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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
NEW YORK SEEMS TO BE
 IMMUNE FROM DISASTER

' Ire destroyed 693 buildings and caused damage which has been estimated all the way from $15,O0O,OOO to s20,OOO,0O0 Propor- tionately to the city and the time. this confiagration was not in the class with those which have since visited Chicago and Baltimore, but with those which in recent years have afflicted Paterson, N. J., and Jacksonville, Fla. Unless our city government is given over to madness we are likely to have a fire department which will always be able to keep con flagrations within bounds.
 Pestilence? There is no need of that. Some of our worst afflictions in the past have been from this cause. Cholera killed 5000 persons in 1892 and again in 1S4s. We now have means, if we employ them, to prevent any such visitation.
 But there Is nothing miraculous about all this immunity. Our want of liability to earthquake We owe to the friendly solidity of the earth's crust beneath our feet, and our safety from flood to our local topography. As to reasonable i'm munity from fire and pestilence, that is the result of material precautions
 Calamities we have, but they are moral. Political trlckery and indifference are our pursuing pestilence, periodical reform fs our averaging earthquake. In these re- spects we have no pre-eminence, how ever, above other American communi- ties. If we have more graft" here than most other places. it is because there is more to graft upon. But the means of cure of this great evil. like the evil it. self, are moral We should achieve situ- ation in this regard which is comparable with the natural position of the rock buttressed, mountain guarded, sea-puri- fled islands on which we live
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

Smoke Abatement leagues result from the smoke nuisance. One will be necessary in Birmingham some day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

Senator LaFollette's maiden effort in the Senate was a three-days' affair. He concluded to be brief at the out set.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

A Boston paper says that "Presidio' is q Spanish word which means gar rison." Who would have thought it?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

The whisky stored in the United States bonded warehouse in San Fran cisco Is safe Let joy be unconhned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
STORIES OF DIXIE.

Last call for San Francisco poetry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

Grandstands provided with stoves are demanded in the northern base ball circuits. Spring fingers up that way in the lap of winter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

John Alexander has been thown into involuntary bankruptcy. and miracles are not potential in that branch of the public service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

THE AGE Grandstands provided with stoves are demanded in the northern base ball circuits. Spring fingers up that way in the lap of winter. Old Glory waves from the topmost girder of Birmingham's new sky seraper and workmen are dressing it in brick.
 That suburban resort near San Fran cisco. spelled Birmingham is pro nounced "Blingham.7 It is a social center.
 Pittsburg wants the Dingley tariff to stand untouched and sacred even if San Francisco cannot get structural steel
 Senator LaFollette's maiden effort in the Senate was a three-days' affair. He concluded to be brief at the out set. The whisky stored in the United States bonded warehouse in San Fran cisco Is safe. Let joy be unconhned! A Boston paper says that "Presidio' is q Spanish word which means gar rison.o Who would have thought it?
  Smoke Abatement leagues result from the smoke nuisance. One will be necessary in Birmingham some day.
 
 A well known star is appearing in play without name. The critics will find something suitable, no doubt.
  MT. Carnegie was so dazed by the Atlanta incident that he is not now sure what did happen there
 ----.-- --- Penthouse John" having purchased sacred COW, is expected to be more in the limelight than ever.
  West Point dislil1es to reconsider it's opinion of Gen. Fred Funston who swam the Bag-Bag river.
  Prosperity moves right along un- checked by earthquake, fire or panic, or all three combined.
 -.----.------------ The Richmond Times-Dispatch says, Down with the mosquito" That is easier said than done.
 --~--- There is a fear that earthquakes would unlock any locks placed in the Panama canal
 San Francisco is adopting the tent cure on a large scale, and the season is favorable.
 The ashes of John Paul Jones rest in peace at last in the home of the hazers.
 ----s.------ It Is hard to beat a southern man at making speeches and telling funny stories.
 San Francisco sends out a hurry call for architects and structural shapes.
 -- The earthquake shook over $20,000,- 900 out of willing and charitable pocl1- cts.
 San Francisco has room for hope, but Sioux Falls is in the dumps to stay
  This is lazy weather but the anvil chorus is never too tired to knock. Seventeen thousand canal diggers are throwing dirt at Panama. Matteucci has the greatest pet in the world-Vesuvius. Fart h ma 1<ac don't diet1trb cfIac In
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

Uncle Joe's' birthday will fall on May [. Buy your presents now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala. post office as second-class matter under Ao' of Congress March 5. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

ticket speculator insulted the wife of James J. Corbett the other day. He will recover.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
From the New York Press.

