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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-13
CARPENTER AND LAMB co,
WILL LOG EXTENSIVELY
Dempsey& Dougherty, SUBJ Contractors,
Will Cut 5,000,0 900 Feet, North
Of Deer River.

The Carpenter & Lamb Lumber
company of Minneapolis, for which
concern A. A. Goodrich of this city
is resident manager, will log on an
extensive scale in the country north
of Deer River. on the Itasca Log,
ging company's railroad, during the
coming winter.
Dempsey & Dougherty, who are
cutting timber for the Carpenter &
Lamb company, expect to cut about
100000 feet of pine before mex,
spring, which will finish their con.
tract with the Carpenter & Lamb
company, the original amount o1
which was 40,000,00O feet.
The timber, which will be cut by
Dempsey & Dougherty, is located
about thirty miles north of Dee,
River. The logs will be hauled from
the camps to Deer River on the
railroad and dumped into the Miss.
issippi River, to be RATED down the
stream to Keokuk, Iowa, where the
Tabor Lumber company, purchasers
of the logs, will saw them into
timber.
Mr.. Goodrich went to Deer River
last night to see how the work OF
building camps this winter is pro.
crossing, north of Deer River.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-13
Had Successful Hunt,

F.S. Lycan returned yesterday
from the southern part of the state,
where he had been for week enjoy
ing hunt for small game.
Mr.. Lycan was a member of a
party made up of his brother, w. S..
Lycan of Crookston, D. E. Swygart
of St. Paul and Walter Wilmont of
Minneapolis. They went to LaSeur
and hunted in that vicinity for quail
and other game birds. They were
successful in bagging a good bunch
of birds, including quite a number
of quail, several of which Mr.. Lycan
brought home with him.
10co1 roorc ~, oe+ o.ra
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-13
Dozen Lives Endangered.

Gallipolis, O., Nov. ia log raft
ran into the show boat carrying the
Bryan Stock company six miles above
this city and sunk It. The company
Of twelve members narrowly escaped
from drowning, but by heroic efforts
managed to reach here, where they
received aid and were cared for. The
raftsmen were arrested and Jailed at
Point Pleasant
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-13
N. & !. Baggage Room.

The large amount of baggage
handled at the M. & I. depot has so
over-crowded the small room in
the depot, used as baggage room,
that the M. & I. officials have
decided to erect a building indie
pendent from the depot, to be used
as the baggage room. The new
building will be frame affair, the
dimensions of which are 16x18 feet,
and the work of construction was
commenced this morning. The new
room will be a matter of great
convenience to the local baggage
man.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-13
OBTAINED BIG YIELD
OF CLOVER AT PILLAGER
c. [. Lasher Tells of Wonderful Re.
suits Of Clover Raising on His
Fine Farm.

c. L. Lasher of this city, who, in
addition to conducting several NOV
ing-picture theatres throughout the
country, is a farmer of known repute,
has this fall accomplished much in
the raising of clover seed.
Mr.. Lasher owns farm at Pilla.
ger in Cass County, where he has
for several years raised agricultural
products on the most up-to-date
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-13
Eight Thousand in 1910.

Kelliher Journal: A. E. Schusser
went to Bemidji last Saturday
to spend the day in that hustling
and fast growing metropolis of
Northern Minnesota. There is no
more progressive and eEterp1ising
town thar Bemidii and the predic-
ton is freely made that she will
have a population of 5000 in
1910.
Local news on last page
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-13

plan. He states that he made a
very enviable record this year in the
production of clover seed on his
farm. A peck of clover seed was
planted on two acres of Mr.. Lasher's
Pillager farm, which produced
crop netting $1O4 for the seed which
was harvested from the clover.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-13
Maybe Twas Bogus.

Kelliher Journal: "A man was
seen on the streets of Kelliher Mon
day with a handful of green stuff
that closely resembled money. A
mob of men Immediately gave chase,
but the stranger succeeded in max
ing his getaway into the tall timbers.
How the stranger got this far into
the woods with real money is a
mystery.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-13
FIahertY Buried at Rock Island.

