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against Culver now. Perhaps
he regretted the fuss he had
made on the day of Culver's
death. I'll take ten dol
lars a day" he added, land
see what / can do about the
Indian.
Il knew it! 1 knew you'd
do more than all the gang, my
self in the count" the Sheriff
exclaimed in profound relief.
I'm beat! l own it / amt
seen a trace of that black
headed devil since l started. If
you'll fetch him in"
Don't promise more than
ten dollars a day." Van inter-
rupted. IF you do, you can
get him yourself. l haven't said
I'd fetch him in. ! merely said
I'd get him.
All right" said the Sheriff,
bewildered. "All right. l don't
care what happens, if you git
him. p"
Glad, perhaps, to escape the
town, to flee from his partners
and the air that Beth was breath
ing, Van rode off that after
noon.
He did not seek the Indian
murderer, nor for traces of his
place of concealment. He went
far west, to the nearest Indian
camp, on the now diminished
reservation. He called upon a
wise and grave Piute, as old as
some of the hills.
Captain Sides" he said,
when the due formalities of
greeting had been gratified, Il
want you to get Cayuse. He
stabbed a white man, Culver,
Government man, and you
Piutes know all about it. In
dams know where an Indian
hides. This man has broken the
law. He's got to pay. l want
your men to get him.
Old Captain Sides was stand
ing before his house. He was
tall and dignified, a man. "Yesh.
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS

pETH KENT, a remarkably beautiful young woman from
automobile from the railroad to Goldite Nevada by her
fanee searle B1stwsk whittier she was !going to join
When at roadside station in the Nauwish Valley
called Van appeared and advised the not
proceed Bostwick cowardy busterer nolently told
the stranger mind his business but the latter dis
playing ordered Bostwick to depart which he did,
secured broncos for Beth and Elsa and the three
edge of tremendous chasm and the horseman escaped
death only by cngng to rotten shrub twenty-five feet
climbed to safety just support fell into the depths
The party from their emnence, saw Bostwick held up
by escaped convcts in the distant valley against whom
Van had vainly tried to warn him.
The three arrived at the strangers Monte Cristo mine
dued an outlaw horse, proceeded to Golde where Van
got good boarding place for them old friends, Mrs
Van boldly informed Beth that she going marry
him.
The See Saw quartz claim Van acquired proved have
been sailed; but it rich in placer
Bostwck arrived in convicts clothing the hghwaymen
He learned that McCoppet his Golde partner had
Beths brother away wild goose chase and between
veyed into the reservation boundaries they could jump
it when the reserve was opened As part of this plan Beth
plea that it was for her brother.
Van knocked down Culver; the official surveyor for
fered Culver thirty thousand dollars he would alter the
Indian linz lime So as to include t it
Culver murdered by Indian, and Van narrowly
capped being lynched for the crime.
Queeny, a mining camp habtue committed suicide be-
cause Van refused to marry her.
Beth received letters from her brother which caused her
suspect Boswcks integrity and away
get Lawrence the deputy take Culve place in the
plot defraud VAN she made and rode toward
Starlight her brother She lost her and her horse
a sandstorm but rescued by Van who mistook her
for Chenille, and assisted back to Goldte.
Beth then sent Van with letter to her brother Bost
wick Starlight obtained this letter and contrved for
Van to it, after he had changed the word love" to
for Van On his back Matt Barger escaped CON
ambush and later Van saved Barger from death quick
sand
His entire being revolving against what he believed to be
Beth treacher when he learned that his claim had been
jumped (Which had taken place during his abence he be-
lieved that she had been at least
rt1yyf hec
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have studied the laws OF Con-
fucius written in their native
tongue. The thing looked con-
vincing. 1t was not at all in
credible or unique. 1t bore the
Government sanction, if not its
trademark. And, granting that
the reservation tract did actu-
ally extend so far as to lap
across the Laughing Water
claim, the right of an entrant
to locate the ground and GUST
all previous trespassers after
the legal opening was unde-
niable.
Much of the natural fighting
spirit welded by Nature into
Vans being had been sickened
into inactivity by the blow sue
ceeding blow received at the
hands of Beth Kent. The case
against her was complete! Her
letter to her brother was suffi-
cient in itself! The need for
its delivery in person to her
brother had been undoubtedly
a ruse to get himself out of the
way! If she had not planned
with the others to warn the
convict, Barger, of his trip, she
had certainly lent her money to
Bostwick for his needs-and her
letter contained the threat, Il
will repay!"
A T the end of three days of
\ dulling disgust and help
lessness, Van and his family
were camping in a tent. They
were all but penniless; they had
no occupation, no hope They
were down once more at the lad
der's bottom rung, depleted in
spirit, less young than formerly,
and with no idea of which way
to turn. Van meant to fight,
if any, the slightest, excuse could
be discovered. His partners
would back him with their lives.
But he and they, as they looked
their prospects fairly in the
face, found themselves utterly
disarmed. Except for the
credit extended by friends of
Van, starvation might have
lurked about their tent. All de-
layed seeking for outside work
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and out. They had saved almost nothing of the
gold extracted from the sand since the bulk of their
treasure had fallen, by right of law into the hands
of the jumpers.
Bostwick avoided Van as he would a plague
There a day night that fear did not
possess him, when he thought of possible encounter
yet Van had planned no violence of deed and could
not have told what results would be should he and
Bostwick meet.
In his customary way of vigor the horseman had
begun semilegal inquiry the first day succeeding the
rush. He interviewed Lawrence, the Government
representative since Culver's removal from the
scene. Lawrence prepared for the visit. He
expressed his regrets at the way Vans fortunes had
veered. Bostwick had come, he said, with authority
from Washington, ordering the new survey. No
expectation had been entertained, he sure, that
the old, somewhat imaginary and decidedly
vague" reservation line would be disturbed, that
any notable properties would be involved Natural
ly after the line rum establishing the inclusion
of the Laughing Water claim and much other ground
in the reservation tract Bostwck had been justified
in summary action. 1t the law of human kind
to reach for all coveted things.
Van listened in patience to the exposition of the
case He studied the maps and data as he might
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CHAPTER XXXVII.
The Primitive Law

