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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-09

legislatures enact fool laws, condi-
tiohs are not improved.
Capital takes a long chance in the
development of new territory and
needs the friendly cooperation of gov
eminent, or at least not forty forms
of hostility If it takes hold on a large
scale.
The Pacific coast states can use one
hundred millions of new capital for
railroad extensions already planned
and some of them partly completed all
opening new country and starting in
dustries.
The Occur d'Alene district will be
wonderfully benefited by the new
branch lines of railroad now under
way or proposed, short as they are.
The district needs a number Of branch
lines other than those now mapped
out The Beaver creek branch Of the
low. r.. & N. has already stimulat-
ed prospecting and development work
to an extent never before known in
that section. Properties dormant for
years have taken on new life and are
now employing miners in fastening
their development Pine creek is TAX
ing on a most healthy tone by reason
of the railroad surveys now being
made and which assures adequate
transportation facilities for that great
mineral belt. AS a result Of these ac-
tivities new producers will be added
to the shipping lists and hundreds o.
men given employment.
Railroad construction in the Coeul
d'Alenes meets with every encourage.
ment from the people of the district
Land the financial returns on the in.
vestment have sufficient possibilitie.
to cause serious consideration from
the railroad builders of the natior
who are seeking opportunities of thi.
nature for the investment of theil
wealth.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-09
REFINING CAPACITY WILL BE IN
CREASED.

The copper industry of the United
States Is enjoying the greatest sue
cess in it's history. 1t may be said
to be fairly reveling in prosperity.
Elaborate plans have been perfected
for producing marketable copper to an
extent never attempted before. Refln-
ing capacity win be increased at a
nearby date, and the annual produc
ton raised to a level that will eclipse
all previous performances. With keen
foresight the consuming requirements
of the world are being provided for so
that resources may be equal to demand
If possible. Unless consumption ex-
pands with greater rapidity than out
put the increase in producing capacity
ought to take care of demand for a
considerable time.
The wonderful conditions existing
for the past Is months have completely
transformed the copper situation and
laid the foundation for the most phen-
omenal profits ever derived from the
production and sale of the metal Dur
ing that period output has reached
the most huge proportions ever known.
And this product, impressive and i'm
mense as reliable figures show it to be,
has been sold in quantities hitherto
unheard of. Europe has bought on
colossal scale, while consuming de-
mand in the United States touched
the highest level on record. The alb
sorbing power Of the world never
reached such tremendous capacity.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-09
NEW BROOD OF WILDCATS.

Engineering and Mining JournaD
The great interest at the present
time in the production of ores and
metals naturally stimulates interest
in the development of prospects, that
inspire hope of the uncovering of a
new bonanza. Sdch story as that of
United Verde Extension kindles the
imagination and makes easy the pro-
motion of prospects" in the vicinity.
So 1t is in other mining districts. And
so it is also that fraudulent promot-
ers quickly and naturally take adj
vantage of their new opportunities.
An esteemed correspondent in Ari-
iona, which is one Of the Invest min
ing states, writes us on the subject
as follows; Incidentally am won
dering what the United States post
office authorities are doing respecting
the prosecution of persons who are
Using the mails for fraudulent pur-
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-09
A REAL INSPIRATION.

To make an Investment of $500
produce an annual income of $4,000 is
probably an experience that would not
be possible in any other industry than
mining, says +. G. Fox in an article
appearing in recent financial publ
cation, telling the story of Inspiration
Copper from the investment viewpoint.
The article, in part, follows:
1T has been but comparatively
few years ago that "A Gentleman from
Kansas we will call him bought co.
600 shares of the stock of the original
Inspiration Mining company at a cost
of 8 cents per share, making a total
investment of $500. Later came the
absorption of other companies and the
accumulation of other properties with
Reorganization and increase in CAPT.
talization.
"The capitalization of the original
Inspiration company was 100000,
divided into 100000 shares. The first
reorganization changed this capitali-
cation to $10,000,000, divided into L.
100000 shares of par value of $40
per share. Stock in the new company
was exchanged for stock in the old on
basis of dollar for dollar, par value.
The result was that instead of getting
10000 shares of stock of a par value of
$1.OO per share. he received 5000 shares
of par value of $40 per share.
Again another reorganization and
increase in capitalization took place.
This time the capitalization of the
company was increased to $4,000, 900,
which was divided into 1900 900
shares of a par value of $40 per share.
Again the stockholders were given
dollar for dollar according to par
value, so that the former 5000 shares
was exchanged for 5000. This brought
the cost of $3.50 per share.
"But-and this is certainly one time
when the but is good and strong
this 5000 shares which cost $3.50 per
share, is today worth $6S per share
and is In big demand at this figure on
the New York stock exchange. The
original total cost of the stock was
$500 and the total value today is
more than 100000.
THAT makes pretty good story
but 1t is not quite all. The Inspira-
tion Consolidated Copper company is
now paying dividends at the rate OF
$500 per share per annum, which
means that this 5000 shares is draw
ing $4,000 per year in dividends from
an original investment of $500.
Can you beat it? Who says min
ing doesn't pay?"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-09

