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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-28

The committee on railroads and ex-
presses will give hearings at the State
House as follows:
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 30, 1907, at
2 o'clock p. NJ
No. co. An act to extend the charter
Of the Waldo Street Railway Company.
No. 81. An act to extend the charter
of the Lincoln County Street Railway.
No. G.. An act to extend the charter
of the Auburn. Mechanic Falls & Norway
Street Railway.
No. g. An act to authorize PenobscOt
River Railroad Company to locate across
Lake MegunticOok and other waters
No. C5. An act ito extend the charter
of the Houlton and Woodstock Electric
Railroad Company.
No. Is. An act to extend the charter
Of the Hculton and Danforth Electric
Railroad Company.
No. CT. An act authorizing the Ben
venue Granite Company to construct and
In the town of Sullivan.
REASSIGNMENTS.
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 30. 1907. at
2 O'Clock z. NJ.
No. 81. An act to extend the charter
of the Hancock County Railway Com
pany.
No. IS. An act to incorporate the Sulli-
van & Winter Harbor Railway Company.
No. 30 An act authorizing the cOnstruc-
ton of the Eastern Electric Street Rail-
way Company.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-28
LABOR.

FRANK D. TRUE, Secretary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-28
RAILROADS AND EXPRESSES.

E. J. CROSBY, Secretary.
The oasis., 1907-04-20

no wise discouraged him, but rather compelled him Co further effort. It so happened that the very first drill hole put in un. covered q body of ore from which he realized more money than the entire amount named in the bond he had given. Every shoyeful of the 300 tons then taken out went 10 the smeter and netted hand somely. The ores now being ex- cavated for shipments come from d face 30 feet. wide and 16 feet high. Another drift SKIS feet is also being run in the opposite direction, and nc wall is visible from any quarter. The main working shaft is now down 100 feet, and a power whim is to be put on to hoist the ore. The property is not only paying for it's own development, but is making its fortunate owner a rich man. It is located but eighteen miles southwest of Tucson.
The oasis., 1907-04-20
MINING NEWS.

I vnch and associates have bonded +he properties of the Bannie Min inc Company for $600,O0O to he maid within two years in install. ments, and will commence work upon the properties in few days.
 Yuma Sentinel: An 9rial tram way a mile in length, connecting the Golden Eagle mine with the mil! at Harqua Hala, is about completed. New boilers, hoists and other machinery have been put in and everything is in shape to start things going and keep them going as soon as the new tramway Is finished, which will probably be within the next two weeks.
 Benson Press. Johnson is now shipping regularly 75 tons of ore which averages so per cent copper. This lime zone in the Dragoon mountains is said to produce the highest average grade of silicious copper ore shipped from any camp in the territory to custom smelters. All goes tu the Fl Paso shelter except the Peabody ore, which is transferred to the Southwestern railroad at Benson, and goes to Douglas.
 Benson Press: w. II. Wallace, of Mesa, president of the Sterling Copper Mining company, spent a few hours last Monday at the office of the Hub Mining Investment company, in Benson. He went out to Dos Cabezas to look at the Sterling Copper property, where they expect to cut the main ore ledge at depth of 300 feet within 30 days, The same great ledge has been opened up on adjoining property, and has large bodies of which ore blocked out, from which regular shipments are being made to the smelter. It is confidently expected that the Sterling Copper will soon be among the producers.
 Tucson Citizen: Favorable re- ports continue to come from the Silver Bell mining district. This district is admittedly the largest in this county and 1t has the mine-the Imperial-which pays the handsomest dividends. Due to the success of the Imperial, other companies are developing and prospecting on a large scale and from tbe opinions of conservative mining men who visit the district there is no doubt but that Silver Bell will shortly assume much larger proportions than at present. The main shaft of the Imperial is now down to a depth of nearly 900 feet and sinking is being con tinued. This company Is taking out several hundred tons of ore daily. There are employed at the Imperial 700 miners and this gives some idea of the scale on which the operations are carried on.
 Tucson Past: L. D. Chillson is now reaping the reward of his persistency and pluck. Twenty one years ago on the coming 21st day of November, 1907, he located his now famous Pumed Knight mine. Year by year he had the as- sessment work done and every pound of rock taken out served to confirm his belief in the ultimate value of his claim At one time
New-York tribune., 1907-06-16

