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Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-26
COPPER QUEEN MAKING RAPID STRIDES WITH
 o ~ M
 MANY IMPROVEMENTS
New Fewer House Rapidly caring Completion Great Deal ef Machinery Being Already In Place-0ne of Cenralz- ing Drifts FiniShed-0therS Nearly So-Prepara- honS Being Made For Installation of Electric
 Pumps in the Car.

a Tae bscal copper situation contin. E aes to grow brighter in response to the improvement in general condi- tons throughout the country. Al though only a few extra men have been put to work in the district dur ing the past week it is very probable that if the slight improvement in the price of the metal which was witness ed tlis week continues it will not be very long before the local mines are operating with more men than ever. Already preparations have been made for increasing the capacity of the Calumet & Arizona sIEelters at Doug las, and the Copper Queen company is handling nearly as much of it's own ores as ever, although the custom ore handled amounts to very little.
 There will be practically no GUS toms ores handled by the Copper Queen smelters until the situation is materially improved. by a decrease in the surplus, and increase in the price oS the metal.
 Development work continues to engage a great deal of attention in all portions of the district, and has been productive of the, best results. The Calumet & Arizona, Superior & Pittsburgh, and ShattuckIArizona companies have all uncovered new ore bodies of considerable dimensions since the slump, which will tend 70, show a big increase in producton when conditions become normal, and an endeaSor for large production is made. The Copper Queen company has made long strides in completing the extensive improvements which were mapped out about year ago, and which will revolutionize the sys- tenn of taking ore out of the mines in this district
 The smaller properties continue l with development work, and in sew eral of them conditions favorable to | the early discovery of ore in com | mercial quantities have been en- countered,
Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-26
Prosperity and Freedom
 Still Reign in America

1 Just so long as the active dolla has a fair chance we will progress prosperity will prevail. and nor, 1 millions will come to us knowini
 there will be work to do at fai wages.
 We are building warships .o mak, our position strong. That's business Warships need lot of copper ant iron and lumber. They need work men to build. They put money into circulation, and they make our mil
 lions of farms sale. They are .
 protection to our interests. The other fellows say it is a biz
 mistake to spend so much money fol
 warships. We should be talking
 peace and not war, and we should
 save the money.
 That's their ideas, {, but they are
 wrong because they are not farniE
 jar with big things. We have been
 hearing the same fellows saying that
 It is a mistake to send our fleet
 abroad. That it will make the Jan. anese angry. They fear the Japs
 might hurt us. Not bit of it. They seek our friendship and our busi-
 ness. They court us in every pos sible way. There will be no war with Japan. Our fleet is too good for that even were the Japs contemplating trouble, which they are not Should
 there ever be a fight we will whip them.
 Why, there were even those in our land who predicted Spain would thresh us.
 There are some who have very lit tie faith in their own country be- cause they do not appreciate it's magnitude. They never stir away from home, have no idea of the size of our land, its resources or accom- plishments.
 And in the face of it all some rank outsider whom nobody knows will stand up and cry out against capital rant and yell and shed tears, advise give 'em hell" and at the same time with his hands out for money to pay for his 'eloquence" and advice that is worse than poison if accepted. These fellows haven't days work to give any one, haven't a dollar in- vested in a foot of ground and vet they advise you all about how you shall conduct your affairs, how spend your money, now abuse your country.
 And many applaud because they like to hear the men with money It is popular to soak the men of affairs, and therein lies the of the blatherskites who are keen enough to know the popular chord. and to keep playing it. It is business with them. They make it pay It is their vocation, question able, true, but they find field They are blatant demagogues, living by their wits, and not by any species of work that adds to the country's val le or betterment.
 America is going to keep on The banks will grow bigger and stronger, there will be more jobs at living wages. oppor- tunities will still be had for honest work. We have only just begun our march in the progress of civilization. Already we are at he head, leading all other na- ions. We will keep right on We still have a wonderful reserve in soil in mineral, in timber and in good citizenship.
 And the people of other lands will still come because they know that here they can win more by like ex- penditure of brains and muscle than anywhere else on the globe.
 And there will still be the growlers, he ''reformers," the blatherskites md mischief makers, but they will be so insignificant that they will not count.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-26
iN THE SONORA COUNTRY

