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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-29
HAWAIIAN WATER SURHEY.

In committee of the whole the of the Union consider
the sundry civil appropriation bill the House Representatives
May had considerable debate before passing the following ITEM
a substitute for in which the amount 100000:
gauging the and determining the supply
the United States and the nvegaton of underground
wells and the preparation reports
the best methods of utilizing the resources 100000
Mr. Needham of California had fought for $2OoOOo to be used with
in the discretion of the director of the geological survey claiming that
the principle formerly adopted by Congress-
ally while saying he believed larger should be voted he with
drew his objection and the substitute agreed above
Would that the intended
vide for survey of the Hawaiian Islands, for Mr. Shirley speak
against giving administrative branch of the government money
to be expended under general terms, said: ..'" " 81
The 100000 asked estimate was asked on the sup
position that the of streams would only be
ense they have been the past but would be further
tended to the gauging underground the Hawaiian
Islands Yet there has not been speech made here today
advocacy of the amendment offered by the gentleman
that fact and large part Of the membership of
House it known fact do believe that pro-
at this time without something therefor
than given us undertake that project Of gauging
underground waters of the Hawaiian Islands.
Governor Carter will remembered disappointed in his
forts to have member of the geological survey nve-
gate the of the Teoryater proposal
regard had been favoaby received by the Washington
through ruling that the law did authorize
operations of the geological survey that purpose
Frear both personally Washington correspondence followed
up his predecessors efforts for the object The report
ed passing committee of the whole may have happened
to since apparently conveys the hitherto lacking authority for the
proposed work in these islands Whether the amount 100000
hcent to enable the survey proceed another question the
department asked for twice much presumed the figure was
based upon estimates
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-29
Honolulu Painting Go

Removed from Beretania Street near
Emma to 221 King street opposite Aala
Park with full fine line Of paints,
brushes. etc.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-29
IwAKAA1I 4, CO.,

importers and dealers in JAPANESE
and AMERICAN DRY and FANCY
GOODS. STRAW HAT FACTORY.
All kinds Of FELT and PANAMA
HATS always on hand.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-29
LOCAL VIEWS ON
.COASTWISE BILL
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be defeated at any cost. 1t is going to
mean, in the event of the bill going
through that the American flag will be
wiped off the seas. 1t is a shame Ln4
the men who call themselves Amerl-
cans should countenance such a meas
ure. Let US have a subsidy bill like
other countries and regain the mer-
camille position which we have nearly
lost"
l.. Tenney Peck-"I believe in the
suspension of the cOastwise shipping
laws until the intolerate situation is
relieved by an increase in American
ships, | also hope that Congress will
in the nUar future give us a merchant
marine substantially subsidized. 1t
may be regarded as unrepublican to
favor suspension of any laws designed
to protect American capital. but con-
ditions alter cases, and our condition
alters the case in point"
George w. SMITH favor the pass
age of a ship subsidy bill. If that can't
be secured in the near future, l favor
the suspension of the coastwise Ship
ping laws for a definite period of time,
IN order to relieve the conditions that
have existed here-conditions that
have been detrimental to tourist traffic,
and to the growth of the Territory"
l.. L. McCandless-"We want our
American ships protected as our sugar
Industry is protected here in the Ter
ritory, and We don't want any special
privileges enacted against our mer-
chant marine in favor of foreign sub
sidiZed steamers "
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-29

fine Job Printing. Star Office.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-29

Notwithstanding her ove1cowded prisons and chained in
dungeons occasional symptom of reform 1t stat
bufgng introduced from Spain accordance
with desire catch with civilization If bufgtng
supersede Jewbaitng public diversion its inauguration will
mark great social advance
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-29

The ship subsidy bill finally defeated but only very
the last of Congress- and still
nearly made law this time The close in the House
that second ordered when there favor of the
bill and 50 against This when the House rejected the confer
report favor of the bill The Congress- if Republican, will
probably subsidy bill.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-29

Congress supposed adjourn last Saturday. according
the date agreed upon time by the leaders Possibly owing
delays caused by the Democratic bster did do and as
been in session all week. ''' }"1n
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-29
ABANDON NIGHT MANETTVERs

