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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16
State the Greatest Producer

Minnesota far outranks all other
States in the mining of iron ore,
and during the last four years has
contributed both in quantity and
value considerably more than half
the iron ore produced and market
ed in the United States, according
to the United States Geological
Survey. In 1913 the total market
ed production of iron ore in this
country was 50, 643, O9S long tons
valued at S13O,9O5, $50 of which
Minnesota contributed 36.603, 331
tons, valued at $50, 786,O25. In
1912 Minnesota produced 80, 249.-
S13 long tons of iron ore, valued at
Sol ,8O5, OH. Because of its great
wealth in iron ores and of their ex-
tended development, Minnesota
ranks ninth among all the States
in the total value of its mineral
production. The value of the iron
ore produced in the State represents
considerably more than 90 per cent
of the total output. The value of
the mineral products of Minnesota
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16
Steel Trade Better

Export trade in iron and steel
products is steadily gaining in
volume, according to reports from
leading industrial centers.
More than $4,000 tons of wire
products, exclusive of wire rods,
are estimated to have been sold by
Pittsburgh mills to foreign con-
sumers within the last few weeks.
This is the highest record in that
line that has been set by the steel
trade. Most of the buying is said
to have been in small lots and by
half dozen nations. 1t has fore
ed better schedules in the wire
plants, and it is expected by the
trade that wire and nail mills in
that district will, within a week,
be averaging 80 per cent of capa-
city active instead of IS per cent as
at present. Foreign trade is also
active in the horseshoe industry,
and even if a fair proportion of the
inquiries that have been received
result in orders, it is considered
that extra efforts will be demanded
on the part of the plants to produce
the materials within the periods
scheduled for shipment.
The best foreign order in connec-
ton with the wire trade during the
week came from the French gov
eminent. 1t called for 100000
spools of barbed wire for immedi-
ate shipment.
Officials of the United States
Steel corporation estimate that its
plants are operating on a basis of
90 per cent capacity this week.
The rail market is said to show
more activity, with sales last week
aggregating about 10000 tons.
1t is considered that there are good
reasons to hope that the slump in
domestic demand for iron and steel
products will have run its course
by the end of this month, as liqui-
dat1on of stocks, which has contin-
ued steadily for some time, must
force some resumption of buying
activity in the near future.
Along with the Steel corporation
the Bethlehem Steel company is
considered fortunate in regard to
the volume of business being book
ed by it with the warning European
nations. These ordeIs are said to
have gone long way towards
offsetting the loss in domestic
structural steel and rail tonnage.
The corporation is reported to have
been the lowest bidder on 22,122
tons of armor plate for the United
States battleships about to go under
construction.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16
AMENDMENTS

On the second page of the
Miner will be found the eleven
constitutional amendments to be
voted on at the coming election,
November 3. The voter should
study them, pass judgment on
them and vote for those of the
bunch that appeal to him. 1t
must also be remembered that no
vote on the amendments counts
for vote against them. Read
them over. The amendments
are given and also the opinion of
the attorney general on them.
On the last page will be found
the proceedings of the city coun-
Gil and also the proceedings of
the last meeting of the school
board. The council transacted a
large amount of business as did
also the board. 1t will be seen
that the board levied the assess
ment for school purposes for the
en- suing year amounting to
$1O5,OOO. The council proceed
ings show that the city fathers
purchased machinery to place
the water and light plant in
condition second to none in the
northwest. 1t was also decided
to extend the sewer and water
mains to accommodate the resi-
dents on Chandler street and the
north side of Camp street.
All these things make inter
esting reading and subjects
with which every citizen should
familiarize himself. A goodly
lot of war news can also be
found on the inside pages be-
sides Minnesota State news and
several chapters of the engros-
sing serial story. 1t will be we'll
worth your time to read every
line in the Miner including the
ads.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16
Candidates to be Here

From unofficial sources we learn
that the nominees on the Republi-
can state ticket will make a tour
of the ranges in the week of Oct.
rs. The party will travel in a
special train and will make whirl-
wind trip.
On Monday Oct, 26, the train
will leave Duluth over the Iron
Range, stopping at Two Harbors,
Tower, Ely and Winton. On the
9th the Mesaba range towns will
be visited and in the evening will
wind-up at Hibbing where demon
stration is arranged for. 1t is said
that forty candidates will be in the
party.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16

