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no. great, and when a sea captain ask
ed him to go before the mast he be-
over a great part of the world. He was
wrecked several times. and in going
from the Island of st. Helena around
the Cape of Good Hope his ship sprang
aleak and the men had to work the
pumps for 1000 miles, from there to
Bombay. He finally rose to be quar-
termaster of an English steamer and
then came back home.
A little later he struck out for the
west, and when some of the first gold
mines of the Yukon were discovered he
was in Seattle. One of his friends at
that time was Frank Slavin. the bare
knuckle champion prizefghter of the
world. ! am not sure,> but ! think
Boyle was Slavn's trainer and man.
ager. At any rate, the two started to
Alaska together. They "mushed" 1t
from Dyea over the mountains and got
to the Klondke shortly after gold was
discovered. Boyle and Slavin worked
together for a time and Boyle was
afterward engaged in placer mining
with Swift-water Bill "Swift-water"
made several fortunes which he fritz
tered away. Mr.. Boyle was superin-
tendent of his mines.
Joe Boyle was twenty-eight years old
at this time. He was not doing as well
as he had hoped at his mining and he
Conceived CO CO, the idea that m there there was wal a a
fortune to be made in the earth after
the miners had left, and also in the
timber that then covered great part
of the Klondike valley. It was as far
hill above the klondike river and de-
bated as to the size of the tract he
would lease. He determined to take
all of the land within sight, and then
made out the papers for the gold ter
ritory which he now has.
He also made claim for the timber.
The latter was ten miles in length, ex-
tending through and beyond the terri
tory which he is now mining. Every
laughed at the mining property,
but he had to fight for his timber AS
soon as his application was known his
competitors at Dawson saw the author
tiles and had them require him to
stake out the whole ten miles of his
property. This was when the claim
was just on the edge of being perfect
ed, and the announcement was made
at 3 o'clock in the afternoon before the
last day required. Boyle started on
foot that afternoon and tramped all
night. blazing his way and marking
the limits He had to wade through
swamps, blaze the trees and drive
stakes. The work was exhausting. but
he kept on until he thought he had
marked out not less than fifteen miles.
He got back to Dawson at 9 o'clock
the next morning. only to find num-
ber of men ready to jump his claim IL
it had not been staked. When the
claim was measured according to law.
it was found that his stakes fell short
only twenty feet of the ten miles al
lotted. After that he started saw
mills. He got 500 a thousand, and
made money out of his lumber and
wood He has now from this same
claim the timbers he uses in his dredg-
ing operations. and has a sawmill con-
nected with his electric plant at North
Fork. where lumber Is sawed by cleo
tricity.
1t was his lumber profits that gave
Mr.. Boyle the money that enabled him
to go to see capitalists and finance his
mining concessions. He first formed
an alliance with the Rothschilds, by
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ton as soon the allies regained con-
troll of il.
Big American agricultural machinery
works are situated at Roubatx. The
expectation has been that they would
contribute to the reha bi1itation of
French agriculture soon as RoubaiX
was taken out of the war zone.
All the time the terrific fighting has
been going on French industries have
been reviving from the first shock of
the war.
Last midwinter The ministry of la Dor
reported that above so per cnt of the
factories of the country were in opera
tion, with about IS per cent of the ordi-
nary number of workingmen having
employment Since then there has been
further improvement
1t passes almost without comment
that in France. as in others of the war
ring countries, women are taking the
place of men in employments which
formerly were thought untitled for
them. In that way the loss of indus
trial workers, due to military service.
has been partly mitigated. Some indus
tries, however, are of such a nature
that it is not possible to replace skilled
workers who have gone to the front
Not long ago the bottle deficit in
France was commented on as one of the
queer economic incidents due to the
war The country was said to be short
by some 235,O00,000 bottles. This was
not wholly due to the occupatio of
part of the glass-producing territory
by the Germans, nor to the shortage in
glass sand and potash. The glass in
dustries in departments that were not
invaded were seriously affected by the
withdrawal of skilled workmen
through mobilization. 1t was said that
the mobilization of one skilled glass
blower put an entire furnace out of
business.
Women helped out in some Of the
districts, but they could not wholly
replace the skilled man workers. The
United States, Brazil anad Spain were
drawn on to meet this deficiency by
bottle makers in the Cognac district,
while Arabs and Kabyles were brought
from Algeria by glass-makers in other
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districts. In consequence. wages went
soaring to the point where some of the
industries found it impossible to keep
up their production.
An economic compenSa ton for the
bottle shortage was the reduction in
the demand through the growth of the
temperance movement and the stern
measures of the government to stop the
sale of absinthe and other forms of
alcohol which were considered detri-
mental to the physical and mental well
fare of the soldiers. The measures
taken against the sale of alcohol re-
suited in the diminution of the con-
sumption of bottles used in that line
by one-half
The French textile industries are
among those which at first made a
very slow recovery. While metals.
chemicals. leather and the transporta-
tion industries were among the first to
revive and to reach something like
normal production. the textile indus
cause so many of the plants were in
the hands of the enemy. combination
of causes had resulted in complete de-
moraliZation.
provement has been reported in the
textile industries also, particularly in
the manufacture of cloth. Fine dress
goods also are coming into their own
again. and Paris fashions are. If any
thing, more profitable than ever. The
Lyon silk industry is said to be re-
viving.
The cotton mills get all the raw
cotton they want from the United
States and Egypt. and tho rr.."Tehip
of England enables an ampl2 supply
of Australian wool to be had, supple
menting that obtained from other
wool-growing countries, including Uru-
quay and the Argentine Republic, in
South America.
French agriculture was sorely stricken
by the sweep of the German armies
and the continued military occupation
of some of the most fertile sections
In the regions where the trench war
fare is most savage the resumption of
agricultural pursuits is, of course, i'm
possible. No economist has yet ven
tured to estimate the permanent dam
age to French agriculture in the sec
tions which are now mere labyrinths
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WINE SHOP IN THE WAR DISTRICT.

