Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 11, 1891, Page 10

BURNISHED FI THE OMAHA DAII ELDS-OF FUEL ()vm-!lnwfn(] Measures of Black Diamonds in the Imperi THE EXTENT Bketch and Changing Miner The Hum of UNKNOWN, T Characteristics al Domain. HE QUALITY UNSURPASSED. Scope of the Great Stanford University of California— of Mining Towns and Industry Everywhere— Summary of Northwest News. Coal Fiells The census bulletin of the coal product ot of the Unitod States is an invaluable record. T'he kuown area of coal beds as well as the quality or the output and the amount and 0t of production are tabulated by groups of states, accompanied with maps showing the total coal aresof tho country aod the produetion of coal pou square mile, The coal aren of owa covers the southw third of the state, extonding Into the southeast c ner of Nebraska, thence south unbroken into Missouri, Kansas, through fndian Territory and into Texas, Away in the northwest cor. nor of Nebraska the man shows a black spot indicative of coal. Wyomng is well spotted with black diamond fields, but not to_the ex- tont claimed by the people of the state, The map gives South Dakota but two small coal mensures, one in the southeust corner, the other au éxtcnsion of a Wyoming measure into the Black Hills. North Dakota is eiven a large urea i the central western section. Montana has cxtensive beds. Colorado is 150 extonsively dotted, and the remainiug northwestern states, according to the map, have a few isolated flelds of coal. “The western fleld,” says the bulletin, tembraces thosd coal flelds west of the Mis- sissippi river, south of the 43d parallel and cnst of the locky mountains. The most cx- tensive miniug operations in tnis field aro carried on in Towa and Missouri. The best conl which has so far been mined 1n the fiold is that from Indian territory. The area of this field is greater than any other one coal fiold in the United States. ‘Tho coals are of great varicty, and the region under which thoy lio is a rich agricultural country. The demand for local fuels must necessarily in- creuso from year to year, so that even poor coul beds within this” reglon will no doubt be sxtensively developed to supply local de- mands. “Tho ttocky mountain corl beds have be found in the geological formations from the arboniterous up to and includiug the creta ceous. No detailed information of the entire conl area of the Rocky mountain rozion, sim. ilar to thot which has beeu determined by state peological surveys of the coul basius cnst of the Rocky mountains, is available, and no relinble estimates have been made of the aroas underlaid by workable coal beds. It s been surmised that the total area of tho coal fields of this district is between 200,- 100 and 300,000 squaro miles, but this esti- mate is little more than a guess. “Ihe anthracito coals of Colorado and New Mexico are of superior quality and apparcntly in ample supply for tho rapidly increasing domestic and industrial demands of this sec- tion. There is no doubt that iu the near future they will constitute a formidablo com- petitor in the western markets to the Penn- sylvanin anthrac “In the P’acific const region coul has been mined in Washington, Oregon and Catifor nia. The urea underinid by workable c beds has not been definitely actermined, though the geographical survey of California and the recent work of Prof. RRaphael Pum- pelly and his associates in Washington have given very reliable and detailed information n regard 1o the geology of the coal bearing rock Tho total coal product of the United States for tho census year was 141,220 sort tons, and the vaiue at tie mines, oxpenses of shipment, was 316! “Dho followins table'shows tho coal product in short tous for the census year 1890: 10! ¥ Nebraskil. Kansas Dakotas Montan. Wyoming. Utnl: Colorado Washington . Oregon Callforni STAN Weste st ona IRSITY, The G vional lifornia, Tho Leland Stanford, jr., university w formally opened last week with appropriato ceremonies, The university isa grand and enduring tribute to the memory of Senator Stanford’s son, who died seven years ago. The project of the university at Pualo Alto, in tho very heart of the rich Sauta Clara valloy, sys correspondent of the New York Tribune, was taken up by Senator Stanford as a dis- traction 1 the great grief of his lifo. He had mado au imperial fortune by building tho overland railroad in the tuce of public doubt and distrust; he was proparing to train his son to assume much of the vurden of the care and responsibility that great wealth brings with it, when Roman fover cut short the youug man’s career, “his was nearly seven years ago and tho yeurs have been full of uctivity, Firsta special act was passed by the California leg slature permitting tho coaveyance to trustees of property for the endowment of an educational institution. A boara of trustees was appointed of which Judge Lorenzo Sawyer, who died recently, was chairman, and which iucluded such represontative men as Justico Stephen J. Field, Senator Stew- art, Judge Deady of Oregon, Judge James Me- M. Shafter and Irving M. Scott, tne builder of the cruisors Charleston and Sau Francisco. To theso trustecs Senator Stanford aud his wife conveyed by deed the fine estate of Palo Alto, comprising 7,300 acres, the Vina ranch in 'Tehama county of 53,000 acres, which includes the largest vine yard in the world; the Gridley ranch in Butte county of 21,000 acres and other