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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-30


swims in the streams like muskrat or OF
ter, catching fish and living in burrows
which open under water. Miller and Cher
rie were puzzled to know why the young
throve, leading such an existence of con-
slant immersion; one of them once found a
female swimming and diving freely with
four quite well-grown young in her pouch.
We saw on the banks screamers-big,
crested waders of archaic type with spurred
wings, rather short bills, and no especial af-
inities with other modern birds. In one
meadow by pond we saw three marsh deer
"a buck and two does. They stared at us,
with their thickly haired tails raised on end
These tails are black underneath, instead of
white, as in our white tail deer
An Exploded Theory.
One of the vagares of the ultra-conceal-
ing colorationists has been to uphold the
incidentally quite preposterous) theory
that the tail of our deer is colored white be-
meath so as to harmonic with the sky, and
thereby mislead the cougar or wolf at the
critical moment when it makes its spring;
a white flag, and yet has just as much need
of protection from its enemies, the jaguar
and the cougar.
In South America concealing celebration
plays no more part in the lives of the deer,
the tamandua, the peccary, the jaguar, and
the puma than it plays in Africa in the lives
of such animals as the zebra, the sable ante
+l,a al II,
ing hyena.
Next day, December 20, we spent as
cending the Sac Lourenco. 1t was narrow
er than the Paraguay, naturally, and the
swirling brown current was, if anything,
more rapid The strange tropical trees,
standing densely on the banks, were matted
together by long bush ropes-lianas, or
vines, some very slender and very long.
Sometimes we saw brilliant red or blue flow
ers, or masses of scarlet berries on a queer
palm-like tree, or an array of great white
blossoms on much larger tree.
In lagoon bordered by the taquara bam-
boo a school of big offers were playing;
when they came to the surface they opened
their mouths like seals and made loud
kissing noise. The crested screamers dark
gray and as large as turkeys, perched on
the very topmost branches of the tallest
trees. Hyacinth macaws screamed harshly
as they flew across the river.
Among the trees was the guam another
peculiar bird, as big as big grouse, and
with certain habits of the wood-grouse, but
not akin to any northern game bird. The
windpipe of the male is very long, extending
down to the end of the breast bone, and the
bird utters queer gutteral screams
A dead cayman foated down stream, with
black vulture devouring it. Capybaras
stood or squatted on the banks; sometimes
they stared stupidity at us; sometimes they
plunged into the river at Our approach
AT long intervals we passed little clearings.
In each stood house of palm logs, with
steeply pitched roof of palm thatch, and
patches Of corn and mandoc The dusky
owner, and perhaps his family came out on
the bank to watch us as we passed
1t was hot day-the thermometer on
the deck in the shade stood 1O3 degrees
Fahrenheit Biting flies came aboard even
when we were in mdstreanf
Next day we were ascending the Cuyaba
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-30

strong current, and between the green and
beautiful banks of the upper Paraguay. The
shallow little steamer was ammed with
men, dogs, rifles, partially cured skins,
boxes of provisions, ammunition, Tools and
Photographic supplies ags containing
tents, cots, bedding and clothes, saddles,
hammocks, and the other necessaries for
trip through the great wilderness" the
"matto crosse" of western Brazil
1t was a brilliantly clear day, and, al
though Of course in that latitude and at
that season the heat was intense later on, it
was cool and pleasant in the early morning.
We sat on the forward deck, admiring the
trees on the brink of the sheer mudbanks,
the lush rank grass OF the marshes, and the
many water birds. The two pilots, one
black and one white, stood at the wheel.
Colonel Rondon read Thomas a Kempis;
Kermit, Cherrie and Miller squatted outside
the railing on the deck over one paddle
wheel and put the final touches on the jag
uar skins Fiala satisfied himself that the
boxes and bags were in place.
1t was probable that hardship lay in the
future; but the day was Our own, and the
day was pleasant In the evening the after
deck, open air all around, where we dined,
was decorated with green boughs and
rushes, and we drank the health Of the pres
ident of the United States and of the pres-
dent of Brazil
A Promising Region.
Now and then we passed little ranches on
the rivers edge This is fertile land, pleas
ant to live in, and any settler who is willing
to work can earn his living. There are
mines there is water power; there is album
dance of rich soil The country will soon
be opened by rail. 1t offers fine field for
immigration and for agricultural, mining
and business development, and it has great
future
Cherrie and Miller had secured little owl
a month before in the Chaco, and it was
travelling with them in a basket. 1t was
dear little bird, very tame and affectionate.
It liked to be handled and petted; and when
Miller its especial protector, came into the
cabin, it would make queer little noises as
signal that it wished to be taken UP and
perched on his hand.
Cherrie and Miller had trapped many
mammals Among them was tayra wea-
sell whtish above and black below, as big
and bloodthirsty as a fisher-martin; and
tiny opossum no bigger than mouse. They
had taken four species of opossum, but they
had not found the curious water-opossum
, which they had obtained on the rivers flow
ing into the Caribbean sea.
This opossum which is black and white,
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-30
AT THE GREAT SAN JoAo RANCH.

