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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-20
Thos. j. Walsh interviewed by Reporter
for the Herald Tuesday
Gives out Some Welcome Information to
VermiIion Property Owners
KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE VERM|L|ON''

That the prospects OF Tower, the
range town which practically died
two years ago when the Soudan
mine apparently ran out, are bright
er today than ever in her history,
and that in his opinion less than
one-quarter of the merchantable
hematite ore on the Vermilion
range has yet been discovered, were
statements made by T. J. Walsh
this morning, says Tuesdays Du-
luth Herald. Mr.. Walsh's opinion
is entitled to some consideration, as
he is the only survivor of the three
men who, in 1882, worked on the
exploration of the Soudan mine,
before there was a railroad or a
house nearer than Duluth. The
other two men who worked with
Mr.. Walsh-Andrew Sandell and
Peter-are dead.
Mr.. Walsh is one of the men who
organized the Vern1ilion Iron &
Steel Co. last March, and the adj
vance that the stock has taken,
holds all known records for phe-
nomenal va1ue increases. Last
March the stock was put on the
market, 200, 900 shares st 81 each,
the market price at the time being
SO cents per share. $4,000 shares
were taken at so cents, and within
the last month there has been a
transfer of several thousand of these
shares at $50 a share, an increase
of just 100 times the original in
vestment. The shares went to SIS
the first week they were offered,
and have been rising steadily ever
since. There is none on the mark
ct today. There are 12o, 200 shares
still in the treasury of the COM
pany, and so, 900 went to the part
les who put in the land.
Very little of the stock was SUBJ
scribed for by Duluth people, and
the big share of this enormous
profit has been reaped by outsiders.
Duluth people have been asleep
for the last twenty years, said Mr..
Walsh. They have been interested
in mining propositions in Arizona,
Mexico and Alaska, while here
within 100 miles of the city is a
mineral district without an equal in
the world. Within the last twenty
years there have been 200 mines
opened up worth from $4,000, 900
to 500, 900 900 each, and Duluth
people have gained very little, COM
paratively, by it. They want some
thing farther off. That is why Du-
1uthians failed to get in ON our
stock"
The land represented by the stock
which has made such a phenomenal
jump is 100 acres in section 5-o2-14.
There is an ore body 430 feet wide
between the walls, ranging from "a
to 6S per cent. Every test pit and
drill hole sunk has struck ore.
One drill strnck ore at 1913 feet be-
low the surface, and was still in
ore at the 5OO-foot level.
Mr.. Walsh stated that a shaft
will probably be sunk on the pro-
perty of the North American Iron
Mining Co., within thirty days.
This property consists of 100 acres
in section 4-61 Is, 40 acres in r.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-20
List Your Rooms

Parties wishing to rent rooms to
teachers will facilitate matters some
if they will make a list, giving
their names, number of rooms and
location and leave the the same
with Supt. Barnes at once. The
lists will be supplied teachers upon
their arrival and thus much time
will be saved.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-20

