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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-30
HEROIC
CURE
lCopyright.)


Have you noticed Paul don't use
tobacco any more? He dropped 1t
about two months after he was mar
ried.
No; he didn't give it up of his own
free will exactly. In fact there was
kind OF conspiracy. Margaret's
the one that made the cure. She did
the hard work. though I'm bound to
say. and she says so, too. that I'm
the one she got the prescription from,
so to speak
Margaret ana l were sitting sew
Ing together one day. and we begun
to kinder talk Paul over. You know
women viii discuss their men folks
when they feel confidential. Finally
says: 'Paups good boy, IL he Is M
nephew He's one in good many
hundred, but he's got one fault can't
abide. II you don't mind It, l says,
why, it's all right and I'm glad for
you. but it's something / never could
get used to-
i do mind it, she says right up
quick. / always said I'd never marry
a man that smoked. But now I've
done 1T, and as long as I knew be-
forehand. why she says, IN stand 1t
the best way can. and just won't nag
him about it..
That's right / says 1t don't
never do no good to nag q man. 1t
Just gets him more set in his ways,
and 1t makes you both unpleasant to
get along with.
Paul says himself that he'd like
TO stop. and know it isn't good for
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-30
Application for Patent.
Notice. "a. A. Ne. 1876
APPLICATION FOR PATIENTLY. s. LAND oFFl
CARSON CITY NEVADA

Notice. M A. Nc. 1876
APPLICATION Fok PATIENTLY s. LAND OFFICE
CARSON CITY. NEVADA
Notice is hereby given that Bamberger Explor.
alton Company, a corporation, through its Attor-
ney -in-faet +. X. MeEamee, whose post office sd-
dress In Caliente. Nevada. has made application
for United States patent for l472e linear feet Of
the Stamp Lode Mining Claim situate In the JaelS
Rabbit Mining District County of Lincoln STATE
Of Nevada. being Survey No. 1853 and described
In the field notes and plat on file in this office
with q magnetic variation at 16 deg 20 min B.
as follows: -
Commencing At Cor. No. l. whence u. s. M M
NO bears n. 10 deg. so min. E 1854 feet; thence
n IA deg. IS min. w. 6ls.2 feet to cor No, 3.
thence 8 7s deg. 81 min. W. 1887 IT. 10 cor No
:; thence 5. "a deg IS min. E. o4S IT. to cor No 4.
thence N. ~ deg. 10 min z. 1ST26 # to cor No
l the place Of beginning. and located on unsur-
Veyed land. containing an area of 49, SET acrea.
me adjoining and conflicting claims as shown
py the plat Of survey survey lode SO Paw Day.
Lode No. 81 Jack Rabbit; Lode No az Cotton
Tan; Lode No. 60 Coyote and Tiger lode surveyed
, ! direct that this notice be published in Inc
pIoCHE RECORD. q weekly Newspaper pub-
lished at Phoebe, Lincoln County. Nevada, for the
period Of sixty days
Louis J. Cohn. Register
Date OF first publication. April Is. 1908.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-30

