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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

The water necessary to operate the
concentration plant is piped from
Trout Lake, over mile away. After
doing it's work the water passes
through concrete conduit back to
the opposite end of the lake.
In company with Alvah Eastman
|of st Cloud, we went clear
through this immense concentrating
plant. We started in at the ground
fl cor, climbed up about steen hun
bred narrow stairs to the top, then
climbed back down at the:other end,
emerging where the ore falls into the
cars ready for shipment. Gravity
does the work for the ore; it didn't
help us any. When we came through
we were the same color as the natives
and the roads, fine brick red. The
ore dust paints all alike. After in.
specting the concentration plant, we
were driven to the Holman pit. We
climbed down the longest stairway l
ever attacked, walked through the
immense pit, then climbed out again
and walked half mile to where our
auto awaited us. The muscles of my
legs are sore yet. One car of washed
ore results from two cars from the
pits.
The following day visited the
mines second time, with ''the bunch'
of editors We were loaded into two
fiat cars with plain board seats and
taken down into the Canisteo pit and
up into the concentration plant. 1t
was great sight easier than going
via walkers line.
The Oliver Mining Company en-
ploys an army of men. It's pay roll at
present is between $4,000 and $4,000
month. Ithas thirteen locomotives
at work and an almost innummerable
o re cars. 1t operates large pumping
to keep the pits clear of water. Its
repair bill amounts away up into the
thousands.
The Canistoe pit is on the Hill prop.
erty and the OLIVER Company pays a
royalty of so cents for every ton OF
ore taken out. All ore taken from
pits on the Hill property must be
hauled to Duluth in Great Northern
cars. The ore bring $500 ton at the
docks. If costs the Oliver Company
bout half of that toget it to Duluth
But even at net price of $500 tor
the company is rapidly adding to its
already large fortune. The lease or
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04
affair GROUNDS

Base Ball, MelrCse VS.. Osakis.
Horse Race.
Five mile Motorcycle Race.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04
PARK REGION DISTRICT
Comrades Come From Northern Part
of the State for Their An
nual EnCampment
GOODLY NUMBER HERE
Men Who Fought to Save the Uniea
in the Early Sixties Meet Zach
Other Again

The tenth annual encampment Of
the Park Region District, G. A. B.,
is on in Sank Centre.
| Comrades who fought side by side
in the early sixties to save the Union
are fraternizing here, comparing
tales of hardships in camp and field,
in prison and hospital. The grizzled
old fellows are gay and joyous as
though they were but21. You would
MT think, from their actions, they'd
crossed the dead line of fifty, yet
most of them have reached the ago
of three score and ten. They are en-
joying themselves as only men who
have fraternized on the firing line
can enjoy themselves. And today
they will march in the Fourth of July
parade, and appear as vigorous as any
of the rest.
District Commander Underwood of
Staples arrived here last Friday to
look after the details of the encamp-
ment. Mr. Underwood is hale, hearty,
a typical, enthusiastic veteran of the
sixties. In conjunction with the G.
A. R. and W. r. C. and the commit
tee of the Commercial Club, Mr.. I'm
derwood has worked early and late to
get things in shape. Delegations be-
gan to arrive Tuesday noon and
kept right on coming. They were
met at the railroad stations by the
Sank Centre Bank and escorted to
headquarters on Mair street in the
building vacated not long ago by the
Hub lunch room, where they were
given badges and registered.
When the 4:33 p. m. Northern Pa
cific train came in there were on hand
to meet it, the Sank Centre Band,
and large delegations from the G. A.
r. Post and the Woman's Relief
Corps. At the head of the Post was
carried the colors of that organization.
The women of the Corps carried flags
and marched ::as proudly as did the
men. The procession made quite
showing. When the train came in
the boys in blue and the girls too as
sembled on the platform and greeted
the visiting boys and girls warmly.
The Staples drum corps was on the
train. 1t consisted of two Civil War
veterans, both of whom played the
fife, and three younger men, all drum
mers. The drum corps led the march
up Main street to the headquarters,
followed by the old soldiers, the wo-
men and all the visitors, both men
and women. The Sank Centre Band
brought up the rear.
A goodly delegation arrived on this
train. Automobiles were on hand to
convey the visitors to their lodgings
for the night.
Tuesday evening, at 1880, the old
soldiers, their wives and daughters,
were the guests of the city and the
Commercial Club at the Savoy The
atre, where special program was put
on for their entertainment. Then
followed camp fire in the city park.
j. W. Underwood, department COM
mander, presided. The guests were
welcomed in behalf of the city by Dr..
J. A. Dubois and the response was by
Col. Potter of Aitkin. Rev. Hughes
of Aitkin gave the main address ofths
evening, appropriate to the occasion
Mr.. Hughes isa pleasing speaker. Mrs.
Agnes Savage Of Minneapolis also
Continued on page
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04
A HUSTLE FOR WEALTH
Visit to the Western End of the
Mesaba Range Furnishes Much
Food for thought
WORK OF STEEL TRUST
Something About the Great Open
Pit Mines and the Monster
Concentration Plant
Editorial Correspondence

