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Company, the mine being up in the hills some three miles to the westward. Both are now closed down, although the mill was lately running upon ore from another mine in the vicinity. The route followed led up the valley of the Santo Domingo some distance, amid very picturesque and charm ing scenery. Upon either side rise lofty bluffs of lime, or conglom- crate or shale.
 Within a couple of miles of the Klondyke Camp l met Messrs. Il. Pomeroy Griswold, the engineer from Magdalena, and Luke Nand- ever, who were en route from KIondyke to Caliche. Mir. Gris- wold had been doing some survey ing at the camp and was going to Caliche to attend another engage ment.
 The Klondyke Camp Sometimes known as Emperor Camp) was reached shortly before noon. There I found Mir. J. F. Tener, of the firm of Tener Brothers X Balch of Mag dalena; Doctor A. s. Russell, form erly of Washington Camp; and Mir. w. B. Kibbe IT,, the assayer and cyanide expert for the company.
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thing is first class, and all opera tions are automatic as far as pos sible.
 The monthly cleanup was being made, and I was shown fine bar of gold bullion worth about $7 ,000, from the plates, and another from the cvanides worth about $2,000 more. They were taken to Mag dalena by Mir. Tener the day fol- lowing my visit.
 There are number of Americans at the camp. Mir. John Borden is the millman and Dan Horrigan is his assistant; Herman Blankenberg, who formerly ran the American Hotel at Hermosillo, is foreman of the mine; Roy Holmes is run ming the hoist; W. B. Kibbe is as- saver and cyanide expert; Doctor A. s. Russel is surgeon. MT Hor- rigan has his family with him.
 The Emperor Camp, is the off. cial name of the place, but as one of the mines is named the Klon- dyke. that name seems to strike the fancy of people, and it is more generally known by that. The camp is substantial and well built, wearing an air of general prosper ity agreeable to see. The build
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The Klondyke Camp is the seat of operations of the Lorraine Min ing Co.,, which has a group of fine gold properties and a 10-stamp mill in operation. Mir. J. F. Tener is general manager for the Lorraine Co.
 In the afternoon MT. Tener showed me over the mill and mine. The mill is a 10-stamp machine with plates and cyanide tanks. There is a shaft $50 feet in depth and working levels to a depth of 250 feet The ledge is about B feet in width and mills about $15 gold per ton. The ores are quartz and calcite. carrying gold. The mill, hoist and all machinery were supplied by Roy & Titcomb of Nogales. Every
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dancing monkeys; and the women folk among them told fortunes.
 Mir. James Rock, from Silver City. New Mexico, an old friend of Mir. Frank Cox, superintendent of the Cerro Prieto mine, was visiting Mr. Cox.
 Wednesday morning Mir. Colby \. Thomas, general manager, who was at the camp when arrived, started for his home in Nogales.
 Between four and five miles east from Cerro Prieto, Mir. Harry K. and Doctor W. F. Chenoweth of Nogales are developing a very pro missing gold property called the "Dormido." Mir. Walter Cheno- Weth Is in charge of the work.
 About twelve miles northeast from Cerro Prieto the Caliche Mountain Mining Co.,, (Tener Brothers & Balch of Magdalena) are developing a good gold prop erty, of which mention has been heretofore made in TIE OASIS. There are two shafts 700 feet apart. and considerable drifting. There IS a deal now on for the sale of the entire property.
 The Santa Bibiana, in which J.. ;. Hurst, NJ. NJ. Conn and L. F.
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Mir. Rand brou ght up from the bot tom ore showing large flakes of native gold. Yet farther mp the hill are antiglta workings. ore from which also shows native gold. All told there are about 700 feet of work on the property.
 Recently Professor Robert T. Hill late of the United States Geo. logical Survey, a geologist of world wide experience, visited this re- zion. including Caliche, Cerro Prieto, Klondyke, La Higuera, etc., and pronounced it one of the best gold regions he had ever visited.
 The Santo Domingo placer gold fields, owned by Mr. W. c. Greene, are upon the river of that name in this vicinity. His holdings begin just above the Cerro Prieto pump ing station, and extend up the river several miles. His prospect work is to be seen along the river in various places, and is reported to have always shown good results. It is the intention of Mir. Greene to inaugurate extensive hydraulic operations in the near future.
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ings are all of adobe, commodious and comfortable. Instead of one great bunk house, as in so many camps, there are a number of small houses, with a single room each, so each man can have his own house all to himself. The most recent structure is a school house, just completed. It is very good building and will &C., commodate fifty or sixty pupils.
 Farther up the caion are the cabins of the Mexican population. They are regularly arranged (by company regulation) along both sides of a street, a decided inn
 provement upon the usual way of permitting the miners cabins to be scattered hap hazard all among
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WAYSlDE NOTES
From cerro Prieto to Tuspe-via Non-
 dyke, cucurpe and La Higuers. 4 Very Rich and Interesting Region.
TuApE, Ures District, Sonora,

