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McKinley Reviews His Great Generals.
(W'ith Apologies to Meiy...onier.) [Courtesy of the New York Journal.]
They Are Saying in Washington That Alger
Has Not Had Very Much.to Do With
the Campaign in Luzon.
Washlagtou Bureau of the itandard,
No. 1145 (G. Ic..et . V'.
Washington, July 21.-While nobody
In the vicinity of the national capital is
shedding tears for Alger, it Is an inter
esting fact that his retirement, by
methods that are not highly praised
here, has called attention to the policy
under which the president has been
running the war with the Filipinos.
Those who claim to know a good deal
more than the public knows about
what transpires within the white house,
have presented some new views of pres
idential policy, especially since Alger
quit.
These people say that, in truth, it
was Mr. MeKinhey's plan, at the outset,
to be "the whole works"--assuming the
outset to be the time when Phillppine
hostilities began. It is important to
keep this point at place of beginning
in mind, otherwise the, fact may be lost
sight of that, at the very first, blyond
all manner of doubt., he idea of the
conquest or the ann, xation or tlhe pur
chase of the Philhppine i'.anls was not
seriously entert:tini d , h,:l he dl h l]ared
that It would be a crimte t r the United
States to take Cuba, in i.o-ly fancied
that the islando in th, tic.r lt wcculd
figure for lift,-.n , nns, al e , inutt
in any plans the Unit--i · St,it.s tnicht
make after Spain was i ih:0pl ,- Tl-I're
were very f, w l - le, p rtl I, \ .,-y
brilliant deed, who iu-l t ht r ll
what part of the wecrltl tlllnila ill.
A certain el,-n nt in the iullIt hat
always Itnos hiiv to get Mr. \l, liln
ley's ear, c-,ncluded to work i1tic x
pancon sch -niee fIr all it ias a rel.
As for AIr. Ml inlEoy-ihe was easy.
ias no trek cnlli no task fier )hrIn 1
change his iind(. ' l tfirst tlilng 1Ie
iounltry L::tci. tie "i-1 y \ s -,l
Philiplnc an xati'On, ,ld S-ct, tri'
it]lay c airi, l h ic ructiosi to I 'orlt
for cxcalln ,,n . , a.. ile c, ilt been
passc d ups-n l it , 'i j i pr. .--: ta i:ve
f,-rmn . ' 1 ,l _ _~: - , a11i l- ill the ' ay
, r athrwis,.
,her, h tad ,i. i that.
(tc1(,. ;a i. , 1 " t .\t, K I!lI y, c
up he;s ind . . , 1 I h,.ur' . t
i a., war I , a ..Ia .
I , , l ,r," It . . r hI It . li p as
iry, all bya , ar . s N1
eur.+s 1.uz t ,p o c -
eralt. That c c c ' . 1 N . .i Uil
to busy h. : - 'f. lk
to that Ith r \e
the i-ork i f tui'at t uni !- at n,,ght
easily and vr-y I : i h tve b e.,
1.a.sed ,,', r 1,1 , c ., ,' t .%I i, is.
that lr very 1. ct;. , , 11 , i R t-,
the pt" l v iar' a' I c - h 'c s f h'c
the pr-- ient. j.', til I `
the Phliption , ',i Agr has
been a 11 rh,,1 l. T ,ct, aht. as ]
readv has lie, t ! , " r f. r Alger
hut there really has been a guod deal of
talk that the circumlocution which re
sulted in his resignation was charac
teristle of and not complimentary to
the president.
If the returned Montana soldiers are
as frank as those who have preceded
them homeward, they will make no se
cret of their conviction that, even with
an army of 60,000 men, the war in the
islands will last yet many years. Many
reports have reached here of expres
sions on the part of the recently landed
Ist Oregolln troops, which are probably
fairly indicative of what their fellow
soldiers from Colorado will say. One
of the best known of the Oregon ofl
cers is rinoted as saying: "It will be
many years before real peace is estab
lished In the Philippines. Brigandage
warfare will continue, regardless of the
size of our army in the islands. At
least 110,1000 men are needed to conquer
and hold the island of Luzon alone.
Every town must he garrisoned. In my
opinion It will be ye:lrs before the
country will be sufficiently pacified for
Americans to travel in safety for 50
miles from a garrlsoned city."
