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The oasis., 1907-02-02
The Prevalent Mut0si Building tosn
 Association.

Citv and County of Los Angeles, has the following to say of the PROVIDENT MUTUAL BUILD ING.LOAN ASSOCIATION:
 "No building association in the city, or, in fact, in Southern Cali iornia, has a better reputation or Is more ably managed than The Prevalent Mutual Building-Loan Association, located at 135 South Broadway. It was established eleven years ago and has an au- thorized capital of $5,000,000, of which $4,209,9 ,920 is subscribed. Its total resources are about $1 ,400,- GOO. This association has matured it's stock nearer the estimated time and has paid larger dividends than any other association in the United States. During the past year 1t has matured $106,900 of stock and will mature $133,5 800 during the coming year, all fully up to ex- pectations and estimates. The average size of its loans is $l441 and money is principally loaned upon homes. The association has been instrumental in building 200 homes during the past year and over 2000 homes during its exist ence. The association now has 21S0 members and has been ma terial factor in the upholding of the city, having helped many to acquire their own homes. l.. w. Blinn, the we'll known lumberman, is president; L. J. Christopher, the capitalist is vice-president, and J. NJ. Hunter is secretary and mana ger. Mir. Hunter has had long banking experience and has been connected with this association for a number of years. He is recog- nized as one of the able men in building association circles. The board of directors is composed of L. W. Blinn, L. J. Christopher, Dr. w. D. Babcock. k. A. Wilson, N Bonflio, NJ. H. Hellman and Niles Pease. The association is con servative and businesslike in its management, adhering to sound banking principles and no loans have ever been made to any enter prise in which any director has been interested nor have any officers or directors been bor. rowers, but are, on the con trary, heavy investors and the success of their investments arc dependent upon their manage ment. The association is purely mutual and there is no preferred stock, all stockholders sharing jus alike. Expenses of management are kept down to minimum, anc stockholders interests are taken care of in a thoroughly business like manner. In a business o nearly a million and half dollars and after eleven years of activity they have the remarkably small realty holdings of $15,000 while the reserve fund amounts to $35, 900. The high character of th' management-the very stronges feature any financial institution can have-and the progressive methods which prevail indicat' future for the association even brighter than it's creditabl' past"
 This association has assisted il the building of many homes ant also has many investing member in Nogales.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
INTERNAL COMMERCE.
Home Trade for 1906 Greatest In the
Nations History.

Washington.-The movement OF in
ternaI commerce during the last year
exceeded that for any preceding one
in the history of the country, accord
ing to a statement issued to-day by the
bureau of statistics of the department
of commerce and labor.
Live seock receipts at the seven
primary markets aggregated 40,727 ,6oS
head, exceeding those of the previous
year by more than 100000. Shipments
of packing house products from chi
cago, except canned meats and dressed
hogs. show gains as compared with
those of either of the two immediate
preceding years. OF these products
during the year the aggregate ship
ments of beef were 60,776,900 pounds;
canned meats, 117.6SS,650 pounds;
cured meats, S04. 4.642,040 pounds;
dressed beef, 1,13S,072,2S5 pounds;
dressed hogs, 13,170,3 800 pounds; hides,
lie, ,170,520 pounds; lard, 421,914,529
pounds, and pork, 36,5S1.2 pounds,
making total of 2,76S,016,443 pounds,
being over 100,O00,000 pounds in ex-
cess of the previous year.
The total grain receipts at fifteen
interior primary markets were 1885,
521,5S5 bushels, an increase of 100000
over 1906 The total movement en-
braced: Wheat, 243.735,05S bushels;
corn, 42,722,716 bushels; oats. 23S,-
3OO,239 bushels; barley, 69.469,290
bushels, and rye, 9,294,2S2 bushels.
The receipts of grain at six Attain
tic and gulf ports aggregate 214,S46,-
99s bushels, an increase OF 14,o00.o0o
bushels.
Shipments of anthracite coal from
eastern producing districts aggregated
| 55, CAT ,296 tons, a perceptible decrease.
The total freight shipments from all
ports on the great lakes, exclusive of
exports to Canada, aggregated 1880
$50 net tons, an increase of almost
& OO() 0O0
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
Y. M. C. A. HEALTH FARM.
Secretary Danner Goes East to Raise
Money for 1t.

