Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 19, 1891, Page 5

PLUCKTAKESTHE THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, PERSIMMON Invincible Energy Compels to Yield He STUDDED A RIVER BED The Sugar Beet Industry in Utah Development in the Black gressive Life in th Unwilling Nature r Treasures. WITH GOLD. GLITTERING Mining Activity in Montana— Hills—A Panorama of Pro- e Northwest — Sum- mary of the Week's News. Getting to Rock Bottom, Mining enterpriso 1s not balked by natural and apparently unsurmountablo obstacles. Mountains have been penetrated and valleys uprooted in search of mineral wealth, but it rematned for California to Inaugurate and carry to successful completion what s proo- ably tho most extensive mining scheme ever undertakon in this country. Feather river minos rank among tho rich- ost gold producers in California. ' worked in the early fifties and fortunes real 1zed. But like scores of others they were ap- parently exhausted or loft to other hands and improved methods, Recently two com- panfes were organized, with amplo capital, 10 develop that portion of the river bed that nad not been operated on, That portion of the Feather river sought 10 be worked was in a narrow canyon hardly accessiblo to a footman. To reach it roads had tobe constructed at u large expense, buildings erccted and tools aud machinery provided. It was determined to build a rock and crib dam, and the poles with which theso cribs had to be built were cut nearly twenty miles up in the Sierras and floated down the rough and daugerous channel uuder great dificulties. Owing to the deop and strong the river at the head of the Golden Guto mino no work on the cribs could bo done until July, when hundreds of men were put to work and the dam rushed ahead with great rapidity, ‘1he great flume, 60 feot wide and 3,200 feet long, was compieted and tho pumps quickly rigged, but ero the chanuel could be arained of its seepage water early aud severe rains set in, the river became a raging torrent almost in a singlo day and the dam crumbled to pieces in the food, the flume wus washed away a' | the whole labor for a season was irretriovably lost. The company, nothing daunted, set to work early the following spring to put things in shape,” but the high water continued so Iate that the summer was well advanced be- foro much could be accomplished. During that summer, however, a second dam was built and every precaution was taken to mako it stand during the winter, something unknown in river mimng. On the 10th of August, 1500, the flume was completed and the water turnea into it. Now came the diff- culty of pumping dry tho ancient chaunel, of building a foor dam and a subfiume and of stripping the deep gravel that covered tho pay streak near the bed rock. Before all this could be done early rains set in and the mine wus again flooded” so that it was impos- sible to dry it before winter came” This scason the big flume was extended so as to make it 4,000 feet long, and this added t0 the great canal makes nearly two miles of river bed to work. Five Chinu pumps were st to work in the one miue, and that mine is drained dry, whilo the hydraulic elovator is rapidly draming the water from the other. It is thought that the pay gravel will average from six to ton feot deep and about eighty feet in width, The celebrated Cape claim averaged £500 per lineal foot, and at this rate the Golden Gate mine would return its owners $1,050,000. It is believed that the whole scetion of tho two miles of river bed will pay well to work. and the company in- tends to build a timber and rock dam’ that will last for twenty or thirty years, Tha history of these mines is full of inter- est. Feather river was the richest gold bearing chanuel known in mining history. Orovillo, on its bank, became the third town in California during the early mining period. Its annual output for years added muny mil- lions to the circulating medium of the world. surrent of Its bauks and bars, its flats and channels all | yielded the precious metal. Where the river could be turned vast treasures were ob- tained. In its bed were located tho famous Sailor, Cape, White Rock and Union_Capo mines. I'com the Cave in a single day 36,000 was taken, and_one pan of the auriferous gravel yiclded $030. In 1857 when the Cape claim was worked— 1t being a portion of what is now known as the Golden channel—the expenses were 176,085, while $080,000 was paid in divi- dends. 