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Gilpin observer., 1917-04-05
CONNECTION MADE WITH PRIZE
SHAFT THROUGH ARGO Tunnel

ed from the fact that to accurately
guide us it was necessary for him to
commence at the bottom of our shaft
and survey to the surface, thence
across the hills to the Grand Army
shaft, down same to such workings
connecting with the Gunnell work
ings, through such drifts to the Gum
nell upraise and then down it to the
workings connecting with the Argo
tunnel, thence around through the
tunnel and in our drift to our up
raise and thence about 600 feet up to
where our crosscut would commence
for the bottom of the shaft.
"As most Of the old workings
Through which he had to work were
in dangerous condition with drifts
caved in and containing accummulat-
ed and falling water, in addition to
other great dangers and obstacles in
the nature of falling substances and
the disadvantages Of working under
ground with poor light and with in
experienced help feel that Mr.. Funk
deserves full credit for the remark
able feat which he accomplished and
know that many Of your readers
will be surprised to learn Of the al
most phenomenal manner in which
he proved his ability to guide the
above mentioned connection"
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-05

Manager o. B. Wilmanh of the
Prize Mining Co., informs the Obser-
yer that as a result of some remark
able surveying on the part ofsW. A.
Funk, they have connected the Argo
tunnel with the Prize shaft from the
surface in a remarkably accurate
manner.
in spite of many most discourag-
ing Obstacles" says Mr. Wilmarth,
''Mr. Funk felt that he could direct
OUT work in a manner that would
bring us out within six inches of our
aim.
He did SO with most of that mar
gin to his credit because we connect
ed practically exactly with where he
said we would.
las an engineer myself, am fully
able to appreciate the credit which
Mr.. Funk deserves in connection
with that difficult Job of surveying
and as / know that many people in
these two counties have been watch
ing for the result of that survey when
the connection was made, felt that
you would likely be interested in
making the matter public and hence
this letter to you.
Some idea of the. difficulties in
volved in such surveying may be gain
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-05

Rev. Father Naughton returned last
in New York, where he went on bus
mess in connection with the Fifty
proposition. He says he feels encour-
aged over the prospects of interest
ing capital in the reorening Of these
mines, although the deal. being a big
one, will require some time. The east
is prosperous and there is plenty OF
tens health was greatly benefited by
the trip and he has gained weight.
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-05
LET SHELTER INvESTIGA.
TORS GET TO WORK

While the American Smelling and
heaining company, as we'll as the
railroads in Colorado have long posed
as loyal defenders to the best inter
ests OF the state, and while the ore
producer, as well as the shipper,
has waxed wealthy while they (the
corporatons) have eked out a mis-
erable- existence for these many years
In order that our infant industries
might attain large proportions, the
said companies should have equal
laurels in the making of Colorado one
OF the important states of the union,
and it is but just and proper to
credit them in these special lines.
The A. S. & R. Co., have just issued
schedule of prices ON Cripple Creek
ores. becoming effective March 26,
1917. The new schedule is as fol-
lows: "Ore to the value of $50 q ton,
$500, including freight and treatment; :;
ore to the value between $50 and
$40 a ton: $3.50 a ton, including
freight and treatment; ore of a val
ue in excess of $40 ton, $500 a ton
includir 6 freight and trea ment.
Gold will be paid for at the rate
Of $1,000 an ounce. When or more
ounces Of silver, are contained in the
ore per ton, the prices paid per ounce
will be $50 of the New York quota
tion on that day"
Now let us see what this smelling
,, company and the railroads have done
and are now dcdng for Gilpin and
Clear Creek counties. Gold at 1000
fine Is received and paid for by ev-
cry United States mint at $2O.67 per
ounce, while the smelter and samp.
ling works pay only $500 and $3.50
per ounce for gold 1000 fine in Gil
pin and Clear Creek county ores, and
for ore containing 1OGo silver one
half ounce is deducted in these coun-
ties from the New York quotation
price. Explain the reason of this
deduction. Copper, zinc, lead and
all other metals found in the ore.
are subject to the same obnoxious
discounts.
Black Hawk is only 81 miles frcm
the smelter, and the treatment charg-
es on dry ores of value of $50 per
ton are $3.50 a ton with freight add
ed, as compared to $500 per ton
from Cripple Creek including freight.
The freight on ton of $50 ore
frcm Black Hawk to the smelter (37
miles) is sl.50 ton, OF four cents
per mile, while Cripple Creek ores
are moved 1875 miles. and its treat
ment charge. including freight is
fifty cents a ton less than our treat
ment charges alone.
When the smelter Investigating
committee. created by an act of our
last legislature are investigating the
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-05

