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The Arizona copper camp., 1917-11-24
WOLFRAM|TE ORE
IN SOUTH CHINA

A new trade and industrial devel-
opment of interest in the Canton dis
trict has resulted from the growing
demand for wolframite ore, and the
recent discovery that this mineral is
to be found in marketable quantities
in Kwangtung province. The demand
comes chiefly from America, and as
soon as the ore was known to exist
here American merchants Immediate
ly set about it's exploitation.
Low Prices Paid at First
Little reliable information on the
occurrence and production of VOL
fran in this district is obtainable
This is not surprising, as the discov-
cry of the ore was made only recent
ly, and the mining bureau has had
few applications for mining rights
covering this material. Just follow
ing the discovery of wolfram ore, in a
majority of cases the natives, and
even the official deputies, mistook it
for manganese or iron ore, until the
high prices offered raised a suspicion
that it must contain something diff
ferent from the commoner metals.
The Japanese first learned of the
vaue of the "iron ore" in Human prov
ince, and offered about 27 cents Mex
lean, or II cents gold a pound for it.
Other buyers learned of the bargain
and offered better prices. Now the
average ore commands about $50 Mex
ican, or $32 gold, per 100 pounds at
Canton.
All Mining Is Done by Hand
Much of the ore comes from Chen
gehow, Human province, adjacent to
the border of Kwangtung province.
1t is transported on human shoulders
erom the mine southwark to Ping
Shek, Kwangtung, a distance of about
sixty miles. From here it is carried
in small junks down the North river
to Shiuchow, an additional distance
of eighty miles, whence it is brought
to Canton over the Yueh-Han rail-
way. All the mining is done by hand.
Production and transportation costs
are not made public. Many anxious
buyers, not waiting for the ore to
reach Canton, have established head
quarters at Lok Chong, a small town
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-11-24
COUNTY PRISONERS
SHOULD BE WORKED
ON WAR HIGHWAYS

BISBEE, Ariz., Nov. 23.-The Ari-
zona chapter of the American Mining
Congress, in urging the employment
of city and county prisoners on the
roads of the state as auxiliary forces
to state prison labor, points to the
fact that Cochise county supervisors
and County Engineer R. c.. Ryan have
during the last two years employed
county prisoners at considerably less
cost than free labor would have en-
tailed. There has been the added ad-
vantage that the free labor which 9TH
erwise would have been employed has
been enabled to do work of productive
Importance and higher pay in the
mines.
The cost of it's prison labor to Co
chise county in October, an average
month, was $1.63 the day per man, ex-
elusive of idle days by reason of sick
ness and all other causes. Including
idle days, the cost was brought to
1920. This. covers every item of ex-
pense connected with operation of the
county prison road camps and work,
foremen, tools, transportation, guards,
food, medical attendance and all else.
The least wage considered by free la
Dor is $3.50 the day.
Taxpayers in counties which do not
work their prisoners on the roads are
out the difference in the cost of the
labor as well as the cost of the food
and keep with which they provide
prisoners in their jai1s. The Arizona
chapter organization is urging that
greater effort is now advisable to put
the main roads of the state in first
class condition than ever before, par
ticularly for heavy truck traffice
which war emergencies may make vi
tally necessary at any time. This is
emphasized in a recent federal an
nouncement that railroad transporta-
ton of freight is to be assisted by the
organization of motor truck auxiliary
service. The Arizona chapter has
proposed that the county engineers
and supervisors and the state engi-
neer cooperate with city, county and
state prisoners to place two highways,
one through the north and the other
through the south, from New Mexico
to California, under prison road camps
until thoroughly efficient traffic
routes are established.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-11-24
NC DERMOTT TELLS
TUCSON ABOUT RAY
AND S|LVER-LEAD

