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The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1914-07-03
BOX SUPPER AT THE Y. M. c. A.

After the moving picture show, last Sat
urday night, the base ball club gave box
supper for the purpose of raising funds to
finish paying for their uniforms,
While there was not big crowd present
the boys we're enthusiastic and everything
brought good prices.
The big contest was for a bracelet,
which was awarded to Miss Gladys Maug-
han. The bracelet brought 1872.
E. C. Crawford was voted the ugliest
man present and was awarded suitable
present
The boys realized $50 out of the enter
tainment and this puts them in good shape.
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1914-07-03

Saturday.
Hon. G. G. Hyatt had legal business in
Copperhill Monday.
Gus Hedden had considerable business in
Copperhill, Monday.
Miss Pearl Sheppard, of Knoxville, is Wis
iting friends in Ducktown.
Luther Alternately, of CopPerhil, was do
inc business in Ducktown, Monday.
Justices of the Peace who need civil
warrants can get them at this Office.
Be in Ducktown, tomorrow morning at
8 o'clock, if you want TO see the parade.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Reece are visiting
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Reece.
John Fitzpatrick came in from Sweetwater,
Sunday, and will remain over for a few
days.
Copperhill base ball team got trimmed,
last Saturday, by a score of 10 to 2, by
Tate, Ga.
T. S. Mckinney, the insurance man from
Knoxville, was doing business here last
Saturday.
E. /. Mcconnell left for Demorest, Ga,
Tuesday, where he went to invoice stock
of goods.
The new uniforms for the baseball team
have arrived and the boys are we'll pleased
with them.
Messrs. Gus Hedden and f. c. Crawford
and families motored over to Epworth, Sun
day evening.
If in doubt as to where to spend the 4th
of July, come to Ducktown. The big
show will be here.
Dutch Woody returned from the First
district, via Turtletown, and took in the
picnic at that place
Those who fail to come to Ducktown on
the 4th will miss the biggest thing ever
pulled off in the Basin.
: B. c. Arp, of Copperhill member of
the Franklin Mercantile Co., was doing
business in Ducktown, Monday.
P. B. Garter, of Chattanooga, was in
Ducktown last Friday and Saturday, looking
after the interests of the Chattanooga Con
struction Company.
w. A. Rastus) Henson came in from the
West, Saturday, and will remain in this Vi
cinity for awhile He says DucktoWn is
good enough for him.
The 4th of July celebration at Ducktown
will be the best ever given in the Basin
The canning demonstration and drilling
contest will be features worth seeing,
julius Cole, of jacksonville, was Wis
itor at this office, Tuesday. He is making
Ducktown his headquarters, for awhile, hav-
inc bunch of cattle over in the hills.
1t is learned that goodly proportion OF
Copperhill citizens are coming to Duck
town to help us celebrate. This is in keep
ing with their promise of year ago.
las. M. Shearer, of Farmer, was visitor
at this Office, Tuesday. He went to Cop
perhill, Wednesday, to attend meeting OF
the High School Board which will award
the contract for building the high school
building at that place
The difference in the candidates running
for office in Polk comfy was demonstrated
at Turtletown. last Saturday. One set
gave the church SO to help along with the
work and the other gave a-some say
smile but the prospects didn't warrant even
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-17
|VtlvtT IS SECOND MOHAWK

CONTINUED from page one)
field is the all-absorbing topic of
discussion. Reports of the disco7-
cry have been reaching the coast
for some time, and 1 decided that !
would make a visit here to see the
showing and get first-hand informa-
ton.
Mr.. Zadig and / were afforded
the privilege of going through the
mine by the management. We saw
a great showing of high-grade ore;
there is every reason to believe that
it will prove a second Mohawk. There
Is no doubt in my mind that the
discovery will cause the great
est revival of mining the district has
experienced since the boom days.
When 1 return to San Francisco in a
few days l will tell all the old Gold
fielders now located there about the
excellent conditions prevailing here"
Mr.. Zadig talked in a similar en-
thusiastic manner after his visit to
the mine and agreed with Mr.. Col
burn that the showing warranted
prediction hat the Velvet will prove
"a second Mohawk" THE discov-
cry said Mr.. Zadig. is certainly
wonderful and far beyond my ex
pectations. 1t reminds one of the
boom days of this camp and means
much for the district. Although /
had no part in the exposure of the
great body of rich ore, the discov-
cry is a matter of personal pride, for
l claim to be responsible in a small
measure for it. 1t was l who sug-
gested more than a year ago to E. s.
Van Dyck, then the manager of the
Jumbo Extension, the advisability
of acquiring the Velvet claim from
the Goldfeld Merger Mines COM
pany. Acting upon my suggestion,
Mr.. Van Dyck began correspondence
with President Whittemore of the
Merger company. When the con-
troll of the company passed from the
Van Dyck to the Sprague interests
the negotiations were continued and
successfully closed"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-17
BAN IS LIFTED
FROM ATHLETICS
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WILL
BE ALLOWED CERTAIN
LEEWAY

