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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-28
Have the Khal,fa Hem med In.

Cairo, Egypt June 26.-Deserters who
have reached the British lines say the
khalifa is contlaed in narrow valley
by the Tagallas. friendly body of
tribesmen. The latter claim to have
killed 800 OF the khahfa's followers dur
ing the recent engagement 1t Is not
thought likely the Tagalias will be able
IL capture the khalita.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-28

We have for sale new Wheel
er 4 Wilson sewing machine. You,
may take your choice of any style of
machine made by this company, and
we will have it shipped to you direct
from the factory. Call at this office
and see us about it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-28
Home Baking.

Mrs. A. G. Seavy is better prepared
than ever before to do home baking,
and will continue as in the past to fill
orders on short notice.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-28
vene.uelan boundary Commission.

Paris June 2s.-The Venezuelan
boundary commission held morning and
afternoon sessions, Sir Richard Web
ster, the British attorney general, re-
Stunning his speech'in behalf of the case
OF, Great Britain. continued BIS histori-
col review, dealing with the original es-
tablishment of the Dutch on the coast
Tho next meeting OF the commission
will be hssd Wednesday. June g.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-28
Farms for Sale.

If you want to buy farm, write me
at once. / have some bar aims in Da-
kota lands if taken soon. Address,
52-tf r. F. TYLER, DEBORAH, Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-28

Madrid. June ,s-Ths anti-budget
I, deihontrations are increasing. and gen.
| darmes have been obliged to intervene
; inSseveral provinces The. project has
prohibited a meeting which was pro-
posed to be held In Madrid.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-28
For Rent.

My house, 605 Maple Ave, in whole
or part of the house, with board with
family of two or not "a party renting
may want. a NJ. PERRY.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-28

-Thos. Rhoads, Centertield, Ohio,
writes: II suffered from piles seven or
eight years. No remedy gave relief
until DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve,
less thaua box Of which permanently
cured a,e. Soothing, healing, perfectly
Wangler Bros.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-28
For Sale.

l have some of the choicest building
lots in the city for sale. High, terra cd
and fronted by mecadamized ST. u
JN.DArBNE.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-28
Moore Badly Wounded.
Coal Miners on Strike.

Wellsboro. Pa. June PA big strike
Of coal miners is on at Arnot, twenty
miles from here. The trouble has been
brewing for some time and finally 500
miners quit work, demanding 60 cents
a ton. They had been receiving As
cents. 1t is said the miners at Morris
Run have also struck. The Arnot mines
are owned by the Erie railroad and the
Morris Run by the New York Central
railroad.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-28

Another Is to the Effect That the Famous
Prisoner Is Still at Sea on the Cruiser
Sfax-Frank AvOwal of the New French
Cabinet-Address of the Minister of War
BE Removed.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

A week ago yesterday the city of Vic
tor, Colo, was swept by fire. The bust
ness portion of the place was virtually
destroyed and the loss will run anywhere
from 81 100000 to 100000
The experience of Victor is simply that
of almost every mining camp in the West
that has attained any considerable size.
Without an exception they have first been
built of wood, that is in the main, and in
the dry climate which prevails they have
burnt like so many finder boxes when
fire struck them.
The energy and pluck that Victor is
displaying in the matter of rebuilding is
also strikingly typical of the West With
In As hours after the fire was fully sub
dued the work of restoration began with
the greatest spirit. In almost every in
stance the destroyed structures are to be
replaced by larger, better and more SUBJ
stantial ones. The fire limits have been
extended and everything indicates that
the fire will be the making of the place.
So it has ever been. unless the towns
were so far on the down grade that it
would not pay to rebuild them in a sub
stantial manner Such was the case when
the great fire of 1875 struck Virginia City,
New. The big bonanza already showed
signs of failure. and before the rebuilding
was very far advanced, the end of that
great find was clearly in sight. Hence the
city never recovered.
Fortunately for Victor there are good
mines there; mines which have a splendid
outlook, and it is safe to predict that the
city will speedily assume character
which it would have been long in acquir.
ing IL the fire had not come. People are
prone to hold on to their old ramshackle
buildings as long as they can, but fire
forces rebuilding. and it is generally on
a better scale. While sympathizing with
those who have lost and are suffering, we
cannot but feel like congratulating Victor
as a whole.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
Fakes and Extravaganzas.

