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White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-02

John Hays Hammond, with an In
come of a million a year, Is regarded
as one of the most successful men in
the world today. In a recent inter
view he advised young men as to
what they should do to succeed.
He says the chances are as good
as twenty-five years ago, but that
conditions require young men of
larger parts and higher education"
He believes the professions are over
crowded and, like many other promi-
nent men. urges young men to con-
slider the opportunities which inten-
sive agriculture offers to men of
brain and enterprise.
He emphatically declares that the
young mans chances are better in
the west than in the east. because
land is cheaper and the prospect of
rapid development much brighter. He
thinks the congested population of
great cities operates powerfully
against the success of the mass of
young men. but that the few who do
succeed there will win larger prizes
than are to be expected elsewhere.
Get a good education. and tackle
the soil like a scientist, unless you
have a special chance in some other
direction-thus saith John Hays
Hammond to the young men of today
who want to succeed.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-02

boldt oyer the Snowsform range and
strike out into the open IN the
neIzhborhood Of BeoEa~e. Inyes-
tigatton proved that he vas just
taking a trip 20 shoz the mining
men some property ne owned be-
tween Winnemueea and National
The Reno Journal Of = later date
says Scotry Is up In arms against The
insult offered o his character when
he was detained BIZ officers and
searched for high-grzde- He does
not favor the idea Of being classed
as a high-grader and in a letter 10
thar paper he hints al the arrest BE-
ing made by the detectives with the
idea of securing notoriety al his ex-
pense. He also states that he act
vas for the purpose u boosting min
ing stock His letter Is As follows.
Loveiock. Ses.. June p, 1911
Editor Journal.
Dc5l cAI-" - " Jul pap
where ! ~as stopped By a bunch Of
gumsnoe detectives. the main Z be-
ing ur. Clarence Sage. of The Cold
field Consolidated company Nov.
what ! wish to ask you. does the Con-
solidated Of GoIdfeld. Nevada. con-
troll every prospector and hole found
in Nevada One thing that don't
seem right 10 me is that every time
I step into a mining camp | ind a
gumshoe man saying I am a high
grader. Il appears TO me. Mr.. Edit
or. they are only looking for some
cheap notoriety 10 convince the
French people ~ho own q majority
Of the stock.
Yours truly.
ID. V. SCOTTIE.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-02
VARIOUS MODES
OF PROSPECTING
THE IMPORTANT ITEM II To
WANT A NINE AND BIZ WILL
ING To HIT THE TRAIL To
FIND IT.

There are about as many ways
10 90 prospecting as there are men
in the world. II does not appear 10
make much difference hoz n goes
as long as the will is there One
man. taking the George Jackson way.
will 90 and be out all summer on $40
of his own: another must have an
elaborate outfit. a team and wagon.
tents. camp equipment OF he latest
pattern and thousands Of dollars at
his back One wiz go content 10
curl up under a pine tree or on a
bed of boughs; another must have
the softest of blankets and all the
comforts of home. says the Denver
Republican
II has been done in various ways
in the past The Jackson way has
been told. Strztton flung his roll Of
blankets over his shoulder and
walked 70 Cripple Greek with a few
dollars in his pocket. knowing that
At the end of the road he could buy
the simple food he would require
Creole entered into an agreement By
which he was to prospect for Mofat
and others on a wage OF 50 q day
and hold one-third Of what he found.
He hunted 10 days. located the Anne
thyst. a 100000 mine. which paid
from the grass roots. and got rich Sc
quickly thai there Is a tradition that
be always forgot TO dun bra hackers
for that $50 in wages.
Tom Walsh prospected on horse
back among patented claims that
summer in the San Juan, while his
family lived in a cabin near the base
OF his operations. He was prospec-
ing abandoned mines, n of the adj
yanced stages of the art. One day
that summer, while he was making
the search. which ended with an as
say OF a piece of rock on the Camp
Bird rump. he rode up on his horse
to a boulder on the side Of Red noun
tain, on which the writer was sit
ting. dismounted, came over and sat
down. The two prospectors SAT for
an hour and rallied at fate about
how hard it was 10 make a dollar.
They both needed dollars very badly.
Walsh found millions Of them in the
Camp Bird before the summer vas
over.
There is a legend in Silverton
which concerns a man who was hir-
ed for SO a day TO go prospecting for
a local merchant. He returned the
evening OF the first day. having
staked a ledge which developed into
a shipping mine, terminated the
prospecting agreement. and that
night got as drunk as he could on
the three dollars.
1t is not how sou do it that
counts, but the fact that you want a
mine. are willing to hit the trail and
deny yourself a few comforts long
enough to find one. The ways are
many; all the difference lies in
whether you follow one of them or
none, do your best Or remain at
home Iazily wishing hat luck would
come to you as you think it must
have come to others. Luck never
lcame to anybody, it has to be caught
up with at the end of a chase-and
takes a good, strong arm and right
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-02
START WORE on NEW ROAD.
Oregon Short Line Has Two Hundred
Men Busy NJ Caldwell. Idaho.
truly.
ID. V. SCOTTIE.

