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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-19
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HO L % K s AHEAD SEES TWICE.
 IF YOU REALLY K N E w w H E R E THERE WAS A PIECE OF BIRMING AM DIRT YOU COULD PICK UP TODAY AND SELL AT A PROFIT OF WEN Y-FIVE PER CENT IN THREE MONTHS YOU'D CALL IT A SNAP.
 WHEN YOU SAVE THAT OR MORE IN LAYING IN I'll E FAMILY FOOTWEAR FOR THE SUMMER AT OUR REMOVAL SALE, WHY ISN'T sTHAT AS GOOD A TRADE?
 THIS IS A "SPEC" IN WHICH YOU CAN'T LOSE.
 WE HAVE GOT TO MOVE IN ABOUT A WEEK.
 IF WE DON'T SAVE YOU MONEY, AND GOOD MONEY, WE DON'T EXPECT YOU TO TRADE.
 COME WHILE WE HAVE YOUR SIZE. G;M0n
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 PIP. NlRTH 20 r STREET WE STAY OPEN TO-
 NIGHT UNTIL 6:55
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-19

E. T. Shaw & Son. Undertakers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-19

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Mohave County miner., 1909-01-09
Arizona Still Leads The World

is the center of a very promising min ing section. Within a radius of twen- ty miles Ot the place power plants de- yelOping between 10000 and 15.0OO horsepower are now in daily use, which will be replaced with electrical equipment as soon as electric power is available.
 "The low rate at which the power will be furnished means a saving of from twenty to forty per cent in the present cost of generating power with fuel oil. It will also enable mining companies to use the water now used in generating steam power for reduc- tion purposes, allowing an increase in the capacity of the plants. This will make possible the treatment of low grade ores at a profit that now lie on the dumps of many of the properties, being to lean to pay under present conditions. An example is the Octave mill, that will be started with double it's former capacity, enabling the treatment of 5 and 6S ores at as large profit as made from the treatment of 7S, SS and 9s ores under former condi- tons.
 "The transmission line is finished from the plant to Octave, a distance of eleven miles. It passes through the camp of the Gro Grande Mining Con- pany and will be built immediately through Stanton to the Rincon mine.
 Provision has been made in the construction of the transmission line to carry 22,OOO volts, so that the ef- iclency of the electrical machinery will be very high. The necessary cnange in machinery to it's operation by electrical power will be compara- tIvely small. After the change con sumers will not be compelled to carry reserve power now compulsory.
 "rhe Octave Mining Company is now erecting new electric holsIs. The cages used ln the shafts will be re- placed with sklps, permitting the nanGlIng of the output automatically, eIemInaJIng much manual labor used ln the past"
 The new plant is located near the 5. F., & f. bridge over the Hassa- yampa river at WIckenburg. An un- limited water supply has been devei- oped on the ground in wells sunk in the HaSsampa quicksands.-JOurnal- Miner.
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-09
Work Progresses on Wickenburg
 Plant.

"Within sixty days the motive pow CT at the Octave mines and mill and several of the mines and plants in the Weaver district will be electricity, furnished by the Central Arizona Elec- tric Company, and the town of Wick enburg will be lighted by electricity"
 This is the statement made here yes terday by Marvin w. Ditto, consulting engineer of the company and electri- cal expert for c. E. Miessee and his associates in Arizona and Nevada.
 Engineer Ditto arrived here yester- day from Wickenburg, in company with c. E. Miessee, president of the power company and the Octave Min ing Company, and w. w. Wishon, who recently accepted the positions of general manager of the power com pany and of the Octave Mining Con- pany. President Meissee left here for | Chicago in the afternoon and Manager Wishon and Engineer Ditto returned to Wickenburg on last nights train.
 Since assuming charge of the pow CT company's affairs, Manager Wishon and have made some changes with a view of increasing the efficiency of the plant" Engineer Ditto said. With the exception of small part of the electrical equipment, all the necessary machinery is now on the ground. The plant will develop l,20O horse power. ! All of the power that will not be con- sumed at the Octave mines and mill and lighting the town of Wickenburg has been purchased by mining com panies operating in the Weaver dis trict at the rate of 1908 horsepower per annum for five years.
 Within six months an additional unit of 800 horsepower will be added to the plant to supply the demands Of consumers which cannot be supplied with the plant now under construction.
 "Wickenburg is an exceptionally good location for an electric plant. It
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-09
Broken Hills Ore Mills at Low Cost

