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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-03-06

To the copper industry OF the Unit
ed States the year 1908 was a period of
gradual recovery from the severe de-
preston suffered in the last part IF
1907. Many producers who had
greatly curtailed or eve suspended
production in that year began again to
increase output practically at the open
ing of 1908, and in spite of the low
price of the metal nearly all the i'm
portant producers of 1907 were N
operation throughout most of l9oS,
and a few new companies began pro-
duction during the year. The rate of
production has been steadily increasing
and is now greater than at any other
time in the history of the industry.
The production of copper in l9Os
has been a~scertained by l.. c.. Grafton,
of the United States Geological Sur
vey. through personal interviews. and
Geographic communication during the
last days of the year. Except one
small company all producers OF blister
and Lake copper have furnished their
latest exact figures, most of them for
eleven months, together with estimates
of their production for the remainder
of the year. If these estimates are
realized the production of blister and
Lake copper in 1908 from ores mined
in the United States will be greater by
about 5O,OO0,OOO pounds, or between
5 and 6 per cent, thar that IN 1907,
which was s6S 1896 91 pounds. 1t Is
impossible at this time to publish re-
liable figures showing state produe-
ton, but concerning the three great
copper-producing states it may be said
that Arizona and Montana show large
gains and Michigan shows little change
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-03-06
COPPER PRODUCTION MADE
HEAVY INCREASE in 1908

from 1907. The production of total
refined new copper by works in this
country can not yet be given, but
probably it will hardly equal the out
put of 1907, which was 1882, 516,241
pounds.
Estimates based on records of the
months of 1905 show that the imports
of copper in pigs, bars, etc., during the
wear were about 100000, 900 poun,s
and that those of ore and matte were
about $4,000, 900 pounds. With addi-
ton for copper in pyrite, not included
above, the total imports may be esti-
mated as equivalent to about 21o,-
900, 900 pounds of refined copper, a de-
crease of about 13 per cent from
23S,031, 1920 pounds in 1907. On a sim
liar basis the exports of metallic copper
are estimated at about go ,00J
pounds, the largest ever recorded, anu
an increase of about 80 per cent over
the sos 1924 0 pounds exported u
1907.
Stocks of refined copper are still un
doubtedly very large. Domestic con
sumption of new copper Will show
decline from the 4S5, 100000 pounds OF
1907. The average quoted price g
I, elcetrolytic copper at New York TO
1908 was 1920 cents. The price at thu
close of the year was AIS cents.
The prospect is bright at presen
for a still larger copper production 1
the year 1909, but it is evident that tn
principal producers will, more than !
recent years, gage their operations D,
the consumption of the metal, While
can not at this time be safely fore
cast.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-03-06

A prominent mining capitalist who
represents investments in mining en-
terprises running high into the millions
says to the Boston News Bureau:
"In my opinion, Thomas F. Cole and
John d. Ryan have plans in view which
will result in time in an amalgamation
Of mining and smelling companies pat
termed after the United States Steel
corporation"
There is probably no industry in the
United States which is more suscepti-
bic to consolidation than that of cop
per mines, for a copper mine cannot be
built as can a large manufacturing
plant, and a control of IS per cent Of
the output could dominate the situa-
ton.
The Cole Ryan-Amalgamated inter
csts now control through their own com
panies about 400, OOO,O 900 pounds of cop
per per annum, or one-third of the pres
ent production in the United States,
Mexico and Canada.
There are four large copper produe.
ing interests in the country, as follows:
Annual Output.
Producer Pounds.
Amalgamated = .--.-~----2lO,O0O,0oj
Cole-Ryan mines .-.-----175,OOo,0oo
Phelps, Dodge & ,OOO,O0o
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-03-06

