Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 21, 1894, Page 5

RONANCE OF A TEXAS MINE! Its Operators Attacked and Kilied by In* dians 8e enty Years Ago, IN MEXICAN ARCHIVES CLEW FOUND Foul Gases to Bo Pumped Out and Opera- s Began Anew—Fabulous Strike n the Poorman Group -News of the West. The Bessemer Development company of San Antonlo owns one of the most remarka- ble and interesting mining properties that is probably to be found state of Texas at the present day, says the St Louls Globe-Democrat. This property consists of an old Spanish working wiich is soon to bo extensively explored, ar- rangements for carrying on the work now being In progress. This property s situ- ated about ten miles from the town of Llano, in the county of that name. It has a very wonderful history, some of which is tra- ditional fnvestigation into the old Spanish archives, where documents bearing on the existence and the productiveness of the mine were brought to light The mine was in the year 18 In the being extensively worked s is shown by a letter written in that year by the superintendent of the property to the governor of this Mexican state, asking that the workingmen at the mines be furnished with military pro- tection, as the Indians were becoming tron- blesome and 1t was fearcd that they would be attacked and killed. This letter s still on file among the government papers at Monterey, Mex., and was found there a few years ago by Prof. W. H. Von Stecru- witz, & well known geologist of Austin, Tex. it Is not known whether the military protection asked for was furnished, but it s supposed that the request was uot promptly granted, as the unfortunate miners met with the which their foreman had predicted for them. Many years later a party of the early set- tlers of that section of the state stumbled upon the old mine. There was one shaft apparent on the surface, and lying at the mouth of this shaft were five skeletons of men, one of which had an arrow protruding from the skull, plainly showing that they had met their death at the hands of the Indians. This discovery was some time in the 70 made , and there were, even at that late date, a great many Indians in the section around the mine, but all of those interviewed on the subject claimed to know nothing of the skeletons or the abandoned mine, In addition to these skeletons there were found the ruins of three smelting furnaces, which were of a large capacity, and from the immense piles of slag surrounding them it was evident that they had treated a large amount of precious ore. The finding of the skeletons was evidence that the mine was being worked at the time the massacre occurred, and that the ore body had not given out and the mine been abandoned, as was the case with nearly all the old Span- 4sh mines, the ruins of which dot the mountainous regions of southwest Texas and Mexico. That the mine was a rich one Is s0 stated in the letter on file at Monterey. It is called an ‘“almagres’ mine in that letter, which is a Spanish expression for a mine that contains a rich lead of prec- jous metal covered with a body of iron. After acquiring the property upon which this mine is located Manager Wooley vis ited the place in company with another gontleman, with the view of making a casual exploration of the workings. — The ruing of the furnaces are still to be seen, and growing at the mouth of the shaft is a hackberry tree nearly three feet in di- ameter. Colonel Wooley let his companion down into the shaft by means of a rope, and at the depth of sixty feet the body of fron was found and the single shaft sep- arated into two shafts, one being sunk on each side of the body of iron, which is about fifteen feet across. These two shafts were explored to a depth of sixty feet, when further progress was prevented Dby the “damp or gas which gathered in the holes during the long years of inactivity. The explorer was compelled to return to the surface, and further investigation was given up for the time being. It was found that the workers of the mine had followed the vein of mineral all the way down, and it is considered almost certain that they were still working on it, and taking out large quantities of rich ore, at the time their progress was ended by the massacre of the Indians. The Spaniards at that early day carried on thelr mining operations in a crude man- ner and only worked the best prospects and took out that ore which was most casily secured. In view of this fact it is believed by Manager Wooley that there Is much valuable ore in the mine, even if it had been pretty well worked out by the Spaniards, and it may be that a bonanza awaits further development of the prop- erty, as there is a tradition, known to al- most every one in southwest Texas and Mexico, that there is a lost Spanish mine of wonderful richness situated in the vicin- ity of what Is now the town of Llano, Tex. Manager Wooley stated to the Globe-Demo- crat correspondent that