Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 20, 1891, Page 10

NATURES CHOICEST STORES| Overflowing Measures THE of Natural Wealth Decking the Imperial Northwest. LIKE SOLOMON'S GLORIE Resume of Wyoming’s Vast Resor THE HALF HAS NOT BEEN TOLD. urces—A Lurid Word-Picture of Montana’s Treasures—S8outh Dakota and the World's Fair —Marvels of the Census- Summary The Mining Convention. The Wyoming mining convention has passed into history. It was not as largs and representativo as it sbould have been, nor was the mineral exhibit worthy of the state, yeot on the whole it served to bring together the progressive energy of the state and to give the outside world an enlarged view of the wonderful natural resources of tho youngost stato in tho union, ‘That its ro- sources aro vast and varied was demonstrated anew by tho men who are in the foretront of the work of dovelopment. Its fame as a stock raising state is world-wide. On its broad bosom is from twonty to thirty thou- sand square miles of coal fields, with veins of unparalieled thickness and of exceliont quality. ~ Building material is abundant. Granites in all varieties, as well as limo- stone, sandstono and marbles of pure white, buff and rose. In many locatities are moun- tains of iron ore, magnetic and rod herma- | tite. The petroleum belt Is 130 miles long and the quantity and quality of the fluid rivals the Pennsylvanin product. Hero, too, are tho greatest deposits of soaa 1n the known world, and abundanco of sand for the manu- facturo of gluss. Sulphate of magnosia, as- phalt, plumbago, kaolin, fireclay, asbestos, mica and sulphur exist in vast quantities. In the precious motals \Wyoming gives promise of rivaling if not surpassing any state in tio west. ‘T'he mountains are ribbed with gold and silver, tho extont of which is Yow being dotormined. The La Plata, Gold Hill and Bald Mountain districts furnish strong evidenco of the hidden wealth of the stato. Wyoming's ngricultural rosources aro superior to those of any Koeky Mountain state, There are 600 streams with nlm_ml- ance of pure water and with valleys of rich- et soils, some ten millions square acres in all. One million dollars has already boor in- vested in irrigating, canals, and _ditches, ag- ating 3,000 miles. Wyoming is wountainous, broken with valloys in all directions and affords unequalled facilities for building Tadlways into every important district, at small éxpenso. Allin all tno state is un- surpassed for its varied resources, its mag nificent scenery and splendid climate, and is aestined to become a great and prosperous commonwealth, HOW FARES GOLD HILL. of Work in Great Camyp. Cold Hill's prospects are growing brighter every day, according to the Saratoga Sun, Not only arc now strikes being constantly mado, but assurances are given that several stamp mills will be in operation beforo snow flies. Without making auy great ado over their plans, ropresentatives of an eastern company with large capital, have boen nego- tinting for the establishment in the camp of mportant milling enterprisos. Interesss in various promising claims bave been offored this company on condition that mills for working the oros shall be speodily erected. Theso propositions are now under considera- tion ‘with excellen: chances of & deal being consummated. i On the Fnterprise yein another quartz vein was discovered, two feet wide, that pros well on the surface. In appearance i unlike the Acme, The new find is parallel to the vemn on which a_tifty-foot shaft was put down 100 feet north of it. Silver indications have been found on numerous claims in the camp of late, Ouo of the most hotable was on tho Fodunk, owned by McAllister Bros. & Hooten, located a mile and a quarter from tho Greenville towusite. Aua depth of ten feet, a streak of mineral cawe in that was an inch wide, from which an assay of 1850 ounces of silver was ob- talned. Tho shaft was put down twenty-two feot, the oro body filling the shaft. ~Tho silver bdaring ore had then widened out to oighteen inches, The quartz prospects gold and occasional pockets were come across of black oxide of manganese. McAllister brothers have another claim called tho Annie Rooney, a mile southwest of Greenville on the south sideof the south fork of Brush creek, that shows a three-foot ledge that prospects well in gold at a depth of ten or twelve feet. This is sufficient proof that the mineral area of the camp is constantly being enlarged. Samuel Stirley, who has the east extension of the Aunie Rooney—that Do calls the King Solomon—has taken out Bome good, free milling ore. Hart & Lowls are oponing a promising claim, the Occident, half a mile northwest of Greenville, In the F'rench creek country, that forms a part of the Gold Hill district,ana within two and a half or three miles of ‘the