Zurich Herald, 1955-06-30, Page 3MADE A FART!!E
FROM EMPTY C4S
When we open a can of peas
or beans, the can goes into the
refuse bin and we forget about
it. But empty Dans brought. Jim
Ledford a tidy little fortune --
and only because he was an
atbservant man.
Ledford was employed on the
world-famous Anaconda copper
mine in Butte, Montana, where
he lived up to 1905. The mine
at that time was producing
roughly one-third of the world's
total output of copper.
Water from the mine was
pumped into a small stream
that meandered past Ledford's
shack and the shacks of a few
thousand other people, all of
whom were employed on the
mine.
Ledford, like all the families
in the rough mining district
lived almost entirely en canned
foods. And the countryside for
miles around, even the little
stream, was littered with thous-
ands of empty cans.
A n a c o n d a copper -bearing
water seeped through these cans
for all of the twelve years Led-
ford lived next to the stream.
One day he chanced to fish a
can from the river. He was on
the point of throwing it back
when he stared in amazement
at the rich copper deposit on
his hands!
He realized the potential
value of the cans at once —
they were nothing less than
storehouses for all the copper -
impregnated water from Ana-
conda.
As the cans rusted on the
river bed so they were being
consumed by the mineral -laden
water, extracting copper from
the rejected mine liquid and de-
positing pure metal on the bed
of the shallow stream.
Casually Ledford approached
Anaconda and asked for a lease
en the river where it flowed
over mine property. Although
the authorities thought him
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mad for wanting to lease
worthless waste water, they
agreed and gave him a year's
lease.
Ledford got himself a cart
and set about working from
dawn till sunset collecting the
thousands of empty food cans
which had been thrown 'away
by the mine workers' families.
He bought up scrap metal and
every few hours came home
with the loaded cart.
His wife was furious, He was
spending good money on rub-
bish and what was he doing
with all this junk? Simply
ditching cartload after cartload
into the stream! But he never
told her what he was up to.
For sixty days Ledford work-
ed hard at it until the country-
side around Anaconda was spot-
less; there wasn't a can to be
seen, for all the cans were rust-
ing at the bottom of the Ana-
conda stream, now Ledford's
lawful property.
Ledford sat back contentedly,
watching the cans rust. Then,
when the lease had two days to -
go, he sprang to work, bringing
up the cans and dredging the
riverbed, rich with copper de-
posit, cans golden in colour with.
rich copper.
While Anaconda engineers
stood dumbfounded, Ledford
hauled in pure copper to the
value of thousands of dollars —
and offered it for sale either to
Anaconda or on the free mar-
ket. Anaconda, which control-
led the market, bought at once.
.. Ledford knew that he would
never get another lease from
Anaconda, He had made a haul
and that was the end of it. He
packed up his family on the
day when Anaconda harnessed
the river to return the copper it
stole from the mine, and vent
off to his native Kentucky
where he bought a large house
and lived the life of a rie.h cop-
per magnate.
odem Etiquette
Q. Is it all right for a woman,
who is marrying for the second
time, to wear white?
A. No; nor does she wear a
veil or carry orange blossoms.
And the simpler the ceremony,
the better taste it displays. The
most sensible woman marries
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church, with only intimate
friends and relatives present to
witness the ceremony.
Q. Is it proper for an engaged
couple to mail birthday cards to
friends signed with both of their
navies?
A. This is quite all right.
A. Is it proper to remove food
quickly from the mouth if you
sudden' ' find it's too hot to
swallow?
A. Never. Instead, take a
quick swallow of water,
Q. If a man finds himself
seated next to a woman acquain-
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to pay for anything she may
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A. He is not obligated to do
so. On no account should he in-
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offer he might make. One of the
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Q. Is it all right for a hostess
to use her tea cart to transport
dishes from her kitchen to the -
tlininm room table and back
ag'in?
A, Certainly, if this makes
thines easier for her.
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MOLD
Mom's sister, Harriet, lived in
the bluegrass capital, Lexington,
and visited us in the mountains
once yearly. Aunt Harriet never
accepted our "way of living"
always saying that so many
chores performed by country
families seemed to be a gross
waste of time.
"Ann," she said to 'Mom more
than once. "Butter is butter and
will taste the same with or
without molding and decorating
All this time consumed. Isn't it
simply wasted?"
"No," Mom . would answer
rather firmly, "The family uses
more butter if it's decorated and
presented more attractively "
Molding butter did take time
but it was time well spent.
