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Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1904-07-06

General Manager c. T. Joslin, Of
the McCabe mine, has just returned
from a business trip to Chicago, where
be went on business for the Model
Mining company. On June % the
work of sinking the main working
shaft of the McCabe mine one hun,
bred feet deeper, or to depth of about
800 feet, was begun. The mine i:
keeping up its reputation of the past
few months, or since it has beer
under the management of Mr.. Joslin,
and is not only paying its own ex'
penses but making a nice profit fol
the stockholders and carrying forward
the work of development on large
scale. When Mr.. Joslin took hold OF
this property things looked pretty
blue for the company and the mill
and practically all the buildings be-
longing to the company had been de
stroyed by fire and mismaDagement
had put the famous old property in q
bad light before the investing public,
but the company certainly hit upon
the right man when it sent Mr.. Joslin
to take hold of it. There have been
in the neighorhood of 100 men work
lug for several months and the prop
rety never looked better. If this
county had few more mining man
ayers like Mr.. Jnslin there would be
less trouble in interesting money il
the development of our mineral re-
sources.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1904-07-06

The shaft of the Pickaway Mining
company, of which E. A. Haggott is
superintendent, is down 105 feet and
is in good ore at that depth. MIR.
Haggott is quite elated over the pros
pect of the company at present.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1904-07-06

Quite d number of men have been
laid off at the Iron King mine during
the past few weeks. One of the main
reasons for this action is said to be
the scarcity of water The mill is
running a portion of the time and
there are still some sixty or seventy
men at work on the property.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1904-07-06

W. W. Elliott, Of the mill building
firm of Elliott & Drescher, Informs
the Journal Miner that while there
is some talk of times being dull in
this section, that their firm has been
very busy right along putting in new
mills and overhauling plants already
installed, and that they have work
ahead for several months. He says
there are many properties in the
county that are going right ahead
quietly with development.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1904-07-06

1uluRs dIe lOOhluB SplchuAu Ou buo
property of the Bunker Hill Mining
company and it is said the manage
ment intends to increase its working
force to three shifts very soon.
The White Mining company, of near
WickenbIrg, has just purchased a
new 10 horse power Fairbanks Morse
gasoline hosting engine Tor their
property from Brown Bros, of this
city. Vice President Walker has gone
east on business for the company.
Joe Hobbs recently spent a couple
of weeks in California organizing a
company for the purpose of prospect
ing for oil in this county. He in
forms the Journal Miner that he has
everything in shape now to commence
active work in a short time. He has
some claims located, the exact loca-
ton of which he will not give out as
yet, and has had them examined by
oil experts who have pronounced them
as giving splendid indications for oil.
Mr.. Hobbs feels very confident that
he will make a success of the venture,
and surely there is not a person in
this county who does not hope he
will, as the discovery of oil in this
section of country would be one of the
best things that could happen to it.
1t is reported that the Verde Chief
Mining company is making prepare
tions to resume work about the 18th
of this month on their properties in
the Black Hills district. The COM
pany now has tunnel in about 1000
feet and will cross cut the vein at a
distance of GOO feet from the mouth
of the tunnel.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1904-07-06

Mayor G. W. Hull, of Jerome, was
in Prescott last week and attended
the adjourned meeting held to con.
slider the Black Hills tunnel PROPOSE
ton. He was called upon to address
the meeting and did so in most vigor-
GUS terms in its favor. Mr.. Hull is
probably better posted in reference to
the conditions existing in the Black
Hills, and of its possibilities for
mineral production, than any other
man in the county. He expressed the
most profound belief that before the
tunnel had made very far progress
sufficient ore would be encountered
in it to pay the entire cost of its con-
struction. Mr.. Hull has shown his
faith in the mineral possibilities of
that section by his works in expend-
ing thousands of dollars in the de-
velopment of mines. The success at
tending his work hes been such as to
have his faith born anew as he owns
some very valuable properties there.
A. l.. Bibbins, of Bedford, Iowa,
who spent sevreal days in this county
looking over various mining PROPOSE
tions for Iowa people left last We'd
nesdsy morning for Jerome whore be
spent couple of days examining some
in that part of the county,
when he left for'his home to report
to the people HON he represented
what his conclusions we're on the ad-
of investing their money in
in Ysvapai county. While
Mr.. Bibbins did not give out what
his report would be, from what he
said it is reasonable to believe that he
will advise his friends to invest in
some of the properties he examined
He said he expected to return to this
county in few weeks.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15
NOT FIT TO BE PRESIDENT.
An evening Post" Opinion of Jndxe
Parker.

