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Show X i- t X t. C n ti ' I I 'Wrecks. Massachusetts' O - July. pounds. Cobalt's dividends for the first half of the present year amounted to The Adamson-Turne- r mine near Winnemucca la said to be shipping regularly now. It Is rumored that the American Smelting company may take down its Murray smelter and probably move tbe portable portion to a new site. Barry-Cox- e of Park City haa received returns on Its - first car of ore, amounting to 31.134 93. The next will be sorted and should run ' much higher. During the first six months of 1912 the United States produced 166, 49e tons of spelter, or at the rate of more than double the production of any other year prior to 1904. t The American 'Smelting company has taken an option on the Lake Superior & Arizona, thirty miles west of Globe, Ariz. The price la $400,000 cusu s and stock, or $800,000 cash. In 1849 the Cliff mine Qf Lhke Superior paid the first dividend for that district. Since then a total of has been paid, of which Calu0 met & Hecla's proportion was a SERVICE g F YOU run through the history of tba Untied 8tate life earing t, with ervtce. you will the exception of occasional widely separated year, the coast of Massachusetts lays claim to more disasters than any stretch of seaboard within the scope of beach patrol. Long Island and New Jersey not excepted. This is partly on of the particularly heary sea traffic In the vicinity, but it Is chiefly due to Cape Cod. It is this crooked finger of land that has beckoned a thousand ships to their doom and which In the bellow of its dunes holds many a tragic story of lives snuffed out In desperate grapple with ware and wind. The night of Tuesday, March 11. 1902. was wild and storm-strewRunning up along the tug Sweepstakes was makroast, the ocean-goining bad weather with her tow of the two big For barges, Wadena and John C. Fitzpatrick. hours the tripleexpansion engines of the tug bad been churning her screw In the drift of the heary head sea and shortly before daylight her captain discovered that she was making no headway. He then decided to He to and, while feel-l- i g about for an anchorabe In the gloom, the barges ran aground on the edge of 'Shovelful Shoal, off the southern ?end of Monomoy Island, "" Massachusetts. H hen daylight came, the crew of the Monomoy life saving station boarded the barges, but finding It Impossible to float jthera on the flood tide, took their crew ashore. It was six days later that the disaster occurred Wreckers sent from Boston were at work on the barges. The tug Feter Smith was on the ground, haring replaced the Sweepstakes. On thq night of the 16th the weather thickened and a gale swept In from the sea. The ntgbt passed without Incident, but early on the morning of the 17th Keeper Eldrldge of the Monomoy station recelred a telephone from the captain of the 8mltb asking him If everything was all right on tha Wadena. Thia alarmed Uldrldge, aa ha did not know any one bad been tert on the barge all night. Ha atarted at onca lor tha point of the ialand, three mliea away, to look over tha altuatlon. Tha Wadena lay halt a mile off ahore from tha point. She seemed to be riding easily on the bar, but tha distress was e flying from bar rigging. This was signal could not ignore. It was a terrtfle puU ihrouah thraWkrt that r.:Ttn across the shoals to the Wadena, but tha accomplished it and put their boat under tba lea of the barge at about noon. Keeper Eldrldge then directed the men to get Into the eurfboat and told tbm that ha would take them aabore. The rail of the big barge was k doxen leet-fro- m the water and It was here that the trouble began. The men on the barge lowered tbemaelvea over-tidon a rope, but as Captain Olaen, a very large man, waa halfway down, ha loat his hold and fell an tba aecond thwart of tba Ufaboat, breaking It, and making It Impossible tor tba rowers to aae It. In addition, the boat was crowded, and the wind, which had been momentarily Increasing, waa tumbling huge combers Into the windward of the barge. It was Into this maelstrom of breakers that It was necessary for the handistation to pull capped crew of thd tbelr overloaded boat, and they made a swift and able attempt to accomplish It. At the Instant the starboard oarsmen were twinging the bead of tba itie.boat to meet the