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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20

The stranger in his first visit 10 the Will
liams orchards is amazed at the peculiar
and unusual formation and heading OF the
trees. Trees do not grow single trunks or
bodies from which at four or five feet from
the ground branches and limbs are en-
couraged to reach out and upward to form
a head or top on which the fruit is
borne. On the contrary, in this orchard
the tree starts usually at the ground or
very close to It with two or more main
branches or trunks and from these upward
branches are introduced by Mr.. Williams
invention or method of summer bark
grating" a process which will be men,
toned more in detail. The low heading
extends to all varieties and kinds of fruit
trees and presents no Objectionable fea-
lures in keeping the ground clean about
them or in the growing Of wide, extending
and dropping limbs as in the case of the
spreading head sngle-trunk tree.
The general method Of planting has been
10 introduce a temporary tree. a plum for
instance, in the rows between the permaT
nent orchard trees. These. after serving
their period of usefulness, are cut down
and the orchard in its mature condition
stand free. clear, unobstructed. with every
evidence of a business prospect in view for
its. vigorous, upright 3 strong full growthed
trees. The older orchards are usually
turned TO the production of some variety of
tame hay or pasture grasses. thus giving
the soil. from which the trees feed. an op-
portunity 20 recuperate and regain in
humus from the decaying vegetable matter
thus left on the ground.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20
Peaches In His Plan.

The growing of peaches has been part
Of the experimentation and practical work
carried on by Mr.. Williams. but not until
two years ago did he enter into this branch
of orcharding upon a commercial plan. He
has now large peach orchard of bearing
age and condition which shows remarkable
growth and vigor. The trees were taken
June 20, 1904. from the nursery rows and
reset in the orchard where they now stand,
and not a single death occurred from this
summer transDlanting.
Everything in plant life seems TO respond
to the desires and wishes of the planter
on the Williams farm. This may be because
the demands are all in conformity with the
laws of nature.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20

which will hold Ave tons. As these tanks
fill they are caught by a travelling crane
and poured into converters. Air is intro
duced, the sulphur and iron are brunt out
and within q few moments the metal has
become an almost pure mixture OF silver,
copper and gold. 1t is now run OF into
molds or bricks and It needs only TO be
refined and the gold and silver removed
before 1t is ready for telegraph wires,
electric conductors and the other things
for which pure copper is used.
Where Our Copper Comes From.
Most OF the copper now produced in
Canada comes from the Phoenix mines.
There are also mines above Lake Superior
and elsewhere, and II Is believed that other
deposits will be found in British Columbia.
The greater part OF the copper of the world
is mined in the United States. The total
production in 1904 was 900 tons. of which
$4,000 were produced in our country. Our
chief copper states are Michigan, Montana,
Arizona and Utah, although considerable is
mined in California and a less amount in
the eastern and southern states. Canada
stands comparatively low among the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20
Several Fruits on one Tree.


The grating of several varieties OF APP
pies or pears on one tree is of quite COM
mon occurrence in Mr.. Williams orchard
A very interesting example of this charac-
ter is a sugar pear tree of the Williams
origin. This tree shows remarkable vlgor,
each fruit bud makes a cluster OF bloom
and produces from six to ten and twelve
pears in cluster. The pear in size is APP
proximately the equal Of the California
Seckel pear.
A pear tree named Stella. one Of Will
liams' own seedlings of the seckel family
and bearing three distinct breeds OF pears,
the Bartlett, the Keiffer and the fruit Of
its own original stalk, all in the most per-
feet condition Of form and health, Is OF
special interest. These varieties intermix,
to some extent, in polarization, depending
of course on the receptive conditions OF the
various blooms at time the pollen is form
ing. Cross mixtures of this kind are con-
stantly being created and new fruits being
developed.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20
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The girl behind the glove counter knows
how to handle kids.
II a mans tout of his head" he is apt 70
put his foot I'm It.
There's no rest for the man who does
everything his wife tells him to do.
Most men would save a lot Of money by
letting others do all the specializing.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20

