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Arizona republican., 1905-05-24
THE HAULING OF OIL
Bcildins Of the Road Above Mesa for
 the Big Traction Engine.

Word ccme from the road between Mesa City and Government we'll yes terday that the work of road making by the government force was progress ing nicely. The old road has been re paired and will be used for a while by light teams and in the meantime the road recently laid out for the conven- fence of the big traction engine to be used in hauling oil, is being rapidly put in shape and will be ready for use in a few days This road as has been previously mentioned will necessarily be a wide one as the engine occupies a roadway fourteen feet wide. It is the finest kind of road roller. It is a three wheeled construction, the front wheel used to guide the machine cov- ering the space skipped by the two rear wheels so that in passing over the road once the engine rolls practi- caIly all of it.
 The size of this traction mogul is not more appalling than its weight, which is twenty-three tons. This en- zine is designed to haul four large tanks, on specially constructed wagons, one tank and wagon empty weighing about two tons. Each tank will hold thirty-four barrels of oil and a barrel of oil weighs 312 pounds. One wagon therefore weighs with tank and con- tents 4.60S pounds. Four such wag- ons will weigh 5S,432 pounds. With the weight of the engine, 46.000 pounds, added, the total weight to be dragged across the desert by the engine is 104,432 pounds. The engine uses gas oline for fuel and is equipped with a marine corrugated boiler after the manner of a battleship. It is designed -I..~s, the road after the bridges are put in, by hitching a road grader behind it.
 It has been found though by experi- ment that instead of using the 34 bar rel tanks it will be necessary to use smaller ones, probably of two sizes, holding fourteen and sixteen barrels respectively. This is for the reason that from Government well to Roose- welt the tanks have to be hauled by team and the large tanks are so heavy a wagon can hardly be built to stand up under them over the jOlts and jars it necessarily undergOes at certain places along the road. One tank was safely hauled through to ROose- welt but another wagon broke down at fish creek It Is designed there fore to build sixteen barrel tanks for the lead wagons and fourteen barrel tanks on trail wagons. The only diff ference is that the traction engine will haul more wagons.
 There was an accident Monday this side of Government we'll that might have resulted a great deal more se- riously than it did. A driver was re- turning with one of the large empty tanks. Meeting a light team, instead of hugging the hill side of the road and making the light wagon go round
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24
It Is Bad Enough, but not as.Bad as
 Reported.

Mir. E. J. Bonsall returned from Je- rome yesterday morning where he had been for a few days to look over the Venture Hill property in the interest of a number of Phoenix people. He says he is very favorably impressed with the property and there is some excellent ore in sight. He thinks the worst trouble, not only with the Ven ture Hill but with other properties in that district is that the idea of driv- ing long crosscut tunnels has become almost epidemic. He thinks that if the same amount of development had been done on the Venture Hill by means of a shaft, at the proper place. there would by this time have been a much better demonstration and much more ore developed. A tunnel has been driven into the hill for hundreds of feet, finally leaving the vein entirely. It is the purpose of the company now to return to within few hundred feet of the mouth of the tunnel. at point near where it leaves the vein, and there sink a shaft or rather a winZe from the tunnel. This development, MT. Bonsall thinks, will do much to- ward demonstrating that the property is really good one.
 MT. Bonsall was in Jerome when the disaster on Monday overlook the Un- ited Verde mine. While the situation is just as bad as one can well imagine it, he says there are some unreasona- ble and foolish stories in circulation. That the United Verde will be perma- nently closed and deserted is unreas- enable. It is too valuable a property and there is too much plant there now to be thrown away. But enc thing is certain and that is that the fire which has been burning in the mine for years must be eXtinguished. Though the means for doing it is not just now at a plan that will accomplish this end Eventually it may be found necessary to remove the reduction works lower down the gulch and work the mine from tunnels, or the fire may be fin ally put out and the present workings repaired.
 The statemen, that the hoisting plants were injured was erroneous. either the old hoist nor the new one was affected by the recent cave in, and when he left Jerome the new hoist was at work without interference. The cave district however, is between the smelter and the new hoist and along side of the burning portion of the mine. The fire gradually worked it's way in- to an old stope and when the time bers there burned out the caVein re- of course and the whole surface set
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24
ADJUSTMENTS
ETHEL TUCKER STOCK COMPANY

