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NEW YORK AN ELECTRIC CITY.
tmportant Part Played by Electricity I'm
the Towns Daily Life.

did YOU ever consider, " began the young
man who lived very far north in arlem
what a really electric city New York Isl
Take my case.
Each morning l am awakened by an
electric bell, pushed five flights down oy
Q Kindly ~janitor. That starts the day.
Il hop into an electric subway train
and get downtown as quickly as things
Kermit. buy two cigars and l light them
st an electric cigar lighter.
Then I march into an elevator which
Ia propelled upward by electricity and i
spurry into my Office. II I am the first
ran in I turn on an electric fan as a matter
Of habit. r,,,
on an electric telephone during the morn
eng. II the day Is an unusual one may
set a message wired to me by electricity.
AT noon / go to lunch and use the same
electric elevator. ride a few blocks on
q electric surface car, and after reaching
my underground cafe | seat myself under
> cfnster of electric incandescent lights.
IA n hsppens there is an electric piano
In my particular restaurant whicn plays
eolemnly during the lunch hour, though
there are times when l wish It wouldn't.
In the evening l dine hurriedly at an
other place downtown, surrounded py
the commonplace electric affairs that no
one ever notices, and then | hasten uptown
n a friends house. where I make my pres
ence known by jabbing his bell four times
OF course. IL is an electric bell. 3.
sMy friend and l go somewhere, and II
the money affairs are in good shape We
nav ride In an electric cab before the even
ing wanes. I reach my own home at a late
hour. and before going to my apartment
throw on an electric switch which lights
the lamps in front Of my nail box.
AN an waiting for now Is TO navo
seine ingenious chap invenc something
t.'ter so that by turning on a clever little
leav!rg home at all
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A SONG Of the Sea.


o FrOr ne hlDdukes SsrnneI.
Give me a ship all stanch and trim,
With scuppevs wide and high,
A pink smokestack and a windy track,
And a captain high and dry.
Give me the smell Of the onny waves.
And q bunk by the galley door.
For ! am the darndest sailor man
That ever scrubbed a door.
Sir me q chsntey and sing II loud.
The ktnd when we reef the gan,
And we hear the wind from the course behind
In the gallant topsail laugh.
Open the hatch and get me an egg,
I'm hungry as | can be
o there's nothing In life. a home or wife.
That beats the rolling seal
Give me the heave OF the haIyards high.
And the foam on her rakinR rail,
And the bum plum dun and the old manes run,
And a pint In a battered pail.
Omen the starboard portfolios vide,
Abat Of the weather BEAM
Curse the luck, how those stokers duck
Whenever ] want more stean'
Get out. you lubbers. you make me sick
With your tales Of the brny deep:
Why, SILVER my lamps. you're a gang Of tramps,
And ought to be put to sleep.
You wouldn't know tar rom q pint Of rum.
But I 70 the very core
Am the darndest sailor that ever trod deck
or scrubbed a galley foor'
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tinuous and easily navigable waterway,
With a minimum depth of twenty-one feet,
from Georgian Bay to tidewater. The cost
is estimated at about sl05, 900 900.
The fact is, there is very little ana to
build. Some long stretches n the rivers
must be canalized at large expense and
about thirty miles of rocky barrier and a
few mud and sawdust hanks must be re-
moved, but the whole cost Of connecting
the Lake ports with the ocean will scarcely
exceed the appropriation OF New York
State for the improvement q the Erie
Canal.
Sir WilfTii Lasrier is reported as saying
that as soon as the first instalment Of
money is provided he will have the work
begun az once.
This will be the nearest approach TO an
dir line water route between the Lakes and
the Atlantic for which nature has pro-
vided facilities. Ii will make a water
channel between the 500 anal and Mont
real $50 miles shorter than by way of the
Welland Caual, the line of least resistance
bstween the Lakes and the ocean.
Not a dollar will have to he spent on the
route from the 500 Canal. the great gate
way into Lake Superior. to the mouth Of
She French River, on the shore OF Georgian
Raw. The route will hug the Canadian
coast. passing through the North Channel.
Iandlocked because the long island OF Great
Manitoulin is a bulwark against the waves
Of Lake Huron. Thus a deep and pro-
,ecte1 channel from one TO fifteen miles
wide is provided from the 500 to the French
River, a distance of 1870 miles.
This river drains the waters OF Lake Sipis-
.ing to Georgian Bay. the lake forming
the summit level seventy feet above the
hav. At low water the French River
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kinship.

