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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30
CEDAR MINING COMPANY
MAKES A LUCKY STRIKE

In the history of mining with all It's
chances and big returns, the most in
teresting and at the same time proba-
bly, the most dramatic story wEisk is
told Is that of the lucky strike. There
are SO many Of them. but they are told
and told again when they materialize
Especially is this true of the mines
where some one has put in much time
and labor to develop the property and
suddenly lost heart OF faith AND threw
| 1t up. The next owner takes hold of
the mine and, after sinking a few feet,
! makes the strike which the other fell
low was after. That is the history of
mining. and one more instance of these
lucky finds is recorded in the case of
the Cedar Mining company
Although the company was only or
ganized last March. it already is on its
way foward prosperity, and the pros
pectS are the brightest of any of the
new companies which have come into
the field recently.
Only a Prospect.
1t was nothing more than a pros
pect when the present Owners acquired
control of the property. There was only
a ninety-foot shaft on the property,
but the work of development had gone
only a few feet down on the shaft
when the big paying ore was discovered
and the company is now well on its
way toward the dividend-paying stage.
This wonderful or lucky, or both,
state of affairs was not altogether due
to mere chance. 1t is seldom that
chance is the sole reliance of the worth
of a mine and it was not in the case
of the Cedar Mining company. 1t was
due to the able management of the new
company and the confidence which the
men behind the proposition had in its
ability to produce results that would
yield returns that would make the in
vestment one Of the best of its kind
which las been launched in this part
of the country In some time.
Near Milford.
| The mine of the company is ten miles
| from Milford and in the North Star
mining district. It consists Of three
claims, one of which IS a nl;llsite.
Although the work on the mine was
only started last March, that is, steady
work, it has been yielding a high
| grade lead-silver ore, and has been
shipping right along. One car recently
shipped by the company melted ex-
actly s2.351.66. The work was practi-
cally STARTED on a prospect. as there
was only ninety-fOot shaft to begin
| with.
On the 225-foot level ore was struck,
and again at 275 feet ore was encoun-
| tered. Shipping has all been done on
| the lpraise. At 275 feet the ore was
encountered by crOss-cutting twenty
/ four feet toward the body of ore.
Strike Ore.
On the 225-foot level a seven-foot
vein was struck, and the work was
then drifted for sixty-four feet, MAX
/ ing the entire distance in ore. Even
this is not the most encouraging ma
terial that the company has encoun-
tered, as the lower ore is equally as
( good, if not better. On the lower level
none of the ore has been taken out,
with the exception of what was re-
moved in making room to get the fine
ore out of the upraise. This leaves
practically a virgin body of scarcely
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30
UTAH CONSOLIDATED Is
ONE OF OLD STAND-BYS

the richest body of ore ever exposed in
the mine.
When the strike became generally
known, the company's stock took de-
cided jump. The new ore body was
found in exploratory drifts in what Is
known as fault 1874. about 1000 feet
west from the ore body in which the
company confined its original opera
tons.
This ore carries values of from to
9 per cent copper. and about "a in gold.
with the characteristic values in silver.
Confined to Limestone.
The entire operations of the Utah Con-
solidated have been confined to a strata
of limestone about 1000 feet long and
300 feet wide, which is tilted to an angle
of about 40 degrees. and cut lengthwise
by a narrow dyke of porphyry.
The last annual statement of the COM
pany indicated that there were 100000
tons in sight this was before the last
ore body was encountered, and an eng1-
neer who subsequently made an inves-
tigation has expressed the opinion that
the above figures are ultra conserva-
tive. The Utah Consolidated company,
during the year, has run through Its
smeiter an average of 900 tons of ore
per day, which is brought down to low
er Bingham over an aerial tramway
and there loaded into railroad cars and
conveyed to the place of reduction.
Wonderous Output.
The copper produced from this ore
will run close to 20,000,o00 pounds-per-
haps little In excess of that amount
at a cost of between 4 and cents per
pound. Say the cost is 5 cents and
copper is worth 20 cents a pound. 1t
or fol Of q a.
to figure out how the company's profits
have been running.
According to figures given out at the
eastern office of the corporation not long
ago, IL was ascertained that the mining
costs run about $50 per ton, of which
from q to 20 cents is used up In doing
exploratory work 1t costs cents a
ton to move ore over the tramway and
40 cents per ton for freight to the smell
ter, while the roasting, smelling and
converting costs -un under 81 per ton.
Surplus on Hand.
Before the company began smelling
ore from the new strike, the yield was
little better than sixty pounds OF
copper to the ton, and between So and
81 liz gold and silver.
AT the beginning of the year, accord
ing to the annual statement last issued
the company nstu d surplus on MANU- vi
over 81, 500, 600, and it is claimed that the
earnings this year will be in excess OF
81, 200, 900 after meeting dividend re-
quirements and expenses.
1t is not improbable that the man.
agement viii conclude to provide addt-
tioEal smelter equipment in 1907. There
is talk of bringing the ore-treating ca
pacity of the smelter up to at least 1,0oC
tons and perhaps to 1,200 tons per day.
Utah Consolidated heads the list OF
Utah dividendFayers this year.
1t is believed, however, by many that
the company will conclude to erect an
entirely new plant perhaps in some
other location than the present one.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

