Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 4, 1894, Page 5

PULSE OF WESTERN PROGRESS An A dventurer Diccovers Fabulously Rich Mines on the Calipooia Mountains, RICHEST CLAIM OR THE PACIFIC COAST Utah's Coming Statohood—Wealth of the Mercur Gold Distriet—Gold at Hahn's Peak —Chickens ws Prospect- ors—Westorn Jottings. George Douglass Browne, a young English- man who claims relationship with some of the most aristocratic families in his native land, recently came to Portland from a pros- pecting tour in the Callpooia mountains, where he claims to have located one of the rlchest placer claims the west has ever heard sf. To a reporter on the Portland Oregonlan he told a strange tale of adventures which befell him while on his lonely quest for gold, and he backed his statements concerning his tortunate find by exhibiting two canvas sacks of coarse gold dust and a doublo handful of dirty looking nuggets, ranging in size from a pea to an English walnut, and curious in form and makeup. “Last winter I spent in northérn California, : and early in the spring had worked my way * woll up Into the Calipoofa range. It little matters just what section of the country [ was In, but I know pretty well myself. Traveling was pretty rough through a coun- try without trails of any sort, over steep ridges and through rocky gulches, and par- tieularly when the ground was siushy with the melting snow. I had found traces of gold In the rocks, picked up a fow small nug- gets In the bottoms and washed out a few pans of dust here and there where I saw good prospects, but had seen nothing that had come up to my expectations. Finally, after creeping over an_exceptionally danger- ous divide one day, I found my progress blocked by u deep, dark-looking ravine, with sides o steep and slippery that at first 1 hesitated to descend Into It. I couldn’t very well camp on the mountain side, 8o I determined to work my way down Into the ravine, and take my chances on finding a good place to stop for the night. The de- scent I found to be more difficult than I had antlcipated, for the banks, or rather walls of the ravine were almost perpendicular. It was pretty dark before I reached a polnt three-quarters of the way down, then I made a misstep and rolled the remainder of the distance, strikink against a tree with such force that I remained unconscious for a time. When I came to It was dark as pitch, and I was so bruised and sore that I could scarcely move. I managed to pull myselt together, however, and without stop- ping to investigate further camped on the spot. P°" SANDS HEAVY WITH GOLD. “It was broad daylight when I awoke next morning, and lying there I could form some idea of the place I had fallen into. The sides of the gulch were very steep and rugged, and there were but few places where a safe descent could be made. 1 had stum- bled upon one of those places. Lame and weary from my adventure of the previous night, 1 managed to build a fire and cook breakfast, after which I tramped away up stream. In some places the stream spread over the entire bottom, and I was compelled to wade. It was hard work, but when I chanced upon a big nugget I felt well repald. My curiosity was also well excited, and I pushed ahead. Tramping through a narrow place for about a mile, I landed on a gravel bank, where I found traces of gold. ~To my horror 1 also found the disjointed bones of a human skeleton sticking out of the sand. 1 did not stop to wash out any of the sand, but hastily forged ahead. Half a mile up the stream I found the remains of the prospector’s camp—two forked sticks stuck up in the ground, elghteen inches apart. That was all that was left. I surmised that the poor fellow had been overtaken by a sudden freshet and, unable to get out of the way, had been drowned. A8 I sat on the bank, pondering upon the fate of the lone prospector, I caught sight of a nugget, lylng in the shallow water. 1 hastily galned possession of it and then commenced to examine the bottom and bank. Coarse grains of gold could be soen with the naked eye. [ was not long in getting enough together for a test, and to my astonishment and delight I found that the sand was heavy with gold. I worked until dark feverishly and then lay down on the dead prospector's camping ground to dream of wealth. During the next week 1 scarcely had time to eat, so anxious was I to dig for yellow metal. Nuggets were thick enough to satisfy any one and I gathered what you have seen within a radius of twenty feet of the spot where I first struck my shovel. At the end of the week the fever had worn off. I had all the gold I could convenlently carry and my stock of food was getting low. One bright morning I packed up my things, and, covering up the excavations I had made, started down stream. I scrambled up