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The Madison journal., 1913-10-04
A DUTY NEGLECTED?
Ha ttisburg News.

Hattlsburg News.
Tuberculosis. like yellow fe-
Yer, is an infectious disease
tuberculosis, like yellow fever, is
4 preyentable disease: tuberculo-
sis, like yellow fever, can be
permanently cured. Isn't it
strange, then, to recall That we
used tn spend thousands Of dol
i3r. h"..:,"- vr',.w f.v-r. and
The Madison journal., 1913-10-04


Where they got it we don't know
but we do know that the man who
sent 1t over the wire wrote from
imagination and that man stands
convicted today. one OF the worst
enemies Of .his entire Southland.
The en0rmity Of his crime should
De a terrible burden, and when he
reads the editorial comments in
Tie p:eiudiccd papers OF the Last
he should hide his head in shame.
Never did Southern white men
, conduct themselves more bravely
or more property. The right
! thing wal done at the right time.
! To lave delayed the execution Of
the two murder madened negroes
would have been madness indeed,
but when that was accomplished
me tragedy had ended. There
was no further :h0gght Of vio-
ieuce, The two negroes who were
arrested in the house where the
Jones family lived and where they
no doubt cOnCOcted ;leir Gevilish
plot were spared because there
was 10 conclusive evidence TO
show their guilt. II there had
been those quies and determined
men vino had assembled there 10
capture tEe blood thirsty fiends
VITO had murdered their COM
pan,Ous 10 daily life would have |
suffered !he same fate as the two |
Jones negroes and no power al !
the command uf officers would |
have nufficed 70 save them.
There was 4 doubt and they were
giveE he benafl. OF il and are to.
day awaiting trial in the NatcheZ |
jail. The evidence may show !
that they are guilty Of aiding and
abei;irg this crime. If it does
they should be hanged. But We
print this merely to show the cool,
calm judgement which prevailed.
Where or when have you heard Of
a mob, II you wish to Hit that.
the lighting blood of whose men,
bers had boen aroused by the
death OF their friends, who |
wavered instant execution on tie
strength Of a possible doubt when
there was the least evidence to
shos the connection OF a prisoner
with a crime. You have never
heard of it before aid may posi-.
by never hear Of it again for it
is seldom indeed that such men
are assembled, And ITO think
that after this display Of most
remarkable bravery, GOODNESS,
self-possession and restraint The
papera, which are supposed to be
he big journals Of this section Of
he state. should print such lies
~ filled their columns Yesterday.
in: the blackest type
which can be squeezed On the .
front page Of every one cf them
would not correct the injustice !
which they have done. The pub d
nc can count on greater accuracy :
from the red headline journals of
Chicago and New York than it ,
seems we receive from the big
lailias Of this section and ~ for t
the Associated Press we trust that {
heir organic ltion has not 80 far
gone 10 pieces that they will fail
% property notify the man who
urned that story loose that they
ire aware OF his shortcomings.-
Eatchez News, Sept. SO.
The Madison journal., 1913-10-04

The Board Of Pardons refused
the application of C.. Gendusa
Tor pardon. Gendusa was con.
nected with the killing of the
Louisiana child.
The Madison journal., 1913-10-04

The rain during the carly part
Of the Wee, Vfaagh seat le.-
tsuction t2 crop, ;..ouSnout this
End adJDininr >5st,-s The dam
age IL southwestern Loui.iuua
was Parti'U,3.i.y serious. Lake
Charles was practically inunta-
ted and farms Icac ~ wee aoy-
cred with N@iyr several tcrt
deep. Traffic on railways W.
stopped ana bu.incSs Generally
dlsorTani2cd. The damage here
to crops was great, bat reports in
dicatc tlat We suffered less than
our western neighLG,s.
The Madison journal., 1913-10-04

The conference committee q
the House and Senate ilaS agree /
to refer to some failure day IT,"
proposed ban on cotton future.
Having disposed IF hi, bone #
contention 5he bill G,N a,ds fai,
to Become the law OF tn1 Iai.G at
ali eagiy date.
The Madison journal., 1913-10-04

Criminal court meets next week
with Il docket larger than usual.
There will be two murder cases
and numerous cases for smaller
offenses.
The Madison journal., 1913-10-04

