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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-11-28
Large Interest IN Kentucky Coal Land
Sold 10 Northern Capitalists.

Sergent, Ky, Nov. p. A
number of land deals of import
ance have been made i'm this
section during the past month.
Two weeks ago Capt. John c.
{. Mayo and the incorporators
of the Great Northern Coal and
Coke Company sold one half
interest of their holdings aggre-
eating about nine millions. To
northern capitalists who. IL is
authoritatively stated. propose
to develop the property NJ once.
During the past week a number
Of capitalists. headed by John
c. G. Mavo, of Paintsvi'le. XIV:
B. r. johnson. OF Pikeville XIV. /:
j NJ. W. Stewart. of Ashland.
Ky; Senator J. y. Camden. Of
Parkersburg, w. Va. and Eu-
gene zimmerman. the railroad
magnate, of Cincinnati. made a
tour of inspection Of this great
coal field. ascertaining the most
feasible route for the building
of "A coal carrying road. IL is
f proposed TO construct line 40
miles long from some point on
the Chesapeake and Ohio's Big
Sandy extension up into the
heart of the horn and
BOone's Fork coal fields i'm this
county. During the past few
T years untold millions of dollars
have been spent by the lavish
hands OF far-seeing financiers
and capitalists i'm the region
around the Elkhorn coal field,
all of which have yielded them
vast fortunes In money wealth
yet the limit has not been
reached for the capitalists OF
today who are lucky enough tC
purchase coal lands hereabouts
for $50, $40 OF even $50 per acr,
F viii realize seventy. five pei
cent on their investment twelv,
or fifteen months hence. . MARI
: my word for it. The half hat
not been told, but the coming
years viii mark an era i'm East
ern kentucky's development
+ that the south has neve
known. Nestled I'm the marrow
valley of the beautiful Elkhorl
| Greek will be a hustling "Con
nellsville of the South. an
these sturdy farmers Will the
realize that they bartered thei
I wealth 10 the corporations 70
"a song, yet it will lift th
country from obscure povert
70 the richest section under Oh
sun. 10 can now bee safely sal
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penditures representing invest
ments of more than II 600. 600.
The city has Just completed
water works enlargements at a
cost of Si00, 900. railroad i'm
provementS planned will cost
500, 900, a $3.50 900 hotel will be
ready for occupancy by the first
of next year. "a 500, coo hospital
will be built that Us present
planned capacity may be en-
larged, "a building for a medical
college will cost $40 900 and one
for the y. NJ. G. a. will cost
about $4,000 At the coming
election there will be voted
upon proposition Of issuing
100000 worth Of bonds for the
completion Of the model roads
for which Meclenburg county
is famed.
Other evidences Of activity nm
the South developed during the
past wee, are plans for the ex-
penditure Of $1,000. 900 In the
utilization of water power on
the Catawba River near Hick
ory, y. e., for electrical pur
poses, 500 horse power being
expected.
At South Pittsburg. Tenn.
f Sl 200, 900 will bee spent an build
ing and equipping "a plant foI
the manufacture of $4,000 bar
reis of cement daily. The build
ings will bee mainly of steel an,
the equipment will include en-
ginee for 1000 horse power.
ola new spapers for sale "a
his office at 20 cents per 100.
BuCkIen'S ArniCa SaIVe
The Best SsIVe In The World.
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FROM KEOKEE.

keokee, Va, Nov. l9.-R. c.
Ballard Thruston, of Louisville.
KY. was here at w 5. Palmer's
a few days ago. This was his
first trip since the Keokee Coal
and Coal Coke Company COM
menced their work here. He
was much pleased with the new
works.
r. w. Pennington, attorney
of Pennington Gap, was here
on legal business a few DAYS
ago. Mr. Pennington is one
among our mountain men who
have come up and has a fine
reputation as a succ. sSful law
yer.
The cold wave has passed of
IN warm, mild rain and high
tide of water up here in the
town OF Keokee.
Mr.. T. V. Church. the Keokee
Coal and Coke Company S
agent and general manager. is
off on a business trip for his
company.
Ii is reported from reliable
sources that the l.. 4 y. Rail
road Company is having a rail
road line surveyed alonside the
Black Mountain Railroad Com
pany's right of way, and are
running branch spur lines uI
every creek and vallcy that
goes into the Black Mountain
coal field, and that the Glover
Fork Valley, of Cumberland
River, in Harlan county. Ky.
Is TO soon be traversed by rail
roads. Xxx
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MADE HAPPY FOR LIFE.

