Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 26, 1891, Page 12

PLUCKTAKESTHE Invincible Energy Comp PERSIMMON. :1s Unwilling Nature to Yield Her Treasures. A RIVER BED STUDDED The Sugar Beet Dev Industry in gressive Life in lopment in the Black Hills WITH GLITTERING ~ GOLD. A Panorama of Pro- the Northwest —Sum- mary of the Week's News. Getting to Rock Bottom, Mining enterprise 1s not batked by natural and apparently unsurmountable obstacles. Moun o been penetrated and valleys uprooto reh of gmineral wealth, but it ramained for California to inaugurate and oarry to successful completion what is pro bly the mosy extensive mining scheme ever | undertaken in this country. | Feathor river mines rank among tho rich- | #st gold producers i California. They wero | worked in the early fifties and fortunes real- | tzed. But like scores of othe o ap- | parently exhausted or left to other hands and improved methods, Recontly two com- | panics were organized, with ample capital, to devolop that portion of the river bed that nad not been operated on. That portion of the 1% 1o be worked was in a n accessivie to a footman. To reach it roads had tobe constructed at a large expense, buildings evected and tools and machincr provided, it was determined 1o build a rock and crib dam, and the poles with which these cribs had to be built were cut nearly twenty miles up in the Sierras and floated down the rough and dangerous chuunel under great difticulties. Owing to tho deop and strong current of tho river at the head of the Golden Guto mine no work on the cribs could be done until July, when bundreds of men were put | to work and the dam rushed ahead with great rapidity. ‘Lhe great flume, 60 feet wide and 3,200 feet long, was comploted and the pumps quickly rigged, but ere the channel could be arained of its scepage water carly and severe rains set in, the river becamo a raging torrent almost in a single day and the dam crumbled to pieces in the flood, the flume was washed away and the wholo labor for a season was irrctrievably lost. mpany, nothing daunted, set to work early the Tollowing spring to put thiugs In shape, but the high water continued so late that the summer was well advanced pe- fore much could be accomplished. During that summer, however, a second dam was built and every precgution wus taken to make it stand diring tfie winter, something unknown in river mimng. On the 19th of August, 1500, the flume was complet the water turnea into it. ame the diftl- culty of pumping dry the ancient channel, of building a foot dam and a subflume and of tripping the deep gravel that covered the ay streak near the bed vock. Before all uis could be done carly ruins set in and the miue was again flooded” 50 that it was impos- sible to dry it before winter came. This season the big lume was extended so ns to mako it 4,000 feot long, and this added to the great canal maxes nearly two miles of river bed to work. Five Chila pumps were set to work in the one mine, and that mine is drained dry, while the hydraulic elevator is rapidly draiing the water from the other. It Is tnought that the puy gravel will average from six toten feot deen and about eighty feet in width, The celebrated Cape claim raged $500 per lineal foot, and at this rate the Golden Gate mine would return its vwners §,650,000. It is believed tbat the whole section of the two miles of river bed will pay well to work. and the company in- tends {0 build a timber and rock dam’” that will last for twenty or thirty years. Thie history of these mines is full of inter- est. Foather river was the riche bearing channel Known in mining Oroviile, on its bank, became the third In California during the early mining périod. 1ts anuual output for years added many mil- lions to the circulating medium of the world, Its banks and bars, its flats and channels all yielded the precious metal. Where tho river could be turned vast treasures were ob- tained. In its bed were located the famous Bailor, Cape, Wiito Rock and Union_ Cape mines. From the Cave in asingle day #6000 was taken, and one pan of the auriferous gravel yielded $03 1n 1857 when the Cape claim was worked— it being o portion of what is now known as the Golden channel—the expenses were while #50,000 was paid in divi- In 1855, when the Union Cape was the cxpenses were $160,000, and, though ouly a few days of mining were ob- tained previous to the rains, yet §250,000 was takeu from the bed of the stream. ‘The bed of theriver during these long years has been filled to some extent with siickens and gravel, and to removo this is a buge unaertaking, but inno other manner coula the rich pay streak near tho ved of the river be veached.” This gravel must all be re moved and the bedrock itsolf thoroughly cleaned and scraped, for on this ground hus been found the largest quanuty of gold in ult river mines. WEAL 5 they w lier river sought ‘ow canyon hardly HIN 1DARO. w and Old Mines Provin ingly Valuable, The eastern section of Idaho promises to equal, if not surpass, any other section of the stato in mineral wealth, Considerable ex- citement has been occasioned by the dis- covery of extensive and valuable gold, silver and copper quartz mines at Pocatello, one of the leading towns in southeastern ldaho. One of the citizens there, while digeing a cellar, found some rock which proved quito rich in gold. The nows spread ravidly and soon hundreds of eager men were at work with pick and shovel with the result of find- iug large bodies of rich wold, silver and copper-bearing ove right ' the hoart of the town. Assays of the ore show that in runs from §160 to $400 a ton freo mill wg. A company with quite a heavy backing wae organized at otico and work ou the pros” pects will bo pushed vigorously. The towa s full of winine men from all sections of the country, and all speak favorably of the find and the outlook. Following close upon tho discovery Pocatello camo the remarkablo rather refind of a verntable bonauza ledgo of gold quartz in the old Boise basin. 