Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 6, 1891, Page 10

10 THE ( IAHAR DAILY BEE, THEY ARETRUEBENEFACTORS. For By Their Works Grass Blades By the Mil- lion Will Grow Where None Grew Before. TURN ON THE WATER—NATURE DOES THE Bcope of the Irrigation Congress at Salt Lake—The Story of Wes RE Development—The Famous Emma Mine Recalled—W yom- ing Oil Fields—Trans ript of the Week's Progress. The Arid Belt Congress. The eonvention of representatives of the arid states and territories, which meets in Balt Lake City Soptember 15, promises to be the largest and most important yet held in the west. liverp state west of the Missouri river has been invited to participate, and cordially responded. The arrangemants for the convention is in charge of Utah’s thirty delegates. The programme has not fully wappod out, vut it is certain the work of the convention will cover a wide rango. Conditions diffar in the several states, but all load to the same end—tne irrigation of arid lands, The Dakotas have their artesian weli_problem, Kuusas and Nebraska aro largely interested in the development of the underground waters of the rivers of tho plains, Californin will be full of her groat ex- periment, tho district irrigation law. The mountain states want to know the possibili- ties of storage reservoirs. : The great problem of the convention, how- over, will bo the union of westorn sentiment on the dispositiou of public land. If the con- vention had no other purpose than to devise means by which the vast empire composed of the 750,000,000 remaining acres of public lands could be mado useful to mankind, ard if it should meet that duty in o comprehen- sive spirit; it would be o wonderful succoess. “This is but ono of the ways in which it can be supremely useful to the west. Various plans are urged for the development of this vast empire. It 15 useless to look for reliel from the national government in tho matter of irrigation. Even if a concerted cffort was made to secure federal assistance in developiug irrigation, the opposition of the east would be suflicient to insure defeat. No dependence can be placed on cougress in_tnis matter as in all other interosts the west must work out 1ts owan salvation, and the marvels accom- plished in other lines of industry is a guar- antes that 1t will solve the irrigation problem satisfactorily. Sentiment is rapidly crystal- izing in favor of turning the remaining arid public lands over to the respectivo states and torritories, and from present indications the Salv Lake congress will favor that as the one bost calculated to make the now barren re- gion contribute to the wealth of the nation, The valuc and importance of irrigation 15 well known. The marvelous productiveness of the vaileys of Utah forcibly demoustrates what energy and porscveranco may accom- plish in the arid region. There are 10,757 farms in the territory, of which 9,724 are ir- rigated. The average sizeof the irrigated farms, or, strictly speaking, the portions irri- gated, is twenty-sevon The average first cost of the water right is $10.55 per acre. and tho average cost of preparing the soil for cultivation, including the purchase price ot 1and Is $16.10 per acre. Tho average present price of irrigated land in the territory in- cluding buildings, ete., is reported as $34. snowing an apparent profit,less cost of build ings, of 7.0 per acre. In'Utah crops were raised vy irrigution in the census year ended June 30, 1860, on 262,- 473 acres, or 411.68 square miles, a trifle over 5-10 of 1 per cent of the entire area of the territor; The ageregate number of farms ‘was 10,757, and of these 9,724, or about nine- tonths, depended upon irrigation,the remain- ing tenth being either stock ranches or farts in the northern end of the territory, where the climate is less arid, or situated’ so high {n vhe mountains that crops can be raised by what is known as “dry farming.” THE NATION'S STOREHOUSE. ‘Wonderful Development of the Moun- tain Region. ‘The bureau of statistics has recently fssued a volume waich will te read with gratified amazement, says the New York Tribune. 1t deals with the development of the Pacfloslope, including the states of Cali- fornia, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon and Washing- ton, and the territories of Utab, Arizona and Alaska, It is possible to give here only a vague impression of the wealth of facts and statistics supplied in_this book, and of tko maguificent tribute they bear to American energy. The story is almost incredible. The lands comprising theso states aund tecritories, exclusive of Alaska, constitute quitea fourth of the total area of the United States. Alaska, acquired by purchase from Russia in 1567 at & cost of $7,200,000, has already re- turned in roevenue to the treasury more than its purchase price, and has produced in values to our citizens not less than $85,000,- 000. Of this sum $50,000,000 1s the products of the fisheries, for the protection of which from Canadian poachers we are now contend- ing with Great Britam. 