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The Jackson herald., 1904-11-03
Dress Skirts.

We want you to inspect our
line of ready-to-wear Dress
Skirts. You will find them most
reasonable in price.
All wool heavy Walking
Skirt in blue, brown and
tan, worth 3. 80, at .... -
All wool Walking Skirt in
blue and tan mixtures,
worth $3.50, at.........,.S3.50
The best Skirt ever sold for
the price, in gray, tan,
brown and black, worth
Sc, at ..,. ...........,...".S4.l5
A full line of Misses Skirts
and Ladies' Tailored Suits.
We have a good line of La
dies Tailor-made Suits
worth SO, Sl2 and Sl5,
choice of the lot for ..., $500
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-10-29
The South Fork.

This property was closed down
for several days pending the ar
rival Of new plates for the mill.
These arrived recently since
when the mill has been running
steadily and is producing $50 per
day to the two 300lb stamps.
There are two veins on this
property, running parallel, upon
which several hundred feet of
exploration work has been done,
the smaller of these has fur
nished all the milling ore up to
the present time. The owners
have been unable thus far, owe
ing to lack of means, to prospect
the larger vein, although they
are reasonably certain that a big
pay shoot exists somewhere along
it's course as very rich float have
been found thereon.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-10-29
Bartlett---Jacques.

In nominating these gentlemen
for the position of county attor-
ney and probate judge respect
lively the republican party of
Idaho county have not only re-
warded faithful service rendered
in its interests but have added
materially to the strength of its
ticket. To these gentlemen, while
filling the position of chairman
and secretary of the republican
central committee, is largely due
the credit for the high state of
efficiency and discipline the or
ganization enjoys at present.
While both men will, no doubt,
command their full party
strength throughout the county,
Mr.. Bartlett, at least, will go be-
yond that limit, especially on this
side Of the county, owing largely
to his able conduct of the Max
we'll case in court and his manly
and. generous treatment of Ike
outside the court.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-10-29
A PROMISING PR~pERTY.
The Oregon GroupeA--Situated on Summit Flat
Preparations for Extensive Work.

hoist preparatory to deep sinking
and exploration. The company
recently bought a two-stamp trip
pie discharge Hammond mill
which they intend installing the
coming winter. This section of
the Station district is as its name
indicates an extensive flat" sit
uated on the summit of a noun
tain which has an elevation of
about 5000 feet and is covered by
a magnificent growth of young
pine, tall and straight, which will
make splendid stulls.
Besides the above property
there are a number of good
claims on this fiat among which
are the Posey and High Pocket
groups, owned by Messrs. Poy-
neer, Mitchell and Hinton, all of
Elk City. Four tons of ore from
the former group crushed by ar
rastra yielded $50 per ton. The
mill test from the latter group
was not so good owing to lack of
experience which permitted the
"quick" to flour, but, notwith-
standing this bad luck, they re-
covered $14 per ton in 2 run of
ten tons. This section, in COM
mon with all mining districts sit
uated on the South Fork water
shed, is terribly handicapped by
poor transportation facilities
which can be the only rational
excuse for its backwardness;
which handicap it is to be hoped
will be removed by the next leg
islature by building a wagon road
up the South Fork of the Clear
water.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-10-29

This property is owned by Spo-
kane, Kendrick and Rosalia peo-
pie. 1t is situated on Summit Flat
in the Station mining district,
about three miles northwest of
Orogrande and about twelve west
of Elk City. The two principal
claims were located about five
years ago by ]. M. Hinton and
G. D. Walters who extracted con-
siderable ore which they milled
in an arrastra, by which process
they recovered $40 per ton. The
ore is sulphide in character and
carries some arsenical iron, it is
claimed, some sylvanite occurs
also but in irregular quantities.
The iron is generally oXidized to
the present depth, which is about
80 feet, leaving the gold gener-
ally free and susceptible to COM
mon plate amalgamation. Re
turns from eleven samples taken
from both shafts by various
members of the company give an
average exceeding $50 per ton in
gold. The ore shoot as exposed
on the surface is about 500 feet
in length and has a width exceed
ing three feet, and shows good
values wherever tested. Mr..
Hinton secured his partners in
terest about one year ago and he
in turn bonded to the present
company through F. E. Corbus,
the present manager, who has
since then prosecuted develop
ment work diligently besides ad-
ding several valuable claims to
the original group. He is en-
gagged at present in installing a
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-10-29

