Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-12
SCOTS WEARY
OF AMERICANS
WEEP OVER THE FATE OF
FRESNO COPPER MINE
Particularly Indignant Because Of AL
legged Discoveries Concerning
Leather and Boot and
Shoe Industry
Special cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald
GLASGOW, Aug. 11.-And now 1t is
the American boot and shoe industry
instead of dressed beef which Is re-
ceiving a tanning" at the hands Of
Europeans in general and the Scotch
in particular. For INSTANCE, the Glas-
gov Herald prints a poem signed
"Prodicus," dedicated ITO My Arneri-
can Pair which runs in part as fol-
lows
americans are said to be selling a boot
leather compounded of glucose and
EPSON salts, warranted neither to wash
nor wear).
Now nlmbiy lodging mum rous showers.
Now calling frequent halts,
/ saw amazed, yet Sol (e) ar Powers
My boots leak EPSON salts.
Stretched o'er the path a watery CLEAN,
/ looked, / leapt | lost
Straightway there vanished in the stream
Just ten per cent off cost
with heavy heart but lightened feet
/ grabbed my hat and rose;
How could l think my lot was sweet,
Though smaclSing of glucose?
my grief is bootless, wretched pair
Your state all solace mocks,'
And, so remarking. left EN- there,
And walked home in my SOCKS!
The poem related to the Royal San
itary congress at Bristol, where the
principal debate was a paper by z. e.
Sparkle Evans relative to the manufac-
ture OF the sole leather. Experts fig
ured that there was an average Of Z
per cent added glucose and per cent
EPSON salts
Editorially the Glasgow Herald says:
"The practical American, when he is
retailing leather, seems to give the
glory to the chemist and to let the
honor take care of itself, since the al
legation is made that a large proper
ton of the material exported as boot
soles to British markets consist of al
most everything but that which the
dictionary and the average citizen as
sociate with the dressed hides of ami
mails.
1--WE must mingle with our admira-
ton Of cleVerness a modicum Of con-
tempy for unbusinesslike ability to
spoil a good market The Briton may
be thick-headed, but he has natural
and national bias in favor of thick
soles."
Everywhere there appears to be
among European scientists a DISPOSE
ton to blame the poor American chem
ist for the scandals in dressed beef and
other products. Chemists like Ricn-
ardson, of Swift & Co., are accused OF
allowing their comn1ercialism to run
away with their scientific good sense
in the mad race for the dollars of the
worlds markets.
Fresno Copper Mine
The reports from America of the fate
of the Fresno Copper company have
caused another storm and an indigna-
ton against all things American-life
insurance; dressed beef; now mining.
What next? is the ueqstion every
where asked. The publication of the
brief letter from the secretaries of the
company to the secretary of the Glas-
Cow stock exchange caused the utmost
CONSERVATION even beyond the circle of
habitual traffickers in stocks and
shares. The Fresno at the outset of its
career, and for a considerable time
after, attracted the attention and OBJ
tanned the confidence of a large num-
ber of investors who know little or
nothing of the intricacies of stock ex-
change business. In Glasgow it ap-
pears to have been an especial favorite,
doubtless on account of the fact that
entirely above suspicion-were on the
directorate. I'VE are instructed,
write the representatives of the COM
pany, "to inform you that Fred j. Sic
bert, the expert appointed to examine
the mine, has condemned it."
A little over three years ago Mr.. YER
coe, one of the vendors and managing
directors, was of opinion that the mine
was likely to rank among the eight
great copper mines of the world" Mr..
Lang, the engineer, staked his profess
sionaI reputation on the declaration,
made five years ago, that at the Fresno
mine there were met values in sight
of $720,000," and that 1T was "the best
located and the most desirable copper
property in California today" 1t was
also Mr.. Lang whom Mr.. Vercoe de-
scribed as at the top of the tree as
an expert copper smelter," yet whose
practical work in connection with the
smelling plant at the mine has been
condemned by Mr.. Siebert in unquali-
fled terms.
The opinion is that some one has
blundered somewhere, and the hope is
also expressed that things are not as
bad as they seem-that something can
yet be done to save the Fresno mine
of California and it's copper smelters
from q wreck.