Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 30, 1894, Page 5

SHEARING SHEEP BY STEAN Oasper Boasts the First Flant of the Kind in the United States, DESTINED TO SUPPLANT HAND SHEARING More Per Pound, Than the Yield from the O1d rr Jts Longer Clip 1s Worth [ Proud first Indeed manufac- CAST the . April 25 of Casper's are cltizens Muring cuterprise, the steam shearing plant This plant 18 located about two miles di rectly north of the town, immediately on the north bank of the North Platte river. The bullding Is a large frame structure, en closed with corrugated fron, surrounded with Jarge pens. The engine furnishing the mo. ye power Is a forty-horse power. The lish Invention, having been in use in Australia and South Africa for meveral years, and this is their first intro- duction into the United States. The shears . a Ehears are an Er are very similar to the muchine used to clip horses, except that they are wider and stronger bullt and have a faster motion In shearing the sheep Is held in the same position as in hand shearing, and the speed of the shearer is attained in his skill to make a long clip. The plant started up in full blast last Sun- day on a herd of wethers belonging to J. B Okle. The wethers weighed from twelve to hout an e fourteen pounds, and are considered as hard o class of sheep to shear as found. The expert overseein o starting PR 0f the plant Is teaching the men how to use the machine, and while the men cannot mako the speed they can with hand shears, it is the belief of the writer that no person that has seen the machine work but is con- vinced that the day of shearing sheep by hand is a thing of the past. William Mar quis, one of the fastest hand shearers in the world and the man who won the world's prize for hand shearing, was a visitor at the pens and after he saw the expert shear a sheep he turned to his companions and sald: “Boys, she does the work. I am going 10 pitch in and learn to handle her. She has come to stay, and while I don't take odds off any man shearing sheep by hand, I am golng to become an expert with the machine.” Mr. Marquis, with only three days’ knowl- edge of the machines, sheared 100 Tuesday. This same min last year, working with hand , averaged 150 sheep daily. The steam shears shear a longer staple, do closer work, and there is no danger of cutting the sheep. w men have a tendency to crowd the machine, and by doing this they pull out a lot of wool and bring the blood to the sur- face, but this fault never occurs with one thoroughly acquainted with the use of the machine. The plant 1s owned by a stock company backed by J. B. Okle of Lost Cabin, Wyo. It was through the in- fluenco of Mr. Okie that the machines were brought here, and to J. B. Okle Casper is indebted for her first permanent industry in the manufacturing line, and to his enter- prise the wool growers of this section are under obligations. Two hand-sheared sheep just out of the Casper Creek pens were caught, and from one the machine sheared twelve ounces of wool and from the other thirteen ounces. The commission men hero from the east claim that the machine wool will bring at least a cent more a pound than that sheared by hand. Taking these two things into con- sideration, the machines are surely a great thing for the wool growers, who are faced with a low wool market. At this writing 4,000 sheep are sheared here at the three sheep pens. Although Casper is not perhaps the larg- est sheep shearing point in the United States, she has the only steam shearing plant in the country. SOUTH PASS MINING DISTRICT. SHEYENNE, Wyo., April 20.—The history of the riso and fall of the great excitement in the great South Pass Mining district, is familiar to almost every newspaper reader in tho country. There are yet many rich lodes in that section which will some day prove veritable treasures to their owners. One of these Is the famous Burr mine, from which more gold has been taken than from any other property in the district. This mine has four well defined veins of ore running parallel the full length of the property. Theso velns are from four to sixteen feet in thickness. Some of the oro taken from this mine has milled from $500 to $5,000 a ton. The story of the discovery of this property by A. T. Burr, from whom it received its name, {8 full ‘of intcrest. It was away back in the sixties that Mr. Burr came to the Sweoetwater country from Montana, where he had been engaged in mining. A soldier friend from Fort Washakle, who was on a furlough, came with him. At Atlantic City Mr. Bur met S. L. Spangler, an ac- quaintance, who recommended that they be- gin prospecting in the vicinity of a certain spring In a gulch to the cast of Atlantic. Tho two men found the gulch and the spring. A few yards beyond tho spring was & bare spot of ground, which upon ex- amination Mr. Burr found to be a gravel formation. Taking a pan of this gravel he went to the spring and panned it out, the yield being 25 cents