Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-24
The Blue Bird Nine Enterprise.

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Mr.. w. j. Springer, manager of the
Blue Bird Mine and who has charge
of the entire property, wa. in the city
last week and in a talk with him seems
exceedingly confident that they have
a big dividend payer Mr.. Springer
stated that nearly all of the business
men of New Hampton were stock
holders in this company, that it was
being run economically on a sure and
careful basis. Late reports from the
mine are very hattering and it seems
now that the New Hampton people
have every reason to congratulate
themselves on their luck in disc. YER
ing so valuable property. Mr.. Truax
who has charge of the mine as superin-
tendent, is so confident of the per-
manency of the vein and its value that
he refuses 10 sell any of his large block
of stock for less than dollar per share.
Mr.. Springer stated that $4,000 would
put in all of the machinery that would
be necessary to handle fifty ton Of
ore per day, and that in order to raise
the money to buy this machinery the
company has decided to place on the
market limited amount of stock at
twenty cents per share and that the
same was selling very rapidly and that
a. soon as a sufficient amount was
raised that no more stock would be
sold at that price. This stock has ris-
en- steadily from two and a half cents
per share to twenty cents, and present
indications are that within the next
two or three weeks that its value will
so increase that none can be had for
less than 35 to so cents per share and
may be double that, as the ore has
steadily increased in value and quanti-
ty from the very start until now there
is vein about six feet in width which
ranges in value from $4,000 to $92 90
per ton. Unless all the present indi-
cations fail, when concentration is put
in 81 900 day will be safe estimate
of the net profit on the handling of
fifty tons of ore. Mr.. E. f. Auchmoody
of this city is handling the stock for
the Chickasaw Mining 4 Smelling
Go. who own the Blue Bird and he
will be pleased to give anyone inform
alton in relation to the matter who
may be interested therein.
A POLITICIAN who lives not hundred
miles from Cedar Rapids recently
received a $3.50 check from the
Cummins managers in return for "his
influence" in the caucuses Of his coun-
ty. The man who got the check had
no particular influence. 1t is supposed
that others received checks, varying in
amounts. The lowest estimate for that
one county is 81, 200 to 81 500 land Tom
Way himself did not consider the coun-
ty important enough to invade it in
person.. All this is all right, but it
occurs to one that Mr.. Cummins. for a
poor man, is spendinga great deal of
money for an office which his friends
say he cannot afford to hold, since the
salary, house rent and so on amounts
to oIly 81, leo a year and Mr. Cumnlins
has law practice of $4,000 a year.
Talking about money, who is putting
it up-the $4,000 to 100000 that it
must surely cost to make the canvass OF
the state that has been made? The
Polk county campaign, the Warren
campaign and the Madison and Marion
and Dallas county campaigns all cost
heavily. Who is putti0g it up? This
is not impertinent. The CummiDs men
charge the other fellows with having q
machine and the money. Admit the
worst and the worst is that the anti
Cummins people really have neither
machine nor money-but admit that
the machine has money to make cam
Paign. But what about the Cummins
people? Aren't they spending money:
Do $3.50 checks grow on coal SCOT
bushes i'm Des Moines? Where are they
getting the money? They are spending
it. No ore denies that. They had
twenty politicians working in one
county recently, every one travelling
treating, distributing literature and "a
little spending money for the boys
Where does it all come from? Who
puts 1t up? Who is back of the Cumm.
ms movement? Who is financing il!
Talk about machine, what do they
call the thing they operate from Des-
Moines? Cedar Rapids Republican.
Now the pineapple blossoms out as a
sure cure for diphtheria. A writer in
the Druggists Circular reports that
after hearing for four years that pine
apple juice was cure for diphtheria, a
case occurred in his practice where q
child. having been given up by the
doctors, ripe pineapple was procured
and the juice extracted and given slow
ly in teaspoonful doses. 1t seemed to
clear the throat, swallowing was much
easier, in few hours the child was
sleeping and recovery followed. The