Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 20, 1894, Page 5

PULSE OF WESTERN PROGRESS Discovery of Rich Placers at Jackson's Hole, Wyoming. MANTI MINES hOT SO RICH AS SUPPOSED Big Minir Expected After Opening the Ulntah and Uncompahgre Reservas tie t National Trrigation Con- g ral Westorn News, Boom Jackson's Hole Is Just now having a mining boom that surprised the ‘“oldest inhabi- tants.” Since the divides became passable miners prospectore have been coming by the score and the woods are full of them, says a Cheyenne Leader correspondent A district has been formed with United States Commissioner Pettigrew recorder, and many clalms have been and are being taken dally. So far but two have been brought in, and one of those 1s a small prospector carried In on a jack from Ari- zonla, but it saves the dust In fine shape, and 15 being used to test the ground in various localitics, The other fs of Blackfoot (Idaho) make, of good capacity, and has been at work on Conant creek, where they claim 10 be taking an ounce per day to the man, anyway the parties are having a machine built with a capacity of handling 1,000 yards of gravel per day, which they will use in the sa I presume they are at least obtaining good pay. There old miners here from where, and all unite in predicting this coun- try becoming a great placer mining region. So far as testod the country yields from 60 cents to $2 and $3 per yard, and the entire surface of thoe earth, regardless of material, seems to yield pay. William Quinn, an old Black Hills miner, says that from the wide distribution of gold he expected to sex hundreds of machines at work in Jackson's Hole within another year, Barney Hughes, the original discoverer of Alder Gulch, in Montana, is here. He is old, but still hale and sound, and expects to strike It again Several of our own residents h machines for placer work, many have claims that show from 600 to 2,000 colors to the pan. Like all mining regions, we have our rich lost diggings, which many come to look for, guided by certain land- marks which the discoverer told about “‘just before going away and dying."” The herd of buffalo has makes our collection of animals fairly cor plete, 80 that now one can see in “‘the Hole about anything. Last year Mr. L-ek caught a pair of bear cubs, and in the fall one of them escaped. It was scen again the other day and treed by a couple of boys, but when one of them followed him up tie tree he showed fight, and the boys allowed him to still go with the chain attached. The way Leek and his partner caught the cubs did not trouble them much, either. They were driving along several miles from home with- out a gun, when they discovered the old one and cubs. They Immediately gave chase and soon treed the cubs, and one of them 8tood under the tree with a club and kept the cubs up and the mother away, while the other went away and returned with a Zun. and machines are every- ve ordered of whom arrived, which THE SALINA GOLD FIELD. After considerable delay work has been resumed on the new gold fields of Salina canyon. The Red Creek Mining company, with headquarters at Manti, has a man working in the black sand. The shipment of pannings from one and one-quarter tons did not bring very satisfactory returns, says a Mantl speelal to the Salt Lake Tri- bune, Assays showed that the sand carried &old, but not In paying quantities. One pe- cularity about the formation is that the 0ld 18 covered by a sort of asphalt, or lack wax. This coating must be removed by some acid process before the gold can be collected. The first assay gave $74.24 per ton and was made from a shot sack full of sand taken from difierent places now claimed by the Red Creek company. Pannings of 2,500 pounds of sand taken from one place gave less than $5 per tom Both of these sam- ples were taken from the grass roots. It is now the intentfon of the company to find bed-rock at different points and discover, it possible, where the first samples came from, The sand will have to be hauled down hill for a few hundred yards to ho treated by the cyanide or somo other process, where water is obtainable. If an assay of $20 per ton can be secured the company will prob- ably continue operations, In prospecting the ground a pecullar thnig was_discovered. Almost the entire ground sooms to have been worked at some time in the past. A wall surrounds the whole sand bed about three miles in length. This gives evidence of having been constructed for the purpose of working the sand by some pro- cess. While digging for bed-rock the pros- poctors found that the ground had been worked once. This fact gave credence to the story that a veritable old Spanish mine had boen discovered. One man claims to have found the ruins of an anclent smelter near