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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-03-01
New Court Cases.

Farmers & Traders State Bank VS..
Noble Moody ct al. Suit is brought to
foreclose mortgage on the northeast
quarter of the northwest quarter and
the northwest quarter of the southeast
quarter of section Z, township 6S, range
25, Decatur county, Iowa, given to
secure promissory note for 5000. John
W. Harvey & Son attorneys for plaintiff.
L. A. Simpson VS.. Sadie A. Simpson,
alias Sadie A. Bennett. The plaintiff
brings suit for divorce. He was mar
ried to defendant at Leon on June 6,
1904, and lived together until about
August 18th of the same year. He al
leges the defendant has been guilty of
adultery with divers men since her
marriage to him and that after the
separation between himself and the
defendant she went to Boone, Iowa, and
was married to man by the name of
Bennett, and lived with him as his wife,
at the same time she was still the wife
of the plaintiff. He asks for decree
of divorce and that he be restored to
all the rights Of an unmarried person.
Ed. FL. Sharp attorney for plaintiff.
Charlotte Slaughter VS.. Oracle r.
Slaughter ct al. The parties are the
heirs of John Slaughter, who died Oct.
10Th, 1899, owning at the time Of his
death the east 80 acres of the west half
of the southeast quarter, and the east
20 acres of the east half of the south
east quarter all in section 5, township
81, range n, Decatur county, Iowa, and
the plaintiff asks that the shares of the
heirs be confirmed and the property
sold and the proceeds distributed
among the legal heirs. A. P. Olsen at
torney for plaintiff.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-03-01

Fort Donelson, and was in hospital
till shortly before the battle of Shilo
where he reioined his regiment. In the
battle of Corinth he lost foot but
after being discharged from the hospi-
tai he was made colonel Of the forty
sixth Iowa volunteers, and served
throughout the remainder of the war
in that capacity. When peace had been
restored Col. Henderson studied law
and from 1868 to 1882, when he was
elected to congress, and his partner,
Judge Shiras, was appointed to the
United States supreme court, he was a
member of the firm of Shiras, Van Duzee
& Henderson.
In 1867 Col. Henderson was married
to Miss Augusta Fox, of West Union
Iowa, and made his home at Dubuque,
where his three children were born
They are Mrs. Angle Peaslee, of East
Dubuque, H.; Belle Henderson, who
lives with her parents, and a son, Don
Henderson, who is in the lumber busi-
ness in st. Paul.
Col. Henderson went to Washington
in 1888 as a member of the Forty-eighth
congress, and at his retirement was
ante-dated only by congressman Hep
burn. He was a great story teller, a
fluent and witty speaker, and it was
said of him that he could make wittier
speeches at the Gridiron and other club
dinners stay longer with the champagne
and show up the next day with clearer
eye and brain than any other man. This
was due to his marvellous vitality. This
one quality he had in excess of every
thing save his tenacity. He never aban-
doned fight until he had won.
AS an example of his vitality, many
stories are told of the final operation on
his leg. Three previous operations had
not been successful, and in 1890 he ar
ranged for a fourth. On this occasion
he not only refused to take an anaesthet-
ic, but sat on the operating table of the
hospital giving directions and freely
criticising the work of the surgeons.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-03-01
Baptist Church Services.

Unusual interest was manifest last
Lords day; the power of God was pres
ent in all the meetings. -Four have
been received into membership and one
man was baptized. Gospel meetings
each Wednesday evening. Lords day at
II a. M, 8 p. m. and 7:3O p. m. The Sun
beams will sing at each of these SER
vices. The pastor breaches free, full
salvation; whosoever will may come.
All are welcome at the Baptist church.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-03-01
For The Benefit of The Farmers.

