Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 17, 1894, Page 12

B 1 W “ 12 THE OMAHA DAILY, BEE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1894. PULSEOF WESTERNPROGRESS Phenomenal Ebowing of an Ore £treak in the Pike's Peak Mine, ONE SAMFLE RUNS NEARLY HALF GOLD What Irrigation s Doing for New Mexico enn In Washington—New Gold Fields in ldaho—Gencral West- ern News, L. McCrosky of the Pike's Peak mine at Cripple Creep has had four pays made by J. P. Staats from a narrow streak of ore in the sccond level. The re- turne were wonderful. No. 1 gave 20.10 ounces of gold to the ton; No. 2 gave 364.45 ounces; No. 3, 144.40 0 and No. 4, 12,1 punces to the ton. The values of these assays are $403, $7,280, $2,288 and $246,040 respect- dvely. The Pike's Peak has more ore in sight now than ever before in the history of the min ays a special to the Denver Republican he Portland people bave opwmed up a veln on thelr White Hawk property, the ore from hich exceeds fn value anything heretcfora ound In this consolidation, Six' feet from the surface they now have out eighteen sacks Pf quartz, a twenty-five pound sample from which returned a value of $17,208 to the ton. In the Globe claim, one of the properties 6t the Summit Mining company, an enormous body of ore has been opened in the last four flays. Nothing in camp equals it in size; in fagt, its width and length are not yet known, but along the vein, if there is a vein, it has een opened for a distince of about 100 feet nd & crosscut twenty-five feet long is still in ore. The top deposit is covered with a black loam, not to exceed twelve inches in @epth. The quartz pans freely and assays from $16 15 $20 a ton, the last figure being bn what app 8 to be yellow sand, but hich Is in reality decomposed quartz. It 8 the intention of the manager to at once ot plows and scrapers and remove the dirt rom the in and then quarry out the ore. A man by the name of Campbell has a fraction about half way up the south side t Mineral hill, which he is developing by n open cut. So far, ) has not cut the ein, or If so, it is badly broken up, but for all that, about every other plece of rock e throws out contains free gold that is wisible to the naked eye. In the Lucky Queen the other day, located only a few hundred feet north of the post- office, the vein widened out to four feet in ® drift that §s belng run from the bottom of the shaft eighty-five feet from the surface. Wn assay had on a large-sized sample re- turned a value of $25 in gold to the ton. The Quartz pans beautifully and the rock would appear to be free milling. A shaft on this property was put down seventy feet before the vein was found, but since that time th PFé has constantly improved in grade. IRRIGATION IN NEW MEXICO. *The Pecos Irrigation and Improvement Company has over 132 miles of main ditches wnd 1,200 miles of laterals,” said a delegate Bt the recent irrigation convention at Den- yer, “It Is the largest modern system of Arrigation in existence. We have in addition Ahe most anclent system, that used by the matives long before modern civilization pos- messed the country. The Pecos em cost $3,000,000, and it has created of what was five years ago a wilderness a veritable gar- den, and been the m of the bullding of Awo cities, of from 7,000 to 8,000 inhabitants, mnd 182 miles of raillroad and_telegraph Mhousands of acres of land in New Mexico are under cultivation, and over one-half a million acres under ditch. ;. ‘'Ot our ancient system of Irrlgullun, the ntire Rio Grande valley, 400 miles long, and he Chama river valley, 100 miles long, Which were settled by the Pueblos for many hundred years, and by the Spaniards for the past 200 or 300 years, are samples, and from these rivers many miles of laterals ex- tend. “With the exception of small portions (f and in the mountainous regions, called by tthe natives temporales, everything is raised through irrigation. The storage system is the one in use generally, and storage reser- woirs dot the country. The rainfall in ths mountains of New Mexico is sufficient, ir saved, to irrigate 1,000,000 acres more than the estimates show need it. #Our people are mot in favor of the out Bnd out cession of the arid lands to the states d territories. We want the title to thesa nds to remain in the general government until the actual setfler acquires title, but, at the same time, wé want the aid cf the gen- eral government to construct reservoirs and make a general topographical survey of New Mexico, with a epecial view to locating res- ervoirs in the mountains and on the plain We want the forests protected and such lards placed about the acquisition of these nds as will guard against fraud. #We also want the next irrigation congress U Albuquerque. 1f it s held there we will as- tonish the people who attend it with the siz> and quality of the fruits and other products of the country. We will also show them the :Ild and the new civilization and how they ve dovetalled In to make a prosperous coun- "r.y TO RECLAIM THE DESERT. fAn frrigation project of the greatest im- fortance to that part of Utah sometimes m:lufl “The Desert” is on the eve of being nched. In brief, the waters of Green Fiver arc to be taken out of their natural bed mnd made to bring the lands of Gunnison malley under the dominion of the horticultur- The head of the Gunnison valley is twelve niles north of Green River station (Blake toffice), on the line of the Rio Grande ‘estern rallway, says the Salt Lake Tribune, lying east of the river and still north of o rallway are about 10,000 acres of land hat have been pronounced by the best horti- ‘mlun-ll authorities as being better adapted the requirements of the fruit grower than any other portion of the undeveloped west. ffhe winters on this part of “The Desert" are eclally mild, regardless of the fact that e altitude 1s in the neighborhod of B000 feet above the sea level, and the lmited area of land t has' be'n brought under cultivation by primitive irri- gun. means _under the high bench lands inging