Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 15, 1894, Page 5

R ———— S 5 X e PULSE OF WESTERN PROCRES Rich Silver Mines Disoovered in the Gulches of Montana. THEIR LOCATION HANDY FOR SHIPPING Lump Guleh Filling with Prospectors—ril- Niant Outlook of Briggs, Wyo.—Liey in the Center of the Hay Creek Coal Flelds—General Western Nows, Reports are still coming in from the new silver camp on Lump gulch, and each one only serves to confirm the fact that it is a wonderfully rich district. No camp ever discovered In Montana possesses the same resources as Lump. It is convenlent to two rallroads, says the Helena Independent. The Northern Pacific branch to Boulder, Elkhorn and Basin passes up the Prickly Pear at the mouth of Lump gulch, only & short distance from the mines, while the Montana Central is even nearer at hand. The leads, so far developed, have proved exceedingly rich in silver, and the wonder s that they were not discovered long ago. Up to within a year ago the only good paying mine ever dis coverd In that section was the Legal Tender, This mine s situated on the east side of Prickly Pear ereek and to the south of the mew camp. It was rich in native and ruby silver, and produced many hundred thousands of dollars. It was supposed to have been worked out several was ore producer times were lively in the melghborhood of Clancy. Since then more or less prospecting has been going on, but | nothing was uncovered of consequence until the new eamp of Lump was discovered. Now a wonderful change has taken place. There is life and evidence of activity on every hand. The railroads have put in sidetracks and the business of transporting hay, grain provisions and ore is daily Increasing, and if this continues to increase it is safe to say that the new town of Lump will soon have a railroad right in the midst of it. At the present time a conservative esti- mate places the number of miners and pros- poctors in the camp at 250, Lodes have been located all the way from Halford’s ranch on the Prickly Pear to Buffalo Hill on the old Peerless Jenn'e road. The country rock is granite, and_ the leads are true fissures, car- rying femarkably rich ore, which every one will understand when it i< known that they pay well to ship at the persent low prices of silver. The first mine to ship ore from the new camp was the Liverpool, owned by Thomas G. Merrlll and John 8. Miller. This prop- erty Is claimed to have been located in the early 805, since which time it has changed hands many times, but was located only Yo be again abandoned. Finally Mr, Merrill, the original locater, secured control of the mine for the third time, and with John S. Miller | began active work. Since December last shaft has been sunk to a depth of 300 feet, | and from this mine and the Washington, an adjoining claim owned by Messrs. Merrill & Miller, $100,000 in dividends have been vaid during the last eighteen months. The Liverpool is equipped with a hoist with a <apacity of 800 feet. At the present time the pay roll is §200 a day, which will be largely increased with greater development The ore averages about 200 ounces in silver and carries 10 to 12 per cent lead, The out- put Is shipped to the Bast Helena smelter. The Little Nell, owned by Robert Bell and Dr. Charles H. Head, is the mext property in point of development in the district. It Is developed by a shaft 150 feet in depth. “The vein between the walls is about eight feet. From the lower levels fine gray copper ore averaging 200 ounc:s s being taken out. The Little Nell is undoubtedly a fine mine, and is worth a great deal of money Another fine property is the Little Al which Is being worked by a company, of which Dr. T. H. Pleasants is president. The whaft is down 125 feet, and contains a ten- dnch streak of gray copper assaying over 200 ounces to the ton. Besides those enumerated half a dozen other good prospects have been opened. The principal reason this district had not been opened up sooner is because fn only a very few instances has good ore been found on the surface. It is found at a depth of twenty-five to thirty feet, A NEW WYOMING TOWN. It will be asked “Where is Griggs?’ It 18 twenty-two miles northwest from Spear- fish, 8. D, twenty-four miles northeast of Sundance, on Hay creek, and in the center of the Hay creek coal flelds. It is located in the Hay creek valley, on section 27, town | 54, range 61. The location selected for the town s a very pretty ome, there being na- tive timber along the creek and nearly sur- rounded by hills, yet room fn the valley for a large city. That Griggs will be a town of some im- portance is evident from the following facts It s named for Nebraska's poet and lawyer, N. K. Griggs, whom nearly all know: there are large quantities of coal at depths varying from ninety to 240 feet deep; it is on the morth side of an_excellent farming country, as a trip from Spearfish will fully demon- strate. The country |lying directly north and west is an excellent grazing country, with streams of water every few miles, such as Belle Fourche (which, by the way, is a beautitul valley, thickly settled up with thrifty and weli-to-do farmers), Little M: years ago, but while it | ceed 1o expend the remainder of the money in the wildest debauchery. At one time he ran thro with $10,000 in two weeks in Phoenix, throwing his money away in | the most ‘reckless manner. His