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The Elbert County tribune., 1909-02-11
Welfare Of Nation at stake.


warn my countrymen that the great
recent progress made In city life IL not
full measure OF our civilization; for our
civilization rests on the whoesomeness.
the attractveness. and the completeness,
well as the prosperity. OF life In the
country The men and women on the
farms stand for what is fundamentally
best and most needed In our American
life. Upon the development OF country
lift rests ultimately our ability. by meth
DDS OF farming requiring the highest in
telligence. to continue to feed and clothe
the hungry. nations: to supply the city
with fresh, blood. clean bodies. and clear
brains that can endure the terrific strain
OF modern life: we need the development
of men In the open country. who will be
in the future. as in the past. the stay
and strength of the nation In time OF
war. and It's guiding and controlling spir-
IL In time OF peace
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The White House. February o. 1900
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-02-11
Work to Help the Farmers.

The commission has tried to help tire
fsrmers to see clearly their own prob
lem and to @see II as whole. to disfin-
guish clearly. between what the govern
ment can do and what the farmers must
do for Themselves; and II wishes 10 bring
not only the farmers. but the nation as
a whole. TO realize that the growing of
crops. though an essential part is only
a part of country life. Crop growing is
the essential foundation. but II Is no
le-s essential that the farmer shall get
adequate return for what he grows.
and 1t is no less essential--indeed. II is
literally vital-that he and his wife and
his children shall lead the right kind
of life.
For this reason. It is OF the first i'm
portance that the United States depart
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
PUSHING WORK AT
LUMBER PLANTS.

From a Bristol exchange:
According TO the news received
IN Bristol the Honaker Lumber
Company is rapidly going for
ward with its extensive opera
tions in Russell county, Vir-
giLia, at and near Honaker.
The company is erecting three
modern band saw mills for the
dev, lopment of a half million
dollar tract of timber land. and
has let the contract to S. Wal
ton Construction Company for
the construction of a line OF
railroad twenty odd miles in
length.
Mr.. A p. Perley, who is well
known in Bristol, is at the head
of the company, which is com
posed of wealthy Pittsburg
lumberman. The new Industry
will give employment to some
five hundred men.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
DEVELOP
MENT.

The Coal Land Development
in The Consolidation Coal Co.
is progressing with it's plans for
the proposed development of
30 1000 acres of coal lands near
Paintsyille, Ky IL will expend
about SO ,OO0.OO for its initial
mining plant, including two
power plants of GOO kilowatts
capacity, standard guage rail
roads steel bridge over Big
Sandy river 400 feet long with
concrete piers and other facili-
ties.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
NEW USE FOR
COKE CINDERS.

A Bluefield exchange gives
the following: Another use
has been found for coke cinders.
Col. James r. Jones has solved
the problem Of how TO dispose
of the daily accumulation Of
this refuse. He has tried sue.
cessfully the experiment of
making a large brick from coke
cinders mixed with cement,
and with the product has con.
structed large stable. This
building Is seventy five by one
hundred and fifty feet and Two
and a half stories high. 1t con.
contains stalls for one hundred
and eight mules and storage for
twenty-five 60 thirty car loads
of feed IL has every con
venience for handling the feed
and caring for the stock. Three
cars Of feed can be unloaded at
one time, and there are con.
veniences at hand making il
possible for one maa 70 do the
work that formerly required
five.
Col Jones has also built a
number Of dwellings, for his
miners out Of the sam e
material, and it is said these
houses are superior TO those
built of lumber, being cooler in
summer and warmer in winter.
They are also very substantial
and from appearances look as
though they would stand as
long as the coal deposits viii
last, and that's "a long time
The buildings are rooted with
iron, and she entire structure is
so near perfection in the fire
proof line that insurance is no
longer a necessity. o { IA q T
operators are interested IN the
matter and there is little doubt
but that there will be much
building in which the cokeblock
viii be used.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
545 MAJORITY
FOR JONESVILLE.

Jonesville. Va, Nov. A.
tuesdays election was one of
unusual interest 90 the people
of Lee county, because of the
fact that the question of the
removal of the courthouse from
Jonesville, which has been the
county seat since the founda-
tion of the county in 1898, to
Pennington Gap, was voted on.
An unusually heavy vote was
polled, and the question was
decided in favor of the court
house remaining at Jonesville
by a majority of 545. The fight
has been on for more than a
year, and the campaign during
the last few weeks grew heated,
but the election went off quietly
at every precinct.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
SCIENTIFIC FARMING
PAYS.

