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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04
NOTICE.

20 All Whom 1t May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that II. @
@ougee, the owner of an undivided
ne-sixth interest in the Virginia min.
ne claim, situated in Beaver ininins
district, county of Shoshone. Idaho
will not be responsible for any debts
Or obligations however incurred b1
Patrick Burke, or his assigns, or bS
ny person or corporation whatever
or any work done upon, or for an,
machinery or supplies furnished for OF
used upon said Virginia lode mining
claim, or for any contract debt. liep
or obligation made or incurred In re-
spect to said lode mining claim.
Dated this 2lst day of May, 1914.
hyzs-AgI1-u H. G. LOUGEE.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04
RECENT MINING DECISIONS.
Minina claims--Taxatinn

The Idaho statute requiring assess
ors to assess mining claims by taking
the government price per acre for the
mineral lands as basis for valuing
the surface, adding the cash value of
improvements, and then adding the
net output for the preceding year, was
held constitutional Hanley v. FEEDER
al Mining & Smelling Co. (Idaho), 235
Federal 769 July %, 1915.
Assessment Work Prevented by Force.
Where defendant prevented plain
tiff's predecessor in title from per-
forming the assessment work on a
mine for year, driving away laborers
and threatening them, defendant,
whose location overlapped that of
plaintiff can not base any rights on
the failure. of plaintiff and his prede-
cessor to perform the assessment
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04
ANACONDA DIVIDENDS
TWO DOLLARS 4 SHARE
PAYMENTS IN 1916 AMOUNTED
TO 81 A SHARE, AGGREGAT-
ING $1631S,750.

The directors of the Anaconda Cop
per Mining company at their meeting
yesterday declared the regular quar-
terly dividend of 50 per share. The
dividend will be paid on February 2S
to stockholders Of record January 80
says the Anaconda Standard. This is
the third quarterly dividend of 50 per
share that will be paid The first was
on August 2S, at which time the divi-
dend was increased from $3.50 per
share per quarter to So.
further increase in the dividend
had been expected by many at this
meeting, but the general conditions in
the opinion of the board did not war
rant the company in making the in
crease. The Anaconda company is
pursuing most conservative course,
and is placing itself in a position to
continue the present rate after peace
is declared. 1t is also conserving it's
cash resources to be able to take the
greatest possible advantage of the
market situation.
Over $18,oo0,00o Next Year.
The dividend declaration yesterday
calls for the payment Of $45625 500 to
the holders of 2,331,250 shares of out
standing stock. During the year 1916
a total of 81 per share has been paid
in dividends, $3.50 February 20 and
May % and 50 per share August %
and November 2S, or $16,31S,75O. The
present dividend rate requires for an
nual dividend payments $1S,650,0OO
The surplus at the beginning of the
year was $15,O51, 1866.
The earnings for the year 1915 have
not been given out, but it is stated
unofficially that they will show pro-
fit sufficient to pay the dividends for
the year. to meet the notes due in
March, 1917, amounting to $4,000, 900,
pay the cost of the installation of the
new zinc plant and other improve
ments MADE during the year, which
amount to over $6,O00,OO0; pay for the
new properties purchased, including
the Pilot-Butt and other mining pro-
perties in Butte and their South Am
erican investments, and increase the
surplus funds by good amount It Is
probable that the balance, sheet for the
year will show an actual profit of
from $40 to $25 share.
Fluctuations in Stock.
In the light of these earnings and
it is interesting to note
the variation in the price of the stock
for the year. At the present time the
Anaconda shares are selling around
$SS. The company is earning over 25
per cent on this market valuation. It
is paying in dividends nearly 10 per
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04
Platinum for Bulbs.
CBrooklyn EagleI

The quality chiefly valuable in plat
mum is that it expands and contracts
with heat and cold exactly as glass
does That makes 1t greatly desired
for electric light bulbs at the spot
where the wire passes through the
glass. Any other metal would crack
the glass.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04
PRIMARY ELECTION
WHAT IT COSTS IN IDAHO
COMMISSIONER ROM ADA coUN-
TY CALLS ATTENTION TO
STARTLING FIGURES.

