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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-08-29

Outside of Germany there is no
known supply of potash salts. II
the German supplies are cut of dur
ing the European war, the agricul-
tural world must either go without
potash salts after the meager sup
ply now on hand is exhausted or be-
stir herself to find another adequate
source of supply. Already many in
quiries regarding potash have been
addressed to the United States geo.
logical survey, and the fertilizer
journals report that small quanti-
ties of spot material are changing
hands at sharp premiums. The sit
uation Is undoubtedly more acute
than it was a few years ago, when
national interest was first awaken
ed to the fact that the United States
is entirely dependent on Germany
for this important class Of fertilizer
materials.
Potash salts are employed in many
industries other than the fertilizer
industry. A large amount is used
in glass and soap making and in the
manufacture of a number of chemi-
cal products. These include potas-
SUM hydrate, or caustic potash, and
the carbonate and bicarbonate of
potash, used principally in glass and
soap making; the potash alums; cy-
andes. including potassium cyanide,
potassium f~erro-cyanide and potas-
SUM ferri-cyanide; various potash
bleaching chemicals, dye stuffs, ex-
plosives containing potash nitrate.
and a long list of general chamicals.
The needs of the manufacturers
and the farmers of the country are
we'll known and keenly appreciated
by the geological survey. Since the
question of a domestic supply of pot
ash salts has become of public inter-
est. the government has endeavored
to locate deposits in this country,
and has followed up every clue that
seemed to promise results of i'm
portance. The surveys work has
extended from New York to Califor-
MIA and from Michigan to Louisiana,
and has covered all branches of in
vestigation where results might be
expected, exclusive of the study of
kelp. It's Investigations have been
carried out along several lines. (1)
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-08-29
GOOD PROGRESS
At ROCHESTER
A. A. CODD REPORTS SATISFAC-
TORY CONDITIONS IN THAT
CAMP

A. A. Codd has returned from a
business trip to Rochester. where he
went to inspect progress or the ex-
tension of his railroad into the main
part of the camp. and also see what
is being done at tine Rochester Hills
lease. He reports that the railroad
crew is still engaged in tearing up
track purchased from the Southern
laide, and expects this work to be
completed by the end of this week.
This material is being conveyed to
Rochester Junction, at which point
the extension of the Codd road starts
for Rochester. The grading has been
completed and track laying will be-
gin next week.
The road will be constructed only
to the mill, which Is just 10Y being
started near the lower town of Ro-
chester, and it is proposed to build
an aerial tramway from the mill to
the mines, a distance of two miles,
for transporting ore from the mines
to the mill and railroad.
Mr.. Codd states that recent de-
velopments on the new vein opened
by prosecuting on the 350-foot level
of the Codd lease are making an ex-
cellent showing. the shipping ore
sampling about 500 per ton. There
is also a large body of good milling
ore that will be put through the mill
after it is running. On account Of
the pitch of the vein, there is about
/ 500 feet of virgin stopping ground on
this new ledge between the 350-foot
level and surface.
Other leases are also making a
very good shown, and Mr.. COdd is
confident that when the Cowan mill
is finished the camp will enter an
era of big production and real pros
perity.-RenO Journal.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-08-29
RICE NEAR END OF HIS ROPE

We need peer no further than the
visible signs emanating from his own
establishment to see that George
Graham Rice has about exhausted
all his ingenuity in getting another
hold upon a large supply of money
from investors to permit him to 60
adventuring along crooked byways
with their capital. The New York
Mining Age, which Rice bought, is
now an open house organ whose only
resemblance to a newspaper now is
it's second-class mail privileges,
which it cannot retain long after the
government becomes convinced that
further his private interests. The
publication has been reduced to
four pages, which shows that Rice's
cash must be at a low ebb.
Rice's campaign to sell stock in his
new mining scheme has also petered
out. The stock cannot even be CIV
en- away as a prize for the best tan
goist, which was an experiment tried
recently. Now Rice has set himself
up as a dealer in securities and is
inviting the beggars' guard, which
still reads the Mining Age. to entrust
their business to him.
Rice has q sublime nerve. But
few investors will entrust their mon
ey and securities to a man who is an
expert in penOlogy because of his
knowledge, gained by personal con-
finement in penal institutions for
crooks.-New York Financial World.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-08-29
PRODUCTION OF ZINC
IS AFFECTED BY WAR

