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Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-22

during the early days. But even this splen-
did work, hampered as 1t was by the hun
dreds of unforeseen difficulties and delays
owing TO railway congestion. was not with
out its adverse criticism. Major Devol,
Major Krauthoff and Captain Ferguson
worked through the first three days Of re-
lief with no rest and without removing
their clothes, night or day, until the sys-
tenn was in perfect working order and the
supplies were being distributed without a
hitch. Two hundred thousand people,
thrown suddenly from comfortable homes
onto the charity of the nation. were cared
for so well that not a man, woman or child
went hungry or suffered for lack of cloth
ing
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Platinum and Gold.

BY the use Of the separating tables en-
ployed by DR.. Day for getting the metals
from the black sand, the grains of plat
mum and gold are taken out at a cost of a
few cents per ton. The platinum which has
formerly gone TO waste can now be saved,
and it will form an important by-product
Of most placer mines. When found It re-
mains In the sluices with the gold and
other heavy materials. In panning, 1t will
even stay behind the gold in the pan. 1t
is known by its great weight its white
color and its resistance to nitric acid In
general, platinum grains are smaller than
gold grains and large nuggets are rare.
The new experiments with the tables to
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-22

that Is going to astound the world. The
Board of Supervisors and the Board of
Public Works have decided that sufficient
time has elapsed for the property owners
to have the streets cleared of debris, and
after giving ample notice have taken the
matter into the city's hands and will
clear the rubbish. making the cost lien
on the property. The work is now well
advanced and several Of the down town
streets have been put in passable condi-
ton and the work Of rebuilding greatly
facilitated.
One of the most noticeable features OF
the reconstruction of San Francisco is
the rapidity with which the great Office
and mercantile buildings of the city are
being put in condition for occupancy. 1t
may be mentioned in this connection that
nearly all OF the class "a buildings OF
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-22

the city were left in condition which adj
mits of easy repair. Quite a number of
these buildings were in course of erection
when the fire came. Work is progressing
on all these buildings now, and in several
instances the unfinished structures are
being pushed TO completion so fast that
they will be occupied about the time that
has been specified before the fire. Among
this number is the big nine-story building
on the corner Of Stockton and Geary
streets, opposite the California building.
the new home of the California Promotion
C. mmittee. This great building will be
ready for occupancy by october /. The
Monadnock building on Market street, the
Chronicle building and the Call building,
the Merchants Exchange, the Kohl build
ing and the Hobart building are already
occupied with work going on over the
heads Of the tenants.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-22

HAsHINGTON, d. c., July 1s.-(Spe-
I~ oial Correspondence of The Bee.)-
Within the last year experiments
E9EsN have been made which will revo-
- lutionize placer mining all over
the world and add millions to the wealth
of the United States. They may build up
q manufacturing industry on our Pacific
slope and populate regions in the north
west which are now as wild as any part
Of the Rockies. Based upon them, syndi-
Gates are already forming and they Will
give small or large fortunes to "a great
Number of people 1 refer to the expert
,ments which, at the direction of congress,
the geological survey has made and is
Alaking as to the minerals found in black
sand.
Every miner knows what black sand is. It
is the heavier particles which come from
the wearing away of rocks containing GER
tain minerals. All sand comes from rock
and the greater part of 1t from quartz.
The quartz sands are white or light brown
In color. They are found on our Atlantic
shores and are scattered here and there
ell over the country. There are many Of
them in the west, but there. mixed with
them and often in great beds apart from
them, are found deposits of black sand.
There is so much OF this black stun along
the Pacific coast that the seashore is dark
and not white when viewed from the ocean.
This is the case from Cape F1attery on
Puget sound down to San Diego. AS one
comes closer shore he often sees great
masses Of black rocks and headlands, the
latter made up OF layers of black and
white sand, one running through the other
somewhat like marble cake. These head
lands sometimes result from the dropping
OF the shore, through an earthquake some
what like that of San Francisco.
This black send is also found along the
big western rivers. The Columbia has many
such deposits, and the Snake river is es-
peclally rich. Black sand is to be found
in every mineral region, and It is more
or less connected with every placer mine.
When Director Walcott began to investi-
gate the subject, he sent out letters TO
eight thousand placer miners scattered all
over the United States and asked each to
send him a little bag of this black sand
with which he was working. More than a
thousand Of the miners responded and the
samples came from thirty-hve different
states and territories including the An
palachians and the Rockies and all pay,s
Of the Pacific coast even TO Alaska. The
samples were analysed and assayed for the
gold and platinum they contained and
also for the numerous other minerals in
them which our scientists thought might
be OF industrial value. As result OF the
assays and the experiments made In the
reduction OF these sands, at the Portland
exposition. 1t is known that they can be
made OF enormous value to the country,
and that they may bring in millions of
dollars of product every year
-
David Day and King Saul.
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Uncle Sam. Furnace at Portland.

