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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-15
RAILROAD NEWS.
Katy Has No Trouble in Paving
Cash to Miners.
System I'm Use Becomes Helpful
in Present Stringency.
NO CHECKS ISSUED.
Pay Disbursed in Envelopes tC
Employees SINH Monthly.
Other Items Of Interest to
Railway People.

Parsons, Kan, Nov. ia system
which the fuel department of the NJ. K
& t. has used for many years in pay
Ing off its employees in the mines has
been found helpful during the financia
str1ngency, and while other railways
have been in trouble trying to explain
the checking system to their miners
this railway has found the system to
solve the difficulty.
The NJ. K. & T. operates. its own
mines, and the production is large
enough to furnish coal for all trains
and shops where that kind of fuel is
used. The majority of the mines are
located at Mineral, Kan, with a num-
Der near McAlester, I. T.
Several years ago the NJ. K. & T. ap-
preached the bankers in these towns
and desired to establish the employee
paying system through the local banks
by check. The bankers refused, for
they claimed it would make too much
clerical work. At all division points the
local banks handle the company checks
for trainnlen and machinists put part
of their wages in the banks for safe
keeping at the time the check is caShed.
But banks in the towns where the min
ers were paid off did not see it that
way.
The majority of the miners are for
eigners, new to the United States, and
they do not understand well the system
of banking. Upon drawing their wages
the money is either spent or buried in
the toe of an old sock
So the NJ. K. & T. started a system
of its own for the payment of wages
to the miners. Pay day for them comes
every two weeks, and on the day set
they line up at the office of the COM
pany's agent and receive an envelope
for each one containing the right
amount of cash. Treasurer Simpson
from his office in Parsons forwards the
money to the agent. At Mineral this
plan has been very successful
Other railways in the majority have
paid the laborers in their mines by the
check system. The miners took their
checks, presented them at the bank and
drew out the entire amount in cash.
Further than that, they knew nothing
of the checking system. When the
financial stringency came on, these rail-
ways, mainly the Missouri Pacific. the
Burlington and the Frisco found that
their miners were about to strike un-
less the cold cash was in sight. Old
customs were abolished, and this week
cash in large quantities was forwarded
to pay the miners their wages.
The NJ. K. & T. smiled. It found that |
its old system was working like a |
charm. Every two weeks the employees |
at Mineral and McAIester line up, rel |
ceive their cold cash. and they are salts |
fed. There is no talk of striking on the |
NJ. K. & T. because of a lack Of cold |
cash -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-15
BELEN TRAIN SERVICE.
Has Been Installed on Cutoff as Far as
Rio Puerco.


Albuquerque, N. M, Nov. 15.-Rails
have been laid the entire length from
Belen west to Rio Puerco on the Relen
cutoff, and as last week witnessed the
completion of the line from Belen east
to Texico, officials inaugurated a
through freight and passenger service
between Belen and Vaughn Sunday.
There are two trains a day on the
cutoff. They are mixed trains, made
up of freight cars and one or two pas
senger coaches. The train going east
leaves Belen every morning at Z o'clock
arriving at Vaughn at in the evening.
The train west leaves Vaughn at a.
m. arriving at Belen at p. m.
Work on the uncompleted part of the
cutoff is progressing rapidly and 1t is
announced that the contractors will
have it finished and the entire line will
be in operation by February 1. Langtry
& Sharp completed their contract from
Belen east to Texico Saturday and left
Belen.
Grant Brothers have the contract
for the work from Belen west to Rio
Puerco. Rails have been laid the en-
tire distance, connecting with the coast
lines, but no ballasting has been done
yet. Grant Brothers are working about
$50 men now.
Three engines are working on bal
lasting alone now. Eighty miles have
been ballasted on the first division and
there are 80 miles yet to ballast.
The roundhouse at Vaughn will be
completed in two weeks and ready for
use. Work has commenced on the new
Harvey house at Vaughn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-15

