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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS Publisher ANDREW JENSEN, SPANISH FORK - - - UTAH NATION'S HOUSE AT TREASURE WASHINGTON UTAH STATE NEWS No trace hag been found of the Hot Springs hotel robben. Three boyi were arrested, but established an alibi. James H. Anderson of Salt Lake City .has been infected by the presl-den- t as United States marshal for Utah. , For the flint time In the history of the town, an unmarried man has been elected as member of the school board at Sprlngvlllo. The Agricultural collogo of Utah is constructing a new woman's building which will be ready for occii' fancy In September, 1909. The ninth annual convention of tho Utah Pharmaceutical association was held in Salt Lake City on Wednesday and Thursday of last week. A trip 1h being made throughout the state by the commission appointed to make a complete record of the " ' ' veterans of the Indian wars. Farmeri of Wllard are busy har The vesting; their grain Just now. crop this year Is exceptionally good, and Is much better than lust year. N Judge If. P. Henderson, the prominent Salt lake attorney who died of pneumonia on June 3 last, left prop erty In Utah and Michigan valued at ver $40,000. Two special officers employed In the railroad yards of Salt Lake City are accused of holdingup a couple of Greeks one night last week, taking $100 from one of the men. The entire amount of real and personal proxrty on which taxes will be paid in Salt Lake county for the present year Is $08,755,562 and In Salt Lake City the amount is $52,194.20. Mck Hall, a resident or Ogden lor the past fifty years, died July 16, at the age of 83. Mr. Hall was known to almost every resident of the county, and had held several municipal offices. According to Information received from Washington, more than 80,000 acres of land In Garfield and Piute counties have been designated for entry under the enlarged homestead or ' dry farm law. Mike Morgan, a miner employed In the Daly West at Park City, fell down a chute, landing on the sustaining painful Injuries. His escape from an awful death will always temaln a mystery. 1,500-leve- Lake County Horticultural society, it was reported that green apple aphis and elm scale had caused considerable damage to the trees of the county during the past month. That the naval veterani of the civil war Intend to hold a rousing reunion at the time of the national forty-thir- d encampment of the G. A. R. in Salt Lake City, Is evident from a notice sent out to all naval. veterans. John T. Stringer, a former resident of Salt Lake City, and one of the best known real estate men of the city, died at Oakland, Cal., July 17. He was born In Mlchlgantown, Ind., In 1S46, and moved to Salt Lake in 1888. George W. Emery, who died at Marshlleld. Mass., Jmy 11. at the age of 76, was governor of Utah during President Grant's administration. Governor A. L. Thomas U now the ole surviving governor of territorial days. Since the state law went Into effect, the secretary of state has Issued 6S1 . Mammoth the Surplus Wealth of Pw Steel Vault That Holds XJ ',uA HEN congress passed the the emergency currency act last May authorizing the controller of currency to have printed emergency currency to the valuo of f of the amount of government bonds owned by the national banks throughout the country, a condition was created and a very serious condition which nobody realized 10 fully as Watson W. Eldrldge, chief of the division of Issues under the currency bureau. For this vast sum, about $490,000,000, was to be placed in his hands for safe keeping, as Is all the national bank currency. At the time of the passage of this act there was on hand in the vaults on the second floor of the Treasury building In Washington about of national banknotes, as a "working stock." This quantity of paper money was about all that these two vaults would hold. So when the bureau of printing and engraving, after sending out a C. Q. D. summons for all the expert engraven in the country to come to Washington and aid in altering the steel plates, to comply with the new law, began to end the emergency currency in dray-load- s to Mr. Eldrldge, that trusted guardian of the nation's wealth began to spend the most uneasy nights in all his 40 years' 'service in the treasury department and 20 years in his present position. The money continued to pour in, not in thousands and hundreds of thousands, but in millions. It was the most unwelcome money ever unloaded upon a roan wosklng for a salary. New Vault Made Necessary. When things reached a crisis an order was given for a vault to hold this emergency currency, a vault which would make all previously manufactured safes look like pocket savings banks, for