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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12
Hawaii's Memorial Stone

The memorial stone from Ha-
waii which is to be placed in the
Washington monument is of coral
sandstone and will bear the fol-
lowing inscription in Hawaiian:
"Ua mau Ike ca ka alma i ka
pono." The translation of this is
The life of the land is preserved
in righteousness" and it is the Of
fetal motto of the island.
The stone is 4 by 2 feet and s
inches thick. 1t will be placed in
the interior of the monument on
the 36O-fOot level.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12

He opened the first gateway
through the mountains, the South
Pass, later to be threaded by
Innumbered thousands of home
seekers and gold-hunters, nd
from it he was to make four
trails, fan-shaped; one far to the
north, one far to the northwest,
On far to the west, one far to
the southwest. He was the herald
Of the Western American empire,
the makers of which would fol-
low his trails and settle in farms
and towns and cities from the
mountains to the sea-" And all
this he accomplished during his
short life of only thirty three
years!
Jedediah Strong Smith was his
name and not unfttingly has he
been called the American Ulys-
ses." But nearly a century was
to elapse before a Homer should
arise to tell the tale of his wan
behring's and sing the glory of his
achievement. In the meantime,
another and lesser man, following
the trail which he had blazed,
would be hailed as the Path
finder" John G. Fremont was
the man but, by every rule OF
simple justice, that title belongs
to Jedediah Strong Smith.
Considering the importance Of
Smith in the history of the fur
trade and of trans-Missouri ex-
ploration, it seems strange that
publication of a biography of this
giant of the Old West should
have been so long delayed. But
it was not until this year that
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12

ers had little regard for political
boundaries. They encamped on
the Umpqua river. There, one
day while Smith was away, the
Indians fell on the camp and vir-
tually wiped it out. Only two men
escaped. The Indians took the
entire outfit and that rich haul Of
furS.
Smith came back to find every
thing gone. One of the men who
had escaped joined him there and
the two headed farther north for
Fort Vancouver. There, strange
ly enough, the good DR.. Nc
Loughlin greeted them warmly,
although the Hudson's Bay COM
pany frowned on invasions of its
fur empire. Mclaughlin sent out
parties and made the Indians
disgorge the loot they had OBJ
tanned in the massacre of the
camp. Then he paid Smith $40, 900
for the lot.
The other refugee from the
camp reached the fort and, in
March of 1929, Smith and his
two companions set out up the
Columbia to drop over the divide
and make his way back to the
mountains where his company
was operating. He joined them
this time in Pierre's Hole and
there the three partners were
united for the first time in two
years. The following year Sub
lette and Jackson, well satisfied
with their returns from the fur
trade, decided to retire and enter
the Santa Fe trade.
The Fatal Decision.
Loading their wagons with 100
packs of furs, Smith, Jackson
and Sublette headed for St. Louis,
passing out of dominance in the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12

through safely and from a noun
tain top
"Jedediah Smith looked far,
far away to the horizon. The land
ended, there was water, and an
island in a vast ocean. What
thoughts passed through the
mind of 'Diah Smith as he gazed
upon this wonder we can only
conjecture. He may have thought
of the Greeks, of whom he had
read, who after long wandering
came joyfully at last to the Eu-
kline sea. He may have thought
OF Balboa, silent, upon a peak
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12

candlewicking or rags. You can
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engagements; an illustration of
them and of all stitches needed;
material requirements; color sug-
gestions.
Send Is cents in stamps or coins
(coins preferred) for this pattern
to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft
Dept, 81 Eighth Avenue, New
York, N. Y.
Write plainly pattern number,
your name and address.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12

