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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19
INTENT OF ASSESSMENT LAW.
lMInIng and seIentiae Preggl

mining and Scientific Press)
A movement is said to be on foot
in Washington to extend for an addi-
tional six months the time for doing
assessment work on mining claims
for 1920 that is, until January l.
1922, and to relieve claim owners en-
hrely from any work for 1921. We
believe this to be unwise. The in
tent Of the assessment law is pri-
marily to prevent spectators from
holding claims with no intention
whatever of developing them; such
men wait for bona fde prospectors o.
miners to uncover ore in neighboring
claims and then profit by their work.
Compulsory annual assessment work
is a protection TO the legitimate
claim owner During the period of
the war the national necessity for de-
voting every energy to actual pro-
duction was a valid reason for sus-
pending the requirements for assess
nent work Men and time could not
be spared for work that did not
bring immediate and certain results.
That argument no longer holds; on
the other hand. many men are idle
and need employment. The miner
who owns his own claim can afford
to do the work himself; speaking
generally. the only people who will
benefit by the proposed suspension
are the very ones against whom the
law was originally aimed. AS we
have suggested before. one excellent !
amendment to the present statute
would change permanently the final |
date for performing the annual as
sessment work from January 1 to |
July 1. Congressional action taken |
some months ago extended for six |
or until July l, 1921. the final !
late for the completion of the work
for 1920; accordingly it would be
to make the suggested
change at this time.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19
TWO MEN AFTER FOUR YEARS

New York Herald, May 81
Four years ago two young male
Americans took different views OF
their duty toward their country. One
of them marched away from New
York with the SOSth Infantry and in
the Argonne forest after his arm
was broken and his pistol empty, cap
tured a German machine gun and its
crew of eight men. The other young
man fought the draft law and by wig
Cling escaped service.
That was four years ago. Yester-
day the man who won the Medal of
Honor in the Argonne and who is
now making a living as a salesman
was explaining that the United States
government. which had just issued
his name on the list of slackers, was
mistaken about him. Coincidently,
the other young mantle one who
escaped the draft-was the hero of
two public luncheons and three din
ners at Atlantic City, where the
mayor officially received him and
presented the freedom of the cheering
city to him.
Ye who are students of mockeries
need not bark back to DR.. Johnson's
Rasselas. Prince of Abyssinia. Just
the cases of Benjamin Kauf-
man, ex-sergeant, Company K. SOSth
Infantry. and Jack Dempsey.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19
Lewiston Tribunal

The secretary of the interior has
just handed down a decision ordering
patent to issue to the Echo Mining
company of Wallace. Idaho, for GER
tain mineral claims located near
Burke, the area being comprised with
in the Occur d'Alene national forest
/ These claims were filed upon August
1. 1917, but they have been contested
at every step by the forest reserve
bureau the litigation covering a per-
iod of almost four years. According
! to the Wallace Miner which reports
the circumstances, the Echo claims
are situated in a well known and
proved mineral section. The claims in
question are without timber of any
commercial value and are practically
worthless except for their prospective
mineral value That they have a
mineral value is indicated by the fact
that the company has expended up
ward of 100000 in the development of
the group. In spite of this evidence
OF good faith on the part of the COM
pany, the forest service protested its
application for patent. The local land
office at Occur d'Alene ruled in favor
of the company and this decision was
affirmed by the commissioner of the
general land office. The forestry bu-
reau appealed from this decision to
the secretary of the interior, who has
now affirmed the commissioners de-
cision in favor of the Echo company"
The law under which the forest re-
serves are administered expressly
grants the right of prospecting for
within their boundaries, pro-
vides for the issuance of patents and
for the acquiring of homestead titles,
recognizing that the mining industry
and the building of homes are valid
and necessary features of American
civilization as we'll as of the forest re-
serve policy In practice. however |
his bureau interposes obstacles to ,
mining and homesteading which serve
% defeat those provisions of law. al /
hough they are as essential a part of
he governments benignant care as
ire the prohibitive and restrictive
provisions. But all useful and pro-
Iuctive activity within this vast west
I'm domain is prevented or discour-
ged. from the beginning, by the bu- I
Sometimes prospective
miners and settlers are warned off at
he start, on the ground that their ac- /
ivities might be prejudiciaI to the Z
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19
BRITISH FINANCES.
lPittsburg Dispatch)