1t calls 10 mind tho early wining daysof Idaho, when fortunes were made in a day and everybody had more gold dust than thoy know what to with, Iu those early days, sometime in 1564 or 18G5, & man named Bunch was working sonie rich placer claims on Ophir creek in the basin, It was thought protty good then to gel from §0 to &0 to the pan, and as Buuen worked along o becano curious to kuow whero all this gold came from, He followed the “sign’ up the creek und flually steuck the ledge on the mountuin side, taking some rich specimens. But as quartz miuing was little thought of in those days, while the placer claims yielded 80 abundantly, the matter was dropped and no further attention paid to it untii this sum mer. An old prospector named Muban, to whom Bunch spoke years ago of his quartz find, concluded to g0 on & prospecting wour. led on Buuch, brought up the long otten story of years ugo, and asked him whether be thought he could flad the eld ledge. fle smd he was sure ho could, *If you cin,” said Maban, “our fortunes arvo made.” Proceoding together, after w car ful search of some days they struck the ledge. The voin is ten feet wide a3 far as they have gono into . ‘They have cut the ledge at a depth of 130 feet and find ore that is literelly specked with gold. It is fabulously ric Specimuens brobght to this city are provounced by old tiine mining wen the ridest they ever Wiy, Kxtensive proparations are waking to work the mine. This find has revived much interest in an old schene, that met with much favor here a fow years ago, to search for the rich ledges knowi to be the source of he fabulous rich placer mines of the basiy Pariies are organiziog, and the search will bo renewed, I'he chief topic of conversation in mining circles apart from these new finds is the re- cent sule of the Flint mives and mill, in Owyheo county, to an eastern syndicate for §000,000. Mr, Leech bought them a few wonths ago, sud introduced & new system of milling the low grade ores that has proved very successful. He sold out, muking &30~ W0 ou the deak Other prominent mining Exceed- at fiud, or m abroad are visiting South Moun- tha view of developing the mines © on tho plan inaugurated by Mr. Leuch. The ores arc all low grade, but they can be handled with profit on this plan. In the Soven Devils section development work is being pushed with vigor in all the mines in tho vicinity of the old Peacock. One mine, the Copper Key, owned by Boston capitalists, is making o fino showing. A fifty foot shaft has pecn sunk and the work will continue till a depth of 100 feet is reached. Fverything bids fair for a busy SCASON NOXL y¢ The principal mine of Wardner in North Idaho 1s closed down pending an_ injunction suit now beng tried before Judge Beatty of the United Statos district court. A large amount of money is involved in the suit. BELT SUGAR IN UTAH. An Important Enterprise Started at Lehi. Industry and thrift are characteristics of the Mormon people. Long before the rail- road had penetrated the Salt Lake valle manufacturing industries had been inaugur. ated and the followers of Brigham Young were rondered to a large extent independent of the outsido world. Theso industries have multiphied rapidly, and, with the infusion of gentile activity, huvo grown to flourishine proportions, Tho beot sugar factory recently put in on- eration at Lehi ranks second in size i the country. It is a massiye brick and stone building, three stories in height, and with its numerons butresses conveys an impres- sion of durability and strength. The company was organized in 1889, and capitalized at £1,000,000. Work on the build- ing began in November, 150). Half a million dollars were expended to date ou the plaut. The main butlding is 180 feet long, and has an averago width of 34 feet. The annex, which contains the boiters, bone-black house and lime kiln, is 150 feet long and about 40 feet wide, 13oth of these large buildings are sub- stantially built of brick. ‘1hcre are six beet sheds, 500x24 feet, with a capacity for 14,000 tous of beots. Tnhe company has erected a boarding hous which — is 30x05, with an annex 243 and fur nishes accomodaations for fifty people. There are four pulp siles, 150 feet long, 24 feet wide ana 10 fe «L‘t'p. “T'he coal bius are 43 by . TPhcse figures throw considerable light on the magaitude of the eatorprise to werago mind. The water supply of tho tory is the lake, fed by nvatural Springs, with a capacity of 4,000,000 gallons in twenty- four hours. Besides this there are eight ar- tesian wolls, from sixty to 133 feet deep, which furnish soft, pure water and have a capacity of 500 gailons per minute. Tn an interview with a repovter of tho It rigation age, the general manager of the fac- tory suid: ““The product of the fuctory this year will be from 4,000,000 to 6,000,000 pounds of the very best quality of granulated sucar. We made application to the internal revenue oftice for 7,200,000 pounds, so as to be en- tirely safe, bul that is more than we expect to produce trom the first year's crop. Here- after we expect to run the factory from Au- gust 15 to t'cbruary 1, aud in that event may produce as ljgh as 8,000,000 pounds, We caloulate, howover, that our average pro- duct, when the business is fully establisned, will be about 7,000,000 pounds wnnually. You ask mo about our mavket. Wo shall culti- vate first of course the home market, and e: pect to dispose of this year's product prin paily in Utab. Wo shall send sugar as far north as Pocatetlo and as far east as Tenver if the railvonds accord us reasonable rates. We have abundant assarances of our abiiity to dispose of the entire product from tho factory. We have already reccived o good many orders, and [ assuré you that the sale vfoiir goods is the least of our troubles. 1 huve guarauteed that the quality shall be cqual to the best now sold heve, wiich now comes exclusively from Calfornia. We ex- pect to have sugar ready for the market by October 10th or20th.” AT NOI ntnental L ing Ripidly In the Blackfoot Indian reservation, close up against tho northern boundary line of Montana, the tracklayers are at work on the extension of the Great Northern railroad. ‘Phreo thousand men under intellizent diree tion bave been vigorously pushing the work all summer; the summit of the Rockies has been reached, and when spring opens tho workmen will begin to lay the track on the western slope. Within eignteen months from the present timo there will be a new trauscontinental line open acd ready for Lusiness botween St. Paul and Duluth and Puget Sound. The Groat Northern vailroad, as it is now called, savs the St. Lows Republic, was for- merly'the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba roud; which was itself the successor of tho St. Paul & Pacifie, & corporation which, when it emerged from the handsof a ro- ceiver some twelve or fifteen years ago, was discovered to have become the property of James J. Hill, then a coal and wood dealer living in St. Paul, with moderate meaus und uubounded ambition. The Northern Pacific throngh bankruptey when Mr. Hill became the owner of tho St. Paul & Pacific, and per haps b was the only man in the northwest who then droamed of such a thing as making that road a rivaiof the older corporation, which, notwithstanding