Jerome News, 1906-09-08

Young Rich Man Has Field in Politics. The politicians <-f Milwaukee are much disturbed about Sherburn Merril Becker, "the boy politician," recently elected mayor of that city. Becker is only 26 years old, He was born rich. He graduated at Harvard, an J later took a diploma in manliness on the plains as a cowboy. He was marridl to a girl he loved and they traveled twice aiotin 1 the globe. Tin n the young millionaire, globe trotter amt cowboy returned to Milwaukee, where he was cotillion leader and a social fa favorite, - vorite, favorite, and announced himseif as a can candidate - didate candidate for ccunty supervisor. His s<- ciety friends poke) much fun at him, but he was elected. Becker b.ok an immediate interest i i the people's business. He pointed out some suspicion * printing bills. He hinted at scandal. Whereupon the; > was a cut in the printing bills that saved the taxpayers $85,000 a year. The poli politicians - ticians politicians then began to sit up and ask, "What is Becker up to?" The .voting man decided to run for aiderman in his waid. The poliiiciaus tried to beat him but he made a bouse to house canvass and won. Ihe question of mauicip..! ownership of the ele trie light plant was up. Becker's society friends owned the plant. Of course he would not vote with the "dreamers" and the "social "socialists." - ists." "socialists." Becker took a postal ca*d vote of his constituents and did that very thing. Ue was pet on the tail end of the fi.e committae. Thereupon he put a fire alarm into his room and responded nt every fire. Moreover, he had a huge goffee Dot rigged up on the end of his stanhope and from this he served hot Joffee to the fire fighters. His society fruends began to call Becker a "queer sort." In point of fact he was only hu humane - mane humane and a wideawake friend of the people, hinaliy Becker came out in le lependently - pendently lependently for mayor. The m ichines of both the political parties couple 1 them themselves - selves themselves together to run over him. Th » public service corporations poured inonev into the campaign. No newspaper i i Milwaukee would support him. He started one of his own for eampain pur purposes. - poses. purposes. .He printe 1 hot stuff. Becker told the voters that their city govern government - ment government was owned and operated bv the street and steam railways. He prom promited - ited promited dean govern men t and a greater Milwaukee." In the face of organiza organizations - tions organizations and money and infiueuce he was elected. The young millionaire has demon demonstrated - strated demonstrated what a rich young man who takes up the cause of the people liable to do. The old-lashi med virtue of hoi - estv is not yet placed out in pdilieS; It needs only to be mixed with a little Yankee shrewdness ami plenty, .of -per -persistence. - sistence. -persistence. Mierlmrn Becket might.st.il be leading the Germ m in Milwaukee - a perfumed nothing. But fortunately he (Continued oq pa^e 4Jr

John Q. A. King who takes as much interest in the territory and especially her mines, as any other man in it, has been doing a little figuring lately. Arizona mines produced $44,G0),000 last year; Michigan produced $34,759,000. Col irado, $31,339,000 and California $ 1,082,600. Arizona produced more enpper alone than any of the other states produce 1 from their mines with a total of $39,035,000. Arizona produced (3,5000,009 in gold and silver $2,074,900. Michigan produced S3L 699.0)0 in cop copper - per copper an 1 $77,090 in silver. Colorado mines yielded up $25,333,000 in gold $7- 750,000 in copper and $1,256,000 in sil silver, - ver, silver, while California produced $17,502,- iu gold ; $3,145,000 in copper, and $535,- 000 in silver. It will be seen that that the value of the copper produced in Arizona was more than the combined wealth pro produced - duced produced by the famous gold mining states of California an 1 Col ira 10, and was more than twice as much as the com combined - bined combined silver ami copper production of two states put together. These figures, in face of the fact that Arizona's mines are in the infancy of their development, recalled to Mr. King the prediction made to him a couple of years ago by a Colorado mining man who has tramped and ridden over the mineral land of the whole continent, lie said that when Arizona was devel developed - oped developed as extensively as Colorado, she would bo Ihe formost of all the mining states of the laud. not excepting Mon Montana, - tana, Montana, which last year produced $52,000,- 000 worth of copper alone. She would be so far ahead of them that this terri territory's - tory's territory's wealth would stagger the world His prediction was made after a trip through a considerable portion of the territory. Cobre Grande in Sig-ht Again. Boston - The suit of the mi minority - nority minority stockholders of the Cobre Grande Copper company vs. Col. William C. Greene, the Greene Consolidated company and the Cananea Consolidated Copper company, is not considered seri seriously - ously seriously by Greene interests, for the principal reason that the conten contentions - tions contentions of the minority stockhold stockholders - ers stockholders have been air thrashed out in the courts, both state and Su Supreme, - preme, Supreme, and in every case resulted in a victory for Col. Greene. I Ths Cobre Grande Copper coni"