money once gone, he returned to his prospecting and touched mo liquor until his next sale. l It was immediately after the sale of the Apache” mine for §15,000 that he started |on his wildest debauch in Phoenix. For over m month he did not draw a sober | breath, and, at last, reduced again to poverty and weake mentally and physically, ho professed religion at an open alr meeting of the Salvation army in Phoenix | For over two months he marched with the |army at its nightly meetings, but findi such & routine life too irksome again started for the hills. Noth- | Ing was heard from him for over two months, and {t was reported that he had perished on the desert, but one day he again turned up in Phoenix with a burro load gl mine is being placed in first-class form for extensive and steady produetion. It is proba- :Ir the richest goid mine in this country to- ay. Near the Little Jehnnle, also on Breece hill, the Little Vinnie is being worked by a company of leasers. Men in their posi- tion say little about profits. It Is alleged, however, that the Little Vinnle shipped 1,600 tons of gold ore, worth about $40 per ton, during the month of September. This would place its output in the neighborhood of $64,000, or twice the amount credited to the Victor mite at Cripple Croek, which pays monthly dividends of b cents per share on its capital stock Leadvilie’s gold belt is being steadily de- veloped. The capital invested there this season is well entisfied with the outlook, | while properties for sale are by no means numerous. A FEAST FOR TOURISTS. Recent storms in the mountains are driv- of rich ore, which set the town ablaze with excitement Some of the nuggets which he brought in were valued at $50. Every one was surprised when he announced his dntention of turning his latest find over to the Salva- tion army. It was duly proffered and ac- cepted by that organization and fifteen men volunteered to develop it. Worl menced over a year ago under the direction of Taylor and has progressed steadily since. The pay streak Is sixteen Inches wide and has paid well from the grass roots. The ore Is treated in two crushers erected near the mine, but it is proposed soon to bring in a ten-stamp mill. Strict religious discipline is ntained in the camp, and the profits, after ing the necessary expenses, go into the treasury of the army to aid in the work of that organization. Two shids of six men each work under ground, while the remain- or attend to the treatment of the ore and transportation of necessary supplies. As soon as the stamp mill is erected the working force will be increased. It is estimated that | nearly $8000 has been realized from the mine so far. Supplies are freighted 100 miles. REOPENING AN OLD CAMP. A Grangeville, Idaho, correspondent of the Spokane Spokesman-Review sends his paper an Interesting letter relative to operations | at Florence, the north Idaho mining cam | which, in the early 60s, produced millions of yellow gold In a few years and was then abandoned to Chinese and the coyotes. At that_time Florence was a flourishing town of 15,000 souls, money flowed like water, and every one was happy. The old camp at | Florence has always been a mystery—no one | being able to account for such rich deposits {of gold in a basin on top of the mountain, | yet there it was and is, as is evidenced by | discoveries of quertz lodes carrying froe | ®old which have rocently been uncovered in the old placer workings. It appears that the reason these lodes have so long been hidden | from man's cupidity Is there is no outerop on the surface—all being what is known as | blind Jeads; yet only a few feet (ten or fif- | teen) below the surface quartz leads are now | being opened up which carry from $100 to 200 per ton in gold. And there are not only one or two, but at least » dozen, which have been sufficiently prospected to show their great richness. While mining men have | pondered and wondered if the good old min- 1% days were a thing of the past, never to eturn again, a few onergetic prospectors ave quietly prosecuted explorations until sufficient is shown to make a quartz boom, the equal of which has probably mever been | seen in mining. Dan Dwight, a well known Coeur d'Alener, concluded to try his luck in one of these old claims, and selected one from which Tom Clark in early days took $1,000 from a very small pocket and then abandoned it, believ- [ing it played out. Mr. Dwight sank a shaft twelve feet and exposed & well defined vein of free milling ore, which assays from $50 tq) $200 per ton in gold. He followed the float and found another claim in which free gold Is abundant and which prospects well with a pan. Charles Cone and others have two claims. One of them shows a two-foot vein of $200 gold ore and the other has three small seams, two to four inches wide, which carry nearly $200 in gold per ton. Archie Monroe has relocated a claim from which §75,000 was taken from a small pocket. Some fellows went in there three years ago, built a five-stamp mill, lived on wines and high priced goods, thinking they had the | whole world in their hands, and after taking |out this amount threw it up and left the | country. Mr. Monroe sunk only a few feet and again found a large deposit of free mill- ing gold ore, which averages $100 per ton | in gold | A F. Nurso went in about a month ago, was prospecting around rather