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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-12-29
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT SETS
AN EXAMPLE.

We hear much talk about reducing
public expenses in order to relieve the
taxpayer and we have even heard
criticisms of teachers in the public
schools for not only Directing to a
reduction in salaries, but demanding
higher pay. Everybody wants to re-
duce taxes. but nobody is willing to
accept a cut in salary to accomplish
that end We said nobody That is
not correct. The superintendent of the
public school at Gooding. Idaho, is not
only willing to have his salary reduc-
ed, but has actually taken the initia-
tive and requested the school board to
do so. In his letter making this unu-
sual request the superintendent says:
Il was employed as your city
school superintendent at salary
of $4,000 per year at a time when
a dollar had certain purchasing
power. l was employed in good
like spirit Since that time how
ever, the purchasing power of the
dollar has increased to such an
extent that l feel called to ask the
board to reduce the amount of my
annual salary to S250O
l therefore authorize the secre-
tary of the board so to change my
during the months of June and
July shall be without remunera-
ton instead of at the stipulated
monthly salary of $3.50.
This action is prompted solely
by my best interest in the commu-
nifty welfare, and my willingness
to accept my proportionate share
of the loss incident to sane read
justment. Please expect no less of
me in the matter of service be-
cause of this action. In fact, I feel
called to give even more of my
time and efforts to the work ex-
pected of me- Only a common
spirit of sacrifice will enable us to
tighten the burden of taxation
without impairing the efficiency of
our schools.
You can afford me no greater ,
immediate satisfaction than 10 ae-
cept this offer in the same spirit
in which it is made.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-12-29
LIBERATION OF DEBS A SHOCK
TO LOYAL CITIZENS.

From the time of the A. R. U. strike
way back in the 'sOs. Eugene V. Debs
has been an active menace TO our gov
eminent. At that time it was necessary
for President Cleveland to call out the
military forces of the government to
suppress the insurrection fomented by
Debs and to protect the operation of
the railroads. From that time Debs
has been conspicuous as a radical of
radicals in all agitations against the
government and in defense of criminal
leaders Of labor organizations on trial
for the most heinous crimes. The
browning infamy of his anarchistic |
sareer came soon after our country
war against Germany. when
he openly and hrazeulv attennpted 70 /
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-12-29
UNoEVELoPED RESOURCES.

(Syracuse IN. VI Post Standard
BY proper development of the 400.
100000 acres of land held in the public
domain, government lands the re-
sources of which have not been tapped,
total of s12.SS7.5OO,OOO could be real
lied in royalties. according to the re-
port of Secretary Fall of the depart
ment of the interior. Most of this
wealth would come from coal and oil.
which would bring in the billions that
would be of great help to the national
II easury and presumably have the eff
feet of tightening the tax burden on
the people in general. Secretary Falls
report points another way for solution
in part of the problem of unemploy-
ment Opening these vast public do
mains for development would be a
government project that would return
great benefits, not only in the billions
for the treasury, but in adding to the
nations supply of coal oil. phosphates
and potash. extending the water pow
er, grazing lands, forest possibilities
and returns and affording employment
for thousands. It is estimated in the
report of Secretary Fall that the I'M
tapped wealth of these 400 OOO 900 /
lcres is approximately s15OOOO. 600. OOO /
The department of the interior is re- /
ported prepared to do its part in the /
development of these great natural re-
the return from which would
mean a concrete reduction in the gen.
raj tax burden under which the peo-
lie have been laboring The cost of
evelopment would be slight in COM
arison to the return.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-12-29
SIGN ANcE OF FOREIGN
TRADE BALANCE.

