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The news-herald., 1902-02-01
The Haroua Hala.

Harry Mullen arrived in town
Monday evening from the Harqua
Hala country, and reports things
fourishing. Mines are looking
we'll; there are almost twenty men
working at Bouse camp, and a new
company will start work on the
Harqua Hala mine on the first of
the month. AtRumer's camp the con-
tractors on the 20O-foot level have
struck a body of fine ore and the
mine is very promising. On the
Mineral Belt mine, owned by 0. l..
Geer, has shown up very rich ore
in the 2OO-foot level. Other min
ers are doing their assessment and
development work. Mr.. Mullen is
an old-timer and hale fellow we'll
met.-Republican.
The news-herald., 1902-02-01
New Chief Justice.

Edward Kent of Colorado was
on Thursday nominated by Presi-
dent Roosevelt to succeed Webster
Street as chief justice of Arizona,
bis term to commence in March
upon the expiration. of Judge
Streets term of Office. Kent is now
the assistant United States attor-
ney in Colorado and is q son of the
late Governor Kent of Maine.
Charges have recently been brought
against Judge Street, but they were
not thought sufficient ground to
cause his removal and he will be
allowed to serve out his term. This
outside appointment is probably
the result of the charges brought
against every applicant for Office
by other aspirants or their friends,
resulting in the president ignoring
all the territorial candidates.
The news-herald., 1902-02-01
GILBERT GLEANINGS.
A Summary Of the Local Happenings in
that Thriving NeighborhoOd.

Will Murray and Mr.. Carter OF
the firm Of Murray & Baxter were
in town Sunday and tried Gilbert
& Rowe's new cooks cooking. We
could say more but wont.
Baumgartner Bros. were in town
Sunday after supplies, and left
money for copy of the Prospects
prospectus.
Phil L. Payson of San Francisco
and Geo. M. Coke, president of the
Bisbee Bell mine Of Bisbee, were
this week looking at some mines
on the head of Buckhorn gulch
belonging to Emery Fisher. Mr..
Coke seems well pleased with the
mines, and Mr.. Fisher feels conf
dent that a sale will be made. The
mines are among the best in this
vicinity,-the veins are large and
the ore assays as high as so per
cent copper, $45 in gold and some
silver.
Arthur Moore, a miner from the
Kingston group Of mines located
between the Whipsaw and Buck
horn gulches, was here this week.
He reports that James Dobbins,
superintendent of the mines, is
working about dozen men in de-
veloping the property. A board
ing house, lodging house, shaft
house and other necessary struc-
lures have been erected. Mr..
Moore says that the company's
holdings promise to make big
mines. So mote it be.
VIM. McAllister and VIM. Ro-
land are sinking a well at the forks
of the Keystone and Slim Jim
wagon roads, where they expect to
develop enough water to run a 40
stamp mill.
Jeff Baldrige is in from the
Stanton district and reports every
thing lively. He says the Octave
company are preparing to put in
20 more stamps in their mill.
Will Murray took a load Of
miners to Burson's camp Wednes-
day. TREBLIG.
The news-herald., 1902-02-01
THE HASSAYAMPA RIVER.
(ALoNG THE S. F., P. & P. RY.)

ALONG THE S. F., P. q P. RY.
This is the way the legend runs;
Somewhere beneath Arizona suns.
Floweth river, bright and clear
Famed for it's waters far and near,
Many tale of it is told,
For many have quaffed its waters
cold
And all return with a story new,
Each swears by the gods his tale is
true.
Deeds of valor in search of gold,
Visions of tabled wealth untold,
Jewels and treas ures beyond COM
pare,
And perils only the brave would
They have paused a moment on
the brink
And tasted the rivers sparkling
drink.
Never again, SO the stories tell,
Can they escape from it's wondrous
spell;
Saint or sinner, gray-beard oryouth,
Who drinks the water cannot speak
the truth. AMY DUDLEY.
The news-herald., 1902-02-01
MINES WANTED.
Hall Brothers Will Bond or Sell Your Mine
if Saleable.

