Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 9, 1894, Page 5

PULSEOF WESTERY PROGRESS Revival of Aoctivity at Oripple Creek and Other Oolorado Distriots, UNITAH REGION A MINER'S PARADISE On the Shoshone and Clark's Fork Rivers— Tenderfeot Listen to Dreams—Mani- tou's Million Dollar Sanitariam— Genernl Western News. A gentlemsn Just in from the Cripple Creek district, who has large Interests In the phenomenal gold camp, reports mining and prospecting are again active In every direction, says the Denver Times-Sun. New ttrikes aro made so fast, he says, that but little attention Is paid to them save by the parties interested, who simply double their endeavors to lift ore. One pay day will put a ‘new phase on business matters in the camp. The men will pay up part of their debts and the merchants will agaln be able to order in supplies on a cash basis. Cripple Creek activity will have a good effect upon the lead-silver and iron-silver mines of Lake county. Thewe ores are used for fluxes In the treatment of dry ores of the Cripple Creck class. The fall- ing oft of supply from the one camp has cut off the demand on the other, but now that Cripple Creek has resumed shipments the smelters are again placing orders in Lake. Surprising results were obtained from a five-tan test run of gold ore, shoveled from the dump of the Summit mine at Telluride and put through the Riley & Ballard mill The hard amalgam weighed fifty-six ounces and the retort was worth $400, which Is a yleld of $80 per ton, the best that has been dono in the county this year. The Summit is owned by Mr. 0. P. Posey, who ed It to Smith & Kent the first of the year, but retained an interest in the same, It will be as extensively worked as thie ground opencd up will permit, and ten stamps of the Gold King mill have been leased to treat the ore. The recommencement of work on the Summit, it having lain idle for several years past, edds another ‘mportant and valuable gold producer to San Miguel's catalogue of gold mines. An additional five-foot Huntington will 80on be in place in the Belmont mill, which increases the number to three Huntingtons and will enable it to treat about eighty tons of ore per day. A 100-ton lot of ore from the Galena streak of the Belmont mine will be treated this week at the San Bernardino mill, it having undergone a thorough over- hauling during the winter shut down. The machinery of the old Jack Haverly Golden Group mill has been hauled down from Bear creek to San Miguel, and, after being thor- oughly overhauled, will be set up in the Beam proc iction works now being built there. The plant is fast nearing com- pletion and it is hoped to start the works on the first lot of ore by July 20. The operation of the new plant is looked for- ward to by our mine owners with deep In- terest, for its success will make a profitable mine of every gold prospect in the county. THE FULFORD MINES. About two years and a half ago rich float was discovered on the western side of the maln range, eighteen miles from Eagle sta- tion, on the Denver & Rio Grande standard gauge In Bagle county, says an Eagle spe- clal to the Denver News. The discoverer was Art Fulford, who lost his life in a snow slide six months later, but whose name has been perpetuated In the namo of the camp. Of the many hun- dred claims that have been located since, over 100 show pay on the surface, but the owners are mostly too poor to do any con- siderable development work, and heretofore have been too avaricious and grasping to unload at reasonable prices. Consequently proper development has been greatly re- tarded. However, several properties have progressed from prospects to paying mines, for a year ago $75,000 was refused by the Barthold brothers for the Polar Star mine. The gold s free milling and the Polar Star mino has a twenty-five stamp mill. Ore from the Johnson and Polar Star mines has run from $20 to $35 per ton and one whole car load from the latter run $38. The Polar Star has not been operat- ing for some ten months, having been bonded by an Aspen party who is negotiat- ing with a New York syndicate, but local authorities say he Is over reaching, and in wanting too big a thing may make nothing. Notwithstanding the causes that depress and hold back Fulford, it is certain to be one of the prosperous and noted gold camps of Colorado In the near future. The presiding genlus of the First National bank of Denver, who has a wide reputation for knowing good thing in mining when he sees it, has large interests in Fulford. RICH UINTAH REGION. Mr. Holiday, one of the parties interested in the gold find, called at our sanctum and gave us a few pointers in regard to the discovery, says the Vernal (Utah) Express. Thelr claims are on the headwaters of the east and west forks of Ashley and the east fork of White Rock creek. The dyke runs nearly due east and west and is nearly teen feet wide and {s composed of gnelss, porphyry and quartz. The dyke cuts the formation and dips lightly to the north and has every appearance of a true flssure vein, They have bought a mill site of some parties owning a claim adjoining them and when a mill is built can dump the ore from the mouth of the tunnel into the mill. Mr. Holiday says it is all a mistake about this being the Enoch Davis mine. They found the bones of two men and three horses with some camp material. The camp showed evidenco of a hard fight and the men being murdered and the victims of the crime being burned to destroy any evidence of who and what they were. It is a well known fact mong old settlers of this county that there aro good mines on and near the Uintah res- ervation and they are jealously guarded by the Indians. 