its_enormous land rant, had apparently Tailed in its effort to butld throngh to the” PPacific. ~ Without goy- ernment aid Mr. Hill's railroad has been built 10 parallel the Northern Pacific from St, Panl to the summit of the Rocky Mountaius, and, although the lines are 900 miles more apart, they will be active competitors for trafic. Still fu tho Ca S0 that THE GRE NERN, I'he Fifth © Progresss roag was passing cther north of the Great Northern, there will soon be four transconti- nental lines, exclusive of the Canadian ’a. citic, competiug for business between the et lakos and the coast Ihe new iue will have, when it is ready for business, a very great advantage over its competitors in the matter of gradients, but porhaps thiz advantago has not been suftl ciently considered by the railroad managers who will have to reckon with Mr, Hill's rep- resentatives in the rate-making associations very soon. More than one newspaper paa- graph has been floating around lately to the effect that the Groat Nortbern will reach the summit of the Rocky mountains with a maxi- mum grade of | per cent to the wile, This statoment has not been gencrally credited, but it is, nevertheless, & fact, and 1t means that an engine on the Great Northern will ba #blo 10 pull more than twice as many loaded cars over the mountaius as an engiue of equal power will be able to pull on any other Pacitic road, I ything elso subordinated to this end in buiiding the road and iu order to secure low grados unusuall doen and expeusive cuts have been excavated. bigh bridges have been built or a deteur has been mado wherever it was necessary to keep the maximum grade down to 5250 feet to the mile. It is strange that the last Pacific ruilroad built should huve been able to securo this advavlage Al LEBRATED CAS. The Blaine Divorce Contest in South akota Courts, Accordiug to reports from Sioux Falls, the famous divorce center of the west, James G, Blaive, ir., will not allow his wife's suit for divorce to go by default. Through his attor- ueys hie has filod an auswer tohis wife's peti- tion, denylvg that the plaintint has in good faith been » vesident of South Dakota for a veriod of uiucty days preceding the com- and | Jian Pacifie line has been completed, has been | OMAHA, NEBRASKA, mencement of the action, and nileges that sho came to this state for the sole purpose of commencing the suit. e denies that he de- serted the plaintif and claims tha sald | plaintift deserted defendant on September 3, 1888, wilfully and wrongfully leaving him and his home. He denies that he has refused | to support the child, and says he is now, and ever nas been ready and willing so to do. H» | denies that for the past year he has neglected to provide for tue plaintiff, and demes that he has compelled the plaintiff to live on the charity of relatives. In conclusion, the defendant prays that the | plamtiff’s complaint be dismissed at her cost | And that a decres be entered giving to the Utah—Mining Activity in Montana— | defendant the custody of the child. ‘The answer was signed and sworn to by the defendant September 3, 1301, The petition of Mary Novins Blaine re- cites that she was married to young Blainein the city of New York, Septeniber 6, 13 that for a period of tore than ninety aays preceding the action she tas been a of thestate. Tho issue of the mar son, James (i, Blaine 111, aged 3 years, who is now under the_care and support of the mother, On tho 17th of October, 155, as the plaintiff alleges, the defendant disregarded | the solomuity of the warriage vow und wil fully deserted the piaintiff, and has sinco continued to desert and abandon her; that for more than a vear past the defendant has failed to support the plantiff and her child, although avle so to do, having an annual in: come of 2,000; that the defendant 1s not fit to have the custody of the child. The com- plainant asks for a decree of divorce, for the custody of the child, for an award of a suft cient siim to pay the costs of the action, and for such alimony us to the court may seem prover and just The caso” will come up for trinl in Dead- wood next Februar) It is worthy of note that Judge Carland of McMartin & Carland, attorneys for Mr. Blaine, is a democrat, white Judge Palmor of Palmer & lodge, at- torney for Mrs. Blaine, is a republican, both of them having been on the bench of the Sioux Falls district, and both of them being prominent party men. ‘The case, it may be uere mentioned, is to be tried before Judge “Thomas, the only democratic judge in South Dakota, 3 ANACONDA, Plant to Be Put in Operat on Aghin Marcus Daly’s roturn to Montaua has in- fused considerable activity in mining circles, Tue immense mines of the Anaconda pany, of which he is general manager, been idle for nearly a year. The works at Anaconda, employing from 2,000 to 3,000 men, have also been idle, atmost paralyzing the business interests of the town and seriously affecting Butto, 3r. Daly now gives assu auces that will send joy to the homes of idle men. In conversation with a repor sald: “1 believe that the works will oporations within ten days. Th some hitch in the arrangements and we may all bo disappointed, but 1t is my opinion th the programme will be carricd outas I have just told you. We are prepared at this end of the lino to begin opezations at any time and on short notice. Things have been drag- ginge terribly in the east. Several people con- nected with the Union Pacific railroad have boen off on western teips, but I umderstand M. Clark 1s in Now York, and if he and his peaple settle down to details which practically agreed upon on before I left N Yok, the works can siart up pretty soon— and I'think the Union Pacific people ar ready to agree to what has been talked up. Mr. Daly g ¥s that a great many peo- ple and newspapers that have pretended to Imow st about the Aunaconda compan have not been on the insude as_accuvately us their expressious of opinion might indicato, Itis admittod that steps were talken to ais- pose of a portion of _the stock, and that somo may vet besold in New Yorlk, but it is staied that there isn’t a dollar of it on the market, | and that a stock deal hias nothing to do with | the starting of the wor uyway. A fair arrangement of freight rates is the point at issue, and Mr. Daly thinks that an aajust- ment'is near at hand. The Great Mon: ETHICS OF THE GROWLER, ‘A Montana Dispenser Inaugurates a e orm. A saloonkeeper at Anaconda, Mont., who, according to the Standard, seems 10 possess { atonce a fine sense of morality and a highly | doveloped spirit of enterprise, has equippe his place of business with'an innovation de signed to