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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-01-09

struck the previous fall. They got no
farther than Elk City, however, where
placer mines had been struck fully as
rich and far more extensive than those
at florence. Here Mearston took up
mining grounds, which he continued to
work until his death. At the time they
anne to Elk City provisions were ex-
ceedingly scarce and costly. eve paid
$65 per sack for-our flour in those
days." says Mrs. Young. A
Fed the Hungry.
Some years after Mr.. Mearston's
death Mrs. Mearston was married to j.
c.. Young, a pioneer of Elk City, with
whom she is still living. For some
years after their marriage Mr.. and
Mrs. Young kept a hotel at Elk City,
and it is said of them that they never
turned away a hungry man or denied
anyone shelter, and this without regard
as to whether the Yayfarer had money
to pay for it orsnot{ It issneedless to
say that this worthy old couple, now in
the evening of their days, enjoy the
profound respect and deep regard of all
the old timers i their vicinity, and
many stories are told of their generosi-
ty and hospitality in those early and
trying times. Some years since they
had the misfortune to lose their home
by fire, and Mrs. Young came near los
ing her life in the fire.
Their neighbors came to their relief
with marked generosity, and their pres
ent residence was soon built. Mrs.
Young's nervous system received a Sc
we're shock from the destruction of her
home and her narrow escape from
death. From this she has never fully
recovered, but otherwise her health is
fairly good for n of her extreme old
age. Her mind is distinct and clear,
particularly as to incidents connected
with her early life. She is a grand old
woman, and the interesting incidents
which have fallen under her observa-
ton, particularly on this coast, should
be chronicled and preserved.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20
Talks with Farmers

crops Once free from debt, let us
stay out Of debt and control our own
product and we will see no more five
or six cent cotton crops.
The question may be asked. With
such advantages, why does not Geor-
ga and the South advance more rap
idly in wealth? / reIly Our people
are advancing, and the increase has
been great during the past three years,
but this advance is in the face of a
tremendous drain which is not appar-
ent to every one.
Through the operation of the tariff
and internal revenue, it is estimated
that the South pays 100000 600 year
toward the government pension bill.
This sum is Except a small fraction)
transferred to Northern States and
the mountainous districts of the South,
and helps enrich them. Georgia's pro-
portion OF this payment is some Sd
100000, equal to half her States debt
paid every year. If 1t We're paid by
the State as direct tax 1t would
probably raise political revolution;
but this drain goes on so silently that
many are not aware of it, and 1t VIII
go on when the last man who fought
against the Union is dead, and per-
haps when all his children are dead.
The defeated in modern wars have
usually paid the penalty; but this is
the most Ingenious, IilSlulcuS, olIViiN,
and enormous penalty ever laid on q
defeated people-in the aggregate, a
far greater penalty per capita than
ever Napoleon laid upon those whom
he crushed, or the Germans exacted
from the French.
Had it not been for our natural re-
sources and energy, we would never
have stood up under it. But, in spite
of all this, things are coming our way.
We are getting out of debt; we are do
ing better farming, more manufacture
ing, and learning better how to mar
ket our crops.
We are manufacturing two mil
lion bales of cotton a year, adding
easily $1O0,00,000 TO the value of the
raw cotton. The future is bright with
promises if we are but true to the
high character, the indomitable ener-
gy, and the great souls of the fathers
and mothers who, coming out of the
most desolating war in modern his
tory, found the country a desert and
| brought it to it's present position of
| greatness and prosperity.
p. S.-Since this letter was written
the government report of exports
showed that the value of cotton eX-
ported for the year ending July | was
: $3.50, 900, 600. This is $27, 900, 900 more
| than the combined value of all the
! grain breadstuffs and meat products
| exported from the United tSates fol-
! the same period.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20
Worthless FOrmaldehyde.