Aside from Cananea, where arriy als from there say good many ad- ditions are being made to the work ing forces of zeyeral companies be- sides the GTeene-C -Cananea, there are no encouraging reports from the Sc- nora country, where there was gen eTel curtaffnent in Operations follow ing tbe sfanp in the price of copper. In the 1s.batacochi district several mines are keeping up their work anc producf5sil, but aside from that dis trict sasd the FL Tigre there is not
 much doing in the mineral field soufk of Douglas c. B. Bell. who with F. s. Douglas of Douglas, have A working bond on the Los Angeles
 Is at the property near Nacozari per. sunalIy directing the development work. This property has yielded much good shipping ore in the past and it is expected that other ore ship menfs will soon be arriving from there. c. A. Overlook of Douglas. and James Finch are working prop erty this side of Nacozari from which
 some geod reports are received.
 The Transvaaf Copper company is
 doing nothing at the present time and Superintendent Be2uchamp is in the east on business connected with
 the property. The smeiter was closed about November 1 and only few men are remaining at the mines of the company. located twenty-five miles from Cumpas
 The Belen Mining company. own ing properties near those of ne --------------------
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A new diamond drill hole on the HOO level of the Denn-Arizona prop. erty was started yesterday, and the old drift will be changed in direction, and driven to he southeast, commenc. ing tomorrow. The drift iS now iD 65d feet from the shaft. Wilat was fodad in the drill hole which was put down from the HOO during the past few weeks the management of the com pany would not state Fourteen men are at work on the property.
 The annual stockholders meetings of both the Shattuck-Arizdna and Denn-Arizona companies will take place in Duluth, Minnesota on Feb ruary 15, at which time the matter of constructing the smelter, and the time of commencing work will be settled definitely. The appoint mant of a successor to B. M. Pattison, the present superintendent who has resigned will be taken up at that time. Further than the ra- port of a couple of weeks ago that s. A. Parne1I, formerly general man. ager of the Cole properties, would take the management there has been not the slightest inklin gof who will be selected.
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who come from Europe to better thei conditions. Not from the oppresse, of Russia but from the more pros porous district of all nations. Why do they come, te find a greater op precision than they met at home? TC take lower wages To. greet less free dom To be pressed into the soldiery; To search for poorer educational facil ities? To find poorer farms.
 Certainly not. The people of Rus sia come here for what they get, and they know all about 1t before coming. They come principally upon the earn ings of their relations and friends who in our mines, can in a few months earn enough for their pass 1 aise money. How long would it take ! fo- them to accumulate so much ia Ft.lfnc" No need to answer. A few lf the Films are going nack fer visit, trt they write that taey gre tot return to America again! Why? To be oppressed? Not bit of it. They return for the better things America offers.
 Some of them may carry red flags here. They got into that habit in the land of their nativity, but they also carry Tat pocketbooks.
 And a man is very close to ms purse.
 Purses are thin in Finland, md so is the bill of fare.
 No use disgusting the truth. We ali know it. The Films know it, the Ital ians, too. All who come here Sp- preciate the difference in favor of America.
 That is why they come.
 The poor old lady who cries out against the stars and stripes is prob ably, getting her living by abusing America. There are a lot of people engaged in that disreputable vocaz. tion. They are not working in the mines, but endeayoriug to work the miners.
 They will come to give you coun- sel if you will give them so much business and pay all their expenses.
 In other words, they are after. the dollars, not dividing them with you, but taking the entire wad. It's just another species of graft about which they cackle so much.
 They couldn't begin to get so much money in any other country for talk. That's why they talk here. IT they could do better talking in some foreign land they would be there, but talk is cheaper there s0 they are with us.
 There are millions of acres of lands to be had free to those who come and live upon them. No ether country offers any such inducement to settlers. Thereyis a good market for all these farmers raise. Farm ! ing is an independent business. Mil ! lions of homes are being made on ! the lands of America. [
 And yet the blatherskites howl that ! this is land of serfdom, and that | the rich are overwhelming the poor.
 Statistics show we are already the | richest nation on earth, and only in l business a Few hundred years.
 We have more money per capita ! than any other country.
 We wear better clothes.
 Better j.-elry.
 Have better homes.
 Better feed.
 More of the luxuries of life.
 We are more independent.
 Have better schools.
 Better prisons.
 And we are forging ahead con stantly.
 We can rise above any money panic ! because we possess the power with in ourselves to pay our bills.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-26
snA11IIcK-ARIzoNA

