Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 28, 1893, Page 5

— Marvelous Productive Capacity of the Mines in Bald Mountain. iDAHO'S RANK AMONG GOLD PRODUCERS Mapping the Gold Fleld-Observations Re- garding Proximity of Gold and Coal ~Contestod Dinmonds—Bite of Western News, Tecent timely rains and warm weather in- torvening have materially aided the corn erop in Nebraska ana Towa, while in South Dakota corn has mot been filling well. Weather in tha more northern sections has boen reported dry and favorable to harvests ing, which is almost completed. The only drawback loft to western prosperity is the mafketing of its products and that will be- fore loug be removed as the receipts for first shipmenta begin to swell the gold supply. Nald Mountain Resources, That the placer flelds of Bald mountain, n Sheridan county, contained buried in their depths untold millions there seems no rea- sonable doubt. From the official report of the president of the Fortunatus company, which placed an amalgamator in the field & year ago, the Sheridan Enterprise says it can be readily seen that the oficials of the Fortunatus company place the value of the ground at #1 per cublc yard—‘‘acre for acre."” [he Bucyrus amalgamator now in operation at Bald mountain, and the one from which all computed results have been made, is one of the smallest in size manu- factured. Its capacity is 500 cubic yards per day of ten hours. Pushed to its full- est limit, this means 1000 cubic yards (day and night shifts) for twenty hours. To place the value per yard upon the ground worked as given precisely by the company's officers, this means $1,000 per day. But in the hight of this summer's development work, we are in a position to state that the ground has exceeded in value the most san- guine expectations of the men interested. From $1 the real value has risen to & and again fallen to $2, allowing an average to be struck at § per cubic yard. This would increase the daily output to F3,000 per day of twenty hours. The amal- gamator was recently run for fifty-one hours, but the management is so capricious that nothing will be given for publication. In i of these facts the Enterprise has been to some trouble to discover the value of that notable run, and is in a position to statethat the result is at the present moment locked up in a Sheridan city vault in the shape of a ®old brick, the value of which may be safely estimated at from £6,000 to $7,000. The company. satisfied with the result achieved by the amalgamator last fall, pur- chased the latest improved machine of the Bucyrus pattern, and this gold saving mar- vel is &t present being erected at Bald mountain. Its weight is 120,090 pounds, and it cost nearly £5.000 to transport it from the factory to the placer fields. tween $30,000 and £40,000. just five times greater (5,000 cubic twenty bours) than the machine now being opernted, and computing the value of the ground per yard at it would clean up §15,000 per day, $105,000 per week or $450,000 per month. Allowing, for the sake of argument, that these figurcs are too high by 50 per cent, which would reduce the daily output of tie small amalzamator to $1.500 and the largest one to §7,500, thereby reducing the month’s cleanup ' to £2500; or, if the admtted figures of the Fortunatus company are taken, the small machine is catching $500 per day (of ten hours) and the month's work would show a gold result of $15.000, while the now machine’s gather would be exactly fivetimes these amounts, namely, $2,500 a_day, 75,000 per month, which goes to prove that the gold placer fields of Bald mountain, inexhaustible a8 regards material and fabulous in wealth of low grade ore, are the greatest of all the great bonanzas discovered in America. Lucius J. Boyd, mining and civil engineer, ‘who recently arrived in Sheridan and has already accepted the management of tho Dayton Gulch Placer Mining company of Bald mountain, stated that he believed the Bald mountain gold fields were destined to become the greatest bonanza of the century. Mr. Boydis a careful and practical man, having spent many years in the mines of Australin, Africa and Nova Scotia, and koows whereof he speaks. Yollow Metal in Idaho. Tdaho has ranked fifth among the dozen western states and territories as a gold pro- ducor. For the current yea yield may surpass that of either Colc do or Montana, which now outrank it. Even the output of South Dakota may be eclipsed, and Idaho will then hold_the place next to California. This new distinction for the “Gem of the Mountains” is largely due to the fact that the gold product of Idaho is not_dependent on the mining of silver,as 1s the casein Colorado_and Montana’ to a considerablo dogree. Idaho has more gold mines than silver properties. With two_oxceptions, the great proper- ties of Owyhee county will be more exten- sively worked this season than commonly. The Trade Dollar mime and mill at Silver City both stiut down when silver dropped 80 low in price. The Black Jack mino wiil not be worked and the stamps are hung up. The gold product was conside hut tho margin of protit came from De mar and Silver City and the lesser e will continue to thrive, however. cipal mines on War agle, Florida aud Do Lamar mountaios carry high value in gold. Development has been active in the Poor- man_ana Ruth mines and the two Howe. Manhattan