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TEX TOKOPAH DAILY BONANZA, TONOPAH. NEVADA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912. Tonopah Daily Bonanza Tj-yTj"j,VVj,VVU,Vi,VfcsJ eaamaSaamaTaeEamamamaataaTaataai Published erery evening, Sunday excepted, by the Toaopah Bonanza Publlablng Co., Inc. THE POTASH CONTROVERSY. W. W. BOOTH. Editor and Manager Member Nevada Editorial Association. Om Vmi Nim ataalaa Sim Mo a a. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION BY MAIL Tkrae Moattk. OmIM - - $12 00 10.00 .7S Oa. Waak S3 SO I.2S .30 Delivered by Carrier $1.25 Per Month 910 REWARD. A reward of 110 will be paid (or Information tbat will lead to the arrest and cony'ctloi of partus stealing The Bonanit from subscrllers. TO StUSCRIBERS. Parties who do not receive tbelr papers, or who have any cause of complaint, will oblige The Itnoanza by notifying this office. Kutered at tbe Pcstofticu In Tonopah as Second claar Ma'.'er. Na mdvrtimtag cut, aaa lack iqaar. mr tmmSUt. will fca accaaa4 law mad. of aatal. Na wawl baaa caU a thi. aiia will Wa tnti Wood cut, ara dug aratu to farm mai at m. OUR TRADE WITH RUSSIA. On account of the strained relations now cx istmtr Itetween Russia and the United States much interest has been aroused regarding th volume and relative importance of the trade be tween the two countries. As direct shipments lictwecn ports account for only a small part of the business, exact figures cannot be given will cotitulence in their accuracy, the discrepancy between the oflieial trade reports issued by the re speetive governments being very great. It however, evident that our trade with Russia has been growing fast during tbe past decade and its total volume is now at least double that of the year 1!)01. . Our exports 1o Russia have shown a steadier rise with fewer recessions from previous records than has been the case with our import trade. In the last fiscal year we exported to Russia nier ehundtse valued at .24,704,049, as compared with !r'.).")00.070 in 1!M)1, and these 1911 exports sur passed all previous records. At the same time our imports from Russia were valued at $12,- 2u:,4t!2, as compared with 7,0:54,421 in 1901 ; but in two other years in the last decade our imports had been much larger. In 1907 these imports were valued at $17,704,12 and again in r.UO they rose to $17,:577,212. Russian otlieial figures have been sometimes almost double and again less than half those given in cur trade reports in recent years. Much of our trade with Russia is handled through Eng lish, (icrinany and other European houses whiel re-snip goons in not ii Directions, ami mere is no way of arriving at the exact truth because Kuropean middlemen are not given to telling loo much about their own business and naturally wish to keep both Russia und the United States dependent on them as far as possible. It appears iroin Washington statistics that agricultural nn licniciiis are me most important item in our exports to Russia, with raw col ton second and other manufactures of iron and steel third; while hides and skins come first and raw wool second in importance in our imports from that country. As Russia buys cotton largely in Liverpool and other foreign markets the figures given arc not reliable, but they show exports to Russia valued at $(5,240,000 in the last fiscal year. It was probably two or three times that amount in rea'ity. Russia is now producing a larei amount of cotton at home and the develonruent of this branch of her agriculture may have an imponai.i intiuenee on our cotton belt in future years. Russia is now the chief source of the world s supply of Max and genuine hemp fibers iir.n is eniDiuous to add cotton to the list It is unlikely that strained relations or the abrogation of treaties will have any appreciable effect on Russia's consumption of American raw cotton; but they may diminish seriously her mir chases of our agricultural machinery, of which she took $8,12(5,413 in the last fiscal year. This trade has been built up at great expense, and its loss would be a serious blow because the aerieul tural implement business is still in its infancy in Russia. Russia is, and will continue for a long time to lw the greatest producer of wheat and other small grains in the world, and she pos sesses vast areas of virgin soil in Asia which have hardly been scratched. As our chief imports from Russia consisted List year ot hides and skins valued at $3,409 :191, and of wool valued at $2,007,3(53, much of which came to us through second hands, it is unlikely that an interruption of relations will make much difference to this business. "We will continue to get what we want of these raw I rodti- ts. so Russia does not seem 'ikely to lose our friendship. Raw furs and skins and licorie. root will also come to us from Russia fhrougl r.uropean .middlemen. 