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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1916
Page
2
The patient Burro resumes mining news duties at The Printer after editor Turner borrowed him to haul in Garford Six left on the desert last week. Hundreds of miners will welcome Dad's Burro back gathering news for the industry.
Bill Payson leaves Colton to work for the Black Hawk Mining Co on a newly bought mine beyond Big Bear valley reachable via Victorville road. The site, once located in the 1870s by Cook and partner, was abandoned after low ore value but now reattempted by Los Angeles and San Francisco capitalists. Payson, long known for drawing work in Colton, leads a familiar team toward ore output.
Mr. A. G. Smith and A. A. Turner inspect mining properties as R. M. Dillingham takes over the Jack Ass group from Mr. Brown and plans extensive development. The veins range from twelve inches to four feet, gold and silver present, shaft at 100 feet, signaling potential for a major producer. The Burro serves as miners mascot while Mr. Mitchell and others prospect outside the city.
J. C. Amos, San Bernardino real estate dealer and mining man, was injured last week in a wreck of the Santa Fe Overland at Hesperia. He cannot leave bed for a week, suffering back bone dislocation and pain. Amos was en route to inspect Silver Lake properties, riding on the third car from the rear of No. 8 when engine trouble halted the train.
The 200000 cubic foot Paris balloon named Giant carried thirteen passengers on a four hour ascent. A later seventeen hour voyage ended when high winds dragged the house like a cart over the ground. Exhibited in London's Crystal Palace, the craft demonstrated air travel potential. The piece notes 18th century cigar references and a Spanish America traveler Cockburn describing friars gifting cigars in Nicaragua.
A concise note extols raisins among dried fruits for their nutritional value and easy digestion, suggesting superior food usefulness compared with other dried fruits.
The article describes a seed corn tester using muslin strips and numbered divisions to test ears. It explains cutting, marking, and aligning kernels for a five to twenty ear test, ending with instructions to use a simple rag doll.
The passage describes placing seeds in a damp rag doll with a wick and towel method for testing ears, with daily towel checks and six days to count. It then argues marriage cannot be classified as a profession, describing its spiritual and material demands and calling it more than a profession yet less in other respects.
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