Denver-William M. Danner, secre-
tary of the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation health farm, left for the East
Friday afternoon on what he believes
will be his last trip for the purpose
of raising funds to carry on that
widely known institution. Through the
efforts of Mr.. Danner over $4S,OO0 have
been raised for the health farm in the
past three and a half years, and the
institution has grown from cluster
of nine tents to a large camp of forty
six, with an artesian well, water tower,
machine shop, open air sleeping pa
vilion, assembly tent, Independent
sewer system, electric lights, and
other equipment in addition.
What we need now" said Mr.. Dan
ner before leaving, "is bath house,
and we want it so badly that / am 60
ing to Philadelphia and New York to
see If 1 can't get the money to build
it. We want large building, about
thirty by seventy feet, equipped with
lockers, showers and other apparatus,
and IL I am successful in getting the
money the building will be put just
north of the assembly tent. l hope to
be able to raise the money without diff
ficulty. The East furnishes the con-
sumptives and we think that it should
furnish the money to take care of
them.
"When the bath house is completed
believe that point will have been
reached where 1t will be best to stop
expending. We have expanded to an
extent, which, believe, should not be
continued until we have time to see
whether or not the farm is to be sue
cess. 1t is not as If we were starting
something which had been tried be-
fore. We are trying something now
and 1t will not do to go too far with it
until experience shows us that it will
be a permanent success"
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
Presidents Nobel Prize.

Christiana Norway.-In letter to
Foreign Minister Loevland, who is
president of the Nobel committee,
President Roosevelt, who was awarded
the peace prize December 10th last,
writes that he will value the diploma
and medal so long as he lives, and af-
ter his death they will be as highly
priced by his children. The President,
in informing Minister Loevland of the
disposition of the money part of the
prize, adds that peace among the var
ious classes of society in modern civil
ization is of just as great Importance
as between nations. He believed,
therefore, that the use to which he
was putting the money was entirely
in sympathy with the aims of the No
bel foundation.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
Torn Trousers Furnish Clue.

Denver-A Salida dispatch says:
George Burton is under arrest on sus-
picion of having burglarized the store
of the Noble Mercantile Company at
Texas creek last Monday Mr. Noble
arrived to-day with a small piece OF
goods found adhering to n nail on a
window through which the burglar
made his hasty exit. The cloth seems
to be a piece of the prisoners trousers,
exactly fits a rent therein and also
matches the goods. After helping him
self to what he wanted the burglar
attempted to fire the building, but the
blaze was discovered and extinguished.
Chief Herzinger believes that Burton
is one of the men who has been pass
ing Confederate $40 bills in various
parts of the state, and is also wanted
in Pueblo. Burton was taken to Canon
City as Texas creek is in Fremont
county.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
rhaw Case Opened.

New York-The state Monday laid
its case against Harry K. Thaw-a
plain, Unconditional story of the shoot
ing on the Madison Square garden
roof. The defense replied with a plea
of hereditary insanity. 1t was as
serted that Thaw, in staying Stanford
White, believed he was acting as an
agent of Providence; that real or fan
cied wrongs committed against him
by the architect and former friend of
his wife had caused the impulse to kill.
When the deed was done Thaw made
no move to escape its consequences,
but stood still as il proclaiming that
the deed was right.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
Ebert County Tribune
). z Psps, Editor ana Publisher.
u1BERT. COLORADO
The WorshIp Of oiamonds.