the Green river, has demonstrated hat the region Is not inferior to the famous Grande valley, where the inhabitants give ®n annual peach festival in order to get rid o1 their surplus. The canal will be twelve miles in length, #nd near its head will pierce Gunnison butte with two short tunnels. The first proposi ton s to bring Gunnison valley proper un- der water, but near the line of the railway another ridge will have to be tunneled, and After that is accomplished, 50,000 acres of the fand lylng east of the Green river and south ©of the railway will be brought under culti- yation. BIG VEIN OF GALENA. "The recent discovery of a rich vein of min ¥ral near the town of Frultland, in this gounty, says a C.lville, Wash., specfal to the Macoma Ledger, has caused some stir in min- Ang circles for the past few weeks, but there §8 now great excitement over the development 0t & twenty-foot veln of galena in the Cleve- fand claim, which was located about two eeks ago. The ore is In a well-defined vein, nd can be traced across the country fir mearly five miles. At the point of develop- ment there 18 four feet of lead ore, sprinkled th sulphurets of lead, that will assay an mverage of over 100 ounces of silver to the gon. Besides the value of the ore in the lead ind silver there is a gocd showing of gold tles living at the town of Davenport, in ooln county, made the first discov- s in the camp, and now own controlling interest in the Cleveland ine. The report of the discovery was so attering that Humbert Lang, agent for the ""H“'"é".‘ and Lesd company of San 0, Cal,, Who wes kane, gon- u..a'.i'fi inspect the i«w H‘;.nn, and Was po well pleased wllh the ‘pircapects for a large utput that he [s negotiating for the ore to shipped fo his smelters. The ores will jAve to be hauled over a wagon road for a lstance of about twenty-five miles to Spriv jale, on the Spokane & Northern railway, he mearest rallroad peoint, and thence la Spokana to the coast. The Frultland dis- fet has long been known to abosad In min- 1s, and claims have been worked steadily that camp for the past ten years, but with great prospect, for @ Fich strike until very tly. 'Walter . Johbsia Wil known prospéctor Dbt in- the Metaline eountry for the purpose of Inspecting the placer mines of the camp during the past two months, came In over the new wagon road this week. Mr. Jones says that the placers on the east side of the Pind d'Orellle river are very rich in gold, Especially is this true of Sullivan creek, which runs in from the Idaho line on the west side of the state. On this criek the bars are high and about eighly feet deep. He exhibited a small phial containing about $4 in coarse, flaky gold, which he took from the sand and gravel of the Bullvan creek bars with a pan. The gold was the result of less than half a day's work. Most of the bars on the west gide of the riyer have been claimed and worked with rockers, because th were handy to wat but the bars Oh the east side have been neglected on account of the difficulty of getting water (o a conven- fent height to work the placers without great expens RICH STRIKE IN MONTA Parties from Rock creek report that there & considerable excitement over scme recent discoveries made in that section, Recck ereek comes into the Hellgate about twenty miles east of this eity, ys Missoula special to the Helena Indepe ndent. Honita {s the near- et station on the Northern Pacific and the mines are located twenty miles from the mouth of the river. The ciuntry has been known to ccntain gold for many years. Wel- come gulch, one of the tributiries of Rock creek, was worked extensively during the rly days of placer mining in Montana, but was never classed as one of the rich gulches. It has also been worked for a number of years by Chinamen and more or less continucusly during recent years by white men, with onl moderate success. The fmew quartz finds are near Welcome. guleh.. The discov ery that has attracted attention to the dis trict was made by two Swedes who were not familiar with mining. The ore assayed from $500 to $1,000 in gold, and some very hand- some specimens of gold quartz have been ob- ned. Phillipsburg ties have secured a bond on the property for $30,000, paying $1,500 of the purchase money down. The; are working about twenty-five men. A num- ber of prospectors from Phillipsburg and other points have rushed in and there are now about 200 men in the camp A large number of locatiol have been made, some of which are sald to be good prospects. The present indications are that there wiil be a rush into the camp this fall GOLD FORK OF THE PAYETTE. A Boise mining man, who spent the sum- mer in the upper Payette country and vicin- , has just returned and gives an interest- ing account of his trip in the Boise States- man. He says parties representing east.rn capital are making an examination of placer ground on what is known as the Gold fork of the F ette, The old C.peland diggings, which profluced over $100,000, are located in that section. The eastern men had located 2,500 acres of ground, and were looking for more when the Boise man left. They told him they were more than pleased with the ground, and, if sufficlent grade could be se- red, a bedrock flume would be constructed. This section received a black ey several years ago by the operati of a ras ally so- called expert, who spent all the money he could obtain from the men he represented and then deserted then The richness of the placers again attracted attention n-t long ago, and it is expected a large amount of gold will be taken out, Three partics placer creek, near the Payette ounces of gold as the result of the season's work. The gravel there was Jow grade, Lut there was plenty of it, and 1n abundance of water. Two men working on lewer Boulder, near the old China diggings, were tuking out some nice gold. They expected to clean up at least eighty ounces for their six weeks' labor, A number. of prospectors were operating at the head of the middle fork of the Welser. A mica lode of great promise lias been dis- covered there by Welser parties. 