Supplementing its midyear statis-
tics of spelter production, the Unit
ed States geographical survey makes
a timely statement, prepared by c.
E. Siebenthal, on the general zinc
situation, especially as affected by
the war in Europe.
BY a queer coincidence the great
smelling centers of continental Eu-
rope are in regions where active
lighting is now going on or may re
expected in the near future. The
zinc smelters of Upper Silesia are
in the extreme southeastern portion
of Prussia. mostly in the Kattowitz,
Beuthen and Tarnowitz districts,
which are adjacent to one another
and lie within five or ten miles of
the Polish-Russian border and near
the corner Of Russia, Austria and
Germany. The two smelters in Rus
sian Poland are just across the Dor
der from the Silesian smelters. They
all seem destined soon to be COM
PEELED to suspend or decrease opera
tons on o of military activi-
ties, and in any event their output
certainly can not reach the outside
world. The same thing is rue of
the shelters in Rhenish Prussia and
Westphalia. some of which are very
near and most of which are within
100 miles of Liege. In Belgium all
but three or four of the zfnc-smeit-
ing plants lie between Verviers and
Liege or are strung along the valley
of the Meuse between Liege and Ma
muir, and their industrial prospects
can well be imagined. The zinc
smelters of France lie outside of the
territory where active military OPP
erations are likely and SO will prob
ably suffer only from scarcity of la
Dor as the employees are called to the
colors and arrangements of trans
%portation. The same is true of the
zinc shelters in England, but those
of Austria-Hungary will. of course,
be put out of commission. Other
small shelters in Europe, Australia
and Japan will possibly not be af-
fected except as transportation is in
From these observations
1t can be seen that the zinc-smelt-
ing industry of Europe will be in a
sadly demOralized condition while
the war continues and for some time
thereafter.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-08-29
PROSPECTS
IN THE SOUTHWEST

Bernard Macdonald, writing in
Mining and Engineering World,
says:
There is considerable evidence
that a healthy activity is springing
up among the silver-gold mines and
prospects in the regions surround
ing the deserts of southern Califor-
mia, Nevada and central and western
Arizona. Many of the mines of these
regions are planning to install small
cyanide plants ranging from 10 to
cotton daily capacity. Such plants,
operated by gasoline engines. can be
erected at a comparatively small
cost and will make a high extraction
of the metals as precipitate or bull
lion, which can be marketed at
small expense for freight. The pro-
ceeds will provide funds for cal,y-
ing on development work and the
plants will pioneer the way for larg-
er ones and increased operations.
There is a field for the cyanide
treatment of silver-gold ores which
carry high percentages of copper in
oxide and carbonate form, and
which may be dissolved out by agi-
tation in a dilute sulphuric acid So
luton, preliminary to the cyanide
treatment. The copper dissolved
out can be recovered and in many
cases forms a substantial part of the
marketable products.
Tests made for this double pro-
cess of treatment show that after
the associated copper is leached out
of a silver-gold ore, and the pulp
given a lime-water wash to neutral
ize the acid. the cyanide treatment
will dissolve out the gold and silver
quickly and efficiently.
These small treatment plants will
lead to increased activity in mining
districts that have remained for
years dead because of the ore be-
ing too low grade to stand the high
freight charges necessary to bring 1t
to market. and not developed in suf-
ficiently large quantities to justify
the expense of the old style of treat
ment plants.
The installation of small cyanide
plants already begun in many lOcali-
ties is bound to have a favorable
effect on mining activity in the
southwest, for with ordinary bust
ness care under technical advice,
there need be no failures.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-08-29
COPPER INDUSTRY FEELS
EFFECTS OF THE WAH

The copper industry will probably
feel the injurious effects of the Eu-
ropean war more seriously than any
other of the leading metal indus
tries. During the last five years ap-
prOximately so per cen of the cop
per turned out by American refin-
cries has been exported, in large
part to the countries now involved
in the European a according to
the United States geological survey.
Some of this copper has been i'm
ported for m~etallurgical treatment,
and the imports will probably be
somewhat restricted on account of
shipping conditions.
During these five years, however,
domestic consumers have taken only
about IS to 67 per cent of the cop
per produced from mines within the
United States. so it is evident that
there must be a material curtail-
ment of production while present
conditions prevail. Considerable
copper is of course consumed in mu-
nitions of war and for other military
purposes, but the constructive arts
of peace are far more favorable for
the copper industry than the de-
structive art of war.
American producers have already
greatly curtailed their production,
and it SEEM almost certain that the
output must be materially restricted
for an indefinite period, dependent
largely on the European conditions.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-08-29
MILL SUPERINTENDENT
DIES ON THE ROAD

AL Towers, superintendent of the
Douglas mill at Sodaville. under
Manager Gust Priest. died last eve
ming from the bursting of the left
ventricle of the heart while he was
engaged in cranking an auto on the
road to the Douglas mine, about sew
en- miles from the mill, says the Bo-
nanZa.
Mr.. Towers left the mill with his
wife and at a steep place in the road
within a mile of the mine his engine
went dead. Stepping out to crank il
up. Towers is supposed to have ex-
erted himself too much, resulting in
the bursting of the blood vessel.
The body was taken to Nina.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-08-29