Good progress on road from Ray
to Tucson, and possibly to Phoenix,
is being made, Captain William Nc
Dermott announced yesterday on re-
turning from Ray, says the Tucson
Star.
"Pinal county is building fine con-
crete bridge across the Gila river near
Kelvin, or Ray Junction, and will have
its completed about December 18th.
Unless the state suspends work on
the highway, there will soon be good
road from the new bridge to Florence
connecting with the highway to
Tucson or Phoenix, making the dis
tance from Ray to Tucson about 100
miles. 1t is not shorter than the way
by Winkelman, but it will have a
much better grade.
RAY is quite prosperous and or
derly and it is populated with patri-
otic people of the right Sort"
The Ray Silver-Lead company, of
which Captain McDermott is presi-
dent and general manager, is working
its property, which is located about
two and one-half miles west of Ray
and about 1000 feet higher
The property is equipped with two
gasoline hoists and several small
houses. The ore is being packed
down the hill on about 225 burros and
shipped to the Ell Paso smelter. The
average contents is about 25 per cent
lead and a few dollars in gold and
silver.
Recent development has opened up
a new and larger body of ore," said
Captain McDermott yesterday, and
the property at present promises to
develop into a big silver-lead mine.
''The property was known as the
Haly-Sufferin lead property for over
twenty-five years. The owners dis
posed of it to the present company on
. their own terms. Most of the stock
is held in Tucson as close corpora
ton. The possibility of finally devel,
oping into copper mine at depth has
been advanced by several experts who
have visited the camp. The formation
is Identical with that of the Magma.
.'The employees of the property were
heavy subscribers to the second Lib
erty loan, pledging $4,000, which is a
record for the number of men en-
ployed. The crew consists of four
Americans and the balance are Mexi-
cans"
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-11-24
THE "RED STAR" A WAR
ECONOMY MOVEMENT

A great many people love horses
and dogs. A great many more people
have no special affection for either.
To some minds, the dog has an in
telligence, devotion which, added to
his natural instinct and abilities,
makes him little less than human, and
to others F'ido is and will remain only
a brother to the coyote, an uncertain
menace, a distributor of fleas and
hydrophobia. To many, the horse ap-
pears as mans best and most faithful
servant, and to many others the horse
is a nuisance, an anachronism and a
chronic fool, the source of flies, and
a danger on the highways.
All will agree, whether a dog be
noble or ignoble in essential charac-
teristics, that it is better that a dog
be exposed to danger or killed, than
man. 1t has been proven that for
certain work in war-on picket and
outpost duty-that dog is an invalu-
able help to the soldier. Dogs of the
right capacity and intelligence are
hard to get, and hard to train. There
fore, every dog that can be saved is
worth saving. He may take the place
of two humans in the tally of slaugh-
ter.
Whether a horse is merely an i'm
beetle who doesn't know enough to
go away, or a constant friend who will
not leave his master even on the bat
tlefield may be a subject of debate.
It isn't a matter for debate that by
the time a good horse gets to the
scene of action in France he has ac-
tually cost-first price, plus transpor-
tation and food en- route-not less
three hundred perfectly good dollars,
as a minimum. Horses are needed in
the business of war. The military
forces cannot get along without them.
And every horse that is killed or dis
abled is just that much dead loss to
the people of the United States-to
say nothing of the added, strain upon
the transportation service.
It is very obvious that the persons
who like horses and dogs will take
better care of wounded or disabled
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-11-24

on the west bank of the North river,
forty miles above Shiuchow, where
they are able to intercept the cargoes
and get first choice from the middle
man who has bought up the ore. The
middleman daily collects the goods
direct from the miners in varying
small amounts.
Several places in Kwangtung are
said to produce wolfram ore, but since
investigation by the provincial gov
ernment is so limited, and the differ
entiation of minerals by the natives
is so unreliable the Importance of
these places must be confirmed by
experts. Several, however, are posi-
lively known to produce the valuable
ore. The Flu Min company has a
claim at Waichow, on the East river.
The corporation permits the natives
to mine in the concession, but insists
on the exclusive right to buy the prod
uct The current prices paid for the
ore to the miners is about $40 gold
per hundredweight, and the company
obtains about $32 gold in Canton. The
number of miners engaged in this en-
terprise varies between 1000 and
1000. -
The method of mining is principally
hand-placering. The miners dive for
the sand and wash it for the heavy
ore. The ore runs from mere dust to
the size of walnuts or larger. Again.
it is found as Floats" or decomposed
products on the hillsides, where the
earth is dug and washed for it.
Lack of Scientific Study
No proper study of the mode of Oc-
currence of the ore or the geology of
the country has been undertaken, and
very little can be said on these sub
jects. A small sample of the ore from
the Waichow district was analyzed
here recently by qualified mining
engineer and chemist. The ore was
found to contain 55.84 per cent tung-
stem, 1925 per cent iron 11.56 per cent
manganese, duu Iu0 ISoL III OcAASAuAA'
magnesium, etc. This sample gives a
general idea of the nature of the ore.
Haifoung district has been reported
to produce wolfram ore, but no actual
mining has begun there. Official dep
uties were sent recently to survey the
places, the names of which are still
kept from the public.
Kwangsi province also is said to
produce wolfram ore. A Chinese COM
pany while prospecting for antimony
ore some time ago in Kwangsi, found
small seams of wolfram in the Hoch1
district, 120 miles northwest OF Llu-
chowfu. The ore occurs in hard quartz
and the cost of mining is excessive.
The work there is suspended for the
time being.
consul General P. S. Heintzleman,
Canton, Sept. 1O)
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-11-24
Mineral Application No. 036s71
Survey No. 1852
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
PHOENIX, ARIZONA