4 In early days a man named Rhodes would go into the Uintah mountains and come back loaded with gold, but he would not 1ve his secret away and no one knew where he got 1t. On his deathbed he told his son where it was, and afterward the son was killed by Indians while after the treasure, and thus the secret of its whereabouts was lost. Several parties have been organized ut different times to hunt for the lost mine, and some of them never retur 5 Probably the camp found by the Hatch party was one of the camps of one of these partios. There 18 no doubt that when the Enoch Dayis mine is found that it will bo free gold and very rich. With a few hundred men hunting diligently, there is a very small ehance for the secret of its whereabouts to remain a secret much longer, and when it is found it is the supposition that the Rhodes mine will be found. CLARK'S FORK PLACERS. The placer diggings on Shoshone and Clark's Fork rivers have been attracting a large amount of attention during the past few weeks. At the present writing work on mearly all of these placer clalms Is suspended on account of high water., Thou- sands of acres have been located and con- siderablo work has been done. Numerous holes and trenches have been sunk, but bed rock was only reached at one point, and that situated on the Shoshone river just below the Hot Springs. On tho bars of Clark's Fork sufficient gold is found from the top down to make the wholo pay. Mr. Darrah and partner at their last clean-up got $150 worth of gold dust for eighteen days' work for two men and a team with a scraper. John Bush cleaned up $300, equal to $12 a day, 80 far for the same kind of an outfit. Work on the bars of the river will not be resumed until after high water. It has been demonstrated that good wages can be made on most of the bars by men who understand the work. Some miners got too much slant to their sluice boxes, thinking that the fine #0ld would slnk the same as in the old timo diggings. As a consequence, they did not succeed and left disgusted. Other miners have goue there, expecting to flud rich dig- gings like those of former days, and, of course, were disappointed. From the point of view of the gold miner, the Shoshone and Clark's Fork may be re- garded as a gigantic ground slulce. Its val- ley, originally excavated in tertiary times in the rocky substratum of the country, was subsequently, during the glaclal period, largely fllled with drift material, through whish' at a still later date, the river has THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: had to re-excavate Its bed, leaving great sories of benches along its banks in many places. As this was gradually accomplished, a portion of the gold now found In its bed and banks has without doubt been worn out of its rocky mattrix directly by the action of the river and ita immediate tributarie while another portion may have been de- rived from the glaclally transported drift materfals. The first mentioned molety may be supposed to Include the “coarse” gold, the last must be in griat part the “fine’ gold, A great proportion of all this gold, from whatever source derived, has been gradually concentrated In the river bottom by the action of the stream, while in many places paying deposits have been left upon the sur- faces of benches at various levels, or buried heneath their material, each such pay streak representing some portion of a former bed of the river, which has been left behind as erosion progressed. It Is true, beyond doubt, that extensive and successful mining enterprises, based on the application of the dredging and of amalgamating method of working, will yet be instituted along a great part of the length of the Clark’s Fork valley, THEY BELIEVE THE DREAM. A month or two since two strangers made thelr appearance at the head of Spring gulch at Idaho Springs. They were from Denver and had come to look over the country, preparatory to commencing work in the mines, says the Denver News. The first night they stopped at the cabin of Mr. Wil- llam Robinson, who owns ‘a number of valu- able claims in that locality. The next morn- ing Mr. Robinson, knowing they were ten- derfeet, told them a wonderful dream he had during the night. He sald he was stand- ing in the cabin door thinking about his latest find when all at once there appeared before him an ancient surveyor and his as- sistant, both dressed In old-time costumes, with snow white hair and beard that reached down to their knees. They appeared to be surveying the flat that reaches for some distance above the house. At length the old surveyor approached Mr. Robinson, who stood spell-bound in the doorway watching the proceedings. He pointed to a spot on the little brook with his right hand and with his left pointed to the flat. Just at this Juncture Mr. Robinson’s vision seemed to penetrate the ground, and he could seo the channel of an an- clent creek with untold millions of placer gold