shaft
Fully Equipped.
Since March, when the work legan in
earnest, the mine has been equipped
with an excellent clearinghouse a
clubhouse for the accommodation Of
sixteen miners. a new orehouse, a we'll
equipped biacksmith-shop, ana stables
for the accommodation of the animals
at the mine. Thus far the work Of
bringing the ore to the surface has
been with a winze. This was installed
as soon as the mine was opened last
spring.
The company is now figuring on the
purchase of additional machinery. The
present machinery fails to accommo-
date the growing ambition of the prop
erty- 1t is certain that within the
next six weeks a gasoline forty-horse-
power hoist will be installed This
viii enable the company to more than
double its present shipments. A first
class air compressor will be installed
shortly after the first of the year.
The company has in its office some Of
the finest specimens that have been
taken out of the ground this year.
They are of excellent quality. Some
of the ore removed from the lower
level is of high quality of lead-sil-
yer. Horn silver Is also found In
abundance. One specimen tested high
I'm gold.
Experts who have examined the
claims consider ii first-class property.
On the property il has been demon
strated that there is a fine COPPER vein
and three silver-lead veins. There are
two well-marked f1ssure veins and sew
eral cross veins.
The management of the company is
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

The management, which has conducted
a systematic campaign In its develop
ment work for the year, has shown
that its plans were conceived with a
knowledge of what there was in the
property, and now that they have got
so well started on the road toward the
dividend goal, It is a safe prediction to
make that the company will have even
better returns from the property during
the coming year.
Prosperous Work.
This has been the most prosperous
year in the history Of the company, not
only because of the fact that the COM
pany was able to declare it's first divi-
dend, but also because the management
| is now fairly started on the way to big
ger returns from the property, and has
done Improvement work on the prop
erty which will result in bigger divf-
dends it is confidently expected before
another year has rolled by.
Besides the ordinary work which is
done during the year, the company has
had several large projects on it's hands,
and has been successful in cleaning
them all up TO the satisfaction of every
body
One OF the big works done on the
property during the year was the COM
pletion of the tramway, which means a
reduction OF more than 40 per cent in
the cost of transportation and will in
crease the shipping facilities of the
mine by shout so per cent. This tram
way is 1890 feet long, and will bring
the ore almost to the tracks of the
railroad, and result in quick transporta-
ton of the large output which the COM
pany expects to have before many
weeks.
Much Development Work.
There has been much development
work done in the mine during the year
While it is not possible to get at the
| figure, it is understood by those who
are in a position to know that the COM
pany has tons and tons of ore in sight
WHICH,, HOW Cfldl lilS transportation ID
cilities have been improved, will be
treated more quickly than has hereto
fore been the case, and will allow more
time to the management for further de-
velopment work.
In the improvements which the COM
Iany has made around the mines dur
ing the past year the mana cement has
not forgotten the comfort of the miners.
The company has. erected several new
cottages near the mine, and the men
will be provided with the best there is
to be had In the line of living quarters.
The property of the company consists
of twenty-five claims at the head of
Cars Fork in Bingham, and is stu
ated between the Bingham Central
Utah Consolidated and the Boston Con-
solidated properties.
| The company is controlled by New
| Haven capitalists. C. H. Doolittle, who
| is the manager of the company here, is
now in the east comforting with the
stockholders about the further improve
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

ments to be made in the mine during
the coming year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

