Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 21, 1895, Page 5

PULSEOF WESTERN PROGRESS Remarkable Properties and Superior Qual- ity of Wyoming Oil. REFINERY TO BE EUILT AT CASPER Creede as a Gold Camp—Yellow Metal Get- & Kie Depth Increases— Likelihoo ption of Mt Kanter—General Western Nows. or an of an The long-hoped-for time has arrived when Wyoming ofls are to be put to practical use; the thin end of the wedge of development has been driven in, and from now on we believe that our splendid country will the recognition it deserves from capitalists, says the Douglas News, and that they will wake up to the fact that fabulous returns may be realized from conservative Invest- ments in the resources of our wonderful state. The railroad officials who passed through town on the way to Casper the other day have made arrangements with the ofl com- pany to build a refinery at Casper and to supply the Denver & Gulf raflroad system with lubricating ofl, which means that the Wyoming product will be used from Orin Junction to the Gulf of Mexico. This Is a good beginning toward the development of our magnificent ofl ficlds, and should prove of immense benefit not only to Casper and viclnity, but to the whole of central Wy ming. " The natural oils found in these fielda are superior to any in the world, or any manufactured, for lubricating purp and the powerful opposition of the Standard Oil trust has hitherto been the sole barrier to their development. When samples of this oll were sent east for analysis rts ro- fused to belleve it was entirely n and that no animal ofl had been blended with it. The Galena oil wells, from which the Stand- ard trust obtains all its heavy oil, must be blended with expensive sperm oil to make eylinder, spindie and all high grades of lu- bricating oil* These wells only produce about 168 barrels of oll per day with which to sup- Dly the whole United States with lubricating oll. The consequence is that much light illuminating ofl must be blended with animal olls to supply the demand. With Wyoming crude ofl a locomotive will run 100 miles to sixty miles whilst using manufactured ofl, and this can be verified by affidavits. The Wyoming oils contain no naphtha or petro- leum, and are so heavy that they need only refining to become superior to any manufac- tured oil for cylinder and spindle v bricators, The oil belt stretches over an Immense ter- ritory, and the proper development of this industry means milllons invested in Wyo- ming. GOLD IN CREEDE ORES. For some weeks past rumor has been busy with reports of the increased amount of &old In the Creede ores, showing a gradual change In their values as depth was reached in the leading producers. In its review for 1894 the Bachelor Sentinel makes this mat- ter prominent, declaring that the Creede of today is a gold, lead, copper and silver pro- ducing camp. "All the additional metals are here and in paying quantities. The year 1895, therefore, promises to outrival those previous, and while the silver industry languishes attention will be given to the new finds of 1894. The gold values are being found at depth in the older properties and in new scctions of the district not prospected over prior to 1894, The copper finds are in a section prospected some fourteen years ago and rescarched last year. In the Last Chance, at the elghth level, (900 fect deep) regular daily shipments are being made from a five-foot vein of sulphide ore that not only returns from 200 to 400 silver per ton, but also from two tn four ounces in gold. 1In the Amethyst, next ad- Jolning on the north, from the lower work- ings is being shipped a very high grade sil- ver ore and also producing several ounces gold to every ton. In the Happy Thought, one of the properties of the United Mines company, at & depthi of 500 feet the returns showed over 100 ounces silver and $8.20 in gold per ton. At the present workings, 700 feet deep, the returns are much higher in silver, two or three ounces in gold and 30 to 40 per cent lead to the ton. On Fischer mountain, twelve miles in an alr line south of Jim- town, the Judson Tunnel company has opened up a genuine gold proposition. This company Wwas organized to operate a tunnel site and to crosscut the formation of the mountain With the purpose to cut a contact belleved by eminent experts to exist thereon, After Tunning through slide for 200 feet they en- countered porphyry carrying gold, and up to date they have run 350 feet into this porphyry and aro not through yet. Assays have run from §2 to $110 gold per ton and the entire body will ayerage $4 per ton. Such a moun- tain of gold of course is something surpris- ing to a company that was developing for a silver proposition exclusively. RICH ORE AT LEADVILLE. All along the gold belt there is the greatest actlvity noticeable. ~ Ground that has for years lain idle is being