so profitable. yet they are still large
and furnish a normal basis of ex-
change for the French specialties which
form so large a part of the trade with
South America. A large part of Ar
gentine purchases from France are
transported by means of parcels post
and there has been no serious inter
ruption to this traffic.
In the case of Brazil, the purchases
were similar to those of Argentina
that is, mainly high-grade dress goods
and Partisan specialties. This trade
fell off because Brazil was very hard
up, and even her wealthy people found
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mills were put in active operation,
making material for the German SOL
diers. With the coal area now the
scene of fierce warfare, and with the
tremendous artillery fire that is an
incident to it. there is not likely to be
much done in the way of factory out
put.
French leaders of industry are espe-
cially anxious to regain the manufac-
turing centers at Lille and Roubaix. 1t
was understood that the French COM
mission which visited the United States
a few months ago placed orders for
machinery to be shipped to this sec
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- INCE 1 have come to Canada I
have acquired a contempt for
Aladdin. At every step here I
W am meeting common, everyday
men who are ensiaving genii a million
times mightier than those of the Ara
bian Nights. They rub the lamps Of
their genius and palaces of mechanical
wonder spring forth almost in a night.
They give their orders and change the
course of river. They raise their
hands and valleys are turned upside
down. They even send their minions
into the stony ice vaults that have been
locked since the age of the glaciers to
bring forth the gold SO long held by
Jack Frost.
1t is such men who are conQuering
nature in the valley of the klondike,
who are ripping the skin from the ribs
of old Mother Earth and picking out
the gold that lies next her bones. l
have already written of the Yukon
Gold Company. the child OF the Guggen-
helms, which is operating in the
creeks that have poured millions into
the lap of the world. Ny subject today
is Joseph w. Boyle. the dredge king.
whose dominions are forty square
miles of the collaborating earth
through which the Klondike itself cuts
it's way. His territories begin within
almost stones throw of where the
river flows into the Yukon and they
run TO beyond Hunker creek for a dis
tance Of about seven miles. They cover
altogether an area Of over 25,000 acres,
and the nou of this is mixed with mug
gets. grains, dust and -four of fine gold.
The tract is known as the Royle con-
cessions II consists of leases from the
government of Canada giving Mr. Boyle
the right TO work the lower valley OF
the kiondike up TO the crest of the
mountains on both. sides of the river.
bed between the hills through which
the fast-rowing klondike runs. AT
distance it looks like farm land and
when the concessions were granted
much of it was covered with gardens.
II had all been cleared OF woods by the
gold hunters of the early days. and
great part of the tens Of millions OF
dollars worth of gold dust and mug
gets that were the first yield of this
region came from here. When Mr.. Boyle
got the property the rich pockets had
been practically exhausted. The peo-
pie declared that all OF the gold had
been won and that the land would
never be fit for anything else than
moose pastures.
Mr. Boyle thought otherwise. He
reasoned III SO much gold has come
from the valley and the creeks running
into it. there cannot but be quantities
Of gold dust and grains scattered
through the bed rock Of which the
valley is made" He went upon that
supposition and got the concessions, and
as a result he is potentially one Of the
very rich men Of the world. do not
know Just how much gold he has al
ready taken out Of the ground. but
understand that the crop Of this year
of this more than . million will be
profit Moreover. this sum will all
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France to keep her factories going and
provide cargoes of manufactured ar
ticles which formerly she had sent
abroad. AS the factories have become
more active the vessels have been pro-
vided for transporting French cargoes
to neutral countries as well as to her
allies.
The French merchant marine actually
has increased its tonnage during the
first two years of the war, and the
shipping companies. through the high
freight rates. have enjoyed consider
able prosperity, Notwithstanding that
part of the merchant fleet has been
commandeered by the government for
war purposes.
The greatest of the French companies
not only replaced the vessels destroyed
by mines and submarines, but added to
the total of the number of vessels
afloat and increased the tonnage
notably.
At the outbreak of hostilities France
was worried over her valuable SOUTH
American trade. For while it fell off,
due much to the financial and COM
mercial crisis in several of the South
American countries, which were her
best customers. as to the interruption
of her own productive energies and her
war.
The Argentine Republic and Brazil in
particular, were very large purchasers
of the silks. laces. dry goods millinery
important part of Frances export
trade. They were also good buyers of
French champagnes and other expen-
sive liquors.
France, on her part. took large quanti-
ties of grain from Argentina. and of
coffee from Brazil. During the first year
she fortified herself against shortage
of food by especially liberal contracts
for grain. 1t happened also that most
of the big international firms which
control the Argentine grain trade were
French houses
Since the allies began to cooperate
so closely in the purchase of food sup
plies, well of munitions, by buy
ing on joint account, in order to keep
down prices, Argentina's cereal ex-
ports to France have not been quite
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of trenches, yet the human factor is
the saving element even in this eco
nomic desolation.
War correspondents who have been
allowed to visit the trenches have COM
mented unfailingly with amazement
and admiration on the quiet bravery
with which the French peasants con-
tinue the cultivation of their fields.
The enemy's guns have no terrors for
them. In their simple way. with dog
ged perseverance,, they still seek to
draw from the shock-ridden soil its
natural wealth.
invaded the wine growers continued
their occupation. In spite of the pres
ence of the enemy they kept up the
cultivation of the grape SO as not to
lose the seasons vintage. and not to
let the following season fall behind in
production. Though there was some
falling off in production. and though
champagnes and other costly French
wines were raised in price to the
American consumer, it does not appear
whole has suffered any material cur
tailment in production.
The greatest loss to French agricul-
ture has been in the depletion of the
have been sacrificed to war purposes
and to the interruption coming from
the actual waging of war.
One estimate has ben that when the
war ends France Will have less than
half the cattle she had when it began.
The French government, however, has
not been unmindful of this situatio
and even in the midst of war meas
ures has provided for the future. 1t is
not unlikely that the live stock in
dustry of the United States will be
called on to replenish the French
live stock industry. and that will mean
dearer beef to American consumers,
but they are not likely to grudge what
may be done to reinforce and replen-
ish the French live stock.
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Recovery of France During The Great War

