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boy had not been an unusual character
 he would have been warped. stunted in
 mind if not in body. But nothing the
 man could do restrained the child in his 1 Ieagerness for learning He used to hunt l out papers, books, old almanacs-any- thing that contained a scrap of reading natter-and at night when he though, lis uncle asleep he would pore over his printed treasures in his attic room. Some
 times the uncle, awakening from his slumbers would see a shaft of light through the ill-stopped chinks of the at tie floor. Then he would creep up the ladder and. infuriated at sight of the boy propped face down over a book in the candle light, bestowed upon him hiding the child felt for many a day. To the ancle il seemed a crime to burn good candle grease in such a cause. To the hoy study was the greatest joy in the world.
 The aunt, to save the boy and to aid him in his obsession for learning. stuffed the cracks between the logs with rags and bits of paper. and after a time it was possible for the lad to read at night without danger of discovery.
 Tn the spring and summer the boy worked on the farm. almost as a day la borer. but in winter time he had a chance to go to one of the rude, backwoods schools. There he learned more than any of the other children in the classes When he was only a youth he had absorbed so much that he had the temerity to apply for position as teacher and got it Nearly every dollar ne obtained for sal ary he saved. He was bent upon having as good an education as was within his power to obtain. He never spent dol lar that he could avoid. every cent of his savings goings for the furtherance of
 the one plan he had in mind. When he had money enough to launch this plan
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world that are on a system anything like that which Jackling has introduced are in the iron belt of Michigan. There the mountain is stripped of it's iron ore just as Jaekling strips the Utah company's mountain of it's copper, sil- yer and gold ore. The work he has done in Bingham canyon has had a good deal to do with the development that since has been seen in the Nevada, the Chino and Ray properties.
 To person who goes and sees the operations on the Utah Copper com- pany's great property 1t looks more like the building of the Panama canal than mining undertaking. There are from 20 to 30 terraces on this mountain side, great hunks of the mountain It. self being dug out, blasted out, carved out, cut out, quarried, and simply cart ed away to be turned into metal which means money, and money in a volume such a S never came from low grade ore before.
 To lacking will stand the honor of working a revolution in the handling of low grade ores. He gets the credit through what he has done in this mine alone of bringing into use and into the worlds work hundreds of millions of dollars, because that Is what this great ore deposit will ultimately represent.
 Nobody need think he can get in on the ground floor or the first story, the second story or any other reasonable story Of this Utah Golconda. The men associated with Jackling have taken care of themselves very we'll There are S15.- OOO,0Oo of securities issued against the property today and they sell on the Stock Exchange at a 400 per cent prem ium so that they are value at $75, 900, ,O00 That is a pretty good showing as the result of the work of a man who had only $400 in the world seven or eight years ago.
 There are persons, we'll informed, who predict that if lacking lives to a good age (and he is but 42 todao he will be one of the richest men in the world There are a good many who rank him today higher than John Hays Hammond. His rise has been so sudden that you won't even find his name in Who's Who" The metallurgcal libraries give long list of the honors that have been bestowed upon him by various in- stitutions for his work in chemistry and metallury, for he is almost as far ad- vanced in chemistry as in metallursy. The University of Missouri too, looks upon him with the greatest pride. The athletic field there is named Jackling in his honor. Recently the alumni of the university issued a magnificent volume fin praise of him and his work, but fortune. honor and glory make little difference in the bearing of Daniel Jackling. He is the same earnest, studious, ardent being that he was in the days when he lay on his stomach in the attic of the log cabin and read by candelight, one ear attuned all the while for the footstep of that angry uncle.
 Copyright, 1911, by Richard spillane).
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go to Colonel Wall and get an option on his three quarters. Then, if you succeed in that. you and I and McNeill and Penrose will have to try and get company together-and l will make you richer than you ever dreamed of being!"
 Cohen went to Delamar and got the option on his holdings. Then he saw Wall and got an option on his. Next, those two young men, Penrose and Me Neill, acting simply on the faith they had in that Missouri metallurgist, spent s500,000 on an experimental mill to handle the ores of that low grade mine.
 That low grade mountain of pre- twen- weight miles from Salt Lake City, is today the richest mine in the world. 1t is only six or seven years since Daniel C. Jackling took hold of it and assumed the management. He took S11 ,000, ,000 in copper. gold and silver out of it last year, and soon will be taking out at the rate of $20,000.000 a year. There is s200, 900. coo in ore blocked out. How much is back of that is beyond accurate estimate by man. More men are employed on that one property. cutting out that ore and treating 1t, than live in the town of Ap- pleton City, Mo, where Jackling was born. More men are employed on that one property than live in ten towns ol the size of Appleton City. There is not another copper. silver or gold mine in the world operated as is that one. Jack ling is stripping the face from the noun tain. Tunnel work is practically at an end. Terrace after terrace rises up the mountain side Along these terraces To- ccmotives and trains of cars travel night and day and great steam shovels hy- draulic drills and other instruments of mine work are busy. More than twenty locomotives are engaged dragging ore down as it is torn from these terraces. The mountain Is high, wide and deep. but it will be removed from the face of the earth when the operations of this company are completed.