Perhaps no part of the efficiency
commission plan will be debated
more than the civil service provi-
sions. Everybody is in favor OF
the merit system. Some people
are in favor of having it apply
everywhere except to the places in
which they are are interested, but
everybody favors it.
When civil service laws were
first agitated, the spoils system was
almost universal and the law had
to be rigid to be at all effective.
Congress and legislatures were pes
tered into adopting laws that they
did not much believe in. AS usual
ly happens, the people who were
interested in getting the laws pass
ed came to believe that the fate OF
the republic depended on them and
that anybody who did not fall in
with everything they proposed wa:
a little worse than traitor.
Laws were passed, for the fedora
government and a few of the states
so rigid and effective that they
have sometimes been drag on thu
service. To prevent improper re
movals. there have been provision:
that have prevented removals that
ought to be made. To insure
against improper appointments
the discr elton of appointing
officers has been at times almos
abolished.
Such study of the subject as the
efficiency commission has made
leads to the conclusion that tn,
object of the law is more to enable
officers to do their work than it i:
to keep them from getting into
mischief.
Any official who used the civil
service to build up a personal OF
party machine would be preparing
his own downfall.
If public opinion is lax. the law
is not easily enforcible, whatever
its language. If public opinion is
active, it furnishes the best remedy
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16

for abuses.
The right to fire and hire is an
essential of efficient management.
Acting on these ideas. bill will
be framed that will give the ap-
pointing officers and not the civil
service commission the right to
hire and fire men. To prevent
abuses, all appointments must have
the certificate of the commission
that the candidates are qualified.
If men are fired for political rea-
sons, the civil service commission
will have no authority to reinstate
them; it will have authority to in
vestigate and roar about it if any
|sohhcer tries to make monkey of
the law. The check will be public
opinion and if public opinion is
strong enough to sustain the law,
it will be strong enough to punish
abuse of the law.
One enthusiast, for example,
urges that there should be a stand
ing appropriation for the civil
service commission, so that it
would still be able to operate if the
Legislature was hostile. The eff
cheney commission does not believe
in standing appropriations. The
state cut them out only short
time ago. The efficiency commits
sion does believe that the legisla-
ture is representative body and
that if the people want civil ser
vice restrictions, the legislature
will provide the means for enforc-
ing the law.
If the people don't want such
law it ought not to be passed. If
they don't care enough about it to
elect representative men. the eff
cheney commission does not con-
slider itself the guardian of the
public. If representative men are
elected, the efficiency commission,
| for one group of men, is willing to
take chances on what the legisla-
ture will do.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16

WE are not much in sympathy
with the Buy Bale of Cotton"
idea going about the country.
Why not go a little farther and
buy ton of ore, 1000 feet of lum-
Der and some shingles, ten bushels
of potatoes, a barrel of beer, 1000
or more letter heads or several
dozen of other articles we could
mention. All the producers of
these articles need the money as
badly as do the cotton growers.
Besides the cotton fellows have not
been very strong on selling their
products to American manu-
facturers but have used all their
efforts to work up a European
market. Now that the markets in
Europe are all shot to pieces, the
immense crop is to be sold to the
American public on the buy a
bale" plan. We can't see as the
cotton growers need help any more
than do the miners.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16

THE Tower band elected officers
last week and in speaking of the
organization the Tower News says
few pertinent truths regarding
the benefits to a town from having
good band. The same can be
said of the city band here. The
News said:
Tower needs a band. Every
city ought to have one. 1t is no
city without a band. The local
band is now in good condition,
having received the benefits of a
good teacher for some time. They
are fine bunch of boys and we are
all proud of them. They are work
ing hard to give Tower a good
band and every encouragement
should be shown them. 1t will be
regretted if the city allows them to
disband. We need them here. It
will mean big loss to all of us if
they fail to continue"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16
AMENDMENT NO. 8.

We are in receipt of com
munication from Miss Annie E.
Shetland of International Falls,
Chairman of the Parks and High
ways Committee of the Minnesota
Federation of Women's Clubs in
regard to Amendment No. 8 which
reads:
I" A Revolving Fund of not over
Two Hundred Fifty Thousand
Dollars $3.50, OOO.OO) may be set
apart from the funds derived from
the sale of school and swamp lands,
to- be used in constructing roads,
bitches and fire breaks in, through
and around unsold school and
swamp lands, such fund to be
replenished as long as needed from
the enhanced value realized from
the sale of such lands so bene-
fitted"
Miss Shetland in calling atten-
ton to the benefits to be derived
from the passage of this amend
ment says:
This is a matter of business
that concerns you and me for
hlImanfty's sake. 1t also concerns
us because the State Federation
have made it a part of their bust
ness to see that Amendment No.
is passed at the general election,
November 3rd.
This Amendment, if passed
provides way whereby the State
Legislature can provide protection
for its forests and people from the
proceeds derived from the sale of
state land and timber, and thus
putting the state land in a self
supporting condition and doing
away with a yearly appropriation
from the General Revenue Fund of
the State.
These appropriations were
usually of the nature of locking the
door after the horse had been stolen
for they paid for damages done
through lack of protection.
This amendment enables the
legislature to grant the protection
needed without extra cost to you
and me and will save many dollars
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16
WHAT OTHERS SAY