electives except the one hour course In French
(Which cannot be identified by method), he
is found upon the rank list in excellent COM
pany. In eight of his electives for instance, he
received q mark of 80 per cent or over. In
Philosophy g." well remembered as popular,
but not easy, course in political economy, he
led the class. IE his advanced course in that
subject, involving a study of the works OF
Cairnes, Mcleod and Bastiat, his success. though
good, was not striking. OF his German courses
German scientific prose" and the other
two appear to have consisted largely of COM
position and oral exercises All were practical
rather than literary The Italian courses. how
ever. required considerable amount OF read
ing (G0z1i, Pellico. ManZoni. Bersezio. Tasso)
and appToa ched more nearly to pure literature
than any studies chosen by him His courses
in natural history comprised comparative aaat-
omy and physiology OF vertebrates elementary
botany, physical geography and meteorologY.
geology and elementary and advanced zoology.
In all of these his marks were so high that final
honors in the subject would seem to have been
within his grasp. 1t may be conjectured that.
amid the distractions of his last days at college,
the distinction of honors seemed To him hardly
worth the drudSery OF writing a thesis and TAX
ing the required extra examinations. Having
substantially won his race he probably cared
little for the laurel.
The course of studies briefly outlined here is
often spoken of as IL II were a strange. almost
grotesque. 'pre-efiicient' OF Roosevelt's poIiti-
cal career. on the other hand. If we say that
the educational value of scientific studies was
never more strilSingly illustrated than by this
case we may fall too readily into the fallacy of
Judging by the event. But Mr. Galton laws down
as one OF the best tests of a good education
that II should teach n few congenial and useful
things very thoroughly" and the whole tenor of
Mr. Adams's famous Phi Beta Kappa Grafton OF
1888 Is to The same effect. Indeed. the elective
system itself is based upon the precept Study
what you most affect Roosevelt followed that
precept: and, his tastes remained constant
from year to year, his course naturally de-
veloped into systematic whole. The facts he
acquired in elementary botany" or even In
advanced zoology may not have helped him
much in Mulberry street or at the White House
but perhaps his college course, as whole
taught him how to study, how TO observe how to
reason; II So alma mater could have given him
no better preparation for the school Of life--
Harvard Graduates Magazine
New-York tribune., 1907-06-16

will be partly confined IN projected reservoir in
its northern extremity. Some OF the waters of
these and tributary watersheds as we'll OF the
Esopus drained into the Ashokan reservoir
From this main storage basin the aqueduct will be
built in horseshoe shape wherever the water flows
hydraulic grade. This will be constructed OF
steel and concrete. Where the aqueduct crosses
deep gorges. out by the glacial period the tun
mel will be driven under the streams of water flow
ing through the gorges. AT great depth. through
solid rock, which will be lined with concrete. The
inner formation Of the aqueduct here and under
the Hudson will he In the circular shape, calcu-
lated 10 withstand tremendous pressure from the
outside. At the northerly end Of each pressure
tunnel the water viii drop down a deep shaft. and
at the southerly end will rise again in a similar
smart II IS poSSloe IN some or tne cases 10 make
the tunnel narrower owing 10 the force of tho
water pressure, which enables greater volume 10
pass through more restricted space. Under the
Hudson tho size OF the siphOn will be reduced
a greater and Swifter flow OF water An average
incline will be preserved Of about foot the
mile
Every creek upon the path OF the aqueduct will
have TO be tVnnelled under a great depth. and
one place for distance OF four miles The tIud-
son River tunnel is regarded as the most wonder
be dug for distance os l,l0O feet below the aQue-
duct gradient and about seven hundred feet below
the surface of the river through the granite beGs
OF storm King and Breakneck Mountain. Only at
this point could rock bed he found OF uniform
quality and OF ideal nature for such a siphou.
This bed does not exist Within five hundred feet
sry to obtain IT, and also to prevent leakage from
the river above which is this point. 2 500
width and ~ feet deep at its greatest depth. with
average Of 90 feet OF water elsewhere Each leg
of the inverted siphon under the Hudson may reach
a depth Of 1000 feet since the natural level OF the
water here is about 400 feet above the rivers sur
New-York tribune., 1907-06-16
KENSICO RESERVOIR.