facilitate the working of the growler by children without exposing the lit- | tle ones to the dangers which, he adwmits, they must necessarily encounter whonever they enter s or any other sa- loon. This liauor dealer has cut a hole in his wall by means of which communication is es- tablished between children and the bar. tender, a_beil being provided for the littie foiks to jingle whenever they have business with that personage. The Saloonkeeper us- sures all fathers and mothers in the commun- ity that they can send their boys and girls to his place afier beer or other Loverages with verfect safety so far as the children are concerned snd-with tho blessed assuranco of receiving good mensurc and a su- perior quality of avticle. The personal con tact of the saloon is sometimng abhorrent, but the personal contact of children with the goods sold in saloons is something innocent of all harm and, o the wholo, beneficial to their morat and inteliectual development. i farther and wstruct his bartendo peat & verse of scripture or sing a hymu through the hote in the wail as the wants of the little cus- tomers are supplied. Tho possibilities of good which the suloon may diffuse in this and similar ways heve not yet been ex- huusted, An Ola Ti Mathias Roos, an old time prospector, lead- ing u smail Mexican burro, upon which was packed a complete mner's outfit cousisting of tont, picks, axe, gold pan and a small can of giant powder, made his appearance in the streets of Walla Walla one day last week. He was a curlo in every respect and attract od a great deal of attention as ho camo down Main street leading his animal and carrying | an old pattern_4i-calibre Sharp’s riflo upon | his shoulder, Mr. Roos has been a prospector | twenty-threo years and there are but few | mining sections on this coast he has not vis 1ted, from Arizona 1o British Columbia. e | spedt two years in the Olympia rance, states as bis opinion the largest copver posit in the United States will bo located in | the Olywmpias, while iron and coal are found | there in abundanco. He was in the Olympin | rango when Licutenant O'Neill made bis | tour of aiscovery through those mountains, Mr. Roos entered the Olympias by way of the Dicklevort and came out by the way of tho Big Quillisim. On the Big Quillisim he states ho found good gold bearing floats, but was unable to strike any leads of this miner- al. Other minerals were found in abun- dance. Ha predicts the futura of the Olym- pia range, but at present there is no way to market the ore. Cousequently there ave fow { claims boing located. Mr. Koos is heading | for the placer diggiug of Salmon river, e Miner. IN THE H ct Showing A report from the Bald Mountain district states that recently a strike of an entirely | new body of ore was made in the Golden Re- | ward mine, says the Rapid City Republican, | 1t has since been developed sufticiently to show a vertical vein from six to eight feev wide between well defined slate and por- phry walls, The ore from this ledge assays from $25 to £0 in gold per ton. The strike is important, for the reason that it will proba. bly upset all previous beliefs that there was nothing but blanket veins in the Bald Moun- tain district, ‘Lhe Golden Reward has been operating o blanket veins, producing for the past fow months an average of &30,000 per | mouth, Though three sepurato blauket veins are shown, it was geuerully conceded that they would be worked out i1n the course of six or eight years. So it was with other properties in the district, until this latest strige demonstratea thore are vertical as well as flat veios, and that, tnerefore, the re- sources of the distriet are practically inex- haustible. | i Cleared Up an Old Mystery. | In September, 1581, A. Haller, au old resi deut of 1.a Grande, Ory into the mountains | expecting to be gone a week. At about the for ten years, went ou a hunting expedition, expiration of that time his dogs returued lookg lean wud Luogry, and his horse was OCTOBER, 1891 found with the saddle turned under the body. Search partios were organizod aud a thorough | patrol of the mourtains for twenty milos back was instituted, but although his camp was discovered, no trace of Haller was found, As he was worth some property an adminis- trator was appointed and the estate distrib uted to the different heirs. One day last week & hunter crossing Ladd creek, about fifteen miles from [a Grande, discovered a human skeleton coverea with what once had been o suit of clothes. A watch, keys and other acticles found in the clothing “estab- Tished beyond a doubt the fact that it was the long missed Haller, Censns of Utah, The census ofties has made public a bulle- tin showing the population of Utah by minc civil divisions. The population of the terr tory, as returned ko 1830, was 143,008, Under the eleventh consus the population, as ro- turned, is 207,905, an increase of 63,042, or 14.42 per cent, Ofithe twenty-five counties in the territory six show dect some of which are caused by changes in county lin Since 1880 the following changes have takon place: Garfleld county was formed in 1882 from parts of Ironand Kane; Grand county in 1800, from parts of Bwery; part of Kano county was annexeit to Washington in 1852, The largest incrense in urban population, the bulletin says, is found in Salt Laks City and Ogden, both of which have more than doubled théir population since 1880, In Salt Lake City an mcrease of 24,0706, or 11,92 per cent, and in Ogden an increase of 8,820, or 145,38 per cent, has taken place during the decade, w ne. shows Elk mountain to bo 11,000 A survey feet hig A third vein of coal cight foot thick was strack ‘Chursday at Sundance at the depth of 472 feet. An entire herd of cattle was sold dance last week and the prico receiv $20 per head. A contract has boen let for the survey the Green river basin in Sweetwate Ulnta counti In Sheridan county 500 have been threshed from tes never been irrigated. Laramic offers a valuable land bonus to any capitalist who will build a combination hotel and theater to cost 3i5.000. Cheyenae is to have a Keeley institute. ds in Choyenne the eficacy of will be beyoad question. Nugent sisters and Fr. Nugent, re- cently stationed ar_Cleyenne, aro reporto d 1o be'heirs to av estate in [reland valued at E12.00 “The great soda works near Laramie, ove ations in which were about to begin,' have been paralyzed by the removal of the branch road connccting’ the Soda lake with Lar- amie, Gitlette, the terminus of the suffalo exten- ou of the Burlington, is ten weeks old, has 400 whabitants, a band, twenty saleons and gambling houses and corner lofs have sold as bigh as 00, Representatives of a Chicago syndicate are quictly securing control of the oxtensive asbestos ficlds in central Wyoming. Agents with headquarters at Casper are buying op- tious for sixty days with privilege of exten- sion for the sume length of time, carrying the the deals well 1nto next spring, These as- bestos deposits have been carefully examined by experts and their worth is assived. Cas- per people ave greatly cluted over their pros- peets in this direction. 