Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 12, 1894, Page 5

PULSEOF WESTERNPROCRESS Quarries of Immense Valne Discovered in Arisona by a Oolorado Pioneer. L THOGRAPH STONE AND FIGURED ROCKS Memarkable Figurations Resembling Beal intings on the Natural Polished Mar- ble—VPlerre's Artesian Water Care— Genoral Westorn News . P. Sykes, one of the Colorado ploneers, who loft this state in 1876 and went to Ari- zoua, pas ed through the city, says the Den- ver Republican, being on his way to New York with a car load of lithograph stone, which he is taking there to have tested. Colonel Sykes came to Colorado in the spring of 1860 and engaged in mining at Nevadaville, where he located the American Flag and Lacrosse mining claims, and after- ward organized the companies bearing those names. Of these companies he has been a director for a continuous term of thirty-two years. He later emligrated to Arizona and settled at the old Spanish town of Calabasas on the Santa Cruz river. Meeting with very little success in mining he took to farming and a little over a year ago made the dis- covery that within a stone's throw of the <abin in which he lived for nearly a score of years lay what now promises to make him a anillionaire While prospecting along the little gulch which runs past his house he picked up a pecul'ar plece of stone, which had much the appearance of kaolin, but which was harder and of a peculiar texture that was different from anything that he had ever seen Having spent years In prospecting he was naturally curious to learn what his discovery might prove to be, and when he went to Ben- son a few weeks later took the stone with Lim to have it analyzed. In the meantime ho had followed the “float” and discovered @ large ledge of this peculiar rock. Imagine his surprise upon learning that he had discovered a stone suitable for litho- ®raphie work, and for which prospectors have Buen searching over almost the entire world There is now only one quarry fn the world from which lithograph stone is taken, and this Is in Bavaria, Germany. From this German quarry the entire world is supplied and of late years so great has been the de- mand for the stone that its price has ad- vanced to $500 per ton, and the quarries have been worked until ‘an end is In sight and the supply is almost consumed. Taking these facts into consideration it will be seen that the discovery is a most important one, not only for Mr. Sykes, but for lithographers as well. ART THROUGH NATURE'S HAND, Speaking of the formation in which this find was made Mr. Sykes dwcribes it as a large hill w.th a sandstone cap, vader which lies a stratum of fine block marble that pol- ishes like onyx. This airatum of miarble, e states, 1= from three to five feet in thick- mess and underneath it is a stratum of lithographic stone from fifteen to thirty feel thick. Below this comes another stratum which {s a puzzler to scientists, but which Mr. Sykes calls “figuration stone.’ In texture it is quite similar to the litho- graphic stone, but more like marble. This stons is of all the colors of the rainbow &nd in it s reproduced londscape views, human forms and images of wild animals in a pro- fusion that is simply wonderful. Mr. Sykes has forty blocks of this stone which he is taking cast with him to place on exhibition in the Museum of Natural History in Central park, New York. He had several of these Dlocks, no two of which were alike, in his valise, and their exhibition at the St. James attracted mueh attention. On the polished surface of one of the blocks nature has reproduced the likeness of a woman's face and bust, the head sur- mounted by a wreath of flowers, and in the hand o seepter. This phenomenon has more the appearance of a work of art than of a stone formation taken from mother earth, but aven as an artificial production it would prove a great wonder. Another of the stones shows a landscape view of a miniature lake, surrounded by trees, mountains rising in the background, the whole being probably 4 perfect reproduction of some mountain valley. In another is to be scen the coun- terfeit of a mountain lon standing upon a huige bowlder. Another shows the likeness of an umbrella tree as seen in southern Arizona, while all rorts of fantastic forms may be traced in the different colored stones. The pervading colors are a dark drab or gray body through which courses streaks of light reddish brown, the combined coiors furnishing these peculiarities in the rock. *‘Figuration rock” teems a good name for this peculiar formation, which has thus far failed to receive its 'proper classification from the sclentists who have seen it. Mr. Sykes states that he can take out blocks of this stone twenty feet square with- out a crack or flaw, and the samples he has With him show that the stone can be sawed into slabs the same as marble, making this form valuable as wainscoting and for orna- mental work. Mr. Sykes does not seem especially elated over his discoveries, and although a man of probably 70 years of age, does not appear 10 appreciate the real importance of what ke has found. RICH MINE IN ARIZONA. The recent purchase by W. H. Yankee and 8. 