Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 18, 1895, Page 5

3 PULSE OF WESTERY PROGRESS Rich Gc1d Fields of Alaska and the Way to Reach Them. GREAT RUSH EXPICTED IN THZ SPRING Mild Climate on the Coast—Glance at the Intertor of the Famous Wind Cave at Hot Springs—Nows of the West, From the point where supplies are landed In the interior of Alaska, Indian packers and dog sledges are extensively used, for there are few reindeer up there, and the dogs are m only freighters, but they are tough and strong, and can go a great distance and draw a heavy load without any food except a n's fow frozen fisties and occasionally a little corn meal or bread “Juneau is the general outfitting point for nearly all Bays a Record, parts of the Interior of Alaska,” Tacoma dispatch to the Chicago quoting Mr, T. J. Quinn, a promi- nant trader who has lived in Alaska over seven years, “After securing an outfit at Juneau the next objective point Is Chilcoot, or Dyal, which can be reached by small steam- ers, of which thiere are a number plying be- tween Juneau and Chilcoot, and occasionally t to Chilkat. By leaving Juneaun In March or April the cost of packing is greatly lessened. The route followed to get into the Yukon country is across the Chilcoot pass. “The greatest quantities of coarse gold are now belng taken from Forty-Mile creek and its two branches, known as Davis creek and Sixty-Mile creek. A large number of claims liave been located along these streams within the last two seasons, and some very rich strikes are looked for in that section of the country. ‘Tfere ix a very large area of terri. tory in the Yukon country that has never been explored or prospected, and the yield is practically unlimited “Two new routes into this country have been projected, one by way of the Chilkat river and the other by way of Moore's pass, over which a good pack trail is to be built next summer. Both of these routes lead from Juneau into the Yukon valley, and will be more desirable in many respects than the present route “Many persons regard Alaska as a region of perpetual snow and ice, with no summer and no vegetation, but that Is because the country s so lLittle known. The climate of Sitka and other towns along the const very similar to the climate of ma, Seat- tle and Portland. It may be a trifle colder, but not_much, Tt is never so cold there as it is in New York or Chicago. The summers are always cool and pleasant. There is a great deal ot rain at Sitka and all points aloug the coast during the winter and a por- tion of the fall and spring, but the summer is dry and the sunshine very bright. In the interior it {s much colder, but it is a dry cold, that Is invigorating, and as persons are prepared for it they do not suffer from the cold. Numerous vegetables are raised at Sitka, Juneau, Wrangel and other points on the coast.” WIND CAVE WONDERS. rooms in Wind Cave tiers, over one another,” says A. Stabler, the postmaster at Wind Cave, in writing to a friend in Towa. “We have found eighty tiers so far, and the cave is like an eight-story house, each tler of ychambers having a different formation. We have also been about 500 fect beneath the surface. We compare the cave to a huge sponge, two miles square and 500 feet high, all dried out. We have formations found in no place in the world outside Wind Cave. One is the boxwork that you saw. There is no geological name for it, and It Is so named on account of its resemblance to boxes. The Bride's chamber s the first room, and is 165 feet below the entrance. The first large room is the postoffice, being about 300x50 feet, with a beautiful domo about eighty fect high. The room takes its name from the box formation on the ceiling, also from the sides, wher> visitors leave their cards. The Red hall has a very red formation, and the White rocm is perfectly white. The Devil's Lookout is a crevice sixty feet high, and very narrow. This scenery defies the grandest scenery In Switzerland for beauty, while the Queen’s drawing room fs hung with curtains and tapestry and decorated fine enough for the most exacting queen. The Methodist church is a beautiful chamber, with domes and arches and supporting pillars, while all is covered with the most delicate tinted boxwork. This room was dedicated by Dr. Haucher, president of Black Hills college, and now is a regular chapel. It is ono mile from the entrance, and about 240 feet beneath. Music sounds delightful, and nearly all parties sing a hymn or two before leaying the room. Capital hall is the larg- est room on the short route, containing about three-quarters of an’acre, with the ceiling sixty feet high. Two large lamps light each end, and the effect is grand. In the Amphi- theater we find the Masonic goat, also the scenes and music of the Midway Plaisance. In Turtle pass we step over an immense turtle. Fallen Flatts are two miles from the entrance, and 350 feet beneath, being in the sixth tier of chambers, From here we ascend CUft Climbers® Delight, a distance of sixty feet to Fivo Points. W. C. T. U, hall was dedicated by Mrs. Emma Krammer, president of the South Dikota Women's Chris” tian Temperance union. The Garden of Eden is then found, two and one-half miles from tho entrance, and