Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 17, 1894, Page 12

OMAHA DAILY BEE ATURDAY, MARCH TIN OUTLOOK IN THE HILLS Attempt to Adjust Differences Between American and EnglishStockholders, PROSPECTS OF RESUMING NOT VERY/GOOD Iron Ore Looming Up as a New Black Hills Industry—Fabulous Wealth in & Montans Mine—Nows of the Northwest. A recent issue of the Harney Peak Mining News contains the following statement con- cerning the present status of the local tin situation: “Superintendent Childs is east again and his return, which is expected the latter part of March, is awaited with a good deal of interest. Mr. Childs, so we learn, will attend a meeting of the Har- ney Peak directors at New York city. This meeting Is a most important one, as the stockholders of the American branch of the tin company will decide at that session whether they will accept the Englishmen's terms or not. A representative of the Lon- don company has been in New York many months trying to arrange the difficulties which existed between the English and American stockholders, How far he has succeeded is not known, but we understand that he has offered to place a large amount of money in the banks for the resumption of work in the tin mines of t ck Hills of South Dakota, if the An stock- holders will place a like amount In the bank for the same purpose. It is not likely the New Yorkers will agree to this; because their claim has always been that the Englishmen have not fulfilled their contract, and it is not likely they will enter into a new one with them; but should the: agree to the proposition there is another difficulty to be overcome—and that i shall manage the enterprise h men intend to have their representative here on the ground, to work with the su- perintendent of the American company for the success of the undertaking, so long as they are putting up money for the work; but whether the New Yorkers will agree to this arrangement 1s doubtful. They never have, and they very likely will re- fuse it this time, if they do, it is equally certain that -the Englishmen will refuse to advance the money, and the shut-down of the Harney Peak works is likely to con- tinue for some time to come. However, we may know something definite when Mr. Childs returns. A NEW INDUSTRY. Upon the southwest line of Lawrence county iron ore has been discovered on th ranch owned by Mr. Tim Coleman, known as the Bull Dog ranch, north of Rockford, that bids fair to become quite an industry in the future mining of the Black Hills, This oro Is commonly known and called bogg iron, through its being found mostly in low marsh. lands surrounded by high hills, says the Cus ter Chronicle. The nature of the ore, and in appearance, is similar to hematite iron, but not so valuable. It is chiefly used as matte or flux In our large smelters, and worth on an average about $6 per ton. It lays in blanket veins about three feet in thickness, would make brick of a superior quality. Upder this comes sand water, going to prove that this is composed of the earth's formation and of which it forms its part Mr. Coleman, in making this discovery, drew {.ihe attention of E. B. Chapman, who s gen sral_ manager of the Standby mill and mine in Pennington county, and who has-gpent many years In these mineral reglons. This gentleman at once set about to determine its value, and the consequence was that Mr. Bar- on, general manager of the Omaha smelt ng works, at once contracted for 2,000 tons {0t this ore, allowing §6 per ton upon its seing delivered at the works at Omaha. The wo belng cheaply mined and hauled, and and is chiefly covered with soil of good qual. ity for farming purposes. Underlying the ore I8 found clay that can be used for brick, and upon the B. & M. Railroad company con- structing a spur from their main I'ne to these diggings, the mining and transportation is *done for $4 per ton, leaving a fair profit for the owners. Other large bodies of this char- acter of ore have already been discovered in the same district, and preparations are being made with a view to working them. The discovery of these ores is, indeed, to South Dakota, a valuable one, as it goes to prove the theory that we have within our own state ores that are adapted and suitable as flux for our large bodles of dry ores, and it proves also the fact.that as yet our hills are only in their infancy with regards to them ever being prospected, let alone mined THE ROYAL GOLD MINE. Willard Bennett, the gentleman who engincered the building of the first street railway in Butte, but who s now en- gaged In handling the Royal Gold mining property in Granite county, speaking to a reporter of the Butte Miner, said: “We were paying $7,000 per month in dividends some time ago, but now we are paying $21,- 000, There are three tunnels on the property and they represent a total of 2,000 feet. The upper is the one from which we are taking ore. The drift is in 700 feet, of which distance 650 fect was in ore. We are still drifting at the rate of two feet a day. The face is in good ore and is about 376 feet from the