Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, March 16, 1923, Page 2

For Springtime Dress Making VOILES WHITE GOODS GINGHAMS PERCALES NEW TISSUE GINGHAM RATINE ORGANDIB SILKS Ladies’ Hose SPECIAL---25c J. V. BAKER & SON Where Quality and Prices Meet WOMEN IN RUSH TO GOLD FIELDS Elbow Men in Scramble for Lo- cations in Oatman District in Arizona. BLOOM NOT OFF FIRST RUSH Soldiers of Fortune, Young and Old, Flock From Ali Sections of the World—Old Mine Resumes in Search for Wealth. Phoenix, Ariz.—Soldiers of fortune— young and old, both men and women ire still flocking to Oatman, in Mohave county, to prospect for gold, and many »f them are finding it, The Oatman fold fields are the most active on the North American continent and the oloom is not yet off the first rush, Weather-beaten adventurers who got the word while digging away in far- away parts of the world like Africa are arriving with all the enthusiasm of their first hunt. The old Goldroad mine at Oatman has resumed, and to those who know about gold mining that news carries significance. It means a permanent camp In all Hkelihood and development akin to that of the gold fields of Ne- vada. The United Eastern Mining com- pany is cutting a drill station on the tenth level (1,300 feet) and at the breast of the 1,000-foot crosscut into the hanging wall. The drill will be pushed down an angle 2,000 feet, it be- ing intended to cut the known big vein at a depth of 2,600 or 2,700 feet below the apex. That {s one of the biggest operations going on at Oatman, one that may mean millions. Work on Big Scale. The Lucky Boy Mining and Milling company has started another hole on its property which is expected to strike a vein at 600 feet. The Lucky Boy is financed in New York and its campaign is on a big scale. The Bonanza Placer company has run across a silver ledge paying $50 to the ton and work has been begun to take out the profit. The Frisco mine is pushing Its drilling, with pay in hand and more In sight. Other companies, big and little, are scratching and gnawing at the earth in all directions. Not far from Oatman work is going forward evenly at Min- eral Park in the turquolse mines, among the largest in America, owned by the Tiffanys of New York. which . first led adventurers up into tne region from Mexico as far back as 1530. It is history that at that date several hun dred Spaniards and 14,000 Indians left Mexico City to find the precious treas- ures of the Seven Cities of Cibola, in the present state of Arizona, and that from 1530 to 1539 Cortez sent four ex- peditions up from Mexico, one of which he headed himself. Friar Marco de Niza it was who brought back to the Spaniards the wondrous tales of the Cibola villages where “they use vessels of gold and silver, for they have no other metal.” But the present prospectors at Oat- man are all of the sort of folk who never look back, They live romance in- stead of reading it; their lives are filled with the adventure of pioneering, unchanged from the days of Cortez ex- cept for modern settings. There's still danger enough to make it attractive, what with dynamite and moonshine whisky and the age-old impulses that follow in the train of sudden wealth, Named After Early Settler, Oatman was named after Royce Oat- man, a settler, who came with his family from Missouri in 1851 and lo- jcated at Oatman Flat. The parents were killed by Indians and two daugh- ters, Mary Ann and Olive, seven and sixteen years old, were carried off as slaves. Mary died after having been traded to several tribes, but Olive sur- vived and was recovered by American troops five years later. She was sent Hast to be educated and returned to | Arizona, where she lived to a ripe old age and was a leader In social affairs. | However, she always wore a veil in ‘public, for the Indians had tattooed (their tribal insignia on her chin and lower jaw. Gold was discovered in Oatman by , United States soldiers in 1865, Johnny |Moss made the first big strike. The gold hunters of California heard of tt, jand soon George Hearst, father, of bees Randolph Hearst; Levi Par- sons, Joe Clark and other notable fig- ures came oyer and started a prospect- ing syndicate. Many a fortune was taken out of the earth in the yeers that followed. But the real Oatman boom began with the finding of a fabulously jrich ledge by the United tern in 1914, which shows no signs of ending. Subway passengers are familiar with the signs “Threecar stop” or “Four-car stop,” displayed at stations for the guidance of motormen, but few know similar signs are used at some of the big North river piers for the aid of pilots docking liners. At Pier 59, a White Star pier, signs bear- ing the names of vessels that dock there have been placed along the su- perstructure. The pilots bring their vessels into the pier with the bridge flush with the sign beuring the naine af the ship.