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Hs15 IL

About a orarter of mile in front OF
them was Gen Early, that brave and
daring Confederate commander. with his
division of veterans determined to cap
&ure the CITY From near where Lincoln
and the crowd stood a brigade of Union
troops charged equally determined to
drive back Early and his men. This was
the battle of Fort Stevens-the only bat
tie ever fought within the District of Co
lumbia and the only one in which
President of the United States stood ex-
POSED to an enemy's fire
Little is said of this battle in our his
tories. Yet it was one of the most I'M
portant in the whole civil war. Washing
ton was almost defenSeless. 1t had been
stripped of men and guns for the cam
paign against Richmond. 1t was sur
rounded by series of forts but these
were manned for the most part by mex
perienced troops. citizens and convales-
cents. At best they could be no match
Tor Early and his seasoned veterans.
Washington might easily have been cap
tured. The President might have been
taken prisoner. the Treasury might have
been raided and the Confederate colorS
might have been unfurled from the Cap
1tol- Certain foreign powers whose SYM
pathies were well known to be with the
south might have seized upon this as
justifying them in recognizing the south
ern Confederacy as an Independent ma
ton, and this in turn might have given
a new Impetus to their cause and posi-
bly, have insured their success. Our whole
national history might have been
changed
In Washington and it's environs are
numerous reminders of the battle. or
rather the long-continued and widely ex-
tended skirmishes. The bones of soldiers
shot in the course of that affair rest in
Battle-Ground cemetery. Brishtwood, and
in the little graveyard of Grace Church,
on the Tth street pike between Silver
Spring and Forest Glen. 1t is most like
ly that some Confederate soldiers lie in
unknown graves in the country Just
north of the city and extending from the
Rockville pike eastward to the Bladens-
burg road for though the firing was
heaviest from and in front of Fort
Stevens. on the 9TH street road at Bright
wood. loudly supported by the guns of
Fort De Russy. the west and Fort
Slocum on the east, there was skirInish
ing in front of Fort Reno at Tenleytown.
and at Fort Lincoln between the Bla
densburg road and the Eastern branch
Some of the houses which stood on those
tile movement was then generally called.
are still standing, some people living
there then are living there now. soldiers
who shot over those fields are citizens
of Washington and the ramparts of some
of the forts against which the attack or
'feint'' or raid was made are still
visible.
Fort Stevens is one of the landmarks
of that conflict. To the present genera
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largest of these monuments is that erect
ed by the 122d New York Volunteers ITO
the Gallant Sons of Onondaga County,
y. Y, Who Fought on this Field July II.
1864, in Defense of Washington and in
the Presence of Abraham Lincoln" The
monument is also inscribed with the
were killed or wounded and these names
are: KILLED. John Bentley, Alanson
Mosier John Kennedy. George H. Rich
ardson Harvey P. B. Chandler. David L.
Hodgeboom and John Preston; wounded.
Capt. David Cossitt, Alfonso Fradenburgh.
Loriston Adkins. Caius A. Weaver.
Thomas H. Scott. Ruel P. Buzzell. James
Goodfellow. John Laupenthal, Thomas
Thornton. Charles c. Snedeker. Miles J.
McGough Jehial Landphier, Peter Steb-
bins. William O. Swartl, Thomas G.
Dallman Merrick C. Smith. James Da-
wilson and William Thompson.
To one side of the monument to the
122d New York Volunteers Is a monu-
ment I'm Memory of Our Comrades
Killed and Wounded in Battle on This
Field July IL and 10. 1864. 9sth Regi-
ment P. ", LIST Brigade, I'd Division,
9Th Army Corps"
Another monument Is inscribed:
"Ohio-Memorial to Company K,
15oth O. y. G. l., Which Took Part in
the Defense of Fort Stevens D. c.,
July 10. 1864.
fourth monument is to be I'M
yelled in the cemetery. 1t is inscribed:
Sacred to the Memory Of Our Com
rades Who Gave Their Lives in De-
fense of the National Capital July II,
1884.
Erected by the State of New York
Il, Honor of the 9th New York volun-
teer. Cavalry.
head
stones in battle-ground cemetery TWEEN
ty-three, after the name Of the soldier
at rest there, bear the letters IN Y"
Twelve of the men were Pennsylvania
ans two were from Massachusetts, one
from Vermont. one from Maine, one
from Rhode Island and one soldier
from the regular army. There are two
of the headstones without state let
tiers.
Georgia avenue until you come to
Grace Church you will see in the
southeast corner of the burial ground
a big gray monument inscribed:
known Confederate Dead Who Fell in
Front of Washington, D. c., July IL,
1864 BY Their Comrades"
The bones of these men were collected
from graves on the battle-ground few
years ago. Most of the bones were ex-
humed on the Blair property at Silver
Spring.
In the grounds of the Walter Reed Hos
pital stands the dead and gray trunk Of
a yellow poplar tree 1t was giant tree
and from its branches man could look
out over the low crest south Of it and
the rolling fields which stretched away
to Fort Stevens. The dead trunk has
tablet at its base which tells that the
tree was used as a Confederate signal
station and that Confederate sharpshoot-
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SITE OF FORT STEVENS.

