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So Says Henry C. Emery, Pres
ident of Taft's New Tariff
Board Tells of Vast
Amount of Work Involved.
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r U.e r-.-i.ulU of the tariff -i a.1 tariff acta. The., have been simrly
i' h.'it it ! ; f-"-t a I -.- In. :i ns;
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v- m., .-,:i.n. r- ..! ;--r to ji-i'inlte!y d-- . framed it And t
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li-ur.r oik to VHi would be in shano ; the result of hasto In
Cor conj.-reswonal n tion at the comins i multitude, of detaiN.
Bossion and dH'l;trins that their rec
ommendations wouid bo far the presi
dent, to whom ail loporrs tyould.be
mad.:. Chairman Kmerjr asserted the
perfect independence of his board.
"Facta are what we are after," ha
sUd, "and the only influence.' that can
be brought to bear upon us Is the In
fluence of facts. ' :
Concentrate on Schedules.
"Xou can appreciate the necessity we
are under of concentrating our efforts
at first on a few main lines of
Investigation. We ; have vdeclded to
concentrate for the , moment on
schedule- 'M'' (pulp " and paper);
schedule "K" (wool and woolens), and
schedule "O" farm products). Pre
liminary work is also being dons on
schedule 'A' (chemicals); schedule 'C
tho i-.iJ. t of a
tl.ij cu.t H Si ! t o '; i h
; . -r to buy o.i '. i : U
bi;t it la I.nmra. :,:' r- 77,. t from
t!,e point of fr-:-..'.t r . ; t' ia t- Uiy
and ship-from Mtv Tort Then is no
rea-on n. ! y an tamwis trade could not
be built up by tho Parifla coast cities
Kith tbe -ports of Fo.th America on
Uie Pacific and Carrtxian ci.nj.ts.
"I venture to say that 'all the hard
woods you now secure from tho orient
will be ' shipped from northwestern
South America when the canal Is fin-
tlon of facta for any purpose the sci
entific method Is of the jtmost value,
but In dealing with the tariff problem
absolute scientific accuracy Is Impos
sible, and a scientific solution of the
i tariff question, in the sense of a per
manent and perfectly just tarlfr, suit
able to all times and to all Industrial
conditions,- is obviously a dream.
"It Is also true that the question Is
a business question. In that It should
be settled for the best economic Inter-
(metals ahd . their manufactures) and I esU of the . country and ' should
schedule T (cottons). ; These lnvestl- I be taken out of politics in the sense
Tit iTiijiot uncommon to ho:ir state-
ments to the effect that tho tariff ques
tion should have a scientific solution, or
that the tariff should be made purely a
business question and be taken out Of
polities. Such statements aro service
able when their meaning is really un-
Hrcfnn.l hnf 'ho ra 1nn Afton Tit-
leadinR. it is true that in me coueo- . ", TT.
(Cnltrd rw lMd Wlr. .
Chicago, Dea 3. Deprecating .with
equal emphasis the Idea that a careful
and impartial .tariff investigation will
prefve the death knell of .American pros-
. parity and, the! countorview that the
nw method of tariff making? lll
hVe all the. evils of society, , Hpnry C.
Emery, chairman of President ,Taff
new tariff board, tonight Explained at
length the work of that body at the
dinner here of the Chicago Association
of Commerce. . t;'s:-"-. v'i 'v.;i; V-'
' Scores of the biggest business men of
the ; central west were guests at the
. banquet nd listened' with- marked at
tention . to , the 1 Explanation of Chair
taan Emery and his two fellow mem
bers of the , tariff board, r James a
' Reynold and Alvln H. Bandera, in the
'first, anthnrtt Mir ofofmonf - nv,i
IMPORTANT
NOTICE
IF YOU HAVE A ' PIANO
;M ANU F ACTrUR
ERS' PRIZE CHECK,
READ THIS CARE
J FULLY. .- ...
