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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
The Lid Tiuhtens.

Minneapolis to close all
saloons and public bars at II o'clock
at night were given to Police Super
intendent F. T. Corriston by Mayor
James G. Haynes.
Superintendent Corriston acmowl-
edged the order and said it would be
enforced to the letter.
To prepare the saloonkeepers for
what was coming, instructions were
sent to the different police captains to
warn the saloons in their respective
precincts that the lid would be applied
at II p. m, in compliance with the
laws of the state.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
To Identify the Dead.

An army general order has recent.
ly been issued, stating that in the
future all officers and enlisted men
will wear whenever in field uniform
an Identification tag, which will be is
sued by the quartermaster's depart.
ment, at cost price to officers, and
without charge to men.
This tag is aluminium, about the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15

earth and rock excavation to the Des
PLANES river. 1t continues along the
waterway for eight miles In order to
make the drainage canal CONNER
cial waterway capable of floating YES
sells of large tonnage the engineers
of the project expended $18,000,000
more than would have been necessary
for sanitary purposes only. The canal
would have met all of the drainage
and natural watershed necessities at
considerably less depth than the %
feet at which it was carried out. The
objective of the creators of the canal
was not only to dispose of Chicago's
sewage by diverting it from Lake
Michigan, where it threatened con-
tamination of the city water supply,
but the establishment of a navigable
waterway from the lake to the Mis-
sissippi via the Illinois river
1t is from Lake Joliet that the next
step in the great lake to Gulf high
way is expected to be taken. The ter
ritory between Joliet and Grafton,
above st. Louis, has been closely sur
veyed and series of pools or artificial
lakes has been mapped out to mark
the levels along what is projected as
the beginning of the great Fourteen
feet through the valley water course.
The first level will be the section be-
tween Joliet and Utica, a distance of
81 miles, with fall of &c feet. In this
defiance it is estimated that three
pools, dams or locks will be necessary
and that a 14-foot waterway easily
can be maintained with a width of
300 feet.
Between Utica and the mouth of the
Illinois river, where it empties into the
Mississippi river, at Grafton, is 227
miles The bed of the Illinois
river along this distance is
between six hundred and nine hundred
feet wide. Along the route the federal
government has already completed
several locks and dams. To secure
14-foot depth here hydraulic dredging
averaging seven feet will be neces-
sary. This will necessitate the exca
walton of 100,000,000 cubic yards of
soft earth, the estimated cost of which
has been fixed by engineers at 81
100000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
Found Dead.

Acknowledging cold in death in
a sheltered nook two miles from his
parents home, the body Of the 49,
months-old child of Mr.. and Mrs. Al
fred Brown was found, and the search
which has been kept up for four days
by over 100 men was ended. How the
little fellow endured the long tramp
is a mystery, but there is nothing
to indicate that he was carried away.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15

On the plea
of self-defence
merchants and
of the Middle
West have Civ
en- impetus to
a movement
for a great in
land waterway
system that
promises to re-
main in the
forefront of
national af-
fairs for years
to come. Prac-
tically every
section of the
country not &C
tually within
the seaboard
zone has TAX
en- up the agi-
tation for a
great inland
waterway and
is likely to
continue the
campaign until
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
Railroads Reach Limit.

During the last decade the internal
commerce of the United States has in
creased more than 100 per cent, while
the railroad transportation facilities
have increased only 25 per cent, and
are now practically at standstill.
All of the railroad transportation ex.
perts admit that the big transconti-
mental lines are being worked to their
fullest capacity. Millions of bushels
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
Outlay of $50, 600, 600.


Already start on this lakes to the
Gulf waterway has begun. The Chi
cago drainage canal, extending from
the shore of Lake Michigan at the Chi
cago river to a point between Lock-
port and Joliet, ILL.,, is regarded as the
initial stretch of the great highway.
The drainage canal is approximately
&c miles in length, and as completed is
available from end to end as a navi-
gable waterway, capable of accommo-
dating vessels drawing 20 feet of wa
ter The cost of the canal has been
approximately $50,000,009. All the out
lay has been borne by Chicago as a
municipality, but it is understood that
for commercial purposes the city is
willing to give the national govern
ment navigation control of it.
For six miles the canal follows the
Chicago river to its head. Beyond that
point it runs for % miles through
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
Difficulties to Overcome.

