium OF
other newspapers, in the rich agricul-
tural and manufacturing section OF
the middle west.
Newspapers of standing and in
fuence published in the states east
of the Missouri river and west and
north Of the Ohio will circulate today's
edition by special arrangement and
will give their readers an opportunity
to learn something of the wealth and
attractions of the state.
The value of this publicity is in
estimable. 1t is the most effective way
of reaching the class of people who,
more than those Of any pther section,
are liable to take an interest in the
west.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
FARM N OF A

Utah is an empire Of itself. 1t is
larger in area than Portugal. Greece
and Switzerland combined. 1t has an
area almost twice tina of Cuba. It con-
tains more square miles than Pennsyl-
vania, Massachusetts. New Hampshire.
Vermont and New Jersey put together.
1t has room and resources for a poDu-
lation ten times the number hat are
here. 1t has a greater variety of nat
ural than any state or coun-
try mentioned.
Only a small percentage of Utah's
acreage can be farmed. it is true. but
the hills are covered with forage and
filed with fortunes.
There are 50, sol, 500 acres altogether.
OF this vast area 300. 900 acres are S
ceptible to irrigatien-enough to consti-
tute a state without that which cannot
be cultivated. And only a third of this
irrigable LAND has been reclaimed. There
are 2.OOO. 900 acres awaiting tillers of the
soil. There is a welcome here for cap
ital to extend the scheme Of irrigation
and for labor to take advantage of that
extension.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
WHY SHE WEPT.
The Little Girl Who Was Crying On
Christmas Morning.

~ 49Il1l09 44O14A4A4S
A little girl was crying on Christmas
morn If it is pitiful to look upon child
ish sorrow at n time, it is doubly so
to witness it at such a time as this,
when all the Christian world rejoiceS
and makes glad at the recurrence of the
hallowed anniversary The church
chimes We're pealing forth their joyous
salutations, the sun rose Ger the city
with unwoTA ed brilliancy, the air was
crisp and ~
This little girl, a tot of 8 or 4, lay sob
bling out her little heart upon the cold
and cherries pavement. Her face,
buried in her thin and fragile arms,
lay pressed against a doorstep-the
doorstep of an organized charity asso-
citation. Extra hard, ultra cold and es-
sentially practical, the very essence of
organized charity statistics n self-aid
theories seemed to glitter from its
frosty surface and be refracted from its
frigid lines. The matron appeared in
the doorway.
Little girl" she cried hoarsely, lit
tie girl, why are you crying on a pri-
vate doorstep, little girl?"
Because" answered the little girl
timidly, as she gulped down a combi-
nation of sob, sa%uerkraut, GROUP and
rea almonds, because I didn't get
nothing but a new hat and dress, and
doll, and Noah'S ark, n woody dog,
and candy, and nuts and oranges fer
Christmas, instead of the bicycle and
boomers that 1 had been praying for"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
H SALT PALACE.


Whatever Salt Lake City undertakes
in the way of entertainment is always
well done. 1t was so with the carnival;
it was so with the Jubilee; it has been
so in every undertaking of the kind
that has ever been attempted in the
city.
This is due to the hospitable dispo-
sition of the people, to their propen-
sity for amusements, to their artistic
temperament, to their enterprise and
determination to succeed in what they
begin.
These characteristics, as well as the
reputation of the men behind the pro-
ject of erecting a salt palace in this
city for exposition purposes this COM
ing summer, leave no doubt as to the
success of the enterprise.
The salt palace is no longer a mere
possibility; it is an assured fact. l;
will be erected and viii surDass in
grandeur anything in the way of ar
tifcial beauty ever seen in the west be-
fore. It will bring thousands of visit
ors to the city, and win delight behold
ers and interest the world. AS a nov
city it will stand alone.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
MONTANA.

Montana is one of the richest mining
sections of the world. Last ear it adj
ded to the wealth of this country $685.
$4,000. Sheep and cattle constitute a
respectable portion of the wealth of
Montana, but the bulk is in the mines.
The mines alone supplied s52. 800, 900
of the increase in 1897. This year there
viii be an increase all around, the es-
innate showing a gain of 10000, 900
pounds of copper alone.
Butte has had 1850 men employed in
the mines during the entire year. This
is the best record for constant en-
ployment the section has made. The
new Washoe copper plant will be COM
pleted soon and will furnish several
thousand miners and mill men with
steady work. Mr.. DAILY, who is at the
head of the concern. expects it to rival
the famous Anaconda mines.
The work of development is going on
and new discoveries that nave attract
ed the attention of hackers like Clark
and DAILY are sure to become valuable
within the year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
WYOMING.

