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Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
J. J. MISTER, Manager.
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BEEVARD, TRANSYLVANIA CODNTT; N. C„ FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 1,1907
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THE DEFINITION APPUEH.
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“Mammy, what am a mouopoIis’V"
“ba-sii-sul ijon’i ’splay yo r ign’rance, chile. Lissen an’ I’ll ’splain t . -a luonopolis’ am a man what am a
hog an’ gobbles up eb’ryt’ing. Dut’s what a monopolis* am—a hogmau. an’ dat’s ail.”
“Den, mammy, am yo’ a monopolisess?”
lAILINGSJOR ROflOS
Value of Refuse From Mines In
Missouri.
GOOD SURFACING MATERIAL
JVhen Rolled Solid as Possibfe the
Roads Are Compact and Smooth.
Little Dust—Dry Quickly Immedi
ately After Rain.
Jasper county. Mo., has over 300
miles of improved roads, representing
an expenditure of $200,000 during the
past ten years, says Doss Brittain in
the Good Roads Magazine. Of this
road eleven miles were built in' 1906
at a cost of $33,500. During the same
year $7,900 was spent in repairing the
highw'ays already graded and graveled,
thus maklnj?^ the original cost of the
road $2,000 and the cost of mainte
nance about $70 per mile.
The system under which the roads
of Jasper county are c(fiistructed and
repaired is operated under the super
vision of three road, commissioners ap
pointed by the county court for each
district under provisions of a law pass
ed in 1895. «Under these provisions
Jasper county was divided into six
road districts, each working inde
pendently of the others. In August of
each year each’ district makes its an
nual report to the county court.
For the construction and mainte
nance of roads the commissioners are
provided with funds from three
sources—viz, road tax (pell tax out
side of the cities), dramshop license in
city and in country and donations.
Since 1896, when active work began
under the law passed the previous
year, up to the present the income
from various sources in the Joplin dis
trict amounts to the following:
City dramshop license 153.628.09 i
County dramshop license 166,115.00
Poll tax 45,056.69
Donations, etc 7,822.08
Sales of machinery 3.710.47
Total 1276,332.33
The term “donations” refers to mon
eys received for work done outside of
the county and “sales of machinery”
to machinery sold after new had taken
its place.
The moneys received were expended
as follows:
Labor $191,483.70
Repairing - 44,498.75
General 6,270.13
Tiling, culverts, etc 16,103.27
Tools 12,260.48
Total $271,660.33
This leaves available a balance of
$4,672- ^With these disbursements were
built 100 miles of improved road.
The material used consists of stones,
gravel and tailings from the various
lead and zinc mines located throughout
alihost the entire county. The tail
ings consist of finely crushed very
hard flint ejected from the concentrat
ing mills while milling the ores. After
entering these mills the ores are crush
ed finely w’ith crushers and a number
of sets of cornish rolls, screened and
the gangue, or rock, separated from
the ore by water. The ^ocess, called
jigging, thus cleans the ore, which is
saved and marketed, while the tailings
go to form big dumps.
These tailing piles accumulate so rap
idly at the mines that even the mills in
some cases are almost buried, and
more than ordinary methods are some
times necessary for their riddance,
hence the fact that tailings are sup
plied free to all who want them, the
only expense being for hauling. For-
tanately there is no better material
than these tailings for surfacing roads
and for ballast, and such use is serv
ing very materially to reduce the
dumps, which would otherwise become
a great burden.
In the construction of the roads of
Jasper county the surface Is brought
to grade laid out by engineers, and ex
cavation is done In the usual way with
plows, scrapers and road graders. The
surface is then leveled with harrows
and rolled. Heavy stones are placed at
the bottom of the road and this layer
covered with from eight to ten inches
of gravel or ©f tailings. This is rolled
as solid as possible, and the road, twen
ty feet wide, is complete. Constructed
under these specifications, the road re
quires about 2,000 yards of tailings to
the mjle.