the bank about a mile below where the skeleton lay and struck out for civilization. It was a rough trip and I would have been in a sorry plight had I not been able to bring down a couple of deer on the road. It is my expectation to form a company among my friends at home and work my claim on an extensive scale. The claim is, I believe, the richest on the Pacific coast.” DRY WATER GOLD CAME. Great excitement Is abroad in Routt county over the discovery of free gold quartz leads three miles from this place, says a Sidney, Colo., special to the Denver News. The actual Qiscovery of paying ore was made some three weeks ago by Colonel John Welskopf of this placa and today thero is a full-fledged mining camp with prospectors yflocking In from all directions. Float assays run from $6.25 to $10.60 in gold and from six-tenths to one ounce of silver. The. gold is found in fine honeycombed quartz of the Cripple Creek varlety and is pronounced hy competent judges as most excellent gold- bearing rock. Mr. Thomas R. Miller, the resident reprosentative of Dow, Shear & Co., at Hahn's Peak, has concluded a thorough inspection of the territory and stated that the district is of unquestionable stability, The new camp Is known as Dry Water. It is ten miles above Steamboat Springs on the Bear river, at the foot of the North peak and the Bear river wagon road, and immediately In the rear of the ranch property of Walter Henry Brown. Small chunks of quartz mortered and washed show from fifteen to forty-five colors to the pan, all visible to the naked eyo and in size up to @ pin head.. The formation is porphyry and quartz, with well defined veins of decomposed and honey- combed quartz, varying in different localities frem two to six feot wide. A call has been issued by the Big Yampa company, con- sisting of Colonel Weiskopf, F. Sandhoffer, W. B. Moore and W. H. Brown, for a con- vention of miners June 2, when a new dis- trict will be organized and the necessary laws formulated. A ROOSTER'S GOLDEN GIZZARD. A gold discovery that was made at Santa Rosa has received no inconsiderable amount of comment, and has set the old miners to talking, says a speclal to the San Franclsco Chroniele. The cook In W. H. Grissim's grillroom, while dressing a young rooster for broiling, found several small flakes of gold in the giz- zard among the loose gravel and dirt. The small particles were about twico the size of @ pin head and were about twenty in number. His curlosity excited, Mr. Grissim im- mediately set to work to find out who the chicken came from. It was learned that the cook had purchased a number of fowls, this particular one among the number, from the grocery firm of Kopf & Donovan. Messrs. Kopf and Donovan are quite cers tain that the chicken came from the ranch of John Pender, about three miles southwest of town, formerly the property of E. L. Davis. Mr. Pender's fowls are in the habit of scratching In the gravel and sand among the gulches and small streams at the foot of Taylor mountain, and it is probable that this chicken opened a pocket containing the gold This theory Is borne out by the fact that particlos of black sand were also found in the glzzard, It s probable that the streams and gulches in the nelghborhood of Taylor moun- tain_will now be thoroughly prospected and mauy are of the opinion that important dis- coveries may follow. LUCK AT CRIPPLE CREEK There is no end to the chances of striking goid at any polnt in the Cripple Creek land district—away from town, close to town or in_town, says the Miner. Saturday a strike was made In the city limits that gives promise of being a bonanza for the fortunate owners. About three weeks ago Messrs. Gibson, Sawyer, Hight and Shepherd took a two years' lease on a claim adjoining the reser- voirs. They went down seventeen feet and on Saturday struck ore that Is full of free gold. It can be seen plainly in patches all over the rock and will run into the hun- dreds of dollars to the ton. An assay s not necessary to show that the rock I8 valuable and a mill run will be made to learn just how valuable It is. The lucky men are, as a matter of course, well pleased with thelr good fortune, and while not expecting to be millionaires are quite well satisfied that a competency is in sight, DEATH IN THE DESERT. Two Cornish boys named Willlam Hosking and Willlam Rogers left Telluride last Febru- ary for the mining regions adjacent to Phoe- nix, Ariz. On their way, and when about eight, ve miles from Phoenix, In the desert near Collins' well, both died of thirst, says a special to the Denver Times. With the re- mains of Rogers the following note was found addressed to his father in Churchtown, Eng- land: I remain your loving son, Willlam Rogers—dying for want of water. Do not grieve for me, mother—I am dying. Send to