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Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20

last month, 75.5 last year and $50,
the ten-year average. Indicated acre
yield, ISL bushels, compared with
1913 last year and 92.7, the 19O9-1s av-
erage.
characterization, 1917 per cent Of
a normal, compared with S5.5 last
month, 66.5 last year and 1877, the
~ten-year average. Indicated acre
yield, 1921 pounds. compared with
S45.7 last year and 1851, the 19O9-1S
average.
Flax-Condition, 91.2 per cent OF a
normal, compared with SS.5 last
month, 92.1 last year and 1913 the ten
year average. Indicated acre yield,
9.5 bushels. compared with S.s last
year and rs. the 19O9-1S average.
Rice-Condition, 800 per cent Of a
normal, compared with 9O.5 last
month, S7.6 last year and ss.2, the ten
year average. Indicated acre yield,
35.2 bushels, compared with S4.1 last
year and 1873, the 19O9-1S average.
Hay (all tame)-Estimated acre
age, 50,907, 900, compared with 4S,4O0,-
900 last year. Condition, 500 per
cent of a normal, compared with $50
last month. S6.7 last year and S4.3,
the seven-year average. Indicated
acr yield, LAT tons, compared with
1.43 last yea and 1874. the 19O9-1S av-
erage.
Apples-Condition, 61.5 per cent Of
a normal, compared with 63.3 last
month, 61.S last year and $40, the ten
year average.
Peaches-Condition, 1928 per cent of
a normal, compared with 1871 last
month, 500 last year and $40, the
ten-year average.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20
STUDENTS EARN WAY
Jobs at New Haven Net Scholars
$37,146.
Work for 2,oo7 Obtained by Bureau Of
Appointments, According to Re-
port-some Make $500
a Year.

New Haven-Yale students who
worked their way through college last
year earned a total of $37,146.S8 in
positions obtained for them by the bu-
e of appointments of Yale univer-
sity, according to the first report Of
that bureau.
During the year the bureau assist
ed 900 students who applied for work.
In the cases of three-fourths of the
men applying the bureau provided for
work and scholarship aid sufficient to
make the assets for the year equal to
the total necessary expenses.
Typewriting and stenographic work
furnished the most profitable means
of employment and the newspaper bu-
reau brought good results. Owing to
the discussion that arose concern
ing tutoring this means was not
pushed vigorously. Next year, &C
cording to arrangements made by the
faculty, there will be a regular tutor
ing school attached to the university.
The record kept Of the amounts
earned by students shows that a total
of 2,007 Jobs we're given out during the
nine months of the university year,
from which the men reported total
earnings of $19,646.SS, and It's posi-
tons were furnished for students for
the summer, from which the esti.
mated total income is $17,500.
This, of course, does not include the
large amount of income of men from
work which they have continued on
jobs obtained through the bureau in
previous years, or the earnings from
the large amount of work which men
have found for themselves about the
city. On the basis of this computa-
ton 1t is estimated about seven hun
dred students in the university sup
port themselves and earn approximate
ly $500 a year each at Yale.
They engaged in all kinds of work.
There were 31s ushers. 9s did clerical
work, 70 were walters, and included
in other classes of work are canvass
ing. caring for furnaces. gardening.
collecting, clerical work in dining
halls, music and clerking in stores.
twenty-five men canvassed for
names for a woman's suffrage petition
presented to the Connecticut legisla-
ture; FIVE acted as models for artists,
for classes in anatomy and for an un-
derwear manufacturing company; If
teen acted as ~pallbearers, fifty were
"supers" in theatrical entertainments,
five we're professional partners at
dances.
One man worked for the Winchester
Repeating Arms company, doing a
twelve-hour shift six nights a week,
and he completed a regular year of
law school work. Others gave sleight
of hand performances. played in or
chestras, served as inspectors for the
antihy campaign. acted as doorkeep-
ers at weddings, etc. One gathered
newspaper clippings at so cents a
clipping of the record Of every com
petitive went between Yale and Har-
ward to settle an argument between
a Yale graduate and a Harvard grad.
uate. One cleaned tombstones.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20