sea, a giant comber lirted under the quarter and dashed a barrel of water overside. That waa the signal for a panic among tbe rescued men that, before It subsided, cost twelve live. v Tbe Portuguese wreckers. In a freizy of fear, stood up In the boat, jrecktng It to and fro In their endeavors to- escape the momentary Inrush of water, and though the fought to lores them Into tbe bottom of tbe craft, tnla could not be done before the next shouldering wave caught tbe bow of the boat, awung ber broadside and turned ber over. Then ensued desperate struggle for life. A hundred yards to leeward the breakers were smashing themselves Into white foam on tbe bar. There was Just one chance In a million Abat tbe boat could be righted before tbe sea carried ber Into them. Once she reached them tt would be all over. Hampered by the wreckers, tbe life- savers fought deaperateljT In those few minutes left before tbe combers should bo reached.. Three timea they lighted tbe host and strove heroically to ball her, but each time she was again overturned. ' They were fighting tbe last tragic tight when they were swept Into the smothering foam of the bar. At that Instant seven men, including all from the Wadena, went to face their maker.' Five of still clung to the tbe hardleet of the eapatsed boat. They were Keeper Eldrldge and. Surfmen Dlls, Kendrick, Foye and Rogers. By a superhuman effort Kendrick crawled to the bottom of tbe overturned' craft, but tbe next aen swept him to Join tha seven who had gone a moGood-by- , ment before. Foy was tha next, boys," he gasped as a smother of foam took him. That left Ellis, Rogers and Eldrldge the keeper, and Eldrldge was fast losing strength. In a brief lull in the wash of the sea, Ellis crawled to the bottom of the boat. Below him, a foot away, waa the keeper, a friend since boyhood. At the risk of his own life, Ellis dropped Into the water again, puahed Eldrldge up on the bottom with his last strength, and again crawled out himself. The next second n sea washed both eff and tber keeper, after loalng end regaining hie . find-tha- ( two-fifth- $193.-001.52- 0 $118,-600.00- CSSIT g Eld-rldg- life-save- ' e - a life-save- , I ' fn t. If v$ It Is reported from the Home Run property near Pioche that the ninety-foo- t level bag made connection with the ore shoot found on the forty-foo- t level. The vein lu places Is said to be ten feet wide. Business on the Salt Lake mining exchange for July --amounted to 92o 268 shares, valued at $197,270.27. The ;otal for the preceding month was 811,-50- 4 shares, valued at $172,461.08, showing a gain In July of nearly $25,000. Ore running as high as $300 to $400 a ton was recently struck on the 1,000,-folevel of the Seven Troughs Coalition, according to L. A. Friedman, president oLthe cofnpany. It Js thought that this is the same vein opened 200 feet above. Thomas H. Ball, owner of $10,000 worth of bonds of the La France Copper company, has filed suit at Philadelphia asking an Injunction to restrain the reorganization of the company, as It Is being carried out by the United Copper company. It is reported that a corps of surveyor 4a running lines overthe South Fork In Big Cottonwood with the Idea of putting In another long drain tunnel to tap important properties not only on the Cottonwood side, but over in the Alta district aa well. Alta Consolidated has five c&rolads of ore between the mine and tbe sampler. This consignment wtlfaggegate 60 .to 300 tons. This Is principally tbe carbonate ores which do not run aa high aa thqt rich sulphides shipped early In the summer, but will bring about $35 a ton. New developments at, the Bluster in Jarbldge are very satisfactory, according to two of the largest owners, who were In Salt Lake last week. The upper adit is now 300 feet In the vein. Crosscuts have explored It 240 feet north and 140 feet south. The ore runs from $7 to $78 a ton. Articles of incorporation of the Bull Valley Gold Mines company have been filed. The property le located . In Washington county, Utah. Some rich gold float and samples from a ledge have been brought to Salt Lake. Picked samples are said to have run 3.5 ounces silver and $102 in gold. While up Big Cottonwood last week, looking over the property of the Vio tory Lode Mining company, F. R. Sands, a mining man connected with the Bingham Mines company, was