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Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-26
selected and presented to each Chi
several suitable gifts.
Presents Had No End

selected and presented to each child
several suitable gifts.
Presents Had No End
There was no end of presents of
every description for children of all
ages; and they were not cheap, but
articles of value, purchased by The
Herald committee or contributed by
big-hearted and generous friends.
There We're several dozen real steam
engines. The heart of one little man,
who modestly stood back and did not
clamor for anything, was made glad
by the gift of a complete workshop
outfit, SO large he could scarcely carry
it away. One little girl begged: "A
stove, please; oh, l want cook stove. "
And she was given a stove-not mere
toy, but a, large stove on which she
actually could cook things to eat.
Dolls by the dozen were distributed.
Tops, horns baseballs, toy trains, au-
tomobiles, drums and hundreds of
other gifts, too numerous to mention,
generously were given out to the great
delight and general pleasure of all the
boys and girls, all of whom expressed
their keen satisfaction with the pres
ents received.
The scene was one of mingled joy
and pathos as the hosts of children
filed by. patiently waiting their turns,
some laughing, some watching with
eager interest and some with cunning
alertness. Some of the faces, prema-
turely aged, were pinched by priva-
tions and suffering, at a time when
such children should not know the
meaning of hardships. Upon the faces
of many youngsters the hardness of
street life had set its indelible stamp.
Upon many a face. where an express
sion of childish innocence should have
rested, was seen the anxious, haunted
look which comes from q life of daily
toll to obtain the meager necessities
of life But every face, whether sad
or happy, was made brighter by the
gifts bestowed and each, beaming with
the joy of life and happiness and good
will, left the building dancing in glee.
To each child was given a capacious
bag of goodies, in addition to the arm
full of toys which most of them carried
away. But this was not all that was
done to make the youngsters joyful
and glad on the day when it is the
right of all children to be happy. The
Herald realized that other days would
follow Christmas and that mere toys,
while they carried pleasure to the
childish heart, would not serve to keep
warm the little feet of the many who
had no stockings; would not protect
little fingers against the frosty air of
early morning when the newsies hurry
to work; would not buy dresses for the
many little orphan girls who attended
the festivities The Herald wanted
each child to have some needed article
of wearing apparel or some useful gar
ment And so it was arranged that as
each child passed out of the door he
was handed an envelope containing a
ticket emitting the bearer to one dol
lars worth of merchandise at either
the Broadway Department or the Fifth
Street stores. In this. way it was pro-
vided that the good things Of Christ
mas night extend into the days of the
year to follow.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-26
SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS IN
CONVENTION AT SANTIAGO
First Session of Pan-American Body
Largely Attended by Delegates
from All Western Rec
publics

SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 25.-The first
session of the Pan-American scientific
congress opened tonight President
Montt and his cabinet, the members
of the diplomatic corps and delegates
from all the American republics at
tended.
Prof. Leo S. Rowe of the University
of Pennsylvania, chairman of the
American delegation, in a speech ex-
pressed the appreciation of his delega-
tion for the privilege of attending the
congress.
He discussed the work of the Ameri-
can republics and praised John Bar
rett, the director Of the bureau, for the
work he had done, and expressed his
belief in the future usefulness of the
bureau.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-26
HOST
OF YOUNGSTERS
MERRY GUESTS
EAT THEIR FILL OF TURKEY;
WELCOME SANTA
CHRISTMAS TREE BEARS GIFTS
FOR ALL
Hundreds of Little Ones Whose Daily
Fare Is Poor Are Fed and
Feted at Entertain
ment
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down the stairways of the big Y. NJ. c.
A. building and across the street to
Simpson auditorium. where the great
rostrum was completely hidden be-
meath a brilliantly lighted Christmas
tree, banked high around with thou
sands of toys. of games, of dolls, of
mechanical pieces, with books, with
nuts and candies, the pent-up enthu-
siasm in their grateful hearts broke
forth in noisy demonstration and ear
splitting cheers resounded through the
big structure.
Presents for All.
Is there anyone so benighted who
would not have felt that it is more
blessed to give than to receive had
these intensely human scenes passed
under his vision? Then it would have
required the last stroke to break down
doubt, when the scrambling. pushing,
beaming children-hugging tightly in
their arms the most valuable treasures
that many of them had ever held, pass
ing out of the great doorway 10 the
street and prattling in babel OF
tongues their overrunning delight
were handed an envelope containing an
order on the merchants of this city
for clothing, for shoes or for other
necessities which would be useful to
the little ones long after the disap-
pearance of the candy, the nuts, the
gifts and the discomfort from over
loaded stomachs.
In all the history of Los Angeles
there has never been such an occasion
as that afforded by The Herald's
Christmas dinner and Christmas tree
to the poor children of the city yester-
day. The Herald and it's generous
friends had endeavored to grasp the
opportunity presented by the Christmas
season to do their part in spreading
cheer and sunshine into the waste
places where they rarely ever abide.
And i'm the pleasure that comes from
having endeavored to conceive con-
scientiously, to labor earnestly and to
execute generously, all are convinced
that it is more blessed to give than to
receive, when the giving is to such
appreciative little guests as those of
yesterday afternoon.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-26
EIre pestroys Town

