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Newspaper
Wallace Miner
Location
Wallace, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1922
Page
5
Governor Davis endorsesDesignates the Sunday before Independence Day as America First Day urging patriotic services in churches and communities. He cites American ideals such as equality, education, religious liberty, and freedom of speech while urging widespread observance and school involvement.
The mining industry and remote operations spur pursuit of a cheaper motor fuel. Alcohol from vegetable matter shows promise when paired with another industry or produced with valuable byproducts. In Brazil and South Africa, sugar cane spirit and wood distillation byproducts yield fuel with varying efficiency and engine compatibility, with acetylene and acetone byproducts noted.
The Anaconda Standard notes it is fly season and health authorities ramp up annual campaigns to curb breeding. It urges vigilant action to eliminate breeding sites, protect food, and screen homes while starting with the first noticeable fly as a signal to wage a summer extermination. It also reports on nickel coating for steel sheets as a potential tin plate substitute, with mixed progress and skepticism from tin plate makers.
The article notes a Welsh firm's attempt to produce aluminum coated steel sheets as a tin plate substitute for food containers and domestic ware. The project failed commercially as biscuit makers and large users showed little interest, and the plant was scrapped. Tin plate remains the preferred material despite its limitations.
A London aviator staged a novel newspaper advertising stunt by writing Daily Mail in white smoke across the sky. The plane, at about 10,000 feet, created letters with a smoke generator while crowds watched Derby day betting activity. The design spanned more than three miles wide and drew comparisons to future paper names.
An American Gold and Silver Institute proposal outlines forming an export silver association modeled on the Copper Export group to stabilize future markets after Pittman Act purchases. H. N. Lawrie argues for credit facilities to producers, orderly marketing, and coordinated bullion operations with U S and Mexican output totaling about seventy percent of world silver.
A forest ranger in northern Minnesota tested how many lighted cigarettes start fires. He walked a mile tossing 20 cigars along the rail and returned to find 19 had started small blazes in dry peat terrain where peat dries easily.
The River Jordan in Palestine will be developed for power under a 70 year British concession. Energy will power house and street lighting, pumping, water supply, railways, and various other uses.
A temperature exceeding 50 000 yeex 20 000 degrees above the hottest stars was reached in a Chicago university experiment by discharging electricity from a condenser through a fine wire. Tungsten was transformed into helium by this immense heat. Hardest wood known lignum vitae bears importance for ship propeller bearings with smooth screw operation. Its fibers weave in a crosshatched pattern similar to an automobile tire tread.
In a New York World piece Ford jokes about teeth and mortality. He says he has collected teeth to decorate his grave and requests his heirs to use them as a border around his tomb with an inscription mocking his hotel keeping career.
A superintendent reports only four of 22,000 examined criminals are college graduates. Seven percent of 1000 prisoners have high school, 26 percent grammar school, 64 percent primary education. In the East, 90 percent of 753 farmers say motor trucks save time, with about a quarter selling at better markets. Moscow to Kiev rail service drops to one train weekly.
A long list of mining companies in Coeur d'Alene district shows assessments levied from 1 to 144 mills with various due dates in May and June. Many firms, including Alma-Ray, Altna, Amazon-Dixie, Bullion, Carbonate, Carney Copper, Equitable, Echo, Imperial, Mining & Milling, North Bunker Hill, North Star, New Hope, Royal, Ray Jefferson, Rockford, Sabina, Silver Mountain, Silver Dale and Big Hill, Sonora, Teddy, Tarbox, Valentine, Verde May, are noted with delinquent sales and some postponements into July, August, and beyond. Names of officers and locations such as Wallace, Kellogg, Kellogg, Kellogg, Wallace appear alongside each assessment.
Multiple mining firms announce annual and special meetings in Wallace. American Commander Mining & Milling Co holds its annual meeting July 3 at 11 am on 608 Cedar. Eureka Mining & Milling Co sets July 11 at 7 30 pm on Bank Street. Four Timbe Mining schedules a meeting in Wallace. Galena Mining Co meets July 8 at 10 am in Gyde Taylor Building. Independence Lead Mines holds July 0 on 608 Cedar at 1 00 m. Wallace Mining Co calls a special meeting June 26 at 7 30 pm to elect officers pay debts and restart mining operations.
Daily quotations for silver, lead, zinc and copper are shown as the actual basis of settlement. The figures, compiled by the Engineering and Mining Journal, reflect values reduced to the New York and St. Louis cash basis. Copper is priced per pound and is often sold delivered, with the seller covering shipment.
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