The official returns of operations
of the Tonopah Extension Mining
company for the month of July show
that 60O2 tons of ore were milled for
gross receipts of $110,090.62. Elk
penses for the month amounted to
~$5S,97O.83, and net profits were
~$51,119.52 a ton.
The above figures yer issued this
week by the directors Of the COM
pany in session at the Tonopah Of
flee. and profits hereafter will be is
sued at about the corresponding date
of each month for the previous
month.
The net profits for July were part
" estimated for the reason that the
final cleanup of the mill for July
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-08-29
Miner EIectrOcuted

BY accidentally touching a live
wire, Ora Weston, a miner, twenty
six years old, was recently electro
cuted in the Nevada Hills mine in
the Fairview district. Weston had
been a resident of Fairview for about
a year, coming there from Colorado,
where his relatives reside.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-08-29
Must Stand Trial

Accused of ~pandering. ]. Bishop
was recently bound over by Justice
of the Peace A. J. Cartwright of Ely
to the district court of white Pine
county for trial.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-08-29
e Kills Rabbits

After a several days trip over the
desert. "Buckaroo Charley" a Piute
Indian. returned to Fallon recently
and declared that the recent hot wea-
Their had killed off jack-rabbits by
the wholesale.
The Washington times., 1914-11-04


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shoe of
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The Washington times., 1914-11-04

THIS COUPON anf
1Oc for SIX Crysta,
Glass Table Tumblers
large size, clear quaI
ity, in colonial shape
Nicely finished. RegI-
larIy &C each. Base
ment. (T.l
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1914-07-31
JEPSON AND STOCKWELL JAILED
BY MISUNDERSTANDING PEACE

The mayor has appointed a
number of special policemen
aside from Smith. Bennett and
.Haigh and they will continue to
serve, in spite of the hostile city
council and their following of l..
w. w. advocates, until such time
as the present trouble is finally
adjusted.
Following the arrest of Jepson
and Stockwell, Sheriff Madison
appeared at the city Jail and in a
threatening manner challenged
the authority of the mayor and
commenced giving instructions as
to what he should do and should
not do, but after being informed
in no uncertain manner that he
had better not attempt to over
ride the mayor and the police
force, he withdrew.
Just what the next frame-up
will be remains to be seen, but
the mayor and policemen feel
that they can handle any situation
that may arise.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1914-07-31
wo Towns On
South Branch
A. L. Martin Pwchases Land.
for Townsites on South Branch
and Will be Townsite Owner
Contract Let for Road and
Work VIII Be Promptly Push
ed.

There will be two townsite, on
the Northern Pacific branch
south of Beach, one located on
the southwest quarter of section
80. 138-l05. just west of the
town Of Burkey.
The contract for the grading
Of the new road has been let to
the Cook Construction company
Of Helena. Mont, and their out
flt is expected to arrive dailv.
and when once on the ground
the work will be pushed rapidly
and if we have an open fall and
winter, the steel will be laid thi.
year.
.s-s-s-e-s.sie*s-s-.-.-..
You can't draw checks against
your bank account and expect
the balance to remain the same
unless you make deposits. Meth
er can you make your money in
Beach and spend it elsewhere and
expect the town to continue to
fill your purse.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1914-07-31

both men before the police mag
istrate and asked that they be
put under peace bond for dis
turbing the peace. They were
brought before the magistrate
and ordered to appear before
him the next day.
1t later developed that Sheriff
Madison had warrant for Haigh
for assault with intent to kill Al
derman Jepson. which was ap-
proved by the states attorney.
The friends Of Mr.. Haigh got
busy and demanded that he be
given an opportunity to appear
before a magistrate and give
bond which was done about mid
night. Plomasen setting the bond
at $1,000.
1t seems that plan was franz
ed to keep Haigh in jail all night.
The warrant for his arrest was
made many hours after the alleg-
ed assault and was not served. if
served at all, until about nine
o'clock. Plomasen, instead of
waiting for return on the war
rant to give the arrested party a
chance of hearing, went home
and to bed, and it was not until
demands were made on him by
Haigh's friends that he got up
and came to his office. When
Jepson and Stockwell appeared
before the magistrate the next
day. States Attorney Halliday
appeared and ordered the cases
dismissed without giving the
complaining witness an oppor-
tunity of filing written COM
complaint. agreeing with Attys.
Jefferson and Gallagher. that the
men should be set free. Later
during the day he approved a
warrant for Jepson, but when the
hearing was called, he did not
urge placing him under bonds,
and after Gallagher and Jefer-
son told the magistrate that Jep-
son had a right to strike and
knock down the Brinton police
man, Plomasen dismissed him
and the case.
Halliday had previously dis
missed the action against Stock
well for assaulting Policeman
Bennett without notifying the
complaining witness and giving
him and the numerous witnesses
an opportunity to testify.
When the mayor asked the
states attorney as to what action
he was going to take in the cases,
he answered in his usual insulting
way by saying: It's none Of your
damn business.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1914-07-31
Frane-up in Jepsoln
Livery Barn

