Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 5, 1893, Page 4

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Tre DALY and Suspay BEee s on safe In Chieago at the following places: Palmer house, Grand Pacific lotol. Auditorium hotel Great Northern hotel. I'ln ells B, Sizer, 180 State street. Wiles of Twe Ber can bo seen at the Ne- praska building and the Administration build- ing, Exposition erounds. e e e — SWORN STATEMEN'T OF CIRCULATION. te of Nebraska, } Courty of Douglns, George 1. Tazchuck, sectotnry of TR BER pub: Hehing company, doos solomnly swenr that the motual cirenlation of TIE DAILY for tho week ending Juno 3, 1503, wns as follow! Bunday, May 2 Monday, May Tuesdny. May Wednoesday, Moy Ahursday, dune 1., Friday. Juno 2 Baturday, June § . GEO. 11 TRZCTITCR. Bworn (0 beforame and subscribed In enco this 30 day of June, 18- K. P, Notary lation tor May, 1803, 24,174 THE eyes of Nebraska are again turned in the direction of the supreme ecourt room at the state capital today. Trens is overy probability that the Whisky trust will be in the hands of a receiver before the month closes. HENRY WATTERSON seems to have some sort of a grudge against his party. He still insists that it shall live up to its Chicago platform. OMAHANS will unite in expressions of sorrow over the deplorable death of the brave firemen whose lives were sacri- ficed Saturday night. THE louder the outery of other New York newspaners against the suggested federal income tax, the more energet- 1cally tbe contention of the World for it. AN EVEN score of national banks have failed since the beginning of the pres- ent year, and yet every bank note issued by the defunct institutions is as good as HANGING IN THE BALANCE. Tho future of the republioan party of Nebraska is in the hnd‘ of the supreme court. The impeached state officers were elected as ropresentative republ- cans and if their conduct is condoned by arepublican court the party will right- fully be chargeanble with the responsi- bility for the acts of the impeached officials and the verdict of the court. Tn the high court of public opinion, to which all public men and parties are accountable, the supreme judges will be judged by the standard of public morals which they shall sot up in this oase for the politicalagents of the stato. There is no law governing tho degree of im- peachable offenses. The ideal of what constitutes an honest and faithful dis- charge of duties is in the minds of the members of the court, and they, for the time being, by their verdict cover with a seal of approval or disapproval the conduct of the officials whom the repre- sentativesof tho peoplo in the name of the people arranged for misdemeanors iu office. There can be no middle ground for the court to stand upon. There is no place in their verdict for a roprimand or s whitewash. The court must either de- clare by its verdict that these officials are unfit to be reinstated as custodians of public property and managers of the affairs of state, or they must decree that in their judgment, in the face of all the evidence of eriminal recklessness and in- defensible negligence the affairs of our state have been in trusty hands and the impeached officials will by their finding of not guilty be acquitted of all blame and resume their functions with the seal of approval from the highest tribunal in the commonwealth. Such a verdict will be hailed by the gang of corruptionists that has looted the state treasury as a new dispensation, but it will be the death knell of the re- publican party in Nebraska. The party has already suffered incal- culable injury by the infamous betrayal of trust of the impeached officials in re- fusing to dischargo their sworn duty as members of the Board of Transportation and their retention in power after the scandalous exhibit ot mismanagement will leave the party where the trump of Gabriel will scarcely resurrect it. THE ANTI-TRUST CONVENTION. The convention composed of delegates from most of the states, called to con- sider the best means of defense against the anthracite coal combination aud in- cidentally what ought to be done to sup- press all the monopolistic organizations, will meet in Chicago today. This con- vention assembles upon the invitation of the state of Minnesota, and it is an gold. THE passengor rates from Omaha to Chicago have taken a tumble and the result is already apparent in the in- creased travel in the direction of the World's fai STATE house ringsters seem to think that most of the criminal laws in the Nebraska statute books were especially designed for the protection of the bood- lers at Lincoln. THE democratic daily at Des Moines writes a column of advice upon ‘“‘carry- ing out democratic policies.” The ad- vice will be more timely when the “demccratic policias” are agreed upon. Ex-GOVERNOR ROBERT L. TAYLOR of Tennessee has provided himself with a new violin. He proposes to fiddle Isham G. Harris out and himself into the United States senate two years hence. IF THE present drain on the gold re- serve continues for six months longer the United States treasury will be con- {ronted with a very serious problem. American statesinanship is always equal to an emergency, however. MR. MOSHER'S somewhat plaintive in- terview in THE BEE yesterday morning contains a world of revelation to the people of Nebraska. His statement that “at no time during my banking carcer did I deliberately seek to wrong or de- fraud a