located, says a Lead- ville special to the Denver Times, and it is doubtful if there is a single fraction in the gold belt section that has not been located. In the older gold properties work is being pushed ahead as fast as possble, while nine shaft holes are to be found on the recent loca- tions. Amid the gold excitement, develop- ment of the numerous silver and proper- ties is not lost sight of, and work is being pushed ahead on the same old standbys that added such a handsome quota to the year's output. In fact, it Is the silver mines that are at present employing the bulk of the men and are furnishing employment to those Wwho have to make their living here. In the £0ld belt the bulk of development’ work has yet to be done. The gold-ore chute lies at an average depth of 400 to 500 feet, and it will Tequire time and the expenditure of much money for this preparatory work. o water proposition, ‘as was expected, has been encountered in the Rex, and at a depth of 250 feet it was found necessary to prepare to pump. The fact that the dia- mond drill had encountered the ore body was not forgotten, hence a pumping plant was at once ordered and is being placed In position. In addition to this shaft, these people are sending down Rex No. 2 shaft, which is located 50O feet north of No. 1 shaft, and is belng sent down as fast as possible. The lessees on the Double Decker property are doing very nicely. In drifting from the 100-foot level " they have opened up a very g00d ore body, assays from which run as high as forty ‘ounces gold. The veln s a £00d cne and development work promises very excellent results. A CALIFORNIA COAL MINE. In all probability the coal deposits which have been known ‘to exist in the Sherwood valley, on a southerly fork of el river, will be actively worked before the close of the coming ~year, says the San Franclsco Chronicle. About four years ago J. 8. Flood, having discovered a vein of coal, commenced operas tions on quite an extended scale. ‘A shaft was sunk and a tunnel into the vein was com~ menced, but, after spending some $50,000, operations ceased. Since then nothing has been done until recently. A company has been formed with the intenton of fully de- yeloping the mine. Surveys for a railroad from the mine to Fort Bragg have been made and a contract has been let to build the road. The preparations for breaking ground are about complete and waterials for building and rails for laying the track have been shipped to Fort” Brags. Everything being in readiness, no doubt operations will com- mence as soon as the rains cease. The vein Is from thirteen to fourteen feet thick, so far as has been discovered, and is situated about forty miles from Fort Bragg in Sherwood valley, on a southerly fork of Eel river. FLORENCE'S GREAT GAS WELL. Following close upon the recent opening of an immense gusher with a flow comparing in every respect with the typical Pennsylva- nia oll well comes the news that a gas well, the wonder of the Florence oil fleld, wa: struck by the United Oil company af well No. 84, three mlles south of this eity, says a Florence special to the Denver News. Oll men say it is not a Colorado well, or Mke those heretofore obtained here, but more like an eastern gas well, as the quantity and Pressure are so great. It is claimed this well {5 producing suf- clent gas to heat a city the size of Pueblo. ‘The roaring of the gas when confined to & three-inch plpe may be heard a quarter of a alle from the well. Fhe Qiscovery of this well means much for Florence as a manufacturing ofty. The gas will be piped to town and utilized. FORTUNES IN BLACK SAND. The Jicarilla mining camp Is located on the north side of the Jicarilla_mountains, about twelve miles from the well known camp of White Oaks, New Mexico, During the spring of 1804 a new discovery was made in Rio Gulch and a placer deposit was opened up which ran about $2.50 to the ton, the deposit was from four to eight feet deep and averaged forty-five feet in width, After this discovery the gulches which pros- pected gold were all located, and inside of sIxty days, writes a correspondent of the Denver Mining Record, the population of the camp rose from fifty to nearly 100 men all working placers. The method employed in the extraction of gold fs by the use of small dry washers greatly resembling the fanning mill In use before the invention ot the threshing machine. These machines each handle about two tons of dirt per day, and save from 95 to 60 per cent of the gold, but lose all the black sand; the black sand runs about $150 to the ton, and is about 1 per cent of the welght of the pay streak. At the present time there s a large com- pany located in the lower end of Ancho gulch, and the representative of the company, Mr. F. McKinley, Is businly engaged in erect- ing buildings and developing the claims pre- paratory to the placing