'In 1538, when the Union Cape was worked, the expenses were $160,000, and, though only a few days of mining were ob- tained previous to the rains, yet §250,000 was taken from the bed of the stream. The bed of the river during these long yours has boon filled to some extent with slickens and gravel, and to remove this is a buge unacrtaking, but in no other manner coula tho rich pay streak near tho bed of the river be reached. This gravel must all be re- moved and the bedrock itself thoroughly cleaned and scraped, for on this ground has been found the largest quanuty of gold in all river mines. WEALTH IN IDARO. New and Old Mines Proving Exceed- ingly Valuable, The eastern section of Idaho promises to equal, if not surpass, any other section of the stato in mineral wealth. Considerable ex- oitement has been occasioned by the dis- covery of extensive and valuable gold, silver and copper quartz mines at Pocatollo, one of the leading towns in southeastorn Idaho, One of the citizons there, while diggng a cellar, found some rock which provea quite rich in gold. The news spread ramdly aad soon hundreds of eager men were at work with pick and shovel with the result of find- ing large bodies of rich gold, silver and copper-bearing ore right 1n' the heart of the town. Assays of the oro show that in runs from $160 to §100 ton freo mill- iug. A company with qurie a heavy backing was organized at once and work on the pros- ots will bo pushed vigorously. The towa FoTull of mining mon from. ail séctions of th country, and all speak favorably of the find and the outiook. Following close upon tho discovery at Pocatello came the remarkable find, or rather refind of 8 veritable bonanza ledg of gold quartz in the old Boise basin. 1t calls to mind the early mining days of Idaho, when fortunes were miade in & day and everybody had more gold dust than thoy know what to with. In thoso early days, sometime in 180+ or 1565, & man named Bulich was working some rich placer claims on Ophir creck in the basin. 1t was thought pretty good then to get from $0 to 0 to the pan, aud as Bunch worked aiong he became curious to know where all this gold came from. He followed the “sign up the creek aud finally steuck the ledge on the mountain side, taking some rich specimens. But as quartz mining was little thought of in thoso days, whilo the placer claims yielded 10 abundantly, tho matter was dropped snd uo furthor atténtion paid to it untit this sum- mer. An old prospector named Maban, to whom Buuch spoke years ago of his quartz find, concluded to go'on & prospecting tour, He ‘called on Bunch, brought up the long- forgotten story of years ago, and asked him whether be thought he coild find the old tedge. Ho said he was sure ho could, “If you cau,” said Mahan, ‘our fortunes are made.” ' Proceoding together, after a care- ful search of some days thoy struck the ledge. The veln is ten feet wide as far as they have one intoit. They have cut the ledgo at a opth of 120 feet and fiud ore that is litersily specked with gold. It is fabulously rich, Bpecimens brought to this city are pronounced by old timo mining men the richest thoy ever w. Extonsive proparations are makiug to work the mive. This find has revived much Interest in an old scheme, that met with much favor hero & fow years go, to search for the rich ledges known to be the source of the fabulous vich placer mines of the basin. Parties are organizing, and the search will be renowed. The chief topic of conversation in mining sircles apart from these new finds is the sent sale of the Flint mines and mill, in Dwyhee county, to an eastern syndicate for 1000,000. Mr. Leech bought them & few wonths ago, and introduced & new system of milling the low grade ores that has proved very successful. Ho sold out, making 8300, NV ou the dewl, Other prowinent winiug men from abroad are visiting South Moun- tain with a view of devoloping the w there on the plan inaugurated by Mr. Leech. Tho ores are all low grade, but they can be bandled with profit on this plan. In the Seven Devils section development work is being pushed with vigor in all the mines in the vicinity of the old Peacock. One mine, the Copper Key, owned by Boston capitalists, is makiog o fine showing. A fifty foot shaft has peen sunk and the work will continue till a depth of 100 feet is reached. Iverything bids falr for a busy season next year. Tho principal mine of Wardner in North Idaho is'closed down pendine an injunction suit now being tried before Judge Beatty of tho United States district court. A large amuunt of money is involved In the suit. BEET SUGA L IN UTAH, An Important terprise Started at Lehi, Industry and thrift are charasteristics of the Mormon people. Long before the rail- road had penetrated the Salt Lake valle manufacturing industries bad been inaugur: ated and the followors of Brigham Young were rendered to a large extent independent of the outside world. These industries have multiplied rapidly, and, with the infusion of goutilo activity, have grown to flourishine proportions. The boet sugar factory recently put in op- eration at Lehi ranks second in size n tho country., It is a massive brick and stone building, three stories in height, and with its numerous butresses conveys an impres sion of durability and strength. The company