the Red Creck camp. This placer ground, It Is sald, was located several years ago by some of the Utah pion- cers, They passed (hrough Mantl at night in order to prevent suspicion resting upon them, and tried to find the spot where an old miner had panned out some fine speci- mens of gold. The identical ground upon Which the Red Creek company now holds clalms fs sald to have been visited and panned. At that time there was much op- position to the opening of gold mines and the placer ficlds were deserted, A BOOM EXPECTED. Bert Seaboldt, the well known asphaltum operator of Fort Duchesne, who is spending a few days in the city, said to a Salt Lake Tribune representative’ that he believed a big Mmining boom would follow the opening of the Uintah and Uncompahgre reserva- tions. The best mining country in the Ulntah reservation, he says, extends west- ward for a distance of meventy-five miles from White Rock canyon, which is twenty- five miles north of Fort Duchesne, where it is believed silver, lead, copper end gold will be found in abundanco. With regard to the Uncompahgre reserva- tion Mr. Seaboldt says that, aside from the placer mines on Green river, +t runs prinel- pally to asphalt, and that these flelds, which extend for a long distance along the eastern side of the reservation, arc the largest in tho world. NATIONAL IRRIGATION. The following brief address in the Interost of the west Is being circulated Active preparations are being made for the next Natioual Irrigation congress, which meets in Denver September 3-10. Are the people of the far west capable of rising to a great opportunity? Shall history be made at Denver? These are questions that must be answercd now. No subject is of as great importance to so many people as {rrigation Practical illustration of the results of frri- gation In Colorado will be given those who attend tho congress, by means of a number of excursions, which will be run to the agricultural centers of the state, Lot every one who can do 85 attend this congress. Low rates will be made by the railroads. Information as to the arrangements for entertaining the delegates and others ecan be obtained of THOMAS L. SMITH, Secretary Local Committee. 11-12 Equitable Building, Denver, Colo. A RICH COPPER VEIN, fn & short time Custer county will be producing copper bullion. W. A. Clark, the great Montana mining man, has secured 51 per cent of tho stock of the Idaho Copper company, whose property s located near Huston, on Lost river, Frank Brown con- trolling the remainder and continuing as superintendent of the property. | A forty-ton smelter will b» running in about thirty days, says the Bolse Statesman, and If the results are as anticipated a great plant will be put In. The company has given orders for transportation of coke, and ls making every preparation for a run This copper vein Is sixty-five feet wide and is known as the Big Copper. There s sald to be enough good ore In sight to run a forty-ton smelter for two years. A shaft is to be sunk on the vein at once to the depth of 300 feet. In addition a tunn:l will be started on the other side of the hill follow- iug the veln In. This tunnel will be 3,000 teot long, and will open the veln at depth, The ore carries from §8 to §' sitver por ton, and some gold | SAN MIGUEL GOLD, | One of the easiest worked and highest grade gold and silver mines in San Miguel county, the Japan, is working in Savage basin. The ore from the Japan I8 now running over $150 per ton in gold and s says a special to the Denver News. On sido of the vein there ix a streak about Inches in width which is exceedingly high grade, carrying a large per cent of gold, while on the other Is a streak composed of na and brittle silver, and galena which is fully twelve inches in width, The first class ore 1s shipped to Denver and the second class is worked with jigs and runs $60 per ton ne F. J. Kramer, mining expert, has been em- ployed at the Tom Boy mine doing some underground surveying for the purpose of Inying out new ground for development work. The Tom Boy mill is running through from eighty to ninety tons of high grade gold ore every fwenty-four hours and will soon add as much more to its present capacity. Two of the latest fmproved Huntington mills will | be put in just as soon as they can be made. Pierce & Lee have just completed a large ore chute from the Warner mine to a bench below them which will be of great advantage to packers in loading thelr pack trains. They have also just completed a large and com- modious boarding house, ore house and bunk houre, eat | in | ne two BIG PROJECT. One of undertaken IRRIGATING the grandest irrigating in this state, says the Oregonian, is that of the Oregon Land, Irri- gation, Fuel and Lumber company, for the improvement