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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-12
MANAGER MUDGE's CLAIM.

Topeka, Kas., Dec. 11.-General Mana
ger II. U Nudge, of the Santa Fe, today
said that the telegraphers' strike is a
complete failure and that the road is
finding no difficulty in filling the places
made vacant by the operators. He still re-
tains his place at the key in the general
telegraph office, however.
Mr.. Nudge said tonight: "0ur business
is running normally again We have kept
train movements steady under the train
order system. 1t has been satisfactory
enough to run the trains in the same
way that other Western roads run them.
The Santa Fe has block signals, as the
others have not We are using the block
signals from Chicago to Newton again
l gave the order for resumption this
morning.
"The bogus message for operators to
go back to work to which J. A. Newman
says his name was forged, went over the
wires sure nough. 1t was taken off the
wire in the general office, at the shop
and at Holiday. Where it originated
don't know.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-12
IN A LOSING FIGHT
Striking TeIegraphers Claim
Railroads Are Crippled.
Significant Statements In Support Of the Claim
Railroads Say Business is Normal. Strike
Of Trainmen Threatened.
(By the Associated Press.l

Emporia, Kan. Dec 11.-Chairman
Newman, of the Eastern division of the
Santa Fe operators, tonight gave cut a
statement of freight trains run and loads
and empties handled through Emporia,
which he saws shows the great loss the
company is sustaining by the strike and
shows that the company is making a los
ing fight. The strike occurred December
8. Cars through Emporia averaged daily
before the strike 10; after the strike
430. Cars of stocks handled through Empo-
raj Sunday, December 2, for Kansas City
market 10S; Sunday. December ., only
13 cars for market Only one stock train
has been received from the Oklahoma di-
vision since the strike was called. Moth
ing but through freights are running and
they are badly delayed. Forty trains
were handled through Emporia December
6. forty-four on the 7th, IS on the 9th, II
on the 10th. He says:
THE situation on the different divis-
ions is practically the same as yesterday
except that we gained in some vicinities. "
Mohave County miner., 1900-06-02

he will know that the bases carry
'alues high enough perhaps to make
hem profitable, providing they were
free, but as the ore is base he passes
IN. Where the latter makes his mis-
take is in not considering the fact that
IN this age of machinery aud improved
appliances so-called base ores are made
to pay a profit, whereas few years
ago were the same values in the shape
of free gold they could not be handled
at a profit.
1t Is we'll for prospector, before
starting out, to consider that a mine
will pay:
First-Though small, if rich enough,
though If low grade if large enough.
The exercise of little judgment will
enable him to determine the medium
of the two extremes. He must leave a
large margin in determining the rela,
tive limit in size and richness of his
ore body. Better far to be prejuiiced
against the probability of his under
taking proving valuable, if he desires
to be on the safe side. ... ..
Second-He should not rely upon a
horn test, but consider that although
few Assays will cost hlm a certain
amount of mouey, it is, nevertheless,
far cheaper to know definitely the
value of his ore than to spend his time
upon something it were better to let
alone, or to leave something valuable
aud not know it to look for something
better.
Third-Let him realize that if there
is anything in his line of which he is
ignorant and in doubt in the matter of
actual economic value of certain
classes of ores, there are hundreds OF
men who can and will enlighten him
if he will but enquire. There is hardly
question he could ask in relation to
his business but that could be an
swered in the columns of the Mining
and Scientific Press.
Fourth-In seeking to sell pros
pect, or in trying to interest capital
he should by all means state the fact,
as he knows them and leave it to the
investor to theorize and draw his own
conclusion. No prospector ever yet
aided his cause by misrepresenting
anything in connection with his claim
No investor ever examined claim
which he found to have been willfully
misrepresented, who did not go away
diSgusted.
Fifth-and perhaps not least, the
Mohave County miner., 1900-06-02
NO. "a.

silver mines of Tombstone have sent
out their millions to the worlds sup
ply of the precious metal. The Clifton
copper mines shipped by OK teams its
surface ores to New Mexico, and still
left profit to its owners. The old
Mowry mine in Harshaw was worked
in the days of civil strife for its lead,
which was carried from there to fill the
demand in the army of the southern
confederacy. All along the southern
tier of counties in this territory are
found traces of smelters erected by
the Jesuit Fathers who first hoisted
the torch of civilization in this land.
And yet the half has not been told OF
our boundless wealth in minerals
Phenix Gazette.
Mohave County miner., 1900-06-02
Arizona and Her Minerals.

