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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-25
ABOUT TOWN

town Monday.
Mrs. Vac. Petrik was in LAX,
Andes over Sunday.
Millet for Sale at A J. Novak''
cream station.
Mrs. Jos Skorpik was Tyndal
visitor over Sunday.
Miss Maggie Grail was a Tyn
dali visitor Monday. w..
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Kulis were
in va nk,on saturday.
Pi cture framing done by A. J
Novak handle undertaking
goods.
Mr.. Luis Blachnik went tc
Chicago last Saturday on business
Mr.. JOS. Rezac was a Tyndall
visitor the early part of this week.
Born at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Andy Cole a baby boy
Thursday. .....
Mrs. Tlaska and Miss Kamila
Smolik were Tyndall visitor last
Sunday.
Mr.. Joseph Jambora of near
Utica was in our town Monday
on business. ...
Yellow seed corn for sale at 81
per bushel. Cogan Bros. Bon
Homme, S. d. 49,.
We will take about IL head of
cattle to pasture, plenty OF water.
Welfl Bros.
Mr. Frank H ermanek and Jos
Barta of Utica went to Lake An
des last Friday on business.
Will stand my Jack for service
at Lesterville. Gray color,
weight 700 lbs. JOS. Ripple.
The best -four in the state is
made at the Morrison Roller Mills
at Tabor. Ask your dealer for it.
Mr.. Pullman the popular build
er and contractor OF Lesterville
was here on business Tuesday.
Vauk's big store has a large Sc
lection in comic and scenic post
cards. Come and inspect them.
Frank J. Barta and Frank Pet
rik were at Lesterville Sunday to
see the ball game.
You will save money if you
have your bills figured at J. H.
Queal, before building.
6. F. Blachnik has his full
blooded Percherion-Norman stall
lion for service. At Tabor every
Friday and Saturday.
Jonas Gleich left for Lake An
des and from there to Lynch Neb
Monday to visit relatives and
friends. .......
Commissioner Nc Neili was
here the early part of the week
on business experimenting the
road grading.
Jos. Black is out with his en-
gine and road grader, putting
roads in order in the vicinity of
Tabor, Frank Novak is helping
him. .n
Mr.. Dan Morrison and Misses
Rosy Novak and Nellie Bird sell
attend the dance at Lesterville
last Saturday.
Good for everything a salve is used
for and especially recommended for
Piles" That Is what we say about
DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel
Salve. That is what twenty years Of
usage has proven. Get the original
Sold at Tabor Drug Store.
For Sale, the Tabor Meat Mar
ket good trade furniture and ma
chinery in first class condition.
The riget party will make good.
Apply to Chas. F. Blachnik.
When you need pill, take pill
and be snre it's an Early Riser. De
Wits Little Early Risers are safe
sure, satisfactory pills. The pills
with a reputation. They do not gri
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-25

John Kotalik, sr., aged 81 yrs.
one of the old pioners Of this coun
ty died at his home near Lake
port last Thursday of old age. In
terment of the remains occurred al
the Lakeport Catholic cemetary
Saturday. He was born in Bohe-
mia, Europe, and came to this
country IS years ago, mailing his
home in Yankton county, after
the example of many other set.
tiers. His wife died 4 years ago
Two sons and one daughter, Mrs.
J. Pechan remains to mourn his
loss.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-25

What Is IL that tastes as pleasant
as maple sugar and quickly relieves
coughs and colds? Mothers who have
used 1t will quickly answer: "Kene.
dy's Laxative Cough Syrup" The
pleasant cold remedy that expels the
cold through its laxltiye action on
the bowels. Conforms strictly to
the Pure Food and Drugs Law. Con.
tains no oplateS- Sold at Tabor Drug
Store.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-04-25

A musical entertainment will be
given at Lesterville on Tuesday
evening April 80, 1907 by the
Corlina Jubile Singers, under
the management of the Colum-
bian Lyceum Bureau. This is the
tn ird of series of entertainments
given at Lesterville by thes
Lyceum Bureau and juding from
the excellency of the first two
numbers the coming one will
certainly be good entertainment
and all who wish to speud an en-
joyable evening should attend
evening.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

