I IIII IIII
SECI(ETARY OF WAR SEVERELY
CENSURES GENERAL MILES
Washington, D. C.. Dec. 22.--A deter-
mination oa the part of the administra-
tion absolutely to terminate further
diseussslon of the Sampson-Schley con-
troversy took shape in the publication
yesterday of some remarkable corres-
~reondence that has passed between Sec-
tary Root and Lieutenant General
YIiles relative to the latter's interview
~ublished in a Cincinnati paper, com-
nenting upon the Sch!ey case.
It is seldom that so severe a repri-
~mnd is administered to an officer of
• nigh rank in either service. What the
,-esult will be cannot be foretold, al-.
though it is assumed that General
~Iiles will submit without further
mmment.
The reprimand is contained in the
:ollowing letter of Secretaxy Root to
~eneral Miles:
"War Department, Washington, D. C.,
Dec. 21, 1901.
"sir:--By direction of the President
[ communicate to you his conclusions
~pon your eotlrse in the interview to
whlch your attention was called by my
fetter of the 19th inst.
"Yaur explanation of the public state-
ment made by you is not satisfactory.
You are in error if you say that you
have the same right as any other citi-
zen to publicly express an opinion re-
garding the questions pending in the
course of milit.ry discipline.
"The first article of the regulations
governing the Army of the United
States provides:
"'Deliberations or discussions among
military men conveying praise or sen.
sure, or any mark of approbatlm
toward others in the military service
axe prohibited.'
"In this controversy the army hat
not been involved, and no bar has beez
raised to that good feeling and friend
ly relation between the officers of th,
navy and the officers of the army
which is so essential to the successfu
and" harmonious co-operation of thq
two services in preparation and in ae
tion. A court of inquiry had been hel(
on the matters in the controversy ant
a report had. been made in which om
member of the court had disseutec
in some particulars from the majoritj
and the report was pending before th(
reviewing authority.
"At this point, as the )ieutenant geu
oral of the army, you saw fit to mak,
a public expression of your opinion a~
between the majority and the minoritj
of the court, accompanied by a criti
cism of a most severe character, whict
could not fall to be applied by the gen.
erality of readers to the naval officcrJ
against whose view your opinion was
expressed. It is of no consequence on
whose side your opinion was, or what
it was. You had no business in th0
controversy, and ho right, holding tha
office which you did, to express any
opinion. Your conduct was In viola-
FARMING MATTERS.
Romnces of Agriculture.
Any one still under the delusion that
farming Is an occupation giving little
opportunity for mental effort should
read Secretary Wlison's latest report.
There, says the Chicago Inter Ocean,
he will find the outlines of scores of
real romances of achievement, with the
world for their scene and the most
patient and acute minds as their ac-
tors.
k few years ago a frost, such as liv-
ing men had not known, swept away
the orange groves of Florida. To many
this was a calamity without remedy.
They could see nothing to do but to
replace the blasted trees and hope that
such a frost would not soon ~cur
again. But the scientific experta said:
"Let us find or make an orange tree
that will resist frost." Over in Japan
they found the tree, but its fruit was
of little value. So they set to work
to combine this Japanese tree with the
Florida sweet orange. They have pro-
duced the hardiest orange tree known,
and are confident that in a few years
they will have a fruit both resistant to
frost and of good quality.
Rice has been grown in Louisiana for
a hundred yeaxs, but the yield seemed
to be diminishing and the industry was
dwindIlng. About three years ago the
Agricultural Department suggested the
substitution of the Japanese rice plant
for that formerly grown. The experi-
fiaent was so successful that the pro-
duction this year exceeded that of 1899
tion of the regulation above cited and by 73,000,000 pounds, and imports of
the rules of official propriety; aud you rice have fallen from 154,000,000 .,to
are justly liable to censure, which I 73•000•000 pounds. About $20,000,000
now express, new capital has been invested in the
Very respectfully, gulf coast rice industu~y.
"ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of War. Coffee has long been the small Porto
"Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, Rican farmer's chief money crop.
Headquarters of the Army." Though little known in this country,
SECRETARY LONG APPROVES
FINDINGS OF THE MAJORITY
Washington, - Dec. 22. -- Secretary
Long has disposed finally of the Sehley
case so far as the Navy Department is
conerned, by acting upon the findings
and conclusions of the court of in-
quiry.
