The Ketchikan miner., 1908-03-21

two tons of cuai year. This is har, coal and is used Tor the sitting room to avoid a slight o,ior that the ga would give uT.
 At Conneaat. Ofio, we saw wha was worth the whole trip to us. Con ueaut has a fine harbor. and here large part ot the great Steel com pany's iron ore from the Michigan mines is discharged from ship l. train. The carriers are immens, hoats from three to six hundred fee long. the larger ones carrying 10, a0 tons of ore. the discharging of whici was so interesting to us.
 The machinery for this is operated hy hydraulic and electric power, ant l0. GOO tons can be discharged in foul hours and ter minutes. One style 0 lift called the ''Clam Machine take: up twelve tons of ore at each lift, ant three swings of the crane load a car Coal is handled by machinery, unload ing ear and slowing it aboard tht snip requiring but two minutes. The dumps on the wharf now contain 50. 000. 000 tons of ore. At the Ryu: Drug Co. s store in Ketchiaau, pie tures of the hoats, machinery anC dumps may be seen. Mrs. Ryus nephew. Dr. Wilson. the Surgeon for the Bessemer Steel O.. took great pains to show us through the ships and explain all the workings of the machinery used in the handling oI this great business.
 At Conneaut, we visited Mrs. R,us sisters family. the sister having died a year ago. Here, too. we spread flow CTS upon the graves of Mrs. Ryus mother. sister and nephew.
 We were in Chicago but few days. Visited there with Mrs. RyuS' sitser. I did pot like Chicago very well. There are a lot of people there that did rot know. and none of them seem ed to kpow me, so told wife we ha6 better move out to where we would bt more at home.
 We went downt Kansas City, Kan >as. here in 1870 I took the census anG -numerated 2s26 people. Now the, .el me there are over no. GOO. Here se met few old fl tends, but our ob- ject was not to visit the living, but lur sacred dead. Ny father and moth IT are asleep in Oakwood Cemetery. This was our first visit to their tomb. and our first. opportunity to sirtm N flowers thereon, and possibly our last. nut OUT prayer Is that We be sparsa another opportunity.
 Kansas City, Mo-. is another city strung on wires, touch the button ant they all dance. and it looked to mt l ke somebody was pushing that but ton all the time for if anybody was still. did not see them. There seem ed to be just as many people having business up the street as down, and al bound to get there. Kansas City. Mo-. claims about 40o, GOO population. did not know more than half oi them, so wife and I took the first rrain after we discovered that fact, going to Webb City, Mo-, to see wha brother and his family were doing there, and incidentally to eat a Thanksgiving dinner with them. which we did, assisting in the con- plete wreck of sixteen pound turkey.
 Webb City has population of about 5000 and is a very busy place wher lhe mines Head and zinc) are in optr- ation. At this place we saw and felt the financial depression most. The aborer could not get enough cash to enable them to stay in town, and we could not get enough 10 enable US u get out.
 We had check for Sl00 that some. body had given us by mistake guess. Don't know how we could get it an, other way away off there. The bank CT said he could give us only , per cent in cash and his check for the bal. ance. That was all ne was doing fol bis regular customers, and he could n't do more for Us. so we swapped checks for ) per cent cash till we gol enough for car fare and then we gol out.
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