The enterprising business firm of
Bowsher & Bowsher have purchased at
considerable expense an Owens seed
corn grader and sorter which will be
kept their implement store in this
city for the free use of the farmers of
this county, and every farmer is
cordially invited to call and see the
machine and to use it in sorting his
corn, without charge. This liberality
on the part of Bowsher & Bowsher
should be appreciated by the farmers
of this county.
This machine is designed for grading
and sorting seed corn and fills long
felt want. There is nothing so inn
portant in the growing of corn as the
proper selection of the corn. 1t is a
we'll known fact that on every ear of
corn produced there are more or less
imperfect kernels which if planted pro-
duced ears of corn that are inferior to
that which are produced from perfect
kernels and consequently the yield per
acre is cut down considerably. P. G.
Holden, of the Iowa State College of
Agriculture, made the following state
ment. "When we consider that
bushel of seed corn ought to produce
400 bu. of corn worth from $4,000
$4,000, the serious nature of the
question is very apparent" 1t is
therefore essential that no corn be
planted but perfect kernels; ones that
will produce the best possible result as
it costs no more to raise good ear of
corn than a poor one and the yield is
much greater.
Another feature is, that nearly all
farmers plant their corn with planter
and no planter was ever made that
would drop the same number of kernels
each time when the kernels were not of
a uniform size.
With the "Owens" grader, however,
you can successfully grade seed corn so
nothing will remain except perfect
uniform corn, being of the same thick
ness and size which you can plant with
an edge drop planter and can rely on
it's depositing the exact number of
kernels for which the planter is set,
9SS perfect, and with the kernels all
perfect and planted uniformly you pro-
duce crop Of corn that will result in a
larger yield of good quality increasing
the yield from 15 to 25 bushels per
acre.
The Ovens Seed Corn Grader and
Sorter is so arranged that the sieve in
the upper shoe will allow nothing but
the uniform flat kernels to pass through
it. All the large round imperfect ker-
nels will pass over at the rear end of
the machine while the perfect kernels
pass onto the lower shoe on perforat-
ed zinc sieve where the smaller imper-
feet kernels are sifted out. These
sieve are made interchangeable so that
you can use any size perforation desired,
making the corn in three sizes.
For SALE-I have few choice young
Red Poll males for sale. w. II. HAzLET.
26-tf Leon, Iowa.
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Senate Defeats primary Law.

By vote of 26 to u the Iowa senate
on Tuesday defeated the state wide
primary law, over which there has been
such a contest, and they can now de-
vote their time to matters. Senator
Marion f. Stookey of this city, was
among those who voted against the bill.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-03-01
License to Wed.

j. 7. Ramsey, Grand River. %
Lefa Brammer, Grand River. ...................2 .27
Ernest B. Saylor, Van Vert. ..21
Elsie Mae Hall, Van Vert 10
Horace G. Lovitt, Pleasanton ........2 "a
Sevancha A. Rev. Pleasanton n2O
Roy e. Johnson Lamont ..21
Pearl 0. Lysinger, Lamont oni....................21 81
Robert Bevard, Weldon ..23
Stella Sutton, Leroy. .... .............2O 20
Clarence q. Stout, Pattonsburg, Mo-. .25
Hulda Bowman, Pattonsburg, Mo-. 10
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For SALE-I have few choice young
Red Poll males for sale. VIII. HAzLET.
26-tf Leon, Iowa.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-12-25
MILLIONS ARE PAID FOR ELY MINES

