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This is true of Namur, to the
southwark. Namur played a con-
spicuous part in the early days of
the war, and by nc means escaped
without damage, yet little of it is in
evidence today, particularly among
the forts that we're held to be in
vincible, and that today probably
are so. Standing high above t
river Mouse, these forts present an
absolutely unbroken and unchanged
appearance. Where the great shells
burst in the masonry N can only
guess at, for the holes are gone.
Only the hotel at the very top OF
the hill on which the Notifications
are built is still in a state of ruin.
In this hotel, s. gees the story
that many maintain is a fairy tale,
which ran the wires from all of the
forts. The Germans, advancing, are
supposed to have learned of this vital
fact and to have trained their guns
effectively on this building first of
all, so that the connecting lines were
cut and no one fort had any means
of communication with any other.
The German officers in Namur to-
day smile as they tell the story and
shake their heads. They admit that
1t is quite possible that the Germans
should have learned the secret of
the position of central" and also
that the aim of the guns might have
H,,;IJ;,~ hut fhny oonnnf nIIifn hp-
lieve that the Belgians could have
made so grave a military mistake as
to expose their lines of communica-
ton, and prefer to think that the
hotel was burned in incendiary fash
ion and the loss blamed onto the
invaders.
In the country portions of Belgian
today there is scarcely a trace Of war
beyond an occasional ruined build
ing. AS in northern France, the
landscape is infinitely more attract
i've than of old because the extern
sive culture of sugar beets, with their
brown growth, has been discOntin-
ued, and wheat and corn, with green
shoots have been substituted.
The destruction in Belgian may
have been overestimated and exag-
gerated in the beginning. Whether
that or not, the combination of the
reconstruction efforts of the visitors
and invaders, and the forces of ma
lure in the springtime have made it
once more a pleasantly smiling
country that taxes the imagination
to draw a picture of war in prog
| reSs.
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bUSHEL
CROP OF WHEAT
WILL BE THE GREATEST EVER
GROWN IN WORLD'S HIS
TORY, Is CLAIM

WASHINGTON, Jun 8. - A bill
lion bushel wheat crop, the greatest
ever grown in the worlds history.
is indicated for the coming harvest
by the federal crop reporting board
On the growing winter and spring
wheat crops.
Should this enormous quantity be
harvested the United States will have
upwards of 1856, 100000 bushels of
wheat during the coming a t o
supply the demands of the warning
European nations, which are ex-
pected to increase rather than di-
minish. The domestic consumption
will probably reach $4,000, 600
bushels for food purposes, and So
00O,0 bushels for, seeding.
Basing it's forecast on the condi-
ton of growing crops on June l, the
crop reporting board estimated that
the final production of winter and
spring wheat combined would be
$50, 900 bushels. The actual
production, however, will be greater
or less than the figures stated in pro-
portion as the conditions from June
/ to harvest time are better or worse
than usual. A billion-bushel harvest
with good growing conditions is not
improbable in view of the fact that
in the record crop of year of 1912
the prospects increased $1,000, 600
bushels from June to harvest.
Influenced by the prospective
heavy European demands for grain.
the American farmers last fall SOW
ed the largest area ever planted in
this country of winter wheat-40,-
1890 acres-and this spring 49,.
248,000 acres were sown in sprinc
wheat, exceeding last years area by
almost 100000 acres.
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LIQUOR DEALERS
NOW IN SESSION
CONGRESSMAN MEEK Err OF MIS-.
souri, Is CAUSTlC IN HIS
SPEECH

CINCINNATI, June 8. - The OPP
ponents of prohibition held full
sway at the opening sessions of the
annual convention of the national
wholesale liquor dealers yesterday.
LET those men who call them
selves republicans and democrats
and at. the same time + endeavor-
ing to foist prohibition upon the
great parties" said Congressman
Jacob Meeker of Missouri, SAY whey
they have not been with the ma
quarter of a century. Let them now
into the prohibition party with all
the political ~malcontents who are
trying to ride into public favor on
this single issue"
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CONSTRUCTION WORK IS
GOING AHEAD IN PARIS