Following their decision some
time ago abolishing athletics in the
high school, the members of the
school board at the meeting Monday
night reconsidered the matter, and
as a result the students will be al
lowed to participate in basketball
and track work as in previous years.
with the exception that outside
games, other than with T%onopah,
will not be scheduled, the board
members not favoring the absence
of the students from their studies
for any length of time.
William l.. Foley, commercial in
structor, will coach the boys, and it
is probable that a series of games
with Tonopah high school and the
silver camp town team, together
with the local town team, will be
arranged in the near future. 1t is
understood that superintendent
Smith of the Tonopah schools is de-
sirous of forming a basketball league
consisting of four teams, Goldfield
high school, Tonopah high school,
the Mizpah Hill team of Tonopah
and the town team here, the latter
being composed of graduates of the
local high school. 1t is believed
that the league will materialize if
the local school association will con-
sent to the plan.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-17
MAINE DOUBLES ITS
FELDSPAR PRODUCTION

In the value of feldspar, Maine
has ranked first in the United States
during the last three years, and in
1918, according TO the United
States geological survey, it's output
showed an increase of more than
100 per cent, both in quantity and
value, over that of the preceding
year. The principal mineral output
of the state, however, is granite, in
which Maine ranks third, being ex-
ceeded only by Vermont and Massa-
chusetts. More than half the gran
lite quarried is used in buildings and
monuments, but considerable guam
titles are made into paving blocks
and curbing, and a small quantity
chiefly waste = is crushed and
screened for road making, concrete,
and railroad ballast. The total val
ue of the stone production in 1913
was $1.792,O79, against $1,S10.590
in 1912. The quantity of lime pro-
duced in 1913 was valued at $780,
6O4. Maine is also one Of the lead
ing states in the production OF
slate, the output of which in 1913
was valued at $323,99S. The pro-
duction of feldspar in 1913 was 49,
24S short tons, valued at $347,49O.
Other commercial minerals produced
in Maine in 1913 were mineral wa
tiers, sand and gravel and a small
quantity of gem material.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-17
FIVE FOOT VEIN
BEING WORKED
NORTH TONOPAH OWNERS MAKE
TEST RUN ON TETRAULT
MILL

Out seven miles north of the town
of Tonopah there is a thriving pros
pecting camp that has all the show
ings of a good, permanent produc
ing area, says the Tonopah Bonanza.
The district has been exploited since
1906 and a good deal of work has
been done from time to time in the
a dozen shafts are down to a depth
of 60 feet or more, and this depth
would be increased were it not for
the fact that the men behind the
claims are all p~rospectors and min
ers who have to rely on their wages
for surplus funds to conduct a cam
paign of development. Prominent
among those interested in the sec
ton are the men who have incorpo-
rated the Tonopah Jupiter Mining
company, Differed by F. T. Peterson,
president; Will Thomas, vice presi-
dent, and William Roberts, secre-
tary.
This company has a group of five
claims, and Mr.. Peterson has a large
acreage of his own adjoining on
which he has done some work to
demonstrate the existence of a
ledge with pay values. In August,
1913, the company took out some ore
that was assayed with the following
results: 8 per cent copper, 1k per
cent lead, gold $1.20, and silver
1885. Recently a lot weighing
115 pounds was treated through a
Tetrault mill at the Campbell-Kelly
foundry and $3.50 in gold taken out
and $3.50 in silver. This result
was secured this month, and the men
who have stood so faithfully by the
district begin to think they have a
showing that will warrant develop
ment on a more extensive scale. The
shipment was taken from a seven
foot ledge with a pay streak of five
feet carried between a p%orphyry and
granite contact. The owners are
anxious to have leasers go out and
look at their ground, as they are
willing to give very favorable terms
to any one willing to work energetic
ally.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-17
CLUES FAIL IN
CARSON MYSTERY
AUTHORITIES CLOSELY SEARCH
ING FOR KEY TO STRANGE
TRAGEDIES

