Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 15, 1893, Page 5

PULSE, OF WESTERN PROCRESS Dame Nature's Munificoncs Made Manifold Through Her Mineral Mints, GREAT UNDERTAKINGS AND, DISCOVERIES Dayton Guich to o Worked -A Bed of Coke ~Saiton Sink to Be Drained eral News from the Far West. Geu. The crop outlook throughout the agricul- tural sections of the trans-Missouri country looks better than at any time this season and promises in the main to be equal to or above the average. 'The fruit crop along the Pacific slope, with the exception of slight local defections, will be immense. Mining | in all sections is showing a vigorous activity affording every indication of a prosperous season ahead. All i all the general indica- tions throughout the western half of the country were never bri. The Bowe! Mountain, “During the past weok or two," says the Bheridan Post, “eans boegun to be manifested in the opes mining season at Bald mountain and other camps in the Big Horn range. Although it will be three or four wesks before the road will be passable for heavily loaded teams, many will get to the camps before that | time, and othors will follow as s00n as they can, WThere i no longer any doubt but that Bald mountain will be called upon to give up much of her rich treasuro this year. The machinery placed there last fall by the Fortunatus Mining company is all ready to begin operations, and a new and much larger plant is coming to increaso the facilities of the company for saving the gold. A letter veceived from Mr. H. H. Hawkins, secretary of the co any. states that he will arrive here from Albany. N. Y., somewhere ubout the 12th or 15th of the present mouth, and that work will be \Ifiomlul) prosecuted, Hon, > 'T'. Beck, who has just returned from a trip through the eastern states, in- forms us that he will resume active opera- tions with his hydraulic plant in | Dayton Gulch as soon as the snow is out of the way, and that he ex- pects to make a rich clean-up from the work done there last fall. Mr. John B, Dougherty has written that he will come on this spring with four machines, which he has thor " oughly tested for saving fine gold, and will place them at Bald mountain. Mr. Dough- erty visited that camp two years ago, and thoroughly satisfled himself as toits richness. He would have returned a ycar ago had it not been for the cattle troubles break- ing out at that time, the reports of which were magnified to such an extent that he thought it better to wait another year. So much for the placer districts. While it may not be generally known, because there has not been much said_about the matter, it is a " fact nevertheless, that the most promising » quartzlead in the state has been located near the crest of the main range, about twenty-five miles from Sheridan. The dis- coverer is Mr. H. H. McNeil, who is in the city now equipping himselt for the season. Interested with him in the camp is Dr. H. L. TRoss, a mineral expert, assayer and capital- ist from Nova Scotia; Captain G. G. Stock- well of the British army, also a capitalist, and a Mr. Slater, who comes from Canada on a tour of investigation. ACoke Discovery. ‘What is probably the most important dis- covery ever made in Archuleta county has just besn made known. Ttisa whole mountain of coke “ich has been produced by nature and pronounced by experts to be far superior to that made by artificial meauns. The deposit is ou a flat top mountain and is covered by from six to twelve feet of decom- posed shale and dirt. The vein of coke is from four to six feet in thickness and is . underlaid by a strata of what seems to be a ‘superior qunlity of graphite from three to five inches thick. Underneath this is a depo: two feet in thickne: graphite and ¢ t of fine clay 's of the en sent away for tests and unti Llw\u have been made no ostimate of their value can be made, but of the coke there is no question as to its gen- uineness and quality. The coal fields of this country have for a long time been supposed to be great, but since this coke kas been found, prospecting by experienced miners has developed hat the coal deposils are simply phenomenal. Mountainsof 1t are found with one, two and three stratas, ranging in thick- ness from four to sixteen fect. Aside from this coal it is estimated that the timber of this county will make a solid body teu miles wide by sixty miles in length, or 400 square miles of solid timber of first: class quality that would average 4,000,000 teet of lumber per square mil: On every stream and 1n aimost every canon is found indications of petroleum and natural springs furnish all the oil used by men for their machinery. Petrified Logs of