The Ohio Station through Prof. T..
IT. Goddard, sends out n warning to
farmers i'm regard to worthless forma-
ldehyde. The Ohio Station bought q
carboy of formaldehyde early in the
year to send out to be used in checking
smut in oats 1t proved to have no
effect whatever. On examination OF
what was left it was found that in
stead of being 40 per cent. it had so
little formaldehyde in it that it was
perfectly worthless. The firm from
which it was bought wrote to them
Referring to your letters of August
18th and 9th, and also of later date.
in regard TO the carboy of foTmalde-
hyde which was shipped to you last
February, investigation at our works Of
the samples you submit. shows that an
inexcusable blunder was made. and
that the material shipped to you was
not formaldehyde." When these blum
ders are made by manufacturing
chemists it is time for farmers to see
that they are not imposed upon in buy
ing formaldehyde. which. when of full
40 per cent strength. is a very valua-
bic fungicide, may be perfectly worth
less as in this case, and the Stations
should carefully examine that which
is offered for sale in their States, and
examine samples for the farmers.
PROF. w. II. MASSEY.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20
Cotton Interests in the South.
fBy samuel VI. Inrnan.

Few of us without suuding the ques-
ton realize what an important part
this staple plays in the financial and
Industrial history of the world; and
the South holds the production of this
great crop almost without rival, fur
nishing nearly so per cent. of the
worlds consumption Limited by
climatic conditions to our part of the
Union, the cotton growers of
America have the most perfect agri-
cultural monopoly of the world.
For forty years foreign lands have
by governmental influence and mon
ey, and by private capital and enter
prise, tried to build up cctton-grow-
ing in competition with the South.
But the aggregate foreign crops in
crease very little, and TO supply the
ever-increasng demand of about $780,
900 bales a year for an average in
crease in the worlds consumption, the
world must depend upon our country.
If we keep out of debt and market
this crop wisely without the pressure
of debt, we ought to benefit enormous
ly as time goes on from this great
treasure. This years cotton crop, m
Guiding the seed, sold for $3.50, 000,0 600.
Besides furnishing the mills North and
South with all they used, we export
ed enough to bring $685. 100000 gold
TO this country This is one-fourth as
much gold as California has produced
since the discovery of the precious
metal there.
Six hundred and fifty million dol
lars was enough to buy every bushel
of wheat raised in the United States
and leave q hundred and fifty million
to the good. 1t was enough to buy
and pay for half the corn crop of two
and one-fourth billion bushels grown
in the United States. The corn crop
is the only one of the great crops
that exceeds n value the cotton crop.
Iowa is the greatest corn growing
state in the world, and produces one
eleventh of the total corn crop of the
United States; yet this year, after
growing her corn and wheat crop
Georgia sold her cotton for $S0,00O,-
900, enough to pay cash for every
bushel of corn grown in Iowa.
1t should encourage us to feel that
back of us we have this imperial
money-producing crop; perpetual
inheritance hedged about the climatic
conditions are protected from world
competition which threatens the other
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20
Tobacco Going Higher.
(southern Tobacco Journal.

(SOuthern Tobacco JoumaI)
While tobacco is selling very well
ON all the markets now, much better
in fact lhan last season. we are forced
to believe that il will go still higher.
In making this assertion, we are not
guessing in the dark. but we base our
opinion upon facts anu figures, and
upon conditions as they now exist.
In the first place, the 1902'03 crop
was not an abnormal one in neither
acreage nor pounds and, in the sec
ond place, the CROP thGt is ROW being
marketed is Il short one. There is no
question about these facts. We all
know that the acreage was short. The
chief statitician of the agricultural
department says the reduction in acre
age is nearly 20 per cent. In addi-
ton to this the production per acre
will fall short of last year and the
year previous. We are, therefore, safe
in saying that this years production
is 80 per cent short in pounds. There
is, of course, an increase all the time
in the consumption of the manufac-
tured article, which causes a cores
ponding increase in the demand.
Another point is, that we do not ex-
pect to see another large crop of to-
bacco planted soon. Certainly not as
long as cotton remains around to 10
cents. Now these are facts, and why
should tobacco not go higher? Every
thing else that grows out of the ground
or on top of it, is high in price, and
tobacco will not be an exception.
There is at present every indication of
a rising market, and we are safe in
our predictions as to the future
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20

