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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-01-21
TAXATION RUN MAD
Democratic Party Wrong in Prin-
ciple.
People Will Soon Tire Of the Burden.
some System Of Raising Revenue.
and Turn to Republicans
for Relief.

By next fall the whole country will
be awake to the economic mistake OF
imposing taxes on salaries, incomes of
every kind. instead of raising revenue
to support the government by impos-
ing tariff tax on foreign-made goods
in order to protect our home market
for our own products. America will
soon come to the condition of England
century ago described by a states
man in speech in parliament. 1t ran
something like this: taxed farmer
drives taxed cart. pulled by taxed
horse. in taxed harness. guided by
taxed reins. driven by taxed whip.
over taxed road, the farmer sitting
on a taxed cushion on a taxed seat.
wearing taxed clothes.
We are to have a recrudescence of
the taxes imposed necessary to carry
on the war on about every instrument
used In every kind OF business Al
ready there is a tax on every deed
passing piece Of property from one
hand to another, on every mortgage
negotiated to raise the money. on
every note Of hand put into the bank.
Now we are to have a tax on bank
checks, possibly on receipts for gro-
ceries.
The people are tired OF this bur-
den of direct taxation, which is felt
like a boil on the end of ones nose
every time he has to pay a cent or :.
dollar in this way of taxation. Indi-
rect taxation is never felt SO burden
some as the direct kind.
The people are seeing and feeling
this, and will see TO it that the Ameri-
can party with the real American prin-
ciples for Americas good is restored
to power. and then with the good old
G. o. P. in the saddle we will push
prosperity instead of depression in
all lines of business.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-01-21
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tober 3. 1854: was educated at tn, University Of
the South at Sewanee. Tenn, where he studied
from 1859 to 1875. graduating with the degree
OF bachelor of arts He graduated in medicine
at the Bellevue Hospital Medical college in 1879
He served on the house staff of the Bellevue
hospital from 1879 to 1880: entered the United
States army in 1880. and served in Florida and
on the western frontier until the Spanish Amer
lean war broke out in 1885, He went to Cuba
with the expedition which captured Santiago.
After the fall of Santiago General Gorgas con-
tracted typhoid fever. and sent back to the
United States. He went with the expeditionary
force which occupied Havana in December, 1898
where he remained health officer until the fall
of 1902. During his incumbency health ofncer
of the city Of Havana the army medical board
made a discovery with regard to yellow fever
and found that 1t was conveyed by the Stegomyis
mosquitot AS health officer, with his sub
ordinates he devised plans and measures whereby
this discovery was put into practical service.
AS result Of these measures Havana was
freed from yellow fever entirely in about eight
months. although the disease had been there
continuously for the previous $50 years. For
this work he was promoted by special act OF
congress from the grade of major to that of
colonel
For ten years Doctor Gorgas was stationed in
the Panama Canal zone. as the chief health of.
fcer of the isthmian canal commission. He was
ordered to Panama in March, 1904. and three
years thereafter Theodore Roosevelt made him a
member of the commission. He chosen for
made Panama one OF the healthiest places in
the world and more than this he made the liy.
ing conditions OF the laborer on the isthmrA as
sanitary. as comfortable and as desirable as the
conditions surrounding the laborer anywhere in
the world.
Two years ago when General Gorgas term of
service on the isthmus was drawing to a close
because OF the near approach Of the day Of com.
pletion of the waterway. your correspondent WIS.,
tied the Canal zone. While there he was taken
with some friends. to visit hospital on an IT,
land OF the coast. This hospital had been built
by the French. When General Gorgas went to
the isthmus he took the building put II into
perfect sanitary cot dition and made it a place
of reception for convalescents. The hospital
never full, because there wasn't enough
sickness in the zone to produce convalescents
enough at any time to tax the hospital facilities
The fact that this particular building never was
crowded, and that 1t was a small building at best
perhaps furnishes one Of the best proofs possible
Of the commanding medical work which was
done in a place generally accounted as one Of
the most unhealthy on the face Of the globe
During the visit to Panama . statement was
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-01-21
Wyoming.