lying on the bed-rock, in pot holes and natural riffles. While he was con- templating with ‘greedy eyes this extraor- dinary sight the surveyor and his assist- ant vanished. Turning around to look again at his strange visitors, Mr. Robinson awoke to find it all a dream. The tenderfeet were deeply impressed with the recital of the dream. The next day one of them went back to Denver to visit his family and procure supplies, and almost in tho first words his wife sald to him she asked if he had not met and talked with a tall gentleman who had long dark hair and dark complexioned, giving a very good description of Mr. Robinson. This settled the verity of the dream in the minds of the amateur prospectors, for the one who had gone to Denver lost no time in returning, and, telling his companion what his wife had asked, they straightway commenced to run a tunnel at the point indicated by the ap- parition of the old surveyor. When the late heavy raln storm came on they had reached a depth of over 100 feet. The water loosened the earth and it began to cave. They commenced to timber, but it was no use. The ground became too soft, and they soon had to abandon their work. The caving of the tunnel is danger- ously near Mr. Robinson’s cabin, and now he is desirous of stopping their operations, but the more ho tries to dissuade them the more determined are they to prosecute the work, thinking doubtless that Robinson is scheming to obtain the riches hidden beneath tho flat for himself. AN ARTESIAN BASIN. Several wecks ago John Hess began work on a deep well in the Sunflower valley, about five miles south and west of town, on some land which<ie owns, says the Lamar (Colo.) Sparks, It was his intention to find a good vein of water and then put up a windmill to raise the water for his stock. The other day the drillers unexpectedly encountered a vein of artesian water at a depth of a little more than 100 feet. The flow was about equal to that of the town well and the work of drill- ing was continued. Since then the flow of water has doubled in volume, and Mr. Hess feels confident that he will have a two-inch stream when the well Is cased. The hole is eight inches in diameter and it 1s the inten- tion to case it with two-inch pipe. The cost of the well complete will not exceed $150. The portion of the country where this valuable flow was discovered was all set- tled upon seven or eight years ago, when Lamar was founded, and the soil and situation are all that could be desired. But the inability to secure water for ir- rigation caused the abandonment of the land for farms under ditches on the north side and nearer the river. A great many of the claims were proved up, but there is not a single settler left in the locality. Mr. Hess' lucky strike has caused con- siderable interest, and if it is found that flowing wells can be had throughout the district at such a moderate cost farms in that section will be in demand and some of the best agricultural land in the county will become productive. MAMMOTH HOSPITAL. This resort is at last to have a sanitarlum which will be worthy of the name, says a Manitou speclal to the Sun-Times of Den- ver. It will be an institution that will prove a_formidablo rival of like places at Battle Creek, Mich., and other eastern points. The sanitarium will bo owned and operated by the Manitou Sanitarium com- pany, which it is proposed to incorporate with' a capitalization of $1,000,000. The bullding proper will be six stories high, with a frontage of 260 feet and a depth of 165 feet. It will bo built of Manitou red sandstone and white pressed brick, and will cost, complete, $600,000. A’ proposition has' been made to Colonel C. W. Barker, owner and proprietor of the Barker house, to purchase the property on which the hotel stands, and it is probable that the proposition will be accepted. This would give the sanitarium company a block of land with a frontage of 300 feet on Mani- tou avenuo and 225 feet on Navajoe avenue. The building will bave accommodations for 1,000 patients, who will bo treated for every diseaso known to the medical world by the best corps of physicians obtainable. It s proposed to divide the sanitarium into five departments, allowing the whole of one floor to each department. On the ground floor will be the reception rooms, billiard and pool rooms, a bowling alley nd other amusements for the use of the guests. In the basement will ,be baths of every description, Including Russian and Turkish baths, and a large plunge bath or swimming pool. It is also pro- posed to have the bofler rooms and elec- tric machinery in the basement. The intention is to make the modern in every respect. It heated with either hot water and lighted from the company’s electric plant. Electricity will be in every way as far as possible. On the roof of the bullding will be a building will be or steam, own used summer garden and dancing pavilion, where a fine orchestra wHl discourse pleasing music. In fact, nothing will be left undone which might add to the entertainment and _amusement of the guests and patients of the sanitarium. Prominent physiclans of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago are sald o be interested in the scheme, among whom s included Dr. Baer of Philadelphia and others equally as well known, A GILA