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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 2, f 1908. SENATOR JONATHAN BOURNE TELLS WHY -- ROOSEVELT WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT L J j ' ' - " .- ' ' ' St : ; : : . By June J. ', Morrow. '. ' ' . - ' ' t ' (Copyright) ' WuMitpton, April II. Th Bournes ' have alno buntea whale. Jonathan Br . now. dead, . owntd mort whaling hlp -j than any one Ue- lit New" England. ." Jonathan 'f Jr.,'rverjinuc& all va, Tinaa aenator from th atata of Orfcgon.;waa onoa shipwrecked In - the China, sea. The Bournes, i It will be seen, are ter- eons of hasardous enterprises, having : nourafro ana aanng. iiaewise. iney nave - : Imagination andr temperament eapclal , ' ly temDerament . f; The center for the diffusion of ar- ' uments In support of Mr. Roosevelt s . - ''second , elective term" - Is Senator Bourne's al'ttinaj-room, '. seventh floor, able chairs, many brands of rood oiga, - numerous tins and boxes of first-rate tobacco, and an adequate, suddIv of , brier-root pipes. A large dining-room is ' held In reserve for dellcater-argumentative or hesitating casea. ., ', ; : .. 11- Jl , .1 . . 1 mo MUJiiu iriccuvw " wi fii -hub.' no other headqiarters. -- Senator Bourne cays that another one, east or' west, would .. m m. . rMloulnua - unnftAiiltir. Sentiment.-he explains, is 'practically unanrmouflk but it requires "crystalliza tion," a process, which,- In spite of all obstruction, will co on naturally until - th- Republicans delegates-meat in Chl- r'I Jiave "yet to hear of any one," he wia iu ma, who oeiievea jne president - would fall- of the nomination were he a candidate,' and of the thousands I have either talked with or heard from - through correspondence, only one man, and ' he is a Democrat In California, thinks the president would be defeated should he be nominated. Nothing but blunder - J! "govern rnc n't an-Wp Thait dore k Rooaevelt's renomlnatioa and re . election." t Because ! of his cheerfulness ' and steadfastness tinder rebuke, his indus try and Intelligence In the cause he has taken so gravely to heart and the gen eral publicity which haa resulted from his efforts. Senator Bourne 'has become a notable and Interesting personality. He is short, slender, and volcanic. When be Is In temper his eyes are brown.; at other times they are gray. His brow is bulging and Sroad and his black hair Is parted In the middle If he Is stand ing up ho talks and teeters on his toes; If he Is sitting down he rocks.- Mean- nip vuiireiHuun suunas mm n rean frorn a book or red ted from memory. )n the gag belt when I asked htm it the president-had ever condemned him- to his -face, i, Will ?alk Baek to Booserslt, "No." he replied, whtpplnir out bis words ,&nd snapping 'lils thin laws to gether' like sclssor-bladea, and be never will. He knows my rights. If he says anything seriously unpleasant BTFsir- grTtn -vmm. .uiuuuft pretty straight, at that." "But he decUxes." I ventured to ob servA "that under ' w circumstances will, he be a candidate again." , ."That foolish statement." Senator Bourne replied. ."Is a re 11 a of the past We are dealing with present elements and conditions. If there should be war-l tomorrow, mtllions of men would in stantly volunteer' to leave -their homes and their property, and flgrht. I should rut Theodore Hoosevelt Infinitely lower nan any of those men if he refused the presidency at the call of his country. He has preached duty for more than six -years, harshly holding up to us oitr obli gations as citizens ana loudly thunder ing against men whom , he has - called weauings. is ne to eat nia own words and confess that he is either a coward or a hypocrite? He Is neither, and he will make no such confession." "When," I Inquired, "did you begin tov agitate the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt by the convention of 1901?" "Three years ago, and 1 have been working steadily ever since. After 1904 'I said, as I eny now, that he was eligible In 1. law, sentiment,- and ; necessity to a second elective term,' a. phrase which has -galr.fcd ' considerable currency all over , the country. . The remnant of Mr. McKlnleys terra Is not to be considered at all. It chanced to be three years long. Suppose it had only been three days long, or three, hours long, or three minutes long! Such Is the Issue brought down to the last analysis. Furthermore, at the side of McKlnley's coffin Theo. dore Roosevelt promised to carry out the polloles of the dead president, a pledge he kept In loyalty and Integrity to the last,? He haa bad but one term or his own, mark that; but he will nave another," - g !.iirr? ':"-" : ' ."It Is said , you bave written 11,000 letters telling why Mr, Roosevelt should ba reelected? ' - " -:-r - ;'-'.