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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-12-26
Officers Advise the
Shareholders of
Situation.
CONDITION OF THE MINE
Ore on Four Levels.--Find
Shoot of Lead.Zinc on
the 1000 Level.

YN order to carry out plans for the
development OF the mine, the
Success Mining company has
found 1t necessary to levy an as
sessment of two cents per share, pay
able on or before January 81. This
action is no doubt the immediate re-
suit of the cut in the price of lead
which is factor of growing import
ance in the output of the property.
While lead was at sos cents per pound
it is understood the company was
meeting all operating expenses, which
included much necessary development
work. When the price went to 7.O5
cents 1t was a hard blow at Success,
but the company would Still probably
have been able to carry out its deyel-
opment plans had it remained at that
level. But when this was followed by
a drop to 6.5 cents it became neces-
sary to provide funds in addition to
the returns from ore shipments, or
abandon the plans which promise to
place the property on a profit earn
ing basis. The capital stock of the
company is 100000 shares, all of
which are issued, and the assessment
should bring 100000 into the treasury
of the company. In sending formal
notice of the action to the stock
holders the following statement is |
submitted, signed by all officers and |
stockholders:
Condition of the Mine December 1.
ZOO level---About 1000 tons of ore
broken in the stope
''14O0 level-Stoping on the fifth
floor for about so feet in length, with
ore in face easterly.
1890 level-Stoping on the seventh
floor with ore 110 feet in length, drift
being continued easterly with ore in
the bottom for over $50 feet-face of
drift now in ore and it looks favorable
for an ore shoot.
1900 level-Preparing to start a
stope on ore apparently so feet in
length and from to feet in width,
high grade lead and zinc.
Output Of Ore During Development.
September, 70 tons to mill daily
October, "a tons to mill daily.
November IS tons to mill daily.
This output we expect will be in
creased as we get stope on the 1900
level opened up, to from 12O to $50 tons
daily
"As a whole the mine looks very
favorable to locating a permanent ore
body under the systematic develop {
ment now being carried out. {
Trial Balance.
NrHI~c r
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-12-26

While the prices of the metals dur
ing the past year have been maintain
ed at a very satisfactory level, al
though not high as compared with
those that for time prevailed during
1917 and 1916. the dividend disburse-
ments Of Occur dAlene mines for the
year 1918 will show decrease of
probably one third as compared with
1917. This Is easily accounted for by
the high cost of material and supplies
that enter into mining operations and
the prevailing high standard of wages;
the shortage of men due to the heavy
drafts for military service and the at
traction of high wages in the ship
yards of the coast, and the heavy
federal income and excess profits
taxes. The labor shortage in some
instances reduced the working force by
half and in all the mines 1t was so
serious that production was greatly
reduced. Federal taxes either levied
a heavy toll on the earnings, or left
the amount to be levied SO indefinite
and uncertain that several companies
found it necessary to retain a large
reserve in order to meet the demand
Of the government, whatever the
amount, thus tying up large sums
which would otherwise have been dis
bursed to the stockholders as divi-
dends.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-12-26

Don't believe all the good things
YOU hear about yourself.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-12-26

Mo man ever acquired a lasting
brand of popularity by knocking.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-12-26

Dividends from Coeur d'Alene Mines De.
crease in 19l8-Outlook Good
Under Normal Conditions

q Sullivan discontinued publishing its
dividends the first of the year. 1t Is
estimated for reasons already stated
that Its dividends for this year will
show decrease of about 20 per cent
as compared with the record of 1917
The figures for Federal represent the
total of the published dividends for
three quarters. For probably half the
year the Hercules mill has been run
ming only two shifts or wo-thirds
time. Hercules profits are always
matter of estimate, and assuming that
the guess was approximately correct
for 1917, it is believed that the earn
ifgs have decreased a third this year
The Interstate Callahan paid divi-
dends in only the first and second
quarters. Hecla paid only three divi-
dends during, the year, the company
retaining large surplus Of earnings
to pay the government war tax when
the amount is finally determined.
Douglas and Big Creek Leasing dis
appeared from the list of dividend
payers this year and Richmond drop
ped to little better than a sixth of
the record of 1917. Tamarack & Gus
ter has made no disbursement for the
last quarter.
The Hunter should be credited with |
dividends, but no figures
are available.
The Outlook.
Although the shortage of labor no
longer handicaps the operation OF the
mines, the unsettled market conditions
for lead and zinc is having depress-
ing effect upon the industry and 1t Is
possible that this situation may last
for several months. This condition
was not unexpected and win unques-
pass away as the business
conditions Of the country becomes ad-
justed to normal conditions and the
resumption of industrial activities re-
stores the market for metals. How
long this period of uncertainty will
no man can tell, but when
It does end all indications point to the
entrance of the mining Industry upon
a long period of prosperity.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-12-26
Figures Not Complete.

