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The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-03-14

Mr.. Rockefeller's Gift, said: 1T is an
anchor to the windward against the
Tune when an aroused people will
curtail the privileges of public-servlce
corporations. The gift was not in
cash. Most likely 1t was railway Sc
curities. Every one of these Is q
mortgage against the future. Some
day 1t will develop. perhaps that the
special privileges which these rail.
roads enjoy will be threatened.
1t viii result in sudden squeez.
ing of the water out of these stocks.
Then there win 20 up cry that these
great educational interests. dependent
upon the returns from these securi
ties are being threatened There will
be ialS also, of what the widows ana
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-03-14

interest-$4,329 daily-would give brea
II lohg-22 miles from city hall to Ro
from which he made his wealth.
Els or controls nearly all the re-
Fries in the country.
What Gift Means in Labor.
Ae census report says that the aV-
~ wages paid in oil reflneries
aoie'bodied men over 16 years of
IN 1899 was $557 year. or a trife
1 Slo a week. Dealing with the
''er OF labor alone, in the accumn-
~ OF these thirty-two millions it
8piu require the unremitting work
al army of 57,45O men giving all
I wages to Mr. Rockefeller for
4 whole year at the average rate
ru''u OH men were paid to make
nat would be equivalent to all the
N,mshen in Providence or Kan
city or Rochester turning over
~ wages for a year to Mr.. Rookie
ia whole city working for him
s'a' this gift might be accumu-
he production of crude petroleum
ne United States in 1905, the lat
year Tor which statistics are avail
I, was approximately 10000, 900
,e'S' A trifing difference of 2S
per barrel, or about one-half
n per gallon, on this output would
r. up the gift in a single year.
standard is not so much a pro-
4 VI petroleum as It is refiner
seiler' 1t buys from oil-well own
n' OF Its raw product and fixes
p1,ce' which fiuctuates considera-
therefore 30 slight a reduction
one'hsif cent per gallon in the
puS' The Standard pays 10 produc
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Gift 10 Discussed In Europe.

Discussion over the gift has spread
to Europe. The Worlds Paris cores.
pendent in special cable despatch
said.
The Rockefeller gift has excited
establishment in the French press.
Several studies of his Temperament
have been published in which the
writers seek for reasons which
prompted the giving away of such an
enormous sum. One editor suggests
piety as the cause and another sug.
gests that all American millionaires
tremble in dread of laws that may
rob them of their wealth.
THE American temperament. SC
the article continues, is FESTIVE
against great accumulations, and this
enormous bequest is intended to stave
off public action or the individual act
OF murderous jealousy and envy.
Still another writer says that Mr..
Rockefeller wants to be talked about
for other than financial distinction.
He cannot do anything great for lack
of cultivation. He has no art collec.
lions or intellectual pursuits about
which the public hear, therefore he
makes his money talk
The Petit Parisien, however, takes
a more generous view, believing that
Mr.. Rockefeller, unlike French mil
lionaires, feels deeply that great
wealth imposes duties upon its pos
SCISSOR and in pure justice is doing
his best to acquit himself"
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I To Fleischman line OF $3.50 men. or 2e
'kefeller's house in Tarrytown.
ures. subject on which Mr.. Rookie
feller's general education board has
all manner of statistics, there are
some essential practical things that
his thirty-two millions would do. For
example, it costs. even at present high
prices. about $4,000 to build house
in Brooklyn with all modern convent
ences and of stuff cient size to contain
two families of five persons each.
Technically these are known as two
family houses. The education gift
would build 10000 of such houses,
giving happy homes to 100000 people
who now merely exist in crowded
tenements.
Albany is "A city of 100000 people
All OF them could be comfortably put
into homes that might be built with
such a sum. The total assessed real
~ valuation of Albany is $6i 900, 900,
of which more than one-half is bust
ness property. So that the education
gift might purchase the homes OF an
entire capital city The cost OF liv-
ing last year in the United States was
$lO5 per person, giving all the neces-
stiles of life At this rate 304,762
people could be supported for year
out of, the donation. Nobody in such
cities as Newark, Washington, Mil
waukee, Detroit. or New Orleans
would have to worry about food or
clothing. The mere interest ON the
sum would support perpetually the
entire population of such cities as
Ansonia, Conn; Johnstown, N, Y, or
New Rochelle. Any city of 10000
people could live on the income of the
gift.
In the matter of food alone such
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rta, sun Could Support In Com
Hort 3O4, roe Persons for Ono
/ Year, Could Build Homes for
|I0O. 900, Could Pay One Years
Interest on the National Debt,
lard CouTd Provide for All the
Yearly Expenses of the, Gov
|ernnents Of Denmark and
Greece Combined.
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bcialism Views the Great Gift
Twin Only Partial approval;
Mayor Tom L. Johnson Says
bt Is an Anchor Cast to Wind
byard Against the Time that
People VIII Become Aroused:
hhe French Press, Astonished
In Its Size, Differ as to the
Motives for 1t.
New York-Thirty-two million dol
rs for education! This latest gift
John d. Rockefeller so overtops
|ything ever known in the line of
|ilanthropic giving that 1t requires
|me Analysing TO comprehend the
|stness of the sum. In recent years
j American people have had their
|anclal sense of proportion unduly
banded by talk of millions tossed
but to various institutions.
1t is worth while to look first into
b enormous amount of labor requir-
to produce this sum which Mr..
|ckefeller is able to give away, says
b New York World The United
htes census report for 1900 contains
he statistics upon oil refineries.
|e Standard Oil company, of which
/. Rockefeller is titular president
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]. G. Phelps Stokes Ideas.

