Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 24, 1893, Page 5

PULSE OF WESTERY PROGRESS Symptoms of Summer Activity Prominent in Railroad Oircles. RECENT STRIKES IN THE PRECIOUS METALS | Seasonable Weather Sends a Current of | Vigorous Blood Into the Arteries ot try ~The Imperial Northe west Humplng Itself, The advent of seasona ble weather for out door operations gives vitality to reports re garaing railroad progress and plans. Re ports of important projects arerife in various sections, and it s fair to assume that whe there is much smoke some found. Work is progressing on the Dakota, Wyo ming & M { railroad west of Rapid City and it is stated that it will be pushed until | trains will soon be steaming into the rich | al flelds of Wyoming. 1t is claimed by the | Black Hills pe that that division wil prove oue of the best paying railroad proper the state. Beside sing a coun try unknown to railroad and ¢ ing d tricts rich in minerals throu, rn Dakota reat fire may be s trav srazing plains n Wyoming, tt ording the r shipping ierds on those ¢ to the Deadwood to Kilpatrick for building Sheridan, Wyo. very near which lias been th number of years. railrond | branch in the Hills The preliminary survey of what appears ho the Ogden extension of the [lkhor ley road was commenced near Casper last week, Th Pioncer, that tho Bros. a 5 miles west from il bring that road National park r destined point for Kilpatrick army of finishing work on of I'his Yelic Wyo. | asper Tribuna says Charles S. Rogers is cugineer and A, M Gibaon superintendent of the corps. They | are at work for the Wyoming & Utah rail road, and began their work about one mile from the end of the Fremont, Ilkhorn & Missouri Valley track in Casper, runuing straight down the of th and on westward in a direct line, evidently intend ing when the road is built that it shall be a part of that system. ‘This more than e confirms the Tribune in the b ssed long ago that th Wyomin; pany hud an understan [ bucking, with the Northwestern peop Rogers has taken roon 1 Casper for the summer and will probably erect an office, s the city will bo, s headquarters for the The distance from Casper is center Utah con £1,000.000, has been organized in Salt The purpose of the company is_to rond from Salt Lake City to ithe Deep ¢ mining region on the western border Utah, a distance of 160 miles. Salt Lake capitalists are backing the « which has all the characteristics o Reports fre Lake lild a terpr us | the Big Horn basin show | that placer earth or cement there is yielding 5 to the yard. This earth covers a vast extent of territory, said to be thousands of The mining {u ture of this basin is most promising and al ready miners are heading in that direction "This, in addition to the agricultural outlook in Sheridan county, will make things hum in that scction of the state. The lands in ques tior ily about twenty-five miles tho city of Sheridan Work is going on in many of the mines at Shaw's Mountain, Idaho, and they are yield ing good orc, There are two millsin the dis wrict that will start up in the course of two | or three weeks. The ores of that district are principally free gold and can be reduced | ry small expense. Superintendent Crook announces that Slayton smelters in Custer county, will “blow in" about the first of June. smelters hay vidle for over a ) 1t wa L that they would not work unless silver went up to 90 cents | ounce. ‘I'here are many rich silver mines | that section, and the resumption of smelting will cause a good deal of work to be done | this year. { The International Nickel company, which owns the great nickel mine at Riddles, Ore has sold out to an English syndicate capital- | ized for £5,000,000, A body of rich ore has been struck in the Haywurd mine, southwest of Silver City, Nev. The Rush mine, on Mount Chapaca, is de veloping well. In'the cross-cut on the 1. foot level a seam of rich ore was en countered last week. ‘The ledge at the point | ut is twelye feet wide, with over elght fect of ore. The pay streak ou the hanging wall is five feet in width. The ore is as rich in free gold as anything yet found in that scetion A rich strike has been 1 Mono county, Cal. of the richest ever discovered in that section The first assay went $,000 a ton, and it is expected that even better will be found. Tho ore is wire gold, and is so rich that a pic cracked with a hammer will be held together by the gold. L. L. Bailey & Co., Denve placer cubic ld-bearing the Idaho, | These | ar, and de near Benton, ledge is one of the firm of Gilder, Bailey . has bought the Ward gold property on Oregon Mountain, four miles west of Weaverville, Trinity county, Cal., for $250,000. Mining in Butte county, California, is hav ing a good-sized boom. Many prospecto and capitalists avo visiting tiie quartz r gions. At Forbestown fifty stamps and lar, reduction works are running night and and are s0on to be enlarged. Othermines this place and at Hurleton are to_ be _ope this spring. The Stow mine is yielding 817 000 & mouth above expenses, and has enougi are in sight to ope sent mill thirty years without running new lovel | Pike Bell has made # strike on the old Brokaw place, four or five miles above Au burn, Cal, on 'the Clipper Gap road. He found rock carrying free gold within a few inches of the surface and in one day took | out §1,000. The Tacoma Smelting and pany during Mareh shipped bullion, weighing 85 Francisco. There were 1, gold, valued at of silver, worth of lead, worth $13,830.97, making a total of $08,0: The company disbursed $5,504.76 among