camp, dis- coveries of doposits of gold, silver, lead and gray copper of considerable value 'have been mado. Immense ledges of lime, traclite, porphyry, quortzite, shales and slates run through” tho country. In theso are found monster quartz veins that apvear to concen- trato theso aud carry minoral-bearing ores of various kinds. Thero are also hugo de- posits of iron of fine quality. So far little devolopment work has been prosecuted. Captain O. D. Thomas is enthusiastic over his Eaglo's Nost claim, that is on a well de- fined lodge of limestono with shale walls. A prospect shaft, down ten or twelve foet, shows an oloven-foot vein, carrying gray copper, silver aud gold. Ho has a coutract vein aid several other good locations. 1, O. Suwin and Pat Markham have a group of claims that vun well in gold and silyer. The Ajax is an immense vein between slate and lime, with four feetof quartz, from which good gold prospects can be got. The Expert tas five feot of quartz and shows well in gruy copper, galena, silver ana_gold. The Mountain Chief, Klk, Black hawk and Antelopo aro all on the same beit, side by side, with the upper walls in limo' and the lower of hoavy spar. On the Big Buck, the upper sida is lime- stone and the lower in slate. Oxides with gold have been found on this claim. A quartz chimney on the side of the mountain is 40x(0 feot. A tunnel could be run in the hill 300 foot that would tap tho vein at the samo depth. Sopper is nbundant in the Fronch creek country, where it crops out for u long dis- It appears in various forms, in gray copper and sulphates. A gold button, welghing at least twelvo ounces and probably more, was taken to the stato mining convention as the first speci- men of bullion turned out in the Gold Hill camp. It was retorted from tho first clean- up made on the arastra of Arendell, Woods and others, and ropreseats the work of two men for a' week ou Wyoming rock. Tho vaiue of the gold is about §230, Progress Wyoming's RICHES OF MONTANA. The Mayor of Holena Tells Tales Out of School, Mayor Douald Bradford of Helena, Mont., 1s doing tho east and incidentally astonishing the natives with word piotures of Montana, Whilo logeriug in Chicago recently he tuened himself loose in this grandiloquent style: “The westerd half of the state, he said, s Titorally seamod with enormous lodes of gold, silvor, coppar and lead ores. There are mouitains of the fucst qualily of iron and coal, inoxhaustible supplics of marble, por- byry and limestone. Slate quarries and oposits of mice, beds of flue clay aud siliclous sands crop out in all directious. The mountain gulches and river beds are rich with placer gold, ylelding annually into the millions. Montana has 13,000,000 aeres of stauding trees adapted for lumber—a condi- tion equalling Michigan in her best days. Its valleys, if placed in one continuous line, would stretch for 4,000 miles, and their soll eowposed of decomposed limestone, and | of General -California Valuations— News, matter, produces, commonly, crops of wheat turning out fifty bushels to the acre, 100 bushel of oats aid 500 bushels of potatoos, all sold in a_home market at vory high pricos. Along the Missouri river ex- tends a gravel bar fourteen miles long and one milo wide, averaging ten feet deep, which is liberally mixed with saphires and oricntal rubies, soon to be developed by English capital. The pure bracing atmos- pheroand dalightful climate malkes mere ex- istence a continual pleasuzo and maintains man and beast in s condition of perfect health, Asthma simply cannot exist and consumptives find a quick and permanent cure. Tho entire surfaco of the statois covered with luxuriant grasses which, curod in tho ground, are cqual in nourishmont ta oats, and in which in contented plenty room the year round 2,000,000 cattle, 2,500,000 sheep and_ 400,000 horses. Wo will dispose of nearly 30,000,000 worth of products this yoar besides what is Jocally consumed. ““Tha city of Helena, with a population of 18,000, has “nbanking capital with deposits hich exceed such cities as Indianapols, G pids and Rochester, The estimat- ed ngerogato wealth of its citizons gives over £,000 for each man, woman and cmld. The money disbursed by mines within a radius of ono hundred miles reaches 81,000,000 a month for labor and supplies. Monoy is alwnys plentiful because there is a frosh supply dug out of the ground every day winter and sum- mer. With the railroads soon to bo built railway lines will radiate trom the city in thirteen different directions, making it one of the great railroad centers of the country. Its commercial, manufacturing and financiat interests command an undoubted supromacy over all the intor-mountain region ana in- sures a population within ten years exceed- ing 100,000 people.” NERVY TO voleani [ END. A Perforated Highwayman