of a McKinley dry concentrator on the ground to handle the placer ground on a large scale—handling fifty tons of the dirt in ten hours at an average expense of 75 cents per yard, LOOKS FOR AN ERUPTION. Colonel Fred G. Plummer has made ex- tonsive re hes and collected data which shows beyond question that the big moun- tain peaks in tho northwesi have been vol- canoes in the memory of people yet living, and this is why Colonel Plummer thinks that Mount Ranler s likely to break out again at any time, says the Tacoma News Among this mass of data is the story of John Hiaton, an Indian now living, that he witnessed an eruption of the mountain in the year 1820. It was accompanied by fire, nolse and carthquake. He had heard from older members of his tribe that this had happened many times, He had also seen fires from Mount Baker, and a_ tradition of his race is to the effect’ that this mountain was much higher and that a tremendous explosion threw down the entire south side. The present shape and condition of the mountain confirm this story. An old historian, Rev. Samuel Parker, tells| that ‘“the Indians say they have often seen fires In the chasms of Mount Hood, Tilki, the first chief of the Dalles Indians, who is a man of more than ordinary talents, said that he had often seen fire in the fissure of the rocks in the mountains Settlers of Whatcom county have often seen Mount Baker in a state of eruption. In January, 1853, persons living down the sound stinetly see a long, black streak on the southwest slope of Mount Baker, which was variously estimated at from 1,000 to 2,000 feet in width, 1t was several months before the mass of lava cooled so as to receive the falling snow, In 1861, the people at Port Ludlow saw Mount Olympus, In the Olympic range, in eruption. On Sunday, June 27, 1869, at about 8:30 o'clock p. m., quite a severe earthquake shock was felt at Seattle. Very little damage was done, although dishes were thrown from pantry shelves and many people were startled by the sharpness of the shock. In the summer of 1893 Tacoma received a severo shock, which the motion of chande- liers hung on hooks showed came from the dircction of Mount Ranier. Should there be a very violent eruption of Mount Ranier there would be no danger in Tacoma. The mountain is too far away— forty-four miles. Pompell and Herculaneum were almost at the foot of Mount Vesuvlus. WHITE METAL IN UTAH. It {5 very doubtful, says the Salt Lake Her- ald, if Utah's silver production in ounces will show any decrease from that of 1893, although, of course, there will be a great reduction of values. ~ Some of the most conservative smelting and mining men of the territory place the total considerably above 6,000,000 fine ounces. In this they are borne out by the annual statement of the smelters. With the exception of that of the Pennslyvania, these all show increases in the production of the white metal, and while many of the former producers have closed down, the regu- lars, whose outputs are not included in the smelter reports, have sent their production skyward. A. Hanauer, §f., Is accepted as an author- ity on the territorial production of the metals, and that gentleman has fixed the 1894 sil- ver output between the 6,000,000 and 6,500,000 ounce marks. One of his reasons for placing the figures so high is the increase shown by the smelters and the great Ontario, which is always given credit for producing in the neighborhood of one-sixth of the entire Utah output. These four statements give a total of 4,576,250.18 fine ounces, the Hanauer being credited with 723,650 ounces, the Ontarlo 1,385,828.18 ounces, the Germania 1,358,374 ounces, and the Pennsylvania 1,108,507 ounces. The other independent shippers will certainly turn out not less than 1,500,000 ounces. ON THE UPPER COLUMBIA. Mr. C. F. B. Haskell, who was sent out by Captain Symons, United States engineers, With a party to make a topographical survey of the Upper Columbia from the mouth of the Okarogan down to Rock Island rapids, has completed the task and returned to work up his notes in Captain Symons' office, says the Portland Oregonian. The party has been out three months, and although its work was through a comparativgly = rough and un- settled country, Mr. Haskell says it was the most pleasant camping trip he ever had, The party pitched tents on & raft 20x24 feet and gully floated down the broad Columbla, except on ‘a few occasions, when raplds were shot, and the water swept over the raft and made things interesting. The party took levels and measurements, soundings, flow of water, etc., and made careful surveys at all potnts where it may bo desirable to improve the channel. The distance covered was elghty miles. At the mouth of the Okanogan is situated Virginia City, but for some distance below the bluft comes near the river and there are but few settlers, On the Methow