G FlCI OShGh . [ OCN NOmHANI '
 The play selected by the Ethel Tuck CT Stock company for the opening of Eastlake park, Is powerful and in teresting comedy-drama entitled, An Algerian Princess" written by w. H. Harkins, an eminent English play wright, and produced by him through out the principal cities of America, England and Australia with great sue cess. It has a deeply interesting and engaging plot, embracing new and novel ideas. and is handled in mas terly manner by the author. Good, clean comedy ahounds and with the pretty love story-without which no play is complete-makes it an admira- ble selection for the opening play. The parts are all capabiy handled by the big company engaged, and a produc- tion of more than ordinary excellence is promised. Special scenery will be used for the production. showing the ruins of the Temple of Balaar in the Oasis of Azaara, the tomb of Mara bout Ben All, and the Algerian desert.
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24
WORK OF DESERT BANDITS
Runner Held for Ransom - Caravan
 Making no Progress Very Rapidly.

The caravan is lost That is the awful truth that was borne home to T. J. Sparks late Monday night and verified by the failure to receive any information from the front. The fact is proved, not by news bulletins but by the lack of them. MT. Sparks is hopeful of course that the pilgrims will turn up again but for the time being they are as lost as anybody ever was.
 The caravan set out from Phoenix early Sunday morning as most readers will remember It is certain that it reached Glendale in safety for Mir Sparks escorted the pilgrims that far and then came back. The plan was for him to go up to Morristown by rail on Monday and help the travellers across the Hassayampa river. A com petent mathematician had made a special calculation which showed that they should reach the Hassayampa on Monday, at the rate the caravan nov ed. MT. Sparks had instructed them not to try and cross that stream with out his help for he is a quicksand ex- pert and the other fellows he don't consider expert at anything.
 Monday morning MT. Sparks went up on the train. He saw the caravan just breaking camp at New river in the morning. He went on to a min ing property in which he is interested and returning to Morristown in the af- ternoon he started out on horseback to look for his friends. He went to the Hassayampa at the old Smiths mill crossing. to which point he had di- rected them. but there was no sign Of anybody having been in that vicinity recently. Ther it occurred to him that they had gone to the wrong place, and lured by some siren song had at tempted to cross and been swallowed up in the sand. So he followed up the river bank on this side almost to Wickenburg but cut no trail. Finally he returned to Morristown. Nobody there had seen or heard of the cara van. No one that he met during the day had seen or heard of any travellers that answered their description. MT. Sparks was rather tired after his for ty mile railroad ride and forty mile horseback ride that day so when the freight train came along in the even ing he boarded it and came back to Phoenix. On the way home he noticed a campfire about six miles from New River and he thinks there is a chance that it was the pilgrims camp.
 MT. Sparks will wait a few days and then organize a search party and go after them. If they are all right they can wait for him. If they are dead they wont be a bit deader a week from now and beside if the weather stays warm they can then be more easily located. pr. Craig expects to accom- pany him on the next expedition and is now in training for a strenuous life.
 Before leaving Morristown MT. Sparks employed an experienced des- ert guide to make a search for the caravan yesterday. Last night he re- ceived a telegram from Morristown to the effect that his trailer had not been heard from. He thinks it more than likely that the bandits compos- ing the caravan have captured him and are holding him for a ransom.
 Coronado Tent City pleases everybody
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24
Why!

Because -Arizonians know a good thing when they see it-and here is the
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24

Tn this connection it will also be well to add that special costuming has also been provided. showing the Algerian dancing girls, the Algerian Arabs, and the soldiers of the British secret ser vice.
 The company has been enlarged with supernumaries to make a total cast of eighteen persons.
 New and up to date vaudeville fea- lures will be introduced between each act. There will be no long waits, noth- ing but good wholesome amusement
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24

Coronado Tent City pleases everybody
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24

him, he attempted to turn out on the right hand side as usual, got too close to the lower side of the road and the wagon rolled over bottom side up. It would have gone further down the hillside, only that it lodged against some boulders. The horses were thro-F-a down but not hurt nor was the driver strange to say. The wagon was righted with some difficulty and came on to Mesa Monday night
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24
THE JEROME DISASTER

Coronado Tent City pleases everybc
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24

tied but only about five or ten feet, so the hole apparent on the surface is not much of a pit in respect of depth, though crevices and cracks cover an area of two hundred feet or more in width. The United Verde railroad track where it crossed the works, and also the turntable went down. The smelling plant however, was uninjur- ed. Bad as it all is, the situation is not so hopeless as reported.
 Coronado Tent City pleas seS .evervhodv r
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24

Prices will remain as always, 10, 20. 30 and 50 cents. Seats can be re- served Tt Sanichas'.
 The usual free dances will be given on Tuesday and Friday nights, under
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24

the direction Of Prof. Cobb. Excur- sions will be run weekly on Friday nights from Mesa and Tempe.
 Coronado Tent City pleases everybody
Amador ledger., 1905-04-07
Looks After the Cent?.