him. she says, but the habit Is so
strong that l don't suppose he ever
will give 1t up
II believe he can be cured I
says. and If you are willing to try 1t
I'm pretty sure, knowing Paul as l
do, that you can cure him In less thar
fortnight
She put down her sewing at that,
and looked at me. I'd do anything
In this world she says. and she
seemed terrible In earnest,
What doctor do you have when
yor are sick?' says.
She looked kinder surprised. As II
she didn't see what that had to do
with 1t. I haven't been sick since
I've been here she says, but always
had homeopathic doctor
i always doctored t'other wayJ.
says, but I don't see after all but
what the homepaths have Just as
good luck. Anyhow, that's what ia
try on Paul. If was you. Let's see
what Is the motto of the home.
paths? Don't 1t mean that Won
cure thing with something Just
like It?
She didn't say nothing for a long
time. | could see she was studying
on what I'd said. but abe didn't get
over looking puzzled. Finally. when
thought the right minute had come. /
says:
And speaking of smoking, / had
an old uncle and aunt once that both
smoked. don't s'pose ANYBODY
knows what sight of comfort thew
TOOK They'd set down every evening
side Of the fire and smoke together
II seemed kinder queer till YOU got
used to it.
Margaret looked at me steady. and
then she smiled a little bit. think
see. she says. and then she made
up face and shiyered.
we didn't say no more about smok.
ing that afternoon. / don't believe IN
telling folks too much when I'm civ.
Ing 'em advice. They're too ami n
go and say | told 'em to do 40 and
so. and that's likely to make feelings
SO Just let 'em think things out for
themselves.
When Margaret went home abe
says: I'm going to try IL Aunt
'Ssnath. II 1t kills me-. So than
waited pretty interested to see wbar
would happen next.
Well. Margaret didn't let no grass
grow under her feet. 1t want mora'n
three days later that Paul dropped IN
TO see me. | knew by the looks "a
MIN that he'd got something on his
mind, and / says to myself: .Yon,ra
going to be counsel for both sides
Il talked as fast as | could on other
things. for I've found that the lopger
you keep folks away from what thev'vs
come a-parpose to talk about the
more they'll say when you do let
EN- get at 1t.
Finally psuse came and tho,.
Paul spoke up.
serane.'
Why, what's the trouble?' I saws
tie laughed sort O. sheepish. II
sounds funny but 1t amt he SAYS.
Margaret's taken to smoking.
Smoking? says.
les smoking he says. 4 don't
you're astonished. / was my.
sell Tried to get her on the notion
,ut she won't give 1t up. She said
me thought 1t would be so sociable to.
" oy the fire evenings and smoke to-
,eener and she wanted to like al.
ne Things did. told her 1t would
oaks her As sick o. 9 horse. hut she
Wontidued On Page Three)
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The Reverence for N. o...

The Reverence for the Obscure.
SO you believe in mental scjencs ."
Absolutely"
But you don't thoroughly under.
stand it"
My dear sir, am not so egotistic
as % think that anything could thor.
onghly understand would be worth nv
believing in"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-30
Nip and luck.

There was an Englishman who i'm.
ported a famous wolfhound from Eu.
rope some years ago, to get rich
catching wolves for the scalp money
offered by the state of Texas-S1O
each. Some genuine Texas sports
were invited to witness the first
chase. They followed many miles
through the prairie grass. but with
out getting sight Of either wolf or
hound. Finally they came to wood
ed spot, where a suffering native was
chopping. did you see wolf and
hound pass jus. now" cried the
Englishman. "Y-e-e-e.a, sir: they
1-j-jus passed How was the racer"
'P-u-u-rty hot nip an t-t-t-tuck.
T-t-t.the dog wa-wawas a leetle ahead"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-30
Painter Of "rhs Spirit Of .zs .

Archibald W. Willard. the Cleveland
artist, who painted tho famous pic.
ture The Spirit of re-" was a car.
riage painter and was working at his
trade when he began the painting Of
the picture which required two months
to finish at odd times.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-30

DO you think 1t is wrong for worn-
On to bet?" said the woman who blays
bridge.
No" answered Mrs Torkins. al
wish that whenever Charley makes
bet ! could bet similar sum the other
way We would save lot of money.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-30
Modern atren,,o,a ~.

y Is common saying that the
thousrn world Is too hurried to dream.
20 picture or to pray. But. ia truth
u - too hurried even to think,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-30

Satisfactory Piece.
We will never have universal peace
until each nation is satisfied with
the piece 1t has.-Judge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-24
THIS CONCERN HAS POSSIBLY THE MOST COMPLETE IRoNMANiN PLANT IN THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES.

One of the giant coal and iron mining institutions of this district is the Wood ward Iron company. This company's career has been marked with success from it's very beginning. With ample capital, good judgment as to possibilities and skilled management it has never been hindered in it's purpose to build up and develop.
 The company was organized in 1882 by the heirs of s. H. Woodward of Wheel ing, w. Va. The capital stock Is 8, GOO GOO, and its principal business is the manu- facture of pig iron.
 The company owns Il. 400 acres of coal lands and about 300 acres of iron ore lands. It has three blast furnaces at Woodward with a capacity of 750 tons per day.
 The two coal mines located quite near these furnaces reach the Pratt seam, which is Az to 51a feet thick. These mines have a capacity of 1200 tons each per day and give employment to 1000 men.
 The company has 764 coke ovens, the daily output of which Is used in the man. ufacture of pig iron. No coke or coal is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-24
THE Mu4eA MINES ARE SAID TO BE THE BEST EQUIPPED IN THE souTH-TWo SHAFTS 76o FEET DEEP.

