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Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-08-09
RUFFED GROUSE SMART BIRD
Feathered Creature Takes Advantage
Of His Natural camouflaae and
is Hard to Shoot.

The ruffed grouse Is the greatest
game bird in this country and prob
ably is hit less than any bird In the
world with the possible exception of
the snipe.
Nature has endowed the rufred
grouse with the means of protection
and the way the bird uses these means
makes him seem brainy creature.
The color of the ruffed grouse so
closely resembles the woodland sur
roundings in the fall that one may
almost walk on them without seeing
them. The bird, making use of its
coloring, generally lives In rugged
country, where underbrush and spruce
make his detection difficult.
Once flushed, the ruffed grouse flies
so as to put tree between himself
and the hunter, adding to the difficulty
Of locating him. The bird, unlike quail,
Is seldom found In coveys and conse-
quently is hard to hit.
The hunter must always be ready
with gun in position to shoot and
shoot quick.
Work well the underbrush and little
spruces along the sides of ravines. Go
In the dense places I'm the woodland,
for the ruffed grouse is recluse.
The grouse, when once under way,
will fly straight, and 1t is well to hunt
him with more than one in the party.
The hunter who might be on the line
Of flight is sure to get shot.
The ruffed grouse rises from cover
with thunderous precision and the sue
cessful hunter of this bird must leave
his NERVES" at home. The uninitiated
is liable to be more frightened than
the bird.
Ruled grouse do not lie well to the
dog, running speedily and quietly
ahead or the animal before making
flight.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-08-09
VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN
IRON COUNTY COAL
Continued from page one)

with the assistance and advice of of
ficials of the Coal company, is in
charge Of the work.
At the mine the old tunnel on the
Cory property is being widened and
heightened and gotten in shape to
handle the big output of the mine that
is being planned for. The tunnel will
be IS feet wide and IL feet high, and
substantially cemented and timbered.
AS soon as the bunk house is complet-
ed it is proposed to greatly increase
the working force at the mine.
President Webb of the company
spent a good portion of the week here
and the fact that he was mixing right
in with the affairs was evidenced by
the generous blisters on his hands.
He promises that from now on the
campaign of development work will
be aggressively conducted, and that
the company will at least be in shape
this fall to take care of the local de-
mand in better style than has ever
been known here in the past, and by
the time railroad opens the coast
markets to them the tram will be up
and ready to supply the tonnage.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-08-09

FOR SALE.-Cleaned Turkey red
wheat, $3.50 per 100.-Horton Haight,
City.-Adv. Wv.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-08-09

the grasshoppers this year and by so
doing have saved the state hundreds
of thousands of dollars worth of
food, which the world is in desperate
need Of.
While we confess lack of certain
experimental detail regarding the
number Of birds killed by grasshopper
bait, we believe the number to be
small, and we feel justified in urging
strongly that the poison campaign be
carried on vigorously wherever grass
hoppers are known to be as numerous
as five per square foot. Not that we
love the birds less, but that we value
the crops more.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-08-09
Cure for Dysentry.

"While / was in Ashland, Kansas, a
gentleman overheard me speaking of
Chamberlain's Collie and Diarrhoea
Remedy" writes William Whitelaw,
of Des Moines, Iowa. "He told me in
detail Of what it had done for his fam
lily, but more especially his daughter
who was lying at the point of death
with violent attack Of dysentery, and
had been given up by the family phys
ician. Some of his neighbors advised
him to give Chamberlain's Collie and
Diarrhoea Remedy, which he did, and
fully believes that by doing so saved
the life of his child. He stated that
he had also used this remedy himself
with equally gratifying results. ADV
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-08-09
To Improve Your Digestion.

"For years my digestion was so poor
that could only eat the lightest foods.
] tried everything that l heard of to
get relief, but not until about year
ago when saw Chamberlain's Tab
lets advertised and got bottle Of
them did | find the right treatment.
Since taking them my digestion is
fine. Mrs. Blanche Bowers, Indiana,
Pa.-Adv.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-08-09
COMMUNITY FRUIT MARKET OPENED
CONTINUED from first page.)

