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The news-herald., 1902-09-27
MORRISTOWN
MININGNEWS.
The Maricopa Gold Company Pre-.
pairing to Operate Three
Pow Commentators.
h. N. Cox Says That
Business Is Good.

H. N. Cox, the Morristown mer-
chant, postmaster, hotel keepr. no
tary public, and in fact one of the
leading spirits of the town, spent
Monday in Wickenburg in compa-
ny with C. R. Nannfeldt, mining
man connected with the Maricopa
Gold Company. Wickenburg de
rives a great deal of it's Importance
as a mining centre on account of
it's fortunate location location be-
tween two such active towns as
Morristown and Congress, with
their adjacent richly mineralized
districts, and Mr.. Cox's visit to the
big burg was one of neighborly in
terest.
Morristown, though but a small
place, probably does more business
for it's size than any town in the
territory, being the freighting point
for the Hot Springs, Picacho, and
San Domingo mining districts, be-
sides the Castle Greek Hot Springs,
which annually attract hundreds
of invalids and eastern people seek
ing medicinal springs and a mild
climate. Just at present an addi-
ton of p rooms is being made to
the already large hotel and this
extra freighting increases the bust
ness Of Morristown no small a.
mount.
In the San Domingo district, the
Maricopa Gold Co. has installed
three dry concentrators, of 4, 6, and
8 horse power, run by gasoline en-
gines. The machines weree~install-
ed several months ago and given a
scccessful trial, but at present are
waiting for dry weather before
starting up. 1t is expected that
they will be in operation within
the next six weeks, if the rains a.
bate, and the cleanup should be
very remunerative, as the company
has an abundance of rich placer
ground upon which to work. 1t is
said that TIE White Cloud will
start sinking their main shaft
within the next ten days. The
Trilby and Exposition claims are
also being worked by small force
ard Henry Leroy has charge OF q
force of men developing the Judge
Ainsworth property, formerly be-
longing to "Uncle Jimmy"Winters.
Mr.. H. E. Armitage is continuing
work with a diamond nrill explor
ing the Hercules property in the
San Domingo section east of Nor
ristown, having sunk number OF
holes, some of which are six hun
dred feet in depth.
Mr.. Cox and G.. E. Snyder, ore
buyer for the Val Verde smelter,
have purchased the VIM. Scott one
third interest in the Gilbert-Scott-
Rowe property eleven miles east of
Morristown. This property has
little but title work done, but
shows up an immense ore body
several hundred feet wide, heavily
impregnated with iron and carry
ing satisfactoro values in gold.
The consideration was 5000 cash
and it is rumored that Frank Muir
pip is also connected with the
deal.
Morristown has a bright future
and will undoubtedly keep pace
with Wickenburg in it's growth
during the next few years.
D. J. Curry has about completed
the erection of an addition to his
The news-herald., 1902-09-27

Garcia and sons have burned
their first kiln of brick and sam
pies brought to this Office are of
good quality, suitable for all build
ing purposes. 1t is probable that
several brick buildings will be
erected during the coming winter.
The Hotel Baxter Bar had some
fine letterheads and envelopes
printed at the News-Herald office
this week, for the use of their pat
rons. This is fast becoming one Of
the neatest and most up-to-date
resorts in this section.
The news-herald., 1902-09-27
Some Fine Showings at
the Electra Mine.

