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White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-07
FROST BRINGS WHITE
SAGE IN AS FORAGE

White sage will be the chief forage
for sheep and cattle for the next sew
eral weeks in this region as a result
of the heavy frost of Friday morning
and others following, as well as Z
few lighter and local one preceding
Stock will not eat white sage to
amount to anything until it is frost
bitten. Sheep will browse or it
some, but not cattle or horses.
After it is frosted it is substantial
feed for stock and is as we'll liked by
them as alfalfa. Since this region is
full of it, covering millions of acres,
it is a resource which is appreciated
by stockmen but is little understood
or thought of by others.
For more than two weeks sheep
have been out of the hills and have
been ranged in the valleys. A large
number have been herded on the
flats between Ely and McGill and the
same is happening In all other val
legs farther out. In the last ten days
most of them have been brought
down from their mountain ranges
mostly for the purpose of separating
and shipping the lambs.
They have been fortunate in sew
eral recent r%ainfalls ard a snow
storm or two. which brought water
right to them instead of having to be
driven to it, generally a distance OF
several miles.
All stock is going into the ensuing
winter in fine shape as to flesh. A
fine summer fer grass has been an
advantage to the country, which is
being reflected substantially now in
returns from lamb sales and will be
more so as other stock is marketed
during the fall and winter.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-07
DRIVER REPR|MANDED
FOR KILLING SHEEP

John Bonner, driver OF a taxi for
the Star taxi service, was -eprimanG-
ed yesterday by the board o. county
commissioners after a Iisaring for
the running down and killing OF
nine sheep on the McGill road
The sheep belonged to Bert Robi
son. About 5000 of them were in
the road just at the base of the lit
tie hilI where the highway crosses
the ditch at the lower end of the
Georgetown ranch. Bonner claimed
to have seen the sheep when witnin
about 100 feet of them and said he
threw out the clutch and applied the
brakes, but could not stop in time.
He said he was going twenty-five
miles an hour.
Yesterday after noon the commits
sioners took the car, Robert Bairt:
driving, and experimental with ii
at the spot. The result was that Tho.
brakes we're found 10 not DE prop
erly lined. Instead of revoktng Bon
ner's license the reprimand wa.s
agreed upon.
The sheep were I'll down Wed
nesday. Only one was Killed out.
right, the others being so badly hurt
that they had to be killed. They
were ewes from whic hthefr lambs
had been separated for shipment.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-07
RAINBOW TRAVELS FIFTEEN
MILES WITH AUTO DRIVER

Rainbows are something that
people are in the habit of think
ing of as stationary or nearly so,
If they are thought of at all in that
respect, yet while they are not in
in the strictest sense optical illu-
sions, their location is all in the
eye, as likewise is their movement
or lack of 1t. Monday evening dur
ing a shower a member of the
White Pine News staff had the un-
usual experience of having II
travel with him for about fifteen
miles.
He was at an isolated place in
Butte valley called Gracian's we'll
when a thunderstorm with black
clouds came up from the south. A
drive of twenty-eight miles north
was then started and soon it com
menced to rain slightly and a most
brilliant rainbow appeared in the
east, the sun being not more than
and hour high. The gaudily colored
semi.cfrcle kept to the side Of tho
car, at times apparently Ia mile.
away and again appearing to be,
not more than 500 yards. Occa-
sionally a little range Of buttes.
would be passed. Some times the
base of first one and then the other
end of the rainbow would rest on
the sides or crest of these buttes,
but more often they would glide by
the base OF the hills and the many
colored lights would appear to have
painted the rocks, trees and sage
brush, but this painted effect
would move with the car, starting
at the south end of every butte and
moving along till the last of it
nattened out on the more level
ground at the north.
Once while this was going on and
a large open space had been reach
ed, a band of wild horses started
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-07