8. Kennedy, two well known Colo- rado mining men, of a half Interest in the Venezia group of mines ifi Arizona, thirteen miles from Prescott, is attracting much at- tention to that part of Arizona, says the Denver Republican. The Venezia group consists of eight claims, each 1,500 feet long by 600 feet wide. It ‘was discovered some years ago by a Spanish prospector, who went broke in Prescott and 100k to prospecting as a last resource. The legend goes that he left Prescott with the Jast dollar he possessed In the wor'd. After making the strike he sent for his wife and daughter, and the three of them worked with the old-fashioned arrastras until they bad taken out nearly $30,000. Last summer the property passed into the hands of Mr. Combs and others. The consideration of the Tecent sale has not been made public, but it is understood to be In the neighborhood of $50,000, Mr. Combs, speaking of the Venezia mines, sald they had been opened up to the extent of over 2,000 feet. With the exception of one cross-cut tunnel all the workings average from $10 to $150 per ton. The vein averages from two to sixteen feet In width. At the present time there are 67,708 tons of ore in sight, worth 320 per ton above milling ex- penses. The ore has heretofore been treated by arrastras, six of them being in operation at the present time, There fs an abundance of water—so much so that during the winter months the machinery is driven by a twenty- four foot water wheel. It is the intention of the new owners to erect a twenty-stamp mill, to be in operation before January 1. It is expected that the output of the mines will then be $1,000 in bullion per day. Ex- perts have pronounced the Venezia group one of the largest propositions in northern Arizona. Talking about Arizona mines yesterday, « Mr. Combs said: “There is one pecullarity about the ayerage miner there, and that is, . he works the surface only, taking out the ore that is free and can be milled in an arrastra, and throwing up his hands when * he strikes the sulphides at water level And yet experience has shown that these sulphide ores are the most valuable In the mines. This has been invariably demon- strated where depth has been obtained.” Mr. Yankee was one of the first strike it rich in Leadville in early da; Yankee hill Is named In honor of him. < Afterward he transferred his fortune to the Park reglon, at Aspen, and took out a pot of money there. AL present he is one of the « larges owners in the Golden Fleece property at Lake City. TO DEVELOP THE WEST. The convention of the Transmississipp “Commercial congress will be held in St. Louis November 26. This date was fixed 50 that the meeting could be attended by the newly slected senators and congressmen at Wash- tngton, D. C., says the San Francisco Exam- mer, and also In order that the ncarness of the meeting to the next session of congress may give it additional effect upon the action of that body in matters of western legislation. The chairman of the county Boards of Su- Porvisars of every county west of the Missis river, some 1,300 in all, have been com- with and requested to appoint dele- THE OMAHMA DAILY BEE: i gates, one from each county, In addition to the commercial delegates and those appoiated by mayors and governors. Over 600 commer- elal organizations west of the Mississippl river also have the right of naming three delegates each. The meeting is being arranged with careful business management, under the auspices of the Merchants exchange of St. Louls, and a | permanent organization upon a commercial basis will be effected. “Irrigation” will be made the special order | at one entire session. One whole session will be devoted to the silver question, while an- | other may be taken up by the Nicaragua eanal question. A feature of the coming meeting I8 the run- ning of a special train from the Pacific coast through to St. Louls, taking the California delegation In a special car and the delegations from other states joining the party as they pass through. PIERRE'S CURATIVE GUSHER. With the tapping of an immense flow of water at a depth of 1,200 feet In the new artesian well, says a Plerre special to the St. Paul Pioneer-Press, began a new epoch which will make it one of the leading health resorts of the country. About eighteen months ago the United States government drove a well at its Indian Industrial school at this place, the water of which was found to contain many medicinal properties, both for internal and external use. By permission of the gov- ernment a small bath house was erected near the well, and people came from far and near, both from this state and others, to try its curative powers, and many, some almost won- derful, cures were reported, especially in cases of rheumatism and diseases of the skin, liver, spleen, kidneys, stomach and Intestines, One ‘of the most noticeable and pronounced cures effected by the water was that of scrof- ulous sores on Indians. The red man, owing to his filthy manner of living and the fact that their principal food is meat, are always subject to scrofula, and there seemed to be no remedy that would cure it. Soon after