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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06
ORE IS GOOD,
So THE NATIVES DECLARE
People Who Look for Manganese
Find That This State Is tho
Place to Get 1t.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO DoMEsT1C1TY
Just Beginning to Find Out in Some
Parts OF Virginia About the Things
That Arc Worth Having-Eolks
Who Believe in Commonwealth.

A correspondent of the New York
Times grows a little enthusiastic about
the value OF manganese ores rs found
in Virginia. He says:
"The great demand for manganese
ores and tho high prevailing prices
lend additional interest to q recent re-
port on some manganese mines in Vir-
Einia and Maryland by D.. Il. uewctt.
of the, United States Geological Sur
vey. The emand for large amounts of
ores In his country bepan
in the period of 1S65-1S70, with the
introduction of the Besscmer and
open-hcarth processes of stecl-making.
and has grown enormously. The do
mestic supplies ia furnished only a
small fraction of the re-
quircd by our industries-in 1918 only
about 3 per cent. and from 1910 to
1914 only l per cent.
LEADS l. IN MATTER
OF EARLY CONTRIBUTIONS
Virginia has contributed moro heav-
lily than any other State to the do
nestle production. Five of the six
deposits described in this report arc
ON the east side of the valley that lies
west of the Blue Ridge and is com
monty known as the Great Valley of
virginia. They coincide cughly I'm
position with the outcroppinEs OF a
group of Cambrian shales and Quartz
ties. The other deposit lies we'll east
or the Blue Ridge, in the Piedmont
region. Psilomelane is the commonest
manganese mineral of all the ores. but
manganttc and wad are also present.
The ores are all OF ~near-surface origin.
and were formed mainly through the
replacement OF clays n schist by
carried In solution In the
ground water. Some OF the clays re-
placed were tho residual products of
rook %eatherinE, others were deposited
In ancient stream channels, and still
others were formed through tho crush
ing OF wall rocks along zones of
fracturing. Tho greatest depth to
which the ores have been traced ia
200 feet.
HAVE TO COME BACK TO
OLD STATE At LAST
Many manganese deposits in other
regions are the result of present-day
processes Of oxidation and deposition
through the agency OF air and surface
waters. but Mr.. IIewett believes that
the Virginia deposits were formed
Ions ago. i'm Tertiary time, and. fur.
thermorc. that the manganese oxides
were In part deposited below the per.
mancnt ground-water level, their for
nation resembling In this particular
the deposition Of certain of the Lake
Superior iron ores. He considers II i'm
probable that manganese ores I'm any
OF the Virginia or Maryland deposits
Will extend to depths Of more than
500 feet.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06
MANY INDUSTRIAL. NOTES
THAT Arc Going On in All Parts
of the known Inventive
World.

Seats which can be hung on auto
mobile doors to carry additional pas
senEers have been invented.
Soil is being imported to build Ut
the Pacific island Of Midway. so COW
pasture can be maintained.
An alcohol lamp provides the heat in
apparatus invented by a Frenchman to
disinfcct with steam.
The timber and other lands owned by
the United States are n source Of profit
that is growing yearly.
Sixty miles of thread woven from the
fiber Of n species OF Italian nettle
A h~and-opcrated machine to knead
the stiffness out OF leather has been
invented by an Oklahoma man.
Bombay averages more than seven
ty-two inches of rain a year and gets
most OF 1t within four or five months.
Leather and canvas covers to be
laced over automobile springs to keep
them clean and dry have been patented.
Mattresses and pillows used In the
United States Navy In the future will
be filled with kapok. a vegetable fiber
which is light and buoyant.
Electrically speaking. he average
mai each day d~iSSipates about two and
one-half kilowatt hours of energy.
mental exertion and heat radiation.
Japan is rapidly developing tho cell
luloid industry, as all the raw mate
rails for It's manufacture except nitric
acid are produced in that country.
The principle OF the spring shade
roller has been employed in a device
that almost automatically keeps mems
idle ncckties clean and smooth.
What are known as black opals.
among the most costly of jewels. arc
found in only one place in the world,
n small tract OF land In New South
Wales.
Sleeping car berths have been in
vented with end sections that can be
lifted 10 give occupants room enough
to tand erect when undressing or
dressing.
One OF the large railways in India
is experimenting with steel passenger
cars lined with WOO that IS insulated
against the heat OF the metal with as
bestos.
An auxiliary control for automobiles
invented by a New Yorker enables q
person in the back seat of a car. by
pressing a button, to stop It in an
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06
H0G-RAlSlNG IN HALIFAX.
srrer in the County Arc Bccomtnp
- Deeply Interested In tho
Mnttcr.