he does not be- lleve this to be the long-lost mine, but he thinks a thorough exploration may reveal a very rich body of ore, which will bring his company handsome returns. The foul air or gas is to be pumped out of the mine and the exploration work continued. TO PRESERVE MANCOS. A movement has been instituted in southern Colorado to have the reglon known as the Mancos set apart as a national park, and petitions are being circulated and freely signed and will be forwarded to congress, asking that body (o pass the necessary enact- ment. The object of this request, says the Salt Lake News, is to secur: protection of the region which contains the most interest- ing clift-dwellers’ habitations to be found in the United States. That district is being stripped of prehistoric relies by visitors and curiosity hunters, and those who live in that yieinity want a stop put to such proczedings and to have the district preserved as a fleld for archacological research and the retention of the cliff-dwellers’ habitations and re- mains. In thoe Mancos were obtalned the most wonderful results of archaeological explora- tion that have been secured in the United States. The district includes almost the whole of Montezuma county, Colorado, part of San Juan county, Utah, and reaches into Arizona and New Mexico. The prineipal wections are the Mancos, McRlmo and Mon- tezuma canons. Of the latter, the chief portion Is in Utah. The Mancos and Me- Elmo rivers and Montezuma creek are all tributaries of San Juan river, and unite with it close to the southeast corner of Utah. As the number of inhabitants increases in that sectlon, the ruins will become more acces- sible and their preservation will afford op- portunity for interesting and thorough in- vestigation, One of the first cliff houses discovered in the Mancos Is over 600 feet from the bottom of the canon, in a niche of the mountain wall. Five hundred feet of the ascent to this aerial dwelling s comparatively easy, but the remaining 100 feet has to be made up an almost perpendicular cliff in the face of the rock. There on a ledge ten feet wide and twenty feet in length is located a two- story house, with three rooms on the ground floor. ‘There Is @& reservoir for water, reached from the window by descending on a series of codar pegs about a foot apart. The workmanship of the structure is of a superior order, the perpendiculars being true ones and the aungles carefully squared. ‘The rooms are smoothly plastered with a thin layer of cement, colored a deep muroon, while a white band eight inches Wide has been painted around the room at both floor and celling. This is a sample of the buildings which are to be fouad in great varlety of size and form, some belng circular, some square, with all the combinations of shape rendered necessary by the situation which they were bullt. Some of them occupy positions the inac- cessibility of which is a wonder when con- sidered as places of residence for human beings. Besides these dwellings there are remarkable watch towers, circular and square, burial places, cave fortresses, ete., in profusion. These curious structures line the McElmo and Montezuma canons as well as the Man- £os. They are also found plentifully along the San Juan, those in Utah being not less arkable and Interesting than those fur- | but much of it has been verified by | of gold. THE OMAHA In Utah have been found more burial places than elsewhere in the distriet, some of the remains therein being remark- ably well preserved. White with most of ther cast these there can be traced a resemblance to the modern Moquis Indians, yet there have been discovered the types of a race of light complexioned people whose occupancy of the land antedated that of the offf dwellers. It the movement for protecting the Mancos is sue sful, it is possible that at some future day a thorough investigation will reveal fea- tures that will be of great historic value. SXCITEMENT IN MONTANA. It i1s & well known fact that many years ago Silas Kies discovered gold in paying quantiti a polnt about fifty miles from Glasgow, says the Anaconda Standard. The Indians were so0 numerous at that time that Kies was driven away and some say Ir was killed by the redskins. At all events, trap- | pers and hunters have spent years in search- ing for these mines without success. Last January 8. E. Alexander, one of the rs in the country, in crossing the sovered gravel that bore traces He tested the ground and found that it gave from three to eighteen colors to the pan. He built a shack, came to Glasgow for flour and bacon and then secretly re- turned to his discovery, where he has worked since with gratifying results from a financlal point of view. Alexander was discovered while at work by cowboys and at last was forced to admit that he had struck rich pay ground. The news was brought to Glasgow and an old time stampede resulted. The mines are located on Box creek, and the thorough search