AGK TWO IJJE MOHAVE C'OI NTY- MINl'.R AM) nrtJ MINERAL WEALTH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1920. Mohave County Miner H and Our. Mineral Wealth i Official Papr of Mohave County Issued Weekly by the MOHAVE PRINTING and PUBLISHING COMPANY Entered as second-class matter at the postdfflce at Kingman. Mohave County, Arliona, under Act of Congress of Mar. 1, 1S79. " . SAXON Editor and Manager AXIOM JC. SIOIH Mining- Editor Subscription rates IS per year, payable In adance. NEWSPRINT HAS ADVANCED 500 PER CENT nr r : in a jt-jskzw. t - -- The End of a Perfect Day J j Zfifcz - NOV hJnf7i vi yVvr'fla e ifo 9J B aHi skKsi v Ml Ifflil Offl PAul B HI ' LI A current report of the Government Forest Seivice says that the larger newspaper publishers of the country have been able to keep down the advance in cost of their newsprint to about 200 per cent because of their ability to contract in large volume. But the market price, accord ing to the bulletin, has advanced 500 per cent since 1915. It is at this price that the small publisher is compelled to buy his paper stock. Primarily the reason for the advance in paper is due to a wood short age. In earlier days the paper mills were built in the lumber regions and their pulp wood was a sort 6f by-product of the saw milling industry. But in most of these regions the saw mills have finished, and they have packed up, burned out, or moved away for some other reason. But the paper mill cannot play the part of "carpet bagger" quite so easily, and as a result the north-eastern part of the United States has become large ly dependent upon Canadian wood. Spruce from Minnesota and Canada, for example is being hauled from 700 to 1200 miles to Wisconsin paper mills. In New York state, where nearly fifty per cent of our newsprint is produced, sixty per cent of the pulp and paper mills have absolutely no timber supplies of their own. New Hampshire and Maine appear to be the only eastern states that still have ra.w materials for making paper, and there is a well-grounded suspicion in the paper trade tht the day of profiteering in spruce, hemlock, balsam and poplar is pretty well under way. The big papers, in any event, are certainly eating up the little ones, and their "funny sheets", magazine sections and other irrelevant features add to the tragedy of the proceedings. v (.A ill tj IcfP i AT elfeo. && I LI ' tp JEL?FTi"t ' w s aways tener an( flavory j J tr U a'HfTII I l& no matter wnat the season. But Vl u u fjf even with veal there's a difference l , . in the flavor that's all in favor SHAFT IS WELL PROTECTED f of the carefully raised, carefully 1 if selected stock that we carry. IF Washington Monument Made Immune II . I From Lightning by Scheme That II IVf B. nice Veal TOaSt for tOmOr Ml Has Proved Its Worth. l row Qr jf y0U prefer a CUtlet Of If m some good juicy veal chops, we jf vk have some values that we know Ml vk will please you. Phone orders Ml L filled promptly. Mf : rjlj I nil HI I llilllrSs-ifcA- "" tJtW fffjrlifilffll Ftttt A BRIGHT MINING OUTLOOK Mining development has been lagging during the past few months but the future is particularly bright. There is growing demand for metals despite the fact that restricted coppqr production with low prices has caused many to inquire anxiously as to! the outlook for the red metal. There appears to be little opportunity for pessimism. Silver producers are speeding up. production and, with Uncle Sam standing ready to purchase all the white metal produced by mines of United States at $1 per ounce for several years to come, the silver miner has little to worry about. It seems certain that the government will take some action to influence the production of gold. Legislation is now pending in con gress to portect the producers of tungsten from the cheap-labor product of China and South America. The completion of this legislation will be of great importance to western producers. The world cannot go forward without mining activity and progress of mining is in proportion to the progress of the world. When we con sider the ever-growing electrical power development and the broadening market for electrical appliances we note but one factor in a steadily in creasing consumption of copper. In a few years' time we may face the same condition in the copper market that now exists in the petroleum in dustry. Auto truck transportation and more modern mining and" milling equipment are already factors in the race to meet this great demand. Minera discovery is not as easy as it once was. Metal and mineral prices may be expected to increase materially as a consequence. Just as the porphyry coppers, once thought to be too low grade to work, have by improved methods become profitable, so will other metaliferous de posits, under the stimulus of high prices, become workable. Greater mining activity is inevitable. LESS CHANCE FOR GLOOM It is not easy for Americans to be pessimistic as it was in the spring. The biggest and most vital problem, that of food, is causing less concern. Crops have improved