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The Stroller's weekly and Douglas Island news., 1922-11-25
DOUGLAS PERSONALS
 AND NEWS BRHfLEIs

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NOTICE OF SALE UNDER TmG
 EET DEGREE AND EXECUTION

H.. N.N... ".." A.." A."" .Iu m. uamo. Court .o Nan
 NU..0U Number NH. .I IunUIu. UNION SECURITIES CORPORA. IIIN. n corporation. Iu.nH..  ALASKA TREASURE CONSOLE
 DATED MINES corporation. JOHN s BAKER A. CHRISTIE.
 SON. COLBERT l0IuWEl.
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 mr Consolidated M.u. n Cor.
 n0r.Unns and
 UNION TRUST COMPANY or
 SAN FRANCISCO corporation.
 Defendants.
 UNDER AND BY VIRTUE oI a u..m.H. and I0.T.. u. uHo.'om.. and Execution and aH.. Order 0. e... u uU. 0. I.. NHlro. DHu.. Tn. ... N.U.. u. h....u Division NumHU. One. .t Juneau. oH One .0IU day .. No..mUor I"an u lH0 u00r. ..U..I ..H0H wherein IHo Union -..U.. Corporation Che H0uU. u.m.. r..u.. obtained IuI.m.u. .U. O..... ...u.. 0...H0.n. A.u." Ir..Hr. Consolidated NH" oH lIa BOG. day a. U..0H.. 1923. which
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T0 WHOM ASSESSED

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The Stroller's weekly and Douglas Island news., 1922-11-25
0 GP CLUB HOST AT
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rELEaArEs RETURN

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Weu SCHOOL TEACHER
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AND THEY CAN YELL

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LEAVES FOR WISCONSIN

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,ErzaaBs MOVE TO JUNEAU

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The Stroller's weekly and Douglas Island news., 1922-11-25
INTERESTING TALKS
 ON OLD AGE PENSIONS

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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-08-24
INTEREST SHOWN
in CYNIDE Mine
Continued from first page)

company should have no trouble in
selling stock to build its mill and cya-
hide plant.
The mine was discovered about 20
years ago and several attempts have
been made to work it. A stamp mill
was operated for some time, but with
out success, on account of the fine
quality of the gold. IL is said that the
.. & Nj. Mining Company spent around
$4,000 in development work, and
then sold out five years ago to j. b.
Ellis and Jas. La Fountain, president
and vice-president respectfully of the
Cynide company. Both Mr. Ellis and
Mr. La Fountain are practical mining
men. They believe that the cyanide
process is the only successful method
of treating the flour gold contained in
the property and have bent all their
efforts toward erecting a cyanide
plant Like the farmer. who has dis
carded his scythe for a binder. they
want to utilize the most up-to-date
methods in their work. Handicapped
by lack of capital in their early eff
forts, they have gathered the financial
support of hundreds of small stock
holders, have worked increasingly and
are now on the verge of developing
what they believe is the best mining
proposition in the west
About 16 miles from Bonners Ferry.
well up toward the top of Buckhorn
and Scout mountains. nestles the
camp. On account of the difficulty in
hauling materials, sawmill has been
built at the camp for furnishing mine
timbers and all lumber necessary for
the plant and mine buildings. The
sawmill has been in operation about
five weeks and already several build
ings have been erected from lumber
supplied on the grounds. These in
clude a warehouse, clubhouse for
members of the crew, mess hall.
blacksmith shop. two barns and sew
eral sheds.
The mill has a daily capacity of
from eight TO ten thousand feet of
lumber, and has sawed as high as IS.
600 feet day. Ten men are employed
at the mill and ten more are engaged
in logging operations. The logs are
cut from a high hill on the company's
property and slide almost into the mill
building over a steep chute several
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-08-24
LOCAL PLAY is WELL PUT ON
Home Talent CAST Does Credit in
"A Yirginian Romance"

"A Virginian Romance" the two
act musical comedy presented by local
talent under the direction of j. w.
Watkins, at the Amazon theatre last
Monday and Tuesday proved to be a
very pretty production and was we'll
received Considering the compare
lively short time of preparation, the
young singers displayed good Work,
and excellent harmony was attained
in many parts.
The ensemble singing during the en-
tire performance proved the biggest
hit as the parts were fairly well bal
anced with the men section to the adj
vantage. Costume dancing were feat
ures throughout the program, espec-
tally the Interpretation of When
Grandma Danced the, Minuet." Man
ley Schagel as the colored servant
carried the honors in the action parts.
Miss Helen Fry, with pretty mezzo
soprano voice, and Blanche Castle, a
clear soprano. carried the leads with
credit to themselves, and with proper
training will develop into excellent
singers. The male quartet, composed
of Keith Bradley, first tenor; Jerome
Egan, second tenor; X. Turner, bari
tone; James Burke, bass; sang well
together. James Egan sang a feature
solo on Tuesday evening, which was
heartily applauded.
The musical comedy was played be-
fore two fair sized houses, but con-
sidering the fact that it was home
talent production and of high caliber
the houses were much too small The
parts were all well applauded.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-08-24