alCOffeSpOiiucuCcj
To person who has never been in
that region visit to the mining
towns on the iron ranges of northern
Minnesota is revelation.
While at Grand Rapids recently. at
tending the annual outing of the
Northern Minnesota Editorial Asso-
citation, it was my good fortune to in
spect the open pit mines and the con-
centrating plant of the Oliver Mining
Company at Coleraine and Bovey.
There are three open pits in that
locality, the Canisteo, the Walker and
the Holman. The Walker pit is not
now being operated, though there is
plenty of ore there vet. The three
pits, if placed side by side, would
make hole in the ground some two
miles long, quarter of a mile wide
and something like $50 feet deep.
Some hole, isn't it? And yet 1 was
told that at Hibbing and other points
farther east on the Messaba range
where mining operations have been
conducted considerably longer, the
pits are much larger.
Tt takes money to run an iron mine.
And it takes money, big piles of mon
ey, to get ready to run it. The Oliver
Mining Company expended in the
neighborhood of $14,0OO,OO0 at Coler-
aine and Bovey before they began to
have any returns. And it took five
years to do it. Think of it: an expen-
diture of fifteen million dollars extend
ing over a period of five years in order
to get ready to take in one cent. But
when the income begins to come, it's
dandy.
the first operation is prospecting.
Shafts are sunk in the ground to as
certain the locations and value of
deposits. This takes some time.
Then comes the stripping" process.
When deposit is located, it is neces-
sary to uncover it, And in order to
do it tons of OVERLAPPING earth must be
removed. 1t took over two years to
''strip' the Canisteo mine.
Another problem is what to do with
this material. 1t must be removed
and piled up somewhere. And in the
piling up process care must be taken
not to cover any more iron ore terri
tory than possible.
The strippings from the Coleroine-
Bovey pits were used to build fill or
grade to enable the ore cars to be run
up into the concentrating plant at
Trout Lake. a mile or more away.
This fiji is wonder, over 100 feet
high in some places, and it took two
years to build it. Strippings are now
dumped on hill and washed down in
ty gully.
These ore pits, great, gaping
wounds in the surface of Mother
Earth, are sight. Look across one
at man working on the further side
and he looks like small boy.
Down in the bottom of the pit are
immense steam shovels, putting and
greaning as they lift two tous of ore
at a shovel-full and deposit it in
ore cars, each of which has capacity
of two tons. train is made up of
from six to ten cars and as soon as
load is ready locomotive hauls it
away up over the big grade and
dumps it into the concentrating plant
and comes back after another load.
Three hundred cars day are now
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04

being taken to the concentrating
plant.
The work of taking ore from the
Canisteo pit has not been in progress
great while. / asked one of the
men in charge how far down the body
of ore extended and he replied that it
went down 285 feet. The bottom of
the pit is acres in extent. Think of
the vast amount of ore that must lie
there.
1t takes some engineering feats to
operate one of those big pits, Loco
motives must go down into the hole
and haul train loads of ore out. The
problem is to make grades that en-
gines can haul cars over. To provide
for this emergency, the stripping pro-
cess continues night and day, summer
and winter, making the hole wider
and longer, thus giving room for more
tracks on the ''hog- back" switch prin-
ciple. Before the Canisteo pit is
cleaned up the steam shovels, locomo-
tives and cars will be down four hun
dred feet into the bowels of the earth.
The ore is mixed with sand and
dirt to some extent. Part of it is of
sand like consistency; more is in a
rock like form though not hard to
break up. The hard deposits are
shattered by dynamite and the steam
shovel does the rest. Usually the top
layer of ore is of low grade. This is
hauled out of the mine and piled up
in hugh heaps awaiting the day when
a process is discovered which will war
rant it's handling on paying basis.
Several small mountains of this are
seen at Coleraine.
The concentrating plant is a won
| der. A hugh structure of steel, with
two railroad tracks laid on the top
most story, over one hundred feet
from the ground. Ore trains emerge
from the open pit mine from a depth
of $50 feet below the surface, ira
vel over the heavy grade up into the
concentrating plant 100 odd feet
above the surface. Some engineering
required to make this possible, eh?
This is-the only plant of its kind in
the world. Ore for washing comes to
it from all over the ranges.
Arrived on the top of the big build
ing the cars are dumped into huge
steel pockets and are then hauled
back to the mine for another load.
The ore passes down through crushers
and washing machines and energies,
clear of sand and impurities, into
another set of cars on the ground
floor. 1t is then hauled to Duluth,
loaded into vessels and shipped to
Pittsburgh where it is refined and
worked UP. When the big steel plant
at West Duluth is completed the re-
fining process will be done there.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04
EVENING