The greatness of the Broken Hills property as workable mine mas been shown by the tonnage of hlgn-grade ore which Is being shipped, and Is fur tner demonstrated by the simplicity of the mIll treatment and the great say ing that can be made from the lower grade ores.
 A sample of the ore for a prelimi- nary mill test was sent to the Henry l.. Wood Ore Testing Company at Denver and the report Is highly grat- flying to the Broken Hills people. The sample, which came from the waste dump, was supposed to De lOw-grade rock, but the mill returns showed it to contain 453 ounces of gold, and i.3O ounces of silver to the ton. The treatment recominended Is amalgama- ton and concentration, with cyanIda- ton of the regrind table tailmgs. TnE method showed saving of 9L04 per cent of the gold values, and 9J.oO per CCul Ol luC olANCA hAAACo- -hAAAl oAo showed no salts present deleterlous to cyanide. Commenting on the results of the test, Henry k. Woods says: "rhe work reported was 50 carefully checked that the figures can be de- pended upon in milling practice as to the. general result. The results are entirely satisfactory and call for only simple treatment. The cost of ship ping and smelling the concentrates would be low as the concentration rate is high" The present development has opened up immense reserves of ore that will mill around 25S per ton. There is also much ore that will run as high as 5OS which will be milled.- Goldfeld Tribune.
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-09
Her Output of Copper in 1908 is Twenty Million Pounds Greater
 Than Last Year.

present able to produce an equal quantity.
 And that is the reason in brief why Arizona leads the world in the pro duction of copper-she has proved her ability to produce the volume at lower average of cost than any other country in the world can produce aD equal volume.
 MICHIGAN'S OUTPUT.
 Michigan's output is estimated by Mir. Horace J. Stevens as given below in his dispatch to me at 220,000,00O pounds for the year. My own estimate for the state was 229,OOO,OO but Mir. Stevens (author of the Copper Haud- book is a very high authority on cop per production and he lives in the midst of the Michigan field, therefore his estimate may be accepted as safer than mine.
 HOUGHToN, MICH, Dec. l9, 1908. FITZ-JAMES MACCARTHY,
 Phoenix, Arizona:
 Very rough preliminary estimate Michigan copper production two hun dred twenty million pounds.
 HORACE J. STEVENS.
 If Michigan were seeking capital to- day as a new copper region on the average tenor of her present ore out put and the average cost of producing she couldn't get dollar, as against the bid of Arizona for the same money because
 Arizona can today offer the capital a greater profit with no greater risk involved-less risk in fact.
 In lower degree the same is true of Montana where the tenor of the ore is higher than in Michigan, but most other conditions decidedly less favor able. But both of these great copper regions are "going concerns" in the business sense. The capital necessary to operate them up 10 their present capacity is already planted" and can- not be withdrawn. Therefore they can continue to operate as long as the price of copper equals or exceeds the cost of producing-no matter at how much lower cost any other region can produce, unless it can produce enough to supply the whole market.
 Although Arizona has lead the world in the production of copper for two years in succession now, it may still be claimed with some show of reason that there has been the element of accident in the industrial race.
 Undoubtedly there has been-the element of one contestant being pre- pared to meet the conditions of the weather and the track while the other was not. That is hardly to be called accidents however. It resulted from a difference in business policies.
 Montana's policy broke down under the strain-it was producing its cop per at too high cost to stand up un- der the drastic reduction. It had to go through a period of readjustment. Arizona's supremacy in the copper industry rests on the unquestionable fact that she produces her output at a lower average of cost than any other country in the world is able to produce an equal quantity. And her manage ment is remarkably conservali!e.
 Montana is the only district in the world able to produce an equal quan- tity, but she can't produce it at as low cost. That's why she fell over the breatworks in the panic of 1907 and Arizona took the race.
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-09
54,OOO,OOO Pounds
 3O,OOO,OOO Pounds