creditor or depositor” will cause many people to wonder just what he thought he was doing when he made so many false entries in the books of his bank. THE new factory law of New York has just gone into operation and has already excited the profuse pervspiration of the “gweaters.” The provision most rigidly enforced by the inspectors, tothe con- sernation of these heartless task masters, interesting fact, as illustrating the universal popular concern in the . object of the convention, that only a few governors have *declined to send delegntes. The convention will be representative in * character. It will contain men of national distinction, many of whom have long been known for their aggressive hostility to monopoly. It will be an essentially non-partisan convention and its influence will be val- vable in the degree thatits deliberations are free from partisan bias or prejudice. The importance of the convention is being generally recognized and what- ever the practical outcome of its delib- erations may be, the discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of trade combinations in their modern development cannot fail to be of great public intevest. It is re- alized on all hands that there is need of a vigirous popular movement for the suppression of monopoly if the country isnot to be given over wholly to the domination of this modern system of vast business aggregations, which, as has been well said, are generally con- spiracies against the intevests of the people. to protect the people against the inter- ference and the exactions of these combi- nations is recognized by men of all partics, but experience has shown that the authorities are apathetic in regard to this duty, and something is necessary to stir them to action, What this requirement is must be patent to everybody. It isa firmand vigorous demand procecding divectly from the people for a rigid enforcement of the laws against the monopolies, and if these are found not to ve sufticient for their suppression then congress and the states mast enact laws that will be, It is for the people to say whether they will permit themselves to be plundered, and so long as they are indifferent mon- opoly will flourish. The convention at Chicago will attest their determination to protect themselves against the rob- is that requiring apartments occupied by their slaves to bo kopt ina clean and healthy condition, Whatever the short comings of the last New York legisla- ture the passage of this wholesome law will insure commendation of humane sentiment, and other states who have the “‘sweater” probiem to deal with will watch its operations with hopeful at- tention, THE « resignation of Henry from the presidenc Villara of the North Ameri- can company excites considerable com- ment in Wall street. It has been under- stood for some time that there was a bit- ter rivalry ‘between Mr. Villard and John D. Rockefellor, and Mr. Villard's action is construed as an admission of the superior strength of the latter in the directory. The succession of Mr. C. W. Wetmore to the presidency is said to have heen at the suggestion of Mr. Rockefeller. A dispatch states that the stockholders of the North American bery oi the trusts, The popular judgment refuses to ac- copt the defense offored for monopoly that the modern development of trade tends to combinations of like interests, and that the effect of suckr combinations is to cheapen production and to lessen the cost of commodities to consumers. The people know that these claims are not well founded, and that on the con- trary the cost of production has been en- hanced by the conditions of the existence of most of the trusts. As the Philadel- phia Record well suys, they have been compelled to pay enormous prices for property in order to suppross compe- tition, and they have unloaded the bur- den whenever possible upon the com- munity, Others have increased their profits both by lessening the cost of pro- duction and distribution and by advanc- ing the prices of their commodities. The system of industrial organization which is comprehended in the term “trust” is essentially an evil and its re- company have frequently entered seri- ous protests to the promiscuous loaning of their company’s money to the North- orn Pacific, but as Mr, Villard was the head of both concerns their objec- tions availed not. Now that these rela- tions arve severed it is said the policy of the company will be to devote its capital and energies to the development of west- ern towns instead of propping up north- western railroads. moval is one of the highest duties of the government. The convention at Chi- cago will do a very great publie service if it shall have the effect to stimulate the government to the performance of this duty. Dr. F. ARNOLD, eminent as a medical scientist, in the current num- ber of the North American Review unhesitatingly pronounces the so-called THE OMAHA DAILY BER: MONDAY, JUNE 5 1803 “gold cures” for Inebriation a fail- ure. Admitting that many have heen reformed, he says “but many have not only not been relieved, but have soon after taking the treatment became suicides or lunatics.” The fatal mis- take he recognizes in these curesisin “‘attempting to cure achronic discase by the use of narcotic remedies,” and by the substitution method, attempting ‘‘to supplant by another narcotic action the narcotic effect of the alcohol to which the patient has been accustomed.” Tho writer