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over the discovery; but should it prove valuable, there are thousands of acres of like formation in the neigh borhood and many could pick up claims.
 J. J. Brown came in from the Bald Butte country yesterday, where he had been doing assessment work for W. A. Cline on six claims he has there. In conversation with a Courier man he said that few people could realize the immense deposit of ore MT. Cline has there. In comparing it he said it was ten times as long as the court house. equally as high in places and fully as wide. It is a low grade proposition and carries gold, silver and copper. the latter in very small quantities. On the group. are several shafts, one S5 feet deep and another 100 feet deep.
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the Champion mill seem to be a very doubtful success, and a steeple-com- pound is to be installed. The steeple- compound heads at Osceola have prov en all that ever was claimed for them, and are saving about 30 per cent in fuel bills-no small item in a district where the consumption of bituminous coal by the mills run well into the hundreds of thousands of tons yearly
 The steeple-compound, as the new form NOrdberg head is generally term ed locally, is merely a straight-line vertical compound engine actuating the piston of the stamp, one cylinder being superimposed upon the other.
 Reports from the property of Inc Chiricahua Development company are of a remarkably enthusiastic nature, and are unanimous. This company is the pioneer operator in the Chiricahua mountains, which form a short iso- lated range north of the San Simon valley, in the extreme southern part of Cochise county, Arizona, that lies al most equidistant from Bisbee and Cliff ton. A little work has been done, for years, by prospectors, but none of these had the capital to make mine, despite the good surface showings to to be found throughout the range. The recent developments of the Chirica- hua company's prperty are of such an exceedingly satisfactory sort that the future of the property would be con sidered absolutely assured, were it To- cated in the Bisbee or Clifton fields. The Chiricahua range bears all the ear
Bisbee daily review., 1905-02-12

Boston, Feb. 11.-Gee. L. Walker says in his weekly letter in the Com mercial:
 Copper continues firm. Lake is sel. ling at Is 3-S to 15 1-2 rents and cleo trolytic at IS If to Is 3-S cents per pound. That the metal situation is ln every sense legitimate and healthy IS made apparent by the fact that cop per for immediate delivery sells at a premium. Consumers are said to be finding 1t difficult to make contracts For deliveries in March, and the major tiy of the producers are all sold out to the end of April.
 It is now generally conceded in the trade that copper is not at all like ly to decline below 15 cents, and there is ground for the belief that producers as well as consumers will endeavor to prevent an advance above Is 1-2 cents. Producers feel than an advance to r cents per pound, which they may not be able to prevent, would cause consumers to discrimin- ate in favor of substitutes. and that it would in the long run have an in- furious effect on the metal market. It really seems that it is not so much a question at the present time of keeping the price of copper up as it is to keping it down.
 Exports of copper for the month of f0 This compares with 29,0S5 tons ex- ported in January, 1894, and an aver age of 20,61S tons per month during the whole of last year. For two or three years past bearish feelings have prevailed in European copper consum- ing circles and have in some respects tended to dePress our export trade. The total January exports, however, aggregated 5000 to 4,OO0 tons more than they were expected to 15 days ago.
 There is every reason to believe that copper is being consumed more rapidly at the present time than it is being produced, notwithstanding the high level of prices.
 Public attention is again being at tracted to the copper share market and conditions are such that increased speculation seems inevitable. There is now every reason for the belief that the price of copper may average as high as IS cents per pound through out the present year. It does the net earnings of the mines of the Unit ed States will be nearly s2O,000, ,0OC greater than last, and this money will come into the market for investment The holders of the copper stocks list
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led in Boston have benefited on paper during the past year to the extent of $50 100000, the advance in prices that has already occurred having ad. ded to the collateral value of their securities to that extent, and a trait of human nature impells most people Ito trade or buy in increasing amounts when they get their money az rapidly as this.
 A commission broker says: We have just sold the last lot of Wolver- inc for 8 customer, and not a dollar of this money has been withdrawn from this office. The Wolverine was bought at an average of s55 per share. The seller has already begun to in- vest his money in other stocks.
 Copper producers are earning tre- mendous profits and within a few months from now investments inter- ests will have formed different opin- ion concerning the intrinsic value of copper mines. Some morning one of the many big investors who are being produced by the enormous increases in fortunes that are resulting from the extreme advances in such stocks as Reading, Erie and other railroad, in- dustrial and copper mining shares, will come in and buy hundred thou sand dollars worth of coppers. If such a thing would happen it would cause a sensation in the Boston mar. ket. There are almost no stocks floating, and the purchase of ten thousand shares would send them up by leaps and bounds. We have recently been over the accounts of our margin-trading customers. They are carrying comparatively few cop pers, and we haven't a single copper account that would not stand a sub. stantial decline in the market and still be strong"
 I believe copper stocks should be bought BOW for substantial advance
 Amalgsmated has been stronger on "a reduced volume of transactions. The thoroughly liquidated condition of this stock and the remaining short in terest should sustain it and make it a reasonably safe speculative pur. chase on reactions for some time to come.
 Shannon's weakness reflects disap pointing developments at it's mines. understand that the deepest tunnels reveal the fact that the values of the camp are not maintained at depth and that it will be necessary for the company to develop new superficial ore bodies with which to feed it's re duction plant, There is no longer any
Bisbee daily review., 1905-02-12
CPrescott Courier.)