Coppor. ‘Wonderful stories are those that come from New Mexico concerning an excitement over mineral discoveries said to havo been made in the vicin of the ancient Spanish mis- sion of Abiquin, “Something entirely new to the scienc e of mineralogy has been unearthed. Itis a forest n( logs petrified into rich copper ore that '3 verages 60 per cent copper and thirty to forty lounces of silver to the ton. The logs seem w have flooted in some kind of a mineral solution, evidently in the carboniferous period. ' A sediment of conglomerite—peb: bles, sand and cu reous matte settled between them, dividing them as they are now found. The scam of conglomerate is about thirty feet thick and extends on both | sides of the canon a distance of eight miles each way, so there are sixteen miles of -a copper-bearing seam, filled thousands of feet back with copper loss. There is about 000 feet of sand rock above them, which |- shows the great antiquity of the copper for- mation. Some of the logs have already lelded over two carloads each. There are logs over four feet thick, At fiest it was thought that the little branches and knots of the trees were only small pockets of cop- ‘ver, and little attention was paia to the canon. It wasonly when its true nature was discoverad that it began 10 boom and is now full of prospectors, many of whom already have several carloads of ore to ship." RSB a A Glgantic Eoterprise. Collis P. Huntington has recently made a sale of a tract of land comprising over 1,000, 000 acres in Southern California, to a party of capitalists of New York, Chicago and Denver, for §2,000,000. The tract includes = the famous Saltan Sink which wysteriously fillea with water a couple of years ago, and ing promoters of the scheme ako it a ent lake by nals from the Colorad ulti claiming an immense acreage near i It is proposed to build & canal from the ,Cotorado river, at o powt about 100 miles east of Yuma, which will be simply a new channel for the Colorado. It will extend through the entire Salton territory, ana will “also be carried by suother branch'into Mex- lco. into which the territory owned by the pany extends. P he purposes of the capitalists are real- 1zed that section of the country will be so reclaimed that it will be possible to estab- dish a colony there of more than 2,000,000 people, who will not only be able to support themselyes but export almost anything that ©an be raised in a temperate or subtropical climate. Tmmense Salmon Outpur, Marshall J. Kinney, one of the oldest and most extensive salmon packers at Astoria, Ore., makes an important stutement regard- ing the Aluskn salmon industry. He says: M1 consider the Bering sea and Cook’s inlet will be tho future field for the salmon indus- sry. 1 think the pack of northwestern “Alaska will reach over 1,000,000 cases in less than five years. Half of the salmon streams, @8 near as I cau learn, are not even touched. When we have better railroad facilities to Astoria L expect the cold storage aud fresh #ish business on the lower Columbia and in Alaska will be simply enormous. Alaska is ‘I’BE OMAHA the coming fleld for the salmon industry and I fully expect that the production will double inside of five years," Mr. Kinney shows that the pack has in- dreased from 86,000 cases in 1883 to over 450.- 000 cases in 1902, He says that the stores and gear sent north this year indicate that the Alaska cannerymen are preparing for the largest pack on record. Ho calculates that it will reach 800,000 cases and quotes am estimate by Mr. Morgan, who is well known in the San Francisco trade. Mr. Morgan estimates the coming Alaska pack At 000,000 cases, of which 165,000 cases will bo packed in southeast Alaska and the re- mainder in northwest Alaska New Pincer Mines. In constructing the Great Northern rail- rond it was necessary to change the channel of the Wenatcheo river for a short distance at the old Indian mission, eleven miles above Wenatchee. This river bed has been staked off as placer claims and the locators anticipate that they have got a veritable bonanza, Colors are found in every pan, and although the gold is very fine, it is reason- able to suppose that coar: gold will be found on the bed rock pense will be necessary to sluice on an ex- tensive scale, as thore is plenty of water con- venient and the topography of tho that any fall desired can be t. Paul capitalist is interest in tho ompany. He has had syears of experience u British 1‘ulunmm during the first gold ex- citement there. land is obtained. A Mining Sate. One of the most important mining deals that has taken place in the Hills of quietly consummated yesterday between the Stowart Mining company and the Golden Reward Mining and Milling company at Deadwood, by which the latter assumes the control of a valuable single claim owned by the former company in Ruby basin, adjoin- ing the grouna of the Golden Reward com pany. The amount purchased was 180,000 shares. at 25 cents per share, a total of 245, 000, which amount 1s divided between 0 Salisbury, Moody & Washabiaugh, Grier, R H. Discoll, B. P. Dague, D. A. \1:‘ Pherson. The Stowart, besides being ve . has the distine tion of being the first im located in the Ruby basin district, and it is estimated to contain at least $1,000, 000 worth of ore. Oregon Improvemon: mpany tn Troubie. 