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Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-04-13
AMERICANS IN MEXICO
GATHERING IN The
JUICY PLUMS

4 Chicago dispatch of recent date
says: Prizes secured in Mexico in
the mad scramble for bargains which
has taken place during the depression
caused by the scattered rebellions
have included some for Chicaa-p men
and syndicates who have emulated the
British. Dutch and Germans in buy
ing when most people were afraid to
buy.
One of the largest rubber and cot
fee properties in the world, it is said
has been acquired by the San Jose
Synd cate of Chicago, and that 1000,
900 acres of hardwood timber had
been purchased by other interests, all
at prices which will be multiplied
many times by expected signs of the
strong hand OF protection to Amer
lean interests to which the admins
tration is said to be pledged.
The magnitude and completeness OF
the big coffee and rubber estate
among the hills of Chiapas is a re
minder OF feudal estate i'll Spain.
when one imagincs an orchard un
der one management, OF two million
trees, each to be sprayed and pruned
one gets the magnitude of the thing.
saws report. Nowhere in the far
east where rubber has been planted
extensively is there anything like it, a
forest OF a million coffee trees and
another million Castilloa rubber trees
in region where that number will
produce 100000 pounds OF rubber
every year.
1t is said the administration village
is electric lighted and connected by
telephone and telegraph with the rub
Der and coffee markets of the world.
The hardwood lands of the empire OF
100000 acres are said to have po-
tental value when labor is applied OF
the traditional Kings ransom" with
the ruins of Aztec cities thrown in
for good measure.
Mining companies have seized upon
the anxiety OF the timid owners of
Mexican property to extend their
holdings, and when the last exagger-
ated report of revolution is printed
il is said that some of the big ranches
will be found to include some thou
sand more acres than before the anti
Madero disturbance commenced.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-04-13
GIRL MINING PROMOTER IS
NOW THE LATEST CRAZE
This Girl is Just Out Of College and Has Engineered Some
Deals That Have Melted Her Good Money.

Successful girl mining operators
are so rare in this country that it is
probably not deviating far from facts
in stating that Miss Linnie kilgrow,
a guest at the Hotel Utah, has few if
any peers in Uncle Sans broad do
main. Although just out of college
and scarcely past her teens, Miss Xii
grow has visited mining camps from
one end Of British Columbia to the
other: has been in many of the lead
ing camps OF the United States has
successfully promoted several com
pancs, and sold number of mines.
and is today rounding out one OF the
biggest placer propositions in south
ern Utah
The company which Miss kilgrow
has just organized and filed the pa
pers with the Secretary OF State, is,
called the Gold Bug Placer Mining
company The capitalization is 800,
600 shares 1t embraces 20O0 acres Of
the IloSi pi olhHiHS Siouiib III tllt
Henry mountains. Grand county, scv-
enty-fve miles south of Green river
on the Denver & Rio Grandc Miss
kilgrow purchased the property from
w B. Hay after having made sec
ond trip into that isolated country.
She carries on these trips into the
wolds fierce looking revolver which
she can use like a true westerner.
The Gold Bug takes in gravel bars
varying in height from 10 to 400 feet
above the present Crescent creek bed
The ground gives up coarse gold run
ming from 50 cents to as high as $40
to the square yard There is ample
water for hydraulic purposes. The
climate is so mild that operations can
be maintained throughout the year.
The elevation j. less than AT Salt Lake
with only two months OF the year
showing freezing weather.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-04-13

When seen at the Hotel Utah yes
terday, Miss Kilgrow said:
we expect to get started inside Of
four weeks. | have been over con
siderable country and visited many
camps, but | consider my new Utah
proposition by far the best thing yet
1t is so good and so big that | shall
not hesitate in recommending Utah
mining to my eastern friends.
Yes, ! was in there last fall and
again ten days ago 1t is wild.
rugged country Some might call it
an unattractive wilderness, but
found il grand and absorbing. 1t re
minds be most OF Egypt. Suddenly
from the fiat desert wastes rise great
cathedral like monoliths resembling
crumblng ancient cities. You can al
most feel the silence which pervades
this beautiful, this unique world down
there"
When asked concerning some of her
recent mining deals Miss kilgrow
said
"Oh, yes: / have made money for
other people, as well as little for
myself"
She graduated from a young ladies
college at Washington last year As
A child she developed love for ma
ture and readily took to tablet and
brush This brought her nearer to
natures heart. and soon she took
ondness for geology and mineralogy.
which she has studied quite exten-
,ively in recent years. She is OF a
prominent Southern family,
Miss Kilgrow will be in Salt Lake
about week longer. Then she will
make herahird trip to the Henrys, and
from there on east to round out
minor details i'll connection with
starting work in the near future
Herald Republican.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-04-13
THE PROSPECTOR AND MINER
HAS A JUST KICK COMING
The Authorities Washington Seem to be Doing Their Leve
Best to Kill the Mining Game

