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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01
LEATHER AND THE FOREST,

No other nation produces half as
much tanned, curried and finished
leather as the United States, which
yields over one-fourth of the worlds
supply. Six hundred and seventeen
tanneries contribute to this output.
The raw material includes 108,000,000
hides and skins, including a large
number from Argentina. To tan this
immense quantity of leather, valued
at over $3.50, O00 900, last~year required
over 100000 cords of tanbark, worth
nearly $13,000,000, and more than
$4,000 barrels of tanning extract,
worth $8,7O0.00O.
Over two-thirds of the tanbark con-
sumed comes from hemlock, and over
one-fourth from oak: chestnut and
other woods contribute the remainder.
More extract is secured from chest
nut, however, than from all other do
nestle woods combined. A small
quantity of extract of little over
thousand barrels comes from the roots
of palmetto.
Although the tanning industry is
widely distributed over the United
States, the greater part of it is car
ried on in the states of Pennsylvania,
New York, Michigan and Wisconsin.
which use more than two-thirds of the
tanning materials consumed. Penn
sylvania alone consumes over 900,-
100000 pounds of bark and extract
worth $S,000,000, or 81 per cent of the
total value.
Since 1900 the quantity of tanbark
used has fallen off Is per cent, al
though it's value has increased. Dur
ing this period the consumption of ex-
tract increased from $1,000 to $780,
900 barrels a year, of which nearly
10000 barrels were imported. Bark
brought the lowest price in New
Hampshire, and the highest in Ore
gon with an average of $3.50 per
cord. More than in bark the price of
extract varied widely according to the
material from which it was manufac-
tured.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01
FARM AND GARDEN LABOR SAVERS.

The daily work Of farmers, truckers
and market gardeners isn't as hard as
it used to be. The labor has been les
sened and at the same time results have
been increased. A man can get more
bushels Of grain or truck from an acre
of ground today. than he could a few
years ago, and he doesn't have to work
so hard to do it. The adoption of up-to-
date methods, in which the Federal Gov
eminent with it's experimental stations
is aiding him, and the use of up-to-date
tools, which the agricultural implement
makers have put on the market, com
bine to take away the greater part of
the drudgery that was formerly neces-
sary part of agricultural effect. Along
much as the tools known as the "Planet
Jr." These implements not only tighten
and lessen farm work. but they save
seed, time and money.
The Planet Jr. tools for farm and gar
den have an established reputation for
quality as well as efficiency and they
are popular everywhere They are used
as successfully in Egypt and other for
eign countries as they are in all sec
tions of our own land. They represent
the most advanced thought and ideas in
farm implement making and hardly
year passes without the Introduction of
some new device or improvement to In
crease their usefulness to the man who
tillS the soil.
The No. Planet Jr., which is COM
bination Of hill and drill seeder, wheel
most complete tool a farmer or garden
er can have on his place. With it he can
do more work and keep things in bet
ter condition with one-fourth of the
work required without it.
The No. is only one of the many
Planet Jr combination tools-there is
one for every farm and garden task
whether for hand or horse power-and
all of them are sold with an iron clad
guarantee of absolute satisfaction.
S. L. Allen & Co., of Philadelphia.
a handsome catalog describing them.
You ought to have one of these cata-
logs, whether you think you need more
tools or not. The book is generously
illustrated with Photographic scenes
showing modern methods of farming
and gardening as it is actually being
done with the Planet Jr. tools. If you
will drop a postal to S. L. Allen e. Co..
Box 1907 P. Philadelphia, they will be
pleased to send you one of these cata-
logs.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01
HOME TOOLS TOO OFTEN BOUGHT
FOR PRESENT NEEDS.

Why are the tools in the home outfit
SO often unsatisfactory? There are two
reasons.
One reason is that the tools are
bought one at a time-whenever certain
work requires them. They are purchased
in hurry without regard to quality or
maker-anything that will answer the
purpose for that particular job. An
other reason is that the ordinary home
tools are properly cared for. Nothing
will spoil good tools more quickly than
thrown together in box or drawer they
will become nicked and battered and lose
their adjustm entS in a very short time.
To simplify the buying of tools-to
make the purchase of satisfactory tools
place to keep them, the Keen Kutter
Tool Cabinets were designed in styles,
sizes and assortments of tools to suit
all requirements. Every tool in these
cabinets belongs to the famous Keen
Kutter brand known for nearly 40 years
as the standard tools of America-rnoIs
that are backed by the guarantee of the
makers.
Keen Kutter Tool Cabinets are the
only ones made containing complete
set of guaranteed tools, all under the
same name and trademark. You are
sure that an expert tool buyer could not
collect better set piece by piece, and
you run no risk, because If any tool
should prove unsatisfactory, it will be
replaced or your money refunded.
Keen Kutter Tool Cabinets are oak
cases nicely finished and polished. They
are fitted with racks and hooks for the
tools, so that each has a place of it's
own where it cannot come in contact
with the others. The drawers contain
helps and necessities that are apt to
be overlooked until the occasion for
their use arises-sandpaper glue, nails,
screws, tacks, wire, clamps, oil and OIL
can, oilstene, etc.
Keen Kutter Tool Cabinets come IN
different sizes at prices from $3.50 to
$500, according to the assortment or
tools. The smallest contains just the
soois snai are aosoiu.eiy tnuisp t rs
cient for any kind of work. If not at
your dealers write to Simmons Hard
ware Company, Inc, ST. Louis and New
York, u. S. A.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01
THE FOREST SERVICE WAY.

