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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Carson City Oe854

Carson City 06854.
Department of the Interior. u. s
Land Office ut Elko. Nevada, septem
Der 10, 1916.
Notice ia hereby given that LEON r
LoEMANs. of Mountain City, Nevada
who, on March 4. 1912. made Carson
City homestead application 0Ss5i. now
Elko 0693, under the Act of June IL,
1905, list 1915, for 10. p. Survey No.
10, embracing portion of the unsur.
Veyed public domain Nevada, moro
particularly bounded and described ag
follows: Beginning at Cor. No. 1.
from which u. 8. Location Monument
No. 2 bears 8. 62 deg. ~ min. W., 2.32
chs. distant; thence N. 20 deg. 20 min
d., 1927 chs. to Cor. No. 2; thence NJ.
58 deg. 20 min. e., 14.l7 chs. TO Cor.
No. 3; thence ". 81 deg. So min. D..
1905 chs. TO Cor No. 4; thence N. 60
deg. 90 min. o., 1864 chs. 10 Cor. No.
3; thence 8. 0 deg. 4e min. W.. S.Ai
chs. to Cor. No. @; thence 8. 90 deg. 81
min. W. 3s.72 chs. to Cor. No. 2:
thence 8. 20 deg. SO min. w, 24.ss chs.
to Cor. No. 8; thence 8. IS deg. 20 min.
w, 1918 chs. TO Cor No. o; thence N.
~ deg. Is min. W., SOS chs. to Cor.
No. 10; thence N. 80 deg. % min. H..
81 chs. to Cor. No. IL: thence N. So
deg. II min. r.. 21.79 chs. to Cor. No.
l, tho place Of beginning, containing
e2.46 acres, and forming part of un.
surveyed Sections 0. 10. Is and 10.
Township a North, Range SO East.
Mount Diablo Meridian. has filed no.
ice of intention to mako final five
year proof. to establish claim TO the
land above described. before tho Req.
lster and Receiver OF this Office. ON
the twenty-eighth day OF Noysmber.
1918.
Claimant names an Witnesses:
Robert Y, Reed, OF North Fork Ne.
vada; Abort NJ. olin, OF Elko. Nsyad a; |
Edward Oldham, OF Elko, Nevada; |
p. Young, OF Elko, Nevada.
JOHN u. ROBBINS, Register
First publication. Oct. n, 1915.
Last publlOstloo, Doc %, lsls :
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Elko 0l0t2.
Carson City O79G6.

Carson City 07966.
Department OF the interior, u. 8
Land Office at Elko. Nevada, October
10, 1915.
Notice Is hereby given that JOHN
PALEAl. OF Elko. Nevada, who. on
June .. 1913. mRde Carson City home.
stead application 07ses, now Elko. No
Olo42. for the swA NEH; NWh BE
Il; SEA NWh; and NEM sWA OF
Section IL. Township IS North, Range
90 East. Mount DiAblo Meridian, has
filed notice Of intention TO make final
threeyear proof. TO establish claim 10
the land above described, before the
Register aud Receiver OF this office. ON
the t'sentyfourth day OF November,
1916.
Claimant names ~ Witnesses:
George Hunter, of Eiko, Nevada:
Charles DressI. OF Eiko, Nevada:
George Banks. Of Elko, Nevada: James
Bett, OF Elko. Nevada.
JOHN Il. ROBBINS. Register
First publication, Oct. u, 1915.
Last publication. Nov. 70. 1916.
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Elko. Nevada. Land Office. October
Is, 1915.
Notice II hershy Given that PETER
8. INDART. OF 'WhiterOck. County Of
Elko. state q 1tstata. shas filad In this
office his application TO enter. under
the provision OF Sections 23os.3So7. Re.
vised Statutes OF the United States.
the following described land. Wig:
The SwH OF SEX OF Section 90.
Township 45 North, Range 81 East, n.
d. B. & NJ. containing 40 acres.
Any and all persons claiming ad.
verseiy the lands described, or desir>
ing to object. because OF the mineral
character Of the land. or for any other
reason. to the disposal 70 applicant.
should file their affidaVits OF protests
in this office, on or before the LIST day
OF December. 1916.
