Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 13, 1891, Page 11

N k. yoE THE OMAHA DATLY BEE, ATURDAY. JUNE 13, 1891--TWELVE PAGES NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST. A Panoramic View of Progress and Prosperity in the Coming Empire. BENATOR DOLPH'S REVIEW OF THREE» STATES $ancy Can Hardly Paint an Adequate Picturs of this Favored Reglon—California Fruit and Montana Poker— Important Events “The New Northwest." Senator Dolph of Oregon writes In the Bune Forum a very notable article on {]\'uw Northwest,” a designation under which e loculizes the three states of Washington Oregon and Idaho, Like any other thought- Yul writer who has treated this subject, he @wells with admiration upon the circum- Btances of the original Oregon settlement, whose motives were found not in the usual spirit of mercenary enterprise but in a romantic combination of patriotic enthusiasm and tasto for courageous edventure. “The patriotism and courage of the people,” he goncludes, “ana their capacity for self-gov- erument were never better illustrated than by the ploneers who settled the Oregon terri- Yory, maintained their allegiance to the gen- al government during the period of joint gr‘rupnu;u, and held the country for the United States,” Senator Dolph pofnts out very significantly Rhat the timo of immigration to the territory Yo the west of the mountains is not,likely to e checked by the ocean and turned buck to tho states lying immediately to the east, be- tause the resources of these common- veulths are not adapted for the sup- port of large populations, while the fands uvon the Pacific watershed are from the varied nature of their resources. The serator aiscusses at length the natural yualifications of the territory in question to pupport a varied and flourishing population. “Nature,” he says, erywhere in this oz10n has been lavish in herigifts * * * = he climate of both Oregon and Washington is most cquable. In western Orewon and | Washington it is difficult- to draw the lines thut divide the seasons. Winter is usually o et season, but there are often long periods ‘of perferct weather in February and March. lowers frequently bloom in tie open air in nd green flelds of growing grass and erain may be seen all winter. *“The voleanic soil of this region, mwuch of ‘gyhich was supposed & fow years ago to bd warthloss,is peculiarly adapted to the growth of cercals, The average yield peracre in Washington is oficialy stated to be 23.5 bus- ghels exceeding tnat of any other state in the Union, In 1800 the wheat producd of Oregon Awas 12,865,000 busnels, and that of Washing- tou was 8,071,000 bushels. “Wool-growing is another great industry of this region. The climate is well adapted 10 sheop raising. Owing to the mild witer the fiber of the wool is unitorm, and by pro- her selection of breeds aud the core of flocks, he finest grades, equal to the best Australian Wool. can be produced.” Apples, veaches, prunes, plums and all Bmall fruits—in fact, almost all the fruits grown anvwhere in the temperate zones— reach perfection in Oregon and Washington, And tho yioid is abundant. Experiments in the cuiture of sugar beets ave demonstrated that they can be pro- duced thero as successfully as in any country on the globe. Manufacturing is well advanced. Water power and fuel are abundant, and the sunly of timber, coal, iron ana_other material for manu facthring purnoses is jnoxtaustible. “ho forests of western Oregon and Wash- fngton are the most valuable and extensive in the union—n mine of wealth awaiting only tho touch of human industry to be trans- mitted into gold. Ship building has been carried on toa erable extent upon Puget Sound, the Columbia river and Coos bay, and will bo ono of tiie greatindustries of the future. “Thao fisheries are important and valuable. MDcep-sea fishing has been successfully car {ried on, and this industry only requiresa | sufiicient market for the product to rival that of any part of the world, ‘“The deposits of the precious metals in won, Washiagton aud Idalio are a contin- O uation of the rich deposits in California and ovads. Thoy are found mainly m south- 7 e » 1S and enstern Oregon, in the northeastern part of Washington and in northern Idaho, Large quautitios of placer gold, when gold was first discovered in theso localities, were mined iz southern and eastern Oregon and Washington, aud in Idaho; but until very yocontly, owing principally to tho task of transportation facilities, quartz mining has mot been greatly developed. “Tue resources of this region in copper, fron, coal, marble and building stone are abundant. There are eleven coal mines working in Washington, and the output in ASSS was 1,188,501 tons. Iron ore exists in abundance'in both Orogon and Washington aud consists of bog ore, or limonite, hematite and maguetic ore.” As to the futare of this favored corner of ithe American Union Senator Dolph points out the following facts as tending to make it @ bright one: “The construction of the Nicuragun canal, the cowpletion of which, within the next decade, appears to be as- sured, will have a marked offect upon the commerce of the coast and the development of its resources, It will shorten the distance between Puget Sound and New Orleans 11,004 miles, and between Liverpool and tho nouth of the Columbia river 6,926 miles.” Senator Dolph brings Lis article to an end with this paragraph: “Fancy can hardly paint tho future of this favored rogion. It is now nearly thirty years since I songht a . home hore. I was then enthusiastic as to tho future of the section, and observaut