that the application should not be made
until after the road has a chance to go
before the Oklahoma corporation COM
mission and present its claims. The
road most assuredly can not make ex-
penses in Oklahoma under the 2-cent
maximum. In any new country it is
impossible to break even. That is the
point we will endeavor to bring to the
attention of the commission. We do not
feel that the low fare is just
He said no effort would be made to
eVade the provision of the constitution
SO far as they apply Immediately. mo
new improvements are now contemnla-
ted in Oklahoma continued Mr.. Win
chel
Those under way, however, in vari-
Gus parts of the state will be finished.
Il notice a considerable falling off in
the passenger receipts incident to the
money stringency. / am of the opinion
that conditions are gradually easing in
the east There was at first a notice.
able falling off in grain shipments but
these have gained in the last week 1
think prospects are bright in the new
state but We cannot make any money
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-15
TWO CENT FARE FOR OKLAHOMA
Rock Island and Santa Fe Will Put
Rate in Monday

Guthrie, Ok. Nov. 15.-In a letter to
Henry E. Asp, former chief counsel OF
the Santa Fe road in Oklahoma and
Indian Territory, received last night E.
p. Ripley, president of the Santa Fee
says:
1.-THE Santa Fe will accept the provi-
sions of the Oklahoma constitution and
establish a 2-cent passenger fare. 1t
will go into effect Monday"
Guthrie, Ok, Nov. 15.-"The Rock Is
land will accept the 2-cent railroad fare
provision of the Oklahoma constitution
which goes into effect November 16."
This statement was made frankly
and without hesitation by B. L. Win
chell, president of the Rock Island sys-
tenn in a conference with Guthrie CITY
officials yesterday.
THE low fare will be in effect at the
latest Monday" said Mr.. WincheII
"Orders to that effect have not been is
sued before this because no one knew
when the constitution would be signed.
We will make no fight on the theory
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-15
HIS MOTHER LOST.
Twelve-Y ear-Old Boy Can Not Rest
Until He Finds Her.

Chicago, Nov. Eff only were sure
my mother was dead. 1 could eat and
sleep again; but it is not knowing what
has happened to her that worries me
So She may be in the river, or she
she may be in some hospital, or she
may be sick or hungry among strangers
in the city, ashamed to come home She
might be in some trouble 1 could help
her out of; that is what keeps me go
ing"
This is the way 12-year-old Alexander
Halagian explained his daily round of
the police stations in search for his
mother, who left home a month ago,
after telling him she was going to jump
into the river.
His father has become so worried
over him, he has quit his job as a candy
maker to stay at home and watch him.
Halagian was interpreter for General
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-15
At $3.50
~
A $3.50
Tonight and Saturday Boys Special Values

Children's Buster Brown Overcoats,
button to neck, velvet collar and belt,
$3.50 quality 8 to 8 CT IN
Boys Long Overcoats made with or
without belt and velvet collar, in oxford
grey. $500 values. to Is 60 IN
"PaIace Special Suits for Boys-All
Sizes to II years. Staunch wearing
winter weight fabrics. Every seam rein
forced. Double breasted coat with or
without belt. Two pairs knickerbocker
trousers. Suit alone worth SO. Extra
pants pants worth 81. Choice for $500
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-15

Palace Viking Suits, Made of All Wool
winter weight fabrics, coats cut in the jaun-
test double breasted styles, two pair of strong
ly reinforced knicker pants with each suit,
and a lavish assortment of original plaids,
stripes checks, grays browns, tans and rich
mixtures every suit valued at not less than
$3.50 but through the medium of our immense
buying power you offered choice of &E
the entire display at. ~
Little Fellows Sailor and Russian Blouse
suits-21a to 10 years; splendid Chev1ots, cas-
sfmeres Worsteds and Velours nicely tailored;
light or dark mixtures; $3.50 and 80 Oh
81 values; special at. .YNeOO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-15
FAST MAIL IN DITCH.
Santa Fe Train Runs Into Broken
Switch at Arkansas City,