Telluride, Colo., for my trunk. My pard- ner will go to Harqua Hala, His name fis Bill Hosking. The key to my trunk is in my pocket.” Four miles further on his partner, going in search of help, was found. He had also died for want of water. The Cornish boys in Telluride speak highly of Rogers, and mourn for his sudden and unexpected death. AN INDIAN SKIN GAM “These stories of Indian troubles In the southwest remind n of an experience that I had down in New Mexico,” sald Henry Davidson of Albuquerque to the St. Louls Republie. I was new to the reglon then, and, although I had heard all sorts of strange tales about the trickiness of the Ind , I did not know that he was as shrewd as I afterward found him to be. I wanted a pony for some reason and I com- municated my desires to a friend of a crowd of the greasy citizens of the outskirts. The next day I was besleged with offers. I looked all over the lot and picked three or four to make my final selection from. After several hours I settled upon an animal that I thought to be in the pink of condition and form. I took him for a good round sum and a trade thrown Into the bargain. I rode home on the animal. As I got into my quarters I noticed that the horse ap- peared to be uneasy, as if suffering from injury. As I live, I found that a patch of skin, several inches square, had come off his back. I looked into it and discovered that the horse was raw there, and that he had been patched up with rabbit or some other skin for the time being. Those Indians stood by each other, too, for I could never locate the scoundrel who had swindled me. I have since concluded that they were all wrong and that had I bought the outfit I would have found the oddest assortment of patched horses that it was ever the fortune of a white man to look upon."” NEBRASKA. Grotna expects to have a creamery in full blast beforo June ls out. Fred Wright has retired from the editor- ship of the Madison Star. Grand Army men of Holt county will hold a reunion at Atkinson July 2, 3, 4 and 5. Jefferson County’s Old Settlers assoclation has_decided to hold the reunion this year at Endicott on August 30 and 31 and Septem- ber 1 and 2. A commercial college Will open at Falls City on June 11. The old school building has been thoroughly renovated and ftted with new furniture. The meeting of the Polk County Sunday School Officers association will be held at Osceola on June 30, and an extensive pro- gram has been prepared. A. P. Hazard’s store at Belvidere was broken into by thieves, who secured $18.75 in money, a gold watch and a revolver by blowing open the safe. Arlington is the latest Nebraska town to discover a shortage in the school treasurer's accounts. But it is not the present treasurer that is implicated. Over $400 Is missing. Kearney Is agitating for a rousing cele- bration of the Fourth. The state meet of the League of American Wheelmen is to be held in that city on that day, and this is expected to bring in a large crowd of out- siders. Mrs. Meserve, living near Cortland, was badly bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake which was concealed in a basket of corn cobs which she was carrying Into the house for fuel, and after attending to the injured hand the mother of the unfortunate woman picked up the same basket and was also bitten, apparently by the same rattlesnake. In the western counties of the state it is now quite a familiar thing to see the prairie schooner wending its way eastward. The Indianola Courler calls attention to one that went through that town with the inscrip- tions: “In God We Trusted; in Kansas We Busted,” ‘“Washington or Bust,” and as- cribes this reversal of the course of ‘“‘the star of empire” to the drouth. At Ord the suit of Sorenson against Masin et al, for $10,000 damages under the Slocumb law, ended in o verdict for $300. Two wit- nesses were fined $20 for contempt in dis- obeying the subpoena and John W. Rice, a prominent citizen, was placed under $500 bonds to appear June 7 to answer to the charge of having paid them to remain away. There is great excitement over the affair. THE DAKOTAS. A coal famine is imminent at Yankton. The coal on the tracks will not last another woek. 0 s The first trial for violating the school law of 1890 took place in justice court at Brook- ings, 8. D. A farmer named A. J. Bortnem was arrested for cultfvating part of a school section, pleaded guilty and was fined $50 and costs, A large body of ore has recently been opened up in the Emma mine, which is situated in the Bare Butte district and in the town of Galena. The principal opening on the property is a tunnel some 400 feet in length. During the progress of the work several seams of ore were found. A number of men and boys are employed in various places at Gold Run in the Hills taking