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SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1914.
REWARDS OF MINING GO TO THE
MEN WHO STICK TO IT.
The business of mining, while it
has every advantage inherent in all
other lines of effort, has also some
few that are peculiarly its own. says
the Denver Mining Record.
Looking at the industry from the
standpoint of purely systematized j
commercialism and disregarding the
element of speculation (the factor j
which makes mining attractive to the
majority of the human race'.) it can
be truthfully and consistently said
that no man who enters the field and
persistently—doggedly follows the
occupation fails to. ultimately, win its j
rewards:
The Success Microbe is an ellusive 1
little beast! He has a way of aliht
ing in the most unexpected places
and at startling unforseen times.
Again, like the Irishman’s flea, many
times "Ye put yer hand ahn 'im an' he
aint there!’’- but none the less, the
man who goes into mining and slays
there eventually makes money and not
infrequently piles up a handsome for
tune.
Were it possible to get back into
the lives of practically every one of
the great—and lesser—mining mag
nates of today, stories of struggles
with poverty, privation and hardship
utterly incompatible with the present
affluence of these same men would
be forthcoming.
Senator W. A. Clark for instance,
gives an intensely interesting account
of what happened to him before his
Butte holdings started him on the
road to great wealth and the I'nited
Verde followed this up with its rec
orded profits of a “million a month."
Denver hold a multitude of men
whose individual incomes from the
ore business and its allied industries
range all the way from "fairly com
fortable” to "s'ix figures."
A. I). Darker for example, who is
just now in the lime light owing to
wealth recently acquired and still ac
cumulating, is reputed to have “grub
staked" his prospector colleague for
twenty long years before they finally
"struck it" in the Florence mine. John
Campion is another multi-millionaire
who knows the feel of a pick handle.
A. E. Reynolds could make you sit and
listen for hours at a time—if he
would—and every other mining man
who has long since “quit worrying
about the eats” could recount facts
concerning himself which would sure
ly surprise those whose acquaintance
with him is of comparatively recent
origin.
The host of men who, while not in
the plutocratic class, draw substantial
revenues from the mines is far larger
than is generally known or believed,
but every single one of them owes
his success to his ability to stick.
One of the advantages referred to
as being peculiarly characteristic ot
mining is the fact that there is no
commodity that runs into money so
fast as reasonably good ore nor is
there any other product not directly
influenced by the cost of its pro
duction. A manufacturer, to double
his output must at once provide a
larger factory, increase his selling
costs tind all his other expenses; a
merchant, to do a larger business has
to immediately tie up a much larger
capital in stock and multiply his ex
penses all along the line; a farmer,
to handle a greater acreage, must ac
quire more land, more equipment,
more help—but— it costs no more
to mine and market ore worth a hun
dred dollars a tpn than it does to
produce an equail quantity worth ten
dollars a ton.
In all other lines of endeavor in
which men labor long and continu
ously, profits accumulate gradually
but your mine operator usually works
longer and harder than any of them,
very frequently without any financial
reward at all, until finally he opens .up
a.body of ore that in a few months
enables him to recoup the outlay of
years. and thereafter continues inde
finitely to earn more money for him.
This is, of course, only one phase,
of ipining. Conducted as it. now is—
"As business, not as an adventure”—
the regular, steady income from large
^deposits of low grade ores is constant- ,
ly in line for great and sudden in
crease by reason of the mine work
ings opening enriched zones which
occur at intervals in practically all
mineral veins.
From the nature of the business its
big rewards are erratic but the factor
of “luck" is cred'ted with a good
deal more influence than it deserves.
As a level-headed, hard-fisted miner
friend once expressed it, "They call
me lucky but I aint any such tiling;
I know how—and—I stick to it!"
Approaching Stability at Culebra.
According to the latest reports j
from Panama, the descent of earth |
into the canal at the Cucaracha
"slide” has ceased at Hast, and the !
great cut will remain ( Hear as soon ;
as the dredges can remove the de
posits already in 't -a task of no
great magnitude.
This prophecy is probably a little
rash, and it may meet the fate that
has befallen others like it, made in
the past, but those troublesome bills
cannot keep on sliding down forever.
Their inclination to do that has far
exceeded the expectations of the. en
gineers, but the possibilities of dis
placement have been recognized and ■
admitted from the beginning, and no :
real mistakes have been made. If the ,
engineers bad known exactly what the i
composition of the hills was and '
how their materials would act when
exposed to the tropic rains, the fig
uring would have been close, for I
“angles of stability” can be calculated l
like many others, and it has been j
done for scores of substances, subject I
ed to as many influences.
The conditions in Panama were .
really new, for increase of size has
qualitative as well as quantitative ef~ ■
feets, and the magnification of a lit- j
tie thing often produces, not only a
big thing, but a thing in many re
spects quite dierent. That is what
happened at Culebra, and it explains
why the cut as first planned has had
to be widened so enormously and at i
such terrible expense.
