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Show t 3ILNKS AND f AT CONFERENCE FOR CONSERVATION QF NATURAL RESOURCES mini SG' CHIEF TOPICS AND SPEAKERS - ... The recently announced dive every In th- - East of large gold deposit Huiuhnlill range, In Nevada, and which Tiptop Is the center, la attra-- t tng a big ciovvd of prospector ami In ' vestors Leasers on the Dtunond Queen com patty's property at Iliatty, In the Hu are marketing ore in frog illhtriM Salt Ioike City that la running h- -h tarload sold a few davs ago ran I $217 In gold per ton In 197 alone the production of ore In the United Stan was 5i" p Oil" V'ns, or more thin 1'2" for ea h man woman and chll o! fcaoOnnon population And the pr tlon ta steadily 1m in It lal itlc o el v In the 'i ;i of Neva 1. a IS made In- Mrs Iionald MeCartt.v bv gust merly a diming too tor of Colo who a t ir urn tuned to prosp She li.ni'U' hip' her find a secret iini.l ibout two months am' i I ir indull, the noted I, exp i t de an i'll' around Juab h i, d at the will be i neoiiiiti t"o to 550 t . (lej (h of I'." t t quantiles wlit' working to a d t j 1 At the White House May 13, 14,15 I 1 I , 1 I 111 of 2 fine f, ot n i I. - linn six II ita will la em onntered mg Wotd from 'pa lie brings tiding a fine s'like of b.ol and silver on of lb.1 Wiadi It e the " At a dtpth of Minis lompini feet, the m tiuigi lie nt hies enrounti of the ore. and It Is eee sevUntien i Iteiuetit bleeders of tie1 of the si 1 ' r- - fit d Sbas five-foo- 1 j t-- Twenty houses on the east side of of Tonopah, Nevada, wore destroyed by a file which or'g:-natein a lodging house. A high wind was blowing and the entire city The loss is estimawas endangered ted at $15u milt V J Ark ell, well known In Reno and once a prominent stock broker at Manhattan, Nev., is a bankrupt. His liabilitit s are $279.040 66 and assets of some worthless mining stocks and about $200 in money. Arkells liking for fast horses, it is said, Is the cause of his downfall. A case Involving mining property' In the Silver Peak district valued at approximately $10,000,000, and which has been in litigation In the Nevada courts for the past twelve years, was completed In the district court at Reno, Nev., last week, and will be 5t braitted to Judge Pike In briefs. It ic announced that the Madison River Tower company has secured cn all the electric poyer plants cast of Billings, Mont., Including those at Columbia Falls, Forsythe.Ig Timber and Livingston, and will fun a power system from the Dakota line to Billings from one central station Glen Holbrook was found not guilty at Antonlto, Colo., on the charge ot ratrdarlns M W. Low that, .whop, e kot wad killed at Alamosa, Fedru-ar26 last. Holbrook, who was in Mrs. Lowthera apartment's when her husband unexpectedly returned, claimed that he shot Lowther In self deop-ton- s ct wwmwtwrar Frankfin M. Barnes is charged with unlawfully taken 3,000,000 having feet of timber from government freest reserves in San Miguel county Colorado. It Is pfflciaKy stated that $3,310 20 represents the loss to the Great Northern Express company In of the companys strong box by two bandits, near Seattle. The house committee on public lands has reported favorably a bill allotting in the state of Wyoming, under the Carey act.' 1.000.000 acres ot land to be subject to reclamation. Meager details have been received of the killing at Mussollshell, Mont ot a woman n mted Mrs Wesson. The tragedy oicurred in a taloon and two men are being held pending an In d I WWWHf yom-ln- the main street i HF-W- 111 brother i range, In Nevada, la said to be an Ideal poor mans camp, Just what the prospectors of the west have been looking for during the last ten years. Prospects show at twenty to thirty feet depth paying quantities of ore worth $150 to $200 per ton In gold Probably the most Important strike et the winter In the Deep Creek eoun- been made in the Clifton t A companys ground ledge has been opened up. the mass averaging $15 In gold. 5 69 per cent copper, 12 "J per cent bismuth. 1 59 per rent tin and 62 per cent nickel per ton. On Wedensdav of last week tho management of the Utah Mitres received a cheek foi $2,105 71. In pay ment for the last ear of oie received In the hxal matket The ore as waved 25 ounces sliver and 47 per cent lead calling for $120 4" per ton Thpre were 52 704 pound $rj weight In tha consignment It Is staled In Boston that there I. no longer a l.awsontim connection with Nevada Utah Theie are between 12 (leo and Ut.ium stockholder Is this corporation, and the Tending in terests believe that the company Is now prepared to stand on Its merit--I- t is shipping fiom forty to sixty , ,ir er month from its loads of ore Ploche ptopertles When the repul lie was founded there were according to teieut expet t 2 oou.noo retlmatcs. approximately 000,000 tons of coal In the terrttoiv now forming the United States Im finally none of this supply was used for over a