employes 1y Refining com. | 3530 bars of | pounds to San ounces of pounds Prospectors in Wyoming. Mr. N. O. Calkins of Kimoall, Neb., has arrived at Lookout Station, Wyo., with 80,000 pounds of freight, comprising every thing that will be needed to work in a min- | p during the alk ted tents at Lookout \ere until the snow has ntly to allow him to get which he visite nd which he disapy into ¢ prospe destined t reported t visit Hers not expect t before the alkins is He does to get into the camp As there is much | in that direction than on the | range immediately west of Laramie, | It is known that some of the last assays Ore ) the camp give wonder fully rich returns. The miners of Herman were never a loud-talking lot of men, but they have been banking heavily on their | claims. Mr. Calkins pins his faith to assays he has had made during the winter. Ho isa man of considerable wealth, and is in such easy circumstances that he could retire were he 80 disposcd. be able Kedwood Trees Disappearing. The question as to whether a redwooa for- est that is once cut away will renew itself is one that has occasioned much discussion among lumbermen, So far, however, as the evideuce sunplied by the abandoned logging | woods of this country is concerned, says the | Humboldt (Cal.) Times, the question must | be answered 1n the negative. There are ad- jacant to Fureka tracts that were “logged off"" more thau thirty years ago, yet there is lttle or no new growth of timber upon them, When red wood are cut sprouts sometimes spring out 1 the stump and grow quite rapidly for u time, but that these sprouts seldom or never develop iuto large | tion of the the: | | cor | Cheyennese to develop the coal measures in | vein, four feet in thickness, | been discovered near the tr trees can bo ssen by examining almos old logging claim, “Another noticcable fen ture about our redwoods is that groves of young trees are seldom found, and then only on the outer borders of the forest Bac the primeval forests a young tree is seldom seen. One explanation of this is found in the fact that the redwood seldom or never propagates itself by means ¢ nes do pines, spruce, hemlock actically speaking, all the young trees are sprouts Several years ago the writer, accompanied by Herbert Vischer agent of the State Forestry commission, spent several days in investigating this question of the rep ! redwoodls, the that, practically sy rests will never be reproduced. This con in accord with the theory of Prof. gg, the botanist, that our redwood forests are-the remnants of a for mer epoch, and are the results of geological and climatic conditions that have loug_ since passed away. If this theory true, in another ge jon all that will be left to indicate t andeur of the departed red woods will b n o sional blackened ana decaying stump, unless some provision be made to soon preserve as a park sowme por tion of the primative forest as a her future generation High Prices in Early Mining Days. Colonel R. F. May of Bozeman had a fruit stand in Helena in 1868, “Twenty-five yuld not go far ¢ days,” he said the I'ribune man ents ward buying fruit rday toa Sa man who was cou place and and then buy four ap 3 2 apiece present th ) 1 wrapped themup in tissue paper and pla vox for him. B ifter which 1 ne The first aud ther 1ime to %3 e rich ed them in a neat ¢ and were married or more app! still livin rice for th each en who pai was sent to me, and they « pound. The first man that ca strect was a Chinese, 1 was oy He bought two ning unds at hen paid | the street in h rent in wooden building a saloon, rented th rs sold for en Magazin 2 ay | had an unusual feared would spoi 100 circulars printed but cost 10 cents apiece, 1 did not hire boys te them, but them around Much of th t T sold came by stage, and this fact had to do with prices. As transportation ies inereased prices fell L T'he rythin, was Just across th orado on the re are northwestern borderof Col of the Utes, there several valuable devosits of asphaltum Since the material cq for pu in Denver and in Salt Lake several attemy ation 10 into use ing have been made to obtain possession of these | elaims which are said to be on a lineof town ships immediately the Colorado As 1o legal possession of them could be | they » on a reservation, | leases were finally made with the Tudians and as soon as that fact became known to the late Secretary Noble of the Interior depart ment, he telographed a very sharp orc the agent to cancel them. An act to s - gate these townships from the reservation wiis also vetoed by President Harrison The statement now comes. from Washi ton that an_ effort is_being made to ha townships st off from the reservation by exceutive orde though the act. in view of existin 5 with the Utes, would be of doubtful legality. The persist cncy of these efforts to open these lands ould indicate that there was something at | stake, and that a large combine of some kind | had 1is plans all matured for gobbling the | lands. As the artment 1s aware of the grab scheme. it is certain that the public interest will be protected and & monopoly prevented Tmproved Smelting Process. In the smelting of gold ore the process of 1t Leadville affords ample of the simplicity ana thorough- ness with which the precious metal is now handled in making ready for the market Separate piles of ore and lead are made, to ply the furnaces when neede count is kept of the different mixtures and the | weight from each required to constitute the furnace charge. About 800 pounds of ore, pounds of lime, 200 pounds of slag, vounds