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VOL. XXXV.
KINGMAN, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1917.
No. 31.
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First Necessity of Nation is to
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Raise Army; Only Real
Cases to be Considered
Exemption priviledges
law will be revoked by the
claims are made, according to official instructions received
by the local board, through State Disbursing Officer F.
S. Breen at Phoenix. Mr. Breen forwarded the war de
partment instructions for guidance of the local board.
Reports have been received that 80 per cent of the
registrants throughout the country are claiming exempt
ion, the war department says.
The first necessity of the nation, it
is pointed out, is to raise an army.
Men are offering1 all kinds of excuses
to keep from serving in the army,
'says the statement, and the exemption
priviledges are being abused.
The direct threat is made that if
those drafted continue to try to evade
the selective service law, the measure
will be applied literally and all claims
for exemption will be ignored.
The provision in the new law that
only persons who actually have de
pendents who would be thrown on the
mercies of the world or the govern
ment is pointed out. Exemption, it is
said, was provided only through ex
ecutive clemency and generosity of the
president. The positive warning is is
sued that all local boards must en
force the law strictly and pay less
heed to unmeritorious claims set' up
for exemption.
The telegram to the local board is
as follows:
"Note the following department in
structions: "Section two of the selective service
law exempts no persons from military
service on the ground of dependency.
It only authorizes the president to ex
clude or discharge from draft Those
in a status with respect to persons
dependent upon them for support
which renders either exclusion or dis
charge advisable.'
"The controlling necessity is to
raise an army. It is advisable to dis
turb persons just as little as the nec
essity of raising an army will permit.
To this end, section 18 of the regula
tions was compiled carefully and after
the most earnest consideration. If
experience is to prove that the gen
erous conditions prescribed by section
18, or any abuse of them, will inter
fere with the raising of an army, then
it is no longer advisable to discharge
so wide a class and the conditions
stated therein will have to be restrict
ed until an advisable rule is reached.
"Nothing has happened to change
the belief that the persons enumerat
ed in section 18 could be discharged
without interefering with the raising
of an army, but there are indications
that abuses of section 18 may render
its continuance no longer advisable
"Reports are to the effect that in
some districts, as high as 80 per cent
of persons called before local boards
are filing claims for discharge on the
ground of dependent relatives. Such
a percentage of claims when viewed
in connection with all available statis
tics indicates beyond question that ad
vantage is being taken of the provis
ions of the law and regulations which
were intended to reduce to a minimum
the misery at home normally attend
ant upon war.
"There is a moral certainty, in the
extravagance of this percentage, that
"hundreds of unfounded claims are in
.rhiAeA in totals. This state of affairs
greatly increases the burden of local
hoards for, if so high a percentage of
registrants claim exemption, only the
iin.nTTiTiroTTiisintr action of local boards
can prevent a new regulation on the
subiect of dependency, wnicn snan re
duce discharges for dependency to a
far imn restricted class ana verj
necessitous and clearly defined cir-
,cumstances.
in uie amende ui u -"
.... t... i-i i ic t meritirius
"In the absence of a stern repres
claims; this result is inevitable, since mer Welch have been prospecting
Inv such percentage of exemptions as through the mountains m the neigh
anysuuij a r ,.t a wheeler Wash the past
rpnorts Of Claims lnaicaie wouiu iiuui-
reporia uj. .
fy the law and prevent the raising of
an army.
"It is thus apparent that the filing
of these improper claims will react
directly and injuriously oh persons
whom the present regulations were
designed to protect and that the wel
fare of persons who have filed bona
fide claims under the present generous
clauses of the regulations is seriously
imneriled bv persons who have filed
claims without merit, and that the on
ly protection of persons whose cases
in connection with the draft
war department unless fewer
are within the 'meaning of the present
rules lies in the power of local boards
to refuse exemption in every doubtful
case.
"It is true that cases of discharge
on the ground of dependency are ap
pealed to the district board, but this
clause is only inserted to secure uni
formity of action. District boards arc
to examine these cases to discover de
parture from the law, regulations and
rulings; and they will not and cannot
open every case on its .merits.
"It is in the local boards alone,
therefore, that the solution of the dif
ficulty and the protection of deserving
claimants lie."
As defined by a recent bulletin by
the war department, dependency
means some near relative of the reg
istrant whose calling to the colors
would leave such dependent without
means of support.