Who Died re. Speaking of the way Colvin held himself togethor for nearly a woek when shot full of daylight like a teredoed pile, said F. W. Hen- shaw to a San Francisco Examiner man, re- mi1lm of wstoey oid D, Taliafers of Saz Rafael used to tell of aSan Quentin convict— ahighwayman in for life. A'lot of prison- ors, under guard, were engaged in unloading A schooner at tho wharf on San Quontin point, and wero orderad to warp the vessol around to anothor landing. The wont aboard and shoved off. Up on the hill the other guards mistook the manaver for an attempt on the part of the convics to escaps. As a consequence thoy trained their cannon on the schooner, and bofore the mistake was discovered bowled overabout a score of prisoners with grape- shot. Dr. Tallaforo was called to attend the wounded men. This is how ho told of his oxperienco with the gritty highwayman : “When I came totho follow I pulled s blunket down, looked at his wound, put the blaket back, and passed to the next patient. Igave him five minutes more of life. A grapeshot had struck him just at the top ot the right hip and passed clear through him, shattering both hip bones and tearing him frightfully. By the time I had made my rounds I'd forgotten all about him.* ““Then a nurse stepped up, saying the high- wayman wanied to spesk to me. I wondered that the fellow was still alive, and went over t0 his couch. ‘Will you not dress my wound?' heaskod. ‘Cortainly.’ samd I, ‘if you wish it, but you can't live moro than a fow min- utes, and dressing_the wound will only give you needless pain.’ “ Nonsense,’ ho returned; ‘you can’t kill mo with one grapeshot. I've been shot to death ouce or twico bofore. Look at my chest.’ I looked. Sure enough he had huilet wounds enough to have laid ot a dozen men. ‘T'wice, in stopping stages, express messengers had fitled him full of buckshot. ‘I'm alive yet, and have more lives thau a cat,’ he said, as 1 made ready to attena him. “I rammed and pulled a silk andkerchief through him to clean the wound and fixed him up as best I could, knowing he'd be dead in the morning. But 1 didn’t know. When 1 called tho next day he was very much alive. He was as cheery as a bridegroom after the coremony. ‘Never mind me, doctor,’ ho said, with a grin, ‘you just fix up tho other boys 111 be all right in'a fow days.’ “Well, sir, [ expocted 10 find him a corpse ovary time I'called, but he_hung on, cheered the others with jokes and stories, and 'm hanged if I didn't bogin to think a medical miracle was to be_performed. A man who mould live & wook and keep his head and spirits with that kind of o bolo through him cight do most anything. “On tho seventh day after he was shot ha sent for me. As [ came to nis pedside he raised himself on one elbow, looked up at mo with the old dare-devil expression on his face, and said: **It's no go, doctor: T can’t koep it up any longer. Good-by, old fellow.’ *“Then he fell back stono dead. He'd lived a woek on s grit.” A MIGHTY ROAR. San Francisvo Howls Over Increased V.luation The Califorcia board of equalization has played bavoo with the peace of taxpayers, Aftor four weeks of ardurous and onerous labor 1t has completed the work of equali- zing tho assessment rolls of tho state. The result is an increase of $140,350,852 in the total valuation, which aggregates §1,100,004,- 105, 'The board raised the assessments of no loss than nine of tho twelve counties it cited to appear to show cause why they should not bo raised, and has imortalized itself by add- ing to one of them a groater increaso than has ever bofore beon placed upon a county's assossment, San Francisco is the county that has thus been distinguished. No less than 30 per cent has been added to her roil after deducting her money and solyeut credits. The total increase in San Francisco rnutnly alone amounts to the enormous sum of $0, . The valuation of T.os Angoles was'pushed up §18,201,000. Thirty-eight counties scove on increaso and fifteen o decrease. ‘'he equalization brought about by these in- creasos will affect the taxpayers of the state as follows: In the vounties whose asses: ment rolls have not been chunged thero is a docrease in favor of tho taxpayers of 43 cents on tho $,000 valuation, In the counties that have been raised 5 per cent a decrease of 20 cents on the §1,000 valuation. Iu the countios raised 10 per'cent an increase of 2 couts on the $1,000 valuation. In the coun- tes raisod 15 per cent an incroase of 24 conts on the $1,000 valuation, and in tho case of San Frauciseo, where there is a raise of 30 per cent, an increase to the taxpayers is effected of 91 cents on the $1,000 valuation. ‘Taxpayers of San Francisco have set up a mighty roar agaiust the enormous inflation of values aud Los Angeles joins ip the ohoras, but it is & waste of lung power. The