On Friday the night shift at t1e Saattnck-Arizona mine working m the south drift on the TOO foot level broke through the body of low grade sulphide ore encountered early h
 the week. This ore was first broken into at a distance c. SIP feet from the shalt and e4 feet of it were gone through. The east drift on the 700 IS now in about 1900 feet. but there are no new developments of interest. The Shattuck Is not taking out any
Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-26
AT THE DOUGLAS SHELTERS

There is nothing hardly worthy of
 mention for the week at the Copper Queen smelter. Seven furnaces are in steady action and have been s.nce the first of the month and he ez- periments are still going on with the reverberatory furnace which was completed several months ago. So far as known this furnace yet re- mains in an experimental state. The Queen has, during the time of idle furnaces, added greatly to the re- serve supply of both ore and coke. In the new addition to the power house a force was engaged this week putting in position the. great ma chinery for which it was built to ac- commodate. George Dowell, the ore purchasing agent for the Queen, has recently made several trips to var ious mines with the purpose of in ducing resumption of shipments which were stopped three months ago It is learned that several ship ments have already been received and that others will soon follow. Gus tom ore at the Queen this time last year amounted to an important per cent of the total output. As a matter of fact the production of copper from strictly Queen ores is now about as large as it ever was. It is believed that if copper reaches Is cents in price the receipts of ore at the Queen from the adjacent small properties will be as large as ever
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man will have charge oT the develop ment work The shaft at the Antietam will be straightened and development work pushed forward. Ore shipments will be continued to the shannon smelter on a slightly smaller scale than heretofore. The company will endeavor to prepare it's mines for extensive shipping, should the price of copper take a sudden change for the better.
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DENN-ARIzoNA,

ore because of the smelter and mar ket situations.
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o. J. Cotey and several other Cliff ton people have number of valuable lead claims in the upper Metcaif dis trict. These claims have been work ed or some time and recently large body of 10 per cent. lead was uncoy' cred. The ore is practically on top of the ground, which greatly cheap ems operating expenses, and the pri- vate syndicate put up some money to take out lot of the ore and pre- pare for regular shipments. Waen they started lead was commanding , cents per pound, but before they could make the first shipment the price dropped to 2 1-2 cents per pound, hence they. have decided to postpone shipments until the market improves. They have a good prop erty and will certainly realize consid erabIe money on 5-cent per pound basis.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-26
CLIFTON MINING DISTRICT NOW
 FORCING AHEAD
Ben Crawford Has Good Gold Property-A. C. Co. and Shannon Now Have Plenty Of MachinistS.
lCopper Eral.

Ben Crasford left Monday morn ing for the camp of the Crawford Gold Mining & Milling Company. The company has been operating for a number of months and it is report ed that they have an excellent gold property. The property is located above Metcalf, where number of ex- cellent gold discoveries have been made during the past few years. The Crawford company has installed a small cyaniding plant. which has been operated with good results
 The A. c. and Shannon companies. who incurred a decrease of three,eents an hour in machinists wages are now supplied with a full working force. Each day new men arrive and among them are many first-class me chanics. The shops, although they have. not yet reached their normal capSeity, will soon be in position to keep up with mechanical work After an investigation it is learned that mechanics wages in Clifton are better than many other places. where forces were reuuced and hours cut.
 Alex. veitch general manager of the New England and Clifton com many. informed the Era reporter that the company had decided to resume operations at the Antietam and other properties of the Metcalf district Horace Moses, a practical mining
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Latest newspaper advices from Scotland state that the Arizona Copper company has appropriated
 about sI00,00O for the improvement of it's present smelter. The article also states that John W. Adde's, who visited Clifton couple of months
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The Washington herald., 1908-03-08
HISTORIAN DIED A BEGGAR
The Pathetic Career of John Stow,
the English Antiquary.
Tailor, at the Age of Forty, Begins
TO Devote Himself TO
Literature.

