Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 8, 1894, Page 5

L, PULSEOF WESTERY PROCRESS Dolorade's Recent Acquisition a Gold Mine of Fabulous Veluo, MILLIONS OF TONS OF GOOD PAY ORE Pronounced the Greatest Deposit of - Pre- Motal on the Continent—Arizons pio Alarmed—Trouble Over a Kich Mine-Northwestern Nows. $. H. Baker, the trice fortunate discov- erer of the “‘Baker" contact, is authority for the prophecy that the golden era is about to ;]--'n in Colorado, says the Denver News. n bis statement of the value of the discovery, an account of which was recently reported in The Bee, he is corroborated by J. W. Pender, one of (he greatest experts upon mining In the world “The ‘Baker' contact,” ‘I8 the largest ore deposit that has been discovered on the American continent. No engineer can figure out how many tons there &re In that great bank of conglomerate, but at & low estimate there are 7,000,000 or 8,000,000 tons aver,ging $5 per ton.” Mr. Baker, the discoverer of the now noted contact, Is a tall, gray-haired gentle- man, 62 years of age. He is a lawyer by profession and came to Colorado twenty-two years ago. Fon twenty years he spent & large part of each summer prospecting in the mountains. October 3, 1593, will remain indelibly fastened in his memory, for upon that date he made the great discovery of his life. “Two years ago,” sald he, “I began an earnest scarch for the origin of the gold de- Posit in the San Juan river. Last summer, in company with & young man named Gra- ham, 1 traced the ‘float’ with pan, pick and shovel from the La Plata river up one of the side atreams and up the side of the Mountain to an altitude of 10,500 feet, where the contact Is located. The ore body lles exposed in a mountain gulch near the tim- ber line, probably half a mile from the top of the mountain. The contact is exposed to a depth of 250 feet between walls which are 00 feet apart. The gulch Is right in the middle of the ore body. “I regard the La Plata reglon as the Ereatost mining district of the state,” sald Mr. Baker in response to an inguiry. “The mineralized territgry is ten miles wide and fifteen or twenty miles long. There are many barren spots in the reglon and many locations where the ore runs §8 or $10 to the ton up (o as many ounces in gold. Much of the oro is highly refractory and will require Dew processes 10 be successfully worked. The free milling ore Is the exception. Thero are Tow seven or elght mines shipping selected ore regularly, and about 500 men are working or prospecting In the region.” The magnificent ora body known as the Baker contact fs described by an expert as an oblong vault of conglomerate, 2,600 feet long on the surface, and containing dykes Which were forced up from below ages ago. Tt s estimated that the actual cost of pro- ducing the yellow metal from the Immense gold quarry will not exceed $1.40 a ton This includes mining, delivering at the mili and cost of reduction. Mr. Baker first saw the Rocky mountains in 1850. In company with a party of forty- four Georglans he made the journey across the continent to the coast, returning to Geor- Ela a few years later, where he met Groene Russell, the pioncer gold discoverer of Col- orado. An uncle of Mr. Baker's was with Russell when he panned gold out of the sands of Cherry creek, and the Colorado man remembers distinetly the prophecies of Russell that the gold supply of the United States would be mined in Clear Creek canon and other canons of the Rockies. Last summer Mr. Baker spent several Weeks prospecting along Cherry creek and dn the rezion where the first discovery of ®old was made in this state. His theory is that at one time the region south of Denver for fifty or seventy-five miles was the bot- tom of a great sea. The water deposited a ment, which was permeated to a limited legree with fine gold. “The cement has gradually been dissolved and washed away,” #aid Mr. Baker, “and the gold is distributed over a wide region, but not in bodles rich enough to pay for handling the gravel under present conditions. In the Cherry creek bottoms the gravel contains perhaps $1 a ton in gold."” THE UTAH COMPANY. The people of the territory are watching with a great leal of Interest for the promised developments in connection with the Utah company, and the indications are that they will not have long to wa The return of Messrs. Cannon and Clayton with encourag- ing reports means much, says the Salt Lake Horald, for upon the reports of their hasty ¥isit to New York and other financial cen- ters overything depended. Meetings are belng held almost daily, and according to he statements of the promoters of the enter- prises it will not be many days before the gompany is ready to move with all of its feserve force. Speaking of the workings of the com- pany, Mr. Clayton stated that it is an en- tirely separate enterprise from any other project ever set on foot in this territory upon its own