The Great Mohawk Strike. [Miner, Goi Ifield, Nev.] There is no end to the wonders of the Mohawk. This week Hayes and Mo Monette - nette Monette in the stope from the 160-foot level broke into eight inches of rock which assays no less than SIOO 569. The ledge in which this occurs varies in width from two feet to eight feet and averages $5,090 Since the first great strike of Hayes and Monette the Mohawk has oc occupied - cupied occupied the center of the stage. The persistency, size and value of its ore bodies have made claim after claim to the attention of the entire wml 1, and its fame kas become such as would lift any ' camp from obloquy into universal intei- j est. Occurring in Goldfield, its pres presence - ence presence has served to throw other fine I properti?s out of focus. Since Hayes and Monnette opened the , first pay ore there has been no let up in I the production of their block and figures I now in the possession of I'he News show that this small patch of ground is acta actaj - j actaj ally adding over $12,000 daily to the ' wealth of the world, and incidentally j the coffers of the company and lessees. An average sampling of four feet of I rock on the Truott or Mohawk Leasing , and Developing company lease which is ; being sacked this week gave returns of $4,300. This leasing company will prob probably - ably probably be able t> pay in div dends more than double the capitalization. The Kalius lease continues its won wonderful - derful wonderful rate of production and the Oddie lease is still an unqu ilifi rd bonanza. The Curtis and Ish lease yesterday broke into five feet of rock which ap apparently - parently apparently will make $10) ore. A->, how however, - ever, however, these lessees have been fouled sev several - eral several times by the ledges they cut, they are moat reluctant to say anything upon the subject until the bod*' has been thoroughly investigated. At the Great Bend. A new shoot of oie was opened in the Great Bend this week, which, although not fully explored, gives promise oi being the best that has developed in the ; mine for some time. The shoot is about I three feet wide and ranges in value i from S2O to sll6 and gives every indica indicaj - j indicaj tion of making a strong, permanent j body of ore. The ore is not being bro broken - ken broken eowu yet, but in the course of de velopm tut a wjisi.Jersble amount of high

4* The strike in the shaft on the Pittsburg-Jerome is the most interesting piece of mining news that we have 4* printed during the eleven years we have been publish publish-4* - -4* publish-4* ing the NEWS in Jerome. The strike is one of the 4* best, the most substantial, and looks more like a big 4* commercial proposition than any strike that has been 4* made in the district outside of the U. V. and Copper 4* Chief. At a depth of 2;o feet the ore bod> was five 4 feet in width and dipped southwest into the hill. 4* The shaft has been sunk sixteen feet deeper with the 4* ore body in evidence for that distance, and wider and 4* of a higher grade at the bottom. As depth is attained 4* the strike increases in interest, and developments are 4* being watched with the utmost eagerness by the 4* whole district. The Pittsburg-Jerome property is 10-4* 4* cated about three miles southwest of the United 4* Verde, and is on what is supposed to be the west 4* side of the Jerome-Verde copper belt. Thursday the 4* editor of the NEWS visited the P.-J. and found that * the claims that were being made for the property were 4* very conservative, we believe that the prediction 4* can safely be made that t«vo or three hundred more 4* feet of work on this property will prove to the world 4* that there are other large and rich ore bodies in the 4* Jerome district than that owned by Senator Clark. 4* We have at this office a piece of the quartz from the 4^ P.-J, in which freegold is visible to the naked eye. - 4* A visit to Walker-Larremore property Thursday to in in-4* - -4* in-4* vestigate a reported strike there, found the workmen 4^ removing ledge matter in which there was a goodly 4* quantity of high grade copper sulphides. The work - 4* on this new strike has not progressed far enough to 4* demonstrate the extent of the mineral body, but it cer cer-4* - -4* cer-4* tainly looks good so far as development has gone. - 4 On the Hickey claims the Dow company continues its 4* persistent hunt after ore. At the Black Hills opera opera-4* - -4* opera-4* tions were suspended this week because of ajbreak ajbreak-4* - -4* ajbreak-4* down in the power house. Superintendent Bevin in-

The printed copy of the president's letter, which you enclose, we know all about, and appreciate the fact that the president is honest in his convictions, but consider that he has been misin misinformed - formed misinformed in this matter, and believe that if Theodore Roosevelt was at this time a resident of Arizona territory he won! 1 be the leader of us all in our tight for ex existence. - istence. existence. If I understand the provisions of the act passed by the last congress, New Mexico and Arizona territories were to be allowed the privilege of voting separ atelv on the matter of jointure, and if the sentiment of either territory was against it we were not to be joined. The president was made to believe that the common people of both territories were anxious for jointure, and only large corporations were against it. The senate, in order to get the true senti sentiment - ment sentiment existing throughout the territories, insisted that each territory be given a chance to express their desire at the polls. We are perfectly willing to abide by the verdict of the people as rendered on November 6, and there will be no co coercion - ercion coercion tolerated one way or the other, and I think 1 voice the sentiment of all good citizens of this territory when I say. "we will thank you, Major Llewel Llewellyn, - lyn, Llewellyn, and all other citizens and interested politicians of New Mexico, to let us strictly alone in tliis contest, as we are perfectly able to render onr own verdict* and do not need a Mexican interpieter to assist us in making the same known to the country, either." There are a few ex-office holders and sour politicans who have a small follow followlowing - lowing followlowing in Arizona, who will vote for j tint statehood, if they keep out of jail until November 6; but I advise yon f > ks to g > ah rad an 1 d jvelop y m - gr 'at territory, as we have been doing, for I can assure you that Arizona will never be annexed to New Mexico with the con consent - sent consent of the people of Arizona. I am, yours truly, GEO. B. WILCOX.