1t was, he sald, free from iron at the surface, and, if no iron put in an appearance further down, the discoverers had a small, fortune. The premium recently placed onXmica by the government greatly increaseds the vaiue of the find. The sheets were from four to ten inches square. An examination of the Horse Shoe Bend coal discoveries satisfled the Bolse men that that propcsition was worth looking into. The Union Pacific had been investigating the matter and the company's experts expressed themselves as being more than pleased with the result of their researches, An analysis of the coal showed it contained 1.22 per cent mora combustible matter than the Union Pacific c'al standard requires. The analysis made was as follow! Moisture ..... Volatile combustible ........... Fixed carbon . o Ash . v..“.,ll.flh Coal ||nr\ nlflu lwcn discovered on Big creek, in Long valley. The pick and shovel tourist brought some nice specimens in with him. THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY. The international _ bounda expedition which for two seasons has been lccating the boundary line befween Alaska and the Cana- dian- territory has completed its field work and returned home to disband. The Ameri- can part of the expedition returned to Puget sound on the United States steamers Patter- son and Hassler, and is now practically dis- banded, most of the officers having left for Washington and the main body of men hav. ing received their pay and gone their several vays. The season's work has been most suc- ful, says the Portland Oregonian, and the pedition is home a full month ahead of time, having been gone almost four months to a day. There were five distinct working parties that formed the American portion of the expedition. Among other things the ex- pedition determined the altitude of Mount Logan, which was discovered on a trip made in 1892, This year the altitude was checked and found to be 19,5600 feet, which places Mount Logan at the head of the list of high mountains In North America. St. Elias, which stands In front of Mount Logan, was considered the highest, save Mount Orajaba, which is checked at 18,314 feet, Mount St. Elias at 18,090 feet. Mount Logan is on Canadian soil, and is a triple cone, the three averaging over 19,000 feet. The work was trigonometrical, as the mountain is probably insurmountable and always will be, The work of the Canadian expedition this year has been exploratory, and was .con- ducted by six parties. All the scientific work, exact measurements, astronomical, ete., has been done by the American party. Beginning at the south boundary bctween British Columbia and Alaska, the fixed boundary line between the Alaskan peninsula and the Canadian territory to the east of it is to follow the summit of the mountain range, or to be tem marine leagues from the coast for a long distance, until hen in the vicinity of Mount St. Ellas the Ine runs north along an estadlished and fixed meridian of longitude. “ount St. Biias fs the turning point of this boundary lne, (bat ig, will form the angle. The mountain will probably fall in Canadian terr!* . A NARCOTIC GRASS. Over in Lincoln county, New Mexico, there Is a p liar kind of grass, known as sleepy [ It has the property of putting to sleep any animal that cats it. Sleepy glass Is grown among other grass and is eaten by all kinds of stock readily. Its existence was unknown for years after settlements had been made In Lincoln county, Stockmen and others noticed that animals would sometimes stand motionless for an hour or two at a time, but it never occurred to them that the cause of this apparent resting was a distinct grass, The discovery was finally made, says a Silver City special to the Minuneapolis Trib- une, by one of a party of travelers going from San Antonio, a small station on the Atehison, Topeka Santa Fe rallroad, near Socorro, to the Pecos valley, in Lincoln county, The trip Is a long one, and a por- tion of it is over some of the roughest coun- try in New Mexico. Water |s not plentiful along the roite, and for miles there is hardly grass enough to feed a jack rabbit, while on other portions of the route there is a rank growth of grass. It was In one of these fertile places, a veritable oasis in the desert, that the dis- covery of sleepy grass was made, The party halted about noon for luncheon apd thg {gam was unhitched and picketed out to gum- for an hour or so, The horj pgnced eating with a will, for they wm? , and there is no more tempting grass to a horse's ap- petite than the black gramma which is to be found in nearly all parts of New Mexlico. They fed for a few moments and then sud- denly stopped, and, holding thelr heads about on a level with their shoulders, stood as notionless as if they were carved of stone. This behavior was not in accordance with the ideas of one of the party as (0 what hungry horses ought to do. He went to where the horses were standing and found them fast asleep. On speaking to them in @ loud tone, both woke, and commenced eating as if nothing \ad Lappened. They had eatan only a few mining on Boulder lakes, cleaned up 1 when both were sonad dsléep They were aroused, but fell asleep as before. By this time the remainder of the party had become Interested. The horses were awakened several times, oaly to fall asleep after each successive arousing. None of the party had evsr seen horses act 8o, and all agreed that something they had eaten had caused them to sieep. Each of the party began a search, and the plant which is known in Lincoln county as sieepy grass was discovered The story ,was re- lated by the travelers to an official of Lin- coln county, and since that timg the effect M this grass on animals has been observed by many persons, Sleep? kus Is found In several localities in Lincoln county, but has never been re- ported In any other part of New Mexico. Whether, like the poppy, It contains oplum, or whether Its sleep-producing property is due to some other substance, has not Deen determined. UNWELCOME