bottom it will stand. While he detalled plans have not yet been ap- proved, the road to Coalville from this city is to be completed at once, work on the terminal having already beén inaugurated. A force of graders is now engaged in pre paring the grade for the first six miles of Toad, and this section is (o be pushed to an immediate completion. When asked whether or not the Utah company would absorb the Great Salt Lake & Hot Springs, or any of the other projected systems between Salt Lake and Coalville, Mr. Clayton stated most emphatically that such was not the plans of the company. Some time ago the di- vectors of the Utah & Wyoming made a proposition to the Utah company people for the purchase of *he old roadbed constructed by the Salt Lak ; & California at a cost of in the neighborlvod of $15,000. The nego- tlations having fallen through, the Utah & Wyoming company proposes to make use of the grade for its own extension to Coal- ville. GOLD IN THE BIG HORN RANGE. A few months after the massacre of Custer , mnd his men a party of soldlers were scout- Ing after hostiles in the Big Horn, says the Wortland Oregonian. The cuvuntry was ter- ribly rugged and broken, progress was very “ WiefMult, and, after proceeding for some days in the midst of the wilderness of peaks, the guide was forced to admit that he had lost his way. The captain seated himself on a Yedge, ‘while the gulde lay down on the und near by, holding the reins of the rses. An earnest conversation followed RS (o the proper course to be taken in order o get out of the hills, “You maye say what you please, but I think we ought to go that way'" sald the captain, and as he spoke ho picked up a bit of stone from the ground and tossed it In the direction indicated. The guide ptared, then made a rush for the bit of Btone. It was a plece of quartz so thickly peamed with gold to form a specimen of wonderful richness and beauty. The two collected a few samples, hid them, and ngreed to keep the matter a secret until they could return and take possession of the mine. A few days later the guide was Kkilled and the secret remained with the cap- tain. Time and again after his troop had n extricated from the mountains did he ke efforts to relocate the hill of gold, ::l.t every effort was doomed to fatlure; it could ne be traced. It Is possible that it may have been the “Lost Cabin;" of this there is wo certainty, but, if rot, it was a mine of such wonderful richuess that nothing like it has ever been discovered in the Big Horn range. AN OLD MEXICAN LEAD. . The recent discovery of gold in Little Creck canon, near Paragoonah, by two ex- rlenced prospectors, says the Salt Lake lerald, bas given considerable of a revival 1o the mining excltement which was the re sult of u former discovery of gold bearing itz in the same neighborhood. It Is ugbt that at last one of the leads of the old mines which were worked by the Mex- dvans long before the territory was settled ®as been located, and it s understood that some systematic development work is to be dona at once for the purpose of ascertain- Ing exactly what the district can produce in the way of minerals. In the archives of the goverument at Washington there are a Bumber of interesting records of the min- sald Mr. Pendor, ing operations of the Mexicans on what fs now United States soll, and one of the places described as belng near some very rich gold mines which had been worked for years 1§ a counterpart of Parageonah or Red Creck, as it wap formerly called, The opinion | seems to be general that the “lost lead’ has | beert discovered. ! It was always the custom of President | Brigham Young to make regular periodical trips into the southern part of the territory, and thesa trips partook considerably of the | naturs of an ovation, continued from the | time Salé Lake City waé loft to the arrival | at St. Georgs and on the return. The presi- deut was always attended by a large com- pany, On the first trip south the route taken took the party over the mountains from Clrolesyllor Garfetd coilfity, to Red Creek, and white coming down the divide known Buckskin pass, George W. Bean, one of the president’s attendants, picked up a large piece of quarts which was filled with free £0ld, some of the flakes being of constderable size. The rock was shown to President | Young, and by him brought back to ‘ this eity, where it was tested afd found to be fabulously rich in the | precious metal. A party was outfitted here | and sent in search of the mother ledge, but although a great deal of time was devoted to the prospecting the results were barren of good, and the members of the party came to | the conclusion that the rock had fallen from the pack of some Mexican who was carrying quartz down to the headwaters of the Santa | Clara, or still further south, for milling. | It is now thought to be possible that the rock | came from Little Creek canon, which fs a short distance from