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The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-12
From tine Producers Standpoint.

John Gillie, general manager at
Butte, Montana, of the Amalgamated
Copper company's properties, In re-
viewing the situation, cites some
facts that cannot be overlooked and
which are in support of good ices
for copper; he says, in part
81 regard the present drop II ,rIce
as temporary. We have receiN d no
quotations lately, though up o the
time of the telegraphers strike we
received copper selling quotations
regularly, but the last quotation
showed decided drop. One of the
strongest reasons that might be- ad-
advance in price is the absolute re-
ders for time delivery. You place
your order with the understanding
that it. will be filled as soon as they
are able. There is another reason.
1t lies in the fact that five concerns
use. about one-half of the copper sup
ply. These companies refused to pay
25 cents and decided to use up every
pound of surplus copper on hand, in
the belief that they would not have
TO pay more than 25 cents when they
came to replenish their stock. If this
is correct, it can easily be seen what
difference their action would make
when it is remembered that these
five companies use 525, 1000, 900
pounds annually, or about 125, 000,-
600 pounds more than is produced by
the Amalgamated and the Calumet &
Hecla combined. Last year the AM
algamated made about 800, 900
pounds. The Calumet & Hecla, | be-
lieve, produced about 100000, 1000
pounds. Now, the American Brass
company uses $50, 100000 pounds a
year. Roebling e Sons company use
100, 100000 pounds; the General
Electric, 100000 pounds and the
American Steel & Wire and the Ma
tional Conduit, 50,000,000 pounds
each. Consider the effect of the with
drawal of these five from the market
for three months. Then there are
five or six smaller companies whose
consumption mounts into millions.
If all are using up their regular
stock, the reason for the drop Is ap-
parent. But consider what will be
the result when these companies are
again forced into the market. l be-
lieve we shall see copper metal soar
ing again shortly"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-12
COPPER IS
ACCUMULAT|NG
CONSIDERABLE UNCERTAINTY
STILL PREVAILS AS TO FU-
TURE PRICES.

BOSTON, Aug. 11-Although cleo
trolytic copper is selling at IS cents
in limited quantities, there seems to
be absolutely nothing doing in Lake
copper at any price SO that the ac-
emulation of this brand of metal is
constantly increasing. The larger
companies have made no sales for
four or five months and deliveries
were, so far as can be ascertained
completed by June 80. Stocks OF
copper at the Lake must now be near
the 50,000,000 pound mark.
Even though the prices of raw
copper are now down to about the 20
cent level there has been no recent
change in the base price of sheet
copper-2S cents-which was estab-
lshed at the time the first drop was
announced by the leading producers.
There is at the moment practically
no new business coming forward in
this particular line.
New York-The large selling in
terests are quite confident that with
the cut in price of electrolytic copper
to Is cents and probable correspond
ing reduction in price of lake the
minimum limit has been temporarily
reached.
Asked about the present situation,
the representative of one of the larg-
est selling agencies says:
Following the cut in price to g
cents consumers are buying sparingly
and will doubtless continue to do so.
We hope, however, that the limit has
been reached and can see nothing at
the present time which indicates
/, hn wiz
manufacturing interests, have been
holding off from making purchases
and we know of several million
pounds which will in all probability
he taken by them"
New York-The representative of
one of the largest wire drawing COM
panies said yesterday that it would
be week before it would be known
how general the response would be
lto the cut in prices.
Copper manufacturers are taking
no chances he said. ''They were
loaded up last winter with larger
stocks of copper than they ever car
ried before, and they are left with
some of it still on their hands. They
are not going to buy except from
hand to mouth in a dropping market
and they won order anead until tney
can sound their market and see what
response reduction in price is going
to bring from their customers.
I'm it's finality the whole question
of whether copper is going lower or
not depends upon the business situa-
ton. There is not enough copper to
go around when business is in full
swing and there is too much when
expansion is checked. If the ultimate
users of copper are confident in the
immediate future, copper will remain
at the present quotation if it does
not go higher. If they are afraid OF
hard times the metal is bound to
keep going down till it strikes bal
ance with lessened production. The
market cant be held up artifically for
long"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-12