4 i i ... .as nc nuy irom uussia very little except raw materials that we must - have, while Russia takes more than half her imports from us in th snape '! manufactured eoods. our position venker than hers as far as possibility of injury ... iio.e- i I'OMccnifii. jiowever, mere is no use in crossing that bridge till we come to it and Russia may accede to our just demands be Jure the situation becomes acute. With the announcement that the chief con sumers of potash salts in the United States have made peace with the German Kali syndicate and that more than a hundred of them har"e signed contracts to buy potash at approximately the old high scale of prices, the German victory is cele brated and the German potash monopoly is again riveted on the world. While Washington talks of prosecuting fertilizer trusts, chemical trusts and others interested m the potash business, the German government forces the potash mines into a trust for the avowed purpose of raising prices to at least double the cost of production and to almost double the price some of the largest mines were anxious to sell at to American buyers. While the United States tries to prevent combi nations of capital other countries encourage and even compel them. We may be right m theory, but it is hard on us in practice. World-wide free trade has much to commend it in theory, but free trade does not work very well in practice when it is "jug-handled." The two are closely related. When Germany imposed the excess produc tion tax on all mines that turned out more than the quota of the total production of potash al lotted to them, the blow was aimed directly at the American interests that had contracted to take potash from the independent mines at less than the otheial syndicate s price, and also at those Americans who had invested money in German potash mines. Hut the law was of gen eral application to all who might dare to defy the edict of the imperial government, and was not technically discriminatory against this coun ty. The attempt to "bluff" Germany into mak ing concessions by threatening to impose the maximum rate of duty against her goods under the provisions of the l'ayite-Aldrieh tariff re sulted in a humiliating fiasco in which our diplo mats and special agents appeared in a ridiculous light. Germany is flying in the face of all the sup posed laws of supply and demand in forcing the maintenance of scale of prices sufficiently high to enable the poorest mines to produce potash at a profit. I'otash could be sold much cheaper and yet give everyone just as much profit if a few of the big mines were given the whole business and a bonus were paid to the smaller mines to keep shut. Meanwhile, the United States is mining and selling at very small profit or none at all its stores of equally valuable phosphate rock. Any attempt on the part of the owners of these phosphate deposits to combine to conserve our natural resources of this in valuable fertilizer, would be met by a federal prosecution under the anti-trust law. 'As potash and phosphates are so closely related in the fertilizer business, the contrast between the policies of Germany and the United States stunds out in high relief. "TONOPAH HARDWARE CO. HENRY f. SCHMIDT Successors to Nye County Mercantile Co. RUSSEL WILLIAMS Three Big Stocks of Hardware in One ALL GOOD, CLEAN GOODS HARDWARE DOES NOT GET SHELF-WORN Ever; Day Is Bargain Day With Us 1 Price to all. Which 2 s way helow Cost Universal Cook Stoves. Ranges and Heaters, Cole's Hot Blasts, Cooking Utensils, Crockery, Glasswear, Tools, Builders' Hardware, Tents and Mine Supplies . . Agents for Milburn Wagons & Vehicles, the Best in the land Built Expressly for Southern Nevada. It is reported that a ninety-pound man, four ieet nigh, thrashed a logger weighing 10 IKnin.is. ana yet there are pessimists who do noi ncneve that the longed-for "white hope will ever materialize. l'Ll'MIUXM XI TIN NINO C!ct ready for winter now. Prompt attention to all jolis In plumbing. roolitiK, piping, etc. All work guaranteed. W. .SISIv Sheet Metal Works, Opposite liutler Bnlldlns. Main Street. One of the new California feminine voters ask ed a registrar to send one of his deputies to reg ister her guests at a tea recently. Too bad that it could not be done. It might inspire one of the male voters with the notion of collecting some potential votes at a stag dinner and calling i the deputy registrar while they were in a semi conscious