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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-11-29

Lieutenant governor, George Bellamy,
of Ell Reno; secretary of state, "Bilr
Cross, of Oklahoma City, whose
friends say he would not be recog-
nized If referred to as William
Cross" treasurer, j. B. Menefee, OF
Anadarka; attorney general, Charles
West, of Enid, and chairman of the
commissioners of corporations, j. j.
McAlister.
The state in primaries has selected
to represent her in the senate the first
blind man who has ever sat in that
body. He is T. P. Gore, who lost his j.
sight when a boy in Mississippi,
where he was born. He has served In
the territorial legislature. Robert
Lee owen, who will be elected as the
other senator, is a totally different
type. Born in Virginia, he is one
eighth Cherokee Indian, and is looked
upon as an extreme conservative. He
distinguished himself as a lawyer by
earning a fee of $150,000 in single
case. Both these men have been
chosen by the Democratic primaries,
which is equivalent to their election
| Dy the legislature. vi IuS ISplCoChIo-
tives Bird S. MCGUIRE, for some years
territorial delegate from Oklahoma, in
congress, Is the only Republican of
the five elected. Others are e. L. Full
ton, a brother of Senator Fulton, of
Oregon, Second district; James S.
Davenport, Third district; Charles d.
Carter, Fourth district, and Scott
| Fairnc Fifth district
Metropolis of New State.
The largest city on the Oklahoma
side is Oklahoma City, with a popula-
ton of 10000 and 40 miles of asphalt
pavements. Muskogee, in the Indian
Territory has a population Of $4,000,
which represents a growth from $500
people in 1900. The new state will
have 700 banks, of which 275 are ma
tional, the latter with deposits of $780,
900; % cottonseed oil mills, more
than a hundred -four mills, so daily
papers and more than 400 issued
weekly.
Oklahoma alone had in 1906 S6,90S
families, of which more than 10000
owned their homes, and of these 3d.
900 were free from mortgages. The
average price for Oklahoma land in
1906 was $1S.25 per acre, an increase
of 1925 from the previous year. The
new state has thousands of acres of
unappropriated public domain, coal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-11-29
Drawn from All States.

Probably not more than 100000 of
Oklahoma's 100000 residents are na-
tive Oklahomans. This new state is
not typical of any particular section
of the United States so far as its pop
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-11-29

earners. These plants include -four
mills, oil mills, cotton gins, broom
factories, brick and tile works, salt
works, cement factories, woodenware
and carriage works.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-11-29

10 ~ KLAHOMA, "the Land Of
QV6S Ia Now" (embracing Okla
WlA& homa and Indian Terri
<NY tories), entered the union
1 GCSI as state on November Is
N&NN with population of about
100000. The government
acensis (four districts missing) shows a
population of 1,40S,000. In addition to
the persons residing in the four miss
ing districts, number of Indians not
reached by the census takers are be-
1ieved to have been omitted from the
government census total.
The Indian is passing out of the
1ife of Oklahoma into its history. But
he is still as much in evidence in
Oklahoma as the negro is in number
of northern states. Records believed
to be ultra-conservative show that the
new state of Oklahoma contains 72,-
900 Indians. Only about 10000 of
these. however, are more than three
quarter blood. The wild Indians of
Oklahoma exist only in history. The
redman of the present is adjusting
himself to the white VANS civiliZa-
tion.
"Oklahoma" is Comanche Indian
word, signifying the Land of the Fair
God" Surely the fair god could not
select a more comfortable place for a
home. For instance, everything good
to eat which that distinguished per-
sonage might desire is obtainable
( from Oklahoma soil. Upon a single
Oklahoma farm can be seen growing
simultaneously the products that
grow in all the states from Maine to
California. Corn and cotton thrive
side by side.
Amazing Natural Resources.
Within its borders Oklahoma Is
known to have vast stretches of coal
lands: natural gas, also, is abundant,
while the states resources in salt, as
iphalt, oil, granite and marble, building
stone, zinc, lead, copper, gold and tim
iber, place it among the most desirable
sections of the country for investors.
Eighteen years ago this great new
state was a cattle range and Indian
hunting ground.
The first rush into Oklahoma was
.on Monday, April %, 1889. On the
morning of that day Oklahoma City,
the present metropolis of the state,
then known as Oklahoma Station,
consisted of half dozen small build,
dngs, the Santa Fe station, section
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-11-29
Color Line Drawn.

