Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 6, 1891, Page 10

10 TIN IN THE BLACK HILLS. Great Work of the Miners and Their Cor- tainty of Bucoxs, ORE ASSAYING 126 POUNDS TO THE TON. Lfect of the MceKinley Bill Industry and the Competi- o the Mines of Cornwa Upon th of Thore is tin in South Dakota. This state- mont is 1 by the judgment of ex ports based on assa) of ore that showed won: derful richne I'he development of the tin industry iu the United States is slow but no less sure. 'The subject is atteacting sal attention. No other eity hasa g terest in it han Omaha. William H. Alexander, collector of customs, in this city, has given the subject a great deal of attention, fully approciating its importance {n ull respects. In the following paper, which he has beon induced to contributato Tie Ber, he considers briefly the tarift iaws af- focting the tin industry, and then gives some startling facts about the vast deposits of tin ore in the Black Hills, Hero is what he says 1 The time is near at hana—July 1—when the additional duty of 1 2-10 cents per pound, as provided 10 the MeKinloy bill, will be as- sessed upon imported tinyed plates When the present tariff schedule was being considered in congress, and especially durin the one month of its oporation, priot to th 1ast fall eleetion, anti-tarifl journals, writers aud speakers in all parts of the country we moved with compassion for “the people, particularly for those of us whom they were pleased to denominate the working class, and prophesicd all manuer of evil as a dire sult of tho McKinley bill. Avoiding the fact that tho new schedule contemplated.and pro vided for move benefit 1o tho people in _the two items —free sugar and_reciprocity —than would be required to offset the additional duties imposed upon all other commodities imported, they singlod out certain paragraphs which appeared,on the surface,to be most buc- densome, und threw the weight of argument upon them Perhaps no ono item in the bill was more vigorously attacked than that part of para- graph 143, which increased the duty or tin and terne plates. In the excitement of the camps when most people took the statements of their re spective party informants for granted, th anti-protectionists created considerablo® cap- ital out of tho erroncous chargo that the in- creaso in duties on tin plate was an O > Against the People that would rob consumers or 5,000,000 in one year. Now howevor, when cvery intel- ligent person can reason itout at leisure, the great bug-bear aisappears Tt is founa that an average famil from twenty to forty pounds of t year, and that the additional dut two-tenth cents per pound, would only in- crease the annnal expenditure from 25 to 50 cents, provided the consumer were asked to pay L, which in most cases he is not. Upon fruit cans and other articles which enter quite largoly into domestic use, the advance in cost varies from ' of | cent to2!5 cents, each, and in ninety cases out of every Lundred, nas noefect whatever upon the re- tailor’s price,the difference in cost being horne by the manifacturers and dealers. It is viain, therefore, that consumers, and by this torm' [ mean those who finally bring the articles into use, are not likely to experience any no- ticoablo burden by reason of the increase of duties. Indeed, 1 saw a large-sized cupola dinner pail in an Omaba store window this morning marked 430 cents,” a lower prico than I remember over to have seen quoted before. Aud, I may add in this conncction, that nearly all the aaditional duty contem plated by the McKinloy bill ou tinplates has alteady been applied, becanso English plate manufacturers, finding the demand incre: ing as July apor raised the price almost 3100 per box above the flxures quoted last year. 1% has boen =aid by men who are now willing to admit nware Consum aro not likely to bo seriously affected by the new tariff, that it will certainly be feit on roofing tin, because plates are used in that form in groater single quantitios by individ- uals, and yet u momient’s thought will reveal the fact that this difference in cost would bo but a small matter when compared with fluctuations in other building material not affected by tariff at all. Bricks, for instanco, may bo offerad today for 310 ver thousand and bocause of over-supy ckuess in building, may bo quoted at 35, or evon 85 be- fore the season closes. On the other hand brickmakers may place their stock upon the market now at $i per thousand and later on, by vewson of an unexpectedly strone demand, it may be possible to raise the price w0 or even $10 per thousand. Such iz- stances are frequently met with, and are taken as logitimato fluctuations. But when wress, for the purpose of ncouraging American Industries, and the development of native resources, en. acts legislation which may advanco tempor- arily th of an article, it is taken up by anti-protectionists and made the basis for un- limited attacks upon the