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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-02-19
Not Many Silver Mines.

There are not many big developed
silver mines in this country today be-
cause for years silver sold at such a
low price that it offered no induce
ment to investors except in rare in
stances of unusually rich mines.
Today ore that vas worthless four
years ago can be mined at a profit
that should satisfy the greediest cap
italists.
It takes money to convert a silver
prospect into big mine, but it can be
done and is being done by small cap
italists and is an industry worthy Of
the attention of capital on n large
scale
It is useless to pretend to ignore sill
yer as a money metal. Even if Europe
and America are content to trade on
an inflated paper currency based on
an insufficient supply of gold, there is
nearly a billion Asiatics and orient
ais who know and will have no other
money but silver.
We owe these people money. The
balance Of trade is against MS They
are demanding silver and if they can
not get silver will demand gold and
still further deplete the reserves Of
that precious metal so jealouslv
guarded by the American banker
why is IT not good business for
capital to mine the silver in this
country and ship it to those countries
that demand it for money and Incl
dentaly make a big profit on the
transaction?
It certainly better business to do
this than melt mp our silver coinage
and ship that and use base metal
coinage when the mines Of our west
ern states can be made 90 produce
millions Of ounces Of silver in eX-
cess OF their present production
The price of silver is dominated
now by the law Of supply and de-
mand The entire world needs about
s75. OOO,O 600 ounces year and pro-
duction is about half that amount
The situation is unprecedented and
guarantees a high price for silver for
many years because many millions
refuse a substitute.
These are some of the legitimate
arguments in favor of investments
in the silver mining industry.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-02-19
HIGH PRICE FOR SILVER
ASSURED FOR YEARS
SILVER MINES ARE BEING DE-
VELOPED IN WESTERN
MINING DISTRICTS.

1t is difficult to understand the in
difference of american capital to the
profits to be earned from judicious in
vestments in the silver mining indus
Try. says the New York Record.
Even if the gold bug" bankers
view is adopted and silver is regard
ed as a commodity rather than as a
money metal it must be admitted chat
a price in excess Of 81 an ounce is as
sured for many years to come.
At this minimum price the profit is
100 per cent based on an estimated
average production cost of so cents
an ounce. But silver is now selling at
$1.S5 an ounce, leaving a comfortable
surplus over 100 per cent.
In some mines this cost is reduced
by the marketing Of the by-products
of silver mines, namely, gold, lead
and zinc, where these occur as min
or metal contents of the ores.
The argument is sometimes ad-
vanced that there are no big silver
mines in the country and that big
capital wants to invest in a ready
made silver mine and not gamble in
a silver prospect.
Yet big capital has taken gambling
chances in oil lands and copper and
gold mines and not always with sue
cess.
The trouble frequently lies with en-
gineers sent to examine silver pros
pects, who lack the courage to recon
mend the expenditure of a few thous-
and dollars to determine if prospect
will make mine
Lost Big Mine.
In this way Colonel w r. Thorn
son lost the Premier mine at Stewart
p c. for 100000 and the American
Smelling & Refining company later
bought q half interest for 100000
after a courageous western operator
had taken a chance and with a few
thousand dollars made big mine.
The Mizpah mine at Tonopah was
rejected by the biggest engineer in
America for S35O,OOO Tt was bought
by a promoter who paid $4,000 down
and took the balance Of the purchase
money out Of the mine. which has
since paid S14OOO.OOO in dividends and
IS stu producing.
Eureka, New, was passed over be
cause the old mines showed no vast
ore reserves blocked out. but many
millions of dollars worth of ore have
since been developed by men who
were willing to take chance and did
not insist on a sure thing
Throughout the western mining
states new silver ore discoveries are
being made that deserve the attention
Of big capital rather than have their
development depend upon the uncer-
taintv and insuficiency Of local cap
ifal
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-13
HAD LOFTY IDEA OF DUTY
oomstshat Embarrassing In This
Particular Caes.

Ths principal Of city school build
Ing II st1ll young and has . very at
tent1ve admirer. Occasionally he
comes to the school building after
her and takes her home In his road
stsr. The other afternoon she was
hnishing reports and the young man
came into her room until she was
ready to go.
The 1anitor finished his work and
shs told him he could leave when
svsr he wished to do so, and they
would close the building. But stu he
fingered until they left Tho next
morning he explained his stay by 70
marking that he was late getting
home the evening before. But you
could have gone home," reminded the
principal. II told you We would close
up."
Yes, know" he returned, hut you
see, Miss T., It's this way. The board
holds me responsible for this building
and I'm not willing to leave It In
charge Of perfectly strange man."
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-13
BerudolI Denies Guilt.

