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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-18

ing only what is here proposed and not
further attempting physical impossible
ties with small success and great cost,
the squatters remaining in quiet posses
sion free of rent; or (2) abandon the
river entirely. This latter would mean
It's destruction in two or three years.
The hard bottoms (shell ''rocks'') would
all be stolen for building up private
bottoms.
Two Dollars For One.
The Commission of Fisheries does not
feel warranted for lack of sane lines in
continuing to waste time in this little
hotbed when other parts deserve more
attention; nor can it continue to advise
the State to spend 50 for the collection
of 81, when financial conditions could be
easily reversed and the natural area en-
larged through the display of little
firmness.
Who Opposes This2
The encroaching planter, who has pre-
empted valuable bottoms without a cent
of rental. and further uses these to steal
from the natural rock in the summer
time. He is first.
Next is the tonger, misled by sensa-
tionalists as to the true purport of this
BILL He is told it is the beginning of
the end'' of a sentimental heritage. In
truth it is the salvation and restoration
of his natural seed beds.
Members of my commission fought
for the tongers' preserves before some
of our present critics had dropped swad-
ding clothes. The commission is abso-
lutely opposed to abridgement of the
public domain where it restricts the
rights of the public tonger one iota. We
should be accorded sincerity in this and
not spitted by gallery-players. We feel
1t our duty to bring the situation before
the Legislature, as we did two years
ago, notwithstanding hints at political
suicide. Tidewater members of this
commission have as much at stake as
any of their detractors, and are willing
to abide the verdict ofthe future as to
the wisdom of their advised policies.
w. MCDONALD LEE,
Commissioner of Fisheries.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-18

Not long ago some assumed scientist
wrote that sharks would not eat human
beings. A gruesome refutation of this
comes last week. A revenue cutter
towed into Hampton Roads a three
mast schooner that capsized some weeks
ago of Cape Hatteras. When found,
the vessel was alive with sharks, one
OF them eating human body. Nine
men, all OF the crew, were lost in the
wreck.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-18

lor Survey, and to give to the Commits
sion of Fisheries authority to proceed to
re-establish and permanently mark the
present Baylor line throughout the
entire State. All this is distinctly to
the advantage of the tonger and what
ne is constantly crying for.
Had the bill of two years ago become
law. the Virginia seed problem would
have been advanced two years, and the
State saved at least $40, 900. This would
have stopped much agitation, and all
would have become convinced it was a
wise policy.
NOW, what is the proposition? Simply
TO restore the Baylor lines, not on origi-
nal untenable bases, but upon firm
stations, marked and guarded by watch
houses on pilings (see heavy black lines,
which does not throw out a foot of
ground the tonger can now work uponl. .
This policy of watchhouses is success
fuiiy pursued by holders of lawful plant
ing grounds to protect their private
oyster beds. Instead of forty lines and
angles in fathomless, trackless waters.
we would reduce it to six straight lines.
AtA, b, Cand d would be warehouses
on shallow spots of three to ten feet of
water. Instead of requiring fourth of
the navy and fourth of our annual ex-
penditures upon this small field. there
would be placed in each watchhouse two
police, with rifles and gasolene launch.
Ihe four watchhouses would command
the entire situation, and cover the six
boundary lines. The cost would be less
enan half what it now is, the collections
Oh revenue about doubled, more service
aoie ground wrenched from sauatters
than will be omitted by the drawing in
OF the boundaries, and the "bad egg
Kept back on easily determined lines.
ana when apprehended, officials can
swear IN court as to the lines, which
they cannot now do. evidence for con-
viction OF violators being hard to secure.
requiring the constant presence of nanv
boats and police.
hestOre depleted Bottoms.
The State will be relieved of tho -.
terminable strife over this mite of q
held (one-twelfth only of the entire
oyster lands) and the officials allowed
time and money to cultivate, reseed and
propagate.
Results would be, to the toneer. to
n
restore the depleted bottoms within the
proposed lines and give him 5000 or
10000 acres of profitable ground wbaro
now ne has less than 5. 900 to work unon
and while doing this. the State will
derive several thousand dollars more
from the rental of depleted area around
the "gullies. " A study of the physical
map must convince unbiased minds of
our contention.
| Inc State made a great mistake in
ever renting any of the grounds above
the seed line, but citizens are there
under 2O-year leases, and no court
would throw them out. Therefore we
cannot encroach upon private leased
grounds in order to straighten the lines
1t isa condition. truly, and not theory
that confronts us.
Should the Legislature fail to give
the relief asked for in the Byrd Wick.
ham bill. one of only two things remains
to be done by the oyster officials. and
that, pretty quickly, as the ..aeonv'
should not be prolonged: % Establish
the warehouses as here proposed. polio.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-18

