Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 2, 1893, Page 5

o { ) L —— — WYOMING'S MINERAL WEALTH Rich Beds of Oopper, Gold, Cement, Ooal, Mar- ble, Alumininm and Silicate Clay. FAMOUS EXPERT GIVES HIS OPINION Horn Canon—-Captaln An Oregon Mine Sanke River Placers Trlp Throngh g Hutehinson's Luck oral Western Nows. ogist and ine last a Sun re Dr. Lindeman, the expert ge mine prospector, arrived at Che week, and in an inter with porter remarked “1 have just concluded a week's riding and north of cannot t tew valking over the mining country this city as faras Hartville, It sxpected that Tean give any very clear idea o 1 have seen until my ex- amination 1o samples I have secured is thoroughly tested and until Tcan render to the men who have employed me a detailed report, which they will, no doubt, give for publication. But I can say that the min erals to be found in large quantities within 100 miles of Cheyenne comprise some of the most valuable in existence and will lead in a shorc time to the establishment of tories for thel velopment and applic 10 business uses ong ngo astounded the tion this would have world if avtention had not been atiracted by the aid of money else- where, Why, along the Platte river I saw the finest quartz sand imaginable, which is the washings of thousands of years, that can be utilized to make the finest plate glass in the world There is an almost endless amount of it besides. The iron ore at Hart- ville is tho finest, or I should say, as finc as I have ever seen, and it is in endless amount, too. ‘I'here is, in short, mountains of it that extend over a wide scope ot terri- tory. “T tell you that there is at_least £1,000,000 worth of copper in sight north of here. You may ask how I know. 1putit on the very lowest possible estimate that the indic tions on the surfice show and can casily compute the mount that can be secured on asis, while the probability is that it far oxceed this amount. ~Then tho famous marblo quarries that aro located along the Platte river. They are sunply immense and extend o a depth of not less than 450 feet. ST found ¢ which the fi region ment rock, vast piles of it, from t Rosedale coment may bo produced ¢ Iron mountain there is a arge deposit of aluminium clay that will make wiilions of dollars some day. There are fields of the finest silicate clay, which can he used in glass making and for the pro- duction of the finest brick. In the fow mi utes I have to talk to you I cannot begin to tell you the p ibilities of this region, ana I know that these mines will not much longer remain untouched. Development work will proceed and from the bosom of the earth in this vicinity will come riches tha will make the most_sanguine Cheyenne citi- walke with wonder and amazement.” Lindeman is a Frenchman graduate of one of the best country. All his life he has been in the business which brought him to ( He has examined the formation of the woun- tains of portions of Africa and South Amer- jca, and the mountains of the southern part of this countiy and also portions of Mexico, He has made Denver his home since 1559, and has looked over the geological formation of that entive state. Before this he has been in (this state, and s, without a doubt, the best posted man on wineral formation in the west. Tho Big Horn Cunon. Wyoming is filled with wonders. A party recently completed a trip through the Big Horn canon in a flatboat. The canon, forty-eigit miles in length, has heretofors Deen regarded as impassible. Tho editor of the Sheridan Post was one of the party and the following extracts from his levter will be read with intorest: Reaching the Big Horn river on the morn- ing of the 17th, our speed was somewhat accelerated by the force of the current, and we floated down to the Sheep mountain cut before nightfall. The Sheep mountains are a narrow. lovw, barren range of rocks. ruuning parallel with the Big Horn, and through which the river runs in a box canon net over 100 feet wide, and whose walls rise perpendicularly on both sides Lo tho height of several hundred feet. In passing through this we discovered warm springs of mineral water fowing in 1rom the eastern bank. In passing through a cut between McDon- ald’s Ferry and Lovell's ranch we found cold springs coming in from the west side whose waters aro so strongly imprognated with sulphur that they have the color of lubricat- g oil, and do not mingle readily with the waters in the » U vestigating tho source of these waters we discovered that they flowed from the mouth of a great cave, opening out partly below and partly above the surface of the water in the river. Into this sulphurous cavern we penetrated a dis- tance of 825 yards, part of the time wading inthe water'and part of the time climbing over mud banks, fallen rocks and decom- posed matter. Several very mice specimons of crystalization, and some samples of alm, pure native sulphur were bronght aw trophies, and now on exhibitic oftico. Leaving this camp we dropped down to the mouth of Black canon, within about six miles of the Big Horn