Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 4, 1891, Page 15

_ RAILROADING THE BIG HORN. - Vanco. > MAHA DAI IXTEEN PAGE Rival Companies Preparing for an Active Cam- paign in Northern Wyoming. SOME FACTS ABOUT THE BURLINGTON ROUTE TO MONTANA. Progress of the Great Northern Extension to the Pacific—A Chapter on Irrigation in Montana—Primitive Rall ifornia--Summary of Qurrent Events in the Northwoest, On to Montana. Yivery day brings fresh evidence of the Burlington’s plans for the invasion of Mon tan “rom various different points come Teports of surveying expeditions' staked Toutes, ete., which dovetail togother and fur- nish a pretiy accurate outlineof the route. Unusual activity prevails at present, in order, doubtloss, that the preliminary work may bo completed bafora winter sets 1n, and thus onable tho oxecutive officers to preparo for construction work in the spring of 1802, Tho Billings (Mont.) Gazette says ‘‘tho Burlington company recontly obtained mission from the socretary of tne interior to hold a council with tho Crow Iudians for tho purnose of getting thoir consent to tho sur ©0f a railroad line through tuoir reservatio: Tho matter was kopt quiet, as railroad cor- Porations usually keop such matters, and on Saturday, August 2, the council was held at the agency and the formality of a vote was gone through, resultng of course in the unanimous cousent of the Crow Indians to tho proposed survey and the line will prob- ably be run and complotod this month (Sep- tember).” A writer in the Great Falls (Mont.) Leader msserts that tho denialof a Boston official that the company would not build to Helona Was based on facts, for tho reason that the compuny 1s heading for Great Falls. Ho further points out that the company’s surv g corps is now within forty-five iles of Great Forks, and describes the route follows: “It iswonerally conceded _that here will be somewnere in the Judith Basin new town, and the firstrailroad that passes hrough that region will no doubt settle tho quostion of 1ts location, for in these days Tailroads wako towns rather than await their Rrowth to create business to tompt their ad- After tho line leaves Utica running northwest it soon enters a region of rich coal flelds, exteuding many miles out on either side of the proposed line and running with the same for some forty mules. This coal is said by thoso vw/ho have used it foe years,to bo 88 good, if not superior, to the Sand_Couleo product in point of purity and freo burning qualities. It 15 found in flat veins of from six 10 nine feet in thickness, is easily mined, and only awaits transportation to find a roady market in towns of this and adjoining statos. Some twenty miles northwest of Utica and ity miles from Great Falls in this coal re- gion, the proposed line runs through a gap in the hilis cown and across the valloy of the Running Wolf creek and thenco across I Wolf. Those two streams at this point, gome four miles above Stanford postofice approaching to each othor closely, being per aps o nalf milo apart. It is hero that the agon roads from the mining regions of theso two crecks convergo, and here. may be tho initial point for the branch railways that may run by tho Burlington totap these rich dniug districts, Everything points to this pount as tho probablo sito of the coming town £ the Judith Basin,” A RIVAL LIN The Big Horn Valloy Railroad company, fention of which was mado in these coi- umns recently, bas filed articles of incorpor- tion with the secretary of state of Wyo fug. ‘I'ne Incorporators are William W, Dudiey, Richmoud, Ind.; 1. M. Dawson, Baltimore; Louls T. Michiner, Shelbyvillo, Ind.; Eben B. Crane, Norman T, Howe, ow York; John W. 'Hobart, St. Albaus. .3 Carroll T. Hobart, Red Bank, N. J.; ohn C. Sinclair, Philanelphia. Tho capital tock 18 placed at $5,000,000. The road is to e constructed from’ some point west of Cas- or through the Big Horn valloy to the Egndwuu-rs of Clark’s Iork river, in Park uaty, Montana. Thero has been much spooulation in AWyoming avout this new company. The consensus of opinion is that the road will bo built. It is a wealthy company of distin- uished wembership, W. W. Dudley is the imnoln ex-member of the repulican national ommitteo. The route would carry this line through oil, soda, coal, iron, gold, silver, opper and building stone 'fialds and’ over a ich agricultural section. Cuspor is tho pres- ent terminus of tho Northwestern. The route mentioned by the new company by no means a new ono in its general char- ter. Tho Northwestern people have had n survoy across the reservation and up Wind river for a long time, and some road has run line down the Big' Horn from the north, inting to Landor as an_objective point. 