running from the a and for sew
eral hundred yards they stayed at
the north base of the rainbow. L
rested right on them as they ran
and they were coiored as brilliantly
as it is possible to describe them.
The thought came to the mind OF
the newspaper man at the time
that if he were only III of those
horses he would grab the pot OF
gold right off the reel, Or if he
were only there with them and ar
expert with a RATA he could land
both horses and gold.
Finally by reason OF a swerye
in the road, instead of the horses
running ahead of the rainbow's
north base, it took a jump of
about $50 yards ahead Of them,
leaving them that far behind the
pot Of gold, and their matchless
coloring faded instantly to ordi-
nary sorrel, b%uckskin, bay, gray,
black, brown, etc.
But without Righteousness, it
WAS d ulOSI lHoIll Ing oi6ht teo
beauty and sublimity combined
something that n might live a
thousand years ard never see
again.
At last a second rainbow ap-
peared above the other and it tray-
eled with its mate and the car I'M
til finally the sun sank beneath
the horizon and left a mass of
blackness in the east pretending
an oncoming storm that was at the
moment d%renching the peaks and
slopes of the majestic Egan III
tain range.
Had there been two persons to
witness this sight and had they
been travelling in autos in opposite
directions. leaving the same mi
tial point, the question is how
many rainbows would there have
been?
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-07

the heirs could be purged of alleged
attainder with treason SO hat they
might reopen their property. This
has little to 90 with the Utah and
Nevada story, only that in visiting
the second mine the person in pos
session of it was a widow some sixty
years OF age, who lived in elegance
near the mine. At her home the EN-
gineer was entertained during the
days that he was there, the sonora
proving to be a woman of the high
est intelligence, speaking several
languages and having knowledge
equal to an expert in mines, ores
mineral and the subject of mining
generally.
During this s~ojourn the engineer
happened to show her the specimen
in what is now the Ely district. The
moment she saw it the sonora grew
sad and soon shed tears. She said it
reminded her of a family tragedy, it
icing so much like ore that her an
cestor had brought back. She pro-
ooSAo IA specimen III pClii6 SOl11-
pared the similarity proved striking.
On II side of the ancient speci-
men the date 1777 had been cut into
the ore, it being soft and yielding
in fact, hornsilver. Then the sonora
explained the cause of her weeping.
She related the family tradition of
the Catalina mine. which was near
100 years ago. Her granduncleis
two caravan expeditions, which she
said he repeated several times in
eight or nine successive years, and
finally accommodating all the wealth
he desired he abandoned the enter
prise.
He drew a carefully planned sci
of maps and charts, which plainly
designated the locality of his mine
and the route leading to it These
were %bequeathed to her father and
upon his death to her. For years
they laid locked up and were almost
forgotten when news reached them
of the discovery of rich silver mines
in the United States noar the Sierra
Nevada mountains and west of the
great desert-undoubtedly meaning
the Comstcck.
Her son Ignacia was then twenty
five years of age and upon hearing
this news organized a party to search
for the mine. Her husband had beer
dead fifteen years and the boy was
her only comfore. He went forth with
a good aravan but vas never heard
from and is supposed to have been
murdered with all his party by In
dians. With him disappeared all
the maps and charts.
The story greatly impressed the
engineer and recalled to him that in
1872 Forsith's map of Utah showed
a trail that was marked Don Esta-
tante's Trail in 1776." He returned
to Nevada and Utah and resolved to
search for the mine. In finding the
ICstatante trail he had little difficulty.
He Travelled it for many miles, being
plain and di~stinguishable. For miles
it traversed the soft alkali soil and
was worn down for two or three feet.
In rocky places it was not worn so
much hut was ~traceab!a.
Reaching the southern shore OF
Sewer lake there was such g. bed OF
movable sand that it became lost
He was able to find where it
emerged from the sand beds.
He was camping by a spring and
one evening an old prospector camp.
ed there with him. The prospector
told him he was directed to thas
spring as a camping place where the
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-07
ROMANTIC TRADITION OF
LOST MINE OF SEVER LAKE

