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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10
NEW MACHINERY
FOR COMBINED
AIR DRILLS INSTALLED AND
SHEPHERD TUNNEL BEING n
STEADILY ADVANCED

The new air drills were installed
in both the Shepherd and the WORK
ing tounnel at the Rochester Com
bined Mines company's property In
the Rochester district, Humboldt
county, this week, according to a
report from the company's offices.
Work on the She pherd tunnel has
shown remarkable improvement Tor
the past seven days, not only IN
opening up larger o~rebodies, but
also in finding of a higher grade OF
ore.
The last assays taken in the main
drift from the crosscut in the Shep-
herd tunnel we're $30.16 pei ton
across the entire face. The footwail
crosscut is developing in streaks OF
sulphide ore which assays from IL
to 16 ounces. The drift is now in
for a distance of more than 81 e
The working tunnel will cut the
orebody 16O feet vertically lower
than the Shepherd tunnel, and will
give backs of over $50 feet.
Excavation for the new black
smith shop and foundations o the
new drill sharpener at the mouth Oh
the new tunnel have been com
pleted.
The drill %sharpener arrived this
week and work of installation has
already begun.
Owing to the severe weather and
snow storms the end of last week,
surface development was abandoned,
snow leaves the ground and working
but will be continued as soon as the
will be practical.-Lovelock Review
Miner.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10
WOULD FORM
GUARD UNITS
WAR DEPARTMENT AUTHORIZES
ESTABLISHMENT DETACHED
PLATOONS

WASHINGTON, March Ito en-
courage small towns to maintain
national guard units, the war de-
partment, in a circular issued today,
authorized the establishment of de-
tached platoons. Two Or more
coming from nearby towns and set
Elements would form a company in
a regiment organized in that por-
ton of the state. The minimum
strength for detached platoons was
fixed at "a members.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10

reduce or increase their tax rates on
orders from the a commission
The Fulmer bill amending the
railroad commission act was laid on
the table on motion of Golden of
Washoe.
The senate killed a bill providing
that state, county and city offices
might close at noon on Saturdays.
The proposed amendment to the
inheritance tax law, raising the
rates on i~nheritances, was defeated
by the senate by a vote of eight for
and ten against.
Last night the senate and assem-
bly, met in joint session and listened
to an address by William C. Ralston,
one of the fathers of the Comstock,
now a New York broker, on the
future of Nevada mines.
Evans bill making it unlawful
to sell for domestic use cream con-
tanning less than % per cent OF
butter-fat was passed by the senate.
The elections committee in the
assembly reported a substitute for
the Garrison registration bill.
In the senate the Huskey bill de-
fining as n~on-partisan all judicial
and school offices was made d
special order for Friday.
Keddie's bill making an appropria-
ton of $4,000 for the state fair at
Fallon passed the assembly. Efforts
to move the fair to Reno and to
Elko were voted down.
The Bradshaw bill abolishing the
office of labor commissioner was
indefinitely postponed in the assem-
bly,. This mean that the labor
commission will remain as at
present.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10

The American tropics are being
brought into Gods country. The
mighty works accomplished for SAM
tation and good health by the United
States in the Canal Zone and at Ha-
vana during the American occupa-
ton have been duplicated in a vast
fringe of country ci-cling the Carib-
bean sea.
The people of the Caribbean lands
are not only making wide use of au-
tomobiles, street cars, concrete con
struction, city lighting, and public
water supply systems but the prob
lens of sanitation and hygiene are
occupying their serious attention.
The largest, MIST thoroughly or
ganized and far-reaching work for
public nealth and sanitation ever I'M
dertaken by an Americe~ company
in the tropics has been successfully
carried on by the United Fruit Com
pany. 1t is doubtful if any similar
work of equal magnitude has eve
been successfully attempted by a
private concern. Few governments
have even equalled or appropriated
it We have nothing like this work
in the Philippines. The company has
almost fringed the Caribbean sea
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10
ROCHESTER MINES
SHOW GREAT ORE
DRIFTS SHOW OREBODIEs VARY
ING FROM SIN TO EIGHT
FEET IN WIDTH

