Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-09

of copper which figure was nearly ],
100000 pounds Of copper more than ~.
average of the previous five years
Bank Commissioner Chaplin has can
ed for condition Of Massachusetts
Trust Companies as of Sept. /. mai
iEg the fourth call this year.
While all the papers are seeking /.
keep in close touch with Mr.. Harr,
mans residence at Arden. very t,,,1
Information is allowed to seen thronah
the Gordon of guards surrounding ~.
grounds.
At midnight message from m
Hartman residence was to the efsaa.
that NJ. Hartman was resting war
though it developed late last night tia,
he had had another attack of acute IN
digestion since his Sunday attacL
which left him in a very serious conai
ton. While intimate friends of NJ
Hartman row admit that he ia a dan.
serously i'll man, they believe his nh,cL
will carry him through. They say tbars
Is no Immediate prospect of an oner,
ton as he has not the strength n
stand one, even though one were neces
statement regarding Mr. Harrimaus
condition will be given out al the
Union Pacific offices today.
A. S. Howe, secretary of the Cola.
field Consolidated Mines Co. places
the August production of that COMPANY
at 22,1G0 tons of gross value of 500
$50. The cost Of production, includnp
mining, milling and general expenses
was sl55,000, leaving net profits for the
month of SAT-, 900.
Ely, Nev.-Col. W. A. Parish, the
mining engineer, is spending some time
here examining special properties fg
eastern investors. 1t has now been six
years since Mr.. Parish made his first
examination of Copper Flat TERRITORY
for the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. Of
Denver. His report at that time was a
conservative statement of the wonder
full possibilities of the district. but the
property was turned down by the Col
orado people for the reason that they
did not believe that such tremendous
tonnage of commercial ore could exist
in any country.
1T has been two years since Mr. Far
ish's last visit to the camp and he ex-
pressed great satisfaction at the MANY
changes for the better that have come
to the district during that time. He
also notes with pardonable pride made
| in his original report. have been fully
| confirmed and proven by the Nevada
Consolidated both in matter of produc
| ton and in methods of working its
| property.
Lord Northcliffe, owner of the Lon
| don Times, says that the current day.
| andnight operations of the Krupp Gun
Works with a force of 100000 men and
the fact that all shipbuilding yards in
Germany are rushing construction OF
rapid cruisers and fiist-class battle
ships al1gurs of an impending war be-
tween Germany and Great Britain He
declares: 1.-The Germans made an i'm
mense sum Of money out of their last
great war. They will fight or threaten
again when they think it will pay"
Jacob H. Schiff, head of Kuhn Loeb
& Co, the firm which has financed
Harriman's railroad acquisitions ever
since he began buying stock control in
1895 of the Union Pacific put off sail
ing for Europe until next week on ae
count of the critical state of Mr.. Har-
riman. This is the third time Mr..
Schiff has postponed going abroad on
this account.
John F. Stevens has been elected
president of Oregon Trunk Line, the
Hill railroad to be built from the CO.
lumbia river to central Oregon and San
Francisco.
Boston g. Maine has ordered 50 new
passenger cars from Laconia Car Co.
New York-The common shares Of
the United States Steel Corporation
show a paper appreciation of nearly
$500. 900. 900 since the steel companies
declared for an open market in steel
last February.
Some of the best judges of specula-
ton make the comment that all things
considered the general list shows nota-
BILE resisting powers. Interests identl-
fled with Pennsylvania, Reading, Atchl-
son, Rock Island, Erie, American
SHELTERS and Amalgamated Copper
are credited with buying of these stocks
this afternoon on the scale down and
that means of course the execution OF
manp buying orders for the account OIL
Rockefeller, Morgan, Frick, Reid ana
BerWind.