Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 19, 1893, Page 5

THE EMPIRE OF THE WEST A Wyoming Btrike Baid to Bo the Greatast Binoe Oalifornia Days. WARRING SHEEP AND CATTLE HERDERS | Wonderful Wenlth in the Okangan—Tdaho Opals—-Wyoming's Clnch on Asbestos— ~Swarms of Crickets at Shoshone— Jotth rom the West. Roports from all points of the west indi- eate conditions favorable to a fair wheat erop, which, in view of tho fact that the eastern states run shghtly behind and those of Europe will bo extremely short, s a very favorablo promise of an immense crop of cash whon the final measure is applied. Corn, oats and other cereals and fruits are all looking more favorable s the warm weather and intormittent rains continue. Mining re- ports from all sections have never looked more ! glowing, and from two scctions the discov- erias reported promise to yield a wealth to be compared with nothing else since the ! early discoverics of gold in California. Grent Okanogan Find Confirmed, According to the story told by C. I. Helm at the Hotel Perkins, a fabulously rich mine has been discovered in the Okanogan dis- trict, in Washington. Mr. Helm says that about two weoks ago Knute Campbell and two other poor miners wore prospecting on Palmer mountain, near Loomis, when Camp- bell found some free-milling gold ore lying ¢ on the ground. On investization thoy dis- covored an eleven-inch ledge of the precious metal. “An examination of the quartz, continued Mr. Helm, “convinced them that it was very valuable, and they immediately went to work with pick and shovel. They broke off 8 quantity of the quartz and took itto Loomis, where an assayer examined it and sald that one piece assayed $57,000 to tho ton. This picce, he thought, was an excep- tional one, and very few fragments of equal or higher value would be taken from the mine. He said that the ore would probably nverage §50.000 per ton. The pros- ctors then sunk a shaft and found that the m e gradunlly widened until it attained a width of two feet. Finding that the quartz was richer below than above, they con- structed a six-foot tunuel from the side of the mountain into the ledge, and are now taking out ore in largs ities. The stri s considered the ri made in the United States, and it will enrich the men, who have heretofore been poor, indus- trious prospectors. 1 visited the mine a fow | days aftor the d and examined o picce of the quartz There was no base metal in it, and it was the finest specimen that I have everseen in my experience in the mining regions of this country. “Nearly all the mines in the Okanogan dis! are rich, but I have never seen a more neglected mineral region. Most of | these mines are owned by poor prospec who have not sufilcient money to de them and are waiting come through. Mr. Campbell's discove ‘will doubtless bring an influx of capit: then all the mines will be developed. Mr, Fred K.Oliverof Helena, Mont., just re- turnod from the district and reports one piece weighing 125 pounds s literally im- regnated all through with gold, Work will P A RO shaft, although it is temporarily retarded by the surface water. Mr. Oliver deems this the best showing ever made inany mine in the northwest. The only danger is that the vein is not continu- ous, although so far there is no indication of its exhaustion. while all the conditions are favorablo for continued improvement. “Whilein the Okanogan country Mr, Oliver learned that James Robinson, J. G. McDon- ald and Mr. Rickabaugh had struck a two- foot vein of black sulphide of silver and ruby silver on their claim in the Lime belt. The outlook throughout all the Okanogan coun- try is_exceedingly encouraging, Mr. Oliver says, and the people anticipato a decided change for the better as a result of this year's development,” Desperate Herding War. The cattle and sheep war on the Colorado and Utah border is assuming rious phase, and it is feared that the strained condition of affairs on the Mesa will result in blood- shed bofore long unless a halt is called. The sheep men are being reinforced by new re- cruits, principally from Utah, whoare armed with rifies and side arms, The sheep men aro deflant. The settlers are determined, and it looks now as though bloodshed is un- avoidable. The section is a farming and stock raising country. If the sheep men should succeed in establishing themselves it ‘would completely ruin the industry. All available arms and ammunition in this sec- tion have gone to the scene of the disturb- auce. Charles Kirk, a sheep man, was shot at a fow days ago. He fell from his horse, which came into camp but has not been secn since. June 5 fifteen masked men held up and tied # sheep herder named Orson and killed about 800 sheep on the range and scattered tho