Authorities of Carson City are
conducting a rigid investigation OF
the circumstances which, culminat.
ing in the suicide of Marvin Black
well Sunday, have bound three
deaths, two of them self-inflicted, in
what has become known as the an.
onymous letter mystery of Carson,
says the Reno Journal. An effort is
being made to trace the origin OF
the mysterious letters which, in the
Ease of both Blackwell, the aged
rancher who took his life Sunday,
and in that of Joe H~eidenreich, a
neighboring rancher, who killed
himself four months ago, preceded
the tragic deaths. So carefully, how
v did the author of the letters,
threatening the two ranchers with
harm and the loss of their property
by fire if they did not leave the vi
cinity, cover their tracks that the
authorities are doubtful If they sue
coed in uncovering the writer.
The other death to which the Sun
day suicide has called attention
again, was that of Mrs. Abbie Cow
ing, who was reported to have died
from poison carelessly administered
by herself. At the autopsy no traces
of poison could be found, and yet no
other explanation of her death
could be found.
Sheriff Joseph Stern of Ormsby
county, who has been working on
the mystery of the anonymous let
ters since the time of the Blackwell
grain stacks were burned last Fri
day, said last night to the Journal
that he was still at work on the
case and was satisfied with develop
ments. He would not indicate
what his conclusions were.
Stern had been working on a clue
given by a newspaper advertisement
calling for an answer to a certain
Carson City postoffce box number.
At first he was startled to find no
record to find that the box had been
rented, but further investigation
disclosed that it had been rented for
to understand how communication
had been had through the p~Ostoffice
box without some record that the
box had been rented. He found that
the person using the box had COM
municated with Blackwell, who had
answered her advertisement, but
that she had later left town and was
in no way connected with the case.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-17
BUNCH OF HOBOES is
ON WAY TO TONOPAH

Officers from Goldfield, Tonopah
and Nina will meet a delegation of
forty-eight hoboes calling them
selves Industrial Workers who are
now headed for the southern coun-
try. EsmeralGa, Nye and Mineral
Counties have united in cooperating
for the purpose of checking this in
A detachment of officers left on this
mornings train for the purpose of
meeting the invaders and turning
them back. One thing is certain, if
the hostiles reach Tonopah they will
receive a dose they will not soon
forget, and the dose will not be ad-
ministered by and squeamish officers
of the law. The citizens are deter
mined to take care of themselves
since they have witnessed the friend
ship of the district attorneys office
during their infancy in this city.
The contingent vas first heard
from at Truckee Saturday night,
when the lone constable of that
town ordered them off a Southern
Pacific freight train and made the
hoboes do as they were told while
they stood wringing wet in a pelt-
ing rain. The Industrials said they
We're coming to Tonopah and all
they wanted was a chance to go
through. On this explanation they
were allowed to depart. Last night
they reached Lahontan, eight miles
south of Hazen, where they were
held up for the night.-Bonanza.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-17
j. u. SWEENEY SUES ROUND {
MOUNTAIN SPHINX COMPANY

Through his attorney, M. A. Dis
kin, j. P. Sweeney has instituted suit
in the district court against the
Round Mountain Sphinx Mining COM
pany for $11,267.55. In his COM
plant, Mr.. Sweeney alleges that
there is due him for salary as gen.
eral manager and for other services
the sun of 10000; that $3.50 is due
him on certain promissory notes and
that the company is further indebted
to him in the sum of $397.55 for
money advanced in connection with
litigation in which the company has
been involved.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-17
GOLD CIRCLE IS
COMING TO FRONT
LESSEES AND COMPANIES ARE
INCREASING THEIR OPER-
ATOMS