valuabie property. Tho total endow- ment is above §15,000,000 and the revenues from the varicus properties is largn. It was deciued to orect the university buildings not far from the senator’s residence on the Palo Alto ranch. _'The sito selected is about three miles from Menlo park, the most beautiful of the collection of subirban homes of San Fraueisco willionaires, ‘I'he siteis an almost lovel bit of lund just at the edge of the foot- hills on the east sido of the rich Santa Clara valley. [Iuis the ideal place for a scat of learning, as it 1s removed about three miles from the railve .d and is in a district that is sheltered from the winds and is especially suited to the growth of allt s and shrubs. One hundred acres were sot apart for the umversity grounds. The architecture of the buildings is as unique as the plan of the university, The prevailing style is an adaption of thé Califor nia mssions. low buldings, with heavy walls and, roofs of tile. The main group of four. cat Institution is toot buildiugs encloses a quudranglo 600 feot | long by 350 wide, These buildings are maiuly intended as class rooms. ‘They are built of croam colored sandston, are sever.ty by fifty feet and the beight from tho ground 1 the Yoo tree is sixty feet. All the build ings open upon an arcade, with Moorish col- umns, which 18 tweuly foet wide and eightoen feet high. This runs around the whole quadrangle and permits one to waik around in comfort even during very rainy weather. ‘I'he surface of the quadrangle is covered with & heavy coat of asphaltum pavement and the lovels are o aicely adjusted and all water is drained off in a fow minutes. Eight circular beds i this quadrangle are filled with semi-tropical trees and plants, which add greatly to the beauty of the scene. Midway on oue side of the quadrungie is the main entrance, over which will be crected an imposing arch: on the opposito side is the museu: buildiug, four stories bigh, of pere Greek architecture. On the west side of the quadrangle will be built the memorial chureb, cruclform in shape and bullt of the same materials as the other structures. Even in its present unfinisaod condition the quadrangle is worth traveling many miles to see. Tho perfect arches in the arcade is sometning to 6o words can dojustice, Standing iuside the line of the | which the arches between the buildings one has wlimpses of deep green fields and of trees whose foliage is lightly touchcd by the after- noon wind. One seews to be looking out upon one of the nills of the Alhambra, and this old world air is strengthened by the mellow tove of the stone work aud the | tropical luxurisnce of the fan-palms. T'io applications for admission have alveady outrun the accommodations. Over 400 boys have applied. Sixty-two girls have been as signed rooms in the girls’ dormitory. T'hirty- i two are from Calitorma, two from Honolulu | und the remuinder from coast states and the cast The president David Starr Jordan, | Dr. | versity of Ind | | | uni- of the univorsity is formerly of the LIFE IN THE MINING REGIONS, the stor. Disappearance of Traditional Prospe Mr. Atbert Williams, jr., a distinguished | mining engineer of Denv ontributes very able and exceedingly interesting papor to the October number of the Eungineering Magazine, under the caption “Moacrn Types of Gold und Silver Miners.” It is replote with authentic information upon a subject which nas been largely overdrawn by i aginative writers, he reve a groat deal that 1s worth knowing of the interesting career of precious metal miners as a class, tragitional prospector will soon be as as the dodo. Ho was a picturesque cter in fietion and in reality, and ho | will be missed. His disapvearance will not be due to the absence of ground to be pros- pected, but to the different conditions under which such work 15 uow done. In early times the prospectors were literally gold seckers; they were after surface placers. It takes but a little time for enterprising, hardy } men to overrun a considerable territory [in the search for this class of de- Dosits, casily able by simple panning tests here and there, and only to be looked for 1 cortain topograpical situations, and the country has been so thoroughly zone over that the likelihood of finding anything nportance in the way of placers has been | ily lessened. ‘The prospectors of today uly to veins and lodes which are much more The pioneers used to u and Is —deposits “in plac dificult to lo vable privations ‘and bardships, and g face dangers from hostile ladians. Now it 1s found that tho immediate neigh borhood of one’s own camp is about as likely ce to prospect in as one farther aw and many of the best lode stikes have been made 1 the heart of districts whero mining bad been going on for years, Some people supposé that a mining eampis an unusually dangerous sort of place, full of desperadoes ana “bold ups,” whero every man carries his life in bis hand. Tho mis- | conception has been handed down from { rougher wilder times, and has been kept alive by the romancing of tender-foot newspaper correspondents. A mau is far safer in 4 min- ing camp than on Cherry Hill, New Yori; Par Flat, S visco, or a largo areas in' any of our cities; much more indeed than 1 parts of London or So far ns robbery is con- cerned ono s uot safe anywhere, in the moun- tains or in the towns. As to affrays of other kinds a man_who is sover, minds his own BE poor woman told the man that he must, from | the boards on the place, make the best box | he could. The man helplessly said ho could not, but she encouraged him and told him he would help him. ~ Sc the box was made, That compieted, the man dug a grave. The | only services for the dead was by the wife | and little children kneeling around the coffin | ofore (t was moved from the house, and | praying. But thea what other service was needed ! As best they could they got the box to the | grave; the man drove stakes on one side of the grave and tied ropes around them, and that woman and that man lowered the body into the graye. I'hen she went back to take eare of her children. The storm was so fu- rious on the lake that she could take her children island, What she endure that Saturday night, Sunday night, aud loave the through that Saturday that Suuday and that , 1o one can im agine. She did not shed a tear, sho has not shed o tear since, she says very calmly that she nover anticipated lifo without her hus- band, but now her children need what strength she has got. And she speaks of what sho did as notuing at all. She says it was a ploasure to her to do the last offices, 1t is very much swoeter for herto think of than it would ve to think that it was per formed by some one who might have been less tender in his touch than she. And that was by a little woman who never knew what work was, or what isolation meant; who knew nothing at all about tho rougher side of 1ifo until sho gave her heart up to hor husband and thenceforth lived only for him A WOND An Bnormously nd in Wyom Emile Gravier, proprietor of tho Christian mining works at Atlantic City, in the Wind River mountains of Wyoming, visited Lara- mic this weelc. Mr. Granier told a reporter of the Boomerang that great deal of the talk about his mines up there bad been idle gossip. ‘Tho report that he had cleaned up $07,000 from his placers was pure nonsenso and devoid of truth. No such amount had been realized. “But," said Mr. Granier, “tho last woek we struck o wonderful quactz Afte paving all expénso of hauling and smelting it netted $700 per ton. Mr. Granier said he had made te showed §1,00 to the ton, while a test made in Denver showed it to coutain 331,000 to the ton. This mine is sunk to adopth of twenty- five feet and bas u vein of glittoring oro soven feet wide. At adepth of ten feet nine ts which business and does not set upasa fighter wouid always bo let alone. If ho does not | carcy o “gun,” so much the better for him, for thero 15 among the roughest characters & cortain senso of chivairy, which they would | eall “squareness,” that prevents attack upon | an unarmed man. The pra arms is not at all universal in the mountains, | When pistols aro worn they aro kept out of sight. — indeed, is not much use to a | peacerut man in ing avms at all. If he | is “held up” by the “roud agonts” ho is | always at a disadvantage, being taken un | expectealy, and when they havo the diop on | him a moiion toward tho hip pocket would be o take large chances. Lf the custom--so far as it goos—of carrying weapous may sometimes lead to unpromeditated fatal en- counters, it also has the offoct of making men | quiet in’ manner and cautions about mving offense, so that even “*‘wnen w ing” thero is less noiscand cortainly loss disposition for a sough-and-tumble fight than under similar cireumstances in citie VOTION A Pathetic Story of Isolat Death on an Island. “'ho Salt Lake Tribune tells tho following story of froutier heroism and the devotion of @ woman to her husband : The story of Mrs. U. J. Wennor's life on Fremont island 1s aboat the most pathetic story ever told on the frontier. She was born and reared in luxury; sho came to this city u bride eleven years ago. When, five years ago, her busband decided to move to Fremont islund, sha cheerfully gave up hor luxurious homo in this city and went with bim. OF course sho had no neighbovs. With 10 ono but her husband and her little family avound her, with a hired man and girl to assist, lived thero five years. At ono | time sho was there two years and a balf without ing the fsland. When, two years ago, her husband became too weak to ride on horseback, she looked after the stock herself; attended to her house; she taaght her children; she nursed her hus- | band, and in theso occupations she was busy every moment of her time, She says sho was nappy, and we do nct doubt it. Her busband was railing i e time, but ho had been a long timo 1, aud sne would not per- mit the thought of the possibility of his dying to enter her mind. So it weut on until two weoks ago last Wednesday, when her husband bad @ severe hemorrhage of the lungs. It was stopped, and he sald he folt more relieved than he' had for months bo- fore. Of course great prostration always foilows heciorrhage of the lungs, and so he lay very weal but cheerful. 