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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-30
TUSCUMB|A MILL BINS
FULL OF CONCENTRATES
LOADING PLATFORM BUILT AT
PRlcHARD-HAuLlNG Is RE-
LIEvlNG CONGESTION.

Four or five carloads of concentrates
filling the bins to overlooking, have
accumulated at the Idora mill belong
ing to both the Tuscumbia Leasing
company and the Idora company. This
accumulation was due to the difficulty
in connee ton with loading facilities
at Prichard Owing to the heavy de-
murrage charge on cars in process OF
loading, the company proposed to
build a loading platform which would
hold ore until a carload was available
and then load 1t in one day, thus es-
cape the demurrage tax. Being assur-
ed that the bridge at Beaver creek
would be open for traffic in short
time, which would cut out a mile and
a half of the worst road, the loading
platform was abandoned and hauling
ore ceased awaiting the bridge. How
ever, much more time was required
than was anticipated, and the Tus-
cumbia people, owing to the large ac-
emulation of concentrates at the mill,
decided to build the platform. 1t is
now completed and two teams are en-
gagged hauling concentrates.
Railroad Near Mill.
The construction of the Beaver
creek branch will prove of great bene-
fit to the Tuscumbia and Idora. The
end of the track will be at or near the
Ray Jefferson mill, at the forks of
Beaver and Carbon creeks, which is
just a mile and quarter below the
Idora mill, which is on Beaver creek.
The distance now being hauled to Pri-
chard is 10 miles, and the last mile
and a half, from the mouth of Beaver
to the station, is up grade and very
bad road besides. In place of this long
and expensive haul, when the railroad
is completed, which will be during the
winter, there will be haul of only a
mile and a quarter down grade and
over solid roadbed
The condition of both the Tuscum-
bia and Idora mines is reported very
satisfactory the two keeping the mill
running steadily at capacity.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-30

levying an assessment, we call your
attention to the fact that we have
nearly 100000 shares of stock left in
our treasury which will greatly in
crease in value as soon as we begin
milling the ore. The company could
then sell block of this treasury stock
and pay off the mortgage instead of
taking it out of the profits If the di-
rectors thought best to do so.
"Since the board of directors has
decided to make this loan and are
making such a liberal offer, number
of the stockholders here have express
ed their satisfaction and approval of
this plan and those who are able are
offering to take as much of the loan as
they can afford to carry.
1--WE are enclosing you a copy of the
for you to sign and return
stating how much of the loan you will
take, so that the company will know
what to depend on as we now have
this mill and must make definite ar
rangements to operate 1t as soon as
possible and reap the benefit from the
high price of metals. Our engineers
reports show that the ore already
blocked out will make a nice profit"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-30
STOCKHOLDERS MEETINGS.

Eagle Mountain Mining Co.-Annual
meeting to be held at 705 Cedar street,
Wallace, on Friday, December %, at
7 p. m.
Little North Fork Copper Mining G.
Milling Co.-Special meeting to be held
in First State Bank building, Kellogg,
on December s at 1880 p. M, to elect
board of directors.-John e. Jones,
secretary.
Lookout Mountain Mining G. Milling
Co.-Special meeting of stockholders
to be held at News office, Kellogg, on
December at 1880 p. M, to consider
proposals for work on company's pro-
perty.-W. L. Penney, secretary.
PoIaris Mining Co.-Special meeting
to be held at office of Therrett Towles,
Wallace, on December 6, at l p. m,
for the purpose of considering dis
solution of the company and distri-
button Of it's property.-F. Meade, Sec
rotary,
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-30

brink of a prospeetor's hole and would
have pitched into it If he had not,
with rare presence of mind, spread his
legs far apart. dug his heels into the
earth, and secured sudden brace that
kept him put of the pit. The snake,
coming on at terrific speed, could not
stop, but plunged between the mans
outspread legs and fell into the hole,
thereby having its brains dashed out
or in any event being killed by the
plunge, according to this non alcoholic
story
Mr. Hertz secured the corpus deficit
of his late evil pursuer, and gathered a
few samples of rock from the pros
pector's hole as a slight memento of
his experience. Later, he had his pic
ture and that Of the snake taken to-
gether, thus proving that there UNI
doubtedly was tangible snake mixed
up with the episode. The rocks that
Hertz had taken and could produce
were proof to the incredulous of the
existence of the prospectors hole.
Just out of curiosity, Hertz had his
samples tested and the assays reveal
ed the presence of from to per cent
of vanadium, which is used in harden
ing steel and is an extremely valuable
product.
Mr.. Hertz, therefore, at once bought
an interest in the Arizona property
and started development work, He
found plenty of high class ore and his
mine soon attracted the attention of
some Denver capitalists, who have
made him an offer of 100000 cash for
the property. He may not accept the
proffer, in spite of its magnitude,
The moral of this story so far as we
can discover, is that it always pays
to keep away from the Demon Rum.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-30
BEWARE OF DEMON RUN
ARIZONA SNAKE STORY
CHASED BY A RATHER, He
FOUND A BONANZA IN A q.
PROSPECT HOLE.
Denver Mining Record)