an impersonal and cold blooded city.
The forum Of the town council, the
directory of the local bank and the
local store, where men unconscious
" learn the forms and methods of de-
mocracy and the four square give and
take uprightness Of American man
hood, are fair things to be destroyed
for the selfishness and greed Of the
city.
If We defy the law of fair play, then
in an amazingly short space of time
with the present trend remaining un-
checked, the country town as we know
II will be a thing OF the past. The en-
HANGED social and monetary value
which it gives to its community viii
be lost.
Can the few dollars year which
may be saved by sending the none.
to the city stores compensate for thu
real loss which will attend the passint
of this social and marketing center?
To ask such a question is to an
swer 1t.
1t is indescribably absurd to thinl
that the compensations win balance.
The cost to the consumer in the EN-
will be too great.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-09
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF
MONTANA.
(Senator w. A. Clark

(Senator w. A. Clark)
"The early days found us ambitious.
Our environments were narrow in
many cases and we heard of the great
west and many of us determined to
break the barriers which bound US
and try our fortunes in the new land.
They we're brave people who left
the comforts of established homes
and journeyed into the wilderness.
The Indians watched the footsteps of
the pioneers and many who were as
determined as those of your parent
society fell by the Vayside, dropped
by the unerring bullet of the savage.
Most of those who came to the west
at that time were single, but / know
some who We're with their parents
then and they have greater and
deeper interest than those who came
in Pullmans at later date. Those
who lived their early lives in Mon
tana have a stronger interest than
that acquired solely through contact
helped to make Montana the state it
is today.
AS to the future. You will have to
assume the responsibilities for that.
You will have to kerr up the interest
that has been instilled by the parents
and which you have inherited from
yoir fathers and mothers
It is a satisfaction to you that your
parents came here and laid the foun-
dalton of the state which has become
one of the greatest states in the
northwest and in fact one of the
greatest in the union.
No state has been supplied with
more varied resources.
The development naturally began
with the placer mines. When they be-
came partially exhausted the natural
result was to pass. to the treatment of
ore
And then there was that other great
industry, the raising of livestock. You
can remember the vast herds of cat
tie that thronged the great spaces OF
the open country and we naturally
became one of the leading states in
that industry in the union. From the
trains which came in due time one
could see tens of thousands of ami
mails of all descriptions grazing on the
rich grasses which covered the prair-
les.
Then came the general farmer and
the great industry of cattle raising
gave way to the general farming OF
the fertile acres of the treasure state
Where the thousands of cattle roam
ed the broad fields, the state is now
dotted with beautiful farms.
Before long it was discovered that
irrigation was not necessary and that
abundant crops could be raised by
what is now called dry farming.
The industries have continually
widened and expanded, until today
Montana stands as one of the best
states in the union. And yet today
the Treasure State has the cheapest
good land of any state in the United
States.
And | expect In my time which may
not be Very long here, to see Mon
tana the greatest state in the union.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-09

service. The employer need not hire
the laborer need not work on the
terms that are practical in certain
industries.
Levelling processes and hard and
fast rules that reduce all to the same
standard as to compensation are in
defiance of the rights of individual
efficiency. The employer will not in
his own interest refuse higher COM
pensation to the highly competent.
The laborer should not in his own in
terest demand equal pay for the in
competent workman.
Laws or regulations to compel the
employment of persons whose SER
vices are not really required weaken
efficiency and increase cost. A law
requiring four persons to be employ
ed on a train that can be handled as
we'll by three increases liability of ac-
cident and cost of transportation. The
political boss who makes places for
useless public servants runs up high
taxes and makes government less eff
ficient.
1t is not a question of the respective
rights or duties of labor and capital.
Rights and duties are secondary to the
freedom of operation necessary for
both employer and employed to exer-
else their option to act The labor
must always have the right to refuse
to work except in case of national ex-
tremity when it is as much his duty
to work as it is for the soldier to fight.
1t is as much the duty of the employ
er and capitalist to uphold his coun-
try as it is for the commander of a
regiment to perform his duty.
Labor and capital are really Sec
ondary to conditions that make it pos
sible for both to operate under fair
and favorable conditions. The terms
demanded by labor that make it i'm
possible for labor to be employed
make 1t as ridiculous as the unfair
terms demanded of labor by capital,
when capital can mot be employed.
Under all circumstances controversies
are possible of adjustment only by
arbitration and concessions. Force
and organized strikes or boycotts by
labor or capital are industrial war;
fare and as unjustifiable as militar-
ism for its own sake.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-09
MAKING BIG CITIES BIGGER.

