Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 29, 1894, Page 5

A THE OMAHA DAILY BEE.—LMONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1894. PULSEOF WESTERNPROCRESS| NEXT GOVERNOR OF NEBRASKA |t it its shoe] Fabulously Rich Mine Seoured by a Party of Bix Mon at Uripple Oreek. NETTING 81,000 A DAY FOR EACH MEMBER Whe Discoverer a Sixteon-Year-Old Boy— ‘olorado’s Condition in Plain Figare Not 1iadly in Debt- A Californin Colony~Northwestern News. The great mines of Battle mountain and Raven hill were among the first Important discoverles and contain some of the richest mines of the district. On Raven hill the mines of note occupy the southern slope. Thiough the two or three years of discovery und development In this section little atten- tioi has been pald to the possibilities of the morth side of Raven hill. True, all the ground has been loeated and some patents obtained. Among the patents were the three claims the Enterprise Mining company of Colo- rings. This property is situated mbout two miles southcast of Cripple Creek and tho clalms adjoin each other, stretching porizontally along the b begtnuing at the gulch, Less than a month ago a o of the mountaln, lad of 16 years, fhe son of a Swede teamster, says the Denver Mimos-Star, while passing over the ground of the middle claim picked up a piece of float which struck his fancy as somcthing good. He began to dig and unearthed peculiar kinds of | Fock at the surface, which, when sent by his father to Charlle Reuter of Pucblo, gave an mssay return of § the ton. When the result was shown a combination was formed, consisting of the Swede teamster and his partoer, the Loy, Charlie Reuter, W. H, Bweency and Hen T. Brooks. A two years' leaso on the property was secured, each of the parties nan the results of dev having a sixth interest in nent. Operations began & litte over two weeks ago, and the first day 0 the lessees that they had Btruck normous fortune. From the very as far as the de- welopment proceeded, - the T 18 a fra clouded quartz, every Beparate pi being densely impregnated ith gol uch of it visible to the naked eye. According to accounis given of first transactions $2,000 was the sum involved in securing the property, and this sum the prospect hole returned to the lessees the second day of work. With the progress of devel,pment the vein of three feet has widened and continues to g richer. It i8 too carly to determine a permanent average. Thus far six car loads have been shipped, and the last car averaged the enor- mous amount of eighty-three ounces of gold to the ion. After two weeks' actual development it is estimated that, with the limited possibilities of operation, the yield will not be less than §1,000 a day to each of the one-sixth finterests The boy has refused $150,000 for his one-sixth interest. Dolly Varden. are no one can con- ceive. It Is pronounced a true flasure vein and it runs across the famous Moose. Doubt- less it is one of the great veins that run en- This claim is the grea What its possibilitie tirely through Raven mountain. It is the great sensation of the entire district and attracts lundreds of spectators every day from all the towns, while it has also set scores of men a-digging all over the mountain ®ide in search of this or other veins believed to be equally rich. Mining men unhesitat- Ingly declare this vein contains millions of Hollars. Bul this discovery s not all. Since these eat resuits have been attained Kennedy, cKnight & ©Oo. have struck the Dolly Narden vein below and are now being con- od as prospective bonanza kings they are keeping cool and waiting For the proof of development. Ths great discovery leads naturally to the refiection that upon every hill where rich disc veries have been made, with thousands of prospects throughout the camp yet to be opened and explored, the history of mining Rere for many years to come will be a suc- cession of these marvelous finds, and there Is 1) telling what day the penniless pros- tor may stumble upon the rocks that con- BRin “Tueie ontiions. BOISE RIVER PLACERS. R. S. Wooden, who Is largely interested in placer and quartz mices on the middle fork of ti:e Boise river, has been spending a few days in this city, says the Boise Statesman Ass ys of ore from this ledge run §260 gold and ninety ounces silver per ton. Mr. ‘Wooden 15 very naturally greatly elated over the discovery. He thinks one of the leading mining camps of the state will in a few years be located on the middie fork of the Boise. That the #old and silver, too, for that matter, Is there 19 no longer any question. Al that is meeded now is development. A road is highly necessary, and at once, everything now hav- ing to be packed In from the mouth of More creck. Mr. Wooden has some very rich placer mines near the quartz claim. He and his partner, assisted a portion of the time by another man, worked all spring and summer on tho placers. They spent almost three wecks of that time bullding a ditch. It is