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Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
THE MINES AND OIL FIELDS
EprEDBY "
, FEATURES OF THE PRODUCERS PIPE LINE

The line 2O5 miles length and connects the oil fields OF
Coanga McKtrc Midway Sunset and Kern River with tide
water Port Hartford.
The pipe of steel eight inches in diameter and the
pipe and construction $1,000 mile
Fifteen pumping stations will be installed which will cost
S, 100000.
isolated from the railroads and the construction
entaled long wagon hauls of machinery.
The line will entire product of the Independent
producers which now 10000 barrels daily and be-
tween Coainga junction Hartford will have daily
pacty of $4,000 barrels.
Fifteen pumping stations and storage tanks will be installed
having storage CAPACITY of more than 100000 barrels of oil
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
COMPANY
BUYS .BURRO MOUNTAIN

The Phelps-Dodge interests are
credited with the purchase of the
holdings of the Leopold brothers in
the Burro mountain copper property
in New Mexico. The Phelps-Dodge
people owned 35 per cent of the stock,
and by the deal just made the entire
stock interests pass into their hands.
1t is believed to be the intention of
the purchasers to build an extension
of the Ell Paso & Southwestern rail-
road into the Burro mountains.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
INDEPENDENT OIL PRODUCERS TO
SEND LIQUID PRODUCTTOCOAST
THROUGH PRODUCERS PIPE LINE
First Unit Will Soon Be Completed and Will Tap Rich
Coanga Field-ConStructiOn Under Way on
McKittriCk and Kern River Lines-IO
Handle 20 900 Barrels Daily

two 81, 600 barrel tanks, excepting Coal
inga junction and McKittrick, each OF
which will be equipped with four 3d.
000-barrel tanks; giving twelve stations
with a storage capacity of 75,OO0 par
rels each, and the two junction points
900 barrels each.
The installation of pumping machin-
cry and the construction of the sta
tions on the Coalinga line will take
until February 1 of next year, but the
company will handle oil out of Coal
inga as fast as the tanks are completed
at each station. The main Coalinga
pumping station is completed and the
delayed pipe has arrived in large
quantities at Paso Robles, the distrib-
uting point.
Will Carry Big Cargo
The pipe line of the Producers COM
pany is one of the largest in the state
and is the most isolated from trans
portation points, necessitating long
hauls of supplies by wagon. When
completed it will handle the entire out
put of the Independent producers of
the fields which it reaches, it's cargo
consisting of 10000 barrels day, worth
S12 1000.
The construction of this line has been
under the direction of w. 7. Cushing,
general superintendent OF the company
The principal offices of the company
are at Bakersfield. L. P. st, Clair is
president and Giles Kellogg secretary.
The books for the transfer of the
preferred stock of Mexican Petroleum,
Ltd, close on the goth of the month,
and the stock sells ex-dividend on that
day.
The Goldfeld Consolidated dividend
of 80 cents per share will be paid Oc-
tober 81.
The assessment of a cent on the
stock of the Consolidated Mines COM
pany of Los Angeles becomes delin-
quent November 10, sale day Decem-
Der 10.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

IDENTIFY expected by those who are con-
drift will develop ore as soon as it is
extended far enough to the east. A
development of ore at this point would
be of the greatest Importance to both
the Con. Virginia and Ophir. Although
this crosscut is being run east on the
level 100 above the find in Mexican and
a considerable distance south it is we'll
within the range of probability that
the eastern vein system will be opened
in this direction.
According to the last weekly report
of the Con. Virginia another east cross
cut is being run on the 1850 level OF
the mine This east crosscut was start
ed ninety-six feet in from the mouth
of the main south drift, and at the
date of the last weekly report had
been advanced siXty-seven feet, the
face being in porphyry and streaks OF
quartz of low assay value.
1t is very evident that the manage
ment of Con. Virginia, Ophir and Mex
lean have adopted the general policy
of prospecting the country which has
always been considered too far east
and outside the hanging wall of the
Comstock lode proper, but which in
the light of recent developments is in
way to disclose ore bodies of a mag
nitude greater than any yet opened
1t all goes to show that the Comstoch
lode is many hundred feet wider al
this depth than has yet been realized
S
Go to the State Federation nicnic al
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
ROUND MOUNTAIN IS NOVEL CAMP
IN STATE OF MANY FREAK MINES