1t as long been known that tho route was en- trely feasible, starting from Casper, runniag fowaras Lander, or oven to it, then branch- ng off and passing througn tho splondid . farmiog country of the Groy Bull section and *7 Making o new lino to the peak. That a road from Cusper west would bo a paying invest- Wout is admitted by almost overyone. Tho ©coal and oil possibilities alone would malke it that. When, is added to its other ro- sgurces the possibility of having a lino to the ational park and the ability to cateh a good portion of the Northern Pa {hie prospeats of o voad like the ono proposed Would bo flattering from the start. IRRIGATTON IN MONTANA, Results of Ardificial Moisture. Tho agricultural interosts of Montana are #6cond only to her wonderful mineral wealth, By moans of irvigation crops are produced that for quality and quantity surpass thoso of farms dopendent on natural moisture. Not only is the home domand supplied but a sur- Lus is not uncommon. In Montaua irrigation is almost a necessity to seeded vegetable production in any shape, but the situations are entirely duforent trom the genoral beliof in the matter. The wri- blo lauds of the state are located in valloys hat aro not plains; the soil is not sand, bt as black aud rich as' any in Ilimois, without the slightest appearance of being a desert. Instead of water being scarce, it is more abuudant than almost avy other section can boast of ard in constant supply, while tho sehome of irrigation is one of the simplest fmaginable, and any fasm hand can in a few days get the whole subject within the range of successful operation. With un amplo supply of water it is ox- pected in Montana, according to the fertility of tho soil and attention to crops, to realizo r acro from 800 to 500 bustels of potatoes, 0 to 60 bustels of wheat, 80 to 100 bushels of oats, and two to threaZons of hay. The pre- vailing prices are 1 cent per pound for pota- toes, though often going higher, 115 cents per pound for wheat, and from 1to 2% conts per pound for oats. Hay rarely sells for less than §15 per ton and often reachoes §25. With such @ showiog it would seem that the armer ought to make monoy and he does, But tho greater reward of sheep, cattle Bnd horse raising, with the comparative freedom from labor, exerts a controling fas- cination on tho old sottlers, whilethe mining fndustry is wlways holding out the open cornucopia of rich bounties 1n tho shape of possible bonanzas, so that oven the tempta- tou of sure crops’ at famine prices by com- parison scems tame. Tho murket for farm products is in the rapidly growing cities of Helons, Butte, Missoula, Great Falls and others Wwhich subsist on tho profits of min- fog. Tho opening of new minesand the development of old oaes is going on at a rate which dssures a growth of dependent popu- lation faster than the local production of sup- pllos, 8o that larga importatious of tlour, po- toos, oats, hay and othor necessities’ are belng made, notwithstauding the heavy freight charges from Minnesota and other phatos to the east. ‘The Chinese were early to see the oppor- = tunitios for vealizing quick fortunes by en FUging in the raising of small fruits and otables near the citios. There are several swall truck farms near this city owned and worked by Chivamoa. They raise nothiug ut vegetables or small fruits, the hardy var- lotics of which grow to perfeotion ana bring ~ Mognificent oading in Cal- ood prices on & markot which is never fully supplicd. The Chinamen have no monopaly of this business, | he so-callod arid lands aro located prinoi- pally on the eastern slope of the Rocky mountain divide, and oxtend from tho B 18h possessions to the Gulf of Mexico. The are arid _because of an inequulity and not by reason of a scarcity of nataral precipitation. At oertain seasons favorable winds prevail to blow tho watery vapor generated on the P cific ocean over the const of California, Ore- gon and Washington. In natural course this vapor would bo deposited with some doegree of evenness over the land as far as the Mis- sourl river but for the barriers intorposed by ountain ranges, which in the northwest consist of the coast range, the Bittor Root and the Rockios, with many intorvening spurs, o vavor clouds when they reach the coast are warm, but while drifting east- passing over the successive moun ranges are condensed into rain by the cold of the high altitudes, thus robbing tho | clouds of a portions of their moisture. Di- rectly on the coast, and for uearly a hundred miles inland veford the coast range is reached, the winter season 15 one of &lmost incessant warm rain. East of the coast range the fall is somewhat reduced and comestfrequently in the shapo of slushy suow. Between the Bit- tor Root and the Rocky mountains a condition of »dryness begins to appear, which on the eastera slope of tho Rockies becomes very pronounced. 