and Lepley groups. Allof these hayve been important gold vroducers. Some have either been lying idle or worked on a small scalo, because the outlay of large capital was necessary before the ground mps The prin- could bo opened to sich an extent s to permit of & h output. All the mines enumerated a fast aporoaching that stago when large ore bodies can bo eco- nomically opened and large quantities of pay ore extracted, n addition to the big properties gre new claims and othors partially doveloped that have been abandoned for some time. All of this class will receive a large share of at- tontion in the camps and districts of South mountain, Cow creek, Mammoth, Bowlder, Roostor Camp and Succor creek. Mills have already been provided for some of these propertics. Various new processes for treat- ment of the ores have hecu the subject of exporiment or shortly will bo tested. It is imperative that the output of these mines should be handled close by to fisure a profit. Bearcity of water and lack of fuel have hith- erto provented the erection of stamp mills in some cases. But agood water supply ©could be brought into these camps at smail expense. Wood for fuel is scarce and high, but the Union Pacific has offered to greatly reduce its rates for ¢ Before this concession the big mining conpanic tract with an old Nevadan to furnish steam power by the use of sagebrush as fuel, This s been successfully tried in Nevada ana ontractor in the presend instance will operations when the flumes have n up or the supply of water runs low, This coutract and the chance that other tompanies might fall back on sugebrush probubly contributed toward the reduction o coal that the railroad emmpany voluntarily wade. The cost of running the wills in the winter will hereafter be less than usual. Quite recently hunters for gems near the now camp of Opaline, in Owyhu count, made aiscoveries of gold-bearing ledge ‘Ihey started prospecting anew and several rich finds are reported. The belt on which theso strikes w ado runs from Snake river to the camps of Silver City and Do Lan Miners who were thrown out of work by the closivg down of the silver wines will devote more or less attention o these pew discoveries. In that they are tol- lowing the example of other uniortunates, who, “being without employment, bhave struck out for the mountains to develop gold prospects. ‘U'his activity bound to count to the advantage of Idaho, for its gold de- Posits have long been ignored because they were of low value. Ouly for purposes of comparison are the tatistics of the director of the United States mint of much value as regards the #old production of ldaho. The total output, according to that autbority, falls under fi\)w\m But as this refers only to the llion aud dust deposited at the United tates wints aud uumm»u the estimate Fidiculously low. ing the period whea was made one of entered into a con- GOLDEN FIELDS AND RANGES | | | | | Tdaho's yield was the greatest thoro wore no governmient depositoties for gold conveutent or the miners of that saction | According to the figures furnished by | Wells, Fargo & Co, the gold output for 1803 | was $1.700,100, This would be increased somewhat if credit was obtained for the gold oxtracted from the $2,50,000 worth of shipped ont of the state. The siiver output for Iast year was roported at §2,434,200. Con- servative estimates place the gold yiold as equal 1o that if not nearer the $3,000,000 mark, For 1503 1t is predicted that theso figures will be reached oven if they are not surpassed. An OMoial Gold Map. Assistant United States Geologist A. N. Thompson, who has charge of all the geo- logical work for the government west of the 100th parallel, told an interesting story of the important work now being carried on The mapping of the gold field, which was commenced two or three years ago, is now well on toward completion. Still two or throe important parties of geologists are now out collecting additional data One of these parties is in chargs of Wil- lard D, Johnson and is at work in the Sierra, not far from Auburn. Another party i making investigations in the mountai east of Los Angeles. Still another expedition is at work west of Rose- , Ore, in the vicinity of the old camp of Gold Hill and elsewhere in Josephine county. This partf is looking up facts ot cosl as well as. gold. Altogether the facts about the gold belt, which is looked forward vo with so much terest, especially by gold miners, will be put in succinct form for perusal in a few months, Already, as Mr. Thompson states, seventy charts show- ing many curious and valuable things about the various stratas of the gold belt have been issued. **‘We have in all,” said Geologist Thomp- son, “twenty-four different parties out this r. Some are in Wyoming, some in New Mexico and others are scattered about in different directions besides those alluded to. One of our important parties has its head- auarters at Seattle and is at work in the coal fields in the Cascade mountains near there, ‘‘In the mountains on the upper Snohomish has been found conl which approaches very near to anthracite. You know it wae said for a good while that wo had no coal in the west. About the only name they would be- stow on it, especially in the east, was lig- nite. They did not dignify it by the name of coal. They said it would make heat and steam, but was hardly worth considering. “*Now, this fecling has radically changed. They have found that we have immense fields of coal, and that 1t is of great value. Furthermore we are finding better coal all the time. Ono of the things wo are working on at tho present is to ascertain how near the coal and gold lie to each other, and what the functions and conditions are. 