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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
Duluth Gram

wheat-No. i hard, 1914; No. 1 north
ern, 76A: No. 2 northern, 73&; No. 5
spring, Tx. To arriveANo. | hard n
May, 7s,s; No. / northern and December,
76A.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31

Minneapolis, Dec. 81.
wheat-Cash. TIN; May. 7sA; July.
7sM. On track-No. l hard. 79&; No. !
northern, TIN; No. 2 northern, 75h.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
RATHER SMOKE

aeood cigar than an interior weed. We can suit
your taste whether you prefer mild or strong. close
rolled or loose. We arc especially careful In buy.
fng our cigar stock and we datter ourselves that
annr Judgment is pretty good. Test 1t and zee.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
THE LIVESTOCK REVIEW.
Heavy Receipts Today Well Taken
No Market Tomorrow.

Heavy Receipts Today Well Taken
No Market Tomorrow.
Chicago, Dec. 31.-Cattle-Monday's
and Tuesdays combined receipts We're
about 90. 800. compared with 1924 the
same time last week. The general de-
mand has improved and Mondays sup
ply was we'll taken at advancing prices,
desirable lots selling 10@15 higher. With
receipts in the neighborhood of 5000.
there was a better market than is usu-
ally witnessed Tuesday, on account Of
no market tomorrow.
Hogs-Receipts were running very
%uneyenly and yesterday the supply was
much smaller than anticipated, while
today the surprise al as great in the
other direction. when receipts of $4,000
were announced. The extremely large
number on the market today resulted in
a very weak feeling and yesterdays adj
vance was quickly lost. ruling 10000
lower.
Sheep-Under a run OF $4,000 trade had
a rather weaker tone than the day be-
fore, lower grades Of sheep and most
lambs selling 10@15 below the prices
paid late last week, while choice fat
wethers and yearlings were saleable at
about as high as any time recently.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
New York Exchange.
MARsHALLTowN MARKETS

Chicago, Dec. 31.-New + ex
change 80 premium.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
Kansas City Livestock.

hdHSuS CITY, Lee. 81.
Cattle-Estimated receipts for today,
5000; steady; native beef steers, 4.75G
6.75: Texas and Indian steers, 3.0o@4.So;
stockers and feeders, 3.0o@4.50: calves,
3.25@5.50.
Hogs-Estimated receipts for today,
$4,000; SOLO cents lower; heavy. 6.650
G.75: packers, 6.50@6.70; light, 5.60R6.6o.
Sheep-Estimated receipts for today,
1000; strong; muttons, S.00@4.5 so; lambs,
4.T5@5.T5; western wethers. 3.75@4.50;
ewes, 3.00G3.S5.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
81. Louis Produce.

st. Louis, Dec. 81.
wheat-Cash, s6%; May, s6M.
Corn-Cash, 65A; May, SS8.
Oats-Cash, AZ; May, Fh@47M.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
New York Produces.

New York, Dec. 81.
Wheat-May. 81.
Corn-May 70ss.
Butter-Steady; 16G25.
E~ggs-Steady; 23@2s.
Poultry-Allve; steady; springers, s;
turkeys. 1o@11; fowls, 10; dressed low
er; springers, S@10; fowls, 9@9h. tur-
keys, 13Q13h.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
Peoria Produce.
Minneapolis Grain.

f8 SUIIdy 0eC. o1s
Corn-steady; No. 8. s4M.
Oats-Inactive. No. 8 white. AK.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
H A BEFORE.

Cor comparatively
Chicago, Dec. 80.
Cattle-Estimated receipts for today,
Ii. 500: steady; good to prime, 6.40@7.2 rs;
poor to medium, 3.75@5.e0; cows. 1.0O@
4.65; Texans, 3.15@4.25; stockers and
feeders, 2,00@4.25.
Hogs-Estimated receipts for today,
5000: 10 to Is cents, higher; heavy,
6.6O@6.so; light, 5.6o@6.45; mixed. 6.1O@
ESQ.
Sheep-Estimated receipts for today,
5000; steady, s.0o04.so; lambs, s.oo@
600.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
TIE INCREASE IN GOLD
The Money Supply Of the World
as Shown by Director
Roberts.
Figures Fail to Convey Any Idea
of the Enormous Increase
in Gold.
An Actual Increase Of $50 Per
Cent in God Since
1873