Arkansas City, Kan, Nov. 15.-South-
bound passenger train No. lis on the
Santa Fe was wrecked in the yards here
yesterday afternoon. The train was
running at a rapid rate when it struck
a broken switch. Three cars left the
track. The passengers were bruised and
shaken but no one was seriously hurt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-15

Chinese Gordon until the latter's
death at Khartoum, and was after that
interpreter for General Kitchener. He
was by his side through all the terrible
slaughter at Omdurman, but nothing,
he says, ever has panied him as does
the the sight of the sufferings OF his
SON..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-15

if the maximum of the passenger fare
is to be kept at two cents. We will use
every means to show how the rate is
unjust but in the meantime we do not
propose to fight the constitution"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-15

It expels all poisons, stimulates the in
ternal organs, cleanses the system and
purifies the blood. Such Is HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea, the most effective
preventative of disease. IS cents. Tea or
Tablets. Fred T. Walker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-15

Mr.. Jawback-The biggest idiots always
seem to marry the prettiest women,
Mrs. Jawback-Now, you're trying TO
flatter me.-Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-15

Make Prices drug store your drug
store. located in among the big ones.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-25
FINE NEW STRIKE is ~
MADE NEAR GOLDFIELD

Goldfield Nov 8-An assay OF SOS 80
from seve1 inches of tale and quartz At
a depth Of 10 feet in the Diamondfield
Red Mountain Mining company's prop
eTty at Red Mountain, nine miles north
east of Goldfield, caused an incipient
stampede to that section yesterday and
several locations were made.
The company has been developing a
group of claims in the extreme west end
of the Red Mountain district, and sank a
shaft to a depth OF 10 feet, where the
ledge which outcrOps on the surface was
encountered. The shaft was then changed
to an incline following the ledge, and has
entered the high-grade streak referred to.
The vein itself is four feet wide, with a
hanging wall of pOrphyry and fOOtwalI
of basalt, the entire vein filling carrying
values which average $40. The com
pany is patenting its ground and has EN-
DlOyed c. &. Thompson to make an eX-
animation and report.
AT the Butte Boys, on the east side Of
the district. the shaft is down go feet and
the ore in the bottom averages SSS. George
A Foster of George A. Foster & Co. has
taken a lease on a portion of the COM
pany's ground Between the two the
BlaCkbiTd company is using a diamond
drill to good advantage. and has cut a
large ledge carrying good values.
The St. Ives Leasing company. which is
operating the Codd lease on the st. Ives,
has received returns from sixty-six tons
of ore shipped last week from the slopes
on the 150-foot level. which carried S92- 60
a ton. The shaft has reached a depth OF
$50 feet passing through the andesite and
into the mineralized ground streaked with
quartz. Sinking will be continued to the
foot level
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-25
BONANZA MINE
At GOLDFIELD
Little Florence Has Opened
Twenty Feet of $50
Ore at Depth.

Goldfield, Nov. 3.-The Little Florence
Mining company has opened very large
body of ore on the bottom level. 625 feet
below the surface as measured from the
collar of the new shaft A cross-cut has
gone through twenty feet of ore without
encountering the hanging wall of the
vein, and the average values are close TO
$50 per ton.
With the Salt Lake smelters handling
Nevada ores. this grade of quartz could
be shipped at a handsome profit, but 1t
is not quite up to the standard required
for shipment to the Colorado plants. OF
course the 1easers will be able to handle
ii later, and in Stopping to the level above
it is quite likely that the picture ore will
again be encountered.
The Little Florence company now has
2100 tons of ore in the bins and piled on
the ground which will run better than 500
per ton, and is mining this high class ore
on the 400-foot level at the rate of seventy
five tons a day. No arrangements have
vet been made for marketing the prod
uct. The leasing company does not feel
justified in accepting the terms offered
BY the shelters, and will probably con-
tfnue to store the ore until the expiration
of the lease. Feb. l.
The Little Florence ore shoot has now
been opened in three leases, the Little
Florence, Florence Annex and Rogers
Syndicate for a distance of about 500 feet,
and to a depth of go feet in the Little
Florence The Annex has the ore on the
400 level and is driving for it on the 800
The ROgers-Syndicate is mining on the
400 level and sinking to the 500. These
leases expire in February and March and
must necessarily leave an immense ton
mage of ore for the company in the
ground already blocked out. The Flor
veloping into the biggest mine in the dis
tr-ic
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-25
SHELTERS ARE BEING
DRIVEN TO THE DESERT