time blasted from lack of support. But
all this is a detail-true, but not un-
common to the story of gold mining
the world over. Its real history, the
history of Round Mountain-that Whlch
is pertinent to the business of this con-
gress, centers about the business and
work of the Round Mountain Mining
company. And it is for the reason that
myself and associates have been the
chief factors in it's history, that L am
asked to speak of it.
Wonderful Production
You will see in your exhibit across
the way a little cabinet bearing this
legend:
comes is located 100 miles north of
Goldfeld. 1t is now developed to
depth of 800 feet, equipped with 100
ton mill, and has produced to date, in
a period of two years, $7O9 18412 in
gold bullion, has paid 1892, 1920 in
dividends and is acknowledged to be
the most ideal free gold mine known
in mining experience"
Something of statement this. But
it will bear analysis In this cabinet
you will see solid gold cleaving to the
rock an inch thick, and if you had the
entire and could give the sign, our
friends of the dark lantern, whose ways
something better.
On a bleak morning in February,
1906, sitting among the rocks, viewing
trench scarce a foot deep and ten in
length, Louis Gordon agreed with j.
r. Davis, for a consideration of $87 000
to sell the control-not the mine, mark
you, but merely a control. Think of
it. gentlemen! $s7,OOO And the hole
not two feet deep! But that was the
manner of things in those splendid
days In those days men We're braced
by the splendid atmosphere that sur
rounded us, and a hundred thousand,
more or less, was a mere detail.
Out of this transaction on this bleak
hillside sprang the Round Mountain
Davis of the Sandstone Associated
with him were Gordon, Sweeney
Cook and the man who is telling you
these things
$4,000 in Dividends
Inside of eleven months that ground
was pouring out its golden tribute in
eighteen months declared its st quar-
terly dividend, has as quoted above
produced in gold bullion 100000, has
paid $4,000 in dividends and has now
blocked out in the mine and in its
treasury approximately $9OO0O0
Men who are mining and know the
business of mining are accustomed to
! large sums, and know that to equip d
mine for production means ordinarily
hundreds of thousands. There is now
! on this ground a mill that treats 100
tons of ore day, yielding SO per cent
of the ore value that has never
stopped a day nor an hour through
any defect in construction, at total
cost of $4,000, occupying total space
| hardly larger than this room.
| The managers report for the fiscal
year closing July last showed the
average value of the ore treated to
| be $13.40; the extraction-simple plate
amalgamation, with no cyaniding or
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18

concentrating of any kind, to be 90 per
cent, leaving in tailings S1.10. The cost
of mining for that period was Sc a
ton, which has by the introduction of
| electric power and machine drills been
| lowered to $417 a tone, demonstrating
| that ore of So a ton in value can be
mined at a profit.
OF the future of the mine no one can
speak of a certainty The best skill
has been employed in outlining its
policy of development. All that the
geology of mining can teach has been
mapped. To obviate contentious and
eliminate vexatious apex questions, a
policy of acquisition has been followed.
All adjoining ground bearing upon such
! points has been acquired until now the
| total area of the Round Mountain Min
! ing company covers 700 acres, nearly
one-half of the entire mountain, and
it is the consensus of opinion of men
| qualified to judge that this unique gold
mine from it's geology, its record, the
free form in which the gold occurs, is
destined to have place among the
/ foremost for many years.
Nor is this all--of this strangely in
| teresting country-of which so little is
known. We have placers there, mere
washings of the surface of the noun
tain, that have produced $150OOO. The
/ Sphinx has a rated production of $50,
000 A like figure represents the busl-
ness of the Daisy, The FairvieW has
| given $50, 900 to the various leases;
there's an easy credit of 100000. So
the record of Round Mountain, a camp
without a noise-without railroad
within sixty miles, stands thus in q
period of two and one-half years with a
million credit. thus:
Round Mountain Mining Co. ..........s s709, 100
Placers l5o0OQOO
Sphinx 6o'oOO w
Daisy bo,UUuO
Leasers (various) ........-............ 30OOO w
Fairview 6O,OOOO 90
Total 90
Pardon me, gentlemen, much would
have preferred to speak of things less
personal. Rather would 1 have told
you of Goldfield, whose birth l have
| witnessed, in whose shaping 1 have
| been an humble part, and in whose
present and future | place unquestioned
! trust. But in the lesser part that has
been assigned me one point has been
made: Goldfeld, great as 1t is, has
| been, and is, Tonopah and the regions
to the south, such and much as they
stand for, are not all of Nevada. The
great new commonwealth reborn, as
| your presence here testifies, has yet
| other reserves, known and unknown, in
| the trackless wastes. Within our
| borders there is a-borning and yet to be
born regions of measureless wealth,
| that future ages of mining will accord.
| And this they will testify who follow
U.S. as certain as the great Comstock
once challenged the world, and the Mo-
hawk today repeats the challenge.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-01-08
Lauterback VIII Build.