The management of the mine was
placed in the hands of r. H. Charming.
jr., and he has DEVELOPED it into one OF
the richest copper mines in the world
During the present year the ore re-
serves have been greatly added to- and
the writer has been informed from a
reliable source that the new ore body
exposed in the northern part of the
property is not only the largest, but
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

explored ore as the bottom of the
shaft.
EuIfv Eoujoped
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-03-08
KILLED and BODY
THROWN IN RIVER

Indianola, March 81 G Baker yes
terday afternoon, following long talk
with the sheriff at Knoxville and an
exchange of descriptions Of his son,
George, and the remains now in
Forshear's undertaking establishment
at Harvey, gave out the statement
that the murdered man is undoubt-
eddy his son, who disappeared from
this city about December TO- The
young man went from here to Des
Moines and has not been heard from
since. The family will not conceive
of any theory except that the young
man was murdered at Des MoineS,
though many peope here have the idea
that George Baker is the man who fell
from the Des Moines Union bridge
December II, and believe that death
was due entirely to accident. Infor-
nation received here by telephone
from Harvey and Knoxville and the
coroner at Pleasantville leads Mr..
Baker and his sons to feel certain
that George was murdered and thrown
into the river. They say that he
was expected home on the 18th of
December. A ticket for Indianola
bought on that day was found in the
pockets of the man when he was
! picked out of the river at Harvey on
Thursday and this Indicates that
Baker unquestionably intended to go
home. Why he did not do so is the
deep mystery of the case. The suicide
theory is secuted. He had 40 cents
In his pocket when found but did not
have a wallet which his father says
he was in the habit of carrying, or his
watch. Mr.. Baker said that his son
was out of work and that he would
not be expected to have large sum
of money, but expressed the opinion
that he had been robbed and then
that he aid been robbed and then
murdered and then thrown into the
| Des Moines river.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-03-08
CUT The FIGURES
THREE-FOURTHS

Des Moines, March bills which
carry almost 100000 appropriations
have been offered In the legislature.
There is available for appropriation
by this general assembly $625,232
Plainly, therefore, three-fourths of the
appropriations will have to be cut off.
The board of control bills provide
for appropriations amounting to ST.
188,750 for the state institutions in
their charge; the educational institu-
lions asked for 100000 additional,
making a total of $1,795,750.
The legislative visiting committees
recommended total appropriation of
SS46,350 for all of these institutions.
The educational institutions appro-
priation was cut down to 1928, 500 and
the other institutions from $1,1SS,750
to $517,S50.
The bills which have been introduce
ed already carry appropriations
amounting to the exact sum of ST.
94S,766, which is too close to the
100000 mark to be comfortable.
A number of minor appropriations
already have passed. Others will
have to be adopted as introduced.
But the bulk of the appropriations
will be pared to the bone.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-03-08
FIRES RAZEs STANHoPE.
People Believe 1t To Have Been Of
Incendiary Oriuin.