in this company's property and an i'm
mense amount of prospecting is being
done. Long crosscuts are being sent
out in virgin ground and every effort
is being made to find ore bodies other
than those upon which work is now go
ing on. The formation being cut is
very favorable and gives every promise
of yielding good results. The regular
amount of ore was extracted from the
Slopes on the different levels, the ship
ments for the week amounting to 100
tons, which were sent to the Belmoat
mill for treatment.
Jim Butler.
The usual work continues in the
slopes from the 100 and 200-foot level
and intermediate level between the
200 and 300-foct level, and the regular
amount of ore extracted and sent 10
the Belmont mill, the week s shipments
amounting to 800 tons. In all the
workings the veins maintain their
strength and value, showing strong
faces of ore. Richard G.. Park, presi-
dent of the company, is now in Tono-
pah and will spend several days in
looking over the property. 1t is quite
probable that a plan of development
will be laid out and active work started
along that line in the near future, as
the company has a very large acreage
of ground which remains to be pros
pected. The property is well situated,
sidelining the holdings of the Tonopah
Mining and West End Consolidated
companies on the south for practically
their fun lengths, Two Shaf.s
been sent down to good depths and
strong bodies of ore have been en-
countered on the various levels frcm
both shafts.
West End Consolidated.
Never in the history of the mine has
the underground workings of the prop
erty looked better than they do now,
and the extensive work being done IS
fast proving the value of the ground.
Vast lodges of quartz traverse the
~company's territory and good ore bodies
are being opened up on the $50, 200
and 400-foot levels by drifts and
raises. The slopes on the body OF ore
encountered some time ago while sinN-
ing No. 2 shaft continue to produce i
good tonnage of shipping grade ore,
with plenty more in sight, besides ex-
posing a large amount of second grade
ore which is left standing in the mine
pending better milling facilities. Dur
ing the past week 200 tons OF ore were
shipped to the mill, carrying values IN
excess of the usual milling grade.
150-foot level-Stoping continues
above this level on the ledge near the
MacNamara line, the vein showing a
width of from 3 to 4 feet, and carrying
very good values.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-03-06
POINTERS ON
MINING

Do YOU wish to sell your mining prop
ertv or do YOU wish to buy9 In either
ease see us. We can sell you some OF
the best developed and undeveiopsi
properties in the district at a bargain.
Write for particulars and terms.
FIDELITY TRUST Co,
40 Columbia st.
In business here since 1904.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-03-06
COLE-RYAN INTERESTS MAY
CONTROL THE COPPER OUTPUT

In addition to the above, various
mines which sell their output through
the United Metals Selling company rep
resent an annual production of about
200,000,OOO pounds of copper, which
production is more or less under dicta-
ton of the Amalgamated interests, SO
that it is safe to say that the Cole
Ryan people, in utilization with the
Amalgamated people, control 100000
900 pounds of refined copper output
per annum
The Amalgamated interest are in
close relationship with Phelps, Dodge
G. Co., The balance of the copper pro-
duction of the country is controlled di-
rect, and through selling agents by the
Calumet & Hecla, with 100000
pounds; the Guggenheims, with 125,
O0O, 900 pounds; l.. Vogelstein q Co.,
with 125,OOO, 600 pounds, and the Amer
lean Metal company, with about a like
amount, and this accounts for the total
production on the American continent.
The Cole-Ryan interests are gradual
ly expanding in the mining and smelt-
ing field. They now plan to curtail the
expansion of the Guggenheims in cop
per by the formation of a rival smelt-
ing combination.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-03-06
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CONSOLIDATED DIVIDEND
ASSURES NEVADA'S FUTURE

One million and eighty thousand dollars is a huge heap of money.
1t amounts tt tons of gold and to carloads of silver, While even IN hun
ared4dolar greenbacks it would be a pretty heavy load to pack, says
the Tonopah Sun.
This is the amount of money to be paid to shareholders IN Tn
Goldfed Consolidated Mines company, tn first II what are PROMISED
as regular quarterly dividends, amounting to $4,32oOOO a year.
Even after the first dividend is paid there will remain a million
dollars in cash in the treasury of the company and this u is being
added to rapidly as the new three quarter of a million dollar mill Is
now completed and in operation, while the old mill is continuing to make
n record for itself and the trlbuters arc adding materially to the fat
ness of the treasury through royalties.
The declaration of this dividend will be assurance to n world
that southern Nevada has just begun to produce, despite Its spiendd
record ever ince the discovery of Tonopah, nearly ten years ago.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-03-06
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Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12

first six months Of 1908 81, 100000 pounds of freight and sent to
stations along that line $1,000, 900 pounds of freight, collecting from
the shippers who forwarded, or those who received the freight, in all
$3S3,55b in charges. The expense Of carrying an article from the
place where it is to the place where it is wanted must always be
added to the cost. whether in it's raw or finished state, and the con-
sumers and producers along this line paid a sum equal to $2S per
capita for every man, woman and child living within thirty miles of
Mr.. Hills railroad in six months.
South Dakota farmers paid last year $4,641 900 freight charges
on their surplus grain-on the wheat, oats, corn and barley sent to
the primary markets of Duluth, Minneapolis, Sioux City and Omaha,
AS the tendency of western grain is to move to the gulf instead of to
the Atlantic seaboard, the South Dakota farmer is led to contemplate
the saving which would be possible to the individual and to the state
could this grain move to New Orleans by boat. Water rates are so
low as compared to railroad rates in South Dakota that it is not un-
reasonable to suppose that the state could save an amount each year
in transportation charges on the surplus grain to pay for the i'm
provement OF some forty miles of the Missouri river at $4,000 per
mile, If the SAG miles of the river flowing across the state was made
a safe stream for boats and bages capable of carrying grain to the
sea and bringing supplies to the farms.
AS d new line of railroad stretched across a new country means
a ribbon Of civilization twenty to thirty miles in width and an in
crease in the taxable value of the property along the line averaging
$65, 900 per mile. it is pointed out that the wealth and population
which would follow the opening of the Missouri river would mean no
less than $97, 500 900 added to the taxable value of property in North
and South Dakota and Montana. .
Referring to such organizations as the National River and Har-
bors Congress, the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterways association
and the Missouri River Navigation Congress. President Taft said in
an interview given to the writer on his campaign train last fall:
Such associations as these r. of the utmost benefit, because
they subject all legislative action in this matter to the closest scru-
tiny and will not permit the temporary fears and shortsighted poln-
ical considerations of the members OF either legislative body to inter
fee with. the rapid construction of these needed improvements by
methods of real economy
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12
what the missouri River Navigation Congress Wants.