of tho conditions which promised its develop- ment; and every year has increased my con fidence in its great destiny. lvents which then appeared to lie in the distant future have occurred in rapid succession, and ci cumstnces uow foretoll & grandor develop- ment than was dreamed of, and promise that civilization will reach, at th complotes its circuitof the globe, a state of unsurpassed and incomparablo splendor.” California’s ¥ruit Crop. Something appears to bo wrong with the owens of California. From the stand- point of thoir eastern brethren they don't know the first rudiments of the business, In- stead of proclaiming that the peach crop ha beou ruined by frosts, thoy are actually send- fng out reports to the effect that there huven't Dboen any frosts worth mentioning and that there is every indication of an enormous and unprecedentod yield, They seom to take childish delight in making such aunounce- ments, although they must know that it unprofessional. Not only the peach tre but the cherry, apricot, pear, plum, apple, orange, almond. fig and_lomon trees are said 10 be 50 loaded down with fruit as to require thinniug in order to prevent breaking of the limbs. One of the San Francisco papers is suthority for the statement that not a single unfavorabio report has como in from any s tiou of the state. Al of whick is good news 1o this aud other states which have learned to depend upon California for their main fruit supplies The table prepared by (€ Agent Smurr of the Southe y ome very interesting facts regard- ing the growth of the fruit industries of Cal. iforni. ~ Of prunes, for example,we produced £,000,000 pounds in 1836 and 15,000,000 pounds in 185, 'Phe product of raisms amounted to 3,000 nouads in 1835 and to over 15,000,000 pounds in 15%. The snipments from this state to the east of uli kinds of dried fruits cral Freight n Pacific comp excopt raising were, in 1885, 5,794,100 pounds, aud in 1590 had risen to 83,000,575 pounds. “Tho question of cheap and rapid transpor- 10 of fruit, especially of greeu fruit, as it ealled to distinguish it from dried fruit, is o of tho greatest interest and importance to ,IY ifornin fruit growers. They have shown thelr ability to supply the eastern markets in 8 year whon the eastors fruit crop is small, but it will be & hard matter for them to cow- pote in & good year uuloss the transportation compunies wiil them by cheap rates and vapid transit. It s obvious thut it is 10 the inter- st of the vailroad companies so to do, and it is 10 be Loped that they way ses the unwi Aoin of & pulicy which wakes & pickel uear 1he “The | point where it | Irrigation Projects— in Detail, eye look larger than & doublo eagle held at | arm's length. Song Lee Paints His House. Song Lee keeps a wash-house on Larkin streot, San Francisco, says the Chronicle. Itis quite a pretentious two-story frame strueture, with a peaked shingle roof. Its owner conceived the idea recently of adding to its attractiveness by sundry exterior coats of high-hued paints, 50 now the thing is a perpetual nightmare to all the neighbors and passers-by who sce it for the first timo. They aro startled al- most into breathlessness and ssized with queer optical illusions and visions phantasies that haunt, the brain dust of Larkin strect is shaken teo! The painter tried to make the roof white, but the dirty shingles have defied his skill. With a persistency born of dust and soot they still_show through the white paint in ocea- sional dark patches. Only a man with tho nightmare could haye paiuted the front. The background 1s a dark, ricn groen. The doorand window-frames aro yellow, trimmed with red. The blinds are blue, the cornice pink, the windowsills black, and the door steps cream colored. Other pig- ments abound in profusion, but even the art- ist who compounded them is unable to call the wondrous colors by name. The rainoow is simply not in it when com- pared to the front of Song Lee's wash house, But that 1s not all. There is a side view et to be described. Every imaginable shade and tint that a brain sufféring from tho e fects of a plum pudding or mince pie supper might produce has here boen laid on the weather boards in stripes, The effoct is sim- ply waddening Seen for the first time a shock li%e a thou- sand volts of electricity comes over one, and color blindness ensues at once, Some of tho neighbors complain that the colors are so loud as to disturb their slumbers at night. Song Lee is not unconscious of the attén- tion his wash house has excited in tho neigh- borhood. He comes out, takes a glance at the awful thiny, nud then goes back smiling. “Me likee, alice samee,” until the from their Poker a Gams of Skill. The verdict rendered by a Butte jury on Monday that poker is a gamo of skill, not of chance, may not be strictly according to Hoyle, says the Anaconda Standard, but if tho spirit of that eminent authority is cog- ant of the event and could communicato with moderr: card players, it would undoubt- edly aftirm the decision with the greatest cordiality. Since the death of Hoyle, moro than one hundred years ago, tho progress mude in all the arts and scionces has been amazing, and poker at all times has kept well up in the zeneral advance, until today it has reaghed what is appurentiy its bighest, pos- sible state of perfection. Of oourse this de- cision that it is a contest of skill, applies to voker only in its noblest, purest form. As executed by castern tenderfoot, Holona tyros and hobos, and amateurs, tin-horns, and suckers in general, it must Still bo regarded as possessing muny elemonts of