was organized in 1859, and pitalizod at $1,000,000. Work on the build- ing began in November, 1800, Half a million dollars were expended to date on the plant. The main building is 180 teet long, and has an averago width of 54 feet. The annex, which contains the boiters, bone-black house and lime kiln, is 150 feet fong and about 40 feet wide. Both of these large buildings are sub- stantially built of brick, Thero are six beet sheds, 500x24 feot, with a capacity for 14,000 tons of beets, The company bas erected a boarding house, which is 30x( with an annex 24x00, ana fur- nishes accomodations for fifty people. Thero are four pulp siles, 180 feet long, 24 feet wide and 10 feet deep. The coal bins are 45 by feet. These figures throw considerable light on the mugnitude of the enterprise to tho avorage mind. Tho water supply of tho factory is the lake, fed by navural springs, with & capacity of 4,000,000 gallons in twenty- four hours. Besides this there are eight ar- tesian wells, from sixty to 135 feet deep, which furnish soft, pure water and have a capacity of 500 gallons per minute, In an interview with a reporter of the Ir- rigation age, the general manager of the fac- tory said: ““The productof the factory this year will be from 4,000,000 to 6,000,000 pounds of the very best quality of granulated sugar. Wo 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 from the first yeur's crop. Hor after wo expect to ruu thé factory from Au- gust 15 to t'ebruary 1, and in that event may produce as high as ,000,000 pounds. We calculate, however, that our average pro- duct. when the business is fully establisned, will be about 7,000,000 pounds annually. You ask me about our mavket. We shall culti- vate first of course the home market, and ex pect to dispose of this year’s product - princi- { pally in Utab, We shall send sugar as far north as Pocatetlo and as far east as Denver if the railroads accord us reasonable rates. We have abundant assurances of our ability to disposo of the entire product from tho factory. We have already received a good many orders, and [ assure you that tho sale of our goods is tho least of'our troubles, I have guaranteed that tho quality shall be equal to the best now sold here, wiich now comes exclusively from California. We ex- pect to have sugar ready for the market by October 10th or 20th.” THE GREAT NORTHERN. The Fifth Continental Line Progress- ing Rapidly. In the Blackfoot Indian reservation, close up against the northern boundary line of Montana, the tracklayers aro at work on the extension of the Great Northern railroad. Three thousand men under intelligent direc- tion have been vigorously pushing the work all summer; the summit of tke Kockies has been reached, and when spring opens the workmen will begin to lay the track on the western slope. Within eighteen mounths from the present time there will be & new weanscontinental line opon and ready for business between St. Paul and Duluth and Puget Sound. The Gireat Northern railroad, as it is now called, says the St. Louis Republic, was for- merly the St. Pau), Minneapolis & Manitoba road, which was itself the successor of the St. Paul & Pacific, 8 corporation which, when it emerged from the handsof a re- 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 and unbounded ambition, - The Northern Pacific roaa was passing through bankruptey when Mr. Hill becamo the owner of the St. Paul & Pacific, and per- haps ho was the only man in the northwest who then dreamed of such a thing as making that road a rival of the older corporation, which, notwithstanding its enormous land grant, had apparently failed in its effort to build through to the Pacific. ~ Without goy- ernment aid Mr. Hil's railroad has been built to parallel the Northern Pacific from St, Paul to the summit of the Rocky Mountains, and, although the lines aro 200 miles and moro apart, they will be active competitors for trafc. Still further north of the Great Northern, the Canadian Pacific line has been completed, so that there will soon be four transconti: nental lines, exclusive of the Canadian Pa- citie, competing for business between the great lakos and the coas! The new hne will have, when it is veady for business, a very great advantage over its competitors in the matter of gradients, but perhaps thiz advantage has not been suffi- ciently considered by the railroad managers who will have to reckon with Mr. Hill's rep- rosontatives in the rate-making associations very soon. Moro than one newspaper paia- graph has been floating around latoly to the ©ffect that the Great Northern will reach the sumumit of the Rocky mouutains with a maxi- mum grade of 1 per cent to the mile, This statement has not been generally credited, but it is, nevertheless, a fact, and 1t means tuat an engine on the Great Northern will be able to pull more than twice as many loaded cars over the