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WOOL IS ENDED
I rkHiient f a lny of Itich grade
rtwMte silver-Wad era lu lb Uico
WellibglMi aaiae near IUv. Colo, U
IirveIopti4-ut work at the C'ot
toiiHx iWitlon Mine coinpauy has
bct-n joins t.u all wiiitt-r ami is being
airadily j.rvutsl by t-utrat.
1'iuted Slate Fuel -ouiiauy baa
retried to the Utah board of equaliza
tion a total valuation fur taxation pur-
!.. of flW.Hli, of which 1.2.lt;KJ
it located In CrtHu county and $41.
422 in Kinery county.
Information received from the Moni
tor mine near Mllford. in Beaver
couuty. Utah, Indicatea that even bat
ter values and more extensive miner-
alizaiioa are to be ewountered at
depth tbaa were devcloied in the upper
workings.
Chino, Kay Oonsollusted and Ne
vada Consolidated rut their dividends
at the regular meeting of the direc
tor lust week, while the Utah Cop
iter was the only one of the porphyry
eroun tv maintain Its usual rate of
dividend.
Ira MacKarland. deputy utate eugl
neer, lius taken charge of the drilling
operations of the IIHimh Basin OH &
;as company, near Ely, Nev which
now linn the new well down a di
tuu-e of 273 feet, according to the
White Pine News.
Data obtained recently concerning
the geology of the formation in the
Ontario mine Indicates that this old
mine, the oldest producer of the Park
City district, has large enough de
posits at depth and in virgin territory
to produce for a period of many years,
Diamond drilling from the 700-foot
level of the Western Utah Copper mine
in the Deep Creek district, near Gold
Hill. Utah, has already been begun
On this level a mineral xone, persist
nt from grassroots, has been opened
tip for a length of 200 feet and sixty
five feet In width.
In the Argentine mine at Rico, Colo.,
more than 50,000 tons of combined lead
zinc ore which carries good silver val
ties has been blocked out,
Four or Five Steps Necessary to
Finish Work of War Indus
tries Board.
SETTLE WITH 3,865 DEALERS
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RiDorts Must B Audited. Analyze
and Excess Profits Determined and
Disbursed Refunds In Many
Cases Will Be Small.
Washington. The department of
urri culture Is winding up the affairs
sf the domestic wool section of the
aar Industries board. This work In
folves four distinct steps, and it seems
probable that a fifth will be necessary,
The first step is to secure, on form
furnished by the department, sworn
reports from the 3.C86 country deal
rrs and, the 170 distributing dealers
;o whom the war industries board 1s-
nied permits to deal In wool of the
1918 clip.
The second Involves the auditing of
Ibese reports In detail to determine
whether the methods pursued and the
profits made are in accordance with
the regulations.
The third Is the collection of excess
profits from those persons or firms
whose renorts. after auditing, show
that such excess profits were made,
As rapidly as they are received by
the department, all remittances for
excess profits are being deposited as
a special fund In the treasury of the
United States.
Disbursing Excess Profits.
The fourth is a careful analysis of
each report which shows excess profits
with a view to working out the fair
est possible method of distributing
such profits. After this is done, the
depaTtment proposes to disburse the
Two years I excefls profits by check of its own dls-
in AtusHousE 7 rem CLAIID H03TH17ESI IfJTAH DUBGET
Woman. iS. Public Charge In Dela
ware Since She Was t Years
Old..
reived from any dealer they are ap
portioned to the Individual growers
to the extent to which their Identity
Is disclosed, but the actual payments
are being withheld until the collec
tion of excess profits Is more nearly
completed. In order that practically
all the growers may receive their
checks at approximately the same
time.
The report of many country deal
ers show no excess profits. Relatively
small amounts of excess were made
by most of the others, and the refunds
to Individual growers In many cases
will be very small. In other words,
the refunds will amount In the aggre
gate to several rents per pound upon
all the wool which the dealer handled.
"The greater part of all excess prof
its." according to a report of the de
partment, "appears to have a ecu run
lated In the hands of certain distribut
ing center dealers- who purchased
largely through direct agencies In pro
ducing sections. Many of the distrib
uting center dealers, who handled
wools on consignment only and whose
profits were necessarily limited to the
commissions paid by the government,
appear to have no excess. In the dis
cussion of this subject In press, the
fact that nearly two-thirds of the wool
clip of the country Is so-called ter
ritory wool from the Western and Pa
cific coast states, which was handled
almost exclusively on consignments,
and therefore furnished on opportuni
ty for the accumulation of excess
profits, has, to some extent at least,
been overlooked."
