The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-03-14
Royalties of Oklahoma Zinc-Lead Mines
Enable the Red Man to Revel in Wealth

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intelligent energy of the white miner.
Benjamin Quapaw is receiving $780,
600 per month las royalty from ore
mined under his allotment of 200
acres. Emma Gordon, who owned a
similar allotment, married a mucker,
Hiram McBee, a Scot, who had been
fired" from "A mine working on that
particular allotment. When he mar
ried the bronze landady he did not
revenge himself on the mining COM
pany, on the contrary. he conceded
a full extension of the lease. He is
dubbed "a real gent from oklahoma
His income lisa $4,000 per month, the
tribute on a 20 per cent royalty, The
half to whom Mr. Moore paid
$4,000 royalty per month bought farm
mortgages in Kansas and two automo-
biles. These Indians are great mot
orists, in the sense of owning cars.
| The story is told that Jim Good Eagle
bought x-cylinder car at Joplin.
A few days later another Indian went
| to the same agent and asked: Jim
Good Eagle, he buy car how many
cylinders" The agent said, Six"
To which the Indian replied, Jim
Good Eagle him no good; got no
money: | buy nine-cylinder car"
During the meeting of the institute in
this district early in October 1t was
arranged that the Indians should give
a dance on the occasion of a break
fast that was served on the Blue
Mound, hillock from which a good
view of the prairie and it's new min
ing industry could be obtained. The
Indians came in blankets, but they
Somebody exclaimed, Poor Lo Is rid
ing on high" Shades of Alexander
Pope!
Lo! the poor Indian whose untutored
mind
Enjoys the tribute from another's
find;
His soul proud Science never taught
to stray
Beyond the zinc ore price of yes
terday
Scenery and Roads.
The view from the top of the Blue
Mound near Pitcher reminded me of
looking upon the Sons of Gwalia mine
and its environs as seen from Mount
Leonora. Indeed, there Is much about
this region to recall western Australia
roads follow the section lines SO that
straight vistas are frequent, like the
elearings that follow telegraph lines
across the Westraian desert. They
form aisles through the stunted forest
oak and elm, between Pitcher and
Joplin--mulga and three between
Coolgarde and Menzies. The eX-
citement of successful mining fur
nishes the electric atmosphere COM
mon to both regions, in both a few
aborigines remain to remind the
white man that he is an intruder, but
the aboriginal American is as much
superior to the Australian black as
the conditions of life generally are
more favorable on the prairie than in
the desert. In wv. A." as they call
it there, we had to get our drinking
water by distilling the brine of shallow
wells; in Oklahoma good water is
plentiful, even If anything more po-
tent is under prohibition. The scenery,
IL alike in it's flatness and it's stunted
forest, Is more urbane near the zine
mines than the thinly yelled aridity
Of the Australian hinterland, in
which so many have died of thirst in
their hunger for gold. When l was
in western Australia the ship of the
desert, the camel, was the most pic
turesque means of transport. In the
supreme. Three hundred taxicabs ply
between Joplin and Miami; they bring
$500 people to Joplin on a Saturday
night, many of them to the "Connor,"
Which, WAS bulll out Vi TOyditleS ny
an Irishman that perpetuated his
name honorably by building hand
some hotel. AS for automobiles, there
is an endless stream of them on all
the principal roads They pass at the
rate of one car per minute; the main
streets of the little mining settle
mentS are cluttered with them. IL is
that $500 cars per day make
the "a miles between Joplin and
Pitcher in 80 minutes. No wonder
the roads are dusty, for they spread
over the prairie wherever convenient
1t is true, a beginning at road con-
struction has been made in the en-
yirons of Joplin, and ! am told that
large sums Of money have been voted
to build real road from Joplin to
Miami, but in October last this i'm
provement was still in the lap of the
future. Meanwhile the mining indus
try suffers from being conducted 40
miles from the business center; the |
managers travel in open touring cars
over the rough and dusty roads, in
juring their eyesight and returning in
the evening covered with CRIME. burnt |
BY the sun, and buffeted by the wind |
IF rapid transit The technical staffs |