surface. The middle tunnel fs 100 feet north of the unper and has a shoot of ore 230 feet in length, portion of which has been milled. A cross- cut has been driven from this tunnel to the upper tunnel, Intersecting the vein at a point about 150 feet below the floor of the latter, The lower tunnel leads to the ore bin at the mill. The vein is in granite formation and is a true fissure, As proof that the ore increases in value as depth is attained, during the first fifteen duys of February we deposited $11,567, from which amount we met the pay day of the month nd pald a vidend of $7,000. For the remaining thirteen da of the same month we brought in $12511, declared a dividend of $10,500 and paid it on thé spot, leaving $2,000 to the credit of the company for the next pay day. The increased rich- s of the ore demonstrates beyond a doubt that the property, including the con- centrates on hand since the worl as started, will earn a net profit of between $20,000 and $25,000 per month, “The property consists of five patented claims taking in 6,000 feet of the lead and the ground on which the mill stands; four unpatented claims and eighty acres of placer ground, which take: in the Deer Lodge basin at the foot of the mountain. The company owns and operates its own saw mill, with which it saws lumber on- the ground, and has an abundance of wood, which is landed at the door of the mill at g cost of $2 per cord, also water rights of sufficient magnitude to run a much larger mill than the one now in operation.” d office of the company is in Deer The whole working forze at the property comprises thirty-five men, thirteen of whom do all the stoping for the mill. TH S| DEVIL RAILROAD, J. H. Richards is up from Pa te, the Boise Statesman. A meeting wa at that place and $80,000 subscribed to be offered as a bonus for the Seven Devils vailroad. It is expected enough will be added to bring the amount up to $125,000. The proposed road will be 110 miles in length when completed, and will tap the eat Seven Devils copper and gold belt. The estimated cost of the road, eady for operation, is $3,000,000, The promoters have asserted there was New York capital ready to push the work to mpletion if there were some inducement offered by local capital. It the road be built Payette* will be the junction on the Oregon Short Line. It was stated there was some doubt as to just where the junction would be, but the liberal bonus | already offered by ette practically sets tles the question. THE DAKOTAS, Wheat sowing has commenced in the south- ern portion of Brule county, The joint debate of the universities of North and South Dakota has been decided in favor of North Dakota eese and ducks are flying north in large numbers, says a report from Aberdeen, and indications point to an early spring. Although the fce in_the Missouri at Cham- berlain still remains firm, it is generally ex- pected that it will break up at no distant day. To guard against damage the pontoon bridge has been removed until the ice leaves the stream. A very rich strike is reported to have been made in the main shaft of the Keystone mine, promising to be the richest ever opened in the Black Hills country. Parties in from the Russian settlement, which last year located at Medicine Creek, about twenty-five miles southwest of Plerre, report that there are now a large number of Russians in passage from their own country to join the colony and that more are soon to start, and that before the end of the sum- mer there will be fully 500 of them in that locality. The committee on legislation at the Huron convention outlines plans to secure state and national aid in sinking artesian wells and perfecting a_system of practical irrigation for South Dakota. Sentiment was em- phatic that irrigation fs not absolutely neces- sary to secure crops, but experiments demon- strate that irrigation increases yield and in- sures protection against loss by hot winds. Several wells will be put down the present season to fill the 10w places and lake beds with water George Anderson, living two and a half miles cast of Colfax, N. D., brought in some very fine specimens of coal which were found on his farm while drilling a well. The speci- mens are similar to the Sand Cooley, Mont., coal, and are pronounced by experts to be even better. It is the intention of Mr. An- derson to sink a shaft as soon as spring opens, and commence operations, There is no doubt that there is any amount of coal in the vicinity of Colfax, as it has been found on several occasions. The whisky town known as Asymptote, on disputed ground between South Dakota and Nebraska, has passed in its last check, and is now no more forever. Various moves have been made in a legal way against the keepers of the joints, but in every case have been unsuccessful. A short time ago pro ceedings were brought, making the owner of the land a party. This soon had the de~ sired effcct, and the other day the last re. maining shanty was moved off, leaving no vestige of the late important city, COLORADO. A gold strike is reported near Beulah, Pueblo county. The