which can produce copper at cost
of 10 cents a pound; fewer that can
produce it at eight cents, and very
few that can produce it at less than
seven cents a pound. The cost of
mining and reducing ton of ore at
any particular mine can be estimated
but variation in the percentage of
copper contained in the ore will, of
course, make change in the cost OF
the metal a pound. Thus mine that
can stope ore and smelt it at cost
of S. ton can produce copper at 10
cents a pound, if the ore carries 20
per cent copper; but if the copper
content of the ore is doubled then
the cost a pound is at once lowered
to cents pound of metal.
A curious fact however, is that
the mines that can mine and smelt or
treat copper ore at the low cost of
SIS ton are generally low-grade-
two or three per cent metal, and sell
dom seem to produce higher grade
of ore. Some we'll managed copper
properties only mine their lowest
grade ore when the price of the met
al is high, reserving the better grades
for less favorable market conditions
BY this means they make profit
from the lowest grade ore, and also
make profit from the richer ore, 6
policy that adds years of life to g
mine.
| 1t is not generally appreciated
however, that the higher cost of raw
material, higher transportation rates
and higher wages have increased the
cost of producing copper materially
within the past two years. This fac
tor must be taken into consideration
when figuring on the expected droI
in copper prices. The increase il
copper production last year, accord
ing to the governments figures, was
in the neighborhood of per cent, the
smallest increase in years past..Nev
York Commercial.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-12
OVerdOnc.

Clancy had been on the job one
day, when he came to the boss and
asked:
"Can you use another man? Ny
brother is out of work
"Is he a good man. asked the
boss.
every bit as good as | am re-
piled Clancy.
Then bring him around said the
boss.
The next day Clancy reported with
his brother. On the same evening he
went to the boss and again asked:
"Can you use another man? My
father is cut of work"
SIS he good MANI" asked the
boss.
HE is as good as me and my
brother put together" replied Clancy.
"Then bring him around and you
and your brother stay at home. :
Hapgood's.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-12
RICHEST COPPER
IN THE STATE
FOUR FOOT LEDGE CUT IN TUN-
NEAR HAWTHORNE.
SHEETS OF THE NATIVE METAL
Ledge Much Broken, and Seams Run
in Every Direction, All Very
Rich.

RENO, Sept. 11.-What is proba-
bly, the richest copper ore ever dis
covered in Nevada has been found
near the head of Cat creek, about
nine miles north of Hawthorne,
where a ledge carrying immense val
ues in native copper, with secondary
values in gold and silver, has been
cut.
The samples of ore which have
found their way to this office show
T the rock to be very much broken,
either by heat or by the weather and
is scanned in every direction, the
seams being filled with native copper,
evidently forced there while in a
molten state.
May Change with Depth.
The assay certificates show the
copper values to run all the way from
40 to 80 per cent in the red metal,
although the man from Missouri cam
not help wondering what the badly
broken condition of the ledge por-
tends for the great values when
depth is attained.
j. -.olman Buck, in writing of the
discovery in the Western Nevada Mi
ner, wakes eloquent in describing the
discovery, and says:
1.-The scene in the tunnel on both
drifts is one to dazzle the eye and
palsey the tongue" and then goes on
to liken the tunnel interior to a we'll
stocked jewelry store.
Two Tunnels.
The discovery was made in the
workings of the Walker Lake Reser-
walton Exploration company. A tun-
mel has been run to the hanging wall,
a distance of 65 feet, where the vein
has been cut at the S5foot level. An
other tunnel further down the can
yon will tap the vein at depth of
600 feet, which will tell the story of
the permanency of the ledge.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-12

You will have to hurry-if you get
in-on our low price Building Ma
terial. Ely Townsite Co.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-12
DROP IN COPPER'S PRICE
WILL AFFECT OUTPUT
MANY MINERS UNABLE TO PRO-
DUCE METAL BELOW 1S
CENTS.

