The Owyhee nugget., February 16, 1906, Image 2

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OWYHEE
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4,1905, at the post office at Silver City,
Idaho, under the Act of Congress of
March 3, 1879.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16,1906.
MINE INSPECTOR. BELL'S
REPORT.
State Mine Inspector Robert
N. Bell has just, completed and
published his annual report for
the year 1905. In his introduc
tion he says that the mining in
dustry experienced a most Jpros
perous year during 1905, and
while a light water season and
other causes materially retarded
production, especially among
gold mines, the production of
the state shows a large increase,
and a record breaker over the
previous year, closely approxim
ating the agricultural products
of the state. After speaking
of how largely dependent the
agricultural and other industries
of the country are upon the ex
pansion of the mining industry,
he deplores it being so seriously
hampered by the withdrawal of
such large areas of land by forest
reserves where the prospectors
opportunities are hampered in
so many ways. While heartily
approving of the forest reserve
policy as being right in principle,
he regrets that the red tape re
strictions against cutting tim
bers for the miners' use and the
abjectionable officiousness of
subordinate employes throws so
many obstacles in the way of
prospectors as to retard his
work.
Then the pernicious stone and
timber act is a great drawback
to mining, enabling individuals,
and through them corporations,
to gobble up tracts of lands and
acquire titles where the lands
might prove o more va ne for
minerals, should be repealed. ,
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He further recommends that 1
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the state legislature should pass f
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laws giving miners full liberty
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and encouragement to prospect
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state lands, with privilege of I
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leasing the same, with ample j
tune for annual proof require- ;
ment. All of these are valuable
and timely recommendations.
Out of the twenty-one counties
in Idaho, nineteen produce, in
more or less amounts, !gold, sil
ver, lead or copper, the majority
of $hem all of these minerals,
while of the remaining two coun
ties, one of them contains ex
tensive deposits of bituminous
coal, while the other one gives
strong indications of extensive
areas underlaid with petroleum
and gas.
Shoshone county leads all the
others in the production of silver
and lead and is the largest pro
ducer of the latter of any like
area in the world. Owyhee coun
ty is the largest producer of gold
and second to Shoshone as a sil
ver producer.
Mr. Bell s report is the most
replete of any mining report ever
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published in Idaho, and is alto
getherthe most important docu
ment emanating from any of the
state departments so far as to
its bearings on the industries of
the state.
WHO ARE THE MEN?
From Mine Inspector Bell's an
nual report , 1905, just published:
"The progress of mining and
metallurgical science in the Unit
ed States is keeping close pace
with the rest of the world, and
with every other branch of hu
man industry, and ore deposits
are today being worked at a
profit on an extensive scale
whose merits as a probable
source of profit were ridiculed
ten years ago, and the good
work seems likely to continue in
this line. New materials and new
uses for them are constantly be
ing discovered, and mineral sub
stances and deposits that seem
valueless today may' prove the
basis of important industries a
few years hence.
"The United States leads every
other nation in the production
of iron, steel, coal, copper and
lead, and it is not from the lack
of raw material that we are be
hind some other countries in the
production of the precious met
als. In the matter of the en
couragement of mining develop
ment and original research on
mining and metallurgical lines,
our federal laws are defective and
crude compared to those of sev
eral other prominent metal min
ing nations, and sadly need ad
justment. It seems difficult for
the metal mining industry to get
a sufficient representation in the
National Congress who combine
the necessary knowledge of the
requirements of the industry and
the aggressive legal ability to
properly present and press its
claims for new laws. Idaho hap
pily possesses one such repre
sentative at the national capital
at the present time, who seems
to be commanding his share of
attention, and if our next legis
lature chooses right it can readi
ly put its hands on an aggressive
associate for him of equal ability.
"Idaho leads any other politic
al division of territory in the world
in the matter of lead production
and is likely to continue to do so
indefinitely. Our state still con
tains enormous undeveloped de
posits of low-grade lead-copper-gold
and silver-bearing rock that, in the
light o{ modern me tallurgical ad
vancemen t, are likely to form the
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basis of extensive and profitable
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mining enterprises
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.future, and their development
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should be encour ged in every pos
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sible way by the state, as the win
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iningof original wealth from the
earth new Ufo and vi into
everv other branch of buBine88 ,
in the near
And J. H. Brady is . in the
hands of his friends and will con
sent to let them drape him in the
senatorial toga.
Shall the Republican conven
tion nominate a candidate for
U. S. senator? appears to be an
all absorbing question.
It will be an easy matter to
hold the county conventions in
Owyhee this yfear; all the people
will have to do will be to meet
land ratify Jake Horn's nomina
Jtions. Jake, with commendable
impartiality, is fixing up both
tickets. They are both dandies,
but it may be that when Jake
has lived here longer he will be
something
these affairs.
willing to let the people have
to say concerning
Toss Coin lo Name City.
Frank W. Pettygrove, of Seat
tle, has the penny that named the
city of Portland, Ore. On the toss
of this coin depended the question
whether the Willamette metrop
olis should be known as Portland
or Boston. Twice the coin turned
"tails
and the town was named
after Portland, Me., the former
home of Mr. Pettygrove's father,
relates the Seattle Times.
A. L.
Lovejoy, of Massachu
setts, a member of the party that
laid out Portland, desired to name
it Boston, after the most impor
tant city in his state. Pettygrove
wanted to name it Portland, after
the most important city in Maine,
his native state. They agreed to
toss a penny, heads to mean Bos
ton, tails to mean Portland, the
best two in three to be the choice.
Pettygrove won the first toss;
Lovejoy
the third proved to be tails, and
Portland it was.
won the second, and
The younger Pettygrove still
lias the identical penny and would
not take any amount of money for
it. His father kept it for a pocket
piece, and it has been handed down
to the son who bears his father's
name. It is dated 1835, and is
of those large coins in vogue at
that time, about the size of the
quarter of the present day.
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It Ma.de a Difference.
A story is being told of a Sibley
(Mo.) young lady who found à
package of love letters that had
been written to her mother by her
father before they were married.
The daughter saw that she could
have a little sport and read one
of them to her mother, substitut
ing her own name for that of her
mother and that of a Six Mile
young man for that of her father.
The mother seemed utterly dis
gusted and forbade her daughter
to have anything to do with the
young man who would write such
nonsensical stuff to a girl. When
the young lady handed the letter
to her mother to read the house
became so still that one could al
most hear the grass growing in
the yard.
FRED GRETE. Jr
Undertaker
and Embalmer
Silver City,
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An old and established quiet and
homelike resort with the
best of
Wines, Liquors, Cigars,
Etc., Etc.
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brunzell, jr.
Granite Block, Silver City.
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