New York Evening Post. July 1, 1903. J
We presume that Judge Parker's greet
ings in Georgia as "our next President
will not ruffie his judicial calm. Like
the rest of US he has seen too many next
Presidents year before election
They usually swarm like grasshoppers
in July before the nominating conven-
ton. But the Judge will be subjected
in his Georgia address to pretty sharp
test of his fitness for President. next
time or ever. Will he have the courage
to speak direct and wholesome word
to the people of the South on the question
which is rapidly becoming the leading ma
tional Issue?
We mean, of course, the whole matter
of abridged suffrage, denied citizenship.
refusal Of equal treatment before the
law and the recrudescence of slavery, as
affecting our negro population. The
Southern papers are full of it, and de-
manding that the South be 'let alone"
in its challenge of human rights and dis
regard Of the constitution. Edward NJ
Shepard told the people of New Orleans
that the South ought TO be left to go its
own way. But can a man named as
''our next President" agree to such
local notification of national laws? II
he can, he is not fit to be President next
year or any year.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15

ment Of Agriculture, it brought SO cents
or exactly double as much.
In 1898 the price OF wheat on the Kan
sas arm was 81 cents per bushel; last
year, according to the same authority.
it was Il cents
In 1895 the price Of oats on the Kan
sas farm was Il cents; last year it was
ia case where 30 cents was a joke
which the kansan appreciated clear
down to his boots.
During this period freight rates on
wheat per 100 pounds from Atchison,
Kan. to Chicago were reduced from "a
to ID cents, and on rye, barley, corn and
oats from 20 to 16 cents.
In 1895 the revenue of the railways
per passenger per mile in the territory Of
which Kansas is the center was 2,2T5
cents; in 1902 it had fallen to 2236
cents. In the same period the railroad
revenue from freight in the same terri
tory had fallen from 1.161 cents per ton
per mile to 0.97S cents.
There are good times in Kansas be-
cause of good government. good crops,
good prices, increasing manufactures and
declining rates for transporting the fruits
of all kinds OF industry to the markets
of the world and when there are good
times in Kansas there is little occa sion
for discomfort throughout the rest of the
Union
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15
WHY All'S WELL IN KANSAS,
1t IL Because of Sound Money and the
Protective Policy.