1t is reported from New York that there is considerable friction among the members of the management of the Oregon Improve- ment company. Messrs, Princo and Edgerly of the executive committoa aro oxpected to resign before the annual meeting noxt month, and the cancellation of the sinking fund provision of the 6 per cent first mor wiee is a question about which thera is s tous discussion. There also talk of retir- ing the 6 per cent mortzage altogether in nge for the consolidated mortgage . The authorized consolidated mort- is $15,000,000. Of this $4,105,000 aro id to be outstanding. he change in the said, will leave the manage the hands of a single fac Gold at Olympia. Tugene Monroe, an old prospector, has occasioned endless excitement and interest by displaying samples of gold ore of an un- usually high value discovered within two miles of Olympia. He says he has been prospecting in the vicinity for three years and has found a ledge of burnt quartz, through which a thread of gold runs in large quantities and unusual purity. The ledge is half a mile long with outeropping of native quartz. He exhibits one piece of free gold half an inch long and one-sixteenth of an inch thick picked from the ledge, and says that assays show that the ore will run from §75,000 to $30,000 per ton. A Good Find. A Mr. Lawrence from Denver, who is largely interested in tho Four-Mile piacers just south of the Wyoming line in Colorado, left on the stage this morning for Dixon to begin active operations. He will use water out of the Willow Creck ditch. The Rocic Spriugs company have their ditch, which are taking out of Four Mile creek, completed aud expect te begin sluic- ing in a few days. One of the Booth boys, who has a claim in a gulch near Timber lake, which is fed by a spring, cleared up over $200 in a ten days run. The Deerhorn Sold. Messrs. de la Bouglise and Chartier, rep- retenting the French syundicate that put in tho Rosebud mill at Cripple Creelk, Colo., have purchased from Messrs. Walfley and Walsh the Deerhorn mine at Cripple Creek for the modest sum of $40,000 cash. J. Stanley Jones drew up the papers and the entire amount in cash changed hauds at the First National bank this morning. The sale is considered the best bargain ever made in Cripple Creck, although Messrs, Waltley and Walsh have realized a vory handsome profit on their vestment, The Dakota & Wy & Rallrond. The steel rails have now been laid up to the company’s present terminus at Rapid City. It is thought that the force of men will be put to work next on sidetracks for yard facilitie The force of men will be largely increased the first of next week and work will be rushed on the rock work west of the city, as it is proposed to complete the line to «Dark canon and thus be able to run excursi i 0 that place during the day of the picnic held by the Society of Black Hills Pioneers at le,hurn grove June 8, Nebraska and Nebraskans, Lightning shattered the house of Joachim Bull, near tkhorn, but none of the inmates were injured, Business men of David City talk of boy- cotting the Union Pacific because it will not build a new depot in that town, Monroe ln:ople have raised a bonus to build a bridge across the Loup at that place and the structure will soon be finished. The Dodge county Sunday school workers will hold a convention av Jamestown May 24 with a basket picnic thrown in to en- liven the occasion, A Madison incendiary poured kerosene over a building twice in one week and fired* it, but the fire boys prevented the destruc- tion of the structure. A heavy chandelier in the Baptist church at Pawaee City fell the other day and set fire to the carpet, but the blaze was extin- guished before much damage was done, ‘I'be old Union Pacific car which President Lincoln used during the war, and which has been at North Platte for » number of years, has been sold 0 a syndicate and sent Lo Chicago. ‘The Hastings prosbytery at its meeting at Culbertson decided in favor of th of the confession of faith of the Presbyter- ian church. The fall meeting