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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-24
REPORT FROM SAN FRANCISCO
EARLY LAST NIGHT.

New York, April 19.-The oh:'ais
Ut the Postal Telegraph company IN
this city at s:35 received the follow
ing message from Mr.. Sto-er, the SUI
erintendent Of their service in San
Fl arcisco:
The fire IS still going on and VII
probably consume the whole city, e1-
cent those streets situated between
the Golden Gate Park and Webster
street. in which neighborhOod theio
is water and where the fire depart
ment can work with some chance o.
success
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-24
CONDITIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO
ARE APPALLING.

Los Angeles, April 19.-E. E. Calvin,
general manager of the Southern Pa
cifc at San Francisco this afternoon
wired Superintendent Ingram to get a
special train, buy five car loads OF
goods and send them to San Francis
co at the earliest possible moment.
Calvin says conditions in the stricken
city are so appalling as to be beyond
btlief or comprehension.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-24
Efforts to Fight Flames are Useless.

New York. April 19.-William n
Baker. vice president and general man.
ager of the Postal Telegraph Company,
at 1890 o'clock tonight received the
following from the deputy chief Of the
San Francisco fire department:
Seven thirty tonight fire still under
Roadway, gathering force and spread
ing. T~wo-thirds of business section OF
city devastated Fire heading for res
idential district Efforts to fight flames
futile. Three hundred thousand will
be homeless tonight. By Saturday
San Francisco win be an ash heap"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-24
RELIEF VOTED BY HOUSE
81. 900. 900 Appropriated by Govern.
ment to Help Authorities of the Suf.
fering Cities.

Washington. April 19.-The house
today appropriated 100000 for the
suffering and homeless in San Fran
cisco and other California towns, and
gave the secretary of war. the secre-
taries Of the treasury, navy and COM
merce power to cooperate with the
mayors Of the stricken cities that the
very best results might be obtaine in
affording relief. The resolution was
hurried to the senate. and late in the
afternoon was returned with the an
nouncement that the senate had con-
Cured in the action Of the house.
Speaker Cannon's signature was at
tached at once to the measure. and it
was rushed to the senate for h vic
presidents signature. III thence TO
the president to complete the legisla-
ton.
During the discussion of the district
appropriation bill, Mr.. Williams. the
minority leader ave notice that there
would be no more legislation except
under the rules of the house or a spe-
cial rule. until the conferees on the
statehood bill had made a report. Sew
eral speeches were made on the tariff.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-24
NO POSSIBILITY OF SAVING TIL:
CITT

Chicago April 19.-The Postal Telc-
graph company a. 6 p. m, received
the following message from its Oak
land, Calf. office.
The fire marshal of San Francisco
advises hat Eacre than two-thirds OF
the area of rha city of San Francis>c
has been Gestrsyed and there is DC
possibility OF saving the rest OF the
city. TIE following is the distric'
north CT Market street now devastat'
ed,
SAMSON t Market street, TO Sacra
mento. 10 buchanan, thence to Cali
fornia, to Hyde, to Eddy, to Larhin
to Couch, and to Market. On tn
south side of Market street the fir
extends along Market street to Four
tee nth, and below the Southern Paclh
tracks to the boundary"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-24
TO HELP REBUILD UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA.

New York, April 19.0Clarence Mac
kay, president of the Postal Telegraph
Cable company tonight telegraphed 10
President Wheeler of the University
of California at Berkely, saying he
will contribute 500, 900 toward the
erection Of a new building for the
university.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-24
THE SUB-TREASURY DESTROYED

New York, April 19.-According to
a dispatch to the Western Union the
s~ub-treasury in San Francisco has
been destroyed. The sub%-treasury is
not connected with the United States
min which is still standing.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-24

While those Raleigh officials are
declaring that IL prohibition is car
ried in that own hey will enforce the
law they might be paying more at
tention to the Law already in force
Durham Herald.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-24
READY TO RESUME TRAFFIC.

