Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 7, 1893, Page 5

r - » ] » LAND OF THE SETTING SUN Laramie Men Organize a Mining Oompany to Develop Surrounding Placers. IS RICH THE COUNTRY IN MINERALS May Become a Natlonal Sanitariam—Rioh Placers- Wayn that Are Dark—Rables in the Plac Sands—Western New; The slump in pork this week was entirely due to abnormal monetary conditions, and is 10 bo hoped does not indicate a permanent fall. As long, however, as the country’s finances are tangled in a snarl, asat present, arise may hardly be looked for,and the coming session of congress will bo a particu- larly gratifying ovent, as leading to a poss ble solution of the perploxity. Corn, the staple of Nebraska and South Dakota, is rapidly approaching ripe- ness, and whoat and oats in sections further north are beginning to be cut, and bid fair 0 s00n usher in the shekels that symbolize prosperity. Along the Pacific coast th salmon catch has been a failure, but, as if to compensate therefor, the fruit crop is exceptionally abunnant, In all mineral sections gold mining 13 hay- ing a great revival, and has not for a gener- ation boen prosecuted so vigorously. We may safely look this year fora heavy crop of literally golden grains which just at pres- ent are of far more significance to western prosperity than their equivalent in any other product. Glgantio Minlng Company. The organization of the Douglas Consoli- datea Placer Mining and Milling company has just completed and articles of incorpora- tion filed. This company hasa capital of 8,000,000 shares at $1 each. The property of this compuny is located on Muddy, Douglas, Beaver and Lake creeks, and consists of about 3,000 acres of placer ground. It lays on Douglas ereck from Muddy down over 1.000 rods below Devil's gate. The company has just purchased 20,000 feet of lumber of the Clark-Pelton company, and a wagon load of provisions and 4 company o six men have left Laramie for the grounds to begin operations. The first work will be the con- struction of sluices and other vreliminary work. The flumes will be constructed on the grounds to bed rock. These will have to be constructed along the entire property and will be eight or ten miles i length. Mr. Roots, the general manager, will go to Denver at once and will send teams up from that place with the necessary supplies and machinery to put in the contemplated hydraulic Tho idea is to lay the founda- tion for the locating of a hydraulic elevator on the grounds next season. This alone would cost §120,00. The zeal of the men waking hold of the enterprise is manifested In the first step taken. They have secured @ building in Laramie and propose to place on the market a certain amount of stock as 500U a8 thoy occupy their ofice and give the people an opportunity to aid them in the de- velopment of the mines. The principal por- tion of the stock will be taken by parties in Denver and in the east. It will be seen, however, that the company is on a stable footing from what they are doing. A Natlonnl Sanitarium. The United States is likely to make a great national sanitarium out of Hot Springs, S. D, says tho Sioux Ialls Argus-Leader. The waters are known to possess valuable medicinal qualitics and some very remarka- blo cures have been effected by them. Some ‘weeks ago the matter was called to the attention of the authorities of the Natlonal Soldiers homo at Leavenworth, Kan. A pre- liminary investigation was made and, as a result, twenty-eight of the most obstinate cases wero sedt to Hot Springs under the charge of officel At the end of the first week tho government surgeons reported, in a majority of cases noting considerable im- provement. Of the second week's report the Hot Springs Star sa A summing up of the results of the second t of our waters by the detail vonworth National Solafers home is more than satisfactory. Dr. Jen- nings tells us that overy man who was re- rted as in.proving last weelc continues to mprove, and of the four on which no im- provement was noticed last week, two are much better this week. Ome caso of loco- motor ataxia where the man was nat able 10 walk when hocame, is now walking to his bath tho same as tho others. This is re- markable, as thore is no record in any medi- cal journal of such a case, and the doctors themselves think that it will not be perma- nent, although the Star hopes it may. Alto- gether, the results of this test ave morethan satisfactory snd we beliove no board or committee can_come to any other conclusion than that Hot Sprigs is just the place for a national sanitarium. The fact must bo re- membered, too, that this test is being made right throlgh the heated teri, the most t ing and enorvating on any class of invalids of the whole yoar. Thres cheers for our waters ! Valuable Placors. Angus McIntosh of Monpelier, Idaho, well known to all old-timers in Wyoming, having been clerk of Sweetwater cotnty for several yoars during the soventies, reports a very valuable find of placer gold on Green river, in Uinta county, between Horse creek and Beuver creek, about 125 miles north of Green river, on the Oregon Shory Line, Mr. McIntosh, us almost everybody knows, is an old prospector, having worked this ne country at the head of Green river riodically since 1871, and known that old 18 plentiful all along the river from Cot- tonwood up to the mouth of Beaver. but heretofore all that has been found was flour gold, s0 fine that it could not bo profitably athered by any known process then in use. 