out gold from the crevices among the rocks along the hillsides that have been overlooked in placer mining during the early days. As far as heard from all who are thus engaged are making it profitable. A portion of the Mellyille farm adjoining Huron on the southwest has been secured for making practical tests of irrigation by water from artesian wells during the present summer. The work will be under direction of the State Agricultural college and all expenses will be paid by the government. City Treasurer Wyant of Kimball was somewhat surprised the other day to receive notice that $3,000 of the city bonds were due. The bonds are owned at Battle Creek, Mich., and the officlal records show, so far as can be ascertained, that the bonds are not due for flve years yet, consequently no funds had been provided for their redemp- tion. During the early days of Kimball's incorporation the records were badly kept In the matter of recording the issuance of bonds, hencs the present situation, The charge of plagiarism brought against Richard F. Locke, the orator from the Sioux Palls university, who recently won the state contest, by the faculty of Yankton college, has created considerable hard feeling be- tween Stoux Falls and Yankton, but a scrap is now on. Prof. Free of Yaunkton, who ne up here and made the charges, has given vent to his displeasure through columns of the Yankton Press and Dakotan, He roasts Prof. Walsh of the Sioux Falls unlversity in a way almost libelous. The matter will be submitted to the state ora- terical assoelation for settlement The local professors claim that the charge cannot be sustalned and that the chalcedony slab which Yankton s not yet seen fit to turn over to Sloux Falls will probably be ordered sent here by the association. COLORADO, Potato planting Is all the go about Pagosa Spri 8. Renewed efforts are being made to secure a stamp mill for La Plata district. The Golden Treasure, Gllpln county, owned by Denver men, reports a good strike. The cheese factory at NI Wot has started up with a capacity of 10,000 pounds of milk dally. Near Lake City Willlam Laughton has un- coverad a laree body of teliurinm ore. It is sald to be the same a® the Golden Fleece veln. It is on the opposite side of the cree’ from the Golden Fleece, in a direct line and has the same dip and the same char acter of ore, The new smelter at Silverton received its first consignment of ore last week, ten cars from Red Mountain. A pay streak has been opened In the 200- foot level of the Moose mine, Cripple Creek district, said to yleld $1,400 per ton. The Florence Oil company is rigging up to drill on a school section on Newland creek— land which it recently leased from the state. Sixty carloads of potatoes have been shipped during the past week from varlous raliroad polats in Saguache county, and there is more to follow. The frost of about a week ago Is found to have killed about one-half of the frult buds about Florence and on Beaver creek. There 1s still enough left to make an immense crop. An old Winchester rifle, picked up on the battlefield where Custer made his last fight, recently arrived at Silverton by express. Although the gun shows evidence of rough usage it is still serviceable, The Chase company, which has been drill- ing south of Erie, has reached a depth of 245 feet. It is reported that a vain of over six feet of coal at a depth of 223 feet was paseed through, but the operators will neither con- firm or deny it. It has been the company's intention to open a shaft it the vein could be found. A large number of prospectors are bound for the Eik Creek mines, and most en- couraging reports come in from that district daily. Mr. Christensen not very long ago had a mill run of ore from his mine which runs about $25 in gold besides a good percentage In copper. A big boom for the Elk creek camp i looked for. The Cotopaxi Mining and Milling company has shipped one car of ore from the com- pany's zinc mines at that place to the In- ternational Industrial falr at Antwerp, Bel- gium, to be treated on the ground by the Belglan process. Should the terms be sat- {stactory arrangements will be made for the erection of a smelter using the Belgian method at Cotopaxi. A valuable tract of land three miles south of Las Animas on the Purgatoire river, embracing some 1,600 acres, Is being filed upon by parties from Bent county. The land 1s part of an old Spanish grant, and it has been closed to settlers since 1888, Con- gressman Bell recently Interested himself in the matter, and the result is that this de- sirable land {s now open for filing. WYOMING. Over 1,500,000 pounds of wool shipped from Casper this year. The new Laramfe, Wyo., creamery will start up June 15, making 126 pounds of butter daily. The Douglas creek placers are attracting