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Dec. 25.-
Practically the entire business section
of Ravia, OKLA, town of 1900 inhabi-
tants in Johnston county, was wiped
out today by fire, the loss aggregating
about $4,000. Five business houses, a
lumber yard and three warehouses
were burned. A defective fiue caused
the fire.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-26
Wreck Due to Broken Switch

HILLSDALE, Mich, Dec 25.-In-
stead of a broken fiange, it is reported
here today that thrown switch was
the cause of the derailment last night
near Pleasant Lake, Ind, of Lake
Shore passenger train in which about
thirty persons were injured. one possi-
bly, fatally. 1t is also said there are
suspicious that it may have been mis-
placed by members of the gang which
has been robbing safes recently in this
section of the country.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-26

Mesdames-
Ernest II. Wood,
c. i. Nichols,
N. S. Overton,
Harry Henderson,
Roy l.. Noggle,
j. E. Wilson,
l.. A. Cleveland,
V. p. Barrielk,
A. ID. Woollam,
j. +. Ponder,
r. T. 10y,
Jane W. Bruner,
Amelia Calkins,
B. Kingsbury,
Carrie Il. Caunter,
V. F.. Beckett,
Rose Pillsbury,
E. II. Andres,
Jenne l. Anderson,
Millie Coan,
r. f. Jones,
w. M. Barr.
j. w. Allan,
1. C. Bradway
NJ. s. Croswell,
l.. Il. Ward.
E. b. Sprague,
Hugh X. Hartung,
Florence Smith,
c. Carver,
A. Middaugh,
Elena Bingham,
Miriam Callahan,
M. NJ. King,
Eugene = atum,
l.. A. sutherland,
Frank e. Wolfe,
w. E. Skipwith,
Mildred Maxwell,
W. T. Stone,
c. N. Shirley,
Eva Lee Overton,
NJ. b. Cornwall,
B. l.. Hail,
Minna M. Gleason.
Kate Bekin,
J. r. Ware.
Robert RaVenscroft
Wells
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-26
An AceompIlshed pressmaker

'She looks proud in her limousine'
Huh, I'm having my dressmaker
make me one that'li knock hers cold :"
Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-26
WOMEN WORKERS SERVE
WITH MUCH ENTHUSIASM

In the ranks of the women workers
at the festival were represented all
creeds, schools, politics, benovelences
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-26
and fields of industry and education

They included:
Misses
Alta landers,
Marguerite Ware,
Emily Rlckert,
Geneva Thiry,
Lucille Jones,
Marion Jones,
Annette Hooper,
Norma Cunningham,
G. +. Whitson,
Irene Guggenheim,
Florence Smith,
Viola Smith,
Clara Ackley,
Lille L. Wells,
Cora Higgins,
Anna Parker,
Bertha TAFT,
l. Bethune,
A. Bethune,
Carrie Cunningham,
Nora Sterry,
Ramona Bower,
Corinne Tatum,
Ethel States,
Mira Ryant,
Myrtle Cole,
l.. 1. Lippincott,
Jane Maltby,
Dorothy Simpson,
Margaret Wilcox,
Nina Brown,
Louise CARAT,
Eunice Garratt,
Florence Schwartz,
Faith Chevaillier,
Ruth Pillsbury,
Eva Burns,
Nellie Purdy,
Bessie Murray,
Lille f. Brown,
Lena Wood,
Corinne Hall,
June Wallace,
Georgia Weldon,
Sadie Keith,
Margaret Hutchison,
Ruth Yerger,
Cora Whitson,
c. Ashley,
Eleanor Iiutchison.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-26

It's all right to marry blindly if only
you can be sure of staying blind
Puck.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-30
RAWHIOE COALITION LEASE
STILL FINDING RICH ORES

