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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15
PRESS RESTRICTIONS.
Publication Prohibitions Contained in
the Espionage Act.

As interpreted by Postmaster Cen
eral Albert s. Burleson, the espionage
and trading with the enemy acts make
it unlawful for any person, firm. cor
poration, or association to mail, trans
port or carry, or otherwise publish or
distribute, during the war, printed or
other matter of the following kinds
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insurrection, or forcible resistance to
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ers.
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shaft which is already down $50 feet
and is paying the current cost OF It's
operation from hard coal extracted
and sold and giving very definite evil
dences of the deeper seated perman-
ency of the deposit and he states that
a 1000. 900 ton resource of coal in Ida
no is something not to be sneezed at
under present conditions.
A previous bulletin by the United
States geological survey on this de-
post concluded that it would at least
supply a good local demand and Mr.
Bell is of the opinion that the present
finding Of the geological department
of the government in the article re-
ferred to is the result of insufficient
data on the subject by the authority
who wrote it,
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15
FUEL Administrators.
Given Direct Authority to Enforce the
Prices Fixed for Coal.

Threats on the part of state fuel ad-
ministrators in Idaho, Montana and
Utah to resign unless more authority
by the federal fuel administration re-
suited in the granting of additional
powers Thursday on the state admin
istrators in those states and in Ore
gon, Washington and California. The
state administrators have been COM
planning that up to this time they have
Offices with no authority and in con-
sequence they have been subject to
criticism for their past inability to
handle effectively the fuel situation in
the respective states.
The federal fuel administration eX-
planned that administrators IN the
states named have been given full au-
thority to direct the distribution of
coal in their respective states and to
fix absolutely the price at which that
coal shall be sold to consumers, bear
ing in mind, however, the basic prices
at mine which have been fixed by
Washington authorities and the de-
gree of profit which Washington has
allowed coal dealers.
The granting of this additional au-
thority to the state administrators is
the result of conferences of the Utah
administrator had with Administrator
Garfield Wednesday and Thursday.
The probability is great in view of
the general dissatisfaction with the
fuel administration that Garfield's
bureau will be made the subject of a
congressional probe next month There
is talk of this among senators now
returning to Washington
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15
A SOLDIERS LOAD.
His Equipment Contains Eighteen
Pounds of Metal

A table showing that more than IS
pounds of metal enters into the COM
position of articles required for the
equipment Of each infantryman has
been prepared by the ordnance bureau
OF the war department. The metal
equipment carried by each infantry
soldier weighs 294.65 ounces, consist
ing of 1913 ounces iron and steel, 1895
ounces tin, 62.7 ounces brass, 242
ounces aluminium, 1854 ounces of metal
in bullets consisting of lead, tin and
cupro- nickel, and ounces of other
metal. An additional weight of 1147
ounces is added by equipment Of cot
ton, wool, leather and wood. The ord
nance bureau, therefore, supplies each
soldier with approximately 25 pounds
of equipment, this being exclusive Of
that supplied by the q, quartermaster
corps.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15