Americans have a direct interest in
the British budget announced in par
lament yesterday Closing the year
with the first surplus since before the
war, amounting to $1,000. 000. 900.
Great Britain viii this year be able to
pay MS the interest on our war loan,
a sum of close upon s19O,OOO,OOO In
the fiscal year recently ended Britain
collected more than $1,000, 100000 and
spent nearly S6.OOO,OOOOOO In the
coming year it proposes to collect
about $3.50 100000 and spend some
thing less than $4,000 OOO OOO The to-
tai national debt is now a little I'M
der $4,000, 100000, of which nearly
$4,000. OOe,OOO are foreign debt. Com
parison of expenditures proposed for
army and navy purposes is Of inter
est The British army is to cost
$500 600 900 and the navy 100000,
900. Interest on the debt will call
for s150O.OOO.OOO. so per cent more
than the total government expendi-
lures before the war, which are also
squalled by military and naval costs
If today. No wonder that despite the
surplus the cry is still deeper and
ieeper retrenchment
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19

motto hanging over the business
mans desk. There is a volume of
truth and good sense in the declara-
ton and the author has told the whole
story. Even as dull" as it is, people
in this country under middle age
know nothing of what hard times"
are. There has been no such period
in this country since a person under
middle age was old enough to have
realized or experienced it, Their ex-
perience has been wholly with soft
times and none at all with hard"
times. Just because we are not get
ting and paying so cents a dozen for
eggs, getting and paying IS cents a
pound for butter getting and paying
s75 for a suit Of clothes. 500 for
ady's dress and $50 for her coat, SIS
FOR a very inferior so far as wear and
service is concerned. pair of shoes,
5000 for the automobile, and $1,000 a
Dom for the new home. is no proof at
I'll that we are experiencing hard |
lines. The ease with which we are
getting by in this period of such |
distressing hard times" would have |
zen considered a riot, a very deluge
f prosperity. luxury and ease by our
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19
SECRETARY MELLEN AND Gov
EMINENT FISCAL AFFAIRS.

In a letter to the chairman of the
ways and means committee of the
house Secretary of the Treasury
Mellen referred to the enormous gov
eminent expenditures during the ifs
cal year and warned the committee
that the country can not continue
spending "at this shocking rate" He
pointed out that for -fourths of
the fiscal year that will end on June
30, the expenditures had amounted
to SS.7SS,OOO,OOO, this being at the
rate Of more, than $5,OOO,OOOOOO a
year OF this vast sum already dis
bursed, the war and navy depart
ments received SlS5OOOOO OO Inter
est on the public debt took $3.50,
600, and payments to the railroads
for the privilege of government OPP
GRAFTON amounted to 5000 OOO OO0
With these items eliminated there is
left Sl2lIOoe,OOO for the usual cost
of government in times Of peace The
secretary says it is not enough to
reduce appropriations. Congress must
also effectually block the passage of
bills that would sanction the expend-
iture OF money without providing an
income. Secretary Mellen is not an
alarmist; on the contrary. he is one
Of the nations soundest safest and
most successful business men. He
would apply the principles of bust
ness to the conduct of national af-
'airs. and congress viii do we'll to be
guided by his counsel He says the /
inances of the nation are sound and /
hat the credit of our country is the
'est i'm the world. but he warns con-
ress that the people can not longer
AIRY the load represented by these
asst government expenditures, which
wo and a half years after peace are
tim maintained on a war basis.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19

who still espouses the cause that
brought disaster to the Wilson ad-
ministration. Mr.. Daniels, himself
an editor Of considerable note before
entering the cabinet, is writing a
weekly letter to a string Of news
papers. The first of this syndicate
production is devoted to an attack on
the Harding administration, which
was expectly to completely overturn
and cast out every evidence of the
Wilson administration, but so far
from doing that according to Mr.
Daniels, the policy of Wilson on all
the major questions is being follow
ed The republicans are following
the Wilson course, says the former
secretary, not because they want to,
but because they have to as the only
practical solution of the problems.
Nh. Daniels may get by with this sort
Of sophistry down in North Caro-
lima, but it will not go with western
democrats. Commenting on his first
letter. the Anaconda Standard, lead
ing democratic newspaper of Mon
tana, says:
Policies which the Wilson ad-
ministration developed over
period Of two and a half years
following the armistice can hard
ly be changed, or even qualified
within a period of three months
The American public now holds
the hope that wars aftermath
will soon be cleared away and
that the nation may set itself to
problems of vital domestic con-
Germ. With Secretary of State
Hughes maintaining a clear
course for the preservation of
American rights and the protec-
ton of American interests, at the
same time indicating to the
world Americas desire for
speedy and fair adjustment of
the questions arising from the
war, with President Harding
striving for return of the
country and it's business to nor
malcy and congress working de-
terminedly for a reduction in the
governments scandalous expen-
ditures of the last four years, it
may truly be said that the faith
of the people in the governments {
ability to master its problems is
greater today than it has been in
years." {
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19
PREPARING TO ATTRACT THE
TOURIST TRAVEL.

