Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 13, 1891, Page 10

HE p A WIZARD WORKS THE CLOUDS High and Dry Altitud Manufactu SHO CHEYENNE SECURES The Burlington Extension to Mor —Wyoming's Irrigation Ores—Progress c the Nor And the Rain Came. Fxtraordinary interest has been excited by the experiments tor the production of rain by means of explosives and chemical gases. Tho former method had long sines passed the do- main of theory. Tho disturbance of the atmosphere caused by heavy caunonading on battleficids almost invariably produced rai But in all such wero favorablo - that is, low altitudes and humid atmosphere, Tho suce g tho ox- plosions of toy bailoons by General De, furth in the arid regions of Texas confirms a fact and demonstrates that even in the arid regions, with unfavorablo atmospheric condi- tions It is possible for man to control the eloments. By far the most important experiment with the chemical theory was that made by M bourne at Cheyenne last week, The Onio wizard contracted to produce rain withfn three days from beginning of operations and his expenses were guarauteed by the eiti- zons. Melvourne claims that ho produces rain vy the generation of certain gases, mostly h: drogen, which escape through tho apertu in tho *0of of his box and ascending to tho upper air strata produce at once the meteoro- logleal conditions necessury to the precipita. tion of rain. Further than this be will not explain his process. He will nov tell what the mysterious gases are nor how they are produced. Saturday evening, August commenced work, He established himself in the loft of a barn in tho suburbs of the cit for threo days. Tho only apparatus or chemicals he took into his retreat wore contained in foua ordinary gripsacks. The windows of the barn were carefully shaded with blankets, and the crevices in tho floor of the barn loft covered to prevent any eye ponctrating the mystery of the rain-making nboratory. All day Sunday and Monday the barn was watched by the curious, but no one ventured to intrude upon the privacy of the rain king, as It was said he had a big revolver to discourage intruders. Monday a curious phenomena was nessed in the evolutions of the clouds. morning opened clear oud bright, towards noon clouds rolled in from all por- tions of tho horizon. When near the rain muker's barn they scemed tc become sta tionary and changed from cumulous to cumu- locarro stratus or rain clouds. Thousands of people watched them with interoest, expect ing a ram fall, but brisk winds sprung up and separated thom into fragments of scud and the day closed as clear and bright as when it began. uesday morning opened clear, but noon the clouds commenced to roil toward the city. Melbourne had until Tuesdny eve- ning to bring the rain, and there was much excitement over the outcome. Bets were made of two to ono that he would fail, and considerable money was put up. Melbourne's brether,who was with him, had money to meet overy offer. Irom noon thevo seemed to be an unending struggle in the clouds, Masses of them crowded in from the horizen appur- outly attracted toward the rain doctor’s point of vantage overlooking the city. Business was almost suspended and thous- ands of people were on the streets watching the clouds. At 2:40 o'clock tiiere was a neavy peal of thunder and a vivid flash of lghtning, and in a few moments the rain oamo down in torrents. It continued twenty minutes and then the clouds broke and tho sun came out bright and warm. Half an hour later ramn commenced falling again, and fell unceasingly for nearly an hour. 'The entire precipitation to 8 o'clock Tuesday evoning was 45-100 of an nch. The signal ofticer reported tho humidity of the at- mosphere at §2 ten minutes before the rain and 85 when tho rain commenced to fall, & most singular phenomenon. Tho result was satisfactory to the commit- teo, and £150 was voted to Melbourne. Atmospheric conditions wore agajust tho success of Melbourne’s experiment. The signal sorvico officer at Cheyenno says that aftor the storm of August 27 the barometer sottled at about normal. ‘“‘The movements of the clouds, which was noticed Tuesday was quite remarkable to say tho least, as thoy camo from the north and were borno eastward by the southwest wind and instead of being absorbed secmed to accumulate, which is contrary to the general conditions of clouds that float on a westerly wind in this section.” instances conditions $s ut ren- 29, Melbourne wit- The but THE SECOND TEST. Melbourne's second test began Saturday worning of lasy week and closed at 4 p.m. TPuesday last. Tho result was not a succoss. Light rains fell, but the copious showe promised failed to materialize. The wi worked his apparatus for all it was worth, and emerged from his eyrie in a barn some- what crestfallon. He declured that within twenty-five miles of Cheyebue heavy rains must have fallen. His failure locaily he attributed to a heavy and rapid ourrent in the uppor atmosphero, which carried his gases to distant points. Confidence