Buckskin, having been dropped there by some Mexican prospector. The discovery and the stories which are being circulated are creating a great deal of inter- st and the indications are sald to be very good for the development of some rich prop- ertles fn the district John 8. Jones, the Chaparral gulch mining man, is in 500 feet on his 1,150-foot tunnel. The tunnel will plerce the mountain which separates the Little Jessie mine 1 the mill, and the {ramway to go through the tunnel will do away with a long and most circultous ore haul. The tunnel will cut through the Gladstone, Union and Star veins belonging to Mr. Jones, and also through the Postmaster und Ticondoroga, belonging to another group. These mines can be worked from either side of the tunnel and the ore cheaply trangported to the mill. The ore taken from the tunnel will in all probability pay the expenses of driving it. AN ARIZONA CAMP. Ed Austin has returned from Austin City, on the Santa Maria, says the Prescott Jour- nal. Tom Fitch has located ghere with his family and has put twelve mén to work cn the mine he bonded from Austin & Owens, As work progresses the mine is showing up beter and all parties are satisfled. Dan Thorne {s pushing development work on his properties, and strangers, mostly prospectors, are continually pouring into the district. This is one of the few districts in Arizona whera rioh ore in abundance and everlasting water for all purposes are found together. TROUBLE OVER A MINE W. S. McMurren, a prominent lumber dealer of Baker City, Ore., while conversing with a Statesman reporter at Bolse, Idaho, revealed some interesting facts concerning the Virtue mine, located néar Baker Clty, which s now involved in litigation. The mine is now held by George W. Grayson, an old time Idahoan, who spent years in the Owyhes country, where ha is still interested. He is defendant in the action brought by Portland parties to recover the property and $75,000 damages. The Virtue has been al- most a steady producer since the early 60s. It was supposed to have been worked out several times, but further developfent al- ways brought something to light and the mine was practically never shut down. Some time ago Grayson, evidently becoming dis- satisfied with the Virtue, sold it to Portland parties for $45,000 on the installment plan. The Webfooters scemed to be very unfortunate and the time came when they could not pay their employes. . After some parleying with the miners, the latter took charge of the mine for the purpose of taking out their wages. Abont this time the Portland parties Jearned that an immensely rich pocket had been cut into on the 400-foot level, but that water poured into_ the level with such a rush it was impossible to get at it. As the time for making the last payment on the property had not elapsed, they made an as- signment and sent the assignee from Port- land to take.charge of the mine. He arrived in Baker, and, engaging a team, started out to the mine. The miners had heard of his coming and were prepared to glve him a warm reception. He was met by a strong guard while yet quite a distance from the mine and warned to proceed no further. Threats of personal violence had the desired effect and he retraced his way to Baker City, the maddest man in Oregon. It was at this time Grayson, through his repre- sentatives, reappeared on the scene and, pay- ing the men the balance due them, took harge of the mine. The work of pumping out the 400-foot level was commenced at once and prosecuted vigorously. Finally the water was lowered so it was possible for a man to get into the level. One evening the superintendent, with & few trusted men, en- tered the level. They waded through water to their waists until they reached the rich pocket they had been endeavoring to get at s0 long. fn the morning they brought up ore representing $10,000—a pretty good night’s work. ~ Mr. McMurren says he knows that night's work netted $10,000 Whether any more ore was taken from the pocket he does not know. The partles who brought suit clalmed there was in the neighborhood of $75,000 taken out. Mr. McMurren says that for some unaccountable reason the pumps were shut down shortly after the eveniful night's work and the level allowed to again fill with water.. The Portland parties allega, he says, that the miners organized and took the mine away from them, that they did not voluntarily give it up. Mr. Grayson claims that by their abandonment of the property they waived all their rights in the premises, thus per- mitting him to step in again. FRUIT DRYING IN UTAH. One of the most important Industries in Utal's Dixie, and one of considerable conse- quence to the entire territory, is that of fruit drying. The dried fruits of this terrl- tory rank second to none, except the evapo- rated article of California, and the amount of revenue derived from the sale of fruits is always represented by six figurer at least The