The aqueduct will follow as far as possible the
natural contours OF the country through which II
passes never rising in It's sipnon work above the
lire Of the hydraulic gradient theoretical slope
In earth trenches and along hillsdes the alueduct
will preserve its broad horseshoe form. covered
over with emhankment of earth; through solid
rock in tunnel work. the horseshoe viii have an
average breadth OF IL feet inches instead of Il
feet inches In deep tunnels. In solid rock under
river beds, the circular form tunnel will have
breadth OF II feet inches. Three general forms
of construction will be employ ed-tunnelIing cut
and-Cover work and piping with reinforced steel
md concrete. or these methods the cut-and-cover
work will 100000 a mile and there is a great
deal Of II to be done.
The enlargement of the Kensco reservoir al the
termination Of this aqueduct is important feat
ure OF The work. 1t is proposed 10 increase the
capacity of this TO 10000 O00 600 gallons a quantity
sufficient 10 supply New York with water for at
least fifty days in the event that the a1ueduct
should he closed fer cleaning and repairs or that
some repair work should be necessary upon the
arranged by which means OF entrance 10 both aque-
duct and reservoir may be obtained In order to
carry on this work, and a system of lighting and
guarding the works has also been planned.
over rom an snf fmsE1 I tne wa1sf W now
natures plan OF ftration and eeraton over stones.
air. and through clean. deep saTi, Will be carried
out Fer the distance OF mile this filtration
plant will be covered To depth OF over two feet
with sand. \ bed of pebbles under the sand rests
upon one OF stones of sizes increasing with the
depth of the filtration bed. Last there are longi-
tudinal perforated drain pipes. such IS used in
draining Wet lands. This filtration plant will cost
cleaning the bed at needed intervals.
Hin View reservoir for distribution over Greater
New York. passing into Brooklyn undet the East
the Forest Park Reservoir. and thence. by WaT Of
South Brooklyn and the Narrows. TO a Staten
! The water will pass through conduit aions the
course from the Forest Hill reservoir TO Staten
New-York tribune., 1907-06-16
MOUNT CLEMENS MINERAL SPRINGS.

a place where health and pleasure combine for
the fullest recuperation is the deside-atum which
many persons are seeking this season Of the
year \ region where nature has provided healing
waters and the hand of has supplied what IS
needed for comfortable entertainment and physical
We'll being, while the system is being treated With
the remedies provided by nature, IS oRe 70 Be
much sought. Such resort for health. rest and
pleasure all the year round is be found a. Mount
Clemens. Mich. score Of miles from Detroit
The mineral waters found there have secured an
and of all nervous and blood diseases. Many lead
found that their patients derive much beneht from
their use and have united in attestins the merits
OF the mineral baths which can be taken at Mount
Clemens to great advantage for remarkable Va
riety Of the ills which flesh is heir
There are no fewer than hundred hotels anu
boarding houses in Mount Clemens. where visitors
will md accommodations at rates which Will SUIT
every one. The town is readily reached by throuSh
trains on the Grand Trunk Railway, from both the
east and the west and there electric cars from
Detroit every half hour. The desrabllity or me
place Tor all health giving purposes demonstrated
by the great number of visitors every year VINO
make more less extended stays Mount Clemens
is the capital of MaComb County and Is portheaSt
OF Detroit, within three miles OF Lake St car u
Is at the head Of navigation on the Clinton RNSI.
and steamboats, ply between IL and Detroit, tnS
population is about eight thousand, and BESIDES NlS
health resort interests there is COnStderaoic manu-
featuring. The scenery is attractive.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-16
PRELIMINARY WORK.