of the country resulted in the finding of an old shack. Parts of firearms, and even tho holes dug by old man Kies and the scenes of the latter's operations are now be- ing inspected by hundreds of anxious people. The country around the country Is being taken up for miles and the stampede s grow- Ing dafly, while the excitement Is intense and a thousand and one rumors are floating around regarding the richness of the dis- coveries, The inhabitants of the newly found mines have named the camp Alexander City in honor of the discoverer, and many Glas- gow merchants have already established branch houses that are doing a rushing busi- nexs, There are also rumors current that the whole thing Is a huge fake, but a conversa- tlon with several reliable men who have visited the new camp gives assurance that there Is every reason to belleve that a large section of the country is rich in gold, and all that is needed to work the claims suc- cessfully is an abundance of water, which can be secured from Box creek, a good sized stream. Mr. Alexander is looked upon as a cool and conservative man, with large ex- perlence, and-he claims that he can, and has, made as high as $12 per day without going to bedrock. A number of miners arc now opening up Alexander's claim and iIf the re- sults are satisfactory the work on adjacent properties will be pushed with vigor. Meantime the people are flocking In from every direction and the country wil be thor- oughly prospected for the first time. WORKING FINE GOLD. The four Mile Gulch Placer Mining com- pany, says the Rawlins Republican, Is running full force—day and night shifts—and ls mov- ing about 800 yards a day, and this, consider- ing the amount of ground they work in a day, makes pretty good pay. This company has the new Burlap process and is very highly pleased with it. Mr. Hinman says tbat this process will save 80 par cent of the gold, while the old riffle pro- coss will only save about 30 per cent of the Four Mile gold. The process in operation works from the watr running through perforated iron plpes in the matn flume onto two inclined planes which pitch it to a central flume running at right angles with the main flume, and having very light grade, and along. this flume are arranged sixteen slulce boxes with lateral flumes running into them. In the bottom of the boxes is placed the common burlap cloth which catches all the fine gold. The company runs two days, then takes the cloth out and washes it thoroughly in a vat, and drains off the water; then the black sand and mineral from the burlap is run through an amalgamator. WILL GET A ROAD. For several years citizens of Fort Collins have been struggling to have a good wagon road bullt from that town into the North park, says the Express. Their desires are soon’ to be realized, for the road will be ready for travel on or before July 1. The enterpriso 1s one of large Importance to Fort Collins, as well as to residents of the North park, and will turn the trafic from that section of Colorado toward the com- mercial town of the upper Cache la Poudre valley. Hitherto, on account of the topo- graphy of the country, the business of the Torth park region has always centered at Laramie, on the Union Pacific. Hereafter it will center at Fort Collins. AN EXPERIMENTAL COLONY. Several leading officials of great labor or- ganizations resident in New York and Chi- cago, have arrived here on their way to Mercede, in the San Joaquin valley, to ex- amine land thereabouts and establish a col- ony, says the San Francisco Chronicle. The colony 1s to be composed of castern peoplo entirely. It is the intention to purchase 2,500 acres of fruit land and establish 108 families on it. Fach family is to have twenty acres for farming purposes, besides a house and a garden place in the village, which it s expected to build in the center of the 2,500 acres. The offioials are Willlam C. Pomeroy, gen- eral organizer of the American Federation of Labor; H. M. Madden, president of the Ilinols State Federation of Labor; John Nice, president of the Hotel and Res- taurant Employes National alliance; John orey, secretary of the Belvidere, IIl., Federated Labor union. The latter repre sents 700 skilied workmen of the sewing factory there, now closed down. The officials will be present at the Mid- winter falr and cxamine the exhibits from the Mercede section. ALMOST PURE METAL. The Owyhee county papers report a fabulously rich strike has been made in the Poorman group of mines, near Silver City, of which the Avalanche says: “The ore is found in the face of the north Oso drift of the Belle Peck tunnel. The pay streak has been very rich for the entire distance but has now widened out and is nearly pure metal, It assays thousands of dollars per ton. The ore s mot on the wall. Last week the east wall was cut, disclosing fully a foot of the ore equally as good as tho other. This gives them about eighteen inches of a very high grade gold ore. The