Figures for winter wheat and rye
are preliminary estimates.
Details of each crop, other than to-
tai production, as announced by the
department, follows:
Winter Wheat ~ Preliminary esti-
mates show the acre yield as 1914
bushels, compared with 1910 last year
and 1876 the five year average.
Spring Wheat-Condition 1914 per
cent Of a normal, compared with 93.3
last month, 75.5 last year and 7s.9 the
ten-year average. Indicated acre
yield 1910 bushels. compared with lis
last yea and 1873 the 19O9-13 aver
age.
All Wheat-Indicated acre yield
1853 bushels, compared with 1876 last
year and 14.7 the 19O9-1s average.
Corn-Condition, 79.5 per cent Of a
normal, compared with S1.2 last
month, 74.s last year and sos the ten
year average. Indicated acre yield
26.7 bushels, compared with 25.S last
yea and 25.9 the 19O9-1S average.
Oats-Condition 91.6 per cent Of a
normal, compared with 93.9 last
month, 79.4 last year and SO.2 the ten
year average. Indicated acre yield
S4.9 bushels, compared with 29.7 last
yea and SO.6, the 19O9-13 average.
Oats remaining on farms Aug. l was
55,607, 900 bushels, compared with g.
$4,000 last year and 59,417, 900, the
1909-13 average.
Barley-Condition 93.S per cent Of a
normal, compared with GAL last
month, 1913 last year and S1.S the ten
year average. Indicated acre yield,
29.4 bushels, compared with 25.S last
year and 24.3 the 19O9-1S average.
Rye-Estimated acreage 1884, 900,
compared with 2,533,00 last year.
Preliminary estimates show acre
yield as 40 bushels, compared with
1853 last year and 16.1 the 19O9-13 av-
erage.
Buckwheat Estimated acreage
800, 900, compared with 10000 last
year. Condition 1926 per cent of a
normal, compared with SS.s last year
and 1877 the ten-year average. Indi-
Gated acre yield 22.1 bushels. com
pared with 21.3 last year and 20.5 the
1909-13 average.
White Potatoes-Condition, $40 per
cent of a normal, compared with 91.2
last month. $50 last year and SIG the
ten-year average. Indicated acre
yield, 1854 bushels, compared with
1895 last year and 97.1 the 19O9-1S av-
erage
Sweet characterization S5.5 per
cent Of a normal, compared with SS.7
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20

Many persons have staked claims
at the new copper mine at Noun
taineer.
Drilling for oil has been commenced
near Playas, at the point known as
Playas Lake.
From Fierro comes word that the
Katy Company is pushing develop
ment work on its property.
A 100000 mining deal was consum.
mated at Soeorro when the Socorro
Mining & Milling Company, operating
at Mogollon, purchased at public sale
the entire holdings of the Mogollon
Gold & Copper Company in the Mogol.
Ion mountains.
The discovery of a wide lead Of
high-grade lead-silver ore was made
by -prospectors in the little Box Can.
yon of the Tesupue, five miles out of
Santa Fe. After breaking through
several feet of the iron cap the strike
was made, which promises to develop
into an important find.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20
WOULD HELPFAR
Government Plans to Mortgage
Forests Future Income.
VIII Ask Congress to Advance Money
for Public Works In Order to
Stimulate Agricultural
Development.

Washington.-The secretary of agri-
cultures plan to anticipate future re-
ceipts from the national forests by
securing an advance of money from
congress for the construction Of roads.
trails, bridges, and other public works
would stimulat@ agricultural develop
ment and would relieve many strug-
Cling communities from their present
burdens of taxation. Z y an article
contributed by the chief of the forest
service to the department Of agricul-
ture year book, Just issued. This pol
icy, says the article, would apply ex-
clusively in those counties where there
is a considerable area of national for
est land so located that the forest re-
sources cannot be marketed, al
though later they will yield a large
revenue. 1t would fully meet the To-
cal difficulties arising from the fact
that the national forests are not sub
ject to taxation; would aid in the pro-
lection and development of the for
est resources, and would remove the
n barrier which in a few places pre-
vents farmers from Immediately en-
joying the benefits of the national for
ests.
Millions of acres of farm land are
today undeveloped because of a lack
of good roads. In opening any new
country road building constitutes a
hard problem for the settlers. At first,
while the settler is struggling to
erect his home and farm buildings
and to clear his landr he usually can
not afford to pay high taxes or other
wise contribute toward the expense of
road building. The national forests
comprise the remotest and least set
tied regions of the country. In many
cases farming in these localities is
still pioneering, under as difficult con.
ditions as have aver existed in the
United States. One of the principal
reasons for the failure to develop the
large areas of excellent agricultural
land which lie near the forests is the
lack of roads.
The government is trying to meet
this problem in two ways, first, by
public improvements being made on
NAo hoNAChAA DoAof anu b6GOuu ny
the direct contribution to the coun-
ties Of a share in the forest receipts.
Up TO date the forest service has con-
structed on the forests more than
1900 miles of roads, q 1000 miles of
trails, nearly 600 bridges, and IS, 900
miles Of telephone lines. Every n
of these Improvements benefits set.
tiers and ranchers. In addition, there
is appropriated annually for the use Of
the counties in which the national for
ests lie % per cent Of the gross -e-
ceipts from timber sales and other
sources, to be used for road and
school purposes. Some of the indi-
vidual forests are bringing in over
100000 a year, and the business Of
the entire national forest system is
increasing SO that this direct contribu-
ton to community upbuilding is rap
idly growing. In fact, already a total
OF nearly 5000, 900 is obtained from the
forests every year for county, road and
school purposes.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20
Wyoming.

