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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
S|LvERF|ND
STARTsRUSR
TO SAN BIAS
Samples Of First Class Ores
Sent to San Fran
cisco.
ACTIVITY IS RENEWED
Representatives Of u. s. In
terests Visit Prop
critics.
ACTIVITY IS RENEWED

San Bias, Mexico, Sept. 22.-The
recent discovery of a rich silver mine
in this vicinity has caused renewed
interest and activity in the mining in
dustry of this region.
The strike is reported in the Nina de
Picachos, property of'Agustin Bila and
others.
Samples Of the first-class ores sent
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
New Consul Arrives

Tampico. Mex. Sept 22.-Lloyd
Homer Thompson. of Flakeline. Fla.
has arrived in Tampico to assume his
duties at the American consulate. TAX
ing the place Of Edgar Burton who re-
Gently RESIGNED.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04
NEW PLAN

Limiting immigration to Europeans
who are trained agricultural work
ers was urged by the farmers and
fruit growers of California, Colorado,
Arizona and Nevada in a convention
held recently at Santa Ana.
This would be applying a new
theory. basing immigration quotas
upon vocation rather than various
other tests that have been proposed
and ~practiced. Yet it would retain
enough of the old theory of selection
by nationalities to make it in reality
more effective in that direction than
any law as yet suggested. 1t would
shut out every Asiatic of whatever
occupation, including Japanese, Chi
nese and IIindoos, as well as Afri
cans of every kind. OF course, the
farmers do not intend to exclude
Mexicans or Canadians. as they have
been exempted in every recent enact
ment, as they are certain Of icing
for a long period in the future.
On FIRST reading the plan of the
farmers it seems both feasible and
sound. 1t also is ingenious and
worthy of the hand of an expert
writer of bills for passage by legisla.
tive bodies. AS to being selective il
would work automatically. The coun.
tries that have been sending hithel
immigrants who flock to the cities
and are looking for nothing hui
labor and trading occupations there
in, would no longer furnish ones eli
gible to enter and that would end it
The real labor shortage, that Of
farm help, would be overcome b,
direct action, if indeed it IS possible
to cure it by immigration. There YET
remains a question Of whether or not
it would be possible to induco agri.
cultural workers to leave Europe fol
such rewards as the industry in this
C. untry has to offer. For enc thing
the day of free land is past. and
those coming must either expect t.
work for wages or buy land.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04
wENDOyER ROAD COST

The Wendover road is to cost
double what the government engl'
neers told the secretary of agricul-
ture that it shorid
This shows the fallIbility Of the
human mind, even of scientific ones,
when there is an object to be gained.
The engineer from the outset de-
manded the building of the Wend-
over and discarding of the Lincoln
highway. They did not do so on
account of the cost, for it was known
and admitted that the Wendover
would cost a great deal more. But
they wished to make it appear as
light as possible and in so doing they
let their conservatism in figuring
costs run riot.
Contractors are cut for business
They are not turning down oppor-
tunities to make money. If the Wend-
over road could have beer built at
q profit for $4,000 or wen $780,
600, they would have jumped at it
and had the work under way al
ready.
They have gone over the specified
data and have arrived ut the idea
from experience and rigid estimates
of everything involved that they CAN
not build the road and make any
thing on it for les; than $715,000-
the state delivering the gravel at a
cost Of $1,000 o which is a part OF
this sui
This means is said several times
recently in the White Pine News that
the cos: of the road from Knobs to
Wendover will be at least 100000
when all items are paid, which is far
different from $3T9,006, which the
engineers told MIR. Wallace it would
cost.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04
BEAVER OR DELTA ROUTE

