Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 3, 1894, Page 5

PULSEOF WESTERN PROCRESS Cochiti Ores Growing Richer as the Work of Mining Progresses. BORING A TUNNEL THRCUGH GOLD HILL Bouthern Nevada Walting for Rallroad Com- munieation ~Irrigated Soctions Showing Marvelous Fortility — Nearest Mine tothe Pole-Gen: 1 Western Nows. Mr. H. B. Cartwright, a leading business man, returned from a trip through the Cochiti mining district; and In speaking to a re- porter on the Denver News said the Crown Point has twenty men at work and is busy shipping out ore. The Union has fifteen men and the Iron King has the same number, The owners of the latter mine are construct- ing a pipe line to carry water from the mouth of the Cochiti canyon to their stamp mill at Allerton. This line will be about two miles long. It now lacks only a few hun- dred feet for completion. As soon as this is obtained, which will be in a few days, work at the stamp mill will be resumed and the largs amount of ore gotten out of the Iron King will be treated at Allerton for ship- ment. Mr., Cartwright talked very interestingly of the big tunnel being constructed through Gold Hill at Bland. This tunnel measures seven feot square, and already 265 feet has been completed. At its greatest depth the rich ore, which gives promise of such great things for the Cochiti region, Is still to be found in abundance. This demonstrates that the wealth of this reglon does not lie in the sur- face ore alone, but that the supply extends down to a depth that makes it practically Inexhaustible, Mr. Cartwright says that there are rumors of great finds up at the Crown Point, and while he does not know as to the truth of these, it seems certain that the quality of the ore found s much higher than heretvfore, both at the Crown Point and elsewhere. He says that a full corps of mez are working at the sawmill near Bland, ana that they cannot turn out enough lumber to moet the demand. There is a great deal of buding BOINg on at present, the tents being replaced 0 a large extent by buildings in which the winter can be comfortably spent. It seems probable that a new stamp mill will be established in the near future at Bland, one of the leading men of the camp having recently been to Colorado with the vlew of securing the equipment for that pur- Pose. Mr. Cartwright says there is consider- able interest over in Bland at the recent find of opals In that vicinity. The claim of Messrs. T. P. Ward, John Andrews of Bonanza and H. Schuman are in particular ylelding specimens that experts proncunce vory promising. Mr. Cartwright brought back with him a number of very handsome specimens from Mr. Ward's property, and he thinks that this branch of Cochiti's wealth will bear development and will yleld fine results. FERTILE REGION IN NEVADA. T have just received through T. J. Osborne ©of Ploche a box of pomegranates from the ganch of my old friend, Robert Logan of Muddy Valley, Lincoln county, Nevada, writes # correspondent to the Salt’ Lake Tribune. “These pomegranates are more than twice as Jarge as any I have ever seem from Cali- fornia. I think the largest would welgh over & pound, as they are astonishingly solid and heavy. Mr. Osborne has just returned fiom a trip to southern Nevada, and seems much pleased with what he saw there. He #says Muddy Valley is now settling up rapldly. In addition to those now in the valley, some twenty families are expected to arrive there this winter. Presently, as soon as they obtain railroad communication with the outside world, all these people will find themselves inde- pendently rich. In the valley of the Muddy, along the Rio Virgin and other streams, in fact, wherever water can be obtalned with which to Irrigate, wonderful crops are grown, the products of temperate and semi- tropical reglons being seen side by side. Oranges, lemons, figs, olives and all other sorts of fruits, nuts, berrics, etc., cultivated in California here flourish to per- fection, No finer grapes can be found any- where than are grown in this region. In the Muddy Valley two crops are grown yearly on the same ground. The land is first sown to wheat, barley and oats, which is harvested about the first of June, when the ground is planted to corn, potatoes, beets, cabbages and all other sorts of garden vegetables. Corn ylelds 40 to 45 bushels to the acre, and some patches are cultivated every year. The amount grown this season was about 30,000 pounds. The rock of the region is limestone, and limestone pebbles are mingled with and en- rich the soll, which Is of a reddish color. This soll is very strong and when irrigated proves astonishingly productive. The people of this section of Nevada at present labor under the disadvantage incident to a lack of transportation facilities, but as soon as a rallroad gives them an outlet to Salt Lake City and the east, their lands will be worth much as the best In