Dad Atkinson of the Mesaba Ore
is right when he spells partridge
partridge. Only the man from Bos-
ton says partridge and cartridge.
He also says minnows when any kid
knows that they are minnies. The
Bostonian calls Worcester Wooster
Then if that is so Rochester spells
Rooster. These DANCED dictionaries
are gotten up by lot of highbrows
who have no conception of the
needs of lot of us here in the
woods who have a nomenc lature of
our own that fits in a lot better
Tower News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16

worth of timber beside much loss
of life.
The reason the Federation is
interested is because it will
alleviate the troubles of countless
women and children.
The settlers are trying to make
homes for themselves. They are
people seeking to advance their
own interests and the interests of
the state. Some are many miles
from the railroad, also many miles
from navigable waters and in their
ordinary daily life they must carry
their necessary provisions in and
out on their backs, If sickness
comes, the doctor must either
travel many miles on foot or
the patient must be carried out on
stretchers on the mems shoulders.
If death comes, collins must be
brought in on mems shoulders or
made by the neighbors, and the
neighbors often fill the place of
both minister and undertaken, per-
forming the last sad rites.
"Of these things you hear little
complaint, but when dry years
come and fires begin, when there
are no fire breaks to stop the ground
fires and no roads where one can
travel fast enough to even try to
escape the regular forest fire, life
becomes very hard and insecure.
But what could the settler do
when the land all about him be-
longs to the state? What could
the County do when the majority
of the land is the States land and
pays no taxes? And what can the
Legislature do when they have no
authority to protect even their
own holdings?
They now ask help of the
people, and we ask help of you in
passing this Amendment. Will
you not get your clubs to give one
day in October to the considera-
ton of the necessities of this case,
and get each member to secure at
least one vote in favor of the pas
sage of this measure?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16

THE Sunday Biwabik Times has
put in its appearance the first issue
being given out Sunday. The
sixteen pages are all home print and
filled to the edges with Editor
Koen S timely and pertinent com
ments on conditions and things in
general. Judging from its appear
ance the merchants of the Mesaba
range towns have been waiting for
just such paper, every page
being filled with large and well-set
ads of the stores of the several
range towns.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16

THE many friends of Sheriff
John Meining are pleased over the
outcome of the trial when the jury
in District Court at Duluth yester-
day brought in a verdict of not
guilty after being out only 10
minutes. The whole affair looks
like frame-up of the most bung-
ling kind.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16
Little Ones Die.

Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Skala mourn
the loss of their infant son which
died Monday at the age of one
week.
The twin sons of Mr.. and Mrs.
XVI aged four and a half months,
died this week. The boys were
named Ray Archibald and Paul
Arnold. the former dying on Mon
day and the latter on Thursday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16

the fact that he was unopposed in
the primaries. He makes no
promises before election but prefers
to wait and let the people Judge of
his work. He is of the class that
make good and the district made
no mistake in selecting him to
represent them in the senate.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16

IN another column will be found
the picture of o. H. Griggs, candi-
date for senator for this district.
Mr.. Griggs' worth was attested by
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16

OVER three million men are
battling along the Russian frontier
and two million on the French
frontier. 1t is hard to realize what
forces for destruction are enumerat
ed by these figures.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16

in 1913. exclusive of iron ore, was
IS OPS, SOB. These include the
products of the stone quarries and
the clay pits.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16

DAD HEATH of the Tower
News is now the owner of picture
show. Dad" knows what the
people want and is preparing to
give it to them.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16

FRIEND Halstead of the Brainerd
Tribune is not mincing matters in
the political game now being played.
He has no use for some of the
candidates and plainly says so.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16

DULUTH and St. Louis county
lost two good citizens the past week
when death claimed S. F. White
and J. L. Cromwell.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16
PAID ADVERTISEMENT

Inserted by Charles T. Murphy in behalf of
himself Amount to be paid-sl Is per week.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16

The columns of the MINER are open to the
public for the dicussion of affairs of public
nature. Anything tending towards the personal
or slanderous will not be published under any
condition We invite communications of
public nature and only request that you sign
your name-not necessarily for publication but
as guarantee of good faith. Write and get it to
this Office not later than Thursday noon.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16
ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY
ByJOHN S. PARDEE, Sec.