AT this time every town in the
west that is entitled to be classed
as "a live one" is preparing Gaming
facilities for tourists and making
known the advantages and attrac-
tons Of its highways. There is a
friendly rivalry between the several
transcontinental highways. and the
partisans of each are conducting &C
tive publicity campaigns to attract
the tourist both coming and going
In this friendly though none the less
determined contest the towns Of the
Occur d'Alene district are active and
indications point to ample rewards
for their efforts. AIullan, Wallace
and Kellogg have provided splendid
camp grounds, equipped with every
facility for the accommodation of
tourists, and the glad hand" is ex-
tended to them with cordial invita-
ton to remain a few days or few
weeks in order to see something of
our great mining industry, enjoy
the scenic beauty of our green
mountains, and enjoy the captivating
and health-giving sport along the
famed trout streams of the Occur
d'Alenes.
No more interesting spot can be |
found on the Yellowstone trail, that |
highway from Plymouth
Rock to Puget Sound, than the
Occur dAlene district The charm
of the mountains the streams of pure
water dashing down rugged and pre-
,ipitous canyons the delightful camp
sites along ideal trout streams, the
attractive towns nesting among the
the mines and mills and
shelters engaged in wrestling min
rial wealth from the depths and re-
lining it for the marts of the world,
Ill combine to make this the most
fascinating section of the famous
highway from coast to coast.
These attractive features of the
occur dAlene district should be made
he subject of special and persistent
-dvertising by the chief towns of
he district. This is information that
oursts want and they will come
When they know about them and the
ccommodations provided for their
leasure and benefit.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19
PROTECTION OF OUR OWN PEO-
PIE FIRST CONSIDERATION.

Charity begins at home and this
applies to nations as well as to in
dividuals. This thought is suggested
by comment that is occasionally
heard regarding the framing of a
new tariff law 1t is really astonish-
ing to note the generous, altruistic
spirit manifested by some of our cit
liens toward their unfortunate broth
ers in Europe with respect to mar
ket for their products, and we are led
to believe that unless they have the
benefit of a free market in America
they can never pay what they owe
us. So insistent are these over-zeal-
Gus friends of humanity in their de-
sire to provide market for the peo-
pie of Europe that they expose them
selves to the suspicion that there is a
selfish motive back of their solicitude
for the foreigner and for Uncle Sam
in the collection of his debts 1t is
possible that this is a form of propa-
ganda that emanates from importers
who see large profits in a flood of
foreign made goods and who would
minimize the effect upon our own in
dustries.
The attitude of the country in
framing a tariff law was well ex-
pressed recently by H. J. Sconce in
an address before the annual con-
vention of the United States Cham
Der of Commerce at Atlantic City:
while it is true that this
country has become a creditor
nation during the past few years,
yet this fact does not lessen our
responsibility to our own people,
and our tariff should be so franz
ed as to first consider their
needs"
The people of the United States
'ould better afford to lose every dol
an advanced to European nations
iulAhb the war Nildn 10 liIOW QOWu
he tariff bars for the admission of :
European products in direct compe-
ition with our own. The result would S
e so disastrous TO American indus
ries that the people would soon be ;
Without means to purchase the for (
ign goods. a fact that seems to have d
cen overlooked by those who favor 5
he foreigner. What we should have ;
nd what we will probably get in a o
ariff law is one that will cover the 81
Inference in cost between American o.
nd foreign products; one that will i'
OF prohibit all importations, but will -
Omit them under conditions that will o,
ot jeopardize the dominance of Am OF
'ican industries in the American 81
arket az
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19
Utah Copper.