Color Line Drawn.
The supervision of instruction is
vested in a board of education, of
which the state superintendent of pub
lie instruction is president and the
governor, secretary of state and at
torney general are members ex-officio.
A color line is drawn on negroes in
Oklahoma. separate schools being pro-
vided for negro children, but with the
same accommodations as the schools
for white children. Education is COM
pulsory.
The Chilocco Indian school is one
of the most interesting educational in
stitutions in Oklahoma. About 5000
of it's $500 acres are in cultivation,
the rest being in meadow or pasture
land. This school has 700 to 500 stu
dents 70 instructors, more than 40
buildings, and is known as the best
institution in the Indian service for
imparting practical agricultural
knowledge to Indians. In addition to
agriculture, stock raising, dairying,
etc., all other lines of industry are
taught at Chilocco.
Oklahoma has more, than 1,20O
manufacturing plants, representing in
vestments aggregating $25,OO0,OOO,
and giving employment to 10000 wage
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-11-29

Fine State University.
The head of the public school sys-
tenn of Oklahoma is the state univer-
sity, located at Norman, open to fe-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-11-29

braska, Colorado and other Louisiana
Purchase states were being populated,
Oklahoma remained for 80 years a
wild Indian camping ground.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09
THE BUSTER
is A BUSTER
at 80 Feet Big Property is
Better Showing Than
Ever Before.

AS the Mining News goes to press
this week the shaft that is being sunk
insthe big Buster mine is down IS feet,
and the showing is all that could be
wished for by the owner, Mr.. Smith,
the company that has the property
under bond, or any person who has an
an interest in the future of this dis
trict. The shaft has been sunk on an
angle of 80', starting 300 feet from the
mouth of the lower tunnel. At differ
ent depths the ledge has been touched,
but at IS feet the ledge has broadened
to such an extent that it fills the shaft
Speculation is rife among the mining
men in the camp as to whether this is
broadening of the ledge or wave, but
the general impression appears to be
that it is the former.
The Mining News is not in position to
speak OF the values the ore carries at
85 feet depth, but men at work in the
shaft say the ore is, if anything, better
than that in the tunnel, which assayed
$40 in gold.
The work in the drift ahead is show
ing better looking ore every day.
1t has been the general understanding
in the district that when the 100foot
level is reached the future of this big
property, as regards Mr.. Smith and
kMr. Bradley is to be decided.
At the present time the best informed
mining men here regard it as the big
gest mine in Idaho. Big bets that a
sale will be made have been offered, but
it appears there are none pessimistic or
speculative enough to cover the
amounts offered.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09
Uncle Sam a Lasty Youth.

Report COMES from the Uncle Sam,
out near the American Eagle, that Ed
Brown is wearing the smile that wont
wear off over the way his property has
developed from the labor and money he
has expended upon it this winter. Mr..
Brown and Roy Sapp have been at work
on the property since in November. In
the time they have extended one tunnel
$50 feet, and; the report is, that the inn
provement in the grade and quantity of
the ore has been remarkable.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09
OPPORTUNITY TO INVEST.
Richest Gravel Deposits in the World
are Along Salmon River.

