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The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
ENDLESS CHAIN OF CURI0S
is FOUND IN YELLOWSTONE
Geysers Constitute Only One Of Many
Phenomena to Be Seen in Uncle
Sans Greatest Playground.

Uncle Sam thinks that while it Is
often said that Everybody knows
about Yellowstone Park" there is still
much misconception about this great
est playground of the United States
To remove this misconception is the
object of a new book issued by the
interior department.
Secretary Franklin Il. Lanes pur-
pose in issuing the new literature cali
ing attention to the Yellowstone is
made plain in the initial pages. "In
the first place." states the department,
''few look upon the Yellowstone as
reservation that has anything but gey-
sers. Nothing could be further from
the truth. While there are, of course,
more geysers within its boundaries
than in all other parts of the earth
combined, so many other features are
to be found there that the park can
not properly be exploited solely as a
land of geysers.
"There is an endless chain of curios,
nature phenomena, multicolored stones,
grasses and other things that appeal to
all classes in the Yellowstone. In Its
$500 square miles many species of ami
mails abound, and there Is no limit to
the landscape scenery that delights the
red-blooded American. Located in the
heart of the Rockies, its plumage Is,
withal, most alluring to nature-lovers,
and its interior so abounds in the I'M
usual that it is Il place that presents
almost every conceivable form of at
traction for tourists"
Almost at the very arch separating
the outside world from the park. as
one leaves Gardiner, the scenic gran
deur of the Yellowstone becomes man
ifest. The trip to mammoth Hot
Springs, five miles away, transforms
the weary traveller from the open world
to what often has been called 'the
land of fairies." This bewilderment
continues for the entire journey
through the famous trails and high
ways that the government has made
possible for the education and enter
tainment of its citizens.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
AMERICAS COTTON CROP
TOOK BIG DROP IN 1915
Uncle Sans Figures, Just Given Out.
Show Production Smaller Than
in Any Year Since 1909.

The American cotton crop of 1915
was the smallest grown since 1909, ac-
cordlng to Uncle Sans figures. A
bulletin just issued by the bureau of
census shows the crop of 1915 to have
been equivalent to IL, ,101, $50 five-hun-
dred-pound bales. This was nearly s.
100000 bales, or more than 80 per
cent, less than the preceding years
crop. The production in every state
showed decrease, the greatest pro-
portionally being in Oklahoma, where
the crop of 1915 was only trifle more
than half as large as that of 1914.
Although cotton is grown in IS
states, the combined product of four
Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, and
Alabama nearly two
thirds of the total crop of 1915.
Texas alone produced 1927, ,4S0
bales, or more than one-sixth of the
total. Other states producing large
crops We're South Carolina, with l, ,133,-
019 bales; Alabama, 1,O2O,S30 bales
Mississippi, 953,9G5 bales; Arkansas,
S16O02 bales; North Carolina, 600, ,494
bales; and Oklahoma. 639,626 bales.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
WHOLE TOWNS MOVED
Uncle Sam Undertakes Task of
Clearing Canal Zone.
Government Buys Holdings of Natives
and Moves Them to New Loea-
tions Provided in Panama.

Uncle Sam is playing after a fashion
in the Panama Canal Zone the part
that the English played more than a
century ago in moving the Acadians
bodily from an old to new home.
Twentieth-century methods and Amer
lean liberality are important elements
in the present situation, however, so
that satisfaction reigns instead of the
heart-burnings and sufferings that
marked the enforced migration of
Evangeline and her people.
The United States government de-
sires to clear the Canal Zone of all na-
tives, and of practically all other per-
sons, for that matter, not employees of
the canal or members of the United
States army. This is desirable for
both administrative and military rea-
sons.
The matter of buying the little plots
of land of individual farmers" and in
ducing them to leave the zone has
been simple enough, but the Villages
have presented more serious problems.
The plan has been adopted of arrang-
ing with the Panama government for
sites outside the strip of territory be-
longing to the United States, of pay
ing the villagers literally for their
holdings, and then moving them, bag
and baggage, to the new location.
The latest procedure of this sort is
going on now in the transfer of the
half hundred or more souls of the
village of Chagres, near the mouth of
the river of that name, to new town.
site eight miles outside of the zone, at
the mouth of another stream. The
American authorities have even built
temporary homes for the eXiles to oc-
cupy during the period required to in
vest some of the money they have re-
ceived in the erection of permanent
dwellings, The villagers and their ef
fects are loaded on barges and towed
to their new homes. When the last of
them are gone the old village will be
raZed.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15