California. They will then have plenty of offers for their orange groves, olive orchards and vineyards. They ‘will have the advantage of belng nearer to Chicago and eastern markets than the ranch- men orchardists of California and other regions lying to the west of the Sierra Ne- vada mountains. Also they will be able to send early vegetables to Utah, Montana and other of the mining states. In the meantime | the people of the southern country may do well to turn thelr attention to the growing ! of siik and other light and easily shipped products. The conditions there are good for a great silk-producing industry. The mul- berry flourishes finely, and all the climatic conditions are perfect. The industry would &lve empolyment (o ten times the number o! | people now in that country, and so build_up quite & home market. FARTHEST NORTHWRESTERN MINE. There is a man in Seattle who owns a ; mine located probably further north than any Imine in the world, says the Post-Intelli- ®encer of that city. ‘The gentlerian's name s J. C. Green, and his mine is called the “Omallk” mine. It 15 situated on the Fish river in the extreme northwestern part of Alaska, near Goloynin bay, which is about sixty miles north of St. Michael's. To get a better idea of how far mnorth Mr. Green has gone in search of his treasure, the location of his mine is in lat- itude 65 degrees north, longitude 164 degrees west, which Is over 1,000 miles northwest of Sitka. . Mr. Green first got possession of his mine in 1881, and has since spent about $100,000 in developing it. The mine itself is as unique as its location, being “solid metal." "The ore is galena, & per cent of lead, carry- ing 143 ounces of silver to the ton and very little gold. Mr. Green generally spends his winters in California, chartering a ship every spring to wcarry his year's supply of stores and the aniners he takes up with him to his northern Bidorado. He pays his men $75 a month and board, but they do not receive their wages until after the year's work Is done and the «cargo of ore they have taken from the mine has been brought down to San Francisco and #old. They are then pald off and recelve from $900 to $1,200 aplece, which comes to them in a lump, for on Golovnin bay there aro no stores, no saloons and no opportunity for them to spend money If they wished to. The natives, the Esquimaux, are a peace- able, Intelligent people, and are very quick to Jearn the ways and customs of the Americans. Mr. Green employs them in work about the mines, and finds them to be active and will- ing workers. The climate Is not so severe as one would '®stbpose it would be in such a morthern lati- tode, the summer belng warm and pleasant and the winters not so cold as in some lati- tudes further south. It is the land of the midnight sun, and the wonders of the aurora Dorealls are seen in all their splendor. There are no white people there except the miners that are taken up each year, but Mr. Green says that one doesn't have a ohance to get lonesome, as there are fish In the streams to catch, birds in the air to shoot, and four-footed animals of the carth to kill. Mr. Green is a great enthuslast over the and coming destiny of the great m‘ empire of Alaska, and says that few people have an idea of its marvelous wealth and the extent of its resources, OKANOGAN MINES. ““The Okanogan country looks better than at this time last year. The farming region is settling up fast, as the increased vote at the recent election demonstrates, The assessed valuation will bo doubled next year., I bage this statement,” says Sheriff Rush in an interview reported in the Spokane Review, “upon actual knowledge of the Increase of producers and and the Improvement of farms, owing to the survey this year of fourteen townships, aggregating 322,560 acres Heretofore there was less incentive to make improyements, as the settlers could not know where their lines were. Lenfency was aleo extended in the matter of sment in sympathy with the general depression. The worst 1s over now. “‘Miners are bringing fine specimens from the Slate creek district. I have not been there, but some men who have worked for me, and in whom I have the fullest confi- dence, tell me It is in reality a promising camp. It is free milling ore and consider- able gold has been panned out. Quarters have been erected and fifteen to twenty pros- pectors will winter there, to be ready for work early in the spring. “Charles Ballard, J. R. Wallace and my- self are working a placer clalm near Con- conully. The pay dirt is thirty feet deep and it ylelds 20 cents to the yard, clear through. We know this by the fact that our sluice boxes are eighty-five feet perpen- dicularly below the dump and we run the dirt down by chutes, affording the best pos- sible means of working the claim. We have faced 1,500 feet and find the average just the same. We are tunneling on bedrock, which is now in 150 feet. We