Capt. Meeks of the Amalgamated Copper company. has 100 tons of ma chinery at Martinez awaiting trans portation to the company's properties at Quartzite. In the lot is a 320 horse power COrliss engine, the fly wheel of which is IS feet in diameter. All this machinery will have to be transported overland almost 100 miles. h the past four months Capt. Meeks has transported to the company's prop erty 40 stamps of the mill in course of construction.
 At a point about seven miles west of Jerome Junction some prospectors lately stumbled upon copper croppings which attracted their attention. They immediately commenced to sink a shaft, and this they have prosecuted
Bisbee daily review., 1905-02-12
Fear That Copper Will Go to l7==Question Is How Can Prices Be Kept Down?==Shannon's Status

It is stated that the new plant and new shaft of the Old Dominion have cost in excess of s1 1,OOO. .OOO, and that upwards of s4OO,0OO of this have come from the earnings on copper produc- tion. The consolidation with United Globe gave Old Dominion $3O0, ,0OO, and the company now has a floating in debtedness of about s3OO,O0O. In view of the fact that it's smelter was closed down six weeks last year during which period the full force of men was
Bisbee daily review., 1905-02-12

marks of a great copper district meet ing the requirements of the most criti, cal as to its geological horizon, rock formations, outcroppings, etc. It need not prove surprising if the next great copper district of Arizona should prove to be located in the Chiricahuas, hallway between Clifton and Bisbee, which are now the greatest producers of Arizona, and which, considered sep arately, are each inferior in produc- tion only to Lake Superior and Mon tana among the great copper districts of the world.
 From the Bisbee mines controlled
 by local capital the news continues of such an unbroken succession of rich developments and new strikes that 1t is a trifle monotonous, to all except the fortunate owners of shares in these properties. The new Oliver shaft of the Calumet & Arizona is opening another mine that promises to be as good as the Irish Mag. The Lake Superior & Pittsburg ore bodies are being opened rapidly, and a big mine is certain. Pittsburg & Duluth is showing great stopes of very high grade ore, and both the P. & D. and L. $. 6 P. should become producers with in year or less. Junction is show ing well, and insiders, including of- ticers of the c. & A. group, believe that c. & P. will make one of the very best mines of the group, passing this opinion upon surrounding develop ments, which are of nature to con- firm this opinion.
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for it's shelter charges and should re- suit in greater economies.
 In the lower workings of the Old Dominion the ore enters the diorite or diabase and is found in two clear ly deffned Assure veins. The manage ment is introducing a new system of mining, made possible by the change in the mode of ore occurrence, and confidence is expressed that the cost per ton of ore extracted will be con- siderably lower in the future than in the past
Bisbee daily review., 1905-02-12

