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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-09-19
Colorado.

Colorado.
At Leadyilie the Hill Top is now op.
Grating under an increased force Of
men.
Gold mining in Colorado will not be
gated by the absence of cyanide
Nassium made in Germany.
? .AGFce OF men are at work rebuild.
Ge7 breaker at the old Smith an.
5cite mine near Crested Butte.
None OF Cripple Creeks mines or
cyanide plants have been halted or put
out OF commission by the war in Eu-
rope.
The Dinero tunnel at Leadville is
again running with a full force OF
men, according to statement made
by Superintendent Jones.
A contract was 'let by Kenneth
Mackenzie. president .and general
manager of the Acacia Gold Mining
Company, for $50 feet of sinking in
the main Acacia shaft, on the South
Burns mine on Bull hill
John Daniels was in Leadville from
Lackawanna and brought some sam
Piles of the ore which he has uncovered
in his tunnel on the Helena group. The
assays showed the ore to carry 1A4
ounces silver. / 2. ounces gold. and L.
per cent copper to the ton.
The equipment for the hydro elec.
tric plant which is being constructed
by T. X. l.. Dauehtry for the Brant In
dependent Mining Company of Pitkin.
Sunnison county, Is now on the
ground and ready for installation in
the new 28x4o feet cement building
which is nearing completion
Sixty-six thousand dollars is the
value of placer gold mined in the
breckenridge district in the last two
weeks Of August. a production which
if maintained. would total 81 600, 900
for the year The production is q
slight increase over the average and
considerably in excess OF that for q
similar period in August, 1913.
That oil exists in paying quantities
in the De BeQue basin of Mesa county
is considered certain by experts who
have watched the progress OF the
gusher struck there June 30. From a
flow Of twenty barrels day at q
depth Of 2,010 feet the we'll has stead
lily increased in production until 1t Ia
now giving forth from 80 to ITO bar
rels daily.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-09-19
Metal Firms Ask Reduction in Tax.

Denver. - Representative of this
American Smelling and Refining Com.
pany and the American Metals Com.
pany appeared before the city com.
missioners, presiding as board OF
equalization, and requested reduction
in assessments levied against them by
Commissioner Of Finance Pitcher in
his capacity as assessor. Pitcher
raised the values on money. notes and
credits of the American Smelling
Company from $500 to 100000 and
made an equal increase on the prop.
critics of the other company
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-09-19
YEARS CROP FIGURES
YIELD OF SPRING WHEAT WILL
BE 221, 1,ooo, 900 BUSHELS.
Corn ?. 5es0oo.o 600, spuds $4,000. .ooo
Oats 1.116.ooo. 600 and Barley eoo.-
5000, According to Report.

Washington.-With tho possibility
of some OF the warning European ma
tions calling upon the United States
for grains. more than ordinary inter
est attached to the Department OF
Agriculture's crop reporting board
forecasts of the size Of the country's
important farm crops.
The total production Of each crop on
Sept. 1, with the production forecast
the final production figures of last
years harvests and the average pro-
duction for the past five years (in mil.
lions of bushels. l. e.. o0o.o00's
omitted). are:
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-09-19
FRONTIER OF RUSSIA
COVERS 1000 MILES

The frontier line which Russia has
newly created by a series Of hard won
battles against the armies Of Germany
and Austria. extends thousand miles,
not taking into account the Turkish
frontier. which Russia il prepared to
defend.
1t Is no secret that the plan OF the
Russian staff IL to deal a mortal blow
70 Austria and then launch almost her
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-09-19
STATECAPITAL
NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News service.
YEAR FOR FARMERS
Colorado Wheat Crop Is $4,000 .0Co
Bushels and Corn $500 900.

Denver.-Colorado wheat production
this year viii be 100000 bushels
greater than in 1919. according to the
estimates made by the Department Of
Agriculture. The corn crop will be
100000 bushels greater and the in
crease in the oats harvest will be =.
$4,000 bushels.
The report indicates year OF un
precedented prosperity for Colorado
farmers. In every important crop
there will be Az increase OF from to
% per cent above last year and RON
3 to per cent above the eight-year
average.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-09-19
w E EaN
MINING NEWS
IN Q r { =

western Sewspaner Union News Service.
TREND OF METAL VALUES.
New York.-Bsr silver. 55c.
50 Louis. Lead, x3.1o43.I u
Sptltc-, $3.50 $50
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-09-19
Wyoming.