There are many specialties and objects OF
wonderment and curiosity to be found on
this fruit farm. In fact, one is led from
one feature of special interest to another
until he is lost to the outside world and
Is only aroused TO a sense Of the mysteries
OF natures laws when he seriously contem-
plates what manner Of man is this that he
has dealt so deftly with nature in the
creation of the many curiosities and Won
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20

of Grand Forks is just over the way from
the state of Washington and about five
hours by rail from Spokane 1t lies here
In the heart of the Rockies Ragged brown
hills rise high above It and the Kettle
river crosses its principal street. The place
is only few years old. but It has now
about 1900 people, with building lots sum-
cient for city OF twenty times that size.
1t is mining town, supported by a smelter
owned by Americans, which turns out more
copper than ANY other in the dominion Of
Canada.
This whole region is a great treasure
house with gold. silver, iron and coal scat
tered here and there through It. Only an
hours ride away are the Phoenix mines,
which are said TO be working in one Of the
biggest copper beds of the world The
ore is taken out with steam shovels It
lies In great body 200 feet wide and more
than half a mile long. The deposit is, in
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20

cases the growth is influenced by natures
tendencies and the twig inclines upward.
When in its 2-year-old form and in bearing
It is most noticeable You will then find
a curved branch headed upwards, with its
weight of fruit, having overpowered the
effort to reverse nature. II has even gained
in the attempt to thwart nature by the
formation and construction that protects the
branch from liability of splitting of by the
wind or the weight of its fruit. The CRAFTS
or scions may be made to grow straight
out from the trunk or limb in which the
twig is inserted, but this would not be Of
practical advantage and could avail nothing
more than to illustrate the ease and cer0
tainty of growth in this principle of graft
ing,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20

ders Of tree productions? The work Of
hybridization and the creation of new var
ieties Of orchard fruits has possibly been
carried to a greater extent by Mr.. Williams
than any other man living, not excepting
the great plant wizard Of America Luther
Burbank In the one distinct fruit, the
plum, the varieties Mr.. Williams has pro-
duced are beyond the comprehension of the
ordinary fruit grower and his work SEEM
ingly even now has no end. There is no
limit to his sphere Of experimentation.
University of horticulture.
The williams fruit farm for many years
has been looked upon as a kind of fruit
experiment station. 1t no doubt was en-
titled to this estimation by the public,
but this In a measure has passed away
and 1t has become a university of learn
ing in technical horticulture, a study of
results, a place where lessons in fixed
principles are taught by observation, by
the results of experiments long since
made Mr.. Williams work in this line
OF thought covers more than thirty years.
His present fruit enterprise was started
in 1891. and is an excellent representation
of rapid growth and development for so
shoH a period.
One of the very important works ex-
tensively carried on by Mr. Williams has
been the hybridization of the American
apple and the pyrus-baccata, a small Rus
sian apple, said to be the hardest variety
known in the world. This work has ex-
tended to the fruiting of more than 5000
trees in the effort TO get a hardy stalk
on which 20 top-work apples in the Mis-
souri, valley country more than for an i'm
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20
Mining with steam shoveIs.

Mining with Steam shOveIs.
The output of these mines is now 1900
tons per day, and up to the beginning of
last year something like 100000 tons OF
ore had been shipped. The machinery is
altogether modern The copper is loaded
with steam shovels, each OF which will pick
up ton at a bite; and Il comes TO the
surface in electric cars. The drills are
worked by Westinghouse motors and cleo
tricty moves the crushers. The economies
are such that the ore is hardly touched by
man from the time the dynamite blasts II
out until 1t is ready for shipment in great
bars about as thick, as loaf of bread and
as long as mans arm. These bars are
almost pure, each containing 80 per cent
Of copper, silver and gold.
The biggest copper smelter in British
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20

fact wider than Pennsylvania avenue, and
Il it could be planked down in Washington,
beginning at the Treasury department, It
would reach just half way to the capitol
No one knows how far down the ore ex-
tends. Diamond drills have been sunk into
1t for 1000 feet and one Of the shafts is
now taking up copper from levels 400 feet
below the surface
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20

worlds copper producers. Its output is
between 100000 and 100000 pounds an
nually, while Chile turns out 10000, OOO
pounds, Germany about the same and Au-
stralasia 6I,OOO,OOO. Spain and Portugal
produce 100000 pounds and Mexico 1O7,-
100000 pounds per annum. Our product in
1904 was considerably over 10000 900 pounds.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20
The KoOtenay Mines.