"A McGill professor. lecturing on the
diamond the other night, demonstrate
ed dramatically the weIl-known fact
that a diamond is merely crystalized
carbon, by burning a couple of small
stones in an electric arc. Flakes of
graphite fell from the sides, and the
whole became a mass of coke. Yet
what has not been bought and sold
for diamonds? 1t requires an expert
to tell the difference between some of
the limitations and the real stones.
Paste diamonds are worn to great as
semblies by great ladies' while their
genuine jewels repose safely in the
vaults at home. Still. says the Mon
treal Herald, this does not induce 9TH
or ladies', who cannot afford the gen.
uine, to be quite as content with
the paste. II some one were to dis
cover a mine" of diamonds and flood
the world with them-if scientist
should learn how to make them-if,
dt is said. the present diamond miners
were to put on the market all they
could--the value would go down. In
the two former cases it would we'll
nigh disappear. Yet to-day people
will coin the toll of many men for
long years into diamonds and wear
them as symbols of wealth. This is
"a curious world in some ways. Yet.
perhaps, not SO curious. We gem
orally want chiefly to have what 9TH
er people cannot have.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
Oregon to Be Rebuilt.

Washington.-The famous battle
ship Oregon is to be modernized at the
Puget Sound naval station, and Secre-
tary Metcalf Saturday announced that
he had authorized the expenditure of
$1,000,000 out of the naval repair fund
for that purpose. OF the best type of
warship when she was launched, the
Oregon is already most obsolete, and
to make her equal to modern men-of-
war, she must be extensively over
hauled. The changes will be similar
to those ordered for her sister ship,
Indiana, the most important being the
substitution of balanced elliptical tur-
rets for the present round turrets.
which cause the ship to reel when all
four twelve-inch guns are pointed over
the same quarter.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
MORE HOGS WANTED.
Denver Packers Call Loudly for An In
creased Supply.

With a scarcity of hogs throughout
the entire country, says the Denver
Record-Stockman, the fact is brought
home to Colorado stockmen more
strongly than ever before that they
should take advantage of the excellent
opportunity which is presented to them
and raise more hCgs. Denver packers
even by paying premium over the
river prices for hogs from the extreme
eastern territory in order to get them
here, are unable to supply their wants
and with such a market at their very
door and conditions so favorable for
raising hogs, Colorado stockmen are
beginning to sit up and take notice. In
the San Luis valley alone some $4,000
hogs are being fatted this year, and
the prediction is freely made that in
few years this industry will be the
leading one in that country. So much
more profitable is hog raising than
sheep feeding in that country that
many are putting in less sheep and
lambs and adding TO the number OF
hogs fed.
In nearly all parts of the state the
tide is slowly turning in favor of hogs.
and within few years Colorado should
produce enough to entirely supply
the western trade without having to
draw from other territory. Hog prices
are at present high, and there is little
indication of any material slump in
the near future. Packers have been
buying only enough for immediate
wants for some months trying to hold
prices down on the bluff that they did
not need the hogs, but everybody
knows that the demand for pork of all
kinds is stronger than it ever was be-
fore.
About a year ago hog prices be-
gan to advance and did not stop until
in July when $500 was reached in Chi
cago. This year the $500 figure is
showing up much earlier and many be-
lieve it has come for prolonged stay.
A big increase in receipts at the va
rious markets, of course, would pre-
vent this, but those who read the signs
claim that the hogs are not in the
country. Most of the old crop has been
marketed, and in many sections where
hog production is usually heavy the
pig crop this year is reported to be
light.
With such an outlook for high
hog prices for some time to come and
with market right here at home able
to take care of all the hogs Colorado
can raise the stockmen of this state
are getting busy and intend to show
what they can do along this line.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
Paint and Ocean Travel.

"The worst feature of ocean travel
ds never mentioned in steamship COM
pany prospectuses or in books of
travel" said a returning tourist. "It
Hs not seasickness. for only few are
taken that way in the new ocean
greyhounds. that neither rock nor
pitch. 1t is not the narrow quar-
ters or the inferior cooking or the
tipping habit. 1t is paint. There is
always wet paint on an ocean steam
er. and there Is never a sign on It
to warn passengers. The modern sail
or is painter constantly welding
the brush, always painting some part
of the ship or other, says the Phila-
delphia Record. There is hardly
passenger on the ocean that does not
land from voyage with some article
of apparel damaged by paint. sail
or told me once that every ship is
entirely repainted inside and out at
least three times year. The work
goes on constantly in port and on
the sea, and the passenger can never
escape"
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
Colorado's Jubilee.

