Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-28
PRESIDENT GOES
INTO DEEP MINE
TAFT DESCENDS 1900 FEET
INTO EARTH
DONS SLOUGH HAT AND OLD
LINEN DUSTER
Chief Executive Has interesting Day
at Famous Copper Diegln9s.
Arrives at Helena
for Fair
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ter two sleek looking horses IN coHllort-
able stalls at one point OF the trlp' anu
his inquiries brought out the intorina-
tion that every two or three years the
marooned animals are brought to the
surface and given years Yacatlon oIi
a ranch that is called THE Horses
Heaven"
Method Explained
The president was taken at last into
a drift where drill was at work.
The whole method of copper mining
was explained to the president one oL
the local committeeman who had ac-
companied Mr.. Taft down lnto the
mine, and who did not recognize Jonn
Hays Hammond in an old rain coat anu anu
sou'wester, started in to explain tne
system to him. too.
"But perhaps you have been In
mine before" suggested the committee
man. 7
''Well. l have seen pictures and read
about them," replied Mr.. Hammond
dryly.
During his Journey through the mine
the president was within seventy-flVe
feet of fire which has been burning
for four years and which has detied all
efforts to extinguish it. Hundreds OF
thousands of dollars have been spent
in walling the fire area in with CON
crete and cement. The smolderlns
blaze. feeding on old timbers and sui
phur in the ore, eats its way tnrough
crevices every now and then and breaks
into the level where the men are WORK
ing, only to be fought back into another
wall Water pumped into the mime
has no effect on the fire
At Butte the president was presented
with a full-sized golf club--a driver
made of copper, silver and gold. On
the head of the driver the folloWlns
inscription was engraved;
william H. Taft, champion 1903 1918
and then sonie. Butte, Mont, Sep
tember 27, 1909"
Presidents Speech
In the course of his speech at Butte,
where he was introduced by Senator
Lee Mantle, the president said:
"I am mighty glad to see you and
the reason is that I cannot help but
feel from your kindness and cordlallty
that you are glad TO see me-
at am especially pleased at the re-
ception because of it's non-partisan
character, and especially glad that L
am looking into the faces OF Demo
Gratis as well as Republicans and that
we are all here without thought OF
I party and only to give expression TO
| The feeling of common interest OF our
common country and love for our dear
old flag. .,,-.,.., ,ao,.t,,c,
desert from the green fields OF the
east and see a city spring up IKE
ing is a revelation in the posslblllties
of American manhood and American
energy. 1 am going to visit your CITY
under ground.
"I am going to assume that you haSe
a rome that is strong enough to let
down 800 pounds 1 am going to see
mat wonderful system of galleries
from which YOU have taken the wealth.
that has been a marvel to the world.
"Tt gives any man who loves MS
country an inspiration TO see tHe Ldco9 49,
before me as came up this street anu
as look out upon you now, and to
realize that every man of you is en-
gaped in work-in work that pays
good Wages-that you have hlsll
standard of living and that you are
intending to. upl1ft the lnul'luuI.t C,3t. a ~
order that the nation may be uplltteu'
The Use of Wealth
''It is not the wealth that you are
making here, but it is the use OF thac
wealth that appeals to real lover or
4 his country" z,zo,,+ o+
silver Bow junction little after
q m today. Senator Dixon ana POST
master General Hitchcock joined the
party when it arrived in Anacohaa. IA
white here the president visited ms
cousin DR., Samuel Torrey Orton, for
a few minutes. DR.. Orton's mother
, opd Mr. Taft's mother were sisters.
Tn his address at Anaconda the pres
ident said: "It is great pleasure LOT
me to meet you this morning IN clIy
which 1 have never visited before ana
T,bicb presents conditions very diff
ferent from those which have obtained
in any city I know. LII. 1900. WOW,
at have Just been visiting your Won
derful copper producing WORKS ana
have been initiated into a knoWleage
of the process which has gone on I'M
nrovinr until it would seem now as II
You took everything out of the air and
o,,t of the ground and made 1t uSetul
Your city presents picture OF com
Portable homes. do not see any ten
ements here. I don't see any narrow
nlaces that prevent the expansion or
lungs or the production or growth Of
.iThe schools and the children before
them is a scene that awakens In the
heart of every American and every
prospect of what may be expected or
fhe next generation, and l assume that
YOU here are quite like the towns that
7 have visited.
Public Optimism
"You are looking forward to doub-
ling YOUR population in the next three
or four years, and are looking forward
to an increase in wealth and an IN
crease of prosperity, of which fhere IS
every 1nQ1CaLlOH II0 COUNTY ONSA' SN--N
Of which I am sure you will have your
"After all, it is not the great indus
+ries IL is not the great wealth, but IL
is the comfort and happiness of the IN
dividual that goes to make up a great
ration: and no one can take the trip
that have been taking, no one can go
through the east and the middle west,
tha far west and the Rockies and up
INTO this country without seeing in
every face, without receiving from the
Tins 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 that
IN himself and in the constitution and
nakeup of his fellows is the certainty
nf nroeress onward which uplifts his
people and makes America even a
greater country than it is now"
President Limping
President Taft had a decided limp in
his walk when he alighted from ms
special train at Butte. He spralned
tendon on his foot before leaving
Beverly, but had suffered no bother
from it until yesterday, when after ten
days of constant going with little or
no rest the foot became swollen.
DR.. Richardson, who accompanies the