Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 7, 1894, Page 5

PULSE OF WESTERN PROGR: 55 | New Era in Oalifornia’s Wonderful Gold- | Producing Reoord, i EXPECTS TO DIG OUT 81,000,000 A MONTH | Nevada Fortune Hunters on the Way to Alaska to Undortake Fox Raising for the Sake of heir Furs—Gen- oral Wes! 1s Californla to have another revival of the golden days of '49 and the early '50s? Perhiaps the valleys and foothllls of the northern half of the state never again will present the scenes of activity and life that they did in those days, but it is certain a veritable gold mining boom has set in within three months throughout the Sierra counties of the upper end of the commonwealth. The stagnation of silver mining existing throughout the western states and terri- tories has caused the attention of capital to be directed to this undeveloped gold in the mountains of northern California, says the Denver Times. Hundreds of miners, who already have made fortuncs in delving for the hidden treasure, have come to the state and opened or reapened a new or an old mine. Many a camp that has been aban- doned for a score of yeors has been awak- ened within the last ninety days by the shrill steam whistle and the thundering stamp of the battery. The mother lode in California commences below Angel's camp, Calaveras county, and extends northwest almost to the Oregon boundary line. It frequently is (raceable for mile: Then it disappears only to re- appear farther on in the same general direc- tion, richer than ever. It is on this lode that development is now being made. The wealth that this wonderful ledge has alrcady ylelded is beyond comprehensign. Within the confines of one county alone, Amador, 0,000,000 has been secured and added to the gold supply of the world. In Amador county at Sutter's creek was lo- cated the famous Hayward mine. It made Alonzo Hayward many times a millionaire, Some years ago, though, a fire broke out in the mine, destroying the timbers in the lower level, and since then it has not been worked. This probably is one of the richest properties that will be reopened as a result of the revival now being experienced. Old- time miners who have worked in the Hay- ward claim say there is ten times as much wealth yet untouched as has already been brought to the surface. The improved methods that are now in vogue for the extraction of gold from the quartz and sand have rendered mining a much easier and more profitable vocation than it was in the days when “Me an’ pard worked the rocker” or the “‘ground sluices.” In those days there was no chloronation smelting works, and only a small age of the gold could be saved. Year by year improvement after improvement of the process has been made until now the amount secured from the quartz is limited only by the gold it contains. Apropos of all the vast wealth California has added to the world in the last thirty years, the question arises, where has the gold gone? A California statistician figures in a novel way that it has been consumed by China. This course of reasoning is one of the features of Pacific coast life. If any- thing goes wrong or anything Is missing it is lald to the Chinese or to China. The system by which this computer figures that the Mongolian empire has consumed Cali- fornia’s gold supply is this: On a basis that since 1860 100,000 Chinese have been employed in the mines and otherwise en- gaged in the state, he estimates they have saved on an average 75 cents a day each or $2,250,000 a month, $27,000,000 a_year, $810,000,000 in thirty years. As every China- man sends his savings to China in the shape of gold coin, there is where this computer thinks nearly $1,000,000,000 has disappeared. FORTUNE IN FOX FURS. Three adventurous men of Nevada are bound for Alaska to engage in a novel en- terprise. They will raise black foxes and other fur-bearing animals, and at the same time keep an eye out for opportunitics to locate good mineral claims. While engaging in the business of raising foxes they will also trap and capture as many other wild animals, including the marten, the mink and the bear, as possible. They will begin by trapping what black foxes are necessary to start this ranch. The sking of the black or silver gray fox are worth from $100 to §500 each. The conse- quence is that all the foxes hitherto taken, except for zoological gardens, have been Kkilled and thelr pelts marketed. —Therefore the only way to start and get enough to stock the ranch s to trap what may be re- quired. . The men are all experienced Novada hunt- ers, says the San Franclsco Examiner. They have killed bears, gray timber wolves, moun- tain lions and all other kinds of game that infest the mountains of the west regions. On the northern steppes they expect to don the rude clothing of the natives. For months past they have been making a speclal study of the profits of the