Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 28, 1891, Page 15

MILLIONS IN MEXICAN MINES. Qold and Silver Holes Which Have Been ) Worked For Oenturies, YHEY ARE OPEN TO EVERY FOREIGNER. Footed Indians Climb Per- lar Poles iwWth Ore—English and Amer- Capital Invested. Bow Sur pendic Preci ican Loaded (Copymiaht 1891 b Frank Zacatreas, Mex., June 22,—[Special Cor- Tespondence of Tk Ber. | —A city of 5),000 people a milo and ahalf above thesen. A great jumble of flat roofed,box shaped houses built up close to cobble-stene sidewalks above 8 network of tunnels which run in and out, scross and above each other with all tho wanderings of Rosamond's bowor. These tunnels dug through veins of solid silver. Silver in specks all around and about you from the hundrods of mines which dot the sides of the mountains, to the clear sil very sky which haugs overhead. This is bare outline of the great Moxican city of Zac- atecas, Here overythingis silv In the @ays of Cortes the mines were worked, and from then till now the work has gone on giv- Ing hundreas of millions to the world, It goes on still and undor my feot tho Aztecs of today are working away as thoy did in tho past, and across the way Isco tho mulos tramping their hoofs off in tho vitriol and quicksilyer with which thoe oro is mixed in order to raduce it for the market. Mexico has givn to the world more than four thou sand million dollurs’ worth of gold and sily and much of the latter has como from horo, This wholo region fuli of silver. The mountains on every side and in fact in nearly every partof Mexico ave fillad with ore, and from the Pacific ocean to the Gulf of Mexico thero is a vast country of incalculablo possi- bilities. Travelers and old Mexicans tell me that the southern part of the country is even richor in minerals than the northern paat and all agree that the land has not as yet been prospected. The western soast contains undevelopad regions of gold and silver, and this will s00n be opened to the milroads. In Chihuahua, just north of here, there arc mines out of which $344,000,000 have been taken in about one hundred aund thirty yoars, and soven days’ ride by stago to the wost of these are the Bartopilas mines, which areowned by Governor Shepherd, and out of which he is taking great quantitios of Carpenter. | - goodore. So far he has put all his profits back into his mines, and he is, T am told, de- veloping them on the same magnificent scalo that he improvea Washington. He lives in the hops of a_vast fortune in the future, and is spending, it is said, in improved machinery and fine mining furniture what any Mexican or ordinary American would consider a for- tunc. About twelve miles from Chihuahua there is a little mining tevritory the size of an Ohio township, or about six miles square, It is among the mountains, and in it more than 4wo hundred mines have beon developed. Lhe veins run deep down into the earth, and fifty of the shafts are more than six hundred foot deep. These mines have been worked for noarly ten generations, and the mines of Governor Shophord are 250 years old. They have already cost millions and it is easy to spend millions in the development and fur- nishing of a mine. The count of Regla, who made so much out of the famous mines av Pachuca, speut, it is said, $2,500,000 on his reduction works of an hundred years ago,but ho cleared $200,000 a year out of them for twelve yoars, and was so rich that ho had a way of making his distinguisod guosts walk on bars of silvor when thoy oame to seo him. It was one of his descendants who founded as a oharity the government pawnsbop of Mexico and the original count who began life by driving mules and who bought his title for a cool §1,000,000, when he struck it rich, had the cheek to ask the king of Spain to come to visit him and _told him ho would plate tho walls of his bedroom with silver if he would do s0, and that whorevor he walked about the place, he should have the paths paved with silvor bars. Count Reyla made an immenso fortune, and theso miues are among tho largest in the world. Yor. inglish Capital in Mines. WY on these very mines, some English capitalists lost millions. Thoy spont somo- thing liko $20,000,000 in developing thom somo vears ago, and got out, less than threo- fourths of that amount. This was at the time that Bogland had bor last great craze for American ' investments. It was about fifty years ago, and they thon lost moro than £50,000,000 in- Mexican nines. They havo similar craze today,which extends toall kinds of syndicato enterprises in tho United State: They are buying our brewories, our salt works, our fron foundries, and our railroads, and the same is the case with Moxico. A reat deal of English capital is now coming cre, and though they have been trying to swallow up the cotton factories and other in- dusuries, their chief investmonts have been in mines and estates. [ saw an American at Silao who has sold out his mines near Guana- huato to an English company at & big profit and has hold enough of the stock to give him 8 big thingoutof tho profits if they make any. Ho gots a good salary for managing tho mino and is now placing on the mavket a big wiuing zone in Sonora, on the west coast, which he has discovered. Reopening Water | ogged Mines. A great deal of capizal is now going into the redevelopment of old miunes in Mexico. Humboldv estimated that there were 3,000 mnos in operation in Moxico at the begin- ning of the century, and if the legends aro correct there was NeVer 50 Kreat a success in Mexican mining s at tho time when the Spaniards were overthrown and _driven out of the country in 1521, when the republic was founded. During the revolutions which followed each other in quick succession, these mines were abandonod. They became filled with water and names and records, and in fact the very locations of many of them were lost. Otliers of the old mines had aid very well until the miners struck water, 'he pumpiig wachinery of the time was such as to preclude their being worked fur- ther, and thoy havo from timo to time been abandoned. Such mines are to ba found all over the great mining territory of Mexico, and thero are hundreds of men on the look- out for good ones, 1t Humboldt's figures are correct, there must bo at loast two thousand mines yot to be reclaimed, ane the search for theso is active. A number of Americans aro among tho seekers. Thoy talk with the Indius, 100k up the old logends and now aud then thoy find & mino which they can pump out with our modern bumps and striko # bo- nanzi Just under the wator. [ meta Donyer man who was golng to a mine which ho had discovered in this way in tho stato of Dur- ango. He owned itin company with Henry It. Wolcott and a Kansas City man, and he told mo they aro making it pay, though it cost them &30 a ton to got the ore from tho mines to the railroad and to the Denver smelters. Wealth in the Refuse. Seaator Tabor is having some trouble with an oll miue which he is re-developing. to bought an interest In the mine for 80,000 and agroed to erect reduction works and bo &an to tunnol through the side of the il to strike the vewn in that way. While they were tunneling he did aot want his mill to lie idlo and began to work on some rofuse Which the owners had thrown aside as not Worth botherlng about. It paid so well th he kopt at it, and now 1t is said that the original owners are making A roat fuss be cause he f» not working on the mine itself The probability is that the matter will be settlod without trouble and that he will wake u big thing out of the mine, as Lo has out of so many in Colorado, The fact is that 8 Mexican mine, to bu considered a good atrike, must be far better than what would be considered a good mine in the United Btates, Miners won't touch ore here that would be lookea'upon as splendid ore in Cal- Moroia or Nevada. A Mexican mine mast Pau out at loast $30 to tho ton or it s not thought worth ope g In the United States if itis worth $20 a ton it is a good wine, How Mines are Held, { had the idea that tha mining laws of Mexioo wore less safe than those of the Unitad States, and that Americans and fo| eigners had not the greatest security of prop- erty. Ihave made many Inquiries among winers, both Maxican and foreigners, and 1 find that this is a mistake. The Mexican mining laws aro among the best in the world They are rigorously enforced and there is no country where the miner of any nationality lins a bettor chance than hers, The laws pormit any man to claim a mine, but in order to toid his titlo ho must work at least four men in it for twenty-six conseeutive wooks every year. If he fails to do this, his mine however good can bo ‘denounced” as it is by any third party and tho