about 175 feet beneath The room contains about half an acre, and i3 made up of domes, beautiful alcoves and fairy-like grottos, all covered and coated with a pure white and pink frost work, some being S0 delicate that a breath would destroy it. This 1s, or would be, a paradise for fairies, and one always goes away with a feeling that he has not enough. The Corkscrew path winds around and down over 100 feet to Dante's Inferno, which is a dark and deep rocky pit, and one can almost imagine seelng the Imp of Darkness at the bottom.” COTTONWOOD GOLD DISTRICT. The excitement anent the gold discoverles in the Cottonwood district Is by no means abating, and was only intensified by a strike in the Blue Jay, A vein of quirtz eight inches In width was encountered, samples from which showed up very rich, says the Salt Lake Herald, Assays will be made and the value of the rock determined. Gold City has sprung into existence, the townsite belng platted, 160 acres in all, with streets, alleys and avenues. Boarding houses and stores will be erected at once, and even the inevitable saloon is already contemplated. Prospectors are very plentiful all over the country, at least fity or sixty being on the ground, wading in the snow looking for precious metals, A party of Salt Lakers, among whom s City Treasurer Duke, have virtually located everything in Fergus canyon and are very sanguine of success, Every one is pushing development as fast as possible. The owners of the Mayflower aro opening it up as rapidly as can be do Mr. Dalton is going ahead on the New State company's Gold H'L. The vein is thought 40 be dipping, and it may be three or four days before it 1s crossed-cut. However, some good ore is being taken out and sacksd for shipment Owing to a misunderstanding as to the boundaries of the mining district, those op- erating in the neighborhood have decided to amend the by-laws to read so as to attach all properties south of Willow Creek to Little Cottonwood. A meeting was called for that purpose at Gold Hill cabin, but, inasmuch as Recorder Stewart was not present, it was deemed best not to take action, it being pre- :.umvd that he had not received definite no- ce. It-is proposed to have the recorder located &t Gold City if possible, for the convenler of prospectors, for when the snow shall have melted a rush is anticipated. EX-GOVERNOR GILPIN'S PROPHECY, The late ex-Governor William Gilpin, in whose honor Gilpin county was named, prophesied about fifty years ago that Colo- rado would in time be the richest state in the union. He lived to see th> prophecy almost fulfilled, says the Denver Republican, and it was a source of great gratification to him to point to Gilpin county as the richest plece of territory of the samd size in the world. And he would say in speaking of it: “Not one-tenth of its territory has been prospected. Wait until the golden wealth of all the hills has been exposed to view by the sturdy miner, and then the world will behold what it has vever seen before." No oue doubts the wisdom of the words @poken by Governor Gilpin, but no onme ex- “The lay in George ik i " poets 1o live to see the time when there Is no more vacant land upon which the prospector may eock for new viens. The county has been prospected for thirty-five years, yet not one-tenth of it has been taken up. New dis- coveries are being made continually, and the old mines are not playing out, although the deepest mines in the state are located there, It it had not been for the gold mines the Denver & Gulf road would never have been built into Gilpin county. The investment, however, was ono of the best the manag ment ever made, and the Increasing business speaks well for the prosperity of the county I MINING PAYS. P George R. Gwynn reports the new strike { In the Wheeler at the head of the Platte as consisting of a good body of ore, running from nineteen to fifty ounces in gold, says the Alma Bulletin. A cropping of this ore was found in working this mine years ago, but development work has since failed to reveal the treasure untll it was uncovered by | leasers a little more than a week ago. The ore s In porous porphyry and lime rock | and with the Wheeler's location at consider- | | able depth below the great mountain ore chambers that have been struck above the gulch level this strike may mean not only the proving of a_great mine in the Wheeler, but a solution of the location of the richer ore levels in the consolidated Montgomery district, the entire geological forma- tion of which is netted with veins or honey- combed with valuable ore bodies The upper formations are of varying grades, all of pay character under prospect treatment, while some of them have proven rich enough to yield millions. The preof of extremely high grade ores existing at greater depth, a condition always prophesied, appears to be fully established In this case, and in such an event {t will result in heavy development in- vestment in that section In the spring, as limitless capital has been only waiting for some such proof. This working being prac- tically on the divide between Alma and Lead- ville, between the heads of the Platte and Arkansas rivers, renders the location excep- tonally favorable for the