mountaing as an engine of equal power will be able to pull on any other Pacific road. Everything else bas been subordinated to this end in building the road, and in order to secure low grades uuusually deep aud expensive cuts have beeu excavuted, high bridges have been built or a detcur has becu made wherever it was necessary to keop the maximum grade down to 52.80 feet to the mile. It is strange that the last Pacific railroad built should have beex able to secure this advantage. A CELEBRATI The Blaine Divorce Contest in South Dakota Courts. Acecording to reports from Sioux Falls, the famous divorce center of the west, James G, Blaine, jr.,, will not atlow his wife's suit for divorce to go by default. Through his attor- ueys ho has filed an answer to his wife's peti- tion, denying that the plaintitf has in good faith beon # resident of South Dakota for u period of ninety days precsdiug the com- D CASE, mencement of the action, and alleges that sho camo to this state for the sole purpose of commencing thoe suit. He denies that he de- sorted the plaintiff and claims the said plaintift deserted defendant on September 3, 1888, wiltully and wrougfully leaving him and his home. He denies that he has refused to support the child, and says he is now, and ever has been ready and willing so to do. He denies that for the past yoar he has neglected to provide for tue plaintiff, and denies that he has compelled the plaintiff to live on the charity of relatives, In conclusion, the defendant prays that the | plaintiff’s complaint be dismissed at her cost | and that a decroe be entered giving to the | defendant the custody of the obild. Tho answor was signed and sworn to by the defendant Septeraber 3, 1501 The petition of Mary Novius Blaine ro- cites that sh married to young Blaine in the city of New York, September 6, 1586, and that for a poriod of more than ninety days preceding the action she has been a resident of thestate, The issuo of the marriage is a son, James (3. Blaine I11., aged § years, who is now under the_caro and support of the mother. On the I17th of October, 1838, as the plaintiff alleges, the defendant disregarded the solemnity of the warriage vow and wil fully deserted the piaintiff, and has since continued to desert and abandon her; that for more thau a vear past the defendant has failed to support the plamtift and ber child although able 50 to do, having an annual in- come of $2,000; that the defendant 1s uot fiv 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 sufii cient sum to pay the costs of the action, and for such alimony as to the court may seem prover and just. The case will como up for trial in Dead- wood next Kebruary. It Is worthy of note that Judge Carland of MeMartin & Carland, attorneys for Mr. Blaine, is a democrat, while Judge Palmer of Palmer & Rodge, at- torney for Mrs, Blaine, is a republican, both of them having been on the vench of tho Stoux Falls district, and_both of them being prominent pyrty men. The case, it may be hiere mentioned, is to be tried before Judge Thomas, the only democratic judgo i South Dakota. Tdl ANACONDA. The Great Montana Plant to Be Put in Operat'on Again, Marcus Daly’s roturn to Montaua has in- fused considerablo activily in miniug circlos. The immense mines of the Anaconda com- pauy, of which he is general manager, have been idle for nearly a year. Tho works at Anaconda, employing from 2,000 to 3,000 men, havo also been idle, atmost paralyzing the business interests of the town and seriously affecting Butto. Mr. Daly now gives assur- ances that will send joy to tho howes of idle mon. In conversation with a reporter, he sald: “I beliove that tho werks will resume oporations within ten days. There may bo somo hiteh in the acraugements and we may all bo disappointed, but 1t is my opinion that tho programme will be carried out as I have just told you. Wo are prepared at this end of the line to begin operations at any time and on short notice. Things have been drag- ging torribly in tho east. Several people con- nected with the Union Pacific railroad have been off on western trips, but 1 understand Mr. Clavk 1s in New York, and if he and his people sotilo down to details which wero practically agreed upon on beforo I left New found with the sadd{d turned undor the body. Soarch partios wore organized aud a thorough atrol of the mountalns for twenty milos nck was instituted”bat although his camp was discovered, no treee of Haller was found As ho was worth somo property an adminis- trator was appointed and the estate distrib- uted to the different heirs. Ouo day last week a bunter crossing Ladd creek, about fifteen miles from I,a (rande, discovered a human skeleton coveréd with what once had been a suit of clothos. A watch, keys and other acticles foundin the clothing estab- lished beyond a doubs tho fact that it was the loug missed Haller. Census of Utah