the laws of Connecticut to deal in
brass, copper, etc. The new organi-
cation was merger of the Ansonia
Brass & Copper company, of Ansonia
Conn.,, which is the backbone of the
present company; the Benedict &
Burnham Manufacturing company of
waterbury, Conn; the Coe Brass
Manufacturing company of Torrington
and Ansonia Conn, and the Water
bury Brass company of Waterbury,
Conn. Through these subsidiary COM
panies are controlled the Chicago
Brass company, Kenosha, Wis; Wat
erbury Brass Goods corporation, Wat
erbury, Conn; and the Ansonia Land
4 Water Power company, of An
sonia, Conn.
On January l, 1912, the holding COM
pany took over the assets of its sub
sidiary companies and the latter ceas-
ed to exist except as branches of the
Ansonia Brass company.
The company has an authorized is
sue of $20,000,000 stock, one class, par
value 800 In May, of 1907, the out
standing stock was increased by So
$4,000 through the payment of a 20
per cent stock dividend, which brought
the total outstanding up to $4,000, 900,
where ii now is. There are no bonds
or other funded Indebtedness. The
American Brass company Is distinctly
New England corporation. It's
stock has never been brought to Wall
street, nor is it listed on any exchange.
Its officers and directors are men who
have grown up in the brass business
and whose names are not generally
included in the list of high financiers
Like the original New England in
vestors in the Michigan copper COM
panies the American Brass interests
have held on to their property and,
like those same copper investors, they
have had no occasion to regret their
tenacity. Quite Ahe contrary.
During the three years preceding the
war the earnings of American Brass
were on a descending scale, dropping
from l5.l per cent on the stock in
1912, to 127 per cent in 1918 and go
per cent in 1914. Then came the
golden flood. Brass was in tremend-
Gus and instantaneous demand-it was
not question of price. but merely Of
quantity and delivery. American
Brass being the largest producer in |
this country, was naturally the one to |
get the first call on the business that |
was being handed around on silver
platters. The company's brass mills |
.ooke on thousands of extra laborers.
them in three shifts, "a hours
day. The hills bordering the Maui
,atuck valley were darkened by smoke
clouds during the day and Illuminated
~ lights at night
From less than 10 per cent in 1914
'arnings jumped TO nearly Al per cent
n 1915 and took another perpendicu-
ar leap to 70 per cent, in round fig
res, for 1916. In less than two years
he company had more than earned
he entire par value of it's outstand-
ng stock.
Conservative Dividend Policy. &
The conservativeness Of the man. II
cement Is nowhere better shown Il
han in the company's dividend pol T
". From the start, distributions Il
ave been safely within earnings and I
ven the glamour of war profits did G
OF cause a change. The safe and sane Il
olicy Of keeping the regular dividend c
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15
Labor Federation Objected.

Heretofore when it has been pro-
posed that German prisoners of war
be brought to the United States and
put to work, as is being done in Can
ada, there has been a quiet protest
from the American federation Of la
Dor; protest that these Germans,
VINO are our enemies, would in this
way displace Americans, and pre-
sumptively this opposition has been
responsible for the failure, thus far.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15

H. w. Weller and P. ]. KEENAN,, sue
cessful lease operators of the Mackay
section, have leased a property near
the Ramshorn mines, near Bayhorse,
with a 100000 purchase clause. They
plan active development. The ground
was big producer prior to 1884. but
has been idle since that time
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15
to carry out the plan of importira
German prisoners.

deTiHdH pTlSOHeTS.
But as the war industries are show,
to be running behind schedule os
ship construction is tagging, spruco
and lumber production in many sec.
tons falling far short Of government,
requirements, the fact is being drivan
home to the administration that thora
is labor shortage in the United
States, and that it will grow as tho
army grows, drawing, as it must IN.
on many industries whose men are NOT
to be exempt from military Service
That same opposition is expected to
arise, now that the German prisoner
problem is once more up, but how
much longer it will be effective prob.
ably will be determined by the grow.
ing scarcity of American labor and
the increasing retarding of war in.
dustries.
Talk Of Three Shifts.
Already there is talk of putting in
three shifts in shipyards, in munitions
factories, in steel SAINTS, and in impor.
tant industries; gradually the eight
hour day is becoming the rule, even in
plants working on war orders. This
means, in most instances, a. trebling
of the labor force, and the depart
ment of labor has not yet found the
potential labor supply to meet such a
demand as the war department and
navy department deem essential.
While German prisoners cannot
safely be employed in many of the in
dustries where the labor shortage is
greatest, they can be put to work in
other lines, and release men who
could be transferred to work where
established loyalty is essential.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15

At fifty man begins to learn the
things he thought he knew at twenty
five.-Toledo Blade.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15

You would see a lot more loafers
than you do if they didn't have to
work for living. champion
Press.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15
GERMAN WAR. PRISONERS
Be BROUGHT TO AMERICA
WOULD RELIEVE LABOR SITUA-
TON AND DEMAND ON
ALLIES FOOD.

