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has never been productive. The idea
that the West is responsible for all
these frauds perpetrated by mining
companies is unfortunate in this ex-
preston, although it unquestionably
finds forcible expression in the East
Colorado has passed the most strin-
gent laws governing the conduct of
corporations engaged in mining 1t has
compelled all these corporations to
make annual reports, sworn under pen
atty of forfeiture of their corporate
rights. 1t has gone even further than
this and made crimes of what other
states would simply consider misde-
meanors. Every possible safeguard has
been furnished the man desirous of
placing his capital in the state. OF
course there are those who avoid these
laws, but they do not represent the
business class or the business element
Careful inquiry would place them in
the list of swindlers, where they be-
long. If the investor cannot make
these inquiries, and places his cash
recklessly against the glowing promises
in the prospectus, he cannot complain
if he is skinned, and to express the
opinion that may be somewhat pref
udiced, we do not hesitate to say that
he ought to be skinned.
The best thing to do, where it is
possible for the investor, especially
where he is investing a large amount,
is to come and see the property for
himself, and if he cannot do this, he
can at least write the banks and busi-
ness houses making inquiry concerning
the companies, their management and
their future prospects. Siftings always
urged thorough investigation, and in
this edition, which will reach nearly
10000 people, we especially urge that
every reader investigates every propo-
sition thoroughly before investing his
capital
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-06-06
THE YANKEE HILL SECTION.
Especial Correspondence


Yankee, Colo, June 3.-Yankee Hill
has long been looked at by capitalists
and others as starvation" section of
Clear Creek county, on account of its
location and the great disadvantages
to be met in getting the ore product
to market That this section has long
been looked upon as one of the most
promising in Colorado as a future field
for development of its known large ore
bodies, will be acknowledged by all. 1t
has never been a question of ore or
the values to be found here in our
large veins, or the extent of the bodies
to be encountered. 1t has simply been
the question of market for the prod
uct that would leave profit to the op-
orator. Again, the camp in the past
has felt the displeasure of the would
be" mining expert, who invariably has
turned down" every new district ever
found in Colorado, from principal and
education of profession" Once and
awhile their announcement of certain
section proves true-otherwise they
publishing the fact that conditions are
different there than ever found before.
This was true of Leadville, Aspen,
Ouray and Cripple Creek. Many capi-
talists are learning that the scientific
mining expert is the practical man.
who works and studies the conditions
that he finds in his property, and that
the best man is he who is thoroughly
familiar with the district in which the
property lies they wish to know about.
The camp is divided into four sec
tions, being that of the four points of
the compass, but called Fall River,
Alice, Yankee and Mammoth Gulch.
Each of these sections is being vigor-
ously worked, and good showings are
property that is fast growing into a
mine of considerable production. The
Yankee section probably is making the
greatest strides toward production at
this time, though large ore bodies are
to be seen exposed in other parts of
the districts. The Yankee section
however, has developed such we'll
known mines as the Lombard, Cumber-
land, North Star, Little Clara, Ohio
and Surprise, while Alice lays claim
to the famous Alice mountain of ore
the Chesapeake, Puritan. Ora Verde,
Gold Anchor, Sierra Nevada, Stonewall
and Meteor, but lately coming into big
ore. The Fall River section is repre-
sented by the Gold King, Alice Exten-
mines. In the Mammoth gulch sec
tion some big ore bodies are found and
are being developed. The Colorado
and Northwestern road will reach the
immediate vicinity of the Mackey
mine, owned by Mr.. Mofitt, of Denver
At Yankee the Yankee Consolidated
Mining, Milling and Tunnel Company
are building a fifty-ton mill to handle
their present production, but will en-
large their capacity as needed. The
Cumberland mill is being enlarged to
twenty tons. At Alice the Lily mill is
being put in repair to handle from
thirty to forty tons daily; the '94 mill
will be improved and probably the cya-
nide process put in. There is also
some talk of the Alice mill being
leased to a company who proposed to
use the cyanide process. On Fall
River the 25-ton mill built last year
by the Gold King Company is kept
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-06-06
A WORD TO THE INVESTOR.