has pai l in dividends, li e disbursements having extended over a period of sixteen years. A report from Butte, Montana, state i that copper glance running from 30 to 65 oer cent in copper is coming from the 2100-foot level of the High Ore mine, owned by the Anaconda company. The Dominion Copper Coinpano (Brit (British - ish (British Columbia) earned $32,000 net during -I<dy, 1903. That brings total net earn earnings - ings earnings fur nine months to $232,000. ^'Ruining the Language. n Once upon a time Daniel Webster while visiting London was introduced to Brougham, the British prime minis minister. - ter. minister. The introduction was received by Brougham with such scant courtesy that some one asked him why he had snubbed the great American statesman. i "Great American statesman!" ex ex| - | ex| claimed Brougham, "why, I thought I that was the L How who tried to ruin the , English language!" He bad mistaken the senator fur Noah Webster, win se , phonetic tendencies were, and still are, irritating to English scholars. The college profess >rs are chorusing against Roosevelt almost identically t; e same protest that Brougham raised again t Webster. They know that the printed or written word is, at best, a clumsy attempt to indicate its spoken sound, and that the twenty-six letters of the alphabet are wholly inadequate to indicate the scores of different sounds which enter into the pronunciation of words. It is a fact, also well known to the college professors, that pronunciation changes so with the years that if each generation should write in exact pho phonetic - netic phonetic spelling the third generation would read with dilhculty much that the first had written. Pronunciation varies greatly even in different sections. The Virginians pro pronounce - nounce pronounce "dance'' aa if it were "daunce" and the Philadelphians speak of "gas'* as if it were something like "gaasz." Let everybody spell just as he speaks, anil we shall soon have a pretty Babel < f written language to bring America to confusion. - St. Louis Republi -.

THE HELVETIA MINE. Mr, C. T. Roberts, superintend superintendent - ent superintendent of the Omega mine in the i Helvetia district, arrived arrived in Tucson recently, and brought news of a big strike in the Hel Helvetia - vetia Helvetia mine at the 800-foot level. He was told that the strike is the biggest that has been made in the history of the Helvetia district. This strike will mean an additional boom for Helvetia, which has been coming to the front with rapid strides and which promises to give Silver Bell a pretty race for the honor of being the largest mining camp in Pima county. The smelter at Helvetia, which was shut down for several days, was again blown in, and is running in excellent shape. The capacity of the smelter is 200 tons daily. GLOBE DISTRICT. The production of the Old Do Dominion - minion Dominion mine for July was slightly in excess of 3,000,000 pounds of blister copper, which while not as large as in some previous months, represents a larger percentage produced from the company's own mines. Only three furnaces were in blast duiing a large part of the month. Four furnaces are now running. Progress of shaft sink sinking - ing sinking and development work has been very satisfactory, and the production of ore has materially increased. An important work has been restoring the fourteenth lev lev!el - !el lev!el and the development of the I sulphide vein on that level has been resumed.

Giroux Consolidated Mine. It is learned from Mr. Joseph Giroux, president of the Girouz Cons lidated Mines Company who has just returned from a trip of inspection to the com compan; - pan; compan; 's Sultana mine in Sonora, Mexico, that the new 80-ton milling and cya cyaniding - niding cyaniding plant is now complete except for a few minor details, and will be in op operation - eration operation this week. Development of the mine has been progressing steadily and with good re results. - sults. results. The guard of six or seven Arizo Arizonians, - nians, Arizonians, picked for their shooting ability and sent to the mine some weeks ago bv Mr. Giroux, has proved effective against Yaqui Indians. The reputation of these sharp shooters was apparently enough, for they have had nothing to practice cn. - Los Angeles Mining Review. COPPER NOTES. To date, the United Verde ( Arizona) grade rock has been sackeJ. The south crosscut from the 200.f00t level is out 152 feet anil is now entering a lode bear bearing - ing bearing porpnyry. The pump which was ordered for the mine some time ago was shipped from San Francisco on the 11th and will arrive in a few days, whi n sinking will b? resumed. The shaft is now 200 feet deep. During the last week three new leases have been let and development, will be pushed most energetically. Great Bend stock has advanced 25 pjints in the last seven dais. -