govern- ment will rocognize that party’s right to it if he takes the mino and fulfills the above con- ditions, (Good mines are carefully watched hore and failure to work them results in their 10ss. As long as the law Is complied with, the miner whether Mexican or foreigner is protected. A record hus to be kopt at all mines in Spanish of the work dono, and the only cases in which the government grants a fee-simple title to mines is whi the pany gets a concession of zone by agreeing to keep thirty-four miners constanily employed and within five years to build reduction works at an expense of at least a quarter of a million dollars. These mining zones are valurblo sometimes and they are not granted without iuvestigation. They com prise at times from ten to twenty square miles of land and the company having the Tight to one of them ean work thirty claims upon it and have the right to *denounce” and work such other claims in tho zone whose owners do not fulfill the law. They do no as I understand, bave uny right except to the mineral products of the fand. Smelting in Mexico. Until now the United States has done a great part of the smolting of Mexican ores. The provisions of the new tariff in regard to load is driving them to England and Ger- many and several large smelters are being erceted in Mexico. The McKinley bul fixed the tariff on lead o that it makes the lead in aton of silver ore cost so much that it is practically prohibitol An American is building one of these new smelters at San Louis Potosi. It will soon be completed and will be, it is said, tho biggest smelter in tho world, ' It can probably be run cheaper here than in the United States, as labor is much cheape Primitive Method of Working. The most of the work in the mines m M 1cois done by the Moxican Indians. They make splendid miners and they never strike. They get all tho way from 50 cents to 2 day, don't get drunk and work right along. Hore ¢ catecas there are thousands of them and you will not find a_quieter or more orderly town of 10,000 peoplo in New Eng- land than this city of 50,000 here in Mexico. An old Californian who has mined in both tho Sierras and tho Rockies and who has largo interests noar (tuanahuato, tells me he thinks these are botter workers aud better men than tho miners of our country. They are satis- fled with what they get and thoy are more polite thun wo are. ~They aro for many things cheaper than machinery and the old- st of thess Mexican mines are run on the processes of a_genoration and more ago. Tho ladders up which the oro is carried by these Indians in bags hero at Zacate- cas are merely logs or raft with notches cut into them about eight inches apart, and the wouder is that men do not fall daly. They do lose their balanco sometimes, I am told, and are crushed to picces at tho bottom of the mine, buf as a rule thoy are sure-footed, and I saw men working _who had passed’ their three-scoro yoars. All of the miners wear but little clothing in tho mines. They do most of their work barefooted and barelégged, and the lit- tlo clothing they have on is_searched beforo they leave the mines to see if some silver has not slipped into it by mistake. The average Aztec has littlo idea of property richts, and ho takes what he can get as u gift from God. In some of tho mines the men are searched by three different sots of men, and they conceal the silver under their arms, in their ears and under their toes, and in fact in every con- coivablo manner and place. Mexican honor is not built on the conscientious Calvanistic plan, and the mine owners tuko every pre- caution. Crushing and Washing Ore. The mines about here are not quite as old as thoso of Pachuca, but they were being worked twenty-eight years aftor Montezuma died. About tho same time the minos at Guanabuato were found. They have been worked over since, and out of them has come a groat part of the $4000,000,000 worth of gold and silvor which Mexico has given to the world, It 1is estimated that the mines of the country now turn out 20,000,000 worth every year, and I saw a stream at uanahuato’ which ~contains the refuse shings of the mines thore, and which is said carry off about $1,000000 worth of _silver every year. ' There were littlo knots of dark-faced, bare-legged, black-haired, big-natted Indians washing the dirt of this over and over again to cateh something of what