a great deal of attention at Laramie and experts are now there making an examina- tion. . The miners at Rock Springs are now turning out 250 cars of coal daily. The mines at Hanna and Carbon are turning out 100 cars In the same time. The mines are being worked on three-quarters time. The first shipment of 15,000 head of cattle purchased by Messrs. Tisdale and Saunders will be made soon. About 8,000 head will be shipped over the Union Pacific for the Dakotas, It taking 750 cars for- this num- ber. Experts who have been over. the Atlantic gold fields of late pronounce them as fine as any they have ever scen. One of them has stated that if such a fleld should be found in Colorado there would be 5,000 people there inside of a month. The “Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard” will shortly be published in book form by Joe De Barthe, editor of the Sherldan Enterprise. It will consist of more than 600 pages, profusely lllustrated, and will prove an Interesting narrative. The annowmcement is made that capital- ists of the two flourishing towns of Rock Springs and Lander will con- struct an irrigating canal in the immediate vicinity of the latter town. The canal will issue from Popoagle river, will cover 12,000 acres and will be completed during the present year. Two buffalo bulls were seen on the plains west of Rawlins a few days ago by some boys who were armed with 22-caliber riflos. They took a shot at the buffalo and hit one of them. The shot merely served to sting the old fellow and he made a charge after the hunters, who fled precipitately., They reached home nearly dead from exhaustion. The animals are supposed to be part of a herd known to have been In the desert a number of years. OREGON. A stage line between Cove and La Grande is advertised to be “quicker than by rail.” The last clean-up of the Black Butte quartz mill at the Fox mines was a profit- able one. Josephine and Jackson countles will com- bine on a district fair at Central Point Sep- tember 4-8. It cost Joseph McCabe $30 in the La Grande police court for striking an inoffen- sive Chinaman. Considerable dust of the right kind is coming into Baker City from the placer mines In the vicinity. The Albany free kindergarten has Just closed its first winter term, an experiment of the most gratifying success. of teachers has been increased to five. The Hood River Fruit Growers’ union of Hood River is putting up a warehouse op- posite the depot there. It expects to handle strawberries in car load lots this season. W. H. Doughtry and Bob Adams, cat- tlemen, are now driving out of the John Day country 3,000 steers that they re- cently sold for shipment to Montana ranges. A company has been formed at Portland to butcher horses, selling the hides, hair, mane and tall, compressing the meat for chicken food, and converting the residue into fertilizer. Thomas Payne of Albany thinks he has found a valuable sandstone quarry on his place at Albany. Samples of the sfone have been examined in Portland and pronounced first-class. A Coos bay Indian named John Barney, whose Indlan name was Tsoos, died on the Siuslaw lately. . He was supposed to be 110 years old, and had been blind and helpless for a long time. Neighborhood rivalry runs so high in one *part of Wasco county that they steal bridges and move them to other roads. An organized watch has to be maintained to prevent more depredations of the same kind. The prospects for a heavy crop of grain in Sherman county were never more flattering than they are now. There is an abundance of mofsture in the ground, and the grain is already fiteen Inches high in the stalk. The big mills at Baker City are turning out from 5,000 to 75,000 feet of lumber and ties daily, while the box factory is manu- facturing among other things bed slats by the car load. Thirty-five cars are unloaded daily from the forests of Sumpter valley. At the mills alone upwards of 100 men are em- ployed, while some 150 more are in the log- ging camps. A recently discovered quartz locatien in Sparta district, and christened the Mabel, upon which oniya small amount of develop- ment work has been done, was bonded for a consideration of §2,500, the amount paid down being $500. The owners of the prop- erty are Baker City men, and the bond is given to a party of miners from British Columbla. Supplies and tools have been taken out for development work. WASHINGTON. Yakima county will ship 500,000 pounds of wool from Prosser this year. Pretty good cayuse ponies change hands at Ellenburgh at an ayerage price of $8. The Great Northern is preparing to put a line of steamers on Puget Sound to compete with the Northern Pacific, The mill at Geneva has cut 50,000 staves for the New Whatcom waterworks, this being only half the contrac! The Spokane river is nearly a