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The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-13
cOBB SUPERIOR COURT
IN SESSION THIS WEEK

The Superior Court is in session
This week working on civil cases and
lot Of divorces. Eight divorces were
Granted on Monday alone and there
are others to come up.
Next week will be criminal week
and Solicitor General Clay will have
big bunch of cases to try. The
2 A. Fite cases will come up on
Friday and the John Nolan case for
the supposed robbery of the passenger
train on the n. c. and St.L. will be
heard Monday.
The Nolan case will be an interest
ing one and will probably be hard
fought Mr.. Clay and his associates
are well stocked with evidence and
will show a strong hand 1t is not
known what line of defense Nolan
will put up.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-13

2641 Charlie Thornton, Will John
son and Bailey Hardin, Misdemean-
1888 Anna Boyd Misdemeanor
2799 Charlie Pool, Misdemeanor
1854 S, d. Blalock, Misdemeanor
1852 Warren L. Goodwin. Misde-
meanor
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18th, 1914.
1850 Maggie Clementine, Misde-
meanor
2S06 Homer Landers, Misdemeanor
1854 Alonzo Carter, Felony
27S0 Cal Knox, Misdemeanor
1892 Lige Reynolds, Misdemeanor
1855 J. c. johnson, Misdemeanor
1854 Mrs. M Glass, Misdemeanor
2707 Elmer Manning, Misdemeanor
2770 Willie Davis, Misdemeanor
2774 Julia Reeves, Misdemeanor
2511 Geo. Hutchins, Misdemeanor
2510 Ed Hutchins. Misdemeanor
CASES IN WHICH HERBERT CLAY,
SOLICITOR GENERAL, is DIS
QUALIFIED.
1928 Zann Davis, Misdemeanor
1924 Zann Davis, Misdemeanor
1892 Zann Davis, Misdemeanor
THURSDAY, March 19th,1914
2704 w Prichard, Misdemeanor
1906 Bill christopher, Misdemeanor
1929 Bill christopher, Misdemeanor
1888 John Holmes, Misdemeanor
2742 Della Swanson, Misdemeanor
274S w H Hid, Misdemeanor,
PTS Will Jones, Misdemeanor
1913 Dave Cox, Misdemeanor
25O7 Robert Cain, Misdemeanor
2764 Cliff Flemster, Misdemeano'
2285 ]. G. Gresham, Misdemeanor
2S08 B. A. Fite, Misdemeanor
1916 B. A. Fite, Felony
1910 B. A. Fite, Felony
This calendar will be followed as
closely as possible.
All cases not on the calendar, VIII
be subject to call at any time.
The B. A. Fite cases will not be
called until Friday morning, while
it is on Thursdays calendar, and
the witnesses from Kennesaw are eX-
cused until Friday morning on the
early morning train.
Respectfully,
HERBERT CLAY
Solicitor General, b. r. c.
Approved this the 9th, day of March,
| 1914.
H. L. PATTERSON.
Judge Superior Court, B. r. c.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-13
DEATH OF J. A. MITCHELL.

Mr.. J. A. Mitchell died at his
home on the Canton road on the
9th of March of an abscess on the
brain. He was buried at Oak Grove
church March 18th. His wife and
seven children survive him.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-13
CATTLE INSPECTORS WILL BE
CHOSEN BY COMMISSIONERS

The Board of County Commission
ers will meet at their quarters in
the Courthouse next Monday, March
10th and open application for two
cattle inspectors. Two inspectors will
be elected by the Board on that date
and application for these positions
will be received up to that time.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-13
DEATH OF MR.. L. M. SIMPSON.

