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Mohave County miner., 1909-01-23
Heinze Fails to Secure Ores of the
 Silver KIng.

Just as the remodeled Milford, Utah, shelter of F. Augustus Heinze's new ], l,O0O,O corporation, the Miners omelting company of Portland, Me-, is about to begin operations, the plans of the company have received some thing of a setback in the refusal of the Silver King Coalition Mines con- pany to turn over its ores to the Heinze company. Word from Salt Lake is to the effect that attorneys for the new smelling company have made demands on the Silver King for its ores, and that the latter has fatly refused to comply.
 Several weeks ago Mir. HeiDze and associates secured a five-years' lease on the shelter at Milford of the Ma jestic Mining company, and since that time 2O,0OOS has been expended on the purchase of supplies and materials for repairing the plant. A force of men is now at work giving the plant its initial tryOut. The Milford plant is the first unit of the Heinze smelling enterprise, the capacity of which is said to be about 25O tons daily.
 Heinze claims to have q contract for lhe purchase and treatment of all the product of the King Coalition mines for period of 10 years. It was se- cured, it is said, in consideration of his purchase of a block of stock at the time the company settled its big suit with James McGregor, and for which the money was needed. It now seems certain that the matter will be fought out in the courts. It was the intention of Heinze to treat the Silver King ore in the Shelter at Milford
 The Miners Smelling company filed copies of its articles of incorporation with the secretary of the state of Utah several days ago. James B. Summer field is president of the company, and George Baglin, secretary. Colin Me Intosh has been designated as the com pany's agent at Salt Lake. Mir. Me IntOsh is quoted in the Salt Lake dis patches as saying that the shelter will be put in operation soon, whether the ores from the Silver King Coalition are treated there or not.-Denver Mining Record.
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-23

be carried on more rapidly and at cheaper mining cost. Installation
 work is now well under way. This machinery will be installed on the Lillian claim. on which a tunnel l,070 feet long has already been driven. The face of this tunnel is now under the Buzzard Shadow claim, which has pro- duced gold ore valued at 50,000S to the ton. The tunnel will be driven an- other 200 feet, at which point sinking will be commenced. When the tunnel reaches this point depth of more than 300 feet will have been attained.
 In driving this tunnel a number of small veins have been croSs-cut which gave excellent gold values. The com pany is now confining all work to this one claim. which will enable them to secure more permanent results at cheaper cost than under the old sys- tenn of working in various places.
 Both Mir. Webster and President A. L. Work are most enthusiastic over the future of the ompany.-Copper Era.
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-23
Surprises in Prospect.

On January 9th there was deposited in the First National Bank of Tomb stone I,OOOS to the credit of William Cowan and the Stevenson brothers. The money was placed to their account by the Calumet & Arizona Mining com pany, and was for the purpose of mak- ing the second payment on the Ger mania and No. mining claims in the Turquois district, that are now being worked under bond by the c. x A. company. The claims in question were bonded by the C. & A. company in the month of April of last year, the bond to run for a period of F months for 65, ,OOOS. At the time of the signing of the papers the company paid down 10
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-23

cents in December, the average price being B cents. The year closed with New York prices at 50 cents. How ever the purchases by India during past years have been large and have steadily increased. and there is no req son to expect sudden falling off in this market. The extraordinarily heavy production of the Cobalt dis trict in Canada, which for 1908 may approximate l7,000,000 ounces, un- doubtedly contributed to the depress- ion in the price of silver. A great re- duction in the output of silver in the United States was clearly foreshaG- owed in the figures of the Geological Survey for the mine production in 1907, which amounted 10 only 52,500, l04 fine ounces, whereas the refineries and the hints reported 66,5l4, 700 fine ounces. The shortage in the mine output for the last months of 1907 was naturally reflected in the refinery returns for l9JS, and was accentuated by still further reduction in the production of the mines. The Director of the Mint estimates the production of silver in 1908 from domestic sources at 5l, T9S,- 053 fine ounces.
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-23
Inspiration Deal Closed.