chanco; but, s0, for instance, must be regarded a game of ‘biltiards when the players are of the same low grade, Even tho art of pugilism is re- duced to a mere lottery in the hands of the 1gnorant and inexperienced. Vhat the Butto Jury means to say is that in poker skill predominates over chanco in a ratio depending upon the culture, the practical profiviency, the technical erudi tion, in short the profossional attainments of the participants; so that to a pokerist who has acquired a thorough mastery of his chos- en profession, every clement of chanco 1s climinated and he has nothing to do but to stack the cards and - rake in jack-pots and everything else in sight with certainty and enso. A really accomplished and capablo poker shark should do up everybody at the table, providing the sitting 15 long cnough and there are no guns in the room. Irrigation Bonds Above Par. A few days ago there was effected in Eu- rope a large sale of ivrigation bonds, says the San Krancisco Chronicle, The bonds brought 102 cents on the dollar, the bigzest. price yet obtained 1 investments of ths kind. The bonds sold wero 1ssued by the Alessandro district, near Riverside. A year ago the land in that district could not be sold at $10 an acre. It wasa mero desert. Water was ob- tained from the Bear Valley Irrigation com- pany, and the cost of placing tho water on the Alessandro desert was met by bonding the land for 30 an acre. Some capitalists were found who had nerve enough, coupled with an understanding of what irrigation will accomplish, to buy enough of the bonds to furnish the corporation, or district, the meaus to build the nocossary canals, flumes, tunnels, etc., and now what was a year ago a desert of over 25,000 acres has nearly ail beon sold at an average price of 8100 an acro. The land has been sold in ten or twenty acre lots to actual settlers, and is being planted out in various varieties'of citrus fruits. The dis- trict has grown so wealthy that it is now ne- gotiating for the purchase of u large tract of land adjoming the district, and its owner, o San Francisco busmess man, is ready to soll, and instead of money, will take his pay in the bonds of the district, which, starting away below par, are now selling at 102, as mentioned, A'hese facts are very good ovi- dences that irrigations bonds as an invest- ment are rapidly growing into popular favor Consolidated Portland. An election was held June 1, in Portland, Fygst Portland and Albina. The question at issue was whether or not the thres munici- ralities should consolidate into one. An un- usually heavy vote was polled, both the con- solidationists and anti-consolidationists mak- a strong fight. The total number of votes cast in Portlana, East Portland and Albina was 11,840, Of these Portland cast 7,165 for cousolidation and 054 aguinst; Bast Port- land, 1,523 for and 208 agawnst; Albina, 1,188 for and 402 against. The total mujority in in the three citios for consolidation is 10,120, The election under the new charter will be neld on June 21, The anti-consolidationists gave up the fight. An interesting feature ot the election was the employment of photc raphy to dotect illowal voting. At cach polling place there was a membor of the con- solidation league provided with a kodak camera to photograph every voter and num- ber him so that if ho was caught repeating the state would bave aclear case against him. This has been dono In eastorn eloc- tions aud has resulted in the conyiction of a number of illagal voters who are now serv- ing sentences in the peniteutiaries. A Rich Gold Mine. Tep pounds of gold from forty pounds of rock. Such is the report rec-ivad hera from the new Nevada mining district. Mont- gomery, the discoverer of the district, and re- locator of what is generally supposed to be the fabulously rich Breyfogle mine, which was found many years ago, only te be lost acain by the unfortunate prospector, is now ou bis way to the camp with a large outfit. Montgomery hus with him & number of workmen, uid twepty men are already emi- d_Feuing roady” for the shaft bouse, smith sbop and mill. His mive hus been named “The Chispa," A rich strike was made on it in blasung out on the crop- pings for the shalt bouse, From about forty pounds of rock they obtained ter to twelve pounds of gold. At the Younts mine & shaft as boen suuk fifty foot on one of the ledges and @ orosscut at that depth shows threa feet of ore which will average §0,000 to the wu. Prac tical Colonel i. 5. Nettleton of Washington, D. C., chief engineer of the department of agri- eulture; I, 8. La Grevge of Greeley, Col., of awful | practical frrigationist; W. W, Follett of Salt Lake City, Utah; government irrigation en- gineor, and Major F'. F. B. CofMin, artesian woell inspector and examiner.are doing special work in this immediate vicinity and are mak- ing their headquarters fn Huron, 8. I0,, says the Huronite. They are all members of the United States artesian well and irrigation inquiry commission. “Our inission,’ vat this time s begun several months amining arteman wells and obtaining such information as will aid in estab- lishing a thorough system of irrigation. A number of experiment irrigation stations have been estabiished for the benefit of the general public, There is a station on the Day-Harrison farm, west of Huron, and also oneon the Consolidated Land & Irrigation company’s ranch, about eight miles north of Huron. These, with the one at Aberdeen, will probably be all thay will be located the prosent season in South Dakota. “When my work here is in shape to leave, I expect to go to