It is altogether probable that the new
voltunter re-ginitnts01 in whieh the
mountain soldiers who remain in Ma
nila Nill sn'c service, will have plenty
,,f hard work before they again see the
:'tes. The 10 regiments now teling
raisedr in this country will be in the
same class. In fact, they are already
Slld' Inoc.larly speaking, the " 'r. gl
lIi' v,,lnteers," a tolm that implies
1-. rt work and a great d,,al of it. It is
IV ht l ;y war d, partminent authoritis
'}! now regimecns. from ilit CGtl
Sh;, :" . I will continue as organiza
S 1 the pI i rinan,'nt e'tablilinietit,.
S, , x'i; at.on of t11 r prosr nt
I . ' ri d f rnlistmn ent.
l'n ,h- '. r.In-nort lands it will not
"b rp ,- ,~1 '.n .i iii nWani's of the
1,. , ,p < " i t f 1/ 1 i state whh'
hl,'v' , t o ! 1 1 ii',nds. as no ro
1t, , h!". " - nIi I mint have been
ft:rni}', : ,. h .·1 ip , tmr n it.
it" , r ' , far rcived from
T ,t- \'. ,1, n. . . '1, v ,!.r t i.t is s. tlng
ward Th tilt tth, rnw 'li and 2ith
re.tir -1 11tl I.' " ,n !;Ii, Il;r1,it . f nilm ber
of ri :r i'- = I.t. n '1 1t l it ," r tih al
IltaIqn .' c ' tI'r l t 'ls .i ilr '.- ,so tndent
tl' it in his ,),' nion th1 e 00 l-,mt nt of the
l-st mn in thi- new r, t-ti, nto till be
, m, T.t ed by thei 4th A t 'ii '
' I n Ileed rn g K lnuni.
'l ,-r : n ot e or : thern hnt a rh
I .f gr. ,os and thrr, i- nn pan,
t1 . w e':n ! Iill be acepttt as .a bsI h -
:r . for oe:,l r w tlI:h more a', rity than in
i tha. i lt L. e been xtprll:n lntig with
syz utihibttun.
Last Year's Copper Product
As It Is Figured Out in Pounds
Washington Bureau of the Standard,
No. 1145 ci Street N. W.
Washington, I), C., July 20.-The
United Stated geological survey has
just received the report on copper pro
ductlon in 1890, prepared by Special
Agent Charles Kirchlhoff. The report
shows that the total product for the
year was 526.37:,591 pounds. The
special agent says: "The year was one
of general prosperity for the industry,
the full product being markeited at
prices slightly better than those of 1897.
The actual scarcity of copper, with its
accompanying upitard rush in price
and its enormous expansion of stock
speculation, d(id not in realIty develop
until the end of the year. and did not
tell u, on the returns for the year 159..
"As was explvted, the increase in the
production of coppler was larger in
Arizona, while the lake diltri t also
recorleld an advance. .lontaua f 11 otY
considerably. Intenste tc'il ityl has de,
veloped in the search for llnew o per
mitnes, and a large number of ne.w uln
dertakings have stanted. But th
lpre aratiotns for oeutput on even a mod
ratio scale iil the o\ay of opt.ning ll,1
ining property and pros idig it
rI-d ¢-lion plant are so largt adil
requires so much time thlIt few of t.
neswcelrs lw:ll add mate i ally to thei
copper nttio'.kt of 1199. What intre.se
thlre'., ill h, will -oep fromn the ohl-r
minlls.. land that cherloy ftIIm .\Aizetna,
thle lakes, alificrniat and Pltah."
Thalt portion oif thle Ietol.e)t hearine
l:tl li larly o() \ilnt ano is as fiolliivs:
"pu .L, int 1,tn i .t Frank Kl t ietko r,'
'-oits that the slight nitc're..i in tih
c-st cf ntin!ng i ext:la ,'I d by t' o
large ,expense cf dlovelt,llmelt (iwork,
which lhas increased the ,re r,-ee:vs
a0lpl'nx:i ati'ly c60,i0 tiins. The \.,ra
of slll, tiiut.ing the latest ty'pes if lguip
llmit it -the (rl eat Falls sln ltIllt
wl'rks has been coIntirnuted, and tw,,
oI:e~ blast furlnaces have bien ctniilu-t
-I. alnd the new rm . iericl'cac,-y i i oRk
ing successfully. Aldlltilns an
changies l.ic oe nhel- made, il th. l- c:lcill
Itratin , anl the , ,et tr,13: l l.ta ' l t i a
)een c.:r;led] up to a ca'e aity of 4..0('.