lowshaft near ered into an old thirty-foo- t the top of the hill and discovered a lead which was unknown to the ot grasp on tbe gunwale several times, disappeared In tbe maelstrom of water. That left Ellis kbd Rogers, a big and very strong man. In this desperate moment Rogers threw his arm around the other aurfmana neck In a death-griFor momenta, while the sea battered and foam the strangled them, they fought the last hi grim fight lor life, Ellis to break the grip of frenxled comrade, Rogers to retain It. Suddenly, when It seemed that both muat drown, Roger strength left him. Hla arm relaxed; his eye glazed. "I'm going! he gasped and sank. A moment later tbe boat drifted Inshore of the outer breakers and for a brief space waa la smoother water. Ellla once more crawled out on tbe bottom and succeeded In pulling tbe center-boarout ao that he could hold on to It and better maintain his position. Now, you will remember that at the tlm of tba stranding of tha Wadena, tha John C. Fitzpatrick, her slater barge had also gone aground. had none everth outer bar and waa lying between It and tbe Inner breakers. On board ber waa Capt. Elmer F. Mayo, of Chatham, who waa In charge of lightening her. The Fitzpatrick was so far away from the Wadena that Captain Mayo, and two other men who were with him, did not see the boat go out, nor did they have any knowledge of the grim tragedy that was being enacted, until, glancing over the rail. Captain with n single Mayo saw an overturned man clinging to It. The capsized boat waa some distance from tbe barge, but Mayo did not hesitate. - HI get that fellow, he announced coolly. small OtuYh deck of the - FUptrlcklay twelve-foo- t dory, the only boat aboard, n totally unfit craft for tbe furious sea that was thundering across tbe shoals. Kicking off hla boots, Mayo and tbe other men, who begged him not to go aa It would be certain death, ran tbe dory overside. How tbe captain of tbe wrecking crew kept bis fragile craft afloat, those who watched him from the Fitzpatrick could never understand. But he did keep her afloat, and the set of the tide and the gale carried him down toward the capsized life-boto which Ellis clung now with the last of hi ebbing strength. said afterward that he saw a The dory thrown over the aide of the Fitzpatrick aa he drifted near her, but that a moment later the scud and the spindrift were driven so thick and ceaselessly before his eyes that he taw nothing, until suddenly out of tbe mist a tiny, bobbing boat loomed a dozen feet away. Then tbe occupant of this boat shot her skilfully alongside tbe and tbe exhausted surfman topswamped pled Into her. - Mayo. wtth thehatf-consctou- s Itfe saver lying limp In tbe bottom of the dory, had kept hla word to bis mates on the Fltxpatrick. Necessarily, the most thrilling stories of the are those. In which loss of life Is entailed and therefor, in a measure, they are accounts of the failures of the men of the Service. But they are stories of noble failures and behind tome of them He tragedies other than those of death. Perhaps one of the greatest of these Is woven about the career of Captain David H. Atkins, until November 30. 1880, keeper of the Peaked Hill Bar station. Cape Cod. This man had followed the sea from boy hood, whaling, fishing and coasting In 1S72 he became keeper of the Peaked Hill Bar station. Then came a wild day In April, 1879, and, as It appear In the chronicles of the department at Washington, a blot fell across the record of Keeper Atkins. On thia April day the Schooner Sarah J. Fort stranded near Peaked Hill Bar. A terrific sea, coupled with an onshore hurricane and a temperature very low for the time 6f he. year, faced Atkins and hi crew as they discovered tbe schooner and took thel( apparatus to the beach. Without hesitation the keeper ordered the surf-bolaunched, but the sea wa so heavy that It waa thrown back on the' beach. Time and again In tha twenty hour of watching and battling with the storm that followed the keeper led1 his men lntp the breaker with the, boat, but each-tithey were beaten back, drenched with the winter k d llfe-aavtn- Ufe-bo- life-sav- Ufe-bo- coast-watcher- s me Point to Hidden Kidney Trouble. Have you a lame back, ach-ln- g day and night? Do you feel a sharp pain after Lending over? When the kidneys teem sore and the action. Irregular, Doans