treat happiness came into The home OF
5. c. Blair, school superintendent. at 81.
Aibans. W Va. when dis little daughter
was restored from the dreadlal complaint
he names He says: My little daughter
had St Vitas' Dance. whieh Yielded 10 aa
treatment hut grew steadily worse anlil
as a last resort We tried Electric Bsslcrs;
aud rejoice to Say, three betstus sffssies
a complete care" Quick, sars cure fos
nervous complaints. general debiliiy, ie-
male weaknesses. Impoverished blood
malaria Guaranteed BY j. w. Kelly
hDssxgise.
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BUYS SITE FOR SHO?
Believed 10 Be Purpose Of V. & :. W.
al Gate City.

Gate City, Va. Nov. 23.-The
Virginia Il Southwestern Rail
way Company has purchased
the farm of Rev. Jonathan
Creech at Moccasin Gap, two
miles southeast of Gate City.
The consideration was ten thou
sand dollars.
This farm lies at the junction
of the HolstOn River Railroad
now being constructed by the
Southern, and the Virginia and
Southwestern, which was pur-
chased recently by the Southern.
liz IS UNDERSTOOD that the object
of the railroads in buying this
property is TO erect machine
repair shops and make other
extensive improvements there
on. Ii is expected that the Gap
will suddenly spring into a
place of considerable import
ance. Moccasin Greek, flowing
through il, affords vast water
power, and il is thought it is
soon to be utilized.
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PROSPERITY or SOUTH Is GREAT.
Some Encouraging Figures Complied BY
Manufacturers Record.

Baltimore, Nov. 2I.-In this
weeks issue Of the Manufac-
turerS' Record estimates that
the true value of the real and
personal property in the four
teen Southern States at present
is at least SIS, 900, ,n0o 900, which
is nearly 81, 600, 900, 900 more
than the true value of property
in the whole country in 1860.
The total increase of assessed
values in the fourteen Southern
States was something more than
$432, 900. 1000 between 1904 aud
1905. The Increase this year in
the five States mentioned sug-
gest that the increase this year,
for the South, will be close 60
$3.50, 900 900 which viii bring
the total up 20 about S7,l0o,-
900, 600 a d property
values.
Southern prosperity is re-
fiecred in the millions Of dollars
being spent upon industrial en-
terprises, in railroad construc
tion and in municipal and pri-
vate improvements. Notable
among these are several JUS
completed under way or PLANNED
| for Charlotte, n. c., 4 city d
J about 5000 populasion, the ex
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-11-28

Every newspaper wants TO
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are especially hard to run down.
How many times have you. dear
reader, been approached by the
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news and told him that YOU
knew nothing of interest. Prob
ably at the time your family
were away on visit or some
one from out of town was visit
ing at your home. OF course
you didn't mean TO deceive the
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per. The one item may not
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Big Clubbing Offer.

We have made arrangements with the Louisville, KY
Herald whereby enabled to offer the Daily Herald
mot including the Sunday edition of the Herad) and the
Big Stone Gap Weekly Post, both ONE YEAR for
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-11-28

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SILVER LOCATED IN A DREAM.
After Many Futile At.emps to Find ii.

