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The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-09-26
A Million and a Half fur Public In
D OYemeniS.

The National Irrigation Congress,
which met in Sacramento last week,
gave a great impetus to local i'm
provement and develo )ment, as well
as to the movement fer irrigation,
forestry and conservation OF the
whole resources of the country. Al
most Immediately after the close OF
the congress Il city and county BOND
election was held and bonds to the
amount of 81, 100000 were voted for
roads, bridges and public buildings.
The major ty for the bonds was ore
of the largest in the history OF slml-
lar elections, which goes to show that
the capitol city of California has had
real awakening.
Sacramento was, until within the
I past five years, regarded as one OF
the least progressive of Pacific coast
cities Her people were prosperous,
in Iact, the foundation of many great
fortunes were laid there, but owing
to the fact that the lands
of the great valley in which
Sacramento is situated were held in
great tracts and devoted to wheat
growing, there was little opportunity
for growth of population in the
country, and consequently little city
growth. Recently there has been a
marked change. The wheat lands
are being irrigated and sold in small
tracts for intensive farming and
fruit culture. The power resources
of nearby mountain streams are be-
ing utilized. New industries are
springing up, railroads are building
and d new order of things prevails
The National Irrigation Congress:
was the first National Convention tC
meet in Sacramento and the people
rose as one man to meet the occasion
enthused not alone by the prospect O.
entertaining many distinguished
men, but more by the opportunity t.
further the splendid objects of th'
congress. The fund raised within th'
) city for this purpose amounted L
So, 900, or one dollar for every man
woman and child in the city. probabl
the largest per capita subscriptio
ever made by any city for any SIM
= lar event. This was supplemented b.
l $4,000 contributed by counties an
= individuals elsewhere in the state
The work of promotion occupie
, eight months and cost very nearl
. twenty thousand dollars, and the re
5 suits far more than justified the eH
, peuditure.
5 The voting of the bonds, $l,5OO.O0C
- means that every main road /
e Sacramento county will be mecada
= mized from county line. 1t mean
A that every bridge and culvert o
$ these roads will be of cement, stet
e CT stone. 1t means the erection of
: new courthouse and Jail, which, wit
/ the magnificent state capitol and tn
e new city hall, now being built at
q cost of $500, 200, comprise one of til
@ finest sets of public buildings to
: found in any city of the west.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-09-26

Children, School Children we want
your trade. a. c. drug department.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-09-26
Cures Old Sores.

Westmoreland, Kansas, Ballard,
Snow Linimeut Co., Your Snow Lini-
ment cured an old sore on the side OF
nv chin that was supposed to be a
cancer. The sore was stubborn and
would not yield to treatment, until /
tried Snow Liniment, which did the
work in short order. My sister, Mrs
Sophia ]. Carson, Allensville, Miffir
Co Pa. has Il sore and mistrusts that
it is a cancer. Please send her SOC
bottle. Sold by Arizona Copper Cos
druU department.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-09-26

The new 300-tOn furnace at Com
manche Mining & Smelling Cos. re
duction works was put into operation
last week and is proving a success be-
vond all expectations of its designer,
and the officials of the company. UP
to the present time the new furnace
has run thirty per cent. above Its
capacity with a fuel consumption no
greater than the old furnace. This
is attributed to its careful construc-
tion and the increased size, on the
principle that large fire Is proper
tionately harder to put out than d
smaller one. The new furnace was
designed and installed under the
direction of J. : Crowdus, until re-
Gently chief engineer for the Com
manch company. Viewed from the
ton the furnace is an oblong opening
in d concrete floor into which is being
constantly emptied large wheelbar-
| row loads of ore flux and coke. The
copper green flames that creep
through the surface, and an occa'
sional glimpse of the white hot mas:
below give some idea of the intense
heat. Raised three or four tee'
above the top of the furnace is al
immense hood, which tapers into
five-foot iron stack. This, afte
arising about twenty feet at an angl'
of 45 degrees takes a downward turI
and disappears into the floor AM
from there enters the large chimney
This device saves the dust carrie'
out of the furnace by the draught
and its mineral contents are saved
Independent.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-09-26
n Every Department Of Banking the T-1rSt Nat1
Rapl< Of Clifton Prepared to serve YOU Ill q
To Import $4,000 Head Of Cattle,