7 Sun- 1 was of and bushels of oats acres tnat had It the South Dakota Ore taken from the new Knife Blade mine assays §24 per ton, The School of mines at Rapid City began its fall term lust week. Workmen on tho Casey hotel in Deadwood are idle waiting for back pay. C. I, Potter, freight conductor on the Bur- lington, was killod cighteen miles from Dead- wood last week. The locality of the now and valuable dis- situated about two miles from the uich, and bids fair, from all Jorts, to ho the richest find over discov- ed in' tho Blackgtills, ‘Che Burlingtonfias n largo force of enei- neers under chargbof Cnief Engincor Ensign running a line from Englewood in the direc- tion of Bald Mouatain. The rond will be standard gauge and narrow gaugo trackage will also b laid. ‘e sub-contracts on tho line of tho Dead- wood & Western railvoad have been let with the excention of somo fractions reserved for the cmployment of those who finish their contracts, There will bo 127 bridges aud 200,000 feet of trestle work. A concentrating plant for the treatment of ores from these mines will bo crected in Bear Gulch before many weeks pass by, Mr. Johu Joanson, a largo stockholder, has been S0 notiticd, and alse formed that work is to ommence’ at once. The building of this lant will brove beyond question that the richest tin ore in the Black Hilis is in the Nigger Hill section. town of Bear ( re N 1aho. ix acres of wheat near Ketchum S bushels, while eight acres of on the same farm pave 254 bushel During the month of September twenty four car: ving Si » pounds of ore, wero shipped trom Hailoy. The total weight of the ore in froight during the same period Wwas 1,003,075 pounds. IKootenai county, in northern Idaho, is de- veloping rapidly.” Her vacant lands aro being settled, now towns are springing up hko magic, her promising prospects are being de- veloped into rich miues and now lines of rail- road are crossing her territory, At present no ore is being sent out of the Seven Deviis mining district, because of tho utter lack of trausportation, Lust year it was sent on pack trains for almost a hundred miles to Weiser on the Union Pacific, but even this means has been abandened th son. ‘T'wenty-threo wen have v g out of prospects in the immediate vieinity of Mulian, Iaaho, since 1857, These men all carried their outfits into the country. Two of them made $0,000 each, and the othor smaller sums, The proverties they sold are now worth uearly 21,000,000, Of the sum received by the brospectors about $20,000 were received for property south of the river, £50,00) from Hunter Hill; and a majority of tho balance from tho Chloride Hill group of mines. Tywenty. threshed barloy Montana. A company hias been organized to build smelter 1 Boulael Six mining companies in Montana paid 09,000 1n dividends during September. Miners are invading the Blackfoot resorya. tion, and the [ndian police propose to drive them out. Trouble 1s feared, “The large coucentrator at nearing completion. put in plac ploy ed, Tho Great Northern railway contemplates the expenditure ot about 1,000,000 on the Montana Central branch of the road botween now and next spring, says tho jBozoman Chironicle. ‘Fhie road rins frow Great Ialls o Helenu and Butte, 13d. Rising found the largest gold ‘ever taken from & Montana placer mine. The find weighed 5,33, aud was tuken frow a tributary of Suowshoo guich, uvear Deer Lodge. It laid about a toot abov 6 bedrock, twelve feet from tho surface. Despite the efforts of her peoplo and the inducements offered, it is provable Helena will not be chosen as the place of miating of the next convention of the Nationul Teach- ers’ Association. It is said the executive commitieels divided between Seattle and Saratoga Holena is still in & pickle oyer the paving question. After discussing the matier all summer the required vote of the council was finally secured, and Lho contracts for paving Main® stroct Dave beon let, The kickers, however, are by mo means silenced, and an injunction is néxtin order to stop work until the courts huave cast an eagle eye over the situation The Bertha mime, located near Virgini City, was recently solil to New York parties for 8125,000, It is stated that the averag yield of tte oro werked has been about $18 to tne ton, The company is vow actively en gaged in the development of the property, and 13 making arrangemeuts to put up re auction works tor e run by electricity of & capacity of forty tens per day ‘The new conceuwator for the Bunker Hill and Sulliven Minwg and Concentrating com- pany is to be finished by Jauuary 1, next. It will stand by the side of the one started up last May. When completed tho two will bandle 1,000 tons of ore every twenty-four at Groat Fulls is The machinery is being I'wo hundred men will be e nuggot of ~“SUPPLEMENT. honrs, and will bo the Iargest plant for ra duction of galena ore on the continent, It will raquire eight hundred to one thousand | ‘men‘in various capacities to keep this im | mense plant in operation, and elght hundr 1o mine hundared in and about the mine, Oregon. Orogon has fittea out & exhibition tram | which will make a tour of the enst. Tho Catholics will eroct a large brick school house for the education of the ludians on the Umarilla reservation. Work will be beguu as soon as possivle J. W. Johuson, a Portland lunatie, cut oft nis right hand and justified himseif i his sell mutilation by saying, *God ordeved him to do it. ‘The grain fleet from Burope { Portland. The warehouses | with wheat and tho fleet of v | to carry it away is larger than Portland. I'ne tanks of Umatilla county havo $1,000,- 000 on deposit, whily the county this year produced £250° for every man, woman And child within ber borders, Thisis a record thatany county might be proud of. Linas Bushnell, an oid pionoer lived in Douglus county since 1854, died his home in North Ten Mile Monday, O ber 5, aged 16 yoars, The deceasea” leaye: wifo and nine “sons and duughters, all whom, save the two youngest, are wmar and have famiiies. is arriving at are crowded ssels coming ver known ot who has at Vashington. Seattle is jumping to the front as a divorce ter. Olympia honds .to the