Deuver.-At representative meet
ing of business and commercial men
held Thursday in the rooms of the
Traffic club it was decided that Denver
shall celebrate the fiftieth anniversary
of the admittance of Colorado into the
Union in 1908. While it had been the
desire to have the celebration either
state or an interstate affair, this
idea was given up on account of lack
of time. The celebration will be in the
nature of a festival and elaborate ar
rangements will be made for entertain
ments of varied nature, and several
thousand dollars will be raised to
carry on the celebration.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
BEET GROWERS STAND PAT.
Refuse Contracts That Call for Silo-
ing of Beets.

Denver.=A Greeley special to the
Republican Monday nights says: As
result of the committee from the
Northern Colorado Beet Growers AS
sociation meeting with G. S. Morey,
president of the sugar company, at
which the sugar company came to no
favorable terms with the beet growers,
the Pleasant valley and Lucerne farm
ers will plant their 1906 beet fields to
potatoes and grain and are fully salts
fled that these crops will pay them far
better than raising beets for the
Eaton factory under the present terms
of the silo contract.
They will not, however, desist from
raising beets, but will use their beet
chop to feed cattle. Already farmers
in these localities have signified their
intention of putting in 500 acres in
beets. The beets sown will be the
varieties of stock beets and also sugar
beets. The cost of raising stock beets,
it Is said, is not one-fourth that of
raising sugar beets for sugar making
and the returns in cattle much higher
than selling to factories. 1t is esti-
mated that a steer eats thirty pounds
of beets, day and that two tons will
fatten one for market and that an
acre of beets with an average yield
will feed from eight to ten steers.
The refusal of growers in the Pleas
ant valley and Lucerne country to sign
contracts with the sugar company will
bring about the feeding of sheep and
cattle in these localities the coming
fall and farmers there are already maxi
ing plans to purchase cattle for feed
ing
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
Japan,s KnowIedae of the World.

The fact is. we suspect, that the
Japanese understand the rest of the
world better than the world under
stands them, for the reason that since
the Opening" of that country it has
been very serious part of Japan
ese public and private business to
study the rest of the world and to
learn as much as possible about it..
Japanese students have been numer-
GUS in almost every civilized land, ac-
quiring not only the general arts and
sciences but also and particularly the
especial knowledge which was to be
gained of the individual countries thus
visited. This knowledge, says the
New York Tribune, has in turn been
impaired to and has been eagerly
sought by the entire Japanese people.
While the world at large has inter-
ested itself in Japan largely because
of its picturesque charm, the Japan
ese have interested themselves in all
the world in the most practical. sys-
tematic and businesslike way. While
we have looked at jinrikishas and
cherry blossoms they have studied
constitutions and Industries.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
BEET CONTRACTS.
Thirteen Thousand Acres for Greeley
and Eaton Factories,

Denver.-Thirteen thousand acres
of beets have been contracted by the
farmers for the Greeley and Eaton
factories next year, according to a
Greeley dispatch, and as the Greeley
and Eaton factories now have all the
die the sugar company to-day refused
to accept further contracts for the
growing of beets for the two factories.
Twenty-Five hundred acres of the 49,
900, 1t is said, were subscribed by
growers in the Eaton district and the
remainder of the $500 acres for the
Eaton factory was subscribed by Gree
ley growers. One thousand acres have
been secured for the Windsor factory
and within a few days the $500 acres
ito be handled by the Windsor factory
will easily be procured.
The sugar company now has all the
acreage in these two districts that 1t
can satisfactorily handle the coming
season, and in the last two days has
been obliged to turn down contracts
of the Greeley farmers amounting to
1000 acres. All growers signed the
contracts embracing the silo clause,
providing that one-quarter of the crop
be sliced at $3.50 a ton, and providing
the sale of the remainder of the crop
at IS ton. Manager Granger said to-
night: by allowing the acreage to
exceed the amount which can be
handled by the three factories of this
district many annoyances and losses
experienced both by grower and sugar
company this year will be eliminated
the coming season and all beets deliv-
cred at the sugar factory by January /,
1S9S."
Manager Granger has computed the
average yield of beets in the Greeley,
Eaton and Windsor districts for 1906
and find that the yield to the acre in
the Greeley district was fourteen tons;
Eaton, seventeen and one-half tons,
and in Windsor, fifteen tons. The to-
tai amount of beets ground by the
three factories was 100000 tons, which
brought the growers $1,500.000. The
beets were made into $4,000 tons of
sugar, or 100000 bags of 100 pounds
each. Five hundred thousand dollars
were paid to the GOO workmen at the
factories and the general running ex-
penses, putting into circulation in the
three districts S2,000,000, as a result
of the beet sugar industry.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
Beet Contracts Not Signed.

