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The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1903-02-19
TERMS.
Interest in Copper
Again Awaken
ing.

"You can talk copper to al east
ern man nowadays and hold his
attention and interest him when
no other mining proposition, no
matter how eloquently presented /,
will excite more than a courteous"
.Yes / have no doubt of the truth
of your statement. but just now [
am not in the mining business"
"Talk copper mining to him,
however, and lie will at once be-
comeinterested and anxious to hear
all you have to say On thesubject,"
recently remarked a gentleman
prominent in eastern financial and
mining circles, who spent a few
days in Renogathering information
regarding copper mining oppor-
tunities in Nevada.
Certain it is there are a number
OF promising copper properties in
this State, many of which, with
proper development, would open
into big, paying propositions. 1t
is also a fact that in almost every
instance copper veins in Nevada
carry more or less gold and silver
and generally in quantities SUI
fcient to pay the expenses of min
ing and transportation, leaving the
copper values as a net asset.
There is a copper belt extending
through the Peayine district. which
covers a wide area from Peavine
Mountain to within a few miles of
Reno. Along this belt, for miles,
copper bearing quartz float, carry
ing gold, also, may be found in
more or less quantity.
About four miles north of the
city this copper zone is especially
marked, and although nothing but
surface scratching" has ever been
done in that locality, several ship
ments of high grade ore have re-
suited. Vigorous and intelligent
exploration would doubtless lead
to some astonishingly rich dis
coveries. Capital and energy is
all that is needed to bring forth
satisfactory results. Now is the
time for those interested to wake
mp and get ready for the opportu-
mites which will likely come with
the approach of spring.
If you are not able to work your
property yourself, give someone
else a chance at it, under a lease
and bond, or other suitable propo-
sition. Stop this practice of re-lo-
eating from year to year, and never
doing any work. No good can
ever come from such a policy! Life
is too short BY such methods you
are keeping back the development
of the State and doing no good to
yourself or anyone else. Encour-
age capital to come in and take
hold, even though it may some
times be in small amounts; every
little helps and no one can tell who
may solve the problem il finding
the key to the treasure vaults which
surely underlie these hills.
Should you, in any way, aid in
this, you will not only very mate
rally benefit yourself, glorify your
State and enrich her people, but
you will assist in bringing bless
ings to all mankind.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1903-02-19
no soEnrs.

All mining companies operating in this ard
adjoining districts. and all other parties hay
Ing business dealings with this paper, will
please transact the same with Us directly, as
We have no agents IN San Francisco or other
places.
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s W"!-res sa Woman "" not " n f1s,
: for soci'ty worn7n or. 20 take one
more eHampl, from the list, Wanted.
Leading Juvenile, ingenur who can sing and
Old woman for stock company unit!
Sfp. 10"
pleasure Of standing on the ;idewalk
most of the actrssses gather 10 read their
letters. talk business and nce, the il friends,
There ara now 1891 members in the
society. No actor who has been on the
stage for lcss than, three years i admitted.
The soci ty looks after the indeht. dness
OF managers to its members and helps
them to reach New York when they are
stranded and without funds, II a meribe.r
appeals for money to g't 20 New York 4 Ii
sent and the case Is Investigated after
ward,
Last season sl3 engagements were found
by the society for its members. Some Of
these We're with managers not members
of the socisty to which the list Of olsen
gagged members is sent every month
This annual appearance Of the ACTORS
has lorg been phenomenon Of the summer
season in New York. Twenty years ago
they gathered in front Of The I'D Union
Square Theatre, now Keith's, Then the
summer resting place was suddenly adj
II Was not long before the crowd of
Thespian invaders had settled on Twenty
eighth street. between Broadway and
Sixth avenue, AS their own. They held
that block until two or three years ago.
when they gathered on the blocks of upper
Broadway that know them now. For a
brief interlude the block of Broadway
between Thiry-fourth and Thirty-ffth
streets was selec,e ed as their meeting place.
but it's popularity was brief
When some Of the actors have got en-
gagements they go home TO rest with what
ever family they may have until the time
for them to act has arrived. Sometimes
they are compelled to do this even before
they have found engagements.
shopkeepers have been known TO objec,
to the resence Of the actors, and have called
in the aid Of the police to have them moved
on. That happened several years ago.
however. and It is doubtful if Policeman
William Walsh. who patrols their region.
could be made to say harsh word to any
OF them He is the. friend Of all the
actors and he forgets all about the fact that
ne is the handsonlest man on he Broadway
SQUAD as they come up and greet him as an
old friend they have not seen for year
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is ever going to yank a trout out o there
without he gets load O. shot or something,
or feels the clutch O. tho law a. tight as 1t
can be made to clutch
so Norm Holley went home and pom
dered The result Of his bordering was
that he got up and tapped his forehead.
smiled, and said:
NO living man but him. eh? said he.