JelIcO, Tenn, Nov. 21.-For
many months past there has
been a man here from Indiana
representing the Indiana Silver
Co, prospecting for silver. He
engaged the services Of George
Bennett, who is an old school
mineralogist. and throughly ac-
quainted with the mountains,
to aid him. They made three
months search for the old open
ing up the Clear Fork, river.
where Chauncy operated in
making silver dollars more than
a century ago. Mr. Bennett had
vivid recollection of the old
Kentucky" wizard. Although
he was but "a boy when Mr..
Chauncy operated in the silver
mines he remembered the old
shaft, and the moulds h a
Chauncy used TO make silver
dollars with. He remembered
how, when he had made enough
silver dollars to fill two sacks
holding "A bushel each he would
cut logs and place them over
the opening having laid away
his mattock, kettle and moulds
in dry corner When the
season rolled around again he
would return 70 make his mon
ey. Although Mr.. Bennett had
/ looked into this shaft, the years
b "a q changed his memory,
or the topography had changed
50 that when he would 20 to
the spot where be thought he
would surely find the old shaft
he would miss IT, Mr. Bennett
would come home and spend
the night in making up his
mind pictures of the hole. only
to get a mislead the following
day. The man from Indiana
became discouraged and gave
it up for bad and went home
Last Friday night while Mr.
( Bennett was resting body and
brain, his soul went out TO the
/ old mountain and there found
the spot where the silver was
to be found. Ia his dream OF
the place he was told just how
10 go and where 20 stop, TO find
it. Mr.. Bennett arose Satur.
day morning with a new idea
about the shaft. After a hasty
breakfast he and his little boy
struck out for the "NarrOws, .
following the lines made frest
20 him in the dream. yet con
trary 10 his own ideas as 10 IN,
location of the shaft. BY
o'clock h e y were standing
right over the old shaft Of OiC
Chauncy, where he had seer
$ the ore taken out many year.
1 ago. The old logs were partly
. rotted but much of it was jus
I as it was left
D The way was opened ant
T. down Mr.. Bennett went, to fin,
the old mattock and kettle jus
4 as il was left. As TO the mould
we say nit He got d fine chunl
e of ore and came out and GOV
5 cred up the hole, and marked i
4 SO that there will DO no mistak
T when the man comes from In
e diana. Mr. Bennett has notifie
the Indianian of his find an,
e expects him soon. When h
r comes Mr.. Bennett will get
/; snug little sum from his labors
o This metal has been discovere
: still south of Jellico. along TN
top of Pine Mountain where tn
Il old wizard used 10 come an
:, get ore at the same time h
d operated In .'Narrows," \ yer
y rich vein of iron runs along tn
IS top of the mountain In Man
places very near the strata c
silver. 1t is said that Oh
Al Chauncy said once to a frienc
e that the people In these mouI
It tains could shoe their hores wit
It silver shoes if they knew d
lt much about these m0untair
10 as he did.
r..,.s
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and other producing interests in the
Middle West, which consider the Ger
man market their "velvet."
STOCK EXCHANGE SEATS.
Points of Vantage Where Millions
Are Made (and LosO While You
Wait.


In keeping with the recent remark
able rise in stock prices in this coun
try is the rapid advance in rates al
which New York Stock Exchange
seats are selling. The membership oi
the Exchange is strictly limited to
1 100, and seats are therefore objects
of ardent desire on the part of many
hundreds of market operators, to
whom a membership would be mate
rally valuable. A month ago a seat
sold for $4,000, a record price. A few
days ago membership rights were sold
for 100000 and one seat was bought
at the unprecedented price of $95,000.
1t is believed that if there is another
transaction of this character soon the
price will reach 100000, or somewhat
more than so per cent. greater than
the rate at which seats were sold two
years ago. In 1872 Stock Exchange
seats sold for $4,000, and this was re-
garded as high.
An idea of the reason why Wall
Street operators are anxious to OBJ
tain the right to transact their busi-
ness on the floor Of the Exchange
is gained from the fact that the stock
transactions nowadays average close
upon 100000 shares day. If every
member of the Exchange were active,
and if the business were evenly di-
vided, such daily business would give
to each member commission upon
about $50 shares, amounting to a
yearly income of $32,700. This is, of
course, entirely apart from individual
operations and profits
These Stock Exchange seats are re-
garded as assets. There has been in
the past some trading in them for the
sake of the profits gained by the rise
in the rate, but the tendency was dis
couraged by rigid enforcement of the
rule that the purchaser must be ac-
ceptable to the governors of the Ex-
change. Men now sell their seats only
for urgent reason, such as failure of
health, or removal to other fields. In
the latter case the New York seat is
probably more profitably turned into
cash, at the high rates now prevailing,
than to be held for future use. When
a member of the exchange dies, his
executors sell his seat for the highest
rate. The bidding is often
spirited, and some of the most strik-
ing advances in the record prices have
been scored in this way.
Amador ledger., 1906-03-30
MILLIONALRES For WAITERS.
Caddfes Feasted as Guests of the
Germantown Cricket Club, Near
PHILADELPHIA.