Prices. according to the estimates
of Messrs. Rust and LeBaron, will
range from 4c. per ID. for Elberta
peaches, upwards for fruits of other
variety. They stated that the fruit
crop of Dixie is considerably below
the average in quantity, but they es-
innate that by the elimination of all
possible waste there will be sufficient
to supply the demand.
Samples of fruit are now arriving
and the public is invited to call and
inspect them and place orders, as
the peach crop and some other fruits
are now coming on rapidly.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-08-09
PROBATE AND GUARD
IANSHIP NOTICES
Consult the County Clerk or the Re-
spective Signers for Further
Information.

Estate of Thomas Baden, Deceased.
Creditors will present claims with
vouchers to the undersigned at his
residence or through the mails at
Cedar City, Iron County, State of
Utah, on or before Thursday, Octo-
Der 10th, 1918.
THOMAS S. BLADEN,
Administrator.
Edmond II. Ryan, Attorney for Ad-
ministrator.
First Aug. 9-Last Aug. 80, 1879
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-08-09
GOOD TEAMS FOR SALE.

The war forces me to sell two of
the finest teams in Iron county. A
bargain if taken at once.
One Belgian Percheron team Of
mares with fold; both black and well
matched; age years; weight 1850 lbs.
Also one Clydesdale team, well mated
age 6 years; weight 1900 lbs.-Wm.
c. Roche, City.-Adv. 2w. pd.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-08-09
CHOOSING LESSER
OF The TWO EVILS
w. w. Henderson Entomologist of u.
A. c. Answers Records Query
on Poisoning of the Birds.

Utah Agricultural College, Logan,
Utah, Aug. 1, 1918.
The Iron County Record, Cedar City, |
Utah. Gentlemen.--In answer to the
grasshopper question raised in your
!, issue of July 10th, / am inclosing
ject of "Grasshopper Poisoning and
Wild Birds"
trust that this will supply the in
formation you seek.
Very truly yours,
w. w. HENDERSON,
Entomologist.
The question raised by the Iron
County Record in its issue Of July
twelfth in regard to the danger of
poisoning beneficial birds while we
are poisoning the destructive grass
hopper is one which cannot be def
nitely answered until more expert
mental work has been completed.
1t is a matter of common observa-
ton that birds and other animals are
sometimes innocent victims Of the
bran mash grasshopper bait. We have
known domestic poultry, hogs and ev-
en- horses to suffer death from eating
this dangerous bait. Professor Cooley
of Montana and his associates record
the death from grasshopper bait of
seven head of horses during the grass
hopper campaign in that state last
summer. We witnessed the death of
beautiful span Of horses in Utah
county last summer from similar
cause. Kansas entomologists observed
recently that grasshoppers in cages
died after having fed on dead grass
hoppers which had been killed by the
bran mash poison. In all our grass
hopper poisoning campaigns we have
mash on wild birds and we have found
dead birds occasionally which we be-
lieve to have been poisoned by the
grasshopper bait
Nearly all domestic animals which
die from eating arsenic bran mash are
sacrificed carelessly. There is little
or no necessity and no excuse for
such deaths. Whoever sets out arse
mic must know that it is violent
poison and will generally kill whatever
gets it. He must, therefore, keep do
nestle animals away from it.
1t is highly regretable that "The
Feathered Songsters" cannot be kept
away from fields in which the poison
is sown broadcast and that a few of
them do fall innocent victims. But
we are reasonably certain that the
percentage of such deaths is small.
On the other hand, the devastations
Of the destructive grasshoppers are
so terrible that many thousands of
acres of our crops would suffer total
obliteration were it not for the fact
that entomologists, county agents and
farmers are so persistent in using the
poison bait against the hungry eneny.
We love the birds for their songs and
beauty and we appreciate them for
their actual value, but it is far better
that one bird should perish than that
a whole acre Of grain be devoured by
grasshoppers. There are so many
grasshoppers in the state that the
combined efforts of all our birds to
destroy them would hardly make an
impression. To wait for the birds
would be hazardous. We have used
tons and tons of arsenic in fighting
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-08-09