On account of the growing num-
Der of letters being received at this
Office in regard to mining proper
ties in this district, Hall brothers
have decided to open brokerage
Office for the benefit of prospectors
and mine owners who have prop
critics to sell or bond, but who are
not in touch with the outside in
vesting public. If you have a
prospect or partially developed
mine which you wish to sell or
bond, they will be pleased to have
you come in and list it with them,
for which there will be no charge.
An advertising bureau will also be
maintained and meritorious prop
critics will be advertised through
the leading mining journals of the
country and through personal cor
respondence, thus bringing the
mineral resources of this section
before large number of people
who are always on the lookout for
good investments in the mining
line. Don't put off having your
property listed but get it on the
market.
The news-herald., 1902-02-01
Poisoned Pups.

The dog poisoner has been doing
his dastardly work in Wickenburg
the past week, resulting in the
death of ten or more CANNES,
among which was Jimmy Dunn's
"Shep," a local favorite. Jimmy
says he will never again hang up
the Christmas stocking for poor
old Shep, who came to him a
stranger and has now left him for
a stranger land.
The news-herald., 1902-02-01

J. Ernest Walker, one of the
largest real estate dealers in
Phoenix made an assignment Tues
day for the benefit of his creditors.
The liabilities run up into the
thousands and the assignor says he
has no hope of paying his creditors
in full. Over work and temporary
alteration of mind are accounted
as being the cause of the trouble.
Mr.. Walker is now prostrated and
physicians express little hope of
his permanent recovery.
The news-herald., 1902-02-01

It is rumored that a town hall
will soon be erected by local par
ties. 1t is to be hoped that the
rumor is correct, as Wickenhurg
is badly in need of a puolic build
ing Of this nature.
The news-herald., 1902-02-01
WlCKENBURG|
Historical Notes From
the prospect"
Henry Wickenburg, the Founder. and
Incidents Of His Life on the Hassayampa
1.-The Discovery and Sale Of the Once
Famous and Productive VuIture Mine.

""iNe discovery anu SdIC VI Ul% OnCt
Famous and Productive VuIture Mine
| The special edition of the Pros
pect has the following to say in re-
gard to Henry Wickenburg and
the town bearing his name. Alto
gether about two pages are devoted
to .Wickenburg and surrounding
mines:
"Wickenburg is situated on the
line of the S.. F., P. & P. railway,
ifty-four miles due north of Phoe-
nix and eighty-three miles south
of Prescott, and is just outside Of
Yavapai county in Maricopa, the
dividing line being less than q mile
north of the town. However,
many, and in fact nearly all, of
the mines that are in operation
contiguous to and of which Wick
enburg is the distributing point,
are within the confines of Yavapai,
and fer that reason the town is tax
en- into consideration, given space
and recognition in this edition, de-
voted to the resources of Yavapai
county, though it is supposed to
be exclusive.
"The founder of the town was
Henry Wickenburg, a native of
Germany who was born in the
city of Essen, on the Ruhr river in
1919. He came to America in
1847, landing in New York, and
from there went to San Francisco
in 1853. He came to arizona in
1852 and located at first in Peoples
valley, after which, in October,
1853, he settled in the town which
bears his name and has resided
there ever since, period covering
thirty-eight years. He once own
ed all the ground on which Wick
enburg is located, and still possess
es many of the most valuable
building lots in both the business
and residence partitions of the town.
The mining operations which have
recently attracted SO much atten-
ton 80 the section of country sur
rounding Wickenburg have en-
hanced the value of city property
to such an extent that Henry
Wickenburg has realized several
thousands of dollars from the sale
Of town property within the last
year or SO, and the old gentleman
is more than comfortably fixed in
his old age. He is now 80 years of
age, hale and hearty, with chances
in favor of his becoming cente-
marian. He owns g. beautiful
ranch at the outskirts of the town
which was named for him by Gov
ernor Goodwin, first governor of
Arizona, through the influence Of
the first territorial secretary, Nc
Cormack, who had been personally
acquainted with an old partner Of
Wickenburg's in the east.
"Henry Wickenburg was the
original locator of the famous Vul-
ture mine and sold the discovery
claim 600 feet) to Bethuel Phelps
for $4,000 in 1866. Under the
original Arizona mining regulations
discovery claim was restricted to
300 feet in length, but the locator
was entitled to take up 3O0-foot
claims on both ends of the original
location. This Mr.. Wickenburg
had done, and sold these claims
subsequently for $4,000, realizing
in all 100000 for the Vulture
property. The estimated produc-
ton of this mine afterwards ex-
ceeds $16,OOO,OOO.
Poisoned Pups.
The news-herald., 1902-02-01

A number of outside and eastern
mining men have been looking
over properties in this section for
he past week.
The news-herald., 1902-02-01
HARQUA HALAS
Work on the Mountain
Chief Mines.
The Sparks and Devine Brothers Are
Opening Up a Great PFoducer...Lack
of Water In the Sunset District the Only
Drawback to the Development Of Mines.