Former governor Blanchard
the other day that he
would be a candidate for the
cOnstitutinai convention and then
left for a fOur-weeks' vacation. {.
Evidently the former governor il
not much afraid of opposition
American Press.
The Madison journal., 1913-10-04

Aiter seeing III the press pic
lures OF Gen. CasliIla Bri.o, we
nave no hesitancy in rendering a
verdict OF guilty
The Madison journal., 1913-10-04

Sendyour laundry t. W. A.
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The Madison journal., 1913-10-04

TALLCLAE Drug Co.
The Madison journal., 1913-10-04

s1.50 PER A%ayn ~ fDvi%cn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-15

Mexico is beyond conception. and the
country is sure to be one of the great
est of the copper producers for genera
tions to come.
AS to iron, new deposits of that meta!
have been recently found in Oaxaca and
Vera Cruz, ana these deposits are said
to amount 70 many millions of tons. The
most famous iron mass of the country,
however, is the great iron mountain,
which rises almost out of the city of
Durango. This is perhaps the greatest
mass of iron on earth. 1t is mighty
hill of solid iron mile long and an
most a quarter of a mile wide. rising to
a height of over tnree-fifths that of the
Washington monument The ore is he
Matte, and ii is from 60 to 70 per cent
pure.
The hill is said to contain GOO 100000
tons of ore above the surface, with no
notion of what may be below, and 1t
has been estimated to contain several bill
lion dollars worth of iron. There are
similar deposits in Lower California and
Sweden but nothing of this size. The
mountain contains enough iron to supply
the whole republic of Mexico for all time
to come and with the possibilities OF it's
unknown depth it has enough probably to
last the world for 1000 years
Was It a Meteor?
It is claimed by some of the local
is a meteor which was dropped upor
the earth from some disintegrating planet
ages ago. but the biologists say that
this is absurd, and that it must be vol
canic. There is no other iron in the
immediate neighborhood. and Mexico has
here in its school of mines a collection
of meteorites found in the neighboring
state of Chihuahue, one of which weighs
over $4,000 pounds. and another in the
neighborhood of n ton. Humboldt thought
the Durango mine might be the worlds
greatest aerolite, and he rode more than
1900 miles on a mule to study it. Some
of this iron now goes to the big subsi-
died steel plant at Monterey, where
saw 1t cast into ingots for making stee
rails.
So far Mexico has no valuable coal
mines but low grade coal exists in
number of localities. and an official
geological report of 1908 estimates the
supply in sight at 300,000,0o0 tons In
addition to this are the enormous pc
troleum fields, containing fuel oil, now
being opened. which promise to give
this country one of the great fuel sup
plies of the world. have already writ
ten of these. describing the wells which
run 100000 barrels a day, and showing
that Mexico is now third among the
oil producing countries and that she
will soon surpass Russia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-15

T oNDoN, June a. - Especially
Since King George ascended the
- throne the doormat bearing the
word "weIcome' has been withdrawn
from the entrance to Buckingham pal
ace and now no foreign potentate need
apply for weekend accommodation at
the great house that was SO popular
a stopping place when the late King
Edward dispensed his lavish hospital
ity.
A few weeks ago paragraphs went
the rounds of the London press to the
effect that King George and Queen
Mary were about to pay round OF
visits to different courts in Europe ana
that these visits would be followed by
n series of visits of different European
monarchs to the English court. These
paragraphs served somewhat to amuse
those in the royal encourage, for they
knew that King George and queen
Mary have as little intention of visit
ing any European courts as they have
of entertaining any reigning sovereign
at any rate, in the immediate future
The paragraphs at last drew an Of
fetal contradiction of the statement
that the King and Queen INTENDED
visiting any European courts this sea-
son beyond quite necessary trips like
that to Berlin to attend the wedding
been officially stated regarding the en-
tertainment of royalties at Buckingham
palace, but it is an open secret that
King George has informed the pre-
mier that there will be no royal visits
to the English court this year.
The Gear of Russia alone has re-
fused to take part in the royal boycott
on King George. The Czar and King
George have been close and Intimate
friends for many years. Nicholas was
brought to the English court as young
boy and he at once took a fancy 10
the younger of King Edwards two
sons. Among the collection of royal play
things at Buckingham palace is still
preserved the silver mounted gun
which the future Czar of all the Rus
sias then bestowed on the future Eng
lish King at the end of the visit.
The friendship that began between
the two future monarchs during that
visit has lasted ever since They are
regular correspondents and have many
tastes and ideas in common; and both
are dyspeptics. The Czarina and Queen
Mary are also tolerably good friends
so that visit to Buckingham palace
from the Car and Czarina would by
no means be an unwelcome event, but
tor political reasons such a visit would
not be popular in England and it is
extremely unlikely to take place--at all
events as long as a liberal government
is in office
Between King George and the Ger
man Emperor there always has existed
a mutual antipathy. AS a matter OF
fact, the Kaiser has never been per-
sonally popular among the members of
the English royal family, but the late
English sovereign, for diplomatic rea-
sons, went out Of his way to make
himself agreeable to his nephew, and
during the late rcign visits from the
Kaiser and the Kaiserin were tolerabIy
frequent
But King George, unlike his father,
has neither the desire nor the ability
to influence European diplomacy, and
he has never troubled to conceal the
fact that the Kaiser, so far as he
(King George) was concerned, was d
guest whose room was preferable TO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-15
Mining Camp in Western Mexico Note Shac ks on Hill