the new structure of steel was to be thin shells between inconceivable wealth and thieves A ho were ready to break In and steal, and the corruption of fire, earthquakes, and devastation of any other character. It must be a vault, 10 the treasury officials specified, capable of holding the vastest sum of money ever stored in one place, five hundred millions. The order was given and the set to work. To-dathe vault stands completed, as witnessed by the accompanying illustration, the first which the government has allowed to be taken of this vault There are stored in the steel pigeonholes a little more than 300,000,000 of banknotes and the remaining millions are being stored away as fast as they can be counted In the big offices above the level of the street. The new vault, which was built at struc- a cost of $45,000) Is a two-stor- W one-hal- . $200,-000,00- 0 safe-make- y y Uncle Sam j stantly set off In an adjoining building, where watchmen are constantly on guard. And to make sure that this electrical appartus Is working properly there is a "buzzer" which goes off every 15 minutes Inside the vault. If the warning apparatus Is not working properly this buzzer will be thrown out of commission and the watchmen will be immediately notified. Cannot Tamper with Cables. "Hut what if the cables connecting the vault with the watchmen's room should be cut?" Mr. Eldrldge was asked. The reply was that any tampering with the cable would have the same effect upon the alarm system as if the vault itself bad been attacked. This enormous vault, whose roof Is on a level with the pavement, has a perfect system of ventilation by great driving and suction fans, which are turned on when the vault is opened, so that the air Is fresh and cool at all times. It Is lighted by electricity, the lighting plug being put In place only after the vault door is opened. One of the marvels of the vault is the vault door, a complicated mass of gray steel weighing seven tons, but so wonderfully balanced on hinges that it can be opened without effort. It has four combinations, and no one man In the employ of the gov- -' ernment knows them. Two men know two of them, and two others the remaining two, so that In order to unlock the money chamber at least two persons must be present The door Is, of course, equipped with the time lock device, which is now in use on all first-clas- s safes. But even entrance through the vault door sets off the alarm in the watchmen's room. It it necessary, therefore, to supply the watchmen's department with a schedule showing at what hour the vault will be opened and at what hour it will be closed. The vault according to the schedule, must not be opened before 8:45 In the morning, and It must be closed before five every night Elevator. . The only way to reach the vault is by way of a tiny hydraulic elevator, which is protected by an Iron door, opening almost at the elbow of the chief of the division of Issues, who keeps the key in his desk. This elevator car was barely large enough to carry Mr. Eldrldge. the newspaper man, and a photographer down to the vault. It is operated by the device and is the most prosaic road to millions Imagin able. On June 18, the' morning on which the photograph from which we got the illustration was taken, the vault contained $309,199,910, in the follow$77,516,660 In ing denominations: fives, $210,011,300 In tens and twenties, $6,256,200 in tens, and $15,415,750 in fifties and one hundreds. The rope-pullin- g date. A company Is being formed for the purpose of building a factory at Trca-ton- , in Cache county, for the manu- facture of rolled oats, wheat flakes and corn flakes. Work will bo started on the new plant at once, which will . $150,000. $3,1:0,200. Plans are being laid by the executive committee lor Utai of the .National Irrigation congress to secure the attendance of a large delegation from this state to the congress, which meets in Spokane the early part of m At month. Mrs. Virginia Jackson Wllcock, wife of Italpu Wllcock of Lund, Utah, shot herself to death with a revolver on July 10. Mrs. Wllcock wbb about 30 years of age. She Is survived by a 10 year-olchild, her husband, parents, a brother and two slaters. Of the thirty-tw- o cases which came up for hearing at the regular monthly meeting of tho state board of parnt the state prison Saturdons. day, July 17. nlno convicts were granted a pardon ami three others were The Door to the Vault granted commutation of lenience. Kay Ilerkenshaw, ICyearold son of ture, furnished with steel racks, which Wlltard Uurkenshnw of Park City, closely resemble safety deposit box net with a very serious accident last racks. The interior walls are of week by being kicked by a horse. The steel, half uu inch thick, and young mail