Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 15, 1891, Page 11

[ __mining thousands of claims were taken up ATURDAY AUGT The Echoes of Energetic Activity in the Store- house of the SMILES WHERE TORTUNE New and Rich Mineral Districts Coming to the Front--Active De- Nugget— velopment in Wyoming—A Other Fialc the Progress in mary of s Outdone, For two weeks past the greatost interest Thas been aroused throughout the country by sion of Judge Atken of Sioux Kalls, , thwarting the efforts of certain promi- dont eastern society ladies to obtain divorces in & quiot and inconspicuous manner. The | decision was to the effect that only persons | who had come to South Dakota with the idea | of pormanont residence could securo divorces. Mume. do Steurs, a nicco of the late John Jacob Astor, and Mrs, James i, wero the prominent lection of 103 fashionable women who were waiting thelr turn In tho Sioux Fulls divoree mill. Now they will have to scek other fields. The “Mecea of Divorce' is the title which tho enstern papers have vestowad ou Siou x Falls in honor of the rush of piigrims seek- ing reliof from the bonas of matrimony In its palmiest duys Sioux Falls was a second-rate divorce factory compared with Martinez, Cal, situated within two hours rido of San Francisco. The Examiner of the | Jatter city shows that the Martiez divoreo mills wore provided with tho latest improvod machinery to turn out decrees with neatness and dispatch, s well as secrocv. An iuves- tigation of the county rocorder's office ot Contra Costa county siiows a most startling condition of affairs. In five years there have been 317 divorces, toa total population for the county of 1,515 by the census of 1590, Of these 317 cases 145 of the complainants wero women, that is, 61 per cent of the di vorce suits wero the nctions of dissatisfied wives against troublesome husbands. By actual count there were forty-two di- vorces in 188 when it first bocame the fash- 10n t0 visit Martinez for o divorce. Nextyear the rumor reached the castern states and the numver increused to fifty. Then the pil- grimago began and sixty-two was the figu Tor 155%,a growth altogether 1ncommensu with the slow _increase of population in county, But 1850 was the boom divorce iu Mariinez and soventy-five were the result, 8 number neariy doubling the figures of three years beforo, Martinez is peculiarly adapted to the “quiet”’ divorce, for the reason that it is a sleepy, conservative town, in the midst of u sleepy, conservative country, where one po- litical faith has prevailed for a quarter of a century. In fact, one of the county officers has repeated his’ tevis of office for twenty- eight yeurs, and the other officers are not 8o very far behind the record. The amiablo administration of the court in Mactinez secms to hevo been an inviting refuge for the dissatistied wives. A HUGE GOLD NUGG i A Fifiy-Three Oance Liump on Exhiti- tion in Salt Lake. Onoof the sights of Salt Lakoe City, ac- cording to the Tribune, is a fifty-throe ounce gold nugget, worth about 21,000, picked up in the Osceola gravel miues. These great placers are ono of the resources of Utab, al- though located about twenth miles over the line in Nevada,but they belongmostly to Utan men aud it is Utan labor, energy and euter- prise which s developing and operating them. The nugget is a well rounded small bouldor, but only polishod enough to ndicato that it had not traveled far bofore resting in tho gravel bed from which it was taken. It camo from a point 100 feot deep and about one thousand feet farther up the strcam than whero a nugget was tiken some years ago, which contained gold to the value of $5,000. Then another timo a nugget welghing sixty- soven ouncos was tuken from a point 500 feat down the chaunel from where this ono came, and a large number of smaller nuggets have come from that immediate locality, These placers are in an old chaunel which has been filled above bed rock from a depth of a fow feot up to over threo hundred feet, in a distance of four miles, aud an uveraze of 1,000 feet in width. To work out all this great bar of gravel will require a great many yeurs, The two streams of water used for washing como from way up in the Wheeler moun- taius near the peak, and from these water is conveyed by flumes and ditches, one diten being ten miles long aud the other -eighteen miles. Up to July 20, this season, these ditches gave a tow” of about 2,400 miners’ inches, but since then the water has been getting less until it is now about 2,000 foches, and will vrobably contiuue avout that amount tho balanco of the seasou, which will closo only with the coming of frost enough to stop work. Since this channel of four miles of gravel averages about 250 feot in depth and 1,000 feet wide, 1t will be seen that the time required to wash all this gravel down will require several cenerations. The fiuding of this nuggett referred to above, suggests moro than placer mining tnere. Itisaboutone mile from whero it was found to e summit on that side, and the richest gravel is on that side of the chun- nol. "The vew from which these lumps of quartz and gold cumo from cauuot be a great distanco away, and search is being made for them. It is not unreasonable to expect the discovery of very larze and vich quartz lodos bearing “gold in that immediato vicinity. ‘There are many small veins of gold-boaring quartz in the mountains not far off, and some development has boen made on them, but that country is us yel practically undevel- oped, in fact is not prospected. The gravel company should, it we reason from former years of operation, take out from £150,000 to §200,000 worth of gold this senson. It is certainly & great property, asit has beon developed and improy ed. PRESEND METHODS OF MINING Great Improvements, Methods and Machinery. Within the past few vears many old, aban- doned minos have bocn reoponed and started up, writes Charles G. Yale i August Ov lana. During the earlior period of quartz r- and worked up and worked after a fashion by mon who had littie exporionce, and who thought of a gold mine as a small mint. & travagaat ideas, basod on assays of spocl mons, led to many foolish veutures which turned out disastrously Exporience was gaiuod from these sovere lossons and n gradual chango came over the business. High-priced oficials wera dono away with and only eflcient mon employed {n tho various departmonts. Meantimo the country Was opencd up by better wagon roads and railroads; provisions and supplies were cheapenod, custom mills beeame more common and a general lessening of cost was apparent, Then also came m moro thorough knowledgo of the methods of saving gold and greater care in conduct ing oporatious, Improvements in wnll. ing appliances and systewns have had a great deal to do with this,” since they