understood they cleaned up $6,000. A. Hinkey of Nampa washed five pans of gravel from the Wooden claim, The result was brought to this city and weighed in the Capital State bank. There was found to be §1.70. This was Mr. Hinkey's first experience in panning,"and he probably lost anywhore from 20 to 40 per cent of the gold. 8 Mr. Wooden will return to his claims soon, prepared to spend the winter developing his quartz claim. UTAH RAILROADS. Utah railroads continue to come thick and fast. The latest development is the incor- poration of a company at Los Angeles, with Salt Lake City as the objective point. It Is believed, the Salt Lake Tribune says, that this Is a consummation of the plans of the Los Angeles Terminal company, which has expended over $1,000,000 in the improvement of terminal facilities at Los Angeles and San Pedro harbor. The Information concerning the incorporation is conveyed by an Associ- ated press dispatch, as follows LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 18.-Articles of incorporation of 'the Los Ange- les, San Francisco & Salt Lake Railway com- pany have been filed, the capital stock being $12,000,000. The road is to run from Los Angeles toward Salt Lake, Utah, through the counties of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Inyo, Kern, Tulare, Fresno, Merced, Stanis- taua, San Joaquin, Santa Clara and Alameda. In speaking of the rallway project Mr. C. 0. Baxter of St. Louls, who is connectad with the Gilson Asphaltum company and also with the projected railroad line from Cre- vasse, Colo., to the asphaltum fields of the Uncompahgre reservation, stated to a Tribune representative that there was no foundation for the press reports to the effect that con- struction work was about to commence. Ex- perimental lines are being run, and the field is being looked over in a preliminary way, for the purpose of ascertaining the feasibil- ity of such a road and the probable cost. The company will then probably wait until the Uncompahgre reservation s thrown opea before commencing operations, and it may be two years before it is opened. In speaking of the resources of the coun- try that would be reached by this line, Mr. Baxter sald the idea that the Uncompahgre reservation was a barren desert country was a great mistake. There are vast tracts of fertile lands that may be brought under cultivation, but it will require considerable capital to establish irrigation systems. ‘The Gibson company is not shipping a great deal of altum at present, as the industry is handicapped by the great oost of transportation, the mines belng situated ninety miles from the rallroad. RICH STRIKE AT TELLURIDE. Amother important producer has been added to the list by the strike made a few days ago on the Climax, one of the Flora group, in Savage hasin, says a Telluride special to the Denver New; For some time past James McWUllams and others, who have a three-years loase on the property, have had & double shift of men driving a ecrosscut to tap the climax vein, and when in about 300 feot encountered it, which is evea richer than the ore of the noted Japan, of whioh veln it Is an extension. Where the veln was cut ore impregnated with free gold was found in & twelve-inch gold quartz streak, which runs ten ounces in gold per tom, assoclated with about the same number of inches of high grade silver and lead ore. The strike is not only very gratifylng to the lessees, but to the owners of property, tha JUDGE SILAS A. HOLCOMB. THE CREDIT OF THE STATE. “When I am elected I propose to discharge my duty to the best of my ability, I will do everything that can be done to | bring about a safe, economical and conservative administra= |soon to be abie to make a run with the miil tion of the affairs of our state government and see to it that the faith and credit of thz state are maintained.” position f1all, September rr. Holcomb at E: — Judge LIEUT. GOV, MAJORS’ PLAN, Legislature of Ncbrasha, Twentrelh Session, Senate File No. 77.—A Bill for an Act to authorize counties, precincts, townships or towns, cities, villages and school districts to compromise their indebtedness and issue new bonds therefor., Introduced by T, Ocdered to second reading time. printer January 14, 1887. J. Majors, January 13. 