Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 21, 1893, Page 5

WESTERY BRAIN AND BRAWN The Peculiar Cement Formation Found in Bald Mountain Mines, RICH GOLD FIELDS CLOSE TO CHEYENNE Unsettled Sioux Lands—South Dakota’s New Artosian Wells—Pushing 8 Rall- rond-Snake River Gold—General Menu of Western News. The numerous rainfalls of the past week have come in very timely to check the threatening danger from drouth and have orrested oll further danger from that source. A large corn harvest may there- fore be counted asa settled fact throughout the corn belts. Inthe wheat sections the erop will be slightly below the average, but this wrill be in a large degroe offset by better prices, the present rate being already ab- normally low. A notablo feature in mining progress is the uxtent to which Wyoming is coming forward in tho development of gold mines. Nothing can be of more importance to that state, and nothing will contribute so much to the development of her varied resources, a8 success in this one industry. 1f present Indicatious are sustained the state is des- tined to muke rapid strides forward and be- come, in the near future, one of the most prosperous states in tho union. The 1ald Mountain Mines. During the last two yoars tho northern ‘Wyoming uewspapers have had much to say about Bald mountain gold mines, says the Cheyenne Sun. What they have said has on the whole been true as tho present opera- tions warrant. The Bald mountain district is a peculiar gold camp, being wholly unlike any other in the United States and probably in the world. In speaking of the formation tne bedrock of the placers 18 granite, but lying upon the bedrock isa conglomerate of un- known thickness. This conglomerate is cement and from test ruus_contail goid. gulches contain_ place through the conglomerate, and it has been many times asserted that the gold placers are the result of the decomposition of the conglomerate, which has a thickness of not less than fifty fect. The extent of thi glomerate is not kuown, but, being feal fo a, is liable to be many square mil he locations in the camp are many hundred and aro represented by many very strong companie ‘I'he chief mining is being done on placer grounds at present, but should the conglom- erite vrove to be worth §2 per ton in frec gold, this camp will make the ost and most profitable gold camp in Wyoming. There are now the following companies at work: Fortunatus, Sheridan Mining and Milling company, Buffalo Mining and Mill- ing company and the Denver company ; be sides these there are a lar ¢ of pros- pectors and winers working assessments and operating sluices. Chief among the operators is the For- tunatus company which has_already spent upwards of 50,000 for machinery and devel- gpment. o manager of the company, . H. Hawkins, remarked that on a test run of five days, ten hours each day, that the Bu. cyrus amalgamator has saved 81 per cubi yard. The company is now erecting & new Bucyrus amalgamated and has saved 600 cubic yards in ten hours, at a cost of 10 cents ver cubic yard. With two machines this company with placer of half the richness will' soon be ablo to declare large dividends. A Promusing Fleld. One of the most promising gold flelds of rocent discovery is the Oreornego camp. “This camp is In a pretty littlo canon on Sandy creck, about a mile beyond the ranch of A."Simmons, and the mines join the loca- tion of the Copper King, distance twenty- four miles west of Che The cabins, Dlacksmith shop and other_ appurtenances presenta picturesque yet thrifty appearance, and on each sideof the httle creck arc dumps of ore which indicate that develop- ment work has been going on for some time. Superintendent Mead s a well informed, practical mining engineer who carefully considers evely stob o be taken and aims to get the best risults with the least possible expenditures, Hoputs particular stress upon the evident volcanic eruption and easily traces tho veins of mineral bearing ore by the croppings and surface tormation. In overy case where ho has sunk a shafta largo vein of ore has been disclosed. There are four veins running parallel. Thé first is thirty-five feot wide, the second is als thirty-five feet, the third twenty-four feet and tho forth is estimated to be 100 feot in width, . “I'he ore concentrates at an_average of 7 to 1, giving a concentrato that vields from $35 10 $40 m gold per ton. The mill and furnace test that was made last spring in Denve yiclded §36.20 per ton in_corcentrates. This ore can be mined and milled at a_handsome profit, us it is very casily worked. Richer ore has iately been struck in a tuninel wh was commenced on the 10th of July. This iclds £10 m gold and two ounces of silver per ton of rock. The tunnel will tap three of the most important voins and. with a few sido cuts will put the property in ex- collent shupo for business. 