Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 1, 1894, Page 12

PULSE OF WESTERN PROGRESS Ban Luis Park the Most Fertile Section in the Rocky Mountain Territory. COAL, TIMBER AND GOLD IN ABUNDANCE Ophir's Treasure Again Attracts Attention— Mount Baldy Shows Up Well-Oregon Hus Copper and Gray Wolves— Other Northwestern Notes. Located in southern Colorado is the great BSan Luls park, the largest, the most famous and the most fertile in all the Rocky moun- tain region. It embraces portions of Cone- Jos, Costilla, Saguache and Rio Grande couns tles. It fs 100 miles long, on an average forty miles wide, nearly as large as the stata of Connecticut, writes a Denver Times-Sun correspondent. It is a level plain, and was orginally the bottom of a great inland lake fed by the Rio Grande, the most important river In the state, which flows diagonally across the valley to the southeast. Its elevation Is about 7,000 feet. In winter fts climate is one of cold nights and warm days, and almost entirely free from winds. The mercury at night ranges from 10 abova to 10 below zero; during the day time from 25 to 40 above. As compared with the temperature of damp climates, these de- grees seem warm. The summers commence about the 1st of June. The soil in the valley rises from a light, sandy loam to a deep, heavy clay, and there are large sections in the valley of a black vegetable mould. There Is practically no timber in the valley, but the mountains on all sides are covered with spruce, pine, quaking ash, dwarf oak, etc, The settler is free to take for the cut- ting all he needs for fuel, fencing, bufldings, etc., without any charge or cost whatever. There are abundant coal beds in the moun- tains near by. Gold and silver mines are being operated in the mountains on all sides of the valley, and the world-famous Creede eamp was only discovered a_couple of years ago, 80 casually have they been prospected. The iron mines, which principally supply the grent Bessemer works at Pueblo, are located in_the valley. The vast open ranges in the foothills and higher mountain valleys, parks and ranges will graze during the summer months hun- dreds of thousands of stock, which are owned and cared for by the farmers of the valley, Comparatively warm winters and cool sum- mers and the dry, exhilarating climate make the valley a natural sanitarium for those troubled with asthma, pulmonary affections and many other allments. There are no bliz- zards, no cyclones, wet seasons nor dry sea- sons to spoil crops for farmers supplied with frrigation. Good water is found at a depth of 100 to 200 feet. There are more than 8,000 such wells aiready in the val- ley, and such Is the flow that they are being generally utilized to irrigate gar- dens and yards and to supply dwellings. Some farms have several of these wells, the water from which is stored, and consid- erable areas of grain are thus irrigated. The city of Alamosa is wholly irrigated from one of these flowing wells, which difters from all others in the valley only in the matter of depth. The great Rio Grande river supplies the larger irrigating canals, though there are ®cores of smaller canals and tens of thou- sands of acres supplied with water from the many smaller streams which drain into the valley. Agriculture has since passed the experimental stage. Hundreds of thrifty farms evidence the great agricultural possi- bilitles and resources of this valley, Nowhere €an- there be grown larger crops of ‘all &mall grains, small fruits and garden vegetables. - Fallure of crops is unknown. The growth of straw 1s something phenomenal, and eastern people cannot credit the facts. Entire flelds of wheat frequently grow to a height of six feet and upwards; oats from ®ix to eight feet; barley from five to six, and the yield proportionately large. There- fore, any farmer of requisite skill and energy will produce every year an average of thirty bushels of wheat, forty bushels of barley, fifty bushels of peas, sixty bushels of oats and 200 bushels of potatoes, and frequently obtain nearly twice that yield of each. From the yield and quality it might be supposed that the San Luls valley is the natural home of the potato. The quality is positively un- surpassed. The conditions of climate, soil and rainfall are destined to make the valley an ideal potato section. Grasses cover the valley, are developed by trrigation, and