He approves ehe findings of fact
and the opinion of the full court~ he
approves the majority opinion where
there is a difference in the court; he
holds that the court could not have
entered into a consideration of the
questlon of command at the battle of
Santiago, and, finally, he accepts the
recommendation that no further pro-
ceedings shall be had.
Secretary Long yesterday issued the
formal order dissolving the Schley
court of inquiry. The order was com-
municated at once to Admiral Dewey,
president of the Kourt, who acknowl-
edged Its receipt ~d said that in con-
formity with the order of the secre-
tary he ha(~ announced the disso~tion
of the court.'
rrhe secretary ~Ise laas declined the
application of Admiral Sampson's
counsel to enter upon an inquiry into
ehe question of command and has noti-
fied ~K~mli~ai.~chley's counsel of that
fact as a reason for declining to hear
them on that poin~ .
Secretary I~ng's approval of the ma-
Jority report was ~ follows:
"The department has read the testi-
mony in this ease, the arguments of
counsel at the trial, the court's find-
tngs Of fact, opinion an4 recommenda-
tlon; the individual memorandum of
me presiding member, the statement
of exceptions to the said findings and
opinion by the applicant~ the reply to
said statement by the Judge advocate
of the court and his assistant, and the
brief this day submitted by counsel
for Rear Admiral ~ami~on, traversing
the presiding member's view as to who
was in command at the battle of San-
tiago.
"And after careful consld~ratlon the
findings of fact and the opinion of the
full court are approved.
"As to the points on which the pre-
siding member differs from the major-
lty of the court, the opinion of the ma-
orlty Is approved.
"As to the further expression of his
views by the same member with re-
gard to the questions of command on
the morning of July 3, 1898, and of
the title to credit for the ensuing vic-
tory, the conduct of the court in mak-
ing no findings and rendering no opin-
ion on those questions is approved--tu.
deed it could with propriety take no
~)ther course, evidence on these ques.
tions, during the inquiry, having been"
excluded by the court•
'~The department approves the rec.
ommendation of the court that no fur-
ther proceedings be had in the prem-
ises.
'~'he department records its appre-
ciation of the arduous labors .of the
whole court."
LANGUAGE WHICH LED
TO CENSURE 0F MILES
Washington, Dec. 22.--I¢ was the
language used by General Nelson A.
Miles In the interview telegi~phed
from Cincinnati, December 17th, that
led to the censure by the secretary of
war. General Miles said:
"I am willing to take the Judgment
of Admiral Dewey in the matter. He
been a commander of a fleet, and as
such has known the anxieties and re.
spenslbilities which rest on men un.
der •hess circumstances• He was in-
strumental in the destruction of one
~panish fleet and know~ and realizes
the feelings that encompass an officer
under such .conditions.
"I think Dewey has sumn~d uP the
matter in a clear and concise manner,
and I believe his conclusions will be
indorsed by the patriotic people of the
United States. I have no sympathy
with the efforts which have been made
to destroy the honor of a0 officer un-
der such circumstances."
When called to account for the above
quoted language, General Mllea ad-
dressed the following letter to Secre-
tary Root:
"The Honorable, the Secretary of
War, Washington, D. C.
"Slr--RepIying to your note of the
ieth instant, I have the ho~r to state
that my observations, as suhstantially
reported, had no reference to the as-
flon, pending or otherwise, of a co-
trdinate branch of the service; they
were merely my personal views based
upon matters set forth in various pub-
lications which had been given ¢o the
world, and concerning which I con-
ceive there was no impropriety in ex-
pressing an opinion the same as any
other citizen upon a matter of such
public interest. My observations were
In no sense intended as a "eriticism of
any action taken by a co-ordinate
branch of the service and the state-
ment that I had no sympathy wffh any
effortS, tending to disparage a distin.
guished and gallant officer likewise
had no such reference."
Buc~lrl~t~ Smelter Burned,
Denver, Dec. 22.--A-special dispatch
from BUena Vista says:
The Buena Vista Smelting & Refin-
Ing Odmpany's planf, located about
threeqharters Of a mile east of town
on the Arkansas riVer, . caught fire at
ENORMOUS PRICE PAID
FOR LOVELAND SUGAR
Denver, Dec. 22.~A Denver Repub-
lican special from Loveland says:
The first ~00 poUnds of sugar pr~
duce~ at the Loveland factory was
s01d at auction Saturday and brought
the ~um of $3,300•
Tile first pound was purchased by R.