ho census office has made public & bulle- tin showing the population of Utah by minor civil divisions. The populationof the terri- tory, returned io 1850, was (43,068, Under the eloventh cansus the population, as turaed, is 207,005, an increase of 63,042, or 44.42 per cont. Of tho twenty-fivo counties in the territory six show decreases, somoe of which aro caused by changes in county lines. Since 1880 the following changes have taken place: Garfield county was formed in from parts of Iron and Kane; Grand county in 1800, from parts of Emery; part of Kane county was annexed to Washington in I8 “The largost increase in urban population, the bulletin says, is found in Salt Laka City and Ogden, both of which have more than doubled their population since 1880, In Salt Lake City an increase of 24,076, or 11,03 per cent, and in Ogden an increase of 8,3 or 145,43 per cent, bas taken place during the do cad ro- 1882 Wyoming A survey shows Elk mountain to bo 11,000 high, A third vein of coal oight foot thick was struck Thursday at Sundance at the depth of 372 feet An entire herd of cattle was sold at Sun dance last week and the price received was £20 per head. A contract has boen lot for the survey of the Green river basin in Sweetwier and Uinta counties. In Sheridan count have been threshed never been irrigated Laramic offers a_valuable lana any capitalist who will b botel and theater to cost £5,000. Cheyenao is to have a Keeley institute, it succeeds in Choyenno the officacy of curo will be beyond question Two Nugent sisters and Fr. Nugent, re- cently stationed at Cheyenne, are reporte d 10 be hoirs to an estatein Ireland valued at $13.000. "Tho great soda works near Laramie, or ations in wuich were about to begin, have been paralyzed by tho removal of the branch voad connccting” the Soda lake with Lar- amie, Giitlette, the terminus of the Kuffalo exten- sion of the Burlington, is ten weeks old, has 400 inhabitants, a band, twenty saloons and gambling houses aud coruer lots bave sold as high as 600, Representatives of a Chicago syndicate aro quictly securing control of the extensive asbestos fields in central Wyoming. Agouts with headquarters at Gesper are buying op- tions for sixty days with privilege of exten- sion for the sume length of time, carrying the the deals well 1nto next spring. Theso as- bestos deposits have boou carofully examined 500 bushels of oats that had bonus to Id a combination It the York, the works can _start up pretty soon— and I'think the Union Pacific people are ready to agree to what has boen talked up.” Mr. Daly agair says that a great many peo- plo and newspapers that have pretended to know so much about the Anaconda company have not been on tho inside as _accurately as their oxpressions of opinion might indicate. It is admitted that steps were taken to qis- pose of a portion of _the stock, and that some way vet be sold in New York, but 1t is stated that there isn't a dollar of it'on the markot, aud that a stock deal has nothing to do with the starting of the works, auyway. A fair arrangemont of freight rates is tho point av issue, and Mr. Daly thinks that an adjust - ment is near at hand, ETHICS OF 1HE wiOWLER. A Montana Dispenser Inaugurates a e orm A saloonkeeper at Anaconda, Mont., who, according to the Standard, seems 10 possess atonce a fine senso of morality and a highly developed spirit of enterprise, has equipped his place of business with an innovation de- signed to facilitate the working of tho growler by children without exposing the lit- tle ones to the dangers which, e admits, thoy must necessarily encounter whenever they enter s or any other sa- loon. 'This liquor dealer has cut a hole in s wall by means of which communication is es- tablished between children and the bar- tender, a beil being provided for tho littio folks to jinglo whenever thoy have business with that personage. The salooukeeper as- sures all fathers and mothers in tho commun- ity that they can send their boys und girls to his place after boer or other boverages with norfect safety so far as the children are concerned snd with the blessed assurance of recciving good measure and & su- perior quality of article. The personal con- tact of the saloon is sometning abhorrent, but the personal contact of children with the goods sold in saloons is something innocent of all harm and, on the wholo, beneficial to their morat and inteliectual developmont. The saloonkeeper might go a step farther and mstruct his bartenders to repeat a verso of seripture or sing & hymu through the hoto in tho wail as the waints of the iittlo cus- tomers are supplied. The possibilities of good which the saloon may diffuse in this and similar ways havo not yet been ex- hausted. An Old Time Miner. Mathias Roos, an old time prospector, lead- ing n smail bexican burro, upon which was packed a complete mnor's outfit consisting of