'In a short time we will have compiled some valuable facts in reference to this.” ‘Whose Dinmonds? Mrs. Burt claims to have madea very valuable find of diamonds and is advertising for the owner. She sho was walking recently, when she noticed a small packago halt covered with dust and lying in the ho picked 1t up and found that it contamed a diamond necklace, two dinmond screws, a dianond ring and aiamond brace- lets. She says that the whole displ worth £4,000. ~ She refuses to let H. T. Cor- son, the' representative of Mme. Lopéz of London, England, sece the stones, sunply i ng that the diamonds found do not an- tho description of the Lopez stones, h disappeared from the Cataract houso three months ago. The Lopez diamonds were lost or stolen a fow days boforo Mmo. Lopez loft her home and she did not dis- cover her loss until sho arrived in Chicago. She emploved detectives to look up the case, but no trace found until Mrs. Burt re’ ported the find as beforo state Mr. Cor- son is satisfld that Mrs. Burt has ths miss- ing diamonds and may ask the courts to compel her to submit them to inspection. There were six dismonds lost by Mme. Lopez which were worth $3,000. Revival of Old Yama Mines. September 1 a large English company, to- gether with several home capitalists, includ- ing Wilbur and Chandler, and A. Caldwell of Riversido and L. C. Moreland, wili begin working the placer claims about fifteen miles above Yuma on tho California side of the Colorado river. Immenso pumping works have been erected, one on the banks of the river with 500-horse power, which will raiso- a large stream of water to the high bluffs above, from where it will bo conveyed in steel pipes to the placer mines, four miles away. Aftor the water is used once it will be again pumped back by a second pumping plant and used overand over again, The plant is completed except for the laying of the pipe line. 1t is thought that about 800 men will be employed on the day and nieht shifts. Contra for labor are being made. Some old miners from this city have been employed. These mines have been worked for fift ars by Mexicans with dry-washers and by cking dirt to the riv Hundreds of thousands of dollars have thus been taken out., Colorado, The Summit, Crippla Creck, has made a cleanup of #3,600 for a day’s run. One man found an ounce of gold in a single day in the Cripple Creck placer last week. A big strike of $200 ore is reported in the east lovel of the Manhattan, Boulder county. Gold Hill, near Aspen, is producing some fine specimens. Some assays run 165 ounces gold. A placer machmne for working vhe dirt dry is being tésted at Cripple Creels. It throws the light stuff back while the metal goes for- ward, A strike yielding $10,000 to the ton, assay values, is raported in the Brooklyn, located southwest of the Pharmacist, Cripple Creok district. Atadepth of thirty-five feet the Little Pittsburg has brought to hght a pay seam on which a mill run of $09.63 was obtained. ‘This is the leading property in the Turke; Creek section, I mountain, Ward aistrict, Boulder county, the Rardon brothers have seven feet of fro2 milling ore that runs#7 per ton on the plates, The ercction of @ large stamp mill is under consideration, ‘The mountains around Turkey creek are re- ceiving names. ‘The mountain on which the Pittsburg property is located is named Pittsburg mountain and contains some of the richest property I the camp, bearing a resomblance to Bull mountain in Cripple crock, ‘The necessary steps are being taken by the peoplo of Turkey croek to have a posi- office, The name determiued on is Turkey Falis. A number of capitalists havo come into tho camp and will be located thero per- manently, causing the erection of a nuniber of new buildings. ‘The meeting of the sheep and cattlemen of Mesa and Garfield counties was well at- tended and good feeling prevailed, 1t was agreed Lo “appoint a comniittee to mako boundary lines for the sheep and cattle and thus avoid furthor trouble. This stops the parachute trouble, but does not affect tho plateau countr; Miss Brown, age and deseription not given, conducts a restaurant in vhe Yuunkeo Hill gold district, Clear Creek county. She has ovidently caught the fever, for in ad. dition to the prosaic employment of aishing out coffoo and soup to hungry prospectors, Miss Brown is developiug, with tie assist ance of two men, the northeaster exten- sion to the Surprise lode. Very rich float has been found, but as yet the vein is not located. A wild cat and a grav wolf have besn causing a great deal of commotion in th vicinity of the Santa Fe shops at Deny The animals escaped Iast week from the men le which has been stranded for the winter in Valverde. The per had a lively time in attempting o recapture the caf. f£arly the next morning Mrs. Rice of North Idaho street, he: loud noise, rushed to tae door gnd saw nimal ‘rotreating with the house Winnie" in its teeth. The smaller animal was fighting gamely and its yells could be heard a block