IT tIt INV T OI N T Itoof
 HIS metropolis may be chargeable with it's full quotum of vices, but
 hypocrisy, we believe, is not one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

Decatur News: There is a negro Elijah causing excitement in Plainfield, N. ]. Alexander Dowie will recognize that imi- tation in the sincerest fattery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

A queer old game Is politics
 Oh, listen to my song Where everything isn't that ought to be
 And all that is is wrong.
Las Vegas times. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1906, 1906-07-07
GREATEST MINERAL COUNTRY IN
THE WORLD.

Wages, 81 for barkeepers, 81 an hour
for gamblers. 81 for labcrers. $3.50 for
miners, 81 for chambermaids, and
prices vary along these lines. Rhyo-
lite is high price camp. There is
nothing cheap about It, A man with
out money can easily get grub stake
by just saying or intimating that he
knows where there is a possibility OF
a find 1t is the easiest and best bait
and there is not an adventurous per-
son--and they are all adventurous
but who will bite. All of the busi-
ness houses are prosperous-not a
losing venture either in the town of
Gold Center, Rhyolite or in a single
prospect in any of the many hills
which surround the several places.
The town consists-that is, all of the
towns-of q bustling, thriving swirl of
emotion. Business of all descriptions
thrive, even to the little boy who ped
dies patriotic buttons for the Fourth.
Property values are very high in
Rhyolite and 1t is no rare occurrence
to hear of a transfer in dirt running
up into the thousands of dollars. A
corner lot represents life eompet.
ency in Rhyolite. and they command
ready purchaser So far as / could
perceive the town is free from the
hurley bruiser, the thug and the bar
room hummer Peace reigns. and
when there is anything to mar the
serenity the people right the evil and
conditions prevail along the safe line
to both life and property.
The railroad at this writing is with
Las Vegas times. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1906, 1906-07-07

range is in the throes of a great min
ing movement that has its forward
stride.
There are no less than eight cop
per companies organized for that par
ticular section to develop and make
productive the wonderful storehouse
of the yellow metal that mother earth
in and about Furnace creek contains.
AS an experienced copper miner
and speaking from a practical stand
point Mr. league Is enthusiasm per-
sonified as he relates the wondrous
showing of the section to which Pat
rick Clark gave fame. The Furnace
Creek Copper properly keeps up its
HEX with improved Development The
Funeral range shows up great and
promises to duplicate the property
that rates It's shares In the mining
market today at s4.O0 a share.
The Funeral Valley Copper COM
Las Vegas times. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1906, 1906-07-07

