Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 30, 1891, Page 21

- L . Consolidated 1o &l ENERGY'S LIBE The Gates of Mineral RAL REWARD. Edens Yield to Hard, Persistent Knocks. A SKETCH OF Paradise Valley Opens New Busi cal Mushroom Town—Prosy Wyoming—Samples of ENTERPRISE ; IN THE BLACK HILLS. ness Avenues for Ogden—A Typi- Jects and Developments in Montana Life—Sum-= mary of Northwest News. The Black Hills, Dranwoon, S. D., Aug. 27.—|Correspond- ence of Tur Brk.|—The Bald mountain and Ruby Easin mining districts of the Black Hills which are just now attracting more attention perhaps, than any other gold and silver min ing districts in the United States, lay some eight miles north of Deadwood, in Laurence | county. The districts are some four miles | long by threo miles wide and are remarkable for the great number of deposits of pay ore that have been brought into sight by a mini- mum amountof development. The ore which 13 silicious,occurs in blauket veins, from three to twenty-five feet thick, and from ten to eight feet wide, as in tho Golden Rewnrd, | and ranges in value from $15 per ton upwards into the hundreds, The weneral average be- ing about £, The districts were prospected as long ago as 1870, when the pioncers to the hills dis- puted tho righu of occupancy and residonco here with the Sioux Induins, they having just claim to the hills as purt of their reser- vation. 1 o was found and during the sumi was quite @ sta pede to this district, resulting in the location of as many as "ue hundred claims, and the finding of very promising prospects on most of thom. ~IL was ouly after sev- | eral thousand dollars lad been ex- pened opening the best of these ore bodies that when owners were ready to treat the ore, that its vebellious character was dis- covered, At that time the fover was on for the free milling gold belt and for placer min- lug. The Homestake, tho Father De Smet, the Depdwood, the ‘erra, the Caledonian andsevoral othier gigantic corporations, each possessed of lurge capital, bud just formed, and were hero develoving what property they owned, and paying hberal prices for pur- chase of other lodes, showing free milling quartzin viemnty of their own proper Boveral concérns were at the time work| the cement deposits around Central City malking handsome clean ups from the enter- prises and payiog good prices for prospects In the neigliboohood of their own. The prevalent opiuion then was that there was Bnough free milling ore in the country for everybody, and capital disdained to take even a second glance at. the rebellious ores, that every once in o while some prospector yould timidly present for attention. ‘I'hus discour- aged, unable oven to procury grub stakes on promise of his prospeet, the Bald mountain and Ruby basin’ enthusiast was competled to temporarily abandon his locations and seek fortune in somo other part of the country where couditions were more favorable toward the realization of his dream of wealth. In tho course of four or five years, however, the cement deposits avout Central City had been worked out er mi asod to be as profitable as in tha first four seasous immediately following discovery of gold in the Hills. The Homestake and its associates had acquired practical control of the entire free milling gold belt, had discontinued pur- | chase of claims,” or if purchasing | them at all, were in position to | dictate the prico the owners must accept. ; Theso circumstances caused local partics h some capital at their disposal to recol- t that in earlier days thero had been talk of the rich possibilitics of Bald mountain and Ruby basin. An investigation began, prov- Ing speedily that very littlo work was neces- sary to disclose immense deposits of ore. Ono thing and another interfered to provent moro than haphazard, unsystematic develop- ment, and it was not until the summer of | 1851 that the Buxton, Welcome, Suow Storm and Portland companies were organized in the district. These were all outside corpora- tions, the Snow Storm and Welcomo each having headquarters in New York, the Port- land av Jackson, Mich., and the Buxton at Clinton, Ta. Each one of the corporations began active developmert of its property, and with results so satisfactory in the open- Ing of ore bodies, that within less than one year aftor their organizition each had erected # mill to reduce the ore. The mills ran a month or six weeks and were closed down, having proved costly experiments absolutely useless for the class of ore they were built to handle, for which that put through would show assay value of from $20 to §0° per ton, ractically nothing was saved by treatment. his setback daunted all the corporations in- cluding the Buxtoa,which with commendable energy and _determination lost no time in be- (.tlmllm a search for some process by which the ore could be profitably reduced, The other corporations contented themselves with do- ing only enough work to enable them to patent their claims. The Buxton, however, continued at work experimenting ‘with pro- cess after process and spending thousands of dollars in & futile effort to make its property rofitable. Finally it, too, avandoned th: ursuit, and what little hope had hung sus- pended on its operatious, fell apparentiy for- pver. This was in 1885, and just when the aspeot for the country nppeared darkest, the Iron Hill star began to rise above the horizon. This corporation, controlled entirely by Deadwood men, had for four or five vears been courageously developing & prospect at Carbonate camp. Its operations had here- tofore been met with indifforent success, and the company was the butt for ridicule from almost every member of the stock market. In 1885, however, asmall body of ricn silver ore was struck on the 160-foot level. The stock bogging & buyer at 1 or2 cents por shave, became in general demand, and as the ore body widened outand the company began operations for putting up a plant, excitement ran high, carrying tho stock up to §1 a share before the year onded. In December the mill was completed and with its completion began & meteoric career for Iron Hill. ‘1he mill had only ton stamps, and you was