rest. The wholesale poisoning and slaugh- tering of sheep has aroused feeling to the y highest pitch. Cattle men who own roperty have placed men to watch the u..d'mugs for fear of incendiary actions, such as ocourred last week. Every one seems to be on his guard for fear of another outbreak. The arrival of more sheep from | Utah has created an intense feeling among cattle men, They say the Mormons pay no taxes and that tho feeding of 30,000 or 40,000 sheep on the cattle ranges will make tho ranges entirely valueless to others, Tho cattle men have all built good homes and they will not allow their stock to suffer for want of feed, but will take the law into thelr own hands if it becomes necessary. Thero I1s o law upon the statute books of Colorado which requires non-resident stock owners to pay 20 cents per head grazing tax on all stock running on the range in this state, and which also provides that in caso tock owners fail so to do the county com- missioners are authorizod to bring suit to_collect, and to collect at’the rato of B0 cents per head and costs. Under this law the county commissioners, have or- dered the county attorney to bring suit against Grant & McCleery and Lombard & rant, sheep owners who have waited to comply with the law. Judgment is asked in the one case for 82,000 and costs and in the other for the sum of 85,000 and costs, Tho sheep men have been in the habit of shifting their stock from over the Utah te line into this county and back, thus "ading the payment of taxes. Besides this, they have for years harrassed tho resident stock owners by driving their sheep on their ranges, and from this the present trouble arose. Nevada to the Front, Vast ledges of gold bearing rock are being opened in various parts of Nevada. The bullion from these quartz mines and the dust and the nuggots from the newly discovered placers and old time diggings that goes to the credit of 1803, will amount to & hand- BOme sum. To work the gold bearing ores of all the nter-mountain country there is pressing need for silver lead ores. Nevada can furn- 1sh that class. The big demand for it has stimulated activity down in the extreme southern part of the state, close to the Cali: Lornia line, In the Yellow Pine, (Good Srrluxl or the Keystone district—as it is variously called— re are mountains of galena and Mfih grado lead. Without the use of this or like for fluxing, the product of & majority of :%mlnu can't be worked. 0 of the most significant fndications that the Nevada Southern railroad, now constructing from the line of the Atlantic & Pacifio railroud, is to be extended on iuto Yellow Pine was the ]{'ul\‘hnu of an interest g the Keystone mine by President Isane . ko of the Nevada Southern. 0 Keystone is & gold mine, and was the Brst discovery of that metal made in the segtion, and after it the district is frequently named. Jones Taylor, an old miner who prospected for years over those mountains, madethe original find. He retained a third interest in it. Sam Godbe, well known in Balt Lake City and all over Nevada, ac- Qulred another third by purchase, sud C. C. Perry, a Colorado mining man, got the bal- ance. Prosident Blako recently hought the Derry Interest. tho actual cash consideration being about #10,000. Blake visited tho Keystone ast month and spent some time in the dis. trict. He has had nothing but good words to say for the locality since. Predictions he has indulged in were very hopeful as to the outlook, While he was there he contracted for | | building a wagon road on_the west the range in which the Keystone is Ic to facilitate hauling ore toward tho railway which is belicved to be heading that way. About two-thirds of the ore uncovered, oF what will be available for shipment in the near future, comes from that slope. Koystone district was organized last fall and George W. Rose s tho recorder. Tho laws of the district require that five foet of assessment work shall be done on a claim yearly and sixty days time is given in which to record it, Most of those who have gone in from the east overland are not likely torepeat the ex- Prrience. ‘The journey is a long ono from Jtah, the distance to Good Springs from | Milford, the nearest railway point, being about 300 miles, but the road is rough and iuuul.v, and at this season it is frightfully 10t The best route is from the Atlantioc & Pa- cific railroad, efther by tho Novada Southern raitroad and around by Vanderbilt, olse over the old freight road from Fenner. The lnt- ter is station on the Atlantic & Pacific, ten miles west of Goff's—or Blake, es it is tow called—and all tho freight and mail goes that way now. The Largest O in the World. Among the guests atthe Grand Central hotel at Helena, is K4 H. Fleming, who registers from