intend to put in a ditch and hydraulic works in the spring. It 1s a paying proposition at 2 cents to the yard with hydraulicking. “B. P. Wheeler has machinery on the Mineral Hill and will work from twenty to twenty-five men during the winter, with air compressor drills. The new machinery weighed 28,000 pounds. Jonconully is recovering nicely from the effects of the flood. The river has been turned back into its proper channel, the streets and grounds cleaned up, and since the county ‘seat question is settled the town is going ahead again with renewed vigor. ““The Tacoma Smelting company has been sinking all summer on the Silver Bell, in the Pine creek district, and intends working six men during the winter. The Mount Ellema- han Mining and Smelting company is running a 500-foot tunnel on the Oro group of six claims. The Mary Anderson, owned by my- self, on Mount Chapaca, is a good looking proposition. The ledge is six feet wide on the surface and all mineral. Wo are down only eight feet, but are running a tunnel to tap the ledge at a depth of forty feet. We have to tunnel only thirty feet to do that. The ore assays $40 to $50 gold and nine ounces silver. It is an easy claim to work, having a fine water power from Toats Coulee, HOMES OF CLIFF DWELLERS, Recent arrivals from the Bradshaw moun- tains report the discovery of a cliff dwellers’ village in one of the most inaccessible can- yons of that range, which has never before been seen by white men. The discovery was made by two prospect- ors, White and Williams, who did not at- tempt a thorough exploration, says a Pres- cott, Ariz., special to the San Francisco Chronicle, but from thelr description this is the largest village of the wonderful people that has ever been discovered. The village is located along the high banks on either side of Willow canyon and the houses are estimated to be 260 in number. It is very difficult to reach this canyon, even with pack animals, which accounts for its having so long remained undiscovered. There are three natural terraces along the canyon wall and the dwellings open back from these. Narrow steps in the rock, now almost worn away, seem to indicate that this was the method for ascent and descent. Several of the houses were explored and large quantities of pottery and some instru- ments, evidently used for cultivating the soll, were found. In one the skeleton of a man not over four feet eight inches in height was discovered. The canyon at this place is half a mile wide and shows evidence of having been cultivated If this theory proves to be true, it will throw new light on the habits of this little-known people. $o far as known no other evidence has ever been discovered of the cliff dwellers having cultivated the soil. A party is now being organized to thor- oughly explore the new-found village, and the result of their research will be awaited with interest. BLACK HILLS' OUTPUT. The Black Hills Times is responsible for the statement that the Omaha-Grant Smelt- ing and Refining company has joined the Homestake and the Deadwood and Delaware companies in the establishment of a smelter in that district for the purpose of treating concentrates, of which the Homestake com- pany has a large supply on hand. “The enterprise,’” says the Times, “will be sus- tained by cap!tal enough to make everything first-class and complete. The backers are men of great means and valuabls experienc, who will make an unqualified success of It. It 1s hardly likely that anything will be done this fall and winter, but steps will be in- augurated very early in the spring and the project pushed forward rapidly.” The amount of gold ore at present mined and milled is the largest in the history of the camp. The Black Hills district received a se- vere set-back when the surface ore wi exhausted. It now has four methods of treat. ment In successful operation, which accounts for the steady dividends from the leading mines. These methods are milling, smelting, chlorination and cyanide. The mills are handling 3,000 tons of ore per day. At tho Golden Reward chiorination works from 120 to 130 tons per day are treated, while tho new cyanide plant of the company is cal- culated for 200 tons per day. The pyritic smelter owned by the Deadwood and Dela- ware company has capacity for 100 tons per day, and the cyanide plant of the Black H{ls Gold and Silver Extraction company is be- ing increased from fifty to seveuty tons per day, equal in size to the cyanide plant at Cripple Creek. With a capacity for ore treatment equal to 8,500 tons daily, only a portion of the mines in the district are as yet producers. Cheaper and more successful treatment will gradually induce others to develop, until the Black Hills district will take a front rank among the successful producers of gold. This may be all credited to the metallurgical advance of the last two years. INDIAN MARRIAGES. Captaln Levy F. Burnet of