Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 18, 1891, Page 12

~ THE DOMAI iy e W A voted to irrigation gives detail tho progress of agriculture in Utah by means of artificl THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: OF ENTERPRISE. Substantial Evidence of Aggressive Develop TURN Results of WATER—NATURE Trrigation ment in the Great Northwest. DOES. THE REST. Utah Detailed by the Census Office— Montana and Wyoming Preparing for the Big Fair--San “In my. to its ihe Black Hills, terview, published #aid Major Simmons to a Bre speaking of the great resources of the Black Hills, I m world-beat and stated stockholders monthly dividend, aggres “in | ped the Homestake as & | The averag ¢ for a continy produces t had disbursed conseeutive ating $4,700 Francisco's Industrial and Taxable Wealth--A Variety of News From the Storehouse of the Nation, | of artesian wells owned by each farmer. The + | total number of these is 2,524. Of the num. ber, facts concorning the depth, cost, flow 1 othior macters of interest have been ob. tained from the c regarding 870 wells pth of these is 115,54 feet, and the average cost is §7.60 per well; the aver- age cost per foot in depth being 53 cents, The dismeter of thess wells ranged from 1%y to 4 ches, or, 10 a few cases, Lo inches or more, 10 | the average being from 187 to 2); inches. your printed roport you substituted a fizure | The ago amount of water discharged by 8 for $1,000,000. 0 hav where I»Imuml that it w cal error, compusitor, regulated pr the responsi of the whole outfit charged up to bis long list of delinquencies.” AS A SUMMEIL 1t That point being settled to the satisfaction of the major, ho went on to unfold the beau- | ties of the Black Hills as the coming summer | resort of | point to the mountains,” | the western and pur were to sporsed aromat, The major d tion,stating he had been nccused of misropro sentadion, sibility for the s an untentional that necessary adjunct iting office, on ty for the mis! another outrage heap | 18 upon land kes and errors | It is tho near for | > states, where dry majestic scenery | gssossment on veal and _personal property for inter- | ho present year being §312,062,0060 as nzainst innumerabio vaies and_purks, shaded and carpeted shrubs and a tain flowers. forests on verdure, | anq Yy of moun- | haig s security for loans on city charming parks and int | these wells was gallons per minute, an explana equivalent to 0050 eubic feet per second, or second feet, as is the common tern Taxable Wealth of “an Fran ¢isco. The assessment roll of San Francisco for tho new fiscal year showsatotal taxable wenlth of £244,651,555, of which §167,233,750 115,10 on improvements, The incrense in the total asscssment over be | that of last year is £),206,217, of which only represents tho growth in land s, while 27,000,585 shows the increase in the value of the improvements, Adding 1n the increase for the year in tho personal assessment, $1,428,703, gives a total $10,624,520 to the taxable property of the city and county, the figures showing the total st 101 &301,433,040 Tor 1500, Thie total amount assessed to individuals corporations on account of mortgages is stated at 345,165,631, against £18,511, basins abounded with springs and picturesque | Juc year, showing an'increase of &4, rivulols portions of the landscape The grand old weatherworn sentinel, the wtion of the grand scale of Naturc's plan of | $5,000. forming a wountain through ber latent for projecting an immen: ighest tration on o toni uid Af miles ubon | gty picturesque as a iilus- was flanked by Otbier | o toful expense of for salaries of tho as were covezed with with the rocks, forming perpendicular cliffs and dark, winding ca yons, prescuting & _panoraina milos of graud, scenery. $0350r's offi e w 4,000, the regular d 250 and the extra deputic 1,65, ched to the assessor’s repert is a sum sturing interests of the the numbver of factorics, men employed, valuo of product and capital represented, as follo ws titicial stoue factories, 21; employes, value of product, $1,000,000. Bag factories, 4; employes, 160; product, 's |~ Barrel factories, 24; employes, 575; product scetion of the bot- [ 1,150,000, bdrock stratum of tie corth's erust to tho surfu was obtruded into the clouds to an ele of 8,000 fect above s mit, which could be o dircction could be obtained of Nebraska and the su rounding stafes, Bedding and upholstering fuctories, 15; em- moss | ploves, 300 product, £300,000, ion | Boot and shoe factorie rom its sum- | ploves, 1,10 arly reached from ono | 510,000. white em- 3 Chinese, duct, $h- w | " Box factories, 8; employes, 430; product $1,015,000. Broweries, 21; employes, 530; product, $3.- towering ciiffs, crags and pinnucios, its sidos | 655,000, rent and gashed deep with inte yons. 1 ening con- done her level best | 500; product, $1,000,600. rriage and wagon factovies, 50; employes, 0 produce incquality ana confusion by pre- | Cizar factories, #15; white employes, 670 senting a samplo of her handiwork fashioned | Chines fnto all sorts of fantastic contortions. For | Cfothing factori 0003 product, §3,700,000. employos, 2,800; what purpose was not clearly understood, ex- | profuct, 36,500,000, cept it bo s a Mecea fo plains thero to receiv, enco for Dame Nature by tho gi this object view from the summit Missouri valley s taius was said by worth a trip to the region of their ere possibilities,’ becowing a g destined to be a | product, $1,530,000. charming itass'staining, cutting and bending works, region. e : factorics, 13: employes, $30; pro- The | duct, $900,000. rival Arness fa the ap factori altitud Sash, door and blind factories, 13 product, cli- | £5,000,000, had | * Sugar refineries, 2; product, $12,250,000. bdations 2 a new A Marvelous Water Power “Outsid and busi major, sumuor resort which most important, feavure Since ture Minnek thoso medicinal and a delightful mate. Unsurpasscd been provided and wero first cluss, and commodious hotel every accommodate the iner sconery sufiicient to ronage. was promoted tucky gentlomen suminer res climate, Short, & ch the rarofied air and andour of The | duct, #1,100,000. f Haruey peak of the atos and tho Rocky amateurs to be natural resources the advent of truction of UPPER RAPID COMPANY' A number of wealthy A roh of o | Falls, Montana, exceeds both combined and ort combining altitude, healthitul | leaves o respectablo surplus. conscquent the dwetlers of the | Coffeo tion and rev e | 115 emplo product, 2,000,000 Cracker factories, 3; employes, 2i5; pro- iour and feed mills, 15; employes, 275 