ready for shipment. The coal passing through the screens drops into a chute into railroad car on a parallel track and the foreign matter taken by the pckers from the picking tables is dropped into convenient chutes leading immediate iy over railroad cars on another track.
 Vertical Tube Boilers.
 Four 4OO-horsepower vertical water tube boilers supply steam for the large ven tilating fan and power house. The power house and machine shop are large sub stantial brick structures, the roofs of which are supported by steel trusses. The former contains a large Nordberg air compressor; two large generators direct ly driven, one by a large Corliss engine the other by a turbine engine The machine shop is thoroughly equipped with the latest tools-lathes, drill presses, etc. all electrically driven by individual mo- tors, and pits over which electric loco motives are repaired A thoroughly equipped blacksmith shop is under the same roof. The power house furnishes lights for the town of Mulga, as well as power for the operations of the mines
 The handsome three-story office build ing at Mulga provides for laboratory offices for superintendent. engineers and clerical force; also a telephone exchange with lines to all parts of the works and town, as well as to the main and Ensley exchanges keeping the general offices in Birmingham and the different depart ments in easy communication with each other.
 Other features are a well appointed hotel and store, the latter including sep arate stores for each department, both operated by the company.
 The offices of the executive officials of the Birmingham Coal and Iron company are in Atlanta, and are as follows:
 H. M. Atkinson, president.
 P. S. Arkwright vice president.
 R. E. Cullinane, secretary
 The operating officials located at Bir- mingham are:
 James Bonnyman, treasurer and general manager.
 Richard Peters, Jr., assistant treasurer and purchasing agent.
 T. J. Manson, assistant secretary and auditor.
 J. A. Norman, sales agent.
 c. A. Moffett, superintendent of ma chinery.
 Milton H. Fies, general superintendent of mines.
 s. l.. Morrow, chief engineer.
 The general offices of the company are on the ninth floor of the Brown-Marx building, Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-24
CAME INTO THE DISTRICT THREE YEARS AGO AND ACQUIRED THE TuTWlLER AND OTHER PROPER TIES OF VALUE.

One of the youngest and most progress sive companies of the district is the Bir- mingham Coal and Iron company, which three years ago acquired the property of the Tutwiler Coal, Coke and Iron com pany and considerable additional acreage of ore and coal bearing lands. They have also recently acquired the properties of the Tecumseh Iron company, consisting of some 1o000 acres of superior brown ore bearing lands, on which mines are already in opeKtion, located in Calhoun, Polk and Clebourne counties.
 Their holdings of mineral bearing lands consist of $500 acres red ore, 10000 acres brown ore, 40000 acres of high grade cok ing and steam coals, which will furnish for generations sufficient raw material to supply several times over their pres- ent blast furnace capacity.
 Vanderbilt Furnaces.
 Their blast furnace plant, known as Vanderbilt" is located at East Birming- ham, on Village creek, and consists of two stacks, Nos. 1 and ?. No. 1 has capacity of 15O tons, and No. of 25O tons of pig iron daily. No. 2 furnace was Dullt by the B1rmlnSnaln coal ana Iron company after they acquired the property, and is one of the most modern in the country. This furnace put on it's initial blast May 5, last, and is now in opera tion. No. 1 furnace is out of blast and on it large improvements will be made before it again goes to work. At this plant is made the famous Vanderbilt" brand of foundry pig iron, which has something of a national reputation.
 The red ore for the two furnaces is sup piled by the companys mines at Songo, Ala, located on Red mountain about 10 miles from the furnaces on the Birming ham Mineral branch of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, which now has a capacity of 1000 tons daily. Very sub- stantial improvements have been made. both on the inside and outside of this mine, all of which has materially in- creased the capacity and economy of oper- atons. Further improvements are con- templated, so that at any time addi- tional output is required, it can be had on very short notice.
 Tecumseh Ore Mines.
 The brown ore, which also forms large proportion of the burden of the Vanderbilt furnaces, is supplied from the company's property at and near Tecumseh Ala, reached by the Louisville and Nash
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-24