out trouble is an expensive PROPOSE
ton.
One must spend 500 per annum
for each claim, for instance, while $500
worth of development work per an
mum must be accomplished before pa
tent can be secured. To the surveyor
general must be paid anywhere from
$50 to 500 per claim to the surveyor
must be paid anywhere from $40 to
$50 per claim, to the land Office for fill
ing, a fee of $40 must be paid, attor
ney's fees then come along, while as
last step the owner must pay the
government S. per acre
To ignore indications of mineral of
commercial value is to throw the min
ing industry into vast confusion.
There is one man in Utah-Jesse
Knight-who has brought out five diff
ferent dividend paying propositions in
the Tintic district There was not
great deal if any mineral showing on
any of these properties when Mr..
Knight began development work. He
had studied out the geological condi
tons thoroughly, and, after deciding
that a given condition gave promise of
ore, drove blind shafts or tunnels to
the logical points, in each case getting
the results anticipated. Yet Mr..
Knight or anyone else might spend
hundreds of thousands of dollars in
development work on mistaken geo.
logical hypothesis on claim and lose
all if some more fortunate fellow hap
pens along and finds commercially
valuable deposits with a single blast
Experiences are frequently met
with by mining men that are exasper-
ating and often amusing. Let claim
owner advertise for patent and there
happens along one of the forest rang
ers to demand that he be shown the
mineral opened He takes his own
samples for assay. One such not very
long ago came into 4 camp eighty to
fifty miles from tree, and criticised
some experienced mining engineers
for having driven tunnel when
shaft in his opinion, would have been
better. Under such isolated condi-
tons, with high transportation costs.
high labor costs and the inability to
secure fuel easily, the mining man de
velops his proposition along the line
of least resistance, but the young for
est ranger has his own ideas in the
premises and they ares ideas based
largely upon anything but experience.
Handicap or kill the mining indus
try of Utah. Colorado, Nevada, Idaho,
Arizona and other western States, as
the department at Washington evil
IDENTIFY is trying to do, and what will
be left?" asked mine operator.-Salt
Lake Tribune.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-04-13
Block Signals.

From 1927 miles OF road protected
by automatic block signals in 1902, to
more than 5000 miles so protected to-
day, is one of the safety appliance rec
ords of the Southern Pacific Com
pany, according to statistics recently
compiled in the office of the general
manager of the company in San
Francisco This mileage of more than
5000 miles includes only main line
and second track
More than seventy per cent of the
main line mileage of the Southern Pa
ciiic is protected by block signals
Approximately 100 miles are pro-
tected by the manual block signal
system, the remainder being under the
protection of the automatic system.
Less than three per cent OF the South
ern Pacific lines were equipped with
block signals in 1902 In 1908 this
percentage had climbed to little
more than six per cent. From that
Val tP w hhN PiNNNht tiiiN ehNoN
safety devices have been steadily in
stalled until today these automatic
blocks extend over nearly three-quar
tiers OF the entire systems main line.
Imagine the feeling of safety en-
joyed by the passenger who travels
over railroad where every mile is
protected by an automatic signal. He
feels that his train cannot collide with
the rear of train ahead, because his
engineer is not allowed to go closer
to the train ahead than the distance
between two block signals. The pro-
lection is good for both night and
day In the daylight the position of
the semaphore arm gives the engine
man his instructions, and at night the
color of the light tells him how to
proceed. Forty per cent of the block
signals in operation on the railroads
of the United States are on the South
ern Pacific
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-04-13

