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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1916
Page
2
The Printer invites letters from all sections and communities. Share new mills, homes, alfalfa yields, and melons grown to inform neighbors and help the region.
W. J. Boreham, veteran prospector, travels from Barstow to Kelso reporting active mining in the region. Large companies, including Globe Mining, ship ore by express as tungsten claims appear around Ivyanpaugh Cima and Kelso. Boreham has located copper coal tungsten oil and wolframite deposits and marked water holes with signs. He has worked the desert since 1871.
In the involuntary bankruptcy matter of Death Valley Area Nevada Consolidated Mining Company, schedules were filed in the United States District Court by R A Salisbury president. The petition alleging insolvency had previously been filed by Jerome B Petrie Henri Bouman John H Cooper and Charles O Newton.
A medical man declares fear causes more disease than microbes and more deaths than famine. He warns fear weakens the heart, causes congestion and indigestion, poisons through decomposing foods, and is the mother of autopoisoning, driving up to ninety percent of illnesses.
Reports show the Woodland Promotion Club plans inflating twelve paper balloons for a final wind up of a clearance sale. The State Highway bridge over Wildcat creek at San Pablo washed out last week amid fifteen foot high water. Tulare High School girls organize a pig club with prizes for best swine husbandry methods. The State Board of Control bought thirty three motor trucks for state highway maintenance at a cost of seventy six thousand four hundred fifty seven dollars. California raisins total production in 1915 reported at 124000 tons versus 90000 tons in 1914. The Southern Pacific and Santa Fe set a rate of six and a fourth cents per 100 pounds for canned milk from California to eastern points. News reaches of Frank Black escaping from General Lopez near Chihuahua. Homer Fox reports better earnings than two cents per pound for Christmas pool participants in the Cotton Orange Growers’ Association.
In 1914 antimony prices rose from 7.11 cents to about 40 cents a pound by end of 1915 as Chinese Japanese and American supplies dominated. Nevada and California deposits expanded with new smelters by Merchants Finance Co and Chapman Smelting Co amid uncertain long term demand. The report cautions that high prices are temporary with global deposits and war effects likely driving prices back toward 1914 levels.
J Wesley Gibbs, deputy mine inspector for the California Department of Safety, representing the Industrial Accident Commission, visited San Bernardino as a storm-bound guest. He arrived by auto from Imperial County mining districts and faced travel trouble last week, noting no active mines locally with a four man minimum shift. He planned to proceed directly to Atolia.
Foreman Miller of Richmond is the sole California recipient of a service medal from the Standard Oil Company for forty five years of continuous service. Rising temperatures and cloudy weather aided Southern California citrus growers against frost threatening orange and lemon groves. Peach growers across major dried fruit centers of the state formed a cooperative buying and marketing group at a Fresno meeting.
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