1t may be a waste Of space to talk
about the proposed c~oast-to-coast
highway to leave out Salt Lake City
and yet pass through Ely, yet while
talking about it i. may be as we'll TO
tell the truth. The truth about 1t
was told in a letter from a Delta
man, NJ. NJ. Steele, appearing in last
weeks Ely Record.
II such highway were built from
Green River, Utah, through Sal1na
and Clear Creek canyons to the Ar
rowhead trail, following this route to
Beaver, in the opinion of the White
Pine News it would W come north
again to Milford and Ely. 1t would
lose its identity right at Beaver, or
where it in~tersected the Arrowhead
trail this side of Clear Creek canyon
and proceed from thence to Los An
geles through st. George, Las Vegas,
Searchlight and the Mojave desert.
If such highway is seriously pro-
posed and Ely wishes to champion 1t
with the idea of being situated there
on, it must come. across from Scipio
OF" Fillmore to Delta and thence by
the Grand Central highway to Ely.
Such would be quite practicable,
1t is only thirty miles across from
Fillmore to Delta with no summit to
negotiate. Southwest from Delta
forty-seven miles is Margin pass
through the Sawtooth range. From
the east side this is nothing. 1t is
made in high gear. The west side
is pretty much of a hill, sleeper for
the lower half than the Wah Wah
climb on the Milford road, and either
of the two would have to be cleared
with a snowplow in winter.
In three valleys this road would
have to be we'll graveled before it
could be used except during the dry
months.
Mr.. Steele is right in saying that
the Grand Central highway was
handed to Ely on a platter and it has
shown slight appreciation, At that
the Lincoln highway is Ely's n and
only hope and it must stand by it.
But persons who feel that they must
consider a southern route across
Utah will not get it by way OF Beaver.
1t must come through Delta or leave
Ely out,
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04
FUTURE. OF LAS VEGAS

Undoubtedly Las Vegas not only is
enjoying the greatest measure Of
prosperity at this time OF any town
in Nevada, but it has by far the
brightest future of any.
It's natural agricultural resources
enhanced greatly by its abundance OF
artesian water, would insure a de-
velopment exceeding that of local..
ties in the state in ether respects
similar, but when is added to that
the peculiar advantages through prox.
unity to the projected Boulder dam
its Importance becomes far greater
Las Vegas is the only place from
which the dam may be approached
through the construction Of a rail
way. To Nevada this is important
to Las Pegas it is vital. 1t will mean
a population for that city exceeding
that Of Reno and the future will
prove that it will be the metropolis
of Nevada.
Some persons have nesitated about
tying up with the place because OF
its hot climate. Dut that does not
prove that there will not be enough
others who will not stop for climate
to place it in the same relation to
other cities Of Nevada that Phoenix
bears to those of Arizona. With
Flagstaff and Prescott en- joying the
finest climates in Amortization per
sons desiring altitude and four seas
ons-Phoenix Is and will continue
10 be the metropolis Of Arizona, this
for practically the identical reasons
that will operate hereafter in behalf
of Las Vegas in the Nevada race.
To get a true insight in the pres.
ent business conditions of the Clark
county capital one has but to take
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04
COST OF STATE GOVERNMENT

The department of commerce at
Washington announces that the cost
of government for the state of Ne
vada for the year 1922 amounted to
S3,20S, 800. In 1917 it was $1,402,-
SO, and in 1914 it was $1,142,530.
The per capita cost for these years
was $41.45, $17,S5 and $14.29 re-
spectively.
At first blush the comparison of
these costs would appear startling
were it not for the further statement
of the department that in 1922 al
most the entire amount of outlay
payments was for highway purposes
The increase in taxation at the pres
ent time is thus clearly explained.
The demand for better highways on
the part of the people is being met,
but at the same time it must be real
lied that highways cost money and
this money must be raised by taxa
ton. In our judgment the expendi-
lures for highway purposes consti-
tute one of the best investments that
the people of Nevada "a make. The
state needs more outside capital to
exploit its ~undeveloped resources; we
must furnish facilities for capital to
inspect what we have to offer; good
highways provide these facilities.
Likewise they provide a ear of get
ting our products to market at an
economical cost, which is one of the
first things capital investigates. Con-
struction takes time; We cannot have
all the desired highways completed
in one or two years; but at the pres
ent rate of improvement it will be a
few years only until we will have
a system of highways traversing our
state north and south as we'll as east
and west, and reaching to it's utter
most confines.
Locally speaking, it is only a few
years ago that it was nearly impos-
sible in wet, rainy weather for loads
of produce to be brought in to Ely
from Snake valley, Spring valley,
White river and other points, except
at a great loss Of time and money.
Now the same trip is usually made
in a few hours: frequently the round
trip is made in a day. We would
like to see the individual who wants
to go back when it took two days
to bring in a load from Lund or Pres
ton-sometimes longer; the Blue
Goose is a thing of the past; we don't
need it any more. The benefits re-
ceived by the farmer much more thar
offset the increased cost by way of
taxation; it is not he that raises the
cry against expenditures for good
highways, but it will be found large
ly emanating from the railroads and
other big corporate interests the
amount Of whose taxes greatly over.
top those of the smaller property
owner. However, these companies
are getting their out of the
state, SO why should they not leave
some of it here in the shape of good
roads? Is there anything unjust in
this?
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04

