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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-18
GERMAN government GIVES IN
TO GENERAL GAMBLING INSTINCT

BERLIN, April 1.-THE German
what they term the i~neradicable
gaming instinct of the average per-
SON. After continued and vain at
tempts to put an end to promiscuous
betting on horse races, which in
wolves a sum yearly estimated at be-
tween $15O,00O, 900 and 100000,
600 they have decided to license
bookmaking in an effort to secure
for the state a percentage of this
sum. A measure to this end, already
reputed briefly by cable, has been
adopted by the federal council and is
now awaiting the action of the reich
stag. 1t is hoped to have 1t become
effective in time for the Baden-Baden
races next August.
Heretofore the only form of bet
means of the ~pari-mutuel machine.
This, however, was available only to
persons able to visit the race tracks.
The result is that a vast army OF
bookmakers, estimated at 5000, ply
their business in defiance of the law.
In addition every Partnership and
thousands of cafes and similar re-
sorts harbor their handbook men.
Competent authorities estimate
the number of business places where
wagers can be laid on horse races at
over 200, 900. Prosecutions for
boOkmaking increased from 1000 in
1906 to 5000 in 191. For the most
part they resulted in trivial fines or
short Jail sentences, and the business
went ahead just the same. The bet
no remedy against dishonest hand
book men or bookmakers who refuse
to settled winning wagers.
The number of licensed bookmak-
ers is not fixed in the icy measure
but it is understood that the govern
ment contemplates licenses for about
fifty, scattered throughout the en-
pire, each of which will be entitled to
establish branch offices to meet the
demand. Notwithstanding rigorous
provisions against Illicit betting, pun
ishing both bookmaker and bettor
(the latter with fines up to $3.50,
experts believe that illicit books will
continue to flourish, not only because
the wage-earners, clerks and small
salaried men who today furnish the
bulk of the handbook custom cannot
afford the minimum stake of $12, but
because the heavy taxation of the Ii
censed bookmakers will enable the
handbook men to offer far better
odds.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-18
SHIPMENT
OF MARBLE MADE

The first carload shipment of mar
BILE from the quarries of the Ameri-
can Carrara Marble company was
made Tuesday, April T.. The ship
ment was consigned to Los Angeles.
After several months of delay
through one cause after another the
marble company has entered the
ranks of producing marble.
The first shipment consist of six
blocks of marble, containing approx
mately 200 cubic feet, and is a varied
assortment of the marble produced
from the quarries of the American
Carrara Marble company.
Several blocks are of the blueish
white marble with the blue and gold
quisite markings of any marble pro-
duced. Other blocks are of the
American brown variety, or what is
also known as the Nevada Sienna.
One block is of the white or flesh
colored marble with the golden and
bronze markings. This marble is al
most an onyx and is one of the most
beautiful marbles produced at the
quarries.
The present shipment is regarded
more as a test of the marble than
anything else. The marble will be
sawed and polished in Los Angeles
and slabs of marble up to 4x5 feet,
seven-eighths of an incn thick, will
be obtained. This marble came from
the second and third floors of quarry
No. 2 and will give a fair sample of
what will be produced from the quar-
ries from now on.
The completion of the derrick at
the railroad station greatly delayed
the shipment of marble. Owing to ii
clerical error the wrong sheayes were
ordered and had to be returned 10
San Francisco. New Ones arrived
Saturday and the mast of the derrick
was erected in record time. The big
electric truck helped in the raising of
the derrick and the gang of men I'M
der the direction of Superintendent
Harden quickly finished the job. The
boom was erected Monday and work
of loading the flat car which was
placed on the siding was gone at at
once.
The derrick is capable of lifting
blocks weighing up to fifteen tons
and it's erection makes quite an i'm
pressive sight at Carrara.
Most of the population of Carrara
turned out Tuesday to see the first
carload of marble hauled away, as it
means the elimination of years of
work and planning. The shipments
which are yet to come from the quar-
ries will not command the interest
and enthusiasm that the first carload
shipment commanded.-Carrara OBJ
CLICK
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-18
WORK OF OPHIR COMPANY STILL
LEADS IN COMSTOCk INTEREST