the putting in of the baths at the school it was noticed that this malady was disappear- ing, and upon investigation it was found that the water was curing it. The great crowds going to and from the baths disturbed the little redskins in their studies and the au- thorities ordered the house removed. Seeing and appreciating the great value that such a well would be to the city, Plerre's enterpris- ing business men decided to have a well of thelr own. In July last they began their labors, and standing in the glare of the light the other night from the natural gas which flows from the well they realized their fond- est hopes. The new well must have tapped the same vein as the one at the Indian school, for in volume, temperature and pressure they are almost identical, and local physicians say that, upon hasty examination, the water ap- pears to contain the same mineral medicinal properties. A sanatorium and natatorium will be built immediately in connection with a hotel, which is owned by wealthy New Yorkers who are on the ground and who say they will spare no expense to make Pierre one of the greatest health resorts of the north- west. GENTLEMAN “LO" NOW. It is estimated that fully 1,000 Yankton Indians have pitched their tents around the race track just south of town, says a recent Armour special to the Minneapolis Tribune. In fact, they have literally taken the place. It is a peaceful conquest, however, they be- ing here by special invitation of the business men of the city. The object s to establish friendly and last- ing business relations with the tribe, for their trade is now most desirable. 1t Is “poor Lo” no longer; instead, a friendly “how”” and a hearty hand shake awaits them on every side. The reason for this Is that in accordance with the terms of the treaty concluded With the tribe last December their scouts have been pald $225 each, in all $11,475, and the first payment on the land of $100,000 and $20 each for signing the treaty, with interest, amounting to $100,000, will be paid during the month of November. They have already made large purchases of our business firms on credit, and are now pay- ing promptly as agreed. To continue these friendly relations it was deemed advisable to banquet the Indians. The invitation was oxtended and the head chief accepted. A formal presentation of the provisions donated took place at the fair grounds. A large procession of citizens led by the Ar- mour band joined the Indians at the race track. Speeches were made by Chiefs John Gassman, Medicine Cow, Running Bull and Blue Cloud, with W. T. Selwyn and Peter Pecotte acting as interpreters. The chiefs assured their white friends of their good will. ~ “That they now had plenty of cash in their hands and knew the value of it. That they hoped to get along pleasantly with their white friends.”" These speeches were responded to by W. H. Tipton on behalf of the cltizens, welcoming the Indians to the city and assuring them that they wouid always receive fair and just treatment in Armour. The Indians werc then presented with large quantities of tea, coffee, sugar, flour, et mutton and seven beeves, with the assur. ance of as much more as might be needed. BORING FOR GILPIN GOLD. In Gilpin county, in the vicinity of the Pine Creek district, the Old Kentucky Min- ing company has commenced work on its 2,000-foot tunnel, which will be prosecuted with reasonable speed all winter, so that the company will be able to produce dt least 200 tons per day early next fall. The explora- tions recently made In the Old Kentucky shaft, put down some years ago, says the Denver News, shows gold ore in large quan- tities worth $100 per ton. In addition to this there is a fair amount of low grade ma- terial which will be cuncentrated on the ground. The tunnel will start from Stewart gulch and will penetrate Lesem mountain, a dis- tance of 2,090 feet, ending in Pickle gulch, It will tap the vein at a point where levels can be run to advantage and where the workings can be drained at small cost. A plant of new machinery, costing $6,000, Is now in place. New buildings are being erected for the use of the men. When the tunnel is completed the company will have expended $100,000 in putting the mine In form for steady shipments. RICH MONTANA MINES, Another rich strike has been made by Thomas Cruse of this city, and in the same vicinity where he made his first one, says the Helena (Mont.) Independent. While de- veloping work on the North Star mine, ad- Joining * the Montana company’s property, Dick Dillon, in charge of the work, struck a lead of great size and phenomenal rich- ness. The lead first discovered on this claim was rich and rendered the property valuable, but it was not the lead which was believed to exist and which has been searched for for the last ten years, and which has only been discovered through the merest accident. The lead was struck in a granite formation and the ore carries a heavy per cent of silver, with free gold visible to the naked eye. No assays have as yet been made public, but some of the best mining men {n Marysville say that the rock will easily go from $1,500 to $2,000 per ton. News