8 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA. i .: t. i r. The Farmers National Bank MANY PERSONS keep their money in this bank that they ma; have it within ready reach when needed for daily use ; some keep it here awaiting opportunities for investment ; others, that they may accumulate, by small deposits, sufficient to make a permanent invest ment. It Will Be Seen We Accommodate ALL CLASSES. WM. S. MOYER, President. A. II. BLOOM, Cashier. THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA. J. S. Williams & Soa, BLOOMSBURG PA. Public Sale Criers and General Auctioneers. Kiftfa years experience. Hatlsfaotlon rMrtnteed. Heal return of any sale criers In nls sect Ion of the State. Write for terms and tales. We never disappoint our patrons. Fanners' Institutes- Effect on Farmers Ha Been Good, Says Secretary of Agriculture. The effect of the series of farmers' institutes held during the winter in the various counties of the state under the direction of the department oi agriculture is seen in the improve ments that are taking place in a I sec tions in agricultural practice says Secretary of agriculture Hamilton. Greater care is exercised in the col lection and preservation of fertilizers, the cultivation of the soil, the selec tion of seeds for crops, the manipula tion of milk and the food articles manufactured from it, the health of animals, their food and shelter. Farmers are placing modern con veniences in their homes, adorning their grounds, improving their gardens and orchards and giving more atten tion than formerly to the securing of better educational advantages for their children. Secretary Hamilton says that the appropriation of $15, 000 annually for these gatherings enables the department to extend its institute work, but by no means meets the needs of the farming people in institute requirements. He thinks that at least $25,000 per year should be devoted for this purpose, and says that every dollar of this sum should be advantageously expended. New Series Open April 1. The Industrial Building and Loan Association ot Bloomsburg, will open a new series on April 1st. This association will mature its first series on that date, having run 123 months, showing a net piofit to the investors of 12 per cent, per annum. During this period there has been 2321 shares issued to 434 share hold ers, 134 loans were made. No losses have occurred; but one mortgage has been foreclosed during 10 years. Where is the National As sociation that can show such good results? Stop, think if you have a few dol lars to spare each month, take shares in this Association and accumulate a small fund to start in business or )uild a home. Payments $1.00 per share monthly. Money to loan to persons desiring to secure a home. Application tor shares may be made to the Secretary or any of the Directors. C. C. Peacock, J. R. Townsend, Samuel Wigfall, Directors G. E. Elwell, O. VV. Cherringtok, F. R. Carpenter, I J. Lee Harman. Secretary, A. N. Yost. FORKS. Lots of back water suckers have been caught in the Fishingcreek. Harrison Bros, are doing a stiff business in merchandise, coal, lumber and sills. Road Supervisors will be bury re pairing the ravages of the flood. In summer along the Fishingcreek is one of the most beautiful portions ot the state. Jas. Amerman has sot a new supply of goods. E. M. Labauch, one of the enter prising people of this section, will soon fix up his dam, ready to run his mill, and saw a large supply of logs. He has one of the best cider presses in the state. Shaffer has gone back to the hotel in Orangeville, which insures a well kept hotel. His many friends welcome his return. Jno. G. McIIenry of Benton, has put up a large ware house that will hold several hundred barrels of the liquid extracted from rye. He is president of the new National Bank there. His many friends wish him success. The flouring mill at Benton is doing a lively business. Mr. Wm. Unangst-has rented his farm. Owing to a general break down he is unable to farm. Miss Jessie Unangst and her nephew, Lawrence, have spent Easter week at their old home here. Jessie is attending school at Scranton and living with her sister Mrs. Minnie Freas. Lawrence is at South Wilkes barre with his mother, going to school. Both are doing well. The house of God should be honor ed free from dust. So with the Zion church here. Wm. Miller sends meat to Berwick. Prof. Pealer of Asbury, is doine a fine business surveying in Tennessee. Soon Memorial day will be on hand. The orator will portray the power and glory ot his country. He will talk about the wars through which we have passed the war of the Revo lution, the war of 1812, the war with Mexico, the gigantic Civil war, the war with Spain and the