-v-v . Only WriUrs Against JUeleotioa. "Tour figures are, .wrong. "'. I .havs written 16.500 letters, and 11.000 Der- sona have written to me.. How many of my - correspondents,' oo you imntt, are unfriendly to Mr, Roosevelt? SlxT and only two of the, mit referred to the f rejudlce against a third term. The hlrd-term argument-lf it can be called an argument, which I deny will not be used In h own party, except by those wj are antagonistic, to Mr. Roosevelt for reasons they, will not make public. . -"Practically and' I hiVe thought the matter all out. coin over lt-day after day, using , an atlas and an arithmetic practically. I say, the -third-ternv scare crow will not make a difference of a thousand 1 votes in the net result Mr. Roosevelt ; will be nominated ,ln June by the Republican convention, and his nomination will prove decisively the dreaA' and stupid Ineffectiveness of the third-term rubbish which Is being talked and printed by those who live in terror Of turn so long as he is president." "But the' crv of Caesarism "Will be beaqcdfcJuhAJfljnalJ. aal& "WhereT" Senator Bourne . auietlv asked, but bis eyes glittered and turned brown ss he laid a black cigar, six inches long, on the table "at his side. "I'll tell you where In WalK street, nd the roar of Wall street will help Roose velt, If Wall atreet didn't roar I should be afraid. I hope it will roar nA spend Its money. One hundred mfTfion dol lars couldn't buy the presidency away from Roosevelt this year. - Every cent that Is offered will be taken, no doubt; but let me tell you that when the men of this country go Into the booths on election day they will voe for them selves.' : "What are you aomg besides writing letters?" -Nothing much -that Is apparent. Nothing -much is necessary. Able men are organising sentiment in all parts, of the country organising it you under stand, and not creating: It, because it is already created-." "What -arguments are you emphasis ing?" v, "Arguments are not required. - Mr. Roosevelt la a complete demonstration. I point- out In mv correspondence, how ever, that we are to havs a tremendous contest mta ymrrlaTinaHti!HKr, Bryan- Is stronger now than he was In 189 or 1900. During the first cam paign he represented certain questions which had been agitated for IS years by advanced thinkers, political reform-: era and Populists. The country was not ready to accept some of Mr. Bryan's pe culiar views. Since then they have been adopted by the Republican party under : the vitalising and energetic leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, and have be come immensely popular with all classes of voters. Bryan Growing- Yery popular. There mere suggestions of Bryan have been put Into dally use by Roose velt, who is a great constructive states man and the strongest and most bril liant man on earth today. Bryan is not constructive, and he is only a partial demonstration. ' but he Is popular and has grown rapidly In the last three or four years. In his Journey around the world he came tn contact with mission ary work of all. denominations. - The Iettera he wrote for publication and the speeches he haa made since his return have 'been alive with the missionary spirit, and - have shown him - to be a deeply religious man. He has spoken In hundreds of churches, east ana wesc for whinh he hu chirmd no fee. and has profoundly Impressed .Christian people in au sections, t - ' -.v., ; v In' " thla . connection I bave : often ttiniiffht tr the immense narsonal Influ- lenoe which our two, foremost political t-'laat haM.nti tha mnrnl ' llf of the nation.;- Rooaevelt and Bryan preaon whenever there la ah opportunity. They are young, attractive and dynamic En thuelaatlc and energetic aermonisers in speech and by example,- each with a mighty party behind film, they are not alone worthy and potential In them selves, but are convincing witnesses of the spirit of the time., u ; "So It wiU n2t do to say that any Republican cat beat Bryan. Nor... will It do to say that Bryan's election, conr frrese being Republican In the senate at east, 'Would make little difference to the country. The, work already - under way must -not be stopped. Dishonesty in buHlnemt im In retreat. It Should be kept moving..