away. The ueighbors were aroused and gave pursuit Armed with brooms and sticks they chasod the amumals up Dakota street. The larger animal, which proved to be the Kru{ e, dropped its feline victim, and leaving®he mutilated tabby lying in the strect, escaped in wo alley. The wolf has also succeeded in getting the best of several dogs that have been put upon its trail. The Dakotas. Senator Kyle has wtroduced a bill chang- iug time aud places of holding United States court in South Dakota. The tenth artesian well i Brule county is now being flnished in Sory Lake towaship. It is eight inches in diamieter all the way down, and hias & flow now that rises eighteen Inches above the top of the pipe. ‘This county intentds to bave a flowing well in every township. Over 1,000 new sottlers have entered on the newly coded reservation lands between Sturgis and Chamberlain since the first day { of last January. A new problem now confronts the North Dakota farmer and that {8 how to market his wheat crop. In many localities the elovators will not open either to buy or store wheat. Chicken stiooting near Bottineau, S. D, is fair, but the birds are very wild. TLocal sportsmen and farmers are posting notices as provided by the state law and trespassing will be prosecuted. Tho steamer Last Chance is engaged in hauling 6,000 bushels of wheat and 1,000 bushels of flax from Charles Mix county to Chamberlain. Most of the grain will be stored for better prices 1t ia reported today that rich placer ground has been found in the Black Hills about one and a nhalf miles from ‘“‘Indian Johnny's" place. The find is supposed to be on a branch of Horse creek. estimated that the yield of wheat in South Dakota this year will reach 85,000,000 bushels, 50,000,000 busheis in North Dakota and 45,000,000 in Minnesota, or a total of 180,000,000 bush els for the three states. Quite a rich find ot coal is reported from Bassko, one of tho new towns south of For- man, N. D, In the Sisseton reservation. The voin was discovered by a farmer while digging a well, and the coal is said to bo of very good quality. ‘The socretary of the Corn Belt association of South Dakota has sent out notices an- nouncing that the association will hold its annual meoting at Canton on August20. He calls attention to the corn belt exposition to be held at Mitchell this fall, and the im- portance of having each county well repro- sentod thero. Dr. Edward Mitscherlich of the Imperial Agricultural museum, St. Petersburg, and imperial Russian commissioner to the World’s fair, came to Grand Forks, N. D., to conduct an official investigation of agri- cultural mothods in the Red river valloy, with particular reference to improved farm machinery with a view to its introduction in Russia. The shooting season has commenced and the birds aro being slaughtered in large numbers. Ducks aro very plentiful, the nu- merous lakes and sloughs round about For- man, N. D.. being u favorito breeding place for aquatic birds of all kinds, The variety of ducks is groater than usual, though the spoonbills and teals are most numerous. The grain fields are literally covered with chickens, and sportsmen roport the shooting the best over experienced in the country. “The town of Gettysburg is very much dis- turbed by the ungodly doings of an_evange- list named Burrows, who has boen holding a series of tent moetings thero, During an in- terviow witha_young lady regarding her spiritual welfare, he kissed her three times and otherwise behayed soas to create her suspicions. A meating of church people was held and Burrows acknowledged his oscula- tory demonstration, but claimed he had no evil intentions. The good people of Gettys- burg, however, thought differently and were talking of preparing a coat of tar aid feaihors, when the preacher doparted over- land for Blunt. Charles Thomas and brother own 200 acres of land on the Missouri river bottom, nine miles cast of Yankton. Of this 145 a under cultivation this season, as follows: Corn, 120 acres; potatoes, twenty acres; melons, five acres. The balanceis pasturc and hay land, Thoy have aiready sold 1,200 bushels of patatoes at an average price of cents. The yield of potatoes will be busnels per acre, or 3,500 bushels, which at 50 cents wonld be $1,750. The melons will average 3100 per acre, $00. At a low esti- mate the corn will yield seventy bushels per acre, or 8,400 bushels, which at 25 cents would net §,100, making the votal income for the year $4,350. 'They keep two hired men for éight months at $20; total for help, $320, leaving a balance of #3,030 for zhe two broth ers. Oregon. Dallas cows are dying of garget. Cabbage nets an Enterprise man $200 an acre. Scio hopyards will yield about pounds. 