moun- | product, §,000,000. Foundries, machine-shops, otc., 43; em- 3 product, £5,000,000, i facterics, G; employes, the | 800: produet, £2,050,000. at [ Furnitur ctories, 21; employes, 0 803 product, 915,000, , 52; product, $1,275,000, ; product, $%,600,000. It is customary to reter to Niagara Falls as the maximum water power of the Uni States,with St. Antnony Falls a close second. As a matter of fact the water power of Great Compared in | with the lar, vater pewers in tho vo [ and that of Minneapolis, Minn., the cool nights | pulls power stands as follows : would_prevail against the devilitating sultri- Horas mess of the lowlands in ull but the lal ceeded to manufacturo to orde Joined by o few spirited citize City, theso gentlemon 2,000 acres of river debuuches from miles above dam was thrown found it oen feot, valled, lake, mary with a fle upon its unrippled bosom. Tiue was constructed thonce to Rapid City, 1o operate the same from tho dam, and on & platean overlooking the lake structed.” e U tho power and by people would country in tho de: CAPITAL COMING IN. “Tho capital Hills,” continued their wonderful mineral the devclopment of developing her most attractive character B WountaIn summer resort.’ MANA CAPITALISTS [NVEST. Tho energy and railroad building disp! In the “Denvor of have causcd Omahans transaetic ber of 100 acres in tho suburbs of that town. and moro tiated. mid-summer. s of Rapid car purchased | Mivneapotis, Minn Rupid mountains four Average for twelve months Here a substantial 088 the river ata cost of 0,000, raising the wator to a huight of eight- A rock-wullod comprising was transforimed into s charming ned by rueged mou of pleasure craft_already floating An clectric motor land at a point in of the Rapid | " [igor acres, mountain ain scenory, being taken botel was being con- | il ronlize was promoted | o wd substantial aud seale and ptiout the whole it was planned which anum- | & A0 2 Thvost 25,000 in | The commission decided to erect a Other | building on the grounds, designed for tho ex- important deals arve being nogo- | hibit cf state products, a bureau of informa- freigation Ln Utah, of the series de- statistics of ensu Thoy Power. aud that they pro- | Holyoke, Mass : 2 Yen Lawrenee. Muss. 10,000 Lowell, Mass i 11845 Munchestor, N. i developed and undeveloped. Great Fulls - deveioped horse power Great Falis undéveloped Torse Total Great Falls power, do- veloped and undoveloped, verage for twelve mooths. . 208,102--208,102 At Falls exeess of power ——— over all of above compared Witer powoers 168,09 Tho proposed development of Niagara Falls water power by means of tunnel, as claimed, 000 borse powe The above-nanied water powers nggre- 00,104 Ningara Falls Witer power aggrogates.. 120.0 0 Total for Minneapolis, enstorn powers and Niagar . 210,104 Total for Greut Fulls.. . 265,102 to the | Groat Falls excessover allof the abovo- by reason of [ michtioned powers and for was also Wyoming and the World's as | The Wyoming bourd of tair commissioners orgnuized at a recent meeting in Ch by electing John S. Harper of Cook county ldin layed | as president: Prof. IElwood Mead, stato on- (Rapid City), | gineer, as secretary, and ate Senator John A 1 S, McCormick, of Sheridan, as treasur tion with fiels of ali state papers—in fact to make a convenient and creditable headquar- ters for Wyoming people during tho fair, The stata exhibit will b divided iuto six classes 1. Ou ores of all kinds, coal ofl, ana oil bearing substances al all mineral sub. re 10,757 farms | stances except building stono and building In the territory, of which 9,724 ave irrigated. material; mineral and nreated iwaters, min IPho uyerago size of the irrigated farms, cr, | ing machinery and appliances for placer min strictly speaking, the portions twonty-seven of water averug an app 7,60 per ucro, wator is U1 from the 17,12 per ucro, I Utab ¢ 4731 uer ritory 10,757, arid reg gotion iu this te irrigatod, 18 The average first cost and the ring the soil for cultiva- [ and ireigation-appliances, fish and fish cul- s price of land, present pric including | to includo stone, granite, marble, slate, ala: , showing | baster, gypsum, foresiry and forest products. ildings, of 4. Horticulture, floriculture, to include the aunual cost of [ natural flowers. . which, deducted | 5. Educatiou, liberal, fine and decorative rago anuual value of products | arts. an avorage annual retury of cost of prey tion, including the purch $16.10 pe rigatod buildings, 8te., 1s reported as £5i Tho avorage cents per acr ps wero raised the eensus year onded Juno e 41165 squar B-10 of | per cent of the entive area I'ne aggrogate number of farms was und of tenths, depended maiuing tenth being eithor farms in the northern end whero tho climate is less mountains that 1 by what is known as tab oceupies by irrigation in farming." tho contral position in the ,ayd thoreforo the details of irri- ROR ANANA ¥ 8 of Filory possess moro than or. | 100 930,010 acres of laud was transferred ing and glass, sand soda. Agriculture, grains, seeds, domestic ani- als, poultry, forage, plants and native asses, agricultural implements, irrigaticn is | ture, vegetables aud vegetable products, of | 8. State building and building materials, 6. Game, Indian exhibits, othnology, scenio exlbits, I'he commissioners intend to ask the quar- rymen of the state to send to them samples of their stone so a selection can be made to f the ter- | be used in tho erection of the state building. A committee of four from the board is now uine- | in Chicago conferring with the architects of ro- | tho fuir, and also making arrangomouts iu stock ranches or | regard to space. torritory, — arid, or situsted 50 Public Lands in Washingtc be | The report of the commissioner of the gen- | eral land ofice for the year onding last Sep- tomber shows that in the state of Washing- Whiary 1nterest from the fact that they rop~ | ffom goverument ownersnip to individual Tesont conditions intermediate between those | Ownership and that in compensation therefor of the north and south, Besides this, the irrigation methods and sys- ~tems have been develoy 3 speaking origin, provious exper ods of thoir , finally achieved succoss. of lowing we failure The use tho east and d by men of Yod “By Gapiialor | the several land ofices as follows: meth Acros. glhish- wtroduced ropeated | west, | §1,085,135 was paid fnto the United States treasury. The business was trausacted at : Amount North Yakima. PPN 111" S X 8 outtlo : RPN 11K 1 ) Spokane Lt 00,621 irrigation | Viuncouver. | //1/11 11 T8 18 201,868 of gardons, orchards