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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-12-05
The Mines.

The top price for zinc blende
last week was $61.50 a ton. The
basis range for lots carrying so
per cent metallic zinc was from
$50 to $50. so. The feature of
the weeks bidding was the
strength of the second grades,
which sold for $57 generally
throughout the district. The
second grades are SIS higher than
they we're two weeks ago. There
has not been such 4 marked rise
in the choicer lots, which, how.
ever, have continued in strong
demand, and were so cents bet
ter last week than for the week
before.
Shipments, which have passed
the 1900 ton mark at times, are
in excess of the production, and
IS a result the small accumula-
ton of reserves in the bins,
which was never large enough
to have a bearish tendency on
the market to any great extent,
has been reduced to a minimum,
and with the exception of two
or three unusually large binsfui
Of bleude in the Webb City and
Joplin camps, the ore reserve,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-12-05
are not in evidence.

Prior to few years ago, the
soft ground mines produced by
far the greatest tonnage of con.
centrates, but as the sheet ore
districts we're gradually extend
ed, vast new areas were opened
and concentrating plants of ire
meudous daily capacity were con-
structed. Although these mills
are forced to handle a much
greater tonnage in order to pro-
duce as great a volume of con-
centrates as the mills in the soft
ground district, their aggregate
is so much greater that
the volume of concentrates like
wise is greater.
With stronger prices the out
PUT OF the sheet ore districts IN.
creases faster than does the pro-
duction from the soft ground
and a decline in prices
causes a sharp falling off in sheet:
ground production. Should prices
drop below a certain level, $40 or
rs for example, the chances are
that the volume of soft ground
ore would overbalance that of
he thinner regions, this condi-I
lon being due to the smaller ez-
'rn1s of operating llf soft fgonnd
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-12-05

mine.
I, For the corresponding week o.
1911, blende was much weaker
than at present, and the basi:
range was from $44-to $4s a ton,
while choicer grades brought as
high as $3.50. Spelter was then
quoted at 1888, compared with
$3.50 today.
Producers of calamine continue
to get a high figure for their
ores, and the output is showing
a tendency to increase. Grades
carrying 40 per cent metallic
zinc sell readily for $50 to $50 a
ton, while lots running high in
metallic zinc command a pre-
MUM which forces the bidding
up to S3s a ton.
Last year at this time calamine
brought S24 to s2s a ton, basis,
while choice grades commanded
sss.
The only weak place in tie lOs
cal market at present is in the
offerings for lead ore, which
have dropped to S54 a ton, com
pared to SO a ton for the CORES
week of 1911. Pig lead
Is quoted At s4.zs to $3.50, com
pared With SIS 4 year ttd
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-12-05

. We can hardly imagine Why
you do not burn gas. tits cheap
er, cleaner, more convenient, and
much easier on the housewife.
You can get your house plumbed
very cheaply BY Deckert, the
Who has an Office ia the
News building.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-29
II -Ra5FzoNxsY PLLE zAT 0vE EaD ROSE
ON hItzz LAY N12oUczE ZzE NAR NE SbkR7L SAronss7S

Christmas eve, and in sight of
the cabin where the two men
were. This incident has always
impressed me with its dramatic
character, and in certain way
was not unlike that drinking
scene in the play Of Lucretia
Borgia, "
A party was assembled in one
of the buildings at the mouth of
a tunnel, near the famous Emma
mine. With mirth, with rollick-
ing songs, they were keeping the
Christmas eve. The glass was
even at their lips when, without
a moment S warning, the ava
lanche was upon them. All but
one were hurled to death, and
that one was saved because of
his qruiekness in springing to-
ward the tunnel mouth.
The bodies Of the victims lie
in the little bleak buryins
ground near Alta, where many
others killed in slides were put
to rest, and which is used in the
poem. But one would have hard
work to find those old graves
the snow has swept over that spot
many times.
Indeed the author could
scarcely trace any of the mounds
when he last visited the place.
Some one once said to the Writcr.
that besides the victims of the
slides no one was inferred in
that burial ground but those
who died with their boots on ;
meaning, of course, the early
toughs of various kinds, But
that is not true.
The incidents that open the
story are all true. The finding
OF the little dead child in its
cradle is a fact; and so, too, the
pathetic sight, the stocking
hanging at the cradle head and
filled with toys. Once, when he
was younger, the writer pos
sessed souvenirs Of the slides.
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Cabin Cut in Two.