All along the length and breadth of
the immense Salmon river placer dis
trict is to be found the richest gravel
deposits in the world, but as yet this
great industry is practically in its in
fancy and almost totally undeveloped on
account of lack of sufficient capital to
get water on the various properties, says
the GrangevilTe Standard-News. All of
these mines, or nearly all, are still in
the hands of the prospectors who first
located them. These men, although
good, practical miners, are without the
means to get water on their placers IN
a sufficient quantity to work them in
any but the crudest manner. If some
company, with sufficient capital to do
so, would put in water plant up the
river sufficient distance to give power,
and pipe and ditch the same down along
the river so as to furnish enough for the
different claims to install giants on their
properties, a golden flood would soon be
pouring out from that section of the
country. 1t is very slow and expens-
i've undertaking for every property
holder to install sufficient water power
for hydraulic purposes on their respect
i've placers, but could they buy the
water at so much per minec's inch and
they would gladly avail themselves of
the opportunity to do so and it would
be within the means of every miner
along the river to do this. The COM
pany which seizes this great opportun-
ity to put in such water power will reap
harvest not only by furnishing water,
but electrical power as well, for that
entire section of country. 1t is only a
question of two or three years at most
when the P. ]. & N railroad will be
completed down and through the Sal
mon river country and then when the
outside world realizes the magnitude
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09
SALE ON BIG CREEK.
Pueblo Mining Company Buys Two Ad-
joining Claims at Cost of $l2, 900.

The Spokane Chronicle announces the
Pueblo mining company, which owns a
property in the Big Creek district in
central Idaho, has purchased three ad-
joining claims, for price said to neigh
Dor on $4,000.
Superintendent Frier and E. ]. Nc
Coy, secretary of the company, have
gone to Topeka, Kansas, to confer with
eastern stockholders. Now that the
wagon road is finished into the district
much machinery will be taken to the
mine, and extensive development work
will be begun next spring.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09
NEWSOME
WILL. GROW
The Great Anaconda Mine is
the Nucleus of a Prosper
Gus Mining Camp.

c. F. Smith and c. w. Smith, upon
whom appears to rest most the future
of the Newsome mining district, were
visitors in Elk City Tuesday and We'd
nesday of this week. The Smith boys,
of whom there are three, own some
very valuable mining property in that
district, one of which; the Anaconda, is
now under bond. c. w. Smith is man
aging the work on this property. The
tunnel is in TOO feet, and depth of 300
feet has been attained. The bond on
the Anaconda will expire soon, and Mr..
Smith has strong idea that sale will
be made. The price has not been made
public, but mining men who are close
friends to the owners say it will be the
biggest sale of mining property ever
made in central Idaho.
Work on Georgia Group.
G. F. Smith who has charge of the
work that is being done on the Georgia
group of claims, reports he has just fin
ished 115 feet Of new tunnel, and will
extend it $50 feet farther. This tunnel
will tap ledge from five to eight feet
in width, and when in the full length
will touch the ore at lis feet depth.
The ore in the Georgia property, Mr.
Smith considers, is low grade,- not aver
aging more than $4 so. But when one
remembers the ore in the Homesteak in
the Black Hills, the great Mercur mine
in Utah and the Treadwell in Alaska
does not average over $3.50, the New
some property does NOT suffer any by
the comparison.
The Georgia group joins the Ana
conda, and also is the property of the
Smith boys. To use c. F. Smiths ex-
preston, they have "a mountain OF
ore"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09
MINING NEWS in BRIEF
FROM NEARBY DISTRICTS
BRING IN THE SAMPLES.

AS has been stated in the Mining
News before, it is the desire of the
committee to get the samples of ore
wanted by the 'Verbeke-DeKeyser
company ready for shipping at an
early date.
The success or failure of the under
taking may depend upon the time
you take to prepare your samples.
Several property owners have
brought in samples, but the number
is small in comparison to the number
of property owners in the district.
Prepare two samples, of the low
est and of the average grade ore. A
description of the property number
of claims, amount and character of
work done and statement of location
of property should accompany the
samples.
Leave samples at office of Mining
News.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09
Hotel Arrivals.