GOLD. A queer state of affairs is puzzling Lincoln county farmers, says the Spokane Chronicle, The plats of four townships on the banks of the Columbia are about ready for settlers to file their claims. But from present indica- tions some of the farmers will need a special dispensation from Hoke Smith before they can get any title to their land. All along the rivet bank are gravel bars where placer mining has been going cn for many yea At present a few white men and many Chi- namen are employed in this way. A little higher up on the banks are the farmers' homes, Some of the settlers have lived there for many years, and have valuable improved farms and extensive orchards, valued at $150 to $300 per acre. The orchards, as a rule, are close to the river bank, and in some ca: the placer miners are reported to be was gold under the very shadcw of the apple trees, The trouble s that when a farmer locates a homestead he must swear that no part of any of its “legal sub- divisions” is valuable for mining purposes, Just how the Lincoln county men will man- afe when Chinamen are washing gold on their land Is a puzzle. If they could compel the miners to prove up and patent their land that would set off the gold ground in sepa ate “legal subdivisions.”” But this would require $500 worth of development work on each mining claim, and the miners say they would gain no real advantage by it. It is probable the Interior department will be peti- tioned to send an agent to make a special examination, determine which is mineral and which is agricultural land, and run a special survey, thus forming new legal subdivisions. Then the farmers can file their claims. IDAHO BONANZAS, Perhaps one of the richest gold ledges ever opened up in Idaho is located in the Willow creek district, says the Boise Statesman. It is at present held by D. B. Levan of Cald- well, but in view of the fact that he relo- cated it and that the development he has done has shown it to be of such great value, there will likely be a bitter legal fight be- fore the ownership question is settled. The ledge, which is a decomposed formation, has been uncovered for a distance of 300 feet and its average width has been found to be two and one-half feet. A shaft sunk ten or twelve feet fails to show any falling off in the value of the ore. Mr. Cox states that chunks of the ore were taken indiscriminately from the ledge and pounded up in a small hand mortar. In seven hours §7 in gold was cleaned up by this method. Mr. Cox says the ore will assay between §$1,500 and $2,000 a ton. Experts have pronounced the ledge one of the most remarkable they ever encountered. Mr. Cox and his brother have been work- ing an arastra nearly all summer. They cleaned up $23 to the ton, but are satisfied they only saved about one-quarter of the gold. o Harry Cox and R. Rigdon have the tun- nel on the Owl run 200 feet and expect to strike the ledge in a few days. .Some of the ore picked from the surface was es- sayed, returning $2,600 a ton gold and $500 silver. Mr. Cox states the Willow creek district will shortly have a five-stamp mill (n operas tion. The mill has been ordered by Mr. Carter and will soon arrive A move is on foot to consolidate all the principal claims in the district and sell them to San Francisco capitalists. About thirty claims are in the proposed deal. SOURCE OF THE MISSOURL Since the time when Lewis and Clarke ascended the Missour] river in a rowboat, oc- cupying the better part of the years 1801-2-3, equipped by the United States government for the purpose of exploring the country along and at the source of the Missouri river, the stream has become familiar as far as the head of navigation, Fort Benton, Mont. Be- yond that point it 1s comparatively unknown, writes a correspondent of the New York Post. The actual headwater of the Missouri, or what should be known as such had it beeri intelligently named, Is De Lacy's or Sho- shone lake in the National park. ~This lake, a considergble body of water, the source of the Madlson river and forms with the river the drainage outlet for most of the wa of that portion of the National park Gallatin, or left source of the Missouri, formed by two streams, the East and We Gallatin, which unite about a mile above its junction’ with the Missouri. The Madison and the Gallatin are both somewhat smaller than the Jefferson. Had Lewis and Clarke as- cended the Madison instead of the Jefferson, which, being the larger stream, they naturally mistook for the continuation of the Missouri, they would have dis- covered the famous geysers in the Firehole basin, Shoshone lake, and all the country which fs now incorporat:d within the limits of the National park. The Big Hole and the Beaverhead rivers flow into the Jefferson at Twin Bridges, a few miles from the con- fluence of the Jefferson with the Missourl, so that in reality there are six considerable rivers, all joining one another within a radius of a few miles, which unite to form the longest river in the world, measured from the Gulf to the heart of the Rocky mountains. mouthfuls agaln. ng NEBRASKA, Pawnee county wants a new jail. Willlam Barker's house and barn at Craw- ford have been destroyed by fire, Emerson has formed a new camp of the Modern Woodmen with a membership of twenty. Osceola Presbyterians gave Rev. Van Gefson a “farewell reception” on his leaving for his new fleld of labor. Bishop Scannell of Omaha will assist in the dedication of the new Roman Catholic church at Humphrey next Thursday. Rev. C. Sandquist of Oakland was made the victim of sneak thieves to the extent of $55 in cash and a draft for §200. Ponca’s new steam flouring mill will be completed by November 1. It will have a capacity of seventy-five barrels a day. A farmer in Colfax county reports two and a f tons of hay from-about fifteen acres. The crop is very short throughout the county. John Houghnon, a farmer living near Cambridge, was killed by lightning while ariving his cattle home In the evening. He was a native of Germany. Garfleld county commissioners have issued a call for a special election to vote bonds for the Burwell Irrigation company, the elec- tion to be held October 11. Annie Murrey, a colored girl at Crawford, teok a dose of laudanum for the purpose of working on the sympathies of her lover. She was none the worse, nor is he. In Buftalo county $3,000 had been pald for gopher scalps this year up to September 1. They are being brought in fast every day and 1t looks as if every man and boy in the county had gone in to th: business. A cook at the Hotel Smith in Ponca broke an egg and seeing that it looked dark threw it into a pail of slops. 