now being in ore of a good grade,
The shaft will be continued some
distance further and drifts will be
run along the vein. Several weeks
since, the writer visited the proper
ty and the company certainly have
fine surface showings and a strong
lead, and at the depth then attain
ed, were taking out high-grade cop
per gold ore. Nickerson & Wilson
of Phoenix, the promoters, as we'll
as the stockholders are to be con-
graduated.
"Colonel" Wilson does not in
clude Wickenburg in his list of
speaking points. Outside of a
very few admirers here, no one
will feel at all sighted. Possibly
some one intimated to him that he
would have to bring someone along
to introduce him if he came.
Wilson evidently had an object
in view when he selected Holbrook
as the scene Of the joint debate be-
tween himself and Robert E..
Morrison. Probably he wanted
the smallest possible audience of
voters to witness his discontinue
and defeat.
H. J. McClung, cashier of the
Phoenix National bank, and Frank
D. Lane, clerk k to the territorial
auditor and board of control, dis
turbed the slumbers of the News
Herald Sunday morning to say
hello, on their way to Prescott on
business.
G. F. White went out to Socorro
Thursday with a load of supplies.
This mine keeps one or more
freighting outfits on the road con-
stantly and when the mill, now
under Course of construction. is
completed, will require additional
freighting facilities.
J. K. Murphy, Claude Burson
and Felipe Garcia gave very en-
joyable dance at Garcia Hall Sat-
urday evening, which was attended
ty the majority of the local resid-
ants who enjoy the mystic mazes of
the dance. Feuerstein's orchestra
furnished the music and those pres
ent report a fine time.
The selection of Jim Bark as
chairman and Jack Burrows secre-
tary of the county central commit
tee in this county will 90 a great
ways towards electing the republi-
can candidates this fall Both
gentlemen are among the best
political workers in the county and
will labor faithfully in the inter
ests of republican success.
The Maricopa county republican
central committee completed it's
organization Wednesday by the
selection of an executive committee
as follows: Griggs H. Carr, Frank
Fowler, DR.. Ouffield, George d.
Cristy, E. w. Potter, George Kirk
land, VIM. English, Phoenix; J. T.
Priest, Tempe; Bert Winger, Mesa;
Dick Wick Hall, Wickenburg.
Ed. Wiggins visited the Orc
Grande for the first time Sunday
and was more than astonished at
what he saw. Ed says it makes
him think of old Vulture days, and
with the improved methods of red
uction now in use, the production
of the Orc Grande should exceed
that of the Vulture, which is
known to have been over $17,0O0,-
900.
The News Herald is in receipt of
some fine 2Ox24 mining photo
graphs from Hartwell & Hamaker,
the artistic photographers of Phoe-
nix. These gentlemen make a
speciality of photographing mines
and mining camps, above and be-
low ground, and have an unusually
large camera specially for that
The news-herald., 1902-09-27

D. J. Curry has about completed
the erection of an addition to his
Railroad street store, to be occu-
pied by a furniture store very
soon.
The compulsory school law re-
quiring children between the age
of eight and fourteen to attend
school, is going to be enforced
here.
The news-herald., 1902-09-27

days.
The welcome news that the Orc
Grande will start the erection. of
their mill within a short time will
stimulate business in all lines.
Judge Boyd was called upon last
week to marry couple who had
been divorced for fourteen years.
Fifteen minutes after the ceremony
he. was asked to undo the Job, as
the parties had again mutually
agreed to disagree. Life and love
are like a vaudeville show with
some people.
l.. L. White of the White Gold
Mining Company has been in town
this week. The company has in
creased it's force lately and is rap
idly developing what is generally
conceded to be one OF the best gold
properties in this section.
We have taken out a $50 week
accident policy and woul1appreei, =
ate it if some of the clay-eaters who
have been doing so much talking
lately would come around and put
us in the way of taking a good
rest on good salary.
Fire at FOOLS Gulch Tuesday de-
stroyed the residence of w. A.
Clark, superintendent Of the Plan
ct Saturn Mining Company. Five
year old Albert Coleman, ne
phew of Mr.. Clark's was burned to
death. The fire startd from child
rem burning matches.
George E, Sanders, special rep
resentative of the Orc Grande, re-
to New York yesterday, where he
has opened general mining brok-
erage office. Mr.. Sanders is thor
oughly familiar with this section
and should meet with success in
his new field.
H. N. Cox, Morristown's popular
merchant, and Mr.. Nannfeldt, q
mining man paid the News-Herald
a pleasant call Monday. Mr.. Cox
decided the News Herdld was a
pretty good institution to encourge
and gave us an advertisement,
which will be noted in another
column.
A. A. Pratt, proprietor of sum-
mer resort near Salt Lake City and
an expert landscape gardener, ar
rived Thursday morning to take
charge of the work at the Angel
and Bess mines during the prolong-
ed absence of his cousin, George e.
Sanders. A visit to the Angel
camp, which Mr.. Pratt had charge
of some time last fall, will convince
anyone that he is an artist in his
line.
Thos. E. Flanagan, candidate
for the Legislative Assembly on the
Republican ticket, spent Wednes-
day circulating among his Wicken-
burg friends. Tom has worked his
way up from the bottom and will
undoubtedly be elected by good
majority The lnUiSla tllrn stands
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-24
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storts of things we ought to have
thought Of sooner but. didn't, and don't
want to think of now; if at last we
drop exhausted into bed, afraid to look
at the clock, it is hard to put on a hon-
day face a few hours later and shout.
Merry Christmas" in the dawn. The
beloved youngsters for whom we have
performed most of this labor hop into
our bed, spill popcorn and nutshells
down our backs. and insist upon our
eating candy before breakfast. Sticky,
happy, wriggly, all talking at once at
the top of their voices. they are not the
most satisfactory bedfellows in the
world The baby gets excited and cries;
the pup rushes wildly about and barks.
and has to be cuffed for eating up the
gingerbread animals; the father in
quireS if any one supposes that this is
fun; and the mother tries to quiet the
baby put out the pup, mate the stock
ings, fasten buttons. and do her own
hair in a fashion fit for church, without
losing the good cheer the occasion de-
mands.-Harpers Bazaar.
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Whv She oouldn,t SNEAK.