1t is estimated that an expenditure of $.000 in development work will make it possible to take out 100 tons of ore per d Whilo the ore is not rich it _carries moro gold per ton than the Homestake mine of the Bluck Hills, and to all appearances is fully as extensive. Great Nources ot Irrigation. Chamberlain enjoys the distinction of R ing within her borders the greatest artesian well in the United States, or in the world. “The flow from an eight-inch pipe is thrown over fourteen feet in the air and presents a sight attractive in the extreme, the supply of water being so great that a large stream flows from thoe well to the Missouri river, but 200 feet from the well. The flow is te rific and, according to covservative esti- mates, reaches the immense amount of 5,000 to 11,000 allous per minute, Springfield well, 3,500 gallons per minute, and the Risdon well near Huron, 3,000 gallons per winute, have ub to this time been tho best wells in the state, but they are only infants compared with the mammoth well here. The only other well in the United States, so far as known, that can at all compare with the Chamberlain well#is located at St. Augustine, Fla., which is a twelve-inch and flows 7,000 gallons per min- ute. The stream running from the well was 80 great that the city authorities deciaed on renning it to the Missouri to use. it in cut- ting away the high bluff u 100 fect high, and extend an adja t to the river. The scheme pro ful be- yond all aaticivation thousands of tons of wera removed and a deep opening cut through the bluff to the river by the force of the steeam, and an immenso improvement, to make which would have required the expenditure of thousunds of dollars, was performed. This wonderful well, the veer if not the superior of any cn earth, is naturally attracting widespread attention, und hundreds of peo- ple flock to the spot to view the maguificent sight. Snake River Placers, The placer mines along the Snake river are attracting more and more attention. It has loug been known that there were iw- mense quantities of gold along that stream, but it wus 50 fine that miners heretofors have not cared to_bother with it. ‘Many of the banks cannot be worked, but it 1s found s of low bars will return good and Golden, from o bar near Warm Springs ferry, have just brought in three and & hall ounces of pure gold. In all they have realized §00 from fifty cubic yards of dirt worked in a rocker. They bave aclaim of forty acres, which is found to grow scher as they get further from the river. The Dakota & Wyomiug Hoad, A special correspondent of the Deadwood Pioneer of recent date, has the following o say in regard to the Dakota & Wyowming rallroad now being constructed westward from Rapid City: It is & matter of sur- prise in these hard times that Mr. Coad succoeded 1 keeping up work, even in swall way, on his Dukota & Wyoming road. Ho has now eight miles of excéllent roadbed ironed and in operation. Beyond the west- eru terminus of the track many bridges are in place, the timbers for ‘all pelween that point and Mystic ure delivered sud a Iarge part of the grade is ready for the ties. All the work one in the past six months has been Xlld for promptly. Several | wealthy stookholders have goneover the line this week, investigated the prospects for busines and declare themselves highly | pleased. One of these gontlemen stated un- equivocally, before leaving for the east, that there will soon be enough money available 10 push the road to Wyoming and eastward from Rapid City to the Missouri river. I have been convinced that. Mr. Coad will secure the completion of the road. When he does it will be o great day for Rapud City. But will it not also be & great day for the entire Black Hills?" Nebraska Fairs. Dates for fairs in Nebraska have been set as follows : Omaha Fair—September 5 to 8. State Fair—Lincoln, September § to 15. Adams County—Hastings, September & t07. Antelove—Neligh, Septembor 20 to 23, Boone—Albion, September 20 to 23 Boyd—Butte, September 27 to 2. Brown—Long Pine, September 25 to 50, Buffalo—Kearney, September 10 to 22, Burt—Tekamah, September 20 to 22, Butler—David City, September 19 to 23, Cedar—Hariington, Septem ber 26 to 25, Clay—Clay Centor, August 20 to Septem- ber 1. Colfax—Schuyler, September 4 to 7. Custer—Broken Bow, October § to 6. n(:nnmmy District—Callaway, September 20 t 3 Cuming—West Point, September 27 to 30. Deel— s Dixon—Ponca, September 12 to 15. Dodge ~Fremont, September 18 to 21 Fillmore—Geneva, September 19 to 22, Hall—Grand Island, September 25 to 20 Hamilion—Aurora, September 5 to 8. Harlan—Stamford mber 27 to 20. Hiteheock—Culbertson, September 19 to 22, Holt—O'Neill, Octobor 5 to 7. Jefferson—Fairbury, September 27 to 20. polohnson—Tecumseh, August 30 to Septem- er 1. Knox—Creighton, September 5 to 7. Lancaster—Lincoln, September 8 to 15. Madison—Madison, September 19 to 23, Nemaha-—Auburn, September 26 to 20. " N\ln'kulla\ANulsun, August 20 to Septem- ber 1. Pawnee—Pawnee City, September 5 t0 9. Perkins~-Madrid, September 23 to 23, Platte—Humphrey, September 25 to 27, Platte—Columbus, September 27 to 29 Polk—Osceolu, September 5 to 8. Red Willow—Indianola, Septomber 5 to 9. Republican Valley ~District—August 22 Sheridan—Rushyille, September 26 t Seward— stember 26 to 20, Stanton—Stanton, October 3 to Thayer —Hebron, September 27 to 30, York—York, September 19 to Washington—Blair, September 26 to 29, Wayne—Wayne, September 20 to 2. Neobraskn and Nebraskans, The Burlington has reduced its force at ‘Wymore. Modern Woodmen will picnic at Arlington Wednesday. George Hoy of Wabash is a candidate for the republican nomination as registor of deeds of Cass county. William Bricknell, a resident of Nebraska City since 1871, died of paralysis at his home in the eightieth year of his age. The city fathers of Osceola have passed an ordinance imposing a fine of 20 on persons riding a bicycle on the sidewaiks. The fifth annual meeting and basket picnic of tho Dodge County Old Settlers’ association will be held on the Chautauqua grounds at Fremont Monday, September 11. W. A. Whitcomb of Friend, a veteran of the iate war, hasentered in the five mile forced march which takes place at the national encampment at Indianapolis. Judge Crawford of West Point carries a cane