while | am not prepared to dis
cuss off-hand how | would dispose of
so vast a sum, certainly would not
give it to public charity. would
regard the doing out of 100000
in aims as a calamity. / do not APP
prove of extensive charity. 1t accom-.
plishes no permanent results in re-
lieving poverty, without removing its
cause. Education alone will do that
and mis- gift to higher education will
affect the poor in that ii will work
to create keener appreciation of JUS
tice.
1T is unfortunate. however, that
the suspicion should attach to this
gift for the purpose of leading men TO
the truth that men who dare teach
the truth as they see it may find their
chairs In colleges vacated.
Should that money be given to hos.
pitfalls, you ask? / should say no. |
would have the hospitals supported
by the state. Disease is the result
of conditions created by man. And
and give back to society part of the
he has wrung from it TO allevi-
ate the conditions he himself has Gre
ated is homogeneous. That is the
function of the state.
Education is the only hope for the
relief of the conditions of the pc
Until man is taught the rights of his
and learns to respect
them, conditions will continue as they
are. Under present social conditions,
gifts to education are the best way of
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Tom Johnson's Opinion.

On the other hand. the motives
prompting such a gift are questioned
by many people of advanced ideas.
Mayor Tom l.. Johnson, of Cleveland,
himself man of wealth. speaking of
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-03-14

sum would do wonders. It's mere
interest income, amounting to $500
day. would forever feed a B1eisch-
man bread line of S6,5S0 men. giving
one loaf of bread every night. That
me would extend not merely around
".ace church, as at present. but %
miles up Broadway to Tarrytown.
Would Build Another Subway.
VI could build another subway in
new YORK city like the present one,
the most marvellous railway I'm the
world, carrying more passengers in a
daN than many great lines do in six
months. II could construct a trunk
me from New York 1.2SO miles west.
yard 10 Kansas City, at the rate of
$Zo'ooo mile, which is all that roads
cost under normal conditions.
Ihe things that could be done for
ne material benefit of humanity with
The sum of 100000 are of great
number The question arises whether
the money might have been better ap-
pied TO some of them.
Mr.. w. H. Mallock the eminent
English antagonist of socialism. was
asked how he regarded Mr.. Rockefel.
ler's beqnest.
10 pass any competent opinion on
us effects on public welfare and hap.
plness would require careful study"
lie rephed Such an enormous gift
SO overtops anything we have had in
England that | hardly know how to
gauge it,
In one sense | should say that the
individual who by extraordinary abil.
lty and talent makes a great fortune
would do better not to attempt giving
1t away himself but pass that duty
on to his sons. His genius has been
that of work and money.making. The
sons would not necessarily be brought
up in the same line of accumulation.
Ihey could devote their time and tai
ent, therefore, better to the question
OF proper distribution.
Mr.. Carnegie's requests to librar.
les have produced much criticism In
England because of the burdens he
imposes on the taxpayers. In this
respect the giving failed of due appre-
citation
Gift Should Benefit Labor, Too.
You ask me how | should have
liked to see this bequest of Mr.. Rookie
feller's applied differently? | cannot
answer. as | have not examined it full
ly. To certain extent ! would have
the philanthropic gifts so made as to
benefit labor as well as education.
For example, a gift that would enable
the excavations of Herculaneum and
other buried cities to be uncovered
would afford not only labor but in
crease our sum of knowledge.
Whether such enormous donations
will affect the theory of socialism is
a question yet to be answered In
one form it certainly is distribution
of wealth. The scale on which 1t Is
being conducted in the United States
fairly bewilders one"
Socialism views the Rockefeller be-
quest with partial approval as a
means toward the end it desires. ].
G, Phelps Stokes, one of the party
leaders. said:
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One-half cent per gallon on the five and
a half billion gallons of crude petroleum
produced pro- last year would nearly equal tho
s32OOO,000 gift,
orphans are in Canger of losing. A
condition will be presented that may
have protective effect for the cor
porations involved"
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sum would do wonders. It's mere
interest income. amounting to g4,92s
DAY, would forever feed Bqeisch-
man bread line of S6,5S0 men. giving
one loaf of bread every night That
me would extend not merely around
grace church, as at present. but 90
miles up Broadway to Tarrytown.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-20