of the Oak Grove, Juniper Flat and Wapanitia plains in Wasco county, com- prising 45,000 acres of valley land and about 15,000 acres of foothill land. The company, with a_capital stock of $500,000, is building a ditch thirty-six miles in length, to take wuter from Clear creek for the irrigation of this tract of country, and sections of the ditch, amounting in all to about twenty miles, are completed. About fifty teams and 125 men are employed on the work, and the force will soon L increased, The lands to be irrigated are in a valley surrounded by the Cascades, Mutton moun- tains and Tygh Ridge mountains, and lie between Tygh valley and the Warm Springs reservation. They are well adapted to grow- ing grain, hops and fruit. They can be reached from Portland in a day and a half by the low Pass road to Government camp, thence by the road running south across the range to the Oak Grove country, which is now the most traveled road across th wountains, over 1,000 teams having crossed on it last y . When the ditch is completed, logs and lumber can be rafted down it from the moun- tains at the head of Clear creek into the Des Chutes, and_so on down the Columbia to Portland. When a railroad 15 built across the Cascades by way of the Barlow pass it will tap that section of country. LUCK OF COCHETOPA. Thirty or forty out of the gold claims lo- cated at Cochetopa pan gold in large quan- the Saguache Cre nt. George is interested in the Craig-Gilbert claim, and he informs this office that a plece of ore taken from their dump, with no idea of getting a rich specimen, showed an _ as- say value of $02. The dump has since been picked over with a view to getting a general average of the ore, and if the value s by the first assay holds, the owners will egin shipping at once. With a big strike of gold at Biedell, a rich and increasing body of ore in Tuttle creek, with honey comb quartz rich in gold in Finley gulch, with rich copper ore in big bodies a few miles west of town, with Bo- nanza’s rich camp not far away and the newly discovered gold flelds near our west- ern border, what is the matter with Sagu- ache taking a big stride to the front this summer? The indications really seem to brighten. STRIKE IN THE NEW DEAL. Silver mountain is again coming to the front. The strike in the New Deal mine is creating a_general stampede for the moun- tain. Old claims that have lain idle are being restaked and worked, and quite a number of parties from a distance who have money are investigating the merits of the mountain, says a special to the Denver News. About twenty claims have been staked off this week, and once again the road is Qotted with teams hauling up supplies. The pay mineral is there, and all that is needed is a little money and lots of hard work to begin shipments. It is estimated that $10 ore, it found in any quantity, can be worked at a profit, as the cost to get it to market will not exceed $5 per ton. FREE MILLING GOLD. A most surprising strike of free milling gold ore was made in the Annie lode, fif- teen miles east of here, two weeks ago by the Fullenwider brothers, says a Mosca special to the Denver News. Nothing was said of the find until assays had been made with the astonishing result of $42,000 per ton. The gold is found in honey comb quartz, easily worked, almost crushing in the hand. Much of it is visible to the and is certainly a sight to see has been found in that vicinity for years. They have four feet of it in plain view, and are in only six feet. The greatest ex- citoment prevails here, and much ground is being staked today. ~ The find is a few miles ncrth of Mount Blanco, and in a dis- trict that promises wonderful things in the near future, schemes Portland naked eye, Rich float NEBRASKA. The Platte ccunty fair has been called off because of the fallure of crops. 0. B. Houghton, a well known banker of Hampton and a prominent Mason, is dead. An old settlers reunion and district fair is to be held at Bayard September 13 and 14 Frank T. Hawks has started the Progress at Orleans and will make it a republican paper. Elm Creek has voted $10,000 in bonds to build an irrigation canal. The bonds carried threo to one. A vicious horse kicked the 8-year-old son of W. H. Brown of Aurora in the head and fractured his skull. The Beatrice canning factory Is now run- ning full blast and will continue in opera- tion through the season. A band of five State university students has begun a series of union evangelical sery- fces in the Presbyterian church at Pawnee City H. M. Henry lost seventy-five tons of hay by fire on his land one mile east of Wayne. He says the hay was worth at least $8 a ton to him. As a result of overstudy, the 15-year-old son of George Lehman of Columbus has be- come violently insane. It