A Globe dispatch says: The special meeting of the stockholders of the Inspiration mining company to ratify the option contract for the sale of the company's mines in this district to Wm. B. Thompson of New York and Geo. E. Gum of Salt Lake City, was held yesterday forenoon at the office of the company in Globe. President E. A. HOsier, General Manager J. D. Coplen and Geo. R. Hill, a stockholder and attorney for the company, and several of the largest local stOckhold- CTS were present. Over ?, 2,26O, 900 shares of the }. 2.700.000 shares outstanding were voted to ratify the contract, and no op- position whatever was offered to the consummation of the deal, the details of which have already been published.
 At the conclusion of the meeting the result of the vote was telegraphed to w. M. Thompson and E.. T. Wilder, secretary and treasurer of the com pany, in New York. Mir. Thompson immediately deposited to the order of the company 24O, O,3OGs (having previ- ously paid 9,7OOS) and received 25,OOO shares of the common stock and 75,00O shares of the preferred stock of the Inspiration company.
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-23
Stockholders Annual Meeting.

Notice is hereby given that the an- nual meeting of the stockholders ef the Arizona Mexican Mining x Smelt- ing Company will be held at the par Tor of the Commercial Hotel, in the town of Kingman, Arizona, on Tues day, February 2d, 1909, (the first Tues day in said month"; at the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon, for the cleo tion of officers for the ensuing year and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
 H. K. HARTZELL. President.
 H. Fl. GODSHALL. Secretary.
 First insertion Jan. l6-Jan. 30
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-23
A Prehistoric Arrastra.

There was placed on exhibition at the San Diego Chamber of Mines the first of last week, a prehistoric gold mill, and our readers may be sure it is a curiosity worth seeing. It was found on the property of the Cleveland-Pa- cific Mining Company, at Escondido, which, by the way, was an old aban- doned Mexican mine when first dis covered by the Americans. There is no record or tradition as to when the Mexicans worked it. But the present relic shows that the mine was rich enough that it paid to mill the ore with this small, crude stone ore crush CT. This arrastra is made from a rough block of granite about two and half feet wide, three feet long and a foot thick. The basin is a foot in di- ameter, about eight inches deep, with raised center in which is drill hole to receive the center post. In the days of its usefulness an Indian doubtless furnished the motive power. What the capacity of this mill" was, would probably be an uncertain guess with a modern mining engineer, but suffice it to say that it couldn't handle low g ade ore at a profit, if the price of la- bOr was ever so low, but it evidently did do business on what is now the Cleveland Pacific.-San Diego News.
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-23

James w. Webster, superintendent of the New York-Arizona Gold and Cop per company, visited Clifton this week on business connected with the con- pany. MT. Webster has been associat- ed with the company almost ever since its organization, and has seen it de- velop from a small concern to one of the most promising companies of the Morenci district. He reports that the company is now in a most fourishing condition, and is of the opinion that the close of this year will find the New YOrk-Arizona company among the gold producers of this section. The con- pany has decided to install a 15-horse power gasoline engine and air drills,
 in order that development work may
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-23

A special to the Mining Record from Georgetown, Colo. says: The Siga- foos boring machine which is being in- stalled at the Georgetown tunnel will probably be ready to put into commits sion the first of the coming week. A big force of men is being employed placing the equipment in position. Electricians will make the connection this week. The transmission line has been run from the American Sisters plant and no delay will be experienced in getting the real tests under way. It is expected that a number of eastern stockholders and an array of mining men from various sections of the state will be present to witness the tests, and to that end a reception room has been constructed by the American Ro- tary Tunnel Machine company for their entertainment. Owing to the fact that the present tunnel is not large enough to permit of the entrance of the machine, it has been decided to start new one directly alongside of the old one.
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-23
The Tempe Normal School of Arizona.