81 ~, l9Oy.
there were some way to make the
common and cheap kinds of timber
last longer, it might help some. !"
Various people got busy and work
ed out several different methods of
treating timber cheaply and yet eff
fectively. Probably the United
States government, through the
forest service, has worked on this
longer than anyone else in the
country. Now the processes have
been so we'll developed that the
economy of timber treatment is a
sure thing. The life of almost any
wood can at least be doubled by
thorough impregnation with creo-
sote or zinc chloride. This alone
means a great saving; both in
original cost of timbers and in the
labor of replacing them. But bet
ter yet, cheap woods when well
treated are just as good as the valu-
able and naturally durable kinds,
and will last considerably longer
than those which are naturally
durable but untreated. Then cot
tonwood, willow, spruce, lodgepole
pine, or jack pine can be used in
place of cedar for posts; birch,
hemlock, or tamarack in place of
oak for ties; lodgepole pine in place
of cedar for poles; and in every case
the treated substitute will last long
er than the wood commonly used,
and will cost less.
The railroads, always alert for
greater economy in management,
were the first to adopt preservative
treatment for their ties. The
Northern Pacific now creosotes
nearly every tie used. Its two Gre
osoting plants at Brainerd, Mimi
esota, and Paradise, Montana, are
running to their full capacity and
using any species of wood. The
Great Northern operates a large
plant at Somers, Montana, where
it uses zinc chloride instead of
creosote. Two new plants will be
erected very soon by the Great
Northern, one at Cass Lake, Mimi
esota, and another near the western
end of the line, in Washington.
The new transcontinentel road, the
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound, is also planning to build a
very large treating plant in Mont
ana within a short time.
The mining companies are not
far behind the railroads in adopting
preventative treatment for the
timber used in the mines, as enor-
nous quantities of timber are used
each year for supports. While a
great deal of this is temporary in
character there are a great many
tunnels and shafts which must be
kept open for long term of years.
Here where wood decays very rap
idly, and the cost of replacing TIM
Der is very great, a good deal of
money can be saved by treating
the timber with a preservative.
The Bunker Hill & Sullivan Min
ing & Concentrating Company of
Kellogg, Idaho, and the Hercules
Mining Company of Burke, Idaho,
last year obtained the assistance of
the Forest Service in designing and
building treating plants. The
Forest Service furnished an engi-
neer in wood preservation to take
charge of the plants until employees
of the companies had become
familiar with the work, the COM
panies paying the expenses. After
six months operation under the
supervision of the Forest Service
the latter withdrew and the plants
are now being run by the COM
panies themselves.
Any person who so desires car
obtain similar cooperation with the
Service by application to the
District Forester at Missoula,
Montana.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-20
Skeleton Found.

The remains of an Indian were
found Monday by a crew at the
head of Stoney River about so feet
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22
WASHINGTON WAS A aMOTHER'S BOY

was a
When child his father died. leaving George the
1dest Of the family.
FROM that time until her death Mary Washington
toocher companion and intimate friend OF her son.
Upon his character she left the imprint her George was
= at the crises of his HIS
ut and decisions were eloquent OF the mothers influence
mothers boy"
John BALL. in England $50 years before of
Raahn8ton Virginia. met his the seaod cham
Ddontng the rights Of man under Wat Tyler.
From John Ball line of soldiers. But they
royalty True
their king when the established and the
ssne the privilege of the few into conflict
With the natural rights of the manythe peopiehe
John Ball served their God and their fellow first
the king afterwards.
Mary Washington a descendant of
John Ball. who died at the end of
Mary life
e education and upbngng of her six children and especially
- her frstborn, then 10 old.
when arrived 1s he wanted to run
just all He wanted sea- just boys
being mother
1eid him to humdum his mothers boy,
to splendid
TIE king and the prvations of the colonial the fem
nine
only
when the pitiul dragged
hopeless
e instinct that the lie
Washington field With hungry
andful Of his mother would
Aave him world
when the passed masculine virtue
Washington withdraw.
ME- and resume the quiet routine of the farmer.
Could Caesar the noodtde OF his
ade master growing ambition and quietly retire from
the the world but Washington
he boy
the gories of for the and joy of home life?
All through the Washington
Mary projected
& staemanshp into the future Often could
LAST did givetle for his
mafveously correct.
Many Of the wise Of his thought that
ton stupid Rather
what the
wise thing And that though it takes the highest
all the wisest thing
Washington President
mother
fnheriess played
Building this nation probably the
other single human being
Father OF Country a Mothers Boy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22
[OFIWTERE,ST WOMEN
SHORT SLEEVES MADE LONG.
Timely Hints In Dressmaking.
BY Priscilla Prirn.