out on the hill on the north side of
Robinson canyon, back of Ely, by G.
L. Rickard, Thomas Rockhill and 9th
ers. They control about nineteen
claims upon the hill, Most of the claim
owners, Mr.. Rockhill being one, it is
understood, have taken an interest in
the enterprise rather than part with
their holdings at a cash price, feeling
that this arrangement will be better
to their advantage.
F. Augustus Heinze. the Montana
copper magnate, was one of the recent
recruits to the Ely field. Before he Wis
tied the camp a few weeks ago, he
sent mining expert to look over the
field and report upon certain proper.
ties which he thought of taking hold
of, After receiving this report, he
came here, accompanied by David Keith
and Thomas Kearns, the Salt Lake mil
lionaires. While here, he closed a deal
for interests in the Mcdonald Ely
property and Duck Creek mines, but
the capitalists concerned in the trans
action would not give out information
concerning it, and the terms are not
known. The figures, it is believed,
were large, as he was dealing with men
who thoroughly knew the value of the
properties and were millionaires, who,
unlike the average prospector and
claim owner, were in no pressing mood
to sell. Mr.. Heinze was equally reti-
cent. An oyster could not possibly
have been more silent than he concern
ing his movements, but it is known that
he visited other properties than the
Mcdonald Ely, which have since COM
menced installing machinery for devel-
opment work upon large scale.
All of the movements of Messrs.
Keith and Kearns in Ely have been at
tended with the same quietness that
marked the coming of Mr.. Heinze.
They came into the camp during the
summer, took hold of the Mcdonald
Ely properties, acquired control of the
old Ely Mining and Milling company,
and bought interests in some of the
best of the Duck Creek lead mines and
carried out all these big deals so quiet-
ly that they made second visit to
the camp, and third, before it be-
came clearly understood what they had
accomplished. The success which has
attended all of their operations in the
camp, however, is another proof of the
truism, "Still water runs deep
Capital is not only pouring into the
district imediately around Ely but into
the adjacent districts as well, such as
Hunter, Cherry Creek and Dolly Var
den and in new sections in which pros
pectors are. finding rich copper, lead,
gold and silver mines. Towns. will be
built up all around Ely, including the
necessary smelter towns, and all Of
these will be tributary to the central
city-Ely.
With its own resources and the
wealth of adjacent camps, it would be
hard to estimate the limit to the
growth of the camp.
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are necessary, as in the big mines, TO
show clearly just where the ore lies,
how much there is of it. and other
facts required by mining engineers be
fore putting the steam shovels at work
scooping up the masses of mineral for
the smelters. The men back of the
big mines will take no gamble. They
want to know exactly what they have
in their mines, what it is worth and
how long it will last.
Take the Nevada Consolidated Cop
per company 'as an example. 1t has
prospected, with shafts and tunnels,
about per cent of its mining proper
ties, and now has enough ore uncovered
to ship 5000 tons daily for 10 years,
and this development work will con
tinue to go on ahead of the workers
engaged in removing the ore.
The magnitude of this proposition of
mining in Ely makes it out of the
question for individuals to attempt to
work claims. except in the adjacent
gold. silver and lead belts, where the
conditions are more favorable to men
of limited capital
Many of the prospectors and claim
owners have sold their holdings for
cash, but some have wisely taken a
share of stock in the big enterprises
which have taken control of their
properties A notable example of the
profits made by men of this kind is
shown in the experiences of those who
dealt with NJ. l.. Requa in the negotia.
tons which ended in the formation of
the Nevada Consolidated. All of these
men have Jared better in taking stock
than if they had been content with all
cash at the beginning Some of them
were lucky enough to get the stock at
par, and now that it is worth $40 a
Share they are still holding on to their
allotments, believing that the Nevada
in ore already showing and 95 per cent
of the company's ground still unde.
veloped, will exceed in value that of
the Anaconda, Amalgamated and other
famous older companies.
There are often heart burnings and
regrets among claim owners when they
have parted with their properties for
a cash consideration and are shut out
from sharing in the fortune that attends
the development of the claims. Thomas
Rockhill, the pioneer, sold six claims at
Copper Flat-the first copper properties
that were sold in the district-for $15,
900. and now they could not be bought
for as many millions. 1t was trife
of $9s5,00 more than $l4,000,000 that
slipped through his hands. But, of
course, he did not at that time know it.
The eagerness with which capitalists
are striving to get hold of mining prop
critics in the Ely district is due to the
slowings made in the development of
engineers of great note had taken hold
here and had declared that the camp
would have a great future, aroused CON
siderable interest, but it was not until
actual work with hammer and drill, and
with pick and shovel revealed the actu-
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-12-25