John Stow. the celebrated English anti
quarry, was remarkable man.
He was born Of poor parents, about 1875.
and brought up 20 the tailor's trade. For
forty years his life was passed among
needles and thread but in the few leisure
hours which his trade allowed him he
had always been a fond reader OF legends.
chronicles, histories, and all that told Of
the times that were past
BY such reading he grew to be so at
tached to old memoirs that when about
forty years of age ne threw down his
needle, devoted himself to collecting them.
and followed his new profession with the
faith and enthusiasm OF an apostle. Short
of means. he made long journeys afoot to
hunt over and ransack colleges and mon
asteries. and no matter how worn and
torn might be the rags OF old papers
which he found, he kept all. reviewing.
connecting, copying. comparing. annotat-
ing, with truly wonderful ability and good
sense
Arrived at fourscore years. and no
longer capable of earning a livelihood. he
applied to the King. and James I. con-
senting to his petition. granted to the
man who had saved treasures of memoirs
for English history the favor Of wearing
a beggar's garb and asking aims at
church doors.
In this abject state. forgotten and de-
spised. he died two years later
The Washington herald., 1908-03-08
CONCERNING WATERMELON.
Africa the Original Home of This
LuciOus Fruit

The humorists always associate the At
Tican with the watermelon, assuming that
the taste of the colored man for his IA
vorite dainty arises from his life in the
Southern States. where the melon vine
grows like a weed
AS a fact. however the African taste
for the watermelon is hereditary. The
vine Is a native of Africa, where it is
found wild in the great central plains OF
the continent, and has also been culti-
waited for many ages.
In Egypt the melons grown along the
Nile rival those of Southeastern Missouri
The melons mentioned by the Israelites
as being among the good things they had
in Egypt were undoubtedly watermelons
for in the wall paintings about The time
of the exodus the melon vine is represent
ed, and in one case a long procession Of
slaves is depicted each bearing on his
shoulder huge dark green watermelon.
Botanists say that varieties of the mel
on are found in Southern Asia, and some
even claim that the plant grows wild in
Central and South Africa: but Africa is
no doubt the original home of the melon,
and in his preference over every other
kind OF vegetable or fruit the African
merely displays a taste that has become
fixed in his race by thousands of years Of
indulgence, for in Central Africa ripe
watermelons are to be had every month
in the year.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-08
GIVES SECOND CONCERT.
Washington SaenEerbund Will FIJI
Date at National Theater.

The second public concert this season
Of the Washington Saengerbund will take
place at the National Theater ON Sunday
evening. March Is. The popular organiza-
ton will be assisted by Nine Mary His
sem de Moss. the we'll known soprano. OF
New York; Mr. Edouard Dethier. the
eminent Belgian violin virtuoso. and an
orchestra Of forty musicians.
Nine. Hissem de Moss is gifted with a
voice Of remarkable brilliancy. and a per-
sonality of greatest charm. and takE
rank among the best equipped sopranos
OF the day. She has triumphed alike in
concert and oratorio. her festival work
and repeated appearances with the New
York Symphony. the Boston Symphony.
the Cincinnati Orchestra, and the Pitts
burg Orchestra having made her name
widely known.
AR Edouard Dethier is a violinist OF
extraordinary ability. He was born in
Brussels in lSs5. and entered the con-
sevatery Of his native city at the. age
Of ten. and at fifteen won the first prize
against thirty-six competitors. Ysaye did
not hesitate to call him a prodigy. and
afterward undertook 10 make a great
player of him.
Mr. Dethier gave joint recitsls last
winter with the great composer pianist
Saint-Saens. The orchestra. all members
Of the former Washington symphony Or
chestra. viii be heard in some pleasing
numbers. The Saengerbund chorus will
sing two numbers. with orchestral ac-
compartment. and three without accom-
paniment- The entire concert viii be un-
der the able direction of Mr.. Henry
Xander. the director OF the society
The Washington herald., 1908-03-08
THE TALES FIGUREHEADS TELL