and vineyards is & wat- | Walla Walla..,)\) 108,318 68,132 ter of interest and fore, at the time of making consus the enuwmerators obtained the number 1ce, wnd, thoro- agricultural Total coenes SI0L0 : 1,088,135 The pocketiag of this vast sum by the gen- eral government 18 denounced by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as “a monstrous injustice,” and it continues in this strain “In the part of Washicgton westof tho Cascade mountains the_lands are bountifully endowed by nature, Timber, coal and min. erals abourid. In tho eastern section much of the land 18 olevatod and valueloss for the want of water, But the mountains that lie botweon these great divisions ary vast store. houses of water, holding a supply equdl to any possible necessity of the dry district. Vast works are required to reservo this waterand to carry it to ths dry region, and its now barren wastes may biossom and be- come tho seats of large industry and large population, There isa suggostion from a high source that theso dry Jands be given over to the state; but why stop here! Why not give tho good lands #{th the bad to the end that the rich endowment of the one class may e made to provide means to develop the other} “Goyernment ownership of unappropriated lands in this ana other new states 13 one of the things that has gone without question: but it is supported by no good reason; thera is no equityjn jt. It Is a hardship to the state, and a monstrous injustice."” The Kodak and the Indian, Tho other day a number of Plute Indians were in town, says the Salt Lake Tribane. A tourist kodak tiend happened near them, and at once prepared to get an instantaneous on the film, but he was not quick enough in got- he “field.” No sooner had ho tarued ument towards the “Lo" family than they started on a dead run around the corner and down the alle Tendorfoot was not tohe outdone, S0 he followed up. The two bucks were soon far away, while the squaw, loaded down with a papoose, was soon fugged out, and turning back, confronted the kodak man with “You no catchee pictur. Heap good squaw had pictur made; she die; no catchem me don't wantoa die;” and she showed such distress in her countenance at having her picture taken that the kodak fiend failed to “touch the but ton," and thus lost a chance of getting a pic- ture of the dirtiost squaw aud papoose and raggedest blanket ever scen on an Indian in this city. This incident reminds the writor of anoth- er Indian. White living in Omaha, over twenty vears azo, a big Pawnee bucik came into o grocery store where the writer spent wuch time. “Tho proprictor had just opencd a barrel of refined sugar, rt of which was in lumps. *“The Indian' made his wants known by saying: “Sugar heap good: g1vo some.” He was handed o large lump, and it was a pleasure to see the relish wita which it was devoured. A fow days afterward tho same buck mado bis appearance in the storo again, aud where the sugar barrel had stood before a newly opened barrel of salt was standing. The Indian went through the same gro- tesque motions as on tho other oceasions and vegged for more sugar. He was handed o Tlump of salt, about one pound. He drew his tongue over it, and that w nough to find that he was sold on the sweet proposition. to saw that the five or six men i tho store were all watching his movements very closely and were ready to laugh at s being sold, buthe was too resolute to give us a chatce, Without a single erimace ov change of muscle in his faco, ho stood and ate tnat wholo lump of salt and then heked his bands as if he enjoyed it, and then voing to tho door ho stood for some seconds watch- ing tosee if his would-be tormentors weire enjoying his discomfort. it'was ten days before he was seen again, when he appeared in front of the store and for several days walked past it many times, looking in to see if the man who gave him the salt was arouvd. For months that man was in great fear of losing his scalp, and so he kept_as far away from the Pawneo camp in the “bottoms’ as possible. ‘I’his cxample of stoicism by that Indian was a marked one, and yev it was ouly an example of a trait common to alt Tndiaus, tonizing Laramic Plains. A syndicate of Denver capitalists propose to form several azricultural colonies on Lara- mie plains, The only question as to its prac- ticability, says the Laramio Republi that of bringing the land under water. that can be done by meansof a high line citeh, and ement eugiueers say it can, there is no particlo of doubt_that every foot of soil spoud to the efforts of the agricultu- vist. Ithas been suggested that the water from the big Laramio river, from which it 1s proposed to take onvthe high line diteh, hos alveady been almost entirely approprated. ven if this is true, it is well known that Quring the months of June and July of overy vight now, water enough ean bo saved storage reservoirs to irrigate twice 100,000 rres, while the crops are being blanted, tended and harvested, whilo water for do* mestic parposes can be obtained from arte- sian wells anywhere on_the plains, just as it is liere in Laramic. In the “Big Basin’ alone, water enou could be stored in one season 10 last two or three years, and distrib- uted as it 15 needed. ‘I'he enormous crops of wheat, vats, barloy and vegetavies that have been raised on th anchos in the valieys, on tho T experimental farm, under the Pioncor diteh, ¢ illustrato what might be done on the Get water on the soil any- where and plant the sced ana nature will do tho rest. Certifled Chiname At tho last session of tho California Jegis- lature a law was passed requiring “‘every Chinese person within the limits of the state, within one year after the passago of this act, to apply for a certificate of residenco to tho commissioner of the labor bureau and to have it recorded by the county clerk of the county in which he resides,” and says further that a refusal to comply with the provisions of the act shall subject the offending person to a Al by a court, and gives a long list of pen alties which may ba imposed on the culprit. Besides this, every Chinese applying fop ortificato s required to pay £ for tho pr ilego of being registered and must furnish a photograph of himself. “The law went into effect on July 1, and tho state board of labor statistics made ali neces- sary areangements to accommodate an ex pectod rush. Artistically designed cortifi- cates, printod on parchment, wore secured In the center of each. surrounded by wreaths. in black and white, was 3 niche for the owner's photograph. ‘The wholo arrangement was a work of art bound in