1f the people of the United States appreciated the value of the right: gravely menaced there would be a p\fi:llu sentiment in support of the govern- ment 80 profound as to compel the prompt and suficient assertion of our rightful authority. The lack of appreciation with regard to the possibilities of our western empires has marked every controversy attending their acquisition, and the wonder is that we ever suocceeded in obtaining so great a dominion, Jefferson was crueally assailed for the Louis- iana purchuse. The Mexican cession was bitterly opposed even after the decision of a great war had made it ours of right. Two yoars wero spent in a bitter fight over the Alaskan treaty, the opvosition in all these cases bolding that the land would never be needed and that it was utterly worthless anyhow. British Columbia was sacrificed to this foolish outery, to the great and verma- pent injury of our interests. The Mexicen cession cost us §30,000,000 or about 12 cents an acre. Wo have carved from 1t California, Avizons, Novada and Utah and parts of New Mexico and Colorado, aud from about one- twelfth of the lands denounced as sterile and valueless we have produced $1,500,000 of gold and silver, and twenty times as much in coreals, lumber and fruit. Iu the five states and threo territories which are the subje this recent volume the production of proci motals to 1880 is shown in the table following. The figures are almost beyond belief: Gold Silver Total Dollurs. Dollurs. Dollars. Alaska..... 17,643 Arlzona Californiu. .. 1,1 Iduho. Novadu Oregon 187 Utah.. . 00,5 15 liingto 101,555 Totat.... 1 3 4 1,014,015,002 These states and those of the Rocky Moun- tain country gonerally have been couspicuous in the public mind chiefly for their vast min- eral wealth, of whick this outputof siver and gold 1s more than an illustrution, But the fact 18, enormous as are the sums derived from their mines, their agricultural products have been far more valuable, Of the 625, 000,060 acres contained in the Pacific slope, 809,000,000 constitute Alasks, Of the remain- der much less than oue-ualf bas been as yot survoyed, and not more than 40,000,000 acres can be called improved lands., From these the agricultural results have been obtained, mud it will certainly surprise the public to koow that in the last five years the total wheat crop alone has been equal to the total product 1n silver and gold, while in Oregon, which Las produced in twenty-one years $1 513,787 of precious metals, the wheat product bas amounted in value to 142,050,027 And it must be remembered that those states, ex- cluding Alaska, contain only 3,268,958 people, more than one-half of whom have cowe in ‘within the last ten years. With an annual product of wheat now exceeding $60.000,000 ; of salmon, 800,000; of luwber, $,000,000; of other cereals than wheat, $20,000,000; with a0 annual wool olip of more than 50,000,000 ounds; with farm animals valued st over 164,000,000; with savings bank deposits amounting to §$167,306,157; with 11,474 milés represeuting an investment of 31, and annual earniugs of nearly $06,000,000; with & foreign commerce of more than $100,000,000, and » perwaaent tonnage of 357,000 tons registered; with taxpaying pro- perty asseased at #1,652,075,850, ana worth in fuct, fully threo thousand ‘millions, it is cer- tainly fair to claim that the Pacific slope is & country of superb achievement and inex- pressible resources, MILLIONS 1 . A Suit Involving the Famous Emma Mine and Senator Stewart. James E. Lyon has enterod suit in the New York supreme court against Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada, claiming $1,000,000 damages. The action involves the famous Emma mine, located in Little Cottonwood canyon, Utah, the sule of which nearly twonty vears ago, created an international scandal and caused the recall of Ministor Schonch from London. In 1570 Lyon was owaer of the Monitor and St. Louis minos adjoining the Emma mine, controlled by Tranor C. Park of Vermont. . Disputes arose #3 to the boun- daries of the respectivo properties and litiga- tion followed. Senator Stewart was then practicing law in San Franotsco and was re- tained by Lyon. Aftor the Emma Mining company was incorporatod Stswart repra- sented that it would pay Lyon $3)0,000 in settloment of his claims. Lyon agreed to the proposition August 14, 1871, but telegraphed to Stewart not to proceed in the matter until ho neard again from him. Notwithstanding this, Liyon says, Stewart made the contract in his behalf for the $00,000. The payment of the mouey was put off repeatedly, and at last Lyon became @& party toa schemo by which, with Stewart and Park, they were to form a conipany in London and put the mines on the market. It was represented to Lyon that his interest would be materially in- creased 'f he would wait for the money until the stock was put on the Loudon market. Lyon declares that he thereupon sent Stew- art to London to enter into negotiations with Suglish capitalists to put the scheme on the market. The Emma Silver Miring company was organized with a_capital of £1,000,000. Upon receipt of a cable from Stewart, Lyon went to London and was informed that the negotiations were in a bad way and that the expenses in unloading the stock on the mar- ket were