w. l.. Bracket of Golconda has
been awarded the mail contract be-
tween Gold Circle and Golconda. The
contract is for four years.
Mr.. Bracket makes quite regular
trips to Gold Circle and had this to
say about that mining section:
THE district is improving through
leasers' development and company
operations, like the Eastern Star,
Elko Prince and the new owners of
the Rex.
Grading is being done under the
e management for the Eastern
Star mill. The lumber for the
machinery has been ordered that is
adapted to handle and reduce fifty
tons of ore per day. The new man.
agement announces aggressive de-
velopment work during construction
of the mill and a persistent cam
paign to make the Eastern Star the
premier mine of the Gold Circle dis
trict.
THE Savage interests announce
that they will build a mill for the
Elko Prince and continue develop
ment work in the deeper workings
of this property. The r blocked
out and capable of proof measure
ment approximates over $3.50, 900,
not taking into consideration specu-
lative ore practically in sight and
which is estimated at hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
"The production of the Rex mill
on leasers' ores taken from the Rex
mine and ore overlooked by former
owners averages better than $500 a
day in bullion.
"A recent sensational develop
ment is on the Hardscrable claim,
owned by Brown and Rice. The
property has three sets of ~leasers
working on the w~ell-defined vein.
The Bracket and Berlin lease has
ore that runs as high as So a pound.
The gold is free and is of the beau
tiful crystalized sort. The George
Worth block next to it has similar
ore and is on the same vein. The
Brown-Agnew lease is breaking
three feet of ore with occasional
punches of high grade in which
three feet, eliminating the high
grade, runs better than $40 a ton.
"The whole district has such a
showing as to make it a profitable
consideration for capital to pay
some attentiOn.'-Elko Independent.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-17
UEHLING DIVORCE SUIT
TRIAL is POSTPONED

Presiding this morning in the To-
cal district court in the place OF
Judge Somers, Judge Mark H. Aver
i'll of the district court of Nye coun-
ty set November 8 as the date of the
trial of the divorce suit of H. H.
Born against Katie Born and ordered
the plaintiff to pay the defendant
500 for attorneys fees and $25 a
month alimony from October /. At
tOrneys Thompson & Thompson ap-
peared for the plaintiff and T. l..
Foley for the defendant.
By stipulation of counsel, the trial
OF the divorce suit of Otto E. Uehl-
ing against Emmie E. Uehling was
postponed until Decvember 1. H.
r. Cooke of Tonopah and Miss Bird
M. Wilson of Goldfield appeared as
counsel for the plaintiff. and Attor-
neys Milton M. Detch of Goldfield
and E. C. Wuerster of Milwaukee,
Wis, for the defendant.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-17
GOLD MINING

The stage is set for the greatest
mining activity the world has e
The mining industry is today on the
soundest foundation it has ever
known. Better transportation IA
c%illties, improved milling processes
and more scientific methods now
make mining investments Just as
safe as those of any other industry.
1t offers you unparalleled opportu-
mites. We issue bi-weekly for the
information of our clients who are
interested in mining the
NEVADA MINING NEWS
Which contains all the real news
from all the mines of Nevada all the
time, and points out now and then
some extraordinary money-making
opportunities. Upon request we will
mail this publication to you e
larly as issued for six months ABB
SOLUTELY FREE. Write for it
today, and ask us for any informa-
ton you may desire about any mine
in Nevada, as we know the state
from one end to the other.
THE G.. S. JOHNSON co.
Mining Investments
o Phelan Bldg. San Francisco, Cal.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-17
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior

U. S. Land Office at Carson City.
Nevada, September IA, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that Eliza
both G. Jones, widow of Thomas M.
Jones, deceased, of Ida, Nevada,
who. on May 20, 1909, made home
stead application No. 0404S, for the
Sc u Sc a of Section IS, T. s s.,
and lots 1 and 2 of Section 2, Town
ship 6, South Range 40 East, Mount
Diablo Meridian, has filed notice of
intention to make final five year
proof. to establish claim to the land
above described, before the Clerk Of
Esmeralda County. at Goldfield, Ne
vada, on the 26th day of October,
1914.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Dudley B. Barnes of Goldfeld.
Nevada; Speed Barnes of Goldfeld,
Nevada; Thomas B. Josephs of
Goldfeld, Nevada; Fred F. Frisbee
of Goldfeld, Nevada.
SHOBER j. ROGERS,
Register.
First pub, 9-19-14.
Last pub, 10-24-14.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-17