5 On Saturday morning he told her what to | cook for bis breakfast. saving ne wanted a | ®ood b kiast, but w I\|lu this was in prepar- ation she heard the signal which she had pr vared for him to make in case he needed her. When she got to his side the fatal hemor- rhago was on his lips; when she hastened to give him the medicine that was always given him atsuch » time, ho motioned it away. Sho put her arm around his neck, drew bis | hoad'on her bosom, and asked him if ho loved | her: he answered *Yes," and askad her if she loved him; at hev “yes" he smiled, and in an instant, without a spasm, that smilowas | transiixed'and his soul bad ed She was there all alone; with her own hands sho washed and dressed her husband's body, went outside and got the board hersell | and'stretched it upon the chairs beside the bed. She did it all alone, and woen all was composed 8o went to her ehildron, told thom | that their father was dead, explained to them | 83 woll as she could what death meant, took tnem in and showed them their father's face they all kissed bhim and kuelt and prayed be- side bim. The uJay wore along and a_great storm camo upon the lake, so that it was impossiblp for the man to return. It bad al ways boen understood that two signal fires meant that she needed belp, 30 as the night | came down she went and lighted thoso fires and then took up her watch beside her dead. | Atintervals through the night she would go and replenish the fires, and so the wateh went on tll duylight. ALl that day passed away. At pight she renowed the fires, and tually, ‘at great peril, the man reached the » | istand at 10 o'clock at night. There was no she she quadrangie aud looking out through any of | possibility o return to get & caskot, 80 the witere they struck the vein, it was two fect wide. It is a nice free milling Guartz. Tho shaft is 6x6 feet, from a glan2e into the mine the gold can be Soen all over it. Up thero in the Wind river everything is covered with snow now, and nothing ctn be done with this mine until spriug. ‘The people in that part of the coun- try, Mr. Granier cstimates, have carried Ly £0,000 worth of ore since the mine was aiscovered. Some beautiful specimens of almost solid gotd whi wore left in the mine a short fmo while tho men were absent were stolen. Baskets and sacks of ore have been carried awey more for their value than as specimens. There were no startling sur- face indications whero this mino is located. Mr. Granicr commenced work there on the advice of one of his men. Mr. Granier has sowe seventoen claims near this new discov- ery. A gentleman who owns an adjoining claim has struck the same ore, showing that is an immense body of 1t there. nicr has been engaged in mining at for cight years. His attention ttracted to the region by a newspaver article, and Lie concluded to embark in the mining business up there. Ho has been cngaged in placor almost usively, and has over twenty five miles of ditcnes for this purpose. He has created an immense reservoir two miles lonz and a mile wide. He has cut aud blasted chanuels twenty-seven feet deep through solid granito walls to make an_outlet for the water. The canal has been carriod through forests and through hills for miles until the immense works have made an ex- penditure of £400,000, There are dams four- teen feet high. When State Engincer Meade visited the works he was surprised at their oxtent. ilo has 190 feet of water pressure, which it is said_could be increased to 500 feet. The company owns 6,000 acres of land there. The mines are situated on the Pacitic slope of the Wind river mountains. Mr. Granier was accompanicd here by J. A. Skerbeckly of London, 8 mining expert. who has been to Atlantic 'City to make somo suggestions and devise machinery to operate the placers, The works will be made more extensive thau ever. UTAH'S GREAT RESOURCES. mountains mining About Her Agricultural and Mining Wealth. Herearoa few statistics about Utah as prepared by Territorial Statistician Lippman in his recent report: The averago yield of beets is 343 barrels to the acre, of the market value in 189 of 33 conts por bushel or &6.8) peracre. Tho average yield of cotton is 60 pounds per acro, oats 35 bushels per acro, corn 19 bushels per acre, The total acroage of wheat in 150 in Utah was 101,114, producing 2,402,454 bushels. Cache was the banuer producing wheat county, the yield being 517,131 bushels, of tue total value of $413,704.50. During the same year 33,763 acres of oats produced 1,132.215 buchels of tha valuo of 142.46. Utah county Jead in the pro- duction of oats, the numbor of busbels being 132,846, There were 8,700 Fac acres planted to corn, vielding a erop of 165,067 bushels of a total aluation of §118,848,34, Utah again ranks again as the banuer county, having produced $6,08 bushels, the value of which was In 1500 the acreage in lucerne was 101 production 100 tous, the valuation o which was 2,715,107, The county producing the largest number of tons of lucerne was | Utah with a total of 15,021, The totul acreago | of hay was 0,647, sud_ the product 120,572 tons, valued ‘at '$1.¢ Cache coutity produced tho lurgest amount, runuing its colnmns of figures to a total of 17, There were 7,845 acres planted to potatoes, | vielding 135,874 bushels, the value of which Was placed at $496,013, T'he total yield of beots for the year was 21,746 bustiels, value £7,604. The larger por tion of the prodact. was confined to Sult Lake count The growth of cotton i Utah thus far has been largely experimental with the most satisfactory results. ‘The seveu acres in Washington county vielded 600 bushels per acre. It is shown by the table that Utah pro- ducod in 1800 8,246,002 pounds of frait of the total value of €06,151.55. Utah was the bauner fruit growing country, producing #,004,850 pounds of the total Valuo of §0,- The territory produced 565,560 pounds aves valued at ®,053 Tois industry is practically in its fufaucy. The total valuation of products v the territory was §,308 wool product, as shown 1500 was 7,151,252 pounds, Sanpote 'county