Discussing the smelter situation the
Goldfleld Tribune, which is a little mud
died on the subject; gets in few truth
ful remarks that should appeal to those
who are trying to kill the smelling In
dustry in this region. The paper says;
Ihe closing of the smelter at Bingham
condition of the country, although il VIII
have a flattening influence on the opera
tons of copper mines. The suspension is
based on "A decision of the United States
court of appeals, which ruled that the
retchinS of poisonous vapcrs was detri-
mental to the farming interests of the
vicinity. 1t is the outcome of a long
pending suit that will entail more diSas-
trOuS results to the plaintiffs than to the
defendant corporation.
The smelling trust can readily transfer
its business to other points without feel
ing the effects Of competition. For in
stance, in the present case the smelter
will shift the tonnage to the plant at Car
Held which has a capacity large enough
to care for all the ores that have been
going TO Bingham. Then it must be con-
sidered that the huge 1O.000-tOn day plant
at Ely is rapidly nearing completion. This
fact brings out the statement that the
opening or this plant means an increased
market for the silicious ores of Goldfieid
which will have a rate that will permit
them to enter the new field. If the rate
is not equalized with that to the smeltcr
at Garfield, it will only advance the day
when construction of an Independent line
viii begin to connect the two great camps
of the state.
The smelte-s are gradually being driv-
en- out to the desert, where there is
neither tree nor shrub to destroy. Like
the Indian. they have to keep moving
westward until they halt on the barren
lands where nature seems to have pro-
vided a resting place where the volatiliza-
ton of arsenic and sulphur will not de-
stroy the charm of Gods handiwOrk.
Science has struggled with this great
question, but chemists have been baffled
at every turn where they tried to trap
the dangerous fumes and resolve the ele-
ments into a merchantable commodity.
Fortunes have been expended in this di-
reCtion. but all efforts to retain the chem
zeal constituents after release from the
ores have been thwarted. Nevada may yet
aspire to be the great smelling state of
the Union, and then the miner and Op-
orator will come into his own
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-25

ful-its dynamic-Inen to Wall street
every year. They are as sost to pro-
ductive industry as if they were swal-
lowed in a maelstrom. OF course, we
know that they originate schemes, they
underwrite the finances of fresh under
tahn8s, they set going new enterprises
that create prosperity for all of us-so
says the apOl0gists.
But, having lived in New York and
stood on the edge of the crater, we are
little inclined TO accept such an explana-
ton of the Dubbling and the turmoil, the
tume and the steam that issue daily
from the depths. making the earth trem-
bic and the blue sky alternately black
with gloom or bright with the flashes
reflected from the cauldron below. Mid
dlemen We must have, promoters, too,
and brokers: that Is we'll enough, bu-
we are protesting against turning natural
pioneers into middlemen, leaders into be-
sotted followers. engineers into stock job
bers.
Think of the stimulus to industrial
progress, possibly even to something high
er, If about tWo-thirds of the brilliant
and intensely forceful men now congre-
eating on Wall street were released from
the menag erie of bulls and bears to re-
turn to the mines and farms, the rail
roads and the factories of this country,
TO give TO il once more the native in
telligence and the uncommon ability that
is now devoted to a financial catch-as-
catch-can
When a strong skillful miner quits work
to play faro or roulette, we call him VIC
iOus, we regret the loss of a fine work
man, we note the degradation of a good
citizen. The camp needs such men 10
develop Its mines, and the town will
suffer by the diversion of such unit
or energy into an unprOductiVe channel.
A useful man has become a useless
gambler. The reasonableness of such d
view OF the matter may not be obvious
TO everyone but such Is the mental at
titude of the west to Wall street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-25
GOVERNMENT GOING
AFTER NEVADA WILDCATS