ABANDON NIGHT MANEUVERS.
LONDON, May 16-As a result OF
recent naval disasters, the Admiralty
has issued orders suspending all night
maneuVers by naval vessels until fur
Their notice
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-01-30

raps. He also touched up the rail-
roads to some extent on the crop
shortage of years ago. He said that
there was not SO much a crop short
age as there was an indisposition on
the part Of the railroad companies to
furnish the cars on account. of the
rate legislation which was going on.
The congressman held the farmers
with rapt attention and made quite
hit.
The farmers institute was grand
thing for the farmers. The instruc-
tors informed the Independent editor
after the melting was over that they
never talked to a more intelligent
class of farmers anywhere and were
especially pleased that the farmers
showed SO much interest, and intel
ligence n the discussions.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-01-30

ing in the early days and created a
great deal of amusement. He had a
tree claim, redemption and a home
stead-48O acres-and considered him
self rich. The land was in Stutsman
county, we believe. At any rate Joe
bought about 5000 worth of horses,
on time, mortgaged the land, built a
house for $3.50 and started to tear up
the sod. His neighbor, an old Ger
man, built sod house for 81, bought
four oxen for 1926. At noon Mr.. De-
vine had to unhitch his horses, and
feed them sixty cent oats. The Ger
man yanked the yokes off his oxen
and let them browse on the nutritious
grass. Mr. Devine made two and
three rounds about the field to the
Germans one, but the old boy was
plugging right along just the same.
He kept few cows and some chick
ems, and sold eggs and butter in the
town. Joe had to go to town and
buy eggs and butter. Joe mortgaged
his farm for $3.50 and after paying
for the abstract, etc., he got SIS. To
make a long story short, Joe lost his
farm. The German kept his out of
debt, sold his oxen after few years
for as much as he paid for them and
bought horses, paying cash for them.
Farmers, there is food for thought in
Mr.. Devine's true story. Mr.. Devine
learned a good lesson and today has
one of the best farms in the state at
| TOWner.
Wednesday Afternoon.
The rotation of crops and the grow
ing of swine were discussed by the
farmers Wednesday afternoon. Prof.
Shaw had charge of the discussion.
Rev. Petrie of Berthold said he never
made money SO easily as by raising
Berkshire swine. He feeds them
speltz while growing them, and fin
ishes them with hulless barley He
is connected with the farmers ele-
vator at Berthold, a concern that has
paid 100 per cent to the stockholders
on their investment during the past
two years. In one year this elevator
| ~ If 11rh0 q
and the farmers at the same time
were getting more for their grain
than at the line elevators.
The farmers were advised to save
their bran and shorts to feed the
swine. Macaroni wheat is valued
highly by the farmers as a fattenins
food for the hogs.
Prof. Shaw's talk on animal breed
! ing was good. He advised the farm
ers to begin with such females as
they had on hand, no matter how
common, and breed to pure bred
sire. For each succeeding generation
use the same kind of sires from a
/ similar breed In four generations
you will have as valuable an animal
for meat as the breed from whence
the sire came. TO make the same
improvement in milk might take one
Or two generations more. The man
who changes sires continually, re-
turns to the same place where he
! started years before.
Supt. Gregg gave a talk on the
selections of the Dairy animal. He
] impressed upon the minds of the
farmers that the fact that they en-
barked in the dairy business alone
would not make them successful.
They must look after the work right.
Mr.. Shaw told the farmers that ii
! they desired to get away from the
wheat raising, they should start in
pork as that would bring the quick
est returns.
! In the afternoon Congressman
Marshall gave a splendid talk to the
! farmers on the recent financial furry,
and gave Wall street few hard
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-01-30

For SALE-Pure-bred Cocker
els, choice of three breeds-White
Wyandottes, $. L. w., and
Barred S. G. Ro ks. Price 81. 90
each, $1.25 Grated.
l. S. MAST,
1-2-1-3O Minot R. r. No. 4.
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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-01-30