morocco and well worth any Mongol's . But tho rash failed to materialize. Tho Chinese denounced the law as absurd, and the Chinamen of San Francisco quietly ignored the law. Tu: nobby certificates remain unused and tho labor bureau is not troubled with a surplus of £ pieces, i An Idaho Court Sensation, The trial of C. H. Frye and others at Black- foot, Idubo, had several sensational features, The indictments against Pryo were found last January by the d jury of Binghum county, when Frye and Bruhn, his partner, were in Seattle. Fryo and Bruhn are cattle dealers on a large sealo and haye been close buyors in Idaho, where, it appeared from Mr, Koch's account, thoy had incurred the ill will of some men engaged in the cattle business by the closeness of their transactions. Tue evidence doveloped the existenco of a gigantic conspiracy on the part of a certain gang of cattlemen to carry on stealing by the wholesale themselves. They had itin for I'rye and Bruhn and fixed up a scheme to got hold of a train load of cattle they shipped last December. The full extent of tho conspi oy was exposed at the trial und the result was that Frye and Bruhn and the other defoud- ants were promptly exonerated, But the sensation of the day was creatod when the jury in the case had retired to the jury room. Judge W. D. Standrod said in oven court: *'1 understand that an effort was to have been made by persons convected with the prosecution on tho outside to reach the judge. I shall investigate the matter as fully as possible soon.” Later the judge said: “erctofore juries have been fixed with impunity, and I am determined to pun- {sh any attempt to obstruct the wheels of justice. 1 shall tomorrow in open court hold an iuvestigation and will punish all offenders if guilty.” From Miner to Millionaire, It hasn't been ten years since Marcus Daly worked in overalls, with a pick, in the Anacoads, & copper-silver mine Butte, Mont., says John A. Cockerill. He is now since the death of Georgo Hearst, and the salo of tho Haggin stabio, perhaps the most eminent figure on the turf from the west. His Anaconda mines have been soid to sn SATURDAY, JULY English syndicato for $5,000,000, which 1s $12,000,000 more than Mr. Daly and his partners, Hearst and Tevis, are sald to have apent on the mine in the way of improve- meuts since thoy bought it ten years ago_for £3,000,000, Ho is a big, quiet blonde, fjwith a zood deal of that dignified reserve which characterizes Jonn W. Mackay, and which in such mon as he and Daly moans a great deal. Daly is seldom seen in the east in pub- lio, but lic is becoming more and more @ power in the racing world. It is prodioted in some quarters that Mackay and Daly aro gOIng to bo the powers on the Pacific” coast for the next ten or fifteen years, They aro types of men whom money does not seem to spoil, as simple and unaffected in their tastes now as when they worked at the miner's per diom of 8, devoted to their families and faithful in all the relations of lite Extensive Irrigation Project. A company of hoavy eapitalists s being formed to build and opeato irigating ditches in the valley of the Stinkinewater. “The capital of the company is placed at £5,000,000, and the of at loast one- balf miltion acros of laud1s contomplates The diteh, or rather canal syston cerned will havo its solircos and roservoirs at the heads of the brapehes of the Stinking- water river—a stroam which has an immenso and permanent tributaey water supply. The lane to be irrigatéd will include that of the many mountain valleys and basins of tho Stinkingwator, and of tho first and sec- ond bench soil which constitutes tho valle per of the Stinkingwaier. The lands of this valloy aro very fortile, and the favorable climate insure a varied and profitable production. Ihe Stnking water Low derives its namo 1 not to pleasant fumes which con wntly ariso from a series of medicinal hot springs on its banks, and located at the upper eud of the valley, 1t is whispered that the irr ting syndicate will also establish a bl watering place at these hot springs, whose curative qualitios ave wonderful. The *alton Hot Bath co a thevmometor to the bathroom, say the San Francisco Ixaminer, and regulate tho water in tho tub until it reaches a tem perature of 10 id you will find that you have a hot bath as the tomperature of the new In at last accounts. Such a bath is not tepid, but sctually hot. If the water of the Gulf of California should veally create a permanent arm of the sea in the Colorado desert, one of the most remark able resorts in the United Statos would grow up by it. Visitors to Sauta Mouica elaim that tho water 1s cold, even in the summer. The buy in tho desert would be warm in winter, and in summer it would be almost scalding hot. It would bo 5o shallow that the sun would be ablo to strike throuzh it to the bot- tom. There would be no danger of =ramps, but tho bathers would enjoy fine sport dodu- ing sharks. The Gulf of California has como of amous tnan-eaters in the world and once across the bar they would luxuriate in the hot pool and probably grow: toan un- heard-of size. Montana and the Fair. announces that a macting wa commissioners to the world’s will be he held on August 3, at Helena, aud te has made appointments to fill vacan- s in the board, so that its membership is now complete. The meeting will bo the first pruc in the way of preparing for tho proper presentation of Montana at the fair to be held in Chicazo. Tt will be remombered th wheo the legislature w ou an appr priation of £50,00 s voted for the fail. This action reccived general approvo througout the state. The sum_ cortainly as not extravazant. Itis quitc probable that if the outlook for a_good display brightens as the time ‘or holding the fair anproaches, the legislature micht tind itself disposed to increaso the amourt if in the judgment of tho missioners an added appropriation is eded. Dectining Chinadom. The enforcoment of the Chineso exclusion law, supplemented by the energetic action v the police authorities of San K'ran- in domolishing the headquarters of the ing influeuco on trade of Mongolisn firms. The San ronicle states that the ominous Rent” sizu now. plucards numerous stores in the Chineso quarter that only a few months ago were occupied by prosperous business establishments Tho poli of Chinatown has decreased fully four thous- and durinz the pust six montns. The crowds of Mougolians that formerly thronged tho thoroughfares of the Chinese quarter well nigh rendered the sidewalk impa: have greatly diminished. Bankrupte had many victims amoug the