'his, however, is coarse enough for sluicing. He thinks this will prove to be the most important find in the state for years. An- other important fact in connection with this find is the ease with which these diggings may be reached. A good wagon road ex- tends all the way from Green river to Opal to the place where the gold is found, with abundance of good water and grass all the way. There are also comfortable rosd houses at conveuient distances all along the route. Water in abundance for hydraulics can be brought from Beaver creek, a distance of six 10 olght wiles, and timber in unlimited quan- tities for building and mining purposes can be found within the same distance. The im- portance of this discovery can hardly be estimated, Innocent “Lo." The authorities at Rosebud agency have sent a detail of Indian police to the northern border of the reservation to patrol the country aloug White river and prevent ca tle belonging to white stockmen straying to the Indian lands. The wvolice, who are mounted, will carefully watch the entire border, Keeping a constant wateh and turn- ing back any cattlo that may attempt to et across the river Lo the reservation. deretofore it has been the practice of some of the stockmen to give portions of their herds into the charge of Indians to be herded on the Indian lands, but the government ha recently decided to put a stop to this pras tico. Accordiugly all cattle found on th reservation which belong to the stockmen will be either confiscated or driven to the wmorth side of the stream of the resorvation. This determination on the part of the government will result disastrously to the schemes of some of the cattlemen Who have given large herds of their cattle into the keeping of Indians, mlu’ it out thutthe cattle belonged to poor . The agency authorities are authorized to buy from the Indians all surplus cattie. Au Indian who had been given charge of & large herd of cattle belonging to some of the stockmen, beiug thus enabled to turn in large numbers of cattle ut frequent inter- vals. Upon roceiving pay for them the 1n. dian would at once turn over the proceeds of the salo to the white stockman, retaining 8 certain per cent as payment for his own trouble in caring for the cattle. Indian Agent Brown, who has just retired from the mavagewent of the Pioe Ridge agency, de- serves the credit for unearthing this shrowd scheme, and it was owing to his efforts that the practice has now been stopped. Kubies in the Sand. Jack Richurds, the well known came 1 at Laramie from Gold Run creek near the Contenuial mountain, where be had bocu prospecting some placer ground. He Lrought with bim in & swall bottle some rospector, TH ol panned from tho gronnd there, In the water also wore four rubies nearly as large a8 pans. Thaes rubies are found in nearly avery pan of the dirt and several of them wero sent to New York not long ago to have thelr value determined. ~ They appear like beautiful specimens, and should they prove As valuable as spected it will add a fortune to the ground. Some of the pieces of gold fror the ground are large. There are nine others interested in the ground with Mr. Richards, and he says they intend 10 organize and put in sluices. They have plenty of water and head, and claim that it is the handiest ground in the country. The; will go to work themselves and do not inten to ask any favors from any one with money or without it, A Petrified Lemon, The most recent of the many curiosities which the plains have given np is o petrified femon, [t ws found by Mr. Harmon of the mining team of Harmon & Kirst of Laramle. He was coming in across the plains when ho picked up the curiosity. Petrifactions aro not 8o very rare in this section. Hoth vog- etable and animal matter preserve so well here that complete petrifaction often follows This lemon, however, is a perfect specimen of the changing of organic matter into stone. Tt would be identified by any ono instantly unon sight as a_lemon. Thero is some iron stain upon it, otherwise its color is well pro- served. A plece of the petrifaction the thickness of the rind can be removed and the interior inspected. Chips of Amothyst. From the Atlantic & Pacifio railroad it 1s not hard to roach one of tho greatest of natural curiosities—the potrified forest of Arizons. Much the nearest point s the lit- tle station of Billings. but thers aro tho scantiest nccommodations for the traveler. Only a mile south of the track at that point one may s a low, dark ridge, marked by & singlo cottonwood tree. Walking thither (over a valley soalive with jack rab- bits that there is some excuso for tho cow- boy's declaration to & writer for St. Nicholas that ‘‘you can walk clear ncross on their backs ) ono soon reaches tho northern edge of the forest, which covers hundreds of squaro miles, Unloss you are more har- dened to wonderful sights than 1 am, you will almost fancy yourself in somo enchanted spot. You seom to stand on the grass of a gigantic kaleidoscope, over whose spark- ling surface the sun breaks in infinito rainbows. You aro ankle deep 1 such chips as Dl warrant you never saw from any other woodpile. What do you think of chips from a tree that are rod, moss agate and amethyst, and smoky topaz, and agate of every hue? Such are the marvelous splinters that cover the ground for miles here around the huge prostrate trunks— some of them five feet through-—from which time's patient ax has hewn them. 1 broke a specimen from the heart of a tree thero years ago whish had around the pith a re- markable array of large and exquisite crys- tals; for on one side of the specimen, which is not 80 large as my hand, is a beautiful mass of crystals of royal purple amethyst, and on the other an equally beautiful array of smoky tdpazcrysials. One can get also magnificent cross-sections of a_wholo trunk 80 thin as to bo portable and showing every vein and “year ring,” and even the bark. “There is not a chip on all those miles which is not worthy a place, just ns it 1s. in the proudest cabinct and, when polished, T know 1o other rock so splendid. 