Mining Journals all over the country
are very properly taking up the sub
iect of fake reports" and condemn
ing them in unmeasured terms. 1t is
not well, however, to confound fake
reports" with those that are merely eX-
travagant Those which are deliber-
ately falsified for the purpose of BOOM
ing the sale Of certain property or in
ducing the Investment of capital are
nothing less than criminal.
There are others, however, that are
grossly exaggerated and yet have moth
ing of criminality or improper motive
behind them. They are the result OF
over-enthusiasm springing from a too
vivid confidence in the statements of
Others OF course, no capitalist is 60
ing to invest in a particular property
to the general possibilities of the dis
trict in which the property may be To-
Gated 1t is the specific statement con-
corning the property itself that he re-
lies upon and which frequently mis-
leads him to his injury.
The harm which comes from highly
colored general reports is of differ
ent nature. They frequently attract
to the district people who have no
money to invest and for whom there
is no work when they get there, thus
leading to more or less of suffering.
Moreover, if subsequent developments
fail-as they always do-to sustain the
over-drawn statements, the district is
given a black eye and receives a Sc
rious set back. For these reasons the
fake" should be punished, while ex-
travaganzas should be discouraged.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

While the machinery is, in general,
old-fashioned, there are several rather
unique features. Among them is the
Oxland revolving furnace for oxydiz-
ing ores, and thus bridging the diff
Guilty, in part at least, that arises from
the scarcity of oxyde ores. This fur
mace will probably come into quite
general use in the event of the mills
resumption of operations. Heretofore
1t has been employed merely in an ex-
perimental way, but very successfully.
There is also a miniature concentrate
ing plant with which to experiment on
low grade ores. AS part of this plant
there is a percussion table for shines.
The table is an ingenious continuance,
designed to do the work of Wiley.
1t is fan-shaped, constituting a seq
ment making one-fourteenth of cir
cular table. The mechanism is so ar
ranged that as more table room is
needed additional segments can be
added until the circle Is complete, all
being operated by the same pulleys,
clutches, etc, now used. When this Is
done, if it is still insufficient, another
table can be set up by the side of it and
worked by the same mechanism. This
was the invention of Mr.. Rueger, who
was the former manager of the prop
erty, and who now, besides being
leaser is also the agent in charge.
Like the Alice, the Lexington stands
as a gloomy, monumental reminder or
the senseless and unjustifiable crusade
against silver. The great mill, once
shaken by the thunder of so stamps,
and the scene of cheerful, active in
dustry throughout the whole "a hours
of the day, is now as silent as the nails
of Tara, and as lonely as the interior
of a great mausoleum. 1t is impossi-
BILE to ramble through the deserted
passage WAYS and gaze upon the OPP
pressive solitude that abounds without
feeling that a grave and ineXcusable
wrong has been done; that great in
dustry has been crippled and many a
hardy pioneer ruined merely that sill
yer should be destroyed as money, gold
given a monopoly, and the "Shylock'
thereby enabled to claim something
more than his pound of flesh.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

And speaking of mining exchanges,
how about the one for Butte. The idea
of the greatest mining town on earth"
not having a mining exchange seems
altogether out Of harmony with the
eternal fitness of things" Many lead
ing mining men in the city have cor
daily Endorsed the Standards sugges-
ton. But such exchanges do not create
themselves. Somebody must take hold
and give the matter start or it will
never be done. The present seems to be
an especially favorable time for some
thing of the kind to be inaugur tied.
The mining industry of the state is suf-
ficiently advanced to make it go from
the first, and the future has untold pos
sibilities. Put some good men at work
and see what can be done
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

Complaints are made of the Denver
Stock Exchange that it pays too much
attention to the Cripple Creek district
and too little to others. Critic" in the
Mining Investor, takes up the cudgel
in defense of the exchange and explains
why the stocks of the Cripple Creek
mines receive more attention than 9TH
ers. We don't know how well grourded
the complaints may be, but it is not
difficult to imagine that the other dis
tricts are themselves measurably re-
sponsible for their own neglect. They
should make it point to secure suit
able representation inf the exchange in
order to have the merits of their mines
fairly considered The members of the
stock exchanges are not in business for
fun, but profit, and it is scarcely pos
sible that the Denver board will inten-
tionally neglect good properties. But
the owners must show them up.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
Work of the Glacier.

Rivers work openly where people dwell,
and so do the rain and the sea thunder
ing on all the shores of the world: and
the universal ocean air, though unseen,
speaks aloud in a thousand voices and ex-
plains its modes of working and its
power. But glaciers, back in their cold
solitudes. work apart from men, exert
ing their tremendous energies in silence
and darkness. Coming in vapor from the
sea, flying invisible on the wind descend
in snow, changing to ice, white, spirit
like they brood, outspread over the pre-
destined landscapes. working on unwear-
led through unreasonable ages until in
the fullness of time the mountains and
valleys are brought forth, channels fur
rowed for the rivers, basins made for the
meadows and lakes and soil beds spread
for the forests and fields that man and
beast may be fed. Then. vanishing like
clouds, they melt into streams and go
singing back home to the sea.-John
Muir
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
RANGE OF THE MARKET
Local Variations Scarcely Per-
ceptible.
THEIR AUGUST HABITS ON
September Expected to Break the
Monotony With New Set of
Figures
Quotations.
R AUGUST HABITS ON
The MARKETS RANGE.
Lead ........... 4.0O@4 .67 lac