LOWLY But Surely That Country Regang Her Old the Worlds
- Drawback the Area Occupied by CrmanyCat Value Ore Beds Now
Hands sSoerenc Leaders Especially
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This. in brief is the way Joe Boyle
mines gold. 1t is only in brief. 1t gives
no conception of the mighty dredges
and the other machinery used in the
handling. I despair of describing the
dredges. Each is big as a seven
story block. 1t is 130 feet long and
sixty feet wide, and 1t weighs 1000
tons. The machinery is of manganese
steel, although this is inclosed in a
wooden framework made on the
ground.
Each of these dredges will handle
500 tons of rock in an hour and keep
up that average all the day through.
1t will handle 1900 cubic yards in a
day, or one two million cubic yards
in season. The three dredges now
working will actually handle more
than 100000 cubic yards of such ma
terial this year. or enough to fill a
train almost as long as the distance
around the earth. One days output
of single dredge would comprise
$4,000 loads of a ton and a half each,
and IL put upon wagons with the noses
of each team of two horses resting on
the tailboard of the wagon in front,
the wagon train would be sixty miles
long. Each wagonload would contain
26 cents worth of gold. and of that
about Is cents would be profit. This
seems very little as to the individual
ton. but it amounts all told to moro
than a million dollars a year.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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cient ice strata below. In short, if
the moss could be taken away. the sun
would melt its way to bedrock. >
Then came the question how to get
the muck off at a price that would
pay. Here the forces of nature about
him were again brought to bear on the
question. He found that the Klondike
itself would serve for this job. All
that he had to do was to dam IT In
places and turn the course of the river
this way and that The current soon
washed off the moss and the muck and
when turned again left the gravel just
right for the work of the sun.
The next process was to handle the
melted material with such economical
machinery that not an ounce of energy
or a cent of expense went to waste. He
Investigated the subject of dredges and
had some of the largest of these ma
chimes that have ever been built made
for the purpose. He experimental and
had them made better and better. He
then brought them in pieces by sea to
Skagway and carried them over the
mountains and down the Yukon to
Dawson and put them to work His
dredges each cost in the neighborhood
of a half million dollars apiece and he
has three of them. which are now lift
ing up the bed of the k1ondike valley
and turning it, as it were, upside down.
The dredges gouge out the earth to
depth of thirty or forty feet, taking up
rock of all sorts. from powders as big
a half-bushel basket to earth as fine
as the flour of which mushroom crack
ers are made. They lift this stuff in
great steel buckets at a ton to the
bucket. to the height of a six-story
house. and pour it through revolving
screens, so that the rock, gravel and
sand are carried away, and every bit of
the gold is caught in layers of cocoa
nut mating not unlike that used on an
office room floor. At the close of each
twentyfour hours the mats containing
the gold are lifted out and washed in
nh Ttn erfl6 h oh F1l
the bottom and the mats are put back
again.
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One strong factor in the economic
recovery of France has been her mer-
chant marine The German submarines.
while occa sionally destroying a mer-
chant vessel. have not been able Sc
riously to interfere with the French
carrying trade. That it fell off for a
while was due to the inability of
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1915. by Frank G. Carpenter)
DAWSON. Yukon Territory.
- INCE 1 have come to Canada I
have acquired a contempt for
" Aladdin. At every step here l
am meeting common. everyday
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@ RANGES economic recovery is
III steady, if not swift. Slowly
she is regaining her old posi-
q tion in world trade She does
Imperial Valley press., 1916-03-22
ASK THAT CITY
CARE FOR PARK