stood at the head, the clip boing 1,477,968 pounds Tho table shows that there were in the | torritory in 1500, 52,006 wilch cows of the value of $1,501,080; cattle, 24,458 head, val £,501,570; swine, 20,411 head, vilued 3,255, ' The number of horses was 80, 602, valiod at $,050,100. The number of shoep was 1,310,021 head, valued at §2,947,- 5474 The product of the winng industry for tho year 1550 had a total valuation of 811 344,423.50, distributod among the following winerals: Copper, §76,540.04; refinod lead, £208,012; unvetined load, $1,505,454.51; silver, $,402,200.44; gold, §67,020, Star of Empire, Kate Field's Washington: The course of ewpire is flowing 50 fast in the airection of | the west that Bishop Berkeley bimself would | be amazed at the speedy truth of his proph- | eoy. And now that starving Europe looks to the west for salvation—now that the west feods the world—Americaus should follow the examplo of the Minneapolitans, who, at sight of the initial banner of tho harvest fos- tival, rocognized its propriety and thanked | God for the dawn of prosperity which comes s o blessing to all His croatures. *Hats off!" cried Colonel W. L. King-and all heads wers uncovered. Hats off 10 the west! say L g % [ Wyoming. Colouel 5. W. Uowney has contracted to all agricuitural 705.50. it was a week befors | E erect and operate a ten-stamp mill at Gold Hill, Aunother deposit of coal has been uncov- ered near Saratogm Last month 5,300 cars of coal were shipped from Rock Spridgs. he Buffalo Mining company, capital §250, 000, has boen uu'\v{purnh‘d Tho vacant ‘public land amonnts to 50,542, &34 ucros. The governmont is talking of establishing @ weather station in the Big Horn basin, Deer and elk ar6 $aid to be plentiful around Laramie aud the southern art of the stato. A company with a capital of £10,000 will Innl‘\l‘lml operate an electrio light plant in nder. During the past twelve months the Lara- mio County Protective association exchanged in Wyoming | 81,155 for 231 wolf scaips. The Saratoga uppor Platte valley un s convinned that the s just the place to culty vate sugar beets and plant a sugar factory. Two flocks of sheep, aggregating 13,000, wero recently shippod ' from Rock Creek to Sycamore, 111, ren.izing a profit of &0,000. In all parts of Wyoming thore aro indica- tions of renewed activity in mining and ag riculture, and the outlook for the coming year is very prom ising. Dougias wants a flour mill bad, and partios there are ready to put in one if the farmers of tho vicinity will promise to plant sufticient wheat to give the mill steady work. Tho Douglas Ditch company offered an Towa colony of fifty families privilege to co; struct a ditch on its survey with water rights free. ‘The offer will bo accepted and the ditch coustructed this fall. A big ditch enterprise has_beon inaugurat- ed by Laramie capitalists. It will be built betweon the Big and Littlo Laramie rivers, be thirty to forty miles long and will briug 40,000 acres of choice land under culti vation, South Dakota, A strike of twenty-two inches of galena ore is reported from the Madagascar lode in Jim Creek district, ‘The Golden Reward turned out u gold brick worth $18 procecds of fifteen days' work: The Golden Roward has been operating on blanket veins, producing for the last faw months an average of £30,000 ver month, The regular semi-monthly bullion ship. ments from the Homestake, Caledonia, Highland, Deadwood, Terra and Golden Re- ward aggrogated $:75,000. Under what is known as the enabling act there is appropriated to the state of South Dakota 720,00) acres of public lands for tho support of educational and charitable institu- tions. Of this amount 108,000 acres have veen filed on and 125,000 acres selected. J. W. Fowler of Rapid City says the own- ers'of the Harnoy Pealc tin mining and mill- g plant, for which Mr. Fowier is attorney, have recently invested $3.000,000 more in tin property 1n Custer and Pennington counties, The company has u capital of £15,000,000, 20 per cent of which is owned in_Iingland and the remaining S0 per cent in tho United States. “The Telford Bazon is tho latest newspaper venture in the Black Hiiis. Its weekly bustle and blasts will, wo aro informed, invigorate “valleys of untold richness for farming. On tne west, the hills, una d by rich mines, are dark with waving pines in mature maternity. Lumboping, mining, farming, stock raising and gardening cre all ex- tensively carried on. A place where rustle and industry are sura to bring. in a satisfac- tory reward.’ Tho Hawkes ks the chlorinization w 00, old Mining company is a recentlv orwanized company, incorporated under the state laws of lowa, with head- quarters at Des Moines. ‘he property of tho company 15 located on the free milling gold belt, ‘cousisting of eight claims in a group or body and lying bstween the Cale donia, Pluma and Homestake minos, Tho company also has a patented mill sito at the mouth of Gold Run on Whitewood as well as a water right. The designs of the Northern Pacific on the Hills arc again revived. The line between Oakes and Aberdeon, which 1s already sur- veyed and the right of way mostly obtainea, will be completed this fall for the running of trains. The line is filty-threo miles in length. The grading of the ‘Black Hills extension is going ou steadily. The’ gaps from Pierre to ‘Aberdeen will 1 ail probability be closed this fall, but the road may not be ironed this vear. Montana. A 