Heir Of an ancient. kingiy line
Or so they said 20 me
Sealed with that mystical high sign
You dare not recreant be-"
In youth I pledged my feaity
To each renowned forbear.
Who with his sacrifices free
Enriched me unaware
And oftentimes I feel the stir
OF some rcmoter claim.
When whispers thin as gossamer
Seem vibrant with my name.
-Oh. viii you 20 a-gypsyingt-
The wandering voices say
tn dancing spirits Of the spring
Are with us but q day"
Come out, Come out T~nesummer ninxs
Her radiance over all;
Well nnd for you her secret springs
Come learn their silver call"
What wealth was scattered at the feet
or an impoverished child.
What influence wooed her strangely sweet
To kingdoms OF the viIdi
Some day-so strong the instinct lives
shall fare forth, I know.
To dwell with my rich relatives.
MY kin OF long ago.
ADA PosTEs MURRAY.
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REVIVAL OF OLD INNS.
Have Given Old Taverns Z
New Lease OF Life.
Fron the Travel Magazine

When the railway superseded the dill sence.
the coach, the chaise and Sterne's "disobli-
geant" as means OF European travel II was
natural that the small roadside inn should
suffer loss OF patronage.
Your tourist. unless a sentimental jour
never like Sterne or Stevenson. began 10
leap by rail from spot to spot IKE a grass
hopper upon a map. he nreakias,ec IN
Iondon. took train. lunched in Brighton.
New Haven or Dover. had tea at Calais or
Dieppe and supped in Paris.
Now with dining cars he's even, worse.
Unless he be a motorist "a sentimental. motor
IT,, And despite speed and rumors OF speed.
.h:rs are such gs as sentimental motor
ats. Indeed. II. Is owing. very largely 70 THIS
class that such OF the old inns OF france ana
lion N the railroads have bloeeomed into
rsnswed prosperity and usefulness.
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CANADA'S CANAL TO The SRA
FTNAL PLANS FOR GEORGIAN BAY
WATERW AY FOR SHIPS.
~ Foot Ship Cana From the Great Lakes
10 the st. Lswrence-win shorten the
Route From 500 Gam to Montreal
$50 Mles-The Cost SlOk, 900, 600.

$50 Mles-The Cost slO8, 900. 600.
Many thousands of years ago the Great
Lakes are supposed TO have discharged
Their waters through the French River,
Ltae Nipissing and the Mattawa, Ottawa
and -. Lawrence rivers into the Atlantic.
This IS the very route that Champlain
followed when he reached the inland seas
md eazed over their vast expanse.
over this route for centuries passed
sl the traffic between the Canada Of the
early days and the western outposts Of the
Hrdson's Bay Company, and this 10 to be
the route Of the Georgian Bay Canal, which
anada now proposes to build and which
~Iu be by far the shortest waterway between
tie lakes and the ocean.
The project has been in the air for years,
tgt not till now has it taken definite shape.
Many questions have been involved and
sr9ong them the form the canal should
take. Should il be a fourteen foot canal
~ canalboats Of large size, or a twenty
foot ship canal or a thirty foot ocean steamer
proposition. so that great ocean freighters
mi ght load at Lake ports and unload in
Europe?
All the questions have now been answ cred
For two years the Georgian Bay Canal
commission Of Canada has been studyins
every phase Of the enterprise and il is nov
preparing the plans for the building of the
canal
1t is to be a ship canal. providing a con-
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POEMS WORTH READING



Over the hnls and through the heather.
All In the merry midyear weather.
Under the shy
OF deNr July.
Wandering, just we two sosether.
You and ! through the green Ieafed ways,
You and I in the golden days
The ways of youth,
The days Of truth
Young life and love and tuneful lsysl
Over the hills TO the western strand.
Over the waves to the fairy land
Beyond the dim
And cleaning rim
OF the old gray world 20. hand In band
Hand In hand for the dice are thrown.
Heart Of my heart. my love. my own
Blue sky DER us
And before US
Luring lights Of the far Unknown.
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One UnfaiIinx Optimis..