Indications are, however, that thers will be considerable of a reduction this year and unless some immediate change takes place the people of the territory will recelve about @ cent less for their unpeeled peaches than the quotations for 1893, This will make con- siderable of a difference to the frult produc- ing districts. “Present advices indicate that the prices of all kinds of dried fruits will be consider- ably lower this season than was the case last year," said Superintendent Webber of Zlon's Co-operative Mercantile institution, to a Herald reporter. “The reasons for the change in the schedule of prices are patent, one of them being the enormous quantities of fruit dried in California this season. Had it not been for the railrcad strikes and the consequent tieup of all roads leading out from the coast an extra amount of fresh fruit would have been sent to the eastern and forelgn markets, but the lack of raflroad transportation forced the orchard owners of | the coast to dry their fruits, and on this ac- count the markets will be flooded with all classes this fall. Utah's dried fruits are in high favor with the eastern people, but it is extremely difficult for us to compete with the coast. No heavy movements of fruit take place in this territory untll about the end of October, when the southern stores and commission people begin to unload upon us and the market takes on considerable mctiy- ity. The reports received from the producing districts are to the effect that the crop is about the same as in 1893, with & noteworthy improvement in quality, due to the extra care given to the orchards, The local grow- ers are already sending in their crops, the season for drled fruit being considerable carlier In the northern part of the territory than in the southern, that is, the movement takes place somewhat in advance of that in the south. Practically all of the Utah fruits Will go to the eastern markets, where they will be thrown into direct competition with the product of Californla, but the result will not be detrimental to the interests of this territory," RAILROAD INTO MERCUR DISTRICT. After many unexpected and provoking de- lays work is at length begun on the laying of the rails on the road from Fairfield to Mercur. Rails have begun to arrive over the Union Pacific, and Manager Jacobs has been informed that a force of sixty teams had been put to work and that sixteen more would be added. This will enable the com- pany (o push the road with all hast | Those were that construction to the Mercnr mine may be finished by November 1. ‘The Mercyr Minlog company awaits the progress of the road with considerable Anx- lety, as its own future operations depend upon its early completion, It now has ready the machinety for enlarging its mill, but will be upable to set it up unti] the road is finished. As the grading of the roadbed {3 complete as far [ the mill site, and all that remalns 16 be dono s the laying of the raile, it i expected that this portion of the road will soon be ready for use. Should that bé the case, the Mercur company wl)l proceed with its improvements without dela The improvements will consist chiefly in the enlargement of the mill to a 150-ton capacity ffoin a 100-ton capacity, as it standy at present. The leaching tanks will be en- | larged and some other new machinery in- serted. RECORDS OF EARLY NAVIGATION. A number of interesting documents con- nected with the business of the old Oregon Steam Navigation company, and ingldentally with the history of the state, which had floated out of some place where they had been stowed away by the railroad company, were plcked up among other flotsam et jet- sam of the late flood by Mr. John Gill at The Dalles a short time since, and presented 1o Mr. Frank T. Dodge, in whose handwrit- ing many of the documents were. Among them is a fragment of the cashbook of The Dalles office, showing the receipts from tick- ets sold in that office to miners and others for trip No. 7 of the steamer Tenino, up river, in May, 1862, There were thirty-two passengars for Wallula at $15 each, and 315 for Lewiston at $30 each, the total amount for passenger fares for the trip being $10,930. the days when steamboating paid, and when the stockholders of the Ore- gon Steamship and Navigation company laid the foundations of their fortunes. Thera was no law in those days restricting the num- ber of passengers a boat should carry. The rush to the mines on Salmon river, Oro Fino and Elk City began in the fall of 1801, | and tor three or four years the Oregon Steam- ship and Navigation company enjoyed prob- ably the finest run of business ever known. The mines were placers, and the miners flocked up to them in the spring, &ad when | the water froze in the fall they flocked down again, loaded with gold dust. Portland being but a small place, most of them went on to San Francisco, or on to the “Bay,” as they atyled *it, to spend the