Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 19, 1891, Page 10

(0 NEWS The o ment Beyond ATURE'S DEFICIENCIES OVERC Re of Artificial the Rock l:;;hlu-lllwl,\hu—— Tt Wyoming [s Hu of Men anc Splendi ults Moi The Utah C The Salt Lake City chamber of ata recont me ng took Cure entling of an i convention at that place, to ho mado up of all the states and ter- ritories at of the Missou rive eruor Thomas of Utah will sign the call I'ho purpose of the convention will be to doevise to im the vast extent of now avid lands through tho construction of systoms of irrigation. This work Is 5o vast be beyond the power of iudividual en- 1f it bo not also too great for or syndicats effort. Heuco the snould be in some least u public commerce gation wi Gov- means terprise, eve corporation wiral suggestion that it manuer and to oxtent at undortuking, "T'ho proposition that hias found most favor, says tho Denver 15 that the goueral governmont grant to the several states and territories tho desert and arid lands, to be | utilized for the construction of the irrigation system. This is the plan that will bo chi discussed in the Salt Lako convention likely be nrged upon congress for adop There is litto timo for delay in tho Alrowdy noed o irrgation are pretty well appro- | priuted. Settlement s beginning 1o crowd upou the deserts and wastes that need only water to e transformed into gardens, The extent of then is something enormous. 1 is estimated tuat in Utah alone thero are over fifteen thousaud square miles of irri- wle land, of which less than one thousand are under diteh. If this territory has be- come what it is with so little of cuitivatable Jund, what can it be made with more than fiftecn times as much ! Utah is traversed by many streams—streams that carry water enotigh to irrigato all her lands. ~ Iudoed, through the great Columbia and Colorado vivers which drain_ the western slope enough water fows unused to the sea to convert all the vast wastes of that section into sunling fleids, luxuriant orchards una blooming gar- 15, “The level stretches of groater on tho eastern than on the western slope. All that vast plain which stretches castward from the Rocky mountains through New Moxico, Colorado, Wyoming and Mon- tana, and into Dakota, Kansas and Nebraska could be made richly productive by ir tion. It is in territor xtent an empire i itself. ~ While with the Missouri and the Rio Grande aud their tributaries the supply of waler in the aggregate may be as great as on tho other side of the great” range, it is not so udvantageously distributed. It caunot bo made so largely availuble, A large portion of tiis great arca must per- haps remain forever pastoral lands. but through the construction of systoms of reser- voirs and canals a great portion of it can bo reclaimed-—enough to support a population of many millions. ‘Llie call for the Utah convention should receive prompt and cordial response from all tho states and territories to which it shall be addressed. As it originates with the Salt Lake City chamber of commorce. the responses can fittingly cowe from like bodies in the other far western cities. Colorado sould havo a good delegation in the con- veution. lands now d lands are Fascination of Mininz Life. W. Howard, in Harpor's Bazar: *Look » said a man, whose faith 1 sought to test, “if 1dia not feel dead open-and-shut sure of making my fortune here, all in good time, do you suppose [ would stay? My mino is worth a good million just as it stands " Why don’t you soll, and so put an ond to this pork and beans and hot biscuit existence of yours? I suggested. “Because no one would pay that prico, in the first place, and because, in the second place, I shall take move than a million out of it when I got it properly developod. This dovoloping 1s what costs, A friend of mine has paid $60,000 for devolopment work, and he hasw't reacted the mineral yot. Ho wouldu't sell for any monoy. Ho would bo a fool if ho did, for ko is right on top of tho stuff. Now hore is whero eastern poople got fooled. Thoy suppose, when they buy stock in o mine, thet they are going to gei their money back i dividends without delay Phey” don't understand tiis unproductive work, and so whoen the stock is used up they call the wholo thinga swindle and give it up. All mining operations are not swindles, by a long way, althouyh they do not turn out woll. “Fhere are swindles m cvery sort of busin and perhaps mining has had its share idea about investing in mines is this invest in anything, not oven real uniess you can you ge tmeut.” The mining regious of the west are popu- lous with such men as this. The pluck and pationt endurance which these men show aro almost boyond belief. Many of them make colossal fortunes eventually, and many, many donot. Ab, thoso many, many, who'do not! What broken hearts and wrecked aud ruined lives lio bidden there! Surely that is a strange and grim fatality which takes the merning and middaay of & man’s life, and in the aftornoon leaves only the ashos of unat- tained ambition. Tho rude cabins among the inhospitable mountnin peaks have their wolul stories of disappomntment and despair 10 those who can read their muto language. In them the hard worked miner has held his Aream of wealth and power and reunited love, whilo in his castern home his mother and frionds wondered year by year why he did not send the money to pay off the miort gage on the farm, and why a coolness scemod to come between him ana that neighbor's daughtor whom he had hoped to deck with the gold of the western mines. His castorn friends canuot understand tho hardships and chances of a miner’s life, and too often they forgot him s one who 'somchow lacks the ability to make his way in tho world. Thus, unnoticed by fortune and neglectod by those fricuds who shouid chorish him most, he wears out his life m a mero hole m’ tho ground; yot through it all, aud oveu unto bit- tor old ige, ho hus his dréams of friends and home and love, My Don't estate, 0 that Idaho, for Instance, Thonew wost is still a virgin flold for en- ergy, enterprise und sottlomoent, says the - rigation Age. Its history is yet