present Philippine struggle. All of which is very right and true. Two much eloquence cannot be displayed on such occasions, nor two much patriot ism. We have made gigantic strides. We have accumulated hundreds of millions of wealth within the last 25 years beyond our own anticipations, and no nation has accumulated so rapidly, or anything like the same sum, tor ages. We could buy out nearly all Europe and a big slice ot South America, and have plenty left for a clam bake. We are formidable on land and water. Our ships of com merce are floating on all the seas. Our war vessels would be the glory and pride of any nation, ancient or modern. We have good men behind the guns. We have made inventions and discoveries unparalelled in the annals of history. We have forged ahead of all other nations. The great powers of Europe are very patroniz ing, complacent and offer their friend- LBakfliiDg Powder Made of Pure Grape Cream of Tartar. Safeguards the food against alum KOVAl SAHINA rOWOM CO., IW WltllAM IT., Ni VOSK. ship obsequiously Our azured stars and stripes are honored on land and sea. Wherever they go there can be no night. They are the daguerreo type of the stars that burn around tne midnight throne that great mantle of stars that hangs from the Throne of the Eternal. No bombast nor boast in this. It is the truth. But "all is not gold that glitters." The orator leaves out some things that should be mentioned, which are also true. There was one patriot of the Revolution that is never mentioned while Washington is ever deservedly mentioned. His name was Robert Morris. He it was who loaned to that Revolution the sinews of war. He gave his fortune, his all, to the Continental Congress to carry on the war, and without which that struggle would have proved abortive and Washington would have been hunz as a rebel and traitor. Robert Morris gave success to the Declaration of Independence. He it was who fur nished the means to fieht the forces of Geo. III. He it was, who crown ed Yorktown with victory. His means gave us the very liberty and independence we enjoy to-day. He gave birth to the nation. And now comes the beautiful part of it. No Congress eier paid him back the amount he loaned the government. Per consequence he lingered tn prison behind iron bars a pauper because he could nt pay his debts Isn't that a lovely thing to throw into the teeth of the United States? Here are honesty, justice and patriotism haDnilv blended, like the seven colors of the rainbow. Monuments have eone un everywhere consecrated to the mem ory of other men, while the remains of Robt, Morris lie in an obscure grave. Such is the gratitude of Republics! Well, just so. The bones of Leonidas lay for 40 years in the defiles of Thermopylae before they were trans ferred to Sparta. When Cicero was banished to Syracuse he hunted a long while among brambles and thorns to find the grave of Archimides. At Valley Forge where his soldiers were naked and starving Washington was almost supplanted by a Cabal ot j his generals. Christopher Columbus, who opened the gates of the Western Hemisphere, was carried back in chains to his native land. The head and right arm of Cicero were nailed to the very rostrum where he pounded torth his eloquence for his country. " Betsy of Philadelphia, made the stars and stripes and presented them to Washington. Pennsylvania has historical battle grounds. Brandywlne, Valley Forge and Gettysburg are bound to live in history. The old bell that rang out berty belongs to Pennsylvania. The Old State House in Philadelphia be longs to Pennsylvania. She has pro duced in the history cf our Country as great and good men and patriots, statesmen, generals, financiers and orators as any state in the Union. et they don't so appear in history simply because no national historian ever came from Pennsylvania; they came from other States. Yes, Conti nental Congress did'nt pay back the money she borrowed from Morris why could any law put Morris in prison for debt and should'nt that Congress hive gone behind iron bars? E. J. Bowman. Capital Stock, $6,000,000. FU LL PAI D Par Value of Shares, $5.00 NON-ASSESSABLE. Cuyamaca Ranch and Mining Company, 1888 January $25.59 4 February 8,029 44 March 23,77618 April 24,052 71 May 78,25549 June 7,574 59 July 12,52559 August 22,633 35 September 9,901 51 October 7.475 29 November 1 9 , t; 1 .5 52 December 21,20606 An Interesting Case A case which has created con siderable interest because of the point involved, aud one which has occupied the attention of court since Tuesday morning is that of Ephriani Barlow vs. B. R. Yetter. This case aconically, is as follows: In 1882 Daniel Barlow came into possession of 331 acres of land in Main town ship. The property