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International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926

July 13, 1911 · Page 3 of 8

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INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. fore. This association buys dynamite has the stump started out of the sun. M'SUIRE 000,000, the greatest sum ever collected International Falls Press ON by the car load and ships it to the ground before splitting it. For making VM Ptffrwioa. from that source, passing the and Border Budget farmers in 200 lb. lots or more at the the holes uuder the stumps there Between the man who tvftei to record-breaking figure of 1866. CLEARING LANDS following prices F. O. B. Duluth. area number of tools that maybe Mw-lf useful and the man who Four.causes have contributed to the parely to make himself nwsaiy, thai 30 per cent dynamite $10.50 per ldo used, separately or in combination great increase in the internal revenue. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER Slfferenoe Is great. One la lbs. the auger, bar, post-hole digger and The corporation tax is responsible for OFFICIAL. CITV PAPER —the other an intriguer. Says Between Seeding and flaying 40 per cent dynamite $11.00 per 100 9pade. For a soil where there are no $28,000,000, whisky and other spirits lbs. stones the auger gives best results. INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS Is One of the Bfcst Times $155,000,000, tobacco $62,000,000 and 50 per cent dynamite $12.00 per JLgg The auger used is a two inch carpenter's PUBLISHING COMPANY Hie Olfted Relative. beer $61,000,000. To Clear Land auger with a. shank lengthened Tear Unoto Seymour lbs. *•&&: wl GEORGE P. WATSON. Editor and Manager. In round figures, it cost the government lbs? oalled a famous whip,' Ji 60 per cent dynamite $13.00 per to five feet, The other tools may be 100 BURIN THE STUMPS AND BRUSH for the last year $175,000,000 for Ilia. LapsMng eald. "He never lbs. used to advantage under various conditions. 11.50 A YEAR SUBSCRIPTION the civil service, $161,000,000 for the as happy aa when he wae driving Fuse $4.65 per 1,000 feet. Every farmer in the timber section army, $120,000,000 for the navy, $21,000,000 ballyhoo ooaeh all over the oount Entered as Second Class Matter June S3. Caps $6.65 per 1,000. In placing the dynamite under the 1909, at the post office at International Falls. who has land to clear should do some for the Indians, $158,000,000 These prices are for cash and check itump it should be placed as nearly Minnesota, under the Act of Congress of clearing each year. Between seeding for pensions and $21,000,000 for interest March 3,1879. must accompany order. under the center as possible. By Human Vanity. and haying is one of the best times to on the public debt. Expenditures From a number of carefully conducted splitting the paper on the cartridges maa la more generous when clear. An acre cleared in Northeastern for Indians, pensions and civil service baa but little mono? than when he I THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1911 they may be compressed at the bottom experiments on the Experimental Minnesota is an acre bought all have slightly exceeded the pjtatjr, perhaps tfcvdugh fear of of the hole and in this way three Farm, covering three years and an acre worth from $50 to $75 per first estimates. More than $37,000,000 thought to have hut little*—1 and in which over a ton of dynamite partridges are used, it may be necessary Congressman C. Miller says that acre based upon its productiveness was spent upon the Panama canal. has been used, results strongly indicate to blow what is known as a pocket congress will adjourn by August 10th and the profit that may be realized that 30 per cent dynamite is just under the stump. This is done by exploding and will pass the U. S. Canadian Reciprocity On* Coneelatlen. from its proper cultivation. as effective for blowing out stumps, about one fourth of a stick of The government's expenditures With mormons eropa of prunes bill before it adjourns. ill A light double bitted ax and a brush dynamite in the bottom of the hole. reported, the pubtlo mar AMI pound for pound as the higher per have been $3,000,000 less in 1911 than scythe are the tools, required for cutting of the Unrartes of centages. On a very loose soil the In a sandy soil more dynamite is in 1910, although they have exceeded Augusta Bark, a chambermaid at brush. Cut the brush and small happen to the higher grades may be more effective required than in a clay soil. the Majestic hotel in Minneapolis was trees even with the ground. This is those of 1906, 1907 and 1908. Receipts Dynamite gives better results in a but not on the ordinary sandy loam awarded a judgment of 9300 damages important as the land can then be have been $13,000,000 greater than in and clay soils. For breaking rock the damp or wet soil than when the soil because the cook gave her apiece of mowed over, which is impossible high grade explosive is best. is dry. 1910. The men who Is true to Mmedtf la when the stubs are left five or ten tainted steak at one of her meals and pr tkmi The more firmly the earth is pompressed not likely to he tafnsed mnoh