mines pay roll at Rico now exceeds $10,000 a month, he Colorado Fuel and Iron company pald out over $26,800 to the coal miners about Ruby last week. A rich strike of brittle silver has been made in the Spook Dicke; r' creek, northwest of Saguache. The farmers of Powers county complaln that coyotes are more numerous and des structive this year than ever before, Trinidad is negotiating for the erection of extensive glass works, for which ads mirable facilities exist about that city, It is probable that Rock Springs will be connected with the gold flelds, of Atlantic City, Lewiston and South Pass by a daily stuge line. The Las Animas Leader says that con- sidorable building will be done in that town this season and calls for the establishment of a brickyard. Forty tons from the new strike in the unice, West Dolores district, will soon be shipped, It carries 436 ounces silver and 4% ounces gold. Citizens of Fort Collins are interesting themsely in the construction of a wagon road, from that place to North park via Cherokee park and Sand Creek pass The Gold King mill at Telluride is now working its full complement of stamps on one of the finest bodis of gold ore which has ever been found yet in any of its wo Ings. Ore carrying half an ounce of gold has been struck on Shallow creek, at the ed of the Creede silver district, In the tunn of the Ballarat company, in the Eureka veln. E. C. Engelhardt, the Blake street metal 1 ist, clalms that by a speclal bromide process he saved nearly 95 per cent of the assay value in experiments upon ‘re from the Isabella, Cripple Creek. The cost of this process is from $2.50 to $6 a ton. Chaffee county has 15,027 acres under cultivation, 52,899 acres of pasture, raises 2,800 tons of alfalfa, 49,600 bushels of po- tatoes, 4,300 head of cattle, 1,600 horses, 17,325 bushels of wheat and 22,500¢ bushels of oats, and a large variety of other products. Prospectors on Bellows creek, about five miles southeast of Jimtown, have found a strong vein of decomposcd quartz, spar and lime, with tale and chloride lying between walls of lime and trachyte. Assays have shown from nine to sixteen and a half ounces silver and from a trace to three-tenths of an ounce of gold per: ton. Some specimens showing both free gold and free silver have also been taken from: the vein. The finders have pitched their tent and are at work. WYOMING. A water famine prevails in the Big Horn basin, Frost has closed the streams and the cattle are dying for water. The discovery of a rich gold ledge thirty- five miles south of Evanston, Wyo., has created excitement there. It Is near the old Mill City. Cuflahy, the Chicago packer, will erect a packing house at Sheridan as soon as a guranty of sufficient hogs and cattle to keep it running is certain. The late reports from the condition of cattle from the northern part of the state are more encouraging. It is now thought that the total loss will not exceed the average year. The Sheridan, Wyo., Post states that large bands of catile ‘are congregating along Tongue river and against the fences in that locality, and that something must be done for them or there will be heavy losses. The sheep men of Wyoming will ask the state board of equalization, which meets some time this month, to fix values of live stock for assessment, for a lower valuation on sheep than they have been assessed at heretofore. Colonel W. H. Root of Laramie, who re- cently delivered a herd of Wyoming eIk to ir Peter Walker's preserves near Liverpool, has contracted to transport seventeen English red deer from England to the park of Austin Corbin, New York. The Laramie Republican says Prof. Wil- bur C. Knight assayed some very rich speci- mens of ore the other day ey wero sent from the Vi district. ~ Of these assays of pa ¢ rich rock, one assayed $13,000 to the ton, and the others $9,000 and $11,000 respectively Laramie county paid $3,067.75 In the past thirteen months for the fore paws of coyotes and wolves, and the spring crop is yet to come. Converse, Sheridan, Crook and John- son counties have been compelled to quit, not having the funds to meet the obligation The amount paid in bounties in this county exceeds the entire live stock taxes received. OREGON, A delegation of Arkansas travelers have settled down about Juntura, Malheur county. Freighters between The Dalles and Prine ville report the bottom of the road fallen out The heating apparatus used by Alban new street car system is 8o popular that plo ride around in it to save fuel at home. The output of gold in Jackson and Jose. phine counties last year is put at $1,000,000, and the indications ‘are better for this year. John Madson of Barbra recently killed two large gray wolves near his Nehalem ranch The larger one measused 6 feet § inches from tip to tip. In the Lakeview land district there are 000 acres of wmsurveyed lands—not in- cluding Indian reservations—and 285,000 acres are In Lake county. Jack Holcomb andiJ. W. Robinson took a $221 nugget from theip placer elaim in Jump- Off-Joe district somer time ago. The same mine produced last year