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MINES AND MINING mclud'ng a Frick, the steel magnate, are comim-.ng the extensive devel 'pm-n- t Uf hydrocarbon properties in the vuinity of Myton and Duchesne, Ctali The Alta Oxford company, a new torpoiatiun recent l lotmed at Sandy, I tab by a number ot influential citizens has let a conn act in the Alta district lor fifty leet of tunnel in a piouusing. property The Yelk w Jacket, on Yellow Jack et creek. 16 miles from Forney, Idaho, which has lain dormant for the pa-- t A 15 years, ii again iu commission new bunkhouae and vher buildings have been completed, and the mine has been A the National message trom camp in Nevada is to the effect that the otbeiais of the National company, on whose ground the wonderful Stall Bros.' base is located have purchased the lease from the owners, and that possession has been taken The Snowshde and Haidscrubhle claims, situated nt at the l'lttsbiirg-fdahin the (lilmote district began shipments las week, by wagon route, ho smelioi at Hahn to the ore, whcii is bad silver, b) loute, is good for about 30b per ton A. W Silas, a wealthy Chicago mining man, who holds a bond and lease on the Desert Mountain Minins & Development company properties, m the Dugway district, near Deep Creek, has arrived in Salt Lake . to spend some time at P'ttsliurg capltahsttr sou ut H , HE lure of altitude seem t u h a v e caught at the ajilrlt of mao to lead blui struggling up alnioat i unscalable peak from earliest times However, It may be aald that only with In the IhhI half celt tury hn the f ts Inu of mountain tioii one tli elliiilililK romance of giotttu Si J lhy, darlim eciu lists have rori'ii. more mountains in that poiiod thati durlr, any other time In their aearoh fur geological data, and many live have been aarrl flood at the shrlno of by her devotees while pitting wk.Il and strength against enduring nature. Soon little waa left to learn to this field !u Kuroie, ho these In trepld mountaineers, ever struggling to reach the top of the world, turned their eyes toward Asia, Africa and America, seeking other dlfflcultle to wtroine afid bailing with Joy any word of the discovery of a new glgan tic elevation In the western world watt found a fertile field for their ef turta. Ten thouaand mile of mountain. from the Circle to the Horn, with peak piercing the aklea from the waow lands of Alaska, aslant America, through the tropical table lauds of Bruadrr to the wilds of Patagonia. The elevations of the southern half of this range that have since held the taberest of scientist and traveler alike, were almost unknown and unnamed, and South America Jo the Alpine mountain climber waa terra iucognlto A dim Indeed. knowledge of the .mountain majesty of the northern 1 ls-ml- rlt-iie- w-mu- the-mine- ts Salt Lakers returning from the various mining camps and business centers of the state of Nevada agree that there never has been a time in the resurrection period of the past lew years when the opportunity for making money was more favorable than right now. Opening of a copper mine which 1 romises to rival the big ones of Bingham and Ely is reported from Cave valley, Lincoln county, Nevada, where a vein thirty leet wide is said to be filled with ore which averages 3 per cent copper, 7 ounces silver and 70 cents in gold The Duluth & lmhi Mining company, owning fifteen claims adjoining the Dark Horse mine In Lemhi district, Idaho, have just struck a fini rock, two feet body of wide on the foot wall of an eight foot vein. Assays run from 325 to 375 In gold to the ton. With the expiration of the agreement between the Wyoming coal mine operators and the coal miners on August 30r a number of the Salt Lake coal dealers are anticipating An increase In the price of coal in Salt Lake the coming winter, especially ot the Wyoming product. The Argentic mines of the Wood River district, according to advices from Hailey, Idaho, have been taken over by a syndicate formed by Joseph Swift and W. D.' Bohm of Salt Lake, who are installing machinery preparatory to prosecuting an extensive campaign of systematic development. The mines of the Chino Copper company are located at Santa Rita, N. M . Vcoppercamprpure and simple; and the ftjctj'iat theThino company h:vi blocked out at this time praPtTc&lly 5 20,000,000 tons of ore averaging 2 it thai evidence is cent copper per will be VTiTg c'aniffTdF' Soinr Time tor come. situation .Trom AMewtng- - the ntetal of the prospective the standpoint growth of pioduciion and George L. Walkpr. the Boston Commercials ropper expert, believe firmly that copper is selling lower now than it ever will again while the of the world continues to increase. It Is understood that the Cnited States Smelting, Refining & Mining company is meeting with splendid success in the opetatfon of Its Huff plant at zinc concentiatiug Midvale, I'tah, the daily capacity of which Is