'4 t
Eilers Music House Has Ar
ranged to , Redeem 140
Piano Contest Prize
; Checks, No Matter by
i Whom These Checks May
i Have Been Issued Nor'to
i Whom They May Be Pay
j able Again Eilers Music
House Demonstrates Its
Ability to Furnish Buyers
i the Very Most as Well as
i the Very Best for the
money. , .
ft you. are the holder of a elano con
test prle check, you will be interested
In. this announcement. 17 We have ar
ranged with even ; of- tbe '. foremost
American piano makers so that we shall
accept 140 piano contest prise checks.
irrespective of amount and no matter
by whom or to whom Issued. Bear this
In inlnd, at Eilers Musc House yott al
ways secure a better piano for less
money ; than Is obtainable 'elsewhere,
P'J: matter what may be the : pla tor
special Conslderationi) In v r applying
yq-.r prize award toward payment of
oSi of our planoiB,. you secure at Balers
fl.islc House any of the seren highest
ffuae- American pianos and player' pl
tks at - the lowest - retail cash price.
Vu secure "a far better lnstrumen
t)in obtainable elsewhere, and Whether
, our prise check is $60 or $100 or even
JUQ TSllers Music House - will accept
tho same fexactlv aa. so much cash. Nor
i4ed the balance be paid at once. Oar
easy payment ; plan entitles ,; anw re
sponsible; hian or- woman' in Oregon to
two years time and longer if seeded.
in which to- complete: payment for a
piano.. . i.: .t.(..v t !,-,r
no concern west or east possesses
the facilities and the advantages em
bodied in the Ellora modern . aelling
system of highest grade pianos. ' No
where else are 'the very best, specially
selected, factory, inspected" and ; fully
guaranteed pianos sold upon a plan
so advantageous to the. retail buyer.
Many ' holders of - certificates or prise
aheckfl nave already called and Investi
gated these Seemingly broad claims of
oura. In every case they found them
to be facta." Tbeyv bought their pianos
of idlers Music : House. . Invariably
Eilers Music House was found in posi
tion to supply for almost a third less
the identical grades and qualities for
which $376, $475. $650 and even $(00
was asked elsewhere. ' Toward' payment
of these low prices, a credit check may
be applied as so much eash. - How we
ean afford to do this has been ' ex
plaloed In "our announcements time and
It ia well to remember that oar prices
are one and the same to all alike.
child can purchase here as advantag
eously as can the shrewdest shopper.
Do not be lead to pay the fat round
prices certain dealers and agencies are
compelled to ask until yon have con
vinced yourself , that you cannot find
better pianos and do better in , every
war at Kllers Music House. t ,
Jt should be remembered, that we sell
mora pianos annually than . do all the
rent of the western dealers combined.
- Does not this point to Knars Music
House as the one beet place for piano
buying:' There aro several reasons for
our extensive buBineaa. '
ilrst of all. Eilers Mania Houm sells
the finest and the very best of pianos
and other musical instruments, and,
secondly having no middleman's prof
its, no San PTancisoo - Jobbing house
commission, and nunwrous other ln-
termedlata charges to take care of,
E31era Musk) House la In position to
offer these Instruments upon a llttle-proflt-per-pUno-baHlB,
which means the
savin of as much as one-third the
usual nrioa. 1
Eilers Music Xlouso Is ia poaltftu to
furnish Instruments on terms of pay.
rrtent as easy and as advantaeous as
can be Imwdnod. . . .
Ftor IS a momh pianos will be. found
here at $ZS. for which $375 is asked
e.mowherSL and $3CS at $13 a month win
secure instruments here which : cannot
bo obtained for less than $500 in the
usual '.retail.' way.; .'-y.y-, H
Every Instrument sold by Eilers Mu-
lu House Is guaranteed, both . as to
o nail ty - aad a-t price. Instruments
of tor delivery must be found satisfac
tory to the purchaser, or money nacte
i Select your piano tomorrow at Ore-
rron's Home Piano House, 353, S
Washington street, have it sent home
it once or let us set It aside to bo de
livered later as the most acceptable
Xmaa gift you ve ever made.
gations are . not; yet , complete , and I
cannot say when they will be."
Speaking generally of what .the tariff
board has done and what it hopes to
accomplish, Mr. Emery 'said:; :..
"I wish to appeal to you to keep a
sane sense of. proportion jin regard to
the work of the tariff board, Unfor
tunately, . there has been great exag
geration on both aides as to the Influ
ence for good or for ' evil of tariffs
themselves, of tariff makers and of
tariff investigators. There are those
who think that the only cause of hu
man welfare is a protective tariff, and
there are those who think that pro
tection 1. the chief eauBe of human
misery.