work of the boara is final and there is no possivil- ity of a review this year, DAKOTA AND THE PAIR, Efforts of Public Spirlted Men to Right a Wrong. The failure of the logisiature of South Dakota to provide for representation at the World's fair is vigorously resented by every public spirited citizen. Varlous means have been suggested lookiog 0 & proper repre- sentation of the state’s resources, but the amount of money required to procure & cred- itable exhibit cannot be had by private con- tributions, Naturally those snxious to BEE, SUNDAX EPTEMBER 20, 1891—SIXTEER OMAHA forward the interosts of the state foel all should share pro rata in the cost, as the bonefits will ba genoral. The members of the legislature now realizo the folly of thair conduot and would choorfully make amends if called togother, The govornor is not dis- | posed to call an extra session without an ex- plicit axpression of pubiie sentiment. Last July a convention was field in Y ton for the purpose of dovising means to participate in the great exposition of 1493, No great rosults wero achieved, however. Another convention mot in Doadwood lnst | week, and devised u plan that promisos to | furnish Governor Mellette an accurate ox- pression of public sentiment on the question, t was decided that the board of county com- | missioners of the res pective countios through- out the state of South Dakota be requested 10 submit to the voters of their countios at the county general olection on November 3, 1501, tho proposition of calling an extra ses: sion of tho legislature to make an appropri- ation for the World's fair exhibit, and that the questions to be submitted bo ns hierotoforo given, and if a of the votes t at that election favor convening the logislature and an appropriation, then the governor shall _convene the legislature for that purposo. The votes shall be counted and returns made, as in all general elections, “The form of ballot shall bo: Shall tho logisiatura be convoned in extra session o vote an Appropriation of 0,000 o defray exponses of a state exhibit at World's fair! Yes. No. THE DAVIS DAILLY that nk- MILLIONS, A Celebrated Case—Fruitiess Itesult of the Trial. ne now famous Davis will 000,000 ot 10,000,000, began , Mont., about the middie uded with a disagreed jury, September 9. Previous to the real trial there had been various motions arguod and an appeal taken to the state supremo court on a motion for a change of venue, the Butto court being charwed with bias, Practically a year has been wasted in a costlv legal squabble over the dead man’s millions. I'he contest revealed the main incidents of the life of Androw J. Davis. He was born in New Hampden, Mass., in 1819, and died 1n Butte in March, 1500. At thetimo of his death his estato was valuea at 5,000,000, and has nearly doubled in value since, Threo brothers, fout sisters, many nephews and nieces wore involved. No will was found at the time of Davis' death, The disputea will only appeared after the court had refused to appoint one of tha brothers administrator of the estate,and a singular circumstance about, the document is that it_gave practically tho whole fortune to this brother, ignoring tho other relatives. It wa« found in a little town in Iowa where Davis lad once resided, and was drawn up, as it is claimed, in 1860; it was apparently old, and certainly stained and mutiliated, and it gave internal evidence of having been written by an uneducated person. Tho evidence of the contestants was strong and clear. They argued the improb- ability of a_man so shrewd and caroful as Audrew J. Davis was known to bo disposing of millions, for twenty-five years, among country people in no way connected with him and where it was liable to be lost or de- stroyed. They tried to prove by experts that the stains were recent and made by coffee and tobacco juice, and were not imparted by time and careless handling. The veracity of the witnesses in favor of the will was im- peachied and rolationship by blood and marriage shown to exist among all of them, and the maun who claims that he found the document wus charged with forging it, and the mistakes in writing, speiling and punctu- ation were discovered to be reduplicated in acknowledged letters and documents from his hand, The word “give,” for instanoe, is invariably spolled “guive” in thoe will and in the alleged forger's lettors. Another point in favor of the contestants was the testimony that Mr. [ had mado a second will ten years ago, and both when ha signed it and destroyed it declared that it was the only will he bad ever executed; but this testi- mony, which would have beeu conclusive if established, was somewhat shaken on cross- examination. The proponents of tho will tried to meet these points by iutroducing witnesses to show that the existence of the