are now abie 1o mino and mill ovd at very much less cost thau formerly, and mines that would run thy compuuy {n debt twonty yoars ngo now yie huadsowe profit A Tho cost of milling 18 but a fruction ot the formor amount. A prowi neut cause of this is the use of water powar instead of steam, many of the wills iu the central and northera part of the state being now run by wator. In some cases water is only uvaliable a portion of the year, und stoam power must be used duriog the season when water is scarco. It 15 very probable | that within the next fow years stil furthor | shangos will be made by the introduction of electricity for power, this having already been dond an - soveral ‘instances. Where the nditions are favorablo a stream sowe wiles | away may be utilized by means of Peiton water wheels, which run the dynamos, the curront thus generuted being carried to the w | charges on Northwest. ON INTELLIGENT Sample Nevada ds of Industry—Sum- eek’s Events. the mountain region of the gold bel plenty of streams which can furnish power in | this way, A PORTAGE RATLW An Important Work Oregon. The Columbia River Railwny a tion company submits to the peopl lund a proposal for opening the rive portation by completing the porta Proposed LABOR. It there are AY. nd Naviga- o of P or to traus- pe railway, which has becn begun around The Dales the north side of the river, and by putting on ramboats and barges to do the river work. | The portage raiiway at the Casc under the direction of the state will supply the link necessary for tation line at that place. In consideration of the taking of Portland and other places o first mortgage 6 per cent forty ye said company, the company will bi complete within eight standard guage railroad on the nc the Columbia river to a pluce upon bia aud Snake vivers, east of The Da at least two first-class steamers and a suflicient number of barges to handle all the trafic which may be tributary to tho Cqumbia and Snake rivers as far us’ Lewiston and upon all portions of the Columbia river uccessible to steamers from the eastern or upper torminus of s railway, to place at least one first stewmer, with el the barges that may bo ossary, between the Dalles and tho Cas- of "the Columbia river, and u sufticient number betweon the Cascades an to handle all tne traftic. The company will also, by that purpose, guarantee the rate grain from suid poi upper Columbia and Snake rivers of Portiand for a period of at least which shall be at least 20 per cen rates which sume or similar distances, provide pany shall not bo required by suc to cacry grain at less than 1 cont mi In’ connection will build a s to all points tributary to it. tue system will comprise about si and forty miles of narrow gnuge water routes comprise about seve; miles of navigablo water, togo cighty miles tributa ors mentioned above, TAX ON BACHELORS, Kate Field ¥ mends the Wyoming L Miss Kato Iueld in her Wash courses knowingly on the follies of bachelor- dom, taiks learnealy and from experionce on “old maids,” and thus commends statute The W, taxing bachelors $2 a year. W fact that women vote there has ai do with this new departure I don’t know, but why isn’t it a just tax? Societ o woman, “I¥s your business to be married as soon after you have made you; possible. Otuerwiso yow'll ve call maid, than which thero can be more odious. But you can’t cho baud. That would bo most uj You must wait to bo asked.” The rasull 1s that the average v what offers—not what she wa than risk her chauces ou the f men stalk about lite tion, Well, if these lords don’t choose to take upon themselves the responsibili rimony, why should not they Just 30 'long as wome in single blesseduess, just so long. married men be taxed. This tax gin ot the ago of thirty, and be doubled every proves that ho has been crossed 1m love, or is true to some Saint Maria whose memory is dearer W him than tho smiles of sirens still alive. five years, unless a bachelor Poverty, perhiaps might be an o of the offense; 1n this case it wou to muke the bachelor work out some way useful to the state, wh tims of blighted affection could be charity organizations. The more I think this matter ove righteous I think the tax. [f rigialy en- forced it might rolieve the ombargo on women. When tho sexes stand on equal ground, it will be in order to tax both bacho- lors and old maids, RANG PROFITS, The 1 line of the Cattle Bu Wyoming. The Buffalo Fcho started out to i the range cattle business of northe ing and demonstrate tho profits of ing. “Wohad up to this time, Echo, “labored under the properly conducted, witk. ag a handsomo dividend econom to investor: larly as at the present writing the outlook for increased returns from an improve and for safo wintering of cattie by excellent feed on than it has been since of 1550- In hunting up facts a upon which to bass our caleul naturaily aimed to get them from s of a largo herd. We have be s of one of Johnson county’s tho disastrc ess in the ra range is on *“This company placed on tae ra; ng hoad ot cows aud heifers, and after adding to this hery d the increase of two se an additional herd of 2,500 head, it has now according to the sworn statement of its manager, but 11,400 head in all. In other words, this company has met with o loss, in two seasons equal to the entire herd ivstarted with and abovt 1,000 head of the incroase, so that tho shareholders of this company are out in three years, the va 1,000 cattie plus the operating exj that period, also the shrinkago in of four four horse or mule team mowing machines, huyrake and farming and otuer uteusils used in the manag; sucn an extensivo concern from price to #5, that bamg the amount them this year. “These cts force us to the tant thers is no more money now in businoss than there is in_ investing in town lots in an addition five miles from tho city limits, URY UPHELD, The North Dakota Statute § Y the State Supreme Cq The supreme court of North D nounces constitutional the vsury 1 by the legislaturo of 150, ‘Phe facts iu tho caso which was court wore as follows: The action menced before Judge Templeton Forks by the Vermont loan pany vs. H. L. Whithed, recover from Whithed judgment ¢ issory note, aud the statement c ou trial showed that on July 1, 15K executed and delivered jto the c neto for §575, duo 10 five vears a luterest at tho rate of 7 per ceu time of the execution of the Whithed recoived $00, snd no agreement of the purties the rem: was retaiued by the loan firm as & ruotors at the mine aud will. Al through tion or fee for’ muking the loan. months a first cont ¥ may at any time be made by the Union Pacific company for the with the line the ystem of narrow gnuge feeders When comvlete ry to the system of feed- thusiastically Com- oming legislature has passed a law ally tho lords of ‘cr