TuApE, Ures District, Sonora,
 December 6. 1903. Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec ember 1st and 2nd. 1 remained at Cerro Prieto, looking over the mine. I. is surely great prop ertv. destined to become one of the most productive and permanent gold mines on the continent. It is one entirely too big to be described in a running description of the country, written as one passes along.
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There IS a ZO- stamp mill in operation at Cerro Prieto, but a new and much larger one with a capacity of crush ing at least 300 tons of ore daily will be erected in the near future. Mr. Colby N. Tho mas of Nogales, general manager for the Nogales Copper Co.,, which now owns the Cerro Prieto, informed me that they hoped to have the mill manufactured and transported to the camp ready for erection, before the warm weather sets in next year.
 During my stay at Cerro Prieto the mill was shut down for the monthly clean up, and l saw a goodly quan- tity of amalgam taken off from the plates.
 Tuesday Q band of gypsies visited the camp and gave ope n air enter tainments, wit h dancing bears and
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anu ONCi SUI lOullu ing hills.
 From the mill we could look down one canon to the Tucabe mine and mill, the property of a company in Seattle, Washing ton Mir. L. W. Bonney is general m a n a ge r. T h e property i s now closed down in liti- gation.
 In another direc- ton the Key del Gro property is in sight, but a short distance a wa y During the after noon we went over and called upon Mir. c. G. Rand, who is in c h arge. His partner, Mir. Martin isin New York. The hey uel Oro lS u verypromising gold property. The ledge is about 20 feet wide and is traced up a steep h ill. A tunnel 125 feet long runs in on the lead. It shows good milling ore all the way. Sev- eral hundred feet above is a shaft.
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-12

%A o most people the composition,
81 the making, the selling and the
proper use of gas are more or
less a mystery. There is no ne
@ cessity for this. There is nothing
mysterious or abstruse about
any of these subjects. Anyone can I'M
derstand them, and it would be to the
mutual advantage of the gas company
and it's consumers If the latter would
take the Slight trouble necessary to in
form themselves on these subjects.
1t is quite frequently claimed that a
gas company is an organized means of
extortion. This, of course, is not true.
Most consumers think they are COM
pletely at the mercy of the meter, or of
the meters owners, in the matter of
making bills, and that they are charged
whatever the company sees fit or what
ever is needed by the state of its treas
ury. There was never a greater mis-
take.
To give information on these points
to show that there is no mystery about
the making and selling of gas to prove
that the making and selling of gas
may be almost classed with the exact
sciences; to show that 1t is an hon
orable occupation fairly conducted, and
that its whole business is so open and
aboVeboard that the customer cannot
possibly be cheated If he only use his
own native intelligence; above all, to
show that the interest of company and
customer is mutual, and to cultivate
a cordial friendliness between them is
the object of the following story. Please
read 1t carefully
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-12

reasonable that they are coming into
general use. They are portable and
convenient, and are especially adapted
to heating bedrooms, bathrooms, off,
ces, ETC., or taking the chill off of rooms
on cool mornings and evenings.
Artificial gas for cooking purposes is
par excellence. Thousands sof gas cook
ing stoves are in daily use in this city,
and the users of them testify that the
cost of cooking with artificial gas Is
no greater than with coal, while In the
matter of convenience and comfort
there is no comparison between the
two. With artificial gas there is no
smoke, no dust, no SCOT, no fires to
build, no kindling to prepare, no coal
to store or carry, no ashes to care for
or make dirt, no overheated kitchen, no
unpleasant odors 1t Is always ready,
always under perfect control. You can
have as large or as small a fine as is
desired, and with the intensity of the
flame at its highest point in an instant.
With gas you can do better cooking,
do it more rapidly and with less labor
and less fatigue than with any other
fuel. 1t is the safest fuel, for it's feed
is regular and an instant's attention Is
all that Is necessary to regulate 1T to
the exact point neede6cafter which it
will remain exactly there. There are
no Goals to roll downuon the floor
in the absence of a wateher-to set the
house on fire. ,t,,o.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-12
How to Read a Meter.