Washington, Dec. 31-Only a normal
increase in the money supply of the
world during the year 1900 will be shown
by the statement which will be pre-
scented by Mint Director Roberts in his
report for the fiscal year 1901. The n
tire stock Of money in all nations on
Jan. 1, 1900, was stated by him a year
ago at 81. $40, 200. 900. The stock or Jan.
/, 1901, will be stated at $11, 7s1, 2O0,o 900, of
which a. O6, 1000 0 was in gold $751;
100, 600 in silver and 1908. 400, 00l in pa
serves. These figures by their very inn
mensity fail to convey any adequate
idea Of the increase in the worlds stock
of money within the past generation.
They actually show an increase OF more
than $50 per cent since 1873. II the de-
monetization OF silver produced the re-
suit ascribed to it by some of the silver
advocates of striking down one-half of
the worlds money" the gap has since
been nobly filed by the increase in the
production OF gold n the expansion in
the use OF credit. The calculation OF the
entire stock of none in the world Is no
easy task, but 1t has been carried to
greater inc greater perfection under the
skillful management Of such directors
of the mint as the late Edward o. Leech,
the former director, and present exam
liner, MI. Robert E. Preston, and the
present director, Mr.. George p. Roberts.
Appeals to our ambassadors. ministers
and consuls at all the capitals OF the
world, careful examination OF foreign
statistical publications, both official and
unofficial, and comparison OF the views
of the most eminent students OF the SUBJ
ject in all languages are made each
year, with the result OF the steady elimi-
nation OF errors and excessive. estimates,
and the reduction Of h annual tables
os the mint bureau as nearly as possible
TIC exact mathematical truth. This labor
and the correspondence which 1t In
wolves takes time and permits the COM
pilation OF accurate statistics only for a
date several months back. Hence the
estimate which will be presented In the
Forthcoming annual report of the direc-
tor will be for Jan. /, 1901, rather than
for any later date. In the United States,
where the statistics are made up month
ly, the gold stock has increased about
SCI, 600, 900 since the beginning Of the
year, and the stock of paper money has
increased materially, in spite OF the fact
that a part OF this increase has been or
set by the additions to the gold re-
sources in the treasury. The following
table gives q bird's-eye view OF the re-
markable increase in h worlds equip
ment Of money from 1873 to h begin
ming Of the present year:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
Chicago livestock.

Chicago, Dec. 81.
Cattle ~ Estimated receipts, 5000:
steady; good to prime, 6.75G7.25; poor to
medium, 3.90@6.0O; cows, 1.25@4.65;
Texans, 3.2594.s5; stockers, 2.o0@4.25.
Hogs-Estimated receipts, $4,000; 100
25 lower; heavy, 6.4o@6.7o; light. $3.50
$50; mixed, 5.00@5.50.
Sheep - Estimated receipts. 10000;
steady; 3.0O@4.S0; lambs, 3.o0@6.o0.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-08-31

when the chaplain delivers the following
invocation:
0, Thou eternal and allw1se Trail Guide,
we thank Thee for guiding the feet OF our
departed brother over his earthly trail to
the summit Of the Last Trail. We deeply
mourn the departure Of our brother, but
knowest that Thou doest all things we'll
NGrant that the spirit of our brother now
with Thee, may ever guide the footsteps OF
his Eorely afflicted relatives on the trail of
life. Teach them, and all Of US, to realize
that the best there was in our brothers Ifs
lives now and will live forever in the hearts
Of those who knew him.
AS we look back over the enumerable dan
gers of the trail we have safely passed, we
know we should many times have perished
but for Thy protecting care. Be with US
still in the many dangers that beset u.s. and
when Thou hast guided US to our last camp,
may We leave behind Us the noble memories
OF our absent brother and be received by
Thee in the Camp on High. And to Thy
name shall be aScribed all honor and glory.
Amen.
We have had very bad season, and IT
has caused everything to be very dull.
The miners could not get to the mines
outside. There has been so much snow
and Ice it has prevented many from work.
ing their claims. But they will have TO
make the best of a very short season.
Will write at length on my return from
two weeks trip into the interior.
Charles A. Mitchell.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-08-31
AN OLD LETTER
FROM c. K. DAVIS
In 1873 the Young Statesman Advocated Gov
eminent Ownership of Railroads in
a Limited Form.