commoda,ion of large force of men to be employed in the mill and min. a' soon as the plant is finished.
 ln conversation with a Journal Miner man, Mir Tibbctts said: Mining j, ,ctivc in our section of thc country at present, and the outlook fur rr.s pcrous year was never better 'Hr new mill building is almost finished " of thc machinery, with tho exception of thc engine. k on thc ground, ani murh of it is already installed. The heavy winter rain storms prevented 't. prompt delivery of machinery and ma. tcral, but if the present good weather continues for thirty or forty days more the plant will bc ready for op. crition. \ force of miners will b" put To work in tho mine ou thc ljth of this month, and thc sinking of inc shafts and running of thc drifts resumed. '
 The Golden Idol group tx located on thc western slope of the Black Hills range. iu The Cherry Creek Basin. about twenty miles east pf Dewey station.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-20
HIGH GRADE ORE IN TOMBSTONE
 DISTRICT.

TOMBSTONE, Ariz.. Feb. li.-WoL
 m the Tombstone district in the prop critics of the Tombstone Consolda,cl company is very encouraging. the mo-, important event of the past week be ing the striking of shoot of higb grade ore in the drift on the l00foo' level of the West Side. the extent Of which has not yet been determined \ drift is being run from the Wesi Side 'o connect with the Tribute claim. and good hcadway is being made. The West Side building that extended over inc gallows frame has been torn down so as to remove the danger of fir in close proximity to tho shaft. All
 of the company's hoisting works are to be similarly dealt with.
 At the Tribute property the work Of -inking K progressing rapidly, over 50
 feet having been made in the past thirty days. Several bodies of ore have been uncovered that show good values. At the Silver Thread but
 few feet remain to reach the G00foot lcvcl From this point it is the inteh. ,ion of the company to fully detem. inc the extent of the copper ore body recently discovered on the J00.foo' level. Two SOhorsc power boilers arc being placed in position at this hois'
 to furnish additional power for hoisting purposes and for the big compressor The Emerald and Lucky Cuss contrib ute their regular shipments of ore Co | the smcltcrs and considerable ore is iu sight at both places. At the big shaft
 owing to the short supply of fuel olL on hand, some of the sinking pumps | have not been operated, and as a conse | qucncc, the water has raised little. 1 some repair work has been done on
 some of the boilers, some being relincd ! with brick. At the mill the usua. : rlcan-ups are being made and every thing is running smoothly, little oyer 200 tons being run through every
 twenty yfour hours. The cost per ion oi ! less than Sl is still being maintained
 which nets the company n good figure , on every ton that is run through
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-20
LOCATES CLAIMS IN NEW COPPER
 COUNTRY.
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

