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the ore goes on winter and summer. but
the sluicing or washing out the gold
can be done only when the weather Is
warm.
At the Nolan mine they have clean
up once q week. BY this is meant that
they wash out the gold at that time.
We were fortunate in being there when
one of the clean-ups occurred. The gold
Is washed in a trough which is per-
several hundred feet long. This box
Is the sluice box. 1t is made of rough
plank, and is set up at an angle of If
teen or twenty degrees SO that 1t runs
from the high, crib containing the dump
to the ground. When the time for the
cleanup occurs, a door Is opened in the
dump, and the gold-bearing gravel
pours down into the sluice box. A
stream of water flows over it forcing it
onward and washing the dirt and gravel
away. In the bottom of the siuice box
are rifles or crates of steel which catch
the gold. The gold is heavier than the
rock, sand and earth, and it falls into
the rifles as the stream washes the
debris away.
AT first the water comes in a flood. It
carries the stone. gravel and sand down
with a rush. Five miners, clad in
their thighs, stand in the current and
stir as the water pours down. They
throw out the big powders and pitch
and fork over the mortar and sand.
They stop 1t here and there with their
shovels, so that every bit of gold-dust
is washed off. After a time bits of the
bottom are visible. In some places the
box has turned yellow; the gold dust
has piled up and coated the boards.
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Manifest FaIsehood.
NOv. BOYLE of Nevada said at
w Reno banquet:

NOv. BOYLE of Nevada said at n
w Reno banquet:
Visitors to Reno perceive at once
that this beautiful city is something
bigger and more important than a d.
vorce colony.
They who attack Reno with abuse
of that kind are like the tramp.
"A very dirty and dilapidated tramp
was up on charge Of chasing a bar
tender all round barroom with a big
knife.
What time did you say I chased
your the tramp from the dock de-
manded of his accuser.
Eight o'clock in the morning. the
bartender replied.
There. gents.' said the tramp,
scratching his dishevelled orOp Of
whiskers. There. that shows what .
liar he is. for at o'clock every
mornin, winter and summer. a. req
ular as clcckwork. take my bawth-ssS
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Fortunes i'm the Ice of Alaskan Placer Mines

Creek valley he STUDDED his toe and
Tell headlong. As he got up he looked
for the cause of his stumbling, and
found it was a rock speckled with
coarse yellow bits of gold. He marked
the spot, got an outfit, and dug down
until he discovered a rich vein of.
quartz. He took out a claim, and
thawed a shaft to the fifty-foot level.
burning the rock with wood fires
Every week he crushed enough of the
best rock to give him gold for his sup
plies for the week to come In the win
ter he worked underground. The next
spring he tunneled In on the vein: and,
to make long story short. he finally
established a mill of five stamps, out
Of which he and his brother-in-1a~,
Hall, have already cleared almost q
quarter of a million dollars
In company with one of the foremen.
went into the mine and stroIied
about through one tunnel after another
watching the miners at work A short
distance from the surface We came
into slopes. or chambers of rock They
were as cold as ice. their walls being
frosted like The pipes of a cold storage
chamber. The rock is cut out of the
ice. 1t is n part of the great bed Of
prehistoric frost, which underlies this
whole region.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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THE RESULT OF A CLEANUP.