Mongolian firms 1d of late failuros of leading cehants uro of frequent occurrouce. Seattle Tinances The annual report of the comptroller of Se- attle furnishos a clear iusight into the finan- cial coudition of the loading city on Pagot sound. According to the census of 1560 Se- attle has a population of 42,837, The assessed valuation of city property for tho current 0,000,000, three timos the as- sessed valuation of Omaha, with & popula- tion, in round numbers, of 140,000. ‘The bonded debt of the city amounts to §075,000; floating debt, S16,100.24; special improv ment fund, $400,500.70; unpaid interest on honds, $20,5 dvo state, §,080—a total of 216,500,533, Deducting cash’ in treasur tho indebtodness of the city is $1,793,° 15024, The estimated cost of running the city for tho current fiscal year is §3),705, ex chisive of the vaterworks, ownea by ' the city, which cost last year, $4,055, Cattle Que A western cattle rancher says it1s becom- ing an every-day oceurrence to seo women out west denling in cattle and horses. The loneliness and hurdships of the groat praiies @0 not seem to deter energetic women from the purpose of conducting a profitable busi: ness. A fow days ngoa cattle queen from Idaho sold two carloads of fine hors Ouwaba at a much better figure than an could have obtaiued. hio story that o young English lady on a ranch in Montana subdued the rage of a heard of wild bulls, who were about to gore hor, by walking boldly up to them singing the soldier's ehorus from “Faust is incom- plote. The narrator forgot to add that upon recognixing the air the intelligent auin immeaiately joined in, playing it beautifully upon their horns, Progress of freigation. Colonel R. J. Hinton of the irrigation sur vey branch of the department of agriculture, says groat progress has been made in irriga- tion matters cast of the Rocky Mountains. Ou tho plains capital has boen lavgely in- vested by privato companios, ana the result of iuvestigations is satisfactory to the extent that water may be obtained from wells, by dranage, through gravitation, or surface ir rigation, suficient for a portion of every quarter section, and enough to insure crops and to support & family. Having_examined the irrigation system of northorn Now Mexi co, he declares that by it an area of 50,000 ac of land will be aaded to tho arable lands of the United States at altitudes hith- exto considered out of range, o How it Looks to Eastern Eyes. Late crop reports from tho Dakotas, Min- nosota and Montana, says the Philadelphia Press, presage o prosparous year for tho far: mors of those states, There has been more rain out there this season than usual, tho meadows and pastures are in botter conditio than they have been for years, and wages runge from 82 to $2.50 a day, including board Tho westorn farmers who'are so deoply im- mersed in advocating thelr climerical econ omio schemes should give these few facts a square look in tho face, and then ask theuw selves whether, after ail, one acre in Middle sex isn't worth'a principality in Utopia, Prohibition in South Dakota. In o recent case in South Dakota, for sell ing liquors in violation of the state prohibi- tory 1 the defenaany demurred on the ground that the law was unconstitutional, because it embraced uigro thau one subject | not named in the title. The court sustainod the demurrer. If the upper courts take the samo view of the matter, the state will be loft without a prohibitory law or any law ro- straining and regulating the liquor trafo until a now one can be enacted. The Richest of All Throo {mportant discoveries aro_reported on the Laramie side of the range. Tho local- ity of tho find is six miles from Rock Croek canyon. Quantitios of the oro were brought to Laramie by Stockton Smith, a well-known ranchman, and assays showed: Gold, §7.03; silver, &4:'copper, 34,44 per cent; total value per ton, 8104 1t will be soon that it is & copper ore, carrying gold and silver, Wyoming. The Carbon and Saratoga roads are now open into Gold Hill Tho Carlson jail was destroyod by fire and oune inmate incinerated, Arrangements aro being made for an ex- cursion to Gold Hill on August 10. A quartette of Cheyenne citizens have been given quarters in the state penitentiary. Tha Lander papers report & now find of coking coal near the . A. ranch on Wind river. Laramio has organized a stroot railway company and petitioned the council for a franchise. @Tho Denver and Wyoming oil pipe lino company has been given a franchise by the Laramio city council Nogotiations are progressing favorably for the location of colonies of Russians and - mans in Weston county Portions of Choyenno coanty aro said to be overrun with grasshoppers. As yot little damage has been done, The Laramie common council passod a Sun day closing ordinauce and ordered the city rvoir repaired immedintely The Graphic, formerly published at Glen- rock, lins been ‘moved to Douglas aud the first number was issued at that place last Saturday. Thirty-five thousand voung brook trout from tho stato hatchery have been turnod 100so in the streams along the Cheyenne & Northern The Union Pacific bas orderod 8,000 tons of T0-pound rails trom the Colorado coal and ron_company of Pucblo for use on the Wy oming division. Two huadred head of eattle were drowned m tho Belle Fourcho river, near Sundance in attempting to cross during a heavy storm 1d burst. Near Rockdale on the Laramio road to iold Hill, they have traced o twenty-foot vein of rich copper quartz 3,000 feot. ‘There is a coal band near by. Ground was broken in Cheyenno last weok for the hall of the Cheyonne Turn Vorein. The building will be a two-story brick and cost about $13,00 A prospector from the San Juan countr with n surplus of cask and a modorate _appe- tite, exchanged 8% of the former for sufficient. grub to fill the cavity. He was alive at last accounts. During the season now closed here there been shipped and driven throush Lusk 110,000 head of eattle, 50,000 shipped and 60,000 driven, all of which came from Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, The city council of Rawlins have decided that under the constitution the have no ht to grant an exclusive franchise to any company for the purpose of operating a system of electric lights or the like. W. 0. Owen, who is making a resurvey in Converse countv, discovers that some tlers are living on lands i many instances neagly a mile from the tracts ealled for by their tilings. Barly surveys were faulty Evanstanitos and Ogdenites no lonzer pass the time o'day. The Evanston Register says the reception accordcd the hose