of the presby- tery will be held at Axtel Mrs. Frank Nermuth, living near Lynch, Boyd county, was burning garden plot and her dress ca teryibly burned, Mrs, L. H. Douglas, a Broken Bow widow, owed a debt of $42 which she was unable to uu and her creditors started to foreclose on er property. Charitable people discovered the fact, raised the #42 and presented Mrs, Douglas with §3 besides. County Attorney Al Tingle of Bassett and J. J. Likens, the ex ounty treasurer, came 10 blows on the streets of Ba Assett the other day, aod whet the fight was over it was found that Tingle's thumbs had been “chawed"” to a jelly by Likens. At the examination of candidates for the West Point cadetship from the Third con- ressional district, Zeno Briggs of West oint passed the bost examination, having un average of 81, but on account of his age was appointed an alternate. Mr. Williams of St. Edwards was next with an average of 77, and was awarded the cadetship. The Crete (,Imumnquu will hold its ses. sions this year from July 5 to15. This Co- lumbian year promises to repeat and even exceed the successes of last Popular ovening entertainments ave being arranged, to be awnounced in full later, which wil maintain the high average of previous years. They will include two oratorio even- ugs by the chorus of the assembly, assisted he Lincoln Oratorio society, and one ming by the Chorus of Misses of Lincoln oung girvls), under the direction of P. V. M. Raymond. There will be two evenings of stereopticon lectures on the architecture and art of the World's fair by Lorado Taft of Chicago, oue of the artists of Only a minimum ex- | 0 exposition, onlnl all the and vividly picturing their style tecture, statuary and decorations. The list of entertainments is not complote, but 1t is well under way and will maintain the as-. sembly's record for first-class programs. Colorado. are sacking ore at Bear Creek which averages $1,000 per ton. Tho fish killers are already operating with dynamite down the Rio Graade. After a long season of drought the eastern part of Colorado is being visited by rain. The Amethyst has contracted with three smelters to furnish each fifty tons of ore daily. A large body of shipping ore has beon struck in the Guston mine, Red Mountain district. Articles of incorporation of the Pueblo Water Works company were filed with the county clork with a capital stock of $1.500,- 0. bnnalmu of archi- The to hav le of the Deerhorn at A E ected Anaconda stock only tionally. A big drop was expected when the sale announced It scems to be a well grounded rumor that | A railroad is to oe built through Fort Collins atnod ant day, and that the new line will be pushed on to the coast, No credence is placed in the rumored kill- ing of Lieutenant Plummer by Navajos. The latest news from the n is to the ef- fect that everything The men on the chain gang at Colorado Springs nt out on a strike and re work any longer unless they we three meals a day instead of two. A great strike has been made in the Springdale Gold Minivg and Milling com- y's property. Some telluride of gold a8 taken out which was worth 15 a ntlemen in from Aspen report the loc tion of a large body of ore, the result of r cent development, in tho Mineral Farm, which is located in Hunter's Creek valley, above the Smuggler. The closing down of the Eurydice mine at Platora is announced, owing to the failure of miners to et their pay since November, 1802, The owners are Barth, Anderson, Harman and otheis of Denver. | The Eur aice is ratod as one of the best propertics in the Conejos river section, The Home Choyenno company obtained an option upon five acres of land between Col- orado Springs and Washington Heights. “The property is vich in eryoliteand the com- pany will engage extensively in the manu- fucturc of glass. A plant costing 230,000 will be erceted in the near future and employ- ment given to fifty men. The Union Pacitic will build a branch road to the pressed brick works and Case stor quarry at an early A. Cordman, roadmaster, was out yesterday looking over the ground and will report at headquarters today. A road to those industries wili give a great {mpetus to Boulder business. aud it is hoped that the road will be built at onc Wyoming. The -overnment contract for supplying beef to Fort Russell was let at §5.38 per hun- dred pounds. Jesse and Sam Yoder brought in sixteen wolf hides from Horse creek. They received $128 of Laramie county money. Reports from the shearing pens of the nortl indicato that the quality and quaatity of wool this year has never been surpassed. ‘I'ne Cola Springs Stock company of Aur Albany county, has been incorporated, with $20,000 capital, and