Weekly for adersThey Findings of
on he will ProveIn Interesting.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-16

This paper is on file at 3e-South Srd street.
Minneapolis. MINI. at the exhibit room of The
Immigration Commission. of The Northern
Minnesota Development Association"
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Mohave County miner., 1914-05-09
Mineral Wealth of
 Arizona is Boundless.

R. Cline who has been associated with Prof. E. R. Holden for some months and who has been making examinations for several mineral sec. Lions of Arizona, came in from the mountains of Yuma county yesterday with a great collection of samples and a refreshing enthusiasm as to the pos abilities and probabilities of the early development of the mineral wealth of the state. He said.
 "I believe that when one has first hand information on subject of such vital importance as the mineral de- velopment of the state, he should not play 'dOg-in-the-manger' and keep it hidden. 1 have been over all of Yuma county in the last few weeks and consider it one of the very richest mineral areas Tn the entire western country.
 "That Arizona is now the great min ing center of the United States is an established fact and one that cannot be disputed. The government records show that she produced in 1912, 67,- O50, 7S4$ in values of copper, gold, sill yer, lead and zinc. Her nearest com. petitor was Montana with a production of GA, 154, ,6l3S. Besides all this the re- sources of Arizona in the non metallic minerals is probably as great as those of any state in the union and this asset has, practically speaking, never been touched.
 ''It is true that little cement has been and is being made and that the marble and opyx quarres have been partly discovered but it is a fact that no effort of any consequence has teen made to exploit these wonderful values which will, some day, overtop the value of the metallic ores. This condition is natural enough to simply duplicate the experience of all other countries. Freight and high labor operate against the development of anything but the precious and semi. precious minerals but the day is not far off when the state will realize al. most as much from her onyx, marble, slate and similar mines and quarres.
 "While 67,O5O, 7S4s makes a pretty sum to conjure with it is but drop in the bucket when we remember the
Mohave County miner., 1914-05-09
Alcoholism Responsible for
 Most of Paris's Insane

A Paris dispatch says:-Persons suf: fering from alcoholism form more than a quarter of the army of insane in Paris and the department of the Seine. and the number increases from year to year, according to figures Just made public by the municipality. An ad- ditional argument, based on official statistics, is thus furnished deputy Henrl Schmidt, and others who have been leading a vigorous anti-drink campaign throughout France.
 Out of total of S9,72S admitted to to the asylums in the department men toned from 1887 to 1911. the numb Der of mentally deficient, victims of the drink habit, was 27,3l5. The figures also show that insanity in general as well as heredlty insanity is increasing. The com bination of alcohol and strenu- ous life of the cities is among the reasons gwen for the growing nun bsr of cases of hereditary insanity.
Mohave County miner., 1914-05-09
New Tuberculosis Cure
 Wins Favor of Scientists.

A Paris dispatch says:-A new treat. ment for tuberculosis which, In the opinion of some of the principal ex. pertS in the disease, gives greater hope for cure than anything yet discover. ed, has been discovered by the Aca- deny of Medicine.
 The new method is the discovery of a young Swiss biologist, Henry Spah. finger. The treatment consists of com bned intramuscular injections of antigenic solutions and of ferments which are modified according to the conditions of each patient. The treat m"nt, it is said, causes the drying up Of lung cavities and the disappearance of the baccili and stops the fever three results which have not been ob. tained by any previous methods. The action of the injections is said to be extremely rapid in incipient cases.
 In several cases described the pat lents were said to have been able to lolloW tnelr usual occupation. Of fifty-four persons treated seventeen were claimed to have been cured. Most of the other cases were still being treated.
 The report on the new treatment was read by Professor Maurice Letulle. It was prepared by Professor Edmond Lardy of Neva and Drs. Ed mond H. Colbeck and Leonard L. B. Williams of London, all experts in lung disease.
 Spahlinger originally was a lawyer but abandoned law for science. He spent four years in work and 0,000S of his own fortune in the search which led to his discovery.