Few people realize how or why the
condition of Kansas is watched with
such solcitude throughout the country
especially in the Western States.
The fact is indisputable that there is
something about it's climate, the mer-
| curial disposition of its people and the
| conditions of life in Kansas that make
1T sort of barometer for the rest of the
republic. When there is anything seri-
Gus the matter with Kansas it is GER
tain that all is not exactly right with
her neighbors. When there is a drouth
in Kansas there is apt to be a mighty
thirst in all the region west of the Mis-
Sissippi. When the rains and sunshine
bless Kansas with bountiful'S harvests
and the cyclone and grasshopper give her
Il wide berth, the fairness is apt to extend
beyond her borders and fill the land with
reason for rejoicings and content
When Providence frowns on Kansas
the heart of the nation is usually sorrow
full for her-and for itself.
When Providence smiles on Kansas
the rest of us generally bid au revoir to
melancholy.
Therefore Senator Fairbanks did well
in opening the Republican campaign at
Marion, Kan, Sept. /, to remind his au-
ditors of the change that had come over
their prospects since the days when the
whole land rang with the cry, whats
the matter with Kansasp' Happily he
was able to proclaim. if not from the
house tops, at least to the telegraph OPP
orators for dissemination throughout the
nation. that "Alls well in Kansas"
Swiftly he drew the picture of the con-
ditions as they existed eight years ago:
kansas was suffering from the effects
Of ! emocratic administration. The in
terests of her agriculture languished. Her
crops rotted in the field or were market
ed at unremunerated prices" And much
more to the same effect. Then he point
ed to the prosperity of the present, with
out need to recapitulate the blessings
that good crops, good prices, good govern
ment and sound money showered upon
Kansas az from an exbaustess urn,
During the last seven years" he said"
mo one has shared the prosperity which
has come to the country in fuller de-
gree than the farmers of Kansas" And
he illustrated the prosperity of the State
by the increase in her bank deposits
from 33,00o.0O0 in 1895 to over $50
100000 in 1903" As a matter of exart
record it might be well to say that the
bank deposits in Kansas increased from
30,529.4S7 in 1896 to $S4.0j5, 11O. or
$50 per cent, while those Of the whole
country increased from 1921. 1928. 339 to
$540,649, 702, or slightly under 134 per
cent
Would the reader know how all this
wonderful prosperity came to Kansas?
II was through her own industry stimu-
lated and protected by the sound econ
omic and monetary policies Of the Re
publican party.
In 1895 corn on the farms Of Kans--
was bringing Is cents a bushel; last year.
according to the report Of the Depart
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15
PLAIN ENGLISH.



Sept. !, according to a newspaper dis
patch Of that date, Secretary Loeb gave
out a typewritten statement DENYING n
story printed in the New York World
TO the effect to j. pierpont Morgan has
recently held conferences with Mr.
| Roosevelt concerning the campaign. IL
is as follows:
The story In the World about the visit Of
Mr. Morgan TO the President Mt Oyster Bqy
Is n lie from beginning to end Neither
Mr.. Morgan nor the New York representa-.
tive OF Mr.. Morgan has seen the President
or communicated with him directly or lndi-
rectly at oyster Bay or anywhere else. As
far ms the President or anyone around him
knows, Mr.. Morgan has been nowhere near
Oyster Bay in yacht or otherwise.
One paper comments upon the unusual
use Of the word "le" in statements given
ont by the President. There are times
when only one word in the English Ian
guage will serve, and President Roose-
welt is an authority on English. There
Is only one word to fifty and accurately
characterize certain statements-slIch
statements as that Of The World which
the President was contradicting.
lie according to Webster. is "a
criminal falsehood A FALSEHOOD
UTTERED FOR PURPOSES OF DE
CEPTION; AN INTENTIONAL vIO-
LAT1ON OF TRUTH"
The Century Dictionary thus defines
the word
"Lie--1. A FALSE STATEMENT
MADE WITH THE PURPOSE OF
DECElVING. an Intentional untruth; a
falsehood; the utterance by speech or
act Of that which Is false WITH IN
TENT TO MISLEAD OR DELUDE.
2. THAT WHICH ~ INTENDED OR
SERVES TO DECEIVE OR MIS-
LEAD; ANYTHING DESIGNED or
ADAPTED TO PRODUCE FALSE
CONCLUSIONS Or EXPECTA-
TIONS."
There can be no doubt that the presi-
dent used exactly the right word.
1t would be like carrying Goals to New
castle to explain to our friends the Dem
ocrats the meaning and inner cussedness
OF the word lie" Past grand masters
In the art, they need no definitions or
hne drawn distinctions But Republi-
cans and Independents are not so well
up in this branch Of human activity, and
so it is well, perhaps, to call their atten-
ton to the latest proper and desirable
use Of the small English monosyllabls
which is just now under discussion.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15
UNLIKE DEMOCRATS
FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS OF
REPUBLICANS NEVER SHADY.
Sale OF Philippine Bonds to a Western
Bank, the Highest Bidder - Demo-
cratic Deal with the Belmont
Syndicate Riddled.

