Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-24

''They mean just as much as the
badges do. Now you'll wear them,
won't yo1?" And she moves to the
next one. 1t is needless to say her
work was telling. 1t is said it was
work Of this kind done by State
Treasurer Williams daughters, two
years ago, that won Williams the
nomination at that time. 1t certainly
had some effect in the candidacy of
Judge Fox, too, for he landed a win
ner in good style.-HooeU Comfy
Gazette.
The editor OF the Fredericktown
Democrat-NeWS is ironic and sarcas-
tic and cruel: ''The newspapers Of
Southeast Missouri have been filed up
the past week with resolutions passed
by the institutes held in the different
counties in this district. just what
good the passing and publishing of
these long winded resolutions do we
fail to see; what the excuse for pass
ing them is, we have never learned.
They generally start out by thanking
everybody and wind up with a set of
''resolves." The members of the in
stitute always. pay for what they get,
therefore they are under no obligations
to any one. The people of the town
where the institute meets are always
glad to have the teachers with them
and therefore no thanks on this score
are necessary; the county school COM
missioner draws a salary for what he
does and the instructor gets paid for
what he does; therefore, what is the
use of these r%esolutionsP Then again
who, outside of the committee who
draw up these resolutions. ever reads
themP They are like cards of thanks,
thanking people for doing their duty.
The instructor gets paid for doing his
duty, the attendants at the institute
pay their board and in the end the
newspaper is the only one that gets
the hooks. They are expected to
publish them for nothing.
The Mine Lamotte lead tract in
Madison county sold last week for
81, 500, 900. The following, tele-
graphed from Jefferson City to the St.
Louis Republic of Wednesday, will be
interesting to many of our readers:
1.-The Mine Lamotte Lead and Smelt-
ing Co., chartered under the laws of
New Jersey, with a capitalization of
80, 900, 900, filed in the office of Secre-
tary of State Sam B. Cook to-day notice
that S l 1000, 900 of it's capital stock
would be applied in Missouri. 1t is
understood that this corporation pur-
chased the mining property at Mine
Lamotte a few days ago, and that this
apportionment of its capital stock is in
payment thereof and for the improve
ment and development of the property.
The tract comprises $4,000 acres,
partly located in St. Francois county
and partly in Madison county. 1t is
particularly rich in nickel and cobalt,
producing more of these ores than any
other section of the United States. In
1901 it produced in round numbers
5000, 900 pounds of lead and "a, 900
pOuuub VI AlChCl uuu SODhlus lLO
value of its total output up to De-
cember 81. 1901, is sc 1884, 900. The
property was owned by S. H. Leathe
Of St. Louis, and has al intervals been
mined since an early day, though the
extraction of mineral is believed to
have been scarcely begun. Only three
persons are named as the incorpor-
ators Of the company, despite the mag
nitude of its capitalization. These are
R. H. Steart, T. H. Hallowell and
George Laacke, all Of New Jersey. A
telephone message received here at a
late hour tonight states that the New
Jersey corporation, which was licensed
here to-day, filing articles to show
three million capital stock, of which
one million will be used in this State,
is acting solely as the agents for the
New York banking firm of Daugherty
& Albers, who are operating the For
tuna district"