Evening Light, The (Newspaper) - March 6, 1882, San Antonio, Texas The Vol II 38 SAN ANTONIO TEXAS MONDA F MARCH 6 will go the entertainment at Casino to-night ll your tender plants or use old newspapers lo cover them with notice in the LIGHT of the extra edition of the Houston Post sold 500 copies of that paper Harris had a narrow escape on day came within an inch of knocking a newspaper reporter down San Antonio Mechanics and union meet to-night in hall at the Alamo and Villita streets meeting of the will be held in Turner hall on Wednesday We understand that a considerable sum of mony has heen to the fund A M Cox took out a building mit this morning for the erection of a two- story lumber dwelling on the east side of Soledad street Express describes the city clerk Mr as being as busy as a bee in a tar rel Who ever heard of a bee in a tar barrel before deaths are recorded in the mortuary report for last week The name of Mr Chas H Burke of Chicago appears to have been OM Field for Mining A HUMAN ON MINKS MY Mil Tlie Company Throo City Work fo our question Mr li We j we will begin active work of erecting He hit the aldermen off well and created laughter by his as he omitted Richard F Schmidt's local topic song a success electric light con si blew his cigar splendid entertainment is promised night at Casino hall Professor ger has never failed in any of his ments so far which is a guarantee that he will meet success to-night special edition of the Houston Post Bexar county with its population is left out entirely as a producing region of any 1 kind These special editions are generally humbugs Anderson was doing good ness this morning There were thirty-one cases docketed of these 28 were tried and 3 continued 26 of the zS cases tried resulted in conviction work being done by the street com- missioner on street is spoiling a good dry weather road and not helping a bail wet weather road This method of digging up and putting other dirt in its place is poor economy and worse road building you are tired taking the large fashioned griping pills try Carter's Liver Pills and lake some comfort A man Our Interviews of tho Who lu Mr A W labors for the past three or four years with of of our Texas railways and men of the West for the of the mineral wealth of the Texas and Mexi co is too well known to need an comment from us He tells it on himself a It is not mines but immigration I'm ter and the development of our frontier ral wealth will bring in the people by the thousands in less lime ana at less expense than any other work that can be inaugurated ing for the development of a new country is a hard battle and when one takes mines for his basis it is no comparison You lay awake nights planing and studying an intelligent well-set speech on mines ores waterpower machinery old history of untold millions taken from mines by the Indians four or five hundred years ago cheapness of labor the promise of some paper railroad official to deliver coal for 50 per car when you actually know that lo be carried oui it would cost from to per fact a that would do credit to a statesman You keep this up until you can pick up a piece of curbstone or a pebble from the street go through your sel speech and candidly believe thai it contains of silver lo the ton and are willing to invest your own ound the mines ores and surroundings 25 per cnt above Mr Gilford's representations and lis company certainly has a bright and future before it The ores from the mines surrounding are silver bearing lead ore silver and sometimes gold bearing copper and silver and also a good class of iron ore Among the lead ores is especially the Galena besides the sulphate and the ate of lead The copper ores are sulphate and carbonate and nearly all of them are ver bearing Some of the copper ore imbedded in quartz or arc gold bearing The amount of gold in sonic of the latler class of ores is so large that they ar gold ores in which the copper is only the associating ore The following is my assay of ores and di which I took from the mines in pi rson They are of a low average not being from picked ores My investigation and report was made ty Mr will leave in a few days for he cast lo purchase and nent of machinery Our entire company are more than pleased with our and are of a grand Col W A Taylor of Waco Texas vice- president of the company and Major I C Stafford cf Houston treasurer of the com- pany we found in good spirits and lant over the blight prospects ahead lor the company They paid Mr numerous compliments for his untiring work in the or of their company saying that an man but would have given up i disgust long ago These gentlemen left fo their home on Saturday Mr Gifford's many friends throughout Hi southwest will be pleased