in Mel- bourne is not shaken in Cheyenne, The Sun says: “We all kunow how rigorously the committeo set its limitations prosoribing a prodigions amount of water and specifying tho time in which it should e delivered: It is also kuown how liberally all tho require- ments were fulfilled. Nevertheless, Mel- bourne procceded on the following day to heap up tho measure,” The rain compeller goos to Halt Lake next weok and will experiment thero for the bene- 1it of the irrigation convention, ON TO H The Burlington’s Extension to Mon- tana’s Capital, Thero is no longer a reasonable doubt of the determination of the Burlgton com- pany to wvado Montana, It is merely a question of time,and very short time at that, when Omaha will have direct rail communi- cation with Holena, and the distance from Helona to Chivago cut down 200 miles, ‘Throe years ago Senator Sanders chaper- oned a survoying party for the Northwestern from Dakota to the eapital of Montana, and the belief became general in that seotion that the Northwestern would be the first to break Into the charmed domain of Henry Villard and Jim Hill. A gencral deprossion of business chilled tho enthusiasm of the com- pany, and the survey came to naught. Tho western trafilo agreement also puta quictus on wostern railrond building, each company mereeing to suspend operatons for five years, But the Burlington chafed under restraint, 1t klcked over tho traces. The Black Hills oxtension was put through last year, and at the present moment the compauy is rushing work on the extension of the main lina from Newcastlo to Buffalo, at the foot of the Big Horn mountaizs, 1f the trafic agreement mounted to anythiug, theso extensions should have been prevented. They were mada in tho territory of the Northwesters one of the agreeing companies, and the fact that no attempt was made to eall down the Burlington, indicates that the signors did ot rogard that part of the agreement worth tho ink. The Burlington 13 in the country for buisness, and generally goes whore business 18 to be bad That 1s one of the cheerful characteristics of the com proy. | Ostensibly o prosent rush to Buffalo is to reach the stock trade, but no one supposes the company would stop stort n tho center of North Wyoming and be_con- ent with spasmodio business. Buffalo is erely @ strategic polnt—possibly & winter stopping station. Surveying parties bhave already traversed the entire distance from Newcastlo to Heleua, and different routes mapped out. One follows the foothills on the east'side of the Big Horn mountains, Emslng the Northern Paciic at or near ilings, thonco to the Mussclishell valloy aud west into Helena. The Buffalo Echo Juggests anothor route on which surveyors Law es No Obstacle to the re of Rain. WER BATHS TO ORDER. itana and Other Railroad Projects High and Low Grad )t Development in ‘thwest, Aro now at we contomplates passing throngh the mountains into the valley of the Big Horn river and following the course of the stream to or noar its junction with tho Yellowstone. ‘This survey ivdicates a d termination to roach the National Park, th boundary of which lies a short distance’ west of the Big torn river. Such a lino will not only secure @ lavge toivist travel to the parlk, but will accelerato development of the mineral resources of Bald mountain, the rich- ness of which is now coming into lic notice, It is immaterial what route Omaha and Nebraska aud tho ) interested chiefly in tho opening of direct rail communication with Montana and the ostablishmeut of business relations that can hardly fuil to prove cnormously profitable to 3 all. chosen rihwest are IS THIS A LINK OF 1T 1 Tn this connection it will bo news to most peopie to learn that there is another Rich- mond in the Big Horn flold—a mystcrious Tho Brx is in receipt of a note from hie Big Horn Railrond company, W voming Montana,” with headquarters in the Pa- cific bullding, Washington, D, C. It says: “We have formed an_ organization to con- a railroad through Wyoming from sper, or other powtin the south astern portion of the_stato and thence up tho Big Horn River to Montana, the build- ing of tho road, however, depending upon the encouragement receiv from those seoc. tions of the state through which the routo may be projectod {Wae have noticed tho_entorprise displayed by Tie BEE in advertising measures to es- tablish closer business rolations between N braskaand Montana, and if not too much trouble, will you kindly seud us clippings from ik DAty Bex 7and Y on this subject. “Wo would be glad (o keep in communica- tion with Tir: Bre and tho citizens of Omaha who may take an active wterest in securing for that city, the important business adva tages of more direct railroad facilities with the states of Wyoming and Montana, “Senator Warren of Wyoming is intor- ested i the Big Horn Valloy railroad and believes that a north and south line through the interior of Wyoming would bo a great success.” b LOW Interesting Review of Great Mining Property Values. Mr. Albert Williams, a