That the average cost of the prim-
airy election is more than $1eo per pre-
cinct or $4,000 for the entire state,
there being 800 precincts, and that in
one precinct the cost of the primary
per vote was more than $40, and in
several the glorious privilege of vot-
ing at the primary" cost the taxpay-
ers between $40 and SIS per vote, were
statements made Tuesday afternoon by
Mans II. Coffin, Ada county commits
sioner, in addressing the convention
of the county commissioners on
Elections and What They Cost"
Mr. Coffin said his figures were as
nearly accurate as it was possible for
him to make them from the data he
obtained on the cost of the recent pri-
mary for the different commissioners.
His figures made up from chart that
he exhibited, were not challenged, and
he expressed the opinion that the tax
payers would not favor the statewide
primary law when they learned it cost
them an average of $1.4O for every
vote at the primary election.
Responsibility Destroyed.
I'VE have" he said, "hedged our
selves about with system of don'ts,
what's and cans, called election laws,
that blind, muddle and confuse the
understanding of our most intelligent
voters. And what has it done to i'm
prove on the old convention plan? Has
itsdestroyed the clique, the ring or the
boss? Not that anyone can see.
''Tll tell you though, what 1t has
done. 1t has destroyed our parties
there is no longer any party loyalty.
The candidate is out for self and self
alone. He knifes the candidates of his
own party, trying to catch the favor
of the other party, Once In office, and
feeling himself strong, he will refrain
from assisting candidates for office, in
fear of the other fellow becoming
strong in the party, which might mill
tate against his ascendancy. Party
policy and platforms are ignored.
Goes Into Office Bankrupt.
Think of the baneful effect this
system has upon the aspirant for Of
flee. He goes out for the nomination
at the primaries. makes campaign,
spending all he can afford If success
full in the primaries, he goes out for
election, and spends more than he can
afford. Is it best to have men in Of
flee who have bankrupted themselves,
gone into debt assumed obligations
they can not meet?
Sitting as one of the board of com
missioners whose duty it is to select
the election officers instruct them in
their work and interpret the meaning
of their acts. l have found that scarce
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04
A Buckeye State ideal.
Cleveland Plain Dealerl

NNIVFtFdHU IdIH DedIefJ
Some fellow is going to strike a
golden mean between cheap plentiful
ness and high priced scarcity, some
day, by successfully crossing the Eng
lish sparrow with the American tur-
key
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04
High Cost of Vessel.
Brooklyn Ea gle)

A vessel has just been sold for 200
times her value several years ago. As
a shipping investment the deal repre-
sents the largest profit made during
the war.
/ A few years ago a British steamer
which had stranded on the South AM
erican coast was sold, as she lay to
neutrals for G1500. The purchasers
had her refloated and repaired and
employed her in trade She has now
been resold for C 100000; being 200
times the price paid for her as a
wreck.
This price takes no account of the
cost of salving and repairing the ship
but presumably these expenses would
have been amply covered by her earn
ings since she was salved, including
two years of extremely high freights
The present price merely represents
the current value of tonnage.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04

work, particularly where there was no
showing that there was any part OF
plaintiffs claim outside the overlap on
which assessment work might have
been benefcially performed. Ames v.
Sullivan (Alaska), 235 Federal, $50.
September 5. 1915
Mining Observation-Disclosures.
A mining contract required the pur-
chaser to pay a percentage of the net
profits hereunder, after deducting
from gross receipts the actual expense
of labor including wages, team hire,
and board. Held that such language
did not include permission to deduct
the cost of materials and supplies such
as shovels, picks and lumber Nor, If
the purchasre departed from the
methods of mining originally contem-
plated by the agreement for the pur
pose of employing the more economi-
cal hydraulic method, was he entitled
to charge more than the stipulated
price for water although the high
pressure water necessary for hydraul-
ic mining, might as a matter of fact
cost more. Blanck V. Pioneer Mining
Co. Washington, 1853 Pacific 1917
September Is, 1916.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04
Dredging.