Sacramento, April 19.-The South
ern Pacific Railway company today
repaired it's tracks and telegraph
lines and will resume passenger and
freight traffic between Sacramento
and Oakland tonight.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-24

Raleigh, n. c., April 1S.-It was an
nounced tonight that the Electric Bond
and Share Company of New York,
Marsden j. Perry. of Providence, r. l..
president. has purchased a controlling
interest in the Raleigh E1ectrict Com
pany, operating the city railway and
light plant here. Mr.. Perry and his
associates are 1essees Of the Atlantic
and North Carolina railway. and own
the Norfolk and Southern and other
railroads in eastern North Carolina.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-24
REPORT TO WAR DEPARTMENT

General Funston Says it is Almost Ger.
stroyed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-24

San Francisco. April "a efforts
to check the spread of the flames at
Van Ness avenue by blowing up a mile
of buildings on the east SIDE of van
Ness proved fruitDesS. N
fire has spread across the broad
thOrOughfare and from present indica-
tons the entire western addition,
which contains the homes OF san Fran
ciscO's wealthier class. is now doomed.
The destruction of the western addition
of the city completes the work of the
ravagiIrg flames and marks the devas-
tation of the entire city.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-24
Two Thirds of The City Destroyed
And the Other Third Burninq
WHOLE BLOCK DYNAMITED

of People are Seeking Ref
uge in the Nearby Cities n Sub
Errbs-There is no Panic-Sixteez
Blocks of Fine Homes Bombarded
With Gun Powder to Check the FIRE.
Heroic Measures Taken to Relieve
the Su6ering-Danger That n
Food Supply May Run Out-Aater
Needed to Relieve the Suffering.
Mounds of Dead Bodies StiH Lying
in the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Made
for RELIEF of the Needy-Fffty
Prominen1 Citizens. Forming aeon
mittee of Safety. are Directing the
Work of Rescue.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-24

Washington, April 1.-THE war de-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-24

fame as far as the eyes could see TO
the south to the east and far out to the
west, lay in cruel, fantastic heaps,
charred and smoking, all that remain
ed ola prosperous city.
The mearouolis Of the Pacific coast
was in ashes. This has been another
day of an uneven struggle of man
against an unconquerable element.
Acre after acre has been ground into
dust and ashes, despite the heroic per-
severence of the firemen to limit the
cOnf1agration.
Tonight there is a hope that the
worst has been nearly reached and hat
with tomor1ow's dawn the end will
have come: out the hope is faint. Ii
the flames can be barred from the
western addition, then the end will be
written to the disaster.
San Francisco is not discouraged.
Its best and highest class has alredy
begun to plan for restoration and to
carr IOI lut SII1Chcll OllcSs IN liz ~
lief will be immediate and effective.
Total subscriptions of S1SO,OOO were
announced tonight. Arrangements were
made for the immediate relief of the
needy. Free transportation will be
provided by the Southern Pacific rail-
road for destitute persons desiring to
go to interior points.
Major McKeever was appointed COM
mandant of the camps of the home
less. II is announced that tomorrow
there would begin the daily delivery
into the city of ten million gallons Of
water.
Tonight for the first time, direct
telegrap:ic communication was re-es-
tablished between San Francisco and
the outside world, and this message
had the honor of being the first to
be Sent.
By the most energetic efforts in the
face of great obstacles, the Postal
Telegraph Company succeeded in re-
storing n of Its shattered lines ana
its managers are hopeful of bringing
back it's service to normal in a day or
two. The Postal Office tonight is in
a little wooden structure erected on
piles at the water front. Tonight
three distinct fires are burning One
was in the territory that extends from
Mob Hill easterly towards the water
front. 1t was travelling slowly north
erly, towards the telegraph hill sec
ton, and may die out for lack Of mate
rial, or it may sweep towards the ex-
RENE water front. The second centre
was in the mission district. Here the
fire had reached Eighteenth street, but
was making little Roadway towards
the hillsides to the west, where thous-
ands of people are camped.
The third and most dangerous fire
is that threatening the western part
of the city. This is really a continu-
alton of the Mob Hill fire. 1t is wedge
shaped, with the apex punching for
Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-05-17