will was a matter of common knowledge in the Iown town where it was found, aud that it had been seev and read by many. They ex- plained the stains by claiming that the doc- ument had lain in an old trunk in the garret and got wet when a new roof was bewg put on the house, and asserted that the holes in it wero made by the children who had been allowed to play with it and stick pins in it. The resemblance between the handwriting of the man who, it is claimed, drew up the will and the alleged forger was also explained by the fact thut the former was tho latier’s school teacher, This, with an exposure of the fallibility of expert testimony and a_general denial of the credibility of the contestants' witnesses, constituted the caso of the proponents. “Now that the case is over,”’ says the Anaconda Standaad, “it may not be amiss or wrong to atate that' since the conclusion of the testimony and arqumonts a strong popu- lar fecting has provailed in favor of the con- testants, ~ A general beliof is prevalent that the alleged will of 1866 had no existence prior to the death of Judge Davis, or if it existed at all it was replaced by another will of a more subsequent date. Especially is this the ovinion of those who knew the aead million- awre. They scout the iden that a man of his business tact and shrewdness would make a will as was allegod by the fowa witnesses of peculiar memories and allow it to remain during all the years that he was alive in the custody of some backwoodsman. Then, too, the fact that tne will was not discovered until tho time alloged, and the fact that John A. Davis did not tell where or how he ob- tained possession of the will, and the further fact that Kddy was not placed on the stana, ail have a tendency to control opinion, and this opinion, as already stated, is anything but favorablo to the proponents.” The cost of the contest promises to tear a large-sized hole ir a million dollars. Robert . Ingersoll was leading counsel for contest- ant. Hou. John M. Woolworth of Omaba lead tho dofendants. Senator Sanders of Montana and an array of lesser legal ligats were ongaged. Thers aro $3,000 pages of transcribed testimony, equal to 1,200,000 The trial of case, involving & in earnest in But of July, and co words, the cost of which is £5,000. A BLOOMING DAISY. Who Cares for Expense When tho vernment Foots the Bil According to diract roports, one mombor of the Shoshone commission now treating with the Fromont county reds for the relmquish- ment of certain lands, is a blooming daisy. His namo is Merrillat and heis a dude from Washiugtou, D. C. During a conference the othor day,says tho Cheyenno sun, and just about the time they were coming to terms up jumps Merritlat and says he objects to the proceedings from the first, in toto. He was sharply revuked by State Senstor Woodruff aud in_his thou ghtloss Washington way gave tho Wyo- ming man the lie. Mr. Woodruft is no spring chicken. He isa gentleman, ono of unsullied roputation, tried courage and great strength. He didu't fancy ascene before the assemblod chiefs and spectators, but told Merrillat that unless an_apology was mado a frosh tonderfoot wonld be booted_over a soc- tion of the reservation after adjournment, Merrillat did apologize and thon made state- ment remarkablo for its fraukness, He said that £,000 had been appropriated for com- mission expenses and he proposed to have it spent. Only 82,500 had been usod. Hence ho would agree to 1o troaty till he had some hunting and fishing out of the §5,000. This atmost paralyzed Woodruff und the othor commussioner. It is undorstood that the Iudians will give up 600,000 acres of land for about 50 cents an acre, ' Part payment whil bo in live stock, COW RUSTLING. Au Incident of Early Days in tana, “Ivs just twenty-five years this month since I went outto Montana,” sald Captain i George R. Edwards to & Washington Post reperter at the National,as the elerk dropped a blotting pad over the signature of a late arrival, and Captain Edwards blew smoke rings about the moon, figuratively speaking; in other words, obscured the ceiling with clouds from bis clgar. Captain Edwards is o native of Virginia, and fought all through the war, but, like many another ex-soldier, thought the west 8 good place at its close, and weat in that direction 1o try bis hand at borse farming, “1 bave seou a good deal of trontier life ia | Mon- 1 those twenty-five yéars ocontinued the ranchman, ‘‘and pftea wished for the old place down near Lisesburg; but I stood it,and now I am going to ;ny native town to wee if I can find anybody that recollects me.” Captain Edwards Had just been reading a nowspaper account ¢f a recont lynching in Colorado, where the man who was hung was caught with stolen hiyses in his possession and suspended from the side of a vanyon. nat story