The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-11

the right way to spell "preys."
Patriotic Tommy Atkins got an
eye-opener in Somaliland, marching
with blistered feet against the "Mad
Mullah,u recently. He marched bang
up against a foe fully armed with bran
new Lee-Metford rifles, sold to the
Mullah's agents by British firm in
England, and many laid down their
lives in the service of their country"
pierced through and through by Brit
ish bullets fired from British guns by
savage Somali. Tommy is over there
Gin the interest of British trade" with
'.both feet" evidently. Soft and kind
hearted people may think that the
British gun and ammunition manufac-
turers ought to wait until Tommy has
overcome his opposition before arming
his enemies, but ''sound business prin-
ciples'' will not permit any manner of
moral considerations to interfere with
trade If Tommy wasn't a sucker, he
would Immediately send round robin
to King Edward, demanding the i'm
mediate punishment of every person
concerned in the sale of those weapons
by hanging, for treason-and if not
Immediately complied with, he should
pile up his powder first, ammunition
next and guns on top, in the form of
funeral pyre, and plant the Union
Jack on top and set it off, in far Somali-
land. don't believe the idea will take
very well in this country, because it
is said that we have a few strenuous
business men operating in the Philip
pines ourselves.
A rare and healthy ruling has come
out of a Department at Washington.
Let us all put big white mark on the
wall. Secretary Cortleyou of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor has
ruled that when an alien is convicted
of any crime and sent to jail for nom
payment of his fine, and he expiates
his sentence, he becomes under the
Act public charge, and subject to de-
portation at the expiration of his sen-
tence the same as any other person
coming into the country pauper and
becoming public charge. By the
terms of the Act foreigners of all kinds
must keep out of Jail for at least three
years, or else they may be deported as
public charges. What effect this rul-
ing will have on the two great political
parties is hard to tell, but it is very
plain to see that it will have very
beneficial effect upon the country at
large. When the worst element which
comes to our shores can keep out of
Jail for three years, it is a splendid
starter for reform, and those who can
not keep out that long are deported
and returned to inflict with their pres
ence the communities in which they
became criminals. The ruling seems
to cut we'll both ways.
Experience, education, money and
labor are gradually bringing the low
grade ores of Nevada within the prof
table line of reduction. In the early
sixties the quartz mills charged $40 per
ton to reduce custom ores, and insured
to return about 40 per cent of the as
say value of the ore, and no more.
= To-day some of the mills around the
Comstock are reducing the ore by the
same process for $3.50 ton, and ores
that assay So ton can be crushed and
cyahided- at a profit, and ores are work
ed up to between SIS and 80 per cent of
the average assay value, and in many
instances are worked up to 81 per cent.
The Imperial mine shaft was sunk
through vein porphyry and quartz,
and unaltered rock, and the whole
mass was dumped for waste. Mr.. Chas.
Buffers, a graduate of the University
of California, after spending his life,
practically, in studying the reduction
of ores, has purchased this dump, con-
sisting of 10000 tons, and he is crush
ing it and running the sands and tail
ings through cyanide process of his
own invention, bringing all that waste
rock within the profitable line of re-
duction. There can be no doubt that
all the old dumps in Virginia will
eventually be similarly treated. The
world thus becomes deeply indebted
to the schools of learning, and the
'book worms that come out of them,
who devote their lives in the interest
of science and original research, for
the love of money, to some extent, per-
haps, but more likely for the great
distinction they achieve, and the good
that they do. Above all things, the
University is devoted to the search
for the truth in all things, and after
person graduates from university, if