enormous—namely, about $211,300. The expenses included $100,000 to be paid to Brokers, Grant & Co., of Broad street, for negotiating the sale of the stock, and also $10,000 to Prof. B, Silliman of Yale college. Upon Stewart's representatiors that the oxpeases were so large and the condition of affairs very glogmy Lyon sold out his inte; est to Park for $100,000, of which sum Stew- art and Hillyer got 0,000, Subsequently the Emma mine was sold on the London mar- kot by Park for 30,500,000, and Stewart pro- cured $1,000,000 of it, and also realized an- other million out of the Monitor ana St. TLouis lode. Lyon says that when the agreement August 18, 1871, was made Stowart bad a private contract with Park by which the latter gave Mr. Stewart §150,000 out of the Emma mine scheme. He aliezes that Park, Baxter, and Stewart consbired together to delay tho pay- ment of the £500,000 and to deprivo him of his rights in the Monitor and St. Louis lode. Lyon asks for $1,000,000 damgges, with inter- est from April 2J, 1572, and he sceks an ac- counting of the sale of the Emma mino in London. He wants the contract of April 17, 1871, declared void and a release of all claims against Stewart and Park upon which he re- ceived $50,000 set aside and an accounting of the sales of all stock. Senator Stewart in his answer denies all charges of fraud and insinuates that black- mail is the foundation of the suit. Ho asserts that the transactions by which Lyon disvosed of his claims were regular and that the orig- inal claim to the property was considered pure blackmail by the Utah courts. FORESY FIRES, Immense Quantities of Fine Timber Destroyed. The forest fires now destroying 1mmense quantities of valuable timver in northwest- ern Washington are a molancholy sight. In the last days of July the atmosphere was beautifully clear, and for many miles the grand pyramids of Mount Bakor and Mount Tacoma could be seen, rearing thoir splendid cones high above a!l their surround- 1ngs, and showing their great sides covered with the snow that never seems to melt. Three days later a traveler was within ten miles of Mount Baker, and he could not dis- tinguish the grand mountain, for the air was oppressively heavy with smoke. It did not take long to tind out who started these fires. Here and there in the timber through which the train sped across Washinglon were little clearings, and farmers and their men could be seen felling trees and settin g fire to the branches. It is the only way they have of removing umber, so that they may plough the land. They have no means of getting the wood to market, and the only thing they can do is to reduce the enormous growth to ashes and then pull out the stumps, and thus add a little to their tillable area. They are fortunate men if they are able to clear more than an acro or two a year, for the work is enormous; but when an acre is finally freed from its heavy burden of timber, it is found to be maguificent farming land, and is a fac- tor added to the wealth of the young state which is not to be dusrhed. But it seems a terrible waste to see these mighty forests reduced to nothing but smoke and ashes. Now and then one sees a 1a0re cheerful picture in these woods. Ata sido- track he will find a large number of flat cars, loaded with oig logs, all ready to be taken to a sawmill, This is & lumber camp, and through the timber may bs seen tho Lit: t15 pine or canvass huts of the lumbermen, who are folling the trees and trimming the logs readv for shipment. Then again the traveler sees a sawmill, where lumoer is being turned out in great quantities: but probably fifty times as much timber is de- stroyed without profitto a living soil. It 1s a terrible waste, but thero is no present pros- pect that it will ve stopped. ROMANCE OF A PROSPECTOR. How the Ownor of Oaribou Discovered Its Value. The recent strike of a three-inch vein of native silver in the mines at ribou, says the Denver Nows, recalls the old story of the discovery of the mines, as told by Sam Cush- man, an_old-time resident of Gilpin county and at one time superiatendent of the Cari- bou property. Some twenty-five years ago there livad at Black Hawk a prospector who never seemed capable of getting ahead in the world. He prospected on “‘grub stakes" in the summer, sawed wood and did chores in the winter, but was at all times a happy-go- lucky sort of a fellow, well liked by all who knew him. When the Union Pacific was com- pleted to Cheyenuo hoe was seized with a do- sire to go east aud see the old folks. By one means or another he managed to scrape money enough together and started for Chey- eune. Arriving there he wandered down to the depot, and not having seen an engine or a railroad for many years, he was groatly | terested in the movewents) :the trains i the yards. At last something pacticular at tracted his attention. He climbed on the car, and oritically examined its contents, putting & specimen or two in his pocket. Stop that,” yelled & brakoman. *“Why, it's not good for much, is it?" re- plied the astonished prospector. “That's Novada ore, and its worth $1,000 a tou.” “Well, I know where thera are tons of it." replied