canon, during which the expericuces of the previous run we peated with but slight variations. What a heaven this canon would have been for the cliff-dwellers of former ages! Caves of every imaginable sizo and description abound, whero a largo number of this comparatively modern race of people might bave been born, lived and died in por. fect security; but very fow of them were accossible 1o us with the means at hand, One very large cave was explored to a dis- tance of H0 or 400 yards, and some fine specimens, rivaling those taken from the fanous Wind cave of South Dakota, rewarded our trouble. Anothor of smalier dimensions hus utsomo time sheltered hu- mun beings when pursued by enemios or wild animals. Across the mouth there yot romains w barvicado built of logs and stones, behind which somebody has taken refuge, Another Gold Camp Captain D. J. Hutchinson ok the trafn recently for Hutchson, the new placer camp in_ Douglas_county, says the denver ‘Times. The new discovery is located - about threo miles cast of Castlo Rock on & portion of the divide devoted to potato grow- ng and stock raising. - For wany years 1t has been known that gold exisied in the ulches of that section of the divide, but, ike every other gold district it has' been greatly neglected owing to the boom insilver mining. Captain Hutchinson owns a ranch of 160 acres on which a portion of the new finds is located, und Mr. Jones, who 1s in charge of the ranch, has sent him an ounce or two of coarse gold taken from the ground, and from all appearances it abounds in specimens. a8 large us peas or grains of coru. Preparations are being mado town there, aud a line of s on from the Rio Grande st Rock. There are a number of miners in the vicin- ity who have been prospecting for & month OF more, and some of them have been making woney Jjust with a pan. As it happens, who are operating on Captain Hutchin® son’s land are infringing, for it is patented land, and bas boen out of the possession of the government for twelve or fourteen years, Thero 1s & small stream of water thero, which finas its source from springs, which permits of miniug toa limited degree, but the nature of the gold is such that it can be secured with but little water. But this does not matter so much, for it is 80 near to a railroad that the dirt can be hauled to Denver for about §1 o wagon load, where it can bo treated at the works, For that matter concentrating works can be put up at Castle Rock for a small sum of money to handle all the dirt taken out of the dis- triet. Captain Hutchinson will roturn to Denver 8001, wheu something more can be learned aboat the new cawp. Frecious Aunie Miue, “The Aunie mine was never in better con- dition than itis today,” smd J. B. McGee, president of the Anule Miniug company, 48 bo sat iu the office of the Esmond at Port. dand, “By sending our conceuirates to Ta- to start a ages will b0 put lon at Castle worlk of | for raduction,” he continued, “we have 16t doubled our product in pure gold, and the wtal monthly average output at the present 1ime is about $0,00. We have re cently put in two small concentrators, capa- | ble of turning ou ) concentrates per day. ‘The first ton of this material was shipped to Taco 1duly 15, and netted us about $100. Since that time we have been shipping regularly, and the average ve- turn is about 8100 per ton. This, taken to. gethior with another $100 worth of metal crushed out by a five-stamp mill, makes up the neat littio sum 1 have spoken of. “It was our intention to enlarge the mill during thoe past summer, but we found that it would be useless to go to that expense so long us wo could not handle the concen trates. The diMcuity lics in the fact that Wo have Lo carry the ore ten miles over rough roads and on pack horses in order to reach the railroad Even to make that possible it was nocessary to expend many thousands of doliarg in building passabls mountain road. But every cent of cxpense has come out of the profits of the mine, and there have been divi is for the stock holders into the bargain. You sce, the Annio is the phonomenal mine of southern n. Paying ore cropped out on the irface and it took but & small outlay of to bring big retur It ‘was A payiog mine, It 8 now our intention to {mprove the property by removing the mill from fts present site, which s about halt a milo from the mouth of the mine, to within ubout 000 feet of the main shaft, and to operate it by water power during the winter montis, thus saving great expense. To enuble us to do this it will b necessary to pipe water a distance of 2500 fect. Another improve- ment will bo an elevated tramway, to car ore from the dump to the mill. All this means a considorable outlay, but the mine will pay all expenses., “We are now working a force of twenty. five men. The main shaft of the mine has a dopth of 175 feet. Two levels have been opened on the vein and 1,000 feet of tunnel- inizdone. ALl that is necessary at the present time to make the Annie the greatest p iucer in the state is more adequate means of transportation. We have