The Capitalization of retail trading
into mail order channels will build up
the city at the expense and to the de-
struction Of the country town.
The country town and its commun-
ity have inspired the highest ideals in
our national life.
The individual estimates of fair
play and common purposes of good
are higher in this than in any other
land.
| The things that make people great
are in this age the things that make 1t
good, and these are not greed and
avarice. They are the things of COM
mon justice.
Kindliness and a heighborly spirit
are the dominant community instincts
of the country town, Sentiments of
Justice and common interest are the
leading traits of neighbors.
A few great cities, distant from the
vast producing areas of the country
are not hard to imagine. Wide agri-
cultural regions where the needful
productions of the earth are grown,
but dotted with no country towns are
equally easy to the fancy. But 1t is
distressing to know what it would
mean to our national life; to our Am
erican ideals of fairness, fraternity
neighborliness; to our consistent GUS
toms of fellow helpfulness and good
will, when the great cities win have
destroyed our towns.
If halt is not called soon upon
this creeping monster, the mail order
evil, our country towns, with their in
innate friendships, their spirit of
common interest, will be crushed.
The change that is going on is
deadly--deadly to our industrial, COM
Imercial, governmental and spiritual
associations,
The most glorious dreams of the
race are bound up in the lives of its
common people. If the intimate sur
Iroundings of these people are pleas
ant such dreams will be good dreams
and big. 1t is out of the substance of
these dreams that the fabric of en-
Ilightenment is woven.
The solid rocks of the fair country
side have furnished the material for
the steps in the stairway of progress
for men, not the pavements of the
city. The city is sordid and smothers
fair dreams as its selfishness chills
warm impulses.
The farthest vision can be seen on
ly from the mountain top
There are no mountains in the city.
The country town with its graded
school, it's meeting places for wor-
ship; it's markets and its trade days;
| its stores and shops and paved
streets; its circuses and shows and
theaters; its comradeship and cheer
fitness, are beautiful and good things
Ito lose for the evils and selfishness Of
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-09
When the Frost Is On the Pumpkin
flames whltcomb Riley)

When the frost is ON the pumpkin and
the folders in the shock,
And you year the kyouck and gobble
of the struttin' turkey cock,
And the clachin' Of the guineys, and
the cluckin' of the hens,
And the ROSTERS hallylooyer as he
tiptoes on the fence;
o. it's then's the time Teller is
a-feelin' at his best,
With the risin' sun to greet him from
a night of peaceful rest,
As he leaves the house bareheaded,
and goes out to feed the stock.
When the frost is on the pumpkin and
the folders in the shock.
They's something kind O. hearty
about the atmusfere
When the heat of summers over and
the GOBLIN fall is here
OF course we miss the flowers. and
the blossums on the trees,
And the humble of the hummin' birds
and the buzzin' of the bees;
But the airs so appetizin', and land
scape through the haze
OF crisp and sunny morning of the
airly autumn days
Is q pictur' that no painter has the
colorin to mock
When the frost is on the pumpkin and
the folders in the shock.
The husky, rusty rustic of the tassels
of the corn,
And the raspin of the tangled leaves,
as golden as the morn;
The stubble in the furries-kind o
lonesome like, but still
A-preachin' sermons to us of the
barns they growed to fill.
The strawstack in the medder, and
the reaper in the shed;
The bosses in their stalls below-the
clover overhead
o. it sets my heart a>clickin' like the
tickin' of a clock.
When the frost is on the pumpkin and
the folders in the shock.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-09

The largest steel chimney in the
world is that at the United Verde Cop
per company's smelter at Clarkdale,
Arizona. The stack is 400 feet, Inch
high, 30 feet. 9A inches in diameter,
and is lined with inches Of brick
throughout.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-09

Arkansas has state association of
garlic growers.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-08-01
The Fauna of Los Angeles

