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Last Years Copper Product
AS 1t Is Figured Out i'm Pounds

price of copper of sc per pound. The
expenditures were $1,S62, 5O7.02. which
included 6,S97.4S for construc-
ton at shafts Nos. 3 and 4, $780, so
for sinking and construction at No. 8,
and 1858 030.64 for sundry construction.
The net income for the year amounted
to s5lS, SO, out of which dividends
aggregating $4S0,0O0 were paid.
The Quincy is continuing it's active
preparations for an increased produc-
ton. A new shaft, No. 7, is being sunk
from number of points, the aggregate
sinking having been 1850 feet, and will
be completed early in 1900. A large
hosting engine. capable of taking 5000
feet of Ia rope, has been ordered, and
a contract has been let for a 60-drill
Rand compressor. A new stamping
mill, for which to begin with three
stamps, has been ordered, Is expected
to be ready when the production of
No shaft will begin The old mill has
five heads of stamps, so that the ca
pacity of the mine will be considerably
enlarged. In the meantime, recently,
the rock has temporarily not yielded as
well, so that the output is not quite
up to the former rate. The new smelt-
ing works at Hancock were completed
in December. There are four furnaces,
capable of treating 20 tons daily each.
The production of the mine in 1898
was 20,056,942 pounds of mineral, yield
ing 16, 354 ,061 pounds of refined copper
for which there was realized the gross
sum of 1885, 1861. The running ex-
penses at the mine were $685., SS6.35, the
cost of construction, 1921, 277.01; taxes
in Michigan, $35,9S9.20, and smelling,
transportation and all other expenses,
Sl9l,3S567. leaving as mining profits,
$649,5IS5S. Interest and sales of real
estate carried the income up to $685.
1886. out of which dividends aggre-
eating $3.50, 900 were paid.
The stamp mill crushed 543,592 tons
of rock at coast of 222S cents per ton.
the product of mineral being 14,712,6S
pounds, while the product of the rock
I houses was 5,S44, 257 pounds.
The product of the Franklin mine in
| 1898 fell off because the old stamp mill
was destroyed by fire at the end of No
| vember The mine produced 3,300,5ll
| pounds of mineral. including S07, $50
| pounds of mass and barrel work. yield
ing 2,62S.7O2 pounds of fine copper, as
| compared with 2,9OS, 2S4 pounds in 1897.
! There We're hoisted 1877 ,021 tons of rock,
| of which Al 235 tons came from the
Franklin, Jr., property. the amount of
| rock stamped being 1866 tons, ait a
| coast of 51.02 cents per ton. The per-
| centage of mineral was 1.41 per cent,
| as compared with 1853 per cent in 1887.
| The income was S317, 91S in 1898, against
| 1920. .33 in 1897. while the costs were
| S2O6,4 Alb for mining and stamping and
| S4O,01S for smelling and freight, leaving
a balance for 1898 of s7i,4S7 as COM
| pared with $9,473 in 1897
| In April, 1898, the capitalization of the
| Franklin Mining company was in
| creased to 100000 from 100000, and
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They Are Saying in Washington That Ager
Has Not Had Very Much to Do With
the Campaign in Luzon.

talk that the circumlocuton which re-
suited in his resignation was charac-
teristic of and not complimentary to
the president.
If the returned Montana soldiers are
as frank as those who have preceded
them homeward, they will make no Sc
cret of their conviction that, even with
an army of $4,000 men. the war in the
islands will last yet many years. Many
reports have reached here of express
sions on the part of the recently landed
LIST Oregon troops, which are proba bly,
fairly indicative of what their fellow
soldiers from Colorado will say. One
of the best known of the Oregon Off
GERS is quoted as saying: 1T will be
many years before real peace is estab-
lished in the Philippines. Brigandage
warfare will continue, regardless of the
size of our army in the islands. At
least 100000 men are needed to conquer
and hold the island of LuZon alone.
Every town must be garrsoned, In my
opinion it will be years before the
Americans to travel in safety for so
miles from a garrisoned city"
1t is altogether probable that the new
volunteer regiments in which the
mountain soldiers who remain in Ma
Mia will see service, will have plenty
of hard work before they again see the
states. The 10 regiments now being
raised in this country will be in the
same class. In fact, they are already
called, iocularly speaking, the "'rCsu-
lar volunteers" a term that implies
hard work and a great deal Of it. 1t is
believed by war department authorities
that the new regiments, from the 26th
to the 37th will continue as organiza-
ti0ns in the permanent establishment,
after the expiration of Their present
two years period Of enlistment.
Until the transport lands it will not
be possible to give the names of the
Montana soldiers from the state who
have remained in the islands, as no ros
ters Of the re-enlisred men have been
furnished to the partment.
The reports thus far received from
the recruiting officers Of the new 34th
L. S V. do not show that it is getting
it's men as rapidly as the regiments
whose territory is further to the East
ward. Thus far the new @lst and 26th
regiments lead in the matter of number
Of recruits obtained. However. the ad-
iutant general tells your correspondent
that in his opinion the enlistment of the
last man in the new regiments will be
completed by the 4th Of AUGUST.
HOSFORD.
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Washington Bureau of the Standard,
No. 1145 G. Street n W,


