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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-08
SOMETHING MORE ABOUT GOOD
ROADS.

One of the gerat needs of every
farmer is good country road ON
which to haul his produce to market.
Where he possess this convenience,
he can dispense with some Of the
many horses or mules now absolutely
necessary for the hauling of his wag.
ons, which are subject to great wear
and tear when drawn over the mud
dy highways, so common throughout
Georgia.
How to construct good road is
the first problem to be solved and
how to keep it in repair is question
of equal Importance. Good roads can.
enot constructed and maintained
by merely grading and draining the
surface of the ground. 1t is neces.
sary to surface these roads with some
durable material that will rnder them
proof against the mud and slush that
often prevail at the very seasons
when the roads are most needed for
the transportation of the produce of
fields and market gardens.
Not only the farmer, but the mer.
chant also suffers from bad country
roads or is benefited by good, well
graded and thoroughly macadamized
highways. 4
Often even in rainy seasons there
are days when the people from the
rural districts would flock into tbs
cities and crowd the stores, were it !
not for the mud that makes travel
inconvenient, if not impossible.
There is in Georgia abundance of
good material for giving to a well
graded road a good, solid surface, SO
strong that even long continued and
heavy rains will not convert it into
mud.
When such road has once been
built, then it is necessary to keep it
in repair and maintain it's solidtty.
When a railroad company has con.
structed road after the most scien.
t1fic method, of the best Of rails and
ballasted it in the most perfect man.
ner, it keeps permanent force OF
road hands, with inspectors for ey.
cry section, and endeavors to keen
every foot Of track in thorough order.
The same diligence is needfuI tn
the keeping of the best constructed
country road in good condition. !
To do everything that is necessary
both for the construction and proper
keeping of such road, requires a
considerable outlay of money. but the
ultimate profit to the farmer and the
merchant, the country and the city,
will far exceed all that may have
been expended.
Many of the counties of Georgia
are already blessed with well built
and well maintained country roads.
and their number is steadily increas.
ing.
Let the good work go on until
every county in Georgia can boast of
as good roads as those which are
the pride and comfort Of both town
and country in tn vicinity of our ,
great cities and some of our large
and rapidly growing towns-Georgia
Department of Agriculture.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-08
u Matter
OfHeaMh

There is a quality in Royal
Baking Powder which makes
the food more digestible and
wholesome, This peculiarly
OF Royal has been noted by
physicians, and they accord
lngly endorse and recon-
mend it.
ROYAL POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-08
A Small Quantity of High Grade FertiI.
izer Better than a Large Quantity
Of a lower Grade.


Now suppose you had exercised
little common sense and bought the
six sacks, analyzing 1875, $50 and
354, you would have been saved the
cost of mining, pulverizing and freight
ing of the artificial filler" to the fac
tory, and the freight on four sacks
Of it from the factory to your railroad
station, and the wear and tear on
your mules hauling that extra one
hundred pounds ten miles to the farm.
Wouldn't it have been much better
have bought the six sacks, and when
you got home, if you wanted it in the
proportion of 8-2-2, which is a good
proportion, to have mixed up the six
sacks yourself with woods earth, or
compost, or even sand, before distrib
uting? I think hear you say, well
that's true, but why don't you fix the
law and raise the grade so these fel
lows can't put in all this artificial
"f1lIer."
Ny dear friend, there never yet
was, and there never will be, a law
framed which can meet all the condi
tions of great social and industrial
problem, or which will compensate for
the failure to exercise his own intel
ligence on the part of the individual
citizen. Think for a moment, sup
pose we should pass a law making
it Impossible to use any artificial FILL
ers' in the manufacture Of commercial
fertilizers, by raising the grade to a
very high point Do you not see that
by so doing we should at once paralyze
this great industry, and cut short the
cotton crop of the State, since we
would at once bar the use of South
Carolina acid phosphate, cotton seed
meal and kainit and number of other
good material of similar grade, an
thus at once raise the price of thu
high-grade materials to an unheard-oi
degree by greatly increasing the de
mand for them?
No, the conditions have been very
thoroughly studied in every particular
by the Commissioners of Agriculture
of the various States, aided and ad
vised by those best qualified by expert
ence and training to understand the
matter in all of its details, and the re
SUIT of their deliberations is embodied
in the new Georgia fertilizer law print
ed in Bulletin 80. This law raise:
the grade of commercial fertilizers
from total plant food of ten per
cent. minimum under the old law to
twelve per cent. minimum, and pro
tects the farmer in every way that a
good and just law can protect him.
will give him the highest grade OF
fertilizers he has ever bought, it VIII
protect him against fraud, it will guar
antee that he gets every pound Of fer
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-08
LETTER STATE CHEMIST
John N. McCandless> Regarding
Fertilizers.
Of the Analysis of Fertilizers Contain
ed In His Last Letter and Also Dis.
cusses the Subject of "FiIlers."