attraction of public attention and interest, and furnishes one of the many additional indications that Alma camps are certain to come in for their full share of the gold excitement next summer. Alma camps already have the ore in sight to run dozens of mills and at the same time Keep up a brisk shipping of high gold smelt- ing ores. FABULOUS SHIPMENT. Tho shipment of a train load of what is supposed to be very high grade ore from the Independence a surprise to those who thought they were posted on every important piece of mining news in the camp, says a Cripple Creck special to the Denver News. The men in charge of the mine have stoutly denfed that any ore was being saved for a special shipment. They claimed that ore which averaged $400 per ton, without sortin was good enough. ~ Still for the past six weeks a few men at odd times have been s in the ore house sacking the high gra vanite. Quartz which did not run over fifty ounces in’ gold was not .saved. ys were made on every few sacks of this high grade ore, and it is reliably reported that the aver- age was over $5,000 per ton. In the month of January more ore was sent to the smelters and mills than in any month in the hMtory of the camp. If the value of the product did not reach the million mark 1t was not far from it. SHEEP MOUNTAIN PROSPECTS. Recent developments in the Sheep moun- tain district on Crystal river, thirty-five miles from Carbondale, show some very grat- ifying results. The Hoosier Mining com- pany and the Sheep Mountain Mining com- pany have recently made strikes that have given new life to the district, says the Den- ver News, and promise to bring a boom to that section when the spring opens. In the Hoosler property an eighteen-inch vein of ore has been opened up; which assays two to seven ounces gold and -50 to 600 ounces sil- ver to the ton. The owners are elated over their recent strike, and are preparing to push operations as soon as the season will permit. The Sheep Mountain Tunnel and Mining company has been steadily pushing its tunnel ahead for three years, and at times the task ahead of them seemed insurmount- able, but by perseverance the tunnel is now in 2,000 feet, with 500 feet of drifts. The breast of the tunnel is in shipping ore, which is undoubtedly the Black Queen vein, of which the mining world knows. The Black Queen has shipped considerable ore in years past, but is at present shut down on account of litigation. The Sheep mountain tunnel will open up a portion of this vein which is free from litigation, and it is the plan of the owners to resume shipments early in the spring. The Crystal River railroad has taken on new life, and preparations are being made to complete it. This piece of road starts from Carbondale, on the Aspen branch of the Rio Grande road, and is pro- jected up Crystal river thirty-five miles, Thir- teen miles of track have been laid and eigh- teen miles of grade completed. Operations were suspended in 1893 on account of the panic, but from reliable sources it is learned that the company is prepared to push the road to completion. This branch road will also open up extensive coal and marble beds in addition to handling the low grade ores which would not pay with other means of transportation. At present there is three feet of snow over the district, and the ground will be covered until April 1. This district is generally known as the Rock Creek mining district, and lies in Gunnison county, twenty miles from Crested Butte and twenty-five miles by rail from Aspen. DE LAMAR MINES SOLD. Captain J. D. De Lamar, the well known mining operator, has parted with his_stock in the De Lamar group of mines in South- western Idaho, which was sold to London capital in 1892, on a report made by Prof. Tilden of the Colorado School of Mines. The De Lamar stock is now held in Paris and London, three-fourths in the former city and one-fourth in the latter, says the Den- ver News. It is expected that Captain De Lamar will use his released capital In de- veloping his gold mines in southern Nevada, and in constructing the proposed railroad from those mines to a connection with the Salt Lake and Los Angeles road, with which the Denver Short Line will ultimately con- nect. The transfer of the De Lamar stock to Parls was an incident of the recent activity in the London market, where $2,000,000 of French capital was Invested in one week. The last report from the De Lamar is dated December 31, 1894, It gives the details of work for the month of November, showing the value of gold produced at the mills to be $45,604.16, and the value of silver $20, 167.93. ‘The value of the smelting ore reached $12,629.94, making the gross earnings for the month §78,202.04. Al ecxpxses for the month reached $37,013,34, leaving & profit of $41,188.69, or over G0 per cent of the gross receipts. OUTLET FOR YANKTON, During the past two weks considerable rallroad news has developed, which indicates that active operations to complete the Yank- ton, Norfolk & Southwestern may be ex- pected within sixty days, says the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. Three different corporations are caleulating the advantages to be derived from completing this road, which is now nearly graded to