No portion of the western continent
is more prolific in concealed wonders
of nature In the mineral line than Ari-
zona; her hills are scanned with the
richest of gold aud silver ore; copper
is fonnd in remarkable deposits; from
the Grand Canyon of the Colorado on
the north to the international line on
the south, not a mountain range j.
known where the reverberating sound
of the pick and drill is not heard. The
prospector's footsteps have traversed
the vast mesa lands between the Has
sayamp pa and the Colorado river, rich
auriferous ground has been encoun-
tered throughout that entire region.
The pine ella hills of the Sierra An.
ches have exposed some Of the fins~t
specimens of gold aud silver of any
portion of this vast area. The coal
I field, Of the north, extending from
Gallup, New Mexic into this territory,
/ south and westward from st. John are
untouched 50 Tar tS p'J iI5tiD /. 90 A.
ceTned; the magnificent onyx Of Yava-
pal and the same stone on the upper
Cave Greek in this cOnntry are un-ur-
passed in their texture aud color
Black onyx on the Grand Canyon aud
asbestos have been discovered. That
her mines are wealth producers and
not pockets from which small quauti.
\ ties of rich mineral j. extracted aud
1 barreuness follows. j. proven by the
old Vulture mine which ~ gold pro.
ducer has made mure fortunes thau
the entire sum expended il prospect.
lug in Arizona would amount to. For
over ten years Que hundred stamps
we're running day and night crushing
over three hundred tons every twenty
four hours. The Silver KingiI PIual
county sent it, rich surface ores tn
San Francisco, freiEhting IL by teams
TO Yuma aud then 10y water when the
/ freight rates were over five cents per
pound. The Grand Central aud other
Mohave County miner., 1900-06-02
Hetty Greene at Home.

"Hetty Green, the richest woman in
America, "writes Leigh Mitchell
Hodges, in the June Ladies' Home
Journal, "lives modestly in two small
flats in brick block in Hoboken, New
Jersey. There are two electric push
bells at the door, under each of which
one finds the name &C. Dewey Mrs.
Green prefers that the public should
not know where her home is situated,
and she Uses this name because her
pet dogs name l. Dewey, aud she COM
monty calls it Cutie The parlor is in
the lower suite. aud is a little larger
than good-sized closet. A couch, a
small table aud three chairs are the
furnishings and the oTnamentation is
quite ss simple.
"Mrs. Green Is a rapid talker. Words
seem to come To her as easily as dol
lars. She i, witty, too, and these gifts,
with her remarkable memory and
pleasant voice, make her an excellent
cnnversaiionalist Her daily routine
j. more severe than that of any other
living millionaire, perhaps. She rises
early, eats light breakfast in the
little dining room of the Hoboken fiat.
aud hurries off to the ferry. 1t is only
short distance from her home to the
ship. aud sne always walks, be the
weather what it may. Her husband,
Z. H. Green, who is seldom seen or
heard of, j. sn old man, almost eighty,
aud somewhat of an invalid. The up
per one of the two flats is called his.
aud there, ia a plainly furnished cit
ting room, he sit~ day in and day out
while hi- wife j. in New York looking
after her financial affairs. When she
comes home Ia the evening it is al
ways late-,he sometimes reads to him
Mohave County miner., 1900-06-02