Millionaires and men of promin-
ence in the business and social life
of the city turned walters and fed
the little lads who have served as
caddies on the golf links Of the Ger
mantown Cricket Club, at a banquet
at the clubhouse at Wissahickon
Heights the other night. The lads
were delighted with the feast, but
more pleased with the attention show
cred upon them by the dignified men
make them happy.
AS the eighty-six youngsters, rang
ing in age from eight to sixteen years,
sat about the banquet board, garbed
in their regular costumes, Samuel T.
Heebner, one Of the old members Of
the club, welded the carving knife,
and huge slices Of turkey were prompt
ly hurried to the hungry youngsters
by the millionaire walters.
First, ex-Minister to Italy, William
Potter would hurry away with a
plate, then Sheriff Brown and Direc-
tor of Public Safety Potter would rush
from the carver's side, carrying plat
ters heaped with turkey and tempting
vegetables. Edward S. Buckley, Jr.,
president of the club, took hand and
was assisted by Vice-President H. H.
Kingston, Harlan S. Page, Howard
Perrin, Joseph s. Clark, Charles T.
Cowperwaite, Henry A. Lewis, Robert
G. Cooke, William R. Buckley, G. H.
Potter, William Disston and w. Find
ley Brown, and all Of them were busy
looking after the wants OF their cad
dies, all Of them men Of great affairs.
After the collation. had been served,
William c. Houston, chairman of the
golf committee, called the gathering
to order and made brief address, in
which he congratulated the boys upon
their behavior during the year. As a
! means of still further pleasing the cad
lies, each was presented with a boz
Of candy and prizes ranging from 81
to $3.50 in gold.
Amador ledger., 1906-03-30
TRIUMPH FOR ROOT
GERMANYS NEW TARIFF ACT
ALLOWS SMALLEST RATE ON
AMERICAN GOODS.

Securing This Unlocked For Conces-
sion Makes Secretary of State a
Diplomat of First Rank-Gefman
Market Priced.
War has been averted between the
United States and Germany; not the
strife of cannon and sword, but COM
mercial war, which nevertheless very
seriously threatened important Ameri-
can industries.
The recent action. Of the German
reichstag in passing legislation defer
ring from March 1 next, until June 80,
1907, the assessment Of the maximum
Amador ledger., 1906-03-30

