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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-04-20
MINER AND FOREST SERVICE.

(Francis A. Thomson. dean Idah
School of Mines and director Stat
Bureau of Mines and Geology. il
Engineering and Mining Journal
Press)
Anyone who has had anything to d,
recent years must have been struck b,
the hostility which the miner feels fol
the forest service. Personally. | have
regretted this and have endeavored
wherever possible to allay this irrita .
ton. 1t is evident however, that the
miner is often right in his contention
that the forest service is hostile to the
mining industry. AS an evidence of
this / would call attention to a recent
decision of the u. s land office at
Occur d'Alene. Idaho as it shows
clearly the lengths to which the forest
service will go. The case is that Of
the Hamburg American Copper Mining
& Milling company which sought to
patent claims located prior to the es-
adjustment of the forest reserve in
which they are now included which
application for patent had been pro-
tested by the forest service. The land
office in its opinion says
THE mining claims here involved
were located more than twenty wears
ago and are in an undeveloped part Of
the Occur dAlene mining district. The
land involved was withdrawn from
homestead entry and included within
the Occur d'Alene national forest, sub
sequent to the location of the mining
claims, nearly all of which are covered
with a substantial growth of timber
But at the time of their location
these claims were very difficult of nc
cess and remote from the market. In
case commercial ore is found, all of the
timber on the claims would be neces-
sary for use in the operation of the
mine. At the time of the location of
these claims there were large areas of
public land bearing equally valuable
timber much more conveniently located
with reference to market which were
subject to entry under the timber and !
stone and homestead laws; so that it /
appears to us that any reasonable per-
son of average judgment seeking to |
beat the government out of title to val
liable timber would have chosen some
other easier and cheaper method, roi
In this case more than $4,000 has been
expended in apparent good faith IN
trying to develop the group into
nine We are convinced that these
claims were located in entirely good
aith without thought of speculation
n the timber"
The land office is to be congratu-
ated on the soundness of its reasoning
nd the justice of its decision The
ase serves, however to show the OBJ
tacles which are constantly thrown in {
he way of mining development in the
ational forests. {
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-04-20

Hill & Sullivan company; James F
Mccarthy. manager Of the Hecla Min
ing company; Jerome J. Day, manager
OF the Tamarack & Custer Mining COM
pany; J. c. Haas, mining engineer
Spokane; W. IL. Linney, mining engi-
neer, Colyille Also Rush J. White. OF
/ Wallace. chairman Of the section, and
l.. X. Armstrong secretary. ex-officio
members of the committee. These are
all practical mining men Of wide and
diversified experience. This committee
unanimously reported in favor Of just
four Of the provisions Of the Arentz
bill. as follows:
The provision for recording claims
in the United States land office, with
the specification. however. that the
expense shall be paid by the county Or
district and not by the prOspector
The disqualification from relocating
a claim for one year
The requirement that monuments
shall govern the description and loca-
ton of claims.
with certain reservations, the plan
for allowing extra land in lieu of pres
ent millsites.
rrboea fo,,,. ont of MANI, ,,ro,-ieione Of
the bill are all that this capable COM
mittee agreed upon as desirable. The
committee also agreed that the follow
ing provisions were undesirable: The
requirement for orientation of claims;
the certification of discovery by a min
eral surveyor; the restriction on loca-
tions in Alaska, and the proposal to
create mineral development fund and
all cash payments upon which it would
be based
on the question OF extralateral
lights the most important of all, the |
committee has this to say:
with regard to the abolition of
the extralateral rights your com
mittee finds itself unable to report
an unanimous conclusion. Most of
us admit that for a new country.
the square location with vertical
boundaries is preferable although
certain members of wide expert
ence and large interests hold the
opposite view As to whether at
this late date it is desirable to
change the law, we are still more
divided"
Conclusions of men such as those {
no compose this special committee [
hould have great weight with the l
lembers of the committee on mines /
nd mining in the consideration of this a
i'll. They are indulging in no theories. s
heir opinions are based upon practi- c
Il experience and their only purpose |
to promote the welfare of the mining '
idustry {
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-04-20
c CROWN POINT, LYON
AND FAY TEMP LETON
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outfit. For a quarter of a century this
little mill has produced bullion. and
has given the camp an output that is
estimated at $4,000 The capacity of
the mill is from three to. five tons a
day, according to the hardness of the
quartz. One man only is required on
12hOur shift and he is supposed to
be able to crush the rock and feed the
battery. handle the power and cut wood
and do the amalgamating; cost for
two shifts, $40 a day. fuel extra, but
very little is required. Free milling
quartz yielding as low as $40 a ton.
deducting cost of mining, about SO a
ton. would net from SIS to $25 a day.
according to quantity of rock handled.
A plant of this kind can be installed on
the smallest vein. generally the richest.
and do all the sampling and testing of
even the largest ledge for whatever
reduction works may be necessary to
satisfy more extensive investment
The cost would not exceed 81. 200. and
with a present ball mill now taking |
the place of stamps, $1,000 would buy !
a small plant with a Whitley added. If
water power were adopted as energy.
Unfortunately water power perpetual
notion is not within the economic
'ision Of the gold quartz miner. He
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-04-20
Hills of TOMORROW
(By Edgar A. Guest.)