note of the prosperous appearance OF
its two weekly newspapers. That
there is no truer barometer of the
business vitality of a town than the
way its merchants express themselves
in the advertising columns of their
hame papers, V was better illus
trated.
Already with 4 population of easily
$500, the actual population is believ-
ed to he nearer 1000.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04
END IN SIGHT

IL am not going to talk this eve.
ming" said the speaker. 1--WE been
cured of that. The other night I was
making a speech when a a entered
the hall and took a seat right in the
front row. I had not been talking an
hour when 1 noticed he was becoming
idgety. Finally he arose and asked:
"'Shay, how long you been lectur.
in'Y
".About four years, my friend l re-
piled.
"'Well,' he remarked, as he sat
down, I'll stick around you must be
near through"
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04
Mans Real Needs,

Man is indeed abroad to satisfy
needs which are more to him than
his food or clothing. He is out to
find himself. Mans history is his
journey to the unknown in quest Of
the realization Of his immortal self
his soul.-Tagore.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04
Can't Kill That.
A thousand years
From now, I know,
They'll still be saying:
Amt 1t so?"
His e Estimate.

Dad" said the young hopeful, who
was thinking Of branching out in the
world, "whadda you think of the chick
en- business for me?"
"Well," said the wise one, II dunno,
son. 1t costs a lot to feed 'em. And
If you ever start using taxicabs you'll
60 broke"
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04
Profundities.

"Do you understand this new Chi
nese gamer"
NO." replied Miss Cayenne, "but l
like to trifle with it. 1t helps to take
my mind off the Einstein theory
Washington Star.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04
PROMPT.

George and I had a terrible quarrel
last night over the observance of our
golden wedding anniversary"
That's too bad! How long have
you been married now?"
Three days."
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04
A Little Fun for Himself.

WELL, Vaughn, how's your sweet
hearth"
"We're not friends any more"
"Well, you're going to make up,
aren't you?"
"Sure, but I'm going to play insult
ed for about a week and spend some
Of my money on myself"
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04

l seldom confess that l aver taught
school, but the first day l taught was
the memorable election day of 1884
when sixty of the Vil!isca young mel
marched in a column to the polls to
cast their votes, and 1 was asked by
Olin Kennedy-now o. A. Kennedy,
Ogden real estate man--to teach in
his place while he, my brother John
ny and the other fifty-eight elected
Blaine and Logan. I was just start
ing to hear the geography class re-
cite when Olin returned and he took
the book out of my hands He asked
them what were The products of Cen
trail America.
Yves Raines named sugar. Eddie
Raines cotton, Ira Kaprle said fruit,
Jimmy Kendall answered tobacco
and then it was Sammy's turn and
Sammy said, And 50 forth"
OF course We all laughed and Olin
said "and so forth" was like charity,
which covered a multitude of sins.
And so FORTH he said. covered a
multitude of ignorance. But Sammy
was not so far wrong at that for that
was exactly the way it WIS in the
book. Four products We're named
and the list ended with "&c," so YOU
cannot blame him for Swinging it
and getting away with i.
So I am inclined to think to this
day that Sammy's wit was not always
unconscious.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04
BABBLINC BROOKS
IN THE DESERT