one policy of all others in the history of our government that has brought Ame 1 genius and American products to tho front It has been almost pport commercially will buy ware in i of one and universal, moreover, as au exverionce, that when pricés were raised somewhat by increased tariff, the stimulus thus given to our own indusfries has ulti mately brought them down again below any previous quotations, A w ople should be content to bear & temporary inconvenience which is certain to Bring a Perman Ouo unfortunate ¢ tends an advin nt Benefit, umstauce usually at- in tariff, no m how slight, which h make itseom a burden, and thatis the proueness of dealers and manufacturers L use e tarift as un excuse for marking up goods, und vory much higher, 100, than is justifiablo. Not long ago, while standing in an out of town store, I a merenant say to a customer that the g ly increased prico which he was endeavoring 10 secure for 4 quantity of goods was owing to the advance in tariff under tho McKinley bill, and at the same time he expressed t hope that Mr. McKinloy might bo given o Yory warni rooin in the heveafter, The sale was made, and the custor Absolutely Beaten Out of 30, for the rute of tariff on the artic sold was not disturbed by the MeKinloy rovision, IL i3 not my purpose, however, to dis cuss tho operation, or efftet, of tho present tariff schedule, but to bring to light such. in. formation 4s kil come to mo concerning the tnception, partial dovelopmont and proseat ondition of the tn industry in the Unitod States. Unpatrigtic and un-American as it must ap pear t be, it is nevortheless u fact, that soy eral of our promineut journals whose patron age and success can only bo securo in the midstof industrial activity, are prompt to gather aud magnify evory adverse item thut is obtainable to thé manuf in this country, and,oftentimos, veports w truth bus not 'been substantiited are givon wido circulation, when absolute faots which £0 toshow the existence of milla in operation are reluctantly priutod or laid aside. 1 can understand, after so many prophecies con ceraiug tho operation of the McKiuloy bill have Been Proven ¥l how anxious the prophets who must be us the time draws near pet forocast is to be tried found wanting; and I prophets for endeavoring to maintain, in an upright _position, this important pillar n their structure of calamities, which is alreudy as far out of plumb as the tower of Pisi.. Butit would be more mauly and much 110 o in harmony with the spirit of our poople, to rejoice in an evideuce of progress and help it along, though it shatter a hobby and make whon 1ost it by cannot blame' the th th Prove a Prophecy False. There lics before me, &t this m editorial article from the Cleveland Plain dealer, based upon an sdverse report of tho Omaba board of trade comwmittee, conmment ing on tho tiu mines of Dakota, and as a sort nent, an of ulinchor to his own statewents, the writer | introducod this excerpt from a no'less promi ueut joural in Philadelphia To protect this falry i In Dukota, the duty 0f 850 8 ton wis L posed by the MeKinley tar- _AIF ou foroign tin. Auy metropolita newspaper can afford to | ture of tin plates | | per THE be candid in its disc which its reador: The paragraph ssfon of questions upon peéct reliablo informat uotec chould only be strued to mean that, whon the McKinle went into offect, the duty on tin was fix + cents por pound for all time, uniess amend od. Yousuch a conclusion would bo far from correct. The exact terms of the new tariff scheduie, o far as it relates to tin, are those Paragraph 75, Tin or vk oxtde of vin, and tin In or graln or granulated, untl iy 1 1500 free, Parnernph 990, Tin—-On and after July | 18, there shall be Imposed and pald, upon cnsafterite or Bluek ox e of ti, and upon and pig tin, w duty of & conts per provided, that unless it shall appear satisfaction of presidont Unite who shall muke known praclamation) thist the pro cassiteritos or b Bars, blocks, pigs U nite d tons block tin in 1805, then all eas ahall nfter July and b year priorto July | siterite, bar, bloek wnd pie (i L I05.b adnitted froe of duty T'his changes the conditior nearly threo yoars tin is to be admitted fr Then, for two yoars, & duty equivalent to 20 t ad valoren is to b imposed in order 0 Encourage the Mining of Ore upon our own tesritory. Should it not be found in reasonably large quantities, by tho end of that period,all duties will be removed. When we consider the tremendous growth of our chiet American industries under the protection of n heavy tariff, and then turn to the story of attempts to miko ti plate manu- facture a success, without protection, it must be a dyed-in-the wool free trader wno would complain at the temporary duty of 4 cents per pourd on ti; or two and one-fifth ceats por pound on tinned and terne plates. The New York Evening Post professes to be convineed that no ore is available in tho United States, and it is utterly