large ylelds make the hay crop an important interest. Alfalfa, the most valuable of all forage plants, has proved a great success. Its importance to this valley for hog raising, cattle feeding and sheep and dalrying cannot be overestimated. ¢ | OPHIR'S ROCKBOUND TREASURES. A fine and rich body of ore has been found In the Ophir mine, near where silver was first discovered in Nevada. Ever since they re- sumed work at this point I have been con fident that a good find would be made, says a correspondent in the Salt Lake Tribune. ‘The strike was made a little below the 250 level. They have drifted diagonally across the ore body for a distance of twenty feet, and at the present writing the whole face of the drift 1s in ore which averages $75 a ton. The ore runs southeast and northwest, while the drift by which it was cut is being run to e southwest. It Is judged by Superin- tendent Lyman, from appearances where the ore first cut, that the best and largest part of it lies to the northwest. In drifting along the new vein sixty tons of ore were taken out which will average $90 a ton. Other bodies of good ore will bs found in this part of the Ophir ground. Some years ago two Mexicans came to me and wanted me to try to get for them a lease of the upper levels at the old shaft. They sald they ‘would give the Ophir company half of what they took out, and I should have half of thelr half for securing the lease. They would themselves furnish everything and leave every opening made by them securely tim- bered. I went to Mackay about the matter, but when I mentloned the ground I wanted Be would listen to no_ proposition I could make. I was first to offer to give the com- pany one-fourth of the yleld, and if that did not do an even half was to be offered. But Mackay ‘‘wouldn't have it.” According to what they told me, two . Mexicans had a sure thing. were employed in the mine when Airst * bonanza (which extended down about 500 feet) was worked out. In follow ing down the rich mass of silver very littke attention was given to the rich feeders of gold that came in. They gouged out what could be handily got at, then timbered and logged up the ground and went on down after the silver. The Mexicans informed me that they passed several rich gold streaks. The one they were after was one near the 260-foot level and was about three feet in width, After it was logged up they marked the spot on the timbers, and also made some measurements from the shaft. According tc thelr story this vein was so rich thal spangles of gold could be seen glittering all through a handful fo the decomposed material For long the They the any years the two Mex'cans walted for a chance to get at this little golden bonanza, and when the Ophir folks sunk a new shaft and erected big works far away 1o the cast, seemingly deserting the old ground, the pair thought the time had come ‘when they might secure the prize they were 80 anxious to obtain. I had several talks With the two men, both before and after I #poke to Mackay, and I am confident that they knew the whereabouts of a nice little streak. They sald fhey could find the ven in' twenty minutes after they got into the mine, There were also rich feelers in the old up- per levels of the Mexican mine immediately adjoin.ng the Ophir. In the early days 1 was in that mine almost every week, par- ticularly when Harvey Beckwith was superin- tendent. I had the run of the mine and used to gouge out many specimens of wire silver from clay seams in the walls. In following down the rich black sulphuret of silver they did not stop to bother with the little clay seams. MOUNT BALDY'S TREASURES. 8. F. Mount, manager of the Monarch Min- ing company property at Marysvale, Utah, Jeports a splendid strike in the ground that formerly known as the old Copper Belt, In the very heart of Mount Baldy's gold bearing region. The property Is being devel- oped by means of a tunnel run alongside the ledge. The tunnel Is fn over 500 feet and Iately crossputting was commenced. So r neither the fost nor the hanging wall has been reached, says the Salt Lake Trib- une, but the ore body is fully sixty feet wide, and carries gold running from $4 to $48 per ton, with $15 as the average value through- out the entire width of the vein. It is the intention of the company to continue devel- opmeatE=afit FUSIT theunnel somo 500 teet further, to a point seventy-five feet