250-ton smelter, to cost $250,000, erected at Boulder. Butte papers are complaining that the schools over there are crowded and insist on the building of more school houses. The machinery for tho Boston & Monta na concentrator, near Great Falls, is being vrpidly put in place. It will take'about 2,000 men 1o run the congentrator. The Kikborn Miniug company ninth rogularly quarterly dividend bor 22, aggrogating £50,000. This rate of 40 per cent per annum. In 1877 there wero in Montana How immensely the business has increasea may be judged by the fact that there o probably 2,000,000 head in the state today London capitalists are reported to have bought 100,000 shares of stock in the Queen Neitart. district, for which they are to pay $250,000, the money to go toward develop- ment. ‘The Standard Consoiidated Mining com- pany of Bodie, Cal., has declared dividend No. 7 of 10 conts a_share, aggregating $10, 000, payable October 2. ‘Phis makes #,530,- 000 paia by the company to date. The revised figures of the State Board of Equalization_show that thero were in the state at the time of making the assessment, horses to tho value of £,03%,76%, stock cattlo £3,604,712, and sheop &3,536,05 Tho school children of Helena are raising a fund to got a handsome gold medal to present o Cha Curtis of that pluce, who recently risked his Iife and_broke a log in rescving a child from a torrible death in front of a run- horse An explosion of 600 pounds of giant pow- der shook Butte from hilltop to vauley last Saturday. The powder was located in the Butte copper claim, A vast amount of dum- ge wio dono to buildings in the city and one man was seriously injured. he surveyor general of Montana has beon authorized by the national government to award the contract for the survey of the bounaaries of the timber reservations on the eastern ana southeastern voundari Yel lowstone park, and to push the work durin ing the coming saason. Nine thousand dol lars is eatimated as 1he cost of the work. is to be paid its Septem- is at tho S sheep. Utah. prospector has coul on Weber uncovered river, A Park City seven distinct veins of six miles from Pera, Very littlo mining is goin the Deep Creels eogutry o waiting for a railuond. At Spring Creek’ th is more activity than atuny other place. Tho ove in that lo cality is high grade, unning from 200 to 1,100 ounces in silver. At a rocent moetin on at pr d everybody is | of members of the Salt | Lake mining Exchange steps were taken to tho institutfol on a sound fiuaucial and o push Yopward the good work of | oping the uiirifalad miceral resources of this territory. Development wotl |s progressing steadily | n La Plata. Ore s boing taken out of the L | Plata mine and preparations made for o vig | shpment from thote. Logal disputes, to gether with unfagbrible weathor cause con siderable dolay and apnoyance, but the weaith of tho region insuxes the permanency of tho camp. R. C. Chambers §¢/the Herald, C. C. Good win of the Tribune and O. W. Powers united in the follawing dispateh to Grover Cleve land: *‘Congratulations of democrats and all peaple of Utah. May Baby Frances emulate her mother's virtues. Domocrats everywhero will crown her queen Auother rich wineral discovery is roported | near Ogdon, Tne find is locuted twelve | miles north of that eity and is suid to be 100 | feet in width and can be traced for nearly a | mile. The contact is granite and slate,which | seldom deceives, and the rock is of the froa milling character and 13 believed to be & bonanza, " 1aan The state board of equalization at Boise, placed the ruilroad assessment at §,000 for main lines, and §,000 for braneh lines, Itisa very unusual sight to see standing n the field ready to eut, while three inches of snow covers the ground, but this could have been se the Istd l\ of October, 1591, in Snak valley There has beow 1ssucd the prospectus of the colloge of Tdaho locatod at Caldwell, sud grain ) rive offer is made to the person giving $10,000 toward the erection of svitable buildings, of the privilege of naming this {nstitution of loarning. Ixports, ropresenting a I are examining the Gold eignteon milos west of Idato company has kept a twenty-five stamp mill running day and night for twenty-one years, and each year has been one of large profits, The Pioneer mine, from which the ore rushed for the past three or four years has been extracted,is a phorphyry vein sixty feet io width. All of the ore is milled without any assortment whatover. The belt has been traced sevoral milos west of tho Pioneer and considerabie work nas been done each loca- tion. They all show up well and would pay handsomely in the hands of companios ablo to develop them and eroct large mills, Tho Idaho World says Boiso county is be- omivg a great agricultural as el as a mio- ing county. Twenty years ago there were but few farms in our valleys, and uo attempt was made to raise anything on them except the most hardy grains and vogotables. It was thought that fruit could not be raised at all, on account of tho cold nights. But some ono ventured to try apples the trees grew well and the fruit matured. ~ Others sot out trees and went further by trying peaches, plums and other fruits supposed to fourish ouly in warmer climates, Like apples, thoy did well, and now Boise county produces as fine fruit of all kinds as can bo found any- whero, onch syndicate, Hill proporty, City, This Nevada. Every available house in Piocho Is occupied