A simple illustration will show the
care that is taken of cents by one of
the big banks of Chicago. Stamped
postal .;i:i.2 are EGi = -. ,.iiI not one
of the Thousands of ROUTE letters that
are written every day is stamped or
sealed until the whole routine mail OF
the day is assembled in the afternoon
Then all the cards and letters to Oh,
correspondent are put in single cD
Yelope, and, except for letters from q,
officers and the like, the bank Gomez
near as possible to get its entire
carried at cents an ounce ~
for every postal card instead Of O.
paying cents for u quarter of &,
ounce, as it would have to do if ever
communication were sealed and stamp
ed separately. This little matter OF
eating full value out Of a two cent
stamp makes a saving of from $25 to
$50 a day.-World's Work.
Amador ledger., 1905-04-07
How a German Baby Is swathed.

OF all housewives in Europe proba-
bly, the German Is the hardest worked,
and of all European mothers the Ger
man practices most completely the art
Of swathing and padding her baby and
Of putting it on the shelf. The German
baby is swaddled in a long, narrow pill
low, which is made to meet completely
round him, being tucked up over his
feet and turned under his solemn chin.
Three bands of gay blue ribbons are
then passed round the whole bundle
and tied in large, forid bows about
where his chest, his waist and his an
kles may be supposed to be.
In this guise he can be deposited as
IN ornament either on the sumptuous
best bed or on the kitchen dresser or
on the drawing room table. How fond
the Germans are Of this presentment Of
baby may be guessed from the fact
that it figures largely In their picture
books, among their dolls and even In
the bakers shops at Easter time, made
Of dough and covered with sugar, to be
devoured by greedy live babies
Strand Magazine,
Amador ledger., 1905-04-07
BETWEEN TWO LOVES.
l gotta low for Angela,

| gotta low for Angela,
| lov Carlotta, too,
L no can marry both of dem,
So what | gonna do?
Oh, Angela ess pretta girl,
She gotta hair so black, so curl,
An teeth so white as anything,
An o! she's gotta voice to sing
Dat max your hearta feel eet must
Jump up an dance or eet viii bust.
An all da time she sing, her eyes
Dey smila like Italia IS skies,
An maxim firtin' looks at you
But dat ees al what she can do.
Carlotta ees no gotta song,
But she's ees twice so big an strong
AS Angela, an she no look
So beautiful-but she can cook.
You oughta see her carry wood;
| tai you what, eet do you good.
When she ees be somebody's wife
She worka hard, you bat my life!
She never gattin' tired, too
But dat ees all what she can do.
o, my! weesh dat Angela
Was strong for carry wood,
Or ese Carlotta gotta song
An looka pretta good.
| gotta lov for Angela,
low Carotta, too;
l no can marry both o. dem,
So what | gonna do?
Catholic Standard and Times.
Amador ledger., 1905-04-07
THE TONIC DAM.
Bids Opened for the Greatest Water
Storage Reservoir in the World,