distinguished min- 1ng engineer of Denver, bias a paper iu the September number of the Engineering Mag- azine, New York, entitled “Investments in Mining Properties,” in which be gives a most interesting review of the changes that have como over the investing public in recent years, in the master of mining propertios. It will be found especially wtercsting to every one who has looked into that character of enterprise. Referring to the yield of the most celebrated mining propertics, he says A mino to be a good ‘compauy mine’ should be a large one and worked on a large scale. In order to pay divideads on shares numbering from 100,000 to 1,000,000, the profits have to bo considerable or the divi- dend per share becomes insignificant and ais- appointing. It is seldom for instance that the California corporations, operating mines mainly in Nevada, offer their shareholdcrs less than 25 cent dividends, which on the usual capitalization of $10,000,000 in 100,000 shares would mean the very respectablo sum of §25,000. One such dividend a year would be a creditablo exhibit for a miné owned by one or two persons. Thus, t0 b @ promis- ing purchase for a proposed corporation, @ wino ought to be ono which can be worked by a considerablo force to insure steadiuess of output, A rich but narrow vein, where only a limited number of men have room for stoping, may be tho best for individual ownership, sinca running expen- ses aro low; but it is not so good for n company as n large deposit of lower grade, capable of being extensively opened and pro- senting large breasts in_the stopes, with a more regular output. The most reliable goid mines have been of very low grado but with largo and regular deposits. In California $15 a ton is considered a very fair basis for a company mine if the ore is in quantity; but a very much lower tenor has been worked th great profit in the exceptionally largo doposits of the Black Hills and Alaska & aton would leave a tiberal mal dividends. 1In fact most of the famous mines have not been of high grade, the gold ore rarely showing any metal to the eye, so that most miners have a prejudice against what are called “specimen mines.” Tho same thing holds, to a less extent, with silver and dore mines, On the Comstock the heavt of tho “big bonanza (the greatest body ever known) only averaged $50 per ton, mcluding the richest streaks, and that was thought to bo high. The great silver wines of Mon- tana bave not average anything like as much, “There have been exceptions, notably in Ari- zona, Colorado and Utah, where high grade ores'in comparatively smail wmounts have produced larzely; but speaking generally, lebrated niines have not been of thab WYOMING'S IRRIGATION LAW. Unique System of State Control of Water Distribution. The federal census oftice express admira- tion of Wyoming's wrigation law. A recent veport issued from that office pronounces the law ‘‘unique in this, that the state does not necessarily wait for contzoversios and losses to arise, but of its own motion steps in and ascertains how much water is availabla for irrigation, who arothe claimants of this water, and then, kuowing theso fundamental facts, wives the use of the water to the proper persous, and employs its own agents to seo that the distribution is made.” Tu that state, at least, thero will no longer be the lmost ludierous spectacle of learned judges solomnly decreeing tho right to from two to 1ive times the amount of water flowing in the stream, or, in fact, to amounts so great that the channel of the stroam could not possibly carry them, thus practically leaving tho questions at stakoe as unsettled as bofore, The stato 1s divided 1wto four grand divis- ions, each in o general way coincident with the drainage areas of the great hydrographic basins of tho Platte, the tributaries of the Yollowsiono east of the Big Horn range, those west of tho Biz Horn range, and the stremns lowing into the great intetior busin of the Colorado, The stato engineer has chavge of all the details of water distribu- Jtion throughout the state, and he, with four superiutendents, ono from each water division, couostitutes a board of control ' o determine all questions that may arise. Under each super- intendent are & number of water commis- siouors, one for each minor distriet, whose auties are to enforce the proper distribution and carry out the local vogulations. Tho stato engineer is to make measurements of the amount of water in the stream, to deter. wine the most suitable location for irrigation works and lands to be irrigated, and, further, 1o examiue reservoir sites and publish esti: wates of the cost of storage and distributing systems. Tho superintendent in each division is to make suitable rogulations to securo the fair distribution of water, and by the ajd of the water commissioners 'to keop a record of the amount of water needed, avallable or wasted, or if the water is not justly distributed he must onforee division according to his list of priorities. The board of control, of