for silver. In 1888 he was elected
justice of the peace and served in that
capacity for two years until made
clerk of the district court, position
DR.. Fox held from '85 to 80, having
been deputy clerk for two years prev
ious to his appointment. DR.. Fox
located in 10 the Gladiator mine now
owned by the United Globe company
and one Of the biggest producers of the
group. He held this property for IL
years when he disposed of it, and in
1901 he sold the Darius mine to the Old
Dominion company, which he originally
located in conjunction with w. T. Nc
Nelly and others.
In 1890 he went east to study medi-
cine and after taking a two years
course graduated from the University
of Louisville in the class of '92, and
Immediately returned to Globe where
he entered the practice of his chosen
profession. He has met with crafty
ing success and his standing in profess
siOnal circles is irreproachable. His
latest venture in behalf of the camp is
in conjunction with c. M. Clark in the
promotion Of an immense power plant
for generating electric power for the
entire district. 1t is of gigantic pro-
portions and will assume definite shape
within short time.
Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-05-17

boy he moved to Illinois and there grew
to manhood. In 1873 he went to Whar-
ton county, Texas, where for number
of years he conducted the best under
taking and embalming establishment
in that portion of the state. In 1885,
the great tide of immigration setting
toward southern California caught him,
and the following fourteen years found
him resident of Los Angeles, where
he was engaged in business until re-
moving to Globe.
Mr.. Jones finding that his business
had grown to such an extent that he
could no longer conduct it alone in a
manner satisfactory to himself, on
May l, 1906, took into partnership his
son, Fred H. Jones, who has already
had excellent training in the business
and who is young man Of first-class
ability and is thoroughly reliable.
In addition to conducting the regular
business, F. l.. Jones & Son represent
the great monument and granite house
Of G. w. Clark & Co. with 500 agents
in all parts of the United States.
Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-05-17
Dr.. 3. c. Fox

Among the little colony of pioneers
to this camp and district the SILVER
BELT takes pleasure in presenting in
brief biography of DR.. B. G. Fox.
DR.. Fox halls from Clayton county,
Iowa, where he made his debut upou
the stage of life in 1853. He was
reared upon farm and divided his
time between the duties of boys of his
time on farm and attending the pub
lie schools in the vicinity. Later he
took course at the State Agricul-
tural College at Ames. Iowa, and re-
turned to his home, starting for St.
Louis shortly after attaining his major
ity. From st. Louis young Fox went
to Fort Worth in 1876 then the end of
the railroads building west. Remaining
there but short time he came to New
Mexico, where he remained year
before his advent in Globe. Like most
of the pioneers of the latter '70's he
came in driving burro and almost inn
mediately took to the hills prospecting
Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-05-17
F. L. Jones

Coming to Globe in September, 1898,
Mr.. Jones sawthe opportunity and took
advantage of it by giving to this city
its only first-class and exclusive fun
eral parlors. Opening in small way
on lower Broad street, he was later
compelled to seek more commodious
quarters in the building now occupied by
the Express company, and one year ago
he moved into the present WELL
appointed establishment where every
convenience is at hand for the success
full carrying on of the minutest details
Of his business. The chapel, where
services may be held, is spacious and
appropriately furnished, and the fun
eral conveyances are the most impos-
ing and expensive ever brought to
Arizona, all the vehicles being new.
1t is almost unnecessary to add that
Mr.. Jones is the acknowledged leading
funeral director in the district.
A native Of Wisconsin, when but a
Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-05-17
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF
THE DISTRICT AND CAMP
First Mineral Locations Made in 1873 Organized
in 1875.-Town Of Globe Laid Out in 1876. Mil
lions in Silver Produced - First Copper
Smeted in 1854 Kingdom for Mule.