"The railroad through Southern Mary
land to Drum Point will be completed
by the first of aext January" said Ed
ward Lanterback, in New York, last
week in commenting upon the decision
of Attorny General Straus in effect thai
the present owners of the road must e1
ercise their franchise before the mex
meeting of the legis lature or suffer ii
to be revoked.
"The road would have been built long
ago. continued Mr.. Lauter back, elf ia
vorable action' had been taken upon the
proposition to construct government
drydock near the southern terminus OF
the road but, irrespective OF that, the
road viii be completed in the time speci-
fed. 1t will require between $500, 900
and $4,000 to do it, but lam now in
communication with parties who will
supply the capital, and l will finish the
ong-delayed undertaking. 1t is New
York capital which am raising. The
road could be completed in
thee or four months if work were pro
secuted vigorously, but there is NJ
doubt that within the next year, at the
most, the road will be ready to be op
Grated, I also hear that the prospect Of
securing government drydock near
Drum Peint is better new than it has
been iu some years"
Further, Mr.. Lauterback would not
say hat his plans are at this time.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-01-08
The Card Club

The Card CLUB was most delight
fully entertained by Mrs. Richard
s. Hill on Saturday last, at he.
handsome home, "Stratford," where
everything combined to make it one
of the pleasantest meetings of the
season.
The tempting luncheon was served
in the dining-room, where the long
mahogany table reflected the CLEAN
of cut glass and pair OF tall, silver
candelebras shaded soft, rosy glow
over the scene.
The usual number Of games fol
owod. The first prize, new novel,
was won by Mrs. Fred. SAsscer; the
guest prize, box Of fine stationery
was won by Mrs. E. McManus, and
The consolation prize, a handsome
calendar, by Miss Freddie Hill.
Those present were Mesdames
Richard S. Hill, Frank W. Hill, A
[. Brooke, Harry Quinn, F. f. Nc
Manus,.. Fred S.sscer, Mary E. Viii.
son, l.. A. Griffith, Elizabeth Clagett.
T. 7. Houston, Robert l.. Hall, Heller
Slingluff, VIM. B. CIagett, 7. Val
Clagett, Reverdy Sasscer, Misses
Katherine and Mary Merrick, May
and Freddie Hill, Susie Ciagett
Mabel and Ola Keiholtz, Miss Jarvis
Misses Carol Wilson, Lucy E. Sas-
seer, Marguerite Clagett, May Clag-
EFT, Grace and Christabel Hill, ano
Nora Elizabeth, Ada, Eleanor anc
Minnie Hill, daughters of the hos
tess, DR.. Richard S. Hill, Messrs
Frank W. Hill and T. T. Houston
-Gazette.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-01-08
Died.

Mrs. Sophia Nicholson, widow Of the
late T. s. Nicholson, died at the home
of her son, J. ]. Nicholson, Bowie. Nd,
on Wednesday, December 30th, at AIS
a. m, after a lingering illness, and was
buried December 31st at 2 p m. Inter
ment was in White Marsh cemetery.
Mrs Nicholson was SO years old and
is survived by five children, j. j. Mich
olson, Bowie, Md; H. X. Nicholson,
Philadelphia, Pa; Mrs. w. l.. Conley,
Washington, D. G.; Mrs. ]. d. Geisel-
man, Elko Co, Nevada, and Miss Mary
Nicholson, Washington, d. G. Eighteen
grandchildren also survive her. May
she rest in peace.
Farewell, mother, may your slunbe
Be as gentle as your love,
And when God shall call US homeward
May we meet in heaven above.
By her children.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-01-08
Resolutions of Resp ect.

The following resolutions have been
engrossed, printed and ordered sent tc
Mrs. Skinner by the Vestry of St. Paul's
Parish:
The Vestry of St. Pauis Parish re-
ceives with deep grief the death of their
most honored member, Frederick Skin
ner who entered into rest May 2lst
1908, and desires to place upon the
minutes their appreciation of his SPLEEN
did character and G hristian manhood.
As churchman, he was loyal to her
best interests, always safe in counsel
and willing to sacrifice himself to the
cause nearest his heart.
His was practical religion and no
one came in contact with him without
feeling his. influence for good.
He was true citizen of Goes King
dom, and many there are &c call him
blessed.
1t is, Therefore Resolved That this
appreciation of Mr.. SINNERS true
worth be spread upon tho minutes OF
of St. Paups Parish, and that a copy of
the same be sent to his widow together
with the assurance of our sincere
sympathy in her bereavement.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-01-08
BKEVlTIES.

