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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-22
How The Capital Of South Africa
 Looks I'm 1908


1 then so rough that he named that point the Cape of Storms It was along the l same track that Vasco da Cana went on around the continent to India a few years later, skirting Cape Agulhas, the south ernmost point of the African continent which lies down there a little off to the left
 Cape Town is just under you, so close that you can toss a rock into its streets, end beyond it is Table bay. the great port of entry for the whole of South Africa. Diaz and Da Cana had ships of less than 10O tons, the mighty steamers which are floating down there at the wharf each runs high into the thousands of them and leave and call every year. Ships with a tonnage aggregate more than 100000 went in and out of that port within the last 12 months, and this has become one of the great water gates of the world. The harbor looks small from the top of the mountain, but it has Aore than two miles of quays, which can accommo- date vessels drawing 30 feet. It is shel- tered by a breakwater 3600 feet long, and it's largest division, Victoria basin, covers 3G acres. Looking along the quays you can see the electric cranes, and back of them the warehouses, which can store
 
 reservoirs, which hold mountains of coal.
 Among the ships are boats from East and West Africa, from London and Ham, burg, and great liners on their way to Australia and India. There are the mail steamers of the Union Castle company, which carry not only passengers and ex- press, but the vast treasures which are always flowing out of the diamond and gold mines of this great vault
 Now turn your eyes from the harbor to the great hill which lies across the ravine from where we are standing. That is the Lions Head, which forms another part of the background of the horseshoe valley surrounding the bay. That peak is almost as high as Table mountain, and the elec- tric car which you can see whizzing along at it's feet, looking pygmy-like in the dis tance, will give you one of the finest street car rides of the world. You can take it in the heart of Cape Town and wind your way around the bay under the great Table Rock and come back through the valley between Table mountain and Lions Head to the city with beautiful views in sight all the way.
 The Capital of South Africa.
 But let us go down and talk a walk through this capital of South Africa.
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Business was boomed to correspond with the new conditions. Many buildings were erected in all the cities, and especially in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. New ships were brought into the carrying trade, new institutions of all kinds cre- ated and wages and expenses, already high, were enormously increased. Then the war ended and the soldiers left. The money flood was succeeded by a money drouth and the creditors began to ask for the payment of their bills. This caused failures in all departments of trade and the tide of immigration turned the other way, while thousands were thrown out of work. At the same time stores and houses became vacant, the prices of property began to drop. and the compe- tit. on for tenants brought down the rents.
 This situation has almost steadily con tinued since the war and the country is now getting down to hard-pan basis. It will probably improve later on, but just now its condition is bad.
 South Afrca's Big Banks.
 Banking here is not the same as in the United States. With us every little town has its individual bank, and there are hundreds of small institutions operating with capitals of $50, 600 and upward. Here all the money is handled by half dozen great banks with branches reaching to all parts of South Africa These big banks report to each other and, although competitors work largely in harmony. If mans credit is bad it soon becomes generally known, and if one bank drors him he has little hope from the others. As to the extent of the banking, I have before me some reports of the big insti- tutions The Standard Bank of South Africa Is now doing a business of some- thing like S150, 600 000 per annum on a capi- tai of less than 5000 GOO. It has about $100, ,, o00,000 worth of deposits, and it's profits are $6O0,000 and upward per year. During great part of it's existence 1t has paid as much as IS per cent, and 1t is now pay i ing 16, notwithstanding the hard times. Another big institution is the Bank of Africa, which has a capital of $5,OOO, 900. | This bank has deposits of $3O000000 or S35, ,OOO000, and It's assets and liabilities are about s50000,00O. It has been paying 13 per cent until recently, when the dividends were cut to 10 per cent, with a prospect of going down still lower
 The Natal bank, which does business chiefly fin Natal and the Transvaal, has q capital of only s2.500, GOO, but it's deposits amount to something like s10,000 900 or $2o. OO0.0o0, and 1t pays about F per cent.
 The National Bank of South Africa, with a capital of over $5,000,000, has de- posits of sSS,0O0,000 and pays per cent, while the African Banking corporation has running accounts of from $20,OO0,O00 to $25,O00,000 on a capital of S20O0,000, and pays per cent dividends. Nearly all Of these banks have had a considerable re- duction of deposits during the past two
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Cape Town. ~ APE TOWN!
 How shall describe it?
 O It is the biggest city of South Africa, and it has nothing in common with this savage black continent. It's buildings and it's people are all Euro pean. The town is as bright as a button and as clean as a pin. It lies right on the Atlantic. washing it's feet in Table bay. Behind and above it rise the two mighty rocky formations known as Table mountain and the Lions Head. They are bedded in green and they shut out the half desert lands which fade away into the great Karoo, farther north.
 Table Mountain.
 Table mountain is rightly so called. It is a mighty block of rock which rises all most straight up behind the town to height more than six times that of the Washington monument, cutting the sky line with a jagged horizontal front two miles in length. If you could take one of the highest of our Allegheny noun tains, slice off it's top so that 1t looks like a table and plant 1t down behind Boston you might have about the effect that Table mountain has at the city of the cape. The mountain sides would need to be cut so as to be almost precipitous, and it's top should be as regular as though the gods of nature had smoothed it off with a knife. Standing in Boston there would be times when the whole great Table rock would be clear and clean-cut. At other times it would be lost in the mist, and again low, overhanging clouds would rest upon it and fall down over it's sides like a tablecloth.
 Table mountain is $500 feet high. One side of it is such that it can be climbed in three hours, and in that space of time you can reach one of the finest views in the world. The mighty southern ocean stretches beyond you at the front and on the right and the left. You can almost follow with your eye the course of Bar tholomew Diaz when he discovered the Cape of Good Hope. That was six years before Columbus started out to find the new world, and the ocean below us was
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A Country Inflated.

