davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-06
2 P s P S ? S S D P B

i that the average price of commodities has advanced in this period of eight years 36 3-10 per cent.
 Apropos of this very matter toIay's newspaper tells me that there has been a cut of 22 cents a hundred pounds on the freight rates on sugar and coffee from New Orleans to up- per Missouri River points. Now if the argument that a reduction in freight rates is for the bezefit cf the consumer is true, the Western people ought to be getting sugar and coffee cheaper than ever As a matter of fact the price of neither of these commodities was reduced; you and are no better off for the cut. and every dollar of that cut was saved to the sugar and coffee trusts respect lively.
 When we come down to rock bot. tom, we will find that even if Roose- welt gets everything he wants in the way of legislation, you and I are not going to be one bit better off than we are at this blessed moment.
 Some fellow is bound to get a bit O. graft out of it, of course, else there would not be all this agitation. To a fellow who looks out the fourth story window of 8 back flat and has to hus. tie like thunder to get money enough to buy beans and bread, with a It, tie meat on the side occasionally, Roosevelt's reform movement don't seems to appeal very effectively in the light of these statistics have re- ferred to.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-06
 CpperCo

Houghton, July 31,[The change ia the local management of the Bige- low mines came as a surprise to the people here. Judge Norman w. Haire, of Ironwood, has been made Vice-president and general manager of the so-called Bigelow companies. including the Tamarack, Osceola, Isle RCyale and Ahmeek. Wm. E. Par Ean the present superintendent, is to accept the management of large iron ere properties in Colorado, and it is probable that Wm. J. Uren, at pres Snt assistant superintendent, will be made mining superintendent of the yarie0s properties. The whirligig of time Arings about strange develop ments, as it is less than three years ago that Judge Haire, now given con trol Of these properties, was elected g director of the Osceola company, as the continuation of a fight made by Lake shareholders against the Bige- low management. Judge Haire is very popular personally, but the de- partpre Of MT. Parnan from the Lake 9lssrict will be generally regretted.
 It is runored locally that a fight Is to be made on the Keweenaw Copper Co. by certain strong eastern interests, though it is difficult to fathom the motive leading to such crusade. Some decidedly erroneous statements regarding the Keweenaw have appear ed recently in usually well-posted eastern publications. Among the more paIpable errors set afloat are the state ments that the underwriters have
Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-06

pie not antagonizing either President
 Fay or Superintendent Chynoweth.
 The Centennial mine has proven a
 disappointment, though not for the
 first time. and old-timers will remem-
 Der that the Centennial gave some
 bad half-hours to former manage
 ments, at a time when MT. Fay had
 never seen a copper mine, and when
 Capt Chynoweth had nothing to do with the property. The Allouez mine,
 however, which is under the same eastern and local management as the Centennial, is developing beautifully, and is absolutely certain to meke one of the big and rich mines of the dis trict, in time. IL also should be re- membered. for Nr. Fay and Capt Chynoweth. that they developed the Trimountain, one of the best of the new mines of the district The mis- take in the case of the Trimountain was in permitting tbe dictaticn of Messr- Burrage and Lawson who in sisted upon the declaration of divi- dends before property was in prop CT shape to pay them, which led to crowdinG the property too hard at time when nursing was in order. As control OG the stock was owned abso- luteiy by Messrs. Burrage and Law son, people composing the Fay man agement was in the unpleasant po- sition of being compelled to take or ders from behind the screen. or else give mp the ostensible control of a highly promising new mine. developed from grass roots.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-06