The Marshall, Mimi. News Messenger
has been delving into its cid files Of
twenty-eight years back and reprinting
interesting news and editorial of the year
1873-when the crime was committed The
paper was then known as the Prairie
Schooner, and Lyon county was just fill
ing up with farmers and homesteaders.
In the third issue of the Prairie
Schooner appeared a letter from c. K
Davis, reprinted from the st. Paul Press.
Senator Davis was then the republican
nominee for governor, and the idol Of the
young republicans of the state Three
years before he had delivered his cele-
brated lecture on Modern Feudalism"
The letter is decidedly interesting as
showing the bent of the young states
mans mind at that stage of his career,
when he advocated government ownership
of railway trunk lines.
The extract from the Prairie Schooner
is in full as follows:
The following letter from the man who
will doubtless be the next governor of Min
nesota we find in the columns of the ST. Paul
Press. 1t well repays a careful perusal:
Sometime in May last, having determined
Honorable G. X. Davis for the republican
nomination for governor, We addressed a let
ter OF him stating that it would perhaps ad-
vance his interests il he would in some way
state publicly his views as set forth in his
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-08-31

Duluth & Iron Range at Ely, but moth
ing is promised in that direction at
present 1t should be said that instead
of building the Winnipeg line out from
Port Arthur or FIT. William the new line
starts at Stanley station on the Port
Arthur, Duluth & Western.
The Manitoba Lines.
In Manitoba the company now owns or
operates all the railroad lines not con-
trolled by the Canadian Pacific. The
Northern Pacific lines recently sold to the
Manitoba government lave been leased
by the Canadian Northern. 1t already
owned the Lake Manitoba & Canal COM
pany line, which it has just extended to
the northwestern corner of Manitoba and
on into Northwest Territory. 1t is this
line which will ultimately be extended to
the Pacific coast. The company is put
3ing in a connecting line between the
eastern terminus Of this line at Glad
stone on the Canadian Pacific and Portage
la Prairie, the terminus of one Of the
Northern Pacific lines. 1t is building an
other extension from Headingly south
toward Carman, where the provincial gov
ernment has been draining some extensive
low lands.
The officials.
The Canadian Northern company
though 1t is only an infant among rail-
roads, now has 1,052 miles of railway un-
der operation and is building 424. D. B.
Hanna, general superintendent, has his Of
fces at Winnipeg. D. B. Gorrie, superin-
tendent of operation on the east end, is
stationed at Port Arthur. M H. Mcleod
is chief engineer on the west end and T.
H. White on the east end.
To Compete With the c. p.
1t will be seen that the new company
has lines which ramify through Manito-
ba's wheat regions and that the line it is
now building will give it a water outlet
at Port Arthur Of course it will be "sewed
up at its eastern terminus during the
period of closed navigation on Lake Su-
perlor, though it will make arrangements
to store considerable grain. Some day
the line will be extended east north of
the Canadian Pacific An elevator with
capacity Of 1900, 900 bushels is now being
erected at Port Arthur.
The next step will be to get line of
boats to operate on the lakes in connec-
tion with the new road. At first traffic
arrangements will Undoubtedly be made
with some existing line, but Mckenzie
Mann & Co. are known to be figuring on
three large steamers of their own
While it is doubtful whether the road
will be completed in time to handle much
through business before navigation closes
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-08-31