the defenses had been stripped of the disci-
pined and instructed artillery regiments mum
herring about 5000 mem which had constituted
their garrison. Under such circumstances much
anxiety felt on the approach of Early
veterans flushed with success and melted by the
prize before their eyes. Yet inadequately
manned they We're the fortfcations compelled
at least a concentration and arraying OF
force the part Of the assaflants. and thus
gave time for the arrival of succor.'
Monday morning. July II. The Star
issued an extra, which, under the head
Invasion" gave news that Confederate
troops had appeared at Rockville. that
there was fighting between their cavalry
and Col Lowell's Union cavalry between
Rockville and Tenleytown. and that Gen.
Augur had been out to make tour Of IN
spection." The following is culled from
that old paper:
Last evening July 10Y force of between 1,50O
and 1000 rebels entered Rockville and passed
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here A. r. t.ta tho field wallace was
so badly beaten yesterday at Monocacy that what
il left can attempt more than to defend BAL
timore: What we shall get from penn,
sylvania ana Ne" iork WI sca 80 think II
that vn, sbonId nrov,de TO retain YOUR hold where
YOU are. iniy and bring the rest with you,
personally and make a vigorous effort to destroy
the enemy's force in this vicinity.
~
But Grant had not waited for thi. ap-
~
pea,. ING nish' oe.of 10" houis ~
Wallace's defeat-he had sent by water
a part of the 9th and 10Th Corps of his
army troon. which hefore had covered
..un.
themselves Win glory On the otA''ie''e s,
AT Hrst ne planned TO come personally,
but later decided to send the capable and
trusted ean II w WRIGHT Ru+ even
81 -, ,. a.. o..s..
eiiis news o!o not aiiay 'ne excitement
The troops had over 200 miles to come,
and Early was but forty miles away.
The handful of available soldiers, clerks
in the departments. convalescents and
able-bodied citizens white and co,ored
were orean;zad into cnnnanias orn,ed
placed under tho command Of Cow Nc
Cook and rushed to the nortbern defense
Of the civ
It il trne that 'everv man vbo cou,d
be utilized for the defense of wash
ineton was armed and sent to the north
ern line Of forts Int how many mon
were utilized the man who writes this
does not know. It ia true that military
hospitals in and around Washington, in
which were many thousands of soldiers.
were drawn on for convalescents. It
had been a practice to send out con-
valescents to the line of defenses before
Early threatened washington. after the
veteran troons manning those works had
been drawn awav from washington to
strengthen Grant Az MANY soldiers de-
tailed With the ouartermaster depart
ment an could he Quickly brought to-
eether were sent to help meet the emer-
eency The District militia was called
on and that means not the organized
yni,,tIa" 40 that term ia understood now.
hnt all men liable to militia service.
Tbe onota. Of voIunteers of the Dis
tr;ct under the various drafts had been
secession sympathies. This call on tne
District militia was nke INA. WV" NV
r,i hsoh nc tpp on nerson ont Of hundred
knows anything about, for in addition
to the organized militia Of the Dlstrict
OF coinmpla .n me 20 se nar Rattalion,
battery signal Corps, ETC., every able
bodied male In the District between the
ages Of eighteen ana 1or,y i've, WIZ i,,d. ams
eAcep.aoi y, engineers and sun
drv other classes, may be called out to
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vicinity of Fort Massachusetts,. near
Clagetts place. some four miles out, The
rebels do not show themselves in large
force, however"
The Star had other news items. incon-
spicuous, measured by the modern rule, of
skirmishing on the Rockville road four
miles west Of Tenleytown and Of Skin
mishing near Clagett's farm and on the
Blair place, with a report that the home
of Francis P. Blair had been burned.
There appeared also an item telling Of
fighting on the canal towpath near Muddy
branch between Confederates and a
squadron of the Sth Illinois Cavalry and
the I'd Massachusetts Cavalry, in which
Capt. Morris. Company NJ Of the Massa-
chusetts Regiment had been killed.
In the Monday extra" appears this
note:
Aiming the Employes-This morning arms were
given out to the employees of several of the de-
partments who have organized for the defense Of
the city. This afternoon the clerks Of the adtu-
tant generals Office Were drilling In front OF La
fayette Square, fully armed and equipped A
number of patients In the hospitals able to bear
go going from Campbell Hospital this morning.
In the extra Star of Tuesday, July
IL. appeared this:
The heavy diminishing in front of Fort Stevens,
in the vicinity Of the 7th street road, yesterday
afternoon continued until after dark.
The enemy held positions in the woods, from
along the ground or fired from behind trees. At
one time they succeeded in getting wI,hin range
Of the fort, and their sharpshOoters were enabled
to pick of our gunners-two of whom were
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n the hot afternoon