in gold. The second pan washed out 50 cents and a nugget that weigled §6. This proved that the gulch was rich and the two men laid their plans to aily being shearing mine in a business-like way. A trench was cut to bed rock and the dirt washed in the water. They were en- gaged in this work two or three weeks and took out consderable gold. JOHN STRUCK THE LEAD. A Chinaman came along one day and hired out to them to do the cooking and assist in the use of the rocker. One day, about a month after they had taken possession of the ground, the Chinaman prepared dinner at the tent and then went down to the dig- &ings to call his employers. The two miners wont to dinner, leaving the Chinaman at work cleaning the dirt from the bed-rock, which Mr. Burr had been examining with great care, as the pay dirt had disappeared and this had convinced him that the gold had come from a lead near at hand and it was his opinion that he had passed it. The Celestial cleaned the rock with great care while!|the men were eating their dinner, but before they had finished the heathen set up a howl which soon brought the miners out of their tent to see what was the matter. The Chinaman kept up his cries until his companions came running to him in amaze- ment, wondering whether the red skins were in sight or if he had suddenly gone crazy. Arrlving on the ground the Chinaman ex- hibited to them some specimens of quartz literally studded with gold. The Chinaman had discovered the lead and the Burr mine was a reality, A few days afterward tho soldler was obliged to return to his regiment at Fort ~Vashakie, As he passed through Lander ho sold at the bank $280 worth of gold. Mr. Burr worked on and during the next few Wwoeks took out about $1,000. In less than five years he took out moro than $8,000 worth of gold. This gold was hammered out of the quartz in a small hand mortar, the _most crude manncr possible of treating the ore. The Burr Mining company, of which Hon, J. D. Woodruft of Lander is the president, the present owner of the property, purchased it from Mr. Burr in July, 1893, Very little dovelopment work was done last season, but the company had made arrangements to thoroughly test the property. The latest im- proved mining machinery will be used. The cor'pany has several hundred tons of ore on the dump which was taken out this winter. Tt Is to be expected that this season's work Will demonstrate beyond peradventure the great wealth of the mining camp. 1It, how- ever, is not a place for men without capital It will require a large sum of money to de- velop the property in that section. LARAMIE'S LATEST STRIKE. Prof. Wilbur O. Knight of the university has just completed the ussay of a number + of samples of what he says is the finest gulena ore he has ever tested in Wyoming, The ore ho has just assayed comes from the Morgan district ‘and was taken from & new progpect discovered by C. B. Richle, says he Laramie Republican., One assay from the prospect ran 248 ounces in silver, $2.20 in gold and 63 per cent in lead. _Another mple went $17 in gold and elghty-seven unces In sliver. Two more assays taken from the lea which 1s three feet in width, averaged ninety ounces of silver to the ton, with & shade of gold and a big per cent of tead The new discovery In the interest of the owners. The assays reforred to were taken from the surface rock, but the work of developing the claim will be gone on with at onc The location I8 now being worked is above the Morgan mine, just at the foot of the main range and at the head of Dutton and Cooper creeks. The richness of the ore brought to town fs unquestioned, and if the lead holds out the prospect will prove a bonanza to the. owners and will cause a great rush to the Morgan district as the season adv The entice range from Rockdale to the north fork of the Little Laramie will proba- bly be thoroughly prospected this season and it will be very strange It some rich #trikes are not made. A plece of rock was picked up the other day from the surface of the North Star location, a clalm just above the Morgan mine, and upon being assayed was found to run $700 in gold. The float found between the points mentioned will run anywhere from $#0 to $30 a ton, but hether its richness continues under the surface or not fs romothing that nothing but development work will prove. WYOMING OIL FIELDS Mr. B. L. Olds, purchasing agent of the Unlon Pacifie, Denver & Gulf rallway, came in on the Cheyenne & Northern from a trip to the central Wyoming ofl flelds near Cas- por, says the Cheyenne Tribune. Mr. Olds has been making a personal investigation of these ofl flelds and gathering information as to their extent, the facilitles for production, character and quality of the ofl and all other features of the matter. At the present time the only outlet to market is by the rthwestern system, which is under the ntrol of the Vanderbilts. This line, like most of the big trunk lincs, Is receiving at all times enormous