draw this distinction is yet to be seen. My
own idea is that the state cannot contract
away single attribute of sovereignty. ana
that when the public nature of these institu-
tions is conceded, the right to control them
follows logically.
do not think that congress has any power
that will effectually remedy the evils. The
power to regulate commerce between the diff
ferent states unquestionably gives that body
the power to regulate through freights, but 1t
has no expression in regard to freights say
between Mankato and Winona. In regard TO
the power of the state. the converse Of the
above paragraph is true. That is, the state
may possibly regulate from Mankato to Vino
ma, but it has no power to do so from Vino
to La Crosse.
My own idea of practical solution of this
question is almost as universal as the idea
of emancipation. 1t is that the federal gov
ernment should, under the power Of eminent
domain, condemn at least two through lines
from the seaboard to the west keep them in
repair Just as the state keeps its wagon roads
up, and suffer every one who has a locomo-
tive or car to run over them under such
regulations only as will insure safety.
Before this can be done, there will be a
struggle to which that regarding slavery in
the territories was mere baby play. 1t may
be that the railway men will be wiser than
the Shareholders and, when they know what
is coming, they will make satisfactory con-
cessions.
l have no time to write more now. You
must consider this as a private letter to you
I mean as far as publication Is concerned.
/ will not, to secure any office, rush into print
and air my views on this any other Ques
ton. do not profess to be wiser than the
believing that these evils be more
thoroughly, though it may be more slowly,
remedied by the action Of the great organ
ization than by eccentric movements of in
dividuals toward sudden reform. Yours,
&C. K Davis
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-08-31

a date later than Oct. Is, now figured
on. There are about $500 men now at
work on the line and several hundreds
more could be used to advantage.
Nature of the Country.
It is claimed for the new railroad that
1t opens UP a country that is on the whole
better than the corresponding part Of the
Canadian Pacific. OF the rich agricul
tural country it penetrates in southeast
ern Manitoba for some distance and of the
rich timber and farming country it passes
through on both sides Of the Rainy river,
much has been said before in this cor
respondence. From Rainy River east the
country is very rocky, and the railroad
contractors are finding that their cuts
are almost all in rock, but north Of the
Rainy Lake the new road runs through
an extensive pine country though the
timber is apt to be very thin. 1t goes
right through the most promising parts
OF the Rainy Lake gold country, and
crosses the Atikokan iron range. 1t
hardly seems possible that this region
will not sooner or later have successful
gold and iron mines. The Atikokan iron
range is very promising, and is being
prospected very carefully. The only trou
BILE with the ore is the sulphur found in
it, but it is said that that is not so much
OI du OUSIoCl0 W tuC I0QUCIIOu VI 1IOn
ores as it was a few years ago. The rail-
way company is already talking Of build
ing big ore docks on the Kaministiqua
river, just above Fort William, to handle
the ore from the mines it expects to see
developed in the Atikokan range.
The road will afford good scenery to the
tourist Of the future, and will make ac-
cessible some of the most beautiful lakes
and streams in the world Summer re-
sorts at points on Rainy Lake and other
places are already talked of. The lakes
will furnish the fishing companies with
an opportunity to extend their source of
supply. Already one lake on the new line,
-Shebandown,-is being rshed. There is
yet no development of towns or even town
sites On the Port Arthur end Of the line
There is no train service beyond that af-
forded by construction trains, which run
eccentrically.
Other Lines.
But the road they are building between
Port Arthur and Winnipeg is far from
being all that the Canadian Northern has
Besides the line it Is building north
from Parry Sound on Georgian Bay, the
company owns in Ontario the Port Arthur
Duluth & Southwestern, which it pur
chased about q year ago. This line is
some eighty miles long and extends for
a few miles into Minnesota Sometime
it will be extended to connect with the
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-08-31

are now going up in the calcium sulphite
works, where a sulDhite liquor is made
from pyrrhotite and limestone, the finely
ground pyrrhotfte is passed down through
roasting furnace designed especially for
the work, and drawn off at the bottom as
an oxide Of iron and nickel. The sui
phurous acid gas roasted out is passed to
the bottom of vats 100 feet high filled
with limestone or dolomite quarried in
the surrounding region. The gas is drawn
upward and as it rises, meets a descend
ing stream Of water and is absorbed
This solution, attacking the calcium car
Donate, forms calcium sulphite that is
drawn to tanks, the strength of the
liquor being regulated by the proportion
OF water passing into the vat. There are
eight of these. watts, each five feet in di-
ameter and built of heavy timber.
For the utilization of this liquor, a
sulphite pulp mill is provided, in which
are what are usually called digesters, and
where the process does not differ greatly
from that employed In mills making a
similar product except as to size. The
dtgester building is 125 feet high and
contains the largest digesters ever built
They are tall steel cylinders lined with
acid-proof brick, and each will hold thirty
cords Of chopped wood. The plant has a
capacity for sixty-fve tons of finished
pulp every twenty-four hours
Buildings for the treatment of the ferro-
nickel ore on a commercial scale are
about completed. A sulphuric acid plant
to utilize the new and revolutionary cata-
lytic process is under erection. There will
be a large excess of sulphurous acid, and
1t was necessary to devise some method
of treating it. Much sulphuric acid will
be for sale, while the company will itself
use some in various processes, among
which will be the making Of acetic acid
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-08-31