condition. After all, that is the only way to make sure that some of the men electors register. Some state papers seem to have forgotten that this is not the first time that the political complexion of the board of aldermen of the City of New York has been changed. Only one thing never changes. The tax levy always goes t decrease in the annual expenditure would somewhat new. NEVADA SHEET METAL WORKS Tonopah ' - Nevada Contractors and Build er of everything in sheet metal and plumb ing. TELEPHONE 342 It is announced that Yale University is about to have a baseball cage. This announcement is puzzling. Are the baseball fanatics of Yale so violent that they have to be caged f Maine is taking steps to conserve lobsters. The Dr. Sun Yat Sen's utteranes are of so differ ent type from the antiquated winnings with which "the throne" acknowledged its imbecility only a few weeks ago, that they mark a striking contrast between the tyranny of the dead and the ! ugle call to a new activity. "Outlook in the Stock Market for the Coming Year," says a Stock Exchange house in its fin:i cial letter. Well, that is quite possible. The Contributing Editor has taken it into almost every other storm center that can be named. A Stanford professor says that the Chinese are too ignorant to run a republic. Give them a chance. They may not make any worse mess out of it than other people who have handled republics The train robbers who held up the Oregon Express must have been novices, or they would have looted the pockets of the Pullman porters instead of the mail ear. A man who does not understand any known language was picked up in California the other day. lie is the one human being who is absolute ly safe from naggings. An Oregon rooster is said to have taken to joyriding. Let us hope that the automobile fever does not extend to Petaltmia. If it does, one of the big industries of California will be ter ribly menaced. large cities of other states will be willing to part with their lobsters without any cash consideration, hit they are probably not the kind of lobsters that pre wanted in Maine. Just because Alabama, Arizona and Arkinas ire democratic is not to be taken as a s e in dication that the "As" will have it in 191. This country is richer than ever. Prosperity is right ahead of us if we only think so circulate idle money in trade channels. T0N0PKH TIDEWATER RY TIMETABLE Leatre Tonopah - 8:14 a. m. Leave Goldfield - 3:30 p. m. Arrive Los Angeles - 10:15a.m. THROUGH SLEEPER BEATTY TO LOS ANGELES Fast Freight Service from Los Angeles, San Fran cisco and all points east to Tonopah. For Further Information Apply 0. UPLAND, C. H. SHIRTZ, General Agent, Pass, and Frt. Agt, Whitmore Building, Goldfield, Net Bank Saloon WALTER DRYSDALE PROPRIETOR THE PLACE To Meet Your Friends and Have a Pleasant Smile BEST LINE OF GOODS Served th Marttat Affords Dr. T. A. Musante ...DENTIST... Hourst 9 to 12 a. m. 1 to 5 p. m. Office Rooms: 8 and 9 Tonopah Block smmnM ft COTTOLENE THE PERFECT SHORTENING . With an order of Cottoleno we will ivc the now cook hook "Home Helps" Free. NEW PRICES Small Pail,40c Medium Pail 75c Large Pail $1.75 L0THR0P-DAVIS CO. INC. Main St., Tonopah Phone 262 Special Inducement To Be Sanilarv Tbe Tonopah Sewer Drain- age company will put tbe new- er pipe to your property linn without charge to you. From your property line to within three fcot of your connection Tor 25 (vnls per fool, and the actual cost of Excavation. Phoue to Secretary at the Nevada Mint National hunk. or see the General Maiiii&'T JOHN GREGQVICH ( svll.KK IN HM V HSU STAI'lH ..Groceries.. HUITS M IKlKTAni.KK, TIH.-i HOll.TUV.' IN NKAHO.V I iMII'AB KKV4IM '(IK 6LK "ne new iwo-borR power Wanner 60-cycle. single phase, elcrtrlr motor; btarter and fixliiie i-iitnpletr Addr-.sn H , rlnnaona office VAUDEVILLE Best Show In Town Picture or Act EVERY HOUR The Famous Schlitz Beer on Draught CARLOAD DIRECT Music by Our Own Orchestra at the BIG CASINO Received by GOLD MEDAL FLOUR - A NEVADA PRODUCT FOR NEVADA PEOPLE Every sack absolutely guaranteed to consumer. To be bad at all store Ask for if aid laalrt on tettlae- this Aecept no other as a substitute McLEAN & McSWEENEY, Distributors. THE TONOPAH BANKING CORPORATION ...Organized 1905... IINI1ED STATES DEPOSITORY POSTAL SAVINGS FUNDS DIRECTORS GEO. S. NIXON, F. M. LEE, II. C. BROUGHER, WALTER J. HARRIS, OFFICERS GEORGE S. NIXON, President WALTER J. HARRIS, Vlce-Feesidenl F. M. LEE, Vice-President EUGENE HOWELL, . Cashier R. B. GOV AN, EUGENE HOWELL FRESH MEATS FISH - and - POULTRY We Handle Only First-Class Nevada Beef TONOPAH-GOLDFIELD MEAT MARKET The BONANZA for First Class Printing