under the l)nfigm of \IJ’& “Toot ‘shaft, so as to better open up- the vein.at depth and effect good air circulation. COPPER IN OREGON. Some mimng mem 4n- this city have on exhibition a_little plece of ore, says the Salt Lak# Tritiife, that Kad “welts of copper pro- jecting from it like the gold was said to stand out in the famous Enoch Davis mine; that is, #0 that you could pick It oft with a knife. About a dozen miners looked at it at onié“ tirfie “n" tife -afternoon and each one handed it back to its owner with the re- mark: “That is too good.” The bit of .ore was represented to have come from a newly acquired mine in Oregon cafled the 8ilver €oppolts. According to re- ports the specimen was only an average sample of an almost unlimited vein of cop- per ore contained in the mine, The location of the latter is about fifteen miles from Baker City, ©Ore., where Messrs. Taylor and Clark have been interested in copper proper- ties for some time, /The, gre is free-mjlling In character, but the company has no mill. However, the intention is to erect m/mill in the spring, but a serles of experiments will be made first, in order to determine the best method of treatment, to adopt. Only a small force of miners is employed, but the number will be increased as soon as sufficient funds come in from assessments levied on the stock. Speaking - of- the ‘Mount Baldy districts generally, a vast amount of gold bullion will soon be coming from the mines and mills in that region. Al the gold properties are in fine shape, the experimental station is parsed and the Dalton, Sevier, Annie Laurie, Butler, Monarch and others will be sur- prising the most” smmguine with their outputs before another year has_elapsed. The ledge from which the specimen above aluded to was taken has shown widths vary- ing from six to twenty-five feet, and Mr. Olari feels assured that it will not run thin- ner than six feet at any point. Assays of thé ‘rock yield atout 20 per cent copper. Somewhat over 300 tons of ore have been put on the dump and the assay has been quite uniform on all parts of it. The mine is in close proximity to another copper property which Messrs. Clark and Taylor have owned and operated for some two years past, known as the Philadelphia gold and copper claim. In the latter the vein has been found to be not only rich, but sin- gularly strong -and. wel- defined. It runs about $10 to §12 gold and 12 to 20 per cent cOpper. *Th& twners have already expended same $4,000 or. $5,000 in developments, having run from 1,200 to 1,600 feet of shaft. They calculate,-#f-nothing <lse can be done, to miil the free gold this winter, in order to acquire funds toerect-reduetion works in the spring. The distance_of the mine from the market makes ifnecé8ary thaf*the reduction work be done on ,the,ground., At present a high freight rate of $10 hinders progress, but the Seuthern- Pacific<has promised to en- deavor to give the company the Tacoma rate of $6 to the seaboard. GRAY *WOLVES ON«PHE RAMPAGE. he, gray wolyes arg.gn the rampage in the northern part of Gallatin county, Mon- tana, says the Portland Oregonian. Already they have killed hundreds of calves, and in some instances have been known to attack steers and cows that became separated from the herd. They do far more damage than the sneaking coyote, for the large wolves are much stronger, are more fleet, and, when hungry, they are courageous and take des- perate chances. The gray wolf is the fiercest of his specles and many a man in the great woods of the east and north has been killed by them, A few days ago a farmer in theé northern part of the county shut two large-sized colts in a corral while he took his team to a field. When he came back after the colts a few hours later he found both had been killed by the WOl e e Another stockman, while riding over the hills, came across two large steers that had been carrylng on an unequal fight with wolves. The two steers were surrounded by a number of the big gray creatures and several coyotes, which had been running the cattle about. The steers were badly bitten and they were nearly exhausted with the unequal struggle. At tlhe appearance of the stockman the wolves.and <oyotes slunk away. When the winter finally sets in and it be- comes a difficult matter for them to get a calf or a sheep the stockmen fear that these wolves will become desperate. They will then g0.in