qu.it ter of a eentuiy. but from during the sev ntv live yo.iry, 4 oou.mto ttoo non 1820 to 1895 nearly tons were mined Coal consumption Is Increasing at an astonishing rate. During the pe rtod for which statistics have been gathered It has doubled during eat b more than decade, of late it ha doubled In 197 the production wa shout 450.Ou0.0O0- - tons At the pre snt rate of inrrease the production in 1917 will be 900,000,000 tons The richest ore ever seen In the Bullfrog district was broken Into last week at a lease on the National Bank ground. The shaft at a depth of ter feet shows a three-foo- t vein of otv which Is spotted and seamed witf free gold Twenty five thousand do! lars is a conservative estimate foi the richer portion of the vein. The total production of Iron ore It the United States up to IS'l" was some 275AHW, ooo tons, in the next ten years tt was nearly joo.ooo.noo. an In the seven year from 191 to 19"7 more than 27l.too.i)00,ooo tons wv produced, or nearly as much as the total for the first century of our his tory. Within a few days the Juab DTI rompany will have one of the finest drilling iTg that was ever turned out by tbe keystone company boring tor oil within 1,2'Mt feet of the railroad the San Pedro Un station ot Juab, in Juab county. acres or government land Denver has reported sixty Indictments, twenty six for unlawful Including fencing of public lands, thirteen for perjury in obtaining laud, and one for Umber tresj ass. McCruden. The body of William who known as the 'Catholic Kid, was lost In the mountains near Salt-e.sMont, early in December, was found last wet k by a party of searchers, including Robert McCruden, a ! 11 A woman has been indicted on the charge of unlawfully enclosing 2 00o vtUjratlon . rThe federal grand jury sitting at - season iheie 1leading guil'v to the charge of promoting fraudulent mining m hen" hdin (Ill hy the use of the malls was senleniid in the I mod Sta' district eoint at luni'r to serve me day In the rouriU jail arid to puv r The prosecuting at'm fine of $.'.(10 uev recommended a light sentence Another splendid nnning p:oiert) In Heaver county that has been ill joying a Ulp Van H uk sleep for several years will be In active ope at ion again before the end of the prt sent month, according to the Salt I.akt It Is the old Washington Herald companys property In J ocher guldi e of of Jii'y will Not before tie United States Sim King, l.efintng A Mining company resume operations at It lead smeller In Ut th In the mean m time the company Is expending the neighborhood of $loo,iioo In In tailing apparatus which will permit operations under the decree of tho Utah courts A most Important bit of newa to liver miners Is the decision of t:i German government to resume the coinage of silver on a scale that will call for 40,000,000 ounces of silver annually for the next live years. This of the total will absorb 10 per amount of silver that cornea upon the open market. OTES , i piortv NORTHWEST r (AH from stereograph, copyright 1904, by Underwood A Underwood, New York.) , Ingenious nsws Photograph, showing at a glance a moat remarkable, apoeh-makin- g conference, tha first of Its kind In tha hlatory 1 civilisation,. In the renter, Mr Roosevelt' In the inner circle about him, beginning at tha top and from left to right, are Speaker fannon. Forestry Chief Ptnchot, Postpassing master General Meyer, John Hay Hammond, president of the Amelcai Institute of Mining Engineers, Senator I Follette, Senator Knox and Secretary Root In the outer circle, beginning at the top, John Mitchell, Seth Low. lamuel Gompers, Secretary Cortelyou, Gov F61k of Missouri, Justice Moody of the supreme court. Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma, Gov. Curry of New Mexico, W lllkm J. Bryan. Andrew Carnegie, James, yGIon secretary of agriculture. Gov. Hughes and Gov. Johnson of Minnesota. On the margin are pktured mining, ctttle raising, railroading, farming, nvar transportation, manufacturing, building material and forestry. When the conference of governors of states and men distinguished in political life of the nation met at the White House In Washington,. May 13 , In behalf of the preservation of the countrys natural resources, the strangest, and. perhaps, the most Important convention ever held In the capitol was Inaugurated. Among those invited to attend by President Roosevelt himself .were mem bers of the cabinet. Judges of tbe supreme court of the United States, governors of all the states In the union, Including the executives of Alaska and Hawaii, and Andrew Car negle. William Jennings Bryan, James J. Hill, therftilroad magnate, John' Mitchell. MTe labor leader, and prom men lnent srJenUsU and business from all (Tver the country. Political differences, opposing Issues of" national questions and business rivalry were laid aside to discuss the ways and means of conserving the nat ural resources of the country. President