El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-07

6"HE future of the copper indus
try seems to he assured for an
Il indefinite period" said Joseph
Earris. Of Anaconda. Mont. who has
Just completed a tour OF Nacozari. Bis
lee and Morenci and who Will stop at
Bingham. Utah. on his way north I
heard well defined report in Douglas
that senator William A Clark of Mon
tana had refused an offer of IS cents
pound for the copper output of his
mines for the mex. five years This. Of
course. is right at the top Of the mar
ket and indicates the strength of the
copper operators position An immedl-
ate effect IS expected as result OF the
entrance Of Rumania into the war ana
the imminent entrance OF Greece AUS
tralia and Japan have been shipping
some copper TO the belligerents. but tins
is only a drop in the bucket There Will
he no let down after the war IN the de
uand for copper for several years at
least Preparedness IS going to be the
WatchwOrd of the civilized nations. ana
this means copper in larger and LARGER
quantities The rehabilitation OF Eu-
rope after the war also will call Tor
all the copper We can produce TINS
means prosperity for the southwest and
for all the worlds big copper camps
'Tatooiu- first originated in China"
said J. j. Garrison. 1T was later adopt
ca in England by the navy. At this
time. electrical devices were unknown
ana the work was done with crude
needles In the past - years tattOoinG
has been used Tor good many things
some Of the social leaders in New York
have had fancy bracelets tattooed on
their arms. while business men in the
different cities have their lodge EN-
blems tattoOed upon their arms and
chest Soldiers also have much Of il
done But one OF the most useful pur-
pose that the art has served in recent
years is TO identify persons accident
ally killed. The insurance companies
use this means of Identification when in
doubt of the Identity
j knew Lew Gasser for over l. years
and during that time he and I were the
best of friends" said Capt W u. Greet
= do not believe that I have ever Sc n
man more fearless or endowed with
personal bravery than Gasser. whom l
consider a high class gentleman in
every particular. He was always cham
pioning the cause of the down trodden
and would 20 TO any length TO aid
friend who was in trouble When he
died I am sure that he did not have an
Ill feeling against any man in the
world. and that no one carried an i'll
FEELING against him. He was my ideal
of man in every particular and in his
death FL Paso lost one Of its best citi-
zens in my opinion
Calling off the railroad strike was
more work than calling II on would
have been so far as the telegraphers
V ere concerned said Edwin Bemis. a
telegraph operator. who spent Wednes-
day in FL Paso on his way from Chi
caeO 10 the coast 4 was one Of the
operators i'm Chicago from which the
code messages calling off the strike
V ere sent out There were $40 of these
ode words and the confusion that re-
suited was indescribable Many of the
operators are still suffering fran glass
arms trying to decipher some of the ,
words used to take the place of forget
IT The latter expression probably
would nave been too easily faxed in ,
such crisis as the strike so the code
system was used. With inexperienced :
operators at great many OF the re-
ceivinS ends and a lack of familiarity /.
with code, the strike came near being I