We notice that the name of Dr.
Armsby is being mentioned as a sue
cessor to Col. Bingham as Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture. The Presi-
dent could hardly do better, for Dr.
Armsbys record at the Pennsylvania.
Station gives assurance that the scien-
tific work of the Department will have
q good head if he is selected. and the
Assistant Secretary should be the Off
cial head of the scientific work We
have not learned that DIR. Armsby is
himself an active candidate for the
position, and we do not know that he
seeks it or wants it. but if the place
is seeking a good man it might go
further and fare much worse.
The Rural New Yorker asks, "Will
some Southern farmer tell us why
farmers in this section have opposed
the anti-oleo legislation? 2" This is
easy to answer. The majority of
Southern farmers are not interested in
dairying, but are interested in cotton
seed products, and they mad been
taught by the oleo people that the
passage of the anti-oleo Dill would re-
duce the demand and price for cotton
seed oil and hence of cotton seed to
the farmer. Since no such result has
occurred ii is probable that the South
ern farmers will find out that pure
butter is as much needed in the South
as elsewhere. The rapidly increasing
interest in the dairy in the South will
also build up an interest in pure but
ter there. Hence we do not believe
that in the future the Southern farm
ers or their representatives, in Con-
grss will be found faVoring any repeal
of the oleo law. But farmers every
where will have to be on the alert
for the oleo men intend to do their
utmost to have the law repealed. One
of the papers in the interest of the
packers and cleo makers lately lamen-
ted the final decision of the Supreme
Court. that palm oil cannot be used
in oleo without paying the tax for
celebration, ana said that 1t is evident
that only white cleo can be put on the
market, while the colored butter of the
Creamery Trust would have full sway.
This paper knows full we'll that there
is no such thing as a creamery trust.
and that in the nature of things there
cannot be. and it knows full we'll that
colored butter is still butter and that
the coloring is not intended to make
it look like anything else, while the
sole object in coloring cleo is to make
il look like butter and sell for butter
while it is not butter. In fact. the
whole cleo business depends on the
practice of fraud on the consumer.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20

manuring. by growing coWpeas, clover
(crimson at the South and red at the
Northl or other nitrogen storing
plants. The tops of these plants al
ford most valuable forage ana can
he grown at a profit for that alone.
# is in the roots of these plants that
the nitrogen is stored and by turning
under the stubble after the forage has
been cut the valuable and high priced
nitrogen. ammonia, is kept in the soil.
These humus producing crops can
ba economically and profitably grown
because only the two low priced nrop-
critics of a perfect fertilizer, potash ana
phosphoric acid, have to be pouRnI'
Ammonia, the property that Is lhree-
fold the most costly, can be got LOT
nothing as above described. With 5oO
lbs. kainit and 900 lbs. acid pros
phate or dissolved bone crops OF cow
peas, crimson clover, red clover, Vel.
vet beans or some other species OF
nitrogen restoring plant can be grown
on any soil in the country and both
the chemical and mechanical condl-
ton of that soil rapidly improved
Having restored some of the poorest
land in the State by that means
speak advsedly. / repeat that the
only practicable way to repair this
wastefuIness of ours and Of our fore
bears is by a liberal and judicious
use of potash and phosphoric to grow
green crops thus replacing the humus
in the soil and restoring the conditions
to which plant growing on this planet
has been adjusted in the longeons of
time.
O. w. BLACKNALL.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20
Kittrell, n. G..
Farm Lands as Profitable Invest
ment.

Newton Enterprise
A friend was calling our attention
the other day to the fact that farm
ing land is advancing in price in Ca
taWba county in full proportion with
the advance in farm produce. Land
that could be bought ten or twelve
years ago at SIS to $25 and acre, now
readily brings $50 to $50 And there
is very little to sell at these figures
Especially is this true within six to
eight miles of Newton.
And there is nothing surprising
about this. Merely as an investment
nothing now yields better interest on
money than farming lands. A New
ton man told us the other day that
he will get $500 from 20 acre field
five miles from Newton. 1t was plant
ed in cotton and the owner gets the
third. This is SO an acre, or 10 per
cent. interest on his land if valued at
500 an acre or 20 per eYnt. if valued
at $50 an acre. This is not an unusual
case. We could name numbers of
them. In fact we think that nearly
every land owner will find, on calcu-
lation that this is about the interest
he will get this year on land he has
rented to cotton farmers. And if the
land owner is making such a nice in
terest on his rented farm lands, the
farmer who works his own land is
certainly on the top of the wave of
prosperity. Cotton at 10 cents q
pound and wheat at $1.40 bushel are
making the farmers of this county in
dependent. Most of them have sold
enough cotton to pay up their obli-
cations and are holding the balance
for the expected winter advance.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20
WILL BUILD MODERN HOTEL.
A Company Has Bought The Island
Fronting the Town of Beaufort.
(Morehead Coaster.)