Mr.. L. M. Simpson, 76 years old,
was found dead near the road last
Saturday and was buried at Mt. Beth
ell, Rev. Swafford officiating.
He leaves a wife and nine children
The coroners jury at the inquest
found that his death was caused
from natural causes.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-13
DEATH OF MRS. HENDRICKS

Mrs. Lou Hendricks, 4 years old,
died Monday at her home near Mab!e
ton. The funeral was at Milford
Church Wednesday.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-13
WEEKEND PROGRAM AT GEM
THURSDAY AT THE GEM
THE FLAMING DRAGON

THURSDAY AT THE GEM
THE FLAMING DRAGON
An Imp Drama with King Baggot
and Leah Baird
Also
HEARTS AND FLOWERS
A Victor Drama with Warren Kar-
rigan and Cleo Madison.
BALDY BELMONT BREAK OUT
"a Crystal Comedy)
FRIDAY.
THE TWINS DOUBLE.
This is a great three reel Geld Seal
masterpiece, one of the greatest pic
lures ever put before the American
people. Don't miss this one, it's
great, with Frances Ford and Grace
Cunard.
also
UNIVERSAL IKE'S W00ING
Did you see him last Saturday?
Well, he will be here Friday of this
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-14
ORE BY PARCELS POST

That the people are taking advan-
tage of the parcel post system was
demonstrated in Austin this week. A
mining engineer, who had been
sampling the New Pass mines for
ten days previous to last Monday, de-
livered 2,295 pounds of ore to the
Austin postoffice in sacks varying in
weight from 5 pounds to so pounds.
The ore was consigned to L%ovelock,
and the postage on the ore amount
ed to $25.51. Had this shipment
been made to Lovelock by freight
the cost would have been $27.77. AS
these figures show the shipper saves
by parcel post besides quick and
prompt delivery, $2.26.
Had this ore, 2,295 pounds, been
shipped to LOvelock by express at the
present express rates, the cost would
have amounted to $73.76, or a saw
ing over the express company of
$4S.25 by the parcel post SYSTEM
Reese River Reveille.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-14
HAVE CNNABAR ORE
in GREAT ABUNDANCE

r. w. Stoddard. deputy county re-
corder, has received from his brother
in-law, Tom Peppers, a sack of beau
tiful quicksilver ore from the strike
made by Mr.. Peppers and Charles
Kehoe II miles east of Nina.
Mr.. Peppers describes the forma-
ton as a mountain of cinnabar ore
superimposed upon basalt. The roads
that were washed out by the recent
storm have been repaired and sup
plies are going in and work is on in
full swing.
w. Booth and w. j.. Douglas own
adjoining properties, which they are
developing. Mr.. Peppers says he
and Mr.. Kehoe have declined to bond
their acreage, the price offered being
a quarter OF a million dollars. They
will develop it themselves and to this
end are having plans prepared for
the installation of a furnace and re-
tort which will cost at least $4,000.
There is an abundance of wood and
water on the ground and the prop
erty is easily reached from the rail-
road. 1t is expected that the camp
will be a very busy one the coming
season.-Gazette.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-14
SURVEY REPORT ON
COLORADO and utah OIL SHALES

source for naval use. The American
mated both as a quantity and quality
as accurately as a coal bed, whereas
their competitor, natural petroleum,
is variable in both these respects and
its production is uncertain.
Secretary Lane has, however, after
careful consideration, decided not to
recommend to the president at this
time the withdrawal of these lands,
deposits are situated inland, where
operations would not require guard
ing in time of attack, and they con-
stitute a which can be es-
because of his belief that such &C
ton might possibly result in retarding
or prejudicing the development of a
new mining industry in these portions
of Colorado and Utah, especially at
this stage. when private initiative
needs every inducement to test out
the real value of the resources. AL
though the oil shales are undoubtedly
a valuable reserve resource, being
capable of furnishing a large and re-
liable supply both of fuel and of fer
tilizing material in the form of am
monia salts, there would seem to be
no urgent public need for withdraw
ing the land from prospecting and
accusation under the existing laws,
whicG are believed to be fairly ade-
quate to meet the present needs of
this prospective industry. In dealing
with a whose present value
is somewhat conjectural, both as to
market and as to cos of production,
it seems wise to avoid placing any
possible hindrance whatever in the
way of private enterprise at the in
itial stage of development, and to
favor utilization by offering to real
producers every premium that the
present law affords.
1t is probably, however, hat the
Geological Survey will make a more
detailed examination of the Colorado
and Utah shales and possibly the
Bureau of Mines may take up tecno-
logic studies related to their utiliza-
ton. Although, as stated, the oil
shale industry long since ceased in
the United States, it has persisted
and apparently flourished in Great
Britain and France. In 1904 the pro-
duction of oil shale in Scotland
amounted to 2,709,S40 tons with a
content of 3,000,0 900 gallons of
crude oil, yielding marketable pro-
ducts of ~2,517,296 gallons of naph-
tina, 16,991,74S gallons of burning
oil, 39,4S7 tons of lubricating oil,
22,476 tons of paraffine wax, and
40, 500 tons of ammonia salts. In
1913 the production of oil shale in
Scotland was 3,150,O00 tons, from
which about 65, 900 gallons of
oil was obtained and also a large
amount of ammonium sulphate. This
yield of 20 gallons of oil to the ton
of shale may be contras I'd with the
assumed average yield of 40 gallons
from the Colorado and Utah shales.
The cost of mining and treating the
shale in Scotland for both oil and
by-products is said to be about $1.S5
a ton,
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-14
FIJI ED WITH