reached here that a six-inch vein of gray copper had been struck at elghty feet in the Muskegon, a well known property threa miles above Lump City. The owners of this mine, McKenzle and others, bonded it for $20,000 to C. E. Gable of Butte, who is now working it. The mine is one of the best in the Lump Guich district, and will undoubtedly make several fortunes for Mr. Gable. Another rich lead of ore was uncovered in the sixty-foot drift west of the Little Alma. This mine is owned by Helena par- ties, who have a splendid property In it. A contract has been let to sink another sixty feet on the drigt, Everything in Lump Guleh seems to be booming. ~ Not a day passes but adds to the bright prospects of the camp. Every one who has any investments there seems to have unhmited faith in the future of the district. Some of the properties are already paying well, and In a few months the out- put from its mines will be enormous. THE BLACK SCALE PEST, “The black scale has taken firm hold In all of the coast counties, and threatens to destroy & large number of orchards,” says Quaran tine Officer Crawford In the San Francisco Examiner. “Spraying and fumigation have cost many tens of thousands of dollars annu- ally and have only been pailiatives, not remedies. Orange, lemon, lime, olive, apricot and peach trees, as well as ornamental plants, are affected. The black scale has been here for thirty years, and is belioved to have been tmported from Europe, though I think its home s Australia. It has been spreading In- stead of being checked by the means hereto- fore adopted to combat it. Portions of the state not affected three years ago are now seriously #0. It was thought that the dry elimate of the interior would be fatal to its spread, but this is a mistake, drier and warmer than California, and that they were not to be exempt from the plague the people of San Bernardino county and the fruit growers in the vicinity of Riverside have learned to their cost. Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Orange and in general the coast counties, as well as the deciduous trees around Niles, have fallen victims to the pest. It weakens the frees, reduces their bearing qualities and renders the fruit in- ferfor in appearance and quality and often un- salable, “Fortunately the black ladybird was found by Albert Keebele, who was sent to Australia for that purpose by the State Board of Hor ticulture. The first of them arrived here in August, 1892. The pairs were placed by Elwood Cooper in his olive orchard at Santa Barbara. There they multiplied prodigiously, and in less than a_year were reported as a probable success. From there last fall I sent out colonfes, and this year have dis- tributed 600,000 over all of the intested dis trict. It takes at least a year to determine if they will show up well. They are gener- ally all liberated in one tree of an orchard and spread therefrom to others within a mile or so.’ MORE IRRIGATION IN COLORADO. Three hundred teams and scrapers are now at work excavating the Perkins county frri- gating ditch, says the Julesburg Sentinel. One hundred and seventy-five more teams will be employed as soon as the scrapers arrive, probably the first of next week. Only Perkins county men and their teams are being employed. The eapital stock, divided into shares of $10 each, is held by citizens of that county. No one person can pur- chase more than twenty-five shares, and there yet remains but 600 unsold shares in the corporation. The ditch will be sixty-five miles long, be ginning eight miles west of Julesburg and running through Perkins county. It will be twenty-four feet wide at the headgate and for several miles beyond. It will from the start carry six feet of water, which depth will be increased to ten feet as the banks settle. The ditch reaches the top of the table land six miles west and eight and one- half miles south of Ogalalla. There will not be a single flume constructed along the entire route of sixty-five miles. Several natural reservoirs covering thousands of acres of land are to be found along the ditch and they will be brought into service for the storage of water. The $90,000 in bonds voted by Perkins county have been sold and the full amount must be expended toward furnishing water for that county to meet the requirements of the la The money obtained from the selling of water rights from time to time will be used to develop the underflow and enlarge the ditch. Much depends upon the ultimate success of this enterprise. Several thousand acres of Sedgwick county land comes under it and if this ditch proves a success it will not be long before a ditch traverses the south divide thrcugh Sedgwick county. The much de- bated underflow question will be an im- portant factor in determining the result of the enterprise. MINING IN OREGON. The mines of Oregon are attracting more attention at present than at any time during the past two years. The revival is largely due to the recent discoverfes in the Quartz- ville and Bohemia districts, and in Josephine and Jackson counties, which have not only reassured doubters, but have also induced men of energy and means