IN Darien.' Certainly he thought
of the vision which had drawn
him through suffering and dam
ger, the first white man to cross
the continent from the bank of
the Mississippi to the California
shore.
Nov lay the second gate open,
the high road charted; westward
the course of empire saw its way.
In the young Yankee hunter, sit
ting his horse on the rim of the
world, lay the end of hope for
England, or for Russia to take
California, for Spain to regain it,
or for Mexico to keep its slender
hold"
His Odyssey Begins.
So Jedediah Smith came to the
end of his first remarkable jour
ney. But it was only the begin
ming of others, even more re-
markable in many respects.
When he arrived in San Diego
the Spanish authorities looked
with considerable suspicion on
this invader who might be COM
ing to spy out their fair country,
for those land-hungry, westward
pushing Americans who had so
recently extended their domain
from the Mississippi river to the
crest of the Rockies.
After spending some time at
San Diego, where he purchased
supplies, Smith led his men
still seeking good beaver
streams. Failing to find them on
the San Joaquin and the MERGED
rivers, he pushed on to the STAN
islaus. Then he turned his eyes
eastward where the Sierra Ne
vada range lifted its snow-capped
peaks toward the sky. Leaving
most of his party on the STAN
islaus, Smith with two compan-
ions, seven horses and two mack
mules set out to scale the range.
For eight days they fought tie
snowdrifts and finally emerged
O1 Tic cdSlGIu slut.
But ahead of them was the
Nevada desert, worse even than
the Mojave. For 20 days they
marched across that inferno and
by the time they had finally con-
quered it they had eaten all of
their horses but one. Sun-baked
and gaunt with hunger, they man.
aged to reach the summer rem
devious of the trappers on Bear
lake, near the present Lakewood,
Utah.
The Pathfinder Instinct.
Smith had travelled great cir
Gle over country never before
trod by white men. But his unerr-
ingf pathfinder instinct had led
him straight to his goal. I'm
daunted by the experiences he
had been through, he set out
again after only a short rest,
this time with l9 men and two
Indian women.
This time, the Spanish, fearing
no good of Smiths explorations,
had melted the Indians against
him and at the Mojave villages
beset his small party. Ten of his
men were killed, the two squaws
carried off to captivity. All his
belongings were lost.
With the remnants of his party
he reached California. To make
matters worse, the Spaniards
clapped Smith in jail at San Jose
and later moved him to Monte
rey. But he finally succeeded in
getting his freedom by signing
a paper that he would leave the
country Immediately.
North he headed with his party
for 300 miles to the American
Fork. Beaver here were plenti-
full. The traps were daily yield
ing rich catches and small for
tune in furs was being gathered.
Into Oregon. British territory,
the party went, for these fur trad
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12
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SCH
Thinks about
Apaches Going Sissy.

CANTA MONICA, CALF
- A missionary on an Arizona
reservation says the Apache, once
the fiercest of the tribesmen, is
going plum sissy, and when a
movie company took a group of
Indian extras on location these
original Americans, being stripped
for action, got terrible cases of
sunburn. They'd worn clothes so
long their tender skins couldn't
stand the heat.
There's a lesson here, although,
so far as the victim is concerned,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12
@-WNU Service,
Proof Coins

Proof coins are made from spe-
cial dies particularly for coin col
lectors. Of the same design as ordi-
nary coins, they have a more bril-
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facture, together with the fact that
they are less common, makes them
more valuable than an ordinary
coin of the same denomination.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12