1t is ono of the hardest stones in the world, and takes and keeps an incomparable polish. A Big Mining Deal, Tho largest deal in_gold mining property ever consummated in the state has been closed hore, wherein the Eldora Gold Min- ing & Milling company, lmited, purchased the Plowman group of gold mines in Neil dis- trict, 1daho, and other valuable gold proper- ties ‘near Boise, the consideration being $100,000. The articles of incorporation of the company have been filed with the secrotary of state. The stock of tho company Is divided into 1,000 shares of the par value of $100, all paid in. The board of directors of the company are: K. P. Plowman, Boise, president and manager; Harry F. Parker, tlo, sccretary; Frod Page Tuskin, tle, treasuror; T. D. Cahilan and Jona W. Brown, Boise. The compaty nlso con- trols a sawmill and waterrights. The latter will bo used to furnish power for dynamos ¢ run the machinery of the stamp mill. This group of mines is"the only doveloped prop- erty in the Neil district. 1t contains an im- mense vein of free gold, assaying from $13 to £0. Two huddred men will be employed within six months, awakening a now era of gold mining in this part of Idaho. Sand as Well as Gold. Tast week the Lander Gold Mining and Smolting company was organized in Lander with a capital stock of 50,000, all of which was subscribed boforo the organizationtook place. J. D. Woodruff of that city and E. H. Airis of Hoopor, Neb., taking a majority of the stock. The company purchased the mous Burr mine, paying therofor $15,000. oy will at once commence working the mine, and for that purpose will put in the latest improved machinery in a mill a Lowis- ton. This will pe running within the next six woeks. Kxperts who have examied tho mine this season agree that there is $30,000 in sight. The price for which it was bought is thought to be very low. If the mine turns oat 1o be & producer a smelter will be bullt. Nebrusks Fuirs. Dates for fairs in Nebraska have been set as follows: Omaha Fair—Soptember 5 to 8. Stato Fair—Lincoln, Septomber 8 to 15, Adams County—Hastings, Septomber & to7. Antelope—Neligh, September 20 to 22, Boone—Albion, September 20 to 22, Boyd—Butte, September 27 to 29. Brown—Long P September 28 to 30, Buffalo—Kearney. September 19 to 23, Burt- ptember 20 to 22. Tekamah, Butler—David City, September 19 to 22, Cedar—Hartington, September 26 to 25, Clay—Clay Center, August 20 to Septem- ber 1. Colfax—Schuyler, September 4 to 7. Custer—Broken Bow, October 3 to 6, Calloway District—Calloway, Scptember 20 to 29, Cuming—West Point, September 27 to 80, Dawes—Chadron, September 20 to 23, Deuel —Big Springs, October 5 to Dixon—Ponco, September 12 to 15. Dodge—Fremont, September 18 to 21, Fillmore—Geneva, September 19 to 33, Hall—Grand Islana, Septomber 25 to 20, Hamilton—Aurora, September 5 to 5. Harlan—Stamford, September 27 to 29, Hitcheock—Culbertson, September 19 to 2 Holt—O'Nell, October 5 to 7. Jeflerson—Fairbury, September 27 to 20, Johuson—Tecumseh, August #0 to Sep- tember 1. Knox—Croighton, September 5 to 7. Lancaster—Lincoln, Septewber 8 to 15, Madison—Madison, September 19 to 2: Nemaha—Auburn, September 26 to 20, Nuckolls—Nelson, August 29 to Septem- ber 1, Pawnee—Pawnee Cit, Perkis Madrid, September 2 Platte—Humphr Platte—Columbus, September Polk-—-Osceola, Septembel Lo 8. Red Willow —Indianola, September 5 to 9, Septembe Republican Valley District —August 22 to 24, Richardson—Falls City, September 5 to 8, %0 22, Sarpy—Papillion, Septombor Saunaers—Wahoo, September 19 to 2 Sheridan—Rushville, Scptember 26 to 20, oward —Seward, Septomber 20 t 25, Stauton—Stanton, October 3 to 6, “Thayer—Hebron, September 27 to 20, York—York, September 10 to 22, Washington—Blair, Septembor 15 to 21, Wayne—Wayne, September 20 to 22, Seven Devils Copper. R. G. Eckles, & mining expert from Salt Lake City, recently visited the Seven Dovils country, and in an juterview published in the Pendleton East Oregonian said: the last five mouths 1 have been ¢ g around after copper prospects, aud in all the prospects 1 have examined during that five mopths there is not as much copper com- bined as there is in one location iu the Soven Devils.” He said that all the prospects he had examined in Utah, Wyoming and else- whera would not _supply eunough copper to keep the Salt Lake refluery ruuning o month, and that the company needed just such & source of supply as the Seven Devils, and would undoubtedly take hold right away. Mr. Eckles figured that ou the Pea- cock, taking it from the road level, without folug down, there were 150,000 tons of ore. Producing 800 pounds to the ton, this would yield 54,000,000 pounds of copper, which, at 10 cents, would be'worth #,400,000. This is all iu sight. Mr. Eckles was struck with the country here i general, and says he thinks seriously of coming here to live. Nebraska wia Nebraskans. A runaway horse thraw Mrs. John Reis of Liberty from a carriage aud dragged her for long distance. She will be 1aid up for some time. Holt county prohibs have nominated a full county ticket. The Schuyler Quill nas begun the elghth year of {ts existence. T. J. Smith has sold the Alnsworth Star- Journal to Good & Davisson. The twelfth annual fair of Cedar county will be held at Hartington September 20, 97 | and 28, After being idle for & long ume the Springfleld flouring mill is to be started up again, The Hastings district camp meoting com- mences August 7at the grounds half & mile wost of Deweeso. O. Herndon, one of the old settlers of Saunders county, died at his home near Wahoo, aged 75 years. The republicans of the Ninth judicial dis- trict will hold their nominating convention at Norfolk September 7, Postmaster Schmied, of Dakota City, has turned over the office to his democratic suc- cessor, Frederick Schriever. Grand Island rejoices greatly because it now has telephone communication with Omaha and other Nebraska towns. While working on a