'The clouds which reached tho coast saturated with moisture are now porfectly ary, as_the result of the enforced deposits, in the shape of snow, on each moun- tain range and snow or rain in reduced quan- tities in the intermediato basins, Hence, the vast_plain exte g ward and embracing eastorn Montana, Wyo- ming and North and South Dakota, bereft of their natural share of tho mofstire which started at the coast, experience the ueces: of obtaining their wator by other means than from tho clouds. ward and tain INDIAN MUMMIE A Remarkable biscovery on an Island in Columbia River. Mr. J. W. Morrow, a Kansas City medical student, who recently made a tour of Ore- gon, brought back what are believed to bo the only two specimens of natural mummifi- cation known toscience. Ho discovered them on Long Island, on tho Columbia river, in Oregon, which had onco boen an ludian bury- ing ground. In life ono of the mummies was an old man, probably 60 years of age. He was buried in a sitling posture, the knees drawn up to his chin, the left arm thrust under tho left leg and joined wilh the right in an attitude of supplication. The mummy is perfoct, with the exception of a spot on the back, where contact with tho carth caused decay. Unlike the mummies of Kgypt, in theso the outlines of the body are not pro- sorved. ‘I'he viscera is gono, and they look like nothing so much as human frames coy- ered with rawhide, In tho old maun all the organs and members are perfect, however, even to the tongue, lips and cores. Grayish black hair covers tho bead in spots. Not a tooth is missing, though they are all vory much worn, as in'old age. 'The moccasins on the feet are in as good o state of preservation as is the body. The other mummy is perfoct except the head. It is that of a child about 7 years old. Whnen found it lay at fuli length in the box, its fect incased in buckskin moc- asins and bits of ribbon, woll preserved, tied uboutits legs. A blanket covered tho other. In some respects the smaller mummy 18 tho hetter specimen. Tno finger nails are perfect, as in life. Mr. Morrow cannot ac- count for tho phenomeron. Settiers in tho vicinity declare that the burying ground, which was that of the Columbia river tribe, had not been used for forty years. The mum- mies are, therofore, at least two score years old, and 'may be a century. The soil of the island is sandy and the atmosphero hot an d dry. This might account for the condition of tho bodics, were it not for the fact that mounds on ‘all sides of the one in which thoy were found contained nothing but bones. Morrow may decide to sond the specimens to the world’s fair, but ultimately they will find @ resting placo in somo historical mu- seum. Peculiarities of a Colorado Hole in the Ground. Thera is a cave ucar Rockwood, a station on the Denver & Rio Graude railroad, which has beea visited by mauy persons. No par- ticular moution of tho cave has veon made, a3 1t seomod to bo littlo worthy of noti Sunday last a number of pleasuro seekers loft thiscity to jown A party at Rockwood who had plauned to visit the cave, About 4 o'clock in tho afternoon the mombers of the party, hav- ing disposed of their dinner, bezau to climb tho Lill, near the top of which the mouth of the cave is located. After much exertion the foremost of the party veached the mouth of the cave, and, be- ing in advance of his companious, they were startlod to seo him fall backward iuto the low oak brush as if he had been thrown from a catapult. His companions, pushing forward more vigorously, soon camo to his rescuo and fouud him recovering, not much hurt, but slightly scratehod and somewhat dazed. He could g1vo no explanation of his suddon re- moval from the opening of tho cavern. Curious to kuow whatthe causo was the eu- tire compauy 1n & body pushed up tho hill, which has a particularly steep descent unear the mouth of the cave. To the astonisbment of the whole number, the instant, after step- ping into the cave they found themselves all ~piled togethor in a spot near where the first had landed, It took but a little while to re- cover from tho entangloment, when thoy be- Kan 1o inquire the causo of this sudden ex- citement. They all agreed that thoy had soen nothing to causo such A thing, and they were curious to Kuow tho reason for the phenome- non. Hut how to find ot what they wished was the thing to accide, At last it was determined that the strong- est gentlomen of the party should gain a position at the side of thu entrance, and,thus protected, get an opportunity to reconnoiter. So, taking a circuitous route and avoiding a | a position airectly in front of the openiug, | thoy soon found themselves close besido tho eutrance. Cautiously puttiog his hoad out boyond the projecting wall, the foremost peored in. His hat immediately took Hight down the declivity, but he was thus made aware of tho exact stato of afiairs, “Tho philosophy of the corrent of air in caves suddenly dawned upon him. As is well kuown, tho air of & warm day in summer is wuch lighter ou the outside of