Idaho Springs, like all western cities,
has been built as a result of its ability
to attract capital from the East. 1t
has been in a position where it could
enable the investor to come out and
see for himself the property and inves-
tigate thoroughly before investing one
dollar AS a result it has become an
immensely rich little city of the dis
trict, and in every sense substantial.
In this era of speculation we want to
say a word to our eastern readers in
reference to the placing of money in
mining sections.
During the past two years the eoun-
try has been flooded and almost sub
merged by the prospectus and promises
of the promoter. Many of these prop
ositions were legitimate but we believe
it is safe to say, however, that the
majority of them were the opposite.
1t is indeed unfortunate that this ele-
ment must enter the field of invest
ment, and equally unfortunate is the
population of suckers in the East who
apparently continue to increase in ratio
with the increase of the wildcat pro-
moter. We have no hesitancy in say
ing that the money he invests in a
proposition without making an inves-
tigation of the property in which he
places his capital, is entitled to very
little sympathy from the prudent and
cautious business man of either the
East or West.
Before a man invests his capital, he
should inquire and investigate thor
oughly regarding the value of the prop
erty, and its management, the capital
ization of the company. the district
in which it is located, and the char
acter of the men handling the PROPOSE
tomas a matter of fact, everything
connected with its promotion and op-
Grafton. 1t is not difficult to do this
if the investor will pursue the proper
course. and he can determine whether
or not the proposition is satisfactory.
All he has to do is to take the possible
profit per month, divide it by the cap
italization, to determine about what
his profits would be should the mine
become. a producer. He should investi-
gate and find out whether or not the
property is liable to become producer,
if it is located in barren zone where
ore has never been found, although it
is fact that sometimes new fields have
been opened up and that sometimes
these are rich fields. by companies of
this character.
1t hardly pays the investor to adopt
the course of the prospector, and place
his capital in a proposition that seeks
to open some new field. or one that
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-06-06
THE TOURIST AND THE MINER.

In this edition, calculated for so
many readers, many of whom have
never visited Idaho Springs, there can
be no harm in calling attention to
the wonderful resources of the city,
and of the district surrounding it.
Everything appears to be in its favor;
it is thirty-seven miles from the capi-
tai of the state, and it represents the
point where gold was first found in
the Rocky Mountains. This discovery
was made by George A. Jackson, on
January 9, 1859. The last session of
the Legislature appropriated a sum
sufficient to establish state park at
Idaho Springs and build a monument
to the memory of the diseoverer of
the precious metal in the Rockies.
Thus Idaho Springs has by state law
established her right to the claim that
she is the pioneer mining district in
the Rocky Mountain region, within the
limits of the territory acquired by this
country in the Louisiana purchase by
Jefferson.
1t is a city of two splendid resources
For forty years, fguratively speaking,
the holes in the mountains have been
paying tellers' windows from which
run rivers of gold and silver. Its min
ing resources are as solid, substantial
and firmly fixed as the eternal noun
tains of granite.
Its production has remained, year
after year, from a million and half
to three millions of dollars; its de-
velopment has been steady. permanent
and positive. There has been no effort
to boom, no effort to initiate values,
and no effort to present to the readers
something that does not exist in the
district.
The second resource, by no means
the least of the two, is represented in
the scenic and health advantages.
Within the city of Idaho Springs are
three soda springs, the Blue Ribbon
springs. the Cold Soda springs, which
is probably the strongest mineralized
of any of the waters, and the Hot Soda
springs, of the Big Five Federation,
and the big natatorium and plunge.
So far as the scenic advantages are
concerned, they could not be improved
upon. The city, representing three
thousand people lies nestled in the
mountains, in little basin that is one
of the most beautiful in Colorado.
The drive from the city to the crest
of the continent, sixteen miles north,
is a wonderful feature. After the trip
from the perpetual glacier. one stands
upon the summit of James Peak, the
very crest OF the continent. Here is
where the waters of the nation are ap-
portioned; on the one side they take
their course to the Atlantic; on the
other side to the Pacific.