fur busi- ness. They have also been reading the latest works and consulting with naturalis as to the habits of the silver gray fox. They are convinced from all they have learned that the foxes will thrive and Increase rapidly in captivity if properly handled. “Wo are going to make a regular business of raising the black or silver gray foxes," id Mr. Yerger, one of the party, “I don’ know just what place we shall hit upon for our ranch. We may get an fsland in one of the rivers, or near the coast. You know there are thousands of these islands and they are of all sizes. Whatever we do we shail first go to Juneau. ‘We shall nave to fence the ranch in to hold the foxes, and we shall have to keep a sharp eye out to see that they do not bur- row and work their way outside of our cor- As to the feed necessary for the ani- we shall see that they have the same they have been accustomed to. The fish, little chipmonks, birds and other fox provender will be easily furnished. “When we reach Juneau we will Incorpor- ate a company. The name is to be ‘The Nevada Mining, Fur Hunting and Improve- ment company. “If we can get enough martens, minks and other fur-bearing anfmals also, we may pay some attention to them. However, there i8 vastly more money in fox skins than in the others.” The Alaska fox ranch projectors are going to be very careful not to let the red foxes get mixed with their gray omes. On the Aleutlan Islands the red foxes, which are more or less migrating, have mixed with the gray foxes, and the result is that the fur has greatly deteriorated in value. RICH PLACERS ON THE COLUMBIA. Three million dollars in gold was taken out by Chinamen from the bar at Sam Stevenson's ranch on the Colubmia ri ‘aecording to the traditions of old settlers the Big Bend. They operated there In a crude way more than a quarter of a century ago and every season since untid American settlers made their situation uncomfortable, says the Spokane Tribune. Favored with a stream from the hills, they thoroughly mined 160 acres to the depth of twenty-five feet. In the best seasons they averaged $25 a day to the man. About two and one-half miles below and twelve miles from the mouth of the Grand Coulee they rocked about fifteen acres, with corresponding good results, but abandoned that locality on account of lack of mining knowledge and appliances for raising water from the river. There Henry Mankin, for himself and Spokane assocfates, has just located two claims of 130 acres each, the Golden Sheet No. 1 and Golden Sheet No. 3. He also located the Tribune claim, thirty miles above Bridgeport, all taking in 180 acres each. “I prospected the $3,000,000 bar,” said Mr, Mankin, who returned the other day, ‘‘com- ng the results with those obtained from the Golden Sheet, and find that the latter ground iy even richer than the other was. I am satisfied that there Is not less than §1,000,000 in that group, and the oth prospect equally as well.” Mr. Mankin prepared the necessary loca- ton papers and will forward them to the United States land office at Waterville for flling. It s his company's Intention to put i & pump and ralse water from the river, twelve feet, which will afford fall sum- clent for slulcing. They intend to operate by methods somewhat different from those THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, MAY 7, 1891 ordinarlly employed, wusing teams and scrapers and dumping the dirt on the griz- slies. They expect to begin preparations on the ground in about two weoks, and have everything In readiness to commence opera- tions as soon the water is low enough. BUBLL'S GOLD SAVER. General Don Carlos Buell, prominent fn the late rebellion, was Interviewed by a San Francisco Examiner reporter on his way to Westport, wher cting a plant to recover gold fro 1 along the coast ack of Oregon and Washington The plant is located at Wesport and con- ists of a number of tanks and a powerful electric battery. The gold Is dissolved from the sand by a solution discovered by Buell as a result of thirty-five years of study as a chemist. The solution {s drawn from the tanks and by the app fon of electricity the gold is separated the same as in eloctro- plating. The electrical methods of the rew discovery are said to be similar to Edison's ide General Buell says the sand will yleld $10 of flour gold to the ton of sand, and that enough exists on the surfacs of the Gregon and Washingten beach to pay the naticral debt. He also has tests of platinum which he claims yield even better than gold. ROCK ISLAND'S FAITH. In spite of all the cold water poured on the sclence of rainmaking the spring has no sooner arrived than there are indications that the experiments of last year are con- sidered a sclentific success and will be re- sumed this year with renewed vigor. The first notes of preparation, says the Denver Times, are heard from Chicago and from the