The second term of the school year of the Tempe Normal School will be- gin Monday, January p. While stu dents are admitted for special work at all times, they will find it greatly to their advantage to enter as near the beginning of a term as possible. New classes are then organized in several subjects and the adjustment of a course can be more satisfactorily made.
 Teachers who complete a term of teaching during the winter months frequently find it desirable to enter the Normal to prepare themselves for the June examination, or for the purpose of pursuing studies along pedagogical lines for professional improvement.
 Catalogues containing full informa- tion relating to course of study, class work, etc., will be forwarded upon ap- plication.
 Address all inquiries relating to en- trance, classification, dormitory ac- commodations, expenses, etc., to A. J. Matthews, Tempe, Arizona.
Mohave County miner., 1909-01-23
Gold and Silver Mining m the United
 States in 1908.

According to a special press bulletin prepared by Waldemar Lindgren, of the United States Geological Survey, the gold mining industry of the United States has successful and prosperous year 1908, in spite of many adverse conditions of trade and finance. Fun damentally, this prosperity is due to the fixed price and apparently limit less demand for the product. The im- mediate causes operating to increase the output were in part the removal of certain abnormal features tending to depress the production in 1907, such as the partial closing of the Homestake mine in the Black Hills of South Da- kota and the labor difficultles- in the Mother Lode counties of California. To some degree the increased produc- tion of gold is also indirectly due to the closing of many mines in the base metal camps. A tendency toward in- creased production by small operators wGs noted as early as the last months of 1907 and continued through 1908. Large numbers of miners left the dis trict in which the output of lead, cop per and zinc was curtailed and began placer work or took up leases in gold mining camps.
 The Director of the Mint estimated fh ha rNpalr,atfnv, ,F IOl9 domestic sources at 96,3l3, ,2565, against 90, 435, ZOOS in 1907. South Dakota, Alaska, California, and Colorado show large estimated increases, ranging from 2,OOO.OOOS to 3,OOO,OO The es- inmates for Utah indicate a decrease of about l,2OO, ,OOOS: for Nevada de- crease of 3,3OO, ,OOO$. The production of Montana, Arizona, Idaho, Oregon, and other silver-producing states has remained approximately stationary. The production from the Philippine Islands shows a gratifying increase, the estimate of the Mint being 306, TOSS against 7S, ZOOS in 1907. As part of the Philippine gold does not reach the United States hints the showing is probably even better than these figures would indicate. Most of the gold was recovered by quartz mining in Ben guet and by dredging operations in Paracale.
 The depression in the base-metal in- dustries did not affect the gold pro- duction to any considerable degree, for the total base e-metal ores contribute only 9 to 10 per cent of the normal output of gold for the country. The gold from copper ores suffered little reduction, but the small amounts con- tributed from lead and zinc ores were much reduced.
 The silver mining industry presents a far less satisfactory condition than that of gold, owing to the low prices for silver, lead, copper and zinc. Dur ing the year the large smelters of Utah and Colorado were partly closed and partly operated on a reduced ca pacity. Important mines in Leadville, Aspen, Creede, and Park City. Colo, which were operating on low-grade ores, found it very difficult to make profits on ore of the same grades that yielded well in 1906 and 1907. and were therefore compelled to reduce their output or to close. Owing to tempor- ary lack of demand from India the sil- yer market declined almost continu- ously from about 56 cents per ounce in the early part of the year to about IS
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08
MRS. PARKINS A MACHINIST
Helps Her Husband in Shop at Dick
ey' in Calhoun County. They
Have Handsome Home.