That Uncle Sam believes thoroughly
In the conservative management of
timber lands Is shown by the fact that
he is practicing forestry on lands 9TH
er than those contained in the ma
tional forests in the West. Besides
cooperating with private owners OF
woodland in assisting them to apply
conservative management, and with
various states in a study of their for
est conditions, the United States For
est Services co-operateS also with the
other branches of the Federal Gov
eminent. Chief among these branches
is the War Department. By far the
largest piece of cooperative work in
which the Forest Service is now en-
gagged is that at Fort Wingate, N. M,
where, under the supervision of for
est officers, the War Department Is
selling 25000,000 feet of western yell
low pine This timber lies in the
southeast corner of a reservation of
1870 square miles, is inaccessible to
the post, and was consequently Of
fered for sale The top market price
is being obtained for it, and it be-
ing cut under a rigid contract &C
COTQ1uS W lOISStIy plihSlPiOo.
Under this contract, no trees under
Is inches in diameter can be cut, ex-
cept those which are dead or defective,
and those whose removal will benefit
the forest, and no tree can be cut un-
less marked by a forest officer. Two
trees 16 inches or over in diameter are
left per acre when needed for seed;
stumps must not exceed 18 inches in
height; and all merchantable timber,
both standing and down, as indicated
by the forest officer, must be removed.
Failure to remove any timber so indi-
Gated, and the intentional cutting of
unmarked trees are penalized by a
stumpage charge of double the con-
tract price All brush is being piled
and burned, and thus the danger OF
fire is considerably lessened. The sale
was started during the past summer
and it is expected to continue through
a period of years with a cut of five
million feet a year. Already about
seven million feet has been marked
for cutting by forest officed. The
sale is progressing without friction be-
tween buyer and seller, and from the
start a forest officer has been continu-
ously on hand to look out for UNCLE
Sam.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01

The British Board of Agriculture
has recently published some statistics
which show that Englands foreign
food bill has doubled in amount dur
ing the last twenty years. In 1888 it
was approximately $500,000,000. In
1905 the amount had grown to $1,000
100000
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01

Montana stockmen report stock in
excellent condition. The open winter
has given abundant grass under the
thin snow, and sheep and cattle are
consuming but little from the immense
hay stacks.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01

Water cannot rust galvanized wire.
When the wire is woven into a fence
sometimes the galvanizing cracks. By
galvaniZing the wire a second time
after it is woven, all the cracks are
filled and there is no thance for rusting.
Jersey Poultry Netting is "galvan-
lied after" Insist on it, take no other
ask your dealer for Ii.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01

Galvanized after VS.. galvanized be-
fore is like using one coat of paint or
two.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-01
JACK POT COMPANY
ENTERING NEW EPOCH

A stockholders meeting Of the Jack
Pot Mining company was held at the
company's Offices in the Wonder district
this week to take steps toward the com
pletion Of the consolidation plan which
the cmpany has had in contemplation
for some time, SAYS the Wonder Miring
News. Chiefly owing to the absence in
Alaska Of Fred Mcmillan, consulting en-
gineer and advisory manager Of the
company, no definite action was taken,
those present deciding to hold another
meeting here on August IL, when the
consolidation of the Jack Pot, National,
Globe and Hercules companies, all lying
adjacent to one another in this district,
will be formally ratified. At this meet
ing, also, plans will be formulated for a
new campaign of development work
and production.
As is well known, a considerable
quantity of unusually high grade ore
has been taken from the shaft and
shipped. This ore has reached the i'm
pressive average of 5000 a ton. The
activities of the company have been
devoted for some months to taking ont
ore, but Mr.. Samuels said that new de.
velopment work of extensive scope
would be started soon after the plans
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-01