the Coloradoan, as he jumpea from $ho train, and started for the loading co ral 10 engage passage with the next ox Lrair fon the mountains., Outfitting himsolf he started for the Boulder mountains and located the Caribou lode. The truth was he nad often walked over the float that indicated the mine, but never supposed that it was good for any- thing until he learned its value in the mau- ner related. Tho prospector disposed of his claim for a song, but the late ex-Senator Chaffee sold it to n Holland Synalcate for a round million of dollars, THE 0GB Cc dition and Prospects of the Now Camp. The oro find adjacent to Ogden contiues to grow, and in richness is unparalleled sinco the Leadville find of 1870, That hitherto quiet city displays scenes that old miners say briag to mind the days ot 1540 in California. The new Golconda is located twenty-five miles directly northeast of Ogden and 13 reached through Ogden canyon. The roads are fairly good and the county has a lurge foree of men already at work improving them, That the find 13 one with a great futuro and permanent beyond a doubt is believed in by ail who have visited the location. Nicho- Ins Treweek, an authority on mines and min- ing, says: ““Thu prospects are fair and the ledgres are tolerably well defined. The ore is mostly low erado and vich in lead. The La Plata’country is a very dificult one in which to prospect, as it 13 heavily timbered and brush covers the faco of the earth.” Kx-Senator Tabor of Ogden has several ex- perts on the ground, and they pronounce the outlook as most promising. Wonderfully ex- travagant assertions are made, but undoubt- edly it.is the greatest mineral find that the west has known for years. The product is gold, silver and lead principally, with indica- tions of antimony. The ussuys have shown in every case over 80 per cent of lead, and from twelve to twenty-four ounces of silver per ton. The ledges from which these assays are made are large and in many cases surrounded by a rich carbouate of limitless extent, and all on the very surface of the ground ready to be broken with a sledge, scoopod into a wugon and shipped. A Colorado miner remarked to your correspondent that it was the greatest mining discovery of the age. Bear Gulch, which was the original name of the location, is about three-fourths of a mile wide and thirteen miles in exteut, Min- eral has, however, been discovered in all the section around, und in ev instan ing quantities. The wholc 3 shows vast quantitios of low grade walena ore, not merely in float but in enormous ledges. Tho veins of ore sesm to run from a northwesterly to a southeasterly direction almost in a line with Park City, and minors who are acquainted with the country believe it is the same belt of ore that crops out there, ‘Thus far mineral has been discovered in a scope of country that covers an arca of about two to three miles in width. The richest of the mines yet discovered are the Sundown and Sunrise. The lode is pure galena and runs through ill for a distance of over six thousano feet, und alone its entire length blossoms of the great vein can be seen. A two-thirds interest in the Sundown mine was bonded for £15,000 by Charles S. Warner of Butte, Mont. The mine was first discovered by a sheep herder and was opened by Pete Wilson and Abe Bolton of Brigham City. The famous Bullion Block Miuing com- pauy has about filty men at work on the La >lata mine, from which it is taking out largo quantities. The ore is galena, embedded in a large quuntity of carbonate ‘hat assays a large percentage of gold. This company has also laid out five acres for the location of mills. The La Plata Mining company has been organized with a capital stock of $1,000,000. Logau parties compose the companv. About forty locations have now been recorded. Other have not been recorded as yet. An- other town has been laid out in Copper gulch. This will make three town sites m the mining regions. The La Plata mme has twelve men ot work. Poople are going and coming every day. Miners from the east, west, north and south have visited the camp, Some give good reports, others desire to wait awhile to 5o what will develop. The Wardligh claim is showing some ex- cellont mineral. At the place where they first commcnced working the claim tbe ore appeared to bea littlo pockety; so a new drift was started bolow the old ono where they will tunnel for a better strike. They are confident that a good vein will be found after going in about twenty feet. The La Plata is.down tweaty feet where they have a well-defined vein of pure galena eighteen inches wide, growing richer 1n sil- ver as the work proceeds, The Sunrise is being worked and also shows up well, ‘The best looking strike made in the district. s0 far is u claim owned by 4 young man from Ogden named Wardell. This is two and one- half miles from La Plata. The ore is a soid, heavy galena, mining over 70 per cent lead, but scarcely any silver. The vein is solid formation and is at least four feet wide. At present laborers are not wanted. It 1s a good place for prospectors or export, miners who wish to investigate and prospect or secure claims for dovelopment