Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-28
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passage had given place to more bulbs Of
red, white aud blue. The walk through
the cross-cut TO the ore vein was about a
quarter Of a mile. Through the darker
places the president helped to light the
way with his electric lantern. while the
other members OF the party carried candles,
The president was amazed TO encounter
two sleek-lOpking horses in comfortable
stalls at one point of the trip and his inquir-
les brought out the that every
two or three years the maroon ID animals
are brought to the surface and given a
years vacation on a ranch that is called
The Horses Heaven" Precautions are
taken te. protect the herses from blindness
when they are brought TO the surface after
long service below.
! Past the powerful pumps. where he shook
hands with the men in charge, the presi-
dent was taken at last into q drift. where
a drill was at work. The shutdown
owing to the internal troubles in the West
ern Federation. OF Miners had been ad-
justed today and the men were preparing
to return to work on full time tonight.
Method ~ Mining Explained.
The whole method Of copper mining WIS
explained to the president. One of the
local committee who. had accompanied Mr..
Taft down into the mine and who did not
RECOGNIZES John Hays Hammond in an oil
skin coat and sou'wester started in to ex-
plain the system to him, too.
But, perhaps you have been in q mine
before2' suggested the committeeman.
well, l have seen pictures and read
about Them replied Mr.. Hammond.
The upward journey in the cages, with a
$500 horse power engine pulling at the
cables, was accomplished in just half the
time occupied In the descent and at a speed
which made the inexperienced gasp.
During his journey through the mines,
the president was within seventy-five feet
OF q fire, which has been burning for four
years and which has defied all efforts to
extinguish It. Hundreds Of thousands Of
dollars have been spent In walling the
fire area In with concrete and cement. The
smoldering blaze, feeding on old timbers
and sulphur in the ore, eats It's way
through creviees every now and then and
breaks into the level, where the men are
working only to be fought back into
another wall. Water pumped into the mine
has no effect on the fire.
Speech at Anaconda.
ANACONDA, Mont. Sept. N.-After a
flying trip through the famous Washoe
smelters of the Amaleamated Copper COM
pany on the hills below Anaconda this
morning, President Taft motored into this
city at $50 and made a brief address from
the central square.
Senator Carter met the president at Sill
yer Bow Junction, a little after 7 O'Clock
this morning. Senator Dixon and Post
master General Hitchcock Joined the party
when 1t arrived in Anaconda, While here
the president visited his cousin, DR.. Samuel
Torrey orion, for a few minutes. DR.. Or
toms mother and Mr.. Taft's mother were
sisters. ..,
In his address here the president said
1T is a great pleasure for me to meet
you this morning in q city which I have
never visited before and which presents
conditions different. from those which have
obtained in any city 1 know. ,-
IT have just been visiting your wonder
full copper producing works and have been
Initiated into a knowledge of the process
which has gone on improving until 1t
would seem now as II you took everything
out of the air and out OF the ground and
made it useful. Your city represents a pic
turs of comfortable homes.
PeopIe Looking Forward.
IT do not see any tenements here. I do
not see any narrow places that prevent the
expansion of lungs or the production and
growth Of children. The schools and the
children before them are a scene that
wakens in the heart of every American
and every lover OF his country an enthu-
siastic prospect of what may be expected
Of the next generation, and l assume that
you here are quite like the towns that l
have visited. You are looking forward to
doubling your population in the next three
or four years and are looking forward to
an increase in wealth and an increase in
prosperity, OF which there is every indi-
cation the country over, and of which /
am sure you will have your share,
After all, 1t Is not the great industries,
II is not the great wealth, but 1t Is the
comfort and happiness Of the Individual
that goes to make up q great nation, and
no one can take the trip that l have been
taking, no one can go through the east
and middle west, the far west and the
Rockies and up into this country without
seeing In every face, without receiving
from the lips Of every man an indication
that he is looking forward and not back
ward, and that he Is an optimist and not a
pessimist, and that he knows hat In him
self and in the children and makeup OF his
fellows is the certainty Of progress onward
which shall uplift his people and make