the Seventh cavalry, acting Indian agent at Mescalero, in a report, sums up an evil among Indians of that agency which is found to prevall to a greater or less extent among all western Indians, and especially among those still in a savage state. He says: “Another cause of much trouble on this veservation is the frequent marriages among the Indians. It often happens that a man will get tired of his wife after being married a few months and will then leave her or send her home to her relatives. This may occur sometimes with the same persons, so that a man ha three of four wives and the women as many husbands, all living. Sometimes the husband ilitreats his wife and she runs away to her parents. They often make up and live together again. Several casos have occurred durlng the past year in which a parent has induced a Eirl to marry aged perhaps 14 or 16 years, for the purpose of keeping her out of school. It often happens that the parties soon sep- arate, the girl returning tc her parent: often against the wishes of her husband. This causes serious quarrels. I do all I can to induce these persons to live together when once they are married, but there is no way of compelling them to do so. “Polygamy 1s practiced to some extent. Twelve Indians have each two wives, and one has three wives. I advise agalnst this on all occasions, but they do not like any person to iuterfere with such things. I do not see how it can be prevented, as it s an old custom On the other hand, Captain John L. Ballis, Twenty-fourth infantry, in charge of the Pueblas in New Mexico, shows that these Indians are making rapid advancement to- ward civilization. YANKEE HILL MINES. Some of the fnest ore ever seen in this camp Is now being taken from the Stonewall mine, says a Yankee Hill special to the Denver Mining Record. The pay streak con- sists of twelve inches of solid galens ore, running high in gold and silver. A good ship. ment will be made to the Denver Iters. The Alice mine and mill has resumed operations under the new management and expect to handle over 200 tons of ore U THE OMAHA DAILY 1 HODAY DECEMBER 3, 1894. twenty-four hours. They have an Immenso bod"y of ore, the veln being 310 feet between walls. Work 1s being steadily pushed on the Gladiator, owned by Messrs. Lake & Arnold. This 1s the making of a good property with but little development. A good strike has been made on the Uncle Sam lode, the ore carrying a value of $71 in gold to the ton. A shaft house has just been completed and work Is belng rapidly pushed forward on_this most promising property The Silver King and Queen, North Yankee Hill, and ownedbyMessrs. Gow, Jones and Holland, s a very promising property, running from fifty-four ounces in silver per ton, and a good per cent of lead, situated on NUGGETS OF GOLD. Another handsome nugget has been taken out of the Osceola placers and brought to this clty, says the Salt Lake Tribune. This time the great piece of pure gold is valued at $500. As was the case with the 9400 nugget, It was discovered in an unexpected manner and in an out-of-the-way section of the gravel floor. These finds are now considerably rarer than was the case some years ago, but occasionally a lump of the yellow metal, whose value ranges between $500 and $1,000, is picked up by the workmen engaged on the washing floor. During the present season a number of $300 chunks have been found, but only two whose value was more than the amount named. On account of the exceptionally open condition of the weather the placers are still being worked on a small scale, but the final clean-up for 1894 is not now many days off. It is stated that the value of the gold taken out of the placers during the run now closing has been about equal to that of 1893, NEBRASKA. The Stella Press published an extra paper on Thanksgiving day which was neat and readable. Poverty sociables seem popular amusements in present time. Burt county farmers will hold their fourth annual meeting at Craig some time during the present month. Syracuse fire comparies are preparing for & combination entertainment to provide for their better equipment. The death is announced of Mrs. Amanda M Manion, mother of I Manion, a prominent grain dealer at Nelson. John MCAvoy has discovered an inexhausti- ble bank of fire clay and Roman cement on his farm near Chadron. Adam Breed, a hustling newspaper man of Hastings, has purchased the Tribune of A. H. Brown, and will bring it to the fore. On December 14, 15 and 16 the fifth semi- annual convention ‘of the Four-County Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor will be held at Ord. Very instructive and elevating addresses were delivered at the annual meeting of the Northwest Nebraska Teachers' assoclation. Over 100 teachers were in attendance, Farmers in Webster county are bidding high. In spite of the disastrous season of 1894 they have put out the largest acreage of wheat that