And how about that capln cut
into halves? Oh, yes, the slides
do such queer things as that. 1t
often appears that fate can so
guide d mass of snow. The writer
did so see the cabin, the one half
remaining upon It's rocky shelf,
the other broken into fragments
and scattered for thousands of
feet upon the ledgcs below.
There is. no end to the strange
things that avalanches will do
and it Is their unexpected actions
that makes it so difficult to de-
wise protection against them.
Never do they act twice alike.
There was a strange old her
NIT who lived in the Wasatcb a
few years ago. His cabin was
placed where one would never
have expected TO see it de-
stroyed by the snow. But it was
and cut into halves, too. The old
recluse was found dead far up
the opposite side OF the noun
tain from that one down which
came the slide that killed him.
What was left OF the cabin is
now In the summer time almost
hidden by a luxurious growth of
the purple monks hood and
golden ivesias, and the mountain
denizens, chipmunks and blue
birds, make it their home. But
this is not the cabin told Of in
"Plet.' -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-29
Dead Mans Corner.

THE Dead Man S Corner" is
not imaginary. Many a lonely
prospector, many a miner Cross
ing the ridges, went down under
the slides and lay buried for
months before their bodies were
found.
Sometimes they lay for years
and only the bleached bones
were found upon the rocks or
almost hidden among the noun
tain flowers. Yes, many were
given unknown" or some clue
was given to a strange disap-
pearance. There were those who
were never found and what be-
came of them was only sur
missed.
But men were daring ia those
days and appeared to place lit
tie value upon life as compared
with the chances of fortune.
The writer once talked with
woman who had crossed, in
midwinter upon snowshoes, over
the great divide, from Alta, be-
tween the Little Cottonwood
canyons; and that, too, alone.
That fact certainly required
bravery and endurance; but to
speak of powerful motive, of
course there was that; and love
was at the root of it.
1t was surely worth the while
to hear that woman tell in her
firm tone of voice of that peril
GUS trip.
While sitting in our comforta-
BILE room the task performed
alone by woman might not
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-29
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4lfre0 LambOurno

by others the Devils Peak,
where the story of "Plet" is
laid. Mining for silver in the
Wasatch was then in its most
romantic period.
1t was indeed game of
chance, and the poorest and
most unknown prospector might
find himself in possession Of a
bonanza that meant for him a
great fortune, Such things hap
pened over and over again. There
Is no exaggeration in that part
Of the poem, surely. Nor are the
dangers overtold.
Alta and its surroundings was
the scene Of endless tragedies.
The writer listened to hundred
thrilling tales amid the scenes of
their happening, and he had Wis
ual evidence, too, Of their truth
fulness, One did not need TO in
vent to find a theme for a poem
of the Wasatch. He could both
see and hear the romance on
every side.
1t was indeed a wild and won
derfuI day, as wild and wonder
ful as the scene itself when the
writer first found himself at the
headwaters Of the Little Cotton
wood stream. There was a start
ling focus there al the foot of
the Tower Of Babel-flowers and
SHOWS, immovable vastness of
granite rocks, and whlrling of
mountain mists and clouds. One
was eHhilarated, made almost
dizzy by it, as great storm clouds
opened or closed around the
mountain crests and the near
thundcrs rolled and the light
nings played SO near one that one
thought he was III their very
midst, and the cabin described
IN the story was welcome shell
ter from the torrents OF rain
that fell; while between the pass
ing Of the passionate clouds there
would be bursts OF sunlight that
made the mountain flowers blaze
like SO many jewels. Detona-
tions could sometimes be heard
in the distant mining camp. The
powder blasts they were at the
beginning. Of some tunnel, but
the heavy thunder ovcrpowered
all other sounds, and nature was
alternately dark or bri ght, like
the lives of the men who mined
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-29