thresher near Fim Creek, Frank Ware was struck on the head by a bolt flying from the machine and was badly injurea. A steam threshing machine broke through a bridge near Madison, falling sixteen feet into a stream, and one of the men riding on 1t was soverely scalded by escaping steam. ‘While a man named Kueifing was_starting a thresing machine, near Pawnee City, the brake slipped and the lever struck him in the face, making an ugly wound. If the blow had been received a half inch higher the victim would have been instantly killed. The Seward canning factory will soon open its summer campaign, and will put up about 500 acres of sweet corn. No tomatoes will be packed this year, the entire capacity os the factory being devoted to corn. About 3,000 worth of new machinery has been added, making the plant one of the best in the state. The twelvth annual reunion of tne Plon- eer and Old Settlers association of Dakota county will be held Augus on the shores of Crystal lake, midway between Dakota City and South Sioux City. This 1s gener- ally agala day for Dakota county, the citi- zens turning out en masse to commemorate the heroism of the pioneers. John Bergen, an Otoe. co\mtg farmer, was awakened by his dogs the other night just in time to see a man run out of his barn and take to #e woods. Bergen shot at him three times, but failed to bring him to the ground. On going into the barn he found one of his horses saddled and another bridled. He hasno clue to the attempted horse theft. Charles Porter went into a well at Wes- cott to fix o pump, and when he had been lowered half way to tho bottom he discov- ered foulair. He signalled to be arawn up, but just before reaching the top he let his hold on the rope go and fell to the bottom ot the well. His lifeless body was rescued by means of grapple hooks that caught in his clothing. “He was singlo, and owns two or three favms in Custer county. Colorado. The force of the Golden Fleece was in- creased 50 per cent last week. The principal product is gold. The profits of tho Summit mine and mill, Cripple Creek, during June and July were £3,000 and $4,500 respectively. A large mill is to be erected at Difoult Gold camp, near Aspen, where 130 men are now mining and prospecting. A rich find of gold-bearing ore is reported from the Twin lakes district, near Leadville. It is on & claim owned by Messrs. Allen and Thompson. The Ute and Ulay management announce that vhose miues will be kept going until at least after congress meets and decides the fate of silver. It is said that the tunnel of the Anaconda Gold Mining company will be pushed on into rich mineral immediately after the annual meeting next month. Negotiations are progressing for the re- sumption of work at the Bimetallic smelter by u sliding scale of wages. This will give employment to 150 of the men now idle at Leadville. A decision was reached in the'land offica last week counfirming Willetts and Mannix of Denver in possession of the Womack plac There were & number of squatters who claimed ownership and asked for a re- hearing in the case last March, on the ground that the patent taken out by Thomas L. Bryan and transferred to Willetts and Man- nix was not valid because the land was not mineral land, and that if iv was the neces- sary work had not been done. Both these points were overruled. Reports coming in from the new Turkey creek district southwest of Colorado Springs indicate continved strikes of good ore. One of tho latest of these is in the Copper King and of a class of ore always readily market- able. The shaftis only down four and a half feet, but an assay shows 861 in gold, silver and copper. This assay gives 850 pounds of copper to the ton. The vein, which was ouly an inch wide at the surface and ran 812, has widened out to eightinches. The property is owned by, Colorado Springs varties. The Dakotas, Cutting wheat and oats has begun in many counties, The pharmacists of Sovth Dakota met last week at Yankton, Deadwood is to havea slaughter house which will be one of the finest in the west. Passenger service on the Elkhorn narrow guage running between Deadwood and Cen- tral has been discontinued to the joy of the hackmen, who will now reap a harvest. ‘The report from Grand Forks is that the farmers of that county seeded 50,000 acres less to wheat this year thun last, and put that amount to other grains. If this is true it is encouraging for crop diversification. The sheep men in the vicinity of Pierre met at the court house and orgauized an as- sociation to be known as the Central South Dakota Sheep association. The object of the organization is to protect their rapidly increasing sheep interests. Artesian wells are the order of the day 1 South Dakota and the irrigation problem is thus rapidly adjusting itself. The bank of mother earth may issue a currency of water but it 1s the grease that keeps the wheels going on farm and pasturo, A carload of the Denver miners passed through Flandrem secoking farm employ- ment, Nearly 400 of them reached Wood- socket last Iriday, and all but 50 founa work. The Milwaukee rond was earrying them through free and assisting them in finding employment. George Getman of Warner while drilling an artesian well on his farm struck a vein of coal at a depth of 137 feet. The vein is estimated to bo from four to seven feet in dopth and is considered very valuable, The coal has been tested and is 0f good quality. Mr. Getman proposes to farther develope his mine. Another artesian well, to be used for irri- gation purposes, has been sunk near Huron. Itis 930 feot deep, 750 of which is G-inch bore, and 180 feet 4% inch. The flow is uearly 1,000 gallons per minute, and pressure a trifio over 100 pounds per square inch C. 5. Fassott, engincer of irrigation, pro- wounces it one of the best wells in tho state, Wyoming. Laramie City is