is hoped that his mind will be restored by proper trealment. The G-year-old son of E. M. Brewer of Butte secured some matches. while his par- ents were away from home, and the result was that the house was burned. The boy escaped. Thomas Duncan, mayor of Indianola, has tssued a proclamation ordering all citizens of McCook suspected of being infected with tho smallpox to keep away from the city of Indianola. On Wedn lay morning the reopening of Catholic church at Auburn will take place, Rev. J. B. Fitzgerald, the first Cath- olic pastor of Auburn, will be the celebrant at high mass, A Santa Fe train struck a team at a eross- ing near Superlor and instantly killed one of the horse The driver, named Sullivan was so seriously Injured that it is feared he cannot recover. G. Jacobs of Superior nearly lost his life while trying to unload a bull from a stock car. The animal threw him to the ground and attempted to gore him, but spectators who were near at hand frove the animal away before fatal injuries had been inflicted Fifty dclegates atiended the Otoe county Sunday school convention at Talmage. Billy Sumner of Bayard does not like a rattlesnaks for & bedfellow. He was kill- Ing time on a hot Sunday afternoon by loung- ing when he discovered a large and vicious reptile on the bed with him. Billy's own account of the later events is given verbatim by the Bayard Transcript: “I left that bed in a ‘urry, y' kno', and grabbed a shovel, y' kno', with me ‘art a thumpin’, y' kno, but 1 ‘ad a ‘eap o' fun poundin’ the life h'out o hit, ¥* kno', " While Miss Nettle Hungate of Chadron was bathing in the waters of Bryant's lake sho went beyond her depth and sank. J. W Goud, who was in a boat near at hand, jumped into the water to rescue the girl, but as she rose to the surface she threw her | they | serted, it arms around his neck and prevented him | trom swimming. Both went to the bottom, | July 1. but just at the right time Mr. Bryant reached the drowning couple and rescued them from A watery grave, Every time a certaln woman goes to Lexington she straps a big six-shooter and a baelt full of cartridges around her walst. The cause for her thus arming herself has never been expiained to the public, and she has never been ar- rested for carrying concealed weapons, for she wears the shooting irons in plain sight What was at first thought to be a genuine ghost put In its appearance at the Dawson county jall the other night. Two guards were asleep In the jall at the time, and were rudely awakened by unearthly nolses proceeding from the corridor. Spring- ing from their downy couches and seizing shotguns and a lamp or two they proceeded to investigate, and found a table in the west room overturned and lying bottom-side up, with dishes, etc., scattered over the floor. No one had evidently been in_the room, and -two prisoners, Burke and Don- nelly, were securely locked in the fron cages adjoining. The prisoners had before claimed the place was haunted, and now, they as- was made manifest that ghosts walked abroad. The deputies could not unravel the mystery, but the next day Sheriff Hobson made a careful examination of the room and found a cord, with a nail curved in the shape of a hook attached to it fastened to a coal hod. The cord ran along the top of the room and ended inside the cage. And the spook business came to an abrupt end. The prisoners wanted to be placed in another room in the Jail with King, Thompson and Hilton, and in order to have their desire gratified, had adopted the spook scheme. They still occupy their old quarters, Dawson count THE DAKOTAS South Dakota pharmacists held their ninth annual session at Huron last woek. A contract has been let to Contractor Owens of Pierre for the construction of sev- eral additional buildings at the New Lower Brule agency at $28,400. The first cattle shipment, 100 head, was made from Pierre last week. The stock is in splendid condition. The estimate Is placed at the low figure of 20,000 head to be shipped from this place in the fall Letters from Captain Todd of the Castalia, belonging at Sioux City, which went to the upper river this spring, say that the boat is having a_good trade in addition to its government freight contract, and is securing full cargoes on every trip. It is running both ways from Bismarck to the military posts Land owners in Harmony township, Jer- auld county, have decided to sink two arte- sian wells an_experiment. County Com- missioner D. McDonald says he is heartily in favor of expending about $50,000 for artesian wells. People who a vear ago were against the scheme are now its earnest sup- porters. The removal of the county seat of Law- rence county from Deadwood reopened with a new petition to the county commissione asking an election to be