there has been for several years. The ground is yet excsedingly dry. An unoccupied buillding fn Plattsmouth belonging to Mr. M. Shiek was burned down a few nights ago while in course of repair for occupancy. The building cost $1,800 four years ago, and was insured for $1,000. Diphtheritic croup has made its appear- ance in Sterling and the family of Mr. and Mrs. J. Schuster, among others, have been stricken. Tracheotonomy was performed on Little Pearl Schuster after three days of suffering, and was a marked success. Drunken Indians are getting to be a nightly nuisance at Lyons. Howling atound the town, they keep the inhabitants awake when they want to be asleep, and there is a cry going up that they be locked up in future in the place that is provided for that purpose. THE DAKOTAS. Flandreau's new water works system, cost- ing $15,000, is giving splendid satisfaction. Hog cholera has me4e its appearance in North Dakota, and aiready a number of farmers are losers from this disease in thelr herds. The Homestake Mining company, in the Black Hills, has just paid its 196th monthly dividend of 20 cents per share. It aggre- gates $25,000, making a total to date of $5,312,600. James Shipley and Thomas Lytle, promi- nent farmers and stock raisers of Sully county, were brought to Pierre for examina- tion on the charge of fencing and using public domain, The county commissioners of Sully county have refused to accept freight free coal for the poor from the Northwestern road. The county is only assisting one family and does not ask any help for that number. M. M. Hanson, steamboat builder, who has his yards located on the banks of the Big Sioux river in Canton, has put a fleet of ice boats upon the river. He 'has a run of twenty-six miles, and Is kept busy all the time. The North Dakota Milling assoclation of Grand Forks has 100 cars of flour at Du- luth, awaiting shipment, and fi‘ty cars in transit. President Hugh Thompson s in Duluth giving his personal attention to ship- ments, The South Dakota Horticultural association holds its sixth annual session at Vermillioin December 11, 12 and 13. The gathering will be largely attended and of speclal Interest, many well known horticulturists being named on the program. General Lyon post, No. 11, Grand Army of the Republic, and the Woman's Relief corps of Canton shipped a large supply of clothing, bed quilts, etc., to the soldiers’ home at Hot Springs, this state, as a Thanksgiving present to the inmates. Five million dollars worth of cattle have been shipped to eastern markets from the Black Hills this fall. All this tock was fat- tened from the nutritfous grasses of the 100 miles square comprising the Black Hills. Ot this total it is estimated that $4,000 is profit. The board of trustees of the Fargo colloge have accepted a cash donation of 50,000 to- ward an endowment fund of $200,000 from D. K. Pearsons of Chicago, upon the condi- tion of their raising $150,000 in addition. The institution ts now running and has fine buildings and grounds. Unusually heavy running lce in the Mis- souri river renders it difficult for parties to cross at Chamberlain. The ice is very heavy for this season of the year, and the Pontoon Bridge company has found it necessary to leave the center draw of the bridge open so that the running ice can get through. The High school council of Ncrth Dakota, organized at Wahpeton last December, has assumed the management of the state ora- to be the Nebraska at most the torical contest and announces that the second ! annual contest will be held at Hillsboro, ¥ri- day, December 28. Mr. Gansl of Grand Forks has furnished a $50 gold medal, a model of the engraver's art, with the under- standing that it is to remain the property of the High School council, and is to be c:n- tested for each year. Work was abandoned on an elght-inch artesian well a_couple of weeks since, being put down by the Huron Water Works c-m- pany, because the drillers had struck what they belleved to be granits at a depth of over 800 feet. A splendid flow of water had been found before the kranite was touched, but the pressure was of little value. This, however, has c-ntinued to increase and is now 126 pounds to thes quare inch, with indications that it will continue to grow stronger. COLORADO. The Tron lods in the Mount Wilson district wlll be worked this winter. At Florissant a force of surveyors have commenced laying out the ground for a new stamp mill. The mill on the Baker contact down In the La Platas is running right along and doing good work. The midland foundry shipped two carloads of power rope transmission machinery to Idaho Springs. Mill-run test of ore from the Mascot mine, Saxon mountain, Clear Creek county, gave three ounces of gold per ton. Crookes Park, San Juan cownty, is the latest point where mineral in paying quanti- tles has been found. Prospectors are going in there at u lively rate. Aspen has