winter, and often | their earnings. NEBRASKA. There are four artesian wells in different parts of Platte county Purses to the amount of $1,000 have been hung up for the races at Alliance October 11, 12 and 13, An election will be held at Nelson October 26, to vote on a proposition to issue bonds to build waterworks A Gering boy tried to cut a pumpkin, but lio made a miscue and severad a finger from the hand of a younger brotler. There s talk of a tar and feather party at Dakota City in which a resident of the east- ern part of town will be the guest of honor. he High school at Hastings is so crowded h puplls that it has been found necessary o fit up a private residence to accommodate the overflow. Instead of feeding several thousand head of sheep this winter on his ranch near Grand Island, as he has usually done, Robert Tay- lor has shipped the last of his sheep to his Wyoming ranch, Reports of the harvest in Scotts Bluft colinty are most satisfactory as to the yield, The same encouraging condition of affairs exists in all the counties where irrigation has secured a foothold. George W. Prather, the populist candidate for county attorney in Franklin county, has bronght suit against the editor of the River- ton Review for slander and defamation of character. He asks for $2,000 damages, The 17-year-old son of J. A. Orr of Scotts Bluft county tried to ride a horse and carry a pitchfork at the same time. He carrisd the fork all right, but two of the tines pierced his side and made a wound that nearly proved fatal. The horse stumbled and fell. Ray Tabor, a 3-year-old boy living at Bennett, fell into a cistern the other day, but was discovered by his G-year-old sister. who held his head above water until 6-year- old Eddie Jones came along and helped her to pull the baby out. The only harm done was the wetting of the little one's clothes. The Haigler News reports a school dis- trict in that precinct where the school house was located s0 far from anywhere that only the children of one family could attend. The teacher appreciated the in- Jjustice and resigned. Then the mother of the family living near the school finished the term without getting a certificate and drew full pay. THE DAKOTAS. W flowing Custer oxpects her new opera house ready | by November 1 A hegavy fall Bald mountain; The grain palace at Aberdeen is reported to have been a great financial success. The water works almost completed at Dell Rapids were tested last week and burst an eight-inch matn, Commissioner Browning has gone to the Lower Brule and Crow Creek agencies on a tour of Inspection. The state Women's Christian Temperance union met at Wahpeton, N. D., with the larg- est attendance ever had in the state. Stockmen along White river and fin the Bad Lands country have formed an assoc tion for the purpose of ridding that country of wolves, The James river valley fair, in many re- spects rivaling the state fair, was held at Jamestown, continuing four days from Sep- tember 25. The third annual fair of the James River Valley Fair agsociation has closed. The at- tendance was large. The fair was regarded as a great success. The Methodist conference for the state will hold its sessions at Watertown during the first part of October. Bishop Fowler is ‘ex- pected o be present The fterry boat Josle L. K., In servica between Yankton and the Nebraska side of the Missouri river, was sunk by a forty- mile wind. She will probably be raised. The Chicago & Northwestern railway has made another contract for transporting sey- eral thousand head of cattle from Forest City to Chicago. The first 150 carloads will be shipped this week, Thus far this season fully 10,000 head of cattle have been shipped from Belle Fourche and Brennan stations in the Black Hills. It is estimated that the shipments this year will be heavier than ever before. Chairman Peterson of Lead of the regent committee of the State university at Ver- million has called a meeting of the committee In Vermillion on October 1, to consider mat- ters pertaining to that institution. A convention of all the county auditors in the state met at Jamestown, N. D., to determine upon a more uniform system of accounts for each organized county and to review the present revenue and taxation laws, and all other laws pertaining to county matters. The Lead City Call, which is presumably the official organ of the county seat execu- tive committee, once more asserts that the county seat fight Is not dead, but merely sleeping, and that the committee is still quietly at work laying its plans for a con- test two years hence. Entries in the various American coursing meet, Huron on October 9, are more numerous than those at the international meet last fall, and everything points to an attendance equally large. Several strings of grey hounds have already arrived. P. B. McCarthy, one of the fish wardens of Pennington county, recelved a letter from Creston informing him that owners