continues that the physician who has the tact and patience to treat suc- cessfully chronic nervous diseases can treat inebriety sueccessfully. The gold cure system most widely known in this “country the doctor says has received the “unqualified condemnation” of the So- ciety for the Study of Inebriety in London. IMPROVEMENT OF WATERWAYS. There will bo held in St. Paul this woek a convention whose object is to consider the question of widening and deepening tho canals that connect the westorn lakes. This is a matter in which the entire northwest is interested, since every year the question is becom- ing more urgent whether the canals shall be abandoned or so improved as to be able to compote with the railroads, at least to such an extent as to prevent exorbitant transportation rates. These waterways have performed an important service in this respect, but they are growing less availabie, and the fact is realized that the time has come for doing something with them, as the idea of abandoning them cannot be seriously considered. To widen and deepen them, however, would be very costly, and it is understood that the Canadian delegates to the convention will propose that the Unitod States and the Dominion shall share the expense between them and subject the canals to a common control. This scems an entirely fair proposition and it is reasonable to expect that it will be approved by the convention. Only the railroad interests will be op- posed to the project of widening and deepening these waterways, and the greater the opposition from that source the stronger the project ought to grow with the people. It is easily demonstrable that these canals can be made of very great value to the producers of the northwest, repaying in The duty of the government: a few years, in the saving in the cosv of transportation, all the expense of their improvement. Without this check upon railroad rates everybody knows that the producers of the northwest would have to pay much more than they now do, and with the development of this section, the necessity for maintaining this check will increase. The canals are serving a great public interest, and it is not only desirable that they shall be maintained, but they should be put in condition to be still more useful. It has been suggosted that if the canals were subjected to the common control of the United States and the Do- minion it would be a large stroke of rec- iprocity. This view should help the proposal. Of course if the expense of improving these waterways should be borne equally by the two governments common control of them would be a ne- cessity, and if this should lead, however indirectly, to the establishment of more intimate and mutually advantageous trade relations between the countries so much the better. That, however, is a merely incidental consideration. The interest of the producers of the north- west in the improvement of these water- ways is the vital matter which it will be the business of the convention to con- sider. THE New York Customs’ house is one of the most important departments of the government. Its methods of doing business are now being investigated, or it was intended they should be, by a commission authorized by congress and appointed by Secretary Carlisle, of which ex-Sccretary of the Treasury Fairchild is the chairman. The New York Herald, which has been a precise observer of the process, now declares that the feature which appears to at- tract the largest attention of this com- mission is ‘‘not whether gross un- dervaluations of goods have taken place, and, if 80, who the guilty officials are, but how and by whose agency certain letters came into the possession of the press. ‘“This,” says the Herald, “appears to be in the eyes of the investigators a far more serious offense than defrauding the government of untold sums of money, to say nothing of the injury inflicted on importers by discriminations in favor of rival firms.” It would be well for this commission, as well as others investigat- ing respectivé departments, to under- stand that what the people wish and have demanded is faithful and fearless investigation of the irregularities charged to have occurred in previous administration of the government busi- ness. They will not approve nor silently submit to have these proposed inquisi- tions sidetracked into a monstrous de- vice for manufacturing campaign thun- der by directing attention to matters that may be sensational enough but do not effect the subject under dissection, A MOST important case, involving the question of the jurisdiction of federal courts to the suhordination of state ju- dicial authorities, is now before the United States court of Tennessee. The case is the prosecution of moonshiners for the killing of three revenue officors. The special point to be decided is “‘whether crimes committed against the person of officers of the United States whilo in the discharge of duty can be punished by the federal courts?” Hith- erto whenever moonshiners have com- mitted a crime against an officer the state authorities have assumed exclusive jurisdiction. The abortive results of these trials, owing to local sympathy, induced ex-Attorney General Miller to have these offenders indicted by a fed- eral grand jury. The question of juris- diction was at once interposed by the defense, and Judge Jackson, thensitting in the United States circuit court, over- ruled the demurrer. Judge Jackson is a rock-ribbed