The Occidental Gold Mining Com
pany in che Hurricane district has
completed its second dam and Is
making all possible Roadway toward
active placer mining in the early
spring.
About two miles northeast from
Superior are the Lencite hills, which
are made up largely of igneous rocks
in the form of volcanic necks, sheets
intruded into the stratified rocks, and
bikes cutting across the sedimentary
strata Associated with these intru-
sive rocks are volcanic cones and
lava flows. These rocks have long
been objects of scientific interest be-
cause of their unusual character.
Lately they have attracted additions,
interest by reason Of the potash-rich
mineral, leucite, they contain. which.
may some day be utilized If a process
can be found for extracting the pot
ash cheaply. 1t has been estimated
that the igneous rocks OF the Leucits
hills contain more than 197.00O.u0e
tons of potash.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-01-21
New Mexico.

The Vera Cruz Mining Company.
with properties at Nogal, is becoming
very active after lapse of some sew
en- or eight years.
An unusually rich gold strike is re-
ported at the Aztec mine west of CT
marion. Ore is said to have been
taken out that was worth as much as
81 pound.
Traces of oil are reported to have
been found in the deepening Of the
Las Cruces municipal well. Geologi
cal formations in the neighborhocd
are said to favor the occurrence Of
oil.
II. S. Hammer of White Oaks IL
making $1,000 a day from his mine.
where he has sixty men taking out
tungsten ore, according to state
ment made by him in Ell Paso re-
Gently.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-01-21
ONNl11yG SAb2zAlY. MzzMsWcAM4z zQnE

made to your correspondent by General Gorgas
which was nothing short of startling in its ma
ture. He said III the governments of Vene-
Euela and Ecuador would spend few thousand
dollars to stamp out yellow fever there never
would be another case OF the disease known 20
the world"
For some reason or other the South American
countries in which the yellow fever still exists
will~not spend the money necessary to stamp 1t
out. So it Is that 80 long the disease exists
there 1t is possible for man. perhaps d
sailor, to be bitten by fever-aden mosquito
Just before he sails for another port and to carry
with him the poison 1t is held by the high think
that the countries OF South America where
yellow fever exists should be forced to stamp
out the disease in order that the rest of the
world may be safe for all time from the menace
of the dread yellow jack"
Some time ago, during process OF dredging,
a low spot on the zone was turned into marsh,
and almost instantly the malaria mosquito be-
gan to breed there abundantly. Literally mil
lions of the insects appeared. Now, there was no
danger that they would spread malaria among
the zone people, because the insects had to be-
come charged with the poison first; but. of course
It was necessary to determine how far the crea
lures could travel, and this is the way they
found out:
An able-bodied and perfectly willing native
was put into mosquito net tent, where he sat
and acted as bait He was paid certain amount
of gold for his batting work and he, with others
who afterward were employed, said 1t easy
money.
When the tent had million more mosqui-
toes in it the native came out and the entrance
was closed Then the scientists sprayed the
tent and its confined mosquitoes with coloring
matter The spray fine that 1t did not
drown or even drench the insects, but they re-
ceiyed some coloring matter on their wings and
bodies.
Other tents were pitched and in each was sta
toned a human bait. These tents were at GER
tain distances apart. All the mosquitoes in the
first tent were released and they were traced
bv color from tent to tent until none were found.
In that way they found out how far the malaria
fever mosquito would travel
Surgeon General Gorgas makes his headquar-
tiers in Washington but he is a soldier constant
ly subject to orders and also to the dictates OF
his own judgment. Any day he may be Obliged
to 70 straight to the front. not to meet the hu-
man enemy but the disease enemy. His is the
responsibility for the health Of the soldiers In
Texas in the Canal zone, in Hawaii and in the
Philippine islands. 1t is his to meet physician
like and solderlike, any emergency which may
arise He is Of the gentest men known to
the service and he Is also one Of the b-avest
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-01-21
Arizona.