MONSTER, H. G, Bates of Park City, Utah, has a pet which s not a very attractive one except that It belongs to a rare species. Mr. Kim- ball, his partner in business, lately went to Arizona, and, baving captured a glla monster eighteen inches long, shipped it to Mr. Bates, who placed it In a box with a glass front and placed it on exhibition his drug store. It has a head similar to a rattlesnake and much resembles a lizard, and yet It s very different. Its color fs orange-salmon, covered by black spots, much resembling carpet patterns or bead work. Its four legs are all black, with five claws on each, and it 15 able to get around very lively when the temperature runs up to over 100, and It Is not in its element when below 70, 1t is & rare species, being unknown to inhabit any country except a spot about fifty miles square in southwestern Arizona, where it is summer all the time and gets hot enough to make life a burden to common mortals, Belng as venomous as the worst of polsonous snakes it ls not safe to handls, and it 13 lable to soon bs put to sleep with a dose of chloroform and consigned to & bottle so well filled with alchohol that it Be Sure and At- tend It Summer Our Special Atractions in Sitks Is a new line of eney Bros. Best Qualiy PRINTED SILKS 24 Inches Wide. 59c Peor Yard. These are all new designs of this season’s latest productions, and should not be confounded with a loi of remnants of picked over, unsala- ble styles of an inferior grade. You never will get as good goods again for so little money. CHENE” BROS. BEST QUALITY PRINTED SILKS Por Yara D9C per vara. Wash Dress Goods Debartment. The only place in Omaha where you can get every thing made in wash goods, at prices lower than ever, Satin Stripe Japonnet, reduced to .......ceiiiiiiiiiiiii... .. 12%c Pongee..... 5 RIS AR OD Ok A0 10c Syrian Crepes....... S gl R, v 150 French Organdies, 32 inch... 15¢ French Dimities, 32 inch. ... 150 BScotch Lawn, reduced. .« cccoceeeteiieasoseeisnens cionnans 5c French Ginghams. best made, former price 39¢, now ...... 19¢ Apron Check Gingham, worth 8¢, oW ................... ... 8to Scotch Zephyr Gingham, handsome designs, worth 25¢, price 12ic. Outing Flannel, worth 10¢, special price......... v h 50 Linen Department. 7o-inch bleached table damask, the regular 8gc, to go now at 49c. 56-inch unbleached damask, the 49c quahlly, to go now at 29C. 81-inch bleached German linen, none better for wear, #1. 50 quality, to go now at 98c. 56-inch turkey red damask, worth 22¢, to go ffow at 124c. 6o-1nch turkey red, warrated fast, 6gc quality; to go now at 4oc. Innumerable remnants in all qaulities; table linen at soc on the dollar. You Ought Miss It. Clearance $Sale. Al Ml Onders Pomply and Carllly File us a mail order, which wi the purpose just as well. son, send 1 answer If you cannot ca ot Furnishing Goods Summer lamp shades, wire frames, 20c each, worth 60c. , 2-hoop water pails, 7c. Fazcy lamp shades, frames over 25 differ- ovt styles, regular price $1.00, our price Slonday, 45c each. All copper tea kettles, 75c each, regular sold at $1.50. No. 8 nickle tea kettles, 95c. d-quart sprinkler, 15c. 6-quart sprinkier, 19 8-quart sprinkler, Z5c. No. 7 copper bottom wash boiler, 30¢; No. 8, dic, 10-piece tollet sets, splendid decorations and color, $2.65; regular sold at $5.00. Wash tubs 25c each. Tho Western Washer $2.25; you save $2.00 on_this deal. Sugar bowls, 31c each. Butter dishes, 31c each. Spoon holder, 3%c each. Cream pitcher, 314c each. Water glasses, 1%c each. Tin top jelly glasses, 24c per dozen. Gold band china cups and saucers, 7c per pair. ! Hotel bakers, 39c per dozen. Solid nickle 3-pint coffee pot, 65c. Solid nickle, 4-pint coffee pot, 75c. Solid nickle, 5-pint coffee pot, S5c. Solid nickle, 3-pint tea pot, 65c. Solid nickle, 4-pint tea pot, 75c. Cheese. Full crream brick cheese, 6o per pound. Limburger cheese, yc, 11¢ and 12%c. Swiss cheese, 121, 14c and 16¢. Wisconsin full cream, 73%e, 10c and 12%e. All other cheese away down in price. Much conld simply marvelons in these hard times; and befors invoicing. neh fancy weaves, worth 25 30-inch all-wool checks, worth 48c 40 and 44-inch novelty dres 42- 08, the § 4 inch silk mixtu alit nch beautiful E price. 40-inch all-wool serge, this scason’s pric 46-inch invoicing price... long knee-pant suits, #4.50, special, $2.25. 1-wool combination suit r $5 and $6; with us the pric All summer suits ctly any house NOTICE what we have left for $2.50. be said about this gigantic stock. rods, worth 80c to $1 nglish checks we sold this s all-wool bedford cord, blues, browns and wines, sold for Tie, 1 Boys’ and Children’s Clothing. s' knee-pant svits, ages 3 to 15, go this woek regardiess of cos siits in double and single-breasted, worth in knee shades, made as well as tailor'made, double These are worth Dress Goods. 1t prices, its sales, are ot we keep cutting prices until 18 seems us though the bottom had been reached; but we will give them another slash, 3¢, bofore-invoicing price. ... . 