Don Coppin returned from Salt
Lake the first of this week, bringing
another classy series 10 Studcbaker
car with him, of the light SIX touring
model. 1t is painted deep wine and
is certainly handsome turncLt. I he
Studebaker is acknowledged to be one
of the classiest jobs on tcs market
this year
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-08-09
MEN
Attention

This is to notify you that we have leased all of our
lands to NJ d. Higbee Son, aggregating 10000 acres
"a complete description of which can be seen at the
office of the above named lessee
In brief, lands lie on both sides of the old road
in the sage brush that to Desert Mound, begin
ming at point in Section One %, South of Crystal
Springs This practically all the land between
Iron Mountain and Desert Mound; also $50 acres at
Iron Springs adjoining the sheep shearing pen; also
several thousand the west side of Iron Noun
tain, commencing at the old Lime Kiln on Richards
Spring along the west and north sides of Iron Noun
tain, to a point east of the Miner Blowout
Anyone trespassing these lands will be liable
for prosecution f. L. KENNEDY, Agent.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-08-09
SUBSCRIBE FOR
THE DESERET NEWS

The Peoples Paper.
Daily 5000 per year.
Semi-Weekly $500 per year.
Saturday only, $500 per year.
Saturday and Semi Weekly, com
oined, $500 per year.
Address The Deseret News, Sal
Lake City, Utah.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-08-09

Mining Location Notices and many
other kinds Of legal blanks for sale
at The Record office.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-08-09
FOR Observation-Disclosures

For Sale.--Nice young pigs, $500
each. Enquire at The Record Office
Adv.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
War Reduced
Demand for Cotton

In view of the dominating position
of the United States, both as a pro-
Queer and consumer of raw cotton, it
seems worth while to review its in
dustry rs affected by recent events.
Before the war the supply Of spinable
cotton (not including linters) averaged
about 13,620,000 bales of 500 pounds
net weight. The average the first two
years of the war was 10,123,000 bales,
3,497,000 bales, or 25.7 per cent less
than the anti-war average.
The decrease in the supply was due
to number of causes. First, to the
utter decentralization of the industry
Immediately following the declaration
of war. All of the cotton exchanges
closed. During the three months they
were out of business spot cotton sold
as low as 81 cents in New Orleans,
and many Texas farmers disposed of
their crops at less than cents a
pound. Low prices continued through
out the marketing season of 1914-15,
and at its close the average realized by
the producer was little in excess of
IN cents, much below the cost of pro-
duction, and more than cents pound
less than was realized for the crop the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
Beigeren Debt Gets Thinner War Proceeds Now Per Cent

mated at 100000. The increase
IN the past ten months has been
S174,500000; in the past three years
S1,236,50 900, while in the past five
years it has been $1,161 1888, 900. In
tive years the portion of the worlds
gold monetary stock held by the
United States has increased from
approximately one-ffth to more than
one third.
Accepting $4,000, 100000 as the
proper gold reserve of the world, it
may be calculated that at the begin
ming of the war the gold reserve was
80 per cent of the total debts of the
principal belligerents, while at pres
ent it is only about per cent.
When prices of labor and commodi-
ties are so advanced that it is not
possible for the majority of the gold
mines of the world to work at any
profit, then labor and supply prices
must become lower, or gold becomes
automatically demonetized Gold coins
can be considered storage cells of hu-
man energy, as to obtain them labor
OF hand and brain must be expended;
in fact, they are thus charged with
human electrom motive force. They are
able to give out strong genial currents
OF trade confidence, circulating and
C.HNiiS IiduS, anu DIiuSlUR CORoLncr
different industries and peoples in diff
ferent lands; their value is not
founded on the fiat of any one or more
legislative bodies of one or more coun-
tries that may be experiencing fleeing
prosperity, but they are certificates
from nature Of mans work and accom-
plishment.
"The electromotive force of the stor-
age battery cells depends not only on
the amount of the electricity poured
into them, but also upon its pressure
OF intensity. In electrical parlance,
the rate of flow is expressed in am
peres, the pressure in volts, and the
power in watts. In the gold cells filed
with human energy, the amperes can
be considered as the number of work
ers and the volts the forces and tools
placed at the disposal of the workers
by discovery, science and organization.
The watts may be considered the labor
force stored in the cell or coin. In
the mention of labor elements poured
into the cells, it must be understood
that labor should include the work of
managers, engineers, metallurgists,
chemists, overseers, mechanics and
other skilled workers, as we'll as the
more unskilled work Of drillers, tram
mers, shovellsrs, etc.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
The following table shows the pro-
ducton of gold by states in 1917:

AS to mining profits, Mr.. Jennings
states:
"All of the gold mining corporations
Of the United States do not make pub
lie their yields, costs or profits, as is
the case in the Transvaal. Our govern
ment does not make demand for such
information. Some Of the largest and
best managed, however, give most COM
plete and generous information, which
can be found in the transactions OF min,
ing societies, in mining journals and
handbooks. There would appear to be
no reason for secrecy in gold mining
world that does not face competition in
marketing its product.
"The richest and most easily acces-
sibe placer deposits in the United
States, as elsewhere, have long since
been worked out. Alaska is an excep-
ton, in that the discovery Of placer
gold there is Of comparatively recent
date and guarded by great climatic
difficulties. Placer mining on large
scale started in this country with the
discovery of gold in California, in 1848.
The appliances and methods used were.
first, the gold pan, followed by the
rocker, long tom and short sluice box
and subsequently by diverting water,
sHoVeHlHs anu "aoHA's SAosoi INV AVne
sluces and working on a large scale;
then drift mining, hydraulicking and
gold dredging.
ut has been estimated that an ordi-
nary pan holds about twenty pounds,
and that from forty-fve to one hun
dred pans a day is good days work.
With rocker, two cubic yards, or,
say, three tons, is q good days work.
The cost Of sluicc mining depends on
the character Of the material, amount
of water, grade Of the surface and eli
mate, but it may be said to vary from
20 cents to 81 yard in temperate
climates. In Alaska gravel is subject to
a preparative cost for thawing, amount
ing to 20 cents or more a cubic yard.
Drifting. or underground mining of a
thin stratum Of gravel and the adjacent
bedrock, varies in cost from 81 to So a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
cubic yard, and in Alaska as high as

cubic yard, and in Alaska as high as
from S4 to SIS.
"Hydraulic mining or the concentar
ton of water under great pressure on
banks Of gravel, with provision for the
removal of the washed material and
the removal of gold varies from 211
to IL cents per cubic yard, costs in
Alaska up to Is cents. Gold dredging
was instituted to work gravel deposits
that could not be economically worked
by other methods. 1t can be successful
ly employed only when great number
of favorable conditions exist, in which
case remarkably low costs rule, rang
ing from to cents in California and
up to 33 cents or over in Alaska. Lode
or quartz mining in the United States
and Alaska produces rs per cent of the
output. For the world the percentage
is much larger. In South Africa prac
tically all the output is from this
source, and shafts as deep as 5000 feet
have been sunk on the Rand to de.
velop the conglomerate deposits.
In the United States lode mining has
been conducted in a great variety of
formations and the deposits vary from
narrow veins of banded quartz with
high per tor yield to great irregular
masses of low grade ore. The gold is
often associated with tellurium and
other minerals. When pay has given
out at shallow or moderate depths, ex-
plorations to depths of 400 feet or
over have very often been justified"
Mr.. Jennings, though an engineer,
does not limit himself to an examina-
gold. The economic facts interest him
equally. Regarding the gold standard,
he writes: almost all the countries
Of the world have as their financial
basis the gold standard. Only a few
retain the double standard of gold and
silver-Italy alone among the combat
ants. Prior to the war, while there
was freedom in trade and intercommu-
nication among the different countries,
the prices of various commodities were
regulated, both from within and with
supply, demand and competition, and
stabilized by intrinsic value of gold.
1.-THE debts of the principal belliger-
ents at the time of their entering the
war, and those contracted since their
entrance, as also an estimation of
further debts a year, illustrate the
danger Of the worlds financial situa-
ton.
Taking into consideration the num-
Der of combatants and the necessary
munitions and supplies used by them,
it is evident that the Central Powers
are getting far more value for their
debts contracted than the Allies.
"ln respect to the stock of gold on
hand in the world and the amount held
by the United States, used as money
and security, the following quotation
Is given from the report of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury. 1917, page "a:
The gold monetary stock (coin and
bullion used as money! in the United
States on November l, 1917, Is es.i-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
Mexico the Most
Importanat Source