a cave or cel- lar than it is lside. Consoquently, the cold, heavy air rushes out with great violence enough in this case to cause the trouble spoken of and throw tho party down the hill. Later, reluting this tale, an oid-timer told your correspondent of a former adyenture of at the sume place. On a cold day in the | y wiater e was tracking a deer along this hillside, when he was astonished to sed the oave open up before him, and he noticed that | the snow seemod to have been disturbed very rocently, as though & boay had beon dragged into the entrance. Without thinking he stepped forward to examine into the cause of the disturbed con dition of the snow, when be folt himself vio- lently putled into the cave, the force pulling him from his feet. Ho felt a shock,and for & was oblivious toall around him. When nses returned ho found he was lving by and partially upon the body of & deer. Upon examination he found the body of the deer yet warm. This led to a closer oxauduALON SLilL, Hoat lust detormined that | | ciatos will the force of the current of air blowing Into the cave had drawn the deer in, killing it, but that when he was drawn 1n the shock was somewhat obyiated by his striking tho deor, thus saving him from death. The ex- planation is just the reverse of the other, tho ir being warmer inside of the cave tnan out ho current flows into the cave during_ the winter,thus accounting for the strange affair, THE VANISHED BOSS, The Tweed of Oaliforr C ntry. . The sensation of last weok in California was the public announcement of the fact that Christopher Buckley, the blind boss of tho democratic party, and his chiof hench- men—+Sam"” Raney, “Jora" Driscoll and “Juke" Rudolph, Wwho wers presumably wanted by the grand jury now 1n session— bad fled to the Canadian bordem Thoy are accused of all sorts of crookednoss, it being openly charged that Buckley's fino country house called Ravenwood, at Livermore, was built and painted by workmen who drew their pay from the school department. Buck- ley and Rainey, who recently resigned a lucrative place in the fire department,are be- lieved to be the agents of legislative bribery, of corrupt bargains with municipal officers — in fact, with having enriched themselvos for years past av the expense of tho taxpayers. The latest news from Buckloy, whose trip from this city to Vancouver, curiously enough, was a series of ovations from demo- cratic organizations which had not heard of his downfall, is that he is on his way to Liv- erpool. Judgo Wallace baving sustained the logality of the grand jury, which was ques- tioned, by sentenzing Richard Chute, a prominent politician who rerused to answer asubpmna, to fine and imprisonment, the belief is becoming general that after all that body is determined to make a record by in- daicting ev vbody, high and low, connected with city or state affairs, st whom suf- ficient ovidenco can be obtained. Should this be done, it will be a long time before “Boss” Buekley and his demoeratic asso- duro to return to their former Skips the haunts. Buckley turnod tho crank that worked the volitical ‘machinory of this county and city for about twelye years, and he had levied tribute on officials, high and low, until from a bankrupt he is acknowledeed 1o bo worth in the neighborhood of $1,000,000, He bad, from the uge of 21 up to 1378, been a republi- can, but secing that thero was no chance to dethrone Bill Higgins, the ropublican boss, he called himself a democrat and by sheer shrewdness and clever manipulation got to bo the acknowledged boss of the democracy. He und Higgins were great friends and fix up the *slate” to suit themsel eversthing was carried out ns they bhad mapped it If “Buck” got aman u $200 a month place in the city hall his commission was at_least $10 o month, and if a *ron” bill had to be put_through the legislature, Buck- ley had to be interviowed and given a goodly sim of monev, or he would not let the San rancisco delegation vote for it. He owned the judges hers, and if one of his ward strik ers ‘had committed murder, “Buck’ would only have to send word that the man must be letoff, and this was done. In fact, he even said who should go to the United States sen- ate, and it is claimed that he put up woai men last election for the state senate and as- sembly, so that the Stanfordites could win easily and put in the present railroad mag- nate as senator. At any rate there was an uprising of decent democrats, who were willing to do anvthing in_reason’ to break the hold of the Buckloy boa constrictor that had been squeezing the life'ssblood out of politically clean men for years, aud there was a rout of tbe Buckloy forces from A to Z, many even voting tho re- publican ticket. THE GREAT NORTHERN, Progress of Work on the Coast Exten- sion. President Hill of the Great Northorn roaa and a party of officers, has complotod a tour of the