Utah last year produced 1O1, S97757
pounds of copper from $3.50, 800 tons
of ore. The average grade of ore de
clined one-tenth of / per cent, but the
mill recovery was S1SS per cent. an
increase of almost per cent over the
recovery of 1916 per cent in 1919 and
an increase of over 16 per cent over
the figure of 65.11 per cent in 1918.
Cost of production last year was
1914 cents per pound compared with
1888 cents in 1919. The increase in
operating expenses Notwithstanding
an increase in recovery was due to
the further curtailment in production
and the smaller amount of precious
metal credits during the year.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19
An Instance of Bureaucratic Rule

forest reserve viewpoint and some
times they are allowed foreman I'M
der a permit system which contains
so many petty. harassing and costly
requirements that useful operations
are impracticable and further tenure
of the holdings becomes intolerable.
Occasionally a miner or a settler is
allowed to remain in comparative
peace and these instances are fully
exploited as an offset to the testi-
mOny of the incomparably greater
number who are driven or nagged out
of the country with little conjunction.
These mining patents are one of
numerous recorded instances of how
the bureau works to defeat the letter
and the spirit of the law. The Echo
claims were fought at every step for
four long years, the bureau using the
public treasury to finance its costs.
while the claimants had to find their
own money. Generally, of course, the
mining or homestead claimant is too
poor to fight the government during
all the years he can be kept in court
and so he seldom attempts it, although
the Tribune has reported cases in
which the settler was able to prose
cute his cause to finality and always
so far as now recalled, successfully so.
But as a rule, any entrance of the
forest reserve domain by citizens for
the proper and lawful purpose of pur-
suing peaceful and necessary indus
try is regarded by the bureau as an
intrusion and is resisted
and prosecuted accordingly.
There is no plain or satisfactory
remedy known for this incorrigible
defect of bureaucracy. It is the same
the world over and in every relation.
It is historical, cosmic, it might al
most be sad. All that can be done
about it. probably, is to point the les
son to the people, continually and I'M
tiringly in order that they may know
the nature of the control they are put
ing over themselves when they so
leedlessly embrace every opportunity
% create more of these specious de
ices for the ostensible purpose of pro
Getting them from some mythical en-
my or conjectural danger Usually
hey return no practical benefits
whatever, but merely provide easy
wings for the incumbents who pro-
eed TO magnify their powers and in
rease their Importance by such man
festations of costly but futile zeal as
re here set out
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19
Land of Beginning Again
(Louise F. Tarkington)

wish that there were some wonder
ful place
Called the Land Of Beginning Again,
Where all our mistakes and all our
heartaches
And all that is selfish and vain,
Could be dropped on the floor as we
enter the door
And never put on again.
l wish we could come on it all I'M
aware,
Like the hunter who finds lost trail
And I wish that the one our blindness
had done
The greatest injustice of all
Could be at the gates like an old
friend that waits
For the comrade he's gladdest to hail.
We would find all the things we in
tended to do,
Rut forgot, and remembered too late
Little praises unspoken. little prom
Uses broken,
And all the thousand and one
Little duties neglected that might
have perfected
The day for one less fortunate.
1t wouldn't be possible not to be kind
In the Land of Beginning Again;
And the ones we misjudged and the
ones whom we grudged
Their moments of victory here
Would find in the grasp of our loving
hand clasp
More than penitent lips could explain.
For what had been hardest we'd know
had been best,
And what had seemed lost would be
GAIN
For there isn't a sting that will not
take wing
When we've faced it and laughed it
away;
And 7 think that the laughter is most
what we're after
In the Land of Beginning Again.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19

forefathers of not many generations
ago. And the soft times" has made
the most of us equally soft and easily
hurt We need some of the "hard"
times if a little Stacking of a reckless
pace of spending and f-indulgence
can be called hard" times, to harden
us against the shocks of what may be
some really hard" times in the
future
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19
JOSEPH STILL FIGHTING FOR A
LOST CAUSE.