the surveyors underground estimate.
Now a man can go down the shaft a
the Calumet hotel, run down half
mile in perpendicular shaft, eros
over in drift and come up on the sur
face two miles from where he started
on top of the ground, the most move
underground promenade in America.
drop of nearly cent per pound in
the price of lead during the month /,
noticeable. While the present price is
considerably better than that of Aug.
ust 2, 1896, when it was 2.50S per hun
dred pounds, yet its sudden tumble
from the 4.75S of few weeks ago l.
dispiriting to producers. The cause of
the drop is purely arbitrary; it is done
solely because the controlling trust
has the power to put the price up or
down at the will of its directors. 1t
is now characteristic of the managers
of any of the great trusts to use their
power to affect stocks, as ia the recent
case of }. w. Gates of the American
Steel Il Wire Co. There is no legiti-
mate trade reason for the drop in lead.
There is steady demand, and the
uses to which it is adapted are multi.
plying. Tariff protection is good
thing. tut its good effects should be
extended to the ore producers. When
the smelter CONT bine was formed one of
the arrangements was that it would
reduce the cost to the consumer and
permit the miner to get more for his
ore. The result is just the reverse
the consumer is paying more, the
miner getting less. The import duty
Is a help, but its helpful effect should
be more mutual. just now it is de
cidedly one.sided.-M. II S. Press.
Mohave County miner., 1900-06-02
Prospectors Mistakes.

Many prospectors, especially those
in quest Of free gold, overlook valuable
claims oy placing too much depend
ence upon the mortar and pan. While,
as general rule, ores in gold bearing
districts show some free gold, it does
not follow that all the values lie in
that portion that Is obtained ia the
horn.
Ores containing silver values may at
the same time contain enough gold
that l. not free, to Justify terming
them gold ores. Again there are a
great many ores in which the gold,
though practically free, is iu such a
fine .tate of division as TO show not
even a color by the horu test.
/ Some ores rich in gold would not be
noticed by regular prospector, 70. the
reason that it has more the appearance
of country rock than would be sup
posed to carry gold.
Some of our richest mines have as
gangue rock ordinary brown or iron
stained limestone. Sone have as
matrix nothing bnt common brown or
iron-stained porphyry, which may be
| in the shape of small ledges few feet
in width or in larger dykes or reefs 90
to 100 feet wide or even wider, still
they carry gold values sufficient to
make them good paying mines-in fact.
almost any kind of rock may carry
gold iu profitable quantities.
Another class of mines that the pros
pector looking for gold would be very
apt to pass by as beneath his notice are
those OF such magnitude that the very
idea of their being worthy of investi-
CATION would be considered by him as
preposterous. Large belts of schi~t
containing numerous streaks and
lenses of quartz, although apparently
barren, may contain gold enough to
make them veritable bonanzas. The
gold may be free or the values may lie
wholly, or nearly so, in small PARTICLES
of sulphurets widely disseminated
through the rock, both in the quartz
and country rock, or iu either. The
majority of the dividend-paying gold
mines of today are just snch PROPOSE
tions. They are, to be sure, mostly
very low grade, but they are the kind
of mines that capital Is looking for.
There are also waiting to be discov-
cred and opened base propositions that
most prospectors consider as worthless
simply because they are base.
If the prospector is of the free gold
type he will not even know that they
contain gold at all, but will let them
lie aud move on to some section where
the ores are not base. II he happens
instead to be man who considers IT
worth while to have the ore assayed,
Mohave County miner., 1900-06-02

prospector should not confine himself
to hunting for quartz, but any kind Of
rock out of the ordinary, of which
there appears to be less than a noun.
tain, should be considered worthy of
investigation, for the mine of the fu.
ture will be one that has been over
looked, simply because it is different
from the usual run of Mining
aud Scientific Press.
Mohave County miner., 1900-06-02
AGreat Name
IS a guarantee of
Superior Worth

There are many brands Of baking powders,
but DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder is
recognized at once as the brand Of great name,
a powder Of highest favor and reputation.
Everyone has absolute confidence IN the food
where Dr.. Prices Baking Powder is used.
Pure and healthful food is matter of vital
importance to every individual.
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder assures
the finest and most wholesome food.
Mohave County miner., 1900-06-02

NoTE.-Avoid the imitation baking powders They
mostly made from alum cheap, caustic
acid, which enables the baking powder to be
sold at lower price, but is injurious to health.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-20
MIR. w. w. NEE SHOOTS AN limo.
COIIORID NAN