no gold, but the silver industry 1s by no means dead, as Is evidenced by the improvements that are in progress on proven and prospective properties. The Lone Jack group of mines, si*uated con- tiguous to the Saginaw City, are showing up finely with amount of development wark @one. The Lone Jack has a distinct vein and has from four imthes to a foot of fine smelting ore, carrylng.gold, silver and I Recent assays showed from four to fifty-seven ounces, A _recent mill run ¥fbmk the Cleopatra mine at Bmpire gave $461.76 for 12,507 pounds of ore. This is a gold property which bid fair to revolutionize gold mining at Empire. Considerable prospectfve work and some mining and shipping has been done this year in the Alicante mining Mstricts, Lake county, on the northwest end. ot the Alicante gold belt. The Smuggler mine {s another gold pro- ducer which ships out gold in concentrate instead of retorting it, and if the value could be had the receipts from San Miguel county would be considerably swelled thereby, says the Telluride Journal. An assay made from d sample taken from what is known as the.contact, in the Ar- raria_group of claims, and which has been considered valueless, ghve a return of $64 per ton. There are considerable quantities of this ore already exposed in the property. WYOMING. The average daily output of the Cambria mines Is 1,400 tons. The roof of the new penitentiary at Rawlins is nearly ready for the slate. A bridge to cost about $3,000 will be bullt across the Wind river at Merritt's crossing, north of Fort Washakle. Albany county's cattle business amounts to $600,000 a year. Since January 1, 410 cars of cattle have been shipped. Laramie papers state that 75,000 tons of California_fruit have passed through that city over the Union Pacific this season. The Ogalalla Cattle company has placed 150 thoroughbred Hereford bulls on their ranch on Hat creek in Converse county. A mammoth iron ol tank weighing 14,000 pounds and holding 37,500 gallons has just been received at Casper, for use by the Penn- sylvania ofl syndicafe. The abandoned McKinney post embraces 24,960 acres, all of which will be sold soon at auction, in compliance with the law govern- ing abandoned military posts. A large number of valuable mineral, bo- tanical and other specimens belonging to the University of Wyoming were destroyed by the recent burning of a box car at Lara- mie. Lander will make a fight this year to se- curs the State Agricultural college. It will be a serious blow to the university if the re- moval should be determined upon, says the Laramle Bo:merang. Tone lake, not far from Laramlie, went dry two years ago, and its bed is now producing enormous crops of oats. One farmer has raised 900 bushels and another 1,875 bushels. The fear is, however, that the lake will fill up again. The Fremont county delegation in the leg- islature is coming to Cheyenne in January prepared to make an interesting fight for an appropriatior. to build the State Agricultural college at Lander next year. Lander wae chosen as the site of the c.llege by the vote of the people in 1892, but no appropriation was made for the construction of the neces- sary buildings. Heretofore the Union Pacific company has stored during the summer months thousands of tons of coal for the commercial trade, but this year they have no summer storage coal to draw on, consequently all the coal supplied will have to be mined. The daily output of the mines at Rock Springs averages 225 cars, and it Is expected that this will be nearly doubled within a month, Ranchmen in the Platte valley about Sara- toga, have had no Wdifffeulty in disposing of their hay, and in-fact have not been able to supply the demand. -~ The winter feeding of cattle is a growing industry and makes a market for hay and alfalfa growers. A great many are feeding {n, the North park. Re- cent sales were 2,000 tons to Ora Haley and 8,000 to Dr. Harris, both of Laramie City. Ulnta county now ‘élaims to be second in point of population. . The last election re- turns show that Laramje county cast 3,251 votes for governor,, shile Uinta county cast 2,348, Albany coupty, which has heretofore clalmed to be the second county, cast 2,300 votes. Another significant fact is that the last school census of the'ktate shows that Uinta is the first county 'In the state in point of school population. This is accounted for by reason of the large Mormon settlement in the Star valley. " The Sheridan Fue] &ifipany has built up a large mining industry in that vicinity within the past year. This company bhegan develop- ing a coal cropping four miles west of Sheri- dan, on the line of the Burlington ra‘lroad, in October, 1893. The output Is a fine quality oi domestic coal, and the company has ex- perienced no difficulty in introducing it to the trade in northern Wyoming and Ne- braska. The company now employs about 125 men, and the daily output of the mine