The figures given above for 1918 are
in some cases estimated and in others
include the dividends for only three
quarters of the year. The Bunker Hill
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-12-26
TARBQX MINE SHIP
FROM 1000 LEVEL
Big Chunk of Steel
Galena on Ex-
hibition.
FACE OF DRIFT ALL ORE
Marked Decrease in Amount
of Zinc---Will Ship by
February /.
FACE OF DRIFT ALL ORE

TARBOX mine, near Saltese.
Mont, Is rapidly advancing to
the productive stage; in fact,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-30
Mr.. Wilson'S DenuncidtiOn

Woodrow Wilson, when president
of Princeton University, wrote a book
entitled Constitutional Government
of the United States" 1t was first
published in 1908, and reprinted in
1911 and 1918. The following quota
ton is taken from page II of that
book.
There are illegitimate means by
which the President may influence
the action of Congress. He may bar
gain with members, not only with re-
gard to appointments, but also with
regards to legislative measures, He
may use his local patronage to assist
members to get or retain their seats;
hemay interpose his powerful infiu-
ence in one covert way or another in
contests for places in the Senate. He
may also overbear Congress by arbi-
trary acts which ignore the laws or
virtually override them. He may
even substitute his own orders for
acts of Congress which he wants but
cannot get.
Such things are not only deeply
immoral; they are destructive of the
fundamental understanding of consti-
tutional government and therefore of
free public opinion, to bring their
own punishment, to destroy both the
fame and the power of the man who
dares to practice them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-30
THE UNWRITTEN LAW
IN. A. Reviews War Weekly

IN. A. Reviews War Weekly
That the President may not leave
the country during his term of office
has ever been accepted as an unwrit-
ten law almost as binding as though
1t were specifically Incorporated in
the Constitution itself So firmly is
this opinion rooted that there was
severe criticism of President Roose-
welt when he went to the Canal Zone,
Notwithstanding the fact that he was
continuously under the American
flag during his entire absence. There
was even adverse comment when
President Taft crossed the Rio
Grande to meet Mexican represen-
tatives on the very border itself.
Had either of those Presidents pro-
posed to absolutely expatriate him
self and sojourn in a foreign coun-
try 5000 miles away for a period
of several weeks, or perhaps months,
it is not difficult to imagine the
storm of protests that would have
been stirred up. And, to our think
ing. the protests would have been
wholly justifiable, just as they would
be unsuitable were Mr.. Wilson to
absent himself from the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-30
Liquid Fire and the Huns

has been all flame and smoke screen
work. We advance and burn out
machine gun nests with liquid fire
and throw out a smoke screen for
the infantry to advance. Believe me,
there is no glory and glamour to our
lighting. 1t is facing the cold steel
and seeing the sights and sufferings
the hardships that eventually break
mems spirits. This is the greatest
game that human beings ever engag-
ed in. A football game used to give
me q feeling of thrill and eXhilara-
tion, especially when our team
swamped another team. But war
is a different game. To stand out
there on a front line and see the
liquid flame trickling down through
the trees upon the men in the ma
chine gun nests and even seeing the
Boche tumbling from the limbs as
q dead bird from Il nest, and then
seeing them running out of their
positions, and again hear the big
whoop of the infantry as it rushes
out to occupy the position, gives
one all sorts of thrills and emotions.
At times there is a grand and glorious
feeling about it, but when you look
around and see the toll of the game
and realize the price that is being
paid, that feeling of eXhilaration
oozes out. One fellow who came to
us recently was killed the first day
up the line. Was he fortunate?
Things look fine just now. Every
one is in good spirits and with seven
days of absolute independence, we
are all feeling like the cock of the
walk"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-30
The POWer Of Right