The fourth installment of the S3000,
600 OF Philippine bonds was taken at
1O1.41 by the Western National Bank
of Oklahoma City, whose bid for the
bonds was the highest. The fact that a
western bank should outbid leading insti-
tutions of Wall street for these bonds
suggests how the West is rapidly gaining
in financial power and Importance. No
western bank would have dared to bid
for such large issue of bonds without
being perfectly satisfied that it could find
a broad market for them amongst local
investors. The old financial problem OF
the West was to get money from the
East. The present problem Of the West
is to find good channels for the invest
nant OF its own money.
BY transaction such as this we find
investors IN the Southwest become cred
itors of the Philippine Islands. In other
words, they are loaning some of the
fruits of their own prosperity under Re-
publican rule to help along the prosperity
of our nations wards in the Philippines.
The security which United States gov
eminent over the Philippines gives to
hives and property, trade and industry,
makes the credit of the islands good, so
that investors are quite willing to pay
premium for Philippine bonds. If the
United States government were not SOW
ereign over the Philippines, it is a ques-
ton whether the islands would be able
to float bonds even at a discount, hence
many needed improvements for the ISL
ands could not be carried out. Were
the Democratic party to be successful
in the election this fall, the owners of
Philippine bonds would doubtless see a
qurck slump in their market value.
Notorious Den ocratic Deal.
1t is the Republican policy in the case
of necessary issues of bonds. like the war
loan Of 1898 and this Philippine bond
issue, to sell the bonds by popular sub
scription or by public competitive bid
ding for them. This gives the whole peo-
pie an equal chance, and all sections of
the country an equal chance. to secure
them for investment and to realize what
ever profit their ultimate appreciation
may bring. Under the Democratic plan,
as followed out during the last Cleveland
administration, the government ignored
the small investors, and had no use for
any financial institution west of Wall
street.
For instance, on Feb IS, 1895, the
Democratic Secretary of the Treasury
signed contract with a New York syn
dictate for the selling of So, 315.4 four
per cent bonds. These bonds the syndi-
cate sold to the public for 500, 116, pa
clearing a profit for itself, out of the
transaction, of nearly S3.000,000. The
price at which the bonds were sold to
| the syndicate was equivalent to 1041h
when the existing United States four per
| cent bonds, with less than half as long
time to run, were bringing III on the
market. The syndicate dictated to the
| government the terms of the deal ONE
OF THE MEMBERS OF THAT SYN
| DICATE, AUGUST BELMONT, Is
THE PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL AID
| WISER AND BACKER OF ALTON b.
| PARKER OR PRESIDENT.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15
Average wages Of farm laborers In the
tTuifpl States
{ will be perceived thnl Me a

III VIII De perceived mat the average
rate paid in the United States in 1902
for six months is within SLIGO OF the
maximum rate paid to the best farm
hands in Great Britain in May, 1904, and
almost double the minimum paid second
class men.
The figures of our Department of Ag-
riculture, moreover, apply only to those
laborers hired by the year or season, the
rates where the engagement Is by the
day are very much higher, being 80
cents per day, with board, and 81 13
without, in 1902. against 63 cents with
and 81 cents without board, in 1894.
This would make the pay, with board
in 1894 average $3.50 for half year
Of $50 days, while the average compen-
sation of the American farm laborer paid
by the day in 1902 would be $133.5O
for the six months, with board.
But statistical averages, valuable as
they are in rejecting the general condi-
tions, are elusive and tantalzng things
when they attempt to cover the rate Of
wages in an occupation like agriculture
which including employers and employ
ed, numbers at least 1000. 900 persons
over 10 years of age and upwards of ev-
cry age, color and sex. The American
farm laborer knows what wages he re-
ceives, and he can compare it with what
is paid in England, and greatly to his
own satisfaction.
He also knows that the above aver
ages in the United States for 1894 and
1902 fairly though family reflect the
difference between his industrial condi-
ton during the last Democratic national
administration and now. And in Noyem-
her he will not vote for any party whose
success would foreshadow return to
the conditions of 1894 and 1895.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15
OF Course Net.