have found sand pits at points conven-
ern railroad. This supply will have to
be shipped into the camp in fat cars
during the spring rush of building il
nearer supply is not found. Meanwhile,
it is cerain that if a prospector, in his
rambles near Ely, stumbles across
sandpit. he will reap a reward as great
as that paid the discoverer of mine.
During the summer building, the con-
tractors managed to make both ends
meet in the matter of sand with all
sorts of make shifts. First, the taiings
from the old Chairman mill site, at
the upper end of town, were used-un-
til there remained scarcely a spoonful.
Next. the sand wagons were sent into
Robinson canyon to a point--which the
rains had washed from the rocks some
thing that looked like sand and, be-
cause of the absence of worthier OBJ
iect. was called sand. But this source
of supply was uncertain and expensive,
as it took the sandman considerable
part of his time scraping around for the
precious material. Builders, who are
accustomed to looking upon sand as a
cheap. plentiful and easily handled com
modify. grow FESTIVE when the sand
wagon is slow in making its trips, and
unless someone finds sandpit close by
between now and spring. it is probable
that they will have supplies shipped in.
In the spring, there will be no time
for pottering about, The big buildings
which will go up then. will require the
best sort of material and plenty of it,
and tailings and scrapings form road
sides will not pass muster.
Perhaps the most daring building en-
terprise of the past season was the con-
struction of the Northern building at
Aultman and hurry streets by Messrs
Richard. Elliott and Stevens. Mr.. Rick
ard began by buying the lot at that
corner for $4,000 The lot had. from
long usage, become part of the street,
being a short cut from the stores on
the north side of Aultman street for
persons who were on their way up Muir
nv. | have crossed it hundred times
during my brief soiourn in the camp,
and have stood watching the boys of
the town playing ball there. Here /
stroke nay long gray beard.) The old
contractor who put in the foundation
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-12-25
MARCH OF PROGRESS IN ELY DURING
PAST FEW EVENTFUL MONTH
Compile
and New
Busting Which VIII Eventually
Become the Metropolis of Nevada
NUMBER

has found Ely not as well precarsa =,
it might be and, frankly, not az us az
as it ought to be. "'H
Since the railroad reached here how
ever, the camp has made some amend,
for past hardness. Work is heinz
pressed in every line. Carpenters havs
been employed at good wages and vet
are so scarce that contractors are ofton
compelled to telegraph for men
young engineer, who saw a better IN.
portunity in the building line than Il
his own calling, some time ago, threw
up his position with the H. K. Wheeler
company and entered the employ ~
Lindsey, the contractor. He proved
such useful man that he is now get.
ting $75 week, and Lindsey saws
that he is worth every cent of it.
A laborer, who had worked on tina
railroad for 1925 day. and was well
pleased to get SO and $3.50 after com.
ing to Ely, discovered one day that he
knew enough about tools to earn car.
These are merely examples. There
are opportunities everywhere here for
the right sort of men.
In the past few weeks, Aultnan street
has changed so much that its old fam.
iliar outlines are much altered On
the north side there are new buildings
filing up much of the former vacant
space, and still more are under way.
The south side, which was the more
eompactly built, also has several new
structures, and the old Simpson livery
stable at the corner of Third and Ault-
man street hash been torn down to
make room for $4,000 Office building.
This tearing down of old houses that
o,1 haitian taka tha,r
places will continue as the frontage
upon Aultman street fills up.
The Graham Mercantile company,
which has for long time needed larger
quarters, but was unwilling to leave its
present quarters and equally unwilling
to submit to any sort of interruption
to its business, has hit unon the plan
of having a new building of brick and
steel constructed over the old, Wills
business goes on inside just the same
as ever. The plan has been carried ont
with success.
This reminds me of little fact which
shows what sort of business town Ely
is and explains why the Graham com
days, recently an entire consignment Of
600 pairs of rubber shoes were sold at
the Graham store. tribes like that tell
more about the fourishing condition of
camp than a long and labored dis
qnisition.
If the present rate of increase in pop
ulation continues, there will be from
5000 to 1000 people here in the spring
What the population will be year from
today-well, it is hard to tell. But one
thing is certain: Ely will be big
city sooner than the most optimistic
among us believed few months ago
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The material for the Northern build
ing was freighted into the camp be-
fore the completion of the railroad
The bare structure has cost its owners
about $4,000. 1t was their intention
to rent it as an Office building, but
when it was nearly ready for use and
tenants had been found for many of
the rooms. it was decided to convert
the building into a hotel. 1t has added
about sixty more rooms to the hotel
accommoda tions of the camp.
This problem of providing shelter
for the crowds that are pouring into
Ely received very little attention during
the summer. One reason was that the
price of lumber, before the coming of
the railroad, was so high as to tempt
persons who wished to build to delay
their projects for the reduction in the
charges for material which they were
sure would follow the first whistle of a
locomotive. But since the railroad was
completed the persons who are going
to build rooming houses have not made
the best use of the time. Out of six
or more who will put I'm such struc-
lures. only one-Mrs. Lawlor-has sue
ceeded in having the work done. The
others, since the great rush into the
camp began, have been anxious to be-
gin building, but have been caught in
the grip of the lumber famine, and j.
may be sometime before they can carry
out their plans.
The growth of the camp was not
remarkably active until the railroad was
built into Ely.
It was known that Mr.. A. Judell,
who was chief engineer of the Nevada
Northern, was using all of his skill
and energy in hurrying the line to COM
pletion, but there were numbers who
did not believe that the railroad could
possibly be finished before next spring.
Until trains were able to come into
Ely, it was known that the heavy ma
chinery for the smelter and the mines
could not be brought in, and some con-
tended that the camp could not grow
unless its great industries were
equipped for the work that was before
them. This song of the croaker was
not without effect. 1t caused some per
sons to delay important undertakings,
in the belief that the real growth of
Ely would be delayed until next year
and that there would be ample time in
the spring to get in readiness for it.
But the railroad was completed in Sep
TENDER and the rush that has followed
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-12-25