team Ogden is not likely to ho soon forgotten, “It was downright shabby. The moembers wore vlayed for suck ers.” During tho spring and summer Prof. Mead has selected for the state i Laramie, Albany. Converse and Natrona counties 105,000 acres of the most desirable land. Of the lot there re 70,000 in the Cheyenue district and 35,000 to be entered at the Douglas land office. “Thers ave about 2,000 acres under culti tion 1n Weston county besides from 00 to 3,000 aicres of irrigated hay lands owens- tle parties ave in correspondenco with Rus- sins ana Germans with a view to locatin colouy of agriculturalists in Weston county. Surveyor General Richards and party were caught fu a cloudburst about two miles north of Fort Washakie. _One wagon ard team be- longing to Captain Nickerson of Lander was washed down a guleh. The wagon was com- pletely demolished, the contents all lost and one horse killed, The Wyoming plan of catching praivie dogs is to take a barrel, knock both ends out and set it ovor the burrow. Then fill tho barrel one-third full with nic . When the praivic dog digs out of his ho can never dig back in_ again. You will find him sitting in tho barrel waiting for you as nico as you please, Southern cattle for northern ranges a passing through Cheyenne in large numbers vory day. Up to tho beginning of the week #0,505 head have passed through by rail, which is about half of the number expected for the whole season. They have becn com- ingz at the rate of about 10,000 head por weelk, and 1l probably arrive in the same numbers until along in the latter part of August. A singular report comes from the Bald mountain gold fielas. 1t is said ono of the peaks in the vicinity is a column of fire. The phienomena was noticed a short time ago, and was supposed to be a five kindled by humon agency. Investigation soon proved this thcory false, us the fire itself was of n pe- culiar appearance, and the place of 1ts loc tion was supposed to be inaccessible to human foot. The body of Georze Swan, a carponter who mysteriously disappearcd last winter from the Camoria mines, was found in a canon on the ast side of Salt creek, about ouo mile from Schul’s place. Tnere was no evidence of violence about the remains, which wero decomposed, and the coroner's vordict was that he perished by exposure, His rifie lay by his side and therd wero ashes of a firo that he had evidently built to keep warm by, His relatives live at Arcadia, cu., and have been notified of tho dis Calitormia, Shasta has a baschall club called The Wild Men from Boruco. Thero is o deficit in_Oakland's annual ac- counting of between $7,000 and 10,000 It hos beeu fieured up that Oakland con sumes 5,000 gallons of beor daily during the hot weather. A recent decision of the state president is that an_atheist is not eligible to membership in the Farmers’ Alliance Tho polico have determinad to stamnn out the Chinese highbinders. Rocently they de stroyed all their neadquarters, San Diego has nearly $150,000 of the 200, 000 subsidy necossary o procure the erection there of the proposed iron works The assessor of Alameda county estimates the property valuation of that county at 230,000,000 against §0,000,000 last your. A California man is alr taking steps to erect a botel on the shore of the new lake which bas appeared in southern California, There is talk in Santa Barbara of building an electrio railway to the hot springs, o _dis- tance of six miles with a rise of over 500 foot About #50,000 is estimated as the probable cost of such a road The Southern Pacific has decided to aban dou tho system of train tickot agents which went into effect a few months ago. Hero- after conductors will be paid highor wages and will be required to give beavy bonds reform school was opened at It has provision for both sexes. The main building is surrounded by cottages, in each of which will livea family of fifty boys, under charge of a man and his wifo and oué Moro thau twenty fires occurred in San 'rancisco on the Fourth, occasioned by the explosion of firoworks, Tho wmost serious ono caused tho destruction of the Uentenary Methodist Episcopal church, valued at $150, 000, aud adjacent buildings, which swelled the total loss to about $1,000,000. Growers of early fruit in_California this year reaped @ bonanza. Rarly cherries, peaches, pears and apricots were shipped enst and brought large prices. 1t is siugular that somo of the earliest peachos seut to the cast camo from around Maryville, a region formerly given over ontiroky to whe Fiftecn combined harvesters are cutting the immense crop on the Glen ranch in Colu sa couuty. A strip of wheat twenty-two miles. wide aud twenty-six miles long {8 being harvostea and the crop averages fifteon bush ols to the acre. That kives aro miles and embraces 190,650 acres, which at_fiften bushels per acre would give2,#5,100 bushels. Mrs. Jesse Benton Fremont, her daughter Elizaveth and ber son, Licutensut Fremont, 18, 1801~-TWELVE PAGES. and tho Iatter's family aro now domlciled in the beautiful home secured for the widow of the “Pathfinder,” by a number of energetio indies of Los Angoles, and whioh has just beon complated, Tho value of the house and 1ot is §5,000. The location 1s sightly, and the mountain pass mado famous by & memorable detour of the Pathfindor can be seon by the widow from the window of her sitting-room T'wo yoars ago Dr. L. B. Lawrence of Sonoma became convinced thiat a subterran an river flowed boneath the town sito, and acting on his convictions he bored o well with tho resuit that at less than two hundred feet o flow of haif o million gallons in twenty- four hiours was obtained. —Two other partios in the vicinity then followed his examplo with like success, and now three wells yield Dbotween two and three million gallons every twonty-four hours, After ninoteen years the government steamer hias Hasslor has comploted the sur. voy of tho California ana Orogon coasts. The Hasslor was built specially for this work in 1571, and on on ner maiden trip around Cape Horn Prof, Agassiz was a passonger, and mado a series of deep sen dredgings along tho coast of North and South America, with valuablo results to science. The most inter- osting fact doveloped in the recent surveys is that the coast line of Southern Californin is morn abrupt than that of any part of the Atlantic or other portion of the Pacific, The San Franeisco city troasury s strug Rling unacr a deticit of $200,000. Utah. ed hotel at Ogdon is in opora The new tion. A new school tiouse is to be erccted at Mammoth o potato crop fn Cache county this yoar will be