years, and their stocks have fallen in value.
 A Country Inflated.
 When it is remembered that South Africa is largely a desert and that it has, all told only about 100000 white people. the wonder is that it can support such banks at all. It seems to me that business of all kinds is much overdone. The steamship lines are too many, the railroads too expensive and the cities too big for the populations. This is especial ly so considering that the products of these 1,000,00O whites are almost alto gether owned in Europe, and the profits of their labor are spent there. The diamond mines and gold mines are owned abroad. They are worked by cheap native and Chinese labor and the country lacks the means of prosperity of the great produc- ing regions of the United States Indeed, the Boers claim that South Africa would be far better off if 1t had less gold and diamonds, and went more into agriculture. They think that higher wage rate would benefit it's industries, causing more of the money to be spent at home.
 Cape Colony.
 In many respects Cape Colony is better off than the Transvaal, the Orange Free 0ldlS duu Oltlcl piONlliCeS Ol oOuli "A AlAlSti It is given up to farming and stock rais- ing and is a land of mixed industries. The colony is one of the largest of the British possessions of this part of the continent. It is 600 miles long and 400 or 800 miles wide, being more than four times the size of either New York or Pennsylvania. It Is twice as big as Great Britain or Ireland and, including Bechuanaland, which was annexed some years ago, it is bigger than Texas or any country in Europe, with the excep- ton ot Russia.
 Cape Colony is the oldest part of South Africa and is by far the best settled. It has almost as many white people as Bos- ton, and it's colored population num- bers almost as many as there are souls in Chicago. There are many good sized towns. This place, with its suburbs, has 200 0Oo Kimberley has about 5000 and Port Elizabeth 5000 or more. Wood stock has 5000; Grahamstown, 14,000 and East London, 25,00O. There are towns of from 5000 to 10000 scattered here and
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, there over the country and there are many thriving farming communities. The Farms of the Cape.
 In coming here from the Transvaal I rode for a day through the Orange River Colony, and from there across Cape Col ony to the Cape of Good Hope. The land is all high and dry and the most of it has d climate in which a white man can work. The Orange River Colony is about as big as the state of New York, and it's population of whites is not half as large as that of Buffalo The country is most ly grassy plain, fading out here and there into desert. Considerable stock is grazed near the railway l saw droves of cattle, few sheep and now and then herd of Angora goats. Most of the ter ritory has been practically inaccessible until within the past 10 years.
 As to Cape Colony, its northern portion is of much the same nature. The land drops in mighty steps known as the Ka- roos. The upper Karoo at the north ranges in altitude from 5000 to 5000 feet. It is almost a desert and droughts are frequent. Below this is what is known as the Great Karoo. consisting of rolling plains rising gradually to a height of about 4,000 feet. This country is cov- cred with a sort of sheep bush, upon which the cattle, goats and sheep feed, It is dry and healthy and Is fitted for stock raising StiH further south about the Cape and west of here back of the ocean is a large area devoted snot only to stock, but to grain and fruit raising. Back Of the Cape of Good Hope are large vineyards which produce something like 10,000,00G gallons of wine and 1,500,00Q gall Ions of brandy every year. They raise peaches. apricots, apples and pears and ship fruit in cold storage to London and the United States.
 A Good Stock Company.
 great part of Cape Colony is well grasseo and there is considerable stock farming. The average ranch contains about 5000 acres and upwards, land of that kind selling for $2 and $3 per acre. The grass is thin. and it is estimated that every head of cottle Will need from 10 to 20 acres and every sheep one or two acres. In the Karoo even more land will be required.
 At present the colony has about 12,0OO,-
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there over the country and there are many thriving farming communities.
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years, and their stocks have fallen in
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Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1908-09-19