Over somewhere in Utah in the
vicinity of Sewer lake is supposed
to be an ancient Mexican mine OF
and whether or not it has been found
and proved to be rich DIT otherwise,
data at hand does not give an ink
ling. But the story Of its alleged ex-
istence is most romantic and allur-
ing.
The traditions that are preserved
of the old mine fix the date of its
discovery at the year 1776. 1t APP
peal that a Mexican named Domingo
Estatante made an expedition into
the then northern wilderness, convey
ing his supplies by means of a cara
van of animals and in ten months re
turned to Vera Cruz with his animals
laden with silver bars. Then he made
up a larger caravan and a larger
force of assistants. with which he
made n second journey and returned
to his Mexican homo in another two
or three years with 4 still greater
amount of silver in bullion form.
Both times he took back some
specimens Of the ore from which the
silver was extracted, and through
this little circumstance as a clew
what may have been the lost mine
was found some ninety-five years
later by a Nevada mining engi-
neer but what success he had in prov
ing the find to be genuine or of estab-
fishing its richness records are not
at hand,
A circumstance of the most absorb
ing local interest is that this engi-
neer upon a notable visit to Mexico.
happened to have with him a small!
specimen of silver ore from the Rob
inson district which is better known
now as the Ely district, the speci-
men having come from the old Rath-
burn mine, and the similarity be-
tween that and those from the Sew
Ter lost mine that had been preserved
as heirlooms by descendants of the
Old-day Mexican ore finder was so
noticeable that it caused the new
search about fifty years ago, when
the engineer conducting it believed
that he had found a mine. and was
sure that he found the remains OF
the old smelter outfit with which the
silver was extracted and run into
bricks. -
: Tho name and identity of the engi-
necr likewise are not available from
present records, but that in reality
there was such an engineer and that
lie made such a search, with the re-
believed to be as indicated, is
shown by reference to the old files Of
the ward Reflex of April &c and 20,
1877, in which appears a continued
article written by the engineer, the
article being unsigned and no indi-
cation in other parts OF the old paper
10 indicate his identity or tending to
show how it all ended.
The engineer gives a detailed ac-
count of how he was sent into Mex
leo presumably not many years be-
fore, to make an examination of a
mine that was for sale in SanaOla
While in that employment he had as
an assistant 4 former Mexican peon
ninety years of age, who was exceed
ingly genial and talkative. The mine
that was being examined was turned
down by the engineer he so inform
ing his Mexican assistant. who then
urged him to visit another mine that
probably three-quarters of a century
previously had been closed because
the owners were accused of acts that
their government held to be treason
able. and it was many years before
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-07
Reality and Pretense.

The great difference between the
real statesman and the pretender Is
THAT the one sees into the future,
while the other regards only the pres
ent; the "A lives by the day, and
acts in expediency; the other acts on
tatity.-Burke.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-07
Plumes Are Valuable.

Ostrich feathers IRE either plucked
by hand or cut from lie wings whence
come the most valu he plumes, says
Nature Magazine. annual feather
crop of the averag 5lyich is worth
from fifty to sixty : 9rs. The birds
yield a crop Of valun g Gathers every
seven months, althon some breeders
coniine the plucking to Il single harv-
est a year, as they claim that in this
way they get better quality.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-07
In the Grass Family, 10000 Species.

grasses, Of which 1890 are native to
the United States. Members Of the
grass family are distributed through
out all the zones Of the earth, and
vary In size from a few inches in
height to veritable forest trees tower
, sixty feet and more.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-08-23

pound lots, it was found the supposed
contracts they had signed were nego.
table notes. and that they were in
possession of local bank. The farm
ers protested they had not signed any
notes, and the stuff ordered hadn't
come, so the bank returned the checks
uncollected, and the signers are
awaiting the next move.
Thief River FaIls-The sugar beet
committee of the Thief River Falls
Commercial club, headed by H. W.
Pritzeler, is at work on a plan to ad,
vertise the possibilities of this section
to people residing in other parts OF
the country. When the best harvest
is at its height next fall, it is the in.
tention of the committee to arrange
for a special train to carry about SO
carloads of beets in one shipment to
the factory in Mason City.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-08-23
PETERSON RESIGNS

Friends of Robert W. Peterson,
especially among the disabled veter-
ans, will regret to learn that Mr.. Pet
erson has resigned his post as repre-
sentative of the U. S. Veterans Bur-
eau, which position he has held for
the past year and half. This resig-
nation takes effect Sept 1st, 1923.
(. Mr.. Peterson has been an ardent
worker in the interests of the dis
abled men whom he has served. 1t
has been his duty to see that each
man entitled to the veterans training
has received this vocational instruc
ton and has, in addition, found po-
sition for the majority of them when
their training was completed. It is
with sincere regret that Mr.. Peter
son gives up this territory including
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-08-23