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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-30

: Corumba our entire party,
and all their belongings,
came aboard our good little
river boat, the Nyoac.
Christmas day saw us
making our way steadily
,,oc+rao,, ., G +ba
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-30
A Charming Hospitality.

Altogether, our host and his son remind
ed one of the best type of American ranch
men and planters, of those planters and
ranchmen who are adopts in bold and manly
field sports, who are capital men of business,
and who also often supply to the state
skilled and faithful public servants The
hospitality the father and son extended to-
us was patriarchal; neither, for instance,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-08

have sense enough to manage his own bust
ness.
If advice were coin, he could pay off the
national debt with his spare change
Did some gentleman rise to remark that
the South is dominated by Cotton Oil
garchy?
He did. He not only said it, but proved it
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best to devote the land to grass, to cereals, to
vegetables, to potatoes or to dairying and
poultry.
But the Southern farmer is somehow the
poor relation, the scape- goat that anybody is
privileged to peck on.
The Southern farmer is never supposed to
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-08

4o0o, Willie Slll1 hoping ina
a and the Democratic leaders wo1
faith with the Populists-as per the
at st. Louis-I travelled over the
Kansas and Nebraska, riding mucl
time in private conveyances.
For hundreds of miles, there was
but upland corn, magnificent beyond
The conception Of a Southern farmer
of the Cotton belt.
The prairie soil was black as deep
as plough-shares could go, and it was
so rich that fertilizer would have
been wasted.
Seventy bushels to the acre
was perhaps the average, though /
saw miles of it which my compan-
ions estimated at eighty-five.
In severe winters, when the roads
were showed up, and the coal was
high priced and distant, the farmer
fed corn to has fire.
/ inquired about that, particu-
larry, and was assured it was a fact.
Are those corn growers of Kan
sas, Nebraska, Iowa, and parts Of
Missouri held up periodically to the
pity and admonition Of mankind,
because their crop is corn?
Do the lawyers, the editors, the
loan agents, the seed-sellers, the
fancy fellows who farm the farmer
do they rush out upon the battle
mentS and shout denunciatiOns Of
those Western farmers whose only
crop is corn?
Do such statesmen" as Hole
Smith and Hardwiclz demand that
Congress shall penalize the corn
grower, by taxing his corn ten cents
% pech'?
In the Northwestern States all the
way from South Dakota to the Ca
madam frontier, there is nothing but
wheat.
Thousands of miles of golden
grain waves upon those vast prairies
(which were made inexhaustibly fer
tile by the processes of Nature, as
the countless herds of buffalo,
through countless centuries grazed
them, MANFRED them and left their
bones in the soil.
Does any host Of city wise acres
rush into the Western papers, an
nually, to abuse those farmers for
planting nothing but wheat?
Do the Senators from South Da-
kota initiate the Senators from
Georgia, and propose that the
Federal Government penalize the
wheat growers, by tax of 10 cents
a peck on. wheat?
The corn growers of Kansas and
Nebraska have a country peculiarly
fitted for corn. Why isn't it the W
In farming to suit your crop to the
The immense plains of the North
peculiarly fitted for wheat. Isn't it
plant accordingly!
The farmers of the West and of Il
and East are left to boss their own
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-08