n the hot afternoon
of Tuesday, July
II. 1s6i-just fifty
years ago - Presi-
dent Lincoln and
a crowd of anxious
citizens stood
breathlessly watch
ing the varying
fortunes of a bat
tie which was to
determine the fate
of Washington.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-07
MDONALD ELY DRIFT
NOW IN HARD GROUND

AT the Mcdonald Ely property near
Lane City two shifts are working reg
ularly down the Golden Gate shaft.
1t is understood that a drift is being
run at $40 feet to reach the area un-
der the ore deposits found nearer to
the surface. The drift is being driven
by hand and is now reported to be out
fifty feet from the shaft and in a very
hard formation, according to the evil
dences seen on the dump. Within a
short distance, however, it is expected
the drift will enter a softer forma,
ton and then progress will be more
rapid. No information regarding the
property is given out by the local
management but it is generally un-
derstood by people who have been
watching this property that the r
body to which the drift is being run
is extensive and of shipping grade. 1t
will be necessary to drive a total dis
lance of about 800 feet to tap it and
then the company is expected to sys-
tematically prospect it in several di-
rections.-Expositor.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-07
FROM TWIN RIVER
MINING DISTRICT

George Townsend, Jr., arrived in
Tonopah today, having snowshoed
down from the Portland group OF
mining claims in the Twin River
mining district. He has been work
ing there during the last three
months, driving a tunnel to Gu; an
ore chute that shows up on surface
from which assays running from $34
up to $167.7O in gold and silver.
The breast of the tunnel is nov 80
feet from the edge of the chute and
is highly mineraliZed and assays
across the breast 500 and is i'm
proving every foot as 20 feet fur
Their back is only assayed $3.50. The
tunnel is now in 1870 feet and at a
distance of 100 feet they will be in
what they expect will be a bonanza
are chute. The width of the ledge
as developed by cutting is IL feet
and apparently getting wider.
There is considerable snow in the
for snow. Mr.. Townsend would not
advise anyone to go in for at least
two months. There are several par
ties awaiting the disappearance of
the snow to reach their claims to
continue development. Among them
are Charles Bazinet, Jack Reardon,
Arthur Noyes, Joe Pelrose, Peter
Serson, A. w. Person, Paul Manuel
and nj hers ROn
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-07
WASHINGTON COAL
FIELD EXAMINED

Along Cowlitz river, Washington,
northward from it's junction with the
Columbia, lies an area of coal land 80
miles long and Is miles wide. Prob
ably a large part of this area is not
underlain by coal, but beds are ex-
posed at so many places in the field
that all of it is considered possible
coal land. This field, says A. ]. Col
lier in a report on the coal resources
of Cowlitz river valley, just issued
by the United States Geological Sur
vey as Bulletin 531-L, is probably
continuous with that about Centralia
and Chehalis, although for a few
miles south from Chehalis no out
crops of coal have been found. The
whole region was formerly covered
by forest, and although much of it
has been logged off, the surface is
still strewn with material left by
the rank growth.
The evidence of coal in this re-
gion is found in natural o%utcrops, in
prospects, and in mines. The mate
rial is Ignite except at a few places
where it has improved by intrusion
of ingenious rock. Near the old open
ings are commonly found to be mere
ly fragments of wood. In n local
ity Ignite was found which had only
a slight change of color from the
initial wood.
A description of the mines and out
crops in this area is contained in
Bulletin 531-L, a copy of which may be
obtained free on application to the
Director of the Geological Survey,
Washington, d. c.
During January a little more thar
700 900 acres were thrown open to
entry by Secretary Lane, as 32O-ac.
hOmesteads under the enlarged homo
stead act. This action was taken on
the recommendation of the United
States Geological Survey designating
these lands as non-irrigable. This
brings the total area in public land
states that has been classified as
non-irrigable since the passage Of
the enlarged homestead act on Feb.
ruary 10, 1909, to over 20S, 00O,0 0C
acres.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-07
SIX FEET OF ORE IN
APHIR AVERAGING 500