geographically. We might say more.
but we won't These boys pay as high
a scale for eight hours paid In the
iwest-sS-and they smile They get
Job prices and can afford to smile.
The compositors--and there is a
mighty fine crowd of them In the Bull
frog district-have organized union.
which takes In the whole district.
The scale adopted was satisfactory,
even to the devil" for as is too well
known the humblest is always the
best with printers, for the least gen
orally is favored the most. with
them.
Before we go further we want to
say laborers receive the highest wages
for railroad work In the district paid
in the world Three dollars is the
scale for pick and shovel mechanics,
and both roads pay II without a muir
muir. There is no disposition on the
part of either to lower it. When en-
ployed at any other kind OF labor he
gets his $3.50. but on the railroad he
can add dignity with distinction to-
gether with his salary. This district
prides itself on being a well organized
labor community. and we are proud
of the fact.
Gold Center is the first town of any
Importance you first meet when com
ing into the district. 1t is surrounded
by rich mines The Tonopah-G Goldfield
Trust company have their banking
house there Here 1t is where the
respective railroads will have to make
distributing point until they have
built the road to Rhyolite, the heavi-
est construction work they have. and
which 1t will take six months or more
to complete. Gold Center is destined
to be the distributing point to all OF
the adjacent mining districts in this
portion of the country, even to the
whole of the Death Valley region. Be
sides having that advantage, there are
mines all about the town and water in
unlimited amount to answer the re-
quirements of any demand that may
be made upon It, II 1t is determined
that the ores of the Bullfrog district
are of free milling character, and
which 1t probably will be. Gold Center
will be one of the leading cities. not
only of Nevada, but of the coast, for
there will be the hum and the thump
of mill and stamp to add to the boun-
tiful future of Gold Center
This country. from fair and HH-
prejudiced observation, there is none
more destined with the wealth of plen-
titude that this country can produce.
Butte will pale before it's greatness.
The wonderful productions of the
Comstock. which preserved nation
and upheld a flag. will pale in COM
parison to. the stupendous wealth OF
metals to be belched from the Bull
frog and her adjacent mining dis
tricts.
JIM BROWN.
Las Vegas times. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1906, 1906-07-07

|pany is another of Patrick Clark's
creations. Rumor has II that Charles
NJ. Schwab has ben enticed into the
district and acquired interests
through examinations that conyince
him OF as great achievements and
profits in copper mining--just like his
Shoshone endeayors.
Mr.. league is here awaiting sup
plies and reinforcements with which
to more speedily prosecute the work
from Butte. Mont.
Las Vegas times. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1906, 1906-07-07

I'm seventeen miles Of Gold Center,
which point they win reach within
fourteen days. laying track at the
average speed of two miles day.
Depot grounds and switching yards
containing miles of sidetracks have
been laid out at Gold Center. from
which point all of the freighting will
be done TO the mines. as also to Rhy-
olite for six months-the time II will
take to complete the road from Gold
Center to Rhyolite. This Is owing to
the amount of rock work: the distance
| by the line of the railroad Is eleven
miles over the hardest piece of con-
struction between Las Vegas and Rhy-
olite, and during its construction Gold
Center will roll in the arms of pros
perity. owing to 1t being the distrib.
uting point, not only for Rhyolite,
Bullfrog. the Funeral Range and the
numerous mining ditricts adjacent to
Gold Center, but to every interest in
the district.
From present indications there
promises TO be two towns In this rich
Bullfrog district, and they are Rhyo-
lite. which nestles in the close prox-
unity OF the mines, and Gold Center.
where the prospects are as vivid and
which will be the freight distributing
point for this vast region. The town
of Bullfrog has nearly been merged
into Rhyolite. Those who have not
secured a location there are prepar-
ing to do so. and It will be but a
Question of time until Bullfrog will be
in name as well as in fact part and
portion of the thrifty town which is
now fast gaining metropolitan proper
tions. When Bullfrog was in it's thrift
and prime it was but a mile distant
from Rhyolite, but Rhyolite spread
and grew and what people there were
who did not move to Rhyolite we're
slowly and surely taken in until now
Bullfrog remains but a memory. What
there is of BuIlfrog will certainly be
slowly taken in by the larger and
more thrifty place of the two, and
though property values may not be as
high, It will always be resident part
Iof Rhyolite, not Bullfrog.
The mines are permanent. This
has been conclusively determined.
The Shoshone has struck it on the
3OO-foot level richer than it has in
any other portion of the mine. II
was feared that values would play
out in depth, but this fear has been
found groundless. The lead is more
prominent. firmer in place. better de-
fined and richer. This means worlds
for the whole of the mining camp, not
only the Bullfrog. but all of the many
mining camps adjacent-ta this one.
Bullfrog mining district is the very
center of the many rich mining dis
Las Vegas times. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1906, 1906-07-07
FIRST LOAD OF ORE.
Squlres & Brown Make First Shipment
From Charleston Range.