Elk Hotel-A. A. Allardyce, Chi
cago; S. S. Whitaker, City; w. G..
L;tchfield, City; Leslie Belor, Center
Star; Joe Corbus, Summit Flat; M. E.
Erwin, City; J. M. Crunk, City; ]. M.
Whitaker, American River; George c..
Young, Red River; l. D. Maxwell,
Thunder Mountain; C. F. Smith, Georgia
Group; ]. E. Brown Uncle Sam.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09

and richness of those placers there will
be a rapid changing of properties, but
power. They have the big Salmon
river flowing right through their plac-
ers, but the water in it is too low to
furnish any force on the higher ground
of the placers.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09
=
Copper King a Good LOCKER.

T. R. Pittock, one of the. owners of
the Copper King, on Red river near the
Snowstorm; was in camp last Friday to
buy provisions and to look after other
business matters. Mr.. Pittock in not
much inclined to talk about his property;
but he confirmed the flattering reports
that have been made regarding it, a
number of which the Mining News has
made use of. There are five men at
work on the Copper King.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09

Gold Dove; Nick Bowman, Sites Frank
Bosch, Gold Point; Jacob Schlosser,
Chicago; Mrs. G. L. Campbell; Peter
Jackman, Sites; Charley w. Smith,
Newsome; Ernest Crib, Union; John
Crunk, City; F. A. Baner, Deadwood
Mountain; Roy Sapp, Uncle Sam; J. S.
Danforth, Dixie.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09
Produce More of Precious Metals
Than Any Other Country.
SECOND IN GOLD OUTPUT
Volume of Gold Production Shows Big
Increase for Year Just Passed.

Chicago Mining World: A
country, still young in mining,
which in ten years can increase
it's mineral and metal production
nearly 200 per cent, and in 1906
reports a total valuation of
81, 912, 491, 572, is far ahead of
Great Britain and Germany, and
may easily claim the distinction
of leader. This is the reputation
of the United States, which today
is the largest producer of silver,
copper, lead. spelter, pig iron,
coal, petroleum, and many other
products, which not alone are
consumed at home, but also sup
ply a number of foreign countries.
In gold the United States is the
second largest producer in the
world.
To attain this great growth in
mining and metallurgy, the Unit
ed States has called for the en-
ployment of hundreds of thous-
ands of men (and in a few
branches of industry for several
thousand boys, but no females as
in other countries), all of whom
are being better paid today than
ever before. Labor disputes are
being settled amicably by arbitra-
ton, and in the coal industry in
1906, agreements have been made
between miners and operators for
higher wages and better working
conditions for a term of years.
The mines and works generally
are being operated more syste-
matically, and the arrangements
appear to be better fitted techni-
cally to effect economies that will
result eventually in the payment
of larger dividends.
The past year has been marked
by the extraordinary production
and speculation in metal mining
shares. Nevada has been the at
traction, by reason of it's fabulous
gold discoveries, which have in
creased the output from SIS, 359, :
: 0OO-in 1905 to SO, 815, 300 in 1906,
and encouraged the consolidation
of some of the largest mines,
) notably in the Goldfield district,
i which suggests that 1907 will
: show further increase in pro-
duction. There is no doubt also
: that the discovery and opening
< Of new deposits in various parts
of Nevada and California, and the
proposed dredging on a large
l scale in Alaska will add materially
{ to the gold output in 1907. In
r 1906 the United States produced
a $96, 1O1, 400 in gold-the record
: of which, besides Nevada, the
largest amounts were contributed
d by Colorado, $22, I'll, 200, Alaska,
$21, PSI, 100, and California, $18,-
633, 900. In 1905 the United
< States produced $88, 180,711, OF
/, > which Colorado reported $25, ,701-
!, 100, California, $40, 1877, 100, anc
n Alaska, $14, 925, 600. A number
d of other states produce gold, but
}. the amount reported in 19Ot
showed little change over 1905
Nearly one-quartef of the world s
J output of gold, amounting te
= $40s, 600, 335 in 1906, was contrib
CONTINUED on page 81
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09
Returns from Boise Assay Office
Show Decided Improvement.
NOT A FULL SHOWING
Much Of the Precious Metals Produced
By Idaho Sent to Other Offices.