S. Cox for $325. L.J. Kelim bid $300
for the next pound and got it. The
bids then t~apidly dropped to $100 and
finally got down to $10 at which figure
the remitinder was sold.
The sack was then put up and sold
for $8, while the string found a pur-
chaser at $1, While $10 was offered for
the privilege of weighing out the
sugar.
Neat glass receptacles had been se-
cured, each holding one pound, in
which the sugar was placed, and these
will be kept as souvenirs. These have
all been placed Sn exhibition in the
window of the Bank of Loveland, and
each one labeled with the name of the
mrchaser and the price paid.
There Were 6,000 acres of sugar
beets raised the past year for the Love-
land factory. ConN~acts have been
signed for 11,000 acres the next sea-
son, with 12,000 as the limit that will
[.be received. The additional machi/~-
ery to double the "present capacity of
the factory is to be in place by July
1st.
President Remov~ ~acl~y.
Washington, Dee. 22.--The following
order was made public yesterday by
Secretary Root:
"Navy Department, D. C., Dec. 20,
1901.
"Rear Admiral A. S. Barker. Com-mandant Navy Yard, New York.
"Sir I am directed by the President
to ask Edgar S. Maclay, 'special la-
borer, general storekeeper's office, navy
yard, New York, to send In his restS.
nation, Very respectfully,
"JOHN D. LONG,
"Secretary."
Secretary Root was designated to
make public the request for Mr. Mac~
lay's resignation after a conference
with the Pl.ssident. It was the state-
'ments made in Maelay's history of the
part taken by the navy~ in the Cuban
war, in which he stigmatized Admiral
Schley as a poltroon and a co@ard,
that induced the latter to ask for the
oourt of inquiry.
7 o'clock ~aturday evening, and was
almost totally destroyed, the loss be-'
ing about, $75,000.
Dr. Franklin R, Carpenter, one of
the large stockholders in the :Buena
Vista ~melting & Refining Company,
Who is in Denver, said last night that l
the smelter would be rebuilt at once,
and that it was a Very successful[
plant. I
/
DiM De B~r in Prison.
L0ndou, Dec. 23.~Theodore and
Laura Jackson, the latter best known
in the United States by the name of
Anne Odelia Dies de Bar, were found
guilty by a Jury Saturday On charges
of immoral practices and fraud. The
Judge at once pronounced sentences
of fifteen and seven year~ penal ~rvl.
tttde upon Jackson and his reputed
Porto Rlcan coffee is in steadydemand
at high prices in Europe. Soon after
Porto Rico became American our ex-
perts began studying coffee culture.
They speedily found that the Porto
Rlcans were shading their coffee plants
too" much--that the shade was not
necessary in itself and that its chief
value was in the effect on the soil of
the roots of the leguminous trees which
supplied it. Better methods have been
suggested which are expected to double
or treble Porto Rice's coffee crop.
The cold and dry winters of the.
northern great plains states have fre-
quently killed the grass and so cur-
tailed pasturage that heavy loss of live
stock resulted. In Russia the AgrlcuI.
tural Department has found a grass
and in Turkestan an alfalfa which
stand cold and drouth better than any
previously known here. The former
has proved perfectly hardy clear up in
North Dakota and assures the farmers
there both pasturage and hay.
Not long ago an insect known as the
"San Jose scale" was found to be num-
crofts and destructive in the California
orchards. Several European countries
took alarm and adopted measures
which threatened greatly to curtail our
foreign fruit trade. Reasoning from
such past experience as that of the rub.
bit and the thistle in Australia, it was
seen that the reason this scale was so
destructive was that it had reached a
country where its natural enemies did
not exist to keep it in check.
Then a world-wide search for this in.
sect's home and natural enemy began.
Both were found in North China. There
the seals infested all sorts of fruit
trees, but did no extensive damage be-
cause a beetle kept its numbers within
bounds. So this beetle has been brought
across the Pacific and set to work upon
its natural prey, and California fruit
growers axe feeling much more cheer.
ful than they felt a few'years ago.
No Difference in 8ugar~.
The beet sugar manufacturers of Col.