foot above the highest point ever reached in its history and a number of houses are under water. It is reported that the Canadian Pacific will again utilize steamer lines on the Sound in the near future. The Sehome and North Pacific will, it s said, cover the Seattle- Port Townsend, Whatcom route. This will glve Port Townsend anothef steamer line, The sale of a big tract of timber land In Chehalis county has recently been con- summated, involving a large sum of money in the transfer. The tract consists uf about 4,200 acres in the Humptullps country It was sold by D. A. Blodgett to Frederick Veht and John W. Prestel of Michigan The price paid, according to the desd on dle o the auditor's office, was $30,000 apd will be The force, SMOKE. The fire never touched us—It was in the adjoining building, and while the loss ran up into the thousands of dcllsrs, it was very quickly adjusted, and the entire stock is now ofered at Fire Prices by the Insurance Companies. smoke are ds good as ever. right, the colpr will remain in. CLOTHING FOR MOST NOTHING. $I.75, Men's Full Suits—The kind we were making the run on at g5 before the fire are now .. Men's Light Overcoats—Damaged by water only, all dry now, and when pressed as ool bt (L TR B < S S Men'’s Strong Pants—They were up in the gal- lery and were not wet at all, only smoked Men's Suspenders- No apparent damage by EitheriWaterIOr STOKENTINA Vieis s ss/sis s olei sre Men’s Handkerchiefs—Plain white and just as L o D o D O A s Gt Neckties—The water did not getinto them for most of them were in the show cases 3 FOR [0¢ ae ATER. Smoke will blow off, so that goods damaged by We have lots of them. Water will dry off. and if tne goods are all It’s a good test ef value, and you know what you are buying. Men's Sack Suits—In brown, gray and oxfords, only slightly wet and smoked of ccurse, sold for g10 before the fire Boys" Suits that sold for g5 before the fire, only BMOKEAIU DO NOWHTOTR v o vs sibies a6 ciovivio on0b om0 Men's Cutaway Suits—The ¢18 and $20 kind, They were only smoked, not hurt a bit; ZOIMOWHOR W W T vl it i iviaspirambate e Men's Cassimere Suits—In two colors that the water couldn’t hurt, regular 815 suits, go now for Wilson Bros. Shirts—4-ply linan—the water did not come necar them, and they are net even Elaleh Aot T B T a6 00 (00 OG0 COOOOG0 U 0 Full finished top Hose—worth 23c before the fire regular Rockford socks, goat...voveiiuuannnn Balbriggan Undershirts—Not damaged a just as good as ever,.. 4k Jae particle Columbia Clothing Co, Cor. 18th and Farnam. otter valuable considerations. The same property was sold abput {wo years ago for $20,000. ) The railroad iron that was recovered from the wreck of the Abercorn is being shipped from Cosmopolis to Portland, to be used by the Terminal company. . | Prof. James Gammage of Hoquaim has a genuine George Gemunder violln, which cost a small fortune. » It was built from a Stradivarus pattern and ‘there are only three tween Eddy and Roswell, and m bridge timbers, A John R. Blocker and Felix Shaw, two of the most prominent stockmen in southwest Texas, were arrested. Shaw is charged with } smuggling 2,000 head of cattle from Mexico, are for sale, and they are held at startling figures. A tree was cut last week In Williamson's camp, near Shelton, which measured 11 feet 4 inches in diameter at the butt—34 feet in circumference. It was clear timber to tho first limb, 70 feet from the ground. It is estimated that fully 30,000 feet of merchantable lumber may be cut from this one tree. The Spokane land office is doing & rush- ing business. Six townships in Stevens county and one in Spokane county were put on file; also several entries. These are on selected lands, in dispute not long ugo, and ninety days more remain in which actual scttlers can file their claims, while the state school land agent has tyio months in which to choose for the people. After that any one can file. The Farmers Alliance and Industrial union is preparing to build a flouring mill at some point in the Palouse country, having a daily capacity of 150 barrels. The loca- tion is not yet decided upon, but it will be either Garfleld, Pullman or Oak2sdale. They have a proposition from a Minneapolis firm to put in the machinery, the alliance to furnish the building, for $12,000 in three equal annual payments. It is hoped to precure a_ bonus from one of the thrae tcwns mentioned to assist in making the first pay- ment. MISCELLANEOUS. Late frosts have killed the fruit buds about Virginia City, Nev. The California Wool Growars and Deaiers association asks for protectiun for weol. Sinca May 1 150,000 pounds of wool have been sent out by rail from Edly, N. M. The bi-weekly Unlon Pacific wool trains are carrying nearly all of zhe Utah clip. Large consignments of wool are be ceived