Bodie Steam Beer at the Bank Saloon.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1908-09-19

YERINGToN, New, Sept. IS, 1905

YERINGToN, New, Sept. IS, 1908.
Beginning November 1st, 1908, our
business will be conducted as follows:
Mine, household and restaurant ac-
counts, 80 days; all others must pay
cash. Patrons allowing their accounts
to run over 80 days will be charged in
terest at the rate of per cent from the
time the account becomes due until set
Element is effected.
Customers who pay cash, or make set
Element on or about the first of each
month, need not be alarmed as your pat
ronage is duly appreciated and you will
be benefited. rather than injured, by this
change. While we buy goods on cash
or 80 days basis, we shall be able to Sc
cure those goods at lower figure, take
advantage of every discount, and like
wise sell on closer margin than here
tofore.
Owing to the conditions now existing
no new accounts will be opened. Patrons
whose accounts are now long overdue are
requested to effect settlement in some
manner before October 1st, else they
will not be allowed further credit, and
all doubtful accounts will be placed in
hands of our attorney to collect
Wetake this step as a matter of justice
to ourselves, as we'll as those who have
stayed by us and observed the above
rules. We are tired of worrying over
accounts long past due, sending state
ment after statement of please remit, "
etc., and cannot safely, nor proftably,
continue business under such system.
Yours for future cash business,
ARENDs & HANSON.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1908-09-19
AN ORDINANCE

An ordinance to provide for the protection OF
wild game and for extending the time OF
close seasons.
The Board of County Commissioners OF Lyon
county, state of Nevada, do ordain as fol-
lows, to wilt:
sec. l. II shall be unlawful for any person, or
persons, firm, company, corporation, or associa-
ton at any time after March Ist and before NO
vember Ist Of each and every year, to kiii, eatch
net, cage, pound, weir. wound: trap or pursue
with attempt TO catch. capture, injure or destroy.
any cnrlew. snipe woodcock, prairie chicken OF
valley quail. within Lyon county.
Sec: a. Any person, or persons, COMPANY, cor
poratou or association, violating any Of the pro.
visions OF Sec of this ordinance shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor and conviction THEREOF
shall be fined In any sum not less than nfty
(f5o) dollars nor more than 1--WE hundred $500
dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not
exceeding six months or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
Ayes-Fiaws, Martin and Turner.
Nays-None.
d. w. MELARKEy, CLERK.
Dayton, Lyon county, Nevada, Sept s. 1908.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1908-09-19
Mining Exhibit

