The Mena weekly star., 1918-08-01
RICHES UNCOVERED
 BY BURRO'S KICK
That's How "Molybdenum," Used in Big Gunmaking, Was Found-Now Uncle Sam Has First Call on Big
 gest Supply in the World.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 Tucson, Ariz.-In December, 1913, Robert 0. Boyken, lone prospeetor, was wandering over southern Arizona on an optimistic search for gold. He had been a cowpuncher and broncho buster, but when things became dull and unremunerative in that calling Boyken thought the matter over and finally arrived at the conclusion that there must be quite considerable amount of yellow metal in the noun tains around and about that never had been exposed to the light of day or to a prospector's pick Which is why he sold his cowboy outfit and supplied himself with a sturdy little burro, some digger's tools and canned grub sufficient to last a month with care ful conservation.
 Some days later he was tracking peacefully toward a deserted town a ghost town of Arizona once known as Mammoth--and as he approached the place rain began to fall. The little burro, loaded down with canvas bed ding, bundles and cooking utensils, refused to increase it's pace, no mat ter how much and frequent were the urgings.
 What the Burro Kick Did.
 Using switch he had cut from a mesquite tree, Boyken whipped the animal, and the burro gave such a kick that frying pan became dis lodged and clattered to the ground.
 Boyken stopped to pick it up, and as he did so he noticed yellow streaks in the bed of the little rivulets run- ming down the side of the road into the San Pedro river. Here was some thing newl What was it? Boyken soon convinced himself it was not gold, but it had the "feel" of some thing valuable in the line of metal
 Following this lead he soon discov- cred that there were vast quantities of it. To make a long story short, let it be said that the stuff proved to be "molybdenum," and at that time there were but 13 tons of it in the United States. Boyken was soon prepared to furnish thousands of tons of it, and considered himself prospective null ! timillionaire. And, sure enough Ger many was the first country to apply for the stuff. In fact, Germany was clamoring for it. The Huns needed it for the manufacture of their Big Berthas." "Molybdenum," far more precious than gold, was the most es- sential ingredient of the big Hun guns; it constituted their precious secret"
 Uncle Sam Has First Call.
 But just as the first delivery was to be sent to Hamburg the war broke fuli force upon the world. Then came Liege, Antwerp, and finally the Marne, with its capture of a Busy Bertha" and the discovery by Eng land of the use of 'molybdenum" in the manufacture of the great German guns.
 Immediately the English subsidized the "molybdenum" mining industry in Canadia and Australia, and then the entire products of Boyken's plant at Mammoth was taken by the Brit ish and French. Today the United states has first call on the output.
 It is no military secret now, the im- portance of this metal is playing in the war. One has only to view the town of Mammoth, and compare it with four years ago. Then it was de- serted. lonely and ghost-like, a few people here and there still living 50 Per Cent Increase on Estate Taxes.
 Washington, July 26.-A 50 per cent increase in the present gradu- ated tax on estates up to and includ- ing $S,000,000 estates, with greater increases from larger estates, is ten tatively agreed upon by the House Ways and Means Committee.