Opalville, Idaho, and brought with him a number of specimens of tho Idaho gems. Talking last night of the Idaho npal flelds, he said they are located i Owyhee county, sixteen miles wost of Nampa, on the Union Pacific, in the Snake river valley, and are in extent five miles | long and two wide. The discovery of the game was due to a cowboy, named Anchor. The man was riding over the ground whero tho flolds are located, when his horse kicked up o stone. The rider noticed n peculiar light in the stono_as it rolled over, and he picked it up. On returning to Nampa he showed it to & drummer and usked him what it was. The traveling man told him. that it was an opal, an advised him to go and take up the claim where ho found it, This Anchor did. Mr. Fleming also heard of it, and ho went out and located some ground. and since the fields have been covered with locations. The opals are found” indecomposed lava and in the seams. The stones have been testea by New York lapidaries and pronounced equal to the best. Mr. Fleming has with him some beautiful opals, cut” and in the rough. He has one which he says is the largest in the world, a_beautiful peacock, weighing 700 carats. Hehas specimens also of the fire and wi ies The town of Opalyille has been established at the fields and altogether things are very lively in that section. Most of the claims are taken up as placers. Ten Thousand Texns Steers. A syndicate from North Dakota and Min. nesota is now making arrangoments to put 10,000 Texas steers on the range near the mouth of the Little Missouri river, in the choice section southeast of Fort Buford, says the River Press. This recalls a mis- take made by some of the outtits who drove cattle to Montana last fall. Their object- ive point was tho section between Malta and Glasgow, which was already full of cattle. The newcomers were advised by Kohrs and others to stop their Toxas drive on the Little Missouri, but notwithstand- ing their cattle wero thin from the long drive, and the season late, the animals wero kept going, over 200 miles further northwest, and placed on the Milk river ra Late in the season, gaunted and not a d animals were caught by an winter, over 65 per cent of them lost, use the owners did not tuke the of experiencod Montana cattlemen, and occupy a good range earlier in the sea. son. Last year the persons wuo drove from Texas refused to tnink of taking the Little Missouri range; this yearitis eagerly sought for us one of the best ranges in the north- west. Listen to tho Crickets' Chirp. The cricket pest is on big about Shoshone, Tdaho. A great army of crickats not yet half grown is moving southward after hav- ing cleaned out much vegetation up Wood river and along the Malad. At Shoshone there is a wonderful sight in the river of a great mass of crickets floating down stream. [Por many miles these pests hop into the stream and are carried down at a spoed of three or four miles jer hour. There are so many of them as to make a string four to six feet wide, without hardly a vreak at any point. It would be safe to estimate one bushel of crickets to every 100 feet of the stream as it flows through town. The mullions thus carried by the water 1s almost beyond computation. They do not drown in a long time, and hence a small proportion of them find their way to dry land whenever wushea and lodged aga t the shore. Around Shoshone the hopping pests will average one to every square foot, and they find their way to all parts of residences, making a great source of annoyance as well as 1oss to citizens. No one uppears to know from whence they came, and fifty miles north there seems to be no diminution in their numbers. Fabulous Goid Find, Information has been received at Choy- enne confirming the wonderful gold discoy- eries at Miners Delight, nea uth Pass, in Fremont county. The principal discoveries are in a mountain containing an immense deposit of conglomerato or Potsdam cement, which miners say once formed the bed of a mountain torrent. Tests have been made by the first locators which show the whole body to bo rich in gold. Mill runs show uniform results varying from 810 to $20 per. ton. There arealso rich placer fields in the range which parties are preparing to work when the snow disappears. The camp is reached by a stage from Rawlins on the Union Pacific railroad, a distance of 140 miles. A new road is being opened from Point of Rocks station which reduces the distance to seventy miles. The snow is still deep in the mountains and active operations cannot be begun for two or three woeks, It is asserted by competent authority to be the greatest gold region found since "the early days of California. Wyoming Asbestos. A consolidation has been formea of the McConnell Asbestos company, limited, the McConnell ~ Asbestos Mining company, limited, and tho manufacturing departmen t of the asbestos business of John A. MeCon- nell & Co. of Pittsburg. The asbestos mines of the company are located in Wyoming, Natrona county, and are the only mines in the United States pro- ducing long, pure wites asbestos fibre, and it is stated that while these mines produce white asbestos they also furnish it in abua- dauce. Italy formerly produced about all of the asbestos that was used, but the mines of the province of Quebec, Canada, furnished a better supply, having for the past dozen years practically furnished the worlds' sup: Rl.