democrat and it is sug- gested that this support of the federal power against the musty democratic theory of stute rights may have had something to do in influencing his se- lection by President rison for the suprome bonch. Nosdoubt te question of this jurisdiction mustofinally be set- tled in the supreme dowr! THE presence of the&herokee's agents in Wall street negotiating the bonds the government has endotséd for the amount due on the Strip lands again directs at- tention to the new section that probably will be thrown open tf) gottlement about September next. The Strip will extend the boundary of Okiahoma on the north to the Kansas lino. “Théland just ceded by the Cherokos courieil embraces 6,072,- 754 acres and will make the territory larger than many §f the eastern and central states. Thousands have been waiting on the borders for a long time the privilege of going in, and when the announcement is made that the tract is open to settlement there will bo the usual rush, the usual strife and rivalry, and just assurely the usual hardships and disappointments. Not since the terrible fatality attend- ing the burning of the old Grand Central hotel has there been so disastrous a fire in Omaha as that of Saturday night. There is compensation for the loss of property, but none for the loss of human life. The firemen now lying in the morgue gave up their lives like heroes— at tho post of duty. They were brave men and their courage merits highest praise. One of them leaves a wife and three children. A generous public will respond to the sentiment of Rev. Mr. Mackay, who paid the dead men a glow- ing tribute in his pulpit yesterday and proposed that contributions of money be made to the families of the fated firomen. THE loss occasioned by the destruction of the Shiverick building and its valua- bla contents is not 1o be compared with the deplorablo loss of the livesof the three men who faced death unflinch- ingly in an effort to save the property of others. The death of these brave men will serve as a forcible reminder to the people of Omaha that we have here a class of men who are always ready to risk their lives for the preservation of property. All Will Be Forgiven. New ¥ork Tribune. If the south will bury with Jefferson Davis all that he represented, 1o one will object to tributes to his personality. — Koep it Dark, Chicago Post. It must not go abroad that tho manago- ment of the fair is robbing the people of thoir rights at the behest of impudent conces- siouaires. e ey Words, Worils, Words. Globe-Democrat, Sir Charles Russell has completed his pro- longed argument in tho ' Bering sea case, but he hasu't succeeded in weakening a sin- gle point of the American side of the contro- versy. — e ua Vanishing Glants. Cincinnati Commercial, Edwin Booth's condition continues criti. cal. With Booth soon “to follow Murdock, the American stage will have seen the last of the “old school.” The “‘new school” also contains no infunts that promise to attain such sturdy growth as did these two giants of the mimic world. g e Soundness of General Busincss, New York'Her o, It is encouraging to know that all the im- portant banks are sound; ‘and that general trade is not inflited. "Morcover, the Amer can peoplo adapt themselves with wonder- ful rapidity to changed conditions, ana it is evident that they have already begun to dealin a practical way with the existing situation. When the present period of stress set in there was a universal disposition to look for relief to the great banking centers; but it apparent thg individuals and sepa- rate communities are now striving to liqui- date themselves. Men are bowing to the inevitable, and striving atany cost to get themselves out of debt. Superlority of a Korelgn Arm., Philadelphia Recora, Clever and ingenious as American inven- tors unquestionably are, they have not su ceeaed in devising & magazine rifle for mili- tary purposes equal to the Krag-Jorgensen gun, which, after elaborate tests extending over a period of two years, has finaily been adopted for the United States army by the national board of orduance and fortifica- tion. After the report of the board shail have beon formally approved by the secre- tary of war the manufacture of the weapons will be begun on & large scale in the national armories; and within a fow months the army will be supplied with new magazine rifies on which royalties will have been paid to foreign inventors. —_— PEOPLE AND THINGS. Sorrel stockings and roan ribbons are the latest caper for girls at race tracks. Clark I3. Carr, former American minister av Copenhagen, has received a handsomoe silver flagon from Prince Hans, brother of the Danish king. Yoshi Hot1, heir apparent to the Japan throne, is booked for a peep at the Columbian show. He is only 14 years old, but can flurt in soveral languages at all hours, For the first time in twenty years the Barber asphalt monopoly has been downed in Washington. A rival company was awarded tho paving contract at a groatly reduced price, Mr. Dickens, superintendent of the electric 1ight works at High Point, N. C., on making his rounds the other day got ninety-eight English sparrow’s eggs out of the hanger boards of the lamps. The Blaine mansion at Washington has been closed and the family, including Mr. and Mrs. Damrosch, have left for England to spend the summer. Mrs. Blaine has leased a house in Surrey, where tho family hope to spend the summer very quietly, Huphra