to engage in the operation of mines and the development of prospects in these and other parts of the state. There is some talk of the introduc- tion of eastern capital next spring, says the Portland Sun, which will result in a general renewal of the activity which was so notice- able in a few districts in 1893. Capital will supply what is most necessary to make min- ing in this state profitable, viz., machinery adapted to the class of rock found in the ledges. A clean-up at the Bohemia mines in Lane county, after a run of less than thirty days with a five-stamp mill, resulted in the net- ting of §7,000. The mill has recently shut down, and development work will again be prosecuted. Several experts have examined the ore of the Bohemia and Blue river mines, and give it as their opinion that the latter is in every way equal to the former. A valley paper says that gold exists in unlimited quantities in the Blue river district, and any one who would undertake the operation of a mine would assume but a small risk. John Hammond of Parsley exhibited to the editor of the Lake County Examiner an as- say from his quartz claim in the Gaylord district, which shows a yield of $47.54 in gold and 70 cents in silver to the ton. It is said that the remainder of the rock bears out the first promise. Some of the same quartz was sent to two other assayers and favorable reports were received. Mr. Hammond will operate the mine on an ex- tensive scale. The Santiam is also becoming a favorite resort for prospectors. Concerning the Wimer claim, George and’ Willlam Wimer, says that the owners will end of Butcher gulch. cludes 230 acres, with and 175 feet pressure. It will take a cen- tury to work all the ground controlled by one of the two cuts in the district. ANCIENT AZTEC RUINS, D. J. Court, a mining prospector, has re- turned to Prescott, Ariz., says the Los Angeles Journal, from a three menths' so- Journ in one of the most remote and little known parts of the territory, and says that that section contains more Aztec ruins than any other portion of America, evidences of human habitation being found from the highest peaks to the lowest valleys. In one place he found a road or street three miles in length, perfectly smooth and straight and sixty feet In width. On either side of the street the entire distance are ruins. The road was evidently built prior to some mighty earthquake, as it ends abruptly at the brink of a mighty chasm. He dug up and found lying about a great number of skeletons which were in a fair state of preservation, the heads of all being alike— very large over the eyes and receding, and almost flat toward the back of the head: Jaws well developed, but front upper and lower teeth small and sharp. The ruins show the people to have been warkers in stone, some fragments of work in torquoise being -found. Every available foot of land had ‘once been cultivated. The region, although little has been known about it, is a very accessiblo one and will no doubt be- come an Interesting resort for travelers. BLIND BLACK FROGS. Judge A. B. Fall of the supreme bench hasn't exactly a white elephant on his hands, but he has something much more eurious and interesting, in the shape of a whole set- tlement of black frogs, found in his Sunol mine, in the Black mountain mining dis- trict, near Las Cruces. He was telling some of his friends about the matter the other day, says the Santa Fe New Mexican, and the facts form quite an interesting addition to the biological history of New Mexico. A number of men, it seems, were sinking a shaft in this healthy gold producer some weeks ago, when at the depth of 190 feet, they struck, in an underground stream, a perfect stratum of small black frogs. Upon examination, they were each found to be about the size of one's thumb, and to be en- tirely blind. Another curious fact was that the stream In which they lived was soventy- five feet below the water level, and, upon analysis, was found to contain no organic matter whatever, THE DAKOTAS. The woolen mills at Sloux Falls are to start up again and with it a new pant and overall factory. An artesian wel at the sanitoriulm at Pierre has struck a flow at 1,130 feet. Tempera- ture, 80. Three thousand head of cattle fatted on the Indian reservation were loaded for the market at Gettysburg recently, A lawsult between a couple of partles at White Lake over 4 second-hand door, valued at about 50 cents, has resulted in a bill of costs, to be footed by the complaining wit- ness, amounting to $118.60. This case has been engaging the attention of a justice court for some time. The “‘township law” of South Dakota, under which townships may vote bonds for sinking a township well, has not proven satisfactory. When it comes to the matter of locating the well, every man in the bonded area wants the well on his land. There are, however, a large number of the wells in active and beneficial use. A case of much moment and importance to the taxpayers of North Dakota was argued before United States Judge Thomas at Fargo, belng another of many which have grown out of the attempt of the various counties to tax the lands of the Northern