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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-05-24
Avoiding tho Trap.

Avoiding the Trap.
you've known her since she was
little girl. haven't your"
"Yes."
"How old would you say she hr
"My dear, I can't tell you exactly,
but I'm. sure she can't bs day over
TWENTY-FIVE"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-05-24

In British New Guinea has been
discovered new metal, "osmiri-
dunn" which is said to have eight
times the worth of gold.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-05-24
Local and Personal

-
William Hurst was an arrival on
Fridays train.
M. ]. Kochevar came in Saturday
from Gunnison.
j. M. Page motored to Gunnison
Monday On business.
DR.. ]. w. Rockefeller came up
Tuesday from Gunnison.
Dr. and Mrs. Tony DAMN were up
from the Cabin Sunday.
Geo. johnson and Eph Peteruff have
purchased a new Buick six.
Mr.. and Mrs H. u. Gavette were in
our city from Gunnison, on business
Monday.
Tom Arnott arrived home Wednes-
day, after having spent the winter in
California.
Glenn Helfrick. returned Wednesday
evening from Salida with new
Chevrolet car.
There is to be another dance at
the Elk Mountain hotel on Saturday
evening, May 26.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. George Ka-
pushion, Jr., on Thursday evening,
May II, baby boy.
DR.. and Mrs. ]. s. Afford and Mr..
md Mrs. William Criffiths motored
to Gunnison Sunday.
Ernest Bottenfeld has spent the
winter in Chicago, returning home on
Friday of last week.
Mrs. Ira L. Sigman has been on the
sick list the past week, but is able
to be up and about now.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. ]. Harrison, who
have been away on a vacation, re-
turned home Wednesday.
John Bear came in last Wednesday
from Butte, Montana, where he has
spent the last few months
William Fleming returned from
Denver Wednesday,, where he had
spent the past two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Guthrie mo-
tored to Gunnison Saturday after
noon, returning in the evening.
Mrs. F. E. Songer went over to
salida Friday to be with her sister,
Mrs. Ed Gocdenough, who is very ill.
Raymond Sigman returned Tuesday
to Sapinero, where he will be with
Alden Farmer, attending to the
sheep.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ruff and child
ren returned home Thursday evening
from a trip to Colorado Springs and
Salida.
Harry Gibbs has gone to Smith
breaker to take charge of the load
ing of the slack for the Empire
Zinc Co. /.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Doig and Miss
Wilma, also Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Camp
bell were visitors in town from Gun
nison, Sunday.
A work train with large crew ar
rived last Thursday and remained for
several days fixing the tracks, ETC.,
to Smith Hill.
Joe Arnott went down to Canon
City Saturday Mrs. Arnott and the
children are visiting with her moth
er In that city.
u l.. Ross and wife arrived Mon
uay from Denver, coming over in
'nelr new Buick six, sport model;
which is a beauty.
Mr. Martin was up from Gunnison
tuesday demonstrating the new
rords' While here he sold seven
fords and Chevrolets.
1eo' Andreatta is now staying at
MS ranch near Jacks Cabin. Mrs.
Andreatta and the boys will move
uown as soon as school is out.
~ L. Gladstone motored up from
Sunnlson Sunday mo:ning and took
uo"n Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Gladstone,
VINO spent the day in that city.
matt Stobs, who spen. the winter
!, t'n ms daughter, Mrs. Ed Mosher
a. iaft' Calf, arrived home Satur-
@ aas he says he spent a very pleas
ant winter.
rrofessor and Mrs. Tinsley en-
tertained tLa - I'll.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-05-24

A subscription to this paper is
worth far moro than It costs. $500
for a full year.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-05-24

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worth far more than it costs. $500
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-04

lasphaltic character. This is just as
necessary as that rubber be placed on
automobile wheels to save the rigid
machine from destruction by crystalli
zation. This principle has been recog-
nized in city street construction for
many years
If ten western states spend 100000
900 a year each on permanent highway
construction for the next ten years
the taxpayers will have a public debt
Of $1,000, 900, OOO Will the resulting
road system be turned into a liability
which will require another billion for
maintenance during the succeeding
ten years or will it be an asset which
will not place a mountain of debt on
the shoulders of the taxpayers?
Now is the time to protect our flu
ture road system and guard against
unnecessary public debt Build after
the time tested methods and not to
please some road contractor or ma
terial supply man.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-04
BUILD ROADS FOR THE FUTURE
industrial News bureau