vay a penalty? are taunted for living improssion nent, that business could bo made to pay the ranges, was brighter of cattlo on e of the things of the past. and trust com. Iv was brought to sades, built | of Oregon, A transpor by citizens | £ 500,000 of ar bonds of | ind itself to | ass b side of | the Colum- d Portland t for of freight nts on tho 10 the city five yoars, 1t less than d said com- h contract per ton per company X huodred road. The n hundred ther with aw. ington dis- a Wyoming hetber tho nything to vy says to r dobut as led an old uo epithet 050 6 hus- nwomanly. oman takes nts—rather uture; and ties of ma- should un- should be- xtenuation ild be well his tax in ile the vic- utilized in or the more siness in nvestigato rn Wyom- stock rais- ' says tho that iical man- rticu- 24 market son of ous winter nd figures ations we he experi- fore us the cattle com- the ngo 10,053 asons and lue of enses for tho value wagons, ement of the cost listed by conclusion 1 the cattle ustained t akota pro- | aw pussed before the was com- in Grand )n @ prom: Of the case | ), Whithed | ompany a nd bearing L. At the | to proveat. in controversy was whether the transaction comes within thesaving clause of the statute, which provides thot a be retaned 1f the interest and foo does not ox- ceed 12 per cent per The compensa- | tion and interest at the rate of 7 per cent for the time of the note—five years—does not ex ceed 12 per cent and hence the validity of the | note 1s claimed. The court held that, as it | exceods the sum of 12 per cent for the first year, it is vold, that the statute was void Tho defendant also claimed by reason of mak- favor of building and loan associations, This point | was overruled by the court. ‘The decision of | Judge Templeton was against the law, but | by decres of the supreme court this is re- | versed and the action is dismissed. Tho | practical_effect of the law will be 1o w0 away with the feo business in making loaus, which runs up the rate of interest paid the first yoar. ine an excoption in its_overation in THE BOISE VALI ¥, The Garden Spot of the ntain- Locked State. The Boise valiey is 1n southern Idaho, with an average elevation of , and con- tains about one million acres of land, says tho Nampu Leader, © The land is what is known as desert and sage brush land, and is con- coded to be the most productive soil known. Its nature is of & sandy loam character, and being the wash from the sides of the moun- tains for centuries, it contains all the mineral and vegetablo elements necessary to muke i rich aud fertile, und being fed and sustained by the warm and fertilizing ingredionts from the irrigating ditches, tho land never becomes exhausted and can be used for generations without the nse of artificial fertilizers. In this low altitude, with & mild and equable climate, these lands are particularly M adapted to tho raisiug of fruits of all kinds, and already the demand for fruit lands i3 placing upon them a clear market value of from &0 to 8100 per ucre, and as the fruit grown upon them is acknowledzed to be of the finest flavor and choicest quality, it will only be a short time until these values are more than doubled Nampn stauds almost in the center of this vast body of agricultural land, and although but a little over three years old, it is the largest shipping and receiving point in the Suake River valley. Nawmpa is on the Oregon Short Line rairond, 500 miles from Portland and about the sume distance from Salt_Lake City. It is the junction of the 1daho Central ailroad for Boise City, only twenty miles away, the beautiful capital of the state. To the north and south vew railrond facilities are now contemplated, tnat will at once make it the commerciul and manufacturing city of Idabo. It commands the trade of tho rich mining camps of Silver City and De- Lamar on the south, and the_productions of this valley will alw: the best and only "distributing point. \We have no boom. ‘Wedo not wish any. Bring your clear head with you aund investigate® tho country and 1ts resources. THE WEALTH OF CARIBOU. A Rich Strike in a Colorado Mining Camp. All Colorado is in a ferment of excitement over roports of an euormously rich silver strikein the Pomeroy mountains near Cari- bou. The strike was made a fow days ago, on Pomeroy mountain, by John C. Stewart, He exnibited specimens in Boulder weigh from ono to three pounds each, and almost solid silver. The sight_has awukened all the old mining spirit and several parties left for the new field to iuvestigate and_prospect. Pomeroy mountain, where the find was mace, 15 situ- ated on the main range, about u mile north- west of Caribou, and Just across a beautiful little park from the celobrated Caribou hill, from which, through the old Caribou, No Namo, Belcher, Hoorman and others, many millions have been vroduced. Here 13 located one of the finest and rich- est silver districts in Colorado, though for vears the camp tas been dead by reason of litigation in mines and u lack of transporta- tion. Many years ago, when Caribou was a bu camyp, prospzctors found several of flost at the foot of Pomeroy mo composed of almost solid native silver, silver glance and horn sitver, These pieces weizhed several hundred pounds und returned a value of over $15,000 to the ton. Since that time prospectors have been con- stantly searcning for the vein whero this rich float came from, but the wholo country thore was covered with a slide of loose rock and carth about fifty feet deep, so prospect- ing could only be done by crosscuttin g, that is by sinxing a shaft through the slide and runLing a tusnel at nght angles with the strata. ~ A few weeks ago the first discovery was made by Mr, Carlisle. It was enormously rich, but evidently only a feeder to a larger vein, Last week, only 500 feet from the Pandors as the first strike iscalled, the scoond was wmade, and it is even vicher than the first, Erom the records of the rich floav found it is evident that there exists a still larger vein somewhere in the vicinity of the same kind of mineral,and it is thought these discoveries will s00n lead to even more wonderful devel- opwents—developments that will cast_in tho shado even the wonderful mines of Nevada, Thero have been many rich silver mues tound in Colorado, but never anything so rich in fissure veins as this is. Old miners who aro familiar with the district are confident that the two finds just made are only the be- ginning. THE BALD MOU AIN © MP, A New Mine 1 Region of Promise in Wyoming. Rev. H. H. Austin of Buffalo and Dr. Rader of Laramie have made a personal n- vostigation of the Bald mountain mining campand declure the reports from that region are not overdrawn. Their impressions experiences are thus given in the Bu Licho: There is not a single guleh or depression