neers of Green Bay, Wisconsin,
from which state his father en-
listed in the 44th infantry, and
got an honorable discharge at the
close Of the war. While Charles
was but a few months old his
parents now moved into the then
wilderness Of northern Iowa
where he grew to manhood. Aft
er finishing his education he
moved to the state of Washing
ton where he was engaged in
farming and teaching school up
to 1893 when he came to Idaho
county and followed prospecting
and pining in the Warrens and
Big Creek districts for number
of years, from which place he
was later called to go back to
Iowa to settle his fathers estate.
On his return he located in Sites
where he has ever since, been en-
gagged in selling of lands and To-
eating homesteaders. He has
probably done as much as any
one man to encourage immigra-
ton, especially to this county.
Mr.. Butler knows the needs of
the farmer, the merchant and
the miner throughout the county.
His .warmest friends are those
with whom he has dealt, and if
there is a man whom we could
more implicitly trust in business
affairs we have not made his ac-
quaintance. Sites Journal.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-10-29
MONEY ORDER BUSINESS.
Number of Orders Pass Fifty Million
Mark for First Time.

The total number Of money or
ders issued by this government
during the last fiscal year passed
the 50,000,000 mark for the first
time in the history, as shown by
the annual report of the superin-
tendent of the money order sys-
tenn. The net revenue of the
money order business was So, ,528-
403, an increase Of $288, 494 as
compared with the previous fiscal
year. The gross revenue was So, =
626, ,676, an increase Of $376, ,282.
The number of domestic orders
issued was so, 392, ,554, aggregat-
ing $378, ,778, 48S, and information
al money orders issued number
2,208, ,344, aggregating $42, $780, =
$50. Domestic money orders,
paid and repaid, numbered, so, =
$50, 1868, aggregating $378,511, =
407; international paid and re
paid, $915, 1886; fees received
from issue of domestic orders
were 5000, 440; from interna-
tional, $444, $50. There were SO, =
OBJ domestic and 6,913 interna-
tional order offices in operation
up to today, against "a, SAT do
mestic and 6,322 international in
operation June 80, 1903. The is
sue of domestic orders increased
4,450, 1878 in number and S25, $50,
$40 in amount, while information
al issue increased 294, 1876 and 81,
412, ,215, respectively.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-10-29
the night before he left for Elk
City,
DIDN'T BUY DENVER.
Contractor Wren Denies the Rumor of
a Deal in IDAHO.

Rumors are afoat that Wren &
Greenough, the well known rail-
road contractors Of Montana and
Idaho, have purchased the town.
site Of Denver, in Idaho county,
Idaho. The Lewiston Teller states
that the rumor could not be con-
firmed, but it is understood the
deal comprises 700 acres of the
original town of Denver, and 1000
acres surrounding the town. The
rumor was taken to indicate that
preparations for building the
Northern Pacific to Camas prairie
are among the possibilities within
the near future.
Mr.. Wren, who is at his home
in this city, states that there is
positively nothing to the rumor.
He says the contractors have ne
gotiated for a tract of land near
the town of Denver, but the deal
has not been closed; and the land
if purchased will be used for q
place to keep the stock and horses
of the contractors. The contrac-
tor positively denies any know
ledge of the plans of the railroad
company regarding contemplated
extensions in that part of the
country. Spokane Chronicle.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-10-29
A. Serious Accident.