rs the history Of "Plct true
The writer has been asked
u this question many times
Who is Plet9 Who is Jos These
questions. too, he has been
asked: Plet-is there really some
one with that name? And did
such a thing occur as a cabin be-
ing cut into halves by snow
slide, and one person killed and
one remain uninjured? Really,
tell me. was there such name,
in such a place? Could you show
me that very lake and noun
tain? Was there ever such a ro-
nance in Wasatch mining
camp! Was there ever in Alta
such a Christmas eve .as YOU de-
scribe?
Ny readers will admit that
this is quite Il number OF ques-
tions, and two of them | do not
wish TO answer-who is Plet :
Who is Jo? Yet they exist. Yes,
there is such person as Plet,
and that. too, is her name, And
how she received that name is
correctly told in this poem. In
deed, many knew her. And Jo?
Well, nothing about the hero of
the story.
think that ''plet is true,
taken in its entirety. But of
course the author has taken the
poetic licenses. However, moth
ing is told in The Christmas
poems that has not happened.
Many such romsnces could be
made from the happenings III our
Wasatch mining camps.
''Plet" was first published as
short prose sketch, first in Chi
cago, secondly in Boston. But
the, writer was never satisfied
with the story in that form, al
ways thinking that it was more
adapted for poetic expression,
and hence the final form into
which 1t was put and published.
But that Is not answering either
Of the questions which have been
asked.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-29

But why keep such things2 The
heart is full enough of sadness
without such sad reminders of
human tragedy. AS is said of the
scenes Of war, it were we'll to
forget some of the scenes that
attended the early days of min
ing, Of the winters especially,
in the mining camps Of the Wa
satch.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-29
Scene of Romance.

The writer was little more
than a boy when he first looked
upon the high mountain lake Of
the Wasatch, and that great
mountain al its back, by some
called the Tower Of Babel, and
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-29

appear so great. Yet let one 90
to Alta in midwinter and looi
up at that high overhanglng
ridge that divides the two great
CANYONS OF the Wasatch and |
believe one would change one S
mind if one had before thought
the achievement small ono.
Women Were Brave.
So one knows that the women
were daring, TOO. By the way
is it not true that we have
failed to give the fair sex their
proper share Of credit for bray
cry in the development OF The
mines 1t must have required
! great mental bravery, at least,
| il not physical, TO have kept so
many women in the camp of
Alta during the winter months.
And there were those who re-
NAMED there with their chill
dren, too. Imagine the mental
stress.
How many of my readers have
heard the sound of a distant
snowslide? It is all ominous.
grand and alarming sound. 1t
begins as it were, in the heav-
ems. A sound to stir the blood
with apprehension, Then come
the crashings as the snow pro
ceeds on its downward course
and finally the crash, the roar
as it meets with it's final OBJ,
stacle. Once heard, it is never
forgotten.
Masses Of snow in motion, ar
avalanche, resemble exactly
falling water, a great torrent
1t drives before it a cloud o1
mist, which finally envelops tht
scene where it makes its stop
The incident mentioned in thu
poem-the slides sweeping the
waters out of the mountain lake
| is literal, although, of course, &
rare occurrence. The slopes
leading down TO Alta from the
| divide have been so flooded il
the past.
1t is needless to state, | sup
pose, that the greater number oi
Wasatch snoWslides follow tht
: tracks made by the ancient
glaciers, Alta itself is in a lit
tie valley once fled by masses
Of moving ice.
First Silver in Utah.
! With the tremendous growth
of the mining industry III Utah
one must also think Of the ef
ficiency of the smelters. IL
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-29
Incident In Poem.

The incident told in the poem
of 10 and his "pard' sitting in
the lonely cabin on the Christ
mas eve and the coming of the
avalanche had a very strange
opposite in what happened one
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-29

one take ones stand 4.
itol hill and see that e
nal column of smoke, th|
from that huge chimne
point OF the oquir
Garfield smclter, and
realize this. 1t renind.
something. The late NJ
Godbe (the writer lov.
NAM once when | was
a penny In the worl|
forth from his poct>
yer dollar and said: 81
without money; this Il
coin that | possess; we h
it together. -
But this story has I'd
do with what | was
write, only Mr.. Godbe
person who drew my att|
the fact that | am abo,
late, so [ tell of his ben
also Of his financial con
the time to show the u
OF fortune through M
passed in developing Il
Of the eternal hills, how
turned her wheel, and on
mining man might be
other day rich, for nj
had been a wealthy mar
mining career was filled
nance. However, this
| fact. Mr.. Godbe point
the writer a pile a
stones, a sort of altar, q
thing between an altar
blacksmith S forge, upt
pile OF stones had been
the first silver ore tai
the Wasatch range. !
stood beneath a grour
pines, upon the shore b
yer lake, so called, I b
the fact of silver being I
first smelted there-bi
lake is now most Oft
Brighton s lake, at the
the Big Cottonwood can
'There, - said Mr..
the first silver ore wa
IN Utah. - a
That little pile o.
blackened atop, was still
the last time that II
revisited the headwater
Cottonwood canyon.
Those who are Interest
pioneer mining and sm'
Continued OIL Following
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-29