and McCoppet had made
ample provision against attack at
the claim. Their miners, who set to
work at once to enlarge the facilities
for extracting the gold from the
ground, were gun fighters first and
toilers afterward. The place was
guarded night and day, and visitors
were ordered off with a strictness
exceptionally rigid.
Van and his partners were down
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-23
LIMIT OF SPECIAL
TRAIN SOLD OUT
One Hundred and Fifty-four Reserva.
tons Made for Excursion to
the Oil Fields

Captain ]. +. Lucey, chairman of
the Sierra Madre clubs committee on
the oil field excursion, reports that all
Of the berths in the big special train
which is TO leave Los Angeles Thanks
giving night, 1874 in number, have been
taken. Two or three combinations
have not been received and these res
ervations will be disposed of tomorrow
to the first who apply. Captain Lucey
has wired T. A. O'Donnell and II. p.
St Clair of the field committee, who
are in Coalinga, asking them as to the
ACCESSIBILITY of adding another car,
which Captain Lucey believes could
easily be filled. The fear that a heav-
Ter train will not be able to make the
scheduled time and the difficulty Of
taking care of a larger crowd in the
fields may influence the committee to
add nothing to the present equipment.
The chamber of commerce has des-
ignated Senator Bulla, Lee c. Gates
and Mr.. Rays as representatives Mr..
Gates will also represent the city of
Los Angeles The Jobbers' association
will send F. 7. Gregson. The chamber
of mines has not named a represent
tatiVe as yet, nor has the Merchants
and Manufacturers association.
d. NJ. Speed, secretary of the Blue
Moon, Valley and other Coalinga COM
panies, who is in the city, says that
there is great interest at COalinga in
the excursion and that a good time
Is assured the visitors "Coalinga APP
preciates the high standing of the men
who will visit the oil fields" said he,
land will do her best to make this a
memorable occasion. We have some
thing to show the people that will open
their eyes to the Importance of the oil
industry. Personally. I believe that the
trip will be of mutual benefit to Goa
linga and Los Angeles"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-23
COPPER CREEK NOW
SHIPS CAR A WEEK
OUTPUT LIMITED BY LACK OF
FRElGHTERS
conoentrator Is Practically Completed
and Machinery Is Being Linn
bered Up - Railroad
Will Build