SOUTH BOSTON. VA, August 5.-The
time was when Halifax County. OF
which South Boston Is tho banking
and general trading center, knew Moth
ing In agricultural lines, and cared for
notnlngt except the growing Of bright
tobacco. The farmers OF this county
have not IN any sense lost their cum.
ming in the matter Of growing and
curing the bright leaf 10 pnrI.ctiou
but, as time has gone along, they have
learned other things Just as good For
instance, the cattle-ra!sing ana hog
growing industries have been attract
Ing much attention withn the ms,
four or 1--WE years.
OF course, the farmers had frs, 10
learn that TO make cattle and hogs
pay they must have much hnv and
much grazing land and much corn.
The corn problem was easily solyed
and last year the county grew more
corn on which 70 feed hogs than ever
before in its history. Las, wear. .lan
more hay was made in Halifax ,ba,,
ever before known, but this year the
record VIII he broken. Figures al
ready at hand show that the hay cron
OF old Halifax for this year VIII be
worth a u 81 200, 600. and when
the fine beeves that viii he fatteucd
on that hay crop are turned into money
thu figures may go even beyond nc
$1,000 900 mark.
When South Boston gets It's packing
house plant in operation. and that IL
OF the new industries that tho
Commercial Association is reaching ont
or, n a home market Is thus estab-
sheG for hogs and pigs. the chances
that Halifax County Will raise
kpZen hogs where 1t now raises one
tstfax County farmers are reading
PIP on this ~hog-rsiEing question, and
many OF them arc Investing in brood
sows and thoroughbred bears. Some
day in the not distant future Halifax
may wear the best as the great hog
snd-hominy" county of tho State.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06
BOOSTING VICTORIA
NC" ohhnher OF Commerce Seek. In
fring Woodworking Piunt
There.

VICTORIA, VA, August b-T,o
Chamber Of Commerce. organized hero
last week. already has scored a suc-
cess. Tho secretary has received
number OF letters asking for infor-
nation as to what Victoria has IN
oner tho investor. The secretary IL
giving these inquiries PROMPT alton
ton. and the Indications are that wifi
In the next few weeks much will h.
done looking to the upbuildinp of RI.
industrial interests OF the town.
me new chamber probably will CON
oentrate its efforts toward hrinsIn-
mere a great wood working plant ~
ut,iizc the raw material in the shana
or lumber. OF which there is 80 much
IN Luncnburg County. A great box.
shook plant Is the immediate objec,
In sight. ~
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06
HIT VERY HEAVY
AROUND ABOUT IN SPOTS
And Yet, Between the Clouds. There
Was Very Little Damage in Gem
eral to Farm interests.
TOBACCO NOT HURT MUCH
People In Mountains Along French
Broad and Swannanoa Suffer Tenn
porary Loss, but in End Even These
VIII Win Out With Much Profit.

RALEIGH. n. c., August Sum-
ming up the whole farm big water
scare. 1t may be said that the County
OF Wake. and. as for that matter, pretty
much all of the good old State. went
through tho heavy rains we'll, and
Wake County may be taken as an ex-
ample of R mid-State county of North
Carolina in this respect. Not a bridge
of any Importance was damaged, and
he roads got of we'll. The main
trouble In The State was from the
streams which originate on the east
sid Of the Blue Ridge. such rs the
Catawba and Yadkin. as we'll as scores
of little rivers and creeks. Among the
little rivers most affected was Rocky
Broad. which traverses the Hickory
Nut Gap, where immense damage was
done TO the splendid road which state
c%onvicts recently finished. The Ca
tawba wrecked a good deal Of the other
State road, also concrete, mainly from
S~wannanoa Gap to Old Fort, at the foot
OF the Blue Ridge. this being on the
Central Highway. Many hundreds of
bridges will have TO be replaced In tho
mountain region. No such ar amount
of bridge construction was ever before
required in this State at one sime as
will be necessary now.
BIG STREAMS DIDN'T
HIT ALL THO EARTH
The streams on the west side of tho
Blue Ridge. with the exception of the
French Broad, gave but little trouble.
the great rainfall being on the eastern
and southern sides of the lofty noun
tain wall. where the warm and n: OILS
ture-laden cloud were condensed.
There wero such torrents OF water fall
Ing from the sky that Mt one place six
inches In an hour and n quarter are
reported, and at another twenty inches
in five days, all previous records kav-
ing been broken.
The lower Yadkin River. from which
Raleigh gets part OF it's power, at
Blcwitt's Falls, was not affected enough
to put the power plant out of COM
mission.
RaleiH:, and the coast some
OF the streams were high, and while
not making a record for food stages
yet took away some bridges and flooded
considerable areas.
The estimate is made that, counting
the damage NY the flood and rains tc
property of all kinds. the loss I'm the
state az Il whole will approximate
Sl5.ooo.ooo. the railways being the
heaviest losers. perhaps nearly one
third OF this entire estimate.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06
Atlantic Coast Line
The s.snIara Railroad Of tn. south.