Reports from the Ophir mine today
continue of the same favorable char
southwest in the vein on the 1850
foot level from the 24O0 level two
compartment raise. The rich ore
continues strong in the face for a
width of six feet, and the vein main
tains it's strength on all sides. Su-
p~erintendent Mccormick today sent
the following despatch to the San
Francisco office of the company:
This morning blasted in southwest
drift on 1850 level. Face of drift
shows pay streak to be six feet in
width. Looking well. Face samples
average $55.4S."-Chronicle.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-07
YOUNG MAN ATTACKED
BY MOUNTAIN LIONS

Archie Ferry of Parker, who was
in Ely on business last week, while
on his return home was attacked by
two mountain lions while in h
~neighbOrhood of Blue Mass ranch in
the head of Pleasant Valley, says the
Record. Seeing that the animals
we're desperate with hunger and
we're about to attack him, young
Ferry opened fire on them with his
revolver and fired six or eight shots,
wounding one of the beasts. Mr..
Ferry then took refuge in a tree and
as he himself says in describing the
adventure, the two lions fairly
danced a jig" below him as he
perched in the branches. He kept
plunking away at them until mis- last
shell was gone and after keeping
watch on him for about two hours
the lions withdrew to the thick tim
Der while their intended victim made
his escape with all possible haste.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-07
TIL GOLDFIELD NEWS N WEEKLY. IRlBONE-
THE EARTH'S INTERIOR
REGION FOR SPECULATION

A strictly scientific contribution to
knowledge, in the form of a discus
sion of some of the results incidental
to the triangulation work done by the
Coast and Geological Survey, is pre-
sented by Grove Karl Gilbert, of the
United States Geological Survey, in
a short paper on the Interpretation
of Anomalies of Gravity" recently
published by the Geological Survey
as Part c of Professional Paper IS.
After stating the anomalies of grav-
ity, which are also expressed graphi-
cally on the map of the United States
accompanying the paper, Mr.. Gilbert
discusses the Interpretation of these
anomalies under the assumption of
imperfect isostatic adjustment, verti-
cal heterogeneity of the crust, and
variation of depth of compensation.
The geologic relations suggested by
the map showing the geographic dis
tribution of the anomalies are next
set forth.
The speculative nature of this sci
OheihS SohSiiuutlOh 10 wen OApAOSoSN
by Mr.. Gilbert in the few sentences
that introduce the section discussing
Interpretation by nucleal h%eteroge-
neity:
THE inner earth is the inalienable
playground of the imagination. Once
it contained the FORCES of blacksmith
gods; or it vas the birthplace of our
race, or the home or prison of disem-
bodied spirits. Later Symmes hOl-
lowed from it a vast habitable empire,
cOncave like the world of KOresh.
Science now claims exclusive title but
holds it chiefly for speculative pur-
poses; and the freedom of specula-
ton practically recognizes but two
limitations: The inner earth is
dense and it is rigid. AS to all other
properties opinion is untrammeled.
1T is my own view that the inner
part of the nucleous is not merely hot,
but very hot. If the law of compress
sion by the pressure and the law of
expansion by heat, as we know them
at the surface, apply equally to the
nucleOus, then the mean temperature
of the earth must be enormous in
order to afford a mean density so
low at Sc. An enormous temperature
implies an enormous store of heat"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-07
GOOD VALUES FOUND
IN LUCKY BOY TUNNEL