turn- ing out silver bullion at the rate of 1,000 to 1,200 ounces per day. The stock began to rlse, the company in February declaring its first dividend of 5 cents per share. The stock was then selling for §2,50 per share. Ru- mored finds of larger and richer bodies of ore started it climbing the scale in bounds, until # was reached and here it rested for some little while. Then it declined a trifie as if to gain strength for @ bigger spriug than ever, almost immediately recovering and going to #8 per share. Meanwhile, on the fame of Iron Hill, a hundred other corporations owning property at Carbonate Camp had sprung intolife, The Black Hills were enjoying a stock speou- lation; shures, no matter what their name was or in what they ropresented an interest, were saleablo. New locations, on which it is extremely doubtful if even proper discov- eries hud ever been made, wero stocked and the stock went like hot cakes to an eager horde willing and unxious to pay from H to ver share for it. Seabury-Calkins, joining the Iron Hil, weut to 8.0 per share: Segregatea Iron Hill to §1.60; Wilkinson + Rattler-Gilroy to S0c; Coruet, Hartshorn and half a dozen others to 50¢ per share, and were hard to got at the price. Suddenly the bottom dropped out, the Iron Hill mill'closed down; the stock dropped from 5,00 to less thau &2.00 rshare. All the lessor lights, except Sea. ury-Calkios, Rattler-Gilroy, and Wilkinson which fickered at two or three cents per share, were oxtinguished as effectuully as is the flamo of u candle by a sudden gust of wind. This was 1n August, 1856, A season of dospondency followed, lasting some three or four mouths, when the Iron Hill company, baving completed a smelter and finished o brief run announced & new dividend of 7ijo per share. This put tho stock up to throe dollars, but did not help the wild cats and us it was in theso that the great majority had inyested, the general gloom was aot much relleved. The better condition for Iron Hill ftsell was not lasting and after a mouth or six weeks the stock again declined, aropping rapidly at first, and then by more ecasy fulls 10 20c per sbare, where it now rests, and where from siuce 1887 it has fluciuated down as low as 10c and up as hign as 800 per sbare. The excitement incident to the stook boom had worked complete forgetfulness of the Bala Mountain and Ruby Basin faliuers, aud when the disastrous flurry was over, Endymion, | with R. D, Clark of Cortez, Ne | pr | saving the silver. clous deposits, This time the Deadwood board of trade took hold of the proposition, and set ystematically to work to discover if similar ores were being successfully reduced any- where in the country. After some corres pondence the board entered into negotiations to whom & quantity of ore was forwarded. After tosting this Mr. Clark came to Deadwood, oxamined tho difforent mines, ~studied the character of the ore and finally convinced the board that his lixiviation ses3 was just the one for which Hills haa been searching these many years. A com- pany was at once formed with & paid up capital of £100,000, Harris Franklin of Doad- wood, one of the most enterprising mex- | chants of the commuu'ty, and who was then, s now, largely interested in mines in the two districts, being elected president and general manager. A contract was entored into with Mr. Clark, and work at once com- menced on the plant. It was comploted at a cost of £100,000 early in February 1551, ran a few weeks, or just long eaough to demon- strate its avsolute failare, and on March Ist, 1880, was entirely destroyed by fire. With a courage and determination admirable, when the many dificulties standing in the way, and the long line of misfortunes by which all previous efforts had been wet, are contem- platoy Mr. Fraukiin and the gentlemen associuted with biuw, refused to abandon the purpose they had in view, and lost no time in looking about for some other process. The Newberry--Vautin chlorination method was just then at atteution in the United St in Australia, The com- pany had a smail plant in Denver, und thereto Messrs. Franklin, Bullock and C. W. Carpenter went, Several weeks were spent studying the process, the genticmen return- ing to Deadwood satisticd that while as operated at Denver it was ot practicable for Black Hills ores, it was susceptible to change and modifications, which would excellently adapt. iv to the peculiarities ofsthe Hills, So many failures had characterized the effort to treat theso ores that wheu approached for subscriptions toward building snother plau, a majority refused having anything to do with the project. The burden, therefor, fell on some eight or tea, mosi proiiuent among them vbeing Hariis Ivanklin, his business pavtier Ben Baer, Seth Bullock. Colsnel €. W. Carpenter and George C. Hickok. These gentlemen or- ganized a corporation under the name of “Golden Reward Chiorination works,” and at once began building a plant. Warned by other failures they started on a small scale, the works at first having a capacity of only thirty tous per day. The first run \as not a brilliant snccess, Nothing daunted the gen- tlemen continued putting money in, and some seven or eight months later were able to positively announce that the difficulty had at longth been solved, that the chlorination process, ns operated by them, was an abso- lute success in saving every cent of gold con- tained in the ore, ana that the operation of Bald Mountain and Ruby Basin mines to a profit was uot only possible, but probable and practicable. Tie next four months’ oper- ations of the plant proved conclusively all they had claimed for it. Capacity was doubled and the plaut has been kept contin- ually busy on ore from the Golden Roward mine, turning out bullion at the rate of £0,000 to $33,000 per month. It is not claimed for this process, however, that it will suve any silyer tho ore may contain, and as a good many of the silicious deposits referced to carry silver i value ranging from &5 to £30 por ton (Golden Reward ore carries from 1 to & silver only), in_addition to the gold, it became necessary to devise a method for At the Golden Reward plant the cost of treatment is