Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-26

thought best that beginning with
June, all evening meetings begin
at 8 O'Clock, which was agreed to.
1t is stated that the contract for
the joint use of the new river di-
vision of the Iron Mountain road
by the Missouri Pacific and Frisco
lines has been signed by Robert
Mather for the Frisco and by
George j. Gould for the Missouri
Pacific. The contract provides, it
is said, that the Frisco line may do
a through business from all points
on it's system to all points on the
river division of the Iron Mountain.
1t may also do a local business on
the Iron Mountain on an equitable
basis. 1t is said that the Iron
Mountain will receive an annual
rental of 3 per cent on the actual
cost of building the river division,
which road is to remain in poses
sion of the Iron Mountain. The
Frisco is to pay it's percentage of
maintenance charges on a car
basis. The contract will run 500
years, to begin as soon as the riv-
er division is completed.-Charles-
ton Courier.
In Panama the lot of the weather
man appears to be a happy one.
A writer in the Chicago Chronicle
says: Gin Panama the weather
man can always tell to a certainty
when to expect a downpour Of rain.
AT three o'clock every afternoon it
is due and it seldom fails to be
on time. This is the rule all
through the rainy aeason. The
morning is clear and the evening,
after 6 o'clock, is delightful, an
except from 3 till 6 o'clock nobody
ever thinks of carrying an umbrel-
la. Not SO in Colon, only forty
seven miles away. There it rains
all the time during the rainy sea-
son, and it never rains but it pours.
Water comes down by the bucket
full. At Panama the annual rain
fall is in the neighborhood of nine
feet, and it all comes in five months
AN average of four feet a month.
1t is humorously said in Colon that
there it takes the people all the rest
of the year after the rainy season
to get dry. In the dry season the
heat is intense, the mercury rang
ing from so to 80 degrees day and
night. There is but little difference
in the temperature after dark, but it
is possible to adapt one self to the
conditions of the place and there is
a certain fascinatian about it that,
in the case of some people, seems
to make up for the heat."-The
Commoner.
The following, telling of some
successful work in engineering 3,
accomplished by a young man
well known in the Valley, is re-
produced from a telegram from
Cripple Creek, Colorado, to the
Denver News: GA. G. Jaquith,
engineer in charge of the opera
tions of the drainage tunnel that
will unwater the mines of the
Cripple Creek district, is just re-
covering from a severe attack of
rheumatism and pneumonia. Dur
ing a part of the time his heart
action has been such that some
apprehension was felt for him.
He is reported much better to-day,
and it is thought he will be able to
be up and about again very shortly.
His work on the drainage tunnel
has proven wonderfully accurate.
Driving was started both from the
bottom level of the Ell Paso shaft
and the portal, about a mile below.
At the same time two shafts were
sunk, so that extra headings could
be secured to make better pro-
gress. When the portal heading
and that from Ell Paso shaft met,
they did not vary over an inch.
His work in connection with the
tunnel is far from completed, for
he is collecting the data to show,
when all the water is drained, the
number of gallons of water there
is per foot vertical depth. With
that in hand, he will be able to
show the cost of pumping against
driving another and deeper tun-
nell"