prohibitive price, compared with the
rate under the governments former
"give-away policy, still when the
present price is reduced to the ton
mage rate of cent, half cent, or
less per ton it is seen to be very mod
crate Some Of the western coal beds
run as high as $4,000 tons or more
of recoverable coal to the acre. A
single 40acre tract for example, in
a Montana withdrawal recently made,
contains over two and half million
tons of coal
Another public land fuel resource
in the proper development of which
Uncle Sam is taking an active inter
est is petroleum Seven or eight of
the public land States contain extern
sive oil deposits and in many local.
ties the oil is associated with natural
gas. Large areas of the western oil
fields have been geologically exam
ined, and Withdrawals of oil land
initiated by the survey now aggregate
$40, 800 acres in California. Oregon,
Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Colo
RADIO and Louisiana These withdraw
ais have been made i'll anticipation OF
much needed legislation, the present
gold-p placer law under which oil or
gas land must be acquired being in
adequate and resulting in fraud and
waste 1t is also evident that the gov
ernment should retain a supply of
petroleum for the American navy, in
which every new ship is now equipped
with oil-burning boilers.
Another mineral resource of the
public domain that is of great poten-
tan value is the rock phosphate OF
Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Montana and
Florida. In the discovery and CLASH
fication of the lands containing it the
Geological Survey has contributed
notably to the welfare of the farming
interests, for phosphate is neces-
sary plant food, being indeed equal to
potash as a fertilizer The worlds
supply OF phosphate rock is very mea
ger, but fortunately the largest known
deposits have been recently discov-
cred in the public land Etates. As a
result OF geologic examinations 26l1,-
$40 acres of phosphate land now
stand withdrawn awaiting legislation
to safeguard them from speculation or
monopolization.
A study of western rivers by the
Geological Survey engineers has de
veloped the fact that many very great
water powers are still owned by the
government A large number OF
power-site Withdrawals have been
made by the President on the recon-
mendation OF the Geological Survey
since May, 1909, when the first of
these recommendation was made
The power-site Withdrawals now out
standing aggregate l,74,522 acres,
distributed along the important power
streams of the western States. Reser
voir Withdrawals have also been made
to the extent of 94,90S acres
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-04-13
Richest Spot of Ground on Globe.

Figures have recently been com
piled to show that the Comanchc
mine of Butte, Montana, which EN-
braces only six acres, has paid out in
dividends through the Boston < Mon.
tana. which bought it for $2lSOOo, and
the Amalgamated Copper company,
which absorbed the Boston x Mon
tana. $3S,0O0,0o0 II still has $4,000
100 in value left in its ground, max
ing it probably the richest six acres
Of mining land that has ever been
turned up on the globe, says the Bos-
ton News Bureau.
This property was really the cause
and basis of contention IN the crea-
ton of the Amalgamated Copper com
panv. 1t was a narrow mining claim,
$500 feet long. but only about zoo
feet wide.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-04-13

AS Good AS Its Name,
'ESCALON HAVANA CIGARS
Bank Saloon.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-04-13
OUR UNCLE SAM OWNS SOME
PRETTY GOOD REAL ESTATE
1t Embraces Coal Lands Oil Fields Phosphate Deposits
Water Power Sites Throughout the Country

Uncle Sam is still the largest owner
OF coal lands, oil lands, phosphate
lands. and water power sites III the
United States, holding the title to an
area of such lands aggregating more
than ninety million acres. In 100
the government began the policy OF
withdrawing from public entry all
lands underlain by coal, and since
that time it has made a great many
Withdrawals, including not only coal
but also the other resources men
toned. This action has been taken
pending investigation of these re
sources by the United States Geolog-
ical Survey, an investigation which IN
the case of coal lands is followed by
their classification, appraisal, and re
storation to entry. Lands of the other
classes remain withdrawn pending
proposed legislation by Congress,
which shall provide for their proper
development.
In April, 1909, was put into force
the present comprehensive scheme of
coal land classification under which
each 40-acre tract of coal land is
classified and valued according to the
tonnage and quantity of its coal and
then restored to sale. The prices OF
coal land range all the way from the
minimum of $40 or $40 an acre, ac-
uated within or without the l5-mile
limit from a railroad, for lands con
tanning Ignite. the lowest grade coal,
to more than $500 an acre for land un
lerlain by thick beds of high grade
bituminous coal.
In the last three years, to March |,
1912, the Geological Survey has elias
,ifed and appraised as coal land To-
500.5S0 acres, with a total valuation of
1t which such lands were formerly
sold this average would represent but
S267, 5S5,075. the difference under the
new plan thus approaching half a bill
lion dollars OF eventual additional in
come to the government from its pub
tic lands as result of adopting the
policy of classification. Coal land
withdrawals are still outstanding to
the extent of 6o,000000 acres and
these lands are being classified by
the Geological Survey as rapidly as
possible, the rate approximating TO-
100000 acres a year The work in
volved in the classification OF these
,oal fields of the nation is enormous.
md while there is some criticism of
such conservation of national re
source, perhaps the best evidence of
the soundness of the policy lies in the
ready acceptance of the tonnage esti-
mates and valuations by purchasers
Of coal land, the increasing amount of
coal land thus purchased, and the fact
that the Geological Survey is con
Stantly receiving requests that GER
tain coal tracts be classified Al
though $500 or even $500 an acre may
be asserted by SPECTATORS to be a
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-04-13
Yerington Needs Garage.