000l p.tunds pter month. Thi, itp r
mnnts made, whihl they? did not f.ioir
ablly inlhl n cn , est In 198. ar,' - c,ev tetl
to liead t, loweritng lthem it !\cI'. .\n
acltu.tl ln( a.-, in the lprcductive .a
aclity oTf erh mines cannOt hIe said to
haive taken placc.
"The Montana Ore Purclhasincg rcm
Ipany has acquired add t otnal miniing
properties and has tIeen actively (.t
\'hliltg them. With an icrricased or.'
suP1ly, additions to, the smtelt ling plant
h . e ht,,(come nec,essary, the ,-,n.elitrat
c: \ orks -having an adequate capacity.
The wolk is now pr-'-ce--,lding ,f ].u.t.t g
ulp _i ald .ti- nal rotary calciners. t%,,
reverbrhratory furnaces and a converte-r
stand, the whole to be completed in
August. This twill greatly increasoe the
capacity, adding about 8,0000.(0 pt.unds
of :oppert er allnl
"The Butte & ollton company has
erected a conlve:lllng plant, the smelt
ing \ orks being uhased to the Ilston &
llntana cuml'.,lny. It Is estinmatedl
that the Butt' & tloston comptany witll
soon he in a 1 ,itin to produce month
jP from 00,0uWO to 900,000 pounds lilne
IN THE LAKE REGION.
The report of the United States geo
logical survey 'n copper is found to be
particularly umitle as to the Lake pro
duct. It sase: '.The Calumet & lhecla
ct.mpany tos in ,.!erately incrOesed its
pruduct durlng 1'5, but has nit added
to titqipmlnt lt ,al'ulated to lring about
an early tn:iar, i.,Int of output. Ie
vcloptnlnts ,It oth., Osceola lode are he
ing pr.'-te-d i ,t'.td.
The prodilu It: of the Tamarack has
conttinulld to iin tease, having risen to
31,127,t2: poundll- of mineral inl 1i:8, as
compared tll wi'h 9:'.59 380 pounlls in 197
and :;.,6207,0t9 I'1),ds in 1896. t A furtd.r
intlrease i~tt s c'Xr t, d when the entire
staiml.ng 'liL:j i o working under im
proved ,:stali ls. During III year
12.9t'3 tlons i.'hk was hoistetd, 76,8S
tons cnminc I'il ,;, crosscuts, shafts alti
winztess anl iti i :lance from ithe 1i,e,.
of the totaii '!.t mtity 71,304 tions \\.ls
hoi.te'd from!l oldest, No. 1, shalt.
which is ::.I' " f, it deep: 4:.0,21'7 tols
from No. -'..'i, 3',866 feet der I, and
311.417 t.ll.n f,, u No. 3 shaft. 4.t5;t f iet
p(1'tr . 'The' .-, t shaft, 4,450 feot deep,
is niot equitti.I fi r hoisting rock, bit
may b' IatI'i 'or.. No. 5 shaft, which
was sitirt, I iit he fall of 1895, is ' x
po.tetl to si!.k, tlw lode at a d,'pth of
about 4,600 it ' and since a depth ,,f
3,i(00 filt wu: .irt:hined at the hclos of
Ilo0, it s ill Iot tably reach the dt psir
tottard th, 1t.11 t ,f 1900. It is not I!k ly
that it will I,, in ptosition for use f',r
hoisting r',k li tt well into 19it1. Thile
eqluim)i.llt it, inlk among the great
est miniing In,, ' itnry in the world, so
the c.nstrti,' :,,', account protmistes to
hie ht avy fr ti next few years. 'The
histin; in, ' niow In place anld a
lalta i''.1'1 t i I. plant at No. 3 shaft
has go,. i, , rimission. The ott)in
pany h t',Is,' itct a pumping plant
on I..iak . Sii t,,r with a capacity of
1,000.,00 , t ,, 1 t, r 24 hours.
I)uring th.o iar 1898 the two stamp
mills, with li, andr two stamps respel
t ',lN. hIIl t tt siling tIom equivalent
to one hi-a t run!ing 2,088 days. stampt
ig 761:,15;: tnl- < f Tamnarack and Tamln
arack. jr., it k tor 352.45 tons per day.
Of this ql::';tiy. :)0.832 tons was Tam
arasok p! .t!ust, thie ,osat of stamping be
ing 22.4)2 ', nt p,- r ton, while the total
cast p.r ',n ,,: r,,ick mined was $1.66,
and per ,,n ,f r-.k stamped $2.01.