Washington, July 21.-While nobody
In the vicinity of the national capital is
shedding tears for Alger, it is an inter
esting fact that his retirement, by
methods that are not highly praised
here. has called attention to the policy
under which the president has been
running the war with the Filipinos.
Those who claim to know a good deal
more than the public knows about
what transpires within the white house,
have presented some new views of pres
idential policy, especially since Alger
quit.
These people say that, in truth, it
was Mr.. McKinley's plan, at the outset,
to be 1.-The whole Notwithstanding the
outset to be the time when Philippine
hostilfties began. 1t is important to
keep this point at place of beginning
in mind, otherwise the fact may be lost
sight of that, at the very first, beyond
all manner of doubt, the idea of the
conquest or the annexation or the pur-
chase of the Philippine islands was not
seriously entertained when he declared
that ii would be a crime for the United
States to take Cuba, nobody fancied
that the islands in the Orient would
figure for fifteen consecutive minutes
in any plans the United States might
make after Spain was whipped. There
We're very few people, prior to Dewey
brilliant deed, who could have told
what part of the world Manila is in.
A certain element in the country that
always knows how to get Mr.. Mckin-
ley's ear, concluded to work the eX-
pansion scheme for all it was worth
As for Mr. MCKinley-he was easy. Il
was no trick and no task for him to
change his mind. The first thing the
country knew, the policy" was for
Philippine annexation. and Secretary
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Official Figures and a Statement of General
Conditions of Mines and SHELTERS in
Montana and the Lake Region.