Call at Stoltz 8 lumber yard
and get prices on all kinds OF
) ;lding material. Hard and
soft coal. C. 81. Rudd. agent.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-01-30

J. l.. Skrivseth's Photographic
art studio. frst-elaSs work al
ICES, 303 s. Main St, Minot,
N. D. 7-lStf
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Morning Session.
The first hours was spent in dis
cussion of trees and fruit. So many
had been successful in growing trees
and fruit. The discussion had to be
stopped to give time for some other
talks.
Prof. Churchill spoke on rotation
of crops. He showed that grain,
grasses and cultivated crops should
be introduced into all rotations. He
showed by charts the value of chang
ing crops. The material of the charts
were the results of 16 years work IN
rotations on the experiment farm.
Next followed discussion on
swine by Prof. Shaw.
He thought person can go into
the swine industry with very little
outla of money. The strawstack
could be used for shelter for ne
brood sows. The same should be
purchased from any popular breed.
Depend on hog pasture, than hog
pens. Have the sows farrow In the
spring. Have succession of pas
ture during summer. In the fall the
pigs can be sold and the expense
has been he very smallest.
Tuesday Night.
One Of 'he enjoyable things about
Arizona republican., 1908-12-01

Vicksburg is where you take the stage for QuartZsite-if you want to go there. Which you will, of course.
 A Coming Boom.
 Everybody will want to go there pretty soon. for the camp is going to have a boom, and by afI the signs it's going to be a big boom. Of course you never can tell, but that's the way it looks on the date of this indenture to a feller up q tree.
 They have two great gold bonanZas in that field nOw-proven operating mines-the King of Arizona and the North Star, the latter recovering $4O00 in gold a day right along, day in and day out. as the old horse jogs.
 There is. as mentioned. a strange faith (half hope and half supersti tion apparently like most undemon- strated faiths) among the old timers in Quartzsite, that the Dome Rock range which those racing cars lately crossed through Gonzales pass after leaving the Colorado river, contains the greatest gold deposit in North America, and each of them thinks he has located the apex.
 It isn't for me to say them nay, for I don't know. All l can afford to say after so brief and superficial a study of the field is that their faith
Arizona republican., 1908-12-01

more until next June.
 THE WINTER COHSTELLATIONS.
 Almost in the zenith Is the bright group AndroReta, with it's wonderful Debula at I, Fig l. the group Ferseus with it's striking variable star at k, and the Charioteer, with the bright. white star. at c. The easrfy Arabn.ns called this last beautiful star the Driver, oeca use it appeared in the north in the evening sky before the other stars became v1s- ible. and so apparently guided and watched over them. It was also known as the Singer, who rides before the cam els and cheers them on, the cznnct> De- ing represented by the stars of the Pleiades- This distant star and our own sun are almost identicalfy of the same constitution. but Capeifa enits go times as much light as our sun. It Is so Tar away that it's light requires more than 90 years to come to us
 In the northwest. the brilliant autumn star Vega has sunk almost to the hor1- zon- and nearby the beautiful Northern Cross now apparently stands in an up- right position on the ground- In the southwest the Great Square of Pegasus is the most striking figure, aIh below this there shines out the planet Saturn which. throughout the month, is in ex- rings slowly widen out during the month, but we still see them so nearly edgewtSe that tbey will appear as single rnlg fn a small telescope This is the only planet visible hl the early evening; toward mid night however. the planet rupfcer vtn be seen well up from the ground tn the east, alFuoSt in line with the pair of stars at A and the remarkable Beehive c3ustsr at .B. Jupiter rises two hours after the cluster Posse<SorS of small telescopes may observe interesting eiipees of the moon December 10. houTs A minutes.
Arizona republican., 1908-12-01
The Great Parker Country.