Grade find they have another foe to
contend with. and that right here in
the state, namely, a prejudice fostered
cud encouraged hy th~ cane sugar peo-
ple, that the beet product is not availa-
ble for all the uses to which the cane
sugar is put. Denver housewives have
been discovered who shared this preJu,
dies, and the Colorado beet sugar men
are slowly fighting this feeling down.
Thi~ same question was recently pro-
pounded to Prof. R. C: Kedzie of the
Michigan Agricultural College, who re-
plied as follows:
"There is only one answer to these
questions. Cane sugar and beef sugar
are the same. It is not a question of
similarity, but of identity. Chemists
the world beer are agreed as to the
identity of cane and beet sugar, and all
statements of difference in propertles~
of inferiority or superiority'in these su-
gars-are made either in ignorance or
deception.
"The suspicion was aroused by the
engar trust that beet sugar was inferior
to cane sugar, and this suspicion has
been carefully nourished by the sugar
trust, and the statement has been so
often rePeated that many folks have
believed it. What are the facts? For
the last three years the people or the
northern states have used beet sugar
almost exclusively. Look at the
world's sugar production in 1'898. We
were at war with Spain, and little su-
gar was produced in Cuba and Porto
Rico, and less still was exported. None
was obtained from the PhllilJpine
islands; the sugar from the Sandwich~
islands was required for our people on
the Pacific coast; Louisiana could not
make enough sugar to supply herself
and the Gulf states. Where could ~
get enough sugar to supply the millions
of tons required for the world's con-
sumption if we depended on sugar
from the cane alone7 ~he supply of
sugar from sugar cane has been insuf-
ficient to fill and replenish the world's
sugar bowl, and for three years past
we have bee~ in a large measure cur
off from that source. If it had not been
for the beet sugar of Europe the world
would have gone hungry. Beet sugar
at this time furnishes two-thirds of the
world's supply. The supply of refined
sugar for our own use for three years
past has consisted largely ef beet su-
gar from Germany and France.
"Why such desolation? Because the
American manufacturers have brought~
the process to such perfection that they
turn out from their factories refined
sugar, and nothing but refined sugar,
requiring no aid from the sugar refin-
ers of New York. If this suPerior pro-
eels comes into general use 'Othello's
occuPation is gone' in this country, and
our ewn factories will furnish our peo-
ple with pure sugar 'fresh from the
mint,' and the sugar trust, with its
peculiar methods, may retire from the
scene. 'Hmieo these tears.'"
SCARED THE BANK TELLER.
While eating his luncheon in the
cozy corner of a downtown restaurant
last Friday the teller of a New York
bank told an interesting experience
that he had had the day previous.
"I never had such a fright In my life
before," he said. "When I left home
in the morning I planned to have my
wife nfeet me at the bank at 4 o'clock,
when we were to ~tart on a little
spree---have a dinner at the Waldorf
and attend {he theater at night.
"I took a dress coat and wore a silk
hat, so as to be all ready to start when
she came. The hat was placed on a
shelf above my window, and from the
beginning I planned to be all ready
when my wife caUed. I kept tab on
my checks and my cash In such shape
that but little time would be required
to balance my accounts when we closed
at 3 o'clock.
"Matters went along as usual, ex-
cepting that a black cat kept in the
bank came to visit me shortly after
luncheon, Jumped on the shelf and
knocked my hat down on my checks
and cash. You know that black cats
are supposed to bring bad luck.
"Well, 3 o~clock came, and I hurried
with the closing of my accounts. As
fate would have it, for the first time
in weeks there was an error. I was
$10,000 short. Then I was frightened.
I went over everything again with the
same result. Four o'clock and my wife
came• and I could not account for the
$10,000. I saw trouble, with a probable
accusation of embezzlement. There
was no leaving the bank with matters
in that condition, so at it I went again
--with the same result. Then I told
the president of the situation, and he
sent one of the bookkeepers to assist
me. We went over everything, and
yet the $I0,000 could not be accounted
for. My wife was patiently waiting for
me, and when 6 o'clock came I decided
t~ go with her to dinner, and come
back afterward to renew the search" for
the error. I reached my hat from the
shelf, and as I was placing it on my
head out of it fluttered a check for
$10,000. The black eat was respon-
sible for all my trouble."
THE KING'S REFUGE.