neer, the result of whose plans and ef forts is the present plant. Today the largest mine in the south, and one of the largest and best equipped in the country, is now in operation, surrounded by a town of 1000 people, whose houses, built and owned by the company, are a model of neatness and comfort.
 The Mulga mines consist of two shafts 760 feet deep, through which is reached the Pratt seam at a vertical depth of 230 feet, and what is known as the Big Seam at a depth of 720 feet. Equip ment is provided for the mining and handling of 5000 tons daily on each seam of coal, or a total of coco tons daily, at which rate it is claimed the company has sufficient acreage in this section to make the life of these mines 30 years.
 At present the Pratt seam alone is being worked, the entire output of which will be for the market as analyses, tests, etc., have shown the coal being mined here to be of very superior quality for steam purposes, and with the equipment provided for its preparation for the mar ket it should always find ready sale.
 The Big Seam" is not expected to be worked until the washer plants and coke ovens are erected at Mulga, all of which are provided for in the original plans
 The Equipment.
 The equipment of this mine is the most modern and substantial known to the present mining era. The mining is done by chain machines, operated by com- pressed air, and coal loaded in three ton steel mining cars equipped with brakes and automatic couplers, which are gathered and assembled on the load track to the shaft by electric locomotives. With one operation the loaded mine car is automatically pushed onto the upper deck of one cage and the empty car off of the lower deck onto the empty track; at the same time the loaded car on the cage at the top of the shaft is pushed off onto the upper landing of the steel tip pie, as the empty car is pushed on the lower deck. These cages are operated for a mechanical appliance to be. As the loaded car is pushed off the cage onto the upper landing of the tipple it rolls by gravity over the scales, which automatically registers the weight, and thence onto a rotary dump, operated by electric motor, and making a com- plete circle; as the next loaded car comes onto the dump, the empty is released the rolls down an incline onto kick back which gives the car an initial mo- mentum down to the second landing of the tipple, from which it is pushed onto the cage for it's return trip into the mine.
 by hoisting engines at great speed and at as near perfect safety as it is possible
 The coal when dumped, as described above, passes onto shaking screens, over which any size lump can be made, thence onto endless picking tables, each side of which will accommodate six to eight pickers, who eliminate such foreign mat ter as might be loaded in the mine; thence onto a steel apron into the railroad car,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-24
YEARLY INCREASES IN
 ALABAMA PRODUCTIONS
..ss...s
FIRST RECORD IS e46 TONS IN 184o. TOTAL PRODUCTION LAST YEAR WAS 14,25o,454 ToNs-THE REC ORD SINCE 1870.

The increase in the coal production of Alabama since the first development of this industry to the present time is es-, pecially interesting.
 The first record shown is the amount produced in 1S4O, there being only 946 tons of coal dug in the entire state of Alabama in that year. There had prob ably been small quantity of coal mined prior to that time, but if so it amount ed to practically nothing.
 From 1S4O until 1870 the amount in creased slightly. During the years of the civil war the amount reached as high as 15,0O0. After the war it dropped to 10000, but an increase was experienced with the opening of the Birmingham dis trict in 1871. That year showed 15,0o0; the next 16,S00, and the next 44,S00, while the succeeding years continued to in- crease in the same proportion.
 It was in 1883, however. over 40 years after the first coal was mined that the amount increased to over the 1,000,0 ,000 tons mark.
 The figures given by the United States geological survey from 1870 read as fol- lows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-24
WOODWARD IRON co.
 HAS MARKED SUCCESS

sold on the markets as a rule. However, during the miners strike last summer when other coal companies were suffering on account of labor disturbances the Woodward company came to the rescue and furnished much coal and coke to bridge over the difficulty. Superior man. agement must be accredited with the fact that the Woodward only suffered the slightest inconvenience or disturbance by the miners strike.
 The company works 80 per cent colored and 20 per cent white labor, with prac- bcally no foreign labor. To this policy the management attributes much of it's success with the labor problem.
 Part of the special equipment of this co ompany is 25 miles of railroad, 15 loco motives and 300 cars.
 The officers of the company are as fol- lows:
 J. H. Woodward, president A. H. Wood ward, vice president; R. H. Canister, secretary; Charles H. Abbott, treasurer, and M. W. Bush, general superintendent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-24
BIRMING CHAM COAL AND IRON COMPANY
 IS YOUNG BUT PROGRESSIVE CONCERN