Every business man knows the diff
ference between a black ink balance
and a red ink balance-the difference
between profit and loss-win be in
terested in reading the statistics of
our foreign trade during the past year.
In January we exported goods to the
value of s654.OOO.O 900, in round num-
bers, and imported goods to the value
of 5000, 100000. leaving a balance in
our favor of s445. OOOO Since that
time exports have decreased and i'm
ports increased until in November the
exports were only 1926. 600. 600 and the
imports S211OOOOOO leaving a balance
of SS4,OOO,OOO in our favor SO long as
the balance is in our favor, the fact
that it is small need not worry us
sseaas ttiisy :, bat the drift OF trade is cause
for some concern. If the exports con-
tinue to go down and the imports
either increase or remain stationary.
it is only question of few months. /
perhaps of only one or two months. /
when the balance will be against us
Every reduction in exports means re-
duced production. curtailed payrolls, /
and diminished industry. Every pur-
chase abroad means that much less for .
expenditure at home Thus far no
method of curtailing imports has ever
been devised except protective tariff
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er" comes along. alleges some flaw in
the original location. some failure OF
the prospector to comply with the law.
and on that basis asserts his right to
the ground. and following the custom
of mining camps pitches his tent on
the claim and with Winchester in hand
defies the original owner TO remove
him. OF course the law provides a
lmedy, but, like diplomacy between
nations il consumes much time and is
uncertain in final results. The four
prospectors get together in accordance
with their agreement and consider
what shall be done to protect the
rights Of the one whose claim has
been Jumped" The situation cores
ponds TO that of a nation whose ter
ritorial rights have been invaded. and
the action they agree upon also cor
responds 10 that which would be taken
by any prospecting nation. There
is nothing in their agreement requiring
them to use force or fire arms. but
confronted with an aggressor who is
to use both in order TO hold
the Jumped" ground. they agree that
they have no recourse other than to
adopt the same methods. Having
agreed that this is the only efficient
ITO meet the exigencies of the |
situation" is there any honorable way
in which one of the parties to the
agreement could refuse to cooperate in
carrying it out?
The party guilty of such refusal in
/ mining camp would forever be iden-
flied by brand of yellow Would a
bound by the four power
reaty which refused to use force when
hat was the only remedy fare better
n the eyes of the community of ma
IONS?
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-12-29
WATTERsoN, GREAT EDITOR AND
GREAT AMERICAN.

In the death of Colonel Henry Wat
terson the last of the great editors
who became famous during the years
following the civil war. whose person
alities were felt in every line of the
great newspapers they controlled. and
whose pens literally nodded public
opinion on the great questions of the
day. has passed away. In this galaxy
of brilliant journalists, Henry Waiter
son was the most picturesque. his lit
erary style most attractive though the
context of his editorials were gener-
ally less convincing. He was for many
years a powerful factor in the demo-
cratic party, and in some of the ma
tional conventions he practically dom
mated the proceedings, and in the
days of his prime it was Watterson
who dictated the national platforms I
A partisan democrat of the southern |
type. Henry watterson was neverthe-
less independent in his action. and
more than once the editorial pages of
The Louisville Courier-JournaI thun-
Tered it's disapproval of democratic
and the policy of the demo-
ratio party when in power He re-
used to support Bryan in 1896, and
Woodrow Wilson felt the
cen cut of his sarcastic pen. It was il
'olonel Watterson and Colonel George a
Harvey, now ambassador to Great t
'ritain. who are credited with having .
found" Wilson. only to be spurned by =
ilson after he had received the Gov %
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obstruot the government in raising an
army for the war For this he was
arrested on a charge Of sedition and
convicted after a trial of unquestioned
fairness. a conviction that was unani-
mously affirmed by the United states
supreme court. The people through
out the land. with the exception Of the
million socialists. anarchists. bolshev-
lists and every other American
breed who voted for him for president,
rejoiced that at last the country would
be spared his reasonable propaganda
for at least ten years and possibly for
ever.
But before Debs had completed
hardly three years of his ten-year
term behind prison bars. the situation
is completely reversed through the
grace of President Harding Debs
passes out of prison a free man. not
pardoned, it is true. but free to resume
his agitation against the government
to repeat in effect the offense for
which he was convicted. Attorney
General Daugherty upon whose adj
vice it is presumed the president acted.
has promised a statement covering the
Dabs case. explaining why he was lib
Grated, but it is not likely that it will
change the attitude of the great mass
Of the American people, who feel that
the Communication of Debs' sentence /
was a great miscarriage of justice.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-12-29