Until about eight years ago, DIR.
Charles A. Holder was curing the
aches and pains of considerable
clientele at Colorado Springs, Colo.
Now in his capacity as foreign trade
adviser, he is one of the most impor-
tant cogs in the state department ma
chine. During the past few months,
Doctor Holder, through what has come
to be known as the "back door of the
state department" has secured the re-
lease of millions of dollars worth of
American goods held up by the Brit
ish blockade.
Doctor Holder was consul at
Cologne, Germany, when the war broke
out, but ut that time he was desper-
ately i'll at Dieppe, France. He was
removed on n stretcher to London,
where he gradually recovered his
health. He was serving as assistant
to Robert P. Skinner, United Suites
consul general at London, when Of
fered his present position by Secretary
of State Lansing.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
ALL TYPES OF FORESTS HERE
Transition From Lowland to Extreme
Alpine Character Seen in Mount
Rainier National Park.

One of the interesting features of n
visit to Mount Ruinier National park
Is the transition of the forset from the
towland to the extreme Alpine type,
says q. F. Allen, In n pamphlet Ell
utled "Forests of Mount liainier Ma
tlonal Park" just issued by the de-
partment of the Interior. "At the
western boundary close to Nisqually
civer." says MIR. Allen, "the road skirts
che base of the lightly timbered ridges
and passes into forest of large and
and old Douglas FIR and western hem
took. After the road crosses the
talnler fork, noble fir and amabilis
dr appear. but the Douglas fir ana
western hemloc5 are still the prevail
ing species. Above Longmire Springs
the noble and amabllls fir, mixed with
western hemloclI, become the predom-
lnant type. Above Narada Falls the
forest Is more open and the trees are
stl!l smaller. Mountain hemlock and
Alpine fir succeed the trees of the
tower slope. The glades and meadows
become larger and more numerous and
the traveller soon enters the open park
of paradise valley in which are but
scattered groves of trees"
The remarkable development of the
forests about the base of Mount
Rainier results from climatic conditions
peculiarly favorable to tree growth.
The ocean winds that pass through the
gaps of the Coast range are laden
with moisture which falls in the form
of rain or snow on the west slope of
the Cascades. The trees are nour-
lshed by this moisture through long
season OF annual growth and form an
evergreen forest which is. in some re-
spects. the most remarkable in the
world
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
MARINES SET SPEED RECORD
Made in Trip From San Francisco
to Peking, China.

A squad of Uncle Sans marines set
new record for transpacific travel
from San Francisco to PelSing by the
southern route in recent trip In
which SO hours were clipped off the
former record. The squad was COM
posed of Corp. John Alexander and IA
privates of the marine corps, assigned
to duty with the American legation
guard of marines at Peklng. The party
left San Francisco on an army trans
sport, and at Guam, Mariana islands.
transshipped to the U. S. S. Brooklyn.
which took the marines to Shanghai.
They travelled from Shanghai to Peking
by rail. They made the trip in 81 days,
while the best previous record was 80
s.---
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
Remarkable Result of Expert
ments Made in Uncle Sans
Laboratory.
FOREST WASTE is UTILIZED
silk Socks, Milk Bottles and Other
Articles of Commerce Alco Are
Being Manufactured Now
From Sawmill Refuse.