Norfolk, and the people of Norfolk are in a position to control the situation it they desire to, and they can ma- terially aid in bringing two more roads into their town if they want these additions. The Yankton, Norfolk & Southwestern controls the best grade and owns considerable of the land through which its road is graded. It has been rumored that the precinct of Aten, Neb., opposite Yankton, has offersd, or will offer, a bonus of $26,000 to the Great Northern it that road w'll locate shops at their town, and it is not improbable that they may do this as soon as they commence work across the river. For the first year, at least, a transfer boat will have to be operated, and it would be much cheaper and more convenl- ent to have their shops located on the Ne- braska side. IMMENSE BODY OF PAY GRAVEL. Five dollars per yard pay in gravel Is con- sldered something immense, but when the amount reaches $40 per yard it is something that most miners would grow wild over if possessed with such an inheritance. From what was stated to a reporter for The Denver Times by J. N. Clark, an old California placer miner, who is operating a gravel bank for George Valley and other railway officia's interested with him, it looks as if something better than an Independence has fallen into their possession In New Mexico. The placer ground is located on the Taos river and con- sists of 300 acres of & mesa of gravel through which the Toas river has cut to a depth of 500 feet and the gravel has pay all the way down. It was about two or three months ago that Mr. Valley and others interestéd with him took a quiet trip to the district, and when they came back Mr. Clark, who is considered an expert, went down for them to luspect the grounds and ou bis return ad- | ber of ehickens. vised them to make the purchase of the en- tire ground. A small company was formed, in which Mr. Clark took an Interest also, and among cthers who participated in the purchase of the bonanza were H. Arthur Johnson of the Unlon Pacific freight department. _Alex Campbell of the Burlington and George Hock- nell, George Vallery also holding quilte a large Interest ce that time Mr. Clark has been prospecting the claim for two months, employing several men, and on arriv- Ing in the city handed to the men interested fine samples of shot gold, pronounced to be of a superior quality. The veteran pros- pector then told his companions that he had prospected the gravel all the way down to the bed of the stream, and state that it would and did pan all the way from $5 to $40 per yard. They were satisfied all the time that the ground was rich, they said, but it had never been thoroughly prospected and the surprise at the announcement of the expert was most complete, Mr. Clark recom- mends that a hydraulic plant be put in place | at once, and the company has agreed to do The ground covered by the company's claims extends for a distance of two miles along the river Taos, and is near the line of the Rio Grande rallway. NEW MEXICAN PLACERS. This town is situated on the northern slope of the Ortez range of mountains, and at the bass Is located the old placers which have been worked more or less for the last sixty years, and are now being worked consider- ably by both Americans and Mexicans, says a Dolores special to the Denver News. Tie process s by what is here termed dry wash- ing. The machine is similar to the old-fash- foned fanning mill_for separating the grain from the chaff. No water is used in the operation, either in washing or cleaning up the gold.” The gold, as a rule, is coarse and easily saved. There is no big money in it The most of the mincrs are work on Rich Hill, a newly discovered camp, about one and a half miles north of the town. The gold, both in placer and quartz, seems to lie in pockets, both in the rock and in the dirt. A party from Trinidad, Colo., n doing sessment work, struck a vein of ore running $400 to §500 per ton. A car load of ore has just been shipped from the Cunningham mine as a test, and if it yields as expected, the Ortez stamp mill will bo started to running on the ore. The other stamp mill has just been started by parties from Albuquerque, running ore from San Pedro, from their own mine. There is no better country to prospect in, Yith any better assurance of suceess, (han here. MOTHER BELT OF THE WORLD. E. P. Suydam, an old San Juaner, came in from Boundary, B. C., and put up at the St James, the Denver News. Boundary, = the mew hope of th prospector, 1s located Just across the line in British Columbia, but the mail point is at Marcus, Wash. A large mineral b is central at Boundary, the camps of Smith's, Atwood, Skylark, Greenwood, Deadwood, Cop- per, Helen and Raster being within a radius of ten miles of that place. The new district is just north of the Colville Indian reserva- tion of the United States and west of the famous Kootenai country of the British possessions. Prof. Louis Agassiz declared that the great mother belt of the world would be found somewhere along the linc between the United States and British Co- lumbia, and Mr. Suydam thinks that he has “suro found it.” He has several sacks of fine ore from that country that he expects to_open and exhibit to his friends Mr. Suydam