unwyitton, 1ts pilgrim fathers have set foot on its shores the red man has been driven back, tho cor- ner stoues of states have boen laid, but that isall. Thoday of real dovelopment is yot only a gray stroak sgaiust tho hovizon of tho future, Ior instauce, look at tdaho, It has a ter tory of 85,204 squro miles. Naturo has en- dowed it with abundant streams, with mill- fons of irrigable laud, with inexhaustiblo storos of mincrals, with splondid forosts, with n climate which nurses men to old age. But all theso resources aro almost as nature loft them. The Suake river valley alone could support & population of 2,000,000, while tho the population of tho whole state is buta scant 100,000. The largest city shows less than 5,000, Thero are marvelous water pow- ers, but no manufactures, Who belioves that Ideho will net some day utilizo her streams and forti ands like soutkern Cali foruin, her minoral resources like Colorado and Penusylvauin, her water powers like Massachusetts! Who doubts tuat in the fu ture sho will livo ten years, whilo the old states aro living one! \Why should a young man bump his head seaiist the soclal and cowmercial barriers of an old and severe ciy flization when the west ueeds him to do these days the work of development which Dis remote sucestors did iu New Englaug, New York or Virginia two centuries ago! 1daho 1s only one state in the now west,but atypical one IHer future romalis o be THE Pulse Throbs of Progress and | this has boen advanced the miner will multi- NORTHWEST. | Develop- the Missouri, COME BY HUMAN INGENUITY. ture in California=Resources of e Utah Congress--How mping--Notes 1 Things. Agriculturo, ation, must When moulded by oncrgetic men, resting on tho sure basis of 1wri be the foundation of hor prosperity ply, and the merchant and manufacturer will como to cater to the wants of tho grow ing pupulation. \We speak particularly of 1dabo because in this issue somothing is said of her present frrigation development. and of the opportunity which exists for settlement and investment. But Tdaho is chiefly inte esting ns atype of that new and hopefui west to which she belongs. Irrigation in Californin. The San Francisco Chroniclo has pub- lished an exhausti amary of the pre ross made in jrrigation enterprise in Califor- nin, with particular refercnce to the workings of the Wright I7nder this law, adopted four years ago, ownors of land requiring ivei gation from a common source arc authorizod to form irrigation districts, to which are givon the powors of municipal corpo These districts may condemn water-right right of way, construct canals and reservoirs nd issuo bouds to pay for tho same, tho bouds to have twenty years to run, to pay 6 per cent interest semi-annually, and they are to be a first lion upon the lands in the dis- trict. The supreme court has aftirmed the constitutionality of this law In four different cases and there is no longer doubt upon any point. Under the act thirty districts have been organized with an area of over two mil- lion acres, $11,000,000 in bonds have boen voted and about $5,000,000 of bonds have been sold or exchanged for water rights, and pur- chasers have boen found here, in the sast and in Furope. The average cost of vutting water on lands in_districts already organized is a littie over % an acre. Without water most of the land is worth no more than 310 or §15 an acre. With water its value is in- creased at once from 100 to 500 per cent. Actual instances might bo quoted where lands that © dry could uot be sold for more thun & or $1 an_acre, vet us soon us water was obtained they found cager pur- chasers at $100 and even $300 an acre. 1'rom these facts it is argued that the,bonds of ivri- gation districts make unsurpassed security, and letters are published from such men as C. P, Huntington and others, aud interviews are had with a large number of men and baukers of Sun Prancisco and the interior in which the honds are highly endorsed. This t system of California certainly solves the problem of the reclamation of the arid lands of the west without governmental assistance othier than in the passageof nece: 0 su to ions. The Hichest Spot on Earth It 1s a common remark among miners and prospectors that “the Black Hills have not been scratched yot,” and the remark is abso- lutely true, so far as it relates to develop- ment of tho wealth that lios hidden in the bowels of the earth, says the Speartish Bul- tin. When President Marvin Hughitt of the Chicago & Northwestern railway, said at tho meeting of railroad prosidents in New York a short time ago, *“I'he 100 miles square com- prising the Black Hills is the richest spot of equal area now known on the earth,” ‘he simply uttered a truth jast now beginning to be known and understood. Lvery day de- velopments are being made throughout the length and breadth of that 100 miles square which are a surprise to those who make the discovi ily add woignt aud si nificance to that remarkablo statement, aud proves conclusively that,though Mr. Hughitt spoke really what he believed, yet ho “builded better than ho knew.” Ho iid not realize tho vast possibilities of that wondor- ful region of wealth, \When the development ich mineral ores, vast deposits of fine 1d the best qualities of building stone began to attract the aftention of rail- road cosipanies, 1t at once became a - strifo among them us to which should first pene- trate the Hills, establish their lines and se cure a firm foothoold. Two main lines of road now traverse the Hills, and as_develop- ments orocecd others will surely come, until this region, hitherto deemed inaccessible to tho tramp of the iron steed, will be gridironed with bands of stecl, and tho steady outpour- ing of wealth will exceed the fabled “King Soloman’s mines,” so graphically desc: by Kider Haggard Biggest Fools'on Four Legs. H. L. Van Vleck of River Bend, Col., says : Many people wonder why sheep-raising, which on paper shows such excellent returns does ot 1n practice make those who pursue that industry rich. Afteria long experieuce [ can say that the main causo of the unsatisfac tory returns is that oo animal that walks on four logs is as big a fool as the sheep. We have to wateh them every minute, and if vig- ilance is relaxed for an instant the flock is likely to practically commit suicide. 