patronage from the Standard Oil company, which controls most of the oil production of the country, but has not yet seized that of Wyoming. In conse- quence, the Northwestern has not even seen fit to make rat by which the Wyoming oil can be marketed. It charges $700 to tran port a car of oil for the same distance that it charges $200 to transport a car of cattle. The inference is very plain that the North- stern does not want the oll carrying de e well owners have applied to the Den- vor & Guif railway for a freight rate from Orin Junction to the gulf. 1f a satlsfactory rate s obtained the Pipe Line company, which has already been incorporated, will it once commence the work of building the pipe line. Eighty miles of pipe line, with fwo pumping stations, will connect the wells with the Denver & Gulf at Orin Junction. A three-inch main will be lald. Ample capltal s ready to be put into the line the moment the fact is assured that a market can be reached for the oll that it can be shipped at a reasonable profit. The quantity of the product Is unknown. At the present time two wells which the Pennsylvania company have in operation have a capacity of 230 barrels per month each. There is 150,000 acres of oil lands in the belt, all of which is said to be equally rich in oil, and the number of wells which may be put down is almost unlimited. The interest taken by the Denver & .Gulf officials in the resources of central Wyoming and in the country tributary to the Ch nne & Northern Is awakening new hope in the people of these portions of the state, and the feeling is growing that there is soon to be a substantial development of the re- sources which have 5o long lain dormant. GREEN RIVER PLACER The placer diggings on Green River have been attracting a large amount of attention 50 during the past few weeks. Thousands of acres have been located and cousiderable development work done. Numerous holes have been sunk and the deepest is fifteen feet, but even then bed-rock was not reached, w$ the Green River Star. From the sur- face the pay secems about the same for the entire depth. Sufficient gold it is claimed is found from the top down to make the whole pay dirt. The new devices for saving flne gold will be given a thorough test her: and It they do the work successfully machines will be shipped in by the hundreds, for the pay ground extends 200 miles. A new machine from Omaha is now being put up and another is expected in a day, or two from New Mexico. If these get to work we will know something of the possibilities of the Green River placers. There will also be a new electrical machine put in soon, which the inventors claim Is the thing for flour gold. One thing is certain, the prospects brought down from the rockers on the river show up immense, and If much pay dirt like this is struck the Green River placers will be the wonder of the age. Parties who have looked over the ground claim that all the bars in the river arc as rich as those now being worked and this means miles upon miles of good pay ground. Ah Say and other Chinese experts claim that from the work they have done that these bars will pay good wages worked by the simplest process. It was rumored that they are now engaged in making arrangements to bring in several hundred Chinamen. Mining experts by the dozen have been here recently, and all except one pronounco the placers as remarkably rich and all say that the new placer machinery will be able to save the gold. CHAIR OF IRRIGATION. A very important conference has been held at Huron, S. D., upon the subject of practical irrigation work for the coming season. It was between Captain C. S. Fas- sett, state engineer of irrigation, Dr. Wil- liam Blackburn of Pierre university, Captain E. F. Sheldon, president of the board of trustees of the agricultural college, and President Shannon of the hoard of regents. he regents at their February meeting, says a special to the Sioux Falls Argus-Herald, made arrangements for the establishment of a ‘“chair of irrigation” in the agricultural college, with a view to teaching irrigation engineering, the analysis and application of irrigating waters, etc., on the theory that irrigation fs a science of great present inter- est to the people of this state, the teaching of which comes clearly within the scope of the provisions of both state and national legislation. The faculty of the college have joined in the recommendation of a plan for immediate work for the present season only, the en- tire cost of which, teacher, expenses, bul- letins and all, will be less than $1,000, and that fs provided for mainly by national funds. The teacher, it is proposed, shall do his work from May 1 to October, out in the flelds of those farmers who have water and lands ready for crop. There are probably a score of these in the state and as many will be dealt with as can be reached with thorough work. ~ All will be under the im- mediate charge of the college authorities and all official