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

WESTERN LUCK AND PLUCK 'Tho Heavy Mountain Range Bristling with @old. RUSH TO THE KASLO-SLOCAN REGION Reports of Mineral Discoveries from Every Beotlon—Oil, Gas and Marbla Un- enrthed—Ralironds Under Way-The Wool Clip. f Most noticeable uring the past week has en the number of reports of valuable gold fiscoveries, reprosenting almost every state irom Washington to New Mexico, and sromising a lively season in mining develop- ‘nent. Many a mountain side will this ummer ring with the blow of the hammer, Worhilo with bustle and spread the little fhamlet expands into a full-fledged town with ity airs; but where these towns will be, let he prophets speak, for no ono can now fore- , while all know well enough they Rl il be. Ex ng a Rush. Tn a letter to the Butte Miner a day or two f Mr. Suydam say: J “As the wonderful Kalso-Slocan mining glon is creating such intenso interest Rfhroughout the entire American continent nd nttracting thousands to the country in arch of business and mining investments, Bt take the opportunity of writing you. So ny seemingly sensational reports have gone abroad of the immense richness of fihis country that many have become bmeredulous “and doubt the truthfulness of he reports, but I can assure you and back % up with my judgment and seventeen ears of expericnce in mines and mining hat the half has not been told of the ‘fabulous richnees of tho veritable treasuro | vaults. Dally shipments of ore are now be- N ing mado to Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho, and from there shipped to various points for re- duction; and results from these will speak § louder than tongue or pen. ~During my resi- | dence here, since early in March, I have boen very observant to everythiug concern- ing the miues, gaining valuable information from underground miners who work in them, taking note of output, shipment, etc., and am confideat it is the richest country ever truck. These miners I believe, in every Sense of the word, having known them for Pl vears, and also know they have no interests of their own to advance. Some of them bave mined in every big camp from old Mexico to British Columbia and of each all say ‘It beats anything I have ever seen.’ The silver-lead ores run all from $100 to #500 and upwards per ton in silver and from % 50 to 75 per cent in lead. Although from a fdry ore district ores have been taken that nds in gold and silver. of what these @ Bmines are, I give an instance. The owners \A‘ of a group of five claims recently refused a iPcash offer of §300,000 for their property, as S they had that value inore insight on the K surface of three of their claims. Since then .they have sunk on the lead and are now tak- ing oro from a six-foot body of rich, clean galena, assaying from 300 to $1,500. This rrupnrty has paid from the grass roots and [is owned and worked by the original loca- tors, all miners. So it is all along the line phof many mines. As development avork " Jprogresses they unfola their wealth to the L& astonishment and wonder of all. The snow &8 is rapidly disappearing and soon the hills ¢ Will be swarming with thousands of anxious prospectors now here, en route und coming, and the excitement will outrival thoseof Leadville, Creede and the San Juan of Col- orado. To the investor the country is a most promising fleld, for it is already demonstrated that there are many rich properties which require only a small outlay to pay large returns.” The Poor Man Mining Camp. The Henry mountain gold camp is making a record for grass root leads. The strike on Doubleday & Co.’s Buena Vista made ruhs Your feet from the surface of $13 gold and $3 silver. Similar results have been obtained from' nearly every claim in.the Bromide basin, The richest ore body in the Bromide mine was encountered within a fo'v inches of the surface. This vein when first run on to was nardly an inch in width, but widened rap- fdly under the pick. Six foet from the sur- face the vein measured thirty-nine inches and has remainod uniform at about that A5 size. Scott Elliot's Chiefassayea $70 in gold two foet under ground. Assessment assays on the Cuprum and Stephenite claims of the Bromide group have run as high as #50 gold in ten-foot # holes. Hnrdky a claim in the basin shows under $10 gold for assessment assays. Thero is surely the making of a_ big camp in the Henrys. The whole country seems to be underlaid with mineral in blankets, tissures and deposits. Solid Colorado mining men are daily sending their experts and ‘avery possible claim in the basin is being bonded for immediate development. James Whitley of Grand Junction, one of the pioneers of the Henrys, has left for the basin to let contracts on the Burton and Jumbo properties, which adjoin the Bromide. - Last week’s stage brought in the week's clean-up of the small Bromide stamp milt. ‘There were forty ounces in