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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-07-20
AppOrtiOnment of School Money

Following is the statement of the
second scmi-annual apportionment of
school moneys for 1906, on basis of
Sc. 7G163A per census child:
Churchill, 81, 648.of; Douglas, 81, H.
80, Elko, $7,594.3l; Esmeralda, SO, 30l. :
Is; Eureka, 50, 536.75 Humboldt, S., :
073 81; Lander, 81, 623 81; Lincoln, 81, :
O98. q; Nyc, SO, 274. %; Storey, SO, 112.-
SO; Washoe, SIS, 836.oS; White Pine,
81, 3o5. So Total, SGT, 11l.32.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-07-20
The IRRIGATION Congress

The National Irrigation Con-
cress will meet in the city of
Boise, Idaho, Sept. 3D. to 9th,
inclusive. 1t is desired to have
a large representation go from
White Pine county and Hon.
Richard A. Riepe, of Ely, the
assistant secretary. can give you
any information you may want.
iuIy3-2m
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-07-20
$500 Reward

For information leading 10 the re-
covery of span Of dark mules, weight
about 800 pounds, branded AL on left
shoulder and thigh; age 3 and . years.
We're in posse ssion of Geo, Thain a
prospector, last March. Address ". !.
Booth. Box 3O7, Goldfeld, New. Jly l2-5t
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1906-03-17
Mohave County, the Treasure Vau1t Of Arizona.

part of the Muddy country, was an
nexed to the new state and the county
seat removed to Hardyville. With the
influx of people the seat of county gov
eminent was soon established at Ger
bat. where it remained but a few years
and then taken to Mineral Park. In
1887, after the completion of the Santa
Fe railroad. the county seat was per-
manently established at Kingman.
The principal towns of the county
now are Kingman, with a population
of about 1900 inhabitants, Chloride,
with 200, Gold Road 500, blackberry
200. and Mineral Park 100. The bal
ance of the county's population is
scattered throughout the mountains
and little valleys in small communities.
KINGMAN AND IT'S BUSINESS HOUSES.
Kin man has two mercantile estab-
lishm suts, three dry goods and one
furnishing goods establishment, one
uIug SlOIt. lilItt llOlClSs WV ANoAiu-
rants, a half dozen lodging and room
ing houses, seven saloons, large,
roomy, brick school house, one church,
an ice plant, blacksmith shop, two
barber shops, confectionery stores, liv-
cry stable, meat market. millinery and
dressmaking establishments, bakery,
one assay office, two newspapers, one
bank, one lumber yard, one forward
ing and commission house, local and
long distance telephone systems. The
seat of county government is located
here. BY a recent act of the legisla-
ture the county is authorized to build
a courthouse and Jail at cost of 3d.
COOS. Work will probably be COM
menced on the buildings in a few
months. The Elks' opera house is one
of the handsomest and most substantial
buildings in the territory. 1t is con-
structed of basaltic lava from a quarry
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1906-03-17

produced more than 5O0,0O0S in silver
and the deepest working is only about
two hundred feet below the apex of
the vein. The vein is opened by ser
les of adit drifts that run in on the
vein at intervals of fifty feet. These
drifts opened up the big bodies of sill
yer ore and from them all stopping was
done. The vein is about three feet in
width and the ore streak was usually
from II to Is inches wide. This ore
carried values in silver as high as
1000 ounces to the ton. Much of the
ore was worked in Cerbat and Mineral
Park mills, the balance going to San
Francisco. The decline in the market
price of silver was one of the causes
that led to the discontinuance of work
on the property and the later disa-
greement among the owning company.
Many chloriders have tried to lease
the mine the past several years, but
without result. The property is too
valuable to lie idle and it is to be
hoped that it will soon be operated. 1t
is owned by San Francisco people, but
the owners names are unknown to the
| MINER.
AT the time of the discovery of the
old Moss mine this part of Arizona
was then a part of Dona Anna county,
New Mexico. In 1864 Arizona terri
tory was created and Mohave county
became one of the four political di-
visions into which the territory was
divided. The county seat was located
at Callville, but in 1865, when the
state of Nevada was created, that part
of MOhave county west of the Colorado
river, which took in the Vegas and
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1906-03-17