three nuggets of about $100 each. The largest pair o elk antlers ever seen in“Wallowa county, 4f not the whole country, were brought to Joweph by Henry Sprague from the Chesinmus. ~They were shipped to a dealer in Montana. ©. H. DeWitt of Héarney county is taking an elght-legged calfito the Midwinter fair. The calf, o heifer, i finely developed, with two organs of generation, same sex, one head and eight legs, calved near Harney, and died ! despite great care given it by the owner ven miles of the: Balley irrigation ditch has been already eempleted, and 600 feot of the flume built. The latter will be 2,100 feet in length, and the ditch twenty-two miles. - As soon as the flume s done it is intended o turn ln the water, causing it | to follow as fast as work on the canal pro- One night recently dogs made a_descent ville, and destroyed quite a number of his After, satiating remarkable Evidently it had been stunned in the had submitted When found the next sed by removing the dirt, it ran off and joined its mother. of interment. An air shaft is being driven in the Bucoda Toledo is bestirring itself for a railroad to connect with the Northgrn Pacifie. es in_the upper Skoo- kum Chuck valley are suffering from blind A good many Agricultural association and a county fair. s of butter per week, and can- not supply the demand. of Chaska, Minn., a 500-barrel flour mill at Elberton this c They are expert millers. Moclips river to Boon creek, Chehalis county, a distance ing summer. has been formed Port Townsend, which guarantees to reduce $15,000 annually if given con- farmers at Clearbrook, put in a creamery if they will guarante for having played cards, Covello they are using as meal time browned wheat, of Willapa ing in so many cougar scalps that the Pa- commissione suspending the $5 bounty on these trophies of the chase. of Elizabeth company for $30,000 damages for an_ explosion verdict for the defendant. Thumbville. sleum and asphalt in the Chickasaw twenty-five Discoveries of pet recently been mad reservation, Navafo Indians In 50 near starvation to kill rangemen's stock preservation a matter of self- Luis Obispo, penitentiary of good quality hours, using two barrels of water is propelled downward over ing quicksilver, and it is asserted that none of the gold escapes, no matter how fine or flat. About 60,000 head of sheep will be sheared at Thompson Springs, on the line of the Rio Grande Western, this spring. The clip from a Utah sheep is said to average six pounds. At this rate there will be 360,000 pounds of wool to ship from that point. The Las Cruces Independent states that at a depth of 1,400 feet in the artesian well being bored at Big Springs the drill has passed thronkh 420 feet of solid rock salt. It is claimed that this is the thickest bed of salt known in the United States. Citizens of Salt Lake are making a grana movement in favor of home manufactures Trainmen in Utah will hereafter wear uni- forms made of cloth manufactured in that territory, and requests have been made of the various public institutions where stu- dents or employes wear uniforms to adopt the same rule. While the great hoom of a year ago has died out, there are still several tics washing out gold along the lower San Juan in the vicinity of Bluff City, Utah, and taking out from $5 to $8 per day. Rockers and sluice boxes are mostly in use. The conditions of the canons are such that it Is difiicult to get in or use improved ma- chinery The marble quarries being opened at Beulah are attracting much attention and delighting lovers of the beautiful by the variety and excellence of the specim obtained. Some of them are almost uni- formly of one color, others have a delicatc pink “tinge running through them. Somc approach in translicence the finest onyx, to which formation the stone tends. Others re beautifully veined, one specimen being remarkable in that two sets of lines of aif- ferent hues run at right anglés to one an other. New collections of clifft dwellers' relics have been made at Blufl City, Utah, which e exceedingly valuable, e are thir teen mummies well preserved and robed in the finest of garments made from tl skins of wild animals, such as bear, moun tain lion, mountain sheep, decr, antelope and others. One was apparently the chief of the tribe, and with him were found many kinds of medicines, together with a curious pipe and a sack of some kind of tobacco. There were 50 found crockerywa baskets, broad-brimmed sombreros and nu- merous other articles. State Engineer Mead of Wyoming states that California’s Irrigation laws do not com pare with those of Wyoming or Colorado Water rights and rates are extraordinarily high, especially in southern California, where in_one Instance a perpetual right to one cuble foot per acre sold for $50,000 In another instance the cost was equivalent to $00 per acre. In northern- California the pric re lower, but are there, as a rule, much higher than with us. The rates of a private company for alfalfa are $2.50 an acre annual rental; for small grain, $2 an acre; gardens, $5 an acre. - Chicago's