plenty of ore and can take iv out rapidly. W could easily put in a larger mill and more concentrators, but so long as wo cannot handle our concen- trates to advantage, it will not pay us to work the mine on a larger scale,” Snake River Duat. The Merritt-Thayer-Richmond pool, which is placer mining the Suako river for gold, expects soon to produce the yellow dust in large quantities. J. B. Thayer of this city, Franklin Mer- ritt and F. L. Richmond of’ Duluth are the real promoters of the enterpriso, and the remainder of the company, which is a very strong one, is composed of cupitalists from hicago, St. Paul, Duluth and Superior. They have ordered three machines, ono of which will be placed about half way between Lewiston and Starbuck, the second will be putin operation near Boise City, and the location of the third has not yet been decided. Mr. Anderson, who placed one of the machines for the Columbia Passo com- pany, was in the city yesterday and has secured the coutract for “threo machines to be used by the syndicate. He said ““Ihie machines can handle 50000 yards of nd a day at acost of less than 7 cents per yard, and the sand carries at the lowest es- timate about 75 cents per yard. Thoe ma. chines, whicn are mado utMilwaukee, cost $28,000 cach, The sand, after being dredged from bavs in the river, is placed upoua scow, from which it enters ' metal flumo. Theé water in the flume is kept in motion by hy- draulic pressure and raises tho sand, allow- ing the gold to drop on the amalgamated plates at the bottom.” Nebrasha and The Lincoln News grows better with age. A volunteer fire company has been formed at Gordon with thirty members. The now water works gt Gordon have been accented by the city ‘council after a satisfactory test. The Custer County ’ress association will mect soon to devise plans to mitigate the evils of the hard times, The resiience of Ellis Shano at was entirely ed by houschold goods were saved. The Arnold News,after six years of event- ful life, will close its carcer October 12, 1d- itor Carlyle can’t live on an income of $16 month. While J. R. George of Shelton was cutting wood in his back yard tho ax struck the clothes line and rebounded against his face, cutting a gash that required several stitches, The fall meoting of the superintendents and principals of Nebraska schools will be held October 15 and 14 in tho office of tho state superintendent at Lincoln, A pro- gram of interest to educators has been pr pared tor the occasion. Threo Cass county thicves went to a farmer's hog lot in aaylight and butchered a fat shoat. The owner appeared on the sceno and the marauders fled, but when ho re- turned to the house for his gun they came back and stole the pig. Thoy had a team, but the authorities are after them. Ren Harding, tough character, who has made his headquarters at Superior, is in jailat Red Cloud and has confessed the stealing of a horse belonging to Mr. Jones of Guide Rock. ~As other horses are missing in the neighborhood he is thought to be one of o gang and the autuoritics are after the other fellows. H. Hartley, a farmer living seven miles southwest of Pawmee City, has just received notice of his mother's death in Bolton, I3 land, and that a legucy, of which the first payment is £500 sterling, has been left to him. He left for England to see to the set- tloment of the estate. There are cight children in the family. Last winter the members of the Metho- dist church at Pawnee City were each given & dime savings bank, this moans being taken to raise the debt on the church, The other night a social was held at the chureh and the banks were opcned and found to contain over $500, all in dimes, This enablos the now pastor, J. H. Preston, to step into the church free of debt. The Methodist Episco leaus was dedicate: priate ceremonies, Nebraskans. twelve yearsold. It Denton fire, but the 12 al seminary at Or- 1last week with appro- The fuli board of confer- euce trustees was present 1o receive the trust reposed in them. A very program was listencd o by u very large and appreciative audience. = The® seminary opened for work with an enrollment of about 125, with very bright prospects for the future. A course of lectures have been ar- ranged for by the board of directors during the winter, which is looked forward to with a greav deal of pleasy John MeDonald, who returned from Mul- len this morniug, informs us that the gray wolves in the vicinity of Mullen ave giving the farmers and ranchmen considerable trouble, by killing thew cattle, says the Broken Bow Republican. One ranchman by the name of Smith, within o fow miles of Mullen, had seven cows killed since Sunday by the wolves, and & number of others had lost cattle in the same way. The wolyes have become very numerous and bold, and instances ave related of them attackin, horses. ‘Ihe stockwen are offering #10 re- ward for a zray wolk scalp. Leonard Furgerson, aged about 14 yoars, Frank Spavhawk, James Itiley and another boy, aged from 13 1o 14 years, all of Scotia, went out hunting, having one gun between the