Butte, Aug. 2S-There was slight
change in the market prices of the week,
as compared with last weeks quotations,
The variation was scarcely perceptible.
Stocks are at a standstill; in other words.
they have their August habits on The
time has arrived for revival of former
scenes in the market and next week will
no doubt post a different set of figures.
The fluctuations during the daily routine
last week We're so slight as to make the
hourly posting of figures almost a mo-
notony. The opening and closing quota
tons in most instances did not vary. The
highest point reached is herewith given
to show the comparison with the closing
figures:
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

The Spokane Chronicle reports a
great boom" in the stock of the Prin-
cess Maud, one of the Republic mines.
The stock has gone away up to seven
cents. The same issue contains a re-
port of a very rich strike in the mine.
A foot of quartz is reported that it is
said will average $500 to the ton, some
specimens going as high as $500. The
Princess Maud may prove a great mine.
1t is certainly to be hoped that it will.
Still it must be confessed that the two
reports taken together make curious
reading. Three hundred dollar ore and
seven-cent stock seem to be just a little
out of harmony. Strangely enough in
the article referring to the boom in the
stock, it is stated that the original fall
in the stock was caused by lover boom
ing"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

A report from Arizona states that in
stead of being shallow, development
|has shown that the mines of that ter
ritory are the deepest of all mineral
lodges. Then it proceeds to say that
there are only six or eight 10O0-foot
shafts in the territory. In view of the
fact that in other places immense ore
bodies are being worked two, three and
four times that depth, the statement
referred to needs some qualification.
There is no doubt that Arizona has
some excellent mines, and it is certain
that some of her Lodges are deep ones.
but it is equally certain that one thou
sand feet are not deeper than two
thousand, and the fact of there being a
great body of ore on a 1000 level is no
proof that it extends down to 1000 or
5000. 1t may be that 1t does, but de-
velopment has not shown it.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
UTAH CONSOLIDATED.
From Wallace, Idaho.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.


Wallace, Idaho, Aug. 27.-The work
of repairing the Custer mill and fiume
will commence about Sept. /, the inten-
ton being to have the tramway from
the Sixteen to One by the time the mill
Is ready to run. Work is also being
pushed on the air compressor and the
lower tunnel the latter being in about
rs feet. Little of the air compressor
remains to be taken up except the
boilers. and by the middle of Septem-
Der the machine drills will be running
This is the property on which the WON
derful strike was made last winter,
Since then they have drifted $50 feet,
the whole tunnel being in ore all the
time. although it is opened in places
nine feet wide.
The Standard mill has been closed
down for a week. but started up again
this morning. During that time the
water wheel and crusher have been
moved from the bottom to the top of
the mill and connection made with the
new ore bins. This saves hosting the
ore 30 feet after being crushed, and
the loss in pressure by moving the wa
ter wheel is more than overcome by
taking the water for washing from be-
low the wheel instead of above as be-
fore.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

Possibly the Standard was in error
when, a week or two since, it suggested
that reports in the Baker City Repub-
lican indicated that Sumpter was the
coming town of that section of Oregon.
1t now appears that there are Others
From an editorial in the above named
publication we learn that Granite"
and Red Boy" and wildcat" all claim
to be the center Of everything valuable
in that region. That each looks upon
the claims and pretentions of the others
with contempt, and that Sumpter is set
down at the bottom of the list except
as to Baker City, which is so far down
as to be literally out of sight. This
leaves us In some doubt as to the true
condition Of things over there. 1t is
not clear whether these various camps
are all fabulously rich or all of no &C.
count. Perhaps the safest way is to
make due allowance for local jealousies
and exaggerations, strike an average
and class them all among the mid
dlingS"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

Reports from Dawson via British Co.
lumbia are of doleful character. The
town is said to be nearly dead. There
are any number of stores, but only two
or three customers to each store Bust
ness men and laboring men are get
ting away as fast as they can, which.
in some cases, is described as being not
very rapid. The day will, perhaps, come
when Dawson will be great town, but
it may be long way off. 1t lies too far
north. The distance from sunny chimes
and civilized conditions is too great to
be covered at a single stride. UIti-
mately the iee-bound Businesses will
yield to the advance of civilization, but
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
Conductiyity of Metals.