Dunn of West Point, Ga., b years old, is the youngest telegraph operator in America. She has been about the railroad station, where her father is agent, a groat deal and quickly picked up the Morse alpha- bet. She can call up' operators along the line and talk with theutin’ childish fashion, In theso days of findnclal stpess, much comfort may be had by .weighing your pile every morning. This sy bo done’ conven- iently on a hay scales. , Gauge the scales at the ton notch, When the poam moves with the weight of gold, you know that your pilo is worth $002,709.21. The ‘same weight of silver will net $37,704.8. Give it a trial. The oldest practising lawyer in Phlla- dolphia is John D. Bleight, who was admitted to the bar on May 9, 1838 just a little over “x'i! years ago. Next comes William D. Tilghman, who bétay a full-fledged lawyer on December 12 ‘lfi!{.iwhfle ex-Mayor Richard Vaux is a good'thifd, with a legal experience extending bdclé Yo April 15, 1837, 1t was reserved for a Téxan by adoption, & citizen who was born oh foreign soil, to make the first real practical ‘move toward honor- ing the memory of the fathers of Texas liberty. In his will the late Henry Rosen- berg of Galveston, born in Switzerland, be- queathed $50,000 for the erection of an appropriate, enduring memorial in honor of the heroes of the Texas revolution. His fortune at his death was estimated at $1,000,- 000, and of this sum §575,000 was bequeathed to charitable and patriotic objects. ‘The fate of a late lamented Philadelphian should be & warning to those who are culti- vating a vein of humor. The Quaker cit, unfortunate left & will, the terms of whwfi were no laughing matter for some of his heirs. In the contest now peuding the kickers allege the maker was insane and therefore incapable of properly disposing of his possessions. In proof of the chargo thoy swore that the defunct laughed at his own jokes, The feelings of the court at this point were smothered in a copious guffaw. HISTORY OF A GOLD MINE How "“Tenderfoot” Luok Doveloped Rich Resourcos in Oolorado. ONE PROSPECTOR WHO WAS NOT FOOLED He Sold m Fortune for a Few Thousand but 1t Was Easily Found and Heo Trusted to Luck in Fuature, ' On the high cliffs above the Uncompahgra river, northeast of Ouray, Colo.. is a noted group of gold mines known as the American- Nettie, to which an interesting story at- Another ora of dividend sharing has just been entorod upon by the presont owners, composed of St. Louis people. John R. Porter, who located the bonanza loss than seven yoars ago, is living on a farm noar Clarinda, Ia. Ho only gota fow thou- sand dollars out of the proverty. “Billy"” Barringer and a man namoed O'Con- nors, neither of whom knew as much about mining as Porter, each made a §20,000 stake out of the American-Nettie after they worked on 1t a few weeks. The big money, though, was divided up by Louis A. Dunham and Olarence O'Fallon of St. Lows. They made over $30,000 aviece in dividendsin a fow months besides owning $100,000 of the stock that was worth double or triple that amount in the early history of the company they organized. This epitomo of the history of a noted Colorado mining property Is illustrative of numerous phases of the great imdustry of the intermountain country. Nobody who hasn't lived in a mining community can appreciate the slips or misses that prospect- ors make in parting with mineral discover- ies. In many mining legends the point of the story turns on the experience of the locator or subsequent operator of a claim Wwho auits with riches just ahead, from which he was barred by only a few fect of rock, Miners and vrospectors as a rule dread ridicule. It hurts them worse to laugh about theiv blunders in working a mine, or in failing to recognize ‘“‘pay ore" or ‘“‘pay dirt” when they see it, than it does 'most any other class of the human family who have erred. For these reasons mining literature isn’t as replote as it would otherwise be with ons or explanations whero bonanza lowed closely on the heels of barasca. This frequently happens almost simultane- ously with a change either in ownership or as to mothods of working. So Easy to Be Fosled In Mining it is, that it is worth while relating the story of the development of the American- I‘{uuic to its present stage of rich produc- tion. Porter is o good prospector. He was oither grubstaked by Colonel *Tom" Nash of Ouray, or there was some partnership agreement by which the latter was to share in Porter’s mincral discoveries, The colouel’s title is neither one of cour- tesy nor incident to the customs of the coun- try. He was in_the Confedorate States army during the civil war and a member of General Bragg's staff, Porter had gone out from Towa to tho Centennial state, and, after prospecting in various localivies, struck Ouray about the time the first or big finds were made on the gold belt there. It was in 1886 that he climbed up the steep slope from the Uncom- pahgre river to the cliffs that towerabovoe it. "To all appearances not a pick had been stuck ora hammer struck m the quartzite or shale or lime that showed on the heights. That was virgin ground. Prospectors pre- ferred less steep declivities. Porter located soveral claims, among them the Amel and the Jonathan. So highly did he regars the latter that he located a fractional claim, 250 foet distant, that was named the Nettie. Little if any labor was expended on any of these clains other than the representation