Industrial News Bureau)
If there is one public question in
which every citizen should interest
himself. it is the building of highways.
With an automobile for approximately
every six or seven people in these
western states the subject of roads is
a family question.
Strange as It may seem, when 1t
comes to laying hard surface state
highways, the principles of road build
ing that have been demonstrated as
successful in cities where streets car
ry the heaviest traffic. are not given
consideration. All classes of road paw
ing experiments have been carried on
at the expense of the taxpayers.
Experiments are necessary. but mil
lions Of dollars worth of INFESTED road
should never be permit
ted to go down on hundreds of miles
of highway
California has learned this lesson by
dear experience. With some s7O.OOO,-
600 expended for state highways, it
now finds itself faced with a mainte-
nance charge for repairing and re-
building it's concrete road system al
most as large as the original cost OF
the roads
Granting that these roads were
built during the experimental stage, It +
should be a sufficient object lesson 10 (
prohibit further experiments of such [
an expensive character with tax funds.
The one fact that stands ont above
Ill others in hard surface road con-
struction is that the road base or at
east its wearing surface. must be Of
some shock absorbing substance Of an
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-04
Lead and Its Favorable Position

lthe zinc production. Colorado, which
at one time was one of the big lead
mining states. has now a very small
output.
Outside the United States, Mexico
probably has reached the peak of It's
production. Spain always has been a
large producer and production shows
no sign of falling off. though occasion
al labor and political troubles inter
fere with the output. Australia, the
largest potential producer outside of
the United States, is in the hands Of
a union labor government, which
makes production on large scale at
former prices impossible. The great
Broken Hill mines, with a potential
output of 10000 tons. produced less
than 1000 tons in 1920 and only $4,000
tons in 1921. The production of Bur-
ma is increasing, but even at its pres
ent figure of $4,000 tons, it can have
no very effect on the market of the
world.
We may conclude that during the
next decade there is a probability OF
the price of lead being relatively high
er than in the past as compared with
the prices of copper and zinc.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-04
THE LEGISLATURE AND THE d.
RECT PRIMARY.

This paper has always regarded the
ledge OF a political party formally
made in its platform as just as bind
ing as the pledge of an individual and
that being true it necessarily follows
that those elected by the party are OBJ
ligated to carry out the party's plat
form pledges. To be specific, the re-
publican party of Idaho. through its
representatives in convention, pledged
itself, if successful at the polls, to re-
tain the present combination conven-
ton and direct primary system for the
nomination of candidates for state and
county offices and to enact legislation
designed to strengthen the same. The
party was successful at the polls and
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-04
NEW WAGE DEMANDS BY THE
COAL MINERS.

1t is reported that unless a compro-
mise can be arrived at the United
Mine Workers viii demand a 20 per
cent increase in wages, a 6-hour day,
and a 5-day week when the present
agreements expire next April. The
operators say they will ask the gov
eminent to operate the mines, rather
than submit to these exactions. A big
strike is in prospect unless a settle
ment can be reached. It is the duty
of the coal commission appointed by
President Harding to save the country
from the consequences of such a situ-
alton. The commission is now busily
gathering data upon which decisive
action next spring may be based. The
United States has not yet become the
plaything of very small minority of
its citizens. and it is not likely to this
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-04
KINGDOM OF LEMHI.
(Salmon Herald)

(SalmOn Herald)
/ So far as Lemhi county is concern
ed, the old adage ut is outside money
that keeps up the camp" is based up
on false doctrine. Very little outside
money percolates into the capilIaries
of our trading. On which account we
are much better off in the run of years.
Because no amount of hard times out
side can visibly affect us. This county
produces And its resourcefuiness is
a marvel, when considered in relation
to its population.
We produce S1.25O,OOO annually in
livestock products alone Then the
mines of the counts turn loose about
100000 in wages, etc. not to mention
the volume of metals produced. Re
garding the propitious showing as to
eating what we raise and living
within ourselves" the county can get
ahead by its own sheer industry and
initiative. The year 1923 will put the
people and banks of this district on
easy street. and Wen forget that we
have ever seen hard times
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-04