amount were sold at,2 per cent premiuwm, The corner stoue of the Pacific Lutheran university was laid at Tacoma on tho sth 'he government is making determined of forts to break up the smuggling gangs on the sound. ‘The Tacoma Smelting and Refining works shipped 4,250 bars of bullion, valued at ,040, during September, T'he artesian well at Farmington 185 feet, and the water 1s running top of the pipe two and one-half fect above the surface at the rate of 500 gallons per bour. The flow increases as tho fole goes down. Lhe total valuation of property in Seattle for the purposes of taxation in 1501 is now found to bs £41,007,165, The tax levy is 414 wills, and tho result should be £200,782.24. Out of this §72,030 is needed for interest on the vonded debt, leaving 127,732 for current expenscs o the end of the year. “he chances for the development of a very rich gold and silver distriet ten to fifteen miles beyond Deadwood in the Bear valloy section, aro very good. The mines discovered there by the Bunch brothers and Hugh Gard- ner are exceedingly rich, But like all tho mines in central [dubo can only be reached by pack trail. of 81 is down over the Calitornia. David Skerry, a pioucer of '8, suicided at San Jose, T'he total value of property at San Joselis Placed at 19,472,255, Sacramento’s chinatown wiped out by firebugs. he weekly pay-roll of the China beet- sugar factory is from $2,500 to 3,000, Sadramento squandered $10,000 in & futile attempt to strike natural gas. Tho vast irvigating system opened in Per. ris valiey, San Dicgo county, Cal., brings 100,000 acres of beretofore worthloss iand under cultivation. The oil wells in Ventura county are now producing largeiy, A union company formed by four smal! companics, turns out 500 bar- re's daily, and it has driven twenty-five new welis during the yea The new oil well at Conlingo, Tulare county, is down 300 feet, with a flow of twenty barrels a day. The company is ar- ¥ « to bore _ ten wells 1,500 feet deep in diffecent localities. Tho wells will be ten inchies in diameter. Tho California State Board of Tiado 1s authority for the statement that California shipped east during the year 1800 408,344,752 ds of vegetables alone. Ths includes onions, peus, beans, etc. This is 12 train loads of ten cars each. The wheat exports for the first threo months of the cereal ycar have been ex- tremely neavy, reaching 5 centals, against 2,495,570 centals for the same period Tne total for September was entals, The price has averaged 40 cents per cental better than last year. Tho flour shipments this year are the best in many vears, Ior this cereal year they are i barrels, and tho total for the uine monthis is 6 barrels, vatued at $4,102,203, Thirty-seven vessels clearod from San Francisco witn wheat, barley and flour, in Septemver. was complotely informed wis going wanted ¢ his employer that his sister to get marvied and that he furlough of forty-cight hours to attend the wedding, whiclh was to take place out in tha country somowhere, says Texas Siftings. The merchant could not well spare the services of the young man for that length of time, but finally consented to let him go on condition that he would return promptlyat the expiration of two duys. “As 5000 us my forty-eight hours are up I'll bo back,” said the young man hurrying off to eatek the train, And that was the last s employer saw of him for six solid days, when he came in, gripsack in hand and a bouming smile on his fuce remarking **Back on time,” wek on time!” roared the exasper- employer. *Do you cull six days forty-eight hours?” SOf course I do. call it?" “Have you lost the use of your mental facultics, or are you trying sir, Lo tuke unwarranted liberties with me? “Why, “1am surprised! 1 told you 1 wanted forty-cight hours of recreation, didn’t 1?7 “('ertainly, and T gave it to you?” And 1 work in the store eight hours a day, aon’t 1?7 **Of course, *Well, eight into forty-eight goes six mes, and I've been gone eight hours a tiay for six days; €0 you see 1'm on ditce. If there is one thing 1 know bet- tter than another,it is how to be on hand at the appointed hour e A Policeman as a Moral Teac! i A T-year-old boy was in an up-town police station yestérday for being one of a gang of small boys who had broken into a sto and stolen a lot of things, says the New York Sun. The police captain himself happened to be in the room, and, noticing the youth and in- nocent looks of the prisoner, decided that he would give him a fatherly talk- ing to and let him go. So, seating him- self and drawing the child close up to his knees, he began: “My little son, you go to school, don’t you? **Yes, sir ‘And you go to chur you?” “Ana don’t you go 100, eve iday? “*Yeos, si “Well sehos boy? “Yes, sir, | *And not to tell i What else do you S ust 50, too, don’t h, 10 Sund at Sunday be a good what do you learn Don’t you learn to “Yeos, sir” | **And not to steal?” “'Yos, #ir.” | Vot to do any of those bad, bad | things, but on the contrary 1o bo a sup- port to your poor widowed mother—to | on the ot be a good, honest boy?” *Yes, sir By this time the boy \d the policeman told ! un exhorter and teacher wis 4 holwing success. [ *Well,” he concluded, reaching the | elimux of his argument, “why in h—1 and d———n don't you try to be good, | then?” vas whimpering himself that as | of morals he -~ - The latest suitings are in rough lacklustre cloths, and even wool trouserings | Lave come to be the vogue, | woven SOME NEWS OF of the fnvitation appointed, which are work of devising detailed plan: Already there is a de of at least a committoo on ries are coming in from all ovor the coantry 1n recard 1o quarters toes reprosenting the city and have se tion thers are numeroius require timo to perfect, that an o the arrangemer, campment utive and Grand A nim and s b posts have alr ured quartors other dewnils itis 1 rly start is ealenlatod o national ix 00 infor r of commit udy That Letter KFrom Hom Adjutant General Daltc story telier, says the Boston the life of any soclal cir ter. Ho has a fund ways at command is a W and for the quartors Grand asking for charming Globe, in good bumor for hours at a time, It is not often that he drops cences, howe but whe: relates choice bits of humor or Lis army experience, he is sure and appreciative histeners, In the army ho wus “Bob,” and was a favorite men aliko. 