something under 8 per ton for gold alone. and experi- ments made proved that by adding vats and resort to lixiviation the silver could be saved for an additional cost of #2 per ton. The ore of this particular mine carries solittle silver, however, that it has not been deemed advisa- blo to put in the additional machinery necessary to save it. About the time Mr. Franklin and associates completed this cnlovination plaut, Dr. Franklin R. Carpenter, then dean of the Dakota school of mires, who had given close study to Ruby Basin und Bald Moun- tain ores. and who had some months pre- viously published an article in the Rapid Re- publican, advocating their treatment by py- ritic smelting, made a series of successful oxperiments with the process at the school of mines laboratory. At some of these ex- periments Seth Bullock, then president of the Iron Hill mining company, and the late J. K. P. Miller, of Deadwood, were present. ‘The gentlemen wore both convinced that the process was an absolute success, and return- ed with that idea ficmly fixed in’ their minds, Mr. Bullock shortly afterward determined on a practical test at'the Iron Hill. The re- sult 1s consisely told in the following clipping from the Black Hills Times of Janury 1, 1890, “Tho first practical test of tne pyritie scheme was made by Seth Bullock ai the Tron Hill, when the bassic ores of that mine were mixed with the dry gold-silver ores of Ruby Basin and pyrite from Galena, also carrying a little gold and siver, thus modify- ing but very shghtly the process as usually practiced. The process was a gratifying suc- cess as demonstrated by tho treatmont of over 400 tons of ore. Two runs were mado— an experimental one of four days and a more thorough test of eight aays continuance, the only chanee necessary to the smelter being the fillmg of the lead well. The proportions of & charge cannot be stated more definitely than that from fifteen to twenty per cent of pyrites is an nerediont with Iron Hill and {uby ores and lime, effocting a concentra- tion of ten tons into oue and giving an abso- lute clean slug." § J. K. P. Miller, who had been an iater. ested observer of tho rosult at the Iron Hill, visitea Wilmington, Del., a few weeks later laid tho facts before Joseph and William H. Swift, of Swift Cortney parlor match fame, who were already heavily interested in Dead- wood real estate, and induced them to erect an oxperimental plant in Deadwcod to more thoroughly test the process. Work began wctober 1, 1830, and the plant was completed in about sixty days, starting for its initial run about December 1 of that year, The point to be determined was in regard to the stylo of furnace to be used, whether rever- beratory or blast. The former was known to be practicable, but with the latter it was doubtful whether, matte could be made eco- nomically or not. The blast furnace was adopted, and though eminent metallurgists tad predicted its failure, it proved an un- qualified success. By process all the gold, silver, copper and lead the ore may con- tain is saved. The absolute success met witn in the experimental plant dotermined the Swilts to put up much lavger works, aud in June, 1890, ground was broken for a plant of 150 tons capacity. The building was so con- structed that capacity of the entire works may bequalirupled at any tima by the addi- tion of three more stacks. This plant was completed in July, 1801, at & cost of #20,000 and was blown in for fits initial run July 25 The run lasted ten days, during which thirty tons of iron matte valued at $13,000 wore accumuiated. The plaut then closed down whilo belts wers tightened aud a few slight changes made in fuvnace arrancements. After five days’ idle- ness it was again put in blast and has since beeu continuully in operation, producing on an avoraze of #1300 per day with one stack As before stated everything the ore con- tains is saved. The cost of treatment is less than at any other smelter in the country, and while absolute figures are not obtamable, it can safoly be state: as less than § per ton. The fuel problem which in other days entered largely into caloulations of all intending to launch on mining reducing enterprises o tne Blsck Hilis, have been satisfactorily settled, so far as the Deadwood aud Delaware Smelting company is concerned, by a ten years' con- tract with owners of the Newcastle coal mines, to supply coke to the smelter at $4.00 per tou lald down at the works. This is sald to be much less than coke costs smeltors any- where else in the United States. The iron Hill company never paid less than $19and often h as attontion was oncq more turned to the sili- l The -uoo:o nl.f:'m LWo processes hay had T T Yy THE OMAHA DAILY a most wonderful effect on the development and prosperity of the entice Black Hills, and particularly of Deaawcod, baving induced two trunk lines of railroad, the Fremont, Eikhorn & Missouri Valloy and the B. & M. to build into the city, the former completin, its road in December'of 1800, and the " latter in January of 1501, Whilo makiag this ter. minus for their standard gauge lines the two ronds have reached out with nari@w gauge foeders to the mines of Ruby Basin and Bald mountain—the B. & M. by the Deadwood Central, and the Fremont, Elkhorn & Mis- souri Valloy by & narrow gaugoe system bear. ing the same name. 