Mr. .Icn Martin, who returned Mon day from two months prospecting trip arwrh 'hc Big Horn and osborn, urp. u th. new copper couu'rv i- rn'm.u-fIc over Che mineral pos'ihlIi. '.. of those ranges. u each of which Hr Iu.t.J group uf claims.
 ~r..us ot hls trir To a Journal Nmr mu I. ald. "rur>' regions ar I,-UuuI [, become great copper ,n -oI pola.rr- Tho surface crop ping. al .r4 veins and favorable .mumu- tur tb, existence of great ur. luu,- arr there, and, in my miud. ,b.. |. uo qr..'ion hu' wha, thc hedges NN 9. down tnl prove richer with depth \um,rou. camp, are to hc seen r tur un"ront mom'eiu ranges. many uf which ba,c rromi-ug mines opened with good equipment
 ''u ,hc O-hurno range located 20 gr.p ur ..,H claim. on porphyp and -.ma contact sam Wrhcr. of lN'N- -'III|I 'r|f.t W'NN Ii'. INN lii group anj otruI to return there and commence fhc sinking of shaft in The next two week, a- soun B.. [ get some hu,.u,.- matters hrir adjusted.
 "rhr group of eight claim, that looaicd in Tho Big Horn range appears to me To hc equally as promising as the other. \ little later 1 intend 70 get other parties interested with me there aud establish camp. Both show ont. crops which are rich in gold and copper ore and from what | have seen of other lodges under development in ihc dis tric'. am confident that they will prove very valuable.
 Mr. Martin will leave today for Cherry where hc has mining and busi. mes. iutorr.'s and iu The carly part of next w,rk visit his partner m kingman where arrangements win loo made io equip aud commence thc development of ul, of his claims.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-20
WILL ARRANGE FOR ROUGH
 RIDER REUNION.
(From Wednesday, E Daily.r

That Prescott will entertain tho ma. Rough Riders association. including it. star member. President Roosevelt. in June, at which time the monument to Bucky O'Ncill will bc unveiled. is now an assured fact, provided thc railroads make such rntcs as will enable the members of the nsSociation living afar to attend. While President Roosevelt has not yet accepted the invitation Co be ,rcscg., Ing has never y,t missed reunion os thc members oF lis famous troop, and in all probability will lc present at the next annual reunion. to bc hcil here. fine cNact date of which will be decided upon at a public meet. ing to be held in the court bousc, Feb. ruary lj, as per invitation of Mayor Goldwatcr, appearing elsewhere in this issue.
 Mayor Goldwatcr has taken up the matter of reduced rates on the rail. roads for the occasion with General Passenger Agent Jones of the x. F., F. & F.. asking him to confer with the proper authorities in regards to secur ing flat round trip rate from New York City and common points; flat roundtrip rate from all Missouri river points a flat round-irip rate from all points in oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico, round-trip rates from the southern states and California, and roundlrlp rates from all point, iu the Territory of Arizona.
 This letter Mr. ,loucs has forwarded to tho Trauscontincntal association for action thereon, but as yet it is not known what rates will Toe granted for thc orca,ion
 Al the public meeting To be held Friday night plans for the reunion, the unycilmg of thc monument, and the reception to President Roosevelt will bc thoroughly discussed, and as this is a matter of interest to every public. spirited rroscotti.r, it IS desired that all interested be present.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-20
REVEREND MONEY EXPIRES ON
 TRAIN.
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

Yesterday morning, at a few minutes past II o'clock, as the uorthbound train on inc x. r.. r. X r. was enter ing Congress Junction, Rev. Kenneth Money. a Methodist minister, en route to his home in La .mnta. Colo, breath. cd his last in his wifc's arms. The immediate cause of death was asthma, from which hc had been q sufferer for years.
 few days ago. the physician in at- tendance wired his wife to come 10 Phoenix, where he had been living scv- cral months. and take him back to his hoino. After her arrival hc rallied for tinc, and they started for La .Iunta.
 As inc train rcacheG the \. s C.. Junction. Money complaihvd that h's heart was failing, and despite the fact that he was given stimuants, he eX- pircd when Congress Junction was reached
 Conductor Graves wired Justice of the Peace McLanc of this city, of his death, and inc justice at once sum moncd a coronor's jury to meet at the depot on ihc arrival of the train. Wit. ucsscs were examined by the jury and a verdict of death from asthma was returned uftcr due dcliboration. The remains were cmbalmcd here and vii be shipped on the morning train to La Juntn for intcrmcnt.
 Deceased was a native of Colorado, aged 31 years, and had occupied n pull pit in La Junta for many years.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-20
CHINESE CELEBRATING THEIR NEW YEAR THIS WEEK.
 (From Wednesdays Daily.)