of the world, in that spring of
1922. There he joined the famous
Ashley Henry expedition which
proposed to go up the Missouri
and tap the rich fur resources
of its headwaters and its tribut-
aries and by doing so he became
associated with men whose
names would loom large in the
future history of the Old West
Gen. William H. Ashley, Maj.
Andrew Henry, William L. Sub
lette, Jim Beckwourth, Hugh
Glass, and Thomas Fitzpatrick
(''Fitz of the Broken Hand").
He Becomes a Hunter.
Smith was engaged as hunter
for the expedition and although
that relieved him of the ardous
task of helping drag the 75-foot
keelboat (''cordelling," they
called it, up the Big Muddy, his
duties exposed him constantly to
attack from either supposedly
friendly or openly hostile Indians.
However, he successfully avoided
those dangers during the trip up
the river as he did similar dam
gers that winter when he was
hunter for the post which Major
Henry had established at the
mouth of the Yellowstone.
Young 'Diah won his spurs as
an Indian fighter during the at
tack by the Arikaras Tor Rees)
on Ashley's up-river party the
next year. He also won the high
regard of that leader by being
one of the two men who volun-
teered for the task of traversing
the 800 danger-flled miles to get
help from Major Henry on the
Yellowstone As a result, he be-
came a captain of the company
of trappers who joined with Col.
Henry Leavenworth in his punt
tive expedition against the Rees
and he also became one of Ash
ley's most trusted captains in
the conduct of the trapping and
trading business which that ener-
getic leader carried on during
the next three years in the
Rocky Mountains.
During this time Smith
widened his acquaintance among
the trappers and fur traders who
were already famous or would
become famous later-such men
as Jim Bridger, Joe Meek, Mil
ton Sublette and Moses
C'Black") Harris. And the re-
markable thing is that such men
as these priced the friendship
and acknowledged the right to
leadership of this slender, beard
less young Yankee. He became
their leader in still another sense
in 1926 when Ashley, who had
made a modest fortune out of
the fur business in three years,
decided to retire So he sold his
stock of goods, his company and
everything he owned in the noun
tains to Smith, William Sub
lette and David E. Jackson.
The new firm Immediately di-
vided up the duties of the bust
ness. Smith became the finder of
new fur trails, Sublette was in
charge of field operations and
Jackson was in charge of the
company business. As a finder
Of new fur country Smith i'm
mediately set off upon his amaz-
ing wanderings. He started west
out of the Salt Lake basin with
Is men. They passed the Great
Salt Lake and headed southwest
ward for California. This route
took them across the blazing Mo
JADE desert and the hardships
which they suffered on this jour-
ney were terrific. But they won
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12
War VS.. Preparedness.

As one who saw the first few
months and the last few months
of warfare on the Western front,
I'm like nearly every other man or
woman who Witnessed those things
II hate war.
It's the next morning of drunken
glory. It's stencil, an obscenity,
a vain wastefulness, an unutterable
indecency. It's a machine which
sucks in at the hopper the beauty,
the youth, the hope of the world and
spews out from the spout the fin
ished product broken bodies
blinded eyes, maddened brains;
dead men and dying men and ruined
men.
But because we are against war
and because we believe the best in
surance for continued peace is prop
er preparedness in times of peace,
and because we behold half of civili-
zation on the edge of war again and
wonder where they'll strike after
they've torn one another's threats.
we do sort of worry to see our
country cut down on its defenses.
IRWIN S. COBB.
G-WNJ Service
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12

it's probably too late
to do anything about
it. Once we'd backed
the noble red man
into a pair of So
pants we had him
tanned. Sitting Bull,
in war bonnet and
buckskins, was a
splendid S a " G e,
but, wearing over
ais and a hickory
shirt, he became
lust a brunette farm
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12
Jedediah Smith, the Real "Pathfinder"
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON

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overland thus foreshadowing its future change
he the first white scale the High Seras and
the first explore the Pacific slope from San Diego Vancouver
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12
Inward Beauty

w HO has not experienced
w how, on near acquaint-
ance, plainness becomes beauti-
fed and beauty loses its
charm. exactly according to the
quality of the heart and m-nd?
And from this cause am / of
opinion that the want of out
ward beauty never disquiets a
noble nature or will be re-
garded as a misfortune. It
never can prevent people from
Deins amiable and beloved in
the highest degree.
Justice consists in doing no
injury to men; decency, in CIV
ing them no offence.-Cicero.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12