'. llany Questions Arise. . :;
Manj question have doubtless al
ready arisen In your minds regarding!
this tariff program. ,1 fancy I can
anticipate some of them. For example;
"L Ia all this Information necessaryf
2. What will it amount to? r,
3. Can you get'itT i
'4. What can you do' wU1 UT
"Let. us take the questions up in
order. ' - f , -
First: Is all this InformaUon nec
essary ? f "".'
'Many people believe that our inves
tigation Is planned on altogether an
elaborate scale, and that such a body
as the ... tariff . board can find out all
that ia necessary i about - tamf condi
tions by much simpler methods.' ; This
Is a criticism which should be fairly
considered. r
In no country of Eurone.. for exam
ple, have the methods of Investigation
of industrial conditions as affected by
me larixi included such extended ex
amination of ' costs of . production ' by
trained experts in the government em
ploy as is contemplated by ther tariff
board. ' , .
In Germany, for Instance, there is a
large committee, which, in the prepa
ration of the last tariff. was very
active at a certain stage of the pro
ceedings, and this . Is some times re
ferred to in this county as the German
tariff commission. , This body, however,
which numbered , $6, . wasv primarily an
advftory body, made up of the great
teaaers jo me industrial world. .. ' :
XAi -:V Heed'Outslde MUUl
In ' the same way In ' Austria the
government has received much assist
ance from the Associated Chambers of
commerce. No - such body exists in
the United , States ' and the effort
promptly to put the question of revision
on. a sound i basis, therefore, Involves
a much more extensive labor of in
vestigation that would t "otherwise be
necessary. 4
"The second question Is What does
It amount tor That .Is, assuming that
we: have lhla, information, , Including
even- uetaiis regarding the .costs of
prosecution, will t afford the real basis
for a Judgment regarding tariff rates?!
"rrankiy, we do not believe that a 1
mere statistical knowledge of compar
ative costs-of production is an alii
sufficient basis for tariff judgment
In fact, we wish to emphasize most
strongly our poslUon that , the tariff
problem Is not a mere statistical prob
lem, the greater the mass of figures ac
cumulated the greater ; tho knowledge
derived. -A Wa must limit - or work In
such a way as to avoid two crave
dangers. First, that ithe board would
be so. swamped by a mass of material
that, even At. it were rreatlv mlarced.
It could not handle . the . material in-
telllgently; , second, ; that., the t board
-would be forced to trust merely to
averages In mathematical form. This
latter danger promises to become the
crux, or the whole situation
Question of Businass.: -7.. ';..'
TTre tariff question is one of business
and not mathematics. : The problem of
how far an' industry needs protection Jto
keep it in sound existence, or what the
effect of its decay would be cannot be
settled oy any algebraic - formula..
that skeds should be adopted or re
jected with a view to their effect on
these economic interests, and not with
a view to some political advantage in
the play of party interest : ' !
'The present weakness' of the tariff
board "lies, not so much in the extent
of its powers ai In the . uncertainty as
to the perpetuation of: such powers, In
the future. . .
' "It Is, however, of the utmost Import
ance that it should be established on
a permanent basis; that Its member be
appointed solely for their capacity ef
ficiently to deal with1 economic questions
of this nature. without bias of any kind
and that its duties and powers should
ultimately be defined by law in such a
way as to make them Independent of
the ' Rood will of any individual and
free from the Influence or control' of
any party." t -
BRINGS DEEDS TO ;
MILLION -WON AT. '
COST OF. A LIFE
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(Continued from Page One.)
about to realize his life dream of great
wealth.