the ball, which jwas shipped to Benton Canon, president of he Brimode company. his clean-up was made from thirty-one tons of oreand is o way- up showing for 0 small a mill. he water has fairly atarted now and sluicing has begun in earnest on Tomlinson's Jeold dust placer, Mr. Tomlinson will per- Jsonally superintend the first clean-up and ill at once take the dust to Denver for ex- hibition. Frun;‘;-h[s time on good show-downs can be “F"" 3 The Dirty Devil river, Curtis creek and the San Rafael are hooming. A new ferry is being built for the lower crossing on the Ban Rafael. ons In Gas. John B. Meyers of Littleton has been re- cently inspecting the oil flelds in North- western Colorado. Mr. Meyers has been sh- .gaged for many years in boring wells in different parts of Colorado. He has bored many of the artesian wells cast of the range, and has bored several gas wells in the ‘White river country. He obtained gas at ‘White River City in this state at a depth of 500!¢ feot, the well having a pressuro of over 400 pounds to the square inch. Mr. Meyers has pretty thoroughly pros. pected the country of the White River and the Upper Grand, and is taking look at this region, says the Grand Junction News, “The gentleman promptl; ys that gas and oil are within our reach here, but that we canuot hope to get water. The gas strata, he says, without erosion is from 1,700 to 1,000 feet below the surface. Where there is erosion it will be less than the above fig- ures by the:depth of the erosion, Oil, Mr. Meyers says, will be found at a de&lh of 500 t0 400 feet below the gas. r. Moyers belioves that Colorado is a great gas ficld. But for gas iv probably ‘would not pay to construct wells. There is 'one property about gas which is not generally known or calculated upon. When piped as much as sixty miles gas liquifics and ulti- mately becomes solid. Iu that state it can- not be purned, but it must be handled with care. 1t will explode with territio couse- quences, A German chemist has demon- -ated that it can be substituted for pow- e‘ , and that a given amount will expel a U with fully twice the velocity given by an oqual amount of powder. For the manufacture of this explosive, Mr. Moyers belioves that Colorado has in its gas deposits millions of undeveloped wealth. Rien Washington m A company for the purpose of operating some valuable claims in Anacortes gulch sud owned by Wilson, Hartwan and his brother-in-law, Florud, has been formed, with head office at Tucoma, with a capital of §500,000. Mr. Hartwan has succeeded in getting two of Tacoma's best gentlowen in with him, both of whom are wealthy and well knowu in financial circles. A, J. Hay- ward is presid Emil Steinbach v prosident and treasurer, and S. A. Hartman secretary. ‘The company intends to put men at work as soon as the suow goes off, and ore will likely be ready for shipment in- DAY, JUNE e O e Y THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MON side of three months. The company's best property is mppml t ba the Cleve- land lead, after which the company is named. This lead carries the same charac- ter of ore as the Bonanza Queen. The lead is about sixty feet wide between the walls d carrying gold bearing rock. Besides the Cleveland, the company owns the Violet, American, Maud _S. and the Geyser, all in one group. The Violet is on the same lead as the rnd(-pendcnce, and is seventeen feet between the walls. The American has good galena ore, assaying up to $397 a ton in sil- ver. The property is one of the best situ. ated in the whole district, being within half amile from the railroad and close to Sil- verton. Placer Beas of the San Juan, Colonel I. G. True, an old time Colorodo miner, prospector and speculator, has just returned from a several months, itour in northern New Mexico, where he has been prospecting mother earth for anything of value that might be awaiting the miner’s pick and shovel. The colonel reports a num- berot valuable finds, most of which are large beds of anthracite and bituminous coal. He made a number of coal land locations and returned to Denver to make his reports to a number of Rio Grande officials, who are in- terested in his prospecting ventures. Colonel True claims to have discovered the source of the supply of the placer beds of the San Juan river. He says the truc source is in the biz cement beds near Ignacia, near the dividing line between Colorado and New Mexico. He brought back with him a num- ber of mineral specimens, some of which he found himself. Others were sccured from Navajo Indians, who are the principal inhab- itants of that section of the country. The coal fields he reports as a continua- tion of the large veins found in La Plata county, and he ciaims _the supply is practi- cally inexhaustible. The country is rough and hard of access, but rich in minerals of all kinds, The valleys of the San Juan are the fruit growers' paradise, lack