and many are sought for in addition. A build- ing boor is exnected Wich the present number of men employed Pioche ought to take ou a very different as pect. Thore are no less than 25 men on the ayroll of the Pioche company at this time and the force is hable to be increased A resident of Antolope valloy tells the Reno Gazette that the valley 1s full of grass hoppers depositing their eggs, and suggests that utless the ground is burned over ther will be troublo ahead in a year or two from these pests. Ralph B. Stauley was killed in a base bail game at Carson, by boing struck on the neck with a batl thrown by Charles Kitle. He drovped on his knees, arose, started to run and stopped, saying, “'Run tho bases for me, and pitehed forward ou- his face, aying in three minutes, Stanley was rs old, and bad a birth mark of a stifl ¢ ho cattle on the ranges of now rolling fat. The owners are already bo ginning to start them tu market. Doubtle they will sell all their beef animais as soon as possible and whjle they have their fat on them, as it will not pay to keep and feed such animals ut the hay ranches at_this side of the state. If the cattlo now fit for the market are sold there will probably be plen ty of hay in eastern and central Nevada for the remaining stock animals, no matter bow severe the winter may provo to be. The owners of hay ranches on the Truckeo meadows would scem to have takeu this view of the matter as thoy are not waiting to find customers from the eastern part of 1 re bailing and sbioping their alfal- faand timothy bay over the mountains to California. ada are Washington. Artesian water has been secur ata depth of sixty-five foet. Silver salmon are peginning to vun in the Snohomish river and in the course ol a week or ten days there will be race sport trolling for these beautiful fish. Stories aro told by travelers through the Cascade mountains of i active voleano to be scon somo_distance cast of Mount Ranier. Plans are being made for seeking it out next summer. The local organization of the lumber trust at Tucoma is broken up temporarily, so that lumber is retailed there cheaper than itwill be sold by the carload for the purpose of foreign shipment. ‘Ihe elaction at Colfax to bond th $0.000 to_put_in water Colfax will have a water system which will give a force of about fifty pounas to the square inch on the maius in the city. Through the exertions of Commissioner Bluleck tho largest and finest assortment of tomperate zone fruits ever collected on the Pacific coast has been gatnered together ut Walla Walla_ for exhibition at the Tacoma and world's fairs, Before the fruit is boxed and shipped it will bo extubited at the Walla Walla coun'y fair. It 13 generally conceded that Washington coking coal veins are the largest and purest over discovered. One of these is thirt cight foet thick and has been traced one mile and a balf. Her cosi veins run under por- tions of Fairhaven. Washington in 1300 had a coal output of 1 } tons, worth 8,000, 000, and Gwenty-Lwo mines are now beiug de- veloped in sixteen counti men. in Seattle city for works was carried. 72,0 Oregon. The banks of Portland ha try baoks throughout the si cash since the barvest be Thbe Portland Ore about Upper Soda and veing wantonly killed by fall. Preparations are in nrogress for a_grand time on the occasion of the visit to Peadle ton on October 15, of President Polk of tho National Farmers' ailianco and industrial union. A hundred and ninety-nine pounds of po- tatoes from a single pound of seed! That is what a Howell prairie farmer raised this year. - And he wouldu't tell a lie for a single pound of spuds. The peoplo of Astoria are very much pleased with the progress being made in the zovernment work at the jetty. They say that the long talked of bar is no longer there, and that the mouth of the Columbia can take in tho largest sbip tuat sails the Paclfic. A ledgo of stone has been discovercd at Checto, which as yet no one has been able to identity. The roci is of a sandstone form: tion, having a greasy touch, and is susc ble of a bigh polish. It can ba sawed shaved with a_knife, but when exnosed to the action of five becomes liard. There is to bo seen on a Portland dock a relic of early days in Orewgon, in the shape of a portion of the keel und one end of the steamer Eagle, the first steamb that plied on the waters of the Willamette e hull was of iron, about forty feet long, and carcied twelve tons. The Eale was brought from San Francisco, on the brig Success, in June, 1851 X A subscriber of Tue country in the vicinity asent to coun- te, £3,185,000 in the deer spring are Indians’ this conian says Warm the i Rer writes of the of Enterprise, Or e here for all fruits and pals, and maguificent crops have been har- vested this year Rich leads of the p metals have vbeen discovered in the neighbor. ing mountains, and claims aro veing taken y. The rush to the district is a repetition of the Pike's peak excitement. An expert who recently went to the camp tolls me the prospects aro good.” o fornia, One man in Anabeim has raised pampas plumes this season, and ready market for them, The Mongolian pheasants trned loose in the woods near are prospering, It will bo the year fora the law will allow the kiliing birds. A corporation composed of fourteen young native Californiuns has been formed to plant 150 acres in pruncs in Pajaro vailey, just be- low Santa Clara valley. It is expected to muke this ene of the lar) t prune orchards In the state, #s cach year new acres will be planted. “Rough" Fresno flats, 115,000 finds which wore ass Valley. 