reports will emanate from the sehool. But the owners or operators of the lands and, in fact, all who at any point t to attend will recelve instruction in Jaying out the lands, constructing reservoirs, ditching, applying the water to the varlous crops, in short, in everything pertaining to the theory and field work of irrigation after the water is secured and the land made ready. The state englneer offers to do all in h'v power to ald the matter, without charge to the college, and it Is believed that several of the farmers having wells will ald In the local expenses of the instructor. EBRASKA, A colt born at Fullerton last week had an extra leg, and its owner Killed it. 0. D. Jones, a_ resident of Brock since 1854, I8 dead at the age of 72 years. A patent has been granted to M. L. Hall of Omaha for a check row corn planter. . C. Wright has retired from the Wahoo Wasp, and will go to Idaho to edit a paper. Young Frye, who was accused of robbing the postoffice at Lexington, has been ac- quitted. The Nemal County Teachers institute will be held at Auburn June 18 and continue in session two weeks. The sherift of Dawes county has started a rogues’ gallery, and the first faces to adorn it are those of the men who robbed the depot at Crawford, Traces of a mastodon have been discoy- ered on a farm near Kearney, and sclentists are now digging up the soil in the vicinity for the purpose of unearthing the carcass of the prehistoric mammal. Howard Clarke of Papillion such an enthusiastio bicyclist that he is about to make a'tour of Europe on his wheel. He starts for England May 2 and will spend the entire summer abroad. Roy Baker, a son of a Furnas county farmer, went out to till the soil with a riding plow, and when he returned home in tho evening his head was cut open for a dis- has become THE OMAHA tance of three inches. He didn’t know he was hurt, though the blood was flowing from the wound freely, He had evidently been dazed by the accident, and Is still unable to tell how it oceurred. Mrs, Catherine Clifton, probably the oldest person in the state, died the other day at her home in Alexandria ho was_born vember 9, 1787, in Lincoln county, North ‘arolina, and was therefore at the time of her death aged 106 years, 5 months and 15 days. She lived in her native staie until she was 13 years old, and then moved to Tennessee, She afterwards lived in Ohlo, Indiana and Tllinols, and cams from the last named state to Nebraska. She was of Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch descent, of strong bufld, and was a large and healthy woman, Last summer sho planted and cultivated ore of the best gardens in Alexandria. Hor mind, too, was clear and strong to the 'y Last January she was taken with la grippe and was not afterwards able to be out Last week she had an attack of erysipelas and this was no doubt the causs of her death Last week she presented her cane, which she had owned for the past fifty vears, to a young druggist n appreclation of his kind- ness in bringing her medicine while she was sick. She became a Christian early in life and her faith never fafled her in all these years of trial and affliction. THE DAKOTAS, A heavy hall storm visited Brookings, 8. D., breaking the glass in the windows of nearly all the residences and business houses. Spring seeding Is well advanced in South Dakota, where the ground Is reported in excellent condition, with an abundant sup- ply of molsture. Large numbers of prairie schooners are passing through in the vicinity of Faulk- ton overy day, filled with emigrants for homes on cheap lands. A feed mill engine at Iroquois blew up and smashed the building Into kindling wood, and instantly killed Ted Calkins, Pioces of the engine went forty rods and several persons narrowly escaped. A meeting of the Missourl River Stock- men's g tion and nonassociation com- mittees is called for May 1 at Fort Pierre, to arrange wagons, ete., for the annual round up, which starts from Fort Plerre May 15. Rhodes Bros., who have the contract to supply mares for the Indians, are shipping the horses to Kimball preparatory to de- livery to the agency west of the river. T'here are now at that place about 300 head and more coming every day. Dispatches from Idgemont effect that the recent rains have the Cheyenne river that it has overflowed its banks, and fears are entertained that the wagon bridge and the B. & M. railway bridge will be washed out. Major Clements, Indian agent, has been at Plandreau distributing houses and barns to the Flandreau Indians. About fifty houses ind barns have been distributed among the Indians. Soon head of cattle will be distributed among the same Indians, At Northville a young man was engaged in cleaning out the bottom of a grain bin in an elevator when the adjoining bin burst, letting the immense load of grain in upon him, smothering him to death. A hole was cut in_the side of the clevator In trying to reach him, but life was extinct when he was found. Prospectors