hundred feet long. The cyanide plant,
for which the foundation is now being
prepared, will contain 10000 feet of
lumber and a carload of nails. Other
improvements at the camp include
water system. For this, tank 7x14x110
will be built at the head of Mill Creek.
This will afford gravity system cap
able of supplying the entire camp with
fire protection and water for general
use Three thousand feet of 4-inch
pipe viii be installed.
The company owns in the neighbor-
hood of $50 acres of ground, and near
ly every foot of it will serve some pur-
pose in the mining operations. Some
of the land is quite heavily timbered
and will furnish lumber for the camp;
portions of it are needed for build
ing sites and roadways. while ore
drifts will be run in on the upper
slopes of the Buckhorn and Scout
Mountain. The company now has
seven teams at the camp, and new
road with a five per cent grade is
being built from the mine to the new
plant
The main ore body has been exposed
in all of the four tunnels driven on
the property. The vein at points
reaches width of six feet and assays
show an abundance of ore running
from $40 to $55 ton. According to
Mr.. Ellis, ore can be profitably milled
by the cyanide process at SO a ton.
However, the profit would be small
on low grade ore, but he is confident
from the exposures made that enough
high grade ore is available to run
plant of 100000 tons capacity for sew
eral years.
Perhaps the richest ore body of the
mine covers a distance of 80 feet wide,
100 feet long and Is feet deep on the
crest of Scout Mountain. This is a
blanket formation containing ore
which assayed SOL There is approx
mately 10000 tons of this ore lying
within few feet of the surface.
person visiting the mine would
first be taken through one of the lower
drifts, known as Sand Tunnel, which
is $50 feet long. Ascending from the
tunnel are shafts which follow the ore
shoots. Ladders are in place and if
the visitor is good climber he can,
with the light of candle which he
must have with him. inspect the shaft.
There isn't much TO see. unless he
knows by the formation that he is
going through collaborating rock.
Some distance higher up the noun
tain is Lower Keystone Tunnel, which
is 500 feet long. OF this, the Cynide
company has driven $50 feet and To-
Gated several new ore veins. Ore
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-08-24

shoots in this tunnel average about
four feet in width, assaying from So
to SIS a ton. The Upper Keystone,
the next tunnel above, is $50 feet
long. The same ore shoots are en-
countered as in the lower tunnel, and
in raises made, no faulting of the
veins has been discovered AS a min
ing man, Mr.. Ellis believes from the
character of the veins, that further
working of the mine will expose ore
of higher grade than any yet found
The ore vein was originally dis
covered in the Boston Crosscut Tun-
mel just below Sand Tunnel Former
owners of the mine drove in 1900 feet
of drifts and raises and in places
stopped out the veins, which varied
from four to seven feet.
When operations begin, the ore will
be carried down the mountain several
hundred feet by means of an aerial
tram, dumped into bins, then run
through the crusher and finally
treated with cyanide. The process re-
moves 50 per cent of the gold and IS
per cent of the silver. In all past
workings of the mine no attempt has
been made to extract silver from the
ore, but assays show that a consider
able quantity of this metal is present,
and it will be saved by the new treat
ment
1t is estimated that the cyanide
plant will cost between S125, 900 and
S150,000. Officers of the company
hope to have the building completed
this fall and install the machinery
in time to begin operations in earn
est next spring. They predict that
within a few years they will have the
best producing gold mine in this sec
ton of the country Known locally as
practical mining men and credited
with well-proved honesty of purpose.
their work is being watched as the
forerunner of big industry in Bound
airy county.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-08-24
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that |, TiafeIo
Garcia. who, on January 18th, 1921. in
the District Court of the Eighth Ju-
dlcial District, in and for the County
OF boundary, State of Idaho, plead
guilty to the crime of burglary, and
who was sentenced by the said Court
to serve an indeterminate term of not
less than one or more than fifteen
years in the Idaho State Penitentiarv
viii make application at the next reg
uiar meeting of the State Board of
Pardons, after the legal publication of
TINS notice, for a full and absolute
pardon.
tSigned) TIAFELO GARCIA
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-08-24
Rev. William win Preach

Rev. John william will preach in the
Cow Creek school house on Friday
night. August 25 at O'Clock; Porthill
hall ON Saturday night, August 26;
Rath school house on Sunday morning,
August 81, at 1880 o'clock and Cope
land school house at 8; McCrea school
house Monday night, August 81.
Everybody is cordially invited to at
tend these services.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-08-24
New Butter Wrapper Prices