The largest importation of live
stock ever to come through I'll Paso
from Mexico in one season will pass
through this month. 1t is the big
pest shipment of livestock ever sent
out of Mexico by one man. The
Importation ar.ounts to $4,000 head of
cattle and sheep, for which 5000
was paid.
Colonel Charles f. Hunt, the well
known cattle dealer, will ship through
FL Paso during the next thirty days
"a. 900 lambs and q 900 head of steers
and yearlings, all from the ranch of
Luis Terrazas. Colonel Hunt bought
the shipment from Colorado parties
and the cattle for sSoath Park past
ure, Colorado and for the Kansas City
and California markets.
The first consignment of sheep
!. 600 head-reached FL Paso last
week. The rest of the herd will fol-
low in 5000 and 1000 lots as fast as
the railroads can handle them.
Twenty-Five hundred head of two
vear-old steers will go to Arizona and
Is. 900 head of four-year-old steers,
fat and ready for market, will be
divided between Kansas City and
California, while the remaining oOt
head of COWS will go to South Park
Colorado.
! The deal for this immense bunch OF
live stock was made by Colonel Hun
and the purchase price has beer
paid. The price paid for the steers
and cows was SIC gold per head, while
the sheep cost So head laid down il
Ell Paso.
AtS4a head Colonel Hunt will pa
the Ell Paso custom house SS4,OOO OF
the cattle, while the sheep at "
cents per head call for duties footing
up to S25, 800, making a grand total o
SIO9, 800 that Uncle Sam will pocke
on the transaction. 1t pays the en-
tire operating expenses OF the E
/ Paso customs house for two years.
The a, 600 head of sheep for Sout
Park are fine graded Merino sheep
in splendid condition and unshorn
They therefore carry considerabl
value in wool.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-09-26
General Robert E. Lee

was the greatest general the world
has ever known. Billiards. Snow
Eminent is the greatest Liniment.
Quickly cures all pains. 1t is within
the reach of all. T. H. Pointer,
Hampstead, Texas, writes: This is
to certify that Billiards. Snow Linl;
ment has been used in my household
for years and has been found to be an
excellent Liniment for Rheumatic
pains. | am never without it, a
lc, Co, drug department,
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-09-26
A Beautiful FLAG Presented to Gila.

Gila county's loyalty to Arizona and
single statehood and the proud dis
tinction the county won by casting
the largest vote against .jointure, is
soon to be recognized.
1t will be remembered that during
the Arizona-New Mexico statehood
controversy, Hon. Mark A Smith Of
fered d silk flag to the county cast
ing the smallest number of votes in
favor of jointure, and Gila won this
honor During his recent visit to
California, Mr.. Hamill of the Silver
Belt met Congressman Smith and
during the course of an interview
questioned him regarding the flag.
He assured the Globe man that it
would be Forthcoming and the follow
ing letter from Chairman Dillon, of
the territorial central committee,
evidences the fact that Mr.. Smith
has made good his promise:
PRESCOTT, Arizona, September Is, 1907.
Mr.. ]. II. Hamill, Globe, Arizona.
Dear Sir: l am sending you by ex,
press this date the silk flag which was
offered by the Hon. M. A. Smith tC
the county casting the highest per
centage of votes against joint state
hood and which was won by Gils
county.
On behalf of the territorial com
mittee l would ask that yourself ant
| the other committeeman from Gil;
formally present the same to tn
county with the compliments OF Mr
Smith.
1 take this opportunity of congratu
lating the people of Gila county o
the vote cast by them against join
statehood and of winning this beaut
full fag.-Silver Belt.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-09-26
Anster SAYS to Keep Cool and Wait.


Nathan L. Amster says: I'm my
opinion there has never been time
IN the history of the copper industry
that required more cool-headed and
sane thinking than at this time.
sHere we have the greatest possi-
1le prosperity in every quarter, every
laboring man being employed, crops
ire large and prices high: every rail-
road is showing tremendous increases
in traffice and every factory is unable
to fill orders.
-.It is generally conceded that cleo
tricity is the coming power to be u1ed
in every industry, as well as to turn
every wheel that carries traffic
:.Yet the many thousands of inves-
tors who have their money in the
producing copper mines haye ID the
mast two months been driven to think
that copper is almost becoming use
less, judging from the way their
securities are being thrown away at
any price that one may make
sis it now about tina that people
should begin to realize that the value
IF their shares does not merely con-
,ist OF a steel engraved certificate,
but represents mines, smelterS, rail-
road supplies, and, probably, large
amounts of treasury cash back or
every share they hold
SIT is my information that every
one of the legitimate mining COM
pany's shares listed on the Exchange
can cash in S1.5O in actual money for
everp dollar of present selling values.
.sThe trouble is that the great ma
:ority OF people that have their
money in stocks have no clear idea OF
what such stocks represent; they
merely have their eye on the quota
tions.
"Iu days like these one may hear
peaple say that such stock is gong
to $40 per share when l know that
there NAV be $50 of value back OF
the stock so mentioned. l am not
having in mind any particular stock
but knowing what do about the gen
eral situation. l know that what
say are facts.
at is true that we have today ar
accumulation of about l2o,OOO,OO'
pounds of copper, possibly $50, ,oo'
hounds. niNokowever, thai
anos lners in this country
he neighberhood of 600,
90, ,OO0, 600 pounds per an
u i. only about 4O0,OOO,OOo Il
DO pounds of copper on hano
6oes not take, therefore,
Riel to foresee what Will happer
'IyIfen these consumers realize thd
1.-the mining companies are not %oln&
) to give their product away. Thel
should begin to supply themselves a.
they ordinarily would, with a 20 pc
cent. of their actual consumption
Such buying would Immediately as
, simulate.
, "Let any one take sufficient pain
t to study the copper situation aud h
5 will realize very quickly that the en-
] tire visible supply of copper in tn
: world is practically held today by tn
t few metal selling agencies or by tn
( PRODUCERS. Should this be distribute
. AS naturally and ordinarily as it shoulc
n there would be no visible supply.
;. sit is true that the consumers nav
: today the upper hand of the Produ'
v ers. No large sales of copper haV
?. taken place since last March, but tn
O sales represented the production
= July l, so that, therefore, the pr'
: ducers have on hand the supplies
q July and August, but from that ther
y have been sales of between 4O,0OO,O'
:. and 5O,OOO,OOO pounds mostly abroa
= but some here.
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-09-26