Rawhide, Nov. 29.-At the Truett lease
on the Happy Hooligan claim OF the Coal
ltlon. the crosscut started Friday from the
bottom OF the Wine for the footwan OF
the big vein is now in ore averaging $40 a
ton. In cutting the station. which is 10
feet below the collar of the shaft, three
strinSers of high grade ore were encount-
cred.
The Miller lease, adjoining the Truett
on the northeast is producing three tons
of very rich ore daily from the raise on
the ID-foot level which has just been con-
nected with the Wine where the big strike
was made a month ago. The south drift
from the winze still shows a seven-foot
lace averaging over 800 a ton, the high
grade streak on the footwall is as rich as
ever and gives every indication of persist
ency.
At the Holland Richard lease on block 10
of the Happy Hooligan claim both drifts
on the big vein at the fifty-foOt level are
looking better than ever, and this lease is
developing a bonanza The Coalition COM
pany has received more than 100 applica-
tons for lease on block OF the Happy
Hooligan claim adjoining the Holland
Richard block on the north. Block q.
which has been reserved for company
work, carries the extension of the rich
Holland Richard vein and it is not likely
that the ground will be leased.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-30
COLORADO SPRINGS MEN
LIKE SEVEN TROUGHS

John VI. Harnan. a prominent attorney
of Colorado Springs and president of the
Providence Gold Mining company. and
Carl Zittel. secretary treasurer of the
company. passed through Lovelock Mon
day en- route to Reno to attend the an
nual meeting of the stockholders, says the
Lovelock Review
Messrs. Harnan and Zittel have been in
the Seven Troughs district several davs
inspecting their interests and they are
highly gratified. not only with the show
ing on the Providence property, but with
the entire district.
About year ago 1 visited the dis
trict. said Mr.. Harnan. for the purpose
of mapping out plan of development on
the Providence group. We have three
distinct veins cropping on our property
and We are satisfied that the larger one is
continuation of the Mazuma Hills vein.
which strikes directly toward our ground
The Providence adjoins the Mazuma Hills
Extension and We regard it as one of the
best in that section of the district
"A crosscut tunnel is being driven to
tap the three veins. The tunnel is now in
AS feet and within the next seventy-five
feet il is expected the big vein will be
tapped The vein will be cut at a depth
of about 500 or 100 feet and if our expecta-
tons come true, and we have every rea-
son to believe they will, we will encounter
a good body of ore
1T is our intention TO increase our work
ing forces shortly and it will be our aim
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-30
PRODUCTION OF PLATINUM
IN THE UNITED STATES

The decline in price of ingot platinum
on the New York market from SIS per
troy ounce on Jan. J. 1907. to SO per ounce
on Dec 81 of the same year, was accom-
panied by a notable decrease in produc-
ton of fine platinum-from 1.439 ounces
valued at $45.1S9. in 1906. to $50 ounces. val
ued at $l0,5S9, in 1907 OF the total output
In the later year, 800 ounces came from
Butte, Del NOrte. Humboldt, Placer, Plu-
mas, Trinity and Sacramento counties, in
California, and 81 ounces from Coos, Curry
and Josephine counties, in Oregon.
In an advance chapter from Mineral
Resources of the United States. Calendar
Year 1907 on the production of platinum
in 1907, David T Day of the United States
geological survey says:
The decline in price in the United
States increased the feeling of insecurity
on the part of the platinum miners as TO
the value they would secure from their
material and rendered the search for plat
mum less active.
The total value of platinum metals i'm
ported and entered for consumption in the
United States in 1907 is given as s.. 6S4 64z
"a decrease of 81. 104. III as compared with
the value of the imports in 1906.
Continued interest is shown in the prof.
ect for developing the platinum localities
in the department of Cauca, Colombia, but
development work has not yet reached
the point of commercial production
Contracts for practically the entire sup
ply of platinum in Russia have been made
for number of years ahead and fluc-
tuations in prices have no significance iu
regard 10 the total annual output.
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LAGOON Route.