Georgetown, Dei. An Inmate of the
Sussex county almshouse for seventy
six years. Martha Stanford, who was
blind frotr. childhood, has died at the
age of S3 years. She was sent to the
almshouse from the western part of the
county when nine years old. and lived
there ever since until the time of her
death.
Despite ber affliction and her poor
condition, she 'Kept cheerful, always
hoping that some time she would be
taken from the almshouse. She had
no hear relatives.
WELL-KNOWN WASHINGT0N1AN
ago a large tonnage of this class of ore
was marketed by the company when
the product was in demand for the
manufacture of paint pigments.
The signing of the mineral lands
leasing bill by President Wilson was
aaid by Salt Lake experts to be the
most constructive piece of legislation
1 used for the west in many years,
The immediate result of the bill will
probably be the filing of applications
for preselectors' permits on many thou
sands of acres of reserved lands In the
tate.
The report comes from the Jib mine,
nt Basin, Mont., that a new and Im
portant strike, showing the richest ore
deposit that has been uncovered since
operations were begun under the new
management, has been made. The
ore body is described as being thirty
feet in width and the ore runs 15 to
18 per cent copper and $25 to $30 gold.
and silver to the ton.
American and Mexican silver mines
may look forward to an era of excep
tional prosperity for many years to
come, says the American Chamber of
Commerce in Loudon. The silver
tandard in use In oriental countries,
coupled with the enormous commer
cial expansion now In progress be
tween the west and the east, Indicates
that there is an enormous shortage of
silver to meet the demands of trade,
Copper imports into the United
States In 1919 fell off by more than
thirty million pounds compared with
1!H8. according to reports at the de
partment of commerce. During the
imst year 126,455,063 pounds of cop
per, valued at $23,541,020, were im
ported, against 157,216,481 pounds.
valued a $34,650,864 in 1918.
The committee appointed at the
joint meeting of the boards of Nye
and Ksnieralda counties in Tonopah,
according to the Goldfleld Tribune,
tins formulated a plan under which it
Is hoped to secure the necessary sup
port for the continued operation of the
Bullfrog & Goldfleld railroad. This
plan looks to the taking over of the
road through subscriptions to the
stock necessary to control.
The Piermont Mining company,
which recently took over the old Pier
pont mines situated In the Shell creek
range, about thirty-five miles east of
Ely, Nevada, hos Installed its compres
sor Inn t and now has three shifts
of men employed in driving a 120flfoot
tunnel to. connect the lower with the
vpier workings of the ffroperty, which
will g-lve 500 feet of backs for stoplng,
Offleirs of the Independence Mining
company of East Tlntlc atate that now
that the power machinery has been
made and the new machinery placed. In
operation they will award a contract
for sinking the main working shaft,
Work on the reconstruction of the
building housing the supplies and
Quarters for the employees of the
I-ogger mine In Big Cottonwood can-
yon, which was entirely destroyed by
.' fire recently, has been commenced,
The Monticello Coal company, which
was organized some time ago and which
for several weeks has had men at
'. work sinking a shaft near the out
skirts of Monticello, Utah, Is fully con-
. f ident of striking a large vein of coal
within the next few days.
! Arrangements for the erection of a
mill upon the Jib Mining company's
v property at Basin, Mont, have been
complete.'. Machinery for the equip
ment of the plant, which will have a
capacity of from 500 to 000 tons, will
. ' ; be ordered and shipped to Busln at
oou us possible.
bursng officer drawn on the treasury
of tle United States,
The fifth, step will 'be an audit. In
the field, of the books and records of
dealers whose reports for any reason
seem to make this course advisable.
The first division of the work has
been very nearly completed. A rela
tlvely small number of approved deal
ers have failed to make reports, and
It Is believed that the transactions of
many of these were so small as to be
practically negligible
It has been discovered that several
hundred wool dealers carried on their
business as usual during 1918 without
obtaining permits. As the -names of
these dealers have been ascertained
they have been required to furnish re
ports similar in respect to those re
quired from permit holders and to pay
over their excess profits whenever It
appears tnat they nave made more
than the regulations allowed. In oth
er words, they are not allowed to de
rive any advantage from having oper
ated in Ignorance or violation of the
regulations. The discovery of many
of these unauthorized dealers was Im
possible until the reports of the 179
dealers In distributing centers were
audited, since the entire wool dip of
the country eventually passed through
their books either as purchases or
consignments.
The second division of the work,
that of auditing the reports received,
Is progressing rapidly as the force
available will permit, and the collec
tion of excess profits proceeds as the
audit of each separate case Is completed.