will conduct a general ranch, fish hatchery and a live stock obusi- ness. In Fremont county the assessment roll shows that it has one company which pays taxes on 11,000 head ; whole number of com- panies and persons nssessed, 420; whole number of cattle, 55,193, Ed Dolan, a tramp, is in jail at Rawlin: Wyo. He stole the telephone from the ofic of Judge Homer Merrcll. Dolan says he di not know the nature or value of the instri ment, but thought it would sell for some- thing. B Work has been commenced on the telegraph line from Clearmont, on the B. & M. rail- road, to Buffalo, and it is expected the line will be in operation in less than twenty days. Connection will also be made with the Fort McKinney military post, three miles distant. Nebraska men have incorporated the Val- ley Townsite company to do business ith the Alcova hot springs in Natrona county, where a resort has been established. The capital is §2,000,000, and ope ion; conducted on a large scale. n electrie rail- way sixteen miles long will be built. An Indian arrow-head mine is one of the latest mineral discoveries in Wyoming. It has recently been found forty miles from Laramie peak in Albany county. The min- eral was from an agate ledge, which shows extensive work. It is estimated that it would taice 100 men two years to do as much work. CGovernor Osborne has issued a procla tion offering a reward of £250 for the appre- hension of CLarles T. Gale, the defaulting city treasurer of Laramic. This is in addi- tion to 3500 posted by the bondsmen. Gale handled 230,000 while 1n ofice a year and was short $12,000. Pictures and descriotions have been scattered broadeast. One of the most curious and interesting mineral discoveries is the recent find of a natural soap mine on the line of the Bur- lington, near the town of New Castle. The deposit is from fourteen to twenty feet in thickness, and is a kind of tale saturated In its natural state it mages oap, and_when softened with es 1ts bulk about four-fold and makes a rich lathel "Tho Dakotas, Hot Springs is promoting a paper mill, four ton plant is projected, Citizens at Aberdeen have bond guaranteeing a right of depot facilities to the proposed Black Hills road. Gophers are becoming a pest along the James river north of Yankton, and farmers have inaugurated a crusade ainst the ani- mals, The Central Dakota Veteran association will hold its annual encampment at Lake Preston, S. D., on the week commencing June 12 The pontoon bridge at Chamberlain, S, D., 18 in position again, and hundreds of cattle and scores of land-seckers are crossing daily on their way to the ceded Sioux lands. Complaint is being made that the fish In Canon lake are being wantonly killed by the use of dynamite. This method of fish- ing is unlawful, besides being cruecl and wasteful. Harry L. Williams, a young school teacher, has been indicted for ‘stealing three 2,000- mile mileage books from the C 0, Mil- waukee & St. Paul depot and for forging names to them. White-Face-Horse, the Indian implicated in the killing of cowboys some weeks ago, and said to afi com- mitted suicide, is alive and well, hidden at Pine Ridge agency. The progrietors of the Wind Cave hayve planned an excursion for the editors of the Black Hills, and individual invitations have been extended to each of the members of the fraternity and to their wives, A large force of men is at work on the Yankton & Sioux Falls railroad and the rading is bewy pushed all along the line, The piliug of the bridges is all on the ground and a crew of bridge builders is crowdin thut branch of the work. The Yankton enc of the grade will be ready for the track- ayers before many weeks are past. Contractors on the government artesian well at the Indian school at Pierre struck a flow of water yesterday ata depth of 1,000 feet. This establishes the fact of the exist- ence of an artesian basin in this part of the state, which has always beea questioned. The well will be sunk about 100 feet deeper, when the contractors expect a gusher. Deanwoon, 8. D., May 8,.—The new foun- dry and machine shops have started up and are now running out first-class work. The institution will benefit the various other mills in this section, as it will be able to rur- nish immediately any casting which is bro- ken and to repair machines otherwise dam- aged, thus doing away with much delay heretofore necessary when a breakaown oc- curred, Stockmen west of the Missouri river are protesting against the section of Governor Sheldon's cattle quarantine proclamation which says, “Provided that cattle ught into this state from certgin portions of Texas shall come into the state of South Dugota only for slaughter or grazing, and shall not be shippea from South Dakota into any other state or territory in the United States be- fore the 1st day of December, 18937 The stockmen ask, if the cattle are fit to be ad- mitted into the state, why are they not in a A DAILY m-.lfl‘_ MO & WHO WINS THE PRIZE? BOYS, READ THIS AND GIRLS TOO. 