of frei- gating ditches had taken all the water out of Rapld creek, so that only pools remained In different places in the bed of the creek, and that fish in consequence were dying by thousands. The fish wardens at once took hold of the matter and will prosecute parties in the future if they do not leave sufficient water in the creek to form a current. According to a statement of a St. Paul man on his way to Fort Sully, that military post will soon be abandoned, and numerous changes of troops at stations i this depart- ment will soon Le made. A part of the Eighth United States cavalry and one or two troops from the Tenth cavalry will be sent to Fort Assinaboine and Fort Meade, to relieve a part of the Twentieth infantry now there, which with the remainder of the regiment will be sent to Leavenworth, Kan, Three companles of the Twellth Infantry at Fort Sully. the remainder of the regiment of snow has fallen In the classes for the to be held at mai of Jone! Al will be sent to Niobrafa, Nab. . James Hardin, work at Perry, pear Deadwood, milled fifiy t of ore within the phdt'few days, and the net result "2 $3400 .Whjle prospecting fp a place Whef would he easier to handle the ore they suhk & ahpft twelve feet deep and uncoverad a body of ‘ore that goes from $150 to $160 to the ton. It s reliably reported. tiat a worm has made fts appearafice R Edmunds county, South Dakota, thn"s destroying the Rus. sfap thistle. It is sald that therb are Iliter- ally millions of them In a small area. They are small green wotins, less than an inch ip length, and nwtl*r to attack the Russian the stamp mill thistle only, The sfite entomologist has beén asked to make ap fgation of this mat ter and report results. WYOMING Casper has folnd a purchaser $30,000 watér bonds. Good ore has been discovered in the Mollie Gibson mine near Lafamle. Several patches of Russjan thistles have heen located near Laramie recently. The canal at the headwaters of (he Lar- amie river is soon to be enlarged. The Carey Cattle company shipped three train loads of stock. from Casper the other day. It has been decided to hold the State Teachers association of Wyoming at Rock Springs on Decemper 21 and 22. There has been a call for fruit cars on the Southern Pacific. It is reported that there is considerable late fruit awaiting shipment Careful judges estimate that nearly 20,000 bushels of corn, all of an excellent quality will be harvested in the Big Horn basin this fall. The Fort Colllns Express says that garden- ers who have hauled thefr product to the Wyoming markets this fall (have barely made expenses. The Sheridan Journal says that a hastily taken census of that city shows a population of 1,997, and that from fifty to seventy-five persons were missed, There is every prospect that Tie Siding will soon have a boom. Copper has been dis- covered there in large quantities and Denver capitalists are going to invest and develop the mines. The Carbon mines are doing more businoss now than in years. About sixty new miners were put to work recently and more will be put on shortly until the working force num- bers 350 men again. Bear are sald to be numerous in the Seminoe country this fall, and have on sev- eral occasjons came down from the mountains and killed a number of sheep which have been grazing in the foot hills. The troops at Fort Russell are now pack- ing up most busily, and the entire scene at the fort is ome of activity. The cars for packing up were placed on the sidetrack and everything will soon be in shape for the move to Columbus, 0. A car loaded with twenty-nine elk and one antelope passed through Laramie in charge of a keeper. They were loaded at Ham's Fork and are consigned to Walter 8. Webb and will be placed in the Adirondac moun- taing in New York state Ranchmen in the Ashley country reports that horse thieves are numerous in that sec- tion. Over 200 head have, been stolen within the past month. It {s bélieved the thleves have confederates in Montana who find a market for the stolen praperty. The T'ennsylvania Oil company is making preparations “to beghi the shipment of oil from their Salt creek wels in large quanti- ties, General Superintendent Harris and other Elkhorn railroad officials were at Cas- per on the 21st, making arrangements to handle the ofl. The cbmpduy expects to ship several cars of the product each weck. H. L. Perkins, one of the Greybull ranch- men, says the Buffalo Bulletin, is the owner of a ten-acre fleld of alfalfa which he thinks, as & matter of fact, beats anything in the state. It was sown on the 16th of May, and he has already cut a good crop and. ex- pects to gather another, a second one, this fall, an unusual occurrence for the first year with that product. A Tom Carroll brougbt. jn from his Little Horse creek ranch near Cheyenne a surpris- ing collection of vegetables. Everybody who saw them seemed amazed that they were Wyoming raised, but were more