The following letter is self-explanatory
and we hope that the various mine
owners will look into this matter and
send samples if they are satisfied that
good can be accomplished by so doing:
Berkeley, Sept. s.
Editor Yeirngton Times:
If the mine owners of the Yerington
and Buckskin districts will send some of
their best samples of ore, with assay
values properly labeled, I will place
them on exhibition in San Francisco.
and we will then be able to show people
what those districts produce. All the
charges for doing this will be express
age prepaid on all the samples. I am
in the welfare of that part of
the country, and if you will notify the
through your paper, will
attend to this part of it free of charge.
Yours truly, ]. A. KNOX,
1721, Berkeley Way, Berkeley, Cal.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1908-09-19
Book Club Meeting

Saturday, September II, was the initial
meeting of the Book Club at the house
of Mrs. c. D. Mcdonald, vice-president.
The lesson, which begins with House
of Stuarts," and the first article of the
December magazine was not takken up,
business being the order. 1t was decid-
ed to engage niatfon for the reading
room and to subscribe for one-half dozen
publications, two to be juvenile. The
next meeting, Saturday, September 26,
will be held at the headquarters of the
club, Main street.
The names of two new members, Misses
Queen and Geneveve Wilson, were pro-
posed and elected by reclamation.
The following ladies have signifed
their desire to be re-enrolled for the
coming year as active and associate men,
hers: Mesdames Mamie Arends, Mary
Beatty, Annie Carroll, Rachel Crowning-
shield, Bessie Davis, Josie Davidson,
Clara Hannah, Della Willis Hoppin, Liz
zie Hironymous, Ethyl Knierim, Annie
Littell, Cena Marsal, Mary Mcdonald,
Frances MCGOWAN, Nellie Meissner, Ida
Murchie, Georgia Masterson, Mabel
Plummer, julia Smith, Mary Stickney,
Frances Wood Slauson, Gertrude Web
ster, Tessie Wood, Mary West, Allister
Whitman, Mary Whitman.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1908-09-19
Application No. 1872.
NOTICE
OF Application for Permission to
Appropriate the Public Waters
Of the State OF Nevada

Notice is hereby given that on the 1st
day of June, 1908, in accordance with
Section Is, Chapter XVIII. of the Stat
utes of 1907 one Alfred Day, e. F.
Smith and T. B. Gambel of Montelle,
county of Esmeralda, and State of Ne
vada, made application to the State En-
gineer of Nevada for permission to ap-
propriate the public waters of the State
of Nevada. Such appropriation is to be
made from Cottonwood Meadow and
Mount Grant at points mi. SW. from
summit of Mount Grant and miles E.
from Montelle P. O., by means of reser-
voir, and 1000 miners inches feet per
second is to be conveyed to points of use
by means of ditch, pipe and hume and
there used irrigation. mining and do
mestic purposes and electricity. Water
to be returned to stream at-yes.
Date of first publication, Sept. 10,
1908.
Date of last publication, Oct. Is, 1908.
Signed: FRANK r. NICHOLAS,
State Engineer.
Proof of the publication of this notice
must be fled with the State Engineer
within go days from the above date, or
the application will be declared void.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1908-09-19

Miss Jennie Means, formerly of Mason
Valley, was married in San Francisco,
August 81, 1908, to Chas. H. Dodge.
Mrs. Dodge has many friends here who
wish for her many blessings and much
happiness.
The Barrett school opened Monday
with Miss Genevieve Wilson as teacher
and an enrolment of 20 pupils.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Wilson left, Fri
day, for quite an extended stay in Cali
fornia. Mrs. Wilson is travelling for the
benefit of her health.
The quartz mill at Nordyke is running
full blast, crushing the ore from the
Wilson Gold Mining Co. mine at Mount
ain View.
Mrs. Perrigenni, who has been quite
i'll, is improving.
AIRS. Geo. II. Plummer was called to
Virginia last week by the illness of her
mother, Mrs. Henrick.
Vincent Scatina, former resident of
Missouri Flat, has returned from a two
years visit in Italy, bringing with him
a bride.
Miss Queen Wilson returned from Cal
ifornia Saturday and opened school on
Missouri Flat, Monday.
John McGoyern ana wife left for San
Francisco, Thursday.
Robt. Tillay, Sr., is quite i'll at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Geo. Wilson.
Mrs. Berry has returned from a visit
to friends and relatives in California.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1908-09-19
Warning to Trespassers.