Kept on developments and surface equipment, these figures make it plain that the company is doing better now than at any previous time in it's ca reer.
 The shelter is now running on ore averaging per cent copper, and losses in the slags do not exceed one half of one per cent. The company's concentrator will be ready to go into commission within a few months. Its operation will give the company more sulphur and iron from it's own mines
Bisbee daily review., 1905-02-12
|Y TIMING MARKETS and FINANCES VI
tCppD in

Houghton, Mich, Feb. 11.--(Spec- laD-The present highly satisfactory price of copper is considered, by those ID a position to best judge, to be bas- ed upon natural conditions, and like ly to last for some time to come. AS the price is not made arbitrarily. as was the case when Amalgamated was holding the figure at seventeen cents by main force, three and four years ago, minor variations will be noted from time to time, but the legiti- mate demand is treading so close up- on the heels of production that it is difficult to see how prices can fall materially from their present high level.
 The German demand is again nor nal. while the American demand is very heavy once more, due to the complete recovery of business from the slump that set in late in 1903, and lasted until nearly the end of 1904. Japan, formerly an exporter to the ex- tent of between 15,OO0 and 10000 tons annually, is now using all of her own copper. and is importing as well. China, which heretofore has been a very trivial factor in the worlds cop per trade. supplying her omn demands with domestic production of five to six million pounds annually, has suddenly stepped into the center of the stage as an immense consumer, buying cop per by the tens of thousands of tons. Whether some of this copper going to China may not be intended for Japan is 8 question. the answer to which
Bisbee daily review., 1905-02-12

whatever that the mine will prove a rich one.
 The Ahmeek is sinking steadily in both shafts, and is beginning to ac- cumulate underground workings at a rapid rate, as the number of levels is The production of rock from the drift-stopes is by no means trivial. and will increase steadily dur Ing the present year.
 The matter of compromising the heads of such mills as have not al ready undertaken the work is re- ceiving careful consideration at the hands of a number of managements. While the compound head means the rebuilding and encouragement of the mills as they now stand, the cost is not so serious as might be inferred, for the reasons that the extensions re- quire for additional wash-room, to care for the increase of 40 per cent or more in tonnage crushed by each head after compromising, can be made as shed extensions to the main struct- ures, rather than as independent mills, the cost being much less for that reason. That the compound stamp is the head of the future can be open to doubt no longer. in the
 fight of returns already secured. The matter of compounding the stamp heads is no more open to argument that the question of the relative econo- my of the compound or single-expan- sion steam engine for other uses, where the units are of great power The cross-compound stamp-heads at
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prooaDly must be given in the affirm ative, as Hong Kong, while nominally a part of China, really is a free port, and serves as a distributing center to large part of the orient, including a portion of Australasia. Just what such an enormous demand portends does not seem quite as clear as it
 might be wished.
 II is certain that a large part of this copper is required for the legitimate electrical and manufacturing demands of the Flowry Kingdom, but it is not plausible, if indeed it be possible. that the demand should multiply tenfold in a single year for Chinese reQuirments alone. The theory might be advanc- ed, by those inclined to credit the Am Copper company with a malevolent desire to rig the market once more, that much of this copper IS going into storage at the antipodes, being withdrawn to aid in raising the price of the metal in the United States and Europe, but this cry lacks evi- denc in substantiation. While the Chinese demand is rather puzzling a close examination of the facts prob ably would show that the copper going to China is separated into three diff ferent currents, for as many different destinations and requirements, one part being taken by China itself, one part by Japan, and a third and small
 er part going to various points in he Orient.
 Within a month, and perhaps with [ three weeks. the Allouz will reach
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-27
POPULAR ORDER
GAINS STRENGTH
Council of the Knights OF
Columbus Is Organized in
the City of Santa Cruz
BIG CROWD is PRESENT
Hundreds of Guests Are Roy
ally Treated After Work
of Installation Is Ended
Special Dispatch to IN. can.