150 9e, belore-invoicing price s N a8 bofore-invoicing price. .500 . before-invoicing price.. ... ...690 won at 81,25, before-invoicing 50e, before-invoicing prico 330 fore- -390 ges 12 t0 19, in dark and light shadoes, worth ; your choice 95c. i 2 pair punts and cap to mateh, sold in is only $2 95, pants, strictly all wool, in the late: ’ or single-breasted: your choice of rom $4.50 to $5.00. Men'’s Light Clothing. Men’s all-wool light coats and vests, ${,7. Men’s light-colored serge coats and vosts, worth 85, $2.50, Men’s Odd Pants Sale. Men'’s all-wool pants in cassimeres and cheviots in light and mixed colors, regs ular prices from $4.00 to §5.00, $2.75. Notice our Dodge street window for pri for men. busine: Our mattre figures cannot be undevsold. Cotton top mattress Combinations . Wool. Ha ‘We can make over any moss or hair TONE Even the ave i s man, mechanic or laborer one-third of his time in Led. not get the best mattress to sleep upon, and we can let you have the best at a very moderate figure. made by the Omaha Mattre: Here are some samp! os of odd pants and thin clothing ALFRED THE GREAT, in his famous sub. division of time, gave 8 hours to slee SANDOW, the Strong Man, says he sleeps at least 9 or 10 hours out of the 24, GLADS prolonged powers in a mea: attributes his wonderfully ure to long sleeps. 1ge man—be he a professional or spends at leash Considering this, why Co, and Biilow & Doup. Our " '$8.00, $10,00'12.00 mattress i whatever size you desire. Feathers and pillows of the very best grades at tho lowest possible prices. DON'T FORGET OUR FURNITURE PRICES. will never want to get out, and as a pre- served specimen will bo less dangerous. A FOOL INDIAN. “I was at Tahlequah when the distribu- tlon of the purchase money for the strip to the Cherokees commenced,” said Albert Gar- rigan of Chicago to a St. Louis Globe-Demo- crat reporter. “A more interesting scene than this collection of Indians could scarcely be imagined, but the most peculiar sight to me was the action of a young brave, who declined to accept the amount offered to him on the ground that the government owed him $100 from some previous apportionment. “He speaks English well, and 1 was among those to whom he told his grievance. As he has a wife and children his family apportionment offered him was over $1,000, but he declined absolutely to accept it un- less the other $100 was added. He was told very kindly that it was impossible to accede to his demand, and he was advised to take the $1,000 and make a special claim for the $100. “Almost any white man would have fallen in with the suggestion, and it is an interest- ing illustration of Indian stolidness and ob- stinacy that this man positively left the town empty-handed and swore that he would never come back until his rights were rec- ognized.” THE DAKOTAS. Flandreau is putting in a fine system of water works. An extra strong arteslan well was struck near St. Lawrence, in consequence of which St. Lawrence people are jubilant. A number of traveling men are as good as stranded in the Hills owing to the Pull- man strike. The mails are delayed, checks do not come, and business is in a condition of innocuous desuetude. Charges of fraud are made in the appli- cation for a_receiver for the Harney Peak Tin Mining, Milling and Manufacturing com- pany, which was incorporated to do busi- ness in the Black Hills region. Nearly $5,- 000,000 invested has disappeared. Reports from the Hills west of Rochford are that deer are very numerous and are as tame as sheep. Stray horses seem to have gotten into that country, and it is said there were lots of horses with all kinds of brands on running around without anybody looking after them. The round-up of the lower Belle Fourche country s about over and that on the north- ern will be over about the 10th or 12th, The cattle are in good shape and the beef round- up, which will commence some time in August, will be the best one for fat beeves that has ever been held on this range. From parties down from Castle creek it is learned that men are at present working from one end of the creek to the other and all are taking out good wages, says the Rapid City Journal. The gold found ‘on the numerous bars is very coarse, while that near bed rock on the creek is fine, bright gold. Twenty plasterers and thirty assistants at work on new buildings struck at Fargo, The plasterers were getting $8 per day and wanted $3.50. The helpers retelved $1.80 and wanted $2. New men were imme- diately secured to take the helpers' places and the contractors have telegraplied to the Twin Cities for plasterers, Dr. F. H. Files of Sioux Falls returned from Humboldt township, where he had been investigating the diphtheria epidemic which now prevails there to an alarming extent. During the past ninety days there have been over forty cases in that township and vicin- ity, which restulted In several deaths. There are at present thirteen cases. Major T. H. Ruth, commissioner of school and public lands, has just filed for entry at the United States land office in Aberdeen a list of Indemnity lands covering from 50,000 to 60,000 acres in McPherson and Edmunds countles. These lands are In place of those rejected by the Interlor department some months since. There are nearly 50,000 acros yet to select. Charley McDonald was down from his claim on Rapld creek, says the Rapld City Journal, and disposed of two ounces and thirteen penuywejghts of placer gold. He has just reached pay gravel on the bar and expects to take out good pay for some time. He stated that placer gold from his section of the country is worth only $17.76 per ounce on account of the quality found General Manager Nix of the new railroad, says the Deadwood Times, is engaged with his corps of engineers surveylng and cross- sectioning a line from Belle Fourche to the point on Hay creek whére the original sur- vey bore off toward Minnescla. This line i3 about a mile shorter than Minnesela, and it is now pretty thoroughly understood that the road will be built from Belle Fourche. COLORADO. The Galena at Cripple Creek Is producing $142 gold ore. Farmers in all parts of the state are busy cutting alfalfa. There are now about 600 stamps dropping in Gilpin county. Boulder county mines are recovering from the effects of the flood. The creamery at Elbert is now receiving about 6,000 pounds of milk a day. The 650-foot extension of the Quartz Hill at Central City is nearly completed. Much prospecting is being done on Four Mile, north of Beaver Park, Cripple Creek. A large mill is to be put up for handling the ores of the Baker contact at La Plata. The Smuggler of Aspen recently shipped a carload of ore that was yalued at $100,000. A good discovery of mica has been made on Taylor river, sixteen miles northeast of Gunnison. Work has been resumed on the San Ber- nado mine, San Miguel county. The ore is silver and lead. The alfalfa harvest about Rocky Ford con- tinues with unabated vigor, and the weather remains favorable. Ore running from $150 to $300 per ton has been struck in the ninth and tenth levels of the Mollie Gibson. Five tons of ore from the Summit dump returned $50 per ton in gold at the Marquis & Riley mill, Telluride. The rich vein struck by Charles Gentry has been uncovered at the south end of the Corolanus claim, Cripple Creek. Salt Lake parties have taken bond and lease on the Fidelity mine near the foot of Red mountain, Silverton district, for $17,000. A large number of miners from Aspen, Leadville and Cripple Creek have gone to the new gold camps in the Uintah moun- tains. A six-foot veln of quartz carrying $9.80 gold has been struck by Wade & Derry of Buena Vista in the South Cottonwood dis- trict. Ore assaying $2,000 has been struck in the Gettysburg lode of the Jack Pot com- pany, on Raven hill. It is the extenslon of the Rlkton vein. The orchardists about Frulta have or- ganized a Fruit Growers' assoclation with a capital stock of $25,000, divided into 5,000 shares of $5 each. Crystalized quartz resembling that on Raven ‘hill and assaylng $1,800 has been struck In the Coppep Mine iode, on Sting creek, Cripple Creek., A grass root strike assaying $56 has been made in the Santa Rifa, on Squaw mountain, Cripple Creek. There fs a three foot vein with bits of ore running very high. A ten-stamp King-Dirragh concentrator is to be erected nehr 'the Harrison mine, Silverton. The ore to be treated runs about $15, divided between®goll and silver. New ofl wells are reported by the Triumph Coal company on thé Lobach farm, a mile west of Florence, and by the Florence Oil and Refining company, #ix miles south. Smelter charges on iron and lead ores have been reduced on account of the fall- ing off of Idaho and’ Uthh lead silyer ores. Several Leadville properties will therefore resume. A streak of sylvanite has been struck in the Beacon, on Beacon'’hill, Cripple creek, The vein 18 eight feet Wide, and two feet of It is so valuable that it is shipped in locked boxes. There are rumors that representatives of New York gold shippers are purchasing gold in Gilpin and other gold producing counties, paying a very slight premium over the mint price. Seventy men have been lald off at the Amethyst mine, Creede, as the low grade is not profitable at 63 cents, &nd some development |5 needed before more high- grade can be taken out. A herd of 3,000 Texas cattle, enroute to Montana, passed through at Brush. The cattle on the range are In fine condition. The Western Union Beef company will ship 200 cars of fat cattle in & few weeks. The Fall River tuunel, being cut from Idabo Springs to Gllpin county, has cut a fine vein. It is now in 1,300 feet, and Dr. | Stelnberger believes that enough oro is now accessible to pay for the whole enterprise. The area planted In tomatoes at Rocky | Ford, says the Enterprise, is much larger | than ever before, and the crop never looked s0 well as now. It is about two weeks earlier than usual and the work of canning | will begin early in August. For some time the air has been filled with Tumors of a rich strike on Hard Tack moun- | tain in Larimer county. These reports are | confirmed, and George Lake, Jim McKinley | and J. W. Ryder are flourishing a $90.94 | assay certificate. The big strike is tel- lurium and fully ten feet in width. The claim is situated about fifteen miles east of the Rabbitt Ears on the divide between middle and north parks, near the head of Arapahoe creek. The assays were taken from surface, and unle:s present indications fail this bids fair to prove one of the rishest strikes of the season. Julesburg has voted $4,500 In bonds to build a new brick and stone school house, The new building will be erected on the site now occupied by the old school house, which will be torn down and worked into the new one as far as possible. The new building will contain four rooms, size 23x33, with a seating capacity of fifty persons each: also a small attic room, cloak