A meeting of the trustees in charge
of the State Street park was held
at the home of Mrs. Dan V. holland
last night, to consider plans for the
care of the park during the summer
months.
The Tree Commissioner of the City
Board of Trustees has had the park
watered recently and a letter of thanks
was ordered rendered him, and COM
mittee was appointed to ask the city
trustees to care for the park until
the property is disposed of by the Ten
Thousand Club Corporation. This
park is open at all times for resting
place and playground.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-03-22
BASEBALL TEAMS
MEET SUNDAY

At 2:3O next Sunday afternoon the
Ell Centre baseball team will battle
with the Holtville delegation on the
Fair Grounds fields to tsettle long
disputed arguments as to the COM
parative ability of the two teams.
An admission of 25 cents will be
charged and will be turned over to
the Ell Centro Baseball Association,
which controls the Fair Grounds base
ball field, and will be applied to pay
ing off the debts of the last profess
sional ball season. The lineup will be
as follows:
Ell Centro-Harold Atkinson, catch
er; Taggart, pitcher; N. Smith, first
base; Cyrus Young, second base;
Frank Rath, shortstop; John Robert
son, third base; John Kepley, left
field; C. Pratt, center field; E. Hal
lam, right field; Hinkle, utility.
Holtville- flaming, catcher; Fore
man and Clayton, pitchers; Bath, first
Lase; Roy Mains, second base; Holly.
shortstop; Phil Brooks, third base;
Smulling, left field; Lock, center field;
Parker, right field; Kenrick, utility.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-03-22
PURSE is SHIPPED
WITH SAVAGE TIRE