for the hidden silver. And down
the mountain sides the torrents
fell in brighter silver than ever
came from the newest minted
coins.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-29
First Silver in Utah.

With the tremendous growth
of the mining industry in Utah
one must also think Of the ef-
ficiency of the smelters. LSy
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1912-03-01

EUGENE v. RIKER. M. d. Practice
limited to the Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat, Glasses fitted.
Flint P. Smith Bldg.
Flint Mich.
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FOX & FOX, the Flint Chiroprac-
--tera 4.h-Aoor- Dryden bldg, Flint
Mich. If yeu are sick and have
tried everything else and did not
receive help, try Chiropractic
Spinal Adjustments and get well.
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DIR. PRESTON r. HUBBELL, Oste-
opathic Physician, residence-St6
East Court ST., Bell Phone 450-L
2 rings. Office-602-603 Flint p.
Smith Bldg, Bell Phone 450-L.
Flint, Mich.
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J. r. Neutrality-suspicious.
istry and Surgery in all its branch
es. Valley Phone. Clio, Mich.
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o. o. FORBUSH, x-Ray Specialist
in Optometry. Glasses Fitted Ev-
cry Day but Sunday.
Clio, Mich.
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DIR HUGH T. GUNDRY-Dentist--
Saginaw and Second Sts., over
Curtis Drug Store. Flint, Mich.
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Directory
PHYSICIANS

PHYSICIANS 4.r.
DIR. PERRY E. wHITE-Office over
Huyck's drug store. Office
hours, 1 :Se to Ace p. m. Valley
phone.
BENJAMIN T. GOODFELLOw, M.
ID. Physician and surgeon. Office
over Bodine's drug store. Office
hours, 1880 p. m. to 2 p. m. and
$50 p. m. to 500 p. n. daily and
Saturday afternoons. Valley
phone 107,
DR.. r. n. NEELANDS, dentist office
over Frosts store. Dentistry in all
It's modern branches of order.
Special care to children's teeth.
Goes to Mt Morris every Wednes-
day.
o. o. FORBUSH, x-Ray Specialist
in Optometry. Glasses Fitted Ev-
cry Day but Sunday.
Clio, Mich.
]. r. Neutrality-suspicious.
istry and Surgery in all Its branch
es. Valley Phone. Clio, Mich.
FOX & FOX, the Flint Chiroprac-
terra 4sh-floor- Dryden blds.. FLINT
Mich. If yeu are sick and have
/ tried everything else and did not
i receive help, try Chiropractic
i Spinal Adjustments and get well.
EUGENE v. RIKER. M. d. Practice
| limited to the Eye, Ear, Nose and
| Throat, Glasses fitted.
| Flint p. Smith Bldg.
Flint Mich,
DR. HUGH T. GUNDRY-Dentist-
Saginaw and Second Sts., over
Curtis Drug Store. Flint, Mich.
DIR. PRESTON r. HUBBELL, Oste-
opathic Physician, residence--St6
East Court ST., Bell Phone 450-L
2 rings. Office-602-603 Flint p.
Smith Bldg, Bell Phone 450-L.
Flint, Mich.
FRATERNAL SOCIETIES
VIENNA LODGE NO. 191 I. o. o.
| +. meets every Wednesday even
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assured a cordial welcome.
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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-01-19
County Spelling Bee
to be Held III April

