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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-10
RESULT OF THE PRIMARY
Election Held to Nominate Can
didates for City Offices.

Outside of the contest for city at
torney very little interest was seem
ingly manifested in the primary
election held yesterday, but the to-
tai vote polled makes a good show
ing. According to the number of
votes recorded at the three voting
places the total was 622, or 81 less
than the number of poll tax receipts
issued by City Assessor and Col
lector Spaldjng. City Marshal Tom
Dixon won the nomination for re-
election by GA votes over his oppon-
ent, Fred Meredith. O. H. Chap
man. who was a candidate for re-
election to the office Of city attorney,
was defeated by A. l.. Love by a
majority of l27. In the second ward
w. l.. p. Leigh won out as "a candi-
date FOR alderman In ward No 3
Alderman Lancaster was given the
nomination over s. A Hickman by
"a majority of Isl votes.
the result by wards is as follows:
Ward | Ward Ward 3
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Rose Coghlan.

The early local production of the
pieudid society drama, "Tha Great
est Thing in the World" BY Miss
Rose CoRhlau and a specially Sc.
leeted cast of players, promises TO
be the most fashionable theatrical
event OF the season, iuasmuch as
the local management mas already
received numerous requests To ac-
commodate parties made up of the
elite o. local society folks. The
theme ot the play IL maternal love
and the sacrifices made by Virginia
Bry ant, a New York society widow
10 save her two sons from inherited
vicious tendencies. Miss Coghlan
ways pendulum like from comedy
to extreme emotionalIsm. Through
the dominance Of intellect, refine
meut aud womAnline~s, she achieves
a distinct triumph in most arduou ~
part
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Coal! COal!! COal!!!

To our coal and feed customers
We have just received several ears
of fancy lump Usage McAlester coal
which always gives entire satisfac-
tion. This We are selling at $500
per ton delivered. Try a ton aud
you will use no other. We also
have several ears of Colorado which
we have had on hand since last
summer and has taken the weather
all winter, which We will be glad to
sell you at $500 per ton delivered.
Phone us your orders when YOU
want coal. We Will appreciate your
orders for feed and will get them
out promptly.
II SLEEPER GRAIN Co.
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Work OF Commissioners

AT yesterday afternoons session
of the county commissioners in the
LAatter of the road and bridge fund
it was ordered that the county treas
urer open a road and bridge reserve
fund OF $1,000, and the balance be
prorated to each commissioner pre-
cinct as per an order heretofore
made
The greater part Of the session to-
day has been devoted to the appoint
ment Of road overseers. AS there
are about five hundred appointments
to be made it will require some time
to dispose of this work.
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County Health Officer.

The Commissioner Court will on
Friday take up the appointment of a
County Health Officer, who will be
paid the same compen sation now
prevailing, viz. $500 90 per year for
county jail and county farm pract-
ice, and $500 per day for each day
the physician may be actually en-
gagged quarantine work aud neces-
sary expenses. LEE HAWKINS.
Presiding Officer Commissioner 5
Court.
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The Ellis County Medical Society
held a most interesting session in
Waxahachie yesterday. The at
tendance was good, number of
physicians being pres sent from En-
mis- and other towns in the county.
Several interesting papers on sub
jects bearing on the practice of med
cine were read and discus ssed.
The next meeting of the society
will be held at Ennis the second
tuesday in March.
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immigration Inspector Here.

MIR l.. B. Giles. of Galveston
uited States immigrant Inspector
was in the city yesterday ou bust
ness connected with his department.
Mr.. Giles has large territory 10
cover and his work includes obtain
ing statistics showing the different
natioualities Of people represented
m Tex as TO do this he must visit
all the jalls, asylums, county farms
public works, etc, and secure a
statement showing different classes
of pa ople AZ work therein. Mr.,
Giles visited the county farm near
waNahachie yesterday afternoon.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-10

A runaway almost ending fatally
started horrible ulcer on the leg OF
J, B. Orner, Franklin Grove, Ill.
For four years 1t defied all doctors
aud all remedies. But Bucklen' :
Aruica Salve had no trouble to cure
him. Equally good for burns, skin
eruptions, bruises and piles. 21c at
Thomas IL Moore's drug store.
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Special to the Daily Light.