Wooden butter molds were con-
sidered major kitchen tools. At
our home Mom's two molds oc-
cupied prominent spots .in the
middle shelf of our cherry -wood
dish. cabinet (we call it a cup-
board), alongside four beautiful
hand -painted French porcelain
plates of . the church of Saint -
Etienne -du -Mont. A .quart
pitcher of Mexican origin, with
a small but distinct design on
one side of the floating gardens
of Cuernavaca, also had its regu-
larular position on the shelf.
Each mold when unassembled
was in three pieces: the one or
one-half pound circular wooden
bowl; the pat with carved in-
taglio design, that fitted snugly
in the bowl and plunger that ran
through a hole in the bottom of
the bowl and hooked firmly
into the pat.
The first mold I remember was
made from wood of a spice tree.
Dad secured a nice round block
from a large tree in the sturdy
growth at the south end of the
farm. The trees had been there
for many years, and I remember
rather well that Kentucky card-
inals loved to visit the grove,
especially in late springs and
early summers, when the scar-
let berries were juiciest and
tastiest.
Even though Dad was versa-
tile in his use of a blade, he
nevertheless took the block to
the county seat nine miles dis-
tant, and had it shaped by a
lathe at a wood -carving shop
to a one -pound bowl.
The squat, somewhat bow-
legged four -capped Foster Pine
Grove cooking stove, that occu-
pied a full corner of the kitchen,
furnished its big oval-shaped
oven as a kiln for drying the
bowl. The damper was manipu-
lated carefully so as to furnish
the oven with smooth even heat
so the wood could not dry too
quickly and leave the bowl
weeped arrl inisshapeeerl.
When the bowl dried, Dad
meticulously measured it for a
pat. He used his knife to whittle
out a birch pat, testing it at in-
tervals so as to make sure of
it fitting the bowl well For a
plunger he used a small piece
of straight limb sharpened at
one end to fit into a slit in the
pat At the opposite end of the
plunger was a tiny knob for
fingers hold.
For a design he chose a binded
sheaf of wheat. Even though
Dad was pleased with the de-
sign, the family was completely
stumped, since none of us had
seen wheat, No one thought to
ask Dad why he made such a
selection.
The explanation for the wheat
design came many years later
when I published an article on
"foddering" in a section of The
Christian Science 1Vlonitor and
received an avalanche of mail.
One reader in Colorado asked
for some background materials
'Since his father, a Mormon luras-
; idnary, had visited my section
in 1886-87, and kept a Journal
Of his activities here. He had re-
corded what si delightful bine'
he had helping farmers cut.
thresh and bind wheat. Put -titer
research in the 'stacks at the
TIER
University of Kentucky, bore
out the fact that raising wheat
was once practiced to a great
extent by farmers in the moun-
tain counties.
I have no memory of whether
Mom knew why Dad chose the
design but the wheat mold be-
came her favorite and she used
ft
The next mold, Dad made en-
tirely by hand, whittling and
carving the three pieces from a
chunk of sugar maple. in his
spare time. The design he used
on the pat was a simple four -
cornered star, with streaks, de-
noting brightness, running from
each tip. The star along with
Dad's initials stood out distinctly.
Those who did not care to
take the time to make butter
molds, purchased manufactured
ones at hardware stores Many
times these molds poved unsatis-
factory because they had been
dried so quickly, and to such a
high degree that small crevices
and breaks distorted the wood
and made it difficult to mold but-
ter smoothly. Those who wanted
to practice carving designs on
these molds were definitely die -
appointed because the wood was
stubborn and simply would not
take a blade. I have one of these
molds in my possession today
and the pat contains a deep one-
half inch cut, which is evidence
enough that someone, perhaps
it was Dad, attempted to trans-
fer a design from memory to
the wood end failed.
A.
At our house, Mom molded
bui:ter twice a week; on Tuesdays
and Fridays. The family cows.
with such noetic names as June
Bell, Grand Duchy and Pretty
Girl, provided milk from whicb
butter was churned.
A three -pound wooden bowl
and a paddle, eight inches long,
were used to prepare butter for
the molding process. One hun-
dred fast strokes of the wooden
paddle through the butter were
needed to "knock- out" surplus
milk. This was an operation that
Mom performed. She always ad-
monished us to be quiet, while
she counted the paddle strokes.
' Prior to the using, the molds
were taken from their <rccus-
tomed • place and placed in cold
water to soak for thirty minutes.
The 'cold water kept butter from
sticking.
The freshly worked butter was
lifted out of t'he bowl, placed in
the molds, smoothed and flatten.
ed at the top. Butter was press-
ed firmly down into the molds
to obtain the best impression nos-
sible of the decorations. After
the butter settled and hardened,
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