The Standard RAilrond of the South.
EFFECTIVE JULY z. 1916.
IltAiNs LEAVE kiIliSiONL nAILr.
tofioa ana south: s:lL A II. ana
for Norfolk; cas- A II. 500 A. H.. a:ov
For N. & ". Ty. 'W.st 49,,
a. ~. zoo p. N. 1855 p. il.
For Petersburg: l2:bv A. NJ. SAX
s;is a. ~, s:Vv A.; Al. .t;sV A. ST.. Avs
sh:,sa Nj NO :; Nj tt;lo !: : 6;tt r, IL.
For GoidAboto and taye,ievilis: 400 =.
For H%GPe~s, S:is a. NJ. .l.ls p. n.
Trains arrive Richmond daily: sos A. ~.
s!lS a. NJ. s:lb A. NJ. S:35 A. n. il:Ic
a.. A.; gao r. H.: ti:to p. NJ. s:l7P. IL.
S;39 4. NJ. 7A5 T. IL. 900 p. " il:lo
Except. Sunday. tSunday only.
Time OF arrival and DC ua-tu:e ana ro,.
nections not guaranteed
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06
FARMVIlLE'S PICNIC;
WAY FOLKS ENJOYED 1T
Town Saw the PeopIc and
Took Much Care OF Them
I'm Day Time.

FARMV1LLE, VA. August 5.-Thc
picnic that was held this week by the
Farmville end OF the Farmers Union
was undoubtedly one of the most sue
cessful given in this vicinity for many
n long day.
The program for the day a not
been announced and the members Of
the other county locals were invited
TO join the Farmville local in a basket
picnic at Pickett Springs.
The day dawned cool and overcast
and the members of the various locals
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06
WAY DOWN IN CAROLINA
People IN No Way Di.couraSed by the
F1oods-Gctting Ready for
New Business.

RALEIGH, n. c., August b.-Look-
Ing at the flood situation from all Of
its local and general destructive points,
it is a source OF congratulation that
tho damage was confined TO 4 very
small part OF the territory visited by
the great storm. AS a matter of fact,
the storm hit n very small part Of the
Old North state, n the good folks
of this immediate region arc congratu-
latinR themselves that they were be-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06
yond tho confines OF the storm. and Tor
that they are sufficiently thankful.
GETTING OVER OVERFLOW
All Things Getting Busy, md Wheels
of machinery Turn Again
After Flood.

RALEIGH, N. c., August THE
gratifying report \comes that the
Henry River Manufacturing Company.
OF Western Carolina, will reconstruct
Its cotton-yarn mill recently damaged
by flood, three-story 160x75-foot stand
ard mill construction building. costing
S6o,o0o: S,on0 producing spindles and
machinery. costing s115,-
0oo. including 100000 water-power plant
with rope drive.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06

The government of British North
Borneo has employed an expert from
the United States to make Il general
survey of the timber possibilities of
that country. 1t does not require the
service of a government expert to dis
cover the timber possibilities of Lunon-
burg County, that part Of II contiguous
to tho good town of Victoria, which
should be. and could easily become. the
woodworking capital of Southside
Virginia.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RY-