four. On returning they wore over- taken by a team, and began to climb into the wagon. * Furgerson, who had the gun, put it | over the wagon-box, holdiug the barrel in | his hand, when by it was dis- charged, the contents of oue barrel entoring Furgerson's side under his right arm aad coming out just behind the should The boy was put 1ito the wagon and carried to his home in Scotia as vapidly as possible. A surgeon was called, who dressed the wound, ch is lavge enough ta sllow nearly the whoie of 4 man's haud to be inserted. The doctor revorts the wound very serious, though uot necessarily aangerous. Colorado. The Anaconda, Cripple Creek, is shipping ore 1o the smelters which yields §00 per ton. Leasers are getting out ore ruuning three to five ounces in gold Lo the cord from the Baltimore, Gilpin county. A run of three days at the ten-stamp mill of the Gold King mine, Ward district, yielded sixteen ounces of gold. A wide vein of $125 gold ore has been struck ut the head of Buckskin gulch, near Alma. One carload has alveady been shipped. Durango papers report the sale of the Hoosier group of mines, near Silverton, to Colorado Springs parties fora consideration of §75,000, The Rosebud pl: s near Pitkin, Guoui- s0n county, are 8gaiu being worked, and ot a #00d profi. lu two days Lwo wen saved $25 | and s| THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE:“SONDAY, OCTORER from the sedimentary sand scraped off of bedrock A 1,000,000-zalion pump is being placed at the 800-foot level of the Mollie Gibson Owing to the drouth a number of rattle snakes have made their appearance in formation of brown | Golden, Colo. The old vlan of building a frutt growers' railroad between Denver and Golden is again being agitated With the industry yet in its infancy, the value of Colorado's fruit crop tuis year is estimated at £2,000,000, party of German professors and stu »in Fort Collins studying the irriga- on sysiem of Larimer county. The Colorado Cattle and Land compan. has purchased 13,000 acres of pasture under the Laguna ditch, making it possible to hol b as the market justifies. Considerable placer work is being done in the McDonald district_on Tepee creek, twenty-two miles from Meeker. About 150 men are making # and # a day A strike of ore showing free gold and worth 100 aton, has been made on tho Janadun, adjoining the Car thesouth, on Battle mountain, Cripple Creek niture stores, a joweler, a clothier, a furnishing goods aeaier, a_hardware store, a saloon and several small concerns are aecessions to Cripple Croek within tho fort- night. The pay roll at the Jackson piacers uear Mancos now ave 3,000, and the clean- ups aro yielding a profit. The gravel is_im- proving with depth and many pans run $1.50 apiece. The mine managers at Aspen are at work upon a w scale, which will be submitted to the men in a fow days. 1t is understood to be §2.50 for a ten hour day until the price of silver justifies §3. A good strike of quartz running high in nuggets, cubes and wires in_a pay streak o foot wide has been made in the Chief on Raven nill, Cripple Creek, between the Rhinoceros and Ingham claims, The returns have just been made from the last car of ore shipped to the Omaha & Grant smelter at Denver. The amount is trifie over £10,000. The product of the Pike Peak for September will be not less than $10,000. The first shipment of anth Ruby-Anthracite, the Color: Fuel com- pany’s new coal mine, was mado last week. This is the second anthracite mine opened in Colorado, 1t will ship 1,000 tons a_day after October 15, Five and ono-half tons of oro from the Katie Emmet mine, Cascade creek, run through the stamps at the Mixsell mill, turaed out six ounces of gold. This mine is worked by the Vititow Bros. and has just bezun to produce good ove and has every in- dication of becoming a fine producer. Between the Zenobia and the Pike's Peak iodes at Cripple Creck is the Mineral Rock lode. On this property one of the latest dis- coveries has Just been made. Next to tho e largo pleces of ore have been found which show thick layers of gold. The yel- low ALis in the form of heavy leave: which ara dispersed all through “the ore. This is said to be the richest strike yet made in vhe Cripple el district, The Dakotas, Two hundred and thirty cars of cattle were ipped from Belle Fourche during one week. This represents a total of nearty 6,000 heud. The carly fall shipment of cattle from the vicinity of Huron is now in progress. Over 100 carloads went to Sioux City, Minneapolis and Chicago yards, A number of government surveyors have completed their surveying contracts on the ceded lands in the western part of North Dakota, and the surveyor general has sent out an inspector to inspect the work done, Ranchmen and farmers report cattle in excellent condition and although prices are *down” for cattle raised in other localities those from this state bring good prices. The South Dalcota steer is king in the beef cattle market. Lieutenant Charies S. Farnsworth of Fort Butord, a graduate of West Point class of 1886, has been detaiied