road now under way as well as the North Pacific cities. The Great Northern is now making Cross- port, Idaho, its base of oparations, receiving supplies from Hopo, Smedw's station and other points on the Northern Pacific. Burns & Chapman of Spokane hava a contract for fitty-fivomiles of rock work in Montana. The definite survey of tho line ends at Chat- taroy, about fifteen miles north of Spokano, and itis understood that lins have beou run into Spokane in a quiet way. It isalso understood that tho contracts have been let for the construction of the Great Northern's lino tavough Washington to the seaboard. Whilo no one knows posi- tively what route the line will take, says the Portland Oregonian, one of the best guesses is that aftor leaving Spokene tho lina will run down the Littio Spokane river and strike the Central Washington branch of the Northern Pacific, near Mondovi, and parallel it on the north to Coulee City, in Douglas county. F'rom thero two lines have been surveyed. Oue runs up Foster creek to tho Couleo, and down the Coulee to Wenatchie. The other leaves the Coules at Coulee City and follows the river in a southwestorly di- rection to Wenatchio. As tho survoyors in locating the definite line are working tow- ard the southwest it 1s_belioved that that route will bo adopted. The linc crosses the Columbia at Rock Island ravids, in_Kittitas county; thence up the Wenatchie river, and running northwesterly across Mason creck, through Stovens’ pass in tho Cascades, whore thero will a tunnel over a mile long. It1s not unlikely that the Great Northern will be running trains into Portiand by Jan- uary 1, 1593, JOHN CHINAMAN Raze the Barriers Boundary. Montana has too many square miles of its territory lying along tho Canadian froutier, says tho Great Falls Leader, to be very much pleased with tho interprotation of the Chinese exclusion act, which it scoms must be accepred, at any rate until the next ses- sion of congress. The treasury department has done all in its power to establish the ruling that a Chinaman who snealss across the border can be sent back to China rather than to Canada whence ho came more imme- diately, Investigation has been made all along the frontier, and it has been found the celestials have been voming over by the thousand. The officials of Vancouver esti- wate that more than 7,000 have entered at that port since the first of January, bound divect for the United States. Even Attorney Goneral Miller gave it as his opinion that the exclusion act pormits the rotura to China: divect. So far so good. But a test case in Detroit in behulf of some Chinamen, seems to havo mado all the efforts at Washington of no offect. The decision given thero by Judge Swan of tho Umited States distict court was in effect, that they must be sent back to Canada ws thio country whenco they mo. The department says it must accept tho ruling and await the action of congress. Whether Judgo Swaa's coustruction of the law is good or mot, it virtually is at issue with the wish of sur’ people and violates the intent of tne legislation which was intended to keep the Chinaman out. Courts on the One gratifying effect of the California blg wheat crop has been the loweriug of the prices of cemeut and coal in the San Fran- cisco market. Never beforo nave these two necessary articles, for which there is at pres- cnt an unprecedented demand, beon 50 low. Tho certainty of obtaining lucrative wheat charters from San Francisco has had the egoct of senaing a great fleet of ships there, aud consequently it has caused low freights to rulo from Kuropean countries, Rathor than send their craft in ballast, English vessel ownors bave been taking frelght at al- most any price. Extensive building opera- tions ars now in_progress and the prives of cement are about 60 per cent loss than & yoar ago. There are at present more coal-laden ships bouud for San Francisco than ever be- fore known, while many more are listed to leavo Australian ports within the next thirty days. It is believed that the saving to con- sumers this yoar on coal will amount to $1,000,000, Tho export suppiy of wheat is expected to be 800,000 tons, which is a con- sorvative estimate. Enough tonnage is in port and ou the way here, to arrive prior to docataber 81, to carry away the entire umount. Vacant Public Land, Tho report of Commissioner Carter of the goueral land oftice gives the following figures of vacant publio land To the westorn statos and torritories : i Arizona Uadifornia 1dabo Montani Novada, Orogorr Utah . Washington Wyoming. AoV ¥ ¢ The approvals during the year under the different grants to stated for educational pur- poses and under the SaliAé grant, having the effect of a patent, embraced an area of 5,172 acres. Of this amount Novada re- coived approvals for 449884 acres; Oregon, 91,343, and Idaho, 40,006." At tho ciose of the fiscal 'voar there wero