which the atate cugineer is the head, oan appoint & date upon which to examine into tho rights of all persons using wator from any stream. and KNOwing the awount of water available, OAMHA | trusted to them DAILY stermined by the state engineer, as woll as the area ot land irrizated or suscoptible of irrigation, can make an order determining the rights of each person, giving to no appro- priator more water than he can pit to benefl- c1al use, the maximum limitation b « sot at one second foot for seventy acres, Each per- | son is thon given a_certificate showing the order of priority, the amount of water to which he is entitled, and the number of acres upon which the water is to be used. - No future appropriating of water can be made until the board of control is satisfied that there is unappropriated water, and that vill not be detrimental to the public interests, I'ho second toot is made the legal unit, thus avoiding the trouble aristng from the tise of that indefinite quantity, that min or's fuch. Each appropriator must matntain bead gates by which the water can be turned on or off, flume for measuring the il dams over 5 feet in id diverting water must state engineer, thus in- stion of such struc It is_apy that the State Kngi- s Board of Control hold the most im- ant offices in tho stato so far as agricul- sts aro concerncd, and by o wise skillful exercise of the functions in- can bri about a thorough development of tho agricultural resources of the state, tor Wyoming, like Colorado, is most fortunately situated’ as_regards water supply. With the exception of a part of tho headiwaters of the North Platte and Bear, ull the streamns rise within the stato, and are thus unaer the control of state officers with: out hindrance from outside parties. Appar- ently only such water as Wyoming cannot use need be discharged neross her bovders to . the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho and She holds the koy to tho storehouse of agricultural wealth A BLIND PIONEER, BEE, ns poroved by the suring an ofcial i neer Remarkable Carec Settler, Captain William Itenton, one of the great- est pioneers of the stato of Washington, diea in Seattle recently, leaving an estate valued at &3,000,000. Renton was a man of large mould, brave, energetic, and generous, combining in large measure the characteristics of true pioneers He was born in 1315 at Pictou, Nova Scotia, of a race of hardy marin, At an early age he took to the soa and cruisod among various Atlantic ports in America and Europs. Flin- ally aftor one or two narrow escapes from death by wrock, oue during u tornado at Ha- vana in (347, he sailod for the Pacitic coast, and reacied San Francisco in 1550. Two years later he came to Puget Sound of 1 Washington and he was thus one of tho very earliest settlers. At that tima the wholo of western Wash- ington was an unbroken forest with tiny clearings at Turnwater, Olympia, and Steila- coom. Captain Itenton'started a'sawmill at Alki 1’oint, a few miles from where Seattlo now stands. At first tho output was about 10,000 feot a day. But ho changed the site of his mill seve times and the business steaa- ily grow until at the day of his death he was chiof owner in the great Port Blakeley mill on tho sound, It is the largest lumber mill in the United States, and cau turn out from 300,000 to 400,000 feet a day. His success in this business was but a part of ns general suceess, for tho fiery energy and mental grasp that enabled him to mun- age the huge mill and its many outlying log- ging camps carried to & prosperous termina- tion whatever he undertook. He did not, like many of the early settlers, sit down and grow sick from the development of the coun- try, but he exoended his means freely in every enterprise that gavo promise. Ho was one of the first to ventura with his lumber 1nto foreign ports, and ho built up such a largo trade that of the (3,554,000 feet cut at his mill 1n 1350, there were 34,995,551 feot for foreigu shipment. When coal was discovered about fourteen S o, capitalists wero slow to dovelop the mine. But Captain Renton invested his money, and the place which grew up around the mine wa wiven his name. His public spirit was indi- cated agam in 1872, when the Northern Pa- cific railroad had deciared ics intention of making its terminus at Tacoma, Then the peopleof Seattle wanted to build a railroad across tho Cascado mountains to reach the rich grain fiolds of castern Washington. Ho gave outright s a subsidy a tract of eighty acres, now in the heart of this city. And so it went; ha shared his fortune freely with churches, hospitals, asylumus, and what- ever secmed to make for the public good. If any man were hurt in his logging camps or mills—and accidents wero many-—- he always paid the doctor’s bills, and & man permanent) disabled was pensioned. Ho had vast holdings of land and he lent much money on real estate mortgages, but he was never known to fore- close & mortgage on a poor man; indeed, he would borrow money on his own account rather