Over 1,4O0 tons of ore were
shipped frCm CORTLAND to the Doug
las smelter during December.
The opening of 1916 has witnessed
no stacking down in the Warren dis
trict production of the red metal.
The assessment work of the De
troit and Shannon Copper companies,
in the district where the miners are
on strike, has been completed.
Leonard Brooks, who has been DO
ing assessment work on claims about
two miles west of Miami, reports
that he has struck body OF azurite
of extraordinary richness.
Over 100000 pounds Of copper were
produced at the Humboldt plant OF
the Consolidated Arizona Smelling
Company during December, accord
ing to the managers report.
At the outset of 191G-a year OF
splendid promise for the mining In
terests of Acknowledgement county
enters upon what bids fair to be the
most prosperous cycle in its mining
history.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-01-21
Close to Economic Disaster.

Official figures show that during the
1928 period our domestic exports
amounted to $2,460.000.0O0. while for
the 1914 period they amounted to 81.
245.000,O00, decrease Of $215 900, 900,
or a falling off at the rate of about
$1S.0OO.O00 monthly. On total exports,
foreign and domestic. there was a fall
ing of during the 1914 period Of
$27O 100000. For the 1914-15 period
our domestic exports increased to g..
978,S00, 900. The export of war r,uni.
tons alone saved the country from
economic disaster.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-01-21
Wrong In Substance.

The administration in its policies
accepts the substance of protection,
but not the form. There would be no
complaint from protectionists II the
form suggested by the administration
were really as effective as protective
duties levied at the customhouses.
Unfortunately. however, attempts to
reach the real offenders under an
antidumping law will be futile A pro
tective tariff is preventive measure.
while an anti-dumping law is a punt.
tive measure. American manufactur.
ers will agree that in this case, as
in most others, an oufice OF proven,
ton is worth pound of cure.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-01-21
Where Present Tariff Law Fails.

Most of the Democrats in Congress
admit freely that the present tariff
law has not been successful in rats
ing revenue. The official evidence
of this is found in the presidents rec
ommendation that the freesugar
clause be suspended. Official adms-
sion has also been made that this
country faces the grave danger in
volved in the deliberate dumping OF
cheap labor products on the American
market following the close of the
war. Foreign nations have been
known to encourage the selling OF
their goods at extremely low prices
to the, United States, at times even
at loss, in order to drive American
interests out of the market.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-01-21
Republican Victory Sure.

The vital issue upon which the Re-
publicans will win the election next
year is protection This is a country
that must have protective tariff. It
cannot exist otherwise. Our workmen
are different from the workmen of Eu-
rope. They are used to better things
than the laborers CT Europe. and they
can continue in their comfortable sur
roundings. keep carpets ON their floors
and have beef to eat and pianos to pro-
vide amusement only under a protec-
tive tariff system. Free trade will
mean their ruin, and when 1t comes to
voting next year these men will re-
turn the Republican party to power
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-01-21
Colorado.

A. E. Blakesley, president and man
ager of the Blue Flag Gold Mining
and Milling Company, with claims n
the richest portions Of the Brecken-
ridge and Cripple Creek district, has
an active program Of development
mapped out for 1916.
The Vindicator Consolidated Gold
Mining Company expects to add flo
tation units at each of its Cripple
Creek concentration plants to extract
remaining values from the mill tail
ings.
1t is reported from Central City
that on every 1000 shares in the
Cashier Gold Mining and Reduction
Company which operates the Pitts
burg mine in lower Russell gulch.
dividend of SIS has been paid.
Salt Lake capital, known as the
Colorado-Utah Mining and Operating
Company, which has liberal lease on
the Golden Fleece group, near Lake
City, Hinsdale county, has erected
concentration plant and will give the
old tellurium bonanza another place
in the sum-"
In the La Plata district, southwest
of Durango, strikes of rich ore are
reported in the Valley View group
which paid two per cent monthly on
100000 in 1911 and up to the time
when litigation set in with the May
Day owners, over some 200 feet of
ore veins, estimated to contain ST.
100000 in gold and silver. The suit
was compromised in 1914.
Heavy production was made in De
cember from the properties of the
Vindicator Company, the Vindicator
No. 1 and 2 shafts, the Golden Cycle
and Christmas mines, when 100
broad-gauge cars with total contents
approximating $4,000 tons. were con-
signed to the mill of the Golden Cy
Gle Mining and Reduction Company
near Colorado Springs for treatment
At conservative estimate the gross
bullion value of the ore would approx
innate $4,000, or at the rate Of So
$4,000 per year. Average value Per
ton. 5000.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-01-21