, i
The picture printed herewith is of
the King's house at the Tower of Lon-
don, where his majesty Is supposed to
take refuge in times of civil commo-
tion. This relic of ancient days has
been brought into prominence by a re-
cent discussion. There ia now little
doubt that the real reason for its be-
ing so called is because it was set
aside in olden times as a royal har-
bor of refuge.
~t" Graveyard of the Atlmntlc,
uated about ninety miles off the
coast of Nova Scotia and surrounded
by many dangerous shoals is Sable
Island, called "the graveyard of the
Atlantic." It often lurks invisible in
the track of westward bound ships
wrapped in the fog which at times en-
shrouds the shores north of the. St.
Lawrence. It is now proposed to try
planting it with trees in the hope
of binding its shifting sands together.
Some 80,000 trees, comprising 68,000
evergreens, such as spruce, pine and
Juniper, have been actually planted.
There are three life-saving stations
supplied with lifeboats and excellent
apparatus, and, the population, com-
posed of the men employed in this
service, with their wives and families,
number forty-fives," The funds are sup-
plied by the Dominion government.
Shelter huts have been erected for
shipwrecked people, and a large store
of food is always kept on hand.
Sunshine m~ Medicine.
No slrup of poppies, no tincture of
opium, no powders of morphine, says
one of the medical Journals, can com-
pare in sleep-producing power with
sunshine. The worst soporific is
laudanum and the best is sunshine.
Therefore it is easily understood that
poor sleepers should pass as many
hourstn the sunshine a~possthle, Many
women are martyrs and do not know
it. They shut the sunshine out of
their houses, they wear veils, they car~
ry s~lnahades, and doall that l~ pos-
sible to keep off the subtlest and yet
most potent influence which is in-
tended to give them strength and
beauty and cheerfulness•
£ Commonplnee Olty.
Berlin, as compared with London, is
an upstart city, and the Berlin crowd
suggests the appearance of people of
some great village. They look com-
monplace, as if J~St taken from the
ranks of toilers th~/t have not yet had
time and money to cultivate the more
graceful arts of life. The dre~slng of
Berlin women is mostly execrable, and
that of the men is scarcely better. ~ You
onder t~tat 86 much of ugliness of
tire, so much commonplaeenus in
the appearance of men and women
could be got together. It is in such a
moment that you feel the full differ.
once between London and 13~rliL
WHAT IS BEIN(i DONE o
IN T[IE MINING WORLD
8~I~N MIGUEL COUNTY.
of the State Commlsslon~ o~
~tate Commissioner of Mines Harry
k. Lee, after careful strudy of the
geological conditions of the principal
mining divisions of San Miguel coun-
ty during the fall months, has pre-
pared and placed on file in his office
a report which is worthy of mare than
casual mention, says the Denver
if)est. Following a brief description of
Savage basin, he states that it Is of
great economic importance, because It
embraces several metalliferous mines
that have proven sources of revenue
to taeir owners. They were discov-
ered and put under active operation
soon after the finding of fabulously
rich ores in Marshall basin in 1875.
But it was no~ until after the advent
of railways that development becanfe
extensive.
San Miguel county is a very Im-
portant factor iu the state's produc-
tion. The total yield, as compiled by
the state bureau of mines for th(
years 1897 to 1900 iacluslve, is $10:
288,682.70, divide4 as follows: Gold
$6,234,878.13; silver, $3,176,600.19
lead, $717,049.94; cot)per, $160,154.44.
The values for 1900, computed at
the average market price of each
metal, run as follows: Gold, $1,827,-
352.02; silver, $698,042'.56; lead., $158,-
617; copper, $51,384.63; total, $2,735.-
~96.21.
Geologically the San Juan moun-
tains ls one of the most interesting
see~ions of the state. Taken as a
whole, the mountain structure is quite
complex and is not yet fully deter-
mined. He commends the recent work
of the United States geological survey
in publishing a geological atlas known
as the '~relluride Folio" No. 57, or the
'~I'elluride Quadrangle," as having
done much toward advancing the ma-
terial" welfare of this section. The
able report accompanying this arias
by C. Whitman Cross, geologist lu
charge, has done much to remove ex-
isting doubts and contentions brought
about by former surveys. The report
of Ohester Wells Purington upon the
mining industries and economic geol-
ogy with the atlas is likewise of great
value. These two reports furnish a
fund of information which, if care-
fully, studied• will afford a base for
intelligent mining.