—New York Sun, REALLY ARE “GOOD” INDIANS! Stories of the Ojibways Held to Prove That Old Gibe Ought to Be Revised. The old gibe that “the only good In- dian is a dead Indian” is disproved by more than one fact. Government pub- lications, for instance, declare that the Seminoles are “good Inc 8." Fre quently in troubled times on the fron- tier friendly Indians warned settlers of impending trouble or sheltered them until the emergency passed, writes Alice L, Pearson in the Christian Her- ald. Many stories of the Ojibways show | that numerous individuals deserved to | be classed as “good.” The following incident in the experience of a gov- ernment surveyor suggests that “good- | ness” is not the exclus on | of the white man, While the sur veying party was in the fleld one of the chainmen became fll. It became to send to a neighboring In- ency for some one who could speak English to take the place of the | sick man: After working a few days, | the young Indian who was chosen for this purpose went to his employer and asked for release, ‘The surveyor, re- | luctant to give up a competent and | much-needed helper, questioned him as to the reason for going. His answer might give food for thought to many who would regard themselves as his | superiors, “I must’ go back to my | own people,” he said, “Your young men uso bad oaths, and if I stay here | I may learn them. There is not an | oath in the Ojibway language.” The surveyor called his young men together and told them the story. The appeal was not lost upon them. They had erred, as do so many boys, rather through thoughtlessness than purpose. The result was that profanity was al- completely broken up in. that camp, and the Indian continued at his work, » poss most HAS EVOLVED NEW “GROUCH” Man Fond of Finding Fault Denounces Tradition Followed by the Manu- facturers of Quilts. “The older I get finds fault, according to the New York Sun, “the more conyinced IT am that few individuals know the business they supposed to know. Every time I out to buy something that I really want I am more than ever impressed with this idea, e the case of quilts and comforts, for instance. They are al- ways made square, though the beds on which they are used are oblong. It is as foolish as making square pegs for round hol “IT am six feet and a trifle to ‘spare. The man who will make u quilt a foot longer than the usual size can sell me two. “When I complain at the stores I am | told that quilts have always been made square. That style may have been good enough for Adam, Solomon, King George ITI, and the Pied Piper, but we have improved transportation, the mail service, haireuts and plumbing since those men flourished, and it seems to me possible to improve the bed cover- ing.” Country’s Highest Bridge. The highest bridge in the United States is located 50 miles west of Del Rio, on the El Paso division of the Galveston, Ha burg & San Antonio railroad, It crosses the Pecos river, This bric which was turned over to the railroad company in March, 1892, was exceeded in height at that time by only two other bridges in the world, one in Bolivia and one in France, Since then two other bridges have been constructed in Africa, that | surpass the Pecos bridge, making It | at the present time the fourth highest in the world. The bridge is 326 feet above the low- | water level, originally was 2,180 feet | siderable number of cigarettes. |Gem potatoes and home grown | apples. $1.50 per sack delivered. | it makes excellent bread. Cotton- | wood Elevator Company. | 15. CACKLINGS «=. iy A Chicago surface car is about as iseful as a poker chip the morning ter, Nobody ever thinks that a mother- n-law was once a sweet young bride lerself. A sock on a clothes-line needs only t clothes-pin, but a stocking requires magination, $ isinats poicetiered Gar nemen 1S SPRING IS ALMOST UPON US AND THE AP- | sission 8 iike'# ruin check after the 1% © BROQACHING EASTER TIME SUGGESTS NEW GAR- righth inning. % An umbrella ts like a stock certifl- rate, It goes up and down and passes nto many hands. A football game without a bald-head- od referee Is about as rare as a powder suit in a prize ring. A man can lose his time and money n a poker game and yet be in a cone The stingiest man in the world Is che skute who saves his burnt matches and wraps them in a cigar band. Speaking of women is like using a lictaphone on a press agent. The la- lies speak for themselyes.—Dave Sent- rer in the Chicago Am A WANTS, FOUND AND FOR SALE FOR SALE—Apples. Joe Vedder, Cottonwood, Idaho. 9-3* FOR SALE—Single seated top buggy nearly new. T. Clark, the junk man. 12-4* FOR SALE—15 head _ of young stock cattle. Mrs. Ben 10-2* FOR SALE OR TRADE—A young fresh cow. TT. Clark, the junk man. 8-4* FOR SALE—Hay, Netted Cooper’, Cottonwood. seed corn. Bert Schroeder. 7-tf FOR SALE — Yellow Dent seed corn. Thomas Gentry, Cot- tonwood, Idaho. 9-3* FOR SALE—Good cooking Carl Schurra, Cottonwood. 10-2* FOR SALE—Home — grown seed corn. Two varieties. C. T. Hodgson, Cottonwood. 