the Black Hills, Prof. Hay of Kansas City chief geologist, and Prof. Culver of the state university at Vermiliion will be with me. We have much work todo there, but quite different from what we are doing here, “I had a plan outlined for ascertaining the quantity of water in what is known s the artesian basin, but the appropriation is too Il to attempt to carry out the plan this season. What I proposed doing was to go to the northern part of the Black Hill where the sandstone outcroppings are so general and follow them to the Canadian line. [ be- liove the water in the various streams in that section which are tributary to the Missouri river, as they cross the sandstone outeropp- s Sinks in the pores of the stone and Hows dowu through the Dakotas and into the ar tesian basin. T would measure the water in these streams at - different points above and below where they flow over the Dakota sand stone and thus ascertain the quantity of water that is taken into the sto during the passage over it. This would give the quan- tity of water in the basin 1 am now ascertaining the altitude of the artestian wells in the state and connecting m with sea levels, in order to ascertain at relution they bear tothe sea and to h other, This will provide data from which to ascertain the direction in which the water bearing rock tips. ““As to the size of the basin I cap only say that it so far appears to me_that the eastern line is in the vicimity of Vermillion, Scot- land, Mitchell, Iroquois, Clark, etc., and on almost due uorth to the state live. It may may be a little east of the points named, but I doubtit. On my return from the Black Hills I will continue the work of ascertaining the western edge of the basin, until then I am not prepared to say where it is located.” said Colonel Nettleton, to continue the work, since, of ex- Producing Rain by mxplosions, On or about June 15 the agricultural de- partment will test the efficacy of ex-Senator Farwell's scheme to produce rainfails by means of dynamite carried into midair by balloons. A preliminary test was recently made in Now York of the problem as to whether dynamito could be effectively cx- ploded by the balloon method, and proved a success. Dr. Dyrenforth of Washington, distinguished patent attorney and former as- sistant commissioner of pateits, has thus far superintended the tests, aud will attempt to demonstrate in a few aiys as to whother the Farweli scheme is a suc or not 1n 1ts en- tirety. Dr. Dyrenforth will procecd west in about one week and quietly sclect the point at which the experiment will be tried. While its exact locality 1s tho secret of the department, onough is known to warrant the statement that some portion of the and re- ion will be the spot sclected to_domonstrate the trath or falsity of the scheme. Since Senator Farwell flashed his _theory on. the public last winter, the agricultural dopart- ment has been flooded with propositions to produce like effects. One distinguished scientist of the Pacific slopo has addressed a letter to Secretary Rusk, in_which he offers to produce raiu by use of a mortar for £1,000, the latter being @ contingent upon its suc: c3ss. This gentloman’s theory is that rain- falls, if produced by explosives at ll, can only be procured by upward instead of down- ward or statiouary action. In this theory the scientists of the department protty generally agree, but the Farwell theory will be fairly tested before any of the numerous other prop- ositions are carefully considered and exam- ined in all their several details. The Kifty- firstcongress appropriated several thousand dollars 1o test the Farwell plan, which sum caunot, of course. be diverted in favor of any other scheme. Artesian Well Irrigatio) Tho reclamation of arid land through the use of water obtained from artesian wells is one of the most interosting phases of the irri- gation problem, says the Denver News. Itis of interest not only to the general public and to farmers, but also to machinists and in- ventors. In the eastern part of this state the water in such wells does not rise near enough to the surface to be lifted by ordinary pumps, and therefore the utilization of this water by the owners of small tracts of laad will de- peud upon whether a powerful pump can be constructed at a cost low enough to admit of ita purchase by a farmer of small means. 1t is for tins reason that the subject of irvig tion from artesian wells is an interesting o to machinists and inventors. Having u strong faith in the ability of the inventive genius of Americans to solve this problem satisfactorily, we havo no doubt that in the course of a few vears thousands of acres of arid land will ve reclaimed in this way. is o tendency of agriculture by irrigation to restrict the ~area cuitivated by each per: 10 & few acros, There is compensation for this veduction 1n the area cultivaied by cach individual in the fact that the method of cul- tivation is more careful and the product per acre groater than in the humid regions of the eastern part of this country. It is also in keeping with tie use of artosian wells as tho source of the water supply. T'wenty acres, carefully cultivated, are enough under a sy tem of irrigation to supoort a family, and ihe duy will come in the arid rogion when this will bo the size of the averago favm. Crops on the Laramie Plains, Lionel Sartoris and Wilbur C. Knight ro- turned recently from the Milibrook ranch, from them 1t is learned that tho crop pros- pects out on the Little L. finer, says the Boomerang. Tne Douglas-Willan-Sartoris company has acres of oats, now