McBrayer Nos. /, 2, 8, 4, s., 6, Z
and 8, situated in Goldfield mining
district; expense of the Goldfield
Glengarry Mining company.
Fog and Fog Extension, situated in
Diamondfield mining district; expense
of Diamondfield North Star Mining
company.
Big Blue and Big Blue Extension,
situated in Sylvania mining district;
expense of Lake Superior and West
ern Mining company.
Mohawk Ledge, situated in Gold
field mining district; expense of the
Constant Gold Mining company.
Piedmont No. l and 2, Belmont,
Fairmont and Clermont, situated in
Ida mining district; expense of the
Ida Belmont Mining company.
Golden Eagle, Golden Eagle Nos.
| and 2, situated in Tonopah mining
district; expense of N. M. McCor-
mick.
Fisherman, Fisherman Nos. l and
,, Dick, Nevada City, Mayfiower, Will
liams, Gold Brick and Dreamland,
situated in Gold Mountain mining
district; expense of Roger Dougherty,
K. G. Williams. William Waters.
Gold Bug, situated In Lone Noun
tain district; expense of w. H. Roy
stan, A. Tetrault, A. H. Jones and G.
r. Tarbell.
Last Chance, situated in Lone
Mountain mining district; expense of
Hugh Sutherland and A. Fraser.
Great Bend Fraction, situated in
Goldfeld mining district; expense OF
T. b. Bishop.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-14
SHEEP THAT Died At M|LLERS
SKINNED BY TWENTY-FIVE men

ering them to a depth of five to six
feet.
The butchers took off between 600
and 700 pelts. Wherever the eye
would rest nothing could be seen but
dead sheep; they Uttered the desert.
Below the pump station of the Des-
ert mill by the hundred it looked
worse than the carnage on the bat
tlefield of a Mexican Instruction,
only the deadly cyanide in the in
nocent stream running from the big
mill was more sure than powder and
ball.
Scores of visitors came down from
,onopah all day Sunday viewing the
scene of death among the innocents.
Cameras were everywhere in evil
dence taking snap shots.
The big event of the day among
the clinic of Bullock surgeons who
went down was the contest of skill
between the handsome young AdOnis,
All Cooper, who graces n of the
meat blocks at the II. & G.. Meat COM
pany's shop, and Ed. Betlock, the
veteran butcher, as to who could take
off the most skins. When time was
called Ed triumphantly waived his
seventy-fifth scalp, beating Al by one.
Hardy Meyers had four men and
two large wagons busy all day haul
ing the dead carcasses W miles be
low the mill and burying them in
large sand pits.
The WORK was SLOW, owing to the
bodies being frozen stiff, but the job
was completed by 4:30 O'Clock. The
pelts are in good condition, notwith-
standing the action of the cyanide.
So far the residents of Millers say
there have not been any coyotes
seer %hankering after the remains, but
a troop of the scavengers of the des-
ert are expected when the weather
grows warm and the winds blow the
sands of the surface of the graves.
Bonanza.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-14