officials of the Rock Island Rallroad company. This company traverses western Kansas In two directions, branching out from To- peka, one line skirting the northern part of the state and the other running directly to Montezuma in_ the southwest corner. These two lines of railroad run through a section of the semi-arid re- gion, part of which s in eastern Colorado. The farmers in this country have always suffered for the want of rain. The Rock Island railroad last summer set one of its employes to rainmaking. This was C. B. Jewell, the company's train dispatcher at Goodland, not far from the Colorado line. His efforts were astonishingly successful, both fn_Kansas and in Colorado. Mr. Jewell's method is the one invented by Louis Gothman of Chicago, whose theory is that rain is never produced naturally ex- cept by the vapors of the atmosphere brcom- ing agitated and mixed with the colder upper strata of air, He therefore fires up into the alr metailic bombs filled with liquefied carbonic acld gas. When these bombs ex- plode the liquid expands instantly into gas, producing intense cold and immediate pre- cipitation. Mr. Jewell will glve the people of the west an ample opportunity this sum- mer to enjoy the benefits of this discovery. LUCKY STRIKE. The richest strike of ore ever reported in this district since the discovery of the fa- mous Aztec occurred this past week, re- ports the Springer Stockman, on the Grand View claim, situated on the Elizabethtown side of Old’ Baldy, at the head of Mosquito gulch. The property is controlled by Trini- dad parties, and they are kecping this late rich discovery very quiet, but from reliable sources it is learned that at a depth of 125 feet a three-feet six-inch vein of very rich orc has been opened, samples of the ore shown running into the hundreds. This discovery means a great deal more to this camp than the mere finding of ore. Up to the present the mining operations have been confined to the surface deposits, but this clearly demonstrates that the deeper the ore is found here the better it is, and will give encouragement to owners to sink on their properties and not gopher along the surface. There Is plenty of territory here to be explored, but prospectors needn’t ex- pect to come here and find $20 gold pieces sticking out at the surface. A WHITE AMAZON. In 1864 Dr. Alsap and Lord Duppa, well known pioneers, were prospecting with a party in the Bradshaw mountains on the Hassayampa creek. One morning the party separated for the purpose of huniing, says an old pioneer, writing in the Yuma Times. In going up a canon In which there were separated from their companions by high mountains, Duppa’s detachment was at- tacked by a large band of Tonto Apaches. The whites gradually fought their way across the ridge, with the hope of rejoining their companions. During the advance Duppa, who was stationed behind a ruck, noticed that he was the particular mark of an In- dian with a bow. Several arrows had fallen at his feet and one struck him in the arm. Ralsing his rifle he took aim, and just as he was touching the trigger the supposed Indian eried, ¥Don’t shoot!” in good English, but it was too late, and the body fell over with life extinct. Soon after the two parties succeeded in forming a junction and the In- dians retreated, loaving their dead. Out of curiosity the party returned to the place where Duppa had killed the .supposed Indian and found that It was a white woman, evidently about 30 years of age, and dressed in all the paraphrenalia of the Apaches. In- vestigation was made, but no trace of her tormer whereabouts could ever be obtained. FRUIT OUTLOOK IN OREGON. A prominent fruit grower of Grant's Pass writes to the secretary of the State Hortl- cultural soclety in regard to the reported damage to the peach crop of that section, says the Portland Oregonlan. He says there was a heavy frost in that part of the state on the 16th and 17th, which badly damaged peaches in some locations, but did little hurt in other places. His own orchard being on a hill was not hurt. About Medford and Ash- land the damage was very slight. Several fruit growers at the rooms of the Horticulture society say that frult prospects generally are very bright. Peaches were so badly injured by the winter of '92-3 that they will not be quite up to average this year, as it Is Impossible for them to make the wood necessary and bear a full crop the same year. Prunes are setting well and promise @ good crop. The cherry bloom was the finest seen for years, and the fruit is setting well. If the present very favorable weather continues, there will be a fine crop of fruit. Speakiug of the San Jase scale, Mr. Chauncey Ball sald he had not had any of it in his orchard. He had found several times a_lot of orange and lemon peels scattered about among the trees, which he imagined some person had scattered there for the