JOHN u. ROBBINS. Register.
First publication. Oct 81. 1916.
Last publication. Nov. Is. 1916.
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FISH SPOUT FROM WELL
AFTER EARTHQUAKE

TULARE. Cal. Nov. 8-An artesian
well spouting fish from the bowels of
the earth is the boast OF residents In
the district south of here. The fish,
which are from three to ten inches In
length and much like ordinary lake
trout except that they are blind, made
their appearance Immediately follow.
ing a slight earthquake.
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10th for the purpose OF arranging to
meet in joint session with the State
Institute at Winnemucca which opens
Tuesday morning. November 18th.
JOHN EDWARDS BRAY.
State Superintendent OF Schools.
fn10.
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Gardens. serving buns and cups OF tea
to grimy "Tommies" just back from the
front and to others on their way thence.
The queen mother. in this novel role,
was assisted by her daughter, Princess
Victoria. and by the Grand Duchess
George of Russia and Lady Ponsonby,
the latter of whom, just back from do
guns in France. will be in charge of the
new hut as these Y. NJ. c. A. depots
are called.
For the most part these 'huts" are
places where the British soldier. when
off duty. can get food and drink (tem-
perance ones. of course) and the right
kind Of recreations. in the form of
The y. NJ. c. a. has established them
over 1900 of them-wherever British
soldiers are now stationed, throughout
the world There are Y. NJ. G. A. huts
all over Great Britain. in France. in
Egypt. in India, at Saloniki and in
Mesopotamia. and there were couple
in Gallipoli right up to the time of the
evacuation. Some of these huts were
formerly circuSes, theaters, converts
breWeries. all kinds Of things. Some
thing like 100000 has been spent on
building them. and there are 129 huts
In France alone. All the people who
work in these huts. numbering over
5000. are unpaid volunteers.
one of the great features of these
huts are the facilities that are given
for letter writing. Stationery, ink,
blottIng paper, everything but stamps,
which may be bought at the counter
are provided free at a cost of $4,000 u
week. and to keep up with Tommy At
kins' epistolary demands over 1000,
900 sheets of paper per month have to
be available. AS result. there must
be few people in the British empire
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feet Of salt water over their heads.
1t is true there is thick bed of rock
between the miners and the sea, and
there Is no danger of the ocean making
It's way through. The mines are wet,
but the moisture comes from the fresh
water of the mainland that has found
it's way through the crevices in the
rock
During my stay went down into the
Ready Bullion mine, and far out under
the channel The means of descent
were a f1ve-ton steel bucket as big as
hogshead and a steel cable almost as
thick as my wrist. This cable is
more than half mile long. 1t is
wrapped around a great drum, and so
operated by an engine that it raises
the ore from the mines.
7 went down Into the mines with Mr.
Russell G. Wayland, the assistant mana
ger of the Treadwell properties. We
climbed into the bucket and held on
to the rim. Then an electric signal
was given and we shot down into the
darkness The great bucket wabbled
this way and that as we fell. Our
descent was at an angle of about fifty
degrees We continued at that angle
for something like 1000 feet. and after
that the ran was even more precipl-
tous. At last we stepped out far I'M
der the ocean. We were now given
acetyiene lamps. and with these we
picked our way through the tunnels
and slopes. The tunnels were lighted
by electricity, and each of them had
it's railroad We walked between the
tracks. stepping now and then to the
side. and squeezing ourselves to the
wall to let the ore trains pass. These
trains were of cars drawn by mules.
At one place We passed a mule table,
and l was told the mules were kept
down in the mines for several years at
time. Those I saw were fat and not
at all vicious. The darkness does not
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falling within stones throw of where
/ am writing, and every time they drop
100000 pounds of weight falls on the
ore: This dropping goes on day and
night. Sundays and week days, all the
year through, and the result is the
tiny atoms of gold which are so multi
piled that they run high into the mil
lions.
The wear and tear of the machinery
is enormous. The shoes are of solid
steel. Each of them is twice as big
as a loaf of bread. but it is worn to
the thickness Of a knife blade after II
has crushed three tons of ore. The
iron block upon which the ore lies is
soon ground away, and it has to be
replaced for every five tons.