a fai Salt Lake policomen change of bossos American Fork began tho month by opon ing its first bank o Masons of Salt fnvest £0.000 in a temole. have petitionod for & are prepuring to Jleven cars of machinecy for the sugar fac- tory at Lehi have arrived. Tho business of the Salt Lake postofice shows an increase of 8 pereent. it is estimated that the wool crov of Box Elder county this season is worth 30,000, The survey of thoSult Lake & Hot Springs railroad hus been: comploted to Bountiful T'welve hundred head of stock wero shipped by one firm at Mulford to South Owaba o Anheuser-Busch browing company have decided to orecta $5)0,000 browery in Ogden. A blast in tho Utah limo_and coment com- ay's quarey av Hot Springs dislocated 20,000 tons of limestone. Gurnsoy & Bridges, o ractors in Salt Lake, tiave collapsed financially, having o largo assovtment of liavilitios. The volunteer firemen of Ogden, neatly caned Mr. O. Reser, one of their number, on the occasion of his thirty-fifth anniversary. There is movement on foot at Leh. to have the streets lighted with electricity fur nished by the plant at the sugar company Works, Two gentiemen from the east have arrive at American Fork and are going to com- mence operations in quarrying marble,which is suid to be of tue finest quality and casy of access. A roported rich mineral strilko in American Fork canyon hos created a great sensation among the mining fraternity at Lebi, and a number of them have beon ip to see and re. vort on the find. ‘The annual roport of the Salt Take board of education shows a deficiency of ¥ The receipts for the year wero 1 hera 8,518 children of school ago in the city iS enrolled in the public schools and in private schools, The cotton mills in southern Utah are said to be in a tlourishing condition and the prom- ise for a superior crop and a largo vield was never better. ‘The balls on the shrub are just begiuning to form. The cotton will not be ready to harvest boforo. September. Six nundred pounds to the acre is about the usual crop which generally sells for from 12 to 15 cents o pound. Rich county is in the throes of a big mn- ing excitement. Some Colorado miners have been prospecting through there and if ve- ports are founded on fact some of the richest mines in_the world have been discovered there. Back of Swan creek a covper mino has been discovered whero tho assays are S5 per cent copper. Back of Garden City a sil- ver mine has also been discovered whoro the silver as vs G0 por cent., outh Dakota. Hughes county assessment roll foots up $7,500,000, The Iron Hill mive is shipping ore to the Omaba smelting works. The total assessed value of property 1s almost §2,000,000. A convention of state real estate dealers was held at Mirehell last Wednesday. I W. White of Yankton has invented a wotor to utilize tho power of artesian wells, A Mitchell tramp demanded 8 moal at tho first stopping, and was warmly hustled to Jail. The Spokano district is looming up in groat shape. Development work is progrossiug en ergotically. Grouna was broken on July 7, for tho con- centrating plant of the Harney Peak tin com au Iill City. Is 13 energetically prevaring for thostate fair. One of tho features of tho ground is a kito-shaped track. The first clean-up of the Bartow & Wilson mill at Central City, resulted in two hand- some retorts of the value of §2,300. The total assessod valuation of Yankton county, as returned by the county assessor, is &,164,536, an incrcaso of 370,763 over last voar. A company of homo talent minstrelsy is blooming in’ Lead, and ucighboring towns aro dovising ways and means to prevent an invasion. When the bills are all in it Is expected the cost of tho trials erowing out of Fow Tails' taking off will reach $,000. Good Indians cost money ‘e crops of the Hills country aro now b vond the reach of drouth and with the exce tion of u fow small districts whicn havo n, eir shave of rain good crops ure as- Jedar county “I'he vecont visit of Milwaukeo railroad ofth to Chamberlain, the torminus of the rond, strengthens the belief that work will s00n begin on the extension of the road to the Black Hill Amon g ores recently found in the Black Hills has been that raro and valued mineral uranium. Although it has only appeared in ouo place, situdted in the Bald mountain dis trict, it is found there in such large quanti- ties as to warrant the prospect of oarly pro- duction of urantum_salts, as well s tho mental uraninm, in the United States. At preseat uranium only in two places in the world, Annaberg, Saxony, and Itenruth, Cornwall, and the scarcity of the mineral has been the cause of its mot being used for a very im- portant purposo, tho manufacture of steel Washington. A man at Port Angelos is raising figs cessfully Tho muricipal salary of Tacoma amounts annum. quired an air of antiquity by adding an Egyptian mummy to 1ts stock of curios. Spokane will have an industrial exposition this year, begiuning October 4 and lasting twenty days. Considerable excitoment prevails at Blaino over the arrival of twenty-seven Chineso to work in a salmon cannery The papier mache mod Port Town send and havbor exhibited ut Spokane last year will be sent to the world's fair Palouse City, Oakesdale, Garfleld, Mos. cow and_Colfax aro buildiug new school houses. Pullman i3 to follow with a $25,000 building. A Cowlitz baby was attacked by bees the other day and so badly stung that its rocovery is doubtful. Fifty stings wero ex tracted from its face and head The health department of Spokane has ox amined the river along the banks, from which Spokane derives her water, and pro nounces it poisonous and unhoalthy. A party of six gentlemen have just left What comb 1o ascend Mount Bakor, A few wooks ago a party from Biaine ascended the moun tain 6,000 feot and located some miuora veins A threc yat P a well one last week, for aid. He wis drawn up badly scare not burt. In Seattle recontly a man was found with his throat cut, and the fntelligont pnysician, attor making & thorough examination,dectded that death wes caused by fatty degeneration of the heart According to a census bullotin the state of Washington ranks fifteouth as producer of limestone, The output of the eight quar. | rios in 1800 was valued at 31,087, Two hundred and five persons were omployod at tho quarries and their wages amounted to 133,215, Probably no other region in the world pro- duces such a wealth of the rar blosso of the native rhododendron as the region in Kitsap county known as the Black Hills, Iying north of Port Orchard bay and con tiguouas to the navy yard site, Thousands