Hoosevelt opened the con-vention with an exposition of the whv wherefore of the conference and outline of his views of the mat-- . ter. While on his trip dow t the Mls-- j slsslppt river last fall, with the gov ernors of 16 states, under the auspices ef the Inland Waterways association, the he Is said to have obtained nucleus of the Idea which resulted In the present conference. It will be remembered that Presl dent Roosevqlt on that trip expressed the- opinion that the question of the conservation of the natural resources of the country was of more Import ance than the regulation of the rate - A number of papers, prepared at the president's request, were read and discussed. James J Hill, the railroad king, spoke on Relations Between Rail and His paper water Transportation. dealt with such subjects as the growth of rail transportation. Its dis trlbutfon and extent of sstems. cost and present value, traffic and earning capacity, estimated cost of the cultitlt-tloof trees for railroad ties slid their preservation. Increasing railways to meet prospective requirements, etc. Regarding water transportation Mr. HUI dealt with Its cost, present facilities, relation to rail transjxirtation, pressing lines of development, regulation by huqine8S Interests or by law, Influence of cheapened transportation on production, etc. Under the general head of land resources. Prof. T. O. Chamberlain of the University of Chicago. In a paper on "Soil." dealt with its origin, natenrichural products, progressive ment, effects of cultivation, erosion, and general estimate of .loss to the country through needlessly reduced n From his cell in the Alameda, Cal, sure you that I heartily agree with jail, where he awalte sentence for the your conclusion that the conservation murder of Mrs. Vernle Carmtn, forof the natural resources of our country merly of Springfield, Mo., Mark a Wilpresents a. problem demanding the kins has sent out word that the wombest though ot our times is superflu- an who had lived at Elmhurst as his ous. We Itave been exploiting our wife, and whose body he buried In a resources with no thought of the morrow, and the claims of posterity upon us should certainly be taken Into account. In his letter of Invitation to the conference President Roosevelt said: r There Is no other question now before the nation of equal gravity with the question of conservation of our natural resources, and it la the plaiifluty of us who, for the moment, are responsible, to take inventory of the natural resources which have been handed down to us, to forecast the needs of the future, and so handle the great sources of our prosperity as not to destroy In advance all hope of ..the prosptrtltv of our descendants. The need for such a conference Is Illustrated by a few facts vouched for by Investigators. Government experts sas, Blanchard of Louisiana. Folk of' say that between 390,000.000 and Shelton of Nebraska, Cuny 000,000 tons of coal were lost In 1906 of New Mexleo, Burke of North Da- - by penny, wise and pound foolish kota, Frantz of Oklahoma. Cham bet; mfHNid, and that the total so wasted The beginning of the Industry lain of Oregon, is )fW)0 000 000 tons and Brooks ( Wyoming Millions upon millions of horsepower are going to . That the cimferenee attracted world-to wide Interest was evidenced by the waste through failure - jproperly fact that many of the foreign dlplo-- utilize and conserve the waterpower of mats at Washington followed the af-- the United States, The construction of reservoirs at fairs of the convention closely. Those who were liTNjlose touch with the sources of streams in which flood the conference arrangements declare waters may be stored to he released they have never knowg another move- at periods of low water Is expected ment which has been, greeted with not only to keep the waters at a consuch Tqulck and enthusiastic popular tinuous level, Nrut prevent the destruction of property by floods, maintain approval. An Indication of public opinion was constant levels for navigation and to afforded by the great mass of corre- develop water power. At the present rate of fWber conspondence Which poured Into the It Is estimated that fhe prloe Organl-zatlon- s on this sumption House subject. White of all sorts expressed realiza- of every kind of lumber will be. about tion of the greatness of the enter double the indent price only one de' cade' from prise.' It is said that the total Iron ore That conservation- of national relg 25,. sources la nothing about which the available In the world 000.000,006 tons, of which three-flfthpolitical parties wish ;to raise an Is Indicated by the'kttitude of th Is in the United States. Should the Democratic leaders. Both William J. rate of consumption continue to InBryan and GbJohnA. Johnson, crease In the United States In the leading candidates for the Democratic satpe ratio that it has in the course of nomination, wrote to the Ta.st- aeore of