The hills OF tomorrow are waiting for
as little bit farther to go.
And now as we stand on the peaks of
today a hint of their beauty We
know;
We catch but CLINT of the splendOrs
to be. with the birth of another
new day
And the joys we shall claim and the
goals we shall reach. if only we
keep on the way.
The hills of tomorrow are calling to Us,
as higher and higher we climb.
We pause in our tents in the peaks OF
tonight and sweetly we rest for a
time;
But the morning shall wake us to a
struggle anew. and never we'll turn
to go back.
Behind us is strewn like the wreckage
of ships. the things that we thought
we should need,
There are customs and manners and
habits thrown out and many an old
fashioned creed,
For the higher we climb the more
clearly we see, and we change as
we broaden our view
And the cumbersome burdens we car
ried of old we drop for the things
that are new.
We are not what we were when our
journey began we have CROPPED
through the ages of night.
We have lightened our packs of the
errors they held, as slowly we've
climbed to the right;
We have changed in our value of silver
and gold. to our children new les
sons we teach;
For ever we turn from the false TO the
true as the hills OF tomorrow we
reach.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-04-20
THE COLUMBIA BASIN lRRIGA
TloN PROJECT.

1t requires no argument to show the
great value to the west of retaining
and making productive the vast
stretches of arid land by irrigation.
South Idaho perhaps represents the
most striking example of the transfer
nation wrought by water diverted and
distributed by skillfully constructed
bitches upon the desert. sage brush
waste now provides prosperous homes
| for countless thousands, and what has
been accomplished in Idaho has been
duplicated in many other states Thus
while the success of reclamation has
resulted in making it the fixed policy
of the government, it should be evident
that this is not a favorable time to
launch new irrigation enterprises that
require hundreds of millions of dollars,
and especially since there are many
smaller irrigation enterprises and sew
eral very large ones which nave long
been pressing for appropriations and
which are certainly entitled to first
that the agitation for the Columbia
basin project seems inoppOrtune, and it |
is probably a recognition of this situa-
ton that induced the promoters to
adopt the unusual methods in bring
ing it to the attention of congress and
the country Colonel Cocktails world
famous as the builder of the Panama
canal. was brought out in midwinter to
look over the project and report upon
it's feasibility. OF course this was
mainly for the purpose of getting the
name of Colonel Cocktails back of the
for so far as his opinion is
it is of no more value and
not as much as that of some
western engineer who has specialized
n irrigation. But Colonel Cocktails
name carries weight in congress and
must provide the money
fence the Goethal report.
But with all the powerful influence
hat is being and will be brought to
ear. it is not likely that congress will
'e in a hurry to appropriate $50 {
million dollars for the project at I
his time But even if congress should
all for this vast appropriation, as the
ouse did for the soldier bonus. there a
'ould be no stampede for the land at c
l45 per acre, the cost estimated by
olonel Goethals. That is a tremen-
Gus burden for man TO assume upon
ntering raw land. When to this is e
dded the cost of fencing, building a
ONE, clearing the land. leveling it for
rigation. the purchase of equipment
nd countless other expenses the o.
has to meet the cost Of Ii
lie land will be practically prohibitive n
kept in favored sections. ~
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The New York herald., 1922-07-30