Pacific Rail- road company. Thir time Dickey and other counties have taxed lands of the county lylng owned by Mr. Harnett pipe the upper This property in- 100 inches of water Australls ul within the ludemnity Umits of the land grant ‘MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1894. and the argumen{ was on Injunctional pro- ceedings to restryfh u counties from pro- ceeding to collect, the tax. The second snow of the season has fallen in the vicinity of Salem, S, D. The soll, so far as molsture Iy cogcerned, has not been in s0 good conditign for many years as this fall, it being thorqughly souked to the depth of thirty inches or fribre. The mammoth packing house begun at Sioux Falls four years ago is in a fair way to being completed and operated soon. Sena- tor Pettigrew has withdrawn from the enter- prise for a valuable consideration. Some $150,000 worth of liens,and options have been bought up by this new,company. A total ex- penditure of $285.000 will be necessary to complete the buiiding, The trouble in regard to the alleged irregu- larities in the office of the Indian agent at Santee agency Is apparently nearing a final settlement. Agent Clements has been rein- stuted, but the clerk’s services will be dis- pensed with, and his place filled by C. Hol- man a nephew of Congressman Holman of Indiana, who has already arrived at the agency and commenced his duties, United States Judge A. J. Edgerton, now presiding over a_term of the United States court at Sloux Falls, has taken a very im- portant stand touching the claims of Indians residing on the Sisseton reservation. He in- structed the grand jury to bring in no more indictments against parties accused of seli- Ing liquor to the Sisseton Indians who are no longer under control of an Indian agent and had the right of suffrage. COLORADO. Ther were over 6,000 carloads of potatoes shipped from Greeley this season. anish bar, less than two miles from aho Springs, is a promising gold district. At Idaho Springs there is a great demand for horses to haul ores in from the nelghbor- Ing camps. In the Telluride district, improvements are used milled at a profit. A colony of Mennonites are about due in Pueblo on their way to the San Luis valley with a large number of horses and cattle, The Gold Gravel company of Cripple Creek will shortly begin sinking for arteslan water. The discovery of a good flow of artisian water so near the city of Cripple Creek will be of benefit to both the company and the town. Owners of the big Columbus Plata district, are making a test of the cyanide process. If the experiments are successful a large plant will be erected at the mine_similar to the one at Rapid City, in the Black Hills. About fifteen miners are now engaged in development work. The Florence Reduction Works company has bargained for several thousand tons of Gold Cofn ore at $4 per ton. The railroad is bullding a spur to the mine, A few transactions of this kind will test the value of the low grade gold ores and will add millions of dollars to the Cripple Creek out- put. The Creede Chronicle reports a new and rich strike in the Mammoth mine on Camp- bell mountain. It Is located on the same veln as the Nancy Hanks and is owned by Moftat, Campbeli et al. They have a two- foot vein of ore that runs as high as 400 ounces to the ton, but averages about 105 ouncas, A finding of free gold about a mile north- west of Balfour in a two-foot hole has been reported. The specimen on exhib:tion shows several pleces of gold on the surface and also contains silver and sylvanite. The claim on which it was, found belongs to Mr. Larson. A streak of porphyritic quartz was encountered in the King of the Rockies shaft, but no assay reports have yet been recelved. 1d where modern $3 gold ore can be mine, La WYOMING. Six cars, 200,000 pounds of mining ma- chinery, for the Helen G. Mining and Milling company at Atlanfic, Is laying at the depot at Rawlins awaiting shipment to its destina- on. Hanna coal is now being used more ex- tersively than ever before for domestic pur- Doses. At one time its availability for this purpose was doubted, but the managers of the mines there report a gradually increasing demand for the producs. At Carbon the mipes are running in full blast and producing more coal for consump- tion all along the line than ever before, The demand for coal is larger than the com- pany can supply on sudden notice, Over 11,000 tons were mined week before last. Hunting parties are numerous in the vieinity of Cheyenne just now and all have thus far met with good success. Small and large game appear to be comparatively plentitul. A few days ago a couple of the south-side boys killed four antelope in one afternoon near Chalk Bluffs. The range in_ this valley, says the Sara- toga Sun, is in better condifion this fall and cattle fatter than for many years before. All the stock in the valley will go into the winter in better condition than they have for the past five years. To add to this there fs more and better pasture under fence than ever before, and the quantity of hay in the stack exceeds that of any other year In the history of the valley by at