shortof 1o put down an artesian well. he first clean-up Las been made by the Fortunate Mining company, Bald mountain, near Sherid: Wyo. Itamounted to $2,500. There has been at least caleulation over 100 claims located in the past week on the gold-cement velt within twelve miles of Lander, The Big Horn country is to be explored by arty of men from Omaha with a view Lo taining how many acres of land cau be or and Is gofug as put under water in that region. Ninety thousand trout from the state hutchery have been put in the streams of Natrona county. It is thought they will thrive there as the water is purely of moun- tain origin. A flouring mill is now ugder coustruction at Otto. The farmers in that vicinity and on the Gray Bull and Stinking Water have s0wn enough wheat to keep the mill run- ning the year around. J. J. Fein, who continues to do consider- able prospecting, has just brought in four specimens from late discoveries he made re- cently ou the hills along the Centeunial alley. They are from the west side of the valley aloug’ the road leading to the La Plata camp. o bas placed tho ores 1 tlio bunds of the university assayerand a test E OMAHA DAILY BEE:“MONDAY, AUGUST will bo made of them. , He claims to have yein five and a haif fodt Wide, and. is " hope- ful that it may be of pa¥thg rlenness. Orogom. The lumber industry 44 roceiving consider- able attention on the Sjusiaw this year. Tho Cushman_ mill at Acmo is running right along, and the average cutof lumber is 25« 000 foet per day. Jeffersonian simplicity: is asserting itself at the Chomewa Indian school. The office of disciplinarian (whipper) has been abolished. The head tehcher now performs the duty of correcting the refractory Indian youth, —. The John Day placers in eastern Oregon are being prospectod by hundreds of men, There is a renewal of séenes of long ago, and evory sandbar of any consequence along the river has been located. For forty miles up the ream from the north fork bridge claims have been taken up, and there must be 800 or 400 men who are secking the yellow treasure, According to the Indian custom, the friends of “Old Elkins,”a Yamhill Indian on the Grand Ronde reservation, purchased his funeral outfit, says the Sheridan Sun. Elkins was not yet dead whon his shroud vas made, but it was thought he was dying. Elkins is supposed to be 113 years of age. The Indians assert that he is the oldest Indian in Oregon, and if he is, as reported, 118 years of age, he will outrank in age any white man on the coast. J. W. Emboden, a placer miner, is in Pen- dleton after supplies. Ho has beon working with a gold mining machine at Texas Bar on the North fork. 1t is found to save the wold successfully, but the ground where it is now being operated is too rocky to aamit of prac- tical work, and there is talk of removing it to Snake river. Four and one-half days of work by five men resulted in securing £00, the nature ot the ground preventing better returns. Mr. Emboden considers the ma-. chines a success, however, since it saves all the gold that enters, It is the invention of a Milton man. George Van Tassel was overcome by foul air while down thirty feet in a well just south of Ashland. Van Tassel had taken a contract to recover the drill of Dodge's well boring outfit, which had “stuck” while the well was being bored, and with Rufus King was engaged in the work. Van Tassel soon said to King that he wanted to be hauled up, as he was sick, and a rope was thrown to him, but he seemed to have become helpless very soon and unable to fasten the rope about himself. King saw that the man was in trouble and descended into the well him- self and succeeded in fasteming the rope to Van Tassel and after considerable dificnlty got to the top and hauled him out, totally un- conscious and frothing at tho mouth. ———— LUNA THROUGH A TELESCOPE. Enormous Craters and Other Curlous Foa- tures to e Seon on the Moon. Of late years entific persons have been studying the satellito most atten- tively through telescopes and have formed several rather contradictory no- tions respecting it. One of the most advanced ideas on the subject is held by Prof. G. K. Gilbert of the geological survey. He believes, according to the Washington Star, that the lunar orb is mado up of ever so many little moons which once upona time flocked about the earth. Prof. Gilbert says that the side of the moon visible from "the earth is bettor mapped than is the con- tinent of North | America. It is of just about the same size. The surveyor, looking through the most powerful telescope; is still sov- eral hundred miles-away, and so his map does not represent the smallest fea- tures. On the other'hand, as all parts are easily aceessible, ‘there is no region remaining unexplored. The mab of the moon shows & number of great plains with dark floors; also_a score of moun- tain chains and a few trough-like val- leys remarkable for their straightness. Thero are. likewise several thousand circeular bowl-shaped cavities, which most observers have considered to be craters of extinet voleanoes. These cra- ters have usually a circular rim of cliffs which rise to a height of 5,000 to 10,000 feet. Sometimes there is a hill rising out of the middle. There are from 20,- 000 to 30,000 such craters visible to the with the aid of afirst-rate telescope. This would seem to be an astonishing numbe of voleanic craters for so small an arca. In North America, with about the same oxtent of surface, the remains of only about 3,000 voleanoes are found. A: the same time the great majority of such remains on this conti- nent have been wiped out or buried by geologic changes. It is probable that every part of the United States, Canada and Mexico has had active volcanoes at one time or another. The craters might now be as numerous as those on the moon if there had been