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Arizona republican., 1910-02-27

| marble and other substances. Then the price advanced so that the car | bon was found too costly for such use. and bort was substituted for stone cutting. Bort is really an i'm perfect crystal or gem diamond, but l il is too brittle for use in drills. Con sequentIy bort has taken the place of black diamonds for stone cutting and the latter have been restricted almost entirely to diamond drilling
 purposes.
 The fear that the supply of black diamonds may some day give out and paralyze the diamond drilling industry has stimulated prospectors to syste- matic search for new deposits, but so
 far they have not been successful. On the other hand. scientists have been making a close study of the chemical conditions which have pro- duced the black diamonds. but their manufacture is apparently about as difficult as the making of the gem diamonds It is possible under cer- ] tain conditions to make either, but not | in sizes sufficient to be of any com mercial value Nature in some pe- culiar way has made these rare pro- ducts, and then thrown the secret of the process away. If any man can ever lunlock or find that secret he may cause panic in the diamond trade.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-27

,nly in one locality in the world They come from a very small section in Brazil. not more than 225 miles square in area. Outside of this limited area no pure black diamonds have ever been found. In the Brazilian black diamond fields the natives dive in the river beds for them and recover them from the gravel and washings
 What peculiar freak of nature caused the deposition of the black di- amonds in this section of the world and nowhere else is one of the mys- teries which science has failed to explain. None of them have been found in the great Kimberly diamond regions, where the crystal form of dia- monds have for So long been mined and likewise no fine specimens of the gem diamond have been found in the Brazilian black diamond fields.
 The whole origin of the black dia- mond is. therefore. q scientific enig- ma. Naturally the question is raised, "Of what use is a black diamOnd?" No one would care to wear one of these diamonds. which resemble d piece of coal more than a real dia- mond, and so far no one has popu larized the black gems as the pearl has been. Nevertheless the black dia-
Arizona republican., 1910-02-27
PHOENIX ID ENTERTAIN
 LOS ANGELES BOOSTERS
Coast City Chamber of Commerc, Coming to Territorial Capital
 on March IS.

One of the business and social dut ies that Phoenix will have 10 under take at once and which has been a long sought privilege will be the en- tertainment Of the Los Angeles cham Der of commerce excursionists. That there will be a fine party of them and that they are not forgetting their engagement here about the middle Of the month. is indicated by the fol- lowing from the Los Angeles Times:
 Great interest is taken in the cham ber of commerce excursion to Arizona March l5. The trip to the territory has been under consideration for some time. but other matters have inter fered. Secretary Wiggins now has taken hold of the project and will act in conjunction with the excursion committee.
 The trip offers a great opportunity for local business men to meet GUS toners and to strengthen commercial relations Those who desire to learn of the resources Of the epterprising territory may view it's cities. mines and agricultural sections at a mini mum expense For the jaded pleasure seeker. the excursion Of l50 lively boosters will furnish q new experi- ence.
 As a special inducement. side trip 10 the Grand Canyon has been ar ranged Six days will be required for the trip A special train will leave here on Tuesday, March l5, over the Southern Pacific, returning by santa Fe on the 2lSt
 The price of the trip will be fixed as low as possible" said Secretary Wiggins yesterday. We have stipu- lated for the very best equipment and service The special train will be duplicate of the one in which the chamber went 10 San Francisco, eX- cept that il may have one or two more cars. We want to make this the best excursion we have ever conduct ed. March is fine month in which tO visit Arizona and the Grand Canyon will be at its best. Reservations may be made by telephone. or by personal call al the chamber"
Arizona republican., 1910-02-27