of market for the product of the orchards being the one great drawback. In addition to having spont years in pros- pecting, Colonel True is something of an en- gineer, and he reports that a feasible line for a railroad is presented by following up the the Chama river from Chanuta, N. M., and crossing the continental divide near Juanita at the head waters of the San Juan, thence down the mountain to Farmington, keeping close to the course of the San Juan river. The Cuos Bay Railroad, The Coos Bay, Roseburg & Fastern rail- road is belng pushed forward ns rapidly as possible, although the inclement weather has worked great disad vantage to the contractor, R. A. Graham. The cars are now running to Coquille City from Marshfield and for some distance above Coquille City. Toward this point the valley seems to be alive with men and teams. Coquille City is eighteen miles from Marshfleld, and Myrtle Point is nine miles above the former place. The company oxpects to completo the road to Myrtle Point by August 1 and will continue toward Rose- burg this fall. The distance from Myrtle Point to Roseburg is about sixty miles, with the Coast mountains intervening, so it 1s hardly probable that tho road will reach Roseburg_beforo another yoar, unless the poople of Roseburg will raise subsidy suffi- cient to satisfy the company to commence the grading from that end of the route. The Coquille valley is a very productive locality and with its extensive coal flelds and rich quartz mines affords wonderful re- sources that are comparatively undeveloped, from tho heretofore inaccessibility of the country and remoteness from market. Thero are now bright prospects for this valley. The Salmon mountain quartz discovery is about thirty mils from here, and this town isthe distributing point for that section. Late reliable reports are very encouraging, and experts who have passed the winter in oxamining the different ledges report very favoraoly. In fact, it is now conceded that tho belt of precious metal is very rich, and there is no doubt that stamp mills will be in operation on several lodges this season in that locality. Seven Rich Velns Discovered. The locating of over fifty claims during the past ten days, tho arrival of prospectors from both enst and west, and the hourly re- ports of striges that reach Columbia Falls, from tho scenes of mining activity, threo miles cast of the city, give an idea of the degree to which almost every subject has given piace to mining. tverybody talks it, and the prospectors are the busiest lot of men in the FlatLeaa valley. The ore now being brought in looks much better than the samples of ten days ago. Like all excite- ments of its kind, thers are various opin- ions, and these are expressed on the street, in the notels, and oven private residences are the scenes of discussions on mining. Some handsome ore has been brought in from the Columbia claim, located on Tea- Kettle, two miles north of town. The owners of this claim are going twenty feet before assaying. The vein is silver-gold bearing, forty-seven inches wide at the surface, be- tween granite walls. The owners are Giefer, Robinson and Stranahan, Development work is being done on the Golden RReef, Sunset, Last of April, May Day and several others. Experts who have carefully gone over the Columbia mountain, three miles east of this city, say there are seven largo minoral-bearing veins running parallel along the west side. Assays of the specimens sent out run with the usual diver- clty—from ona to 120 ounces of silver and from a trace to $21 in gold. The variety of mineral found in the mountain is puzzling to some, as copper, lead, silver and gold are found together in 'some places, while in other spots on the samo load one or the other is found wholly alono. One More Preclous Find. News has arrived of quite a gold discov- ery on Pine creek, Grant county, some fifty miles west of Kingston, N. M. The gold is in quartz and in a vein averaging from five inches to four feet. The place of the strike is thirty miles west of Silver City, between the Gila river and the great nest or group of the Mogollon mountains. The creek upon which it is situated has been named since the discovery on account of the great body of pine forests that line its course for some distance on eitner side. Years ago some prospectors weroe run in from that section by Apaches, and uj their arrival at Silver City stated that the; had found very good ‘‘colors” of placer gold, but could proceed no further for the cause stated. Miners from Georgetown, Pinos Altos and other parts of Grant have gone to inspect the new field. A Small Fotune in Free Gold. Central Point, Ore,, bas just been surprised with a rich pocket strike in the Willow Springs district. Bob Swindon started out prospecting, and finding s particular spot on the surface of the earth that scemed to cateh bis eye as 1f by magic, he began dig- ging