bands . end. will andoubtedly attack almost anything that might furnish them a meal,” > . .. NEW GOLD FIELD. T8 new gold field In Maggie Gulch, six miles up the Animas river above Silverton, is attracting great attention at this time, Locations are being made all about the gulch says a correspondent in the Durango Heralds The Gold Nugget 1s the only mine that has shipped over a ton of ore as yet, and this mine, on its first car of ore, ten tons, ylelded- Gold, 52.60 ounces per ton, and silver, 1,604.40 ounces per ton, amounting to $18,000, and many other minés fn the gulch are ylelding over. $/00 per ton on, small lots. This camp will be a great shipper In the spring. The owners of-the Gold Nugget took over $20,000 out of their prospect hole and have gone off to ‘pénd thé “Winter of “their content’ in other parts, THE DAKOTAS. Scuth Dakota Modern Woodmen will meet in convention December 27, to elect dele- gates to the sixteenth annual convention of Head camp, which will be held in Madison, Wis., next June. A special term In instructions in grammar, bookkeeping, arithmetic, general agriculture, gardening, _veterinary, medicine, _surgery, etc., will hereafter.be held at the State Agricultural college at Brookings. Armour is now the county seat of Douglas county, South Dakota, that town having won the prize from Grand View. The county offi- cers have removed the records from the latter place and established ofices in Armour, where a court house will soon be completed, Charles Schofleld, residing with his parents near Rapid City, last August bitten by a rattlesnake, and the case is remarkable for the reason that it was presumed that the doctors had-eftected a parmanent cure, but a reaction set in and death resulted. Rev. W. H. Jordan, presiding elder of the Sloux Falls district of Methodist churches, who was sent to New York by the South Dakota conferenco. -as a delegate to the general missionary committee of the church, writes home- that South - Dakota's applica- tion for $12,000 has been granted in fu Tron Nation, head chief of the Lower Brule Sioux, has just died at his home in the Sioux reservation of pneumonia. Iron Nation was one’of the mostprominent Indian chiefs of recent years and was about 90 years old. For more than Mfty years he has been promi- nently identified with every event of impor- tanco connected with the history of the Sloux nation. The George A. Bennett personal injury suit against the Northern Pacific railroad, which has been in the district court at Jamestown, N. D., three times and In the state supreme court three times also, has been sent back to the district court for a fourth trial, for the reason that the jury failed to determine the fact of negligence, a material error. The Jjudgment obtatned by the plaintiff against the road was for over $7,000. A caso of Aslatic leprosy has been dis- covered in the western part of Grand Forks county, and s creating quite a commotion in the meighborhood. “The unfortunate victim 1s Jens Olson, a Swedish boy 17 years old, an orphan, who Tis “beeh cared for by an uncle. When the doctor discovered the dis- case the county commissioners had a small cabin built for him on a farm, and he will be kept there alone, food being sent to him dally. - The young man s a_horrible sight. The flesh Is rotting away, but the victim does not apparently suffer much pain. Sioux City, Ia, and eastern capitalists have secured’ options on a right of way for a canal at Elk Point, 8. D, The scheme is to make a canal from the Missouri river, tapping the- river five miles above town. straight across the country, elght and a half miles,” and - emptying ‘hrto’ the Sloux river. The object of this canal is to furnish power to run an electrio light and power plant to light Stoux City and Akron, Elk Point, Yankton and other towns, to charge storage batteries and furnish power for small man pounds, while since October 1 the shipments ufactories as well as to the Sioux City street car lines, COLORADO. The Yankee Blade at Granite will worked all winter. In the Alma district the Ling properties | are shipping gold ore worth $240 per-ton. The Centennial mine is steadily shipping ore to the Yankee Hill stamp, which' is re- turning $70 to the cord, The deepest shaft in Cripple Creek s on | the Moose mine. It s 400 feet In depth and shows no sign of playing out. The Summit Mining company, operating at Cripple