The process Of getting the gold out
of the ore dust after the crushing is
simple. In front of the stamps is an
apron of netting made of wires put
together in a mesh finer than that of
any kitchen sieve. AS the ore is
crushed stream of water carries
the flour dust through the mesh
and 1t falls onto inclined tables of cop
per coated with quicksilver. Now.
quicksilver has an affinity for gold, and
as the powdered ore flows over 1T IL
swallows the free gold. as it were.
and the rock sand passes on. After
time the quicksilver becomes loaded
with gold. 1t is then scraped Off and
put into a furnace. where the heat
evaporizes it and the pure gold only IL
left.
In addition to this free gold there is
some gold in the baser minerals found
in the rock. These minerals are taken
out on shaking tables and then treated
to a cyanide bath, which sucks up the
L.
dropped into it. The cyanide water Is
then put through a process by which 1t
gives up the gold.
FRANK C. CARPENTER.
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Ea CHI consists of a long steel beam a.
big around as the arm OF a man, nfted
into mighty shoe, which is eight
inches in diameter and perhaps . foot
long. This shoe il OF steel. It -
fastened to the end of the stamp. and
the stem and shoe together weigh
about half a ton. In crushing the ore.
the stem is so hung by the machinery
of the mill that II can be raised and
dropped on the ore 100 times every
minute. Think of dropping a half ton
upon rock every time your watch ticks.
and you have a slight idea of the
power that grinds the ore to a powder.
There are hundreds Of these stamps
working at once, and as you look at
them you do not wonder at the noise.
There are almost a thousand Of them
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LORD KINNAIRD, PRESIDENT OF
THE Y. VI. Z. A.

ton comparable to. if not. indeed, vast
ly more vital than, that played by this
organization as it exists in America In
England, up to the opening of Arma-
geddon, the organization that was
founded back in 1874 by old Sir George
Williams mad never really caught on
to the extent of being taken seriously
There were Y. M C. A. branches every
where throughout the country and the
piZation's English membership
must have been large. About five years
ago the English Y. NJ. C. a. woke up
1t brought a. X. Yapp, who as general
secretary is the directing genius of it's
war activities, from Derby, where he
had proved himself born hustler, to
London, and imported from Australia
J. J. Virgo. who now has charge of
the work outside England, and who has
had experience in the United States
well at the antipodes, and told
these two to go to it and shake things
up.
They did. The big residential head
quarters on American lines in Totem
ham Court road was built and "whtrl-
wind campaign" was organized to pay
for it. and succeeded. Since that time
the Y. NJ. c. A. here has really been a
going concern. but something big was
and when the war came along it fur
nished this. When the writer asked A.
X. Yapp. the other day. in between his
interviews with duchesses and such.
what was the conception or the Y. M. Z.
AS part in the war. his answer was
unexpectedly interesting.
strangely enough, we were all ready
for it," said he. "A bit less than two
years ago a deputation from our So
ciety waited on the heads of the army
and asked to know what we could do
in the event of European war? Our
overtures were warmly welcomed, the
military authorities knowing US Of old.
for. you see. we have been represented
at tho territorial camps for the past
sixteen years. and our big markees.'
where concerts and entertainments have
been held. ana facilities for letter-writ-
ing provided. have always been popular
with the men: TIPS we found out at
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Alaskan Mines Produce Enormous Wealth in

pounds of that ore. and also that the
whole two thousand pounds had to be
dug from the earth, crushed to powder.
run through chemicals and handled
again and again to get that tiny bit
of gold out. The managers of the
mine tell me that they are able to do
this for s1.35 per ton. so that there is
all-told a profit of about S1.O5 in min
ing this gold. At the present output
his means profit of over $1,000 a
day.
But before l go further let me tell
you something of the romance of these
wonderful properties. Immediately
back of me on the side of the mountain
is the great Glory Hole, which covers
the site where the first gold was dis
covered. 1t is several hundred feet
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would not touch the sides. The hole
makes me think of the pit of the Kim
belly diamond mines in the heart of
South Africa. The areas are about the
same, the wells from which the untold
treasures have been dragged forth be-
ing as symmetrically cut as though
gouged out by chisels in the hands of
the gods. AS you stand on the edge of
remains of the gold ore in its sides.
