Stikeen River journal., 1899-05-06
AWAITS THE COMING OF
 THE PRESIDENT.
Copper Mines That Have
 Defied The Hard Times.
Sixty Million Dollars in Cop. per Mine DividenS and The Industry in Its
 Infancy.
Absolutely Pure


 patch. When President Mckinley comes here this summer he will see some sights that will be strange and interesting to him. He will see some thing, indeed, that has never been dup Heated elsewhere, and of which the Ar abarian fairy tales are but the prepar- atory course. He will first be astonish- ed to find himself in a community that has known no hard times in many years that only knows of the panic of '93 through the newspapers; and a commn- nity in which the poor house is an in- significant structure. He will see more we'll dressed people in proportion to the population than in Washington the wealthy capital of the richest nat ion in the world. .,
 He will be shown the mine that is a mile deep, and the machinery that makes the biggest engine of the world s fair look like watch charm in com parison. He will be told the story of the discoveoy of the famous Calumet and Hecla mine, which has paid over $6O, ,OOO, 900 in dividens and is good for one, hundred years. In fact he will hear several stories of the discovery There will be the one about how a rag or-back hog rooted out the first frag- ment of the great conglomorate vein and the other one about the ancient pit in which some curious minded gentle men poked around till they found mug gets of copper surrounded by the stone- digging implements of the first copper kings of the new world. He will hear the claims of Dr. Hurlburt and his as- sociates discussed, and he will lend his ready sympathy to Mir. Rice and others of the fine old men of thirty and forty years ago who helped find and develop the Calumet and Heca. but turned their attention elsewhere before the great mine commenced to roll QUO the dividens
 He will be introduced to one or two of the eight or nine men who stood by Calumet and Hecla in the days when it needed friends. and he will be inform ed that these eight or nine are the very rich men of the copper country of to day.
 Then he will be shown the other great copper-producing properties, and the smelters and mills and the copper wire factory will not be overlooked
 Graham POpe's collection of free cop- per specimens, including one pictur- esque mass weighing 300 pounds, will be exposed to his curious and wonder ing observation. And the people, the happy and contented people, will be a revelation and relief. He will want to know all about them, and why strikes ase so rare. He will smile with satisfac- tion as he sees the rows and rows of neat we'll built, and even stylish houses con- structed by the miners for the employ ees and rented to them at a nominal figure. It will cause him to thrill with pleasure as he steps into the Calumet and Hecla library. and that cornpany's splendid hospital, free to all employees will cause him to want to say some- thing appreciative. The plan bv which the hospital was built anc is maintained, the Lake Superior water pure and clear, furnished at cost, the bank accounts of many of the humber mine workmen, and everything about the treatment of people on the whole copper range will so convince him that here at last he has discovered the way t0 sQlYu 1h. ianul. urnnl..ln that L.. .u 1