Miss Carol Wilson has been visitn g
! Miss Marguerite Clagett.
Misses Mabel and Ola Keiholt7
have been visiting their sister, Mrs.
VIM. B. Clagett.
Miss Ruth Bowie, of Washington
spent New Years Day with Miss Lucy
E. Sasscer.
-Messrs. Joseph and Frank Addison
spent part of last week with Mr.. Harold
Sasscsr.
Mr.. and Mrs. alter Oliver and
little son, of Capitol Heights, spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. James 3.
Jones, of this town.
"A lady's fine kid glove was recently
found on the Pike near the Town limits
by Mr.. Julius Coffren, who will be
pleased to return it to the owner.
DIR. Webb Gri filth spent part Of last
week with his parents, DR.. and Mrs. l..
A. Griffith. Miss Sallie Griffith, of
Friendship, Anne Arundel county,
spent New Years at the same home.
"A marriage license was issued on
Monday last to Willard N. Schafer, of
Bowie, and Marie Louise Kuhl of New
York City. Applicant-Guy B. Ridg-
way.
Miss Catherine V. Beall, of Balti-
more, and Mr. Levi H King, of this
county, were quietly married in Balti-
more at St. Gregory Catholic Church by
Bishop o. B. Corrigan on December 80.
1908.
The army of pupils in the public
schools of this county, who enjoyed a
good long holiday. got back to work
last Monday. They should work earn
estly, remembering always that there is
no time like the present.
Miss Laura Amber and Miss
Young, Mr.. Officer, all of Washington,
and Mr.. Roger Berry, of this county,
spent Thursday night at the Rectory,
where number of young people were
invited to tea in their honor, prior to
going to the dance that night.
Mr.. Richard E. Beall, who died
in Laurel on Tuesday, was the Oldest
employe of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad in point of continuous service
with one exception. Mr.. Beall was born
near Laurel, November %, 1928. and
entered the service Of the Baltimore
and Ohio in 1S49. At that time the
rails were laid on stringers, and Mr..
Beall was assigned to equip, the Wash
ington Branch with the first crossties,
ever used in railroad construction in
this county. Of his 50 years continu
Gus service large portion was spent as
supervisor Of The Washington Branch,
He leaves widow, three sons and four
daughters.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-01-08
A New Years Dance,

The young people of the neighbor-
hood had New Years dance in the
Town Hail on last Thursday night,
which was very successful and pleas
ant affair.
Among those present were: Mrs
Frederick Sasscer, Mrs. F. W. Hill, Mrs.
Mary E. Wilson, Mr.. and Mrs. Waters,
Rev. and Mrs. McManus, Mr.. and Mrs
A. T. Brooke, Mr.. and Mrs. T. Van
Clagett, Mrs. gene Roberts, Senator
and Mrs. VIM. B. Clagett, Miss Rebecca
Berry, Mrs. Thomas ]. Grant, Mrs. VIM
R. Smith, Miss Young, Miss Amber
Misses Carol Wilson. Ruth W. Bowie
Marguerite Clagett. Miss Keiholtz,
Misses Eleanor Wilson, Margaret Will
son, Katha rine Billopp, Alice Roberts
Josephine Roberts, Mamie Merrick
| Lucy E. Sasscer, Freddie Hill, Marie
Hill, Christabel Hill, Mabel Hereford
Nellie Grant, Mr.. Officer, Messrs. L. G
Sasscer, Joseph Addison, F. D. Webb
John Wilson, Thos. Hall, Geo. Brooke
F. G. Addison, Geo. B. Merrick, Franz
Hereford, VIM. B. Roberts, Rogers
Berry, Guy Clagett, Claude Owen, Geo
Plummer, Beall Bowie, James B. Berry
Charles Berry, Charlie Hill, Hampton
Magruder, Thomas Magruder, Percy
DuvaIl, Clarence M. Roberts, Mr.. Rome
F. H. Sasscer, Albert Wilson.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-01-08
Aspirant for Legal HOnOrs.