]. J. Ellis returned yesterday
evening from Rock Island, Illinois,
to which place he accompanied the
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-13

Additional local matter will be found
on fourth page.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-11-13

Thanksgiving post cards at the
Pioneer office.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-08
STOCK OF GOLD
UNITED States
AVAILABLE
RETIRING DIRECTOR OF THE
MINT MAKES ESTIMATE
OF AMOUNT.
GRAND TOTAL OF $l,472,093.2O9
Some Possible Sources of Error Are
Pointed Out-Assumed That
Gold is Brought Back.

The retiring director of the mint,
George E. Roberts, has been for a
number of years conducting an in
quiry for the purpose of verifying
the treasury estimates of the stock
of gold in the United States, or of
tracing errors therein, and has
given out the following summary of
his conclusions:
For a number of years the treas
ury estimates of the stock of gold in
the United States have been ques-
toned by competent students, who
have believed them to be high. The
amounts reported to be in the treas
ury and in national banks are not
disputed, but the large residue as
sumed to be in other banks and in
circulation is considered doubtful
quantity. For example, the estimate
for June 80, 1906, was as follows:
United States treas'y.$ SO4,3 ~, 81
National banks .... 11S,5l3, 2Sl
National banks by
clearing house cert. 9,197 ,OOO
Other banks and in
circulation .... 4SO,94 4, 1875
Total .@l'f
The report of the comptroller OF
the currency in 1906 shows that state
and other banks not in the national
system reported to him as holding
on that date total of $54 ,391,219,
including clearing house certificates
These banks also held $S1, 571 ,6S1
in unclassified "cash," and $7,O27,-
629 in specie" Allowing the usual
percentage of this to be gold and
making some further allowance for
private banks not responding to the
controllers unofficial inquiry,
$1O0,0OO,O0O is considered a fair
estimate for the gold coin in banking
institutions other than national.
The laws of the state of California
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-08
FINANCIAL
CONDITIONS
DISCUSSED
LEADER IN NEW YORK FINANCE
GIVES HIS IMPRESSIONS
OF THE FUTURE.
NOT SUFFICIENT VOLUME MONEY
A Careful and Conservative View Of
The Situation Taken BY
Close Observer.

John w. Gates, a man considered
to be good authority on business
conditions. sailed from New York for
Europe day or two ago for three
months visit. Before sailing he gave
his Impressions of the money market
to the Wall Street, New York, Jour-
nal as follows. Mr.. Gates has evil
IDENTIFY given the subject much care
full thought and his interview is re-
produced here for the benefit of the
people. Mr.. Gates said:
There is no getting around the
fact that slowing-up in business
mas set in, but do not wish to have
the Interpretation that we are fac
ing serious recession placed upon
tnls statement. What l mean is that
business is easing up, which is a nat
ural sequence of the scarcity of mon
ey and the high rates corporations
are forced to pay for accommodations
to carry through improvements and
extensions necessary
The truth Is, there is not suffi-
cient money for legitimate business
purposes. Business has grown too
fast in comparison with our money
supply. We will have to slow up
little until the money supply catches
up.
Il do not know when this read
justment will take place, but there
Is one thing certain, there will have
| to be some drastic financial legisla-
ton created for the purpose of ex-
banding our money supply before the
vast and unlimited resources of the
country can be developed as they
should be developed.
Prices of many stocks are below
intrinsic values, but We cannot have
| a broad market as long as railroads
and other corporations have to pay
from 6 to per cent for accommo-
dalton, an evidence of which is found
in the large returns to the investor
on short-term notes.
There are at present no indica-
lions that we are going to have an
easy money market for the rest of
the year. An active bull market and
continuation of the pressure which
has characterized all lines of bust
| ness over the last year or two would
create money stringency that would
prove disastrous to all lines of bust
ness. 1t is because of this that say
| slowing up in business will prove
beneficial in the end. When we get
some good, substantial currency leg
islation we will then not have to live
in fear of prohibitive rates for money
on every little squirt in business.
Legislation looking toward the
correction of alleged corporate
abuses will prove beneficial in the
end, although it has not had a ten
dency to improve conditions in Wall
street. OF course, such investiga-
lions will have to be conducted in a
sane, conservative and orderly way,
so as not to impair or destroy the
credit of legitimate enterprises"
Mr.. Gates added that he believed
Theodore Roosevelt would be the
next Republican presidential nomin-
ee, and that if nominated he would
be elected.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-08
DOLLY WARDEN
IMPROVING WITH
EVERY BLAST
OLD VICTORIA MINE LEFT VALU.
ABLE ORE ON THE DUMP
FOR THIRTY YEARS.
AN OLD SHELTER STAG PILE
Several Other Properties Arc Being
Closely Looked After and
Developed.