vile, Southern and Seaboard Air Line railroads, where there are now in opera ton four mines, equipped for daily out put of 1000 tons.
 As above stated, this valuable property has only recently been acquired by the Birmingham Coal and Iron company, but plans are already under way for the re- modelling of the present plants, well as the opening and equipment of new mines for further development. This is in line with the policy pursued by the company at all its plantsAbrnging and keeping them up to the highest efficiency. This ore on account of it's very high grade, has always found very ready sale on the market, and as the produc- tion is already in excess of the require ments of the companys own furnaces the mining and preparation of same for the market will be quite feature of their future enlarged operations. For this req son, the improvements at these plants include the installation of a thoroughly equipped laboratory, in charge of a corps of experienced chemists in this line of work.
 The Coal Mines.
 The company's ovens at Blossburg and Short creek, and a battery of 51 at the furnace plant, keep the furnaces sup piled with coke.
 The plants at Blossburg, on the South ern railway F miles from the furnaces consist of two coal mines, equipped with crushers and washers for preparing the coal before coking and 100 coke ovens.
 Located at Short Creek, Ala, 23 miles from the furnace plant, on the Ensley Southern branch of the Southern railway, are two large coal mines, Nos. 1 and 2. and the most complete coke oven plant of 160 ovens, and 60 more contemplated in the near future. A very modern power plant supplies electric power for mining machines with which the entire output is . mined: for electric locomotives handling and assembling tram cars in the mines for the chain haulage handling tram cars loaded with coal and empties on the slopes to and from the automatic tipples n for the shaking screens, picking belt and Bradford breaker; for the washer; fos the larry handling washed coal from the bin to the coke ovens; and finally for the machines drawing the coke from the ovens, which at the same time loads it in- to railroad cars ready for shipment to the furnaces. These operations are all on the Pratt seam of coal, and have a capacity of 1500 to 200O tons daily.
 This concludes the plants operated for the benefit of the manufacture of the Vanderbilt pig iron.
 Muloa Mines.
 Quite an innovation in the coal mining industry of the south is the plant of this company at Mulga, Ala, located about 15 miles from Birmingham on the At lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad and the Southern railway. Two years ago the site of these operations was a wilderness into which came corps of competent engineers, under the direction %fv,xr ,r,t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-24

Birmingham has Il banks with capital and surplus combined amounting to about A,9OO,OOO. One of these banks. the First National, has a capital of $1,O0O,00O and a surplus of $60O,OO0 and goes into the new year with undivided profits of over $1OO000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-24

Buildings have been erected here this year to the value of s2,500 OOO-more than were ever erected in any previous sin gle year.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-03-28
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion OF the ear
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that IS by constitutional remedies.
Deafness Is caused by an inilamed con-
dition OF the mucous lining OF the Eus-
tachian Tube. When this tube is in
famed YOU have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is en-
tircly closed. Deafness is the result,
and unless the inflammation can be
taken ont and this tube restored TO its
normal condition, hearing will be de-
stroyed forever, nine cases out OF ten
are caused by Ca,arrh. which is moth
ing bu, an innamcd condition OF the
mucous surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case OF Deafness Caused by
Catarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free
+. ! CHENEY & CO, Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists. 7Sc.
Take Halls Family Pills for Consti-
patton.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-03-28

Mrs Carrie Taylor spent several
days this week with Philadelphia rela-
tiyes.
Tire Tome Institute closed last FRI
day for ten days spring vacation. They
will resume the r regular work next
Monday. the goth. at noon.
Mrs. John Nannort, Miss Mary Van
mort and Master Charlie Vaunort
spent several days last week with Mrs.
Isaiah Lawrence in Baltimore
Mr. and Mrs Raymond Westerfeld
were guests oi Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Gilmore in Baltimore last Thursday.
Miss Marguerite Davis spent several
days til S week with Baltimore rela-
tiycs.
Mrs. Harry Smithson is home from
very pleasant visit with Philadelphia
relatives
Mrs. William Kidd and Miss Mar
guerite Kidd Wis ted Havrc de Grace
friends and relatives this week.
Mr.. William Wilson, oi Wilmington,
spent Sunday with his stcr. Mrs.
Ward Brown
Mr. John +. Johnson and Master
William Johnson spent Sunday with
Bay View relatives
Mr.. and Mrs. Alonza Gillespie. OF
Pcrryvillc. were guests OF Mr.. and
Mrs Joseph Gcisler, Sunday.
Miss Mabel McGonigal. OF Hartford
county. visited some OF her Port De-
post fr ends Saturday
Mr. Edward Williams will occupy
the Nichols property iormcrlv occu-
picd by Mr. John Zeigler. Mr. Viii
liams will run a first class ice cream
parlor His friends wish him much
success,
Mr. John Rcinhart. Of Bait more,