river there is considerable available land and some settle- ments, but the chief Industry of that section is mining, The next place of any importance is Chelan, situated on a lake a few miles back from the river and 300 feet above it. At the Entiat river, twenty miles below the crossing of the Great Northern rallroad, there is quite a settlement. Wanatchee, the next place below Entiat, 1s quite a settle- ment, there belng over 200 inhabitants in the town. From this down to Rock island rapids, ten miles, the country opens out and there are about 30,000 acres of avaiiable land along the river, 10,000 acres being taken up and the remainder in the hands of, the government and the Northern Pacific Rail- road company. RESOURCES OF OREGON, There are singular things in Oregon. The state has only just begun to be developed and its citizens tell many queer tales of the possibilities of the country. James M. Tur- ney, one of the best known citizens of Port- land, told a New York Sun reporter who visited that city early last fall that on more than one occasion fishermen had gone out from Astoria and sailed out to some iceberg that was floating down from Alaska and actually had chopped frozen fish from its sides, which were afterward sold in the mar- kets. The fish were found to be preserved perfectly and brought good prices, the ex- pense of freight from Alaska having been saved. Mr. Turney added: “No one has any adequate idca of the richness of Oregon. It has been proved that she distances both California and Washington in the quality of her fruits. We are doing an enormous mining business, and the state fairly teems with gold and siiver. Our lum- ber cannot be surpassed, and there are no more fertile valleys in the world than those which are only half known even to ourselyes. When the mouth of the Columbia river be- comes improved we shall be in a position to draw commerce away from San Francisco and the Puget sound, and, with our superior shipping facilties from Portland, we shall come (o the front with great rapidity. Ore- &0 has no superior as a state. The climate and soll are unsurpassed, and the hard times have been felt less in our state than probably any other. Our growth is steady and healthy, and we are bound to get our share of immigration, because there s no more agreeable place in the world to live than in the state of Oregon.' 10WA, Mrs. Duval, who lived near Manson, was killed at Belmond by the cars. Cerro Gordo county is considering the pro- position to erect & new court house to cost $100,000. Directors of the Independence 'Driving club bave elected officers for the year and THE OMAHA DAILY BER: MODNAY, decided to offer $4,000 in prizes at the August meeting. Nashville postoffice was robbed of the mail and $300 worth of goods taken from the store adjoining. Erlck Anderson of Algona was killed by falling pole while watching a tree being pulled up near that place. H. V. Reed's store at Godell was entered by burglars and a quantity of goods stolen. Bert Butterfield has been arrested. Men and boys are openly violating the fish law on the Coon river, shooting and spearing the fish In great quantities, An old settler's reunion of the older resi- dents of Hamilton county is to be held on Washington's birthday at Webster City. Blackhawk county superyisors are discnss- ing_the advisability of jssuing $100,000 wor th of bonds with which to build a new court house and Jail at Waterloo, Dr. Wake of the Stata Agricultural college made an_examination of some dairy cows at Charles City and found sixty out of 125 to be infected with tuberculosis. All were Killed. The jury in the case of the State of lowa against A. Guegel on trial at Carroll, re- turned a verdict of assault with intent to commit manslaughter. He will serve ten years in the penitentiary at Anamosa. Philip Kuntz, who was arrested at Greon- fleld some months i on information sworn out by a_neighbor, John Jones, who charged him with the burning of a hay stack, was acquitted in the Adair county district court. Mr. Jones, the prosecuting witness, swore on the stand that while the bay stack was smouldering he saw Kuntz fan the blaze with his hat to make it burn quicker. NEBRASKA. Indianola has been troubled with an un- usual number of cases of petty thieving. D. P. Sherwood and wife of Ponca will cel- ebrate their golden wedding on February 10. Mrs. Adelaide Cross of Omaha is endeavor- ing to arrange to organize a Woman's club at_ Chadron, By the overturning of a teapot the little son of J. F. Jaeger of Chadron was badly scalded about the face and neck. Money that had been collected by the Con- gregational church at Crete for the purpose of relief was stolen from the church. W. W. Lichty's store at Carleton was en- tered by burglars and five dozen watch chains, five dozen gold rings and other arti- cles taken. There is only one inmate of the