Considerable progress in develop
ment work is reported this week by
the Rochester. Mines company, in
the Rochester district, Humboldt
county.
From the raise 159, which was
recently extended above the $50
foot level to the surface on the East
vein, drifts to the north and south
are being driven in from six to
seven feet of ore.
The north drift on the West vein
on the first, or 1%O0-foot, level, is
advancing in ore ten feet wide.
On the 650-foot level north, the
recently opened Slopes are carrying
fourteen feet Of ore from wall to
wall.
On the 9O0-foot level both north
and south, drifts are, and have
been, continually in ore.
Figures given put for production
during the month of February show
a value of $4,000.
The storm in Utah, which has
| played havoc with freight consign-
ments, is responsible for delay in
| operation of the new tram which
will haul the ore from the mine to
the mill, and will supercede the
| present system of locomotive haul
by the Nevada Short line. So far,
The company has not been able to
learn at what point the shipment of
machinery is being held up, but are
busy tracing this and are using
every effort to rush the arrival OF
this material. =
The completion of installing the
tram will mark an important era in
the history Of the Rochester mines
and will not only see the Inaugural
ton of the most economical possible
system for transporting the ore for
two miles, but will begin the assur-
ance that troubles from the weather,
experienced with the locomotive,
will not be a handicap in working.
This will give opportunity for using
the new mill addition, which will
greatly increase the capacity of ore
milled daily. = Lovelock Review
Miner.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10
BILL
NOW Up TO
SENATE
Assembly Passes Measure With
Numerous Amendments
Affecting Routes
GOVERNOR SUSTAINED
ON TAX COMMISSION
Evans Bill for Better Cream Now
Ready for Governors
Signature

CARSON CITY, March THE
state highway bill was passed late
yesterday afternoon by the assembly,
with some important amendments,
among them being a series changing
the routes as proposed in the sub
stitute bill. A route was established
beginning at Wenuover, Utah, and
running through Shafter on the
Western Pacific to Wells and thence
to Elko. From Elko the route fol-
lows the Southern Pacific road to
Reno and then to the state line west
of Verdi.
Another route comes by way of
Ely and follows the Lincoln highway
through Eureka to Fallon and
thence to Reno. Thence through
Carson and the Carson and Smith
valleys to Yerington by the most
feasible route. From Yerington it
strikes around Walker lake to Haw-
thorne, to Nina, to Tonopah and to
California. Another route is estab-
lished as a south connecting link
from Ely to TonopaE and Goldfeld,
An amendment providing thai
counties through which the highway
does not pass shall be returned the
full amount contributed, with the
exception of a pro rata amount fol
overhead expenses. also was adopted
Bell If Nye was the only member Of
the assembly to vote against the
bill and Alexander of White Pin,
passed his vote.
The tax commission act, providing
for a commission of five, to b,
appointed by the governor. also wa
passed, Coryell of Elko opposing
The act was amended to require
cities and towns to furnish the ia,
commission an annual budget and Il
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10

Narrowing II acres an hour with
a tractor dragging harrows with a
total width of 60 feet is the way
the Young-Goodin Ranch company
at Lovelock is handling a section
of land on the Big Five holdings in
the lower valley. Two hundred and
fifty acres have already been seeded
to wheat and if weather conditions
permit the full $40 acres will soon
be completed. One man on the
tractor is all that is required for
the work.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10
Surveyor Reports on Road

The Mineral county surveyor a
made his report to the board of
county commissioners on the cost
of constructing the proposed auto
mobile road along the west side
of Walker lake. He estimates that
the road will cost from $4,000 to
$50, 200, according to the kind of
road built. The road would furnish
an ~all-year route from Los Angeles
the Midland trail at Goldfield and
the Lincoln highway at Reno. 1t is
proposed to take the matter of the
construction of the road before the
legislature.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10
L SUED AGAIN