CONTINUED from Page One)
Iowa.
Ignite coal can be bought now for from 80 cents to $3.50 per
ton at the pit. An idea of the present cost of transportation may be
gained from the experience of the Fargo Edison Electric Light COM
pany. This industry uses Ignite slack from a big mine, and the
transportation charges to Fargo, ZIG miles, is $176 per ton. Paying
such a transportation charge and 100 for the coal makes the Ignite
a more expensive fuel than eastern bituminous Goals, which costs SO
at the furnace. But with a fiat rate of 81 per ton for from 500 to
1000 miles down the river, Ignite at from $1S5 to 81 per ton in
Omaha or Kansas City will save factories and heating plants from
25 to AS per cent on their fuel bills In a gas producer it will save
more than this.
The greatest waterway in the United States, and by far the great
est waterway in the world, is composed of the Great Lakes. Up>to
the close of 1907 our government had expended on the harbors and
connecting channels of these lakes $S5,OOOO0O in round numbers.
During the season of 1907 there passed through the 500 canal S.
217,2l4 tons of freight which was carried an average distance Of S2S
miles at a cost of $S, 57,345, making an average cost of s mills
(eight-tenths OF / MILD per ton per mile. If this freight had been
carried by rail at the average railroad rate of rs mills per ton per
mile it would have cost $377,O9O7O That is to say, the saving
through decreased cost of transportation on the business OF a single
lake for a single year amounts to $33S. 100000, or nearly four times
the amount expended by the government n all the lakes since their
improvement began.
Carry this tonnage al equal distance, S3 miles. at the rate ship
3s3.542; carry it the same distance at the South Dakota rate and the
instead of $685. Asst ,S45, which was the cost on the Great Lakes. 1t
is all a question of elementary mathematics, but it means millions
The Great Northern railway reports that along it's line from Pa
chc Junction to old Fort Bulford, Montana, a large part of which is
parallel to the Missouri river. it received for shipment during the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12

the desired variety. The number of rings
purchased rarely varies, Each head Of
the family knows to a horse just how
many animals his family can turn out, and
then begins the work OF saving the
blocks up. As the little crude blocks are
apportioned out through the family the
winters campaign begins, and from then
until winter breaks up and 1t is time to
resume the tilling Of the little garden
patch there is never a pause in the work
of filling the arks that await their occu-
pants,
Almost the same routine Is followed
out I'm the manufacture of toy furniture.
The home workers either pattern the
whole piece of furniture themselves, or
else buy them from the wood turner's, and
in an amazing short space Of time they
have their humble little homes filled with
all the little accessories of a first-class
doll house. dear to the heart of every
little girl in the world. no matter what
her nationality might be,
Perhaps the most interesting class Of
toymakers are those who manufacture
that style of animal of the furry or
fleecy tribe For instance, there are hun
dreds of families on New York's east
side who manufacture thousands OF toy
sheep each year. These are covered with
fleece. II are pressed, Every part of
the work Is done at home. The fleece is
bleached and carded at home and then
glued to the little wooden frames. that
also are turned out In the tenements.
The same applies TO the Teddy Bears,
although the latter became such a craze
that factories devoted exclusively to their
manufacture sprang up all over the coun-
try. One woman who had been left with
several children to support following her
husbands death found that all she had
left from the wreck was $1,000 in the
form of life insurance. This she used In
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12