Biscuits made with sawdust baking
powder may be one of the delicacies
served upon the American table, if
experiments being made by Uncle Sam
IN his forest products laboratory mt
Madison. Wis, are successful. The
experiments. in fact. already have
proved successful, for biscuits made
with this new baking powder recently
we're served TO members of the Nation
al Lumber Manufacturers association
who visited the laboratory.
This forest products laboratory,
which Is one of the most remarkable
institutions maintained by Uncle Sam,
ITS object being TO promote efficiency
in the lumber industry by reclamation
Of part of the present waste, has been
cechristened. unoniclally, the "sawdust
laboratory" In view of the amazing
work that ~ being done for the con-
version or S. wdust and other lumber
waste into valuable articles of com
merce. especially the development of
methods of reducing the present print
paper famine.
Here are some Of the lines along
which the "sawdust laboratory" is
working, in addition to the production
Df sawdust baking powder:
The improvement of present meth
ods of conversion of mill waste into
artificial silk. Americas product of
sawdust silk socks being valued ut
s5,500,000 In 1915. In addition the
same department of the laboratory Is
turning Sawmill waste into binding
twinc. rope, woven furniture of the
woven willow type, milk bottles,
woven mating rugs.
The production of the strongest pa
per ever made in simpler manner
from the waste OF southern pine. The
new process, If used generally would
Increase paper production in the
South 10000 tons daily.
Making grain alcohol from the wood
waste, with acetic and other standard
acids and chemicals.
Not the least important demonstra-
tion made for the benefit of the lum-
herman was that of how wooden
. houses can be made fireproof by re
tardant chemicals. Two houses of the
size Oh an average ONCE were erected,
one with treated wood, the other with
untrcated. 1t was shown that despite
an enormous heat, the treated build
ing escaped without charring In the
fnce of Il temperature of 900 degrees.
Methods of chemically treating wood
60 make IL noninaammable are being
worked on by the laboratory.
IN nrtt, tc,
IN broader scale, and the working
out in the real commercial plants of
laboratory methods such as those de-
geloped at this demonstration that led
The National Association of Lumber
manufacturers TO ask congress to add
$4,000 to the present $4,000 appro-
priation for the laboratory. The addi-
don is needed chiefly to expedite ex-
perimcnts in meeting the paper fam
the. which otherwise would have to be
carried on at the expense of work in
freprooflng wood, and similar expert
meuts.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
NEW MAP SHOWS YOUR HOUSE
Uncle Sam, in Publications, Has un-
dertaken to Show Details of Every
Settled Locality.

DO you know that Uncle Sam has
made a map upon which is shown the
eXnct location of your home-unless
you live in laI sc city where the
houses are so close together that 1t
is impossible to show them separately
on an ordinary map?
This Is n new idea of Uncle Sans,
and one about which little has been
said. The government divided the en-
tire United States into small sections
aid has mapped each section on such
n large scale that all roads, forests,
streams, schools. churches and dwell
ing houses are shown. The work has
not yet been completed, and not all the
United States has been mapped ut this
time. but the greater part of the set
tied areas of the country has been COW
cred.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15

Uncle Sam has just completed an
other engineering achievement that
ranks among the greatest in the
world" This is the Elephant Butte
dam, the principal engineering feature
in what is known as the Rio Grande
project in New Mexico and Texas.
There are higher dams and wider
dams but the Elephant Butte dam is
the greatest storage dam in the world.
Its reservoir when full, will contain
S5G billion gallons, or enough water
TO cover the state of Delaware two
feet deep. This is third more than
is stored by the $17,000.000 Assuan
dam in Egypt and two-thirds more
than the combined capacity of all the
reservoirs built or projected for Great
er New York city.
The Elephant Butte dam Is 31S
feet high and 1,674 feet wide. 1t con-
tains 100000 cubic yards of rubble
concrete and weighs n million tons.
Placed on a city lot 25 by 125 feet,
it would make solid block of con-
crete lacking only so feet of being a
mile high. 1t cost approximately $5,-
100000.
1t is estimated that 100000 acres of
land will be irrigated by this great
dam.
Lifting the curtain of the past and
looking down the line of twenty years,
ture The Peacemaker,' says @. J..
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
SAVING OLD PAPER AND RAGS
Uncle Sam Has Issued Booklet Show
ing How Waste Material Can Be
Sold to Advantage.

Uncle Sam says that anyone may re-
cover n little of the money which he
is forced to pay out because of higher
prices resulting from the war by saw
ing old paper and rags. These are
valuable today because of the fact
that the United States cannot now Sc
cure papermaking material from Eu-
rope.
The government has issued book
let telling what to save and how to
save 1t, with suggestions as to the best
means of dlsposing of waste paper
and rags. This waste material Is
more valuable east of the Mississippi
river and in the cities owing to the
smaller expense of getting 1t into the
paper mills.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
GREAT SUM REALIZED FROM
SCRAP METAL AND Dresses
Value of Products Obtained From One
Kind of Waste That Is Not
Wasted s1t4, ,3o4, $50 in 1915.