Ed Stork has bought out the inter.
at AIkaIi Butte.
The Ohio Oil Company has two pro.
ducing wells ON Section IS in the
Grass Greek field.
Judge Mentzer has ordered the Mid
west Oil Company to vacate certain
grounds on Grass creek in Hot Springs
county &9
A twenty-barrel oil well in the Salt
Creek field was shot by the Midwest
Oil Company. The flow Immediately
increased to 500 barrels daily. Y.
Activities in both the Little Buffalo
Basin and Grass Creek oil fields have
settled down to steady grind of pros.
pecting, which means that both fields
will be fully tested out during the
next year or eighteen months. The
Ohio Oil Company, Midwest and Val
entine each have rigs pounding away
in Little Buffalo Basin and recently
the Midwest moved in another stan
dard rig. No oil has yet been found
in this field. SO far as can be ascer-
tanned. although the Valentine well on
Section Sc is down about 400 feet.
Arizona.
Thu concentration at the old Mowry
mine. ear Patagonia. containing ma
chinery valued at about 100000 was
destroyed by lightning.
WITH the announcement that the
smeltecs will again accept ore for
treatmen ent. Tombstone leasers are max
ing preparations to ship.
Arizona, and the Globe district IN
particular, will not suffer very heavily
from the European war, is the opinion
of Fran kiln B. Harding, Chicago min
ing engineer, who has just completed
. business tour OF the state.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-09-19

Ed Stork has bought out the inter
est of Fred Benson in the coal mine
at AIkaIi Butte
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-23
BAD CASE OF DANDRUFF

Bissell, Ala.--'I had very bad casa
Of dandruff on my head. l was tor
mented by itching and my hair began
to come out by the combfuls. al
most became frantic, fearful that
would lose all of my hair which was
my pride. There were some pimples
o. my scalp and scratched them IN.
til they made sores. My hair was dry
and lifeless.
Il saw the advertisement of Cuticura
Soap and Ointment and sent to nv
druggist for three cakes of Cuticura
Soap and box of Cuticura Ointment.
/ washed my scalp with warm water
strong with the Cuticura Soap and
dried, afterwards applying the Cuti
cura Ointment, working it in the scalp
slowly with my fingers. After using
them for several days my hair began
to stop coming out. The dandruff all
disappeared and in less than four
weeks cure was accomplished per.
manently" (Signed) Miss Lucy May.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. ADV
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-23

in Missouri is past the manageable
age, and is what they term bachelor.
Having no wife and children he kills
the time, so to speak, of evenings Wis
iting neighbor farmers. Being too
close in money matters to carry
lantern and burn UP precious oil, he
takes with him his white dog on these
nocturnal trips. A halter strap is fas-
tened to the dogs neck, the owner
holding the loose end. The dog fol-
lows the beaten paths between the
bachelors farmhouse and the houses
of the neighboring farmers, leading his
master safely home on the darkest
night. The oil companies of America
should have this stingy farmer arrest
ed, and compel him to purchase and
use good lantern and refined oil. He
should be taught that the "other fell
low" must live as well as he.
Speaking of making a living, the
man who cannot make and save money
at farming, gardening, dairying or any
of the side lines to general farming is
fit. subject for pity, as he could not
make a living at anything. Foodstuffs
of all kinds have become as market
able as flour. and at remunerative
prices.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-23
ADAPTABILITY OF
SOY BEAN CROP
Irregularities of Season Win
Often Cause AftergroWth-
Easily Harvested.