tramming of ore from the Monte
Cristo to mill was continued during
the week, sos tons being trammed.
The Sierra Nevada continued tim
bering the $500 level of the Wine
station.
In the ID street tunnel of the Saw
age, the west drift started from the
bottom of the winze was extended
10 feet making a total length of %
feet, the face being in fill ~assaying
from 81 to So per ton. Today they
began to team ere to the Mexican
mill.
At the joint Crown Point-Belcher
winze, the water has been held 81
feet below the 1900 level on the in
cine, and the incline has been clean
ed out below the new timbers. The
asst drift on the 1000 level has been
reopened and timbered for a distance
of II feet; total length 80 feet. On
the 1500-foot level of the Belcher,
from raise No. 2, 3S cars were saved
of an average assay value of $40
per ton. The Belcher company ship
ped 1876 tons of mine ore to the yell
low Jacket mill, and sent Is tons of
ore to the g%loryhole from the Jacket
shaft.
The Crown Point company deliver
ed 2O5 tons of ore to the Yellow
Jacket company at the Jacket mine
bins, and on the 1300-foot level,
north drift No. 1, was extended and
timbered for IL feet, making a total
of PA feet, and rs cars averaging
1925 were saved from this work. In
raise No. 1, located on this level, IS
feet on north drift No. 1, from the
first and sill floors. 139 cars of ore
were saved averaging $500 per ton.
On the 140O-foot level. filling stope
No. l has been continued.
The Yellow Jacket company re-
ceived III tons of Belcher ore and
S62 tons of Jacket ore at the mill
bins, and the usual repairs made to
the shaft and incline.
The report from the Overman
shows that the west crosscut started
at the junction of the northeast and
southwest drifts on the 1200-foot
level was advanced 8 feet, making a
total of As feet.
At the Observation-Disclosures
perial the east crosscut from the
south drift, started at a point rs
feet from the shaft station, on the
n nn 81 Ill -
making a total of 30 feet for this
drift, the face being in quartz and
Observation-Disclosures.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-18

The Ophir company the past week
has started work preparatory to
stopping ore on the 1850, or inter-
mediate level, and at the point of be
ginning of the East vein drift, has
begun the cutting out of ground for
sill floor sets. From the opening
made was extracted 46 cars of an
average assay value of $36.52 per
ton. The southwest drift on this
level, started from the west cross
Gu from the raise, was advanced on
the East vein for IL feet; total
length &c feet. From this drift,
there was extracted "A cars of ore
of an average assay value of $10.76
per ton. No work was done in the
Hardy vein drift, during the week.
Prospecting work on this level has
been curtailed for the present dur
ing the preparations for stopping. On
the 2400-foot level, work was resum-
ed retimbering the old joint Ophir
and Mexican winze station. The to-
tai extraction of ore from the 1880
foot level was 80 cars, estimated at
81 tons, ~assaying $23.94 per ton.
There was milled 100 tons of Ophir
ore, and 200 tons of Central dump
ore.
Consolidated Virginia on the $500
foot level, has advanced the north
east drift started at a point 13S feet,
nacf of tho chnft Sfotinn for q die
lance of 10 feet; total length, 125
feet. The face is in porphyry and
quartz, the quartz assaying from rs
cents to $1.10 or ton. The flow of
water continues strong on the drift.
On the 23OO-foot level, the company
Jointly with Ophir and the Pumping
Association, has been retimbering
the east drift from the shaft station.
The pumps in the c. & c. shaft
ran successfully all of the week. On
the 1900 level, jointly with the Con.
Virginia and Ophir, the Pumping
Association has been cleaning and
retimbering the east drift from the
C. & c. shaft station. On the $500
they have been cleaning bitches in
the north drift from the Con. Vir-
ginia Wine. The flow of water on
the $500 Con. Virginia northeast
drift is increasing.
The Mexican mill ran So per cent
of the time last week, crushing 37S
tons of Mexican ore which averaged
$4.01 per ton, and 3O5 ON of Monte
Cristo ore with an average assay val
ue of $4.44 per ton. The apparent
extraction was S41a per cent. The
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-18
A RADICM ORE.