10000 shares of stock were sold for
100000. The old Franklin territory has
been exhausted except portion of the
north end, where there are still con-
siderable reserves. TIL future of the
company, however depends upon the
Franklin, Jr., formerly knows as the
Albany and Boston, and later as the
PeninSular, on which the Pewabic lode
has been energetically developed, be-
ing opened by four shafts. These have
been equipped with modern hosting
engines and compressors and drills. A
new mill, located on Crosse Point, on
Portage lake, is approaching compile
tion. 1t will contain four Allis heads
capable of handling 1900 tons of rock
per day, so that the mine would APP
parently, with it's quota of mass and
barrel work, approach an annual pro-
duction of 100000 pounds. The total
amount expended on the Franklin, Jr.,
to the end of 1898 was 1922 $3.50, the out
lays in 1898 having been $19S,61S at the
mines and S97,275 at the stamp mill.
The production of the Atlantic mine
fell considerably below that of the pre-
vious year, partly because the yield of
the rock was the lowest on record, lis
pounds of copper to the ton of rock
stamped, while the wages We're the
highest yet paid. A fire in one of the
shafts, too, resulted in the loss of about
one months production. The mine pro-
duced in 1898 5,926,450 pounds of min
eral, or 4,377 1893 pounds of refined cop
per, as compared with 5,109,663 pounds
in 1897. There was realized for the
copper an average price of 11.S3 cents,
the total receipts being S51S,219.4 IN
1898, as compared with $5I4, 1850 IN
1897. The mining expense was S44o,-
37S.44, while the cost of smeltlhS'
freight, etc, footed up to $59,419.27, thus
leaving a surplus of SIS, S66.43. There
were paid out for construction at the
mines, mill and railroad and for eX-
ploration 500, 360.3T. an excess OF eX-
penditure of $51 236.04, reducing the sur
plus to $105, 09S.S7.
The Osceola Consolidated, which in
cludes the former KearSarge and Tama-
rack, Jr, properties, produced in 1898
15,S4S, 92S pounds of mineral as COM
pared with 1857, S73 pounds, the min
eral yielding about Si.5 per cent. of fine
copper. The gross receipts in 1898 We're
81, 549, S2012. as compared with $685.
05611, while the costs increased from
81, 075, 655.03 to $l17S,02S.22. The net in
come in 1898 was $371, 791 80. as compared
with 1882, 401 ,0S in 1897. In 1898 dividends
aggregating S277 $50 were paid. leaving a
surplus of $94, 541. 80. 1t appears that
1000 out of the 5000 shares of treasury
stock have been Sold netting STA 1895 So,
out of which $29 .140.67 was expended on
account of the new stamp mill
w. Z. Parnall, the superintendent, re-
ports that the total quantity of rock
mined was 637,603 tons. of which 505,-
COS tons was stamped at a cost of 1884
cents per ton.
At the Osceola branch a new hosting
! outfit, capable of hosting 1900 to 1,S0o
tons of rock, is in working order at one
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shaft, and a duplicate is to be installed
at another shaft. On the Kearsarge
branch new shaft is being sunk. An
important piece of work, which will add
TO the production of the company, is the
approaching completion of new stamp
mill with three heads, with 20x24-inch
cylinders. Some interesting modifica-
tions in handling the rock are to be in
troduced, which will also be adopted at
the old mill of six stamps 1t is esti-
mated that the combined capacity of
the plants will be equal to about $500
tons of rock per day, which It the same
yield would represent an annual pro-
duction of fully 600 pounds.
The Baltic is a new mine which is ex-
pected to contribute moderate amount
of copper during 1899, having the use
of one of the stamps of the Atlantic
mill The Baltic is regarded as being
probably the most easterly of the cop
per- bearing amygdaloids. The work of
exploration and development has been
actively prosecuted during 1888, the eN-
penditures having aggregated $129,-
406 Sc.
The AIlouez has been sinking and
prospecting on the Osceola lode and
purchased from the ST. Mary's Canal
Mineral Land company 40 acres of land
on which it outcropped. A shaft has
been sunk, but copper has not yet been
found in paying quantities. EXplora-
tons nave also been made Tor the
Quincy Pewabic lode. The company
leased one head of it's stamp mill to
the Wolverine company.
The Central, which was organized in
1854 with a capital stock payed in of
100000 and which naid during its ca
reer $1.970000 in dividends, practically
stopped work in 1898, producing in that
year POI 1888 pounds of copper at a loss
of $2S,93l.16. and reducing its net sur
plus to $6S66.73. The company owns
large territory and exploration on con-
tiguous lands may help discoveries of
mines of value in the future.
There has been a very great activity
in promoting new companies to reopen
new mines and explore and develop
mineral property on the Lake Superior
proper range. These may be divided
into four groups, the principal one be-
ing along the stretch of territory be-
tween Hancock and north of Calumet,
on which there are now, proceeding
northeast, the producing mines Quincy,
Franklin, Osceola. Calumet and Hecla,
Tamaraek. Wolverine and Kearsarge.
Located in this territory are the new
companies, the Arcadian, Rhode ISL
and Tecumseh, Old Colony, May
flower, Mohawk and Seneca.
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Washington Bureau of the Standard,
No. 1145 G Street n w,