Dixon county poor house, and the Ponca Journal suggests that the building be transformed into a canning factory. Willlam_Blackman has taken a coffin all the way from St. Paul into Buffalo county for his mother. ~ His mother at last reports was not in need of a coffin. Willie Schoeneck of Scribner is confined to his bed by typhoid fever, and taking ad- vantage of this fact, somebody stole a stack of about six tons of hay from him. Blair 0dd Fellows have made a large ship- ment of clothing and also about 400 pounds of flour and some corn meal to the destitute members of their ordgg in the southwest part of th state. Billy Brown of Schuyler, Shonka Brothers' ner, is highly indignant. He was accosted by three unknown men the other night, who stood him on his head In the ditch. He has a wound on his nose. Rev. W. H. Sparling announced to the con- gregation at Winside that a rector would be sent to take charge of the Episcopal church before the second Sunday in February, and that he would, therefore, not visit the church again, Henry Harris broke into the house of J. B. Collins, four miles southwest of Odell, while the owner and his wife were away from home. He stole a quantity of clothing, but was speedily captured with the stolen goods in his possession. He pleaded guilty, and was bound over to the district. court. THE DAKOTAS. A comedy company has just been organized at Fort Meade, Canton made $50,000 worth of ments during 1894, The Burlington rallroad is shipping coal for the needy into Elkton and Richland free of freight. A car load of Dorset horned sheep passed through Huron a few days ago to be put on the ranches along the Missouri river. Military authorities at Fort Meade have placed a patrol of troops around the military reservation to prevent depredations of timber thieves. There are nineteen wells now being used for irrigation purposes in Brule county, South Dakota, the average length of the ditches from each well being thirteen miles. C. M. Bell now has ono of the finest ar- tesian wells in the state on his place near Huron. It is a three-inch well, 800 feet deep, with a flow of about 300 gallons per minute and good pressure, The Arlington Sun says that old horses accustomed to grain have not this winter been able to stand life upon the prairie, but that young horses have been prospering nicely. Those who have pastured old horses are arranging either to bury them or to take them home. Arrangements have been made for holding farmers' Institutes at the following time and places: January 10 and 11, at Vermillion; 14 and 16, at Howard; 17 and 18 at Farns- worth; 22 and 23 at Groton and Milbank; also at Turton and Wheaton on the 22d; 24, 26 and 26, at Britton; 29 and 30, at Ashton; February 1, at Ipswich; 2 and 3, at Bureka. Since the opening of the Holy Terror mine at Keystone the town has been getting ready to boom, and mow it is booming. Keystone today is the liveliest camp in the county, and resembles the palmy days of '76 at Redwood, A thousand people are living at the camp, in houses, sheds, tents and barns, and real estate and mining property is on the boom. Lots which a few weeks ago were considered worthless are now selling at $1,000. The excitement has attracted men from nearly every part of the United States, and the indications are that the Southern Hills are on a boom that never before was equalled. improve- WYOMING. A claim on the Four Mile placers near Rawlins was sold for $5,000. . Twenty then have been let out’ at the Evanston shops and sixteen at Rawlins, Ranchmen in the Big Horn basin are mow paying in the nelghborhood of $25 for every wolt pelt brought, A new mill is to be put in on Bald moun- tain, near Sheridan, in the spring by the Fortunatus Mining company. W. §. Stratton, the Cripple Creek mine manager, has decided against Sunday work in any of the properties under his control. Ore from the second level of the Blue Bird mine, Cripple Creek, s ylelding, in oar lots, from seven to twelve ounces in gold per ton. A Big Horn Basin cattleman distributed this fall $80 worth of strychnine to all ranchmen who would apply, and it has been used for the purpose of killing wolves and coyotes. A ranchman near Lusk killed an antelope the other day and sprinkled some strychnine on the body. *The next morning he went out to the body and found six large grey wolves dead near at hand. Copper Rock, Boulder county, has had rather a stormy experience with a co-op- erative mining company which knew nothing about mining, but was very expert at dodging its bills, The experiment is closed. The coal striks at Marshall has ended, The men were given an increase of 5 cents, making the rate now 65 cents per ton for mining. A promise of another advance was also made when the railway switeh is built to the mines. The Dead Pine lode, San Miguel county, belonging to the Ophir company, has been leased