within a radius of from five to ten miles of tho summit of Bald mountain that does not contain from one to ten prospoctors. The very atmospuere of the whole camp is oue of buoyancy and expectancy, nerving tho min- ors o constanut and fresh exer ions to find better paying streaks of dirt than otkers are working, Mr. Austiu tells of the Bucklay claim, that the day before he arrived thero, oue man washed out £11 worth of goid in twenty-five minutes, Asked whether he did uot moan a cloan up of twenty-five min- utes, he said no, it was twenty-five minutes of nctual sluiciug tat produced $11 worth of gold, Much Gre, attention is now being paid to the working of the cement formation near the summit’ of the eamp, whero decomposed quartz granite, gravel and sand is found cemented togeihor, and interspersed with minute particies of ‘gold dust, and occasional pleces of tho precious metal 'as large as pin- neads. The sluicing now going on on the Buckley claim is about one mile northwest of the summit, sud the wen working that claim assert that the bigher up they work the richer tho dirt Messrs, Beck, Thurman and others laid out u townsite about one and a half miles a littlo east of north of the summit and have begun the ercotion of a roomy store building and several dwelling houses, The Sheri- dian_manufacturing compauy are making proparations to move their sawmill to tho camp, and the miners expect to be snugly housed for winter befors it freezes up. Frosh 8ccessions to the camp are arriving daily and the country round about Bald mountain is alive with prospectors. A new muing district has just been formed eastof the original Sueridian district and hundreds of claims have veen staked out. Dr. Rader, who is by no means a novice in u tors of this kiud, asserts that the Bald mountain wining district is the lurgest and richest placer gold district on this continent, havo THE A Commission Considering the Qu tion of Removal. Moutana is detormined to unload the Choy- enune branch of tho Sioux tribe on the Da- kotas, and the latter are equally dotormined In order to pacify both sides the government appointed & commission to in- vestigato the question. _Tho commission con- sists of Major Charlos E. Poase A. . Appleman of Columbus, O., Harries of Washington, D. C. They have spent two months al Pine Ridee, Itosebud and Brule agencies on the Missouri, arrang iug the boundaries of the reservation and other matters of dispute bety the Indiuns, and have now vefore them the difficult mat obligation wore, By uiuiug §75 compeasa: | The poiut | In ter of decidiug what to do with the Cheyenne aus located at Fort Keogh and Lamed The wewbers are uow in Moutana, looking over the groutd. The commission has given o latimation of the nature of its report. MONTANA PLACERS, —44 Plenty of Water Induces Activity. The unusual rainfall of spring and summer Montana has bdomed placor mining ks are running bmuks fuli and dust and nuggets aro flowing into the buckskin bags Careful obsorvation, by aid of the state ex- chianges, is convineing ' of tha fact that the season’s clean-up will meot the expoctation of the most sanguine. One noticeable feature is tho working of abandoned years ago owing to tho Ligh price of suppiios and labar, - This scason’s plen- tiful water supply has rominded many an old timer who has for yeurs boen engaged in o terprises other than mining, of some bar or gulch to which he has this season turued his steps, rigged up and £ouo to work with most flattering results. Within four milis of Flol ena, says the Journal, two miners have for the past three months been working in alit- tle guleh with pick and shovel, cleaning up an average of above au ounce of gold a day, m in Cr and such incldonts are beng experienced throughout the state. ( wing havo five men working = the bolsky placers in tho Low dist in Jeiferson county, and seem 1o have sty rich pay, us & clean up shows a saving of £ aday 10 the man, A reservoir will be built to gather water to insure a regular supply The placer gold erop will be gathered by the Montanians who own and by whom it will be spent in Montuaa, tot mors than onc tenth being sent out of the state to non-resi dent owners, T'he crop does not have to seek a macket, it is current money. even before Unele Sum's stamp is put upon it: for these it reasons $1,000,000 recovered from the placer gravels has a far greater effect upon the bus. iness interests and prosperity of the state than the same amount recove d from quartz, s 4 large por itage of the dividends paid by companies operating quartz mines is paid to nou-resident stockhold whose lungs are never inflated witn the invigorating and life. prolonging wr of Montana. The placer re sourzes of Montana have not, for some time past, roceived the attention deserved. In i the discussions concerning the governms constructing immense stOrage reservoirs to impound the spring waters which run waste to tho sen, ou their way bringing havoc and destruction to the southern states, the advo- cates have with haraly asingle exception treated the subject as belonging to irrigation alone, overlooking the vast wealth in gold which abounds in every channel, gulch a bar of the wountaios and foothills of M taua, irrecoverablo owing to the madequate supply of water. ‘Lbis fact scems either to e unappreciated, or if ever realized, over- looked or forgotten. Those gold bearing bars and gulches will never become agricultural lands and those interested iu the irrigation of tho arid lands, can nowise be iujured by join- Ing bunds with tho owners of placer grounds and each working for a common obj “There is on exhbibition in the First National banik at Helena, soys the Journal, o quantity of Virzinia placer gold that revives in ina famous placer camp, Fifteen thou dollars in nuggets and coarse gold is not washed out of the gravels every new moon in these degenerate d of quartz mining, and when Walter ] the superintendent, came in from the Confederate Guleh placers at Diamond City, owned and operated by James King, with the result of a two days’ clean up packed m old buking powder cans it seemed to the old placer miner that the good days had como again, The present clean up was but preliminary, as it will re- quire three months with a'force of men to thoroughly clean up the bed rock so far ox- posed, and from this data this clean-up fur nishes, Mr. King coufidently caleulates that the season’s clean-up will fully reach $75,000, a pretty good crop for & wet season. “The “history of Confedernte Gulch and Montana bar, which lics within_its area, is interesting and romautic in the extreme. Diumond City was, when Meagher county was created, its county seat, and the ruins of the oue story court house still exists. During its days of pride as a vlacer camp over s, 250, - 000 of gold was