called for the pur- pose of deciding whether the proposition will be signed by the people of the county or not. Much dissatisfaction is shown in both Deadwood and Lead City. The Indian appropriation bill has passed both houses and will at once go to the presi- dent. It ratifies the treaty made with the Yankton Indizns for cession of a part of their reservation, and settlers will soon be permitted to take up lands there. The ap- propriation for payment of damages to set- tlers evicted from the Crow Creek reserva- tion by executive order in 1885 was retained. Under the bill Indians are permited to lease their lands. Probate Judge Parliman of Sioux Falls has decided that the life insurance money now in_the hands of the executors of the J. G. C. Schlegel estate belongs wholly to the widow, and that the creditors have no claim whatsoever upon it. There are about twenty creditors, and they propose to carry the matter to the supreme court if necessary, to test the state law under which the widow has absolute claim to the life insurance money of her deceased husband. The first artesian well of a series of four contracted to be put down in Douglas county under the provisions of the artesian well law has been completed and was formally accepted from the contractors by the county commissioners. The well is located at the' head of Andeas creek, a water course with- out water except for a short time in the .spring, Is 937 feet deep, flows 900 gallons per minute with a temperature of 61 degre The suceessful completion of the well at this time means much. The water is already being drawn for miles in all directions by farmers for domestic purposes. The remain- ing three wells in other localities are to be pushed to completion as rapidly as possible. COLORADO. In Boulder county the Keystone mino has some ore worth $8,000 per ton. The Green mountain placers, Park county, will be worked very late this s:ason. About fifty men are at work in Low Pass district, Lake county, all mining gold ore. A vein of fres milling ore, about thirty inches in width, is reported in the Gold King mine, Cripple Creck. The Burcka mine, Tarryall, is producing $40 gold ore. It is concentrated at the Wells mill and shipped to the smelters. The gold output in Leadville district shows a steady incrense. When they pro- duce at all the flat veins are liberal. Cripple Creek is promised another chlor- ination plant. The works are to be built at Gillett and will cost about $40,000. Raven Hill, in the Cripple Creek district, looks forward to a pay roll of at least $20,- 000 per month in the next ninety days. The new Crawford mill on Left Hand creek, Boulder county, is credited with sav- ing 85 to 90 per cent of the value in the ore. Its capacity is ten tons per day. In the San Juan country the Pelican mine continues to output silver. The ore is high grade, averaging 286 ounces per ton. About 100 men are employed at the mine. The Bulldozer mine in the La Plata sec- tion has a new eighteen-inch streak which yields $200 gold to the ton. The ore Is treated at the Lewis mill, being hauled by burros. In Granite district the Monte Cristo mine reports a big strike. It is on iron quartz carrying free gold. The pay streak carries nearly nine ounces in gold,” while the vein matter runs from $12 to $16 per ton, Mr. E. T. Carr, represcntative of the Boulder Fruit Growers association, informs the Camera that the association has shipped 3,289 cases, of an average of twenty boxes 1o the crate, and realizing an average price of 20 cents a box, The potato flelds under the Larimer county ditch, says the Fort Collins Courier, have been watered in good shape and the water is now running into the reservoir, to be held for later irrigation of potatoes and alfalfa. Over 7,000,000 cublc feet of water every twenty-four hours is now flowing into the reservoir. A veln of copper ore at Cripple Creek was opened up 160 feet east of the Florence and Cripple Cre k depot. An assay returned 33 per cent copper and one-halfl ounce in gold. The discovery was visited by hu dreds of people. Everybody owning town property in the nefghborhood feel as though they were owners of a mine. According to the Cripple Creek Journal the Elkton Mining company will increase its active force of miners in another wee from fitty-elght to 150 men, and will in- crease its output in propogtion. The mine 1s now producing about twenty tons daily, of which from four to five tons are smelting ore, the remainder going to the mills. Word comes from Leadville that th Matchless mine, one of the original bonan- zas of Fryer hill, and the property of ex- Senator Tabor, Is about to be reopened. It closed down fourteen months ago, at the expiration of a 5,000-ton contract with one of the Denver smelters. The Leadville