descended to the heirs, who it appears did not pay the taxes upon it. As a result it was returned by tax collector A. W. Shuman. At the treasurer's sale in June 1898, it was sold by Gec S. Fleckenstine the then county treas urer, to B. R. Yetter for $3.82. The heirs did not take any action in the matter, and at the expiration of two years, the term "allowed by law, County treasurer Fleckenstine, gave Mr. Yetter, the purchaser, a deed for the land. The heirs are now trying to recover the deed from Yetter, and have the same declared null and of no legal force. They base their claim upon the grounds that at the time of said sale there was personal property sumcieut to ray off the taxes, had a levy been made, and that there were legal irregularities in the sale. The plaintiff s side ot the case 1.' represented by Hon. Grant Ilerr ing, C. W. Miller and 15. A. Bed dall of Pottsville, while Ikeler & Ikeler and VV. C. Johnston are counsel lor the defendant. Stephen S. Driesbach, who for many years has been numbered among Catawissa's leading business men died at his home in that town Thursday evening last, leaving a wife and five children. Mr. Dreis bach was a man highly respected in the community. IVs good repu tation was the result of endeavor ing to be what he desired to appear. OWNERS OF The Famous uStonewaH" Gold Mine AND Cuyamaca Ranch, Containing 20,400 Acres. Mineral Bearing, Agricultral and Timber Land. Situated in South West portion of 3an Diego County, California. n , . .,...') San Francisco, San Francisco National Hank, t om nan v s Hankers in California. . t i i m r. 'j ljos Aiigcics, uroauwav jjuiik uini lrusi u. Principal Eeastern Office, Continental Trust Building. Baltimore, Md. RpQnnQ Ah7 shares in tbe Cuyamaca Ranch and Mining Company may be expect - ' V ed to yield a greater profit than any other equally substantial invest ment now offered. The Company owns thousands of acres ot mineral ground on the great Mother Lode of California, which has produced more gold in the past fifty-three years, since the discov ery of gold in California, than any other gold bearing formation in the world has ever yielded. This great gold belt runs through the property of this Company for about twelve miles from North to South. It is doubtful if any other Company in the world owns gold bearing territory of equal extent and importance: that it is very rich seems to be proved by the fact that the only mine opened on this estate, the famous Stonewall, has yielded from the surface to a depth of six hund red (600) feet, probably over Two Millions of Dollars ($2,000,000), more than Nine Hundred Thousand ($900,000) Dollars of which was taken out during a period of three years and four months. This record has been verified by the books of the Bank, in San Francisco, to which the bullion was shipped, and by the United States Mint in San Francisco. We give below the detail of this very remarkable record, which, competent authorities state, might have been greatly ex ceeded by different management : San Francisco, Cat,., March 3, 1902 E. Packham, Jr., Esq. Treasurer Cuyamaca Ranch and Mining Co. 618 Continental Trust Building, Baltimore, Md. Dear Sir : Replying to your inquiry as to the output of bullion from Stonewall Mine, the books of the bank show that there was received the following amounts during the months and years stated, prior to the death of the late owner . . 1889 $18,501 68 1 1,080 50 19.275 72 22,513 03 12,154 75 11,414 67 ",549 09 25.035 77 18,568 97 19,527 38 22,828 85 17,666 68 1890 $'5,334 32 29,664 55 31.362 4' 16,43' 37 33.093 56 45,20 99 37,789!94 27,3'8 28 11 ,842 00 54,755 19 29.983 98 32,537 10 1891 $11,627 07 16,154 40 13.19S 9S 7,l75oi $265,936 07 $220,117 09 $365,233 69 18S8 $265,936 07 1889 220,117 09 1890 365.233 69 4 months in 1891.. , 58,15546 $53,155 4 Total for 3 years and 4 months $909,442 31 . (Signed) JAMES K. WILSON Trustees for (Signed; L. I. COWGILL THE SATHER BANKING CO. (Now San Francisco National Bank.) Mr. Wilson writes, under date of March 3rd, as follows: "Have spent several days with the people of the United States Mint here proving our figures, to which you wished me to affix my name. "These tgures are not only absolutely correct as verified by the United States Mint returns at San Fran cisco, but we can increase these figures previous to January, 1888, if you desire us to do so. In my research es at the Mint, between 1880 and 1885, I have already found$t88,958.oo; $20,466 output January, 1880, from a little ten stamp mill; February ot that year $21,492.00; then in 1885 running but a little time only, $75,000.00 more was taken out. I have invited here the Statistician of the United States Mint, Mr. Yale, to lookup further