There is some waste material in the
United States that is not wasted, says
Uncle Sam.
The value of the copper, lead, zinc,
tin, aluminium, and antimony recoy-
cred from scrap metals, skimmings,
and Dresses in 1915 was S114,30403O,
against $57,039,7O6 in 1914, a 100 per
cent increase. This large gain was
caused by greater recoveries and much
higher average values for all metals.
Increased traffic on the railroads and
a large demand for metal products,
made 1915 the most prosperous year
in the waste metal trade.
The imperative demand for zinc and
copper by munitiOn manufacturers and
for foreign trade made spot metal very
scarce. Secondary metals not desired
for these purposes were generally
available for domestic uses when vir-
gin metal could not be purchased for
prompt delivery. The incentive of
high prices caused all metal wastes to
be more carefully saved, segregated,
and refined. Many manufacturers who
had considered virgin metals only as
suitable for their needs found that
they could use considerable scrap pro-
vided they selected suitable material
and used good Judgment in it's treat
meDt.
The increased output of secondary
tin, lead. and aluminium, says a state
ment issued by the United States
geological survey, was normally to be
expected under the improved condi-
tions of business, and the proportion
ally larger increase in the recoveries
of zinc, copper, and antimony were
due in part to the foreign demand for
pig metal or for manufactured goods
containing the metals named.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
WAGE SCALES HIGHER
Working Hours Also Reduced at
Same Time, Says Uncle Sam.
Changes in 1915, as Compared
With the Previous Year.

A gradual increase in wages and
reduction in working hours is shown
in bulletin issued by Uncle Sam,
setting forth the union scale of wages
and hours of labor for so of the prin-
cipal trades in AZ of the leading cities
of the United States prevailing in
May 1915. The scales shown are
those of the printing, soft-drink and
teaming trades.
The average rate of wages per week
for all cities taken collectively was
higher on May 1, 1915, than on May l.,
1914, for Al of the trades reported.
In A trades there was no change and
in only one was it lower.
AS to changes in hours of labor,
10 trades showed reduction of hours
between May, 1914, and May, 1915
20 reported no change and none re-
ported an increase.
Considering some of the more i'm
portant trades, the following increases
in weekly rates of pay between May,
1914, and May, 1915, are noted: Bak-
ers, 1 per cent; beer bottlers, 3 per
cent; carpenters, per cent; hod car
riers, 1 per cent; roofers, per cent !;
steamfitters, 2 per cent; painters
hardwood finishers), 4 per cent; cleo
trotypers (battery men and builders),
3 per cent; electrotypers (finishers
and molders), 2 per cent; cOmpOsitOrs
(book and job, ! per cent; web press
men (newspaper), l per cent.
The highest scales per hour paid in
May, 1915, in few of the principal
trades were as follows: Bricklayers,
S75 cents, in Dallas, Houston and
San Francisco; carpenters, 65 cents in
Chicago and Kansas City; portable
and hoisting engineers rs cents in
Chicago, st. Louis and San Francisco !;
hod carriers, 30 cents, in Portland, st.
Louis, Salt Lake City, San Franciso
and Spokane; inside wiremen, 70
cents, in st. Louis; painters, 20 cents,
in Chicago; plasterers, S7.5 cents, in
Dallas, Houston and San Francisco !;
plumbers and gasfitters, 10 cents, in
Birmingham, Chicago, Dallas, Hous-
ton, Portland, st. Louis, Salt Lake
City, San Francisco and Seattle !;
stone cutters, 20 cents, in Cleveland
and Indianapolis; granite cutters, 6S.S
cents, in New York, Salt Lake City,
San Francisco and Seattle; linotype
operators (Hebrew, book and job),
1873 cents, in New York; compositors
(Engllsh newspapers), day work, rs
cents, in Seattle.
In 1915 the union scales in the bak-
ing trade show hours in some locali-
ties as low as 4S per week, but gen
orally they are higher. The building
and stone trades in n great majority
of the cities have an eight-hour day
and most of these trades also have a
Saturday half holiday either for the
whole year or part of the year.
The hours of labor in the metal
trades range from A to 60 per week,
81 being the predominant hours. The
printing trades in the book and job
offices have an eight-hour day in near
ly all the cities covered, and in the
newspaper Offices all trades have an
eight-hour day or less.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15

Blanchard, statistician of the reclama-
ton service. "The initiation of this
work brought to an end as nothing
else could have done an international
and interstate controversy which fire.
quently threatened the comfy of ma
tions, and in recurring years of wa
ter shortage often resulted in person
al violence. The building of the dam
Guieted claim of $300OO,OOO for dam
ages to Mexican property and brought
into close and friendly relations the
citizens of the Rio Grande valley in
New Mexico and Texas. For this ac-
complishment alone the dam has well
repaid its cost.
The dream of nearly quarter of n
century has now become reality. A
turbulent. erratic, and whimsical
river has been controlled and through
the coming years will be made to min
lister to the wants of thousands of
families. A valley, wherein irriga-
ton began in period too remote for
historical record, where tillage of
crops was old when Montezuma sat
upon his throne, where war and
drOuth have often decimated the popu-
lation in earlier times, is now about
to usher In an era of permanent pros
perity based upon scientific agricul-
ture. Fertile soil, favorable climate,
and assurance of perpetual and abund-
ant water are guarantees that ample
rewards will follow industry"
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
Pretty Custom of Marines
May Be Made Law.