'he next morning he found @ young chicken elive and well in the pail where he had thrown the egg the evening before. Neal Nyc of Wayne county from severe injuries caused by under 4 mass of lumber that wagon he was driving when the by the taljing of o bridge. One feg weére broken. Rev. A. D, is suffering being burled tell from a wagon upset arm and one Hoopingarner has been con- dueting reyival meetings at Plamview Owing to the rush of candidates for con- vemsion the eetings were moved from the Methodist church to the opera house and were continued longer than was originally intended, THE DAKOTAS. The new flour mill at Hurl'y Is completed. 1t will have a capacity for barrels a day A remarkable freak of nature is pre {n"a Siberian crabapple tree growing Harding's orchard on Ingleside, seld ever, known to oceur, says the Black Hills Times. The tree has been a prolific bearer for teveral years vast. hui this s alm; fie: is trylng to surpass all previous records by bringing torth two crops. Fully developed fruit and blossoms are now to be seen on the same tree. Prellminary work has been started on the rivér improvements of the Upper Missourl at Plerre, for which an appropriationof $40, 000 has been secured. The prooeedings instituted by Smith town- ship at Kimball to stop the putting down of the arteslan well are only to test the legal- ity of the petition which was presented to the county board asking for the well, Qwing to the pany cglls for frex train sérvice Which have been Ma Northern Pagific railroad and the urgent demand for the same, thé company has de- elded to put a new train schedule into ef- fect In North Dakota and materlally in- crease the service. Practically all crops are a failure this year in the section of the state east of the Miseouri river, with but few exceptions. In many localities wheat is being shipped in for feed and in the southwestern counties bordering on the Mfssouri river it is used to fatten hogs for spring market. The Union county fair, which s to be held at Elk Point Séptember 18, 19, 20 and 21, promises to be oné of the greatest affairs of the kind ever Held in South Dakota. Two thousand dollars in premiums is offered for agricultural 4nd stock displays alone besides heavy purses for horse races, in which the entries are open to the world A novel feature will be the hound and jack rabbit races on the first day 8. G. Sheffeld, range manager of the Fly- ing V Cattle company, was in Sturgls re- cently and reported. that the grass on the range was curing in very fine and that cattle were doing remsrkabl: He also reports that the Texas fly, or, as the Texans call it, the Russian fly, is bothering cattle scmewhat cn the range, He says they oost at night on the horns of the cattle, massing together like bees, ready at sunrise to feed upon blood of the animals, A syndicate Is being formed at Grand Forks to dispose of the thousands cf tons of straw in the valley to farmers of South Dakota, Towa and Nebraska, whose stock is lizble to suffer for want of food during the coming winter. It is estimated that thr-ugh- out the Red river valley 500,000 tons of straw will be burned during the next sixty days unless some other disposition can be made of it. The scheme is to get this vast quantity under control of one body °f men as near as pessible and allow the farmers from the drouth stricken states to ship it to their homes or drive their stock here to feed. Sixty thous:nd shoats are expected here from Sioux Falls, 8. D., as the first in- stallment of live stock from that state. The display of garden vegetables and field products from T. A. White's irrigated farm at Huron attracted crowds of people from nelghboring towns. The exhibit reminded one of an agricultural fair, and indeed would outrival many displays oftcn seen on such -occasions, ~ Mr. White's sucsass has convinced & multitude of people who heretofore had little faith in arteslan wi for irrigation furpos that it cont properties highly essential to the rapid growth and early maturing of crops on soil in this part of the state. Mr. White showed fleld and garden products of marvelous growth not confined toa few varieties, but of almost every class of vegetables for market purposes and for winter storage, and all the staple field products. The display was nearly all disposed of at good pric a few melons welghing from forty to fifty pounds each, and cabbages from fifteen to twenty pounds each, brought extra prices. COLORADO. The demand for miners district exceeds the supply. The Caledonia mine, Cripple Creek, ing out very rich samples, assay $34,220 per ton. The Lone Star No. 2, Cripple Creek, developed rich ore. It is one of the An properties on Gold hill. The cyanide plant at Cripple Creek s Nandling thirty tons per day. Plans for en- ment are prepared. ery operated gold mine in San Mjguel county is on a paying basis. The list is being constantly increased. Now that the La Plata district has a mill in operation, the possibilities of the district will be gradually developed. The Summit mine, Cripple Creek, lifting sixty tons of milling ore It is handled at the'company’s mill. At Breckenridge the Jumbo mill is to be changed from & slow to a quick drop process. The mine 48 being developed. Work Is progressiug on the Nelson tun- nel at Creede. It fs in 1,500 feet and a contract has been let for another 100 feet. Kokomo district, where there is a large supply of iron ore, wants