The Hutchinson Tradesman du lieu suivant : Hutchinson, Kansas • 12

C2VCN MILLION. ty years previous. This was the period DIG GOLD FORTUNE IN SIGHT. SAY ALL ARE GOLD. during which the Independent inter This Many Telephones Are In Dally ests first entered the field in compe $50,000 Issue of Street Railway Bonds.

All Taken. Mint Director Roberts Says Nevada Will Produce $11,000,000 in 1906. Use-in the United States. tition with the BelL "There are approximately 7,000,000 Philadelphia, Dec. 4.

Copies just telephones connected with both the made public of an address privately Independent and Bell exchanges in the delivered by James to the United States. If the development throughout the country was as great Washington, De 3. Eleven million -dollars in new gold will be produced in Nevada during the present year and 1907 20,000,000 worth of gold will be mined in. that state. This prediction is made by Director of the as in some counties of the central electrical section of the Franklin Institute, form a striking report of the recent progress of independent telephone lines.

Mr. Hoge Is president states, it would require at least 000,000 telephones, twice the jnumb-er at present installed. of the International Independent Tel "Without competition," Mr. Hoge The directors of the Hutchinson Interurban Railway Co. state that the; $50,000, issue' of bonds recently authorized by the stockholders has all been subscribed for, placing the full-amount of the issue at the disposal of the company.

Just what this $50,000 will be spent, for is not yet known, even by the; boarcTof directors. The company has. purchased a large amount of machine ery which is understood to not be alt paid for, and it also requires more wire and other material for extending, the electric light service over the-city. After these matters are properly attended to it is understood to De ephone Association of America? In November, Omaha, Kebraska, at asserted, "there would be less than 2,000,000 telephones in the United States at present; equipment would the regular election ratified an inde pendent franchise by a vote of more be crude, rates' high, the service' un satisfactory, and the management ar than two to one. The independent victory there Mr.

Hoge said "marks the close of as fierce a fight as the bitrary. The small towns, and the Mint Roberts, who is just back from a1 tour of inspection of the western mining camps Gold mining is booming in Nevada, he says, and feverish activity prevails throughout the entire, region. Railroads are being constructed to promote the development of the mines, and every available toot of ground in the vicinity of the valuable mines is being staked off. The great, finds of gold have made numerous millionaires, and incidentally have brought into existence a plethora of i wild-cat companies. One of the latest methods decided upon to advertise the great gold country is to run a train to the smelting works at rural districts and millions of residents and small business men in our Bell has ever made in any city of the country against the entrance of com cities' would be deprived, of the great rthe purpose of the comnanv to spend est convenience of' modern times.

petition. For over three years this has been going on. The Independents While installing its own 3,500,000 In the remainder of the available funds, for the building of additional track AMil J- xi i i. nt have a total of 260,000 in Iowa and Nebraska, the Bell 80,000. dependent instruments, competition has compelled the dell to increase in With the entrance of the Independ eleven years to ten times the num ents into Omaha it completes their ber of telephones it had in service at Saut Lake City laden with $1,000,000 wortlrof gold ore.

Director Roberts the expiration of its more than sev system in this $300,000,000 Invested. emu ttuuiug tu me tsquipiiieuu ouiue-of the 'directors talk favorably about building the Avenue line." They are-also discussing the laying of the-northwest line, leading' out perhaps on Fifth for a distance, then out Sixth, and probably north on Monroe-for some distance. With two more- enteen years of absolute monopoly." says' that "it is asserted by men com "Denver, Colorado also voted in favor of an independent franchise in petent to judge that a copper region GONE TO NEWTON. has been' discovered in Nevada that November. Milwaukee has given the will rival the Butte district In Mon Trf1 onandanta n.

fvannfijen iMVl thn wu Gas Company Sends Ditch Digger tana." iat lew weeits. lnes cures, wim Over to Harvey County Town. are the only ones of special cars' will be required, and perhaps, more. The board of directors may decide at the next meeting what lines TESTING PIPES. consequence, except Cincinnati and The natural gas people loaded their will be built.

Chicago west of the Ohio river, where the Gas Company Pumps Air Into the Independents are not strongly-in Mains Under Pressure. trenched or buildings In Chicago a digging machine a car and on Sunday it was hauled over to Newton. There the work begins at once on the laying of a city system of pipes which franchise has already been granted. The Natural Gas company has a "There are over now Invested in Independent telephone novel way of testing the mains as they are laid. The pipes have been laid properties, with more than three and Is to connect with the main line that runs up there from Wichita, to furnish natural gas to theNpeople of Newton.