reminds mo of an exporience I had while a vigilante in western Mentana,” said the ex-soldier. - ¥I'he ranchmen in that section had no ond z; trouble with horso thieves and cattlo datohors, and stock was stampoded and raif off time and again. A number of us organizad for protection against the rascals, but for long period couldn’t lay hands on any of them, Finally we did man- o to capture ove fellow who had stolen two of my best beasts and was making tracks with'his booty for a mning town some fifty miles further west. Well, we had some fun with that thief. He was game tothe last,and killed ono of our porse before a lasso pinioned his arms and prevented more busiucss of tho kind. Our rules were strict and hanging, of course, was the only punishment we could give hini. But how, was the question. “Thero wasn't a treo in sight for miles. As it bappened, one of our party kuew of a deep gorge in the river about two miles away, and in half an hour the thief was dangling from the end of arope hold by the vigilantes ut the other end until life was extinet.” ENSUS WONDERS, Marvelous Growth Cities. For city growth the state of Washington provably carries off the census honors. There are othor cities, horo and there, which have made astonishing growth in ten years. But Washington is a whole state of muni pal marvels. It now has twenty cities of 1,500 population, Ten yoars ago it had two cities which exceeded that. One of them was Walla Walla and the other was Seattle, Fourof the twenty citios of Wash- ton have grown moro than 1,000 per cent in ten years. One of these cities has grown 5,52 per cent sinco 1830, That is Spokane Falls which had 350 peoplo ten years ago; 19,022 1 1890, and probably several more thousand by this timo, Washington has nine citios of the twenty for which the per- centage of increase cannot be estimated. Why! Because they had no existence, not even a name or a boginning, in 1850, Each of these nine promising urban youngsters has over 1,500. Two of them Kllensburg and North Yokima, at the late election, aspired to become the capital of the state. Two others, t'airhaven and Whatcom, without so much 'as a townsite in 1850, had over 4,000 population apiece in 1890, The array of the prominent cities of Washington is worth printing, as one of the wonders of the nineteenth century. of Washington Citles and Towns. Tucoma elty..... Falls city im Walla clty . pin elty ... | HrUTow N ‘airhny Whated Vancouyer eity. Wyoming. A fire at Sherman destroyed £5,000 of property. Laramie is asked to take $10,000 stock in a Keoloy institute. ) A museum will bo aaded to the features of the state university. About $20,000 worth ‘of miueral has been taken from the Battle lake copper mine. The dreaded Texas fever has broken out among stock in the horthern border of the state. Cheyenne roports.an increase of sevent five in the school envoliment over the first weel of last year. Tho Saratoga Surl ywarns the tin horn fra- ternity that the carrying of fireurms will prove. dangerous to, their oxistonce. The twwn has passed the six-shooter stage. J. J. Halliday rodé ffom Ervay to Casper, a distance of soventy-five miles, in six hours, changing horses but once, - He went for doctor to attend & woman wno had dislo- cated her hip. Kilpatrick Bros. & Collins have harvested 0 bushels of spring wheat from their farm tiear Newecastle, in addidion to 3,000 bushels of wicter wheat, 3,000 bushels of rye and 10,000 bushels of oats. ‘Tho farm is on the divide, 6,600 abovo tho ses, and was o:lti- vated without irrigation. South Dakota. Sioux Falls is preparing to expand ns a grain market., Deadwood is to have another chlorination plant to cost $100,000. Ors from tho 26)-foot level of the iron Hill ieuds 1,000 ounces of silver to the ton. A Custer City litigant who atterapted to boodle a juror, escaped with a fine of $2. Tao new silver distriot at Spokane, in Cus- ter county, has certainly most flattering prospects. There are said to bo mountains of ore there, aud the miners are all hopoful. All avrangements for the stato fair, which opens in Sioux Falls next Wednosday, have been completed. The citizens have ' fully performed their pledgos to tho stateboard. Hugh McGovern, owner of a number of claims lying in the Vicinity of the Portland, has refused 200,000 for his interest. The offer was made by a member of a syudicate, behind whicn there is an unlimited amount of monoy. Parties from Galena report, says the Dead- wood Pioneer, that the recont rate granted by the Omaba smeltors has stimulated min- ing in a great degroe. A number of mines aro prepared to start up, and a large amount of oro will b shipped during the next year, Work on the tin mill at Hiil City is pro- gressing rapidly. The main building will bo about 150 feet square on the ground, built with the inchne of