Ii we are blessed Cor cursed) with
natural monopoly, consisting OF
cottonland, then maybe it was the
Almighty who established the Cot
ton Oligarchy.
If the Almighty did it, pile the
praise, or the abuse on Tim, not on
u.s.
Use your common sense, my coun-
trymen! If your soil suits cotton
better than it suits anything else,
isn't it Nature telling you what to
plant!
Why go against Nature in the
Southern States, only? Good farm
ing consists in gong with Nature.
How can too much od-stuf, and
too much cotton be produced? It Is
impossible.
We will never have enough corn
and wheat, until the last hungry
man, woman and child has been fed.
We Will never have too much cot
ton, until after the tattered cloth
ing disappears from the ill-clad
bodies Of the poor and every home,
be it ever so humble, is furnished as
it should be with cotton goods.
The farmers of the South should
not ALLOW themselves to be put in
the position Of confessing they have
done wrong in making so much Of
what the whole world needs.
They should not be overly pleased
by the buy-a-balc movement, which
puts them in the same attitude Of
quasi-beggary that is illustrated in
the human derelict who stands at
the street-corncr and whines, "By
pc"(jl, pzcasc."
We have not made too much cot
ton. We cannot make too much.
We c2an0t change the Za3r Of Nature
orIio1 fits orr soil for that particu-
Tar Crop.
The internal Tariff system has
narrowed our markets, so that we
cannot enjoy the advantages of
world markets.
The damnable National Bank Sys-
tenn. with its unconstitutional Gold
Standard Ca Rothschild scheme to
rob indebted nations and peoplesl is
another cause of our trouble.
We hare not the money to do
6HsincsS on.
Why haven't we got it?
o. Because the Government re-
issue Greenbacks as authorized by
Of 1863 and 4:
Because the Government destroyed
'rency by placing tax Of 10 cents
ollar, on State bank notes;
Because the Government taxes the
% outrageously, and then gives the
CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN.
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Price, Fjve Gents

to the hilarious satisfaction Of some of our
most principallist Sages, Editors, Preachers,
&c
Nevertheless, it hasn't been so very long
since we heard great deal about the South's
natural monopoly" that the Almighty gave
us.
,,,o ono I1oa1o1 49,, $1,000, ~
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fitted for corn. Why isn't it the wise thing
In farming to suit your crop to the soil?
The immense plains of the Northwest are
peculiarly fitted for wheat. Isn't it wise to
plant accordingly?
The farmers of the West and of the North
and East are left to boss their own business.
They are presumed to know whether it is
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-08

IN 1896, while still hoping that Bryan
= and the Democratic leaders would keep
faith with the Populists-as per the compact
at st. Louis-I travelled over the States of
Kansas and Nebraska, riding much of the
time in private conveyances.
For hundreds of miles, there was nothing
Arizona republican., 1914-09-13
Copper Queen

Extract from a paper in the Bulle- tin of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. by Joseph P. Hod- son, on Mining Methods of the Cop per Queen Mines:
 An interesting feature of the mine is that at present. operations are being conducted through large areas of old stopes and ore which was regarded as waste in former years can now be mined at a profit. A large amount of this work is being done in the Czar and Holbrook di- visions.
 Tt may also be stated that the mine, during 1913, has produced S67,- 4S1 tons of ore, yielding 97,181, ,725 lbs. of copper, 15,573 tons of lead ore have produced 5,70l,62S lbs. of lead.
 About 104,O00 feet of development work was done on contract. The amount of timber used for the year was 18.645,713 feet
 The mine has produced a total of l, JIG, ,718,905 lbs. of copper to Janu- ary 1914 The Copper Queen, which is often referred to as a mine, consti- tutes a group of mines that are oper- ated by the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining company.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-13
Law Decision-Removed Ore as Part of Realty

Where an owner of a mine removes ore and places it on dump on the premises, preparatory to the removal of a better grade of ore and the mining property is subsequently sold does the ore so removed belong to him or the purchaser of the mine? This question was lately passed upon by the Arizona Supreme court in the case of Steinfeld vs. Omega Cop per Co, 041 Pacific Reporter 849) and the decision is: The vital fact to be determined is whether the ore remained so annexed thereto as to become part and parcel thereof If so, it passed with the conveyance of the mines The intention with which the owner of the property extracted the ore from the ground and the purpose and intention of the owner with which it was placed on the dump is controlling in arriving at solution of the question of whether. the ore after having been extracted and placed on the dump was personality or realty
 The court finds that the grantor cannot retain title to the ore by mere mental reservation, and that of intention presently to sever it from the realty does not change it's character into personality.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-13
Copper