is an old Coloradoan, being the builder of the Santa Clara mill at Rico, and having put in the first set of square timbers that went into the San Juan mines, those placed in the Wabash. At one time e owned the Puzzle extension at Rico and took out large quantities of ore. He lived quietly in Denver for about five years after leaving the San Juan, and then the “quartz fever” reasserted itseif, and he left for the northwest. The Spokane & Northern rail- road is reaching out toward the new dis- trict, being now within sixty miles, THE SAN JOAQUIN ROAD. Already over $2,000,000 has been sub- scribed by San Francisco capitalists toward the stock of the prospective railroad through the San Joaquin valley, and the peop'e of that section are bubbling over with joy, says the San Francisco Call. It means increased bus- iness to San Francisco, but it is life to them. The freight schedules of the Southern Pa- cific have been a two-cdged knife to thel peo ple of the valley. They have imposed such burdens on the valley products that the net proceeds of grain and fruit grown in San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, Fresno, Tulare and Kern have heretofore been divided into two portions—one for the grower and one for the carrier who tock the crop to market— and quite often the latter was the larger of the two. Simultancously the valley farmer has had to pay two prices for everything he wanted—his tools, his furniture, his clothes, his groceries, his supplies of all kinds, one price representing the normal value of the goods in the great markets of the country and another price representing the cost of hauling the goods from the place of produc- tion to Sacramento, Stockton or Los Angeles, and thence to the place of cousumption, These two burdens have heightened the cost says of production throughout the valley, while simultaneously reducing its profits. The effect of such a revolution on land values in the valley can hardly be exagger- ated. The history of that section of the state has been a series of violent fluctua- tions. About thirty years ago wheat land in San Joaquin and Stanislaus could hardly b sald to have a value in money. Ten years afterward it made its owners millionaires, If they had enough of it. At one time people who loaned money on Fresno property charged off the loan to profit and loss; a few years afterward tha raisin industry was born and the loans were paid, principal and inter- est. Tt Is not easy today to borrow money on improved land in the valley. Let the new road be built and the valley towns will be tull of lenders seeking to place their funds. NEBRASKA. teachers meet Cedar county at Laurel on March 9. Howard county teachers will meet at St. Peul on Saturday nex Fred Luchsinger, a Columbus wine and spirit dealer, has made a voluntary assign- ment. L. C. Todd of Nehawka is losing a fine herd of Poland China hogs through the ravages of the cholera. Hartington Baptists are preparing to erect a very neat and comfortable parsonage as soon as the frost breaks up, The eleventh annual falr of the Boone County Agricultural assoclat'on will be held at Albion on September 11, 12 and 13 naxt. Pred Soehner, aged 17, I8 missing from Hartington. He was wearing a new blueish overcoat and is under the medinm height. Red Willow county fair will be held on the four days immediately preceding the open- ing of the state fair, September 9, 10, 11 and 12, E. P. Bloom has been before Judge Hale at David City for having collected an order for $2 at the point of a revolver from Mel Haines Genoa 15 claiming extraordinary immunity from fires. During the past cight years there has been but one ceeded §100. Sixty-six conversions have been effected during the revival meetings at the Methodist church at Elmwood and forty-six persons have joined the church. Jon Harvey, a resident of Spencer, was kicked in the head by his team while he was tending it in the livery stable at O'Neill. He is not thought to have been dangerously hurt Conrad Hoffman, an old soldier living at Central City, has been robbed of a large num- One morning he found the heads of thirteen of them lymg on his door- step Edith M. Pray and Mr. E. Bordwell have retired from the publication of the Harting- ton Leader and Mr. Z. M. Baird, who was formerly engaged in newspaper work in that city, has taken charge. Dr. Brown of Indianola is suggesting that the authorities should have all clothing re- ceived by the relief commission thoroughly disinfected before it is distributed o the suf- fering, to avoid the danger of infection Sidney has had a test made of the stone found in the vicinity of the city, and the re- sult shows its strength to be greater than that of any stone found along the line of Zhe Union Paclfic. ~ From the results of this test the city is building great hopes of being able to secure the location of one of the govern- ment's prisons, for which appropriatiofis bave already been made. There is a farmer in Merrick county, says the Central City Nompareil, who owns 320 mcres of land, the greater portion of which is under cultivation, and who is draw- ing & good pension, who is clamoring today for state aid. This same farmer belongs in which the damage ex- to that great class