1t has been found, says Bonds and Mort
cages. by many and carefully conducted
experiments. that different substances
are not equal in their capacity to transmit
electrical currents. Silver has been
agreed upon as the standard of compari-
son, and given the rating Of 100 points
copper, as compared with this standard
was formerly allowed 1851 points, but
later and numerous experiments by emil
nent electricians have found it to be
higher. The present rating is: Hard or
unannealed copper. 1895; soft or anneal-
ed copper, 1921. Gold ranks next in or
der at 1851; aluminium at 63 and tantalum
at "a So. All the other metals slide down
the scale from under 50 to chromium,
which is feeble at .05. The high conduct
i've power and comparative cheapness of
copper. added to many other superior
qualities. render it peculiarly adapted to
the requirements of electrical science and
art. The field of its application in this
direction, is constantly widening.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
Silver Production in 1898.

During the year 1898 the worlds out
put of silver was 100, 641, 1853 troy ounces,
against 1S2,oSO,s14 troy ounces in 1897.
The United States still stands first in
the list OF nations as a producer with
a total OF 5s,763,127 troy ounces to its
credit, against 56,457, 292 ounces in 1897.
Mexico follows a close second with
56,S59,076 troy ounces. against 54,052,6 47
ounces the year before. These figures
are taken from the Engineering and
Mining Journal and It is proper to
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

the conditions are such that the ap-
proach must be gradual, little at
time, so that the means of transporta-
ton and preservation may move apace.
A jump of nearly thousand miles into
a frozen wilderness is too much.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
LIBBY STILL ON THE MOVE.
Machinery for Buzz Saw-Good Ore FROM
the Great NOrthern-The Way-Up.

the Great Northern-The Way-Up.
Special Correspondence Of the Standard.
Libby, Aug 26-All the machinery for
the Buzz Saw mine on Shaughnnessy hill
has arrived in Libby and nearly all has
been taken to the mine. There were seven
cars of it and one of the pieces welghed
49, 900 pounds. 1t had to be taken TO
pieces however, before it could be hauled
with the teams which are at the dis
posalf of the company. Everything is
progressing favorably with the constitute
ton of the concentration, and Mr.. Dixie
man. the superintendent. says That the
plant will be running by the 18th OF Sep
TENDER. Work in the mine is being pros
ecuted with all possible speed and the
connection between the lower tunnel and
the one above 1t will be made in time to
afford good air for the large crew it will
be necessary to put on when the mill Is
started up. There is a shortage of good
miners in the Libby camp and Mr.. Dixie
man is anxious to secure the services OF
about 20 at once for the Buzz Saw mine.
The Great Northern Group. ~
Some of the finest ore ever brought to
Libby from any of the many claims
around here was brought down from the
Great Northern group last week by Her.
man Hildebrandt. one of the owners OF
that property. 1t is clear gaena and
is taken from recent strike made in
the lower tunnel, on which Mr.. Hide
brandt and his partners are continuing
development work. The Great Northern
Is situated about 50 miles south of Libby
in the main contact in the divide between
Libby creek and Fisher river. The prop
erty has been opened up by about 800
feet of tunnels, all of which have been
run on the ledge, and the strike of the
ledge is from the northwest to the south
east.
The principal work has been done in the
No 3 tunnel, and this is in about loo feet
and the ore has just commenced to come
into the face of this tunnel. There are
two other tunnels above this one. One
is in about so feet and the other about
20 feet. and good shipping ore has been
found in both of them. The vein will
average about four feet in width and
there is streak of clean galena about
Is inches wide, the balance of the ore be-
ing concentrating. 1t has not yet been
determined whether any of the ore will
be shipped this season. on account of the
distance to the railroad. The ore will
run nearly 80 per cent. lead and about
40 ounces in silver on an average.
The Great Northern group was bonded
in 1897 by Harrison & Co. of Great Falls
for $4,000, and this firm built a wagon
road from Libby to within two miles of
the claims and a good trail the balance of
the way to the mine. The bond called
of work in a stipulated time and all the
of two years. The first payment, amount
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
IN THE VESTS MINERAL REALM
News About Mining in Montana and
the NOrthw west.

includes
exclusively the mining world 1t
min
mining
making Standard authority that has
hitherto representation
Standard will
solicited
shall attention
irresponsible properties
the
be
for
his deparm
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
Heavy Machinery for Sylvanite.

There is a rumor to the effect that
there is soon to be shipped some heavy
machinery into Sylvanite and that it is
to be put up on the Keystone, the big
gold property which is owned by Finch
e. Campbell of Spokane. Credence is
given to the rumor from the fact that
this firm is at present putting in 90
foot ferryboat at Leonia, the station on
the Great Northern from which the road
leads to Sylvanite At present there is
absolutely nothing to Justify putting SO
large a ferryboat, or any boat, for that
matter, as there is but little going on
there. Reports from that camp say that
everyone there is very much encouraged
over the outlook and some very agreea-
BILE news may be expected from that
camp any time in the near future.