Main Line. Local. .s5 "tst p.
James River Line. .In:oo a. go ~.
Newport News. Local. 200 on -
rrains arrive from Nix. .Il:oo a.. .iI:ts p p.
rs:ao p. \; News, .s:55 a. 500 y. From;
40 p. daily from Charlottesville erc.p;
sunday from Thurmond. Jas. River. 1s:sps
.Daily. tExccpt EundaN -'H
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06
RAILROADS
Richmond and Chesapeake Bay Railway Compap,

supeIssdin9 schedule Of April u, 1914.
Sehednie subjest to Change without
Trains leave Richmond h.5:5o A. NJ, .7
p. 81. 2 r. NJ. 3 NJ. bi r. IL snso M d
~ NJ S;?o p, II; 1910 r. ". bs p. 81. 10 p.
Trains leave Ashland $3.50 A. ~. b.r
al 3 a; NJ: b. a NJ. 10 A. NJ, .'ii a. n.
NJ" b5;2o p. NJ. $40 p. III. T:io PiM !;
z. NJ. bo L. NJ, II p. 81. W.
,sCaIr!es baggage. .Daiiy except Sunday.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06

An air-propelled h%ydroplane has been
built in Franco for use on shallow
rivers in Africa. That kind of a shin
ought to be very popular on the raging
waters Of tho Dan and Staunton Rivers
in Virginia.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06
VIEWS AND NEAR-WEWS;
HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
Virginia Towns and Automobile Build
fng-Lun,ber Interest Needs
Development.

Readers of the News OF Fifty Years
AGO" have been Interested for "a week
or more in the stories Of the comple-
ton OF the Atlantic cable, the sending
of the first messages. etc. To-day
there arc 100000 miles Of telegraph
cable underlying the oceans of the
earth. Wonder what will be the story
fifty years from now.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06

South Boston opens up this month as
an automobile manufacturing town.
Richmond is already In the automobile
swim. Farmville. Victoria, Petersburg,
Suffolk. Danvillc and half a dozen other
Virginia towns know how. or can learn.
to make automobiles. There is no law
forbidding Virginia to be as great an
misunderstanding state as Michigan.
Why shouldn't she?
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06

There is no State in better shape thar
Virginia to take advantage OF the good
roads appropriation that has been voted
by Congress. NirEinia's share of tho
hrst-ycar fund is close to 100000. and
Virginia is going to put up dollar for
dollar. according to tho law. What
county will be the first TO get busy on
this proposition?
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-06
MEXICO SOLVING
MONEY PROBLEM
Pesqueira Says Government
Has $2O,OOO,OOO Gold Re-
serve Behind Currency.

Robert V. Pesqueira. subsecretary OF
secretary for the Constitutionalist gov
eminent Of Mexico, arrived in Ell Paso
Sunday afternoon from Eagle Pass. and
after brief conference with Gen. Al
varo Obregon. left for Douglas. Ariz..
where he will meet Sr. Luis Cabrera,
minister of finance in Carranza's cab
met The two financial representatives
of the new regime in Mexico are said
to be in the United States for the pur-
pose Of completing details for a finan-
cial program that Will rehabilitate the
economic conditions of Mexico. Pes
guerra stated that it would only be a
short time before the money problem
in the southern republic would be
solved; and that already the Constitu-
tionalists had a S2O.0O0,O0O gold reserve
with which to guarantee paper money.
To Control Resources.
At the same time comes the unofficial
Information from Queretaro that in the
new program Of economic reform for
Mexico, the title to natural resources
are to heeafter be vested in the gov
eminent rather than in individuals: and
that the first Of these great natural
reservoirs of wealth to be converted
to the use Of the government will be
the oil interests.
While no confirmation of this re-
port has been received Andres Garcia,
consul to FL Paso. says that he has
heard that the taking over Of the oil
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-06
j. s. ENDORSES
BABY WEEK WORK
Efforts Undertaken by the
Women's Club Has APP
proval of Government.
II JULIA G. LATHROP.
Chief U. S. Children's Bureau.)