in the future. The rush of many people to the camp is un- called for. La Plata is all right. The min- eral is there and some of it will soon be shipoed, but it is not & working camp where men can find jobs. Tne future of the new camp is very bright just at present: new mining strikes ure being made every day, which hold great promise of being producing mines; out llcvufopmanl, is what is noeded. Of course 1t is Lo early vet to expect much davelopment. There hus not time enough elapsed since the discovery of minerals to havo deep shaftsand long tunnels driven. But, as said before, old mining men and miniug experts consider the prospects hero most flattering and predict a great producing camp as soon as tho natural time comes for mines to be Jeveloped. WYOMING OIL. But Little Develo nt Going on in the Fields, Dovelopment of the vast oil fields of Wy- oming is apparently at a standstill. But lit- tle work is bsing done evidently, as it 1s a rare thing to find myution of work in the state panars. Oa) raasoa for this silenco is the overshadowing importanco of the gold and silver developmants. Events strongly confirm the pro. ion of Tus Bes that a groat freeze out giumo is being played. That Wyoming has petroloum, immense vasins of it, is of course now beyond question. Flow- ing wells at several points, held in check until the time of commercial demand, are matters of fact, as the activity of pipe line companies abundantly proves. The most important of the basins so far as is now kuoown and be- lieved, lio north of the Rattlesnake moun- tams—uorth of the Platte and Swectwater valleys, in general terms—and east of the Wind river range. They occupy a broad extoent of country, even from the Lander val- ley on the west to Newcastlo on the east. Moreover, discoveries, early and late, in the valley of Bear river, near Evanston, at Cas- per and other points, indicate that oil may be found at almost any point where the coal measuves manifest themselves. But the men who have demonstrated the extent and value of the field are without sufficient means to develop their properties and are forced to bido their time. If capital can not be had soon, it'is almosc certain that great interests will fall into the hands of the Stan dard Oit mouopoly for a song. 3 WYOMING MINES. Development at Gold Hil and La Platte, Dovelopment work is being prosecuted vigorously at Gold Hul. Work on the Downey stamp has commenced sad sites have boen selected for two wore, Remurkably rich strikes are reported ten miles from Gold Hill. Onu prospector brought specimens of rock to Saratoza which 1o experienced miner would suspeot of car- rying any gold but on pounding and panning it out 1t was found to contain an astonishing amount of gold, The ore was taken from a depth of eightoon feet. 1t shows no free Rold. ‘There is every indication that a rich ruck in the new La Platta mining camp. The various sampios of ore brought to Laramie within the past fow days verify the statement, without having ta take the word of some {uterested euthusiast for it. The ore found there has shown a good prospect from the very start and as the work of development progresses to outlook grows brighter. A quet for the Dead. celostial colony In Salt Lake is thing has beeu The makiog zealous preparations to banquet their the cemetery" dead who are sleeping up in IBI R 6, 1891-SIXTEE and on Septomber 0, will serve an elaborate lunch out \m(l‘flhn shadows of the peaks. On this datetheir decoration day is ob- served, on which occasion choioe wines and native fire water will flow in & free and un- limited volume, Ji'or the unique carnival the pullet and the rdoster will be put upon the Fhopping block, fisur will bs moulded Into the most grotesquo dosigns, and fruits that Aro Now pouring in from the empire will ba rved until theapirits of the disembodied banquuters are gorged. Chinese decoration day comes like the inebriate’s birthday, in job lots. Each calondar signals three festiv- ities of this kindthe first coming whilo the winds aro whistlipg through the frost-fringed whiskers of riototis old March, the second in juiey July, and ithe last on the eve of grim- bearded “winter, The day promisos to be observed this time with great pomp and eclat, and while the spirit of the dead may not reel at nightfall, the police have given order to let the proxy spirit enjoy himself to the extent of the limit The Kaln Makers, The successful tests in Texas in producing rain by means of explosions has excited wide- sproad interest and discussion whether like success cau be achioved in the north i high latitudes will bo determined presently. A cune, who own in thoe aggregate 1,000,000 acres of land in Wyoming, have clubbed together and closed with the rain king, Melvourne of Canton, O., for expe- riments to be made near this 'city with the doctor’s chemical process for the inducement of moisture. Melbourne's expenses have been pledged with the understanding that he pays the freight himself if the work is unsatisfac: tory, He will undertake to sprinkle 250,000 acres. Irrigation in Wyoming. The census reports show that Wyoming is making excellent progress in farming by