has a large majority in both houses OF
the Legislature In spite of this spe-
cinc pledge. there is a considerable
element in the legislature which pro-
poses TO ignore the pledge and devote
their efforts to the passage Of a gem
eral direct primary law, and to ac-
complish this they are planning a
combination with the democrats and
nonpartisan league members Of the
legislature. We do not believe they
win be successful, for the simple rea-
son that we can not believe that there
are enough republicans in the legis-
lature who are devoid of a proper
sense Of party responsibility TO put
the primary over. 1t is useless now
to dwell upon the arguments against
the direct primary. The system has
been tried in Idaho and repudiated by
the people. IL was overwhelmingly
1JSSNSu W OlS VI the must IcpIe5Su-
tative conventions that ever assembled
in the state. That this convention re-
Elected the sentiment Of a vast ma
jority Of the republicans of Idaho was
never questioned until few weeks
before the election, when Senator
Borah injected the direct primary
question into the campaign in an at
tempt to reverse the deliberate action
Of the republican party of the state
The Miner has great respect for Sen
ltor Borah, but it nevertheless re-
cards his action in the recent cam
'aign as a direct affront to the repub-
lean party of the state, an attempt to
'verride the expressed will of the par
y and foist the direct primary upon
he state 1t is the duty of the repub-
lean majority in the Legislature to full
III every pledge in the republican
latform and we have faith that they
will do so.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-04
THE TYRANNY OF ORDER.
youths Companion

NAOuNhb OOmpdnlOu)
What an excellent thing order is
the essence of accomplishment tn,
foundation of life! Plan your goin,
and coming, plan your expenses, plaI
your clothing, plan your thoughts: OF
such basis you will go a long way.
And some seem to be born with tn.
instinct for it; when they are children
their toys are in their places, theil
clothes are neat and tidy, their ideas
are neat and tidy, with a spruceness
that gratifies parents and teachers
and that need not offend friends if il
is accompanied by other amiable
qualities. And some are born without
IL and could not acquire it if they lv-
ed thousand years. Their lives drift;
their souls drift. They are always a
little late, always a little unmended
always a little in debt, and as a gen.
eral thing they are frightfuly uncon-
cerned about the matter It is their
friends that have the concern-and
endure the consequences. And some.
again, achieve the sense of order by
painful effort, their own or their par
ents'; and, though the instinct is new
er quite so perfect as when intuitive,
1t is all the more valued for the plans
of acquisition and is even more likely
to lead to fruitful accomplishment in
the end.
Oh, yes, order is a splendid thing;
but there may be too much of it, and
those whose lives are fully subjected
to it are too quick to make it a burden
to others. They not only come and go
through themselves with admirable
regularity and precision but they de-
mand that others shall do the same.
Their lives are guided by the clock and
they are not satisfied unless they can
inject that steadfast, terrible, remorse-
less ticking into your life. What is
The use of having a house tidy and
meals prompt and clothes well pressed
md mended if careless fingers soil the
paint and forgetful appetites neglect
he meals and hasty hardness gets the
'lothes on awry and spots and stains
hem before they are two days worn? I
so order tyrannizes over others.
And it tyrannizes over itself For /
When life is all planned you hate to (
freak the plan. And after all, heal /
by life is nothing but a succession of (
reaks and Interruptions to which you
aust adapt yourself with dreadful
etriment to all preconceived system.
o that the slaves of order are likely
, have but an unhappy time of 1t, and
ley look pale and thin and anxious
/ a world that has endless possibili-
es of diversion if only you do not try
} force 1t into your one rigid mould.
Order may be heavens first law;
cry likely it is. But there are lot
other laws.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-04
SENATOR BoRAH AND THE ECO
NoMIc CONFERENCE.

