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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-05-09
GRIZZLY AND ELK HERD
PASS WITHOUT SPEAKING
BEAR UNDERSTOOD PREPARE.
TONS FOR DEFENSE so HE
DIDN'T START ANYTHING

while camped at $500 feet altitude
near the head of Fawn creek in the
Gallatin range in the northwestern
part of the Yellowstone National park.
writes Vernon Bailey, chief field nat
uralist of the U. S. biological survey
in book soon to be issued by the
national park service, Il could make
out with a field glass elk herds on the
high ridges south. west, and north of
camp. By climbing cautiously, so as
not to disturb the elk, up to 10000 feet
on Quadrant mountain south of camp
l was soon in the midst of one of their
choice GUNNER ranges.
Picture Of Wild Life.
Small herds and scattered individ-
uals were seen over the big, open
slopes above the timber line; punches
of old bulls with full grown velvety
horns lying on top of the ridges where
the wind was strongest and insects
least troublesome; calves and year
lings playing over great snow banks
on the cold slopes; and cows peace
fully lying in meadows of rich, short
grass and clover. Little streams and
pools Of ice cold water were every
where and the elk were a picture of
contentment and satisfaction with
their ideal summer home.
Bear Passed On.
After watching them for about an
hour a large grizzly bear that had
been digging mice on a neighborng
slope was seen walking across toward
the elk. AS he came in view their
heads went up and the herds near me
gathered into one dense mass of
about 500, old and young, while the
bear walked past close in front of
them and on over the ridge, scarcely
turning his head to notice them. The
herd was beautiful sight, rs or 80
old bulls with sets of large horns tow
ering above the numerous small sets,
while the front ranks were mainly
filled with anxious cows ready to give
battle for the protection of their
young. When the bear had disappear
Ell they quietly dispersed to their
grazing and seemed very little con-
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NOTICE OF SPECIAL STockHoLD
ERS' MEETING.
To the Stockholders of the Big Elk /
Mining Company, Limited: s

To the Stockholders of the Big Elk
Mining Company, Limited:
Notice is hereby given that pursuant
to a resolution Of the board of direct
ors passed at a special meeting, held
at Wallace, Idaho. on the 23rd day of
April, 1918. directing the undersigned
to call a special meeting of the stock
holders, special meeting Of the stock
holders of the Big Elk Mining Com
pany, Limited, will be held at the Of
flee of the company in the Clyde Tay
lor building, Wallace, Idaho, on the
22nd day of May, 1918, at 1000 o'clock
a. M, to consider a proposition Of one
Samuel B. Holbert, of Pittsburg, Pa,
to develop the property of the COM
pany by running a lower tunnel, TAX
ing treasury stock therefor at the rate
of two and one-half (2R) cents per
share.
Wallace, Idaho April "a, 1918.
A. II. FEATHERSTONE,
AIS M 16-4t Secretary.
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SAVE METAL FOILS.
Practical Means Of Raising Money fol-
the Red Cross

Practical Means Of Raising Money for
the Red Cross.
| Collectors of tin foil and other met
ais salvaged for the Red Cross melt
ing pots should preserve each piece
flat instead of rolling the scraps into
a ball. was the advice given yesterday
by j. Il. Suhr representing the Great
Western Smelling and Refining COM
pany, which has purchased large guam
titles from the Red Cross, the Elks
and other organizations which pre-
serve the foil. says the Anaconda
Standard.
This practice will facilitate the
sorting of the material, which the
smelters have undertaken to do with
out expense to the organizations dis
price has been made in order to en-
courage the good work, and advises
that advantage be taken Of the oppor-
tunity by making shipments 100
pounds or more in order to avoid ex-
cessive freight, as the quotations are
on the metal delivered at Seattle,
which is the nearest point for this ter
ritory.
Tin foil, lead foil and zinc foil are
the three that are acceptable the
warning being given to avoid the
aluminium foil which is beginning to
be used as substitute in packing
pIlm candies and other goods of the
kind. The aluminium is of specific
gravity so low that any considerable
weight of it consumes its value in the
sorting and handling.
A. L. Lind, general manager of the
company, has been in Butte for four
days, where he has been giving point
ers on the collection, but was unable
to make the trip to Anaconda fit into
| his schedule.
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NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