 When Daniel c. Jackling made the suggestion to his friends in Canyon City to get possession of that mine in Utah he had just $400 in the world Today he has million several times over. Me Neill, one of the two young men whc risked half million dollars on Jack ling's judgment, is president of the con cern, the corporate name of which Is the Utah Copper company. Penrose IS another of the mine officials. They have become immensely wealthy through their confidence in Jackling. The Gug- genhcims. masters of the smelting in dustry of the United States. seeing what a rich field Jackling had opened up put s3,000,000 into the company They brought in, too, their famous expert MT. Hammond. But they have no con. trolling voice in the management of tn property. Jackling and his friends dom mate.
 The only mining operations In the
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, From Shoshone let us go north into Montana and take a look at Huntley, which lies at the junction of the North ern Pacific and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads, on the south bank of the Yellowstone river. Here lie about 29,- GOO acres upon which Uncle Sam has put water, and which he is now giving out to settlers in tracts of 40 acres and 80 acres each. The most of the farmers think 40 acres enough to yield a good income and say that is all the land one man can comfortably handle They tell, however, of extraordinary yields If vegetables, su- gar beets, fruits and grain, and are mak- ing good in every possible way. The town of Huntley Is fast growing and 1t has churches, banks and hotels. Osborn is another town which has sprung up, and near it is Ballantine, which has five stores and postoffice, while Warden and Newton are also fast growing.
 The irrigation system here was prac- tically completed in 1907 and hundreds of families are now on the lands. Many are raising alfalfa, which they sell for s a ton, and not few have diversified crops, from which they are getting from $500 to 5000 per annum on their forty-acre farms. Nevtheless, the soil had not been scratched by the blow before the govern. men took hold of it. Uncle Sam had to spend a million dollars before 1t was ready for settlement, but the lands are now being paid for and every cent of this money will eventually come back into the treasury.
 Where Apple Is King
 Going westward into Oregon and Washington, we reach the fruit lands where the chances are even greater than in the irrigated sections farther east. Here are the Yakima projects in region where full bearing apple orchards pro- duce crops worth from $500 to $1200 per acre, and where peaches do quite as well Yakima county is shipping hundreds of thousands of boxes of apples each year, and millions of young trees are now
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and mine managers got to know him as man of wide knowledge and accurate information. Now and then he was em ployed to go and examine properties and report on them. Once he was en- gagged to assay and study the ores of mountain in Bingham canyon. some 2S miles from Salt Lake City There was a lot of ore in the mountain-countless millions of pounds of il. But 1t was Of so low grade and so refractory that 1t was doubtful if it ever would be of utility Some tunnels had been sunk in the mountain and showed any quantity of ore, but the owners of the property, Capt. J. R. Delamar and Col. k. A Wall, although possessing great belief in the value of their mine were unable to developer dispose of it. For II years the mine had been on the market.
 Jackling went over the property with all the thoroughness that a trained and conscientious man could employ. Then he made report to Deamar and Wall that, regardless of the low grade of the ore, the property could be worked with a profit. and with a handsome profit at that. He set forth his ideas in full and laid them before them.
 Delamar and Wall digested that report and then turned it over to various ex- perts for their examination and consider ation. The experts turned the report down. Delamar and Wall had more faith in the experts than in Jackling, and dropped him and his report.
 Jackling went back to Colorado The report ot the experts and the rebuff of Delamar ard Wall had no more effect upon him than the acts of suppression and oppression Of the farmer in Mis- souri,
 At Canyon City. Col. were two men who had smelter which Jackling had a hand in building. They had the be- lief that there was not a better posted mining engineer in all the world than
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other public buildings constructed and social and political communities are well under way.
 What Has Been Done
 Let me run over some of the proj- ects and tell you a little of what has been done. Take Yuma on the Colorado river on the southeastern boundaries of Arizona and California. There is u dam there almost a mile long, that is as high as two-story house. which will eventually irrlgate about 97, ,0Ou acres of land The dam was completed about two years ago and a distribution system of 1S7 miles of canals has been laid out and is well under way. The lands here are partly in California and partly in Arizona. The total area re- deemed will be about 100000 acres, of which S0,000 will be in Arizona. About 5000 acres of land are already under irrigation on the California side of the river and other lands are open to set tlement
 The country never has frost and it's hot tropical sun fits 1t for the cultivation of oranges, lemons, grapefruit, dates, etc. It is an ideal region for ostriches and it will vie with South Africa in the rais- ing of feathers for our American mar ket.