Attorney Adams F. Brown yes
terday filed suit against M. B.
Aston, "A local mining man, asking
$4,000 damages on three claims
Three thousand dollars is asked on
account of SANDER, $4,000 on &C
count of assault and battery. and
$4,000 for injury based upon the
fact that the plaintiffs wife was
taken with a yer illness ano
heart trouble shortly after the al
legged assault, her illness being
charged to this cause.
Brown had, previous to the al
legged assault, presented claim TO
$4,000 for attorney fees, upol
which suit was afterward brought
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10
REMOVED

The removal of another obstacle
in the disheartening delays to the
opening up of the Boss mill was
effected today by the arrival OF a
carload of sulphides. to be used in
mixing the charge for the roasters
The sulphuric acid has been
shipped and when the sulphides N
acid are hauled to the mill, there
will be nothing to delay the COM
mencement of operations. The en-
CINE and mill machinery have been
tried out several times and are
working perfectly. = Goodsprings
Gazette.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10
Farm Loan Applications

Applications for $4,000 in farm
loans have been received by the
Las Vegas Farm Loan association,
according to a report made to the
association at a recent meeting. The
government requires that 100000
worth of property, or so per cent
of $4,000 gross value, shall be rep
resented in loans asked for in the
first application. This requirement
has been fully met.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10
FINAL GR|ST
At CARSON
MILL
One Hundred and Eleven Bills
Submitted at Carson City
Yesterday
ASSEMBLY, PASSES
PRIMARY BILL
Thatcher Would Reduce Salaries of
state Officials and Their
Deputies

CARSON CITY, March 6.-The
senate held the first night meeting
CT the session last night, although
but little was lone except to wind
up some small matters left over
from the day.
With about 80 bills on the gen.
eral file the assembly refused to
hold a night session and adjourned
til this morning.
One hundred and eleven bills
were introduced yesterday, including
the ten offered at the senate's night
session. 1t was the last day for
introducing bills except by unani-
nous consent.
Only one bill vas passed in the
assembly, the substitute measure
offered by the committee on cleo
tons for the Luce and Huskey
primary acts. Few changes were
made in the printed bill. One
change provides that Independent
candidates must file ten days before
the primary election and another
provides hat candidates for judicial
offices shall have no voice in franz
ing party platforms.
In the senate, the bill providing
for a clerk for the state insurance
commissioner was passed.
Thatcher introduced a bill in the
senate providing that the salaries OF
all state officials except the governor
I'D nlnrly nf tha cnnrnmp pOnrt Shal
be $4,000 per yea The salaries O..
the governor and clerk are un-
changed. Bradshaw introduced a
bill providing hat deputy state Off
Gals shall receive $4,000 per year,
chief clerks $500 per year and the
warden of the prison $4,000 per
wear. He also introduced a bill
abolishing the office of mineral land
inspector and another providing that
state officials or employees shall not
charge more for travelling expenses
than the regular fare between
points. Exclusive of transportation,
the bill provides that expenses shau
not exceed five dollars per day.
Constitutional amendments pro-
posed in the assembly would make
the encouragement an appointlve
office and have the method of choos-
ing the superintendent OF public
instruction established by legislative
act.
Hardy introduced a bill in the
assembly providing that the gov
ernor, encouragement, superintend-
ent of public instruction and state
treasurer shall constitute a state
board of investment for the per-
manent school fund and providing
a system of farm loans.
Both houses worked on the gen.
eral file today. The senate passed
assembly bills providing for the
payment of travelling expenses Of
teachers attending state and county
Institutes and providing for grant
ing life diplomas to teachers.
Putney's bill making an appro-
priation of $4,000 for the promotion
OF state rifle clubs and to pay ex-
penses of members who attend ma
tional shoots in other states was
passed by the assembly.
The assembly passed the Buol
bill providing hat district judges
may receive travelling expenses OF
$1,000 per year.
The bill removing the bounty on
coyotes was passed.
There will be a joint session to-
night to hear w. c.. Ralston, one OF
the builders of the Comstock, speak
on the possibilities of the district.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10
WANTEH

D. B. Henderson. sheriff, Water
loo, Iowa, is inquiring for informa-
ton as to the whereabouts of
Clarence d. Nicholson, age IT;
height, 5 feet IL inches; weight,
about 14O pounds; complexion, me-
dunn; color of eyes, grey; hair,
brown; circular scar on left wrist.
A reward of $25 is Offered. The
boys mother is Ill.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10
PATRIOTS LEAGUE
RECRUITS NAvALS
PROVIDE FUND TO CARE FOR
FAMILIES AND DEPEND
ENTS OF RECRUITS