[By Theodore Marburg, one of the
organizers Of the League to Enforce
Peace and among the best known
of American publicists.-The Edi-
tors.
Long before the United States en-
tered the war some of us vcntured to
express the fact that, while wrong
often triumphs locally. wrong uni
versal!y recognized as such could not
triumph; that to doubt it was to
deny that reason ordered the uni
verse. Was there ever a more strilS-
ing instance of this truth than in
the persons of two men-the eX-
Emperor of Germany and King
Albert?
Emperor William scorned the
Belgian King as wholly incapable of
opposing successfully the will of the
mighty German Empire. He bado
Albert stand aside or he would force
his way through his little Kingdom.
This threat he carried out to the ac-
compartment of blood and lust and
cruel oppression. But back of the
Kingdom of Belgium was the king
dom of God; and what Is the posi-
ton of the wo men to-day? AL
bert re-enters his beautiful capital,
while Belgium is crowned with un-
dying fame as Saving donC a "biTJer
thing than Thermopylae." The ex-
Emperor is a fugitive on the face
of the earth. Is there in the whole
of history a more convincing ex-
ample of the power of right?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-30
a FORMER Harrisburg Tele-
graph reporter, now of the
= American gas and fame regi-

a FORMER Harrisburg Tele-
~ graph reporter, now of the
American gas and flame regi-
ment, writes of his experiences in
France up to Oct 25, as follows:
I'VE have been in the line again
since l last wrote you. but have come
back and are now some distance
back of the lines. Rumor has 1t
that we are shortly to go into winter
quarters and If we do, think that
we will have seen the fighting front
for the last time. The Germans are
fighting desperately, it is true, but
they haven't enorgh men to relieve
those in the line often enough. so
that they can't hold a position very
long, no matter how impregnable.
l am sure we are now on the last
lap and hope it will be a short one.
The men of our company are being
called for leaves of seven days, given
at various places such as Paris, Nice,
and AK Les Baines. l haven't de-
cided where l want to go, but think
about the middle of November.
to go at time.
81 feel sure the worst of the fight
ing is over for us. Out of the $50
men who marched out of camp on
Christmas day in our company, there
are only 20 odd left, The rest are
all replacements. If I could tell you
of the attacks we have been in, and
all the fronts we have been on, you
would indeed be surprised.
"Our work in the last few attacks
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-30
STRAY STUFF

Wealth is no disgrace.
Notwithstanding the soap box ora
tors
Who seldom come nearer to soap
than the box.
We are not going to esteem such
things as great riches
And so-called society" and such
Material and foolish gew-g -gaws as
these
AS we did before wars leaven
Lghtened life's loaf,
But neither, let us trust.
Are we to become bolshevlki.
The one who prates loudly of
1.-THE brotherhood ofman,"
And thinks it mean the destruc-
tion
Of property, invariably will be
found
To be one who hates wealth
Because he has been too lazy too
embecilic
To acquire any of it.
A gift of a hundred-dollar bill
Usually would convert one of this
kind
To the side of capitalism over
night.
Common sense and the saving
grace of humor
Usually come to the rescue
OF the American people in every
crisis
And will not fail us now
That we must reconstruct our ma
tional life
Along new lines. is undoubted
And, we fancy that in the new
time that's coming
We may laugh equally at the strut
ting Importance
OF the man of millions who ac-
quired them by accident
And the unwashed orator who re-
CARDS labor
AS his greatest enemy and his mis-
sion
To save mankind that does not
wish 10 be saved,
By spouting like a sperm whale.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-30
.DEMOCRATIZING BELGIUM
TFrom the New York World1