1n handling some animals somo _degreo of self- help or intelhgence ean bo relied on to aid the owner in saving their lives, bit sheep seem to sot deliberately to work to kill thomselves. I caught in a storm on the plains they will drift bofore the wind aud dio of hunger and athor than move 100 yards to windward n shelter in their” corral. To drive sheep against the wind is avsoiutely impossi- blo. I onee lost 100 sheep because 1 could not drive thom o’ a corral uot 200 feet away In the corral they are still moro foohsh. 1fa storm comes up they all move “down wind* until stopped by the fenco. Then commences the proceading so much dreaded by sheepmen and known us *pling."” The sheep will climb over each othor's backs until they aro heaped up ten feet high, Of vourse all thoso at the vottom are smothered. Not ono has seuse cuough to seek shoiter under the lee of the fenco as a horse or dog would do. Again, if sheep gets nto u quicksand its fate teach nothing to those that come immediately after, but the whole_flock will follow its leader to destruction. No more exasperatingly stupid brute thau a sheop walks. The Tramp Nuisance. The cold-blooded murder of a railroad brakeman noar the boundary of Wyoming and Colorado has aroused a dangerous senti- mont among the people. Numerous outrages been perpetrated at various points in Wyoming along the railroads, but having wurder to their numerous petty erimes, theso freebooters are likely to be rigorously dealt with in tho fature. While it is doubtless truo that some unfortunates aro forced by dire necessity aud the impossivility of so- curlng work to temporarily assume the role of “tramp,” it is nevertheless equally trun that the vast majority of them are the most utterly worthless and dopraved class of hu- wan belugs to be found in tho country. Noithor arcest nor sendiug thom out of town has yot succceded in completely abating the nuisance. Arrest has uo terrors for any of then It seems to us, says the Cheyenne Leader, that the railroads have & duty to perform in this matter. Tramping is encouragod by the facility of traveling. 'They experience little trouble in “‘beating their way" from place to placo over tho railroads. Moro rigorous rulos should bo adopted to prevent those people from stealing rides and the rules should be rigorously enforced. The task is not an easy ono but the railroads should at loast mako an honest effort to discourage such trafie. A New ftailroad in the Hills. 'hore are now two corps of engineers in the field,” sald Engiveer Broughton of the Dakota, Wyoming & Missouri River railway, toa reporter in Rapid City. “Oue is em ployed iu locating aud the other in construot ing. Work will be pushed with the utmost vigor. As soon as auother itteen miles are OMAHA DAILY BEE, FRIDAY roady for grading anothor corps will be put into tho fleld he rond will be first class in every re- iron used boing seventy-two pound rails, the hoaviest made. Thosurvey will be pushod on beyond the B. & M. into the cpal fields. Mossts, Woods & Baneroft, by the nong the best known and weaith rallway contractors in the west. Their contract covers the construction of the road, ironing, ercction of depots, ete. Mr. Broughton bas associated with him M. Manzer, one of the ablest locating engi neers in the country, having located the Northern Pactf v the mountains,and Mr. T. H. Loomis, who will have charge of con struction. Mr. Loomis was formerly chief engineer of the Mexican Central and assist- t enginoer of the great Croton aqueduc T'his elaborate preparation would indicate that the Dakota, Wyoming & Missouri River road is something more thay u short line, Wyoming Wheat. Taking for a to tion that wheat will bring 82 a bushe a year, the Laramio Ropublican says: *\We havo r peatedly shown, upon such oxcellent author- ity as the Douglas-Willan Sartoris company and othors, that agriculture is no longer n. experiment in this rogion and altitude. It has been demonstrated by several successivo years of trial that the valloys of the Big and Little Laramic, togothor with the almost limitless tracts botween and on either side of them—wherever water can be got on th —will produce wheat in an abundanco and of a guality not surpassed in_any section of the country, cast or west, highland or lowland 1115 timo that mbre of our ranchmen wore raising even if thero is no present market in sizht. The market will come when tho granaries are full and the miliers of the oast know the quality of our grain, —And if wheat should jump up to $2 a bushel within A yoar or two on account of the great I pean war that is now generally predicted, there would bo a good many Wyoming men who will regret their lost opportunity. All tho gold is not found in the mountains, but wold is to bo gathered from every bit of our soil, if it is ouly titled.” Salt Lake's Court Houss, All arrangements have been completad for the ercotion of a magnificent court house and city hall in Salt Lake City. Tho building will be located 1 the contre of the Eighth ward square, and will have four fronts, The buitding is 152x272 to oxtreme pownts, and threo stories in hight above tho basement, pxcept the contre, which is carvied one story higher. The dome will be 25) feet high, cov- ered with copver. The basement and first floor will bo fire- proofed, and the stories above slow burning construction. The roof will be slate aud partitions torra cotta. Tho basement and tivst floor are connected by eizht iron staircases, placed in conveniont places, and the first, second, third and fourtn ommmunicate by means of three stair T'o electric elevators run from the ment to the foarth flour. Tho building will be constructed with Kyune stoue, backed up with hard-burned brick, will have plate-glass windows, hard- 0d finish, best svstems of hoeating, ' veutil- ating, lighting and plumbing. is base- terds of Willl Aaimls _Thougu wild gamo has boen ated in fumbers within the past few years by un- scrupulous huaters, says the