A representative of the News
Herald visited the camp of the
Sparks and Devine brothers at
Sunset last week, and was surpris-
ed at the work going on in that
vicinity. The 5-stamp mill used
at the Sunset mine has been fitted
up, Standard concentrator added,
pump put in at the mine and the
mill is run as long as the water
supply lasts, which is two and three
days each week, it being exceptions
ally dry in that vicinity on ac-
count Of the lack of rainfall during
the last three years. At one time
a nearby we'll furnished enough
water to run the mill continuously.
but at present only waters the
band of burros used for packing
the ore to the mill from the Noun
tain Chief group, three miles dis
tant. A 1900 gallon tank is used
to hold the water pumped from the
14O-foot level Of the Sunset mine.
and from thence it runs to the mill
and concentrator. The three De-
vine b1others purchased the Sun
set mine and mill about eighteen
months since, only intending to
use the mill and water supply, but
have since discovered a 3O-foot
chute of $12 ore in drift on the
100-foot level and will very shortly
take out several hundred tons of
ore from this chute, the value of
which was evidently overlooked by
the former owners, the ore on both
sides having the same appearance
but assaying only two and three
dollars.
There are Is claims in the
Mountain Chief group, owned and
being worked by the Sparks and
Devine brothers, the North Star,
War Horse and Blue Bird being
the ones on which most of the work
is being done. All the ore taken
out has to be packed three miles on
burros, about thirty of which are
kept for that purpose. Since
starting the mill last October, it
has been run from ten to twelve
10-hour days month, allowing
them to mill from eighty to one
hundred tons of ore per month.
Averaging all the ore milled it has
plated between $40 and $11. On
account of the copper val
ues, the tailings cannot
be cyanided and the concentrator
has saved about ten tons of concen-
trates month, averaging about
$8C a ton. In the short time the
mill has been run, they have paid
all the expenses of the past years
development work, besides a neat
balance, which is certainly very
creditable showing when it is con-
sidered that the mines are located
over forty miles from the railroad,
and hay, grain and provisions all
have to be freighted that distance,
as well as packing the ore to the
mill.
On the North Star claim, vein
of high grade gray copper glance
from eight to twelve inches wide
has been opened up, besides the
three foot ledge carrying high
values in copper and gold. All
the claims are richly mineralized-
which is evidenced by their paying
development expenses from the
grass roots-and additional devel-
opment work will very likely show
up one of the best copper-gold
mines in Arizona. A few more
men like the Devine brothers and
Ralph and Joe Sparks would not
only make money in this district,
but would do the district great
amount of good.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-11
JUST LIKE CARLYLE.
Savage Epistle from the BiographeY Of
Oliver Cromwell


Oliver Cromwell.
An unpublished and most character
isuc letter Of Carlyle's has recently
appeared in the London Times. He
had been asked to subscribe toward the
raising. at st. Ives, of a statue to the
Protector, and his adherence was oual-
ned with no little ferocity for the pco-
pie who presumed to celebrate at the
same time Cromwell and King Hud-
son." the great railroad Spectator.
The project for the Cromwell monu-
ment lapsed, and st. Ives waited until
the other day for a memorial of its
greatest citizen. The dedication. the
Times correspondent assures us,
passed off without the ocean OF fun
merry and mere idle balderdash, :"
which Carlyle deprecated. The BIZ
ographer Of Cromwell writes: MY
private suspicion, confess, is that the
present generation of Englishmen-
who have filled their towns with such
set of public statues as were never
before erected by any people, ugly
brazen images Ito mere commonplace
adventures with titles on them. and
even sometimes to mere paltry scoun-
orels, worthy of immediate oblivion
only, and who have winded up their
enterprises in the statue or memorial
line by subscribing e25, 900 to memo
rial for King Hudson-are not likely to
90 themselves or anybody much good
Dy setting up statues to Oliver Crom-
wei. l fear they have forfeited the
right to pretend to remember Crom-
well in public manner. CromwelPs
dlVlne memory, sad, stern and earnest
as the gods. says virtually to them,
Forget me and pass on, We unhappy
canaille; carry your offerings to King
hudson and strive to emulate him.
nevertheless. l have privately resolved,
II such thing does go on, to subscribe
my little mite to it on occasion, and
10 wish privately that it may prosper
much better than 1 can with any as
surance hope. l think it will be very
difficult to avoid the introduction OF
such an ocean Of fiummery and mere
Idle balderdash into the affair (if the
public are fairly awaken to IT'D as
VIII be very distressing to any one
who feels how Cromwell ought to be
honored by the nation that produced
MIN. New York Evening Post.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-11