QUESTION of new territory and the SET
tlement of litigation. The DAILY West
suffered through strikes and the rapid
fall of the metals on which it relied u
earn dividends. Other companies nave
had the usual troubles. and while some
have reduced dividends or cut
them out altogether during the past
few months, there is ample evidence to
show that the arrangements decidsd
that it would be better to hold moneys
in the treasury TO see the companies
through the time of depression rather
than ray it out and take chances on
metal markets and the ability of the
shelters TO give them service.
Smoke and fume nuisance decisions
against the smelters have made il ap-
pear for several months as though
there might be d general clOse-doWn
of custom plants, and with that con-
diti)n staring them in the face, it will
not be charged that mine manage
ments were to blame Tor not paying
dividends with funds accumulated
when conditions were different.
Colorado Mining, the phenomenal
Tinttc proposition. had barely uncov-
cred ore in its property a year ago
Last May it paid a dividend, TO tho
surprise of everybody. In eight months
it has paid 100000. If market condi-
lions had been different during the
last four or five months the total would
likely have been 81 000. 900.
What the mines will do during 1908
there is no possible way of determin-
ing at this time. But certain il is that
if market conditions permit there viii
be more money paid during the next
twelve months than has been distrib-
uted during the last. for the mines
were never in as good shape to mako
and earn the money as they are now.
This year Utah Copper, Boston Con-
sOlidated and the Tintic Mining & De-
velOpment company, with its Yanlpa.
properties, should all be in line, while
there is no question that, if market
conditions are normal, the Newhouse
Mines & Shelters viii also make sub
stantial payments. With half good
luck, Utah mines ought to pay stock
holders 100000 this year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
MORE THAN 100000
IN MINE DIVIDENDS
Properties of State Exceed Great Aggregate of
1906 by More Than $2,5OO,OOO, De-
spite Series Of Difficulties.
Prospect for 1903 Is That $1OOOOOOO or More viii Be
Earned and Paid by Bonanza Mines

There is something for the investor
to study in the figures covering div
idends paid by Utah mines during the
year just closed. Notwithstanding she
fact that labor and transportation diff
ficulties have been greater than for
many years past and Notwithstanding
the fact that for the first time in the
history of mining ore producers have
had to cease or curtail shipments be-
cause the smelters could not handle
their ores and could not pay for them
if hey did. and in the teeth of a rap
idly declining metal market, Utah
companies have paid their sharehold-
ers over 81, ,OO0 more than they did
in 1906. If anything is needed to en-
phasize the worth of Utah mines; if
evidence is required 10 prove that The
mining business is being legitimately
conducted in this state, the proof
stands out in the dividend table in a
shape that leaves no ground for the
quibbler to stand on.
Last spring. before it was possible to
see what was going to happen TO the
country, there was every reason to be
lieve that Utah mines would pay con-
siderably more than sS,000,000, while
there was d possibility that distribu-
stands it is necessary to feel content
with a total that is slightly over the
IS, 000, 900 mark
1t was honestly believed last spring
that the Newhouse Mines & Smelters
would pay two, instead of one, $500 900
dividend. 1t was expected that the
Silver King company would pay its
usual SS00,000, instead of only a little
over half of that amount, and it was
expected that the Daly-Wes company
would pay 1882 900, instead of s37S, 0O0
Other companies were expected to
have done better than they have, and
it can be said that in no instance has
the decreased payments been charge
able to the depletion of ore reserves or
bad management. Newhouse suffered
for precisely the same reason that
dozens of other copper mines suffered.
The Silver King was reorgaHized and
about $1,000,000 was spent in the ac-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