down from Bald mountain r port more snow on the ground in that sec- tion than ever before known. One branci of the Deadwood Central railroad Is covered with a ten-foot blanket of the beautiful, well packed, and should a heavy rain come there is no question but that an immense volume of water would down this gulch. Work on the big irrigation ditch at Rdge- mont is progressing finely. The ditch will be completed in time for use to water this vear’s crop. The water will be stored in two large reservolrs until it is necessary to use it, and there will at all times be crough water to supply the land. The dlteh Is large enough to furnish a forty- horse power reserve of water to be used for manufacturing purposes at Edgemont. A Hot Springs man who has had a force of men at work excavating fish ponds struck a few colors of gold in the gravel, which are to the 80 swelled leads him to believe that the source of Solomon's revenue has been rediscovered at last. As a matter of fact, all the gravel in this country is more or less auriferous, and a healthy, industrious man can go out with a gold pan and make from 15 to 25 cents in most any sunshiny, ten-hour day. The Highland Mining company at Lead are now having timbers put on the ground preparatory to adding forty more stamps to their 120 stamp mill, the work to commence as soon as the weather will permit, When this s completed this mill will be equal in size and capacity to the Star of the Home- stake company, Which has long been known as the largest gold stamp mill in the world. This improvement will necessitate an in- creased force in the Highland mine. While Joseph Dusick, an Aurora county farmer, was hunting along the creek on the Metzer ranch in thut county he killed a very fine specimen of water fowl. It was measured and stands five and one-half feet high, with a spread of wings of six feet. # The plumage, which is in_four different colors, is very beautiful. ~ No one in the vicinity knows the name of this strange fowl, although there s little doubt that it belongs to the stork or heron family. Hunters who have killed birds of every variety common to the country say they never before saw anything of this kind. On account of there being no taxidermist within reach it was found im- possible to preserve the interesting specimen. COLORADO. Ophir camp, San Miguel county, is employ- ing about 150 miners, Work on the Alice 200-ton concentrator has been begun at Yankee hill. It is reported that the largest cyanide works In the state will be erected at Lead- ville. If no late frosts occur there is every prom- iso for a very large fruit crop in the Ar- kansas valley about Durango. Mining troubles in Cripple Creek district are gradually dying out. The difterences at Issue are too small to last long. A new drift has been started In the Moose at a depth of 100 fect. It is over seven feet wide and brings $350 to the ton. Alfalfa {s up and growing in the Arkal valley. It is thirty days ahead of Its de- velopment at this time last spring. The Rio Grande river is low for this sea- son of tho year, and water is therefore not as plentiful"as it should be in the San Luls valley. The Silverton road will be open and op- crating into the Red Mountain district be fore May 1. An immense amount of ore is awaiting shipment. In the Little Anna claim at Jasper a 16 inch vein of gold quartz has been struck. assaying thirteen ounces of gold and seven of silver to the ton. The Raven tunnel, Cripple Creek, fs in over 250 feet and Is outside of the Jack Pot lines. A good vein i3 expected to be cut within a short distance, The first sale of mining property in the Goose Creek district has just been made by L. Sherbano selling $50,000 worth of Goose Creck prospects to parties in the east, Sunset claim, one and a_halt miles east of Balfour, owned by J. E. Roper, shows free gold at a depth of eleven feet, tho fi freo gold shown at this depth in the camp. The Fort Collins Express says that a train load of seventeen cars of fat lambs, valued at $17,000, left that city for the Chicago n ket. There were 3,600 in the lot and were the finest bunch of lambs ever shipped from Colorado. Dubols camp is greatly excited over rich ore discovered on Wolf creek in the Iron Cap claim and the Gunnison lode. There is about one car of ore on the dump of the Iron Cap ready for shipment that, according to camp assays, shows §80 per ton, Some good discoveries are reported in the vicinity of “Mossies Cabin,” an old Arkan- sas river camp of the early 60's, where Oro City and Granite miners used to do placer mining, In this vicinity an eruptive porphyry occurs, in which prospecting has been going on the past winter, The following figures show about the amount of money spent at La Jaru the past six months: Grain and potatoes, eggs, $10,000; butter, $10,000; poultry, $3.000: hogs, $15,000; cattle and sheep, $10,000; and farmers in that vicinity still have on hand about 50 cars of hay, 40 cars of potatoes, 30 