the article in The Telegraph of
last Monday morning with the emf
ana story of the only woman founder
ana machinist in the country was
called by citizen of Macon. TIE
article gave the name and home of
the supposed to be only woman
founder and machinist of this conn
try 1t went on to tell what kind of
work she did, and how she did It.
She was named as Mrs. J. H. Peters
OF Rice Lake, Wis, and given the
honor by the dispatch writer's as be-
ing the only woman in America wEfo
could take the place of a man in
the foundry
rms article was seen and read by
a citizen of Macon, and he thought
IL was wrong, as he knew of a similar
character living in Georgia who was
DONG the same kind of work. In
Vestigations proved that he was
right, as the lady in Georgia doing
the machinist work is Mrs. e. P,
Park1ns of Dickey, in Calhoun coun-
ty.
This machine shop is operated by
Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Parkins, Mrs.
Parkins doing her share of the work.
1t is a pattern shop, machine shop.
and foundry, and is equipped with
lathes, planes, shapers, grinding ma.
chfnery and a fully equipped black
smith shop. Mrs. Parkins makes
moulds and patterns, and into these
lshe pours the molten metal. She
fires up the boiler in the absence OF
Mr.. Parkins, and repairs any Job such
as boring engine cylinders, cuttina
keys, etc.
The work done by this lady is fully
equal to that of any machinist in thu
state, although she has to leave on
some of lne very heavy work.
While not at work in their shoI
the Parkins are busy in one of thu
most up-to-date homes in that sec
ton of the country. Macon Tele
graph.
Mr. Parkins' father, the late w. Fl
Parkins, was the architect who drew
the plans for the Terrell county cour
house and the First Baptist churcl
OF Dawson, two of the handsomes
buildings Of their kind in Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08
CHILDREN VS.. LAP DOGS
FAMILY OF SEVEN LITTLE ONES
DENOUNCED AS NUISANCE.
Court to Decide If Many Youngsters
Are Legally a Public Pest to
Rest of NeighbOrhoOd.

EAST ORANGE, N. J.-Whether
family of seven young children con-
stitute a public nuisance or not will
be settled when the suit brought by
their neighbors against Mr.. and Mrs.
John Van Allen Murray of East Or
ange is heard in Trenton. The
neighbors say the children adopted
by Mr.. and Mrs. Murray are noisy;
that their clamor is annoying, and
that efforts to amuse them with the
graphophone add to the nuisance.
Mrs. Murray, who, with her hus-
band, lives at SO Warrington place,
in the exclusive section of East Or
ange, contend that large family is
not nuisance, but a pleasure, and
that the laugh of children at play
is music to her, while the cry of a
child rends her heart-strings.
Il don't know one of my neigh
bors," said Mrs. Murray. Il have
heard what they say, but l don't
care. l don't play bridge, 1 don't
, care for the things that society care
for, and we have nothing in common.
These children are mine have
adopted them. They are not a nul-
sance. These people about me can
not understand why myself and my
husband have taken up this work.
We have done so because we believe
we are doing right. These children,
with one exception, have come from
founding asylums.
"All Of them are in bed every
night by o'clock. We play the
graphophone, but the selections are
all classical. The records are of Ca
russo, Melba, Sembrich, Farrar and
others. Our children of school age
go to school, and Augusta, our maid,
and the governess of the little ones
teach them German"
Mr.. Murray arrived at this juno
ton with three children.
Nonsense; the babies are not nui-
sances," he declared. How can
they be? Why, as we came along the
street six puppies on a porch down
there were keeping up an incessant
barking, and graphophone was
grinding out a lot of cheap music
Across the street is piano that
sometimes is pounded until l a. m,
and the worst of it is the person
can't play"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08
WILL APPLY "SNAKE TEST "
"COlOnels" Would Revive Time
When There Was Not a Head
acne in a Barrel"

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-In an endeav-
or, it is thought, to bring back the
good old days when there was not
a headache in a barrel" of the Ken
lucky brand the state board of health
will, it is reported, be requested to
order the application of the deli
rum tremens" test to every barrel of
whisky in Louisville and Jefferson
county.
Recently two able-bodied Kentuck-
ians have died seeing things in the
county Jail, and the same phenome-
non has transpired once at the city
hospital. That such a state of adult
mortality should be due to impure
whisky in Louisville is remarked
upon greatly here.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08
COL. BoYNToN's GOOD LUCK.
Found a Pearl Worth $1,000, and
Mining Stock Scars, Too.