-. Control and regulation of corporations, in my, opinion, naa De come a permanent principle, and there will be neither surrender nor recantation by the people, no matter bow hi any pan ics may oe cooaea up in wan irw. If I owned the Standard Oil company, or t"oe- Pennsylvania - railroad, .orthe sugar trusv or- tne unitea tsiaies eieei corporation, I should Want to give my bonds arid shares the Stable-value wfctoit would follow government regulation and for-a still . better reason I should helD Mr. Roosevelt all I could to carry out tne policies ne has inaugurates - Is BaaUy Protectlag Property. "In olaln words, we shall either have control and regulations of corporations or socialism, Mr. Roosevelt has been the -protector of ' property -against Its am. greecu juur bguntearjeaa jnaroi i y Property Is often ignorant and fre fluently property Is so busy that. It hasn't time to think. . ' Mr. Roosevelt Understands that the questions In the minds oi his countrymen today arw eco nomical and ethical. First, the observe ance ana not the avoidance oi taw. sec ond, the regulation and control of cor porations. Third, the conservation of the national - resources of ' the United States forests, lands, streams, miner als, and so on. "In the future our o residents. I, be lieve, will be taken from among ' the governors of our states.. After the Clvtl war. we chose soldiers, being un der the spell of patriotism and senti ment. In thoae daya we were imag inative, epical, and Impractical.- Then followed ft period when we nominated Ulustrloua leaders of our laraer Dolltl- cal princlplesv McKlnley, for instance, as representing; protection, and Bryan as representing "the unlimited coinage of silver. In the meantime, but very slowly at first, the little matters of everyday life began to be discussed in some of our cities street railway fares, for example. "ve -found that the simple things right at ou r n andsy : the: liMcoiIMiaered trifles of noisy and spectacular poli tics, were quite as Important to us aa were the more showy issues, which we heard explained with considerable sound and no less evasion on the stump. Roosevelt, back from Cuba, elected arov- ernor .of New York, perceived the tyr anny of the local corporations. Wall street, strategic as tne proverbial ost rich, but lacklnar the gifts of clairvoy ance, put him away In the catacomb of the vice-presidency, whence he burst to become the first of our utilitarian chief magistrates. Others will follow, trstned to our states while governors to the common needs of the common people. j Absolutely Bones and Entirely . Tn- Bslflsh. Our voters . don't stoo to make a scientific analysis of abstract prob lems, unless there Is agitation, and then their opinions are always sound and Just They know, as 1 know from cloao observation, that Roosevelt approaches every question Vith two inquiries. Is It right? '.'And then: la it heal. for Hie preitettgr-elagSos ? It ba -.hoileveait to oe right and that it will benefit the country as a whole, the people know he will take off bis coat. Jump into the middle of, the ring, and scrap like i,r n-ii not amw or any man or any group of men on earth. Moreover he la a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y honest and en tirely ; unselfish and splendidly compe tent i. m told by one of. the most eminent men in public Ufa, and him self a distinguished lawyer, that Roose velt' has the . greatest naturally - legal fit is to be believed." I added,- "that ho Is about the shrewdest politician in the Republican party."1 ' ' - "He cares .loss, about politics and thinks less about politics than any pub. no man in my acquaintance, - I have been looking at him- at close range for two years. Before I came to the ann ate in December, 1905, I had - never t not met mm.- i nave no particular per sonal irienasnip ror mm now. - we naa simply been a study to me, and I have gone about my work with an open mind. Take my word for It when I say that he Is no politician, While he never thinks of himself in any matter he un dertakes. , I suppose he does think , of his policies, but they are national and impersonal. - : "The self-discipline, by ' the way, of pyttlng aside all .the feelings and im pulses of Theodore Roosevelt, the Indi vidual, ' when he sternly turns to he duties of Theodore" Roosevelt, the presi dent, haa caused It to be said that he is utterly rutniess wnen ne nas an oo- iect in view. He Is a kind man, that I mow. but he remembers he la not president of himself or of his house hold, but of a nation. Here