at Callwell, Idaho, for consig east. Cherries are ripe In the Rio Grande valley about Socorro and peaches are as big as walnuts. Andrew J. Davis has been given posses- sion by the courts of the $1,000,000 left by Millionaire Davis of Butte, Mont. Holt and Murphy of Arizona are shipping 2,100 head of 2 and 3-year-old steers from Wilcox to the Montana ranges. The Bloom Cattle company Is preparing to ship seventy-five cars of cattle from Ros- well, N. M., to its Montana ranges. The new converter plant of the Anaconda ccmpany in Montana has a working capacity of 10,000,000 paunds of pure copper per month, At Fort Benton the Missourl s higher than ever before known at this time of the year and sunshine seenis a thing of the past s Twelve cars of cattle, have gone from Holbrook, Ariz., to the, Wattres Cattle com- pany. Fully 400 caps will go out this season, leaving at tho rate of two trains daily. \ Mexican papers printed the story that Thomas Lowthian, oneof the founders of the Cochitl district, has réfused $400,000 for the Lone Star mine, dvhich has, it is claimed, 500,000 tons ot smelting ore In sight. i I'he celebrated peach opchard of Judge G. W. Wood of MosiHa, N; 8., was sold to the Woodland Orchard compitny for $50,000, or at the rate of $750 per acre, the average age of the trees being only 4 years. The Eddy, N. M., Argus-says the manage- ment of the Pecos Irrigation and Improve- ment company Is going to undertake to disposo of the alfalfa crop this year in eastern and European markets, to get the largest possible profit for producers, Prospectors inform, the Halley, Idaho, Times that the hills and gulches are just alive with young grouse and sage hens, and chat the birds were mever @ plentiful as this spring. The game and fish law Is therefore proving of great bemefit as a con- servator of the feathered and finny specles. The Pecos Valley rallway has cars of stecl rails on every siding between Fort Worth and Pecos, on the Texas Pacifi¢, no less than fitty cars belng at Rock Springs. A new siding 1s being put in at Pecos and cars sent there as fast as they can be handled and hauled to BAdy. ~ No less than 300 cars of rails and 600 cars of ties will be used be- and Blocker fs smuggled cattle, The movement of stock in earnest on charged with receiving has commenced the Santa Fe road. P. J, more of the o onng! spector for the northern distric that | 3 strict ame make in existence that ' istrict, reports that the shipments Mexico ranges, since April 1, something over 20,000 head. San Diego is to have a coal yard on a large scale soon. The Santa Fe company has decided to shif the product of its Colorado mines to the southern city for dis- tribution in the west. Heretofore this coal has been shipped east. Mr. D. W. Ross, engineer in charge of the big Peyette canal, says the farmers have a fine prospect for crops this year in the great Payette valley of Idaho, especially in hops. The acreage planted to hops this vear is large, and the vines are healthy and strong and will yleld a large crop. This year proves beyond a doubt that hops are a success In Idaho, Tho Balley mill at Allerton, in the Cochiti digtrict, to be constructed by Denver parties, will be operated by electricity. 1. W. Bailey of Denver has located 160 acres of public land, on the Rio Grande, one mile atove the north line of the Cochiti grant. Ho will construct a dam there to generate electricity by water power, conveying the fluld thence to Allerton. DEEP SEA SOUNDINGS. The Method from New have been by Which a Depth of Flve Miles Is Reached, A ship regularly engaged in deep-sea sounding, says the Popular Monthly, has the sounding machine mounted at the after-end, and when to about to sound is brought to a standstill, with the stern to the sea. The stray line, with the sounding rod and sinker attached, s over the guide pulley and care- fully lowered to the water's edge, the regis- ter Is set to zero, and the decp-sea ther- mometer 15 clamped to the sounding line; a seaman is stationed at the friction iine, which controls the velocity with which the wire is unreeled, another at the brake, and a third on the grating outside to handle the sinker and instruments, and to guide the wire as It passes overboard: a machinist s at the holsting engine, and the recorder takes a position for reading the reglster. When the sinker is let go the vessel is maneuvered 50 as to keep the wire vertical, and the friction line is adjusted so as to allow it to descend from seventy to 100 fathoms per minute. The instant the sinker strikes the bottom, which is unmistakably indicated by the sud- den release of the wire from strain, the reel is stopped by the friction line and brake; the recorder notes the number of turns of the reel. 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