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Show v - IN MASSACHUSETTS. "If Taft cannot win in Massachusetts." said an Ogden Repub-j Repub-j lican, "his campaign is a hopeless one." ' j The returns indicate that Roosevelt has divided the state dele- 1 ' gation with his antagonist and that the popular vote is very close. A stream of money was poured' into .Massachusetts by the "big j j interests" and an army of officeholders was marshalled to the aid I j of Taft, but notwithstanding the dollars and the bosses, Roosevelt ! won a vote, which, considered as a protest within the party directed i , against a Republican national administration, is an imperative de- 1 . mand for a change h ' , i When aPProximateb' S0.000, in a total of 160,000. Republicans m a conservative state such as Massachusetts go on record as op posed to Taft's administration, and in other states where popular , 6Paries.have been held as high as 80 per cent of the party followers fol-lowers condemn Taft, is it not the height of folly for any consid-- consid-- ernlJlc number of Republican leaders to persist in urging the discredited dis-credited President for renomination7 The delegates so far selected number 738. of which 205 are for Roosevelt and 131 for Taft, with 112 uninstructed and 154 contested. There are 10 in Iowa for Cummins and 10 in North Dakota and 26 in Wisconsin for lLa Follctte. The delegates by states follow: c.. , Unln- Const,1110 Con-st,1110 - Roosevelt. Taf t. La Follotte. structed. tested Alabama 2 .... .... mm oq Alaska . ' -. ..-.'.. . 2 . ,1 j Colorado .-?.. ' 'l0 '.'..." '.'" - "" Connecticut "' '12 " i - 11 o, Dist. of Columbia. .... ?J ;&. . ' 9 Delaware . . v . . V? ...... fj . . w 6 Florida -. -.--v--- - ; io beorgia r?M -- '2 " 94 u New Hampshire :: ....r-'Syi;- ...f Hawaii - .qIZ.L-- "- Illinois . 56 - ' $ -j."VlJ -'" '""" Indiana 10 8 '.jjfl'CS' ' 39 Jwn ,16 ,'; "m Kansas 2 mi ?i. Kentucky' 3 -7- f"" - "--"-- " k risiaua - '- -, r .-- ' Wi:&k. ' 20 Maine . - : - 12 ' . ). . . . T; Massachusetts .... ; jlS - ,- '. r"T7"" """." Michigan ....... "'8 '12 ' -' J " o " k Mississippi 20 ..i..'AVf .t.'.1" . Missouri ....... 24' '21.";..., ' " '"o Nebraska- 6 - .'. -it .: ...:'T New Mexico 6 ' ' 2 j: "$ - ' ' New Yoric j 2', 'IJ- "go . North Carolina ... 2 ;.;.'. .&$$'& North Dakota ' t . j. . -a-:y"i"6 " "' Oklahoma 16 ' I 2 r A'!Re --"- Oregon:" 10 ...r. "' I"" PenusAlvania .r.... t 03 )6 5 TjL?. f r C!t" " 1 ' niilippine Islands, .... i r 2 "l.L -t" "- . : Iy'to Tiico .. . . . A;.. . . . 2 Jiit'-. ' V ' I' . Rhode Isiaiirl ...T .10 """ - ' ,v",y" J South Csrolina .... "U . . . rSS t "v." : J ' '4 ; j ; Temiesseo, v. . 2M 1 1, ; i ' - l"; .. 14 V-rmont 2 ' L ?.-" - g 1 Virginia v. ,. . HTtr; it1" o " "90 J -Yfis'.. Virginia ... . -16 - MUV'i i' , I -Vi3consin :v. .. ... .- -,26- IV TotaLsr. 295 131 ."", 112 151 I - w?ro Tr t0 get all the contested delegates nnd the unin- : structed were to be divided equally, Roosevelt would lead by 10 ' , .votes- Ii: tIlc Southern dclegatiuns could be split wide open, Roose- ? ! .velt would win by a big majority. There is a possibility of the . j jIrcq seekem. finding Taft's cnusc a losing on, either go'ing over ; j to Roosevelt or seeking a dark horse. I ' ; - ' ' VHAT MINING MEN AEEIOING. ' " '" .,Tcr v,'as a time in vestern mining when ores with values below $50 a ton could not be profitably smelted. In districts back j ; iiom t'hc railroads less than $100 ore could not be treated by pan j amalgamation at a profit. That there has been great progress in j ' the reduction of ores since those earlier periods of high costs is I p borne out by the reports of some of the copper companies. il "' There is the Nevada Consolidated at Ely, mining, milling and , smelting less than 2 per cent copper ores at a cost of less than 7 . cents a pound of copper produced. Out of a ton of ore not quite 24 pounds of red metal are recovered, and yet profits aggregating mil-i mil-i lions of dollars are obtained. The cost of mining, milling and smelting a ton of ore is less than $1.40. The average contractor, Unfamiliar with modern mining 6perations, would hesitate to move a ton of ore from the mines near Ely to the Smelters across the valey,to 3L'cGill at" the figure given as the entire cost of excavating the ore -from the pits, transporting it .to the mill, crushing 'and concentrating the same and, finally, "extracting "ex-tracting the metal contents by fire. . Twenty years ago 2 per cent copper ore was waste material in western mines; today a big percentage of the copper produced in I the United States is obtained from porphyry rock containing not I above 2 per cent metal. Utah, now fourth in conper production, is winning nearly all its copper frpm the porphyries of Bingham containing con-taining not JLo 'exceed L85 per cent copper - This is -a remarkable record of achievement in mining, milling and smelting. |