The new railroad. the Arizona and California, which will soon connect Phoenix and Los Angeles, by way of Parker, on the Colorado river, 15O miles north of Yuma, and which is now operating to that point with a S1, 900, 900 bridge across the river. just completed, will put Los Angeles with in eight hours of Parker and within nine hours of Quartzsite, for the line is preparing to build branch up the Tyson valley to Quartzsite, twenty seven miles.
 Quartzsite is only one section of the great Parker country. There are oth- CTS. Its predominant metal is gold, the others copper, mainly, but sOrpe gold some silver. much lead and 9 world of very pure iron ore. a specu- lar hematite.
 That is only on the Arizona side of the river. The great Parker coun try stands for both sides and the California side is a fine mineral field, too, but I can't speak of that this trip; another time.
 It will perhaps facilitate business inquiries if 1 give the names of few responsible owners of Quartzsite properties: c. U- Ingersoll, mining engineer and a large owner; William Keiser, a very Intelligent operator and a large owner. w E. Scott, mer- chant and owner of some of the most promising property; Charles B. Ge- nung. the patriarch of the camp and
Arizona republican., 1908-12-01

does not impress me as being at all absurd. It is a great bit of country to look at-amazingly attractive |. .ound. I don't think It could fail to catch the eye and enlist the interest of any judge of mining conditions of the geological conditions which produce naturalization. They are there and clearly visible at the most casual inspection.
 And the gold is there too. there isn't a shadow of doubt about that fact. I state it as a fact and not as an opinion, because I have seen it.
 Dry Washing.
 It is being mined there today by dry washing. It has been mined that way there, in gulches and along the Hanks of the orange. over a very extensive area for forty eight years. At one time there were from 20O0 to 5000 men in the field recovering the gold in that way.
 Those placer miners were almost all Mexicans. To this day you can see their old pits and shafts and trenches and tunnels as proof of the vast amount of work done all around the Hanks of the range. They honey comb the ground
 A Deserted City.
 The wealth of those placers built the city of La Paz, down on the bank of the Colorado river. eight miles from the "washings.~ La Paz in it's heyday was the most populous. the richest and the best built city in Ar;o 1a the largest center of population in the territory. But placer miners are mo- mads, always ready to get up and dust" When the washings petered out they scattered like leaves before the wind, and La Paz faced her sud- den and ignominious finish-she was deserted Today she is a melancholy ruin: not a soul abides within her walls. nor has for forty years. She is on the earth still, as a ruin. but no longer on the map. The sandladen winds are slowly burying her and a sturdy young mesquite forest has grown up in her once bustling streets.
 That's why the QuartZsite country. the La Paz country. died so young and has remained so long forgotten. It was really the first mining region successfully exploited in Arizona after the American occupation. It was a whirlWind center of ambitions and energies before Arizona was separated from the territory of New Mexico, and now La Paz is deader than a door nail, with none but the senti- mental historian to see that her grave is kept green.
Arizona republican., 1908-12-01

the region as place to live and make a home.
 Water. In desert countries, water is a thing that takes precedence even of gold. There is plenty of water everywhere in the Quartzsite coutnry, but none of it comes to the surface-or if it does, the greedy sun quickly hogs it up.
 The Tyson valley is a syncline with the sedimentary strata which show on the Hanks of both ranges as it's bed rocB-therefore a trough, cistern. a subsurface lake, fifty miles long by fifteen wide, where the scanty rain fall of the region-ten to eleven inch es year-is impounded beyond the reach of evaporation. At QuartZsite it is thirty feet to the water and nine windmills are pumping there cons stantly. Nine hundred-or even nine thousand windmills-could not make sensible impression on that vast cistern of underground water And it is water you can drink till the cows come home-so pure and sweet
 A Chance For You.
 
 in that vast Tyson valley subsurface lake to mill all the ores in North America.
 And the greater part of that vast gold deposit in the Dome Rock range is, of course, milling ore. And they haven't got the mills nor the money to buy them.
 So there you are, and there is your chance to catch on. That's where op- portunity opens the door to you if you have got a little of the needful and know how to play the game.
 Railroad in Sight.
 When those racing cars reached the head of Gaudeloupe Pass on the Plu- mosa range, twelve miles out from Quartzsite, they were within sight of the new railroad station, Vicksburg. looking seventeen miles away across the wide Plumosa valley.
Arizona republican., 1908-12-01