2 A Roseburg evavorator hus dried 850 tous of plums, A Union county cattle man has to travel 150 miles to pay his taxes. Huntington's depot receipts were $100 larger in July than for July of 1 Botween 1,600 and 1,800 bushels of wheat are being daily” brought in to. the Salem mills. A sheep fell intoan _ Arlington well, and was taken out unharmed when discoverod seventeen days after. Most of the letter: call an ext 400,000 asking the governor to session of the legislature are from Umatilla county, where, it is alleged, the farmers are in debt §5,000,000 and wheat is now quoted at 33 cents a bushel. “orest fires have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fine timber in Crow fereck canon. Travel was blocked on the old overland wagon road. One outfit passing through was nearly destroyed, men and horses, by the flames. ve Blodgett valley boys had an exciting eting with an old bear and her two cubs ar Mary's peak. Their only weapon was a 22-calibre target riflo. They finally killed the bear and astonishod their pavents by bringing the hide home with them, Max Friendly’s saw logsifrom up the Me- Kenzie have been safely lodged inside of the boom at Corvallis. There are 3,000 of them, and they scale a total of nearly 3,000,000 feot of the finest timber. Thoy were brought a distance of 100 miles, and the trip down oc- cupied forty-five days. Mr. Chapman, a mining man from Mexico, has bonded for sixty days about 7,000 acres of land in the Gold Hill and Willow Springs districts for about §74,000, which he will dis- pose of to an English syndicate he is repre- senting, who are figuring on prospecting it, and if feasible bring in water and placer miao the land on an extensive scale, For some time the Skagit Boom com pany which_operates oxtensively on the Skagit river, has insisted on maintainiog a boom at the mouth ot theriver, The marine en- gineors have notified the company time and again that navigation was obstructed and at the boom would have to be removed. The company ignored the notice, and now tho government has begun proceedings against it at Seattle, The strike of the stone cutters, says The Dalles Chronicle, 15 still on at ti locks, but the delay is not necessarily h; ful for the prosecution of work, There is enough stone eut Lo wore than half complete the locks and fifteen to twenty cars are being hauled in daily. As soon as the water gets below the bulkhead, which it 1s ex- pected to do within ten days, pumping will commence to exhaust the water out of the canal. The pump has already been placed. A large force of men will then be set to work laying rock for the walls, Wasuingto: Walla Walla is shipping strawberries into Spokune. A North Yakima man expeots to realize £3,000 from 20 acres of broom, cora, Noat Buroker, of Walla"Walla, is veported to have threshod 1,128 bushels of wheat from 12 acres. socond-orop 1vis reported from the upper Satsop that the elk are beginning to come down from the mountains., One settlor states that he saw o herd of no less thun thirty on one of the west forks of the river. The buildings for the Great Northern railroad shops in Spokane are all completed and the roundhouse 1s now in use. One carload of machinery has arrived and other consignuents are ou the way. Twelve hundred people who went to Sno- qualnie Falls, fifty miles cast of Seattle, on an excursion train to sce Frank Clifford make a parachute jump over the falls, which are nearly 500 feet high, witnessed the sicken- ing sight of the aeronaut bemng dashed on the rocks below, a nearly lifeless mass. R. Carruthers of Oysterville will start for Chicago in a few days with & rare commer- cial outfit. There is & crab apple swamp near Oystervi apd from ils tangled thicks Mr. Carruthers, in the course of several years, has cut and polished over 6,000 #narled and curious walking canes, He ex- “x, s Lo find sale for all of them in the wdy City. A band of sheep belonging to Cofin Br and numbering aoout 2,100 have for some time past been rangiog iu the Tietan. Last Wednesday the camp tonder rode to Tam- l:mu, leaviug a herder in sole charge. The erd, according to the latter, wade & sudde & rush for the shade of the tices and encoun- PO, tered two fallen lnflhlnh lay In the form of av. Those in were crowded for- ward in spite of the 08, and, as is usual with the unreasoning: animals, were piled oue on top of another,,those beneath being, of course, smothered tg death. In this way 486 were killod, . Miscelisnoons, - The winter feed is scarce, as hot winds have burned up all the grass all along the southern state line of Wyoming. Montana grocers and bakers propose to boycott North Dakotd flour because the con- nirl\‘ssmon of the latter state oppose free silvor. A property near Plagarville, Idaho, has ro- turned §23,000 in gold as the result of u three woeks run. Twenty meh wero employed in the work. A Green River, Wyo., sheepman announces that he will feed from 10,000 to 15,000 sheop 8t Ravenna the coming winter. This will furnish a market for 800 to 1,000 tons of hay. The Amethyst, Creede, is shipping sixty tons a day of silicious oré running not high 1n silver and easily treated. The pay roll for development work since last month was #4,000. Prank Bowers, a ranchman living near aratoga, was out hunting in the mountains when suddenly he came upon a number of wild cats foeding upon a fawn which thoy had killed. The animals resented the intru- sion of tho hunter and were so warlike in their demonstrations that he beat a hasty rotreat. It was not until he had killed six of the cats that they gave up their pursuit of him, The cement deposits twelve miles wost of Lander are being oxtensivoly prospected for gold. The Lander Gold Cement syndicate tas sixty-four surveyed locations and other parties aro taking up land. A Lander dis- patch to the Cheyenne Sunadvances the theory that the gold found i the nearby placer diggings comes from the cement. Test samples have been forwarded to Den- ver, Salt Lake and Omaha, Edward Brooker, a young Taney county, Mo., farmer, is rejoicing over a rich find of o tin can contaimng $1,500 in gold and silver coin. Mr. Brooker's farm is on White river, Eurcka Springs, Ark., and last spring dur- ing the high water he noticed an old tin vessel which had been buried on _the banks of the stream. The other day he gave the old can a kick and was surprised to tind that it was full of old gold and silver coins. Ho dug it up and found it contained a small for- tune. The coins bore dates ranging from 1850 1o 1 o il AR SUNDAY CLOSING. Omama, Aug. 2.