Some interesting figures are
given by Joseph Pinkham Of the
Boise assay Office, relative to the
amount of gold and silver handled
In the Boise office, says the States
man.
During the past year the sum
of $1,0O7, 399.04 in those two
precious metals passed through
the Boise office. Of this $971,-
930.74 was in gold, the rest being
silver, amounting to $35, ,568.21.
These figures show a material
gain over the year 1905, when
1897, ,945.33 in gold and $27, 159. IA
in silver was received, a total of
1866, 104.47. The silver showed
a considerable proportional gain
over the gold in that time, being
an increase of about 80 per cent,
whereas the gold increased but
IL per cent. This increase comes
partly from the increasing value
Of silver, but is attributable
mostly to a new ruling of the
treasury department, which al
lows the assay Offices to receive
bullion with larger proportion
of silver than formerly. The old
rule was to allow no purchase of
bullion that contained one-tenth
of it's value in gold. This has
been changed somewhat, offering
a larger market for bullion con-
tanning silver.
1t is the opinion of Mr.. Pink
ham that the increase of gold
will steadily increase in the state.
The notable gain of last year,
when the shortage of water for
placer and quartz mining cut off
the expected product most seri-
ously, shows that new properties
are being put into the producing
list. The weather conditions are
more noticeable in the assay Office
than in any other Office in the
state, as little as there might
seem to be in common between
gold and water. Last season and
the season before, there was little
water for placer mining,the short
age being so acute that last year
some Of the regular producers did
not turn on the water at all. In
localities like BuffaloHump, where
the quartz miners depend upor
water power for the power to rur
their stamp mills, the shortage
has the same effect, that of cur
failing the output. So far this
year there has been an unusua
snowfall in the state, and this is
expected to restore normal condi
tions for mining.
There is little accurate data OF
which to estimate the gold pro
duction of the state. Not all the
gold mined in Idaho is sent to tht
Boise office, some going to Seattle
some to the east and some being
worked up in the arts and trades
Up to this year, the assay office ha
been endeavoring to make stat
fstical return of all the gold in tn
state, but this year the duty ha
been assumed by the geological
survey department.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09
Hotel Arrivals.

Parr Hotels. L. Boyer, Spokane;
w. A. Lister, Clearwater; VIM. Hogan
Orogrande; Peter Marren, Orogrande;
Charley Booi, Dixie; Frank Thornton,
City, Charley Schofeld, City; Chris H.
Natwick, Providence; John Nassau,
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09

CONTINUED on page 81
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09

S. L. Boyer, manager at the
Thunder Mountain fhine, arrived
home Sunday from a business
trip to Spokane.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09
Oysters.

Oysters in any style, by the
dozen or by the can, at Heath's
lunch room.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09

If there is any mining news
it is always In this paper.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-09

Now is the time to subscribe
for the MINING NEWS.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-19
sCHIFFs NEW IDEA.
Says Masses Do Not Do Duty By the
 CIaaaRa.


 Glasses.
 New York, April 1S-Jacob H. Schiff who was one of the guests of honor at the dinner of the New York Post Graduate Medical Society at Delmonicos last night said in a toast in which he was congratulating the Institution on the announcement of a bequest to 1t of about $11O,O00."
 We hear much of the responsibility of the classes to the masses. Gentle men am not sure whether the masses do their duty as thoroughly as do the classes. I am filled with admiration for men like Rockefeller and Morgan and others of whom Dr. Miller, (the secre- tarv of the schooD spoke. They have great fortunes but they direct their diffusion rightly. Their wealth is like a reservoir, into which run little streams from mountains, which of themselves would be no use to man. kind"
 MT schiff pointed out that the medi- cal profession could do much to assist the classes in the management of the wealth they had collected from the masses by showing the general run of mankind that 1t was good thing that the means of doing things had been concentrated in the hands of tha few who could use them wisely.
 You doctors" he said, who come in touch with all classes, cannot do better than to teach toleration of the wealthy men. At present the men who hava gathered great fortunes are tndiscrim- inately condemned"