Herald-Democrat credits the Matchless with an immense reserve of iron, which can be mined to a profit. The shaft will be sunk 200 feet deeper and seventy men will be put to work. WYOMIN Sheridan Is to have a new court house. In one day recently 635 oil claims were filed In Natrona county. The fees amounted to $856.26. The state assoclation of Congregational churches will meet in Big Horn, Sheridan county, September 12 and 13, It is nothing for a Laramie fisherman to Ko out to me of the streams adjoining that city and secure 250 trout. No section of the state 18 more favored in this respect than Albany county. The whistle of the Unlon Pacific shops blew at Cheyenne for the first time since About twenty-five additional men | from Soda Springs, were put to work, making 120 employes all ' told In the shops. Eight hundred apd fifty head of cattlo dafio, are being branded the Swift comparly it North Park 8. P. Lidel, agent for the Lander, Transportation company, informs the sette that his company has shipped this country the pPAst two months pounds of weol. Of 'this amount pounds were shipped from the Lost country and 600,000 pounds from the pens on the Sweetwater. In addition to this 43,000 pounds were Shipped from the Sweet- water country via Rawlins, m.king in all a total output for Fremont county of 843,000 pounds. by Wy Ga from 800,000 00,000 Cabin OREGON. The Bandon woolen mill has started up Salem has spent $30,000 for bicy summeor, A hardwocd Coquille City. Quite a little osage orange hedge set out In Polk county this summer. A telephone and telegraph line Grant’s Pass and Crescent City profected It was decided at the Salem hop conven- tion to pay pickers 40 cents for nine-bushel boxes, Hop harvest will begin about Sep- tember Mr. Jewett of Sauvies island reports that he has sbout two miles of railroad and a turntable which came to his place during the flood. Mr. William Osborne, who has just re- turned from the vicinity of Mount Adams, says fully 100,000 sheep are pasturing there, They are in ‘excellent condition and grass 1s good. These flocks are owned In Oregon and Weshington. A good many fruit dryers are going up this summer near” Milton, and the bulk of the output hereafter wil be shipped dried. This seems to be tha best way of marketing fruit as a commercial product. Canned goods are a surplus everywhere, William Rudio and Walter Brown brought over a large amount of gold dust from the Fox valley mines and had it run into bars at the Canyon City assay office. Mr. Rudio approximates the output of gold from the placers and quartz mines of Fox valley this scason at about $15,000, The Coquille hay crop is enormous, break ing all records, Hay, if carefully handled and judiciously marketed, will be a godsend o its lucky owners this year. It is one of the crops whose price has mot gone down with overproduction. The California drouth is the chief element In the situation. Jim McLaughlin, “our Jim,” as the Gold Beach Gazette familiarly calls him, the champion diver and the boss yarn spinner and chinook seiner, has arrived in Crescent City, and will do the “submarine act” in searching the wreck recently fliscovered thero and which is supposed to be the Brother Jonathan. Jim will soon settle the question for the discovere J. N. Macy says, however, that the vessel found is one of the several schooners wrecked in that vicinity in early days. Macy was a whale hunter there in early days, and was at Crescent City when the Jonathan was wrecked, and is positive the Jonathan was farther off shore when wrecked. WASHINGTON. The number of children of school age in Clichalis county is 3,216, as against year. Chehalis county’s assessment will be about $6,250,000, a reduction of over 30 per cent from that of last year. ! Prof. C. V. Piper of the Pullman Agri- cultural college is investigating the tomato blight around North Yakima. There was a falling oft in raspberries, due to late frosts, and the Spokane trade has been supplicd mainly from Puyallup. J. W. Wade, who owns four fruit orchards near Olympia, has marketed in Tacoma and Seattle 3 pounds of cherrles this season. Willie Stevens, a half-breed boy, has been arrested at Port Townsend for burglary and arson. He is charged with having robbed a lodging house and then setting a fire in which cight buildings were consumed. There are 1,375 tons of steel in the whale- back City of Everett. When completed and ready to go to sea the vessel and outfit will weigh 2,000 tons. Her carrying capacity, exclusive of this immense weight, will be 4,700 tons. Farm laborers in western Washington are crossing the mountains by way of Cowlitz pass in considerable numbers. " The men go o foot and carry their food with them, there being no houses where they can obtain food in the