In San Luis Potosi the richest district
Is Catorce, which has silver and lead
mixed with gold, and in Durango there
are deposits formed of network of sill
yer veins mixed with iron and other met
ais. In OaXaca there are more than a
dozen mineral zones containing silver,
gold, copper and lead, and two of the
mines there have increased their produc-
ton to about $1,0OO,O00. There is also
work going on in Sonora, where in the
past was found the biggest lump of
silver ON record. It's weight was 275O
pounds and it was discovered by a poor
Indian, although by dispute as to the
ownership the whole went to the crown.
The Gold of Mexico
Mexico is now annually turning out
about $25,0O0,000 worth of gold. The
country has never been as important In
gold mining as in silver mining, and to-
day the bulk. of its gold comes from silver
veins which also carry more or less of
the yellow metal. The gold is by-pro-
duct of the silver.
The chief gold-producing camp IS about
Ell Orc, in the state of Mexico, where both
French and English capital are invested.
This region is one of the largest gold
camps of America, and it has some val
liable mines. The Dos Estrelas has been
paying over S1,000,o00 a year on a capital
of 100000, and the Penoles has paid near
ly $4,O00,OOO on capitalization Of $l25,OO0.
One of the mines. has a vein of gold
which, in places. is so feet wide.
There are also gold-bearing veins in
Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Oaxaca and
Lower California. In the last state are
many placer mines, some of which are
doing we'll. The most of Montezuma's
GOLD must have come from placer mines,
for one of his presents to Cortez was
Spanish helmet filled to the brim with
grains of gold. He also sent the Spanish
general many ornaments. shields and
helmets of pure gold, and two circular
plates of gold as large as carriage
wheels. The amount of gold taken from
Montezuma and sent to Spain is estimat-
ed to have been worth at least $7,000,000.
Where Copper and Iron Are Kings
In the future, however, the meaner
metals are liable to surpass gold in the
mineral production of Mexico The con-
per mined in 1910 and 1911 was worth more
than all the gold produced that year, and
the iron possibilities are such from the
great iron mountain at Durango that that
gross metal will some day yield millions.
To-Day the three most important copper
mining enterprises are the Greene-Cana-
nea and the Montezuma and the Boleo, in
Baja, California. The Boleo mine has had
a uniform output for nearly 10 years,
and the Greene Cananea produced in 1911
more than Al 100000 pounds of copper.
The amount of copper in sight in western
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-15

