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Whence Comes the Bulk of
IheWorld'sSuppSyofthe
White Metal -A River of X
ThatFlowstrom the Back
bone of America - Extra
ordinary Rise and Fall Jn
Its Value Bonanzas
Awaiting Discovery.
VRS h9 boen called the Sliver
?ont!ncnt: and not wilhout roa-
' fn for America prouuets me
;rcat bu'.k ol the world surply
v.i ihst metal.
lu Euctuations In value are extraor
il:n;iry. Half-a-doicn years aco 1! was
north (2 cents an oun-e. The Krea!
war caused it to ne l.ke a skyrocket.
n4 it went up and up until in January
Df last year it rrached the pc:ik
ll.SSH cen;a. Naturally, tl erc was a
tremendous boom in silver niin.ng in
this country.
Knglatit! after tie w.nr had an ure?m j p,rt,i wn deposited in cracks nd
and even alarming need for silver, -for j cavities not. of coursf. In a pure
circulation in India, where the nat jes , state, but mixed with other mrttert il!.
hid acquired a notion that perhaps J s.-mictimos it is found mixod with cop
Jreat Britain was "going broke." andir,,r, rotnetimes wi'h load, sometimes
were brinsins their paper money to'w
producers at a dollar an ounce
Our Kocky Mountain system Is con
tinued by the S.crra Madr through
Mexico, and by the chair. A the Andes
I to Cap? Il.-rn. This backbone of tho
I comment throuehout its length is full
jof silver. It cortalrs supplies of the
metal that can never Pa cxnauaiea.
Silver (like gold) seems to be a
volcanic product. At ail events, it was
originally d:.--.o'.ved in solutions which
were boiohcJ up hot from the bowels
of the earth. As those solutions, per
cola'in? through rocks, cooled, the
h line, sometimes with sulphur (as
a sulphide), and sometimes (ai !n the;
wonderful deposits of the Cobalt Dis
trict, in Ontario), with arsenic.
Curiously enough, thcr? is tilways
about ten limes a much silver in the
with other mctais. Our leading:. silver
State, Montana, obtains two-thirds of
its siiver as a by-product of copper re
fining. Utah and Idaho gel most of
their silver from lead and lead-ziic
ores.
Peru and Chile ! roduce, from mines
In the Andes plateau, a great deal of
silver, but Bolivia Is far ahead of any
other South American country in the
quantity of Its output. Canada did
not contribute much until, oniy a few
years ago. the Cobalt depofits were
discovered. From that source during
the present year about SO, 000, 000
ounces will be derived.
.Million's From One Vein
Much of the ore in the Cobalt dis
trict averages $500 in silver to the ton.
One vein, 12 inches wide and lit feet
long, but of great depth." yielded no
l.ss than 10,000.000 ounces!
Production on such a scale seems
well-nigh fabulous. But It is conserva
tively estimated that Mexico s'nee tho
i;.'.-st : .
the banks, demanding its redemption
In coin.
In this emergency t'ncle Sam came
to the rescue. Ccnpross ordered tho
w i . t.,. - i ..-it no ntvn ooo
ounce! of silver cartwheel dollars, orlwcridjis gold. Ten times as much of 'year 1521 has produced more than five
as much thereof as might be req-iircd. : it is taken out of the ground, and ten j billion ounces of silver.' The owner of
nd sold the metal as bullion to the: times as much is at present in the tho famous Quintera mine, in the Ai
British Government at a dollar anpo?e"ln of mankind. amoi district, on the occasion of his
0UI)pe There is an odd sort of affini'y he- j daughter's marriage, lined the bridal
cii-i. .. wri lTKti'le1 firif-en silver :.nd Eold. They go to- i chamber In his palacio with silver
.v. rrfi 5i oOO.O'lJ or.o-s ' ceiher. X.ve..- is there an luiroi'ant j bars, and paved
were thua mcl'ed and scliU 8a: Con- j deposit of s
cress provided that the .io'itars fis-sozue gold.
wa of !n this way t-hou'i -fe'ieri silver lode.