Professor Holt was a man of excep
tional intelligence and force of character
and for many years Was associate editor
Of the New Tort: Sun, He left the Sun
in 1875 to take up the- hunt for gold
and for 20 years chased the. rainbow In
California, in the Rogue river district
of Oregon, in Alaska and . finally in
South; America. He had scarcely per
fected his ; title to the r.io Mata prop-.
erty, which is said to be enormously
valuable," when he died. Strange to say,
he was 78 years eld when he- attained
his goal of i wealth only to lose it
'through deatth. ; -i : U '"-'("..' ;. ..' .. j
Syiarrto Be IPubUshed. '
,. Mr. Fuller has Professor Hqlt'a orig
inal diary with him. Typewritten copies
have been made and It will be published
if the consent' of the .children Is ob
tained, It recounts a remarkable story
of his trip to South America from the
time be left New .York In March of this
year until a few days before his tragic
death In the Colombian jungles at Cla
neres, In the stata of Antoqula.-. -
ti From first to last this diary Which fa
written In Interesting fashion and in
most : entertaining- English, gives de
scriptions and anecdotes of the country
and of the hardships that this man of
nearly 'four-score ' years underwent In
his search. Interspersed on nearly every
page with thought for Ills family and
for, the wealth that, would be theirs if
his quest proved successful ;.
i i Mr.' Fuller, who came to Portland to
deliver the property of Professor .Bolt
to his son. and daughter, la chief engi
neer of tha Mata mines in Colombia and
secretary of the Holt Leasing company.
which controls tha leases secured by f
Dr. Holt and which have passed Into the .
hands pf his heirs. .Mr. Fuller is a typ-
leal American mining . engineer quiet, :
resourceful, full of his subject and of
the country he is working in and with '
a fund of information about Colombia
that makes anyone , who talks to him
want to go there and wash sold out of
the Rio Mata. Remedies is the nearest
town to Mr. I Fuller's property.'. The
holdings are on the Rio Mata, which
flows Into the . Rio Cauca and thence
into the Magdalena, which empties Into
the Caribbean sea. From .Remedies, to
the 'mouth of the- Magdalena is some
00 or 700 mlles,';;'-; :-77:'i;.;V7--h-.: -pu-
Opportunities At . Ksay. '.rfct.
"Portland ' and the - entire ' Padflo
coast should . be greaUy interested in
Colombia because of the opening. of the
Parmmacanal,-BaldrMrrFuUer, "that
is being cut through the Isthmus which
was taken away from Colombia by
President Roosevelt Colombia is the
I nearest countrv to th canal and with.,
wood, arbor vltae sod other valuable
woods are practically virgin. Land can
be bought for 10 cents an acre and they
will give you 20 years' time In which
to pay for it The southern hemisphere
is undoubtedly the country of the fu
ture." - ' ' V'.'.
; HardShlys SILan7 Borne, '
Dr. -Holt shortly before his death,
secured a 50-year lease on a portion of
the Mata river, and It la this lease that
has descended to Byron Holt and his
sisters, one of whom resides in Port
land and two in Santa Ana, CaL He was
a strict vegetarian, and it Is to this and
to the fact that he steadfastly refused
to take medicine that Mr. Fuller ascribes
the fata illness of last July. . He un
derwent astonishing hardships, ; accord
ing to Mr. Fuller, , without a word -of
complaint A trip over the mountains,
which he describes in his diary was an
instance of tbia . He says: v : f
"I climbed the - "Devil's Stairway, in
Rogue river in Oregon last year, and
thought the devil had better been to his
own dominion attending to sinners than
on earth constructing such a stepping
road, but this road down to . the Perce
in South America beats the devil, except
it is not bo precipitous at the sides as
the stalrwayj but our every .mule step
was deep In mud to the saddle girth
and slippery beyemd a Fourth of July
greased ollmblng pol In Uncle' gam's
dominions.;., j, ;"-v;-r
"Notioncevi but dozens .of times, I
came within an ace of tumbling over
my mulcts bead, but these mules are the
surest footed -animals on earth. : They
excel their North American mule breth
ren In sure-f ootednesa. , After a long
descent we finally came" j to a swollen
mountain stream, and there we met a
long mule train, and we also met diffi
culty. , . ''.'.
'"A week ago there was a bridge across
the stream,, but where was It now?
Washed away!, How were we to cross?
Dismounting, we . three "white men
crossed on stringers while our peons
unsaddled and' unpacked our mules and
carried across all our baggage. ; Then
the mules came across. I don't know
how they did it for I had other things
to attract my attention. The mule train
was stalled at this point and many of
the -poor mules dropped to the ground
with their burdens . upon their, backs,
and there- they lay; - panting; with -their
long ears in the mud and their loads of
coffee pressing them Into the yielding
earth. I wonder what they had done
that- was wicked . in, a former Incarna
tion' when they were caliphs, moguls,
chiefs, kings, emperors, empresses and
-j la
p "i .icj-.i.s cf an -: j t- 3
irrcij.ri .ion Jnie mules to t-ie cor
Antloquia.'"