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These tropical islands, how beautiful they are, and what an interest they hold for every boy, with their strange natives, their coconnut and date palms and their coral reefs. The ENCYCLGPEDIA tells of these things and of a hundred thousand more. Every schoolboy also knows that the Encyclopedia Britannica is just full of things that he likes to read about. Every It tells all about all kinds of wild animals and birds and fishes. these wonderful books or he can study and get a good sound education out of them. Ivery schoolby ought to have a set of the Britannica, and all parents ought to malke it their duty to put aside 10 cents a day to obtain for their children this wonderful library, which is useful every day of the Seven Ages of Man. fit condition to ship when an owner of such stock sees it to his advantage to sell? Stock that is held on the ranges until Decemoer 1 will have to remain there during the winter and the following summer. A large number of physicians and surv- geons of the hills will meot in Hot Springs on Saturday next for the purpose of organiz ing a medical and surgical staft for o hos- pital to be established at this point. It is proposed to locate a first-class institution, equal to anything of a like nature in any of the eastern cities. Colonel T. F. Dawson of Grand Forks, N owns the first military order issued by eneral Grant. [t is a simple document, is No. 1, dated July 2, 1861, appointing Mr, Dawson quartermaster and comm y of the Twenty-tirst Illinois. It is signed Colo- nel U, S. Grant, Springtield, 111, “Mr. Daw- son has refused £3,000 for it. Now artesian wells near White lake are becoming quite frequent and the Wave re- cords a new well nearly every week. The latest one is on the Cooper farm near town, where very heavy flow was obtained. ‘The er flows through neh opening and a height of six feet before breaking, 3 feet deep and was_put dovn in less th ve weeks, H. M. Miles doing the work. Las ature passed a law empow! ad commissioners to fix maximum passenger rates. Ilhe rail- roand commissioners came to consult the In- terstate Commerce commission on the con- stitutionality of the statute. The national body. after 4 careful examination, decided that there are so many glaring crrors n the bill that it would not stand. On this advice the state commission will refuse toact under the law. During the year elapsing since the opening of the Sisseton reservation 2,950 homesteads have becn filed upon it, leaving less than 400 open for settlement. These remnants are largely fractional and are chiefly located on the hills. The soil generally is rich, but the pleces left are not, of course, choice tracts, thoul well maapred. to stock and general farming. Three flourishing towns have also grown up—Sisseton, Summit and Efington— 80 that it is safe to place the white popula- tion of the reserve at’ 10,000, 4 clear gain to the state in twelve months, What is claimed to, be the lary ever made has just begp completed by Brown & Saenger of Sioux Falls, It is called the Visitors Register, and will be shipped in o few days to Chicago, where it will be put into the South Dakota,, building, and every South Dakotan is «»xm«,uml to register in it, The book contains 2,000 pages, and will ac- commodate forty names to the page. 1v is 25 inches long, 27 inghes wide, when shut, and 13 inches thick. | 1t weighs 175 pounds, and it took the wholqhide of a cow to bind it. Through the diwllow of the ba when the book is open, & 7-year- boy can crawl with, egse. The board is three-quarters of an thick. The book 008t thio firm 8100, and il be. presented. 10 the South Dakota commission, Mountun Scarlet fever has broken out among Cree Indian children, and thirteen cases and three deaths are reported from a camp eight wiles north of Anaconda. William Matthews, the king and last of the cattle rustlers, who for a time in 15%) and 1891 defied law lurlenlully in Wyom- ing, Idaho and Washington, was brought to Great Falls heavily ironed by Deputy Sherift Dwyer. He was captured in Chotesu, where he was traveling under the name of Thomas Briggs. “John J. Zimmerman is a cattle owner of Montana,” runs a dispatch in the Chicago Tribune, hough well-to-do so far us this world’s goods are concerned Mr. Zimmerman is wholly uuaccustomed to the ways of the wicked