It is understood that the system will include about sixteen miies of pipe. In Hutchinson the system pretty last in this city and when a section has' been put down the section is cut off from the rest of the a half million telephones installed and several hundred thousand miles of long distance lines connecting; the different exchanges. Over 7,000 independent companies are operating In system by the use of stop cocks. Then requires 25 miles of pipe. Of this the tester pumps Into the pipe by 12,000 cities and villages.

amount all has been laid but about two miles. This remaining small means of a traction engine air that is "In the Dominion of Canada, com amount will be laid at once, a gang of men digging the ditchei for the pipes. petition in the telephone field ha3 been brought by official initiative. The Coal Shortage1. There never was a better prospect for a genuine coal shortage in central Kansas than at the present time.

All the coal dealers in town arelfaut of all kinds except hard coal. C. Allison went to eastern Kansas points and Kansas City this week to buy some eastern Kansas or Missouri coal but up to today has been unsuccessful; towns all about us have telephoned in orders for car loads of coal which indicates a shortness at all points about us. The cause of the shortage, is not because there is not enough coal being mined or that there a strike on, but it is because the railway companies can not furnish' cars enough and motive power enough to haul the required amount This goes to show that this great country is developing; very fast and consumption of the Is increasing at a rapid rate, "More railways are neded or the present railroads should greatly increase their present capacity for handling the. business.

Great Bend Item, Most of the pipe to be laid is of the forced till a high pressure Is reached. The pipe men then examine the pipe to see if there is a leak anywhere in the section under test. If no leak is found then the pipe is covered up and the trench filled, while the engine is The Manitoba government, recogniz eight-Inch size and the hand dug ing the futility of attempting to se- cure better telephone conditions under trenches can be more economically moved on to another section. In this present circumstances, has determined dug than can those for the smaller to establish a governmental syitem, sfz of pipes. find will endeavor obtain the nower Tne machine digs a trench at the way the pipe is made ready or a heavy, pressure of gas when, the supply is turned on.

to ex-appropriate the Bell plant; rate of six feet per minute. It does should this be denied, however, It will the work of about forty men and has build its own lines and exchanges, be- been making a good speed in this city, HfiiHnfr that comnetitlon will accom- At saia mat tne rest oi the city sy tern can easily be laid by hand before the gas can be turned on, and that the plish the desired results. Progress In Canada. machine can have a goodly portion of At the Bell company ha3 the work at Newton done by the same only one 'phone to every seventy in Good story by the Clay City Times: An Irishman In a large city was wandering, around hunting St. Luke'3 hospital, when he met a man who looked kindly and proved be a-policeman.

He asked: "Do you know, sor, where is St. Luke's hospital; I want to go The big policeman replied: "Sure, I do, my frient. You'go down to the nixt corner, turn to the lift time. habitants In Canada, while In In diana, where the Independents out number the Bell by three to one, there Bought a Store. Working on Hotel.

More men have been set at work on the new Santa Fe hotel. They are excavating for the foundations for the is an Independent 'phone to every 14 Ed. Ardery has purchased the con- persons. The Independents now have ectionery store of John Crissman, at about half a and there right outer walls. The concrete bases in 12,500 telephones in Canada, and ex- 204 N.

Main street. It Is understood pect' to make a gain of 200 per cent that he will continue the business at in the center you will find the finest saloon In the city, run by Tim Mur he next year." the same stand that has been occu the center of the building are being added to and in some paces have been built up six feet from the surface of Mr. Hoge went over the whole pied by Crisman. phy. He's a big, oine lookin' man and tinds bar himself; he will be be- history of the Independent movement, the ground.

The site is low tM this saves some excavating. claiming that "more was accomplish- That roaring noise you hear off in ed between 1896 and 1900 In the" way in the Southwest? That's -Dave of improving the apparatus and Blaine, of Pratt, "who was elected rep- hint the bar. You walk up to him and say, brisk loike, To h-l with the pope When you wake up you will be in St. Luke's hospital'; good day, sor." vice and extending the use of the tel- resentative from Pratt county. Hon- Every man needs a trouser stretcher, but he has no use for a leg pull-, er.

ephone than had been done In twen-lorable Dave, b'gosh..