me that there is a nigger in the wood pile somewhere, and that the broker and middleman knows just where to locate him. l know my loaf of bread and breakfast rolls cost me just as much now as they did in '97, and my wife says the loaf Of bread is smaller than it was then.
 don't come from Boston, but I like baked beans. In '97 they cost the dealer through whom I buy them 90 cents a bushel. They cost him $2.1O bushel now and the freight rate on these beans from some place out West where they are raised, is just the same now as it was then. As a consumer I can not see how I can get any the worst of it because of these freight rates, but I know 1 am getting 100 per cent the worst Of it on the price of my beans. Per haps the farmer gets the benefit, per haps it is the middleman, and my grocer tells me there is about 25 Fer cent profit on the bean business But he certainly can't charge that in- crease in price is mp against freight rates in the face of these official sta, tistics.
 have looked over this whole list of commodities in every day use in every family in the country, and can't find where there has been any such Increase in freight rates as would warrant the raising of the price of these commodities to the consumer by cent a pound on anything or a cent a yard on any wearing apparel. Yet there has been such . constant increase in the price of these things
Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-06

other day that had been compiled by k0me statistical chap, showing the increase of railroad freight rates be- tween 1897 and 1905 and also giving the average wholesale price for the things that you and eat and wear in these same years.
 That table set me to thinking how little we common people know of this rate making business, concern ing which there has been such a hellabaloo for the past year or SO. The more I studied it the more it strikes me that to a fellow who is paying market bills every day, it is a good deal of tempest in a teapot Of course that cuts out the question of the principle involved entirely. That is another story. But I find for instance, that while the price of wheat had increased about 60 per cent, corn 100 per cent and oats 50 per cent, that the actual cost of transpor- tation of both wheat and corn had been reduced. not much, but enough SD that the broker handling lot of 1t. would add quite a bit to his in- come. He gets rake off, but we people who eat it, have to pay prac- tIcally double for the same stuff that we had to in 1897. Take the cost Of a barrel of flour for instance. In'97 the railroad charged 27 cents to haul it 1000 miles-now they charge 90 cents. ID 's7 the average price of barrel flour at wholesale was $2.90- today 1t Is t4.00. That don't line up exactly with the claim that the In. crease in cost to the consumer is due entirely to freight rates. It strikes
Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-06

The improved showing at the Ad-
 duct will be highly satisfactory. The gain in the percentage of copper per
 ton of rock stamped is being held, and the prospects of the property new CT were so good as just at present. In addition to the regular mining work now under way, exploratory work is to be resumed upon a mod est scale. This work is limited, at present. to trenching across the lodes of the Evergreen belt at a point some half mile northeast of No. 3. the east ern most shaft of the mine The work is being done on the old Hilton property, and is being undertaken be- cause of the improvement that is so marked a feature of developments in the lower eastern levels of No. 3 shaft.
 The Michigan mine, which passed into the ranks of proft-earning proper ties some months ago, is finding uni formly good ground in it's branch lode. which, though comparatively narrow. averages the richest rock mined in the entire lake district, outside of the Calumet & HecIa, even leading the Wolverine slightly in copper contents. Masses of native copper of one to ten tons weight are met quite frequently, and at present the largest mass yet encountered is being worked on. Ap- parently the new mass will prove to be forty to fifty tons in weight-and fifty tens of native copper is worth fifteen thousand dollars at present,
Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-06

months. tens of thousands of acres of mineral land in this same field Ia common fairness the Keweenaw company is entitled to n chance to show what it can accomplish unham pered by untruthful stories or by an organized raid against it. This is especially true for the reason that the promoters of the company have followed exceptionally dignified and scrupulous methods in putting their proposition before the public. While few companies ever organized in the Lake district have begun existence with better prospects. and none with larger holdings of mineral lands, very few have claimed less to those who were asked to take stock. and since the organization of the company the energies of the management have been devoted to the actual work of development. first of which is the con struction of the Keweenaw Central railway. rathe- than to making a market" for the stock.
 This policy. while distastefuI to the speculator, must appeal to the Judg- ment of the more conservative among investors who have learned that di vidends are earned by work on the. ground. and not by clever operations on tue stock exchange.
 Centennial rock shipments are to be increased early in August. The talk of an organized fight against the seems to have died out Tho apftaffOD was limited almost entirely to the east, Lake peo-
Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-06
Thought and of Csd Panama