and bonded to Thomas T. Mahoney for the big sum of $100,000. The duration of the lease s for one year, but the lessee has the option of extending this to fifteen months, with Increased royalties, The Cripple Creek Morning Times states that the latest bonanzas discovered in the camp are located on Bull Hill, and all have been found in the phonolite dikes. The American Eagles, 1 and 2, the Favorite, and several other strikes of lesser note have been mado in these dikes since the first of the year. A Masca Blanca miner just returned from camp has brought with him a quantity of specimens from his mine in Arastra gulch Assays show the best ore to run $400 in gold and 320 to $30 g. sliver per ton. He Is in forty feet, and (h¥ ore grows richer with every foot. He is an experienced miner and & cool-headed, practical man, and predicates his falth in the now p on the good re- #ults actually obtal: He has explored Blanca thoroughly, andihas found abundant evidence of an immenss true fissure vein running for miles through the range, which, with proper developmént, will yield millions of both gold and s!lvar. John Shaw of Hartville has in his pos- sossion @ number of pifished specimens of onyx. covery close to the Mariyille fron belt, and traced it four miles. It lles between the limestono and sandstone’ ander about 100 feet of cap rock. About. twenty tons are ex- posed. The Coburn, located on: the south slope of Mineral Hill, has every appearance of a mine. A wagon road is being bullt to this latest discovery. A shaft has been sunk to a depth of thirty-five feit in a big blow-out and there is ore on all sides and in the bottém of it, which averages from two to three ounces in gold. N. A one-third interest In the Bull Domin mine, located near La Plata city, for which he paid $3,000. The Bull Domingo has not had very much work performed on it, but the showing is excellent, and the owners consider it a valuabls prop:rty, tha ore be- ing worth from $225 to $500 per ton The coal output for 1894 from this camp will fall _about 3,000 cars, or 06,000 tons short of 1893, says the Rock Springs Miner, The only explanation is that during last summer the demand for commercial coal was exceadingly light. Besides this, the Utah and Montana smelters continued running on short time, owing to the low price of white motal. A bright outlook 1s in view for the coming year, however. The colony of Wheatland (s now about nine months old, but already there are in the neighborhood of 200 families located in the town and valley. The town is a pros- perous and growing community, with sub- stantial brick business blocks and dwellings. There are two hotels, two general merchan- dise stores, which carry large stocks, two hardware stores, many smaller establishments and every evidence of a lively and growing | western city. Uncle Sammy Martin, living up on State | creek, claims to be the champion potato raiser of Wyoming, and without any great exertion on his part either, says the Green River Star. He took out an irrigation ditch last spring, and having a few seed potatoes left over, he thought he would drop a few along the banks of the ditch. He neither cultivated nor irrigated his spuds, and, in fact, paid little attention to them. In the fail he pulled up a few of the vines, and was greatly surprised to find attached the largest and finest potatoes he had (ever scen. They were smooth, uniform in size and mealy, and Mr. Martin estimates that they would go about 1,000 bushels to the acre. OREGON. A colony of Nebraska people has arrived at Independence, to settle on Polk county farms, The Virtue mine’s December output has arrived in Baker City. It is a big ball of gold and weighed out about $17,000. George and James Curry of Euchre creek, Curry county, have killed seven bears, and have saved twenty gallons of fine oil, which they are selling at a bit a pound. | I'. A. Stewart's black sand mine, at Gold Beach, has panned down until it is in fine shape, and “they are shoveling sand in a hurry. The gold is very coarse, and accumu- lates rapidly upon tho plates. The deeds for the new raiiroad subsidy have been filed in the county recorder’s office at Astoria. There are 268 of them, and the estimated value:of«the property trans- ferred reaches up into millions. The latest sensation at Astoria is a sliding mountain, which appears to be traveling toward the bay. Four or five houses have been moved a distance of from two to five feet, and in one instance a dwelling was toppled over so that the slightest jar will send It tumbling down. The Lakeview Examinér gives an account of rabbit drives in that section, which re- sulted in the slaughter of 3,500 jack rab- bits.. The rodents had become o trouble- some in destroying 'crops and gardens that tha residents formed a combination to sur- round a large extent of country and drive them Into a corral, where