FaribauIt-Rice county will be
forced to import rural school teachers
for the first time in several years, &C
cording to John H. Lewis, county SUI
perintendent of schools. There is a
lack Of local teachers, caused by mar
riages and changes to higher positions
by teachers who were in rural schools
last year.
chicago-Dr. Matthias Wahlstrom,
II, superintendent of the Augustana
hospital in Chicago, who was knight
ed by the king of Sweden in 1901 for
his educational and medical work,
died from stroke of apoplexy suf.
fered on April 81. He was president
Of Gustavus Adolphus college at st.
Peter, Mimi, from 1881 until 1904.
Fergus FaIIs--James Chapman and
three sons were brought to the hospi.
tai here having been injured by the ex-
plosion of gun. One of the boys
laid the gun down on the kitchen
stove with shell in the barrel and
it exploded, scattering bits of gun
metal all over the room The mother
and three sons were all seriously in.
jured, particularly the younger son.
Observation-Disclosures petitioning
congress for an increase of pay to SIS
a mile year for each mile covered,
making "a mile route pay $1,000 a
year, and longer routes in proportion,
were passed by the Minnesota Fedora
ton of Rural Route Carriers at their
annual meeting hire. The carriers
also passed resolution asking con-
gress for law allowing carriers to
retire after 30 years of service, with
an allowance Of $50 month.
Waseca-After a salesman for a
stock tonic" had secured orders from
15 farmers in this vicinity for 100
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-08-23
FIRE DESTROYS GoLDFIELD
Boom Towns Loss Estimated al
$500, 000-Six Buildings Left.

Tonopah, Nev.-The town of Gold
field with the exception of six build
ings was burned to the ground One
man is dead from causes attributable
to the fire, a woman is missing and is
believed to have persisted and score
of persons were injured.
Fire Chief l. NJ Galliac of Goldfield
declared that he believed an enemy of
known bootlegger started the blaze
in building in the rear of the Brown
Parker garage.
Residents were returning to the
town from the mountainside where
they fed with their belongings and
telephone connections have been re-
stored.
Food has reached there fro Tono-
pah, all of the local supple! having
been destroyed.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-08-23

Eugene Gouraud, who turned back the
Germans from Paris and now carries
an empty sleeve and limps because
of bullet wounds in his legs, was the
honored guest of the national capital
Former members of the Rainbow d.
vision, which General Gouraud COM
manded as part of his army corps in
the Champagne, joined with officials
of the United States and diplomatic
representatives of his native France
in welcoming the famous veteran to
Washington.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-08-23
PORTS PARALYZED BY STRIKE
Many Sections of Country Threatened
With Food Shortages.

dock workers on strike throughout
England. and many of the strikes un-
authorized. charges were made by the
Daily Express that communists were
the power behind the strike.
Seven thousand men struck in Man.
chester in definance of their leaders.
Two thousand joined the strike in
London and many walked out in Liv-
erpool.
Union leaders who have given
strike orders denied the charge of
communist inspiration and declared
the issue was strictly one of protest
against high living costs.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-08-23
DR.. A. ]. KLIMEK
Eye Specialist ptometrist

of Osakis, Mimi, will be at the
Palmer House, Sank Centre, on the
last day of each month. Eyes ex-
amined by the most scientific meth
cd. Glasses correctly fitted, at a
reasonable price. guaranteed to sat-
isfy. Cross Eyes, and all those hav-
ing headaches, or nervous troubles,
are especially invited for consulta-
ton.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-08-23
FARLEY WAITS FRENCH REPLY
Belgium Strives to Avert Break Over
Ruhr Reparation Policies.