The amount of dynamite required The federal treasury enters the fiscal made her sick. inches above the ground as is common' who would deal teleelr with him. and tamped over the dynanhite to blow out a stump varies with the ly done. year 1912 with more than $1,800,000,000 the better the result. size and kind of a stump and the kind The brush should be piled closely The sum of $1,100,00 has been collected in cash stacked away in the and condition of soil. not thrown together, or it will not this year in taxes from the To some women life is arttymr Mj steel-ribbed vaults, the largest sum A green stump requires nearly burn well. FEDERAL SURPLUS 7,000 corporations in this state under going from one style to •notfrm. ever held there. Old logs and trees should be skided double the amount of dynamite to remove the special federal excise tax of 1 per together with a team and if dry at what would be required after cent on the entire net income over IS the time, should be -burned the same the same stump had stood a few years. S33,000,000 $5,000 of all corporations organized for day, as a large pile of logs, half decayed, For this reason it is advisable to use profit. will dry'"out slowly when rained the land for pasture for a time after N O I E upon. If the stumps are to be removed the timber has been removed before Treasury Reveals Excess of all Receipts If it is true that the railroad companies at the same time the brush and attempting to remove the stumps. Over all Disbursements, wjjl be required to make a refund down timber is removed, it is well to There is anew explosive being put First Time Since 1907. of any excess charges they may deter burning the brush and piling upon the market known as Vi'rite make in freight rates in case the the logs till the stumps are out, then that is some cheaper than dynamite .INTERNAL REVENUE RECORD GOOD- supreme court decides against them pile the stumps on the brush and log and has a few other advantages in its how will the refund get into the piles and burn all together. When the government's fiscal year favor. It has been tried on the Experiment pocket books of the consumer who al To pile everything up in good shape of 1911 closed Saturday the federal Farm and found to give ways pays the freight. and then start afire in each pile and treasury held a cash surplus of at quite satisfactory results when used go away and leave the burning to take least $33,000,000 and showed an excess the same season it is manufactured. After this date terms at my store will be strictly cash. care of itself is to of times, more than Fresh from the press and fully up to of all receipts over all disbursements It's stability is not positively known double the work of burning. for the first time since 1907. I cannot pay for my goods on the credit I give to customers. its usual standard of excellence, the however from the experiments conducted Burning requires the care and skill While revised returns will not be Northern Pacific is sending out copies thus far but it is recommended I will cut my prices to the lowest possible of a fireman. A big fire will burn anything of a new booklet describing its transcontinental available for several days, it is apparent as worthy of trial. and everything but it has to be train service in detail. that the government during margin of profit and will sell for cash only after this Dynamite gives the best results: kept big by rolling the parts closer together The booklet is plentyfully illustrated the last twelve months received from when placed directly underneath the date. Yours truly, as they burn, by throwing the with cuts of interior and exterior of all sources not less than $689,000,000, center of the stump and as deep in outside material into the center. By equipment, accompanied by description about $10,000,000 more than was expected the ground below the bottom of the keeping the parts together, it will all and diagrams of the cars. It is and spent $656,000,000, about stump is inches wide in diameter. burn, and burn easily and quickly a very enticing piece of printed matter $6,000,000 less than was planned. If the dynamite is placed in too but let the fire once go out, with the for the tourist. For the first time income from internal shallow a hole it will split the stump pile only half or two thirds burned revenue and customs was nearly and the force of the explosion will CLYDE WEST and it will require twice as much equal. While customs receipts for It is with no small degree of pleas, work to burn what remains as if the pass off into the air without lifting the year fell of $20,000,000 and will ure that we read the favorable comments first tire was carefully tended. the pieces out. Placed deep in the at about $312,000,000, the internal in the state press about the Stand In gathering up stumps that have ground, it gets under the roots and revenue promises to total $3l5,- new daily that Bro. Montgomery is been blasted, it is well to burn them issuing in our city. It is a good ad sup­^at the same time. Start the fire and Hfor our town and should be well pile, the stujpps on the, tir$ instead of ported by our people, it is also certainly piling all the material before burning* very nice to be