they were Killed, Stock Inspector Millgr, of Lone Rock in- forms the Condon Globe ‘that the number of sheep in Gilliam county {5 138,183; number of bands, sixty-cight. There is less disease among sheep in_the county than for years, there being one band affected with scab, and the sheep of this have been carefully dipped i and are almost cured. Mr. Miller says sheepmen generally are in better epirits this year than last, The need for quick and cheap communi- cation up and down the Oregon coast was never better demonstrated than at present. With a large output of wool in Curry county, and the shipping the past season of from forty to fifty tons of wool, there 1s a scarcity of wool at the Bandon woolen mills, and Bandon is now importing wool from San Francisco by schooner, to enable the mill to run. Owing to lack of communication along the coast, southwestern Oregon cannot supply the wool market at Bandon, as it is easier and cheaper to ship to San Francisco, 300 miles away than to Bandon, which Is but a few miles distant. Thus Curry county ships its wool product to San Franclsco, and Ban- don Imports it from San Francisco instead of from Oregon ports direct. WASHINGTON. Spokane built 400 houses in 1894, at a cost of something like $750,000. The Monte Cristo mines will issue $150,000 in bonds for development work. John Robin of Castle Rock cut 20,198,000 shingles with his one single-hand machine during the year 1894, Chehalls county put out in 1894 about 85,- 000,000 feet of lumber, a gain of 20,000,000 over 1893. The shingle output will' reach | nearly 100,000,000, Both values will aggre- gato $10,000,000. Tom Cannon and a couple of companions killed eighteen deer while on a two or three days' hunt up the Entiat recently. Four- teen of the dead animals decorated a Water- ville butcher shop. During the month of December the Everett smelter shipped bullion to the amount of $107,000. The product for the month included 3,000 ounces of gold, 60,000 ounces of silver and 500,000 pounds of lead. A memorial, prepared by the county com- missioners of Okanogan, has been sent to con- gress, praying for an appropriation of $25,000 for the opening of the Okanogan river from its confluence with the Columbia to Os00yoos lake, on the British line. At Elberton a contract for 50,000 tamarack railroad ties has been signed by the head officlals of the Oregon Railway & Navigation company with . E. Averill.” It is also re- ported ‘that large amounts of lumber and bridge materials will be required. Despite fourteen inches of snow, seventy- five Puyallup Indians turned out to confer with the Puyallup Indian commissioners at Tacoma, regarding the sale of the reserva- tion school farm. Most of them came to the meeting on horseback or in wagons. The Puyallup Indian commission, in session on the Sound, has announced that it will have a large part of the Puyallup reservation ready for sale by spring. Twelve thousand, acres can be sold, after retaining a small home- stead for each Indfan, The terms of pay- About a month ago he made the dis- | W. Savage of Durango has purchased | JANUARY 21, 1895. ment will be one-third cash and the balance In five annual installments, bearing 6 per cent iInterest, Ellery Rogers has leased the boom of the Bellingham Bay Boom company, at the mouth of the Nooksack river, and the river is open S0 steamers can reach Ferndale. Mr. Rogers has taken 260,000 feet of the logs out of the | tiver. The company claims to have spent $80,000 on tha boom, and to have done more | to keep the river open than the government. There are in the state some thirty-five | flouring mills that do custom grinding, and in addition there are a dozen or so small mills that confine themselves to local business, ex- change and feed grinding The dally ca- pacity of the state mills will reach | 7,500 barrels per day, or something over 200,- 000 barrels per month, Thero is at present exported about 560,000 barrels per | which is about 25 per cent of the ca the mills, and this amount could eas doubled It proper ecarrying capacity available, As an evidence of what is looked for in the | way of eastern lumber business, it is stated that the Port Blakeley mill, which has here- tofore cut exclusively for the cargo trade, will enter the trade as a competitor for east- ern business. In order to do this it will be necessary to expend something like $25,000 for transfer facilities, This the Port Blake- ley people are said to be cheerfully doing The Paul & Tacoma mill has an order that s somewhat of a departure in Puget sound business, and the flattering part or the departure Is that the order is to go to the far “east. It is for 100,000 of gutters,and caves, the cut being from clear fir. The | stuff is to go to Buffalo, Providence and other eastern cities, MISCELLANEOUS. Utah's silver praduct for 1804 is given as 6,000,000 fine