An unique example of the way
in which the short sleeves of an
old gown is altered and made into
a decorative cap for the long new
sleeve Is herewith illustrated.
In this instance the material is
a silk and wool mixture of old
blue.
The new long clinging sleeve is
made Of plated fine net, dyed to
match the gown.
The cap is cut on the original
lines shown In the picture, the
overlapping points fastened with
satin-covered buttons. A touch of
black and gold Is introduced in
the fine silk braiding which out
lines the edges.
The points of the cap terminate
at the elbow, finished with silk
taSSelS
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

COMPANY A. Second Infantry. N.
G.. W., will give its annual ball
in the new state armory TINS
evening in honor of Washing
tons birthday. Elaborate dec
orations have been arranged
about the walls of the armory.
Those on the general arrange
ments committee are: Captain
f. M. Beecher, Lieutenant
T. l.. Shurtleff, Lieutenant q.
A. Ellison, and First Sergeant
Botsford.
THE PHILATHEAN AND WE
BROTHERS classes Of the First
Methodist Sunday School are
giving a colonial party this
evening at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John w. Berry, North 3Sth
and Adams SITS.
BOTH DIVISIONS Of the Wom-
ems Society of the First Con-
gregational church will meet to
morrow afternoon at 2:30 in
the parlors of the church. Plans
will be made for an entertain
ment to be held Friday even
ing, in the church parIors.
ONE OF THE brilliant events Of
the week in South Tacoma will
be the presentation of the clev-
err comedy, 1.-The Rainbok Kim
ona" tomorrow evening at the
South Tacoma hall by the
Young Ladies' Sodality of the
Church of the Visitation.
THE REGULAR MEETING of the
Tacoma Woman's Study Club
will be held tomorrow after
noon at the residence OF Mrs.
e. e. Cushman, North 38th and
Proctor SITS. In honor OF
Washington's birthday patri-
otto program will be given.
THE COSMOPOLITAN CLUB will
meet tomorrow afternoon with
Mrs. George Berry, North 3Sth
and Cheyenne SITS.
DIR. AND MRS. n. F. SMITH have
returned from trip through
Southern California.
MR.. AND MRS. I. H. PLACE and
daughters are giving one of the
Martha Washington parties of
the week, entertaining this
evening at their home ON North
26th and Lawrence SITS.
THE LOGAN SOCIAL CLUB will
be entertained from 2 to 5 to-
morrow afternoon, at the home
of Mrs. l.. Tritle, 100 South ]
st.
THE MEMBERS of Hooker Cir
Gle, G.. A. R., are being enter
tanned this afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Goodna, 945 "
South G..
FORMER RESIDENTS OF OHIO
will meet at the residence of H
w. Finch, 1918 South Seventh
ST., this evening, to complete
arrangements for a reception to
be given by the Pierce County
Ohio association.
THE COLLEGIATE ALUMNAE
ASSOCIATION entertained at a
large reception this afternoon al
the home of Mrs. Walter Vose
Gulick. North Eighth and L SITS.
PREPARATIONS are being made
for a rousing smoker to be held
in the new state armory Feb
ruary 26, in honor of the old
members of Troop B, N. G. w
Besides the old members of the
corps, general invitation will
be extended to the members OF
Hamilton Chapter, S. A. R.
The primary purpose of the
smoker is to lay plans for the
formation of a veteran corps for
Pierce county.
A MARRIAGE of great import
ance in Hebrew circles was sol.
emnized yesterday afternoon al
Valhalla hall, when Harry Sch.
wartzberg, a well known local
clothier, and Miss Sarah Kahn
were Joined in wedlock before
400 friends. The ceremony
was performed by Rabbi Halper
and, after the wedding, the
guests sat down to q most sump-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