least one-third. The outlook for the winter is of the most encouraging character. OREGON. Jackson county farmers will turn off this fall about $50,000 worth of hogs. Travel across the mountains from Crook county stiil continues, although the snow Is about twelve inches deep for a number of miles. Jack Crawford has just finished a saddle at Pendleton which he thinks is the smallest in the state. It welghs one and one-half pounds. % The Whitney Bros. of Tule lake finished work with their steam thresher with a score of 34,054 bushels in twenty-nine days. This is the best threshing record ever made in Klamath county. The snow is already driving deer from the southern Oregon mountains down into the foothills and deer hunting is lively. A local authority estimates that the deer cannot be exterminated yet for 100 years. A duck from Paradise, Wallowa county, upon its post mortem examination in La rarde, showed a good sized nugget of froe gold in its gizzard and now they say that boys have dug up the entire ranch of Dick Knight, where the duck was raised, in hopes of developing the lead. Malheur is not such an unfortunate county as the price of horses might lead one to consider. Several Malheurians claim that there Is profit in selling horses for $10 a head and that many have been sold at that price. Thousands of cattle, too, have been sold, and, altogether, things haven't gone to the “‘demnition bow-wows” by a long chaik. A test of hog feeding is now in progross on the Corvallis college farm. It began about four weeks ago and ends January 1, covering @ period of thirteen weeks. Bight pigs, divided into, lots of four each, are being fed—one lot on chopped wheat and the other on .mixed choppéd wheat, shorts and chopped oats. The.experiment will be the subject of a bulletin. Mining has beer( carried on in the Green- horn district for the past thirty years, during which time there bas, been a large output of gold. The preseni .year, owing to the de- pression in other dines of business as weil as to the improvements made in machinery and the cheaper methods developed in the industry, operations or"both ledge and placer claims have been unustally extensive as well as profitable. » e The 500 Indians 6n the Siletz reservation are in clover, or, beiter yet, they will soon have their pockets twll of “chickanim.” Ae- cording to the Yaquina Post, Colonel John Lane, special agent, ‘ifrived at the reserva- tion a few days agn. 'his business being to pay to each Indian éntitled to receive it, under the agreemeng. fn which the Indians ceded their interest In certain resorvation lands to the United,States, the sum of $75 cash—every man, woman and child belong- Ing to the reservation will r.ceive $75, WASHINGTON. North Yakima is fo have a match factory. Quinces are being successtully raised about Montesano. Spokane's fruit fair exhibit is likely to be sent east on an advertising tour, Thirteen saw mills and seventeen shingle mills are In operation n the Gray's Harbor country, The Snoqualmie Mop Growers assoclation shipped seven cars of hops, comprising 525 bales, to London direet, Northern Pacific employes have organized a reading room aseociation at Sprague, and will fit up handsome quarters. While Willlam Oakes was digging potatoes he noticed a black bear eating berries in the field, says the Meyers Falls correspondent of the Colville Index. He kept his eyo on the boar and called out, “Johnnie, get your gun.' For busines S re¢asons We offer our entire stock of $15—$18 and some $20 Suits and Overcoats for $5.00— Your choice of all the single and double breasted kersey Over- coats—silk and Farmers' satin lined worth up to $20, go at $5 tomorrow. ... Your choice of any of the Cassi- mere or Cheviot suits in four pat- terns, single or double breasted, worth all for $5.00. the way from $15 to $20 FEEL OF THEM, LOOK AT THEM IN THE WINDOW. . H. Cook Clothing Co., successors to Columbia Clothing Co., (3th and Farnam Streets, Omaha. Johnnie didn’t get there in time, but Tommy aid, and bruin now occupies a keg labeled “bear meat” in Mr. Oakes' larder. It is proposed at North Yakima to raige $2,000 as a promotion fund for the Klickitat railroad extension to connect with Portland. The wrre for Zimmerman's new cablo across the Columbia has arrived at Pasco. It welghs 3,000 pounds, The Columbia there is over 2,000 feet wide. Oat shipments from Anacortes to California markets have commenced. The first consign- ment of 8,000 sacks was taken by the City of Puebla on her last trip. The salmon cannery at Cosmopolis employs sixty Chinamen and twelve white men, and from 250 to 300 cases of black salmon are put up daily. They expect to put up 22,000 cases of salmon this season. Mado Nelson, a young rancher, 18 under arrest at Colfax for a piece of novei enter- prise. He traded for some Tekoa town property, giving in exchange some govern- ment land he bad no claim to. Mr. Wilson and two partners on the placer claim at the mouth of the Peshastin have taken out about 100 ounces of gold as a re- sult of two months work with shovels and sluices, says the Leavenworth Journal. Representatives from Yakima, Franklin, Kittitas