From the summit of this peak, TWEEN
ty-three of the most beautiful little
lakes to be found can be seen To the
southwest of the city is Mount Evans
and the Chicago Lakes; and at the
base of Mount Evans is Brookvale, one
of the handsomest resort places in the
state, and rapidly becoming a favorite
place for the summer residences of the
wealthy people of Denver.
Up Clear creek canon, along the line
of the Colorado G. Southern railway,
are pretty little mining camps, among
these being Georgetown, Empire and
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-06-06

tourists; place for small parties can
be secured at the present time. A stage
line runs from Idaho Springs to Alice
daily.
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message off simply pulls down 3
switch and awaits his answer. Then he
again raises the s&5tch and sends an
other message
To an impartial observer, one whose
lack of scientific knowledge enables
him to pose as "a locker on in Vienna =
it would seem that the interference Of
one current with another is the largest
problem with which the men now in
terested in the exploitation Of wireless
telegraphy have to grapp1e. It is true
that. as already mentioned, instru-
ments may be attuned, but varying
pitches make complications.
Then. too it must be understood that
there is no difference whatever in the
waves made by the different systems.
One can intercept the messages Of the
other if both are equipped with instru
ments of similar attunement. This
would be exceedingly awkward, for in
stance, during a war, when an enemy
might Interfere with messages between
friendly ships. While these would not
be understood. the enemy could be sys-
tematicalIy prevented from making any
use of her wireless unless some
means are found of making messages
exclusive" between two or more in
struments similarly synchronized. The
De Forest people already say that
within six months they expect to be
able to send messages without the pos
sibility of interference. At any rate it
is certain that rapid advancement
along these lines is being made, and it
is conceivable that before a great ma
val war shall come to make exclusive
ness an Imperative necessity the prob-
lem will have been solved.
There are already under construction
the dynamos and other apparatus for
the equipment of a series of De Forest
wireless stations across the Pacific
ocean. The first of these viii be I0cat-
ed in Lower California. with others at
Honolulu, Manila and Hongkong. The
span from Honolulu to Manila $500
miles, will be the longest in the world
Only sixty horsepower will be required
at Manila and Honolulu and but TWEEN
ty horsepower at each of the other two
stations. WALTER n. LESTER.
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Dr. Barrows and His Formolin Treatment For Septic

Therefore, as the woman to whose bed
side he had been called had under the
known methods of treatment no chance
to live, he determined as a last resort
to try the formalin. Accordingly he had
made a solution containing one-five-
thousandth of formalin. OF this he in
Jected 500 cubic centimeters into the
patients left arm At the time the
temperature had reached 1O7. and it
was considered remarkable that the
woman did not die before the admin
istration of the formalin. Following
the injection her temperature continued
TO mount for few moments, when it
suddenly fell to 103, going after a few
hours to 1922 Eventually the woman
recovered.
But DR.. Barrows, like other pioneers,
was not destined to have all smooth
sailing. Naturally his treatment was
employed by others-men who in many
cases were almost wholly ignorant of
the proper method Of administration
In at least one instance the patient was
directly killed by the formalin, for
while the physician in charge had Civ
en- less than DR.. Barrows had en-
ployed in his first test, he did not take
into account the individual idiosyn-
crasies" of the sufferer. Then. too. the
treatment has been tried in a number
Of cases in which the blood poisoning
was produced through mechanical
means and in which. even though the
formalin did all that was hoped, there
was no chance of saving the life OF the
patient.
Indeed, in most of the cases in which
the formalin treatment has failed sig
nally it has not been tried until every
other resource has been exhausted
when it was not wholly fair 10 expect
success. But Dr. Barrows and several
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almost Immediately gave UP his exper-
iments. being disguised with the abb
surdity of the statements attributed to
him and wounded to the quick by the
attitude of many of his professional
brethren who accepted a coming from
him statements which he felt should
have carried, a least to physicians
their REPUTATION with them The most
conservative medical men Of the coun-
try are now fearing that because Of the
extravagant claims made for the for
malin treatment. not by Dr. Barrows,
but by incompetent lay writer's the new
light in medicine may go the way OF
DR.. Koch's lymph and be forever lost.