With u rattle of iirccmckrrs and the burning ut punk sticks, the Chinese New Year began at midnight, Monday. On account of the small number of Celestial sous residing here, as com. pared to some of the coast towns, the celebration Was mol on as large scale as elsewhere, hut what they lacked in noise they made up in devotion, their Joss house being crowded all Monday night ana far into Tuesday.
 The Chinese New Year celebration will last about week. In every win dow of Chinatown bloom the white lilies; at every doorstep burns the punk and pork fat. The Joss house IS full of scarlet lanterns and prayer paper In every household arc spread tables laden with the finest Chinese del icaeies.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-20
TO OPEN ALASKA MINE ON A
 LARGE SCALE.
(From Wednesdays Daily.r

(From Wednesdays Daily.r
 D. |. Sullivan, president and general manager. and Thomas M. McGill, di. rector of the United Mines company, returned Monday from the company's E camp at Congress. where they have been engaged inc past few days mak. iug arrangements for and deciding up. ou, further plans for the opening of thc Alaska mine, upon which work K to bc resumed at any early date.
 Negotiations are under way for the purchase of a large hoisting plant to bc installed at the working shaft, which will be pushed to greater depth on ihc vein, and from which the ledge will be opened from the lower levels by drifts and gross cuts. The holdings of inc company cover q vein parallel. ing. and about onc.half mile distant from. the great vein of the Congrcs. mine. which is opened .to a depth of about 1000 feet. and which is heinz worked from many miles of latcrals and drifts.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-20
GREAT WOOL CLIP IS EXPECTED
 THIS YEAR.
( From Thursdays Daily.)


 With wool selling from l9 to 23k cents pound and n prolific lamb crop coming in the wool growers of north. crn Arizona are entering upon year of prosperity unprecedented in the his tory of the industry in the Territory.
 Feed on the desert ranges is plonti. ful on account of inc carly growth of The grasses, and the number of sheep on inc ranges, which is now consider. ably greater than last year. is being constantly increased by shipments from New Mexico and Utah. Eight car loads of sheep passed through here Monday. cu routc to Congress June. uon from New Mexico, and this will bc followed today by twcnty-cight ear loads, shipped in by r. r. Godding. Jr.. tho Albucqurquc. \. M., banker and wool grower
 With thc exception of a loss of be tween Boo and iOo head of the Smith flock-, while being driven through the Skull Valley country, no serious losses have been experienced during the win fer months, and inc llocks in general appear to hc lu very healthy condi- ton.
 A present shcaring is going on at Bcagd,lcv. Pcorin. lIuuck's station and The Arizona Canal corral, in Maricopa county. About J.OOO head are being -horn daily at Bcardslcy. 1000 al Peoria. and lesser numbers at the other two places, making inc total daily av. craze clip of about lj,O00 II k csti- mated that over ao0.0OO head will be 4hQIn at these places. Shcaring will be commenced later, at Cordcs. in this county. where it k the intention to clip ai least ljO,OOo head.
 A inc different shcaring places. in Maricopa county inc wool buyer, are very active and all inc wool is being sold at prices ranging from l9 cents upwards The clips commanding thc 1 highest price was sold by II. J. Gray of Jerome Junction, who disposed of his entire wool crop at 23lS cents pound. His sheep are of a high grade and his wool was pronounced hy all to be among the cl'anc,t shorn so far this season.
 Mr. Gray also boasts of an uEprc  ccdcntcd lamb crop from a select band of ewes. lie has now 2.G00 lambs from l,S00 mothers, with more coming. all being strong and healthy. with very few losses reported.
 Almost all of the shcariug done K with power machines which have hc. come very popllnr during the past two years on account of the rapidiiy with which the work is accomplished anal economy of operation.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-20
DIES MYsTERIoUsLY AT NEED
 LES. CAL.
lrr.m Wcdnc.dav'. Dallyl


 Ncw- reached here yesterday of the .uldyu dcatl of r. N Springer, a former resident of this city. at Needles, Cal. while cu route Co his home in Basdld. after business visit here. \ telegram from his son. r. W. springer, To friend here. intimatod that the death of his father occurred under sus. piciou. circumstances. and that an in vc.iigatiou was under way, bui no dc- tails were given.
 Deceased was aged about Gi years. and native if Missouri lIc came here last week from Bagdad. Cal. to attend to some business affairs in con ncction with mining properties in which he owns an interest. and left Sunday morning for his home appar. entity iu thc best of health.
 Surviving him are two sons and q daughter. residents of California. The family resided in this city several years ago. and thc new, of the death of de ceased will bc hcard with regret hy a wide circle of friends and acquaint auccs iu this part of inc Territory.