Bottle Craze. A ourious fancy In bric-a-brac has fur- nished one man the foundation of a mode fortune within the last year, says the Chic Record. He has @ store on State street, near Fourteenth, and used to limit his trans actions to the purchase and sale of old bot tles, Druggists and barkeepers were his prineipal customers, but now one may see fashionable carriages at the door on almost any bright day, and he will tell you that the wealthy and people whose tastes run to id ornaments are regular visitors there. They buy odd-shaped bottles and jugs of all sorts and pay handsomely for such treasures as old Dutch wares in blue or the quaint corated hottles in which various liqueurs and mixtures are imported. Glazed jugs of | | fine finish and drinking mugs, such as the Germans showed at Jackson park last sum mer, have become almost a craze, and bring three or four times their former value he Towlf Crice of Columbin, & € “The strongest voice I ever heard,” sa rat, “is that of the town ecrier of umb €. Columbia 1s the only town in the United States that still keeps up the | custom of having a town crier, and probably tho lurgest in area that any one man's vo wis expected to reach the ut st bound aris of. The crier stands upon a high | tower and ralls the hours, ‘10 o'clock and all is well;’ ‘11 o'clock and all is well;' ‘12 o'clock, fire—fire—fire.’ The voice of the man now occupying that position can be heard anywhere within the city, and it is remarkable how quick he sees and reports a fire or general disturbance. 1 was thera once . when at midnight he cried that a child was lost, and within five minutes it seemed as though half of the population was on ‘the streets, ready to join in the arch. It was finally found under a_bed, where it had rolled and gone to sleep. When the crier dies the office will probably be abolished—they certainly cannot find another with such a voice, —— PREHISTORIC REMAINF, resh Discoverics Made in the Famous Ohio ounds, Farmer Warren Cowen of Hillsboro, 0., while fox hunting recently, discovered sev- cral anclent graves. They were situated upon a high point of land in Highland county, about a mie from the famous Ser- pent mound (where Prof. Putnam of Harvard made interesting discoveries). A8 soon as the weather permitted Cowen excavated sev- ral of these graves. He informed a corre- spondent that the graves were made of large limestone slatf, two and a half to three feet in length, and a foot wide. These were set on edge about a foot apart. Similar slabs overed the grave A single one, some- what larger, was at the head and another at the feet. 'The top of the grave was two feet below the present surface. Upon open- ing one of the graves a skeleton upwards of six feet in length was brought to light. There were a number of stone hatchets beads and ornaments of pecullar workman- hip near the right ar Several large flint spear and arrow heads among the ribs gave evidence that the mighty w ior had died in battl In another grave was th skeleton of a man equally large The right leg had been br en during life and the bones had grown together. The proe tuberance at the point of union was as large as an egg, and the limb was bent like a bow. By the feet lay a skull of some enemy, or slave. Several pipes and pendants were near the shoulder In the other graves Cow cqually, Interesting finds. It scems that this region wig populated by a fairly intelligent people and that the Serpent mound was an ohject of worship. Near the graves Is a largo fleld In which oken implements, fragments of pottery and burnt stones give evidence of a prehistoric village site, Probably the people_who are buried on the hill lived fn this village. ogieal. A well known litterateur not long ago des livered a lecture before a Buffalo club, and in the course of his talk he had occasion to ‘quote Shake are's lines about “uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” ote. At the conclusion of the add 8, says Harper's Drawer, he was approached by a Scotchma who expressed his asure at the talk, but took occasion to s that his approbation pf Shakespe: was only limited, ““There's that bit you said about the un« easy head and the erown. I dinna like it, It's muckle foolish. Now our Robbie Burng would na ha' writ such stuff,'” The lecturer was a trifle surprised, but ine quired politely why the Scot thought as he did. Oh,'" gald the Scotchman, “there’s na a mon In Scotland, king or anybody else, sao foolish as to go to bed wi' a crown on, ' Any mon o' sense wud hang it over a chair before turning in! Rush Logic Washington St here 18 no doubt ato, it,”" said the man who muses, there js ~||('I)"l: thing as oo much originality, Do you think #0?" 1 do, certainly. Take the man who use stance. He was doing well until he got an idea. He considered it a stroke of genfus and immediately proceeded to put ft 5 execution," ! pia What was the idea?" He observed the effect of moth balls frr conncction with his winter oclothes, and thought he would try ‘em on his chestnuts, He did 50, and lost not cnly his chestnut but his customers,' .