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Envelopes for Farmers

Not alone for farmers, but for every
body. We print you one hundred tor
seventy-five cents, with your name and
address,, so the letter will be returned
10 the writer If it is not delivered.
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Fishing Tackle.

George Blocksedge has everything
YOU could possibly want for any kind OF
fishing. Ask him to show you wnat
he has in this line. Sli
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Two room house, lot 5Ox14O, facing
mill boarding house, for sale cheap
Terms. Call at the Echo Office for
particulars.
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HSutter Wrappers Either Plain Oh
Printed.

Leave your orders with the Echo for
butter wrappers. Either one or TWO
pounds. With your name and ranch
printed on them or plain. Just as you
nrefer
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The Lamb-Davis Lumber Co. have
large supply of Pennsylvania black
smiths coal for sale at a reasonable
price. l4tf
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Barred Rock Settings.
Eggs from thoroughbred registered
stock.
18tf f. S. Jacobsen.
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Nothing Down.

Balance on time buys good building
lots. Inquire at City Drug Store.
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L SCR EAM.


Palm ice cream on sale at Block
sedges. loVi
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\ Mrs. A. ]. Martin visited Wenatchee
EAWednesday Of this week.
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Martin Christensen went down to
Wenatchee yesterday.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03

promise improvements in the house and its
furnishings, in the barns and the con-
veniences of labor, better machinery. better
cattle and horses, better fences and gates,
better things to eat, better clothes to wear,
more books and papers, more schooling for
the children and better prospects for them
as they start out in life. All these things,
and more, too, are promised by the album
dant crops which the rich land of this state
Of ours is yielding in this good year.
Not far away to the south OF our track
one catches the CLEAN of the water OF the
Platte river, running almost bank full al
though in midsummer. This abundance Of
water insures a supply for all the irri-
cation bitches. There will be no shortage
of water this year. And as we cross the
North Platte river, near the end of our
journey, not with much qualification that
like the larger river below, It, too, is
running a great volume of water. Readers
of The Twentieth Century Farmer will re-
member that 1t is up this river fifty miles
or more that the general government Is
planning great irrigation projects, with a
view to supplying water q an immense
tract OF western Nebraska land. This great
volume of water promises we'll for this
government scheme.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03
Blondes Rule the Earth

boy who has been derisively called
81 owhead" in the school yard by some
other boy does not soon forget 1t. OF
course. his tormentor has dark hair and no
must remain speechless or find some other
way of replying to this unpleasant aIlusion
to his conspicuous tawny hair. If he only
knew as much about It as some of the
students OF the races OF mankind and had
the courage OF his convictions, he -ould re-
tort in a crushing fashion. According to
some ethnologists. his hair is the badge OF
the dominant type II the worlds history.
Blondes and the blonde type have been
demonstrated by some ethnoiogists TO be
possessed of more brain and to be the most
aggressive OF mankind Evolved in the
northwestern part of Europe, in the neigh
borhood Of the -Baltio sea, only the strong
est have survived. Obliged 10 use their
wits in order to live they developed brain
capacity.
One man, curious to find out whether
blondes or brunettes predominated among
the famous people Of England, studied their
compilations carefully and found that more
than two-thirds of the political reformers
and agitators, three-hfths OF the sailors,
and more than half OF the scientists. the
soldiers, the artists. the poets, the menu
bers OF the royal family, the lawyers and
the created peers and their sons were
blondes. Among the statesmen, men and
women OF letters, the hereditary aristoe-
racy the clergymen. the men OF low birth,
explorers and actors and actresses the bru-
nettes outnumber the blondes.
From his observation he concluded that
IAN excess of fairness prevails among the
men OF restless and ambitious temperament
the sanguine. energetic men. the men who
easily dominate their fellows and who get
on in life, the men who recruit the aristoc-
Tacy and who doubtless largely form the
plutocracy." Artisans peasants, the men
OF religion, whose mission in life IL to
practice and preach resignation to higher
WILL" actors and thinkers, these. he OBJ
served, were more apt to be dark than
light in complexion. The fair man tended
to be bold, energetic. restless and domi-
neering." while the dark man tended to
be resigned and religious and initiative.
yet highly intelligent"
Whether one agrees with this conclusion
or not Il is true that some OF the most ag-
gressive. restless and ambitious men have
been blondes. President Roosevelt is a
blonde. Emperor William Of Germany be-
longs to family Of the blonde type. The
color OF the hair found on the body OF John
Paul Jones indicates that he was inclined To
be blonde. Kosciusko, the famous Polish
leader. and Kossuth. the much beloved
Magyar leader, were blondes.
The great wanderers OF the world are
those who follow the sea. Constantly rest
less, sailors are never satisfied when ashore
for then they would be anoat. When anoat
they cast longing eyes toward the shore.
some Of the best sailors are furnished by
the blonde nations The Norwegian has
been a sailor since the days when the rest.
less vikings came down out OF the north on
their ravaging expeditions. He is found In
.hs service OF every nation which has =
large msroantiIs nsst-NsW YOTk Tribune
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03