marketing ores until the advent of the
railroad in 1882. During all the years
from 1862 to 1882 the hardy miner
braved the hardship of the desert, liv-
ing on the toughest of fare, facing the
danger of hostile and treacherous In
dians and blazed the way for future
civilization.
The Mohave county pioneers suffered
untold hardships in the opening up of
the new country. Supplies had to be
brought in by way of the Gulf of Cali
fornia and Colorado river or be freight
ed over four hundred miles of sand
and alkali deserts, which made the
cost of food and clothing abnormally
high. The miners had to pay as high
as two dollars per pound for black
powder and later when nitro-powder
came into use the market price was
l.25S per pound. Bacon cost from 30
cents to IS per pound: sugar, three
pounds for a dollar: flour l5S to sos per
one hundred pounds, and other sup
plies in proportion. The bacon came
from the tule country of California
and had the prime flavor of dead fish
and mud-hen. The beans doled out to
the miners was a job lot that Noah
overlooked in the attic of the ark, and
which, when put into water would
float around like wooden pellets. De-
spite the poor food and camping in
dugouts in the hillside, the miners
thrived and many became wealthy
from the rich chloride ores of the Ger
bat and Wallapai mountain districts.
Many of the mines worked in those
early days were despoiled of the rich
surface ores and then abandoned. And
even today many of them are unwork-
ed. Notably is this the case with the
old SO, one of the first mines discOv-
cred in the Cerbat range. This mine
is said by competent authority to have
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1906-03-17

near town. at a cost of near,y 20,OOOS.
The upper floor of this building is used
for lodge purposes and the lower floor
has been fitted up as theater, being
the han6somest little playhouse in the
west. The secret orders are represent
ed by the Odd Fellows, Rebekah's,
Knights of Pythias, and B. p. o. Elks.
The town is located on the main line
of the Santa Fe Pacific railroad and is
the terminal of the Western Railway
of Arizona, formerly the Arizona *
Utah. The t Jwn is a modern and uE-
to-date village, with buildings of lat
est design. The people are progress
i've, enterprising and generous.
CHLORIDE AND ITS MINES.
Chloride is a typical mining camp.
The Western Railway of Arizona has
located its northern terminal about
three-fourths of mile south of the
town, and an attempt was made to
build up town at that point a few
Years d2Os Dul tllt OlN bO"h was wv
solidly intrenched near the mines to
be moved by any new excitement. Now
the main street of the town is inclOsed
by buildings for nearly mile, while
the balance of the town is spreading
out of all anticipation of the original
locators. a patent to the townsite
was recently granted the citizens of
the town, which effectually prevents
the locating of wildcat claims and the
muddling up of titles to town lots. On
all sides of Chloride are mineral loca-
tions. Three large concentrating
works have been erected on the Ten
nessee. Elkhart and Minnesota-Con-
nor mines, but they are not run to
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1906-03-17

Stockton Hill lies to the east of Ger
bat one and one-half miles. and eleven
miles north of Kingman. This camp
has produced immensely rich ores
from the grassroots to a depth of sIv-
eral hundred feet. Nowhere in the
world can be found a mountain so in
terlaced with mineral veins. There is
scarcely fifty square feet of ground in
that region that is barren of veins.
For years the camp was the sole de-
pendence of the county. lis mines
gave employment to the horny handed
sons of toll when no other mines in the
entire country were operated. Its ship
ments of ores made many men wealthy,
and yet only two mines on the Hill
have attained a greater depth than
300 feet-the Cupel and de la FOun-
taine. The Cupel is $50 feet on the
incline and the other mine has reach
ed the same depth.
To the north of this camp, but en-
braced in what is known as Stockton
Hill, is the c.. o. D., which property
is one of the richest, and at the same
time the largest single producer in
the county. The mine is opened to
depth of 400 feet on the incline, or
about go feet perpendicular.
SIGNAL AND THE GREAT McCRACKEN.
The town of Signal was one of the
best camps of the county in its day,
but the depreciation of silver killed it.
Until 1880 it was the big camp of the
territory, working hundreds of men at
the mines and mill. In three years
the output of the mill was close to four
millions of dollars.
blackberry, situated on the Santa Fe
railroad, is one of the supply points
for the Gold Basin, Lost Basin and
outlying mining districts. Near the
old town is the famous old blackberry
mine, which produced a million dol
lars during its lifetime.
GOLD RoAD-THE GREAT GOLD CAMP.
Twenty-four miles west of Kingman
is one of the greatest gold camps in
the territory, known on the map as
Acme. Although this camp is only a
few years old its mine is producing a
million dollars in gold yearly. 1t has
a population of 500 or more people and
is one of the most homogeneous COM
munities in the territory. The Gold
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1906-03-17