'The main line of each of these narrow gauge roads is about seventeen miles, and both have spurs aud branches up every guleh and to dump of nearly every mine in tte district. An idea may be gath- ercd of what they thought the ore trafic would bo worth when it is understood that the Fromont, Elkhorn & Missour1 Valley narrow gauge system cost the company up- wards of 1,000,000 to construct. Compotition of the two ronds gives mine owners a cboice of routes by which to ship to Deadwood or to plants at other points, and has been a wor- derful stimulous to ' development of prop- erty. A ‘moro specific description of some of the best developed mines of the district will form subject matter for a future letter. R. N, Oubex. OMAHA AND MONTANA. Phe Importance of Railrond Connecs tion Forcibly Set t orth. Sinco the Omaha business men announced their intention of reaching out for Montaua trade and establishing business relations through the construction of a railrond to some point in the state there has been much dis- cussion on tho subject, says the Butte Miner. Helena naturally took it for granted that she was the objective point, and went upon the theory that she would enjoy the advantages of terminal facilities and beadquarters for the Omaha line. But Helena's cluim to supe- rior advantages over all other points in east- ern Montana does not go undisputed. Miles ¥ comes forward with an adadress to the Omaha board of trade in which her transcend- ant udvantages are most eloquontly set The address is signed by such distingu citizens as Samuel Gordon, C. H. Loud, G. R. Milourn, E. Butler and G. W. Myers, These gentlemen invite the committee of the Omaha board of trade to visit Miles City and learn that it is the poiut of all others in eastern Montana where the new railroad should cross the Northern Pacific. They call attention to her importance as a shibping point; they point out that the Fremont, Iilkhorn & Missouri Valley road is within 160 miles of their town, and that_the axteu- sion would be through 'a produciia valley; that an extension of the read across the Yel- lowstoue river atthat point would carry it nto A razy o country, from which 30,000 hiead of beef cuttle are shipped aunually: would tap Fergus county, which is rich in cattle, sheep and mines; woula reach Grout Falls and could branch 'into the Castle district and finally reach Helena. Miles City’s mutton and wool shipments are touched upon, and the committee closes by calling atfertion to the fact that Miles City is the trade centor for all the range country fora redius of 100 miles—the cattle centor for all of castern Moatana, “easily controlling the trade of this st industre.’” The Miner congratulates the people of Miles City upon the spirit they have shown in this matter and trusts that they will not secure the road but that they will reap a harvest of well earned pros- v therefrom. The uddress calls to mind most forcibly the wonderful possibilities of Montana and the great future whick the building of railroads and the consequent de- velopment of her resources assure, Wetrust that the new road will not only build to Miles City, but that it will tap the resources of the numerous valleys and mining districts of the state. We will not urge the company to build to Butte, as that i3 a foregone conclusion in the case of any railroad that enters Montana. Butte will give the company more business than any ten other points in tho state. How- ever, we will watch witn interest the contest between Helena aua Miles City for the honor of being the point at which the road will first tap the Northern Pucific. Everythiug should be done to encourage the building of new lines through the state. Railroad building and railroad competition will make Montana's future great, Let them come. The more the merrier. PARADISE CANYON. The Rush to the New District Near Ogden. Ogden’s minoral boom shows no sign of dimiuishing. A sheep herder found some boulders of galena in & soft talc o clay on the top of a neighboring mountain. These bould- ers will weigh from ono pound to fifty, and will assay 83 per cent lead and two or throe ounces in silver. Development is going on on this claim, and an attempt is bring made to find tho source from which this mineral comes There has also beon a little ore found in one or two other claims which assays from twelve to twenty ounces iu silver and as high as 30 per cent in copper. “The principal claim is known as the La Plata, but there are a dozen _more, including the Saee Hen, Queen of the Hills, Northern Star, Bluo Bird and Jim Down. The ore as- savs's3 per cont lead and from threo to six ounces in silver. Great excitomeut prevails and there is a grand rush of prospectors and miaers to tho Bear creek country. La Plata City was laid out in_one day—August 13— and before the sun went down that night sov- eral blocks had beon taken up and real os- tate speculators, as well as mining specula- tors, were on hand togurn an honest dollar and’ get quick ‘“action” on their money. Freight wagons rolled in with lumber, and the sign of the carpenters’ saws and ' nam- mers rang in one's ears from every side as new buildings aud board shanties were belng rapidly constructed. Several hundred peo- ple had flocked in the first day, and before night the camp haa all the 1ively character- istics that mavk an_old-time mining camp lu the wostecn country. Old speculators were thero who had grown gray i seeking a for- tune. 'Tho liquor sellors were thore, too. And, of course, the furo dealers woro around, for mincrs would rather gamble than eat a Cheistioos ‘diner, . Hundreds. of wagons, loaded with provisions and prospectors’ tools camo rolling in from Ogden. 1t was simply a town springing up in one day. A now wagon,road wilt be made to the camp from Ogden which will be only one-half tao length of the present circuitous route. A man from Ogden has already opened @ hotol and restaurant in La Plata City. An Owaen firm which is wterested in the boom, will put sevoral hundred men at work at once. Talk about the rapid growth of mushrooms! Mushrooms are not ‘in it when compared to themise of La Plata City. The poor shoep- herder who accidently discovered the first mineon_Bear creok, promptly sold out his claim. But speculation is rifo, and portions of the claiin chaneed hands in'a few days. This is all there is at presout on which to havg the presentexcitement which is shaking tho town of Ogden. A stage line is roported to have been started from there, and peoplo aro going into La Plata in droves. It is not likely that there is a foot of vacant land within a mile of the La Plata mine. At the last roports there were about four hundred peoplo in the district. Thev were locating claims in every direction, builoing houses to bo used for dwellings, stores, hotels, ete. Ogden is making the most’ of tho excite- ment. The facts are, however, that somo mineral has been found in the La Plata dis- triot which encouragos some prospecting,and if the ledge is found in