without further indications. He didn’t go far until he struck the glittering metal in & pocket of quartz formation. By noon he had taken out $500 in coarse gold, and when the scene was visited, Swindon was still tak- ing out quartz that contained free gold. It is impossiblo at preseut to stuto what the value of the pocket will be. It was found by the merest accident, as no surface indica- lfi’ml led to its discovery. F.T. Fradenburg has sold a half interst in & wining claim in Willow $prihgs to Seattle parties for $1,500 There had been but about $100 worth of development work done on the property. Au lmportant Enterprise. Mexico is not given to astonishing feats of enterprise, but she is now st the front with a plan which sooner or later we shall follow with advantage. Itis nothing less than a railroad built by the government to run from a port on the Gulf of Mexico to one on the Pacific ocean. It will be 150 miles long, form anew highway for the commerce of the world and be absdluteiy free. The project is an old one, but its execution has been post- poned by rival schemes till now. It seems that Diaz is resolved to endear himself to his country by & magnificent act which will materally increaso her power and wealth, heuce his enth Lic adoption of this plan. Struck Oil and Gold. ‘What is known as the Guthrie ol well on Poison Spider creek, twenty miles west of Cusper, has just begun to flow, and it 1s ad- mitted to be the greatest gusher ever truck o the Wyoming fleld, though the exact capacity caunot be ascertained. Oil was encountored in Vhis well two woeks ago ' at a denth of less than 800 fest, since which time the additional casing was obtained and the well sunk another 100 feot with the above result. The best well previously encountered has a daily rlpnclt{ of 500 barrels, A great find has been struck in Casper mountain fn gold, and work will bo opened up at once and a smelter put in at Casper im- gmluuoly Great excitement exists over the nd. They Wouldn't Scare. The Glenwood Avalanche tells & remark- able story about a herd of deer stopping an east-bound Rio Grande train one night last week near Rifle. As the tra‘n was nearing that place the engineer noticed whatho supposed to be some cattle on the track and began blowing his whistle to scare them off. They did not seem to be in the least fright- ened, and, as the train came to a halt, it was discovered that they were deer and not cattle. The scream of the whistle scemed to fascinate and hold them spell-bound to the spot. ‘'he firoman and engineer got down from their positions to drive them away, but, although they hollowed and waved their hands, the usually easily startled animals held their places along the roadbed. The passengers on tho train soon joined n tho attack, and after receiving a volley of stones and sticks the fleet-footed beasts took a tumble and hastily beat a retreat into the edge of the woods, where they stood and witched the trainstart out and continue its Jjourney. Pawnee City's school bonds sold ata premium. Fire in Clark & Ellsworth's butcher shop at Hebron caused $500 worth of damage. A rattlesnake bit a 2-.year-old child near ga‘l!‘fl and it is feared that the little one will 0. The 2-year-old daughter of C. E. Bryson of Adams fell into a water tank and was drowned. Sixty-three of the imported help from Chi- cago in the Plerce beet flolds have struck for higher wages. Cedar Rapids citizens will today vote on a proposition to bond the city to build a sys- tem of water works. The Staplehurst Butter and Cheese Manu- facturing company has begun business uncer favorable conditions. Hubbell citizens have decided to have a Fourth of July celebration, with balloon ascension and horse racing. Lightning struck Widow Backdahl's resi- dence, near Verona, and the building and all its contents were consumed. A horse bred and raised at Fremont has been purchased by Edward Clark Potter, the well known Boston sculptor, to be used as a model for an equestrian statue of Gen- eral Grant which is to be put in Fairmount park, Philadelphia. He paid $300 for the animal, which stands 164 hands high and ths 1,455 pounds. There is trouble in the town of Union, Cass county, over the saloon question, and the matter will be decided by the county commissioners this week. ‘I'wo petitions for saloons wero presented, but the peoplo of the town claim that the saloon men worked the same trick tried by Hastings liquor sollers—creating frecholders to order by giving them deeds to little lots in the outskirts of town. M. Grow, a Gage county farmer,_has a mare which tho other night gave birth to twin colts, but while one is a nice horse colt the other is a mule. The mule, which is the smaller, weighs only thirty-three pounds. Both are perfectly formed and bid fair to live Mr. Grow had the justice make an afi- davit of both colts belonging to the same mare. No doubt Mr. Grow will exhibit