The Oregon Short Line has started
20 work in real earnest on the first
lap Of the road from Caldwell. Idaho.
TO Winnemucca- There are al
present 200 men at work at Caldwell
In the railroad yards Il Winnemucca
are rails. ties and material for thirty
miles of railroad II Is proposed 10
rush this work as rapidly as possible.
il being claimed thai a mile Of track
will be laid each working day. A
couple of days this week were spent
in making the proper connections
with the main line at Cald well.
The road will be built 70 Home
dale or Tracy this summer and con
meet with the line nov being built
from HomedaIe 10 Syassa- There
are several large outfits at work
along the Snake River on this branch.
The road out Of Caldwell is being
built in a good substantial manner.
Heavy steel is being used which
would of itself indicate that the
Short Line has no intention Of stop
ping at Snake River.
As soon as the bridge is erected
across Snake River the rails. ties
and other material for the Home
dale-Yyssa branch. which is part OF
the south side line now being ex-
tended from Buhl. will be shipped
from Caldwell.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-02
SCOTTY IS HELD
UP BY OFFICERS
DgsCoMFITED OFFICIALS ARE
GIVEN MERRY HA HA AFTER
MAKING FRUITLEss SEARCH
NOR HIGH GRADE ORE.

Death Valley Secf1y. Eno gained
fame throughout the United States
By bis IaFfsh manner in spending
money and the mysterious manner
in which he secured his finances
vas held up on the desert neal
Nfnnemucca on Saturday y
officers along With ITO vel
known mining men. on a search
warrant which charged Scotty Nth
having high grade ore in his posses
sion. Following a search which fall
ed to reveal any ~conEraband ore With
the exception of a specimen pocket
piece. he and his party ere allowed
20 proceed.
The hold up vas made by C1ar-
ence Sage. chief detective for the
GoIdheld Consolidated, and Deputy
Sheriff Moore and Sofsinger. With
scotty. when confronted By the Of
feers. we're J. l. Reynolds. a prom
fnent mining mar OF Pasadena. Cal.
and ID. W. Kennedy OF Reno
Scotty and his associates were
returning to wInnemucca from Ma
fional in a machine hired from
Charles HaeTner. The officers r.
ceiyed word that the automobile
contained a large quantity Of Ma
tionsl high grade ore that had been
stolen. and securing arms. the posse
SET out 10 apprehend the alleged
high graders before they could reach
WInnemucca-
They met Scotty about seven
miles from town, and after placing
the members of the party under re-
straint = search warrant was pro-
dueed and the car searched. No
high grade was found and then the
individuals were forced to submit to
being searched.
Scotty submitted calmly and as
search proceeded gave the officers
the horse laugh. The only fruits OF
The investigation YVES that q pocket
piece. a small specimen Of high grade
ore. vas found on the person of one
OF the mining men.
As soon as Scotty reached Win
nemucca he told the story Of the
heroic effort 10 place him Nith the
category OF the high graders and
laughed AT the troubles OF the posse.
The action on the part Of Detective
Gage and the deputy sherins is but
= small part of an aggressive cam
paign that has been carried on
against the high graders of Ma
tional. A large quantity of val
liable ore has been stolen since
the camp came into existence and
every effort IL being made TO stamp
out the practice of high grading.
II was reported in Winnemueca
that Scotty. with a pack of burros
loaded with high grade, vas COM
Ing across the Buekskin range and
would travel down the little Hum.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-02
The Reason.