PVom me Denpey RepubIted~.
There's an optimistic fellow
Whose writings ! admire:
read him az each week end
Hes such a cheerful liari
He sends down from the mountain
This most uplifting line:
The waters clear and normal
The ny nshing Is One"
You grasp your boots and tackle
And to the trout stream ny:
You md II chocolate colorcd
And my. but II 10 Hight
You whip the hood all vsiniy-
OF trout there Ia no sign.
But still there comes this message
The ny fishing 10 nne''
We've heard OF Ananias.
And some who've lied since him;
But sometimes all those liars
Mould yield to truthful within;
But he who lures the fishers
Knows nary spell benign
With him all waters crystal
And the nshing's always ine'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-14
PtKEOFF ON THE PANAMAs.
~Eloruence of Hat store statesmen Inspired
nv q Commission,

You may notice that the voice OF the hat
rore salesman grows more eloquent when
be mentions the Panama. his manner more
rod"stly persuasive.
They all get a commission OF 5 per cent
on the Panamas they sell" explained the
na-ager Of the store. I'VE give IL to them
because these hats cost so much that we
ma" iuoney on IL.
Men often seem reluctant to buy a
panama, however much money they nave
49," an hat the persuasive salesman inter-
Veres and pulls on the sale. .
Voc can zee il pays us TO give them q
Percen,hge on hats that range in price from
t20 - SIS. On no other hats do the retail
oeatis pay any percentage"
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the regulars for Governor he would run
stump" against the candidate to be named
by the Democratic State convention at Buffalo.
Mr.. Martin protested that Mr.. Hearst. still
a Tammany Congressman. In 1909 had no
right to attempt 20 destroy In this way any
fellow member Of the regular Democratic
household.
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h Listenera
With many q dip TO sip the yield
A bee new over the clover neld.
lee flight was soft as q drifting cloud.
The sound OF It's wings was scarce more loud.
His ear attuned to the honeycd lay
One heard " a thousand miles away.
The whir Of Its wtng q was strong TO drown
For him the roar OF the babel town.
With many sGin and noise and shout
The city it's toiling hives poured out.
The ella shattered the morning fair,
Nor died way on the midnight air.
With ca ger ear through the l~iveionx day
One heard II a thousand miles away.
The discord drowned In a swelling wave
The tlnkiing music his cowbclls gave.
McLANDBuRoH WILSON.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-09
A PROSPECTOR
REWARDED AFTER
YEARS OF Toll
A GOOD MINING DEAL CLOSED
IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY IN
-FOUR FIGURES.
PAYMENT ON HUMBOLDT CHEF
This Sale Puts Another Toilcr of
The Hills On Easy
Street.

Yesterday Sol Kunkel received the
final payment for the Humboldt Chief
group of mining claims, situated in
the Humboldt range, says the Hum
boldt Star.
The property was sold to w. G.
Adamson and New York parties and
the amount received by Mr.. Kunkel
is well in four figures. The purchas-
ers are to commence work on the
property as soon as the necessary ar
engagements can be made.
The Humboldt Chief vein was what
caused the stampede to the Humboldt
range in the early days when i'm
mensely rich ore was taken out. Mr..
Kunkel has always been thoroughly
convinced that this property would
prove to be one of Humboldt county
big producers when properly devel-
opcd az it will be under the plan now
corltmri lated by the New York opor
ators.
The purchase price received for
the property was of such substan-
tial nature that Mr.. Kunkel has been
enabled to purchase a fine home in
Salt Lake City and still have good
sized bank account.
Mr.. Kunkel is one of Nevada S
veteran prospectors He has lived
in Humboldt county over thirty years
and in the late sixties operated mines
on Winnemucca mountain. He has
the distinction of having made the
first shipment of ore from this place.
1t was hauled by oxteams to the Pa
cific coast and thence shipped to Eng
land for treatment.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-09
HIGH GRADE
ON COMSTOCK
IN AN OLD Mine
DISCOVERY MADE IN HALE AND
NORCROSS AND is VERY
RICH.
THE WONDERFUL OLD LODE
1t Keeps Coming And Is Likely To
So Continue To The End
OF Time.
THE WONDERFUL OLD LODE