Los ANGELES, March Work
began today to encourage the re-
cruiting of naval militia by the
Practical Patriots league, organized
last night, when the founders
pledged $4,000 to get recruits.
The league will care for dependent
families and assure militiamen their
old or equally good positions on
their return from service.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10
County Hospital Is Completed

Mineral county's new hospital
was recently accepted by the county
commissioners. The new building
was badly needed. 1t being said that
the old one was not fit for human
habitation.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10
STATE TROOPS
Be RETURNED
SPEED ORDERS SENT TO SOUTH
ERN DEPARTMENT FOR
RELIEF SOLDIERS

SAN ANTONIO, March 7.-Orders
were received today by the southern
department headquarters to speed
up the return movement OF state
troops so that all organizations may
be home for mastering out OF April
1. Thirty thousand are now on the
border.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10
Shortage of Hogs

A shortage in the Nevada hog
market has caused an advance of
from three-quarters to n cent a
pound and further advances are
expected.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-12-09
WHICH is WORTH THE
MOST, A DOLLAR
OR A FRIEND?

The newspaper man had birthday
the other day. and while he sat
around the office stewing and worry
ing about the many vain and vexing
things that harass the souls of news
paper men In general, there came a
birthday greeting from a mere ac-
quainjance in the old home town. and
II made a bright rift in the clouds of
the day. The newspaper man was
not even aware that this pilgrim
knew the date of his birth. But he
did, and he remembered it against a
time that he could send a token
across the spaces as a balm for an
old neighbours crouch.
If every gent would only stop once
a year and think of an old friend or
neighbor who is working. and il may
be wailing. in another field across the
mountains and the rivers and the
plains, and send him a message, there
would be lots and lots and lots more
happiness in this gray old world.
We will get up in the middle of the
night and walk barefoot down the
frosty road to make an extra dollar.
which is mere dross, but we cannot
stop in the daytime drive to send
word to a friend. who is more pre-
cious than spun gold.
Think it over.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-12-09
AS MAN TO MAN

What kind of a car are you driv-
ing?' asked the woman.
"A flivver." was the meek reply.
"A quart will carry you there easy"
said the woman with another burst
of laughter. "Tll get 1t for you right
now. And don't you make me a single
promise that you will bring me bar
rel tomorrow" And she hurried into
the house.
There are lots OF men and women
like this Good Samaritan by the side
of the road. Their bark is worse than
their bite. They try to make it appear
that they are hard-hearted and selfish
and mean. They have been imposed
on by many people in many ways
They try to quit being the goat for
the cheap skates that make a flash
in the pan as they pass the door, but
they Just cannot do il. They are not
built that way. Their hearts are too
big and warm. So they try to camou-
flage with hard words, but the crust
always breaks under the heartbeat.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-12-09
THIS NEGRO is
"AGN" THE EXPRESS
COMPANIES FOR TRUE