selves, grasped her message and her
very name became a term of derision.
She was caricatured, insulted, jeered at
and maligned. In the early days of the
movement Women's Rights was the
synonym for dress reform, for neglect
ed home duties for rabid political
tendencies and for unwomanly women.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was Miss
Anthony's earliest ally. Together they
conducted one campaign after another,
seemingly making but little headway
at first. They travelled all over the
country, going from place to place in
open wagons, stage coaches or what
ever other conveyance was obtainable,
and from door to door on foot. They
endured many hardships and were sub
jected to insults innumerable. People
said of them that Mrs. Stanton made
the balls and Miss Anthony fired them.
She proved her good craftsmanship by
making every ball count.
Partial Suffrage in Many States.
"I never saw that tall, stately Quaker
girl coming across my lawn" said Mrs.
Stanton, But what l knew another
bomb-shen was to be hurled into some
assembly of men,"
Miss Anthony was arrested and fined
for illegal voting in 1872. She had
cast ballot at the election. She never
paid the fine. Since then four states
have granted the right of suffrage to
women; % states have given them the
right to vote at school elections, and
New York permits women taxpayers to
vote on all questions affecting the tax.
alton Of property. For years Miss
Anthony hoped to live to see a woman
elected and inaugurated as President
| Of the United States, but she has a.
bandoned that hope now, realizing that
such a thing will not come to pass in
her day.
Her life is now less strenuous an6
she and her sister, Mary, have a quiet
pretty home at Rochester N. Y. She
keeps in touch with every cause in the
interest of or for the advancement o1
woman, and in her voluminous cores
pondence continues to give advice an6
counsel to women in all quarters oi
the globe. Out of her little Workshop
in the attic of the Rochester home
comes much of the ammunition used
in continuing the battle for suffrage
Six years ago, at the age of 80 she
learned to operate typewriter, which
she employs in her personal cores
pondence and in CARRYING on her work
Time has dealt gently with her. Sht
is still stately and erect. and her steI
has the vigor and elasticity of mos
women many years her junior. He
memory is undulled by age, all Of he
faculties seem to retain the keennes
which made her such a power in tn,
prime Of her life. Her interest in tn,
worlds affairs is unabated, and he
mind is attuned to every movemen
having for it's object the bettermen
Of mankind.
Amador ledger., 1906-03-30
IN THE WARM SOUTHLAND.
A FEBRUARY JOURNEY FROM THE
LAND OF ICE TO THE LAND
OF FLOWERS.

Breezy Account of Midwinter Trip
to charleston, Jacksonville and st.
Augustine.-hotels which Are
Palaces.
We left Washington on February
eighteenth and after spending two de-
lightful days in New York boarded the
Seminole for Jacksonville, on WASH
ington's birthday. Now the one accom-
plishment of my life has been that I
was always a good sailor; but on this
trip 1 had to succumb, never raising
my head, from the pillow from the hour
we started until we reached Charles
ton. 1 thought pretty faithfully of my
son who was sick for IL days while go
ing to the Isthmus. 1t was a terrible
passage for US, very cold, rainy and
completely dismal. Nearly every one
was sick, only two ladies and a few
gentlemen, my husband among them
being the exceptions l had the dub
ious pleasure Of taking all my meals
in my berth. For two nights the
steamer pitched and rolled to such an
extent, that my husband couldn't stay
in his upper berth, and when we came
around Hatteras it seemed really peril
GUS. The captain said it was the rough
est night the boat had experienced for
five years and it will be long, long
while before I shall want to round
Hatteras again! Saturday morning
however the misery was over, and at
eight A. M. we stopped at Charleston,
with a partially clear sky, and few
hours before us in which to do the
City. We drove to the Battery" and
walked the length Of the, sea wall
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there The street is broad, the houses
right on the street, their grounds on
either side planted with vegetables,
magnolia trees, roses in full bloom, and
a wealth Of vines everywhere. The
houses here were built before the war,
and are immense three story structures
running way back, with two and three
story verandas facing the South to
catch the sea breeze. Quaint old carv-
ings are on the doors which are also
resplendent with great brass knockers
The view is fine and expansive, in
cluding Charleston Harbor, Fort Sum-
Amador ledger., 1906-03-30
A Propeller In the liz

An English device is reported Of an
air motor boat. which, while not re-
markable as a speed craft, is yet very
useful in navigating many bodies Of
water which on account Of their ex-
treme shallowness are practically clos.
ed to navigation. Other deeper rivers
and lakes are likewise avoided by .
screw or paddle wheel craft on ac-
count Of their growths Of rank vege-
tation.
A fat, shallow draft launch has been
constructed which overcones both DIFF.
nculties, for it's screw propeller or fan
works, not in the water but in the air.
Driven by motor, the fan whirling In
the air sends the boat along at good
rate Of speed.
Amador ledger., 1906-03-30

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