Owen Moore has run away, Owen
Moore than he could pay, but Owen
Moore with Marguerite Courtot will
be seen at the opera house in THE
Kiss" a Paramount production, Sun
day, April Sth.
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-05

District court will convene on Sat
urday. April 7th, at 10 o'clock to hear
five or six naturalizations and other
minor legal matters Of a civil ma
ture. There are two criminal cases
at this term of court in which sham
us O'Brien figures as defendant.
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-05
cHlLDREN's HOME GARDENS

GAN club members, parents, teach
ers and others interested in the gar
den movement please cut out and
save the following for future refer
ence).
The Tuesday Reading club will con
tinue the children's home garden
work started last year.
Prizes will be offered to the chill
dren OF the Black Hawk, Central City
public and paroohial schools fer the
best vegetable and flower gardens.
Garden Sections
These schools will be divided into
the following sections:
Section l includes grades l, 2, 3
and of Black Hawk.
Section 2. Grades 5, 6, and s
or Black Hawk
Section 8. Grades 1, 2 and 8 Of
! Central City public and parochial
schools.
Section 4. Grades 4, and 6 of
Central City public and parochial
schools.
Section 5. Grades Z and OF Cen
trail City public and parochial schools
Section 6. Central City High
school.
w. u. S. Parsons has offered six
prizes of s1.OO each for the best veg
etable garden in each section. The
club offers six prizes of so cents each
for the best flower garden in each
group. Second prizes will also be
given. Mrs. Patterson will give a
prize of s1.OO for the best ideal"
home garden including grass plot
trees, flowers and vegetables.
Seeds
Vegetable and flower seeds will
be distributed free to those school
children who will promise to plant
and care for them.
The variety includes:
Vegetables:
Radish, lettuce, endive, peas, beets,
carrots and turnips.
Flowers:
Candytuft. coreopsis, cosmos, mas
turtium. poppy, caluendula, California
poppy, mignonette, sweet alyssum
Children will be allowed and en-
courageG to add to these seeds as
many extra seeds in variety and NUM-
ber as they may choose.
The parents are asked to help and
encourage the children in every way
possible.
Judging
The club members and their friends
also will visit the gardens several
times during the summer to help In
terest and aid the children, and to
Judge the gardens.
Gardens will be judged as follows:
General arrangement - 20 points
NdIlety -------- 80 poihto
,,1t ttA.,
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-05

The Wcgad Film Co., offers THE
Man Who stood Still featuring Lew
Fields, as the moving picture at the
opean house for Wedn esday, April IL.
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-05

Fannie Ward in "Witthcraft," a
Paramount picture will be shown al
tho opera house Saturday, April 7th
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-05
100 points

ChiIdren's Garden Fair
The first Saturday after school
opens in September, there will be
ohdldren's garden fair. open to the
public. at which time the prizes will
be awarded. All children who have
had gardens will be invited to come
and bring exhibits Of vegetables and
flowers to be judged and awarded in
some suitable way.
Tuesday Reading Club.
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-05

Patrsniss the merchants who I'd
s4rtiss IN the Observer.
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-05

Job printing At the Observer.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08
BOYS BEET CLUBS

The proposed project of the estab-
lishment of boys beet clubs should
meet with the hearty cooperation of
every parent of the valley. The boys
can find no more profitable way to
spend their spare time this spring
and summer than in the care of a
patch of sugar beets, be 1t only a
few square feet or several acres in
extent.
The work is bound to return hand
some remuneration. Many of the va
cant lots of the city could just as
well be put in beets and turned into
productive land.
The Grants Pass sugar company
will no doubt offer prizes of sub
stantial nature, according to Field
Agent Pettinglll, and offer the lads
every cooperation. 1t is to be hoped
that the work may be taken up in
an organized manner by school au.
thorities as is the pig and corn club
work at present.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08
just as We Go to Press.