three or four inches high, and fifty acres of wheat equally ad. vancod. Forty acres have been_ planted in potatoes, for yielding big crops of which the valley of the Littlo Laramie is particularly noted. No finer potatoes can be raised any- where in the world, while the crops are abundant beyond anything ever heard of in the prairie states or the rich valleys.of Indi- ana and Illinois. The sume company has 3,000 acres of timo= thy that is now from four to six iuches high, Alfalfa, which has thus far proved a success on the Millbrook ranch, is doing finely this spring, Mr. Surtoris saw some yesterday that was eight inches high The fact is that agriculture is no longer an experiment on the Laramio plaivs. -Tho pos- s ibilities in that live have beondemonstrated until they are now known as positively as down in the older states, All that is neaded is 1o muko the facts known to tho world and induco the small farmers to come in here, aud after about one or two years trial they could not be persuaded to farm imuny other part of the country. Honoring the Mission Pioneer California has a high appreziation of Mrs, Stanford’s generosity, says the San Fran- clsco Call, in ereeting a statue to the memory of Padro Junipero Serra, the Franciscan priest who founded the various missions in this state. ‘The history of the mission period is interwoven with tho history ot California in a manner which furaishes romancists with unlimited material for creating most charming sketches from early civilized lifo in this state. T'he publication of these tales has made California celebrated as the coun- tries in Europe which are prominent in the verse and prose of the authors who have handed down their master-work to the past two or three generations. The raising of a monumen to commemorate the lifo of the intrepid priest who originated the now rap- idly decaying homes of his faithful colleagues is & noble and graceful tribute to that hero. The monument stands near the spot where Serra landed in Monterey, June 8§ 1770. It cost $10,000 and was unvelled, with appropri- ate ceremonies, the 3d iust. A Great Rolief Anyway. Tho Boise Statesmen is Qispleased at the emubatie masuor lu which we express ‘our | opinion of the majority of the suprome court, says tho Shoshono Journal. We want the Statesman and everybody else to understand that we have gone through a long and bitter personal, political and legal fight, and that we wore boaten all around. Wo confoss that we are fooling pretty sore, especially toward this court, which put the finisning touches on us. What hurts us most is that wo cannot appeal from that decision. We thereforo ex- ercise the innlienable right of overy Ameri- can citizen—oither to appeal or curse the court. As wo cannot appeal there is only ono alternative left us, and that is to eternally d-—n the court, and this wo propose to do. re- gardless of the consequences. It may not Burt the court, but it is a great reliof to us, Terigetion 1ni Wyoming. Preparations aro being made, says tho Laramio Republican, for a third survey of the big ditch on the éastside of the Platte, which will be 100 feet fvide at tho bottom, 12 feot deep and 130 miles long, and which will irrigate nearly two million acres of desert land. While the cost of this enormous canal will be about 2,000,000 ft is believed it will be a paying investmenfy s tho land that will be brought under it is some two thousand feet lower than the Umramio plamns in this vieinity, the altitude being about the same as that of Greeley, Colo. Tha soil is very rich and it will undoubtedly prove a fine grain country. Banker Richards says there is no trouble at all about getting the capital for this tremendous vndertaking, but he will not ask any one to invest money n it until ho is positive that he can represent things exuctly s they ave. Tho first two survevs proved favorable in every respect and ho has no doubt the result of the third survey will be equally satisfactory Another immense ditch on the west side of the Platte, opposite Douglas, is also said to be a sure thing. Greatness Thrust Upon Her, If an earthquake should blot San Francisco out of existenco at this moment, says the Ex- aminer, our fate would be deplc by m lions who a y zo would never have given us a thought. Tosay that the eyes of the world are upon us is a trito and inadequate way of expressing our present distinetion. This not very and somewhat shabby town, which, according to Mr. Porter, ranks only eighth among the cities of the United States, has the rare felicity to contain at the same time no less a trinity of celebrities than John L, Sullivan, Peter Jackson uand James Corbett. Suppose this load of preatuess should be inadvertently concentrated upon a single cable car on a steep hill—the imagina- tion refuses to pieture tho catastropne that might result, Gauging yoming Rivers, State Engineer Mead, says the Cheyenne Leader, is from the north, Ho was up gauging the Platte rviver, and was much sur- prised at the volume of water. He estimates that from 10,000 to 11,000 cubic feet of water passes down the riverper second of time, ai thinks it is the largest riv The Platte is still rising and will furnish plenty of water this summer for all ditches taking ont water. He stopped at Iron Mcuntain to examine the big Davidson dam, and thinks it is very well built. The dam is for storage only, and the people below on the Chugwater would do well to follow the Davidson example and save the water going. down in the spring for irrigation. Th: % yoming Rango Reports from the ranges continuo most promising, says