The copper era., June 01, 1899, Page 10, Image 10

About The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911

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THE COPPER ERA, CLIFTON, ARIZ., JUNE 1, 1899.
First National Bant of El Paso
-El Paso, Texas.
Capital, $100,000.. - Surplus, $50,000.
Officers :
J. S. Reynolds, President,
M. M. Flournov, Vice-Prest.,
' U. S. Stewart, Cashier,
J. F. Williams, Asst Cash'r.
Correspondents :
Chemical National Bank, New York,
First National Bank, Chicago,
Anglo-California Bank, L't'd, San Fran.
TAKE THE - -
Santa Ice Route
From Deming or El Paso,
To all northern or eastern points
Close connection made at Khiisus
city and Chicago with all the
northern and eastern lines.
THRO' COACHES, TOURIST CARS &
PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS.
All meals not served in Dining
cars are taken at the popular
Santa Fe Route Harvey Eating
Houses. Full information cheer- .
fully furnished upon .application
to - - -F.
B. HouanTON, Gen. Agt, El Paso, or
W. J. Black, Gen. Pass. Agt,Topeka, Ks.
THE GRAND CENTRAL,
European Hotel.
First-class, centrally located, only first
class sample room for commercial
travelers in El Paso, Texas. .
Mrs. M. A. Dougher, Proprietor.
Cor. San Francisco and El Puso streets.
MOMSEN & THORNE,
Gasolene Stoves and Refrigerators
And everything in the Hardware line.
Write for prices. El Paso, Texas.
THE MAP OF MEXICO . .
Will tell you that all important
points in Mexico are reached by
or via the
Mexican Central !Ry.
By this route you travel com
modiously, quickly, cheaply
and safely. Pullman Palace
Sleepers are run between El
Paso, Mexico, Guadalajara and
Tampico. BCs'For rates and
other information, apply to
G. A. MULLER, Com'l Agt, El Paso.Tx.
lee that everything is going on all right
The mint is connected with the cen
tral telephone station, and should there
M trouble the captain of the guard
xrald communicate with police head
inarters in a brief space of time.
"If you oome across anybody 'who
thinks be can get rich quickly by help
ing himself to our coin," remarked the
mperintendent in parting, "just advise
him to think it over carefully first."
In compliance with the superintend
snt's suggestion the advice is hereby
riven.'
And it is pretty good advioe to follow
loo. Philadelphia Inquirer.
The population of Antwerp include
10,000 Germans, who, it is said, buy
iheir goods of German merchants only.
- Drawing a Splinter
Removing a splinter from a suffering
band may not be a nice and pleasant
subject, but home surgery may some
times give some one a feeling of heart
felt joy. The sufferer who illustrates
the matter on this occasion was a car
penter. He was working at his trade at
an institution over which the sisters of
the Roman Catholio church presided.
One day he broke off an ugly splinter
in his hand . and could not get it out
He went home at the close of his day's
work feeling no annoyance from the
wound, but by the next morning the
hand was in a serious condition and so
painful that working was as impossibil
ity. On his way to the doctor's the car
penter stopped to tell the sisters why he
must delay his work.
"Let me see what I can do with your
band before yon go to the doctor," said
one of the sisters. The man demurred.
"Yes," said the sister, with gentle in
sistence, "it will do no barm anyway."
Bhe qnickly filled within an inch or so
of the top a rather wide mouthed bottle
with steaming hot water, and as she
beld it anotber'sister pressed the in
flamed part of the injured hand gently
down over the opening. Such a peculiar
sensation I It seemed to the man that
his whole band was being drawn with
great foroe into the bottle. He would
nave taken it away, but the sister was
holding it gently, but firmly. Then there
was a feeling of relief. It seemed as if
the inside of that hand had become
liquid and was pouring its unpleasant
contents into the bottle. That was al
most exaotly what was happening, and
with the liquid went the offending splin
ter. The hand was bathed and bandaged,
and the carpenter continued his work
without further inconvenience. New
York Times.
THE CATTLE KINGS.
ONCE A GREAT POWER IN THE WEST,
THEY ARE NOW DISPLACED.
mall Stock Raisers Have Irlven Oat the
Larger Ones Big Ranges and Water
Boles Fenced In How the Bonanza
Cattle Outfits Made Enormous Profits.
The great cattle ranges of western
North Dakota and Montana, where for
nearly 20 years, the bonanza catnij out
fits have held complete sway, and whir
cattle have roamed the vast prairies at -will,
like the buffalo a quarter of a cen
tury ago, are passing out of existence.
The deathknell of the large cattle
companies has been sounded by the in
numerable settlers who have taken up
vacant government land in the great
grazing region, built "shanties" in the
vicinity of every natural spring and
water hole, fenced in thousands of acre
of grazing land and driven the immense
herds of the bonanza cattlemen from
place to place, nntil there is no place
left for them to go. All the years that
the vaBt prairies of the west have re
mained unsettled have been worth mil
lions to the cattle princes. Hundred of
thousands of cattle have been imported,
placed upon the ranges at a cost not to
exoeed $16 a bead for the 2-year-old
steers, allowed to roam at will for two
years, at an average animal oost not to
exoeed 3, and then sold in the roarfcf
at Chicago for an average price of $4i
to $50. The free ranges offered by the
millions of acres of unsurveyed and un
occupied government land have been
turned into millions of dollars in cold
cash by the cattle kings, but the tide of
immigration to the west has sealed
their fate and they are ready to go.
For 20 years nearly a vast region ly
ing along the western part of North Da
kota and the eastern strip of Montana
measuring 100 miles in width and 150
miles in length has been entirely -given
up to the interests of the cattle kings.
Thousands of bead of cattle have been
grazed year after year, countless train
loads of beeves - have been shipped to
market and millions of dollars have
gone into the pockets of the cattlemen.
Pierre Wiebaux, the Montana stock
man, said to be the largest single owner
of cattle in the United States, has num
bered his total possessions of cattle at
60,000 head. The Berry-Boioe Cattle
company has owned and grazed each
year not fewer than 80,000 head, and
there are numerous companies that have
essayed to keep on the ranges an annual
total of from 10,000 to 86,000 head.
The vastness of the business of these