Now I'd just Ike TO bet him q akin
cents worth O. catfish hooks on it"
4The next day folks saw Norm Holley
going through town carrying q big kite,
and to all inquiries a to what in the world
he was up to he had but ono reply.
Coin fishin' be said.
-Norm had devised Light and smooth
working apparatus which he fastened to
the bottom Of this kite Of his. and which
supported a fish line. and gave 1t easy play
under the manipulation Of Norm At the
other end of the line. Attached this
line we're a leader and good trout hook.
scientifically and auuringly baited.
Norm sat down on q stump outside
the fishing preserve land and sent his kite
up. When It was soaring above the fenced
In trout water. he held 1t there. and let his
baited line, properly loaded for the p,ir-
poee, down into the wster.
The movements Of the kite high in the
air gave the most siilful kind Of play 70 the
bait. and it wasn't long before Norm hold
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FISHED WITH 4 KITE.
Norm Hoiley Avoided Trespass'nE and Vet
Landed Forbidden Trout.


when Norm Holley, who lives up near
Oswego. makes up his mind to catch fish
he catches EN- said John A. Stewart,
New Yorker, OF whom the same might be
said Emphatic trespass notices, twenty
foot board fences and men with shotguns
may discourage the ordinary. everyday
fisherman, but Norm Holley never.
"A fellow-citisen of Norms. who doesn't
love his neighbor as himself. owns nice
bit of water thereabout and he stocked
il with trout. IL became known In few
seasons that the trout had thrived in that
water beyond all expectation. But when
anglers, big with hope and carrying feath-
cred bait and bait in tin boxes. for the
fish. and some in TASKS, for themselves,
went to that water to get some Of those
trout, they returned home and were forced
ia do an unconventional thing for
fishermen.
.They had to tell the truth. They had
been met not only with the passive, though
positive. presence OF many trespass and
Fishing Forbid signs about that coveted
trout haunt, but with the active personality
of the owner and those Of sundry cold and
unsympathetic hired men more or ees pre-
pared 10 make good the assertion OF the
undeuonstrative painted signs.
Now Norm Holley had particularly
fixed his heart on alliance with the big trout
in that water and this cruel sequestration
OF it hit him hard He caiolsd the testy
owner Of the preserve; he pleaded with him;
he even offered price for the privilege.
The obdurate proprietor of the water and
it's contents was not 10 be moved.
mo living man but me- he declared.
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If John Drew drives up to the Empire
Theatre to talk business with All Hnyman,
all who know him stare hard that they
may enjoy the privilege of bow.
When mighty manager passes the
group the eyes of those who know him are
raised reverently for the bow that may
not come. When Eddie Sothern, as those
who know him least love most to call him.
visits Elizabet Marbury to talk ahou, he
rights to play. the groups buzz with dis
cussion as to his personal appearance,
his ideas Of Hamlet" ard the probable
length Of time his popularity will endure
Men who never cast eyes on him before
declare he's looking a great deal better
than he was wear ago.
Richard Mansfield went to the Empire
Theatre the other day to leave a message
at Frank Sangers office and the news of his
presence spread along the block until an
eager crowd awaited him when he emerged
from the dusty entrance crowded with he
rubbish from the repairs to the theatre
All Of them knew him as the representative
man OF their profession in this country.
but they had never before seen him nff
the stage. So they crowded about TIE
ntrance a. a bevy of matinee girl. would
watch for j. r. Hacke't
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Not all of these actors returning to town
arc prosperous, and they are often COM
PEELED 10 rely on he generosity of their
friends. If il were not for the occasional
touch" that il responded to so generously
in the profession. some of the actors who
have returned to town would find exist ence
during the summer months more difficult
than II is.