The earnings of many of the cop
per mining companies for the next
six months seem to be matter OF
considerable conjecture at the pres
ent time.
A great deal is being said about
the large decrease in earnings which
most of the copper companies are
bound to suffer in the course of the
next few months by reason of the
recent decline in the price of the
metal from % cents to IS cents a
pound.
While decrease in earnings is in
evitable, considering the extraordi-
nary profits they have made in the
,ast year, the fact seems to be en-
rely overlooked that the companies
estimating their profits or calcu-
ating their net earnings have always
,ased their earning capacity on a 10
20 16 cent copper market.
No sane copper organization with
view of demonstrating what its
plant can accomplish under normal
conditions would attempt to figure 1t
out on any basis above Is cents, IN
asmuch as such a price for the metal
has in the past 81 years occurred but
twice.
The Year 1880 Memorable.
After the "a cent market of 1880
the price receded gradually for pc
riod of three years averaging 8
cents a pound for two years after the
high prices. In 1888 it dropped to
Is cents.
From 1900 the price has fluctuated
around 16 cents, 1902 and 1903 be-
ing the bad years, with copper down
to ~ and 10 cents. This was due
of couse to the breaking up of the
pool. which had been taking up al
the excess output of the metal.
1t is not realized among investing
circles, judging from the remarks
heard, that copper at is cents repre-
sents the high price at which the
metal has sold for something like Is
years. At that rate it will be seer
that copper companies at the presen
time are enjoying high prices fol
their product and making money a
rate of from two to three cents
more a pound than their operating
estimates are figured on.
Will Cut Down Production.
Lower prices for copper will even
tually serve to cut down production
as there are many small mines tina
cannot operate profitably upon any
thing below a 16-cent basis AS i
we'll known high copper prices inva
riably stimulate production, and as
result of the sharp upward movemen
in copper every mine that is WORT
working has been contributing to TIL
country's supplies. The policy of tn
large companies to work their low
grade ores in preference to high
grade ores on rising market ha
also kept down production.
There are some copper mine
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-12

Lumber! Lumber! Lumber! See
our ad on Page Six
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-12

The statement that the author is
unknown, however, is incorrect. as
It is well known among newspaper
men generally that none other than
"Bill" Devere a famous editor of the
palmy days of Virginia City included
his Walk, On You, Walk in a
small book of his stuff that was pub
lished in Denver several years ago.
The Fairview editor has also err
roneously changed the location of the
first line which reads as Devere orig
inally wrote it, up the road from
Denver town"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-12
MINERS
UNUSUAL STUNT

THE following poem appeared some
years ago in one of the San Francisco
papers, where it received much COM
ment, but the authorship has never
been authoritatitavely settled"
Such was the lead recently at
tached to the poem as published in
the Fairfield News.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-12

81 just met Miss Nuritch," said
Phyllis, land she said she was in a
great hurry to get down town and
buy some gloves for your feet. What
on earth was she driving at?" MY
feet?" said Ethel. "Oh! I under
stand. I invited her to my fete this
afternoon. philadelphia Press.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-12

How long can man go without
air." II do not know. The long
est Pullman trip I ever took occupied
seven days" louisville Courier
Journal.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-12