Difficulties to Overcome.
Between st. Louis and Cairo diff
ficulties that a few years ago would
have been regarded as insurmountable
will unquestionably be encountered.
The slope there averages only seven
inches per mile for the entire distance
of 1913 miles, At normal low water the
volume between those two points is
$4,000 second feet. With the river
in normal flood it rises to ten times
that flow and in times of extraordi-
nary flood has reached between $780,
600 and 100000 second feet. A flood
volume of such magnitude on a slope
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15

so deep produces a waterway Of I'M
at low water.
The low water season, when the riv-
er depth is frequently less than IL
feet, averages 120 days yearly in the
district between st. Louis and Cairo.
The alluvial deposits incident to the
flood overflows must, of course, be
taken into consideration in any scheme
for the curbing of the Mississippi's
width that has the maintenance of an
all the year round deep channel as
its objective. Saving banks and extern
sive levee construction must be under
as not to deprive the bottom of the
enormous wealth of alluvial deposits
following floods.
To Keep the Course.
1t is the working out of system of
retaining banks that will not affect the
wealth of the Mississippi valley coun-
try and at the same time regulate to
certainty the all the year round
channel depth of the river that pre-.
sents the greatest problem in the
working out of the 14-foot channel
proposition. Of course, maintained
depth of IA feet will demand less
width in the river in the vicinity of
the bottom and will probably produce
changes in slopes requiring great
corrective work
Mr.. Cooley estimates that a 25 per
cent. increment to the Mississippi
flow is possible by using the entire
volume. of water that can come
through the Chicago canal. He esti-
mates like increment by the es-
tablishment of comprehensive reser-
voirs on the upper Mississippi. This
would make 12-foot minimum chan.
mel during the period of low water
and give the waterway a depth of
from IS to 10 feet under normal con-
ditions. From the Red river to the
mouth of the Mississippi, a distance
of 800 miles, the Gulf level is main
tanned. 1t is between the Red river
and the Ohio, at Cairo, that the great
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
Chicago Canal a Start.

ShIcd9o Canal start.
Fourteen feet through the valley"
will be the slogan with which the ad-
Vocates of the inland waterways inn
provement projects will press their
claims before congress. They main
tain that all of the statistics and argu-
ments are on their side and that the
present condition of affairs in the com.
mercial world is an unerring indica-
ton that the country's future develop
ment depends not alone upon the ex-
pansion of railroad mileage, but upon
the Improvement of the great water
highways of the country.
What is being urged by the business
interests of the great central country
is settled policy of the. improvement
that will begin at Lake Michigan and
terminate at the delta of the Missis-
sippi. 1t was for the Inauguration of
this settled national policy that the
recent convention was held in Mem
phis. This two days convention wound
up the presidents tour of the Missis-
sippi valley.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
To Control Mississippi.


Between the mouth of the Illinois,
at Grafton, and the harbor limits of
st. Louis the distance down the Mis-
sissippi river is SO miles, In this
stretch the Mississippi falls 81 feet
1t is the magnitude of keeping the
great Mississippi tractable and within
bounds and providing a 14-foot chan
mel from st. Louis to the Gulf of Mex
leo that has given the greatest en-
gineers of the country pause What
the completion of that undertaking
will cost no one processes to know ac-
curately. Surmises vary between $780,
100000 and $400,000,O00. A consider
able percentage of the former sum has
already been expended in piecemeal
Improvements on the Father of Wa
tiers. Engineers admit that much of
this outlay has been practically vast
ed because the work was not carried
on along any we'll defined plan. 1t is
for the laying out of general plan
of Mississippi valley improvement
that the business interests of the
great Central West are now bending
their energies.
After surveying the territory be-
tween Joliet and st. Louis a board
of army engineers few years ago es-
timated that the cost of a 14-foot wa
terway between those points would
cost $31 100000. About the feasibility
of continuing that stretch at the same
depth as the Chicago drainage canal
there is no doubt. The only questions
to be considered are those of dredging
and water supply.
In the opinion of Lyman E. Cooley,
of Chicago, one of the greatest en-
cheering authorities of the country,
the practicability of carrying the big
inland water highway to successful
completion depends upon the mastery
of the middle Mississippi between st.
Louis and Cairo. The total distance of
the projected continuous navigable
channel from Lake Michigan, at Chi
cago, to the Eads jetties, in the Gulf
of Mexico, is 1925 miles, and the fall
is $40 feet from the lake level to the
Gulf level.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15
Portion
Chicago

of increasing railroad facilities to any
considerable extent
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-15