London, February 10, 3:l5 p m.-
A dispatch from Toxic says that ii
is reported that three tran sports
conveying two thousand Russian
troops were captured by the Japa-
nese of the Korean coast.
Baron Hayashi, the japanese
minister here, received official CON
firmation OF the above from fYkio.
Baron Hayashi also received news
of an engagement between the Rus
SLAMS and j Japanese near Chemulpo.
The Russian cruisers NarIagez and
Korietz took part in the fighting.
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Miss Fannie Elizabeth Weekly,
aged "A years and Ten months, died
SUNDAY at Milford. She was a Sis
ter to " r. Weekly and Mrs. An
ais Singleton ~ Milford, aud came
to Texas from Georgia thirty years
ago,
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ranight ana rhursdAv fair, colder
taaighti cold wave temperature
viii fall 90 glttesn degrees Thursday
morning
Tuesday. mas a, miu. -
g., h. LaN0anRNh,
Observer
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WthkeN enasAa ara ass Ga FpHuit ia
CONSUMPTION sg negleeted, theY ean
he saah hFQkwa np ~ Raina Foley >
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The following telegram was today
received by Mr.. II. u. McCombs
Il. u. NeComhs, Agt, waxahaehis,
Texas.
sufficient funds on deposit for
pAyent of all Ballimore losses.
Our surplus will remain laFgly over
Five Milltons W. h CLARK,
President Aetna Fire Ins. Co. -
MF McCamhs also wishes To
stA.e for the heaeHt of patrons
and the iasuFing public Al large
that the companies represented hy
him are amply able 60 meet an loss
IS In the great baltimore IRE con
fiAsrattan ana white s0me of them
loss millions they have millions 80
pay With ana wtll eantlnWe "a a.
business aG the same oid stand
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k'aley's Honey ana Tar - heas for
eraap and whunpIug eenkh, contains
aa eas@s@s, ssssf cures qalekty Care
tal mothers keep lt la the haase
A0la rs n. NJ ReAFta,
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Sveapl avra ~ zyFurlll All siapa
qualities, Sad prices Al II. s'MaeEea
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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-09
Rich Strike On
Little Butte.

George Widmeyer, who has been op-
Grating for several years on Deadwood
mountain, came in Friday and reports a
Strike of three feet of ore of extraordi-
nary richness.
The ore was encountered in what is
known as the lower tunnel, which is
now in 215 feet with depth of about
100 feet from the surface, and is free
milling, native gold being visible
throughout the entire body.
This group comprises, besides the
Little Butte, two others, the Hope and
Perry Mullen. 7. C. Larson, of Seat
tie, is associated with Mr.. Widmeyer
in the property. The MINING News
takes pleasure in saying these gentle
men deserve their good fortune as well
as credit for their industry and perse-
verance. 1t is safe to say that 80 pei
cent of the claims of this district would
show the same gratifying results with
the same amount or even less work.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-09

Ed Roach came in the fore part of
the week from the American Flag up
on which he has been working since the
first of March, the time w. H., Adams,
of Spokane, threw up the bond he held
on the property. Considerable develop
ment work was done on this valuable
group under the bond, consisting of
shaft sixty feet deep and drifts fifty
feet in length each way from the bot
tom of the shaft, upon what was sup
posed to be the ledge, but which later
developments show was only part of it.
There was also a crosscut of about
forty feet which, it transpires, was
run in the wrong direction as short
drift run easterly from the foot
Of the shaft demonstrates by cut
ting five foot body Of very high grade
ore, some of which pans freely. 1t also
carries copper pyrites, iron sulphide
and little galena, the latter mineral
by the way, seems to be natures hal
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-09
Oregon Group,
Summit Flat.