than foreclose. Captaw Renton's carcer is rendered more striiing by the fact that for the last seven- teen vears of his life he was blind, so that he could just distinguish daylight 'from dark, Yot bis hearing was so acuto that he could sit in the room of his mill and instantly de- tect any break in the complicatod machinery or irregularity in its oporation. Through ail the years of darkness he never once lost courage, but went about his work as usual. A fow months ago ho went east to consult an occulist, only to learn that total blindness would soon come upon him. Apparently un- moved, he went on planning and executing even greater projects than before, and ho carried in his memory all the dotails and ac- counts of his vast businoss. HAY CREEK COAL. Article of Fuel Close to the Hilis, Hay Creok coal is attracting attention in Black Hills citios. The locality is on tho Wyoming side of the range, and lack of transportation facilities prevents a movo gen- cral marketing of the product. Tho Dead- wood Pioneer says coal was first found hero as early as 1577, and more or loss work has been done every year siuce and many thou- sands of dollars been expended in develop- ment. Hundreds of tous of coal have been mined and consumed. For years the Hay Creck Coal company has supplied many of the inhabitants of Spearfish, Minuesula and the surrounding country with coal. A test was maae by the Fromont, Elkhorn & Mis- souri Vatley railroad ina'run from Waite- wood to Chadron, and wo are rehavly in- formed, was pronounced’a first-class article. The Hay creek conl is prononuced by un- prejudiced oxperts to be far superior to the Fetterman and Douglas cosl, and even a stronger coal than that produced at New- castle. ‘Tho vein that has been opencd in voth the Young and the Hay Creok proper ties is from four to six feet in thickness, in- ereasing as the tunuels are extended, of a remarkably solid_appearance and quito freo from sulphur, which without doubt will dis- apvear entirely as groater depth is attained It ulso stands exposuro and does not slack readily, ‘which is a great trouble with many bituminous coals. This coal will undoubtedly wake a superior quality of coke. The veinis all solid coal, frev from bone and slate, and is easily mined. The properties are too valuablo to remain unworked nuch longer, and will 500n be worked in an extensive manner, GRAIN GALORE, A First-Class rth Dakota's Golden Granary. A correspondent of the Minneapoiis Tr bune reports that ho has been in 164 grain flelds in North Dakota within the last three weoks, traveling for that purpose nearly 1,700 miles and covering a scope of country reaching northward to Pembina and west- ward to Bismarck. No crov at all compara ble with it erbofore this been harvested in the wheat fields of the northwest. He estimates the actual damage to the wheat by frost at about 7 per cent for the entire state, aud the collateral wjury by reduction in grades may amount to @s much as 15 per cent. Flax was found to bo badly injured and the corn almost anmhilated in nearly every section visited, the frost having told severely on the latter. Tbe full damage, actual and collateral, to ull the vegetanlo and cereal crops will probably reach 15 to 20 per cont. But this loss is insignificant as com pared with the total production. It might be doublo what it is and still the people of North Dakota would receive 100 per cent more money for what romains than has becn paid into the state during any one of the last tive years. ‘Lo wheat now belug thrashed in going No. 1 hard 1n nearly every case, but it 13 expeoted that markoted later will show somo falling off because of frosting. The crop is also “immense and unexampled" that in almost every instance met with during the A Glimpse of SUNDAY tip tho farmessshad underestimated the yield fully 20 per cent, and 1n no single case whero thrashing had begun had the wheat fallen short of preyjbus estimates. VARIED WHEALTH, Steady Developmient of Washington's Hegonrces. The Philadelpbia Record speaks in glowing terms of the natural wealth of tho state of Washington, which it dubs *‘the Pennsylva- nia of the Pacifiaslope.” The designation is true. Washington has magnificent forests of timber, a largo area.of which is annually de- stroyed to make room for farms. It is al- ready known that in cighteen counties of Washington workable veins of coal exist covering an area of 1,000,000 acres, Thecoal is found in ten difforent measures, varyingin quality and composition from the true cannel, showing 88 per cent of volatilo hydrocarbons to a semi-anthracite of 91 per cent of fixed carbon. Between theso extromes are found conls adapted to all uses for making gas, steam, coking, For both lumber and coal thero is a good home and foreign demand on the Pacific coast he fertility of the soil fs unsurpassed, and with the exception of a desert east of the Cascade range, it is yielding bounteously. Mineral resources aro extensive and valuablo and are attracting wido attention. With a fruitful