H. o. Butterfield, who works up in
the hotel barbershop right next to
the express office, says he has noticed
a great many of our prominent citi-
zens hurrying like an express train
into the express office with an ex-
press purpose expressively expressed
in their expression. One man hurried
out with his express pressed to his
bosom, slipped and pressed his nose
to the sidewalk and the express ran
all over the adjacent territory. H.
0. says the gentleman expressed him
self impressively, but because of our
Lady readers We will repress his ex-
pressions expressly on their account.
(No, Mabel, he did not belong to the
Presbyterian church.)
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08
THE SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE.

1t is an interesting problem in bus
mess psychology to determine why
people trade at one store rather than
another Prices, location, quality
are all vital, but not the whole thing
The wide-awake manager of real
store comes down town full of the
spirit of enterprise. He does not ask
to be sure of two dollars back before
he will spend one. Start something
he calls out to the boys, and soon the
place radiates his pushing person
ality.
His first move is to spread the
news He finds this or that line in
his store where he got unusual val
ues, or something he wants to turn
into cash. He realizes that the pub
lie will never know what he can do
for them unless he takes some pains
and goes to some expense to inform
them. BY persistent advertising he
gives the public the news Of his
store. Pretty soon the impression is
spread abroad that it is store where
there is something doing"
The American people have little
use for inactivity. They care little
for the business man who sits down
and waits for opportunity to knock
and business to come. They will go
out of their way to trade with man
who seeks their trade and shows
some spirit of push. The one way
to convey this impression is of course
to advertise. Circulars don't give it
to any large extent, as they are so
apt to be thrown away unread. While
the circular reposes all crumpled up
in the wastebasket, the newspaper
remains on the parlor table until the
whole family has been through it.
Solicitation from door to door, If
done by a tactful and competent man,
gives an impression of enterprise.
But advertising is twenty times
cheaper and quite as efficient. 1t
spreads the news all over, and makes
man seem like q pusher instead Of
waiter.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08
Use Of Whiskey
Increases in 1916

The amount Of whisky consumed
by the American people in 1916 ap
parently was greater than in any pre-
vious year since 1909, according t.
tax returns to the treasury depart
ment, says reports from Washington
D. c., and the amount of revenue
collected by the government or
whisky, beer and cigarettes during
the year was the greatest on record
While returns shows that the tend
ency toward prohibition has not low
cred the governments revenue from
whisky, officials believe a portion of
the increase - nearly $24,000,000
more than in 1915-is attributable
to the fact that the government is at
present collecting taxes on all
whiskey produced in the country,
whereas, because of extensive frauds,
such was not the case few years
ago.
Consumption of cigarettes in 1916
reached the highest mark ever re-
corded Tho tremendous increase,
more than 40 per cent over 1915, is
attributed to two main causes: In
creased prosperity of the country
and growth of the cigarette habit
among women. Many millions Of
cigarettes made for feminine users
were produced in this country and
imported during the past year.
The number of paper wrapped ci-
garettes upon which the government
levied tax during the year reached
the grand total of 25,232,960,92S, as
compared with 17,939,234,20S in
1915.
Records show the government col
lected tax of $1.1O per gallon on
146,355,146 gallons of whisky during
the year, a total of $160,990,660 as
compared with 124,549,210 gallons
and a tax yield of s137,004,131 in
1915. Beer consumption, according
to the records, was 61,145,583 bar
rels as against 57,SO5,S 1896 barrels the
previous year. The tax yield on beer
during 1916 was $91,71S,375; in
1915, 1t was $S6,70S,S03.
Total revenue on beer and whisky
during 1916 was $252.70S,934 as
compared with $22S,712,sS4 in 1915.
Cigarettes yielded $31,541,200 last
year and $22,424.O42 the year be-
fore, making the total revenue to the
government from these three sources
$2S4,250,235 in 1916 and s246,136,-
976 in 1915, an increase last year of
$3S,11S,239.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08
Ashland, Ore, Thursday, Feb. 8, IL
THE INVESTIGATING COMMIT
TEES.