Gets Argentine Contract.
LONDON,--Against . competition i
from the leading American, Belgian .
and German structural engineering
firms the Cleveland Bridge and Kn- i
gineering Company of Darlington has i
obtained from the Argentine govern !
ment a contract for the erection of j
a great new reservoir at Caballito, in
connec’ion w ith the water supply of !
Buenos Aires. This reservoir, which ;
will consist of three tiers of wrought !
iron tanks on columns, will be 117 '
feet from the ground level. It will
have a capacity of 16,000,000 gallons
of water and rank as by far lhe larg -
est elevated reservoir, built or build
ing, in any part of the world. A
somewhat, similar but slightly small
er structure is nearing completion at
Buenos Aires by the same engineers.
The cost of the reservoir is more
than $3,000,000.
Russia’s Big Army Cost.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 28.—
The extraordinary military estimates
Just submitted to the Russian Duma
amount to more than $60,000,000,
showing an increase of 30 per cent,
as compared with the extraordinary
army estimates of -^913. This amount
is quite apart from the ordinary ap
propriations for ftie army.
Notice to Masons.
Special communication of Valdez
Lodge No. 168, F. and A. M. Sat
urday evening, March 28. Work in
the third degree. Visiting brethren
welcome. By order of W. M.
C. C. REYNOLDS, Secretary. ,
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Music! Music! Music!
Ail the latest popular music at the j
Valdez Drug Store.
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Services will be preached by the
Rev. Charles S. Price in the Congre
gational church Sunday as follows:
In the morning the pastor will preach
on the subject, "Jacob’s Vision.” In
the evening at 7:30 the subject will
be "The Golden Key.” You are cor
dially invited to attend these services.
The Sunday school convenes imme
diat.ely after the morning service.
Fred Hanks, an old and popular
Nomeite, is now in New York, where
one of his songs recently made a big
hit at a concert given at the Cort
theater for the benefit of the anti
vivisection society. The song was
sung by Jack Haines, also an old
Nomeite.
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FOR RENT or lease, one pool am!
one billiard table complete. Inquire at
the Big Place, Also a moving picture
machine in first-class condition. tf
Will leave Valdes about March 30th
for Nelchina and S31ate creek. Robert
McIntosh. , , ti
Suits pressed for *1.0 at Silver
man’s, the tailor. Telephone 198.
Wrangell trollers are catching t)ig, ■
fine spring salmon *"•
BIG GAS WELL ON FARM. '
Tapped at a Depth of 350 Feet—Pro
duces Five Million Feet Daily.
Evansville. Iml.—A well on the farm
of George Hornby, four miles north of
this city, is producing 5,000,000 feet
of gas a day, and experts say this
would supply the entire city of Evans
ville.
Hornby was drilling the well for
water recently and struck gas at the
depth of 350 feet. He at onc-o called
in W. .1. Ilodgers, an oil man. of this
city, and they decided to keep the find
a secret a few days until they could
lease about, 20.000 acres of land in that
locality.
Many oil and gas men are expected
here to look over the field. Ilodgers
and other experts say the well on the
Ilornby fnrm is not a shale well and
that conditions in the now field are
similar to those In the Casey (111.) field.
It is expected other wells will be drill
ed, and Ilodgers predicts that both gas
and oil will be found in abundance.
COW’S KICK CURES MAN.
Stammered Badly Before Blow, but
Now Talks Fluently.
Uodwood falls, Minn. — A kicking
cow which swung a foot against the
throat of Gustavo Reiufleish, a farm
baud, thirty years old. cured him of
stammering.
The blow made the man unconscious
for several minutes, but when he re
gained his senses and attempted to say
unkind things to the cow he found ho
could do so without stuttering.
Then his words became extreme
praise of considerate "bossy,” for he
had stammered all his life and had
spout all ho could save in trying treat
ments he hoped would cure him of the
impediment.
Aside from bruises on bis throat.
ReinHeish did not suffer injury.
WRONG MAN GETS MEDAL.
Person Saved Receives the Carnegie
Decoration and $1,000.
Butte, Mont.—An odd mistake has
been disclosed by the announcement of
the Carnegie medal award, in which it
appears that a rescued man is the re
cipient of a bronze medal and $1,000
because he needs It instead of the
rescuer.
To Roy ilubbnrd was awarded the
recognition by the Carnegie hero com
mission. He was one of the uncon
scious men whom John Lindqucst. a
former Marathon runner and well
known athlete, rescued. Hubbard and
another workman had fallen victims
to gas in a gas pit, when Lindqucst,
attracted by a crowd in the street, de
scended and bore the unconscious men
to safety as the crowd cheered.