ment and stockholders, as a dec:dcd i'm
provement has taken place in at least
three different places in the mine. last
week the Miner reported an increase in
the size of the vein being developed ia
the west drift along the north or nang-
ing wall side of the Mizpah fault On the
1.000-foot level. This week we are
pleased to chronicle a still furthe' i'm
now over three feet in width aud ear
ries very high values, the ore being Of
a black sulphide character and identical
with the rich sulphide ores found in Tie
other mines of this district. The ore is
frozen 70 the hanging wall side If the
fault, and the vein has every appear
ance of making into an excellent shoot
of ore. Not enough work has been lone
on this ore body to ever guess is ey-
tent, but from the character of the
quartz, which is very solid, and the con
slant increase in strength during the
past ten days, it gives every evidence
of close proximity of an excellent ore
shoot.
Another important discovery was
made last Monday in the No. . east
drift on the 900-foot level, which was
started from the No. "a south crosseut,
about 400 feet back from the face.
After drifting along a fault a short dis
lance about Is inches of ore appeared
in the bottom of the drift, and the next
round of holes exposed the same amount
of ore near the top of the face. While
the vein is somewhat broken up at pres
ent, there is no doubt but that a little
more work will develop a most import
ant body of ore, as the quartz now ex-
posed carries high values.
Still another find was made last
Wednesday in the No. "a south cross
cut on the 900-foot level. The face of
this erosscut. which is in 619 feet, shows
ten inches of excellent ore. Owing to
the fact that this ore has just been cut,
the extent of the ore body is not known,
but the next few days work will no
doubt prove the value of the discovery.
In other portions of the mine the
showing is all that could be expected,
especially in the No. 9 drift on the Miz-
pah vein on the 1,000-foot level, where
a winze is being sunk, the bottom of
which shows seven feet of ore, with no
footwall in sight. This ore body is all
of good milling value, with a streak of
high grade on the hanging wall.
Tonopah Extension
The regular development work is be
ing carried along on the 400, 600 and
770-foot levels on this property, the orc
body on the 500-foot level showing up
in fine form. During the past week No.
4 raise has been connected with the
550-foot level, and good progress made
in No. ) raise. Ralph G. Rowland, one
of Mr.. Krumb's assistants, has been
busily engaged in sampling the ore
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-01

are definitely decided upon az the meet
ing in August.
The matter Of deeper sinking in the
present shaft, which is down three hun
bred feet, is being considered, but Of
the plans that will be discussed at the
next meeting the most important is one
which provides for a new shaft on Ma
tional ground. As many as seven veins
will be within easy reaching distance
of this contemplated shaft, and there il
little doubt that it will be sunk, tho
only question being the one as to just
when the work will be started. A So
horsepower engine and hoist is on the
ground ready to be installed for deep
sinking here.
The National, Globe and Hercules
companies have already ratified the
consolidation plan. 1t now remains only
for the Jack Pot company TO take SIM
liar action next month. The Jack Pot
Consolidated, with one Of the largest
areas of promising land in tho state,
will then be in a position to inaugurate
a campaign of development work and
production which will. It is confidently
believed, bring great benefits to the
stockholders and to the Wonder dis
trict.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-01
POUND MOUNTAIN IS
GETTING THE GOODS

drafts we are now running along with a
balance to our credit.
1.-THE retort for the fifteen davs, RIM
was n of the pretteist that l ever
saw.v
Hoist Installed
The Fairbanks-Mo gasoline hois,
and gallows frame bought in Goldfeld
by Mattly, Maui ct al. arrived on Mon.
day and was at once hauled up the slope
of Round Mountain to the saddle. The
new road, which was constructed espe.
cially to enable the leasers to get this
heavy machinery on their ground.
worked to perfection, the grade being
such that eight horses had no difficulty
whatever in dragging their load to the
summit.
A good road has also been cut from
the saddle down to the mine on the
south side of the saddle, and down this
the big piece of mechanism will be skid
ded. The crew of men are now hard at
work laying the concrete foundation on
which it will rest and, as soon as this
has had time to settle and harden, the
hoist will be brought down.
In the meantime the shaft is being
timbered for its whole depth of about
ITO feet and during today or tomorrow
the work of setting up the gallows
frame will be commenced.
Extension Leases
There are two sets of ~leasers working
on the north slope of Stebbins hill who
have said little of what they are doing,
but who have certainly been getting the
goods.
Both leases are on the Mariposa
claim, formerly a part of the acreage of
the Round Mountain Extension Mining
company and now controlled by the
Round Mountain Mining company.
A short trail which branches off from
the main trail leads up an abrupt pitch
at the top of which is located the in
cline shaft being sunk by Fred Tarbell
and John Mullen. 1t may be said at
onee that these leasers have had a three
and a half foot ledge from the grass
roots and that it all pans free gold.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-01