The extraordinary development of
natural during the past
twelve months mark that period as the
most prosperous the state of Wyoming
has e. known.
The assessed valuation of property
has increased millions of dollars. while
there has been an appreciate de-
crease in the rate of taxation.
Several causes. the war among them,
contributed to keep the price of cat
tie up, and the stockmen of this and
other states have prospered as they
never did before. The price of wool.
which has been high all over the world,
in China, Australia and Canada, was
also high in this country the greater
portion of the year. When it began
to decline abroad it likewise declined
in the United States, but not until it
had yielded the sheepmen enormous re-
turns.
The cattle interests of the state are
almost double in value those of sheep.
being as 81, 361 ,S43 to s2,913, 1874. And
the demand for beef in the army and in
foreign lands has filed the purses of
the cattlemen.
But the opening of new mines, the
uncovering of mineral wealth, the in
creased output of iron, copper and the
precious metals, the discovery Of new
and apparently illimitable coal beds,
have done more than anything else to
make, prosper and encourage Wyoming.
The Battle Lake copper district is at
tracing wide attention. and certainly
promises well for the state.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
THE OPEN DOOR OF THE YEAR.

It was a belief of the ancient
Grecians that when they had gone
through the year and had reached its
end that the door of time was closed.
The cycle was complete. It's course
was run. With the last of December
its day was done. But Janus, they i'm
agined stood without. He held the key
of the future. No one else could open
the door to another period. And so the
first month of the year was named
for Janus.
Standing upon the threshold of time
he was supposed to look backward and
forward, into the past and into the
future. Therefore he is represented, in
painting, statue or relief, as having
two heads.
The Romans also believed in Janus
and they worshipped him at many
shrines and erected a famous temple
to his honor.
January has come again, opening the
portals Of another year, looking bach
upon the acts and achievements of by
gone days, reviewing their mistakes
and misspent hours, while looking for
ward with hope and high resolve to
better days to ONE.
Of this month the poet Longfellow
wrote:
Janus am I, oldest of potentates!
Forward I look, and backward and be-
low,
1 count-as god of avenues and gates
The years that through my portals
come and go.
I block the roads and drift the fields with
snow,
I chase the wild fowl from the frozen
land;
My frosts CONCEAL the rivers in their flow.
My fires light up the hearths and hearts
of men.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
BRIAR ROOT PIPES.
American Wood Rapidly Supplanting
the European Product.

(St. Louis Globe-DemOcrat.)
Not so long ago it would have been
rank heresy for the smoker of a pipe
TO be perfectly satisfied with anything
in the shape of a "briar root that did
not come from the other side of the
Atlantic; but the excellence of the
American briar, as it is now made, is
beyond question, and it is now holding
its own against h imported product.
This is greatly due to improvements
in wood-turning machinery, by means
of which American manufacturers are
now making the greater part of the
pipes used, and turning them Il at a
price which, ten years ago, would ave
seemed impossible. The greater num-
Der of pipes imported here formerly
came from France, but a. good many
were supplied by England. The wood
from which they are manufactured
here is still imported from Europe. Ihe
best briar is French, but a good briar
is produced in England ana in some
parts 'of Germany. The wood
over in rough blocks free OF duty,
packed in bags. The bags hold from
200 to 800 blocks each, ana the importa-
ton runs up to about 5000 bags year.
ly. When the blocks arrive they are
roughly shaped. To shape the bowl
and cut away the sup%erfiuous wood
lHSy are put lnlO tile lI6ZluB MA
chine. Another appliance reduces the
stems and hollows out the bowl, after
which it assumes some sembIance of
what it is intended for. 1t is then
carefully -sandpapered and pumice-
stoned, until it is brought to the proper
size. The last operation, before the
pipe receives its stem and trimmings,
is the drilling of the air hole. The
stems are made of either celluloid,
bone, hard rubber or amber. Amber is
costly, and is rarely attached to the
cheaper grade of pipes. The demand
is steadily increasing, and the Ameri-
an pipes are supplanting those of Eu-
rope in this market. Every smoker
nowadays prefers a briar 10 a clay, and
some prefer it to the meerschaum.
Much of the present activity in this
demand is said to be due to the finan-
cial depression of the last few years.
which drove people, who had before
then smoked nothing but cigars, to the
much more economical pipe. Another
reason given by the proprietors of CT
gar stores is that the national preju-
dice against the pipe is gradually Civ
ing way to the influence of European
fashion, n many OF them prophesy
that before many years the sight of an
Engiishman walking down Broadway
smoking his briar root, will excite no
comment, since the custom OF outdoor
pipe-smoking is already being treated
with q surprising tolerance by Ameri-
cans themselves.