1505 bo of these O'Neal, an old-timer on the mot a horribie death the othe day. A section of & large tree which he had fellod rolled down on his legs ing him to the eartn. Alone and powe lease himself, he slowly died of starvation and ex- haustion. The eartn adjacent and the barie tree told of his awfui struggle to extrica his limbs. A lovely young wife, Gala lendoza, says the KRod Bluff Sentinel, gave birth a féw duys ago tothree babies. The babios looked 50 much alike that the nurse bad to pin difforent colored ribbous on their clothes 10 know *'which from tother.’ The bappy motter and lovely babies ere getting along nicely. The papa still lives and may con inue to survive the shock. Eogland is becoming one of the best pa trons of California wine and brandy, The market was first opened by the sweel wine makers of Pomons, many of whom nre Eug. lish, and it has now increased until an en- tire' cargo of wino aud brandy has been shipped thus week on the Clan Mackenz which carried out 19,000 gallons of wine and 27,000 gallons of braudy, The whole cargo is te couducted by tho Idaho Presbytery, Aa valued at §36,000, Five ne full €10 por cont nan Lo work nlhts and o nings ot Books apenod and alosed, strietly contidentinl come hore and find s 0t Kive what wo pr offers t satisfu and but hav ¢ thing. GIvo us o tel Rathbuv, Taubm n & Co,, ki, Vo furt Sk Corn'r The NATIONALHYw“% % WORLD'S FAIR. AS SANTA CLAUS SOAP NK. fi\lRBANK&Co ) My Country: 'tis of thee, Syveet land of liberty, Of thee | sing; Land where our fathers died § Land where our Mothers cried, Over the wash-tub tied Let freedom ring. My native country thee— Land of the noble, free— Thy name | love; 1 love thy tucksand frills Butoh: what laundry bills My soul with horror thrills; When | think of thee Let music swel! the breeze, And blow through all the " trees Hail SANTA CLAUS: Let tired mortals wake And gladly try a cake, Let all for cleanness sake, Join the applause. 00 MAKERS FORALL NATIONS. od paying post ATl ot situatl sirod 1t & ty hom, Y an learn furing th Sl A 1€ you have hor Wiiat hot information \ 16th and Cavitol Avenue, Omahs, noney wi rofunod 1 want thin that address v school that Nob B GV NN N Z SURG OJINJ- D) ENTIST, Is prepared to do all Dental tory manner at re Al the ih Mechanical Both and a a OFFICE L Work onable prices. Latest Dnprovements, Operative Painless Extraction of Teeth. 1607 Douglas STABLISHIED, EEN YD ECEANOEEEEE PEPRONONEEOA in a scientific and satisfac- Dentistry Employed. Stroeot, . g 1878 $5¢ TEETH WITHOUT PLATES, or removablo bridge work. Just the thing for Ministers, Lawyers, Singers and Public Sperkers. no dropping down. I3 anything you like. troubled with w these re brid, Call and see specimen only office where you ot then. ND boeo ring an 1088. - - TELEPHONE, Have attained, and the hizh praise they older makes, it is MON ATTRIBUTE! Lstablished 1866. P - 17 years Loss of Manho Memory, Despe timo froin busi oxperionce. A regular kraduate bod, Baminal Weal iy Organs. ‘troo. Hook (Mysteries of stamp for roply. P SWHW WG Goms ©3 1 Povckoty Blode OMadnay, Nk, STILL WE Continue to Make a Full SET OF TEETH FOR FIVE DOLLARS, A GOOD FIT GU7 Cut this out as a The UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS that the Behr Bros. & Co's. LA NOS have NOWNED ARTISTS. from the press and from a public long prej 2fe to assume that the instrument must he possessed of 1 NCOM- ho o dlnr . turo or diffioulty or pai Diseasos of the Blood oun d Ambition ity ern seienco for the b ARANTERD. TEETH EXTRACTED witrout pain or danzer, and without the use of chloroform, cther or gas, wonder= No Ly weans of ou ful locul anavsthetic, injuriousafter etects, We make no additional cl 05 for the use of this an- asthetie. Gold and fillings at lowest r- See Our Beautiful CONTINUOUS SET, Don’t Foroet the Exact Location. Dr. BAILEY, The Leading Dentist OFFICES THIRD FLOOR PAXTON BLOCK. Pake elevator at 16th street entrance, 16TH and FARNAM ST LOMAHA guide. worlil’s MOST RE udiced in favo elicited from MAX MEYER & BRO. CO, Sole Ag Dr. J. E. McGREW THE NOTED SPECIALIST in tho treatn, PRIVA nts, Omaha, Nebraska, ntof all forms of 'E DISEASES, lect and all annoying dischary ‘\H . in relioving the Bladd 1 all A Bkin; Nervousness, General Dobility Want of Lifo'aud Vitality. Bad Discouraged, Instant relicf without ot Mo most powerful remedies known to mod- sluto euro of the above diseasc Tho woak poudent become ehierfal and liapyy in th 'y esonrecs and faeilitios for doizg b AN correspondenco strictly pric Write nd quostion lists froe, ; Byphilis an DR. J. E. MCGREW Omaha, Neb. NO OURE! DrDOWNS 1818 Douglas Street, Omaha, Neb. in At ah Bl ate Dingson oS Night Loss N L CHICHESTER'S ENGLICH, RED CROSS “\WRCN Al # | u‘ F uedlelne as diplomas show ) sunt free. NO RAN. In st treating xlth th tor ¢ It clra guarante il BUrture y cnse | indortako n G m 08 p.w. Sunday A permin Tmpotency T guarantee £0) for Oftioo hours v DIAMOND BRAND \uh© s and Imitations. N n i CURE FITS! Whien | say cure 1 do not mean morely tostop them for a time and then have them return again. 1 mesn & radical cure, | hav disease of FITS, EPL LEPSY or FALLING NESH a lifo-long study, | warrant my remeds 1o cure the worst cases, B otliers v faind ia 1o reason for ok ow roceis fur dn ¥ 0e 8 trvatise a sottle of M.«