ZOO Log-Rolling Contest. On Sank Lake above
bridge.
1880 Band Concert. City Park.
$50 Illuminated Automobile Parade. Machines
run through all parts of city and finish at City
Park.
900 Fireworks. On Sank Lake.
go Grand Ball. City Hall.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-04
FOURTH OF July
AT SAUK CENTRE
Official Prog ram

200 Band Concert. Commercial Club Corner.
BOO Grand Patriotic and Industrial Parade. Forms
at Opera House, moves up Main street, to
Maple, to Fourth. to Main. to City Park and
dsbands.
LOO Address, Rev. HI. v. Adams. Commercial
Club corner.
1880 Tug-of-War. North and South Teams. Third
street, above Oak.
Loo Mile Bicycle Race. Start and Finish at Com
mercial Club corner. Run on Main, Birch,
Seventh and Main streets.
l:15 Potato Race. Third street, above Oak
l:3O Pie-Eatine Contest Commercial Club Corner.
:45 Tus-Of-War, East and West Teams. Main
street, above Fourth
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-02-29
SELLS PROUD OF NOMINATION
At HANDS OF "SUCK A Mob

Before leaving for Washington,
Congressman Sells gave out the follow
ing interview
~ am going back to Washington to
take up my duties there, glad to be rid
for the time being Of political turmoil
and strife. So far as am concerned, |
expect TO lay politics aside until after
the August election. want my friends
to do the same, so that County and
Congressional politics may not become
mixed.
1.-THE results of the Greenville Con-
vention are not surprising; in fact, |
might say that they are only what
were anticipated by thoughtful men.
Speaking for myself, | am satisfied
with the results. regret the conditions
which made it necessary for the people
of the District to assert themselves so
strenuously, but it was far better this
than to relinquish all control to a self
appointed Committee of few men. |
was at Greenville from Friday morning
until Saturday afternoon, and judge
there were some two hundred and fifty
or three hundred delegates present
when the Committee met on Friday
afternoon, to decide the contests in the
various counties. All of them were in
terested, and my five friends on the
Committee fought for open session, so
that all might be present and hear the
evidence which was being submitted.
The Committee arbitrarily refused this
request, and for nearly two hours
occupied the parlor at the Brum!ey
Hotel until the Proprietress became
annoyed at the confusion in the halls
and asked the Committee to vacate.
The Committee then went to the Court
House, where some three hundred del
egates had gathered in hope of being
permitted to be present and hear. Fail
ing to secure the election of these del
egates from the Court room, the Com
mittee then repaired TO the law office
of John 7. Phillips, which would hold
perhaps, twenty men, and again took
up its deliberations there.
"They declared an arbitrary rule, that
only one witness should testify on
each side, thus making itimpossible TO
lcorrectly determine which delegation
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-02-29

should be seated. Those actions on the
Committees part enbiltered the dele
CATION, and on Saturday morning
when it became generally known that
no one would be admitted to the audi
torium for the Convention, other than
those bearing tickets signed by a. l..
Suipley, the situation became acute,
and it was evident that trouble would
arise should this arbitrary action be
carried out. IT further became known
that the Committee head seated S6
Massey delegates, and but thirty of my
own. In Johnson county the Massey
witness had testified tha! the Sells
mem were in the majority at Mountain
City at the County Convention; but
Notwithstanding this, the COMMITTEE
gave the entire delegation of eleven
votes to Massey. In Carter County,
the general trend of evidence showed
that the Sells men were in the major
ity, at a ratio Of three 10 one, yet the
vote of this County was given in bulk
to Massey. In Sewer County, which
was Massey's home County, division
was made and the count which was
agreed to by Massey's representatives,
showed 1894 present for Massey and
1911 for me. Yet, the entire vote of
this County was added to the Massey
column. In Sullivan, Hancock and
Hawkins, the evidence showed that
the Massey men were not only hope
lessly in the minority, but that they
had bolted without any cause what
Ter. ! was given minority represen-
tations in these Counties, but in neither
was it equal 10 that given TO Massey.
| would like to know why it was that
] was given representation in some of
the counties, and yet in johnson and
Carter, where my friends were clearly
in the majority, and in Sewer, where |
had practically an equal number pres
ent, no representation whatever was
given? might add, that the evidence
showed in Sewer County, that nearly
200 men were present from the Coun-
ties of Knox, Jefferson and Blount,
more than 100 Democrats were there
and more than 100 men repeated, all
of whom were added to the doctors
strength in that County. | was,
lCOntinued on|Page y
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-02-29
CENTER FOR
CHAMPION WRESTLER