this industry, In many aspects this sec
ton Of Saxony closely resembles the Cats
kin mountains of the United States, where
little isolated villages dot the hills and
valleys, with their few dwellings scattered
about at rare intervals. In summer these
mountain dwellers cultivate their little
farms and garden patches, but in winter
they all devote their entire time to toy
making, working far into the night at the
fireside OF their little huts.
Year after year these ~mountaincers work
at the same task, making the same style
of toys, making the same number each
year, and all is done in such a monoton-
ously systematic manner as would drive
the average American to the verge of
despair. They never tire of their task,
seemingly, and always work long and
hard in the summer months to provide
food and clothing to carry them through
the winter. so that their toy making can
SO on uninterruptedly.
Thus they work the winter through, by
their combined efforts turning out little
arks and their inmates TO a great num-
Der. II might seem, however, that even
with their combined efforts, every mem
Der OF the family faithfully doing his OF
her part, that their output would be linn
tied. since there is 50 much cutting, carv-
ing and c~oloring 10 be done upon even the
toughest and orudest OF the little toys,
yet they manage to accomplish a surpris-
Ing amount OF work and reap a rich re-
ward, according to the wage standard OF
their respective countries.
II might be interesting to follow the ef-
forts of one OF these families In the man
ufacture Of animals from the tree TO the
ark. The head OF the family, and skilled
In hat sort OF work, takes a small block
OF wood cut out, not lengthwise. but across
the grain. and upon one end OF this block
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12

of expert mechanics, who become so pro-
ficient in their task that the amount of
waste in enthusiastically small. They must
be expert workmen for the reason that
the main portion of the result of this
work can only be seen when it nears COM
pletion. 1t is not until the block is cut
apart that the turner can discover an
error, II one has been made. II such is
the case, he must throw away the entire
block, and this would entail a waste,
which, TO the stolld Teuton mind, would
be little short of sinful. They must turn
away the wood not only from the outer
side of the various animals they are
fashloning. but from the inner sides as
well, and they must do this in such a man
ner as not only to produce a lifelike
shape when the ring is cut, but so as
TO avoid leaving some parts Of the body
too thick and others too thin.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12

he draws the profile outline of, say a
horse. Then with a scroll saw he saws
away from the block down through the
entire length, all the wood outside the
lines as drawn on the end of 1t for a guide.
Now he has the block Of wood in the rough
outline of a horse, but very thick and able
bodied.
Then from this block he splits off, down
through 1t and with the grain. as many
sections as the block will permit, three or
four, and maybe half a dozen, each one
of these being a complete horse in outline,
a little horse in blank. These crude little
horses are then turned over to other mem
bers Of the family and each is fashioned
into its finished form. In this way 1t can
be seen that much labor is saved at the
start, but there is another way Of prepar-
ing the material and this is a more adj
vanced method.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12

Ing thousands of dollars for toys for his
offspring at Christmas.
Proprietors of the more pretentious toy
emporiums nowadays assert that it does
not pay them to handle any toy that re-
tails for less than IS, They claim that
the cheaper grade of toys are sold ex-
clusiyely by the little dealers and the
street takers. and for this reason they
cleaned out their stock and cater to only
those who can afford to purchase toys of
merit. This may be true, for the street
faker reaps his harvest every Christmas,
and many OF the little toys they sell are
quite as interesting and afford even more
genuine amusement to the children of the
poorer classes than do the eXorbitantly
expensive devices that find their way into
the homes of their more fortunate little
cousins.
Dolls, and not mechanical dolls at that
are sold as fast as they can be manu-
featured, at prices ranging from 30 cents
for those OF the china varieties TO nun
dreds of dollars, where faces are OF the
finest grade OF French china, hand-painted
and supplied with wardrobes hat Would
dazzle a child of the tenement districts
one well-known firm In New YORK en-
ploys fifty or sixty seamstresses an the
year round. who do nothing else but make
dolls clothes. All the little frills and
furbelows. exquisite lingerie and gowns
that bear the marks of the latest Partisan
modes are turned out fromNthis workroom
each day, and aside from this they con-
stantly receive orders for a complete
change OF costumes from their little Gus
toners. who watch the change of styles
and desire TO have their dolls always ar
rayed In the very latest styles.
santa Claus Is compelled TO invest bill
lions each year now for his stock Of
TOYS. and the end is not in sight. for
young America is annually becoming more
captious and more exacting in the Sc
lection OF his %playthings.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12
Animal ~speciaIties.

All mechanics engaged In turning out
the top animals make a speciality OF some
particular animal. and for years he works
only on that especial pattern. Men who
have been turning out horses for, per-
haps, twenty-five years could not pattern
a COW II their lives were at stake. one
mar spends his life In turning out horse
rings, another COW rings and so on
through the entire menagerie, no one
mar deVoting his time to more than one
pattern. Seemingly, they never tire OF
their work, have no desire 10 branch out
In other work. and they are apparently
perfectly satisfied II the fruits OF this
years labor compare fayOrably with that
OF the last.
When a family OF animal workers settles
down to It's winters work II purchases
from these turner's so many COW rings,
SO many horse rings, so many Of camels,
lions. bears, tigers, etc, until they have