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Weekly journal-miner., 1910-03-30
THE sQUATTERS TO
 HAVE MORE RIGHTS

Secretary Wilson has just issued an order providing for a more ib- eral treatment of bona fide squatters upon unsurveyed land which has been included within National forests since the time of actual occupancy of the land by the squatter.
 Under the homestead law it is i'm possible for anyone to secure legal title to unsurveyed public land, but occupancy pending survey is recog, nized as giving a prior claim to the land after survey, under what is known as "squatters' rights" A squatter who had, in good faith, taken possession of a piece of National forest land before the National for ests were created is not dispossessed of his claim by the Forst service, and if he lives upon it and cultivates it until the land has been surveyed he is able to get his homestead just as though he had settled on any part of the unreserved public domain. Blu, since the passage of the act of June Il, 1906, which permits the Secre- tary of Agriculture to list for set tlement land which he finds chiefly valuable for agriculture, it has been possible for squatters to apply for the listing of their lands under this act, and thus to obtain title prior to the government survey. The ob, ject of the new order of the Secre, tary is to provide for the listing of the full amount of land which the occupant would receive if he exer cised his option of awaiting the gov. ernment survey, irrespective of whether or not the entire area i: cultivable, provided the claim is bona fide and the land is not more valuable for its timber than for agriculture
 Secretary Wilson s order is as fol lows:
 "A person who has settled upor
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-03-30
FOREST FIRES DECREASING.
From Wednesdax,s DailY.l

Fire played less havoc in the wood lands of the National forest states last year than it did in 1908, al- though the number of fires was 410 greater. The Department of Agrieul. ture has just completed the statistics. The protective value of the work of the Department is shown in that (1) almost so per cent of the fires were extinguished before as much as five acres had been damaged; (2) less than one an done-half acres to the square mile of National forest land was burned over; (3) and the amount of damage done to the burned-over area averaged but $1.26 per acre.
 For the twelve-month ended De- cember 31, last, there were 3,13S fires on the forests, 1,1S6 caused by To- comotives, 431 by campers, 294 by lightning, 1S1 by brush burning, 97 by incendiaries, 3S by sawmills and donkey engines, 153 by miscellaneous and 75S by unknown agencies. The area burned over was, in round fig ures, 360,000 acres, of which about 62,000 were private lands in Ma tiOnal forests, as against some 400,- UUU dGItS III lJUO. EoOUlt lfU.UUU.UUU board feet of timber was consumed, of which 33,000,000 feet was pri vately owned, as against 230,000,000 in the previous year. The loss in value of timber destroyed was less than $3OO,OO0, of which close to $5O,00O was privately owned. The loss of the year before was about $450,000. Damage done to repro ductiOn and forage shows a remark able decrease. less than $l60,0O0 be- ing the record for 1909 and over $70O,000 that for 1908.
 The largest number of fires occur red in IdahO-991; but the great in crease over 1908 in that state-name- ly 573-is entirely attributable 10 fires in the Occur d'Alene, which were extinguished without material damage. Locomotive spark were accountable for ell of the blazes in this forest last year. The explanation of the increase in the total for all forests is to be found in this Occur G'Alene increase.
 The report of the Forester for 1909 said of the fire record for 1908:
 "That year was one of prolonged drouth during the summer and fall, and of disastrous forest fires throughout the country. The Ma tional forests suffered relatively lit tie. About 232, 2,191,O ,O00 board feet of timber, or 0.06 per cent of the stand, was destroyed. A total of 2,72S fires was reported, of which 2,0s9 were small fires confined as a rule to an area of five acres or less. The cost of fire fighting, ex- elusive of the salaries of forest of feers, was $73,2s3.33. This sum, ad- ded to the proportion of the total salaries of rangers and guards prop erly chargeable to patrol and fire fighting, was less than one-twentieth of Il per cent of the value of the timber protected, estimated at an av- craze stumpage value of $2 per thousand."
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-03-30
Good Results Continue At the Arizona
 Central
Drifting and Sinking To Be Resumed In
 Few Days
From Fridays Daily)