1887; read first time. | January 14, 1887; read second Referred to Committee on Municipal Affairs. Sent to Be it Euvacted By the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: Section 1, That any county, precinct, township or town, city, village or school district is hereby authorized and em- powered to compromise its indebtedness in the manner here: inafter provided. Skc, 2. Whenever the county commissioners of any county, the city council of any city, the board of trustees of any vil- lage, or the school board of any school district shall be satis- fied by petition or otherwise® that any such county, precinct, township or town, city, village or school disirict is unable to pay in full its indebtedness and that a majority of the tax- payers of such county, precinct, township, or town, city, vil- lage or school district desires to compromise such indebted- ness, they are hereby empowered to enter into negotiations with the holder or holders of any such indebtedness of what- ever form for scaling, discontinuing or compromising the same. *Note the word “otherwise.” Japan and Sultana, as the point where the intersection was made is much below any of their present workings and conclusively proves that the ore of the Japan not only re- tains its high grade silver value, but that its gold value increases cuormously with depth. J. W. Beam, owner of the Japan, is ship- ping first-class ore steadily, which nets him a handsome profit, as it runs from $80 to $100 in silver per ton and from $40 to $50 in gold. In the meantime he has three shifts employed driving a cross-cut to tap the vein 110 feet below the present workings, which will be accomplished almost any day. When this is done an upraise will be driven to connect with the upper workings, which will open up the mine for an output second only to the Smuggler-Union. The force will be largely increased, These three properties, Japan, Climax and Sultana, promise to employ several hun- dred men In the near future and produce an output equal to the famous Smuggler- Union and Sheridan. OREGON MINERS IN LUCK. Ashland Is feeling particularly well over the latest mining strike, says the Portland Oregonlan. Two practical miners, Mattern and Sackett, have been at work in a prospect tunnel, on iand belonging to G. F Biilings, about a mile north of Ashland, a tunhei which was abandoned by an Ashland company last winter, after it had been driven more than 100 feet. The old company ran by the ledge they were looking for without knowing it. Mattern and Sackett found a five-foot fissure, and in thelr prospect drift upon it have taken out considerable pay rock., They sent four and a half tons of the ore to the Selby smelter at San Francisco, and their re- turns showed that It yielded, gross, about $1,600, and netted them here, above all charges, $1,200.98. They are believed to have a true fissure vein, and a valuable prop- erty. GOLD AT LAKE OHOP. Antone Jackson, Edward Jackson, R. M. Schotzko and George Frassle think they have made discoveries of gold and silver quartz and iron ores in the vicinity of Lake Ohop that will eventually give them for- tunes and add immeasurably to the wealth of Plerce county, says the Tacoma Ledger. Alrcady they have flled mining claims in the auditor's office, The locations are on sections 1 and 12, township 16, range 4 east. The gentlemen were in the city and were very enthusiastic over their finds.” Of course, they admit that development has not pro- ceeded far enough to reveal the true qualities of the claims, but they are Colorado miners and claim that the prospects are superior to anything they ever saw around Pike's Peak. around Lake Ohop, and in fact everywhere about Mount Tacoma, is wonderfully rich in all kinds of minerals. They have spent the summer up there and propose to make it their permanent home. They have named it Camp Jackson. As soon as they go into the development a little more, they intend to enlist capital and push the work for all there is in it. A COUGAR VISITS PORTLAND, While Portlanders are inclined to boast of the progress and splendor of their great city and look back on the semi-barbarism of the old ploneer days as a faded reminiscence, soma little incident crops out now and then, says the Portland (Ore.) Sun, which goes to show that they are not yet wholly out of the woods, though people have ceased to shoot deer from the doorstep and decorate the walis of the smokehouse with eoonskins. The other day the family of Captain W. A. Custer, whose residence s oo Barnes' Helghts, were startied to see an Immenso cougar at the front porch sniffing the air knowingly and coolly taking in the surround- ings, then wandering away to the woods as it his curiosity was satisfied. When hungry these powerful animals are both flerce and feariess, and will not hesitate to attack a human being. It was just as well, no doubt, that none of Captain Custer's ohildren ha; pened to be playing in the yard on thia casion. The results of the census investigation of farm and home proprietorship ln Colorado show in regard to farms that 16.91 per cent of the farm families hire and 80.39 per cent They declare that the whole region | own the farms cultivated by them; that 25.48 per cent of the farm-owning families own subject to incumbrance, and 74.52 per cent own free of incumbrance. Among 100 farm famflies, twenty hire their farms, twenty own with incumbrance and sixty without incumbrance. On the owned farms there are liens amounting 1o$5,573,154, which is 32.29 per cent of their value, and this debt bears interest at the average rate of 9.23 per cent, making thé average annual interest charge $131 to each family. Bach owned and encumbered farm, on the average, is worth $4,597, and is subject to a The corresponding facts for homes are that 50.70 per cent of the home familie hire and 40.30 per cent own their home: that of the home-owning families 77.30 per cent own free of incumbrances and 22.7 per cent with incumbrance. In 100 home families, on the average, 60 hire their homes, 9 own with Incumbrance, and 31 without Incumbrance. The debt on owned homes aggregates $9,424,117, or 34.77 per cent of their value, and bears interest at the aver- age rate of 8.64 per cent, 5o that the amount of interest to each home averages $137. An average debt of $1,583 encumbers each home, which has the average value of $4,562. There are three cities in the state in the class of those having a population of 8,000 t0 100,000, and in these citics 62.71 per cent of the home families hire arl 37.29 per cent own their homes, and of the home- owning families 25.99 per cent own with in- cumbrance and 74.01 per cent own free of incumbrance, In 100 home families, on the average, are found sixty-threc that hire their homes, ten that own with incumbrance and twenty-seven that own without incumbrance. The liens on the owned homes are 34.91 per cent of the value of those subject to the llen. Several averages show that the rate of in- terost is 8.86 per cent; value of each owned and encumbered home, $4,225; lien on same, $1,475, and yearly Interest charge on each home, $131. DUST OF ARIZONA. Ed Wagoner has brought in $400 in gold dust taken from the Placeritas, Oak creek and lower Hassayauapa, says a Prescott spe- cial to the Denver News. In addition to his placer claims Mr. Wagoner owns and is de- veloping the Recorder mine. At present he is down but thirty feet and showed up a three-foot vein of ore, which assays $200 per ton in gold. Mill runs have produced $190 in gold. In the Austin mine, Santa Marla district, the shaft is completed 100 feet, and a three- foot body of ore exposed, which runs $175 per ton, and five feet running from 37 to $30 per ton gold. The owners will soon begin making shipments of ore. The new railroad is now completed to within sixteen miles of Santa Maria. B. Wagoner has made a new find at the bend of Castle creek, which runs $600 per ton in_gold R. H. Roberts has located & claim near the Castle creek smelter. The ledge is four feet wide at the surface and the ore runs $42 per ton and Is free milling, J. F. Dilion has discovered the extension of the old Austin ledge, from which thirty years ago, over §100,000 was taken by the arastra process. The new discovery is elghteen inches wide at the surface and is located twelve miles south of Prescott. from the old Austin milled $30 per ton, and it is thought the new location will run fully as high. CO-OPERATIVE FARMING. The advance guard of the Altrurians' col- ony has arrived here, and soon ground will be broken upon the land which they have se- cured for a settlement on Mark West creek. about seven miles north of this city, says Santa Rosa, Cal., special to the San Fran- clsco Chronicle, Almost 2,000 acres have been purchased in a fertile, well wooded, well watered local- ity. Much of the soil is already under cul- tivation, producing fruit, grapes, grain and hay in abundance, consequently ocompar tively little this ““fratersal co-operative farm’ occupants. The government of the colony will be vest- od in a president, vice president and an ex- ecutive councll, chosen from among the mem- for its Ore | bor needs to be done to prepare | There will be no mohey, checks of the colonlsty w ness there. The pay for a day’s work will be uniform, but @ member having a hard or disagreeable task will be favored in a mat but the personal I be used for busi- g0 abroad may cash, thedf checks for coin of the realm, but they will be always under the supervie!on of the council Obedience unquestioning will trom all. share in the produ profit_and_speclal privileges are to tained, and all are to carry work in a spirit of fraternity RICH ARIZONA MINE. A valuable strike has just been made by Arthur Lane, formerly of Aspen, Walker, Ariz., special (o the Denver News. He has a lease and bond on eleven mines in the vielnity of Lynx creek. sunk forty feet and had ore in the bottom fif- teen inches wide that assays twenty-five ounces silver and three to four ounces gold. The water drove them out, as they could not handle it with a windless. He then started a tunnel 1o come in under the shaft and struck the vein fifty feet from the shaft. It has been followed twenty-séven feet. The ore averages two to four feet in width and assays from two to eight onnces gold and ten to fifteen ounces silver to the ton, besides twenty per cent in lead be Hach worker is to have an equal exacted be ob on the common THE DAKOTAS. Fort Sully is now virtually abandoned, troops having left to make future head- quarters at Fort Niobrara, Neb. imore Forks. | The Rowena quarries are running in blast, about one hundr and Superintendent Me | large the force right D., have been removed to Grand