recoveréd from the bars' and cnannels in 8 single season. Then its glory seemed to huve departed, but Jumes Kingg, who begau mining there in 1867, be- Lioved that the thread of the guleh acting as a ground sluico would prove remunerative 1d he gradually secared titie to the entiro water rights, and for years has been worki up the deep channel untii now the gr: baak is from fifty to sixty feet in depth. flume is uow over a mile in length: tue wa supply 1s from Boulder creek and s brought to the workings through a ditch seven miles in 1ength and is used through giants under U head. At the rate of progress mado during the gast fow years Mr. King estimates that the entive guich will be worked out within the next fifty years, and it is without doubt today the most extensive placer ground in the state. Prof. Spillsbury some years sico stated that the placer resources of Montana old digeings could be worked profitably ved rock slutcing.the situation of the gulel affording unmediate dumping ground, thus avoiding the debris question which practical- ly stoppedextensive placer miming in_Cali- fornia. Mr. King has certainly solved the question as to Confederate gulch as others will'as to the remainder. Montana will be known years to come as anunmense producer of placer gola. PURE WHITE QUARTZ, were not appreciated; that all the b cral Discovered in C, per Mountains Among the valuablo discoveries made in Wyoming is that of puro white quartz sund inthe Casper mountains, This considered the most valuable glass making =and kuown, and promises to revolutionize the glass trade. The Casper Derrick says: Lead, lime and soda are found in great abundance all through the west and especially in Wyoming, but the finer quality of sand used in the manufac- ture of glass, which 1s really pure white quartz ground into sana, has eluded the keen search that for years has boen made for it un- ul within the pist week, when it was discoy- erea for the nrst time in the United State in tue loculity named ubove. [t is found in_the Casver mountaius in a solid ledge aud of virginal purity, and the quantity 1s suficient to supply all the glass mauufacturers in the United States for years to come, indeed it is impossible to estimate tho extent of this ledge and it is almost impossibie to estimate tho value of the discovery, not only to Casper and the surrounding country, but to the United States at large. Samples of the quartz havo already been sent to tne principal glass manufacturers of Pennsylvauia and the re sult of their decision will be awaited with great intevest. It is a material that has long been sought for in_ this country and will be the means of reducing the cost of plate giass and fine cut glass and placing tho United States in a position to be perfeetly independ ent of all forelgn countries in the’ production of all articles of glass ware, Valuable M Washington Valuations. By way of comparisou with assessed valua- tion methods in vogue in Nebraska, those of Washington aro interesting, The three most populous counties in the state are King, Pierce and Spokane, in the order named. 1n these counties are located, respectively, Seat- tle, Tacoma and Spokane. The asséssm in these three counties for 1890 and for this year are as follows 1500 b Pic ki Spok he increase in Pierce county is therefore nearly 157 per cent, while in Kiug county it is ouly avout 3 per cent, aud in Spokano about %0 per cent. T'he cities rauge in popu. lation as follows : Seattlo Tucoma 4,000 Spokitne A T The enormous increnss in’ Plerco county is due to the rivalry between Tacoma und Seattle, the former being determined to hoat the latter at any cost. But the taxpayers are already squealiug avd iuguirin the advertisement pay:" The increaso round is eutirely unwarranted by last year's growth, It is due 1o the necessity of in reasing taxation to meet pust obligations. W yoming. builaing o § untle all Laramie is house. The Rawlins-Su o with business There are 5,000 miles of irrigatiug ditohes in the Platte vailey Tho people's party is eatehing its s wina, maiuly in the towns Sixteen hundrod feet of work has beeu done on 112 claims in the Gold Hill aistrict | Oue hundred and sixty thousand sheep aro ou the trail for shipment from Kock Creek. Charley Heaven, a Cheycune darky, is try 000 fire engino atoga stage line is crowd- abAndoned claims, mostly JST 15, 1 ing to get on A butting match | headed fellow at Laramie. A utial 0,000 viaduct has been bulilt ov ratlroad tracks in Choyenne T'he Choyenne opera house sold for #30,000 and will be transformed into an office build ing. Tho Swan Land and Cattle company has sued Carbon county on account of lands sold for taxes. { 1S, Karpor has struck ofl near Sun with u flow of eight barrels per da depth of 100 fect I'he dato of the state tournament at Rock Springs has beon changed from August 17 and 15 to August 24 and It is now certain that from sixty to seventy #ood horses will be entered in various racos at Cheyenne during the September meeting. I'he Silver Crown mining camp is excitod over tho disappearance of trace of whe has been found | rhe Union Pacific freight receipts at Che, enne for the month of July wero $2,000 great- | erthan for tho corresponding mon th of iast | year | A fine specimen of an agatized treo stump, measuring twenty-six inches long and twen ty-one inches in dismeter is on exhibition in Saratoga, Buld Mountaiu claims its first victim, It. D. | Darlington, who was thrown from a horse some time ago,and died of his injuries on the | th. He was a wall known prospector. Miss Cora MecDonald, who resigned as priucipal ot the Choyenne high school to ept the United States historical chair at state university, will be succeeded by with a hard lance at a since July 25 the Miss Celia Ford Cattle “rustling" is into disuse in the stato. The recent vigorous pursuit of thieves and the conviction of John ning will have a tendency to check the rascally business William Jeffs, & blacksmith in the railrond shops at Evanston, went chicken hunting last week and was brought home a corpse. He placed his gun bavrel foremost in the wagon. Usual rosult. Mr. Jefts loaves & wife and six enildren The Laramie and Scotts Bluffs fer company have filed an_ applics stato engeor for sufficient water from tho Platte river to ir Wyoming. The b luid is in Nebraska. 