A test of ore from Kelly Creek,
johnson county. gave Sc per ton gold.
A second we'll has been brought in
on the Orchard claim in the Grass
Creek oil field.
The Texas Company is making
preparations to install a storage plant
in Casper. One large tank has already
been unloaded at the depot.
The stockholders of the Comstock
gold mine at Silver Crown had a meet.
ing which resulted in the adoption OF
a definite policy for the immediate
working of the mine.
In the Comstock and Fairview
mines in the Silver Crown district,
near Cheyenne, ore veins crop out
upon the fllnty face of the granite
rocks of Jawbone gulch.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20
GRAVEYARD is FOR SALE
Milton 5urylns Ground, Oldest In St.
Louis, to Be Sold for "a
Song"

st. Louis-Anybody wish to buy a
cemetery for sixty-eight cents? One
is to be sold at public auction, for
taxes and costs to cover the amount.
1t is the old Milton burying ground,
with an area of t~hree-tenths Of an
acre, a quarter Of a mile north Of
East Alton, the Oldest grave in which
is that of John Milton, who died in
1912.
An assessment Of two dollars was
levied against the graveyard for the
East Alton drainage and levee dis
trict. 1t was to be paid in annual in
stallments Of twenty-three cents.
The trustees of the cemetery have
had little money for its upkeep and
for the past year or so J.. w. Carey,
former treasurer of the drainage
board, has paid the twenty-three
cents out Of his own pocket.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20
COMPLETE AND NOISY MEAL
Traveller Surely Well Fitted With
Abundance Of Nourlshment
and "Music."

The longest and noisiest dinner that
Mr.. James Sibree. Jr., the author Of "A
Naturalist in Madagascar" ever at
tended was given by the governor of
a town called Ankarana. About a score
Of officers were at the table and seven
ladies. After a long grace by the pas
tor, dinner was brought in, and consist
ed of the following courses:
First, curry; second, goose; third.
pigeons and waterfowl; fourth, chick
en- outlets and poaohed eggs; fifth, beef
s%ausages; sixth, boiled tongue;
seventh, sardines; eighth, pigs trot-
tiers; ninth, fried bananas; tenth, pan
cakes; eleventh, manioc; twelfth,
dried bananas.
And lastly, says Mr.. Sibree. when l
thought everything must have been
served, came launches of roast beef.
Claret went about very freely, and at
length ONE much stronger liquor;
and the healths of the queen. "Our
friends, the two foreigners" then
those Of the prime minister, chief sec
rotary and chief judge, we're all drunk
twice over, the governors coming
last; and each was followed by mu-
steal and drum honors.
There was a big drum just outside
on the veranda, as well as two small
ones, besides clarinets and fddles,
and these were in full play almost all
the time. Then the room was filed
by a crowd of servants and aides de
camp, and the shouting of everyone,
from the governor down, was deafen-
ing. The old gentleman directed every
thing and everyone. l was glad when
could take my leave. after two hours
sitting, but l was not to leave quietly.
The governor took me by the hand and
escorted me home, while the big drum
was hammered at ahead of us all the
way.-Youth's Companion.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20

81 don't know how we'll get along
without you, Nora"
THANK you, ma'am."
you've been with us a long time"
yes, ma'am. Nearly seven months"
And you still refuse to tell us why
you are leaving?"
We'll, ma'am, If you insist On know
ing it's because l can't. stand the COM
pany here
The ideal Our house is frequent
ed by the best people"
ITS not that, ma'am. l was speak
ing of my own company. Where l
used to work most of my friends we're
~chauffeurs, ma'am. The only man
who has asked me to ride with him
since I've been here was a vegetable
peddler."
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20