New York.-A plea of not guilty was
entered by Erwin Rudolph Bergdoll of
Philadelphia, facing eourt-martlal at
Governors Island, charged with evad-
ing the draft and desertion from the
army. William S. Ellis, chairman of
Bergdolls draft board, testified that
Bergdoll appeared before him just be-
fore he was to have been examined,
and asked to be excused, as he did
not want to enter the army and be in
d position where he might shoot rela-
hves."
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-13
Double Meanlno.

DR.. Alonzo Ethelbert Watkins, the
memory expert Of Chicago. said tho
other day In an address:
Another way to cultivate the MEM
ory is by pictures-by the pictorial
method. as we call 1t. For instance,
suppose you want to remember the
poet, Robert Burns. Well, then, you
picture to yourself a policeman In
danes. Bobby Burns, sect Ha, ha,
haw
Doctor, a question !" yelled a man
in the gallery.
"Well. what is itr' asked the MEM
ory expert
"How are me to know" yelled the
galieryite. that your picture doesn't
represent Robert Browningr
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-13
Coal Strikers Ordered Back.

Washington.-Resolu instructing
striking employees of the Pennsylvania
Coal Company to return to work were
adopted by the United States anthra-
cite board of conciliation which prom
ised to adjudicate the matters in dis
pute when the men had returned to
the mines. The resolution was con-
CURED in by the anthracite coal com
mission which is working on the an
thracite wage award The number of
miners on strike is placed at 10000
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-13
VOTE nj TO 36
AGAINST RETURN
DENVER TRAMWAY UNION WILL
NOT ACCEPT TERMS OF
COMPANY.
HOLD HEATED SESSION
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE RECON-
MENpATioN NOT HEEDED
IN FINAL VOTE.
western New.p.per Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver, Aug. 12.-The Tramway
strike Is far from settlement. Rspu-
dating their leaders, members Of the
Tramway Employees union, in a mass
meeting at the knights Of Pythias hall.
by vote Of I'll to 80, refused to ac-
cept the recommendation of their ex-
ecutive committee that they go back
to work under the terms prescribed BY
the company. Meanwhile, the Tram
way company will continue operating
its cars with strike breakers, General
Manager Frederic w. Hid announced
last night, and will begin recruiting a
now force of regular trainmen to fill
the places of the men who are on
strike. No further overtures to the
striking carmen will be made, Mr.. Hid
said.
Any applications, however, made up
TO midnight under the company's prop
osition will be received in accordance
with the terms of the agreement ap-
proved by Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, 1t
was stated.
The action of the union was taken
ct the conclusion of three-hOur ses-
sion in which officials of the union
pleaded with the men to return to
their occupations in the face of an
overwhelming sentiment against such
action by the carmen. Time and again
pandemOnium broke loose in the gath
ering as speakers urged the men to
"stand with organized labor" and stay
1n0 nor cont opd xvtu this or 10
Frantically endeavoring to stem the
tide which had turned against the lead
ers Of the Union, A. H. Burt, interna-
tional organizer for the union, recon-
mended to the men that they stand be-
hind their executive committee and
urged them to accept the offer of the
company and return to work at once.
The effort of the executives was a
fiat failure.
Speaker after speaker rose from the
center of the assembly hall, shook their
fists in anger at the injustices which
they maintained had been done by the
Tramway company and the city ad-
ministration, and voiced what proved
to be the overwhelming sentiment Of
the men against any concession to the
Tramway company at this time.
Following the meeting Henry Sill
berg, president of the union, made the
following statement:
'It is no more than right that the
public should know what has been
going on here this afternoon. The ex-
ecutive board recommended to the
members that they accept the proposal
as submitted by the Tramway COM
pany. A motion was made to concur
In the recommendation of the executive
board, and after lengthy discussion
secret ballot was taken which
showed that I'll voted against the pro-
posal and SO for it.
1.-THE peculiar thing about it was the
fact that several old, gray-haired men
got up and spoke with tears in their
eyes against the proposal.
"The men want to go back to work.
But they want to go back in a body.
The application form sent out by the
company was what caused their ac-
ton. They didn't refuse to go back to
work, but they refused to have their
necks bowed by the application they
were asked to sign before they could
go back"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-13
Mrs. Stephan Lost in New York,