As rapidly as excess profits are re-
Gift Costly to Giver.
London. Giving a deserving case 60
cents cost a Tower Bridge man $50.
The delighted recipient gave him a
"pat" on the shoulder which knocked
him through a plate glass window.
Good you didn't give him 6 shillings,"
observed the magistrate, ordering the
unlucky philanthropist to pay for dam
ages done.
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New photograph , of Mrs. Thomas
Marshall, wife of the vice president,
and little Morrison Marshall, their
adopted son.
MEXICO NEEDS
SMALL COINS
Money Changers Make Profits
Because Mints Cannot Meet
the Demand.
MUST MAKE YOUR OWN CHAK6E
Almost Impossible to Buy Merchandise
In Small Quantities Unless You i
Have Exact Change Taxlcab
System Is Well Regulated.
San Antonio, Tex. Money, taxlcabs,
flowers, fruits, dirt arid trade embar
goes these are certain to attract the
attention of travelers from the United
States In Mexico.
Mexico is now on a wholly metallic
basis, so far as money is concerned.
This condition has been forced through
a long series of worthless Issues of pa
per money by various revolutionary
factions prior to the inauguration of
Carranza as president
There is an abundance of native gold
and silver out of which to coin money,
All coins above 10-centavo pieces are
PRIZE HEN HELPS WIN COLLEGE FUND
5 3,000,000
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, Prof. Henrietta E. Hooker and one of her four Buff Orpington hens,
l'hls hen captured first prise at the New York poultry show, and its value
Immediately Jumped to $1,000. Professor Hooker has announced that money
from the sale of the hens, or any prize money won by them will be given to
ward tht $3,000,000 endowment fund of Holyoke college, Massachusetts. (
of silver or gold. Inability of mints to
meet the demand has created a short
age of change. This shortage has been
taken " Wantage of by money changers
all over the republic. . .
It is almost impossible to buy mer
chandise In large or small quantities
unless you are able to make your own
change. From 2 to B per cent Is com
monly charged by money changers for
converting 10 or 20 peso pieces into
silver of small denominations.
This short a ee was made more acute
about two years ago through the with
drawal from circulation of the old Mex
ican stiver peso. This was caused by
the advance in the price of silver,
which made the peso worth approxi
mately 50 per cent more than its face
value as bullion. The new Mexican
sliver coins do not contain as high a
percentage of silver as these old peso
pieces.
It is bard to conceive of a cigar store
refusing to sell one cigar because one
has not the exact change, but that Is
the case all over Mexico. One also en
counters difficulty in buying food while
traveling, for the reason that food mer
chants at the stations are unable to
make change readily. Often a meal
may cost $2 because of this scarcity of
change.
We in the states might learn some
thing from the well-regulated taxlcab
system of Mexico City. I arrived In
the capital at 3 a. ra. My baggage was
carried to a taxlcab by a licensed and
numbered cargadore. These cargadores
Insist upon showing travelers their
numbers, In compliance with the law,
and It Is wtse for any 1 stranger travel
ing In Mexico to note the number care
fully. Most of the cargadores, how
ever, can be relied upon to handle your
baggage with care and perfect safety.
Once your baggage is deposited in a
taxlcab, a policeman Is on hand to
note the chauffeur's license, the num
ber of passengers and destination. The
policeman gives the passenger a slip
with these facts recorded, which should
be retained in case the service is found
to be faulty.
Taxlcab rates are plainly posted In
the cars.'
Fruits and Flowers Plentiful.
Along the route to Mexico City I
found the towns dirty, but the flower
and fruit stands sumptuously stocked.
Prices for fruit and flowers are so ri
diculously lew In comparison with
prices In the states that one Is tempted
to lay In a ridiculous oversupply. One
can buy a bouquet of roses as big
around as a bushel basket for 50
cents American money.
I found considerable dissatisfaction
throughout Mexico with the embargo
against Mexican citrus fruit. Large
quantities of oranges, limes and lemons
are raised In Mexico. The quality of
this fruit is excellent. The excuse for
the embargo Is that, the germ of a
blight that Is fatal to citrus fruits
might be brought Into the United States
If markets were opened to the Mexi
cans. I am told, however, on reliable
authority, that this danger Is more
Imaginary than real. I found strong
sentiment everywhere for the lifting of
the embargo and a similar embargo
against cotton. , 1
Plane are bring perfected far the e
UblistuntHit of a meat packing plant
at Eureka. Nevada.
The concrete highway from Reno t-
Cjirn City, Nevada. I to be fluUheC
during the year, it U announced.