In the analysis of the complete fer
tlIizer, the mono-calcic or superphos.
hate of lime given at 9.52 per cent,
contains 5.78 per cent. of water-soluble
phosphoric acid. That is to say in
one hundred pounds Of the fertilizer.
there are nine and fifty-tWo hundreGLns
pounds of superphosphate of lime.
which dissolves readily in water, and
OF this amount five and seventy-eight
hundredths pounds are pure phospho-
rIc acid. In like manner the fertil-
lzer contains in one hundred pounds
3.02 pounds of reverted phosphate CT
lime, and of this amount one aud i'll
ty-eight hundredths pounds are pure
phosphoric acid, and readily soluble
IN water, but which does dissolve
slowly in the soil and soil-water. This
IS also sometimes called "citrate-solu-
ble'' phosphoric acid, because it dis
solves in a solution of citrat eof am
monia made to initiate the action of
soil water. The Water-3Oluble phos-
PAOA4C 0CIu VI o.to POUNDS, ana Lne re-
verted phOsphoric acid or 1.58 pounds,
are added together, making 1886
pounds, and their sum is called the
available phosphoric acid, being con-
sidered as available for the use of the
plant.
Under the reverted" phosphate of
lime you will see in the analysis there
are 1.99 pounds of tri-calcic phosphate,
or, as it is usually called, "Bone-Phos-
phate' Of lime. Of this amount (O.yD
ninety-one hundredths of a pound is
pure phosphoric acid, but it is in the
form Of tri-calcic phosphate, and will
not dissolve in pure water or in the
saltwater, and it is, therefore, called
the "Insoluble" phosphoric acid. 1t
is sometimes also called the Acid"
soluble ph0sphoric acid because. when
the chemist analyzes it, he uses phos-
phoric acid to dissolve it. The Avail.
able" phosphoric acid and the 'Insol-
uble'' phosphoric acid added together
make what is called the Total" phos-
phoric acid, or all the phosphoric acid
there is in the fertilizer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-08
All About "FiIlers."

In this connection we may profitably
say few words in regard to filters +"
A filler" may be defined as being any
substance put into fertilizer, or ex.
isting there naturally, which is not
phosphoric acid, nitrogen or potash.
Filters are of two kinds, natural and
artificial | have just given you an
instance of a natural filler" in the
complete analysis of the fertilizer made
out of acid phosphate, cotton seed
meal and kainit, and in this mixture
only twelve and eighty-three hun
dredths pounds per hundred consisted
Of phosphoric acid, nitrogen and pot
ash; the rest was all filler, put there
by nature in the original making of
these materials. It is true, man did
put in some sulphuric acid, but that
was necessary to make phosphoric
acid available or soluble, so it can
scarcely be considered as an artificial
filler.
The artificial filler" is the filler put
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-08