Splendid results are again reported from the camp of the Arizona Cen tral Copper company, operating the Shylock mine, in the Black Hills, and the uneovering of a big body of chal- eo-pyrite ore is shown in the drift from the 500 foot station. Three feet of this grade of ore is in evi- dence at that point.
 At the time of the strike, a few days ago, from eighteen inches to two feet was cut into, further sinking was suspended, the cutting of a station on the 500 foot level be- ing decided upon, as well was the drifting on the vein at that point started to make determinations and as a point for future work.
 After one round of shots was fired, the development that resulted only intensified the interest of General Manager Cleveland, and the vein in creased in size to the above dimen- sions after it was opened. Assays made from the shaft and the face of the drift were pronounced gratifying in gold, silver and copper values, especially in the silver and copper.
 For the present the cutting of a station on the 500 foot level and in cidental work is going on, and after a few days drifting and sinking will be resumed. Something of a coin eidence seems to be linked to min ing in the Black Hills, in that two big strikes have occurred from prac- tically the same depth in shaft work, that of the Little Daisy and the Ari zona Central, both making note worthy demonstrations within a few days of each other at the 500 foot point in depth.
 Mr. Cleveland, while in the city yesterday, reiterated his belief in the outcome of the enterprise, saying that it is only a question of work here after to get the property into the producing class, the existence of the ore bodies being established, with favorable results of a more pro- nouneed condition being in evidence for the future.
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-03-30

and continuously occupied unsurveyed
 lands within a National forest before
 it's creation and is at the present time
 occupying such lands in good faith
 and is in all respects complying with the homestead law, has the right to include within the lines of his home stead 160 acres after the land is sur veyed. Therefore, if the land is
 occupied for agricultural purposes, and is not more valuable for its tim Der than for such purposes, and there are no circumstances which would in the opinion of the District For ester tend to discredit the bona fdes of the claimant, he should be allowed to make application for the patenting of such lands under the act of June Il, 1906, and the examination for listing should be made with a view of listing 160 acres of land where possible. The tracts as listed should conform so far as practicable to the form of the public land surveys. The listing of lands as above should not in any way govern the determination of the total area or amount of non cultivable land listed for applicants under the act of June II, 1906, who were not residing upon the land be- fore the creation of the forest.
 "In cases where less than 160 acres of land has been listed to a person who settled upon the land prior to the creation of the forest, an additional area sufficient to com plete the homestead entry may be allowed upon proper application. !"
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-03-30
GREAT STRIKES IN
 RAILROAD HISTORY

A review of the great railroad
 strikes of history is not without in-
 terest at this time. The first great
 railroad strike in the United States
 began at Martinsburg, w. Va, on
 July Is, 1877, when the locomotive
 fremen went out on the Baltimore 6
 Ohio road. Within a week the strike
 had spread to the Pennsylvania, Erie,
 Lake Shore, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne &
 Chicago, Cincinnati & St. Louis, Van
 dalia, Ohio & Mississippi, c. c. e. &
 l., Erie 6 Pittsburg, Philadelphia 6
 Erie, Chicago & Alton, Canada &
 Southern, and other minor lines.
 Numerous lives were lots in Martins
 burg, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Philadel- phia and other cities. The cost of the strike to the Pennsylvania rail road, alone, was not less than S5,- 100000.
 The year 1886 saw the famous Gould strike on the Southwestern railroad system. In this strike the terrific conditions of 1877 were re- created on a larger scale. The strike, which was directed by the Knights of Labor, lasted nearly two months. It resulted in a defeat for the men, who lost nearly s15,OOO,OOO in wages.
 The famous Reading strike, as it is called, began on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad on. December 20, 1887, when 5000 employees of the company were called away from their work by the Knights of Labor. More than 30,000 men became involved. The strikers failed to gain the is- sue for which they fought, namely, the recognition of the Knights of Labor. The cost of the struggle was estimated at $5,OOO,OOO.
 Other railroad strikes of the next five years were those of the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers on the Burlington system, in 1888. the New York Central strike of 1890, and the strikes on the Little Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan rail road and the Lehigh Valley railroad, both of which occurred in 1893. It was in the Ann ArbOr tsrike that Judge (now President) Taft gave his famous decision ordering Chief Ar thur of the Brotherhood of Loco motive Engineers to prOmulgate an order that the bylaws of the Broth erhOOd requiring members to refuse 10 handle ears of a bOyeotted non union line was not in force. The Taft decision on this occasion mark ed an era in the history of labor agitation.
 The year 1894 brought the great est railroad strike the country has ever known. The strike was begun by the employees of the Pullman ear works on June 24. A few weeks later the American Railway Union ordered a sympathetic strike by the railroad employees throughout the | West. The struggle caused much rioting in Chicago, in California and 1 other places. President Cleveland or dered out the United States troops | to suppress the disorder. In the end | the strikers were disastrously de- feated. Three months after the strike | was inaugurated the Pullman em- ployes returned to work at their old wages. President Debs and other of .icials of the American Railway Union | were imprisoned for contempt of court in failing to obey an injunction them from interference with the running of mail trains. The total cost of the struggle was esti- mated at $1OO,OOO,OOO.
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-03-30
FAMOUS HYMN WRITER 90