1 old comr 18 strougly ways fills bim with sadness, familiarly of and into ne does pathos of des-in-arms, and despite jovial disposition the death of one of them al- | brings mind a host of fond recolleetions. Tho other day he received death of his old commander, the new the company in which he served as ant, ‘the dwelt once more in tented field, and bis memory afteranothier of the wen with S0 much in common, “ALL he said, were splendid feilows to g 1 action they would fight general's eye well, for they were after an engagement wa forget them and whenever | reminis and from attontive 5 moistened rospect upon recailed whom ended. hear t of onc of them 1t invariably suge: mcident of camp life or battie. “One poor fellow particularly wdelibly upon my mind, k MeCully was a w and bad been taken from some charitable in- stitution and taught a trade by himsef was Robert McCully. atizen of the town in which he wWas youns, not more than 19 and, untortunately, could ne wrife, This lack of edue: years of Lier tion he 1is de et THE GRAND ARMY Washington hus alvenay begun preparations | and plans for the twenty-sixth Ariny committoes have been entrusted ith v Inqui Army posts atlon vis He 0 e happens to on of amusing anecdotos al ) can keep & comp known ofivers attached his a to of captain “the men of that company along with, and liko very dovils, In fuct, | sometimes thought they foiight too eluctant to give up even 1 can never name \ts s0mo impressed name it beuevolent He age, 1) \d embavassed n- him considerably, since he was dependent tively upou the write and vead n “Ihis work was usually perf med for him issioned by ono of his friends, a non-comn ofticer; but one day when away on leave, lettér home, ho secured the ser anothier memver of the company. “As T was sitting i my teut' T heard a_rap and, looking up, saw Me entrance, and the was on the tent-vole, Cully standiug respeet fuily at Ho had received u letter waated mo to read letter and glsucing ov it saw the from it for him. from a friend of his benefuctor, who had been almost It contained the most severo de »ad of a mar ou scoundr in my li 1, it evor prte mannor aft And the grateful rascal, v origin and finally ended him_ever to write another family or to set his foot in the he ever return from the war. “I concluded not to read the to McCully, but after give it went on me the name of the man. *+Did he read it to you? “+Yes,’ he rephed. + tDid you tell him to write sulting or anything you would to be ashamed of “*He replied emphaticaily that he did not. =y aid I, ‘keep quiet und s Then,” ing 10 any one abont hav, began, ‘! mean by insulting’ my daughter in sucii o v all I have done for yon o calling by th zout equally kind to him, uciation I him an minding him of his numbio forbidding loin I took t at d letter entiro iim T asked, anything have, ood offices of others both letters for hin his friend w nd Lie was anxious to send a ices it to to tho house should letter slight, idea of its contents, asked Lim who wrote tho last letter ho sent ome for him. He gave noth- ved 4 lette from home, and we'll investigate this ter. After he loft me T immediately wrote to to nis friends at home and_ requested send me the letier they had re request was complied with, and the letior was 1 my hands. 1 you what it contained. obscene and insulting the meauest an read T'o make tho matter worse it concluded by since | have been in the army, and take the opportunity sayg, ‘I have learned to wr writo my first letter to you.’ I sent for McCully him. A mor ot epistles most insolent | ive n will 1 wnd read tho indignant man you never He almost fainted from anger and ment. He swore he would kill at thy d. ue it man who had played such a dastardly trick on him. “1 suceecded in calming him, however, and should him that the man Aud my promise was tho letter assur ished. the man was shown cept. o ledged bis guilt, but said he only ¢ It didn’t scem so a joke. I got through with him. be much of a But let that mat- om The timo not tell vulgar, was bad ever tor pun- When acknow- 1t as joke My first thought was to set matters ric with the young been sent. An ¢ stor fidence of the family. W the most faithtul and 1oy in the company. He souglit tunity to do me a favor, slight persoual service. Ol me and said that b to read and write, hini, though 1t was not strictly i military discipline, Latiowed him the u nt be by nimselt to study. 1ot When al- my tent that he mi Ho made ereat many months befo he found that he could write most jumped th the extravagance of bis appurently kuew no bounds! progress, o he conld “Shortly after this we went into a of Spottsylvania, p fight was the hottest, and I was It was the buttle th about ey caught by the heel. orders to the mwen ady to whom the planation to her father re i the lad to the former estecm and con- After that McCully | I friend 1 1l write, bis naine he yugh the top of the tent in His gratitude had caught in some ofthe undert down, b it anklo. chanically stooped around, to disentang a hund clutehing my poor McCully. His face was marble, and one of his legs off. 4 “Loking up in my face he “90 thank you! I thunk fell over on his side, dead. Ihe greund for a distauco was red with a wido st liave witnessed many ha in army life, but nothine n that, 1 think of it frequentiy, the uight, when I awake, 1 thore on the ground; gazink up ut had o 1o [ seem or and was 1 pier than when 1 allowéd him todo mo some day he can had determined to and asked it 1 would teach Lreadily consented, and cv or it i fe faintly you f fifty k of blood from the | place whore bo bad fivst fallen, and from which ho had crawled to reach me. y winig and the darkness the white face of poor, faithful McCully, just as ho then, and bear his dying tude.” Camp Pire “Now that the war is over of ours, we will 5000 be muster the general at the camp fire, vecall familiar faces and comrades tried and true, who withus. They gave their countey, and now sit sho Do you remember young ( vattery ! At Rosaca he made the caunon thatl can rec vears' service He was only a stripling of a 1 | twenty, and looking still youn then a lieutenant, commandit twvo guns, attached o our bri fly. As we stood in line we our glasses & divislon of co n lne of battie commanding advancing la contor the the typical white horse, m: in war than seen, a3 most prefer more subdued colors +Phe ground was bammocky words do around their camp fir Tales. and poace has nd suid s sad to ollections of v return their 1o the best shot genoral often hear aud to y wa t Supposine that ush, | without As 1did 50, 1 looked me, as whito been looking felt and wis us shot [ and oft yad tip AL of grati y school, | spread her whito wings over this broad | at," for honest, me night as me- asped Onio with my four )t oy the od In addi which ognized facilitato Ny il his usual to the of |y lieuten as he the one he tad to 15 of nan you un- in- reason [ it letter hud had 10 » | around