There are in the number some whose
chronic impecuniosity makes them dreaded
Ii is for that reason SO many Of the prosper
ois actors who have saved enough to carry
them through the summer are seen 10
peer cautiously into chophouses and Offices
before they enter. Ii certain we'll known
borrowers are there, they 20 no further
han the door or they are able, If they de-
eide TO enter. to prepare themselves for
the attack.
In West Fortieth street there is a dairy
which does a hourishing business in the
days when the actors are most numerous
here. 1t happened several years ago that
a certain suppressed and dyspeptic, if gifted.
actor and playwright was rehearsing at
the Empire. He had very little time for
lunch and very lit,!e appetite forh
He started one day in search :, lunch.
On his way he spied little dairy He
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ing the fish line in one hand while he handled
the kite string with the other, felt the thrill
of an Enthusiastically good trout bite tele-
graphed him from the invisible water on
the other side Of the high fence, and at
least hundred yards away.
THE angler instantly hooked his fsh,
and after q long and stif fight in which
the manipulation Of the kite played good
part, he felt the trout weakening, and At
last he was able to haul IL up from the wats~
until it hung in sight in the air. just below
the kite. To wind in his kite, which scared
with the trout in its clutch, so to speak.
like triumphant osprey, and secure his
prize was a simple task for this angling
genius.
1The trout was a good tro.pounder.
And there Norm Holley sat and hehed
thus until he was able to come home with .
dozen Of the biggest trout ever brought
into the place and caught as no trout had
ever been caught before; and all Norm
would say a he passed along with the trout
and the kite was:
II told you I was goin' a-hshin'.'
The owner OF the trout preserve might
have seen that kite floating over his ex-
elusive water. but II he did he had no idea
or thought "a to what its mission was there,
and ii was not until Norm Holley had lifted
out many q mess Of those SURPRISING fish
by hi. kite fishing-tackle that the man got
on to the thing. and then he took measuree
that crushed tho further usefulness OF
Norms genius.
But Norm was content He had had
unprecedented sport, and bad demon
strated tho fact, think, that when he made
up his mind TO catch 6sh he caught en-.
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MANY TIME AND OFT ON THE RIALTo.

'MANr TIME AND OFT ON THE RIALTo.'
wasn't so down on me. But you know
what hard time I've had ever since got
them against me. Signed to-day for forty
weeks to play the lead in The Little
Sister"
She lifted her veil and her face looked
faded and old in the bright light.
Forty weeks" she repeated, land only
a month OF one-night stands. l tell you
it's a cinch. Got my own money, too.
Guess ought to, playing leading role
like that even II it is only the part Of
fourteen-year girl, II I could only
get my divorce now. I'd be all right"
Then she bounced away, telling her good
fortune to her friends along the street
-She looks just the same she did twenty
wears ago." was the comment OF one o!
the group she left. Then she was playing
soubrette roles in the Southern towns.
And she'll be playing EN- ''il when We re
in our graves"
Clustered about the ntrancs to one OF
the chop houses, one secs faces that suggest
the photograph frames in front Of the Broad
way. jerome Sykes will he found there
resting his bulk against the lamp post
while Richard Carroll tells the latest story
that came out Of the Flying Squadron. The
other day it was the story Of the two dogs
that started Sykes to roaring until the Solrd
of his laughter echoed against the yellow
brick front Of tho Metropolitan Op.rn
House.
1T was this way" said Richard Carroll.
"One dog said to his friend
What's your brother doing these
davs?'
"'Dogged If know was the answer.
'Pu' from the way I see him following q
man around town. believe he's dctec-
tive"
These more famous men Of the profess
sion are naturally viewed with envy by
the others that gather on the curb If oy
chance one Of the unknown is introduced
to one Of the mighty he makes good Use
of It. Every story he tells for The next
week begins; As Jerome Sykes said TO
me -
The favored group before the chop house
have in turn the objects of their envy.