as military instructor in the North Dakota university, with orders to report on Tuesday next, the opening day of the fall term. ‘The corn palace at Mitchell has attractions far 1n advance of last year's show, and the compietition between counties for the $1,000 pr served to bring together the finest exhibition of agricultural products ever shown at any fair in the northwest. Sargent county farmers are becoming thoroughly alarmed over the ravages of Russian cactus in the grain fields. A mas meeting of Vivian township citizens was held lasy Saturday, at which steps were taken for an organized fight against the weed, Big Antelope, with 300 braves, are between Pine Ridge agency & Kuee, ana the braves are beginLing to in dulge n the ghost dance. The friendly In- dians at Pine Ridge are a good deal worried over the outlook, fearing serious trouble, but the agency poople say thera is no dangor of an outbreak. There are a large number of gold mines in Custer county which for uniformity in size and general S 4 not equaled else- where in the world, 'The veins have a gen- eral average of one and a half feet. The average of sevenly-six assays from twen threo different veins gives $27.93 per ton in gold. These ores are free milling on the sur- face, but become refractory with depth, A. M. Wight, secretary of the Young Men's Christiun associution, is home from Pine Ridge agency, whero he took a prom- ment part in the annual conference of the Dakota mission and of the Young Men's Christian association. Over 1,000 Indian wero present. There are now seven socie- ties of Christian Endeavor amone the reds, and & young people’s socicty was formed, Mrs. Louise Burt of Sioux Falls, who claims to have found some time ago a packet of diamonds worth several thousand dollars, left for Chicago to meet a man from Boston whose name she did not disclose, who has wired her that the diamonds helonged to him. ‘The Boston party has agreed, she says, to pay all her expenses and to give her a big reward in case the projerty she has found proves to be his missing diamonds, The case has excited mucn speculation, Oregon. Hay is offered at $4 in Morrow county, Tookout mountain, Crook unty, is al- ready covered with snow, ‘I'he Presbyterian church at Corvallis brated its fortieth anniversary. The Athena Press offers to take wheat on subseription at 50 cents a bushel, Several waterspouts occurred last woek between Priveville and upper Crooked river, Salmon are plenty in the Columbia at ‘I'he Dalles, bui the water is so low that few are aught. ‘The Eugene prune evaporator has com- menced work. Several carloads of fruit are in sight for castern shipment, A sidetrack is to be built to the old depot building at Grant’s Pass. The building will ;)14 1 be lifted ou flat cars and moved to Mer- i John Barrington has a hop vine on his farm, south of Lakeview, which last year pro- duced 120 pounds of hops and he estimates that 1t will produce 140 pounds this year. About 400 men ave employed at the Cas- cade locks and work 1s being pushed very rapidly. ‘There ave seventy-five men now at work in the pit of the canal and 18 in the quarry. It is reported that a Portland stock buyer, Mr. Lacy, recently bought 4,000 sheep from Butter creek, Morrow county, parties at $1 per head. About 1,500 were good mutton wethers, Mr. Stewart of Medford will realize $4,000 from sixty acres of Bartlett pears. The crop mudeé about fifteen carloads and was gathered, packed and shipped without ex- pense to the grower. Two brothers named Bailey rescued a horse from a well into which it had fallen, n Polk county, in & new and novel way the other day. They piled straw into the well and the horse tramped 1t and rose until he could elimb out. A survoying party has just arrivea in the Dalles after a seven woeks trip through castern Oregon. It is supposed to be in the employ of the Chicago & Northwestern, orof certain stockholders of that road, who are also interested in the Oregon Pacific. The party is reticont as to who 1ts employers are, but not as to its object of work. The sale of the Oregon Pacific railroad is beiug delayed by Judge Fullerton to deter- mine the Trelutive rights of the differgut creditors, material men and laborers, who will share the fund created by the sile These matters will be determined at the carliest possible woment and the sale will lo- ) ponate Queen on | then be ordered. Tt will be sometime before | December 1 Wasmington. Black are ‘maiding South hards. ‘acoma has been offerod par for §50,000 ear 6 per cent school bonds, Henry Miller, the Flochomin ports his cut as about son 'he Wilmans Mining company will begin moving ore by tramways into the con centrators at Monte Christo A young man worling {n a Puyallup hop has unsuccessfully provosed to seven young women co-laborérs during the season. Pomeroy people &immering at ‘Teal's camp woko up one morning to find two chies of snow on the ground and pulled out for hoe. Forest fires in tho Sound country have driven the cougars and bears out of their 'ns and into the vailey settlements, where they are seen in great numbers. A laborer on the Ruby creeck trail whoso leg was fractured, had to be carried eleven miles on & strotelier and thirty-ono by con- veyance bofore the fracture covld be sot The statement is made that the Port Blakeley Mill company logs over 2,000 acres of timber land ahnually to secure material t0 operate its saw mill at Port Blakeley Bill Melntive bas put in_about 2,000,000 feot of logs at Cathlamot this season, nad_is now at work repairing Saldren's dam, which was washed out by the big freshet last winter, Heory bears Bend loggzer. 