the national government is commit
ted to a policy that will place any
navigable stream of considerable di-
mansions in touch with ocean COM
merce.
President Roosevelt is expected to
make strong recommendation in his
coming annual message on the sub
Ject of a lakes to the Gulf system"
of water routes. Such an undertaking
as at present mapped out would equal
in magnitude the construction of the
Panama canal. The cost of the two
projects, 1t is estimated, would be
about the same. Advocates of the in
land waterways assert that they would
be of infinitely greater benefit to the
United States than the canal, and that
without comprehensive system of
internal marine highways this nation
would be reaping only fragment of
the great commercial prestige to
which the completion of the Panama
canal entities it.
Residents, officials and leaders of
thought in IS states of the union are
already nightly interested in the in
land waterways agitation. A national
commission to measure the benefits
of the project is likely to be appointed
within short time. The recent trip
of the president through the Missis-
sippi valley, eliminating in his adj
dress before the Lakes to the Cult
Deep Waterways convention, is re-
garded through the central section OF
the country as committing the present
administration to the 14-foot channel
project. The annual national Rivers
and Harbors congress that is held in
Washington just before the regular
fall session of congress begins is re-
lied upon to keep public interest arous-
ed as to the necessity of the under
taking.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-04-27
BROWN PALACE STRIKE
THE TALK OF ROSEBUD

The late strike on the Brown Palace
is easily the overshadowing topic of the
camp. And well it should be when 1t is
considered-and this without the slight
est leaning to the side of exaggeration-
that it has every appearance of equal
ing in extent and value any strike ever
made in the mining history of the state.
Right at the surface, where the NAM
moth ledge has been uncovered on the
Brown Palace, there is wealth in sight
that would make most of the big boz
nanzas pale into insignihcance in COM
parison. In this shallow surface trench
the ledge has been crosscut for a dis
lance exceeding 20 feet without encoun-
tering the other wall, and this is all ore.
Specimens from this ledge are full of
the brittle silver nuggets. They look
the same, and the ore appears to be as
rich as that which Phil Blume first
broke from the groupings at a point
fully 100 feet distant from the present
strike-the wonderful ruby silver stuff
which made him rich and the Brown
Palace famous.
The richest ore seems to follow the
footwall of the giant ledge, and along
this course another trench is being run.
On this side is disclosed several feet of
ore which could be sent to the smelters
without sorting; what it will assay has
not been given out, but no experts eye
or the assay furnace is required to de-
termine that ore which is shot full of
nearly native silver will go up into the
hundreds in value, If not to exceed the
thousand mark.
These are only the plain facts. Let
those who have to be shown come to
Rosebud and be shown. They will see
enough to make their eyes bulge.
The developments on the Brown Pal
ace alone are enough to make Rosebud
a great camp. but there are others. Con-
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-04-27
STEADILY DEVELOPING
ON DUNLAP GROUP

On the west slope of the White
Mountains, about six miles east of Bis
hop, and in plain sight therefrom, an
important mine development project is
in continuous operation both night and
day says the Inyo Register.
A prospect unnel is being driven to-
wards the main ore body on the Dun
lap group. for the purpose of tapping
1t at several hundred feet depth. This
tunnel, which is now in $50 feet. is
of such dimensions and grade that 1t
will later serve as a main working tun-
mel without any change whatever.
The property is under bond to NJ. T.
Stoyell & Co., and George Cowser and
Ira Clark are the contractors who are
vigorously prosecuting the development
operations mentioned.
From a point in front of the Inyo
County bank. looking east, the white
tents of the camp can be seen in Rose
water canyon, which is the next can
yon south of Dunlap canyon At the
camp is a fine spring. perpetually flow
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-04-27

which f. s. Cunningham is the general
manager.
At 200 feet in the tunnel. vein No. 2
showed n width of s feet in calcareous
quartz carrying wide streaks Of white
iron pyrites or marcacite. then four to
six inches of a brown manganese tale,
which runs into a d~ecomposed suiphide,
very rich I'm horn silver. The hanging
wall has not yet been cut. although the
tunnel is now in 10 feet on the vein
matter. BY continuing the tunnel for
another so feet. vein No. 1 will be cut.
The values show a proportion of one
part of gold to four of silver, the usual
ratio in the district being one TO seven
or eight. While no free gold has yet
been found in place, float has carried
heavy gold values, and all the indica-
lions are in favor of its preponderance
with greater depth. The tunnel has cut
the first vein at a vertical depth of $50
feet. and will cut the second vein at $50
feet. Numerous experts have visited
the property within a week and have ex-
pressed very high opinions of 1t.
A force of men was put this week on
the ground of the Spider-wasp Exten-
sion company. which has two claims
close TO the remarkable ground of the
Spider-Wasp. These claims have a
ledge between two unusually well-de-
fined walls, and they have announced
their intention of pushing work on 1T
with all speed.
The announcement of plans for a
great reduction plant for the Wonder
district. made exclusively some weeks
ago by the Wonder Mining News. has
been confirmed this week by the Phila
delphia and Tonopah capitalists who.
with Jno. f. G~reenawalt. inventor of the
process, are behind the project. c. A.
Higbee. president of the Nevada Wonder
Mining company: Mr.. Greenawalt, John
F. Drawn and Charles Griffith, the two
latter direct from Philadelphia. arrived
in Wonder early in the week to view
the situation for the purpose of reaching
final conclusions about the mill. They
reached them and stated that work on
the big plant will be started Just as
soon as some important details of
ial are worked out.
The mill will cost 5000, 600, and will
reduce to pure bullion. both the gold and
silver ores of the Wonder district by
the improved chlorinatron process, which
is now in highly successful operation
at the Greenawalt Observation-Disclosures
plant in Denver. The process is particu-
larly well adapted to the Wonder dis
trict for the reason that, unlike the
old chlorination processes, 1t reduces
simultaneously both gold and silver ores.
The improved process originated with
Mr.. Greenawalt, h is one of the best
known metallurgists in the United
States.-Wonder Mining News.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-04-27