found to be 83,058 final entrles ponding {n tho ‘efico against 208,004 at the close of the previous fiscal year. 061,008 ), 4 A One-Horse Road. The accident on the Tehacapi grade of the Southorn Pacific railroad recently is another instance of the antiquated systom of railroad ing prevaiiing in Californta. ‘hero is not a double track line in the state, and the single track system provails without any modern appliances for satety, such as block signals, Heavy trains are equipped with only two brakemen; and in the case of the accident had it not been for the passengers, who put on the hand brakes, the train, crowded with passengers, would havo been dashed to pieces over an embankment, as a runaway train whas, in the samo place, several years ugo. In this cas he train stood for two hours in darkness, without so_much as sending a man back with a red lantorn or putting torpedoes on tho track to warn the freight train that tho passenger conductor heard was coming. Yet the raitroad officiels solemnly assert that the accident was one of those things that could not be prevented. A coroner's jury has been found that was indepoudent enoagh to speak the truth, and a verdict was returned that the accident was solely due to the gross negligence of the train employes. 1th Dakota's Divorce Mill. The famous divorce mill at Sioux Falls, S. D., had some queer grist the other day. A Now York momber of the divorce colony asked for a divoree from his wife, whom he married in New York in 1857, While this suit was pending tho sherifl served on the applicant a copy of nsummons and complaint filed in Loudon a few woeks ago. Tho com- plaint alloges that this samo gentleman was marcied in Kngland in 1385, and one child, now living, was born of the union. Two oars later the husband left for the United States, and the English wife beard nothing of him'after three years, She discovered his whercabouts a_couple of weeks aco, and be gau suit for divorce. S0 the curious case is presented of a bigamous husband suing for divorce aud being bimseil suea av tbo samo time. Wyoming. The coal output at Rawlins is enormous. A fabulously rich strike is reported near Lewiston, The ore is said to assay $10,000 a ton. Business is loomin g up at Newcastle. Four marriages were perpetrated inone day re- cently Interosted partios are negotiating for a colony of Nebraskans to scttle in the Upper Platte valley. Nebraska parties have a sixty-day ontion for a half interest in the Jack Crock placers. The price is §20,000. ‘The Cummius Cit 1ng to the front again. put on record recently. The university artesian well at Laramio has reacked a depth of $2-fect, and the flow of water has been doubled, ; An English syndicate is nogotiating for one of the mines in the Sierra Madres, twenty-five miles from Saratoga. Stamps will be pounding out gold-studded quartz and batteries reducing bullion in the Gold Hill camp before snow flies. That Cheyenne jail escape was one of the boldest ever perpetrated in the west. Miller, one of the convicts, has beén recaptured. J. G. Jost has sold mgh sheep ranch near Rawlins for §17,000, and ill make a tour of Germany. Five years ago Jost was a poor man. : Saratogans were bitten by a bogus build- ing and loan sharp and he was promptly run in. A fine of $250 was assessed and he is working it out at the rate of $1 a day. Superintendent O’Hearn of the Cheyenne shops withdrew his resignation on promiseof @& substantial increaso in salary. Jack OHearn is worth his price to any company. Practically unlimited capital is behind the Massachusetts company tnat will erect the twenty-stamp mill at Gold Hill. The ia- vestors are sterling business men, not mining sharks, accordiug to the Saratoga Sun. Wyoming's experimental farms are rather olovated. The different statious and alti- tudes are: Lander, 5,550 feet; Saratoga, 6,720 fect; Wheatland, 5,000 feet; Sundance, 4,700 feot; Snheridan, 4,500 feet; Larami 7,300 fact.” T'he altitude of the state sgricul- vural collogo at Buffulo will be 4,500 feat. mining district is com- Fourteeu claims were South Dakota. Snow has already fallen on the tops of tho Black Hills. Development worl is progressing rapidly in Two-Bit guich. Thirteen acres of oats on threshed 593 bushels. ‘The invested capital in_the Harney Pealk tin mines amounts to §3,000,000, In the streteh of five miles between Plank- inton aud Alpena @ prairie fire destroyed $10,000 worth of property. ‘The Calaboga mine is now taking out a good deal of $20 lead ore which wiil shortly be shipped to the Omaha smeiter. The owners of the McDonell mine at Baid mountain report they now have a thirty-foot body of 20 ore exposed in their workin, Ownors of the Gold mountain group, in Two-Bit gulch, have been doing cousiacrablo prospecting, and were rewarded by uncover- ing a six-foot blanket vein of silicous oro that carries $21 in gold, ‘The owners of the