The territory included in the reports
and atlas mentioned embraces 235.66
miles. It lies wholly on the Pacific
slope and near the wemern border of
the San Juan mountain area. By
county divisions it embraces portions
of Sa~ Miguel, Dolores, ~kan Juan and
Ouray counties, the main portion of
the quadrangle being in San Migtiel.
Referring to Savage basin he says
nearly every foot of available terri-
tory in the basin is located either as
as a lode claim or placer. Nearly all
fissures contain veins. As a matter of
fact all fissu~ examined in this see-
tion were found filled with veins, and
the greater portion were ore veins.
~lne veins most prominent in the sys-
tem are the Smuggler-Uuion-'Sheridan-
Alamo-Ajax on the southwest side of
the basin; the Clmarron--Columbia on
next northeast, then. in the order
named, the Gem Bug-Eighty-Fi~e, the
Big Elephant-Argentine, the Whale,
Virginlus. Japan- Olimax, Morning-
Flora, the Iron-Occidental and the
.Tomboy-Belmont
The vein system, while crossed and
Intersected with others at almost all
angles, is crossed by another apparent
system having practically an east and
west strike. These are apparently
younger than the first meutioned, and
where they intersect generally fault
the older veins, but they may cut
through without any apparent dislo-
cation.
The most Interesting vein of
system is the Pandora. It is strong,
well-defined..filled in the main with
quartz, and being harder than the
country crossed, stands up prominent-
ly in many places. From a point in
Middle basin it may be seen euttdng
across the different ridges between
Middle basin a~d Teliuride. The Pan-
dora vein is supposed, and with a
good show of reason, to be the same
as the now noted Camp Bird, In Ou-
ray county. It is covered by locations
for nearly five miles. Although very
largely exploited on account of its
~preminence and strengvh, It has not
proven, as a whole, a profitable ore
vein, and, with a few exceptions, has
from a commercial standpoint been
barren of values. The Camp Bird
group is, of course, a notable exeel~
tlon.
~peaking of the Smuggler~Unlon,
.Mr. Lee says that the vein has been
systematically developed for over two
miles with satisfactory results, but
is located for a distance of several
miles• The claims on the southeast
side of Marshall creek have not as
yet proven very remuuerative, The
Olmarron-~olumbia vein has been
a large producer, especially on the
Clmarron end. ~t Is covered by loca-
tions from the Clmarron to the head
of Savage basin. In the otlmr direc-
tion developments would indicate the
belief that the Clmarron vein Joins
with the Smuggler. The fact remains,
however, that the Pandora vein cross-
es near where the Smuggler and the
~lmarron would naturally '~ form a
Junction, and t,hat the Pandora up-
pears to fault all veins it crosses.
There is, therefore,* a posslbllity that
the Olmarron is faulted, and might, if
found again, continue to roughly par-
allel the Smuggler vein to the north-
west as t~ the southeast.
The C~lumbia is now being operated
by the Menona Mining and Milling
Company, which owns the Menona,
Columbia, Modern and Erin's Hope
claims, all of which are patented and
~mbrace 4,165 feet along the vein. The
property, is oPerated through two crass.
cut tunfieis. The upper cuts the veln
at 36~ feet from the mouth and the
lower 1,550 feet from the entrance. The
distance between tunnels is 415 feet.
This property is developed by several
thousand feet of work• On the ,upper
level the llneal development along t&e
• vein is 1,600, feet; on the lower level,
1,200-iMet. ~Che levels are connected
by a somewhat irregular set of up-
raises." The vein throughout shows tim
leading characteristics of the veins of
that section, with ,perhaps a little more
oxidation than the majority at the
same depth. The Gold Bug or '85 vein
is the next and roughly tmrallels the
Cimarron-Columbia. The Big Ele-
phant and Argentine vein lles next on
the northeast. The outcrop is one of
the most prominent In the basin, along
which locations aggregating nearly
three miles have been made and the
majority developed for patent• From
a commercial standpoint it has been
considered of questionable value until
withi~ the past two years. The Tom,
boy Mining Company began systemat-
ic exploration nnder a lease and bond.