end there soma one may hate him, but no one ever ; deSnlaes him. - If Bismarck had been a chancellor of wood Instead t t Iron, the Mttle states of Germany would not have been knit Into an em pire. a'- Koosevslt's Tiger Is Electric "I have noticed, too, that the vigor of Roosevelt Is more than Intellectual and-physical. It Is also electrical. He takes you by the hand for . a moment and -some of the power of your arm goes Into his own. Meeting 4 thousand men -during- the day, getting a little streHglRr&T ewcKT nermafVetolTiny alive and alert . for his usual exercle in -the evening. I deubt if he ever gets tired. Such a person couldn't be s politician in the conventional meaning of the word. - Can. a Hon i assume the arts of a fox? "Three or four times I have asaefl Mr Rnnaevelt for small favors, and after investigations of his own he has turned me away witn explanations mat were satisfactory. Little as they were, my requests would have violated the rules of some of the departments. Had Mr. Roosevelt offered me excuses .as Other presidents . would have done, . I ahmiM have Inst resDect tor nim ana concluded that he was a weak man. I have Invariably found him to be bluntly plain, precisely sqnare, and laboriously conscientious. ' When he said on the nignt or elec tion day in 1904 that 'under no clrcum stancea will I be a candidate for or accept another nomlriatlon,' he was guilty of an assinine performance aa a Dolltirlan. Of course, his motive was apparent: his motives always are. He thought he would strengthen his hands for the work before him by serving no- tfee on the world-that-.no future; aet or W administration eeuld be. fairly lt- trlhuted to Dersonal ambition, a poli tician skilled at the game would have said nothing. Then, on the lztn or last uecemoer. yielding to bad counsel at his elbow, h added a wholly fruitless and un necessary pontscrlpt to his former fool ishness by saying mat ne man i changed his mind. His first state ment was assinine; the last one was an Insult to the American people. I know Mr. Roosevelt Is sincere In everything he has said, and that, the members of his family want him to leave the pres idency for gooa at me ena or nis term: but neither his own personal program nor the demand of his family ls of any weight whatever. When there Is war and there Is war on predatory wealth every American worthy . of his flag and his cltlxenshlp does his duty, and does It manfully. Roosevelt a politic ian! Yes; in the sense that Abraham Lincoln was a politician." , , "What will you do after- yoo reach Chicago to attend the convention?" "I expect to W'a'-deiegala, ? What I Shall do or what-I shall not do will epend WofrclrcuWStancSK- By that time Republican sentiment', will be crystallied. , - Tho delegates Will "- be r icked men. - As " they coma ; together hey will note conditions and will an alyse the situation. ; They will learn far. themselves. If they . don't already know It that Roosevelt can poll nearly every Republican .vote In the country and 16. per oent of the - Democratic vote, and that- ha can break the solid south and i carry Kentucky,. . Tennessee and North Carolina. - "It will be seen, too, that Mr. Bryan and bis minor leaders hay bet all of their money on one - card. , Believing that Mr. Roosevelt would not be re nominated they have loudly approved many of his public acta, and, thereby have out a-aars in their mouths against hostile utterance. Mr. Roosevelt will not. be chosen In 1 a stampede. The convention will be coldly deliberate, and when the entire situation . is., dis closed to him end he Is nominated, Mr. Roosevelt will be compelled to ac cept the - nomination and make ' the fight." - .., But suppose-he telegraphs a fierce and positive refusal T' -..-. "When men -are drafted for-war It la not cuatomary to regard their excuses or protests. They are seised nd hus tled to the front" "Where will money be obtained for the campaign?" " : "From tha- people themselves In small contributions. No .more than $1,000,000 will be needed. And business-will begin to revive from the very hour of tho nomination. Tou may say I am Idealistic, but, I feel sure that during the next five years Mr. Roos evelt, as president of the United States, will take measures to Insure complete cooperative . efficiency between . labor and capital. 