w. mcdonald Lee, Commissioner of
Fisheries, presents the following paper.
explaining the chart printed on this
page, and setting out the plans of the
commission. Mr.. Lee says:
The chart shows all the oyster grounds
within Warwick county, above and
below the seed line, approximately
$4,000 of the $4,000 acres in James
River, of which the seed Tor small oys-
teri territory is about $1,000 acres.
of the total area of Is, 600 acres here
shown only about 5000 is prolific (as
shown In solid black and cross check).
or this 5000, large portion is now un-
lawfully held by planters, with no rea-
sonable method presenting itself to
oust them. Much of the black and
checked lines represent these private
oyster beds. showing oysters upon them.
This depredating class are squatters
and poachers upon the public domain.
The outer lines Tin dashes) show the
enclosure of the Baylor Survey, outside
of.which the ground is lawfully leased To
planters. The inshore or upper Baylor
boundary, is some sixteen miles long.
while the lower is twenty miles. The
width is between one and four miles.
Not stake or mark or vestige of the
Baylor line is in existence, nor has it
been since shortly after it was run.
Some of these forty corners and courses
(zig-zag) are in $50 feet of water.
Few or none are within moderate depths,
and these, when bouyed or marked, are
removed or cut off before morning bv
marauders in this trackless waste of
waters.
The Argument.
The United States navy could not
entirely prevent encroachment here.
largely because the mythical boundary
cannotbe well established or maintained.
1t is a physical impossibility, and
yearly the State is throwing away
thousands of dollars trying this with
only meagre results. 1t costs $40. 900
annually in actual cash to police 5000
acres, from which not "a, 900 are deriv-
ed in revenue. Oyster officials do not
care to recommend further waste of
money when happier condition for all
but the encroaching planters can be
secured cheaper and easier. A sickly
sentiment in such case would advise
the farmer to let his tumbled fences
remain in the gulleys and the CRITTERS
have full sway, rather than reestab-
lish them on firm ground because he is
being deprived of a few feet of heri-
tage that the public already has unlaw-
full use of.
The famous Warwick cases that our
predecessors struggled with and left
for our heritage, still unsettled, can be
settled in no better way than the one
proposed under the Byrd -Wickham bill.
Thousands of dollars have been spent
in these cases, and still the private
stakes creep out on the fertile rock.
Three suits alone cost the State 81, OOO
Byrd -Wickham Bill.
Speaker Byrd and Senator Wickhan
have modified the bill to conform to the
Board of Fisheries bill, which two year.
ago passed the Senate unanimously anc
failed in the House "a to "a. in tn.
closing days by an appeal to a misguided
sentiment. Nothing else in the State i.
attempted under the bill, except t.
restore to the tonger some valuabl,
rocks which were omitted from the Raw
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-18
COMMISSION OF FISHERIES EXPLAIN
PURPOSE OF BYRD-WICKFIAM BILL.
WILL RESTORE DEPLETED BEDS.
Ancient Lines Have Disappeared and Oyster Nav
cannot Police States Property Pirates Thrive
Since 1t is Impossible to Convict Them.
From Richmond Times-Dispatch,

Proposed Baylor Lines show in broken black lines
proposed New Lines show in solid black lines
Encroachment on public bottoms show in dotted lines
Bisbee daily review., 1910-05-29
INJURIES PROVE FATAL.

GLOBE May 2s.-Fred Fslk died at the Arizona Commercial hospital at Copper Hill about 9:2o last night How he lived so long after the terri ble injuries he suffered in the eS plosion in the Williams shaft of th
 company al Copper Hill. early Mon day morning, was nothing short of marvellous. Since the accident it was known that Fall could no, survive his injuries. With his body fairly at any time. With his body fairly riddled by the rocks that struck him his face mangled beyond description and both eyes torn from his head he lay in darkness for forty hours awaiting for the end retaining con sciousness almost to the last At al
 times. till shortly before the end came. he was able to talk with hi i friends. though suffering from
 wounds that perhaps would hay
 caused almost instant death to ; man Of less extraordinary strength
Bisbee daily review., 1910-05-29
THE ALTAR DISTRICT