Creek, will build a tramway frem the | mine to the company's mill before it de clares a dividend. During the month of October the Flore & Cripple Creek railroad hauled pounds of ore, equal to 4,893 tons, or 826 | loads. At $50 per ton these shipments foot up $244,650, The cost of operating the Cripple Creek placer with the Snodgrass machine averages about §$30 per day, while the result of the last cleanup was $80 per day. The capacity | of the machine s from ten to twelve tons per hour, with six inches of water. Riches with depth is the rule at Cripple Creek. The Portland company shipped a ten- ton lot of o from their mine, which gave returns averaging sixty-seven ounces gold to the ton. At $19.50 per ounce the value would be over $1,806 per ton. This was taken out of the bottom of the deepest shaft of the workings. In sinking the shaft on the Silver Queen mine to make connection between the upper and lower levels good ore has been encoun tered as far as the shaft has been sunk it s now down twenty-five feet, says tho Siiverton Standard, and a gave returns of 1,456 6-10 ounces silver and thirty-nine ounces gold, and 2,494 2-10 ounces silver and 20 9-10 ounces gold. Work on the pew placer mines on the Dolores river, below Rico, has been sus- pended for the winter. veral nuggets ranging from $1 to $7 each were taken out. It has been proven beyond all question, says the Rico Sun, that there is a sufficient quantity of goid in the gravel along the river for a distance of several miles to remunerate several hundred min- ers for taking it out, and also pay a very handsome profit on the necessary expense to be incurred in opening up the ground. WYOMING. Government Fish Commissioner Johnson distributed 4,000 trout in the rivers of Sher- idan county. The employes of the Unfon Pacific rolling mill at Laramie are expecting a rush of work all winter. It is stated that there fs over $1,000,000 worth of ore in sight at the Helen G. mine in_the Atlantic district. The ore averages $15 per ton. Patterson's saw mill in the Big Horn mountains turned out over 80,000 feet of lum- ber during the summer. Next season a shin- glo mill will be added to the plant. Ranchmen in the remote sections of Fre- mont county fear that the bears will be troublesome the coming winter. They are already coming down among the foot hilis. This has been a splendid fall for cattle, There have been no storms as yet. Stock of all kinds will go into the winter in fine con- dition. There is an ample supply of feed on the range. A ranchman near Lander secured a stand of bees two years back, and from that start now has eleven. He says bee culture pays better than anything in this country for the amount invested in it. Ore from the Miners' Delight mine ve- turns from $50 to $60 per ton over the plates, and from a shaft 225 feet deep, with levels at sixty, ninety, 150 and 200 feet from the sur- tace, over $500,000 has been produced. Wolves are said to be ravenous in the sec- tion of country between Cheyenne and Fort Collins, Colo. There is a band of a dozen or more Wwhich has been preying upon. young calves and yearlings, and even 2-year-oids, if in a weak condition, are killed and eaten. Colorado parties have become interested in the Sunshine coal mine, twenty miles west of Laram'e, and will develop the property as rapidly as possible. Considerable new ma- chinery will be put in this season. The coni- pany will eell coal on the dump for $2 a ton The Rock Springs Independent says that during the past two months more capital has been Invested In the Sweetwater mines than for many years. More good mines have been developed, more bulldings have been built, more men employed, than in any year since 1870. The valuation of cattle in Wyoming for 1894 was $3,460,964, out of a total state valua- tion of $29,198,041.20. In 1886 the valuation of cattle was $14,651,125, out of a valuation of $931,020,764. As compared with 1893 every county in the state shows a decreased valua- tion except Natrona. A party of eastern hunters just returned from Jaekson's Hole report that on the morning of thelr departure, just after a snow storm in the mountains, they saw at least 1,600 bull elk in one herd about half a mile from their camp. The party killed all the game it wanted. Gold mining in Wyoming fis booming. There has just been shipped through the First National bank of Rock Springs $10,000 in gold