Roads constructed in this way form
serviceable highways for either heavy
Haming or for light vehicles, like
automobiles and bicycles, 'rhere is but
little dust, and, with the exception of
brief periods when the tailings are
very wet, as during a heavy rain, the
roads are compact and smooth. When
very wet the gravel is somewhat loose
compared with its normal condition,
but not to such an extent as materially
to interfere w’ith its utility nor nearly
so much as materials commonly used
for ordinary country roads. Immedi
ately after the rain the roads dry
quickly and are packed almost as hard
as pavement, forming a smooth, hard
road.
Consequently some of the best and
most picturesque stretches of high
way to be found In Missouri are In Jas
per county, which fact Is due largely
to this abundant and near supply of
road material found in no other part
of the state, perhaps not in many parts
of the United States; also to the de
mand on the part of mine operators
for automobiles for business and for'
pleasure.
VOL, XII-NO. 44
Sho Was an ''Easy Mark.**
“Did you intend to give me thisT*
asked a steward on one of the steam
ers of a woman passenger who just
tipped him. “This” was a bright new
penny.
The woman, looking amazed and
embarrassed, said: “No, I didn’t give
you that. I gave you a $2.50 gold
piece, didn’t I?”
“That’s what I thought you meant to
give me. I was sure you had made a
mistake,” said the man. The woman,
with an aiwlogy, took the penny and
gave him a gold piece. Then she w«nt
back to her stateroom to count her
money and to try to understand.
It came to her all right. She remem
bered tw^o years before on her home
ward trip a fellow passenger had told
how the steward had come to her with,
a new penny given him by mistake,
the steward said, and she had made it
good.
It was a little late then—she had
been an “easy mark,” and she knew it
—and it wouldn’t do a bit of good to
object. She did tell the purser, who
promised to investigate. She knew,
too, what that meant—New York Sun.
The Old Buffalo Days.
There Is on record at the war de
partment, Washington, a document
bearing witness to how plentiful buf
faloes were within the memory of
many men now living. It is the “re
turn” for several rounds of cannon
ammunition expended in Kansas ia
1867 to divert the course of a gi’eat
herd of buffalo that was bearing down
toward a camp of soldiers with a
force that threatened to overwhelm it.
At least one officer Is alive w’ho saw
these shots fired, and he describes the
herd as literally reaching as far as the
eye could see. It was a long time In
passing the camp, whose occupants
watched* it in silence, awed by the
spectacle. General Philip St. George
Cooke at once halted a regiment of
cavalry on the plains to permit a great
herd of antefoipe to pass, and he was
not a man easily halted when on duty.
His humanity impelled him to wltli-
hold the regiment from mangling and
maiming the antelope, which were al
lowed the right of way.—Boston Tran
script.
Who Could Pass?
To test the spelling capabilities of
fifty applicants for junior clerkships
In the offices of the Sydney water and
sew”erage board they were called upon
to write from dictation this paragraph:
“This celibate w^as a licentiate in medi
cine and held other scholastic diplo
mas. His characteristics were idiosyn
crasies personified—one day taciturn,
the next garrulous. Today his facile
pen evolves a sapient distich In piquant
satire of some literary genius; tomor
row an encomiastic effusion on an il
literate voluptuary. His studies on
concrete science were exotic; his re
searches in natural philosophy esoteric
if not chimerical.” No less than forty-
three out of the fifty candidates came
to grief in this artfully designed spell
ing obstacle race. At the next meet
ing of the board a member doubted
whether ten out of fifty Oxford M. A.*s,
If suddenly called upon to write out
the same passage, would succeed in ne
gotiating every one of the big worda
successfully.—London Chronicle.
All Bluff.
“Yes,” boasted the fortune hunting
fount, “all of our old family <^astles
were on high mountains. My ancestors
all lived on big bluffs.”
“Indeed,” replied the wise heiress,
“and I see that you take after them,
count!”
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, \
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
he is senior partner of the firm ofF. J.
Cheney & Co., doin<c business in the
city of Toledo. County and Stat®
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sura of One Hundred Dollars for
each and every ease of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of HalPa
Catarrh Cure. Fbank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 6th day of De
cember, A. D. 1886.
(Seal.) A. W. Glea.son,
Notary Public.
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