being first duly sworn on oath deposes
and says that he than years age that he
has resided in the City of Beach for the four years last past
that he is we'll acquainted with one Leonard Stockwe Re,
Monahan and Joseph Lenore that Sunday July 2th af
ant was coming along the past John epsons Livery
Barn. when he heard loud talk and stepped inside to hear
what was going this time the said Stockwe Monahan
and Lenore were apparently under the influence liquor and
were talking loud and Stockwe said he would like to oct
hold OF b'non as he would give him good licking
ne was Mayor Of the City of Beach, he also said he would
lick one A. Hagh he knew where find him. saying he
would smash his face Monahan then spoke up and said he
knew where Hagh lived and Sockwe said come on let's oct
him. they then left the barn and fifteen or twenty
minutes returned returned in driven b; Robt kas
ten and got barn and walked n and Stockve said
he could not find him aigh) but that he could lick the DO
lice force of Beach, and spoke up and said that If
ne wanted Bennett the night policeman he the corner
by Wallis restaurant Lenore told Socke that if he would
lick him ne would his fine, Stocke then walked up to
the corner where Bennett and called him the epson
Livery Barn. and said: Bennett have had something to tell
you tor long time, and is good any, and
began to abuse Bennett and took by the throat calling
police officer he kept up the attack trying to
striking him. finally drawing his club and Monahan GRABBED
the club from Bennett Bennett then breaking away
then back and his hat and spoke r. c. Fuller
and said Bob need help to that stocel then
again attacked Bennett calling him "a Son of and
All of which afant say. is true
(S'sned) .....................
The Of the signer of the above affidavit is withheld at
this time on account Of his being of the important
witnesses who the attack the policeman in Alderman
1epson's barn.
Two of the mentioned in the above affidavit when
rested and brought into plead guilty. but Stocke de-
manded trial and after postponng the hearing couple of
times, STATES ATTORNEY HALLIDAY DISMISSED THE
CASE WITHOUT CONSULTING. THE. COMPLAINING
WITNESS OR ANY OF THE WITNESSES-TOLD THE
MAYOR 1T WAS NONE OF HIS DAMN BUSINESS
The Beach Advances evidently in with the gang to frame
against the police force following the affair
in big head lines thus:
POLICEMAN ATTACKS LEN STOcKWELL"
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1914-07-31

1t has now become apparent to
everyone that an organized ef-
fort is being made by certain Off
-cials to breakup the police force
sworn in by Mayor Brinton, and
to abuse and discredit men whom
the mayor appoints to Office.
Three men assaulted Police
man Bennett two weeks ago and
they were freed of the ofense by
Police Magistrate Plomasen and
turned loose after two of the
men had plead guilty.
L When the mayor appointed
James Haigh as city. auditor a
great deal of abuse was directed
at him by the aldermen and ef-
forts were made to trump up
charges against him as an excuse
for not wanting to confirm the
appointment. Last Friday night
Alderman Jepson assaulted Haigh
in a threatening manner and
e1warned him he would beat him
up when he caught him alone. On
the following Tuesday he at
tempted to carry out the threat
and Haigh. who had been ap-
pointed policeman in the mean
time, drew a gun and command
ed the alderman to beat a hasty
retreat which he did.
That evening while Mr.. Haigh
was sitting in the State Line Ho-
tel. Sheriff Madison and Len
Stockwell approached him and
y the sheriff demanded that the po-
liceman give up his gun which
he refused to do and when the
sheriff grappled with him, both
men went to the floor with
Stockwell and Dr.. Fuller at
tempting to assist the sheriff in
disarming Haigh which they did
after bone difficulty. During
the affair the mayor arrived on
the scene and attempted to assist
IN parting the men when Sheriff
Madison drew his gun on the
mayor and ordered him to stand
back. Stockwell, Madison and
DR.. Fuller then took Haigh and
lodged hin, in the county Jail.
A large crowd had gathered on
the street. including about a hun
dred unemployed men who were
about the city, and excitement
ran high.
Upon learning of the discharge
of Stockwell by Plomasen, on a
charge of assaulting Bennett, and
the assault of Alderman Tepson
upon Mr.. Haigh. the mayor or
dered both men arrested and
they were lodged in the city Jail,
mayor filing a complaint against