In offering an amendment to thu
naval bill authorizing the president t
call a conference of nations to con-
slider and if possible solve the eco
nomic problems that paralyze the
business and industrial life of Europe
the action of Senator Borah was not
in the least inconsistent with his posi-
ton on the league of nations. On the
contrary. his proposal showed unmis-
taxable evidence of real statesman
ship as well as his firm adherence to
the principles of nationalism so con-
spicuously advocated in his opposition
to the league of nations. In discussing
his amendment Senator Borah pointed
out with great emphasis that the eco
monte conditions of Europe were di-
rectly responsible for the deplorable
conditions in our own country, and
that by relieving the situation over
there we would open markets now
closed to the products of American
farms and American factories. That
was the primary purpose of his
and it implied no agree
ment whatever by which the United
States would become involved in the
settlement of the vexed questions that
embroil the countries of the old world.
His plan is comparable to that adopt
ed by large wholesale merchant who
inds his customers in a certain sec
ion, through circumstances over
which they have no control, unable to |
Jay for goods already received and I
Without the means to buy more. For
lis own protection and that OF mis- Gus
omers the wholesaler calls them in
or a conference in which the condi-
ion of each is candidly discussed, all
With the view to arriving at COM
lete understanding and enabling the
ustomers to renew the purchase of
GODS and eventually paying up the
Id Indebtedness. That as we under
tand it fairly illustrates Senator
orah's purpose in offering the amend
lent. When he found through sena-
'rs representing the president that :
-eps to that end were already being .
,ken by the state department, and v
lat to insist upon his amendment a
light embarrass the administration,
e promptly withdrew it, =
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-04

Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon
has made every possible effort to call
the attention of holders Of Victory
bonds to the fact that certain bonds
were called and were payable Deem
Der Is, after which date interest ceas-
ed. Nevertheless there are millions
of dollars of the bonds that have not
been presented for payment. presum-
ably through oversight If you don't
need the money Uncle Sam will be
glad to keep it for you. but he would
be glad to exchange a called bond for
another that will bear interest.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-04
6oRAH AMENARLE TO REASON.
anaconda standard)

Senator Borah did the sensible thing
n Withdrawing his amendment to the
naval appropriations bill proposing a
world economic conference. While the
idea was doubtless conceived by the
Idaho senator in good faith, to have
pressed it under the circumstances as
President Harding explained them in
his letter to Senator Lodge, would
rightly have been construed as a will
full and deliberate attempt to harass
and emDarrass the administration in
its efforts to discover some method
whereby the United States may safely
and sanely enter as a factor into the
solution of the great European prob
lem.
Along what lines President Harding
and Secretary Hughes are working
with that end in view is unknown to
the public; necessarily any such nego-
tiations in their tentative state must
be of a delicate nature, and for the
United States senate to ignore the
act that these negotiations are in
progress and go laundering along with
NNucpehuent pIOJeCtS OF llS own WOuiu
AVE been not only bad taste but bad
tatesmanship-it would have discred-
ted our state department abroad in
fashion.
The simple statement of the case by
President Harding carried conviction
even to those senators who are usual
" reckoned among the anti-adminis-
ration forces. Borah's amendment
had 1t come to a vote. would have been
beaten. But to give
The brainy, busy senator from Idaho
Ms due, it was doubtless not the GER
lainty of defeat that led him to with
raw his impolitic proposal but rather
of the justice Of President
Tarding's position.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-04
TO THE AVERAGE MAN.
lChicago Dailv Newsl