carelessly, and found a piece of float which would go about $1,000 per ton in gold. On the second day he stumbled on what he believes to be the lead, and after sinking twelve feot has | three-foot vein in the bottom of éhe shaft. Gritman & Co. relocated what is known as the old McKay, which has not been worked since '68. McKay at that time took out con- siderable ore, which netted him §100 per ton Lin gold after being packed several miles to the mill. It was then abandoned. A few years later John Clark, an old pioneer, and still & favorably known merchant there, at- tempted to find the lead, but gave it up. | Gritman & Co. prospected a little and found a ten-inch vein, from which 10 to 30 cents to the pan has been washed out without pounding any of the quartz. The Waverly is owned by the same parties. A shaft has been sunk twenty-six feet and the vein seems to be wider and cicher as depth is attained. It is proposed to erect an arastra at once. Only half a s- | mile distant the same partles have located sourl, and othet smalier streams. There is [the Willls Sweet claim. Rich float which no ‘other town of any importance | had been piped out in the 60s led to the within & distance of twenty-two | discovery of this property. The veln is six. miles in any direction; there will un:|teen inches wide and carries $200 in gold doubtedly be two rallroads built into Griggs in the near future, the coal found here is of perior quality and in unlimited <quantities; the top strata or veln lies ninety feet deep and is six and one-half feet thick, and this vein has been discovered for several miles north and south, and in quality resem- bies very much Rock Springs coal. strata has been discovered at a depth of 240 feet, which Is elght feet thick, and is a m'rder and better quality than the upper vein, ‘The town site is owned by the Nebraska Land company, who now have an engineer, E. L. Blllings of Crete, Neb., surveying the site Into lots, and lots will be ready to place on the market before the middle of October. Among the prominent men who compose the Nebraska Land company are: D, T. Drake of Crete, Neb, Toblas Castor of Lincoln, and E. M. Westervelt of Grand Island. Mr. Drake 1s now on the ground superintending the platting, surveying and starting of the town. The coal company, aside from the town site, have 3,000 acres of coal land south of Griggs, and have ordered dlamond drills, which will be here In a few days, and they will then investigate the lower vein of coal. Indications point quite strongly to this being the coming coal camp of the north- west, as it has advantages superior to others being surrounded by agricultural and grazing lands. In order to get here, buy your ticket to Spearfish, then take the Spearfish and Griggs stage line, and you will pass through one of the most beautiful valleys in the world—the Spearfish valley. A number of business men are now walting for the com- letion of the town site survey to erect their dings, and when completed will put in §00d stocks of goods. SALVATION ARMY MINE, ‘Way up in one of the most inaccessible portions of the Huachuchas range of moun- tains there Is situated perhaps the most unique mining camp in the world, says a Prescott special to the Denver News. The sixteen men who dally toil in the General Booth mine are all members of the Salvation army, and the profits of the mine all go nto the treasury of that organization. The history of the location and subsequent de- welopment of the mine is interesti “Old Dick" Taylor, the diseoverer, is one of the best kncwn and most successful pros- in the territory. Coming to Arizona arly days when the whole south- the Wwestern country was a wilderness given over to tho bloodthirsty Apaches, he has Prospected the country from one end to the Other, and has made more valuable locations one man in Arizona. The Luck and Desert mines, in the Harqua Hala country, the Apache and New York, in the Superstition mountains, the King, in the Bradshaws, and many others were located by him, and have since made fortunes for the Investors. Dick Taylor was perhaps the most pro- fane man In the southwest. His voecabu- lary of invective was something phenom- enal, and was brought into use om the slightest pravocation. The pleturesqueness volubllity of bis oaths were proverbial Over the territory for many years. It Is sald that after each sale Taylor would in- West In & year's grub stake and them pro- Anoiher per ton. GOLD IN ARIZONA, The latest development in a mining way which Is creating considerable excitement is a gold discovery near the Black canyon road, about forty-five miles south of Prescott, says a Prescott speclal to the Denver News. A man who has recently inspected the new camp is enthusiastic over the outlook, and says that from present indications the camp promises to be a lively and a producing one in a few months. The discovery was made by Jesse Bavis of Mayer nearly a month ago. He was taking a short cut across the country, and while coming over the mesas near Miller's he stumbled across a large | blowont of white quartz. The rock was heavily copper stained and carried free gold in a great quantity visible to the naked eye. Bringing some of the rock heme, Davis tried panning it, with eucoessful results. Two clalms were at once located by Davis, the Golden Wonder No. 1 and No. 2. Some of the ore taken from the surface will mill $200 per ton. An assay from the Golden Wonder No. 1, taken two feet from the surface, re- 240 per top gold. A shaft is being sunk on the claim and several tons of ore are on the dump, which, judging from horn- spoon tests, will run much higher than the original assay. The district is an entirely new one and in a place where prospectors have never looked for gold. It resembles the Vulture district, with little mesas running here and there, and the rich find is on top of these. There is already a great rush of pros- pectors to the new camp, coming prineipally from Big Bug and Chapparal. About twenty locations have already been made in the vicinity of the Golden Wonder. The new camp s well situated, being less than a quarter of a miie from the Black canyon road. The water supply is abundant. LEADVILLE AS A GOLD PRODUCER. Leadville gold producers, like those of Gilpin county, cut a small figure in the known list of dividend payers. That Lead- ville has great mines in her gold belt no one disputes. These, however, are operated Ly smail companies, who divide the profits was com- | ing the deer out into the lower altitudes. They are passing Craig by the thousands and the citizens are laying in a supply of meat. The tourists who have been here in great numbers this season, says a Craig | special to the Denver Republican, have not [ made a wholesale slaughter of game as a | rale. The game seems to be about as plenti- ful as it was a year ago. | The storms are also driving the tourists out of the In the last few days the Devereaux from Glenwood Springs, the Robinson party, from Pueblo, the Win- chester party, from New Haven, and a num- ber of others have gone, each having secured some fine specimens of heads, etc. This has been by far the largest tourist ceason on record for Cralg and California | park. The stages have been loaded almost | daily, besides numerous persons who come | in by private conveyance. Almost every state In the ur east of here has been represented. Among the most noted pleasure seekers are the officers and stockholders of the Winchester Arms com- pany, who have just departed. Their com- Ing to this country was instigated by the compgny receiving some photos of game taken in this vicinity by local photographers. BRUIN LIKES MELONS. J. 8. Peltz of this place is the owner of a ranch near Minnekahta station on the B. & M., upon which he has a fine melon patch, says the Custer Chronicle. Two of his boys, aged 13 and 16 years, who were charged with the duty of looking after the patch, dis- covered upon their visit to the patch the other day that a goodly number of their chofce mielons were missing, and noticing certain tracks through the patch, they traced them to a ditch or washout near by, where they found, neatly covered over with grass and weeds, the missing melons. The boye were satisfied that the robber of their melon patch was an animal of some kind, and in | order to determine what kind of an animal it was, and to put an end to further visits, they decided to watch the patch nights, and in case of the anmal putting in an appearance o kill it on the spot. They kept up their watch, and one night soon after the stealthy robber appeared in the form of a large cinnamon bear, and proceeded at once to the special business he had planned for the o 0. The elder boy awaited a favorably opportunity, when he raised his rifle and with quivering arm and unsteady aim he fired, but the bullet missed its mark, and with a howl of dissatisfaction Bruin made rapid strides for his lalr. These ani- mals are said to be exceedingly fond of melons, and in this instance it was the evi- dent intention to store away a supply for future use - NEBRASKA. Humboldt's water works bouds have been sold at a premium. Auburn’s water bonds have been sold and the work is to be begun this week and pushed. Two-year-old Etta Walker of Cedar Rapids bas died from eating the brimstone off a handful of matches. B. W. Kyle is manufacturing a rotary plow at Arlington from which he hopes to make & fortune for himself. Mr. N. M. Gearge of York county was seriously injured by being thrown lrom his buggy Into a barbed wire fence. M. C. Frank of York, who has already had a leg and an arm taken off, has had a lump removed from the side of his face. W. D. Matthews, the well known Ne- brasian, has removed from O'Neill and taken up his residence in Arkansas, Talmage voted $5,000 for water bonds by 79 to 22, The plant is to cost $5,000, and $3,000 is to e furnished by town warrants. A spark from an Elkhorn engine set fire to the prairie and burned up a house and barns belonging to Mike Gilmore in Dawes county. Mouey Is flowing in fast for the building of a new United Brethren church at Blue Springs, and it is expected that work will s00n be' commenced Dr. S. P. Hough, an Aurora physican, has died of hemorrhage of the lungs. He was on the point of leaving for the south to spend the winter for the benefit of his health. Fimster & Co. of Hastings opened up a furniture store at Grand Island on the first of the month, and ten days later it was closed by the sheriff on judgments for $2,193. John Reasly at Wayne got Into a fight with his emyloyer, Carl Snyder, and Snyder had his ear chewed off. Beasly made his escape and & warrant has been issued for his arrest, Mr. E. E. Sanborn of Sarpy county Is ex- hibiting some samples of cotton that he has