After eight years as secretary of
the navy in Woodrow Wilson's cab
met. Josephus Daniels stin sings the
praise of his chief even after the
world has turned against him. Re
pudiated by the most stupendous ma
jority ever recorded, one must at
lease admire the loyalty of Josephus
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19
inently one Of these.

lnently one OF these.
The Miner hopes that the proposed
memorial in his honor will be carried
to a successful conclusion and at
this time pledges it's efforts to that
end. An ideal memorial would be a
statue of the senator placed in the
grounds or the rotunda Of the cap
itol at Boise.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19
HARD" AND "soFT" TIMES.

North Side News Jerome, Idaho)
Hard times? Mo- Just emerging
from soft ones" The author of the
above trite remark is anonymous, but
the saying is going the rounds and is
being used as an "arrester" of atten-
tion on advertising matter and as
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-19
market
Her Object.

MAUD wouldn't say a word to the
reporter about her case unless he'd
promise to print her picture"
Vanity. I suppose"
mo; business. She says that in
her previous divorce case her photo
graph got her a new husband almost
Immediately. Boston Transcript.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-06-09
COTTON


NEW ORLEANS, la, June S,--CNan,
plants II great numbers Vt holl wvVvils
IN hmpor,ant scc,ions " thu hclt and ~,
ports ~ much better demand Eur spo,s,
especially fw shlpmen, through Ua,vcs,
ton and savannah, nut COTTON higher To-
day following small declines In carty
trading, due H. lowcr i.ivcr,uol MAR,
liz, than cxlsc,ci and Disappointment,
over lack u progr~ss toward so,,lcncn,
Ut british hsss disputes, sINan ne, Je,
ollnss To- sin to nlae lNln,s the narke,
rosc u mel advances ~ fif,ccn ~ TWIN,
,yene lvAnts, finally closing clcvcn H.
essh,ecn ne, higher IN thu day, JuN
traded dawn 10 isNs and then rCsc Ia
ls.sS closing AT is,ss,
Tue wvekls erp rcNr,s fNan the
sov"rnNeM wcrc rVgaNl,~l an Nvpsahh,
outside ~ their mca,lWn VI ,hr pNyal,
encc ~ the eoll w~cvil, Ia, Ic,sg,s NJ
crOp lTowrSs caused ll,ilc az no selling
The t,aturVs W the entire SGT "a wrekN
crop relsfls was rcgarlcd as ,elng the
s'a,cmen, that IN Georgia the holl
wecvn VAS spr,ading every where.
A round mk,Ssessicn thu effect III In,
sect rcpor,s aplsarI t. L. wcarlng Oft
III, In their rlacc came the talk III a
BETTER demand fg cotton fSwn Rrrmen
One accoant had Il that crean frrlrht
rates on, IL 1ult pcrls tr hemen ars
hesng raised hccausc Il grca,cr drmana
tyr r~en ttVla c0ttOn Shippers
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-06-09
NOTICE To HRlpcE CONTRACTORS

Sealed proposals addrosscd To Hon
orahlc Worth Jennings. coua,v iudg
of Randall county. TvxaA at Canyon
Texas. viii b. received until 10 a. IA
June %, 1891, and then opened and
publicly read tor construction II an N
tot concrete bridge. consisting ~ fom
essfoot Spans across branch ~ rah
puro Canyon ahout one milc east of
the city a Cannon.
Al proposals to- Include the furnish
ing of all materials.
Plans and specifications may bc seen
aud Information obtained az the office
~ the county Judge at Canyon or al ths
office II Nagle Wat Rollins Engineer
ing company az Amarillo. rcxas.
The commissioners cyurt reserves
the rlght to retvt any a al proposals
WORTH JENNINGS.
County judge.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-06-09
! LEsitt ~ NED BATHING
~ Ifs BARRED nv pOtIcn

CHICAGO, June s,-'rho fenlnln,
shoulder has nov Uomo under lho'hluo.
law" han ru far ns the Willmel,c beach
IN concerned,
The pretty shoulders, nud,, dnysllns
white and nllaionlnR with all spray,
which we're seen IN The beach last SUM
mor, were detrimental Ia wltmoiio'N
morals, according 10 the local uonp,nh'
ulaly
THIS summer the new beach code
huns hare shoulders und ilesheolured
bathing suits, recommending "aklrtcd
rulln" hluumeis ana "old fashioned
mudols
Tho 1unslnhulary also warns women
halhurH mot IL ncvUpt the nffurH uf
men Ia teach thom 10 Mim,"