place from w hich it comes it could be made to pay. HOW PRICE GOT A WIFE. A Therapeutical Komance Montana Mining Town John H. Price of Phillipsburg, Mon joys the distinction of being one of the few human beings who bas “yearly recurrent desquamative erythema scarlitiniform.” In other words he sheds his skin annually like a suake. Price has been afflioted with this peculiar disease since tho first year of his life, bus it never occurred to him or anyone else until recently that it was a blessing in disguise, or that he would owe to it any great measure of happiuess. Such, however, is ihe case, and therein lies & romance. A yoar ago Price underwent bis aonual change of edormis at St. Elizabstn’s hospi- tal, Chicago. Tho case wus closely observed by Chicago specialists in skin diseases, snd t into the papers. The story was read oy Nebraska schoolmistress, to whom it proved of special interest. Bome yoars ago Price had a sweetheart' from a REE, NDAY An estrangement took place. Price came out to Montana, and_his former swectheart moved to another loeality. ‘They lost track of each other entirely until she read tho story of the man at St. Elizabeti's hospital and r cognized in the patient her former lover. The young woman lost no time in following up the vew to tho whereabouts of her former sweetheart. She wrote him and received a reply. Other Intters passed between them, the old engagement was renewed and a quiet weddine followed. ‘This is how Mr. Price's curious affliction has proved for him a bless- ing iu diseuise, Saved Th.eo Lives. Captain J. B. MeDonald is the hero of the Sacramento, while coming down the river i bis steam launch in advance of a steamer towing a barge, a skifffattached to the latter copsized, throwing Rbbert Finnie, his wife, and a two-year-old babe into the water. Me- Donald stopped and saw Finnie floundering in the water. He leaped into a smali boat towing bohind, and pulied for him. He caught him and got him to hold on to the boat and then set outita look for the others. boy was seen clinging to the ropo dragging from the barge and was safe. Mrs. Finnie was rising for the third time, and McDonald caught and pulled her into the boat in an un- couscious condition, Presently he saw the infant benoath the surface of the water, and succeeded in catching. its clothing boforo it sank to the bottom :for the last timo and rescued it. Al wero taken ashore and after being restored were taken to a neighboring farmuouse. I'ho rescue of the husband, wife and child was a most remarkablo feat and one few men are cool headed enough to ac compiish, after all were so near dead and only one in sight above wator. Will Contests. “Where there's a will there's a bréuk it,” is becoming a fixed policy in west. The enormous cost of the Davis test now in progress in Butte does not deter others from airing family skeletons 1 court wherever there is a prospect of smashing @ will. Timothy Hopkins proposes to test the will of his adopted mother, the late Mrs Searles of California and Massachusetts, and the disgruntied velatives of tho late Dr. Cowhick of Cheyenne have askod the courts to set aside his last will and testiment. T Cowhick estate 1s valued at $40,000 and was bequeathed to Anna Elizabeth Neer, sister of the deceased. The contestants of ‘the will are 0. 1. Cowhick, D. R. Cowhick and Win- field Scott Cowhick. ( Cowhick, Mary C. Wanamaker, Eliza J. Thorp, Eliza beth Lafever, all_of whom are half brothers and sisters of Mr. Cowhick. Miunio M. Otis ang Maude Keener the daughters of ~aviner half brother, Davis S, Cowhick are also among the contastants. The Lucky Nine. The figure O is curiously aua intimately, connected with all the great gold mining ex- citements of the ninetcenth century. The great Algerian gold bubblo formed and broke in 1500, Next came the Mantazan mountain craze in 1839, when solid bowlders of gold as large as flonr barrels were reported. The California gold fever broke out in 1540 aud rared until counteracted by the Pike’s Peak boom in 1850, Ten years later, in 1560, “Old Virginny,"” the celebrated _miner, struck the lucky lead which made Virginia City and Nevada famous in the mining annals of thy world. Eighteen hundred and _seventy-nine came in on time with the Leadvillo frenzy and the famous “carbonates’ of Lake county, Jolorado. Kignteen hundred and eighty-nino broke the charm, but 1509 may make up for lost tiume, there being two 9s in t date. way to the con- Another Tommy Cluse, For several yeavs, says the Helena Jour- nal, Archio McGregar has been running a tunnel iuto the mountain on Boulder gulch, o tributary of Confederate, for the purpose of reaching at depth a group of leads carrying gold-bearing quartz, which are exposed at tho surfaco. Ho has pursued his purpose with indelatigaole perseverance, resting, us it scoms, upon a well founded faith that rich ore would ultimately bo reachied. Arrivals from Dinmond City bring the news that at a point in the tunnel, 500 feet fromn 1ts mouth and 80 feet below tho sur- face Isad of high geade gold quartz haus been struck. MoGreggor deserves all the good fortune the mountain can give him. Orego Tho building at Portland of the new home for fallen women is nesrly completed, It will cost $10,000. Nearly 35,000 has boen raisod in stock for a hosiery and underwear factory to bo built at Watérloo, Linn county. Farmers living on'the east fork of Hood river have determined to utilize the water of that stream by building an irrigation ditch four feet wide at the: bottom and about the samo depth, The head of the ditch will be 1,500 feot above the Columbia river. An irrigating diteh torun betweon Yreka and Littlo Shasta_is to be constructed at a cost of wbout #00,000. The flame will be twenty feet wide by four deep, and it will not only irrigate thousands of pretty dry acres, but also tloat lumber from the upper Klamath mills, The discovery of gold on Soldier creek, four miles west of Hurnoy, consisting of quartz and placer, bids fair to create a little fevor, for it1s now evident that there is gold to be found in payiaw guantities. Miners of oxperience say the placers will pay $10 to $12 per day and expenses to the