cars of oats and 20 cars of wheat, Consternation, says the Pueblo Chleftaln, provails In Huerfano county. Farmers along the Huerfano river who have used the water of that stream for many years have been ordered to discontinue irrigation on account of priorlty of water rights of farms in Pu- eblo county, The order practically means that there shall be no more farming in Huer- tano county and that the water shall be s DAILY BEE: allowed to flow through there to this county troversing on the way 1ong reaches of sand which will absorh the MeNG6 it and do no body much good. Every. possible legal ro sistance will be mads te the attempt to flo- prive Huerfano county of the water of ts MONDAY, APRIL 0, 1894 will disburse some $100,000 this way, nnl|! thereat congratulates itsolf and the town generally The populists of Kittita sunty have rganized a co-operatve and industrinl ssoclation, and will open a store in Ellens own streams. burg, OREGON, " y The Blue Canyon coal mine has At Toledo they are using a box ear for a what it claims to be the fnest exp city Jail. It is the only one they have. YeInY: OF Kiy. NG, Off Lhe ooRit [ A Joint stock companyg Is being organized | shows twenty foet of coal, all it for the | in Hillsboro for a vegetable and fruit can- | bunkers, and ten feot of which Is absolutely | nery. 1t from bone and other Impurities | Rev. Mr, Trvine of Albdfiy has a copy of | The schooner Volunteer fs now at Aboer- | “Calvin’s Commentaries” printed in Genoa | doen, loading with Jumber for China, and in 156 her cargo will mak: the sixth that Ymu} Sam_ Whetstone killed. a black bear near | 80n¢ forelgn from Gray's harbor within a Coquille weighing between 700 and 800 j‘:;l‘:" n:.‘:‘”r n?.‘.';”«r- B “"r‘l'»: Mv;kr L"\:;l“’ pounds and measuring seyen fect four Inches | JEAEIAE OF HINOGEE T &0 (ocl square Ahd .x\rr,,w the breast from the tip of one foot to :v‘”u:m.'l,“‘rl llunx“ would astonish an eastern ‘l the tip of the other. Y Contri rs are preparing bids on the | Hope Bros. of Vale lost 1,700 sheep by the | iU TaC et ATC RECRAIIE 008 ver | high water a few days ago. They were feed- | o "\ohion will b 2,000 feot g It will | ing them on an lsland, and the water rose | b thirty-nine feot wide and . thirty feet 80 rapidly that they did not have time to | high over all the walls of masonry, the arch get them off. They saved elghty head of brick, unless it shoull be decided to | Mr. Tennison of Randolph is bullding a | bufld it of timber. It will require 5,200,000 | flume three miles long to bring water to his | brick, 54,000 yards of masonry and 2,000,- | black sand claim on the ocean beach. The | 000 feet of timber. water {s being brought from near the old MISCELLANEOUS, Lane mine, and two miles of the flume 8 | King aifalfa is towering bigh In the Arkan- already comploted. N. 8. Merrill has lald out a new town on nis place, twenty-two miles south of Klamath Falls, says the Express. Thomas Martin will bulld himself a_ beautiful residence there, as his new mill site s adjoining, and, as the site is on the main road to California, 1t will make a fine location. There are sixty men working on the Hamp- ton ditch on Grave creek, and the construce tion will be completed by the first of N The company has 750 acres of rich placer ground, and as they have all Grave creek to draw from, water will he abundant for wash- ing down the banks the year round. Julius E. Miner, who owns 18,000 acres of timber land up Rogue river, is having trouble over holding its possession. The government agents sent out have secured some evidence in regard to how it was secured, and the de- partment has ordered a hearing at the Rose- burg land office, where Mr. Miner is at pres ent, As no trains were crossing the Island Clty bridge, the railway boys used a novel method in the transfer of a carload of hogs shipped from Elgin. They built a sort of animal cage or den on a push car, coaxed fifteen hogs thereon, and by means of a big cable and the fron horse, the whole outfit hauled gaily over the river. WYOMING. In view of the stampede to the placer diggings on Green river a newspaper is being started up. About 250,000 sheep will be shorn about sper, Wyo., this season, the shearing hav- ing already begun. Buffalo Bill has invested heavily in the Bald Mountain placer propertics and a lively season is expected in the camp. The shearing season will open at Fort Steele and it is estimated that about 63,000 sheep will be shorn there during the season. The Burlington has an order in the Pueblo rolling mill for 7,500 tons of rails for the new extension from the north of Sheridan The snow_on the hills in the Lewliston country of Wyoming has nearly all disap- pearcd, and already the influx of prospectors is great. Ranchmen 000 Utah sheep Ca complain that there in the western are part of Uintah county trampling down the meadows and eating cvery vestige of grass. | Two hundred elk were seen in one band on the day. been scen on years. Frank