approximately fifty tons. The capacity of the plant is to be increased, It is said. At a meeting of the Utah branch of the American mining congress, held In Salt Lake City, it was unanimously voted that an attempt would be made to secure a delegation of at least 100 people to go to the annual convention Tit the congress, which wHL be bl4 4a lots Angeles, September 26 to October 1. The Utah delegation will probably go in a special train. f of the ore of tho Fully Santa Rita mines of New Mexico is proto be won by the steam-shove- l cess. A rail line ts now being constructed for the first steam shovel, which is to begin by stripping the mine overburden from the Chino proper, when the ore will be extracted with the shovel ,and sent by steam railway to the concentrator, nine miles away. The old Copperton mill at Bingham, Utah, is to be moved over to Goldfield. The old .mill was, The. oteth;U. paved the way for the big plants now In Stranger I suppose you peepla In this town think you have the grandest climate in the country? Man With a Cold No; but we claim the greatest variety. HOW A DOCTOR CURED SCALP DISEASE "When 1 was ten or twelve years I had a scalp disease, something like scald head, though It wasnt that. I suffered for several months, and most of my hair came out Finally they had a doctor to see me and he recommended the Cutlcura Remedies. 1 They cured me- - In a few weeks. have used the Cutlcura Remedies, also, for a breaking out on my bands and was benefited a great deal. I havent had any more trouble w ith the scalp Miss Jessie F. Buchanan, disease. RTF. D. 3, Hamilton, Ga Jan. 7, 1909 " old Kept with Barnum'a Circus. famous circus I have bad the man, once wrote; Cutlcura Remedies among the contents of my medicine chest with wf shows for the last three seasons, and I can cheerfully certify that they were very effective In every case which called foe their use." P. T. Barnum, the The man whose bluff ts not sometimes called never existed. od nwnlM Dr PlrrooH PlMaaat iiomacb, IWer and boweia. ftufar-coatA- orat (rtaulas, easy to take aacendf. The days are not mere repetitions of themselves; tomorrow will have a better meaning. T. T. Munger, D D. gold-hearin- Orizaba Tl ology. l sacred mountain .in Aztec myth-genruns that Quetzalcoatl, "God of the Air,' nd Indeed the great prophet and most impor d figure of the Toltec religion, cor- responding i Confucius In China, Mahomet In India, and shorn the Messiah myth was also Coatzacoalcos and his body was current. dl brought to taba. His royal remains were consumed by 4 vine fire and hia spirit flaw heavenward undet a form of a beautiful peacock. txtacclbiatfl the ruin of a volcano, might be known a IheUespalr of the American school teacher, bscausl of Its seemingly unpronounceable hams Hotover. "white woman," for that Is what th wordVneans In the Aztec tongue, is simple ef itying, tod If one pronounces Ixtacci-huat- l it will as If It werevrltten be close enough in tVw of our meager knowledge t 'Ct I of this ancient ldloi This maantaln Is Ip, 200 feet high with a snow line 4,340 feet, and Cortez was the first Euroto the he valley pean.. tO CrtS ,Jt ,.w hen passed of Mexico an htj camn&lgn of conquest. A Ger- man named SonneschmUt dominated It In 1 72, while almost a century Uter. in 1833. a party of French engineers scaled Its sloping sides And now we coine to that Vesuvius bUXiner the mountain of Bmoke," for lea, Pepocatapetl, word he the such Itr the significance ef the Axtecs. - It rises In glorious elevation 17,794 feet, above the sc, and although some 30 miles from the City of Mexico seems to stand atj of Ttolf writings This range Tiad coine to tfcem through the of the early explorers. MacKenzte's voyage, the tales of Bering's travels and the sto-- r of Cooks voyages In the Pacific ocean corn tabled referencea to high mountains often seen from their ships; but It would seem that Mount McKinley, the highest peak of the range of the Sockles, received little notice from early explorers, although In favorable weather it can be seen tor a distance of 150 miles, a great white mass that dwarfs the rnany hills surrounding It. In fact. In 1S97. when Mr. W A. Dickey, who had laacendcd the Susltanl river and had located and mimed Meant McKinley, upon returning to civilisation described his discovery, his story was not Relieved, and the whole account of his trip was treated as a traveler's tale. However, there Is reason to believe that Vancouver saw this moun tala In 1793, and It was lung known lo the natives f the vicinity as Traleika. a word which means "Great mountain, and when the Russians owned Alaska they called it "Bulshala." a word of the iasonr significance. Even before Mr Dickey rails attest ton to It and named It Mount McKInle ft prospectors of the Yukon knew It as Fran Dens snore's cnp Mr. Dickey's estimate of l height, - 80,000 feet, is Interesting In view of the fact that subsequent measurement showed "ml- he was en!y S00 feet out of the way In v guess. The Tlgures now given by the geolcSf.cal survey, ob stabied by taking the mean of twenty measu. meat, arrived at by trlangulatlon. place the height as 20,300 This great mountain defied all lattempts to dominate Its peak until ne early swprlng of 1910, when an expedition under Thomas lldiyd made, a dash fer the top and after weeks of naresBant toll reached their goal. Mttnjit Falrweather, the most Imposing peak 'rising Push from th sea level, was so namml by Oook In 1T78 Thr are no records that it has wer climbed, although Jts altitude. 