Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 199, Ed. 2 Friday, August 3, 1923 Page: 3 of 6
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Public is Warned to Scrutinize
Carefully Offers of Stock in So-
Called Platinum Producing Mines
are built differently from other gas
ranges and have distinctive features that
make them the longest life and most
economical gas ranges on the market.
You will be convinced by seeing the
stove. Our prices and terms are right
Hot Biscuits
that melt XX
’ Rough Dry, per pound
Flat Work Finished, per lb. 6c
There are as many grades of meats as there are grades of
most things you buy. But there is only one grade here—the
best. Nothing else is permitted in our shop. The low prices
make trading here most interesting.
Tropical
Worsteds
Any Straw
Sailor
for
Men’s Oxfords;
guaranteed
quality
Try One of Our Fresh Home-Made
Cakes and Pies.
Genuine Palm
Beach Pants
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You can come here shopping with the utmost
confidence that the meat you get will be thp
best to be obtained anywhere.
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Phone 164
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If YOU intend to move or have
any trucking you want handled
promptly and carefully, phone
us.
SNOW LAUNDRY
Auto Delivery 227-229 N. Commerce St.
SCHAD’S MEAT MARKET
302 North Commerce St. Phones 576 and 577
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And no matter what cut you want, you will
find us always willing to do our best to giv^
it to you. jp
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MOSQUITOES/.
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VICKS
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Over 17 Million Jan Ueod Yaart*
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MEMBER NATIONAL
R. H. YOUNG
Headquarters Highway Garage
OFFICE PHONE 49 RESIDENCE PHONE 572
TO MAKE PHOTOGRAPHS
OF SUN WHEN IN ECLIPSE
M. E. ELLIOTT,
Sheriff, Cooke County. Tex.
(3-10-17 24-31)
$3.45
SCHAD & PULTE
SHONE 100 bait TIDE SQUARE
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CITATION ON APPOINTMENT OF
TEMPORARY GUARDIANSHIP
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
To the Sheriff or any Constable of
Cooke County, Texas, Greeting:
You are l^reby commanded, that
you cause to be published, once each
week for ten days, exclusive of the
day of first publication, in the
Gainesville Register, a newspaper of
general circulation, which has been
continuously and regularly pub-
lished in Cooke County, Texas, for a
period of not less than one year, the
following notice:
THE STATE.OF TEXAS:
To all persons interested in the
welfare of Jesse Gordon, a minor, by
the County Court of Cooke County,
Texas, duly appointed Temporary
Guardian of the person and estate of
said minor, which appointment will
The Register is going to give away
a Ford Sedan.
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the County Court of Cooke County.
Given under my hand and seal of
said court, at office, in Gainesville,
this the 2nd day of August, A. D.
1923.
(Seal
Clerk County Court, Cooke Co.. Tex.
By GUY TURNER, Deputy.
I hereby certify that the above and
foregoing is a true and correct copy
of the original Writ now in my
hands.
Chicago Store
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Our customers are good enough to say that we are rendering service this sum-
mer which is practically kick-proof, if we may coin the term. ' 1
This pleases us—and we hope you endorse the statement, because we certainly
do take pride in making good on service. • . - I, ■
However there is one element in this business of ours which is mighty hard to
overcome at times—the difficulty of impressing people with the fact that mis-
takes in service can only be caught and corrected when the customer does his or
Suggestions by the customer for service improvement are always in order. Re-
ports of inattention by drivers are urgently requested; discourtesies by any of
our employees are indeed rare, but will be instantly corrected if we are told of
them. • • 1 .
That is the part we ask the customer to play—and we are satisfied that such co-
operation will work out mighty satisfactorily all around. J .
We spend lots of time and money every winter getting ready for the summers
big riemand—overhauling plant and equipment—planning increased delivery fa-
cffitieA - ; j 11 : ~ ;.y
And when summer comes we like to see the winter’s investment bear real serv-
ice dividends. z I ; J -i '
Your patronage is thoroughly appreciated—but please call the office on tne
Hutchins Grocery and Meat Market
NORTH DIaON STREET
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folored
jBe a Sleeping Cai? Pottery
'lining CarWaitei’ 1/
cm *200 a month. Travel in
and s*c the Wld. Experience unnecessary
train W” information free. Mite at once to
* ftulwy &ehange Bid J.. Omaba.Nch
your mo
rpRY making hot biscuit*
A with Mrb. Tucker’s
Shortening. ‘You will like
them! They are so light
and flaky and tender. That
is because Mrs. Tucker’s is
a pure vegetable shorten-
ing which is neither heavy
nor greasy. It is more
easily digested than lard.