A Los Angeles newspaper boasts of the capture,
the other day. of wildcat within the city limits Of
that town The cat had not escaped from menag
erie 1t had driven by starvation down into
the haunts of civilization. 1t had merely not been
agile enough keep in advance of the rapidly ex-
tending boundaries of Los Angeles, which now EN-
brace mountain desert, plain and ocean Whales and
sharks may be caught within the corporate limits of
Los Angeles
We suppose there is not another city in all the
world where there great diversfication of
fauna and no specimen of it is more interesting. or
may be studied with greater profit than the Angeeno
himself in his favorite haunts Spring and Broad
way or Main or any of the streets in the mid
section of the city.
Except for the buildings of Los Angeles which are
OF some magnficence except for the absence of UNI
brageous chin fringes and except for certain mod
ernity and urbanity of dress IN Los Angeles
might fancy himself be isolated in prairie village
of Kansas or a hamlet in the wilds of Iowa. The
manners and customs of both beautifully
blended in the average Angeleno.
A wildcat in its natural habitat WITHIN the broad
expanse of what is called Los Angeles IS not nearly
strange many other forms of life we find within
that territory.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-08-01
Judge Edward Kent

Phoenix and all Arizona has sustained great loss
in the death of Judge Edward Kent resident of this
city for fourteen years For twelve years he
chief justice of the court of Arizona and no
member of the court brought to it deeper learn
ing a sincere desire to do justice. We think
member of the court enjoyed in greater de-
gree the respect and confidence of the Arizona bar
Judge Kent more than a learned and upright
judge and good lawyer He kindly gentleman
and good citizen who will be sadly missed from the
professional and social life of this state. We have
said that Judge Kent gentleman. He was that,
every possible definition of the word gentleman,
from that Of gentle to zone of superior class"
He was born to be a gentleman. He educated to
that end; ne endowed with the true instincts of
the gentleman and he lived the life of one.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-08-01
THE WILD AMERICANS"

A week ago was privileged to private
letter written the father of of the young avators
who flying for France. That letter of course
not intended for publication, but the to whom
it was written is old friend of ntrne-and as
anxious to make clear to these young fighting men in
France that we at home take pride In them--l am
taking the liberty of reprnng portion of it here:
Father: Since the American Escadrile
has been formed you may be glad to hear that
brought down another German machine 1t
May "a when Thaw, after going at 4 d. and
bringing down Fokker, went out with us again at
$3.50. 1t really the first sortie of the American
Escadrille ensemble and the young pilots, who
are all keener than mustard, foolishly led the way
There into whole flock of German machines
and the fun commenced.
They were all much slower than us, that all
we had to do was to dive down thousand meters
o to them 1t wonderful sight which
reminded me of the way the kingfishers used to
swoop down at the old Wave Crest Pond. Thaw
unfortunately got caught between three big German
machines and before he could escape they planted
a bullet in his left (nothing serious) and also
perforated his motor and reservoir that he had
a devil of time getting back home; it was he
only just landed behind third line before
passing out The funny part of it that his last
impression that he could make it, that
when ne picked up by French soldiers and came
to life they could not convince him that he not
in the German lines.
Victor Chapman got his machine all shot full of
holes, and he had bullet go through his sleeve
just missing his God only knows how he got
home.
picked out two avatiks who doing reglage,
dropped the hind one and fortunate enough
to bring him down while his friends in the other
machine gave me a good peppering. The only bad mo-
ment had after attacking; my motor, which I
had cut, refused retake. on down went with
visions of pain IA ka' or facing the cold white wall
but after seconds which seemed like hours ] got her
going again and got away with good shelling
Ii great coup to have gotten away with.
and you may well imagine that Immediately es-
tabshed reputation for ourselves; the French
refer to the wild Americans"
have had than hundred hours
flying over Verdun and I'm just about tagged out.
really have not been well this past month My heart
has been giving me lot of trouble. due the high
altitude at which forced fly. and my
well. June bride has nothing on me-Theodere
Roosevelt in Golfers Weekly
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-08-01
The Railway Strike

Whatever may be the result of the referendum vote
on the proposed railway strike by which there would
be such a tie-up of commerce. has never been wit
messed in this country it would not mean that there
would be a strike The time for taking the vote has
expired but the result has not been announced. But
the vote has been many suppose. on the ques-
ton strike but upon the question of authorizing
the official board Of the railway workers to call
strike 1t is believed that the vote in favor of con-
ferring that authority will be overwhelming. This
has the prediction of the heads of the brother
hoods ever since the referendum ordered.
The immediate consequence would be inat the next
conference of railway managers and chiefs of the
brotherhoods the latter will be armed with authority
to declare strike The grave question is whether
they will exercise that authority Evidently their
belief if they have such authority the railway
managers knowing it, will grant concessions rather
than the risk of a strike of important employees
The managers offered to submit the differences
to arbitration and arbitration probably will be the
outcome of the conference. Certainly the brother
hood officials will hesitate long before they would
plunge the country great strike, the results of
which no man could predict. The brotherhood chief
tains IL the strike rule wins will he clothed with
grave responsibility.