1 believe we shall have arbitration , boards organized, as are the federal courts, by districts and cii cults, with a supreme board in Wash ington for the final aettlement of all disputes. Hard times and panics after that will rarely return. If ever they return at all and Mr. Roosevelt will have accomplished more for humanity than has any man since the world was created." spu wejafcoj?L In, Magsaeliuaettt How did you get to Oregon?" ; ; Skip Burned By Hsadhanters. "I left Harvard at the end of my Junior year, and, going to Cardiff, wales, took passage on a sailing ship In which my father was Interested. The ship was bound for- Hongkong with a cargo of briquets.. During a typhoon In the China aea we were driven on a rock and had to beach the ship -on the Island of Formosa. Going ashore we fell among head-hunters. They were harmless, however, but When out. backs were turned they burned our ahip. After getting to San Francisco I went ttt Portland, where I made pleasant acqualntlnces a.nd where I concluded to study law. to please my father. I practiced for a year and then went Into business mining, prlncU pally, at first" "Who was your father?" "A poor bov from Cape Cod, who set tled In New Bedford, Massachusetts, as a , clerk. He- began to buy whaling ships before he' was of age. and later In his life owned more ships of that kind than any man In- New TTno-lan but petroleum made whale oil unprof- ft or his death I saw by his accounts Afte that liable, end he gave up the-business. during his ownershlB of a alna-la ship he had made 1680.000. Ha was n banker, a cotton manufacturer, a rall- roaa oirector. ana a remarkably sa gacious business man." LAflOENEWMILLJN SOUTHERN OREGON (Special Dispatch) to Tbs Journal.) Ashland, Or., May 2. The Algoma Lumber company Is erecting a new saw mill at Klaniathon which will have a icuttlng capacity of 100,000 feet dally. The company has 40 men employed. It has a large contract with the Klamath take railroad to haul loga for the new mill covering a period of three years. The company has a fine belt of "tim ber which will make about 40,000,000 feet of lumber. PORTLAND RAILWAY, LIGHT & POWER COMPANY .BoZcfin Ho. 2 . THE RUSH-HOUR PROBLEM,. 7 . We intend to discuss in this-bulletin, firjt, the nature of the. rush-hour problem; next, tome of the greatest difficulties incidental to this trying period of the day; and 'lastly, how we are meeting this problem. ,-. , , - - ', ' Briefly stated, this rush-hour problem is that of handling the , traffic at the hours of heavy travel, between 6 and 9 o'clock in the morning and between 5 and 7 o'clock in the evening. . ' ' ' Between' these hours every man in the city who is earning his living in this work-a-day life is on the move and anxious to reach his destination promptly and conveniently. . ' Our most difficult problem is in the evening between 5 and 7 o'clock.- Between these two hours everyone who has been brought down town in the three morning hours, and many more who have come down later, in the day, start for home, and are in the typical ' American hurry to reach it, An illustration will make it easier to understand the difficulties of furnishing transportation for a great crowd. . , BASEBALL GAME AS ILLUSTRATION. , ' . You have all been to a baseball game, where there were 5,000 rooters. You know how we line the cars up outside the grounds waiting for the end of the game. Forty cars, each carrying 100 people, are necessary to move this crowd, which means a line of cars, standing lp feet apart, almost half a mile in length, v When the crowd piles on the cars after the game, even, with this line of cars ready, it takes 15 or 20 minutes to load them all, and bring the last car up from nearly half a mile away. If every one waited for seat the crowd wouldn't get home until long 'afteMsrk.---- . -,, -, THE DAILY PROBLEM. & t , With this explanation we will take up our daily, problem. - The office buildings, wholesale houses and shops around Washington, Third and Morrison streets, pour hordes of people into the streets at 5 o'clock, again at 5:30 and again at 6 o'clock. ' It is not a question of handling 5,000 people, but the number is approximately, 50,000. We are not allowed to line our cars up ss at a ball game, but must keep them moving. The streets sre filled with slow-moving wagons, some of whose drivers think that they are punishing the company by delaying 50 or more people in a car, - STOP AND THINK. ' , , It takes 15 to 20 minutes to move 5,000 people at the ball . grounds, where we can line up our cars. How much greater is the problem when there are 10 times that number to be moved, taking into consideration the difficulties mentioned above? We wish to emphasUe two