monds serve most important and useful function in the industrial world
 This pure black carbon is not only harder than the real diamond. but is tougher and not so brittle as the gem Consequently it is of great value for many mechanical purposes, and particularly for boring with diamond drills In diamond drilling the tips of the drills are studded with carbon or black diamonds. and when the bOres are deep the pressure is so great that the gem diamonds would be crushed in the process But the carbon resfsts this continued pressure and slowly eats down into the rocks.
 In diamond drill work the carbon is set in. circular pieces of soft steel Tor iron, called bits, and these bits are attached to tubing. Armed with these black diamond teeth. the drills push their way down under severe pressure to depth of coco feet. cut ting through the hardest kind of rock. Some black diamonds are buch harder than others, and there is no way to determine by the color the difference in the degree of toughness.
 Black diamonds ore pure carbon are not by ana means cheap, and the own CTS of the mines in Brazil are making Ia good thing out of the monopoly Tn the last thirty years the prices of black diamonds have advanced from S75 to nearly SS5 q carat and the tendency is still upward The arming of drill with diamond points is rath- CT an expensive matter. Usually a set of eight stones are placed in the head of single drill. If each dia- mond weighs only three and half carats, the total cost at sS5 carat would be about S2,3s0 for a single bit
 Great as this expense is, however it pays. for the black diamonds are so tough that they last a long time and they achieve results which could not be obtained in any other way There is no known substance that can take the place of carbon in drills in boring for gold. silver, copper and other mineral deposits. Before the black diamonds of Brazil were discov- cred it was impossible to make bor- ings.
 When the carbon was first intro duced in our industries it was used in diamond saws for cutting stones,
Arizona republican., 1910-02-27
NEGRO DRAWS GUN,
 THREATENS ID KILL
But the Six Shooter Wasn't Loaded and No Damage Was Done.


 After frightening his wife almost in- to mysteries with an unloaded six shooter, H. S. Dorsey. a negro, was in turn so terrified by the arrival of the police that he turned 8 sickly green ish white and pleaded with the city marshal not to shoot him.
 Dorsey went down on West Jeffer- son street yesterday to the house in which his wife, from whom he is sep erated. lives. He had heard stories about her coy flirtations with other men and it made him jealous. He took along his big six X-shooter and after an argument drew it and threatened 10 kil! her Incidentally he said he would kill himself and put the gun to his head. It did not go off because it wasn't loaded His wife screamed and neighbors telephoned to the police sta- ton.
 Marshal Moore and Officer Trout man responded on the jump. When they reached the house they saw Dor sey running out the back door. The marshal reached for his own gun just so as to be ready, for the phone message had conveyed the informa- ton that Dorsey was armed and des- perate Dorsey threw up his hands.
 Don't shoot. Mistah Noah. don't
Arizona republican., 1910-02-27
BLACK DIAMONDS THAT ARE
 NOT COAL.

The term black diamonds" is soemtimes jokingly applied to ordinary coal which we burn in our furnaces. but the real black diamonds" of com merce are among the most unique mineral products of the world and they serve a purpose in the industrial world that makes them of great value The black diamonds are pure carbon, and yet in no outward appearance resemble the diamonds which we are accustomed to wear as ornaments. They are slightly harder than the crystal or gem diamonds and, in fact about the hardest substance known.
 Black diamonds. or cartoons. are among the greatest curiosities of the mineral kingdom. They are without crystalline form and are found in irregular pieces, ranging in size from half carat up to three. four and five hundred carats. They are dark gray, black, or brownish in color and opaque. The real diamond of the jew elry trade is also pure carbon. but translucent and crystalline in form. Two objects so alike in composition could not be found 90 opposite in ap- pearance as these two forms of car bon
 black diamonds is that they are found
Arizona republican., 1910-02-27
REE LIE
 CURE
Sent to Demonstrate the Merits of
 Pyramid Pile Cure.
What 1t Has Done for Others, 1t Can
 Do for You.

We have testimonials by the hun- dreds showing all stages, kinds and de- grees of piles which have been cured by Pyramid Pile Cure.
 If you could read these unsolicited letters you would no doubt go to the nearest drug store and buy box of Pyramid Pile Cure at once. price fifty cents.
 We do not ask you to do this. Send LIS your name and address and we will send you a trial package by mall free.
 We know what the trial package will do. In many cases it has cured piles without further treatment. If it proves its value to you order more from your druggist. at soc box. This is fair. is 1t not? Simply fill out free coupon be- low and mail today. No knife and its torture. No doctor and his bills.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-27

shoot" he shouted. The marsha grabbed him and started to drag him off.
 .Lemme go jus a minute. Mistah Mo-ah." pleaded the negro; 'Ah wants to go in the house a minute"
 What do you want to go in the house for?" asked the marshal.
 An wants to change nah clothes"
 Marshal Moore told him the clothes he had on were plenty good enough to appear before the judge and he was brought to the station.
 When he was searched the empty gun was found on him. He was sen fenced by Judge Thomas to pay fine Of sl0
Arizona republican., 1910-02-27
FOR SALE.