Frederick Worthen Bradley was
born in Nevada county. California. and
from this historic region derived the
inspiration which no doubt led him
into the mining industry. His father
was the county surveyor, and young
Bradley his assistant Later the as
sistant became United States deputy
surveyor. The methodical way in
which Mr. Bradley attacks his prob
lens is very likely due to this early
association with surveying. For three
years, 1SS2-S3-S4, he attended the Col
lege of Mining University of Cali
fornia, where he worked his way along.
He was not graduated. chiefly because
necessity compelled him to seek more
re munerative employment. After
leaving college, he worked as assayer
and general roustabOut at the Eagle
Bird mine in Nevada county, Califor-
mia. His ability soon led him TO I'M
dertake larger responsibility, and in
1885 he became superintendent of the
Spanish mine, also in Nevada county.
To most men. a small mine would ap-
pear not TO offer very much, but TO
Mr. Bradley it presented a real oppor-
tunity. He succeeded in mining and
milling the ore from this mine at a
total cost of 601kc per ton. the ore !
yielding S1.15 per ton. Here the value /
of publicity in helping a good man /
along is well illustrated The record /
made at the Spanish mine was pub
lished in an article in the Mining and |
Scientific Press and attracted wide at
tention, chiefly because it set men
thinking. Mr.. Bradley was careful to
point out the favorable conditions
which made this remarkable result
possible in the case of the Spanish
mine. Nevertheless, his name became
known and he was offered a position
at the Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine in
Idaho in 1890 which he accepted and
soon thereafter he became assistant
of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan
Mining and Concentrating company
In 1898 he became manager. remaining
in this position until 1891 when he
became president of the company,
which position he still holds. Thus in
The comparatively short period of six
years he went from an obscure prop
erty up to the management of what
has since become one of the most i'm ]
'ortant mining enterprises in the west Z
,rn states. The history of the Bunker J
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-12-29

eted democratic nomination for presi-
dent
Colonel Watterson was a native OF
Tennessee. When the clouds of the
civil war began to gather. he was a
newspaper writer in Washington. He
was opposed TO secession. but when
the south seeded he enlisted in the
army OF the south and served through
out the war. Although a true south
erner when the cause was lost he did
not share the bitterness Of defeat
characteristic Of the south. but turned
his great talents toward healing the
wound and the creation of a greater
and better united country He made
profound study Of the life of Lincoln.
in whom he found our country's great
est hero and in fact the best friend of
the south.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-12-29
IDAHO DEMOCRATS TRYING TO
GET TOGETHER.

Within the past few weeks demo-
cratic get together meetings have
been held in Boise. Nampa and other
places in south Idaho as a preliminary
move in preparation for the campaign
next year. Prominent at these meet
ings were representatives of the va
rious factions of the party Among
these were Ex-Governor J. H. Hawley,
Ex-Governor Alexander Frank Martin,
T. w. Walters. J. T. Pence and pos
sibly others who are entitled to be
mentioned among the leaders of the
faithful in Idaho. But the published
lists of leaders at these meetings did
not include the name of any notables
from the north. some of the names
conspicuous through their absence be-
ing r. II. Elder. of Occur d'AIene.
member of the national committee for
Idaho and our honored townsman and
former state chairman, Jerome j. Day
However, all of the discordant ele-
ments of the party seem to have been
represented, and their voices were
raised in perfect unison in denouncing
the republican national and state ad-
ministrations. High taxes. govern
ment extravaganza. special privileges,
injustice to the farmer and working
man, these and many other stock
charges were hurled against the re-
publican administrations and were re-
echoed in uproarous applause Par
ticularly did Moses Alexander. he who /
promised to save a million year dur /
ng his administrations. but who re-
tired leaving an additional debt of
many thousands for the taxpayers to
pay, especially stir his hearers to
/ high pitch of enthusiasm as he wal
opped the state administration. The
given to Alexander indicated
hat he is the Moses who will lead the
hosts in Idaho next year.
1t has been the history of the dem
cratic party in Idaho that there is
lways patched up harmony a con-
ealment of the daggers. when the
are out of office and trying
D break in and that on the rare oc-
asions that they have been success
al, the fractional warfare has been re-
ewed with ever increasing bitterness.
he spectacle now being witnessed is
repetition Of many past perform
noes and is not a matter to cause the
'publicans serious concern.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-12-29
Fred w. Bradley, President Bunker Hill
& Sullivan
lEngineering and AIining JournaI.l