lay in steam transportation. So he
built little railroad, a narrow gauge
affair, on his estate in Hoboken, and
he ran little train successfully.
So far as / know, that. was the first
railroad and locomotive successfully
operated in America, but it was
years before there was much de-
velopment of the great idea. When
I was a little boy it was to stage
coaches we had to look when we
wanted to journey out of our city.
When my father had to go to Bos-
ton he went by steamboat to Provi-
dence, twenty-three hours, and then
took coach for the remaining forty
miles. When I was ten it still re-
quired forty-one hours to make the
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Past. Present, Future.

"These scattered recollections Of
mine sketch city and the life Of a
city that are long gone; very attrac-
tive in retrospect to us oldtimers;
but probably gone for the better, on
the whole. l am a great believer in
progress, and I have seen with my
own eyes very gradual change for
the better in most things here in
New York. The old is not neces-
sarily sanctified, though it presents
manners and modes that are well
worth following a way. But life is
much more comfortable on the
whole. There is so much less igno-
rance and misery. Steadily growing
has been the governmental idea Of
making life pleasanter for those who
must toll for their food and shelter,
and to make life easier for women
and children in especial. 1 do not
see how anybody can come to my
age in New York without having
acquired calm optimism.
Il wonder what New York will be
eighty-nine years hence. That is
truly a thrilling speculation. I
imagine it will be infinitely more
beautiful, because public taste is bet
tering visibly. More attractive build
ings. both public and private, are
being erected. The atrocities Of the
brownstone front age have passed,
dare say, for good. The style Of
architecture that libeled good Queen
Anne is done with permanently, and
We do. not turn any more to the Jig
saw artisans for the decorations Of
our cottages. That has gone with
the iron deer and the granite lions
that used to decorate our lawns.
"Eighty-nine years from now New
York will be the wonder city of the
world. 1 should like to come back
for glimpse OF it. May be shall.
Who knows?"
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and vice. Fifty or sixty years ago
the Bowery was one long street Of
brilliantly lighted drinking dens and
resorts Of vice, interspersed with low
concert halls and theaters where i'm
moral plays or garish melodramas
were performed to stimulate un-
healthy minds. There were a good
many picturesque characters, but, as
a rule, the inhabitants and frequent
ers of the old Bowery were sordid
and unpleasant aggregation of
wretched men and miserable women.
Robberies were very common and
stabbings and shootings familiar.
There was much open, public
gambling then. In the sections fire.
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enty-five years or more, but days
never more stirring and brilliant
than in the period of the recent war,
when the emotion of the people
flashed out along the whole length
of our most beautiful thoroughfare.
Some of these days, I suppose,
there will be nothing residential in
Fifth avenue south Of Central
Park, for the march northward Of
business has been relentlessly steady.
What a change has come about since
the days of the old Knickerbockers!
Probably the southernmost end Of
the avenue has changed least Of all,
and properly, for it was always the
most picturesque and the most his
toric. Up to almost the civil war
days Fifth avenue in this lower
stretch was one of the most attrac-
tive dwelling quarters in the whole
city. The old mansions had wonder
full gardens, some of them ninety or
hundred feet deep, full of flowers,
Win white treIllSeS. Tney were lovely
old places. undisturbed by the honk-
ing of motor horns and the odor of
burning gasoline-sweet, fresh, old
fashioned, lovable. Such was the
Henry Brevoort place, later acquired
by Henry lie Rham, and the Boor-
man mansion at the northeast corner
of Washington Square and the ave-
nue.. Fifth avenue was young then
and made a stately show of horse
drawn vehicles, with fine harness and
Gignified coachmen. Even its old
stables in Washington News and
Macdougal alley were too attrac-
tive to waste and are made over now
into dwelling places.
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The Days of Drinking.