About four miles north of Villisca.
Iowa, where yours truly was "brIng
up" there was a district resembling
Hoop Pole township. Posey county.
Indiana, where Rev. Edward Egg!es-
ton laid the scene Of the Hoosier
Schoolmaster. 1t was a neighborhood
extending several miles in four dilec-
tions and populated by tougEs of the
old backwocds species. I don't know
where they got it or who they We're,
but somebody at some time named
This district Hacklebarney. The fights
and booze Furnishing that went on
there were surely leaves from the
stirring past of which many 4 val
orous young American of those. days
was stepped with envy.
They were corn raisers and used
to haul their corn to town in strings,
twenty or thirty teams in a string,
and after unloading at the elevators
and receiving their IS or % cents 4
bushel. the Hacklebarneyians used
to hike to the n or two saloons in
! town and get fabricated up for the
return journey. This accomplished
they would start for home in a col
emn procession, but before they were
out of town half a mile every team
in the string would be in a dead run
like fire horses and the men yelling
and tearing the air with their oaths
and songs.
The toughest and smartest mar iE
the Hacklebarney outfit was an Did
timer named Joe Gourley. Joe drove
a bay mare with a star in her fore
head, blind in one eye. and her mate
was a slender horse. These animals
were some n and they knew
the road. Joe would head them for
home, give them a wallop and in two
minutes one line would be dragging
on the ground, the other either in
Joe's hands or dashed to the front
end-gate post, while Joe stood in his
high boxed wagon singing at the top
of his lusty voice:
II will guide thee with mine eye
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04

Over east of the middle Nodaway
from Hacklebarney we had a school
director named Dunlap Strain. Dun
lap was president of the board of the
district township, comprised of the
directors Of each Of the eight dis
tricts. He was long of limb and
large Of voice. He would preside
with an awfulness that was sublime.
At each meeting someone would come
in and make a little spiel about some
thing or other that was wanted for
his district or for the general uplift.
Dunlap would listen with dignified
silence and as the speaker would sit
down Dunlap would invariably say:
We'll bring that up at some pre-.
vious meetin'."
Even Hacklebarney and the people
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04

| villisca, four miles away--I mention
the distance to prove that l did not
live in Hacklebarney-were far
enough along with their lexicon
learning to know that Dunlap got
! previous" tangled up with future
but of course they never told him,
preferring to talk and laugh about it
the rest of their lives.
Earl Bath says: Thanks for that
roast on the fire department. That's
what l call constructive criticism
81 Miles says: ALLOW mr to con
graduate you on last weeks paper.
1t was there with the punch
John Smith y Gasoline whis.
ky "a no mix. Betcher life. Make a
dan,phool. Purity soon NJ STAY IN
house, move in street be safe
Manor of HOLLYWOOD wires White
Pine News as follows: why. you
POOR fish, didn't you arrang TO have
Rasmussen-if that's his name--just
keep Metcalf over a day and I think
the two of them could have finished
that fifteenth coyote and buried him
with the other fourteen with due
ceremony and have the funeral cor
tege q feature in the next release of
The I'athe Weekly?"
Scoops keep coming right along,
ten or a dozen a week. Getting so
there isn't the same old fun in it any
more. E. BROOKS.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04

it is just as bad to feel like swearing
as it is to swear"
Then she would gather a n by
three fence Stat and go at him, and
the way she worked the kid over can
only be comprehendcd by the sequel,
which would be when she got through
Sammy felt no more like swearing
than If he had been put through a
man-size clothes wringer, of a corn
shelter, for there was not a syllable
of a crossword left in him.
To make an extended anecdote
brief it may only be concluded that
it worked admirably, too, for as in
dicated at the outset Sammy wound
up at pulpit oratory back where the
best is none too good, and 1 don't
doubt that lie is still holding it down,
for it is said further that his Boston
born helpmeet has the mazuma and
likes his line of eloquence of which
he is said to be a master.
Being English we used to wonder
whether Sammy was consciously or
~unconsciously funny, but my youth
full association with him is one of
the bright spots in my life--the most
hilariously amusing. Once in the old
country schoolhouse. by the elm
grove, in the fall of the year, a cold
day caused by a NORTHWEST wind. came,
and the kidlets had to dig their last
winters coats out OF the rag bags to
wear to school. That forenoon for
more than IN hour Sammy kepv dig
! cling down behind the hack of his
neck Into his coat lining or some
where. Maggie Taylor, the teacher,
called him down gently for it sew
eral times, finally she stamped her
cute trilby ON the floor and shouted:
Sammy, will you stop that?'
Just as the words gained their lib
erty from her lips Sammy drew from
his resurrected garment by a tight
pinch at the tip of it's tail nothing
less than about the biggest mouse
that ever infested that part of Iowa.
Sammy was safe from punishment
then. Maggie left him alone.
My memory of the event tells me
that Sammy destroyed the He
was not mean about it as he might
have been.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04