Responsibility for the loss OF
herd of sheep in the vicinity OF Mil
lers last week has not Deen placed
and the matter is the subject of a
conference held this afternoon be
tween officers of the Tonopah Min
ing company and Carl Wheeler the
buyer of the band Of 1000 SHEEP
from Springdale.
Mr.. Wheeler ranks as one OF the
wealthiest sheepmen in Nevada, as
he owns something ove $4,000 sheep
in different parts Of the state, and
is adding to his fiocks, which are
usually marketed for mutton.
Down around Millers for the last
two days there has been strange eX-
element and a score of automobiles
loaded with spectators from Tonopah
ran down there yesterday to see the
spectacle of the biggest hide pulling
contest ever witnessed in this state.
The sight was the most amazing
ever seen, it is safe to venture.
Twenty-Five men stripped of all SUI
peri lous clothing welding knives
and covered with blood were working
against time. Not even the huge
slaughter houses of the Chicago stock
yards, which attract thousands OF
visitors daily, could rival the san
culinary scene witnessed in the open
air of the desert.
Altogether 1890 carcases were
heaped in a small mountain at one
end of the railroad yards. This
stack was attacked by twenty-five
butchers who worked by the piece
and piled their knives with a dex-
terity that was marvellous to behold.
They were paid 25 cents apiece for
the work, and it is estimated that
the SINNERS earned a dollar an hour.
AS fast as the pelts were stripped
from the muttons they were tossed
aside and other men seized the pol
soned remcins and loaded them on
wagons which hauled them to a dis
TAM hillside where an arroyo had
been cut by the storms of last fall.
Here they were laid in rows. and
when the trench was filled a charge
of powder was placed and the upper
bank tossed over the carcasses, COW
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-14
Proofs of Labor

Rabbit Trail, situated in GOldfield
Mining district. expense of E. Marks
and Thomas Lockhart.
Belmont, Belmont Nos. l, 2 and 3,
situated in Silver Peak and Red
Mountain Mining mining district;
expense of j.. d. Mcleod.
Hidden Treasure Fraction, situated
in Goldfield mining district; expense
of Theodore Manhire.
Brownies, Little Browne and Little
Ellen, Mayne and Yon Bell, situated
in Goldfield mining district; expense
of n. H. McGlynn, A. r. Crichton,
Mrs. M. A. Corcoran and Miss Mar
garet Walters.
Red Peak, Frenzied Finance, Nos.
1, 2 and 3, situated in Goldfield min
ing district; expense OF the Interstate
Lumber and Mill company.
King, Queen, Reina, Lucky Strike,
Morning Star, Comete, Odette, Marie
Louise and Sylvia and Hope Fraction;
expense of E. Desmos.
Goldfield No. / and 2, situated in
Lone Mountain mining district; ex-
pense of C. o. Rogers and H. N. Ross.
Orendstar Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and Z,
situated in Tonopah mining district;
expense of Tony GelsOminO.
Broad Gauge, situated in Tonopah
mining district; expense of T. G.
Lockhart.
Moss Back, situated in Monta
Cristo mining district; expense of NJ.
NJ. Holland.
Blue Jay, Blue Jay Nos. 1, 2, 3
and 4, situated in Ida mining dis
trict; expense of c. j. Black.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-14
ON The COMSTOCK
REPORTED BY SUPERINTENDENTS

gloryhole from the shaft, and from
surface tunnel raise No. g., saved "a
ears of ore averaging 1925 per ton.
Necessary repairs were made to the
and incline, and the latter was
cleaned out five feet, making a total
of So feet open below the 1400-foot
level.
On the 14O0-foot level of the
Crown Point, a cross-cut at the head
of stope No. l., was driven a distance
of Is feet to the 20-foot point. This
cross-cut will connect with the main
north drift on the 1900 level. From
the work, ga cars of low-grade ore
were saved. Repairs were finished
to the Sutro tunnel connecting drift.
At the Caledonia mine during the
past week timbering the northeast
drift on the 12OO-foot level was car
ried on, and in the southwest drift
on the same level, at a point 600
feet in, a raise was started in the
middle vein and carried up % feet
through quartz. From this work,
there was saved 81 mining airs of
low-grade ore.
On the 1200-foot level of the
Overman. the southwest drift to on
meet with the northeast drift was
advanced seven feet to the 49-foot
point. The face is all in quartz.
At the Observation-Disclosures
perial shaft, general repairs were
carried on throughout the NINE
Chronicle.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-14
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
u. s. PATENT