It is probable that the House of Rep resentatives will get down to business at once on whatever the President asks them to, for the House is no longer deliberative body. but is run by a few men. When they crack the whip the majority jumps It IS altogether different with the Senate
 + is just like it 10 take a notion that there is something else of far more importance than the things the Presi- dent asks, that should have it's atten- ton and they are likely to take up the whole of the extra session discuss ing it. The Senate cares about as much about what the President thinks or some subjects. as a COW chewing her cud thinks of the Nebular Hypoth- esls or the Symmes Hole theory.
 There may be some legislation snent the Panama Canal early in the session, the regular session. but when it comes to railroad legislation and the proposition to place all the rail roads in the hands of five senile bank rupt politicians who constitute the In- terstate Commerce Commission. there is going to be some blood and hair and the ground tore up" around the Capitol Building. The House may get quick action and do whatever Teddy wants done in the way of re- bate and rate legislation. but when the House bill reaches the Senate the fun will commence. After a few rounds the House bill will look like the last rose of summer hit with a brick. If there is to be any legislation what ever on this subject in the next ses- sion of Congress. 1t will be the bill
Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-06

while the cost of cutting with pneu. matic chisels, hoisting, smelting and shipment east, will prove but a small part of the unduiy high costs of early days, which ate up nearly all the prof it from many of the largest masses of native metal encountered.
 While not consummated. it has been decided to effect an exchange of lands between the Baltic and Atlantic com panies, by which the boundaries of the Baltic and the Section Sixteen tract of the Atlantic will be mutually i'm proved. Similar exchanges have been made~by many 5f mines IoSth, or Calumet. The reason for an ex- change of equal holdings between ad- Joining mines is found in the e!imina- ton of odd corners, into which mine openings can be driven only at a con siderable disadvantage. Lands of all Of the mines are laid out accord ing to the Michigan surveys, in towns, sections, quarter-sections and six teenth sections, with boundary lines running north and south, and east and west. The mineral beds outcroD diagonally, running north of north east as a rule. Shafts are best sunk upon the plane of the Iodes, which makes them descend at right angles to the outcrop, or south of northwest. The exchanging of lands is merely a private arrangement for swinging the fence between neighboring mines from the artificial into the natural lines of demarcation.
 HORACE J. STEVENS.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-06

prepared by the Senate Committee that sat here this summer and took testimony. and that bill is not going to hurt any body in the railroad bus inesss very hard, and is not going to give to the Interstate Commerce Com mission any greater power than it now possesses. Just put that pre- diction in your pipe and smoke 1t
 Many of the old jokes about the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad being rough and making you seasick, and about the fellow who said he wanted to go to New York the worst way, and was advised to take the B. & O. will have to be sidetracked." said one o' the biggest railroad men in the country the other day. They are now putting in a piece of track be- tween here and Baltimore" continued he, that will straighten the align ment. eliminate the curves. place the roadway well above high water and free from damage by freshets which occur almost every year. The work will cost in the neighborhOod of a million dollars and will make the main line of the old road one of the best pieces of railroad in the country"
 I merely mention this piece of rail- read news to show that if the railroad people, were very much afraid of the Republican party enactiBg legislation to place their property in the hands of the government they would not be spending that much money on i'm provements.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-06

picked up bunch Of statistics the
Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-06

CHAs. A. EDWARDS.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-12-08
FOUR NEW HOMES.
Contracts Given for Material Improve
r,ents for City-Work Begins
at Once.

