Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-02

the ability OF the mountain people
to handle their own problems
The Returned Traveller.
From the New York Times.
Yes" signs the enthusiastic travel
er TO her friends for the fifteenth
time II never came SO near being sea
sick in my life as | did last Wednes-
day night. The boat didn't exactly
pitch. you know. but it made that
funny motion, up and down and back
and forth. And every once in a while
we could hear a queer whirr, and
that, the officers said, was the screw
going around out OF the water when
the boat pitched forward. And the
deck steward brought the incest bit
of drilled chicken, and / Just couldn't
touch it l didn't eat a thing for two
whole days but an orange and some
beef tea"
And the friends looked politely in
terested. But they are not. Who
would be? They are simply bored. If
they have travelled they want to dis
cuss hotels and towns and route and
people; if they have not travelled they
want YOU to tell them something that
will give them a real idea of about
what Europe is like-not about what
you were like in Europe and on that
pitching trip homeward.
Few persons care to hear about the
time You beat the Assyrian on the
Rue de Rivoli down franc on. the
price of the pink gauze scarf you are
bringing to Helen or Jane. Few care
to know what you had to eat in that
wonderful garden of the hotel on the
Lake of Geneva Few care whether
the ships doctor going over had gray
~. to N,
know how near you came to- being
seasick.
Remember these things when you
reach home again.
Novel Way of Sailing Mines.
From the Engineering and Mining
Journal
While the practise of mine sailing
is not as common as it was twenty
years or more ago, ii is still occasion
ally done, and in Mexico with partic-
ular skill One of the most success
full large-scale operations of this ma
ture was perpetrated at Juneau,
Alaska, about twenty years ago.
Three partners owned ledge 200
to 300 feet wide on an island near
Juneau. They had done a great deal
of work in tunnels, drifts and raises,
make the property of any value. The
owners, however, proceeded to work
up a sale on basis of total price
of $4,000, a 20 per cent payment to
be made after examination.
The prospective buyers sent two
different corps of engineers, one fol-
lowing the other. One OF the owners
met the first party In San Francisco,
worked into it's good graces and as
sisted in the sampling. He was able
to salt the samples SO that they rep
resented a value of Sd per ton. The
second party was met by another of
the owners and the same scheme sue
cessfully worked. The samples check
ed nicely.
Wishing to make assurance doubly
sure, the purchasers sent out third
party, but the engineer In charge of
this one would have nothing to do
with the owners and required them to
turn the mine over to him and leave
the island. He took two or three tons
of samples, and the lot, in large sacks
vas brought to Juneau. and remained
on the wharf for several days while
waiting for a San Francisco boat in
charge of Waterman night and day.
While the samples were on the
wharf three fellows dressed as trav-
canes. strolling around. would come
to these sacks, ask the Waterman a
lot of foolish questions about them.
and all the time they would/be stab
bling and punching the sacks with
their dude canes. which Were loaded
with chloride of gold. This was re-
peated several times, each time
Changing the disguise. 1t was so well
done that the third engineers report
was satisfactory, and the schemers
received their first payment, all that
they expected.
About fifteen years ago property
on Signal Hill, Cripple Creek, within
less than a mile from the town, was
sailed by using chloride of gold in
shotgun. shooting it into the breasts
of the drifts and bottom of the shaft.
1t was so we'll done that the swindlers
received the first payments, amount
ing to 10000.