Poorman will outrival its early production. The streak is litefally lousy with gold. The management considers it to be the same chute as that cut in No. 3 several years since and known as the Sommercamp chut The latter yielded some $50,000 from a very small piece of ground. The present strike is about 200 feet deeper, and the vein is from four to eight feet in width. WYOMING'S FISH HATCHERY. The new feeding system recently adopted at the hatchery by Fish Commissioner Schnitger is proving a great success, so much 5o that he has deeided to continuo it in the future, as its many advantages have already been manifest, says the Laramie Re- publican. The new departure consists in feeding the young fish with a conglomeration of liver, ground as fine as meal, and a certain quantity of sweet milk. It Is said the fish take to their new feed in @ voracious man- ner, 50 much 50 that not a remnant of their meal is allowed to be left in the troughs, and therefore the danger of having the water in the troughs befouled by decaying food is entirely alleviated, Shipments of fish for Laramle and Albany countles commence now, and it is learned that the county commissioners of this county will put a large proportion of their allowance this season in the waters of the Big and Little Laramle rivers and in the Centennial valley streams. Forty troughs now being utilized at the hatchery contain on an average 25,000 trout each, 80 that the supply on hand for distri- bution amounts to nearly 1,000,000 fish. BIG LARAMIE PLACERS, Excitement at Dodge City still continues at fever heat. There are now over 3,000 acres of rich placer ground located. Over elghty persons have located claims in the past month and the river on both sides is claimed for a distance of fifteen miles, writes a correspondent to the Laramie Republican An expert from Denver pronounces the ground rich and estimates the pay at from 32 to 36 per yard. As bedrock has not yet been reached by any of the locators, there can be no estimate of the pay at the botttom. As high as 300 colors to the pan have boen obtained. The Dodge City Placer Mining company bas 920 acres located. They bave com- menced work on the ditch, which will_be completed by the last of this month. The ditch will carry four cuble feet per second. The company has several gold saving ma- chines in view, but have not yet decided what kind they will purchase, but will de- cide on one by the time the ditch is com- pleted Gold has been found on the Big Duck in paying quantities, but so far as known no ground has been located, all the rush seem- ing to head for the river. The Iron Mountain pany will commence work on its ground at once, been Six hundred and elghty have located by this company el to hoist water will be put in and ing will begin as soon as possible. eat activity is being maifested in all di- rections in the new placer fields and work on most of the claims will be in full blast long before snow files next fall. NEW COAST OUTLET. A new railroad scheme designed to connect Salt Lake City with Los Angeles and San Dicgo is taking definite shape here, says a Salt Lake special to the San Francisco Examiner. The San Pete Valley Rallway company, Now Operating #, nNArrow-guage line from Nephi to Manti, about forty miles in length, have called a stockholders’ meet- ing for the purpose of changing the by- laws of the company by designating Salt Lake City and a point on the Utah-Nevada line as the termini of the road. President Bruback asserts that the com- pany means business; that his road will be broad gauged and that dirt will fly during the present season. The San Pete valley has been under the control of English capitalists, but has recently changed hands, and the present backers are sald to command un- limited resources. The more powerful com- petitors of the road have recently refused to handle its business for the purpose of freezing it out, and it is forced to seek an outlet or go out of business, 1t is supposed that the first move will be an extension northward to Salt Lake, to be followed by a line to the outhwest. The proposed route taps the extensive coal and iron fields of southwestern Utah, besides coal beds in the San Pete valley. When the road reaches the Utah-Nevada line it will be an easy matter to connect with the Nevada Southern, now being built northward from a point on the Atlantic and Pacific in Arizona. HIDDEN TREASURE IN MEXICO. Eighty laborers from the villages of Cuac- tanaya and San Miguel Auauyado and the hacienda of Japa are making excavations to unearth the $5,000,000 in gold long sup- posed to be buried near this city, and traces of which have lately been discovered, says a Tulusca (Mex.) dispatch to the Denver Ne Following indications of previous working: evidently made by human agency years ag bones are being found as the digging pro- gresses. Twenty soldiers under the command of Alparez Cavasezo are keeping order and preventing conflicts