New York. = Rendered speechless
from exhaustion after a journey here
from Denver, Colo, Mrs. Elizabeth
Stephan, 80 years old, who arrived at
the Pennsylvania station at 6 O'Clock,
wandered aimlessly in Seventh ave
nue. until 1 o'clock. when she was
found by Policeman Monahan. Mrs.
Stephan is the mother of four distin-
guished sons, one of whom Is George
Stephan, lieutenant governor of Colo
RADIO. She is the daughter of the late
Judge George Watson of Pittsburg,
Pa
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-13
ASPIRIN
Nar-,e "Bayer" on Genuine

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Inc Aspirin proved safe by millions
and prescribed by physicians for over
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Colds and Pain. Handy tin boxes Of II
tablets cost few cents. Druggists also
sell larger "Bayer packages" Aspirin
is trade mark Bayer Manufacture Mon
oaceticacidester Of Salicylicacid.-Adv.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-13

plIls md usod LYDIA e Phkham's
e1nnGivo Wnah and nav an Well. cm
eat hsaxtily and woek. ] i've you n
thanks for yor groat modScinoe. Yo6
my publi6h mo lst*w sn6 I Win tolJ
evGkycne what yuw mad1ednas did foe
NJ. "-&fA PnIN Hnf, l10 Jaclsboeo
g.. Knoxville. TsnnsassA.
Hundreds of sueh lettass exprssnina
gratitude for tie good Lydia 4 Pmie
hams Vegetable Compound has aecom-
pliahed arc constantly being received
proving the reliability Of this grand "a
remedy.
II you are N Do not drag along md
continue to .u6er day in md esy out but
ct ones take Lydia z Pmkham's
Vegetable Compeund . wuman'o
ramody Tor woman's m.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-13
LATEST NEWS
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FROM TELEGRAPHic REPORTS
THAT COVER THE WEEKS
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON THE MP o r TANT
CURRENT TOPICS.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WEcTEpN
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-13
Southern Confectionery,

Gee whiz! Dey got cherries an
strawberries an all kinds of fruit
covered with candy. What kind shall
get, Rastus?"
Give me chocolate-coated water
melon. New York Central Magazine
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-13

not eat and my head
bothered m ., all
caused by female
trouble. ] was
three years " ith
these troubles and
doctors did mo no
good. Your med
Etns hslped my ds.
ter % abe advised
N - take Il. Itoolg
Lydia T. pinkhan'o
vN Netable Com
poun6 and tha / IivnP
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-13

Still. a man never seems anxious
to marry woman who isn't afraid Of
mouse.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-13
BACK HURT
ALL The time
M. Hin Says Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound Removed
The Cause.

Knoxville, Tenn. MY back hurt me
al tho time, was al run down, could
The daily morning oasis., 1920-02-28
UNNECESSARY APPREHENSION.

1t is observable that certain Newspapers and
mining journals becoming exercised with regard
to the supply Of copper, and filling their columns
with forebodng fears that the present visible supply
is about worked out with no new mines developing to
replace them The Arizona Mining Journal is pre-
pairing symposium of articles from various news
papers for it's March number of comments upon the
copper situation all with dismal forebodings for the
future.
There is no need for apprehension worry.
In the first place. production is not exhausted in
the great copper mines at Bisbee Ajo, Cananea,
Nacozari, Globe, Miami Tyrone, Clifton, Ray, Bing-
ham, Butte, Anaconda and other noted camps in the
United States and Mexico; nor will it be exhausted
for many years to come.
Next, there are in Mexico several partly deve
oped properties which will rival shortly either any
Of the best and largest of the great properties named
in the preceding paragraph. The Oasis" can recall
two, on which Colonel Bird reported dozen years
ago, which would have been producing before now
lut fol' revolutionary troubles in Mexico. Both
on the Yaqui river. And there are others that he
knows by reputation which are fully certain to
become great producers in the future. Some are in
Sonora, others in Sinaoa.
1n* Other states in Mexico have great copper de-
posts that will be worked in time; and their output
will keep production rolling. This article is dealing
with known properties; with possibilities that
are grand for many others.
Besides that, South America has some very large
sized producers with great possibilities in the back
ground
There is need for taking alarm 1t will be
many generations before those now operating will
be worked out; and producers coming in will
keep up the supply.
The daily morning oasis., 1920-02-28
KEYNOTE OF PROSPERITY.