Erown on his farm and which indicate that cotton could be successfully an raised here. SRl Penny & Son's store at Fullerton was robbed of $300 worth of clothing and furnish- ing goods by thieves, who broke open the back window. The cash drawer and safe were not touched. D. F. Marquette was discovered by some friends digging a hole in the cemetery at Burchard, and on being pressed for an ex- planation, he declared he had had a revela- tion that large sums of gold were buried there. Ernest R. Sittler of Nebraska City wishes to change his name to Ernest R. McClellen on the ground that his father deserted him when ho waa a child, and he wishes to spend the remainder of his life under his mother's name. The old soldiers of Central City went to remove the body of & man named Nick who was buried in the potter’s fleld seventeen years ugo. All that they found in thé grave was a pall containing the clothes and the bones of the legs and thighs. Some- body had evidently stolen the body. Neligh will entertain the Nebraska Congre- gationalists this week. The thirty-eighth annual meeting of the general association of Congregational churches is being held there. and many of the leading Congrega- tionalists of the state will be present. Tues- day is the principal day of the session and some interesting papers are down for dis- cussion. The latter part of the week the meetings of the Nebraska Home Missionary society will be held, and on Friday evening tho inauguration of Rev, J. F. Ellis as principal of Gates college will take place. THE DAKOTAS. Great damage has been done to hay and headed grain in South Dakota by the wind having blown off the tops and let in the rain, The new flourlng mill being erected at Hot Springs is being hurried to completion, and will blow in for a trial run on or about November 1. Over 5,000 patents to lands in the Huron land district are In the office awaiting claimants, Some of the proofs for these lands were made ten years ago. The B. & M. railroad has a party of sur- veyors at work running a line from the depot at Hot Springs to Wind cave, It is thought that a line of railroad will be the result. The fat cattle shipments from the Black Hills ranges this year will amount to nearly $2,500,000. The Elkhorn Railroad company will receive nearly $350,000 for transporting and kep the figures from the public. A gentleman who visited that camp a few days since, and who knows considerable about mines and ores, says the Denver News, avers that the Little Johnnie, the property of the Ibex Mining company, on Breece hill, could, In its present state of incomplete de- velopment, NPt $600,000 per month in_ gold- silver ores, running In values from $40 (o $16 per ton, the silver averaging about twenty to thirty ounces. This is practically gold ore. The present output of the Little Johnnle is estimated at $200,000 per month. The ore s treated At . the Leadville | smelte; and sent (o Argentime, mnear Kansas City, for separation and refning, Hence none of this gold Is deposited at the Denver branch mint, the transportation toward the east being cheaper than the fig- ures which prevaill between the Missouri river aud Denver. Considerable development work is under way In the Little Johnnie, The different levels are being united and the this product (o the Chicago and Omaha mar- kets, Messrs. Harrison and Grifith of the United States geological survey are making Woon- socket headquarters and will remain in the field until driven in by cold weather. Up to this time something over 1,500 square miles of the proposed irrigation survey has been made this season. In North Dakota 90 per cent of the farms are owned by the persons cultivating them and 50 per cent own free of incumbrance, The debt on farms amounts to $11,165 854, or 86 per cent of their vaule, and bears an average interest of 9.54 per cent. The debt on homes is less than $1,000,000 in this state. ‘Thres years ago several Injunctions were secured at Egan against Sloux Falls liquor dealers. Joe Kirby drove over to Flandreau and wrote telegrams to interestad partie follows “Raise your umbrellas, t 18 likely to rain.” These were ordered sent collect and the operator tors them up. Kirby D court Just reversed the decision of the lower court. The new univerkfty hall, which Is being re- built by the citieaws of Clay county, is again moving rapidly, toward completion. In the construction a number of new features bave been mdded which were not ineluded in the first plans, and in consequence the funds were found ghort some $4,000, George Chamberlain, one of the oldest set- tlers of Charles Mix county, is also one of the “cake takers” in matrimonial matters. He was married for-the sixth time at Edger- ton. He was wed this last time to Mrs. W. C. Chamberlain, {Ne woman he first married, and just forty-one years from the first wed- ding. The bullding ordinance at Sionx Falls has been declared Invalid by the supreme court. Joe Kirby, an attorney, built a building con- trary to the building ordinance. The lower court held him llable and he appealed the case. He argued that it was unconstitutional in that It gave sweeping and arbitrary powers to the building Inspector. Some months ago the supreme court of South Dakota, by a decision that beer did Dot mecessarily mean an intoxicant, and the court could hold it o in any case, brought down the wrath of the prohibitionists. Last