as Baby Week'-March 4-11-the
business of a government bureau2"
The observing taxpayer is perhaps ask
ing this question.
Ever since last October when the
General Federation of WOmen's clubs
announced its plan, an increasing pro-
portion of the bureaus office force
has been detailed to the correspondence
required by the growing interest in the
nation wide observance of Baby
Week"
There are many million fathers and
mothers in the United States, including
many of the best educated fathers and
mothers. who have never read a statis-
teal table and never will. Yet hidden
within the figures of the bureaus re-
ports on infant mortality the reading
OF which they will successfully evade,
lie stern facts about the Dangers which
beset American babies.
These figures give n clue to the
reasons why on the great average.
one baby in eight dies before the end
Of the first year of life.
II the bureau is to investigate and
to report as the law directs, then il
must try to find ways oil reporting
which will be heard by the whole pub
lie which it was created to serve.
Inc popular methods of the Baby
Week" which are those of all astuts
advertisers, form an invaluable method
of reporting to the parents of this ma
ton those standards Of infant welfare
which experts are endeavOring tc make
clear
The Baby Week" emphasizes the
constructive side Of infant care. It
addresses not only individual parents
but communities.
The best test OF its value will be
the work that follows it.
Undoubtedly every state board of
health should secure what only six
states have at present. special divis-
lon Of child hygiene. No city or town
should fail to provide instructive nurs-
ing service and to pay constant heed
to the problems of hygiene and SANTA
ton, Of proper housing and of recrea-
ton spaces, since all these Immediately
affect the welfare OF infants.
There are 3009 counties in the United
states. In every county seat there
should be center for the health work
of that county, station for examining
babies, and older children, and for
furnishing expert advice for keeping
them well-in short, a health teaching
center.
We must have complete birth regis
tration
All these will be Institutions for the
common use-nO more revolutionary,
no more eleemosynary, than public
schools and weather bureaus and agrf-
cultural experiment stations.
The New Zealand infant mortality /
rate is less than one half of ours and !
is being further reduced.
Why take less pains for American
babies than New Zealand takes?
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-06
O1Lnndn To BE First.
MEXICAN RAILROAD MEN
STRIKE FOR HIGHER PAY

Torreon, Mex, March Railway
traffic is partially paralyzed here by
a strike of local employees Of the Mex
lean National railways who are de-
handing higher wages and at least
partial pay in silver
The strike. it is understood, includes
Chihuahua City, to which point a num-
Der Of enginemen were sent several
days ago to take places Of the strikers.
Only one train has left here since
Saturday. That was a private train,
which carried a number Of foreign
women and 400 tons of cotton seed
which will be exchanged for corn and
other food stuffs under government
guarantee.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-06
REBEL BAND IS DEFEATED:
LEADER TO BE EXECUTED

TOrreOn, COahuila, Mex, March g.
Gen. Francisco Gonzales, who arrived
today from Tampico reported thar a
rebel band under margarine Salinas
had been routed south Of Matamora.
with a loss of is killed Col. Julio
Garcia. an Insurgent who was granted
amnesty when the Villa troops sur
rendered at Parral last December, was
captured and will be courtmartialed
and executed.
l. NJ. Ullmer. former American consul
has been appointed a special agent TO
classify and sell cotton seed, which
under a special government decree,
will be shipped to Eagle Pass and ex-
changed for fOOdstuffs to relieve the
distress among the people of this sec
ton of Mexico.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-06
TAKE GARRANzA
MONEY, |SORDER
Governor Enriquez Threat
ems to Punish Chihua-
hua Merchants.

business men Of Chihuahua city have
been advised by Gov. Ygnaclo Enriques
that if they refuse to accept Carranza
currency as legal currency they will
be subjected 20 punishment. The COM
munication did not state what the pun
ishment is to be Gov. Enriques has
also issued a decree multiplying all ad-
ministrative and judicial acts of an
economic and civil character that were
issued during the regimes of Huerta,
Villa and Carbaial
Government Employees Ask silver.
Government employees at Chihuahua
City have petitioned the governor to
pay them part in silver, and the mat
ter is under advisement, according to a
dispatch received by the Mexican con-
sulate here.
The dispatch states also that condi-
tions are quiet in the Cusihuiriachic,
MADEIRA and Casas Grandes sections:
and Gen. Francisco EspinOza, ex-chief
OF the armies at CarmorgO, has been
called from TOrreon 70 Queretaro for a
conference with the first chief.
No cases of typhus fever or small
poX are said to exist in Chihuahua.
For business
For Baggage
For Pleasure
Tel 3500-The Jitney Company.
II. ID. Camp, ReceIver.-Adv.