Years ago a new strike of rich ore
on the Comstock would have attract
ed but little attention. Now, how
ever, it is quite different and new
find in the grand old wealth-producer
of the long ago put new lif4 into
every mining lode in the state lii
the Hale and Norcross a rich strike
has been recently made AMI gamblers
in Virginia and Gold Hill stocks are
happy and theh old H and II promis-
es to make them still happier.
President M. w. Fox and Superin-
tendent Frank Higgison makes a con-
sentative statement regarding the
new ore body. Street rumor in Nir-
ginia has it that the ore body is now
over twenty feet in width showing
an average value of 1886 Per ton,
while a streak several inches broad
near the hanging wall, assays 1854
Is per ton. This streak of eXcep-
tionally high-grade was not includ-
ed in taking general average sam
pies across the twenty foot ore hody.
During his recent visit in Virginia,
John w. Twiggs took samples across
the ore body, ignoring the rich
streak, and the returns from ASSAYS
made from his samples averaged let
ter than 800 per ton. The ore from
the 1884 streak is bel lg sacked for
shipment.
Superintendent w. w. Turney
says that he has the n>rthern con-
tinuation of the Hale and Norross
ore body in the Savage mine al a
point about $50 feet north Of the
former and exploratory work to de-
velop it's extent is being prosecuted.
Mr.. Turney is confident the Savage
will soon be producing property.
That the Hale and Norcross ore
body extends southwark through
Chollar territory has already been
determined. and will be demonstrated
soon as the work of cleaning out and
repairing the drift connecting the
Sutro tunnel south lateral branch
with the Chollar north line is COM
pleted.
The discovery of an important ore
body only about 100 feet above the
Sutro tunnel level, is of vast import
ance. It's extraction involves no ex-
pensive hoist plants, as the ore stopped
out will be dropped down to the tun-
mel level through chutes to cars for
transportation to milling plants that
will surely be installed east of the
tunnel mouth should the area of
ore prove sufficient to warrant the
outlay for that purpose, while the
outflow of mine water from the tun-
mel is of sufficient volume to operate
dynamo plant to supply power for
operating them.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-09
WESTERN PACIFIC
TOCONNECT SALT
LAKE and BEWS
ELY WILL SOON BE IN CLOSER
TOUCH WITH ZION BY WAY
OF BEWS.
A NEVADA NORTHERN CONNECTION
In Very Few Days Trains VIII BE
Running Over First Division
OF The Road.

According to Salt Lake papers, the
Western Pacific will inaugurate reg
ular freight and passenger service on
it's line between Salt Lake and Bews,
New, on October 1st.
This announcement has been made
by the Salt Lake officials of the road.
Bews is the point at which the West
ern Pacific. intersects the Nevada
Northern.
With only a gap of eight miles to
close, and with track being laid at
the rate of over a mile day, the
Western Pacific should connect with
the Nevada Northern at Bews in a
very few days. Steel is now laid
westward about $50 miles. From
Salt Lake to Bews the distance is
approximately 1853 miles.
The laying of track has been re-
sumed after a suspension of about
sixty days. The work was suspended
to permit the grading to be done, the
track layers having caught up with
the graders. The work will now be
pushed with all possible haste.
Depots are being placed about ev-
cry ten miles. Fourteen of them are
IOW dHu DcIWCCh Ddil
Lake and Bews there will be seven
teen stations.
Virgil c. Bogue, chief engineer of
the road, and T. j. Wyche, division
engineer, made trip over the entire
line from Winnemucca to Salt Lake
last week, and found everything in
splendid condition. Every detail of
tie work was inspected, and Chief
Engineer Bogue was well pleased
with the conditions.
No passenger equipment has yet
arrived for the Western Pacific, and
presumably Rio Grande rolling stock
will be used when the operation of
the road begins unless ore cars ar
rive in the interim. With track laid
to Bews by September 10 this should
give ample time for making all prep
arations for the opening of the line
for traffic October st
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-09
A NEW HOIST.

The Ely Copper company is about
ready to put 25-horse power gaso-
line hoist up in order to continue
sinking. The shaft is now down
about 800 feet.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-09
BALD MOUNTAIN
SHOWING UP
VALUABLE ORE

Diel and Allison are in receipt of
some Bald Mountain ore from the
Copper King claim that assays $74. 3
and another that shows values of
1896 to the ton in gold, silver and
copper. One can see the native sill
yer scattered all through the sam
pies. The samples shown are the
finest seen in Ely for many day
and are only forerunners of what is
in old Bald Mountain and will yield
up its hidden wealth with develop
ment Diel and Allison are very
much pleased with their Bald Noun
tain property and think they have
the world on a down-hill pull.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-09
ANOTHER VALUABLE
STRIKE MADE in
Florence MINE

Another rich strike has been made
on the ground of the Florence Leas-
ing and Mining company, at Gold
field. The ore is wonderfully rich
and it is thought that this is the ia
mouse Riley shoot which has pro-
duced more than $1,O00,000 in gold.
The ore in the new strike runs from
500 to $500 per ton across a three
foot ledge and there are some places
where the ore will run fully many
dollars to the pound The strike is
one of the richest that has been made
in Goldfield for several months.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-09
HAVE LET A CONTRACT.