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The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-09-26
Lost and Found.

Lost, between $50 a. m, yesterday
and noon today, bilious attack, with
nausea and sick headache. This loss
was occasioned by finding at A. Z. co.
drug department box of DIR. King
New Life Pill, the guaranteed cure
for biliousness, malaria and jaundice-
~ cents
The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-09-26

Don't be afraid to give Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy to your children.
1t contains no opium or other harm
full drug. 1t always cures. For sale
by all druggists.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-15
HOME TRADE FABLE
HOW THE TRANSPORTATION OF
A TOWN WAS EFFECTED.
A STORY WITH A MORAL
One Public Spirited Citizen Who
Realized the Big Possibilities and
Cultivated the Field to Ad.
VANTAGE.

Once upon a time there was a Man,
who in his youth was reared upon a
farm located near a Small Town of
Great Promise. Two weeks in each
year when he was not saving wood,
feeding the stock or picking potatoes,
he was allowed to attend the little red
schoolhOuse in the tom. By hard la
Dor during tie day, and persistently
reading u few old books which were
heirloom3 in his family, and each week
absorbing; the intelligence contained
in the Weekly Mirror, he, by the time
he could mark down his age at 10
years, had accumulated sufficient
knowledge to run away from home.
He wandered tc a large city and there
his great muscular power assisted to
gain fer himself a position as Chief
Scrubber in large store. He had not
acquired the cigarette habit, and his
faithfulness to his scrubbing brush,
and his unwillingness to know all
about his employers business, soon at
tracted the attention of the Old Man,
and at the end of a year he was pro-
NOTED to Head Rustler in the shipping
department at the large salary of eight
dollars a week.
His disregard for scooting when the
closing time came, and his total lack
Of swelled head so pleased the Old
Man that from time to time the ambi-
tious youth was advanced until at the
end of six years he was drawing the
biggest salary paid by the house, and
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-15
Death Won,

Death won in game of hide-and.
seek played several days ago in the
Dutch Kills section of Long Island
City by little Andrew Mourier of that
section, and seTeral of his schoolboy
friends When it came Andrews turn
to hide his companions could not find
him. They looked in all known hiding
places, but in vain. They even declar-
ed the game off and called All
home!" but there was no response
from their missing companion. Some
what mystified, his companions sepa-
rated and went home Andrew failed
to get in for dinner and his father
went in search of him. He asked his
boys companions to tell all they knew,
but they could say only that he went
to hide, and that that was the last
they saw of him. Rigorous search was
made without success. A few days
later, John Pekart, who lived just
across the way from where the Mou-
riers live, while graphing in his els
tern for lost bucket, brought up the
body of the missing boy. H. is sup
posed that the boy jumped into the
cistern to hide, and that the heavy.
glazed lid closed down on him as he
dropped into the water.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-15
DOG BRINGS UP KITTENS.
The Foster Mother Satisfied, Though
Sometimes Surprised.