that is an oddity. It is a hickory stiok, said to have been cut from a tree near Jefferson’s tomb, and is covered with fine carvings of rabbits, squirrels, serpents, etc. It also has several inscriptions carved on it, among which are Jeffersou’s name, date of his birth and death, ete. It was given to him by Judge Valentine aud is prized very ghly. According to the Osceola Record, the crop prospects in Polk county have undergone a change in the past two weeks. Three re- markably hot, dry s the first of last week injured the corn very materially. Conservative farmers from different paris of the county estimate the crop at less than a half yield; some even as low as a third. ‘We have lots of faith in Polk county yet, however, for the drouth is general and "ol states farther east are complaining about as much of the dry weather as is Nebraska. Last tall Robert Smith sold his farm of 160 acres near Warnerville for $3,200, and, load- ing his personal effects into a wagon, sterted south to the land of promise. After wander- ing around Missouri, Kans: nd Oklahowma the greater portion of a year, and failing to find any location that suited him, he re- turned to Madison county recently and pur- chased from R. C. Milligan eighty acres three miles west of Norfolk, paying therefor 200, or §27.50 an acre, nearly once and a half as much as he received for his farm last fall. ‘While Mrs. Senkbeil and her daughter were returning in a spring wagon from and Island to her home about five miles east of town the horses suddenly commenced o run. This gave a sudden and violent mo- tion to the wagon, which made the seat on which the ladies were sitting, turn back- wards, o that both of them fell from the wagon to the ground. Miss Senkbeil escaped without injury, but her mother was hurt on the back and breast. Mrs. Senkbeil will have to suffer and stay in bed for awhile, but she will recover. While trying to ss Bear creek near Beatrice, W. H. mith had a close call. He was on his way home and found the wholo creek vailoy ecast of the bridge flooded almost deep enough to swim a_horse. Though unable to swim he endeavored 10 cross with his horso and cart. The horse probably stepped in a hole and stumblod, anyway the next thing Mr. Smith knew he was in the rapid current and_driiting down stream, bringing up in & _tree a short dis- tance below. Tho horse and cart came down aganst him a fow minutes later and by hard work the horse was unhitched, and started for the shore, Mr. Smith hanging on 10 his mane, E. F. Chittenden of York county wasa callor at the Osceola Record oftico last week. Ho is o farmer and an old soldier, and a physical wreek. Ho had boen ordered to Osceola for oxamination before the pension board of that city. A short time since he re- ceived notice that his pension was suspended and would be reduced from 0 to $6 per month unless he proved that ho was not a perjurer and thiof and had not been drawing a 820 pension for soveral years when ho was not entitled to it by law or right, This will put the old veteran to a great deal of ex- pense and trouble and he may not then be able to prove this right, for witnesses will die and men who vy their testimony aided him in getting s pension granted ,may not be alive today. volos ome ore from the 1, last week assayed nearly §10,000, + A carload of ore recently shipped from the Golden Fleace gave a gross yield of #30,000. A large body of rich ore is reported to have been struck in the Cramer mine, Ful- ford camp. A month ago over 1,000 men were empl in the mines at Silver Plume, but now barely fifty mon ave at work. The rail will at the Pueblo steel works has resumed work, Over #40,000 will be put in circulation when all hands are paid. Mill dirt of the National mine, Gilpin, runs three and four ounces in gold to the card. The swelting ore is worth $40 to 80 per ton. A cleanup was made Thureduy at the Rosebud mill from a run on Keclipse ore. It a saving of #0 per ton from plates do, mine, Silver Work is to be resumed on the Little Per Cent, three miles below Pitkin, which 1 the early days furnished su ussay of §65,000 gold o the ton. The White Crow, cently shipped o yielded $300 per ruus higher. There was a severo el Plume, Colo., a fow days ago. The elec- trioity’ entered the mines and guve the miners several bad shocks. A large number of the Italians formerly employed i the smelters at Pueblo, who are anxious o retura to their own country. are endeavoring 10 get their deposits in the Suushine district, re- carload of ore which ton. The first grade ore tric storm at Silver closed national banks. It is claimed that THE OMAHA DAILY BE there 1s a treaty by which the banks will be compelled to pay them forthwith, and the Italian mmister at Washington is now act- ing in the matter. Confidence is increasing in the placors at Twenty-mile park near Steamboat Springs A largo area has been taken. The dirt is said to give 5 cents a pan on the average. ome ore from the Mountain Boy lode in Trout creek district, one and a half miles southoast of Buena Vista, assays eighty-two ounces gold, or £1,640 to the ton. It is free milting. A recent test of ore from the Orphan Boy, Park county, shows 2,400 ounces_silver, five | ounces gold and some lead. The mine is shipping thirty tons a day to the Globe and Argo smelters, The Zenobia mine, Cripple creek, expects 10 ship seventy-five tons of smeliing ore to this city before August ends, and about 200 t to the stamp mills. ' The mill dirt yields from $12 to 20 per ton. Moynahan & Wilson have struck a blow- out in the Substitute mine, Mount