Twelve passenger trains daily be-
tween Salt Lake and Ogden. Heated by
steam; electric lights. and always on
time. Phone 159.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-30
MINING NOTES FROM
LIVE CAMP OF TINTlC
(Eureka ReporterO

L. B. Dan KoWske returned to his home
at Ogden on Sunday after spending few
days in visiting local mining properties in
which he is interested.
James Wilson. who is interested in prop
erty in the eastern section of Tintic. is in
town. Mr.. Wilson is a brother to Joseph
Wilson who has a suit pending against
the Colorado company.
Willis Knapp returned to his home at
Salt Lake yesterday afternoon after a trip
out to the Orient property in West Tintic.
Preparations are being made to do the
annual assessment work upon this ground
The shareholders of the Great Easter
Mining company held meeting the other
day and decided to assess the stock suf-
ficiently to enable the company to do the
assessment work for this year and per-
haps enough for the following year. The
ground is located in north Tintic.
The shaft at the Tintic Combination
property will be sunk another hundred
feet which will take it to the 200 level.
Elmer Duncan and Al. Moore put the
shaft down to the 100 level under contract
and the former has taken another contract
Tor the next 100 feet. The vein which has
been encountered in the shaft carries some
good looking quartz and B. II. Bullock
states that the showing is even more en-
couraging than the officials of the COM
pany anticipated at this depth.
The Beck Tunnel shaft is now down to a
depth of 1000 feet and Is reported 10 be in
the kind of lime which makes the ore
upon the east side" Everything indicates
that the Beck Tunnel will get the ore at
this depth with but little drifting and if
this does happen it will be big thing
as IL VIII forever put an end to the re-
ports that the ore bodies in that locality
do not extend TO the deep as they do in
other parts of Tintic.
Elmer Duncan and F. A Fish have a
contract for 100 feet of sinking at the Tin
tic Central Mr.. Duncan was in town
yesterday and states that this sinking will
commence at once. A whim is now being
used al this property. but the company
has instructed Mr.. Duncan to commence
exeaVatlng Tor a hoist which will be in
stalled at an early date. Over at the
Montreal property. which is owned by the
same people who have the control of the
Tlntic Central, small hoist will be in
stalled and Messrs. Duncan and Fish will
sink shaft under contract
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-30
MILL CLEANUP
YIELDS WELL
About $4,000 Worth of Silver
Bullion and Quicksilver Is
Cleaned at Eureka Hill.

Irwin Spriggs. a well known leaser, has
just completed a cleanup Of the old Eu-
reka Hill mill upon which he had lease.
Mr. Spriggs is reported to have secured
about twenty-five TASKS of quicksilver
and seven bars of silver bullion The TASKS
of quicksilver contained 761z pounds each
and as quicksilver is worth about 30 cents
a pound they represented a nice piece OF
money. says the Eureka Reporter.
Superintendent Charlie Baker OF the Eu-
reka Hill properties shipped the quicksii-
YER TO the De Lamar Gold Mining COM
,pany at De Lamar. New. The bars of bull
lion will weigh about us pounds each but
contain some little waste material which
will be removed in refining.
In cleaning up around the old mill Mr..
Spriggs used a machine which he and his
brother, Henry SpriggS. invented several
years ago for washing gold. This machine
was used with good success upon the sand
from the Snake river in Idaho. This is
the second cleanup of the old Eureka Hill
mill and when the machinery is removed
there will be an opportunity for some one
else TO recover considerable amalgam
which cannot be recovered at the present
time.
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dancy. came when they obtained con-
troll of the Consolidated Virginia mine
and discovered the big bonanza in il. They
did not inaugurate the work. as has SO
often been claimed. The Dick Sides and
White < Murphy claims. joining the Best
* Belcher on the north, had remained
Tor more than ten years practically I'M
prospected, when in the early seventies
the bank people consolidated them and
commenced sinking a shaft. For a long
while the prospects were unpromising, but
early in 1873. when the shaft had been
sunk 200 feet without encountering any
thing in the crOSScuts from it. in running
drain tunnel from the Gould & Curry
several small ore bodies were cut on
the 1.161-foot level. Sam Curtis. one of
the oldest and best known miners on the
Comstock, was then superintendent. IL
must have been this showing that in
duced the Bonanza firm to go in for the
control of the mine. for they obtained it
at the next election, and Fair took the
superintendency.
THE shaft was hurried down and it
reached the 1,161-foOt level in the fall OF
1873 when a more thorough prospecting
of the small ore bodies cut by the drain
tunnel proved them to be of no account.
The Bonanza firm evidently felt that they
had got into a bad scrape and began I'M
loading their stock, though the price was
only So or 81 share. | am positive of
this from the fact that Fair was trying
i'm every way to boom the mine a thing
he never did when he felt that the game
was in his hand
But in tunneling in different directions
early in October drift that had been run
about 250 feet TO the southeast cut into
a body of rich ore. Ii was the top of the
big bonanza, but the Importance of the
strike was not generally known until the
Bonanza firm had not only got back the
stock they had sold, but had gathered
in as much as the>r could besides-for
Fair had suddenly ceased booming the
mine
1.-THE rest of the story is already a part
of history
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Union Assay Office.