Sometimes Surprised.
Down in Delaware City, Del. a
young mother dog, when she turned to
lick her four new born puppies, found
they did not respond to her tender
care. They had come into the world
lifeless.
They were her firstborn and she
was puzzled and grieved that they
paid no attention to the soft caresses
with which she strove to WOO them
to her. She finally ceased in despair,
and looking about her spied a mother
pussy, to whom pair of healthy kit
tens had just arrived
Jealous and indignant she flew to
the happy mother and seized and
shook her till the cat fed in terror
and did not return. Then the dog,
taking the kittens tenderly in her
mouth, carried them to her box and
adopted them as her own. There were
only two babies in place of her four,
but not being able to count she did
not notice the lack.
throve and waXed fat But since they
are older and have become playful
their conduct sometimes astonishes
their foster mother.
For instance, when they chase each
other up a tree she looks after them
with amazement and solicitude, ap-
parently rejecting that she never be-
haved that way when she was
puppy, and as soon as they alight on
the ground again she seizes them in
her mouth and carries them reprov-
1ngly back to their box. There are
probably other surprises in store for
her when she finds that their Ian
guage, instead of being bark, is
spit or new, but in the meantime
she is happy and self-satisfed.-
Country Life in America.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-15
ReIonned TO Him

"She was my woman. had right
to kill her" Morose and sullen, Max
Kredich declared this in the Butler
(Pa.) county Jail the other day while
he was awaiting trial for the murder
of his wife. Il go free" protested the
wife slayer, when the prospect of his
trial was suggested. Its none of
their business" When he struck down
his wife in their home at Lyndora last
December, half dozen boarders in
his house strove to restrain him from
abusing the little woman for an hour
before he broke her neck with a blow
of his bulky fist. Then he went at
them with a butcher knife, shouting,
1T is nobody's business if l kill her."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-15

He erected large brick building, and
soon he had installed in it great stocks
Of goods. Other merchants in the
town shock their heads. The Public
Spirited Man was certainly crazy.
Farmers when they came to town
looked up the big building with won
der The Weekly Mirror had to send
away for type to set up the page ad-
yertisement for the new store, and to
get new press for the printing Of cir
culars and posters.
One month after the opening of the
store the graveyard quietness of the
town had passed away. Streets were
lined with the teams and the wagons
grain had been started. The railroad
placed new switch in the yard to ac'
commodate the increased business.
This son of the old town blacksmith
reopened the old shop closed for years
because of no trade. New life was
rapidly being injected into the place.
There was an election. A lot Of
newcomers selected the Public Spir-
tied Citizen for chairman of the town
board. He was elected. In six months
the streets were paved, an electric
lighting plant was in operation, along
with d water works. The Great Store
keeper had a way of doing things, and
he did them. News of the activity of
the town reached nearby villages, and
the people came to see the Big Store
and to buy goods. A cold storage
plant in connection with new COM
mission house operated by friends Of
the Storepeeker, caused Farmers to
bring in tons of butter and hundreds
of thousands of eggs, and chickens
and other produce. The transforma-
ton was quick from a Dead Town to
Lively Small City. A high school
was established, new churches built,
and some of the pious people were
shocked to see an opera house erect.
ed. The Panhandle & Skedunk rail-
road, which for. years had been rum
ming 20 miles from the town SO
changed it's route as to have it on the
main line, so the place had two rail.
roads. Enterprising men who wanted
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-15
GOLD is NOT GOOD IN CHINA.
What Money Is Depends Upcr the
Locality, Says a Traveller.

'It is hard to define just what
money is" said Representative julius
Kahn, of San Francisco, recently: "At
best, it seems to be a relative term
that is, what passes for money in one
part of the world is regarded with sus-
picion at some other place.
Gold is supposed to be the one cir
culating medium that passes current
everywhere, but 1t is not true In the
far east, for instance, the natives posi-.
lively refuse to take anything but
silver Gold is not money to them and
in Washington or New York or any
Of the cities along the Atlantic coast
when hand a man a ten dollar or $40
gold piece to change he looks upon
me with suspicion. He almost says
in SO many words that he would
rather not have it. But let me hand
out worn and dirty bill and he &C.
cepts it without looking at it.
"Out in California bills are still
more or less of curiosity and conse.
quently the people are not accus-
toned to them Go into a bank in San
Francisco and tender $50 bill for
change. The chances are that the
president of the bank and the entire
staff of officials would be called into
consultation as to it's genuineness and
/ doubt il there is a store in the town
where a bill would be accepted and
changed offhand. We are all creatures
of habit and custom rules the world
after all.
1.-THE silver coins in circulation in
China" Mr.. Kahn continued, "are oh.
jects of curiosity to foreigners. In
China the coinage of money is let to
private parties and the amount of sill
yer in coin depends largely on the
personal honesty of the man in charge
of the particular mint. On this ac-
count each coin as it passes around in
circulation has to be stamped with the
initials of the merchant last having
it in his possession. The last man
stamping the coin is held responsible
for any shortage in weight in the
coin. The result is that the coins
from repeated stampings, resemble,
small saucers and each one fits into
the other when stacked up in pile.
I imagine that they might be useful
for picnic purposes. but they are GER
tainly inconVenient to carry around.
as anyone can bear witness who has
Travelled through the aoWery king
a