soil, delightful climate and a magnifi- cent endowment of material for cheap manu facturing, the future prosperity of the new state in tho extreme nerthwest is assured No wonder that cities are growing up on Puget Sound as, while Apollo sang, *llion like & mist rose iuto towers.” Another Burlington Enterprise, The Salt Lake Tribune reports the organi- zation of the Utah & Wyoming railroad com- pany, a strictly local concern. The corp or- ators are B, G. Raybould, S. . Walker, W. S. Martin, Alfred Thompsos, Henry Den- halter, W. L. Pickard, L. C. Karrick, Frank Kuox, Theodore Brough and J. B. Taylor of Salt Lake City, and a number of Denve capitalists are interested in the eastern di- vision, which will be inown as the Wyom- ing & Eastern, and will connect with tho Utah & Wyoming at Twin creek. The local company has amplo capital with which to carry on its operations. The complotion of the road will givo the Burlington & Miss- ouri, of which tho roads mentioned will be adjuncts, the most foasiblo route to the Pa- SEPTEMBER 13 IXTEEN and smashoed dishes and furniture. A little girl was knocked flat in the yard and a wo- man was 80 paralyzed from tho olectric shook that she was unabie to move for several min- utes. Utah, Salt Lake racos begin October 5, aggregato £,000, Salt Loke City is to have n large stamping and tinware factory. The Horn silver mine tons of ore per month Tho La Plata mining district is developing splendidiy. Capital and muscle are pouring into the camp, Tho Dunford Shoa company has been in corporated in Salt Lake City. The capital stock is 820,000 in 200 shares of $100 each. _The mineral output of tho territory con- tinues good, and whilo thero is no oxcite- ment thero i a general activity noticeablo in all the districts. Reports from Bingham, Tintic, Park City and Deep Creok aro to the effoct that new and rich strikes are being made daily, and the outlook at the last named district could not be better. “The statistical report of Weber county for 1880 gives the following totals: Population, © stores number 136, with a capital oy 850 hands, who receive 03, The sales of theso mercan- tile "mnstitutions amounted to $5,956,515 in 18W. There are 34 indust | concerns, em- ploying 403 hands, who receive 70,300 in Lally. Pursos is producing 2,300 Nevada, White Pine is in the vortex of a boom. A rich lead of antiwony has been ered 1n Nyo connty As aninducement to matrimonially inclined young mon Carson points to twenty-two widows who own property worth §1,000 or more, Mamie Soul, the discov- bello of Carson, was of- fered a wager vy some men that she could not run from Sutro to_ Dayton in thirty min- utes. The stake was §0 and she accepted it. She made the distanco, three miles, in loss than twenty-four minutes and was nono tho worso for it. She is but 16 years of age, and shows to the world the sort of bono and mus- clo produced by the invigorating climate of Novada 1daho. A railroad between Boise City and Butte is talked of, A rich strike is reported in the Tr lar mine near Siluer City. “The output of ore in the Coeur d'Alene dis de Dol- trict this yearis expected to reach $10,000,000. cific coast. It ali goes well the promotors of the Utah & Wyoming expeet to have their line in operation before the expiration of six months, “The line starts fromn ¢ ing an_outlet through the nortia side, in which there will bo 'six tunnels, the longest of which will bo 3,500 feet and the shortest ninety-two feet. 'rom the canon the line will _pass through PPa ley’s park thence down Silver creek to Wan- ship, thence down the Weber to Coalville then up Chalk creck to the summit of the di vide, and from there 1t will be plain sailing on the mesa to Bear river, which will be foliownd down to Hay k, where the di- ide will bo crossed to Twin' ereele and the survey of the Burlington & Missouri, now completed, meet. The heaviest grado is only rcont'and 1s at Silver creck and the heaviest curve at Coalville, only 8 per cent. Grading was commenced about two wec ago, and about filty-cight miles have already been completed. The road will be 197 niles long and will tap country rich in oai, building stone, timber, live stock and SeEleilicaliprodiiciahbs dSh AR T el o) mineral country. Branches to Park City, tho Grass Credk coal fields and to kvanston, via Yellow creck, are contomplated. A One-Armea Rustler. A onc-armed miner from the east is the wonder and admiracion of the Newcastlo (Wyo.) coal diggings. He averages $1 a day shoveling coal at the regular price paid for day labor. Ho has been pulling pillars, and handled the drill, pick' and shovel with an expertness that astonishes ‘an old timer. One of his arms is off year the shoulder, and he throws the coal into the cars by placing the suovel bandlo against uis leg und lifting the coal with oune hand. it Lake City. find- migration _canon, on South Dakota, Work has been commenced on a new Mothodist church at Sioux Falls to cost $15,000. The semi-montaly bullion shipmeut of the Hometake and associated mines