suffered a dislocation of the whole vault Is incased In masonry the l.nce which tho doctors declare is and cement more than two feet thick. the worst tiny ever had to contend Hut beneath the masonry and the with;, iihell of steel lies the chief protecAh entirely new trouble hns been tion of the vault against burglars a discovered among the 'sheep In Uox flint of closely woven Htoel wires. L'l.W county. Atany of tho sheep have Now, each of these wires is charged been suing Mind, uud upon examinawtth electricity, so that when one of tion It whs found that the June gram thetu is touched with an awl or a bit seed was working Itself Into the eye- or a dynamite pump an alarm is in the ball of the slurp, destroying tt.'ht .!':'; , he-I- Har-veylze- d Its Weight. Is Seven Tors. money Is printed in sheets, four bills to the sheet and t.ljiiO sheets to the package. There ttcre nearly SJ.Oun.imO sheets, or 8,737 paekr.fes to store away. The actual v::iue represented In this amount of prlru-paper U only $4M,8."iO. hi ct,tiiiiHtliig this value of the. printed paper the government figures that er.th package weighs 14 pounds, and. the paper f purchased nt 43 cents pf pound. The balance u for the printing and the bundling of the lllt. which are counted 53 times before being stored nvny. MINES AND MINING A strike of $200 ore has been made la the Kindergarten property of tha Seven Troughs Coalition company. The Tonopah Extension company gives notice that for the purpose ot mill, at an eserecting a thirty-stamtimated cost or $150,000, the board Is about to authorize an Issue of $1S7,-500par value, of coupon bonds. It Is said that George Wingfleld has acquired a controlling Interest in the Goldfield Duisy company and will succeed C. R. Woodin as president. The report has resulted in the advance ot the price of the slock of the comp ,, pany. On the Barney Francisco lease, on the December fraction, at Manhattan, Nevada, gravel was broken Into la.t week that went as high as $27 pet pan. Several other pannlngs showed the dirt to be worth from $1.50 to $10 ; to the pan. The Goldfield Consolidated company I un stffltful hna imqiIa afamont act uu viiiDui al uiauu uu voir Diuiriii(.ui mating the 'June production of that company at 19.410 tons. Tho total amounted to $547,000. The cost of the work figured at $130,00(1, net profits. $.579,000. DANDELION AS A BAROMETER The Comstock Pumping association, composed of all the companies Absolutely Reliable When One Can on the Comstock lode, has appropriated from its treasury surplus $25,000 Read Its Signs Also Is Weather I to be used In equipping the Ward Prophet. shaft with two new pumps of the ' The dandelion Is a dandy barometer, plunger type to handle the water. The great Comstock- lode In Nevada one of the commonest and most reliable. It la when the blooms have has. according to recorded history, seeded and are in the fluffy, feathery yielded $700,000,000, but of unrecoid-econdition that the weather prophet fa history, that of high grading and wasteful milling processes, there should be written at least half1 that much more, making the actual output of tho lode not less than a billion dollars. Ellendale, Nevada, has reached the critical stage of the boom camp. It bag made a shipment of high grade ore, accompanied by armed guards. It It survives that ordeal there Is hope for Its making a fairly good milling camp. The shipment comprised eight tons of rock believed to run To-da- y - ' $1,600. The second custom mill for the Gold Circle district is scheduled tc go Into commission during the week, according to advices from camp. Providing of milling facilities for their ores has greatly encouraged leasers and owners and many good ore showings have resulted from the work Inaugurated. Members of the board of governors of the Utah Stock and Mining exchange at a meeting last week decided to adjourn the call on that exchange until October 1. All expenses during the quiet period will thus be eliminated, it is said, except the rent ot the room, which is held under longtime lease. It is announced that the Cole-RyaInterests have secured a sixty-daoption on the Butte Sc. Ely mines. The Butte & Ely property embraces 212 acres ot ground, practically all of which lies In the known mineral belt between the Nevada Consolidated company's Copper Flat property and the Glroux. It is believed that the Homestake mine at Neal will develop into one of the best producing properties in the state of Idaho. A 1,000-foo- t shaft Is to be sunk on the ledge of ore, when It Is believed it will be necessary to Increase the milling capacity from 60 to 100 stamps. The company Is employing about thirty men. Within the past few weeks disclosures have been made in the Mason In the Valley company's property, Mason