The interest that has recently been
manifested in radium has created a
public demand for information both
practical and theoretical in regard to
the mineral deposits from which it is
derived. A short report by Edison S.
Basin on the Geology of the Pitch
blende Ores of Colorado" recently is
sued by the United States Geological
Survey, deals mainly with the geolO-
gy, mineralogy and origin of these
deposits, their practical utilization
having been treated somewhat fully
in other publications.
The quantity of uranium ores
mined in the United States is exceed
ingly small, and the great bulk of
it, from Utah and southwestern Colo
RADIO, does not carry pitchblende, but
contains the brilliant yellow uranium
mineral carnotite. The small pitch
blende production of this county is
all from the one locality described
in this report, in the heart of Gilpin
county, famous as the birthplace of
hC Solo- vi Ooioi
do. There pitchblende occurs as a
constituent of mineral veins which
were first worked for their gold and
silver content and which still yield
important amounts of these precious
metals. 1t is notable hat the only
other localities in the world where
pitchblende has been found in impor-
tant quantities in mineral veins are
the Erzgebirge Tin Bohemia and Sax
ony) and the Cornwall district Gin
It's mode of occurrence
in these countries is also described
by Mr.. Basin.
This report forms Professional
Paper GOA and may be obtained free
by addressing the Director of the
United States Geological Survey,
Washington, D. c.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-18

the mechanical and the other the
chemical building. In the res of
these and %inclOsing a court will be
the service building. Beyond the
service building and spanning what
is known as Panther Hollow and
thus connecting the Bureau of Mines
buildings with the Carnegie Schools,
will be two buildings over the roofs
Of which will pass the roadway from
Forbes street to the Carnegie School
buildings and Schenley park.
Between the main group and the
power and fuel group will be the en-
trance to a series of mine shafts. One
of these will be used as an elevator
to carry heavy material and passen-
gers from the lower level to the up
per; another will be for tests of
hosting ropes and similar mining APP
to tunnels extending under the
buildings and in which mining eX-
periments, such as fighting mine
fires, will be conducted. The portion
of Panther Hollow above the Power
buildings will be arranged as a min
ers' field, the slopes of the ravine
being utilized as an amphitheater
which will accommodate 10000
spectators who may assemble here
TO witness demonstrations and tests
in mine rescue and first-aid.
The main or mining building will
contain the administrative offices,
and those of the mining force. In
il will be an assembly and lecture
room for demonstrations and train
ing in mine rescue and first-aid. The
mechanical building will be for TX
perimentS and tests of mining ma
chinery and appliances and the
chemical building for investigation
and analyses of fuels, explosives and
various mineral substances.
The buildings now used by the
bureau of mines as al experiment
station al Pittsburg we're loaned to
the bureau by the var department as
an emergency measure when the
bureau was created. The war de-
partment has suggested that it now
needs these buildings and it is felt
the bureau cannot retain possession
much longer. The buildings are very
cid and are entirely unsuited to the
needs of the bureau of mines work.
1t is said that the Investigations have
been seriously handicapped by the
inadequacy Of the structures now in
use.-Mining and Scientific Press.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-18

Since six per cen of every bet en-
an initial tax, and winning bets will
be mulcted with an additional tax of
from 6 per cent, on bets at odds of
tow to n or less. up to 20 per cent
on the long shot of twenty to n
or better, the man who plays a
heavily-backed, odds-on favorite, say
at Z to ), may risk a possible fine
rather than the certain loss of near
ly half of his scanty winnings. To
hackers of hundred to one outsiders
the prospective surrender of some
$25 of a 500 win will be equally de-
torrent.
Limiting authorized gambling n
der this law to horse racing, the gov
eminent in its introduction to the bill
pronounced against betting On loot
ball and other sports popular with
the middle and lower classes" to
save them from the gambling conta-
gion. Officers and soldiers are also
classed in the undesirable category,
bookmakers being forbidden to ac-
cept bets from members of the mill
tary forces, and betting on races with
gentleman jockeys is also prohibited.
An important provision of the pro-
posed law makes winning wagers col
lectable at law, provided they are
each cash ayers. This, it is be-
lieved, will greatly reduce the num-
Der of dishonest boonmakers. The
maximum penalty for unlicensed
bookmaking is to be two years i'm
prisonment and $500 fine. as
against six months and $125 at pres
ent. BettOrs dealing with unlicensed
boOkmakers also make themselves
liable to imprisonment and fine, and
to the loss of all sums wagered, which
will be confiscated by the state. The
police may forbid the publishing of
tips and form sheets "
The government estimates that the
new law will produce at least &c.
O0O, 900 yearly, of which $4,000, 900
will go to the states where the races
in question are held, to be devoted to
the encouragement of horse breed
ing, and $4,000, 900 to the federal
treasury. Despite the reduction of
the tax on ~pari-nutuel takings, it is
not believed that returns will be be-
low the present figures, which are
approximately $3,000.000 yearly,
since betting through the machines
jC To he pprmittpd with restrictions
on races outside Germany. Under
the existing law, the machines may
be employed only for domestic races.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-18
BUREAU OF MINES TO HAVE FINE
EXPERIMENT STATION AT P|TTSBURG