Atulu6 JOhAA
3 Hill enterprise. so much a part of the
achievement of Mr.. Bradley has been
well told by T. A. Richard and need
not be repeated here. Success breeds
success. and it was so in the subse-
quent career of Mr. Bradley. From
1898 to 1905 he was president of the
Tacoma Smelling company; 1900 10
date. president of the Alaska juneau
Gold Mining company; 19OO-19OS, pres
ident of the Oneida Gold Mining com
pany; 1900 1912, president Mariposa
Mining & Commercial company; 1900
1911. consulting engineer. Alaska
Treadwell group; and from 1911. pres
dent of these companies. He became
president of other mining companies
and director in various companies and
banks. The successful operation of
the Treadwell group of mines stimu-
lated low grade gold mining in many
places and influenced large scale min
ing operations to a considerable ex-
tent Mr.. Bradley did not confine his
operations entirely to gold mining, but
branched out into other lines. lungs.
ten, quicksilver, petroleum. copper.
zinc lead and silver engaged his at
tention, and his success indicates his
thorough grasp upon the business and
technical branches of the mining in
dustry. The low grade ore mining and
milling problems of the Alaska Juneau
is the latest to engage Mr.. Bradley's
attention
Mr.. Bradley has a warm place in his
heart for the young man who works
his way through college. As an ex-
preston of his desire to do his part
he has established fund of $4,000 TO
be built up by his annual advancement
Of $1,000, in the haids of the Dean of
the College of Mines of the University
of California. From this fund, money
IS to be loaned to needy students in
that college, and such loans, with in
Lerest, are to be returned by the stu
lent when he establishes himself.
Mr.. Bradley married Miss Mary
Parks, daughter of James F. Parks.
who was superintendent of the Ken
ledy mine at Jackson, California.
Mr. and Mrs. Bradley have four sons.
he oldest being Is years old.
Character has first of all placed
Fred Bradley where he is in the top
most ranks of the mining profession.
Executive ability and determination.
accompanied by wisdom. have kept
i'm there.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-12-29
THE VERSAILLES TREATY.
National Republican,

Frank A Vanderlip declares. after a
visit to Europe. that conditions now
prevailing there prove that the Yer
sailles treaty was the worst piece of
work that ever came from the hand
and brain of man. Treaties of ven
geance, despoilation and sordid sell
fishness are self defeating. The
breaking up of central Europe into a
whole brood of petty. warning states
in the name Of self determination was
a crime against civilization for which
the world is now paying the penalty.
And to think that this performance !
vas pulled off behind a smoke screen I
If idealistic professions and pious
1hrasesi
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-12-29

Frank f. Johnesse. of Boise. appears
to be the chief promoter of the new
liberal" party in Idaho. Perhaps the
style of literature being sent out in
connection with the Monetary Metals
company of which Mr. Johnesse
seems to be the chief hacker is what
recommended him to the new political
organization. especially since there is
no political blue sky law
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-12-29
ANCIENT AMERICAN RELICS.
washington Starr