15.202 feet, would not Indicate that the ascent VtoSrfrtffl, cult. More Interesting than Falrweather Is Mount St Ellas, a peak Erst seen by Bering In 1741. and TV ?5 Avname because 1M ilai .of dlscoicrs. w as -- arrd to St Ellas Its height was for years a xnktter of acrimonious dispute among scientists. ! the beginning of the lat century M. Degelat. Trench explorer, by measuring the reciprocal distances of adjacent mountains and taking tbelr relative anglea with his sextant determined Its Height as 12.S72 feet above seaTevel and Its location as e'ght leagues from the coast liter. Mala--splngave the figures of elevation as 17.800 feet, but now tha figures arrived at by the geological wurvey give the altitude as 18.024 feet. In 1886 sf4ec tenant Sch waits or The United States army imada an attempt te ascend Mount St. Ellas. He followed by Mr. Toppam' In 1888. while piv -- - -- bt-e- a fessor Russell made two attempts In 1890 and latter effort failed by a very small margin. The honor of conquering this giant HyJtL,),',ttas reserved .for he duke ofthe of Abruzi, who solved this stubborn geology In 1897, while he was making one of his vo) ages In search of the farthest north. We will leave the great peaks of Alaska and consider the mountains of the Pacific slope In the Irllev, States prowr. Mounts Whitney, Shasta Hood and Rainier early caught iho eye of the alpinists of our country, and the account .of the Climbs of Clarence King In California Is a most luteresting and story of the first gem logical exploration of the Sierras;- - Sierra ts the Spanish word that signifies a mountain range. It also means ""saw" In the Castilian tongue, and was applied certain geological formations he cause of Mie fancied resemblance of their, outlines to that of this carpenter's tool. 7n the Sierra Nevada mountains the most prominent peak Is Mount Tyndall, named In honor of the famous English scientls. This peak Is especially notable as I ring theobject of one of the most reinarkak.e elites fn the history of mountain rlrnr when It was ascended by Clar enee Klnr He was at that time a member of the Caliiornla state geological survey and hat bei sent out with others hy Prof. Joslah Dwight WMtnev to make geological Investigations This climb was not as remarkable In point of alt'tiiife (for the mountain Is but 14,386 feet In height) as In the matter of difficulties overcome and because of the curious aids used, a lawso and a bow to knife, which are probably unique In the annals of alpinism There are higher summits than Tyndall In the western states. Mount Whitney, named in honor of Prof. J D Whltnev. Is perhaps the highest peak in the 1'nlted States proper, being 14.562 feet above the level of the sea. This height was lly Ih't1 sale, Lucas and Johnson In T8.X Mount Shasta, Its name being derived from the Indian trifle Baste or ShasUU. with Its snow and silver crown shining In the clouds, la, perhaps flue iit the moat hcantlful poaks-o- f our country. In Mexico, a land that might be called the mother of volcanoes. - we find three majestic mountains of Interest, both because of altitude and hlstcry. Orizaba, of almost perfect geometric form, known to the Indiana as "Citlaltepetl" (Mountain of the Star), rises over 18,000 feet a beautiful cone. The honor of being the first up this glorious peak belongs to an American William F. Reynolds, second lieutenant of engineers, who was attached to Scot t 'a arrny ln 1848. One Maynards accompanied him. and the party la supposed to have Included several soldiers. 1891, aud In the J ' well-writte- it that both Popocatapetl and Ixtacclhuatl were thrown up from the plain after a violent earthquake and have attained their present heights by the gradual piling up of lava and rocks after various eruptions. The last of these disturbances occurred la 1802. - To whom the honor of first surmounting belongs la difficult to determine, but a distinguished congressman of the Cnited States, lion. William Sulzer, recently conquered the mountain of smoke. South of the Isthmus are situated the moun tain monarch of the western world, and It is only within forty years that these geological problems have received the attention of adventurous scientists, although Humboldt made explorations and ascents In South America as early as 1802. lie