Ivr.- that does not contain
The famous Comstock
In Nevada, has yielded
the road from his
house to the church with bricks of
the same precious material. Before
the confiscation of ecelesiiu-ticai wraith
with sheets of pure silver and the altar
railings were mad? of It.
The greatest "llnd" of silver ever
made was the celebrated I5i? Bonanza,
a solid mass ct ore, ready half silver,
300 feel wide, extending ucro.s the
Comstock Lode. It seemed to go down
into the very bowvU of the eart'i; and
to this day no bottom to tl has been
found, or is likely ever to be found,
tor the stmpld reu. on that the teal at
a depth of 1.3C0 feet or so is so great
as to defy further e.!oration. Men
working there can uo so oni with
the help of a con.'.ual shower of cold
water from above.
In 1133 (the year of the discovery of j
America), tne world s toiai proaucuon
c!t silver was only 1.51 1 .05 C ouncej.
1S01 it was 2 S , 7 4 (5 . ! 2 2 ounces.
the output in 1 S 95 passing tho mark
of 150.000,000 ounces.
Indispcnsiililc As A Money Motnl
Silver has become ctj of the world's
prime necessaries. No other subsume
has been found that Is equally suitable
for money. Nearly all of the world's
coined gold is locked up in vaults, for
use only as a basis for paper currency,
but silver circulates everywhere.
The silver is made Into bricks,
known commercially as "bars," of
1.000 to 1.203 oV. ces. Bach one being
In I. stamped with figures Indicating Its
In! weight and "fineiie3" 1. e., degree of
-ecreitd ep55i "Jt.em with new jgre.'.t quantities
requisite- sliver to
buyinc S from A:
be ob-ntrican
gold.
For the matter of that, however, '.!-
vir seems to he on very friendly terms
in that coun'ry (following the ovr-ilSGl it
throw of Spain's authority), the wa.'.i;18"5 It
of viany of the ehurrhns were ene-ered ' Then r:
ivaj 40.-t91.S33 ounces. Jn I purity. These figures are always abao
wa3 ov..r CS.0C0.000 ounces. I lutc-y reliable (the credit of the re
mc .1 wo it risa in orndue.'m, (Ir-er boing back of them), and on that
basis they are bought and sold.
Nearly all of Mexico's output of sil
ver comes to market in this country,
mostly In ths shupe of ores, which can
be rellned here more economically,
Tho bars we export nre known on the
London market as' "rake" silver.
Thence great quantities of the meial
are shipped to India and China. In
the latter country the bars are
chopped Into piece-s, called "taels,"
which clrcu'ate as money, by weight
"liooms" Filial With -Silver
Now and then a lucky prospector
strikes a big chamber" of silver ore.
Once it was a cavity in tho rock, and
In the course of a -os percolating water
has brought tho "uetal thither bit by
bit, dropping It, so that the hole Is
filled with the precious stuff. A stroke-
ullli the pick, snd lo! a room full of
silver. erne sucn cliuiuoer in the
Kureka Consolldaled mine (N'cvada),
few years ago, yielded JH, 600,00). ,
Homo of the ore bodies struck at ;
Crecde and Aspen (Colorado),, wirs
even richer than the lllg Honjdia. For
instance the Molly Gibson mint yields
ed a s;ood deal of material worth U,- '
ooo toAhe ton. When It is ouiuildersd
that a ton of ore Is represented by only
13 cubic feet, one gets a noilon ol tat '.
high concentration of silver wealth. ,
Silver Nuggets Nun-rxlslunt . , ,
One occasionally reads of :h !).
Ing of a big nugget of silver.. Sat j
there la no sudi thing. The aaitai M I
round "native" and pure In oaiy on J
form, that of "wire sliver," btA '
curiously resembles fine wires (MftecV
together. Often it looks like moss.
Sometimes It occurs In considerable
masses, tho minerals with - Which It
was orlfflnally associated having btea
dissolved out and washed away -
Silver is so extremely eftictlle that
an aunre of it can be drawn Into ft
wire three miles Ions;. It U a better
conductor of electricity than copper by
26 per cent. ' -
Fug-yolk contains an appreciable
qunntily of sulphur, a mineral which
readily roniblneschemlcallysrlthallTen, J
When one's erg-spoon turns black Itta '
because a thin outer film of the mefal
has been converted Into a lirlphlde.