-, al ore in great masses that men with
millions to invest followed the lead of
the first companies and entered the field
to buy up the claims which remained
unsold
Such men are constantly coming into
the camp or sending confidential ex-
perts here, and the money paid for
claims in single day exceeds the ag-
gregate amount paid for mines in a
generation previous to the new era.
bonding for $15O,000 of the Willard
group Of claims, west of Ely, to Presi.
dent Mcconnell of the Shelter National
/ bank of Durango, Colo. The properties
were owned by Edward Willard, the as
saver, and had been developed sufficient
ly to show their value,
Another important transaction was
the buying for $257,5 of four groups,
near the Giroux properties. by George
sented a $5,000,O00 Boston syndicate,
which will at once commence active de
velopment work. The claims purchased
| We're the Jeldness group, the Peters
group, the Dumphy group and the Hart
group. The Porch company, which put
bonded other groups of claims for an
| aggregate sum of $250,000 for Eastern
| capitalists.
About the same time Messrs. Craig
and Evans of Salt Lake paid 100000
for part of the properties now held by
the Federal Ely company. The claims
acquired are situated in the vicinity of
Copper Flat, and tho owners had in
some way given options to two per-
sons. In this manner dispute arose
over the possession Of the claims, both
persons holding options being deter
mined to gain ownership of the ground.
AS harmonious settlement of the dis
pute, the Federal Ely company was
formed, to take hold Of the claims and
develop them for all parties concerned.
The Ely Investment company brought
about this adjustment, and also carried
through another big deal in mining
properties in the same location, includ-
ing the Germania and Herstelle claims
ings. This deal was made for Colorado
capitalists. The exact amount of money
involved was not given, but it was
large, as 100000 was the price of the
two claims.
The buying of claims for the great
tunnel project of the Sullivan Trust
company Of Goldfeld again distributed
large sumo among Ely claim owners
short time ago. Fletcher and Grant,
representing the Sullivan company,
bought sixteen claims in the vicinity
Of the General Logan claim, on the
hill south of Robinson canyon, back
900 was paid, the price of the remain
ing six not being given. The Sullivan
people will drive tunnel into the hill
at it's base, with the intention of strik-
ing the ore body revealed in the Nc
Donald-Ely shaft. Surveys for the
tunnel have already been made.
A similar project Is to be carried