Bears, Park county. This property adjoins the Great West, where seven men took out $70,000 in a month from a blow-out struck soveral yoars ago The quarterly statement of the Horn Sil- ver Mining company, for the period ending June 90, is out. During that time the com- pany has sold oro to the amount of $134, 809,83, puid $50,000 in dividends, disbursed #33,541.08 at the mine, At Estes park an Enclish company has obtained a charter for making a reservoir of Willow park. A large masonry dam will be built across the entrance. The water will be 100 feet deep and will cover several acres. The estimated cost is $1,000,000. The Colorado Fuel and Iron company has closed down its iron mine at Orient” and thrown out of employment 200 men, who are now in Denver. This has resulted in cutting off a market for all produce in_Villa Grove and a revenue of $1,000 daily from the Rio Grande road. Charles Hall lost about $20,000 worth of ore by the last rains in tho Superstition mountains, The water came down the gulch in which the mine is situated and carried away the whole dump of rich ore that has been piled up to run through the mill now in course of erection. The Gould company, which owns the Rhinocerous at Cripple 'Creek, claims that the property was located November 28, 1801, and filed for record January 23, 1892, and that the location of the Little Crissie com- pany, the Pueblo claimant, was not made until May 14, 1802, and not filed until June 8. Excitement over the sheep trouBleat Para- chute creck continues unabated. Brown Lynn's shoep were driven out by cowboys on Sunday, but are now being driven back by sheep men, who say they will not stay out. The cowboys say they must go or blood will be shed. Notices have been served on all the sheep men on the disputed rango to va- catoat once. Sherft Thomas of Garfield county is on the ground. The situation is more serious than at any time during the recent plateau trouble. The disputed range is full of armed men, The Dakotas. J. W. Lamb, aged 80, and Mrs. Jane Har- ris, aged 71, wero marriod the other day at Pierro. Several romarkablo cures have been ef- foctod by using the magnetized mineral wator that flows from the artesian well in Pierre. William Moore, n millionaire knit goods manufacturer of Cohoes, 60 years of age, has secured a South Dakota divorce and cele- brated the ovent by giving a champagne supper to his frionds in the divorce colony at Sioux Falls. County Judge John T. Kean of Woonsocket, has just declared the game law of this state null and void, and says that prairie chickens may be shot and killed av any_time of the year without trespassing on the law. The last legislature, while attempting to amend the law, repealed all law on the subject. Judge Kean is a well informed attorney und his decision will not bo questioned in legal circles. The first boat load of coal from the Mercer county, North Dakota, mines was taken out recently by the Plenty Coal Mining company for transportation down the Missourl. Un- fortunately, however, the barge on which tho coal was loaded met with an accident be- foro reaching Bismarck and sank in tho river. The load consisted of 10 tons and thore scems but little prospect of -saving either barge or cargo. It1s definitely ascer covery made by Noah Siever some weeks ago on Baro Butte creek, near Galena, carries tin in sufiicent quantities to warrant further development work. ~An open cut has been made on_the side hill fifteen feet in length and & twelve-foot face, showing tho vein to be in place and three feet wide, the apox of the vein being nine feot below the surface. The ledgo has boen tracod west- erly to Ruby guleh, about a mile distant. The striking of an artesian weil at Bello Fourche proves that the artesian basin ex- tends further west than shas been sunposed. This well was sunk simply to ascertain whether or not the basin did’ extend so far west, and now that it resulted satisfactorily, numerous wells will be sunk in the Black Hills_region. South Dukota has liberal laws for the sinking of artesian wells by the townships, and the provisions of theso laws will be followed by the Black Hills counties. A prospecting party has jusv returned from tho northwestern part of South Da- kota. The trip was of some weeks dura- tion, and consiaerable country was traveled over. The object of the trip was to examine a vein of coal which had been discovered some time ago, and the members of the party are well satisfied with the result of the trip. The conl is thero, but as yet the party does not care to give the exact location. Another wip will be made from Chamber- lainin the near future, when a sufilcient number of mining implements will be taken w make a thorough inspection of the extent and thickness of the vein, Orogon, Douglas county plum trees have to bo propped up to keep them from breaking down by the weight of tho fruit, It is estimated that the Sladden fruit farm, noar Eugene, will vroduce 200,000 pounds of green fruit this year, principally prunes. It will require quite an amount of help to place tho product in proper condition for the marker. Mr. Lee May of Albany is buying 5,000 tous of hay in’ Washington to ship to Eng- land, paying $12 for iv. It will cost $10 a ton 10 got it to lingland, The price anticivated is 350 4 ton, in. which ovent Mr. Lee May will clear over $100,000 by the transaction. R. Kiger of Corvallis has o fow acres of a new varicty of fall wheat which is of mam- moth size. He has sent by express a lot of this large wheat to the Oregon oxhibit at the World's fair. Thosample scnt was besuti- ful