IN by man for the purpose of reducing
the total percentage of plant food in
fertilizer. Tie materials used as
artificial 'f1llers" are numerous; they
may be sand, powdered cinders, graph
tte slate, shale, pyrites cinder, mari,
gypsum, etc. All of them are prac-
tically without any value as fertilizers;
how is it, then, you inquire, that such
substances can be put into our fertil-
izers, if we have an efficient inspec-
tiOn by the Department of Agriculture.
l will explain to you how that is
Suppose that manufacturer, instead
OF having on hand only South Carolina
Acid phosphate, cotton seed meal and
kafnit when you call on him for an
8-2-2 goods, has on hand some of the
highest grade materials known to the
trade
He has say, acid phosphate made
from Tennessee or Florida rock, which
contains 20 per cent. of available phos-
phoric acid; also nitrate Of soda with
16 per cent. of nitrogen, dried blood
with fourteen per cent. nitrogen, sui
phate Of ammonia with twenty per
cnt. nitrogen, muriate of potash wi
so per cent. of potash; with these ma
terials on hand he receives your order
for fertilizer, guaranteed to contain
as small an amount of plant food as
the law will permit, viz; twelve per
cent, made up OF eight per cent avail
able phosphoric acid, two per cent.
nitrogen, two per cent. potash. Con-
sidering the materials he has on hand,
he figures out this formula:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-08
CHEAP LANDS

We can furnish you lands
and homes in the Garden
Spot" of Georgia, where the
lands are practically level, and
health is perfect. We have
small farms, and large ones
improved and un1nproved
Small tracts and large tracts
for investors. City and town
property. Write us what you
want, and we will send de,
scription. Prices are advanc.
ing rapidly.
Triton Real Estate Company
Padrick.Euilding,
Triton, GEORGIA
y
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-08
1888 pc.

AS you see this analysis only foots
up twelve and eighty-three hundredths
pounds per hundred You need no long.
er ask what constitutes the other
eighty-seven and seventeen hundredths
pounds All this extra 8717 per cent.
is filler" put in by nature and not by
man
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-08
Valuable Qualities of the Gypsum that
Is Found in Fertilizers,

- ~S'''A lfi liIiGClSs
Referring back to The analysis, un.
Ter the item tri- or Bone-phosphate,
.ou will find that the fertilizer also
contains tWenty-four and six tenths
pounds Of sulphate of lime or gypsum
n land plaster, which are all differ
ant names for one and the same thing.
Gypsum is a good fertilizer of itself,
and has special action of it's own in
he soil, breaking up the potash-yield.
-ng silicates in clay soils and bringing
the potash into soluble form as sui
phate of potash. This gypsum. as
has been remarked, was formed when
the sulphuric acid was mixed with the
powdered phosphate rock, and it is
now held a prisoner by the lime in
such a way that it has lost all of it's
former caustic and corrosive qualities,
and can do no harm but only good in
the soil
Under the item of gypsum we fnd
3,19 pounds of sulphate of potash;
this comes out of the kainit used in
making the fertilizer, and it contains
one and seven tenths pounds of actual
potash (K2 o.. Under this item you
find three-tenths of a pound of muriate
of potash, which also came out of the
kainit, and this contains Ole of q
pound of actual potash; under this
item again you find Csc of a pound OF
actual potash. This came out of the
cotton seed meal. Adding the thrss
actual potash items together, they
amount to two and forty-five hun.
dredths per cent (2.45) or pounds per
hundred. Lastly look further down
the line till you come to the item pro.
tein. You already know all tbout
protein as l have written you so much
about it in previous letters. This
thirteen and two tenths pounds c
protein contains two and eleven hun.
dredths (2,1D pounds of nitrogen.
Now, when the State Department OF
Agriculture analyzes fertilizer, it does
not make such an analysis as this
because it would be too Iaborious, too
costly, and would really do no prae
tical good; SO they go at once into the
meat of it and analyze the fertilizer
for its available phospnorIc acid, its
nitrogen and potash, and calculate it
value from these three ingredients.
The analysis of such fertilizer g.
we have been discussing would appe9
in the annual Bulletin in this form:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-08

But no, you won't have 1t that way,
you must have ton, ten sacks of 8-2-2,
so the manufacturer rather than enter
upon a campaign Of education with
all Of his customers, obligfngiy treights
into his factory eight hundred pounds
of powdered slate mined some hundred
miles away, utterly worthless as fer
tilizer, and mixes it in with the twelve
hundred pounds of good fertilizer max
ing one ton. This mixture ON inspection
and analysis shows
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1900 pounds