to leorn that h first ruining and smelting enterprise in oU Mexico is now an acknowledged success it beyond the point of to satisfy a few members of the company as regards a working basis and not for the pose of selling stock From picked ores I could have run assays up to and per ton Chihuahua and are the erties of the Mining and Smelting Company while other mines are in the tributary lo Mentor Arrivals Governor Hunt Mrs Dr Wilcox Gen L Cake K A Cespe Chas Brumley Ik money in its development Then you are ready for your victim whom you crowd into a corner at an unsuspected moment talk self plumb dry out of character and conscience If your victim is a personal friend and begins signs of sudden death you can rally him by changing the subject for a second only by asking him to take a drink if a stranger il is at starting in on your tt Ff leath his can't stand everything Wholesale by A Dreiss One pill a dose part or investment or i part on wind-up Your reward for all this bor is sympathizing remarks coming to your hearing from every corner something after this Removal The office of the famous Larissa Nurseries lias been recently removed to Palestine Texas where all parties desiring fruits llowers etc should address us at that point Palestine Tex Court Josaphine Taylor drunk fined Aug Schwartz illegally purchasing poultry fined James Abbott illegally purchasing poultry fined Harry Lane driving fast over bridges fined oo Malinda Mills using insulting language dismissed Ollie Moore using insulting language dis- missed H J Marshall drunk fined E Nier drunk fined C M Shepard allowing horse at large fined John Supples drunk fined W using profane language fined oo II Kissling using profane language fined John Smith obstructing sidewalk fined oo drunk fined Geo drunk fined Bob Turner disorderly fined W Wilson using insulting language fine oo Ignatio Arocha fined W insulting language fined He's crazy on lie's an en- He's trying lo rob some He wants to trade experience for He tried lo catch my I blocked his tle game there This self same man who blocked your liltle game is the same man who neglects his business and family to hunt up your and all other and tells them in a confidential way that you are a lucky cuss struck it rich on his mines worth a hundred thousand dollars he has plenty of see him spend a hundred dollars for wine other evening This is a on you and the unkindest cut of as every creditor at once brings suit many o them forgetting to credit your last payment thinking that you can't afford to make a fuss over a few dollars This comes just in time to frighten away the only capitalist you have finally succeeded in convincing that your scheme is a slick one I have seen my warmest friends walk a block out of their way to shun me and leave their office from a side window or back door when I entered the front door supposing I wanted to talk mines when I only wanted to borrow a V Again you can always count on having your special attention called to such newspaper squibs as the following from the Detroit Free Press: All that is needed to sell mines or mining slock is a water-colored map two pieces of ore purchased at a jeweller's a man with check and a fool with money Mr Gifford returned Thursday from n two months trip in Mexico in the interest of his company Officers of the company him together with a competent mining expert Mr K Bogusch of Germany and Mr Roberts an able engineer of New York who were sent out by New York parties largely in- in the company In answer to eral questions Mr he had nothing to say that he had done his talking in the The silver assays arc made by fire by the way of scorification Uy most samples duplicates are made which agree within one-half ounce or are just alike Tin lead assays are made in wel way The galena with the surrounding carbonate of lead coming from the decomposition of the former is the silver bearing material of these mines The Mowing ores are tributary to ma owned by private parties in company with Mr Gifford who has full control of them for sale They will be worked to their fullest as soon as the company's is ready for business Johns C E V Schrader II kee Frank Gambel Boston Geo II White W L Clark Geo N Y J Jackson Robert Manson N O P H Ward II Gornich Baltimore Eugene II B Lake N Y S A Oliver Houston Tom M Blakely Tom Mathews Richmond O H Wolfe Mobile lit I lord's J M Hell New York R B Clark G A Wilburn Chicago C K Lowman St Louis LT Noyes Houston T II Swell Stamford T II Mathis Rockport Hranch T Masterson G Kettrell Leon M Varona Laredo H Worthington Cincinnati J C Gorham Helm Sancho J G Parker Kanche W H Jennings ana John T Lytle J W Wray Cuthbertson Frank II Texas J T Ellison San Marcos J J Ellison F Klein San Marcos W S Miles San Angelo