of acres were covered with the deiicate pink slossoms this spring Montano, Thore woro 17,400 shoep shorn In Missouls county this season More than 800,000 pounds of wool have been marketed in Great Falls to date. Nover beforo in the history of Butto has so much development work boon done on small mines as is boing done this summer. Tho Germania mine, about a quarter of a milo from the Easley, {5 giving up over $0, 000 a month in profits to its lucky ownor, The commissioners of Missouln county have generously appropriated the sum of 1,000 to aid n the construction of a wagon rond to Mineral Hill A gontleman who paid a visit Sunday to the Bluo Cloud district, about fifteen miloy from Helona, says thers is overy prospect of tho mines m that section turning out lots of ore this season, T'hio assessment of Silver Bow county this yoar will run over £20,000,000, which is & lavga increaso over former yoars, The assessmont is being mudo undor tho now law on the sin gle tax prineiplo. Jumes R. Dilworth, a well knowu cattlo owner living at Red Lodge, Parke county, was shot and instantly killed by a rauge riger, Godfrey Dowers, fn a qu ovor viece of land.” The homicide gave himsolf up A Billings dispateh states that owing to thy continuous rainfall sheep shearing has boen greatly retardea and growers huve been un avle to bring in their wool to auy great ex tent on account of tho condition of the ronds, which ave lined with freight outfits laden with wool, The Butte Miuek has reason to beliovo that tho Aunconda shut-down will coma to an end in tho near future, but as to August 1 boiug tho date upon which the mon will bo per mitted to retien to work thero is no dofinite or reliable information. Certain it is that all signs point 10 a rosumption During tho past six wooks Helena hns ox poriouced balf a dozen furious raln-storms, partaking of tho nature of cloud-bursts, and in each wiod by o thrilling olectrical display, such displays boing un usual 1 that section. The severity of those experiencod lately has boon tho cause of much alarm aud astonishimg Tho flashes were blinding in thoir intensity and followed in rapid suceession Orego The Northern Pacific proposes to dispensa with the miles of t os in tho vicinity of Portland. land wants the anuual encampment of A. R. in 184 n1d will make a strong pull to get it. Portland 1s building a uow and fast boat for tho Sound service. It is oxpected 10 cnsily distance any of the boats in present use. 1. Nesem, a Norwegian, aged 5, commit ted suicide at Astoria in a novel manu Ho tied ono end of a bailing vope around his nock and the other end to a door knob, and thon pulled back until e ehoked to doatl Railroads are celebr: 1 for their rapid vairs, I'ne Union Pacitic trostle bridge, near Dallas, feet long. was recently built in twenty-four hours after being burned. A number of hogs have died within the past few aays atPendleton of a mysteriona disease. The animals cough and snc 0, run at the nose, and soon die, sorme easily, soma apparently in groat agon Authoritios con- flict as to” what tho disease may bo, Hillshoro is not “onto’ the lat the Hillshoro Indopendent says or land damsels caused a sensation in Hills- boro last Saturday by riding into town “man fashion.” It may be all right, but we * not used to it out acre in tho “rhubarbs” and would prefer it if traveling female equostri ennes visiting our villago “would keep both limbs on the same side of the horso. Over 5,000,000 pounds of wool will be shipped from The Dalles this seasonOre gon wool. Ovaer 5,000,000 cans of sulmon will bo skippad from Astoria this season -Oregon salmon. Over 5,000,000 bushels of wheat will be shipped from the'stato this season—Ore. gon wheat. Thesearo only a few. Thero are also Ororon fruits, Oregon gold, Oregon silver, Oregon timber, and a host of other Oregon products of 1541, he Lake Chelan Railvoad and Navigation company has filed articles of incorporation crintendent of tho Chicago nsfor associarion, is presidentof 1y, which is originated by Chici and” Spokano capitalists. The pur 036 of the company is to open a line of trans- portation to the rich mines recently discov eved uear the summit of tho Caseade moun- tains., Nevada, 'ho dumping of sawdust into tho Trucicco river has been stopped Betwoen threo and five of the ar month at the Nevada state prison are who have been convicted of solling w to Indians M. E. Ryan and J. Murphy recently aned up amalgam and quicksilver reom tho sowor in_ Main streof, Austin, and obtained about $15) for their month's work Parties from Gold mountain, Tulo canyon and Palmotto, report that therd s consil able mining going oo in that section of tho country, and tho outiook is very promising. 1tis §elaimed _that coyoto sealps are being imported from Nevada by enterprising pev 1 sons to satisfy the domand created for them by tho £ bounty recentty established in this siate, Several farmers in Lovelocks have com bined to build an irvigation canal to Big Meadows. The canal will tap the bed of the Humboldt near Oreana dispense. with dams altogothe During the past quartor the Comstoc mines produced 43,094 tons of ore, giving gross yield of #7272 The cost of extrac tion was $1G,741, and of reduction and transportation §261,071, or a totol cost « £20,070 over the yield, tax was §4,172 Tho promium list of the seventt annual fair of the Novada stato agricultural society has been 1ssued from the state printing ofico at Carson, and is now roadv for distribution air bogins Monday, September 21, and will continuo during the weok. ‘Tho promi ums and purses aggrogato ovor §10,00 “Thore {s no doubt but that the reclamation of Nevada by surface and underground sup plies can ovor large areas be roadily affected ho valleys of tho streams and water coursos that take their tead in tho Sierra Nevada will at proper points supply n largo amount of undorflow water—an amonnt sufticient to do seryice for quito considorabla local acr ago. Such is the opinion of Colonel inton, a man who has given the subjeet careful « sidora A vein of tale b county. | conaty o ty has sold #00,000 ity-year bonds drawing 6 p I'woty-five tons of queon of the we worked at Recser's mill yieldod o fr u i Croppings of tho sociated with brown garucts talize The Huiley sampler is kep Tt hins boen runni the ore increases in quantity will becomo necessary. The ot present 1s greater than ever before In @ cross-cut in the Gola Hill ploneer ladgo at ( ki tho rich yo mine, and w Prove the permauency of tho el The vicinity of lellevie was v he Tth, the red. It n to the ground, the trecs and the ci stroyed