have visited the chief silver regions OF
the world. but nowhere have seen silver
which crops out on the top OF the ground
IS il does here at Cobalt. The whole re-
gion seems to be ore vast rock covered
with a thin skin OF earth. upon which trees
and grass grow. The surface OF the rock
is irregular II rises and falls, with water
In the hollows, and here and there a lake.
In places the rock crops out on the top OF
the ground, and In this rock a silver vein
may sometimes be seen. These veins run
for hundreds OF feet across the country.
and everywhere they show up on the sur
face. In the Timmons mine, for instance,
the earth has been stripped on TO the width
"a narrow pavement for q distance OF
1000 feet The rock has been ground smooth
by glaciers. When cleaned It looks much
like tagged sidewalk. Running through
Il In a winding way is vein of almost
pure silver so rich that you can see the
metal shine as though the rock was plated
with It, You can rub the vein with your
feet and polish g. Indeed, it makes me
think OF melted silver spoons mixed with
a little sand poured down in the crevices OF
the rock. 1 walked over this silver street
for hundreds OF feet, securing the precious
metal with my shoes as l did so.
This Is some OF the richest OF the Cobalt
ore so far discovered. Nuggets OF silver
which are 50 and 90 per cent pure have
been taken out OF the TimmonS mine. and
some OF the nuggets weigh 800 and
900 pounds each. I saw chunks OF
silver and rock the size of a paving brick
which / could not lift. Indeed, much OF
the ore makes me think Of the almost pure
copper nuggets which one finds in the Lake
Superior mines. These veins OF silver are
not regular In width nor do they run even
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03

below the value Of nickel, which is now
worth 30 or 40 cents pound. It now retsils
for $3.50 pound, and its value in connection
with the silver here is estimated at 60
cents per pound. So far the ore here is
mined only for the silver, and it's price is
based upon the silver it CONTAINS.
The cobalt can be plainly seen in the ore
when the rock is exposed to the weather.
1t is steel gray originally, but II then turns
rose pink. and where it is found in the
shape of powder it looks exactly like
rouge. When heated 1t turns a beautiful
blue There is some arsenic and other
chemicals mixed with this cobalt-sllver ore,
and the ore as a whole is such that It has
to be sent to New Jersey for special treat
ment.
The cost is enormous and so far only
high grade ore has been shipped. There is
some talk of building a smelter here and it
may be that the Ontario government, which
has undertaken the building of railroads,
may put up reduction plant for these
ores. / understand that the Nickel trust
which has large emelters at Copper Cliff
may add to their machinery some for the
reduction of cobalt-silver. II this is done
or a government smelter instituted the low
grade ore lying outside the rich veins can
be smelted and the property will be enor-
mously more valuable.
The miners here claim that the cost of
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03
Cobalt, the Mining Town.