Piguico mines and the Mexican Milling
and Transportation company. It is cap
italized at S3,000,000 and pays per
cent per annum on its preferred stock.
And then there are the Guanahuato
Reduction and Mines company and 9TH
ers
An Old Mine Which Yields Millions
The Real del Montey Pachuca Mining
company is another valuable property.
which has its chief offices in Boston.
This company bought the old Real del
Monte mine in 1906 and since that time
its stockholders have put almost $4,000,
600 into tile new plant and in develop
ment work. They paid up the last of
their assessments in 1907 and since then
they have received up to July, 1910 al
most four and one-half million dollars in
dividends.
The mine is famous In Mexico. It's
original owner was a mule driver who
obtained possession of 1t almost 200
years ago. 1t proved to be a bonanza,
and within a half century it yielded more
than S,O00,0O0 in gold. Its ownership
made the mule driver rich. He bcame
noted for his extravagances, and gave
the King of Spain several warships fully
equipped. He owned the mine until about
1900, when river burst into it, flood
ing the works.
The. mine then remained quiet for
about 20 years, when an English COM
pany took hold and the stock rose in
value so that single shares of $500 sold
in open market for $4,000. The demand
was such that the company went bank
rupt, and the property was finally sold
for S130,0o0 Shortly akter that another
bonanza was uncovered, and within a
few years over $40. 100000 worth of metal
was taken out. All of this was by the
old patio process. The Boston company
has introduced modern machinery, and is
now using stamp mills with a cyanide
plant.
And then there is the San Toy Min
ing Company, Incorporated in Maine,
with offices in Pittsburg. which owns
valuable mines in Chihuahua producing
silver and lead. That company did about
mile and a half of underground work
in 1910 and during that year produced
more than $4,000 ounces of silver and
a million and one-half pounds of lead.
1t is capitalized at $7000,000. Another
which has capital of 81, 100000 and is
paying s per cent dividends. The Pro-
prietary Mining Company of America
has an authorized capital of 5000, 900 and
has large interests in Guanahuato, and
the Mines Company of America has a
capitalization of 100000 and is paying
dividends monthly.
American Money in Copper
There is a great deal of United States
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-15
Sorting Silver Ore at Guanajuato

The new smelters and the cyanide process
are taking the places of the mule-crush-
ers and patio methods; and the percent
age Of gold and silver gotten out of the
ore is on the steady increase. During the
past 10 years almost $500 100000 worth of
gold and silver have been taken out of
Mexico, and in 1911. the metals produced
yielded $S1 0O0,000 Since 1877 Mexico has
produced more than $l,100, 100000 worth of
gold and silver, and there are now over
5000 mines in operation, with something
like 1,OOO,0O acres of mineral properties.
Mexico's lig Silver Mines
The silver mines of Mexico have formed
the chief revenue of the country for more
than a century, and the yield of last year
was greater than ever before. Some of
the mines have yielded phenomenal guam
titles. Those about Zacatecas have pro-
duced more than $1,000 100000, and those
in Chihuahua have yielded four or five
hundred millions. Today silver mining is
going on all over the country. The Pa
chuca district in the state of IIidalgo has
a large number of properties half OF
which belong to the Rio del Monte Com
pany, which is subsidiary of the United
States Smelling and Mining company.
The most of these mines belonged to
the Mexicans, who had been working
them for hundreds of years by the old
patio process. The Americans have put
in modern machinery. They are going
down far below the depths reached by
the Mexicans. and between 1906 and 1910
they had paid over 100000 in dividends.
In the same region are the Santa Ger
trudis mines, registered in Great Britain
at capital of $759O,000, and there are
other companies which are doing well.
Guanahuato and chihuahua
In Guanahuato the Americans have
renovated and increased the silver mining
industry, which has been in operation
there for more than 200 years. They have
sunk their shafts far below those of the
MeXicans and have put up enormous mills
capable of dealing with hundreds of thou
sands of tons of ore every year. They
get their power from waterfalls 1S0 miles
distant and are mining with the most
modern machinery. In 1911 the output
Of that region was more than $14000,000
A little farther north. in Chihuahua,
are silver mines which have been oper-
ated for more than three centuries and
which are still working, the output of the
district running now from one to two
million dollars per year. In this region
is the Batopilas mine. which was mod
ernized by the late Governor Shepherd.
the Santa Eulala mines, now controlled
by the American Mining and Smelling
company. and the famous Parral mine,
whose estimated output for the present
year will be sS,000.000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-15