wilds of the mountains. The Bellingham Bay road is hauling into Whatcom 700,000 feel of logs for flooring and decking, to be cut by the Port Blakely Mill company. That company has bought several rafts of logs from the lake which have proven eminently satisfactory. The Blue Canyon Coal company has hauled into Whatcom fifteen cars of coal to be placed in the bunkers ready for the revenue cutters under the company’'s new contract. The tunnel at the Blue Canyon mine has been driven 200 feet, and work is progressing at the rate of six feet per day. The tunnel when completed, in October, will be 770 feet long, and will enable the company to bring out the coal without hofsting. A curiosity has been added to the Walla Walla Statesman cabinet in the shape of an old beaver trap, which, it is claimed, was used by the Hudson Bay company over fifty years ago. It was found in the bed of the Yellowhawk creek by Mr. W. H. Colwell on Thursday, where it had been brought to view by the recent heavy floods. — Attached to it Is a heavy chain, the links of which have become solidly attached fogether by the cumulated rust of years. It Is of steel nd evidenty of home manufacture. ~When found it was set, but was sprung by a heavy blow with a hammer, MISCELLANEOUS. Reno, Nev., Is assertiug claims resort. Montana wool is selling for 12% cents at Great Falls. The first bale of California hops for this year has been shipped from Sacramento. The Chino Beet Sugar factory opened for the season's run. It will use 1,000 tons of beets per day. Steamboat navigation on the upper Mis- sour? has not been very lively this year, but the season has not entirely closed. The national guard of Montana in all probabllity will meet in regimental encamp- ment next month at Fort Bllis, near Boze- man. Osceola, Nev., has attracted attention from Denver and Salt Lake capitalists. The placer grounds make an excellent showing. Dry machines must be used. The Blue River Placer Mining company, just south of Dillon, is pushing work on its property. They are sinking a large sized shaft to bed rock in’the old channel of the Blue. Tho Postal telegraph line is now at Canon Diablo on the Atlantic and Pacific line and is being rapidly pushed westward. A branch line will be extended from Ash Fork to Pres- cott, and thence fin @l probability to Phoenix. The prune industry “is attracting atten- tion in Idaho. It fs/réported that in the Payette valley, whers the culture of prunes is one of the leading ifidustries, there are ranchers who have Miade as high as $1,000 an acre. ' o Two professional trappefs reported in Pres- cott lately that they hak last year scored a record of forty mountdin lions, They brought In with them g, this trip about 100 os this saw mill is being set up at s being between is belng a health UST 20, which dish tanned lynx skins, wolf skins, ete they have sold for rugs. Thoy use Sw bloodhounds in hunting A number of Great Falls, Mont men have formed a jolnt steek company to bulld & telephone line to points In the Ju dith basin. The expense of the undertaking I mated at about $10,000, and If this amount can be raised the work will be com menced gt once covered on the bench linds near Alpine north cf Prov As 18 usual in such cases the Alpine folks are said to be keeping the find secret until they have tested the value of gravel and located enough claims on bars business have been dis -— quickly reason the continaully this 18 the sapariila ar. Is “on top."” recognize morit, and sales of Hood's Sar- increasing. Hood's n——— - WASHINGTON MONUMENT. One of the Most Tmipressive Ob) n the World Marion Crawford reads a lecture to Amer- who deery the city of Washington and its society, in an article which he con- tributes to the August number of Century. As to the much discussed Ington monument, Mr. Crawford s | A famous living sculptor of ours has given | us his opinion in condemnation of the Wash- ington monument. It called the Obelisk, for the comparatively simple reason that it is one, just hey called Pet people said, because it was his nam With all due respect to the sculptor's right of judgment, which is unquestioned, we may differ with him and yet not brand ourselves barbarians. To the present writer it scems not too mueh to say that in a certain light the Obelisk is the most imposing s nple ob- Ject of great dimensions in the whole world. Doubtless when seen, as it always can be | seen by day, from a distance of two or three miles, ‘and’ from different parts of the city, cut off by a line of modern roofs pale sky, there is nothing remarl beautiful about it. It fs then but the top of an obelisk, and nothing more; a slender, | Straight line of stone visible in an uninter- esting atmosphere. Iiven then it can hardly be sald to be offensive, for