But FIRST let me tell you where Cobalt IS
Take your map OF North America and
mark line from the lowest part of Hud-
sons bay to Buffalo. Divide II in half
and the middle point will just about strike
the Cobalt mines. They are reached by
the Grand Trunk TO North bay, and thence
over the new railroad just built by the
Ontario government about 100 miles above
that point They are about a night and
day from Montreal over the Canadian Pa
cifc and this railroad, and they are,
Judge Just about 800 miles from Toronto.
came here from ottawa via North Bay
through woods as wild as any on the North
American continent. The road skirts many
lakes, swamps. and what Is known as
rnuskeg which is kind of a cross between
a uuicksand and an Irish bog. Now one
passes a lumber camp, now an Indian VIII
lage and now a station where the tourists
60 OF TO hunt in the wild woods. We
reached Cobalt at in the afternoon and
had to rely on the miners for our accom-
mediation The town had only two or three
houses last spring. Now 1t has 100 or
more frame buildings. Log cabins are
going up in every direction three-story
hotel will be completed before this letter IL
published. and by next year Cobalt will be
double its present size.
Just now many of the population live In
tents The Canadian Bank OF Commerce
and the Imperial bank. two Of the strong
est In Canada. do their business in tents.
the bankers sleeping at night beside the
safes with guns near their hands
Cobalt has as yet no streets. The build
ings stand along corduroy roads which
wind this way and that through the stumps.
Most Of the houses are of pine boards with
roofs OF tar felt. put on with big-headed
tacks Some OF the walls are covered with
this black roofing material, so that the
place looks like collection OF shaoks of
black and white.
The settlement runs around a beautiful
lake so narrow that you can cross II in
a canoe In a few minutes. The mining
properties are all around the lake, and they
extend back into the woods. large part
Of the population still lives in tents. Some
OF the tents are not more than four feet
wide and fve feet high. They are merely
for slet ping. Cobalt has perhaps a dozen
stores,-and, strange to say, II has no sa'
looms. 1t Is a dry town. No liquor Is al
lowed TO be sold, and no gambling or other
wicked houses permitted, have seen one
or two drunken men, but altogether the
wild rowdyism OF the new mining camps OF
our west is absent.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03
Like a Quarry.

So far the work here is more like stone
quarrying than IRining The vein with the
rock on both sides OF it is blasted out and
the best of the ore bagged up In sacks.
The country about is cut up by long
trenches from ten to twenty feet deep and
FIVE or more feet wide. which have been
blasted and cut out Of the rock to get the
ore. The sides of the hills are quarried
where the vein breaks out, the veins being
followed in this way for long distances.
So far no one knows how deep down the
silver veins go. The biologists say that the
silver will lessen in extent as it jescends.
and IT is claimed that this has been the
case in the Treteway mine and in some
of the Earle properties owned in part by
the Standard Oil company. The deepest
mine so far sunk is the Timmons mine, to
which / have referred. In this a shaft has
been put down beside one OF the veins to a
depth of ninety feet, and the vein is found
to be wider and richer as 1t goes down.
This mine has already shipped about 200
cars of ore I'm bags. the output being worth
at least half million dollars.
Mr.. Joseph c. Houston, the manager Of
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03
iCopyright.

copyright, 1905, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
New Ontario, Nov 3d.
Especial Correspondence of The
Bee)-Three years ago the land
IHB8I about Cobalt would rot have sold
sSs for 10 cents an acre. Today
some Of It would bring 500 a square inch.
There is one tract of forty acres within
stones throw OF where / am writing
that you could not buy for 100000 in
cash, and ali about here are other forty
acre tracts which their owners estimate at
from hundreds of thousands to millions of
dollars. Nevertheless, tho land lies IN the
heart Of the widest woods on this conti-
nent. It is rocky and swampy and it would
take quarter section of it u feed a
goat.
It's value lies in the enormous silver de-
poslts which have been recently discovered.
The rock is streaked with great veins OF al
most pure silver ore. Three or four million
dollars worth Of this ore has already been
shipped, and carloads of 1t are now on the
way to New York. which are worth $4,000
or $4,000 q car. carload OF the best
picked specimens from a certain mine is
said to have sold for $4,000, another car
load for $4,000 and another for $4,000.
In the meantime the people here deem
themselves rich beyond the dreams Of
avarice. The land has been staked out
for miles in every direction and hundreds
OF prospectors with hammers in their hands
and great packs on their backs, held there
by straps around their forehead, are tramp
ing through the woods looking for new ore
fields.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03