"Such dependency ordinarily renders
discharge advisable," says the bulle
tin, "because since the drafted person
loses his civil income and thus loses
his means of support, the wife is left
without support, and this lack of sup
port is the effect which the act aims
to avoid. But wherever such effect
does not in fact follow, and the wife
is not left without reasonably ade
quate support, but will receive such
support from other sources, there is
no real dependency rendering dis
charge advisable. The following class
es of cases are within this ruling:
"A Wife and children: 1 Where
the parents and other relatives of the
wife or the husband are able, ready
and willing to provide reasonably ade
quate support for her (and children, if
any) during the absence of the nus
band; 2 Where the wife owns land
which has produced income by the hus
band's labor, but which could with
reasonable certainty be rented, during
his absence, to other persons so as to
produce an adequate support; 3
Where there exists some arrangement
bv which the salary or wage of the
husband is continued, in whole or in
part, by third persons, being employ
ers or insurers of others, and such
portion of the salary or wage, either
alone or with an allotment ot nis sol
dier's nay or with other definite in
come, will furnish a reasonably ade-
ouatc support.
"B Other dependents: l wnere
in one of the foregoing ways a reason
ably adequate support is provided for
a widowed mother, infirm parents, or
orphan child under 16 years (as enu
merated in section 20, Par. H., 2, 3, 4
5), of a son, brother, or father called
into service."
FIND $555 SILVER
Last evening Mrs. Lucy Bulkely and
CTmer Welch and wife came in from
the Wallapai mountains, bringing with
them samples of ore that gave results
of $555.00 in silver. Mrs. Bulkely re
ports that the vein is better than 30
inrhes wide and appears to carry the
samj high grade of ore all the way
across. Work will be commenced on
the Timiiertv as soon as the owners
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return to camp. Mrs. Bulkely and
Dornuuu i .,..ww-. ..i
in-otel manv desirable
year and have located many desirable
wins of ore. The new find is the culmi
nation of their work and they believe
they will open one of the best Doaies
nf silver ever found in the county.
That section of the mountains is well
mineralized, many veins of good grade
lead and copper ore having been open
ed. Owing to distance from railroad
the lead ores have not yet been han
dled, but with better roads and good
truck facilities is is now possible to
ship the lower grades to advantage,
REDGROSSHflS MIDDLE GOLCONDA WORKING RICH ORE
hnrflTTInKTil
I soldiers ONE OF BEST PROPERTIES I COUNTY
Kingman Chapter Holds
Regular Meetings to Make
Hospital Supplies; New
Commission Sent to Italy
' to Aid In Relief.
Red Cross work throughout the na
tion is getting well under way, ac
cording to information received by the
Kingman chapter. The latest commis
sion to go to Europe is that dispatch
ed to Italy, consisting of a corps of
big business men and able assistants
m special lines of war relief work.
The Kingman chapter holds reeular
weeKiy meetings of the work commit
tee each Friday afternoon at the Odd
Fellows hall. At these meetings, ma
terial to be used at the base hospitals
in Europe is made and collected for
immediate shipment to division head
quarters in San Francisco. Consider
able enthusiasm is being shown in the
work, but the ladies are urged to take
a more prominent part. All realize
that much must be done for the sol
diers in Europe and it will be neces
sary for a great number to engage in
making supplies.
The purpose of the commission sent
to Italy is to advise how American
Red Cross activity can best be ex
erted to meet the needs of the suffer
ing soldiers and the civilian popula
tion of Italy.
This is the fourth Red Cross com
mission to go to Europe. The first,
headed by Major Grayson M. P. Mur
phy, vice president of the Guaranty
Trust company, New York, was sent
to France. The second, headed by Dr.
Frank S. Billings, of Chicago, went
to Russia. The third, headed by H.
W. Anderson, of Richmond, Va., is
now on its way to Rumania.
This, the fourth such commission,
was headed by George F. Baker, Jr.,
vice president of the First National
bank of New York city. With Mr.
Baker went John R. Morron, president
of the Atlas Portland Cement com
pany; Dr. Thomas W. Huntington,
president of the American Surgical
association; Dr. Victor G. Heiser, of
the United States public health ser
vice; and Nicholas F. Brady, Central
Trust company, New York.
Accompanying the commission also,
Chandler R. Post, professor of
Greek and Fine Arts at Harvard uni
versity, and one of the leading au
thorities in this country on Italy.
Through the American Academy in
Rome, it has been arranged that the
commission to Italy will have detailed
to assist it, Gorham Phillips Stevens,
director of the School of Fine Arts,
and Charles Upson Clark, of Yale uni
versity, director of the School of Clas
sical Studies, both of whom are non
resident in Rome.
To enable this commission to meet
the more urgent needs which may be
found to exist, an emergency appro
priation of 200,000 has been made
bv the- Red Cross war council. Othel
work-in Italy will depend upon the re
port of this commission as to how
such efforts can best be made.