'ho water strike at Rawlins is a genuine spouting sartesian well. An_eight-inch pipe as been run sixty-five feet above the surface 1d water gushes from it in a full stream. The well is 307 foet deep. The quality of the water could not be botter. It is clear, puro and soft. The shooters of Cheyenne, numbering h: a huudred, and includiug some of the expe of the Rocky Mountain Sportmen’s associa- tion, have arranged for a division tourna- ment to be held ut the fair grounds near that citv September 1,2, 3 and4. There will b thir two events, some extras and $500 added monoy. Live birds will be reserved for the last day. Kvery number on the card ate 2,560 acres of land in anco of the compan f will beopen to the world. Professionals will be handicapped by the Keystone system. Montana. Francis Murphy’s converts in Helena num- ber 25,000, A Chinese smuggler was killed b at Great Falls, A bunch of Chinamen wero recently nabbed while crossing the boundary. The Grabite Mountain mine in Montana has paid 311,000,000 in dividends within the last five years. Bugene Shortsleove, a resident of Butte for ten years and formerly deputy sheriff, committed suicide. The Moutana world's fair commission has progressed to the point of arranging the saluriesfor the members, The Rosebud wool shipment is now finally cleaned up and amounts in exact figures to 272,516 pounds, an_incrense of 42,424 pounds over last season’s shipment. The Montana Central railroad company is going to have tho Wickes tunnel lined with brick and stone. The tunnel is 6,112 feet in length and the work will be done by con- tract. One of the Dawson county eattle compn- nies bas Len shipping twenty-five carloads of the best beef cattlo that ever ate Monta grass, every day for the last ten days, and will keep up the gait until 16,000 head have goue forwara from ono yard. A Helena letter carrier named Atkins brought suit for $20,000 damages agaiust William Weinstein' & Co., a grocery firm They wrote two letters to Posmaster Gen- cral” Wanamaker calling Atkins a *hilk,” and said he would not pay a bill for gro- ce ‘The commissioners of Yellowstone county lightning will shortly issue #3%,000 in bonds to pay all nding warrants, and will start in to pay cash for their warrants iu future. The bonded indebtedness of the county is already 1,000, bearing interest at 7 per cent. ‘The new bonds will bear 6 per cent interest, When ex-Senator Tabor of Denver was in Heleua a week or two ago hio saw a number of owners of mining property, whose hold- ings were scattered not only pretty well over the state, but also in Idaho. It is estimated that he took bonds on good properties owned by Helena people the ageregate of which will reach £500,000. The largest of the deals 1s for §200,000, During a violeut storm at Helena lightning sturck tho frame dwelling of John Anderson on the ontskirts of town, tore the chimney into fragments, and, dividing iato two cur- rents, and ran down each side of the house, melting the nails in the walls and allowing tho boards to drop off 1 several places, One part of the bolt went through a_screen door, melting all the wire worik and strikine a dog Iying on the porch av the feet of Mrs. Andor- son, killed it instantly, but Mrs. Anderson was not affected in the' least.” There was a black line the entire length of the animal from tho tip of its tail 10 the end of _ its nose, and it was not known that it was dead until an effort was made to arouse him, South Dakota, A body of galena ore averaging $15 per ton was struck on the [lk Mountan mine, Worl has commenced on the Rapid City, Missouri River & St. Paul roud at the Rapid City end The Portiand company is getting ready to ship 700 tons of ore from Trojan lode, The oro is refractory and runs from $4) to 0 per ton in goid Casey and_Barker are actively pushing work on the Deadwood hotel, The original plans are to_be enlarzed aud the completed structure will represent an investment of $125,000, Regular semi-monthly shipment of bullion from Black Hills mines was madc aggregating noarly #1 including usual bricks from the Calodonin, Homestuke and associates nd a §15,0C0 beauty from the Golden Reward chlorination works. A largo body of silicious ore, runuing 325 per ton in goid, has been uncovered at ihe head of Poorman's guleh, in vthe free milli woid belt. The proverty belongs to local par- Lies, who ave now arranging to put up works nd treat it by chlorination The Harney company last week re- ceiyad two lurge Knowle: n will be used on Contes and Cowboy The Tin Miner suys that stations hay Ay been prepared for them. These pumps avo capable of kecping the water out of the mines for a long while to como. The state board of equalization, in session at Pierre, has fixed the rate upon which th Westorn Uniou telegraph company should be taxed at $30 per mile_for one wire, $110 fo two, §140 for thrce, §170 for four, &40 for fiy and tho total ussessed value §235,620. This is au inereaso of $40,000 over last yoar. The Black Hills telephone company was assessed at 8150 per mile—total $6,05. The Sioux Falls tolephone exchange 84,000, the k- ton_telephone exchange 5,000, Aberdeon #1,500, Watertown 1,500, Tho Deadwood and Delaware smelting company's plant closed down on the sth after @ successful run of ten days, during which time {ron matte valued ot 812,000 buer sccumulated. The shut-down i tom and in order thut slight changes wmay b mado in the furnace, ‘The last days of tho ruu were made with coke from Newcastle Wvo., coal mines, sixty milos from Doad wood. This was the first practicas tost the coke has had. It is considurably lighter thun the Peunsylvania article, and there hus therefors been serious doubt’ as to its valu for smelting. Tho test was satisfactory in all respects Idaho. The Henrietta mino at Silver City is beln pumped out Lo euabie capitalists 1o examinc I'ne Boise City National bank has received s 0 pars of bullion from the DeLamar mines, valued at §0,000 A party of rnment surveyors has just arrived ‘here from Washington to make N-TWELVE Tom Bamford, no | Sawfoc | three out on compu s) T'ho; in the provide A vel uncovel enafn, worth afow | In St man Ho say gold ar unty. ar gOINg i On ton and erto he wen finding prospe u fork of two _pl spocime onncos never b groves Now amount Anot Tulare The weasith mor (o) tionally bo paid buildin puret from 1l Los A trade. wa ment. handsol The Be tion Several feet of snow still PAGES tributary many Smok # Grasshoppor water 15,000 acres in Los Augeles and will Work of th range hundred w strike. miners in It is reported that tha Milwaukee by 1y will build a large 1S 10 use tho 1daho wate clebrated Milwaukeo boor o s reportod to b Halley samplirg works than can b shi next ten days, un od than have been f in of nickel seven f red near Hove, dicate that it s ve 75 conts o pound, ang places, hostono county, 1dal picked ub_some opa ing a horse that he sold to a jew s that he could athi d silver, has been of Littie Salmy I'he veins ave ver: of them. Man uto that section. in Alturas ich gray copper sil Men are at work oping a splendid ore shipped from the Carrie Leony miles above, raturned 137 ounces of silver 126 per cont jead. Dennis Kelleher brought to Haley Catitornis ro now in ut Riversido buildings and of £500,000 haye imp b her big