Four new residences will be built at
once. This is the latest in the build
ing boom that is now on in Santa Fe.
Contractor A. l.. Morgan today broke
ground for two modern residences on
Upper Palace Avenue. These houses
are to be constructed for G. 0. Lucken-
bach and P. F. Knight.
In few days Contractor Morgan
will break ground for two other cot
tages to front on Marcy Street in Fort
Marcy Addition. These will also be
built for Mr.. Luckenbach.
All four of these residences will be
of brick and built with all OF the lat
lest improvements and cOnveniences
They are to be of the old mission type
and have cellars They will average
about seven rooms and will cost not
less than $2,4OO each. When complet'
ed they will be decided addition to
the residence section of the city.
Mr.. Morgan is at present engaged
| in building the Salmon building and
the Hersch residence. He has done 9
great deal Of work in all sections o.
! the Territory and says that Santa Ft
| is the best home town in the country
AS he expresses it: Your city has
fewer knockers than any place
know"
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-12-08
PRAISE FORT STANTON
Secretary Shaw Shows the Good Work
Being Done There For Con-
sumptives.

Secretary Shaw has recommended
that large number Of the marine hos
pitfalls be discontinued. Among those
that he wishes continued Is the one
at Fort Stanton.
In speaking Of the great work that
is being done by this hospital he says:
"At the Sanitarium for Consump-
tives, Fort Stanton, New Mexico, SS0
patients were cared for during the
year, of whom 11S were discharged 76
apparently cured, u improved, and %
unimproved); So died at the Santa
rum. and 1913 remained under treat
ment at the close Of the year.
"This hospital gives results and Of
fers treatment not obtainable outside
of New Mexico"
The other hospitals that he recon-
mends being maintained are the ones
lat New York, Boston, Baltimore, New
Orleans, Chicago and San Francisco
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-12-08
FRATERNAL SANITARIUN
Community Holds Meeting in Las Ve-
gas-Entertained BY Commercial
Club.

The committee of the National Fra.
ternol Sanitarium is in Las Vegas TO-
day and will be entertained by the
Commercial Club tonight. The men,
hers arrived in the private car OF W..
B. jansen.
The committee Is enthusiastic and
SAYS that the management is on d
sound financial basis. In the party are;
President, E. e. Murphy, Leaven'
worth, Kans.; vice president, DR.. A.
L. Craig, Chicago, ILL.,; treasurer, A.
l.. Hereford, Springfield, Ill. Direct
ors. DR.. Ira A. Porter, Omaha, Neb.;
M. l.. Campbell, Neenah, Wis; Il. L.
BALI, Mason City, Iowa; Olin Bryan
Baltimore, Md; j. A. Langfit, Pltts
burg Pa; w. r. Edison, st. Louis.
The following as substitutes for dl
rectors who are unable to be present:
Dr. Theodore Stenean for DR.. A. +
Markey of Port Huron, Mich; l.. II
sisler for N. S. Baynton, P. l.. NC
Ardle will have a representative, anl
DR.. F. H. Lord and several OF the OF
ficers' wives will accompany thf
party. Thus, every officer and directo
will be here in person or by substitute
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-12-08
JEROME READY TO
PROSECUTE FRAUD.
He Will Ask For a
Special Grand
Jury.
nusr@ ,,n ..a.,-uuA 1.>~
GIVES UP MONTHS REST
McCurdy Resigns From Mu-
tual Life--Ryan is on Stand
Again Today.

New York, Dec. S.-Directly follow
ing the appearance of District Attor
ney Jerome at the insurance investi
cation yesterday afternoon, it was re-
ported that he had already completed
his plans for the prosecution of the
cases revealed by the work of this
committee.
1t is understood, so says the Trib.
une, that Jerome will, directly afte.
the close of the committees public
session, ask for a special grand jury
to deal with these cases.
District Attorney Jerome had
planned to take months rest but
has now abandoned this plan, and in
stead, is making arrangements for Il
prompt criminal prosecution of the in
surance Offenders if anything criminal
should develop.
Mccurdy Resigns.
The resignation of Robert H. Nc
Curdy, general manager of the Mutuai
Life Insurance Company, was present
ed TO the board of trustees today and
was accepted. The resignation takes
effect on December 31st
Ryan on Stand.
New York. Dec. S.-ThOmas F.
Ryan, who purchased the control of
the Equitable Life by buying the stock
of James Hyde, was the first witness
before the insurance Investigating
committee today.
He testified that he bought the Hyde
stock because he thought that by SO
doing he would prevent the largest
panic the country had ever had, which
he believed would have followed. II
the Equitable had been put in the
hands of a receiver.
Ryan said that after his purchase
E. H. Hartman, president of the Union
Pacific, desired to purchase his share
Ryan refused Harriman's offer
Declines to Answer.
RYAN declined to answer questions
as to what was said during the conver
sation between him and Hartman
Hughes said that he wanted to kno"
whether there was any truth IN tne
report that it was limited that there
would be an investigation of the life
insurance business, if Hartman was
| not given an interest in the Equitable
| Ryan declined to answer and Hughes
then asked If Hartman had said any
thing to intimate that anything dlsas
trous would happen to Ryan's inter
ests. if he refused to share with Haf
riman. Ryan refused to answer AGAIN
but on the advice of his attorney. re
piled that Hartman had not mace
any such threat.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-12-08
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Two important Sales OF Properly
Made to Governor Otero and
Mrs. Bergere.