unable 1o o cover the evidences of progress in plat manufacture which, to loss blinded narties, are clearly in view.' It was well understood that the industry could not be deveioped in this country, unless a highor tariff than has heretofors been levied on plates could bo placed batween those who stould Attempt Their Manufictur and the foreign corporations ntrolled both su price rticles made tin, were firat introduced in American markets, In 1864 a taviff of 21, cents per pound wis placed, or intended to be placed upon tin plates in order to protect the infaut industry. The secrotary of the treasury’s ruling, however, fixed the rate at 25 per cout ad v lorem, owing to some uncertaiuty in tho wording of tho paragraph, and the little start that had then been mado toward tin plute manufacture, reluctantly abandoned. Years vollod by and the Enghish manufacturer, becoming emboldened by the complete prosteation of the industry hero, lually “raisod the price until it had reached " the uuwavranted and oppressive figure of $12 per box. Encouraged by this tremendous advance, some American mill owners set their works in motion and had begun to hope that something tangible would come of it, when lo! at the end of three years, or in 1876, the Foreign Was Reduced froma_romunorative basis to $£.50 por box, wnd during that year the last American man- ufacturer shut down his mill. Congressman Burrows of Michigan, in a speoch delivered in congress in 1390, made the further state- ment that in 1879, under the stimulus of a 210 price, to which the foreigner had then advanced his plates, several mills were started again in the United States, but wore shortly ufterward forced to suspend opera- tions because London quotations were duced to St per box. It is searcely necessary to follow the ecarlier struggles of our home prooducers to establish an iu- dustry in this country, which, were the crushing forco of the' Engiish monopoly stayed, would be easy to plant and of rapid growth, It is belioved, by men who have given the matter caveful attention, that Tin, in i imitless Quantities, can be mived in the United States. It has been stated—and I hoped to have corrobor tive testimony from the collector of customs in that district in time for use in this lettor— that tin is presout in paying quantities iu Bernardino county, California, and that min- ing operations are’ wow in progress. Later ou it will be possibie_for me to confizm or discreait the reports, Many believe thar the richest aeposits aro to bo found in the Black Hills district, and [ am able to furnish somo relablo data concerning that region. It has been pretty definitely determined that the available ore lios within an area of five orsix hundred square miles, bozinning in the vicinity of Custer and extending northwara beyond Hill City, with an_av ago wiath of fifteen or sixtoon miles, There is scavcolv an acre of surface within these limits that does not bear the stakes of a im. The one centrai foree and figure,how- ever, is the Harney Peuk tin mining com- vany. 'This wreat corporation isin posses- sion of claims almost without number, and has made the only effort at development worthy of notice. It is now believed that the carlier work performed and the heavy outlay of monoy by this company was pr tically thrown away. ‘The plan of operatu was to tunnel into the hills, under the in- pression that veins or lodes could be more casily discovered and with 1oss exponso than to work from the top with shafts, At all events the old line of proceduro has been abaudoned, and the work now iu progress is coucentrated upon Five Promising Cla‘ms. Two things havo ooen demonstrated beyond question: 1. That richer ore or tin rock has been found near the surface in tho hills than has evor been discovered before cither in American or forcign mines, 2, 'Tha tin obtained from these rocks is finer in quality than the best that is mined in Wa Indeed, Mr. Carnow, a Corn- wall assaye tated to me, that from present indications would prove to be too fine unless mixed with a coarser quality. Having settlod two of the three more important points in *ho problem, one yet remans to be detor- mined, and that is the extont of deposits, It is repaatedly asked, “Why, if there is tin in these wountawns in abundance, has it not been mined and smelted and brought into use!” A good many who seek an answer to this question are honest about it, and Beally Desive Informugion. ‘Thoro are othors, howover, and it is'strongly hintod that they are acting in the interest of foreign manufacturers whose motives may be questioned. o A New York papor contains, or_did tain recently, a proposition to pay $10,000 for tho first thousand pounds of tin from the Bluck Hill mimes; but if tho parties aro as well posted as they profess to be, thoy clearly understand that” up to this time tho work done there has been of a pre timinary character, and that until = al essential points shall have boen