J The Steelville, Mo-, Mirror writes all editorial
that. has more loiled down, hard-headed common
sense than we shave seen in many day:
Lumber mills out on the Pacific coast are closing
down because of shortage of cars for shipment of the
product. Now think what follows Because the
men are thrown out of employment their wages are
cut eff, and they cannot buy as freely as usual Of
food and clothing and Injuries Because the lumber
is not available to builders construction work must
be cut down, carpenters and other workmen thrown
out Of work and their wages cut off, with consequent
limitation Of buying. Every cessation of work has
bad influence beth direct and indirect, whatever the
cause. The steel strike threw many besides the
strikers out of employment The steel strike stopped
many industry. Increased purchases of foreign
goods in 1884 threw corresponding number Of
American work1nen out Of jobs, with long train Of
demoralizing effects which would have been dsas-
trous if the outbreak of the had not cut off i'm
ports and provided an abnormal market for pro-
ducts Continuous employment in useful industry is
the only key to permanent prosperity for ALL For
the want Of many is idle, and vet the rail
road administration clains that it has kept up the
equipment of the railroads.
The daily morning oasis., 1920-02-28
sHIPOWNERS TYRANNIZED.

if4 General Manager Haines Of the Pacific Steam
ship Company of Seattle recently told the senate
committee on commerce that shipowners do not run
the ships any longer, but the seamens unions run
them under the provisions of the LaFolette seamens
act . -a..,.,e..s. .-..- .e-...- 49,: ,o,,
up ship ready to sail and made the government lose
$4,000 by delay and time it took to replace the man
who under the law could quit after signing for the
trip. M j. ,s .a -3-ss .~.-s.
The law requires that SO per cent of the wages
due must be paid every five days on demand and an
American ship was shanghaied and tied up for five
days and put in quarantine because men refused to
obey shore leave orders. - -
Under the LaFollette law Is per cent Of the crew
must speak English and hence crews for American
vessels cannot be maintained in foreign waters
where only Chinese, Malays, Lascars and Filipinos
are obtainsbe sailors or can endure the climate
Now the crews Sc step farther and will not
sail unless the officers belong to officers union
Haines showed that only the government could ope-
rate ships hereafter under subsidies falling UPON
the taxpayers, as shipowners had right to handle
their own vessels
The daily morning oasis., 1920-02-28

Why not hsUe railroad building and railroad de-
velopment proceed on natural lines instead of COM
pusery consultations and enforced amputations
and financial strangulations?
Why should the great transcontinental lines be
crippled by injecting academic theories into the laws
under which they are to be rehabitated after
eral years of impoverishment under government
mismanagement?
Confiscatng earnings above 51a per cent, even
for the purpose of maintaining free dspensary for
wildcat lines which should never have been built de-
stroys the incentive Of all lines to efficiency to ope
rate and make it difficult if not impossible for the
best operated roads to obtain necessary capital.
What but disaster can result?
The daily morning oasis., 1920-02-28
WOULD CRIPPLE DIG WESTERN CARRIERS.

- Western chambers Of commerce alarmed at a
provision Of the bill to turn the railroads back to their
owners allowing SO per cent of the net earning
51a per cent to be diverted to weak roads.
The money earned inprosperous railroads in the
west above the 5 per cent would be sent out Of the
states where it earned to develop railroad prop
critics that could not earn that income.
Capital invested in farm mortgages is earning
from to per cent Other industrial and business
securities are earning from to Is per cent
Under such condition who is going to invest in
railroad securities at per cent proposed by con-
gress and where and how is the capital to be OBJ
tanned to keep transportation facilities abreast of the
fast growing demands of industry and commerce?
Hungerford in the Saturday Evening Post
shows that we are now 100000 freghters 10000 pas
senger cars and 10000 locomotives short of the re-
quirements of business and industries.
This is.a matter that concerns all the people Al
ready the commerce Of the country taxes the rail-
roads to their capacity and almost everywhere ship
pers are complaining of their inability to obtain
sufficient cars.
The daily morning oasis., 1920-02-28
WOULD QUICKEN THE DEAD.