until now eight of the twelve sections
of 500 tons capacity each have been
placed in commission. the others to fol-
low as rapidly as circumstances per-
nit
At the Boston Consolidated company's
works, which, like the Utah Copper
plant. are located near the big copper
smelling works at Garfield. everything
is now in readiness for steady opera
ton and the probabilities are that the
plant will be handling its maximum of
5000 tons of crude ore per day inside
of ninety days.
At Park City the milling plant of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

tonwoOd canyon, to its Continental
mines, at the extreme head of the can
yOn and, while the company has not
shipped much on its own account. it
has derived a nice revenue through the
carrying of ore and concentrates for
the Columbus Consolidated company.
In the meantime the Unity company
has been developing its properties, and
the statement was recently made by
the management that some important
disclosures had taken place. It is pre-
stunned the company will be in shape to
produce a good deal Of ore during the
year to come.
The City Rocks has been developing
and shipping right along and, once the
management decides to cut loose On
lines justified by the value of its pos
sessions, the property should develop
INTO one of the really big mines of the
Alta camp.
The Kennebec has ceased work for
the winter. but its new tunnel has been
extended to point where connections
with the big ledge We're all but made.
and where ore was making in the
seams of the lime with increasing per-
s1stency as each round of holes was
fired The Kennebec is one of the
coming bonanzas of the district.
On Big Cottonwood Side.
On the Big Cottonwood side
great deal of work has been done. At
the head of the canyon the BigsCotton-
wood Gold & Copper company has
made fine showing, the Giles COM
rany has opened up some fine ore and
the OLD Evergreen has been UNDERGOING
systematic development
Ezra Thompson. Jerome B. Wheeler
end other Salt Lake operators are run
ming tunnel in a property in Big Cot
tonwOOd that is declared will make a.
mine during the coming year, while
the Cardiff company and some others
have been doing telling work on their
properties, where ore bodies of unusual
merit are being opened up.
There has been little doing at the
Maxfield mine other than by leasers.
who have taken cut and shipped ore
that came from portions of the mine
above the water level.
The coming year is going TO show
several new producers in the Little and
Big Cottonwood camps.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

Silver King Coalition company has had
its capacity increased from 100 to 200
tons per day, and the new mill of the
Ohio Copper company, with an initial
capacity of 1000 tons, has been pushed
along until it can be placed in COM
mission within a few weeks if the
management so desires.
Mining facilities have been increased
at a number of other camps and several
small mills have been erected during
the year, so that, so far as facilities
are concerned, the camps of Utah are
in shape to make new records when
ever the opportunity presents itself.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
Steady Progress the Rule
In the Two Cottonwoods

Splendid progress has been made in
the development of the mines, old and
lew, in the Little and Big Cottonwood
mining districts Iring the past year.
Like every other mining section, bad
financial conditions and the nerve-shat-
tering drop in price of metals during
the past six months has had it's effect,
and the winter win not be as lively as
1t otherwise would have been at Alta.
As an illustration of what the drop
in metals has done to mining general
ly, 1t may be stated that the Columbus
Consolidated, the best shipper in the
Alta section, received about 500, 900 less
for ore shipped during October, No
vember and December, than it would
have received for a like tonnage mar
keted during the three months pre-
vious. That is why the company this
week decided not to post the usual
quarterly dividend Of zoe a share for
January payment.
Much Ore Developed.
The mines of the Columbus COnsoli-
dated. the South Columbus Consolidat-
ed, the Albion, City Rocks, Consolidat-
ed Flagstaff, Old Emma and a number
of other companies, have added ma
terially to the ore reserves in the prop
erty workings during the year, and a
dozen or more prospects have carried
on their campaigns of development
with good results. The Columbus
Wedge has made fine showing, as has
also the Columbus Consolidated EXten-
sion, and the year closes with every
probability that, during the next few
months, there will be a consolidation of
the Columbus Consolidated and the Elk
tension holdings through the purchase
of the latter ground by the Columbus
Consolidated company.
Aerial Tram in Operation.
Early in the year the Unity Mines
company remodeled the five-mile aerial
tramWay that reaches from Tanners
fiat, near the mouth of the Little Cot
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

