Show tae WAR ON COPPER when I 1 solemnly agreed with the NEWS to furnish some information relating to the status of things in and about the section of country known as rocky mining district in beaver county it was not entirely without a realization of what such a task amounted to for behold I 1 have been there a great many times to those who hang around mining districts and are looking for profit directly or indirectly the advent of an item seeker representing a newspaper is as good as a circus in one respect it affords biern hem a great deal of fun to see how eagerly the tenderfoot nibbles at all their statements probable improbable and impossible but all as highly seasoned with idealisms and colored with fanciful language as the ability of toe the perpetrator will permit it is also alm unlike a circus in that the bohem bohemian bohemia laa a takes away nothing but his voluminous notes none of them negotiable except to the paper he represents and not always there and leaves the greater part of whatever quantity of lucre art he e may have been possessed when he made his grand entree I 1 remember with vivid distinctness the fina article that ever escaped from pay my pencil to the columns of a new newspaper r regarding a mining situation rt it often causes a sad sad out but not altogether forlorn condition of mind the thought of how snugly and comp completely ebely I 1 was taken in and done for g giving ving place at once to one in which th the e said paper in turn figures as the victim the fact that it was no better posted and as susceptible cep tible to as the writer was a comforting influence whose elements were not altogether malice and that misery which hankers after company but which yielded a small return in the way of a moral I 1 was well equipped on this occasion and it was well for all concerned that it was so sometimes when the mood is present and the paper represented willing fances magical pinions are spread wide acx ana no especial notice is taken of earial her flight fligh now lot let me say the disposition is wanting and the NEWS unwilling to receive anything but facts as they exist and logical deductions A long albeit desultory experience among the delvers and their parasites embracing actual observations vatious in and around the excavations and other features of mining communities have had their effect upon the undersigner undersigned under signed and he Js is no longer the food for sharks he was in the days long agone everything heard board in such places is now discounted till it reaches its proper proportions and everything seen is beheld with the eyes of a disbeliever willing to be conAn convinced ced not with those of an enthusiast who enjoys being inflated as much as the fro do tle inflating the best results properly come through maturity it is the work done on the homestretch that counts milford some miles south and a little west of salt lake city is practically the terminus of the utah central railway though a supplemental line connects to frisco sixteen miles west regular trains are run on this division going up in the morning shortly after the arrival of the northern passenger and returning a little before the other departs in the evening the engine pushes the train going up as a measure of safety and and convenience combined it must always be on the down end to prevent the possibility of a car becoming detached and returning to the level at a rate of speed which I 1 can liken to nothing at present but the flight of an arrow the road between milford and frisco describes a horseshoe the grade even with this great detour which adds fifty per cent to the distance between the two points being so great that a car left tz to itself and starting from frisco as has been done two or three times spins over the sixteen mile course unjust in just twelve minutes milford ilford is almost deserted but for the presence of the railway it would present a forlorn appearance the expectations entertained of the place when the road first reached it that it would be a modified Cheye cheyenne nue have long since vanished into thin air indeed all the boom it ever had was the prestige imparted by the enterprise and capital of the utah central company and this with all its aid and influence could not evangelize a naked barren plain into a bun bounding jing metropolis the road now carries the entire situation and with the revival of operations in the rocky and ad other districts adjoining it is easy to understand that milford will again materialize and surpass its former self giving those who own property thereabout there about something of a return for their outlay and richly repaying the railroad company for its liberality and persistence vir si at the same time the he greater part of the traffic now comes from and goes to ao beavor and the southern country generally frisco of course contributing a heavy proportion the old hockery kery mine the first discovery in rocky district and a kind of nucleus around which have grown locations until the face of nature is plastered altered over with them so thickly that at for miles around they are confluent is the most noted of any mine in this region by reason of its being the first discovery and a great producer it Is said to be entirely or partly owned by frenchmen who figured lar largely ely