DR.. Barrows is rather below the av-
erage in height. His complexion is
somewhat horid. as though he had Just
been busting about, as perhaps he usu-
ally has been doing. He has a large pri-
vate practice, which occupies most of his
time, though he will not permit any
thing to interfere with his hospital du-
ties. He was for several years a sur
geon in the United States army. serv-
ing successfully with Crook and Miles
in their campaigns against the red
skins. During his experience of nearly
five years with Crook in Arizona he
was practically always in the field, and.
while he was not supposed to be one Of
the fighting force. the exigencies of
campaigning in Arizona during the
eighties was not a bed of roses. and
he often attended to the wounded while
under fire.
The doctor is native of jackson,
Miss, and is not yet forty-six years Of
age. He is graduate of the Univer-
sity of Virginia and of New York uni
versity- He has been practicing in New
York for about sixteen years
CLAIMING A BARLOW,
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ceiver. Marconi is said to have ad-
mitted as much and is even reported to
have devised a plan for overcoming the
necessity for the use of the eoherer by
means of something which he calls
magnetic detector.'
But Lee De Forest when he began his
experimentation with wireless telegra-
ply was shrewd enough to see that the
mechanical phases of the instruments
must be reduced to a minimum. Ac-
cordingly he put the idea of the CO.
herer out of his mind. In his instru-
ment a responder is employed. The
operator sits with pair of ordinary
telephone receivers at his ears and the
potentiality of the Hertzian impulse
passing down the wires attached to the
antenns on the pole registers in this
receiver and is Immediately written
into MESSAGE FORM There is nothing to
watch, nothing to handle; simply TO re-
cord what comes of itself into your
ears. And this. by the way, may come
as rapidly as the operator is able to
SEND it
The simplicity of all wireless tele-
graph Instruments is almost startling
To the layman the impression is given
that it is impossible for the primitive
looking apparatus to do the work for
which it is made, and which. by the
way it does in a remarkably thorough
manner. The De Forest is even more
simple and uncomplicated than most of
its competitors The power for this
comes from a dynamo In the De For
est experimental quarters a direct cur
rent of 10 volts operates motor,
which in turn actuates a dynamo pro-
ducing the necessary alternating cur
rent. BY an ingenious arrangement
this is stepped up" to voltage of
90 600.
Messages are sent by an ordinary
Morse key, with resulting noise that
would put the average Fourth of July
celebration to the blush. The size of
the sparks thus brought into being and
their businesslike swapping about the
spark balls are usually sufficient to
convince the layman that he is looking
upon something decidedly out of the
ordinary. The sender after getting his
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other physicians have saved life with
this treatment, and, while the medical
profession as a whole is still unwilling
to admit that it will prove as efficaciOus
as DIR. Barrows hopes. most of its
members are fair enough to admit that
the path blazed out by the New York
physician is worth following.
Dr. Barrows does not appear to be in
clined to take entire credit for the
the fact that he is undoubtedly the first
man to employ it in cases of blood poi
soning. Instead he freely acknowl-
edges his Indebtedness to a well known
English physician. of whom he says:
i have learned since my use of for
malin of the brilliant work of DR.. Ma
guire. who in December, 1900, published
an article in the London Lancet in
which he described the use of formalin
in tuberculosis. He injected a solution
into his own veins in order to determine
how much the human system could
stand. He used enough of the solution
to be equivalent to one-fifty thou
sandth of the amount of blood in the
body. This is about the same quantity
in which I have employed it,
There is no affectation in Dr. Bar
rows statement that he regrets ex-
ceedingly the publicity given to his dis
covery, which, in his opinion, should
not have been exploited in the secular
press until some definite determination
concerning it had been arrived at. IN
the opinion of many physicians. we
might today have been using a tuber-
culosis serum had it not been for the
fact that Professor Koch was prac-
tically compelled by the German gov
eminent to divulge in advance of his
readiness to do so the process by which
he compounded his lymph. The doctor
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a graduate of Yale. had perfected a
system of wireless biography which
was expected to overcome most of the
objections urged against its predeces-
sors. It must not be supposed, however,
that De Forest had sprung full piano.