Several new strikes have been made
during the past week, the most import
ant being the showing made in the Poor
Man claim of the Sleeping Beauty
group, under lease to Fitzhugh and as
soeiates. A seam was opened on the
surface that assayed $4,000 in gold. 1t
has now widened to five inches at a
depth of five feet, and is holding its
values.
On the Golden Chariot group, adjoin-
ing the Sleeping Beauty, several leasers
are sacking ore that assays better than
$50. The Tracey property, on Frazer
creek, -four miles east of the town of
Gold Circle, is showing up better than
ever with depth. The crosscut tunnel
has intersected the ledge IS feet from
the surface, exposing a two-foot vein
that averages better than 800, with n
streak on the hanging wall six inches
wide showing free gold profusely. On
the Orc Grande group, J. II. Schenks, a
~leaser, has exposed three feet of ore
that averages 800 a ton. The shaft is
now down so feet and the vein is widen
ing and the values increasing.
The Gold Crown Leasing company, at
a depth OF rs feet, on the Elko Prince
group. is drifting north on three feet of
free milling ore that averages $50 in
gold. This shaft will be continued to a
depth of 200 feet, and drifts run every
80 feet. Mr.. Chas. Gyman of Butte,
Mont, states that he will have a 10
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-01
A DUN GLEN A

The Dun Glen property being worked
by +. S. Chafey is proving to be a bo-
nanza. The long tunnel is being rap
idly pushed ahead and the force is still
working in the rich gold ore. This bore
is now in about 80 feet and the ledge
retains its width of five feet.
The ore is being sorted as it comes
from the ledge and the high grade ma
terial is being hauled to Mill City for
shipment. The ore now being hauled
is for the sixth carload shipment to the
samplng works at Hazen. The second
grade is being piled up at the mill,
which will N grinding in a
short time.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-01
GOLD CIRCLE PROPERTIES
ARE ACTIVELY DEVELOPED

stamp mill in operation within 90 days
to treat the custom ores of Gold Circle.
The Gold Circle Crown Mining com
pany is also arranging for the installa-
tion Of a 20-stamp mill to treat the ores
of their property. The business houses
report additional activity in all lines of
trade; new leases are being taken; sew
eral new deals have been made, and, OF
the whole, Gold Circle is looking better
than ever.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-01
ENCOURAGING NEWS
FROM HORNSILvER LEASE

The Goldfeld people holding interests
in the Hornsilver Leasing Syndicate,
operating a lease on the Silver King
claim at Hornsilver received some very
pleasant news yesterday. From the ITO
foot level two crosscuts had been run,
enc to the north and the other to the
south to intersect strongly enriched
veins that appeared on the surface. The
north crosscut, now in thirty-fve feet,
has encountered the gouge lying against
the ledge and it shows values though
not vet determined by assay. This
ledge was passed through the shaft at
a depth of forty-five feet, showed a
width Of twenty-five feet between walls
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-01

u;ntendent Smith, who is in
81 the work on the hydraulic
"a during the absence of General
Manager Wilson at the coast, is washing
mrfaee of dirt on the Great Western
-. which is returning excellent
values.
The ground is well up the slope of
- Mountain and there is not more
foot to a foot and a half of soil
The bedrock, but what there is of
inns exceedingly rich as a glimpse
The rifles showed after the water
was turned OIL.
This ground lies between the M. & NJ.
,..se and the placer lease worked by
pnrns and Morse last summer.
Az soon as the dirt has been washed
...orob the %sluices through the agency
- the nozzle, men are at once set to
uork with brooms sweeping down on
.ho bedrock so that by the time Super
;o,eudent Smith is through with the
rroupd there are mighty poor piekings
left.
Two hundred and fifty ounces was the
result of the last cleanup for three days
an this shallow ground.
The bedrock which is left exposed is
literally fretted with a network of
,.sbes and small seams which are filed
nth the white tale which so universally
carries the picture values in the camp.
Record Run
During the fifteen days beginning the
lat of July the Sphinx mill made the
host run since it was started.
~ do not care to give out the figures
for publication" said Superintendent
.John Weber yesterday; "but we were
hooking for something good and we were
NOT disappointed.
"The mine has never looked better
than it does today and l am convinced
that it will surely be one of the great
est properties in Nevada.
at has had its hardest struggles and
instead of being confronted with over
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-01

and yielded returns as high as 800 per
ton.
THE south crosscut is in thirty-thref
feet, and there is that much more to &C
before the management expects 10 en-
counter the VEN.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-01
WILL BUILD CUSTOM MILL

The French American Mining com
pany is putting up permanent buildings
on the Lucky Boy property at Black
Horse, and plans the erection of a Gus
tom mill.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-01
WILL PUSH OPERATIONS

The Golden Prince Mining company,
recently Incorporated, has shipped sup
plies to it's property near Phoebe, and
will push operations.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-01
FIFTY-TON MILL

1t is expected that the erection of a
ffty-ton mill will be commenced on the
Nevada Wonder before the fall.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-01

w. J. Stewart of Ely has taken over
one of the Davis groups in Aurum.