The principal placer fields of the Altar section of Sonora. Mexico. are:
 San Perfecto. forty miles west Of Caborea;
 Las Norias. thirty-fiye miles west Of Caborca
 Las Palomas, forty miles southwest Of Caborca;
 ouitobac. 100 miles northwest of Cahorca;
 sontoya. l5o miles northwest Of Ca borca
 Las Cieneguilla. eighteen miles of Boiudo:
 Besides these. there are number of smaller placer fields. as. for in stance. San Rafael Sanrn Rosa. Osura. Hornitos. and others These last named are sixty miles northwest Of cabo-ca-
 The placers Of the Altar section have been known and worked for over 200 years. and in some parts of the field the country is literally covered with old workings Timothy W. Sprague is said to have tested the Quitobac placers. and reported that they would run g. to B.. Mexican eur. rency. per yard and to average 2o feet thick At Las Cienguilla there are some springs and the remains of very old town, which was formerly headquarters for the district instead Of Altar. the present logical site. The placers are often marked by dykes and i red iron stains.
 The principal work now being car ried ou in tho placer field is at Boludo where the Quinner machine is operat ling. The Boludo placers exteld fo
 three miles. and the best ore vii run one 10 TWO ounces of gold per ion
 This district has been producing sine 1901. and is said 70 have an output O lover ST .000, 900 gold.
 It is not hard to acquire place i ground in the Altar field, for there i much good ground which has not bee yet taken up. The difficulty and e,
 pense lies in properly testing th ground to determine the values. aL , then conducting the operations in
 coDservative and business-like maI
 ner. If one thinks he can go tO thi dry country and make fortune pal
 ming gold. he is very much mistal
 en. for the Mexicaus and Yaqui l.
 dians have tried this for 2e0 year
 without success. It is only when tl placer ground is mined and milled e a proper scale that enough values ai !. extracted to make 1t pay. At Boludo. a shaft is sunk lS0 fe to bedrock. aud mining Is carried C
 just as in any large tow grade min
 No timbering is necessary, as q
 walls stand. and pillars are left to su
 port the roof. Six feet or more Of tl 'd placer material is mined. dependiI al on the values. If a rich layer. cs.ll' it blanket. is found above the lay ri which carries most of the values. tI & also is mined. No assaying is doi . but the ground is tested by dry p n ming. either in ihe hand or by usi of the ordinary gold pans. The roc as Of the district which l found in pla ve. in the surrounding hills are grani iy with orthociasr feldspar and gran ly with sanidine feldspar. basalt. mi m schist. and limestone. There are, D ou haps. some more varieties. but mo Id of them would be included under the rs general heads. The co1glomera ,n which carries the gold. is composed al clay. sand and larger pieces Of sso nd ranging in size to that of boulde nj The cementing material. lime. b'r 'fn the particles together so strongly q " it requires considerable power to s aTate them. It is necessary 10 crI th lthis very fine ia order to free
Bisbee daily review., 1910-05-29

Tn the sad straits into which the Republican party has fallen, the oniv hope of rescare appears 10 be in tho African hunter. 4
Bisbee daily review., 1910-05-29

gold. The gold is in the free state and in large flakes. and is, therefore. more easily saved in the dry washers than if it were very fine
 Ore. e.treament--The cement. or con glomerate. is first mined by drilling with hand steel aad blasting down. it is then hoisted Co the surface, and put through the Quinner machine and crushed 10 mesh. It then goes over the dry washer. and the gold is taken from it and banned down to sep arate any sand that may be mixed with it. This is done by dry banning. and the gold l. then ready for ship ment. The black sand is also saved and treated by barrel amalsansation. about 200 pounds Of this sand is put ia the barrel The barrel revolves for two hours and the contents are then fed over plates. using a spray to wash away all but the gold, which further amalgama;es on the plates. About 2 per cent of the gold is recovered on The plates.
 Placer ys. vein mining. min
 ing is often surer than vein mining, and not so expensive to equip. You can often equip for placer mining with s4O0. where it would take 10000 to
 start a quartz property. The freight
 is more expensive in a quartz property and you are subiect tO more delays With a placer proposition you may be
 gin to extract values al oace, and you
 kuow every day how you are coming out. as far as expenses and profits are concerned
 ] In the Altar field much ground is being taken up. but as it takes from ! six months to a year 70 get tite. the camp is not so active as it may be lat CT. Some Portland. Oregon. people have had a mal testing the Las Pa lomas fields for some four months and they are said to average from ai
 cents (gold) to s. and SS per cubi' iyard. The late F. II. Hartman. witi iCoI. Epes Randolph. of the So1tac
 Pacific. brought in 100 stamps 'ne ac
 up fifty of them at Roludo to tre@t a placer ground. but they are now use' by the Llano Consolidated 10 crusl the ore from the Bay6 de Orc mine The cost of mining and treating ih congIomerate is s150 per ton gold } and it win run an average ofthah a ounce of gold per ton. Mitt Quinne made $130 gold per day working O
 ground averaging $3.50 per ton an { paid 27 per cent royalty besides 'h l working cost.
 .. The amalgamating barrel is a ba e amalgamator The capaetity of tn ; dry washers is twenty-four tons in te e hours: 1900 pounds of black sand g treated per day. and and 100 tons d ore give seventy pounds of black sar' r The black sand runs from 10 to s ounces gold per ton
 n The dry washers.-They are operate 2 by hand and consist of balance whe s On one side with an iron hand e oa the other. like those used for e ordinary rope windlass. Around q
Bisbee daily review., 1910-05-29