Laramio Lepublican, it 15 mot ail gone yot. SUitl it 1s rare to sez even an antelops close to the city, though now and then a smoll band of black tail deer will come down from the hills to drink at the city springs, or a stray el may be seca botweon hers and Sheep mountain, On this account the sisht witnessed by Charles Bock, who camd from North park, was an excocdingly inter- esting one. When just this sido of Pinkhampton, near the Mountaiu Home ranch, about thirty-five miles from Lavimie, he saw four bull clk, ten deer and a herd of antelope so numerous that he could not count them, razing altozother ina little vark close by the roadside. s didt not disturd thew, aud they piid no aty tion to his prosence, so e took a good o)k [t reminded him of a visit to the zoolozical gardens in some eastern ety to such u number and variety of animals congregatsd together in 50 small a space, Montana Sheep. If the carcful cstimute that 13,000,000 povads of wool were shipped from Montana last season, be approximately correct, says the Helena Journal, there are av least 2,000,- 000 head of sheep within its vorders. New companies have imported no less than 500,000 this spriste, it our information is ac curaty grand total that appeals to the pride of ¢ nian who loves his state. M the Montana Wool ( ys it is cur- veutly reported that the first band of sheep brought to the state was driven into the Prickly Pear valloy in 1567, and comprised about five hundred” head, all of which por- ished vhe following spring. The reports of the state auaitors, while not compile! from absolutely reliuble sources, and which there- fore minimize thoir otals, indicate the nealthy growth of the industry. A Phantom Peak. A protuy sight and a very uncommon one, s the Laramic Republican, was witnessed by a fow idlers on the acpot platform lust cvening just before No. 7 came in, As ove body here knows, Laramie poak is not vi ble from this city, though itis from a point just beyond West Laramie. It lies seventy- five miles north and is concealod from view by rising ground and the bond of the Black Hills But on this occasion, owinz toa mir- age, or somoe phenomena of ‘that deseription, it Toso distinetly to view on the horizon, het tween the chemieal works and the brewery. Not the peak alone, but the baso and che Smaller lls alongside of it were plainly seen, and this condition lasted for fully half an hour, when it gradually faded away. Black Hills Attractions, The Black Hitls produces ,006,000 an- nually in gold, says the Sioux Falls Leader Already between 50,000,000 and 40,000,000 in wold have been taken from the hills. There are in that region of tha state rich deposits also of conl, lead, iron, tin, gypsum and cop- per. and in a few years trade with that part of the state will be very valuabie. Owahu, Sioux City and Minneapolis alveady realizo this, and cach party is now working for u rail- Yoad councetion with the hills. Sentimontally aud geographically tho territory belongs to Sioux Falls, but iis trade will not come to us without offort. We must have a direet rail- road counection with the Black Hills, And the soouer positivo steps are taken to this cnd, the more cortainty there will b that the city will 1o be scooped. Wyom ng. Rawlins is negotiating for electric light iveat schemes are developing in Suratoga, Big crops are blooming in Sheridan county. A large inftux of scttlers is vooked for this year Wool lins., * Green River has decided to in a city. Luramico's board of wade has been resur rocted. Cheyonne tramps insist on sandwiching apple pio with cheeso, The state mining convention convenes in Cheyenue next month, Laramio sports have arranged fora threo ays’ raciog meeting, beginning July, 'he railroad companies and government Qisburse over 100,000 in Cheyenne monthly* Thomas Boon, a lad of twelve, foll off the vinduet in Choyenne and fraotured both urms, Emorson Glafcke, a young inventor in Choyenne, has obtained a”patent for an auto- matic ore dumping car. Thero will be good times in Wyoming, says the Cheyeune Sum, when our people quit looking for the impossible and are content with the available resources A twelve inch fish poked its Union Pacific stand pie in Cheyenne and stopped the flow of water. Tho incident shows thero are some things in Cheyenno that take kindly to water. The Warron live st 10,000 yearling ewo shee) ton of South Dakota. Three carloads of stock were sold by the Ferguson cattle com- pany 1o buyers from tho same state, On the ovening of the 12th lightning was s0 fierce and rapid that it laid out for the buyers are congregating in Raw- rporate as ose into the k company has sold to Hay & Hamil- s0il JUNE timo belng all tr; Laramio and Sherman, Railrond men say they never before wituessed such savage and trequont flashos. The movemont to erest a Masonic temple in Cheyenne is on the high road 1o success A bonus of 813,000 has been subscribed by citizens to purchaso the site, mombers of the craft agroeing to orect u building costing from #75,000 to £100,000, A deed has boen filed for record, from tho nion Pacifie, transferring $0,00) acres of land to the Wyoming land and improvement company, of which L. Hanks of Laramie is secrotary. T'wo-thirds of tho land is located in Carbon county, the other one-third 1 Al- bany county. The incessant rains of the past fortnight havo knocked the business ealculations of Buffalo merchants into cocked hats, Freight that has long been ordored is still hung up at Casper or stuck in the mud atong tho road, and the perplexities of tue dealers are daily multiplying. Work is being vigorously earried on at the various experimental agricultural stations in the state. The result will bo watched with consider interest, as it is expected that the season's work will demonstrate that Wy- oming soil is peculiarly adapted to the rais- ing of all kinds of vegetables and cereals Measurements of tho Bear river flow show a depth of seven and a half feet and a veloci- ty of $00 feet per scoond, enough to irrigato 75,000 Acres of land, Late measurements of the Laramio riversiowed double the velocity of the Boear river, while the Platte, at