The adjourned meeting of the Board
of Education scheduled for last night
did not take place, because not enough
members were present to make a quo
rum. Business however was trans
acted by the Board at it's previous
meeting.
AS stated in yesterdays New Mexl-
can, arrangements have practically
been completed for the sale OF lots ~,
7 and s, block 6 Ft. Marcy addition
to Governor Miguel A. Otero. for the
sum of $4,000. Mrs. A. M. Bergsca's
bid of $500 for lot s in block 2 OF the
same addition was also accepted. Mrs
Bergere has also purchased lot y, al
Joining that on which her home is 10
Gated, paying $4,000 for the house anc
lots
The Board also allowed a bill o.
$3.50 in part payment for the electric
wiring done by the Santa Fe Water
and Light Company in the new High
School building. The total bill for this
work is s311. A sum of $100 was also
set aside with which to secure plans
specifications and fittings for the asep
tic tank, a new sewerage arrange
ment. for the High School building,
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-12-08
WILSON ARRIVES.
Brother Of. Richard Wilson Injured in
Santa Fe Central Accident at
Bedside.

Robert Wilson, brother Of Richard
G. Wilson, who received dangerous in
iuries while attempting to steal a
ride on Santa Fe Central passenger
train near Willard station, last Satur-
day evening, came to Santa Fe from
Winslow, Arizona, today, to be with
the injured man who is a patient IN
ST. Vincents Hospital.
Robert Wilson is brakeman en-
ployed by the Santa Fe. He came
here in response to d telegram yester-
day. stating that his brother would
probably die. Richard Wilson Is slight
ly better today but his condition sun
remains precarious.
81 believe that in spite OF all we
have done for him, Richard wilson
would now be dead man had 1t not
been for his heroic nerve" said Dr. ).
IL. Norris, this morning. 81 have ham
died many such cases but | never saw
man with the amount of grit, this
Young fellow possesses. He is the
constant wonder of his attendants
His strong will power has aided IN
keeping him alive"
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-12-08
HERMOSA PRODUCING.
Celebrated PaIomas Chief Mine Re-
Opened and Being Worked win
Satisfactory Results.

Special to the New Mexican.
Socorro, N. NJ, Dec. S.-The Paio'
mas Chief Mining Company has en-
countered q large body Of high grade
silver ore in the main tunnel in the
Palomas Chief mine at Hermosa. Tne
tunnel cuts the ore one hundred leel
below the old workings and nine nun
dred feet from the tunnel entrance.
The character of the ore is argentine.
impregnated with native silver. Tne
associate minerals are galena' cnai'
copyrite and sphalerite.
| The mine has produced over naI
million in the past. The recent de-
velopments warrant the prediction that
Its production will again rival Its Tor.
mer record.
Hermosa was one of the best camps
in the Territory some fifteen years ago
but gradually declined with silver
after 1893. For several years past Il
has been a typical dead mining
camp" The present owners are sys-
tematically prospecting the property