Mr.. Frank M. Stephen, only son of
Mr.. BENJAMIN D. Stephen, clerk OF the
circuit court, and for the past five years
deputy clerk of the circuit court Tor
, Prince GEORGES county, is csnvalescent
from a severe attack Of typhoid fever.
Mr.. Stephen will not resume the duties
Of deputy clerk, but will engage in the
practice of the law. his chosen profess
sion. On January 18th the young bar
rister will become member of the old
established law firm of Magruder and
Magruder which will, after this date, be
known as the firm of Magruder, Steph-
en- and Magruder. Mr.. Stephen is
graduate of the National University
Law School of Washington, and inner
it's his natural legal ability from his
great grandfather Judge John Stephen
VINO at one time was chief Judge of the
seventh judicial circuit, and a man Of
high attachments in the law. Young
Stephens experience as deputy clerk OF
the court will prove invaluable in the
practice of his profession. While dep
uty clerk he was studying law and was
enabled to see the application of the
varied principles encountered While
transacting court business. 1t is re-
garded as fortunate for the young law
yer that he is to be associated at the
outset of his life's work with firm
that has already established an enviable
reputation at the bar. Young Stephen
is of modest and courteous disposition
and has faculty CT making friends
that will serve him we'll in his career.
The new firm will have offices in Upper
Marlboro and Riverdale and in the
Commercial National Bank Building,
corner 14th and G streets, N. w., Wash
ington, D. G.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-01-08
Subscribe to Your Home Paper

The local newspaper should be found
in every home. No child will grow up
ignorant who can be taught to appre-
ciate the home paper. 1t is the step
ping stone to intelligence in all those
matters not to be learned in books
Give your children foreign paper
which contains not one word about any
person, place or thing which they ever
saw or perhaps never heard or and how
can you expect them to be interested?
But let them have the home paper anc
read of persons whom they meet, an6
places with which they are familiar,
and soon an interest is awakened which
increases with daily arrival of the loca
paper. Thus habit of reading is form
ed, and those children will read the
papers all their lives and become intel
ligent men and women, a credit to thei,
ancestors, strong in their knowledge OF
the world as it is TODAY
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-01-08
Corn is King.

While discussing the possibilities OF
the corn crop a short time since. the
Gunpowder Agricultural Club of Balti-
more county recnetly dived into its re
cords and found that in the seventies
when the Club offered special premium
the following yields were made ON 3
single acre: 1872, T. T. Gorsuch, 81 bbls.
bus. 3 pks; Joshua NJ. Gorsuch, 81
bills, Z bus: Edwin Scott, 10 Dbl, 8 bus.
3pks; 1873, TT. Gor.uCh, gag bbls ; JOS
Bosley, 21t bills; 1874, Edwin Scott,
% bbls, s.25 bus; JOS Bosley, 81 bbls !;
bus; 1875, T. T. Gorsuch, 27a bbls
JOS. Bosley, 2G bills, 7 bus; W. W
u atthews, 253 bbls.
Hartford beat even these extraordinary
records at about the same time. In 1875
the late James w. Bond, of Baltimore,
offered to the farmer boys of Hartford,
who should grow the most corn on an
eighth Of acre of ground, series Of
p ICES aggregating 500 in gold. Quite
mum Der of youth competed and the
greatest interest was manifested durini
the growing season. When the corr
| finally measured and weighed by thu
committee the first prize was awarded
Horn, son of Mr.. Adam Horn, who livet
| about II miles above Jarrettsville, hi
| patch yiel ding at the rate Of AZ bbls.
| per acre. No one of the contestant
raised less than 80 bbls, per acre anc
three Of the prizes went to MARSHALL
| district.
Young Horns successful plan to viii
was unique; selecting a small plot OF
which hog pen stood and over whicl
it had drained for many year, he plant
ed his corn; and during the dry season
he carried water from the branch an
watered his plants. No wonder h
| won.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-01-08
Social ano Qersonal.
Orphans Court.

There was regular meeting of the
Orphans Court Tuesday with all the
iudges present The following orders
were passed:
Ordered, That the first and final &C
c. unit of Frank W. Await, executor OF
Richard T. Mackabee, deceased, be
passed.
Ordered, That w Hunter Doll be ap-
20 inted administrator Of the estate OF
Anna A. Doll. decea sed. Penalty OF
bond $4,000; S. Marvin Peach and
Robert w. Wells appointed appraisers
Ordered, That Robert w. Wells be
hereby appointed collector for the es-
tate of Susan White, deceased, Penalty
Of bend 5000 George Mcfarland and
George Walker appointed to appraise
said estate
Ordered, Th at John Jacob Fink, be
appointed executor of the estate OF
Jacob j. Fink, deceased, penalty Of
bond $500
Ordered, That the last will and tes-
lament of Frances Fitzpatrick, after an
examination of the validity of said will,
be admitted to probate and record.
Ordered, That Thomas D. B. Shaw,
be appointed administrator of the es-
tate Of Annie E. Shaw, penalty Of bonk
$50, eco flied and approved; Carroll B.
Frost and Harry S. Frost appointed ap
prasers.
Ordered, That the last will and tesla
ment Of Emily G. Traband be admitted
to probate.