Mineral Survey No. 4166.
In the United States Land Office,
Carson City, Nevada, Dec. 6, 1913.
Notice is hereby given that in pur-
suance to an Act of Congress, ap-
proved May 10, 1872, Roland Will
liams, whose post office address is
Goldfield, Nevada, as the attorney
intact and in behalf of H. M. Motz,
of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois,
has made application for a patent
for 1896 linear feet on tine Little
Joel Lode, bearing gold and silver,
the same being $50 feet in a north
easterly direction and 479.66 feet in
a southwesterly direction from the
discovery shaft thereon, with sur
face ground 1922 feet in width on
said lode, situate in the Goldfield
Mining District, Esmeralda County,
State of Nevada, and described in the
official plat and by the field notes
on file in the office Of the register OF
the Carson City land district, Ne
vada, as follows, to wit:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, the "a
Sec. Cor. of West boundary of Sec.
so, T. 2. S., r., 43 E., M. D. B. and
NJ, bears N. ST. Az AS" w. 1072.2
it,; thence N. So 06' E. 1229.66 TT.
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 81 54' E.
1922 it. to Cor. No. 3; thence s. 81
O6' w. 1229.66 1T. to Cor. No. 4;
thence N. 81 54' w. 4S2.2 TT. to COr.
No. 1, the place of beginning.
The names of the adjoining and
conflicting claims are IS follows:
Sur. No. 2S40, Midway Lode and
Sur. No. 1926, Overlook Lode. Con-
fiict to be excluded. as follows: Sur.
No. 1926, said Overlook Lode, 3.2S2
Acres.
Date of posting this notice on said
claim, October =, 1913.
ROLAND WILLIAMS,
Attorney-in-Fact.
LOUIS J. COIN,
Register.
Date of 1st. pub. Dec. 10, 1913.
Date of last pub. Feb. IA, 1914.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-14

Before the discovery of the great
subterranean petroleum pools in var
ious portions of the United States
about the time of the Civil War, the
extraction of oil from bituminous
shale was a considerable and growing
industry. In 1860 there were more
than 20 shale-treating plants in oper-
alton, but in 1865 the cost of pro-
ducing petroleum was so much less
than that of producing the artificial
oil that the n of shale plants
were either forced out of business or
compelled to ally themselves with
the petroleum industry, some of them
becoming refiners of crude petroleum.
Interest is now revived in the matter
by a preliminary report of the United
States Geological Survey on the oil
b airing qualities of the extensive de-
posts of bituminous shale in north
western Colorado and northwestern
Utah, and the fact hat Secretary
Lane has had under consideration
the advisability of withdrawing from
entry large areas of public lands con-
tanning these shale beds, which are
of undoubted ultimate economic
value.
Notwithstanding the facts that the
worlds production of petroleum was
never so great as at present and that
last years production in the United
States was a record breaker by an in
crease of 100000 barrels, yet the
improved methods of handling oil
bearing shale by which not only oil
but ammonia salts and other valuable
by-products are extracted, have rem
dered the deposit of bituminous shale
in Colorado and Utah well worthy OF
consideration. Field and laboratory
tests of these shales by the Geological
Survey indicate an oil content of ~
to 81 gallons a ton, with a probable
average for the better shale of a bar
rel to a ton, though this average may
not hold for extensive deposits of the
rock. No tonnage estimate of the
bituminous shales is attempted in a
forthcoming report OF the survey
but observations have been made OF
their occurrence in various localities
in Colorado and Utah as well as In
Wyoming and Nevada during the last
seven or eight years of geologic field
work in these states, and it Is known
that their acreage is very great, and
in many places deposits of generous
thickness have been found.
With only incomplete data at hand
the Geological Survey considers the
present cost of producing crude oil
from these bituminous shales as pro-
badly above the current price ofpetro'
leum, even taking into consideration
the valuable nature of the by-prod
ucts. The great latent possibility OF
these resources, however, is fully
realized. In fact, in any European
country other than Russia or Rou-
mania, which are rich in petroleum
lands, these large areas of bituminous
shale would possess immediate utility
Furthermore they would be regarded
as of large Importance as a war re