irri county, by ation sc which from the roll fol Tulare county t assessment of Sutro advertise publi Huutington v to the building fu las Young Men's Christian association, when tho last i is to be made, An Omaha packing company { a smoking and e sh i yards at Owmabio ugeles for tho sc A use has been found for th tho big Tenth st The hotel never was built,but the foundation laid at a cost of about £30,000, and is now 10 be turned into & fruit drying establish- is to me new building e says: A peculiavi not seen here before will be in which are to consist of cement supported upon iron lathiug. swid to be light, substuntial aud cheaper than brickwori. the walls, - Washingt summit of the Cascades. “The proposed industrial exposition at Spo- Kane this year has be The farmers of erect at the pres The n its tributarios greater number of prospectors aba Palouse 1 elevator of 50,000 sent summer. nining r are this v meu than ever before General Manuger Miller of the Seattle & Montaua reports tifty-four miles of track now rate of day. a part the Pin and civi cured. London, the coul fai oats mo ever be Ah der and The ¢ given n ized to aftidavi m tie In th a lost e long sou Over 1 Some work fo fiela, th the Acre thir org The 2 ye $1 000, Dipht M aro rop small o The minos sum tho takes 1o Tho ( 1f th solf the other counties is under dramago 3 ac nia at Seattle, for larceny ous and r this season, visited tions ar tow! rs pust Jows country one aud one-half ri nadi Hop of the Skagit, reaching the Indian trail. Therc1s no _doubt that This pre a lake, the mineral of 0 o Sparta and ilization. remarkabl On 10,52 ncres T , notoriety, i nd vory | bas ty jai o' the poor far; Oregon. re. vy rain storm, [ o lightning, a rure alem t unty court of B otico that the county cceive no move scal, 1S, NOY 1S8UG 40V MO] Pocohontas moun City an old miner named Webb has b ning a tunnel for twelve years, hoping to find ad of gold vearing that he has at last 1Nt treasure, The asbestos boom in Southern increasing and heading for whole country closing somo fine deposits of the vumbe ans creek The prospe 00 loeations have about thirty of these aro for ¢ fine vields of grai Yamhill county, in the viciuity where the thréshing muchines have becn or sovel al dayvs, Sm c average bolug thir John ovon bushels, Nevada. In tho lower end of Lincoln hoppers have devastated everything. rs of Pine Nu Silver Springs of Carlin is Sampling wori ing built ther min > the are be heria is stati Over ty ortad, a’ frightful sottisment monthly pay or July fools o load with 865,053, “onsolidated Califor roll up & mino shipped tweive cars of Utah tton fact Utah ¢ galona has b g0 cast of Ogd. present raluy seaso ru UL Assi be begun at there is aance of gold in the mountains in the vicinity of the Wallow side of the mountains 1 Skagit county 15 350 tons of oats were produced Last year; 5,910 tons of hay were cut. Charles R, Hammond of Clevelund stre been removed fr , whero ho is serving a torm ves about the titled “English " who promised to send him roney und led to do so. Campbell's and Verstal thirty-eight bushels to the acro, ted California topogranhical and geological survey of the Thero are prospects of a sorious_labor troublo in the Carnr 4’ Aleno country Nearly Wardner are nox wory Soda 18 tho y browery at e mak b6 MOre ore on the less Moro cars ar or the past month oot wide has beon s made in Hol cy rich, Nickol is 1 s only found in ho, A fow days ago als while out b or for al sacks er up sev full where ho got the ones he sold Very rich coppor ore, running high in born discovered on & on river in Idaho y largo and thero 1y prospoctors aro a voin of ns boen it, and rload of fow county, ver oro sinking on ine. A ¢ . utly some very rich sitver specimens from a hith. nprospected district. Somo time ago t to the Seven Devils country, but nothing to swit him he struck out ting, and on the head of the south the Salmon river he discovered ove in aces and made two locations. Th: ons he brought in assaved 440 and 530 of silver per ton. ‘This region has efore been prospected ' vaaing the orange ments to tho undertaken in rovi ren Los Angeles the past six months cheme 18 afoot in it is proposed to b Tule rive v 1501 o have shows the merensod than §1,500,000 duriug tho past year. Adolph erection of the fine world, on nis grounds near the Cufl houso. P. d for bids for tho bath house in the given €230 condi- and of the Fresno It will payment on the new recently old storege plant p meats in salt to be smoked in thern Californin foundation of Los Angeles, 1 at once of the upon the Woman's Christiau Temperance uiion at_Sacramento. ty of the building the constry This is . remains on the andoned. have decided to bushels capacity ions of the upper Skagitand year atiracting a and mining aid, and the rails are being put down_at the 0 two miles per li report that Chinese are entering the state by way of Skugit I'hoy pass along the ¢ veris confirmed. an Pacific to Fort . about thirty miles from the headwators rivi an old STbT an abun- district is in fuct aucing section on omby Sanger miues. The marsh land in Skagit and Snobomish mdly being brougnt undes With & thorough syster of dyke e results are se- on 0w with pneuno m He is deliri- ra; ‘m, Farmers from many sections repo’ wild o abundant in their grain fields than ompanicd by thun phenomenon he other day. aker county hus clork s author. s, make no mors re serip for pay nt of coyote scalps as herctofore the pric. tains near Buker- 0 run Indica- near tho gravel. come Oregon is prospeetors cover L work 13 dis- the mineral. been made and utral Point, u are reported in of Dayton, at ith Steevens sic- of will ded in getting 3,600 busnels off a 100-ucre rty-six bushels to fiela averaged that of Neil county grass- t are moving to mining district livelier than for ks, costing about the Salmon wonty-fivo deatns mortality for so of the 100,650, Comstock of which d Virginia nin and Virrinia bullion valued at $47,7402.07 to the Carson mint on Monday, making total shipments of §4,5652.32 on July account to dat The caso of the state vs. the C. P railroad company, involving the right to tax_ unsur veyed wid unpatoated lands olaimed by tho vailvoad compauy, which was beini tried at Austin, was submitted o the court upon an ugrood statoment of ta John W. Mackay is & City and oy assumed chargo of operations in the Consolidated Califoraia and Vieginia, Ophir, Mexicun and Union Cousolidated’ mines, pendiug tho absence of Superintendent 1,y wan, who will spend a brief va in Call fornia, 1 rop: 4 would b 11 to none as a grazing as well as agriculturs reglon in silver ar On Ayers will pay ava A consi Fish Springs distriot 4 por cont luat of 47,005,558 S % mills for city pursos. k 0 tan ument of ore from thy Kmma mine, wssayed 159 ounc ad Waile painting