The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-04-13

ing potash, and | can show them and
quote their own statements in doing
so, more likely source of these min
erals in Idaho, that have been almost
entirely overlooked. from this stand
point than any of the fields they have
so far investigated with negative re-
suits. A billion tons of coal would
not replace the power that has gone
to waste and might have been de-
veloped under liberal governmental
policy during the past 10 years in
waterpower creation.
Money is Ready.
THE east, at this time, is flooded
with an abundance of cheap money
looking for permanent investment and
am reliably informed by high au-
thority that it is perfectly satisfied to
trust its investments to the equity
and fairness of state public utilities
commissioners who would have definite
authority to regulate such business of
a public nature as occurred within
their borders and protect the public
against unjust charges and discrimina-
lions. Controversies between big pow
er interests have already been intellI-
gently adjusted by the public utilities
commission of Idaho to the full sat
! isfaction of a discriminating and vi
tally interested public opinion.
1T is dscouraging condition of
affairs that, of all people, leading
national democratic politician should
want to assume such Hamiltonian ar
rogance over the constitutional rights
and privileges of free people, and
with his various leasing bills and So
cialistic government ownership theo-
ries reduce the commonwealth of the
Try and carpetbag government against
| their will and inclination. 1t seems
evident that biased majority in con-
gress who have very little knowledge
of or sympathy with the interests of
the public land states are going to put
over, with the assistances of a few
ambitious politicians of the Lane Pin
chot type, these Objectionable perma-
nent ownership and nontaxable leas-
ing measures on the mountain states
of the far west, that will deprive them
of their natural rights and revenue re-
Esources to a marked degree and touch
the pockets of every taxpayer in the
region, besides putting their vital af-
fairs in the hands of a bunch of aca-
demic theorists who have no appre-
citation of the magnitude of the trans
faction they are undertaking and
limited ability to administer it.
Another Skeleton.
another of Mr.. Lanes skeletons
that he repeatedly shakes in the face
of the dear people is the rapid ex-
haustion of the nationn's hydro carbon
oil resources, and he has taken advan-
of motor fuel to rub it in. If this
advance is natural and ue to an ex-
cessiVe European war demand, or un-
warranted due to trust monopoly, he
Has TIC lGSdl ll1dCIlllbly DIT lldIu u
find out and correct it. If Mr. Lane
had made an intelligent use of the
research departments at his command
to demonstrate the economic availa-
bility Of the billions of tons of oil
shales in the upper Colorado river
drainage that are known to contain a
barrel of high grade hydro-carbon
oil and handsome by-product of wax
and nitrogen, in place of depending on
the private enterprise of the western
people for this demonstration, he
might, by this time, have very mateN
rally eliminated the prospects of a
! fuel oil famine and incidentally have
solved the harpy subject of nitrogen
results of practical use to the whole
nation, compared to which his expen-
sive radium experiment results in the
same territory are a scientific toy
Pursuing this fearsome subject of
oil exhaustion a little further, it is
manifest, according to United States
bulletin No 191, covering tests of in
ternal combustion engines on alcohol
fuel, that nothing remains but slight
mechanical adjustment of a carbure-
tor and other incidental adaptions
to transfer the grasping CD monopoly
of the Standard Oil company on the
automotive power of the United States
to a trust proof asset of the American
farmer, as it is manifest from this
government research that alcohol af-
fords an absolutely dependable sub
stitute for gasoline motor fuel, and if
all the hydro carbon oils of the nation
were definitely known to be within a
year of exhaustion, the fact would
strike no terror to the auto joy rider
and would prove of inestimable value
as a national distributor of wealth, in
(which every intelligent American far
mer might participate, as it is dem
onstrated that alcohol can be pro-
duced at handsome profit to all con-
cerned at 20 cents per gallon from
the product of the farm, and is about
equal to gasoline at rs cents gallon.
I'm addition, the federal govern
Iment might be warranted in invoking
it's excise right of revenue for the de-