The dry washers-Theya are operated by hand and consist of balance wheel On one side with an iron handle oa the other. like those used for an ordinary rope windlass. Around the balance wheel is a belt. which turns a small wheel set on a togle shaft. which. in turning. operates the bellows under the machine. which blows the finer and lighter barren particles away. There is 8 feed box into which the material to be concentrated IS poured. IL feeds gradually on to the the rifles. and is forced along by the iqelination of the rifle plane and the current of air forced up from below by the bellows. The rifle plane is covered with canvas to retard ths sliding og the material
La Junta tribune., 1910-03-12
L. Junta Sand Rsersscissa.

Our La Junta Silver Cornet Band
met for practice last Tuesday night
and was reorEaniEed for the coming
season. II. ~. wacaser vas elected
leader. and A. n. wieneke general
manager. The general manager b
very much enthused over the pros.
pect for this summer. and says that
the Indications are that La Junta
will have the best band this year II
ever had. There are eighteen me@-
bers =, the present time. With five
~rne,s. The boys viii commence
sivinx their regular weekly coacerts
in the near future. The band yin
meet for practice In the city council
room next "Wednesday night and al
band men In the city are invited to
be present.
La Junta tribune., 1910-03-12
e.-...r s..s,1 a.l.. c.r..
The rlr.. National BaaG proposes

The First National Bank proposes
to interest and encourage the far
merx Of the Arkansas Valley in grow
ing corn. Last year officers Of the
bank visited the great corn show in
Chicago. where $50 classes OF the
best corn the world has produced
were exhibited and hundreds II the
best corn growers In the United
States competed for prizes. also the
county fairs In Illinois and the Illinois
State Fair and the seed corn estah-
lishmcnts where corn h bred. new
varieties produced and corn developed
TO the highest perfection.
Corn viii ny in the Arkansas Val.
ley and should be one. Of the staple
crops. Corn was grown In this val.
ley flfty years aso. A good farmer
can grow fifty bushels per acre. .
first class. scsentific farmer can grow
sevensy-five bushels ptr acre. There
Is but one crop that win pay bsttef
and that 10 sugar beets; but the tar
mer cannot grow all bis land to sugar
beetx. This climate makes every day
see growth and gain and every bush-
el Of corn or ton Of hay coined into
money puts on the big fat.
The First National Bank proposes
to interest and encourage the farmers
Of the Arkansas Valley In growing
corn. and At the Illinois State Fair
purchased Of Geo. ". Dunseth, = corn
breeder and grower. Who took double
the first. premiums and prizes oe any
competitor. ten bushels OF prize seed
corn. comprising the ten best varie-
ties grown. This corn vii be dis
tibuted free among the farmers for
experiment and to test the best va
rieties to be grown In this valley on
one condition. Each grower shah ex-
hibit at the La Junta Farmers' Fan
Festival fifty Of the best ears grown
by him. The First National Bank
will offer = first prise Of 81 and .
second prize Of 81 for each OF the
ten varieties and one grand prize Of
IS for sweepstakes. The corn ex.
hibited vii become the property Of
The First National Bank and will be
distributed. In like manner. next year.
This seed corn will be on exhibition
at the bank about the middle Of
March. You are invited to come and
see H.
La Junta tribune., 1910-03-12
0sek %sms From Western stsps.