tarily OF his own achievements on the sickness
stricken field. he is writing Of one of the most
famous of any nation. He does not belong
to Washington nor yet to the United States. but
to the world
Here is a doctor and soldier whose record
stands unique In order to honor him congress
in way upset its traditions and changed q line
OF legislative action which for years ran one
unvarying course. Last spring the congress of
the United States paid General Gorgas the high
est compliment that 1t is within its power to pay.
1t gave him the thanks of the congress of the
United States 1t promoted him to the grade of
major general and It SO changed established
custom as to enable him to remain at the head
OF the medical crops of the army for some
months after the four years allotted for such
service shall have expired
In other words. through the action of congress,
General Gorgas, instead of being surgeon general
Of the army for the term Of only four years. will
hold that ONCE until he retires from active work
at the age Of sxty-four years.
The thanks Of congress. promotion to the rank
Of major general and the provision which would
enable the incumbent to remain surgeon general
for a longer period than the usually allotted time
came to this doctor, as the resolutions OF
gress show because of his great work in routing
disease from the Panama Canal zone and in max
ing former plague spot one of the most health
full districts in the world.
1t is virtually Impossible to get the records of
all tho great scientists OF the world for purposes
of immediate comparison. but 1t seems to be
safe to say that other man has been hon.
ored by educational institutions and by learned
societies as has William Crawford Gorgas. He
received his modest A. B. from the University
of the South at Sewanee. Tenn. in the year
1875 and his M. D. from Bellevue Hospital Med
zeal college In New York city four years later
From that time to this honors have been piled
upon him. and he has borne them all with a mod
esty that resembles meekness. 1t is held by
many that doctor Of science is the highest honor
which any institution of learning confer
upon a man Seven great universities. including
Oxford, Harvard, Pennsylvania Brown and
Princeton have conferred the doctor Of science
degree upon this American army doctor
To him have come LII DIS from Johns Hop
kins and from many other universities BY the
decree Of Yale Georgetown and Washington uni
versities he Is a doctor Of laws. He has medals
from societies, from medical associations and
from national academies of science for dis
tinguished achievement in the interest OF man
kind" He has the Seaman medal from the
American Museum Of Safety. and he has the
Mary Kindsley medal from the Liverpool ENG
land) School Of Tropical Medicine. He is a mem
her, either active or honorary of virtually every
great scientific society in the world The hon
ors have sought him out He has gone on with
his work seeking nothing except that which will |
benefit his rellow man.
General GorEas was born in Mobile. Ala. o.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-01-21
Issues Of Coming Contest,

Domestic issues are the ones on
which the presidential battle will be
fought, with the matter of revenues for
the government taking a front place.
They furnish plenty of ammunition for
Republicans. And there is also the
matter of growing tax people must
pay.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-01-21
Time for Clear Thought.

The United States is going to need,
after the war, the best tariff expert
ence and intelligence that can be
brought to bear. Now is the time for
the realization of the fact. and for be-
ginning the study Of the huge problem
in which this country will be involved,
along with all the rest OF the world
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-01-21
i, H0S1ZZAZ rae C4IN4L kzzN0NEEs
BY EDWARD B. CLARK.

BY EDWARD B. CLARK.
Al. GEN. WILLIAM CRAWFORD
Gorgas, chief OF the medical crops
of the United States army. Is by
many men accounted the greatest
soldier of them all. He has met
and overcome disease on many
fields. and disease Is accounted.
enemy of the human race. When
one writes of this modest-appear-
ING man who never speakS yOlun-
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-01-21
WESTERN
MINING AND OIL
NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Metal Market Prices.
Spelter, ST. Louis-$16.00.
Copper, casting-$22.G2h.
Lead, New York-S5.90.
Bar silver-57c.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-07-26
NEGRO F0lksOnq Festival.

DALLAS. Texas. July 26.-During the
three day beginning today the huge Fair
Park Coliseum IN this city j. To rcsound
with the old plantation melodies If "the
day before the war" The occasion y the
Southern Negro Folk~ong Festival. spon-
-orcd hN the Texas Normal Industrial In
~titnic. and the tir-i affair Of it, kind "a
Y large scale evsr held IN this country. The
beading negro singer of the country will
hc supplemented hv SINGER from Texas
md The entire South. making a great
chorus NJ vuice~. which will Join III the
chants and hvmu- peculiar ~ the Southern
negro Of half y century ago.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-07-26
niyitend Action on U. S. Steel.