Denver--A Loveland special to the
Republican Monday night says: A
meeting of the Loveland beet growers
was held to-day to consider the pro-
posed contracts for 1907 offered by the
Great Western Sugar Company. DIT.
Pulliam reported the result of the re-
cent conference with the sugar com
pany, which adhered to its offer of
$4.75 fat rate and no siloing, or S. and
silo 25 per cent. of the crop, for which
SO cents ton additional would be
paid. After a lengthy discussion the
growers decided not to accept the con-
tract and insisted on their demand for
a SIS fiat rate and no siloing. What
the next move will be no one can pre-
dict. Both parties, it seems, have
agreed to stand firm, which may result
in closing the factory next season.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
Exposing the Fast Set.

The fast woman in society in
France compromises herself because
she falls under the spell of passion:
the fast woman in society in New
York, on the other hand, compro-
misses herself to pay for her bonnets
and gowns. In this comparison the
French fast woman has much the ad-
vantage of the American fast wom-
an. They are both essentially vul-
gar, declares the Outlook. judged
from the strictly social point of view.
The men and women of the fast set
always force the note. They overeat,
overdrink, overdress and overact their
parts. They are to people in really
civilized society what sensational jour
nalism is to high-class newspaper
work. They represent the yellow
in morals, dress, manners and style
of life. 1t is a mistake to treat them
too seriously. Irony, ridicule and
sarcasm are the only weapons that
touch them.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
Gussenheim at Washington.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Guggenheim
reached here Thursday evening and
will remain several days. going hence
to Florida for short visit. Numerous
newspaper reporters, who had heard of
Senator Guggenheim's expected ar
rival, were at his hotel to meet him,
but he declined to be interviewed.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07

The United States senator from Ne
braska who wants the post offices
closed on Sunday will receive the
thanks of all the mail clerks for his
efforts, even If many business men
think he is getting more than a
shade too puritanical.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07
Christian Science Victory.

Lincoln, Neb.-The Senate Thurs
day killed the anti-Christian Science
bill. The bill made it necessary for
Christian Science practitioners to Sc
cure physicians license. A similar
measure is pending in the House.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-07

American expectations of wood
have increased so per cent. during the
past nine months. The breakfast
food industry is to be congratulated
on this sudden boom in its prosper
tty
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-07-30
RELIC OF CLIFF JEWELLERS.
Remarkable Slab OF Rock Found In
New Mexican Canon.

II Is a curious fact and one much
commented upon by psychologists
that the photographs so common in tho
cliff and cave dwelling regions OF New
Mexico are almost wholly absent from
the ruins OF the Mesa Verde, in south
western Colorado.
In one room of the cliff palace are
found some straight line markings but
there is nothing initiative of animals,
birds or reptiles in this, the balcony
or spruce tree house.
Recently, however, there was found
in the Montezuma valley, about mile
and three-querters southeast OF Cor
tez, on the slope of bench which
rises from the McIilmo canon bottom,
a slab of rock about six feet long by
four and one-half feet high, on which
there are deep carvings similar to the
markings on the Puye and San Cristo-
bal ruins of New Mexico.
This detached slab was lying on an
incline and had apparently split on
from larger rock some distance
above IT, There are no similar rocks
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