3
Y
M. B. Belden. who left here a few
mnntlis ntrn to enter the officers tram
ing camp at the Presidio, California,
is reported to have been commissioned
second lieutenant by the army Doara
Mr. Belden was well known among
the people of Kingman, having been
employed in the assay office of the
Mohave Engineering Company the
past year. Mr. Belden is a capable
fellow and will make an exceptionally
efficient officer.
BIG SWIM AT
PROVED A
The big swim at Oatman last night
. . 1 1 J
was a hne dance, several auioiuaus
of Kingman young folks splashed all
the water out of the tank, or would
have done such a thing if there had
been anything in it, and came home
as wet as the proverbial rat. At that,
everyone reports having had a "dee-
lightful" time. They enjoyed every
thing from the scenery to the light
ning. As aforesaid, the plunge was a
mvth. for the tank was empty. Un
daunted, however, and to get their
Plans Launched to Erect Mill And Develop
Big Ore Bodies Already in Sight; Company
in Good Condition
MINING IN IIS
Molybdenum Mines Attract
ing Great Attention of
Experts; Coast Mining
Engineer to Come Here
Within a Few Days.
That the attention of outside min
ing people Is Being directed toward
the great molybdenum deposits in the
Wallapais south of Kingman to an
unprecedented degree is shown by the
visit here lately of experts.
A noted .mining engineer and metal
lurgist of San Francisco stopped off
in Kingman this morning en. route
home from the Prescott country where
he has justfinished-a report for coast
capitalists, and was surprised to- learn
that some of the greatest molybdenum
deposits in the world are in Mohave
county.
He read! an account in the Miner
Tuesday of the visit of a government
expert to look over this field, and. call
ed on Robert S. Billings, mining en
gineer and metallurgist of Kingman,
an old friend with whom he had been
associated in Colorado several years
ago, to inquire concerning the pros
pects hi this district. As- the result
of his brief stopover, it was stated
that he will return in a few Jays ami
make a thorough inspection of the
rare minerals in this district.
A party of Detroit mining men
spent two days here this week-, but
the results of their visit are unknown.
They came here in Henry Ford's pri
vate car "Mayflower"" and left last
night for the east.
Others noted in the mining- and
financial world have Bad men. here
looking over the field" recently and in
mining circles, it is the firm conviction
that Mohave county is on the eye of
the greatest development, period m its
history.
ADAMS AND WE
MOYE TO COAST
Royal C. Adams and wife have re
moved to Los Angeles, where they
will take up their residence. Sir.
Adams has been a resident of King
man during the past year, having
been connected with the Tungsten
Mines company, which was operating
the Williams tungsten claims in the
Aquarius mountains on the lower
Sandy. During their stay here, Mr.
and Mrs. Adams have made scores
of friends, who will regret to know
that they have removed from here and
would be pleased to hear that they
had decided to return and make their
home with us.
O ATMAN
FINE DANCE
money's worth, the Kingman young
bloods obtained a hall and a dance was
arranged, several Oatman young folks
contributing to the evening's success.
Following were the Kingman visitors
Lee Hindi, Gernice Hartz, Lodema
Cook, Welma Notley, Peggy Parsons,
Edith Mensch, Viola Hoffman, Miss
Satterwhite .and S. E. Hollister, Ver
non Hubbs, Don Metcalfe, Earl Cas-
teel, Earl Parsons, Johnny Hoffman,
Billie Bonelh, Jimmie Genzil, Bill
Clack, Howard Smith, G. B. Lindslej
and Clarence Cattern.
FACES
SF HA
Mines are made, not f oundr is the theory of men. of
scientific attainment, but such, is not a fact in all cases.
Mines are found and made, as conditions present them
selves. A mine to be made must have some basis upon
which, to- build, such as. ore deposition and values. No
mine can be made of a property where the values are too
low or the necessary equipment too high to return a profit
on the investment. And the chance to be taken usually
requires that a mine when fully opened will amortize
the principal and a big interest on the investment.
Practically all the copper mines of the state have made
good in this regard, and in Mohave county the silver, gold
lead and zinc mines could, stop all development and return
big profits on the investment from the developed ore
bodies.
The other day we had the pleasure
of being shown through, the Middle
Golconda Mine in the Todd Basin sec
tion, by general manager C. B. Bell,
which property is the subject matter
of this article. The mines are situa
ted about 16 miles north of Kingman
and four miles from the stption of
Mineral", on' the Western Railwav of
Arizzona: (the Chloride branch of the
Santa Fe). It is reached by an ex
cellent wagon or auto road, the haul'
from the mines to the railroad Being;
all down grade.
The Middle Golconda is situated be
tween the famous old Oro Plata claim
and the Golconda, which has-been one
of the largest producers- of zinc, ore
in the state the past five years. The
crosscut tunnel that taps the ore body
at a depth, of about 100 feet has been
carried' along the hanging and foot
wall veih3 of the property 670 and 300
fee respectively. These drifts- have
opened some excellent ore bodies, from
which large shipments of highgrade
zinc have been made to the smelters.