Tbe journal Is full of aaecdotrs, of
the fables of tbo country which Mr.
i'Tillei1 Bays are tnteny interesting tui
wane directly from the days ' of the
Inea. and of th sights and customs of
the countrr. "WheUier it a crowd
of tbe lUtle poopla of the forests,' as
Mr. Iln3t called tbe monkvy, that at
tractmd his attention, or a scientific discussion-
ef the processes ; of procuring
golu from ! the- rivers, it was described
with equal facility aad Interest
Mr. Fuller is to be in Portland only
long enough to straighten out Professor
Holfs affairs with his son. when he 1,3
to hurry back to his gold mining in
South America. He says hell be glad
to get back to the land of parrots, mon
keys, alligators, real rain they had 15
feet last year and gold. But he's leav
ing something' of his romance in Port
land, with the Holt family.
rw. liare t 'i c - t.''-n to tl.s
tl -cr of :i.her the srr.ate or th toiwc,
H'hpre oxruiid inq-t;iry -wITl be miuia s
to wfcy an attorney against whom no
ctarg-es have been filed End with fifteen
years' experience in interior iepartroeTrt
practice Is thus witiihcld from pursuing
his vocation.
TO ANALYZE F1ECE OF
" TURKEY CAUSING DEATH
it
UluUii La
A place of the Thanksgiving tnTbEy
that cansad the death af the Tittle two-year-old
daughter of Krs. Elohaxfl
Schiiber and almost killed the parents Hy take much longer time thnn
Just when tfte Madison Ftre-t hriil -c
win be turned over to the city is f 'i
veiled in duubt. . The task of er.tt..-.
down Qie - steel and concrete counttT
weights to where they wBl baUnrr the
lift span is a tremendous undertaking
ALEXANDER SHAW TO ; '
APPEAL FROM TAFT
fWashtmrtoq Bureau ot Th Jour oil.)
Washington, Dec.' i. Steps vwill be
taken to learn what Is to be done with
the application of Alexander C. Shaw
of Portland to practice before the in
terior department Shaw's application
has been . held up since January 15 1910
when it was filed. Repeated urgipg by
Shaw has failed to ' move it from 4 the
pigeon hole in which It Is buried.
- Shaw jests under President, Taffs dis
pleasure as one of the men discharged
from service when Forester Plnchot and
Law Officer Price were dismissed.
Shaw ; was a law officer of the forest
service during the period when :the
Plnchot-Balllnger controversy was , In
cubating, and he took an acUve part as
a partisan of Plnchot: He applied to
practice before the interior department
January. 24, but BaHlnget referred the
application to Taft, accompanying the
reference with a copy of a statement
which Shaw and Price had filed with
the BaJUnger-Pmchot investigating com
mittee; which, . of vcourse, was tanta
mount to recommending' the denial of
the application.'.,, '-'7"-,.: :
Shaw is a native of North Carolina
and at his request Senators Simmons
and Overman and Representative Page
of that - state called on the president
about It ; Taft" is reported to have
flown Into a rage, declaring Shaw should
never pracUce before any executive de
partment so long as he was president
Shaw has now decided to take up the
matter with-vigors Inquiry-was made
today at the Interior department and at
the department of Justice, trut it could
not be learned' if any further facts rela
tive to the Shaw matter had been Placed
before the president. , 4 ' "Tiy" '' ;.v'
If no action Is taken by the president
and other members ' of the family -who
partook of some brotn made from, ths
turkey ,k. last Thursday evening, X was
brenglis to the dry health office yes
terday afternoon by Mrs. Martha. Grimm
ot Willamette Falls, near Oregtm Crty.
'Mm Grtotm'and hear husband ate din
ner With; the Sh riber family Thanksgiv
ing day " and they took a portion of
the death-dealing bird home with them.