bullion from the Mary Ellen mine at Atlantic City, Fremont county, the pro- duct of last fali's work. The mine is 1 feet deep and employs a night and day shit of sixteen men. It is estimated that over half a m™lon of sheep have been driven into Sweetwater county from outside points, principally from Utah, to graze during the winter, Sweet- water county derives no revenue from these herds, and the rauchmen in the county serl- ously object to having their ranges destroyed by the foreign sheep. The Unlon Pacific Railway company has just obtained United States patents for 176,- 000 acres of land on the Laramie plains, says the Laramle Boomerang. This is part of the land covered by the deeds of the Wyoming Central Land and Improvement company. In accordance with tha decision of the supreme court of the United States the patents having issued the title is forever settled, be OREGON, A stage Is to be run from Fort Klamath to Crater lake next summer. The first pile has been driven for a new $25,000 cannery at Astoria. A Seaton firm has 400 tons of chittem bark in thelr warehouse for shipment to San Francisco. Representative Belts Is shipping 200 Ox- ford grade bucks from Pendleton to a Mon- tana purchaser, A rich copper find has been made fifteen miles from Baker City, Ore. Salt Lake men own the new bonanza. A familiar sight on the streets of Joseph are Orville Hall's two pet deer, which wan- der about town unmolested and unafraid. Junction City wants the blue ribbon for two big things; an elghty-six-pound pumpkin and its city recorder, who stands six feet six In his stocking James Orr, a Western Union llneman at Portland, Ore., claims to have papers and documents proving that he is a great grand- son of George 1V, king of England William Davis of Royston, Klamath county, says he has made 8,400 pounds of butter this season, which netted him 22% cents a pound after deducting the cost of freighting to Ashland. My cows,” said he, “have paid .50 each this' year, after taking out every possible expense attached in keeping them, Marshfield is likely to have a woolen mill something the same in plant capacity as the one at Bandon, which has done so well. The plant would cost $15,000 and the pay roll would be $1,600 monthly. The concessions asked Include a factory site, water privileges, factory building as large as the one at Bandon, one acre of land on water front and $5,000 in coin. James Watkins of Philomath has 1,000 bushels of Burbank potatoes, raised on sum- mer fallow, that yielded fifty bushels per acre. It cost 2% cents per bushel to dig them, and 30 cents per bushel has been of- fered for spuds in his neighborhood. At this figure the crop will net him $275, many times as much as he could have netted from the same acreage of wheat. WASHINGTON. The question of issuing $20,000 water bonds is belng agitated at Iiwaco, In Skamania county the question of moving the county seat from Stevenson was voted upon, and by & vote of 136 to 104 Stevenson retains it. From Yakima the shipments of hops to date for the season aggregate 1,478,994 [ the | water only part of the ar. { limited amount ofore hope have beer: 107,664 pounds, ue approximating $117,- % he Bllensburg ftarigation ditch laborers, 162 of them, have seat a petition to Governor McGraw reciting their destitute condition and imploring aid. The ware houses of Tekoa contain more grain than ever before, and it still continues to come in. The Indian product has been estimated as double that of any former year, but they do nok:enjoy the low prices any more than thetr pale-facod brethren. A new product of Okanogan county is on exhibition at Spokane. from Littlo Chapa . mountain, twelve from Loomiston. There is said to be amount of the stuff fn that neighborhood beds of old lakes, which now miles any in contain A logging raliroad is bringing Into Sno- homish about 100,000 fect of logs a week from the Cyphers & Stinson camp, above Hartford. The firm has 1,200 acres of fir and cedar to clear, and expects to keep steadily at it, turning out 50,000,000 feet In three years. It is all contracted to a Seattle firm. | The oyster-planting experiment in Willapa bay was successfully commenced the other | day when elghty barrels of the following | brands were planted: Natural growth Chesa- | peake, Newark bay secd, Prince’s bay, Key- | port and East rivers. They were sent by | United States Commissioner