it was who attempted to scale Chimborazo, the white watcher. of he western , seas." but failed to g beyond. J9.600feet a most netable achievement, however, under the circumstances. The glory of Its couqueRt belongs to that .master of the MatterhOrn, Edward Whymper. who sides' to fought his way up the rugged, snow-clathe top, 20,498 feet above the broad Pacific Vhe great mountains Antlsana and Oayamba. heth over- - 19,000 feet elevation, also succumbed to the untiring Whymper, and the record of his deeds of dsager climbing in the equatorial Andes Is a classic of The annals of geological exploration After these colossi of the Cordilleras had be-conquered, the eyes of the alpinists turned southward, where still more lofty peaks of undetermined heights were knewn to exist In the . great tableland of Chile stood cloud-cresteTupun-gato- , while to the skies, rising grandly Illimani, and Sorata still defied the most determined to surmount their topmosf helghts" Aeanragua. the highest of the Andean peaks a --prize to i23,oso feet), waa the first to fait daring for .Mr, E.. A. Fitzgerald- - The English geologist, fitted out an expedition In 1S97. and although personally compelled by sickness to ahaodon hla attempt to reach the summit when withia a short distance of realizing his ambition, one of bis companions, Burbriggen, the guide, went to the very apex, and later Mr. S. Vines and Santl Nicola, members of thi Fitzgerald expedition, also arrived at the top. lter. In 1898. Sir Martin Conway, another Intrepid English alpinist, made the ascent of Mount Acahca-gua- , and placed the peak Illimani to his credit. Conway was not, however, content" with this hut pushed on to place Mount Sorato on his roll of first ascent. Acan-cagua- af -- lime-whit- rsentlnel' xrttBvcry gates - Indian tradition has rtft-bers.-- . vlc-tor- imp-ulatio- Depend not on another, rather lean upon thyself; trust to thine own exertions, subjectlog to another's will gives pain. Manu. Partly Made Over. Werent we engaged last summer? Inquired the girl. Your face is familiar, faltered the man. Well, I'll forgive you for not recognizing me. My hair and figure are new. A Busy Life. A dispatch from the penitentiary says the convicts have struck and refuse to work unless they Sub-Edito- r can have pie twice a day. Great Editor (busily) Counsel moderation and arbitration. New York Weekly. Slightly Confuse d. All of us become confused and all of ns mix our language sometimes, but Jie ...preparation of an old negro preachers sermon was the greatest confusion of metaphors I ever beard, says a traveler. When the lengthy discourse was nearing its close and he and had reached his Twenty-thirlastly, brethren, " he wound up by the following elaborate figure: Everywha, bredren, we see de Almighty all down de untrodden paths of time, we see de footprints of de Almighty hand. Human Life. FRILLS Food Cured Him. NO Just Sensible elee-tristatl- c one-hal- Sat l,ake valley The sentiment seems to be thaf un le.s the Columbus Consolidated company keep a sharp lookout, its distinction of beinsr the first ore shipper of the Alta, Utah, camp will be taken from It by the Columbus Extension company, one of the youngsters of the district. It is understool that the engineers in charge of the Mason Valley smelter draw ings for plans have completed the main offtee building, for the carpenter and machine shbps. ore bins and several other structures needed Sometimes a good, healthy commercial traveler suffers from poorly selected food and Is lucky if be learns that Grape-Nutfood will put him a right A Cincinnati traveler says: About a year ago ray stomach got In a bad I bad a headache most of the way. time and suffered misery. For several months I ran down until I lost about Q pounds In weight and finally had to give up a good position and go home. Any food that I might use seemed to nauseate me. "My wife, hardly knowing what to do, one day brought home a package of jGrape-Xut- s food and coaxed me to try It. I told her it was no use but finally to humor her I tried a little, and they just struck my taste. It was the first food I had eaten in nearly a year that did not cause any suffering. "Well, to make a long story short, I began to improve and stuck to Grape-NutI went up from 135 pounds In December to 194 pounds theTollowlng. October. "My brain Is clear, blood all right and appetite too much for any mans pocketbook. In fact, I am thoroughly made over, and owe It all to Grape-NutT talk so touch shout what Grape-Nut- s will do that some of the men on the road have nicknamed mo Grape-Nutbut I stand today a man a pretty healthy, good example of what the right kind of food will do., You can publish tilia If you want to. It is a true statement without any frills. Read the little- book, The Road to WellvllleJ In pkgs. There's a Reason. Ethiml the lkor letter? 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