They war- also made violently ill by
eating part of tha turkey, Mrs. Grimm
fed soma of it to a chicken last Tues
day and the chicken died,
Tha' piece oX; turkey- brought te the
health office, Will be analyzed by the
city chemist. It is believed the turkey
was afflicted with some disease-
was originally fixed by the contractor-.
A large force-of men Is at work nlgM
and -day with drills , cutting Into t!v;
counterweights, Drake' C O'Rellh-,
president of .the United Engineering &
Construction company, made the follow
ing statement last night: "We expert
to turn the bridge over to the city the"
last of this week unless the weather
is so bad that we can't go on with
the work."
San Francisco's Theatrical Stage Em
ployes' union is to assist aged and In
firm members. ,
Within the past year nearly 30,000,000
pounds of beet sugar hava been pro
duced In Canada.
PIANO
OR
PLAYER PIANO
Which will it be? Now is a
.. good time to decide.
,YOY NEED ; A
PIANO
We would like to sell it to you. We have the good makes, "
' " ' ' and the APOLLO, the' best Player Piano in the world.
, s .If you do not find our pianos better for the money than ,
r :"'V elsewhere, you will not be importuned to buy. We think
this is fair, Don't.yon?' Call and let us show you.
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HovcndenPianoCto
' i-. -108 FIFTH STH NEXT' TO PERKINS HOTEL '
"GranUng all this, however' the fact i
remains that a sound tariff Judgment
cannot be formed without detailed sta
tistical knowledge. irr the case , of
standardized products; the facts regard
ing costs of production are of impera
tive. Importance, and we propose to get
them.'; Without Judgment, statistics are
useless; -without .statistics, Judgment is
unreliable. 'i
- We now come to the third question,
namely, whether' the board can secure
this Information which we have already
attempted to show is both - necessary
and significant! r, ; .
- To Seal .With AotoaUUes. .
This really lnVoJves two questions:
First, whether such information can. be
secured, assuming the fullest powers on
the. part of the board and the most com
plete cooperation on the part of the
manufacturers, second assuming that
such Information ,1s available, whether
such a board has sufficient power to se
cure if v ';. .,.'.: r i
"Under tha first head the crux of the
question cornea In . tha matter-of getting
costs or production. : Obviously, what
we call the glossary part of our Inquiry,
as already described, can be easily car
tied out and In the matter of getting
prices and competitive conditions we are
sure that adequate information la avail
able. -. , v .. ... ...
. ."One thing we wish to make nerfectlr
plain, and that is that we Intend to deal
with actual costs and not with hypo
thetical or average costs. . Ewery prac
tical man knows that costs vary not
only from factory to factory, but from
moatn to montn in - the same factory.
We are sometimes asked - which qpst
wtu you taae, tun lugheat or the low
est: the January cost or the July cost?
The answer is that we shall not select
any . one, but shall carefully consider all.
among them attempting to give each its
dues. We can never work out a figure
In dollars anoS cents, and this ia . the
cost of - production, iut e can get a
knowledge of cost conditions which will
be both oomprehenaive and nraotical.
"Ia reply then, to the question, can
we get it? We say that, we cannot get
everything expected by, the most optl-
mlstlc, but We assert wlthf confidence
that we can get all that is necessary to
form a basis for an Intelligent Judgment
on the tariff. .
: Baa JTo Compulsory' Towers.
- "The second . part of this question, is
whether the board is clothed with suf
ficient powers to get this information
where It Is actually . avallable,.At.tha
present' tlano as you will understand, the
board has no compulsory powers what-
soever. ;..;- Jl '- ::' y.::;
-Tn the last question which I assumed
you were to ask was, what can we do
with Itr " ' . .. :
"In tho first- place, the most ardent
defender of the present tariff must ap
preciate that there have , crept -Into ..it
Venezuela, is to be the first to profit!
by its opening. It is unbelievable the 1
opportunities that exist there forkthosel
ra no hi A r,t imnwivtnrf tVim -1 Th.wt,m: '.
r - v ....... w , ... .....l., ,U6 bVUll. .
try at present Is practically In a state
01 innocence. It U as large as Oregon.