PARIS, May 25.-Paris is not like
ly, even in war time, to lose its
reputation of being the most cor
tinually uptorn town in Europe. The
construction of it's network of. sub
ways and the incidental r%earrange-
ment of sewer and other under
ground work is still going on, stimuli
taneously with repaving and house
building. 1t has taken three years
to tea down the old theatre des
Nouveautes and reconstruct on its
site two new buildings and the new
street, the u DIES Italians. Mean
time the boulevard des Italians has
been more or less INSTRUCTED at that
point and the outlook spoiled by an
immense palisade used as a bill
board. 1t is now announced that
the buildings are finished, the bill
boards are coming down and an i'm
mense moving picture show is to open
on the spot where the Nouveautes
stood.
All the projected subway lines
Will De HnlSIeu SOOH, tHToWluS tHOt-
sands of laborers out of employment
and other building enterprises will
suger until finances are rearranged.
But there will be no lack of work
after the war in the opinion of city
officials. The formidable task Of
leveling the old Notifications has
been held in suspense, partly to abb
sorb the labor that would be released
from the subway work. This pro-
ect, alone, will be sufficient to give
work to all the terrasssiers, men who
work with pick and shovel, for years
to come.
With the disappearance of the
Notifications and the opening of new
b%oulevards skirting the parks to oe
laid out on the site OF the military
zone, a great building boom is anti
cipated that will keep all the build
ing trades busy for years.
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Rebuilding Cathedral at Louvain;
Present Conditions in Belgium

LOUVAIN, Belgium, May &c. -
Surrounded by green fields that por-
tend an unusual harvest and trans
form all Belgium from the scene
of desolation that has been often
pictured since the beginning of the
war, Louvain still stands as a monu-
mental wreck. Little of it's former
life has crept back into it's streets,
and the walls of practically all its
buildings are still crumbling ruins
that have not been removed and ap-
parently will not be. Here and
there a wooden shack has been
erected by some enterprising vendor
of tobacco or post cards, but as a
city it is still uninhabitable.
Yet Louvain is not entirely dead,
and in one most important particu~
lar work of renovation is going on
apace-the renovation and restitu-
ton of it's wonderful cathedral,
which escaped complete destruction
only by a seeming miracle. The
church now is in the hands of a
score of workmen who are painstak-
ingly restoring those portions of the
walls which are shaky or damaged,
the little panes of glass-not STAIN
ed glass-which were blown out by
by the explosions, and the altar
which was burned by a shell that
caught fire after it tore through the
roof above.
Competent architects who have
visited the cathedral say hat it has
been in no way weakened by the
terrible swelling that destroyed the
rest of Louvain, and claim that with
very little money it can be put back
into the shape in which it was before
the war. The beautiful stained glass
in the windows to the rea of the
altar picture was removed before the
shell came which tore open the
roof, and the majority of the works
of art and other v%aluables in the
building are now safely stored in
the basement of the Hotel de Vile
other structure in Louvain that was
not raZed.
1t is conceivable that only Lou
vain's total demolition hat has pre-
vented efforts to rebuild it, for that
has been accomplished in many
other of the Belgian cities that were
wrecked by the Germans as they ad-
vanced toward France. 1t has been
accomplished so completely in some
cases that the ignorant visitor would
never have known there had been
n war in the little country.
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NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT
WEST TONOPAH CONSOLIDATED
MINING COMPANY

Location of principal place of
Location of works: Esmeralda
county. Nevada.
Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting of the board of directors OF
West TonOpah Consolidated Mining
company held on the oath day OF
May, 1915 an assessment (No. 81 of
one cent per share was levied upon
the capital stock of said corporation,
payable Immediately to the secre-
tary of said corporation at the office
of the corporation. room No. 11l3
Claus S%preckels building, 7O3 Market
street. San Francisco, California.
An" stock upon which said assess
ment shall remain unpaid on Satur-
day. the 10th day of July, 1915 will
be delinquent and advertised for
sale at public auction and, unless
payment is made before. vii, be
sold on Tuesday the 10th day of
August, 1915 to pay the delinquent
assessment together with the costs
of advertising and expenses of sale.
BY order of the board of directors.
JOHN A. PERCY,
Secretary of West Tonopah Consol-
idated Mining company. Office
Dom No. 1113 Claus Spreckels
Building, 7O3 Market street, San
Francisco, California.
First pub May 20, 1915.
Last pub June 26, 1915.
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flUORSPAR OUTPUT
SHOWS FALLING OFF