Securely wrapped in one OF the last
thousand tires sent out by the Savage
Tire Company is pocketbook con-
tanning a sum of money. The pocket
book and it's contents belong to Harry
Easton, who works in the Finishing
and Wrapping department of the Saw
age Tire Company's San Diego plant.
When Easton went to work one day
last week he had his pocketbook with
him. While the amount OF money 1T
contained was comparatively small,
the pocketbook itself was large and
Easton found it hampered him in his
work at one of the wrapping ma
chimes, so he removed the wallet and
placed it on his work bench.
Just for joke, fellow workman
placed the pocketbook in partially
wrapped casing, intending to tell Eas-
ton about it, but while this workman's
attention was attracted elsewhere an
other workman came along. In a mo-
Imperial Valley press., 1916-03-22
SUPERVISOR SHEPARD
WARMLY COMMENDED

Supervisor Arthur Shepard has re-
ceived from the San Diego supervis.
ors high commentator for the part
this valley has taken through him in
assisting in the rebuilding of the Sar
Diego road. The letter follows:
81 am instructed by the Board of
Supervisors to express their appreci-
alton of the splendid work done by
your county, and especially to you,
for the personal attention you gave
in the matter of repairing the roads
between Imperial and San Diego coun-
ties. We now feel that we are in
touch again with our greatest asset,
the Back Country.
"Yours very truly,
81. T. BUTLER, Clerk.
"By B. ALLEN, Deputy"
Imperial Valley press., 1916-03-22
Heavy Fire Loss.

Paris, Tex, March 22.-Fires that
started near the Paris cotton balers
late yesterday have swept northeast
to the city and destroyed 27 blocks
of residences and business buildings
with a loss estimated at $2,000,O00.
Only Is out of more than 140 build
ings were left standing.
John Straub was burned to death
in the fire last night. The fire was
controlled this morning after the loss
of the entire business district and a
portion of the residence section. The
loss is estimated at $3,000,OOO.
Topeka, Kan, March 22.-According
to reports reaching Ness City, the
town of Utica, in western Kansas, has
been destroyed by fire. Telegraph
wires are down. Scott City received
reports that the town of Modoc, west
of Utica, also has been destroyed by
fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-03-22
IRRIGATION SALE
UP FOR APPROVAL.

San Francisco, March 22.-The
Southern Pacific Railway Company
and the Imperial Irrigation District
filed with the State Railroad Commits
sion yesterday an application for ar
approval of the agreement for the
sale of the irrigation system in the
Imperial Valley, formerly owned OIL
controlled by the California Develop.
ment Company, to the Imperial Irri.
cation District, one of the applicant:
for the s5,OOO,0O0 in bonds for the
district.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-03-22

ment the tire was securely wrapped.
Easton's pocketbook and all, in the
black paper labeled with the usual red
arrow, and placed among hundred
others in the truck On which the first
leg of it's journey to it's ultimate pur-
chaser was made.
Before the loss of the wallet was
discovered, these tires had been dis
tributed among thousands of others
in the warehouse and Easton bade his
belongings temporary goodbye. He
is confident that his loss is only tenn
porary, as the wallet contained num-
her of papers bearing his name and
address, and Easton is sure that
everything will be eventually returned
to him. He says the Savage casing,
aside from the prize package feature,
is such an exceptional value that who
ever gets it will not have the heart
to keep his pocketbook, and that you
can count on the honesty of the people
in general anyway.
The sum of money the wallet con-
tanned is not large. 1t is, however,
important to Easton, as he has a wife
and large family to support. We
unite with him in his belief that
wherever the pocketbook is found,
whether it be in San Francisco or New
York, Vancouver or San Diego, it
will be prOmptlv returned to him.