[From the New York World1
In the address of King Albert of
the Belgians in his ancient capital
this sentence evoked a storm of APP
plause from all the members of
Parliament:
The Government purposes to
the Chambers to lower, by pa
triotic agreement, the ancient
barriers and to make the con-
sultation of the nation a reality
on the basis of equal suffrage
for all men of the mature age
required for the exercise of
civil rights"
The words equal suffrage" are
the core of the statement. The Bel
gian franchise cas- 1t existed in 1914
was complicated. The male citizen
had a vote at twenty-five years; at
thirty-five, If married or widower
with children, he had a second vote;
certain educational or property
qualifications commanded a maxi
mum of three votes. But there were
further conditions. Electors of SEN
ators had to be thirty years old,
and there were elaborate provisions
for proportional representation.
Compared With the Prussian
three-class vote, the Belgian system
was liberality itself, since almost
half the voters had at least the
second ballot, but franchise reform
was the chief subject of political
discussion when the war smashed
everything. 1t is resumed at the
first possible moment and in the
right way, with an, authoritative
promise to the world as well as
Belgium of equal suffrage.
The Soldier King whose first
speech in Parliament after four
years of exile is a counsel and pledge
of characterization sets a good eX-
ample to neighbors who aim at re-
establishing the old autocracy of
birth and wealth or at establishing
new autocracy of anarchy and
pillage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-30
THE TRIP TO EUROPE
By BRIGGS
[From the New York GlobeI


The President, announcing a de-
cision generally expected since he
asked the public to give him counsel
which has not been regarded, Is to
sail for Europe. The reason he
assigns is the difficulty of discussing
by cable the greater outlines of
the final treaty about which he
must necessarily be consulted" Yet
the unprecedented absence from the
place of duty assigned him is not
to be protracted. The plan is to
take part in the preliminary dis
cussions and then to allow the rep
resentatives of the United States,
when the real decisions are likely
to be made, to carry on the work
under cable instruction.
The judgment has been general
and freely expressed against the
Presidents attendance. He will be
the only official head of a nation
present, and will outrank the other
conferrees. This will not be agree
able to other peoples although, of
course, politeness will forbid open
protest. The real influence of this
country is thus likely to be dimin-
ished by putting minor matters to
the front.
The Presidents personal partici-
patton will probably strengthen the
suspicion that a disposition exists
on this side to hog" the peace set
tlement, a suspicion unfortunately
developed by persistence in separate
negotiations with Germany. The
President in his prediction state
ment put in the record his convic-
ton that failure to elect a demo-
cratic congress would be q repudia-
tion of his leadership. This was
not true, but it opens the door to
possible inquiries as to whether or
not the President in conferences
authentically expresses the views OF
America. The German problem and
the peace problem are much nearer
to Europe than to us, and our asso-
ciates did the greater part of the
work. and it will do this country
no lasting good to appear in the
role of trying to dictate.
When the President shall return,
leaving behind the formal peace
delegation, the American represen-
tatires will be much dwarfed.
What the President has said, with
varying interpretations, may be
quoted to them. In the confusion
their weight may be less. In all
the affairs of life a delegate may
often achieve more for his principal
than can the principal himself by
direct participation. 1t is of doubt
full wisdom TO make 1t too openly
appear that our negotiators are to
lack power The treaty necessarily
must be one of which the details
are greatly important, and a full
statured, aggrandized, and indie
pendent delegation is desirable
when details are under discussion.
AS the Presidents journey is not
likely TO have a good effect abroad,
1t is certain to have bad effect at
home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-30
GET UP FRONT

~HE tremendous approval of the
S5O,O0O.0O0 loan for good roads
in Pennsylvania is an emphatic
endorsement OF the whole highway
movement. During the active prose-
cution of the war the great i'm
portance of substantial highways
was constantly brou ght to the at
tention of those who had anything
to do with the transportation prob
lem. Had 1t not been for the better
roads constructed during recent
years the United States never could
have accomplished what was
achieved in the sending OF an army
fully equipped and maintaining that
army overseas.
Now that peace is dawnlng and
we are looking toward the develop
ment of our commercial and Indus
trial life 1t is quite as important to
give full effect to the highway
movement. Motor trucks, automo o.
biles of every kind and the general
use of vehicles in marketing the
products of the farms have demon
strated the wisdom of the good
roads agitation.
There are still those who imagine
that too much money is being ex-
pended In road building, but these
never stop TO consider the millions
which are saved to the consum er
and producer through substantial
highways.
Pennsylvania, above all other
states. must open up in every direc-
tion the roads that have been so
long neglected. This city is par
ticularly interested in the William
Penn Highway which had its incep-
ton at a great meeting here two
years ago. 1t ought to be completed
within the next year or two and
then will follow the susquehanna
trail, north and south, and the i'm
provemsnt of the Lincoln Highway
SslrteA bAz hA@R - hAauilx taszAd
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-30
HER ENDORSEMENT