Grouard left Sheridan to cross the Big Horn range on a secret errand. Grou- ard is chief of the regular army scouts, and there is much speculation as to the rea- son for the trip. | The placer mining excitement along the ! Green river still continues. Many Chinamen | from Rock Springs have started for the new | flelds, and it is reported they are making good wages taking out gold. What with the excitement over gold dis- coveries in the western part of the state and the railroad building in the northern | part, there is every indication that there will 'be good times in Wyoming this year. A rival town is being laid out ten miles above Otto, Wyo. The new town will be christened Burlington, and it is said will be a candidate for the seat of the new county which will be taken from Fremont county. A large party of Fort Collins gentlemen will outfit for the Le Garde creek placers about May 1. This party will go prepared to stay awhile in that section, and, after the snow goes off, will be prepared to do some extenslve and systematic prospecting. The mine at Almy s turning out an aver- age of 500 tons of coal per day, that being about the average for a number of years. This gives employment to about men, hence the town at Almy is in a much more flourishing condition than it was a few months ago. Probably the largest specimen of the Amer- ican eagle ever seen in the Rocky mountain reglon is now on exhibition in Lander. The | eagle measures eight feet from tip to tip and four feet from bill to tail. It weighed four- teen pounds. The bird has been in the vi- cinity of the Little Pope-Agie for a number of years and has killed a good many lambs in that neighborhood. A gentleman who has just returned from a prospecting trip to Fremont county states that it is not generally known that there is an abundance of the finest coking coal in the world in that county, but it is nevertheless true. North of the town of Lander there is a vein nine feet in thickness. The great distance from any line of transportation has prevented any development of the mine, ex- cept for home consumption. WASHINGTON, citizen of Whatcom 'has subscribed to the fruit canmery project. mountains above Hyattville the other | This is the largest band of elk that b these mountains for seve A 1000 $ There Is a project on foot to establish glass works at Tacoma, to cost $150,000 for the plant. The Prosser {rrigation ditch was for- mally opened and dedicated, with speeches and ‘enthusiasm unbounded. A sawmill is being constructed at the mouth of the Klickitat. Another mill and a grist mill will probably be built at Lyle, in the same county. Claims for homesteads or mineral loca- tions on the Klamath Indian reservation will be received at the land office at Eu- reka, beginning May 2L, In the Trout lake settlement, Klickitat county, there are seventeen unmarried ranchers with good homesteads, according to a paper that does not conduct a matri- | monial bureau. Promoters of the potato starch factory | | of | at Nooksack are awalting a guaranty 1,000 tons of potatoes at a reasonable price before proceeding with arrangements for establishing the plant. Work 1s being pushed on the lands of the Willis ditch, and;every kind of grain, fruit and hops is being spwed and planted. | Soon this desert-looking part of the Walla | Walla valley will blossom as the rose. The Mohican paid off at Townsend the other day. It took $20,000 to go around. The Leader thinks the Bering sea fleet S88a38233222000 Eruptions and similar annoyances are eaused by impure blood, which will result in a n removed, slight impurities will develop into serious SCROFULA, maladies. I have for some tim blood trouble, for W did ‘me 1o e i = bee: 8 fch have now oo ot ned twenty o frien A 0 3OO JOHN 8. o250 | The sufforer from n sovero took many remedies that taken ‘four With themost wondorful resul the best health Iever knew, iy they Never Baw mo ws we Tam feeling quite 11ke & new man. Government Printing Ofmoe, Washin, Treatise on Biood and Skin Diseases mailed free to any address, BWIFT SPECIFIO CO., ATLANTA, GA. sas vall The melting of the snow has caused heavy floods 1n Idaho Bull fights are a feature of the Spanish flesta at San Diego. The cold snap at Bddy, N. M., killed just enough peach blossoms to assure a good crop. A very rich gold strike is reported to have been made In the Dixle district near Bolse, Idaho. There 1s likely to be a lively fight against the confirmation of the land grant in the Cochiti (N. M.) district. A line of the Postal Telegraph company 18 now belng constructed along the Atlantic & Pacific in northern Arizona. Willlam Thompson of Napa, Cal., has erected buildings and made preparations to cultivate mushrooms for the market. Work In the Truckes sawmill has been commenced. It s expected that at least 10,000,000 feet will be cut this year. There is sald to be big excitement over the placer gold flelds in Hell canon, within fifteen miles of Albuquerque, and at least 