week the court squared fiself in another case by holding as follows: The courts of this state will take notice that the beverage known as lager beer is an intoxicating liq- uor, The leading results of the invi kota |s that 16.19 per cent of the farm fami- lies hire and 83.81 per cent own the farms cultivated by them; that 52.38 per cent of the farm owning families own subject to incum brance and 47.62 per cent own free of in- cumbrance, Among 100 farm families, teen hire their farms, forty-four own with incumbrance, and forty without incumbrance. On the owned farms tlere are llens amount- ing to $15,481,634, wh the average rate of 9.52 per cent, making the average annual interest charge $68 to each family. Each owned and incumbered farm, on the average, is worth $1,846, and is sub- ject to a debt of $712 COLORADO. The last outstanding railroad bonds of Boulder county, which is $200,000, have been paid. The Lion mine at Empire has developed a body or ore four feet wide, which assays §22 per ton in gold and a small per cent in sil- ver, The Argyle company, which is mining ex- tensively in Gilpin county, has developed a vela eighteen inches wide, in the eighth level of one of its properties that yields $638 per ton. A Denver miner had a considerable quan- tity of Baker contract ore tested by local as- rs. Sixty-four assays returned an aver- age of $15 in gold to the ton. The ore is considered free milling, La Belle, the new gold camp, has between 600 and 700 people and more arriving every day. They report a vast deposit of gold- b ing ore of low grade, so easy to work that it would pay handsomely. In Montezuma camp, Summit county, where the ore runs largely in silver and lead, the low price of both metals has brought mining almost to a standstill. By the time the smelter has taken out his miner has nothing left if his shipment does mot close with a balance against him. The Red Jacket, North Polo and Silver Cord will continue to ship, as they are all in rich ore. A gigantic project is now under consid- eration by Prof. Joseph Hill of Leadville, an eminent geologist, which involves the driving of a tunnel to penetrate the center of Battle mountain, with the intention of culfing ail the. ore' chutes on the top. A fine ‘shuft hou: and’ extensive machinery will be erected at the mouth of the tunnel. Much interest has beeu created at this place and it is thought that a large body of ore will be opened up: J.'N. Clark and Tom Allen ‘have just shipped a sample of ore from the Elkhorn group at Bear creek, which 18 the richest mineral éver found4m ¢his district. The ore was assayed at thé Pueblo sampling works nad gives returns of 865 ounces of gold per ton and 3,855 ounces of silver, making the ore worth from $19,000 to $20,000 per ton. The owners claim that they have a fine body of this ore and that the sample was brought down from the point where the ore was first opened up. Kokomo, one of Summit county’s best known camps, and a great producer in the days of silver, has one mine which produces, at the present time 1,000 ounces in gold per month. It also contains one of the largest lead mines in the state, the Wilfley, which can 1ift 1,000 tons daily if the quotation and the market justify the work. The ore ship- ments of the camp are increasing so rapidly that the Denver & Rio Grande has provided extra service. The South Park road also reaches Kokomo, but its haul is up hill Still another rich strike is reported from Blanca. Mr. James L. Locke of Canon City has uncovered a vein near the Vesuvius mine from which assays were made running from $80 to $284 to the ton. It is clearly defined and is about eight feet wide. Several strikes nearly as good as this one have been made during the past three weeks. The camp is forging rapidly ahead and will soon become a heavy producer. It is so situated that all work can be carried on and pros- pecting done through the severest winter weather, WYOMING. A hunting party near Sheridan killed six bear, two of them grizzlies. There is considerable snow to be seen on the hills which surround Laramie. A new town to be called Barrett is to be laid out In the northern part of Crook county. A new and promising vein of gold has been aiscovered in the yicinity of the Centennial valley. Sheepman Bob Jones of Saratoga Is meet- ing with great success in raising Oxtord Down: Five apples were grown in Sundance this year, the first ever grown in the place. They were of the Siberfan crab variety. The Pennsylvania Oil company is making preparations to begin the shipment of oil from their Salt creek, Natrona county, wells in large quantities. Several syndicates have made arrangements for the shipment of Mexican cattle to the ranges of the west. The cattle can be bought there for §7 a head, Mayor Hurt of Casper received a telegram from Chicago stating that the sale of the $40,000 water works bonds has been made. It is expected that the city officials will be ;hla to begin work on the plant at an early late. Mr. Willlam Hernet of Otto brought a car- load of steers from the Grey Bull river over the mountains andshipped them to South Omaha. They averaged 1,625 pounds and s0ld for $4.20 pef ‘hundred. They netted him about $59 per- head. Report comes from Rass creek that during a recent storm a whirlwind picked up & two-story barn, 14x26, belonging to G. C LaPoint, ant ecorried /it about sixty feet and crashed it auainst,the side of a hill. His team was left standing tied to the manger. The Saratoga Suh'‘States that the business of feeding cattie in that region of the state for market is very profitable, and that a great deal of it wifl be done this year. A magnificent samplk ‘61’ wheat raised in the Star valley, in Uinta county; at an altitude of 6,000 feet, has heads over four inches long and is well filled with fine kernels. Some oats grown M !