Bread is made of vastly different
materials in different countries. In
Lapland, oats with the inner bark of
the pine are used. The two together,
we'll ground and mixed, are made into
large fiat cakes and cooked in a pan
over the fire. In Kamchatka. in Ash
attic Russia, pine or birch bark by it
self, we'll macerated. pounded, and
baked, frequently constitutes the
whole of the native bread food. The
Icelander scrapes the Iceland moss off
the rocks and grinds it into fine flour,
which serves both for bread and pud-
dings. In parts of Italy chestnuts are
cooked, ground into meal, and used
for making bread. Durra, a variety
of mi let. is much used in India, Egypt
Arabia and Asia Minor for making
bread.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-11
MErHop on KrLL1Ne rI,1r.

You might think a travelling mans
time was fully occupied" said drum
mer recently, but there are occasions
when he feels the need of relaxation
and, although theaters are well in
their way, they occasionally pail. 1
was in Boston last week, and a man
put me onto something new. The
idea is like this. 1t won't work in
town where you're acquainted, but
say you are in strange place. It has
its exciting elements. You go out of
your hotel in the evening, either alone
or with man who is equally ignorant
OF localities, and you walk two blocks
in any direction. Then you halt and
toss cent. Heads, you turn to the
right; tails, you turn to the left. The
next two blocks, you repeat the toss
ing up, and follow the indicator. So
you keep on until you have twisted
and turned all over the town. For
variety there is nothing to equal it; it
brings you into the strangest quarters,
and you see sights that you would
otherwise miss. or course, there is
a chance that you will double on your
tracks, and come back to where you
started, but in that case it is allow
able to cheat. or take another toss-up.
Try it some time when you are in a
strange town and you will have more
fun than a cat fight"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-11
Tons of Dutch Cheese.

In the Dutch town of Alkmar. on
the great northern canal, about twenty
miles from Amsterdam, which is noted
for being one of the biggest cheese
markets in the world, not less than
5000 tons of cheese are disposed of in
the course Of twelve months. The
Dutch cheeses are made in spheres of
three sizes, respectively, of four
pounds eight pounds, and twelve
pounds in weight, and the best quality
fetches about twenty guilders. or
about thirty-five shillings, per 100
pounds. Immediately after being
weighed and marked of the barrows
are taken to the canal boats nearby.
and then the cheeses which they con-
tain are rolled one by one into the
hold. through a wooden chute. to be
transported TO their various destina-
tons. Before expectation they are
given a coating of vegetable red. and
it is in this guise they are known and
recognized the world over.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-11
why Big Fish Get Awar.

It is perfectly plain that large fish
are more apt to escape than small ones.
Their weight and activity, combined
with the increased thickness and re-
sourcefulness of age and experience,
of course, greatly increase their abili-
ty to tear out the hook. and enhance
the danger that their antics viii expose
fatal weakness in hook, leader, line or
rod. Another presumption, which must
be regretfully mentioned, arises from
the fact that in many cases it is the
encounter with a large fish which
causes such excitement, and such dis
traction and perversion of judgment,
as leads the fisherman to do the wrong
thing, or fail to do the right thing,
at the critical instant-Grover Cleve-
land in Philadelphia Saturday Evening
Post.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-11
a verr Remnrkahle C1nok.

To the list of remarkable clocks
in the world that just completed by a
Bohemian in Chicago, who has been
at work on it for nineteen years, will
have to be added. 1t is more than
eighteen feet high and is fifteen feet
square at the base. A miniature earth
circles around the dial and turns on its
axis every twenty-four hours, while
the sun, moon, Venus, Mars. Saturn
and other planets are represented in
their proper relative places. When the
clock strikes a door opens and a pro-
cession of all the presidents of the
United States issues, followed by fig
ures which symbolic the growth of
the republic. The inventor has kept
his work a secret all these years, and
even now refuses to sell it or allow
it to be exhibited.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-11
A STRANGE ISLAND.