Thoe t ra,- gt ,, t.ts for 1898 were $2.
351.:'.i "-. Inr'.Sdt by the larger pro
duct anId a,o by tile increase in the nOt
price of copper of %c per pound. The
expenditures were $1,862,507.02, which
included $36,897.48 for construc
tion at shafts Nos. 3 and 4, $100,363.50
for sinking and construction at No. 5,
and $63,030.64 for sundry construction.
The net income for the year amounted
to $510,881.93, out of which dividends
aggregating $480,000 were paid.
The Quincy is continuing its active
preparations for an increased produc
aion. A new shaft, No. 7, is being sunk
from a number of points, the aggregate
sinking having been 2,560 feet, and will
be completed early in 1900. A large
hoisting engine, capable of taking 8,000
feet of 154 rope, has been ordered, and
a contract has been let for a 60-drill
Hand compressor. A new stamping
mill, for which to begin with three
stamps, has been ordered, is expected
to be ready when the production of
No. 7 shaft will begin. The old mill has
five heads of stamps, so that the ca
pacity of the mine will be considerably
enlarged. In the meantime, recently,
the rock has temporarily not yielded as
well, so that the output is not quite
up to the former rate. The new smelt
ing works at Hancock were completed
in December. There are four furnaces,
capable of treating 20 tons daily each.
The production of the mine in 1898
was 20,056,942 pounds of mineral, yield
ing 16,354,061 pounds of refined copper,
for which there was realized the gross
sum of $1,986,116.81. The running ex
penses at ,the mine were 1887,886.35, the
cost of construction, $221,277.01; taxes
in MJichigan, $35,989.20, and smelting,
rlanspurtatiom and all other expenses,
$191,3,5.67, leaving as mining profits,
$619,578.50. Interest and sales of real
estlate carried the income up to $668,
10.86., out of which dividends aggre
gating $650,000 were paid.
The stamp mill crushed 543,592 tons
of rock at a coast of _2.28 cents per ton.
the product of mineral being 14,712,685
pountd s, o bhile the product of the rock
houses was 5,344,257 pounds.
The product of the Franklin mine in
1!80 fell off because the old stamp mill
was destroyed by tire at the end of No
\veomer. The mne produced 3,300.511
tpounds of mineral, including 807,960
i,,,tunds of m~ass and barrel work, yield
ing 2,02:1.702 pounds of fine copper, as
e,-nmlarced with 2,908,284 pounds in 1897.
Ther c \ re holated 127,021 tons of rock.
of which 47,235 tons came from the
'Franklin, Jr.. property, the amount of
rock stamped. being 116,696 tons, at a
c.,ast of 51.02 cents per ton. The per
centage of mineral was 1.41 per cent,
as cmpared with 1.358 per cent in 1897.
The income was $317,918 in 1898, against
$:320,917.37 in 1t97. m\hile the costs were
$200,413 for mining and stamping and
$40,018 for smelting and fre:ght, leaving
a balance for 1898 of $71,487, as com
pared with $9.473 in 1897.
In April, 1898, the capitalization of the
Franklin Mining company was in
creased to $1,,000000 from $320,000, and
Otficial Figures and a Statement of General
Conditions of Mines and Smelters in
Montana and the Lake Region.
40,000 shares of stock were sold for
$400,000. The old Franklin territory has
been exhausted except a portion of the
north end, where there are still con
siderable reserves. Th future of the
company, however, depends upon the
Franklin, Jr., formerly knows as the
Albany and Boston, and talter as the
Peninsular, on which the Pew abie lode
has been energetically developed, le
ing opened by four shafts. These have
been equipped with modern hoisting
engines and compressors and drills. A
new mill, located on Grosse Point, on
Pontage lake, Is approaching comple
tion. It will contain four Allis Iheads,
capable of handling 1,500 tons of rock
per day, so that the mine would ap
parently, with its quota of mass and
barrel work, approach an annual pro
duction of 10.000,000 pounds. The total
amount expended on the Franklin, Jr.,
to the end of 1898 was $522,330. the out
lays In 1898 having been $198,618 ast the
mines and $97,275 at the stamp mill.