 Jun ping to the extreme north, where the Shoshone river has now been turned on the lands, a number of towns have been laid out and some are fast growing Cody which was named after Buffalo Bill, has a population of 25O0, with three banks, stores, lumber yards and hotels. An cleo tric plant furnishes the town with light and power, and 1t has sulphur plant, a brick yard and a flour mill, which grinds 125 barrels every day. Garland. another town, has about 800 people and Powell and Raston are other settlements which are rapidly growing. Here the soil is a rich, sandy loain, fitted for alfalfa, grain and decidious fruits. There is a grazing country about and the unirri- gated lands are well fitted for sheep
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1 he went to the University of Missouri and
 worked and studied there as he had
 worked and studied in the attic of that log cabin in St. Clair county.
 When he was 19 he was graduated in metallurgical engineering and before he was 21 he was appointed assistant pro- lessor of chemistry and metalurgy of the Missouri School of Mines. The or phan hoy Of that wretched farm was now Prof. Daniel c. lacking of the Uni versity of Missouri.
 There are few mining men who do not know Jacklng today He has be- come one Of the greatest figures in the mining world. Some men say that he measures bigger than John Hays fam mond-that man for whose talents the Guggenheims of New York paid a sal ary of s1.0oo.ooo a year,
 The Missouri university did not hold Jacklings very long. In 1884, when he was but 9 wears old, he went to the west, to Colorado, as chemist and metallurgist of the Lawrence Gold Ex- tracting company and incidentally he assisted in the development of the chlorina ton process of Cripple Creek ores. For eight or ten years he was engaged by various big mining con- cerns as engineer, chemist, assayer or superintendent. He travelled over that great mineral belt in the Rockies and far out to the northwestern corner of the union. He built cyanide plants in Utah and Colorado, and traveled over hills and dales, through canyons and valleys, winter and summer. There was hardly a big mining prenc~tE i~ "
 west that he did not get in touch with so as To know the cn .aut-i
 its prospects He was studying the mines as he had studied books. Apparently he did not make great material progress in the worlds affairs but he was storing up his mind with invaluable information. Mine owners
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by tunnel six miles in length into the Uncompahgre valley. This is a part of scheme which eventually will irrigate 14O- OO1 acres, and the engineering connected with it is most remarkable. The tunnel was made in eight-hour shifts, the work being kept up day and night, and 1t was completed in the shortest time upon rec ord In one month S23 feet were made, and one gang of laborers dug out 7500 feet in one year.
 Some Operations in Texas and Me-
 braska
 I have already written of the Pathfinder dam. This is connected with the Nebras ka project on the North Platte river and it includes diversion dam 800 feet long and 20 feet high, which has been built across that river near the station of Whalen. An interstate canal carries the waters stored In the Pathfinder reservoir through this dam over the lands of Wyo- ming and Nebraska. This project Is about three-fourths< completed. The canal has been dug to length of loo miles, supply ing about 5000 acres of land, and the men are now at work upon reservoirs which are to be filled during the non-irr1gating seasons. The watered lands are being settled and are yielding aboundant crops.
 An interesting situation is that of the Rio Grande project, which is Just across the river from Mexico, and as to which Mexico objected, as II u1VertS the waters of the river which forms the boundary of the two countries. This matter has been settled by the reclamation service plac- ing it's dam near the station of Engle on the Santa Fe system, and agreeing to give the republic of Mexico an annual supply of 60,0O0 acre feet of water. The reservoir which will be made will have capacity of about 2,500,000 acre feet. and it will irrigate 1S0,000 acres. The work is already in progress there. railroad has been built from Engle to the dam site.
 In North Dakota the government pro- poses to pump the water from floating barges in the Missouri river, using the cheap Ignite coal which is found every where in that region. By this means It will irrigate the Bench lands in the vi- entity of Williston and Trenton, ultimately retaining perhaps 10000 acres. During the past year about 24OO acres have been IT, rigated in this way.
 In South Dakota the Belle Fourcne proJ- ect has been S3 per cent completeo. Ihis is an important system, including stor- age reservoir, an enormous storage dam anf A large canal. The project will water 100 0o0 acres of land of which about half is already supplied.