For the last week l have been travelling
through the KoOtenay country. This is
in British Columbia, far below the main line
of the Canadian Pacific railway. 1t is
reached by what is known as the Crow
Nest Pass branch of the road, and parts
of 1t are now being surveyed by the en-
gineers of the Great Northern. which evil
IDENTIFY intends to fight for Canada and all
that is in II. The Great Northern has n
branch running from Spokane to Grand
Forks and it is already doing large part
of the hauling OF the Phoenix mines.
This Kootenay country comprises some OF
the richest mineral deposits of the Rockies
1t has gold. silver, copper, coal, iron and
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20
Copyright. 1906. by Frank C. Carpenter)

RAND FORKS, B. c., May H.
Especial Correspondence of The
Bee,)-I am in British Columbia,
within a stones throw of the
International boundary. This town
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20
From Rock 70 Copper.

o
From Rock to Copper.
I wish / could take you through this
mighty establishment. 1t surpasses any
have seen in the elimination OF human
labor and the substitution therefor Of
economical machinery. The railroad runs
high up on the sides Of the mountain, and
the ore is dropped from the cars into
great bins through chutes so arranged
that Just the right proportion of ore can
be dropped into other cars farther down
before 1t goes TO the smelters. Each car
carries one charge to the furnace, and
this charge. made of coke and coal. is
tilled automatically. 1t is carried to the
furnace by an electric trolley, and It shoots
in right over the fires and there drops its
load
The furnaces themselves are worth see
ing. They are enormous steel reservoirs,
with double walls, in which cold water Is
always flowing to keep the inner wall from
melting. They are supplied with air by
blasts from smokestacks so large that the
average city parlor would be lost inside
them, and so high that their tops kiss the
sky at the level of the taller Broadway
ROOFS.
During my stay I looked into the fur
naces. The air blows through like a rush
ing wind, turning the vast pits TO a blaz-
ing hell Of birthstone and molten gold, out
OF which roll the fumes OF yellow sulphur.
The sulphur was so strong that l wore a
rubber mask containing a sponge over my
nose and mouth to Withstand IT, My
cheeks burned and could hear the fire
roaring with a fury greater than that Of
the furnace through which Shadrach, Mes
bach and Abednego walked in the days Of
the scriptures
The CRANKY has eight such furnaces, and
the molten stream OF copper. gold and sill
yer flows through them day and night year
in and year out The Stag comes forth in
a golden stream big around as your
waist. 1t falls into iron pots, each large
enough TO boil an OK without cutting on
its legs OF horns. Each pot is on wheels
and little dummy engine takes Il when
full and dumps Il In blazing stream down
the hill. The metals come forth in 9
smaller stream. flowing into tanks. each Of
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20

bloom, is a sight that captivates the
senses and arouses the most dormant
the senses and arouses the most dormant
appreciation Of horticultural beauty to a
feeling of enjoyment, pleasure and delight
in the careless and unobserving in natures
charms. The fascinating influence of the
apple. the pear, the peach. the cherry and
the apricot is not half told when the study
and interest in tree life and fruit develop
ment is taken into account and appreciated.
This particular orchard and fruit industry
is on the farm OF Theodore Williams, To-
Gated five miles northwest of the city Of
Omaha, and is a part OF his 14O-acre farm,
which, aside from the fruit acreage, is de-
voted to general agricultural and live stock
interests
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20