contract for the delivery of 300 cords
daily Of hard wood from the lands of the
companies has been let and cutting is to
commence at once This wood is to be
carbonized and Oscar Daube Of New York
has completed portion of a plant for the
work.
Lands to Be Settled.
One Of the difficult problems under
taken by Mr.. Clergue and association is
that of settling the region to the north
of the Sault along their line of railway.
This settlement is one of the conditions
under which they will earn the enormous
vi valuable grants of land given by the
Canadian government, and an earnest and
we'll considered effort is now about to
be pushed looking to the locating upon
these lands of the required number Of
families. Still the job is one that many
man with some genius for organization
would hesitate to undertake But Mr..
Clergue is a man of more than ordinary
genius, and his success in many under
takingS fits him for others. The oppor-
tunities granted settlers along the line
Of the A. c. & H. B. road in the way of
making a start by woodchopping and the
subsequent opportunities to be given un-
der the liberal plans adopted by the COM
pany for working up the products Of soil
and forest should have effect in bringing
in people and holding them till they are
successful citizens.
Added to the aforementioned metal
lurgical industries is the alkali works of
the Canadian Electro Chemical company,
another Clergue enterprise. Here, by the
Rhodin electrolytic process, using a mer-
curry cathode, nine tons of bleaching pow
der and five tons of caustic soda are made
daily
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-08-31

From a STAFF Correspondent.
Port Arthur. Ont, Aug. 24.-Frequent
reference has been made in these letters
to the plans and work of the Canadian
Northern railway, but the railroad sys-
tenn it controls has grown to such pro-
portions and means so much to western
and eventually, perhaps. to the whole OF
Canada that it requires special atten-
tion. In a general way, this company
looks forward to the ultimate construc-
tion Of a second Canadian transcontinen-
tai railway. AS to the portions west OF
Manitoba and east of Port Arthur, the
plans are as yet very vague, but in the
portion where active work is now being
prosecuted there are certain very definite
ends in view which are being realized as
rapidly as possible.
The Canadian Northern Railway COM
pany has certain officials who reside in
Toronto but they are now mere figure
heads. The real Canadian Northern or
ganization at present is the contracting
firm Of Mckenzie, Mann & Co. 1t is COM
posed principally of William Mckenzie,
D. D. Mann and R. J. Mckenzie, son Of
William; all of Toronto. This firm has
been scheming for years to build and con-
troll a great railway system. Their plans
have been baked from time to time, and
various obstacles have been encountered,
but they are now on the highway to sue
cess 1t is something like twelve years
since there was first located an independ-
ent line of railway between Lake Su-
perior and Winnipeg, but this year will
see the rails connected through, all of
the work having been done in the last
three years. The new railway has re-
ceived great governmental announcement
from the Dominion, Ontario and Mani
toba governments. The two frst-named
have been interested chiefly because they
wished to develop the country. The Mani
toba government has had the additional
motive OF desire for active competition
with the Canadian Pacific railway, which,
to hear some Manitobans talk, one might
think the chief handicap to the proper
development of the province.
Some Fat Subsidies.
The general government has testified to
Its interest in the project by giving it a
subsidy of about 6,400 mile.
The Ontario government has given evil
dence of its interest by adding a subsidy
OF about $4,000 mile, both Of these sub
sides applying only to that portion of
the road which lies within Ontario, some
2SO of the 4S7 miles between Port Arthur
and Winnipeg
There is, of course, no subsidy cover
Ing that portion of the road which lies
In Minnesota; neither is there any direct
subside in Manitoba
But the Manitoba government guar
antees the companys bonds, which is
enough IN itself to assure the completion
OF the railroad, as it removed ALI diff
Guilty in raising funds for construction.
There are some provisos in connection
with the subsidies depending upon cost