or assessment work required by law. Up in the cliff, forty or ffty feet high, that crowned the summit of the hill on which the claims were located, a cave showed on tho surface five or six feet below the rim. Potter picked away at the sides of the cave in the hope of striking some seam or vein or oven an indication of mineral that would en courage him to follow it or spend more tim and labor in prospecting the cave. Vi .en h was about ready to quit he puti na shot that dislodged a lot of rogk in which he found free gold. That was a pretty good sign but not enough to startle or excite any- body working on the gold belt. ‘With mining men, a theory when stuck by too closely, or which becomes a guiding star, as it were, 13 about as bad as tho sport's “system.” Now Porter, who was so favor- ably impressed by the indications on tho Jonathan, expected that where the fissure vein cut the quartzite there he would find his best pay mineral. Tests all along on the quartz gave $25 to $40 in gold to the ton, That was good enough to hold out, but it wasn't in any sense o bonanza. Fivo years ago it wusn't a paying proposition to try to do any mining in that locality where the claims were located If machinery had to be employed. Water wasn’t obtainable for making stoam save na few out of every twelvo months. Fuel was high. It was ex- pensive, too, in the way of getting in supplies. In general the conditions were much tho same on the American as on the Jonathan, 80 fur as Porter's observation wont. His assessment work for the year was fin- ished in the faH of 1888 and he was around Ouray. Only a few days before olection Barringer went to Porter or Colonel Nash and made a proposition to bond and lease the American and the Nettie. Deals of that sort were common in Ourny. Although Barringer was regarded neither as a capitalist nor an experienced miner, it didn't occur to either of the other partners that he might possess information that wasn't within the range of their knowledge regarding the value of the property. arringer and O'Connors got a bond which gave them an option to purchaso the Ameri- can and the Nettie for $5,000 within a yesr, ‘They also agreed to pay & royalty of 10'or 15 per cent on the mincral output. It is the common and accepted theory around Ouray, and is often told as a fact when the history of the American Nettie is recited, teat the good fortune that subse- quentlr came to the leasers and bounders was what is aenominated as ‘“‘tenderfoot” luck in mining communities, which is of the sumo sort as elsewhoro passes currency as “bullhead” luck. Buv thero is reason to doubt this. Barringer Didn't Exactly Go 1t Blind, He had been around the Rock of Ages, over across the Uncompahgre, a mile or 80 away, where from caves similar to the one in which Porter got the freo gold was recovered a large amount of gold that came out of the settlings in the boutom of theso natural excavations. This stuff, to Porter, looked exactly like the loose dirt he took out on the Jonathan claim. He had tested that in a gold pan, but didw't get 80 much as & color, The thought never occurred to him of pauning in the caye on the American. This oversight cost Porter a fortune. But that was not all. His theory as to where the richness of the miueral ought to lie was based on @ wrong hypothesis or false deduc- tion. He thought the vein was flat. That was the same sort of mistake made by the Pony Express company. a Colorado Springs ich operated a silver mine at Ouray. The butk of the mineral was acci- dentally found on that property while they wera making a trail, and a short distance away from the workings whero the two veins came together in the quartzte and in the shale or lime. Barringer and O'Connors had been ort time they made a shipment of ten tons from the American-Nettie that went bet ween §900 and $1,000 to the ton. The exact returns are said to have been forty-four ounces in gold to the ton and seventy-five in silver. That would make $035 to §340 a ton A goodly share of this came from the bottom of the cave, where Porter worked. The loose stuff was shoveled up like salt. Not a little of this sort of gold-bearing dirt had Kraviuusly been thrown onto the waste dump by Porter. By follow- i a little seam the lessecs broke into an- other cave and extracted more of the dirt. They set up a dryer and reduced the weight of the highly mineralized dirt and then sacked it for shipment to the smelter. Even before the car load was sent off the e of Ouray became much excited. mwwmn flocked all over the hills. Porter realized that he had let & good thing slip out of his grasp. Tt was a fore. gono conclusion that tho bond would be taken up, as the leasors wouldn't bo likely to pn{ one-fifth or so of the proceeds of such rich mineral in royalties. So the di coverer of the American bogan to prospect again and ho got hold of some moroe claims in that neighborhood, Barringer and ('Connors of course, over the luck if the truth it is likely they reckoned on consider- aoly more than §1,000 to the ton. At any rate they went down to Pucblo or Den- to the smelter tc which the consignment was made Dunham and O'Fallon were in Ouray at thoe time the strike was made or came there shortly afterwards. They visited tho Ameri- can-Nottie ground and appear to hava posted themselvos pretty well on the extent of the find and the outlook for the future on the scoro of production. On their way back with the procesds from