Frank j. Sibley, president of the
Copper Creek Mining company. re-
turned recently from a visit to tine
mines of the company in Copper Basin.
Ariz. Mr.. Sibley says that the com
pany has been shipping steadily since
the first Of the month, sending out a
carload a week to the C0pper OUeen
smelter. The company viii divert some
Of it's ores to the Imperial and lei paso
plants in order to determine the nesr
market for its ores. The output of the
mine is limited by shortage of teams
as there is a great deal of work going
on in that section and teams are I'm
demand. The ore averages about is
per cent copper.
Mr.. Sibley says the Phoenix ana
Eastern has completed its second and
final survey of it's branch road frlm
Winkleman to Copper Creek. which ma
consumed three months of time and
that he understands construction work
will be begun by the first of the wear
This road will be of great aavantage
to the companies operating in that To-
cality.
Mr.. Sibley says the concentration on
the Copper Creek is pract. cally com
pleted and that the superintendent has
been limbering up the machinery and
trying out the individual motors. The
plant is one of the most complete in
the state and is equipped with Rich
ards jigs and classflers, which are
rapidly superceding the old pattern of
Jig, occupying but a small floor space
and giving great efficiency.
From present indications the Copper
Creek will soon enter an era Of heavy
production.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-23
News of the Mines and Oil Fields
TOM LOCKHART BUYS BIG
INTEREST IN A BONANZA
MINE ON MOTHER LODE

r. G. Lockhart, president of the Flo
renee GOldfield mine, is reported to have
secured a controlling interest in the
Mountain King mine. adjoining the
Royal Consolidated, one of the big pro-
dueers of the mother lode. The Noun
tain King is in Calaveras county, and Mr..
LOelhart has been negotiating for the
property for a number of months. He
secured control by the purchase of the
interest of the estate of Joe walsh, one
of the original owners. The mine has
been a good producer, but has been idle
for a number of years. 1t is said to be
Mr. Lockhart's intention TO install
modern mill and put the property on
producing basis
Mr. Lockhart is at Bakersfield today,
looking over the oil field of Kern river,
and is expected in Los Angeles tomor-
row. He made his big stake in Tonopah
and GOldheld. after twenty years of
prospecting, during all of which time he
had rs partner MIR. Parker, president and
manager of the Colorado southern. Mr..
Parker was a clerk for the road when
he first met Lockhart. During the score
of years the two men have been assO-
ciated in business they have been warm
personal friends, loyal to each other. Mr..
ParlVer's interests in the Florence have
made him a millionaire, and bring him
a fidy yearly fortune from dividends.
The entry of Mr.. Lockhart into the
mining and oil business of California. it
IL boDed will ultimately lead to him
choosing a residence in Los Angeles,
from where he could easily reach both
his California and Nevada interests.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-23
MINING BUREAU
ISSUES REPORT
Kern County Heads the List and Oh
Leads - Over one-third of
Mineral Product is
Petroleum
tBy Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 22.-The an
ruaI report of the California State
Mining bureau, just issued, shows that
the mineral production of the state in
1908 was $66, 1868, 1888, as against sos, 697,-
949 in 1907. Kern county heads the
list With a production of $40, 9S6,912,
four-ffths of which was petroleum.
Shasta county ranks second with
S6,9S3,657, largely copper, and Fresno
county is third with $6,055,3S9.
Los Angeles stands fourth with
$5,97S, AGA, and Santa Barbara fifth with
$4,946,679.
In the production of gold Butte
county leads with $3,139,3 1893, and Mer-
Ced county is second with $2,297 1868
The total production of gold was $751;
761 sos; silver, 1,64727S fine ounces,
value $S73,057. The platinum produc-
ton of the state was 706 ounces. valued
at S13,414
over one-third of the mineral output
of the year was in oil.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-23
EIy's Cream Balm has been tried and

Ely's Cream Balm has been tried and
not found wanting in thousands OF homes
1t has won a place in the family medicine
closet, where 1t is kept at hand for use in
treating cold in the head just as soon as
some member of the household begins sneez-
ing or snufflng. 1t gives immediate relief
and day or twos treatment stops cold
which might become chronic and run into a
bad case OF catarrh. Price SOC.
II you prefer to use an atomizer, ask for
Liquid Cream Balm. 1t has all the good
qualities of the solid form of this remedy
and will rid you OF catarrh or hay fever.
No cocaine to breed dreadful habit. No
mercury to dry out the secretion. Price
75c, with spraying tube. All druggists, or
mailed by Ely Bros, Sc Warren street. New
York
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-23