Its walls of black rock are streaked
with drab and gray. and here and there
is string of white quartz from which
comes the gold.
AS you look a great rock slides off the
top and goes crashing down to the bot
tom. 1t was from such rocks the mine
got the name of Glory Hole. The
miners were often killed by them and
thus transported to Glory. Strange to
say. many of their deaths came from
the crows. These birds made the
neighborhood of the Glory Hole their
favorite roosting and feeding places.
They We're numerous that trumpet
ers Were stationed about the hole to
warn the miners of danger in case
flock should light on the edges. The
first blast of the trumpet meant, THE
crows are now lighting" and the sec
ond warned the miners that the rocks
were loosening and would soon be
down upon them. A slight pecklng OF
the gravel overhead was liable to start
an avalanche that would carry tons of
rock down the sides.
Even now the Glory Hole is by no
means safe. The earth and rock about
it have not yet reached their equilib-
rum and slides like those in the canal
cut at Culebra sometimes occur. Last
year there was one break that tore
block of rock weighing several million
tons out of the wall.
mines was found at the top. Like
cream, it seemed to have risen from
the low grade gold bearing rock I'M
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France, and, in cooperation with Miss
Lena Ashwell. the actress. she has or
ganized the concert parties which are
constantly going from this country to
France to sing to and entertain the SOL
diers in camps. hospitals. bases
wherever the men are stationed. Prin-
cess Victoria has been to the front sew
eral times. and she it was who declared
the dogs and cats hut open.
Lord Haddo. the Marquis of Aber-
deems heir. who Is a staff officer, is one
Of our most indefatigable workers.
while Lord Kinnaird. who Is presi-
dent of our organization. devotes
nearly all his time to it. Hardly a day
passes without bringing us some new
titled recruit, one of the latest being
Lady Bridget Coke. youngest daughter
Of the Earl of Leicester. who has Just
gone to France to work in one of our
refreshment booths.
I'm Franco and elsewhere We have
rented hotel buildings. for the use of
the friends of wounded soldiers, at
moderate charges. in order that they
may remain near these men during the
time when their lives hang in the bal
ance. We meet every packet poat con-
waving such travellers. and Generally
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1881. the company began to install the
best of modern machinery. Its first
mill had 100 stamps. That was con-
structed thirtythree years ago. Four
years later 1t was double, and other
mills have since been added until the
company now has five great mills with
800 stamps, and thirty more stamps
under construction. The motive power
for the mills is partially electric, sup
piled by water powers on Douglas
Island and on the mainland. A part of
the power comes from a hydro-e electric
plant at the foot of. the Mendenhall
glacier, which is twelve or fifteen miles
away, and another part comes from
four miles southeast of Juneau. Cali
fornia crude oil is used for generating
steam and heat, and the company is
now burning about 100000 gallons of
such oil every year. The oil is brought
here in tank ships and stored in steel
tanks.
/ wish I could take you through
the great mills and show how the
masses of ore are crushed to pow
der to save these small quantities
of gold. The red buildings may be
seen from the ships deck as you ride
up the channel. They wall the sides of
the hills and as you come near them
noise like so many blasts of artillery
fills the air. Inside, it is almost
deafening. You may shout into the
ear of the man at your side. but
you cannot make yourself heard.
The noise is from the hundreds of
stamps, which are always falling upon
the ore to crush it to powder. AS the
ore comes in it is In rock of all sizes
from that of the broken stone of a
macadamized road to masses as large
as a -four barrel. The larger rock is
broken until it is of the size At for the
stamps These reduce everything to
powder as fine as the finest -four dust.
One of the mills was not working.
and / was able to examine the stamps.
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affect their eyesight. as is generally
supposed.
l stopped now and then in the slopes
or great caverns. where the miners are
blasting the ore. They use drills
operated by compressed air to sink
the holes for the dynamite. and thus
cut out great rooms away down under
the sea. These slopes are several hun
bred feet high. and of almost an acre
in area. Some of them are filled with
gold ore nearly to the roof. Neverthe-
less, only slab of rock lies betwe cen
them and the ocean.