Luiu, Dead Broke and solden Summit lodes, patented claims within the city limits of Lead City, have uncovered near the surface a blanket vein of silicous ore that runs from §19 to §0 per ton in goid, A striko of a small vein of §0 silver load oro was made in the Elk Mountain minos last week. The strike was made in & new cross- cutstarted from the main tunnel, and has groatly encouraged operations in the vicin- ity. Tuo large bodies of gold bearing quartz that cover tho tablo lana lying between Spenrfish creek and Farm Guleh has been quite successfully prospectod during tho past summer by the different owners, The ore taken out assays $35 a ton, Utah. at Gurfleld, Beach is at Deer creel The season an end. A £20,000 police station uas been completed in Ogden Electric motors have supercaded the mule in Ogden, A large smelting plant is/to be evocted in Salt Lako City. The contract has been it fora joint city and county building in Saly Lako City. Salt Lake authorities have declarea war on scarlet women, but the loca¥ roost of robbers hold the freedom of tho ciky. Recent discoveries in Lucky mine at Silyer City prove beyond a doutt” that thero aro still great properties to baepened at Tintic, and that tho porphyry district around Silver City has its share of them. ' The recently discovered La Platte field promises to be the suvject af & law suit, Sev- eral years ago a cattlo Arm bought the ground upon which the! i Platte mino is itusted from the CentrAl Pacific railroad. 'ho company at the time of the sale did not roserve the mineral right except as to vho United States, which was specific. Tho syn- dicate controlling the mine obtained au op- tion from the original purcbasers, the deed t0 be closed in October. ~ Now the cattle firm claim thatthe option was on theland as graz- ing land, and that as the railroad compuny did not reserve its mineral rights that all such pass with the title, and they now de- maud 45,000 from the La Platte peoplo for the section in which the La Platte and other claims are situated. 'he syudicate lLas al- ready expended $16,000 in development work, and are endeavoring o effect & coi- promise ontana. The asscssed valuation of all property in Helena is §25,745,740. ndred and sixty cattlo oars have aged at Benton. A copper and silyer load assaying $54 to the ton bas beon uncovered at Kalispell. The preliminary examiuation of the ale leged murderers of Editor Penrose in Butte almost equaled in auration the celebrated Dav is will contest. Miss Belle Sastrum, who lives eight miles northwest of Kalispell, in the vicinity of Foy's mill, says the Graphio, is ono_of the pluckiest young Iadies in the Flathead coun- try. A few days ago hor father and Mr, Loverton went out hunting and returned without any game, but while they woero ab- sent Miss Bello and the dog siiccooded in killinga big black boar. When the two men returned the young lady had tho boar dressed and the hido stretohea and tacked up to tan The newspapers of Montana are making & strong crusado against the ‘‘gun,’” as the 4d-caliber six-shooter is calied by the citizens of that region. They say the gun must go. This is a startiing innovation and is a blow at what most Montana_peoplo used to consider, and may still consider the foundation of so. ioty aud the chief guaranten of good morals and behavior. But the newspapers say the gun habit is a cowardly custom, that it is against the law, and that it has got to go. And there are good sigus that it will go, too. 1daho. Melbourno fafled to produco rain at Nampa., Thirty head of live elk in Bengham county sold for $150 each. A gold brick valued at 82 shipped to the mint at Philadelphia from the Boise City assay oftico last week, This gold was purchased by the ussayer in chargo for the government. The chances for the development of a very rich gold and silver district ten to fifteon miles beyond Deadwood, in the Bear valloy seotion, are very good. ‘I'io mines discovered there by the Bunch brotbors and Hugh Garc ner are exceedingly rich. But, 1ike all the mines in central Idabo, can ouly bo reachod by packtrail. I A. Fenn, who has chargo of tho selec- tion of Tands ceded to the stato of Idaho by congzress, says that the lands m the north are much more available for immediato roturns than those in southern Idaho. This is from the fact that no irrigation is needed in that cction, He feels confident that at least §20 per acre can be realized for the land. Washington. A steel factory is to bo started in Seattlo. Spokane has inaugurated a receiving hos- pital. A bicycle railroad between Scattle is projected. “Tacoma merchants have decided to expend ,000 i the construction of a new chambor f commerce. _ Tacoma ladies, 100 1n number, have organ- ized a Rainy Day club. Their frocks are to be stiortened to the shoe tops. A Chicago man writes to Governor Wiley that e has a customer for irrigation