Mr.. Gaines of Tennessee: No.
but / would rather go back to
them than to realize, day In and
day out, that I have something in
my house that may take the life of
my family or my own life. I
have read by tallow candle and
would be glad to get them as
against this deadly gas.
carbon monoxide gas was the
subject which opened the debate.)
Mr.. Mann: Surely we could all
lget along; better people than we
have used them.
Mr.. Gaines of Tennessee: have
had a great many pleasures with
a tallow candle. Many a night
have l studied my lessons by
a tallow candle, and knew them
the next day-and sometimes 1 did
not know them. But the tender
lest and sweetest memories cluster
about the dim old tallow candle.
l would not forget them IL /
could.
Mr.. Mann: The gentleman is an
Experienced and expert man
Mr.. Keifer arose.
Mr.. Gaines: In the light of my
friend from Ohio l feel that do
not need a candle, and I know /
can say the same thing of my
friend from Illinois.
Mr.. Mann: 1t does seem to be
remarkable that all at once every
body in the country has discover
led that illuminating gas is poison
GUS. i was taught very early to
be careful about Illuminating gas
loose in room. But discovered
all at once that only one kind of
igas is poisonous. Some people,
doctors and others, are able to
breathe Illuminating gas IL it is
only made from .oal. 1t Is as in
noxious as the gas emanating in
this chamber.
Mr.. Gaines Of Tennessee: II It
is no more noxious than the gas
temanating from the gentleman
from Illinois 1t win not kill any
body. He lends a soft and lumin-
Gus light to any occasion or sub
lject-
And SO forth and SO forth and
SO forth.
Cheer up. There are only few
days left of this session of con-
gress. And then we will begin on
mother one. Sincerely, RATH.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

And now something is going to
happen to the hatpin.
Just for fear that the increased
length of that necessary weapon,
favorite of woman, may become a
menace to the life and ears and
noses of pedestrians and strap
hangers, the legislators are getting
their pencils out and making laws
on the subject.
In Oregon the legislature has
decided that it's no use living If
one has to be squeezed against
human pin cushions on the street
cars and run the risk of being
mortally wounded on the public
highway.
This has tipped off the city dads
in a number of thriving metropol-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

ortan Had the cherry bee in eses garden his
father might warmthfor
cold sche Then Washington realized
that when the his Ratchet the
attempt had
General" destroyed this
cherry tree while hewng it DOWN.
his lips Washington silent for
moment This
audience
IFabius shouted,
Come heroic boy!" gentleman,
but will not kill you"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22
Booming His Trade.

"why do you send SO many am
ateur poems to the magazines?
You have learned that they never
use them?-
Il just do it to stimulate my
business"
"And that is"---
Manufacturing waste baskets. :"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

Mr.. Mann addressing Gaines Of
TENNESSEE: Has the gentleman
introduced bill yet to the effect
that, Whereas gas is poison and
kerosene is dangerous, we all
ought to go back to tallow can
dies?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22
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|GORRESP,ONDENcE1
nv tSAnf%.
ny RATH.

Washington, D. c., Feb. Is.
Dear Dad: Look out for rev.
|enue legislation at the special
tariff session. This is what is go
ing to break loose. The demo-
|erats are going to try to put the
republicans in a hole, but that
isn't all there is to it. There is
la big deficit ahead, and the re-
publicans know that they will
have to figure out some way to
make more revenue. Representa-
tive Fred Stevens of Minnesota
has been comforting with the
Treasury department experts on
the terms of a bill to re-enact an
Income tax. It Is believed that
Ian income tax law can be figured
|out which will get around the
veto by the supreme court. And
this is what is going to be doing.
Instruction is brewing in the
lsenate as we'll as in the house.
This man Cummins from Iowa
has been organizing the insur-
gents. He began with a dinner at
his house, at which seven outlaws
were pledged to the cause; and
this nucleus has been growing. BY
1.-THE time the new session begins in
March, there will be pretty live
lily band of guerillas ready to
raid the regular Aldrich army.
Then watch the raiders.
There has been a discussion on
party platforms and what they
ARE for. Jake Gallinger rushed
into the senate long enough to say
that party platforms were for the
purpose of getting rates. In sup
port of his contention he cited the
fact that a republican party plat
form once advocated 1 cent post
was never enacted in
to law by the senate. Undoubt-
eddy Jake Is right. The public has
for a long time that
party platforms were merely for
the purpose of catching votes and
the testimony of SO eminent an au
thority in party councils as old
Doc Gallinger is worthy Of note.
But here is the point. How the
deuce Is a party to catch votes
with promises that everybody
knows al q not going to be carried
out? And what the deuce do Doc
|Gallinger and Mike Hepburn mean
by giving the snap away? Please
wire me IL you think of the an.
|swer.
There Is much that Is pleasant
as we'll as edifying in that daily
publication known as the Congress
sional Record. / like to pick it up
In the morning and see what kind
of talk have been paying for. The
bright legislative minds which are
|functioning 30 diligently at their
increased salary are sure to con-
tribute to the pleasure IL not to
the profit Of the day. Disserta-
lions on the subject of tallow can
dies, for example, are worth
while. Az this:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22
GOOD WISHES