tont, picks, axe, goid pan and a small can of giant powder, made his appearance in the streets of Waulla Walla one day last week. Ho was a curio in every respect and attract- ed a great deal of attention as ho came down Main streot 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 to British Columbia. He speut two years in the Olympia range, and states as his opinion the largest copper de- posit in the United States will bo located in the Olympias, while iron and coal are found thero in abundance. He was in the Olympin range when Lieutenant O'Neill mado bis tour of aiscovery through those mountains, Mr. Roos entered the Olympias by way of the Ducklevort aud came out by the way of the Big Quillisim. On the Big Quillisim he states he found good gold bearing floats, but was unablo to strike any leads of this miner- al. Other minorals were found in abun- dance. He predicts the future of the Olym- pia range, but at present there is no way to market the ore. Cousequently there are few claims hoing located. Mr. Hoos is heading for the placer digging of Salwon rivor. IN THE HILLS, Mountain District Showing Up Well A report from the Bald Mountain district states that recently a strike of an entirely new body of ore was made in tho Golden Re- ward mine, says the Rapid City Republican, It has since been developed suficiently to show a vertical veln from six to eight feoy wido between woll dofined slate and por phry walls, Tho ore from this ledge assays from £25 to #50 in gold per ton, The strike is important, for the reason that it will proba- biy upset ail previous beliefs that there was nothing but blanket veins in the Bald Mou tain district. The Golden [toward has been oporating oo blanket veius, producing for the past fow months an average of 0,000 per wonth. Though threo separate blaukbt yveins aro shown, it was generally conceded that they would be worked out In the course of six or elght years. So it was with othor properties iu the district, until this latest strige demonstratea there are vertical as | well as flat veins, and that, therefore, the ro- | sources of the district aré practically inex- | haustible, | The Bald Cleared Up an Old Mystery. In September, 1351, A. Haller, an old resi dent of 1.a Grande, Ore., for ten years, went {nto the mountains on a hunting expedition, expecting to be gone & week. At about the expiration of that time his dogs returned | looking leau and bungry, sud his horse was by experts and their worth is assured. Ca: per people are greatly elated over their pros- pects in this direction, South Dakota. Ore taken from the new Koifo Blade mine assays §24 per ton, The School of mines at Rapid City began its fall term last week. Workmen on the Casey hotel in Deadwood are idle waitiug for back pay. C. F. Potter, freight cooductor on the Bur- lington, was killed eighteen miles from Dead- wood lust weok. The locality of the new and valuable dis- covery is situated ahout two miles from the town of Bear Guleh, and bids fair, from all reports, to be the richest find ever discov- ered in the Black Hills, The Burlington has a large force of enci- neers under charge of Chief Engineer Ensign running a line from Englowood in the divec- tion of Bald Mountain. The road will be standard gaugo and narrow gaugo trackago will also bo laid. “The sub-coutracts on the line of the Dead- wood & Western railroad have been let with the excention of some fractions reserved for the employment of thoso who fiuish their contracts. There will be 127 bridges and 200,000 feet of trestlo work. A concentrating plant for tho treatment of ores from these mines will be erected in Bear Gulch bofore many weeks pass by, Mr. John Johnson, # large stockholder, nas been so notified, and also 1 formed that work is to commence at once. The building of this plant will prove beyond question that the richest tin ore in the Black Hilis is in the Nigger Hill suction. Idaho. Twenty-six acres of wheat near Ketchum threshed 593 bushels, while eight acres of barley on the same farm gave 254 bushels. During the month of Scptomber twenty- four cars, carrying 812,305 pounds of ore, were shipped 1rom Hailsy. The total weight of the ove in froight during the same period was 1,003,075 pounds. Kootenai county, in northern Idaho, is de- voloping rapidly.” ier vacant lands are veing settled, now towns are springiug up like magic, Lier promising prospects are being de- veloped into rich mines and new lines of rail- road are crossiug ber territory. At present no ore is being sent out of the Seven Devils miniug district, because of the utter luck of trausportation. Lust year it was sont on pack trains for almost a hundred miles to Weiser ou the Union Pacific, but even this means has been abandoned this sea- son. T'wenty-thros men have realized $200,000 out of prospects in the immediate vieiuity of Mulian, Iaaho, siuce 1857, These men all carried