the property, but it was never worked
to its full capacity and owing to liti-
CATION has been idle a number of years.
Bad management and wasteful eXpen-
diture of money was the prime cause
of the closing down of the mines and
the attendant litigation.
MINERAL PARK.
Mineral Park is one of the old towns
of the county, and the basin in which
it is situated has been one of the big
gest shippers of rich gold and silver
ores of any of the camps in the range.
There is here a general store and one
saloon. The town is picturesquely sit
uated in a semi-circular basin in the
hills, beneath the towering peaks of
the high Cerbats.
From Mineral Park south through
the range can be found the cabin OF
the industrious miner and prospector
to the point where the great volcanic
flow covered and effaced all signs of
mineral. Layne Springs is one of the
first places reached, and here are To-
Gated two or three wonderful mineral
bearing veins-the Rip Van Wrinkle,
Nighthawk and Alpha. 1t is not our
object to give any lengthy sketch of
the mines in this article, but in later
issues will devote considerable atten-
tiOn to them.
Cerbat is the last of the ore bearing
zone on the south end of the Cerbat
mountains, the lava flow covering the
granite few miles south of that town.
The town lies in the heart of the noun
tains and the hills round about are
scanned and ribbed with mineral veins.
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1906-03-17

their full capacity at the present time.
The Minnesota-C Conner is shipping
about two carloads of finished product
weekly to the smelter, while the Ten
nessee is sending out two carloads OF
zinc to the eastern zinc works weekly.
Many of the other mines are making
good weekly shipments to the smelters
without cleaning the ores in the mills.
The future of the camp is very bright.
New money is going in there and many
of the big veins will soon be worked.
To the west of Chloride is the Wea-
yer and Minnesota districts with their
big veins of gold-bearing ores, while
to the north is the famous White Hills
mines, only twenty-three miles up the
range.
There is one general merchandise
establishment, one drugstore, black
smith shop, three lodging houses,
three or four restaurants, and board
ing houses at each of the working
mines, four saloons, and several small
business houses in the town. A hand
some school building, with daily at
tendance of nearly one hundred pu-
pills, is one of the progressive features
of the town.
WHITE HILLS.
White Hills is now almost a desert
ed village, but since the discovery of
the camp in 1892 it has produced many
millions of dollars. The ores have
been wonderfully rich in silver. One
carload of nineteen tons shipped to the
smelter under the Root regime, con-
tanned over $4,000 ounces silver and 81
ounces gold. Prior to the purchase of
the mines by the White Hills company
many leasers made fortunes ranging
from 5,OOOS to 25,OOOs each from leases
on the surface of the mines. The
company built a forty stamp mill on
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1906-03-17

Stages run daily, except Sunday from
Kingman to Gold Road and Cerbat
Twice-a-week from blackberry, via the
Big Sandy to Signal from blackberry
twice-a-week to Gold Basin; from
Yucca one time a week to Planet and
twice-a-week to Cedar from Chloride
twice-a-week to Eldorado Canyon and
White Hills. These stages carry L.
S. mail and passengers. n pony mail
service is established between TOpock
and Ehrenburg, on the left bank of the
Colorado river.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-19

Investment purchases this January have been relatively light and a great deal of capital is held back awaiting more attractive opportunities. says Banker Clews. These can only be af- forded by permitting the market to re. ce1e to a more wholesome level. Our railroads arc still doing a tremendous traffic. showing that there is no. abate. ment in our industrial or commercial activities. the latter being strikingly confirmed by recent fattering reports of the American Sugar Refining Co and the II. R. Clsain Co. Plans have been made for very extensive addi- tions 10 the country's mileage and 10 railroad facilities which will caIl for much heavier outlays in 190s than for several year. IL is sufficient to ssy that these undertakings would not Ie attempted unless our railroad man. szerS. who are i'ss speculative than in former time were well ssifsded as to their need and advantage. The rail. road situation. therefore. continues eminently satisfactory. and there iS little if any p,yspet of railrosd Iegis- iation during the present session of congress. chiefly owing to tho conflict gf 0pinion between the humorous ad- voesiss Of reform So far ss can be seen. Wall street is not likely 10 re- reivc any serious shocks via Washing ion during the current session.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-19