In an interesting letter to the Min
ing News c.. H. Powers has this to say
of the Oregon group on Summit Flat,
this district;
"Well knowing the advantage gained
by the prospector visiting all of the
mines and lodges within the district in
which he expects to operate, l took a
long intended trip to the well known
Oregon group, situated about three
miles west of Crooked river on Summit
Flat. The Oregon group is the proper
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-09

chances. He wants to see the money
in sight.
When seen this morning Mr.. Cooper
would have but very little to say on the
subject further than that he expressed
the opinion that the governor would
not insist on the proposed change in the
route.
"The trouble is" said he, ''Johnesse,
the superintendent, has the ear of the
governor, and he wants it to go around
by the east fork of the Salmon and
johnson creek. We have never yet ex-
planned the situation to the governor,
but when we do I think he will approve
of the original route. If the change is
made you will hear mighty protest go
up from the nnineowners in. Thunder
mountain. 1t will not only make the
distance about fifteen miles longer, but
will cost them considerable more to get
their freight in on account of the extra
haul In addition to this it will be impos-
sible to complete the road this season if
the road is built around by the longer
route, The mine owners were greatly
disappointed because the road was not
completed last year, and now to delay
it another year they will simply rise up
en- masse and put up fight. In fact
they would probably serve an injunc-
ton on us. When they donated $4,000
it was with the understanding that it
was to be built by the shortest and
most feasible route, just as the bill
stated.
1.-THE way it looks now it will be i'm
possible to resume work before the
middle of June and as it is hard road
to build it would be impossible to COM
plete it this season. Men who are fa-
miliar with the route which the COVER
nor now proposes to have us take, say
that the, territory is subject to snow
slides long into the summer and that it
would not only be dangerous route to
travel, but one on which there would be
frequent interruptions.
81 am in hopes the governor will see
the other side of the question, and be-
lieve he will when he hears from us and
the people of Roosevelt"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-09
ON THE AMERICAN FLAG
Five of Rich Struck in the Shaft Property has
Great Deal of Development Work Done it With
Very Gratifying Results

mark for all high grade ore in this
camp.
This group comprises the following
claims. the American Flag Nos. l, 2, 8,
A, 5, and and are situated about one
mile from the Dixie wagon road north
of the Brundige ranch. w. H. Simp-
son and Ed Roach were the locators.
Since then, however, Joe Buergel, of
Spokane, and j. A. Whitaker, of Elk
City, have become interested. This
ledge can be cut at depth Of 250 feet
by a tunnel 400 feet long, and the prop
erty is amply equipped with standing
timber for all preliminary work.
There are three good ledges traxers-
ing the group, all of which show good
value. Taken altogether it promises to
be one of the banner properties of that
section Of the camp and there is no
doubt that under the present owners it
will be heard, from with good effect the
coming season.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-09

ty of Jack Hinton, but is now under
bond to a Spokane company, of which
Frank Corbus is general manager.
have heard a great many Of what sup
posed to be fabulous stories about the
of this property, but through
the courtesy of Mr.. Corbus was shown
through both shafts and the old stope
and would be saying very little if say
the stories l have heard have not been
exaggerated, took several pieces of
rock from the ledge in which I could
see specks of free gold.
"When Mr. Corbus took hold Of this
property in January of this year he
started to work in shaft No. which
had followed the ledge on an incline to
depth of about thirty feet at which
point there was break in the vein and
the ledgewas apparently lost, but in
starting the new work they began in
the bottom Of this shaft, sinking verti-
cally, and at depth of fifty feet came
on to the ledge larger and stronger
than ever. To satisfy my own curios-
ity l took seven pieces from various
parts of the ledge in the bottom of the
shaft and Mr.. Corbus made pan tests of
them to show me how they would go,
and for an average l must say 1 have
not seen them excelled in the camp.
''This shaft is now about sixty-five
feet deep and Mr.. Corbus informs me
if the ledge would continue as good fol
a few feet further his company would
put in a hoist and in all probability e
small mill during the coming summer
About ninety feet northwest of this
shaft and on the same vein is shaft No
l, from which Messrs. Walters anC
IlHlOOu IOOh IllS W IOllS VI OIS CllSy Iui
through the arastra on Five Mile creel
year ago, and it was said the result
were very good. The general strike o
| this vein is northwest and southeas
r with pitch to the south. The forma
: ton is quite difficult to classify becaus
{ the alterations from the original forma
= tion has been so marked, showing crush
4 ing and faulting as well as erosion fror
e glacial action and uplifting eruptiv
: disturbances have also left their marks
: Although these intrusions appear t
have had no bad effect on the ore vel
s. even close to the lines of contact.
o ''While it appears no question br
e that this ore body is lenticular in stru'
e ture yet the tonnage already exposed
great. The country rock is such tn;
d there is no reason to apprehend that
e win not maintain it's continuity to col
siderable depth.
. TN q "a. eS
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-09
Inc Thunder Mt. Road Trouble