satisfactorily determined, the large outlay of money which, the establishm of concentrators and othor rmanent imp ments would necossitate, will not be made. It is safo to say, more- over, thut when certain plans now muturing aro carvied out, the $10,000 proposition will disappenr. It may bo stated he slow development amount of alluyial considerable surface ore in the Black but there, as in Wales, t hore, have which y and con- at tin mining is of Thero is a cortain deposit, and probably Hills, > chiof supply 13 » from the tremendous rock up- The Harney Poak company has spent a great muny thousands of dollars in n and In offorts to leara certainly, just what can be expected of the mines, The Nevada No, 2, velonging to this com pany, is a mountai. of granite, a vorituble “ovorlasting bl A promising voin in the midst of, and a ledge to one side, are the ovidences of value. T'iho granite itself ot neross at the top, and down through noustrous upheaval, at the rato of pe haps one foot a day, tho drillers are goin order to learn whether or not the lodes ar inuous and rich enough to pay. It A and indications are exceedingly fav t the ledges aad veins will ultimately ther and that the deeper the shaft 18 suuk tho greater the doposit will bo, 1 broke off a sample from one of the large pieces taken out of the Nevada shaft aud | took it to the Omaha ing works for ns- say I ortiticate from Mr. Barron, their priveipul assayer, says ‘Ui per cent tin," or fic 3 Pounds to Ton, This is o very gratitying result. Tin can be mined und smelted protitably if the reok con tains forty pounds to the ton, The princi | pal mine at St.Agaes, accordiug o an articlo upou tin in au English oyolopedia, does not produce more than clghty-four pounds of oxide to the ton, and much of the output has | less |I‘n‘lhll\l\vuu pounds. It will be readily seen, therofore, that if the assay quoted from Mr. Barron Is any criterion of’ the Nevada mine, it I8 uusUALlly rich Another of the five elaims upon which the Huarnoy compuny 1is now at work, is called the “Cowhoy." Owing to lack of Purchase of Claims, OMAHA DAILY | time, 1 did not visit this mine, But in along conversation with a gentloman now liviag 1n St. Louis, but who has spoat thy last four ! months in earofully examinmg every promi | ment feature of the Blnek Hills district, T was givon to understand that this particular mine s one of The Ii hest that has yot beon disc Harnoy peak company's offico, 1 saw a samplo from tho cowboy, which is sald to be the second largest singlo concentrate, or chunk of oxide that any mino has_produ It weighs, I shoula say, from hofting it, thirty pounds, maybe more, aud is about ty-tive per cent puro tin In company with the superintondoat I vis- ited the third fn the series, designated on the maps as the “Addie” mine The shaft is down alroady about three hundrod feet into solid granite, and erossos o lode of ore rock which 1s_apparently gotting better and bet- ter, as tho mining procceds. It is the company’s mtention to coutinub the shaft downward at least soven hundred feet further, and this will require, even with thraa shifts of workm carly r and o half. It must be understood that” odly one sot of drills can b conventently worked av a time, and that the runuing of laterals along the course of the veln is almost equally tedi- ous. The vein now being worked In tho Addie Mine is nearly oight feot through. I wout to the bottom of the shaft and could understand without being told that time is an essential factor in the dovelopment of tin mines. Tho absonco of coke in the hills will probably vrevent the establishment of smelters up there, but it is the iatention of the Harnoy Peak company to erect works for separating the concentratos from the rock, one having a cavacity of 250 tons por day being now under consideration. If the average percent- age of oxide wore sixty pounds to the ton, it would require a capacity of 70 tons for every working ~ day in the r, to p duce tin_cnough, after smelting, to moet the requirements’ of paragraph 204 in the MeKinloy il Very much of the talk about tinin Dakota has boen furnished by men whose claims aro small, and who are powor- less to make any practical use of their possess- sions. As already hinted, it will probably take the Harney Poak mining company two years more, oven if the happiest resulis ara obtained from the operations now in prozress to get the output upon a firm enough basis to warr y oxtensive concentrating estab- lishments, and it 15 only when some power- ful organization with means at hand to push it. zots the mining under headway, so that theso minor claims can b absorbed and util- ized tunt very much can ba done with them. Lam firmly convinced that thero is An Abundance of Tin in_the Black Hills, and that before long it will becomo more evident to the people gen- orally. Not many miles from Hill City, ou the edge of the tin district, the Glendule Mining company vegan operations, and