\’ of asbestos. It is confidently stated the loConuell company mines are more prolific and more easily worked than the Canadian mines, and it seems probable that the Me- Connell company will soon furnish most of the asbestos used in the United States, and then the United States will no longer be da- pendent on foreign countries for this staple. Another Treasure Vault, Mining men are all excited today over the rich strike in the Pike's Peuk lodo of the Unon Mining company at Cripple Creek. Several days ago the company leased 500 feet off one eud of two or three of its claims under a work lease to E. B, Thayer and three other prospectors. They comimenced work on an old shaft, and at a depth of forty feet have struck a vein which assays from 182 to 300 ounces gold. This is the ricliest strike ever made in the camp and everyone is much excited over it, hese propertios ar located on Gold moun- tain, just beyond the Pharmacist, Nebrasks and Nebraskans, The sixth annual reunion of the Central Nebraska Veterans' association will be held Auvust 22 1o 25, aud bids are now beiug asked THE_OMAHA DAILY BEE: MON from tho towns in tho district to secure the Tocation of the reunion. Contracts were let last weok for bullding throe now bridges by Dixon county The Clay county Sunday schools held an interesting convention at Clay Centor last woek. Walter A, Noel, late of the Dallas County (Towa) News, has become ono of the editors and proprictors of the Beatrice Times. After having successfully given birth tor twins, Mrs, of York died a week later of rheumatism of the heart. The Seward People's Rights has been suc- cecded by the Independent, D, M. Mechan stops down to give place to M. D. Carey as editor. While George Laneof Table Rock was carrying a load of lumber on his shoulder he stepped on a nail and drove it clear through his shoe and foot. The town of Allen, Dixon county, has been incorporated and now the citizens have bogun an agitation for the removal of the county seat to their village, J. L. Makelver of Oscoola is on_the pro- gram to read an_original poom beforo the ann meeting of the Western Association of Writers at Wa w, Ind., June 26, Mrs. Webster, a Lexington lady 94 years of age, fell over an obstruction going from oneroom to another, and fractured the thigh bone. It is feared she cannot recover, While M. G. Seigler driving his horses to water one of the animals foll on him, crushing his breast and injuring him internally. He may recover. J. V. Dimon, formeyl; gregational church at Wymore, dropped dead in a streot car at Bellingham Bay, Wash,, Juno 2. His death came from a stroke of apoplexy. All the Ancient Order of United Workmen lodges in Seward county will unite in a pic- nic to be held June 23 in a grove just west of Seward. There are six lodges in the county with a membership of 500. ‘While Sheriff Moran of Grant county was rounding up cattle his horse stenpedintoa hole in the ground and threw his rider. The sheriff was severely injured and the horse turned a somersault and was instantly killed. Frank Monha, an inmate of the State Soldiers Home at Grand 1sland, died there last week. Ho served as sergeant in Com pany A, Fifteenth New York heavy artil- lery for a period of four years. His widow is an inmate of the home. While Robert Nicholas and Miss Minnie Grant were driving across the Turkey creek bridge near Plymouth the other night, the central span fell into the water, carrying down horse, buggy and_cccupants, Luckily tho fallen span floated, and carried its load sately until aid reached the unfortunate couple. amps entered three or four business at Scribner the other night, but se- cured little plunder. At W. B. Gardanier's hardware store they entered the shop by prying open the window, and being unable to open the door between the shop and store they broke the lock on the front door. The W drawer was broken into, but their re- ward was only 17 cents, They were fright- ened away before they cou'd get anything else. Frank M. Williams, one of the unfor- tunates killed in the catastrophe at Ford's theater in Washington, formerly rosided in gton county, this state. He