aggregated 255,000, Ore from the Bear Lodgo mountains, cleven miles from Sundance, carry 20 per cent of copper. The vacaucy created by the death of Con- gressman John 5. Gamble is to be filled at tho November clection, A striko of silicious oro, nssaying $23 ton, was made at the 100 foot lovel in shaft of the Welcome min Notwithstandiug _prohibition Sioux Falls per the ims to have a suficiency of Souks to make A suceess. k company has commenced building its mill which will be finished Feo- ruary 1. Its capacity will be 230 tons per day. L. M. Purdy, who died in_Yankton cently, resided in tho state and territory up- wards of tiventy years and was at one timo territorial auditor. The Burlington & Missouri River and tho Fremout & Missouri Valley railroads aro now hauling on au average 200 tons of ore perday from the mines of Ltuby und Bald districts. A striko of silicious ore, assaying $100 per ton in gold, is reported from the Iidna loca- tion at den Uity, Specimens showing free gold, unusual occurrences in silicious ore,wero exbivited in Deaawood. A state bank has been orzanized at White- wood. The capital of the bank is $10,000 and the geutleman organizing it are D. A, McPherson, William_ Selbie, T\ J, Grier, D, K. Dickiuson and J. W. Frecman, Harris Fraukling und associates have just made first payment of 35,000 to He Lundt and Louis Town for a group of ¢ claims at Bald Mountain. The purchaso price is 35,000, balance being due January 1, 1801 ‘The Buxton company, owning a group of six patented claims in Bald Mountain dis- trict, has just completed a shipment of one lot of 700 tons of §5 ore to Omala and Au- vora, IiL, and is preparing to forward 3,000 tons' moro of the same quality of ore to'the same plants. Says the Black Hills Pioneer ris roturned yesterday from Omaha, whither he haa goue Lo secure a rate for the low grade output of the mives at Galena, He took with him a car load of samples from the differcat mines and had them tested at the Omaha smeltivg works, The resuit was outively satisfactory, and a smelting rate of Bart Har on secured for all ores that do not run e 825 a ton. Phiswill make the cost of shipping and smeltiig these ores avout §11,50 a great reduction 1rpl | former price Wyonling. Newcastle offers Melbourne $300 for rain Wyoming borses aye beiug shipped to Mis- sissippi. Rawlins has contr cost about §20,000, ‘Pwenty prospectsdn the La Plata distvict are worth from 0 tp §250 a ton alysis of the plumoago discovered in Plata district proves it to b without special value, Lander people were taken in by a bilking building and loan association, with headquu- ters in Montana, Eyanstou peoplo do not enthuse over the Utah & Wyoming rdilfoad scheme, regarding it as purely speculative. Active development work at Gold Hill is at present contined principally to the Leviathan claim and those located on the Acme hill H. I, Jolnson, a La Plata miner, came into Laramie with a'bug in bis ear, and it was liko the tormeut of a thousand demons, The noise of the inseot hus disuppeared but Johu- son 1s now deaf in the right ear The will of the late Rev. John Y. Cowhick of Cheyenuo has been broken. Judge Scott decided that the documeut was too faulty in form for probate, and the property will go the heirs at law. Failure to bave the will witnessed was fatal to it S. A. Iden informs tho Sheridan Post that the apple trees on his Beaver creck are so loaded with fruit that the | bending to the ground. Ho says saw apple trees in uy ry with a splendid quality of frait. t'rom an almost cloudless sky a bolt ot jpd for waterworks to he ne cou 50 burdened lightniug desconded to earth, dug a big hole in the rouf of & big miner's house at Carbou General Lafayetto Carter, for fourteen years surveyor general of Idaho, died on the 1, azed 68, The Union Pacitic company will try to run a steamer between Lewiston and tho Seven Devils district, An electric drill in an Idaho mine recently nerformed the feat of boring a two inch hole through twenty feet of solid granite . four hour: ontana. The silver smolter at ( operation The greatest obstaclo Butte is bad water. It is refiably reported that Butte is soon to bave another newspaper. . Erancis Murphy disposed of 2,000 pledges in Butte in two weele ‘The Montanu Press association took its annual bath in Salt lake lust week, The condition of the lake is unfit for publication. * Moutana’s sales of cattle this year are ox- pocted to reach $7,000,000 or 5,000,000 With this and her immense bullion product and her large returns from agriculture, the young state hus the prospect of a protty fair in: come. Some rich di eat [alls is in to temperanco in coveries are reported in lowey's gulch, adjoining the Iron mountain district. Until'this summer it was not sup- posed thero was any quartz in that section, but the prospectors have found high-grade galena of the sume character as that founa 1 the Little Anaconda. Much complaint has been made recently of cattle stealing. News has beeu received from Custer county that the cattlemen