the bill. A boiler and engine lias boen sot up to be used for hoist- ing material, pumping water, ecc., whilo the building is being erectod Utah, Pilgrims from LaPlata camp, noar Ogden, pronounce it the bonanza of the year The Sundown mine of La Plata was sold to a Logan company for somothing over 813,000 “Thero are thirty-one public schools in Salt Lake City employing 103 teachers, The daily attendance is 4,600, There was too much rain in sight 1w Salt Lake City, so Wizard Melbourne adjourned to a dry spot in Idano. Casper Hite, & Colorado prospector, killed A. Kohler, o stockman, in & sanguinary duel at Green Liver on tho dth, The limo used for' yufining by the Utan sugar compauy will be' ‘burned on the prew- ises and a kiln for thit purposo is now being erected A first class strike was madein tho Trinity mine at Bingham a fow'anys ago. A body of nico milling gold and pilver ore was uncoy- ored for u distance of 350 foot nlong the vein, varying from eightean inchos to soven feot in width, ' A smeiting damplo taken from the seven-foot body gives returns of §105 per ton, and the eightoen-inch Bgdy samplod 335 in gold and §212 in siivef., A curious story comes frdm Salt Lako C ity which is attracting mwch comment from frionds _and acquaintance of Policeman Charles F. Wanless of '"Now York city, who was shot and killed by Joseph . Barnes, September 18, 1890, ang, may furnish medical men another subjoct fordiscussion. Barnos was huving a quarrol with bis wifo, which tho ofticor attemptoed tastop. Barnes fived and the bullet passkd throngh Wanless' heart, ioaving & jagged bullet holo in the breast. A married sister of the doad of was tolegraphed nud came to tho funcral from her home in Salt Lake, She was much affected by the tragedy aud took the loss of her brother to heart. In a short time +ho re- turned home. About three mouths ago, ns as tho roport is heard hore by frionds of the dead ofticer, his sister gave birth to & boy perfectly formod, but with & red birthmark over the heart of the exact shape and appoar- auce of the wound made {n Wanless' breast by the bullet from Barnes' pistol. Monvana. Beor for 23 cents a glass is the sonsation of the day at Missoula. The Ophir miue, situated south of Butte City, has boon sold to Boston parties for 0,000, Reporis from Bannook indicate that 1501 will be & prosperous year in that section of Montana, Reports from along the Lo ot the Groat 1'%, Northorn extension in Montana aro to the effect that hundreds of laborers are desert- ing. Helona oitizens have rawed a fund of £10,000 and lot & contract to sink an experi- mental artesian well 2,000 feet in the valiey bolow that city, the hole to bo six inches in diameter, One mine alono of the wonderful group at Castle—the Cumberland—kecps 500 horses constantly employed hauling bullion and freight botwoen Castlo and Livingston, and when the company gots another furnaco in, which will not be later than next spring, it will require nearly double that number. ' It is reported that_the Cumberland peoplo have had an offer of 81,750,000 for their mine. 1daho. Rain-maker Melbourno Nampa a showor for £00. Saimon City has a man 70 years old who has nover seen o railroad, and in tho sur- rounding country can be fourd at least half o dozon who have not seen ono for thirty years, Thero is a Ross Fork agoncy that weighs pounds and stands about six feet threo inches in moccasins, The Indian says he woighs 500 pounds on new scales, but 330 on old bnes. The warden of tho Idaho seems 10 bo & wonderfully kind aud consid- ecato man, He is ropresented as allowing tho convicts under his ehargo tho robust de- lights of prizo fights, than which nothing could naturally bo more to their tastos. According to the Montpolior Observor there is great mining excitoment n Bear Lako county. The prospectors have been following the runge up from that camp and are locating claims near Bloomington and Paris, Large quantitios of copper ors aro found nssaying 70 per cent. This is the samo range in which further north are found the Caribou mines, The old mining town of Silver City, world famed for her once great placer and quartz mines, is about to come te the front again. The famous Poor Man, on which worl was stopped in 1870, after producing several mil- lious, und from which the owners thought they had taken all the ore, is now reopened under the managemont of the well known mining man, J. C. Kompvance. The discovery of large coppoer Middle Salmon, Tdaho, is reported. The new locations are not far from Sheep mountain and Scafoam districts, which have attracted £0 much attention during the past fow years. In the latter districts the ores arc principally argentiferous quarts and galena, while at Deadwood, only a few miles south, there are 8 groat many ledges rich in both ' gold and silvor. On