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with anybody until he comes back next
week. What are you going to do'"
I'm In the same boat as YOU" was the
answer Il think Klaw 4 Erlanger are
looking for me and Pm holding the other
fellows off until hear positively from
them. Good firm to be with"
The two parted perfectly convinced that
neither had any prospects for the next
season except of the most indefinite char
acter. Neither had deceived the other
but each had done what was expected Of
him
The block between Thirty-seventh and
Thirty eighth streets contains none of The
exchanges and the crowd there grows less,
Only a few actors stand in the shadow
Of the Normandie Hotel when the sun lie
high enough to beat down on the groups
near the curb,
Two men were talking there yesterday
when youthfully dressed woman bounced
up TO them She laid her hand Familiarity
on the arm of one Of them.
MY dear" she began. I'm fixed.
Wouldn't be 30 glad Of it if the syndicate
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opposition against disturbing the insects
1t was popular helief Of old. among those
who think that nature never makes mis-
take, that the mosquito was necessary
institution Of the swamp around New Or
leans.
The little insect performed for you, 1t is
believed, the same service as the doctors
performed a half century ago in cases OF
fever-he bled you. The necessity lot
bleeding persons affected with or threatened
by fever Was universally conceded IN the
first half Of the nineteenth century II you
could not always get barber surgeon
for this bleeding process. the mosq.h'o
performed the work for you ana cured or
saved you from fever.
Nature, people were told, had placed
them in the low swampy lands Of the
Mississippi to bleed the inhabnantt and
ward Of swamp and malarial fever. More
over. mosquito bites were regarded NJ
sure preventive Of rheumatism.
When the first suggestions were made
a few years ago that mosquitoes instead OF
being preventive of disease, really spread
fevers, particularly yellow and malarial
fevers. the statement war received with
shouts Of emphatic denials and indig-
nation The idea was refuted upsni-
mously by tho physicians, the press and
the people, and it was regarded by many
az a covert attack on New Orleans.
New Orleans il preeminent In its mos
ouitoes; to say, therefore, that these did or
could carry disease was to declare this city
an unheaithful place. The subject was
uLooed. and a citizen who accepted the
cuban theory was regarded with suspicion
and denounced az lacking in patriotism and
civic pride.
Bit in spite of all this the mosquito
MISUNDERSTANDING theory gained ground
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SHELTERS FRIENDS RALLY.
NEW ORLEANS WON'T RELIEVE
THEY ARE HARMFUL.
Isiluve q Lat est Crusade Against the In
seets Popular Belief That They Are
Really . Benent-(1ty's Twent,-se>en
Varieties VIII Continue to Flourish.


new ORLEANs, June i3,-The mosquito
y q power in New Orleans. His influence
and pull defy all the efforts OF the scien-
tst. 70 get rid Of him.
The City Board Of Health abandoned the
campaign against the mosquito moro than
. year ago. when II found so much public
opposition 70 it's efforts to free the city from
IL. pest: and the unanimous report this
week Of the Council committee against
mosquito ordinance recommended by the
physicians again demonstrated the popu-
br opposition TO any interference with the
oldest inhabitants Of New Orleans.
There are twenty-seven varieties OF
mosquitoes in New Orlesns-nine more than
IN any other part Of the country. There
ere Mustiques, Mamigouins, Gallinippers
and other varieties unknown to the Jersey
coast. not to mention the Stegomyia and
Anopheles which have lately received so
much attention. Then there are hind
mosquitoes, which although they neither
sing NOR sti &, are full Of an oily substance
Of Offensive odor, whose presence is mani
tested II one OF the insects Is smashed on
your face; and there are lively gray mos
qui,ocs that worry you by day. 10th IN
variety and number New Orleans leads the
world in mosquitoes
T''rre T.. strange To cay. a strong popular
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went in. drank Q bottle OF the rich yellow
anywhere else when In the neighborhood
He took some members Of his company
with him and the fame OF the place spread.
Now 1t is the lunch-lme resort OF more
actors than any other place In tho neigh
borhood
1t is not supplied with tables. A long
wooden counter stretches through the
narrow room. As there are no chairs,
guests must imbibe their luncheon standing
and buttermilk, save certain r,Igged-look-
ing biscuits, said to be hygienic and made
Of brown -four.
There is the regular theatrical break
fast crowd that begins to arrive az early ss
coming until nearly midday. Then comes
the lunch crowd. The actors that gather
there then come from the homo Of the
Actors Society. us4' door. from tho group
that gather in frort Of the theat res and from,
the exchanges as far down as lhirty-slxth
street.