able to read the start three or four fires in different digest of the day's doings every evening parts of the field so that the loads after the day's work is over and it will not have to be hauled too far. is worth all it costs. By burning the material in small piles and by having three or four fires going J. J. Hill predicts that the Twin at once, the loads can be driven Cities will have a population of up close to the fire and thrown in by 1,000,000 people within twelve years if hand, piling each successive load on Canadian Reciprocity is adopted and the fire that is most burnedout id has demonstrated his faith ic the that the heat will not be too intense tremendous developement of the milling to work near it. THE MODEL CjLOTHING CO. will open its doors to the public on business because of the agreement Where very large stunips are to be between these two great peoples by burned it may lie necessary to use a the construction of over 200 miles of derrick for piling. For description of new railway thus extending the Great derrick see Farmers Institute Annaul Northern into Fraser River country No. 21. acid other parts of the 'Canadian The chief obstacle and source of expense Northwest. in clearing land are the stumps. In number, stumps may run all the way from ten to two-hundred per acre At the beginning of present year and some times higher. one post office in each state was designated The only practical methods thus far as a postal savings bank. discovered for removing stumps are The plan has proven so successful in with: a complete line of Clothing, Hats, Shoes the stump puller and the use of dynamite. 1 he experimental stages that 750 new These two methods are sometimes offices are to become postal savings combined, splitting the stump and Furnishings of the highest makes and depositories on July 15th. The with dynamite and loosening the dirt, offices designated for the State of and pulling the pieces out with the styles and our motto is one price to all. Come Minnesota are: Austin, Bemidji, stump puller^ Blue Earth, Cloquet, Crookston, Of the two methods, the use of Detroit, Eveleth, Glenwood, Grand dynamite exclusively, is now the most in and get acquainted. Rapids, Hibbing, Litchfield, Luverne, commonly practiced. Dynamite properly Marshall, Montevideo, New Ulm, Red placed under a stump will blow Wing, Rochester, St. Cloud, South it completely out of the ground and Saitt Paul, Virginia and Wilmar. break it up into pieces, so that it can be readily piled and burned. The. Model Clothing Co The amount of dynamite required In discussing the "summer home" will vary with the" size and kind of for the president, a gentleman long stump, the number of years it has connected with administration circles, been cut, and with the kind and condition lias given the opinion that it would of soil. le about as easy to select a new location When dynamite can be bought by for the national capitol as to the farmer at wholesale price, the get Congress to agree on a location h. A. LEVEN, Mgr. method of blasting is probably the for a summer home for the president. cheapest, easiest and quickest way to There is much to be said in favor of remove stumps. With a cheap explosive selecting a site and purchasing or and a general knowledge of its erecting a summer White House, but use among the farmers, the great the president realizes perfectly how problem of clearing land would be effectively the conflicting interests of As aj special inducement for our opening week. practically solved. the various localities will prevent any Dynamite is a prodect which the such step. It is reasonably safe to We jwill place on sale Saturday 400 Cluett business men of Northeastern Minnesota assert that if Congress took the should grant the farmers the matter up seriously every one of the privilege of buying at cost, for the 391 members of the House would consider ft, ."•-••• shirts sold everywhere at $2.00, $1.75 and more dynamite the farmer can get it his duty to have the summer for the money he has to expend for it, rapitol in his district. The talk $1.50at 95 cents each. Also Tlonarch $1.25 about inviting the president to spend the more land he can clear, and it is cleared land—land under the plow, a part of this summer at Iowa, etc., that will make the most business for produced so many invitations that a shirts Grand Opening week at 65 cents each. Northeastern Minnesota. Through a formal letter of declination became cooperation movement for cheaper necessary in replying to the communications. The view in Washington dynamite, started a year ago, morei is that the country is too big land was cieaaed up in different COOL- munities by the farmers who cooperated and the variety of local interests too conflicting to permit of Congress ever in buying dynamite, than was Roses Wil(f Be Given Away Free Saturday taking action in favor of a single cleared up in the five years previous. locality in this respect, and it is The Producers Cooperative Market probable that the president will continue Association of Duluth, a farmers organization, to choose his own summer house h|s made it possible to S 1 l£_ and pay the expense out of his own buy cheaper dynamite: than ever be­ pocket. ..