tho big works had thrown away, but a largo percontage is never gotten. After the ore is ang, blasted and picked out of the mines, it 1s crushed in a most primitive way by dragging a sort of millstone around over it, and when it has be- come fine enough it is reduced by what is known as the patio process, Imagine a great round vat of chocolate-colored mud a foot or 50 deep and in tho conter of this a Mexican Indian in dirty shirt and white cotton pants rolled up to his thighs, et hm have four ropes in his hand and to each of these lot thero be attached one or two or three mules. Put a long wnip i the other hand and let him thrash the mules vigorously with this keeping them on a dog-trot as they plow their way around and around and through and through tho chocolate mua for hours until 1t is thoroughly mixed. This chocolate mud is tho crushed silver ore which has been chem- ically troated and is now being mixed with vitrol, salt and quicksilver in order that the silver' in the oro may be united with the quicksilver,and this be reducoo by chemicals, washings and ovaporation until the silver is run out in bars or bricks 1saw this sort of work golng on in many places, and I counted twelve mules trotting around 'in one of these biig mud vals. They were sorry-looking ant- mals, aud in the vat beside them I saw what looked like broken-down, bob-tail car horses. Upon inquiry I learned that only the oldest and poorest of animals were used, as the quicksilver rotted off their noofs in a year or two and thoy had to be killed. The process is by no means an economical one, as it wastes about twenty per cent of the ore, and it may be that in the future the old streams of Mexico may be re- washed by our modern processes. Practical mining is in fact in its infancy in Mexico, ana the Mexico of the future will produce a much greater quantity than has the Mexico of the past. 5o far, it i3 said that every dollar of gold and silver taken out of Mexico hus cost a dollar's worth of labor to get it. The failures and waste have eatan up tho profits and while many have grown rich, many have been worked to death snd have gained nothing, Great Future Prospects. There are, however, no better mining tields in the world today than here. Tha hills of the old regions seem to be inexhaustible, and tho now flelds are many. The new railroads that are being built all over Moxico will open up much new territory, Attention is now being turned to the west and south, and I heard it predicted today by a man largely in terested in mines, who has travelled over Mexico for years, that this country will be tho sceue of tho next great mining excite ment, and that it will surpass that of Cali- fornia in 1849, Said he: “If you will take a wap of Mexico and draw a line from Tam- nico on tho Gulf of Mexco to Mazatlin, you will diviae the country into two somewhat equal parts. The upper one of theso con- tains the greatest of the mines now known, but they are nothing in comparison with tho wines which are yet to be developed in the south, Tho best of our gold mines of the future will be in the south, and the new raiiroad that 1s now being pushed down towards the isthmus will open tho eyes of both Mexicans and foreigners. Moutezumu got a great part of the millions of dollars which ho gave to Cortez from the southorn provinces, aud one of his proseuts was & plato of solid' gold as big as & wagon wheel. In the state of Oaxaca there are fine gold mines, and iu Sonora thore is @ vast fleld of miuerals that is known to noove. The number of Americans who have invested in Mexioan wines is rapidly incroasing and I ex pect to see more English and American capl tal come here during the future than ever before. There is, of course, a falr chance to lose, but there N also a fnll'nll.lluu to win, and both in the redevelopment of old proper tios aud Iu the opening up of new, 1 believe there s money to be mado by any man who is possessed of a fair amount’ of capital and au ordinary amount of nerve and good busi ness judgment.” FuANK G. CARPENTER, A Good Temperance Beverage during the spring and summer, avoid aloho lic drinks and use Soterian ginger ale, bottled at Fxaalsior Sorings. Ma w to com- | Will mark a OMAHA DAILY BE AR AND WEATHER DIVORCED Oongress has Granted ths Decree to Take Effect in July, CHANGES (N SIGNAL SERVICE CONTROL. Hereafter Weather Forecasts Will be