Bill Shepard was a ctorekeeper i'll
town and Tom Payne was a resident
there, and they were hunting pals.
Bill moved to Des Moines and went
into the banking business and Tom
came out to Everett, Washington,
and engaged in the oil business. For
years they had not met. One day as
Mr.. Payne was about his duties a.
his little oil store a pair of long griz
zled WHISPERS were protruded into
his front door and a big voice within
their recesses inquired in loud and
serious tones:
Can you tell me how far it is to
Hacklebarncy7'
well, if that amt Bill Shepard
exclaimed Mr.. Payne, as he rubbed
his eyes to make sur. he wasn't
dreaming.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04

1 could write a whole hook about
here, because I'm going to saw the
dope and get it copyrighted.
The M. v. Johnson family did not
live in the district, being two miles
away and uncontaminated. Tho last
I heard of Sammy Johnson he was a
Methodist preacher at Boston or some
other effete burg, married to a lady
Of quality and living on the fat of
the land, but the funny antics that
kid used to cut up would fill 1000
comic supplements. He looked a good
deal like Slim anyway. His folks
were staid Methodists and his moth
err told Sammy throughout his nurs-
cry years that it was Just as had to
feel like swearing as to swear Be-
ing English the mother could not
think of Sammy as eve being child
ishly humorous, so when she put him
to holding the baby while she worked
and he wanted to get out of it he
| would let the little one fall on the
floor. Little sister would squawk,
the mother would grab Sammy and
hit him a light slap, then Sammy
would bawl like a yearling steer with
its head caught in a fence and shout:
II feel jist like swearin' now"
Nov, Sammy, Sammy" his moth
err would say with that megaphone
! voice Of hers, Give often told YOU that
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04

81 Miles says: ALLOW mr TO con
graduate you on last weeks paper
1t was there with the punch
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04

Earl Bath says: Thanks for thaI
roast on the fire department. That's
what l call constructive criticism"
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04

The News is delivered by mail or
by carrier at 50 per year.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-11-04

An Egyptian mummy with
bobbed hair has been found
they are digging for the go
lashes new.
The Denver Jewish news., 1923-04-04
U. S. AMBASSADOR IN Be
LIN URGED FRIENDSH
TO JEWS, HE SAYS.
(Jewish Correspondence Burea

NJtNlsu
Berlin - United States Ambassaj
TO Germany Allan 7. Houghton, ID
it upon himself recently to make und
cial representations to and use his
flucncc with leading Germans. in 4
crnment and private circles, with
view of pointing out to them the inj|
tice and wrong of agitation against
Jews, the j. {. i. correspondent
Informed by one who recently return
to Washington from Berlin and h
occasion to learn the Ambassadd
friendly activities.
The Ambassador, in his conversatid
is said to have pointed out that
American government was entirely d
of sympathy with the anti-Semi
campaign, and that Germany was ri
ing the loss of much of the good-v
of the L. s. by continuing in the Or,
ent course. Hougliton further call
attention to the contributions Je
had made in every walk of Germ
life, showing how detrimental to its O,
progress the anti i-Semetic movement
Subscribe TO the Jewish NeVs
The Denver Jewish news., 1923-04-04
IMMIGRANT BARS AT NEW
SOUTH WALES, BUT MAY
CHANGE LATER.

London-Jewish immigrants except
those of British nationality can find no
refuge ut present in New South Wales,
but the future may see II change of this
policy according to word received from
the government at Sidney by the jew
ish Correspondence Bureau.
"Thc governments policy" writes the
Secretary of the Immigration Bureau,
lis at present restricted to the immi-
grafton of Britishers and the govern
ment would welcome Jews of British
nationality under appropriate safe
guards as to their finding employment
here. The question of extending i'm
migration facilities to persons of other
nations will receive consideration ut IL
later date
The Denver Jewish news., 1923-04-04

1t was recently discovered that sam
uel Jelikovsky, II Jewish machinist of
Los Angeles, possessing u surprisingly
scholar by one of California's notc0
vocalists and music CRITICS, Carl Bron-
son. IL is predicted that lie will he
come Il famous tenor. Music lovers all
over the country Will soon have the
pleasure of listening to his golden voice,
as Jelikovsky will soon start on IL con-
cert tour of the world.