a sign {n Brigham, Joseph Nordstrom fell @ distanco of twonty foet, striking on his hoad. Death rosulted in & fow hiours The Niagara company has a now oro strike in its Utat mine, ‘This is an immonso body of ore, fiftoen feot thick, which is worth About §70 per ton A mine has been discovered in Garden City Rich county, the ore of which wyod ¢ Lead, 74 or cont, silvor, 121, ounces; 1d, 1 s, valuo of gold, Llove 0 vory g When You S aid Good e M. Sannders (n the When you said g When you swid good-by, All the beaming, golden sunlight When you said good-by “rom my lonoly Eadod in tho sky All th Swi o1, oestatic r 1 prospocts - All tho keen delight Deepened into night Speetaty ny daviing, pture, ny doarest, Bitter grief caused joy and ploasuro Swiftly to depart How 1 lon How I | That tHad to 110 st ' to clasp your hand ad ont 1 b word t you'd understand But I bad to hide il th That oy lips wo When you said good-by Wien y Did you seo my pain Did you think about the moments 1 s T'hat wer Did you muse On our On the b Shall I Miss Nelho 13 Freitehie, is pr W way moct, wher, On our strength’s Hopo is di On ato 100 Sw moot you, shall [ gr i, my lovo! ould not bustow a favor, hat deop Joy above. Maybe, if not there, 1 W d good 1 ny ang! Tain i 1st 11 a world on high, Are the wocds, 1 Whe Daring da n Eaxpe s, A1 1 s 8Yon, ) murmur uish, wave uttorod, ny darling, it i vaint ith any s DDy past, ivs 8o ful 'of pleasure, ot to adnoss ¥ darling, left unutterod od-by - 2 dhe toil and tead my, ho sunuy years of youth, 1 we battled for ihe trith, wrath, Hope was fashing o'er our path, When nto m 301k w our sager youth at last nbood's prime had passed, reamned that we were strong had fillod and thrilled me, M0 loose tho world from sin and wrong. Now the evening shadows play W liat sone has association of the s 1 did it beca e it blazc that city. Miss Ella L. of the Mont: country caretul to have the court r s to bo read 50 Adams. children, who of Joh of science b woman who | Re rece Ju Miss Ella of science, Home without a mother baa bas _como to see the fam ried houm Miss Knagu: a plac ¢ i 1 gy 1 b M. By th after all, 1o th but w 'n must ever be. decli o1l ning day know we, NOTED WOMEN, for emerg 1dward Beecher's adopted daughtor name of Voice Sho was one of a family of fifween sident 1 1 s the 1 n Hotf, a seventeen-y ave for setting fire six t her bapt acitic e Knowles is a 1 bur and when any of th s rulo agaio ! n father, of Natur nonor st s1d Brooklyn ling mo st lier ho is ho agl et gran, o of being the s taken the degree of Bsso doesn’t seer young man yster, granduiece of Barbara )f the Woman's Press love the fire and liko to ason which Josephine \ girl times to a house in mbor very om roar door opon dson Quiney Adaws, supported by lectur- ing on I'he Voi at of the Durham collego first, ate m so who the grown-up duughter of nd who cated and suceéssfully cultivates a 200 In her state of s Azes the carth as a woman el sblessedues: will unti yielas ber vountiful harvosts, The wifo of t yacht desiguor, was a Miss Caroline L. Suili- late Bdward vaut of Columbus, from nn old und avistoeratic Virginian family and was 5o beautiful @ blonde that Fa the Italian painte f ato. he mu 0. She b chose of lyric and Burgess, was descer or for the m 1t want to be hur- an Ohio girl, is college edu- cro sho i Al the nded guani, nodel amorous poetry, in his well kuown picturc of the nino muses, Clara Barton, so labors in extending the Red Cross society and the Wor nin, donned maie attire widely en's Relief corps, is said to person 1o decorate soldie iotic rather than a ago, and is the only person who ever sat the'Swiss Nutioual couneil; 1o other won cither aver received, as sho did from th Kaiser Willium, the Iron Cross of P known for b graves onal act of 1ss her tho as o hom- in n old 1a. A girl 1n North Union county, Peunsylya small chango in u st pard eluimed U for dime novels and w: Sho last Sunday night, sallied forth into the highway, and,” with & revolver, relieved a youth of lis_ watch und 1e worthy of Jack Shep- was captured soon after, and stated that it was “merely a joke. It is at the girl had o consuming passion ited 1o shine with tistic lustre in their favorite field, uded figure, sparkling brown A well-ro dar sleek huiv rolied back from a low pustitutc Nellie Arthur, dau tire undertook the duties o bana na es. Parnell is reported to be gaining hlack ( some of ht hina silk, draperies und trimmiugs of turquoise crep chiffon, M ma @ pretty the artra gi oy made up kitbie facility ns w typewriter since Thi [ b trair s, nees ation us m ing. old As sh it will b type-writers in the bud, & Miss higher educ but she home obs ) wom shi I re! Willard 'y 10 i hrved it w admires cn and all oned regard uts it, “mo riisn s of of the late president, At a recent function she was be 4 with ro- sho hus- nips other the that, for tho: ing" is the best and most liberal of all educa tions, Mrs, twsenty-four, with dark brown hair is Mrs, Meyer is u sister o of his countr and in featur distinguished relative and ouly survivor of twelve chilaren A Washington wonian, pwish pio examinatio George \ Mrs. ton, D. ( Fanny Washington Loss, and was the first to Columbia coliege. also among tho enterprising to nard coliogo for women o Annle Meyer, author published book ¢ United Sates, is the work beautiful of a e < of women QUK WO ntly thio n of fair face from which he fu Eu [ vand She is a tall, majo 3 resomblos tio port St M ully n rolled Luzarus, Lak She whom its existen hington’s neavest iiving kin Finch of Washine: father ce of the w aits o un, rs. Johu R hack , tho S an ns Bar- ¢ is yman £ e gost Me: Lean, is tho happy possessor of o bit of truly rural on onment within the city himits, us itis callod, was o birthduy present from her husband, the well-knowin e owned an entire block of lund in & cortain part of the cily, and, mstead of bullding upon iL, trans- formod it into something more than a privato par It is beautifully laid out und plantod with flowers, and a protiy coitage, oue of tko portablo, Krown-iu-a-uig it sort, permits more than & day's oceupancy Poor Mrs, French Sheldon has paid dearly for bier courageous atlempt 1o ponetrate into mysterious Africa, says thoe 1%all Mail Bud gol. Sho arcived at Ctiariug-Cross & verit shadow of bor buoyani, cheorful self wme ghastly palior which wade Mr. Stanley Luok s0 premuturely old the fiest fow weeks alter his return from his last expodition has spread over her face, and as_sho stopped out walk atall by leaning on her tail alpenstovi Juck, the ¢ who has accompanied his about whose we sho wot out. Mrs, Freuch Sheldon wi o concorned thii aved extromely pleascd ations of tho little friend ¥ is by 00 tissutisflod with the sults of her onterprise, which she hopes Lo publish 8s 5000 ws ler hioalth is restored.