neither water nor air to attack them. But Prof. Gil- bert and those who coincide with his thinking on this subject are confident that the bowl-shaped cavities on the surface of the moon are not voleanic craters. In fact, they rej altogether, conceiving it to be untenable on grounds too elaborately scientific for brief quotation here. According to their opinion, these peculiar featurcs of tho lunar landscape were originally pro- duced by the impactof little moons which struck the orb of night. If any projee- tile be made to hita plastic body with suitable velocity the scar produced by the shock has the form of a crater, With the right sort of material, size of projectilo and veloeity of impact, such o lcrnwr may be made to have a central hill. The craters on the moon are enor- mously biggor than any on the earth. The largest one on this globe has a diameter of fifteen miles. But this is a pigmy compared with the biggest lunar crater, which measures 800 miles across. However, the cliffs which define the edges of voleanic craters are composed of material thrown out from the vent. Inasmuch as the attraction of gravita- tion on the moon is only one-sixth as strong as on the earth, bombs of a given sizo and substance, having the same initial velocity, would fly six times as far and the cliff formed of them might stand six times as tall. So a lunar crater might be six times as broad and six times as decp as a crater on the earth without exciting wonder. The biggest craters on the moon range from 8,000 to 15 000 feet in depth; those on the earth from 2,000 4,000 feet. S0, according to this bel it is necossarv to consider the moon as a body. formerly bom- barded by projectiles. That the latter might have been fired by terrestrial vol- canoes was at one tinie suggested, but the notion that such bombs could ll;’ far enough to get beyond the limits of the earth’s attraction is régarded as absurd, The fact is conceived 1y be that the pro- {nmlluy in question were actually moon- ots of greater or lessidimensions, which ages ago may have surreunded the earth in swarms. It is imagined that there was a ring of small mooms which finally broke up, The p.-u..u.f;_lunm- orb hap- pened -0 become a center of aggrega- tion. Thus having gone into the busi- ness of collecting moonlets it grow in mrss until it attained its present dimen- sions. The carth, also, was scarred all over by mooniets which struck it, but the mavks have been obliterated by the processes which continually reconstruct and remodel the surface of the planet. — . — Busy peopie have no wune, and sens ble people have no inclination to use pills that make thom sick a day for every dose they take. They have learned that tne use of De Witt's Littlo Early Risers does not in- terfere with their health by causing nauses pain or gripiug. These little pills are per, fect i action and resulte, regulating the stomach and bowels so that headaches, diz- ziness aud lassitude ave provented. They cleanse the blood, clear tho complexion an: one up the systenl. Lots of health in thoss hitlofellows. 7, ARID NATURE YIELDS T0 A Pluck and Enterprise Render Fruitful a Bar- ron Waste, WONDERS ~ WROUGHT BY 1893, IRRIGATION Transformation of the Pocos Valley In New Mexico & Marvel In Scope and Results ~The Town of Eddy asd Tts Surroundings. ErPAso, Tex., Aug. 3.—(Correspondence of Tur Bee.]~After spending some weeks in Santa Fe I took a trip to Eddy, passing down the valley of the Rio Grande to El Paso, thence in an easterly direction through Texas to the town of Pecos, and thence northward to iy destination. The country through which I traveled is of rough, irreg- ular surface and in many places is a hot, dry, barren waste. Eddy is the county seat of Eddy county, which lies in the southeastern part of New Mexico. It is situated ona level piece of land, on tho west side of the Pecos river, near the geographival center of the county. Though only three yoars old, it is a town of much more than ordinary thrift and energy. A splendid throo-story brick court house, & massive brick school house, a 860,000 hotel, furnishing accommodation for nearly a hundred guests, one national bank, a large number of stores carrying heavy stocks of merchandise, sovoral livery stables, one daily newspaper, two woeklies, three churenes ornavely finished, sixty-eight miles of graded streets, 130 miles of irrgating ditches for watering lots, yards and grounds along and abutting upon the streots, ninety- four miles of shade trees plantod trom 15 to 20 fect apart along each side of all the principal streets, the present terminus of the Pecos Valley railroad, soon to be ox- tended northward some 200 miles and con- nected with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fo, a system of public water works upon which much labor is now being done; also an ico factory, an electric light plant, beet sugar factory, a flour mill and a planing mill now in_coutemvlation, and a population of over 2,000 wide-awake ' people, proud of their Littlo city, hopeful of and enthusiastic over the prospect of its future development and strugeling heroically to make its growth -apid, continuous “and substantial, are among the many things which attract a strauger’s attention and go far toward ex- citing his admiration. 