is 600 tons. The pay roll at the mines is about 7,000 per month. OREGON. Prof. Kanematz, of silk culture fame, is going to open a polytechnic institute at Ban- don. The Walker-Campbell hopyard at Judkins Point, Lane county, has just turned out 2,300 bushels of potatoes from twenty acres as a second c:op. At the McMinoville gatiering of Indlan war veterans thirty-six names were enrolled for Yamt.d county. No one of them ia less than 55 years old. Jesse D. Carr & Som of Klamath county will next year construct a reservoir, capable of holding 89,000,000 gallons of water, to be used in irrigating alfalfa lands. A proposition to put in a system of water works for Forest Grove has been made by H. V. Gates of Hillsboro £ r §14,000 worth of ten-year bonds bearing 6 per cent interest. Prof. Kanematz, the Curry county expert, has received 40,000 or 50,000 silk-worm eggs from Germany through a silk speclalist at Akron, O. He recelved also a pound cf co- coons. The agricultural college peopls will hoid a farmers’ institute at McMinnville Decem- bor 14 and 15, Practical agricultural and hor- ticultural topics will be discussed. Profs. Bloss, Washburn, Shaw and French will par- ticipate. EdgMarshall and W. J. Furnish are put- ting Wp sheds and racks on the river just above Pendleton for the purpose of feeding a band of 8,000 sheep during the coming winter. Besides straw it is estimated that it will require between 15,000 and 20,000 bushels of grain to winter the flock. The Grand Ronde Lumber company, at Perry, has secured a contract from Call- fornia people for a large number of orange boxes. The contract will probably include thirty or forty carloads, and will consume in the neighborhood of 1,000,000 feet of lumber, board measure. The work will keep a force of about twenty-five men busy in the box factory. Tom Huntley, a Curry county sportsman, had an interesting time one moonlight night, he and his dogs, with a nine-foot panther, which had been feasting on sheep in the neighborhood. Just after his last shot the huge brute made a spring and laid hold upon him, but the shot proved to have been fatal, and the panther tumbled over at Huotley's side and expired. WASHINGTON. Walla Walla is bserving the thirty-fifth anniversary of its town government. Cold weather is muking the coyotes around Rosalla_desperate, and they are carrying off many chickens young pigs. A large area of ground has already been soeded with wheat in ‘Whitman county, and it the weather remains favorable thousands of acres will yet be sown. A few of the veterans of the Indian war of 1856-57, in Washington, met in Olympia recently for the purpose of securing pensions from the government for their services, Miss Ella Guptil), ,populist, was elected superintendent of schoals of Clallam county by 200 majority. Her wepublican comp:titor, A. N. Taylor, proposes’' to contest, on the ground that a woman is not eligible to hold the office. Horse and cattle tileves have been making frequent raids through the valleys between Tacoma and Seattle, and particularly n the Puyallup and White river valleys. At least a score of cattle and horses have been stolen in that section during the last two months. Michael Shuman, a well known mining man, returned from his mines in the Okona- gon distriot. reports the find of a verit- able bonanza mine at thé very summit of the Cascade range of meountains, near Slate creek. Two young men from Anacortes, named Barron and Gerrish, are the lucky finders. Shuman says that the boys, after a week's work with the crudest of imple- ments, have cleaned up $12,000, with pleaty of the same rich dirt in sight. Nearly all the miners In this section of the country have flocked to the new Eldorado and staked out claims. Judge George M. Welty of Colville has re- ceived advices from the United States fish commission to the effect that he will re- celve, at the proper season, 10,000 bass for the Deep Creek lakes. The judge will plant his fish, secure a postoffice and open a gen- eral_merchandise store at the lakes within the next four months. MISCELLANEOUS, The Alamo mines, Tintic, Utah, paid $15,000 in dividends last month Bight miles of new electric road are to be built at once at Phoenix, Ariz. Two hundred and forty men are now em- ployed on mine and mill at Congress, Ariz. The wages of the section men on the Mon- tana Central have been cut from $1.50 to $1.25 a day. The Jerome railroad In’ Arizona now completed intc camp and all freight trains have been laid off. A new stamp mill is under contemplation at Bland, N. M., and figures are being obtained for its erection at an early day. Trains will be running to Oceano, below San Luis Obispo, by the first cf the year The grading is now almost finished between the two places. Montana will furnish about 200,000 head of beef cattle to the eastern market this year. which means from $8,000 000 to $10,000,000 in that state. Last year about 