a hearing at the hands of the Denver & Gulf management. The new strike in the Anaconda, at Crip- ple Creek, is £aid to be the best thus far made”in the mine. In a two-fe:t vein it averages $190 per ton, In the Alma district, Park county, a single ten-stamp mill has produced $20,000 in gold during the past year. The supply of o has not been regular, owing to want of tem in working the mines There are ninaty stamps dropping in Ophir camp, San. Miguel county, and its weekly contribution” to the Denver branch mint exceeds 600-ounc:e in gold. There is are enough in sight for 200 mere stamp Goose Creek district s now getting to the front with good properties and pros- pectors can be assured of good finds yet waiting for them in this section. There will be several constant shippers from this time on and the output of gold from this camp will, we predict, be large for the rest of the year. A rich strike was made in the Pittsburg claim in Poverty gulch, near Dubois, which being assayed showed 16 2-3 ounces in gold, 135 ounces in silver and 5 per cent copper to the ton. This is a claim just north of the now famous Crown Foint lode and is being developed by a Montrose company. Upon the heels of this rich strike comes a still richer one near the Pittsburg of 100 ounces in gold. Among the projected fmprovements in the way of ore treatment is a concentration plant for Nevada district, Gilpin county. It is proposed to pipe water from Fall river, by way of Chase gulch, and to extend the tram- way track about two miles so that coal can be hauled to the pumping station, thus re- ducing expenses. Under this plan the rail- road haul would be saved on the concentra- tion material, and only the concentrates would need to be shipped. Fall river affords an abundant supply of water, which ecould be conveyed to the mill in an eight-inch pipe, ased 0 the in the Telluride s turn- some of . which has conda is now per day. OREGON. There are two or three fig trees in the vi- cinity of Newberg, one of which has borne fruit the past two years. Isaac Banta has returned to' Albany from a trip to the Big Bend country, Wash., where he put to work seven of his g:1d-saving ma- chines, There diers’ are fifty-one Inmates of home in Roseburg. The years, the youngest 50 years; the average 62 years. About half the men receive pen- slons, but no one is admitted who receives over $12 a month. The Baker City Democrat learns that work on the Clear lake canal is being pushed rap- idly. About 150 men and forty teams are at work steadily. The canal will be elghteen feet wide on top, twelve fect on the bottom and four feet deep. Down on Red Prairie a horse stepped on the toe of a little son of Kobert Bell, com- pletely severing the toe from the foot. The little “fellow picked the toe up, carried it to his mother and coolly told heér he would not wear a hoe on that toe any mor Captain Whitcomb will commence carry- Ing rock to Fort Stevens and work will start up on the Columbia river jetty. About 100 men will be employed all winter. The Men- dal has been overhauled and repaired and Captain Brown will'¢ommence making daily trips between Astoria and the jetty, Robert Steel, mear Airlie, Polk county, raised this season 4,000 bushels of barley on thirty acres of ground, or 133 bushels per acre. The grain was so heavy that but half & swath could bércut at a round, and two weeks were spemtiin cutting the thirty-acre fw'd. The crop was grown on beaverdam land, At Middleton, Mamhill county, there is a vickle and sauerigant factory. The stockhold- ers are the neighboring farmers, who ralse cacumbers and kabbage for the business. The rteck subsch!b'd was $5.000, and half of ‘this went for ergine and fixtures. The main baddiug 1s 6050, besides the engine room-and eooper #h6p. There are forty-six acres in eccomubrss Plok has just com- King mensad, wi fisths employment to the the Sol- oldest 1s 86 There are those whe think e ded can not buy clothing any cheaper than another—that if he produces a suit identical- ly the same, or that it's a bait. that there are shrewd buyers of apparently, for less money than another, there must be something wrong with it—it's not as good cloth or it's But There are those who know not made as well that suchis not the case, for they know clothing who do not rush into the clothing markets when the clothing makers have just produced their new things and ask fancy prices “bloods” to or so until the manufacturer willing his hands. Then it is That those w same linings—the very the same—not a particle for are same buttons differenc—except ho buv last ~colors just the the first choice, but wait a month supplied, when they drop in to find the make great inducements to take his stock off . lay in the same iden- tica -the very same—cloth just l“()l')( Is PI‘hG )l’l(‘c_ and [l]élt’S SO lO\V that he who waits 1s able to se// his suits for what his “blooded neighbor” /)(m/ for his—and he makes nearly as much profit, too. This .11)pllc< to Onir Pive Deollar Sack Sujt=bon=icti talk lately. got the first pick— breaste weqring them now. The “blood” has to sell his has been so much for fifteen dollars—because he but we waited a little, and we are paralyzing the natives with it at five dollars—six different shades —sing g ay the five or si: It's no bait, but we have them as long as you come le hundr or double ed who are ill sell you one or a hundred at five dollars. Our Eight Dollar Clay Dl et o R Worsted—t away, regent cut—was bought after the “first choicers” had been suppl]cd,:md the maker was desirous of turning his stock into money. Selling it at eight dollars as we do, we don’t lose anything on it—bhut at the same time we give it to you for ten dollars less than you pay the <blooded dealer” who pays more for the same identical suit than you do. The M. H. Cook Clothing Co,, Successors to COlumbia Clothing CO., young people of the neighborhood. The bar- rels and kegs are made in the cooper shop and the timber cut in the immediate nelgh- borhood. An employe of Bennett's mill, at the head of