There is more trouble looming up in
the political sky for Governor Morrison
which is as threatening as funnel
shaped cloud in the western horizon on
a hot, sultry August day, says the
Boise Capital News.
And it is all on account of the Thun-
der mountain road, which was to have
been built last summer, but on which
work was suspended last fall because
of difference between the governor
and the contractors over the route. The
readers of the Capital News are famil-
lar with the. controversy The bill
which was passed by the last legisla-
ture making an appropriation for the
road provided that it should be built
over the most feasible and direct route.
This was up through Garden Valley
and past Trapper's fiat and on into
Roosevelt. 1t was the route along
which the contractors were awarded
the work.
Owing to some magnetic influence the
governor changed his mind after the
contract had been awarded and the road
partially constructed, and he insisted
that the course be changed and run
around by the east fork of the Salmon
river and Johnson creek. This route
would be about fifteen miles longer than
the one originally agreed upon, and ac-
cording to the contractors will cost
about $50, 900 additional.
C. w. Cooper, who was one of Gov
ernor Morrison's principal supporters
when that gentleman was simply a no
tary public in Caldwell seeking the gu
bernatorial nomination, secured the
contract for building the road. He is
in the city today and will endsavor tc
get the matter Strengthened out. The
legislature appropriated 500, 900 fol-
building the road and the companies
owning the Dewey, Sunnyside and Other
mines in Thunder mountain contributed
like amount, making $4,000 in all
Mr.. Cooper's bid for building the roaC
was something like 100000. If Cover
, nor Morrison compels him to build the
road around the way he now proposes
at a cost of $50, 900 additional, the fun
would be shy about $1s, 900. Mr.. Coop
err wants to know where this amount j
coming from before he goes ahead wit
the work this spring. 1t is understood
4 to be the intention of the governor t
!, attach this to deficiency bill, and as
: the next legislature to appropriate tn
: amount. But legislature is an uncel
h tain quantity and Mr.. Cooper is to
good business man to take any sue
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-09

For the benefit of those who are seek
ing expert information regarding the
various mining properties and compa-
nies in this camp we will say that we
are furnishing no information free OF
charge except such as may appear in
our columns.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-09

E. J. Comley, Ralph Middleton and
w. P. johnson have discontinued work
on the Hercules group till the trail be-
comes passable for horses, these gen.
tlemen report the ledge improving with
every foot of new ground opened.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-09
MINING IN BLACK HILLS
System of Stopping Ore in the Great Homesae Nine Done
at a Cost of Thirteen and Half Cents Per Ton.-Ore
Should be Mined Cheap in Elk District.

so that it will pass through into the
chute, which is located on the sill floor.
The timber required to make nine
post raise four floors high is 36 posts,
"a caps, "a ties, about $50 tagging,
stope ladders and one ordinary board
chute. The grizzlies are made by plac-
ing two or three 12-inch timbers, spac
ed IL inches apart, over one set and
protecting these by pieces of sheet
iron curved to fit. The posts on the
top floor may be protected in a similar
manner from the blasts and from run
ming rock.
Sixteen thousand tons of ore were
taken from one raise in six months and
this was done in place where vain at.
tempts had been made to reach the ore
by carrying up timbered Slopes through
the old fill.
Should the ore be too solid to run,
the raise will serve as a manway to a
timbered stope started on top of the
hill.
Whenever a run of waste is encount-
cred it was drawn and used for filing
in some other parts of the mine, and
the ore from upper levels will follow
the waste down.
Stopping without timbers was carried
on in the Deadwood- Terra mine, which
is now part of the consolidated Home
stake, for number of years prior to
the time when the Homestake assumed
control.
A crosscut from the shaft cuts the
, ledge, which was opened from wall tC
, wall throughout the entire length. Al
: the ore was removed from the sill floor
! of the excavation. AS soon as the
ledge was sufficiently developed drift
} was driven in the foot wall approx
} mately parallel and about 20 feet from
D the ore, and openings made from thu
D drift into the ore chambers at conven
Oh lent intervals. The ore was then brok
0 en- down and the surplus removes
0 through these openings. AS the miner
= used the broken ore as staging t.
U work on only about 40 per cent of tn
S ore could be removed until the stop
} was finished.
e The slopes worked by this metho
are from 80 to so feet wide, and tn
g dip of the ledge is rs degrees.
h Stopping may be carried on on severe
D levels at the same time, provided suff
W cient back is left in between levels
e When the level above is finished thi
le back may be caved in and all the roc
IS removed on the level below No tin
ber is required other than few laggin
IS for staging, but the method is not al
er pliable to wide lodges.
E. Until within the last two years a
" slopes in the Homestake and Highlar
* mines were timbered by the square 81
re method. An enormous amount of tir
X Der was required to timber the excav
S. tions, and the work of handling Il
x timber through the shafts made it diff
e- cult to hoist sufficient ore to supply 81
ps stamps.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-09