ir- rigation. nere aro 1,017 irriagated farms out of total of 3,246, While there are many thousunds of acres under ditch tho amount of land to which water was actually applicd for the raising of crops was und 240,000 1rvigated for the parpose of hay rais- ingand grazing, These tigures will be largely incrensed another scason, as there have been a great many miles of ditches con- structed in the new state this year, through which wator will be runoing”on ' growing grain uext spriug, W yoming. A commodious high school building has been completed in Cheyenne, ‘There aro positive uatural gas indications on Spriug creek, near Suratogu. Borings ave to be made. The output of the Newcastls coal mines is not equal to the demand. The company is unable to sccure enough workmen, The Rawlings Electrie Light company has ordered an Edison plaat. It is expectod that the system will be in operation within ninety days. Lots are seiling fast in the new town of Gillette in Carbon county; several sub- stantinl business blocks ure svon to be erected, Frank Parkison, who was tried and con- victed of manslaughter iu the killing ot Roy Baker,a comrade in the 1itn infantry, was sontenced Lo twelve years in the penitentiary at bard labor. The Elkhorn [rrigation company of Sheri- dau county has filed aun application with the state engineer to build and appropriate water for a large,ditch. The ditch will be built at an estimated cost of $100,000 and will irrigate 30,000 acres of land. The surveys for the irragating canal, which A. J. Brothwell is engineering 1n the south- orn part of Carbon county, are completed. This ditch will cost about $400,000 comploted, and will water in the neighbourhood of 150.- 000 acres of the finest agricultural land in the arid regions. Joe Hartley, a locomative fireman was killod by the 'cars last Sundsy near Red Buttes. Ho was in the act of shoveling coal into tho fire box when the drawhead between the engine and tender broke, and the encine shot forward. Hartley fell to the track and was ground to death. Thoe Wyoming Development company has finnlly secured title to a track of 50,000 acres, eighty mileas north of Cheyenne. A vast amount of work in reclaiming the land has alrcady boen done. one irrigating canal cost $100,000. Tho com- pany proposes to colonize the land with 500 tamili Within fifteen miles of Saratoga, on Lako oreok, says tho Sun, active development is Progressing on 4 monster coppor lead that is Dot less than seventy feat wide. All along the Medicine Bow range arc indications of other big veins. Over on the western range are many more, and in the grand encamp- ment country are llls full of copner ore. Secretary 1jams of the stock commission takes a most hopeful view of tho outlook for the demaud of rango cattlo this fall. He thinks that the demand will be heavy and the prico good. He basos his opinion upon the @0d crops in tho East. Tho farmers will get a good price for their crops and will want feeders and the only supply there is of feeders is to be found on the range. Californi There are 54,571 acres planted to grapes “Fresuo county. One hundred and ten degrees 1 the shade Jras tho weathor record at” Modesto on Sun- ay. Frank Hobson, who broke his neck whilo diving in the San Lorenzo river at Sauta Cruz I'riday of last week, is still living, and, t0 all appearance, slightly improves each day. During last week's spell of hot weather an Alameda man wert avout with a big sign on his breast on which was paiuted in letters large enough to be seen befora one got within speaking distunce, *'Yes, this is hot enough for me.” What is bolieved to be the largest musk- melon over raised in the world 15 on exhibi- tion at Fresno. Its circumfercnce the small way is thirty-nine inches and by the large way sixty-one inches. Its weight is seventy- two pounds. Throe gold bricks from Cedros island mine were received at & San Diego bank a fow days ago. They weigh 2,172 ounces and are valuod at $35,000. This is snid to have been a ten days’ clean-up at the National To- duction works. The Chineve are getting hold of large quantities of fruit in Tularo county, and are becoming quite a factor in the shipping trado. Oue greut objection to this is that the Chinese, not realizing that they are cutting their own throats thereby, persist in sendiug inferior fruit to market. Colonel Johu P. Trish is traveling through- out the state addre-siog the people on various topies connected with the mdustrial develop- ment of the state. He receutly smd that 150 persons own and control a majority of the acreage between Sacramento and Shasta, Dr. Willlams of Traver, Tulare county, drew his revolver on awitness who was tes- tifying to cortaiwacts of the physician’s wife, The justice of the peace jumped out of tho court room winddw, After the doctor was disarined tho judgd veturned and fined him 20 and one ay i ‘prison for contempt of court. Thomas A. Sutherland, a Portland (Ore.) editor, who was drowned recently while run- ning to cateh o fefry boat, was the fivst cnild of white parents to be born in California This distinction was contested by Thomas Larkin of Sun Fraucisco, but.the dead editor bad a