Investigations are the style in poll
tics now. From congress down to
state legislatures, they're all doing
It. Commissioners are renting roll
top desks, hiring stenographers, sum-
moning witnesses, seeing the country
and smoking choice cigars (often at
taxpayers expcnse). Cost of living
is the favorite subject now, but the
labor question, decline of country
life, taxation and many local prob
lens are continually being raked
over.
Often the only result is publication
OF a ponderous black covered report
that gathers dust In libraries and
storerooms. Legislators distribute
copies to friends who are pleased to
be thus recognized. The reports con-
tain much useful information, but
there is often such mass OF statis-
tics and conflicting opinion as to
leave the subject in a worse fog than
before.
Ordering an investigation Is a IA
vorite political device. 1t keeps the
public quiet, gives the impression
that something is being done and
holds down the lid.
The idea of investigation Is good.
A business corporation gives to any
new problem the most intensive
study and exhaustive tests. But 1t
does not place such investigations In
the hands of lame ducks" out OF a
Job.
Frequently tho reports of these
commissions are we'll arranged, with
practical recommendations But pol
iticians. whose chief interest is dis
tributing plums and pork, feel help
less in the presence of big human
problems requiring constructive abil-
fly. II public interest has died
down, the report is apt to be pigeon
holed. II the people would elect
their servants on basis Of business
rather than politics, there would be
more Investigations that really in
vestigate and fewer reports that
merely create paper stock for the
junk man.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08
Ashland Has One
OF -Four Stations
Continued from Page One. }

bark, hatch out one hundred young
to each pair twice yearly; how the
trees fight back with pitch and some
times conquer the pest; how the
birds and parasites prey upon the
beetles to such an extent that the
bureau has learned that if rs per
cent of the beetles are destroyed,
natures balance is overwhelmed and
the beetles disappear.
Methods of Fighting
Mr.. Keene explained how the in
fected trees were marked and cut at
the right time and the bark burned
to destroy the beetles. The timber
could be marketed and is marketed
in many cases. The McCloud Lum-
ber company employs their fire fight
ing crews in winter to fight the
beetles under the direction of gov
ernment experts and is highly graft
fled with the work, according to the
bureau man. Other timber companies
are doing likewise.
Mr.. Keene dwelt at some length
on the local problem. He closed by
inviting the people of the city to visit
the station and see the specimens
and many Interesting collections
which the bureau had collected.
At the close of the talk a vote
Of thanks was extended to him and
the entire gathering stayed to ex-
anime the several cases of speci-
mems and fire interested questions at
Mr.. Keene.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08
Vim, VigOr and Victory.

Vim, Vigor and Victory.
with apologies to Herbie Hoff-
man.
If you would strong and healthy be
In body, mind and soul,
Trot to the corner drug store
And fill up on "Sargol."
Or If 'tis weight that holds you
down,
Grow lanky like a rat
BY taking home case or two
OF Johnson's "Antifat."
If you arc cross or have cold feet,
Feel heavy, dead or slim,
The drug store has the very stuff
To put you back in trim.
But never buy two kinds at once
You might some time get fused,
And take a dose of anti-fat
With anti-lean-and bust.
(The local drug stores are welcome
to the advertising.)
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08
LNTERURBAN AUTOCAR 90.

Leave Ashland for Medford, Talent
and Phoenix daily except Sunday al
300 q. m. and 100, 900. 400
and 6:1b D. m. Also on Saturday
night at $40. Sundays leave at
900 and 100, 500 and 1880
p. m.
Leave Medford for Ashland daily ex-
cept Sunday at 500 a. M, 100,
900, 400 and 6:15 p. m. Also on
Saturday at 1915. On SundayE
at 1890 a. m, and 200, $500 and
$3.50 D. m.
Fare between MedfOrd and Ash.
land, 20 cents. Round trip, % cents.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08
Here and There Among Our Neighbors

be voted on will provide for an ap-
preparation of 100000 to extend
over six tax levies of 100000 a year
and also to provide for new prison
grounds, If such are deemed best.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08
Heard and Overheard
t,,tt.,t,,taf,,,,tt,ftt..tttt,ttf,fttt;,tt;tt;
(By Lynn D. Mowat.)