The placer mines of the state con-
tinne to produce about IS per cent of
the annual gold yield. The gold
dredges account for 35 per cent of the
total gold yield, or 30 per cent of the
Placer gold yield. There are now SO
dredges at work in the different fields
the most productive of which are in
Yuba, Sacramento and Butte coun-
ties The WELD is declining in the
0rovile field and fewer machines are
at work. some of them on old dredge
taillngs, Some new dredges were
built in the Folsom field in 1915 and
others reconstructed. The Yuba River
or Marysville field is now the most
important dredge field in 1916. and the
yardage handled each year is increas-
ing. One machine recently launched
has IS cubic foot buckets and will han
die $4,000 cubic yards monthly, dig
ging to a depth below water level OF
81 feet. In this field thus far in 1916
the yield of the gravel has been 1887
cents to the cubic yard, at a working
cost of 81 cents Dredging is going
on at the rate of $50. 900 900 cubic
yards year. New machines have
been installed in 1915 at several places
in what are known as the outside dis
tricts, but these are generally of
smaller capacity than those in use in
the larger fields,
Renewed activity has been shown In
all branches of metal mining in the
state. All the older quartz mines are
very active and number of new ones
have been opened. There is also an
apparent tendency to renew the drift
mining operations at several points.
Silver.
The silver output from the mines In
1916 is estimated at 2,1S6.500 ounces,
valued at $1.4SS,7O0, an increase COM
pared with 1915 of 50S.0OO ounces in
quantity, and of $685. O00 or 80 per
cent, in value, The silver is derived
mainly from the smelling of copper
lead and zinc ores although some Sill
yer is recovered also in gold mining
operations.
Copper.
The estimated mine yield OF conner
in 1915 is go $4,000 pounds, valued at
S70e7990. compared with 40,751.625
pounds in 1915, an increase for 1915
of 21S7S0 900 pounds, in quantity and
of S9.966,000, or 140 per cent, in value.
Shasta county was the largest pro-
Queer but considerable copper was al
so produced in Calaveras, Placer and
other counties. The high price of the
metal has resulted in the opening of
number of new properties in the
state.
Lead.
The mine output of lead in 1915 was |
457s245 pounds valued at $215,225: |
the estimated yield for 1916 is 1889
BOO pounds, valued at 1896, $40, an in
crease in 1916 of 9,176,O00 pounds. and
of s7200 600, or 1856 per cent. in value.
Most of the output comes from Inyo,
San Bernardino and other southern
Zinc
The estimated zinc output In 1915 is
100000 pounds, valued at $780,, 800,
which is an increase or 1906, 900
pounds in quantity and of $349,140, or
Y per cent, in value, compared with
915. The zinc is all derived from
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04

Judge Steers of Brooklyn, N. Y,
rules that husband may legally
spank wife who refuses to kiss him.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04

You must take me for a miserable
fool.
Oh, no, you are cheerful enough
Boston Transcript.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04
CALIFORNIA MINES
MAKE LARGE INCREASE
GOLD PRODUCTION is LARGER
THAN LAST YEAR-oTH.
Err METALS GAIN.

The mines of California made an
output in gold, silver copper, lead and
zinc valued in all at $44,3S4,000 In 1916
compared with $32 ,263.S44 In 1915, ac-
cordng to preliminary figures COM
piled by Charles G. Yale, of the Unit
ed States geological survey, depart
ment of the interior. This is an in
crease Of '$12, 1900 or So per cent.
Gold.
The mine figures for gold in 1915
We're $22,442,296 The estimates for
1916 indicate an output of $22, 1888, 900
In gold an increase of $497 900, or 0
per cent. The gold yield is the larg-
est in 33 years and, with one exception,
the largest In So years. The gold in
crease for 1916 Is the more notable be-
cause number Of the most productive
mines In the Mother Lode section Of
the state In Amador county, were clos
ed by labor strikes for nearly so DAYS,
and the loss entailed by the stoppage
of the mills was more than $4,000
There are over 600 productive metal
mines in the state, about evenly d.
vided in number between deep and
placer properties from deep mines
the annual output of ore now exceeds
100000 tons In value of all metals
produced Shasta is the leading coun-
ty, and in value of gold output ANA
dor, Nevada, Yuba, Sacramento, Butte,
Calaveras, Shasta and Tuolumne are
the leading counties In the order nam
ed. ~
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04

New York receives weekly from 1875
to LIS carloads of chickens, averaging
10000 pounds to the car.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04

| should say he has, and you ought
to see her use it.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04

Ted-How did she come to hit you
with the SNOWFALL?
Ned was hiding around the cor
ner.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04
Lead.
Zinc.

The estimated zinc output In 1916 is
144o0O0O pounds, valued at $1,972, 500,
which is an increase OF 100000
pounds in quantity and of $349,14O, or
~ per cent, in value, compared with
1915 The zinc is al derived from
Shasta and Inyo counties.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1917-05-03
MOST POTENT OF WEAPONS
Nothing Devised by Humanity Is Able
to Stand Against the Assault
Of Laughter.