America is situated here at Grand Forks.
1t is known as the CRANKY. and is fed by
these great Phoenix mines. 1t lies right
on-the banks of the Kettle river Swallowed
by mighty mountains and washed by that
stream. The smelling works are high above
the river; and day and night, Sundays and
week days, all the year round, the smoke
rises from their mighty stacks and the
golden Stag of their furnaces rolls down
into the waters.
These shelters have no superiors in size
anywhere except those at Butte City,
Mont, and no supertors at all in their
treatment of ore. They are now producing
millions Of pounds Of copper per annum,
and their smelling output last year
amounted to about 100000 pounds of cop
per, and In addition silver and gold to the
value of $1,25OoOO
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20

provement in the fruit. Specimens of the
Russian hybrid tree are to be seen in this
orchard In excellent health and vigor,
growing quite straight and TALL with but
slight resemblance to our American apple
tree The fruit they bear is approximately
the size of our common cherry
Top Graft and Root Grating.
A forceful argument in favor of top graft
ing on hardy roots is given in an orchard
illustration where two long rows OF mature
apple trees stand side by side, not more
than thirty feet apart the one top grated
on hardy roots, the other root grated on
commercial stalk. The former the very
picture of health, vigor and beauty of
tree growth, with clean, clear bark and
profusion of bloom, while the latter has
kind of tired and weary look, with scanty
foliage and here and there brown, bare,
dead twigs, plainly indicating that the
seeds of death have been sown, that de-
cline and decay have taken hold on its
roots and its days of usefulness are num-
bered
The top graft on the hardy root bears
abundantly 1t is not affected by the cold
and freezing OF winter. healthy, hardy
root makes a healthier fruit. gives better
color, better quality, a better foliage, moro
vigor in general and a greater power to
resist insect and fungus disease. This IL
Illustration of the value of the hardy root
to build the tree upon is a horticultural
truth that is fixed and established by such
demonstrations as are exhibited in Mr..
Williams orchard and is a practical lesson
that the tree planter cannot afford to pass
unobserved. The life of the tree, wrongly
started is like the misspent years Of man
they cannot be recalled or lived over again,
but must be counted out at the end.
New Method of Work.
One of the works of greatest value that
Mr.. Williams hats introduced into the hor-
ticultural world, and one in which he very
justly takes pride is his method of bark
grating the twig or scion into the main
stalk. This method Mr.. Williams perfected
some years ago. but did not give 1t to the
world until he had fully established in his
own orchard the entire success and prac-
ticability OF the process by complete bear
ing tops.
The process of the summer bark grating
is simple, so easily performed, so abb
solutely sure in growth that everyone own
ing an apple tree should learn it. practice
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20

II and become a benefactor in fruit i'm
provement and fruit production. With the
sharp blade of a pocket knife cut two par
allel Sits two inches in length in the bark
of any limb or branch on the tree and one
half inch apart; fourth of an inch above
the upper end of these cut cross slit and
with the twig or scion to be inserted enter
II at the cross slit and push 1t down under
meath the bark loosened by the cutting to
near the lower end of the slitted bark and
the work is completed. The flowing sap
will at once take up the work of healing
this wound, and in short time the cuts
are cemented over by a healthy skin OF
bark and the twig inserted is growing and
will most certainly produce fruit buds,
bloom and bear fruit the following year.
Thus little twigs only a few inches long
are bearing large apples, seemingly hang
ing to the bark of the tree or suspended
from one side of some large branch. These
are the scions inserted in the bark and
proceeded at once to, bear fruit These
sights with many others, go TO make up
the curiosity features with which the
Williams orchards abound
No Limit 10 the 3yHtem-
There is practically No limit to this system
of grating. Ii seams 30 well adapted to
the natural growth conditions of the tree
that Il matters mt how the scion is inserted
under the bark, the twig proceeds to grow.
Many examples of what Mr.. williams terms
reverse gratis mny be seen in full growth
and bearing fruit. These CRAFTS have been
inserted in the sllts in the bark from the
bottom, TINS forcing the twig to grow
down the trunk instead Of up. In such
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-20

VISIT to Spring Lake fruit farm
at this particular season, when
more than sixty acres of the
choicest commercial fruits COM
mon to this latitude are in full
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Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

Last Wednesday evening the Mid nightly Club was entertained in . most novel fashion. MesSrs. George ". Hill and John Durkin were hcsts and entertained in their own. little cot tage. Those who played whist were: MT. and Mrs. w. Worthington, Mrs. J. L. Wood, Miss Sara Hooper, Miss Az nes Speed, Miss Marie O'Brien, Mes SITS. James Speed and J. s. Ely. The evening proved a most pleasant one. The prizes were won by Miss Sara Hooper and Mir. James Speed, the former a souvenir copper paper knife and the application to local person copper. A dainty lunch Of coffee, sal ad and olives was served.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