Douglas, showed a velocity of 11,000 foet per second. T'he greatest irrigation enterprise ever durtaken in Wyoming is erystalizing at Cas- par. The project is to take a diteh from the Platto river at a cost of $2,000,000 und reclatimn 2,000,000 acres of land I'he canal will bo tiventy feet deep, thirteen feot wide and 130 miles long. De Forest Iciehards, a banker at Douglas. is at tho head of the sceme and says he has eastorn capital pledye surveys haue been mado and lines run for the third time. An important conl discov has been loin the vicinity of Grange The vein lias been traced for a distanco of forty miles; is from two hundred yards to a quarter of o mile in width: b ge depth on_the surface of twalve foet, is_of excellent quality, being similar'to the Rock Springs vroduct, The vein crosses the Black Iork eight miles west of Granger and passes di- rectly through the stock range of the Heck Reel. “The veinis on Union Pacific land and ita development will mean anotber big Wy- oming Union Pacific coal camp. “The Rapid City oil company has a large tract of land about thirty-tive miles west of Sundance. The first well sunk by the com: vany is down 1,200 feet. Ata_depth of S00 oil bearing rocic was struck. This strata was fifty feet thick and contained lubricating oil and gases, The second oil bearing rock was struck ata depth of 1,025 feet and was seventy-fivo feet thick. Thcoil in this strata was a light oil and burned readily. ‘i ne third bearin rock was struck at a depth of 1,150 feet wud was fifty feet in thick- ness. The oil in this strata was the same in quality as in the second strike. It is thought thut a low cannot be hand short of fourteen to cighteen hundred foet. South ¢ ak ta. Lead City has 543 chiluren of school ago. Deadwood will fan the cagle to the extent of 31,500, The Yankton woolon n operation. A broom factory is the enterprise. The Northern Pagifis 15 heading Black Hills. The state board of regents meets in Huron September 0. “The new Faulk county well flows 1,000 gal- lons per minute. Bov Ingersoll is said to be heavily interest- ed in miving property near Rapid. Itis ostimated that at least £, 0) worth of window wiass was brokon by the uail storm at Hot Springs Sunday. South Dakota will réceive 325,000 this year from the general government for the purpose of prosecuting the survey of puolic lands. The IHomostake mines made their usual semi-monthly shipmaut of bullion ou the 4th, Ihere were six bricks, valued at $175,000. “The Bullion company, owning property Bear Butte discrict, has just_completed ship- ment of five carloails of Galena ore to the Omahu smelter. The ore averaged $i1. Several new strikes are reported from the new siver camp in Pennington county, but as yet the Spoka lodo is the ouly productr. 1t is 2 steady shipper to Omana, forwarding about two car loads per week. “The South Dagota farmer, in order to be fairly cquippel for profitable business, needs an avtisan well for purposes of irrigation. This should boa partol nis invested capital upou which e dovs business. The Harrison lode, 1da Gr sold Thursday to the Herniit mining com- pany for 315,000, Frioay the Evaand Edna lodes, also 10 Ida Gray district, were bought by the Mueller company for $10,000. Thirteen North and thirtecn South Dakota counties have sent crop reports to the United Stutes signal oftico, skowin all crops, except 1, to bein fing condition, although sun- 10 and temperature have becn below the avorage. Patentees of the Leedy procoss are now building a plant for the Montana company at Lichford. Little is known of the process, and its application nere will bo experimental, Owiters claim it will treat rebellious ores at a cosy of 3 per ton, Lf this is proven a num- ver of plants will be built. A large number are prospect distr ast end of Law Two largo veius of sily and the fact has er ment, which promise The ore is galena, o m twenty to four hundred ounces of silver per ton, A mountain of rubies of very fiue quality has been discovered by Caster parties. It is re being lls are now in full latest Deadwood for the y district, was ag in Canyon ues county. buen found ede, 1 be gathered by the hatful with but ve little trouble. Al itis said that the sawme parties tave discovered a largo mountain of asbostos between Custer wnd Hot Springs. Thero will soon be erccted at Hot Springs, near the plunge bath house, 4 largo 2 notol, to be calloa the Hotel Kvans. Th building will be of stone and four stories high aud will be a sightly loeation. 1t is esti- mated thut the hotel will costin the vieinity of $200,000, and will bo the largest. structure of its kind iu the west. Prof. Henry Zahn, who has been inve gating and examining Deadwood wulch with a view of estimating the amount. of free mill inyg low grado ore that could ba obtained be- tween Deadwood aud the bead of Poorman guleh, roports the rosult_highly satisfactory. Ho says thoro is_enough of such ore of an averago value of #) per ton to last for hun. dreds of years. euator Pettigrew of South Dakota, now n Washington, hus been notifivd by Chair- man Daws thav the senate committeo ap- pointed o investigate tho cause which jed to the recent Sioux Iyaian outbreak in South Dakota and Nebraska, will mect and organ- ize in Chicago on July G, then proceed o the sceno of last winter's Indian war, where there will be a thorough inquiry. Catitornin, rie street railway is being laid in California vinoyardists aro now substitut ing white for Chinese labor, The prune crop is said to be southern California this yoor, [stimates based on the school census gives Alameda a population of 11,5 A franchiso has been granted Cruz for an electrie streot railway. Olive oil is boing shipped from Cahifornia to fill orders in England. Warner Miller is enlisting the support of Pacific coast entorprises for bis Nicaraguan canal Sullivan is not so much hour iu San Francisco, as he the bar. The citizens of Ar $150,000 worth of bonds provements, More than 18,000 gallons of brandy were re- cently shipped in oue lot from Sacramento to Brenien, Germany. “Tho roport of the census marshal shows the total numver of children of school in