Newport had a wrestling match last
Friday night. the contestants being
the Mucilage Kid and Young Mandino,
the former weighing 1876 pounds while
the last named tipped the schales at
10 pounds. The Muciage Kid had to
throw Young Mandino twice within
an hour or lose, the winner to drag
down the whole purse and the loser to
take a pleasant smile for his share.
The bout was staged in the opera
house. The attendance was slim
and Young Mandino not only refused
to be thrown twice within one hour,
but threw the Mucilage Kid, once,
himself, and as result took down all
the money which amounted to twenty
cents after expenses had been paid.
The wrestlers did not consider the
bout financial success.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-02-29
CO.
GETS LAND
Has an Option On a Tract Op'
pOsite River From
Canton.

1t is reported in Canton that the
Champion Lumber Company has OBJ
tanned All option on the Bert Sathers
property, consisting of about 10 acres,
just across the river from Canton.
This caused the Canton Observer 10
suspect that the Champion company
was planning the erection of large
saw mill at that place, but the paper
contains i'm the same issue denial
from Mr.. Arbogast who stated that
there was no intention of building the
saw mill at Canton, but he assured
the Observer that the extention of the
Tennessee and North Carolina railroad
to Canton from Waterville, was an as
sured fact.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-02-29
County Officials VIII Be Nam
ed By the People
Saturday.
Little or No Interest Has Been
Shown in the County Race, the
Candidates Silently Making
Their Fight Before the People
All Seem Confident of Getting
Nominations.

The quitest country campaign in
years will come to a close Friday night
and on Saturday the Republican,voters
of Cooke county will name men who
will most likely fill three Of the import
ant offices for the next two and four
years. Usually the race for sheriff
causes much eXcitemen, in this county,
but ;his instance but little attention is
given same. Sheriff Dawson, has, how
ever, been busy making his campaign
and Alex II. Blazer who is making the
race AGAINST him las been seeing the
people for the past three or four weeks.
Sheriff Dawson contends that his op-
onent will not carry a single district in
the county, and the friends of Mr..
Blazer are equally confident although
their claims are not as broad.
Harrison Sexton has made such
good record as trustee that he is not
having any opposition. This too, despite
The fact that his opposition was most
pronounced in his race two wears ago
when he was elected by less than 100
plurality in a field of four candidates.
For Office of tax assessor there is a
thref-corncred fight. Royal Ottinger
and j. Il. Huff, have announced that
they arein the race and are condifctftg,
a vigorous eampigl, while the present.
incumbent, ID. r.. McMahan states
that he does not have to depend upon
newspaper announcements las he made
his campaign when he made his assess
ments. McMahan insists that lie is
going 10 get more votes than both of
his opponents, combined, but the
friends OF both Mr.. Otlnger and Mr..
HUFF state that he is due for surprise,
and that there Is a likelihood of one of
the other being the nominee.
The voting will be under the Dortch
law provisions, every precinct using
the D0rtch ballot for the first time this
election, and i: will be interesting TO
note what percentage of shortage is
shown i'll the Republican vote as
result.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-02-29
Election Officers