them at the World’s fair. “‘Doc” Middleton, the famous, who is to participate in the great cowboy race to Chi- cago, has just returned to Chadron, and is confident that he will be the winner. He has been over the route on which the race will be run, and has made his arrangements just where ho will water, foed and camp, and is of the opinion that it will take eight days to reach Sioux City from Chadron, and all the way from twenty-one to twenty-five days into Chicago. He also denies that any cruelty to the bronchos will be tolerated by the coatestants, they knowing fully well that their success aepends upon the endur- ance of their horses, and that the best of care will be given the animals that they may endure to the cnd, and yet not, be ruined for future usefulnest Colorado., A fine, soft, white sandstone has becen dis- covered near Lyons. Three companies have been organized and incorporated this week with a capital stock of $1,000,000 each at Pitkin. The mountain sheep in Colorado are the ErnperLy of the state, and the penalty for illing one is ten years in the penitentiary, A big gold strike has been made in the C. 0. D.lode in Poverty gulen, Cripple Creek. A car load shipped brought $100 to the ton. Ground has been broken for the founda- tion of the new Colorado City glass works. The main building will be 72x132 feet in size. Two hundred and fifty men will be employed. The monthly pay roli will be about $12,000. News has just come in from the Prairie divide of a big strike in copper. A party of prominent citizens who have somatime had an interest in the Copper Bug mine intend starting from here to make a thorough inspection of the new strike. Ranchmen along the Fulton ditch held a jollification over the action of the county commissioners in lowering the price of water from $1.50 to $l an inch. Every farmer using water from the Fulton ditch feels under groat obligations. A company is being formed at Aspen, Colo., for the purpose of taking gold from the Roaring Fork river and surrounding waters by anew and secret process where gold isin the water and could not be got heretofore. It is now made casy by this process. Ths Specimen Mining company has been incorporated with a cap- ital stock of $120,000. The company is created to mine and develop mining properties in El Paso county. The prin- cipal oftice of vhe company will be at Colo- rado Springs. Great excitement prevails over the strike made recently in the Montezuma mine, located on Expectation mountain. The ore is Stephanite and silver glaco. ays show seventeen and one-tenth ounces silver to the ton. The vein is from six inches to two feet wide and easy worked. A veln of mineral running from $60 to $700 has been struck in the C. O.D. mine, up Poverty gulch, near the Gold king. Min- eral has been taken out that runs $100 to the ton. A ten-inch seam is found that goes 35 cents to the pound, and gold is found dis- tributed through this vein filling, A $500,000 minlm{wwnxmny has baen incorporated, pavers being filed with the sec- retaryof state. The new company will mine, develop, operate, lease and sell mining property under the name of the Fountain {ead Gold Mining and Milling company and operato in El Paso and Arapahoo counties, the principal oftice to be located in Denver. Whilo a party of Lyons and Boulder peo- ple were prospecting for stone one mile south of the town,they came in contact with a flue formation of soft white sand- stone, The stone is a soft, white quartzite, easily cut and carved, possessing a very uniform color snd texture, and very com- i It resembles the eastern stone called B Coal Creel stone, from which o many fine buildings are consiructed in Denver. This is considered a very important adjuncy to the stone producing industry of Lyons. The Dakotus, All the saloons in Watertown have been closed, and the drug stores, blind piggers and bootleggers have resumed business again. Preparations are being quictly made at Foruan by the local prohibitionists to have all tne blind pigs in various points of the county pulled. Report has just came in that 2,000 sheep on the ranch of Dr. S. J. Fitzbullen had been drowned by the sudden rising of the Vermillion river. Department Commander S. J. Roberts has issued general orders designating Devil's lake as the rllt‘e and June 25 and 20 as the date for holding the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic of North Dakota. A flow of 400 gallons per minute was struck at the government artesian well at the Indiau school at PPlerre ata depth of 1,125 feet. The water possessea the same quali- ties as the water inthe Hot Springs, the Black Hills, being &t & temperature of 92 degrees, and is highly maguetic. The gas less for fire protection, gas will blaze 1if & light is applied to th of water. Old miners are convindetli that valuable motats are to bo foundy4a.the Bad Lands, but lack of water hag prevented mining operations. The heavy snowfall during the winter furnished ample (wister to work the gold out this season. (. 