Mr. d. H Garrigues, of Beaufort,
was here Monday in the interest of
the Beaufort Harbor Company, CO.
operative. This company has pur-
chased the town marsh or island
fronting Beaufort and will erect there
on a modern hotel. The island will
be raised five feet above tide-Water,
with a sea wall around it 1t will be
headquarters of the Beaufort Harbor
Club, which is organized for innocent
sport and pleasure, physical devel
opment and mental Improvement, and
no trading in the vices of humanity
will be allowed on the island.
The incorporators are: n. w. Tay-
Tor, Thomas Duncan, B. j. Bell, l.. L..
Hargrave, w. l.. Arlington, NJ r.
Geffroy, Thos. P. Noe. d. w. Garri-
CUES, of Beaufort land Chas. S. Wal
lace, w. MWebb, b. f. McCullen,
r. w. Taylor and E. f. Dryden, of
Morehead City.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20
Good Farming.
(RoaEoke-Chowan Times.)

-ChoWdn Times.)
NJ. Junius Baugham made a coed
crop this year, one of the best he
ever made. Those who cultivated his
land on shares made excellent crops.
one man, George Candy, with one
mule, made thirteen bales of cotton
aveT&g ing about SIS pounds each and
plenty Cf -Orn to serve him, and anoth-
er tenant Granville Jacobs, with one
mule made eleven bales Of cotton of
the same weight and plenty of corr.
Both of them have quite "A large sur
plus after paying all debts contracted
during the year. Mr.. Baugham pro-
vides his men with good houses and
gets good results from their labor Gull
tiVating his land
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20
The Wastefulness of our Farming
Methods.

1t is doubtful if any other line of
business could be conducted as waste
fully as farming and escape disaster.
Next to hunting, farming is the oldest
occuration of the human race. Much
of the primeval Wastefulness of man
still clingS to the calling of farming.
When man began to farm, to strip
the earth of its vegetation; to loosen
to washing rains the rich soil which
nature through millions of centuries
had been collecting the waste began.
And to this day it has been kept up.
Nor have modern improvements in ag-
riculture done more than to slightly
lessen this waste. largely speaking.
The amount of fertility thus lost
since Abel first broke the sod would
be stupendous were it possible to esti-
mate or even to approximate its total.
All the gold now in the possession of
man would probably not pay an hours
interest at per cent. on that huge
sum. Worst of all the waste still con-
tnues at tremendous rate. Perhaps
faster than ever before. That is count
ing the world at large. Even while
the improved methods of agriculture
tend to conserve fertility these inn
proved methods are not increasing as
fast as farming itself increases.
The annual loss to the United States
by this washing OUT of fertility
! amounts to the tens and very likely
the hundreds of millions of dollars
annually. The secret of successful ag-
riculture lies in lessening this waste
| to a minimum and in restoring the
ravages it has wrought as far and
as fast as practicable. This can be
done only by replacing the humus in
! the soil and thus restoring it to its
natural condition. Humus in the soil
is essential because it is the medium
which holds not only fertility, plant
! food, but also largely moisture. The
soil rich in humus is not only fertile
! but is as near drought proof as soil
can be. The only feasible way to re-
| store humus to the soil is by green
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20
Holding Cotton.
wv eldon News.)