 3-room frame house, close in. a bargain if taken at once, ss50. $500 down.
 broom brick house with barn lot 50x150. Bath. gas. city water and shade. Cash S1350.
 Modern 5-room cottage. full size lot, close in, near car line. Price s20O0. Easy terms.
 Modern Broom brick house with furniture. stable and shop close in. Price s7,500. easy terms.
 For Rept-Mooern 5-room brick house. partly furnished.
 F. G. HARRIS
 Room 19 p. O. Bldg, Upstairs. 70 N. First St.. Phoenix. Arix.
Arizona republican., 1910-02-27
HE A D ACHES

And neuralgia are immediately cureo with "PAlkAiDS." One does the work. second dose is seldom needed. They are also splendid for toothache. backache. pains in the side or region of the ovaries, monthly pains, rheumatism and sieep lessness. They quiet nervousness and produce calm. refreshing sleep. Guaran- teed under the pure food and drug laws and contain no opium, morphine, chlor- al, cocaine or similar habit producing drugs. They are sold in all drug stores in 25c packages: trial size. 10c. Sold by Larson Drug CO.,, Elvey &
 HuIett. and Bear Drug Store topposIte city hali.)
Arizona republican., 1910-02-27
FREE PACKAGE COUPON.

Fill out the blank lines below with your name and address. cut out coupon and mail to the PYRA- MID DRUG COMPANY. 241 Pyra- mid Bldg, Marshall, Mich. A trial package of the great Pyramid Pile Cure will then be sent you at once by mail. FREE. in plain wrapper. Name ............ ..-.....
 Street ..... .............
Arizona republican., 1910-02-27
FOR SALE.

Four-room frame house; good shade and city water. Lot 5Ox150. Price s75o.
 Two 4-room frames, good shade. city water. Lot 75x137h; a snap at $1200.
 Three-room house, good shade and city water. s200 will handle this. Price $500.
 We have a fine 1o0-acre ranch, all fenced. plenty of water. good new house. all cleared, about 35 acres in alfalfa. This is a bargain at $75 per acre.
 See our Cactus Display in our win dow.
 COLE BROS,
 St
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-05-13
Let Not the Care Be Lacking.

Those who feed pigs and grow brood sows estimate that little pig at birth Is worth from three to i've dollars. It is evident from this that fl will pay anyone to give as much at tention to the pig business this year as ever before. Every pig saved means from two to five dollars. an amount not to be found everywhere Most people can afford to almost stay up nights with the pigs until the new crop is born and well started on the journey through life. To leave brood SOW and go away or neglect her as many have done in the past is one of tl,e most foolish moves to make. It is not alone the matter of saving pigs but frequently the SOW as well. A 250-pound SOW is worth from $22 to s25. neat little sum.
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-05-13
NEW YORK HAS BIG GRANGE
Ninety Thousand Members Now sn- rolled, Eight Thousand Of Whom
 Joined Last Year.

City folks who think that 'the Grange" and the Grangers" are ob- solete expressions ought to have at tended the thirty-seventh annual con- vention of the New York State Grange recently held at Watertown.
 Organized In 1873 with twenty-one subordinate granges and small membership, the State Grange has in this brief period increased to 722 granges with nearly 10000 members The granges are now established in ffty-four of the sixty-one counties of the state, including practically every agricultural county.
 During the last year over 5000 new names were added to the roll At the Watertown convention nearly 1,500 out-of town delegates were present for at least some sessions.
 The grange is uniquely democratic Tn its organization" says the Survey. "Practically any farmer or farmers wife, whether owning a farm or work ing on a farm, is eligible to member ship. About one-third of the delegates dt tue sCdte lHSSIihS "CiS "oiiiNh, anu not infrequently they brought their husbands as associate delegates, the women voting and the husbands merely participating in the discus sions. Sometimes this was reversed.
 Among other activities. the grange is pre-eminently interested in the i'm provement of agricultural education and urges the enlargement of the state agricultural college and lib eral appropriation therefor as well as for the maintenance of the agricul tural schools already established"
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-05-13
STAND BY THE ORGANIZATION
Its Power for Good Must Be in Ratio With Good Sense and Conserva-
 tive Conduct of Officers.