John. whatever induced you to
buy a house In this forsaken
region?"
One of the best real estate men
in the business. Life.
The Washington times., 1911-07-20
RECIPROCITY IN
TAXATION PROBLEMS

| To the Editor of THE TINES:
If the virtues of reciprocity in refer
| ence to the problems of taxation were
| more rigidly applied at home, instead Of
seeking to extend 1t to foreign powers
| and foreign peoples, more Contentment
would be witnessed in these United
| States among the natives. 1t is all right
to tax dogs, horses, cows, vehicles, land
| and improvements. and other posses
sions of mankind, but this authority of
government and It's authorized officials
goes a little too far when the vehicles
of one State cannot enter another State
without additional taxation. l thought
the United States was one nation. but
have recently discovered that the Cap
!tal of this Nation is becoming more
| 'despotic'' each year in regard to tax
ing people who enter It. The Commits
ness" right along. Vehicles entering
Washington have to be numbered and
taxed, no matter what amount of taxes
they pay in other States, and not word
Of protest is entered by the Congress
mer, who allege to represent the resi-
dents around Washington. Individual
kicks" don't count, and organized pro-
tests seem to avail not. Can 1t be pos
sible that the remedy of last resort Is
TO be sought, when in all likelihood new
faces will be seen in the haunts of these
oppressors of the people when 1t comes
the farmers time to handle the ballots?
Candidates past records should be
more minutely scrutinized by voters.
They make all kinds Of promises before
election, but they don't know you when
you send in your card and tell them
you are one of the "darned fools that
voted to put them on the job. Then
the foolish farmer forgets all about
this little card incident when the time
'oo'' '"e'e w ~ MccoNyEY,
The Washington times., 1911-07-20
DESTRUCTION OF GERM.CAR.
RYING RATS.

The Health Department of the Dis.
trict finds itself in the anomalous posi-
tion of having $500 which has been
appropriated for the determination of
rats, but which is not sufficient to
finance any extensive method of cru
sade which has yet been devised. Re-
alizing the value of suggestions from
every quarter, the department ex-
presses its willingness to receive advice
from the general public as to the best
disposition to make of the small sum of
money on hand.
Deputy Health Officer Mclean is
disposed to use the money in conduct
ing a propaganda for educating the
people as to the menace of the germ
carrying rodents, and whatever other
suggestions may be made, there can
be no doubt as to the intrinsic excel
lence of this plan.
1t has taken years for the people to
realize that the humble house-hy is
one of the deadliest enemies of the
human race. The campaign of educa-
tion has cost a great deal of money,
but it is comforting to find that it has
borne fruit, and that systematic efforts
are now made to destroy these deadly
pests.
Hand in hand with this propaganda
should 60 the one now under consid-
eration-the destruction of rats. His
soft coat, as we'll as his internal anat-
omy, carries diseases which are at least
as terrible as those disseminated by
the house-fy, and in addition the pests
are directly destructive.
Let the suggestions come in to the
Health Department as to the best
method to pursue here in the District,
but in the meantime every citizen can
render a timely and incalculable serv-
ice by beginning, on his own account,
the destruction of the plague breeding
rodents.
The Washington times., 1911-07-20
ANOTHER CHAMPION
OF LA TOILETTE