their outfits into the country. Two of them mado $0,000 each, and the others swaller sums. Tho proverties they sold are now worth uearly 21,000,000, Of the sum received by the nrospectors about $20,000 were received for property south of the river, £80,00) from Hunter Hill, aud a majority of the balance from the Chloride Hill group of mines. Montana. A company hias beeu organized to build & smelter in Boulder. Six mining companies in Montana paid 09,000 1n dwidends during September. Miners are invading the Blackfoot reserva- tion, and the Indian police propose to drive them out. Trouble 1s feared, ‘The large concentrator at Groat Falls is nearing completion. Ao machinery is being put in place. Two hundred men will be em ployed, ‘The Great Northorn rallway contemplatos tho expenditure of dbout $1,000,000 on the Montana Central branch of the road botween now and uext spring, says the jBozeman Chronicle. ‘U'ho road runs from Great Falls to Helena and Butte. 1d. Rising found the largest nugget of gold ever taken fromi a Montana placer mine. ‘The find weighod §,356, aud was taken frow a tributary. of Snowshoe gulch, near Deer Lodge. It laid about a foot abov & bedrock, twolve feet from the surface . Despito the efforts ok ker pooplo and tho inducements offered, i} is provable Helena will not ba chosen as the place of meeting of tho next conveation ofithe National Teach- ers’ Association. 1t 180'said the executive committeois divided between Scattle and Saratoga. Helena is still in a pickle over the paving question. After discussing tho watter all summer th ad vote of the council was finally secu the contracts for paving Maiu stroct haye been let, The kickers, however, are by no means silenced, and an injunction is next in order to stop work until tho courts huve cast an eagle eye over tho situation. The F City, was re for 125,000, yield of'tke ore worke the ton. The company gaged in the devolopn: und 18 making arrang auction works to be ru tha mine, located near ently sold to New It is st nin York parties ted that the average 1 has been about $15 to is now actively en nt of tho propert ments to put up re by electricity of a | capacity of forty tons per day. OCTOBER 1891- hours, and will be the largest plant for re- duction of galena oro on tho continent. It will require efgnt hundred to one thousand mon in various capacities to keep this im- monse plant {n oporation, and oight hundred to nine hunared in and about the mine, Oregon, Oregon has fttod out an exhibition tram which will make a tour of tho enst. The Catholles wili erect n large brick school house for the education of the Indians ou tho Umariila reservation. Work will be begun as sooti s possible, J. W. Johnson, a Portland lunatic, cut oft nis right hand und justifiod himself n his self mutlation by saying, ‘‘God ordered him to do it.’ The grain fleet from Furope is arriving at Portiand. The warehouses are erowded with wheat and the flect of vessels coming to carry it away is largor than ever known at Portland, I'no tanks of Umatilla county have $#1,000,- 000 on deposit, whily the county this yesr produced 230 for every man, woman and child within her borders. Thisis a record thutany county might be proud of. Linas Bushnell, an oid pionoe lived in Douglus coun ico_ 1854, died at bis home in North Ten Mile Monday, Octo aged 76 yoars, ‘The deceasea loaves o ud nine “sons” and daughters, all of whom, save the two youngest, are married and have famili who has Washington. Seattle is jumping to the front as o divorce Olympia honds ,to the amount were sold at 2 per cent premium, The corner stone of tho Pacific Lutheran university was laid at Tacoma on the Hth Tho government is making determined of- forts to break up the smugyling gangs on the sound, ‘The Tacoma Smelting and shipped 4,250 bars of builion, 205,040, during September. “The artesian well at Farmington 185 foct, and tho water 1s running top of the pipe two and one-half feet tho su a tho rate of 500 gallons bour. The flow increases as tho tiolo down. ‘Iho total valuation of proporty in Seattle for the purposes of taxation in 1891 is now found to be #4,607,165, The tax levy is 41; wills, and the result should bo £200, Out of this §2,950 is needed for in the vonded dubt, leaving $127,752 for current expenses to the end of tho year. The chances for the development of a very rich gold and silver district ten 10 fiftec miles beyond Deadwood in the Bear vall section, are very good. Tho mines discovered thero by the Bunch brotuers and Hugh Gard- ner arc exceedingly rich. But like all the mines in central Idabo can only be reached of $115,000 Refining works valued at is ov down or tho bove per Roes ‘The new concentrator for the Bunker b and Sulliven Mining and Concentrating cc vany is to be finished by January 1, next will staud by the side of the one last May. When comploted the two will haudle 1,000 