In speaking of the Farmers Union and other agricultural organizations Farm and Ranch says:
 We believe the union has made mistakes and some officers have com mitted errors which were injurious, but upon the whole it has been good and useful order, and has done good
 Its power for good must be in ra tio with the good sense and conserv- ative conduct of the officers and others who direct it. and we are glad that those at its head are following such a course as will tend to bring best results. The union must not be made to oppose all the rest of the community, and cannot successfully do so. The best intelligence of the whole country favors it in it's efforts for good, and it has the power to al lign with it the best citizenship of the country.
 TO the farmers we say, as we have often said: Stay with your organiza. tions. If there are things of which you disapprove, then fight out such matters within the ranks of the union and not publicly. And, above all, get rid of malcontents who would array farmers against the rest of the world If this were done then the rest of the world would be arrayed against the farmers
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-05-13
Farmers Educational n and Operative | Union of America
Matters sf Especial Momentt to J the Progressive Agriculturist

Even dog will fight better when another dog yelps in sympathy. Some mistake the mulishness of ob- stinacy for the strength of purpose
 Do it now!" seems to be the at titude of the trusts toward the public
 The color of a cows hair has little to do with her production of butter fat
 Funny how our strong men never do anything harder than separating peo- pie from their money,
 Idle gossip works overtime to bring sorrow to innocent hearts, while truth is always laggard.
 Reading maketh full man" but it takes good mixture of common sense with it to make a wise one
 Not the least but the most that the conservation and regulation.
 The scrub COW given pedigreed care will prove more profitable than the pedigreed COW given scrub care.
 Interest on a mortgage grows while the farmer sleeps but so do the young trees in the orchard and the wood lot
 The modern school has eliminated one of the four seasons; the new cal endar reads. football, basketball, base ball.
 It is about as profitable to try to do two things at once as it is to try to raise two crops on the same piece of ground at the same time
 Many a good boy has been driven from the farm because he was put to the hardest and most menial task and never given turn at the more i'm portant duties
 Do not let the bad weather get the better of your disposition. It is not always easy to keep sunshine in our hearts when the skies are lowering, but the effort brings it's due reward
 With good prices for everything that comes from the farm, more people to consume our produce at home and abroad. the American farmer can start his spring campaign of farm work with high hopes.
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-05-13
Ry w. R. KILBERT)

The two great scourges in calf rear ing are the white SCOUTS and the lung affection, which latter has been proved to be quite preventable. The method requires extreme but not laborlous care in carrying out When this care is taken satisfactory results are op- tained.
 Investigation has proved, first, that the disease is located in districts; and, second. that it is more prevalent where sanitary conditions are not per feet; third, that the disease is con- tracted through allowing the infectious matter of the place when the calf IS dropped to come into contact with the navel of the young calf, through which it finds it's way into the circulation of the animal.
 The remedy is to have the place for the young calf carefully eleansed and as soon as the calf comes into the world to dress the navel with a prepa-
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-05-13
WORK OF FARMERS SOCIETIES
Good Done by Agricultural orsaniza- tons to Harmonize and Lift So-
 ciaI Condition of People.