taught the sbring term of 1885 at Herman, and then taught a year at Kennard, returning to his home at Middleton, Wis.,'in the fall of 1880, andin November of that year was appointed to a cierkship in the War department at Washington, which place he occupied until he died. “It is quite evident that the cowboys now racing to Chicago are the genuine article, The Chadron Signal says of them: The Lowboys who have been attracted toChadron by the forthcoming cowboy race had a little circus of th own circus day. When twelve cars of excursionists rolled into Chadron half of them were crazy to see the much talkea of cowboy racers. So Doc Middleton and five or six others were mounted on their ponies and galloped around In front of tho Hotel Blaine, while Dr. Leas and John Maher, as the two most expert local paraly- rs of truth, introduced them to the visitors. with littie anecdotes of their prowess and achievements that would make blush. The tourists,and esy wore loud in their expri ons of astonish ment, o hundred kodaks were sprung to take pictures of the group, and when it was anuounced that Doc Middleton’s horse, which came from Dr. Waller's pasture, was the one that rodo from Crow Butte to Omaha pursued at every jump by howling Sioux Indians, several ladies insisted on hugging tho horse forthwith while Doo looked on rather shecpish. After the excur- sion left the circus parade started. So did two of the cowb They had been drink- ing poison-weed Sagwa all the morning and with a yell and a whoop they mounted their horses and spurred down the procession. They cled around among the performers, now ing up close to the elephants and giving them a smart jab io the side, now twisting the scalp lock of the same clown until things began to look dedidedly promis- ing for a fracas. Offcers went after the boys and after drawing their guns convinced them that the best thing to do was to surrender. Doc Middleton went on their bond and later Judge Mears assessed them #2 and costs—a total of $7.70 each for the fun thoy had enjoyed. The Dakotas. Tho report comes frori Sioux Falis that the Graat Northern railway has purchased the terminal grounds in that city, There is only one drawback to rushiug the work on the Sioux Falls & Yankton line, and that is the utter inability of contractors to secure more help. Pierre’s new artesian well gushes water at the rate of 500 gallons per minute and it shows a temperature of 93 degrees. 1t will soon be possible to pipe hot and cold water to even the humblest residence. James Conzette of Galena, while prospeot- ing in Horrible gulch, near the old twenty- stamp (Davey) mill, struck a fine body of copper ore of such grade that a piece of the ore put iuto an ordinary forge melts like lead, The Rosebud lamb per cent, with few ex- ceptions, Is above the averago for this year, being from 85 up to a reported 100 per ‘cent, nearly all bands standing between 90 ana 96 per cent, the greatest 1oss being from coyotes and wolves. Parties who had located cattie on the Milk river ranges are now satistied that the losses are even greater than was reported early in the spring. Several of the outfits wish to abandon the Milk river country as a cattle range. Sergeant White Buffalo Man, an Indian soldier at Fort Meade, has been detailed to proceed to Fort Yates to see if he can in- duce some of the Indians at Standing Rock agency to enlist in the military seryice of the government. The Lou Ray lode, situated in the town of Galena and formorly known as the Manga- nese lode, has doveloped into & gold proposi- tion. An eight-inch vein was found on the surface upon which a shaft was sunk twelve feet. At this depth the vein had widened out to four feet. Assays made from the ore gave returns of $l4 gold and four ounces sil- Ver per ton. Wyomin, As high as sixty colors were recently taken out of & single pan of dirt near the Mc- Gill ranch in Albany county, T. A. Kent sold the Hord ranch, nine miles northwest of Cheyenne, to Lewis Ingalls, a Chicago capitalist. The ranch contains 14,804 acres and the consideration was $140,000. The Aztee Mining company has filed arti- cles of iucorporation with the secretary of state. Laramio men are at the head of the enterpriso and the capital stock is placed at 1,000,000, Work has commonced and will be pushed on the road grade to Yule Creek marble quarries, ten miles from Crested Butte, It is the only marble suitable for statuary located in the state thus far, . The reo[lle of Evanston are earnestly en- deavoring to secure the location of 3 woolen mill. A proposition has been made to locate a first-class mill there and it will doubtless be accepted. There is a large quantity of fine wool gnnwn in Wyoming and a woolen mill would be a paying eaterprise. Forty-six