1,500,000 feet re. this Roberts, owning a ten-acre hop yard at Tampico. went to North Yakima to swear out wa nts for twenty or thir men who, with Winchesters, clubs and force, drove a crew of sixteen Chinese pickers out of hi: d. He is unable to secure other pickers and fears he will lose his crop. A large area of government land upon the plateaus and terraces of the region lying be- tween Lake Chelan and the Methow river is still vacant. This land is well adapted to the culture of fruit and diversified farming. There is room for a large colony of people, who could secure homes under the home- stead laws. P. Pinnegan and Paul Paulson, two minors, have Just arrived at Marcus from the mouth of Rock creek. They report that the record- g ofce at Rock Creek, B. C., has taken in 145 in half a day on rocords in the new gold aistrict. Over £2,000 of nuggets were brought into Rock creek and cxchanged thero by Chinamen. The scheme to drain tho Colville valley by forming a drainuge district and issuing bonds in the mannor prescribed by law, is meeting with public favor, and the move- ment will begin with a petition to the Board of County Comu ers at its October sossion. There will be o 20,000 acres in- cluded in the drainage aistrict’ when organ- izod. Wyoming, A wolf hunt is advertisod to take place at Myra. 'he new placer fiolds are about thirty miles southward from Baggs and report ays they are very rich. “The manganese iron ore found at Wa peak, near Sundanc #ood deal of attention. The lakos just north of Laramio are said to be f; v alive with ducks and hunters are seeuring any amount of them, It is reported that a party of Arapahoo Indians are in the Big Horns setting five to the timber and driving the wame out of this section of count The Utah & Wyoming railroad s pushing the survey of a route_through Wyoming to Ogden, U.T. Two corps of surveyors nre now at work in Uinta county, one near Wil- low Creck gap and the other between Fossil and Nugget. It is learned that many ranchmen in the vicinity of Laramie'Penk contemplate mov- ing vheir cattle in the vicinity of Lusk soon for the purpose of wintering them. The rango in the former section has been burnea up by vrairie fives. The Northwestern Gold company, with a capital of £1,000,000, has filed articles of in- corporation in the office of the secrotary of state. The principal place of business will be Cheyenne, though offices may, in addi- tion, be opencd in, New York City and Spokane. The nurpose of the company is to carry on a general mining business. Mr. Frank Pfeiffer returned from Fremont county Wednesday, where he had been 1n- specting his sheep. Heo reports feed poor anlthe range badly crowded. Scab has been prevalent among sheep this season to a much greater extent than usual snd the sheep inspector of Fremont county has com- pelied all flock owuers who have driven their Hocks into that country to dip their sheep. Major Schniteer has made probably the last consignment of fish which will be shipped this scason, The present shipment, numbers 40,000 mountain trout, 20,000 of which will be planted at Sundance and the remainder near Newcastle, This about com- pletes the output of the state hatchery and makes the total number of fish planted reach the handsome figure of 600,000 for the season. Miscellaneous, Aherd of 1,200 1 and 2-year-old wethers, enroute from Albuquerque to Shelton, Neb.., pussed through Brush, Colo. The herders report the losses very small. A syndicate of Durango men have bonded a group of eold properties in_Colfax county, New Mexico, for $150,000. The property i cludes a stamp mill, saw mill, tramway and assay oftice, A strike reported from the New Era mino in the Dolores district, fifty miles from Al- buquerque, prowmises great results. A thirty five-foot vein running 10 per cent copper and high in gold has been uncovered. The hop growers around Ukiah, Cal., or- ganized for the purpose of chartering o' ves- selto load hops for England. The prices which have thus far been offered to Mendo- cino hop growers have not been satisfactory. A rumor, founded upon private ad that the governments of the United ¢ and Great Britain are negotiating to close Bering sea and the Pacific for two years. Among the recommendations of the arbitra. tors is one that the killing of seals be stopped for two years both at the rookeries and on the high seas. A miner has returned from a prospecting tour in the Pinacate mining district in southern Califoruin and brings back with him fine