and cannot but attract a.tention, Mr. Kiger says ho has heen offerod $5 for o bushel of this wheat, but refused it, us he will uso all that he raises this season for sced next year, Forest fires aro now raging more fu \ than ever known before in the Santiam country. One fire near Lecdy's mill is mak- ing its way eastward, and another north of i wood neadway in_the same miles cast of Idanha is unother.' The most furious one, and one that iy spreading in all divections, is five iles up the Breitenbush, There is no vos- sible chanco of checking the fires untl in. Millions of feet of fine royed iu the meantime. Washington, Gold bricks weizhing #2,500 are beivg sent 'l.u Seattle from the Peshastin mining ais- rict. A Umatilla reservation farmer has 7,000 acres of wheat that is going forty bushels to the acre. A 10-cent rise in the price of wheat would net him the snugsum of §28,000, 2. 0. Benjamin, a professional diver of Seattle, has been engaged o scrape the bottom of Ruby creek and otber streams of the Ruby creek district for gold. ‘Ihe work is dangerous on account of the swifiness of the current. Considerable excitement prevails at Cle- Elum over news of the discoy of an im- mense deposit of natize copper on the Upper Teanawny and in the Peshastin and Trout lake miveral belt. Tests indicate the pres- ence of considerable silvor in the copper ore. The aiscoveric mado by N. F. Beverly of Seattle and Williaw Branam of Cl lum, otion of the track on the Everett & Monte Cristo railroad will soon make it possiblo for ore to bo shipped to the swolier. Devalopment work and stoping is in active progress, and the trams from the Wilmans' s will be completed by the time the adition for regular trafc, and 180 there will ba several hun- dred tons of ure ready for shipment, Be- fore winter sets in Monte Cristo will be a ined that the dis- directi MONDAY, AUGUSI 21, 1893, rogularly producing mining camp and will be realizing the predictions faade for it. The flag polo on the Seattle court house is 112 feet high and it has been needing a coat of paint badly for some tiiiib, The othor day & man took the contract agdithrilled passersby by scaling it swith nothing more than a pair of lino repairer's climbers and unosten- tatiously sot to work. The water of BellingHath bay now to present an ufwsually pe pearance. Viewed {rop different vlaces it presents a variety of Colors, the prevailing tint being purple. 1t % snid the apparent discoloration is sumply an optical illusion, as the water is really all of ane color. Prospectors _returnipg, from the Hoodoo mines in the Caur d'Alene mountains, sixty miles east of Colfax, bring a good deal of gold dust from the placers and a few nug- gots. Experienced miners, who have been there, declare that before long the Hoodoo will be one of the best gold producing camps in the world. Several outfits from various parts of Palouse are préparing to go up on prospecting trip of & month or six weeks, It is reported that a company has been formed, and is now securing a_subsidy of about 200 acres of land and a half interest in the Suoqualmie miues, in veturn for which a large smelter is to be put up. 'The company agrees that it shall cost not less than $30,000, that 210,000 in machinery shall be placed by Fobruary 1, and _that everythine shall be completed within ten months from August 1. Also that for two months thereafter it will work sixty tons of ore each day. Miscellaneous, A national irrigation congress will bo held at Los Angeles, Cal., October 10. The new Salt Lake smelter has contracted for 100,000 tons of ore from Seven Devils, 1daho. It has to bo bauled sever.ty miles to the railroad. By a recent decision 8,100 acres of rich mineral land in the old Canon del Ague grant in southern Santa Fe county are to be thrown open as public domain. Chief Justice Reod has rendered an opinion confirming the Coya del Rio grant, a_tract 0f 76,000 ncres of fine grazing land _bordering on the Rio Grande for thirteen miles near Sante Fe. It includes some valuable mineral springs. The ownors of the Kootenny hydraulic placor mines have been troubled by & wash- out of vart of their flume, but no serious damago was done. Superintendent Goodhuo is now in Portland purchasing more machinery. Range cattlo are bringing about the lowest price now they ever did on the Chicago mar- ket. ‘Many large outfits have stopped ship- ping, and the advice sent to the cattlemon from the markets is to hold on to their stock for the present. Mike Leary, James Brogon, Con Leehan and John Leity arrived at Boiso Wednesday corville, Idaho, with $23,000 in gold dust, the result of a threo months run with thoit hydraulic plant, which they operated night and day with a force of twenty-five men, John I, Armit, who has been prospecting inthe Davis brothers' placer at Gibbons- ville, 1daho, on_which he has a bond, took out €80 in ten days, with two men. There is a revival of placer mining in Lemhi county, companies with large capital taking hold and digging long ditches to work on a big scale. Partics arriving from the country beyond the Yosemite report that a band of 2,000 shoep has been lost tharo,. The sheep wan- dered on the government reservation and the soldiers drove them off and into the country so rugged and placos so inaccessible that when the herders, followed and tried to collect the scattered band only a few could bo found. A company of prospactors are reported to have found the famouns Lost Cabin gold mine in the Wind River - mountains. They claim that the cabin .is demolished to a great extent and was built