Those who look only on the surface, or who have never got in the stream of progress, often assert that we nave too many agricultural societies. of that they do but little good. The fact is, our agricultural societies are nld- king such continued progress, ana oo their work so silently, that the most active members do not realize how much they have done, writes Robert H. Cahoon in Farmers Voice ana Rural Outlook. How many stop to ask the question, What would be the condition of agriculture today Ii there had been formed no agricultural SO cieties?" Alas. How few even thlnk of it.
 When agricultural societies were formed and exhibitions held where the products of the farm were placed side by side for comparison. 1t stirred up desire to secure the best breeds of animals and the best varieties ot fruits and vegetables; every portion of the globe was carefully examined to find the best specimens of animals and vegetables. When these were col lected together and exhibited by the side of what we had been producing the people saw the difference. and quickly introduced the improved pro ductions on their own farms; so that today improved vegetables and fruits are so widespread that the poorest man can every day place on his table better fruits and vegetables, and in greater variety than could the richest monarchs of Europe a hundred years ago.
 By comparing the products of our farms at the annual fairs, desire has been created for higher cultivation, and thus gradually the farmers have abandoned the methods of their ia thers for methods which careful inves- tigation has proved to be easier and productive of better results.
 The farmers institutes, the boards of agriculture and the grange all owe their existence to agricultural socie- ties. And the social condition of the people has been harmonized and lifted to higher level, because the societies have established a platform so broad that all classes can gather upon 1t and join hands.
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-05-13
PREVENTING DISEASE IN
 CATTLE REQUIRES LAB0p
However It Is Both Humane and Profitab1e-Two G.
 Seouroes in Calf Bearing Are White Scours
 and Lung Affection.

known almost with certainty to o.,
 There are districts where scourge Is unknown. Let a dioo. calf be brought in and the diseosa once appears.
 All houses in which young c,,. are reared should be made thororrs, clean; a large application of disints.! ants should be made until the plaos { made free, and all calves shoula ' liberally supplied with clean AZ straw for bedding.
 Another disease appears to bo .1 form of contagious bronchitis + s1 generally fatal f it is allowed to n. unchecked for some time.
 It is possible that this very serio,. disease may be caused by allovin. calves to remain out in the fields ,,. long in cold, wet weather.
 Provide good, comfortable. dry ma. ters for calves while they are vou,. Let them have sufficient ventilation E. their houses without drafts. Allr them open air exercise only on war.
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-05-13
PIGEONS PAY
 PRETTY WELL
Great Secret of Success Is to Get Good Birds and Only Those That Are Ma ated-AIways
 in Demand.

Boys often raise few pigeons just for the fun of the thing, but they can make money in the business as we'll
 It does not pay to do anything half way, and 1t does not take any more time to properly care for 100 pigeons than for a dozen
 If boy starts with pure bred homer stock. he can make a profit of at least two dollars per pair every year.
 The great secret is to get good birds, and only those that are mated. If lot of unmated birds are put in a loft together there will be a deal of fighting, squabbling and egg breaking, and 1t may turn out that there are more males than females, or the other way.
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-05-13
Six Farmers Union Demands.

The Farmers union. the American farmer generally without regard to To- cation is interested fundamentally and vitally in the following six great issues. 10 which others are to be added:
 l. AbOlishing gambling in farm products,
 ?. Securing, without delay. par. cels post.
 8. Securing, without delay. postals savings banks
 1. Securing, without delay, more stringent legislation along the line of restricting foreign immigration.
 ,. Securing the defeat of the pro posed central bank.
 c. More liberality in national ap- propriations toward agricultural prod ucts.
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-05-13
GROUND PLAN OF BULL PEN

We herewith illustrate the elevation and ground plan of the building and yard in which we keep our herd bull, says Hoard's Dairyman. It does not take much explaining to indicate how the animal is handled in such a place.
 Everything is so arranged that 1t Is not necessary for a man to go into the stall with the bull. From the feed room the feed is put into the feeding trough and slid through the partition into his stall He is watered in the same manner. The door which leads from his pen to the runway raises up when opened and
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-05-13

ration of carbolic acid that will de stroy any infectious matter that may attach itself to the navel
 Naturally failures shave been re ported even when precautions have been taken and doubts cast on the theory of infection
 Still, seeing that infection of dis eases similar to this may be carried on the point of fine needle, how can we say with confidence that the dis ease white SCOUTS occurs through any other cause than infection in places where the infective matter has been