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The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1915-08-06

THE President is said to be studying" the
L Mexican situation. Is his eyesight or
Judgment defective?
EVERY test the UNDERWOOD tariff has been put
II to, so far as the welfare of this country is
concerned, has resulted in failure.
TT is bitter pill for Democracy to contem-
plate the absence, next year, OF the ntlu-
ence that made possible its victory in 1912.
THERE seems to be no truth in the report that
Mr.. BRYAN originated the phrase Did
Not Raise My Voice to Protect Americans
IF YOU should hit some of the rotten political
timber in Polk County between the eyes
with the butt of ak, some good might accrue.
GEORGE FITCH says the world is full of men
" who collect things. Yes; Nashville has
few who evinced desire to collect everything IN
sight
THERE is a grave suspicion that Mr.. BRYAN
forgot to prime the gun that was expected
to cause such great commotion In the political
world.
TT MIGHT not be bad idea if James County
L were annexed to Bradley and enough OF
that county given to Polk to form two counties
out of it.
VOU must register in order to vote tor he
L publican president who will eliminate the
causes that led to suffering, souphouses and
stagnation of business.
THERE are said to be 5000 names on petit
L ton in Davidson County asking HAM PAT
TERsoN to enter the Senatorial race. Has the
late Mr.. CARMACK no friends !?
BUSINESS seems to be picking up in Chatta-
- nooga, but the efforts to see that man is
sent to Congress who stands for good business
all the time have not been relaxed.
COCITATINC in a cool, calm and careful
- manner, from this distance it looks like
that HARRY S. Stokes person has the maklngs
of a good Republican concealed about him.
DURING 1913, 85,39l pounds of butter were
- imported under duty of cents. In the
last nine months, under a 2 IL cents, $780,
l47 pounds came into this country and the price
has so decreased that the poor man has forgot
ten how it tastes
CAID CHAMP CLARK: Judge tree by its fruit
y is a rule laid down by the highest authority
We are willing to be judged by it, So far the
Democrtic tree has brought forth high cost OF
living, treasury deficit, unemployment, direct
taxation, mere psychology, watchful waiting ex-
trayagance. Want any more?
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Oatman and involuntarily offer up l silent prayer that the trip Is over and that you dc not have to take it every day.
 Oatman derives its name from Ol- i've Oatman. who in the early ffties had been sold to the Nichave Indians by Apaches who had captured her on the Gila river after the balance of her family had been killed and with these Indians. she spent d very unhappy fifteen years. odtman k the typical one narrow street mining town. with side bride paths. as crooked as the pToverbial hind leg or the canine, leading up to the gray are arranged hit and miss. for the habitation of the citizens and their now too-mauy guests.
 The main business section of the town has not greater length than half of an ordinary city block and iu this limited space. the mass of peo- Ple congregate. filling tine street and sidewalks at all times. and with the automobiles and trucks ard wagons passing through this jam. It is al- most impossible. at times. to pass through it. The accompanying pie turc apuy illustrates the situation and l had il taken at D. m. and not tt when line crowd is largest
 As you walk through thTs coubi- nation bourse. information bureau and town meeting assembly you hear 1 snatches of conversation in which
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ing the thoroughfares of the tO-be business section and the erection of new business and office buildings that will form the nucleus of the Greater Oatman will soon be started. and they look forward to the time when the Masonic Temple Elk Home. electric signs. hotels with uni formed bell hops. churches with stained glass windows and traffic djuncts of the modern tab Ibid city-wiH be in their midst. And they even talk Of moving the cote house" from Kingman when that day arrives when Oatman puts on these glad rags. And why not Kingmau today is but side-show of oatman and if you mention to tFe casual acquaintance you meet ou the train that your ticket reads Kin. man. he immediately says. ~Goin' to Oatman. | -uppose9~ And King man has all the confidence in the world in the Oatmau district and al- most every person in Kingmau i= carrying all the Oatman stocks they can afford
 Now. l am neither an Enthusiast or Conservative. just a common. cv- cry day observer. and observed con this trip that the travelling men. tla miners. the workmen. the capitalist and the wage earncrs familiar with The district arc buying stocks m and having greater faith in the future development of the to-be mines that have been formed here during the
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tel.seucc you will begin to sit up aud take notice
 Today all roads in the west figura- T, ely lead to Oatman.