The water commission Of the Manufa facturers' AS
sociation OF Brooklyn has pointed out that nearer
streams might be desirable those In the
Catskills but these not available because of
legislation which has barred them out from such
purposes and because of interstate difficulties in
the cases of streams running through New Jersey
Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Long and tedious
legal processes would have had be gone through
with doubtful results in the end in order 10
deavor To secure water from nearby localities One
strictions. has proved useless because the eleva-
tion is too low to admit of bringing water to the
city by force of gravity, besides which the
is polluted by a large number of villages and
farms and is inferior in quality that found in
the Esopus district The water in the water
shed is said TO be ideal IN quality.
From force of necessity the Board of Water Sup
ply began its task OF determining the location for
the reservoir and aqueduct and of organizing its
working forces at the time. The commission
has organized three bureaus. the administrative.
engineering and property departments of the work
The engineering bureau. headed by J. Waldo Smith,
comprises also three consulting engineers and six
great departments. Among these departments is
apportoned the work in different districts and Of
different characters beginning with designs for
the water. About seven hundred men and twenty
thirty employed the various
branches Of the work, but these not half the
numbered required. There is difficulty in getting
expert engineers, with assistants for them, since
engineering projects going forward all over
the country. Meanwhile a station upon the
route of the aqueduct all sorts of chemical eX-
periments being made to secure the best and
most durable concrete and cement for the pro
jected works
Hundreds of miles of surveys have been made.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-16
IS SORELY NEEDED.

This vast engineering problem OF supplying pure
water TO a city numbering more than four million
-!nha bitants was not undertaken merely a pre-
-cautionary measure but TO meet a serious condi-
ton Only the fact that for the last three four
years the rainfall over the Croton watershed has
been unusually heavy has prevented the city from
facing situation terrible than any in its
7perience. say engineers who have studied deeply
into the question.
To meet a shortage Of water in the event Of
fagrations salt water mains being placed in
the downtown districts OF the city. To meet the
condition Of the drinking water, its low level
sn the reservoirs and the which it falls
many of the people in the city to-day buying
more less drinking water from various springs.
New York consumes five hundred million gallons
CT water each day. greatly overdrawing the safe
supply in the reservoirs. which. even when deveI-
oped their fullest capacity in 1870 only be
twenty-five million gallons. The Croton
voir is scarcely half full At present. and engi-
neers state in the event Of drouth would
: be empty by October. William H. Burr consulting
engineer says: The city is already overdrawins
the safe yield of the Crotcn basin ny 10 per cent
To his warning OF danger Frederic P. Stearns,
consulting engineer adds: The safe capacity of
the in 1865 thirty million gallons day
less than the consumption in 1906. In 1911 there
would be a deficiency of one hundred and
fifty million gallons" An echo Of this state
Tnent comes from John r. Freeman con-
Hulting engineer. when he says: Every bor-
ough Of New York is present in grave danger
OF a water famine. If the emptying of the
Croton reservoirs should occur the close Of the
dry season OF the coming year it would mean shut
ting down all manufactures, great increase to
fire hazard ana driving thousands of persons from
sheir homes. II would bring about a pestilence"
These, and other engineers. go into extended de-
tails OF the danger and how IL may be lessened in
an apprecable measure by system Of economizing
the present supply, and all of them call especial
attention 70 Brooklyn, as already suffering from
shortage ot water. This condition the Board Of
Water Supply is preparing to by immediate
action In bringing 10 Brooklyn water from the
streams toward the eastern end of Long Island and
New-York tribune., 1907-06-16