nl Central Dan F Pecos L I Bunion Uvalde John and Mrs Button Greensville J I ford New Braunfels J S Leyendecker A Leyendecker Columbus B M Prada W on On the morning of Saturday July 2 the resident was a contented and happy man ot in the ordinary degree but almost happy On his way to the railroad lation lo which he drove in conscious of the beautiful with ah sense of leisure and keen ion of pleasure his talk was all in ul and vain He felt that after our months of trial his administration was strong in its grasp of affairs strong in popular avor and deserved to grow stronger hat the rave difficulties confronting him at his juration had been safely passed that the jlc lay behind him and not before him that was soon to meet the wife whom he loved now recovering from an illness which had but lately disquieted and unnerved him that he was going to his alma maler to renew the most cherished association of his young manhood and to exchange greeting with those whose deepening interest had followed every step of his upward progress from the day he entered college until he had attained the loftiest elevation in the gift of his men Much of happiness can ever come from the honors or triumphs of this world On that quiet July morning James A Gorfield may have well been a happy man No fore- boding of evil haunted him Not the est premonition of danger sky His terrible fale was upon him in an instant No Names Silver Gold 1 I G lier c u ore per c ore ore 4 Chapman Williamson V M Aycock town J A McDonald Eola La M S Flores L G Laredo P M Closky Elm Creek James Watts Mrs Watts Miss McCollaugh Medina J G Yates J S Hamilton Chas Lambert S Sabinal J E Newton Lavernia J H New York W Basse burg R Flores Guerrero Rosslau J II Martin Rosslau J II Martin B S Terrell OKI T SAM One moment he stood erect strong confident in the years stretching peacefully out before him The next he lay wounded bleeding to many weeks of lo silence and the grave Great in life he was great in death For no cause in the very of wantonness the red hand of murder he was thrust from the full lide of the world's from its hopes its aspirations its victories into the visible presence of death and he did not Not alone for one shorl moment in which STUNNED AN't he could give up life hardly aware of its re- but through days of deadly guor through weeks of agony thai was not less agony because silently boine wilh clear and calm he looked inlo his open grave What blight and ruin met his anguished eyes whose lips may tell what brilliant broken plans what baffled high ambitions what sundering of strong hood's friendships what bitter rending of sweet household ties him a proud expectant nation a great host of sustaining friends a cherished and happy ing the full rich honors of her early toils ami tears the wife of his youth whose life lay in his the litlle boys not emerged from day of frolic the fair young daughter sons just springing into closest companionship claiming every day and every day rewarding a father's love and I A Clark allowing cow at large fined J T Briggs allowing horses at large fined B Shannon drunk fined Pedro Resales drunk and down fined A Prada drunk fined assault fined drunk fined Jack assault fined G B Gibson disorderly continued v George Leighlon disorderly continued g continued are average assays from samples of ore from one-half to one pound with the exception of Guadelupe and and in all probability would not agree wilh average assays made from 25 pounds or more My assay of sample from will illustrate my point better I took sample of for only a medium ore and hardly would have expected gold in it but when I broke the sample in order to pound it I noticed on the a piece of native gold weighing of a grain this I kept out of the assay as the above assay only giving a good trace of gold white if I had included it in the assay it would have given about 7 ounces of gold to the ton I consider the district a very mining region Rich bonanzas are liable to be in the opening of new mines or the continuation of the old ones lhat will justify the of big capital We next called on Mr A C TJur lumber king president of the mining com- pany who made a personal investigation of the mines owned by the company and ary thereto and to our questions answered Yes sir 1 rode pack mules climbed up and down mountains on foot went hungry and dry slept oh the soft side of flint rocks wrestled all night with an cactus plant and numerous other similar comforts just to see our mines and when I reached them I slid down ladders 40 or 50 feet at a lime crawled on my hands and knees holes three and four hundred feet un- Some time since we called attention lo the delinquency of the U S al for feeding and care of U S pri soners confined in our