Webster City, March 4.-The little
town of Stanhope, south Of this city,
was visited by another disastrous
conflagration at o'clock yesterday
morning, which wiped out the whole
of the west side of the business
street with the exception of the north
half of the building occupied by Hove
Brothers & Mature. The loss is
about $4,000. There was not over
$4,000 insurance carried. The people
of the town are terror stricken, be-
lieving the fire to have been due to
incendiarism. Less than three months
ago the east side of the business
street of this same town was entirely
wiped out by fire and this former
confiagration, too, was laid at the
door of an incendiary. There are no
clues.
The blaze started in the Hanson
building in the middle of the block.
This building was occupied by the
Stanhope Mail office, the Martin tele-
phone office, the postoffice and the A.
H. Berggren restaurant. 1t Is sup
posed to have originated in the post
office. When discovered 1t had gained
such Roadway that 1t could not be eff
fectively fought. Chemicals and
pumps were used, but the blaze could
only be confined to the one block and
the seven buildings in it were burned.
The town has no water works. The
pcstohice fixtures, Stanhope Mail Of
fee and plant, Stanhope Drug COM
pany's stock, Williams harness stock.
.emple hardware stock, Martin
telephone Office fixtures and Berg
gren restaurant stock, were all to-
tai losses. Most of the other stocks
in the block were saved in part. The
G. D. Dick furniture and undertaking
stock and the Thorsen drug stock
had both been moved yesterday to
their new locations on the opposite
side of the street and thus sustained
no loss.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-03-08
NO SUNDAY BASEBALL
SAYS The SENATE

Des Moines, March 1.-The senate
yesterday passed the Garst bill, pro-
hibiting theatrical or athletic exhibit
tons on Sunday, for which an adj
mission fee is charged. The vote
was 20 to 8, Senators Crawford, Gale
and Wilson voting nay 1t was q
measure on which several of the SEN
ators did not record themselves. The
following were either absent or not
voting: Elerick. Gilliliand, Hay
ward, Hogue, Hopkins, Jackson,
Jamison, Jones, Lambert, Maytag,
Newberry, Smith of Des Moines
county, Stirton, Stuckslager, Wilson
of Fayette, Whine and Young of Lee.
The bill, if it passes the house also,
will work hardship on league base
ball in Iowa.
The text of the bill follows:
BE it enacted by the general as
sembly of the state of Iowa:
Section /. That section five thous-
and and forty (5040) of the code is
hereby amended by adding thereto
the following: If any person or per.
sons on the first day of the week,
commonly called Sunday, shall give
any theatrical or operate perform
ance, or athletic exhibition, or any
concert of whatever name or descrip-
ton, for which money or any reward
or compensation whatever is in any
manner directly or indirectly de-
manded, charged or received for ad.
mittance thereto, such person or
persons giving such theatrical or
operate performance, athletic ex-
letic exhibition or concert, and every
person taking part in such perform
ance, athletic exhibition or concert,
or aiding, assisting or procuring the
same, shall be punished by a fine
not to exceed twenty-five dollars
($2500) and shall be imprisoned in
the county jail until the fine and
costs of prosecution shall be paid"
An effort to exclude Chautauqua
programs from it's provisions failed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-03-08
BOND CASE DECIDED.
important Decision Handed Down In
Van Buren, County.

Keosauqua. March 5.--An important
decision of Judge Vermilllon has just
been handed down in the district
court of Van Buren, county, Iowa, in
what is commonly known as the bond
case.
This Is a case in which Mr.. H. l..
McGrew, county treasurer of Van
Buren, county, Iowa, had deposited the
county funds in several local banks
Of said county, it was claimed, with
out the proper authority from the
county commissioners, the defunct
bank Of e. H. Skinner of Birming-
ham, Ia, having in its possession at
the time it closed its doors, about
$4,000 Of the county's money. After
the banks business had been all set
lied up there still remained short
age of about $4,000, which amount
Mr.. McGrew sought to recover from
The banks bondsmen, for Mr.. Moore,
former county treasurer. The
courts holdings are as follows: The
banks bondsmen for Mr.. Moore are
aeld only for sIch deposits as Mr..
Moore made while in ofic, and
could not be held for deposits
made by Mr.. McGrew. This leav-
ss Mr.. McGrew to lose about
$4,000, as the county will expect him
TO pay in the treasury this amount,
and upon his refusal to do this, an
action will be taken to recover from
his bondsmen.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-03-08
PRIMARY BILL DEFEATED
BY VOTE OF 29 TO q