When the meter is new all the hands
stand at 0. When set in the house
and connected, the moment a burner is
lighted they begin to move, the one on
the right, on which is recorded the
hundreds of feet, moving ten times as
fast as the one in the middle, which
records the thousands, and that NOV
ing ten times as fast as the one on
the left, which records the ten thou
sands of cubic feet passing the meter.
By the time the first one has made
one complete circuit it shows ten hun
dred feet, and the middle hand one
thousand feet, or tenth the way
round the dial.
To read the meter, look first at the
least figure next to the hand on the
right face, the one which the hand
passed over, and set it down. In the
case of the dials shown in the cut, it
is 3. Do the same with the middle
face; in this case it is 2. On the left
hand dial do the same. Here it is g.
Add two ciphers to the number shown
on the right hand dial, making it 300,
which gives the total record of the
meter $4,000. AT the next reading, say
one month later, you will find the hands
recording, say $500. Now deduct the
previous reading from this sum, and
the figures obtained, $500, indicate that
you have consumed $500 feet of gas
during the period between the readings.
Now, suppose there had been an err
ror in making the second reading and
that $500 instead of $500 had been
written down. Your bill in that event
would have been for 4.300 cubic feet
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-12
Piping the House.

Upon the size, the manner Of placing
them and the quality Of pipes for the
distribution of gas to- the burners,
much depends in the way of economy
and satisfaction to the consumer
First, the fitting of a house should
be given to a thoroughly competent
firm. 1t is poor economy to give the
job to man who will slight his work
or use poor material, the presence Of
which will be the first manifested by
leaks and annoying odors through the
house. The cost of tracing up and re-
pairing leaking pipes will be much
greater than the difference between a
poor and a competent gas filters prices.
The pipes should be laid in as short
and direct lines from meter to burners
as possible, with the size gradua ted
in proportion to the number of burn
ers, and their distance from the meter.
A house with 200 feet of pipe and TWEEN
ty burners should have a supply pipe
at least one inch in diameter, which
may be leSsened to three-fourths, one
half, three eighths and one quarter at
the furthest burners, though it would
be better to exclude the quarter inch
pipe altogether. If these precautions
are neglected and the size of the sup
ply pipe is too small. there will be con-
slant trouble. Either there will be a
waste of gas and consequently higher
bills than there should be, or there will
be insufficient feed and the gas COM
pany will be blamed for poor quality
of gas when really only the quantity is
at fault. y- .-s!e;azsa4 -tt
One of the troubles, constantly con
fronting gas companies is the small
ness of the piping in houses. and they
are blamed for what is due to the ig-
norance or the parsimony of the ar
chitect or the builder.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-12
A Few Pointers.

Have your meter placed in a con-
venient location, and where it will be.
least affected by outside changes of
temperature, and keep your service
pipe protected from frost.
Use little patient effort to learn
the manner of measuring gas. Then
you can read your meter every week,
or oftener, If desired, and have in your
own hands a perfect check against
fraud or against waste on the part Of
your employees.
Keep your own record of these meter
statements
If you use globes, choose only the
ones having a wide opening below.
Cleaning the Sits in burners is neces-
cary once in a great while, and will
be found to improve the light from
them very materially.
Carelessness or waste in using more
burners longer time or under a heay-
Ter pressure than is necessary, is the
main cause of high bills.
And, lastly, please bear in mind that
the gas business, like all other legiti-
mate businesses, fiourishes most where
1t receives fair treatment; that what
ever tends to discourage the use of gas
by others tends to make your gas cost
you more; while on the other hand,
the prosperity of the company brings q
direct saving in your expenses.
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ed above is much superior to the COM
mon tallow dip. The Illuminating pow
er of gas is carefully watched by the
gas works manager, and any change is
quickly noted.
The gas is forced to the consumer
through the long lines of pipe by the
weight of the gas holders, regulated by
the governor at the gas works The
pressure on the consumers side of the
governor never equals two ounces per
square inch. 1t is usually about one
ana one-half ounces during the early
part of the night, while during the lat
ter part of the night and during the
day hours the pressure does not exceed
ee-quarters of an ounce per square
inch. That is certainly a light pressure,
yet 1T is quite enough to cause the care
less consumer to pay for more gas
than his necessities demand. and ouite
enough to cause thousands of dollars
loss every year to the gas company by
leakage.
Gas companies do not favor high
pressure. AS a rule these companies
are composed of and managed by per-
sons with at least average intelligence,
ana business sagacity. The largest
dividends lie In the direction of the
greatest satisfaction to their customers
Money Is not made by high prices, but
by large sales. Large sales can only
be had by giving satisfaction to con-
SNiAiSio anu lheISDy the kar&-
est possible per cent of the population
TO use gas to the exclusion of other
modes of lighting. After gas company
mas, at a heavy expense, laid a square
of main pipe, it prefers to have a dozen
consumers on that line of pipe, each
consuming gas to the amount of $50 per
annum, to having but three consumers
using gas to the amount of 5000 each
per annum. An eXtravagant and reck-
lesSly careless gas consumer does a
gas company more harm than good.
unless he be an unusually good natured
man.
AS further convenience to custom
ers, arrangements are usually made
with local express companies by which
bills can be paid and will be recelpted
If presented before the 10th of the
month at any of the branch offices
In the city. Where this arrangement
obtains list will be found on the
backs of all gas bills.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-12