Berkeley to bo 1,463, Thore were sevonty-four deaths land during May, making a rate of an estimated population of 60,000, Farmers in gopher-infested portions of the state are beginniug to consider the weasel as a possible ald to them in exterminatiug the pests The West End Oil com geles Las already struck a failure in at Santa southern the lion of the is the hog au heim votad to issue for municipal im- in Oak 14.50 on of Los the six: any An un- | ‘ll | | Among his man | ing 1891-TWELVE I'ho jury in the superior court awarded Mrs, Morgan £35,000 dumages in suits agninst the Southern Pacific for personal injuries re- ceiyed in stopping from a train Ninoty-five birds belonging to tho ostrich farm near Anahelm wero sold to satisfy o judgment against the farm. Tho birds brought $1,600. A lot of feathers brought 2200, A large firm fn Germany has sent to a San Diego dealer for 6,000 cactus plants of many varieties. They will bo gathored from ¢ fornia, Utah, New Mexico, Toxas and Col orado. ‘ The ecensus bulletin rece juvenile reformatorios shows that in the Californin reform school there is a total of 200 inmates, This is a ratio of 17.1 to th 1,000 inhabitants. At the prosent rate of the oreanizations in- As0 1t is estim: «| that by the time of tho meetine in October next, thero will be 000 members of the farmers’ alliance en- rolled in Californin A Sonoma county has by tacked by chased 10,000 paper bags to cover th vines, The bag covering is said to sic fully resist thi grasshoppers. It is learned that the grasshoppers are at- tacking all the green things visible in tho foothill regions near Rocklin,and having dov astated tho grain fields have now attacked the orchards and orauge groves A small iron safe containing about 12,000 worth of diamouds and other precious stones was dredeed up from the bottom of the buy of San I'rancisco the other day. Tho so tings of the stones are in the sixteenth cen tury style J. Minor Taylor, who was John W. Macle av's pri 0 8¢ ry and book-keeper in Virginia City a fow vears azo, recently ap. plied to the overseers of the poor of the city of Boston for aid, and was sent tothe Sol- diers’ home at on, Conn, He is u men- tal and physic tly fssued farmer whose vinoyard grasshoppers has pur Orcgon An dry dock is b land ‘The work of laving the stroct Eugene has begun, astern browars are taking the plac strikers at Portland. J. H. Pinley was drowned in Snake river, Orogon, recently while on a prospecting pedition. A sturg weithing near Oregon City The Pacific const conforence of the Wo man's Christian Temperance union is in ses- sion at Portland. Delegates are present from California, Oregon and Washington During a thunder storm at McMinnvillo the electric light wires were struck, and the shock was carried along to the station a mile anging the plant and plunging the city into darkness. A young Englishmen, rancher, struck Moose Jaw, an Oregon rail way station, tho other day and astonished the natives by tne way he spent money ¢ barcains was the purchase of asquaw for 0,000, ‘The flood of last year ecmpletely changed the Coquiile river for a few miles up, and the south channel, which ran by Gold Beach and on which the canncery, store, wharves, ete., are located. is complotely closed avove and no water passes through. ‘The result is the forming of a large mud flat in front of town. A Baker City physician removed n snake from tho stomach of Mrs. v of that city, The reptile was about twelve inches loni, avd the woman had carried 1t about for ten vears, having swallowed it in drinking that long ago, ana until now it has been impossi- ble to dislodge it Miss Iva Templeton has sued Linn county for 22,022 damages. She was crossing o county bridge over the Calapooia creck in two-horse wagon last July when the bridge broke, and she went down thirty-one fcet, breaking one arm in two places, knocking out two teeth, and permanently disfiguring her fac In ex mmense ng built at Port- railway at f the 1 nine feot oight inches long and » pounds, was caught with a net d to be a Montana for a hotel at Sal workman across a formatic and slate that burns almost as readily as i the odor from it is identical to that from gasworks, and it 1s presumable that this formation has been saturated with the or oil from extensive coal deposits under the hill just bacl of it. “Tiero is every indication that there will bo very considerable excitement and activity in the Santiam, Calapoola and Blue mver dis tricts this summer. All those already inter- ested are making preparations for active work during the summer, while mining ex- perts, speculators and investors from San Francisco, Nevada, Colorado and elsewiero, with and without eapital, ave already appear- at Albany, Eu and Brownsviile, studying the situation and prospects. avating e 'm the ot clay re Montana. A fine body of carbonate ore was discover ed in the Iron Chief lead, at Robinson, on the 300-foot level Several railroad bridges and culverts were washed out between Livingston and Billings owing to the heavy rains, The mining interests of now attracting cousiderable attention from the outside world, and great activity in de- velopment work may be looked for. Montana is larger than the empire of Turkey. Texas is larger than the whole Austrian Empire by 30,000 square miles, and New Mexico is larger than Great Britain and Treland togoethe Bad roads nave blockaded all freighting from Liviugston to Castle, and_ the Cumber. land smeiter is idle for lack of coke. Some vich ore is now boing taken from tho mine, assaying as high as 500 ounces of sitver. ‘The heavy rainstorm, which ceased on the 11th, after more than forty-vizht hours' dur- ation. wrought fearful havoc among sheep ranchers in the eastora part of the sta Thousands of the young lambs of this scason aied from exposure, About. 