ol claims, covering 10,500 acres, have been located in the Rattlesnake dis. trict in Natrona county by Colorado parties. At present the railroad rate is $357 a car on oil to Chicago, while the cattle rate is only $110. An effort is being made to secure a re- duction, so that the district may be worked. Herman Bonack, living near Lost Soldier postoftice, in the morthern part of Carbon county, bas discovered a vein of lignite coal pastor of the Con- | DAY. JUNE 19, 1893, sixteen foot in thickness in a canon near his place, The mine is twenty.fivo milss from the Unfon Pacific raifford ana torty miles from Rawling. It is near tWe proposed line of tha Northwostorn oxtemsion from Casper 10 Ogden and tho attention, of the oMcials of that road will at onc lled to the find. 1o, Tho Amothyst mino, Citdio, has Just pata | Estarein i dividend of 80,000, oducht aver §170,000,000 in als since 1 he May profit of the Vigtor mine, Cripple Creek. was 820,700, and the monthly divi- | dend was 810,000, The tunnel on the James A. Gilmore group, Rollinsville district, is in; 2,040 foot, which constitutes one of the Jongest tunnels in the state, Colorado's gold product, which has hereto- fore haited at 4,000,000, 0r loss per year, stands an excellent change of passing $,000, 000 in 1503, Considerablo excitement has been created in Guanison over the roported finding of gold in good paying quantities in the gold basin south of town, The Montgomery lode in the Black Hawk district has been sold by William Kelly, one of the old-time miners, for £0,000. It ad- Joins the famous Running lode. Another rich strike of froe-milling, gold- | bearing rock has been found about six miles of Wallace was south of Creede, The rock in the lode has been assayed to run $168 to the ton. A strike is reported from the Hefner Queen mine at Dry canon. In running an upraise in the mino a body of oro about a foot wide was cncountered, which assays 108 ounces in silver and some lead. ‘The first wool of the season was offered on the market at Antonio, but found no buyers. “The wool is light and in splendid condition, but the uncertatnties of tari logiskation make buyers very cautious. Tho strike reported yesterday in the Golden Treasure, Gilpin county, means that tho management has struck high grade ore in the 600-foot level, exactly where they expected to find it Gilpin is all right, Red CIft district, Eagle county, has a numbor of heavy producers, among them the Beldon mine, which the RRed CLft Times credits with a possible output of 100 tons per day when the second grade ore is broken. A deal has been nearly completed for the saloof the Perigo and Gold Dirt groups and othar properties of the Rollins Gold & Silver Mining Co. at Rollinsville, in Gilpin county, by b dyndicato of eastern capitalists for The strike in the Pike's Peak lode on Bull mountain is causing a great sensation in the camp. The ore is 80 rich that for the pres- ent it has been found necessary to piaco an armed guard over the prospect. Some of the rock is valued at $4 to the pound. A very lucky mining strike was made this week in the Rio Grande canon, twelve miles southeast of Antonio. A number of assays show thirty-six ounces of siiver to the ton. At twelve feot deep a-good lead was ex- posed which grows better further doywn. Colouel Henry C. Lowe, the well known mining operator, reports the discovery of rich copper and merchantable mica deposits on Boar creek, Dead Man's cannon, in Kl Paso county. The copper veins assay from 16 to 42 per cent and appear in a hornblendic form. One of tho greatest gold strikes in tho history of Colorado was made near Mancos when the Brittain brothers found a fivo-inch streak which assays 180 ounces of gold and fifteen ounces of 'silver. Captain Johnson in-ti a return of 2,300 ounces of gold from his oad, Timber fires are playing havoc with mine improvements on Bachelor nill. Every mine on the hill is in danier ‘and the damage already dono will ageregate about $5,000. The destruction of timber, howover, is of the greatost importance, and on this the damage cannot bo estimated. & Miners' wages 1n the Virginius camp have been reduced to $2 per day and board. No doubt: this example will.bofollowed through- out tho San Juan. Tt will ,affect thousands and may result in the closing down of all tho mines in both the gold and" silver distriots, It is a reduction of 50 conts a duy or more. The State Horticultural board has returned froma visit to Mesa, Delta Montrose, La Plata, Fremont, Pucblo and_Otero counti where 1t inspected the fruit prospects. Large crops are reported from all points ex- cepting Otero county, ‘Where all the fruits were killed by late frosts. :On the western slope the crop is unusually heavy. Jantes McBride of Hot