rOne0uSly changed the location oil the
first line which reads as Devere orig
inally wrote it. up the road from
Denver town"
WALK, D-N YOU, WALK.
Up the road from Reno town
To where the mines their treasure
hide,
The road is long, and many miles
The golden store and town divide.
Along this road one summers day
There toiled a tired man.
Begrimed with dust, the weary way
He cussed as some folks can.
The stranger hailed passing team
That slowly dragged its load along.
His hail reused up the teamster old,
And checked his merry song.
"Say-y, stranger wall; whoa
kin | walk behind your load
A spell, in this yer road?"
"Wall, no yer can't walk, but git
Up on this seat and ride; git up
hyar."
Nope, that amt what want,
Fur it's in your dust that's like a
smudge
l want to trudge, fur l deserve it.
"Wall, pard, | amt no hog. an I
don't
Own this road afore nor hind
So jest git right in the dust
An walk eff that's the way yer cimed.
Gee up go lang" the driver said.
The creaking wagon moved again,
While close behind the stranger
trudged
And clouds of dust rose up again.
The teamster heard the stranger talk
AS If two trudged behind
Yet, looking round, could only spy,
A single lonely man.
Yet, heard the teamster, words like
these
Come from the dust as from a cloud,
For the weary stranger spoke his
mind,
His thought he uttered loud.
And this the burden of his talk:
walk, now, d-n you, walk,
Not the way you went to Reno,
But walk, d-n you, jest walk.
went up to the mines and made yer
stake,
'Nough to take yer back to the state
Whar We were born.
WHARF in hell's yer corn?
Wall, walk, d-n we, walk.
Dust in yer eyes, dust in yer nose,
Dust down yer throat, and
On yer clothes; can't hardly talk.
| know it, but walk, d-n We, walk. y
What did We do with ali yer tin?
Vas, blew every cent of it in;
Got drunk, got sober, got drunk agin.
Wall, walk, d-n We, walk.
What did We do? What didn't ye do?
Why, when ye were thar yer gold
dust flew,
Ye thought it fine TO keep openin'
wine,
Now walk, d-n &c, walk
"Stop to drink? What, d-n water?
Why, thar,
Water with you want anywhar.
Twas wine, extra dry. Oh,
You flew high,
Now walk, d-n We, walk.
Chokes yer, this dust? Wall, that
Amt the wust.
When you git back whar
The diggins are,
No pick no shovel, no pan;
Wall, yer healthy man,
Walk, d-n ye, walk.
The fools don't all go to Reno town,
Nor do they all from the mines come
down.
Most all of us have, in our day,
In some sort of shape, some kind of
Painted the town with the real old
Dipped into stocks or made some
bluff,
Mixed wine, old and new,
Got caught in wedlock by some
shrew,
Stayed out all night, tight,
Rolled home in the morning light
With crumpled tie and torn claw
hammer,
N woke up next day with a katzen-
TANNER,
And walked. Oh, d-n it, how we
walked.
Now don't try to yank every bun.
Don't try to have all the fun,
Lon't think you know it all,
Don't think that real estate won't
fall,
Don't try to bluff on only an ace,
Don't get stuck on pretty face,
Don't believe every jays talk,
For if you do you can bet you'll walk.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-07-11

Barney Sheridan has retired from
the Kansas City Post after an eight
months stormy though brilliant
campaign to establish a Democratic
Journal In Kansas City, the need of
which is so sadly felt In Western Mis-
souri, and Kansas. That 1t is the
best field in the United States for a
strong Democratic daily paper there
Is little doubt, but it requires a big
capital to successfully establish and
maintain a big metropolitan paper
and a country editor Is endowed with
most everything else but that ne
quisite. The public is assured that
the gentlemen who have succeeded Mr.
Sheridan are financially able and will
make the Post great paper. They
contemplate among other improve
ments putting In q big Sunday edi.
ton. The people OF this section will
support a Democratic paper at Kan.
sss City, that will cover the field as q
newspaper and stand for pure, unde.
fled Democracy. But 80 many have
started In half equipped and fallen
down that they are skeptical about
It making good.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-07-11
SHOULD TAXI TIE INITIATIVE.

We call attention to the report OF
the County Board Of Visitors, pub
lished In another column his is
non-partisan board, composed Of
practical men and women, appointed
by the county court. whose duty tits
TO inspect and report the actual con.
ditions Of the various county insti-
buttons.
The report shows deplorable con-
dition at the poor farm, but one
which, the members frankly admit,
can not be wholly remedied under
the conditions as now exist The old
building is wholly inadequate for the
use, absolutely devoid Of sanitary
arrangements, and the walls OF the
old wooden structure infested with
vermin that only the torch would
thoroughly eradicate.
The boards recommendation, that
a new, modern fire proof structure be
erected, is a good one and will meet
the hearty support OF every human
itarisn. Bates county Is wealthy
and her people progressive, patriotic
and willing to assume the burdens
that belong to them and that, too,
before outside H. fiuence Is exerted to
compel them.
1t has been suggested shat an sx-
penditure oiat least twenty thousand
dollars Is necessary to arrange for
the proper and humane care OF our
psupers. That a slight tax ofabout
five mills on the dollar for three or
four years would raise the money
and would not prove burdensome on
any one.
The time has come In our progress
sive civilization when we are compell-
ed to properly care for our worthy
poor, and we can not shirk our re.
sponsibilities. The whole state is be-
ing aroused to the Importance oithis
step and we should take the initia.
tive.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-07-11

fine was paid, but all Others that
have been collected.
Mr.. Funk doesn't appear to be ex-
aiming the records with a view Of
protecting the public interests and
giving credit where Is belongs, as an
honest, conscience man he Is bound
to do, but is determined TO find some
thing wrong, II he has to manufac
ture 10.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-07-11
AMAZING IGNORANCE.