A NJ; December 17, hours q minutes. A NJ; December I9, hours , minutes A NJ, and December 2S, l hour D min utes. \. M. On the morning of December l2, but one of the moons Is visibl the other three all being hidden behind tae planet At hour 4S minutes A M., the inner. Swittly-mOving moon VII appear at the edge of the disc: at hours 2 Iin- utes, A. M.. the second moon wiil n0re slowly emerge, and at hours l5 minutes the outer moon will appear. ard all of the sal elites aEcin Oc vtsib.e
 THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.
 On the morning of December 2 most interesting total eclipse of the sun the southern hemisphere. Such eclipses are caused by the observer being ear ried inside the conical shadow, MY, Fig. 2. of the moon, and 90 having the entire disc of the sun hidden from him by our satellite. If. however, the observer is al O. just beyond the apex of the shadow the disc of the moon will appear smaller than that of the sun, and will not com pletely cover it. A brilliant ring of t"e suns disc wli then be seen surrounding the black disc of the moon, and the eclipse is called an annular or ring eclipse. The eclipse of December 2 be- gins as an annular eclipse. next changes 10 total. and finally becomes annular again. The moons shadow first falls on the swiftly turning earth at A, Fig, 3. al hours z minutes, A. NJ; 1t sweeps rapidly along the path from A to D, the shadow leaving the earth at D and the eclipse ending at hours IS minutes. A. NJ. It is only that part of the path on the round earth between B and which is sufficiently near the moon to be brought within the shadow. To observers along the portions AB and CD the moon will appear too small to completely hide the sun; to those at the points E and C the moon and sun will appear to be of ex- actly the same size. so that for an in stant the eclipse will be total. while to be completely hidden for d short time; at no point will the total eclipse last for more than about II seconds.
 r What is known as d Lunar Appulse oc- CUTS on the afternoon of December [. On
Arizona republican., 1908-12-01
Fls. 6. Path of the new comet.

appears in the sky at intervals of every 16 years is known to be now in the po- sition M, Fig. l, and during December it will move over the path MC- Though this comet is rushing toward us at the rate of more than two m1lioIss of miles a day, 1t IS still beyond the orbit of Ju- discovery although it is being system aticaIly searched for at several Ooserv- atories It will probably draw nea: enough to become a conspicuous naked eye object by the beginning of the year rsjo.
 ERIC COOLITPLE.
Arizona republican., 1908-12-01

and the few people who live there oh, yes, and those fellows who made the auto race a week ago from Los Angeles to Phoenix. They know, be- cause after crossing the Colorado riv- CT at Ehrenberg they struck straight | east across the Dome Rock range through Gonzales Pass and then down into Tyson valley where they passed the famous old Tyson well, and That's Quartzsite.
 The gold is there all right. There cant be a reasonable doubt about that. That Dome Rock range which the auto racers crossed through Con zales Pass after leaving the Colorado river contains-so the people of Quartzsite claim-the greatest gold deposit in North America All that would venture to say, as an eXpreS- sion of my own judgment after rid ing and tramping the field every day for two weeks, is that it impresses me as truly great gold ground-phe- nomenal for the extent of the min eraliZation.
 The PIumosa Range.
 The Plumosa and the Dome Rock ranges are parallel with each other. and both are parallel with the Colo rado. river. Both are well mineralized gold. silver. copper. lead, cinnabar and vast quantities of iron. Both. as to structure, are anticlinical ranges with eruptive granite cores-that is the type. but both are very much broken and irregular. Both are about fifty miles in length and are well mineralized at intervals from end to end. They constitute the easiest and most promising fields for prospectors that l know of in North America.
 The Climate of Paradise.
 For eight months of the year-from the first of October to the first of June-the region has the climate of Paradise. The rest of the time it is tOrrid-but even then, peculiarly healthful. in fact, rejuvenating A coat is seldom needed in the winter if one is stirring about. Fig trees flourish and bear abundantly in the Tyson valley. That tells the story of the winter climate, for the fig will stand only little more freezing than the orange. But Frank Weber, who has small commercial orchard wat cred by windmills near QuartZsite. is now experimenting with oranges. He will probably succeed.
 All this to indicate the character of