man by sluicing. Culifornia, A 35-pound cautaloupe is on exhibition at San Diego. Six tons of pig tin were shipped from Riv- erside to San Irancisco the other day. The raisin crop of Fresno county is the largest on record. The growers made great efforts to securo white labor, offering $1.25 per day for grape pickers with board, and $1.75 without board. Forest firos are raging in Nevada county, and a large amount of valuablo property has been destroyed. Many poor people are ren- dered homoless, aud the feed. for milos on stock ranges is burned off. Eldorado county \f_anything, bas suffered worse than her neighbor, Nevada. Lucky Baldwin Foports to tho 1,08 Angeles chamber of commerce that from seventy-five acres of his orange orchard ho picked 80,000 boxes, giving him & gross return of $104,000, and a net profit of 102,595, or nearly §1,400 per acro. ‘Tho irrigation and _cultivation of tho laad cost him only 11,005, no fortilizer being used. Tho orchard is haif old and half young trees, it The evidence increases every weok that the Atchison railroad will s0on be running into San Francisco, Purchases have been made in the interest of the company at North Beach, where terminal facilitics will be made for freight business, while the main passen- ger trafiic will come in_by way of San Mateo. An entrance to the beart of the city has been gained by means of the olectric railroad from hore to San Mateo. The apparent change in the climato of that section continues to bo a subject of great in- terest in Los Angolos, especially with horti- culturalists who dry their fruits. The rains which have occurred 1n San Heraardino count during the past ten days are phenome- nal and unpracedented. Ordinarily, the bed of the Santa Ana river at this timo of the year isa dry waste of sand. Now, quite a Stream of water is flowing back in the moun- tains, Raiofall is almost of daily occurrence. Prior to tins year they were unknown during August. Little doubt is now entertained that this change is aue to the now lak$ on the desert. Montana. Francis Murpby 1s dispensing pledges in Butte, The sapphires fields along tho viver aro being thoroughly prospected. output is not flattering, The preliminary examination of the sus- pects arvested for the murder of Editor Pen- Tose, continues in Butte. George Schermer was run in at Billings by oficers from Cincinnats, O., where he robbed the postofiice some time ago, Aftor October 1 boys and girls found on tho stroots of Butte, uaaccompanied by par. ents or guardians, will ve liable to arrest. The Burlington aud‘Mlssouri railroad sur- veyors are nearly thvough the Judith basin. They will reach GreatFails about the middle of October, The Victor mine, lasgely owned by Helena capitalists, is located ia Deer Lodge county and bas become one of the steady producers of Mogtana, A Montana miner weut out Lo see the elo- hantin Eau Clare, Wia., the other night. 0 did not see it, but he met the lway who Missouri The AUGUST 1891. rides the elophant in tho strect and she rolioved him of §240, At tho depth of eighty foot a atreak of galena and ~carbonate eighteen inches in width was encountered in the Sir Henry Curtis mine in th v Mile district, near Sulpbur Spring 1 Wardnor minors are on a strike. ‘The Rad Cloud mine at Hailey owners £10,000 during July, Fifty thousand dollars worth of property was dostroyed by fire in Bose City. Tho irrigation canals in Idabo are assum- g enorumous proportions, and it is evident that within a fow yeors the state will become the best ivrigated in the union, A new gold wus discovered this woek by two Black Hills miners in tke bills just north of Soldier, forty miles west of Bellevue. No reliablo cstimutes of the value of the quartz are at hand, but the excitement has gone far enough to call out over one hundred pros pectors, Indian Agent Colo hias completed bis work of enrolling the Carur o’ Aleno Indians entit 1ed 1o a share in the distribution of £00,000 paid by the goverument for lands rocently ceded.” 1t is found that 420 Indians are entit- led to a share of the monvy and that each will receive §1,100, Some of thom ave alveady well to-do. Some wondorfully vich gold bearing decom posed quartz rock ‘was brought to Weiser Monday by that well known miner and pros- pector, MF. 2. B. Lockwood, 'The mines from which this ore was taken are located 1 what is kaown as the Rapia River district in Idaho county, and about forty-five miles north of the famous Scven Devils, Two hundred pounds of giant powder ex- ploded at the mouth of the lower tunael of the Black Bear mino near Burke, witn ter- le results, Four meu were imprisoned at the broast of the dritt by rock which caved in and wero suffo “The bodies of four other miners huve not yet been found, and all hope of floding them aiivo las been given up. Tho explosion was terrific, toaring up the carth and caving in the tunnel for a distance of 100 parad solid_pay netted the W oyoming. Some Bald mountain ore essayed §i,200 to the ton. Fort Russell is to be improved to the extent of 815,000, Dovelopment work i Gold Hill is being prosecuted vigorously. ‘Ibe great mineral convention Cheyenue, Monday of next week. “The finul figures on state valuation are 32,- 37,101.72, an increase of §2,000,000 over last bogins in Wyoming’s building at the World's fair will be 40x0 and two stories high, and will cost §10,000. Grams of gold the size of wheat-kernols and ia profituble quantives are being washed out at Hahn's Peuk The Northern Wyoming Canal company, to retain 57,000 acrés with $100,000, has filed articles of incorporation. 5 Anottier installment of £,000 from tho tional treasury, will soon be placed in the hands of the State university A Sundance family named Scholerdt were poisoned by drinking milk from a cow bitten by a rattiesnake. All recovered. Two dollars is the mining pace in Bald mountains. Ihe deposits of gold bearing conglomerate have been traced 150 miles. A company bas been organized to build a railroad from Casper along the Big Horn river to Montana, The headquarters of the company arein Washington at present. . Circus day n Cheyeuno was a lively one, The accompanying gang of thieves raided individuals and homes and cleaned up ¥2,000. Twelve of the gang were run in at Laranie. ‘Tt burning of the railroad station at Car- bon meuns a loss of £,000 to the raitroud company. 