(By Lynn ID. M0Wat.)
The Emigration Of February o.
Governor Withycombe signed tho
bone-dry bill ct p. m.)
'Tis midnight,
And a grouping moon
Sulks through the ever-shifting
clouds.
And chilling, shrilling
Wind gusts sweep
Down from the reaches of the
north.
And look!
The ghostly shapes,
High-flying near the gloomy sky.
ask you, Night,
What are those ghouls,
Those southbound phantoms of the
mist?
No answer,
But the lonesome howl
OF far-off wind notes seems to
crate:
South, south
I whisk them south.
The morning-after headaches of
your state"
lie EnvOi.
I slammed the window hard and fast
And covered, while the phantoms
passed,
Lest some of mine, bound from the
state,
Should think Of me and hesitate.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08

About now the homesick city peo-
pie who don't know anyone feel sorry
for the lonesome folks in the country
who meet several times a week at
church and lodge suppers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08

Uncle Sam holding all the real
money, and Europe all the guns and
ammunition, is an arrangement that
usually doesn't work we'll when the
police aren't handy.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08

So far as heard from, the mer-
chants who didn't advertise did not
complain about overwork during the
recent holiday season.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08

klamath Falls-Box factory COM
pany with capital Of 100000 will en-
ploy over fifty hands and have 5O,-
900 capacity, to be new industry here.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08

Friend-"What was the name of
the correspondence school from
which you took that memory course
which you said did you so much
good?"
Graduate-"Pickboy, or Richard
son, or something like that. l don't
remember exactly"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08

Echo, Ore.,-Artesian water has
been found on Butter creek, Is miles
west of here, at a depth of n feet.
Plenty of water is easily reached at
depth of IL to Is feet in that vi
cinity. Lou Wattenburger, a pros
porous farmer of the Butter creek
country, wishing to reach a lower
level of water for domestic use, had
we'll drilled, when Unexpectedly ar
tesian water was found. The exact
flow of water cannot be estimated
until the casing, which has been or
dered, is placed.
Eugene-The board Of directors Of
the Lane County Fair association on
Saturday officially decided to hold no
roundup next fall in connection with
the fair. An executive board was
chosen by the directors as follows:
C. ]. Hurd, M. H. Harlow, Amos Will
kins, e. NJ. Warren, H. W. Stewart,
G. W. Taylor, E. E. Morrison, Alton
Hampton and E. A. Bond.
Eugene-Ray Goodrich, vice-presi-
dent of the First National bank of
Eugene, and regent of the University
of Oregon, died in Boston, Mass, last
night, according to message receiv-
ed here this morning from Frank
L. Chambers, also vice-president of
the bank, who accompanied Mr.. Good
rich to Boston for an operation for
eye trouble. Mr.. Goodrich was op-
Grated upon about a year ago, but
his eyes became worse recently. He
went to Boston a week ago and the
operation was performed last night,
but he failed to recover from the eff
fects of the anaesthetic. The body
will be brought to Eugene at once
for interment.
Salem-Complying with the sug-
gestion of Warden Charles E, Muir
ply, of the penitentiary, the state
board of control has asked Attorney
General Brown to prepare a resolu-
tion submitting to the people at the
next general election the question Of
a new state penitentiary. The bill to
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08

Paisley-Creamery will be estab-
lished here by spring.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

News print has doubled in price
the last four months. 1t necessitates
an advance in advertising rates, or
we will have to quit business. Fol-
lowing are the advertising rates In
the Ashland Tidings after this date.
There will be no deviation from this
rate.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08
Finding a Vocation,

Finding Vocation.
There is man in Ashland town
Who had no end of trouble.
His eyes are somewhat out of whack
And make him see things double.
He barely made a living from
The sale of carpet beaters,
But now the city's hired him
To read electric meters.
Oh, Scissors!
Little Willie yesterday
Stuck tho baby, all in play,
Head first in rubber boot.
Isn't little Willie cute?
Agree?
A queer coincidence 1t seems,
Unto my way of thinking.
A fellow never takes to drink
Until he takes to drinking.
La Grande-Imbler State Bank in
creases from 100000 in 1915 to
$40, 900 in 1915.
Hermiston-A two-story business
building Is MANNED
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08

Hermiston-A two-story business
building is planned.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-02-08

Entered at the Ashland, Oregon
Postoffice as second-class mail mat
ter.