Sulphur Springs a few days ago found whero o boan feed- ing on a dead cow and set his trap th He came into town with four hid trophies. The skins are beautiful s; of their kind. An old female gr three cubs were feeding on the bait, the old one, being caught 1n the trap, the little ones stayed there until all were ‘('llm. McBride has had a_part in the killing of eleven bears this spring. Oregon, A mining company with a capital stock of $150,000 will soon be organizea at Dallas. A ledge of gold-besring quartz was found on the hill land east of the depot in Cottage Grove. Expert miners say the quartz shows indications of being rich. James G. Birdsey of Willow Springs pre- cinct, says that $10,000 have been taken out of pockets of quartz, within a radius of a few miles of where he lives, Articles of incorporation of the Washing- ton Consolidated Mining and Improvement company have boeen filed at Spokane, The amount of capital stock is pluced at §5,000, 000. A. B. Conley, the Grand Ronde king, has just finished sceding and hy 7,000 acres of grain. Under favorabl tions the yield will not be less than bushels. Amoticoon a door in Albany reads: T haye gone to the mines, Where are you going” Some one wrote underncath the significant sentence: *T'o the poor house, I have been to the mines,” Twenty-five leading fruit growers of the Mud creek neighborhood, in the eastern end of Umatilla county, have' organized a com- pany for the better disposal of their pro- ducts, to be known as the Fruitvale Fruit compauy. Not since the memorable disaster of 1885 has there been such a loss of life as during the present iuar along the Columbia river fisheries. Fifteen fishermen have been drowned since April 10 and fifty-seven boats have capsized. A ledge of free gold-bearing quartz has boon discovered on Palmer mountain, Okan- ogan county. There are abovt 2,000'tons of the free gold quartz in sight in the develop- ment tunnel, aud it is hard to correctly esti- mate the value of the mine, Five Portland capitalists have incorpo- rated, at a capitalization of 820,000,000, the Golaen Gate Railway company. The pro- d line is to run from Sin Pablo bay, Sonoma county, California, northward through Lake, Harney aud Malheur coun- ties, Oregon, and on to Boise City. The permanent survey for the long flume at the Canyonville miges i southern Oregon is now being established. Fifteen men are at work and saw mills will soon be put 1n to commence the work, of making lumber for the flume, which 1s seyoral miles 1n length, and will require 6,000,000 feot, Deadmond Bros. haves drive of 10,000,000 feet of logs in tho Gdekenzie river whic they are running to theumills at Cobu Hurrisburg and Corvadlis, . They are putting them in twenty-four miles up the river, and some of them have alugady, reached the Wil- lamette river, and by ,tha, tima the whole drive is in the water some of the logs will be at Corvallis. Charles Rover and Fired Smith, while at the Geo mining camp above Ashland, enter- tained a big black bear, which had been eat- ing thelr giant powder for somo time pas: and called to return it'sfitle the boys were you asleep. He eaused' a sensation, but found out what lead tasted like beforo got- ting up the mountain side, after scaring the boys half to deat wheat Washington, Tacoma's whistling well has commenced operations again after a silonce of twos years. Melons weighlog sixty pounds have been produced along the Columbia river, and 200 fino specimens will be sent to Chicago. The new forty-stamp mill being put in at the Blewitt mine in the Peschastin distriot will commence operations in o few days employing 125 men about the works at the start, Nelson Bennett of Tacoma received a tele- gram from the superintendent in charge of his gold Juartz wines fu Montaua, statin that a vein five feet in width had been struc! at a depth of 2,000 feet. At the cropping at the top of the mountain the ore yieolds $42 a ton, and it costs §2.50 a ton to work it 1t is freo milling ore. The triplograph is the name of a combine typewriter, cash register and calculator in- vented by & young man at Ellensburg, The Skagit Railway and Lumber company owns §00,000 worth of timber lands and real estate in the state, but is unable to realize Last assays from the Silver Quoen mine, noar Davenport show i1 lead, 819.44; total, $114.85, three feet of solid ore, A petrified fish has been found imbedded in solid bedrock twenty-two feot bencath rface of the ground on William ranch, near Pampa. ma Smelting and Refining com- pany turned out during the month of May 8,400 bars of bullion, hing 0,2 pounds, and valued at $84,003.85, An artesian well at Roslyn has developed A flow of 84,000 gallons every twent. hours, with a depth of 175 fect. This solves the