Arizona is dry state in more re-
spects than one. Where bars once
flourished the paltry soda fountain
now looms into view, seeming, with
its marble trappings to be the TOMB
of John Barleycorn. In the mining
camps the husky miners no longer ex-
change profane pleasantly while i'm
bibing redeye, but instead swap sun
day school yarns over their girlish
ice cream sodas. Arizona, the ex-
tremely arid, about the last spot on
earth from which snake story might
be expected; yet there lately appeared
a reptilian tall from that section
which somehow inspires thoughts of
mixed drinks and Authorizations.
The story comes from Wickenburg,
Ariz.. and the hero is Los Angeles
man named Herman Hertz. He arose
one morning and--although he has not
made a sworn affidavit to that effect
he had not drank even one bibulous
bracer when he started out for stroll
little SuSp6CllHB llc duNShhuiV 'hN'
was to befall him. The sun was shin
ing brightly the bidrs sang their mer-
riest roundelays, and all nature SEEM
ed pulsing with harmony.
Mr. Hertz had stopped to pluck
dainty posey, when a sudden vibrant
whirring of rattles made him jump 81
or 60 feet, more or less; and 1t was
well he jumped, for huge snake made
lunge at him and missed him by
only a trifling margin.
Our hero thought discretion was the
better part of valor and started to re-
move himself from the scene as expe-
ditiously as possible, giving an inn
promptu exhibition of jack rabbit In
action. But the snake did not propose
to be thus easily baked of it's prey. il
sarted after Hertz in manner thai
denoted highly developed powers OF
Iocomotion The Los Angeles man in
creased his stride, mumbling patel
nosters as he ran.
Suddenly he found himself on thu
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-30
Borah Shows How Conservation Policy
Contributes To the High Cost of Living
By Withdrawing Land from Settlement.

er than its indifference or positive
encouragement.
Not Against Conservatism.
THE east has been led apparently
to believe that the west is opposed TO
conservatism. 1t is not. But we do
tism. We make no objection what
ever to any system of laws which win
protect our natural resources from eX-
ploitation or monopoly but We want
IAN opportunity to develop and use our
natural resources. We believe that
they can be used and developed by
those who are in good faith seeking
to build up great commemorative
without at the same time subjecting
them to mere exploitation, monopol
Ifstic grabbing.
above all we want our agricultural
lands released and reclaimed and that
is a matter in which not only the west
is interested but the whole country is
interested. There are agricultural
lands in this country not yet reduced
to cultivation in excess in area of all
the agricultural lands of some of the
greatest powers in Euorpe. In con-
sidering any permanent and effective
plan for the reduction of the high cost
of living should we not consider such
questions as this?
Appeal to the East.
Il am led to write this letter to you
because / know of your great inter-
est in such matters and the study
which you have given the subject is
evidenced by your letters and by your
addresses. We must appeal to the
east in order to get relief. The votes
of the public land states in the con-
lgress are small in number We are at
the mercy of our friends who seldom
visit US, although it may be possible
that they will be more inclined to visit
us in the future.
II would like to see such men as
yourself and others become interest
ed in that proposition. You can not
only be of incalculable service toward
the settlement of the west in bona
fide way, but you can serve the cause
in which you and so many others are
So deeply interested, a cause which
will become more crucial by far in the
coming years than it is now
Every respectfully,
WILLIAM e. BORAH."
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-30
DEMAND FOR SPELTER
GREATER THAN EVER
FORTY PER CENT OF PRoDUC'
TON CONTRACTED FOR
1917 DELIVERY.