Bids for the construction of the
Tonto dam, near Phoenix, Arizona,
were opened in that city on February
%. There were number of bidders,
and the contract for the work will
probably be announced soon. Con-
struction work must begin sixty days
after the contract is let and must he
completed within three years. The
bids ranged from 81, 234, 200 to 81, 6S5,
900.
The Tonto dam will be built eighty
miles southeast of Phoenix, and Will
represent the greatest water storage
enterprise in the world, as it will
produce the largest artificial body of
water ever known. Although the
Nile reservoir covers a larger area, it
is only few feet deep, while the
Touto in places will be over 200 feet
in depth. The reservoir will be fif
teen miles long and four miles in
width. 1t will conserve tine waters of
Sal$ river for distance of fifteen
miles up the stream and twelve miles
up the Verde and it will drain an
area of 6,0O0 square miles of noun
tains, which are mainly covered with
dense forests.
The immensely of the work to be
undertaken by the successful bidder
may be seen by the following facts
and figures about the great reservoir
Height of dam above bed rock, 266
feet.
Height of dam above low water
mark, 230 feet.
Thickness of dam at base, 158 feet.
Thickness of dam at crest, 16 feet.
Drive way on crest, II feet in the
clear.
Length of dam at bottom, 30 feet.
Length of dam at crest, 7S0 feet.
Height of spillway above low water
mark, 30 feet.
Length of spillways, one at each
end of dam, 200 feet.
Excavation for foundation, 10000
yards.
Total yards of masonry in entire
structure, BOG, 400.
Amount of water stored, full ca
pacity, l, 100, 900 acre feet.
Area of drainage basin, 5,756 square
miles.
Area of reservoir, IA, 600 acres.
Amount of cement in dam, $50. 200
barrels.
Width of power canal, feet.
Constant power developed, 1,2OO
horse power.
Size of diversion tunnels through
solid rock, 10 by 10 feet.
Estimated cost per acre foot, 1927
Amador ledger., 1905-04-07
THE WIFE.

She's the richest, dearest treaure God
ever gave to man,
Fulfilling all the measure of his wise
and holy plan;
She's the first to share his sorrows,
and she's last to leave his side,
Should misfortune be his portion or
disaster him betide.
Oh, she's just what God intended.
from to start to end of life
A helpmeet and a comfort, and to
crown it all, a wife.
If you prosper in your dealings in the
world be what they may,
You will find no truer counsellor to
help you on your way.
If you meet with disappointments and
you long to find relief,
She will buoy with brightest hope
or share with you your grief.
be it health or be it sickness, you are
always sure to find
One friend, your wife, close by you
one a blessing to mankind.
Though her beauty may have faded,
and the charm of youth no more
Belong to beI you welded when the
blush of youth she wore;
Though her hair be tinged with sill
yer and her cheeks no longer show
The dimples you admired in the DAYS
of long ago,
Yet her heart is just as tender, and
affection just as true,
AS they were when as maiden she
entrusted them to you.
Then as down life's stream together
hand IN hand you both may, glide
Now loving wife and mother lust the
same as when bride
She will cling with arms about you
and the same old love divide
To renew it DER the river as you meet
the other side.
Oh the world would be a failure and
Gods plan would fail in life
We're it not for one he gave you-she's s
the true and loving wife.
Amador ledger., 1905-04-07
MY CREED.

If any little word of ours,
Can make one life the brighter;
If any little song of ours
Can make one heart the lighter;
God help us speak that little word,
And take our bit of singing,
And drop it in some lonely vale,
10 set the echoes ringing.
If any little love of ours
Can make one life the sweeter;
1T any little care of ours
Can make one step the heeter;
If any little help may ease
The burden of another,
God give US love, and care, and
strength
To help along each other.
If any watchful thought of ours
Can make some work the stronger !;
If any CHEEKY smile of ours
Can make It's brightness longer;
Then let us speak that thought to-
day
With tender eyes a-glowing,
So God may grant some weary one,
Shall reap from our glad sowing.
Amador ledger., 1905-04-07
SOME GREAT GIANTS.

John Frederick duke of Brunswick,
s feet inches.
William Evans, feet, porter to
Charles |. died in 1852.
Patrick O'Brien, s feet 7 inches,
born in Kinsale, Ireland, 1761.
Maximilian Miller, feet, Saxon,
exhibited in London 1914.
Won Brusted, s feet, Norwegian, ex-
hibited in London in 1880.
John Middleton, 9 feet inches,
born in Hale, Lancashire, 1878.
Charles Byrne O'Brien, 8 feet 4
inches, died in London 1761.
Loushkin, 8 feet inches, drum ma
jor of the Russian imperial guards.
Chang Woo Goo, feet 2 inches,
Chinaman exhibited in London in 1867
&c and in $780,
Machnow, 9 feet inches, Russian,
70 years of age, now on exhibition
in London.
Amador ledger., 1905-04-07
Length of the Inv.