the South Salmon theroare mines of great proinise at Alton and Johuson d tricts with hundreds of miles of unpros- vected country adjacent. Water and timber aro abundant through the whols of central 1daho, uand also splendid stock ranges. Ores from ‘some of the mines will mill over 1,000 ounces silver per ton. offers to give Tndian visiting the stato prison mines on Nevada. The Oest mine, Silver City, is proving to bo a bonanza of gold. Just what the mines of Pine Nut district amount to no one 13 able to sav. All that is certainly known is that in the Zirn claim has been found a pocket of a queer laya like ma- terial that is rich in gold. Nevada ranchmen and stockmen will all do well this year. There has been an abuna- anco of grass on all the ranges. even to the very mountain tops. All the cattle ave roll- ing” fat, and pasturage might have been found for fifty times as' many more cattle as were on the ranges. There is a curious effect wrought on tho hair and beard of men engaged in tho Martin White mino at Ward. The oro is rousted, but no disagroeuble porfume arises from the heating process yet there is some unknown substance that changes tho hair, beard and eyobrows as green as grass. Tho hair is not injured, but retuins its softness and gloss. Oregon. Huntington is fast becoming an 1mportant shinping point for eastern Oregon. Yields over sixty to seventy bushols of wheat to the acre are contidently looked for all over the basin in Klamat h county. Oregon is being filled with newspaper graveyards. In the last year nearly every n Oregon has had aburial, and sev- ore sovere cases of consumption are reported. Tho road from Tillamook river to the light house will be built by the government pext summer. There is about §13,000 of money remaining of the appropriation to build the light house. Tho Toledo coal mine tunnel is ninety-four feet into the mountain and has just passed through a strata of large clam shells. Tho men aro now working through somo black slato and the inaications are they will soon strike tho coal bed. The hov product of Oregon amounts on an average to about 25,000 bales—200 pounds to abale. The crop this year was expected to be fully 30,000 bales, but owing to the rav- ages of tho hop louse there will not bo over 20,000 bales of A 1 hops secured. Washington. Deep sea fishing on tho halibut banks oft Cape Flattery continues good. A stamp mill has been set up in Peshastiv, and will soon be at work on the product of the mines. Washington's hop yield should be about 60,000 bales this season, but owing to many unpropitious circumstances it will probably be far short of this. Not more than 400 or 500 bales of last season’s crop yet remain in the state. A great wagon road schemo is afloat for Western Wushington. 1t is to have a public highway from the Straights.of Fuca to the Columbiu river. This movement means a coast road of nearly #0) miles in length, ox- tending across tho state. The result would be the immediato sottlement of a big unoccu- pied territory, which would add immensely to the wealth and population of that portion of tho state. California. Tho charge is again mado that certain can- neries in California arve putting up choice fruit without labels to be seut east, labeled by tho local dealer as eastern fruit, while in- forior grades ure decorated with gaudy labels and shipped as hign class Califoruia fruits. The Young Men’s Christian association ot San Francisco has adopted plaus for a new building at tho northeast corner of Mason and Kllis streots. It will be five stories, and cost 250,000, In appoiutments it will bo one of tho finest in the world, The association is strong thero, and this spacious new build- ing will add to'its memborship. According to the suporiztendent of tho San Fraucisco_houso of "correction, the opivm nabit has been the chief agent in'breaking up tho lawless gangs of San Francisco hoodlums. It so stupefies and enfeeplos them that there is no longer any fight in them, Vice I’resident Crocker of the Southern Pacific company, thinks this will be a great year for California wheat raisers and fruit growers. ln provious yearsimuch wheat was held at this season for higher prices, and tho railroad company was forced to send many cmpty cars eastward, This year wheat and frait have boon rushed to tho east in such enormous quantities that the balance of traf- flc is about even, and every freight car that gous oast is filled. Over 2,000 car loads of green fruit have beon shipped thus far this ason, an increase of 400 car loads over last vour's shipment, whilo it is estimated that 1,800 car loads of ' raisins wiil ve forwardod Prunes, winos and canned goods will bring the total of rail shipments to 11,000 car loads, exclusive of whoat. Swyeaning Co. 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