clear title to, the 'honor. IHe was 41 years old. 1 Washingt A floating dry ddck is to be built at Ta- conia. According to report the wmouat of smug- gling in the neighborhood of Sumias, on the Canadian boundaypy line, is stupendous and smuggling 15 a ledgiog industry thore. nty has sold 25,000 head of X0 this year. Thore are 10,000 the county, and the wool clip, head still 50,000 pounds, at 15 cents per pound,would in A0, ‘The run of salmon has nest and large catches o the sound. The Myars cannery at Mukilteo is receiving between five and six thousand fish por duy, and is now canning them us fast as received Port Townsend, © reported all over according to official re- turns, cleared 117 more vessols during the first tureo months of this vear than Now York did. Tho tonnage of the ships cloarod was a_third moro than that of those from Now York. ‘The Menatash miueral district,near Ellens- burg, is uncommonly rich. Ore taken ut random from the M 1, without getting six inches below the surface, from &} per o up 10 81,60, the averago of twenty-four assays boinjs $240 per ton Tucoma may fairly consider itself a weil established city. It nas hud u bauk dofalea 100, uoL for & lurge smouut, but enough to ko a news item. The teller who lifted £0,000 from the bank vault was reputed the quietest man in Tacoms, was a devoted hus- band and father, and his motive is quite in- explicablo. These dotails also suggest con- formity to the requirements of civilization and progress, John Hoft, an eastern rustic, struck up an acquaintance with a Tacoma grass widow snd beer rustler in a variety theater. ~ She was weary of work and singloness. Hoff pitied and proposed. Sho rofused, and would not listen to the proposition until she had paid an alleged balance of #,000 on a plece of prop- ort She showea Hoff a bank book with #20,000 to her credit. He laid the neccessary £5,000 at her feet ana sho promised to marry him next day, She fled, Orego Poople who live along the Nisqually river are compeliod to pay 50 cents ferriuge for crossing a stream no wider than a street. The Portland Speed association has offered a purse of $10,000 to be trotted for by Nancy Hanks, Allerton, Stamboul and Nelson at the raco meoting to be held there Septom- ber A. K. Cutting, the “rat" orintor who came very near involving the United States and Mexico in a war a few yoars ngo, Is in_As- toria. Ho has beon working at South Bond un”sr the name of Hyde. The shoep industry in Orcgon is a growing one. Orogon is now furnishing sheep for the Black Hills country. The other day 145 carioads left Pondloton for Maadan, Dak., where they will be put on the range. B Work at the quicksilver mines on Beaver creok is being rushed, over thirty men being employed thore. A lirge amount of money is being expended in the purchase of ma- chiery and in opening tho ciunabar deposit. The S00,000 acres of land granted to the 3 n Road com- 1y has been sold to a company of eastern capitalists. It ¢ said that they will start mills along the Middlo Fork next year, and put the lumber ou the market. Miss Minnie Wilson of Rock tinguished herself by an act tha bo classed as Leroic, having jumped into Rogue river to rescuo’ her companion, Miss Lillic Hay, who had fatlen in_whiie fishing, and who was sinking for the last tine when Miss Wilson aiscovered the mishap. Near Portland lives a man who is such n confirmed woman-hater that he has built Limself a house near town, the threshold of t 15 d, no woman has eve been to cross, and he has willed his proo- orty toa man who will hold it only on condi- tion that he never aliows a woman to como on the premise: dis- to Point, desery South Dakot Black Hills papers have concluded not to move the Omaha smeiter to the hills, Tho wifo of an Italian at Lead City skipped with an Austrian, taking with her $250 in cash and the family jewels. The Ilkhorn nas completod a spur to the Portland mine und is loading the output for the Omaha smelter. There are about forty carloads ready for shipment. James owner of a large portion of the Ni mines, expests to realize #4,000.000 from the sale of his iron mines in Mexico, and devote the proceeds to developing the tin mines. The Deadwood Board of de has issued a call for a delegate convention to be held in that city Septemoar Gth for the purpose of adopting plans and raising funds to secure an indepenaent exhibit for the Bluck Hills at the world’s fair. The Phantom, located near Galena, consist- ing of a group of twelve locations, has had & large amount of prospecting work dono upon it. The presentowners have sunk a shaft 200 feet in depth, the last focty-tive feot of which was through'a stratum of porph It is expected that a depth of forty or fifty feot more will have to be obtained before the countact is reached. Idahe A cheese factory has been started at Sand ek, abou t forty miles north Rexford. “The building of an electric road on the old grade between Boise and Caldwell, Idano, is being agitate Assessed valuation of Idaho for 1801 will be at least £35,000,000, an increase of §10,000,000 over last year. Local capitalists at Idaho Falls have organ- ized a company to build a_railroad from the