Ohio ranks fourth among the
states in the value of it's mineral
production, according to the United
States geological survey. The total
value of the mineral production OF
the state increased from $111,229,-
656 in 1912 to 1921 ,69O,6G1 in
1913. 1t is the premier state in
the valley of clay products and in
the manufacture of grindstOnes and
p%ulpstones. 1t is second in the pro-
duction of bromine and lime, third
in the output of calcium chloride,
natural gas, salt, sand and gravel,
and gypsum, fourth in the prOduc-
ton of coal, o~ilstones, scythestones
and stone, and seventh in quantity
and sixth in value in the production
of petroleum. Ohio ranks next to
Pennsylvania and second in the
country in the manufacture OF
pig iron, and if pig iron rath-
err thar iron ore We're taken
as the measure of iron production,
Ohio would rank second in the total
value of it's mineral products, which
would be increased in 1913 by near
Iy 80 per cen over the value obtain
ed if pig iron is excluded. Practical
Iy all the pig iron produced in Ohio,
however, is made from Lake SUI
perior ores and the iron production
is credited to the state in which the
iron ore was mined.
The two leading products of Ohio
are coal and clay products, coal
having slightly the better of it in
1912 and 1918, whereas in 1911 the
value of the clay products exceeded
that of coal. The production of
coal in 1913 amounted to 36,20O,-
527 short tons, valued at $39,94S,-
O5S, the output both in quantity and
value being the maximum record for
the state. The production OF
petroleum, which stands third
among the states mineral industries
and in which Ohio ranks sixth, value
considered, among all the states, de-
creased slightly in quantity. frcn
S.7S1,468 barrels in 1913, while the
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-17
MINING REVIEW

Continued from Page One)
with operations through the Merger
shaft, of the exploration of the big
vein revealed by the long southwest
crosscut on the level named about
six months ago.
Kewanas
The sinking of a deep Winze in
the property of the Reorganized Ke-
Wanas Mining company below the
long east crOsscut from the 700
foot point in the Laguna shaft of
the Goldfield Consolidated Mines
company will be under way within
the next week or ten days. The
work of cutting out a station is pro-
crossing steadily, and sinking below
it will be started Immediately fol-
lowing it's completion. The winze
will be sunk to the latte contact,
which, it is expected, will be reveal
ed within a depth of $50 feet below
the crosscut level.
Yellow Tiger
The installation on the property
of the Yellow Tiger Mining COM
pany of the recently received eight
drill air compressor will soon be
completed and operations on the
1OO-foot level will Immediately
thereafter be resumed.
Vernal
Peterson and Fitzgerald, lessees
on the property of the Vernal Min
ing company in the Diamondfield
section of the Goldfeld district, will
in the next day or two make a ship
ment of approximately twenty tons
of ore that is expected to average
around $50 a ton. They are confin-
ing their operations to raising on
about a foot of $50 ore above the
south drift on the 2O0-foot level.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-17
Ohio's Mineral Output $l21,000,0OO

value increased about 40 per cent
over the previous year, from $12,-
0S5,99S to SIT ,53S,452. The value
of the natural gas produced in 1913
vas $10,416.699 in 1913, against
s~11,S91,299 in 1912.
Fifth in Importance among Ohio's
mining industries S the quarryng of
stone. The principal quarry pro-
duct is limestone, of which there is
a large quantity and a great variety
in the state. This limestone is used
chiefly for road making, railroad
ballast, the manufacture of concrete,
iron fiux and lime burning. The to-
tai value of the stone produced in
Ohio in 1913 was $6,261,33S, of
which the limestone quarries con-
tributed $~3,945,310 and the sand
stone quarries ~$1,316.O2S. The lime
stone produced does lot include the
limestone burned into lime. The
quantity of lime produced III 1919
was 497, 500 short tons, valued at
$~1,973,316.
Three other products of the state
have a value exceeding 1000. 900,
These are cement, salt and sand and
gravel. To these might be added
also the output of coke, chiefly from
retort ovens and from coal mines in
West Virginia, which in 1913
amounted to 351,S46 short tons
valued at $1,231,554. All kinds OF
sand have been produced in the
state, and in 1913 the total produc-
ton of sand and gravel amounted to
5~,605,767 short tons, valued at ST.
O92,4O1, against 5~,S74,412 short
tons, valued at $~2,3O4,96S in 1912,
The production of sale in 1913 was
5,31O,135 barrels, valued at ST.
31S,156.
The other commercial mineral
products of Ohio are bromine. cal
cium chloride, ferro alloys, grind
stones and pulp stone. gypsum, iron
ore, mineral waters. oilstones and
scytnestones pyrite. sand-lime brick
and sulphuric acid.