Manufactured by the Agricultural Departments—Predic sults of the Change A bill signed by the president on which passed congress and was October 1 last new era in one of the most im. portant bureaus of the government. This bill provides for tho transfer of the weather bureau of the signal sorvice from the war de- partment to the devartment of agriculture, the changa to bo made July 1. The present signal service corps has boen established since 1870 and General Albert or was the first chief signal oficer. Of Iate yoars the work has grown to such an ex- tent that it becamo ne v to drop ma of the military features. It has beon part of an observer's duty, besides being thoroughly posted in meteorology, to keep up his studies in signaling, both visual and sound. This matter of militavy signaling is provi ed for in the new bill, which cails for a body of fifty men, all experts in the manuul of signals, to hold tho rank of sergeunts of the line. This will be the ouly military organiza- tion in the world which is” composéd eutirely of officers, The duties of these sergounts will be to instruct the eulisted men of the army in the art of signaling by heliograph, flag and_torca and to operate and mamntain the wilitary teleeraph lines on the frout he worlk of the service that is to be trans- forred to the agricultural depariment is the forecasting of the weather, the issuance of storm whrnings, the display of weather and flood signals for the benefit of commerce, agriculture and navigation, the guaging and reporting of rivers, tbe maintainance aud oporation of sea coast telegraph lines and tho collection and transmission of marine intelligonce, the reporting of temperature and rainfall, display of frost and cold wave signals and the takini and distributing of general meterological datu. Change of this service has been agitated for years, but the bills which haye come be- fore congress in the interest of tho trausfer havo always been fought by prominent oficials of the country. In the corps itself tho majority of the men are in favor of the chango as it will materially increase their sides placing them 1 civil life and 1y with many of the objectionable features of the military service. As the service now stands, considering the work expected of the men and the uccuracy and promptness with which this class of work has to be performed, the men of the signal service ave the poorest paid under the government. In the servico today no man car. tell how long he will remain on one station. Irequently an observer no sooner becomes acquainted*with the climatic conditions of the locality in which ho is sta- tionca than he is ordered to some new post, perhaps a thousand miles away. These men are expected to be roady to leave at a mo- ment’s notice, and these frequent changes greatly increase their work and. in many in- stauces, make it unreliable so far as accurate predictions are concerned. under the new bureau,” said an old signal service man, *'tho service can be kept freén from politics and the men allowed to ro- main ou one station, so as to be able to study the local peculiarities of the climate and be- come familiar with the section of country in which they are stationed, the work of “the servico will no doubt increase considerably in_eficiency. “Tho great danger will be the introduction of politics into the department and the plac- ing of men wholly incompetent in positions whera only old and experienced meteorolo- gists should be, ‘“‘General Greely is without doubt the best chiof signal oMoor tho army ovor had. He being far more of a scientist_than any of his predecessors in the office. Since the general assumed command of the signal corps there has been many improvements in the service, ail tending to the public the most reliable in* formation possible: When asked to give his vie on the trousfer General Greely sald that he thonght the scheme a bad one, as it would impair the eMciency of tho service and tend to make it a political machine. *‘Ior the good of the service it is to be hoped that General Greely will remain it charge ot the weather bureau ' As the orders now stand tho ohfef signal officer will have commaud of the nétv ‘signal corps only after July 1. The twelve lisutenants of the signal corps have all been detailed to the line, some going to the artillery and cavalry, but the majority, were assigned to the