Soy beans are very similar to cow
peas with respect to season Of growth
and cultural requirements. Since the
two crops occupy the same place In
crop rotation, it is well to contrast
their adaptability. says bulletin of
the Delaware station.
Soy beans mature uniformly, the
pods ripening practically at the
same time; cowpeas often bear
ripe pods and blossoms on the same
plant. Irregularities of season will
frequently cause an aftergrowth OF
the plant, a condition which does not
obtain with soy beans. This differ
ence in maturing habit is distinctly
in favor of the soy beans. inasmuch
as the latter may be more easily har-
vested for seed or hay than the cow
peas.
Most varieties oi soy beans grow
erect or nearly SO; cowpeas are viney
and bear the pods so near the ground
that it is less likely to injure soy
beans-both in the spring and the fall
when nearly mature-than cowpeas
which are killed by light forsts.
Soy beans are injured less by insect
enemies and plant disease than COW
peas. If cut at the proper stage Of
maturity, soy beans make d richer
hay than the cowpeas.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-23

strange thing, that point of view. 1t
made a man talk of his little cubby-
hole on the fifth floor of tenement as
my apartments 1t made him put up
front, as near to millionaire's as
he could initiate, and he'd live on pork
and beans. In other words, the New
York point of view was calculated to
make everybody and everything look
like money, and that was all anybody
ever looked for there at that time.
"a young man would come from the
hinterland to New York and get a job,
and for the first few weeks he'd go
along his way as young man should
go who expected to be the boss some
day. He'd go home at night and sleep,
and he'd save a little money. But
soon the bug would start working on
him. The first symptom would show
in his buying cane and discovering
Broadway. The next downward step
would be learning to eat spaghetti in
Italian restaurants. After that the
rest was simple. The young man
would go home in the evening, but
only to change his collar and get his
stick. Sometimes he would eat and
sometimes he wouldn't But no mat
ter. when you'd see him uptown at
night under the lights you had to adj
nit that he looked like a typical New
Yorker, and that was what the young
mans soul craved. After that he'd go
home and feel that the day had not
been misspent.
by this time if you ever asked him
if he hadn't come from Oskaloosa, or
Chicago, or some other American city
he'd be ready to fight. He was New
Yorker by this time, and if he got as
far as Coney Island he thought he was
travelling. And with this we close the
book on young but misspent life.
For nobody ever recovered after the
bug had done it's work. They were
sealed to Manhattan island then. They
would rather live there thirty minutes
than any other place thirty years;
they said so themselves. That was
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-23

why the park benches always were so
| full
What became of them all? Nobody
knew-or cared. New York was the
first city in this country to discover
that it could do away with its heart
and soul. People used to talk about
the heart Of New York 1t had none.
Other cities tried to initiate it in this,
but they looked like nice little school
children playing robbers. II person
had money all of New York knew
where he was. You bet it did; it need
ed him in its business. If he had no
money nobody except perhaps the po-
lieeman on night duty in the parks
knew that he existed. So long as
ones money lasted q fellow was fol.
lowed by procession usually headed
/ by a prosperous looking young woman,
| then, in order, a head waiter, chauf-
| feur, bartender and a crowd Of
| friends After his money was gone
the procession consisted of one past.
The order of Friends was strong in New
York in that era; you couldn't get
away from them--if you looked like
you had the gelt But IL you failed to
make spectacular front: Goodnight!
Who ever saw you before?' You didn't
have to have any money, understand;
you only had to look like it. A typical
New Yorker who was good at the job
could look like a millionaire and owe
for laundry at the same time. You
have heard of New York art, Charley?
Well, that was 1t; New Workers were
all artists in that line.
/: "Two kinds of people ~ ~ that
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-23

20 explain New York was a sort OF
apynotic-magnet that mesmerized all
Hhe young people and lots Of the old
Smes in this country and put into their
Aeads the deIusion that they had to
20 70 Now York to Tive Can you i'm
agine such a thing. Charley? Thou
sands and millions of people laboring
lander the deIusion that they had to
Siye in one certain place to be happy
and that place New York ethyl"
Il give It up" said the superintend-
,ent. ''What was the matter with
nhem?"
"They were afflicted with the New
York bug" replied MaoManus. THE
zlace had them hypnotized. as say. no
matter how far away they might live.
1t didn't make any difference who or
rEhat or why they were. at some time
or other the bug was sure to strike
chem. and they began to look up time
tables to Manhattan island. Miiliners'
artists and anarchists, writer's or
,yaitresses. they were all alike. 1t was
tzlew York or bust with them all. The
aact that Che place already was packed
Nighter than dynamo made no differ
~nce. Always room for one more,
4Eey said. There was. too. if they had
xhe price, but the room was apt to be
at the end of a hall. and by in
size.
did that discourage them, you ask?
NJ did not. You see. after anybody had
Tyed In New York over two weeks IN
xAose days they developed what was
Known among our forefathers as the
aleu- York point Of view. 1t was
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-23
ONE BOYS BRILLIANT IDEA
Youngster Told His Father to Try
Scissors and So Invented Reap
ing Machines.