full 1 men are employed ath expects to en- along. | Ole Nelson of the Nelson Milling company | of Lisbon has recently returned from a bu [iness trip to England and Norway, where he made arrangements for the handling of the products of the Lisbon mill. Work on the Four Mile gold property at Custer City still progresses. They expect to determine the value of the ores. The mine is one of the best in the countr Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Consolidated Apex Mining company | of Rapid City. Capital stock, $2,000,000 | Articles have also been filed for the Indus- trial Unfon, a tew labor organization, with headquarters at Sloux Falls, Stoux Falls has been made the defendant in two damage suits amounting to $8,500. One suit was instituted by W. P. Carr for $4.000 and the other by Jullus Pfieffer for )0. These men claim that by the city tructing a viaduct and grade their prop- was depreciated and damaged to the ut sued for A movement is on foot at Aberdeen to organize a co-operative colony. The matter has been under discussion by the Populist | club, and it is expected something definite | | will result in_a rhort time. Among other suggestions oftered {s one that Columbia, 8. D., be secured as the central city or vil- | lage from which the commune would op- | erate the surrounding lands. The first text book o be put out by one connected with the South Dakota State uni- versity has been placed in the hands of the printers at Vermillion. It is an_analysis of | the ciyil government of- South Dakota and of the United States. The book will contain about 100 pages, and the matter includes much not found i other text books, taking, as it does, both the constitution and the | session laws as a ba:ls of observation. In style it is closely condensed, and the authors, Profs. Smith and) Young, aim to make of it a fext book that will supersede the more heavily padded treatises. The industrial urfon which was organized at Sioux Falls last:$pring has grown to have a membership of over 1. Other unions have been started at neighboring towns, and now what Is to be known as the industrial unfon of South Dakotp has been organized and_tho corporation, papors fled at Plorre, The state organizer Wil appoint deputies for the work of organfzing local unions over the state. The union holds weekly meetings for the discussion of social and political ques- tions. The state unlon is calculated to be a bureau of information and will collect facts and figures of interest 10 its members, There is also a charitable and mutual benefit fea- ture. With regard to educational facilities, South Dakota takes a very forward place in the long list of states, and in a few years will have a school fund that will reach way up nto the millions of dollars, only the interest on which can be used for the support of | the public schools. Upon admission as a state the government set apart 2,823,320 acres to be used for school purposes, and the state constitutional convention put a clause in the constitution that mone of this land could be sold for less than $10 an acre. Upon In- vestigation of the books in the office of the commissioner of school and public lands, it is found that up to date 147,492 acres have been sold for $1,702,480. COLORADO. Leadville's annual gold product Is esti- mated at $3,000,000. The Oregon mine, Freeland camp, has a three-foot vein of §65 ore. The pay roll at the Victor mine, Cripple Creek, now includes seventy-eight men. A breast of rich ore has been developed in the New York-Chance mine, Crecde district. A thirty-stamp mill is being erected at the Luck Joo mine, in the Leadville gold belt. The Moose mine has the deepest shaft in Cripple Creek district. It is down about 400 feet. 1t is estimated that Cripple Creek is now shipping at the rate of 2,000 carloads of ore per month. The output of the Little Johnny mine Leadville, {s estimated at $200,000, with large supplies of ore blocked out. A rich ore body has been opened up in the Climax mine, Telluride distriet. It runs about ten ounces in gold and carries a streak of lead. It is reported at Colorado Springs that the ore schute of the Smuggler has been discovered on the morth end of the Mollie Gibson. The Pike's Peak railroad is running full trains to the summit nearly every day. This is quite Temarkable for the middle of October, The Argyls Mining company has struck rich ore in the East Topeka mine, Russell district. The strike was made in the 800- foot level. A four-foot vein of ore has been opened fn the Cardinal mine, Cripple Creek, which assays $460 per ton. The force of miners has been doubled. Ore receipts of[the Denver smelters av- erage 1,231 tons per day, showing a gain of 23 per cent over' thé average during the first half of the year. The output of the Portland Mining com- pany, at Cripple Cregk, for the month of September is placed at $130,000. One car load of less than nine tons netted the com- pany $16,500. The New England Mining company, which owns about