large at this writing, one of the clean
ups last week having realized more
than $4,000. In 1913 Fairbanks creek
SEC ea and IN pome creek ae values nsa
of Sc and more to the square foot have
been found. By 1910 Ester had pro-
duced about $8,000,000 and Little Edo
RADIO more than five millions. The gold
in the several creeks varies in value.
In some It does not average more than
SIS per ounce. while in others it is
worth $40 and upward per ounce.
Nearly all Of the gold taken out of
placer gold. This means it is made
up of gold dust and nuggets scattered
through the earth and gravel. SO that
it has to be only washed to get the
gold out: OF quartz gold, which comes
from veins or other particles of gold
imbedded in and mixed with the solid
rock, this region has as yet produced
little, although several quartz mines
are now W orking.
T..
The most Of the gold of Alaska has
come from placers. The total value
produced Is now about $3.50, 900. and
of this almost s2oo,ooo.oOo has come
from the placers. The greater part Of
the quartz gold has been and still is
from the great mines of southeastern
Alaska, and especially those of Tread
well and Juneau. Some of those mines
will be producing for century to
come and they are now yielding mil
lions of dollars year.
The remainder of Alaska SO far has
been to a large extent a placer gold
proposition, and the placer output at
present is about ten million dollars per
like the Nolan mine ! have described.
but much also =. comes me- s from the dredges
and especially about Nome. The Sew
ard peninsula is estimated to have moro
than three hundred million dollars
worth of gold still left in its RrayeIs.
There are many millions Of free gold
in this district and also in other parts
of the Yukon-Tanana basin. There fs
placer gold along the Kuskokwim riv-
er and dredges are now working in the
Iditarod and along the Innoko. The
GdEKenheims are considering the adj
visibility of dredging over the old
creeks about Fairbanks. They have
been going over the ground and trying
to buy up the claims. but the owners
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The rifles become filed with black
sand. This is mixed with the yellow
and now and then a small nugget is to
be seen. The rifles are lifted out and
the black sand containing the gold is
washed over. This Is carefully done.
The water now flows slowly and the
men agitate 1t with brushes of seaweed
OF about the size of a whisk- broom.
With these they separate most of the
sand from the dust and the yellow -four
and grains are caught in a scoop and
thrown into pan. 1t covers the bot
tom Of the pan like a coarse cornmeal
and looks somewhat as though it were
yellow corn ground. The cleanup of
this week amounted to about three
quarts Of gold. It is worth over $4,000
and the gold contents will average
SIT per ounce.
After getting the gold out of the box
we took 1t into the Office cabin nearby
and dried it over fire 1t was then
tossed up by the miners to blow out
the bits of sand that were left. They
did this, throwing the gold into tho
air. much as you throw screenings to
chickens. blowing the black sand away
and catching every bit of the gold in
the pan. At the end the sand was all
out and the yellow gold only was left.
This was the cleanup Of small mine.
Larger clean-ups sometimes run into
the tens of thousands of dollars.
Cleary Creek has many excellent
claims. I am told there are places
where you can walk up the valley and
every foot under you will be worth
$2.500. The creek altogether has pro-
duced about s24.000,000 worth of gold.
and 1t Is estimated that there is more
gold in the ground than has yet been
taken out. They are now working over
some of the claims for q second time
and, with cheap coal. better transpor-
tation and modern dredging machinery,
the most of the ground will be handled
again. Senator Gaustad, member Of
the territorial Legislature. estimates
the values left in Cleary, At something
like $30.000.o00. or ten millions more
than has yet been washed out.
There are a dozen or more creeks
gold. The biggest output SO far has
been from cleary: but large amounts
creek, Dome creek. Gold stream and
Ester creek. The product Of Ester Is
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FROM THE TROPICS
POPULAR in UNITED STATES

~ACTS and figures are continually
l9 being given publicity in various
ways which show the remarkable
increase in the consumption Of tropic-
grown foods by the people of the north
temperate zone and by Americans in
Particular There has been a large and
steady increase In the consumption of
coffee, tea and cocoa, and the recent
increase in the importation of cocoa is
significant. Some trade authorities
explain the unusually heavy imports of
cocoa as being due to the fact that
the usual European markets are great
ly restricted or. as In the cases OF
Germany and Austria Hungary, wholly
shut off except for such meager sup
plies as may find their way through
contiguous neutral countries.
Because of these conditions pro-
ducers of cocoa were forced to turn
to this country as an outlet for their
product. It is said that in spite Of the
ton American manufacturers have
been able to handle the crude product
as it arrived and to increase domestic
sales or nnlSneQ COCOd anu CuOCoidtc
products, besides finding lucrative
fields overseas for the goods.
The country exporting the largest
amount of raw cocoa to the United
States is Ecuador. the next santo
fourth British West Africa. The total
imports of raw cocoa into the United
States in the fiscal year ended June 80
last reached $S,31s,036. covering 55.-
S32, o94 pounds. In the preceding fiscal
year cocoa Imports had a value of only
$3,l71.2 ls, representing about 2S.s12.50o
pounds.
habit in the United States has often
been commented on as one Of the miracles
Of trade. The United States imports
more than 100000 punches of
bananas q year, the value set down as
The banana has consistently become
cheaper as an article Of food in the
United States. and . part Of it's re-
markable increase In consumption IL
probably due to this fact. An authority
has said that the tropic fruit-growing
and importing companies have learned
that there is more money for them in
selling a huge product at low net
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No Bluff.