tons of ore every twenty-four 1 | started up | by pack trail, California. Dayid Skerry, a pioucer of 48, suicided at San Jose, The total value of provorty at San Jose] placed at $19,472,255. Sacramento’s chmatown wiped out by firebugs. The weekly pay-roll of the China boot- sugar factory is from £2,500 to &3,000. cramento squandered §10,000 in & futile attempt to strike natural gas. Tho vast irvigating system opened in Per- ris valley, San Diego county, Cal., brings 100,000 acres of heretoforo worthless land under cultivation. “Tho oil wells in Ventura county are now produeing largely. A union company formed by four small companies, turns ont 500 bar- rels daily, and it has driven twenty-five new welis during the year, The new oil well at Coalingo, Tulare county, is down 300 foot, with a flow of twenty barrels a day. Tho company is ar- ranging to bore ten wells 1,500 feet deep in different localities. The wells will be ten inches in diameter. The California State Board of Trado 1s authority for the statement that California shippod cast during the year 1800 403,344,752 pounds of vegetables alone. Th:s includes potatoes, onious, peas, beans, otc. This is 2,402 train loads of ten cars each. The wheat exports for the first three months of tho cereal year have been ex- was complotely A voman And a Eatablishod (n 1971, a8 book none fall vacatlon, come whe per woek, Lors and samo bra ntof 10 por cont to th to work ni oned and ol 0 hure and tind wo dc at have n sure thing. TH WITHOUT PLATES, or removablo bridge work. Just the thing for Ministers, Lawyers, Singers and Public Sper dropping down. anything you like, Those who have beeo troubled with wearing a plate should try one o these removablé bridges! Oall und see specimen.The only office where you can gotthem, TELEPHONE, tremely neavy, reaching A, centals, against 2 70 centals for tie'same period last vear. The total for September was 352,039 contals. The price has averaged cents per cental better than last Tho fiour shipments this year are tho many véars. Loc this cereal year they are 00,333 barrels, and the total for tho nino mouths 413 barrels, valuod at £4,102,208, Thirty-seven vessels cleared from San Francisco with wheat, barley and fiour, in Septemver. A Point to Employers. A clerk in a Texas store informed his employer that his sister was going to get married and that ho wanted a furlough of forty-eight hours to attend the wedding, which was to take place out in tho country somewhere, 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 oxpiration of two days. As soon as my forty-eight hours are up I'lL be back,” said the young man hurrying off to catck the train. ~ And that was the last his employer saw of him for six solid days, when he came in, gripsack in hand and a beaming smilo on his face remarking: “Back on time,”” “Back on time!” roared the exasper- ated employer. “Do you call six days forty-eight hours?” “Of course 1 do. call it?” ““Have vou lost the use of your mental faculties, or are you trying sir, to take unwarranted liberties with me?” “Why, “I am surprised! I told you 1 wanted forty-eight hours of recrestion, didn’t 1?7 “Certainly, and T gave it to you?” Just so. - And I work in “the store . ght hours a day, aon’t [?” el 20f course, “Woll, eight into forty-eight goes six mes, and I've been gone eight hours a thay for six days; £0 you see I'm on dime. If there is one thing [ know bet- ttor than another,it is how to be on hand at tho uppointed hour e A Policemun as a Moral Teacher. A T7-year-old boy was in an up-town police station yesterday for being one of a gang of small boys ‘who had broken intoa store and stolen a lot of things, says the New York Sun. The police coptain himself happened to be in the room, and, noticing the youth and n- nocent looks of the prisoner, decided that he would give him a fatherly talk- ing to and let him go. So, seating him- sell and drawing the child closo up to his knees, he be, My little son, you go to school, don't you?! **Yes, sir,” *“And you go to church, you?” T Yes, sir” Aada don’t too, every S Yes, sir.” “Well, what do you learn at Sunday school? Don’t you' learn to be a good boy #" os, sir,"” And not to tail lies?” “And not to steal?” * Yes, sir Not do any of those bad, bad things, but on the contrary to be a sup- port to your poor widowed mother—to | yeay best i What else do you too, don’t you go o Sun school, | ly? be u good, honest boy Yo, sin ) 1y this time the boy was whimpering, and the policeman told himself that ns teacher of movuls he uded, reaching the his argument, “why in h—I n don't you try to be good, an exhorter and was i holwi “Well, 1 of he con - wre rough woven trouserings itings in lacklustre cloths, and even wool buve come Lo be the vogue, may woman may But! _wheN SINTAGAUSSHP comes into Then vanish all Troubles away. 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