The war department and depart
ment of labor once more are giving
consideration to the question of bring
ing to the United States German pris-
oners of war, now held in England and
France. The proposal, which this time
comes from the allied governments, is
that these prisoners be put to work in
industries where they can safely be
employed, and where they can, by their
labor, be compelled not only to pay
for their own support, but be made to
help support and supply the American
and allied armies in Europe.
This proposal is not new; it has
been considered several times before,
but always dropped without decision.
1t never has been definitely deter
mined that it would be unwise to en-
ploy Germans as laborers or farmers
in the United States, in localities
where labor is scarce; the secretary of
war and the secretary of labor merely
have pigeonholed the proposal each
time it came up; they even dropped
the suggestion of Secretary Lane that
German prisoners be used as laborers
on government irrigation projects, or
be corralled on certain of the pro-
jects and forced to farm idle govern
ment lands.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15

Really good resolutions are neither
written nor orally proclaimed.--Al-
bany Journal.
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.RESENTS COAL REPORT
or GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
n. N. BELL SAYS THAT IDAHO
HAS VALUABLE ASSET
IN COAL.

r. n. Bell, state mine inspector,
takes exception to the finding in a
United States geological survey bull
letin deprecating the Idaho coal re-
sources. He says the manager of the
company has been at the mine per-
manently all summer and has never
seen any representative of the United
States geological survey on the ground
until the 31st of October when the
United States bureau of mines sent an
expert to look the property over. He,
however, was restricted to two-days'
examination
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15

wv HinS DIdSS MIL, OF Deltef Stlll,
a group of brass mills in war times is
better than owning q gold mine and
almost as satisfactory as owning a
munition plant, The writer recalls
but few years ago, when gloom
thick and cerulean pervaded the Con-
necticut hills and the Naugatack val
ley, the home of the brass industry of
this country. Mills were closing OF
running on part time, brass was a
drug on the market for the industry
was in one of those periods which
correspond to the "pauper' age OF
steel.
War Changes the Situation.
The advent of war changed the en-
tire heavens of the brass world. Brass
Is one of the indispensables in the
manufacture of munitions and an ar
ticle for which not even the genius of
the Germans has been able to invent
a satisfactory substitute. 1t would
seem offhand that it would be COM
paratively easy to substitute a cheap
er metal for the Jackets" which are
Ia component part of cartridges and
shells. But such is not the case. A
bullet requires metal casing of suf-
ficient flrmness so that it cannot be
easily bent and yet of a malleability
sufficient to prevent it from cracking
or breaking and thus putting the
weapon from which II is fired out of
commission. Brass is the metal which
best fits these requirements and hence
it is an exceedingly important element
in munition manufacture. In addition
to the tremendous war demand there
was an exceedingly good normal de-
mand for brass so that the brass in
dustry in general and the American
Brass company in particular flourish
ed exceedingly.
Charles r. Brooker.
When you speak of the American
Brass company you are in effect
speaking Of Charles f. Brooker, for he
is the American Brass company. Just
what Mr.. Schwab is to the steel in
dustry, or Mr., Ryan is to the copper
industry, so Mr.. Brooker is to the
brass business. Except that somehow
Mr.. BROKER has managed to escape
a good deal of the white light of pub
licity which usually beats about the
more or less uneasy sitters on the high
corporate thrones. A millionaire
many times over prominent in politi-
cal and charitable work and the dir
ector in many corporations, one sees
his name often enough in the public
prints, but usually in connection with
outside of his business Gf-
fairs, One reason, perhaps, is that
Mr., Brooker is not given to garrulous.
ness, to put 1t mildly He has breath
I'd the repressive airs of New Eng
and so long that he has come to re-
gard public utterances on business
matters as sort of economic heresy I
fhe writer once called upon Mr. |
3rooker several years ago in hopes of
Getting an expression of opinion on
he outlook for the brass trade, re-
all that | was very well received but /
he real information | hoped to obtain
nd the expert opinion hoped to hear
onld be well summed up in it's en-
irety by the word zero" That was \
ONE time ago-perhaps he has chang
d since then.
Present Organization.
The American Brass company was |,
ieorpoNted in February, 1898, under
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15
Written at Long Range?