SANTA CRUZ, Feb. 26.-Santa Cruz
Council No 961, Knights OF Colum-
bus, was organized here to-day. More
than 500 members of the organization
from San Francisco. San Jose. Oak
land and Vallejo were present at the
ceremony.
The visitors, who were accompanied
by the band of the League of the Cross
Cadets, arrived here before noon.
They were met at the depot by the
charter members OF the new council
and the Catholic Boys Band and
escorted to Holy Cross Church, where
q mass was celebrated. Father Sui
livan Of st. Patrick's Church, Menlo
Park, preached the sermon. From the
church the visitors and the neophyteS
marched to Odd Fellows Hall, where
the new council was installed.
Three degrees were given. the first
by the degree team of San Jose Coun-
Gil, the second by the team OF San
Francisco Council and the third by the
State degree team. There were nifty
nine candidates initiated. OF these
thirty-four are members Of Santa Cruz
Council. The others are members of
San Jose, Oakland and Los Angeles
councils, whose initiation had not been
completed.
After <he work OF installation was
finished the visitors were entertained
by the Catholic women Of Santa Cruz
at the Casino. Luncheon was served
in the roof garden of the resort. the
League of the Cross band furnishing
appropriate music during the repast.
Santa Cruz Council owes its exist
ence TO DR.. j. F. Crystal. j. j, Doran
and T. w. Kelly of this city and Dis
trict Deputy John f.. Burke of San
Jose.
The town is in gala attire in honor
of the visitors. A fine display OF fire
works Illuminated the beach. and the
main street is lighted from Mission
street to the beach with strings of in
candescent lights.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-27
SCORE PERISH
IN EXPLOSION

BLUEFIELD, w. Va, Feb. 26.-As
the result of an explosion in shaft No.
/ of the United States Coal and Coke
Company at Wilcoxe to-day, twenty
three miners are supposed to have lost
their lives and ii is possible that the
number will exceed this. Up to 8
O'Clock tonight fifteen dead bodies
had been taken from the shaft. A large
rescuing party is in the mines tonight
1t is barely possible, but not likely,
that some of the remaining entombed
miners will be rescued alive. The ex-
plosiOn was of terrific force and shat
tered windows mile distant.
Immediately after the shock great
numbers of miners. who We're off duty.
rushed to the shaft to find great clouds
of smoke and dust gushing from it's
mouth. Mothers, children and other
relatives soon were weeping and plead
ing for the rescue of those dear to
them entombed in the mine The Off
cials of the mine were soon on the
scene.
The cause of the explosion has not
yet been determined. Most of the min
ers are Italians and Hungarians.
The company usually works about
seventy-fve miners in this shaft. but
to-day being Sunday the men were
not all in and the small loss of life can
be attributed only to this fact
The United States Coal and Coke
Company, with principal offices in
Pittsburg, is part of the United States
Steel Corporation.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-27
SECRETLY WEDS
VICTORIA BELLE