Silver has also an affinity for oxygenj
und hence readily tarnishes; but the
so-called "oxidised silver" Ii really 1
nothing of the sort. It baa a Coat of 1
copper-silver alloy 'deposited Oft Its I
surface. ' !
This inclination of silver to combine
chemically with other elenenta ae I
counts for the fact that the white
metal, as it occurs ordinarily In na
ture, is unattractive to the eye. The
silver ore of the Comstock Lode was
at first rejected by the miners (who
were looking for gold) ns an "infernal
blue sand," supposed to have no value
whatever.
A true
hair grower
Sworn proof of hair growth after bsld
oeaa. Am axing reports of legions of UM-ri
of Kotalkd tn stopping loss of bair, o-er-coming
dandruff, conquering baldness.
Here's the fairest iL'er in tbe world
ose Koulko. If it d.K-scTt do sll you
expect, pet your money -b?.ckl Forget
past bad lurk with your hir. This is
ornithine didsroit. Ciet a small boa of
KOTALKO at sr.? busy dm-srist v
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.bow yuuf frle-ala tbis aJtitrt urtiu .
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The cast tliat appears in support of
Betty Compson in her first starring
roeiuction, "f'risoners of I)ve." which
ci tncs to the Arcade today If made up
i f real stars In their erwn right.
Hoy Stewart was starri-d by Tri
anglo and has Just finished a long
term contract with Federal Produc
tions. He has been leading man for
Lillian Oish, Katherine McDonald and
llcLsie l.o-e. Other popular leading
Margaret Livin?ston, who portrays a women has supported him in his own
leading role in "Lying Lips," Thomas starring features.
ALT A TODAY
INC E -nX'Il" IX NEW 1H.M
H. Irce's second big special fur the
Associated Producers, Inc., which is
featured this week at the Alta Theatre
.- an Ince "liso'ivcry' who is expect
ed to eventually rank with Dorothy
Dullon. Knid Bennett, Be-ssie Earris
cale, and other of the Jnce-made stars.
I'revious to her appearance Mn "Lying
Lips." Miss Livingston has been seen
In leading support of Charles P.ay,
I Douglas MacLean, Enid Bennett, and
' f br-r I nf e f:ivi ntf s.
Emory Johnson has played leads
oposite Mary Pickford. Dorothy Dal
ton. Ethel Clayton, Constance Tal
madge and other feminine lights of
the screen. Miss Comjison engaged
him ffir her secemd starring picture.
Ralph Lewis had extensive . legiti
mate stage experience before taking
ii ti screen work. He played Stnneman
in "The Birth of a Nation," and has
appeared with Mary Pickford in "The
Hoodlum:" with Clara Kimball Ymincr
in "Eyes of Youth." and with Douglas
Pah-banks in "When tho Clouds Koll
By." Mr. Levis also appeared us star
in "Common Sence."
Claire McDowell is another Import
nnt recruit from the speaking stage.
Her motion picture experience em
braces appearances In a great number
of productions of merit.
Clara Horton. who is now but six
teen, has been on the stage and in pic
tures since she was four years old. She
played "Youth" in "Everywoman"
and was leading woman In Ilex
Beach's "(iirl From Outside."
TOKI.il, May 12. (Henry W. Kin
ney, I'. P. Staff Correspondent.) A
pretty geisha, a bunch f cigarettes,
and a more gallant than discreet gen
eral in the Japanese army form the in
gredients of an incident which has
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Adults, 31c; Tax, 4c; Total, 35c
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The Danger of Beauty?
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Prisoners of Love
BETTY COMPSON ."Prisoners Of Loe Y pctograph
YOU WILL SEND FOR ME SOON?
She did not know he was leaving her forever
leaving her to marry her own sister. A stirring drama
of passionate youth.