Plans for the proposed 100000
experiment station of the United
States bureau of mines at Pittsburg,
have been approved by the commits
sion appointed by congress for that
purpose. The federal government
now owns the property upon which
will be erected a group of buildings,
especially designed and adapted for
The carrying on of the mine safety
work and other Investigations in
which the bureau of mines is inter
ested. Congress a year ago, in the
public buildings bill, authorized a
few home for the bureau of mines
to cost $500, 600. 1t is now expected
that congress, in it's present session.
will make a specific appropriation so
that construction work may begin.
1t is hoped hat contracts may be
let by July /. The director is hope
full that the buildings may be COM
pleted in the fall of 1915, when they
will be dedicated with suitable cere-
mony, including a second national
mine safety demonstration, similar to
that held at Pittsburg, 1911.
The commission which has approx
ed the plans consists of j. A. Holmes,
ID. c. Kingman, chief of engineers
of the United States army, and O..
Wenderoth, supervising architect OF
the treasury. The state of Pennsyl-
vania has appropriated $4,000 for
cooperation in establishing this eX-
pertinent station and has appointed
a state commission consisting of
James E. Roderick, chief mine in
spector; w. r. Crane, dean of the
mining department, Pennsylvania
State College, and w. H. Caverly.
This latter commission has tentative
ly approved the plans.
The buildings which will consti-
tute the experiment station of the
bureau will form a part of a most
remarkable and unusual group OF
monumental edifices devoted to edu-
~cational purposes. On n side the
bureaus buildings will ace the great
group of structures of the Carnegie
School of Technology. On another
side is the Carnegie Institute, in
which are the art gallery, museum
and library. Nearby is the imposing
pile of buildings of the University of
F%ittsburg. Other nearby buildings
are the memorial Hall, Pittsburg
Athletic and University clubs, and
the Hotel Schenley. The site con-
sists of nearly twelve acres of land,
part of it on the level of the B. &
o. railroad, which railroad will fur
nish adequate facilities for passen-
gers and freight traffic.
The group consists of three main
buildings facing Forbes street and
the several street-car lines from the
uptown district. The central build
ing of the group, the mining build
ing, will be three stories in height,
hanked by two main buildings, one
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-18
POWER COMPANY
OFFICIALS HERE
WIVES OF TWO OF THEM HAVE
No FEAR OF THE
DESERT.

When the big red Pope car of the
Nevada California Power company
pulled out of Goldfieid TINS morning,
carrying a party of officials on the
second lap of a long inspection tou
of the cOmpany's properties. it car
ried as well two women for whom the
alleged discomforts OF the desert
have no terrOrs. Mrs. a. ID.
West, wife of the wee president and
general manager, is II of the few
women--wives Of rich men-who
take an intelligent interest in their
husbands business affairs Mrs. West
has, since her husband came west
with the company over a year &
from Denver, accompanied him on
all of his inspection trips and knows
personally every minor employee of
the big system and takes a personal
interest in their joys and SORROWS,
helping greatly as only a can
in smoothing out difficulties that
would never come under the notice
of the men officials.
MIS-. CdTleSOn "A. helley, vile VI
the travelling auditor, is also with the
party. Mrs. Kelley is a former news
paper woman, writing syndicate and
magazine stuff now unuer the name
of Ina Young Kelley. She has the
distinction of being the only woman
who ever edited a sporting page;
she is the only oma member of the
National Baseball Writer'S assOcia-
ton of which she is a charter mem
Der, and for two years she vas Off
cial scorer of the Denver Western
league baseball team.
The Nevada California Power COM
pany party, of which the other mem
bers are A. B. West, vice president;
e. b. Criddle, general agent; c. A.
Kelley, travelling auditor. and w. J..
Young C'Billy the Windy the chauf-
feur, drove to Bishop today and will
look owe the intake and power plants
at the head of Bishop creek. The in
spection tour will carry them over
some 500 miles of territory. The
power company is just completing a
line into Imperial valley. which,
when completed, will be m of the
longest power lines in the world.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-18
AMERICAN college SPORTS ARE
Presenting INTERESTING THEME