The spelter market has come into it's
own again. Substantial sales have
been made and new inquiry in hand
totals many millions of pounds. For
nearby positions ordinary grades of
spelter have been advanced to about
liz cents a pound, with first quarter
of next year selling slightly higher
than II cents.
The current demand includes all
brands from prime western up to
high grades. Brass specials command
a premium of about l cent pound
over prime western and Intermediates
sell somewhat higher than the spe-
cials. 1t is understood that the New
Jersey Zinc company has been asking
20 cents a pound for its Horsehead
brand for the remainder of 1915 While
for early months of next year the price
would be shaded about cents.
Galvanizers have been active in the
market and have bought rather free
w. There has been some export bust
ness ana DTdSS Hills diSO huNS 1SSi'
buyers, although not in proportion to
their copper purchases.
No Accumulation.
The bugaboo of a year ago that an
enormous accumulation of spelter
would follow the big increase in pro-
ductive facilities has failed to mater
ialize. Producers claim that for No
yember and December no more than
enough will be available and on re-
uu6rements for the balance of this
year sitter prices appear inevitable
Shortages of fuel, cars and labor al
combine to affect production and some
of the gas plants have been forced tc
shut down lately.
1t is estimated that 40 per cent OF
the first quarters probable production
of spelter has already been sold and
for second quarter delivery about rs tC
30 per cent has been contracted for
Some business has been done through
to the end of 1917, but only on veal
contracts. The transient business be-
yond the first Of July has been very
small.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-30
NOT WILD.
But Borneo Men. Have Savage and
Unseenly Habits.
cleveland Plain Dealer.)

cleveland Plain Dealer)
Now comes the former United States
consul at Sandakan, British North
Borneo, and destroys the wild man
tradition with one swift sWoop. He
says there are no wild men in Borneo
They are primitive, it is true They
continue to wear the traditional ma
tional costume-the bead necklace and
little else-and they still regard the
head of an enemy as choicest of tro-
phies. The former consul explains,
however, that the head in itself is not
valued by the Bornean He treasures
it merely as proof of his prowess.
When a Bornean goes to the father
of his sweetheart and asks for her
hand, he carries with him the head
of his enemy to show his standing as
a. warrior and his fitness as a pro-
tector.
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MayfIower Mining co.-Levied No
20 to w. w. Smith, secretary, Wal.
| lace. Delinquent sale January 25.
Military Mining G. Milling co.-Lev.
led September 8, 4 mill, payable Oc-
tober % to l.. II. Hayes, secretary.
Wallace. Delinquent sale November
rs.
Mountain Rose Mining co.--Levied
october 81, mills, payable Decem-
Der 81 to A. o. Larson, secretary. KEEL
logg. Delinquent sale January 81.
National Lead Mining Co.--Levied
october %, / mill, payable November
% to Ida Scheave, secretary treasurer.
Wallace. Delinquent sale December
I26.
Nevada Stewart Mining co.-Lev-
led October 3. 2 mills. payable Nov
ember IA to II. NJ, Huemann. secre-
tary treasurer, Wallace. Delinquent
sale December 2.
New Hope Mining co.-Levied oc-
tober IL, 2 mills, payable November
II to Otto A, OLSON, secretarytreas-
urer, Wallace Delinquent sale De-
cember II. Postponed to January II.
NonpareiI Copper Mining Co.--Lev-
led September 90 l MILL payable Oc-
tober 20 to H. G. Loop, secretary
treasurer, Mulian. Delinquent sale
November 23, Postponed to Decem-
Der Is.
North Star Mining & Development
Co.--Levied October 10, l mill, payable
Nov. Is to G. w. Dougherty, secretary
treasurer, Wallace. Delinquent sale
December 5.
Dom Paul Consolidated Mining Co.
Levied October "a, cent, payable
| November rs to l.. e. Hanley, secre-
tary Wallace. Delinquent sale De-
cember 20.
Old Veteran Mining co.--Levied on
october 8, mills. payable November
| s to l.. L. Brainard, secretary treas
urer, Wallace. Delinquent sale, De-
cember 2.
Reindeer Queen Mining co.-Levied
November 16, mills, payable Decem-
Der Is to j. r. Rean. secretary, Null
Ian. Delinquent sale January %.
Silver Moon Mining co.-Levied on
September 80, mills, payable No
vember 25 to Gus Ehrenberg, secre
tary- treasurer Palmerston hotel, Spo
kane. Delinquent sale December 20.
Silver Mountain Mining Co.-Levied
September 10, 2 mills payable Octo-
Der 81 to w. &. Horstkotte, secretary,
Potlatch, Idaho. Delinquent sale No
vember "a. Postponed to January q.
Sonora Mining G. Milling co.--Lev-
led October 4, 4 mills, payable Novem-
Der 10, to DIR. w. A. Smith, secretary
treasurer, Wallace. Delinquent sale
December
Tarbox Mining Co.-Levied Novem-
Der 20, mills, payable December %
to r. E. Seysler secretary, Wallace.
Delinquent sale January 10.
Tiberus Mining Co.-Levied No
vember 16, ga mill, payable December
81 to the assistant secretary Wallace,
: or to the secretary, 447 Peyton block,
Spokane. Delinquent sale January IL.
Wallace Mining, Milling & Realty Co.
Levied November 8, IN mills, pay
able December 5, to George G. Evans,
Box 18, Wallace. Delinquent sale
January g.
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Silver Moon