MINING SCOck scars, 100.
The many friends of Colonel J. l..
Boynton of Calhoun county will read
with interest the following from the
Edison News:
Hon. J. L. Boynton returned this
week from an extended stay recuper-
ating at Rhea Springs, Tenn, where
he happened to the good luck of
finding beautiful pearl said by ex-
perts to be worth over 81, 900. But
this was not all, for during his visit
there he was surprised to learn that
stock in a Mexican gold mine, of
which he held $4,000 stock pur-
chased a few days before he left
home for 1925, was worth par; in
fact, he was offered above par for it.
His hundreds of friends in this sec
ton congratulate him upon his un-
usual good luck; yea, we are doubly
proud of the fact that our county
claims possibly the first citizen who
ever recuperated at a summer re-
sort and on returning home did not
have to recuperate a pocket book. "
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08
Fatal PeIIagra, Unknown Years
Ago, Is Now Plentiful.
DOCTORS ARE SEEKING FACTS

Mallady Due to Moldy Corn, IT'S
Said, and First Appeared in the
South in an Italian Colony in Mis-
sissippi. United States Hospital
Service Has Sent Out Great Deal
OF Information About 1t. Mis-
taken For Eczema.
MERIDIAN, Miss.-The physicians
have started a movement to bring
before the medical profession in ev-
cry county of the state the fact that
pellagra, the fatal disease supposed
to be due to eating musty or moldy
corn, prevails in Mississippi and
seems to be increasing.
Their purpose is to discover the
supposed hidden cases of pellagra,
probably under treatment as eczema
and other maladies, to collect as
many facts about it-and particular
ly its originals is possible, and by
concerted action to get from the
state legislature a law in regard to
the inspection of all grain shipped
INTO the states, if investigation shows
the correctness of the Italian theory
mat pellagra is due to corn fungus.
Marine Hospital Busy.
= The United States Marine Hospital
service has already taken up the
matter and has sent out great deal
VI information about pellagra. This
naS caused no little alarm and 1t is
probable that many cases of false
PeHagra will be reported. 1t is
feared, too, that the general state
ment that eating moldy or musty
Cofn IS the cause of the disease will
Work harm.
IN the form of cornmeal or grits
VI 1ominy corn is much more used
~ the south than in any other part
VI VI the country, and is the staple ar
ucle OF diet for the great majority
VI the population. Moreover, be-
cause of the boil weevil the south
t@SeStern states are planting more corn
'uis Year than ever.
9 Meridian is one of the best points
ION which to start the movement,
aor 1t was there that the first definite
Ease of pellagra was traced in the
+ouIh Then, too, Meridian has
ueated more cases of pellagra than
my other city. Twenty-one cases
lave been brought to its hospital
rom rom the neighboring county. OF the
P@uents nine have died and one has
zen discharged as cured, while elev-
III sun remain in the hospital.
Came With Italians.
u is noted that pellagra appeared
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08

of them, aged A, died before the doc
tor could get there, while the other
lived few days. On the other hand,
Mrs. Pace, who died in January,
1900, aged SO, had been suffering
for 22 years with what are now
known as the symptoms of pellagra,
including the eruption on the hands
and face, erythema, etc. Why this
difference in the duration of the dis
ease no one can explain.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-08
A BAD PAROLED CONVICT.
People Urge Governor Brown to Have
Him Taken in CHARGE.

One of Governor Smiths paroled
convlcts' a white man, is creating all
KINDS OF trouble in his county. His
name is Ashley McDuffy. Governor
6roWn has received a telegram from
u L. Mcleod, mayor Pineview. Nc
DuHys former place of residence.
asking that he be put under snrveiI,
lance at once.
Cltizens of the county, according
10 the mayors telegram, say that
something must be done with the
man at once for the safety and good
name of the county.