of the human family who were born tired. - He s healthy and robust, but does not perform one day's manual labor & weok during the year. These are the kind of men that Impose upon the generosity of others. Could this man re- celve ald he would fit put in five acres of crop It he had o do the work himself, but let a convention be called and you will find him farming on an extensive scale, TOWA Oskaloosa’s improvemencts for 1894 aggro- gate $379,450. Citizens of Clintan and Lyons are agitat- Ing consolidation of the two cities The total cost of Improving and extending the water works at ‘Gladbrook is $5,364. The sale of the bonds netted $4,975, leaving a bal- anca of $380 yet due Cerro Gordo county's board of super- visors, after a fall Investigation of the chiarges of fraud against the county auditor, have vindicated the officer. The Towa Intercollegiate Base Ball league | has arranged its schedule of games so that Cornell plays with Iowa college April 27 and | with the State university May 3, both mes Mt. Vernon. Fort Madison school board has dec! submit a proposition for the Issuance £35,000 worth of bonds to the voters at coming election for the purp a high school building Major W. Seward, who has been sen- tenced to death for participating in the in- surrcction in Hawall, s the only brother of | Mrs. C. W. Slagle of Fairfield. He was a dent there during his younger days. Frank Collins, a young farmer living east of Geneva, was severly injured by a bull, When Collins went into the barn the bull had broken loose and made a rush at him, knock- ing him down and tramping him under foot. Frank Fell, a farmer living three miles from Clarence, and who has been in poor circumstances for some time, was gladdened a few days ago by recelving a check for $10,000 from o wealthy Philadelphiarela- tive Kate Bberle, who was lost from her tribe, the Sac and Fox Indians in 1832, and has been a resident of Dubuque since, was last ed to of the se of erecting week awarded §672.08 by the government. This is her share of the trust fund of the tribe, Martin Baskins, the grand juror who was found near Waverly on the railroad track in_an unconscious condition, has recovered sufficiently to tell the circumstances. Two tramps knocked him down in the road. He would have been frozen to death but for a farmer's assistance. Mrs, Hannah Bodecker of Ackley rested about a month ago for being disorderly —drinking too much ‘booze” and making herself disagreeable to everybody—and sen- tenced to thirty days in jall. She got out a week ago and went to drinking again and her mother got out a warrant fo t on a charge of assault and battery, She was again ntenced to thirty days in’jail, as ar- The mystery surrounding the death of the unknown young woman at the Marshall county poor farm cleared up today. John Vandeford, a blacksmith at Conrad, came to the city with indisputable proof that the dead girl was his daughter, who left home shortly after learning ler condition. She was not married. Her illegitimate child died Wednesday and her father had both bodies disinterred bur The joint committee in charge of the pay- ment of Indemnity for the Ford's theater disaster, at Washington, of which committee Jongressman Updegrafl is a member, agreed to report in favor of the payment of $5,000 and took them home for |to the heirs of each of those clerks who | were killed in the casualty. One of the ben- eficiaries will be Emia A. Ames of Icna, Chickasaw county, widow of Alfred L. Ames, aged 36, who lost hjs life in the accident. Seth B! Peck of Elkader had his ankle severely crushed by the fall of the building and will be crippled for life as a result. Congressman Updegraff s that Peck should, in his judgment, bo paid $3,500, in view of the injuries he received. Residents of Grant . township, a farming community a few miles northwest of Eldora, are greatly excited over a peculiar phenom- enon that no one ‘has yet been able to ex- plain, On dark nights a ball or cloud of fire is seen to rise-out of the prairie, and travel along at a terrible speed, until it is lost in the distance. “The more timid people are superstitious, and declare that it is an evil spirit warning the community of some awful calamity that threatens them, and others regard it as an {ll omen, foretelling disaster that is to visit the country. The light is vouched for by some of the leading residents of Grant township. A similar sight was witnessed in the same place a few years ago, but mothing has been seen of it until within the last two weeks. SOUTH DAKOTA. Recent figures show 2,600 members of the G. A. R. in the state, A soldiers’ and saflors’ reunion will be held at Spearfish next June. The bounty given heretofore by the state on wolf scalps and gophers is to be abolished this year. Douglas county has advertised for 15,000 bushels of seed oats and 20,000 bushels of seed wheat. Unless the wolves can be exterminated in the Cave Hills country stockmen believe the section will have to be abandoned to the wolves. The Mount Vernon News says that during 1894 48,505 pounds of butter and 49,020 dozen eggs were shipped from that station and that tho farmers received $10,000 for them. Relief is said to be necded by settlers in (he unorganized