surprised to learn that the showing was in no respect unusual. In the collection were several Hub- bard squashes weighing fifty pounds or more, extremely large turnips, cabbage, beets, onions, etc. Private James Martin, troop I, Seventh cavalry, won the gold medal in the cavalry competition of the Department of the Mis- souri, which has been in progress since Sep- tember 21 at Fort Sheridan. His aggregate score for a known distance and skirmish firing i8 535 points. This makes the fourth consecutive year the department medal in the annual competition has been won by a member of the Seventh. The Laramie Republican states that the city is in danger of losing its free mail de- livery system from the fact that the receipts of the office are falling below the $8,000 limit annually, It the, receipts fall below that amount the posofice must be put in the second class, and would then lose the free delivery attachment. The Board of Trade in Laramie will endeavor to take some action looking to an increase in the recefpts or making up the amount by subscription. COLORADO. One firm has sold 17) harvesters In the San Luis valley this season, A new Congregational church completed and dedicated at Lyons. Work will be continued all winter at the Mastodon mine, Silverton district. The Horseshoe concentration mill, Park county, is running on ores from the Emmons mine. It Is a big producer of lead, Arrangements are n progress for the erec- tion of a canning factory at Delta. The plant is to cost from $2,000 to §4,000. The Fairview mine, near Silverton, has re- sumed shipments to the smelters at Durango. The shipments will average thirty tons per day. A three-fourths interest in the Sulphur- ettes mine, Silverton district, recently changed hands. The ore runs $i1 per ton, mostly in silver, On sixteen acres of land, says the Long- mont Ledger, Milton Matthews claims to have harvested 36,000 pounds of oats, which is about equal to ninety bushels per acre. The Western Oil company started the an- nex to its refinery at Florence. This plant has & capacity of 900 barrels a day and will give employment to {:n men ata good salary. The closing down of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company at Neweastle has thrown a great many miners out of work. The miners are mak'ng strenucus efforts to in- duce the company tp yesume work. They promise not to strike, . | The Las Animas Lezader is informed that the grass on the southérn range has suffered much from the late raips .and that the new Impetus for growth given the grass will be met by fall frosts which will kil the grass and cause great loss of cattle it the winter 18 severe. e The Redondo Minipg, company, with a capital of $500,000, hds' 'secured possession of seven patented gold properties in the Idaho Springs distrigt,;, These include four Freeland surveys—the Toledo, the Toledo Ex- tension and the Freeland!placer of fourteen acres. From these mines ore to the value of $3,500,000 has alreaiy been extracted, while an abundance remains In the unde- veloped ground. o The San Luis fair,'whith is the event of the season in the villey, opened with a large attendance. The exhibits caused tre- mendous astonishment, not only to strangers, but to those who have lived in the viclnity for years. Wheat, oats, alfalfa and potatoes were known to flourlsh here by all who have made the least Inquiry concerning the agricultural products of the valley, but the present exhibit shows that not only do all tho hardiest grains and vegetables grow here, but they grow to enormous size and still retain excellont flavor. OREGO Forty immigrants from Iowa have arrived at La Grande, to locate. A Tillamook farmer hia cleared $6,000 on his sales of chickens audl eggs to San Fran- clsco. Wallowa county will turn off $100,000 worth of cattle this fall, and eastern buyers are now contracting for hogs at 4 cents. There was a thigf at the state falr who had enterprise. He stole a buggy at one place, & horse at another and a sel of haraess for her has been SUPPOSE you can mak a dollar by walking a make tw lock out of your way—would you do it SUPPOSE you dollars then, would you walk 2 blocks SUPPOSE you make three dollars would you walk 3 blocks We don't profess to have the gilded palace with the gilded prices as a sure accompanis ment together with high rents and big salaried slick salesmen—but We sell our goods on their merits alone. We know the We know the We know the clothing. trimming. making. We know its popular. The best imported Kersey Overcoats, beautiful, stylish garments in blue and black colors, elegantly made and trimmed—We save you $5 to walk three blocks out of your way to get ours for, The new Vicuna Suit and the genuine English cheviots in either sacks or cutaway—4- button, regent cut, for ours are only, save you lots of dollars R R Boys’ elegant Cheviot Suits in dark effects, for ages 14 to 19 years, long pants, will save you nearly $5 for