Messrs. Brown and Squires are the
first to make the first carload ship
ment of ores from our local surround
ings. The ore came from their lead
and silver property. They hauled only
the richest and the car was virtually
one solid mass of lead. They not only
loaded the car with the heavy lead
product. but they had on board a
quantity of the lead carbonates which
they want to ascertain IL 1t will be re-
muneFative to ship.
This ore Is from their mine in the
Charleston range. about thirty miles
from the Vegas. 1t is property
which means much for this town and
It's surroundings. and from indications
the future is certainly bright for these
energetic. progressive citizens.
In the future the product from the
properties in this district will be
hauled to a siding on the Las Vegas
& Tonopah road. and the cost of haul.
ing will be much less than what II will
be to ship frim the Vegas. although It
Is one OF the Vegas productions. fos-
tered. discovered and developed sy
Vegas grit and Drawn.
This Is the first full carload, and
then some; but 1t is but the com
mencement of what there Is to come
Las Vegas times. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1906, 1906-07-07

DR.. Roy w. Martin came in from the
front Sunday He has been in TO Rhy-
olite as physician and surgeon for the
Tonopah road.
Las Vegas times. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1906, 1906-07-07
REALLY 4 GOLD CENTER.
Jim Brown Visits the 5uIlfrog coun-
try and He is Amazed With the
stupendous Possibilities Of the
Greatest Mineral Empire This
World Has Ever Known.
MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS THERE

Network Of Railroads Grading to
Many Mines for Tonnase-Rhyo-
lite and Gold Center Two Princl-
pal cities-lt's a High Wage
camp-Good Prices; No GrumbIlng;
Everybody Happy; Money and
Lots Of II.
Las Vegas times. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1906, 1906-07-07

Mr.. Tuckfield. OF soft drink fame
and reputation. has been under the
weather on account of illness for the
past week. He is rapidly recovering.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-04-11
THE STATE CAMPAIGN.
Democratic Executive Committee
Meets in Columbia County Conyen-
ton to Be Held on May and the
State Convention on May is.

Columbia, April 5.-At the regular
meeting of The State Democratic ex-
ecutiye. committee here tonight, reso-
lutions were adopted calling for the
Nav State convention, to be held on
the 18th of that month, and directing
the county chairmen throughout the
state 10 call club meetings on the 2Sth
o. april, for the purpose Of electing>
delegatcs to the county conventions
which Will meet on May Z, to elect
DELEGATES to the State convention. ea&aH =
county being entitled to douale> 5aeS:
representation it has in the General
Assembly. -. .-,. :,
4 resolution by D. &. McGili. Of
Greenwood. caused some comment. It
denounced as untrue the statement IN
Tom Watson's Magazine for March
that it makes no difference whether
the South's representation in Congress
and the Electoral College is reduceG
as proposed in the bill Of Congress
man Keifer, of Ohio, and went on to
"denounce the author of those who go
hand in hand with him along such
lines, as enemies of the South and the
Southern people, such declarations be-
ing unbecoming Southern white
man.
Mr.. Magill defended his resolution
with warmth and earnestness, but 9TH
er members of the committee took the
view that as Tom Watson is not a
Democrat anyway, to adopt the reso-
luton would be undigniied and would
give him undue prominence and his
magazine undeserved advertising.
a motion was made to table the res
olu5ion, but Senator Cole L. Blease,
Of .Newberry, wanted to save the COM
mittee voting on the subject and NOV
ed TO adjourn. This inspired Mr.. Ma
gill 20 relieve the situation by With
drawing the resolution.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-04-11
MR. TATUM ISSUES STATEMENT.

Columbia, april G.-Commissioner
Tatum, Of the State dispensary. il
talking about the glass supply situa-
ton at the dispensary today, said: LAS
my name has been used in connection
with the glass situation at the State
Jispensary, wish to make the follow
ing statement: We have on hand
like 10000 cases of glass,
which means ten or twelve cars. If
understand the resolution posted by
the Legislature, the board is permitted
TO buy what glass they may need for
80 days, which time would expire the
18th day Of May, at the lowest price
of any outstanding contract with the
Carolina Glass Company. The lowest
-1tstanding contract I understand to
oe the unfinished contract made with
the Flaccus people, which is for %
cars My idea is that il the board Or
ders in this % cars Of this unfinished
contract, that, with the amount of Sec
ond hand glass coming, and increasing
each day, we will have enough to pull
the summer; but it will be
necessary to make contract for late
summer and fall delivery before the
glass factories close for the summer"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-04-11
BRECE Ian PROHIBITION.
The Seizures Of G;:,is:sey Is, Spartan,
burS County Reported.