ndnQ.
The derby hat may be the home
hest creation ever devised for hui
man use, but it's the GROWING tri-
umph of civilization, and the most
pacifying for alien folks, as wit
ness Halle Selassie, looking now
rather like a Filipino bellhop on his
Sunday off.
Humans Becoming Monkey-Like.
A professor of psychology adj
vances the thought that mankind, In
ages to come, may be headed for
the all-fours posture which once the
species did use-f you accept the
evolutionary theory, which most of
us do, because we like to think OF
some people we know as having had
monkey-like creatures for ancestors.
We say to ourselves, the poor things
aren't entirely over it yet.
But the learned gentleman who
trying to lift the veil of the future
overlooks the lessons of the present.
He should study New York and
Newport society when European
royalty is in our midst.
Denouncing the Baby Derby.
When Prime Minister Hepburn de-
nounced Toronto's so-called baby
derby as ''the most revolving, dis
gushing exhibition ever put on in a
civilized country" lot of us gave
three loud, ringing cheers.
That eccentric Canadian million
aire, who left his fortune for con-
test seemingly devised to prove that
the human species has strain of
Potomac shad in it, unintentionally
came near to making cheap and
sordid the loveliest thing on this
earth, which is motherhood.
To see families engaged in a race
to bring babies and yet more ba-
bies into the world, merely on the
hope of getting paid for it; to realize
the certainty of vulgar squabbling
over the prize; to know that inevita-
bly, lawsuits will absorb most of
the honeywell, there are many
who oppose birth control. But de-
iberately fostered birth uncontrol
may have its drawbacks, eh, what?
The Fate of Big Bolshevists.
Here's what has happened to the
original Bolshevist leaders, the ia
theirs of the Soviet setup:
Trotsky, in exile and due to stay
there if he values his health; Kam-
eneff, exiled, recalled, executed last
August; Zinovieff, executed; Rykoff,
denoted, arrested and trial impend-
ing, hence regarded as bad insur-
ance risk; Radek in the same fix
and said to be worried, and I
wouldn't blame him; Tomsky, COM
mitted suicide to avoid something
even more unpleasant; Kiroff, as
sassinated; Mikoyan, got out in time
and stayed out; Bukharin, under
suspicion and arrest impending,
odds against, 9 to S; Evdokimoff, ex-
ecuted; Smirnoff, executed; Lenin,
died a natural death, but then Lenin
always was different; Stain, Bub-
noff and Krylenko, all going strong,
but you never can tell, so would
do well not to play too far in ad,
vance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12
Presidents as Latin Scholars

Taft, Coolidge and Hoover were
good Latin scholars, but not lin
gusts In modern languages.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31

effectiveness of sef-regulation of industry may be
determined by decision in the sugar case.
The court considered the question in pre-NFA
days but its answers we're on narrower points and
rather obscurely put Business doesn't know how
far it can co.
This is one of the biggest" cases in volume, too
The trial took six months The transcript of 10,550
words fills 80 volumes. The lower court decided that
the institute must cease many Of its concerted ac-
tties but did not order it dissolved as requested
by the government.
The main point is the open price" device. This
is to say, can the Sugar Institute, whose members
control more than 10 per cent of the national
sumption control prices by agreeing to sell only at
openly announced prices? The lower court said no.
The institute contends that this is not undue"
or unreasonable" restraint of competition. 1t was
in 1911 that the Supreme Court, in upholding the
dissolution against Standard OH, said in an aside
that the Sherman antitrust law forbids only "un-
due" restraints on commerce.
THE institute further says that this system is the
only way to give effect to the 1914 Clayton
antitrust acts policy of dscouraging secret discrim
nations in prices
The government says the practice is illegal be-
it unduly restraints and suppresses competition
form price structure relatively high prices and in
creased profits"
The lower court exonerated the institute of any
direct agreement among members to raise and main
tain prices and allocate territory, point involved
in many previous antitrust cases.
But, according to the government, the institute
did engage in many undue restraints of trade, in
the following methods, which reminiscent of
many NFA code provisions:
l. Restraints on brokers and warehousemen, prin-
cipaly through boycotting traders who engaged in
than distributive function.
2. Transportation restraints particularly an
agreement to sell only at delivered prices.
3. Concerted reduction of the number of CON
sgnment points'-interior points where sugar is
held by refners for delivery as purchased
4. Concerted prohibition of long-term contracts
and quantity discounts
5. Prohibitions against refners making contracts
for processing sugar for the account of the customer
6. Concerted prohibitions against used-bag al
lowances and the packing of private brands"
T. Restraints on sales of damaged sugar, so-called
frozen stocks, and resales.
g. Restraints price guarantees
g. Collection and dissemination of information
withheld from. the trade.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31
THE EROSION ARGUMENT