A large body of copper ore has been
encountered on the Thanksgiving near
Ida. The strike was made al tNa VS.
foot Level and runs % per cent Np-
per.
A large body Of $500 ore. carryinr mrs
tive copper is reported to have n
opened up on the New Centennial. Que
hundred thousand tons have been
blocked out.
The Old Centennial has a big body of
ore that carries values ranging FROM
SEQ to $500 a ton.
J. G.. Mailman. J. B. welleson. z. j.
Uren and Matt Resenthal have located
a group of nine copper claims in the
Lone Mountain district about ten miles
northeast of Blair. The group will be
known as the Amador. Samples taken
from a ledge that can be traced for
miles carry q high percentage Of cop
per.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-04-27

slider also the White Alps. the Dream
land, Golden Anchor, and the Rather,
to say nothing of the strikes which have
recently been made in other parts of the
district.
The News has told of the rich strikes
on all of these properties and has told
nothing but the truth. Taking every
thing into consideration, if Rosebud is
not "the richest and greatest of Nevada
mining districts" which is the one
which can justly claim the title?
The recent strike on the lookout
claim of the Rosebud Rather company
is proving up to be ever better than at
first reported. From the surface work
which has been done the ledge now
shows a width varying from foul to
eleven feet. An assay from a rich
streak in the vein gave the high values
of S12 ounces silver and SAP in gold.
superintendent Larson now has a
force of men at work running a tunne
on the ledge and this will give o
sixty feet depth on the rich ore shoot
at the surface. The recent
developments on this property entitle
it to rank with the big ones of the dis
trict.
Inc Mystery group, nortn OF tne sui
phur road, is certainly proving to be one
of the coming properties of the camp
and Mike McKenna, the popular owner
of the property, can look forward in the
near future to securing the stake which
he deserves as a reward for his faithful
adherence to Rosebud district. Samples
taken from this property have shown
values as high as s106 in gold and sill
yer.
This property adjoins the Golden Tri-
angle. recently purchased by Salt Lake
and eastern capitalists whose intention
is to soon commence work IN a large
scale.-Rosebud Mining News.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-04-27

ing and surrounded by a heavy growth
of wild rose bushes, from which the
canyon derives it's name. This spring
is owned by Col. NJ. T. Stovell.
The tunnel mentioned is provided with
Trails and iron ore car, and is COM
plete in all respects so far as equipment
in and working facilities are concerned.
The course now being followed is a f1s-
sure in the encasing dyke. which is
headed in the direction sought to be
obtained.
This enterprise is a notable illustra-
ton of a most commendable disposition
to promote our local mine interests by
energetic and intelligent development.
according to the recognized rules of
thorough and systematic mining. That
the result will be successful is the only
reasonable deduction justified by a care
full investigation-an opinion already
expressed by several competent mining
men who rave examined the situation.
The successful result anticipated will
not only be earned-but h is more.
it will be deserved.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-04-27
NYE

The Bellehelen district is coming to
the front. Almost every week strikes
are reported from that district and de-
gelopment work on a number of prop
ertis is progressing favorably.
one of the latest strikes reported was
made on the Waite claims. adjoining the
Red Chief, owned by Charles NJ. Schwab
and associates. A large ledge has been
opened up, the ore from which assayed
s333.60 gold and ss3s.6s silver a ton.
Paintings of the same rock showed as
high as 1000 a ton. 1t is believed the
ledge runs through the Red Chief prop
erty, also the Inez and st. Elmo claims
of the Nellie BLY, Gold Mining COM
pany's property.
The Nellie BLY, shaft on the st. Elmo
claim is now down 20 feet. The ledge
is increasing with depth Inc the pres
ence of hanging wall shows that the
vein Is in place.