pur- pose of Introducing some insect pest, and he had gathered them up and burned them. So far he has managed to keep the scale out of his orchard. Mr. W. S. Failing said he had found no San Jose scale in his orchard, except on a block of young pear trees. He had poured coal oll over them and burned the scale, and then dug up the trees, piled them on the ground where they had been growing, poured coal oil over them and burned them up. He has seen no signs of the scale on his grounds since. Such heroie treatment is the only way to get rid of this pest. Mr. J. M. Wallace, who has charge of the celebrated Wallace ' orchards near Salem, called at the rooms of the State Horticul: tural society to Inquire about the black-spot disease, which Is damaging his pear trees. This disease is becoming widespread and dolng a great deal of damage, and so far no one has been able to discover the cause of it. It is a veritable “‘plague spot,” which appears on thrifty young trees. The bark turna black and the wood becomes dead under the spot clear to the center of the limb. There s no sign of any insect in connection with the black spots, and even in the hortlcultural department at Washing- ton nothing can be learned about the cause of the trouble. Mr. Wallace was informed of the action the society had taken in re- questing a government expert to be sent out here to investigate and every effort will be made to find out the cause of the disease and a remedy. INDIAN SUN WORSHIPPERS. Judge S. P. Irwin, agent of the Yakima Indian reservation, who was in the city re- cently, says the Tacoma Ledger, understands the Indians of the reservation as well, prob- ably, as he does law. Speaking of the res- ervation he sald: “It Is just south of North Yakima, reaching within five miles of the eity. It originally contained 800,000 acres, but about three years ago the line was re- surveyed and a strip contalning 200,000 acres chopped off. There are 2,000 Indians on the reservation, but in 1855, when the reserva- tion was assigned them, there were 3,600. Yes, they are dwindling away. Those 3,000 Indians represent fourteen different tribes. The Yakimas form one of the principle tribes. These Indians have never acknowl- edged the authority of an Indian agent and they treat me with the most profound con- tempt. They do recognize the military power at Vancouver, though, and in this connection thero Is & strange little story told by them to account for thelr behavior. About thirty yoars age, they say, & drunken arey officer, wearing brass buttons, rode through the reservation. He talked with the Indians and told them that they should pay no attention to the Indian agents, but when they had any complaint to make or wanted any difference adjusted be- tween themselves they should apply to the military headquarters at Vancouver. Whether the drunken army officer Is a myth or rela- ity, it s true that they strictly obey his command. These Yakima Indians liv in tepees, dress in blankets, the same as their ancestors, and are more uncivilized than their red brethren. There has been $500,000 in annvities distributed among the Indians of the reservation since 1855, but in all that time not one dollar would the Yaki- mas accept. Their religion Is called th ‘Drummers.’ They meet every other Sun- ay in a large tepee. It is a pecullar form of religion, a kind of sun worship. They hold up their hands toward heaven, beat on a kind of drum and have various other rites. This worship Is vsed as a means of making matrimonial matches. A young man will pick up a stick and touch a girl on the shoul- der. The literal meaning of this is: ‘Wil you be my wife? If the stick is pushed violently away it means ‘no,’ and if she al- lows it to remain a short time she accepts him. 1In case “he accepts him they are soon married.” A GREAT COPPER PLANT. The people of Salt Lake Clty are very enthusiastic over the new copper plant being erccted there and speak In very compli- mntary terms of Messrs. Posey, Green & Co. for the interest they are manifesting In the twelfare of that city. The Tribune sa “Within a few days the great smoke sta will be smoking and everything is on a basis o colossal that the ordinary man stands dumfounded before the display, and though they have not begun the reduc- ing and refining of ores they are steadily employing 100 men now. To give an idea of the works it is only necossary to say that the magnificent engine which was selected from all the world to turn the machinery in Machinery hall at the World's fair, is being set up now to run the electric works at the copper plant. A few months hence there will be turned out every day at those works forty-four tons of pure copper, besides all the gold and silver contained in the ores to make those forty-four tons.” NEBRASKA. One firm alone shipped from Steele City during April 2,160 dozen eggs. Bohemian Turners at Crete have cele- brated their tenth anniversary. Hamilton county has voted to issue bonds to build a $60,000 court house. A thief raided a hotel at Oakland and se- cured about $400 worth of jewelry. The millinery store of Mrs. Fulmer of Schuyler has been closed by creditors. The Farmers' bank is a new financial in- stitution just incorporated at Odell with a capital stock of $25,000. ° Atkinson sport:men have placed some pelicans on the city mill pond with the ob- ject of domesticating them. Hastings sinners will_be_ stirred a period by Evangelist McKaig. ble will begin next Monday. 