1t is said tte fire was started oy Agent Compton, who perisbed in the flames, asn means of destroying evidence of crookea: ness, but the coronet’s jury did not indorse the assertion. Nevada. The niarble works at Verdi have just com- pleted two beautiful moss agate warble col- umns for the Mills building in San Francisco. The fight by Nevada authorities is still going on ngainst those who persist, in selling liguor to the Indians, and convictions are of every day occurrence. Anotber big gold nugget, weighine tw nt three ounces besides the quartz, was recoatly found in the-bydraulic workings at Occola. It is a smull boulder and only a httle pol- ished, indicating that it had not traveled far. The Virgina Chronicie says that Nevada may be retrograding in the matter of popula- tion, but in agricultural products is forging to the front. Nevada took tho prize at the centennial exhibition for ner potatoss, and at Now Orleans her apples, potatoes and wheat were voted the best. Novada beef also finds ready sale in the marlets of California and the east. Ou the 15th inst., the Con Cal. and Va. dis- bursed @ mouthly dividend of 50 cents per share, nggregating $105,000, besides carrying a surplus of $152,000 after baying tho same. ‘Tho stock also climbed from 367 Friday to #81, yesterday, being a dividend of $1.25 a share, or $270,000. Previous to the cons dation of the 'Cou, Virgiuia with the Califor- uinin 1884 the Cop. Virginia paid In divi- dends £40,000,000, and the Californis_paid £1,520,000.” Since the consolidation havo been paid in dividends, making & total of §74,594,500 for the two claims, south Dakota. Alarge elevator is to be built in Rapid City. Reports from the mining camps are favor- able. The Golden Rewa 000 during July. A. C. Buckuer, the pioneor barber of the hills, died last weel, aged 51, John Brandt, an_alleged cattle rustler, is resting in the Rapid City jail. The erection of Hotel Casey gives Dead- wood brickyards a lively boom. Deadwood is anxious to know the true reason of the shut down of the new smelter. ‘Phe Lead City Daily Heorald is no more, it hankered for journalistic pie and strangled on mind. The mid-mouth shipment from the Home- stake minos ccnsisted of six handsome bricks of gold valued at §16,000. Rapid City put on its holiday togs to cole- brate the commencement of work on the new railroad through the hills. . Lightning played daugerous capers in Lead City recently. Several people were shocked and stunned, houses struck and oue building fired. ed mine cleaned upsio,- Utal The Lia Plata mines promise to boom busi- ness in Ogden, Salt Lakoers are preparing to entertain tho Montaua editors, who are expected next week., Sanpete is enjoying greater brosperity since the Rio Grande Western was extended through tuere, than she ever enjoyed before, The graln crops are the heaviest known in years. A cloudburst at Minersville, caused an ex- tensive flood. The water came down & canyon and through the town in a shoot ten feet high and fifty foet wide, but fortunately did but littie damage, A wan named Anderson residing in Salt Lake arose from “bed one uight last week, grabbed a gun and started for burgiars ho imagined were in the house. The gun was accidently discharged, killing Anderson. A census_bulletin just issued, giving tho statisties of the Catholic church in all its branches in this country, shows that in Utah there ure tweuty-eight Catholic organizations, twelve church edlfices, with & seating cap acity of 2,210; sixteen halls, with a scating capicity of 070; church property of the value of 05,000 and 5,058 communicants, Wash Washington has a population of and an assessed valuation of §221,448,1 There are 165 farmers' alliances in the state, Whitman couuty leading with forty- nine. Charles Brooks, the dored his young wife says; “Ihéy will hang and black and have no friends nor money You see, there have boen twenty-threo mur. ders in this county and they never hauged any one yet, 5o 1 think they will commence o’ me. ’eople of Blaine evideutly have not b fn the habit of using water, it would s from a notice in the Blaine Tribune, speak: ing of the new water works, The editor in his articlo says: *When the use of water becomes weneral it certainly will be found as good s the best, as it cowmes direct from spriogs.” It 1s to be hoped that water s00u be in “general” use in that vicinity, K 140,300 old negro who mur- 1 June at Spokane, o because | um old OMAHA Manfacurers” and Jobbers’ DIRECTORY. AWNINGS AND TENT:! Omaha Tent & Awn- | ing Co., ’ minocks, oil and . 8 113 Fa d for | 4 and Manifae 1rors Flour Sacks. Burlaps and Twine. BICYCLES. A. H. Perrizo & Co.| M. 0. Daxon. 1406 Dodge Strant Bleyeles sold on monthly | iy ments, | 160 d for our ontalogue i prices, Farnam st Omah BOOK BINDERS and STATIONERS Ackerman Brothers & Heintze, Printers, bindors, eloctrotypors, biank book mana- Tuotiirors 1116 Howard strovt, Omaha BOOTS AND SHOLS Chas, A. Coe& Co. }Kirk«-mlull,‘]om-s&Gn Manufacturers and Job- | WholesaleMann factur'rs bors, 1 Awents for ber NI o 1104, Boston Rulb co. 1102, 1101, Harney strey W, V. Morss & Oo,, Sh ot and Doy 1109 Howard streot. Williams, Van Aer- nam & Harte 1212 Harnoy stroct Omaa, Neb. s.Corner 1th ats. Omahi BOXES John L. Wilkie, Omalia paper box factory BUTCHERS Touis Heller, Orders promply niled. | PE T JAhReh Cotiaey CARRILAG L W. T. Seaman, omalia’s Lar, WAGONS AND CARRIAGES Varlety CARPE CLOTIIING. Gilmore & Ruhl, Manufactarers and Whalesale Clothlers, 108 Tlarney stro CIGARS. Omaha Carpet Co., Carnets, oll, cloths mt- | thigs, eurtaln oo dset: | 11 Douglus treot West & F}itscller, ros tine clears, COKE, ETC, Omaha_Ooal, Coke & | Contant & Squires, Lime Co., Hard and soft coul ship. Hard and soti pers. 1§08 Farnam strect Owaha, Howell & Go,, ni dealers 1 s 2078 14t Street o and bitu- mons conl 5 8. 19t atreet “Nebraska Fuel Co., 2038, 1ith Street, Oma Johuson Bros., Omaha, Nel Onialin, CORNICE. Eagle Cornice Works, } F. Ruemping, Manufacturers of | Gulvanized iron c Galvanized Tron Cornce. | Dormor - wiidow. Window e i1ic | caps, Aninit. ete; skylights, nd | ron and st roofor. 