The fgurehesd once deemed an indis-
/ pensable ornament in naval architecture.
has gone into that oblivion wherein re-
poses the "eight-day windIass.' worked
by wooden handspiles: the clumsy tiHer.
with which vessels Of considerable size
were once steered. the old-fashioned card
! compass. and 10 which hemp standing
rigging is fast going
/ There Is still a great number OF sailing
craft-particularly schOoners-which. in
size. carrying capacity. and beauty Of
model. far surpass those OF the times
when not a steam vessel plowed the
ocean and the sails Of American-built
vessels whitened every sea on the globe.
but the hgurehead has disappeared with
the small. clumsy. blufr-bowed, and high
sterned vessel Of a former century.
Perched cp conspicuously under the
| bowsprit, as If constantly on the lookout
was this carved figure OF beast. bird G..
human, giittering in paint and gilt and
diving into the briuy element with each
plunge Of the vessel. This ornament was
the pride. of the cd sailor. and the vessel
was considered Incomplete without II.
represented by these products OF the
sculptor in wood II the ship were named
after a man or a woman. the artist who
made the figure endeavored 10 carve II
into a semblance Of its namesake. Some
times it was king CT queen or other
petentate. perhaps even the king Of the
element over which the wooden lookout
kept unceasing Watch-Neptune himself
The vessel might be named after an In
dian chief, and the wood carver would
then adorn his Tecumseh. or Powhatan.
or Red Jacket with the feathered head
dress. and all the paraphernaIia OF The
red warrior. Heroes OF antiquity. fighting
men OF the past. from julius Caesar Of
Rome TO Alexander of Greece. migh7 be
seen in their ancient warriors dress sta
toned between the bows OF some huge
merchant ship or grim man-of-wsr His
tOrical persOnages. NEUROLOGICAL charac-
ters. a griffon. dryad. a sea horse. or a
mermaid; Jupiter. with his thunderbolt:
Venus, her wooden counterpart again
arising from the sea. as did the goddess
herself. or Apollo. with his Tyre. each
stood firmly at its respective post under
the Sowsprit Of some vessel that bore its
name
Readers Of CoOpeT's Water Witch" will
recollect the figurehead on the smuggler's
vessel which represented the witch poised
over the element which was her home
They viii also recall the incident in
which the revenue officer. under cover OF
the darkness of night. attempted 20 cut
the cable Of the Witch that she might
drift ashore and become the prize OF the
revenue authorities. Although Il was IN
the days before the development Of cleo
tricity. the author anticipated the perfec-
tion and utilization OF that medium. and
at the first touch of the steel tools on tl.a
iron chain vivid glare almost blinded
the astounded officer. banishing tho sur
rounding gloom as with the light OF dsy.
the Illumination revealing every rope and
block on the little vessel. and even the
The Washington herald., 1908-03-08

wooden figure Of the water witch under
the bows. which seemed 70 lock down
menacingly upon him
Sometimes the hgurehead would bear 10
Televance 70 the name Of the vessel but
was merely the wooden effigy Of some OBJ
ject. More Often-with the sailors pro-
verbal love OF the fair sex-it would be
that of woman, either the fun figure or
only the head and bust. and 50 skiilfm
were the wood carvers in their trade that
when finished OF with paint and gilt the
image presented a wonderfully realistic
appearance.
Another favOrite emblem that adorned
the bows OF Amercan-built vesseIs-al-
though il was frequently seen on the
stern OF the craft-was the eagle either
IN repose or with outSpread wlnss. as II
ready TO take its fight over the broad
domain OF the country Of which it was
the feathered monarch This ornament IS
still used on vessels.
With the disappearance of .he figure
h@ad from marine architecture the oeca-
patton - the wood carver is gone: the
carving OF these nautical ornaments nos
become almost a lost art. A few tobacco
signs. the work OF a small number Of art
lists. are all that remain TO show that
there was such trade