5 A Buffalo county ranchman found his runaway wife at Norfolic and took her back lome, leaving her paramour in jail. As the result of kicking the sharp edge of an axe, Colonel H. C. Russell of Schuyler will walk lame for some time to come. Chancellor Canfield delighted tbe citizens up for The trou- of Stromsburg with his lecture on ‘‘The Missing Link in Our State Educational System. Falls City German Lutherans are about to build a new church on Stone street. In one day's canvassing for subscriptions $500 was subscribed. Rev. Herbert Sharpley, who has been con- ducting services at St. Margaret's Episcopal church at Papillion for several months, has left for Orange, N. J., where he has been called as assistant rector in Christ church. The board of supervisors of Antelope county has decided to call a special election for June 5 for the purpose of voting on the proposition of levying a tax of ten mills for one year for the purpose of building and completing a court house at Neligh. Prof. W. A. Ogden organized a class in vocal music at Cedar Bluffs and then skipped. Some fifty Bluffites were bluffed out of 50 cents apiece and the landlord is short $1.50. Ogden left the city on the pretext of going to Wahoo to organize an- other class and promised to return in a few days. The Superior Journal says: “A gentle- man who has planted 120 acres of alfalfa this spring says the cost of seed and plant- ing was $500. The plants are coming up very thick and even, and he thinks he will have made a great hit If they get through the next three weeks without any mishaps. He thinks great alfalfa fields as a basis for cattle and hogs is going to make this part of Kansas and Nebraska one of the richest countries on earth, J. M. Giltner of Fairview Is a lover of Galloway cattle and has a fine herd of thoroughbreds, says the Madison Reporter. He has bred these cattle for years and the strain is pure. He was in town the other day and told a strange story of one of his thoroughbred Galloway cows having dropped a perfectly white calf. This calf was sired by a thoroughbred as black as night, and the calf even proved a curiosity to the rest of the herd, for it surrounded it and bel- lowed, evidently realizing that the calf was a freak. THE DAKOTAS. A number of towns on the Great Northern were two weeks without receiving any mail. A number of men of national fame are expected to participate in tho irrigation con- vention at Huron next month. Between twenty and thirty prairie schoon- ers passed over the pontoon bridge at Chamberlain the other day on their way westward to the ceded Sioux lands, A small band of Sioux Indians that has camped outside the town of Moose Jaw, N. W. T., since 1883, will shortly be removed to the United States. They are a remnant of old Sitting Bull's tribe, and with others took refuge in Canada’ after the famous Custer massacre. Parties who have the contract to supply mares for the Indians are shipping the horses to Kimball preparatory to delivery to the agency west of the river. There are now collected about 300 head and more are coming every day. The horses are bought In varlous parts of Towa. A case involving the validity of $70,000 worth of bonds issued by the city of Huron, set for trial in the United States court in Sioux Falls, has been continued, pending a decision by the court of appeals on what is known as the Huron.school bond case, in which a number of similar questions are involved, 3 Judge Campbell has granted a tempor: injunction, at the request of citizens . of Britton and Marshall counties, enjoining the supervisors of Miller township from turning over to the rain appropriation fund the sum of $300, which it was voted by a small ma- Jority. So far as known, no steps have been taken looking to the dissolution of the order. The amount of milk delivered at the Dell Raplds creamery for the month of April, the latter part of the month being estimated, is 230,000 pounds. In the month of March the company pald out for milk a trifle over $1,600. The amount of money paid out for milk will average not far from $1,400 each month for the entire year, or §16,800 for the year. The decision of the Northern Pacific gross- earnings tax case by the United States su- preme court has a very important bearing in North Dakota and means that about $33,000 will be divided among the four countles of Stutsman, Kidder, Richland and McLean. The two counties of Stutsman and Kidder will each get over $12,000 and the other two counties each over $4,000. The contract has been let to sink the Star shaft of the Homestake miné at Deadwood 100 feot deeper. The shaft is now down $00 teet. The contract was awarded to the con- tractor who put the shaft down 200 feet below the 600-foot level. In reality the shaft will be, when this last shaft shall have been sunk, 930 feet deep, as there will be a thirty- foot pump driven below the last station. Two familles who recently moved to Kim- ball from Iowa had a rather amusing ex- perience while unloading thelr goods. They had been Intimate nelghbors and put ail thelr belongings in one ear. While the car stood on the track It was locked and one of the men carrled away the key. The other man wanted to get into the car and was told that the key was In an overcoat pocket. In getting it he also found some letters from his wife to the other man which were of & compromising character. A warrant was is- sued and talk of a divorce sult and of shoot- Ing was rifc. When the angry man got cooled off the two men and their two wives ot together and the letters were explained to the satisfaction of all, and all agreed that while there had been infidcretion there had been nothing worse. Near Yankton fs tha,most remarkable family on this contingut, perhaps in world. It consists of faffler, mother and twenty-four children, ahdl the ‘mother of the brood (s not yet thirty ybars old. She is a Norwegian woman and her husband is a Hoosier. The children were born in tri lets and the oldest of ‘thé' lot is under 12 years of age All of thém are boys but three, one set of triplets being girls, Th are a sturdy lot of youngsters. The man i a_well-to-do farmer, and is remarkably proud of his progeny. COLORADO. The cyanide mill at ripple Creek is said to be proving a great su The Pharmacist will be started up with | the idea of carning diyidends, Twenty-five carloads of fat lambs were shipped from Fort Colling to Chicago. The Rico-Aspen company pays its regular monthly dividend of $25,000 on May 10. Twin calyes on the range about Ani- mas are said to be quite common this s son. A good strike has been made in the Cham- plon lode near Spencer in the Goose Creck district. Never in the history of the Grand valley have fruit trees been so heavily laden with blossoms. The Seigniorage, a recent South Fork, 18 claiming the Telluride mining men. A big body of four-ounce mineral fs re- ported to have been found in the hills im- mediately west of Alpine Work has been begun on the new yards at Grand Junction, and Will be expended by the Rio Grande West The agricultural acreage of the Plateau valley in Mesa county will be increased by over 1,000 acres of productive land this year, The general opinion fs that the Cripple Creek mines will all be running by Juno 1, and that the labor troubles will be over by that time. The town of Junction City has been or- ganized and located at the junction of Bear big strike on attention of creck and the Grande river. About forty cabins are going up. Grasshoppers are hatching out near Greeley and are quite lively for the n. The Weld county farmers are preparing the bran and arsenic dope which was used so eftectively last year. The Lamar Milling and Elevator company commenced work on an artesian well to supply the boilers at the mill. The well will be sunk to the first vein of good water en- countered in drilling the town well. The Greeley Times states that under the capable direction of the county road over- seer some most magnificent drives have been constructed in the neighborhood of the State Normal school on Arlington Heights. A new company in the Goose creek dis- trict will develop the consolidation of the Mogul group, Phoenix, Overland, Dolores, Inal and the D. B. lodes. The company has decided to sink 100 fest or more on the Mogul lode. Last year Delta county produced 8,101 bushels ‘of apples, 4,309 bushels of peaches, 217 bushels of pears, which was equivalent to over one-half of the peach crop of the stawe, over one-third of the pear crop and one-fifth of the apple crop. A car load of ore from the newly discov- | ered vein in the Pike's Peak No. 2 was shipped to Denver. It is expected that it will run $1,800 per ton. The lessees of the mine expect to ship $100,000 worth of ore before their lease expives on June 1. The Canon City stage narrowly escaped going over a high embankment toll gate. The six horses went down the side of the hill, but the coach remained on the road, and after the horses were pulled back the’ coach proceeded on its way. A Colorado Springs dispatch says: An im- portant strike has been made in the Lincoln lode on Globe hill, a‘patented property be- longing to the Virginja M. company. = The vein that has