Effective May /. 1922: add cents
for postage up to 500 lots and for
1000 lots add 10c
Evening star., 1922-10-08

hit them at the base. They were
placed in 1884.
Some of these pieces OF stone date
back as far as 1893, it is declared.
This stone also may be found on the
Armistead Peter mansion, in George
same section. The locks of the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal running
between Washington and Cumber-
land, are built of this stone, being
placed about 1926.
There is enough stone left in the
old quarry, experts say, to rebuild
Washington and Baltimore, so it may
be seen that tremendous quantities
of the sandstone remain to be gotten
out. Workmen are on the site now,
attacking the tremendous and difficult
task of cutting down the big trees
and clearing away the underbrush
and growth of decades.
Modern machinery will be installed
as soon as possible, it is stated, and
the old quarry put into operation,
sending out once again. after all these
years. warm. rich slabs of stone to go
into buildings.
So it may be no strange thing, be-
fore many years, to see in Washing
ton columns newly Quarried, which
look across the street at sister col
umnS, stone of the same stone, quar-
ried hundred years ago.
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to make straight lines. and simple de-
signs. The other students were pre-
paraing to be carpenters and masons.
His objective career Of artist" was
the standing joke of the school. He
eked out a living, or rather, barely
escaped starvation, by giving lessons in
English to workingmen. But the great
thing was that in a yearly competition
for the academy he was accepted, one
Of four.
DAvID EDsTRONr acquired the
l. power. during his course there. to
express the physical forms he had
so longed to mold, and yet he remained
unsatisfled. For in a world Of scientific
progress, where human ingenuity had
wrought unthought Of wonders in me-
chanical lines, he saw artists studying
the classic Of bygone ages and accepting
them. as criterions for the future. So
he turned to a different art from the
academical, and yet one built upon the
foundation of sound knowledge Of it,
the art of "expressionism."
In Mr.. Edstrom's own words:
s.Artistic expression should take the
form Of the experiences Of human be-
inss. during Sthe period I'm which they
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that George Washington himself dis
covered the quarry, but others do not
hold this opinion, although they ac-
knowledge that he was very fond of
the sandstone. putting it into the trim
of Mount Vernon. Christ Church,
Alexandria, where he attended, and
the Pohick Church, where he was
vestryman in 1862.
The old city of Aqua stands not
SO far from the quarry-or, rather,
what is left of 1t stands there. There
is little left besides a couple of stone
chimneys. Once it was a fieurishing
little place, doing a good business
with England.
In the old graveyard all that is
left, in addition to the quarry and
the chimneys, are several grave
which they used in the old days.
One of them is of the Aqua sand
stone and on it is engraved the date
1885. it is believed that the stone
was actually quarried and erected at
that time and not put up afterward,
although the latter might have been
done, it is admitted.
1t is estimated that the old quarry
men took out at least 100000 cubic
feet of this sandstone, quarrying it
by the method outlined. With picks
che slaves attacked the fiat rock,
Aigging two parallel channels eight
cen inches wide and connecting them
with a third. Then wedges were
driven into the rock under one side
until it split cleanly.
They had derricks then. run. by
Evening star., 1922-10-08

live. The classic and the works Of the
renaissance reflect the-thought and
achievements Of the people Of those
times, and in like manner modern art
should embody some Of the forms,
lights and colors produced by intricate
instruments and highly polished ma
chinery.
1.-THE aboriginal savage or early
Greek thought that throwing a spear
or charging an elephant was the great
est possible feat, but now steam en-
gines, trains, long-distance guns and
flying machines have changed bur ideas
Of power and movement, for they have
become so vastly more tremendous.
Art must express the phenomena Of
life today, and the mere human form
is inadequate to that expression, al
though it sufflced to demonstrate spear
throwing or leaping during the past
ages. :
"An artist quickly realizes the limi-
nations Of the human skeleton. and
his present problem is to surmount
them. He may depicit a storm on his
canvass by tree feiled by lightning,
but a Beethoven symphony can impress
listener with the fury Of q tornado
or the upheayal' of am earthquake.
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quarry, hung on until he found 1t.
Maybe 1t pays to have ones ances-
tor sign the Declaration of Independ-
ence; anyway, the early Middleton
from South Carolina was a sturdy man
who had the nerve to place his name
at the bottom of the great document.
The modern Middleton had the nerve
to go prospecting for quarry until
he found it.
X X X x
DOWN in Stafford county they do
II lot of hunting in season. There
are ducks by the thousand there. and
wild turkeys, too. with plenty of
good fishing. Certain wealthy people
hold hundreds OF acres of land for
game preserves. coming down in sea-
son to fish and hunt.
One day Mr.. Middleton got to talk
ing to "stone man" about the vari-
Gus kinds of stone used in modern
construction. 1t was pointed out by
the quarryman that there are FASH
ions in stone as in everything else,
and that Of recent years the public
lduCy Hdu UeSu away lIOh
a dead white stone to stone streaked
with some color. particularly the
warm shades ranging from cream
to a light brown.
The quarryman instanced the fine
examples of sandstones to be seen
today in practically their original
condition in the rotunda at the Capt.
tol. the columns along the east front
of the Capitol and notably the pillars
underneath the rotunda-
That sandstone, he said. came from
an old government quarry. 1t was
fine stone. he said, and he wished he
knew where to get 1t today 1t was
put in SO many years ago that people
had forgotten about it.
All this set Middleton to thinking.
Then he got to investigating. He
went around to the various govern
ment departments to find out, if pos
sIble. about that government quarry.
Nobody seemed to have any record of
it. In fact, none Of them seemed to