 That calls up the questions
 What is Oatman?
 Where is Oatman?
 and the Oatman Enthusiast will auswcre that Oatman is the greatest mining camp that has been discov- cred ln years.
 He will tell you that one year hence Oatman will have a population of 25.00o
 He will prove this asserted pre- diction by telling you that six months ago there were only 500 peo- rIa here and that today there are 3o00.
 lie will tell you (and you win have to admit that he is righO that f you intend becoming a stranger within Oaman's gates that you had better telegraph ahead for sleeping accommodations or be compelled to sleep in the open or stand uP all night and that if people keep a. comin the & R. c. sign will soon be in evidence
 And the cause of all this is the recent discovery of MORE gold in th Oatman district
 "But Oatman has been producing gold for years.'' you remark to the Enthusiast.
 True true" he quietly replies, but adds; In the light of recent
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as the Tom Reed-Gold Roads Asso- .Iaton they resolved that the in- NoStors of America shall be protected against the "wildcatter" and that rocked operators will not be toler- .-cd
 one of the greatest hustlers of the camp is the Hon. W. P. BHD Mahoney. Billy is here. there and everywhere and is certainly the rep resentative citizen of his bailiwicN. for in addition to being the represen- tative to the legislature from Mo have county. he is president of the Miners Union. So great has been the activity in the district that the Hon. Billy discarded overalIs ana toga and with the knowledge ac- quired working in the district as practical miner for years was i'm strumental in the formation of sev- eral first class companies-Oatm Secret and Oatman Combination. and declares that both will be winners. Mahoney is a type of the sturdy Irishman of the second generation who today comprise not a small share of Arizona's representative men and as he twirls the Elks tooth on the end of his watch chain and fingers the K. C. charm on the lapel of his vest. you cannot help catch ing some of the Oatman enthusiasm that fairly eXudes from him.
 Today. the little mining town is overcrowded with mine owners. op- orators. miners. investors and sight seers and the roads leading from ] Needles and Kingman are literally 1 "streaks of dust"
 oatman is twenty-seven miles from IIingman. which is the county seat of Mohave county and on the main ! line of the santa Fe railroad. The only way you can get there is ny bus or walk. When you alight from the train you are met with a dozen in vitations to take an auto-bus to Oat- man at S4 per invitation. The driv- CTS approach you with the suavity Of $500 year travelling salesman and solicit your patronage. They have not that eX-hack driver look of the ordinary tall-grass chauffeur who operates machine for hire. but have the appearance and talk like sue cessful business men. They can we'll afford to carry this bonhomic and look-you -straight-in- the-eye air. Tor the majority or them are earning $40 or more per day. They inform you that the trip can be made in about three hours and the fare one way will be S400. so you climb aboard a Ford or StUdebaker or the 90 horsepower machine that Hirsch- field drives and away you go over the Oldtrails road, stopping or slow ing down every few minutes to per
 
 team freight wagons. coming from the opposite direction. to pass After a seeming endless time you arrive at
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as soon as 1 can obtain proper and adequate quarters, replied this bright-eyed and middle aged judge of men and mining opportunities.