ours are, . WE SAVE YOU MANY A DOLLAR GOODS WELL BOUGHT ARE HALF SOLD. [GIVE US A TRIAL.] . H. Cook Clothing Co., successors to Columbia Clothing Co., 18th and Farnam Streets, Omaha. at a third. These three things he put to- gether, and nothing has been heard of him since. Emil grower, Schanno, the Wasco county fruit- has received from California a col- ony of Australian ladybugs, which he will put out along Mill creek. Mr. Leonig, a farmer on Wolf creek, has finished harvesting. From a tract of twenty- three acres he threslied 2200 bushels of barley. Some of the heads had as many as ninety-six kernels. The J. E. Miner timber land contest be- fore the Roseburg land office is still grind- ing seremely along. Pifty days have been cousumed in hearing the testimony In one of the thirty or forty separate cases. Several farmers in the vicinity of Silverton are now making preparations to cut the sec- ond crop of clover this season. Clover is a profitable erop. [from the first cutting it ylelds a heavy croy of first-class hay, and from the second growth from 100 to $00 pounds of seed per acre can be procured, which sells readily at from 17 to 15 cents per pound. The gentleman from Flagstaff, Ariz., who recently purchased an interest in the Pioneer stone quarry has arrived at Yaquina bay. He expresses himself as well pleased with the outlook, both at the guarry and in the mar- ket. He brought some additional machincry up on the Scotia and expects to put in much more machinery at the quarry at an early date WASHINGTON Tramps in the Puyallup valley are intim- idating housekeepers for meals in preference to plcking hops. Arthur Jell of Lind, a railroad station be- tween Pasco and Sprague, has been notlfied of a bequest of §2,500 left by an uncle in England, The Pullman legislature for § ance, against § This will include mitory. The Tacoma smelter is receiving 800 tons of ore monthly from the Bunker Hill apd Sullivan mine. The contract is for six months. This order alone smelter busy for fifteen days of ea The big raft at Stella is slowly being tramed. It now has about 230,000 feet of piling in, and 160,000 feet more will finish It. The top will be built out of spars. Thirty men are at work on the raft, and it will take tully one more month to finish it. Chehalis county has sixty organized school districts and sixty-five schools. The county recelved $1,331 last year from the state school fund. The average wages of teachers, including graded schools, is $58. Female teachers get from $33 to $60 per month. The following siatistics were submitted to the recent session of the Puget sound con- ference of the Methodist churches: Mem- bership, 8,187; churches, 111; value of churches, ; parsona, value of parsonages, paid for buildings and improvements, $5,452; paid on old debts, $7,192; present indebtedness, $63,003; Sunday schools, 150; teachers and officers, 1,408; scholars, 9,002; current expenses of churches, $8,737; expenses of Sunday schools, $3,743. There Is much excitement in Chewelah over the prospect of the Cleveland mine, lately discovered on Hunter creek, about fifteen miles west of that place, As soon as a road can be built to the railroad, they will ship a car of orc per day. A party of citizens has gone to the mine to locate a road. Springdale is also trying to get a road from the mine, but men who know the lay of the country think a better and shorter road can be built. Those who have seen the new mine say it is the largest body of ore they ever saw. MISCELLANEOUS, The shortage of Texas cattle so far this season is 58 per cent. A party of Comstock miners leave Nevada for South Africa. Los Angeles proposes to have a smelter with eapacity for handling 400 to 500 tons of ore per day Seventy miles of new steel rails and 325,000 of new ties are being put in on the Nebraska division of the Union Paeific. Captain Silton, who has returned from Alaska, thinks that the goverument should do something for the natives. Shipments of live elk and animals of the Rocky mountains are fre- quent over the Unlon Pacific, A plant equal to 100 tons per day, using the Engelhardt bromine process, is to be erected at Helena, Mont., for the treatment of gold ores. The western rangers contributed slightly more than 15 per cent and Texas slightly less than 18 per cent of last moath’s recelpts of 207,892 cattle at Chicago. college will be asking the 00 as its biennfal ullow- 000 given it two years ag 20,000 for a girls' dor- will soon other game For headache (whether sick or mervous), tooth- ache, neurnlgla, rheumatism, lumbago, palus and ' weakness in the back, ‘spine or kidneys, ains around the liver, pleurisy, swelling of the joints and pains of ali kinds, the application of Ready Rellef will afford immediat: a its coniinued use for o few days o permanent cure. A CURE FOR ALL Summer Complaints, DYSENTERY, DIARRHOEA, CHOLERA MORBUS. 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