and Globe Ledge no others were made
on the lead until the fall of 1876,
when Woodson. Ellis and Mcdowell
located the Hoosier and the Gray.
There were many locations made dur
ing that year on the Globe copper belt,
among which may be mentioned the
Copper Hill and adjacent claims, Big
Johnny. O'Dougherty and Yuma. The
Buffalo mine was located the same year
by Tom Newlands and Johnny Devine
and sold to Gen. A. A. Mcdonnell as a
silver mine. In fact all the early loca-
tons were made for silver.
The first mining for copper was on
the Hoosier in 1878, by Van Arsdel and
Garrish, who bonded the claim from
WOodson and partners. The mine was
worked for few months and the ore
was hauled to Wheatfields
and reduced in primitive adobe smell
ter, yielding about 40tons of copper.
Woodson sold the Hoosier mine in 1881
to John X. Saltzman of Erie, Pa, who
erected the Hoosier smelter on the
east side of Pinal creek at the northern
limit of Globe TOWNSHIP, where Mr..
Ferguson now lives. 1t was operated
for about six months by Frank Nichol-
son and was shut down when copper
dropped to 8 cents per pound.
The Carrie smelter was erected in
1881 by Devereux Bros. to treat the
ores from the True Blue, Carrie and
Big Johnny mines. The superintendent
of the Carrie smelter was Jno. Williams,
father of Ben and Lou Williams,
Of Bisbee fame, and of John Williams
Jr., who was the first superintends nt
Of the Old Dominion after the smelter
was moved to Pinal creek.
The first Old Dominion smelter was
so ton water jacket erected at Bloody
Tanks in 1881, to smelt the ore from
the New York and Chicago claims, sit
Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-05-17

since which time the firm name
has been F. F. Kellner & Co.
G. S. Van Wagon and AlonzG
Bailey came from Silver City in 1877
and established a general store for B.
Weisl under the firm name of Bailey
& Van Wagenen. In the fall of rs
Bailey sole his interest in the business
to Weisl, and afterwards Van Wage
formed partnership with Jack Eaton.
under the firm name of Eaton & Bailey.
Bailey afterwards ran the business in
his own name and still later organized
the Old Dominion Commercial company.
l.. j. Webster was one Of the promi-
nent merchants of early days, conduct
ing general merchandise, banking and
insurance business.
The list would be inc omplete without
the name of w. F. Westmeyer, who
commenced business in 1876, which he
conducted with remarkable success
until three years ago when he retired
with comfortable fortune and remov-
ed to Los Angeles.
From perusal of the advertising
columns of the SILVER BELT we find
the following list of business and pro-
fessional firms and individuals estab-
lished here in 1878, in addition to those
already mentioned: Montezuma Hotel,
c. Duper, prop; w. A. Vail, drug
store; DR.. S. c. Heineman, pharmacist
and chemist: Redman & Wiley, meat
market; M. w. Brennan. saw mill; Jos.
Messenger, general merchandise; Frank
Munshull, Pioneer news and cigar de-
pot; U. S. Bakery, Geo. Kalkfell; Con
Burns, blacksmith; Knox & McNelly,
liquors; Henry w. Kearsing, chemist
and assayer; E. o. Kennedy, assayer;
A. G. Pendleton, civil engineer and U.
S. deputy mineral surveyor; D.B. Lacy,
Silver City express; E. C. Thatcher,
physician; F. ]. Goodwin, Julius w.
Van Slyck, and A. c. Swift, attorneys;
AL McMillen, Tidwell & Nichols, and
J. A. Miller & Co., general merchan-
disc.
Globe continued to grow and the Sill
YER BELT in It's issue of May %, 1873,
said: Building seems to be the rage
in Globe City, as we car count twenty
odd new houses going up and We pre-
dict that within six months the town
will number 800 houses.
The district was organized in 1875 by
Bill Hope, Doc Hammond, Jim Winters;
DR.. Brown, Bob Metcalf, AL Whitlock,
George Scott, Black Jack Harvey and a
few others. Jim Winters, one Of the
of that party and who was
recently here, took the organization
papers to Prescott to have them
printed.
Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-05-17