The phrase "the length of the law"
owes its origin to the enormous length
Of some of the parchment rolls upon
which the ancient statutes of Great
Britain were inscribed. The present
day official title of the master of the
rolls Is a reminder of this ancient Gus
tom. Some faint idea of the bulk of
the English records may be obtained
from the fact that a single statute, the
land tax commissioners act, passed
in the first year of the reign of George
", measures when unrolled upward
Of 900 feet!
Amador ledger., 1905-04-07
GOOD SOUND SENSE.

fThe merchants who advertise are
the ones who make it possible for US
to get good local paper" remarked
we'll known citizen recently,
''and the men or firms who are too
penurious to advertise and help sup
port our local paper have no right to
the progressive citizens patronage.
l propose hereafter to go to a good,
live advertiser and man who will do
his share in supporting our local
paper, thus contributing to my sup
port, rather than buy of the man who
proposes to take and give nothing in
return"
Amador ledger., 1905-04-07
FACTS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN.

The 5000 cabs in London are near
ly all owned by the Earl of Shrew-
burg and Talbot.
Three million songbirds are killed
each year for the purpose of adorning
women's hats with plumage.
Italy and Spain have fewer houses
In proportion to their population
than any other countries in the world.
japan has in school one in every
nine of her children of school age,
while Russia has only one IN every
forty.
A water reservoir at Manchester,
England, is sinking, and the cause is
believed to be coal mining nearly
under it.
A man at Geneva, Switzerland,
claims to have remained in the water
for one month. He used a rubber
suit of his own invention. Chicago
journal.
Amador ledger., 1905-04-07
WHERE THE SURGEONS KNIFE
MUST STOP.

The cerebellum, or lower lobe of
the brain, in which lie the nerve
centers, can never be touched by the
knife with impunity, and only as the
last hope and on the surest diagnosis
should the knife be used there. This
is the conclusion of brain specialists
who have learned from the insanity,
ldiocy and death produced in the sub
lects of too adventurous operators,
For, even though the operator, push
ing boldly in where, to quote Sir
Ashley Cooper, "there is only the
thinness of paper between eternity
and his instrument, evade adroitly
the infinitely delicate mechanism that
controls life itself; followed by no
hemorrhage, as is usually the fatal
case; yet such is the nature of the
substance on which he operates that
the scar he leaves is in itself hardly
less baneful than the eradicated in
jury. Surgery of the cerebellum has
hardly gone beyond diagnosis. Won
derful indeed is this diagnosis, which
traces sensation along the Infinitely
diversified telegraph system of the
nerves, to its destination in the pro-
cesses of the brain; or refe1s the
sudden twitchlng of toe muscle to
stimulation of some exactly defined
portion Of the cerebral apparatus. But
except in the case of few maladies
like epilepsy, or injuries producing
removable pressure from without up
on the brain substance, it Indicates
no cure. The area of knowledge is
small, the area of ignorance great,
and the best men dare prophesy no
radical progress. Mcclure,
Amador ledger., 1905-04-07
CHIPS FROM OTHER BLOCKS.

Kuropatkin can beat the band at
beating retreat. New York World.
In tagging Rojestvensky as we'll
meaning blunderer the court of in
quiry did little to differentiate him
from other Russian admirals. ls.-CIeve-
land Leader,
Trouble is breaking out in so many
places that the map of Russia will
soon look like it had the Measles
Baltimore Sun.
United States senators are not very
weather wise or they would note that
the public barometer is falling rap
idly.
Amador ledger., 1905-04-07
An Ibsen Theory,

In one Of the published letters of
Ibsen he says that while he was writ
ing one Of his plays he had on his desk
an empty ale glass with scorpion in
it. Now and then the animal would
grow sick, and the author would throw
piece Of soft fruit to it, whereupon
the scorpion would fall upon the food
furiously, empty its poison into it and
then get we'll again. as 1t not good
deal like this with us poetsp Ibsen
CONTINUES Natures laws apply in the
domain of the spirit also"
Amador ledger., 1905-04-07
One Qualification.

eyes, my boys got a position in a
bank, and he's going to be president
of that Institution some day"
Bright, ehi''
well. sir, he can sign his name so
that no one can possibly make out the
signature. Philadelphia Ledger.
Amador ledger., 1905-04-07
A Long Sentence of Six Letters

Here is a sentence of thirty-two
words which some ingenious person has
constructed of the six letters found in
the word maiden: ida, a maiden; a
mean man named Ned Dean, and Me-
dla, mad dame, made me mend die
and dime and mind a mine In a dim
den in Maine"