For the month of August the out put of ore by the Copper Queen was seventy five per cent of the output of the month of July, Calumet & Arizona stood next. They put out during August sixty per cent of the July total of 60,O0O tons, Shattuck mined 60 per cent of the July output of 6542 tons during August, while the pounds of copper output of the Shattuck were a little over one half the July weight.
 At Ray the curtailment conditions has reduced the output just to one fourth. or to be specific, 2000 tons of ore daily instead of 5000 as pre- Viously
 At Miami. Clifton, Morenci and Jerome, the output for August ap- pears to hover around the 50 per cent mark and probably this output will be upheld.
 The consumption of copper in America appears to be slightly above normal with possibilities of foreign shipments soon. The greatest men, ace to the normal consumption in the United States seems to be in the general disturbed business conditions. However, these may right themselves sooner than anticipated.
 Copper Demand is Reported Better
 Because of the many rumors and continued speculation in Douglas
Arizona republican., 1914-09-13
THE MINES OF ARIZONA

about the probability of the Copper Queen smelter in this city being closed completely, J. s. Douglas last weeek wrote to his father, Dr. Doug las, of the Phelps-Dodge company, concerning the copper situation and about the possibilities of a complete shut down by the Queen in this city.
 A reply was received this morning from Dr. Douglas, which is regarded as very encouraging. In the first place the doctor states that the ques ton of shutting down the Copper Queen shelter here has never been considered by the company and he further says that the demand for copper has recently been increasing and that the Copper Queen and other companies are now selling at almost the rate of production.-Douglas In ternational
Arizona republican., 1914-09-13

closed down for want of fuel. Then came Diamond Joe who bought the Congress and said he would build a railroad to wood, which he pro- ceeded to do
 T doubt if there would have been a Phoenix today, or any other town in the Salt River valley if the Vul- ture mine had not been fo,.&d. Neither would the Santa Fe, Pres colt and Phoenix railroad have been built if the congress had not been high grade of gold ore before Frank Murphy took Diamond Joe to eX anime it. Nor would the A. & C. railway have been built had there been no mines and mining country between Wickenbury and the Cobra do river.'
 The great smelters at Jerome, and Clarkdale, the railroads leading to them and opening up the farms in the neighboring valleys, and the ar. home market for the products of the farms, tell much of the story of the development of agriculture in Yavapai county during the past few years and account for the fact that the assessable value of the county has increased from $9,00O,00 to $39,- 000,000 in five years.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-13
Property Bonded

Reports from Courtland state that papers had been signed up by which U. L. Martin, of Muskogee. Okla, and IS. L. Jackson, of Dallas, Texas, took over control of the Cummings Wal colt properties lying west of Court land.
 AS soon as the hoisting machinery can be procured and installed a shaft will be sunk and development work started. The property has produced some remarkable samples of gold ore, but so far the finds have been in such limited quantities as to be of little consequence.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-13
New Uses for Quicksilver

The quicksilver production of the world during 1913 is estimated at All metric tons. against 4,262 tons in 1912 and 4,Os3 tons in 1911. The countries of production last year were: United States, 6SS tons; Aus tria- Hungary, S55 tons; Italy, 9SS tons; Spain, 1,490 tons; Mexico and others, 150 tons. These figures were
 gathered by the United States Geo. logical Survey
 Quicksilver is used mainly in the manufacture of illuminate for explo- sive caps, of drugs, of electric ap- pliances and scientific apparatus, and in the recovery of previous metals,
 especially gold, by amalgamation. A new use in Scotland is the floating of lights of lighthouses upon a body of quicksilver.
 A use in England, in the United States, and possibly elsewhere is the
 coating of ships bottoms with a paint containing quicksilver to pre- | vent organic growth. Mercuric oxide | Cred oxide of mercury) is the active poison in anti-fouling paint success | fully used on ships bottoms. The
 metal appears to be but little em- ployed in silvering mirrors, as nitrate of silver is now chiefly used for the purpose.
 Increasing use of quicksilver is
 probably to be expected in the manu-
 fracture of electrical appliances 'and
 of. Eliminates, and possibly of paints
 for protective coatings on metals
 The demand for quicksilver fol amalgamating gold and silver has greatly decreased, as is well known
 with the decreased application of cy-
 andation to gold and silver ores Industrial chemistry and inventive genius are to be looked to for in- creasing the demand.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-13