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, March 24. - Fanny Crosby, famous as the author of nearly 1000 Gospel hymns, reeeiv- ed numerous congratulations today on the occasion of her 9Oth birthday. She lives with a niece in this city, where her birthday anniversary was fttingly recognized this afternoon by a gathering of the members of the Fanny Crosby Circle of Kings Daughters.
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-03-30
RICHNELL RESIGNS.

PHOENIX, Ariz., March 24.-M. O. Bieknell rendered to the governor today his resignation as a member of the Railway Commission, to accept the ehairmanship of the Interna- tional Scrip Bureau of San Fran cisco.
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-03-30
FOR BIG COMPANY.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 24. The Panama-Paciic Exposition com pany was permanently organized to- day, with a capital of $5,000,000. Homer King, banker, is president.
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-09-14

this city there are two actions pend- ing, in which the same questions are involved. In the other action the only railroads that are made defend ants are the A, T. & s. F., the Chi cago, Milwaukee St. Paul and the s. F., P. & P. The amount of reparation demanded by the Arizona Brewing company is s4,6l4.43 on. the two suits.
 The defendants in their answer talks the position that the 65 cent rate to Los Angeles and to other coast points is not fairly remunera- tive, but hold that the same is a transeontinental terminal rate, which lis forced upon them by water and market condition. The rate of sl43 per 100 pounds, they state, was a combination of rates and was fixed by taking the 65 cents per 100 pounds charged to Pacific coast points, and by adding 50 cents from Pacific coast points to Narieopa, in Arizona. and by adding to that the local rate from Narieopa to Phoe- nix, of IS cents, making the total of sl.43 to Prescott.
 Judge Andrews, for his clients, takes the position that the railroads would not haul malt to the Pacific coast at loss. That the water competition does not enter into the question at all, for the reason that malt cannot be shipped by water, as the absorption of moisture will make it unfit for use. That the rate of $l per 100 pounds now charged is a discriminatory one, as against Pres colt and in favor of Pacific coast points. that have a longer haul by TAO miles than to this city.
 The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion last June decided the Phoenix case, fixing a lower rate on a great many articles of staple use than operated prior to the instituting of the suit, saving the consumers of that city thousands of dollars snnu- ally.
 The action instituted in this city is the first one that has been filed affecting a central or northern Ari- zona institution, and the hearing that is to convene in this city next month will also be the first time that the Interstate Commerce Com mission court will be convened here The announcement made a few days ago mas attracted considerable inter est in shipping circles in all classes of merchandise and industrial com modities.
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-09-14
PUBLIC LANDS ARE
 IN GREAT DEMAND