You need only to try
Mrs. Tucker’s Shortening
once to notice the improve-
ment in your baking. It
lends the richness of but-
ter to good things to eat,
yet is much more eco-
nomical. And another
thing you will appreciate
about Mrs. Tucker’s is that
it comes to you always
fresh, for it is made right
here in the South.
Be sure to get the blue
pail with Mrs. Tucker’*
picture on it.
Made exclusively of choice Cotto*
Seed Oil. The South’s oseu coohiug Jot.
Washington, Aug. 2.—Warning to
the public to scnitiaize carefully
<ffers of stock in so-called platinum
producing companies proffered by
unscrupulous promoters is given by
■*'1 he , Department of the Interior
through the Bureau of Mines. Al-
phone whenever you want emergency service or there is anything special we can
do for y ou. . • ,
Weare proud of our. service and want to keep it up td a high mark of
ciency.
CRYSTAL BOTTLING WORKS And
GAINESVILLE ICE COMPANY
| quantities. These promoters bolster
1 their claimr by the display of er-
roneous assays which in some in-
stances have reported values as high
as $25,000 worth of platinum to the___ ____,_____
ten. In one mtamc, the assertion ‘United States appears to
was made that property near Yon- - - -
kers, N. Y., contained 10,000,000 tons
of rock bearing precious metal val-1
ties ranging from $200 to $600 per
ton, bearing a mere bagatelle of
from two to four billion dollars! In
the case of a Seattle, Wash., con-
cert), th? possession of ore contain-
ing platinum and gold “in aston-
ishing quantities” was heralded,
while the location of the deposit was
kept secret, in order to forestall a
"mad rush.” Numerous samples of
lleged platinum-bearing ores from
various properties examined by as-
Shall be successfully contested at the
next term of said court, commencing
on the First Monday in October, A.
D. 1923, the same being the 1st day
of October, A. D. 1923, at the Court
House thereof in Gainesville, at which
time all persons interested in the
welfare of such minor may appear
and contest said appointment, if they
see proper to do so.
Herein fail not, but have you be-
fore said court, on the said first day
of the next term thereof, this Writ,
with your return thereon, showing
how you have executed the same.
Witness, Jno. F. Gobble, Clerk of
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In normal times Russia is the
greatest producer of platinum, the
annual output amounting to over
300,000 ounces, equal to 90 percent
of the world’s total. This is all re-
covered by dredging or hand-wash-
ing methods. Although Colombia,
South America, now produces close
to 30,000 ounces of platinum yearly,
not an ounce comes from ore rock
in placer—all being recovered by
dredging or hand-washing methods.
The growing seriousness of the sit-
uation created by unscrupulous pro-
moters of alleged platinum produc-
ing properties has suggested to va-
rious State mining officials in the
western States the necessity of tak-
ing some action to protect the pub-
lic. Legal prosecution has been
considered but not hitherto employed,
owing to the lack of sufficient laws
to reach the cases, also to the dif-
ficulty of securing evidence of the
necessary character. * Legislative re-
lief has been considered in the form
of * law requiring the licensing and
examination of assayers, and the so-
called “blue sky” laws have also
been considered as a possible remedy.
Little or no progress has been made
toward the eradication of the evil.
The Bureau of Mines advises per-
sons who are asked, speculate in
Alaska B platinum property to let it alone
J unless the purchaser is prepared to
go to the expense of a careful exam-
ination by a competent engineer.
.Serial 2496. by 8. C. Lind, C. W.
mty, Nevada; and the Salt Chuck and m.’ W. von Bernewrtz,
giving further details regarding the
platinum promotion situation, may
be obtained from the Department {
of the Interior, Bureau of Mines,
Washington, D C.
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pies of placer and lode material ha*
been examined, but in moat of them
negative results were obtained. These
sample have come from all of the
mining States, including Alaska. The
► have no
important resources of platinum—at
least none which is at all likely ever
to supply the nation’s demand, or
any considerable fraction of it.
Under 1000 ox. a year is not much
of a supply when the country needs
10 to 15 times that quantity. The
case of platinum is a parallel with
with those of tin and nickel—this
country has not tin or nickel re-
sources of significance.
That there is some platinum in
the United States is undisputed, but,
virtually all of the metal is recov-.
ered from the heavy concentrated or
the well-known black sand, collegied
on dredges or at hydraulicking
plants in California, Oregon and Alas-
ka. As the dredges alone handle over
50/100,000 cubic yards of gravel per
year, the platinum content per yard
is infinitesimal During the period
of 1916-1919, inclusive, the Boss
mine in Nevada contributed to the
totals, but hardly exceeded 100
ounces in any one year.