Office of the Tyler Mining and Milling
Company, Limited, Burke Idaho,
April 10. 1918.
Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting of the board of directors of
the Tyler Mining and Milling Com
pany, Limited. held at the office of
the company in Burke, Idaho, on the
10th day of April, 1918. an assessment
Of two ca mills per share was levied
upon the capital stock of the corpora
ton, payable on or before the 18th day
of May, 1918. to Albert Hausaman,
secretary treasurer Of the company,
at Burke, Idaho.
Any stock upon which this assess
ment remains unpaid on the 18th day
of May, 1918. will be delinquent and
advertised for sale at public auction,
and unless payment is made before,
will be sold at the office of the com
pany Burke, Idaho, on the 18th day
of June. 1918, at 700 p m. of said day,
to pay the delinquent assessment
thereon, together with the costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale.
ALBERT HAUSAMAN,
A1S-M16-5t Secretary.
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NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.
Office of the Mullan Mining Company,
Wallace, Idaho, April II, 1918.

Office of the Mullan Mining Company,
Wallace. Idaho, April II, 1918
Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting OF the directors Of the Mullan
Mining company, held on the 18th day
Of April. 1918. an assessment Of two
CD mills per share was levied upon
the outstanding capital stock of the
corporation, payable on or before the
30th day of May. 1913. to l.. Leighty,
secretary of the company, Gyde-Tay
lor building, Wallace, Idaho.
Any stock upon which this assess
ment remains unpaid on the 30th day
of May, 1918, will be delinquent and
advertised for sale at public auction
and unless payment is made before
will be sold on the goth day Of June
1918, at 1880 p. m. of said day. at the
Office of the company, Gyde- Taylor
building, Wallace, Idaho, to pay the
delinquent assessment thereon, to-
gether with the costs of advertising
and expenses Of sale.
L. LEIGHTY,
Secretary of the Mullan Mining Com
pany; Gyde-Taylor Block, wallace
! Idaho. -M30-7t
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reaching ii is the old town of White.
chapel, once a flourishing MINING
camp and now given over to the raw
ages of the mountain rat with once
in while n gray bearded prospector
who tears up a few Of the old board
walks and makes a fire in one of the
deserted cabins. The town Is said to
have been founded by an English
company, which had visions of a Sec
ond Comstock lode in a silver out
cropping, which finally pinched out
and blasted the dream of wealth fos-
tered by many Of the patrons of the
roast beef of old England.
Whitechapel-the name brings
memories of London even to the mind
of the average westerner, who has
never been east of the stock market at
Omaha, and the chance traveller Won
ders. who the homesick Englishman
was who tagged the little hamlet in
the western hills with a name which
has been heard in song and story for
the past 200 years The old cabins
are windowless, the battered stove
pipes have been smokeless for 40
years, yet the town, if such it may be
called. still stands monument to the
early day mining and blasted hopes.
Nearby a mill, the roof sagging in,
still holds the stamps which We're to
ha 81
golden stream into the Golfers Of the
English syndicate.
The End Of the Camp.
Until a few years ago part of the
tools were still lying about the de-
serted workings just as they had been
dropped by the toilers of long ago
when the news reached them that the
vein had "pinched out" 1t was the
death knell for the little village and
the evening that broke over the hills
with its golden streamers touched
with puprle was the last which wit
messed the old town of Whitechapel
as an active mining camp.
The town still stands, desolate and
deserted, but in all essentials the
same as the movie" town now shown
in western pictures, but with a subtle
the movie town Is a pre-
tense for a day and then is torn
down, this town-a town Of the real
west-has had it's day of life and ro-
nance, and even though the stage
hands Of the years are slowly dis
the setting which housed
many acts of courage or discourage
ment, the setting still remains and
houses continuous performance
played by memory to the accompany
ment Of the music of forgotten years.
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NOTICE OF LOST CERTIFICATE
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN

TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN
Notice is hereby given that the I'M
dersigned has lost or misplaced the
following certificate: Certificate No
$50 for one thousand (l000) shares Of
the capital stock of the Ambergris
Mines Company, standing on the books
cf the company in the name of Charley
Weigand All persons are hereby
warned against negotiating or at
tempting to negotiate the above men,
toned certificate and unless the same
is recovered within thirty (30) days
from date hereof application will be
made to the secretary of the Amber
girls Mines Company for a new GER
tificate of like amount in it's stead.
A1S-M16-5t CHARLES WEIGAND.
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Notice Of Postponement.