district, Lyon county, Nevada, which, it is claimed, forever release from doubt the true source of all the ore. A true fissure vein has "been found coursing north and south through the property. Addressing the 'Anaconda chamber of commerce on July 14, EL P. n, e superintendent of the smelter, announced that the pol-'c- y of the company hereafter will be to employ American before alien labor. Mr. Matthewson also 6tated that tho odious company store system had been abandoned In Anaconda. The first trouble during the strike of 400 miners, mostly Austrian, against the Veteran mine of the Cumberland-Ely company at Ely, Nevada, occurred last week when two Austrian strikers, George Pezlnl and George Mtlolno, were shot by Deputy Sheriffs Edward Arnold and Charles Smithy. One of the men may die. The constitutionality of tho 6tatute enacted In 1903, providing for a tax on the net earnings of mines of Idaho. Is attacked by tho Milwaukee Lam! company In a suit to enjoin the county assessor or ShoKlione county from enforcing a sale of Its property for the collection of taxes aggregating $S.10(). jieuding In the United States district court Kofuilng reports circulated in San Francisco that the Round Mountain mine, of Round Mountain. Nevada, w.m 10 no cioseu uown,' Manager I)avis says: "There Is absolutely no truth In these reports. The niino Is In splendid condition. We have milled during the quarter ending June 30 approximately 8.0(H) ions of oro. and have also materially Increased our ore reserve.' , "Owing to the strike of miners em- piojeu uy the Cumberland Ely com-- ' I'atty, the Nevada Consolidated Cop. per company has been called upon lo Increase Its production or ore. that th stcptoi. concentrator and windier nisy be supplied with its usual o of ore, , Siockholderi of the Ohio Copper sompany held tlielr annual meeting iniU week In Portland. Me., but electing P. C. Thompson" a succeeding Smuley Gilford. nothing but rouilno business ,,. tiansrtetpd. m-- t il,. '.,? .., ,1 tn. n Watson W. Eldrldge, Custodian of Seven on which money Is printed has to be dampened before it takea the' lmpres-sio- n of the hand press, so that when It comes out it is not sized (covered with glossy surface as the result of a bath in a glutinous substance). These treasury notes were Issued Just ai they came from the preas.' As a result the fibers soon began to break through the surface of the paper, and as each bit of fiber dropped from the bill the Ink began to fade, so that within two weeks,after the first bill was Issued the treasury had to begin to redeem the tattered notes and Issue new ones. It was then that a committee appointed 16 examine into methods of the treasury department suggested that were all paper on printed should be resized after printing. Mr. Eldrldge was the aggressive factor In this particular reform, and It Is to him that the present pleasing appearance of our paper money is due. l Prior to the completion of the new vault the emergency currency was stored In the basement of the Union Trust Company, at the corner of Fifteenth nd H streets, N. W. The first few millions that were received were placed In a large iron vault, but when carloads of money began to arrive this vault with a capacity of a mere forty mllllonssoon overflowed, nnd then this enormous wealth was stacked on the floor In ordinary wooden boxes, which any hatchet could have knocked This seemed an to smithereens. awful risk for the government to take, but there was nothing else to be done. A tiny dynamite cartridge discharged In a little nreaway in the rear of the bonk building would have blown a hole in the cellar waits thnt would have bared to view wealth of which Solomon "In all lit glory" could not have dreamed, and which would have made haughty Croesus green with envy. In rtcr to meet this danger the government rmplocd ten extra watchman, who patrdU'd the streets and allev in the neighborhood of the 1'iilon Trust building for nine months, watchmen were day and nlsht. These the pay roll of the from dropped only 10. when the new on May treasury vault was turned over to tho government by the contractors. Forced Chans In Steel Plates. But the dtvlslon of Issue was not the only branch of. the government which found Msclf extremely busy after the pajsapo of the emergency which-banknote- The total tax levy for Weber county will be 23 mills, provided the state and city levies remain the same as they were last year. The total value of assessable property In Ogdon U $11,991,008, and in the county dis- tricts, y currency act. The steel plates for every national bank in the country had to be altered. To the legend on the face of the banknotes and at the top. "Secured by bonds of the United States," there had to be added a Ia third line, "Or other securities." order to add these three words every plate had to be softened, the, extra words engraved, and then the whole Each of these plate retempered. banknote plates, which costs $75, will print 30,000 bills, then the impressions begin to get dull, and the plate has to be softened, the dies recut, and the plate tempered again, after which about 10,000 more impressions can be taken. The plates are then destroyed and new ones made. Mr. Eldrldge sleeps easy. "Let your notes come In as last as you can make them," is his message to the head of the bureau of engraving and printing. "Rush the notes over until we have a stock of 700,000,000. 