AL. Blumburg, who arrived
here recently from Thunder
Mountain, reports the loss of two
18 horse teams and the boilers
for the Sunnyside company in
Chilcoot pass. Mr.. Blumburg
says the accident was caused by
a portion of the new state wagon
road giving way and precipita-
ting the two outfits into the can
yon. The road boss, he says,
brought the news into his camp
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-10-29
The Cornucopia.

F. w. Thornton made trip to
the Cornucopia, north of the
Hump, this week and reports
work progressing very satisfac-
torily. He brought back some
very fine rock. The ore shoot is
exposed along its course for 100
feet, and the ore assays from $14
to Sill per ton.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-10-29
Charles Nj. Butler.

His friends say it now seems
assured that our townsman Char
les M. Butler will be elected COM
missioner from the first district.
In answer to enquiries from
readers will say that Charles M.
Buffers parents were early pio-
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-10-29

When a metallurgical question
assumes a certain popular inter-
est it is apt to be badly mauled at
the hands of the non-technical
press. In the matter of the tube
mill there has been much writing,
because it has appealed keenly to
the intelligent self-interest of a
large public, dispirited by re-
peated delays in the progress of
South Africa development. But
the principles underlying this
metallurgical departure have
been applied before today.
When Mr.. H. S. Denny, in June,
1903, emphasized the fact that
chlorination is an exact but ex-
pensive process for treating van
ner concentrates, and recognized
the further fact that the gold in
pyrite is mechanically mixed, and
not chemically combined with
that common mineral, so that fine
grinding could liberate the prec-
ious metal, he exhibited the COM
mon sense that is the essence of
engineering. By re-grinding in q
tube-mill, agitating with cyanide
solution, and then separating this
solution containing the gold, by
squeezing the pulp in a filter
press, he obtained results so good
that the method is now likely to
be applied to the entire system Of
milling on the Rand.
The value Of fine crushing as a
means Of liberating gold from its
matrix has been the basic idea OF
every kind of milling, from the
grinding stones Of the Egyptians
to the arrastra of Mexico and the
pan Of Nevada. 1t is IA years
since we saw Mr.. T. G. Davey,
now in Rhodesia, then in the Aus
tralian Alps, applying the re-
grinding process to the roasted
vanner concentrate by using pans
preparatory to amalgamation. AT
the IvanhOe mine today R. B.
Nicolson uses pans in preference
to tube-mills, as being cheaper to
erect and more economical in op-
Grafton. Whatever of newness
there is in the recent success OF
the tube, in which fiints GRIND
the ore with an action like that
of surf on a pebbly beach, is due
to improvements in the lining of
this machine, rendering it more
capable of resisting heavy wear
and tear. Previously this ma
chine had been used on cement
clinker; in fact, the history of the
tube is a reversal of precedent,
for most patent pulverizers in
tended for crushing gold-bear-
ing ore fail of SUCCESS .and
are put to the lowlier task Of
grinding bone, Stag, paint, &C.
ment and other industrial prod
ucts of less hardness or smaller
value. So efficient has the tube
mill proved that from Kalgooriie
it went to Waihi, Ell Orc and the
Rand.
The metallurgical practice de-
veloped by this grinding machine
represents an apparent contradic-
ton. Formerly the effort of every
mill.nan was to crush without
making slime; that is, to reduce
his ore to a defnate size, or as
near it as possible; he aimed to
discharge through, for example,
a 30-mesh screen, without pound
ing the pulp so that a good deal
of it would pass through a 200
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-10-29
A Method
to
Handle
Shines.
Tube-MilI
and Filter-Press
FROM THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL.