been cut shows every indicu- ! tion of that known as the Anaconda. The indications on| the Arkansas valley range this. spring are that the increase in calves will be larger than the stockmen have experienced for several years. -The winter has been a favorable ont’ for stock, and the spring opened up early with new grass grow- ing everywhere. i A strike is reported on the Lesher lease on the Mount Rosa property, near Colorado Springs. The vein from which the recent shipment was made is now eighteen inches wide. The cash receipts of the company from the sale of lots for the last month were $15,000, and the total sales for the same period ‘about $30,000. A dispatch from Antelop Springs tells of a vein of bromide of copper in the Royal Arch district. It is as near as can be esti- mated_forty feet in width and runs from 14 to 65 per cent. It also carries a large percentage of sulphur and iron. The new Qiscovery lies about twenty miles south of Creede, on what is known locally as Trout creek, but on the map as Rio Coma, a tribu- tary of the Rio Grande, George Williams has a bottle of gold from the Rocky Bar placers that backs up any statement ever made about the rich placer ground on the La Plata. It is the finest placer gold ever exhibited in this section. He is now preparing to comemnce opera- tions on a very large scale. Seventy-five thousand feet of lumber will be used in the construction of the flumes necessary to carry on the work.—Durango Southwest. With the acquisition of Evergreen lakes, comprising three large bodies of water, be- sides several small ponds, one obstacle to the success of the United States hatchery at Leadvilla Is dcne away with. They never had enough room. The lakes will provide a storehouse for a stock of fish sufficient to produce 5,000,000 eggs annually, all that the hatchery needs. - The government reserva- tion now consists of 1,935 acres and with the new purchase it will be increased to 2,135 acres. Dr. Law does not sell land on which his private hatchery is located, he retaining a triangle south of the government hatchery of 100 acres. WYOMING. Counterfeit quarters and §10 and $20 gold pleces are reported in circulation at Chey- enne, What is purported will be the finest hotel in the state will be formally opened in the near future at Casper. A letter from the Teton basin says that hundreds of elk have died during the win- ter from a scarcity of food. Some very fine ore s being taken out of the mines at the head of Copper creek, near Bald mountain, in Albany county. Some rich placer ground is reported to have been discovered on the Big Laramie river, where it enters the Black Hills in the western part of Albany county, Wyo- ming. Numerous prospect holes have been sunk to bedrock, showing gold from the grass roots down. A machine for elevating water from the North Platte to the high lands has been in- vented by F. H. Harvey and A. A. Clough of Douglass. An undershot wheel placed in the bed of the river furhishes power to op- erate a centrifugal pulmp; with a capacity of 1,000 gallons per minute. A wheel is now in operation near the Harvey & Clough the | 2 | herd, near the | ranch which develops forty enough t> operate seven pumps. Messrs. N. Beeman, J. B Stone and A. V. Quinn, Bvan have sold to the Union I pany 1,000 acres of coal Springs ! A number of ranchmen have started the | industry of domesticating elk. +J. B. Oakie | of Lost Cabin, Fremont county, has a la nd the animals have become as gen- cow The oity authorities of Laramle have taken steps to quarantine all those who have been exposed to the smallpox in that horse-power, Cashin, John ton capltalists cific Coal com- lands near Rock tle city, In the hope that here will be no further | spread of the d o The coal miners at Almy are now turn Ing out about 500 tons of coal per day which is fully to the average of past are employed and commencing to feel the £ood effects of increased business The ranchmen In the vieinity of Prairie { Dog, Sheridan county, have subseribed to a fund to pay bounties on wolves killed on their ranges. Including the $3 paid by the punty, the amount now allowed for each scalp is $15. A number of hunters are mak- | m.:l good wages killing the pestiferous ani- mals, ive hundred men are said to bo at work on the extension of the Burlington from Sheridan to Billings. The contractors will ave 110 miles to grade and miles to fron before the line s fully comploted. Much of the grading is thgough the Crow reservation, which begins ‘with the south line of Montana. Governor Osborne has been invited to de- liver an address before the students of the State university on June 28, The assaying spartment opened last year has been a great success. This department is authorized to do assaying for Wyoming citizens free of rge. This scheme has saved the citizens ,000 during the past year. The North Platte river, says a