She was producing at too high cost.
 BUT
 Here is an indisputable fact-Ari- zona has never produced as much cop per in any year as Montana in her three best years, 19O4-5 and 6. And Montana is up and going again! She is producing today at the rate of 34O,- GOO, ,OOO pounds year. If Montana can hold that pace through 1909 Arizoua's goose is cooked as queen of the copper industry-for a while, but not for long.
 Montana is still capable of a great squirt (probably) and she has a greater shelter capacity than Arizona, and in my judgment she is liable to take the lead again in l9O9-if the price of COZ per warrants the effort.
 It is true that Arizona is not work ing her shelter capacity to the limit even now when her output is about 27, ,0O0,O0 pounds month, but l be- lieve the same is true of Montana.
 It is not probable but it is easily possible that Montana may regain the supremacy in 1909 and even hold il through 1910. But for the long run she is no more to be counted as in the race against Arizona than Michigan is and Michigan is out of it forever.
 She hasn't the capacity to expand. -Fitz-Mac's report to the Phoenix Board of Trade.
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-09
Arizona's Leadership and the Vital Reason
 Why the Outl ut Stea lilly Expands.

For 1906 and 1907 the figures above are those of u e U. s. Geological Sur vey, last revision. For 1905 they are close estimates compiled from the most reliable local sources accessible. As to- the Arizona output for this year l have employed every check upon the local estimates returned to me by wire within the last few days that con servative prudence has seemed to re- quire. Arizona's output for this year has been foolishly exaggerated in the supposedly well informed mining news press of Boston. They have put it at 300, ,OOO, 900 pounds and their estimates have been echoed in the western daily press.
 It will no doubt disappoint a great many of our Arizona people to find that I estimate our output for 1908 at so low a figure, and 1 have to confess that if l adopted the estimates return ed to me from all the camps by wire within the last few days in answer to my inquiries I should have to make it great deal higher. But it appears to my judgment that the best service I can do the industry on this occasion is to avoid exaggeration.
 There is an appreciable advantage to any mining region in being able to stand before the world as the principal producer of copper-Or of any other metal. It makes it easier to enlist ] capital in further development and il gives the region a certain influence or the market.
 People who invest their money in copper-producing enterprises naturally desire to invest in those that return the greatest profit at the least risk.
 Broadly speaking the cost of produc- ing is the measure of the risk.
 We are under some disadvantage a. compared with Michigan and Montana but on the whole the natural advan tages favor us strongly and we are able to produce at lower cost thar either.
 Arizona can sell its whole output al the present cost of producing in either Michigan or Montana and still earn a fair profit for all the capital invested There isn't a shadow of doubt about that. The standard of the cost of pro ducing is the price at which the fin ished (electrolytic) copper can be solo in the city of New York without loss
 Measured by that standard the out put of Arizona enjoys an important ad vantage over either of the other two great producers. The precise state ment is this:-Arizona produces its copper at lower average of cost thar any other region in the world is al
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-09
Total
24O,OOO,O lbs.

I feel certain that estimate will more than cover every pound produced and strongly suspect that it will prove 10 overlap her output for the year by nearly 14,0O0,0OO pounds. In other words I would more confidently esti- mate her output at 23O, 100000 pounds.
 Beyond a question her output during the last two months has been very great-at the rate of about 340, 900, 0OO pounds a year-and that enormous rate of production furnishes those whose minds are biased by self-interest a much-desired excuse to forget the extremely low output during the first montLs of the year.
 But the present rate of output in Arizona is also great-appearS to be fully 2I,0OO,OOO month or 334, 100000 pounds year-and she Is not crowd ing the production to meet dividend problem as Montana Is, for unlike MonJana, Arizona has no great divi- dend problem to meet. Her mines are not overcapltallzed and the manage ment Is quite remarkably conserva- tive.
 But Montana has great copper mines yet (decadenU of course but still great great mills and great smelters, and as long as the price Of copper holds above the cost or producing sue can produce, and sne Is sJIIl capable of a great spurJ that may again give her the leadership tor snort time.
 But she can't hold it as against Arr zona.
 That is impossible because she can't produce at as low a cost from her going mlnes and (ZJ because she hasn't the ground for expanding her opera tons.
 She has some new ground no doubt, but Arizona's new ground Is enor- mously greater in extent and cheaper to operate.
 In seeking capital for new expansion Montana no doubt feels keenly tor the first tune the disadvantage of no long CT being the worlds leading producer. It invites attention to the tact that she Is unable to produce her copper at 50 low cost as ArIzUna.
 The conditions in Montana is 1908 have been almost an exact duplicate of what they were In 1907 with the or der reversed-the lean months coming first thIs year and the fat months last. But think the corrected record will snow slight increase-6 10 10 million pounds perhaps. Remember it was 224 million pounds in 1907 by the gov ernment's record, while Arizona's by the same record was 255 millions.
 l am convinced that 1 have given Montana the most favorable estimate that facts will warrant, and rather stretched than curtailed the measure.
 In Montana the fierce insistency oi the dividend question to maintain the price of the stocks, which are far more speculative than those of Arizona, has furnished a strong incentive-the strongest possible-to throw off the despair that overwhelmed her after the panic of 1907. Her press and peo. pie are evidently making a brave eff fort to forget the bitter past and base their estimates on her more recent output. Her output for the last two months has been at the rate of 34O, ,OOO,. 900 pounds a year.
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-09
Leads Michigan by Leads Montana by