West drift on the Silver Moon Is in
a vein that has everything in its favor
except ore. The dixie adjacent TO
which it was hoped an ore shoot would
ibe found has been passed, but the ore
did not materialize. The showing in
the drift continues most favorable and
the management is confident that fur
Their exploration will be amply reward
ed.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-30

An old. rule that was a safe guide in
developing mines was to follow the
ore. The rule is as good now as it
ever was.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-30

Japan has civil service retirement
law for government employees.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-30

The muscles Of the human jaw exert
q force of 534 pounds.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-30
Mining and Development
Companies of the Occur d'Alenes

Assessments Levied Meetings Called Delinquent Lsts-Doinss of
Companies of Special Interest to All Stockholders
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Canada as an Example.


while we are dealing with the high
cost of living would it not be well to
reconsider our policy with reference
to these things and to enter upon a
thorough plan to reclaim every acre OF
our arid lands and our swamp lands
which are at all available for agricul-
tural purposes. Canada greets her
settlers with open arms. She aids and
supports them in every way to make
homes, manifesting sympathy and in
terest at every turn. Why should we
not do likewise?
ut is hard to understand why the
man or woman who goes out into
these waste places to suffer the sac
rifices necessarily entailed to make
home should not receive the utmost
consideration of the government rath-
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rotary.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-01-15

on the G. and C. Short farm through
the same formation and 1t is the same
kind of a producer.
In Central district, Doddridge coun-
ty, the Ozark Petroleum Company has
now drilled its test on the Edward L.
Duty farm through the Big lnjun sand
and it shows for twenty barrel pro-
Queer. In Freeman's creek district,
Lewis county, the South Penn Oil
Company has Gordon sand gasser at
its test on the A. A. Rohrbaugh farm.
Light Pumper In Peasants County.
In the shallow sand districts devel-
Lafayette district, Peasants county,
Bishop and Company completed their
No. on the T. A. Davis farm and
have a five barrel pumper in the Cow
Sun sand. In Washington district
the Orchard Oil Company has the rig
completed for a test on the S. +. Bills
farm. In Lafayette district, Martin
and Company are due in the sand at q
test on the G. B. Jones farm.
On Indian creek, Elk district, Kan
awho district, the Ohio Fuel Oil Com
pany has completed and shot No. Il
on the ELK River Coal Company's tract
and it is ten barrel pumper in the
Weir sand. Lincoln county is still
quite active in starting new work. Or
Sans branch, Duval district, the Big
Creek Development Company has
started to drill No. Is on the NJ. Spur
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-01-15

CHARLESTON: Under orders
from the department Of mines. two
mine inspectors have been sent to
the plant Of the Ben Franklin Coal
Company at Moundsville, where
miners have struck. According to
the report from the company the
men refused to work because of the
enforcement of an order that only
safety lamps be used In the mines
where two gas explosions have oc-
cured in former years.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-01-15
OIL AND GAS
DEVELOPMENT
OF TR|-STATE
Latest Reports Of Operations 10
West Virginia, Pennsy-
h. vania and Ohio.