David B. Hill stated, in one of his
speeches, that Mr.. Roosevelt, on taking
the oath Of Office after the death Of
President Mckinley, said that he would
not be candidate for President in 1904.
President Roosevelt has never made a
promise as to his own personal action
which he did not redeem. The President
is outspoken, fair and square. These
are characteristics of the man. He
makes no promises he does not intend to
keep, and he keeps such as he makes.
The silly story started by Hill had no
foundation in fact, and it is really not
worth tho ink and paper that has been
used in denying it, except that it once
more marks the character of Hill.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15

81 have no words of abnse for
Theodore Roosevelt 1 believe him to
be a brave, hon est, conscientious man.
i give him fall credit for having a
splendid courage of conyictiou."-
Thomas z. Watson's speech accepting Populist
nomination.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15
steel Indu.try Does Not Ing.

director Of the United States Steel
Corporation refutes one Of the state
ments made by calamity bowling Demo
Gratis by saying that business is 80 good
there will be no cut in prices OF steel.
adding: "All our plants will be running
at full capacity in a month or two, and
by that time the demand for steel OF all
kinds will be greater than at any time
during the past year"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15
Expansion q BIessiup.

United States Consul General Guen-
Their at Frankfort, Germany, quotes
noted German professor as saying that
does not lessen a nations in
berent compactness and strength. On
the contrary, nation can only become
great. he says, by having space in which
to expand. Great Britain is cited as an
example Of what expansion has done for
a nation that originally had little terri
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15
FARM WAGES.
Figures as TO Rates Paid In England
and the Unitet States.

The August Labor Gazette, n govern
ment publication issued monthly by the
British Board of Trade, gives an inter
esting account Of the haif-yearly agri-
cultural hirings at Whitsuntide. 1901, for
the counties Of Cumberland, Westmore-
land and North Lancashire, which affords
an instructive view of the rates paid
farm hands in England. The official re-
port prepared for the department states
that the supply of male farm servants
was fairly plentiful, owing partly to
slackness OF employment in other indus
tries" but that wages showed down
ward tendency in the case Of men, but
women were scarce and their wages
were well maintained"
The following were the rates generally
agreed upon for the half year:
Per six months
with board.
best men 1900 to $4,000
Second class men........... 5000 to 1900
Youths and boys ........... 20.0oto 5000
Best women ............... $500 to 1900
Second class women and
girls .......... .......... 1000 to COCO
These rates have been slightly increas-
ed in the transcription from English
money into dollars and cents at the ratio
of S. per pound, but they afford clear
and authoritative exhibit of what British
farm hands are receiving by which every
intelligent American farm hand can COM
part the wages he receives.
Without knowing the number of men
employed in each class and at varying
rates therein it is, of course. impossible
to arrive at a average rate OF compensa-
ton. But with 500 per half year for
the highest and 500 for the lowest of the
second-class men it il evident that the
yearly average for male farm hands ex-
elusive of youths and boys in Great
Britain cannot be much, il any. above
$3.50 year, while the average for WON
en- would be somewhere around 500.
We have no similar figures for the
United States, but in a recent bulletin
entitled Wages of Farm Labor in the
United States" issued 10y the Depart
ment of Agriculture. the figures of the
average monthly wages of farm laborers
in this country are given. Multiplied by
six, TO arrive at the half yearly rate
they furnish the following:
Average wages OF farm laborers In the
United States
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15

With the immense crops which are now
assured II is essential that prices be
maintained 80 that farmers may reap the
full reward Of their labors. This is as
sured If the Republican party is contin-
ued in power.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15

Rural free delivery has enabled farm
ers to obtain better prices for their prod
ucts. Being brought into daily touch
with the state Of the markets. they are
enabled to take advantage Of informa-
ton heretofore inaccessible to them. For
this practical help they are indebted to
the party that does things the
Republican party.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15

The general prosperity the country has
enjoyed under Republican administration
during the last seven years has profifed
the farmer as much If not more than any
other one class The farmers know il,
and should and ~ olbtediy will vote 20
continue conditions as they are and have
been.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15

Liberal compensation for labor makes
liberal customers for our products. The
Republican policy Of protection makes
both.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15

The following tables show how steady
have been the gains in cash values of
staple crops, despite fluctuations from
year to year in size of crops:
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