November 8, 1917.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
in pursuance of an Act of Congress
approved May 10, 1872, ROBERT
JACKSON, citizen of the United
States, whose postoffice address is
Ray, Pinal County, Arizona, has made
application for patent for NELLIE
lode mining claim, situate in the Min
eral Creek Mining District, Pinal
County, Arizona, in approximately
Secs. and II, T. 3-S., R. 13-E., G. &
S. R. M, unsurveyed, described as
follows, to wit:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, whence
u. S. M. M. No. 271S bears S. 50 81
W., 2743 it.; thence N. 81 49, E.,
599.86 ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. %
81 80" E., 1900 ft. to Cor. No. 3;
thence S. 81 49, W., 599.62 it. to Cor.
No. 4; thence S. % 3S' W., 149968 it.,
to Cor No. 1, the place of beginning,
containing 20.577 acres.
This claim is adjcined on the south
by the Homestead lode, Survey No.
2917 A., and by the Wedge lode, un-
surveyed; on the east by unsurveyed
fraction, and by conflict with Central
No. 6 lode, unsurveyed; on the north
by conflict with Central No. 6 lode,
unsurveyed, and by the unsurveyed
Bowman lode; on the west by the un-
surveyed Bowman lode and by Home
stead lode, Survey No. 2917 A.
The location notice of this claim is
recorded in the Record of Mines in
the County Recorders Office of Pinal
County, Arizona, in Book No. "a,
page $40.
]. l.. IRWIN,
Register.
First publication Nov. 10, 1917.
Last publication Jan. 5, 1918.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-11-24
ARIZONA DRIVERS
FORCE WAY INTO
|. N. c. A. RACE

PHOENIX, Nov. 19.-Barricading
the race track with their cars, six Ari-
zona drivers forced their admittance
into a professional auto race sane
toned by the International Motor
Contest association at the State Fair
last Saturday. The race, which was
scheduled as a twenty-five mile free
for-all, irrespective of piston displace-
ment or motor classification, carried
purse of $500. The only official en-
trants were five drivers brought here
by r. A. Hankinson of Chicago, Off
cial representative of the I. M. C. A.,
but the Arizona drivers contended
that the payment of their entrance
fees to another twenty-five-mile event
for Arizona drivers only entitled them
to enter the other contest.
When the twenty-five-mile profes-
sional free-for-all event was called at
their cars onto the track in front of
the grandstand and declared there
would be no racing unless they were
permitted to enter. They appealed
successfully to the crowd of almost
$4,000 spectators to back them in
their contention, with the result that
several thousand people swarmed onto
the race track and engaged in the
controversy. Chairman Twitchell of
the fair commission announced that
the contest was in the hands of the
I. M. G. A. and that his commission
was powerless. He ordered the Arizona
drivers to clear the track, but was
refused, backed by the crowd, which
threatened to become unmanageable.
Finally, after two hours of contro-
versy, a conference was arranged,
with the result that the contest was
reduced from twenty-five to ten miles,
and was held under the auspices of
the State Fair commission instead of
the I. M. c. A. The purse was re-
duced to $1,500, and the Arizona driv-
ers were allowed to compete. None
of them finished in the money, but
Glenn Breed, of Salina, Kan, driving
a Hudson Super-Six, who had been
barred by I. M. C. A. ruling, was first
in minutes A seconds.
In the twenty-five-mile event for
Arizona drivers and cars, Jim Thomas
was first, in Cleveland, time "a min
utes so seconds.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-11-24
SALVAGE DEPARTMENT OF
RED CROSS DESERVES
HELP OF EVERY CITIZEN