McDonald. The | planting was dons at Bay Center, where a protection reserve of ten acres has been set aside, David Fitch of Wilbur_one of the leading | merchants of the Big Bend country, says that the farmers of his section are turning their attention to flax, and a large a will probably be grown next spring. will realize,” eald he, ‘“that they cannot hope for a large price for thelr wheat next year. Diversified farming 18 the only way I can see for our farmers to get out of the | hole quickiy.” The prune crop in Clarke county was a light one. The total acreage was about 200 acres. The shipments so far made, which includes almost the entire crop, amount to about twenty-four car loads, or about 650,000 pounds of drled fruit. The average price | reccived was 6 cents per pound, thus making in round numbers $25000, which the prune growers of this county have derived from a_comparatively small crop. There is a total of about 4,000 acres at present planted to prune orchards in the county, and the num- ber of acres devoted to this important in- dustry s constantly increasing. There are twenty-five fruit-dryers in the county, and many more will be built as the young or- chards come into bearing. MISCELLA reports place OUS. Recent Alagka’s population at 32,000. Reno is to have a maccaroni factory in the near future. The Helena Street Car company wants the council to allow it to ralse fares to 10 cents It will only be a short time until through trains from Sierra valley will arive in Reno | The large cement couver, B. C., have started up. capacity of 600 barrels a week. Utah has a law making it a misdemeanor | to shoot ducks after sundown. A hunter ro- cently found guilty of the offense was heavily fined. Waliuts at Rivera, Cal., are still on deck and going off at the rate of six or eight car- loads a day. The total shipment to date is 120 carloads. New finds of gold<bearing rock have heen made in the mountains northeast of Beaver, | Utah, and the specimens brought in present a fine appearance, The Pennsylvania smelter at Salt Lake City has constracted a new furnace equal to 100 tons per day. The old furnaces will be blown out at onee, A pair of shoes were finished in a Salt Lake shoe factory just forty-four minutes aiter the pelt was taken in hand, beating the best eastern record by ix minutes. Mike Jordan of Owyhee has located, sur- veyed and commenced work on a piece of road which will - shorten the distance be- tween Silver and Caldwell, Idaho, about six and a half miles. The Upjon Pacific ds shipping largs quan- tities of potatoes from Idaho for the eastern market. The rate is 50 cents to Omaha and 72 cents to Chicage. Idaho produced a large surplus of potatoes this year. A ten-mile railroad spur will be built from Melrose, Mont., to the copper proper- ties of the Anaconda company on Camp creek. These immense deposits are to be worked and probably upon a large scale. The total shipments of stock over the Mon- tana Central this season amounted to sixty- nine trains, consisting of 1,077 cars, against finety-four trains, consisting of 1,736 cars, | last season, most of the falling oft being in sheep. Englishmen have purchased a big mining property near Dillon, Mont., paying $425,000 for it." A London expert estimated 600,000 cubic feet of ore in sight. The ore runs from $40 to $120 per ton. The new owners wiil erect a large mill at once. A representative of the Colorado Irriga- tion company filed In the recorder’s office of San Diego a clalm for 500,000 inches of water to be diverted from the Colorado river for irrigation of the desert south of and along the lina of the Southern Pacific in San Diego county. Another rich ore body has just been dis- coverd in the Little Alma mine, in Lump Gulch, Montana. It was found on the 106- foot level, about ninety feet west of the shaft. It Is fifteen inches wide, solid ore, and has an assay value of over 500 ounces of silver to the ton. Arrangements have been perfected for the consolidation of the Mexican Southern and Intercolonial railroads, and the former line is to be immediately extended to Salina Cruz, where it will connect with the Tehuantepec road, thus forming a direct route from the United States to the isthmus of Tehuan- tepec. From Bingham, Utah, come some remark- able reports of the Dalton-Lark mine that there was a vein 1,500 feet long in sight which ylelds lead and silver ore