have taken the law into their own hands and have lynched Jerry Thompson, a notorios rustler, and nis companions, who' were caught in tho act of changing tho' brands, Helena and St. Paul parties havo bought the Goldsmith mine, near Walkerville, from corge Tong, paying for it $125,000. It is ono of the best silver proptrties 1n the Summit district, 18 thoroughly opened up toa depth of 400 feet, and has yiclded already several hundvred thousand dollars. Secretary Prettiv of the Board of Live Stock Commissioners estimates that up to this time 50,000 head of cattlo have been shipped from Montana to markets in the east, averaging a not price of $10 per head. Up 10 tho same time last year tho shipments only 24,000 and tha'not price £20, Montana so fur this year 3,500,000 revenue from cattle. Cattlemen never had such a year as this in Montana. Besides getting plenty of feed ranchmen have beon cnabled to cut an abun- dance of hay to store away agoinst any pos- siblo 'y next winter. Besides being a banner year for cattle it beou 1 prosperous one” for sheep also. Tho wool clip was large and in most cases 1s far above tho average, and the prices obtained, while not high, have been fair Washington. ing debt of the stato on August was $204,276.47. Seattle’s tax vate this total valuation of & 3 “Terrible forest fires aro raging in the Cas- cado mountains. T fircs extend a distanco of twenty-five miles, Bear are getting plentiful in the Kootenai country. Several have been seen near town recently, and in the Kootenai valley they are reported to be numerous. Twety-four veterans aro now inmates of the state soldiers’ home. Of the appropri tion made by the last legislaturo &30,600 huvo been expended, leaving $14,400 on hand, Next year will bo the centennial anuive sary of the first visit of whito men to what is now the state of Washington, In May, 1392, Vancouver visited tho coast of that ate, Irequent reports of discoveries of new coal ficlds in Whatcom county are being made, and the splendid showing of the Bluo Cauyou mine has given . great impetus to prespecting. This year's wheat erop js estima thirteen to fifteen million bushel age yield por acre for 1500 is put at 2 els, “though yields of bushels aro common. The people of Whidby istand are fighting Chinese gardenors and farmers are rofusing to lease them lands, year tho frugal Mongols will have 730 acres which will yield seven tons to tho ac e, makinga total of 5,260 tons, which at $10 per ton yields the shu profit of §25,000. 41 mills on a i at from Tho ave ) bush- from forty fo sixty Oregon Nearly §35,000 has beon raised i stock for a hosiery and _underwear factory to be built at Watorloo, Liun county. President Polk of the National farmers’ al liance will visit Oregon in Octobe nd will make two speechos, one at Portland aud one in vastern Oregon. Linn county was namad in honor of United States ator Lewis I, Linn of Missouri, who introduced the memorial in congress in 15340 to have Oregon dec od a territory. E. W. Hammond, the Wimer, Jackson county boanist, estimates that there are 400,000,000 feet of lumber in the trees af Ore. gon, the transportation of which would re- Quire 200 car loads per day for cach working day in'tho year for a thousand years, This allows three pounds to the s toot and 20,000 pounds to the car. As o result of a disastrous Dalles, about one-third of the and not less tha 1,000 Eighteen blocks cluding five or tunately two furuished shelte whom the fire rendered homeless. Hop pickiug has commenced in most of the yards in the vicinity of Kug and thou sauds of pickers are now engaged in gather. ing tho crop. Some ¢amage on accouut of the lice is reported, but a fair crop will pfob ably be saved. The market is very disrou aging to the growers, and buyers are yefus- g to advance the cost of picking, on account of which some yards will not b picked Californ P\ L. Caroli suicided with ay Francisco. 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This gives “the Calfornia raisin men no advantage in competition with the Spanish producers. At this new rato it will be impossible for Californians lay down loose raisius in New York loss than (%] conts or 7 conts par b whilo Valencia ratsins aro sold at 6 Fourtecn years ngo a movement was be guo in San Francisco to erect a statue to Starr King, the eloquent pulpit orator, who did more than any other > man 1o rouse a patriotic feeling in California during th war of the rebellion, and who was the lead ing spirit in securing the largest sum for the sanitary commission given by any state in tho Uunion. The work is now ue and in November the statue will in Golden Gato park. 1t is 1 bronze, vot bigh. It was roic sizo, elove by Danel C. French of New York I CURE FITS! When 1 say curo I do uot » them for a time and th them roturn again. 1 radical cute, | have mado the diseass of FITS, LEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a lifo-lorg st warrant my remody to cure the worst cases. 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