ID OBERT HENRI. the New York artist.
3N told Whistler story at the Art
Students League.
There was no pose about Whistler
he said. Whistler had no side.-
Once in Paris class he was COM
Quoting he did not like the red back
ground to a study he had commenced
and so he covered it with brown.
But the red showed through, SO he
scraped out the brown and put gray in
its place
Still the red showed. He took I'D his
palette knife and began to scrape afresh.
saying to student who was reverently
watching him:
suppose you know what I'm trying
for here?'
oh, yes. sir exclaimed the student
wen. It's more than do said
Whistler. and. Selling his hat, he made
off,"
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states, and there are many little propo-
sitions scattered here and there over
the country that are kept going that
way. Most of these are honestly man
aged. Now and then one is not. They
tell story here about a miner who
was working away In good spirits not
wfthstanding his output, which was
practically nothing. He had plenty of
money and seemed happy. Asked how
he was doing he replied:
Fine! Fine:
Then you have reached the pay
streak, I suppose?'
Yes, struck that at the start"
But where is it7 1 don't see any
gold"
"Oh." was the reply, 1.-THE paystreak
Is not here, the paystreaks in Chi
cago?"
How would you like to stub your toe
on a gold mine? That Is how the
,Rhoads-Hill quartz mine in Bedrock
Creek valley was discovered. The mine
has now more than a mile of under
ground workings, and has Melted its
owners over 100000. The discoverer
was L. B. Rhoads.-ar prospector who
was mushing over the trail. He had
made some money placer mining. but
fortune had gone against him, and he
turned his attention to quartz. On his
way down the hill to the Bedrock
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,.1@a,.+ K a,rfroan'e weak1x Maeea 80 -: 60:
You owe so much to
yourself that you
can't afford to owe
anybody else.
Pickimg the Nations Pocket

Picking the N@ti@m's Pocket
hOW much longer will you suffer the extortons of the
food gang?
Do YOU know that warrdden Europe purchasing many
necessities less than pay? But then over there tax
alton monopoly of governments and not promiscuous
privilege
We recently emerged from seance of trust prosecution
which gave promise of slight justice the relations be-
tween producer and consumer the titan corporations at
their turned the thumb so hard or ptered
pennies brazeny than the crowd which is gorgng
upon the national pay envelope
Unfortunately for purposes of immediate redress
not harassed objectionable force and therein at
loss for arrest this pocketpckng and the pick
pockets.
The responsible parties comparatively small operators
-niddenen who interpret every wage betterment IL
plumber incomes and boost the cost OF living to the
breaking point.
Their unwarranted by agricultural conditions or
export shipments.
Only continental drought and coastto coast epidemic
among fowls and animals could justify the arrogant and
constituencies upon which permitted to con-
tnue eating.
Fractional advances the farm and ranch added to
all along the line and in geoerca ratio until the extra dime
farmer and breeder receive has usurousy to dollar
in the final transaction of distribution
milk and white bread will soon be available only to
the weo-do the cheaper of beef have long since
manded much prime ribs and choice steaks brought
decade ago.
In New York city on September potatoes which were
SO sack last year $780, hens laid eggs for the
metropolis A instead of SO per Dozen Big
hotels get much for square meal your father paid for
full weeks board.
Europe is 6ddling and we, the non-combatants,
pected to dance to the music though it
If laws do exist protect from commercial franc
treurs then in the of and of the
good make business pass some-and let's do
it quick!
If there any statutes applicable the situation the
proper authorities should exercise their power and jail
predatory folk whose profits laugh the thought of
fines.
They've marked up to the fighting mark.
We're not shipping all food abroad, not half,
fifth nor a tenth of it.
There's such shortage produce provisions the
manipuators claim.
Grasping human nature can't pass the buck to Mother
Nature.
It's case of cupdity, not crops.
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profit than in extracting a high profit
from small sales at prices prohfbftiye
interested in the greater development
of the American fruit-growing indus
try has said that when those in tho
apple business learn this lesson there
will be more orchards. less apples rot
ting on the ground and more prosperity
and happiness for all concerned"
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The Business S@ug@tt@r