Chicago Daily News)
Because he played four years on the
scrubs and never won a letter, but
never gave up.
Because he rated b plus in his
classes, but never appeared in prize
list.
Because he never was president of
anything.
Because he was not particularly dis
tinguished in dress or dancing, could
not play a saxophone, get up amateur
theatricals. nor otherwise contribute
to the general festivities.
Because he died a hero's death as
he had lived his life-without applause
"a college president. a general and a
Representative of a first class world
power unveiled a tablet to Captain
David Thomas Hanson of Northwest
ern university on November %.
In ceremonial witnessed by thou
sands of students men of international
importance paid striking tribute to
Captain Hanson in his principal role
of average American citizen Presi-
INthN w cAAtCA I'm k9NOlt dCttpltu III lne
name Of the university a ten ton
boulder to which the Hanson memoir
ial tablet was affixed. General Nathan
William MacChesney pronounced
dedication. A. Bartholemy, consul of
France, laid on the stone the Croix de
Guerre and numerous citations from
French army officers. A bugler blew
taps. A regiment of student infantry
passed in review.
While the throng that filed the /
stood silent President Scott |
paid his tribute to the man who was
thus selected to represent the great
unhOnored average.
"Hanson's average standing during
the entire college course was b plus"
he said. "But he failed to attain
standard sufficiently high to earn for
him Phi Beta Kappa
"He played four years on the scrub
-eam, and never once did he receive
applause nor did the cheer leader call
MS name. But we have a record show
ng his participation I'm all important :
interests during his college career. He L
in the war with Spain.
which broke out when he was a stu
lent here. 1t ought not to have been
/ surprise to us in view of his life and /
'areer in college and professionally to
earn that Dave had done his duty in d
he world war as unselhshly and hero 2
cally on the battlefield as he had done lc
on this campus" d
AS the flag was withdrawn the in n
cription on the tablet was read aloud: n
I'm honor of David Thosaas Hanson.
rts, 19O5-Medicine 1903: captain D
MEDICAL corps. 142d infantry United Ia
tates army. Cited by the French e.
overnment for bravery-'An officer of n
reat courage. AT ST Etienne Octo- In
er 3, 1918, he rushed to the aid of a lp
'ounded man and was killed He In,
as model of Devotion Awarded ST
he Croix de Guerre after death. Sc
-udent beloved by his associates 81
persistent, lf-sacrificing. al
e gave himself without reserve to Ia,
is alma mater and to his country to
by the acknowledgements, 1922. th
lie played four years on the scrubs lhs
2 never quit" m
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-04

(Clinton H. Crane, President ST
Joseph Lead Company
1t is a striking fact that the worlds
annual production of "copper" lead and
zinc is at present roughly a million
metric tons each. Forty years ago
there was twice as much lead produc-
ed as either copper or zinc but the
lead production of the world has not
kept pace with that of either of the
other metals and today the possibility
of producing copper is double that of
producing lead.
For the past 20 years no new lead
district. has been discovered in any
part of the world, and additional lead
can be produced only from the known
deposits of low grade ores, which can
not be mined at a profit at the present
market price.
In the face of this situation, more
particularly since 1912, new major
uses, like the storage battery and lead
.encased cable, are making large de-
mands on the worlds output. Nearly
half of the total is corroded to make
paint and storage battery oxides, the
remainder being used for foil, shot
storage batteries lead encased cable,
solder, sheet lead, babbitt, etc A
small amount is still used for lead pipe
and plumbers supplies. Ammunition
accounts for very small part of the
total supply. Storage batteries, since
the advent of automobile self-starters,
have taken second place to paint in
their use of lead. Radio receiving
stations, each of which requires a
storage battery, bid fair to rival motor
cars in the amount of lead consumed.
In spite of general business depres-
sion the lead industry is now more /
than those of all other non /
ferrous metals. This is due partly to
he fact that although the war in I
creased the production of lead it did
70 at the expense of higher grade ore
eserves of the world, but did not in
rease the capacity for producing
whereas its effect on both copper and
inc was to enormously increase pro-
uction capacities.
In 1909 Herbert Hoover wrote: "The
likelihood for higher prices for lead is
lore encouraging than for any other !.
fetal, as no new deposits of import
nee have come forward for years,
nd mines are reaching considerable
epths." This statement is probably >
'uer today than it was in 1909; never =
leless. a much higher price can not
, too confidently anticipated as such
price would undoubtedly lead to
lbstituting in various directions.
The principal lead producing states
the United States are Missouri.
aho and Utah. They account for
'arly so per cent of the output. The y
ines of Idaho have a perfectly dofin-
: life without the probability of =
eat extension. Missouri, particular y
southeast Missouri, has been heav- -
T mined in the past 10 years, but in -
dition to the deposits now being
med has extensive low grade depos-
which would come into use at a =
CHER level Of prices. The southwest
ssouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Held
producing a substantial amount of
ID, but it does so in connection with ~
of zinc-about one pound OF
d to four pounds of zinc-and its
tput is therefore largely tied up with pr
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-04

The trouble with Europe is a state
of mind, and not inability to produce
cash as some of our European visit
ors would have us believe. Let the
nations over there compose their diff
ferences of opinion and come to an
agreement on PREPARATIONS, and stabn-
ity will soon follow.