The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-11-11
GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED BY pII..
GRIM, WHO NEVER SAW OILY
FEATHERS BEFORE OR DORA,
THE MUD EATER.
ELABORATE DESCRIPTION OF THE
VARIOUS MINERALS IN THAT
STATE AND STRIKING COM
MENTS ON WAYS OF MEN.
Heralds the Coming Of a Bonanza King
to See His Relatives in Harrison and
Other Counties, Bringing With
Him Samples of His store
Of Riches.

Pearl Mining District, Idaho, Nov. To-
The state fair association has beauti.
full grounds near Boise City. Their rlce
track Is the finest one-mile track in the
west. My church foot would not DO in.
tcrested in the racing, but they say It
was good. Poultry was fine, 50 sleek /
inquired the cause of the oily gloss, and
was informed that the feathers had all
been pluckcd out and new coat grown
for the fair, fed from oil food. Sheep
we're large. One, noticed, they claim,
clipped q pounds Of wood. Cattle (Short
Hornl were fat and large. One steer
weighed 5000 pounds. They had this
steer under canvas and there was a little
extra charge to see this mammoth beast,
the largest OK in the world except the
Missouri steer owned by Jake See and
raised in Montgomery county, Mo. This
steer weighed $500 pounds, and they
tell me that twice in his day he tipped
the beam at 5000 pounds. Amos Payne
is from Missouri, and he knows that
men from that section never vary, MS
they have to be shown. Before they tell
anything it must be true. I saw pump.
kins that measured two feet in diameter,
pickle beets so big that one would have
to cut them up to get them in a pot to
cook. Outside of the fruit and ore dis
play, Clarksburg will hold them down,
except in money making schemes. Race
programs with a number of dollars worth
OF advertisements on them, sold for 10
cents each. Clarksburg would have paid
boys to distribute them free to all that
would or could read. They sold tickets
for the amphitbeater until the seats were
full, and the aisle full to the entrance,
and still take ones two-bits and tell him
there was rom for more. / guess they
meant to breathe. They entertained with
show where we hear, instead of
George Sec George, the ladies' man.
.sSSee Dora! Dora cats mpd!s Hundreds
of people went in to see Dora the wild
girl, said to have been captlred in The
swamps Of Florida, and her chief diet
is mud The show was a financial sue
cess. Hundreds Of people were anxious.
to see Dora eat mnd. They 90 from this
place TO Colfax, Washington, where they
exhibit Dora as captured this time m
Cuba. When the father swooped down
on the exhibition tent and found his
boy, George Stone, who had been kid
naped from his home in Spokane and
compelled to eat mud, the proprietors
we're arrested.
A great many people who are putting
their money in mining stock without an
investigation will wish they were stolen
and placed in a indicating museum, be-
fore they will be oyerladen with money
dug from their watered stock companies.
See what you buy or have some one that
Won know see about it, and if it looks
rood dive in, as gold bullion has made
more wealthy men than any other pro-
duct sought, but there are men who in
vestigatc the prospects before they leap.
Like all other occupations or pursuits,
you have it today and tomorrow it is
ahead OF you. Quartz narrow and widen.
Sometimes they narrow until one gets
bluer than the rock, hut / notice, as they
60 into the mountain, their value in.
crease, and the man who has the courage
to stay and win will also have courage
TO work his way to the paved streets
that men walk for faitlrfulness, but l
do not think that men who sit in their
Offices in the city and sell fake stock
will ever walk gold streets. sFakel
Fake!" i notice everywhere in large let
tiers, Result of run at such and such a
MILL" Is thnt the product of a run Of
five weeks and two and half days was
SlG,3lO. The mill reduced about 35 tons
4 day, the savings thus being indicted
10 have been little over $l2 ton.
Now, tlien, it looks to con up tree
as il they had a bunch of ore picked.
Ii MAY have been summers work, and
it took them five weeks and the frac-
ton, 2ls days, to run this ore through
the mill. This mine has stock on the
market Strange that some mines are
stocked and on the market, while Others
that are much better than never been
heard Of by the public Yet there are
stockholders in them just the same.
Well, a big strike was made in placer
mining along the Snake river valley.
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