his head with e of fon Whilo moving mysel v foot then nes hing than in in a v Ho was 1 would disnppes re thie o lnte the nesh W perfect woo| v were 8 vred the gun Sheil aftor m ol doath and rontirely and view ngain n I ovor | that distanea soomingly rasit on vl mile nway nors to 1ry sholl wont One prssed over the contederate W whon yorng ¢ them with she hriek N its m aid another | vach s flure t whera ft would . becamn more and throw bis cap on th and, finally ving fr his A\l he almed the y 0 she tho eround and the whito tho rider and dust 'ne aa and was thrown {ito Whother it was su s shot, I uever know Poor ( Wit us on ‘the marchi to the soa. MeAllister the column was hnlted obstruction in front 1o ascertain the from a revel but took off his hewd, a8 ne suber. “The worst frightenod men Tever saw," sali the Judge with un amused expression of countenance, was at PPea Ridgo, when we were attucked by the federal troops, or & body servant [ h A strapping negro boy, whose duty it was to look after my blanke ‘ and rations, and, noyro-like, he was forever crawling into some out of the way place to sloen. Just as we were expecting the adyanco the federals opened firo on us at rather closa 0 We were on tho skiemish line, and in w wmoment our men were deployed in battle array. Justas the firing began to grow heavy 1heard a picrcingg vell and saw my t 0 boy flying along betweon the lines, svery step would bave measured 15 feet, and time his foot sstruck the ground he would yell *Ob, 1 i} loud enough to be heard in both camps, With him he had my d rations, and atevery jumo lie woild leave o portiof of une or the other in his wake. As faras 1 couid sco him he was going like a frightened deer, and long after he was out of sight I could hear him yell, e bad been sleaping exactly midway between the lines when tho battlo opened, and it is not surprising that ho was “scared, T'wo weoks elapsed beforo he returned to' camp, but he could never be induced to talk of his Pea tidge oxpericnc “Out in Kentucky, witnie: a e the ant & [ [ ay threw wid, nround, trick Lenoatt ho and { suoke un haltod confusion w chance ho was ar Fort by some Heana | rode forward Tho first shot fired anding the rond as A with 8 ited. | ther e ox eronnd m his his e 1ders, atanding fired divectly both yud ol immedint for skill or suspOnders ho it oxploded horse, and disappoared 1 n e is chimed in the Captain sliar oceurrence which of through an v, and al afterward rlained vy went, of more than u wile w vied o rebel soldicr sneaking alons ochind a hedge fenco, With us was a detachment of sharp-shooters, and onc of them, just fov the fun of the thing, as he exprossed it, took a shot at the Johun, Ruising his vitle to his shoulder, he glanced quickly along the barrel and fived. liere was a distinet interval of soveral sece onds and wo saw the rebet leap into the ai and fail to the ground. Wion we reached the spot e was stone dead, having been skot through the head.” open streteh the distauce, as actual measure. . Beecher at Seventeen, My first meeting with Heney Ward Beochor was in the early part of May, 1830, He was o clussmate of a brother of mine, in Amherst collogo, and very close friends. The two were just out of theiv freshman year when, together with another college classmate, they walked from Amherst to my father's house at west Sutton for their spring vacation, writes Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher in tho first paper on “Mr, Beeche as 1 Knew Him, in the October Ladies” Home Journ al. At that time young Beechop was not quite 17 years old, DIt so young and boyish was s ay pearance that no one would have thought him more than 15— an age when boys are usually awkward and painfully bashful, For that reason my family feared we might not be able to entertain or make the young man comfortable. But nwlke ward ho nover wus, and his roguish mouth, his laughing, morry oyes, hig quaint’ humor, nnd his quick repartoe soon dispelled all such anxiety. Before the first evening he spent at our house had passed, none of the family felt him to be a stranger, My father wis absent with some of hia pationts when the young men arrived, but returned an the evening when all were luaghing heartily at somo story Henry had just told, Father stood in the doorway—tall, dignified and some what stern, at such a tumuit. When aware of his presenco, my brother at once introduced his classmates, Little by little the same subtle influs which had pervaded the whole enjoyment stole over fi K before it was time to e "o telling mirth-provoking tfully as 1f they were ences ovening face, and lon tive, they we stories 18 ch boys togother. Whoen at longth the *rood nights” were exchangod [ loft” father and mother by tho tire I made some prepa rations for breakfast, As 1 returned to the voom father was suying 11, he is smart! He'll make h vk in the world if ho lives, “Who, father?” asked “Why, that young Beeche Such was Honey Ward Be first saw him; " and, truth to was not remarkuble for his beauty. - wed s Position 1 his casy chair, pud rest, lit a cigar, and tho smoke curl up Ho was a picture of comfort, suys the Chicago Tribune. Thoen his'wife intereupted his meditas tions, HGeorge, you'rc e shook his head “But when wo wore porsisted, “you were activo any man I ever saw, Why, you were als wiys getling up excursions, and you were the life of every party.” He putfed out a Littlo whifl and nodded his acquicscence, SWhat's the matter?” she asked He took another pull at his eigi her when I, he How He st He scttled buck his feet on a foot for five minutes let \Wing lazy, she suid, engag sl 18 as of smoke wnd y a man try tocateh o train?”? ,she replied in surprise. Ever seo one rush on to the station platform just as the teain seemed als most gone Certainly T haye “ob a pretty lively move on him, dn’t he?”? Why, yos of the plaiform us f George ” Yos, he just barely e Itut he caught it?” SOf he did, ou're straying SDid he keep right torrupted € “Certuinly not. Ho settled down in & sont and mude him=clf ns comfortable us palm leaf fan, and five secmed perfectly he ran the entire length s hocould, But, » rht it. Ho— course But, CGeorge, on running?”’ in=- tented nnd happy Welly? “Well, what of it? “Do you m ning? cons expuct 0 koep on runs - it the Church. u hued day’s toll, Co.’s Montily, home and found hig inquired the cuuse thor-in who barbed kind) wnd when she up st him wit ard feature o [ shall have always boen e a1t Why He Q ovening, afte Smith, Gray roturned wife woeping. H for the “shedding of formed that hi s of the orth vun to he i One Biys George luw vire have Gie Ay vou in b stshedied, ¢ 1 going 10 chure