of coke, contribute to charge, this, of course, varying in ance,with the character of the ore, and each | furnace will treat from 150 to 200 tons of these charges in twenty-fourshours. The lead in the mixture, when treated in the furnace, runs down into the bottom, carry- ing with it the precious metals; the slag being highter, floats on top of the lead and i taken off through a tap hole; and the lead, or rather the bullion, is dipped out of a well in the side of the furnace and poured into moulds. After cooliug the bars are taken out and sampled, a hollow punch bemg used that brings out a small core; it is usual, for convenience, to sample the’ bars in lots of | 300 each, and the punchings of each lot are assayed, adjoining line. obtaiy d, since v an ¢ Tdaho's High Credit. A carping castern critic sneeringly re- marked recently that eastern monoy lenders | would sharply rebuke 1daho when the state attempted to sell the road improvement bonds authorized by the last legislature. Ac- ng to the eritic the bonds were to con tain a clause providing for payment in s The latter assertion, if true, did not the sale of the bouds. The ¢ bond. ™ of the sale was oy and novel plan Is being open and mac tion. Represer esent and all ced. T ten firms 10 and the for 2 per When 9 per cent premium I the bidders slipped out but_two, and then a bid of 10% was made by K Co., and Coftin & S 11 and w ) 1 have the The bonds bea 850, which is said to be the largest premium that has been paid bonds of any kind west of the Missouri river, Conl Near Cheyenne. Oue of the results of cheap fuc in Wyomng is a deter) agitation ination among the the vicinity of the eity. The report of a pros pecting shows thata fair quality of lignite coal has been located at various points within twelve and cighteen miles of the city. One found near good indications have s of both the Burlington and the Denyer Pacitic roads. A prospecting arill outfit is to bo put in the field at once. A coul company with $100,000 capital is be ing organized the surface. Very Stool swing 1 Wyoming. Low freight rates will undoubtedly induce a large influx of cattle upon the western ranges. The cut made by the Burlington already illustrates this, The Laramie Re- publican says that prominent cattlemen es timate that over 200,000 head of cattle will be landed at Sheridan alone this yea Not 0 upon the Wyoming range reat number will be driven to Mon “The same paper understands that the Union Pacitic will meet the cut of the Burl ington aud *‘may possibly go the road one better.’ An Omaha Enterprise. The Omaha Gold and Silver Mining and Smelting company is the title of & new en- | terprise incorporated in Deadwood. Share capital amounts to #165,000. The incorpora tors are Arthur B. Smith and F. C. Matthews of Omaha, and Frank 8. Bryant of Dead- | wood. The property of the company con sists of twenty-six claims, on all of which | ores are found. There ure three kinds of ores, first-class fluxing ores of iron and man- guuese, runbi 6 to &0 gold per ton always | ples T had and | 0 | One | 1,000 | or than the | THE_OMAHA DAILY BEES'MONDAY. APRIL 24, 1898 called dry or chlorinating otes, that will run from 8§10 to $40 and average 814 to $18 per | Id, and one shoot 20 feet wide and k in ht and a number of ncentrating ores that lie tzite and the diurite, that ot thick and fifty to seventy feet wide, ton John Iy has ob tained a patent on an apparatus for precipi tating soda. 1t is claimed the process will tically revolutionize the table soda from the deposits of the near Laramie. The principle is te the soda crystals in a large the water running off through and the soda at the bottom rried by buckets attached to an end in toa dryer. Everything will work automatically, even to the feedingof the It" will make it possible to place da from the lakes near Laramie in t sts of the world. If put in operation it will make the soda industry one of importanc e to Butte proposes to annex sover suburbs A valuable deposit of coal was discovered near New Whatcom, Wash A sixty-stamp mill is to rawberry guleh, Black Hills South Dakota has forty national banks ating 9,900,126, 1 ehildren of school n Tacoma, and 68 per cont of them are jlled in the public sch Rattlesnake Pete is in jail in Denmark tled off with an assortment of ¢ 10 a residentof Carbon, Wyo and was chased across the de and cap tured Rainmaker Melbo ten inches of rain in Laramie county, Wyo. during May. June and July, for $10,000 Cheye » business men are considering the proposition Montana is going to have a first-class co rnal revenue in A. W. Lyman of 2 Independent, but at the sam Ty to see so good an editor n office. Oregon will in time produce her ke county has two salt marshes | one on Silver lake and one on Warner lake and when the railrond pierces that countr the salt industry will be a sure thing, as thi salt is equal in strength and purity to Turk's island salt A paint mine has Pendleton,Ore. Two colors ha one a deep blue and the otne ved. [t is supposed that fr were drawn some of the paints with whi Indians nlong the Columbia used 11 themselves before the advent of the | white men al blooming be erccted in ne agrees to furnish the stlele time we sor kind of a » been found, pany of fruit at San Jose, Cal Just made a statem of its first year's business, which is note | worthy as showing the larger profits that secured by union of small orchards ipany handled “rench prunes yielding the largest from $1 A ton of green expected that this year the 2,000 tons. 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