of logs without the use of an ax and was about eleven feet square. There is an old placer digging near the cabin. In three pans they got about $2 worth of gold. A 4-inch vein of quartz cut in the Oest mine at Silver City, Nev.; shows an average assay value of $1,000 per ton in gold. Two mine carloads taken from the vein (about 8,000 pounds) are estimated to bo worth 31,400. The Ogst operated by five practical miners, who receive $ a day and 20 per cent of the net bullion proceeds. If no ore is ex- tracted they receive:no pay for their labor. J. M. Shackleton and Colonel Fish have returned from their placer grounds, opposite the Kootenay hydraulic works at Waneta. They revort that the grounds are much richer than they thought at first. Some men whom they have at work easily aver- aged $5 a day in washing out with~ simple pan. Steps will be taken by the owners to put’in hydraulic works the coming sum- mer. Two Colorado miners have been out in the vicinity of the Emma G gold strike and re- port that they have struck the right kind of rock a mile and a half back from the Emma G, and they believe that if there is a mine out there they have it. They brought in some ore upon which freegold is plainly vis- ible. They hope to be abie to ship to Den- ver. The discovery is in a granite forma- tion. Gilbert Fay is contemplating a visit to the sulphur hot springs in the Big' Horn moun- tains in Wyoming, about 300 miles from . They have been highly recommended as a sure cure for rheumatism, It is said that the sulphur is so_strong that i n be smelled for many miles, aud the water is 50 strongly imprognated that sul- phur crystals form along tho edges of tho stream. The thred men who are now working the vlacers near Cargo Muchacho, Arviz, have taken out some vich dirt recently. One day they took out $200, while some penses were not paid, The gold is coarse, tho largest nugget being worth $0. The depth to bedrock is from forty to sixty feet. The wholo country thereabouts has been dug over, but this little spot has hitherto es- caped the mine ‘I'he rich gold quartz and placer district of Cold Springs and Animas Peak, a few miles north of Kingston. N. M., commonly called the Hillsboro mines, from the factof that being the nearest supply point, ure assum- ing very tangible shape for a busy season of work. The big tununel through the peak, that will be over 3,000 feet in length, is pro- gressing at the rate of six feet a day since tho new machinery for tunnelling was addea. Mr. Gratz returncd to Laramie a few days ago from a successful wolf hunt. He re- ports finding a CY steer that is a great riosity. ‘Che animal has horns which grow down nearly under its chin and then the poiuts turn out. The hind legs are shorter than the front ones. ii hasa big hump on its shoulders. 1ts front hoofs turn up like its horns, while the nside half of each hind hoof 'turns outward, bends up over the outside haif and then turns upw also, like tho horns, The other cattle se 10 be ufraid of the steer, and shu it, leaving it without companionsiip, Operations in vhe Utgh Consolidated have been suspended. Expiorations in that mine have been in pr s for the past twenty ud during thav time assessments n lovied on the property aggregat- 20,000, Latterly only two men have been employed in underground work. The failure of “the sharcholders to pay the last assessment is the cawse of tho shutdown, Experienced miners have always contended that the Utah is not on the Comstock lode, which, they assert, swings sharply to the eustward some distancasouth of the south- ern boundary of that mine, and the failure to find ore in paying quantities after thor- oughly explorimg the vground above the water level inuicates shut their opinion is correct, il id just P L Young Sawbones Asglgned to Cities, Surgeon General (Sternberg has de- termined upon an_important change in the system of assigning medical ofticers for duty as attending surgeons to officors and their families in New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco and St. Louis. The custcm heretofore has been to give these details of three or four years 10 the older medi- cal officers of the army, but it is intended to detail medical officers who have only rvocently attained the rank of captain, the purpose being to enable these officers to make themselves, familiar with the practico of the leading physicians and surgeons in eivil life and to attend lec- tures and meetings of the medical as- sociations. The senior medical officers who have heretofore been station in the several large cities as attending sur- goons will be required to perform the more responsible duties of post surgeons | in the various wilitary depariments. FEAR PRODUCES IDLENESS Free Trade Threats a Potent Faotor in Business Deprossion. EFFECT ON IRON ORE INDUSTRIES The Tarff a Balwark Against Cheap Labor Products — Remove it and Ruln Follows—Views of the Miners of Michigan, Manquerre, Mich., Aug. 12.