in sinking such wells may be practicable TO save
the situation until the Catskill supply may be
available.
Seven cities use more water per capita than New
York does OF these Buffalo heads the list, with
Philadelphia second. New York does not grossly
waste its water supply but the conservators Of this
supply are urging upon every individual the neceS-
sity of not wasting any water.
This Is the situation which the Board Of Water
Supply has To meet, and explains the reason why
work has been pushed without waiting for the
formal assent of the state commission. which has
already been privately assured To such an extent
has the work been haStened that the Board OF
Water Supply only spent four months in collecting
reports maps and a profile Of the proposed works
from it's engineers TO lay before the Board Of EST
mate and Apportonment. and spent less than $i3Dn
upon this work out Of an appropriation Of slVoW0
intended to II.
For the last ten years expert engineers have
examined all the territory adjacent to New York,
looking 20 the need of greater water system than
has existed. Changes of administration have de-
feated various efforts to attain this end. and the
newly constituted commission has had the benefit
OF all these engineering reports, In addition 10
those made by its expert corps of engineers
geOOgists and others. All reports have reached the
conclusion that in the Catskills the only avail
able sources OF water of pure. soft character
which may be had without undue expense.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-16
THEODORE ROOSEVELTS COLLEGE STUDIES.

his courses were in modern languages There
seems 10 be no good reason to blink this fact
and perhaps Mr.. Adams and the modernists may
fairly derive much satisfaction from it-a salts
faction to be increased rather than diminished
by the consideration that Roosevelts Pullman
car companions are now said TO be PlutarCh
and Thucyddes-perhap In the original It will
be recalled that Macaulay defined a scholar as
one who reads Plato with his feet upon the
fender.
Again it will be observed that the list con-
tains no courses in English composition or I'm
history-an omission most noticeable in the case
or one who ~ after life has written much and
so well, and who has made as we'll as written
so much history. There was however, a consid-
cradle amount of prescribed work in English
composition, which deserves some attention
This written work was comprised in four
courses-sophomorc themes. junior themes and
forenscs. and senior forenscs In junior themes
Roosevelt obtained fair mark on the rank list
but In the other courses his name is missing In
senior forensics he was OF the very few
members OF the class whose efforts failed TO bu
appreciated by the professor in charge of the
course-that much loved professor whose very
faiiings leaned to the rank list side.
Colonel I. W. Higginson, referring to the lack
of promise afforded by Grants West Point
career. remarks that there is always certain
piquant pleasure in the visible disproportion of
means TO end. If one would taste that pleasure
in the highest degree let him first consider
exercises. and then let him turn TO THE VIM
ming Of the West" and read for instance the ac-
count of George Rogers Clarks campaign
against Vincennes The ''gratifed sl1rprise'' oP
the reader who performs this experiment will be
much akin. both in quality and in degree to the
delight OF John Browdie when lie lea rned that
Nicholas Nickleby had beaten the school
measther" 1t is said of Roosevelt the under
graduate that "n literary work his ability was
thoroughly understood. but very little dis
played" II may be less gracious though pos
sibly accurate, to say that In writing
English. Roosevelt. while in college, had not
quite found himself" Ones guess would be
that his active mind away with his pen. and
that perhaps TO this very day that part OF COM
position which is hardest for him is to hold him
self in.
In sophomore history and in the other pre-
scribed courses-rhetoric. logic and metaphysics
Roosevelt took high stand. and In ali of his
New-York tribune., 1907-06-16
A COSTLY RESERVOIR.

Water AT Ashokan reservoir will be from 500 to
500 feet above tide level, and Kensco reser
voir-which will be greatly enlarged-355 feet. II
has been estimated that the cost of building the
Ashokan reservoir alone will amount to $4,000
for tho Olive Bridge dam which will be a mile
long and 220 feet In height; Sl.5O0.000 for the
Beaver XIII dam. 100000 for dikes. 10000
for stripping the soil building roadway bridge
over the reservoir. damages to property, re-
locating highways. railroads. etc; for engineers
expenses and contingencies which might arise in
the work Of construction and an undetermined
sum for the erection Of twenjyfour miles OF boun-
Diary walls and for minor expenses of the work
Lines have been determined extending from the
Ashokan reservoir to the Rondout Creek watershed.
where three small reservoirs will be located. having
a capacity of l25 poOoO gallons daily; 10 the Cats
kill Creek watershed, whose capacity Is l0,Go,00
gallons daily Of which part will be stored in three
proposed reservoirs: 10 the Schoharie Creek water
shed whose output OF l36.0OO.0oO gallons daily