The Boston Ely has let new con-
tract for sinking, which will take the
present shaft down to depth of
600 feet. The formation is constant
ly changing and is now in iron OK
ide and improving as depth is at
tanned.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-09
CAMP OF MIZPAH
VERY QUIET IN A
MINING WAY

G. B. Chesley and son, Chester
and Henry Clinton are in from Miz-
pah. They report it very quiet in
Mizpah and not much being done
other than assessment work. They
do not think mining and other bust
ness will start up lively before
spring opens. They have recently
been on a prospecting trip to Wells
and other places, including Bald
Mountain.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-09
THINKS" AND COMMENT

Some of the rarest minerals are
those of lead ores. A choice crystal
lized specimen of mendipite is worth
its weight in gold. Lanarkite speci-
mems are scarce, and also are GALE
donite, leadhillite, karyinite, kentro-
lite and dozen others, all sought
for eagerly by mineral collectors and
at prices in instances beyond their
weight in gold.
Sodium is an excellent conductor
of electricity and in view of the in
creasing price of copper and the
growing demand for that metal not
only for electric installations, but
for many other purposes, the idea
has been suggested that sodium
should be tried as material for
electric cables. Experiments looking
toward this end have lately been
made by Mr.. A. G. Bett. He filled
an iron tube 1870 feet in length with
melted sodium. The core thus form
ed had a cross-section of an inch and
a half. A current of 500 amperes was
readily transmitted through it. Mr..
Bett thinks that sodium conductors
constructed upon this plan may be
made cheaper than conductors of
copper.
One of the last contributions to
science made by Henri Moissan, the
French chemist recently deceased,
was a classification of the boiling
points of metals. His experiments
with the electric furnace demonstrate
ed that there exists no known solid
which cannot be volatilized in the
laboratory. In the meantime other
eXperimenters have shown that every
gas, except perhaps helium, can be
liquefied, and even solicited Mois-
san found that certain families OF
metals are peculiar with regard to
volatilization. The platinum family
for instance, has very much high
boiling point, much higher than that
of gold. Manganese is the most vol.
atile; nickel comes next; iron is
refractory to a high degree; and
molybdenum and tungsten have the
highest boiling points in the entire
list.
The amount of gas generated by 6
| blast furnace to produce pig iron is
so enormous that if collected ant
utilized for power purposes it would
prove revolutionizing in manufactur
! ing industries. Thus to produce il
an ordinary well-equipped work!
about $50 tons of pig iron, the bias
furnace would generate upwards O.
100000 cubic feet of gas. Tt
harness this enormous amount O.
fuel is the aim of the builders of gai
engines. Utilized for generating
steam by burning, about 1000 h. p
could be obtained; but if burnt di
rectly in a modern large gas engine
the horsepower generated would b.
several times as much. Eminent en-
gineers estimated that even if hal
this volume should be wasted O.
used for heating the air blast of tn,
furnace, there would still be suffi
Gent to produce between 5000 ant
1000 h. p. Such an enormous ga
generator would thus prove of tn
greatest value for ordinary manu-
! featuring purposes. Likewise, tn
gases of coke ovens can be utilize,
in the same way, adding greatly t,
the importance of the gas engine il
it's new field.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-27
. hop. of preventing Ii. sy law or osA-

hope of preventing it. by law or eth- erwise.
 And while on this subject we are bound to say that in our opinion The Record itself Is largely responsible for all these frantic anti-newspaper laws. No newspaper In that State has been more open. fearless and persistent in Its exposure of vfl1ainy than The RAa- ord has. It has hit the Hooters ana the grafters right and left. and has never let slip an opportunity to ex- pose their nefarious acts and plans. Especially is this true of the way 1t has dealt with the almost incredible rascaiity connected with the construo- tion and furnishing of the new State Capitol That 1t has pursued the ap- right and honorable course that all newspapers should do is beyond ques- tlon, but that is just the course that the dishonest politicians don't like, and they i'll spare no efforts to put such newspapers out of business, or shut them up. If all the newspapers in the State could be dishonest enough, or cowardly enough to cease entirely from
 criticising and exposing rascaiity ir high places there would be no more
 efforts to muzzfe them by law. 1t Is the bold. honest and conscientious
 newspapers of The Record sort that sxasperate the dishonest public men
 and the latter are dead bent on sup pressing such inconvenient exposures
 And The Record is not one of the sort to be silenced. we beg to remark.