From the Times Dispatch we
learn that the value of corn
raised in Virginia in 1905 was
$50. 900. 600, whereas in 1900 il
was only $3,000,00O, and the in
teresting part of il is that the
acreage in 1905 was less than
1900, the increasein value being
due to more intelligent methods
and cultivation. This proves
that scientific farming pays
and wherever We find farm
that is worked from scientific
standpoint, there We are sure to
find the best results.
The application of natures
laws to the planting and grow
ing of corn, and any crop, ia
fact, is what constitutes scien-
tific farming. There is moth
ing mysterious about it. Our
farmers are beginning to recog-
nize this, and the favorable re-
suits above referred to are not
at all surprising. Buchanan
News.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
HELLO. KNOXVILLE" "
SAYS BIG STONE
GAP.

Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. A.
Big Stone Gap, Va, and the
people OF the vast section of
coal fields i'm that vicinity are
now in telephone communica-
tion with the outside world. 4
telephone line between that
point and Knoxville was formal
ly placed in operation by the
Cumberland Telephone & Tels-
graph Company last night. A
committee of citizens Of Big
Stone Gap exchanged greetings
with a committee Of citizens at
this point at O'Clock.
The installation of the new
line is a great convenience 10
the people of Big Stone Gap and
the residents of that section.
Heretofore no established COM
munication with the outside
world has been IN existence and
the new line Will mean much 20
the business men Of that sec
tion.
big Stone Gap now has tele-
phone connection with practi
cally the entire country. The
service between northern and
southern points is exceedingly
good.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
Improving Property

Official announcement has
been made by the Tennessee
Coal, Iron & Railway Co., Bir-
mingham, that they will begin
at once TO make improvements
to their properties amounting to
between four and five millions
OF dollars. They viii construct
an immense dam on Village
Greek near Ensley, together
with a suitable pumping sta
tion and reservoir; also that
they will at once begin the con-
struction of a battery of new
coke ovens at Wylam which
will cost So, 900, 900.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
Furnaces In Blast,

Thirty out of forty six fur
naces in and around Birming-
ham are now in operation. This
is the largest number of iron
makers IN blast since the earlier
part of 1907. Five more fur
naces are nearing readiness in
Alabama right now and will
probably be In blast before the
end of the month. There is "a
demand for all the iron that is
being manufactured in that
state, a level Of $500 per ton,
No . foundry having been
reached. Two of the furnaces
IN blast are producing charcoal
iron for which there is strong
demand at S21.O0 per ton, car
wheel plants in The South buy
ing the greater part of it.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
PUBLIC DRINKING CUP
DANGER.
Movement 10 Abolish Them Rapidly
Gaining fiesdwsy.

The question of supplying in
dividual drinking cups in public
places is receiving a good deal
of consideration from medical
men at present. In this con-
n tiOn the international
Journal of Surgery says:
1T is said that at one of our
colleges, in 1907, the gradual
ing class of eighty young ladies
at final gathering all drank
from one loving cup; among
them was a girl who had re-
Gently had diphtheria. Reports
are said TO show that after the
young ladies had gone TO their
homes a large number of them
were affected with some sort of
throat trouble.
"As a result of drinking from
the chained cup in a large n "
York department. store last
winter, severoI clerks were in
oculated, and - is said that the
store has now installed small
automatic vendors of individual
paper paraffine cups.
Realizing the danger in the
use of the public drinking cup,
the management of the Norfolk
q Western Railway Company
has recently installed ia each
of it's coaches employed IN it's
service devices from which in
dividual drinking cups may be
secured by all passengers on
the penny-in-the-slot plan. -
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
FURNACES START AT
ROANOKE.

The Roanoke World says that
the Virginia Iron, Coal and
Coke Company, of that city,
formerly of Bristol, has started
two of its furnaces, which has
been idle since the panic. 1t
says:
The blowing ia of two new
furnaces by the Virginia Iron,
Coal and Coke Company, one
at Radford and the other at
Roanoke, means an increased
output of the company's coal
operation at Toms Greek from
which the coke company supply
is derived.
The furnaces which have
been started have been out of
blast since the panic, but in
or e d business activity
warrants a resumption. Several
ovens at Toms Greek which
nave been idle for a long slime
are being charged.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
BUILDING OVENS
In KENTUCKY.