with the excoption of one piece of machinery which “will soon be supplied, it has a small concentrator ready for work. A gentleman is now east with a view of leasing the plant, and in a recent lewter writton to me from Chicago, soms things are touched upon which it miy be my pleasuro to present more Torcibly bye and bye. Oue thing in particular, in connection with the tin ques- tion, has impressed me very forcibly. If the minés in the Hills prove to be remunerative, aud overything indicates it now, Omaha is the Natural Base of operations for the working up of their product. The smelting must be done whera coke and other necessary facilities can bo cheaply and easily secured. Two great lines of railivays run directly from this city to tho mining district. Rolling mills for the mauu- facture of steel and iron plates could be suc- cossfully worked here if steps could be taken 1o utilize the matorial within reach. At Haitsville, Wyoming, thirteen miles east of \Wendover, on tho Union Pacific branch running north from Cheyenne, are iron deposils without limit. ' The hopo that coke to be wused In smelting could bo gotten near by, at Newcastle, has faded away, and tho natural conter for the treating of the mass of ore, is Omaha. [ am aware that, to briog about the possibilities which I have suggest- ed, a very large capital would be reaui and several years’ time; but money can ways be concentrated where there is opoor- tunity for remunerative investment. If Omaka is to bo a great city her people must Grapple With Great Problems and seek great avenues for dovelopment. There are gentloen already engaged in Omaha’s most highly prized industrics who are capable of working out these problems, not at ouce, but 1n course of timo, and it is to be hoped that sooner or later it may be ac- complished. Work has been in progress upon the Corn- wall mines for ¢nturics. Some of the shafts are down nearly 1,000 feot from the surface, and lovels or cross galleries run_under the soa for nearlyamilo. It is said that the mines belonging to the Consolidated group, four in number, have levels and crosscuts aggregating sixty miles, and in some places = aro scarcaly rich enough to pay for taking out; but theso lean spots are counter- balanced by others of high percentage, muk- ing au averaze of paying ore. Witn all theso elaborate and long worked mining facilities tho total production of tin in Wales last year was Less than 10,000 Tons. Careful reading of the history and dovolop- ment of the Cornwall mines will lead one to bo patient with the men who are taking the chances of finding the paying voins in our own country, and 1t_is hardly fair for those of us who hiave nothing at stake to condemn or misropresent the accomplishments of the wpitalists who have. While journals with froe trade sentiments and men’who might learn differently if thoy would make an effort to do so, aro declaring that there is no tin in the Biack Hills, such orts as these now quoted are being made by experts, the first being from Prof. Clay- pool, Buchtel college, Ohio: I have lately returned from Cornwall, & ilo thero visited the large tin mines. which Dusiness wis larzely connectod with iy ¢ abroad; and now. after u thorougl ation, T will say that the future of tho B Hills oks vory encouraging. Theto s plenty of tin there and of goul quality. Al that 1s neded Is plenty of capitui to produce it. In tications cred. At the in Surfy e ¥ i i I ation At- From what I know- of the Engzlish mines, Grear Br in has no tin deposits comparab e witl those in the Black Hills. in richuess and extent. * * * The Harney Peak Minir company, backed by 8, 0,000 capital, is du voloping the Black Hills mines on' a tiaznd sent seie, A gentleman whoso name I am ty to give, but whose report is likely to tako a startlingly tangible form, bofore long, said this to me only week or two awo, Lhave been in the minin fng and South Dukoti, moro LaSt thirty years and have e gutod ovory mining schome and « that has come to light during that v 1y own satistaction I wont to the Bl four months wgo, cover clatm i the wl wooks 16 his Do could about the tin deposits, the ext territory in which it abounds, and the opera- tlons now going on in the wiy of doveloping it und I am satistied that thore is an unlim- itod quantity. of the finest tin in this r Tt will take time and lot ftul t the mining of it well ui BUL 1L 15 sure Lo com Since | began this article, a marked copy of toe Aworican Iron and Steel association's officiul journal has been recaived from Hon, James M. Swank, general manager of the as ation, I quote from it as follows Cronomoeyor ohnirman of the United Tin Plato lmited) © tho 0t of April the wing lettor from t e cinto tin mines, ) county, Cal. We are producing tin metal, but il in o Hmited way, with u five stamp mill, oaps vlo of working' about 150 tons of ore per month, which produces trom twelve and fif toen tins of metil, Our large mill, having capieity