Des Moines, Feb. 28.-The state
wide primary bill met defeat in the
state senate yesterday afternoon by a
vote of 20 to 81.
This ends the fight on this subject
for this legislature, but Senator Cross
ley, who is holdover, notified the
senator's in his closing speech that he
would offer a similar bill in the ses.
sion of 1907.
The result was due to the fact that
the majority of the democratic sen.
ators would not vote for the measure,
only two of them, Stirton and Lyons,
in the end, being found for it and six
against 1t.
The democrats secured the adop.
ton of an amendment Monday which
the friends of the measure, the "stand.
patters" who opposed it in a body,
and the democrats thought would re-
suit In the passage of the measure
both in the senate and house. But
the "standpatters" assured the dem.
ocrats that II 1t were put in now II
would be stricken from the bill in a
year from now, and the democrats
voted against the whole proposition.
The debate on the bill lasted all
day. The vote was taken at 5:15
o'clock. Senator Hayward explained
his vote. The ballot follows:
Yeas-Bruce, Crossley, Dowell, Eckl
es, Ericsson, Garst, Hopkins, Hughes
Kimmel, Kline, Lewis, Lyons, May
tag, Smith of Mitchell, Stirton, Turn
er, Warren, Wilson of Fayette, Winnie
Young of Calhoun, Young of Wash,
ington-21.
Nays--Bleakly, Brooks, COPYRIGHT
Crawford, Durham, Elerick. Gale, Gil
Inland, Harper, Hartshorn, Hassel
quist, Hayward, Hogae, Jackson, Jami
son, Jones, Lambert, Molsberry. New
berry, Saunders, Smith of Des Moines
Spaulding, Stookey, Stuckslager, Tay'
lor, Wade, Whipple, Wilson of Clinton,
Young of Lee-29.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-03-08

Representative Dixon, of Montana,
has a lynching story. A committee Of
vigilantes had captured an Irishman
and a Swede and were about to hang
them by tying rope about the neck
of each, and showing them off rail.
road bridge. The first man up was
the Swede. When he was pushed off,
the rope came united and the man
struck the water and swan ashore.
The Irishman was next, and when the
men were preparing him he said:
Boys, be dom careful about fixin'
that rope. l can't swim a stroke"
"And what shall say to Mr.. Cot.
rox?" inquired the canvasser for
'rFrills and Frazzles." Gust saw"
answered the urbane publisher.
Your money or we'l print your
life philadelphia Bulletin.
IF the newspapers don't quit abus-
ing patent medicines" unused the Hon.
Thomas Rott, there will be no way
left for obscure congressman to get
their faces In print. Puck.
Teacher-"Henry, what is your ex-
cuse for being absent from school yes
.terday?" Schoolboy lin Washingtonl
Teacher, was paired with Jimmy
MISUNDERSTANDING Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-03-08
STATE HAS TOO
MANY ORUNKARDS
Board of Control Issues An
Order Concerning
Them
KNOXVILLE HOME CRAMMED
Some Must Leave Before More Can.
Enter-Judges and Clerks Of Conrts
Advised Not To Sentence inebriates
Until Further Notice.

Des Moines, March 5.-The state
asylum for inebriates Is full to over.
lowing. An order has been issued
troll to admit no more patients until
some of the present inmates have
been graduated and the counties will
have to take care of their habitual
DRINKS as best they can. The order
will not affect the commitment of
women inebriates, however, as they
are sent to Mount Pleasant and not
to Knoxville.
1t has been decided to issue the
order to Superintendent Willhite of
the Knoxville institution to close his
Goors to applicants for admission un.
til some Of his present guests have
departed or until further arrange.
ments for caring for inebriate pa.
tients can be made. Admission will
then be made on notice from the
superintendent that there is room at
the institution for more patients.
Notice was sent out by the board
of control to all district judges and
clerAs of the district courts to com
NIT no more patients until further ad
vlsed.
Under the new system of commit.
mont of inebriates to the state insti.
tuition at Knoxville, application will
be made by the clerks of the district
courts to the superintendent. who will
file the application for admission to
the hospital. When there is room to
receive them Superintendent Willhite
will notify the clerks.
Women patients, who are sent to
the Mount Pleasant institution, may
stu be sent, as their ward is not yet
full