NJ. S. Hanauer. ]. V. Sadler
162 So. West Temple. P. o. Box 144s
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to open up and develop all of the lodges
en- large scale and in the shortest time
possible when the Lodges are cut we will
start drifting both ways and II snoulu
not be very long before we find the shoot
which We are satisfied is within the
bounds of our territory
Yes, / must acknowledge that the IA
nous Seven Troughs district has made
wonderful advancement during the past
year. On my last visit the camp was very
sluggish and inactive. Conditions are al
together different now and it is amazing
10 see the vast amount of development
Mor being done. In my opinion the Seven
Iroughs district is one of the biggest and
mas the brightest outlook of any camp IN
the west"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-30
Formation of the Bonanza Firm.

1T became generally known during the
year 1861. such things were invariably
made public by the miners, that the Hale
K Norcross had developed a body of rich
not matters of common knowledge.
The mine was under the control OF the
bank ring. and all that the shareholders
and outside public positively knew was
going TO feed the Unsuitable mills of the
Union Mill & Mining company, and that
the stock was being regularly assessed.
1T has always been rule of courtesy
on the Comstock. having almost the force
Of law that a superintendent of any mine
on the lode should have full access to any
other mine II he desired TO visit il. Hence
] suppose that Fair. as superintendent of
the Ophir. was allowed to inspect the
Hale & Norcross mine All that talk
about Superintendent Thomas keeping
him suspended in the cage is manufac-
the most courteous gentlemen ever
knew.
1T must have been principally upon
Fairs Judgment. there fore. that the BO-
nanza firm was formed to obtain control
of Hale * Norcross FART and Mackay
mining end of the scheme. but Flood &
o. Brien were included to look after the
stock market part of il, and to supply a
portion of the requisite capital.
with a knowledge of their later mil
lions ii might be supposed that the cap
at the start but its smallness will sur
prise most people. Mackay put in $40
600 Fair $40 900 and Flood & o. Brien $780,
coo. and their respective fortunes re-
manned in that proportion until the part
nerShip was dissolved. for there was an
ironclad agreement between them that no
member of the firm should speculate on
his individual account.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-30
Before Fair and Msekay Became
Famous.

About all the litigation had been dis
posed OF by the end of 1864. the compro-
mise between the Chollar and Potosi COM
panies terminating the last important
suit. Thereafter the bank peoples con-
troi of the COmstock was virtually undis-
puted until the rise of the Bonanza firm.
To correct some popular errors, l am go
ing to say a few words about that event.
II have seen Ii repeatedly stated by
some of the 'By-the-Bye' reminiscensers
that James G.. Fair was sent to the Com
stock in the late sixties by combination
of San Francisco stock brokers who de-
sired 10 avail themselves of his skill as
a mining expert. AS matter of fact,
Mr.. Fair came to Virginia City in 1860,
and was superintendent of the Ophir mine
years before he became prominent as one
of the Bonanza firm
John w Mackay. who, by the way. up
to 1870 spelled his name in the good old
years had quit manual work underground
as Il miner and joined forces with J. NJ.
Walker as a mine operator and specula-
tor The only mine they controlled was
the Bullion, lying just south of the Chol-
lar on the Gold Hill divide. which never
produced a pound OF ore. that can recol-
lect but beat the record for the regular
ity of its assessments. But even an as
sessment mine may be made profitable if
properly managed; and thus, together
with some lucky investments in Ken
tuck and other stocks. the partners by
sidered a competency. and his brother.
Gilbert Walker. having been elected gov
ernor of Virginia, and at the same time
inOculated with an itch for the preSi-
dency. he concluded TO devote his time
to promoting his brothers presidential
boom; so he drew out his half of the
firms assets, about $4,000. and went
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THE HERALD IN NEVADA.

The The Herald can be bought at the lo'
ewing places in Nevada:
TToVeiocks-Charles h Baker.
5uscarora-Mrs- A L Clark
Ereno-Rosenthal & Armanko-
Goiofleld-Palace News Stand anu nun
'er ,ASv. & Pub. Co.
Ely-Harvilie>s tationery Co.. c. B. Fax
ana Walden & Burnett.
Ganente-John Shier.
PPselamar-J. NJ. Kelly.
tnan, P. M
66oore-Richard Richards.
sdWnlde-LOuie Polin
las Vegas-Wilson Drug Co.
SSnleiter-M. Herman
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