Announcement is made that
the Big Sandy Company, which
owns 10000 acres of coal land
in Pike county. Ky, through
which a branch of the Chesa-
peake < Ohio runs, is planning
90 establish a number of extra
coke ovens IN that district.
Already the MarrowbOne Coal
& Coke Co., a subsidiary, has
constructed a battery Of ovens.
Another company, the ElkhOrn
Coal q Coke Co.. is expected to
have a number of others COM
pleted by the end of the year.
To open this territory the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
constructed the Big Sandy
branch two years ago at an
expense of nearly $4,000, 900.
The Carolina, Clinchfield and
Ohio is now extending its line
TO meet the Chesapeake and
Ohio SO as to invade the terri
tory.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
CORN is KING.
Americas Crop This Year Of Greater
vaIae Than Wheat AID costoa
combiue5.

American farmers are about
to husk and put into their
greinaries 81, 5000, 600 900 worth
Of corn. While not the very
biggest, this is among the ban
ner crops ever grown. Corn is
distinctly American. Wheat
aud rye grow all around the
world above and below the
equ6tor AS long ago as
Joseph's day ia ancient Egypt
wheat cut an important figure
in mans destiny.
But corn is modern so far as
the white man knows Of il and
it Is American. With the
potato aud tobacco it Is one Of
cur debts 70 the Indians.
True, some maize" is culti-
waited in other lands, but no
where else except perhaps in
Argentine does it constitute an
important part OF any country's
agricultural product.
Pile ali the cotton and wheat
ia one grand heap and they
Will only equal the value of our
corn. AS il requires less than
100 days to plant. grow and
mature this crop, it wiz be seen
that since May lst last, each
day has contributed about Sl0,-
600, 900 70 the production of
wealth that never existed be-
fore.
The Indian can afford 20 have
his head taken from the Ameri-
can cent. lie has given his
name 90 the worlds premier
harvest and 90 this cOuntrv's
source of great wealth.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
GREAT EDUCATIONAL
MEETING In RICH
M0ND.

The Virginia Educational
Conference will meet in Rich
monn Nov. 1926. The confer
ence is composed Of the State
Teachers Association, School
Superintendents, School Trus
tees, and representatives from
Citizens Leagues.
IL is expected that between
two and three thousand persons
will attend this meeting. The
railroads viii give reduced
rates.
Among the eminent persons
who Will deliver addresses are:
Gov. Claude A. Swanson, Dr.
Chas. w. Kent, of the Univer-
sity Of Virginia; Hon. Richard
r. Byrd, John Stewart Bryan,
Of Richmond: Senator Aubrey
<. STROBE. Dr Chas. w. Dabney,
president of the University Of
Cincinnati; State Superinten-
dent Jos. ID. Eggleson, Jr., and
Prof. J. S. Wilson, Of the Col
lege of William and Mary; also
Senator Z. p. Gore, Of Okla
homa
The Richmond committee is
making elaborate arrangements
for the entertainment of the
visitors. Delegates from the
Teachers Associations and
Citizens Leagues will be enter
tanned free. Other visitors. and
there Will be hundreds. may
obtain entertainment az very
reasonable rates in the various
hotels aud boarding houses of
the city. A. III. Fitzgerald. of
jefferson School, Richmone. is
chairman of the Committee on
Entertainment.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
A. DREW J0HNSON'S
OLD SHEARS.

ID. v. Cash brought TO the
Comet Office this week a pair Of
shears with which Andrew
Johnson, the great cOmmoner,
learned his trade as a tailor,
while working for Alexandria
February, the father af Mrs.
Cash The shears have been in
use in he Cash home for thirty
eight years and are much worn,
but show they were made of
Of fine steel.-Johnson City
Comet.
DR. w +. Edmonds, Of Gate
City, has a pair of tailor's
shears, with which Andrew
Johnson worked at Greeneville.
They were the property OF Maj
A. r. Edmonds, the Doctors
father, who worked with John
son. These shears are over
fifteen inches long and weigh
a little over three pounds. They
cost Major Edmonds ten dol
lars, and are made of the finest
steel They will cut anything
from the finest tissue paper to
sheet iron or tin. Or. Edmonds
values them very highly.
Major Edmonds was a great
admiTer 90 Andrew Johnson
and related many incidents Of
his life. He said Johnson,
while working at the tailor's
trade, would keep an open book
before him and glance at it as
he worked assiduously making
clothes. In this way be reflect
ed over what he read and fixed
II firmly in his mind.
The shop in which they work b
"a still stands and has become
one of the most noted buildings
ia the United States. il be-
longs, we believe, TO a histcri-
cal society.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
A FR0HMAN SONG hit.

