The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-03-09

OoNh just ds lie SeileIdl ueIlNeTY VIII
dow closed in the evening. When the
war opened and Jack" began going up
he got permission to clean up" the
columns in one of the old mines. In a
sheet ground mine pillars of natural
rock are left standing to keep the roof
from falling in. The pillars are SO
feet in circumference, and the work of
taking them out is very dangerous, for
one of the dynamite explosions may be
too heavy, and down on you come TO-
100000 tons of earth. But Pulver
and is now out for mayor of Webb
City He has made $4,000 since the
war began.
See that fellow there-that's Bill
Rhea-that strapping, big fellow in
corduroy pants and wearing that
faded necktie that looks as If 1t had
been in the family since Harrison's
administration. He's an example of
what we are doing down here. Before
the war began he was jigging-run-
ing ore through a jig box, you know.
He borrowed some money and got hold
of the old Annias mine and was run
ming it into debt so fast that you
could smell the heat when the prices
began, to go up. He let his ore stack
off $3.50 tons all in one lump. When
ore Is 800 a ton you can see that it
doesn't take long to pay the mort
gage off the old home place. Bills
making $4,000 a month now.
Then take G. l. Cole. Before the war
boom came on he was sitting up nights
with two wheezy mills that looked as
if they'd never see warm weather
again. He had to take his wife's egg
money to pay off Saturday night, but
the war came on and his mines began
to take the long, regular inhalations of
Gloss country athletes Since January,
1915, he has sailed away just a trifle
better than $125,O00
You can go right on down this line
friend. Pick 'em out and I'll tell you
about EN-. Who's that with the round
face and red complexion? That's Tom
Coyne. Why, l used to know him when
he was clerking in the post office. He
saved up his money-a fellow who
does that gets ahead sooner or later
and borrowed some more, and in Au-
gust, 1915, invested 100000 in mining
proposition. He ran onto some good
sheet ground and is now making $780,
900 week. Mind you, week. The
TON CHATS what he calls it
pays for itself every six weeks
Man With the Walnut House.
There, did you see thot fellow
whizzing by! That was John C.
Quinn. He's got it, all right-made
every dollar of it here, too. Came
here from Georgia and bought $40
acres of land at 1915 an acre. Well,
he was stringhalting along until four
teen years ago when they discovered
ore on his land. Will you believe it,
his fortune doubled three times be-
fore morning? He built him house
out in the country and calls it after
his old state-Georgia City. He says
there amt a person in Boston as has
a house like him-all walnut. The
wars made that man, and he's worth
play safe-$3, 100000.
So the names could be multiplied.
| It's one of the many astounding de-.
tails of the present war that a set
Element Of men, away off in the central
part of the United States, who have
never seen an artillery piece, should
suddenly become rich by the booming
of 42-centimeter guns 5000 miles away.
Seven hundred md fifty men in and
around Joplin have been made, finan-
cially, since Won Kluck swept across
Belgium.
Country is Changed.
To say nothing of the doubled pros
perity that has come to the thousands
and thousands of day laborers-the
men who go down in the ground with
the acetylene lamps on their hats. Nor
of the smelter men across the line in
Pittsburg, Kan, who with their Alad-
din ovens metamorphose lack" into
spelter-the bright 4S pound plates
that go racing across the ocean to be
melted with copper to make the
shrieking shells.
What a change few years make!
How astonished the nameless bare
footed native, who had to talk so long
and hard to trade his discovery for a
house pattern, would be could he
come back, prairie Rip Van Wrinkle,
to see the mill chimneys spouting
their black smoke, spouting it day and
night, never ceasing, never stopping,
and to see the hundreds of rubber
shod miners pour out of the ground at
shift hour-how astonished he would
be to see all this and to know that on
these very prairies, with corn grow
ing above and air drills crashing be-
low, might depend the victory of a
world war!
THE PoLARIS.