4-8* FOR SALE—Silver Loaf flour 7-tf FOR SALE —Single Comb Rhede Island Red eggs, $1.00 for Ben Hattrup, Pacific Phone 538F21. 11-6* FOR SALE — 12-inch John Deere gang plow, practically good as new. Edgar Wortman, Cottonwood . 10-2 FOR SALE—Idaho Rural seed potatoes, grown from certified seed, 2 cents per pound. See or phone F, S. Wimer. 9-tf FOR SALE OR TRADE— Work horses for cattle, hogs, fence posts or wood. T. Clark, the junk man. 12-4* | FOR SALE—White Leghorn hatching eggs, 42 cents per long and weigh 249 tons, Spanish in the Southwest. The oJd_Spanish stock of the South- west is lar agricultural, but is very exclusive. It has made progre: and is financially well to do as wealth runs in the southwest country. Its | members have nothing in common with | the lower-class workmen who are fresh | from Mexico. The tapping | the southern border have brought in | most of the latter and use them in | special railroad construction work, | housing them In camps. These Mexi cams are very receptive and generally | railroads docile. They are In need of education- | al opportunities and social advan- | tages.—Chicago Daily News, Clever Window Demonstration. Great crowds are attracted daily to | a Park row window where a | young woman is demonstrating a pat- ent pencil. The fact that she seems to have a rich barytone voice is what attracts attention. A large phonograph | horn is suspended outside the window | and Is attached by a tube In the win dow frame to a phonograph hidden under a table, As she starts the ma chine she speaks in untson with the “patter” of the record, Passers-by h ing this masculine volce appar ently coming from the lips of the girl stop in amazement. store New York Sun. Indian Victims of Wild Animals. According to statistics received from India, 3. ) persons were killed by wild animals in British India during | 192 igainst 3,688 the previous year. Tigers were responsible for 1,454 deaths, leopards for 560, wolves for 556, bears for 69, elephants for 70 and hyenas for 10.. The loss of human | life from snake bites fell from 20,043 im 1920, to 19,396 Ip 1921, ' | geldings, ment. dozen in incubator lots, postage prepaid. J. M. Jack, Green- creek, Idaho, 9-3 FOR SALE—A good span of f 4 and 5 years old, weight 1700 and 1800 pounds. J. W. Williams, R. F. D. Grange- vilel, Idaho. 10-2* FOR RENT—640 acres of good bunch grass pasture on Salmon river for horses or cat- tle. Will accept from one head | up and gather cattle by appoint- J. V. Smith, Boles, 11-3*| ESTRAYED—1 black horse came to my ranch one mile west of town March 9. Owner can have same by paying for this advertisement. S. M. Brown, | Cottonwocd. 12-tf£ ESTAYED—Came to my} place Tuesday one dark brown | gelding, weight about 1200} pounds. No brands visible. Own. er can have same by paying} for this ad and feed bill. Jacob | Reidhaar. 51-+tf | WANTED—Cook at the Cot- tonwood Hotel. Good wages. C A. Johnston. 11-2 | WANTED—Lady for general | housework during the spring | months. Inquire at Chronicle | office. 10-2 | FOR RENT—Good five room - New Spring Dress Goods ory Seago eheeseetee = MENTS. WE ARE GLAD TO BE IN A POSITION TO SHOW MANY NEW MATERIALS. THAT THIS SEA- 3 SON HAS DECREED SHALL BE IN VOGUE AMONG = ‘THE VOILES, SATINES, SILKS, CREPES AND MANY OTHERS. WE INVITE YOU TO CALL. THE PLEA- SURE WILL BE OURS IN SHOWING YOU AND £ KNOW YOU WILL ENJOY THE FRESHNESS OF * THESE MATERIALS SUGGESTING THE SEASON. £ MILLINERY WILL BE ON DISPLAY AS SOON = AS RECEIVED WHICH WILL BE BUT A FEW DAYS. Leggett Mercantile Company LLLP P OPO OASIS SSeetengetestoeeteetecesteetentesteetedeetecete sete Grangeville Electric light & Power Co. Statement for the year ending December 31, 1922 Assets, Plant and Equipment - _.....$69T,855.07 Due from Consumers ...........-----+-----------2----> 17,020.70 U MADDIE: | 6.<.-. 38-20... cota cto antees 15,525.66 Suspense Account .........-..- 5,184.85 Stock Discount ... 5,015.00 Notes Receivable 4,448.90 Warrants .. ....... 1,821.25 Renan Sc: .. 1,856.61 $747,727.54 lu Liabilities. Stock Outstanding 20... ..2-.-------s--+----------$406,000.00 ae - 184,000.00 Notes Payabl . 200,420.00 Accounts Payable 6,972.54 i] Meter Deposits -... , 335.00 $747,727.54 Report of Earnings. Gross Revenue ... $105,980.61 Operating Expenses and Taxes ............-...--- 45,283.32 Earnings over Expenses and ‘Taxes . $ 60,697.29 Replacement Reserve and Interest ... 34,275.09 $ 26,423.20 SE LIAL TS Sema MeOr ne “SURE a SY A $ 24,447.50 Simon Bros. Wholesale and Retail BUTCHERS Dealers in Hides, Pelts, and all kinds of Poultry eS Sa COTTONWOOD, IDAHO Se ee he es od Nims’ Pool Hall QaaEe_ > Cigars Tobacco Soft Drinks Sosdeeterestnesonteesente Soloed tontt edestonteet $ : and Candies = Sebededetectecteey Seeetondonteate cone rdonteateete te ontesten “ ACETYLENE WELDING WILLARD BATTERIES We Work Service Garage i P. H. Dye Wm. Buettner V. A. Dye &, DRIVE IN: WE’RE EXPECTING YOU i AUTO MA ue ACCESSORIES irom Ween GENERATOR WORK r house. Geo. McPherson. 12-tf mu Laas RUE URS UR USO US UU