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Show MINING ARSENIC NEAR GATEWAY OF YELLOWSTONE By HARRY W. FRANTZ JAROINB. Mont, Sept. 11 (By U. P.) Boll waevlla ravage the cotton cot-ton fields of tba South and the result re-sult Is a boom la a Western mining came. . Thus In tha nation's economy econ-omy an old adage la proven. "it's an ill wind that blowa no one good." Calcium areenate la a great weap-! weap-! on of the Southern farmer In hie war agalnat the terrible weevil. Thla I town le a great and growing center of areenlo production. Jardlne la barely six miles north of ths Oardiner gateway to Tallow-none Tallow-none National park. Hundreds of tourists board park buees at Oardiner Oar-diner dally, bur rare la the traveler who hoards the truck that comes thla way. Tha road crosses ths Tellowetone river and wlnrie through aage-etrewn aage-etrewn hills In full view of Electric peak. Approaching the town, which lire In a canyon, the roar of the stamps ran ba heard for a long distance. dis-tance. On tba main etreet are Bear Uulrb hotel and Mountain Inn, a poolroom, a store, the log cabins of minora Elsewhere there's a general gen-eral store and postofflce. The little lit-tle white school on ths hill Is tbe only painted building In tha town. A BIARSKIN INSTEAD. Ths town Is so remote from general gen-eral travel that you cannot even buy souvenir postrerds. J aakea the old men In the poolroom what one could get for a eouvenir. No one could think of anything at all. or the necessity ne-cessity for It. until someone remembered remem-bered a bearskin. I found It. un-tannsd, un-tannsd, nailed ta tha backdoor of a cabin, and bought It for 14. On a hlllslds sbove tha canyon creek are tha mills snd ovens, and higher up tha tunnels where the are la mined. The ore Is crushed In a aiity-atamp mill. After the free gold la removed there remains a concentrate consisting of gold. Iron, sulphur and arsenic. Thla la burned over a eoal fire, the sulphur augmenting aug-menting the blase. The araenle goes off In vapor and later Is col- lected. It le put up In barrels of ! pounds each, and la valued at about 11 canta a pound. Tending tha ovens Is dangerous work, because be-cause of tha poisonous burning fumes, and ths laborers are gel-' Ung It, a day for eight hours. The high wages hsvs attracted workmen from all quarters of tha country. I went for aitpper to a boarding house reputed "the best In town." It waa an ancient place that muat have dated from the daya of gold placerlng. On the walls wsra a campaign picture of Teddy Rooes-velt Rooes-velt and photographs of graybearda of age, too great to estimate. Twenty-one miners were working on a it-sent table d'hota of great quantity and quality. 'How did ou ever drift out here!" 1 asked one of them. BLAMED THE MOVIES. -The movlee were to blame." he said. "Used to see the mountain scenee and wanted to get out here. It looke Ilka the movlee, too, but thera'a no Indiana or boree stages any mora. I came from PlorMa." Perhaps there la not tha same re-mantle re-mantle atmosphere about a mining camp today aa there waa tn "the daya ef Old. tha daya of Gold." Tbare-s dust on ths old bare and the big atrlkea are alwaya en corporation cor-poration property. But some of tha Intelligent minora confess to a great Interest In the fact that their product prod-uct la ahlpped away to help the battle bat-tle for the cotton. Some of It goes, too. to the west for uaa agalnat fruit peeta.. Prom near Jardlne one aeea by night the lights of Mammoth Hot Springe In Tellowetone National park, ten miles away, but moat of tha miners have never been to tha park. Tbey talk of going "sosns day.- |