Wyoming exchange, scems to be catching its share of the fish travel. The pike and sturgeon have ot 50 numerous in the river that the suck- ers had to get out and walk. They have worn a nice path along the edge. The pike and sturgeon evidently knew they were suckers and played them accordingly. appeared simultancously in the pro- ducing oil wells Nos. 1 and 4 of the Pennsyl- vania syndicate near Casper last week. They have been pumping the wells for a month, which liberated the gas. The company is jubilant over the flow, as it settles the heretofore important question of fuel. They are already burning the gas in their boiler at the wells, The Provo Woolen Mill company has de- cided to enlarge the plant in order to meet the demand for a greater variety of goods. The order conslsts of several thousand dol- lgrs' worth of machinery for the finishing department of the mills, wool scourers, ete., which will be placed in operation as soon as it can be set up. The mills are now working to their full capacity. The Laramie, Wyo., Boomerang reports that David Hickey, Willlam Naismith, J. B. Burke and Jack Richards have had some rock assayed from thelr mines on the Bald mountain near the head of Cooper creek I'rom one of the claims the rock showed a | value of $112 to the ton in gold and from | another $36, with silver in both. The rock {is pronounced as fine as has been seen in the city. One of their claims is on the east side of the hill and the other on the west side. They are in the side of the hill drift- ing with the vein only sixteen feet on the $112 rock. OREGON. Astoria young ladies are getting up a minstrel show. William Percival of Independence turns oft a carload of mutton sheep every weck. One can go out on Peterson's butte near Albany and kil half a dozen rattlesnakes almost any time. The bridge across the Umatilla at Echo is almost a total wreck. Several bents have been washed out. The Umatilla fs on another tear. Pendleton is under water and will have to be built. | Swinden & Hayes cleaned up $1,200 from an eight days' run lately at their Oscar creek placer mine in Josephine county. | Twenty-five thousand head of sheep are said to hayve been sold within the past two | weeks In Morrow county to eastern buyers at about $L50 per head, after shearing. Woodburn contintes to be scandalized at its drunken men, though there is no talosn in the town. Efforts are Le'ug made to | prosecute ~those who sell liquor surrep- titiously. The Budget says there 15 a young w in Astoria who drove an ox feam in Kansas, cleared land in Nehalem, iunted bear all last | winter, and is now looking for a job of pull- ing a boat for a fisherman. The Homestake mine near Woodville is developing in a promising manner. A tun- nel has been run to a depth of 270 feet, tapping the ledge about 200 feet from the surface, The lode is two feet wide in the face of the tunnel and shows high grade ore. Tho water has been pumped out of the canal at the Cascade locks, and 100 more men were put at work. Since the construc- tion of the dam no fears are entertained of any more overflows from high water, and tho contractors will push the improvement for- ward as rapidly as men and means can pos- sibly do it. Part of more dikes WASHINGTON. Can making has begun at the Blaine can- neries. Cosmopolis shingle mills are running to their full capacity. Some 200 men are working in the mines near Leavenworth. Catholic_churches will be at South Dend, Long Beach and Montesano. An’ armory association has been incor- porated at North Yakima, with a capital stock of $15,000. There is a collie at Puyallup that takes a herd of cows out two miles to range every day and brings them safely back at night unaided, = The latest development in the mixed up affairs of the Snohomish counfy officials is the announcement of a $7,000" discrepancy in the auditor’s accounts. Sam Hutchinson, the tallest built this year man on the Pacific coast (seven feet two and » half inches), has started from Prescott with a carload of horses for Nebraska. A band of 10,000 sheep are now being sheared at Prosser. Several other bands of 5,000 to 6,000 each will also be sheared in the valley this spring, being driven in from long distances for this purpose. E. F. Benson of North Yakima has bought in Walla Walla 10,000 fruit trees, which will be taken up immediately for transplanting on lands recently reclaimed from the desert | by irrigation in the Yakima valley. Walla Walla has been shipping early vege- tables to Montana and intermediate points for the past three weeks at an average of a ton and a half a day, and the tonnage Is dally increasing. The shipments thus far have consisted or rhubarb, spinach, aspar- agus and onions, but this week radishes and lettuce are being added to the list. ——— DeWitt's Litttle Barly Risers. safo pills, best pills. 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