How the Mines Were Discovered.
This cobalt-silver field was discovered
about two years ago, but the mines have
been kept, as far as possible. a secret. This
was for two reasons; one was that new
might be made by the present
holders, and the other, and chief one, was
TO blind the eyes OF the Ontario govern
ment and thus clrcumvent movement pro-
posed for demanding a royalty to DO paid
TO the government on all ore mined. Tho
mining laws at present are very liberal,
but If a royalty should be paid on tho value
of the silver taken out the state would have
enormous receipts therefrom.
Indeed, the Ontario provincial governments
would seem to have a special right to a
part of the profit OF the cobalt mines. for
It was the government which discovered the
property. In building the railroad from
North bay the route was blasted out
through the rocks above Cobalt lake and
silver vein was cut, showing the existence
OF the precious metal. Shortly after this
O French blacksmith named Larose stubbed
his toe upon a piece OF rock near this cut
ting. and upon picking 1t UP saw the white
metal shining out OF the blue stone. He
conferred with his friends and sent It down
TO Toronto to be assayed. The report was
that it was very rich In silver. Larose
thereupon filed a mining claim upon the
property where the Timmons mine now is.
and he sold the, first half OF his property
70 the Timmons corporation for $780, Later
on he disposed Of the balance to the same
parties, receiving for 1t $4,000. which
seemed a fortune to him. It was also a
fortune to the purchasers, for they have
already sold more than $4,000 worth of orc,
and am told that their mine is undoubt-
edly worth more than a million dollars to-
day. FRANK G. CARPENTER
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03


SSx9 across the rolling prairies the
train sped, past the rich green fields of
tasseiins corn and the golden-yellow fields
of wheat and oats, the latter for the most
part cut and shocked, and now and then
stacked or even thTeshed. 1 am glad to be
In the country again. out OF my Office and
away from my desk. l am glad to get the
breath Of the breeze which sweeps over tho
prairies, laden with the sweet odors of the
growing crops, the ripening grain, the new
mOwn grass and the wild flowers which fill
the landscape as far as the eye can reach
am going out to western Nebraska for a
little botanizing and feel like a boy out of
school
l suppose this longing for the open field.
for the forest, the prairie, the hills and the
canyons is akin to that which usually i'm
pels men to go to the lakes and the rivers
to angle for fish. No doubt botanizing and
fishing are but different methods of salts
flying the same Unborn desire to get out into
the open, which we all have. go botanic
ing and get exercise and refreshment; my
neighbor goes fishing and comes back
brown and hungry, and materially re-
freshed. also. I like my kind Of outing
best, for don't like to sit by the side OF
the water and fight mosquitoes while wait
ing for the fish to bite. much prefer
climbing hills and catching the cool breezes
from their SUBMITS, or exploring deep can
yons on whose sides l find rare flowers and
ferns. with delicate MOSES and trailing
liverworts
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03

next August. 1t will then be thrown open
TO the public, and the first man who can
stake out MS mine will get it. How the,
government will keep the miners back
until, the gun is fired announcing the open
ing is a problem difficult to settle. Said
one man last night:
Suppose I had been prospecting in these
woods, and know where there was mill
iion-dollar property, do you think 1 would
stand alone on that line and take my
chances in the rush. Not bit of it! II
there was a million at stake I would hire
a gang of 100 or so to go with me and
would arm them with clubs and revolvers.
and you may bet your life we would get
our stakes in first"
However this may be, the land will be
opened next August; and the rush, while
not SO great as that of Oklahoma. may be
somewhat like It and will undoubtedly be
for much bigger stakes.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03
Farm Includes variety of Land.