zinc, while the falling off in the pro-
duction of quicksilver is due entirely to
the closing down Of the Sacrament
properties, the only ones in the state
which have so far attempted to treat
the cinnabar found in its ores.
The operation of the great smelling
works at Garfield is what has made
possible the great increase in the out
put of copper and gold and there is
every reason to believe that, notwith-
standing the present condition of the
money and metal markets, the year Just
dawning will witness a still larger out
put of these metals, as represented in
the business done by Utah smelters.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

matter has been shipped in here from
matte has been shipped in here from
little or no doubt that there has been
Just as much sent away for treatment
as has been received. Enlarged opera
lions at Bingham has caused the bulk
of the increase in copper, with Boston
Consolidated, Utah Copper, Yampa and
Ohio Copper as the chief contributors
The Newhouse mines have also cut
big figure in the years production of
the red metal, while the Columbus Con-
solidated of Alta and a-number of other
properties exceeded the records made
during the previous year. There has
been little change in the production of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

As was naturally to be expected, the
great increase of production for the
mast year has been in copper and gold.
II will be found when the government
statisticians have compiled their reports
on data supplied by all of the western
mining states, that the increase in gold
here credited to home production be-
cause there is no way of segregating 1t
at this time, is largely due to the treat
ment of Nevada ores at the local
smelters. The splendid increase in the
amounts of copper produced, as shown
bv the figures, may all be credited to
Utah without going astray- II is true
that some copper ore and some copper
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
Aerial Tram in Operation.

Early in the year the Unity Mines
company remodeled the five-mile aerial
tramway that reaches from Tanners
fiat, near the mouth of the Little Cot
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

valley that it will be required to close
down.
There is a faint suspicion, however,
that a few months hence it will develop
that there is such a community of in
terests in all the big copper companies
of Utah that the building of individual
plants will all be eliminated.
Plants of Great Capacity.
During the fore part of the year the
magnificent 6000-ton milling plant of
the Utah Copper company was COM
pleted and since June one section after
another has been placed in commission
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
Shelter and Mill Building.

Smelter and mill building has gone
on apace during the year, and The out
look for advancement on thesa lines
is far from discouraging for the year
just about to begin. The great smelt-
ing works at Garfield, which got well
under way last June, has had Its ca
pacity screwed up from less than LOCO
to more than 1000 tons per day, and
the additions of roasters and reverber-
atoTies, 1t is expected. will give the
works a capacity before long of bet
ter than 1000 tons per day. A 2o0-ton
plant was placed in commission north
OF Ogden during the year, but market
conditions in the metals compelled its
suspension a short time ago 1t was d
custom copper Smelter and was bora
just as the price of the metal COM
menced to recede. thus making its ope-
ration improbable. Much of the same
talent started the smelter that is now
being erected in the Tintic district, but
the control of the proposition recently
passed TO Jesse Knight. Barring IN
Iooked-for delays, this smeIter will be
ready 10 begin the treatment of ore
early III the coming spring. 1t is de-
signed 10 treat Tintic ores almost ex-
clusively
There is talk of the purchase or lease
of the Majestic company's combination
lead and copper smeIter at Milford, in
Beaver county, and if a deal is made
the chances are that the producers of
the southern end of the state and
those at Phoebe and other southern Ne
vada camps viii get chance to mar
ket their outputs there until such time
at least, as the big custom companies
see mt TO give the miner a better Law
out than he is now being offered.
The Bingham Consolidated company's
works are now being dismantled and
the expectation is that such of the ma
chinery and equipment as is suitable
viii be used i'll the construction and
equipment of the big works proposed by
a syndicate headed by F. A. Heinze.
1t is practically certain that the Utah
company will build new
works on the Tooele side of the Bing-
ham camp, to replace the one in this
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
Railroads Help Mining.