and Douglas counties are talking seri- ously of beginning active work at once on a scheme to have a branch of the state peni- tentiary located at Priest Rapids, on the Co- lumbia river. A. Nesslehouse, says the Ellensburg Local- izer, brought to that office a limb of an apple tree that contained fifty-one apples, and not a large limb either. The apples are of a Genetin variety and are crowded on the Lmb as close as they can stick. Judge Pritchard of Tacoma has decided that the town of Sumner, which closed its schools two months before the contract with the teachers expired, would have to pay the salaries in full. Inasmuch as Sumner's school fund has been exhausted the situation eems complicated. The agitation for good roads is having its effect. The Pullman Tribune is pleased to see the number of wide-tired wagons that have come into use this season, and it wisely adds: “Next to macadamizing .the roads, which will be impossible for several years, wide tires will do the most good.” MISCELLANBOUS. Helena ministers have been preaching on the capital fight. It is proposed to spend $250,000 claiming Paradise valley in Arizona. Tt is proposed to build a reservoir in the mountains and tunnel through into the Manti City creek in Utah. Thirty carloads of potatoes were started east from Missoula Monday over the North- ern Pacific. They are consigned to Chicago. The Northern Pacific is moving from 600 to 800 cars daily on the Rocky mountain division and has plenty of business to accommodate more. The Manti Messenger says the first duty of Utah as o state will be to reclaim some of the arid land and assist the peopis to build homes. The Phoenix city council {8 considering a proposition to pipe irrigation water through the town Instead of running it through in open ditches. The, average assay value of C. as reported In Superintedent in re- C. & Va. are Lyman's last official letter, $82.32 per ton, is the highest | since the old bonanza days. The hand and iron cars for the Sierra Val- ley railroad are already at Reno. The com- pany expects to have the road running from Chat to Beckwith In another month. George W. Newell has three artesian wells on his farm In the Snake river valley and expects to sink enough more to irrigate his entire 640 acres. The water from the wells is hot. Another oil well has been struck in the Second street district at Los Angeles which will yleld at a low estimate 100 barrels of oil a day it pumped to its ful capacilty. It Is not @ gusher, but flows a steady stream. The body of a large dead whale floated into San Francisco harbor the other day. The huge sea mammal is likely to prove any- thing but an acquisition, as the stench arising from it is described as belng something dreadtul. Probably the largest caullfiower ever seen on the Comstock Is one now on exhibition in the store of R. Noce at Virginia City. It was raised _on the ranch of L. W. Larga- marsino. The mammoth vegetable weighs twenty-one pounds, The contract. for grading and rock work on the Montana Midland from Castle to Toston, sixty-six miles, has been awarded. Work is to be begun about November 10, and the contract calls for its completion by January 1, 1896. The idea in building to Toston s to | man steps up and says: secure connection with the Northern Pacific and give the mines of Newcastle an opportu- nity to ship their ores to the East Helena smelters. After that the part between Toston and Helena will be built. The largest lumber deal ever made in British Columbia is said to have been just arranged by the Ross McLaren Lumber com- pany, which is reported to have contracte with a South African mining company for 100,000,000 feet of lumber. The Salt Lake & Hot Springs railway Is getting ready to extend its line from Cen- terville to Farmington. Engineer Joseph took a party of contractors to Centerville to look over the ground with a view to bidding upon the necessary construction work. Tho Municipal Investment company of, Chi- cago 1s building an irrigation ditch, which commences at Santa Cruz canyon and follows the Rio Grande river to Albuquerque, a dis- tance of about eighty miles. The estimated cost is $600,000, and it is expected to irrigate over 100,000 acres. On Bruneau river, Idaho, about four miles from Mitchell & Baltzer's store, at a depth of 300 feet, while boring for arfesian water, Mr. Dodge struck a very pronounced vein of oil. At this interesting juncture the piping gave out, and Mr. Dodge is waiting for a supply to continue the work. A complete new time table for the Mexican Central railroad has been prepared. Ten hours will be saved between Mexico City and Bl Paso, Tex., and the time between the City of Mexico and San Aftonio, Tex., via Terreon and Eagle Pass will be shortened seventeen hours by the Mexican International connection. Large projects in South Africa, involving millions of dollars, and steady Improvement in Colorado in the application of electricity to mining, shows the trend of the times. The movement has reached Utah. Mr. P. N, Nunn, chief electrician for the San Miguel Consolidated company, and Mr. F. J. 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