The lower grades of ore from the
openings have been left on the dump
for later dressing into commercial
shape in a milling plant. There are
now 8000 tons of this class o" ore on
the various dumps, the average of
which is above 18 per cent zir- 6
ounces silver and $2:00 g.ld Tt also
carries values in copper ana lead.
Stapes have been opened along the
levels in this tunnel' and many thous
ands of tons are now available for
stoping and shipment. The- ore
bodies throughout the levels are from
23 inches to 5 feet in width and" more
than 250 feet in length.
After breaking- through a faulted
zone the ore again appears on the
level and shows- the same general high
grade . On the level a splendid body
of silver ore has been opened; portions
of the streak being fully five feet
wide and carrying big smelting val
ues. Assays from this streak run
well into the hundreds of dollars to
the ton. The silver appears in the form
of ruby and native, many handsome
specimens., being found in the mass
of ore. The main ore- body along; this
level has; been opened for a length of
670 feet, while the footwall streak
has been drifted on about 70 feet, al
though opened in other places by
crosscuts. Everywhere along the lev
el creat bodies of milling and snip
ing ore have been opened giving that
part of the mine a big tonnage.
The second level is in 2D0 feet, it
is on the hanging wall that the rich
silver ore appears in combination with
zinc and copper that, will run as high
as 7 per cent, besides exceptionally
good silver values.
While the. main values on all levels
is zinc, the values in gold and silver
are not to be overlooked, as all the
ores will run enough in these precious
metals to pay expense of milling and
other treatment, as well as freight;
The lower tunnel level shows immense
improvement over the ore exposures
above, the veins showing greater
width and loncrer unbroken shoots. At
no time has any of the drifts been
really out of ore from the crosscut
tn the end of the drifts north and
south.
The whole area of ground covered
bv the Middle Golconda claims appears
to be mineralized, with the walls of
eranite and schist pointing to the pos
sibility of the shoots coming together
at depth. Everything indicates still
greater ore bodies in the section of the
mine below the present openings, al
though a- malntainance of the present
ore Bodies- at depth would put the
property in the class with the big
mines- of the state.
The Middle Golconda is on the same
vein with the Golconda and Tub, of
the Union Basin Mining Company, and
the veins of the Golconda Extension,
lying between "the two properties. Ev
erywhere that the veins have been.
opened ore has been found. On the
estate of the Middle Golconda ore has
been found from the south end of the
claims to several hundred feet north
of the tunnel openings, s. distance of
over 1000 feet. This Indicates an im
mense shoot of ore bearing veins. The
lower drift will reach under the ore at
the south end over 500 feet la- vertical
depth. The ore body at this point
should be high in copper values, as in
dicated by the ores now on the dumps
and taken: from the surface outcrop.
Stf far the Middle Golconda mine
has shipped to the smelters in the
neighborhood of $20,OOG, taken from
the drifts and in opening the stopes
in the mine. The mine is paid for and
has beat paying practically all ex
penses from shipped ore, although
leaving- thousands of tons of valuable
ores on the dumps for milling pur
poses. It has approximately 5200,000
worth of ore in the stopes, and every
day adds- to this- reserve. It has shown
a management that believed in getting
a dollar's worth of work for a dollar
spent, and any miner who goes
through the mine will coincide in the
writer's view that more than, a dollar's
worth of work has been had for every
dollar spent on the property.
One thing that is necessary to the
future welfare of the company is a
milling plant to handle the immense
tonnage of milling ore on the dumps
and in the stopes of this great mine,
and it Is up to the company to arrange
its finances for that happy end. So
far as the Miner editor can see there
has not been opened in the whole
county a mine that bears the ear
marks of greatness that is exhibited
in this property.
Among the men who brought the
Middle Golconda up to its present
state of development are J. B. Speed,
and C. B. Bell, of Douglas; J. E. Suits,
of Yuma, and John Mulligan, of King
man. These men enjoy the confidence
of the business men and public in their
respective commumties.
Spirit of 76-17
That the spirit of 76 is not dead
and that there, are real Americans
here and there, is shown by the at
titude of Guy Elder Dunning of
Kingman toward the selective
draft. Mr. Dunning registered here
June 5 and left town shortly after
ward for St. Johns, Ariz. Unable
to return here for examination, he
appeared before the local board at
St. Johns. Here is what he thinks
about the draft law:
Local Board,
Kingman, Ariz.
Gentlemen:
I passed the examination board
here today and don t want any ex
emption. So let me get in the ser
vice as soon as you can, as I think
it is all good Americans' duty to
do 80.