seventy acres of land in the Leadville gold belt, halt a mile from the Little Johnny, Is préparing to resume opera- tions. It will develop on a large scale. Negotiations are . under way for the sale of the Slide gold mine, located in Gold Hill district, Boulder county. This prop- erty has a record” at the Omaha-Grant smelter for $250,000;ithe ore averaging, for |a good sized veip, $150 per ton. The Willow Cauyon Mining company has been: organised Wilh ‘8 capital stock of $500,000. The company will operate placer ground in the Hahns peak basin, a greater | portion of the ground being that formerly claimed and operated by the Mackey-Milner company of Boulder. The Georgetown Miner reports of the Lyon group of pire gold district, the sale mines in the Bm New York parties are | the purchasers and ‘the price paid fs $20,- | 000. * The new company hae already taken possession and it is their intention o bulld | & mill at once for the treatment of their own | ores. Denver is the ouly eity in the state having | & population of more than 100,000. In this |eity 70.89 per cent of the home families |hire and 2.11 per cent own their homes, 35.89 per cent of the home-owning families have incumbrance on their homes, and 64.02 per-cent own and occupy homes fres of in- cumbrance. Amang 100 families, on the aver. age, seventy-ome hire, ten own with Incum- ter of hours of labory Mgmbers desiring to | all the labor; private | | Huron is experlencing the greatest re- | ligious revival in the history of the city. midweek sabbath was last week observed. The headquarters of the Dakota division of the G Northern rallroad, formerly at | | opposite Copper hill. says a | One of them he | | | | The pick of over 350 suits from some of the finest all made will be in one lot tomorrow to stir up the business at less than half TOCTNET PRIOE .+ o4 awien v whs viavs & wool cheviot sacks These suits will advertise us. TOMORROW. Don't pay any attention to this Unless you want a $12 suit for $6.50. You will buy one—so will your friend— . H. Cook Clothing Co successors to Columbia Clothing Co., 13th and Farnam Streets, Omaha. Constipaiion. CupL BEFORE ano AFTER \fforers i TPIDENF Is tho only known ry guaranten glven The reason Prostatitis, rage for each owned and incumbered Incumbrance, $2,304; value, $6,544; in- terest charge for one year, $181; rate’ of interest, 7.07 per cent. Homes are incum- red for 85.20 per cent of their value. The Centennial, Georgetown's gold pro- ducer, is described as looking better than ever. On the 500-foot level east a body of ora eight feet wide is exposed running well in copper and gold and fairly well in silyer. The same level west also has a two-foot streak of solid ore of the same value, which demonstrates that the deeper this mine Is worked the larger and more permanent the ore chute becomes. A big strike was made on the Evening Star claim, which is located near the Black Joe tunnel, in the Balfour district. A well defined vein four feet in width was found, which runs $572.83 gold and §992 silver, There is several tons of this mineral bearing porphyrite in sight and is certainly one of the biggest strikes in this district. The claim is owned by W. K. Withrow. A 100- pound assay will be made immediately. The first determined step to discover the and have yielded from $800,000 to $1,000,000, but all efforts to find the veln from which the precious mincral comes have been frult- less. WYOMING A cheese factory is in operation at Glen- rock, in the central part of the state. The registration in Casper this year Is 40 per cent greater than two years ago. It Is estimated that it will cost the Pacific $10,000 to repair the soda branch at Laramie. A numper of specimens of yellow ochre and white chalk were recently discovered in the vicinity of Casper. The soda works at Laramie will soon be in operation and they will give employment to & large number of men. The Lander Gazette says that the Lander Trancportation company has already bought 20,000 pounds of oats in Lander this season, paying $1.25 per hundred for the same. The output of the coal is larger than ever before in the history of the camp. On an average about sixty carloads of coal are mined every working day. Union lakes A. 8. Austin, a ranchman in the Big Horn basin, raised 3,000 pounds of onlons on a patch of ground thirty-five feet one way and ninety feet the other. Eight onions were picked from the lot which weighed twenty- two pounds. R, S. Bradley of Newcastle intends to sink a well on the Belle Fourche near the mouth of the Wind river, with the expectation of striking a flow of ofl. It is generally be- lieved that an abundance of petroleum under- lies that section of the country. From an authoritative source the informa- tion comes that the Colorado smelter people haye secured control of the four min & at Hart. ville which they wanted from the first. Work will soon be commenced and large shipments of ore made from the mines to Denver and Pueblo. The Douglas