Light producers are the best that
any part of the eastern fields are COM
pleting. Nearly all are located in the
old defined districts and they attract
but little attention. On Green creek,
Walton district, Roane county, the
Louis F. Payne Oil Company has COM
pleted and shot No. 10 on the !. l..
Summers farm and it is not good for
more than ten barrels day in the Big
1njun sand. In Spencer district, the
South Penn Oil Company drilled No. 3
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lock farm. In the same district the
Wayland OIL and Gas Company VIII
be due to get the sand next week at
It's test on the A. c. Pauley farm.
At the present time, Lincoln county
has close to thirty wells drilling and
rigs up ready to start. In Sardis DIS
trlct, Harrison county, E. III. Treat IS
building the rig for No. 6 on the NJ. r.
Dye farm. Grove and Parrish are drill
ing a test on the W. Allen farm.
Southeastern Ohio.
In the deep sand territory in south
eastern Ohio in the southwest quarter
Of section 70, Green township, Hook
ing county, the Plymouth Oil and Gas
Company completed the shot its Sec
ond test on the Sarah A. Knapp farm
and 1t produced sixty barrels in the
ensuing twenty-four hours. In the
Union Furnace district, Starr town
ship, the Preston Oil Company's No. 3
on the Eliza STEERS farm and No. on
the ]. NJ. and NJ. V. Loomis farm are
holding up at 100 barrels, respectively,
1t will be more than two weeks before
there will be any wells due in this dis
trict. In Hanover township, Licking
county, Whitehil land Heasley have
started to drill another test on the V.
K. Henderson farm, 700 feet east OF No.
2 on the same farm.
Shallo wSand Territory.
In the shallow sand territory in the
Chester Hill district, Fairfield town.
ship. Washington county, Lawrence
Stephens has drilled No. 6 on the A
L. Carrothers farm through the Maxon
sand and 1t is a five barrel pumper
In Cross creek township, Jefferson
county, Boulton and Company have
drilled No. 5 on the Gottlieb Feather
farm through the Berea grit and have
a show for very light pumper.
in the Dorseyville field, Allegheny
county, Pa, the National OIL and Gas
Company has drilled No. 3.on the A
Haas farm five feet into the Thirty
foot sand and got the first pay and 0
light show OF oil. The lower paw is
not reached until about twenty-eight
feet in the sand. The result will prob
ably not be known before next Mon.
day. The same company's second
test on the Stevenson farm is CASING
with the long string at 100 feet and
is due to get the sand Tuesday.
Yesterday morning the Atlantiv Re-
fining Company advanced the price Of
all grades of gasoline one cent a gallon
and naptha two cents. The present
prices at its service stations are
Naptha, twenty cents; auo gasoline
twenty-one cents: 6S-70 degree, TWEEN
ty-three cents; 1876 degree, twenty
Ave cents. The same grades on Au'
gust IA of last year were quoted al
fourteen, thirteen, fifteen and seven
teen cents, respectively.
The Oil Market.
The prices paid for oil Of various
grades by the purchasing agencies
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-01-15

PARKERsBuRG: Mrs. Sarah
Reed an Wiley Marks, Of Calhoun
county, pleaded guilty in federal dis
trlct court here to an indictment
charging them with operating a still
and manufacturing moonshine whis-
key, and we're sentenced to pay fines
Of $1,000 each and to serve six
months in jail each.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-01-15
WEST VIRGINIA BRIEFS

fell upon Edward Shipper, aged II,
while he was at work in the West
stone quarries and crushed him to
death.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-01-15

HUNTINGTON: Alcoholic insan-
ity in West Virginia has been reduced
ninety per cent by prohibition. ac-
cording to DR.. L. V. Guthrie, super
intendent of the state hospital here.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-01-15

Chile is to have foundry for the
manipulation of the raw material that
comes from Bolivian mines.
Paris has theater with revers-
ible floor, one side being intended for
dancing and the oth-c for the seats.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-01-15

sHEpHERDsTowN: DR.. r. G.;
Grove, widely known physician ana
prominent Mason, is dead at his
home here after a months illness.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-01-15

CHARLESTON: A grave war,
that is to say. cemetery or burial
war, is being waged among the GEM
eteries here and the high cost or
dying or burying is going down. The
city Of Charleston owns Springhill
cemetery, and the privately-owned
cemeteries cut the price of burial
plots. AS result business has been
falling off at Springhill, always a
popular cemetery, and the city coun-
Gil sliced the price in two. 1t is now
expected the privately-owned ceme-
teries will make a still further reduc-
ton.