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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-09-28
NOTICE OF LOST CERTIFICATES

To Whom 1t May Concern
Notice is hereby given that r. B.
Bohannon has lost or misplaced the
following certificates of the Clear
Grit Mining Company, Limited;
Certificates 80, blank, 500 shares
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Spelter. like all commercial metal
contains impurities, but, unlike mos.
other metals, none of these impurities
are advantageous for any of the pur-
poses for which it is used. The eff
fects of these impurities on different
products made from 1t vary greatly,
hence the necessity for several grades
differing in purity. Spelter is used
for the following purposes, in quanti-
ties in the order mentioned: Galvan-
izing, alloys, rolling, ornamental cast
ings and miscellaneous uses.
For ordinary galvanizing the effect
of the common impurities is not very
great. Iron is Objectionable as caus-
ing a loss in dross and in making the
coating more brittle and liable to crack
and peel off Lead, up to the limit
found in commercial spelter, has no
serious effect. but IL Objectionable
when presen. in large quantity, as it
liquates in the bath and does not en-
ter the coating and is therefore vast
ed. Lead is usually worth less than
zinc, and the purchaser does not wish
to pay for it at zinc prices.
are chiefly used for alloys, and the
specifications were principally made
for the alloy makers and do not, in all
cases, call for metal suitable for some
CT the other purposes for which it is
used.
Aluminium Excluded From High
Grades.
In alloys, aluminium is frequently
very injurious, DOL per cent in many
cases making brass useless for the pur-
poses for which it is intended. In the
few instances where it's presence is
desired, 1t Is more satisfactory to add
1t directly than as constituent of the
spelter. The specifications Gas pro-
posed for the American society for tes-
ting materials in 1879, therefore, re-
quire that the four higher grades of
spelter shall be entirely free from
aluminium.
Iron is always present in speter, but
is very undesirable in brass and sim
liar alloys, making them harder and
greatly increasing the hardness due to
cold working. The increased hardness
is very Objectionable, causing greater
consumption of power and endanger-
ing the rolling mills and drawing pro-
cess.
Lead the Main Variable in Spelter
Grades.
Lead Is very Objectionable in some
alloys and essential in others, and the
main variation in the different grades
of spelter is in the allowable amount
of lead. High grade spelter, which is
used for alloys that are to be sub
jected to the most severe spinning and
drawing operations, can be rejected if
it contains over OO7 per cent of lead,
as lead reduces the ductility of brass.
intermediate spelter, with lead
limit OF 0.20 per cent, is used for 2lloys
that do not have to undergo as severe
u CoIilCHlJ thu dlSO NcLy largely lOl al
Toys like manganese bronze that are
used both cast and wrought
per cent and is mainly used for brasses
per cent and is mainly psed for brasses
where the maximum ductility is not
required. The lead and iron are limi-
ted to O.6O and O.03 per cent respec-
lively, because brass made from such
spelter is used for ordinary drawing,
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NOTICE TO DELINQUENT STOCK
HOLDERS.

Office of the Old Veteran Mining Com
pany, Wallace, Idaho, September g.
1916.
Notice is hereby given that there is
now delinquent upon the following de-
scribed stock of the above named cor
poration, on account of Assessment
No. of two ca mills per share, lev
led on the 18th day of August, 1916 the
several amounts set opposite the
names of the respective shareholders
as follows, to-wit:
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spinning and forming work where the
requirements are not especially severe
Selected spelter carrying the maxi
mum O.S0 per cent of lead and O.40 Der
cent Of iron is used by brass manufact-
urers for making alloys to which lead
Is added in order to secure free cutting
qualities. Material of this kind is
usually made into rods and heavy
sheets for the manufacturing of small
articles by turning, milling and drill
ing operations. Such brass must con-
tain sufficient lead to reduce the
strength of the material and cause the
chips to break easily.
Owing to the fact that brass is
usually made in crucibles in small
quantities, uniformity in the spelter is
of the greatest Importance AS lead
segregates badly, and more markedly
the higher the proportion, the lead Ii
NIT of the average sample is made low
enough to allow for this tendency
without injurious effect on the pro-
duct. Even when the brass manu-
facturer adds lead, he does so in
known amounts and thus obtains a
uniform alloy from the different pots,
which would not be possible if all the
lead needed We're contained in the
spelter
Cadmium lntensifies the Effect of
Lead.
MUM in zinc is very injurious for
some of the purposes for which it is
used, as it renders it harder and much
more brittle. There is however, con-
siderable difference of opinion as to
how far these undesirable properties
persist in alloys made from zinc con-
tanning cadmium. The majority of
the brass makers are of the opinion
that the high temperature of the brass
pots causes so much Of the cadmium
to volatilize that the residual amount
has very little deleterious effect.
There is no doubt that large
of cadmium, say l or 2 per
cent, make brass hard and brittle. We
have no reliable information at pre-
sent showing the effect of small
of cadmium on the alloys,
and the evidence on this point is eX-
tremely conflicting.
Cadmium, together with lead seems
to intensity the effect of the latter
and also causes the brass to become
more sensitive to the effect of over
heating in the various annealing oper-
ations to which the wrought material
Is subjected.
Very little spelter is made contain
ing as much cadmium as is allowed
for intermediate and brass special, and
the specifications, therefore, put prac-
Lically no limit on cadmium except for
high grade. Whatever the. facts may
be for alloys, it is certain that the
of cadmium allowed by the
Specifications are much greater than
are permissible for other purposes for
which zinc is used. The question of
cadmium in the better grades is COM
plicated by the fact that until the last
year and a half practically all the
high grade and most of the informed
late spelter was made by one company
from ores that are free from cadmium.
The alloy makers have therefore had
ne extended experience with the effect
Of cadmium in the better grades of
spelter, and during the last IS months
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FOR SALE.