Under the order issued last June by the Department of the Interior, throwing open for entry certain lands withdrawn from settlement about six years ago, situated along the Verde river and the Agua Fria, and designating September sth of this year as the date for receiving appli- cations under the homestead and des- ert land acts, the following, up to date, nave made the necessary legal filing before U. s. Commissioner Moore of this city:
 O. F. Farley, for 16O acres, below Camp Verde, on the east side of the river.
 Josiah Murdoek for 16O acres ad- joining.
 George T. Seholey, 16O acres about six miles northeast of -Cordes on the Agua Fria.
 George Rohpeter, l6O acres, near his present farm at Dewey.
 J. Henderson, 16O acres, adjoining.
 Oscar T. Clay, l6O acres, between Dewey and Humboldt.
 W. E. Pate, 16O acres, between Dewey and Humboldt.
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-09-14

doubt, and certainly unenlightening- that absurd belief that a dead man should know more than a really live one. It probably originated at about the same time that the weird and disastrous notion of getting some thing for nothing first found lodg- ment in mans brain. It was quick ly followed by the get-rieh-quick idea, whose immediate and obedient child is graft.
 Now, if a man can gain wisdom merely by dying, why in the world should anybody live7 except for the joy rides and the highlights of Broadway9 But these quickly pale. One joy ride is about like another at a certain age. It is knowledge and wisdom that the world is after. If we can get it by dying. But there isn't one scrap of testimony or the fajntest inkling of logic or common sense, to show that the knowledge and wisdom is so easily gained. All the worlds work is done by living men and women. by and through the craft, the ideas, the the ories, or the dreams of those who were very much alive, when they worked, or thought, or dreamed This worlds work mas been retarded, if anything, by the seance room-never helped, at all events.
 Let Prof. James, ghost revisit us if it will. Perhaps it wouldn t talk so namely as do most ghosts. The reflex action of a schooled and healthy intellect, working for a spell through the medium of a slow ly dissipsting astral shell may be expected to voice the minimum of twaddle. But the real immortal That which once inhabited th epersonality of William James-resson and ex- perieDee alike deny our possibility of contracting it.
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-09-14

J. Millikan, 40 acres, west of Dewey.
 Frank D. Thayer, 16O acres, north of and adjoining the Hall ranch, on Lower Lynx Creek.
 A. L. Little, 160 acres, north of Granite Dells, between P. & E. June tiOn and Jerome Junction.
 A. Aldreman, 16O acres, north of the Little location.
 All of the above are homestead en- tries.
 Under the Desert Land act, John Duke takes up 240 acres immediate ly north of the Point of Rocks, and his daughter, Miss Mary Duke, locates 320 acres in the same locality.
 Under the dry farming clause, Bertha Stringfeld locates 320 acres between Prescott and Simmons, and six miles from the latter place, while Calletano Aeosta, in the same section, locates 32O acres.
 The total filings made in the two days aggregates 5000 acres.
 During the present week it is prob able that over 5000 acres will be en- tered under the various conditions for settlement and cultivation.
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-09-14
ALLEGED EXCESSIVE
 RATE HEARING SET
(From Sundays .Daily.)

Judge H. T. Andrews, attorney for the Arizona Brewing company, in an action filed before the Interstate Commerce Commission against the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail- road, the A., T. & s. F. railway and the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix railway, alleging excessive charges on commodities handled by the above railroads and discriminatory rates to this city, has received of fcial notification from Washington that the case. will come up for trial in Prescott, October 7th, before Ex- amineT Gerry of the Commission. This suit was instituted over year ago, and at the time created eonsid- erable interest. The object of the action on the part of the Arizona Brewing company, which is a Pres eott corporation, is to reduce the rate on malt shipped from Chicago, H., to the brewery here. The rate charged on male by the railroad is given as. s1 per 100 pounds, which the brewing company claims is un- reasonable,
 The present rate on malt from Chicago to Los Angeles or San Fran cisco is 65 cents per 100 pounds, while the distance to the former is 430 miles more than to this city, and TAO miles more to San Francisco than to Prescott.
 The action is also brought to col feet overcharges made on malt ship ped from Chicago to Prescott prior to the filing of the suit and within the two vears' limitation fixed by Act of Congress During these two years the railroads affected in this are alleged to have charged $l45 per 100 pounds from Chicago to Prescott, but immediately after the Journal Miner published an ar- tiele setting forth that the Arizona Brewing company had brought an action against the railroads, the rate of Sl.45 is said to have been imme- diately reduced to the sl basis, the railroads of tneir. own volition, redue- ing it to that figure. This cut saved the Arizona Brewing company $200 per ear.
 Notwithstanding this present rate, the Arizona Brewing company con- tends that it is unreasonable, hold ing that it should not be charged a higher rate than to Los Angeles, San. Francisco, and even to Seattle, Wash, and other points on the eI- treme coast lines of the Pacific.
 In the hearing to be heard in
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-09-14
PRINCIPLE OF RATE MAKING