Smuggling liuuor from Canada by
airplane into Oregon U said to be the
ldtet w-heiue to evade the law.
An up-to-date auto tourUtu' camping
place la to be established In Killings,
Mont, this spring by the Hilling Com
mercial cluli.
Work has leeu started on the new
Kutvka-Nevada Hallway company coni
biiiMt!.m ptttwenger and freight depot at
Eureka, Nevada.
Cora Kennedy, aged 17, received fa
tal Injuries when she was thrown from
an automobile at Missoula, Striking
against a telephone pole
X. Michel, recently discharged from
the eastern Oregon atate hospital, was
killed when he threw himself In front
of a train near Echo, Ore.
Mrs. Frank K. Humphreys of Reno
has been appointed special agent In
Nevada of the children'a bureau. Unit
ed States department of labor.
The school trustees of Itor.eman,
Mont, have decided on a raise of sal
ary for teachers, to go Into effect at
the beginning of the next term in Sep
tember. E. L. Smith of Hood River, Ore., an
82-year-old pioneer, Is the last survb
vor of the Republican convention of
1800 which nominated Lincoln for
president
An antl-vacclnatlon league has been
formed at Marshfleld, Ore., with more
than 100 members, for the purpose of
preventing the vaccination of school
children.
Montana sold 143,921.12 worth of
war savings stamps and treasury sav
ings certificates during the mouth of
December, according to a report Just
made public.
It fs estimated there will be approxi
mately 1883.400.22 of state money avail
able for the construction of market
roads In the various counties of Ore
gon during the year 1920.
John M. Murphy, aged 32, an alder-
mun of Butte, was found dead in his
room from a pistol shot. It is believed
he suicided, although many of his
friends claim he was murdered.
If the present plans of the Commer
cial club working in conjunction with
the city council mature, Columbus,
Mont, will boast of one of the finest
camp sites along the Yellowstone Trail.
Grasshoppers cannot be classed a
squirrels, noxious rodents or predatory
animals under the Oregon laws, and
consequently county courts are not au
thorised to appropriate money for their
extermination.
The Reno fair price committee has
filed a statement with the state fair
price commissioner that prices In Reno
are unjust and unreasonable, and
charge that price are fixed by Cali
fornia dealers.
Predatory animals numbering 3216
were killed by the 58 men and women
employed by the United States bio
logical survey In Idaho, Washington
and Oregon during the six months end
ing December 31.
The Rev. H. R. Sanborn, the "fight
ing pastor" of Sparks, Nevada, has
been commissioned Inspector of the Ne
vada state police. Dr. Sanborn will
have charge of enforcement of the pro
hibition law in Nevada.
Existence of a second commercially
productive oil field In Montana is in
dicated in the reported strike of the
Franz corporation of Oklahoma, In
the Cat creek district, six mites north
of Mosby, in Musselshell county.
Members of the La Grande, Ore.,
Ad club are congratulating themselves
on being able to Increase the popula
tion of the city to 6500 through a clean
up committee, which gathers up those
missed by the census enumerators.
Indians in certain sections of Nevada
More than two .licenses for plese
or car automobile had been Issued
on February 27.
It is now believed that the office f
collector of customs at Salt Lake may
be cloM-d. becaufte of lack of appro
priation of funds.
That a new armory la practically
asuivd for Ogden la the announcement
made by officers of the local organisa
tion of the national guard.
Mcnilter of the Spanish Fork farm
bureau voted unanimously to stand by
the state farm bureau contract as' to
beet prices for thiyeur IWII).
Before the "conscientious objectors
who are held at Fort Douglas regain
their UlH-rty, they are to be subjected
to sanity tests by mental experts.
Governor Bamberger has Issued a
proclamation urging , the people of
Utah to co-operate with the navy In
securing Its quota of enlisted men.
Charles Sullivan and Ed Campbell
have been arrested in Salt Lake In
connection with the robbery of a store
in Ogden of $150 worth of furs and
pelts.
Jennie Scardlna, 10 years of age.
slayer of Mike Termaln In Ogden Feb-,
ruury 20, Is charged with aeeond de
gree murder in a complaint filed last
week. " 7
Quarantine restrictions In Logan,
which had prohibited public meetings
of any kind for three weeks, have been
lifted upon recommendation of the city
physician.
Voters of the eastern section of Juab
county will next month pass on the pro
posal to issue bonds for $175,000 with
which to build a new high school fur
the district.
The Industrial commission has
granted a lump sum payment of
$1834.74 to J. C. Ault who lost the nse
of an eye while working for the Utah
Copper company.