Notice Is hereby given that by order
and resolution of the board of direc-
tors of the Idaho & Los Angeles Min
payment of the above assessment has
been extended from April to May 6,
1918, and the sale of delinquent stock
June 8, 1918, at the same time and
place above named.
ALFRED j. DUNN,
-M2-4t Secretary.
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Tale of the Grindstone Mine

| The assayer went, and he went to
Leeds.
1t was his arrival there that started
our story.
Leeds, you must understand, was
in those days exclusively an agricul-
tural community. The Mormons who
had come west in the early days were
devoting their attention strictly to
the agricultural possibilities of their
country Gentiles might fuss with
holes in the ground, but the
Mormons would have none of it, ex-
cept to put in the time between har-
vests hauling supplies to the miners
and prospectors. AS an aside it might
be stated that casting up the accounts
today shows they probably lost moth
| ing in the long run by holding aloof
| from direct interest in the mines.
Well, the assayer landed in Leeds,
and formed an alliance, offensive and
defensive, with one John Barbee and
w. T. Barbee his brother.
Locates Birthstone Source.
| After they had made their first
move, the Mormons of Leeds may
have felt toward them a good deal as
did the whisky soaked patriots of
Phoebe, but they were left unmolested
as they proceeded to locate as a min
eral claim large body of ground on
what is known as Tecumseh noun
tain, which is little pimple on the
| face of the earth a good deal similar
to the descriptions of the Messines
ridge over which the allies have spill
ed unreckoned blood in their holy
cause.
| How the thing was financed is not
known, but at any rate the grindstone
and his prospector friends sunk a
shaft and put in mill. From that
sandstone ledge they ultimately ex-
tracted more than 100000 worth of
silver
1t was plain, with sandstone, but in
his assay f-the grindstone the assay
er had seen values and they existed
in the ledge just as they had in the
unitarian fragment he had put
through his crucible. Nowhere else
in the United States has white sand
stone ever given forth silver in pay
ing quantities.
Town Transformed.
The advent of our assayer friend
was revolutionary to Leeds. 1t trans
formed a peaceful agricultural COM
munity into such a ripping metal
camp as the Phoebe he had left. The
metal content Of the sandstone was
something almost unbelievable. In a
trice what had been just stone had
become rich ore. Houses and fences
were broken up to be put through the
mills for the values they contained.
The Barbees had scarce put their
Tecumseh mountain property on its
feet when they started another pro-
ject on White reef across the gulch
from which they took a cold 100000
On White reef were located the Buck
leye, Last Chance, California, Maggie
and Kinner properties, which produc-
ed in the aggregate more than ST.
100000. Even more was produced by
other properties and 1t Is estimated
that the Silver Reef district added
between $17,OOO,0OO and $2OOOO.0OO tc
the metallic wealth of the world.
Complications Develop.
All went we'll until the sandstone
had been stripped down to a consid
cradle depth, when complications de-
veloped which baffled the extraction
processes of those days, and 1888 saw
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NOTICE TO DELINQUENT STOCK.
HOLDERS.

Office of the Blaine G. Emmett Mining
Company, Limited, Murray, Idaho,
April %. 1918
Notice is hereby given that there is
delinquent upon the following describ-
ed stock on account Of an assessment
Of two and one-half (2h) mills per
share, levied on the 18th day of March,
1918, the several amounts set opposite
the names of the respective share
holders as follows, to-wit:
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ROMANTIC MEMORIES
HAUNT OLD MINING CAMP
MONTANA HAS A GHOST CAMP
WAS ABANDONED 40
YEARS AGO.

Every section of the west which
has enjoyed an era of wealth and
prosperity closely following the exo-
dus from the eastern states after the
civil war has, as a reminder of that
time or of time not far removed
from the '60s, in a number of desert
ed mining camps, many of which
were large, now deserted or nearly
so, and called by noted writer in
one of the national magazines Ghost
Cities Of the West" Never was a
name more appropriately applied, for
1t Is the ghost of other, wilder and
happier days that seems to follow the
chance visitor to the streets which no
longer ring with the songs Of mid
night jewellers or the tin-pan clatter
of honkytonk piano and the screech
of decrepit fiddle in the hands of a
chance musician.
Beaverhead county, the first of the
great Treasure state to be filled with
the horde Of gold seekers, has many
of these old-time camps, and could
the history Of the hopes and despairs
of the former residents be told in
story, the spirit of romance would be
interviewer with the threads Of gold
which lured the men and women of
those wild days from home and
friendships of lifetime to what was
often death and dishonor in practic-
ally foreign section of the United
States.
A Deserted Camp.
Oftentimes the man or woman of
today Is startled when he comes out
of the thick pines of some Of the de-
serted mining districts and sees be-
fore him a western town. even to the
old-time two-story front of the early
day, complete in every detail except
the residents, and hears not sound
except the whistle of a tree squirrel
in a nearby pine.
Old Whitechapel.
Among these early mining towns
and one which is rarely visited by
tourists because Of the difficulty Of
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NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