Kidney Pills, which have cured thousands. JThe copper production for the first half or 1912 Is given aa' 814.921.981 HEROIC BATTLES OF THE life-samn- Sharp Pains In the BacK treated 10,877 tons of ore during the first half of jr H CUSHING mo&wv MINES AND MINING Mason Valley smelter PERCY , - sea which froze In their clothing, cut and bruised from tha buffeting they received. And then," ay the Service Report of the occurrence, the last time the launch waa attempted the boat was hurled high on the ahore, her crew were spilled out like matches from the box and the boat vu shattered. And Captain Atkins and hla men, baring eaten nothing since The evenbad been bafing before, spent, faint, heart-sick- , fled and had to endure the mortification of teen volunteer ing a rescut effected by an crew in a fresh boat brought from the town. The investigation revealed that the men upon the wreck might have been properly landed by the s but lor Keeper Atkina failure to employ tbe Lyle gun which had recently been furnished the station, through a singular inapprehension of life-line- Ita power. It waa bitter ptU foy tbe service the defeat o Ita met by a volunteer crew. The night 4 November 30, 1880, was clear but windy. A hstvy gale waa piling the surf over tbe outer bar off tbe Peaked H1U Bar station. Surfmen F)$w and Kelley left the station nt four oclock tc rats the eastward and westward patrol, telley started from the door first Aa he did so be, heard the slatting of sails and the banging ot blocks above the wind. At the westward he nnr the lights of a vessel close Inshore. Shouting to Fisher to give the alarm, be ran down the teach, burning hla Coaton light Keeper Atkina (lanced at the surf and brdered out the boat The men dragged It eastward until they were apposite the stranded vessel, which proved to la the sloop C. EL Trumbull of Rock-poThe craw manned the boat Tbe story of what took place out there under tbe darknee on Keeper Atkina last errand of rescue la but .told, perhaps. In the personal aocount of IsakhToung.-eneof-thsurvivors.' The narrative of this man. In hla own words. Is taken from tbe Lift Saving Report of 1881. It reads: When w launched, the vessel waa still soma to tba eastward. . We went off In this manner to take advantage of the tide that was running, to the eastward between the bar and the shore. It was low tide. The sea was smooth on tbe shore, but on the bar, where the vessel lay. It rt - e was rough enough to be dangerous. We hauled up from the boat until the bow lapped on to her quarter. Keeper Atkins called to them to Jump In. "We landed four person. This trip could not have consumed more than fifteen minutes. "When we pulled up again, after being thrown back, Taylor stood In the bow with the Une ready to heave. I cautioned Keeper Atkins to have a care for the boom.. He said, Be ready with the ; I waa I will look out for the boom. just taking up tbe book when a sea came around the stem, threw the stern of the boat more toward tbe boom an tbe vessel rolled to leeward and The boom went Into the water. "As the vessel rolled to windward and the boom rose It caught under the cork belt near the stroke rowlock and threw ha over, bottom up. We rolled the boat over, right aide up, and 1 was the first to' get Into ber. Others got in; 1 am not positlv how many. She did not keep right tide up more than two minutes when a sea rolled us over again. We got on again andwer washed off two or three timea before I struck out for tbe shore. I asked Mayo to strike with me, as I knew him to be an excellent awlmmer; but he said that we could not hold out to reach tbe shore and he would atay by the boat. Keeper Atkins was holding by the boat "Kelley had already utruck out I heard Taylot groan near me as I started, but did not see him I saw a gap in the beach which must have been Clara Hell Hollow, two mile from Station No. 7. When about three seas from the. shore my sight began to fall and soon I could aee nothing; but I kept swimming. , "I recollect Surfman Cole aaylng. For Gode sake, Isaiah, Is thfo yonf and up. 1 knew nothing more until I found myself I ehpuld In the station, after being resuscitated. think that I remained by the boat half an hour before I struck out. The cork belt waa all that enabled me to reach the shore. The cork belts In the boat are a be kept good thing and