ounces. The Barron will case, now on trial at San Jose, Cal., involves $2,000,000. On the first of the month eighty men wero discharged from the railroad shops at Pocatello. Cause, nothing for them to do. Miller, the Nevada cattle king, drove 800 head of steers into Mason valley to feed last week. There are 1,200 more to be driven in later, The largest copper smelting plant in the world is at Anaconda, Mont., and they get every ounce of their ore out of the Butte mines owned by that company. During November the total income of the De Lamar Mining company, Idaho, reached §78,200, while the expenses were $37,013, leaving the estimated profit at $41,187. It s stated on reliable authority that the Pecos Valley railroad will commence work in a short time and run their lino from Ros- well to Albuquerque, passtug through Jicar- illa_ district. The Englehardt Gold Extraction company of Denver has decided to build a twenty-ton plant near Prescott, Ariz. Mr. Englehardt has just returned from a survey of the situa- tion at that point. The Drum Lummon mine of Montana is rated as the richest gold mine in that state. The new smelting plant at Silver City, N. M., is being pushed toward completion as rapidly as possible. The big cut in the wages of the employe of the Southern Pacific company went into efiect on the 1st. It was the heaviest and most. general cut ever put into effect by the Southern Pacific company. Montana’s mineral product for 1894 Is as follows: Gold, $4,500,000; silver, $11,000,000; copper, $15,600,000; lead, $1,000,000; total $32,000,000. 'This is a splendid showing, es- pecially in the copper industry. Among Montana mining men it is supposed that copper mining will receive an additional boom this year, because of the copper com- bine now being formed, which it is believed will advance the price of this metal. J. H. Schultz has 'recently finished a 2%-inch artesian_well on his farm near Washington, N. D., that flows 12,402 bar- rels of water per day. Several other wells will be put down before spring for irrigation purposes. The mineral production of Idaho for 1894 is given as follows: Gold, $879,000; silver, $2,359,000. and lead, $3,606,000; an aggregate of $6,844,000. In this calculation silyer is figured at 60 cents an ounce and lead at 3 cents a pound. There are in the neighborhood of 300 stamps hung up on account of the low price of silver, vet the daily product is 4,500 tons out of Butte mines, not counting the cus- tom supply from other sources. The Ana- conda company leads by about 2,000 tons. For 1894 New Mexico's mineral output has not yet been officially figured up, but the most reliable data shows gold, $1,500,000; silver, 250,000 ounces; copper, $50,000. In the mining of iron, coal, turquoise, opals and mica there has been a healthy in- crease during the year. During eleven mouths of the present year Wells, Fargo & Co. transported from King- man, Ariz., in gold bullion $11,660 and_$47,- 650 in silver bullion. The Atlantic and Pa- cific transported 350 cars of gold and silver ore to eastern smelters, the aggregate value being in the nelghborhood of $1,008,000. California is soon to try an industry that has_hitherto been confined in this country to New York City—that of whalebone-cut- ting. While much of the world's supply of whalebone is landed in San Francisco from the whaling ships, It has hitherto all been sent to New York and London to be cut for use. The question of confirming the sale of the Oregon Pacific road is before the courts. The purchase price was only $100,000, whilo there are claims for labor, materials and receivers' certificates aggregating over $1,000,000 against the road. The holders of the recelvers’ certificates strongly oppose the confirmation. Word comes from San Bernardino ranch in the mountains mear Tombstone, Ariz., that a number of Apache Indians are in the vicinity, camping along Sycamore creek, about fifteen miles from the ranchero. Now that Fort Bowlie has been abandoned and settlers are no longer afforded protection from that source, the savages are becoming bold, and ranchers are alarmed. Campfires are seen nightly, and the redskins do not hesi- tate about showing themselves. Negotiations for the transfer of coal mines at Rock Springs, Wyo., to Chicago capitalists have culminated in the acquirement by E. F. Lawrence, representing a syndicate, of 940 acres of coal land and its other property from the Rock Springs Coal company for $150,000. The Sweetwater Coal company has also trarfs- ferred its mine to Mr. Lawrence, but the transfer has not yet been recorded. Negotla- tions are closed for the Vandyke mines and the deal will probably be consummated about the first of the year. The three transfers rep- resent a transaction of more than $300,000. tleman who is familiar with the plans of the B. & M. 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