Washington, California, Nevada, Arizona
and New York state put together.. The
government is good, the people are do
cile, gentle and honest - All tabor is i
done by the peons, who receive at the !
highest SO cents a day, - The country '
is roall y bankrupt becau se the custom s
are paid over to several European ooun- l
tries, who are' taking that means of en-v
forcinfr the collection of loans. Con-i
cessions are not hard to secure and are
good when" granted.:: w- .? f'K'-l
Currency of , the ! country Is ' prac
tically .valueless and all prices are
based on gold. Banks and business
houses clamor for' New York paper and
I have -received as high as 20 per cent
premium ' for a New . York draft To
show the value of their money, here
ar JHvenotes ' of the Colombian ' rov.
ortunent"-, and- Mr.- Fuller handed out '
nve '-greenbacks" of tho denomination:
of $20, $10, twq.$5 and a $L The total:
face value was $41. Tha value In gold
is $4.10. , r ' , , ,.
. v"Mlnlng operations are T carried On !
very much as they were In' California
in '49 and In the first rush to the
Klondike." said Mr. Fuller.: "Natives
do the work, washing out the black
dirt : In .the river beds and carrying
watar In sluices wash out tha gravel.
ina country is unbelievably rich 'la ;
gold, Mr. Holt tells in hU diary of .
Tonuwiy wauting on a i Carpet of gold
and that, is the truth; 'Otr work in
the ;Mata averages 1 more 7 than $5 a
cubic yard. Expert mining engineers
will say that la impossible. Good placer
properties in California go : 17 centa
The gold is washed out by natives In
what are known as batcas, there being
140 bateas to a cublo yard. , k
Ship Oold on isnlea.
- "We ship the gold thousands of ioU
lars' worth of it at a time on mule
back to the towns, with only " one peon
In charge,' You never hear of one being
molested. The. peona wouldn't think of
making away With ; af gold ' bar 4hey
hava no way of disposing of it ) What
few robberies have occurred In Colombia
hava been committed,.' I ? am sorry to
say, by Americans or Europeans.
"We use the elevating and hydraulic
process, washing down the banks of
ths streams for the g01diIodern,.Ba
'ThirMMTi''hocessary to work to ad
vantage,' , though the - natives hava
workod in their primitive fashion for
centuries and gotten fabulous sums put
Of the rivers. I Bhlpped two hydraulic
outfits down, from Los .Angelas last
weak and incidentally received an ob
ject lesson in what the Panama canal
and the South American, trade will mean
. " '1 ' ' ' " "lfctisiiiniisl '-y w-t - 'r-.:.v.;
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rase
DISSOLUTION SALE OF N. M. UNCAR'S NEW YORK BRANCH
Has placed in our hands to be "disposed of at once a $50,000 stock of made-up gan, i
ments, and we .will sacrifice same at 50 cents on the dollar while they last, 'as we
have to turn that into cash at once. This is the greatest opportunity that has ever
been offered to the fur-buying public on the Pacific Coast to secure FINE FUR
GARMENTS AT - " 1 ' ' , ' ,u -"
This presents a splendid opportunity to select useful and tasteful Christmas gifts.
LARGE
ASSORTMENT
- QUALITY . .
4. Dont miss the opportunity to take advantage of this sale.
ONE
HALF PRICE
BEAUTIFUL, SILKY, BLACR ALASKA FOX
.' ' . Latest Design ' ;,
$30 SCARFS AT.. . . . .$15.00
$50 SCARFS AT.. $25.00
t
MUFFS TO MATCH
t -
$40 MUFFS AT $20.00 .
$60 MUFFS AT... .$30.00
. JAPANESE MINK SETS .
M0 SETS AT.....:.!$4aoo '
$120 SETS AT A .$60.00
SELECT RUSSIAN PONY COATS
52-inchTLength ; Russian Pony Coats, " Well Marked
$100 COATS AT....;. . $50.00 ;
'. $l50COATSAT...,..'..$75.p0 '( i
$200 COATS AT $100.00
NEARSEAL COATS
Fine Brocade, Silk Lining, 52-inch Length
$200 COATS AT. .... .$100.00
$250 COATS AT $125.00
. $300 COATS AT. .... .$150.00
All Made Fur Garments, consisting of exclusive designs, great Varieties, excellent selections, all half price, $10 up.
Mo
' Le'aoing -furrier :
TO
' 100 Seventh Street
Bet Washington an J Z'
Iphcne
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