mesh. Slime has been defined as
that portion of the crushed ore
which is so finely divided as not
to be leachable. This definition
must give way to the logic Of
facts. The filter-press changed
our ideas of the non-leachable.
In future discussions it will be
better to confine our notions Of
what constitutes slime to fineness
rather than adaptability to any
particular treatment. Rock so
comminuted that it will pass
through a sieve having 200 holes
per linear inch that is, 2OO-mesh
becomes slime when mixed
with water.
Formerly, the objection to ex-
cess of pulvei'ization in ordinary
stamp-miiling was that the met
alic particles of gold became 50
flattened that they were easily
carried away by the mill water
IN the form of float gold"; while
if amalgamation was followed by
the separation of other valuable
minerals, their concentration by
gravity was hindered by minute
subdivision, and the formation,
in the case Of brittle sulphides,
or fakes that would not settle.
Furthermore, in the stamp bat
terry itself, excess of slime means
the hammering of gold so that it
resists amalgamation, while at
the same time any mercury de-
tached from the inside plates, or
fed into the mortar, becomes
separated into minute globules,
which, when coated with the i'm
palpable slime, refuse to coalesce,
and in that condition are not ar
rested on the plates, and become
easily transported with the tail
ings, taking with them inevitably
whatever gold they may have
caught before they become sick
ened. When minutely subdivide
ed, mercury is said to be Toured,
and when in a condition render
ing it unfit to exercise its func-
ton Of amalganation it is tech
nically described as Sick
Even when amalgamation, with
its sequel Of concentration, gave
way in many mining districts to-
The cyanide process, there was
still an endeavor to avoid exces-
sive pulverization, because this
teaching process involved
concomitant filtration, the chief
obstacle to which was the chok-:
ing interstitial spaces by slime.
Although vacuum pumps and me-
chanical stirring attempted to
rapid filtration, and decantation
tried to avoid it, not until the
filter-press came into vogue was
the slime problem defnately con-
quered. The filter-press has re-
moved these dangers by atfording
a method whereby liberation and
contact with solution are both
secured by forcing the solution
under heavy pressure through
the pulp. 1t is the filtr-press
that rendered fine grinding prac-
ticable, and it will be the tube
mill, doubtless, that will give a
notable stimulous to invention,
whereby filter pressing will be-
come not the clumsy and rather
costly business it is now, but a.
rapid and continuous, and there
fore cheap, process of leaching
The impalpable product of the
grinding machine. *'" $50 "Da
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1904-07-08

With most Of these old friends there is
is a double tie. Besides the connection
of editors ana readers there is the fra
ternity of the pioneer. Together during
these years we have worked to build the
foundations OF this great county and
state. We were all here at the beginning
of things. We have seen the growth of
the seeds that we planted. There may
have been some weeds permitted to grow
but on the whole we are proud of this
garden spot where we have made our
homes. Wherever men work together
for any considerable time for common
object, whether on the battlefields where
armies contend tor supremacy, or on the
battlefield where nature is subdued to
make homes pleasant tor man, there al
ways remains tie of fraternity, that lasts
through life. The old pioneers love each
other.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1904-07-08
The Dakota Railroad.
Grand Forks Herald .

lCopied from the outside page of the first issue
Of the Pemhina Pioneer.]
Unless something unforeseen in
tervenes, in about six weeks Che
iron horse will BIZ snorting and
cavorting about in our midst. and
an impetus be given our town that
will start her forward with almost
gigantic strides. A corps of sur.
veyors has been engaged for the
past few days IN making the final
survey between Fishers Landina
and this place and within q short
time after the stifvey is completed
grading on the road will commence
and the work will be- finished and
cars runaing by September Let.
General Mansger Hill, Of the ST.
Paul 3 Manitoba road, was expect
ed in town yesterday to select q
location for q bridge across the
Red river. Before our next issue
this question will be determined
and the preliminary arrangements
for the commencement viii have
been perfected. due announcement
Of which will 30 heralded in these
columPs.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1904-07-08

There are now eight other weekly pa
pers published in this county, viz: The
St. Thomas Times, Pink Paper, Bath
gate; Drayton Echo, Cavalier Chronicle,
CRYSTAL Call, Neche Chronotype, Wal
halla Mountaineerr and. Hamilton Inde-
pendent. All of these are above the av.
erage of country weeklles in ability and
all seem to be doing good business.
The population of the county at the last
census was less than 1900. The com.
bined circulation of the Pembina county
weeklies must necessarily mean at least
two OF them to each English reading
family in the county. Besides this, most
families take more or less papers from
the old Canadian home, as well as relig-
ious, literary, and city dailies and week.
lies.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1904-07-08