Last night about 1890 o'clock Mr.. w.
w. Nee. who keeps q liquor store on
South street, near Crawford, shot n
negro man named JOS. Butt in the leg.
the ball passing through the neshy
part. The particulars as learned are
that Mr.. Nee had been drinking pretty
heavily for several days,and last night
he went to his place of business and
began shooting promiscuously in the
street Butt passed smoking n cigar
cite. Nee says: Smoking, are you? He
then shot at him, with the result as
stated above. After the shooting Nee
went down Middle street and was met
by officer Calvert, who arrested him
and carried him to the station-house.
Justice Nash was sent for and baiIed
Nee, the wound not being serious.
Nee was taken charge of by friends
ana was carried to ST. Vincent's Hos
pital for treatment. Butt, after being
treated by Doctors Hope and Hatton.
went to his home in South Portsmouth.
the affair is greatly regretted MIR.
Nee being quiet man when not under
the influence of liquor
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-20
PORT NORFOLK NOTES.

y prominct Baltimore capitalist has
been looking over the lots of the Port
Norfolk Investment Company, with n
view to making loans. and expressed
himself as so well pleased with the
property that he promised to loan all
the money that is required for build
ing. In his opinion the growth in the
value OF the lots will Justify his COM
pany in loaning nearly the full cost of
houses and lots.
The Norfolk and Carolina Railway
Company expects very soon to erect a
freight depot near its passenger sta
ton ut Port Norfolk.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-20
THE BELT LINE.
Resignation of President A. ]. Cas-

Resignation of President A. j. Cas-
satt.
The Philadelphia Press says: "The
Board of Directors of the Norfolk and
Portsmouth Railroad Company. at n
| meeting held In New York. accepted the
| resignation of President A. ]. Cassatt
| and elected w. A. Patton to succeed
him. Mr. Patton n few monhs ago was
elected president OF the New York
Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad
Company. and under his administration
the company is showing a steady in
crease in business. The Norfolk and
Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad is now
in full operation. Eight of the most
prominent lines in the South connect
With 1t, and the business handled is
| steadily increasing. The line has a d,-
rect communication with the New
York. Philadelphia and Norfolk termi-
nal at Portsmouth. and large amount
or business is being turned over to the
latter company. BY these arrangements
this city is benefited to a great meas
ure, as n large. portion of early South
ern vegetables are brought to this city
Instead of as heretofore having the best
go to New York. Besides this. consid-
cradle lumber is being turned over to
the New York, Philadelphia and Nor
folk railroad, which formerly went by
vessel to New York.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-20
GREAT MUSICAL EVENT.

The Kavanaugh and Roney's con-
Cert, announced for next "Wednesday
Evening ut the Elks' Opera House. I'M
Her auspices of the Portsmouth Y. NJ.
c. A., will doubtless prove n notable
snuslcal event. The Calumet News, n
prominent Michigan daily, says: "An
Plat has been said complimentary of
,Roney's boys and more. proved true,
and 1t Is safe to say that the audience
would have paid double to have heard
the same entertainment again. The
singing OF the boys was remarkable.
The manner in which they rendered the
most difficult numbers was nothing
ehort Of marvellous. and shows what
can be done with prtper training.
sometimes the audience demanded
three numbers for one selection on the
programme. Mr.. Kavanaugh, the bar
Htone soloist. possesses wonderful
@oice."
The reserve scat sale being conducted
OF the Y. NJ. G. A. building has been
remarkably good. but some good seats
h<e left
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-20
RENDERED HIS REsIC,NAr1oN

IC-Nl)lIltlID HIS RESIGNATION
FOR eleven years Rev. Frank Hall
has been pastor OF the Friends Church.
on Green street and has filled the posi-
ton acceptably to the congregation
for the past two years he has been
doing considerable evangelical work.
lie mas concluded that he has been
called TO do that work and has rendered
MS resignation, to take effect April 1st.
The congregation have used every ef
fort to get him to change his decision.
out he has positively refused. and will
as soon as free start out on his work.
lNr. Hall is an earnest, conscientious
worker and has done much good in this
vicinity. During his services here he has
quilt churches i'm Mathews and Glou
lcester counties,and several other places.
ana they are now in flourishing CON
dition. His church has n membership
OF over three hundred, and is entirely
Tree from debt. For over four weeks
he has been conducting a successful
meting at his church, and is still CON
Quoting the same. a committee of
seven has been appointed to secure an
other pastor They are in communica
ton with a number of preachers in diff
ierent places. and hope by the time
that Mr.. Hall gets ready to leave they
Will have secured good man. but no
man will ever be held in higher esteem
than Mr.. Hall Is held. and no matter
WneTe lie goes he VIII have The hest
wishes of the people of Portsmouth.
While here he has made n most excel
lent citizen.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-20
THE CAUSE OF MISSIONS.