The illness of Miss Ethele Moore has proven something moro serious than was at first expected, and she has been compelled to take rest from school work for the past week. Miss Moore is greatly improved today
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

Tn the Breslau geological garden there Is spider monkey which was operated on for cataract Of the eyes, and which now wears glasses.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

Russia is finding that the end of the Russo-Japanese WAT meant only the beginning of the end.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

Mrs. E. l.. Shaw, of Phoenix. is wis iting with her sister, Mrs. W. B. hei ly, of Quality Hill.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

You can usually guage the depth of a mans love by the stiffness of his letters to the girl in the case.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

Prof. and Mrs Philbrook entertain ed with a ehafing dish party on the evening of the 23rd. Music was an other pleasant feature of the evening The guests were the Misses Harmon, Bagby, Jones, Perkins. Echols, Messrs. Karter. Blair, Mckay. Bagby. Lewis, Buckwalter and Dr. Jeffries.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

Grace Rundle, the youngest daugh- ter of Mir. and Mrs. Rundle. Ciawson Hill. left for Tombstone on Friday to spend a few days with friends.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

Miss Theresa Fay, sister of Mrs. H A. Strodthoff, is expected to arrive 1T Douglas today from Anaheim. Califor mia, and for the next few weeks vii be the guest of MT. and Mrs. Strodt hoff.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

On April 9th the school teachers of Bisbee will visit the schools Of Douglas in a body. They will arrive Thursday evening and spend Friday going over the work and methods of the Douglas teachers. There will no doubt be a party Friday evening in their honor, and every effort will be made to insure a splendid time for those who come. This visit of the Bisbee teachers will no doubt call to mind quite viyidly the pleasant ex- cursion to Eacozari, which the Doug las teachers enjoyed last December.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

On the evening of the 28th the Woman's Club will give 8 dancing party to their friends for the purpose of adding finances to the Manual Training fund.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Kelsey

MT. and Mrs. J. B. Kelsey Announce the marriage of their daugh.
 ter,
 Mamie Estile,
 to
 MT. Alexander John Bruce. On Monday, March the nineteenth, Nineteen Hundred and Six
 Anaheim. California. MT. and Mrs. Bruce were both pop uIar in society circles of Bisbee, and the many friends will be pleased to learn of their return at an early date.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

The Fortnightly Card Club. con. sisting of sixteen members, will be entertained on Wednesday evening next by Mrs. Rinehart.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

Basket ball seems to be enjoying as much enthusiasm as bowling at the Y. NJ. c. A. this week Thursday even ing the Reds and Greens met in con fict. The lineup was as follows:
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

Mrs. Curry:'of Nacc, gave pretty luncheon on the f6thy toFas few of her many lady friends, who were Mrs. Fred Hurst. Mrs. Woods, her mother, Mrs. Brown. and Mrs. Co~an. of Douglas. --- ..s-
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

The Magazine Club of Lowell, will meet on Tuesday next, An Interest ing program has been prepared for the occasion.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

Some one has said that when all else fails us we have the climate of Arizona to boast of, but one need not boast without occasion of the Deauti- ful days of this last week. These mornings have no parallel and these evenings, with their radiant sunsets,
 aust surely satisfy the most cT1ticai. .u we lack to make the inspiration complete, when va breathe the fresh Eess or the morning air. is to hear ae song of the birds. This feature, however. is fast being remedied as he growth of vegetation increases.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

The demonstration lecture by Pierson, given on "Wednesday was as follows:
 Planked shad or white fish. Casserole of rice and meat. Tomato sauce.
 Blueberry pudding. Hard sauce.
 English plum pudding. Egg sauce.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25

The Neighborhood Club spent very pleasant afternoon on Thursda with Mrs. Biedsoe. The beautifl new residence of the hostess was de orated in Japanese effect. Japanes draperies, lanterns and umbrella were arranged in artistic profusion.
 Mesdames White and Hurst assis ed in entertaining the eighteen guest Mrs. Policeman and her mother wei invited guests. The pleasure of th afternoon was five hundred.