question of city water works. Funds for the new road from Tacoma to Mount Rainier have not yet been raised. In case of failure the road will be built by pri- vate parties and toll charged for its use. Ballard did a good business in shingle shipments during the month of May, send- ing out nearly 800 carloads, or shipment for tho mouth of about D. 8. Paisley has comploted his practical test of the graphite recently found near the upper Cowlitz. The test was made at the Olympia foundry, and it is stated the ma- terial is equal to India lead for foundry pur- poses " William Miller, an old time resident of Crow valley, on Orcas island, Washington, has among his curios an antique threshing machine. It is of the old swoop class, and was imported from England to Victoria by the Hudson's Bay company in 1848, The Lummi Indians have a young klootch- man whom they are willing 'to back as a sprinter to the extent of $100 for a 100-yard dash, Age, sex or previous condition of any paloface will not be barred. In the nomen- clature of the tribe she is catled Kle-a-ta-ba, which means swift. Considerable excitement has been creatod over the reported discovery of rich placer mines on Nigzer crook, about twenty-five miles from Wenatchee. The party bringing the report exhibited $13 worth of gold flakes that he had panned out in a half day’s work, aud said there was plenty more of it there. Miscollaneous. The Senator Mining and Milling company, located in Arizona, has placed $500,000 worth of stock in the cast this spring. The da is proving herself to bo one of the largest producers of valuable ore that the Sun Juan country has turned out, Heérmosa camp, New Mexico, roports good progress this season. The concentrator is in full blast, running day and nieht shifts, In Chloride d feg, D Mexico, the Omega mine is credited with a y streak fourteen inches in width r ounces in silver to the ton. Down at Carson Sink, Novada, ed quite a colony of ts, who ictly obs urday y of rost, The community is smid to totally discard both liquor and tobaceo. ‘Wendell Benson has organized a ompany to put two laree mors on the lake to cost #60,000. The st built on the shore of the lak fitted up in a palatial w nd provided with large cabins. The deck will be finished for ng. Mike Mahoney from the He mountains and went on up to Salt Lake. He declares that ho wouldn't spend a summer in the Hen for love or money. The climate is simply torrid, and when he left the foothills a sn thermometer, which he always carrics, istered 130= in the shade of his hat. One of the most curious rock formations in the world is to bo scen in Arizona, It is o short distance east of tho stage road be- tween Tucson and Oracle and stands on a knoll veral feet above the surrounding sand hills. It is a most. perfect representa. tion of a camel and is formed of one picce of granite. Tt isabout sixty feet high and 1s very white and smooth. Charles Hege came up from Marysvale, Utah, and seems to think that there is going to be a big revival in that camp within a few Only a few daysago the Dalton company struck a vein of oro svhich . countered and lost last winter, and it looks as 1f they have got it this time for keeps. It is the richest body of mineral that has ever been struck in the camp, and old miners have gone wild over the find. e A Pressure of a Million Pounds, Some interesting experiments have been made at Washington university, St. Louis, with the, largest hydraulic testing machine in the world. ~ It can exert a pressure of 1,000,000 pounds. Timbers such as are used for pillars in large commercial buildin, were crushed, not broken, longthwise. A picce of timber capable of sustaining 8,000 persons was crushed like an egg shell when pluced in the machine. The best brick piers two feet square, columns of granite a foot square and sandstone three fect square are ground to powder with tho greatest ease. The machine was designed by Prof. F. B. Johnson, who occupies the chair of consulting en gineer in the university, for the pur- poso of pursuing investigations being made by the government of the strength of commercial woods grown in the United States. The specimens crushed will form part of an exhibit now at the ‘Worla’s fair. ict w there is arrived a day or so ago ns 1,300 Break Away from the old way of washing! ~ What is it that keeps you? It can't be economy, for that's on the other side. Pearline doesn't cost any more to use than common soap, or anything else that's safe and harmle: But just the contrary—when you use Pearline, instead of wasting your time and strength and wearing out your clothes on the washboard, you do away.with the rub, fub, rub, and save your labor, your clothes and your money. 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