At Cripple Creek a rich mineral
find is reported as having been made
on the fourth level of the Henry AID.
ney property, situated on Rosebud
hill.
Starkweather and Wilson, leasing
on the Ingham vein of the Doctor.
Jack Pot estate, at Cripple Creek,
operations being prosecuted through
the Raven tunnel, continue to main.
tain the former heavy output of bet.
ter than the average grade ore.
Shelter capacity for zinc ores and
concentrates is being increased by
about 100000 tons of metal per an.
nun.
The Boulder Miner states that the
much-promoted Tungsten Mountain
Mining Company has been revived
and financed.
A voluntary increase in wages
amounting to an average of 5 per
cent will be paid by the Ohio-C colorado
Smelling and Refining Company, eff.
fective Aug. IL.
That development incites further
development. and that one ore strike
leads directly to another, is true OF
all Colorado mining camps as well as
in Cripple Greek.
The Broad Gauge mine in Burns
gulch, near Silverton, which is being
operated under lease and option to
purchase. by Pueblo capital, is rapidly
rounding into shape for one of the big
future producers.
In the Salida (Chaffee county, dis.
trict, after lying idle for nine years,
work has been resumed on the Hirsch.
berger tunnel on Cameron mountain.
A contract Was let to drive the tunnel
500 feet, or until the ore bodies are
encountered.
The present field is notable active
in the metallurgy of gold, silver, cop
per and zinc ores. Thus far no
changes have been evidenced in lead,
basis smelling, as the furnaces now in
S at Leadyille, Salida, Pueblo and
Globeville seem entirely satisfactory.
General mining conditions have
shown a vast Improvement during the
past two months in the Rico section
Of the San Juan. Ore shipments have
been very heavy and are expected
steadily to increase from now on, as
many new properties have started
work,
The output of Colorado mines dur.
ing 1914, according to figures com
piled by Charles w. Henderson of the
United States Geological Survey, was
$1~9.S33.l05 in gold, $4,000 ounces of
silver, 74,211.S9 pounds of lead, $685.
173 pounds Of copper and SO, 774,9 1854
pounds Of zinc I'm terms Of spelter
and zinc in zinc oxide), with a total
value Of $33.46O.126, compared with
~$ls,146,s16 in gold. 9.S25.25 ounces Of
silver, S7,s9I773 pounds Of lead, 1927.
S26 pounds Of copper and 119, sac, 42s
pounds Of zinc, with a total value OF
S~35.450.5s5 in 1913.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20
PROFITABLE MINING STOCK.
cresson Company Of Cripple Pays
Dividend Exceeding Its Capital.
zation.

Colorado Springs .-Dividends paid
by the Cresson Gold Mining Company,
of Cripple Creek, a close corporation,
for the first quarter of the present
year aggregate s1,O5O,O 900, and accord
ing to the best information obtain
able the second quarter will aggre-
gate about the same. For the first
quarter extra dividends amounting to
s. ,OOO.O 900 were paid in addition to the
regular dividend of 5 per cent or $780,
600 on the capital stock Of M mil
lion shares. In other words, the divi-
dends aggregated more in the first
quarter of the year than the entire
capitalization OF the company. Ac-
cording to reliable information earn
ings for the second quarter held as
large as in the first quarter and the
stockholders are said TO have every
recently received another $1,000,00O
in dividends.
The high grade ore in the Cresson
mine continues TO hold out, and reg
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20
QUARRY STONE POISONOUS
Men and Horses Made Sick by Flying
Particles When Limestone
lie Blasted.

Auburn.-A peculiar form of blood
poisoning. among employees in a lime
stone quarry vas reported by DR..
John H. Whitbeck, health officer Of
Cayuga- Fifty men have been strick-
en-. Six are in a hospital and one
will probably die.
According to Doctor Whitbeck, the
malady is caused by the blasted stone.
Horses cut by particles also were in
fected.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20
WESTERN
MINING NEWS
IN BRIEF
western Newspaper Union News Service.
Prices for Metals.
Lead, New York. $3.50.
Bar silver, 48Mc.
Spelter, st. Louis, s15.23.
Copper, casting, $i7.37h.


The Miami Copper Company has in
creased it's regular dividend rate from
so cents to IS cents per quarter.
The output Of the Tom Reed mine
for July was about 1000 tons OF ore
from which was reclaimed and sent
to mint 500, 900 worth Of gold.
The striking feature Of the copper
situation is the underlying strength Of
the market, Notwithstanding the large
increase in production since the first
Of the year.
At Bisbee, Copper Queen, Calumet
& Arizona and shattuck are all taking
out enormous quantities OF ore. Their
shafts are in excellent condition, and
preparations are being made for any
eventuality that may ONE.
Aug. 1 was made epochal in the
Tom Reed-Gold Road mining district
by the initial shipment of thirty tons
Of $50 ore from the United Eastern
mine, the $4,000, 900 bonanza adjoining
the Tom Reed mine on the northwest
that has been developed since the
first Of the current year. It was also
featured by three mining strikes of
Importance.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20
Says Old Men Make Best Fathers.