F. A. Herell came in from Dolly
Warden Monday evening. Mr.. Herell
is largely interested in mining in
that district and says the strike re-
ported made in the Moore and Nc
Auly shaft, as published in The News,
was not overdrawn. He says that
bornite ore was found that gave an
assay value of rs per cent copper.
The shaft is in ore at the bottom
and it was promising find.
Mr.. Herell has spent the past six
years in and near the Dolly Warden
district and never for one moment
of that time has his confidence in its
outcome been in any doubt. He has
sixteen claims and thinks that every
one of them contains fortune.
He has sunk a shaft in the iron
dyke to depth of 40 feet. The shaft
is in white iron, encountered at a
depth of % feet and is still in the
same character of formation. He has
a shaft down in the BiMetallic group
60 feet. The Bi-Metallic group is on
the west side of the range, about six
miles south of the Mizpah camp. The
shaft has been in ore from the grass
roots and is improving as depth is at
tanned He has done $50 feet of
work at other points on his group,
and they all show ore on the sur
face.
Folsom, better known as Shorty"
was sinking shaft through quartz
lite and few days ago struck metal
lie copper that promises to be eX-
tensive.
The Millick boys have a carload
of ore sacked and ready for shipment
Thirty years ago the old Victoria
company built a smelter eight miles
from Dolly Warden springs, and did
little smelling, but for some reason
the smelter was not success. When
the smelter was closed down there
were about 100 tons of ore on the
smelter dump and 1000 tons left on
the dump at the mine. Recently a
Mr.. Sleen has been shipping the ore
from the smelter site that has lain
for thirty years and has been sorted
three times already. He has shipped
five cars and is now sacking the Stag
from the smelter dump for shipment
to Salt Lake. The old Victoria is
now under bond to r. T. Root, of
Denver. He expects to start work
on the old mine very shortly. There
is a shaft down in Victoria ground
10 feet and in good ore all the way
down. There is steam hoist over
the shaft and crosscut from the
50-foot level of 1877 feet, and in ore
all the way that will average Z per
cent in copper.
The Dolly Warden Copper mine,
under the management of George F..
Nix, is looking better with every
blast.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-08
COMING PRODUCER.

VERNON, New, Aug. 5.-That the
Opdyke lease on the Seven Troughs
Consolidated property can be classed
among the coming producers of the
Seven Troughs district is now an al
most assured fact.
During the past week develop
ments in this lease have been very
gratifying. The small streak of sug-
ar quartz which only showed width
of few inches a week ago has wild
ened to Is inches and shows every
indication of widening with depth.
Not only is the quartz streak becom-
ing stronger, but the values show a
corresponding increase, some of the
paintings giving colors that indicate
the values running above the 5000
mark, while the general average of
the streak goes better than $50 in
yellow metal.
w. P. Opdike, the lucky owner of
the lease, says that the pay streak is
dipping out of the shaft to the west.
This is regarded as being very favor
able, owing to the fact that another
quartz ledge has been opened at the
surface few feet west of the collar
of the shaft. These two lodges, it is
believed, will come together very
shortly and form a big ore shoot
Mr.. Opdike Is timbering the shaft
and otherwise preparing to sink to a
greater depth. When the 50-foot
point is reached he intends cross
cutting to the ledge and do little
prospecting, after which arrange
ments will be made to install mach
fnery and go after the ore in the
proper way.
The find recorded by Mr.. Opdike
has created quite a sensation among
the leasers and mining men and
there has been a great rush to Sc
cure leases ON the nrODerty
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-08
At The Altar.
Fortunate Jones.