In 1880 Obed Hussey of Ohio was in
venting a reaping machine, the first
ever designed in this country.
His chief difficulty was the cutting
device, which was three large sickles,
set in a frame and revolved so as to
cut into the grain. 1t would not work
satisfactorily.
A young son, watching the expert
ment, asked his father why he did not
use lot of big scissors, with one
handle fastened to one bar, and the
other handle to a sliding bar, thus
opening and closing them.
Hussey instantly adopted the idea,
substituting for scissors the two saw
toothed blades which are in common
use today on harvesters, the cutting
action being quite similar to that of
scissors.
From the boys suggestion he per
fected in one week asmachine on
which he had in vain exercised all
his ingenuity for the preceding two
years.
The principle of the cutting device
is the principle of all of the great har-
vesting machines, and its benefit to
the farming industry of the entire
world has been unsurpassed by any
other invention for use on the farm
Saint Nicholas.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-23
SIMPLE AND EASIER
Tramp's Method Not AItoqeth.rS
like That Followed by Too
Many Others.

Hoboes came up for discussion !, .
Washington club the other night 80
Senator Nathan P. Bryan of Flor Sau
told this anecdote along the Wo.-'
Willie line:
Some time ago a hobo meeklv 70,
ped on the back door of a suhurhan
home and asked for something to oot
The good housewife responded tbo,
she would feed him on the hack ston
along with Fido, providing he wo,
willing to earn the meal by clean,no
out the gutter.
The tramp agreed, and when he b.t
eaten his way through several sand
witches to feeling of happiness IN,
housewife came out with reliabl,
looking hoe.
"You needn't have gone to that trou
BILE, madam" said the hobo, sizing n,
the farm implement. 81 never use
hoe in cleaning out gutter"
Never use a hoe!" SAID the woma,
with a wondering expression. "Wha
do you use, then, shovel?"
mo. madam" replied the hobc
starting for the back gate, my meth
cd is to pray for rain"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-23
SAYING THAT is
WORTH REPEATING
intelligent Care of Land, Crops
and Animals Is Secret of
Success in Farming.
lRx II. H. sIIEPHARD.l

This may have been said before, but
it is worth repeating: You cannot get
something for nothing, even at farm
ing, although they say that crops grow
while the farmer sleeps. So do the
weeds, and the animals grow hungry
between night and morning. lntelli-
gent care Of land, crops and animals
is the secret of success in farming.
And if anything else should be added,
it is that the farmer must be intensely
in love with his work. He must see
good things in the farming line in all
Of his visions.
Don't simply show your wife and
children money in your pocketbook aft
er making good sale. That is mean
and wicked They helped to make
that money as well as you. Give them
q part of it now to spend in their own
way while you can see them enjoy it,
and perhaps share in their JOY. If you
save it for the children to spend after
you are dead-you know the rest, but
you won't know it then.
Cement is cheap this year, but with
it and sand and gravel you can make
some of the NOSE valuable things on
the farm. A good rule to make on the
farm is that of building something OF
concrete every fall and spring. By
and by, with little money and labor
your farm will become substantially
improved, and these improvements will
outlast you and your grandchildren. 1t
is not economy to construct with any
material that is not efficient and per
manent.
| There is one reason at least why
every farmer should own gasoline en-
CINE, and that is that the boys like tc
see it work and they learn many good
things from it. The farm boy as rule
takes naturally to machinery, especial
ly anything that moves and has the
get up and co. about it. And the
small gasoline engine has them all
beaten in this line a full country
block. They teach farm mechanics IL
the schools, but why not make 1t pos
sible for the boys to learn some me
| chanics first hand before leaving the
farm?
About the, funniest thing we have
seen lately was a city woman wearing
a hobble skirt trying to get in and ou
of our farm wagon. The assistance o
two able-bodied men and one woman
was required in the operation.
City-bred men are moving onto thu
farm in real good faith and bouyan
hopes. Some of them will have al
much to learn as the old-time farmers
who went to the city few years ag'
and put nickles into the slots of cabl'
car tracks. 1t is about an even tie be
tween the city man and the farme
When it comes to an examination Oh
] eneral facts in special lines. Neithe
S,or0s the one hundred points mark.
A very saving and economical mai
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-23
Not in Her Line.