counties along the Missouri river, where hundreds of men, women and children are said to be suffering for food, clothing and fuel. The manager ‘of the Bryanticreamery says that one man who has been selling cream 10 his creamery from eight cows for the past nine months his drawn during that time over $400 in cash for his cream, After nineteen years of waiting Mrs, Clara Fulford of Sioux Falls, widow of Daniel Fulford, is to bo reimbursed by the United States government for $2,000 worth of gov- ernment’ bonds lost in a fire, The general expectation that the drouth seasons are past and that the coming sea. son will be an exceptional season for good crops is resulting in the receipt of many in quiries at the local United States land office at Chamberlain, Preliminary steps have been taken for the establishment _of a co-operative store at Rapid City. A board of nine directors has been elected. The majority of the stock- holders are farmers from the valley who do their trading in this city. The object of the company is to carry on a general storo and co-operate with the producers by taking all they ralse on their farms. Among valuable finds in Spruce gulch in the Black Hills is that of Brodie & Tortalt, who have struck a four-foot vein of siliclous ore which ylelds §20 in gold and from twenty-two to thirty ounces in silver per ton The ore is on top of the quartzite, and 1s horizontal In formation. Aaron Dunn, owner of the Survivor mine, in the same locality, has just had three assays of the output of his mine made, whieh run from $46 to $68. A convention wis held the other day at Huron in the interest of irrigation, com- posed of representatives from counties fn the arteslan basin and|the Black Hills, A com- mittea was appointed to formulate a bill for presentation to the legislature providing for creating irrigation districts and permitting the construction of dams and reservoirs for holding surface water for irrigzcion purposes, real estato embraced Wwithin such districts to boe assessed according to benefits derived from the dams, reservoirs or artesian wells, COLORADO. Gold in fair quaptities has b discoversd in the Sulphide group, Creede distret. De- velopment is under, way. It is reported that:the Silverton rallroad will be extended up the Auimas from Silyer- ton to Eureka in the Spring La Plata county is likely, within a year, to have one of the largest power plants in the state, driven by water power. Parties just in from the Tarryall and Lost Park district claim to have made another find that runs 100 ounces in silver to the ton. The annual report of the Portland com. pany, Cripple Creek district, will ehow a gross production of $600,000 for the past hine months. A new strike in the Golden Treasure mine, in Gilpin county, which carries $58 in gold to whe ton and is four feet in width, was opened at a depth of 900 feet The Fairfield shaft is now down about 250 feet, and & new contract has been let to sink fifty feet more. Kease & Co., who sank the last fitty feet, have the contract. A rich vein of copper-iron ore, fifteen Inches wide, has been encountered below the 250-foot level, which looks well. The Mattle D., Cripple Croek, h load of ore en route to the smelter, th cording to a sample taken from each s will by worth $212 to the ton The Annle mine, on Four Mile creek, is rapidly coming to the front as a gold pro- ducer. A car load of oro recently shipp to Pueblo smelter netted $54 per ton Ophir has over forty gold claims two miles of town, on Silver mountain, within that have produced pay dirt—ore milling from $10 per ton up to. several hundred dollars per ton. The Dolly Varden lode on Nelson mountain, Crede, fs being worked with flattering re sults. The property is located 900 feet from the Kentucky Belle and between well defined walls has a four-foot vein of mineral which gave returns of twenty-five ounces of silver and $2.40 in gold at the surface. More ore and of better grade was sent to the smelter {n January from the Victor mine, ‘('Y“l'l']v Creek, than ever before in the history | of that property. The pay streak has not widened particularly, but so much ground 1s opened that a large force can now be em ployed, while the ore appears to be con stantly fmproving in value | 1t is rumor at good veins have recently | been discovered at Current Creck, a little | stream in Park county, about thirty miles west of Cripple Creek. The region s described as being in the eruptive rock. One gentleman who has boen there recently float carrying big values is found = quite plentifully over the hill, but onty a few holes have been put down to bedrock. Waddleton Bres., who are working a porti-n of the Raven, are now sacking the rich ore ever found on Raven hill. It was sayed and found to run 500 ounces per ton So far this month they have carcfully gath- ered and sacked about one ton of this ore and think they will have five tons for a shipment toward the last of the present month. They are confident it will run §6,000 per ton in carload lots. The lowest assays in at this rate, and several have gone over 500 ounces. WYOMI Placer mining along the Green river, in Wyoming, will enjoy a cat boom mext spring when the ice breaks up. The report that a number