Emmanuel y. NJ. e. Church, under
the passionate of Rev. a. l.. Gaines. D.
D.. held very enthusiastic missionary
meeting yesterday, embracing three
sessions, and was largely attended by
people of all denominations. The mem
bers OF the Aurora Board, one of the
lady auxiliary societies, acted as
ushers. The first session began at 1880
n. IN. andt was very interesting.
Rev. G. ~. Holmes, A. b., of Berkeley,
preached a very forceful sermon, and
was followed by an address on Christ
the Model Missionary" by Rev. a. C.
Thomson, D. d., rector of Trinity Epis-
copal Church. THE Missionary Call to
individuals was the subject of Rev. e.
II. Rawlings address. Dr. Rawlings
is the pastor Of Monumental NJ. e.
Church.
The afternoon service began at 8
O'Clock and was opened by an inStruc-
tive sermon by Rev. j. M. Armstead,
ID. d. of Zion Baptist Church. The
sermon was followed by an addreSs by
Rev. r. ID. Garrett. d. D., pastor of
Court Street Baptist Church. The sub
Century Missionary Achievements"
and was listened to with the deepest
interest Mrs. f. a. Barber represent
ing the Woman's Mite Missionary So
ciety OF Butte Street A. NJ. Z. Church,
Norfolk, then read a paper. Subject,
Missions"
The evening service began at 7:aO
o'clock. The session opened with a
paper by Prof. l. c.. Norcum on the
special work of the missionary depart
ment OF the y. NJ. Il. Church The
paper was followed by recitation by
Mrs. G. Il. Martin. of Emmanuel
Church. Subject, "Haggat in the Wild
erness." The meeting closed with n
sermon by Rev. d. II. Scaton, ID. D.,
pastor of st. Johns a. NJ T.. Church.
Norfolk. The music was furnished
mainly by Emmanuel y. NJ. L. Church
choir and was Of n high order. Perhaps
the missionary cause has never been
presented to the people of Portsmouth
by ADLER speakers.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-20
PART OF THE COMMITTEE RE
TURNED

Mr.. John King, president of the City
Council and Mr.. r. l.. Lash. two mem
bers of the committee who went to
Washington in the interest of work for
this yard, returned home yesterday
morning.
They say that the committee was di-
vidcd into subcommittee. at the re-
quest of Senator Martin, who met them,
and the sub committees called on the
Secretary and other gentlemen and had
the assurance that this yard would re-
ceive it's full quota of work. There are
over one hundred ships to be repaired,
and that this yard will have its share.
He was well pleased with the work
done here. and the compliments that
had been paid the worSmen in this vi
entity. He said that all he was wait,
ing for was for the Deficiency bill to
pass and -thenArn rll-Mal.la- he-ee5a-
menced. The mechanics in this section
need have no fear but what they would
receive their proportion.
Nlr Lash does not think large com.
mlttees essential at all, but thinks
small ones. wiz, influence can do more
good.
The Secretary would not promise any
particular work, neither would he com
NIT himself rs TO the building of n
ship here.
The committee was met in Washing.
ton by Senator II. L. MAYNARD and
ZION. Charles T. Bland. Mr. MAYNARD
introduced Mr.. Martin to the commit
tee Both of these gentlemen went YES
terday with the Committee on Public
buildings to use their influence in Sc
curing building for Portsmouth.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-20
DEATH OF AN INTERESTING
CHILD

Little Dudley w. Scott. the infant
son of Mr.. Walter n. and Mrs. Annie
G. Scott. died mt $3.50 o'clock yester-
day evening nj the residence of his
parents. No. IA Middle street, aged 3
years and . months. Dudley was an
parently in good health Thursday night
and nearly all day Thursday was at
his fathers store playing, but on Fri
day morning at o'clock he was taken
with vomiting spell and continually
grew worse. until death struck him.
The death OF this child is great shock
TO the family and to all who knew him.
for he was bright and interesting
child. The funeral notice will appear
later.