Copyright, 1918. by Frank G Carpenter.)
WANT to tell you of the vast quaint
ties of gold, silver and copper which
- notwithstanding the revolution, Mex
leo is taking out of the earth. The rebels
and the banditti are retarding mining in
some localities, but most of the properties
are being run at their full capacity, and
the output this year will run high into
the tens of millions of dollars. We have
now, it is estimated, more than 233, ,0oo. .f1(
of good hard American dollars invested in
Mexican mines and our people are large
owners in almost every mineral region
There are American mining engineers and
prospectors even now investigating sor1e
parts of the country, and 1 am told there
are many mineral regions which nave
hardly been touched.
The Worlds Treasure Vault
This land of Mexico is the worlds great
treasure vault IL has been producing
silver and gold for more than 800 years.
and since the discovery of Aemrica its
total yield of the precious metals has
been between $4,000, 600, 600 and $1,000 OO0. 600.
1t has produced onc-third of all the silver
now in use upon earth, and its total out
put of gold and silver is SO per cent More
than all the money which is now in cir
culation in the United States. In other
words, if you will take all the gold coins
In this country including the bullion IN
the treasury, all of the silver dollars,
amounting to s50o.900,OO0 or s60O000,000, all
of the quarters, half dollars and dimes.
all of the treasury notes, and all of the
United States and national bank notes,
all of the gold and silver certificates, ard.
in short, every dollars worth of silver
and gold coin and every bit of currency,
and shovel them together into one pile,
that pile would not equal the value by
$500, 600 or $1,000000,0O0 the money that
has come out of Mexicos mines. The
amount is greater than all we have in our
savings banks ami four times as big as
our national debt
The Output Increasing
More than this, the quantity of metals
mined is steadily increasing. The pro-
duction in 1908 was the greatest in the
history of the country and that of 1909
was nearly as great Today Mexico ranks
at the head of the silver producers. 1t
is fifth among all those in which gold is
mined, and this is so Notwithstanding
much of the mining is by old and waste
full methods and that there are localities
containing mineral deposits which have
scarcely been touched. 1t is said that
three-fourths of the mineral possibilities
are as yet unexploited. And, moreover,
the mines are rapidly going into the
hands of Americans. who are operating
them after the most modern methods
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-15
One of the Big GuggenTeim Smeters in Mexico

money invested in copper properties
The largest organization of this kind
Is the Greene Cananea, which has an
authorized capitalization of 100000. 900.
OF this $50,000,000 was for the pur-
chase of the Greene Consolidated Cop
per company and the Cananea Central
Copper company and the other $10,-
100000 was left in the treasury. The
copper properties owned by this COM
psny are very extensive. They take
in large part of the Cananea noun
tains. which are filled with minerals
and which have enormous veins of cop
per, one of the tunnels of the Cananea
mine having vein 80 feet wide. The
company employs thousands of men
and its monthly pay roll is hundreds
of thousands of dollars. Its mineral
output is said to be about 800 tons
of ore per day and in 1910 it pro-
duced more than 45,000.0O0 pounds OF
copper.
From Is to "a Per Cent Dividends
Another big copper company is the
Moctezuma. Incorporated in West Nir-
ginia, with an office in New York. This
company has SO mining claims in Son
ora, comprising about $500 acres 1t
has lately opened the Pelaris mine, a
mineralized body oval in shape which
has been tested down to the 700-foot
level. 1t is 1900 feet in diameter from
north to south and 1900 feet from each
to west. 1t is being mined through
tunnel five miles in length which has
railroad tracks to AXE out the ore. 1t
is now yielding from 1900 to 1000 tons
day of per cent copper and it has
power plant OF 1000 horsepower
which gives the electric current for the
mill and the mines. This company has
a capitalization of S3.000.00O. all owned
by the Phelps Dodge company. In 1904
it paid 90 per cent, in 1876 "a per cent
and in 1910 is per cent. 1t has already
paid more in dividends than the amount
of its authorized capitalization.
And then Americans own the Pacific
mining and Smelling company, which
has large copper properties and also
smelters. They own the Mexican Metals
company who's office is in Boston and
which has thousands of acres of land
in the state of Sonora, and also the
Mexican Metallurgical company, which
is capitalized at $4.000.000. and has
mines of copper and lead as well as a
smelter at San Luis Potosi. with ca
pacity of 10000 tons of ore monthly
In addition to these are American in
vestments in oil lands. including some
which pay big dividends, and they have
great number of other mining COM
panies with captalizations which vary
in size. Some OF them are paying big
money and some quite the reverse.