One day, Mr. Smith went to buy
a bushel of buckwheat for sowing
The man who sold the wheat was
away, but his wife undertook to
make the sale. She found peck
measure and they went to the gran
airy.
She filled the measure twice, poured
the contents into the bag, and began
to tie it up.
But Mrs. Lawton," said the man.
'it takes four pecks to make bushel'
ooh, does it," replied the woman
untying the bag. We'll, you see,
never had any experience in measur
ing grain before was married. | al
ways taught school,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-23
viii psnounce FAKE Cures,

AS a special feature of the Tubercu-
losis day campaign, December z, the
National Association for the Study and
Prevention Of tuberculosis will urge
clergymen in all parts of tho United
States to denounce fake consumption
cures from their pulpits.
Millions of dollars are spent by
church members and others on value
less remedies of this character, ac-
cording to the associations records.
Literature showing in detail the meth
DDS of fake cure vendors will be sent
on request to any clergymen by the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis, los
East Twenty-second street, New York
city.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-23
(By H. II. sHEPHARD.)

10y ii. II. Sf1Ef I1A1NDJ
One of our neighbors who is an old
time and very successful strawberry
grower advocates a very long season
of growth the first year for the new
plants. He sets out his strawberry
plants as soon in March, or thereafter,
as the ground will do to work.
This man has made his living, and
almost a fortune, by growing straw
berries and other small fruits. His
berries run on the average from $500
to $500 an acre, the entire seasons
product being sold at the local town,
about one mile from his farm. His
berries are always in demand at the
highest prices, because he always
grows good ones.
The secret of his success with straw
berries is in blowing the ground deep
and early, with liberal fertilization in
the form OF stable manure. The ma
nure not only furnishes plant foods,
but also adds to the moisture receiv-
ing and holding power of the soil,
which is very important during the
fruiting season, when general condi-
q lions are dry.
The land for the strawberries is
MANFRED and plowed late in the fall or
early winter This brings up the deep
soil minerals to be exposed to the
elements during the winter for disin-
tegration. During the winter the
plowed ground is given a good dress
ing of stable manure, and this is fol-
lowed in the spring with light dress
ing of lime or wood ashes. Wood
ashes should be applied just before
setting out of the young plants in
spring, as they have tendency to lib
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-23
NEW YORK BEFORE IT WAS DE-
MAGNETiZED

Beneath the big receiving float Of
the F. @. e. A. Aerial line twinkled the
scattered night lights of New York
city-the new New York, the New
Work of 1862. Capt. Martin MacManus,
master Alligator. retired. and the
young Aoat superintendent puffed lux
~ssrieusIy at their midnight cigars and
gaxed down Into the vast silence.
Hundreds OF tiny air craft, their
eingle white turret lights marking them
as private. streamed to and fro along
abe passenger lanes. The traffic lanes
we're empty. save for the inevitable
numbering newspaper carriers bearing
the hours papers to the express floats
at the lower end of the island.
No hum OF crowded humanity came
upward through the night to the float,
Cor the humanity that once had packed
Manhattan island now was scattered
aver the new 200 mile metropolitan
area. a feat that had been made pos.
gible by Durang's mastery of the law
of gravitation and the consequent de,
TelOpment of cheap, safe and swift
aerial transportation.
'And they tell me-" said the super
ntendent musingly, "that once upon a
side that island was crowded so tight
Ay that people were pushed off the
piers"
aye" said Captain MacManus. "In
abe days of my youth, the year of 1912
and thareahOuts such was the case
"But why" persisted the younger
man, "why did the people swarm so tc
ahat little island when there was the
whole open country all around?"
Because" said MacManus, ''it was
New York.
New York. my boy" continued the
veteran. "New York was-New York
If you had lived in that time you
you'd have. understood what that
meant Now that people have stopped
Initiating sheep and moths, it is hard