 Another Californian who sue cumbed to the wiles of the Oatmau field is Thomas S. Robinson, presi- dent of the san Francisco Stock EN- change, ana who came to Oatman with party of mining men. brokers and capitalists. He invested in sev- eral of the many mining companies and was so impressed with the op- portunities that he was loath to re- turn home. AIr. Robinson. in @ printed interview. is quoted as say ing;
 "Oatman is destined, without ques- tiOn to becomes as famous as Cripple Creek Tonopah or GoldfieId and will be probably producing a great ton age of ore after these mining camps have been forgotten. This is the most opportune time in perhaps twenty-five years to introduce shares of a new gold camp to the investors of the country"
 However, Frank c. Jewett, vice president of the same stock exchange made the same kind of a trip of inspection several months ago and after looking over the grounds be- came so entlused that he hurried back to san Francisco. fixed up pressing business and returned to Oatman to permanently remain. Mir. Jewett was a pioneer of Goldfield, Manhattan and other Nevada mining camps
 Of corrse, no mining camp would be complete without the presence of "DIamondfield Jack" Davis. who is known in every mining camp in America. Last week he arrived in Oatman and immediately proceeded to get quick action for loss of time. shortly after his arrival he purchased the FIorida property for himself and
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ing a list of all the men, now living
 who struck it rich in gold camps in
 times past. Here are few Of
 them
 J. Parks Charming. he of the
 classic name. president vice presi-
 dent and director of various copper
 companies. came to Oatman. saw
 and was easily conquered. and as he
 purchased prospects took time to re-
 mark that one of the Oatman mines
 now in operation, is entitled to rank
 among the great gold mines of the
 continent
 SeeIey ". Mudd. he of the pie
 beian name but plethoric purse
 Mudd. who broke into the game as
 a Leadville mine operator, is a heavy
 owner of Oatman shares and has
 prominent mining men of Utah, Col
 orado and Arizona associated with him.
 Richard Roelfs. the lucky man who opened the Crcsson mine at Cripple Creek a property that has paid
 S2. .O0O, ,O0c in dividends within a sin gle year, visited the camp recently and made arrangements for taking over several properties.
 F. NJ. Woods and II. F. Woods ao one time the most extensie oper- ators in the Cripple Creek district, are materially interested in several Oatman companies.
 w. P. O'Meara, the lucky man,
 who. in the short space of three months. extracted S40O.OOO worth of ore out of circumscribed block of Tonopah Mining company's ground, Is another of the Argonauts who sucCumbed to the Oatman district. and became interested in several ] large properties here
 1 Dr. !. \. Chipley. one of the vet l eran operators of the Colorado fields where he has mined for forty years, after making an investigation | of the Oatman field comes out in l print and says: Tt is the biggest | thing ! ever saw and the greatest
 camp I was ever in
 Judge R. L. Johns of san Fran i cisco. one of the incorporators and heaviest stockholders of the Gold field Mining Company of Nevada. ! and owner of the famous January 1 claim. came to Oatman some weeks | ago with a party of San Francisco brokers and capitalists and was SD impressed with the future of the | camp and district that he sold his return ticket and remained. After thoroughly looking over the field the judge with a party of friends | bought out several valuable claims and organized the Oatman Combina- 1 tion company. of which he was elect | ed president. The other evening while eating dinner at the same | table I said to him: Judge Johns. 1 do you expect to remain here2' "I 1 do, and expect to bring my family 1 here from san Francisco to reside
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gave up his job as waiter at the leading cafe. The Oasis. the Delmon- ico of Oatmau. a picture of which is shown. together with Lou and his blackboard. "Thc Trading Post He placed a board about three by five in front of the cafe and was ready to list anything the buyer or seller had Today if you are in Oatman and desire to buy or sell an auto mobile. plug hat. stove. tent. bUrro. all you have to do is to walk up to the board. and chalk-up your want ads" or special bargains" as the case may be and Grosman will see that you get quick action. The other day The Trading Post was headed hy three watches. ranging from a Waterbury to a Hammond. Below was written the following
 The owner of these watches will hook. trade. barter or sell them at any damned price for any damned thing. His only stipulation is Quick Action
 In conversation with this bright Hebrew. Grossman informed me that he made as high as SEQ an hour from his brokerage business and our staff photographer presents Louis and his Trading Post. Louis stands at the left of the Post" and you will rec osnize his smiling countenance by his bare head
 A survey has been made of the principal streets of Oatman with the view of strengthening and widen
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oatman Street Scene

ment in thc Oatman district dates from that time.