One of the most extraordinary is
lands of the world has been found in
the Gulf of Mexico. Like a chameleon.
it changes color. and as often as twice
a day. When the sand along
the beach is not covered with water
the island is purple red and at high
tide it has the color of bright gold. An
explanation of this singular phenome-
non is to be found in the name of the
island. 1t is called Snails island, and
it is the snails which are responsible
for the change of color. The sand is
of a golden hue, and when the water
rises and spreads over the wide bay,
which is strewn with mussel shells,
the island glitters like gold. AS soon,
however, as the water recedes the
gold changes to a purple red, which
becomes even darker, until it is finally
as dark as the purple of a princes
mantle. The reason is because myri-
ads of little purple snails are then
spread over the sand. searching eagerly
for the food which is cast up to them
by the water. This strange change of
color is now attracting much atten ion.
and those who have seen it say it is
one of thesmost remarkable sights in
the world.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-11
woMrN sMoKrRs 1N rrRnrp.

In the most exclusive circles of
French society nowadays smoking has
become a fixed habit with nearly all
women between % and 40. In Paris
a woman of fashion no longer apollo
gizes to her guests for lighting cigar
cite after dinner, and even as an &C
accompaniment to 8 o'clock tea a gold
en- tipped Egyptian cigarette is fire.
Guently INDUCED in by fair Paris
iennes. Russian ladies who inhabit
the capital are largely responsible for
the growing taste for tobacco among
the grand danes of Paris. In Ger
many feminine emancipation is not
sufficiently advanced to make the prac-
tice of smoking among ladies very
prevalent. In certain circles and the
smart restaurants, however, many
women may be seen with cigarettes
and even cigars. Among the middle
and working classes it is safe to say
that scarcely woman would think of
smoking except for fun. Berlin wo-
men who go in for speculation invari-
ably smoke cigarettes. The habit has
not yet obtained much of a foothold
in England.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-11
Islands In the Indian ocean.


If you should want an island-that
is, an uninhabited island-for the pur-
pose of occupying it alone. Robinson
Crusoe like, or to use it for romantic
fiction or any other purpose. to the
exclusion Of all others in the world.
you need have no trouble in finding
one if you see fit to make a journey
to the Indian Ocean. In the waters
between Madagascar and India you
can find more than 1900 of them.
where there is not a human being and
where you can. if you viii. be mon
arch of all you survey. An English
traveller has recently been among the
small islands that dot the western. end
of the Indian Ocean to make an in
ventory of them and reports that he
counted 5000 and found only about
600 of them inhabited. Now, there is
a good chance for any one who may
want an island. These particular is
lands are net large, as islands go. but
very many of them are sufficient for
the purpose of a Robinson Crusoe or
any other novel hero, or for even a
small colony of shipwrecked mariners
or other persons who might be cast on
one Of them or seek for the purpose of
making home pretty much out of the
busy world.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-11
THE sPLENnnR rAI1a


Inc splendor falls on castle walls
And snowy SUBMITS old in story;
The long light shakes across the lakes
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes
flying,
Blow, bugle, answer echoes dying
dying dying.
o bark! o harkl how thin and clear,
And thinner, clearer, farther going!
o sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns of Elfland family blow
ing!
Blow, let us hear the purple glens re-
plying;
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying,
dying dying.
o love, they lie in yon rich sky
They faint on hill or field or river;
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow forever and forever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes
flying,
And answer, echoes answer dying,
dying, dying.
Alfred Tennyson.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-11
Horse Chestnut as Food.

Horse chestnuts contain about 81
per cent of albumen, this remarkable
proportion being greater than is found
in any cultivated plants, but their Bit
ter taste, due to the presence of about
10 per cent of bitter resin, has con-
demned them as unfit for food. BY
extracting the bitter principle, R.
Flugge Of Hanover, claims to have
made useful another waste material.
After partial roasting to loosen the
shells, the kernels are removed and
Dulyerized, the powder is placed in
tight percolatoT with alcohol for
about week. To extract the bitter
completely it may be necessary to re-
place the fluid with fresh solvent.
The alcohol dissolves out the resin,
leaving a pleasant and nutritious meal,
which contains all the albumen and
starch of the chestnuts, and is
valuable food. The spirit is purified
by distillation and used repeatedly.