Leaving the mines. 1 went through
the mills. where they were crushing
the mighty masses of rock TO powder
and saving the gold. As soon as the
property was bought, away back in
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Britains Soldiers 10y the NJ G.

centers where thousands of skilled and
unskilled workers, many of them VOL
unteers, are now employed, the can
teen arrangements proved hopelessly
inadequate. and the government invit-
ed us, not long ago. to take hold and
organize them. We now have over a
thousand people, most of them women,
employed. and are feeding thousands
daily. We started work in a Baptist
school at Woolwich, where we soon
were serving 500 lunches day, and
now have overlooked into the big drill
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hall there. where we are feeding hum
dreds more. In all the munition cen-
ters the problem is the same how to
feed and where to house the volunteer
workers. the bulk of whom have come
from other districts. / can't mention
numbers. of course. but may tell you
that on an average where $4,000 per-
sons were employed a while ago, 60, 900
are working now"
Truly the war activities of the Y NJ
c. A are nearly endless. In it's gym
nasiums. men who have been rejected
for the army on account of physical
shortcomings like too-narrowness sof
chest are given free physical training
calculated to bring them up to stand
ard. The Y. M. c. A. provides the men
with pocket Testaments and with col
lections Of marching songs (most of
them American ditties). and charges
nothing for these. 1t provides cinemas
at the front" too. and IL recently has
inaugurated quite a wonderful system
by which any soldier at the front who
would like a snapshot" of any friend
at home can. by notifying the 7. NJ. G.
A. people. have it taken and sent out to
him.
Copyright. 1sls. b. ourts Bsown,l -
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take care of them. Another thing we
are doing, nand. I think. valuable one,
is looking after the soldier on leave
from the front, who is passing through
London. Every night 1000 men releas-
ed temporarily from the trenches ar
rive in London, and upon them all the
evil powers of the city are centered. We
are endeavoring to protect them, and,
incidentally, to provide sleeping ac-
commodation and comfort for them
whenever they turn up. With this OBJ
ject, We are opening up large huts
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Copyrighted. 1915, by Frank C. Carpenter)
TREADWEII Alaska

Copyrighted. 1915. by Frank G. CarpenterJ
TREADWELL, Alaska.
q AM clicking my typewriter on the
roof of the modern Cave of
Aladdin. The rock undern ca tn
q me has been cut up into tunnels,
which wind about in maze more COM
pick than that of Rosamond's bower.
Some of the passageways go far out
cut for miles through the mountain.
Out of them have come treasures far
exceeding in value those brought forth
by the Slaves of the Lamp, and from
them today a long procession of genii
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saying that, to the Young Mems Chris
tian Association of Great Britain.
whose strenuous leaders. however. are
the first to make mention, with admir-
ing praise. of the fine work which the
sister organization in the United States
is doing in looking after the welfare of
the prisoners of war and the inmates
of internment camps in the various bell
ligerent countries.
This war gave the British Y. VI. c. A.
the biggest opportunity to make good
that it has had in its seventy odd years
of existence. and it has risen to it in
fashion that liz nothing short of mar
velous. Its war organization is worthy
OF admiration by the Germans them
selves
II has enlisted the aristocracy. from
the king down. in the great work
which II is doing for the bodily. intel
1ectual and spiritual welfare of the
British fighting ran. AT its behest.
women Of wealth and title are working
as cooks, mattresses and barmaids at
Its "centers' in this country and
France. The other day the writer saw
Queen Alexandra behind the buffet at
the y. VI. c. AS newest center" close
TO the American embassy, In Grosvenor
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is one of our patrons, and
Princess Louise. Duchess of Argyll.
Princess Christian and Princess Henry
of Battenberg are all assisting us. Each
of them has performed opening cere-
monies for us, Princess Louise having
opened our new station hut at Kings
Cross recently. Princess Victoria of
Schleswig Holstein devotes all her time
to Y. NJ c. A. work. She is head of the
committee that has interviewed prac-
tically all the many titled women who
are helping in our centers here and in
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down below it. The hole is a mighty
ellipse 500 feet long, 500 feet broad and
more than 500 feet deep. You could
drop the Washington Monument inside
it and it's aluminium tip would still be
fifty feet from the top. You could lay it
lengthwise within it, and the ends