5] C.J, ( Price, luwrlmxdoql of the Doad- wood Terra mine, wheré o fire has been burning for several woBk®past, says they have the fire confined tojthe, stope where it originated, but iv is !l\d ning. All the approaches to the stope been walled up with solid masonry, wiioH provents its spreading to any other parg/ef the mine. Harris Franklin of Deadwood has received a letter from his foroman informing him that his herd of 6,000 steers,’on”the trail from Texas to South Dakota, swene camped on the Cimorra river, Stanton, ceunty, Kan, on the 23d, and all looking fitely. They are traveling at the rate of twélve miles a day, grer go >d grazing and gaining steadily in es which accompanies lha"? makes it worth- 5« ¥ Wyoming, Seven car loads of wool have been shipped from Rawlins during the past week. There are six shearing pens in the immedi- ate vicinity of Rock Springs, giving employ- ment to about 150 shearers during the wool season. H. 8. Crispin of Lander is making prepara- tions to erect an extensive plant for the pur- pose of sawing and polishing the beautiful native marble found in this section. The marble takes on a handsome polish and_re- sembles somowhat in color the famous Ten- nessce granite. Aspen and Mecker miners and capitalists, have taken up the placer zround betwoen the claims of the Asrvn Mining company and the Rock Spiings Mining company at Four Mile, in Carbon county, about 600 acres in all. Inducements were offercd to the gentle- men to lay out a townsite, but the vre runs 80 rlkt'llllin gold that they have decided to work it. dnho. Twelve inches of high grade ore has been struck in the Post Boy at Bayhorse. A veln of very ricn gold ore, from two to three feet thick, has been found in the Trade Dollar at Silver City. Last week the DeLamar company of Owy- hee county shipped $15,700 worth of bullion, the outerop for the week. Indications for a generous fruit crop this yoars in the garden fruit belt of 1daho, the ayette valley, are most promising. Tt is said Boise City is going to make a fight for the location of the soldiers’ home and will offer eighty acres of land and §2,000 in cash for its location at that place. There are a few over 1,700 Indians on the Shoshone reservation, but they are fast dwindling away. There Is not a single Arapahoe Indian on the reservation who is not affected with lung trouble. A considerable lodge of kaolin was discov- ered on Willow creck. about twenty miles from Caldwell. I¥appears to be of excellent, quality, and those who are in a position to know say that it will make a good article of pottery. An Idaho man is about to construct a na- tional bank on a boat for the convenience of mining towns on Kootenai lake. The boat will make regular trips between the towns, not one of which is large enough to support a bank of its own. A romarkably rich strike of good placers has been made at Elk City. A tunnel was run under the old bed of the American river. When gravel was found the first pan vielded nearly $2. Itis believed that the entire bed is pay dirt. Lewiston has great hopes of securing a transcontinental road. The committee in charge has invited the ¢Q" . officials to view the proposed route at the city’s expense. The Northern Pacific may also endeavor to get the $30,000 bonus offered. A valuable strike of native silver has been made on the Little Tod, pnajof the group of Bandora claims on South Mineral mountain, near Silverton. About 200-feet of contract work has been done on this, property during the winter, and the last 100 feet has been in paying ore. A portion of the bones of a mastodon was brought to this place-today from a point twenty-five miles southjon the Blue Lakes ranch, on Suake river.- The frame of the mastodon is reported to.covera surface of 100 feet and some of thg,bones measure three feet square. Three tecth broaght here measure from twalve to sixteen inches. The bones of this enormous animal were un- earthed in working a gold placer property near the lakes above mentioned. Oregon. The distillery at Grant is turning out daily 600 gallons of high-grado alcohol. The first ton of rock crushed from Georgo Ross’ mine i the Blackwell district, Jackson county, yielded over §0 in gold and the lode is constantly improving. 