Uncle Sans Furnace at Portland =
During the Portland exposition Uncle
Sam, at the instance OF DIR. Day, put up
a little furnace there TO experiment on
these sands. The Canadian government
had sent a commission to Europe to report
on what Is going on there In the reduction
OF iron by electricity. and II was on the
basis Of that report that the furnace was
made. The man who did the work was an
expert named Wilson of the Wilson Alumi-
mum company. which has taken out patents
for certain electric furnaces Mr.. Wilson
arrived in Portland last October. and at
the end Of one week he had made a fur
mace and was producing steel from these
sands His furnace turned out good steel
In fifty-pound lots the day It began to
work, and II had capacity of a half ton
OF steel day 1t was, of course, small and
experimental. but It worked right along
without hitch. II was run for a month
for 1900. and this included the original cost
OF construction and all labor and cost OF
operation during that time. To show how
quickly IT could be worked DIR. Day and
party started at 2:SO one afternoon. with
everything cold, and within less than three
hourse they had made n quarter OF a ton
OF steel. The sand used for making that
steel was from bags brought from Monterey
bay, just below San Francisco. The sand
was taken from the bags, run over the con-
centrating tables to get out the gold ana
other minerals, then dried and the magnetic
iron in II taken out and run into Steel AZ
the same time the gold in the sand was
melted into a button, and all was done
before p. m. II electrical furnaces were
established on Monterey bay they might
now be furnishing the steel for the re-
building of San Franchises.
DR.. Day tells me that Uncle Sans little
furnace could be run at profit for smelt-
ing certain kinds OF steel. and that for
$4,000 two furnaces could be put up, one
for smelling and the other for refining.
which would make money right along. day
in and day out.
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Opportunities for Farmers and Miners

Opportunities for Farmers and Miners
These new discoveries as to the separa-
ton and saving of the metals in the black
sands will result in the building up OF
part OF Oregon which is now so wild that
elk roam the woods and that one can buy
q bearskin there for 80 cents or dollar.
This is what Dr. Day tells me he paid for
skins in those regions Much OF the land
is good for farming, but now inaccessible
by railroad Some OF It lies along the beach
and some on the rivers where there is black
sand. In the future the farmers may own
their own concentration tables, which they
can use for the separation Of the metals.
They can pile up their iron ore, and in time
It will be taken out by the railroads. For
a thousand dollars a mining disposition OF
this kind can he established.
FRANK G. CARPENTER p
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be used for saving the ore will result in
an enormous increase of gold from certain
of our placer mines. 50 far the most Of
the gold saved has been by means of mer-
curry in sluice boxes. The dirt containing
the gold has been washed into these boxes
and saved with quicksilver. A great deal OF
the gold, however, our biologists now find.
has never been touched by the quicksilver.
1t has been coated with copper or other
metals which resist the action of mercury
and has been thrown away as waste.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-22
Handling Relief work.

In the disbursement of public funds
amounting 10 many millions Of dollars and
especially where that fund has come from
millions OF people, and Is to be used to re-
ieve the temporary distress Of hundreds Of
thousands Of people, IL may be taken as a
fOregone conclusion that many a captious
critic will be dissatisfied and much misun-
Outstanding engendered in the minds OF
those whose ready response brought prompt
preventive 10 suffering after San Fran
eisc6s great fTe.
The congress Of the United States appro-
priated a large sum for immediate relief
and this was disbursed through the army
sfheials quickly and efficiently. Thousands
II people were clothed and fed and housed
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-22
Millions from donations.