There Is no place in the world where incorporate drinking is more danger ous than it is in the United States army, says an exchange. A court mar tial, and disgrace, confront the officer who sins in this respect. At the same time there is no place where it is so hard 10 be teetotaler. Tradition and practice seem to require that an army officer shall drink alcoholic beverages and be able to drink them-at times, whether he wants them or not With many it is point of military honor to be able to drink. With the great tenn perance reform of 1850, this sentiment began to pass away in ordinary life. It has been waning ever since. Absti- hence is respected. it is honored. now. But the army remains behind the times in various social respects. In it. women are still expected to be butter flies. and men to be heroic drinkers. Not altogether so. There are many abstainers in the army, and they are hOnored. Their sentiment will vet ore. vail. The army should morally get up 10 date. IL should not only be danger. ous. but quite unusual, for it's officers n imbibe much drink.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-19
COMEDIAN ROGERS.
What the Papers Say of His Latest
 Performance.

" h"t Aht dp'is say OI HIS l<dtesL Performance.
 The carnestness of Attorney-Generai Hadley in the performance of duty seems to strike MT Rogers as the most humorous thing that has engaged his attention since he last sailed the seas in company with Mark Twain. Here is a hayseed lawyer come to the me tropolis with the idea of extracting the truth from a director of the Standard. Oil Co of New Jersey. Mir Rogers attitude and answers reflect plainly rather too plaiDly-the mood of im- mense merriment which the situation has produced in him and his ass0cistes. In the role he is playing as witness there is no attempt at the illnesses of evasion. the subtleties of intellectual resistance. the refinements of con tempt. IL is comedy of the broadesi kind. prompted by the irrepressible overflow of internal miTth.
 Ii is possible for q witness in Mir Rogers's position to overdo this sort of thing. We are strongly of the opinion that he Is over1oing il now. If Mir Rogers and his c0-directors of the Standard oil and their able and .1ulti- tudinOus counsel appTebe.Id more ac- curatcly the temper of the American people. who constitute the spertato-s at the present spectacle. there R-s.lII, be Jess buffOOHery and more sefioss- ness and deceRey in their demeanor to- ward the representatives of even dis tant Isw.-New York Sun.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-19

| This is the common experience of the business man who seeks informa- ton from the statistical branches of the departmental service, says one writer. Every time he opens franked envelope he begins to unwind roll of red tape. When he reaches the end he frequently finds another roll of the same material carefully attached and concludes that it is a waste of time to do any further unwinding. The ex- planation of this condition of affairs. so annoying to the up to date merchant or manufacturer, lies in the atmos. phere of ultra-conservatism that en- yelopes every government office. The rules and regulations today are those of the first year of the departments existence plus all the subsequent an- nual additions. The newly installed department chief finds himself chin deep in rules before he has time to take full breath. His 'grown-up.in- subordinates insist strenu- ously that they have been in constant use for sixty years.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-19
HEARD IN PASSING