There are so many automobiles
owned in and about Yerington now.
and so many people travelling through
in machines, that good sized garage
would be a paying institution. Al
Marsal, who is equipped to do any
kind of repairing on machines, has a
nice little repair shop, but it is not
large enough to house any number of
machines over night or in bad
weather If somebody would go i'll
with Marsal and put up nice large
garage with AIS equipment in it they
would soon establish good paying
business.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-04-13
Puts End to Bad Habit.

Things never look bright to one
with the blues" Ten to one the
trouble is sluggish liver, filling the
Kings New Life Pills would expel.
Try them, Let the JOY of better feel
ings end "the blues" Best for stom-
ach, liver and kidneys. Is cents at all
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-04
CHATTANOOGA RETURNS
WHITE SLAVE BILLS
y Associated Pr.ss.l

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn, June L.
The United States circuit curt grand
jury convened by order OF Judge L. T.
Sanford. TO investigate the charges OF
violation OF the white slave law I'M
earthed here yesterday. this afternoon
returned indictments against r. 4
Cameron and A. 7. Rosrk. lawyers. or
this city. and J. F. Roark, an auto
mobile agent at Birmingham. Ala,
Charged with violating the white slave
law in enticing and bringing to this
city Louis E. Nixon and Aline Bailey,
tao young girls from Birmingham,
Ala
The court authorities here at once
requested the department OF justice at
Washington to order Csmeron's arrest
he left here while the case was under
frvestiEat alton. ostensibly for New
York. buE was reported 20 have left the
train in West Philadelphia and was
going TO Atlantic City, n. J.
The arrest OF ]. +. Roark. supposed
q be IN Birmingham. was also ordered
A. 7 Roark. who is out on bond. wil'
be rearrested
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-04
COTTON CROP FOR 1872
OVER THREE WEEKS LATE
"OutIook for Normal Yield Is
Gloomy" Says Commits
Sioner'S Report

The June crop report, showing the con-
ditions in Georgia at this season of 1912,
was given out for publication. Saturday
morning. by J. ]. Conner, Commissioner
of agriculture. n
The report shows the cotton crop to be
% days late; that IL per cent of the crop
has had to be planted over; and that
practically u per cent more had not been
planted when the reports we're made.
The outlook for a normal yield is
gloomy" says the report. Still, with
ideal conditions from now on. 1t is pos
sible for Georgia to produce in the neigh
borhood of an average crop"
The report shows the following acre
age planted this year as compared with
last year: Cotton, IS per cent; corn, 1O1
per cent; oats, sS per cent; wheat, 81 per
cent; sugar cane, 81 per cent; rice, 81 per
cent; sorghum, 81 per cent; alfalfa, clover
and other cultivated grasses, IS per cent.
The fruit condition in the state seems
to be splendid" says the report. The
supply of farm labor, compared with last
year, is SO per cent.
Corn and other feed stuffs are ex-
tremely high, and the demand intensiies
the necessity for an increase in the pro-
duction of these crops"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-04
CARNEGIE'S PARTNER
HAS BAND OF PlPERS
Special Gable to The Journal