Pickett street, 514 South-R. w.
Thenbu, at lot, owner and builder;
one-story four-room residence; 5000.
First street, 10000 East-Thomas
Rathwell 1927 South Hill street, own
er; p. w. Gertz. builder; one-story
two-room store building, $4,000.
Wall street, 4166-F. A. Parker, S49
Douglas building, owner and builder;
alterations to residence, $4OO.
Forty-hfth street, 1911 West-M. L.
Schultz, at lot, owner and builder;
one-story six-room residence, $1,000.
Shatto Place, Civ. S. Gillette, at
lot, owner; Chas. Miller, builder, one
story one-room garage, $500.
Western avenue, 24l2 = Hansen
Moore, at lot, owner and builder; one
story two-room garage, $500.
Fifty-sixth street, SIG West-M. A.
Fly, S12 West Fifty-sixth street, own
er and builder; one-story six-room
residence, $1710.
Lucas street 1876 SOUTH. B. Paint
err, owner and builder; alterations OF
residence, $500.
Vermont avenue, 1920 Soulful.
Sommer, at lot, owner; l.. ID. Webb,
builder: alterations of residence, $3.50.
Arlington avenue, 3437-Katherine
Pugh, 3493 Lander street, owner and
builder; one-story six-room residence
$1,000.
Fremont avenue, 241 South-D. A.
Kunball, at lot, owner and builder;
two-story ten-room residence, $500.
Sichel street, AIS South-E. S. Shil-
ling, at lot, owner; L. A. Bailey, build
er: alterations of residence, S24O.
Wilmington, Seventh and Brent
streets-P. ]. Picherie, Wilmington
owner; w. L. McGinnis, builder; one
/
san Pedro, Twenty-third street, 729
West-W. e. Fairall, owner and build
err. one-story four-room residence, $l2o.
San Pedro, Pacific avenue, S93l-
William Peck, San Pedro street, own
er and builder; one-story tve-room
residence, $4,000.
san Pedro Shepard street, 500
as above, $4,000. 80
san Pedro Thirty-ninth street, 479
! West-Same as above, $4,000.
San Pedro, Fortieth street, $40 west
Same as above, $1,000.
San Pedre, Thirty-eighth street. 59I
West-Same as above, $4,000.
San Pedro, Thirty eighth street, 595
West-Same as above, $1,000.
Fifty-third street, 1851 Vest. w,
Dolan, 300 Grant building, owner; d.
S. Williams, builder; one-story, hVe-
room residence, $1,000
Central avenue. 596-V. H. Price,
owner and builder; one-story one
room building, $50.
New Hampshire avenue, 724-J. +.
Kendall, 1921 Central building, owner;
c. ]. Nordquist, builder; two-story
eight-room residence, $4,000.
Thirty-ninth street, 1925 East-Wm-
w. hnl at lot, owner and builder;
one-story fve-room residence, $3.50.
Fifty-fourth street, S5S West-G. A.
Thompson, 42S West Fifty-seventh,
owner and builder; one-story six-room
residence, $500.
Eagle Rock avenue, 6SO9-E. r.
Threlkeld. at lot, owner; A. E. Finley,
builder; one-story four-room resi-
dence, 1880
avenue-C. ]. Gardner, owner; c. P.
Gould, builder; one-story hve-room
residence, $1,000.
Bryan street, 726-A. f. Davis, 217
Fay building, owner and builder; two
story eight-room residence, $4,000.
Twentieth street, 2151 West-E. l..
Petitfils, 2276 West Twenty-third
street, owner and builder; two-story
nine-room residence, $4,000.
Forty street, 1855 East-W.
r.. Wilson, 934 East Forty-fifth street,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-23
FAMOUS PLACER MINE
WILL RESUME WORK

The famous Spring Valley placer
mine at Cherokee Flat, California. is
TO be reopened after an idleness of
thirty years and will be operated as
a drift mine. This method of mining
will be adopted because of the sue
cess of leasers on various portions of
the ground, who have demonstrated
the worth of the method by their oper-
atoms. While not so great a guam
tity of gravel will be handled, the net
results will be as good, as the oper-
ators will be able to segregate the pay
gravel from that which contains nom
inal values
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-23
BURR BROTHERS OPEN
OFFICES IN LOS ANGELES

Burr Brothers, Incorporated, of New
York have opened offices in the II. w.
Hellman building. from which point
their extensive holdings in the Goa
linga field will be partly directed. c..
II. M, Tobey, who is heavily inter-
ested in the projects of Burr Brothers,
will act as resident manager. Mr..
Tobey was for many years credit man
ager and fiscal agent of the A. G..
Spalding Sporting Goods company of
Chicago and later president of the
Tobey Advertising company of Chi
Cago. He has an enviable reputation
in the business world and is we'll
known locally. having spent most of
his winters here and having taken up
his permanent residence in Los An
geles about two years ago.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-23
Metal Market