PATHE NEWS
COLD iv '
Kiven Tokyo and th rest of (he Em
pire food for talk anil argument for
some elays. Tho immediate result was
the removal from active duty nf den-
oral TakayanaKl, chief of the fcinoial
staff of the Japanese Siberian military j
forces. j
The trouble started lien a customs
fffieer, In searchlm? tile bauKaKe nf a
tri-isha K'rl roturninK to Jaian from
ladivostok, found in her baiinaKo a
bunch of clKarettes bearing tin- crest '
of the- imperor, such ns are smoked'
only Ity members of the imperial fam
ily or are Kiven as nifts by his majes
ty to distinguished piTS'ins. 'i'he laily
not be-ins such ,an imiuiry was ltut'le
and It was found that Oeneral Taka
yanaL'l bad received the "smokes''
from the emperor and had th en a part
of them t-i the cii-l. A preat iiti rv
followed, and the general was prompt
ly plaeed on the waiting list in spite
of the fact that he is Keneially known
as one of Japan's most ifiient offi
cers and a particularly well lnfoiined
authority on .Siberian mailers.
The pefsha f?alia:iilv came to the de
fense Of her irlend, explainim; tliat
sho plied her admirer with wine to
such an extent that lie was not ac
countable for his actions wren she ob
tained the imperial cigarettes from
him. The general explained that as
they were celebj-atins the lady's Im
pending retirement from the geisha
profession, be thought the occasion
suitable for the bestowing of tho gift
as a proper encouragement, lu her
laudable course.
As might be expected, the .7a panes')
press has filled culumns with argu
ments pro and con. the most interest
ing comment being probably that con
tribifled by tho Yomiuri, which biting
ly opines that it is a peculiar sort of
army discipline which place-H a general
on the waiting list for giving cigar
ettes to a geisha, but lias failed lo
punish any one for the great tactical
blunder which resulted in the great
massacre of over li'Mi Japanese al .'i
noluesk last ye-ar.
POIITLANO. May i;. !'. P.)
Participation In n land fraud (leal In
which 131 people were swindled out of
$40. (Kid, is charged against John Todd
a former Salem school superintendent,
in a secret federal Indictment Just j
made public. Todd Is now a realtor j
oi . a in .in . i-i , a..ri. inn- in pai.-in
he was prominen: In church and civic
aeti (ties.
I Catarrh
Catarrh la a local dlseas greatly nfto-
; f,nff'! . by eoni.tltutl'.nnl condition!.
I HALL'S .CATA HUH MKDICINK la a
I Tonic nnd Hlood I'urlller Itv rlanaln
the Mond and bittldlng up the System.
WALL'S CATAItllH MKDICINK restore,
normal condition and allows Natura (o
lo Its work.
All DniKKisia. circulsra free.
F. J. Cheney Co., Toledo, OhUV
Tl! l KntlJil S THICK
HIT l)l!l I II IX APKS t
CKNTIt A LI A, Wash., May 12 John
Nicholson of Crntralia narrowly es
caoeil death Monday when a truck
which he was driving was struck and
thrown :;o feet by a Oreat Northern ;
train at the Chestnut street crossing.
Nicholson was badly shaken up, but
uninjured. This Is the same crnmlng
where a roadster driven by O. I
Hoodless was struck by a train two
weeks ago and both Mr. nnd Mrs.
Hnodless were Injured, The Automo
bllo club i9 Southwest Washington
Is working to secure a watchman for
the erossinir.
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WdlTirON BOOKetT ON HOTMCaHQOA lunTHf BABY tmtt I '
,pin. imports were bhadfiilo (iculatoh Co.. Dter. i-D. Atlta. 6.
I.OIMI.IIOO below April, 1920. .
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WASHINGTON, .May, 12.--Tho na
tion's foreign traile conllnued to fall
off in April. The department of nun-in.-rci-
figures showed exports of JiiiO..
HUH, 11O0, 00(1 comjiared with $3x7,'nou,
0D0,n"(i the month before und JIMS,-
OOo niiii in April, 1920.
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"TOOISEUVILLE FIUE BRIGADE"
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