—To the Editor of Tnr Bee: 1 saw an article in your paper en- titled, “To Close or Not to Close.” Now, if you will kindly give mo space in your col- umns, I shall endeavor to show that the statements made in that article by the boss barbers who arc opposed to Sunday closing aro ali rot and were made simply to gain public sympathy, and are really not the facts in the casi Now it is claimed by these bosses that thero is a division of sentiment in regard to Sunday closing, which I freely admit, but an overwhelming majority of this sentiment is with the working barbers,and why? Because thoy are right, and the people know it. Why should the journeymen barbers, who work from 7 o'clock in the morning until 8:30 at night and 10 o'clock Saturday night, be com- pelled to work on Sunday? Adam Morrell says there are only two of the larger shops that, are in favor of the closing ordinance. Now I wish to correct Mr. Morrell in this statement. The facts are that there are only four boss barbers who are making an open fight against Sun- day closing,and that there are thirty-two boss barbers who are in favor of closing, with their names signed to the petition which was presented to the, city council. Now if these bosses are s0 opposed to closing their shops on Sunday, why did they say in the beginning of this fight that they were in favor of closing? And yet Mr. Morrell hints that the motiyesof the boss barbers who are in_favor of closing are open to question. Why did Mr, Morrell stop me on the street about a year ago and say to me: *Why don’t you close the shops on Sunday?" And ‘when I expresged my surprise at the question—knowing hls antagonism to Sun- day closing—he replied: “Well,if they keep the saloons_open on. Sunday then I want to stay_open, bub ‘Hiow. thoy closo the saloous and I want to close. lose money every Sunday. Go ahead and close them up and Tl help you.” Messrs. Armbruster & Bayara of the Millard hint at the possible reduction of wages. There is no question but what the men will take in just us much money as they did before closing, so there would be no necessity of cutting the men’s wages. Then again these two gentlemen say that if the ordinance goes into effect that 1t will keep the traveling men nway from the city. Now this is tne most_ ridiculously absurd state- ment that has yet been made. How does this strike the general public for an argu- ment. Doesw't it look pretty gauzy? Do you think these traveling men are going to jump on the flyer and run up to Chicago just to get o Sunday shave? Choy would have to if thoy got shaved, because Kansas City, Des Moines, Sioux City, Denver, St. Paul'snd_Minneapolis are d avd Chicago wouid be the nearest point. We, as an organized body of barbers, have gone about the Sunday closing quiotly. believing and having full confidence that the men who represent us in the city council would right our wrongs and give us that day of rest which is given to us by the laws of God and man and which rightfully belones to us—Sunday. W. M. Sy, President Journoymen Barbers Union, There nre threo things worth saving— time, troublo and money—and De Witt's Little Early Risers will save them for you. These little pills will save you time, as thoy act promptly. They will save you rouble, as they ca use no patn. They will i‘l‘lu Yyoumoney, us they economize doc'or's bills. ———r—r—— ANNOUNUEMENTS, Not very many people stop to think of the stupendous accomplishments of George Francis Train in his younger days, whilo ho was yet eogaged in mercantile pursuits, He established tho house of Train & Co., of Liverpool, England, when he was 19 yoars old, and in 1833 the Australian house; wes in fifteen vrisons in different parts of the world for patriotic utierances during the civil war; built the first London tramways; built the first American clipper ships for the high seas; founded the first line of packet ships from Boston to_Liverpool; also first steamship line from San Fraucisco to Aus- tralia; was one of the foremost in making tho construction of tho Union Pacifio rail way & possibility, andhas made the circuit of the globe fiv® times. One very prominent writer, {ii muking a pen sketch of Mr. Train, says: ‘‘George Francis Train is the’most uniquo figuro of the time. A brilliaut mind; a man of such lurgo deeds as W huve gained a world- wide reputation, whensuddenly, in the very vrime of life, he closdd his lips to the world, and, seating hims; Madison Square park, welcoming only Mittle children about him, ' remained silont and purposeless for o perioa of more than fourteen years, Then, as suddenly returning’ to th o world) be at once became the prominent figure in its affairs that ho™Was when he sat down there fourteen years Yéfore,” This is a short sketch of uvhe career'of the wonderful man whom every man, woman and child in Omaha knows of, und'wvho will give one of his characteristic ieobives at Boyd’s theater this evening. He has #plan that will inter- est_everybody in Ombha—that of taking 5,000 of “our school children to the World's fair froe. Come, hetrand assist him, Mr, Train arrives from Chicago this moruing. THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE:-MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1803, NEBRASKA CROP PROSPECTS Reports from the Difforent Counties Throughout the Stato. BOUNTIFUL HARVESTS ARE PROMISED don Promises for the Fature—Nmtu: Kindly Dealing with the Farmer— Tows Conditions as Reported by the Agricultaral Departmenit, Wasnixatoy, Aug. 97.