No better criterion Of the intelligence
of the people of Pembina county need be
given. On the other hand, the papers
that serve this class of a reading public
must necessarily be OF high standard
or else they would not suit the people.
The Pioneer Express has the compli-
ment of holding its own all through the
past years. One of the pleasant things
TO the present proprietors is the fact that
our subscription list still bears so great a
proportion of the names that were on the
books seventeen and some twenty-five
years ago. Of course, time has made
changes, through deaths, removals and
other circumstances. But, as we said, it
is remarkable how many of the names on
our lists were in the books when we took
charge Of the paper.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1904-07-08
Some of the Oldest Newspapers:

The first newspaper in North Dakota
was the Bismarck Tribune. 1t was es-
tablished in July, 1873. The N. P. rail
road was then just completed to Bis
marck. Col. Lounsberry, now the pub
Usher of the Record, was the founder.
The second paper was called The Ex-
press and was started at Fargo: it was
later changed into the Times, then into
the Republican, which again was merg-
ed with the Forum, end still exists in
that form. Its first issue was in 1874.
In the same year Geo. Fl. Walsh started
the Plaindealer at Grand Forks, which
ran continuously under that name until
this year, when the new proprietors
made the old name subordinate to the
Evening Press. The jamestown Alert
began in 1873 under the veteran Marsh
all Mcclure. In 1879 quite a number
of papers started in the state, as that
was the time when the immigration
wave was in full force in the Red River
Valley: Among these were the Grand
Forks Herald, Pembina Pioneer and the
Gazette and the Times Of Wahpeton.
After that newspapers grew as rapidly
as did the wheatfields, until now there
are something like 285 periodicals in the
state, the most of which are weeklies.
The balance includes 8 dailies and II
monthlies, $5. -
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1904-07-08

Twenty-Five years, retrospectively, is
not long time. But in the last twenty
five years. measured by progress and ac-
complishment in this county and state,
means much. From an uninhabited
prairie wilderness to thickly settled
land full of prosperous cities and villag-
es. From the pasture of the buffalo to
the wheatfelds that feed the world.
Where rose the smoke from the tepee
fires now is seen the school house and
church. The long train of Red river
carts is replaced by the steel tracks and
locomotive. From barbarism to civil
cation. That is the history of, the last
twenty-five years. 1t is a story full of
interest. 1t is story full of wonder.
The wheels of progress have rolled along
so quietly that we who have seen them
revolve have hardly realized the speed
and the vast distance measured in these
few years.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1904-07-08

The Pioneer Express has never sought
to be in any way sensational paper. A
country newspaper is largely the product
Of its environments. We have tried al
ways to keep the paper to at least the
level of its surroundings. We have tried
to make good paper all the time rather
than big paper at sometimes. We
think our readers have learned to expect
the paper of one week to be very much
like the paper OF any other week. We
try, and we think we succeed pretty we'll.
to give all the county news worth giving,
but have always tried to omit all neigh
borhood quarreIs, scandal or immortality.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1904-07-08

Mr.. Gatchel "Huckleberry' was pc
culiar genius. In many ways he was a
man of superior ability, but his abilities
were of the kind that benefited the
public rather than his own pocket. He
had splendid advertising support and
as the only paper in the vicinity he had
the whole of the final proof advertising,
which in itself ought to have been en-
ough to pay the expenses of the office.
But he ran behind financially, with ev-
cry opportunity of success. He was uni
versally liked, but was a failure in a
business sense. He left here soon after
he sold out and went to Iowa, but has
not been heard of for many years that
we knowsof. Mr.. Brown, who was a
practical printer, died in South Dakota
in 1883.