But there were other millions Of dollars
and other trainloads of supplies coming
from all parts of the country. sent without
stint through that one touch which makes
all the world akin" The distribution Of
this vast fund Of money and supplies was q
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-22

The beginning of the hunt was for plati-
mum and II was the direct outcome of the
Japanese Russian war. The chief plati-
mum mines now known to the world are in
the Ural mountains, on the border of ST.
IBERIA. 1t is from there that the most OF
the worlds supply comes, and the sup
ply is controlled by a trust which fur
nishes our American markets with plati-
mum at its own prices When the war
broke out our manufacturers were greatly
alarmed. and they sent in petitions to
congress to have the geological survey
look up platinum in the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-22

logical survey, might well have made the
above remark as to his work in the black
sands, although he did not. called upon
him at the survey the other day and had
long chat with him about his expert
ments. He has been chief investigator of
the black sand minerals and the principal
discoveries are due to him.
DR.. Day Is one of our best known geolo-
gists. He has been connected with the
survey for almost a quarter OF a century,
and has been in charge of the government
mining exhibits at our national expositions
from the worlds fair at Chicago to Port
land. 1t was at Portland last year that
the most important Of the black sand ex-
periments were made.
In my talk with DR.. Day asked him how
the investigation originated. He told me
It was through a search for platinum, a
metal which 1 have referred to above as
saul's fathers asses. and in the hunt for
which he discovered vast quantities of mag
netic iron, chrome iron. zircon and rare
minerals valuable in the arts. Chrome
iron is used In the manufacture Of paints,
chrome steel and bichromate Of potash.
Zircon is valuable in making incandescent
gas and electric lights, and monazite and
other metals for the same purpose. In ad-
dition to them DR.. Day found titanium and
other things of which ! write further on.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-22

1t was known that the metal existed in
small quantities in many localities, and
the object of the petitions was to have
America furnish its own supply of this
metal and thus beat the trust. The geo.
logical survey asked for an appropriation,
and got it, but they worded their request
so that the work covered all the metals in
the black sand.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-22
David nay ana King saul.

II am like Saul the son OF Kish.
started out 10 hunt my fathers asses and
lol found a kingdom"
DR. David r. nay. the chief of the mining
and mineral resources division OF our geo.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-22

IN FRANCISCO, JULY 9.-(SpeciaI
correspondence of The Bee.)-
Fourteen weeks have passed since
the great fire. and San Francisco
is being rehabilitated with a speed
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-22

means that the Pacific slope. with the many
streams running down its mountain sides,
is Just as well off as though It had vast
deposits of smelling coal, and that cleo
tricity is to make the iron used by the
west in the future.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-22

Army of Men at Work.
The 1900 men now at work on recon-
struetion will be increased to twice that
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Continued on Page Eight.)
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Copyright. 1906. by Frank G. carpenter.)

d. c., July 1s.-(spe-
oial Correspondence of The Bee.)-
Within the last year experiments
have been made which will revo-
lutionize placer mining all over
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-09-12
America A Refuge

There arrived at New 90 je~iaa ehdrea
parents murdered recent Russian maAeasea
wealthy New York paid the orphans TO THIS
country and made arrangements homes for them
The said these ehldfen could not b pr
r,sa IA na IA this eountr but the desc
latlo "a hopeessnesa from which they came
Among excluded classes Of Immigrants are those Nao are
public and the Officials see ~ 70 hoa
under that classification some o. inc
Thoroughly responsible and women q th
country have protested tese children vii never be
permitted public charges but will be taken ino good
Americas GOOD American citizens fo@
nately officials Washington haFs osefa"d e
stoa 10 send hsseo orphans back 20 Russia
II this Law we're nnexlbls would - Disgrace to The
United ssac these orphans back to yves OF
misery despair blister With shame the cheek Of every
liberty loving American
children Of murdered pafns BACK 70 tha
sen. 81 hesr parnse murder nation Of
Ia. no place Tor thea Of the bay the great
liberty ought TO fall from her pedestal ana '@s
her the earth
world thiak Of asfwhat must we TANK Of our
seveaH little child neeinS from the toasaeAs
naked Of It's father and mother foa
here: back TO death or lifelong despair
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THAT OLD SWEETHEART,

az CYNTHIA GREY.