Jones-Fine time we had at the
club last night, Ell?
Brown-You bet Did you get
home all right?
Jones-No, l was arrested before
I got there and spent the night in the
police station.
Brown-Lucky dog. l reached
home.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-08
ORE FROM BALD MOUNTAIN.

o. E. Allison, Ben Dial, Frank
Wolf and the two Farlinger boys
own a group of six claims on Bald
Mountain and received Monday night
a quantity of ore from the bottom of
an eleyen-foot hole on their property
that looks good enough to eat"
The ore is from the Copper King
claim and is being assayed for gold,
silver and copper and the owners are
anxiously waiting for the returns.
The ledge where the sample came
from was four inches wide on the
surface, but 20 inches in width has
been developed.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-08

A difference of one cent per pound
in the price of copied makes diff
ference to the copper-producing
mines of the United States, Mexico,
and Canada, of over $1,000, 900 per
annum at the present rate of pro-
ductiOn
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-08

require the money of the state, cOun-
ty and municipal governments to be
kept in the immediate custody of the
treasurers, and this is held to mean
that the cash must be in the vaults OF
their Offices instead of on deposit in
banks. The aggregate amount OF
gold soin so held in the state of Cali
fornia on the first Monday in July
1906, was $20,151,4 400. These are
the only large holdings of gold OF
which there is definite knowledge.
The total, therefore, of gold which
may be said to have been in sight in
this country on June 80, 1906, was
$1,112,201,82, leaving $360,793,-
384 to be considered Gin other banks
and in circulation" For this last
item it is evident there can be nc
exact figures. The sum total is ar
rived at by the method described be-
low, and after the analysis above Civ
en- is made the remainder is assigned
to the unknown holdings.
The treasury estimate dates from
June 80, 1873, when DR.. Henry r
Linderman, director of the mint, es-
timated the total stock of the country
at lOO,UUU,VUU hO
then were favorable to a close esti-
mate. The country was on paper
basis, and the stock of gold compare
lively small. DR.. Linderman in franz
ing his estimate, said that he had
taken the amounts in the treasury
and national banks and added an al
lowance of $20,00O,OO0 for the
amount in circulation on the Pacific
coast and $1O,00O,000 for the hold
ings of the public in other parts OF
the country.
Since 1873 the coinage of the
minis and the imports of United
States coin and an allowance for the
amount consumed industrially have
been regularly deducted. BY this
method the estimate had been built
up from year to year to the totals
used.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-08
HAS RETURNED FROM
BALD MOUNTAIN

James Curtis came in from Bald
Mountain, via Elko, Monday night.
Mr. Curtis reports every mine on the
Mountain as looking we'll. He says
that representatives from the Copper
Basin company will shortly be in
Ely for the. purpose of getting Churn
drills to prospect on the Mountain
for copper.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-08
Heard At The Telephone.

Hello. Is this the Grand Hotel?
asked the man at the phone.
"It is" sweetly responded the
young woman at the other end.
Twill you please ask Henry Perk-
ms, who is stopping there, to ring
me up this afternoon"
Eyes, sir. Who shall I say he is
to ring?"
I'D. B. Feely."
"B. d. Greeley?"
mo, no! D. B. Feely.'
'P. Beef Healy?"
mo. Can't you get it? Listen
d. b. Feely. Understand
Spell it, please"
'D-got that? A, B, C, D-got
it? understand? A, Ball
right? F, E, E, L, Y-Feely. Got
it? All right. Just tell him to ring
up. He'll know what it means"
When Mr.. Perkins returned to the
hotel he received a memorandum
saying. please call up A, b, c, d,
A, b, F, E, e, Yelly."
At The Altar.
"Will you have this here woman
to be your lawful. welded wife,"
That's what I lowed / would"
evil you love, honor and obey
hes?"
"Ain't you got that switched
round, parson?" said the groom.
"John." said the bride-elect,
Don't you reckon the parson knows
his business? Answer the question:"
"Yes, sir" said the groom, meekly.
~ reckon I'll have to!"-Atlanta
Constitution.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-08
THE SILVER MARKET.