of 200 tons per day, will not be fin- ished betore July L Phe letter expresses the hope that shnilar hopetul intelligenve wiay bo revelved. Hero, thon, are twa [oen| s, i which the most éncouraging evidences of Lin 010 are present. Itis 1o be hoped that our manufacturers will yot be furnished with sufliciont native wetal to coat all th plates thoy may mak e, s0 that in every essential we shall be in de. pendent of othier lands, but it is not a vital clement in the development of the industry In my next paper 1 shall eudeavor to pie sent, from roliable data, wuat has alroady boen accomplished by Amorican manufac- turers in this direction - A~ Suggestions are troubled with back, allow us try ' the following simple remedy: Take & viece of flannel the 8120 of the two hauds, saturate it with Chamberlain's Pain-Balo:' and bind it on over tho seat of pain. It will produce a pleasant warmth and relleve you of all pain. Many severe cases have been cured In this way Thej Pain-Balm can be obtatued from all druggists. \ Iy Oceupat or Wiy, rheumatism o suggest It you or a lame that you BEE, A'TURDAY. THE MODERN CARRIER DOVE. Aupibilating Tims in Trassmitting the Osuntry's Ccrrosponderos, £ THE METHODS OF THE FAST MAIL. Hands Through Which Must aha to New York. Pass From Thero sre about ono hundred and eighty five United Statos Jotter boxes in the eity of Omana. One ot these s hung away out in Omaha Heights ft serves a neighborhood of several square thiles. People from beyond the city limits qopfisit ia it their letters for abroad. There ace fow missives found in it aaily, becauso notwithstanding the extont of country it is suppoted to accommodate there aro comparatively fow families there resident, and r these all of them do nut hold voluminous , correspondence with the outer world. Nevertheloss, that lonely box is visited daily bythe hardy mail carrier* of that district. Sometimes.he Lnds half a dozen missives, sumetimes none. Wednesday he found one sweet scented, flower-breathing envelope of oetagon shape, which lookea as If ithad been madeto order. It wasad dressed in a very regular feminine hand and bore the usual two-cent stamp and the blue stamp which provides for s| ory. Letter carriors may be sentimental when they don for the first time the livery of the oi- fice. But the sentime ism dies out after novelty of thelife has worn away. A man handles hundreds of loving epist ly speculates no more as to their contents than the satisfied farmer does egaraing tho sced within bis applos, He thinks more about the miles he has to travel, the sun from which he must be protected, the coal with which he must mako his firoside in the winter aud whether or not Mr. maker intends to raiso his wages. "Tho letter carrier did not take time to amine the quaintly-housed letter. ~He buried it in his soiled bag, jumped in his sulky sped to town as if pursued as was O'Shanter. This 18 what is known as the afternoon col- lection. But the streets were heavy. The arrier's horse coulan’t travel and the poor fellow himseif had to do the enormous work of his beast. He did it oo, though he looked like a clay man, albeit he was a little behind time. When he reached the paved streots, however, the animal sped as if upon the homestretek. Mud flew from the wheels of the vehicle as if in an endeavor to make its flight the more rapid. The animals seemed impressed with the fact that he was in the upioy of Uncle Sam. The letter carrier was anxious to deserve the good will of Mr. Waaamaker. With such concert of action, lost time was retrieved. The horse reached the postoflice about 2:30 o'clock, aud thero stood panting while the carrier, breathless, dashed into the main room and emptied s bag upon the largest table, He was the first_of Uncle Sam's men to handle those letters. He had done his work. He retired to the carriers’ department, there to get his mail for the evening run over the samo route. Another employe (No. 2) picks up the let- ters in_one’s and three’s and fives, twists them this way and that, seemingly 'without looking at them. In a fow minutos the in- discriminate jumble has been metaworphosed into long lines or envelopes, standing on edge, with the stamped corners following in succes- sion like the governing numeral on the upper right hand corner of a bank bill. “Then No. 3 takes hold. ~ He is tho cancel- lor. In his right hand is the cancelling stamp. The left hand skilfully draws tho letters one by one, toward him. As each stamp appears, down upon it drops the inked iron and tne stamp has becn destroyed. The destruction continues more rapidly than fall the leaves in autumn, Then the letters go ta He takes a pack in one tosses into pigeon nolos in frout one after another of the episties. His rapidity is mar- vellous. Tne boxes represent sometimes a state, sometimes a larwe city. Sometime: they represent a section of country the mai of which is madeup in tho railway postal car by the clerks s the train passes through it. The octagoiul letter catchos his eye. He glances at it for a/moment and then shoots it into an opéning already throe-quarters full. 