had last and with this years crew /
will be tickled to death if we pull
over the finishing line with open
water between us and the second
crew."
The new athletic fraternity, Sigma
Delta Psi, membership in which is to
be won by ability to attain satisfac-
tory marks in a list of specified ath-
letic events, is making rapid growth
in popularity and membership in
eastern college circles. Started in
the middle west about a year age
the plan and objects of the fraternity
have gained adherents in all parts of
the country. The tests are designed
to strike a balance between the
events most common to American
university athletics. The list was
framed by the athletic directors at
leading American universities, the
idea spreading from Indiana univer-
sity, but receiving prompt response
and considerable development in the
east. One of the rules of member
ship is that a college letter won in
any sport shall count for the test in
that sport. That is, membership on
the college football team will abol-
ish the need of competition in the
football test The requirements foc
membership in the full regular
grade inclu1e l2 all-arouId athletic
tests, as follows:
observation-disclosures dash, II 3-5
onds; running high jump, 5 feet;
running broad jump, Is feet; putting
1C-pound shot, 80 feet; pole vault, 8
feet 6 inches; throwing baseball, ESQ
feet; punting football, 100 feet; g.
mile run, Is minutes, 80 seconds;
1O-mile walk, 2 hours 80 minutes:
/ 1OO-yard swim and tumbling tests
not yet specified.
There will also be a junior grade
in membership, admission to which
will be through slightly modified
tests, as follows: 100-yard run. y
seconds; 12O-yard hurdles, 20 Sec
onds; running high jump A feat 6
inches; running broad jump, 16 feet;
putting 16-pound shot, 25 feet; pole
vault, s feet; throwing baseball, 200
feet; punting football, 80 feet; B.
mile run, 20 minutes; 1O-male walk,
8 hours; swim, so yards.
Dean McClenahan, chairman Of The
faculty board of athletic control at
Princeton, believes that the recen.
gift of the Palmer stadium paves the
way for a complete and modern ath-
letic and sport equipment at the New
Jersey university. He said in dis
cussing the outlook:
cone of the most gratifying feat
ures of the splendid gift is the fact
that it is to be used to obtain An in
crease of the revenue of the uni
versity. This increase will enable
the work of the university to be 1One
even more efficiently. This increase
will be in the form of a rental to be
paid by the athletic association to
the university.
THE additional revenue from
/ games will in time permit the Ath-
letic association to increase it's ath-
letic equipment in the form of a
baseball grandstand, a greatly need
ed baseball cage, hockey rink and so
on, unless some other generous alum
nus or friend meets these needs be-
fore the athletic association can do
so itself. 1t is hoped also that in
time the stadium will permit us to
lower the price of admission for I'M
dergraduates to all of our athletic
events"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-18
Pioneer Dies in East.

George Feiffer, a resident of Reno
for 25 years, died recently at Buff
falo. N. Y, at the home of his son.
He left Reno last November after
successfully undergoing an operation
for cancer. He was rapidly improv-
ing and felt that the trip would be
beneficial. He was IS years old and
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-18
Mexican Robbed.

Joe Francino, a Mexican, wan
dered into the police station in Reno
recently and informed Chief of Po-
lice Hillhouse that he had been
robbed in the restricted district.
When he entered the police station
he was in possession of a laughing
jog, but after he had been locked up
it changed to a crying jag.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-18
Derrick TOPPLES Over,

Owing to faulty construction. a
big derrick erected at the capital
grounds for raising stone for the new
addition to the capital, toppled over
doing considerable damage.