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Newspaper
Wallace Miner
Location
Wallace, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1923
Page
2
The Miner prints early for Thanksgiving to celebrate the spirit of the day and the unhappy bird. The piece notes a prosperous year with optimism for the next, while acknowledging some residents cannot join in the feast. It emphasizes gratitude and the joy of giving over receiving.
Senator Gooding seeks to canalize the Snake River from Lewiston to Shoshone Falls to create water transportation to the Pacific and solve freight rate issues for southern Idaho. The plan would extend Lewiston’s seaport status and boost the state’s agricultural and industrial gains through improved river navigation and energy use.
The article argues Lewiston’s unique asset is its navigable rivers making it the furthest inland Pacific port outside Alaska. It asserts Lewiston must capitalize on river access and water-rate facilities to become great, contrasting with other cities' specialized assets. It warns Lewiston loses focus when not pursuing open river opportunities.
W J Hindley longtime Spokane pastor and former mayor urged a wide open town stance. His remarks provoked a strong backlash from business leaders and citizens who defend current laws as reflecting the majority stance. The controversy centers on vice and morality versus business interests in Spokane.
A soldiers anti bonus league mobilizes to register millions of veterans opposed to the bonus bill. The movement aims to establish a state by state network during Congress session to show hardy support against extra benefits for veterans, while the American Legion advocates for a different stance.
Across editorials from New York Times to Chicago Tribune and Boston Globe, commentators discuss a 12 mile limit versus a 3 mile territorial claim, ratification of a new treaty, economic shocks from rumors of war, Secretary Mellon’s tax cuts, and President Wilson’s health in relation to the League of Nations. They unite in urging decisive policy moves and fiscal prudence.
The Troy Times reports Premier Poin care contends Germany's ability to pay should be related to its capacity to destroy, reflecting postwar reparations sentiment and wartime ruin assessment amid European financial strain.
The Saturday Evening Post warns midcareer reporters and leaders against repeating past errors. It argues reforms must be grounded in history, using the past as a base for forward motion. It urges education and public opinion leaders to learn from history to avoid costly failures.
A fragment notes Thomas Jefferson served with General Washington in the Virginia legislature before the Revolution and with Dr. Franklin in Congress during the war, remarking that neither spoke for long periods, only addressing the main point in debate.
A Civil War dispatch from Grant at the Wilderness notes six days of heavy fighting with success and heavy losses. Prisoners exceed casualties, and he vows to fight on. Poignant reflections follow on death, hope, and endurance.
Boise Statesman notes the Columbia Basin league advocates a massive reclamation project. They propose a 20 000 second foot canal with extensive concrete sidehill work and miles of tunnels including a 1 mile long bore. Water would come from the upper Columbia River and large reservoirs would be built to meet demand, with water rights costing 250 to 300 dollars per acre.
A lyrical Bible country scene portrays twilight over Idaho mountains with purpling foothills and silent birds. The verse dwells on nature’s hush before night and a divine benediction as sky and earth clasp like lovers at sea.
Poem by Emund Clarence Stedman reflecting on aging and wisdom. The speaker laments the fading strength of the old as clearer vision comes late and seeks a realm where youth and knowledge burn together. It questions if a rarer being or fairer sphere exists beyond fate's derision.
Stratton Mines Company outlines stock transfer rules including a $20 payment deadline of January 1 1924 and a call privilege expiration. It explains how option certificates can be exchanged for stock at any name or denomination, no transfer fee, and that surrender fixes transfer instructions. A future detailed financial statement will be issued to stockholders after organization is perfected.
The record notes awards from Wallace to Kellogg based on H H Boomer unit prices, with remaining project portions adjusted for Shoshone county to meet a stipulated total. Shoshone county cuts earth excavation price from 40 to .37, trimming $884.82. Combined contracts total $102,002.08. Boomer bid $103,123.27. The note adds that six tons of waste paper yield pulp equivalent to an acre of virgin timber.
Dr C B Stone reports Hilarity Mining company let a contract to extend the drift 50 feet this week and plans another after completion, enabling winter development. The drift has extended in ore for 300 feet toward the footwall. Ore includes lead and zinc with lead on the footwall side and zinc on the hanging wall. A crosscut vein 12 feet wide hosts fair milling ore. The showing and vein outcrop suggest strong potential, near Denver gulch about a quarter mile from the railroad site.
Under mining engineer F W Callaway of Kellogg the Argentine mine two and a half miles west of Wallace will be dewatered and developed. The past two years saw equipment and development, including electric powered compressor and a 2000 foot cable tramway to rail, with ore yielding high silver value yet disappointing shipments. New financing through treasury stock sales aims to put the mine on a paying basis. visitors included Arthur Hooper of Spokane and director A F Theilman last week.
Department of the Interior specialists at the Reno Nevada Bureau of Mines station examine ores from across the nation for minerals the United States lacks. Several samples show positive results for molybdenum uranium radium vanadium tungsten platinum titanium thorium cerium rare earths and zirconium. The article notes England could be walled by the coal it mines annually.
Charles Mathewson of Toronto led a group of thirteen young men to British Guiana to search for diamonds. After reaching Bartle they hired twenty Africans and worked two weeks along the Mazarini River, washing gravel and finding small but flawless stones. Fever struck. one member, L K Stokes, died, others fell ill, and the party returned to Georgetown for care. Seven resumed the interior search hoping for richer deposits.
Interior Department Bureau of Mines at Reno describes a laboratory centrifuge bowl for concentrating zinc descloizite ores from slime tails. New tests suggest potential commercial use for hard to treat slimes and possible competition with flotation. Design improvements yield a small commercial machine for further plant testing.
Divers aboard the salvage vessel Racer report four years of recovering gold from the Laurentic wreck off Lough Swilly in Ireland. bullion worth about 35 million dollars was found amid mud and debris after initial hand digging caused injuries. The work shifted to water pressure hoses to free the treasure.
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