Silver is still going up, and is
fuctuating between 691R and 20
cents per ounce. Should silver go
above 20 cents many mines in this
county that have been closed for
years can resume operations at a
profit.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-08

The highest and lowest points in
the United States are in the same
county and only fifty miles apart.
The highest is the summit of Mount
Whitney, over 1880 feet, in Inyo
county, California, and the lowest is
a point in Death Valley, which is
APT feet below sea level.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-08
BUILDING AN UNDER
GRADE CROSSING

The Nevada Northern is building
an under-grade crossing at the mouth
of the first or lower tunnel up the
canyon to accommodate the Garden
street line of the road and make the
wagon road more safe for teams.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-08

The attempt to get something for
nothing is not exclusively character.
istic of the mining business. The
prospector endeavors to get the value
of developed mine for his prospect
and the capitalist seeks a developed
mine at the price of a prospect. The
same principle has been commented
upon in connection with industries
other than mining.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-08-24
MANHATTAN WOLFTONE TO
PASS INTO NEW HANDS

spondent, after considerable reluctance,
that they had made a tender for the
wolftone and were prepared to negotiate
for the Little Grey and Gold Wedge.
That they have the money with which to
back up any deal they may make is
vouched for by credentials presented to
the persons representing the local end
of the proposed transfer. These GENTLE
men are also authority for the statement
that the w~olftone end of the compact
is practically made L. w. Rakstraw.
secretary of the wolftone company. and
who with Frank Naughton of this city.
owns the control of Wolftone shares. is
now en- route to Nevada from the east.
AS soon as he arrives here the final me-
gotiations looking toward the transfer
of wolftone control will be made.
The Wolftone mine Is considered one
of the very best in the Gold hill section.
where are likewise located the Little
Grey, Gold Wedge. Union No. 3. Stray
Dog and other promising and productive
mining acreages. 1t is located about 500
feet west of the Thanksgiving mine and
carries the extension OF the valuable
Thanksgiving ledge. Adjoining Is the
Mustang Extension estate and in the i'm
mediate vicinity are the Mustang,
Broncho, Breyfogle and other properties
which are undergoing active develop
ment.
The wolftone ledge has an average
width of 20 feet for a length of 500 feet
and for that distance is high grade mill
ing product in it's entirety. This ledge
has been extensively developed and has
improved in gold grade with depth. The
mean depth of the main working shaft
is 212 feet and at that level the ore body
is well-deined and presents every indi-
cation of maintaining its permanency
and value with further development at
greater Depth. The quartz is well i'm
~pregnated with sulphides and not infre-
quently shows gold in the free.
A new ledge was recently opened up
on the north end Of the estate which
bids fair to rival the main Wolftone In
point of value. It's average width IL 4
feet and it's average gold grade $50 the
ton. A drift has been sent out along its
strike for a length of SO feet and every
pound of rock taken out is high grade
mill orc.
The estate of the Little Grey and
Gold Wedge companies are so situated
as to make them particularly desirable
to any syndicate securing control OF
wolftone. Both carry lodges yielding
Ligh gold values and which give unmis-
taxable Indications Of preserving vein
and value continuity to great depth. A
combination of the three estates would
make one of the most valuable pieces of
mining realty in the camp and one that
could be readily worked through the
medium of a single main working shaft.
That such 4 combination woul be Of
inestimable value to the mining inter-
ests of the camp is so apparent 1t Is
hardly necessary to mention the fact.