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want too much for them. 1 heard one
miner discussing the possibility of his
men striking for higher wages Said
he: They can strike il they want to.
I can make living out of my dump
heaps. / can take a rocker and wash
out SIS any day Of the week"
Placer mining in Alaska is far differ
ent from that of other parts of the
United States. In California and in the
Rockies all that miner needed to
start business was pick. shovel and
a pan to wash out the gold He might
add a rocker or some other rude pieces
Of machinery. but all told the outfit
cost little. The free gold lay on the
in the beds of the creeks. and it was
comparatively easy to find and wash
out Here about Fairbanks more than
80 per cent of the productive deposits
and most of them are in valley bottoms
which are solidly frozen and have to be
thawed out before you can find where
the gold is or get 1t.
The whole country is covered with
moss, which must be stripped of to
find what lies beneath. To test the
ground you have to go down to bed
rock. The result is that prospector's
outfit Is much more costly than in the
Rockies. 1t should include a small
boiler for steam thawing with steam
pipes, rubber hose, steam points and
steam fittings. One needs wind1ass,
q cable and wooden buckets to get the
earth out after 1t is thawed, and IL he
expects to prospect in deep ground he
should have steam engine as well.
They have here a prospecting OUTFIT
which costs about $500. 1t consists Of
a four horsepower boiler. hoisting en-
CINE, steam points. pipe and fittings
and buckets and cable. The outfit is
compact and can be carried on a sled
drawn by dogs. One of the best meth
DDS Of prospecting is with drills. but
the freight rates have been SO high
that few have come in. There 10 q
churn drill built here. which IL sold
for 81, 500. including therein complete
prospecting equipment.
From the figures have given 1t will
be seen that it costs something to grub
stake a man in Alaska. Still much
rub-staking is done Outsiders win
furnish the provisions and outfit, and
the miners will agree to prospect and
work for half what they ind. Stock in
some Of the mines is largely held in the
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The hardest AgAe
that faces the pioneer
Ii the battle with hiB
own despair. =
The Loveliest Woman
i'm All the Worad

i'm Anil the World
IN hasn't noticed that her figures gone the creep
ing silver in her hair Love has eyes for trfing
signs Only strangers may read the hall marks Of tina
The thing within her which reached into the crowd and
brought him to her side will hold until the end.
Memory fondes the long and patient years through which
her faith and understanding lay like soft healing fingers
his life All that her heart could give his to have She
served smiled through pvation scrimped and saved In
eager seasons measured her needs by his capacities CLEANED
happiness from trying hours found ranbows when his
hopes quailed at sullen skies.
That's She No. the pretty doll whom you're }ooi
ing The scrawny faded creature, did you say7 Perhaps
she appears yo-but to him she'll always be the best
and therefore the loveliest woman in all the world
They Like to Hear the Gums Go Off
@nENCE in Richard Harding Davisland! The trouble
~ mongers have chance nowadays to nce instructions
in Central America Quiet along the Mosquito Coast is
screamngy eloquent of the influences behind previous out
breaks The and ammunition pedders up against
oversod markets and must temporarily abandon their old
dumping ground Your lberator is noisy nothing he's
spectacular person whose soul fanaronade and
ongrang rifles The handtohand grappe not for him.
How unfortunate for Mexico that her disturbances preceded
the powder hungry cataclysm across the seas.
The Star Riders
NEWS from the front is strangely lacking in aeroplane
IN accidents When recall the disasters previous the
war; amazing that aviation has been quickly developed
to safety.
The brdman is no longer hedgling wabbly wings,
but master of the Empyrean
Absorbed in the main aspects of the holocaust yon
DER have overlooked the significance of this particular
phase.
The flying is right upon All basic problems of
aerial navigation appear to be solved One of the first
ves of peace will certainly be the building of plane plants
a scale commensurate with inevitable demand.
Every country will have enough experienced starrides
practicable utility only secondary to the automobile
The aeropane bound to come--and CO. You'll
be gadding about in cloud buggy of your
Oxford eagle., 1916-08-10
s~urta& \