history. It seems that this Mr. Yale, as a young man, worked as an assayer at the miue away back in early days. From the croppings at that time he took away about one hundred pounds of very rich ore showing free gold largely (so he says), which he brought here to melt up and make a present to his wife. "He has that ore now and I presume if the parties who are promoting the sale of this property wished it, it could be obtained at its value. It seems to me it would be a great thing to have it, because what I am saying to you is entirely reliable and authentic. "You may think I have delayed, but you do not know the amount of effort I have put into this since the receipt of the draft which you wished me to sign, and herewith enclosed. I could not, nor would I, affix my signature until I knew these figures were exactly correct." This mine has not been worked since the death of the late owner, as the insolvency of his estate caused prolonged litigation, from which the estate has been extricated and an absolutely perfect title vested in this Compay, who will now proceed to work this mine, which is perfectly equipped with a 20-stamp mill in perfect working order, and all the necessary machinery for pumping, hoisting, etc, and will also begin immediately, and prosecute as rapidly as possible the exploration of all the gold mining portion of the estate, and to develop its other industries. The value of the Company's ground, for gold mining, is also proven by the large number of mines, opened in the same formation, in the well-known mining districts of Banner and Julian to the North, and by the development of equally productive mines to the South of the Company's boundaries. Accurate accounts of the details of the operations of the Stonewall mine and mill are not obtainable, but the record in the Bank shows that Six Hundred and Fifty seven Thousand, Sixty Dollars and Thirty six Cents ($657,060.36) of value in bullion was produced from January, i888,to July, 1890, during which time only an old 10-stamp mill was in use. The full capacity of such a mill would be thirty (30) tons for each twenty-four (24) hours, and if worked continuously, during the time named, the amount of ore handled should haye been about twenty-seven thousand (27,000) tons, thus showing an average value per ton for the ore of about Twenty-four Dollars (24). This is extraordinary, and perhaps unequalled, on a strictly free milling proposition. Nothing what ever was done with the tailings, under the old management. Col. S. II. Lucas, our General Manager, states strongly his belief that he can so open up the Stonewall mine as to block out, during the next eighteen months, sufficient reserves of ore to enable him to work continuously a 40-stamp mill which would have a capacity of one hundred and twenty (120) tons per day, which, at the same average, as is shown in the past, would mean the production of Twenty-eight Hundred and Eighty Dollais ($2880) per dav in gold. As the operation of a stamp mill is practically continuous, barring accident, it is safe to figure on three hundred and fifty (550) working days in the year; this would show a product of One Million and Eight Thousand Dollars ($1,008,000), equal to 17 per cent, per annum on the entire capital stock of the Company, from a single mine, out of the dozens that may be discovered on the property of this Company, to say nothing of its other great resources. The estate is all of great fertility and abundantly watered; about one-third is heavy timber, cedar, oak, pine and fir; one-third mesa land, and the remainder valley lands ; the two latter of great value for stock raising, agriculture and fruit growing. A portion of the heights, command ing extensive views, of great beauty, over the semi-tropical country below, and of the coast and ocean, will bring high prices, when placed in the market, for hotel and residential purposes. The 20 stamp mill is in perfect order, and is as good as there is in the State. The buildings are substantially framed of wood with sides and roofs of corrugated iron. Altogether, the build ings connected with the administration of the Mine and Estate form quite a little village. The complete Official Prospectus of this Company, handsomely illustrated, giving the Direct ors and containing full reports on all resources of the Company, and detailing its plans for develop -ment, is now in press, and will be furnished, on application, to those contemplating investment. First Treasury Issue 50.000 Shares at $1.50. CHAS. W. RAY & CO., TELEPHONES: Long Distance 30 Local . . . 1242 STOCKS, BONDS, INVESTMENT SECURITIES, BLOOHSBURG, PA. S. F. PEACOCK, MANAGER, 3-4 Peacock Bldg.
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