sawples of gold takeu from the placer claims by dry washers there, The claims were worked years ago by Mexicans and had been for many years abandoned till the recent discoveries, ~ Some of the claims 20 from 10 to 20 cents per pan, snd the miners are doing well, Several attachments were put on the prop- erty locations, franchises, water rights, ote of the Salt River lrrigation company for la- bor und other demands. Wells Hendershott, formerly a New York lawyer, was at the head of the enterprise, and had 1t not been for the late financiul flurry the reservowr would doubtless have been completed. It was the groalest systom in Arizona, —————— Do you read the testimonials published in behalf of Hood's Sarsaparilla? They are thoroughly reliable and worth your con- tidence, en’s is now attracting a ces, bads dedin SE Voeal Entertalnment. Hella Singing socicly gave a very enjoya- ble entertainment at Suengerbund hall on Dodge street Suturday evening. Recitations and vocal and instrumental music served to pass away the evening hours, much too quickly for those who attended, rbaliaio One word describes 1t pertection.” We re- for to DoWit's Witeh: Hazel Salve,cures pilos Searching fqr @ Daughter, Mrs. James Smitn of Waterloo, In., re- quested the assistance of the police yester- day in locating her 23-year-old uuuguwr] 1893. Aunie G., whom the family last heard from two yoars ago when she indited a letter to them from this city. The girl was working in a restau at the time, and the mother fears that a mishap has befallen her. - - JON HEARD FROM, ORE Lt e Tnsurance Versus Bond Investment Called. An old adage runs, “Whon thieves fall out,” ete. Though perhaps not strictly applicable to the case, the controversy be- tween Mr. Driges and the life insuranco com- panies calls it up and discloses one fact that should receive careful consideration by all who save money and strive to ms with it for their own old ago, and for those dear to them after they have lost through death the pleasure and privilege of providing for vheir necessities and luxuries That fact is that an amount money is annually by forfeitures st to So ke provision enormous of who seck, spasmodically porhups, make these prov ms through life insur: ce, be nevolent societios and kindred institutions. Mr. Driggs proves conclusively from published statements of a weli acer life assurance society of the United that subscribors to that association through lapses and forfeitures (1892) the enormous sum of $117,508,717 ot canceled jnsurance without one cent of cost to the comvany, whereby that company must have reaped a direct profit of the vast amount of #.703,748, he says, Mr. Driggs has not a word to say about the right or wiong of a business that flooas the country with advertisements and covers it with solicitors to draw people who habitu- ally reach beyond their means or oo only modically provident into the plans of the rations which reap such vast profits 1rom the natural weakness of the human ce. He approves it and grandly states that the company he represents derives its hiel revenue from the same ource, that it hus got this human weakness down to a science and can accurately guago tho average amount of money which can be drawn from tho earnings of the incompe- tent to swell the profits of those who “stay in" to share it. Lifo insurance is a good thing (1 carry wyself a large amount) and the bond invest- ment schemo, which Mr. D, upholds, m 50 for the “ins,” but that a large sharo of the past profits of both have arisen from a wrong is a loug recognized fact. knowledgement 13 clear 1 the laws that have in recent years appeared upon the statute books of all the states cur- tiling the power - of lifo insurance companies to - declare forfeitures after a cer n number of wents have been made. All such forfeiturcs aro, in fact, as great'n wrong as any, and the time is'sure to come soon, when tho natu right of the weak to be protected from tho stroug comes more clearly into the economy of modern socicty, when all forfeitures as o source of revenuo will be prohibited to in- vestment corporations whoso business is Dpushed by personal solicitation, The cotitroversy herein alluded to is in- spired by the business fact that the parties to it are enzaged in the business of soliciting investments. T'his communication is also_inspired by a business fact. I am engaged in sol investment for a Pacific’ coast and, as an illustration of methods, beg space to contrast the methods of my company inregard to investment, in- comes and ‘forfeitures with those of the above corporations. Our eardinal priuciples are inline with and abreast of tho best thought and effort of the best age of the world. History 1s the improvement of the country and the betterment of the condivion of the tiller of the soil. The chief source of our revenue is the product of nature directed by intellizence and aided by capital. Instead of iusuring our customer a certain amount of money at a certain time or after he dies, we insure him a home that will be self-sup. porting and a support