The salvage department of the Red
Cross, originated in Los Angeles is
seizing upon the imagination of the
whole country.
All the big minds of the nation see
the almost limitless possibilities.
Worked out to it's logical conclusion
it means millions and millions of dol
lars annually to the beneficient work
Of the Red Cross.
The United States and her prosper
GUS people have been for years no.
toriously improvident and wasteful.
An old couplet had it:
"What the children of Holland take
pleasure in making,
The children of Boston take pleasure
in breaking"
The American children, thus de-
scribed, typified the entire nations
careless view of things to eat and
The opulence of this country's pro-
duction has made for it. Europeans
accustomed to skimping and stinting
and saving had reaction when they
encountered the abundance in the
United States on their arrival. A race
of spend-thrifts and food MASTERS re-
suited.
Now it is different Food saving
is now not only home virtue to be
cultivated as moral tonic, but ma
tional necessity of the most vital i'm
portance. The intelligence of house.
hold is today measured by the con-
tents of it's garbage pail. Victory for
democracy hangs upon this country's
capacity to feed herself and her ar
mics and to feed her allied nations
and their armies.
A logical sequence of food saving
for democracy's sake is saving every
thing else for humanity's sake. Old
newspapers, old magazines, old bot
ties, old cold cream jars, old tin cans,
bits of old metal, typewriter ribbon
spools and containers, typewriter
paper boxes, tinfoil from cigarettes
and cigar boxes, nearly EVERYTHING
has value. Manufacturers have
agreed to take back their old contain
ers and old newspapers make paste
board. M
Los Angeles has instituted this par
ticular form of saving to raise money
for the Red Cross. The rest of the
country is watching her to profit by
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-11-24
Arizona Copper Is
Big Factor In
War Output
Provided Two-Thirds of En-
tire Exports First Eight
Months Of Year What
Smelters Are Doing.

DOUGLAS, Nov. 23.-The copper
metal output of the smelters in Ari-
zona during the first nine months of
the year equaled little more than
two-thirds of the total exports of cop
per from the United States during the
first eight months. These exports
totaled S83, 3,722,OOO pounds according
to figures just issued by the govern
ment. Owing to strikes within the per-
iod, the American output of copper
from smelters was little more than
300,OO0,00O pounds in excess of the
exported metal. At the present time
all copper deliveries in this country
are direct to consumers designated by
the government, no metal finding it's
way to the open market. Metal
famine prevails in the stock yards of
most consumers. Pickup in the smell
ter output this month and next month
cannot more than fractionally relieve
the shortage which is now certain of
existing during the first months of
next year Douglas smelters are 60
ing at full capacity and will make
something more than a third of the
total Arizona copper output this
month. Hayden, Clarksdale, Hum
boldt, and Sasco smelters are also go
ing full capacity, as is the separation
plant at Ajo of New Cornelia. Miami
and Globe smelters will show import
ant gains toward normal output this
month, while Clifton and Morenci
smelters will be back in the produc-
ton column with some output.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-11-24
RED CROSS NOTES

Remember the Red Cross benefit
tonight. A carnival given by the
teachers of the Ray and Sonora
schools.
Three dozen pair more of pajamas
were sent off this week.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-11-24

her elaboration of the scheme. The
city is enjoying a creditable distinc-
ton. Everybody should help because
everybody can and without effort or
expense.
Today, tomorrow and the next day
old magazines and newspapers are
especially sought after. Gather them
together TODAY, and take them to
the salvage department of the Red
Cross or telephone there for a truck.
Then become a regular helper-it's
easy, it's right, it's patriotic.-Los
Angeles Examiner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-01-02

lars buying ability Of 20 per cent as
compared with the years opening,
was ultimately responsible for sors
Of popular revolt against high fooa
prices, petitions for embargoes againas
food shipments, and widespread ma
tionai, state and municipal John Dos
hunts for the causes Of advancing
prices. That some of the price a6-
vances were bred Of speculation, made
possible by cheap and abundant mon-
ey seems certain; that some were
what may be called psychological -
auto-suggestive may be conceded, buk
that short yields and unexampled de-
mand were the main causes hardly re-
auires prof. The fact that Brad
streets index Number for the entirs
year 1916 was 20 jer cent above 1916.
SO per cent above 1914, 80 per cent
above 1s1O-the last year OF food
price revolts and meat boycotts--ana
just double that Of the low water year
OF 1896, is a visible statistical example,
fication of what have been called tho
penalties Of prosperity
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-01-02
CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY
ATTORNEYS