The musical success of the
season Is Charles FrOhman's
presentation of "Tne Dollar
Princess at the KDickerbocker
Theatre on Broadway, New
York.
With its usual enterprise the
New York Sunday World has
arranged 70 present one of the
'sDollar Princess song hits.
words and music complete.
with next Sundays issue. The
following week a song from
- Algeria" by Victor Herbert
and Glen Marlborough, will be
given.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
AMERICAS CHEAPEST
HORSE POWER.

The problem of low cost horse
power has ever been an inter
esting study to the engineer
and the manufacturer. NUM-
cipaltles and private individuals
have expended immense sums in
the building Of dams and the
piping of natural gas, each
vieing with the other TO at
tract the manufacturer by their
minimum cost of horse power.
Big Stone Gap, Va, will be
in position TO offer to the manu-
featuring world the very cheap
est power to be obtained within
a very short while. The KEY
to the situation is coke oven
gas, a hitherto waste product
Of no value. Those who have
been through the coke fields by
night will recall the batteries
Of the torching ovens and can
full we'll understand the
immense amount Of gas that
escapes.
A short while ago a progres
sive coke operator in Wise
county connected by a fiue 80
ovens and conducted this gas to
his boilers, four in a number, Of
three hundred horse power
each, and from this gas as fuel
he is suppling power 20 run two
three hundred k. w. dynamos,
eleven hundred ampiers. and a
large compressor as well, at a
cost which is slightly less than
three mills per X. w. hour.
This is on a small developement
Of one thousand horse power.
So satisfactory is this installa-
ton that he is now laying cop
per wire TO the next plant which
he will supply with electric
current.
Big Stone Gap is in Wise
county and is the actual hub of
the coal fields. There is within
a comparative short radius
Of the town $500 coke
ovens, therefore the pro-
moters of this enterprise are
justified in seeing an immense
development in the future. Big
Stone Gap has three railroads
which allows shipments TO the
South and West and with this
remarkable cheap power will
rank with any of the southern
cities as manufacturing cen
ter. To those who wish to
know more about this new fuel
and its wonderfully cheap pric-
ed horse power. can obtain more
complete data by writing the
Secretary Of the Board of Trade
# Big Stone Gap.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
MRS. JOHN FOX. JR.,
CANCELS ENGAGEMENTS.

Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 6.-A
severe attack of tonsolitis,
brought on By singing Friday
night, despite the advice of her
physician. to day caused FRITZ
Scheh, (Mrs. John Fox, Jr. , to
cancel her engagements for
next week in Nashville and
Memphis. Miss Scheff, who is
playing the ''Prima Donna"
has been suffering with a cold
for several days.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-11-10
n. d W. SEPTEMBER
EARNINGS.

Roanoke, Va, Nov. 3.-The
gross receipts of the Norfolk
and Western for September are
SO, ,l7S,oO0, the heaviest Of any
month in history of che road.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1909-06-24