between the contestants. The work is being pushed under the direction of Elizo Orteja, the representative of the city council of Lerma, and Mr. Pedro Zuniga, who represents tne government of the state of Mexico, 1t the treasure be finally discovered 5 per cent of it will go to the village of San Miguel and a portion to the village of Coxi- tayra. The excitement is Increasing through the fact that a door communicating with three tunnels has been reached, and it s be- lieved that the money is lying in these tun- nels, The gold is a part of a great booty secured from Mexican treasury houses centurles ago by the Spanish invaders. The tradition on the matter is that all records of burial of treasure were lost in the vicissitudes of adventures in the new world. The location of the buried treasure has long been pros- pected for unsuccessfully, and the outcome of the pending excavations is being watched with breathless interest by the surrounding country. acres NEBRASKA. There is talk of building a system of water works at Sterling, and a committee of cltizens is investigating the subject. A rolling stone tumbled against Charles Crawford of Pawnee City and broke several ribs besides doing considerable damage to his anatomy. David K. Hull, a resident of Rulo until recently, was killed at Alton, IlL, by a heavy plece of timber falling on him while he was helping build a bridge. Dave Tate, an old time Texas cowboy, who has lived In the neighborhood of Gordon for the last ten years, was arrested the other day by the sheriff on the charge of having murdered John Musfelt, ‘who was Kkilled about five weeks ago in the southern part of Sheridan county in a mysterious manner. The women of Beatrice have started a crusade against beer by distributing tracts telling of the dire consequences of indulging in the beverage. The leaflets are distributed in the barber shops, and will probably prove less barmful than the flashy literature usu- ally found in tonsorial parlors. They may not prove as attractive to the youth. The hired girl -in one of the leading families at Blair donned a suit belonging to her employer the other night and has not been seen since she glided down the street In the direction of the depot. She left all her own clothes as a slight remem- brance to those who were left behind to mourn her departure. T. W. Day of Rising City, a student in the law department at Ann Arbor, has been chosen to represent the Michigan university at the convention of republican clubs at Denver next month. Thus do Nebraska boys carry off the honors wherever they go. The Biair canning factory will handle nothing but sweet corn this year, but it will put up a big supply of that staple. The suit brought by Mrs. Rauber of Ne- braska City against the estate of the late Paul Schminke for property valued at $1,000 las been dismissed, as it was shown by the evidence that the woman had never had any right or title to the property in question. It has developed that Mr. Schminke had at one time, out of the goodness of his heart, offered to present Mrs. Rauber with the real estate in question, but for some reason best known to herself she refused to ac- cept it. THE DAKOTAS. The Washington Times says geese, ducks, brant and crane are more numerous this season than any year since 1883, Some farmers say his is a sure sign of a good crop. The same day has been selected for an en- campment of state militia at Jamestown and Grand Army of the Republic at Spint- wood lake, twelve miles distant, causing much disappointment. At an oratorial contest held at Milbank recently the prize was won by Miss Emma Vanderhaded, a young Sioux Indian girl from Sisseton agency, There were six con- testants who lad previously won silver medals in similar contest. A survey is in progress and there is a well defined opinion that there will be a rallroad built from Canton north before many months, and a connection north at Granite or the Minnesota system would give Canton all the advantages now enjoyed by Sioux Falls, The road north from Canton will be bullt sooner than the most sanguine expeet. Chaska, the Santee Indlan who was once the husband of Cara Belle Fellows, but who now resides with a squaw at Santee, was in Yankton last week selling Indian relics. Chaska wears long, black hair, which gives his aquiline face an Oscar Wildish expres- sion, but otherwise he is a plain, unadulter- ated, soap-hating, dog-loving, semi-civilized, foxey son of the wild and woolly west, He speaks fair English, brags of being Chaska and toes in with an abandon which is only a cordial distaste for work. Chaska sold his relics and went back to Santee. COLORADO. coal find is reported at An King Warm days on the western making the Grand river boom. Assays of gold ore in the vicinity of Palmer lake show good results The Bimetallic smelter at Leadville is now running at full capacity, employing 176 men, Thousands upon thousands of prune trees have been planted in Grand