"Os course there was a vast deal of
drinking, particularly in the con-
sumption OF ardent spirits, and I
sometimes think that men of the
better classes knew how to carry
their potations better. A great deal
OF Madeira, port and sherry were
consumed in the better houses
Champagne came later. Ladies would
no more have thought OF drinking
whisky neat or with water even
than they would have thought of
drinking poison. 1T would have been
in execrable taste. Cigarettes were
virtually unknown. That is a Gus
tom which has grown upon the coun-
try in the past twenty-five years.
In the old days men smoked cigars
from Cuba or INDUCED in pipes, and
there were many who clung to the
ancient habit of snuff / can recall
quite clearly when it was no un-
common thing for an older friend
II. any one Of the clubs to proffer his
snuffbox with an old fashioned bow.
ITO have known the hardships
and delays of travel, even for a short
distance out of the city, one must
have had TO live in those times. Until
shortly before | was born there was
utter derision at the very idea that
steam locomotio1 was a practical
thing. In 1920. right across the river
from mere, John Stevens lost his
temper because he could not make
people see what wonderful future
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quented by the criminal elements it
was often accompanied by brutality,
especially when sailors, the great prey
Of these districts, were to be robbed.
But in the aristocratic neighbor-
hoods there were some very splen-
did gambling establishments Sixty
years ago these palaces of chance
were. richly appointed affairs. orna-
nented in rosewood and mahogany,
silks and satins. lacquer and gilt.
Meals Of the cos:liest foods and wines
were served free of charge to the
patrons, who were carefully selected
with almost the rigidity of social ex-
clusiveness. Men from Wall Street
and sporting men played at dice and
cards or at the roulette wheel in
these plays and often lost great for
tunes for the times. One of the best
known and the most interesting of
these old time gambling house keep
ers was John Morrisey. He began
life as the keeper of low drinking
den in Troy and then, going into the
prize ring, fought his way to fame
He was even elected to Congress.
believe. and / know that in his late
years he claimed as friends some of
our pretty big men.
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A Marvel of
the Heart

:" HE heart of one man in life
time pumps as much blood
through the body as the
blood weight of the ten million men
killed during the war, according to
DR.. j. Plesch, professor in the
Berlin Medical School, an authority
on blood circulation and the first
man to perfect a system for measur-
ing the blood content of the human
body.
THE heart of a man weighing
1873 pounds and living sixty years."
he said, pumps during the course
of his life 161. 100000 quarts of
blood. The world war cost 10000
600 lives. Estimating the average
weight of a mans body at 133
pounds and the weight of the blood
content at per cent. of the total.
some 21,400,000 quarts of blood were
shed during the war;
Prof. Plesch used this illustration
to show how much more powerful
is this marvel of nature than the
destruction which mankind with the
most ingenious instruments of war
fare was able to infiict upon itself in
fve years Of desperate effort. si'
The New York herald., 1922-07-30

trip. Even a journey up to Yonkers
was no small undertaking.
I'm transatlantic travel we had
two or three steam lines-the old
Black Ball between New York and
Liverpool, the Red Star and the
Swallowtail. / think the record
crossing was held by Black Ball
ship. which did the voyage in just
under sixteen days. remember
when the first Cunarder came into
this port. This was the Great
Western. in the spring of 1883, and
after that steam was pretty solidly
established. That was the period of
the clipper wonderful, swal-
lowlike sailing vessels which carried
the Stars and Stripes to every great
port in the world and made Yankee
seamanship famous. These were
wonderful ships and the old SUN
and old New YORK HERALD bristled
with proud records of their achieve
ments. immortalizing such ships as
the Challenge and Invincible.
Il remember when Dickens visited
New York for the first time, in 1912.
He came over on the britannia to
Boston and had a terribly tedious
journey to. reach New York. Ten
years later, when Thackeray visited
us for the first time, travel was
pleasanter and more unbroken.
There were interesting days when
these great writer's came to call on
us, but there have probably been no
more brilliant ceremonies than were
arranged in honor of the Prince of
Wales when he came here in the
autumn Of 1860. The whole city
turned out to greet him, and for the
rest of the time there was a vast
to-do of flag waving, parading. band
playing and dances and dinners. He
was only a boy, and when his. grand
son came here a little while ago it
struck me that there was a remark
able similarity between the occa-
sions. allowing for the material and
temporal changes. They worked the
young fellow pretty hard on that
occasion of sixty-two years ago. just
as they worked his bright faced
grandson recently. for distinguished
visitors to New York must prepare
to endure exhausting hospitality. 1t
seems characteristic of us.
when Dickens returned to New
York in 1868 they gave him a grand
banquet at Delmonico's, which l re-
member very well. He had become
an old man, lame and tired. 1t was
on this occasion that he apologize
very neatly for some rather harsh
things he had said about the United
States. Among his hosts on that oc-
casion were two great editors, Hor-
ace Greeley and Henry j. Raymond
II have seen many brilliant days
in Fifth avenue in the course OF, sew.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30