[NoTE.-The output given in round millions to avoid the danger of mis- print-fractions less than half being ignored and half or more counted as a full million. Totals are thus more easily remembered.
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-09
MOntana's Output.

All the world knows how woefully Montana's copper industry was crip- pied in the panic of last year and that it made no appreciable recovery till the fifth month of 1908. Then it shot suddenly forward to about 22,0O0,0OO pounds but in June the great flood knocked it again to about l2,OOO,OOO 1 estimate Montana's output for 1908 as follows:
 First 6 months, s,-.........-.. 90,OOO,O 900 lbs. Next 3 months............... 10000, 900 lbs. Last months. ........... S4,OOO,OOO lbs.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14
FR|CHTFUL RUNOFF
AT THE OPEQUON
Three Young Ladies' Thrown Out Of
Buggy on Rocks and Badly
injured.

A frightful runaway accident occur
red Monday forenoon on the hill just
east OF the Opequon bridge on the
Shepherdstown road. in which three
young ladies were badly hurt.
Misses May Annie and Pearl Henry.
daughters OF Mr.. Christ Henry, who Is
a tenant on the vanMetre farm. had
started to drive to Martinsburg in a
buggy, and while descending the steep
hill leading from their home to the
creek the backing straps broke, allow
ing the buggy to run forward on the
horses's heels. This heightened the
horse and he started at mad run
down the hill One of the wheels
struck some rocks at the side OF the
road, overturned the buggy, complete
ly wrecking it, and throwing out the
occupants with great violence. All
three ladies' we're more or less cut and
bruised about the boiy and head and
1t is feared that Miss Pearl Henry Is
hurt internally At all events she was
the most severely injured.
The young ladies were taken home
and medical aid summoned. Consid-
ering the nature of the accident they
were fortunate in not being worse in
jgred.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14
RESTAURANT IN TROUBLE
Proprietor Fined $50 for Selling Beer
Without City License and Bunch
Held for Court.

X. Karoplesities, proprietor OF the
Greek restaurant on North Queen
street was arrested Saturday after
noon for selling beer without city
license. Two police officers went into
the restaurant and called for beer
and two bottles were furnished them.
The Breek's arrest followed Police
Judge Letter imposed a fine of $50
and costs for violation of the city or
dinance, which was paid.
Some time afterwards the state
took hold OF the matter. search war
rant was sworn out by Constable Wolf
and he found lot OF beer and empty
beer bottles in the room back of the
restaurant. Karoplesities and his
three Greek assistants in the restaur-
ant were then placed under arrest for
violating the state law and taken be-
fore Justice Felker. The proprietor
was held for a hearing Wednesday
in the sum of 5000 bond and the three
other men in 800 bond, each. which
they furnished. :.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14
WEST yIRGINIANS LUCKY
Two chairmanships and Good Com
rnittee Berths Are Distribut-
ed to Then,