their shipment Barringer and O'Connor were met at Guunison by the St. Louis men, purely by accident, of coarse. Whon they arrived in Ouray the bonders had obligated themselves to buy out Porter and Nash and wore elated, groat good woro known Soll the Property for $40,000 to Dunham and O'Fallon. odd condition imposod when it camo to oxecuting the deed, He insisted that his sharoe of the purchase money should be paid him in fl;h{, So thero were counted out to him 1,000 ) gold pieces. Tho old man scooped them up from the counter in the bank iuanore sack. He didn't pack around the coin very long because the doubla eagles weizhod up- wards of eighty pounds. Finally he marched back to the bank and formally deposited his wealth, huving had the satisfaction of know- ing that ho had boen permitted to have a fortune in actual possession. Dunham & O'Fallon immediately went to St. Louis, whero the deal was closed and the property had passed into their posses- sion. They had littlo troublo in organizing a company there to buy and work tho Ameri- can-Nettio. ‘I'he bases of their nagotiations wero to stock the proporty. They sold 100,- 000 shares at 50 cents each and vocketed the monoy. That lett them §10,000 profit on the Thore was an by O'Connors sides they rotained two-thirds of tho capital stock, or 200,000 shares, botween them. Thore were times when theso shares of the Amorican Mining company, a8 it was named, sold as high as $2.50 and $1 cach, which would have netted the organizers and promoters as high as §00,000 to 600,000 pro- vided they unloaded. They probably salted away a goodly sum from the proceeds of the sale of stock. Acuive operations wore begun almost im- mediately after the property passod into the possession of Dunham and O'Fallon, and continued with increased vigor after the company got fairly started. For five cousecutive months during the fivst year of the company’s existence divi- dends to the amount of $30,000 a month were distributed, which was at the rateof 10 cents a share. After §150,000 in profits had be distributed the yein pinched and the ore de posits petered out. But subsequently othe ore bodies or deposits were struck, and a number of dividends were paid amounting to $25.000 to $50,000, the exact figures not being at hand. Naturally enough the American- created all manner of talk in St. Louis and on 'change there were lively tim when- ever a new lot of tho rich mineral was en- countered. Competition for the stock was d trading in the shares lively, ac- cording as_the prospects for profit sharing became brighter. In mining circles, especially In Colorado, American-Netticcame in for a large share of attention, not only because the property made a big record as a dividend-payer but also on account of the oddity or pecularity of tho formation and the conditious under which the rich mineral was found. The ground may be described as a vast body of quartzite that resombles a hugo plum pud- ding, save with this difference that the “plums” were represented by caves. Tho com- monly accepted theory is that thess under- ground cavities, which were found to be numerous as development progressed were in some past age the receptacles of somo solution, either of salt water or other chem- ical compound, which precipitated the golden contents on the floor or bottom of the caves. In the onecup under the rim rock where Porter is described as having worked, Bar- ringer panned out big pieces of wire gold from the mass which hitered the bottom. Although the Colorado papers don't seem to have got hold of it, it is nevertheless re- ported from *‘insiders” that another of these big cavos was encountered a few days ago in the progress of development, which was recently quickened. This cavity is said to be large cnough to permit of a team of norses and a wagon to be turned around in it, provided of courso there was any possi- bility of getting tho outfit down there, and with which to make the test. The same sort of stuff is found there that enriched the lucky leasers and made of the American- Nettie a bonanza at the outsct. What is now being eacked and shipped is said to averago in value as high as five ounces in gold or about $100 to the ton. The deposit is reported as being of large extont, That is what the expectation of another dividend in the near future is based upon. What They Call “Luck” in Mining may be illustrated by citing the instance of the location of the Nettie claim. As was de- scribed, it is a fractional claim. Porter staked it out so that nobody could crowd in on him when he supposed he had a big thing in the Jouathan. The latter claim was sold to a Pueblo company. Between that and tho American and to the cast, lies the Scofleld, which belongs to the American company, and the Nottie is to tho west. From all appoarances tho bulk of the mineral is working north to the Net- tie. So that if fndications ave not wholly misleading the hope of the American com- pany and its future woalth will bo derived from that irregular and undersized claim f\'lnmlwhlnh nothing was expocted (n the bes ginning Just befors the sale of tho group was made to the American ocompany, Porter 1ooated the Puzelo olaim. That was also fraction and varies from 183 feot to 200 feed in width. No stock was taken in that, eithor. The Octoroon, however, which adjoins the Puzzle and is a full sizod claim, was bonded atone timo for §15.000, After it had been worked and considerable money exsponed