Development opened up good ore bod-
ies and before the time limit of the
bond expired they extracted enough
money net not only to pay for the prop-
erty (about $50,000). but also $120,000
in dividends. At the .present time the
Argentine ls working verY large ore
bodies and of good grade• While the
ore is not exceedingly high gra(le, the
gold conten~ are to a great extent
"free" and yield readily to amalgama-
tion. This property was a great acqul.
sitlon to the Tomboy and bids fair to
ontrival any in the district in net pro-
tluction. So far as developed, this vein
seems to carry values ~in shoot form.
of which two large ones have already
been opened.
The next vein to the northeast Is the
Whale•. The name, however, does noz
imply anything as to the size of the
vein, but rather the reverse. The Vlr-
ginius-Japan-Clim~x vein, next on the
north, has been quite extensively de-
veloped. It is supposed by the owners
to be the same as the Virginlus tn
Ouray county. Northwest of the Japan
the country is cavered in the main
with heavy slides. The Japan is also
south of the Pandora, which is appar-
ently a great disturbin~g element wher-
ever it crosses other veins. On the
other hand. there are many character-
istics of the Japan vein that are com-
parable to the Vlrglnius, and the claim
now made by the owners, who are pi-
oneers in this district, may eventually
be verified.
The Morning or Flora vein parallels
the J~pan. and fl~m recent develol~
ment gives evidence of being as good
or a better revenue yielder than fhe
Japan has been. The Flora a number
of years ago attracted even mo~e attew
tion than the Tomboy or Belmont.
The Tomboy-Belmont lies next and
has been a regular producer and divi-
dend payer for several years. Origin-
ally this property was locally better
known as the Belmont, and was
thought to be of somewhat questiona-
ble vahte. The latter outcrops near the
head of the basin af an altitude of 12,-
600 feet. This was located in 1880 and
the Tomboy -in 1886. Mining pro-
gressed in a d~saltory manner until
about 1892. By this time a crosscut
tunnel had been driven at an altitude of
12,200 feet, cutting the vein in a good
ore b¢t~ty, which with a mill, yielded a
fair profit. In 1894 the property was
transferred to the Tomboy Gold Min-
ing Company• and later passed into the,
coutrol of the ~IMmboy Gold Mining
Company (Limited) of London, Eng-
land. The main workings are on the
Tomboy and Belmont claims. The
crosscut tunnel mentioned above inter.
sects the vein ~t about 400 feet from
its mouth. The main working tunnel
is a crosscut started into the mountain
just above the head of the mill, and
381 feet. vertically, below the upper
tunnel, known as level No: 2. The
lower level. No. 6. encounters the vein
at :l,000 feet from its mouth. "l~WO
levels haw been Opened between No.
2 and No..6, and the whole connected
with a system of upraises and mill-
holes. At a point about 1.300 feet
southeast from where the lower tunnel
intersects the vein a station has been
cut, machinery installed and a three-
comimrtment shaft sunk. Tim shaft
has been sunk vertically a distance of
400 feet, In which four levels have been
opened. The to~al amount of develop-
ment work in these properties aggre-
gates about 25.000 lineal feet. Along
the strlke of the vein drifts disclose
about 3,000 lineal feet. 23~e width of
the Tomboy vein varies from five to
eight feet. " In pisces it reaches as high
as twelve feet in width, and In others
has pinched down to as low as two
feet between wails. Careful attention
has been given to all measures calcu-
lated to prevent Mccidents. There are
many other featt~rcs of this mine a~
of the Tetlurlde dJstrlct at large, which ~
are treated at length In this admira-
ble report, but lack .of space forbids
our dwelling upo~ them at this ~dme.
Accompanying it are a number of fine
photographic views illustrating varlon~
phases of the geological formations at
the surface, and the working parts of
the more important mines, which any
interested inqnirer may study at his
leisure by calling at the office of the
commissioner in the state capitol. This'
well digested doeumeut forms a ~atu-
able compendium ef very use~l infor-
mation,
Dredging in New Zealand has been a
method extensively adopted for Work-
lng river beds and: fiat placers for
gold with much success. IU fact, am
we have noted from time to time, New
Zealand practice in dredging has at-
tracted notice all over the world.
While there are many
panics at work, the boo~
Zealand has
the latest advices from
port the collapse of a number
Panies. Thus in the month of A~gmtt
no less than sixty-eight mining licela~ms
and leases were forfeited or ,~m'ren-
doted, meaning the break-down
number of
still left many sound
companies,
failure of the
flclal rather thm
ing and Mining JournaL
"Black Hllls
present
prosperity and
prominent among
local capitalists.