The talk turned to Christmas gifts is the
three or four travellers smoked their cigars
together. and one of them finally heaved a
si-h and said:
L am also going to take advantage Of
the occasion to make a gift. 1t win be
to my wife,
"A diamond ring?" queried one of the
others.
wei. hardly. The gift is in the bag
gage car ahead. 1t cost 500 and stands
four feet high. do not think / could have
got more suitable thing. If she could
speak. know that she would express her
great satisfaction"
But why can't she speak?"
Because she has been dead two years
You don't say. Then the Christmas gift
Isl
Exactly A beautiful tombstone of the
whitest marble and the epitaph ends with;
'.Our loss is her gain"
He was excused while he turned away
his head to shed his tears unseen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-24
CONNECTING LINK.
Rock Island Charters Its Line Out OF
Kansas City.

Kansas City. Mo. Dec. 24.-The route
which is to be the entrance of the Chi
cago Rock Island & Pacific railroad into
Kansas City from Strassburg, Cass
county, distance of forty miles, was
chartered yesterday at Jefferson City as
the Kansas City & Rock Island rail
road company, with a capital stock of
81. 600, 900. The route has been surveyed
to within about seven miles of the heart
of the city, to a place just beyond old
Washington park, and it is still a ques-
ton Just how the road will enter the
city. The Belt line tracks will in oil
probability be used. The incorpora tors
are; w. B. Leeds, Charles H. Warren.
New York; Robert Mather w w Stew
enson, Chicago: W. F. Evans. w l..
Morse and M. T. Farrow. St. Louis
The work on the construction from
Versailles to Windsor has made great
progress and the grading is being
pushed. and every day the line comes
nearer Kansas City. Trains now run
out of st. Louis on part of the line.
NJ A. Low, general attorney for the
Rock Island railroad, said last night
that the new line would be a connecting
link between st. Louis and Kansas City
for the new Kansas City-St. Louis line
Mr.. Low said further that work would
be begun soon upon the Kansas City end
Of the line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-24
Railroads Reaping the Harvest
From Land Grants.
Own Territory Almost Twice
the Size of France.
SANTA FE LEADS ALL.
Has Over Hundred Million
Dollars Worth.
This Is More than One-third of
the Total.

After years of waiting the railroads
of the United States are beginning to
derive revenue from the immense land
grants made them during the construc-
ton period by the federal and state
governments. It is estimated that pre-
vious to 1880 these grants reached the
enormous total Of SOO.O0OOO0 acres. The
immensely of these grants can be I'M
derstood when it is stated that in the
state of New York there are but 31,500,
500 acres.
At the time these lands were given to
the roads they were worth from 10 cents
to 80 cents an acre. Now they are
worth from SIPS to IS an acre. The
average value is about $3.50 an acre.
The Northern Pacific company during
the fiscal year 1902 sold z.SS6,S9S acres,
for which it received 1884, S76, and
which was added to it's income account.
Other roads have disposed of some oil
their lands, but few of them have lane
accounts which are exposed in their
annual reports, and just how much they
have sold is matter of guess work.
The value of government land grants
held by the railroads today aggregates
1910. 1902. Az They hold, according to the
recent report of the United States com
missioner of railroads, 124,120,977 acres
of this land. This does not include
the land held as coming from the differ
enL states through winch the TOduS run.
Some of the roads mentioned in tho
table showing the land held by them as
gifts from the federal government have
acquired a large part of their holding
by the absorption of other roads.
For instance, the Atchison has lands
that were granted to the Atlantic & Pa
cific, Leavenworth. Lawrence & Calves
ton and several smaller branches of its
present system, while the Chicago
Northwestern acquired through absorp-
tion the land granted to the Cedar
Rapids and Missouri, Omaha, st. Paul
and Sioux City, Sioux City and st. Paul.
The big systems own in the aggregate
a principality almost twice the size of
France.
This land in few more years will be
worth from SIS to $500 an acre and will
in time become a great source of reve-
nue. to the roads. Many of the roads
are now colonizing their lands and
building houses. which they are renting
to settlers.
Towns are springing up along some of
the larger western roads, which are be-
ing fostered by this system. It is a re-
markable showing and a remarkable in
stance of government liberality toward
private cOrporations-a liberality which.
however, has not been misplaced and
which has done much to bring about
the wonderful development of the west.
The value of the land owned by various
roads is follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-24
PRIVATE CAR HABIT.
A Growing Tendency to Abolish the
Custom.