‘the same section pro- duced ninety bushels per acre. A canal is now bejng constructed by the Fettesan Canal * ¢onipany, which s the most important development enterprise ever undertaken in Couverse county. The canal taps the North Platte river on the south bank about five miles above Fort Fetter- man and extends down the river for a dis- tance of ten miles. The canal is fourteen feet wide at the bottom and has a capacity of 150 feet of water per second. This quan- tity of water Is amply suficient to Irrigate 10,000 acres of land. The Brockaways and other enterprising citizens of Douglas are be- hind the enterprise. Three miles of the ditch is already completed and the promoters of the enterprise hope to have the balance of the ten miles finished by next June. OREGON. Bd Rensiver, a Umatilla wheat king, h: threshed 65,000 bushels from his 3,100 acres. Complaints are numerous concerning thefts of flowers and vases from The Dalles cemetery. Quail are reported unusually numerous in Josephine county this year. In fact, It ls sald flocks are frequently seen within th limits of the corporation of the city of Grant Pass, During the bard winter of five years charges the gation of | farm and home proprietorship in South Da- | six- | is 38.56 per cent of | their value, and this debt bears interest at| Selling out Dissolution the Clothing The most gigantic sale of really fine j clothing ever inaugurated. ~—at this sale. . 170 ASSORTED posely for such and sacks, si 200 FINE ALL 250 BLACK AND FANCY WORSTED SUIT! cutaways and _sacks, wool and silk lined goods, all in Regent cuts, no merchant tailor can put up a better garment—at this sale only.... and stout. Hammerslough, Saks & Co. ble garmsnts, heavy weighss for fall wear, si 10 46-—go at this sale at. 200 FINE YOUNG MEN'S DR/ complete finished and stylish garment, in cutaways es trom 35 to 40—at this sale only..... shown , IN all some lined with satin; SUITS, MADE TO FIT SHORT made pu built persons, handsome and_dur 08, 31 WOOL CHEVIOT SUITS, IN sacks only, dark effects, go in this sale ut the ex- traordinary price of........... . Men’s Suits. PRINCE ALBERTS, IN BLACK CLAY WORST bound, double breasted, trinmed with Italian satin, 10 better made—the complete suit at this PRINCE ALBERTS INGRAY AND BROWN CLAY worsted, stitched, double or single breasted, lined with Italian satin, finest for the money sz $13.00 15.00 1250 10.00 10.00 . H. Cook Clothing Co., successors to Columbia Clothing Co., (3th and Farnam Streets, Omaha. ago quail were well nigh exterminated, as the snow covered their feeding grounds for several weeks. John Day Is promising itselt a wool- scouring plant in the near future; also a sash and door factory. Some of the farmers of eastern Oregon are buying Nebraska hogs and will feed them cheap Oregon wheat this winter. A levee, 1,300 feet long, s to be built at Pendléton, as a protection against the raging Umatilla. ' It will contain some 4.000 cubic | yards of earth and a large amount of riprap. Snow fell to the depth of six inches on some of the mountains north of Mitchell. The same day snow whitened the tops of the highest points, and in some places extended far down the mountain side. A rider who has just left the White Horse company tells the Outario News that this has been a good year for them and Harper Bros, These two companies have employed about seventy riders this season. They are the largest cattle owners from the Union Pacific to the Central Pacific. Their ranges extend from Willow creek to Chain springs, on the Winnemucea, Each company keeps a bunch of about- seventy-five saddle horses. Some of the range riders stay out two years without golng to town, and when a crowd of them Bo together they make things pretty lively around Winnemucca. WASHINGTON Oukesdale Is figuring on a system of water works. A bid of §24,000 has been offered. Hiliyard has no license ordinance, and its seven saloons run wide open all the time. Boys tend bar and are among the patrons. A petition asking the Okanogan county commissloners to order a vote on the que tion of removing the county seat from Con- conully to Chelan has been filed with the clerk of the board. It has about 700 names attached. Hop picking is still going on in the Puy- allup district, about 400 pickers being at work in the Meeker yards. The capacity | of the big kilns is not equal to the hops | picked, and so the pickers have to bo laid off part of the time. Showery weather has also been interfering with the work. Mrs. Oliver Warmoth is reported by the Colfax Gazette to have caught a trout in the North Palouse river that measured twenty-one inches in length and weighed five pounds. The big fish broke the line, but | Mrs. Warmoth pluckily waded into the water and rescued the line, the corks on ~hich kept afloat, and succeded in landing thy finest trout caught there for several years. Eighty-one per cent of the farms in this state are owned