difficulties encountered in grappling with this problems ' First There are the delays to traffic caused by Interruptions of service across, the bridges. v . SecondThe attempts of passengers to get on board cars that are already crowded, when by waiting a few seconds they can board other car whkh-are ot filled -----::----- - - N " " HOW THIS PROBLEM IS BEING MET. t We are always at work on these problems: We have increased our equipment over 30 per : cent, and during the rush hours our carrying capacity is doubled. This rush-hour problem is not local, every city has it- It is more difficult here for the reasons given, but ssk the people who , travel how our service compares with that of other cities at these hours-Hhat is s fair test, ' . - This bulletin is to convince you that we are endeavoring to give you good service, and to give you s broader understanding of our underlying difficulties, so that we will have' your cooperation and encouragement. . ; If this sketch appeals to you, try not to kick if you don't get a seat in the evening or if some one casually walks over you. Think it out, ana realize some ot our oimcuities. Ill SaasBMiSaSHMBSMMMSBBIMiBaSSBBBMiBMSWiSBBSBBBSiBMMMHMBSBSaHMWBBMMMSBa lllIilL MIC CUTS MCI A New Lease on the World-Famed Florence Gold Mine Closed Yesterday, and Its Promotion Stock Will Be Sold to the Public , An Absolutely New Deal in, Establishing a Cold Mine Enterprise Sale Will Close Next Saturday, May 9, at Noon , i" Here is an absolutely new deal in gold mine promotion. It has been said, and honestly believed, for se'veral months, that no new lease could be had on the Florence mine of Goldfield, Nevada. It has been con tended, that a mine so unspeakably rich as is the Florence could not longer lease its ground. There are probably 25 leases on that property now, and each a monumentally rich producer! The Little Florence lease expired last Sunday at midnight arid could not be renewed. It had been mining a million dollars a month.; The, Rogers Syn dicate lease expires July 11 "at midnight, and already a renewal has been refused. This mine has been producing more 'gold than any mine-before it on the face of the earth ever has produced. Within the last month it sacked 105 100-oound sacks of ore that netted the leasers $1,000 to the sack $105.000 and the eold was taken out In share we have left on hand, but, with all due regard to the gentleman, we believe we shall not have one for -him to buy. 0 . .',.''' FOR ONCE, AT LEAST, WE WANT THE PUBLIC TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR. It never has been done in Oregon, arid, we think, once we have broken the ice, the method will prevail forever. As stated, our promotion stock will go at cents per share, until 150,000 shares have been sold, and will then be taken from the market and the treasurv stock will be held at 10 cents oer share, until results :. 1 . fi 1 1 ? .rmAA a. - ,1 i i - i li ,t'iii d 1 ee rrr a. 1 a. : C T-t , . . i , i nn 1 -rt - -- ! -1. a. . nr v cigui tiuuia. ii nas uccu i mining m ipuu,wvio-inc-iun ore, ana some . aciuauy mincu ;piuu,vwu iu mc itni - jusiiiy ajiuincr rise, -mis ougni XO De Wlinin ou or w aays. incre is nine guess aixjut mis. , vvc Know loads of it. - The Florence Annex lease has been paying nearly 5,000 per cent on all moneys invested in its almost to a dot what we have and how deep we must go to get it. Ask any of our local Goldfielders about shares. The Daisy Florence lease is, enriching everybody that is connected with it. The Pollard-Florence lease that. They know that we will cut the ledge at 250 feet. That fact is already established. It is' a foregone is pouring gold into the coffers of its people. The Aurelia-Florence lease is one of Goldfield's great properties, conclusion, and by that time we will be able to hoist the ore to the surface and pay dividends as large as any The Emma Fraction Florence lease IS; a big producer. The Goldfield Chedd Florence lease is up to its chin in property in that great camp. ' gold.' The Portland-Florence lease, owned by a Portland company, is just breaking into that immense body TT .. T -,AOT? ' of ore that has made the Little Florence the wonder of the globe, and will most likely pay its Portland stock- HOW DID WE SECURE THIS LEASE? $ holders Lrnonster profits in the coming months.' ' We have, not a thing to secrete from the public. In Goldfield we have desk .room with Hany C. Davis. agent ior iom jLXKKnart, principal owner ot the Florence, we Decame warm, personal