'The box is labelledNew York city. In a few minutes it becomes fuli. Out comes all tho letters and in an instant they are pressed and tied. Pack after pack is twined and the clerk attaches the facing- slip of brown manills paper which contains the latter’s name and the destination of the mail, “Then comes (No. 5) au expert juggler with packages, who buries them in strong pouches and locks the openings. - He hustles them to the rear entrance, where the messenger (No, 6) who controls the heavy, highly-colored mail van seizes them with fingers of stecl ana projects them into the iuterior darkness of the vehiel It is now 3:15 p. m. and the messeager hus minutes in whice to reach the depot. The horses set out at a gallop. At the depot tuey thunder down the incline. The pouches are dragged from tha cavern. The transfer clerk (No. 7) yanks them upon bis trucicand, sgering under the load, wheels thom dummy yelept the *Irish mail”" This is bound for tho Bluffs. The engino is ready to shoot out at & second’s notice. Iuto the car go the sombre pouchos, whero the company’s baggageman (No. 8) mounts guard over them. ‘The door is closed. It is now 4:15 o'clock p. m. Precisely at 4:35 tue Irsh mail, out of breath stops at the depot in Council Biuffs. Onto the truck of another depot transfer man (No. ) are thrown the mail bags, He too, stageers as he pushes the load to the tast mail train, the white cars of which stand upou the Burlington track, while the engine puffs i sutly to be out upon the road One ckes disappear, th way postal cl 10) pulling them if 50 many human beings upon the track of a runaway locomotive, Tho door is closed. It is 4:50 p. m. That speeding teain thinks of nothing, if it thinks at all, suve of the precious load it bears und its dauty almost to annihilate time, The octagonal letter is in the New Yovk City pack tied up i the New York state pouch. The latter lies undisturbed in a cor- nev. The letters within i, so to speak, aro asleep. So is the little maiden way out in Omaha _Heights Sho dreaws of the father m New York City to whom she has addressed the note, and ulates as to what he will say when he us through 1t that his clerk Ed has pr posed to her and_that she wants papa’s con- sent to the marriage: and further, what ho will say wh he sees the special delivery stamp and reads the request for an answ by telegraph—all of which denotes that kd stands very high—at least in tbe estimation of the young woman. In her simplicity, sho rises in the morning at just 7 o'clock aud hopes that “‘that letter may get away sometime toda But she does not know that three minutes before she awoke, or rather at 6:57 o'clock a. o, that same littlo octagonal lettar had reached tho great Burlington depot in Chicago, fourteen nours and seven minutes after it had been trained in Omaha! From the train the New York pouch is again taken by a messenger (No. 11) and mdden in deep wagons, which lumber over the paved streets to the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern depot, half a milo away Hore another dopot’ transfer clork (No. 12) loads & truck and rushes with it to the train Ihe New York pouch is now only 1,000 miles away from its destinae tion and is baing stowed away by & railway mail cierk (No, 13) to be attended to later. "The last run has been entored upon and the train fairly flies past towus, villages and dis. trict cities of wetropolitan importauce, E hart, Toledo, Cleveland, Erle, IRocheste Syracuse and Albany. All the large citles having been passed, tho little ootagonal lotter has now thousands of companions. These the industrious subordin- ates of Mr. Waamaker aro separating into district packages. Some of them are pitched into a pigeon-holg for this sub-station, an- other for that. Thousands of them are o o t the main postoffice, whilo those with special delivery stamps are honored with & box of their oWE. Lnto this compartment goes the little octagonal lotter, just as woite and daloty as If it had y seon the mud. splashed bag of ‘the hard-worked suburban carvier way out iu Omaha. Tu a brivf space of time it passes through the ‘“stater” No. 4. hand und from it a JUNE SO1I-TWELVE 1 the threo clorks (Nos. 13 to 15) sent out from ¢ York to relicve the regular men on the All of thase hard-working, intoiligent mon-—mend who work in the face of danger from which they - somotimes cannot escape, discharee their dutics with wonderiul rapid. ity and accuracy. S0 much so that when tho in comes toa stand in the depot in the great city of erime and wretchodnoss they haye donned tneir onter garments and enger- ly inhale the freshuesa of the open air. It is is now 10:45 a. m. o'clock, or forty-two hours Iater than when the lottor loft Omaha. The little lotter now passes into the hands of another messouger, (No. 1) who with