At the city of North Platte meet Super
intendent Snyder of the Agricultural Elk
pertinent station, and who is in charge OF
the sub-station here. We drive out south
ward across the South Platte river to the
"bench-land" which lies two or three miles
from the city. Here we find a tract Of land
stretching east and west a mile and a half
along the ''bench-land," and running back
into the hills, and on the "table-land" far
enough to make the whole one and one-half
by two miles. These three section include
about every kind of land to be found in
this part of the state. As nearly as l could
guess there Must be about $50 acres OF bench
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03
Plenty Of Food Tor Meditation.


am thinking OF these things as my train
carries me over the prairies. from Lincoln
TO Fremont, through one OF the prettiest
farming tracts of rolling land In the state.
At Fremont turn westward up the broad
level valley Of the Platte river. No wonder
that the traveller who crosses Nebraska by
this route concludes that the state Is as
nat as a pancake" For mile after mile
we travel over what appears to be a per-
fectly level country. AS a matter OF fact
we are ascending steadily at the rate OF six
to eight feet for every mile. On each side
OF the track are great fields OF corn. In
some of them the corn is already eight or
nine feet high, and so uniform In height
that the upper surface appears as level as
though clipped with gigantic shears What
a harvest OF corn there will be in this
valley in a couple OF months.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03
No shortage of water.

And as / look out OF my car window
see also the yellow field OF wheat and oats
In most cases the grain has been cut and
the fields are filled with shocks. and here
and there the steam thresher is at work
Smelling the golden grain. which is to make
the pocketbook of the farmer fat and his
heart happy. These abundant crops mean
much for the people OF Nebraska. They
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03
CobaIt-siIver ore.

This cobalt-silver ore is a comparatively
new thing in nature. Cobalt and silver are
frequently found together, but nowhere in
such quantities as here. Cobalt is a min
eral somewhat like nickel in it's properties.
1t is used to make paints and pigments,
and is generally known as cobalt blue. 1t
forms the color for all the finest blue china.
The metal is also>valuable for toughening
steel, and for this reason It can never fall
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03
Rush for silver.

Speaking OF the extent of the mining field
at Cobalt. lively rush will take place here
about a year from now. According to the
laws of Canada, when timber lands have
been leased to lumbermen for the getting
out Of logs the lumbermen are charged so
much thousand feet, and no one has any
right to prospect or mine upon such lands
until the leases have expired. There is n
very large tract of timber adjoining the
mining territory at Cobalt. This is said to
be full of silver. Notwithstanding the law,
prospectors are moving about over 1t now.
They have discovered veins richer, it is
said, than any of those about Cobalt lake.
1 know Of some miners who went through
these woods a, Sunday or so ago and each
brought back. $50 or $50 worth Of nuggets.
The lease on this timber land will expire
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03
The Worlds Richest Silver Deposits Are Found Canadian Forests

here and the camp will increase in value as
It is developed.
AT present there are about twenty mines
working Some are owned 10y Buffalo peo-
pie. some by New York parties. and more
BIZ Canadians. The field as far as defined is
about three miles square with the very
richest mines within a radius of two miles.
II embraces Lake Cobalt, and there has
been a proposition to drain the lake in
order to mine tho veins that run under It.
This has not been permitted by the govern
ment. There are now men digging out
quantities of ore within ten feet OF the
banks Of the lake. and tho veins there are
So plainly marked that the refuse is car
ried out in wheelbarrows and dumped on
the shores.
Tunnels will probably be made under the
bed OF the lake to get out the ore Such
mining is not impossible Some Of the best
mines of the world are under the water.
There are fifty miles of tunnels out Of
which coal has been taken from under the
Pacific ocean, In the Bay OF Nagasaki
Japan; and vast quantity Of coal Is
mined under the Pacific off the southern
coast of Chile. 1 have been in both mines
and have ridden for miles through the
Chilean tunnels on the electric cars used
for getting out the coal away down there
Prospecting is now going on far outside
this three-mile radius. and Some mineral is
being discovered. Silver mixed with cobalt
has been found twenty or thirty miles from
here. and another camp is springing up to
the northward.
Indeed, there is no telling what minerals
may not be found in this region, which
seems to be a part of the great mineral
belt running around Lake Superior and ex-
tending on northward toward Hudson's
bay. There is a great deal of iron on the
Canadian side of Lake Superior, and some
Of our richest mines of iron and copper arc
found on the" southern side of that lake. A
little more than 100 miles from Cobalt
lies Sudbury, which contains the rich
est nickel deposits OF the whole world, and
the miners tell me that minerals exist all
the way north to James bay. Prospecting
is now just beginning in this region. and
there is no telling what may be found.