The quantity of domestic fluorspar
gical survey as marketed in 1914,
vas 95,116 short tons, valued at
s570,041, compared with 115,5S0
tons, valued at $736,2S6, marketed
in 1913, a decrease in quantity OF
20,464 short tons and in value of
s166.245, according to statistics
compiled by r. F. Burchard. Not
withstanding this decrease, the pro-
duction of 1914 has been exceeded
only by that of 1912 and 1918. The
average price per ton at mine OF mill
for the whole country, considering
all grades of fluorspar, gravel, lump
and ground, was approximately
$500 in 1914, compared with $6.37
in 1913.
The market for the bulk of the
flu%orspar sold in the United States
depends on the steel industry. and
when that industry becomes depress-
ed the demand for fluorspar quick
ly dimnishes. Gravel spar is on
sumed as a flux in basic open-hearth
steel furnaces and to a smaller ex-
tent in other metallurgic operations.
In 1914 the marketed production of
gravel spar constituted about 1913
per cent of the total marketed output
of domestic f~luorspar.
The market for lump fluorspar for
the manufacture of hydrofluoric
acid is reported to be improving.
This report appears to be confirmed
by the increase of nearly 55.S per
cent in quantity and 91.3 per cent
in value of sales in 1914, in connec-
ton with which the price per ton in
creased about 22.S per cent.
In Illinois the output in 1914 came
from three mines, all in Hardin
county. Spar was shipped from 10
mines in Kentucky, nine in Chitten-
den county. n mine in New Hamp-
shire, and 5 mines in Colorado. The
mines in Arizona and New Mexico
that were active in 1913 reported
that there was not sufficient demand
for their product to warrant any
shipment during 1914.
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WILLOW TWIGS USED
TO IMPROVE TRENCHES

TARNOW. Austrian Galicia. May
25.-Basket work with willow twigs
has been dignified with a place in
the science of fortification and the
are of home making in the trenches.
The Austrian and German troops,
who for IL weeks, lay in trenches
along the west bank of the Dunajec
river, facing the Russians on the
other side. were largely landsturm
men from the Tyrol, Bohemia and
Westphalia and no where In Europe
has newspaper correspondents seen
anything to equal or even approach
in comfort and decorative effect the
winter homes which these soldiers
built along the bank of the river.
The position which they took did
not at first view seem very favora-
bic for a comfortable trench life, it
being along a dyke of clay in a low
lying river valley but the willows
which grew in profusion nearby af-
forded material to more than make
good all deficiencies. Trenches and
the dugout shelters of the men were
first of all lined with basket work to
prevent caving in and contact with
the sticky clay. Then the men
seemed to have We'd with each 9TH
err in making new comforts from the
slender Sisers. Nearly every shelter
hut had chairs and tables of basket
work. any of them had chimneys
of willow encased in clay. Summer
houses of various shapes and designs
were built back of the lines later,
the most common type being made Of
four long boughs bent together in
a sort of tepee, with a roof of bas-
ket work woven in. On the top of
the dyke were the loopholes from
which the defenders fired at the Rus
slams on the other bank. Each man
had excavated for himself a niche,
man high. rooted and lined with
Osiers, from which he could attend
full comfort and security.
Sod was cut and brought from a
distance and ,he outside of the hous-
es and the slope of the dyke wei e
carefully sodded with the loving care
of a good lawn artist. With the com,
ing of spring gardens had every
where bees laid out, each shelter hut
having at least one. with a decorative
border of stone or sod before the
door.
When the correspondent visited
the scene the basket ware homes were
empty. Polish peasanas were turning
Over the straw in beds, searching for
money or trinkets. which might have
been lost or were carrying away the
doors. windows and furniture, while
the soldiers who had built them were
miles to the eastward in close pursuit
of the retreating Russians.
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RISE
IN WAR STOCKS
BETHLEHEM STEEL IL IMPORT
ANT FEATURE OF DAYS
SESSION