Here. between sips Of milk and bites Of
brown biscuit, they DISCUSS the state ot their
profession, They deIlorc the terrible in
fluence Of the syndicate ortxto, its achieve
Of the managers by whom they happen TO
be or hope to he engaged
One can hear In the dairy conversation
so inappropriate to the place. IS crit csm
Of Dick Msnsfeld's Brutns and Eddie soth-
ern' Hamlet with digressions as TO the i'm
possibility OF seeing" Nat Goodwin as
Bottom in "A Midsummer Nights Dream. /"
These young men are critical and their
ideals for others are high. So the tone Il
their comment is likely to be scathng.
1t is at the house OF the Actors Society
that many Of these actors gather, This or
ganization is a &C operative society that has
H. the few years Of it's existence accom-
plished wonders. II acts as a sort of es-
bers without the Intervention Of an agent
WANTED" reads one sign that hangs on
the board in the hail. "one large man for
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Each cistern is, therefore, mosquito
factory. furnishing an ample supply of
mosquitoes for the neighborhood The
Board of Health proposed to treat the els
terms SO as TO destroy The eggs and pre-
vent the Matching Of mosquitoes. but al
though il did this al its own expense
and began work in the weather. por-
ton Of the city so as to avoid the ignor-
ance supposed TO exist in the poorer dis
tricts, it met with unexpected opposition
from the very first.
general contempt and disbelief were
expressed in this new-fangled idea, and
some We're found who believed that the
mosquitoes we're essential to pure cistern
water. consuming or destroying. they said,
the impurities in the water. The Board
of Health campaign proved complete
failure.
The anti mosquito crusade taken up
this year on the Suggestion and with the
backing of the physicians, has been repulsed
by the City Council. whose committee
unanimously refused even to lay the matter
before the Council.
As matter OF fact the opposition was
very strong, including ex-Mayors. ex-
Senators and es-Legislators.. who pro-
tested against every propagation made.
A former Mayor was indignant over the
resolution on the ground that II practically
declared that New Orleans was an infested
city, and the general opinion was that 1t
was better, safer and cheaper to keep
disease out OF New Orleans by means Of
quarantine than to try to do 20 by getting
md of the mosquitoes.
So emphatic was the opposition that not
onlv wa the anti-mosouito ordinance
knocked out but il was made evident that
any effort TO GET rld Of the mosquito in New
Orlean. -"ould Il. unpopular The mos
Quito cr,l~ ~ at al end and is not likely
10 be revived The insect has proved
himself too well established in New Orleans,
too popular and too powerful.
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among thinking people Mr.. Beycr,
professor of natural history at Tulane
University. made an independent exam-
nation OF the theory and found ii correct
beyond dispute. He was subsequently,
sent to Vera Cruz, Mexico, as the
United States Commissioner TO investigate
the relations between the mosquito and
yellow fever, and he automatically proved
that the disease ia communicated by tho
insect
The medical profession fell into line.
DR.. ChaillA, president of the medical depart
ment of Tulane University. declared him.
self convinced on this point at the recent
convention Of the American Medical Asso-
citation in New Orleans, and he is now an
ardent worker to get rid Of the mosquitoes
The Louisiana State Board of Health
remained obstinate almost to the last, Its
officers were willing to concede that mos
qutoes might cause yellow fever, but denied
that they we're the sole cause Of It. and re-
fused TO make any chan Ges in the Gulf quar-
antine system based on the mosquito
theory. A visit to Havana last March,
however. won them over to the new doctrine.
But although the scientists, physicians
and other leaders Of thought believe that
the mosquito is not only nuisance but a
dangerous one. the people AZ a whole cling
10 the insect and refuse to accept the new
tangled ideas So that every effort to eradi-
cate or mitigate the pest is met with
popular opposition that assures defeat
Thus, when tbs city Board Of Health
began a crusade against mosquitoes year
ago. it found itself impeded and obstrncted
as though proposing some dangerous
innovation. Most of the water used il
New Orleans is rainwater, stored in cis-
terms or wooden tanks above ground.
These are open to the mosquitoes. which
deposit their eggs in them,