1112 Dodke | S Farnam St CEMENT AND LIME. J. J. Johnson & Co,, Cady & Gray, 218 8. 13th Streot, Lime, coment, ete., ete. Icos door Tin Omaha, Nob. Cor. 9th and Douglas St DRY GGOODS. M. E. Smith & Co., | Kilpatrick - Koch Dry Dry goods. notlons, fur- Goods Co., nishing goods. Diy goods. notions., gents' Inhing gouds Corner 11th ana Howard. | cor. 11th and Howari Sty ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES. Wolf Electrical Co. lustrated catalogue free. 1614 Capith] Avdnue. [ DETROIT-AUTOMATIC Electric Motors atnlogue noy. Gen'l 1fe W' FARM MACHINERY, ETC. Parlin, Crendorff &| T. G. Northwall, Martin Co., General western _agent Corner Skandin Plow Co 1340-1351 Shorman Ave FLOUR. E. L, Welch & Co., |R. T. Davis Mill Co 1012 N, 16th Street e 1. E. McCray, Mana Mill at Hondorso | cor.stn 8. F. Gilman, | Owmaba Milling o., N. 16th Stroet, | Merchant Millers Oftice and MIIL 1315 Manager. | 1t Stroet vnderwood st at Omaha, 1 Jnckson Sty 1018-15- rth o, Blnek - FU. Dewey & Stone Fur- niture Co., NITURE AND CARPETS, Beebe & Runyan Fur- niture Co. Succossors 10 C. A. Boebe & Co., and it 4ty Omaha GENT’S FURNISHING Sohne'der & Loomis, | J. T. Robinson Notion Co. Job nts’ furnish notlons wnd Lormisbing |ty o Kouds, (GOODS. 2 Lmportors of and Tmp I oA brand ok Skin pants, whirts, o 1111 Howard Strect Cor, 13th and Howiard Sta. GLASS, PAINT, OIL AND DRUGS. Keun 1. A, Fuller & Co., Keunard Glass and Faint Oo,, 1402 Douglas Street, 1412 Marney Stroet Omubia, Nob. % Omal Blake, Bruce & Co, €03-105 | eavenwarth St William Cummings, 617 and 019 South 16th st. | Nob. Omaha, Neb GROCERIES, Meyer & Raapke, 1403-1405 Hurney Street Paxton & Gallagher, | TR | Owaha, Nel Omaha. Neb, M Steele & Co, | Bloan, Johnson & Co eh ang cuworth 1205 Jones Street | Laare Omahin | MoCord, Brady & Co., 15th and Leavenworth, Omuhia, Neb. Nev Allen Bros., 1110 Harney Streot Omuha, Ne Omana, Neb e———————— GUNPOWDER, “Hugh H. Olark Gen'l Westorn Agen Duponts Bporting powder, Atlas ikl explo. B0ve blasting eaps. fuses l 1216 Harney s lyget GRAIN AND I Bryan Commission Co | Brokers, geatn, proviston and stooks N. ¥ DId'g. Private wi o 8t Louls New York, Cookrell Bros Rrokers to New York, Chi St Louls. €pecn o 1 ton kiven to tr on grain, 18t Nat'l Bank. | and Privato wires | I HARD Rector & Wilhelmy Co Cor. 10th and Jackson St Omaha. “Paxton & Vierling | Tron Works, Wronght and o Bullding brass w P oundry |w blnckan) f Ry. and 1ith a Iron Tler & Co., Lignor Mo 113 Hnenoy Strool Mabufaeti ra Kennoiy's Hast India Bitters " L. Kirscht & Oo,, Wholesale Liguor Doal'rs 407400 8. 10th St LUME & Cof Lumber, G. W. Douglas 1510 North 10th Streot Charles R. L Hardwood limber, wood carpets and parquet Hooring 9t and Douglus. ote. ROVISION, 8. A, MoWhorter 312 18t Nat'l Bank, Broks ers. Private wirel 8t Loul. bought for all mn T. 0. Swarts & Oo, rokors, Grain, Provisions Prifhte wiro to Jiin and Chioago. OMce 1at Nat'l Bank, Omahn. change bld'g, 8. Omalin ARE _— IRON WORKS. Omaba Safo & Tron Works, Manuf'rs firo and burglar o0l Aafos, VAUILS ork, Ar ro oscnpes. G roen, 1ith & Jackson TOR, R. R. Grotte, Tmporter and Jobber of \Wines and Liguors, 1020 and 1022 Farnam St. Price llsts on application: Frick & Herborts, WholosaleLiquor Dealors £01-508 8, 10th St ER. John A Wakefield; merlean Port ent, M| Whito Limo. Wyatt-Bullard Lum- ber Co. 20th and Izard Stregta. | L - A. Stonchill, |I Millinery, Notlons,Cloaks | ¥ [ 116-118 8. 16th St MUSICAL INSTRU Max Moyer & Bro Co ! Mg Jewelers, dentors tn | musteal Instruments, ot Farnam and 1 Louis Bradford, umber, llme,cement,ote. #23 D ouglas Street. MILLINERY AND NOTIONS. . Oberfelder & Co,, 1porters a M | 208, 210 ana 21 Stroot IMENTS, ETC. A. Hospe, Jr., 03, Organs, Artists’ Materfals, Ete., 1513 Douglas Stroet. Oysters, Fish and celery, th 10th Bt Cons)lidated Tank Line Co. Refined_nnd PRODUCE, ( Ribbel & Smith, ers In”country prod- | C: fruits, vegetubles, 0. uee, ote. 1207 Tloward St Robert Purvis, 1217 Howard Street. | p, wWrite for pricos on bt- tor, ckks pouitey, and enuc. ot. 13 Kirschbraun & S;:ns: Butter, eggs and poultry. B 1209 Tloward Street. Bates & Co,, ry produce, fr vegetables. grocers’ clalties. tons, splces, of 211 8. 12th Streot. Forelun & Domestic Floridaor: PAPER. Carpenter Paper Co., Carry n full rinting, wiapping ana Writing paper, card pa- per, ot stock of | M It Emerson Seed Co, ced growers, doulors In parden, grass, graln and vy, STOVE st E. B. Branch & bors all MMISSION. Sohroeder & Oo., ash buyers butter and neral com- ants, FSouth 11th Stroet. Co., roduce, frults of all Kinds, oystors, th and Harney Streo! Jas. A, Olark & Co,, utter, cheese, eggs poultry uid game. 00 South Tith Street. Williams & Oross, Produce and frults. 1214 Harney Stroet. RUBBLR GOODS Omaha Rubber Co,, anufacturers and Jol ) kinds rubbor 1120 Farnam Btrect, James Hughes, ovesropalrs of allkinds o0k ind tente o wilo: 407 8. 15th Btreot. — SASH, DOORS, M. A, Dishrow & Co, M [ mouldings. Branel flce, 121 and Tzard STEAM AND WA U. 8. Wind Eogine & | Pump 0o, Talitday Wind Mills 015 nd 420 Jones Straot G Ttoss, w manag'r | A 100 TEA, COFFE Consolidated Coffee Compauy, 4l Hnenoy Bt 14 an T0YS. H. Hardy Co,, Toys, dolls, wlbums, faney goods, lous Wishing goods, Ton's carringos 1319 Fa B SOUTH O A. D, Boyer & o, §.50 Exchange Bulldiog, South Om BORDS 8T, COUN | 183-185 nearborn Stre A o v reltet 1ike Dr. b 1t has cured thou PERT, 500046 L0 stamps Magnetio Elastie Truse awr, o ¥ UNIO N STOCK YARDS CO. BLINLDS, ETC Bohn Sash & Door Co ors 0f mould- 5. duors, eto, Oftico: nufac s, bili oom 42§ Bee Bullding. — TER SUPPLIES . L. Strang & Sons, 2104 Furnam Streot, Omata. Nob. SPICE - BILLIARDS. Tho Brunswick- Balke-Uollender Oo., itard morchandiae, Milloon nxturos, 1601 Stroety ain. _————— MAHA. LIMITED Hunter & Green, 0 Exchage Bullding South Omah WANTED Total Isuos of CITIES TIES, 5CHOO! DISTRICTS, WATI R.R.COM N.W.HARRIS & COMPANY Bankers, o1, CHICAGG 15 We'l Street, NEW YOIK 70 Riate 81 BOBTON. 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