the Rawlins Journal. For years the grass has not been as good as at present. Cattle aro looking well, horses are in excellent condition, and_sheep haye never been better than now. Unless something un- foreseen huppens this will undoubtedly be the best year these industries have experienced for somo time. Wyom ng. The spring round-up is uader way. Oats brings 2 cents a pound in Lander Val- ley. ‘A substantial public school is going up at Sheridan. Coal shipments from Rawlins average 200 cars a day. The artesian well at the state university. is down 250 feet. The turners of Cheyonne propose to invest £19,000 in a bail ; Laramie is energetically pushing work ona road to Gold Hill. | The Saratoga road is open to within four miles of Gold Hill. Reports from all stock ranges are of a most favorable character. Chbeyenne promises'to hatch an electric street milway this yedr, T ho numter.of insane persons in the state asylum is twenty-nine, The granito quarries in the vicinity of Sherman are bewg developed. Dr. A. A, Johnson has been installed as president of the state university. George Burns, a voluminous horse thief, is rusticating in the Weston county jail Sundance banks on being the junction the Nortnwestern and Burlington roads. Extensive ledges of bluestone have been dQiscovered near Neeteetse, in the Big tiorn basin. A branch of tho people’s party, the first in the state, has boen organized in Albany counf Tne asbestos discove Casper, is said to bo the the state. The aanual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will bo held at Douglas, June 16-21. Recent snow storms in the Fontanello and of nine miles froj hest yet found i HENRY UIHLEIN, President, KEG-BEER BRANDS: BUDWEISER, PILSENER, WIENER, ERLANGER, CULMBACHER. “SCHLITZBRAU® | various or in Wyoming. | the | Ham's Fork country were dlsastrous to the lamb erop. A Ponnsylvania company Is develoning the conl mines at Cokerville on the Oregou Short Line. Roman Knapj dropped ded o1 on the 6th tnst, A convention of firemen will bo held in Rawlins, July 11, for the purpose of forming @ state assoclation, Five enterprising cattlo thioves have tom- porarily retired from business and taken quarters in the Lander jail. The purchasers of the iron claims'at Hart- ville propose to build a narrow guage rail- road from Wendover to the mines. Roports aro current that an English syndi. cato has been formed, with §2,000,000 capital, 1o develop the soda deposits in the state. An association of business mon has been formed at Buffalo, with F'. G. §. Hesso at the head, to push the interests of the city. The public timber -forests are gradually disappearihg. Ono firm cut 200,000 ties in the mountains near Evanston, this season. The railroads have decided to grant re- duced rates to delegates 1o the state mining convention to bo held in Choyenno noxt fall. J. S, Fretwell, from Ogden, was murdered at Ivanston by n tough. Fretwell was mis- taken for gaug boss with whom the mur- derer was at outs. One hundred thousand young trout from tho state hatchery, “just off tho grass, and fat ond frisky,”” are’to bo turned loose in the streams around Buffalo, & we!l known young man, heart disease in Choyenn According to the report of the signal offico | at Cheyennie the rainfall for May was, with one excaption. the heaviest in tweuty vear: amounting to 4.83 inck The people of Wyoming aro moving to ct n suitable moniment to the memory of noral Crook. Moetings are to bo held in towns in furtnerance of the pro- ject ‘Iramp tourists are welcomed in Chey cnno in o novel manner. That they may bo pro- perly impressed with the Magic City, twenty- five’ pound ornaments are attached to their lower extremities. The third stace line between Buffalo and the northwestern terminus of the Burlington road is about to be established. The railroad is being pushed at the rate of three-quarters of a mile a day. On_Thursday evening whilo the easi- bound passengar, No. 8, was ranning at fuil speed botween Carter station and Grange an insane Frenchman jumped from the tr sustaining a few bruises, Thousands of acres of placer grounds have been located at Gold Hill. The country is a network of creeks and lakes, and placers have been located on both sides of the crecks und on all sides of tho la) The owners of the sandstone quarries at Rawlins have arranged to place the product on the market. Orders have been received for 700 carloads. J. W. Holmes of Kearney, Neb., has chargo of the quarries, Buffalo is the outfitting pomnt for miners and prospectors, being midway between the Whito Pine district of the Powder river and the Buld Mountain diggings, and directly of the placer diggings at the headwaters of Canon creek. “I'he Ferris district is one of the best known in Wyoming, though it has never e jenced any marvelovs boom. It is about one hundred and fifty miles trom Laramie, being forty-seven miles north of Rawlins, twelve miles from the Sweetwater and eight miles from the funous Seminoe mines. The Fort Sanders ditch_company, recently organized, has completed the preliminary work of taking out a ditch that is to convey water from the Biz Laramie to the old res- ervation south of Laramie. The diteh is to be thirteen miles long and is taken from the river near the mouth of Sund creek. Stockmen in_Converse county are kicking vigorously ngainst tho unloading of Texas cattlo at Orrin Junction. sand a day arc unloanded thereand they spread all over tho country for miles in avery direc- tion, totally destroying the rangew hich would but for this affliction have been the finest ever known. Superintendent Calvert