"I want to get this cheek cashed. ="
said young wife to a clerk at the
bank, according to the San Fran
ciso "Argonaut'-though it is hard
to believe this heroine was an
up-to-date California woman. Yes,
madam" was the clerks reply;
please indorse It," why, my hus-
band sent it to me; he is Just away
on business" Yes, madam; but
just indorse it. Sign 1t on the back.
please, and your husband will know
that we paid 1t to YOU" The young
woman went to the desk and in a
moments came back with the check
indorsed, "Your loving wife, Sophia"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-30
A PRO-GERMAN IN PARIS

DREsIDENT WILSON has done
i an outrageous thing in the ap-
pointment of Henry White. pro-
Germany if there is one in America,
to represent this country in Paris at
the peace conference. The President
was forced by public opinion to ap-
point a Republican as q member of
the delegation. and he has insulted
the party by naming a man whom
the whole Republican electorate Of
the country repudiatcd long since.
White, it is true, was an am AMBASSADOR
to Berlin in President McKinley's
time, but his daughter married an
officer who was a member of the
Kaiser's Prussian bodyguard and at
once lost favor with those who had
honored him. He is no more a rep
rescntative of the Republican party
than the President himself is.
But if the President has insultcd
the Republicans of the country. what
has he done to the country as o
whole. and to our allies? What will
the world think of a President of the
United States who will deliberately
choose from the abundance of splen-
did material at his hand a man 70
represent this great ration at the
peace conference who is a personal
friend of the eX-Kaiser and who said
upon leaving Germany at the out
break of the war: 'T will never for
get the impression which 1 received
Of the moral grandeur of the German
nation Every American who knows
Germany will be a friend OF Ger
many. I cannot believe Germany
can be defeated"
And this is the American" the
President is sending 10 represent"
US at Paris. VIII he go as a special
envoy of the United States or as a
special pleader for Germany? And
how much weight will such an indi-
vidual have with our allies? And
how will our allies regard a Presi-
dent who displays such a lack of
common sense?
No wonder McAdoo got out of the
Cabinet.
The American people at the no.
vember elections showed themselves
to be out of patience with Mr.. Wilson
and his policies. They are being
forced to place where their.lack of
patience will be replaced by indigna-
ton and disgust.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-30
TWO KINGS
[From the Boston Globel

The wheel of time has made a
giddy revolution. Into the capital
city of Belgium rides Belgium's
King, acclaimed by a liberated
people. Over the border, in Hol-
land, a crownless refugee, dwells
Wilhelm Hohenzollern. That COM
plete reverse of fortune which we
behold in Shakespearean tragedy in
the course of four acts has been
enacted before our eyes in historical
fact in four years.
King Albert himself might we'll
have doubted most of the time dur
ing the past four years that he
would ever tread the soil of his
capital city again as monarch of
Belgium. A nation more utterly un-
der the heel of the conqueror
modern history has rarely exhibited.
Her King was an exile, reigning
over the remnant of his army in a
bleak summer hotel on the sands of
the Channel coast.
His return to his palace in Brus-
sells Is the triumph of a different
sort of kingship than that typified
by his exiled neighbor. King AL
bert played the game" He was
the friend, the servant, the cham
pion, the comrade of his homeless
people. He shared the fatigues and
privations of those flooded lands
where the Belgians stood al bay
on a pathetic wisp of their own soil
through four desperate years.
The reversed position of the two
kings. after the shouting and the
tumult die. is a hint that justice
may not after all be so blind.