One 50-horsepower electric motor.
One SlaX10 air hoist.
Apply to Marsh Mining Company,
Wallace, Idaho Jy27-tf
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The above certificates are declared
void by the company and all persons
are hereby warned against negotiating
or attempting to negotiate for them
Dated this 25th day of August, A. d.
1916.
CLEAR GRIT MINING Co, LTD.
Audi S2S-5t Wallace, Idaho
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HIGH TRIBUTE TO WALLACE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

A few weeks ago DR. e. 0. Sisson,
commissioner of education for Idaho,
visited the Wallace schools and ad-
dressed the teachers and patrons in
the evening in the high school audi
torium In the course of his remarks,
which were highly interesting and in
structive, he paid a high compliment
to the Wallace high school, including
the high standard of the course of in
struetion and the admirable facilities
of the high school building. DR.. Sis
son stated that while there were of
course larger high school buildings in
the state than this, he stated unaualt-
fiedly that there was not one in Ida
no nor in the northwest of which he
had knowledge that equalled 1t in
equipment, facilities and general ex-
cellence. DR.. Sisson was unstinted in
his praise of the Wallace school, which
in view of his high standing in the
educational world and his intimate
knowledge of the schools of Idaho and
the northwest, his comments are more
than gratifying to the people of Wal
ace The Wallace public school has
always been matter of pride to this
n.y. and it is especially pleasing to
laVe its merits recognized and com
nended by the commissioner of edu-
alton.
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NO. 10.
THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1916.

nous profits of these two branches
have been a big factor in the total
earnings of the respective systems to
which they belong. One of them will
of course always be a branch line, but
the other by closing a gap of fifty
miles can be transformed into a main
line. That this was not closed long
ago is one of those unexplained mys-
teries of railroad operation that is
wholly inconsistent with the business
sagacity that is supposed to control
great transportation companies. Ru-
mors are afloat that this extension is
to be made this year, and If the hopes
and welfare of the people of this dis
trict who contribute so literally to
the revenues of the company are to
have any weight In the matter it will
be done.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-20
REFORM OF THE MINING LAW.
Engineering and Mining Journa,

Engineering and Mining Journal.
If we judge correctly from the west
ern papers, DR.. Fosters bill is meet
with the same condemnation that the
journal gave to it. It is clearly the
general opinion that this we'll meant
but preposterous proposal would sim
ply make matters worse than they are
now. 1t would be better to leave the
existing laws untouched than to sub-
stitute what DR.. Foster has drafted.
or even to try to redress his skeleton.
1t was with full knowledge of how diff
ficult a thing it would be to frame a
new satisfactory mining law that the
engineering and mining societies and
organizations united unanimously In
recommending congress to authorize
commission to study the subject.
The representatives of the mining |
nd metalurgical society of America
Who appeared before the house COM
nfttee on mines and mining returned
rom Washington with the idea that
mistake had been made in trying to
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nation in the world, one that from it's
youth up has never failed to assert and
defend its rights against all corners.
The party accidentally in power
through a temporary division of the
great body of political thought on 9TH
er questions, seems bent on carving
out the policy 1t made the paramount
issue in the campaign of 1900 and
against which the people gave a plur-
atty of S49,790 But it is doing it on
new grounds. There is no affection
for the little brown brothers" There
are no tears for Aguinaldo, now a
harmless and inconspicuous amigo,
but then another Washington, esteem
ed almost as highly as Villa was bv
President Wilson a year ago. The de-
claration of Independence is not in
voked. 1t is not asserted that we have
exploited" the Philippines. The
world agrees that we have done more
for the Philippines than any other ma
ton ever did for a dependency in like
time. The senate has voted and the
house is to be asked to vote for plain.
cowardly scuttle. The flag is to be
lowered through fear and as a stroke
of economy. Our treaty pledges are to
De repudiated. We are not to maintain
protectorate, for that would be as
expensive as possession and Infinitely
more troublesome, for we should have
o be responsible for the Fflipinos
Without any control over their acts,
If we are to turn the Philippines
yer to anarchy or to be gobbled up bv
ONE other power, why wait two or
our years? What miracle of prepara-
ion can be worked in that period? Is
here not danger in delay? Can our
nemies restrain their Impotence that
ing? Why not throw the Philippines
the wolves and make good our es-
ape, without losing anything except S
he Islands and our self-respect? c
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get congress to authorize commits
sfon-not a mistake from the theor-
etical standpoint, but probably mis-.
take from the practical. The average
member Of congress has no concep-
tion Of the nature of the work of an
advisory technical committee or COM
mission, and perhaps he will not have
an accurate idea inside of the next
so years. There is, moreover, among
congressman a spirit of perversity
that leads the representatives of the
people to conceive that a gift of clair
voyance and superintelligence was be-
slowed upon them by success at the
polls and causes them to belittle the
assistance and disregard the advice of
experienced men.
The mining and metalurgical So
ciety Is now going to undertake the
drafting of new law. The bill will
be introduced in congress by a distin-
guished senator as soon as it is ready.
Before that is done, however, it Is
aimed to give the widest possible
publicity to what is proposed and to
what is being considered, inviting the
and suggestions from every
body who is interested in the welfare
OF the mining industry. 1t is desired
to frame something simple and prac-
ticable and something that will meet
With the approval of mining men In
great majority.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-20
BARKER FOR SECRETARY OF
STATE.