The lonely Yerkes funeral is q re,
 hinder that there are better things iii
 this world than money.-Boston Globe
 The two great problems, how to fiji
 the unemployed for employment and
 how to find employment for them. are
 again carried over into new year.
 St Louis Post-Dispatch.
 It is to be hoped that Sheriff flaw
 Icy of Bridgeport will be called on tn
 pay that S1,J00. He offered it for in
 formation that will lead to the arres' l and conviction of the person or per | sons who stuffed the twelfth district
 box at the Bridgeport city election last | orember.-Hartford Times.
 The subway people say the over ! croWdlng of trains is caused by the iIl-
 creased number of passengers. If this is true. Prof Norton and Dr Osl,.r will flnd in it new argument in fa.or of killing off lot of useless people who get in the way of able bodied men ou the Transit trusts cars. Apparently the alternative, that of supplying more trains. has been condemned by the sub way officials as unprofitable and i'm practicable.-New York Press.
 From the budget statement it is learned that the Russo-Japanese war cost Russia S1,050.000.000. This estl- mate, of course. does not include the aftermath which she is still busily eli gagged in reaping.-New York Tribune.
 Some men with queer sense of hu. nor took an elephant belonging to circus into saloon in Kansas town and gave him nine quarts of wfliskeJ to drink. When he was refused any
 more the tipsy animal became enragei and started in to wreck the place. picking up decanter in his trunk and smashing the bar. In fact, the ele- phant appears to have, acted on the oc. casion with almost human intelligence. Baltimore American.
 The president. however. has chosen the wrong remedy. His doctrine of protectorates, quasi guarantees. oi guardianship which will make lib sponsors for Spanish American good behavior would involve us in endless difficulties. The simpler, the safer and the wiser way is to procure the con- sent of European powers to the princi- pie that debts are not to be considered collectible by armed force. This would at once put money lenders upon notice that they must look to the solvency Of their creditor, not to the troops and war ships of their government, as the security for repayment. It would act as powerful incentive to good be- havior on the part of the small re- publics. Decency and the orderly ways of civilization cannot be beaten into Spanish-Americap peoples with T big stick. They will most quickly ac- quire the art of good behavior under the teaching of their own necessities. 1 When they learn that they cannot sell l bonds or make contracts unless they desist from turbulence and repudiatiop their progress will be rapid.-New 1! York Times.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-19
FRANCE AND CASTRO
Venezuelan Charge d'Affaires
 Given Passport at Paris.
UNITED STATES NOT 10 INTERFERE
Naval Dcnonstrstien Is Threatened. Go,eramest Angry at Cavalier Treatment of Vi. Tsissy. Now
 Driven to Ertremitfe..

PARIS. Jan. 1a. - official cOnfirms- iion CT Veaezuels-s unceremonious treatment of N. Taigny. the retiring French charge d'ahsires at Caracas. has reacI,a-l the foreign ofiice.
 The government immediately decid- e-I to adopt tle most energetic meas ures to obtain satisfaction Ii is un deTSiog-i that a naval deHlgn<frstidan is under preparation tlIn division of the Freneh var~hips rp-entIy asSrmhle,l in the vis-inity of Venezuelan waters tc- ing utilizei for that purpose
 As first act N. .Maulsourzvlst. the NenezQaIsn siBsrge d'sfair.z here. reeeivesI an instant @rIrr to lssve Freneb terrissEy. Ehus pEseiaz him Eer- sonsIIy In an awkward Er.sitigsi. ewing t9 his priEate s-cnnsers-isf ressticglS with Frzns-e- aEsf ft is siss I-rfseEsf that tle rp7zFas kzs Frsn-h ,itFsen~isip. uhi-s wsr1bi msk. hsH Iisb'~ sS miIi- tzFy Servfrr -un7.r rIse cs1s-TiT.siga law
 T Naut-sBrsses uss e5-Sei F-r~i- tzteEy frenz Fr~nrh terTffa~y and s--
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-19

important timber trees. From these measurements it appears that red fir in the region of Puget Sound is one of the fastest growing trees in the United States, surpassing even the loblolly pine of the south in height and volume growth. The yield tables show tha. larger crops of timber may be expect cd from second growth forests of fir and hemlock than from any other kind of tree yet studies by the service. Re- production of fir on. logged-over lands is certain and rapid if the lands are burned over with due precautions and the mineral soil exposed, but uncertain if proper seed bed is not thus af. forded. This makes slash burning necessary in order to secure conditions favorable to reproduction. Forest fires are, however, the greatest draw back to conservative numbering.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-19
GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES

Itching. Blind. Bleeding. Protruding Piles. Druggists are authorized to re- fund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure in to II days. soc.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-19
FRIDAY, JAN 19, 1906.

When we Americans reflect, says a Boston editor. that in Chicago alone there were three times as many down. right divorces in 1903 as in all Eng. land, and that Los Angeles. in the same year, had 405 divorces to ISIS marriages. we wonder what the Eng fish find in their statistics to worry about. It is the tendency in the wrong direction that alarms thoughtful Eng llshmen, and from that point of view they are justified in their alarm. But how justify our indifference to our di- yorce statistics beside which theirs sink into utter insignifcance?