1 ’elock on the morning of the 0th, W. . Penroso, editor of the Butte Minins Journal and member of the lexislature, was shot and instantly killed on Montana Street on his way homo. The spot is an unirequent- od one, and thero was no one acar at the time. The mincs of Jefferson county are makinz an excellent showing, individually and ol lectively. A good many old mines arc boing worked profitably this season, and ne ¥ mines and new prospects aro both numerous and promising. The placers are also yielding liberally. The old Homestake mino this senson. The five-stamp property has boen started up. T company, operatinz near the owns seven claims, on which considerable work is_ being done. The tunnel is in 150 fect. Assays run as high as $150 gold and silve The workmen in the Black Hawk encountered a large e recently, and were compeiled pend operation’s The tow of wator great that the sixty horse-pow boiler first-class pumps, was unable to hand and the water rose to the surtace, and flowing out like s spring. The depth r was 180 foot, Barker are just is beine worked ill_on the ho Norwich Homestake, as Bondholder mine at stroam of 0 sus was 80 with Idaho. Opals have been found in north [daho. A large force of men are at work Wallimg ditch, ho roof of the cou been damaged by five, Phere are grasshopper eggs and more grasshoppers on Camas prairio than ever be- fore Caldwell, the magic sued & phamphlet setting tions for settiers. Nampa has been nvigorated by the com plotion. of & diteh which briugs water from Lake Ethel to the city Pocatello proposes to chase tho American ile and awake the echoes of the surround ing sandhills on the Fourth Two men prospecting northwesc of Hai about twenty-soven miles, have stru inches of ore ussaying $4,054.50 in gold and silver. Hon. J sum that exhibiting world's fair. There are millions of ericketsin the creok ction of the stat hoy are of country ten wiiles | the t house at Murray has y of Idaho, has 15- forth her attruc M. DeLamar offers to double any may be donated for the purpose of the products of the state At the Clover said to a stroteh 1g by les wide. City never prosentod so busy an ap All over town Bois pearance b 50 of ¢ yrnament t Pl in ¢ that Tho laah on | PAGES. aths ‘on_the hill, between | inch well west of tho city imits and pump- | ing machinery is being put in. construct and operate linos for telographing and telophoning in Kootennai connty, be taween the town of Rathdeum and the sottle ment of Mica, being on tha west shoro of Carur d'Alene lako, via Post Fally, & distanco of fifteen miles Aro you going to the Seven Dovils coun try ! {8 now the popular form of salutation in Boise City Miners fro 1 soactions of tho northwest and the Pacifie const aro going into this coming Tdaho EI Liorado by tho huudreds daily. Tho old Peacock mine, with its 100-foot-wide vein of fifteen-ounce copper in sight, continues to bo the marvel and ad miration of all experts who havo examined it. Tho Devils 10 havo & paper soon, 80 rumor bas it. 15 to ce called tho Dovil's Own, It Utah, A party of United States enginoers aro working near tho observatory place, taking bearings on tho mountains By an almost unanimous vote Salt Lako has decided to fssue $00,000 in bonds and do vote the procoeds to public schools. Rov. Sam Small is in tho hole to tho tuno of $1,000 in his accounts as manager of the Methodist Episcopat university at Ogden Charles Lafave, o recont arrival in Salt Lako city from Michizan, was given carbolic acid instoad of syrup of figs and died in ter. rible agony ‘The police forco of Salt Lake is unable to cope with the surplus of law breakers, It a dull day that does not record a murder or deadly assault The Motropolitan stono company have cently closed a contract with the Union Pacific railroad for eighty ear loads of stoue from their quarry at Park City. I'he Buckhorn gold and silver mining com vany filed articles of “incorporation with 1,000,000 capital. The last shipment of ore from the Buckhorn consisted of seventeen tons, and the wssays gave roturns of 138 ounces of silver and 2,15 ounces of gold to tho ton Hudson Brothors have discovered galena ore on their claim near Carleton assaying 65 ounces silver and 30 por cont lead in o 12 foot vein. L. D, Kinney has located right above them, and has wiso claims furthor un the hill yiclding promising results in horn silver. A sharper named A. C. Doan, hailing from Butte, Mont., swooped down on Sult” Lake City recently armad with a bundle of bogus certified cheeks, One of theso he exchangod for 10,000 choice cigars, another for u pair of 1d ear rings, and secured cash for a more. Tho goods, cash and sharper haye disapporred and soveral business men in Zion are roaring. Washington A public library is Whatcom by ludics. Yukima is now shipp strawberries 1o tie Sound « The clergymen of Olympia and Tumwater have organized a ministerial socicty T'he corner stone of the Masonic temple at Seattle was Inid with appropriate seryices lst Priday Walla W tte valley, this scason, A young man hving near Green lake, o fow north of Seattle, recently killed a boar weighing 500 pounds By September 1 140,000 new ties will have been Laid between Ellensburgh and Pasco on the Northern Pacifie. There is a movement on foot county. to dike Ebey Island bout 4,000 acres of land, and to CosL 240,000, 1t is thought the land wili be increased tenfold. It costs more for the Palouse or Big Bend favmer to ship his wheat to Puset sound, a distance of 400 miles, than it does a St. Louis or Chizao deater to ship his wheat to Liver- pool, 4 distance of about four thousand miles. The United States inspoctor of customs at Seattle reports that during the month of May there have been twenty-two invoices of me chandise imported, to the value of aud 116 invoiess oxported, to th 816,222,283, During the month thirty-two ve: sels have changed masters One of the most _important and valuable enterprises has just been started about eizh- teen miles from Marcus, Stovens count, An unlimited body of the very finest sandstone has been opened that will supply buildings and grindstones in immense quantitics and at v low cost. The stoue is of suporior ¢ toany that has been introduced that section of the country, and can be furn- ished at a greatly reduced rate. being organized in 1,000 pounds of ily. ving frit to the Will- there is a deficiency la is sun whe in Snohomish It contams dike it will value of the Nevada. Work at the new smelter gressiug