J. T. Lnke must stand trial at Salt
Lake on a manslaughter charge as the
result of the death of LeRoy Anderson,
aged 9, who was run down by an au
tomobile dilven by Lake.
Prospects for an amicable settle
ment of the wage question between the
men and the street car company at
Salt Lake have brightened, and It is
believed that the proposed strike will
be averted. '
The state board of equalisation has
decided that Iron county coal shall
take a valuation of 4 mills for coal
within the first mile of the outcrop
and 3 mills a toa for the coal in the
second miles from the outcrop.
Bessie Summers, who was shot
through the right lung by Valley R.
Summers, her former husband, wne
later killed himself, has refused to
discuss with officers the details of the
trouble at her apartment In Ogden.
With the closing of the lnfluenta
wards of the Isolation hospital con
nected with the county hospital at Salt
Lake last week. Red Cross officials
and hospital attendants said they be
lieved that the epidemic has ended for
this year.
The secretary of the state board of
land commissioners has announced
that since all the board's funds have
been loaned out at Interest or are al
ready applied for, the board will have
no more funds available for loans for
some time. -
The bandit killed early Monday
morning, February 16, in Brigham City
by peace officers, Is not Walter L. Tay
lor, of Salt Lake, officers declare, who
claim the dead man was a former con
vict at Leavenworth, Kans., whose
name was Confer.
A statement of the condition of 103
state banks and trust companies of the
state as of December 31, 1919; as com
pared with -the condition of ninety
seven institutions the year before,
shows a net gain in aggregate re
sources of $10,041,311.
The Utah Public Health association,
which started the modern health cm-
claim that spring has arrived, backing I sade and placed it in operation In the
up their assertions by the fact that
ants are beginning to come from their
winter quarters, which the red men
claim is an unfailing sign of continued
warm weather.
Every inhabitant of a Piute Indian
village in Inyo county, Cat, near Dyer,
Nev., has been stricken with influenza,
according to a report brought to Tono
pah by a rural mall carrier. He said
there bad been more than 100 deaths
and none had received medical atten
tion, t ,
Four Horns, one of the best known
Indians of the Blackfeet reservation,
in Montana, is dead at the age of 70
yeurs. Four Horns was one of the lost
of that band of Blackfeet or Plegan
Indians which included such warriors
as Little Plume, Little Dog, John Mid
dle Rider and Running Rabbit
Following trial at Mondak, Mont,
on a charge of murder for the killing
of Art Williams last October, Joe Bur
shla, was found guilty of murder in the
second degree and his punishment
fixed at Imprisonment from 15 to 30
years.
Reward of $1000 has been offered by
the governor of Nevada for the cap
ture, dead or alive, of two unknown
men who are alleged to have shot and
killed A. L. St Clair, a constable of
Deeth, Nev., and seriously wounded
George Requa, a deputy sheriff. .
While cutting timber near Harlow
ton, Mont., William Warren was se
verely injured by a falling tree. The
tree, falling In an unexpected direc
tion, struck Warren on the right side
of his head, throwing hliu to the ground
and crushing In one whole side of his
skull.
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public schools of the state, Is receiving
letters from many teachers telling how
the work has improved conditions in
the homes and in the schools. ' ,'
The Perry Electric Light & Power
company has applied to the public
utilities commission of Utah for per
mission to Increase its rates to the
people of Perry, because the Brlghim
City municipal plant has raised the
rates to the company, which acts as
a distributor onlj. . j '
An attempt was made to wreck the
Park City passenger train of the Den
ver & Rio Grand railroad on Its trip
to Salt Lake, by piling ties on the
track five miles from the Salt Lake
City limits. Shoe prints beside the
track show that at least three men had
been In the vicinity. ,;
Tentative plans are under way for
large outdoor celebration late hi April
by boy scouts at Salt Lake, when
Camp Taylor In Mill Creek canyon will
be christened. Camp Taylor consists
of 1400 wooded acres of land contri
buted to the local boy scout council by
A. V. Taylor of Salt Lake.
The quarantine has been lifted at
Eureka and people are now allowed to
go Into the town. , Eureka had a, ter
rible siege of Influenza last yea., but
the present epidemic was held under
control and only seven deaths re
sulted. .'" ,
Operating officials of the Utah-Idan
Sugar company from plants of the
company in Utah, Idaho and Oregon
held their annual convention in Salt
Lnke last week. The delegates, num
bering 145, Include superintendents,
heads of departments master niechaa
'cs antf other factory officers ,