The Seizures CT sj:1IS:ofy Isl S,,art3Zs--
burg County Reported.
Spactanburg. April 5.-Chief Con-,
stable FAINT Of the Spartanburg divis-
ion has submitted his report to Chief
Constable Hammet. In the report is
stated the number of gallons Of whis-
key seized during the month of March
and the stills captured, the number of.
convictions made and the amount paid
in fines. The report shows that there
were three stills destroyed. There
were 4,00c gallons of still beer cap
tured and one team Of mules and
wagon were confiscated.
During the month there were three
convictions, the fines aggregating $420.
OF this amount s120 was paid in and
one Of the prisoners was sent to the
gang.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-04-11
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.. NEW YORK

certain favored sections of early vege-
tables and fruits for Northern mar
kets, the tobacco crop, as much a sta
nle in some sections of the south as
cotton is in others, and rice and sugar
planting have, Of course, engaged the
attention Of many persons for years.
Now-tracts- once devoted to cotton, Or
that ordinarily might have been plant
ed in cotton, are being given over to a
greater amount of cane, tobacco and
rice while in many localities more anu
more attention is being given TO
peaches. cantaloupes, melons, to1ria-
toes, potatoes, peanuts, sorghum
beans, cowreas,s alfalfa, corn, wheat,
hay. grapes, oats, pears, apples and
berries; more COWS and chickens and
hogs are being raised, more mules and
horses and more live stock generally
fo- home use or for the market, as
immigration is becoming more needed
to meet the demand for labor and as
larger and larger number Of farm
ers are perforce driven to handle
crops that they may work themselves.
Even where there might be de-
sire to depart from the safe and sane
policy of last year and to yield to the
temptation to plant more cotton, un-
der the impression that greater crop
would not affect the price. it faces the
possibility that the supply Of labor viii
be insufficient to make even a crop
equal to that Of last season. From ev-
cry one of the States come complaints
of a scarcity of farm labor, Oklahoma
negroes especially are loath to follow
in the footsteps OF their parents. ana
are either rendering inferior service
or are quitting the farms entirely fer
idleness or desultory work in the towns
and cities Lumbe: mills. the naval
stores industry mining, railroad build
ing, dam construction and building oE-
erations generally offer higher wages
than the farms. and. in the case OF
whites. the demands Of the cotton mills
are having somewhat similar Grip
ping effect upon farm operations, N
spite Of the inclination noted here ana
there for operations under the spur
of far prices for cotton to attempt e
make little crop of their own: IN
deed. such is the activity in numbering
that not & few farmers, as is reported
from louisiana are following the field
hand 70 the lumber camp and are
turing out their cotton acreage for
the year.
another influence against extensive
expansion in acreage is the backward
ness Of the season in the Carolnas and
Georgia. as we'll as in Texas and Okla
homa, the ground being still wet and
cold, or the crop Of corn. the success
Of which wall largely determine the
acreage Of cotton, not being sufficient
ly advanced to give basis for any |
estimate. In a few spots too, the boil |
weevil is regarded as deterrent,
though one correspondent takes joe
ular view of the power of the cotton
Weevi1 against the cotton bear.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-04-11

The residence Of Mr.. Arthur J.
Brown, of Leo, twelve miles from Lake
City, was burned Friday night. The
fire was discovered about u o'clock
and is supposed to have originated
from a stove flue in the dining room.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-04-11

The Drayton mills Of Spartanburg
have increased their capital to more
than double the former amount. The
former capitalization was s250,ooo
and this has now been raised to $780,
900.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-04-11
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It renders the food more healthful and palat-
able and is most economical in practical use.
Housekeepers are sometimes importuned to
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Yet some of the cheapest made powders are solo
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Housekeepers should stop and think Is 1t
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