—[Special to Tne Ber.l—Tho following from the spe- cial bullotin just issued by the Department of Agriculture upon the condition of growing crops in Nebraska and lowa indicates the prospects for corn in Nebraska, being re- ports by counties: Keith county: A continuance of the pres- ent drouth will result in a complete failure of crop. Washington: Prospect never was better for a large yield. Antelope: Hot winds, which have prevailed to an unusual degree during the month, have made their mark on the corn; showers and coolor nights since the 25th are bringing it rapldly to the front again. Banner: The last week brought us plenty of rain, which will make an abun- dant crop if frost does not come too soon. Gago: Karly planted badly burned on tho 18th, 14th and I15th insts; hot and windy; tassels and leaves scorched; late plunting gives bost promiso; from one-half to two-thirds crop vredicted. Howard: Hail storms and ary weuthor have reduced condition since last roport. Nanco: Some lack of pollon at first, but late rains have made an unusually good stand come out all right. Nuckolls: Prosent appearanco indicates a half crop; the early planting damaged by drouth and hot winds. Plauto: Looking fine. Garfleld: Looking well; prospect now for a very heavy crop. Hitcheock: Badly damaged by long con- tinued hot, dry weather; thousands of acres entirely ruined now, Johnson: The past ten days have put it up to a full-crop standard all over the county. Keya Paha: A general rainon the 27th insures crop, which will be large. Lincoln: Two-thirds of our ficlds aro in bad condition, and if rain does mnot . come 8000 thero will be almost a total loss. Rock: No rain from the st to the 27th, with tho excoption of two slight showers; some pieces of corn had the polien blown off before the silk was out; for the most part crop that was clean and well stirred up will come throngh O.K. Wheelor: Now looks remarkably health; showers July 27 have helped it very mucl Phelps: Plenty rain in past fow days im- proviug crop wonderfully. Thomas: Very much damaged by drouth’ and hot winds; dying all over tho county; crop will be very light. Salina: Has suffered for want of rain, but is now doing well. Furnas: With good rains from now on a great deal would be rased, but they must comesoon. McPherson: 1f rain' comes s0on will have full crop. Buff Never a better prospect up to date. Haye U to July 15 crop never looked better, but hot winds and the absence of moisture have since reduced the prospests at least 50 per cent; many flelds arc totally rumed; a good soaking_rain would mako perhaps’ a hatf crop. Kearney: Have had a full average amount of ram this season, but in every instance it came three or four weeks later tha usual, the tardiness working damage to crop. Madison: Very promising; rain came July 1, just in time to saveiv. Harlan: Has stood the dry weather remarkably well. Merrick: Injured by several wecks of dry weather. Pierco: Frequent rains in July nave improved the crop. York: Drouth and hot weather have largely reduced condi- tion. Burt: Weather extremoly fino for crop. Colfax: Extra good. Hall: If no ‘mmediate rain comes our crop may be reduced to 25 per cent. Polk: With early rain wo_shall make two-thirds of a erop. Douglas: Looks fine; nover better. Frontier: Owing tothe hot, dry weather, and in some places hail, crop has dropped twenty points in the last two weeks. Jofferson: May yield well if weather continues favorable. —Saunders: Good, but needs rain, Seward: Injured all over tho county by drouth, and in certain localities by hail, o the extent of 15 to 40 per cent. Thurston: Doing well; rain was badly needed, but came in timo last week. Butler: Rain of July 27 puts crop in good condition. TLancaster: Not as forward as usual at this time of year; many pieces have suffered from drouth, but the prospect is fayorable for a fair crop. Deuel: A nice rain last might helped the prospect very much. Chel Damaged to some extent by dry weather, bub with rain soon will re- cover. In Iowa, rion county: Good, but in nead of rain, Prospect was never more flattering. Delaware: Some fields show the effect of drouth, which now gives nogindication of be- ing broken, Monona: Conditions have been and are still quite favorable. Washington: A splendid prospect, but it is being pinched a little by drouth at present;a good rain would give us the best crop over erown, Winneshiok: A good stand, large growth and is well cared. Allamakee: In splendid con- dition and is about two weeks ahead of the usual on. Crawford: Prospect “A No. 1. son: Threatened with damage unloss rain comes soon. Page: The best prospect in many years, Adams Weather perfect for growth, with