infantry: et A Cara. Wo want every lady and all the boys and girls to call on your druggist and get some of our beautiful cards and a book of valuable nformation free. HarLer Propmierany Co. e e THE BE LYER. 1t Travels at the Rate of Sixty Miles Per Hour. Tre Omana Bee, on Sunday, in the west- ern, northwestarn, and many places in the southwestern part of the state, reaches its readers from eight to twenty-four hours ahead of all its competitors. In fact, when the latter reach their destination they aro like back numbers. They are not used for reading, but for wrapping and carpet pad- ding purposes. In cach of these respects they are quito valuable. How is Tur Bee able to so competitors! Because it has established anumber of horse routes throughout the state! Because it has its own spocial train which makes a run to Grand Island, 154 miles dis- tant from Omaha, in four hours! Making allowance for the stops at rail- aoad crossiugs, this traiu travels at the re- wark able specd of sixty miles an hour, It stops at only two stations. Tur Bee, howeyer, stops at every station. ‘It is thrown from the train s the lattoer files past each town in bundles and quantities of all the way from five up to 500 copies. This Bek coutains every line of news dis tributed to subscribers within the shadow of Tug Bek building in Omaha, Whon the subscriber in this city is unfold- ing s paper at breakfast, the subscriber in Grand Island is doing the same thing, the great paper being placed in his hands at' 7:10 sharp, This enterprise costs money. 1t is, over, approciated by Tis Ber's readers, No other paper in this section could stand the expense. Noother paper could stand half the expenso. Some of thew have tried it and given it up, Tur Bek alone seuds out a speclal train This is something which is done by no other pupor in the countr his train leaves Omaha at 8 o'clock in the morning. It roaches the other stations on the Union Pacific as appears bolow, Cut out this time table and past it upon the 1. 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The Mexican government runs a big pawn- broking shop for tho uccommodation” of tho people. The velocity of eleotrivity by the revolving mirror method to one-half that of light. | The largost passenger engine in the coun hing 157,000 popnds. pulls o loyal Biue line express 'betwéen Philadelphia and Baltimore, Probably the rarest sfimp in existence has just been sold in London for €250, It 13 fan American 5-cent stamp'issued ut Brattleboro, Vt., in 1540, The lowest body of avater on the globe is the Caspian sea: its level has been eradually lowering for centuries, gud now it is eighty- five feet below the levglof its neighbor, the Black sea. A cane with an electyfe light, which will enable inebriated indivignals to find the num- bor of their house lato At hight, has been in- vented, Now if somebody will inventa key that will find its way i#t6 the right key-hole midnight closing will bjfig wholesome joy to the householder. Probably the liveliest railway junction in the world s at Clapham, in_England, where the London, Brighton & South Coast and the London & Southwestern railways cross, Between 7 o'clock in the morning and 10 at night 1,000 traius pass this junction—an aver- ago of ono every b seconds. As a tobacco-growing state, New York is now ahead of Connecticut. 'The _statistics published by the census office give New York 1,532 tobacco planters as against 2,815 in Con- necticut, give tho state a_product of 9,216, 13 pounds as against 8,874,024 in tho other state, and give Now York’s tobacco arca at 8,620 as against Connecticut’s 6,331 acres, has boen found ve nearly AGENUINE MICROBEKILLER 1s KIDD'S GERM ERADICATOR—Curos all disensos because 1t kills robo or g Put up and retalled In §2, g 203, tho lattor 2 1-2 gallons Sent any- epufd on recelpt of price orC. O D. We fssue n guaranteo to cure. The public. trade and fobbers supplicd by the Goodman Drug Co . Me- C. A. 