 This mine has made LonE and Me Tvcr wealthy and the stockholders happy for this stock went on the market at 45 cents share and is now listed around the S4 mark. and week after week the mine is diScloS- ing tons of ore. valued al from S35 to $59 ton. Joe Urrizo was pros pector and miner a few months ago and is now a gentleman of affluence and leisure Joe owned some of the claims BOW composing the Eastern, and instead of taking cash for them accepted big block of stock Joe recently cashed in 20.00o shares of stock receiving S60.00O for it and till has a little of the stock left All this will remind the old timers of Al. Myers. in the good old days of Goldfield. Myers. had a big block of Mohawk stock. which he was trying to sell for 15 cents a share but found no buyers. He decided that he was cut out for a prospector rather than a stock salesman and packed his
 way-bag' and hiked for the hills looking for another strike He re- turned within two months and was rendered S4OO.OOO for 100000 slaros of Mohawk by Carstairs. tie Phila- delphia millionaire-S4 for stock that went begging at l5 cents sixty days before That is the secret in a nut shell of the fascination of the gold mining game
 The success of the United Eastern has caused the formation of many companies and go or so of them are rapidly pushing development: a mum Der of them have struck ore and even now are securing pay values
 And mark this prediction The minute one or two of these that are rear completition strike anything near as good as that secured by the ! Eastern. there will be a rush to Oat-
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through boiling and seething and humping herself previous to the cooling off or "Sugarng-off stage. she save a final and mighty flop and shifted a gooilv portion of the precious rock containing the precious metal into that portion of the world known as Arizona and that Mohave county received her share-and a little bit more.
 Mohave county contains practically the same number of square miles as does Belgium and few more lucky strikes will make Oatman more thickly populated than was ever Bel gium in ler palmiest days. Al tEe same time it will cause the price of every share of good mining stock to advance loo per ~ent-even though developments have not been completed
 But with all the blessings of Ma state. Ranking as she does. first in the production of copper and second as a precious metal producing state she is still an unadvertised state. Possessing scenic beauty beyond comparison. vet she is overshadcwed in this respect hy her sister states. California and Colorado. and the lack of adequate and proper publicity ac- counts for it all.
 If Oatman keeps up the gait she has started Arizona will he known from pole to pole and they will be
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past sixty days met a travelling man from Los Angeles at Ash Fork who had made more money from buying these stocks at the initial opening price and selling on the raise than le made selling steel I bought a local paper and read the following story and it convinced me that this .hunch" was correct. IL is as follows.
 Gordon Clark. a travelling stales- man from Holbrook. Merrill x Stet- son of Los Angeles. was induced by one of his customers Co buy S25 worth of United Eastern stock st 35 cents per share several months ago.
 About two months ago he sold 50
 shares at s per share, investing the money in other business. on Oct. e on his last trip through King man. he sold the remaining 90 shares
 for S165. making a total of S265-a net profit of S240 on his investment
 of S25 or s60 per cent.
 He purchased with S-5 of this cap
 itaI 500 shares of stock and left
 word with his brokers 10 turn the same at SI per share when that time arrives. In the event of the stock going to S1 per share. he wlll net S425 on the investment. or 566.6 per cent and on the original investment ' of S25. S74o profiJ-or 2.6s0 per cent ! Wallingford had some high speed ideas on frenzied finance. but in his palmiest days he never concocted a ! scheme for making money that was 1 eeared up as high as this 1 I believe in the theory of the Neb- ular Hypothesis and. after spending 1 several days in the Oatman district i it really appeared to me that after J our good old Mother Earth got
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the words rhyoHte.' porphyry-" claims" .pay-ore.r 'outcropring. quartz" boundaries" gold. and stocks rlay the most important part. and such trivial matters as the European war. the color of the hose that Mrs. Galt will wear al the we'd ding or the attempted recall of Gov ernor Hunt are never thought of let alone being the subject of con versation. The topic is gold. gold. gold. and stocks. stocks. stocks.
 The business buildings are of the one-story variety and the broker who can sport an office a trifle larger than a good sized dry goods box is in luck and the 'curner' IS very much in evidence because he can find no quarters in which to transact business with clients. The hotel and restaurants are crowded overcrowded. but they serve good meals and do not graft" you on prices.