EDINBURGH, June lit used to be
said that no Scottish mansion was COM
plete or in the fashion without a piper
as a member of it's staff. John S.
Phipps, Andrew Carnegie's partner in
the steel business at Pittsburg. means
to improve on the tradition. He has
installed not only a piper, but a full
band at his residence in the Highlands,
so that his guests will in future have
the benefit of the best Scottish music
as an aid to their digestion.
The innovation. proceeding from an
American, is regarded with no little
jealousy among the Scottish nobility
of the Highlands and there is a feeling
that in spite of exposing themselves
to the charge of imitation, the full
band will become universal in every
home of Importance from Berwick-or'
Tweed to John o. Greats.
Carnegies piper has long been an
institution in Scotland and his neigh
bors at Skibo are waiting with some
curiosity to see whether the great mill
ionaire's enterprise will, like his part
ner's. run to the full outfit. In the
hope that the example set by John ;.
Phipps will be followed by other
Americans having residences in Scot
land, quite a number of itinerant pipers
who discourse music, sweet and other
wise, outside theaters, and in the pub
lie streets of the large cities south Of
the Tweed, are making their way north.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-04
VALDOSTA COURT BUSY
WITH MANY VERDlCTS

Especial Dispatch to The Journal.)
VALDOSTA, Ga, June 1.-George
Mobley, the negro barber who insulted
a young lady here two or three weeks
ago and who came near being lynched
at the time, was brought here from
Albany and plead builty to the charge
against him. Under the laws he was
only guilty of a misdemeanor, but Judge
Thomas imposed the maximum sentence
against him. He was given II months
on the gang and was hurried back to
Albany to be turned over to the prison
commission there.
Alonzo Clanton, charged with assault
with intent to murder, was sentenced to
12 months and 500. but the prison sem
tence was suspended during his good be-
havior.
w M. Thomas, who was accused of
having a pistol without giving bond and
registering same. was fined $50 and. II
months, but his prison sentence was also
suspended.
M L. Young, a white man, was con-
victed on two charges of forgery and
was sentenced to five years in the peni-
Tertiary. He forged a paper on the Citi-
zens' bank here. and a few weeks later
returned with another one. He was taken
In charge and convicted.
Math Clark, who was convicted of gam
bling, was given six months and fine
of $50, but the prison sentence was sus-
pended. Clark was told that if he ever
appeared on the same charge again he
would have to work out the fine on the
gang. ~.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-04
WILBUR WRIGHT'S BODY
Is LAID TO REST

DAYTON. Ohio. June 1.-The body
of Wilbur Wright was inferred in
Woodland cemetery here with simple
ceremonies this afternoon. The body
was viewed by $4,000 persons as it lay
in state from 10 to o'clock.
The funeral was conducted from the
First Presbyterian church, though the
deceased had been reared in the Unit
ed Brethren faith. He had no church
utilization at the time of death. Only
members of the family and a number
of friends of long standing went to
the cemetery. the family desiring that
the ceremony there be private.
During church services all industry
was stopped in Dayton for periods va
rying from three minutes tc half an
hour. Street car and telephone service
was discontinued for three minutes, be-
ginning at $3.50, while shops and
stores closed from $3.50 until o'clock.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-04
FITZGERALD TEACHERS
NAMED BY SCHOOL
Especial Dispatch to The Journal.)

Especial Dispatch to The Journal-)
FITZGERALD, Ga, June AT a re-
cent meeting of the board of education
the following teachers were elected for
the session of 1928. This almost
completes the faculty, there being only
tree or four more to elect. The SCHOOL
has just completed one of the most sue
cessful years in its history. The total
enrolment was 1874:
H. B. Ritchie, superintendent; U. ].
Bennett, principal OF high school; j. W.
Morris, principal of commercial departs
ment and supervisor of penmanship:
Mrs. r. Z. Lee, principal OF Third ward
sch DOL; Mrs. Daisy Brabham, principal
of First ward school; Mrs. Claudia Hoo
yer, history; Miss Myrtle Venable. Lat
in and English; Mrs. Rosina Howe. Mrs.
NJ. z. Ellars, Miss Ellie Bradbury Miss
Matte Lou Shook, Miss Julia Conn.
Miss Willie Willis. Miss Margaret EEs
cry. Miss Jennie Washburn, Miss Nellie
Tyler. Miss Adelaide Reibsam. Mrs. II
NJ. Saunders.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-04
TO SAVE HER BOYS
AND BROWNS WITH THEM

CAMERON, Idaho. June S.-Mrs. How
ard Upper, a widow. and her two sons,
Otto, aged IS. and James. II, were
drowned yesterday on their homestead
near here. The boys were in bathing
and the elder got beyond his depth.
James van to the house for help and the
mother rushed to the pond and jumped
I'm. The drowning boy caught his mother
around the neck with one hand and with
the other chung to James. who also had
plunged in. The three went down to-
gether