In "The Mysterious Stranger"-the
just-published posthumous book by
Mark Twaln-that authority on humor
declared that most men possess only
"a mongrel perception Of humor."
He elaborates his idea by saying
1.-The multitude see the comic side Of q
thousand low-grade and trivial things
broad incongruities mainly; gro-
tesquerles, absurdities, evokers of the
horse laugh. The 10000 high-grade
comicalities which eAst In the world
are sealed from their full vision.
"Will day come when the race will
detect the funniness Of these juvenili-
ties and laugh at them-and by laugh
ing at them destroy them? For your
race, in It's poverty, has unqueatlon-
ably one really effective Weapon
laughter.
"Power, money, persuasion, supplica-
tion, persecution-these can lift at a
colossal humbug-push 1t LITTLE
weaken 1t a little, century by century |;
but only laughter can blow it to rags
and atoms at blast. Against the as
sault of laughter nothing can stand"
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1917-05-03
New Enterprises Authorized.

A commission was issued to the
CAPITAL Lumber company Of Columbia
the capital stock Of which is'to be
$4,000. The company will erfXage
in the general business OF buying ava
selling timber and timber lands, buy.
ing, cutting, bartering. trading ani
selling timber, lumber and wood anu
other building material, both whole
sale and retail.
A charter was issued by the secre'
tary of state to the Laurehs Coca
Cola Botting company. with d capi'
tai stock Of $4,000.
A charter was granted By the sec.
retary of state to the Santee mills ol
Orangeburg. Capital stock OF TINS
enterprise is $225,OOO. The mill Will
manufacture yarns. goods OF COTTON
linen and wool, and other textile SUD-
stances" finish and market the
same" and do other business incident
to cotton manufacturing.
The Darlington Real Estate ana rer-
tilizer company of Darlil gton, capi'
talized at $4,000. was chartered. Ihe
company will deal in real estate ana
fertilizers and operate farms.
\ rhortar weS issued tnc Peps:-'ols
Bottling company Of Daring siUn'
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1917-05-03
Governor Appeals For 1000.

South Carolinians now have their
last chance to become officers in the
armed forces of the United States to
be raised under the selective draft
system" said Gov. Manning.
1.-THE officers training camp at Fort
Oglethorpe, Ca, will open May IA,
though the lists will close May 8.
This camp will train $500 men, who
should come from South Carolina,
North Carolina and Georgia, and |
want to see South Carolina represent
ed by at least 1000 applicants.
I'm case the camp at Fort Ogle'
thorpe Is not attended by $500 men
from these three southern safes 1t Is
certain that the excess OF applicants
for such training camps In the north
and east will be used to fill the def
cheney in our camp. Unless our young
men act and act promptly their
chances to become officers will be null
lifted for many months to come; In
the meantime these same young men
NAV be called to the colors under the
provisions OF the selective draft, and
instead of serving as officers they will
serye in the status OF enlisted men.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1917-05-03
CHAPTER XIV.

n. spent all Of the evening of that
day with Wilson. He was not to go for
Joe until eleven o'clock. The injured
mans vitality was standing him in
good stead. He had asked for Sidney
and she was at his bedside. Doctor Ed
had gone.
n. found Sidney in the room, not sit
ting, but standing by the window. The
sick man was doing. One shaded light
burned in far corner. ShS turned
slowly and met his eyes. Ii seemed to
X. that she looked at him as if she had
never really seen him before, and he
wa. right. ReadjuStments are always
difficult.
Sidney was trying to reconcile the k.
she had known 20 well with this new
X. no longer obscure, although still
shabby. whose height had suddenly be-
come presence, whose quiet was the
4uiet of infinite power.
She was suddenly shy of him, as he
stood looking down ut her. He saw
he Sleam of her engagement ring on
her iingcr. 1t seemed almost defiant.
is ;i"u2h She had meant by wearing
it i, emphasize. her ""li"f IN he, lover.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1917-05-03
Peculiar Disease of the Teeth.