by the persons cultivating them, and of this number 73 per cent own freo of incumbrance. The debt on farms amounts to $6,966,100, or 2§ per cent of their value, subject to an average interest of 9.87 per cent. Forty per cent of the homes are owned by those who occupy them and 80 per cent own free of incumbrance, The debt on homes is $5,225,270. The theory that free gold quartz does not exist on the western slope of the Cascades has been exploded by the discovery of the Leroy group of claims a short distance southwest of Monte Cristo, says the Snoho- mish Eye. A nugget valued at about 75 cents was picked out of a piece of the quartz The ledge is s3id to be a mammoth one; and is located at an elevation of over 5,000 feet. It has been prospected with several tunnels, in all of which the free gold quartz s shown Twin Wah was brought into Spokane from Wenatchee by Deputy Marshal Thompson. | He is an aged Chinaman, who claims to| have boen engaged in placer mining along the Columbla river for twenty-five years, but had no opportunity to register under the Geary law. He speaks Chinook fluently and says there are white men m the Okanogan country who have known him for twenty- four years. The court gave him an oppor- tunity to procure afdavits of his long resi- dence in this country, with the view of permitting his registration as a Chinaman entitled to reside in the United States. He was one of the party of Chinese gold hunters who rocked out $10,000 in one season twelve miles below Wenatchee, and gave the place the name of Ten Thousand Dollar bar. MISCELLANEOUS, The Utah sugar factory has resumed work and sugar of the manufacture of 1894 is now on the market. An officor from Alaska says at the present rate of slaughter the seals will be extermi- nated within five years The Fort Hall reservation will, perhaps, be the next reseravtion thrown open to settle- ment in Idaho, and the day when this will be done is not far In the future, as every effort is being made to that end The September report of the statisticlan of tho Department of Agriculture has been re- ceived by the Western Colorado Academy of Sclences. The per cent of the matured peach crop of Colorado is the highest uf any state in the union, being 94 per cent of a Yull crop. California is second with 89 per cent. The first annual report of the Harqua Hala mine, Arizona, shows a surplus of $150,000, from which a 10 per cent dividend will be paid. Up to date the factory at Chino, Cal, has consumed 28,000 tons of Chino beets and nearly 6,000 from Anpaheim. Six and a half million pounds of sugar have been shipped. Every Industry of the territory is repre- sented at the Utah exposition, which opened October 2, and the exhibits, especially of agriculture and minerals, surpass anything shown In former years The Mountain Home Republican says: “Richard Benham of Owyhee county is in town showing some fine specimens from the rich strike he recently made on Quicksilver mountain, He took some of the rock to Boise a short tima ago and it assayed $565 of gold to’the ton, One of the largest depostts of gypsum in the entire country has been discovered and located on the Idaho side of Snake river, about six miles from Huntington. This gyp- sum s of excellent quality, easy of accese from the railroad, and properly located for easy and cheap working. Hay s practically worthless here this year, says tho Hailey (Idaho) Times, and many thousand tons have not even been cut. Early this season the price was $5 to $8 per ton, delivered in town. When the new hay began to come on the market the price fell until it is now from $2 to $4. The Alaska-Mexican Gold Mining company, operating in Alaska, shows a profit for Au- gust of §10,700. This is a London syndicate, In which the Rothschilds are interested. It will pay a dividend of-10 per cent at the end of the year and will increase its mill ca- pacity from sixty stamps to 120. Grading has commenced on the extension of the B, A. & P. rallroad to the Bitter Root. The light or surface work will be pushed from now until the cold weather sets in, when the heavy rock work will be started and kept up all winter, with the intention of having everything ready for the tracklayers early next season. Con- tractors also began operations on the high line from Rocker to the Anaconda mines in Butte, with about 600 men and 200 teams. Soma little mining excitement is reported from Salina over the discovery of some rich ver velns. It is understood that the find I3 near the mouth of what is known as Soldier canyon, three miles east of Salina. The ore is very lika that of the Siiver Reef. Assays of it run about $20 in lead, silver and gold— lead and silver $17.60, gold $2.50, on the surface. The owners of the mine promise to erect a mill and locate a townsite ac once. A canal to furnish water power is already surveyed. It is announced that the railroad running trom the port of Altata, on the Pacific coast, to the town of Culclacan has been pur- chased by a syndicate of New York capi- talists, and that it will immedlately be ex- tended to Durango, Colo., where connections will be made with the Mexican International road. The government concession for this road fncludes a road from Durango to the City of Mexico and to the port of Tampa P. Huntington is said (o be at the head of the new enterprise. 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