in the recent extensive ang and continued bearing operations in copper which were incubated b by theS the odete dee and engineered by the Gamp Compto tair ir af acom not des compte as most of the western papers persist in putting it of paris it is situated five miles due north northwest west of here near the summit of an eminence arising abruptly from the south side of the roadway road to a height of about feet the main shaft is eighty feet dowland down and on the surface enough gaudy lookin looking green blue and red rock to is gilel pile up to load several trains this carries carrier gold silver iron and copper the last kat predo predominating mill though all arp are well rep scented some of it has gone up to 0 o 60 per cent copper ounces wv OW ver and 20 gold with copper at a 25 cents centa a pound which is where its ite commercial and intrinsic value entitles it to be even in times of W depression pres siou like the present that metal alone would make the ore worth about per ton or altogether rating silver at a dollar an ounce such ore could even now be b shipped at a clear profit of aw per ton but of course it is not AU aleso bu good as that nor nearly so but a thorough exploration of the field em colla from numerous samples collected and from a thoroughly distributive and analytical series of assays essays I 1 am a prepared to state without fear of ba to ing overcome that the ores of tho tb district will average fully one fourth of the figure and approximate closely to the respective proportions 0 copt an fn stated thus ranking in the he high grade division of ores not only ah xh at the hickory but AV w around and in every cu direction va are heaps of this ore speaking as eloquently as muteness can of the vast weal wealth th secreted in the roe recesses of nature and awaiting ot only ily the labor and enter enterprise rise of man to be brought into te the light of GOY day and made useful in 14 our time and generation the whole country is filled with it 11 wherever I 1 went and I 1 covered several square miles of this grost gre I 1 copper belt at almost every place where a pick was struck in it pro deuced mineral of some there would seem to be enough to build a large city with all the houses composed of copper and why is it all lying there with the exception of 01 a comparatively insignificant quantity in exactly the shape and doritt which the gorges took on in th tb days when the huge convulsion of our common parent caused the tb heavens to shrink upward with tu a dread the why so aa well as the wherefore to is what 1 have been drifting on toward sine I 1 seated myself on a candle box at a a dirty old shelf for a table to trace these lines that the french financiers are the ablest of that class clan of men allva alev is a statement needing no argument the history of the world since side 0 man began to know that certain of or the metals had intrinsic value and an could thus be made a ready means of e effecting ting exchanges to is authority on t that h at point even yf if so much were n needed eed ed but their skill and their regard for upright conduct in allu aim ing at given are not always parallel conditions first em eill ploy all means to win by fair methods failing in these all means meads to win is the text in brief and tills ta plutocratic gaul lives up to it bously recently it was that the copper product product of the world so fa far from falling ling off offer or evev even remaining stat stationary onar was actually increasing this d discovery naturally created that feeling of confidence in the situation which aimed mimed the world at large to be unwary and altogether at ease so BO far as the ruddy metal was concerned once unsuspecting naturally allf of ourse course we cease to be watchful relieving that the stock will not 1411 zander der away we dont notice or whether or not the bars are zwia a it is ie at such times and un der r such circumstances that and those who profit by strata land 5 and spoils thrive the fact that mere e was waa already an abundance of aper and that the supply was in sing in a ratio fully apace with tho Wc easing demand was a state 4 things worth cultivating stock 47 are not as a rule ride governed hi take great law which controls the other er and more legitimate markets w the world that of supply and boand but are more nervously aw w sensitively constructed As a atter ot of fact they buy and sell thing and thus thug represent no mar abut but their own they receive iely the evidences of fractional to in certain enterprises for toe purpose of sellin selling them ngu the ae difference fet between afi S buying and selling ariae yielding profit or loss losa wa cue case may be but in every in nce yielding a commission to the rs the condition of the Wj arty erty which these shares depre W is supposed to be but generally generall whick reflected in the price which ry bring in the hands bands of t the t legit gamblers who conduct them r business is so thoroughly aured zed that it has long been been ree rec as a fine art even in this antry and england but the aner subtleties of the french char 1 ws I have made it even something adre S intricate and difficult of pene oa by the masses it is easy to rs tand how watching for op Wt unities as a business the sharps falk tt create flurries or allay fears be more