NEW ROIK, June 9.-Interest in
the market would have fallen to low
ebb but for a further advance in war
stocks. Seasoned railway stocks. in
Guiding those or an assured dividend
basis, we're in light demand and in
variably responded adversely to ligh.
pressure. Especially was this true Of
Canadian Pacific and Reading. the
former again being subject to for
eign influence. The Hartman group
and some trunk line issues also Tell
back. Southern Pacific declining alb
ruptly upon news that the company
had lest a legal point in the oil
lands suit of the government in Cal
ifornia. Bethlehem steel was the
prominent feature of the session ris-
ing 10 points to 1855, which ex~
ceeds the previous high record by 6
points.
Coppers extended their recent ad-
vance quite generally, some as much
as ) points. Strength in this group
conceded with trade reports which
bore upon the enormous domestic
and foreign demand for the product.
The best grades of copper were quo
ted at a shade under 20 cents a
pound, the highest figure in seven
years. Obscure industrials and util-
tiles. notably United States alcohol,
distillers securities. Mexican petrol
cum and Pacific telephone rose from
. to 4 points. Total bond sales. par
value, aggregated $1,742,0 600. Quo
t%atiOpS.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-06-12
KETCH|KAN COPPER
DEPOSITS OF ALASKA

The copper deposits of the Ketchi-
kan district, southeastern Alaska,
were known to the Russians before
the acquisition of the territory by the
United States, and there was a crude
attempt to develop them as early as
1880. 1t was not until 1901, how
ever, hat systematic mining was be-
gun, and not until 1906 that a large
annual output was made. Up 20 the
close of 1913 the copper mines OF
the Ketchikan district had produced
about 22,64O, 900 pounds OF copper,
valued at $4,000 100, and $500 600
worth of gold and silver.
Most OF the mines of the district
lie at or neal tidewater. There is
an abundance of timber, land the re-
lief favors the undertaking of tne
ore bodies. While there are as yet
only a few producing mines. Their,
are many ~undeveloped copper pros
poets which give promise of 20
tanning commercial ore bodies.
Many of the copper deposits show an
irregularity of occurrence that IS I'M
favorable to cheap exploitation, but
otherwise the conditions arc favor
able to low mining costs.
A report on the mineral deposits
of the Ketchikan district was pub
lished by the geological survey in
1902, and a more complete account
was issued in 1908. Meanwhile, in
view of the important mining de-
velopment, a more detailed study was
entered upon by c. w. Wright Of the
survey The results of this work,
which covered the most productive
part of the field, have just been made
public by the United States geologi-
cal survey in a report by Mr.. Wright
entitled Geology and Ore Deposits of
Copper Mountain and Kasaan PENN
sula, Alaska" professional paper
50. This report is accompanied by
detailed geologic and topographic
maps and includes descriptions OF
the copper deposits and their geo.
logic occurrence. 1t deals primarily
with the copper ores, which are at
present the most important mineral
deposits of the two areas examined.
However, there is also much iron ore
which is ~undeveloped except Incl
dentally t. copper mining.
This publication is the second of a
series of detailed reports to be is
sued dealing with the most import
ant copper camps of Alaska. The
first, entitled Geology and Mineral
Resources of the Nizina District,
Alaska" published as Bulletin 44S,
includes the east end of the Chitina
copper belt. Another, entitled THE
Ellaar District" of Prince William
Sound. is in press as Bulletin COS. A
fourth, entitled 1.-The Kotsina-Kus-
kulana District" is in preparation.
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SUIT FOR DAMAGES IS
THROWN OUT OF COURT
TNINVITED VISITORS CANNOT
RECOVER FOR INJURIES
SUSTAINED

LOS ANGELES, Calf, June s.
On the ground that a property own
err is not liable for injuries to un-
invited visitors the superior court
yesterday refused to hold r. d. Sc
pulveda responsible for lack of safe
guards along the cliff at Point Fir
min where five persons in an auto
mobile plunged to death last sum-
lner.
Damages for $685. 900 we're sought
by p. T. Townsend, n of the sur
vivors, whose mother and sister were
killed. Townsend announced that he
would appeal to the state supreme
court.
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Appointed Manager

M. P. Macmillan, a native of Wiz
nemucca, but who for several years
has been employed by the Pacific
Telephone company at San Jose,
Calf, in the capacity of manager,
vas recently appointed manager for
the Bell Telephone company of Ne
vada with headquarters at Reno. He
will succeed r. N. Lake, who resign
ed to accept a more lucrative posi-
ton in Oakland.
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NOTICE
julius Bernhardt:

70 julius Bernhard:
>or are hereby notified that I
have expended during the yeas
1912, 1913, and 1914, six hundred
dollars in labor and improvements
upon the Lonesome Valley and Lily
May lode mining claims, situate in
the Hornsilver mining district,
county of Esmeralda, state OF :Seva-
da, the location certificates of which
are found of record in book r, page
80, end book o, page 445. respect
lively. in the office of the recorder
Of said county, in order to hold said
CLAIMS under the provisions of sec-
ton 1924 of the revised statutes of
the United States, and the amend.
ment thereto approved January %.
1880, concerning annual labor up
on mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said lodes for the
Period ending on the 31st day of
December. 1912. the 31st day of De-
cember. 1913, and the 31st day Of
december, 1914. ANT if, within
ninety days from the personal SER
vice of this notice. or within ninety
days after the publication thereof,
You ;ail or refuse to contribute your
proportion of such expenditure as a
co-owner, which amounts to three
bundled dollars. your interest in the
claims will become the property of
the subscriber, your co-owner. who
has made the required expenditures
r.,
EMMA l.. MADISON.
First pub May g.. 1915.
Last pub July 81, 1915. -
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Elect New Officers

At the annual meeting recently at
the Riverside hotel in Reno of the
members of the Nevada branch of the
travellers protective association, the
annual election of officers was held.
G.. J. Tuska was elected president;
J. II. Murphy. vice president; G. c.
Taylor, second vice president and c.
J. POhe, secretary and treasurer.
The directors elected are H. L. Fla
ven, w. e. Brown, j. ]. McEachin,
A. G.. Graham, G P. Litch and J.. A.
Murphy. A Dutch lunch was servei
during the evening.
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Personal Mention

w. A. BRADLEY, general mana
ger of the Pittsburgh Silver Peak
Mining COMPANY, accompanied by
Allan Rives, motOred over from
Blair Saturday afternoon, returning
that evening. They were accompa-
MED by Henry Rives. Yesterday AL
Ian Rives, DR.. Roller and Henry
Rives returned to Goldfield.
F.. M. MANSON of Reno, general
manager of the Western Ore Pur-
chasing company, vas among the
arrivals in camp this morning. He
is a guest of the GOldfeld.
A. F. BROWN and Rod T. Arm
strong departed yesterday morning
to attend the convention of MasOns
at Reno which is in session there
this week. They were accompanied
by Jos. Hamilton and Geo. e. Bates.
l.. X. KOONTZ left on a business
trip to San Francisco this morning.
w. H.. JONES of Pasadena reg
istered at the Goldfield yesterday
evening.
W.. "a VlILOo1N VI itCHO IL d e uCOI
of the Goldfield, registering yes
terday.
o. B.. PECK of Chicago arrived
in camp yesterday and registered at
the Goldfield.
ID. ABRAHAMS of New York ar
rived in camp this morning and reg
istered at the Goldield.
ERNEST FRISBEE of Reno
came in yesterday morning and reg
istered at the ST. Nicholas.
j. d. O'Brien of Pioneer came
up from that camp yesterday and
registered at the Goldfield.
PAUL ARENTZ of San Francis
co is a guest of the st. Nicholas. He
will reside in camp permanently.
G. F. WALKER of Rawhide vas
among the visitors arriving in camp
yesterday. He is registered at the
ST. Nicholas.
FRANK CHURCH, the well known
local attorney, departed this morn
ing over the T. & G. railroad for
Lake county, California. Mr.. Church
has been suffering from rheumatism
for several months and. growing
worse. decided to visit the great min
eral springs in Lake county. He will
be absent for at least two months.
A. H. PETIT, general agent of
the Tonopah & Goldfield railroad,
returned this morning from Minnea-
polls to which city he accompanied
his wife and daughter. Dorothy. Mrs.
PETIT and daughter will spend the
in the east.
w. G. WILSON. travelling freight
and passenger agent of the Southern
Pacific railroad with headquarters at
Reno, arrived in camp this morning
on a brief visit.
F. M. MANSON, general manager
of the Western Ore Purchasing COM
pany. returned to his headquarters at
Reno this morning after a brief Wis
it to camp.
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HAT FOR EVERY GOWN

Nowadays it is the rule OF
the we'll dressed woman to
buy less expensive hats and
more of them.
Instead of one or two elab-
crate creations she prefers a
collection of more reason
ably priced chapeaux so that
she may have a hat for every
gown.
And milady's modiste has
risen to the occasion, shaping
a wide variety of attractive
headgear to sell at modest
prices.
Just now the quotations
for millinery are unusually
attractive, as anyone can tell
who watches the advertis-
ing columns of the Tribune.