that is bringing as high as $25 per ton in the pres- ent depressed condition of the market and prevailing low prices, Soms 1,800 (ons will be shipped this month and next. The Great Falls (Mont) Water company will make an important change in its plant by tha addition of two large reservoirs. The work will be completed next summer, and the cost will be about $35,000. As a result the insurance companies have agreed to make a reduction of 10 per cent on the rate, At a depth of 450 feet a wein of from thir- teen to fourteen inches in thickness has been tapped in the Coromardel, at Bingham, Idaho, which is so rich as to yleld its owners at the present thme as much as $2,000 to $5,000 per month. Besides, there fs an un- untouched, but still in sight, which #s equally rich. Mining Is increasing in Alaska and prom- ises to bo a permanent industry, Some veins of rich gold-bearing quartz have been d covered during the two years past, but most of tho mines which were first worked to a successful development in Alaska were mainly of the low grade ores, which are found in lodes of extensive dimensions. The results of the clean-up on the Horse- Fly hydraulic claim, in the Cariboo distr B. C., have been received. The cuts have been frozen in %0 that the richest portion of the claim Is unapproachable, but the sluice boxes ylelded $18,000 in gold as a result of half a month's work, and it is claimed that the mine will yield $40,000 in gold per month. The Helen G. company of Lewlston has just erected a large building for the new Bixty stamp mill, which has just arrived at Rawlins, The machine welghs 280,000 pounds and the freight from Chicago to Rawlins was §5,500. The company will b the mill in operation by January 1. lode of free milling gold ore, which runs §7 to $8 per ton, can be reduced at a cost of $2 per ton, and like the Homestake mine of Deadwood, will be of national repute in a very few weeks, One of the most phenomenal strikes ever made in Montana is the one just made by Schaeffer & Tietjen, in the Frieberg. They have been working on a tunnel for some months, and when the rich ore was reached they were 700 feet from its mouth. The strike is a hody of ore about eight Inches wide, and averages $7,000 per ton. It Is free miling ore, gnd, as they have already drifted on the lead some eighteen feet, they think it must be » true fissure veip, They are em- ploying a large force of meén and are work- They have a It is a box of borax | works erected at Van- | uary 1. sample prices, BANKRUPT SHOES— —THE COOK $2.B0 Shoes for $1.00. Ladies’ fine kid Shoes $4 sort, for $2.25 Everything cut to less than factory cost, A FEW PRICES. 360 pairs ladies’ fine kid Dress Shoes, always sell at $4.00, bankrupt price. 450 pairs ladies’ fine kid button, regular price $2, 50, our price tomorrow $1.25. 600 pairs ladies’ $3.00 kid and goat button shoes we will close out at $1. 50. 50 pairs boy s' $2.50 shoes go at g1.00. 72 palrs men’s dress shoes, good value at §2.50, our clos- ing out price tomorrow is $1.50. Our Bargain Counter shows you $3.00 shoes and §2.00 shoes for g1.00. All must go. ——AT—— Cincinnati our price tomorrow is $2.75. STOCK They’ve been marked down, way down. Every scray and thread must go by Jan- made, This is It’s impossible to quote more than a few The sale increases daily as the great values become known. get the best., - @ Fixtures for sale, Open evenmgs till sold. C. W. COOK & SON'S SHOE STorK Early comers RECEIVER'S SALE 203-205 . I5TH ST, HOW Why goods. style and quality. “‘drop patterns,” IMPORTANT—— When buying a carpet to have.one that is satisfactory bothi The best makes cost but little more, tbeg are worth the difference—better wool, better dyes, work, gives better satisfactiom, We are offering in" our ‘Drop ‘Pattern Sale some of the very best makes of goods at about 24 price: Drop Patterns Best Ingrains - “ . Tapestry Brussels Body Brussels because “ “ better 45c yard e 70C: it 8s5¢c manufacturers have dropped them from their line and we cannot duplicate them=-= you may find some better patterns in our stock, but no better See these as early as you can it may save you something. Orchard & Wilhelm CARPET CO. 1414-16-18 Douglas S&. Complete Drapery Dept. 2nd Fipor. DOCTOR SEARLES & SEARLES Diseases Txeatmenlby Mail, Consultation Fres Catarrh, all diseases of the nose, Throat. 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