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
Being also n subscriber to The Times,
I beg to reply to the bombastical TRADE
against Senator La Toilette by one j.
3. j." Of Norge. Va. in your issue Of
the 17th-
He SAYS: IT am somewhat acquainted
with La Follettes political record" Tn
doubtcdly, for VINO in the whole United
states has not heard Of Fighting Rob
La Follette"-fighting as no man ever
fought before for right and Justice in
every move he makes. politically: fight
ing that all may equally enjoy not only
the fruits Of their labor. but an equal
opportunity that the value of their labor
shall produce equal, dollar for dollar, to
that of a member Of the detestible trusts
and cumbines.
Ye gods: Is there man so stupid
having come from Wisconsin and clain.-
inr to know something Of la Follette's s
record. Of sixteen years Of labor of La
Toilette in the interest of the whole
pcopls, I'm the interest of equal taxation +:
in the interest of reform; in the inter-
est of honest elections; pure ballots, and
tho general purifi cation Of deceased and
dishonest politics?
presidential calioer. indeed, La Fol-
lette is the peer Of any man In the
J-nited States Senate today, and has
thc hacking Of all honest. conscientious,
snuarn dealing men. Although q life
long Republican land from Wisconsin
also), know and ]. B. J. knows. " he
The Washington times., 1911-07-20
THE VAGRANT CENTER OF
POPULATION.

The center of population has no ap.
preciable effect upon real estate values
and thus far has made no effort to cele.
brate itself with q decennial exposi,
ton or even a State fair. At the same
time its vagrant wanderings, like those
of the sea serpent, are always a matter
of more than passing interest. The
geographical nathematicians of the
Census Bureau have figured out that
during the past decade it has moved
thirty one miles from a point six miles
southeast of Columbus, Ind, and is
lowering long enough to be plated
about four and one-half miles south OF
Unionville, in the same State. During
the past twenty years it has not been
moving with its youthful alacrity, but
its performance during the first ten
years of the present century was more
than twice as sprightly as during the
previous decade. If it is making any
thing like a serious effort to take the
advice of Horace Greeley, it will have
to hurry to reach the West before all
the opportunities have been pre-empted.
1t used to be a neighbor of ours.
When the Capital was first established
in Washington this imaginary vaga-
bond could be seen-with the bye Of
faith-only eighteen miles west of Bal
timore, and at the end of the first
decade of the nineteenth century it had
moved over to a point northwest by
west of Washington. While no ex-
cursions were run to visit it during
those days it was probably because we
were afraid the British would try to
take it away from us if it's whereabout
should be disclosed.
There seems to be a purely Platonic
but very strong affinity between it and
the thirty ninth parallel, which it has
followed with commendable fidelity, in
a general way, ever since it stood in the
vicinity of Baltimore in 1870. Now
that it is abiding in the literary Goshen
of Indiana, it is safe to say that it
will be worked up sooner or later into
a best seller and put forward as a kind
of companion piece to George Canning's
Loves of the Triangles." No such ma
terial could lie around loose in the
Hoosier State very long without being
turned to account, even if George Ade
has to gerrymander it into his farm
and cultivate it. All its well -wishers
hope it will be able to cross the Wa
bash without accident, and that it may
pass Springfield, ILL.,, without a taint
of corruption.
The Washington times., 1911-07-20

Anyway, Mr.. Hesse is endeavoring to
give the Washington police the right
kind of batons, and IL there are any
good ones in the country he will find
them.
. While the exact figures are not avail
able, Mr. Hesse says that such a large
number Of batons were broken or con-
demned last year that the problem is
one which needs immediate solution.
Perhaps 100 new batons were purcha sed
last year. and as they cost 20 cents
apiece, the expense to the Police De-
partment was about $6G.
Police batons are much sought after
by souvenir hunters. Letters are re-
ceived frequently from persons who
want the department to present them
with a stick to put in a den or on a
hundred and one other pretexts. Some
are willing to purchase them, but
mostly they want their souvenirs gratis
Usually these letters find their way into
the waste basket. but when they are
answered the writer Is informed tha:
the police have no authority to give
away or sell the equipment Of the de-
partment. In fact. Major Sylvester is
strongly opposed to police parapher-
MALTA being turned over to the public
under any circumstances. He recently
The Washington times., 1911-07-20
MOVING PICTURE
INSULT TO SOUTH