valley thls spring. Many prospectors are going into the hills from Crested Butte and a busy season Is looked for. The McFarlands of Central City are erect- ing a 10-stamp mill to treat the ore of the Reform mine, Pine Creek camp, eight miles important slope are trom Central The Star-Times says that all the car- penters in the Grand valley about Grand Junction are busy, which indicates a large amount of bullding is going on. The con- Placer Mining com- | A turbine | | | XS Moy ety M0 SRR e 3G 39 T 4 _ _vgg 306, %, Frahtiehy %% ¥ b3 ST * '5? PERCALE SHIRTS, T6e. %3 X b shirts at 76c, $1.60. e 26X NECKTIES, 10C. in almost every color close the lot at 10c a tle. BOYS' 2-PIECE SUITS, 75C. 14 years. SUSPENDERS, 10C. for 10¢. MONDAY, or detached to suit your notion. will give you a necktie for nothing. style, and sold all over town for 25c. All the Wilson Bros. and wire buckle sus- penders that we used to sell for 35c go now MAY 21, 1894 A Have You Been There— . s KRR with any other prices of the present time. doubted conpulsion to quit business. such ridiculous prices. We are closing all the percale and madras that are worth They have collars and cuffs attached as high as Besides 756¢ We have a big lot of Wilson Bros'. bows made in the latest 10¢ We If we were, not going to quit business yon would have to pay $3.00 for this same suit. A good line of styles yet at 75c. 75¢ Ages, 4 to 10c¢c 300 0% If you have lately been about the corner of 13th and Farnam you must have noticed the great difference in our prices as shown in the windows, as compared with our own prices of a few months ago oy It is so fearfully, nor were you ever able to buy furnishings of all kinds at All the rest of the $12 Cheviot and Cassimere Suits we sold for $8 last week go now at COLUMBIA CLOTHING CO0. Closing Out—13th and Farnam, R caused by our un- Clothing wa =% Wty never sacrificed to $20 o Rio Grande Western's stock f th struction ot A erease the demand for me- yards will inc i . st afll at Pan The Smuggler-Union. stamp m an- dora, mear Telluride, is in operation, treat- ing 110 tons a day. It is reported that the Argent; at Aspen is about to stdrt up. eum-Juniata A new bat- tery of boilers has been ordered. T. P. Cole of Durango is in Denver with one of the richest spéeimens ever taken out of The La Plata district. The chunk weighs fifty pounds and is about one-half e ke has been made in nother rich strike has been Burnt Timber gulch, La Plata mining ais- trict, below the Bragdon claim. The ore is free milling and is by far the richest yet discovered in this gulch. i = M. Pennock of Diamond Peak came i the other day with a very fine specimen of copper. It weighed nineteen and one-halt O and is a solid ball of pure copper. He says he found it near Diamond Peak and thinks he can find the main lead. Mrs. Olive Wright was in Castle Rock the 'siher day having incorporation papers recorded, The name of the,company is Somerset Resort and Land assoclation. It osed entirely of ladies and has a is comps capital stock of $100,000. Land has been secured in Somerset park, which adlox:‘s Perry park, as the scene of operations. Tangements are being made to make it one of the most pleasant summer resorts in the state. The /Laramie Republican \reports that Messrs. Whittingham and Smith, who are working a_claim in the Morgan district, near the Emma G mine, received certifi- cates of assays from ore taken from their prospect, which was rich beyond expecta- tion. A semple assayed by Prof. Knight of the university showed twenty ounces of gold valued at $400, 331 ounces of silver, valued at $208.64, and 67% per cent of lead, the whole running $055.87 to the ton. The discoveries of gold near the mouth of Difficult creek have caused a great amount of prospecting in that district, but so far nothing of very great value has been found. That gold exists there in paying quantity is believed by almost all who have visited the section, and a number are determined to find it. Several claims have been lo- cated that give promise of becoming valuable with a small amount of work, but as yet, beyond the setting of discovery stakes, lit- tla has been done. : WYOMING. The Rock Spring, Lewiston and Lander stage route was formally opened last week. The citizens of Buffalo are agitating the subject of building a passable road over the mountain from that place to the basin. Fishermen say that there s every indi- cation that the streams will be full of trout when the fishing season opens on the first of next month. 