The negro porter at the Copper Queen
hotel is the sorest man in the U. S. A.
And with cause He told the barber
the story of his woes the other morn
ing while the newspaper man was get
ting a shave Here is his story:
Desc express companies has got de
country by de throat an is shakin' de
life out Of her. What makes me think
so? Man. amt tellin' ye? KNOWS
what I'm talkin' bout. Heah de I'D
der mawnin' a travelin' man says to
me. says he. 'YO'-all take dis dollah
and a quatah and buy a ticket from
Douglas to Bisbee and send it. along
wild dis trunk check to de agent at
Douglas wha' NAH trunk is an have
him done send dat trunk heah to
Bisbee. an I'll be back fob 1t in a
day or two. An heah is half a dol
lah for yo'all's truble.'
Dat SCUM good. don't it? Half a
dollah made as easy as fallin' off a
log. But listen. done think / make
some noah coney out of dis deal. so
| gets right foxy and concludes !
send and git dat trunk and have it
sent heah by express cheaper than a
dollah an a quatah and clean up some
noah on de side.
"All dat white man want was his
trunk. don't he? If dis niggah git it
fob him. dat all he ask. Well, | SEN
fob dat trunk an 'struct de man to
SEN it by express. an den low to
90 to de depot for it myself and fotch
it up to de hotel. An do yO-all know
what dey done stick me fob on dat
trunk? A DOLLAH AN EIGHTY
EIGHT CENTS 1t am fack. Blame
NAH hide if it amt,
How dey do it? Dat don make no
diffrunce, do il. long as dey DO ito
| dunno Dey say il cost fifty cents
to haul de trunk to de depot and it
cost to send de message and to mex
sure pay de express an de haulin'.
Dat express fellow. he han out
noah bunk. dan ! heah all yeah. an
de yeah mighty nigh gone. too. DON
know dat de express companies done
advertise on ev'ry piece of papah dey
has cat dey haul stuff from all pants
of de town so as to git de business
Why foah dey 90 back on dat and
stick de poah niggah?
"Oh. dey 'splain alright. alright.
But dey wan dat Lightweight
just de same, an | gotta pay. Dat
| white man come an he want his
trunk and he look to me. So | has
to shell her out. An | lose thirteen
cents by de deal. when | shore oughta
made a dollah. De idee Of it costin'
nigh on TO two dollahs foh to SEN
a trunk twenty-five miles. An it was
| little trunk, too. Dey JUS graf you.
an you gotta stand it, OATS all"
And as the porter for the Copper
Queen turned around and walked out
of the little barber shop his voice was
against the times and his spirit chat
ed under the saddle of iniquity.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-12-09
B RE AID CAST ON
WATERS THAT DID
NOT RETU r N

The faithful flivver groaned and
sighed and died out on the road the
other evening and the newspaper man.
after a diagnosis and post norton.
declared that death was caused from
lack of nourishment in the way OF
gasoline. A quarter of a mile away
stood a house. The newspaper man
tramped over there. commenting not
mildly TO himself upon the shortcom-
ings of his memory. The woman who
met him at the door was large, pleas
ant and lCquacious. In answer to the
question regarding the gasoline sup
ply at this station she said:
NO. we haven't any gasoline"
The newspaper man secured per
mission to use the telephone. and after
a collCquy with the garage man in
Johnson's addition. he turned to the
door. The large and pleasant faced
lady followed him TO the porch.
Did you get help?" she asked.
Upon receiving an affirmative reply.
she then went on to say:
We'll. sir. have got a little gasO-
line in the house but I'm sure getting
tired OF giving it all away TO the
plague-taked automobiles that ale al
ways and eternally running out of
gas right around my house. Seems like
every day some fool climbs down out
of car and comes TO my door and
begs gasoline. And l. like another
fool. let him have il. And he goes
away calling down blessings on my
head and filling the front yard with
promises OF how he will come back
the next day with the borrowed gas.
II | could can the gas of this kind
that is lOOsed in front of my door
could start service station here with
a years supply gathered in one week.
Il don't buy gasoline To carry hair
Drained, shOrt-sighted motorists home
again Jog e-ty-jog. | buy it to clean
clothes with. Seems to me there is
always something to clean around the
house that a way. And every time
start on a job of this kind. ! go. like
new fashioned Mother Hubbard. to
an empty gasoline can. Another gass-
ing gas driver has lied to me about
gas.
They are sure a strange and I'M
truthful and ungrateful lot, these chu-
chu drivers. Seems to me that a man
who is smart enough to accumulate
enough money TO buy motor car
ought to have enough brains TO fill his
gas tank before he leaves town.
Il like to accommodate any one that
il in trouble, and | have done it time
aud time again. But they never come
back with the borrowed gasoline. And
then when | go to town | always for.
get to get gasoline. and"
The newspaper man could not re-
press smile at this stage of the one
sided conversation, and the woman
stopped short for moment and then
she broke out into laughter
Go long with you" she said.
How much gasoline do YOU need to
get back to town."
The newspaper man did not know.
lie thought maybe j gallon would do