on the old rosters are the names of
the Livingstons. the Van Rensse-
laers. the Stuyvesants. the Suydams,
the Van Cortlandts. the Clasons and
the Oakleys. Philip Hone. who
wrote the Diary was a member. of
course, and fifty years ago one met
in its quiet rooms such men as the
elder Belmont. Rufus ingalls,, A. T.
Stewart. Andrew H. Green, Samuel
j. Tilden AMI Isaac Bell.
"rhe Union League. organized in
the stress of the war and to stand
behind Lincoln, started at Seven
teenth street and Broadway. The
Manhattan, too, came into being in
the war days to express the aims of
the Democratic party. The Lotos
dates back to 1870 and the associ-
alton of young journalists. and it
was modelled somewhat upon the Saw
age Club of London.
Il don't suppose there are many
PSiSoho wiz Cstu IcCdii Tie Oiu
Leather Heads, as we called the men,
bers Of the city police force seventy
years and more ago. They lasted
until about 1845 and they patrolled
the town by night. Leather Heads
were recruited from all sorts of
laborers, stevejores and porters and
so on. and they wore a kind of fire.
mans cap, which had no front; a
camlet coat and carried a lantern.
They were prudent souls, as doubt
less was required in a time of SO
many lawless persons, and wherever
they went they hallooed news of
their progress. Few of them ever
went above Fourteenth street Fire
men we're volunteers and did good
work. too. with a great pride in their
duties. 1t is hard to believe that life
was carried on in such a haphazard
kind of way.
There were some pretty bad quar-
ters in the New York of the old days,
places where life was not safe. The
Five Points was a habitat of des-
peratoes and it was burrowed with
underground chambers such as the
Chinatown of San Francisco pos
sessed. Good citizens did not dare to
be found in that ani similar neigh
borhoods after dark. Policemen sell
dom went there and there was inces-
SAINT drunkenness and brawling. fire.
quent murders and great deal of
wretchedness and misery. All about
were warrens of the depraved or un-
fortunate. such as Murderer's Alley
and Cow Bay. anl the lodging houses
were terrible places, the last resort
of ruined men.
In the Bowery. close by, there was
great, harsh jaDgle of life. 1t was
the street to which the desperate and
the miserable repaired TO f5!5st or
! blunt their sufferings with Drink
.--1..- - t..~f Il 2ngr -.tfifr .-rlafssI
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Clubs Move Uptown.

Il think that the first of the clubs
that moved to Fifth avenue was the
Union. 1t went in 1855 from
Broadway. near Fourth street, to the
northwest corner of Fifth avenue
and Twenty-first street, and occu-
pied the first building that had ever
been built for club purposes so far
as ] know. 1t has always been one
of the most exclusive of clubs, and
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Watching New York for Over Eighty Years

perhaps because family life was
more absorbing than at present
The entertainment was simple as
compared to what is offered now,
but it had very fine and dignified
flavor.
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This is the second and conclud-
ing chapter of Mr.. Hills interview
with Mr.. Whitehouse.
By EDWIN c. HILL.

4" HE career Of such a one as
i James Henry whitehouse,
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-02-11
ALL OVER THE GLOBE

All Of the larger felines jump for
their opponents throat In attack.
More than half Of the Presidents Of
the United States have had experience
a. soldiers.
Sir Isaac Newton was SO small Ut
birth that he might have lifted II I
quart mug.
Nearly 50 pr cent q the bahias q
Paris are boEn 8 hoapitals an1 un1os