Saturday her condition assumed
alarming symptoms. Late in the
afternoon an operation was per-
formed and at 5 O'Clock Sunday
morning she passed away.
The funeral at > o'clock Sunday
afternoon, held at the residence on
North street, was one of the most
largely attended in the history of
Oxford, many relatives and friends
coming from a distance. The
many beautiful floral offerings tes-
tilted to the popularity of Miss
Halle Mae and gave expression to
the sorrow which her untimely
going away had caused to fall like
a pail upon the entire community.
Under the golden glow of rich
afternoon sky, the sun slowly and
sadly sinking into the darkness of
the west, we laid with tender
hands the body of our departed
friend under the sol TO await the
resurrection of the just. May the
gentle spirit of our friend hover
like an angels presence over the
lives of her loved ones to comfort
and cheer in their hours of dark
ness.
The following served as pail
bearers:
Active Board of Trustees Pub
lie School: Messrs. J. o. Ramey,
l.. f. Oldham, G. NJ. Knight, L.
J. Farley, J. c. johnson, Prin.,
Frank Hurd, retiring member.
Honorary Members of Uni
versity faculty: Drs. Hume, Kem-
mon, c. S. Brown, Bondur-
ant, Bishop, Milden, Rodgers,
Torrey, Heddleston, Mr.. Ross.
Neighbors-Messrs. Huldric Da-
Wis, j. w. Logan, f. E. Temple,
b. b. Russell, H. Friedman, Dick
Duncan,L. NJ. Russell, David Car
ter.
Eighth Grade Boys-Myrl
Smith, Wayne Short, Van Hiler,
Edwin Ross Butler, Wadelow
East, Mallory Whitehead, Robert
Linder, David Lewis, Clarence
Davis, James Knight, Hugh
Worley, Edwin Tomlinson, james
Bell. +. 5. LEWIS
Oxford eagle., 1916-08-10
Notice to All Parties Interested.

The board of supervisors, by virtue
of Chapter l76. Laws 1914, and the
amendments thereto. hereby give notice
to all the land owners and others in
interest in the Taylor Road District
that on August 4th, 1916, there was
filed with the board of supervisors a
petition signed by more than twenty
per cent Of the qualified electors Of the
proposed roa1 district hereinafter
asscrihed and nrsying that said district
be organized into road district as
provided in the said Laws. The dis
trict proposed to be 50 organized Il
described as follows: The following
lands in township 9 range 8 west. TO
wit: Section 30. The following Lands
in township 3 range west. 70 wit:
Sections 25, the North half Of IS. the
South half of sections 3. 10 and III.
sections Ii. Is, Is, 10. 20, q, y q 2S.
q, d. .. 30. 81, 81, SO, "a and IS. In
township 10 range west. the following
lands to wit: Sections 4, 5, 6, z, 8, and
3. and all of section 10 west Of the right
of way of the Illinois Central Railroad.
Also all of section 3, township 10 range
west except such of the southeast
corner Of said section which lies east of
the said railroad right of way and
bounded on the north by the line run
ming east and west which divides said
section in half, also the Northwest
quarter section 2 township 10 range 1
west. Also the following lands II,
township 9 range west, to wit: Sec
tons Y, q, "a, %. 26, q, "a, IS and
S6. Also the following lands in town.
ship 10 range west, to vit: Sections
l, 2, 3. 10. ii, II, IS, II, Is, q, and %.
1t viii be the duty of the board to
issue bonds for the said road district.
and it is their purpose so to do, unless
the qualified electors with in said pro
posed district present to this board on
the first Monday In September, 1916, q
petition signed by at least 20 per cent
OF the qualified electors of the said
proposed district. asking that an elect
ion be held as to whether said bonds
shall be issued or not
Witness my signature this the Sth.
day of August, 1916
w. M. WOODWARD.
t4O-4t) Clerk of Board.