NO. 1145 q Street y. w.
Washington, D. c., July 2O.-The
United States geological survey has
just received the report on copper pro-
duction in, 1898, prepared by Special
Agent Charles Kirchhoff The report
shows that the total product for the
year was 526,375,591 pounds. The
special agent says: THE year was one
of general prosperity for the industry,
the full product being marketed at
prices Slightly better than those of 1897.
The actual scarcity of copper, with its
accompanying upward rush in price
and its enormous expansion of stock
speculation, did not in reality develop
until the end Of the year and did not
tell upon the returns for the year 1898.
AS was expected. the increase in the
production of copper was larger in
Arizona. while the lake district also
recorded an advance. Montana fell off
considerably. Intense activity has de-
Neloped in the search for new copper
mines, and a large number of new un-
dertakings have started. But the
preparations for output on even a mod
crate scale in the way of opening up
mining property and providing d
reduction plant are so large and
requires so much time that few of the
newcomers will add materially to the
copper market of 1899. What increase
there Will be will come from the older
mines, and that chiefly from Arizona,
the lakes, California and Utah"
That portion of the report bearing
particularly on Montana is as follows:
Superintendent Frank klepetko re-
ports that the slight increase in the
cost of mining is explained by the
large expense of development work,
which has increased the ore reserves
approximately 100000 tons. The work
of substituting the latest types of equip
ment at the Great Falls smelling
new blast furnaces have been complet-
ing successfully. Additions and
changes have been made in the cOncen-
trating, andthe electrolytic plant has
been carried up to capacity of 1000.
900 pounds per month. The improve
ments made, while they did not favor
ably influence cost in 1898, are expected
to lead to lowering them in 1899. An
actual increase in the productive ca
paCity of the mines cannot be said to
have taken place.
The Montana Ore Purchasing COM
pany has acquired additional mining
properties and has been actively de
veloping them. With an increased ore
supply, additions TO the smelling plant
have become necessary, the concentrat-
ing works having an adequate capacity.
The work is now proceeding Of putting
up 20 additional rotary calciners. two
reverberatory furnaces and converter
stand, the whole to be completed in
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I August. This will greatly increase the
capacity, adding about 100000 pounds
of copper per annum.
THE Butte & Boston company has
erected a converting plant, the smelt-
ing works being leased to the Boston &
Montana company. 1t is estimated
that the Butte & Boston company Will
soon be in position to produce month
" from 100000 to 100000 pounds fine
Spornr-i
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In RIeediuy Kansas.

There will not be more than half a crop
Of apples in Kansas, but there will be
plenty of grapes, and there il no place
where wine will be accepted as a suhst-
t,+n for cider with more a,acrity than in
a state that has been experimenting with
prohibition
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The fact is that Otis policy of not
letting the truth be known was in ac-
cord with the policy at Washington.
If the administration wished the people
to have full information it could have
easily secured it by an order that the
censorship should only forbid advance
information of military movements
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-01-23
NAVAL PERSONNEL BILL.

The House has passed the naval
final passage thus accomplishing what
the officers of the navy have striven
for during more than a decade. By
it's provisions the line and the engi-
neer corps are welded into an ANAL
gamated line, staff officers are given
positive rank, but their command is
limited to their own corps and sys-
TEN Of voluntary and compulsory re-
tirement on three quarters pay as of
the next high rank of 40 officers
year is established, which is designed
to remove the congestion in the low
est rank. The bill also practically
equalizes their pay with that of army
officers. Three important amend
ments were adopted: One creates a
judge advocates corps, another abol-
ishes prize money and a third pro-
vides for the retirement on three
quarters pay of enlisted men and petty
officers in the navy after 80 years.
service, But the most important
change in the bill as reported was
the adoption after a hard fight of a
substitute for the organization of the
marine corps by which the corps is to
consist of 5000 enlisted men and petty
officers and staff This will increase
the marine corps by 1900 men, and in
crease the cost of it's maintenance
81, 100000.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-01-23
Nelson Gallup's Estate.

STATE OF VERMONT, DISTRICT OF Or
- LEANS, SIS. In Probate Court held at
Newport, in said District, on the Goth day of
January. A. D., 1899.
Cynthia Gallup, executrix of the estate
of Nelson Gallup, late of Barton, in said dis
trict, deceased, makes application to said
court to extend the time heretofore allowed
her to pay the debts due from said estate and
to render her administration account until
some future day:
Whereupon, it is ordered by said Court,
that said application be heard at the Probate
Office in said Newport, on the 8th day of
February, A. D., 1899.
And it is further ordered that notice hereof
be given to all persons interested, by publi-
cation of the same three weeks successively
in the Orleans County Monitor, newspaper
published at Barton, VG.previous to said time
appointed for hearing, that they may appear
at said time and place, and show cause, if any
they may have, why said account should not
be allowed.
BY the Court, Attest,
4-6 F. E. ALFRED, Judge.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-01-23
BARTON VERMONT, MONDAY. JANUARY %, 1899.

