Show the question of applying the war revenue tax to stock certificates of no par value has brought from secretary mcadoo the proposal that the act be amended to tax all stock issues five cents a share on originals and two cents a share on sales and transfers this to apply to shares of actual value up to each above which figure the present law would apply A water main in the business district of helena montana recently washed gold augg nuggets ets valued out ground from which two the find was at 25 each were picked old timers of the strongly reminiscent to street of 0 days when the present principal helena was one of the richest placer gulches in in the west 0 the shipment of crude ore by parcel post especially I 1 in the first zone is no the calumet longer a novelty now hecla mining company draws attention to the present high price of copper by shipping twenty five tons tells of the refined metal by michigan to the express from calumet east in order to take advantage of a premium for immediate delivery 0 the connection made this month between the workings on oil the 1200 levels of the halifax and buckeye properties at tonopah To nevada is worthy of more than passing notice it completed an underground avenue by which every working mine in the district dis trici is connected making a continuous passage extending for a distance of over forty miles from the halifax to the extension and victor the air line between the extreme eastern and western workings of the camp is about three miles 0 not long ago a story went the rounds to the eff effect act that a strike of rich silver ore had been made near elko nevada by a construction st crew while digging post holes for a power line the community went wild over the find and everyone in the vicinity staked out claims then the press repeated the story over the length and br breadth beadth of the land and now comes the announcement from the superintendent of the crew that he had salted the holes as a joke on his men no doubt it was a very clever idea to his perverted way of thinking but it is a wonder that some mining man with old fashioned ideas did not give him the thrashing that is the meed of the practical joker |