surprisingly in the last two months, so that there is going to be far more wheat than anybody hoped, and apparently, too, more corn and other grains, with fair prospects for the principal fruits and vegetables. The sugar supply, too, has become plentiful and a little cheaper, so that there will be less handicap than was anticipated in pre serving perishable foodstuffs for winter use. There remains the coal problem. And it depends largely, like many of our other economic problems, on the transportation situation. If only the railroads can get more cars, or what amounts to the same thing, if their cars can be speeded up, so that crops and coal can be moved before winter sets in, and so that merchandise of all kinds can be distributed nor mally, Uncle Sam will have little to worry about. There will remain politics, to be sure; but politics never troubles the public very much when the material processes of life are functioning satisfactorily. AUTOMOBILE PRICES A rumor in the automobile world to the effect that prices of cars had recently been reduced in Omaha has been found incorrect. Investi gation shows that there have been no actual reductions in the prices of new cars, but there is hope in the fact that proposed advances by manu facturers have been temporarily deferred. If farmers are concerned about the low prices they receive and are as intelligent as they claim to be, the wonder is that they do not perfect means of coming into direct selling contact with the consumer and there by eliminate the middleman and his profits. That time is swiftly approaching, if the signs and portents of the present are to be credited, when every dollar not actively in circulation " will be required to tell the story of its life day by day. This, of course will discourage the idle amd yfcioua dollar. CONTESTED CASE ON STATE LAND IS . APPEAlED COURT PHOENIX, July 31. The first con tested case for state lands in which one of the applicants applied for a re newal and in which the land commis sion, in keeping with its policy of "perpetuating leases," ruled in favor of the old lessee, will be appealed. Announcement was made yesterday that Mrs. Lydia L. Fike of Naco, who applied for a lease to land held by Hillman and Graves, would fight the case in the courts of the state. It is understood that a complaint shortly will be filed in the superior court of Cochise county by counsel for Mrs. Fike. The news that the matter will be taken into the courts will be of inter est to the many who have condemned the department's policy in regard to renewals, which in question is involv ed in the action to be brbught by Mrs. Fike. Her case was the first decided by the commission where there were two applicants for the same land, one being an applicant for the renewal. Mrs. Fike took up a homestead ad joining the state land in the year 1897 and engaged in the dairy busi ness serving the city of Bisbee with milk! At the time Mrs. Fike. located upon the homestead there was no town of Naco and her son drove the first nail in the building of that town. Commencing with her homestead Mrs. Fike, through her industry and thrift, purchased other lands adjoin ing her own and increased her dairy stock, endeavoring to take care for the growth in the population of Bis bee and the demand for milk. In February of this year Mrs. Fike ap plied to lease six sections of land from the state which lie adjoining her homestead and extend from her place to the Mexican border. On the north side she is cut off by the Mule moun tains, and the land she has applied for is necessary for her present use in the development of her dairy busi ness commenced on her homestead in 1897. The land involved, under the lease to Hillman and Graves, as was brought out by testimony before the land commission hearing a week ago, is being used by them to fatten cat tle brought out from Mexico. C MINER WANT ADS ARE BUSI NESS WINNERS The apex of the Washington monu ment Is surrounded with parallel bands. The bands are studded with golden points. The bands are made of gold-plated Iron n foot wide, and the points are spaced a foot from one another. According to the original plan of the monument It was protected from lightning by an aluminum tip that was connected with the metal framework of the eleator. During the very first summer after the monument was coin--pleted, however, it was struck twice, nnd n piece of stone wiis chipped from the top. Experts from all the scientific de partments of the goernment were called on to contrive a plan for the hotter protection of the shaft. They agreed on a number of Iron hands, heavily galvanized and gold plated, to prevent rusting. The bands are connected with the aluminum point of the monument, and the framework of the elevator, and at the base iron cables lead the electric ity Into a deep well, where It harm lessly expends its force. The protec tion has proved to be perfect. C. W. Herndon ATTORNEYiAT-LAW intrman, Arizona. Quality Meats Honest Weight KINGMAN MEAT MARKET I. M. 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