Just sufi- cient mofsture in the sofl; all indications poiut to & full crop, Bremer: Will bo a heavy crop if ruin comes at an early aate. Plymouth ably promising; with no reafter it will malce o fine vield. promusing. Johnson: Weather conditions very favorablo and tho prospect is in favor of a fine yield. Lucas: Very promising. Ringgold: "A magnificent crop promised. Adair: Somo on sod and *push”’ lands has suffered from the hot, dry weather of July. Boone: Was in need of rain, which came just in time for this report. Carroll: Remarkably fine, promising a big yiold. Des Moines: Suffering from drouth; no rain in Juty. Dubuque: Never bette t this date, Groeuo: Booming, Humboldt: Has made a tino growth and tho prospect n ow indicates a full crop. Louisa: Made n good, strong growth and is in good condition, but_needs rain. Muscatine: Badly in necd of rain. Union: Good, but begiouing to show the offects of drouth. Appanoose: Promises to be the best crop in years. Audubon: Very promising; clean, well cultivated and tas Buchanan: In Hoe con. ting a full crop. Clinton: Badly in ne . Hancock: The finest pros- pect ever known. Hardin: Has made a splendid growt and is silking out all right; seling out even. ind 1 of dition 18 badly blown down in some places. Henry! Prospect never better and the crop 18 well advancel; on thin, worn lands rain s needed. Jeffors Tn- by drouth; unless rain comes damage will be serious, s promise of i wonderful since the fine rain of recent date. O'Brie Promises & tremendous vield. Poc fu splendid condition. inning to shrivel up from the effects of drouth; no rain since July 4. Taylor: In good condi- tion; benefited by frequent showers. Van Buren: Nover more promis Guihrio: Will bo cut short unless rain comes within a short time. lda: Has a fine growth. Keokuk: Needs rain badly, though it is not firiog as yet; a good rair would insure a splendid crop. Leo: A fine crop, but begins 10 show the effects of drouth. Madison: Needs rain. Worth: In fine_condition; but a good rain would be of benefit. Mahaska: Kossuth : Hignest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest 1), S, Goy't Report, Real Baking Powder ABSOIUTELY PURS o o BRI W Unloss raln comes at an early date the aver age will be materially reduced, Whent In Nebraska, Following are the roports on the wheat crops just harvested: Nebraska, Douglas (county): llas beon gnthered in good shaye. | Frontier: Has improved raplaly in the last | month, but has been badly damaged ulnr by hail. Thurston arvesting just_commenced. Lancaste Fair quality. B lo: Thrashing out better than was expocted. Hayes: On old ground is no good ; on back setting or new ground it is fair. Pies t as good as was sup- poseda. York: Pr ically a failure. Frank- lin: Poor; some have thrashod, and the | average so far is under six bushels per acre. Lincoln: Nearly a failure. Wheeler: About all cut and shocked. “Thomas: Damaged by drouth and hot winds. Nance: All in stack in good condition. Platte: Poor Garfield: Will bo a very light crop. Wash ington: Grasshopper has done considerablo damage to crop. South Dakota—Day county: Noods ramn | very much; weather not favorable to | the Alling, Aurora: Haryest just com- menced. iixtrome drouth snd hot winds ‘have left u light cron. Beadlo: A thin stand, short straw and short heads; dry weathier and hot winds have caused borry to shrink badly; harvest will commence the st of July. Davison: Wil | bo & fair_crop: harvest has commenced. Douglas: Will bo a superior quality it prop- erly saved. Potter: Condition better than a week ago; on the 20th we had a good rain. Brookings: Is filling out well. Sanborn: While the yield will bo below average the quality will bo above. Hutchinson: Variablo from Poor to good: injurod by drouth and heat. Turner: Seems to bo filling well where the hail missed. Spink: Somo may g0 ten or twelve bushels per acre; harvest Just beginning. Towa—Plymouth county: Below the aver- age of last year. Johnson: Wil fall below thoaverago. Liucas: Some flelds badiy rusted. Chickasaw: Injured the chinch bug. Des Moines: Damaged by extrome heat and drouth. Dubuque: dition and hasafull berry. and weedy, and there is s rust. Ida: A full avmage. : poor quality ; badly damaged by blight and rust. - Poweshick: Damaged by rust. Clay: Dried up by the hot weather while in bioom. Following are the department's general ro- marks upon the crops in lowa: Corn has not boen materially affected by the drouth and s suill doing well. Wheat has boen soriously injured by rust. Oats ripened pre maturely and gave a light yield of poor quality. The condition of late potatoes ha ravidly declined since July 1. Eavly pota- toes were good. Timothy made better growth than usual, but was damaged by the my worm during the ripening season. Clover did mnot recover from winter killing, caused by close pasturing and drouth during 1l. Pastures hav led rapidly sinco the rains ceased. Apples will not make Harvested in_good con- Hardin: “Thin moro than a half crop. Grapes promise good yield. e No Ditinetion ¢ recogniz iy Captured n Counterfoter. ST. Lovis, Aug. 27.—Peter Runne, s Rou- manian, was arrested at noon yesterday at his room on the third floor of 216 South Fourteenth street by Detectives Tebeau, vigler and Viehlo on the charge of counter- feiting. 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