Now in this 1900 pounds of high
grade materials he has all the plant
food you called for, with a small mar
gin for safety. You called for eight
per cent. of a ton in available phos-
phoric acid or one hundred and sixty
pounds, and in his 825 pounds of twen-
ty per cent acid phosphate he has
given you one hundred and sixty-fve
pounds of available phosphoric acid;
you called for two per cent of a ton,
or forty pounds of nitrogen, and in his
215 pounds of dried blood, containing
fourteen per cent. nitrogen and seven
ty-fve pounds nitrate of soda with six
teen per cent Of nitrogen, he has Civ
en- you forty-two and one-tenth pounds
Of nitrogen. In like manner you called
for forty pounds of potash, and in
eighty-five pounds of fifty per cent
murtate Of potash he has given you
forty-two and half pounds Of actual
potash. Now the best thing both for
you and the manufacturer, the cheapest
thing for both of you, would be for
him to send you that twelve hundred
pounds put up in six sacks, which, up
on inspection and analysis, would
show:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-08

S25 pounds Of 20 p. c. acid phosphate
215 pounds IA p. C. dried blood
rs pounds of 16 p. C. nitrate of soda
IS pounds so p. c. muriate of potash
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-08

ROYAL BAKING PowDER CO., NEW YORK.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02
ANNOUNCED.
Miss Lizzie Pepper and William
Grimes to BE Married,

The first marriage to take place
in .Tonopah after the close of the
Lenten season will be that of Miss
Lizzie Pepper and William Grimes,
which occurs next Saturday evening,
April 9th, at the Turner residence
on Upper Main street. Rev. Father
Butler will perform the service.
Bride and groom have resided in
Tonopah since the early days, the
groom being a member OF the Nc
kenzie-G Grimes company, and both
have been leaders in the younger set.
Among their friends and acquaint-
ances, who are legion, they are very
popular, and universal is the wish
that their married life will be n OF
uninterrupted happiness.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02
Another Paper for GoldheId.

L. G. Branson, proprietor of the
Dawson Daily Record, who has been
enjoying the winter in California, is
here to look over the new mining
camp OF Goldfeld with a view to
starting a newspaper there that will
be second to none in that part Of the
state. A magnificent plant has been
ordered in San Francisco and will
probably be shipped in a few days.
Mr.. Branson leaves tomorrow for the
camp. Mr.. Branson is a newspaper
man Of wide experience and is familiar
with work in the new camps. His
paper will Gil a need that Goldfeld
certainly feels. Mr.. Brauson says
the Klondike country is all right yet
and will be so for many years. He
still retains his newspaper interests
there and is believed to have pros
pered financially Reno Gazette.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02
New Company.

A letter received from r. L. Col
born, 10Y at Goldfeld, New, conveys
the information that the Red Top
Mining company, with a capital stock
Of 81 1000, 900, with an equal number
OF shares, has been organized at To-
nopah to operate a group Of claims
in the Goldheld district. The officers
Of the company are Charles d. Tay.
lor, Of the Jumbo group, pres
ident; Frank NJ. Ish, vice-president,
r. L. Colborn, secretary aud treas
urer, who, with j. B. Menardi and
G. B. McClelland, form the board Of
directors. Assays made on ore from
the property to be developed from
50. go up to 500 10 the ton; the tests
being confined to ore found on the
surface. Salt Lake Herald.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02
LIKES
Says 1t. Will Prove as Great a
Camp as TOnOpah.

Camp as TOnOpah.
j. l.. Heron, the genial business
representative of Governor Sparks,
returned from a trip to Tonopah and
Goldfeld last evening. Speaking of
his trip Mr.. Heron said:
my trip was for a general iuspec-
ton of the Tonopah and Gold6eld
districts. | found great activity
prevailing in both camps. From the
general formation of the Goldfeld
district, / believe it will prove a
worthy rival to Tonopah. The pro-
ducing mines in Gold6eld are limited
at present practically to the January
and Combination claims. Excellent
bodies of high grade rock have been
discovered in each, and the develop.
ment thus far indicates depth and
richness as the shafts go down. The
whole country has been staked for
miles in every direction from Gold
field. journal.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02
More Material.