Railroads have done much toward
helping the mining industry during the
wear. This has not been so much in
the nature OF supplying better trans
pOrtation facilities as In the matter OF
connecting up isolated camps and
making available ores from regions
that have been previously barred from
a market. The Deep Creek section has
been brought fifty miles closer TO the
smelters by the completion of the
Western Pacific 10 and beyond the Ne
vada state line from this city. While
the road runs farther north than the
Deem Checkers would like TO have seen
= run. the fact is appreciated that 100
miles of desert travel has been elm
mated and that, with 'the building of
a spur line south from the main line,
the mines OF that region can be
brought I'm touch with the markets,
while supplies and equipment can be
carried into the mines at much less
cost than formerly.
Phoebe has also been connected up
with the main line of the San Pedro,
Los Angeles & Salt Lake, and a ire
mendous impetus will be given 70
mining there as a result Phoebe is not
a Utah camp, so far as geography and
taxes are concerned, but in every
other respect il is. This is the supply
point. This is the natural market foT
the product of its mines. mills and
smeiters. and this is the headquarters
for practically all of the companies
operating there.
Uncle Jesse Knight has built num-
Der of miles of railroad in Tintic dur
ing the year that will allow companies
TO load direct in the cars. instead of
having to stand a wagon haul to the
loading stations Of the railroad cOmpa-
MES That the chief purpose in build
ing this piece of road was to help in
the delivery of ores at the smelter
which he is constructing near Silver
City is evident, but the fact remains
that it will prove of great convenience
and economy to other than the mines
being operated by the Knight compa-
MES.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
MINES Of Utah IN 1907
ECL|PSED ALL RECORDS
Figures Show That No Other State Made Such
a Marvellous Advance Du-
ring the Year.
Metal Production Much Greater Than in 1906 and Dividends
Show Increase of 55 Per Cent.

The completion of the Rio Grande
Western cOmpany's sky line" at Bing
ham has been another event that has
made possible the bigger operations of
the Utah Copper and other companies
of that camp, while it already assured
that the company will double it's track
running from camp around to the mills
and smelters at Garfield. Thai done,
and there will no longer be a question
as to whether the company can meet
the demands of the Utah Copper and
Boston Consolidated companies mills
and the big smelling works of the
American company, just beyond.
Copper INNINGS Progress.
Wonderful progress has been made
IN the Development of the copper min
ing industry during the year. Bing-
ham is now the Butte of Utah. 1t will,
during the year now dawning. unless
held back through circumstances that
have nothing to do with the mines or
the ability of the operating companies,
produce a tonnage of ore that will
correspond with the output of the big
Montana camp, and, as its mines are
new and its deposits of ore simply in
eXhaustible, it can be truthfully said
that the district is Just entering upon
a career that will make every other
copper camp in the country go some to
excel, both in the matter of tonnage
and the cost of production. The Utah
Copper company is now equipped to
handle 1000 tons of ore per day, and
the Boston Consolidated is in shape to
mill 5000 tons. The Ohio Copper COM
pany's 2,000-ton plant is nearing com
pletiOn,, while the Yampa can now push
through nearly 1000 tons daily at its
mating smelter. Other mills in the
camp are good for Loco tons more, and
capacities of these, with the produc-
tiOn of the Utah Consolidated. the
Bingham-New Haven, the Phoenix,
the Utah-ApeX, Last Chance, Bingham
Central Standard, Dalton & Lark.
United States and other properties,
should make the daily output of the
district exceed $4,000 tons as an aver
age for the year.
Then there is the Cactus mine of the
Newhouse Mines & SHELTERS corpora
ton at NeWhouSe, in Beaver county.
Thew will add not less than $50 tons Of
high grade ore and concentrates daily to
the states OUTPUT of copper bearing
material if marget conditions permit,
while the Columbus Consolidated and
South Columbus of Alta will contrib
ute some more, with Tintic and the
Deep Creek country helping out. This
is not saying what will be done: ii is
simply mentioned to show what can
be done. that's all.