and N. W. Ensign n, secured teams hero for & two months’ trip to | Yellowstone park. Incidently the trip will result in business, inasmuch_as the Burling- ton company is of course desirous of more in- formation in regard to the country along the line of the proposed extension to the North- ern Pacific. The Governor Boyd case in Nebraska has brought several Cheyenne_citizens to a reali- zation of the fact that therc is something lacking in their naturalization papers. Some of those concerned were. soldiers in the late war, and_until this caso aroso nover con- ceived that they wero not full-fiedged Amer- ican eitiz A report originating in Denver intimates that an English syndicate has been formed to work the oil fields and build @ vipe line southward. The syndicate is saud to_control avout twenty thousand acres of ol lands west of Caspar and in that vicinity. The proposition is to pipe oil from those lands to Denver via Eort Collins and Laramie City, running a_branch connection to Cheyenne from Tie Siding, a point this side of Laramie, Prof, Nichols has been making some ex- periments at the Nebraska state university with the Newcastle coal and coke for Kilpa- trick Brothers & Collins. He recently ro- . ported that o method of separating the fire clay from the coal for the manufacture of coko cheaper than the washing process had been found. This being true, it is probable that the coke ovens will soon berua- ning again. The Saratoga correspoudent of the Chey- enne Tribune writes: “The mines of Gold Hill, Buftalo Guich, French Creek, Brush Creek, Pass Creek and the Grand Encamp- ment are all of added richness since the opening of spring and the beginuing of pros- Five and six thou- } AUCUST UIHLEIN, Secretary. pecting for this year, while the lands of the valley are ulm:{ on the appearance of verit- aple farms; and Saratogs itself nas largely added to its building, its population and its Ilmw' 00 in the eyes of the outside pub- o, Along tho Coast. Danfel Gilmore, eashior in Wells. Pargo & Co.’s ofice at Eurcka, Cal,, while fishing, fell into shallow water, striking bis head on a rock, He was mado unconscious and was drownied. A stock company bas been formod for tho manufacturo_at Cloverdale, Cal., of cham- pagno and brandy, The concern has a cap- ital stock of §00,000 and is composed of solid business men, Morris Hooflick, formerly one of th e bost known stock operators in San Francisco committed suicide by shooting. He was suffering from melancholia, induced by lossos n t ho stock board, Mr. Denby, Unitad States miuistor to Ching, has provided for the sending of tho seods™o tho Los Angeles chamber of com- morce, the culture of toa near that city being determined upon. Theodore 7. Hardee, the leador of tho Los JeAngeles Four Hundred, has suddenly “jumped the town,” leaving many croditors, among whom word a number of ladies from whom he borrowed wouoy. The railroad officials roport in the vicinity of Los A ngeles 12,000 acres in potatoes, the lowest estitoated yield of which is 4,000 car ionds, Shipments to the east are now com- mencing at the rate of six to sixteen cars daily. W. A, Hubert of Sac to Stockton, fifty-one miles, without dis- mounting, and made it in four hours and twenty-five minutes, The round trip was made in nine hours and fifteen minutes, run- wing time, The management of tho thirty-eighth nual California state fair for 1301 has d cided upon a new feature, and that is to in- crease the raciug meeting from oue of nine days 10 one of eleven days—six trotting und 1ive running. Tho supreme court has decided in o San Francisco case that insurance money cannot be secured from a company in case of damage by fire, when the party insured has agreed t0 keep a watchman on the premises, aud the atter neglocts his duty. Mrs, . Hassourck, who resided in the foot-hills about thirty miles north of Fresno, Cal., was burned to " death by the explosion of a coal oil lamp. She was the widow of Fred Hassourek, a distinguished German writer and politician of Cincinnati. ‘The state board of Viticulture has received word from various parts of the stato that there has so far no visitation of frost, and that the vines are healthy, except in some parts where the “vine hopper” infests. "l‘hu indications for a good crop are promis- ng. About five hundred Indians of the Mojave, Maricopa, Cocopab, Yuma and Hualupai tribes are now assembled on the California bauks of tue Colorado river, indulging i their annual evy for the dead, and up to date more than n dozen horses have been killed and eaten by these savage brutes, who are keeping up their howling exercises day and night. nento rode a bicyele ‘Washington. Specimens of copper ore have been found in Colfax while digging a well, Washington's big troe for exhibition at the yrorld’s falr s 4" foot squaro sud 120 feot ongz. Spokane's new high school building, erected at a cost of $102,000, has just been completed. ‘There are now over seven hundred post- ofices in the state of Washington, and yet the people are still. clamoring for more. . ‘The papers in Chehalis county almost with- ‘out dissent supported the proposition to bond tho county for $320,000 for the purpose of building_a system of wagon roads and in funding tho county debts. The Farmers' Allisuce warohouse and ele- vator company bas begun the foundation of its mammoth warehovse at Fairfield. Many of the leading farmers are now agitating the location of a large flouring mill. 1t is said that the Sunday schools at Port Townsend, stato of Washington, occasionally close a half an hour or #o ahead of the regu- lar time to give the scholars a chance to at- tend baseball games. When the scholas call the game the superintendent heeds and dismisses, Reports from Conewok, the banner fruit district, of Yakima county, are most encour- agmg. No trace of blight or injury from frost is discernible, and the indications are that a larger crop of fruit will be obtained than ever before. Apricots are now as lacze as walnuts and the trees are *just loaded down with the weight of the fruit. Colonel W. A. George, the veteran lawyer, died in Walla Walla recently, at the age of eighty-one years, five and a-half months. He was a self-educated man, having been born 1 North Carolina and raised, as they termed it, among the “poor white trash.”’ "He was the lieutenant of a company of volunteers during the Mexican war and went to the Califoruia gold mines in 1849, The United States troops from the govern- ment barracks at Vancouver on the Columbia river are protecting the rights of tho Puyal- lup Indians to the lands of their roservation. Tho land is directly opposite to Tacoma and ranges in value from $3,000 to $12,000 an acre, There aro @ score of Indians residing in huts in plain sight from varts of Tacoma who own tracts of land in their own right worth immense sums of money, and there is one Indian who is worth $500,000. During the last two months squatters settled on por- tions of this land and _ erected shanties, hop- ing to gain title to1u by somo loophole in the | land acts. These sauatters have increased steadily lately, despite tho warnings of Agend Eels of the Puyallup reseryation. Montana. Livingstono has rajsed $20,000 for school buildings Work has commenced on & non-soctarian hospital at Butte. Over £00,000 worth of ore is in sight on tho Snow creek side of Old Baldy in Meagher county. More placor grourd will be worked this yoar than ever before, and the yield is esul- mated at not less than 1,000,000, A rich strike of gray copper and lend ores, plentifully flocked with —native siivor, has beon made in the Blue Bird, four miles from Wickes. The Montana summer school of normal methods for teachers and studonts will cone vone at Helena, Mont., beginning June 15, 1861, and continiue threo weoks. “'he Butto waterworks company has fllea articles of incorporation and also an accept- ance of tho franchiso granted by the city. Work on the plant will begin at onve, Built on and surrounded by vast quantities of stone, it is surprising that Butto propert owners should seriously entortain a proposf: tion to pave the streets with wooden block Sheepmen are jubilant, cattlomen are buoyant and farmers are hopeful over the outiook. The spring rains have put the grass crop beyord the possibility of failur the lamb and” calf crop is far boyond the average. The wool elip this year promises to be of exceptional quality and_condition, the heavy rowth of gruss on tho range preventing tho accumulation of dirt and dust” in_ the floeco, which bas been a dopreciating wflvence dur- ing tho past two scasons. Everything is going ahead with a rush in the Flathead country. Demorsville 18 o town of at Jeast 1,500 people. Some of these of course, are only temporary resudents of tho place. ' Ju the town of Kalispell there nve more than one hundred buildings already aud LOW ones are beiug put up every day. “Utah. One of the most popular men in Plove Is a chiropodist, “Iho Sevier mine in Beaver county was re: ceutly sold for §400,000. Work in American Fork canon is starting up nicely for the season. Shipments of ore from the Ontario last week awounted to 277 tons, Arrangements are boing made in Salt Lake for an arid land irrigation congress. Fiyo Points, an adjunct to Ogden, has a fo- malo orchestra, which plays divinely. When the Rio Grande Western builds to Tintic, that district will have an unprece. dented booin. Arclitects R, O. Wheeler and C. E. Bran- son of Ogden bave been arrested on tho charge of embozzling §10,000. “I'he wonderful results shown in tho Dalton workiugs have turned the attention of pros. pectors and capitalists towards Marysvalo, Last week Captain W. H. Smith roturned from a visit to Marysvale and the Dalton mine. bringing ulong some ore to test, and it showed a value of §2,035.25 per ton in zold. & “There was nover a more brilliant_outlook for heavy fruit crop than there is this year. In both Salt Luko and Utah valleys all Kiuds of frait trees are hungiug beavy with their burden. The St. George mining and milling com- pany of Washington county filed articles ot incorporation with Secietary Sells. The com- pauy, s organized under iho laws of Ne rasla, the principal place of business to be at Omaha. The capitalization is $100,000, of the value of $10 each. The incorporators are D. Gurnsey, D. Baum and G. W. Holdrego. Dakota. The owners of the Spokane silver mine op Squaw creek have received returns from tho first_shipment of eighty tons, which uetted over 8600 over and abovo their expenses, “The school of mines at Rapid City closed its fourth year last wook and deliverea its first diploma to Miss Ottilie Behrens, who compleled the full course of three years. Every mine in the Black Hills ought to have a concentrator closo at haud, or some cheap process of roducing ore. 'Thero is a fine opportunity rigut now for parties with means to bring such works, According to the lines run by the surveyor- general on the ceded Sioux raservation, the geographical location of the courso of tha White river Is found to be from ten to twelve miles south of whero it has always boen | marked on the maps. 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