uated at that point, but the greater
portion of the ore smelted came from
the Old Dominion and Keystone claims,
which are located near the Stead ranch
about three miles north of Globe.
Capt. Burbage was the company's
superintendent and K. 0. Kennedy was
in charge of the smelling operations.
The smelter at Bloody Tanks only ran
three or four months, and it is believed
that as much copper was left in the
Stag as the percentage saved. Soon
afterwards the Globe and Globe Ledge
claims (now the Old Dominion mlne)
were purchased and the furnace moved
from Bloody Tanks to Pinal creek, just
west of the present superintendent g
residence, and new furnances were
added to the plant from time to time.
From that time forward the Old DOM
inion smelter was never shut down for
lack of ore.
The history of Globe as a permanent
settlement began in the fall of 1875. Inc
town was laid out in June or July and
the first house within the present
towns tie was erected several months
later, where T. A. Pascoe's residence
now stands. The building was erected
by Charles M. Shannon and Bob Met
calf, who afterward located, respec-
lively, the Shannon and Metcalf
mines, in the Clifton district.
The house was built of adobes and
was of modest proportions. a few
months later it was converted into
store run by A. M. Pierce. This was
the first regularly established store in
Globe, although the late DIR. t. c.
Stallo had previously sold goods in a
tent on Broad street where the old
sycamore called Hangman's Tree
stood.
Billy Ransom, who is pretty good
authority, declares that the very first
bartering was in potatoes. The ''mer-
chant" had barrel of whiskey and to
every purchaser of two potatoes at 81
apiece he would make present"
of bottle of red liquor.
Quite number of houses were erect
ed in 1876 and IT. The first regularly
appointed saloon was started by Bran
man in an adobe building on what is
now known as the Fault property, near
j. G. Oldfeld's residence. Logan &
Vosburg started store the same year
and the firm later become Vosburg &
Klein and then S. Klein & Co.
Morrill, & Ketchum began business in
the fall of '76. just north of the Broad
street crossing of Pinal creek where
w. Fl. Durvea later did business, and
then G. S. Van Wagenen. E. F. Kell-
ner bought out Ketchum and in June
1879 acquired Morrilrs interest,
Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-05-17

That Globe, Arizona, is one of tn,
best advertised cities in the country
today is due solely to the recounting
of facts accomplished. 1t never has
been "boomed"-even properly adver.
tised by the methods usually employed
to give a city prominence. 1t never
has had boom, nor is one wanted. In
the old days, when it was silver camp
and the copper possibilities not dreamed
of, it was producing camp of great
richness and sent hundreds of high
grade ore over the hardest of trails to
far distant shelters.
After the cream had been SKINNED
off, the camp relapsed into great dull
ness, as has many another once famous
for their output of the precious metals.
Small fortunes had been made in the
early flush times, but activity ceased
at the point where the great fortunes
should have begun had conditions been
ripe.
The heavy cost of bringing machin-
cry and supplies of all kinds hundreds
of miles over wagon trails, and the
crude methods of the time were unsur-
mountable handicaps, and profits were
wv ohioh " 0S ava oSSiNS W capital.
Turn in the Tide
With the advent of the railroad came
change of conditions, and there were
some who, having great faith in the
future of the camp, risked all they had
and all they could secure by any sacri-
fee in the effort to obtain new start.
By this time copper mining had become
more profitable than silver and gold
extraction, because the former had
greatly appreciated in value and was
in strong demand, while silver deprec-
lated with corresponding rapidity.
Before the coming of the Phelps,
Dodge corporation as investors and de-
velopers Of the Globe district the vicis-
STUDIES suffered were many and the
hearted had almost become
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-01-10
OWNER is FOUND
FOR THE LOST HORSE

The horse that was found hitched
TO the old fair ground fence at noon
Monday, after having been standing
there for twenty-four hours, was
claimed today by Edward Bussey, Of
Davisson's run, as his property. He
secured the horse from Ora Myers
livery stable. where it had been plac-
ed until called for BY the owner.
Mr.. Bussey had ridden into town
Sunday evening to catch a B. & @.
train out Of the city. and at the ton
Of the hill on the West Milford
pike. just above the fair grounds he
turned the horse loose thinking it
would return home. Nothing moro
was heard at his residence regarding
the animal until he returned home
md discovered that the horse was
missing.
The notice in the Telegram enab-
led him to locate the horse at once.
and the equine is once more safely
ensconsed on his native heath at
Davisson's run.