200,000,000 to remain in the upper vaults for curreut needs of the banks and 500,000,000 to rest secure in the vault beneath the treasury, guarded by its walls of steel and stone and by Its network of wires which never v sleep." ball-bearin- g automobile licenses and 105 chauffeur's licenses and is now preparing for publication a pamphlet coniainiua the names and numbers issued up to cct Twenty years ago tils vast amount of printed bills would have been utterly worthless until tach bill had been signed by the president and the cashier of the bank in whose name It was issued, but In the nineties congress passed a law making the notes legal as. soon as placed In circulation, thus adding materially to Mr. cares, whose duty it then became to handle money, not in the making, but the perfected cash. Now, as soon ts the bills are entered upon the ledgers or the treasury as being shipped to a bank, they are considered money. The express companies handling these shipments are bonded for $500,000, and In case of loss or robbery the company Is held responsible for the loss. It was only a short time ago that a shipment of $40,000 to the Pacific coast was stolen in transit, and the express company was forced to give a check for the full amount. The treasury is redeeming some of these stolen banknotes without question, although some of them bear no signature at all, while others bear the forged signatures . of the president of that bank and of the cashier. The express company was never able to recover more than $15,-00- 0 of the stolen bills. It had to lose the rest. , Deserves Thanke of Nation. The crlspness and durability of our present day banknotes are due largely to the efforts of Mr. Eldrldge, the guardian of the Jumbo among vaults. Many years ago congress passed a law authorizing the Issue of treasury notes', and the bill required that these notes be put in circulation within 30 days. It was a rutih Job. The paper s Hundred Millions of Dollars. cllities come to the fore. In fine weather the ball expands to the full, but when rain approaches It shuts like an umbrella. If the weather Is Inclined to be showery, it keeps shut all the time, onjy opening when the danger from the wet is past The ordinary clover and all Its varieties, Including the trefoil and the shamrock, are also barometers. When rain la coming the leaves shut together like the shells of an oyster and do not open again until fine weather is assured. For a day or two before rain comes their stems swell to an appreciable extent and stiffen so that the leaves are borne more upright than usual. This stem swelling when rain Is expected Is a feature of many flow erlng grasses. The fingers of which the leaves of the horse chestnut are made up keep flat and fanlike so long as fine weather is likely to continue. With the coming of rain, however, they droop as If to offer leas resistance to the weather. The scarlet pimpernel Is nicknamed the "poor man's weather glass" or wind cope, and opens Its flowers only In fine weather As soon as rain Is in the air It shuts up and remains ctosed until the shower or storm Is over. The common garden convolvulus crumples up Its delicate blossoms within the space of half an hour If rain drops are on the way. ' and It keeps them thus until the bad weather hns rtiHsed. Bread from Fish Roe. In the eastern regions if Russia make bread from fish roe. At the present time, owing to the hard season, there In what they term In that country a "little famine;" consequently the peasants are making bread from the roe of fresh water DhIi with which the rl vers abound. The process of making "fish flour" differs little from the ordinary one. The roe Is dried and ground, and rooked in tho usual fashion. PcnBnnts Telephone and Street Railroads. The cost of the central station plants existing In 1907 In the United States was Just $1,000,000,000; the capitalization or telephony was $i 100. OiiO.OOO and the capitalization of railroads was chine upon t)ie nop 000,000. nrnklng a grand aggregate of $6,100,000,000. or for 1908 about ' oon.nno. Mat-thewsoWa-aho- ton-liiig- lm-yo- 1 |