Word has reached Nevada mining men
that the United States government mas
decided to send an engineer to Goldfield
to measure all mining properties and
of each claim 1t is further stated that
this viii be done this year, and that the
reason for such action is that mining
stock has been sold on properties sup
posed to be in Goldfield which in fact are
not In existence.
According TO the report that is going
the rounds of mining circles, the govern
ment mining inspector will secure the
exact location of every claim in the Gold
field mining district and will then force
those companies selling stock on prop
critics supposed to be located in that dis
trict to show where their properties are.
and if they are not able to show the
mines the companies will be denied the
use of the malls and the directors of the
alleged wildcat companies will be prose-
cuted for fraud.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-25
ANOTHER GOLD MINE
OPENING AT G0LC0NOA

Golconda, New, Nov. 4.-Last Satuf-
day evening McGaffin and Major finished
their contract in the GeOrgimac shaft
to the 1O0-foot level. At this depth there
is twelve feet of ore that shows good
milling values. Another drift has been
started by Superintendent Playter at this
level and the big ledge will be thoroughly
explored. At the 50-foOt level good
body of ore has been exposed and the
following down of the paystreak has
proven that the Georgimac will be one OF
the greatest mines in the camp.
Many mining experts that have inspect
ed the property pronounce it a big mine.
Not only does the ore show high values
in free gold but the sulphides impreg-
mated through the rock are rich in the
yellow metal. An important advantage
in connection with this great property is
that a mill can be constructed within a
few feet of the main workings, with
plenty of water for milling purposes all
the year round.
The Georgimac mine is situated at the
mouth Of Cumberland creek and less than
two miles from the terminal of the mar
row gauge railway that connects with the
Southern Pacific at Goiconda-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-25
Attention.

There are some grocery stores SELL
ing you imitation Butternut bread
See that our blue label is on every loaf
Baking Co.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-25

Union Assay Office.
81 g. Pananer. j. v. Sadie-
1sR Sc. West Temple. p. O. Box 144k
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-25
Brains and Ability Wasted.

We venture to say that the brains and
ability wasted upon betting on stocks on
Wall street would more than suffice to
run the continent of Europe and admin
lister successfully the political and finan-
public from the Ural mountains to the
Irish sea. OF course. speculation in stocks
is considered a finer occupation than
betting on the red and black, but it is no
more productive of tangible results, and,
for ourselves. we think it nowise different,
save for the larger issues involved
Every hamlet i'm the mountains. every
town on the plains, sends a few Of the
shrewdest. most energetic and most force
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-25
GOLDFIELD GETTING ON
WITHOUT THE SHELTERS

at is true that the smelters have
again increased their charges for hand
ling ore" said Senator George s. Nixon
to the Reno Gazette yesterday, land as
a result we have laid off a number OF
men. But we are handling about one
hundred tons a day right in Goldfield.
and are arranging TO handle more st
outside places. We do not feel like Civ
ing the whole thing to the smelters, and
shall accordingly bend our efforts to solv-
ing the problem in some other way. The
mines will still be worked and the flow
of gold viii continue. But until the smell
fers get so they can handle our output
without charging eXorbitant prices we
shall get along without them"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-25
UTAH LITHOGRAPHING CO.,
45-47 Richards ST.,

Makes a speciality of bank and COM
mercial work, stock certificates, bonds
and diplomas. The only lithographing
house between Denver and the coast.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-04-22

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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-04-22

address to DR.. Kilmer
& Co., Binghamton,
N. Y. The regular
ffty-cent and one
dollar size bottles are