L. - INF H'"N
NEW YORK. ful, - Erw'r~ ~ ~
extra dividend on steel numo ranging
from | tu ? r,r cent. arr ,urrcui n Wall
Street. The ri1lrr-. i"wrvrr. arr entire
~ without official coriirr tIo1- lnd rrfh
ing dc'fri' n lhc matter Ky lkrlN to hc
learned h> ihr puhl, uail thr directors
90 tire United Static Steel Corporation
mr,t Tomorrow ~ l%srlart dividend and
pas ~ thc report ior thc ~croud quarter
~ TIE year.
judge GARY. thc chairman w thc board.
IN not expected ~ hc present at tomorrow ~
mactin.. hvi " Ky likely that ht~ oru-crva-
tive policy relative to dividend payments
All he strictly adhered -fn Although
lrdge Gary ~ optimistic a~ ~ immediate
ortlook. a. tcrl~ that large order to meet
p'i> ~huuld hc hullt IN order tn meet amy
any reversal that ma, occur when Europe
l. IL po~iiion IN supply her own steel
requirements. ~ r because ot attitude ot
Judge GarN that steel manufacture H.
l'rvc tina, 1t an extra dividend T. declared
Il will not ~ large.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-07-26
/. ReaaY for Land OraMinn.

SPOKANE. Wash. July 2s.-Than-
sands VI home-~crkcr~ are on the iipioc
~ expectation today. for within another
tWentN-four hour they will learn their
luck IN the matter - occurring 4 desirable
homestead N the ColylIlc reservation. re-
Gently declared open to- settlement. John
John Ncthaul. superintendent Of the open
Ing and sale III the reservation lands. ha~
completed MI arrangements for the great
drawing. which viii commence here iomor-
row Cards containing the names Of more
than 10000 men and women who filed At
the FIVE registration points. have been
placed IN sealed cans and are now In the
custody 1T superintendent Mcphaul. To-
morrow morning the cans viii be publicly
opened and the drawing will commence.
The person whose name > first drawn will
he gwen first ehoice IN the selection Of q
homestead. The drawing will continue
until all the parcels of land have been al
lotted.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-07-26
WOOD SPECIMENS FOR The UNITED
STATES RATIONAL MUSEUM.

The United >tr ~ National Museum
M Washington has established ! sec
tinn IT wood technology. with \ collcc-
tinn "f native ana foreign woods II
commerce ~ illustrate the manner III
which he, are utilized. The wood col
~ tionS are To- consist II .planks of the
approximately commercial Size and IL
the best quality. Each wood vAll lc
given a natural finish and appropriate
IN labeled aud arranged 80 IL "a ~ ~
, h. erc test educational value. >prci-
mcn> possessing rare Or unusual quail
ties. exhibited by such woods ~ curly
birch bird eve maple figured mahug
ANY al others ~ beautiful color nr
otherwise attractive are a>lu - b. ~e-
= Fg~l. n r. also plsuucd 10 illustrate
their y. ilisatinn ht showing the prod
uct> of ~NarinH> n oi using industries.
and also the progressive steps involved
III their manufacture from the arw ma
tcrial a. The finished article.
The making III paper will IT, shown
from ;he bolt If spruce Or other wood.
through successive changes. until paper
j. ohtained.-The Cla>smate.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-07-26

CHEYENNE. Wyo.. July 26.-With del
egaics IN attendance from twelve States
and the territory Of Alaska, the National
Council of Women Voters assemblies in
CHEYENNE today for it, fourth annual con
v%entlon. The membership of the council
t. confined ~ the women of the cnfrln-
chi~ed States. The organization J. strict
cate women IN use the ballot ~ the inter
c~t~ ~ the best legislation. and 10 aid in
extending equal suffrage throughout the
country. Mr.. Emma Smith Dc Voc. ~
Tacoma. N the president IT. the council and
viii preside over the four DAYS sessions.