piled into the arena. For years he had
been working, but he was wise enough
not to take the world into his confidence
until he had practically perfected his
apparatus Later on the army and
navy departments of the United States
adopted his system after exhaustive
tests. and then the eyes of the seien-
tific world We're turned upon this man.
who is but tWenty-nine years Of age
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impulse Is given. these filings are
magnetized and close the circuit, thus
half way actuating the receiving appa-
ratus. But right here is where the
trouble comes in with the coherer; there
is nothing to break the circuit and pro-
duce the other half of the sound neces-
sary to complete the Geographic char
acter. Marconi breaks this circuit by
a sort OF hammer blow which, as it
We're, shakes the filings loose. AS a
matter OF fact. this blow is administer
ed by an instrument operated by lit
tie local circuit. But. nevertheless. the
coherer was and is an objection. as it
MARKEDLY limits the capacity OF the re-
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be regarded as the inventor Of wireless
telegraphy is Dr. Branley Of France.
who early in the nineties had two sta
tons working in a building. But the
Frenchman practically went no further,
being apparently content to leave his
invention to the tender mercies of
younger men with more time. means
and energy at their command. Thus
the development of wireless telegraphy
was doubtless delayed by several years
The ArcO-Slaby. Fessenden and Mar
conf systems were the best known up
to very short time ago. when the in
formation was given out that Lee de
Forest, young scientist of New York,
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This is a snapshot of Clyde Fitch in
his study very busiIy engaged in cut
ting coupons and doing his best to "look
pleasant at the same time. The au-
thor of "Sapho," Nathan Hale" "LoV-
ers' Lane" etc, is beyond doubt the
greatest living American playwright.
On 1901 he had four successes running
in four New York theaters at the
same time. Like Beau Brummel, the
hero Of his first great hit, Mr.. Fitch is
a very we'll dressed man and a lover
Of the beautiful. His fad is collecting
antique furniture and art objects. He
is only thirty-seven years Of age and is
an eliqibIe bachelor.
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and had never been heard of before
Naturally any man following the in
dividual whose name has become iden-
titled with a certain invention must
have something new, some Improvement
to offer Otherwise there is no excuse
for his presence in the field. What
made the Marconi apparatus possible
was the .'coherer." 1t is asserted that
this was invented in 1890 by Branley.
The coherer consists of a glass tube,
into the opposite ends of which cleo
trodes are introduced. Between the in
ner ends of these electrodes, which do
not quite touch are placed metal FL
ings. When the electrical or Hertzian
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treatment for septicemia has set the
medical world by the ears. Perhaps it
would be more accurate to describe
what Dr. Barrows has done as merely
possibility full of promise for the relief
of suffering mankind for the doctor,
with becoming modesty, declares that
his treatment may or may not do all
that the papers have ascribed to it.
Briefly. the history of DR.. Barrows'
connection with the injection of for
malin in cases of septicsemia is as fol-
lows. He was called to woman who
was apparently in extremis. She had
given birth to a child, blood poisoning
ensued, and there seemed to be no hope
Of saving her life. Had it not been for
that fact it is probable that the for
malin would never have been tried by
DIR. BarroWs. But he had long been in
terested in the matter of producing
germicide which, while efecting the de-
sired result. would not be dangerous to
the patient He had heard that at the
LOOMS sanitarium in Liberty N Y.
solution of formalin had been used with
apparently good effect in certain cases
OF inciDient tuberculosis. He had also
read of the experiments of an English
physician along these lines. He had
long entertained the opinion that as the
streptococci of blood poisoning (septi-
csemia) and tuberculosis are practically
Identical formalin might be useful in
the treatment Of the former disease.