The production of the Atlantic mine
fell considerably below that of the pre
vious year, partly because the yield of
the rock was the lowest on record, 11.8
pounds of copper to the ton of rock
stamped, while the wages were the
highest yet paid. A fire in one of the
shafts, too, resulted in the loss of about
one month's production. The mine pro
duced in 1898 5,926,450 pounds of min
eral, or 4,377,399 pounds of refined colp
per, as compared with 5,109,663 pounds
in 1897. There was realized for the
copper an average price of 11.83 cents,
the total receipts being $518,219.14 in
1898. as compared with $574,783.65 In
1897. The mining expense was $440,
373.44, while the cost of smelting,
freight, etc., fooed up to $59,479.27, thus
leaving a surplus of $18,366.43. There
were paid out for construction at thO
mines, mill and railroad and for ex
ploration $69,360.37, an excess of ex
penditure of $51,236.04, reducing the sur
plus to $106,098.87.
The Osceola Consolidated, which in
eludes the former Kearsarge and Tami
rack. Jr., properties, produced in l iS
15,848.928 pounds of mineral as cim
pared with 13.857,273 pounds, tlhe min
eral yielding about 81.5 per cent. of tine
copper. The gross receipts in 1N90 were
$1.549.820.12, as c"cmpared with $1,033.
056.11, while the costs increased fronm
$1,075,655.03 to $1.170,0h2.22. The nco in
come in 1898 was $371.791.90. as tcomparel d
with $262,401.08 in 1897. In 19s8 livideinds
aggregating $277,250 were paid. leaving a
surplus of $94,541.90. It alppears that
2,000 out of the 9,000 shares of treasury
stock have been s, ld, netting $114,109.55.
out of which $29,110.67 was expended on
account of the new stamp mill.
W. E. Parnall, the superintendent, re
ports that the total quantity of rock
mined was 637.60:13 tons, of which 505,
008 tons was stamped at a cost of 2S.94
cents per ton.
At the Osceola branch a new hoisting
outfit, capable of hoisting 1,500 to 1,800
tons of rock, is in working order at one I
shaft, and a duplicate is to be Installed
at another shaft. On the Kearsarge
branch a new shaft is being sunk. An
important piece of work, which will add
to the production of the company, is the
approaching completion of a new stamp
mill with three heads, with 20x24-inch
cylinders. Some interesting modifica
tions in handling the rock are to be in
troduced, which will also be adopted at
the old mill of six stamps. It is esti
mated that the combined capacity of
the plants will be equal to about 3.500
tons of rock per day, which at the same
yield would represent an annual pro
duction of fully 25,000,000 pounds.
The Baltic is a new mine which is ex
pected to contribute a moderate amount
of copper during 1899, having the use
of one of the stamps of the Atlantic
mill. The Baltic is regarded as being
probably the most easterly of the cop
per-bearing amygdaloids. The work of
exploration and development has been
actively prosecuted during 1898. the ex
renditures having aggregated $129,
406.86.
The Allouez has been sinking and
prospecling on the Os cola lode and
iurchased from the St. Mary's Canal
Mineral Land company 40 acres of land
on which it soutcropped. A shaft Itas
been sunk, but copper has not yet been
found in payinlg quantities. Explora
tions have atI.o bl on made for the
tjuiney 'e\\ablic tloe. The clmpany
leased one hlad of its stamn mill to
the Wolverine company.
The (','ntral, which was organized in
1854 witll a capital stock payed in of
$l00,400 and witchl taid d;ring its ca
reer $1.970,000 in dividends, practltally
stopped work in 19OS, producing in th it
year :921.W91 poands of copper at a loss
of $2.:l.l1;n. t nl a r.duc ing its net sur
plus to $it1O66.73. The company owns a
larg' territory aind exploration on con
tiguous lands miay help discoveries of
mines of value in the future.
There has been a very groat activity
in promoting new companies to rI open
new mines ant expIlor and devil ,p
mineral property 'on the I,akk Su lcrio:
ptoper range. These may be di idedl
into four groups, the principal one be
ing along the stretch of territory he
twecn Hancock and north of C'alumet,
0on which there are now, tprcedling
nllrtheast, the producing mines q(uiney,
Franklin, Osceola. I'alumet and 1Ht, .:1
T.marack. Wolverine and Kenrsargo.
Located in this territory are the new
companies, the Areadian. RIhode Isl
and. Tecumseh. Old Colony, May
flower, Mohawk and Seneca.
The fact is that Otis' policy of not
letting the truth be known was in ac
cord with the policy at Wachington.
If the administration wished the people
to have full information it could have
easily secured it by an ordor that the
censorship should only forbid advance
information of militpry movements.
Pittsburg Dtipatch.