In Michigan United States prohibition
forcement agent has got himself Gin bad by starting
to make arrests without warrants Is it not remark
able how these government officials enforcing new
tangled laws rush into their work without giving
any attention to other laws the procedure there
under? It is sufficient to make Thomas Jefferson
or Inhn G.. Calhoun turn over in his grave I
No apology is needed for the numerous articles
appearing in the newspapers giving details about the
i'0o0o9 tax. Everybody wants to be posted; there
are SO 1lanj epp 3rtunities to go wrong. And mis-
takes are costly.
The notes published yesterday between President
Wilson and the entente premiers on the Adriatic
question are just crisp and mpudent as alterca-
ton between rival bosses at ward caucus in city
in the United States.
The Washington times., 1920-11-28
THEY AGVEI:D-ONGE.

for the truth Of this--there was once
in the history OF the world two
preachers who agreed on something.
I've heard this but mind you, | don't
Nouch for it.
THE two most diSreputablc instItu-
tions in this country have more
preachers than cowboys. They are
the Jail and the United States senate.
There are fewer preachers than
last year in Jail. That is becdis"
through influence they got to be made
TRUSTEES and then they escaped.
Il could have dug up all tn" things
about tho wonderful men we have pro-
duccd. but ! didn't want to bring that
into a little debate like this: could
have told what men like Colonel Eoosc-
Welt have accomplished in the world
hut didn't want to do that. ! wanted
my end to he more classy than his.
Il could point out just three mon in
conclusion and these men have all
been connected with cowboys. and he
in ten years couldn't mention three
men in the preacher profession to com
pare with them. They are Babe Ruth
Jack Dempsey. and Bull Montana.
Where has he got three preachers to
compare in civilization with them.
Nowhere,
The Washington times., 1920-11-28

her making "A successful career for
herself IN muSical comedy. The So
Cial class To which she belongs H. not
essentially different from that OF the
girl who Is teaching school or type
writing or doing any one of dozen
things calling for "a faIr amount a.
education and wit
'Nor Is il Ia the point to urg" tta'
she lacks technical knowledge at
singing and dancing. ON the COZ
trarN. | viii venture that the store
girl knows as much about music and
great d-al more about dancing than
any other class Of girl outside special
students OF these arts, comparatively
few OF whom have ever succc"drd in
qualifying for the chorus, chiefly be-
cause they are usually lacking in the
first great requisite Tor that work
physical beauty.
The beautiful shop Giri like most
other girls w-a-days, knows hoM
to dance because dancing is pOpu-
lar pasti imr. and the girl wko dane"
as "A social diversion iS "A much better
apprentice for tn" chorus than "A gAI
whose knowld"g" Of dancing is con
nned merel to the technical EnoWl l.
edge she has learned IN some 'profcs'
sional dancing school
~ girl who has been ia th' habit
OF tahgoing and two-st"ppinE with
decent young men Of her own az" a.
innocent social gatherings, Will
under Il competent ballet director,
Su.n acquire all III" technique ncces-
SarN to make her on "A par with IN,
best dancer in tn" line,
As with dancing. :" with sing
ing. The girl who dances we'll
usually has the rudimentS of good
singing voice and under proper dir"r-
ton, sh" is soon abb" to use thai
voice with excellent chect in the en-
seNble work which H. all that ru-
quircd Of her"
The Washington times., 1920-11-28
SAYS ACTORS WILL own
THEATERS IN ten YEARS

II you happen 10 have thcater or
two in your home you're putting by
for that provcrbial rainy day. the re-
MARKS Of Frank Bacon, star of
"Lightnin" at the Gaiety. before the
students of dramatic art at tho Wash
ington square College of New York
University one day last week. may
interest you.
Ten years from now" predicted
Racon, "thc actors will control the
theatcrs."
II will be for tho good Of the pro-
fcsSion. he added. for when the thea
ters are cleansed of all spectators
the actor will come into his own.
Bacon also touched in lighter vein
upon his own career. and told the
prospective Shaws. Galsworthy and
Rclasros Of the lurid days when
James Montgomery boarded with his
family.
I'VE lost money on him" Bacon
said. and then lapScd into u bit OF
philosophl2lnE.
. "riayw r'ghtlng," ho declared. 'ls
very lucrative as good az owning a
siV-storN house. Professional AND
amateur acting Is the same, except the
amateur can GO hom, after the pr
fui nance"