San Francisco.-"Men should be-
come fathers at 60 to 20 years of
age instead of 20 to 80" With this
statement c. L. Redfield of Chicago
urged upon the International Purity
Congress his theory that early mar
riages are not particularly conducive
to good morality, IF a man becomes
a father at 60 or 20 the child has a
better chance to become great in the
worlds affairs" said Redfield. Our
penitentiaries are filled with the off
spring of parents under their major
tiles. Child marriages breed crime in
future generations"
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20

Real property and improvements. ST.
223,511 ,59S; live stock, $8S, O59, 546;
farm implements and machinery. $14.-
400,57O; manufacturing machinery,
tools and implements, SOL ,353,941;
gold and silver coin and bullion, $685.
696,056; railroads and their equip
ment, 1868, 23S, 739; street railways,
shipping, waterworks. etc, $197.641,-
500; all other property, $379,O21 ,541,
In Colorado, the bureau states, real
property and improvements are as
sessed at about rs per cent of their
true value, as against 4O.4 per cent
in 1904 and 3O.s per cent in 1900.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20

ular shipments valued at from one
to two thousand dollars per ton, are
being made. Recently the company
opened up a large extension Of the
famous Treasurer Chamber" found
last December, with much the same
formation, and almost equally as
rich. News of this strike leaked out
a few days ago, but was denied by
the management on the theory that it
was an extension and did not warrant
them in saying that it was a new
strike.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20
What Was in the Rarr.l2

McTavish was accused of having
Illicit whisky in his, possession. A re-
luctant witness admitted that he knew
of a suspicious barrel going to the ac-
cused.
Now" said the prosecuting coun-
sci, warningly, remember, you are
on oath. What was in the barrel?"
"Weel,' replied the witness, there
was McTavish' marked on ale end Of
the barrel, and whisky on the other,
but being on oath, your honor, 1
couldna say whether It was whisky
or McTavish that was in the barrel"
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20

Of the Russell Sage foundation in a
study just published" Doctor Ayres
has had madeA test from 1000 words
that constitute 80 per cent of the Eng
lish language ordinarily used. He has
found hat spelling ability is easily
and scientifically determined. For K
ample, nine words Of most frequent
use, the" in so" no" now"
man" ten" bed" and top" re-
vealed that second grade pupils. on
an average. spelled correctly "a per
cent OF these words. At The other ex-
treme OF the scale the words "iudg-
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20
Workmen Find Coffin.

Ladoga, Ind.-The remains Of a cot
On containing some fragments OF hui
man bones we're unearthed here by
workmen e%xcavating for a cellar in
New Ross. The grave was not near
a cemetery. About fifty years ago a
man named Noffsinger disappeared
mysteriously from New Ross and was
not seen nor heard from afterward.
Residents Of New Ross believe he met
with foul Nay and was buried in the
woods, which then covered the land
where the grave was found.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20

my husband has found a way by
which he says l am Of the greatest
help to him in his literary work"
How nice that must be for you,
my dear! But how are you able to
do it,"
"As Don as I see him at his desk
I go into another room and keep
perfectly quiet until he has in-
ished."
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20
Thousands Lost in SUGAR neets.

Thousands Lost in Sugar Beets.
Washington. - Variations in the
yield Of sugar beets under apparent
ly similar conditions are so striking
that the United States Department of
Agriculture has recently conducted an
investigation into the causes for these
differences. The yield of sugar beets
per acre in the United States is
lower, with the exception of Russia,
than that of any of the other beet
producing countries. In Germany, the
average is 14.S4 tons; in Russia, S.9S,
and in the United States, 1917.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20
Priest Refuses si2. OOO,O 900 Bequest.

Pittsburg, Pa-Believing his ad-
vanced age and an occasional attack
Of rheumatism would preclude judici-
GUS handling of great wealth, Father
William Graham, pastor Of st. Pat
rick's Roman Catholic church. has de-
clined to accept a fortune Of from
$1,000 900 TO SIS. OOO,OO left him re-
Gently through the death of relatives
in Sydney, Australia, and Bolivia,
South America. Il have no desire to
add to my burdens a lot Of wealth that
would bring me no satisfaction