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
or all evidence Of sectional hatred
and goading we have yet encountered,
the climax we saw at scent moving
picture show on Ninth street Yesterday,
Julv is. II we had known that II was
anything relating to the civil war to be
shown we would not have entered the
place. But there being a good violinist
at this place, that was more our object
than the performance. Most-in fact.
aIl-the representations of the civil war
at these picture shows portray the
South, the Southern army. and our
women in such a miserable manner
that. where these things are shown on
the boards at the door We do not enter:
notice what the play would be. When
i appeared d. upon .roth,, the - curtain: a a
ourselves out of the place at once,
knowing that the representation would
be an insult to the South.
The power of expressing the con-
tempt we felt, and the uncouth, brutal.
cowardly insult which was shown lies
beyond the limits of human express
sion. G. CARTER.
The Washington times., 1911-07-20

ture from the Straightforward course OF
serving the country, not the party,
which has characterized their tariff
program thus far. It would be re-
lection of 90 per cent because the
other 10 per cent was not to be had.
No good reason can be urged before
the country for such an attitude. The
wool schedule needs to be revised. The
people want it revised as soon as posi-.
BILE. Even were they in complete con-
troll of all three branches of the Gov
ernment, the Democrats would not be
able to make a wool schedule that
would appeal to a majority of people
as ideal. The ideal is the unattainable,
in this matter, at this time.
On the other hand, by going in for
the best possible revision right now,
the Democrats will get credit for what
ever of good there is, and will be able
to charge up the defects of the meas
ure to the fact that they are not in
complete control. 1t is altogether good
politics for them to go ahead and CO.
operate with the Senate alliance in ac-
complishing as much good as possible.
1t has been positively declared that
President Taft will veto such a bill if
it is passed. Certainly that is a con-
summation devoutly to be wished by
all Democrats. If the President can be
led into vetoing a little revision, it
will certainly give the Democrats a big
argument that he would veto q bigger
one.
From every point of view which the
practical politician ought to occupy, it
seems that the House Democrats will
make their first serious mistake if
they refuse to unite with the Senate al
lance in putting a wool revision up to
the White House.
The Washington times., 1911-07-20

through a trust-ridden House and Sen
ate. with the willing aid of the trust
owned tools therein. and through such
influence as nut LOriIcer over" into
the Senate to make sure of the motor
ious Payne Aldricn tariff DILL, proclaim
ed by j. B. Us favorite ''as the hest
tariff bill ever enacted ty a Republican
Congress
No man iS or has been so potent a fac
tor in bringing these iniquittes to light
to the public gaze. in an attempt to
La Toilette, and J. B. ]. must know il,
II he knows anything Of La Toilette S
record. and he probably does know. as
his article bears the 'earnlarks'' Of a
paid contribution" and one OF those
kind where logic is at a discount and
ridicule is at premium.
My advice to ]. 3. J. Is to read up en-
la Follette before attempting another.
Richmond, Va. "B. NJ. F."
The Washington times., 1911-07-20
Thank The Times
To the Editor Of THE TINES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
The members of the unveiling
committee and the sovereigns Of
Old Glory Camp. No. 8, Woodmen
of the World, desire to extend to
you and the members OF your staff
their sincere appreciation of the
notices in The Times regarding the
unveiling ceremonies of the monu-
ment erected to the memory Of our
departed sovereign, Reuben Brad
ley. former drum major of the
Marine Band. on last Sunday after
noon. The editorial comment rela-
tive to the erection Of a monument
by the Woodmen of the World
over the grave of every deceased
member was also greatly appre-
ciated, not only by the members
of the w. o. W. in Washington,
but by the members throughout
the country.
Please accept our thanks for your
courtesy,
Sincerely yours. S. E. BOMAR,
Chairman, Unveiling Committee.
JOS. NJ. HEINBACH, .
Clerk, Old Glory Camp,
No. g., w. o. w.