0. P. Beardsloy, a prominent hop grower of Eola, says the hop lice are all on the plum leaves, ready for the annual flight to the hop plants. Hesays the lice do not winter in the hopyards. From the most reliable sources it is ascer- tained that Oregon has 2,456,077 sheep, which at an average of seven pounds to the fleece will give over 17,000,000 pounds of wool for sule within the next three months. While J. F. Thompson of Pendleton was out on the range hunting a stray steer he came suddenly face to face with a 350-pound bear. Fortunately he had his gun along and viotory quickly perched upon his banners. An accident in blasting at the rock cut near the west side mills resulted in damage to the Willamette haper mills of $1.000. A large rock fell through the roof of the paper- making room, strikiug onec of the big paper machiues, ‘There is a strong probability that Oregon and Washington will this year produce enough prunes to dry from 10,000,000 to 12,- 000,000 pounds, or enough to supply from one- sixth to one-eighth of the entire demand of the United States. One of the richest gold strikes ever mado in this section of the country, not excepting the famous White Swan' mine, which is yielding $1,000 per day with a 'ten-stamp mill, was uncovered at Baker City. Over $1,000 in gold was pounded out in a hand mortar. The ledge i which this pocket has been found has been uncovered 160 feet and proves to be a pay chute for that distance, and varies in width from two to ten feet. There 18 enough rich ore in sight to make the owners an 1mmense fortune. Miss Adams, who lives near Silverton, Marion county, Ore., went horseback riding the other day. Her saddle had been hang- ing all winter jn the barn and she noticed that the seat of the saddle appeared as though a stick might be under it, but could not bo removed without ripping the saddle, After riding for several miles the horse be- came suddenly frightened and began to rear and plunge. Upon investigating she discovered = & snake crawling from the saddle, striking at the horse and then at hor. Realizing her situation she jumped to the ground. Holding the horse with one d she killed the snake with a club in the other. It ,was, found to be a black rattlesnake three {egl long. Washington. Nearly 4,000 acres of timbér land changea bands in Skagit county ‘1asy weelk at a cash valuation of about $30,000, Cannel coal, containing 30 per cent of gas, has been found a mile fxoi, salv water on Hood canal, and less than 100 miles from Seattle. i Spokane, Walla Walla' &} Pendleton are bidding for the location of the Union Pacific shops, which were burned dgwn at Starbuck recently. It is auite likaly, however, that they will bo rebuilt on tha ol site. Shingle mills at Everett axe now turning out 500,000 shingles per dayy but the manu- facturers are dinuualsw ith the de- moralized condition of tha farket and are disposed to unite. S A claim on Nisqually falls has been filed by citizens of Tacoma, and a company is to be formed to expend $400,000 in Builaing a power house and machinery to use the powor of the falls in running electric plants in Ta- coma. The figured strength of the falls is 10,000 horse power, about half as great as that of the famous Snogualmie falls. The Tacoma Ledger in an elaborate article shows in detail the progress made in irri- gating lands in Eastern Washicgton, Eight large companies have beea organized, with a combined capital of $3,160,000. The amount already expended in ‘construction work is $1,245,000. Tho acreage that will be irri- gated when all the ,worlk is finished is 288, 000 acves. Three Indians living in the Black Hills have obtained a temporary restvaining order to prevent the Puget Sound & Chchalis Val, lay railroad from passing through their Iand, but the order was sot aside on a bond ol £2500. The Indians own the land in com- mon. O of them gave the deod to the right-of-way, but the other two objected, and brought suit to prevent the Puget Mill company, propriotors of the road, from run- ning through the land An event of great farmers of this state happened five miles northwest of Sprague, Theas first stoam plow ever operated in the state of Washing- ton was given a trial trip over the surface of our fruitful prairie Mr. Hughes, who has tried this plow in Oregon, says that the actual cost of uperating it is 81 per acre, as against $2.50 to & for horse plowing. He rogards its introduction as aestined to prac ticaily revolutionize methods of agricultural production in ea Vashington. importance to the Mon On a Montana shoep ranch 6,000 sheop dropped 0,500 lambs. In 1801 Montana sheared 1,200,000 sheep, and last year 1,800,000, It is reported that rich placer diggings have been discovered at Deer creek, in Park county. ‘Lhe Butte Reduction works aro said to show a clear profit of $20,000 per month for Hon. W. A. Clark. One of the biggest mining deals made in Jefferson county for some time has just been consummated by tho sale of the Diamond Hill mine, near "St. Louis, to New York peo- plo for §90,000. The groat mining law suit of the St. Louis company against the Moutana company for $2,500,000 terminated in the district court by a verdict in favor of the defendants. It will he appealed to vhe suprome court. The Calumet & Hecla company have made a proposition to recompense the heirs of the men who were killed at the recent disaster in their mines by paying the legal heirs of the singie men §1,000 and for the married men $2,000 to the widow and $500 each to the chiidren, . The Northern Pacific has commenced the work of making extensive improvements in the Mullon tunnel, near Blossburg. Con- tracts have been lot for 1,000,000 brick. 