natural and more honn ats fl US comprehend what la Is going 3 the latter invest or boune to do so BO because ga ab is thus arranged for them 44 yf own judgment figuring not dot at in tile the deal when the object is to enT 1688 certain shares the depre goes out that they are so or their value for cause has fallen so low that al the showing le be correct or the ae object la Is gained before on the outside know any betth the e price has das gone down and at n reduced coed figure figare it isawo is scooped ed in by Willa tors W when hen I 1 the e rally the ae other oer extreme comes lt that is 18 the d depression ep being 96 C ia olt and all the depressed stock teab it in n by the ae shar harpers pers while at test t est point it appreciates rap rak w because of chose those reasons when y as high as they think it will they y unload it on the market 04 rt ua thus it gradually gets ets to its lev ge the fluctuations in in every ing representing good fortune to tors afi ave ST thus digressed because the W aty jozity of the readers of the NEWS 00 familiar with this or any form of gambling mai it doubt be made plain in order at my point may m ay be made clear booi french 1110 companies previously atela kd of a are re to a great leat extent tent the bof of concerns above explained composed of men aro ute tute a having in view the control of the copper product product and market of the world go 80 far they have come very near doing it by means of extensive and limited ownerships in the great copper producers of of both hemispheres they have been able to so control the supply as to practically determine at any time just what price the buyers and users of the metal in any form had to pay for it when small owners have put their products on the market at such rates and in such quantities that the syndicates syndicated di reign was threatened their plan of campaign hasteen has been various they would buy if the property could be obtained cheaply but ailing failing in this would shut down their own and all other properties controlled by them one would think that this would be a good thing for the limited miners by creating increased demand for their products but no not t so great manufacturers do not rely upon limited and precarious sources of M supply they must deal with those who can provide them with fixed and unfailing quantities and the syndicate takes good care that the union of interest between itself and the manufacturers is made as sympathetic and compact as possible so that when the flat fiat goes forth to suspend producing it means also to stop buying and without buyers what are those who necessarily conduct business on a limited scale to do of course they can sell for something 0 ore re that is produced at IR rocky cy c angl district triet and according to regular and established standards is worth say per ton can be sold now for about one fifth of that sum delivered in salt lake city of course nobody sells of course all the mines are idle and those who own them are doing something else for subsistence meantime the squeeze goes on but the comp coir is a bankrupt ansti 1 aution through it because it has overdone itself by taking on a greater burden than it could carry this would be gratifying but for the fact th at wealthy citizens and even the french government itself will lend a hand toward placing it again on its feet but it can hardly ever regain its former power it is a species of trust whose profits under even proper conduct are too great g rt a t to permit r it to pass into desu desuetude u d e ru just st now naturally it has ruined a great many men samson hap h bulled pulled down the temple and cru crushed she himself beneath the debris the great and unusual depression cannot it would seem last much longer no matter whether the syndicate and its supporters sink or swim copper is so valuable a metal its production is so legitimate an industry and there is so much of it to be obtained by patient endeavor and honest enterprise that the tricks and schemes of organized shar pers will have to give way at last the longer the reopening is in coming the greater will be the demand of course when it does come syndicates trusts and combines have not the elements of perpetuity within them because not based upon correct mathous nor having in view the maintenance of just principles like the protective tariff they protect the favored few at the expense of the overburdened many and must go the hickory is kept by a mr who merely keeps possession for the company and looks after some interests of his own leading a quiet hermit like life in very cosy quarters on n the grounds he is a hospitable and entertaining frenchman notwithstanding his nationality he only wants his fair share of the earth and the things it contains we talked boulanger the mines and other subjects of interest without difficulty understanding one another perfectly this was not to be wondered at for we both speak english with tolerable fluency an effort was recently made to buy him out but he would not sell at least on the terms pro proposed he is like many others waiting r for the better day which all believe is near at hand it is rather a peculiar condition this the seat of gaiety elegance culture and loose morals of the world paris 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