NEW YORK. Nov. 22.-Standard copper
easy today: spot and all deliveries up to the
end of March s132531360. London mar
l<et lower, spot closing at $50 IS and futures
eel Is ed. Sales there included 1000 tons
each of spot and futures. Local dealers
quote lead at s13.50@13,75; electrolytic at
s18371sa13.50; casting, $13121a @1S.371 Y.
Tin irregular; spot and Nov. closing at
S314OQ31.6O; Dec. $31.40631.75; Jan. $3l 40
aS175; March, $31.50631.S0. The London
market was firm and higher spot closing at
GAP los and futures at f144 lis Cd Lead
quiet; spot, s4.37H q442h New York and
at s42O@425 East St Louis London mar
s635G645 New York and at s6.20n6 .25 at
East St. Louis. London unchanged at f23
IS. The English iron market was lower at
Sis for Cleveland warrants. Locally iron
was unchanged
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-23
CENSUS REPORT SHOWS
LESS COTTON Is GINNED

WASHINGTON Nov. 22.-Census reports
show S,109, 1871 bales. counting round bales
as half bales ginned from the growth of
1903 to Nov. IA, as compared with 9.595SO9
for 1908. Round bales included this year
are l23,5S8, compared with 17390S for 1908.
Sea Island, 6S,607 for 1909, compared with
SO, 7Ol for 1908. The cotton ginned by Texas
and Oklahoma to Nov. II, 1909. compared
with that ginned to the same date in 1908,
is as follows: Oklahoma, 476.523 in 1903,
and 322O5l in 1908; Texas, 2,1OO97O in 1903,
and 2.S63, 598 in 1908. Nov. IA. 1908, 1873
per cent OF the entire crop of the country
had been gnned The statistics in this re-
port for 1909 are subject to slight correction
when checked against the individual re-
turns Of the ginners being transmitted by
mail The corrected statistics OF the guam
tty Of cotton ginned this season to Nov. l.,
are 7.017,849 bales
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-23
SAN PEDRO SHIPPING

SAN PEDRO, Nov. 22.-Arrived; Steam
ship City of Topeka, from San Diego steam
ship Roanoke, from Portland via Eureka and
San Francisco; steamship Admiral Sampson.
fIom Seattle via Eureka and San Francisco;
steam schooner George W. Fenwick, from Co
lumbia River.
Sailed: Steamer Santa Rosa, for San Fran
cisco and way ports; steam schooner Coronado,
for Aberdeen via San Francisco; steamship
CITY OF Topeka, for San Francisco via Re
dondo; schooner William Bowden, for Everett
IN ballast; steam schooner Czarina, for Coos
Bay via San Francisco.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-23
Tecopa Branch Finished

officials of the Tonopah & Tidewater
road state that the branch line of that
company from Tecopa to the silver
lead mines northeast of Tecopa has
reached the Gunsight mine and within
short time ore shipments viii begin.
The mines are said to be prepared
to send out 600 tons of ore daily for
a long time to come. and the road was
built by the Tonopah & Underwater only
after confirmation of their claims by
the roads mining engineer, Mr.. Luck
bar6t
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-23

owner and builder; one-story siA-
room residence, $500.
Westlake avenue, SAC South-F W.
Phelps, at lot, owner; +. r. Bradley
builder: two-story eight-room resi-
dence, $780,
Normandie and Second streets-B.
e. Payne, Lissner building, owner ana
builder; two-story nine-room resi-
dence, $4,000.
Fifty-first street, 1S43 West-Los An
geles Investment company, 331 South
hin street. owner and builder; one
story five-room residence, $1S25.
Fifty-seventh street, 944 West
Esther Geist, owner; ]. w. Zehr'
builder; alterations of residence, $500.
Fifty-first street. 1910 vest
Schmidt. 161 East Fiftieth street, own
err; E. S. Shapland, builder; one-story
six-room residence, $4,000.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-23

depth of 300 feet, the deepest workings
in the camp demonstrating that the
ore goes down.
Mr.. Kelsey is quoted as saying the
Gold Hill company has a full face oil
ore in the tunnel at the depth mem
toned, which runs from $792 to $2ooO
o ton. Sylvanite caused quite a STIR IN
mining circles about eighteen months
ago and is located near the Mexican
line. One advantage of the camp is
cheap transportation charges to the Eel
Paso shelters
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-23
SYLVANITE MINE WILL SHIP
RICH ORE TO CALIFORNIA

A shipment Of valuable gold ore is
said to have been prepared for ship
ment from the Gold Hill mine at Syl-
vanite, New Mexico, to Colorado
Springs E. F. Kelsey manager Of a
mine in that district, is authority for
the report, and he considers a recent
strike in the Gold Hill to be of par
ticular importance because of the fact
that the ore was encountered at a