Modestly inscribed on the register of
the ST. Francis Hotel is the signature
cf Arthur d. Ward of ST. Paul. 1t
was written there on February q and
would probably have passed notice
without exciting more than ordinary
curiosity had it not been for the fact
that Saturday there was added to the
signature and wife" But for the in
discreet move on the part of Ward the
fact that he had been quietly married
in this city to a beautiful young wom-
an, one of the acknowledged bellies
of Victoria, b. c., would perhaps have
not been discovered until he had fully
enjoyed with his bride their honey
moon on this coast and started on
their homeward journey to st. Paul
Ward is prominently identified with
the management of the Great
Western Railroad Company, with
headquarters in st. Paul, and his
present visit to San Francisco was
solely for the purpose of claiming the
hand of Miss Florence V. Meissonier.
The marriage, which was quietly
solemnized Saturday at the rectory of
Trinity Episcopal Church, was intended
to be kept secret until the happy
couple could reach st. Paul, but those
attractive words "and WIFE affixed to
Wards name on the hotel register
SpOlleQ the We'll la1Q plans.
Mrs. Ward is an exceedingly at
tractive woman, who only recently re-
turned from prolonged visit to the
Southern States, where, for time she
was the guest of the family of General
Shelby in Kentucky. 1t was during her
visit in the South that Ward first met
his bride and an acquaintance quickly
ripened into love match. A distance
of thousands of miles separating the
couple did not in the least lessen the
ardent wooing of the railroad man, who
was finally successful in securing from
the fair Victorian a promise of mar
riage.
1t was arranged some time ago that
the marriage should be celebrated in
California a few months hence and
Ward even went so far as to invite a
number of his friends in the railroad
world to accompany him to San Fran
cisco in a private car to witness the
ceremony. Suddenly his patience ex-
surprised his fancee by coming here
alone. He insisted on an immediate
fulfillment of her nuptial pledge and a.
wedding was hastily arranged Satur-
day witnessed the realization of Ward s
happiest hopes and since then Mr.. and
Mrs. Ward have been. quietly living at
the st. Francis. To-day they leave on
lHeiI HoHcyHooH Trip, winch VIII END
on their arrival in st. Paul
Although Mrs. Ward spent several of
her early years in Victoria she is we'll
remembered here, especially by former
students of Miss Lakes school, which
she attended for long time. Return
ing recently from her Eastern visit
she went to live with friends at 1905
Franklin street, where her finance
found her when he suddenly made his
appearance few days ago in San
Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-27
LETTERS POUR
IN UPON OSLER
Special Dispatch to The Call.

BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. 26.-Dr. Os-
ler's attention was called to-day to the
death of Captain William S. Winder,
who shot himself at the age of II years,
after reading Osler's speech and the
criticisms upon it. DR.. Osler had not
heard of the tragedy and asked:
Did he use chloroform?"
When the answer was in the negative
he had no more TO say.
A multitude of letters, kilograms and
clippings have been forwarded to the
doctor. Some of them have been con-
gratulatory and others threatening.
The majority of them, OSler says, take
issue with him. The doctors alluSiOn
to the fictional method or getting rid of
sexagenari by chloroform has caused
him some worry and trouble. DIR.
Osler regards the whole affair in a
humorous light.
DR.. Osler was asked if the Senators
and Representatives who had been
named as contradictions to his theory
were comparatively useless. He
answered.:
In many cases the work done by
those men could have been better done
by younger men,.
CHICAGO, Feb. 26.-On the theory
that correct living and proper amount
period of productive labor. Bishop
Samuel Fallows of st. Paul's Reformed
Episcopal Church, in sermon to-day
on THE Old Men of the Bible" takes
issue with Professor Osler, who has
declared that the creative period Of
mans intellect is confined between the
ages of 25 and 40 and that a steady
decline follows until the age of so, when
man is comparatively worthless.
Said DR.. Fallows:
A distinguished scientific writer, Ellie Metch-
inkoff. concurs in the declaration made In
Genesis that the days of man are 120 years.
The latest physiological investigations prove
this to be the case.
1t is a significant fact that the average
duration of life is continually growing greater
Correct living will yet bring the race to the
normal figure. In tho light of these facts the
contention of Professor Osler that the creative
period of mans intellect is between twenty
five and forty. and that there is steady de-
cline until the comparatively worthless age Of
sixty is reached. must be taken with consider
able allowance. The period of creative INTEL
lect ought to be advanced to seventy years.
Men must be encouraged to prolong the pc
riod of productive labor. No artificial dead
line should be established. Temperate in all
things" as rule Of life. Will push old age
far toward tho scriptural and divine limit.
The worlds work will thus be done by the
young men of seventy.