1t is intended to put 1,000 feet of sido wall and 1,000 foet of arch wall i the tunnel. The work costs about $60 a runnin¥ foot and when completed will aggregate §50,000. Miccolinneons. It is estimated there will be a deficioncy of $17,000,000 in the troasury of Calhifornia by the close of tho present state administration. By the explosion of a gasoline stovo ina lunch counter in a saloon at San Marciel, N. M., twelve buildings, including a two-story opara house, were consumed. Loss, $65,000; partly insured. A Colorado miner named C. W. Eckert has made a very important strike of fine freo smelting galena ore in anold Spanish mine situated 1n Las Huertas canon, Sandia mountains, twenty-five miles from Albu- querque. California last year sold outside of her borders something over 12,000,000 gallons of wine, the prices secured by che manufac- turers ranging from 9 cents a gallon to $15 a case, the latter price being obtained for some high grade sauternes grown in Ala- meda county. A representative of Ning Yung, one of the Chinese Six companies, has just informed tho health department of San Francisco that within ten days thoy would proceed to disinter 600 bodies of Chinese in the City cemetery in order that they might be pre- pared for shipment to China. The directors of a mining company near Pheenix, Arizona, have determined to cut a block out of the vein of their mine and send it to the World's fa It will be fifteen fect long, six feet wide and six feet thick. The ore consists of copper, gold and silver chiefly. The vein is s0 wide that iv is practicable to cut out a block thus and ship it as one piece. The total weight will be about 60,000 pounds. The Southern Pacific Railway company, after a thorough investigation, has decided to build a $60,000 hotel at Yuma at onee. It will be a modern built house with all the im- provements of the day. They contemplate also the buildiag of a railway to the Gulf of California and to the Cocopa volcanoes. where they propose to put up accommoda- tions for 5,000 wuests. At firsta line of steamers, light and fast, will be put on the gulf, the finest resort in the world. — . Results Are Miraculous. NEew York, June 3.—The Recorder will de- tail tomorrow the cure of several consumptive patients at Wards Island under thedirection of the city authorijies. As only charity patients in the last stage of consuniption are admitted there, the Recorder claims the cure for which it awarded Dr. W.R. Amick of Cincinnati $1,000 has accomplished some- thing as most, miraculous. It says also that the Cincinnati doctor has agreed to keep the hospital supplied with medicines suflicient for all its consumptive cases at his own ex- pense. As only third stage cases aro takon there no more severe test could be invited. While it is now generally admitted that the Amick discovery is a certain specific in the earlier stages of consumption, Amick has never heretofore ea that it would cure more than 20 per cent of third stage con- sumptives. In this test just made by the city three outof four were either curod or astonishingly benefited. It is easy enough for any sufferers from the disease to test the new discovery through their family paysi- cian, for Amick sends medicines for the pur- pose free of cost and invites impartial test of it by the medical profession everywhere —_—— Feat of & Mind Reador, Hor Springs, S. D., June 4.—[Special Telegram to Tng Bee.]—This town is much excited over the wonderful exploit being at- tempted by Prof. Johnstone, the mind reader, who left here completely blind- folded and drove to Wind cave, a distance of twelve miles, in fifty-two minutes, the team being under whip and lash every. stop over a rough mountain road. He was followed by many citizens, anxious to observe the won- derful feat of driving vhis distance in scarch of the pin_the committee has hidden some- where within the labyrinth chasms in Wind cave. At last reports Prof. Johnstone was in the cave about two miles pulling the com- mitteo over rocks and yawning precipices at breakneck speed. He is confident of finding the pin before morning. —_— Funeral of Senator Clarke. The funeral of the late Charles H. Clarke took place from the family residence, 25th and Cass streets, at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Impressive services were held at the house at which Rev. Dr. Duryea ofti- ciated. The Masonic fratermty attended the fu- neral in a body, several lodges participating in the ceremonies of the order at the grave. ————— Will Not Vislt Nebruska. Cmicaco, I1L, June 4.—[Special Telegram to Tuu Bee.)—Mgr. Satolli leaves Tuesday morning for South Bend, Ina. 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