Mr. Bell is of the opinion that the
article in question was written by an
agent of the government at long
range who never visited the ground in
person and depended on hearsay or
previously published stories for his
information. Mr.. Bell states that the
company is in possession of a report
made by a geologic and mining engi-
neer of international reputation and
standing who made favorable report
years ago with the estimate that it
should contain 100000 tons of coal
within 500 feet of the surface. Since
that time half mile of shallow UNI
derground development has been driv-
en- on this deposit and 10000 tons of
coal mined and sold to the local set
tiers of that region, which he says
emphasizes the permanency of the vein
and the original estimates of it's re-
sources.
A previous government bulletin on
this particular property gives list of
analysis on this coal deposit that is
equal to the very best analytical re-
suits obtained from any coal shipped
into Idaho from any source at the
present time, he says
Property on Paying Basis.
The owners of this property, with
limited capital, are now sinking a
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15
Tax the Food Supply.

In presenting the question to this
lies now point out that German pris-
oners maintained in England and
France not only greatly increase the
tax upon the food supply of those
countries, but increase the demand on
export of foodstuffs from the United
States, at a time when tonnage Is
short, and space is at a premium BY
shifting these prisoners, or many of
them, to the United States, they show
an advantage in the matter of trans
atlantic shipping, and demonstrate
how these prisoners readily could be
sent to the United States on troop
transports that now return empty.
Once German prisoners are brought
to the United States in numbers, it
would devolve upon the United States
to guard them, and to quarter and ra-
ton them. Canada is doing that very
thing, but is finding the experiment
profitable, as the productive capacity
of the prisoners more than offsets the
cost of their maintenance and the cost
of guarding them in camps, and the
prisoners, being forced to work under
conditions which are far better than
in stockades, are being
recompensed for their labor, receiving
the same pay as men Of the Canadian
regiments. The more capable of them
are placed in positions of responsible
ity, and allowed greater pay than
those who perform only ordinary la
Dor.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15
Man Who Dominates American Brass
Industry; Large Profits Through War

(By Chester c. Johnson in Magazine of Wall Street
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15
Present ORGANIZATION.

The American Brass company was
Incorporated in February, 1898, under
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15
Conservative Dividend Policy.

The conservativeness Of the man
agement is nowhere better shown
than in the company's dividend pol
icy. From the start, distributions
have been safely within earnings and
even the glamour Of war profits did
not cause change. The safe and sane
policy of keeping the regular dividend
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15
Property on Paying Basis.

The owners of this property, with
United capital, are now sinking a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-20
PROHIBITION IS
 LOST IN HOUSE AT THIS SESSION
Tammany Men Quit Caucus as Bill In Brought-Appears
 to Be Dead"

Washington, April 20-Democratic control of the House almost was lost yesterday afternoon through the ef- forts of the Prohibitionists to force an anti-lquor bill on the legislative program for the present session. Members of the New York and Mas sachusetts delegations quit the caucus when the Democrats voted 87 to SO to take up the question of Prohibition and consider 1t before adjourning Congress. The storm that followed the vote for action on anti-liquor laws was calmed by Representatives Kitch- in and Glass, who argued that the program should be limited to the items mentioned in the Presidents 8 message for the special session and to war measures that may be recom- mended hereafter.
 A dozen Tammany men left, dis gruntled by the plan to take up Pro- hibition, and threatened not to-~be bound by the caucus.
 Unless the President recommends 1t, no Prohibition legislation will be considered during the present session, and Tammany Hall mem bers are giv- en the credit for forcing this situa tion, despite the fact some of the. .n denied they had dissolved" them selves from the caucus.
 The New York member, Represen- tative Smith. introduced bill to keep liquors from soldiers, sailors or mar ines in uniforms. Another bill was placed before the body by Represen- tative Howard of Georgia to prohibit tntoxicants entirely during the war.
 Majority Leader Kitchin told the caucus he believed Congress would be able to pass the necessary legisla- tion and adjourn by June l.
 The caucus voted to instruct the committee not to consider any legis- lation except that suggested by the President This includes the various bills for expansion of the army and navy and equipping them for service, revenue, legislation, amendments to