lowe, Wallace. George f. Mar
lowe, secretary; Office. Wallace,
Idaho.
Temple Mining Company-elec-
ton September %, 1908. Direct
ors: John Stambaugh, Bonnell
McKelvey, Youngstown, O.; David
Gross, Pearl Gross. Walter H. Han
son. Geo. T. Edmiston, and
Herman ]. Rossi. Wallace. Pearl
Gross, secretary and treasurer; Office.
Samuels Hotel, Wallace.
Transcontinental Silver 4 Copper
Mining Company-election October
2, 1908. Directors: Frank Hutch
inns, George E. Marlowe, w. w.
Bixby, Jasper H. boomer, Fred
Stroh, Wallace; A.J.Cullier, Butte.
G. G. Dolman, secretary; Office,
Butte Mont.
Trapper Mining Company-elec-
ton February Is, 1908. Directors:
Herman ]. Rossi, H. E. Howes,
Thomas McGown, G. H. Jackson,
E. ]. Hunter, Wallace; A. G.
Roberts, Blackfoot, Idaho; G. F.
Burr, Gencse, Idaho. Jackson &
Hunter, managers; office. Wallace.
Tam O'Shanter Mining Company.
Limited-election April II, 1909.
Directors. John H. Wourms, Ed.
Eiseman, Wallace; D. G. Coates.
Spokane; P. j. Dills, New York;
Chas. Gamble, Osborne, Ida. D.
C.Coates, secretary, Spokane, Wash.
Wonder Of Pine Creek Mining
and Milling Company-elec
May II, 1909. Directors: Robert
W. Hunt, E. s. Tucker, Edward
T. Hunt, Leroy Tucker and E. S.
Tucker, Kingston, Ida. Edward
T. Hunt, secretary, Kingston, Ida.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1909-06-24

Silver Rock Mining Company
incorporated March Is, 1909. d.
rectors: V.E.Waltman. Harrison;
T. F. Reid, Kingston; Geo. Austin.
Geo. F. Stoney. ]. D. Caughell,
Wallace. Geo.F. Stoney secretary,
$40 Bank St.. Wallace.
Sister Mining and Milling Com.
pany-election June 2, 1908. Di.
rectors: Frank P. Maxwell, E.
H. Pattison. Otto A. OLSON, Wal
lace; Charles v. Genoway, Spo.
kane; and James A. Perkins, Col
fax, Wash. E. H. Pattison, secre'
tary and treasurer; Office Postohict
building. Wallace.
Snow Cliff Mining Company
election April 10, 1909. Directors
James A. Wayne, H. G. Topping,
F. w. Roach, VIM. Wider, G. A,
Burke, Wallace; P. NJ. Shaeffer'
Post Falls, Idaho. James A.Wayne
president; office. Court House.
Snowstorm Mining Company
election July %, 1908. Directors;
T. L. Greenough. A. G. CLANCY,
Missoula. Mont; T. L. Greenough,
Jr., Larson; W. D. Greenough,
Spokane; ]. Howard. Arizona;
P. ]. Kline. Helena. Mont; and
James Bean. Mullan. 7. Leo
Greenough, Jr., manager. Office,
Larson. Idaho.
Swastika Copper Mining Com
pany-election January /, 1909.
Directors: T. M. Marlowe, Miss
oula, Mont; J. w. Mcdonald,
Superior, Mont; George E. Mar
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1909-06-24

Pittsburg Lead Mining Company
election July 30. 1908. Direct
ora: Henry 8. Collins. Julian
Kennedy, J. Fred Byers. 8. Sever
ance. G. B. Obey, R. c. Patterson
Ralph Longenecker. Pittsburg, Pa.
Christopher Murphy. Chicago; ant
B. r. O'Neil, Wallace. Henry L
Collins, president; Offices. 607 Der
ger building, Pittsburg, Pa.
Rainbow Mining 4 Milling Com
pany- election January /, 1909
Directors: Herman J, Rossi, Hen
~ c. Adami, George E. Marlowe
&c. F. 0. Merriam, Wallace; ant
John D. Caugl,ell, Waupaca, Wis
George E. Marlowe, secretary, Wal
lace. Idaho.
Rob Roy Mining Company-elec
ton January 81, 1909. Directors
Samuel D. Mcdonald, Hugh Toole
B. R. Creedon, Dan McInnis .anc
Otto A. OLSON, Wallace. B. r
Creedon, secretary; Office, Wallace
Idaho.
Rockford Mining c ompany-elec
ton January %, 1909. Directors
John Furst, John Pearson, Walter
H. Hanson, Charles G. Anderson
Wallace; John Carlson, Gem. Wal
ter H. Hanson, secretary; office,
Wallace, Idaho.
Sailor Mining Company election
August 3, 1908. Directors: My.
ron Topliff. ]. H. Williams, H. c.
Topping, Sam G. Brown, Wallace;
and Fred Hensalt, Missoula, Mont.
H. G. Topping, secretary, Toplifl
block, Wallace.