In his testimony before the In terstate Commerce Commission, Presi- dent Ripley of the Santa Fe, remarked that he did not think either cost of railroads or amount of net income legitimately important factors in the art of rate making.
 He thought the value of service the main thing to be considered.
 However, since it is insisted that the railroads make a complete show down of receipts and expenditures, on the theory that eIorbitant rates were the cause of the "high cost of living" it appears that the carriers are to adopt the policy of compeIl- ing shippers to disclose. the profits of their operations, in the apparent hope of proving that, ss compared with the e1tortion of middlemen, the eIaetions of the carriers are but a drop in the bucket.
 If allowed to go into this matter the carriers should be able to bring out some very interesting informa- tion.
 It may be discovered that the ket tie is even blaeker than the pot.
 The subject is intricate, but there is great intellectual ability at the command of the railroads, and ample funds to pay the cost of the neess- sary Investigations.
 If in q few important product. the cost and profits accruing at the various stages of their passage from the soil, the forest or the mine to the ultimate consumer could be as- eertained the information would be extremely valuable.
 It would throw a light on the or ganization and workings of the so- cial structure which can be abtain- ed in no other way, and without which most of our discussion of .o- cial questions must remain of small value.
 Probably we shall not get so much from this inquiry. But upon the theory that the price of each ser vice in the production and move ment of commodities is to be fixed by public authority on the cost of suen service, there would be reason in contention by the carriers that the whole subject should be investi- gated before any such action is taken.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-09-14

From Mining Camp.
 Daniel Mccarthy, the mining man of Walnut Grove, was an arrival in the city yesterday and will remain for few days on business Return to old Home.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Cobb. until recently at Silver Bell, in Pima eoun- ty, have returned to the city. in- tending to remain permanently. Shelter Official Here.
 F. w. Davis, master merehanie of the Humboldt smelter, was an ar rival in the city yesterday and will remain for few days on business. Accepts New Position.
 James Andrew of NcCabe left here this afternoon for Southern California, where he has accepted a responsible position with a mining company.
 Left for the South.
 Mother Paul, head of the Mercy hospitals and academies of Arizona and New Mexico, left yesterday for the south, after a brief visit to the Mercy hospital here. Mining Visitors.
 John Harlan, superintendent of the Big Pine mines on the Hassa- yampa, and J. T. Rottinghouse, a miner of the same camp, were ar rivals in the city yesterday on a brief business trip.
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-09-14
Clty News
 ...ID Brief

(F'rom Sundays Daily.) Here On Business.
 c. J. McNulty is here on business from his mines in the Copper Creek section of the Hassayampa district. Called By Illness.
 MT. and Mrs. G. M. Turner left yesterday for Los Angeles, where her mother is reported az seriously m. Left for Phoenix.
 Mrs. Anna May Daly left yes terday for Phoenix. where she has accepted a position in the Mercy hos pital. Recreation Trip.
 Mrs. NJ. E. Wells and Mrs. Ed. Hill and daughter, all of Mayer, left yesterday for several weeks outing at the coast resorts of Southern Cali fornia.
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-09-14

JOurnalMiner-Higk class job work
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-09-14

F'rom Tuesdays Dafy) Purchasing Supplies.
 Al Vroom is in the city from his mines at Cold Springs, purchasing supplies. In From His Mines.
 Dennis Ryan is in the city from his mines in the Kirkland district on a short visit. Purchasing Supplies.
 John Kelly is in the city from his mines in the Jersey Lily section, purchasing supplies. Former Sheriff Visits.
 Former Sheriff John L. Nnuds is in the city from his pastures in Northern Arizona, on a visit with bic family.