his wagon is waiting for it Ho dumps the pouch on the postoftice platform and an employe (No. 17) dumps the contents on the table. Auother eploye (No. 1%) cuts the binding cords; another, (No. 10) the straightonor, nges them to be marked with the receiving stamp. They aro then stamped by this clork (No. 20) and are car ried by an attondant (No. 21) to the disteibu- tor (No. 22) who appoctions them among the carriers. The little octagoual, however, bears the special delivery stsmp and goes immediately to @& clerk (No. who nas spocial charge of letters so marked. The tter 18 entored and given to a messonger (No. 24), who, in ten minutes aftor he received it, delivers it mto the hanas of “Mr. Henry Adams, Astor house, New York,"” the journcy being made fory hours and ten minutes, Now, Mr. Henry Adams is a practi jzes his daughter's handwriting. He cannot understand the, urgency which ial delivery. He opens the man letter and reads OMAHA, . May 18, has proposed and [ have yOu blease give us your con told him you wers going 1o ta nership. Manmma IS happy My Doar Paps coepted him. He The father telegraphs, and in loss than an hour the telegram 1s deli i, forty-one hours after ( had written her ' letter, and about forty hours earlicr than she expected an answer! It was lover's night in that residence night and both the young folks blessed the mail service, tho hardy men engaged in 1t and the great man who is at the head of it that ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts Eently yet promptly on the Kidneys, iver and Bowels, cleanses the sy: tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and favers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro- duced, pleasing to the taste and ac- ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most posula.r remedy known. yrup of Figs is for sale in 50¢ and’ 81 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro- cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FI6 SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK. N.¥ STPHILIS AWritten Guarantee to CURE EVERY CASE or MONEY REFUNDED. ot a patehing up. Cases Ver seen asymplom co b; il and wo Atment can 4o so ) cliailen ary roliof TREMEDY it Jdtes Stronig o £ try this rom You tiuke o chance of losing oy W nteo to enro or refund overy dollar, wid 1 we putation to protect, also fmancial backing of §300, 0, it 18 porfectly saf to all who will try the treal ent. Heretofors you have boen putting up an Jut your money for diTercnt treatments and althous:i o not yeteured no one s pakd hack your m + Do not wasto money until you try u fivough your own nugligenco. Th o and Joints, hALE £ailing ot, orapti COOK REMEDY €O., Omaha, Nebraska. "~ DR. McCOY. VENEREAL —And No Reproductive Organs, o ted to-- DISEASES as0s of the— (or rivate) ous D Ang Spermatorrhwa and Lost Manhoot Patients successfully ence. Write for question list and Furnam streots, (over U, P Omaha, Nob MAGIC CUR ) for t Lost or \oral oF B Body or mind, the offe in old or you Fantoe every cise or refund pvery days trial trontment 1, full conrs coptible benefits realized m three days. By muil, see puckod from obsorvition COOK REMEDY CO., OMAHA. NEB. troated by sorrespor Ouico. Corner 13th Ticke! Ofce) FOR MEN ONLY, LADIES ONLY MAGI By u COO. FEMALE REGULATOR, Sufeanl Cortaln ton duy or money refunded ", 8 ly seilud from observit REMEDY GO, Ouahi. Ne TARKE PAGES, E HAVE Stayed at the head of the procession; we have given good goods to the people for the same price for which others gave them We have Proven | that by many comparisons, and we feel shoddy. ? satisfied that the public has had it proven to them Conclusively We have a little surprisc in store for you today. It is in our children’s department. In the rush and heat of our many cflorts we somewhat neglected the little and big boys. Now then, for onc week, we will give a straight 20 per cent discount in the entire department, including waists, single pants and boys’ and children’s o suits. ThatweCan'tbe . making a cent by this tremendous ofter) you can readily see for yourself. It is simply a question with us of reducing an There will be overstocked department. no danger of our being Undersold as our prices, as they stand on our goods, even without the discount, are the lowest” mentioned in the city. We have con- cluded to continue our sale a few days longer. It has proven the- greatest card for our business and it is verbal advertising that is telling. It Beats Them All has been the verdict of the people. Sticl to the bridge that has carried you safcly over and we will give you the benefit of lour many years’ expericnce, and we will Tult’s Pills rat doso oftel elasticity of n GOOD DIGESTION regulur bowels and solld deahi, Pric LYON & e avg & Monmax Srs. Cuicaao. Tn el by Tasmet X Coutalos | fusbruetions L o Sy o L o ikl WP promise to do unto you as we wish to be Always a dollar's worth of goods done by. [for a dollar. Corner 18th andFarnam Streets