Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01


Catherine Lead Company was cap
italized at $500, 600 with a bonded
debt of about SIZE, 900. The last
quotations of this stock in st. Louis
was S1.50 a share, the shares hav-
ing a par value of $40. Under the
sale just made the stockholders
will realize about 70 cents a share.
The new owners, unless some
thing turns up, will take charge of
the property in about ten days, or
as soon as a few preliminary, such
as, settling up the receivership,
can be gone through with. Mr..
Hall, the syndicate's representa-
tive in this city, is said to be a
practical mining man, thoroughly
understanding the business of lead
mining. He stated to the DeWo-
crat-Neac that his company would
at once increase the capacity of the
mill to 500 tons daily and would
install new boilers and compress
sors. While the Catherine mine
has always been rich in lead it has
never paid one cent of dividends,
but has, ON the other hand been
running behind all the time. We
trust that under the new manage
ment it will prosper.-Fredcricktown
Democrat News.
We saw in Mr.. Van Nort's law
Office, the other day a recent in
vention by his brother, James l..
Van Mort, of Belleview, which, it
seems to US, must be invaluable to
teachers and pupils. The appar-
atus is called a tellurian, an appli-
ance long in use; but this is a great
improvement over all that have
preceded it. 1t is a beautiful, yet
simple piece of mechanism, and
plainly shows to the budding
mind the workings of our solar
system. By the aid of this tellur-
ian the child readily grasps the
idea that the earth is round, just
as he has observed the sun and
moon to be. He readily ices that
day and night are caused by the
rotation of the earth upon it's axis,
and that the difference in the
length of the days and nights at
different times of the year and also
the different seasons of the year
are caused by the inclination of
the earth in it's orbit, while at the
same time it revolves around the
sun. He plainly ees why we
have six months day at one pole
| while we have six months night
at the other, and why it is that the
sun seems to move in a circle
around the pole just above the no.
rizon during the six months day.
The causes of the tides, eclipses of
both sun and moon, together with
all the phases and movements of
the moon are clearly demonstrated.
The price of the apparatus is low
enough to guarantee it's general
use in the public schools, and no
doubt it will soon be extensively
employed therein.
Under the headline democrats
to back a Republican Paper" the
following appeared in last Satur-
days Globe Democrat: democrats
of the 18th congressional district
are apathetic. Emmissaries of the
party have made several trips to
| St. Louis in an effort to secure a
large campaign fund for use in ef-
fecting the reelection of Con-
gresham Edward Robb and other
| Democratic nominees. 1t is said
that money will be furnished the
congressional committee, but the
Democratic leaders express grave
doubts whether even a large chunk
of the national campaign fund will
have the desirsd effect with the
Democrats who are in revolt.
These latter are honestly disguised
with the methods pursued by the
Democratic leaders and so declare
openly. The conditions have be-
come SO serious in Iron county
that Judge j. D. Fox of the SUI
preme court, who is from the south
eastern partSof the state, was sent
for. He visited Louis Miller OF
Arcadia and several other leaders
of the revolt, but was unable to do
anything against the movement,
Miller is n of the most promi-
nent business men of that section
of the state and, with Frank Mullin
and Bill Fletcher, has financed a
paper, which will begin publication
within a short time. The paper
will be known as the Arcadia Val
ley Enterprise. Miller is credited
with being a wealthy man, and has
declared for Roosevelt, Walbridge
and Rhodes, the Republican can
didate for Congress. The estab-
lishment of this paper, backed by
Democrats, to fight a Republican
battle, is already credited with
causing a change of several hun
dred votes. Congressman Robb
was in St. Louis yesterday and his
presence, while ostensibly to bring
his family to the Worlds Fair, is
said to be for the purpose OF get
ting assistance in regaining con
troll of the district"
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