not find the cause from the directions
and information herein given. If you
cannot, leave word at the gas office
If observation convinces you that your
meter is out of order. let the company
know this. They will be thankful for
the information,r for the chances are.
two to one that meter out of order
counts in your favor and against tbs
company.
When you do complain, remembers,
that the clerk who listens to you hears
complaints from many people who
think that in him is concentrated all
the authority and all the iniouify Of
what is regarded by many as a soul
less monopoly" and that you may
chance upon him on an occasion when.
his stock of mortal patience is worn
threadbare by abuse that is meant to-
have a personal application, and give
him a chance to remember you as a
person of reason and gentlemanly
bearing. The oil of good nature viii
smooth the friction of even ''monop-
oly'S" intercourse with it's customers.
To regulate the pressure to your
burners, turn them all on during light
ing hours In the evening, then send
Someone to the meter Have him turn
the stop-cock attached to the lead con-
nection to meter until there is no roar
ing or futtering of the light at the
burners. linen you nave pressure
enough to supply all your burners with
out waste. If somes1 Of your burners
still blow" it would be economy for
you to procure a governor" to regu-
late and control the pressure. But get
the gas company's advice first.
The best burners to use are what is
known as the Welsbach, or some SINH
lar incandescent burner, which gives
an illumination of about three times
the ordinary burner With consump-
ton of about one-half the gas.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-12

instead of $500 cubic feet. The fol-
lowing month you consume $500 feet
again. The meter then reads $4,000
But to ascertain the quantity consum-
ed, we deduct the last reading, $500,
and 1T shows a consumption of only
1900. 1t is thus that the much abused
machine corrects the errors of fallible
man. s,-i.
That's all there is about it. Nothing
mysterious in it. Anybody can read a
meter. Everybody should read it, and
read it at least once a month if the gas
bill is suspected of getting out of the
way, and as much oftener as economy
or inclination dictates. The gas COM
pany will not object They want to
sell you all the gas they can, to be
sure, but it is quite an object with
them to keep on good terms with you
While they are doing it.; the more and,
better friends they have the more GUS
toners they will get, and 7the.smOre
profits In the long run, and that is
exactly what they are in business for.
Besides, If you read your meter, the
company's reader will soon know it,.
and will either be more than ever care
full to read it accurately or his care.
leSsness will sooner or later be eX-
posed, to the benefit of the company,
yourself and the public. For careless
man in such a place is positive in
place will not be retained by the
company.
Read your meter the same day the
company's reader comes. Then a min.
ute's figuring will give the amount of
your bill, and If their clerk has made
a mistake you have a righteous cause
of complaint. Don't be afraid to let
over your meter; you will do yourself
good and them. no harm by it.
Meters are furnished free of charge
and remain the property of the com
pany. They will be removed, of course,
when the customer refuses to longer
use gas or pay his bills. The company
has no other recourse. The bills are
usually too small to pay for collection
by suit at law, to say nothing of the
undesirability of adopting such g.
course by a corporation in wholesale
relations with the public.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-12
Large Gas Bills.

1t can be set down as an invariable
truth that when a gas bill is abnormal
ly large there is some satisfactory and
complete explanation for 1t, If all the
facts and circumstances connected with
the case can only be ascertained. Rest
assured that the gas company is not
trying to cheat you. When you find
a sudden or unusual increase in your
gas bill, first ask yourself:
Cd Whether the weather has not
been unusually dark or cold or
both;
(2) Whether you have not had sick
ness in the house;
60 Whether you have not had COM
pany during the month;
(G Whether you have not given a
party during the month; or
go Whether you cannot recall some
other circumstance or occur
renee that will account for the
increased bill. If you cannot,
then go, in a proper spirit (not
In anger or suspicion), to the
gas company, who will be glad
to help you hunt for the cause;
and if they find 1t to be an err
ror of their own, they will
cheerfully correct the bill ac-
cordingly.
(6) Be sure to read your meter and
compare index with reading
which shows on the bill