Magistrate: / trust I will not
see you here again, Murphy.
Murphy: Forbid that your HON
or should become biindi
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Steak can be br0lled GENEROUSLY
over the furnace fire. The intense
heat sears the meat quickly and
the juices are retained.
Slightly warm the pans into
which peanut brittle or fudge Is
to be poured. The candy will be
of q more uniform thickness, and
peanut brittle can be made thin
ner than when the pans are cold.
If tablecloths, napkins and
towels are neatly darned on the
wrong side as soon as thin places
make their appearance, and be-
fore the threads break they will
last longer and look better than
they would IL the darning were
postponed until there were actual
holes.
If width of canton flannel Is
Isewed to the folded end of a pair
of blankets the blankets will be
long enough to cover the shoul-
|ders well and also to tuck in I'M
der the foot of the mattress.
Nothing is more helpful in dust
ing polished floors than the alb
Isorbent broom bag, which may be
purchased for a few cents in a de-
lpartment store or can be made at
home from piece of cotton flan-
mel.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22
Onion Sets. Tacoma Imp. &
Seed Co., 18th and Com. sss
THE SECRET OF LONG LIFE.

THE SECRET OF LONG LIFE.
A French scientist has discovered
deals with the blood. But long ago
millions of Americans had proved
Electric Bitters prolongs life and
makes 1t worth living. 1t purifies,
snriches and vitallzes the blood. re-
life and tone to the entire system
Its a godsend to weak. sick and de-
|bilitated people. Kidney trouble
had blighted my life for months"
writes w. M. Sherman. of Cushing.
Me-, "but Electric Bitters cured me
entirely" Only Soc at all drug
stores.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

itan towns, and ordinances limit
ing the length of hatpins every
where from 9 to IA inches are
pouring into the legislative hop
pers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

Washington was 81 when he
Martha Curtis and took
up his residence at Mt. Vernon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

In his youth, Geo. Washington
was a surveyor. In his old age he
was, so to speak, lord of all he
surveyed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

Anyhow, the toy hatchets Otto
day wouldn't cut down a cherry
tree.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

In 1755, In recognition OF SER
vices rendered on an expedition
against the French, Washington
was chosen aide de camp by Gen.
Braddock.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

It's a cinch that @. Washington
had good getaway framed when
he admitted that tomahawk expe-
|dition to his pater. 4elI
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

At 10 Washington was adju-
tant general of the militia of his
district, with the rank of major.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

The better class patronize Prince
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

At II Washington wanted to be-
come a seaman.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

Geo. Washington's father was
Washington.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

Washington was born on Popas
Creek, Westmoreland county, Vir-
|ginia, Feb. %, 1872.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

At IL Washington was one of
the best surveyors in Virginia.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

This simple and effective cos
tune is pleasing forecast of
things to come. The lines are
long and simple, and the only or
namentation is heavy embroidery
of the same shade as the cloth,
and long lines of small plain but
tons. The circular skirt is with
out trimming.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

"The Father of His Country"
was reared by his mother, his ia
Their dying when he was young.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22
flOSTANYTHING

Martha Dundudge. She married
Daniel Parke Curtis, by whom she
had four children. In 1853 she
married Geo. Washington.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

Men willing to trust a dollar by
throwing 1t across the Potomac
are scarce these days.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

Geo. Washington's mother died
during the first year of her sons
presidency.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22
Mr.. sKYGACK FROM MARS.

- Visits ~ Makes
1sss Observstfsa In HIS Nefebssk.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

Washington was descended from
a titled English family, and was
the eldest child of ais fathers sec
ond wife. Mary Ball.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

Martha washington was born
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

Cheer up. There are only a few
days left of this session of con-
gress. And then we will begin on
mother one. Sincerely, RATH.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-22

Cherry trees are ripe.