papers report that a number of filings of land in Converse county have recently been made at the Douglas land office. Homeseckers are getting In shape to take advantage of the opportunities that will be offered under the operation of the arid fand bill. Jules Musgrove, who took a train of cattle belonging to the Swift Cattle load om. pany (o the Omaha markoet, disposid of thirteen car loads at an average price of $3.75 per hundred, the highest price ob- tained for Wyoming cattle this season. John 8. Watkins brought to Laramie some samples of platinum ore taken from a new mine located by him on the main range An assay made shows that it will run over $5,000 to the ton. Mr. brance and ulneteen without lucumbrance. Watkins s conlident that there is unow tion of famous French physician, wil quickly cure you ! ners YOuS O digiases of Lo KORETALVS Oriziis, Subh s Tost Menhoon great gold vein of Hahns peak has been aken this fall by the Oro Cache Tunnel com- capitalized at Des Moines, Ia., for | §500,000. The company has started opera- tions to run a tunnel directly into the peak with the view of cross-cutting the enc y rich vein. The placer grounds about mountain have been worked since 1866 mines at Carbon | oguinal misstons, Nervous Debilioyy « Bxhaosting Drains, Varicocele an ENE clean: L omtnsollfig':ummum the kidneys and the urinary LCUPIDENE atrengthens and restores small weak organs. cured by Doctors is bocause ninoty per cent ara troubled with edy to eure without an operation. 5,000 tese 28 not effect a per- imontals. For salo by | | enough in sight to make his claim a very rich property. Ranchmen on the Big and Little Laramle rivers in Albany county say that they never raised such immense crops of potatoes as were grown there this year. John M. Deer- ove has made affidavit that he raised 1,056 bushels of potatoes on one acre of ground. OREGON. Curry county is expeeting a colony of 100 Texas families. The Port Orford Tribune is using a 16-inch potato for a paper weight. A hammerless gun factory will start up on quite a creditable scals at Eugene the last of the month some time. J. J. Morgan has sold 184 acres off the Isaac Butler dovation land claim, in Wash- ington county, for $13,800. lmon to the value of about $3,000 have already been purchased by the Empire can- nery from Coquille fishermen. Tho company which bought. the Mountain Lion mine in Josephine county a few months since has twenty-seven men employed, Mining locatlons have been made at Devil's Park, at the head of the Cheteo, near the California line. San Francisco capital is be- hind the enterprise. The Fisher family of s | and a baby arrived at from the Mississ | the plains all the way. |during the trip. . Potter, a Sheridan grain dealer, says | that 5,000 hels of wheat have been tak to the Dayton station by team from the im- mediate vicinity of Sheridan, in successful competition with the railroad tariffs. The Hammersly mine, in Jump-oft-JToe dis- trict, continues to pay regular divdends, and is doubtless one of the Lest In the state. A chunk of gold, valued at over $1,400, was brought to the bank at Medford, being the result of the run just completed. The number of hopyards that have been left unpicked in Clackamas and the counties south is pumerous. The Oregon City Courler thinks that as hops are now but 6 to 6% cents a pound, and the cost of raising them is 8 cents, those growers that saved their crops are not much better off than those that did not, A belligerent owl came fo grief at Grant's Pass the first of the week. Mrs. G, N. Bolt opened the barn door in the morning and the owl drove her out. Then Bolt went | after it with a revolver, and the owl showed | & spirited fight. It was finally killed with en grown persons m a day or s0 ago valley, by team across The baby was born from tip to tip. At a Corvallis furniture seen samples of sugar cane store are to be grown on the farm of Henry McElmurry. in the vicinity of Tangent. The seed came from Arkan- sas was plantel late In May. The samples are over seven feet in height, matured snd thrifty, and the juicy pith has | the genuine Louisiana sugar cane taste, both in sweetness and flavor. A sample of the growth will be submitted to the experiment station for test. Mc murry is convinced that sugar cane can be grown in Oregon, and will try the experiment over again next year, —— Oregon Kidney Tea cures all kidney trou- bles, Trial size, All druggists L T A Lesson in Journa Boston Transeript: Prof ism—If you were called upon to report a dog fight, what would be your governing consideration? Class—To Increase the sporting circula- tlon without driving away the religlous readers, Professor—How is this to be accom- plished ? Class—By deploring the brutality of the exhibition and then describing it Protessor—What destroys barns? Class—The fire fiend. ' Professor—What did the scene do? Class—Beggared description. Protessor—That will do for today. 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