fairly well, The state prison at Carson ninety-seven prisoners. Over twenty-three thousand hop vines have been st out in Mason valloy this spring. A number of farmers in the vicinity of Winnemucea are going iargely into the grow- ing of sugar beets Two Chinamen state prison from whisky to Indians, Millions of spawn arc now hatching in the state hatehery to be dispersed throughout Nevada this summar, At Buukerviilo and Muddy Valley in Lin coln county, haying is over aud all other crops arc a month earlier than in Pabranagut vl Consolidated 1 Piocho s pro- now coutains have been sentenced to Elko county for selling salifornia & Virginia shipped bullion valued at 27,750.04 o the Carson wiut, oringing the total bullion output for May up to date to $141,142.19, George Loveland has sold a nickel mino and received 810,000 in cash on the first pay- ment, T mine is situated in Cottonwood district, near the Humb 1 In 1850 there were thousands of cattle and sheep died of starvation in Nevada, Now there 1s feed enough on the ranges to supply ten times the number of cattle and shoep on the rang Ranchers i Carson valloy find iv hard to scll their butte accordingly send it to California, finds a ready sale or shippod back hero when Nevada cousumers pay extra freight and smack their lips over *Californiu but- that_they They whore it is - MASCULINE TALES, A well autheuticated story of the slaughter at Woundeda Kneo is thav of an Irish soldior wi kuneeling with his comrades behind a bank, was shot close to the heart aith,” he exclaimed, #1'm shuro ivs all over wid me! Rowl me round, boys. an’ make a fince of we.” Tho next moment ho was dead. Thoy obeyed him, and used his body as a rampart American travelers are the sur priso of lsuropeans each ourist season. correspondent tells of a Denver man who stayed in Loodon four hours. “'Say, young follow,” saia he to the clerk, “1've been to the mint, the Bank of England, tho Towsr of London and the Britisn museum, an’ 've seen ‘om all! Anything else heret? Tho k looked at him tranguilly for a moment and replied: *“No, sir! Yoi've seen hour greatest sights! Better go to Pa A man who can do London in three hours is wasti time when he stays here hover o day nerietic Mr. Depow's address on the occasion of tho unveiling of the Grant statuto at Galena bas boen extensively deseribud as the great ost effort of his Iife, but the specch of tho mayor of Gialena in prosenting the ovator of the ocension appaars to have escaped public attention. Here it is i full ow, keep quied, ¢ Derbew is going to tall mit quiod while Mishter Derbew livtle,” For quiet and modest s if the mayor of Galc protzel ypody. Mishtor you some, K will speak a it seoms o the quence 2 is entitled ) Macdonald would sign a any wils Siv Jol sort of i potition that caw hunded one that petitioned himself m wute a man's death sentence. He signed it Some ladies asked him to introduce a bill en ink a local-option act. ‘The petition had 17,000 signatures. Old-timo convivulist th ho was, Sir Jeha said: 1 shall ke tine to consider your request. ladios, but 'l sign your petition now, right her the father th mier of Great Britain, trained his to give a reason for every opinion they ed. Itwas in this way that Willlam k. Gladstoue was early trained to debate. On seeasion, William and — his sister Mary 1 as Lo whero a certain plcture cught An old Scoteh servant came in istone, of disput addor. und stood irresoiute while the { would not | from spec progrossed, but, &s Miss Mary yield, Willlam gallantly censod B, though unconvineed. I'lio sor- yant then hing up tho picture where the young lady ordered, but when he had done this ho o { the room and hammered n nail (nto the opposito wall, Ho was asked why he did this. ‘*Awcel, miss, that will do to hang the picture onwhen ye'll have to argument | como round to Master Willie's opeenion, Joo Mulhatt artistic liar, tary rocontly. As the r lowing tho vorsatilo drammer d in Bowling Gro souvenir of his visit idents into his confidonco in tho fol- stylo: “Last wook down in Missis- sippl, whero the thermometer abovo zero, Colonol Stoddard's foreo groos were busily engaged housing a erop of pop corn. On Saturday at noon the last ear was housod, and tho negroes woro given tho st of the day as boliday. 'Thoy left the plantation and went to the small railway station near by to tho ovening train o rive. While absent tho crib in which tho yoar's popcorn was stored caught firo and tho heat from the burning timber caused evory wrain to ‘pop.’ Soon tha wholo planta tion was covored with white *kernels,’ and a mulo twenty-cight yoars of nge, which was housed - u old barn near s tho ground covered with tho whito eaps of the pop corn, and, whilo the thermometer regis tored 75= above zero, froze to death, think ing the whito grains of cora wore' snow flakes. 1 ono of his after dinner talks in Mo rocontly, Bob Ingersoll told a few il ated storios: 1L i said (hat contentment is the groatest possiblo woalth, and I suppose that next to absoluto contentment, and noarly oxactly tho same thing, s porfoct self-satisfaction. I think I have found it hero, 1t is said that an old ministor in Kontucky, ondeayoring to im- press upon his Learers the beauty of tho hoaven they wore about to go to, provided thoy joined his chiutch ¢ oxhausting ull the latives of which ho was master wound up by saying: *Hrethron and sistors, 1 short, i's a regular old Keutucky place.’ I suppose you aro expeeting in another world, simply another Montana, w years ago o fellow from Maesa- s was down in South Caroling, and as along the streot, after he hid been there some timo, thero was an ola fellos nailing a sizn upon his house and this Massachusotts fellow old man and said: That isn't the way to spell sale.” And the old fellow with a groat deal of contempt, turned Lo himund s “How long have you liv «d in- Clinrloston 2 “Well, hesays, 1 havo been hors: about o tana min Veli, youn *1 wis hol spell sale.” “Ih man," said the Charloston ) hera: 1 guess 1 know how to ro ig nothing sc sutiful as confidence in the place where you reside. 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