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Rates. from $2,50 to $4 BARKER HOTEL Mr. and Mrs. George Van Orman have tnlken the RARKER HOTEL under their woll-known management. This hotel is the best Two Dollar a Day House in Omaha, with all modern conveniences. Firs escapes and fira preof floors. Special mates for base ball aad theatrical compsuies. Table un- wurpassed. Cor. FOR SALE--ARTISTIG HOMES Cor. of Cass and 28th Sts.,—Bl’k South of Creighton College. - HOUSES, The Four Most Artistic Residences in Omaha ulatly y nre substan 1 i the ex | . Thoy are vato resldencos, This va o in Omalia @ rich aality rianmen:al bevel plate xurious an dos nll modern cou t for sale wo0d work I all 0f pi Biroh, Red and White Oak and Syeamore, with b @ houses are finished (0 accorinnce with th fixturcs, high a Hnest Ay Arronsbirk The honses nd ary wash Lubs in iau Easy Term ment. fice 0f the owner ana bullder. lH .T. CLARKE, Rooms |9 and 20 Board of Trade 1520 Farnam St, New Store in PAXTON BLK. Cor- 16th GLOVE FITTING" 00DS HOLESALE 10 DE: = Bl o ) e Palace Otfice Building ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF. NOT A DARK OFFICE IN THE BUILDING. 68 VAULTS, INCANDESCENT ELECTRIC LIGHTS PERFECT VENTILATION NIG HT AND DAY ELEVATOR SERVICE. DIRECTORY OF OCCUPANTS: GROUND FLOOR: -E. NAUGLE COMPANY, Telograph Poles, | g1y PREASURER. Cross Ties, Lumber, ote. MUIR & GAYLORD, Real Estato. CITY COMPTROLLER. FIRST THE OMAHA BEE COUNTING ROOM, Ad- vertising and Subseription Departments. AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY. JOHN FLOOD, Man'gr The Illustrated World. | SECOND THE PATRICK LAND COMPANY, Owners of Dundee Placo. R. B. Il. BIRNEY, Nose and Thro at. DR. CHARLES ROSEWATER. ROVIDENT SAVINGS LIFE, of New York. THIRD DR. A. MATTHEWS, JOHN GRANT, Contr: K Pavements. U W. PATRICK, Law Offices. EQUITY COURT NO. 1 EQUITY COURT NO. LAW COURT NO. 4, Dentlst. ctor for Stroet and Side- FOURTH NORTHWESTEKRN MUTUAL LIFE INSUR- | ANCE COMPANY CONNECTICUT MUTUAL ANCE COMPANY PENN MUTUAL LIFE PANY. HARTFORD LIFE AND A ANCE COMPANY, MEAD INVESTMENT COMPANY. WEBSTER & HOWARD, Insurar 2CTRIC LIGHT COMPANY. SERVICE ASSOCIATION, ROSEWATER & CHRYSLER, Clvil Engineors | J. L. BLACK. Clvil Englneer, ! LIFE INSUR- INSURANCE COM- UITY IN: FIFTH HEADQUARTERS, U. 8 ARMY, DEPART- MENT OF THE PLATTE, 35 Offi DEPARTMENT un|\| ANDE ADJUT. INSPECTOR JUDGE ADVOOA CHIEF QUARTERMAS . CHIEF COMMISSARY OF SUBSISTEN MEDICAL DIR OR. SIXTH HARTMAN & COLLINS, Uast Iron Gaus and Water Pipe. G. LAMBERT SMITH. C. 1. BEINDOREF, Architect. ARTHUR JOHNSON, & BRO., Contractors. REED PRINTING (0, | U, 8. ARMY PRINTING OFFIO | oM J. D ANTE FLOOR: OENTRAL LOAN AND TRUST ¢ SUPERINTENI AHA REAL ESTA , Rotu; TE AND TRUST CO. da Clgar Stand, NC L. REEVES & CO., Contractors. TERN UNION TELEGRAPH OFFICE. 10, INT BEE BUILDING, FLOOR. MASSACHUSE T™H MA DR. DI ERNEST RIALL, Roal k UN TTS MUTUAL LIFE INSUR. ANCE COMPANY. E EQUITABLE LIFE CIETY OI' NEW YORIK. ASSURANOE 80+ NHATTAN PA W. . GALBRAITI. OSCAR S HOFIMAN. INSURANCE COMa tate. ITED STATES LIRS INSURANCE €O, f Now York. J. M. CHAMBERS, Abstracts. FLOOR. M. ELLIS, JOTN LI om THOS, I, A RIEY G, Plastor M ALEX MOORE, Architoct 3 COMPANY, Solicitors ot United States Ac dent Insurinee Company, 1EN AHA COAL EXOHANGE. ERENUERG, Frosco Patntor, IPLE, Silicon Wall Plastor, Manager Siticon Wall nfz. Co. Rel Estats and Loans. BOIN SASIAND DOOR OO, T A NORTHW S MEL GENU JHANTS R TERN STAIL COMMERCIAL ALTY O, STAPLETON LAND CO. PA FLOOR. | CHIEF PAYMASTER. YMASTER. ASSISTANT QUARTERMASTER, INSPEOTOK SMALL A IS PR CHIEE OF ORDNAN( FLOOR. G. L. PLOWMAN & BRO, L.O. N w HA EDITORIAL ROOMS OF THE B -OAMP, SURGEON, TED COMP 2 12 IMPLEMENT DEALER. 10gtaphors, TATES LOAN & INVESTMENT ASIH, Louns, A GOULD, Furms, MILTON LOAN AND TRUST 00, Compos- ing, Storcoty ping and Malling rooms. SEVENTH FLOOR. THE OMAHA PR OLUB. SOCIETY OF STATIONARY ENGINF RS, | BA RBER SHOP, A few more clegant office rooms may be had by applying to R. W. Baker, Superintendent, office on counting room floor CORTLAND WIRE -- CLOTH 1 1-2¢c per square foot. By the roll $1.40 per hundred sq. f. ames Morton& 1511 Dodge Street, Omaha. NAIDL PRAC o), "ICAL AND SEN SIBLE. (Patent applied for Holds rupture ‘and retains its position Yore atrains; ubsolute comfort. ) dnys’ trial & 1ven I ot satisfactory wwy refunded. Kofurences WoseWater, Grosswann, W Hollwan and NAIDL'S, 1410 Villlaw Street. Omaha Son Co. Tel.437. CONSUMPTION. & VALUABL furor who wili send me their Expross sud [} /0 8 positive remody for the above disesss ; by ite ousands of cases of the worst kind and of long & have boon ¢ Tudeed s 14 18 Iy faith its effieacy, that [ will sond TWO BOTTLES FKEE,with i TREATISE on this diseass to any sul. 0. address, A, Slocums M, Cu 183 Paarl Sty N, Xo