The following method of stoping ore
in the Homestake mines in the Black
Hills, as given by their engineer, B. c.
Yates, will be of interest to those COM
panies who are now beginning opera
tions on the big bodies of ore in this
district:
During the year from June, 1902, to
June, 1903, 1879, 900 tons of ore were
milled by the Homestake Mining Com
pany. Approximately 80 per cent of
this was mined on the different levels
from the 1OO-foot level to the LOO
foot. The, remainder came from open
cuts and from ''draw raises" by means
of which, as will be explained later, the
ore left in the room of old Slopes is
drawn out.
=. The ore obtained from the open cuts
is broken down from the sides into
Openings which connect with the regu-
lar levels of the mine. These openings
or raises are provided with chutes on
the different levels from which the cars
are loaded. The loaded cars are made
UP into trains of from four to eight
cars, according to the grade of track,
and hauled to the shaft by horses.
4o1~ c 1c
mined very cheaply. Two miners,
whose wages are $3.50 per day, will
break, on the average, 200 tons in one
shift. Two men are employed at the
chutes, one to break the rock at the
grizzlies and one to load the car. The
grizzlies are located two or three floors
from the chute If the haul is long two
horses with two drivers are required tc
haul the ore to the shaft. The cost pei
ton of mining and delivering to the
shaft is as follows:
Two miners, at $3.50 = 81 o.
One grizzly man, at $3.50 3 81
One chute drawer, at SO 3 OF
Two drivers, at So =. -. 6 O'
Two horses, at 80 cents 1sS'
Blacksmith labor 81
Explosives, .O26 per ton 5 2
Total =. $27 o
Cost per ton 10 IL cent
Ore and waste is blasted down to
gether and the waste is sorted at tn
chute and used for filing.
In one of the open cuts now bein
worked the process of mining is muc
like the work of making a very deeI
thorough cut through hill some 30
feet high. Tracks are laid from tn
crushers to one end of the cut and tn
rock is blasted down, loaded into cal
and trammed directly to the crushers.'
The pillars and backs of old stope
which were left in place in the olde
workings of the mine are now being r'
moved by a system of 'draw raises.
A description of the method of attac
may be of interest to many who al
face to face with the problem of wor
ing old workings in vertical formation
1t is very important to know the e
act location of the pillars and roofs b
fore starting this system. If the ma
and stope records have been faithful
kept, this becomes an easy matte
otherwise the memory of some old ei
ployee must bo depended upon to gi
the necessary information. Having
Gated the ore, a ''nine-post raise
which consists of four regular sto
sets arranged in square is put
either on the foot wall or on the han
ing wall side, preferably the foot wa
This raise is carried up a suffice
height to reach the ore above the was
filling. Grizzlies are put in on the fio
next to the top and the sides Of t
raise are carefully Jagged to prote
the men. The run of ore is then sta
ed by blast or by barring. A m
.-4..-l 81 +Ia GRIZZLY breaks the rO
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-09

D. G. Brawner is now care taker at
the American Eagle under the receiver