Office Of Idaho & Los Angeles Mining
& Milling Company Wallace Idaho,
March 6. 1918.
Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting of the board of directors of
the above named company, held on the
9Th day of March, 1918, an assessment
of five 60 mills per share was levied
upon the outstanding capital stock OF
the corporation, payable on or before
April 6, 1918, to Alfred ]. Dunn, sec.
rotary treasurer, AIS Bank street
Wallace. Idaho.
Any stock upon which this assess
ment remains unpaid on the 9Th day
OF April, 1918, will be delinquent and
offered for sale at public auction, and
unless payment is made before will be
sold on May 6, 1918, at 3; 90 p. M, to
pay the delinquent assessment, to-
gether with the cost of advertising
and expenses of sale.
ALFRED j. DUNN,
M7-A4-5t Secretary Treasurer
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NOTICE TO DELINQUENT STOCK
HOLDERS.

Office of the Tarbox Mining Company,
Wallace, Idaho. April 23, 1918.
Notice is hereby given that there is
delinquent upon the following describ-
ed stock on account of an assessment
of ten Q0) mills per share, levied on
the 8th day Of February, 1918, the sew
eral amounts set opposite the names
of the respective shareholders as fol-
lows. to-Wit:
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Of. C. Greene in Salt Lake Herald
Republican,


Republican,
Far be it from me to knock prohi
bition, but in all fairness it must be
said that if prohibition had come to
Nevada and Utah in the early days
this story might never have been
written, for the facts would not have
materialized, and I'm sticking strictly
to the facts and John Barleycorn is
not here to embellish them now.
"A bunch of the boys We're hitting
it up in the Malamute saloon" as
Friend Service would put it, when the
story started. That was away back
in 1875. and just by way of bringing
the yarn up to date l might state that
the second book is just in its incipi-
ency since the play is about to be re-
enacted along more scientific and eff
fective lines.
But as / was saying, the boys were
hitting 1t up. That was in Phoebe,
Nevada, away back in 1875. Phoebe
was some camp in those days-much
is now. or l should say that the east
hadn't gone as far west as it has now.
Assayist Some Optimist.
Well, anyway, there was an assayer
in town about that time who was a
little too friendly with the prospectors.
He was some optimist, this boy. He
could find values to make one hesi-
tate before passing up the poorest
piece of ordinary rock ever brought
in from the painted desert.
He happened to be the subject of
general conversation on this particu-
lar night and in an alcoholic fit of
civic pride the boys decided it was not
for the best interest of fair Phoebe to
have in the midst Of an honest-to-
goodness mining camp, with future
as palpable, wildcatter's friend as
this here assayer.
"Acid Test"
But this fellow had bought a few
drinks in his time, so some of his
friends held out for giving him a
chance. They finally agreed to a
primitive form of acid test. 1t was
easy to test an assayer.
A piece of an old grindstone that
stood In front Of the "Malamute," or
whatever the name of the dive was,
answered the purpose. The gang
broke a piece off and toted it up to
the defendant. Then they went back
for a few more rounds and made some
bets on the outcome.
Birthstone Was Rich.
The friends of the acid monger lost
for excitement over the bets down
town had not subsidized when they re-
ceived his report, and say-no Won
der he hit the trail swiftly!
Eight hundred and thirty-sever
ounces of silver to the ton," was his
written report of the assay he claim
ed to have made on that fragment Of
sandstone.
Two more rounds. paid for by thu
erstwhile friends of the chemical gen
tleman. and then red-liquored com
mittee served notice on that gentle
man that his health would be bes
conserved elsewhere than in the con
fines Of civically proud Phoebe.
would he go?"
Certainly, but before he left he''
like to know whence came that grind
stone.
The information was easily obtain
ed. It came from Leeds, Utah. Nor
mon traders had hauled 1t in with
number of others.
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And in accordance with law so many
shares of each parcel Of such stock as
may be necessary will be sold on the
18th day of May, 1918, at 900 o'clock
a. m. of said day at the Office of r. w.
Skeman, Murray, Idaho, to pay the de-
linquent assessment thereon, together
with the costs of advertising and ex-
penses Of sale.
r. w. SKEMAN,
Secretary Treasurer of the Blaine &
Emmett Mining Company. Murray,
Idaho. AIS M10-3t
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New Method Gets Results.