CIV eldOn News
il is noticeable that there is consid-
cradle cotton being held by the farm
ers of Halifax county. While many
have sold the bulk of their crops, a
large number of planters have not
sold lock of the present crop and
they are holding for better prices. IT
is believed by many well informed
people that cotton will be higher while
others do not see any very good rea-
son for much higher prices. We are
told that farmers were disposed to
sell as long as they could get ten cents,
but that just as soon as the price
dropped below that point the receipts
began to fall off.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20
ADMINISTRATORS Notice.

Having qualified as administrators of
the estate of the late G.. A. Bell, of this
county, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the said estate
to present the same to me on or before
the 10th day of November, 1905. or
this notice will be plead i'm bar of their
recovery All persons indebted to said
estate will please make immediate set
tlement
]. H. GRIFFIN. Adm's.,
Wakefield, n. G.
11-16-1aw- CIV.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20
Some Pumpkins.
(WeldOn News. }

Speaking of pumpkins we believe
the largest one we ever saw was on
exhibition at Halifax last Saturday. 1t
was grown by Mr.. J. A. Whitehead,
on his farm near town, and weighed
eighty-five pounds. We re low fully
satisfied that the man who put his
wife in q pumpkin shell. where he
kept her very WELL must have gotten
the pumpkin from Mr.. ]. A. White
heads farm. He sent some small
ones here Notwithstanding from
forty to fifty pounds.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20
NOTICE.

Having qualified as executor of the
estate of ]. d. Franks, deceased late
of Wake county N. c., this is to no
tify all persons having claims against
the estate to present the same to the
undersigned on or before the 25th
day of july 1905, or this notice wiz
be plead in bar of their recovery.
j. E. FRANKS,
r. F. D. No. 2, Apex. N. G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20
ADMINISTRATORS Notice.

Having qualified as administrator of
the estate OF the late James Penny,
of this county, this is to notify all
persons having claims against the said
estate to present the same to me on
or before the 5th day of October, 1905,
or this notice Will be plead in bar of
their recovery. All persons indebted
to said estate will please make i'm
mediate settlement
J. w. PENNY,
Administrator,
Raleigh, N. G.
October 5. 1904.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20

Scotland county folks can make big
crops wherever they go. Mr.. Walter
e. Gibson, formerly of this county, but
now of Parkton, n. c., has made this
year 24O bushels Of corn on four acres
ana will gather 1900 bushels off seven
ty-fve Gcrcs.--Louisburg Exchange.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20

Coughs and colds. down to the very
borderland of consumption. yield to
the soothing. healing influences of DR.
Woods Norway Pine Syrup.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20

Onely one remedy in the world that
will at once stop itchiness of the skin
in any part of the body; Doan's Oint-
ment. At any drug store. SO cents
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20

Is it a burn? Use DR.. Thomas
Electric Oil. A cut? Use DR.. Thomas
Electric Oil. AT your druggists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20

Burdock Blood Bitters cures it
promptly, permanently. Regulates
and tones the stomach.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20

100 gallons of kraut from his garden
A great deal of the time Mr.. Nc
Cain did the cooking and house work
as his wife has been sick.-Enquirer
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20

A man NAV be what he thinks he
is without being what he claims to
be.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20

Messrs. Robert and C. F. Lutz, of
this place, made over two thousand
gallons of molasses this season. This
is a most creditable showing for one
mOlasses mill and speaks we'll for the
industry and enterprise of the gentle
men engaged in the business. Two
thousand gallons of molasses is a lot
of sweetness to turn loose in one COM
munity, and it ought to overcome
whatever of bitterness the recent cam
paign developed among our folks
CataWba County News. g.. g. &c
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20

Mr.. David Price is another "boss"
cotton raiser. On three acres Mr.
Price has already taken off enough
cotton to bring $113 and he says he
will pick SIS worth more off Of the
same piece. Mr. Price only used three
bags of guano on the land. Anybody
beat that ?-CatdwDa County News.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20

1t takes more than nine men to
make a fashionable tailor.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20

Mr.. J. JMcCain, a seventy years
old Confederate veteran living in
jackson township, with one old mule
and with his own hands, not hiring
an hours work done, made this year
$50 bushels of corn, bales of cot
ton, 20 bushels of potatoes, 10 bushels
of peanuts, 15 bushels field peas and