Washington gulch, Baker county, had a narrow escape from death in a tussle with a black bear. The man had emptied his Winchester three times into the body of his bearship, when bruin turned on his assail- ant, and would have Killed him had not a trusty knife come into hasty relief. As it was. however, the man was severely bitten in the groin. A United States prisoner, Parker, now in- carcerated in the state penitentiary, has lately completed a beautiful center table for Mr. Dickey, the top of which Is made of Oregon woods. The diameter of the top is twen'y inches, and it is formed of 4,000 piec Parker is a fine cabinet worker, and was an employe of the Pullman car shops for about te years. He is aged 68 years, and was \tenced to a two-year term. WYOMING A fins vein of coal has been discovered on the Shoshone reservation. A new vein of coal has been near Lander and there is great there. It is reported that Ora Haley fs driving 1,000 head of cattle in from North park for shipment to the Omaha market. State Fish Commissioner Schnitger will gend 60,000 trout to Sheridan, and they will be put in the lakes of the Big Horn moun- tains. Jeft Dunbar, a tough citizen, has the town of Dixon in a state of terror. He claims to own the town and the citizens seem inclined to allow the claim The stage line between Rock Springs and Lander has been abandoned. The owners claim it has been operated at a loss from the start. As they gave bonds to run the line for at least six months a lawsult will probably follow. The Union Pacific passenger reports that the head of Green river, ming, about 110 milis north of Opal, 18 be- coming quite a popular resort for sports- men. The fishing and hunting is first-class all the way from Opal to National Park. In 1892 Wyoming had 1,141,472 head of sheep, which were valued at 70. Not- withstanding t the XIHKIIIM‘F n-|mrn-|l at the present time s over 350,000 head more than two years ago, the value Is given at $675,735 less then the smaller number were estimated to be worth. WASHINGTON, The Northern Pacific car shops at just reopened, have 1,000 application work. The profect to build a fine club house for the Tacoma Athletic club has been aban- doned for this year. The Seattle contributions to the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of those killed in_the Franklin coal mine already ex- ceeds $1,600. There are about fifty miners at the Sla Creek mines at the head of the Ruby; one party of five are washing decomposed quartz and are said to be getting over a pound of gold per day. Over 100 men and sixty teams are at work on the new irrigating ditch in Kittitas county There is bustle in the streets of Ellensburg. During the past forty days the postoffice business of the town has doubled Lincoln county commissioners will be pe- titioned for a bridge to be built in connection with Stevens county, over the Spokane river, several miles above Fort Spokane, for the benefit of a large body of settlers in the Prica valley country. The hay crop of the Colville sately stacked, 1s pronounced the fipest. ever f'“ in that section. Including 6,000 {ons eft over from last year, the hay is a fine quality of timothy, and was saved without a drop of rain faliing upon it from the begin- ning of harvest until it was ail in the stack The first ore, outside of samples, shipped from Monte Cristo, has b n recelved at Everett. The shipment was to the Puget Sound Reduction company, and amounted to 120,000 pounds. The ore on the way bill is valued at $100 per ton. The ore Is poncen- trating, being of pure metal. It is from the Golden Cord mine, There Is a blg mining reglon coming into prominencs this year. This is the Chippewa district, lying between Elk City and Salmon river, and is now brought in touch with the worid Ly the new state discovered rejoicing department Wyo- ison, for valley, now which s 13th and Farnam Sts., Omaha, wagon road. It Is a sliver-lead countr huge ledges, giving better surface than the Coeur d'Alenes did, but entirely un developed. If it fulfills its promises it will yet become one of Spokane's grandest tribu- tarie W. H. Kearney, who was the original dis- coverer of the Old Dominion mine, near Col- ville, ‘ten years ago, and from which he de- rived a neat little fortune, has purchased and is now developing the Sugar L the Mission, in Stevens county Loaf is a free milling gold proposition and will run $70 to the t:n in gold on a four- teen-inch vein MISCELLANEOUS. Chinese are invading California fruit farm- ing. Coal has been recently discovered on creek near Creighton, Idaho. It is estimated that the cattle from eastern Montana will aggregate head during September, The forly-sevin and one half-pound melon raised in the penitentiary garden is on ex- hibition at Boise, Idaho The Indians of Fort Hall reservation in Idaho are becoming hostile to white settlers in their vicinty and trouble is feared Colonel Bryan offered in Boise the other day to chip in $10,000 toward raising $100,000 to start an Owyhee railroad enterpri: The ‘Shecp mountain excitement is considerable talk in Nevada. The assays reported (o run from $180 to $1,000 per ton, and the find is directing much attention. Los Angeles is to have an “International Midwinter exposition,” after the the ome held in San Francisco, which begin the latter part of October and three months. The new railroad to go through Nevada is an extension of the Santa Fe. It gocs through Lincoln county. The state of Nevada owns the public lands in Lincoln county and has recently developed a large trade in them The Union Pacific is building a warehouse at Sonna and one at Beatty. These are the stations recently located on the branch be- tween Boise and One was named in honor of United Judge Beatty, while the other was christened after Boise's mayor. The DeLamar Nugget says a contract has been let for the completion of the ldaho tunnel in the Black Jack mine. This tunnel is now In 900 feet. It is proposed (o run it 1,000 feet further for the purpose of tapping the Black Jack down deep in the