 At all hours of the day automo-
 piles filled with passengers and
 auto-trucks loaded to tle guards
 with provisions. lumber. coal and bedding. come "Chug -chugSing" int, camp and everything looks like 'bil business" One mercantile eOncer
 here is reported doing a monthly business Of $3o.000.
 Speaking of business. I must no forget the Tracing Post You wil at once realize. from his name tha i Grossman was not cut out for ho tel waiter That is the business h' engaged in. however. when he strucl | the camp-a few months aEo-broke ! But you cant keep a good mal ! down and he creates a position % l job when the opportunity presents ! Grossman saw the opportunity ant
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san Francisco. Los Angeles and New York friends and l had the pleasure of shaking Diamond Jacks" hand the last day of my stay in Oatman.
 While the district is too young to have formed the locale for romantic incidents whereby men have made fortunes overnight and can furnish no Comstock Fair O'Brien MackeY tales. vet the experience of George ". Long and his partner, James Me Iver, who bought in and own very healthv share oi the United Eastern mine. must not be lightly overlooked because it was the development of this mine that put Oatman on the map which enthusiastic Oatmanites claim as the greatest mining zone of the west
 McIver and Long. practical miners. worked for d long time on the Tom Reed mine. two of the force that fol- lowed vein system that has pro duCed to April l of this year over >5.o0o.0o0. that has paid more than $2.5oo.oo0 in dividends and shipped more than S1.00o.0OO in a single fiscal z-ear.
 While working underground. they rad plenty of time Co think and final Ir came to the conclusion that all the gold in this district could not possibly lay within the boundaries of the rom Reed property Having d practical knowledge of ores. veins and crosscuts they believed that pay ing 1aluc- were to be found at 9 depth of 3o feet or over and decided ..- -.. ...- -t. own account. They tOn~eg guentlr bought adjoining property and when 1ct working for inc Tom Reed cpm- uauy proceeded to develop their own property United Eastern. About year ago they made phenomenal strike and the activity and excite
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We learn that gold was first dis covered in the Oatnan district by soldiers stationed at old Fort Mo- have along about 1>64, and that the old fort was located six or seven miles from Oatman. The other morn ing I rode horseback past the crumb- ling falling ruins of the old fort and am SOFT ythat my staff photographer was unable to accompany me on this trip. which led to the new base of operatiors-the Secret Pass dis trict Cor the Moosback district, as my companion of the trip chose to call it
 Alonzo Davis and another soldier discovered the Leland and Mitchell mines now owned by the Vivian Mining company, but as the most of development was great no deep shafts were sunk and the company
 was content with the ore bearing ' rock found at a depth of fifty feet or less. The same conditions exist eG with the old "Mossback" mine which has since been developed and is showing piles of ore of great value on the dump
 Johnny Moss. a scout discovered the old Moss mine which has laid dormant for years. The old fort was abandoned in 1886 and interest waned in this district until seven or eight years ago when the Tom Reed and Gold Roads people began de- velopment on a large scale and have taken millions of dollars worth or ore out of the ground
 When they started this develop ment they imagined that pay ore would only be found at a depth of fifty feet, but the surprising record made by the United Eastern people a year ago demonstrated that for years the miners of this district had overlooked a big bet by not going
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deeper, and tapping the abnormal geological formation which they and the mining experts had overlooked
 Therefore the strike by the Great Eastern people is alone responsible for the Oatman rush and the town is filled to overflowing with mining men looking for investments. and miners lookiny for work.
 Mining men who have followed the lure of gold all over the world are here men who have participated in the luck of the roaring camps of Leadville, Dawson, Cripple Creek, South Africa and Australia They meet on the street or in the cafes and restaurants and hold reunions that make the heart glad. and one frequently hears remarks like: "Hel- lo-o-o, old man." For the love of you! Thought you were dead old fellow Haven't seen you since left Dawson Rawhide, or Gold field, as the case may be
 Enthusiasm and good fellowship run as high as on the third day of a democratic convention but the air is as placid and the atmosphere as free from profanity and vulgarity as though these were a party of Ep- worth Leaguers attending a district cOnvOca tion.
 To enumerate the list of those who came and stayed and those who came made their investment and re- turned home would he like compil-