Volatization is the method 10 be
employed. The experiments have de-
veloped that the ore is especially
adapted to that process. Heated to a
temperature Of 900 degrees centigrade,
the metals in the crushed dirt are
transformed into gases, which are
passed off into cottrells, there to be
caught by an electrical precipitating
apparatus. 1t is claimed that this
method will save at least 80 per cent
of the values and that any ore run
ming over $40 ton will be worked at
a net profit of Sc, Enough ore is In
sight to keep the mill running seven
years, handling 100 tons day. (This
is including the tailings which Col
bath and his associates have acquir-
ed). The dumps of ore which they
propose to work assay from $40 to
s27 a ton.
What they will encounter when they
sink further into the reef and take
out the ore abandoned by the old
time miners because it contained
copper is yet to be seen. The copper
Stunned then for its penalty on am
algamation is priced for it's value UNI
der the new process.
So goes the story of the grindstone,
Once told and ended the yarn of the
grindstone, quarried and shaped from
10 nf a
mon pioneer, is about to be re-enact-
ed. The barren sandstone will pro-
duCe again.
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time miners as worthless and will
convert into ready cash the tailings
that once went through the pioneer
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Complications Develop.

All went we'll until the sandstone
had been stripped down to consid-
cradle depth, when complications de-
veloped which baffled the extraction
processes of those days, and 1888 saw
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A11-M2 At
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-01-23
&c ACUARTELARAN LAS TROPAs
nGR "a NOCHE........
(Vieae de IL ia. Pag)

Fsto otedcca no al empeno de Ia
lirI1a Senretaria Dor limpiar a la So
.;aiad de Ia amenaza de suS hombres
q,rados. sino a rcpetidas i~nsistencla5
&c Ia verido recibjendo dc los veci-
~,~ Va enviadas en- largos ocurSos
con centcnareS de firmas, va presen-
tafas cor comi:ioncs e~speciales dc
esta cirdad, y dc otras de Ia Repu-
,lica. que So han acercado a IA supe-
rior:dad . fin de que Sc tomen pro-
v:dencias para evitar que los civl!sS
e.t6n todas las noches q MERGED &c
ia c5,cra 0 la embriaguez &c los SOL
dados.
Ia medida primera que parece ser
e tomara en- este case, es muy I'M
0~ortante: Ia De que, por la ncche. to-
AS las t.opas sean acuarteiadas, sin
7fia Sc permita salir a nadie de los
-uartalcs y puestos militares, sin un
7ermiso de la superioridad, en- el que
c exp-csc ell motive de la salida.
Este IS % que muchos vecinos han
.olic:tado. con sobra de razon, ques
u todo 81 que transite por ID noche
II a'guna cjudad de importancia don
L hava gran numero de soldados,
sta exp2esto a un atropelIo de los
,rmados las mas de las wees Sc
.nrfcrman con g%oipearlo Y robarlo,
Y en- otras le causan hasta la muer-
te.
rs; pues. ia unica manera de po-
-er en- cuardia a la sociedad, es de
liar cue por la noche, cuando me-
,os. sa'gan los soldades a la Gale.
Tlm6ian Ia po1icia ha influido pa
= L Sc tome esa determination,
,~cs cue ella t2nia que sufrir tam
.;sn frccuantemente los asaltos de
- soidados, y Sc encontraba mu-
has vaccs on Ia imposibilidad de ga
-~srsi2arse eI orjen y llevar Il cabo a
- hcrs.cnes necesarias.
.Adema5 - gendarmes. autoriZa-
DOS para ileva-se a Ia carcef q los
s9Idados eorjos o escandaiosos, tenia
que sostener q wees verdadcrcs com
hates con los mil;taras cscardaiosos,
cue Sc neg2ban. commandments a
jciarse a?rehender por los po!icias.
Todo clio parece que amenguara,
Dor 10 mcnos, con la nueva DISPOSE
ci6n que prchibira q los soidados,
salir IN paso fuera de Ia puerta de
los cuarteles.