—[Correspond: enco of Tur Brr]—In all tho periods of financial depression that have herotofore overtaken the Unitod States, the iron mdus- try in its various branches has first felt its effccts. The iron works are first in num- ber, first in value of products and more nearly in touch with the people than any other class of product manufactured, In looking for cause of disturbance in financial flurries, we must look to those who -pro- duce tho raw materlal for reasons why they cannot mino cheaper and sell cheaper, or why thoy cannot mine at all. 0 present oxisting tarift on iron ore is 75 cents per ton. But for this impost, there is not a mine in either Wisconsin or Michi- gan that could mine and ship a ton of ore at a profit, and even with this impost there is mined and shipped to this country from Cuba vast quantities of ore. This Cuban oro is shipped as far west as Pittsburgh, and wero the tariff taken off it could be shipped as much further west at 75 cents (the tariff) would pay the freight. There are hundreds of people who read this article who, with an income of from £2,000 to §3,000 a year or more, say: “If the miners did not_receive such largo wages," ete. 1 would like to ask such persons: “Could you biing up a family, educate and clothe them on an income of $1.50 per day?" This is the average amount that the avor- age miner and helper in and out of a mine receives. Cuban miners receive less than 50 cents per day, and it is no wonder they can compete with us. The democratic party assembled at Chicago asa cardinal principle affirmed that *‘the tariff should be reduced to a basis of revenue only.” The democratic state convention of Ohio of two days since reaflirmed this dac- trino. Now can any _sane man wonder that with “tanff rovision” staring them in tho face, the wreat rolling mill magnates refuse to buy further stocke of ore, or that the mines refuso to produce more? T wish to take one town in Michigan and illustrate by actual figures taken from onc who is thoroughly posted and who is as good authority on such subjects nsany man in ichigan. Irefor to Captain Scadden of ystal Ialls, manager of three of the largest mines there. One year ago the group of mines in and adjacent to Crystal Falls comprised the fol- lowing, and employing about the number of hands given: Productlon —to 160, 15,000 , 000 1000 ,000 100,000 100,000 50000 000 40000 75,000 Crystal Fulls 60,000 35,000 May Mansticia : 100,000 Of all these numed tho last one is the sole mine now being operated. On orders pre- viously taken over a year ago, and on_which a balance is unshipped, there'are still ship- ments boing mado from_the stock piles. Ordinarily thereare about 500,000 tons carried on stock Diles. A3 present therc are ouly about 160,000 tons on hand. Of all these mines named but six are being kept pumped out, with a_strong liklihood that ouly two_will continue. When these mines are filled with water they rapidly lose in value, 1t costing from 3,000 to 36,000 to “pump them out and takes from oneto six months. Thereis a reason, of course, for their stopping. Go to any mine owner and his answer is exactly what twenty others will give, “The rolling mills refuse to buy until they know whother congress will tako off the tariff. If 1t does they can buy cheaper and until the matter is settled we will not mine or they buy. Now whother & man is a democrat or whether he is a republican, theso facts speak for th ves and tho conclusions are and need no prejudices one way or t0 assist in making the deductions. 1t is only repotition to speak of the lumber i but I cannot in from giving s of Mr. Foster of tho Harmon Lumber company of Foster City, Mich: “Wo are making no new sales of lumber. Buyers refuse to purchase unul they know whether anadian lumber is to be admitted freo of duty. If no change is mado in the present, tariff, wo will make a heavy cut of logs this wint 3 1 visited a mino in Ishpeming, Mich., yes- torday. where a new method of loading “oro into cars is in operation. A steam shovel does the business, and loads a car in just four minutes. 1 walkea dry shod clear through Lake Angeline. This lake was a beautiful'sheet of water about a mile long and a quarter wide, with an_averago depth of fiftoen foot, but there wera two qr threo mines whose richest oro laid under the lake and the water interforod with mining, 30 they went to work and pumped the lake dry. While providence has not been very lavish with farming lands up_here, yet it~ spread rocks around in very careless manner. Some of the rocks are valuable. 1 am now refer- ing to a mine of white marble just discovered at_Foster City, Mich. The Northwestern railroad is now putting in a branch two and one-half miles long to the quarry. Tho marbla is a clear whito aud_compares favor- ably with any I ever saw. A large block was taken out and sent to Chicago to see if it would take a_high polish, and if the edges would cut well and nov crumble. 1am in- formed that the owners will at once begin to quarry and ship. “The streets of most any mining town be- come 50 impregnated wivh iron that fifteen minutes waik in the dust will convert a pair of black shoes into a fair imitation of rus- sott shoes, the soil up here being all red. “'ho silver question dues not meet with the consideration in this country that I think iv is entitled to, Bvery one here who thinksat all is interested in the tariff It is that which affects this section, and brings either prospority orits opnosi man_put this querys tome the ovh ron in ancient times passed as mon ow, if 60 cents worth of silver is, with government fiat, zood for o dollar,” why wouldn't 1 cent Worth of iron with government stamp pass asa dollar! Better stll—if 1t is the govern- mp that makes the why won't s do alone.” Hands. 