Yesterday (Monday) the new en-
CINE for the Tonopah road started on
its journey south, where it will be
set to work in the construction OF
the railroad. In the yard in this city
are half a dozen fat cars, several
coaches and other material used in
railroad construction and equipment.
Material arrives on nearly every
afternoon train. Appeal.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02
A Fine Snecimen.

There is on exhibition at the Nye
County bank, a specimen Of ore from
the Paymaster at Lone Mountain
that assays $l432 in silver and $39. 20
in gold. The specimen is said to be
from an eight inch streak that has
recently been opened up in the 200
foot level. 1t shows a great deal of
native silver, beside a lot of chloride.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02
Good Copper Prospect.

Ted Brodigan came in from Luning
Monday. He says that the Copper
company has completed the assess
ment work on IS locations, and will
soon begin the extraction and reduc-
ton Of ore on a large scale. There
are millions OF tons OF copper in these
mines and il the ore can be made to
pay, Luning will be one of the big
camps Of the state in the G a future.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02
Hanged Himself.

With constitution broken by long.
continued Ill health aud the weight
OF years, Gustave Mau last Saturday
decided to end the pains that racked
his body. He was found in an un.
conscious condition in the woodshed
at the rear Of his home in Eureka
hanging from one of the rafters and
died a few minutes later. Eureka
Sentinel.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02
Attempted Murder.

Word was received here this morn
ing of an assault at Warren camp
No. 3 on the irrigation canal in this
county. John Murphy hit Charles
Ryder over the head with a bottle
and the latter is likely to die. Muir
ply escaped but was later captured
in the brush and is now in Jail at
Wadsworth. Sheriff Quirk and Dis
trict Attorney Pyne will leave for
the scene this evening.-Virglnia
Report.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02
Railroad Wages.

The following is the rate OF wages
paid on the new railroad, according
to the Lyon County Times; Three
dollars per day for laborers. 81. %
for spikers, So. so for straw bosses,
and a dollar a day is charged for
board. A mar with tie team of two
horses gets IS per day and the COM
pany furnishes hay, grain, water and
grub.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02
Money Tor DeveIopment.

The Nevada Park Mining company
of Salt Lake, by which the old Silver
Park group OF mines 30 miles north
of Modena, on the line of the San
Pedro, was recently acquired, will
inaugurate work this month, and to
that end has called on the share
holders for IS, 600.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02
TONOPAH BONANZA
TIMBER HILL.
Fine Looking Prospects Being
Opened Up in the District.

Opened Up in the District.
Harry Clark is in town this week
from Timber Hill, forty-ive miles
north of Tonopah, where the Timber
Hill Mining company is doing some
extensive ard successful development.
The company is the owner OF sever
claims which have all been surface
prospected and all show strong hedges
OF ore, carrying values in gold and
silver from a few dollars up to 1920,
and from 4 to As per cent in copper.
On nj OF the claims a shaft has been
sunk to a depth of 80 feet, and at the
bottom is exposed a fine body of ore
that will return good milling values.
The property is equipped with a
Corliss hoist, has a complete assay.
ing outfit and Office and substantial
cook and bunk houses.
Wood and water are plentiful in
the vicinity and il is the purpose OF
the company, when development p's-
titles 1T to erect suitable works for
the reduction Of the mines product
on the ground. The formation Of the
surrounding country is lime and por-
phyry, and it offers a fine field for
systematic prospecting.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02

Thirty-two Main street lots in
Diamond6eld were spoken for yester-
day. The supply at bottom prices
will not last long. Get in while you
can. Apply to Frank M, Ish, man
ager, on the ground or by telephone
at Goldfield.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02

Goldfeld lots sold at $35 two weeks
ago-now they are going at $500.
Diamondfield lots will repeat the per-
Torrance. Get in on the ground
floor. r
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02

The snow will soon to commence to
fy-you want wood to keep you
warm-lay in your winter supply
now. The Pioneer Livery Stable has
it cheap for cash.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02
Bodies Sun Missing.

A few days ago, when the snow
was partly cleared away by the rain,
a search was made for the bodies OF
the workmen who persisted in the
snowslide at Lakeview last month.
No trace Of them was found, however,
and they probably are covered by
the big drifts,-Truckee Republican.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-02

Goldield headquarters at the Mer.
chants cafe. m