There is at least one candidate for
whose nomination the republicans of
north Idaho will present united
front, and that one is George r. Bar
kerr of Standpoint, who is now secre-
tary of state and who has formally
announced that he is a candidate for
a second term. Mr.. Barker has made
an excellent record not alone in the
performance of those duties which
belong specifically to the office he
holds, but also in the manifold duties
that come to him as a member of the
various state boards and which so d.
rectly concern all the people of the
state. 1t is not necessary for Mr.. Bar
ker to appeal to the unwritten law
which recognizes the justice of giving
state officer two terms. He is en-
titled to the second term on his lee
ord, and a third term, too, if he wants
1t. His nomination is foregone con-
cluson, and his election is equally
certain
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-20
FLAG DAY.
(Goodwin's Weekly

The 18th inst-neXt Wednesday,
will be flag day. The Sons of the Rev
olution are heading a movement to
have the day specially reverenced this
year. Men by tens and hundreds be-
yond the sea are dying for tier flags
daily. All other governments when
we stop to think what governments
stand for, begin to look second class
when measured for what they hold out
to their people when compar red with
ours, and 1t should not be left until
some supreme call is sounded to make
us appreciate what our flag really sig
miles. Its sovereignty is not confined
to our land; half stranded world in
truth turns to it for ultimate redemp-
ton, and the bringing back of peace.
and for such readjustments as shall
permit men and nations to plan for a
future that shall not be overshadowed
by menacing clouds. Under all other
sorms of government it really is as
Napoleon said: Men are nothing. a
nan Is everything" Hereafter the man
$ to count for less, men are to count
or more, and in our land, If the people
hall only be true to themselves, all the |
which our land has to |
'ffer are to be offered to all alike.
1t is that which gives to our flag the
pecial reverence that is due 1t and the
majesty which no other flag bears.
fence all who have flag on Flag day
hould bring 1t out and the children
hould be told what it stands for and
Thy no other flag means half so much
} mankind.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-20
A PUsILLANIMoUs PROPOSAL.


Representative William A. Jones.
the veteran Virginia congressman
who Is chairman of the house commit
tee on insular affairs, frankly throws
aside the false pretenses of his fell
low partisans and confesses that he
wishes to be rid of the Philippines be-
fore some power takes them away
from us or we have to spend several
million dollars for their defense. Per-
haps no such parsimonious and pusil-
luminous proposal was ever before re-
ported by majority of committee in
representative assembly of mighty
nation, Certainly not in the richest
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ultimately by occupation or purchase,
annex Chihuahua, Sonora and lower
acknowledgements, as surely as now.
though not so loudly as sixty years
ago, manifest destiny says to us, ON
to Panama
1T Is but question of time when
the gush about government in
Mexico must yield to the inexorabie
logic of facts and events. The people
of Mexico are no filter for self-gov-
eminent than the tribes among our
western reservations, and they will
never be. Meanwhile the survival of
the fttest is still the law equally of
nature and nations.
This is not to say that we ought
to rush in where even the Texans fear
to tread But the prevailing chaos
will not be abated. Carranza will in
turn break down, as his predecessors
did, excepting Diaz, who broke down
at last We shall be compelled to in
tervene, and when we do, 1t win be
for keeps; no mawkish sentimental
ism; no high-sounding, half baked
theories, just the inevitable expression
of the American union, which has but
two friends on earth, the Atlantic
ocean and the Pacific ocean,"
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The two Idaho senators do not seem
to be in accord on the question of ma
tional preparedness in so far as the
plan applies to the state militia. Sem
ator Borah is not impressed with the
value of the national guard and seems
to regard it as an almost useless or
ganization unless placed directly un-
der the control of the federal govern
ment. Monday Senator Brady made a
speech in the senate ON preparedness
which was largely devoted to an ar
gument in favor of strengthening the
national guard presumably on the
lines indicated in the pending prepar-
edness BILL The attitude of the two
senators probably reflects public SEN
timent and the result will probably be
a provision in the law that will give
a more direct control of the national
guard to the federal government in
consideration of more liberal support,
while still being maintained essential
ly as state military service.
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THE TRIBUTE TO ELIHU ROOT.
New York SUM