The pretty custom of render
ing an officers salute to all vet
Grams of the Civil war when they
are recognized on the street,
started by enlisted men of the
United States marine corps, may
be made compulsory for all en-
listed men of whatever service
arm if the joint resolution in-
troduced into the house by Rep
resentative l.. G. Dyer of Mis-
souri, passes.
Sergt. Edward A. Callan of
the United States marine corps
is the author of the resolution
which will require enlisted men.
of the army, navy and marine
corps to salute the veterans of
war from 1861 to 1865.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
Pottery Industry Prospers.

The pottery industry in the United
States made considerable progress in
1915. as compared with 1911, says
Uncle Sam. The output of the pot
teries OF the country in :915 was val
ued at $37 ,2S9, ,456, an increase of more
than five per cent over the previous
year, and the largest ever recorded, ex-
cepting 1913.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
Farm ImpIement output erowa.

Agricultural implements to the vaIue
of $16S,120,G32 were manufactured In
the United States in 1914, says Uncle
Sam. The census of 1909 showed a
production valued at $149,31S,544, the
increase In five years amounting to
$1S.S02.0S8 or 1913 Der cent.
The evening world., 1916-12-22

ney Lewis to-day and presented the
B. Il. T. side. lie admitted orders
had been issued by the Public Ser
vice Commission concerning the heat
ing OF cars. which had been ignored
by the y. r. T., but said the orders
had not been carried u for the
reason that the Il. II. T. hasn't sufi-
Client electric current TO run It's cars
and heat them. too. In the rush hours.
one Of the Il. r.. +. 10000 kilowatt dy-
namos broke down some time ago. The
company gave an order for a 10000 Kill
owatt dynamo to replace II and the
new dynamo was 20 have been installed
In a power house Sept. J. To max
wcv for the new dynamo the company
removed not only the 10000 kilowatt
dynamo. hut another Of 1900 kilowatt
producing power.
The contractors. according to Mr..
Marsh. did not deliver the new dyna-
mo and cannot deliver 1t before Feb.
| OF next year. The old 10000 kilowatt
dynamo has been relnstalled. but Is
unreliable and frequently breaks down.
Mr., Marsh claims that, when the
| city entered into partnership with the
| Mutual Railways Co, a Il. r. r. sub
sidlary, for the construction and
operation OF FL" and subway extern.
sions in Brooklyn and Manhattan,
the y. n. T. offered TO supply power
| for the new lines at a certain price.
| The Public Service Commission didn't
accept the offer or refuse II, but has
been negotiating for power elsewhere.
Consequently, Mr.. Marsh says. the
y. Il. T. has been unable to proceed
with the erection OF power houses.
which may not he used. In the mean
time, the B. II. r. is operating this
winter tho Fourth Avenue Subway
and various IL" extensions in add
ton to tho regular lines OF the com
pany and has Just been ordered &c
put on more cars.
The B. II. T., Mr.. Marsh says
although operating these new unit,
has less power than 1t had las
winter. At certain hours. he says
It takes all tho power the compan,
can generate just TO move the cars
At these times there Ia no power To-
heating purposes.
District Attorney Lewis intends q
find out IL the -. r. T. or the Publ,
Service Commission Ia guilty Of freez
ing the citizens OF Brooklyn.
The evening world., 1916-12-22
WAITS IN JAlL 7 MONTHS.

Woman Goes To Cell on Lawyers
Advice ana IL F~orgotten.
Mrs. Marie KRISTEN. hfty-cight years
do. who has been In the Raymond
street Jail. Brooklyn. for contempt OF
court. since June s, was released to-day.
Judgment was had against Mrs.
KRISTEN and on the advice OF her law
yer. she refused to execute q NOR gage
on her property. pending an appeal.
which was never taken. She was sent
to hear from her lawyer. whose name
she cant remember.
Warden Matthew Meagher Of tho jail
brought the attention of Sheriff ReiEel-
mann to her case q few days ago. and
the matter was adjusted.