There is a growing tendency among
the higher railroad officials to dis
courage the use Of private and official
cars. and abolish the custom of haul
ing private cars of foreign lines. There
seems to be no doubt that the evil IS
increasing and the habit of taking a
ride over the other fellows road Is
growing at an alarming degree. 1t is
not unlikely that some sort Of pro-
hibitive measures. allowing more or
less latitude for presidents possibly.
will be adopted by common consent for
the general good of all concerned.
The official car habit is different from.
the private car habit Official cars are
frequently a necessity; especially is this
true regarding the higher operating
reality is an office on wheels On gen.
motive power or general superintend-
ent has an official car. most likely the
president VIII want one. and so the
way is opened for abuse. If not carried
to an absurd extreme the benefits de-
rived by the company may possibly
balance the costs, though this is a
question In the case of a private car,
say one from a foreign road. one thai
is simply being hauled as a mere favor.
no benefits are derived. and all that
comes to the road bearing the expense
Is that at some future time this line
may have an opportunity to ask for 1
return favor. This exchanging OF cour-
tesies is usually pleasing to the indi-
vidual. but seldom benefits either road.
This fact IS so universally recognized
that some sort of restrictive action is
not. nprobable.-Columbu Dispatch.
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A VETERAN ENGINEER.
Retired After Continuous Service of
Fifty-two Years.

Probably there never was a more
tire railroad history of this country
than in the person of Elisha Candee. the
veteran passenger engineer of the Wa
bash railway, just retired after an active
service of 50 years.
OF the thousands of people who have
Travelled the Banner route during the
years mentioned, the last fifteen years
in particular, not one has failed to no.
tice the popularity of this engineer, and
not one has ever been more asked about
after retirement than this man.
Candee IS known to most every rail-
road man in the middle west He is
known not alone for his peculiar illness
with which he is afflicted. but for his
reputation as thorough, first-class rail-
road engineer. and one of the best air
brake men in the service. 1t is told of
true t.sat a back or forward stop for
station, water anything else was
never necessary Certain it is, that his
stops were remarkable for accuracy,
and it is said of him that time and
again he f1attened a ten-cent piece with
his engine wheels, stopping at a desig-
mated point with the coin exactly under
the drivers of the engine.
Fifteen years before his retirement he
became afflicted with a peculiar form of
nervousness, attacking him in such a
manner that his head and his right hand
constantly trembled. giving the appear
ance to the casual observer that he was
afflicted with an acute form of palsy.
It was the opposite, however, for no
man ever sat in the cab of an engine
and handled the throttle with cooler
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-24
WILD WEST STORY.
Conductor John Tway Chased by a
Savage Bob-Cat.

Most of the conductors on the Santa
Fe Pacific know something about the
country out around Pisgah in the west
Pisgah is a switch. Beside the switch
there is an excuse for a station, and the
nearest telegraph operator is at Layic,
ten miles away. The surrounding coun-
try being mostly rocks and desert is
not inviting. One morning not so very
long ago. the No 1 passenger train
stopped about seven miles this side of
Pisgah- When Conductor John Tway
got out to locate the trouble he found
that the engine had died. 1t was 8: 80 in
the morning and the situation was not
pleasant. 1t was necessary to get to
telegraph Office and that quickly.
There was nothing for it but to walk,
so the conductor, armed with his Ian
tern and a bad temper, started out
alone. When about three miles from
Lavic the conductor discovered to his
discomfort that he was being followed
by some wild beast that hung close in
coyote and was not greatly worried. but
shortly afterward the beast wandered
ahead and crossed the tracks ahead of
him. Then he saw that it was a huge
wildcat The cats eyes gave forth an
ugly greenish glare and the conductor
began to wonder how far it was to tho
station. His lantern was not full and
horrible fear came on him that it might
go out All the stories he had ever
heard of how to scare wildcats came
back to him but none of them seemed
to fit his case, so holding the precious
lantern close to his ribs and pressing
his cap down over his slightly agitated
hair the conductor hurried. He reach
ed the station in safety but the cat oc-
companied him almost to the door of
the office Mr. Tway did not walk back
to the train.