bonds in any amount from $50,000 to $1,000,000. Avout sixtv-five carloads of wheat are being recoived daily at Tacoma, and this is })ulllulmlc of what is expectea later in the all. The Porter creck gold mining excitement bas struck Hoquinm and Grays Harbor, and an extensive exodus to the scene of the big finding is the result. About #00 Klickitat Indians are busy on the ranch of the Snoqualmie Hop Growing association m_ Washington. It is estimated the crop of this ranch will be about 250 tous this scason. Privato Jackson of company G, Twenty- fifth_infantry, stationed at Fort Missoula, was the other morning awukened by a hug and found himself in tho embrace of a black bear. His cries brought a number of his comrades, who killed the elephant. A rancher from a backwoods district en- gaged o room av a nholel in Seattle, Wash, ‘The house 's lighted by electricity, and the bell boy turned on the light in the new- comer's rocm, The farmer didn’t kuow how 10 extinguish the light, and, after exhausting bis ideas, uncoiled the length of wire by which the light hung, and stuck the lamp 1u the bureau drawoer, smothering it under his clothing. The next day the lamp was found stowed away there and still burniug. Hop growing is one of the remunerative io- dustries in the state of Washiugton. 'I'he yield per acre is something astonishing. To obtain 630 pounds on an acre of grouud is considered a fine_yield among the hop grow- ers on this side of the Rocky mountaius and in England and Germany, but an acre of ground in Oregon or Washington will yield 1,600 pounds. In 1895, 50,000 bales ef hops, equal to 9,000,000 pounds, were sold in Wash- ington, and 1t 18 estimated that this year's crop will bring a profit of $1,500,000 to the hop farmers of that state. Oregon. Work 1s progressing on the Blue Mountain Irrigating company’s ditch in Umatilla county, which will “reclaim a large area of arid land. Through the offorts of the enterprising miners in the Greenhorn country the camps are all connected by good wagou roads. They are now turning their attention 1o their ship- pinz and mail fucilit At Camas Prairie 1t 1s stated that grain will average from uinety to one hundrod bushels to the acre. Tho only means of transportation is by wagon rouads and farm- ars hardly know how to take care of their immense crops. i The directors of the Portland Industrizl exposition received a _petition from the church peoplo of that city asking them to re- move tne statues and paintings of the uude order from the art gallery. The directors “romoved’” the petition. Au insect that promises to do great injury 10 the timber of the coast range is swarming in Nehalem and Clatsop counties. The insect referred to 15 a sort of worm, measuring about an inch loug, which cov all kinds of trees for whole scctions, They eat overy leaf, and where they worked lust year tho trees are all aead. One of tho largest Oregon, without quosticn, lies south of Heppaer, in Morrow county. Tins ranch is owned by William Pealand und contains 20,000 acres of good tillable and productive | ana. Ho has just finished harvestng hay crop, which amounted to over 1,00) tor Tuis large body of land is all under fenc and affords excellent pasturage forstock dur iug the entire winter season. Calitornia. A nuggot of gold weighing found in the Ruby mine Wednesday night, Santa Cruz is to have an outfit of song- birds. Fivesects of feathered singers nave been ordered from Kngland—thrushes, gold- finches, vightingales, bulifinches and sky- lurks, Tho convict who has been in San Quentin the lofigest of any ouo there is a Mexican, Felipo Moreno, who is serving a-life sentence for killing Dr. Marsh in Contra Costa connty thirty-four years ago. Hoe was not cuptured until ten years aftor tho deed and bas been in prison uearly tienty-four yoars, Activo steps aro being taken for the or- ganization of a dried fruit exchango in tiis state. The growers aro becoming tired of tho way -in which tuey are forced to lose the greater part of their profits in commis- sion to migdlemen, and purpose herealter to deal more directly with consumers ‘The raisin crop this year will fall short of 2,000,000 boxes, the figure sot by some en- thusiastic experts, On excellent authority it is learned that Fresnocounty, which pro duces more than all the rest of the state, will not send to market more than 800,000 boxes. The othor counties will produce about 500,000 boxes. California will make a good showing as a producer of beet sugar this year. Tho China factory expects to produce” 5,000,00 pounds of sugar, tho Watsonvilie factory 8,000,000 pounds and the Alvarado factory 2,000,000, This makes a total of 7,500 tons, which scoms a large amount, but the ited States um ports sugar to the value of $100,000,000 annually. Tt will bo somo time bofore Wo can 1'this sugar av home. 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