county jail The matter comes up now in shape of a resolution of the county commissioners court at its last regular session as Be it resolved That the county judge correspond with our tive Upson in regard to the claims of the county of Bexar against States for maintenance and custody of United States prisoners and that he furnish our representative Upson a certified account of the indebtedness of the United States to the county of Bexar Texas and request him to use all reasonable means to have the same paid of his company and could only repeal what had already been published only that he now considered his mining enterprise a grand success I will introduce you 10 Mr the who can talk to you in- on the mineral formation of our section We found Mr B a very intelligent gentleman speaking several languages and unquestionably a genius as a mineral expert He is at home in chemistry from the German school with a thorough practical knowledge of through der ground scarcely big enough for a ground bog to get through fought off spiders as big as your head just to see and take out the ores myself and while 1 wouldn't make another such trip for 20 mines I am satisfied and glad I made the trip Our mining properly is first class and our established at will do a handsome business In fncl I found lav above Mr ford's I am now closing en- gagement by telegraph wilh a super- Now this is a desperate state of fairs when our congressman is called on to dun the government for the keeping of its prisoners This is for back clues as the county refused to credit Marshall Russell any longer and left the sheriff to take the responsibility of caring for U S Sheriff McCall states that there is already due him We also learn that the claims of other counties are in the hands of at- for collection the U S are several dairies inside the caltle The enforcement of the cattle nance will compel the dairymen to drive their stock to pasture or feed them which will be i care and in his heart the eager rejoicing power to meet all demands Before him lation and great darkness and his soul was not shaken and his countrymen were thrilled with profound and universal thy ill bis mortal weakness he became Hie center of a nation's love ed in the prayers of a world all the love and all the sympathy could not share with him his suffering He trod the wine press alone With front he faced death Wilh unfaltering tenderness he took leave of life Above demoniac hiss of assassin's bullet he heard the voice of God WITH RESIGNATION he bowed to the Divine decree As the end drew near his early craving for the sea re- turned The stately mansion of power had been to him wearisome hospital of pain and he begged to be taken Irom its prison walls from its oppressive stifling air From its homeless and hopelessness gently silently the love of a great people bore the pale er to the longed-for healing of the sea to live or to die as God should will within of its heaving billows within the sound of its voice With wan fevered face derly lifted lo the cooling breeze he looked out wistfully upon the ocean's changing ders on its far sails whitening in the morning light on ils restless waves rolling shoreward lo break and die beneath the noonday sun on the red clouds of evening arching low to the the horizon on the serene and shining way of the stars Let us think that his dying eyes read a mystic meaning which only the rapt and parting soul know Let us be- lieve that in the silence ot the receding world he heard the great waves breaking on n further shore and felt already upon his wasted brow the breath of the eternal morning Items It is stated that Thomas Nast is about to re- tire from business with the Harpers having made enough money to support himself in comfort The Empress Eugenie has offered to place her charming villa on the shores of the Lake of Constance at Queen Victoria's disposal Miss Alice Longfellow the laughter of the poet has a strong and clever face ing brown eyes and a delicate soft color in her cheeks Cannes Hyeres Nice and more lately cio have become serious rivals of Paris during the winter Soft breezes and sunshine prove very Wisconsin will have one more congress under the new hill and the ture is now busy considering the redistricting of the state One plan has been devised by which the republicans may secure eight of the nine representatives The Toronto Mail claims that the number of registered letters lost in Canada is so small that it may be said to be absolutely nothing 1 fill kinds pf ores jrt his country for pur upon whose arrival for people's rose and trees i that of letters registered last 3 as lost or tampered i good thing for the cattle and a better thing two recovered 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