The Colorado Dental society has two
of It's members engaged In the investi.
CATION of mysterious malady of the
teeth known, for the want Of q better
name, us "mottled teeth" which oc-
ours in this country In number Of
districts, principally In the southwest.
ern portion Of the United States. II
has been noted in somewhat mora
violent form in Italy, 10 years ago. II
manifests itself in children and per
sists through life, and Is often so dis
figuring that the victims resort to arti-
fetal crowning 1t Is a defect Of the
enamel-forming substance. and 1t is
suspected that the cause is due to
some element in the drinking water,
which it has been impossible to def
nitely determine.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1917-05-03

faint singing of a hymn. When Johnny
spoke again he did not open his eyes.
you're some operator, Mr.. LIE Moyne.
I'll put in a word for you whenever I
get chance"
"Yes, put in word for me-" said X.
huskily.
He felt that Johnny would be good
mediator-that whatever he, K, had
done of omission or commission,
Johnny's voice before the Tribunal
would count.
Johnny was close on the edge Of his
long sleep by that time, and very COM
Portable. 1t was X. who, seeing be-
would no longer notice. ordered the
screens to be sstssl ind the bed, K.
who drew the COW 1lhgs smooth and
folded the boys hands over his breast.
The nurse stood by uncertainty.
"How very young he Is! Was 1t an
accident?"
1T was the result Of mans damn.
able folly" said X. grlmly. Somebody
always pays"
And so Johnny Rosenfeld paid.
The immediate result Of his death
was that K, who had gained some OF
his faith in himself on seeing Wilson
on the way to recovery. was beset by
his old doubts. And now came ques
ton that demanded immediate answer
Wilson would be out Of commission fol
several months, probably. He was
gaining, but slowly. And he wanted K
to take over his work.
ITO BE CONTINUED)
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1917-05-03
MANY SCHOOLS ARE
BUILT BY STATE AID
FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR YEAR ARE
DISTR. .JTED. - MANY I'M
PRovEMENTs SHOWN.
DISPATCHES FROM COLUMBIA
Doinss and Happenings That Mark the
Progress Of South Carolina People,
Gathered Around the State Capital.

The state department Of education
has completed the examination, ap-
proval and payment Of applications
for state building aid. This policy
was Initiated by the act Of 1910. The
growth of the last seven years has
brought adequate, modern school
buildings to at least half Of the school
districts Of the state.
The law provides that any district
supplying one-half the cost OF new
school houses may be given one-fourth
of the cost from the county building
fund and one.fourth from the state
building fund, up to total maximum
expenditure from all three sources OF
$1,000. Any district supplying $500,
either from taxation or from subscrip-
ton, receives $500 from the county
and $500 from the state. II two or
more school houses are consolidated,
or If two or more schools districts are
consolidated, the county may give q
bonus Of $50 and the state bonus Of
$50. Only one school house in any
one district may be aided in any one
year. Building plans must be approx
ed by the state board Of education,
and the remodeling of old school
houses is not accepted by state and
county officers as basis for extra
aid.
The Improvement In school house
architecture can not escape the notice
of every traveller. Nearly every town,
practically every hamlet and scores
OF country communities now possess
we'll constructed, we'll equipped, well
furnished, we'll lighted school build.
ings, many Of them surrounded by
agricultural plots and possessing
kitchens for girls and work shops for
boys. The consolidated school is rap
idly supplanting the one room, one
teacher school house, and the erection
of building with only one class room
is now the exception.
The state department Of education
acknowledges with pleasure its in
debtedness to Prof. r. E. Lee Of Glenn
son College for his cooperation IN
supplying free Of charge blue prints
to trustees. Two editions Of Prof
Lees building bulletin have already
been exhausted, making necessary the
third revised edition which will be
published during the summer. The
erection of 80 many new buildings
accounts, in a large measure, for the
heavy increase In enrolment, the In
creased number of teachers, the longer
school term, and the gratifying growth
of rural graded schools.
The figures by counties follow:
Abbeville, $4OO; Aiken, $500; An
derson, $4,35O; Bamberg, $3.50; Berke
ley, $500; Calhoun, $3.50; Chester
s1,O70; Chesterfield, $3.50; Claren
don, s1OO; Colleton, $3.50; Darlington
$500; Dillon, $3.50; Dorchester, $500;
Edgefield, $500; Fairfield, $3.50; Flor
ence, s2.15O; Greenville, $3,40O; Green
wood, $3.50; Hampton, $500; Horny
s1,562; Kershaw, $500; Lancaster, $l'
4S2; Laurens, $1,000; Lee, $3.50; Lex
ington, $3.50; Marion, $500; New
berry, $7OO; Oconee, $500; Orange
burg, $1,737; Pickens, $500; Richland
$50; Salda, $3.50; Spartanburg. s2,O5O
Sumter, $500; Union. 1000; Williams
burg, $1,O86; York, $500. Thirty
seven counties, $44,397.