All persons are forbidden to hunt upor
lands belonging to the undersigned
Trepassers will be prosecuted.
Dated September 7, 1908.
HENRY WooD,
G. II. MEIssNER,
DELLMoNIcA BROS,
FRANK FEIGENsPAN,
NEVADA MILK & PRODUCE Co..
A. ]. JOHNSON,
]. c. MILLS,
{. B. MURPHY,
c. r. JOHNSTON,
c. +. MEIssNER, SR.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1908-09-19
MT. GRANT DISTRICT

Everybody here is very busy
doing their annual assessment
work and many good mines are III
sight and next year will see many
producing mines in this district.
Mr.. Dumontelle, the post master
at this point, is painting every
thiag red with a mineral paint
mine that crops out on his ground
near the mill. He says he will
build a telephone line from here
to the Morgan ranch on the East
Walker River next summer. 1t
would be very beneficial to every
one in the district.
Mr.. Gambel, of Montelle, has
struck rich mine in this district.
This mine is an old mine that was
worked 80 years ago by rauchers.
The mine has a large shaft 1856
feet and is timbered 60 feet. The
parties who ran this mine 80 years
ago certainly knew very little
about mining as they left all OF the
rich ore on the foot wall. The
ledge is about three feet in width
and an average sample taken
across the vein from wall to wall
gave an assay of SIS per ton in
gold, and on the foot wall of this
ledge there is ore that runs $500
in free gold. This old shaft was
made 30 years ago but no one ever
dreamed of it having rich ore in it.
Many tons of ore were hauled to a
water power mill at the old Wash
ington on East Walker River and
there milled. The find may prove
to be big mine.
Who will be the man to put in
bid to carry the mail from Pine
Grove to Montelle post Office twice
a week? 1t would be good con-
tract as the stage driver would
make profit By carrying small pack
ages over the route to and from
Montelle.
But what is now most needed is
to complete the wagon road from
Cotton Greek to Yerington through
Wheeler Pass Canon via Chip
munk Springs and Wheeler mine
and mill to the City of Yerington,
SO that winter supplies can be
brought in easily and quickly to
this district. We have good man
here to put it through; man who
has had wide experience in all
kinds of excavating for roads and
mills and he will do good job.
T. B. Gambel is our man to do the
work so let us get busy at once.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1908-09-19
DISSOLUTION OF Co.pARTNERsHIp

Notice is hereby that the co-partnership here
tofore existing between F. Panelh and CARO-
Digino in the business of conducting saloon in
the town of Dayton, Lyon County, State of Ne
vada dissolved by mutual agreement ON the
first day of June, 1905
All bills due and owing said o-partnership
are payable to Carlo Dignio who will continue
said business and pay all bills owing by SAID
firm.
Dated August al f9os.
FLARE PANELLT
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1908-09-19

A tent has been set up on Main street
and the occupants are ready to do photo-
graph work, or readings in palmistry.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1908-09-19

The undersigned gives notice that he
will prosecute, according to law, all per-
sons found hunting or shooting on his
premises or any property under his con-
troll. FREDBERTRAND.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-10-22

democratic idea of Noblesse Oblige.
They must learn that the day of aims
giving is passing. The great Ameri-
can public is becoming an educated
one, and is beginning to resent the
hand of charity always being extend
ed when it asks for justice. l think
the picture Of Mary Duffy, Of the cap
makers union, at your legislature last
year deserves to be preserved by
your best artist as a type of the awak-
ening American womanhood. AS she
rose to present the petition from her
trades union, asking that women be
given the ballot, she turned upon an
anti-suffragist who had just finished
pleading with the honorable commit
tee not to burden her with the duties
of citizenship, please to leave her
free to carry on her philanthropies
and charities Mary Duffy, tall and
trembling with indignation, asked
her in a voice ringing with emotion,
Your charities for whom, please? For
such as me and mine? We do not
want charity, we want Justice"