1t is reported a colonization company will locate between 400 and 500 families on the Big Horn river, near the mouth of Fifteen Mile creek, this summer. Prof. Niswander of the agricultural col- lege at Laramle is experimenting with for- age plants. They are known as the Spurry and flat peas and are grown in Michigan and Germany. It is believed that they will survive Lere. Experiments are also being made with several kinds of vegetables. The Cheyenne Leafer' states that during the shipping season the Union Pacific will run special trains to be known as the Union Pacific wool speclal service. According to the plan now mapped out, the service will consist of two solid wool'trains each week. These will be sent through to Boston direct, and the saving in the ;matter of handling the consignment will be & great inducement to shippers. The trains will be made up at Green River with cars: brought in from Utah and Idaho points. ORBEGON. The Crooked river, 1§ tunning very high and doing much damage, Medford school boys'diave a band with Principal Narregan as leater. For the sixth time the Oregon Pacific property Is offered for sale, the advertise- ment appearing ia the Corvallis Times. Gold has heen discovered on the streets of Umatilla. Sixteen or eighteen men are busily engaged digging for the precious metal. The Grant county court is being petitioned for a bounty on squirrels by large numbers of farmers, who find themselves unable to cope with the pests. Lake county has s mining excltement, The Wilow Ranch imines are developing finely, and strong hopes of a rich strike in that section are entertained, Four stalwart Bannock Indlans are at Pendleton to arrange with the Umatillas for @ meeting with the Bannocks beyond Hunt- ington. The two tribes will assemble at the appointed place, have a good time together, and traflic in horses, blankets and finery. Baker City is negotiating with an eastern party looking to the erection of a flouring mill. The mill will be of fifty barrels ca- pacity per day, and will be operated by steam. Nolin sheep raisers have three cars stand- ing at their warehouses to be loaded with wool for the Pendleton scouring mill. Between 60,000 and 75,000 pounds of wool will be shipped from Nolin to Pendleton. Five placer claims, giving work to thirteen men, are being worked m the Ochoco mines. There is an abundance of waer and a lot of dirt will be moved this season. men are also working on the quartz mines. Louis Sisley has sold his Connor Creek placer mines for the sum of $60,000, with a payment of $2,500 down. These mines are just below the Connor Creek mines in which a rich pocket was recently un- earthed. E. Gilliam, the Umatilla county stock In- spector, hus been inspecting sheep in the western part of the county, and finds little scab prevailing. Generally sheep are in fine condition, and it has been the best lambing season for ten years past. They have just finished shearing the last of Charles Cunningham'’s band of thorough- bred sheep. About 18,000 head were sheared, and they averaged twelve and one- half pounds. Three of the thoroughbred bucks yielded thirty-five pounds each. A portion of a large bamboo pole, cut with Oriental hieroglyphics, and likely the relic_of some Chinese or Japanese ship- wreck, was found in the drift along the rocky cliffs of No Kearney by some Ne- halem fishers the other day. The piece was 25 feet long and 9 inches through at the butt. Henry Wilkins of Clem, Gilliam county, contracted a lot of beef cattle to Lacey Bros.,, on February 10, at 3 cents. They have been fed since on chopped wheat. They have just shipped forty-two head. They averaged 1,224 pounds each. Mr. Wil- kins figures that he realized as much as 75 cents per bushel for his wheat. C. E. Hoskins of Springbrook, Yamhill county has been very busy for a few days packing twelve tons of dried prunes, which he sold a few days ago at an average price of about 5 cents per pound. ““Thal seems low for first class dried prunes,” says a local chronicler, ‘but where is a wheat raiser that has done any better the past sea- son?" Prineville was visited by a cyclone on a small scale, though of sufficient velocity to overturn the bell tower, a structure sixty feet high, which was built last summer. The wind came from the southeast and ap- peared to have an upward suck. When the wind struck the tower it seemed to lift it about two feet off the ground and then gently laid it over toward the north, across the planer flume, breaking the latter badly. R. M. Garrett, superintendent of the Gol- den Eagle ming on Applegate, brought to Ashland, in the shape of amalgam, the re- sult of the test run of eighty-five tons of rock from the mine. It was rotorted and re- fined by Assayer G. W. Johnson, and the re- sult was a handsome gold brick weighing ninety-six and one-half ounces and worth $1,603.95. It has since been exhibited at the Bank of Ashland. WASHINGTON., Some Fairhaven coal has been sent to the Mare island navy yard to be tested. The Snohomish creamery has started up. It has a capacity of 2,000 pounds of milk an hour. When they bore a well at Dayton, 100 of the 160 feet to water goes through solid rock. The Shoalwater bay mill {8 running full blast on ap order of 400,000 feet of lumber for Tabita. A deposit of silica In a pure state has been found in considerable quantities on the Touchet river. Some timbers 108x2x2 