bowels of the earth. The fourth year of the Leland Stanford, jr., university has opened. Eight hundre and twenty-five students have already regis- tered, exclusive of about 100 post-graduat an increase of 150 over the number of stu- dents present last year. The fotal registra- tion for the year will exceed 1,200, Two miners have discovered and located a vein of coal up on the Weber river, about thirty-five miles from Wasatch, Utah. As yet they have only sunk a short distance on it, but far enough to show a seven-foot véin. The coal is of course soft at the pres- ent depth, but all the old miners think it will develop into a fine quality of hard coal Farmer George has found a ship's anchor measuring six feet long and somewhat differ- ent from the anchors used during the ni teenth oentury, on one-of the islands of the Platte river, two miles southwest of Brady island. It is suggested that it may hay been left behind by some of Brigham Young's expedition when crossing the desert, The first clearance of cotton this season has been made to & forelgn port at Galveston The Slerra line steamer Merria cleared for Liverpool with 6,100 bales of cotton, valued at 248. The entire cargo came from one compress in Houston, and was brought down from Houston in barges and loaded from them into the steamer In Bolivar Roads, with the exception of 1,200 bales, which were taken outside the bar. The date of the opening of the Nez reservation will be a great day for It will witncss the planting of some families in the state, says the ldaho World, and, in addition, thousands of others, con: stituting the overflow from the gathered erowd, will settle on other lands In this and Adjoining counties, Many people are already In the reservation looking over the lands goon to be opened for settlement. The old Plerce City wagon road, which up to this year has been since the '60s little better that a series of Indian trails, is now a well- traveled county road. It traverses the finest Elk shipments 140,000 will last Perces Idaho. 3,000 jon the manner of | the vation. Down toward considerable Jand has ‘been' leased from the Indians and is now in_grain and one can now sec fields of grain that cannot be excelled even in the Palousa country Charles F. Pettingill, one of the gold prospectors at Brown's Creek, Minn., has uncarthed, as he claims, a large lead of gold ore. The prospectors knew from dzift gold caught in the flume that there must bo a lead someywhere, and have diligently searched for it untll underneath a layer of black rock the ore was found. Mr. Pets tinglll says it will be taken to Minneapolig to be assayed, and that he is positive it is the richest ote ever struck in Minnesota. There is no telling how large the lead is, but it has already been traced 300 feet. The Seth Cook group of gold mines at Coulterville, Mariposa county, Cal., hag been s0ld to a company of Boston and Montana capitalists, for $100,000. The mines have been idle for twenly years. For several years before his death Cook had not worked them, owing to a lack*of good transporta- tion facilities, The purchasers Include Cook, a millionaire of Butte, Mont., A. Coram of Boston, who, with his as: s, owns forty-three mining properties at Butle and enormous reduction “works Missour! river. The purchasers of the Seth Cook mines intend to expend $650,~ 000 in thelr development, crecting a stamp mill and building a rallroad. “We do things somewhat differently in Mexico from the way they are done in your country,” said a Mexican engineer whe attended the irrigation congress at Denver. “In Mexico all irrigation Qitches are built by private expense, but under federal super vision. All the pians and specifications are drawn by the governm:nt and all questions of water rights are scttled by the govern- ment, the people 1o be benefited defraying the expense attach:d thereto. If there is any change to be made (n the ditches, if new laterals are to he put in, all is done By the government enginecrs, and a strict regard to the rights of the interested parties is observed by the authorities, The people know this and readily agree to this methad of adjust- ment, confident that their rights will b: pro tected.” lands on Lewiston B e the great cough and croup 18 In great demand. Poc twenty-five doses, only 25 Sold by druggl Shiloh's Cure, cure, tains Children love it. cents, Just Like Goorge. The tramp knocked scftly at door and ths nicest test the world met him, says the Detroit Free Press. He chuckled quietly, for he thought he had struck a snap that was going to be a regular bonanza fiud. “Beggin' your pardon, lidy, get a bite to eat here?' he asked, “Are you very hungry?” she like a mother. “Yes, lady.” You are out lady; 1 work since the the kitchen old lady in swe but can I humbly, responded cf work, I suppose?” have not done a lick of first day of June, Something in this statement made him chuckls again, but she did not hear him as she stepped to the cupboard to get a plece of ple. She came back and stood with it in her hand like a Lady Bountiful, and his mouth began to water. “And how long before ths with something in her tone him. “Lad: Good yard, one. 12" she that usked, crushed he gasped, “I canmot teil a lle. orning,” and he walked out of the and she tet the ple back for the next DAL Where Lightaing Is Most Destructive. £ The continued and careful obs:rvations which the meteorologlsts of the world have made during the past twenty years only serve to strengthen the remark made by the author of “Abdill's Thiory of Plectrio Storms,” iz, “‘that the majority of fatal and_destructive lghtnwg strokes occur in level, open country.” Trees, villages and thickly bullt up towns and cities, by their numercus projections apd thelr network of rails, wires, etc., seem to meutralize op scat- ter the electric forces, thereby protecting both the animate ahd inanimate from direct strokes of the geath-fealing fluid. g — Oregon Kidney Tea. cures backache. size, 26 cents, All druggists. 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