1t's & Wonder of Enterpr The width of its streots, tho care with which they were laid out, the attention given to their improvement, the largo num- ber of shade tzees planted along them, now doiug much for their beautification, the costliness and substantial character of its business structures, the goneral size, noat- ness und attractiveness of its residences, the efforts put forth to adorn the grounds sur- rounding them and tho measuros taken to build up aud preserve a pure, healthy, re- fined, moral sentiment_among 'its people aro all matters in which, for its age, the city of Eddy surpasses all other towns [ have ever seen or known. “The starting of the town in the first place in the arid region whero it is located, to- gether with the gigantic enterprises simul- taneously entored upon to reclaim the coun- try immediately surrounding it, displayoed an amount of nerve rarely it ever equaled, and, s0 far, the success of tho venturo has beon almost a marvel. It wonld not, perhaps, be too much to say that Eddy has already be- come, 50 to speak, a charming little munici- pal flower quietly diffusing tho fragrance of 4 noble example among all the peoplo who naturally fall within the rango of its influ- ence. ‘The explanation of all this will appear obvious from the facts herein- atter stated. I personally traversed the valley of the Pecos river from a point six miles above or north to a point seventeen miles below or south of the town, a there- foro saw, iu all probability, overything of in- terest the trip was likely to unfold toa stranger’s observation. 'Three yours ago, between the points thus indieated, thera wero not more than a half dozen dwelling houses nor more than thirty inhabitants, while at the present time there are about 150 such nouses. excluding those in tho town, and a total population of about 2,800. includ: ing the people in town. Prior to and as late as three yoars ago a singie furrow had nover been plowed nlong the valley botween the points named, while now about 9,000 acres aro under cultivation and several thousand moro arg awaiting the coming of the hus- bandman. For many miles, both above and below 13ddy, agriculture, horticultura and fruit-raising aro bemg prosccuted with un- usual vigor and success. Corn, wheat, bar- ley, oats, rye, millet, alfalfa, clover, timothy, cotton, hemp, sorghum, riblon cane, pota’ toes, sweet potatoos, peanuts, onions, beets, sugar beets, carrots, turnips, radishes, beans, peas, peppor, caulifiower, vabbage, wate melons, muskmelons, cantaloupes, pump- kins, = squashes, = cucumbers, toma- toes. strawberries, grapes, = peaches, apricots, prunes, apples, quinces, figs and cherrios have all been grown; and many of them, so far as time has been sufficient to afford a test, have been cultivated with ex- collent results. But by what means_ has all this been accomplished in such a dry, hot, uninviting region, and that, too, within so short a period? To such a question my answer would be “Irrigation—principally ir- rigation—and the Pecos river the source of water supply.”s What Irrigution Has Done. Within tho territory of New Mexico alone, iv is estimatea that water sufficient may bo taken from tho Pecos riverto irrigato 400,000 acres. This1s equivalent to a strip sixty- threo miles long and _ten miles wido. This water 18 made availablo for irrigating pur- poses by tho construotion of strong dams across the river channel, tho formation of immense resorvoirs and the digging of an olaborate system of canals, laterals and sub- laterals for its distribution whenover and wherever needed. Tho Pecos Irrigation and Improvement company has completed and in contemplation four great dams across the rivor, an equal number of reservoirs, 121 miles of canals, 273 miles of main latorals and 900 miles of sub-laterals, The persons most largely intorested in these oxtensive enterprises are showing their faith by their works. Several of thom inave put many hundreds of acres under cui- tivation. Somo fow of thom will have ox- pended $50,000 and $100,000 each, and some of them even more in preliminary work upon thoir lands beforo they can possibly as much as expect a single cent of profit from their investments. ''hoy soem to have no doubts or misgivings about future results. Nor does their confidence rest upon any shadowy, uncertain basis. A fow examples will suf- fico to show the phenomenal feruility of Pecos valley B0il under irriga- tion, A field of xye was scwed in September, 1801, It was cut in June, 1802, and thereafter but prior to tho last of September, 1802, two cropsot millet were raised on the same ground, thus mak- ing in all three crops within twelve months. “I'ho entire product of the three crops sold for $64 por ucre. In 1802 a farmer Lok forty-two tous of hay at one cutting from twonty-three acres and sold it for $14 per ton. Another farmer raised 23.000 pounds of ouions on a single acre and sold them for #00 on the ground whero they grew. Another sold $130 worth of melons from half an acre. These instances, doubtless, go beyond the average of general results, but they show how as- tounding some things may be, while yel r mainiug within the limits of possibility. Amounts Almost to Creation. Truly irrigation, under intelligent control, is & mighty agency for reclaiming such a country as the Pecos valley. Through its assistance man seems investod with a power almost creative. By its aid he stops upon & piece of parched barren land where nothing is visiblo but a vast areaof scalding sand and says: ‘‘Let there be life,” and immedi ately vegotable life of infinite variety springs iuto vigorous existence—when thoanimating and reanimating streams of wator begin to flow and bathe the burning soil, the scene is soon changed. Flowers begin to grow. Yards are carpeted in emerald groen, vines creep and clamber and send forth their car uf tendrils, Shrubs mingle with roses and in their silent breathings ex- halo a sweot perfume. Moadows are redo- lent with the odors of newly mown bay. Lowing cattle “slick and fat” graze in richest pastures. IFields of golden wheat ripple in the summer bree: Gentle sophyrs woo,and kiss the tassied corn, | Stately trees od and bow to loving winds Orohards bond ana groan beneath their loads of ripening fruits. Numerous highways oross the onoe droary aesert. Handsome little cottages nestle in the vailoys, more stately mansions are scen upon the hills. School houses dot the plains. Villages, towns and cities become the homes of great aggregations of people. 