FINDS SISTER AFTER
FOUR YEAR SEARCH
Slager Rescues Girl After
Chase Across Continent.
San Francisco. — A heartbreaking
search for his little sister consumed
four years of Louis Slager’s life, took
him from his home in New York city
and launched him on a long, weari
some and wbnt often seemed a hope
less quest.
His search terminated here, where
he met her for the first time in the
four year interval.and under dramatic
circumstances.
Slager four years ago vowed to his
mother that he would devote bis life
to finding bis sister, and one of the re
sults of his efforts is the arrest of Ja
kub Wolborsky, member of an opera
troupe. The girl’s name is LilUe Sla
ger. and she was seventeen years old
when she fled from New York.
Wolborsky will be turned over to tbe
federal authorities for possible depor
tation.
Louis Slager is twenty-five years old.
In the family four years ago were
Slager. bis widowed mother and his
little sister, Lillie The girl Is unusual
ly attractive.
Filled with sorrow and horror, Sla
ger qifit his employment and started
in pursuit.
When she saw her brother she cried
out and rushed toward him. He caught
her in his arms. Brother and sister
wept.
INDIAN ORDAINED A PRIEST.
Second of Race to Enter Ranks of
American Clergy.
Superior. Wist—Philip B. Gordon. an
Indian, has been ordained to the Cath
olic priesthood by Bishop Kondelka. He
is the second of Ills race to be ordain
ed in the United States. Bev. Albright
Neganquet was ordained several year*
ago for the diocese of Oklahoma.
Gordon’s grandfather was Auton
Gordon, one of the first settlers in this
country.- The town of Gordon was
named in his honor. He was influen
tial with Chief Hole-In-the-Day. and
his counsel prevented an uprising ot
the Chippewa.s in 18fi2.
Takes Army' “Kids’ "■ Candy.
Washington.*—Chocolate rations. -Iour
the mainstay of the army as an emer
genc.v diet, have been ordered with
drawn by Secretary of War Garrison.
While it« nutritive value la pronounc
ed good pr C. F I/ongworthj of the
agricultural department bakrepOrted
I that H is “defective as to 'digestibillty
; and therefore deleteroua to the health
of Its consumer* “
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Summons for Publication.
Theo. Emel, plaintiff, vs. \Y. Fred
Swanson and F. A. Hancock, defend
ants. No. Summons for Publica
tion.
To tile above named defendant.
W. Fred Swanson;
You are hereby required to appear
in the district court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, within
thirty days after the completion of
publication of this summons against
you, to-wit, within thirty days after
the 28th of March, 1914: and answer
the complaint of plaintiff filed here
in, and unless you so appear and an
swer the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in the
complaint, decreeing her to be the
owner of the launch Anita, and that
neither you nor your co-defendant has
any interest in or title to the same.
Witness the Hon. Fred M. Brown,
judge of said court, this 13th day of
February. 1914. ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of the District Court, for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
By T. P. GERAGHTY, Deputy Clerk.
First publication Feb. 14, 1914.
Last publication March 28. 1914.
Notice of Election.
Notice is hereby given that a uni
nicipal election will be held Tuesday.
April seventh. 1914, at the Fire Hall
in the Town of Valdez, for the pur
pose of electing seven counciltnen to
serve for the period of one year, anfl
one member of the local School Board
for the position of clerk for a term
of three years. The polls will be
opened at nine o'clock a. m., and will
be closed at seven o'clock p. m. of
said day.
The following persons shall be
qualified electors for counciltnen:
All citizens of the United States,
or those who have declared their in
tention to become such, of the age
of tw enty-one years, who have been
bona fide residents of Alaska for one
year and of the Town of Valdez for
six months next preceding said elec
tion.
The following persons shall be1
qualified electors for officers of School
Board:
All adults who are citizens of the
United States, or who have declared
their intention to become such, and
who are residents of the Valdez
School District.
Judges of election are Chas. Sea
green, Heber Smith and J. J. Cavana.
The clerks are C. J. Todd and Joe
Kaher.
RANDA1X K. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
Dated this 12th day of March. 1914.
Hospital of the Good. Samaritan.
For $e.Ot> we will give you a ticket
entitling you to hospital service and
care for any eight weeks out of the
/ear from date of your .ticket, when
incapacitated by Injury or sickness.
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VALDEZ MINERS UNION 188
Western Federation of Miners
Meets Every Tuesday Evening at
7:30 p. m. at Miners’ Hall
H. M. CARTER, Pres.,
ANTON DAHLSTROM, Secy.
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet e-cry Tuesday cvenint; ai « o'ciou. II
Kaule Hall All members are requested tc
attend T. (5. QUINN. AretloOhlel
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|Washington.ID. C.
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