on it, 1t revorted to Porter and Colonol Nash, That and the Puzzlo and another called the. Now Discovery clalm were groupod and in- corporated in the N Mining company. Again it was tho insignificant claim that attainod the greatest distinotion, for most of ?hn ore of the Nash company comes from the Puzzle. From small beginnings are bonanzas de- velopod. Thera Is moro than one man who was in Ouray during tho poriod from '§3 to '88— before Porter got free gold in the cave—whao could have bought Colonel Nash's interest in the American fora small sum. For $100| or thereabouts a_half interest could have: been obtained. Tt is said that the ocolonet more than onco offered his friends a third or, half intorest at just thosa figures An immense amount of money has boon ox: pendod in develobmont on tho Amarieans Nottio group. 1 boliove never beon levied. Tho mi the expenso of the mine, In certain quarters the property has, of late, boen = the - subjoc ment and discussion by roason of the in stallation of a maguiticent olectric hoist, The plant is of $)-horao power. 1t is run by water power on the Uncompahgre, tha current being carriod about twd miles u the steop bluft to the mine. The electrical machinery comprisas a 30-horse. power hois! o O-horse power blowor and an air com-] prosser run motor, Porter hasn't given up prospecting yot. He still rotains interests around Ouray. His chief dovendence now, or that from which) he oxpects to make as big i stako as others| did out of tho Amorican Nottie, is located v Telluride, Colo. Kilial duty'is all thal from camping on that claim which is a zold proposition—but ho remains on the fowa farm to care for a widowed wother who is 80 years of age. Groror I, Cants, by a 50-orse power oleotr: —— Value of Munioipal Frauchise. Minneapolis Jowrnal, Under an intelligent law the city of In< dianapolis recently sold a street railway franchise at public auction and & new com-| puny got it for 10 percont of the gross receipts the first five years: 121§ per cent tho next five years 4 the next fivo years, and 141§ per cent for the ensuing fifteon yoars of they thirty-year period, the payments to be madé quarterly. These payments itis estimated will age gregato £11,000,000. That is a good bargain, The y which gets such a franchise, should pay somowhere near an equivalent of| the value of the concession. And if it has paid nothing for its franchise there is all the more reason which it should deal fairly with the generous public in such matters as trans. fers, pl of cars and good service gens orall hink this last remark over and see if it may not properly be given a local ap! plication. SHARP SHOTS, Yonkers St tesman: A theatrical manager) often hasa st in his eye. Galvoston News: You can't tell where candidate stands whilo he is running. Buftalo Courler: The follow who {s alwaysd Dboasting how he itches for a fight seldom com to the scrateh. Lowell Courlor: These are the days whon the cry is “Dress reform,” and it must bo ade mitted that much reform noods dressing. Philadelphia Record: V/hen a man is thrown bodily oug of a_saloon he seldom returns ta 100k for the powor bahitnd tho throwa. Chicago Tribuno: “Have you any Grotna greons?’ inquired the facotionls customor with the baskot on his arm. “No, sir,"" answered the grocor. “Noarest I can come to ‘em is parlor matches. Anybody walting on you, ma'am." Philadelphia Times: Somo of tho young Indy visitors to the Russian ships say tho nats tily dressed suilors look grand, but” that the big gung with their steol jackots and shining Dreochel are Just too cute for anything. Washington Star: It fs tho elrcus clown who realizes In the most practical manner what it Is to have a large circle of admirers. Philadelphia Times: So many sallors dosert- ing from the Blake indicutes thut being & British tar is one thing and being stuck on {¥ another. ONE COMFORT. Washington star. raduato girl With her flounco and hor curl In public will presently speak. Though her knowledgo dismay, . *Tls but honest to say Bho'll forgot 1t In loss than & week. The ——— BONG OF 1HE LOCKED-OUT. Atlanta_ Constitution. The white house still stands in tho glow and the gloom, But u shadoir falls black on ita gardons o bloon The place, 18 It haunted? It was not of yore! But, ring" tho bell softly, the lock's on th oor Tho ntorlw steps, doep-hollowed In days tha| aro dead, feet of the pligrims, hear never thel| And faces of famed ones smile on us no more o ring tho bell softly, the lock’s on the doox O pilgrims, thay wait in the darkness an wnfi“;fl‘ur tears and petitions all piled in Cono homo to your households, left vacant g Or, Ying tho boll softly, the locl's on the do Easy Riding Now When a stranger steps into our palace these days he isfirst impressed with the magnitude of our stock. After -going around through the building he finds not only a great assortment, but some of the finest tailor productions ever brought single garment from a boy's the most expensive in the house is carefully made of the Best material money can buy. largest manufacturers of clothing in the world, it is easier for us to put in good cloth than most peo- ple to buy shoddy. Shoddy we will not sell at any price, but we sell the very best at the lowest liv- ing prices. BROWNING, taztll 63 & BROWRING, KIN Largest Manutacturers and Retailers ol Glothing in the World. | 8 W. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. out. Every Being the KING & CO.,