260 80 Lumont 8 Claire. . Young: Columbian. Dunn... 1 Mastodon Ama: e ——— ELECTRICAL NOT There are 581,000 miles of telograph. London omnibuses bave electric lights. Iurope has 270 miles of clectric roads, A New York electrician is building an air- ship which he claims will solve the problem ot wrial navigation beyond a doubt. The electriv railway has penetrated even the fastnesses of the Tyrolese mouniains, a road Lwenty-seven milos long being pro- jected between Riva and Pinzolo. The first electric organ Lo reach this coun- tey has arrived at the Boston custom house from England. It has been built for St. " church, Taunton. Another curious Tmportation is a *biblo wagon.” whica has arrived from Glasgow. It is an elaborate affair, strangely fasbioned and bright witn varnish and gilding, 1t is equipped with seats, book racks and a high pulpit, which, with its stand. is mounted on a swivel and can be *aimed” in any direction, W. H. I has given it us his that elec v will eventually provide the poor mau's light. ‘I'he electric motor 13 destined to be the poor mechanic’s frieud. Its wanagement aud control is simple, its service is in direct and immodiate command . It requires no regular engiveer or fuel and in economy of space occupied it has no competitor. In some instances, where neoded for intermittent use, power cau be furnisned at one-tenth to one-fifth of the pinion cost of steam. The renting of electric power | in small quantities to artisans is cortatn to | become a remunerative and genoral enter- prise, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC Tn 180 0,753 pleces of muslo wore publistied in Germany and 5,578 in France. This year Franco wiil pass the 6,000 limit. Mr. Willism H. Crane will open his season in “Brother John" in Pittsburg early in Sep- tember. From there he will go to Chicago to remain six weeks at McVicker's theater The Hanlons' “‘Fantasma™ company begin their tour September 4 in Detroit. The famotis old spectaclo will be given with en- tirely new sconery, costumes and acces- sorios, The cast of “As You Like It," an open air performance of which is to be given at_the World's fair on August 20, will include Joseph Jofferson, Richard Mansflold, Frank Mayo, Rose Coghlan ana Lotta, Manager John D. Hopkins of the Trans- oecanic Specialty company has signed the Lars Larsen family of acrobats, foar ladies and one gentleman. The company opens at Gitmora's Auditorium in Philadelphia August Marguerite Daly of the famous Daly family of dancers” was married in Boston last Monday to Harry R, Vokes of the ec- centric comedy pair, Ward and Vokes, who woro seen horo last with Tony Pastor's compan, A Theatrical Women's Loaguo has beon formed 1n New York. One of the objects is to supply suitable stage clothes to poor actresses when an engagement depends, as 1t somotimes does, uvon their being able to dress proverly. h Bornhardt has decided not to visit the United States 1w the Columbian year. Sho is now in South America, and will “soon rovurn to Paris to prepare for her fall and winter torm in tho theater she is going to manago for herself. _Miss Rosina Vokes is oxpected to reach New York September 1. She will remain there about ten days and then visit tho World’s fair, leaving this city about Sop- tember 15 for Butte, Mont., where she will begin hee tour September 18, Whatever the depth of the snow may be, the coming winter will afford hard slodding for many of the allezed actors now connect- ing themselves with combinations for the winter campaign. It will be an exceptionally poor season for the barnstorme Dan Emmet, the old-time minstrel, is by reason of his age and nfirmity unable to fol- low his calling, and because he is the author of “‘Dixie" the ex-Confederate association of Kansas City desires to offer him shelter for the romainder of his days m the Confederate home. The tour of Miss Maida Craigon and Fred- erick Paulding as joint stars is to be under the personal direction of Miss Craigen, with Mr. George L. Smith as the business mana- ger. Mr. Wales Winter and Hollis Alexander are additious to the company. The season opens in Albany on September 15 with “Lorine.” The financial failure of the Comedie Fran- aise company in London is ascribed com- monly to the high terms exacted by the French manager. These compelled an in- crease of thoe ordinary admission fee, and the British public did not care cnough about 3 ch acting to pay so much money for the lege of seeing it Edouard Remenyi, the violinist, under management of Hurry B. Thearle, will bo accompanied this season by his daughter, Adrienne Remenyi, who is'said to possess an excellent soprano voico. This is her first season before the public and her debut will be made early in September. Miss Remenyi, who1s now in Paris, will sail for America next week, Openings of the sensan are follows: Joseph Jefferson, Philadelphia, Oc- tober 28; Stuart Robson, September 18, Brooklyn; Sol Smith Russell,Octobor 9, New York; Alexauder Salvini, Cincinuati, Sep- tember 18; Keeno, September 4, Pittsburg; Roland Reed, August 31, Boston; Clara Mor- ris, October 3; William H. Craao and Fanny Davenport, September 18; Robert Downing, September 11; Frederick Wardo and Louis James, New York, September 11; Henry I3, Dixey, September 11; Modjeska’ and Julia Marlowe, September 18; Marie Wainwright, Newark, N. J., Seotember 4. While in London tho Theater Francais -were entertained at the French embassy. Among the guests was Mr. Gladstone, Who asked Mile. Reichenberg whether she knew John Morloy. Afraid of confessing ignoranc 80 the story goes, the nch actress replied that she did, and ad- mired him immensely. Therefore Mr. Glad- stone waxed warm in admiration of his colleague, and to all that he said Mile, Reich- enberg gave most fervent assent, As soon as the prime minister loft hershe hurried off toa friend and inquired at what th Morley acted, aund whether he was a tra- gedian or a comedian. P tann Andustrios. 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