Washington, d. c., Aug. 9.-Thanks
to West Virginia. wisdom in keeping
good men In congress. SIZE drew two
chairmanships in the distribution OF
house committees by Speaker Cannon.
Mr.. Gaines remains chairman OF the
election of president AMI on the ways
and means.
Mr.. Stureiss goes off revision OF
law, but gets printing, equally as
good. He remains on elections and
merchant marine. ssx1yu;
NJ. Hubbard retains lss place on
the committee on interstate commerce
and Gaines gets a place on the expen-
ditures OF the depa tmant Of Justice,
clear promotion.
Congressman Hughes sticks to the
census committee, high up. and has
the craftsmanship of accounts.
woodward drew three gifts, rivers
and harbors, militia and postoffice ex-
penditures. He really fired best OF
all for young member. All five
West virginians are pleased.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14
DATES OF FAIRS
IN WEST VIRGINIA
The State and County Fairs viii All
Be Held in August and
September.

August marks the beginning OF fair
time in West Virginia. All the fairs
are given during the months Of August
and September. The flgst to occur
are those at Pennsboro and Parkers.
burg. The latter will be the second
fair given by the Parkersburg Fair AS
ISOLATION, which was only lately organ
lied The West Virginia fairs and
their dates are as follows
State fair. Wheeling, September 6.
Z. s, . and 10.
Inwood, Berkeley county, September
Ia to IL.
Morgan's Grove. Shepherdstown.
September to 10.
Fairmont, at Falrmont, September
IA, Is, l6. and II.
Chrksburg. at ClarlSsburg, Septem-
Der 81, %, % and "a.
Morgantown. at Morgantown, Sep.
tember 2s, 20 and 80.
Richie County, P~nnsboro, August
Ia, is. l9 and 20.
parkersburg. at parkersburg, Au-
gust i6 to 20.
Clarksburg, Gold track, Clarlxsburg,
August 80 to September :.
Middlebourne. at Middlebourne. Au-
gust 10 to 49,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14
BENZ. 7. BUSEy DEAD
Was One of the Oldest and Best Re-
spected Citizens of Bunker Hill
Community.

Mr. BENZ. I. Rusey, residing three
miles west OF Bunker Hill. died Sum
day morning at o'clock OF the In.
firmities of old age after an illness OF
five days. He was aged 81 years. 5
months and days. He is survived
by nine children: Miss Blanche and
Durwood. at home; Henry, Gerrards-
town; Martin, in Indiana; Rev. 3. I.
s., Roanoke. Va: Charles and Mrs
Charles Weller Martinsburg: Mrs.
Henry Tablep, near Berkeley station:
OK grand children and six greatgrand-
children: also one sister, Mrs. Jane
TIenshaw. of Antlco. Wis. who Is the
last survivor OF the Busey family
Mr.. Busey was born at Bunker HIN.
but raised in Jefferson county. He
married Miss Rachel s. Pitzer, or
Berkeley county, July 10 1S49. She
died six years ago He was a farmer
by occupation but had lived retired
for number of years. He was q
member OF. the Methodist church and
was very highly respected In the COM
munlty for his upright character.
The funeral will be held Wednesday
morning at ten o'clock in the NJ. ~
church at Bunker Hill; meet at the
house at 9 a. N. Interment in Elm
wood cemetery at Shepherdstown.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14
GETS $4,000
President Irvine Lands BIG Gift for
Mercersburg Aoademy's Propos-
ed 100000 Building.

A gift of $4,000 toward the new
gymnasium of Mercersburg Academy
has been announced by DR.. William
Mann Irvine, president of the institu.
ton. The name of the doner is at
present being withheld. This gen.
erous gift assures the immediate cree
ton of the splendid gymnasium that
has long been the greatest need OF
Mercersburg. The building. which
supplants the cage now being used as
gymnasium, will cast 100000 and
will be one Of the handsomest of its
kind in America. The alumni of the
academy have subscribed about $780,
900 for this purpose. and numerous
subscriptions from other sources are
being received.
Mercersburg recently made re-
markable record in scholarship. The
candidates for the Princeton English
examinations, numbering thirty-three
passed without a condition. Last
year, with about the same number Of
boys, an average of 80 Per cent. was
attained; and in the Correl examina-
tons, with ten boys, 100 per cent.
was made. Several other depart
ments at Mercersburg made almost
as good a record in the college en-
trance examinations this year.