town to the Yellowstone Parik. Boise City recently disposed of bonds to tho amount of $0,000, being 6 per cent., ata promium, for thie purposo of crecting i city hall and constructing a sewerage system, State bonds to tho amount of§§0,000, bear- ing 6 per cent., and known as tens and twenties, providing for the refundment of the territorial indebtedness, wera recontly issucd. Boise City celcbrated the opening of her new electric rapid trausit road in grandstyle C last Sunday. The road extends from the center of the city out to Kelley's Hot Springs. Tho Murray Sun reports that the Ward Brothers, who have leased the Golden King mill, crushed twenty tons of ore from the smalt Hoves mine, a property of the Golden King, and cleaned’ up_over forty-flve ounces of gold as the result. This does 1ot look very much as though the mines didn’t pay. Utah, The Equitable Lifo Insurance company propose to erect a §500,000 oMce building in Salt Lake City. James C. Metcalf, son of a Utah banker, was buncoed out of $50 while viewing tho elepbant in San Francisco. venty acres of land have been securod near the mouth of Provo canyon on which it is proposed to locate the leacting mills, Suit has been commenced in Ogden to fore- closo the mortgage of £11,000 on the ground on which the foundation of the Methodist university stauds. Footings of the vote cast at the late terri- torinl election shows 28, votes cast, divided as follows: Domocrats 14, republicans 6,307, liberals 7,411, scattoring 5. A rich discovery of chloride ore is reported from the ’rovo river. A claim was located on the ground formerly worked as the Call a tunnel staried somo fifty feet ftom the old shaft. After running some thirty feet, so the report 15, & four-foot vein of chlorido ore was encountered., Another and a ric opened in the Potro mino at Bi oro is much like a decomposed g assays 00 to 10 ounces in silver, & in gold and 30 per cent n lead, Thero is three fest of this kind of ore laying alongside the main body of galena. er ore body has been um. Tho artz and it Montana. A valuable deposit of mineral is reported near Great Pulls, Tho Helenn and Frisco has paid another dividend for August of $10,000, muking $20,- 000 for the mouth. In July §3,000 was paid in aividonhs The G Northern will shops at Great Falls State suthoritios are chasing public timber thieves with a stout elub. The Helena Ciub house will cost $50,000, The material will be gray cut stone. Helena adds another convention—the Sons of Voterans—to the year's conguests, Two hundred and torty dollur silver ore was struck in the Galt mine at Neiburt. Roin fn August and lots of it was a new experience in the vicinity of Miles City. A car load of oro, recently tuken from the Benton group, on Snow Creek, sud shipped to the Helena smelter for treatmeut, netted the company over £,000, aftor payiug ull cost of mining, wagon and railroad trausportation and smelting build extensive Nevada. Thirty tons of ore taken from the (ireat bubiie mine at Silver City, near Virginia, the owniers $6,000 A movement has been inaugurated i Reno ovannize un irrigation district on the in coutormity with the provisions to of an act of tho leislature approved March , 1891 Au Lndiau writes to the Carson Appeal that when he went to the Stowart institute be was told that he was to learn all about God Ho says that they told him whero Christo | pher Columbus was born, General Grant ana Goorge Washington, but up to the time be left e was never told whers God was born I'ho power to i raiiroads in this state was vested by the legslaturo in a State i Bourd of Assessors ai 1ualiz which | bourd consists of the governor comp | troller, secrotary of stu and stato treasurer. This Ca City on the second Monday in Sep: | tomber W assess tho different railrosds with. u (ko lwiis of e state. DO YOU LIVE IN BOARDIN HOUSE? (It so, you know what it means 9 To come to Dinner Larly, Or get left. The clothing campaign for the fall has opened and we have been in training for it all sum- mer. We need not ask pardon of any one, when we say we intend to beat all comers. Our tables are groaning under the weight of an enormous fall stock (possibly the larg- est west of the windy city by the lakes), to start the ball rolling we will jump in : with a matchless IN FOUR PATTERNS, $10 $10 $10 $10 SUIT SALE $10 $10 $10 $10 I FROCKS AS WELL AS SACKS, The MOST DURABLE and DESIRABLE SUITS, EVER OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC. our celebrated natural wool shirts and drawers Be it known that we have secured the sale and expect to sell thousands of suits. There may be garments with a veneered face, made to look well, that can be sold for less, but there is no garment in the country sold for $1 that has more stand the desired wear and tear,better than this one. This is our opening speech;our intentions are to shove prices the season progresses, that if by the end the laurels don't fall to us, no fault of ours. AS EVER, To those who last year bought > * at $1.00 a garment. of the same garment this year, wool in it, or will in so thick and fast as it will be through S - HELLMAN'S, Corner 13th and Farnam St,, Omaha, Neb,