rooms and a cellar for the furnace and the storing away of fuel. It will be well lighted and ventilated, two things greatly lacking in the old framé structure. Tt will be finished in time for the opening of the fall term. J. H. Halley, the largest sheep owner of Ouray ‘county, ‘informs the Ridgway Herald that ‘he has 90,000 pounds of wool at his headquarters near Haskill now ready for shipment. There s there also about 30,000 pounds more belonging to other growers. This year's clip will be shipped to Phila- delphia, but will not be sold until it is known what congress proposes to do with wool. This senson the lamb drop has aver- aged over 85 per cent, and Is the best ever known there. Mr. Halley’s herd now num- bers 20,000, of which about 6,400 are lambs, Other owners have altogether about 8,000 sheep and lambs, WYOMING. Owing to a decrease in revenue, the Wyom- ing State university has been compelled to dispense with two professorships. A herd of tame Buffalo were driven through Casper the other day, enroute from Pine Ridge, S. D, to a Montana ranch. All coal miners at Rock Springs have dis- continued operations, and section men there and at Green River have either quit or been discharged. Cattlemen report that the range is in ex- cellent condition, especfally in Wyoming. The grass is heavier and more thrifty than 1t has been for many years and cattle are putting on flesh very fast. Charley Bostelman writes from Glenrock that one of his ewes has @ perfectly healthy three-legged lamb and that he Is raising It. This freak of nature has but one front leg, the other shoulder being perfect. A ‘report comes In from the Sweetwater, north ot the old Lander trafl, that a big find in gold has been made by Messrs. Rini- ker and Lovejoy. The ledge is of great width, The extent has not been determined up to date. Red Cloud, Jack Red Cloud, and Dream- ing Bear, from Pine Ridge reservation, were arrosted last week, brought to Casper and cach fined $20 for violation of_the state game laws. All promised to do “better In the future and were released. The owners of the Northern Spy and the Raven mines at Atlantic made & strike on thelr property which gives promise of being a big thing. The vein is sixty feet In width and ore broken from the ledge where it cuts through Rock creek shows copper in. large quantities, as well as considerable gold in panning. The owners are highly elated over their find. Jack, Dr. Rickett’s dog, was bitten on the nose by a rattlesnake, says the Rawling Journal. Remedies were applied at once and the dog, aside from a head rivaling in size the head of a three weeks' champagne drunk, will be all right in a few days. Dr. Ricketts killed the snake, which measured four feet eight Inches in length and was four inches thick by actual measurement, The Casper Tribune learns that the Chi cago & Northwestern Railroad company h agreed to construct a sidetrack and switches at the ol tank of the Peansylvania Oil com- pany, just east of town. The shipment of oil, which has just been commenced, and which has been attended by so many difli- culties and heavy expenses, will now be greatly facilitated. The reports read at the close of the annual meeting of the Methodist Mission of Colo- rado, held at Cheyenne, showed 854 church members and probationers, 105 more than in 1893. There are sixteen churches, worth $08,500, and six parsonages, worth $11,500. N. S. Chamberlain, J. R. Wood, J. H. Gil- lesple, J. W. Lacey and J. H. Symonds were appolnted to select a site for a Meth- odist college. The next session is at Sheri- dan, OREGON, The Umatilla reservation includes about 250,000 acres. Pendleton has one messenger boy 66 years old and another 60. Tho Salem flouring mills have started up again on a large order from China. The Rock Springs, Wyo., coal miners use up a carload of La Grande hogs every month, Another load of 800 bundles of pulp has been brought down from Young's river to be shipped to Oregon City. According to the tally of Stock Inspector Fitzpatrick, Wasco county has 168,550 sheep. Young & Son come’ first on the list of own- ers with 11,000, Some_of the settlers in Polk county are annoyed by bears destroying an_occasional hog. The bears are reported plentiful in the mountains that border the valleys. The Milton strawberry crop will net $25,- 000, according to the estimate of the local fruitgrowers’ association. Most of the ber- ries were shipped to Denver, Omaha and Salt Lake. R. J. Ginn says that Sherman county has been carefully canvassed and shows 98,000 acres of wheat, which will yield at the very lowest estimate sixteen bushels to the acre, or 1,568,000 bushels. The old Indian woman who warned Gen- eral Canby against meeting the Indlans under a flag of truce in the lava beds during the Modoc war, the disregarding of which ccst him his Hfé, Is still living in Klamath county, and recelves a pension from the government for services rendered during the war. The Farmers and Traders bank of La Grando has received at the Snodgrass ware- house the wool clip from about 10,000 sheep owned by ranchers and stockmen living near Ladd canon. Warehouse Manager J. W. McCoy says the quality of the wool is all first-class. There are 210 sacks, or a total of 63,000 pounds. Charles B. Wordon, who s to allot the lands in severalty to the Klamath