London-Written replies will be
presented by Belgium and France to
the British QUESTIONABLE on their
Ruhr and 'reparations policies, it was
announced at the foreign office.
At the same time the foreign office
officially denied reports that England
was using the French war debt to
England as pressure on France in
the reparations negotiations.
Such an Interpretation had been
placed upon statements by Premier
Stanley Baldwin in the House Of Com
mons.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-08-23

Brainerd and ST. Cloud fields and
the same can be said of the veterans,
themselves, in regard to their leader.
Mr.. Peterson intends to return to
Chicago, ILL.,, his boyhood home,
where he is considering several pro-
positions. No one as yet has been
appointed in his e-Brainerd
Daily Dispatch.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-08-23
There's the Rub,

A lot OF people think they would be
happier in this world if there weren't
so many things they want they can't
have.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-08-23

Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton, vice
chairman Of the Pennsylvania Re-
publican state committee, has been
appointed an associate member Of
the Republican national committee.
She is the daughter Of the late John
Wanamaker.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-08-23

Noted French Fighter Here.
Washington-Gene Henri Joseph
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-05-17
LEARN FACTS ABOUT STEEL
Interesting Discoveries Concerning
Most Useful Metal, That Have Re
Gently Been Made.

Very fascinating are the nnsolved
problems of metallurgy which were
discussed at q recent meeting OF an
institution of civil engineers.
There Is a common carbon steel
which, when heated to 725 degrees
centigrade and quenched in brine
bends on becoming cold. 43 degrees.
and possesses the hardness number
228 on the Brinnell scale If heated
only ten degrees higher, to 735 degrees.
and then quenched and cooled II
bends only Ia degrees and its hard
ness becomes 512. Finally. when the
heat is increased another degrees
to TAO degrees. the effect is thai the
steel will not bend at all and its hard
ness number rises to 713.
All these results are produced by a
range Of temperature less than that
experienced by the air on an ordinary
spring day. There is steel contain
ing 20 per cent Of nickel which is al
most non-magnetic and has tenacity
Of 40 tons per square inch. II I'M
mersed in liquid air it becomes strong
II magnetic and its tenacfty rises to
IFS tons. Then, after returning to or
binary temperature, 1t retains te-
nacity of 115 tons.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-05-17
RELATIVES DIED WITH CUSTER
Many Members Of the Famous Sol
dlsrs Family Lost Their Lives
in the Massacre"

In the battle of the Little Big Horn.
popularity known as the Cluster
Massacre" In the governments cam
paign against the Sioux Indians in
the summer Of 1870. and In which.
besides Gen. George A. Custer, every
man In his command lost his life, sew.
eral near relatives Of Custer were
among the killed.
With Custer in that memorable
Heht was his brother, Capt. Tor
Custer, the only man in the United
States army who held two medals for
capturing two flags with his own
hands In the Civil war. After the
battle the Sioux chief, Rain-in-the-
Face, made good previous threat,
and accomplished terrible revenge
for an old grievance against Captain
Custer by cutting open the breast Of
the brave young soldier and eating his
heart. Calhoun, a brother-in-law Of
the general, was among the slain, as
MS Boston Custer, another brother
of the general. who was civilian for
are master Of the Seventh cavalry,
and Autie Reed, the generals nephew
"a mere boy, who wanted to see
something Of life in the West. and
Who had welcomed with JOY this op-
portunity to make the campaign.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-05-17
RAIL YARD TO cost MILLIONS
Freight Terminals t. Dc Suit az O"es
a Lee Angeles Will Cover
roo Acres.

Actual construction will be started
shortly on 7OOacre freight terminal
covering 4 two-mile strip along the San
Fernando road. beginning At tho North
Broadway yards, by the Southern 70.
ciAc Railway company 1T cost OF ssv
Srai millions Of dollars. This announce
ment was made recently by I. II. Will
liams, assistant general manager o.
the company, according to the Los
Angeles Examiner.
The completed yard will be one OF
the most extensive and comprehensive
freight terminals In the country. It
win include sections for classiAcation
and receiving, ear storage, delivery. re-
pair tracks, stock resting corrals, cleo
trio power house and Illuminating sys-
TEN for the yard, two 5ilstan round
houses, caboose tracks, drill tracks,
water tanks and mammoth repair shop.
ssThe construction Of this huge
freight terminal at Los Angeles 10 the
practical recognition Of the tremendous
growth Of the city and surrounding
towns and Of the greater growth Ia
prospect" said Mr.. Williams.
In 1920, . normal year, one railroad
company spent more than $6.OOO.OOO
for materials and supplies in Los
Angeles. It's normal pay roll 10 approx
imately 100000