city. Accordingly when he ran against Philamon Austin ana his wife Mar- garet he parted with money and notes to tho ‘.ell book h; extent of $7.500 and bas his experience in ex- change for his woney. In the hope of getting It tells ail about differont countries, and the strange customs of A boy can amuse himself with k at his alleged has filed a bill in the circuit court asking for an injunction restraining them from dispus- ing of the notes he gave them, He also began suit against Austin for $20,000 damages. The women of Bozeman ha nt to the World's fair a magnificent jewel in the form of the state's coat of arms. It is composed of gold, silver, copper and precious stones, allof the most artistic and excellent work- manship, weighs five or six pounds, and cost an even 00—the entire sum being raised by the inited efforts of the Ladies' Columbian association of Gallatin county. The court has overruled the motion for a non-suit made the defendant in the e prated St. Louis-Montana mining cos case now progressing at Helena. his rul- ing 15 construcd as favorable to the St. Louis company, ‘in that the senior right of the plaintiff g it the privilege to follow the mineral vein into territory to which neither of the parties to the suit has United States patents. What will very likely turn out to be the most important mining suit ever brought in the United States is now on trial in the United States court, Itinvolves a question that has never yet been settled in the courts and which is a disputed one under the min- ing laws. The question is whether the first C mineral vein, the apex of aim, is entitled to all the ore found within the walls of that vein, no matter whether it stays within the lines of that claim as it deepens or goes outside. Tho apparently interminable Davis will case Is ugain on the docket of the circuit court for a new trial. Iteports have been current that a compromise had been effected between the different factions, especially in view of the recent death of one of the prin- cipal litigants, but this is deniod by the law- yerson both sides. The special administra- tor has over §1,000,000 in cash on hand, in ad- dition to near ,000 shares of bank stock. No attempt hus so far been made to collect on the notes for 00,000 that bear the signa- ture of Irvin Davis, orother of the dead mil- lionaire, Washington. A company has been negotiating for the site of a 10-stamp mill at Swauk and will put it in operation if a ledge can be secured. J. H. Jansen of Tacoms has purchased Dexter Shoudy’s claim at the mouth of Wil- liams creek, Swaulk district, for $3,000. Gus Nelson is reported to have tuken out a gold nugget at Swauk last week weighing twenty-eight ounces and valued at $420. The Crispin Mining company is developing gold mines in the er country. Win- lock claims to be the nearest town to this localit, There is a possibility that the Langenour woolen mill subsidy may yet be raised. Of the $15.000 asked as a bonus §10,500 has been subscribed, The Washington Reduction company of Ruby City has commenced milling again after having been shut down since Novem- ber 20 on account of frost. Operations have been going on all winter at the Rainbow mine on Palmer mountain, and a 12-foot lead of rich rock is beiog worked with good success. The new shingle mill of the Willapa Cedar Lumber company 8t South Bend has been started in full operation. The mill turns out a carload of shingles a day and is undergo- ing changes which will increase the daily output tw 150,000, The diamonds and other valuables stolen froru the residence of J. i. Boss of Spokane, have been recovered and returned to the owner, The total value of the stolen jewels amounted to $800. The theft was traced to a youth of respectable parentage, who, when confronted with the evidence of his crime, broke down and coufessed all, It is reported that the great monster ser- pent that lives in Rock lake near the mouth of Rock creek, has been seen lately and is supposed Lo be 100 feet in length and as large around us @ barrel. There is an old traai- tion that a regular man-cater dwells in Rock windlers Zimmerman | Ioke o Indians livo in great dread of it. hey raid to go on_the lake in a cance or dwail In closo proximity to it. Thoy tell the story of its great sizo and craving for human flesh. Director Am: road writes th active inquiry w track to of the Union Pacific rail- the company is making an ith the view of extending its Astoria, and expects to reach a conclusion in a few weeks. Oregon. Shyster locators and timber sharks are locating eastern suckers on land in Tilla- n‘nflk county at from $25 to $75 per head. 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