Well says he I will seek further proof of the conditions and went
 straight to the mlnlng inspector Jack Bolin who happened to be in town and asked him but Jack denied having any knowledge of topogra
 phies or configurations and all he knew was practical under ground
Arizona republican., 1914-09-13
Very Big If True

NOGALES, Ariz, Sept. 9.-George D. Gross, a veteran propector, has discovered what has all the looks of a big copper property in the Pata- gonia mountains, about fifteen miles northwest of Nogales. It is quartz porphyry deposit 700 feet in width and has been traced about two miles. It contains disseminated chalcOpyrite in small quantities.
 Assays from the grass roots yielded four -hundredths of one per cent copper, but the value of the copper has been improved with the few feet of sinking that has been done.
 It is anticipated that development will disclose a great body of low grade copper profitable for mining purposes The ground lies so that development may be prosecuted by means of tunnels which will outline the ore body at depths of several hundred feet Gross is now engaged in doing the discovery work on the claims he has located.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-13
Federal Aid for Copper

WASHINGTON. Sept s.-Federal aid for the copper producing indus try during the European war was proposed in a bill introduced today by Senator Ashurst of Arizona. It would authorize the secretary of the treasury to buy 5,000,000 pounds of copper at the average price prevail ing in the copper market from Janu- ary to June last
Arizona republican., 1914-09-13
Plan Now For Mine Congress


 Entertainment Committee - Chair man Will L. Clark, L. s. Gates. John |C. Greenway, Walter Douglas, C. E. Mills, B. Britton Gottsberger, Norman Carmichael. George A. Olney, Ezra w. Thayer
 Reception Committee-Hon. Jos. H. Kibbey, chairman; Hon. R. F. Sloan, L. H. Chalmers, II. J. McClung, s. Oberfelder, Lloyd B. Christy. J. O.. mayor of Phoenix honorary members.
 Executive Committee-Arthur Luhrs, chairman; E. P. Conway. w. B. Twitchell, A. L. Moore, H. P. De Mund. J. M. Ormsby, J. D. Loper.
 Program Committee-W. E. Deity. chairman; Parker Woodman, G. H. Bolin, c. H. Akers, Dwight B. Heard
 Some of the above committees are already bestirring themselves and outlining their work and are fully determined on leaving no stone un- turned for making the visit of the congress a tremendous success. It was a wise decision of MT. Welch to appoint the committees so early it affords them plenty of time to fully outline and mature their plans The names of the committees is an absolute assurance that all their various arrangements will be carried out as complete and efficient as pos , sible
 The following appeared in an ex- change couple of weeks ago but our columns were too crowded for it's insertion However it is very much to the point any time. l Arizona Farms Were First Made Possible by Miners
 | It was the mines which gave agri- culture its first start in Arizona. I, is the mines which afford the great est market for the farm products of the state at the present time. Sta tistics show that the mines are in- creasing their output yearly and add ing thousands to their payrolls al the time. For this reason, it is probably true that for several gener- ations the mine workers will con 1 tinue to be the greatest consumers ol I the products of the farms of thi. | entire section. c. B. Genug recently . outlined the enormous service to thu state of the mining interests in al article in which he said:
 "The gold of Weaver, Rich Hil and the Vulture mines builded th' first ditch and provided means fol the first settlers to support them lselves until they could raise a crop That first crop consisted principal! lOf pumpkins. The Vulture and Wick enburg were their only market ex lcept what barley the government uset lat McDOwell for the first two O. three years. Then they began tt lsend a little flour to Prescott ant most of that was consumed by min CTS Then came the Tip-Top, Tiger Black Warrior and other mines o the Bradshaws to help the other lafter the closing down of the Vultur in 1871.
 Then the Congress was opened Ill land made a market for any kind o produce that was raised in the valley , This was held until the mine wa