to the man and his family for all time. The longest lmit of time to which the full realization of the principal reward on the investment is but five years. Based upon the resources of nature, we not only stake our capital on a guaranty that an investment which ve- quires the saving and investment of but £150 shall at the maturity of the contract be worth in the open market £500, but we elimi- nate by positive contract all features of for- feivure by which the parties to the above controversy thrive. dited States lost one year We are engaged in the development of one of tho younger industries of the United es, which has a future of undoubted greatness, From time immem- orial the most prosperous peasants and armers of the old world we those who lived along the mnorthern shores of the Mediterranean sea, in Grecian archipelago and thrives within the climatic influence of one or the other shores of the Red, the Caspian and the Black seas, who followed the cultivation of the prune. It is a trec that will not thrive and bear fruit in a country of cold winters or hot sum- mers, and t1ll some twenty years ago its cul- tivation had been confined to various small districts scattered over the region above mentioned. Tre output of these districis had become euormous and they had the whole world for a murket. Twenty years ago it was discovered that scattered dis- tricts of the Pacific coast would not only produce prunes but would produce ail the old world varieties of a quality far bot- ter than the countries of their hubitate, At that time the United States was an im- porter of this fruit to the amount of 60,000,- 000 pounds annually. Since then the Pacific coast hus raised its production to nearly 0,000,000 pounds a year. In tho meantime consumption in the United States has in- creased till we now import nearly well to- ward 100,000,000 pounds ayear, on which an import duty of 2 cents a pound is levied by the "government in recognition of the merit of the Awcrican industry and much of this incr is due to the cleaner babits of the Facif ast pro- ducer, but more to the superior quality of his fruit. This increase must go on with the in- crease of population, and the market for the fruit must grow better and better for the next two or three generations at least, for ter the Amorican producer has supplied his home market the whole world will be open to him, ‘The extreme limit of time necessary to bring a prune farm to production is five yoars. The profit to the prune farmer cverywhere on the Pacific coast exceeds $300 per acre per annum, Our "company owns trled and proven prune lands in all three of the Pacific states, These it guarautees to plant in prunes, cuiti- vate and bring the orchard to a perfect pro- ducing state for the sum and price of §300 per acre, insuring the life of each tree to that time. 1t solicits investments on the principle of annual premiums, as the life insurance companies. These premiums amount to one-hulf of the cost of the farm during the life of the contract (five years) the other half being payable afterward, when the farm is anincome producer. Such fully developed farms are now worth from $1,000 an acre upward in all that country. We guarantee to deliver them perfect for #300 por acre, and more than that, we pledge ourseives to return every dollar vaid by any iuvestor who has undertaken more than be can carry out with interest on it at the rate of 7 per cent per annum and cancel < his contract without question upon notice with the ouly provision that no money will be paid on & canceled contract Lill two years and three months from 1ts date. But then we return all mouey paid with interest for all the time While other investments are & good thing we regard our form of home investment a winning, better for the average man in moderate circumstances and iufinitely better for one who owns no home. ’ D. H, STEARNS, Prosident Stearns Fruit Laod Compavy of Portland, Or e — DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures sores, DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures ulcers se Highe: ol tof all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report, Baking Powder -~ ABSOLUTELY PURE the | if you try ine. The work of washing will be i to get along without P rdor, there'll be more of it, and it won't be 5 well done. You'll lose money in the time, that's wasted, and the things that are wora Eoutin the wretched rub, rub, rub, over the washboard. Easy washing with Pearlir.e doesn’t cost any more than hard and ruinous washing with:- out it. Butit saves a good deal, all the way through. Peddlers and son Send i e pe it Back honest—send it back, and if your grocer sends you something in e unscrupulous grocers will tell you * this is as good as I FAlL Pearline is never peddled place_of Pearline, be JAMES PYLE, New York —— ATH-LO-PHO-R0S | V«// LG || Relied Upon as a 7| Rheumatic Remedy in the Hospital of the =" Chicago Working B Woman's Home, tho Physician Says: Tar ATnLOMIOR0S CoMPANY, New Haven, Conn. 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