The following officers have been av-
pointed to hold the primary election
March 2nd, 1912:
First District-llolder, W. A. Hem
derson; Judges, Charley Haney, VIII
liam Sexton, J. n. Jones; Clerks,
Creede McMahan, }. G. Ellison; Dis
tributor, Jacob Henderson; Marker, T.
J. Sexton: Doorkeepcrs, Frank Bran--
don, G. j. Grindstafl.
Second District Long Creek-Hold-
er, John Tate; Judges, c. ii. Ottinger, ;.
Frank Eisenhour, Jim Meas: Clerks,
J. j. Winters, w. G. DeBusk; Distri-
butOr, }. Frank Meas; Marker, Charley
Ottinger, (of jonas; Doorkeepers,
Newton Blazer, NJ. l.. Gregg.
Second District-Parrottsv sville-Hol-
der, Tom Dawson; Judges, Jack Ott-
niger, Chas. Bible, j. c. Easterly;
Clerks, 0. w. Easterly, G. H. Smith;
Distributor, w. f. Bible; Marker,
Cawley Meas; Doorkeepers, Posey
Wild, David Basinger.
Third District-Bybee-H g.
H. III. Lowell; Judges, E. 5. Redwine,
J. A. Reed, John II. Holt; Clerks,
Luther Bible, w. l.. Lowell; Distribu-
tor, Alfred Sprouse; Marker, Burnett
Wood; Doorkeepers,, II. Green. Nose
Lowell.
Third District-Brier Thicket-
Holder, J. d. Holloway, ST., Judges,
J. II. Moore, G. p. Bible, w. A. Moore;
Clerks, John Campbell, w. l.. Daw-
son; Distributor, G. A. Moore: Marker,
n. b. Moore; Doorkeepers, Joe Sawyer,
Chas. Sawyer.
Third Districl-Inman-HoIder, A.
Beaver; Judges, Rufus Inman, Joe
Holloway, J. NJ. Turner; Clerks, San
key Wall, Emmitt Holloway; Distrib'
utor, Dudley Holt; Marker, Frank
Smith; Doorkeepers, jeff Beaver,
Christian Smith.
Fourth -WilsOnville-HOld-
er, j. p. Mayfield; Judges, Reese Jones;
Perry Hall, Sam Gray; Clerks, Bob
Evans, J. ). Gray; Distributor, M. J.
Continued on Page u
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-02-29
Special Judge, S. c. Williams,
Was on the Bench
During Session.
DOCKET WAS VERY LIGHT ELECTION IS A QUIET one
No Cases of Importance Were
Before the Court-Several d.
vorces Were Granted and the
Court Was Concluded Early
Monday Afternoon - Several
Cases Postponed.

Chancery court convened here Mon
day at a. IN. with Special Chancellor
s. c. Williams of Johnson City presid-
ing instead of Chancellor Haynes who
is in Florida seeking health.
The docket was unusually light and
the court was concluded early in The
day.
The majority Of the cases before the
court were continued, either by consent
Or for purpose of permitting defendants
toprcpare petitions.
Several divorce casses were passed
on. In the case of Rebecca Phillips VS..
George Phillips, the plaintiff was
granted divorce on lthe ground of
cruel and inhuman treatment and was
also given the custody of child,
Elberl Phillips. In the case of Ida
Hannah vs.Asley Hannah, divorce was
granted on the grounds OF abandon
ment and the PLAINTIFFS maiden name
Ida Barnes, was restored to her. Charity
Hurst was granted divorce from
Edward Hurst on the ground Ofcruelly.
J. A. Finney was granted a divorce
from VI. J. Finney and David Clark,
'colored, from Addie Clark; colofed, The
plaintiff being given possession of their
child.
In the injunction granted the South
ern railway against certain parties who
had put a pipe under the railway
track on main street, the case was
dropped and the costs were taxed to
residents living in North Newport.
In the case of Baylcss Bros. and the
McMillon Bros. the case was continued
by consent. This is one of the cases
where the Baylcss Bros. are seeking
possession of the store of Noah McMil.
lon for benefit of creditors of the New
York store.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-02-29
PREPARING
FOR CLOSE
ParrOttsville High School Has
Enjoyed a Most Success
full Year.

Preparations are being made at Par
rottsville already for the closing exer-
cises Of the Parrottsville High School.
This historic old school which WAS
organized in 1878, by Rev. George II.
Stuart, has enjoyed one of its most
successful years, and the commence
meut exercises in April will be gala
event, and it is planned now to have
prominent speakers present for ad-
dresses.
The school for the past two years
has been under the direction of Prof.
Glenmore Garrett. He has been assist
ed by corps of four teachers, and the
classes have been better than ever be-
Continued on Page 81
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-02-29
ORLIE WEAVER KICKED
ON PITCHING HAND

Orlie Weaver, who is running the
tiansier department of the Ray Livery
Stable, stopped horses hoof last
week with his right hand and right
knee but fortunately no bones were
broken, The injury gave Orlie brief
scare as his right hand is valued high
lv by him and also by the Boston Nat
ionaI League. The injury will not in
terfere with his reporting with the
Boston club at Augusta.