j. H. Miller, manager of the Lucky
Boy tunnel, yesterday brought sam
pies of ore from the face of the tun-
mel which shows good values, and he
is greatly pleased land so is everyone
else hereabouts). says the Walker
Lake Bulletin. While not so rich
as the average shipping ore taken
from the Mountain King, still it is Of
the same character and of shipping
grade.
Mr.. Miller believes they have en-
countered the real Lucky Boy true
assure as the ledge now exposed is
two feet wide and is getting wider
with each blast.
Early in 1912 work on the Mount
ain King mine was discontinued, not
withstanding the fact that the there
was rich ore in the bottom of the
shaft, which is over 900 feet deep.
Work was discontinued because of
the great inflow of water. which the
pumps were incapable of handling.
Up to this time ore yielding n and
a quarter million dollars had been
extracted from a small portion of the
Mountain King.
Then Mr.. Miller conceived the idea
of driving a tunnel more than a mile
long. The tunnel was intended pri-
marily to drain the Mountain King,
but incidentally to tap lodges known
to exist along it's course. At in
stance of Mr.. Miller, moneyed men
from other states were induced to
invest in the tunnel venture.
On November 2. 1912, ground was
broken for the long tunnel, and work
has progressed since then without
cessation, under the able manage
ment of Morris Gallagher, an ex-
perienced miner.
Now, after driving the tunnel
through all kinds of ground-some-
times so hard that a machine drill
would hardly penetrate it, then So
soft that nothing but shovels were
used. then working in showers of
water-they have reached a distance
of $500 feet and have cut a ledge
identical in character with that
abandoned in the Mountain King,
which this tunnel will cut at a depth
of 1900 feet.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-07

restitution. The family, consisting
of the father and mother and eve
children, ranging from three to six
teen years, left Livingstone, Mon
tana, about two months g for Las
Vegas, Nevada, after the destruction
OF their home. when they arrive in
Tonopah Sheriff Malley was notified
of their condition and aid was sent
to them Immediately by the members
of the Elks' club and the Women's
relief corps.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-07
MIGHT PROVE
TO Be RAD|UM
MYSTERIOUS PROPERTIES OF
QUAR- DEPOSIT FOUND
NEAR RENO +,

Radium in Washoe county? Per-
haps. Returns are not yet all in, but
some of the precincts have been heard
from.
Fred J.. Siebert, consulting engi-
heel for the Goldfield Consolidated,
Nevada Hills, Buckhorn and other
Wingfield interests, sat at his desk
this morning viewing a couple OF
chunks of milky-white quartz, trans
lucent, almost transparent. showing
no cleavage and nothing else, ap-
parently, than silica, except for a
few specks of white mica.
He was working out a problem as
best he could without a laboratory to
call to his aid. Darkening the room,
he rubbed the two pieces of quartz
together, and a strange, pale-yellow
light was suffused, almost a candle
power. 1t was not a flow of sparks
like generated by flint upon steel, but
a steady glow that lasted after the
friction has ceased, and, what was
most puzzling of all, the unmistak-
able, musty odor of ozone f1oated
from the glowing rock.
1t was, indeed, a puzzler, for n
rock was undeniably far from akin
to p%itchblende or any of the
known sources of radium bromide. 1t
was seemingly radioactive, the only
denial or doubt coming from Prof.
Jones, who was present, and he as
serted the light was not radial, but
phosphorescent.
The samples were then taken into
the interior of a bank vault, and the
illumination was sufficient to enable
coupons to be accurately shipped, al
though none were at the time.
The beauty of the discovery is thai
there is a big ledge of the stuff, and
it's value will be determined as soon
as experiments now being conducted
in the east are concluded.
At all events, the rock possesses
the property of giving out a glow, a
measurable illumination without loss
of weight throwing off the particles.
1t seems to be a force instead of mat
ter that sacrifices itself to friction
and produces the phenomenon. Pro-
lessor Jones ventured the opinion
that it was due to the molecular con-
struction of the rock, but Mr.. Siebert
said nothing. He is awaiting the re-
suit of the tests.
BY the by, the miners who were
working on the deposit of quartz,
hoping vainly that it would turn in/
to gold values, had a bad scare someV
nights ago. A bucket was dumped
down a chute in the darkness and the
workings were Illuminated by a glare
of light that was nothing if not un-
canny.
If the rock be radioactive and of
a percentage making it commercial,
the deposit possesses great POSSIBLE
tiles, even if the cost of manufacture
ing radium bromide is being steadily
reduced and the price OF the finished
product decreasing in correspond
ence.-Gazette.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-07
Ruling is Made

The railroad commission recently
issued an order in the case against
the Bell Telephone company of Ne
vada requiring it to stop the practice
of exacting a deposit of IS from per-
sons desiring telephones. The order
becomes effective on April 1.