G. r. Newell, county supeFintend-
ent Of pubac instruction, who has
been @siting rural schools, reports
the school work ID Grady county pro.
pressing nicely RI says that great
Interest is being shown all over she
county BY both teachers and pupils
in the contests that are being launch
cd The interest in athletic organi.
cations is evident SAYS Mr. Newell
Ar Newell has appointed tie man-
ayers ia the reading circle districts
for tho spelling contests ha has I'D.
yised community and disiries contests
y arouse interest Ia 'he county pell
ms bee. For the information Of the
boys and girls who wish 70 enter the
county contest 70 compete for the
Aenogs oI county and ate Mf Ne8-
eli has issued the following iastsus
tions 10 his managers.
The County Contest vil be he'd
At chickasha in April and the winner
VIII receive a gold medal second. a
silver medal and third, a bronze med
al after the custom established last
year You should arrange for eau-
lest in your Reading Circle and those
entering should be the best spoilers
of the district and not more than two
from each school Some business
man or inerested person Will gladly
furnish medals or premiums Of some
kind Tor ihe winners. believe il
advisable for the winners ef first and
second prizes be allowed to compete
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-01-19
win Make School
Houses Social CenierS

Spokane. Wash. jap laA gym
nasium lu every grammar soheoL ne
abolition ol tie public dance hall and
lhe noodle joint aud Tic substitution
OF tins supervised playground and ihe
neishborhooa social center will be
ureed BY he committee appointed
this week By tbe Child Welfare league
10 Investigate conditions ia oriental
cafes and public bathrooms
This Is the statement Of Mrs. ny. II.
page secretary ol The league ana
chairman Of The committee coniin.
ulng She said
why spend thousands and ihous
snds of dollars upon our high school
equipment ihc school Of lhe favored
fou ana moi one cent upon The mass
es Of children VINO never reach the
high school The cause OF their fails
ura 10 reach the high school may be
lack Of physical strength to stand
the mental strain OF school
the public dance hall and the
noodle Joints mus, %. Tie school
house must be made an institution
university Of The people. itis here
We wan. our boys aud girls to meet
for social life. Here we waat me
tired father and mother TO find rec
rcatloh. relaxation and stimulus.
0nr campaign Wlli not alone be
corrective but preventative, It Is not
our Inicutlon to take away the noodle
Joint and the public dance hal' places
Of amusement without proyIdine
healthy substitutes
we want supervised Fairgrounds
ana the wider use OF The school house
IA i social center without having 70
pas fees to The ianitor
erhls committee will be enlarged
and ii will number upon i the mos'
progressiye men and women Of the
city we are determined 10 BET re
Suits
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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-01-19
MENINGITIS IS
NOT EPIDEMIC
IN OKLAHOMA

1t was rumored yesterday that
meningitis had appeared In Chicka
sha, DR. Emanuel, city physician,
stated that there was no foundation
for such a report and that not a sin
gle case had developed iu Crazy coun-
ly Under The terms OF state health
regulations, the disease must be re-
ported at once and there IS therefore
no way of coneealing Is
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-01-19

Oklahoma City, Jan. l9 uurIns
the past forty-eight hours there have
been four news cases OF cerebro- spin
ad meningitis in Oklahoma reported
to the state department Of health ANA
Two additional cases where the pres
ence OF the disease are suspected Is
being investigated. During the same
period there was one death. which oc-
CURED in Bryan county
Prevalence OF the disease was re-
ported first in Carvin. Garter and
comanche counties. Those counties
now are clear of the disease which
is confined to Love, Marshall and nry-
an. with one case suspected in Me.
Claim and one in jackson counties
Reports are expected on these two
cases at once.
Or Mahr stated Thursday iha tho
county health commissioner Of 0sage
county is investigating eases Of eere-
bro spinal meBisgitis reported from
,be vicinity Of Hominy One death
was reported in Usage county but
this was found to have been caused
by another disease. and the three cas-
es which ire said 20 exist In ihe
country about Homihy have never
been diagnosed by a physician as
such
wfAis department is ready and Willy
ing at all times @ give 70 tlle public
all information il has said Df slam
Thursday There are many famors
oi cases Of eerebro-spenial meningitis
where the disease dees not exist az
an As soon as we hear a rpmor v'
Immediately trace e down ana i x
develops a rigid quarantine al cnee +
instituted
Dr Mahr stated further tAai "a az
OF the eases traced by the department
not ole has originated iu rsAas X
cases have been found IN Oklahoma
city ar anyot the larger cities el tg'
state