fed. On the first of last December,
Judge Bailey retired from the probate
judgeship of Franklin County after a
continuous service in that capacity of
very nearly third of century. He
carried with him into the retirement
of private life record of faithful SER
vice, unsullied integrity, and the es-
TEEN and confidence of the people of
this town and city and of the entire
county. Faithful service to his coun-
try during the civil war resulted in
seriously gripping the physical activi-
ties of Judge Bailey, but his mental
vigor continued unimpaired until af-
ter his retirement from public life.
Soon after that retirement Judge Bal
ley decided to spend the winter with
his wife at the home of his daughter
in Topeka, Kansas, where he was call
ed to his reward on Monday after a
short illness. AS a public official
charged with many and delicate res
possibilities, Judge Bailey possessed
something more than the the respect
inspired by the faithful discharge of
his duties. He won and retained the
affection of those whose affairs he was
called to administer, he was univer-
sally recognized as the friend and
counsellor of the widowed and the
orphaned. He was true ard loyal as
afrlend, courteous in private life and
in public station, Jealous in the dis
charge of his religious, social, and
civic obligations, and exemplary and
loving husband and father.-St. AL
bans Messenger.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-01-23
William Merriam's Estate.

GTATE OF VERMONT, ORLEANS DISTRICT
in said District on the goth day of January,
A. d. 1899.
VIM. A. Merriam, E. l.. Stanton, and Chaplin
Leonard, Executors of the estate of VIM Mer-
riam late of Glover, in said district deceased,
make application to said court to extend the
time heretofore allowed them to pay the
debts due from said estate and to render
their administration account until some fu-
ture day.
Whereupon it is ordered by said Court, that
said application be heard at Z. w. Baldwin S
Office in Barton. VT, on the 10th day of Feb
ruary, A. D., 1899.
And it is further ordered, that all
persons interested be notified hereof, by
publication of notice of said application and
order thereon. three weeks successively in
the Orleans County Monitor, printed at Bar
ton, VT, before said time of hearing, that they
may appear at said time and place, and
show cause, if any they may have, why said
account should not be allowed and such de
cree made.
By the Court-Attest,
4-6 +. E. ALFRED, Judge.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-01-23

action is clear enough. Congress
alone, or, as to this matter Of their
rates, it should take them completely
in charge. 1t should let them make
the rates they please, Or, through the
Commission, fix rates for all on non
competitive or allotment basis. This
latter course, as the Commission
points out, has been followed by every
other great nation in the world and is
the course which the Commission rec
ommends. 1t is the course which the
railroads will be wise to advocate,
rather than the legalized revival Of
their old pooling privileges which
they now seek.-N. Y. Press.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-01-23
JUDGE WATSON.

Governor Smith has appointed John
Henry Watson of Bradford sixth as
sociate Judge of the supreme court, to
fill the vacancy arising from the ap-
pointment of Chief Justice Ross as
United States Senator. Mr.. Watson
was born in Jamaica, May 12, 1851. His
parents were of limited means and
the education which he received in
the common schools and academy was
frequently interspersed with active
labor on the farm. He commenced
his life career by the study Of law in
the office of Orin Gambell of Bradford,
where he continued till he was admit
ted to the Orange county bar in De-
cember, 1877. He Immediately formed
a partnership with his instructor, and
after six months of experience, at the
dissolution of the firm, Mr.. Watson
assumed the full control of their va
ried and important business, which he
has ably conducted since that time.
He has had control Of one of the
largest and most lucrative practices
in Orange county. He was elected
states attorney Of Orange county in
1886 and in 1892 was elected from the
county to the state senate, where he
gave his services to the judiciary and
general committees, and was chair
man of that on military affairs. He is
one of the trustees of the Bradford
Savings Bank and Trust Company,
and also of the Bradford academy.
In 1882 Judge Watson was elected
captain of the Bradford Guards. and
was afterwards promoted to the post
of major and later lieutenant colonel
of the First Vermont Regiment, V. II.
G.. During the riot at the Ely copper
mine in 1888, he rendered efficient
service in quelling the mob by captur-
ing the powder magazine which was
in their possession, receiving much
credit for the gallant manner in which
he performed this difficult and ardu-
Gus duty.