The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-09-16
War Prices Bring Prosperity to Joplin
Zinc Miners That Recall the Days
of Old, the Days of Gold, the
Days of '49.

' "Soul nov toHS, Inat Venin
Mr.. Squires rode home in a new
shiny six-cylinder motor car. TIL,
sound of the brasses in a triumpha
march are as the toot of a child,
horn compared to the joyous shrek
ing of Mr.. Squires' auto horn tina,
night.
Is. b. Stout, a grocer who, very ap,
propriately, lives at Prosperity, is al
old mining man. On May / two youns
men, Hawk and Reeves, offered him 6
fourth interest in the old Cannon
Ball property for $3.50. They hat
been working 1t for seven months ant
needed money, Stout looked 1t ovel
and invested. One month later Thomas
Coyne, a we'll known operator, tool
the property off their hands at SIS.
90. Stout got $3.50 for the use of ill.,
ESQ for one month.
The Interstate Grocery has
recently erected In Joplin a seven
story building of reinforced concrete
The concrete was made from tailings
of the old Hero mine, which tailings
were thrown out when zinc was much
cheaper and methods much cruder
than now. The remainder of the tail
tngs are being worked over now and
they produce about 4 per cent of zinc.
There is no immediate prospect of the
building being torn down, but there is
enough zinc in it to make many r.
inch shells and so to kill enough men
to win a field marshalship.
The Carnegie library in Webb City
and two beautiful residences are built
of rough rock" the form in which
the ore appears before going through
the crushing mill. A prosperous OPP
orator said 1t was a fair assumption
that the metal in each of these struc-
lures had increased $1,000 within the
year.
Listening Enriches BARRIERS.
Those BARRIERS who absorb news
rather than dispense it are prospecting
by the boom. Nick Sayres, who runs
the first chair in the House of Lords
barber shop here and who listens
rather than talks, is working a small
lease with four friends. They took out
5000 In n week. Bert Wagner, an
other barber, also a police Judge, has
formed a company which is working
an old shaft profitably.
There is little crime in Webb City.
but sometimes Marshal McGaw found
it necessary to take care of some of
the boys for their own sake from Sat
urday night until Sunday morning. In
the old days the marshal found a
drawer of his desk sufficiently capa-
BILE to hold the valuable he took from
his wards.
But now-the mayor, DR.. ]. f..
Locke, urged that the city buy a safe
for the marshal, and it was so ordered.
The city does not want to run the
risk of losing the "sparklers," rings
watches, diamond stickpins which
adorn the marshal's prisoners, not to
speak of the money with which their
pockets bulge.
One hears with joy of an old man
who was blinded by a blast years ago.
Since then he has in a sense worked
ove the piles of refuse discarded
when machinery did not work the ore
as clearly as it does now. He discov-
ers the presence of lead or zinc by
weighing the gravel in his hand. In
one week since jack jumped over the
he earned $87.
One man sold an eighth interest in
the Lone Elm mine to an actress in a
stock company for $3.50 one Saturday
night. The next week he struck a
of ore which made the actress
dividend $3.50. The next week she
drew down $50 and the next 500.
J. w. Reinmiller works his mine
four miles from Joplin with the assist
ance of his three sons. Last summer
one of the boys wanted to go to Drury
and Reinmiller decided he
send him If he could sell out for
$4,000, but he could not find a buyer.
Then jack scared, and since then they
have cleared $40, 900 on their output.
The boy is going to college this fall.
thought s61 Was Limit.
One of the shrewdest operators in
the district, who insists that his name
be not used, thought the price had
touched the top when it went to $61,
He sold his weeks output at that
price and contracted to sell at the
same figure for the two following
The next week the quotation
was SIS and the second week $S5.
Friends declare he was quite i'll the
last few days that he was selling his
ore for SOL while his neighbors got $24
more a ton.
The Century mine has been worked
for 10 months by a Wisconsin com
pany under the direction of Sydney II.
a young man who graduated
six years ago from the University of
Wisconsin. He advised his company
that the Century mine was a good buy
at $4,000, but they refused to take 1t.
When the price Of Jack went higher
the company reconsidered and by that
the price of the Century al
10000 and the company bought, Da-
Wis putting up $1,000, which was all he