170,000 head of beet cattle were shipped. The Fresno Mining company has filed a suit against the state of California to recover $490,000, which the plaintiff alleges is due it for damages resulting from the destruction of its water power by the state authorities. Rich gold ores have been found in Grant county, New Mexico, near the Arizona bor- der, eighteen miles from Duncan, which give assays of fifty-five ounces gold and 1,500 ounces of silver per ton. The average of the ore is about $600 per ton. Frank Payson and George Brill, two Ameri- can prospectors, have discovered an old Span- ish gold mine sixty miles northeast of Sierra Mojada, Mex., and from samples of the ore, it is believed the mine is one of fabulous rich- ness, worked a‘century ago. Governor West of Utah recelved letters from the sheriff and other officials of San Juan_county asking for assistance in driving out 500 Ute Indians. These Indians have come over from the Los Pinos agency in Colorado, bringing with them 10,000 sheep and 4,000 cattle. The Crocker Estate company has closed a contract with an eastern syndicate to plant 2,000 acres of land near Merced, Cal., in sugar beets next scason. The syndicate has agreed to erect a beet sugar factory near Merced to utilize the beets that will be supplied by the Crocker company. The factory is to cost $100,000. The St. John Irrigation company of Ari- zona is construcling a large reservoir on the Little Colorado river. The embankment will be, when completed, forty feet at the base, ten feel high, and faced by a rock wall four feet thick. When completed this reservoir will bo the largest body of water in Apache county, covering 600 acres and from ten to fifteen feet deep. Arrangements have been perfected by the ranchers in the vicinity of San Diego for the planting of canaigre on a large scale, and a compaty has been organized to handle the product. A tannery is to be erected, to cost $10,000, and the plant will be extended as rapidly as the supply of canaigre increases. The roots grow wild in Lower California, but it is believed that the output can be largely increased by cultivation. The patrol of Bering sea has not prevented poaching. Lieutenant Commander Drake, United States navy, in command of the Alba- tross, who came into the port of Sitka Sep- tember 27, reports that forty vessels were in Bering sea hunting fur seal during the months of August and September, and that they had taken on an average 1,000 skins each, 72 per cent of which were females. He also stated that but 12 per cent of the ves- sels were American, the others being mostly British. Sugar beet growing s about to receive an impetus in the vicinity of San Bernardino, Cal. Experiments have been made here which show as high as 16.6 per cent of sac- charine matter in the beet, and officials from the Chino factory are now here, ready to contract for the product of 500 acres for the coming season. If the contracts are closed and the result at the end of the season is satisfactory capital is ready to at once put up a factory here. Experts say there are 5,000 acres, most of it uncultivated, which will grow sugar beats, and the product of that much land will keep a factory as large as that at Chino busy during the sea- soz. - Oregon Kidney Tea vurea ait kidney tru: 4les. Trial size, 25 cents. All druggists. e A (orccircein Ciphers. A clever young writer was in the habit of composing riddles and puzzle rhymes for the benefit of two of his girl friends. Becoming expert In guessing them, savs the Chicago Tribune, they asked for something harder, When ho sent them the following: When vou ask a harder question, To unriddle vour suggestion; re itself suggests its answer plain. uzzled many sages lands and ages, But no doubt you will nut tackle it in vain. It will be seen that, by taking the first letter of the first line, the second of the next, and so on for five, the word “womsn” is made. They deciphered *his, and to the puzzle mak- er's unbounded astonisk:zent pointed out to him the further fact, which they had discov- ered, that the letters immediately following formed the word “‘hussy.” 1In writing it he intended it only to contain “woman,” and had no idea that he was hiding the other word in a simi'ar manner. When we con- sider the chances against any word being accidentally formed in such a way, and the icfinitely greater chances against such a word belng an opprobrious synonym for the word intentionally concealed, the fortuitous com- bination of the letters forming the second word must be regarded as a very extraordi- nary coincidence and one worthy of note those days of arguments deduced from “liter- ary ciphers.” A CHANGE Of air is generally advised by physicians for consump- tives, either an ocean voyage or a trip to the mountains, Many, while strong enough to make the journey, cannot af- ford the expense. 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