HERBERT HOOVER'S contention that soil fer
Utility can readily be replaced by 'nitrates made
from air is challenged by DR.. Paul B. Sears in his
soil erosion classic Deserts on the March,"
Mr. Hoover offered this suggestion in a recent
Nebraska speech when he criticised President Roose
welt for becoming alarmed at the danger of shipping
our soil fertility to Europe.
Soil wrote Dr. Sears, sis now known to be- not
a substance, or mixture of useful chemicals but a
phenomenon of the utmost complexity, whose deli
cate balance is easily disturbed and whose complete
Interpretation is yet far off,
THE restoration of fertility by ideness has proved
failure in temperate climates 1t is not a
matter of one, or even several, human generations
but process of centuries
Mature is not to be conquered save on her own
terms. She is not concliated by cleverness or in
dustry in devising defeat the operation of
one of her laws through the workings of another.
"she is very businesslike old lady, who plays no
favorites Man is welcome to outnumber and dorni-
nate the other forms of life, provided he main
tain order among the relentless forces whose bal
anced operation he has disturbed.
But this hard condition is one which, to date
he has scarcely met. His own past is full of clear
and somber warnngs-vanshed civilizations like dead
flies in lacquer buried beneath their own dust and
mud"
And again DR.. Sears sounds a warning against
the modern mechanistic efficiency expert
There is not much in the story of China India
and Egypt to suggest that an entire continent can
be exploited with the efficiency of the machine age.
while its inhabitants multiply and enjoy what the
politicians speak of as the American standard of
living"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TWO things I always shall remember about the
eleventh conference on the cause and cure of
war. One was the hardness of the seats; the other
the speech made by Rep. Hamilton Fish of New
York each sentence of which contradcted its
predecessor.
Perhaps the second item may have been i'm
pressed upon memory by the first. Certainly. by
the time Mr.. Fish arose to speak, my spine had
curved into peculiar fluctuations in trying to adjust
itself TO the straight upand downness of the objects
politely spoken of chairs. My legs asleep;
my shoulder ached from the pressure of the top
rung which pushed me forward.
Without knowing who was responsible for the
uncomfortable seating arrangements my mind kept
running upon the Navy lobby, international spies and
Sir Basil zaharoff After half an hour of sitting,
ones disposition grew definitely beligerent.
But to get back to Mr. Fish. 1t may have been the
chairs as say which provoked the ladies to hiss
and boo his imprisoned declaration that wars will
never cease.
That said Mr.. Fish, to him certainty. He
felt sorry, indeed for any foolish individual who
believes peace could ever be accomplished upon this
earth However-he declared himself for it. He
thought it mighty fine thing and he wanted
us to know that he had fought, bled almost died
for it. and would go fighting for it so long life
was in him.
This gave us an entirely new conception of Mr..
Fish and his crowd 1t endows them with glamour
they have never worn before For here they are
reasts in world of dealism. battling calamity for
the fantastic. mad impossible dream.
On second glance, however, the garments of Don
Quixote do not sit so becomingly upon Mr.. Fishs
shoulders, for here Is one who tits with windmills
land knows they are windmiIls.