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an ea fellows advice write sensible stuff for All
responsibilities that rest and
give something that Is wholesome and uplifting
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SHE FOUND HER HEART

light and made Jeanette even moro
beautiful
She seated herself aud be taesn
her Something made her h'af'
beat until che almost ehUkod.
4 have feW Of the small EfHe'Ht
be said. y want you Ia your
heart you know how I want You !
might put love ia finer language
but summed up the story 10 told ~
those three words. 4 want you
aud ~ 40 further Jeanette ! VIII
have you. WILL. tell yon ma
fon have known this for month";.
What have you 10 say, beloved
She had RISEN and wis trembling
She didn't know what she vas go
ing 10 say Tier lips moved ANA she
heard them speaking Hs IN her moo
secret life SHE had never dHfsd
sneak. Il never knew love before.
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thaf tried 20 dlat0rt and ruin ms
own life II WAS folly. and touiEht
I'VE learned my own heart Tar"
me
And that Is how happiness came
into two lives ia the good Oh way
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CANAL BONDS
WILL CARRY
JAMES MOORE FIRM IN pGLiEF
THAT ELECTION TO-DAY WILL
RESULT FAVoRABLY TO TIE
LAKE WASHINGTON issuG.

Il am satisfied that the bonds FOR
the Lake Washington canal viii De
voisd by the people. said James
Maarr. IN expressing his Views as to
the outcome Of tedaY'a election.
prom personal observations ana
rrpnfia from oihera ! bfiicYo That
nina out IT ten persons viii vote Tor
The bonds do not believe there
Ia ana truth in iha rumur that the
neanle OF White river are opposed
10 them. FOR they are to roaa lars"
benefits from tho canal
Mr. Moore stated that u the
bonds we're voted today the Cham
her OF Commerce committee would
Al once take up the matter Of So.
curing releases and waivers OF
damages. which would consume
about thifty days time Actual
con atfueiien work o. 90 begin az the
sna Of that time aud the work COM
pletad within two years
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Happy Old Age

A. r,t..hh lunt Of Merdn Conn attracting Wide alton
ton by her that at Toe she Is in better health ana n"pP
or than 81 any previous time In her lite
sutcy who 10 healthy AZ 100 ought TO DC nepV '
would have % he happy TO be heath1
Mono but happy disposition could Through 80 many
wears wooy temperament would stanse lite e"l - ae p'
lnag the Of lee
The human bod, can thrive shadow than can
rose live aud enjoyment aud seat 10 NE "0
constant ot hfc supply
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ana steady Tor her great se qua
perfect health that size used tobacco OF dia NOT use
a. special diet her lie has been ne'n'' one
and has scutB the mellow rtuneaa OF sweet con
oa ESQ ousht to be the hanpst period particularly Tor
woman II she active and has wisely refused
to settle people always have ready Tor hef
she BEGIN old to enjoy hfe In earnest
In b about the babies no a'te
sufenrs for others children and her part
they and solaee to her "sna''
drea are delight without the bitter. constant worry
The old in should be At her eest ment'
she free indulge good play good book ana
the conversation Of consenial minds
Women retain vitality spirits longer than men do The
lie fan from them sanay and The peaer Q, te
uent from active duties upon little b little aud au"
impcrcepuhh. -,
The man often N ret suffer shock Of laying down the
business devoted and aeNard hefe -
lea to tie him When he LAYS iovu his business he
apt iay HIS interest in hfe and he lays down m NV
itsei, after
into her condition naturally ana sne
unoonsciously aaapts herself TO t.
Insurance people e to be greater ah than
mans until the period auficnEs aud cares are
over After that a than the II she emerses
from unniared spirit she has every chance to live to
a ripe -
The woman years young spirit the sweetest bless
ing mankind knows
her NE 4 not a. sweet blessing others IL
f. because peaurahe occupations tn place
Of the enforced which have fallen from her
There than idle dui old az" And n''
ins more than that active and alert and
In consequence. happy.
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WITH
LIQUOR
E. c. HAHoLosoR. a DRUGGIST,
ARRESTED. CHARGED WITH
SELLING InroslcAsTs iLLE.
CALLY.