inenas, and, though often friendship and business dontmixf they did this time Mr. Davis is a most estimable, - kindhearted v OUR NEW LEASE IS SMACK IN THE CENTER OF THIS NEST.. It is crowded in between the Little Florence on the south, Pollard-Florence and Ajurelia, Florence on the east, Florence Annex on the west, Chedd lease and Portland Florence on the north, all adjoining our property. It is as squarely in the center of this world-amazing group of the richest gold mines that ever was opened by the hand of manj as the sun :at noonday in the month of June is squarely m the center of the skies above. To the north there is gold, to the south there is gold, to the east there is gold, and to the west there is gold touching us on all sides and you cannot find a man in this town, who ever has been in Goldfield, who will not tell rou that he would wager his. precious life against a small sum of the shining mineral, that there are millions in gold beneath the surface-of that ground. - , ' FOR gentleman, and rarely is there one more companionable than he. Our associations i ripened into more than ordinary friendship, and through them, though it had been decided never to lease another inch of Florence, territory, Mr. Davis stretched a good many points and consented to let us have a dip into that mine's hidden treasury. "If you have a lease at all you want a good one," was his final conclusion, "and you shall have that spot there," as he pointed to the VERY CREAM of all the Florence 65 acres,' because it-has leaning against it every one of the giants of the tract. It was a matter of friendship from- first to last from beginning to' end and we now have an ambition to show the people of this coast there i more to life than mere mercenary motives than pure-selfishness so we invite the co-operation of alL those who really heed the fruits of the gold mine, and desire to get out of the rut of every-day plodding to make both ends meet v-, -s.'ff-r-. ON SATURDAY NOON OF NEXT WEEK THE DOOR WILL CLOSE ON THIS OP PORTUNITY, ANP NEVER WILL SWING ON ITS HINGES AGAIN. We know there is not much time to investigate or give this matter thought,' but we cannot help that. We had this one hance to get this lease, ani were glad to get it on the terms we have. There is now more than $15,000,000 in sight in the, Florence mine above the 400-foot level, andt our. lease is hedged in on every side by just such ore as is a part, of this. " ' - - . WE WIRED $1,000 TO GOLDFIELD YESTERDAY TO BIND THE BARGAIN ' THISXEASE, AND MUST HAVE $4,000 MORE THERE ON MAY 10. (" - There are four men in Portland, who Offer to taVe this stock at 3 cents per' share. We can have their nioney in 10 rninutes. We would rather not accept it. We would rather sellto the general public at the same price. It has been widely advertised, that stock companies have been in the habit of "selling' their promotion .stock to their friends at a low price, and their treasury shares t6.vthe public at large advances. We freely con fess that the charee has been too often based on factsl This time we will let the oublic-in-on the oromotion stock. ' The property has been capitalized at $1,000,000, divided into 1,000,000 -shares of non-assessable stock, " ': vV''-' "f-. OUR HEAD QUARTERS." ' 500,000. of -which shall be treasury and 500,000 promotion stock. To pay expenses of incorporation, rent and ad- This bargain has come upon us in such a rus.lv.its conclusion being by telegraph, that we have "not had vertising tolls, and to enable His tQ wire-"$4,000 to the owners of the parerit Florence ; before the close of tho , time to "fix up, pr do much ftse. Therefore we are quartered with the Butte Boys Company, 517 Lumber banks on Saturday, May, 9, we will, sell 150,000 shares of this promotion stock at 3. cents per share. Our con- Exchange building, Second and Stark.' Interested ones may there see all telegraphic correspondence in con tract calls for the money on Saturday, May 9, the 10th being Sunday, and it will be therein time, no matter section with the deal, and be convinced that everything has been done open and above board, and nothfiig what number of shares we may sell by this public method. A business man stands ready to take every concealed from any one. !. . " t :,yf These 3 -Cent Shares Must Be Paid for Spot Cash r Write, Phone . Orders, Castt on . - at Once -1 IE -EIEM(E1E-.OT,I 517 Lumber Exchange gilding,! Portland Ore- T mm mm , 'In Process bflncorppratioir pffK C!cc ITKI tz Cr:n ( . ( ) Scsdays zzi 8 r. Phon&rJnin 514