years, at the end of presidential President Roosevelt pressing their two centuries there would be no Indorse- more ore to be mined. emphatic Equally approval. In the United States there Is an area ment. It is understood, has been voiced by Grover Cleveland- - Mr. Bryan's of 175,000,000 acres of land susceptible letter to the president read: "I great- to reclamation by Irrigation, acres of western public range ly appreciate your kind Invitation and shall take pleasure In attending the which may be made available for Inconference on the conservation of nat- creased production of meat by restrictural resources. I am, I beg to assure ing tbe grazing and reseeding portions yon. In hearty sympathy with the pur- which have been destroyed by unreWith this area pose of the conference, and I have no stricted grazing. d 4$ubt that the discussion of the sub- made 'available once more, it Is that Its meat producing capacject will be very hefpful to us all. as- To Gov. Joh "uajetter read: ity will be nearly doubled. -- the extent of arid and imfi arid Inclous, development and extent of d rigatlon, growth if toniepig concern-aIng water rights and witr asr a basis of property, influence of brtgatlon on n prodvictdon, common c imputation, of water :nd other re- consumption sources, reclamationn:, treara con- trol by drainage, ami x ,,f swamp and overflow land a Increased value available bv dri nig. protection and flixtd prevention Judge Joseph H Uut.u ,,f Cheyenne. Wvo, in a pnper on md ..Laws, dealt with their e.tth ,,'i, y of transfer tmd r t .e charters, especial grants, etc .'opraent, feet of creation of n nal parks, forests and other teserv, i advantage of making this a nation of homes and home state and t action required, etc. m lent of th Hon. H. A. Jastro. National Live Stock a m ml ion of Bakersfield. Cal., deliver,-- H paper on "Grazing and Stock lps.i;efj treated on the development of thn In- dustrles In the United States, their extent and value, grazing ,n the arid and semi arid regions, ande results, comparative cost ln(j profit and relation between sto, k raising - and commerre. Under the general hea l of mineral resource. Dr. I. C White state gece logtst of West Virginia, in speaking of mineral fuels, dealt wah h coal fields of the United States, methods of mining, losses In mining duration of present method-- ! o$ mining and use, improvement- and use, connection with coal production and transportation, rd,itjon between coal and other resource, petroleum, and rock gas and possible substitutes for Tuel. Andrew Carnegie spoke on "Ores -- t , i I l. -- d- d,-r- . 1 - - DavIdson-ol.Wlsconsinslpc- e 1 to-da- to-da- y s e , - estl-mate- -- 1 fense. x,, r shed behind their home, was not Mrs. Carmln. Federal Judge Hunt of Helena has granted an Injunction restraining Butte and Anaconda Typographical unions from Interfering with the transactions of the business of the Butterick Publishing company of New York. It was alleged that a boycott had been placed on the concern by these unions. Helena has been visited by two distinct earthquake shocks, one Tuesday anil the other Thursday night of last The last shock was seweek. vere enough to throw one West side womdn into convulsions, and It made several other people quite ill. Houses rocked violently and dlsftes rattled and pictures became askew. A.Chlcago man has patented a process that will convert the sagebrush of the west Into millions of money by utilizing It In a scientific manner. Potash Is derived from the ashes, which contain 61 per cent, while ordinary wood ashes contain only 21 per cent. A dramatic and unexpected feature of the Washington Republican state convention, held at Spokane, was the adoption of a local option plank, by a vote of 506 to 258. The convention adopted unanimously a resolution favoring the candidacy of Secretary Taft. Reno. Nevada, merchants have filed petition with the Nevada railroad commission, asklDg for an adjustment of freight rates that will enable them to compete with Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and San Francisco dealers. The commission will Investigate their a request. . L. W. Hawley, expert on wood distillation for the forest service, left Washington last week for an extended vfbit to Oregon. Washington, Montana and Idaho, to Investigate the possibility of a future turpentine industry In the northwestern portion of the United States. George Rock, who, with three other convicts, made a desperate attempt to escape from the state penitentiary at Deer Lodge, Mont, during which they killed Chief Guard John A. Robinson and desperately wounded Frank Conley. has been sentenced to be hanged on June 16. Robert Lockhart, a mining man of Rhyolite, Nevada, reports having visited at Mesquite Springs the camp ot Walter Scott, who told him ibout the discovery of the remains of two men fifteen miles northeast of the camp. There was nothing by which tbe me co" Id be Identified. , |