feet sawed at Hoquiam for China. beats the local record. Ellensburg is shipping several car loads of timothy to the sound cities every week 1t is said to be a choice article, A weed-killing machine of home inyention and manufacture is being watched with con- siderable interest at Walla Walla, A marriage license has been issued at Tacoma to Olympla Bob, aged 82, and Nancy Santiago, aged 70. The two are well known Puyallup Indlans. The Rowe Milling company has its mill bullding nearly completed at the mouth of the Klickitat, and will have the machinery in place and be cutting out lumber in about a month, The Walla Walla county commissioners have under advisement a long petition from fifty residents of Wallula and vicinity, ask- ing that & tract of some 8,000 acres near are being Their length Several | there be set aside as an frrigation distriot. The proposed canal will leave the Walla Walla river nine miles above Wallula. The Blaine saw mills are again running full force, notwithstanding there are fully 9,000,000 shingles on hand because of the Great Northern strike. About half the Isensee logs have been converted into shingles. Puliman college has projected an inter- state collegiate oratorical contest. The only Oregon institutions invited to partici- pate are those at Bugene and Forest Grove. The plan is to include Oregon, Washington and Idaho, Levi Ankeny of Walla Walla has secured for the Pullman college as his donation to the collection a female elk and calf to go along with the male elk presented by the state. He says they cannot be brought to the college before next December. It is cstimated that there have been planted about 200,000 fruit trees in Thurs- ton county during the past twelve months, and tho majority of these trees are Italian prunes, demonstrating that there is little fear of an overproduction of that staple. The hills east of Baker City for a /dis- tance of many miles are being gone over by prospectors in search of gold veins, while the many locations made last fall are now being developed with most favorable pros- pects. New strikes are being made daily. Port Blakeley has a sensation. The schooner Alcalde, now there, has aboard the captain’s daughter, a very pretty young lady. On board is a Clinese cook who possesses about $2,000. It is said the captain insists that his daugh r should marry the China- man, and to force her ta yield, had her con- fined to her stateroors. Captain Olsen was called upon by the wmilimen of Blakeley and given some wholesome advice. During the month of April there were made at the jute mill of the penitentiary 179,316 grain bags, and 2,350 wool bags, forty inches wide and ninety inches long. There are now on hand subject to sale, 900,000 grain bags and 1,065 wool bags, three and one-half pounds each, 500 ore, and 1,908 oat sacks, Desides the above, there Is on hand 6,880 pounds of fleece twine and 10,763 yards of hop cloth. There were also baled 10,000 sacks, The number of looms in operation is seventy, and number of convicts em- ployed 245, MISCELLANEOU: A good veln of asphalt has been discov- ered mear Rich Hill, Mo., by prospectors. Thirty thousand sheep have been driven Into San Bernardino county, California, en- route to Inyo. A San Francisco man has been in and about Carson, Nev., for the past week, and has bought up $1,000 worth of hay in’ that section, which has sent the price to $14 per ton, Noting the shipments of American hay to Europe the Eddy, N. M., Argus is of the opinion that a ship load of first class I valley alfalfa, properly baled, would bring a small fortune to the owner The Navajo Indians, as soon as the weather gets warm in the spring, gather their best ponfes and leave the reservation for the ostensible purpose of hunting deer and ante- lope. When they return they bring with them bunches of sheep numbering anywhere from fifty to 600. Oranges at the grove of the Arizona Im- provement company near Phoenix are now as lurge as marbles. The blossoms now all gone, staying but a few days. trees were late in blossom!ng, but since with which the fruit is forming. The crop next searon will be phenomenal In quantity. The report of County Superintendent Ny meyer, embodied In the report of the terri- torial ‘superintendent for 1 shows that Eddy county, N. M., had twelve school dis- The have made up for the delay In the rapidity tricts and ger \ teachers, with an en- rollment of 605 scholars and an average dally attendance of 481 The scholastic population was 898, The school fund amounted to 8,802.50, The people of Eouthern California, says the Phoenix, Ariz., Herald, may not like it, but they are now forced to admit the fact that the Salt river valley 1s & better country than their own. There will be received at Phoenix from Los Angeles within the next week the first shipment of stock for pas.ure, It will consist of eighty-four cars of borses, cattle and sheep. 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