'The arid waste be- comes & wealthy, oultivated, prosperous country, and the once noglocted, uninhabited rogion becomes the place where civilization marahals hor numerous forces and witnesses her sublimest triumphs. Though the Pecos valley three or four yoars ago was nothing more than a long, rregular strip of parched country, whero the sun seems never to have shone except in anger, and upon which even tho rofreshing clouds refused to cast a cooling shadow, she now, under tho redeeming power of irriga- tion, gives promise of becoming the paradise of New Mexico and ono of the garden spots of tho United States. May the promise she thus gives find an early fulfiliment, and may the people with whom sho is populated live long in the enjoyment of the blessings she has in store for those who cast their lot within her borders, help reclaim her from her desolation and seok her as a lasting home. JOT M R G —— REJECTING SILVER. A Creditor May Decline the White Metal, but He Cannot Recover at Law. It is reportod at the Treasury depart- ment, says the Philadelphia Ldger cor- respondent, that certain retail dealers in Brooklyn have refused to accept silver dollars in payment for merchandiso, and that others, alarmed by this sction of the larger dealors, have shown a disposi- tion to decline to receive fractional sil- A creditor may refuse to accept silver in settlement of a debt, but such refusal would bo fatal in case an action to recover the debt should be brought, The standard silver dollar is full legal tender in the payment of all debty, pub- le and private, and fractional silver coins are logal tender in sums of 810 and under. Whila the creditor, therefore, may decline to receive silver he cannot recovor at law in any other form of money. ‘There is only one form of government money that is not full legal tender. The holder of standard dollars may de- posit such dollars with the treasurer or any assistant treasuror of the United States, in sums of not less than $10, and receive therefor certificates, but these cortificates havo not the full legal ten- dor quality. The law provides that suc certificates “‘shall bo receivable for cus- toms, taxes and all public dues, and when so received may be reissued.” While it is not specifically pro- vided that silver certificates shall be logal tender in payment of pri- vate debts, practically they have all the advantages of full legal tender money, becauso they may be exchanged at any subtreasury for silver dollars, end may bo paid the govornment for any form of public dues. This virtually maintains silver certificates on a parity with full legal tender money, and practically makes them full legal tender. No man would refuse the tender of $1,000 in si ver certificates in payment of a debt when su refusal would enable tho debtor to force upon him that number of silver dollars, the aggregate weight of which is nearly fifty-nine pounds. e SR A Story of Insinuation, Detroit Free Press: ‘‘Marrying,” re- marked the colonel, who was a bachelor, “makes a man brave.” “I don’t know about that,” doubtfully replied the major, who had been mar- ried three times; *‘I don't know about that. None but the brave dare marry, though, I'm sure of that." **My original statement stands unre- futed,” said the colonel, “'and for further rroporation let me cite the case of Smith.” here was a little laugh, none the less significant on account of its size, for all the party knew what a woman Smith had for a wife. “Now, I remember,” continued the colonel, ‘“when Smith married. The bride was fair, and Smith was in love, and he brought her out to a post in the wost, where a monthly Indian fight was the rule rather than the exception. The first year we could hardly drag Smith out on an expedition, and'if there was a chance for a fight I'll swear that Smith acted almost cowardly. The next year ho braced up a bit more, and after he had been married five yoars he was per- fectly willing to fight & whole army of redskins and stay on their trail for six months if necessary, and never say a word about returning home.” The colonel looked up quietly as he heard another little langh. “Smith has been married twenty years now,” ho went on, *and I am glad that Indian fighcing i? over, for I really be- lieve Smith would be only too anxious to go right out now and exterminate every aborigine between the Mississippi and the Pacific.” This time the colonel smiled himself and bowed profoundedly as Mrs. Smith passed by. ey When Traveling, Whether on pleasuro bent, or business, take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of IFigs, as it acts most pleasantly and effectivoly on the kidneys, iiver and_bowels, provents fovers headaches and othor forms of sickness Ior sale in 50¢ and $1 bottles by all Jeading druggists. Monufacturod by the California Fig Syrup Co. on e A Lonp Year Proposal. Harper's Bazar: Itis generally sup- posed that the idea of young girls pro- posing marriage in leap yesr is a ploas- ant littlo fiction of the humorist, but there is evidence thatsometimes tho fair sox does avail itself of its quadrennial privilege. An anecdote told in England of a member of the House of Commons is a case in point. According to the raconteur who is responsible for the story, the Commoner had been paying attention to & young lady for a long while, and had taken her to attend the house until she was perfectly posted in its rules. Onthe last day of the session, as they came out, he bought her a bouquet, saying: “May I offer you my handful of flowers?” She promptly replied, “I move to amend by omitiing all after the word hand.” He blushingly accepted the amend- ment, and they adopted it unanimously. 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