"Russa's gold statistics are open to
doubt. 1t would appear that gold has
been worked in the Ural district since
1920 and that in the last twelve or
thirteen years outputs have varied
from $35, 100000 to s22,00O,o0o a year.
Some engineers express the belief that
Siberia has greater possibilities for
future discovery and exploitation of
gold, as also of other metals, than any
in view of war and industrial condi-
tions, the prospect of large outputs of
gold in the immediate future is uncer-
tain.
"Of these fields, Mexico is the most
important. The revival of gold mining
commenced with very small output
in 1890, and the maximum production
was reached in 1911, with an output
Of 500 100000. Owing to revolution in
that country, the output in 1916
dropped to S7,690,707, which was
million dollars increase over 1915;
When the country is in better political
and economic condition there is good
ground for hoping for increased re-
turns. In other sections of Central
and South America the outputs have
not been large, but there yet remain
large stretches of unexpected terri
tory and abandoned properties which
may be found profitable to work.
"The total output in the Transvaal
from 1887 to 1916 was about $780,
100000. The yearly return for 1916
was about s1S5,oO0,Ooo which was AZ
per cent of the worlds output for that
year. The dividends amounted to "a
per cent for the whole period, but
only 1876 per cent for the years 1915
and 1915. 1t would seem that the
Transvaal fields have reached their
maximum output and are on the down
grade"
Mr. Jennings then points out that the
total production in the United States
from 1892 to 1915 was valued at
s3,s2s,957,2O0 "The YIELD" he con-
tinues, cup to 1s47 was from the East
ern coast; from 1913 up to 1872, large
ly from placer mining in the West,
and from 1873 to date, by combination
Of placer and lode mining and the re-
covery of gold from rohneries Gold
dredging in the United States dates
only from 1896, and since that date
the production of gold has been esti-
mated at s12o,1Os,117. In 1916 the
greatest amount Of placer mining, in
Guiding dredging. was done in Alaska,
where over 60 per cent OF the gold
was thus recovered, and in California,
where 50 per cent was recovered"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
Assured Of Adequate Cotton Supply Coming Season. Expert Says

cent. This decrease was due mainly
to the shortage in the supply from
three countries, the United States,
East India, and Egypt, that for the
United States being 2,7s7,ooo bales,
East India 7610Oo, and Egypt 431, 900.
The decrease in Brazil, Mexico, Peru
and China aggregated $4,000 bales,
while in all other countries except
Russia the average production for
each period was about the same.
Asiatic Russia showed an increase Of
$4,000 bales, which was due to the
fact that several of the crops i'm
mediately preceding the war were
much below the average, that of 1912
'13 being extremely light.
The worlds consumption of cotton
prior to the war averaged about 21,-
$4,000 bales, as compared with an av-
erage of 20,595, 900 bales consumed the
first two years of the war, a falling
off on account of the war of 1885, 900
bales. The countries Of Continental
Europe showed a decrease of 1874 900
bales, Great Britain 500 and East
India $4,000. The United States in
creased it's consumption by $4,000
bales, Japan by 264,000, Canada $4,000
and all other countries $1,000 The
worlds production for the two years
following the declaration of war av-
eragcd 18,0S0,00O bales, and the aver
age consumption for the same years
was 20,595,000 bales, the quantity con-
sumed exceeding the supply by 2,515,-
600 bales. This deficit was made up
from the enormous crops of 1914. Dur
ing the two periods under consdera-
ton the worlds spindles increased
from 143, 98s,Ooo to 1888, 900, frac-
ton more than 100000, or about
per cent.