should v on." Thus Keeper Atkins died with Ills boots on, as he said he would die tf neceasary, in the performance of his duty boat-book- ' According to S. H..Treloar, general manager of the Utah Metal company one of the drifts from the 11,000-fotunnel should reach the Mountalr Mayd-veiwithin the next feV weeks. This work Is some distance under the old tunnel, and the country le of great promise. The bjg tunnel should be finished this fall. News has been received of a very important gold strike which was made about throe weeks ago In the Hum boldt range, about eight miles from Rye Patch, says the Winnemucca Star. The dlscovery was made by a Swede prospector. The ledge la about two feet wide and marvelously rich ore is being talen from the prospect shaft which Is beihg sunk. The Antelope district, in Nye county, Nevada, which takes Ita name from xn important group of springs, ts about thirty mile east of Goldfield, In the southern part of the Cactus mountains, one of the desert ranges, between 6,000 and 7,000 feet In elevation. It Is connected with Goldfield by good wagon, automobile and stages lines. Gold was discovered bereMn 1903. The decrease in the production of bituminous copl in the United States in 19ir compared with 1910 was 11,. 386,901 tons, but this loss was largely made, up by the Increase In the production of anthracite, which was 5,978,831' short tons greater than in n , use A Colorado Case John T. Scantling Trinidad. Colo., says. "I wa confined to bed so help-le- u I had to be led. Nothing helped me until I used Doan' Kidney Pills, and they did me a world of good I have never missed a day's work aince. Get Doan's at any Drug Store, 53c. a Box Doans TUflUDenil' imuuo. cu4or inumrnuno t dust. cve Tv A I S If wind booklet fr bit UflTCD wax k 1 UOTPtOS MM MO. drift near the collar of the winze.' ' Troy, N. V. A Bad Break. Slashes Been In a fight? Masher No. I tried lrett suffragette. Judge. with a Paxtine AntlBeptlc'sprayed lno the nasal passages is a surprisingly successful remedy for catarrh. At druggists, 25c a box or sent postpaid on of price by The Paxton Toilet Co., Boston, Mass. pt No Danger. "Do you believe we are In any danger of losing our birthright ?" "Not a bit that Is, those of us who are doomed to always wotk for what we get are not. to Mothers Important Examine carelully every bottle of CASTOR1A, a safe and sure? remedy fov Infants and children, and aee that it Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletchers Castoria Their Feeling. Well, old sport, how do you feel?. Ive Just eaten a bowl of ox tail soup and feel bully. Tve just eaten a plate of hash and New Orleans feel like everything. ' Tlmes-Democra- By Experiment.-Wh- at waa your little boy crying about last evening? "Over hla lesson A child of that In natural history. age studying natural history? You astonish me! Its so, Just the same. He was learning the difference between a wasp and a fly. Wa Right "Exelamatory Mrs. Mason's colored washerwoman, s Martha, was complaining of ber health. asked Why, is he sick, Martha? Mrs. Mason. hue-band'- Has vey poly, maam, poly, an- swered the woman. Hes got the exclamatory rheumatism. You mean Inflammatory, Martha, said the patron. "Exclamatory means to cry out Yes, maam," replied Martha, with conviction ; "dats what It is. He hollers all the time. Judge. Works In the Garden Now. Grown old In the service of hia master and mistress, James was a privileged retainer. He was waiting at table one day, when a guest politely asked for a fish fork. Strangely enough, the request was ignored. Then the hostess noticed the episode and remarked In a most peremptory manner: James, Mrs. Jones hasn't a fish fork. Get her one at once! Madam, came the emphatic reply, last time Mrs. Jones dined phere we lost a fish fork." James had now been relegated to the garden. ... To The Last Mouthful one enjoys a crisp, delightful' bowl of Post Toasties with fruit cream or or both. stewed Some people make- - an entire breakfast out of this combination. Try hi" , u wi. 1910. Cardiff. In Big Cottonwood canyon, near Salt Lake, Is now shipping forty tons of ore a week The to lorty-flv- e are averages around $50 a ton. This $.000 weekly production, or $5,000 a month, la from a atop In tbe south KflT The Memory Lingers Sold by Groces! Pee Cnl Cm Bud Cr- -i. Mick. U. 5. A. r- - 1 |