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UT in St. Clair county Mo, an or phan boy was taken into the
 O home of a farmer in the 70's 10 raise" The home of the farmer was a log cabin and the farm was made up of a few struggling acres. There were two rooms in the cabin-one that served as A parlor. kitchen. bedroom. dining and store room. covering the ground floor
 Above it was wee attic The farmer and his wife lived below the boy above
 The orphan boy was a nephew of the farmers wife. and she it was who pleaded with him to shelter the boy when the lads parents died The man con- sented. but with i'll grace. He was harsh-tempered and crossgrained. IT he had any love. sympathy or kindliness of feeling for that boy he never displayed 1t. Apparently he resented the intrusion Of a child into his home. But he made the child work hard for every bit Of food he ate and every stich he wore. Between that man and that boy was one Of those strange angYathies that sometimes develop between two humans for some unaccountable reason.
 The boy was bright clever. eager. full Of energy. There wasn't lazy bone Tn his body. The man was dull. heavys bit l ter. slow. The lad knew how to read little and had an unsuitable passion | for knowledge. The man was bent upon l suppressing every desire of the childN He l hated to see him read or try 10 read i Nothing the child could do pleased him. l The boy did all the chores of the farm working from daylight to dark. He slav- ed as only a farm boy can slave. He gave almost every ounce of his strength. but rarely got a kind word from the man who sheltered him under the rafters.
 If 1t had not been for the woman the
 cbjlds lot would have been sad indeed. she. in the goodness Of her heart. did
 everything she could 10 soften the harsh-
 ness of her husbands conduct 1T the
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From the Washington Heraiu.
 Good manners gre not hard to cultivats. inf if is difficult for the young girl to realize their importance. Yet if she will oniv stop to think she will remember some older woman who. in her eyes, holds ev.I ything of grace and charm.
 Then. vky does she not try to initiate rcr2 why dtes she not study this wom- ans rcrs soilality and find out her charm?
 The young girl should be considerate of all things. In being that she will find nearly everything else will be corl- paraticely oasy
 She will not talk In loud, breezy tones, hecause she will know that in doing so she is disturbing others.
 She will not hurry through the streets in bold and pushing manner, nor stand on the payvements with group of gig Rling girls, because she knows she Is making hets elf a nuisance.
 Nor will she enter shops and engage m high pitched conversation plentifully spclnkled With slang and incommoding other customers by blocking the counters. .t'n.e a gir. accepts consideration as a foundation she will soon flni herself possessed of 2 charming personality.
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created for the purpose, resulting in o saving of s690.o00 on that item alone. This dam will furnish electric power, which will be used for pumping water from un- derground in the Salt River valley, ad- ding something like a thousand more farms to the cultivated area.
 Uncle Sam's Irrigated Farms
 These dams and the others connected with them now being made by the recla- nation service will add enormously to our national fruit and bread basket. The lands reclaimed are naturally the riches, of the world. They are made up of the earth washings of the mountains, whose fertilzing materials nave not been car ried away by the rains. The soil is as hot as that of a hotbed. In most places il surpasses that of the Nile valley, and altogether there is so much of it tha. it will add more than seven Egypts to Uncle sam's farms. All the land now cul- tivated in Egypt is little more than six T. illion acres. When our reclamation projects are completed they will reclaim forty-five or fifty million acres, and if the land should support proportionateIy as many people as does the valley of the Nile they will feed something like sev- enty-seven millions
 This means results which are far in the future and somewhat beyond what the engineers now claim. MT Blan- chard tells me that there will undoubt edly be enough land for one million families, and in this he estimates the farms at 30 to 40 acres each. One acre of any of these oases is easily equal to five or ten acres of Illinois or Iowa and it is said that a family can be supported on a five or ten acre patch. About one million acres have already been covered with water and homes by the hundreds are being cut out of the sand. On many of the oases towns nave already gone up, street railroads have been built, school houses and
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-08
WAGON RUNS over
| 3-YEAR-OLD LAD

Last Friday while Henry Erlck-
ybon and family of Smoot, were en-
route home from Fish Haven, where
they had been after some fruit, their
3-year old son fell from the mount
ain wagon, in which they were rid
ing, and one wheel passed over his
chest. The accident happened
about ten miles east of Montpelier,
and by the time the parents reached
here with the injured child, his con.
dltion was such that it was feared
his injuries would prove fatal. An
examination by Drs. Guyon x
Parkinson showed that the boys
right arm and several ribs were frac.
tured, and one lung punctured.
This let the air escape INTO the
tissues and caused the boys face and
neck To become badly swollen. The
doctors gave the little fellow every
attention possible and after shori
time began to revive from the effecti
of the injuries. Under the care Of
t doctors he is now doing nicely
and the mother will be able to re
III home in few days with th,
little fellaw.