100 loc tions are made. e new placer discoveries near Iv Pledras, N. M., are turning out rich. Some of the miners claim to have made $1 per hour with ordinary hand rocker. The Pecos valley of New Mexico Is bey ning the shipment of alfalfa-fed cattle to eastern markets, and in time this will be one of the greatest sources of wealth to that val- 1 There are now fifteen oil wells flowing in Los Angeloes. The yield is steadily increa ing as new wells are being bored ali the time, The oil finds a ready market at §1.50 and §2 a barrel. Albuquerque reports the discovery of pay- ing gold in several mines in Hell eanon, about thirteen miles from the ecity, and at least fifty people from Albuquerque have made locations. The hay crop of the Salt river valley of Arizona will be one of the largest ever known, and even better than that is the fact that the prices to be realized promise to be far more than obtained last year. An old Virginia, Nev., miner, in a letter written to Nevada City, says that the great mining town Is fast decaying. He says that most of the people who are leaving are going to California mountain towns. The varlous orange orchards in the Salt river valley, Arizona, present a beautiful ap- pearance in their white rose-like blossoms. The orange crop the present year will be ex- ceedingly large in the valley. It is proposed to supply Santa Clara with pure water by piping it to the city from Ste- vens creek, about eight mliles from town. pipe line and pumping plant to ac- complish this would cost $120,000. R. D. Spencer of Denver is at Santa Fe after an Inspection of the Cochita district. He says he has a very high opinion of the district. If it were in Colorado he says there would be 15,000 people there and all at work. A curiosity that Is attracting a great deal of attention is a block sawed from a tamarack tree, in which the horns of a deer are im- bedded. The tree from which the block was taken grew in Lost canon, Mono county, Cal. The surveyors of Butte and Yuba countios have begun a survey to determine the owner- ship of several islands in the Sacramento river. They comprise altogether about 600 acres and are claimed by several ranch com- panies. Some fine specimens of galena ore from the two lower levels of the Cook's peak mine in New Mexico, owned by Colorado *Springs men, which are at the respective depths of 620 and feet, arc being exhibited at the Springs. A Phoenix, Ariz., jeweler visited court a few days ago, and while there went to sleep. His slecp was so noisy that judicial proceed- ings were disturbed. He was fined $5 for contempt, and when he refused to pay was taken to jail awake but very profane. Borrego Springs, in the Cochiti district, N. M., has been incorporated as a town. The town lies seven miles south of Kent City and fifteen miles northwest of Wallace sta- tion, on the Santa Fe road. It is the seventh town recently laid out in the district. The Indians of northern Arizona have a pe- culiar branding iron. It is made, of stezl and placed on the head of an arrow. Then with unerring aim it is shot with such force that it cuts a mark on the animal, which, when it heals looks as if it had been burned. Farmers living near G: wrought up over the pres wild woman in that vicinity. barns or haystacks. be worn to shreds and her feet are bare. A party of men has gone in pursuit of the de- mented creature, C. W. Greene says in the Bddy, N. M., Argus that while he irrigates 6,700 acres of land in various parts of the valley the aver- age cost of distribution of the water for each of these irrigations is but 23 cents per acre. When the land Is properly graded he says the cost is about 10 cents per acre. A recent discovery near Marshall pass s a valuable deposit of iron ore carrying silver, The property is one of the most peeuliar ones ever heard of in the United States on ac- count of the fact that a fine body of hematite fron is found in lime formation, and immedi- ately under it Is a body of coking coal of un- known extent. The meeting of the Montana Stockgrowers association at Miles City took important action looking to the ridding of the ranges of wolves. People not familiar with the stock business In Montana were surprised to learn that the animal losses from the stock-destroy- ing animals are greater than those from the severity of Montana winters, A Yuma, Ariz., dispatch reports an fm- portant strike two miles south of the Monitor placer mines at Gila City in a high mountain, The vein Is eight foet wide on the summit, In the bottom of the canon it crosses 600 feet below, almost perpendicular. twenty feet wide. She sleeps in Her clothing is suid to It i The veln is very rich in free gold, carrying rich streaks of nuggets all through it. Enthuslasts pronounce It the richest gold strike ever made in the terrltory, Tetatt nore dreaded disease. Unless ECZEMA, SALT RHEUM ARE THE RESULTS OF Bad Blood es Am ounde and my ED) N, . 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