Tom winstanley returned ho0e o.
Thursday morning fron Panola. hav.
ias been suonoaed there two weeks
ago on sccount ol the serious illnsas
q his father. Jerome winstaaiey.
TIE sick man came hone With bis
son and vas veey ouch exhausted
by the boag trip ffoo the western
sioos. but vas feelias sons better
yesterday. and thiaks be viii - an
rigAt after be has. . Oeod rest.
La Junta tribune., 1910-03-12
Nh. a. n. ssms osal.

Mss. A. ~. Barns. mother q Nss-
naAnchs PSovasn ssA W. W. Duens.
~ tos1es veil known residents a
L. Juata. 1ieA st her Aeoe II Loas
bsaeA. CALI. TAsss1ay. March -.
n reaaias passs1 tAssssA Il Juata
nsssAay AisAt as1 we're tatea -
No. yesterday aesaiag u Pusese'
vhers flAal iaterDsat vtn taks poacs.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-04-29
RAILWAY CASE
is CONTINUED

After introducing a sufficient
amount of evidence to make out it's
case against the Southern Pacific
Railway Company, the Railroad Com
mission yesterday afternoon granted
the request OF the company for a
30-day adjournment, at the expira-
tion of which time the hearing will be
resumed and evidence be introduced
by the company, and also probably
further evidence by the commission.
The extension was asked for by the
company in order that it might fa-
miliarize itself with the evidence and
documents introduced by the COM
mission.
TIL cease was brought by the COM
mission against the company for the
purpose OF investigating it's class
rates in tn estate, and besides intro
ducing expert evidence on the sub
ieot testimony was also had from rep
resentatives of the commercial clubs
of the various cities.
The commissions chief witness was
r. Kohler, who had been in the ser
vice Of the railroad company since
1876, and his evidence was with re-
latlon to the general history of the
company, its reorganization, the cost
OF the construction Of the road and
its general financial history,
Upon the completion of. his testi
mony the representatives of the com
mercial clubs were called to the
stand for the purpose of giving evil
dence as to the growth OF the coun-
try tapped by the lines OF the road
the growth of the freight business
and the objections the shippers had
against the present class rates
charged by the company.
The chief point brought out by the
evidence adduoed by the commits
sion was the fact that the classes of /
freight were not graded in accord
ance with the rules prevailing on the
subject among the railroads in the
Northwest II was shown that the
1rst-olass rate was about the same
as the o, r. q N, and Northern Pa
ciflc Railway Company, but that the
fourth-class rate was out of proper
tion.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-04-29
. MURDER
MYSTERY
is SOLVED

Alturas, Cal April 29.--Two skel-
etons have been unearthed in the
corner OF the Modoc county court
house yard. one that Of a woman and
the other a child. Samuel Todd and
other old-timers say the bones are
those OF woman named Brunridge
and her infant, who disappeared S2
years ago, and were believed to have
been murdered by French black.
smith named Jereaux, who was the
father Of the child
Todd was one OF three iurymen
who sat In court and awarded the
child to Mrs. Brunridge, following an
attempt Of her mother to take the
infant from her Both mother and
child disappeared two days after the
hearing In court.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-04-29
Taft win Not "Insurgc.r
IUNiTED pRnss LEASED wim0.l

Washington, April 29.-President
Taft viii leave Washington tonight
for Buffalo. During his western trip,
It is declared, the president will not
"read any insurgents out of the par
ty," and will not spring any political
sensations. He will talk on conser-
walton, and will not digress into po-
litical matters.
Taft is pleased by the insurgents
pledge to support the administration
program.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-04-29
HOLLAND
WELCOMES
ROOSEVELT
QUEEN WILHELNlINA TROTTED
HIM OVER THE GROUNDS OF
THE PALACE, AND TONIGHT HE
LEAVES FOR THE HAGUE.

(By a stan Correspondent OF The
United Press.)
Arnhem, Netherlands, April 29.--
Theodore Roosevelt and his party
who arrived at noon tolay were at
once taken to the Royal palace
where they were received by Queen
wilhelmina and Prince Henry. Two
autos, sent by the queen, were watt
ing at the station when the party ar
rived, and the Roosevelts were driv-
en- at once to the palace A great
crowd was waiting at the station,
and the colonel was given a rousing
reception. All along the route Of
his journey to Arnhelm he was
cheered and applauded. AT. each
station crowds were waiting and the
journey was continuous ovation.
After the party had been received
at the palace, Queen Wilhelmina
personally conducted the Roosevelts
around the palace grounds.
The party left this afternoon on a
special train for Amsterdam
The Burgomeister will give a din
ner tonight at the Queens Amster-
dam palace At II o'clock tonight
Roosevelt win start for The Hague