" --'AAAA > NCAA toleAAsJ
Students of the ancient civilization
OF America, and especially of the west
ern states, are eager to have the great
universities begin in the Mississippi
valley some such systematic expIora-
ton and study as is being carried on
in oriental countries. 1t is believed
that the results to be obtained will be
of vast historical interest
Before the Babylonians had emerged
! from barbarism there were, it is con
tended by one authority, existing in
Illinois a people of marvellous mechan-
1 zeal skill and a strange mythology of
/ whose origin absolutely nohing is
known. In the Chicago gravels are
found paleolithic evidence of glacial or
interglacial man, who was the cotem
/ porary of the mammoth and the mas
todon. All over the state are earthen
monuments and art remains of the
race, which held undisputed sway for
ages, and of which no other records
exist. No other state in the union it
is averred by some, is richer in archie
illogical material. The stately tumular
sepulchers, the elevated signal sta
tions, military defenses and curious
emblematic and domiciliary mounds of
these aboriginies crown the peaks and
ridges of the river bluffs and dot the
prairies and alluvial bottoms of nli-
nois everywhere from Wisconsin to the
Ohio.
The implements and ornaments OF
stone, copper and shell found in the
innumerable graves and village sites of
that vanished race are proof of their
modes of life and widespread CONNER
cial intercourse. In mounds on the
Illinois river are associated objects
finely wrought of shells, coral and
sharks teeth from the ocean, fossil
sharks teeth from the phosphate beds
IF Ashley river in South Carolina, mica
rom North Carolina. copper from
lake Superior, catlinite from the pipe
tone lodges of Minnesota, hematite
rom southeastern Missouri and OBJ
idian from the Yellowstone or Ari-
ona. In pioneer days fragments of
helr huge earthenware pans Uttered
he hillsides about the salt springs of
'allatin, Jackson and Vermillion coun-
les, where they are supposed to have
ptained salt by evaporating the
pring water by means of hot stones.
Union county. on Mill creek, there
re, it is said. still to be seen the ebert
uarries, from which they obtained
lie flint for their fine hoes and spades
nd rejected implements and bits OF
unsatisfactory or unfinished work are
Ill to be found in the heaps of flint
lips that are supposed to mark the
te of their open-air shops.
There are so many of these relics
at a systematic survey and explora-
IN Of them. and the careful examina-
IN and description of their contents
too vast a task for individual effort
many states the legislatures have
divided for some preservation or
ldy Of this character
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-12-29
THE STORY OF SILVER PEAK.
Engineering and Mining Journal)

Engineering and Mining JOurnal)
One autumn day we hitched our
horse to the post outside the bare
board, one-story hotel" at Silver
Peak in Nevada. Silver Peak was an
ancient and deserted mining town in
those days. The mines had long been
closed Down the one long straggly
sand-swept street, the irregular board
shacks with their stovepipes. project
ing straight or tilted. from the roofs,
lined themselves without order or
hopefulness. Nearly all of them were
empty, windows broken sand drifted
over the doorsills. The few remaining
inhabitants-who knows what held
them there or what they lived on?-
had more or less concentrated into
the little shacks around the 'hotel."
where at least there was a bottle of
" hiskey behind the bar. a stove for
cold nights, and card tables
When we walked in, there were five
or six residents old desert rats"
each with his chair tilted back against
the wall, and his head sunk on his
breast in an attitude of hopeless de-
spondency. The bartender and pro-
prietor took hardly a casual interest
in our arrival, in a place where ar
rivals were very rare; the wall-pillars |
none save a cynical and crestfallen !
glance. The atmosphere was of some |
great evil, some community disaster,
which might have soured so complete
ly this silent crew.
We inquired the cause-asked the
reason for the funeral At last we
found out One of the old timers told
us without humor, but with pathos
and justly wounded spirit. He in
formed us that there had been. for
some months past, almost exactly
three hundred dollars in money in that
.own They had their supply of grub; S
md had not had occasion to buy any {
'uppiies for long time But they had +
heir social life-they talked. they ]
frank, they played poker. Especially s
'oker Sometimes one man had the +
hree hundred dollars. sometimes an S
ther' but always, Desert Bill OBJ 2
erved there was a chance of getting t
back. and the game went on. The 4
roprietor got some of it for drinks G
ut he lost it again to one of the boys ii
ii went happily FOR weeks in this lit O
e sequestered remnant of life. as s.
'esert Bill gave me to understand. Il
Il one day fellow hove in sight and al
lid he was out to work some mining q
aims And he played poker with the II
st al
1t wasn't, said Bill that he didn't VI
ay a straight game but the fact is st
at ne had left very early in the CT
orning after he had won the three si
inbred dollars. God knows he was
eleome to the three hundred dollars. tn
1ich they didn't need and he had tic
IN fair; but they had their occupa- tic
m removed, and couldn't 60 on play is
3 poker Their whole joyous life In
IS past; wherefore, if they caught pr
It mean skunk they'd surely take sti
1t at him. And with hopeless signs -
J boys hunched into their chairs and tn,
apsed against the wall. sb,
When we consider the unpopularitv wi
America among European nations col
this time, we think Of Desert Bill at If
yer Peak in 1889. and we under I'm
nd 1t isn't that she did not get eve