of colored peoplo in Laramie were organizing with a view to colonizing in Africa, Is emphatically denied Governor Richards is of the opinion that tho Burlington will build into the basin by fore very long, and may commence operations within a year. he Wyoming Hot Springs company is now incorporated. The capital stock is~ $48,000 The object of the company is to operate tho hot springs at Alcora A telephone line will be established be- tween Cheyenne and Denver next spring. The line will be built by the Rocky Mountain and Colorado Telephone companies. The new city hall at Rock Springs has been completed, and as soon as the furniture arrives the council will begin holding meet ings there. The mew structure cost $25,000 W. K. Secord and a companion of Laramie have made ararngements by which they hope to slay hundreds of wolves in the Sybille country. They will use poison and traps and pect to realize on the hides and scalp bounties The bounty law Is delayed, in order to as. certain the rates to be pald by adjoining states, which, if lower than those of Wyo- ming, would lay an extra tax on border counties, to which scalps from other states would ba brought. The twenty-five-mile long irrigating canal being constructed by Denver capital in the vicinity of Carter station, on the Union P: cific railroad, in the southern portion of this state, is to be fully completed this year. The canal issues from the Black Fork river in Unita county, will cover 40,000 acres, and will cost $100,000. Twenty farms will be cul- tivated under the canal this year, and next year will see the entiro 40,000 acres both ir- rigated and colonized. The first carload of a substance which, for want of a better name has been cailed “‘na- tural soap,” is being loaded at Casper and will be ped to Chicago, says the Derrick. The parties who own the claim, near Alcova, from which the soap was taken, will not yet reveal the purpose for which it will be used nor the price received. But it is known that some of it will go to New York, and that it is very valuable. When put in water it acts like common hard soap. Since it would appear that Big Horn county will be organized before so very long a time many conjectures are being made as to the location of the county seat. At the present time Hyatville is the most important point in the basin, and it would no doubt be a formidable applicant for the place. Governor Richards states that he has no particular preference, but thinks the county seat will eventually bo located somewhere on the No- wood creek, below Hyatville, OREGON. Frank Ott of Island City will establish a brewery at Enterprise. Several carloads of apples are being shipped from Rogue River valley to New Mexico, A plant for the manufacture of tomato catsup will be established at Hood River. The Yaquina Bay Cannery company has been incorporated, to cperate a creamery at Toledo. The people of Warrenton and Clatsop plains have subscribed $100 for building a good road between those places. Negotiations are in progress for the sale of the Phizz mineral springs, in the Eagle moun- tains, Union county, to eastern parties. John Frazer of Eagle Valley, Union county, s reccived $75 as a second prize in a world’s competition for growing cabbages. urveys have been made for a new water works in Mitchell, and it will not be long before the work of construction will begin, A proposition has been made to establish a creamery at Independence if the farmers will guarantee to supply the milk of 200 cows, The stockmen of eastern Oregon generally report stock doing well and enough feed on hand to pass through the winter in good shape. Professor Clarence King, the celebrated mineralogist and geologist, will make an ex- pert report on the La Bellevue mine, at Granite, Eight thousand sheep are being fattened on wheat and barley in a corral just outside of Pendleton, and will s0on be prime mutton for the market The Astorlan says that Olney is having a building boom; new houses are going up on all sides, and a general air of prosperity hangs over the place, An effort will be made to secure $40,000 in subscriptions of stock at Salem for the pro. posed railroad from Independenca to Salem ten and one-lalf miles. Charles Frye of Powder river has just mar- keted five hogs, averaging 660 pounds in welght each, while another farmer of that section sold one welghing 750 pounds Placer mining in the southern part of the state has been suspended for a time, beeause of the freezing of the water courses. Miners are preparing to resume work, and are taking precautions against freshet Daker City boasts of fourteen men who ay- erage 240 pounds in weight, the heaviest be ing 209%, and the lighest 201. They are all over six feet, but two, one of them being six feet, six and one-half inches, and another but half an inch shorter. J. H. Hufter, who located a rich quartz ledge about seven miles from Medford some time ago, shipped by express 1,300 pounds of quartz to a San Franciseo smelter. Some time ago he shipped 100 pounds to the smel- ter, and it produced $2¢ to the pound In gold and silver. The quartz shipped is equally as good. CURES The SERPENT'’S STING., HEALS RUNNING SORES. 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