In addition to the placer deposits
of California, Oregon and /"
which contain platinum metals, and
the well-known lode deposits of the
Rambler mine in Laramie county,
Wyoming; the Bbss mine in dark
coui . .
mine in Prince of Wales Island, Alas-
ka, which also contain platinum met-
als—but always in combination with
copper, and some gold and silver;
Boulder county, Colorado, and the
Copper King mining districts, Clark
county, Nevad*. have supplied sam-
ples in which the Bureau’s chemists
at Reno detected small quantities of
lode platinum
Platinum is recovered as a by-pro-
duct from the refining of gold, sil-
ver, nickel, and copper but the quan-
tity present in the original is usual-
ly too small to detect
It is well known that the source
of platinum is in basic eruptive rocks,
yet it has been stated by promoters
that platinum, as well as gold and
silver, have been found and success-
fully extracted from oil-shale—a sedi-
mentary rock. In studies made by
the Intermountain Experiment Sta-
tion of the Bureau of Mines at Salt
Lake City, no platinum was detect-
ed in ^ither Utah or Wyoming shale.
Black sands in rivers or on coast
beaches have always been considered
as probable sources of » platinum.
These include the deposits on the be mode permanent, unless the same
coast of Southern Oregon and North-’ *w-n
ern California, where a great deal
of investigation has been done by
State and Federal authorities, and
on which an equal amount of hard
labor and money has been wasted
by prospectors and others. In order
to ascertain what were the possibili-
ties of recovering platinum from
these beach sands, in 1917 an engineer
was sent by the Bureau of Mines
to examine the region. A total of
37 samples was taken, and in only
three cases was platinum detected,
and these were in concentrated ma-
terial.
though the United States, from
widely scattered sources, produces
only a few hundred ounces of plati-
num a year, certain promoters have
made extremely fanciful announce-
ments regarding properties claimed to
contain platnium in
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Ensenada. Lower Cal., Aug. 3.—(By
Associated Press.)--Astronomers from
the University of California will
make photographs and gather obser-
vation records of' the total eclipee
of the sun here September^, accord-
ing to word received from university
official at Berkeley, Calif. Dr\\Vm.
F. Meyer will head the expedition.
We know our groceries and canned goods are good. Our
customers know it. But there are many people who have
never given us a trial. They are the ones who don’t know
our food is so good. We merely ask for a single opportunity
to serve you who have never been in to see us.
1 Rena, Nevada, have failed to dis-
close: the presence of platinum in
I appreciate quantities. In some in-
stances. definite evidence has been
obtained of the “salting” of samples
with! platinum wire arid foil.
During the past few years possible
domestic resources of platinum have
attracted miich attention. On ac-
count of. the extensive use of plat-
inum during the World War, and
the practical elimination of the Rus-
sian supply, the price of this metal
rose to new high levels; and though
it since receded to some extent, the
price is now nearly six times that
of gold. Whereas in 1913 the price
of platinum was $45 per ounce, in
1923 the price is approximately $118.
This condition has not only greatly
stimulated search for platinum in
the United States, but has also of-
fered nn opportunity for fraudulent
promotions, which has not been over-
looked by those ever on the alert
with promotion schemes.
In addition to the economic causes
—namely, the excessive demand,
I partly due tQ, new uses, particular-
t ly for jewelry; the increase in price,
and the very limited' domestic sup-
ply—there are also certain techni-
cal factors that must be considered.
The correct cleterminations of plati-
num in smal| quantities is by no
means simple. Asj the methods em-
ployed are wMally those of fire as-
say, ! similar to those used for gold
■nd silver, the prospector or others
would naturally seek custom assay-
ers for the deterrnination of plati-
num. In general, all reputable as-
sayers are capable of making plati-
num detern|inations. Incorrect
r platinum returns have been made by
“ chemists who] choose to employ fan-
eifuk raethodA Thg_result of these
conditions is that during the past
few years thefe has been an increase
in the number of assayers turning
out erroneous platinum returns, re-
sulting in a number of promotions
doomed to failure. It may be ad-
ded that the (mistakes have nearly
always been jn the direction of two
high a platinum content.
Thie staff o| the Rare and Precious
Metals Station of the Bureau of
Mines. Reno, Nev., has made an es-
pecial effort to determine whether
the United State has really any im-
portant domestic sources of plati-
num, but the (results have proved dis-
appointing. A large number of sam-
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Leonard, J. T. & Leonard, Joe M. Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 199, Ed. 2 Friday, August 3, 1923, newspaper, August 3, 1923; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1311661/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cooke County Library.