it is too simple to offend. » 0 o it at cvening, when the sunset lights have faded and the full moon s rising, It is impossible not to see its by auty then. Ior some reason, not imme apparent, the white light Is not reflect:d from the lower half of it when the moon is not far above the horizon. The lines are all there, but the shaft is only a soft shadow below, { gradually growing clearer as it rises, and enduig in a blaze of silver against the dark sky. The enormous proportions are touched 1 with a profound mystery; the solidity of symbol disappears, the greatness of the thought remains, the unending vastness of the id=a Is overwhelming. Block upon block, line by line, is was built up with granite from many states, a union of many into one sim- ple whole, a true symbol of what we Ameri- cans are trying to make of ourselyes, of our country and of our beliefs. There is the solid foundation, proved and tried, which we know of and trust in. There is the dark and shadowy present, through which the grand, straight lines are felt rather than seen. And there, high in the still air, points the gleaming future, perfect at all points, bright at all points, lofty as all but heaven itself. There is the symbol. We may ask of our- | selves whether we are to overtake the hadows and reach the light, we or our chil- dren, or our childern's children; or whether the darkness will creep up with us always, and with them, for all ages to come, and even to the end. The Obellsk Is beautiful not only by moon- light, as any one may see who will take the trouble to ook at it with eyes human rather than critical—at evening, for instance, from the terrace of the capitol, when all the world is sinking foward its mighty plunge into darkness through the foam of the cloud breakers and the purple wash of night's rising tide; or at early morning, when the darkness | sinks back, and the first blust of day warms the pinnacle of the lonely shaft—as though it had stabbed night in the sky and drawn the sweet blood of daylight upon its point. Most notably is it beautiful at such times when seen with the whole city from the great military cemetery on the heights of Arling- ton, than which few points in the world com- mand a more lovely view. There in the quiet earth the solemn dead lie side by side, the many who fought for us when we were but their children, and who, for ours, will fight their immortal bat- tles again in the clouds lMke the warriors of old. Many of us have heroes of our own name and race lying there in the broad tree- hemmed meadows, and among the flowers, and in that chosen rank where the great generals lie, as they fought in the forefront of the enemy, facing not now enemies but friends, the deep, sweet valley with the quiet river at thelr feet. And far away, beside the airy dome of the capitol, the single shaft rises sunward, and tells in’ shadow-time for us, the living, the hours of the dead men’s cndless day. ts feans Wash- is sometimes Kidney Tea cures Trizl size, 23 cents. —— A TODDLER IN CONGRESS. A Baby all kidoey All druggists. Orogon wubles, 1 Visits the House and Calls on the Acting Speaker. Just after the house had been called to order the other day, says the Washington Post, & dark-haired baby girl toddled down the conter aisle. She was dressed in white, with & dainty muslin cap fastened down upon her pretty curls. he was a wee mite of a thing—so small that when she reached tho steps she sat down and slid trom step to step, for even the few inches' descent was beyond the reach of her short and chubby legs. At the head of the alsle she paused, looking about her in childish wonder. Then sho noticed Speaker Pro Tem Richardson sitting at the speaker's desk i all his glory, and with childish ambition she proceeded to climb up the broad platform until she stood by his side. FHer head scarcely reached “to the top of his desk, but she prattied away to him in baby fashion until he was compelled to turn away from her to follow the proceedings of the house. Then she half slid, half tumbled down again until she reached 'the group of pages, by whose side she sat down, spreading out her tiny skirts in true womanly fashion, Just at that moment a woman appeared at the main door of the house, frantically waving her arms toward the little one. A doorkeeper came up the aisle, took the little one's hand and asked her to go to her mother. “No, no,” said the baby. “But she has some candy for you,” sald the diplomatic if not altogether truthtul official, and without another word the youth- ful wanderer was led in triumph to the arms of her distracted parent. Oregon Kidney Tea cures backache. Trlal size, 26 cents. All druggists, Detroit Tribune: you!" “Hear me out,” he pleaded. 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