Tho drug store owned BY y. G
Haruldson. near the corner II TWen
y eighth Az. and Madison st. Wss
rai1ed last night hy Humane officer
Clark and Detectives Babe and
Philbtick rho proprietor was tax
en- 20 headquarters. together with
quantity 81 beer and whisky found
IN a rear room Hhroldsan was re
leased under cash bail 81 800.
The resort had been reported q
the police some time ago. and last
night prior To She arrest a youug
man purchased liquor IN the store
~ the lnsfigation ~ Human Officer
clark. The rear room Ia which tho
liquor was found was fitted with 2
table aud several chairs. but Har
loldson declares that the liquor was
for personal use and that he bad
never made any salea
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HARRY kEPPLGR WANTED.

Miss LOUISE Mallory. Of Gaffney
y G.. asks the police 20 locaic liar
~ J kspplrF. vim was last heard Of
in San Francisco ia March. be has
ing shipped on the Venture at that
time for Honolulu II has been
since learned thai the Young man
csme 10 Seattle from Honolulu. sni
thinking thai he may be in Seattle
The inquiry has peen made OF The
local authorities
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Bios LET FOR
STREET PAVING

Contracts for the paving ~ the
following streets have been award
cd BY the board Of public works
Washington ST.. from Third Nv
s to Fourth. HARDER Asphalt COIN
PAM. fs.fai 50.
Thirty fast aY. r. / Peterson.
Eit.btD
Eaafiakc az, from Denny way
Ia Roy 81 Barber Asphalt com
pant sgp.Gia %.
seneca e.. from First 10 Second
av sparHer Concrete company
ts.7tata
spring 81. from First 10 second
Hs anaFNaF guuEgute company
ss.aAfGa
No bid wRa received for the work
en- North SSH ~
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Select a large tender eus ffensshe
nank Remove the banrN Miues
finely This treatmeut uifl pfrgzfe
ghrn foe auythiug
have found moths in a far neiff
I pat aaay in esmphnf Wit
nuuii wa alvtas me q % for ina
AuSka
Takr them aut ard Eig them "a
exercise gallon ana then spksa
theui Town niaukeg them ara fest
thrm a hfan naaaa ThsA Nauia fata
ani az thr Stiffness ana aofrnsta
from their ioaH t9ufiarmrnt 8
ftnw rsn 7 siesn silver aua Ger
n fraen turainx bisckf tnnk
Tauf silver evidently is auHblh.it
Keep II In ths shade rau can
brighten n 80 ~ rrsaiue this col.
ufHu tu w.
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SAILOR JUMPS OVERHEARD

PORT TOWNSEND. Sept a.
The ship Alexander Gibson. Capt.
Wayland. which arrived yesterday
from Guayuas. reports the loss on
September OF Carl Hanson, the
carpenter. who walked deliberately
20 tho rail on a clear moonlight
night and aprang into the sea. Capt.
Wayland threw a life prescryer
within easy reach Of Hanson and
lowered Il boat. but the man made
no effort to save himself and sank
from sight.
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.OELR|CH LEFT
A PRIOR WILL

NEw YORK eept IA II aeYel-
aped taasy that Herman ueirtch lsft
fpo aiiia. a prior ane beaueashinE
The property % his wife ana sph.
Tha one flied Monday IL asAd 10
b. safpfisa 20 bis Hife. Nhpae
ffianas rsiaact Immediately That
ahe niea the aus made shen bet
husband was ln bis sound mind
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aAloons closeo ropAY.

throughout the polling today AL
aainana ulli be closed until ! o clock
tonight The second patrol. due q
% 40 duIy al noon. reported -
nsfiack this morning and the NIGH
squad viii 60 ta warh 81 o'clpes
this Hficfnsun Instead Of o'clock
- has been the regular custom