reser- vation, arrived there, accompanied by his wife and child. He will remain at his work until completed, and thinks it will require nearly two years' time, which is not very encouraging for the early throwing open of that big domain to bona fide settlement There are 900 Indians on the reservation and they will receive 125,000 ac As the reservation comprises 1,000,000 acres, it will give homes to thousands of settlers, WASHINGTON, Forty-six polled Angus cattle are going from Ellensburg to Hawail. It costs $60 a head to land them thero. The flea-beetle Is eating young beet plants. The beetle s one-twelfth of an inch long and of a bright bronze color. Bear hunting is a profitable industry in Josephine county. The hides are shipped to Chicago, where they bring $16 to $40 each. Adams county will produce an enormous wheat crop this year. The rains made their appearance at the proper time, and the out- look is the most encouraging one for many years. The Wadhams cannery at Point Roberts will open July 1, and it is expected that 40,600 cases will be packed this season, A can factory, with a daily capacity of 700 cases, is being operated In connection. A band of horses was caught on an island at the mouth of the Yakima river by the flood and wero compelled to stand in water for twenty hours before they were taken off by boat. All the colts were drowned. Tacoma's sinkiug fund commission has passed a resolution to issue $500,000 in b per cent funding bonds for the purpose of calling in outstanding city warrauts to that amount. The warrants to the amount of $400,000 bear 10 per cent Interest, and the saving o loterest will amount to $23,000 annually. The city's bonded indebtedness, i Inding $1,750,000 light and water bonds, 50,000, ; The latest strike in the Cochit! mining district is a forty-five-foot ledge of quarts on the Alternate that averages $400 in gold per ton. g Since February 1 ninety-eight carloads of hop poles have been shipped from tho sound country and delivered to growers at North Yakima. As the average number of poles to the car is about 2,000, this would give a total of 196,000 poles. Chief Joseph and his band have been de- lighting the good people of Ritzville in sell- ing cayuses and horse racing. At night #ome of the young bucks secured a hall and entertained a small audience by glving & powwow, introducing the scalp dance and several other pleasing specialties. T. Lommasson of Colfax, who has been spending some time in the' Hoodoo mouns tains, camping, reports that there are about eighty mines being worked and prospected with good results. About thirty of th mines are owned and worked by Chinamen, While working his claim one Chinaman found a pocket that contained $1,600 worth of gold. MISCELLANEOUS, Prunes in the Pomona district are said te be dropping badly from the trees, Particulars of the Kaslo disaster show that seventy houses and a government whart were swept away. Construction of the big storage reservolr of the Santa Fe Water and Improvement company has been commenced, It is reported that the Santa Fe will soon build its line from Deming to Falrbank. The grade has been partially prepared. In southern California the orange output for 1894 has been about 4,000 carloads, This is 20 per cent less than the crop of 1893, The Rattlesnake river at Missoula, Mon! is doing considerable damage, It havl changed its course and washed a new one. Several persons have been made seriously 1l in San Dicgo and vicinity by eatin castor beans, which are abundant in thaf section, Patton and McReynolds, the two advens turers who were recently wrecked in St George's bay, bave left with another man to hunt gold 'in Sonora, Secretary Smith has boen asked to ke troops subject to call on account of the over-running of the Blackfoot Indlan reser vation in Montana by prospectors. It has become common in some parts of California for young hoodlums to rob Chinese and Japanese by informing them that they are polltax collectors. The aliens generally pay when the demand s made. * A Butte, Mont.,, woman has made coms plaint to the mayor that the policeman on tho beat spends so much time standing in front of her window that the plants she hag growing there are dying for lack of sun. Haryesters have commenced work near Modesto, in California, and they report that while the crop is not large the grain Is of unusually fine quality. The color is good and grains large and full. Most of the wheat g remarkably fine and will bring the highest pri James Munson, whose place fs just north of the Napa (Cal) asylum, has 1,000 prune trees. On theso trees he has discovered myriads of little green lice. They congre- gate on the under side of the leaves and eat thelr way through in a fushion thal suggests an early absence of all follage. A distressing story comes from Chilkat relative to witcheraft practiced by Indlans, An Indian sorceress starved a woman te death, keeplng her tied up in a tent seven days. The woman was believed to be a witch. Several other cases are reported, The Indian docte charged with mury is lodged In jall at Sitka, - Popular music at Courtland beach, e When Baby was slok, \ve gave her Castorla, When she was & Child, she cried for Jastoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, \7hen sho had Children, sho gave them C wtorie