26 Apr 1902
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Newspaper
Deming Headlight
Location
Deming, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1902
Page
1
A long column contrasts the fight between greed and humanitarian ideals with religious imagery. It warns against hedging and urges clear choice, aligning the struggle with historic justice. Also noted are industrial growth, a railway expansion, and a proposal to aid rail clerks families.
An elderly reminiscence recalls Col Dick Hudson as the best all round soldier in the California column. His calm command guarded a water tank on a desert march, saving many lives, while he refused water for himself and earned enduring respect from soldiers and officers alike.
New York Health Department reports seize nearly two tons of alum baking powder mixed with pulverized rock dumped into the offal scow for disposal. Additional powder found in a sixth Avenue department store. Analysis labels it alum baking powder. Recommendations urge consumers to buy established brands and avoid low price, unproven substitutes to protect family health.
Irishman James McMurty lived near the Hasseyampa river in Arizona. For a decade he collected and processed copper from a spring fed by a copper rich hill, turning thousands of tomato cans into copper and selling 2 to 5 tons yearly, financing land buys and a return to Ireland. Nearby mining interests and United Verde also exploited scrap to boost profits, while prospectors and locals watched the unlikely conversion of scrap into wealth.
In Sonora mining news the flowa creek carries copper rich water and a new plan aims to collect scrap metal in southern Arizona and California to deposit in Tubatama creek for bulk copper gains. The countess of Baex and Mrs Hwta Williams announce a high class private laundry in Coombie London suburbs, signaling fashionable investment. Mrs Williams is a close royal friend, while Mrs George Filageorge runs a manicure parlor on Brook Street Grow Senor Square.
A conductor on the Albuquerque to El Paso line tests a traveler from Chicago with a San Marcial to Chicago return ticket. The man mispronounces San Marcel as Shibboleth, prompting a fare dispute and a required fare payment from Albuquerque. The exchange highlights pronunciation as a passport to correct travel fare.
W H Newcomb, who ran the smelter briefly in 1896, told attendees the smelter cost silicious ores at about 3.25 dollars per ton, with coke at 2.52 per ton, noting only a trial run and limited labor savings.
A new smelter at Copper Queen in Douglas Arts will introduce a novel process for handling oil received by railroad. Ore will be mixed in three parallel pits with 100,000 ton capacity each, feeding a traveling shovel that hoists the mixed ore into cars eighteen feet above.
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