'"We have also called the attention
of THE TIMES to the Newberry fine OF
$500 which is not shown In this
financial statement as having been
In the list OF receipts. There were
also other fines paid which the flnan.
cial statement does not show a rec
ord as having been received, as the
law requires. The TIMES was called
on to explain why the Law was not
complied with In regard to these fines
and II is silent. "-Republicsn-P Press.
Shades Of the Departed n ow
wouldn't that cork you? When that
paper first called attention to the
omission OF mention Of the Newberry
fine from the financial statement as
receipts Of the county, we sure
thoughtit was perpetrating a "bull, I"
but from the above insistance IL ap.
pears that instead Of q grotesque
blunder, It is q display Of amazing
ignorance.
All Zines 20 into the common school
fund. They are not county receipts
and have no place In q staten snt SET
ting out the receipts and e,:pendi-
lures Of the county. There ~ no OK.
cuse for Mr.. Funk not knnstng::this,
even II he h an allen, come here from
another state to show old line Be.
publicans how to redeem Bates coun.
ty TO that parry. he has been here
long enough to have lsarnsdjlthat
much.
Mr.. Funk tries to BE- very sdroit In
The above notice; vhik not charging
that the Nsvbsrry ins vas not:paid,
such inference can clearly be:drawn.
County Treasurer Bell keeps q regis.
tsr Of I'll 6nss paid IN. showing ths
dsts, the name and ths amount.
This record ehows that the NsWbeefy
Ans Ne paid BY ]. A. Patterson aad
duly spportioned 70 the school fund.
Ne. Funk can NOS pleadianosanss d
Nh facA bscauss h has examinsd
thAt rseord moro than onos and
lnss1 49, ~ oely - Nssbasy
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-07-11
THAT HIGH SCHOOL PROPOSITION.

The qualified voters OF Butler
school district will be called upon
next Monday to vote on the propc-
sitlon to issue twenty thousand dol
lars In bonds to build and furnish q
new high school building, to be lc-
Gated upon the Washington or West
school building grounds.
That Butler needs modern High
School building separated from the
ward buildings, is pretty generally
conceded. But the public, like indi-
viduals, need great many things
that can be worried along without
until the psychological moment ar.
rives when those needs can be rea.
lixed.
We have grave doubts about this
being the time to ask the people OF
this district to contract q further
debt OF $40, 900 when there is already
u bonded debt OF $11, 500 on the
district, $500 more than was voted
for the north ward building, al
though we were assured at the time
they were voted that with the spec
ial levy 1t would take only a few
years to wipe It out.
The four upper rooms at the west
school building have been for a num-
Der of years used for the High School,
and while the quarters are crsmped,
they seem to have gotten along very
we'll. There are two vacant rooms
Mt the east school building, but we
10 not believe 1t practical to send
any OF the grades from the extreme
west end OF the district to the east
end. This year the school enumera-
ton Is decreased nearly two hun
dred and the ordinary individual
can not understand the pressing and
imperative demands for a high
school building all at once.
A public school building should
pr Divide for the future, as we'll as the
present, and proposition that re.
quires the expenditure Of a vast sum
Of money should be carefully consid.
cred, thoroughly discussed and fully
matured, all Of which essentials have
been neglected In this proposition.
The school board foundered from
one proposition to another In amsz
ing rapidly and on the very evening
this proposition was mstured, one
to build a ward building for much
less was adopted and then reconsid-
cred. The amount asked should
build modern structure In every
detail to meet the requirements Of
the school for years to come, and
yet site is selected which is not
on q sewer line and from which 1t
would be absolutely impossible to
make proper sewer connections with
the city system. That fact alone, II
no other, should be good reason to
vote down this proposition.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-07-11
Large wheat Field.

Capt. n. L. Onion and son. Of
Mound township; have just harvest
ID .the largest Geld Of wheat svsr
grown in hates county. II conslsts
Of 40 acrAs end II b thought Win
yisld between 2, 800 and 3, 900 bush-
-. Capt was 10 town % Tuesday,
~ 1rss time dncs February last -
- ~ had a stssck of sickness.
H : nov masA bsstse ana " hops
win coon y enjoying hi Usual god
1tnIth no6ou - sss.s 1