JOHN W. HUFF. ATTORNEY-AT-
Law. Room S. American Nation
al Bank building.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-01-02

ness it would be hard 10 say. some
of it, as, for instance, the quiet and
easing in some cotton goods. was un-
doubtedy due to a 4-cent break in raw
cotton.
Presidential Year.
All this activity had occurred too,
despite the fact that it was a presi-
dental year, one also Of disturbed
foreign relations and a period Of dis
appointing crop outturn, which was
made more manifest by large foreign
buying Of obtainable supplies, and ey-
licences Of speculation having taken
advantage of national conditions TO
push prices of food to record heights,
This latter resulted a popular out
burst against high living costs and the
usual frenzied efforts OF public men,
legislators and others to find evidence
of monopolistic combinations affect
ing prices of the peoples food" z
Some Financial Features.
Exports Of merchandise totaled S5,-
460,000,000 in value, excelling those
for the previous calendar year by IS
per cent, and those for the year 1914
by 157 per cent. Imports aggregated
$3.50, 900. 900, exceeding 1915 and
1914 by S2 per cent. Gold imports to-
tailed s630,000,000, surprising exports
by 100000, 900. Our gross imports
of gold during the war have aggre-
gated s1,100, 100000, and the net inn
ports $S3S. 900, 900, while our sales OF
merchandise for the like period were
considerably over double our purchas-
es Hence the estimates that we
bought back $4,000, 100000 of Ameri-
can securities, and, in addition, be-
came creditors for an additional 81
I 100000, 600 of foreign bonds or notes,
AS our export trade has grown since
the war began. its character has grad
ually changed, and the early large
shipments of foodstuffs have become
dwarfed partly because of crop short.
ages. by later enormous exports Of
manufactured goods-not all of these,
by the way munitions-though It
must be said that our shipments to
entente countries have far exceeded
those to the rest Of the world Our
gains in trade with the part of the
world at peace have hardly expanded
as much as might have been hoped
though it is hard to see how our fac
tory productions, strained as it was to
the breaking point, could have been
further increased Credits based on
the new and vast supplies of securl
ties and gold have expanded. and tho
country's banking position has be-
come one of unparalleled deposits an
resources. Bank clearings for 1915
testified to the enormous volume OF
the banking movement in total o!
SEQ, 600. GOO 900, a sum never before
equaled. and a gain Of 40 per cent
over the 1915 high record and of 6S
per cent over 1914. If the normal ex-
cess Of bank clearings at leading cit
les 2 1-2 to 1. be regarded as a
guide, the countrys total banking
business in 1915 was easily $3.50. 000,.
600 900. Stock speculation was more
active than for a decade. total sales
at the New York Exchange aggegat'
ing 232, GOO, 600 shaers, a gain OF 81
per cent on 1918, five times what II
was in the "cose" wear 1914. and only
Is per cent less than in the recorl
high year 1905. Bond sales aggre.
gated SI,160, ,000,0 ,00O. a total showing
a gain of 20 per cent over 1919, and
second only to 1909. compared with
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-01-02

ah.ch year transactions fell of IL per
cent. Government bond sales, reflect
ing large foreign flotations we're
eighteen times as active as in 1915.
Money was easy until toward the
close Of the year and collections were
good. with many old accounts liqui-
dated, especially in the south. Fail
ures for the year, reflecting the final
closing out Of old, crippled concerns
and OF new ventures insufficiently
provided with experience. capital or
other requisites. were large in mum"
ber, second only in fact to 1915, frcm
which they decreased IL per cent:
but the rarity of important suspen-
sicns is shown in the volume of la
bllities being the smallest wlth one ex-
ception since 1909, 3S per cent below
1915, and less than half those OF 1914.
Price Movements.
As pointed out elsewhere, the crop
outturn was not in keeping with tn
er developments, and to this cause as
much as to active foreign demands
were due the new and dizzy heights
reached by many commodities includ-
ed in Bradstreet's Index Number,
which latter rose steadily early in the
year, faltered in the late spring ami
summer, and then took new flight
to still higher ground as crop short
ages became certainties, active indus
try swelled pay rolls. and snow
storm Of wage advances in the latter
months by a process of an endless
chain character still further advanc-
ed all price quotations This process,
resulting in a reduction of the dol