The seventy-five distinguished re-
publicans of the empire state who lead
in the demand for the nomination of
Elihu Root for president describe that
statesman as the ablest living Ameri-
can"
This is a high rating, but who will
question it's accuracy?
From vantage point of observation
in the White House one of the best
judges of men the country has ever
known expressed some years ago this
opinion of Mr.. Roots surprising quail
tiles:
"Elihu Root Is the ablest man
have known in our governmental SER
vice. I will go further. He is the
greatest man that has appeared In the
public life Of any country, In any
position, on either side OF the ocean,
In my time"
The seventy-five republicans call for
he nomination of Elihu Root at Chi
ago in June next because the next
our years will be of crucial import
nee to the destinles of this republic
nd because Mr.. Root is the nations
est trained, most experienced and
lost thoroughly tested statesman.
Why should not the name of Theo-
ore Roosevelt openly appear in the
st OF those who are now repeating his
wn unsolicited estimate of Elihu
oot's greatness?
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IF ROOSEVELT SHOULD COME
OUT FOR ROOT.

A few years ago when the ambition
OF Colonel Roosevelt was apparently
satisfied so far as the presidency was
concerned, at least, when he was nurs-
ing no hopes of third term and had
unqualihedly declared that he would
not under any circumstances seek
the presidency again, he gave his es-
innate of Elhu Root who was score
tary of state in his cabinet, in these
words
Ellhu Root is the ablest man that
nave known in our government SER
wee l will go further. He is the
greatest man that has appeared in
public life of any country. in any no.
sition, on either side of the ocean. in
my time"
Mr., Root has not dwarfed in stature
since that date, and no towering ap-
are has appeared to overshadow him
de still occupies the high pedestal up
on which he was placed by Colone,
roosevelt and the intervening years
nave made his place more secure in
TIE estimation of the people of the
united States, Taking the colonars
estimate to be correct, would it not be
desirable to place such man no bo
describes in the White House at this
critical period? In view Of this snIou
',' tribute to the commanding ability :
u hlihu Root what possible REASON :
20" colonel Roosevelt have for with. h
'olding his support from him for tho b
'epuohcan nomination for presiaor. =
"A writer IN the New York Sun points
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out to Colonel Roosevelt the oppor-
tunity that is now offered for him to
prove that he is actuated by the high
est patriotic purpose rather than the
pull of personal ambition. All he has
to do is to publicly annotsnce mis- sup
port of Elihu Root for the republican
nomination. The Sun correspondent
says:
This is a wonderful opportunity for
you to prove to your admirers and
well wishers the greatness of soul they
believe you to possess. You are well
beloved, and well hated. Millions of
people trust you and millions distrus:
you. Here is an opportunity to have
all love you and all trust you. Here is
a chance to wipe out all your mis-
takes and at the same time be looked
up to as one of the saviors of your
country when she most needs the aid
of her loyal sons.
with your limitations in the eyes
of millions of Americans, if nominal
ed for the presidency of the United
States your election is a most uncer-
tain quantity. You could make
of republican victory at the
polls at the coming election il, heart
md soul, sinking individual desires
ind ambitions, you will work for the
and election of that great,
'afe, far-seeing man, statesman and
'atriot, Elihu Root. By your aid the
'epublican party can become solidi-
led and triumphant"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-20

Seventy-six out of eighty seven
cases of typhoid fever which occurred
in a recent outbreak have been traced
by the United States public health
service to infected milk. Had the
first cases been reported to a trained
health officer the outbreak could have
been stamped out promptly. When
will we learn that disease prevention
is sure and cheap?
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-20

The recent speech by Senator Jones'
of Washington, on the neutrality of
the United States and particularly the
attitude of this government toward
Germany, is the most astounding pro-
German utterance that has been
heard since a muzzle was placed on
German agents and agitators in this
country. The people of his state are
giving expression to their in
dlgnation over the senator's utter
anees, and he will hear from them
more directly in the ides of November.