Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 11, 1895, Page 5

PULSEOF WESTERN PROGRESS Bection of Montana Where Land is Still Open to Settlers, RICH SOIL AND GOOD LOCAL MARKETS Pastage Cut Threo Straight Miles Into the Mountain — North Dokota Farmers Abandoning Wheat for Other Crops ~Nows of the Northwest. UBET, Mont., March 1.—To the Editor of Ahe Bee: Thinking that a few lines from his part of the country might boe interesting and perhaps beneficlal to some readers of The Bee, 1 concluded to drop you a line, for at this time of the year, when warm weather beging and green grass commences to Grow, many people get the spring fover and want to migrate westward and wonder where they had better go to better their condition. Recollec- tions of those good old days when long lines ot white covered wagons used to pull out of Omaha and other river towns over the great expanse of prairie toward the Rocky moun- taing stir up a hankering to once more “hit the trail.” But the question next confronts them, where are we to go? Those great prairies that once stretched away from the Missouri river to the Rocky mountains are all taken up, and the little valleys that are scattered through the mountains are also taken up. The land that fs left is of but Mttlo good, and it looks as though Uncle Sam's public land was getting rather small. To buy land of the railroads that bave land grants or of the land corporations costs lots of money, and the money i2 all needed to mprove and stock the farms. These land com- panies and corporations would make you be- 1leve that they hold all the good lands suitablo for cheap farms and homes, and that Uncle Sam has no good land left. But that Is a mistake, for Unclo Sam has plenty of good land left that is just as good as has ever been located, and he will freely give you all a farm if you will come forward and build your homes upon it, turn up the rich ®oil and fence it with the timber that ho gives you to do it with and which you can cut yourselves from the mountain sides. But Uncle Sam sells no lands and employs no agents to blow it up for him. His lands are all free and there s a home for many thousands left yet, provided you know where to look for them; and here in the Great Judith basin and in the valley of the Mussellshell are thousands of acres of as good land as 1s to be found in any country, and each of you can secure a_homestead it you will settle on them. The B. & M. is building a railroad into this part of the country, which opens to railroad communica- tion this vast section of public domain. There are no land grants or land corporations here, and this is the last.chance to secure rich, fertile lands and a free home. I Know the wost thoroughly and can speak from experi- ence. A great many people think that if they settle in this fsolated part of the country they will have no markets for their farm produce, but that is a mistake. We have a much better market here for what we raise than the farmers do who live in the states east or west of us, which are wholly agricul- tural, and we always will have such a market, because we have abundance of mines, where good wages are pald; in fact, our mining Dopulation exceeds our agricultural population, and always will. Our country is largely covered with mountainous and grazing lands and so little good tillable lands that the de- mand will always exceed the supply. And we eceive just as much more for our produce at home as it costs to ship it from the states Iying east and west of us. Now, If any of my readers contemplate coming to thie part of the country and would like any information as to where they can secure free lands or how they can obtain them and will write or call upon me I will gladly give what information I can as to how they can secure homesteads and other lands. I am thoroughly acquainted with the country, having lived here in the west for twenty-five years, and in hunting, trapping and prospect- ing have become familiar with nearly every part of the Rocky mountains. J. A. PARKER. SUPERB FEAT IN ENGINEERING. The 5,000 inhabitants of Park City, Utah, are still joyful to a man over the completion not long ago of the great drain tunnel of the Ontario mine, an achievement that has cost the company nearly a million of dollars, writes a correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle. This tunnel, hardly less famous than the colossal mine from which it takes its name, bores into the heart of the moun- tain to a depth of 15,450 feet, and is elght feet high, five and a half feet wide at the :zallnm and four and a half feet wide at the oD The Ontario tunnel drains not omly the Ontario and Daly mines, but also does much to lessen the flow of water in the nearest group of mines, all of which are included in the -exhaustless silver belt that lies thirty miles east of Salt Lake City, In the Wasatch mountains. The enormous inflow of water In these extensive silver workings has been & growing problem to the miner since the first ore was taken out of the Ontario nearly & quarter of a century ago. To go down a 1,500-foot shaft to explore the wet mysteries ‘of the Ontario tunnel is an_experience not to be neglected should opportunity offer. One steps cautiously on the cage and the foreman rings a bell con- nected with the holsting engine. On the instant we are plunged into the black pit of the shaft with no jar and hardly an oscilla- tion of the flat, tarry cable. Every hundred feet the light of a “station” flashes into view, only to be followed by several more seconds of pitchy darkness. The fresh gusts of air from these way tunnels flare the candle held by the foreman. So excellent indeed is the ventilation of the vast honey- comb of tunnels, shafts and stopes that malke up the Ontario mine that no inconven- fence is felt in breathing, only a delightful lightening of welght—a sense that some bur- den of flesh had been recklessly discarded In the sunshine above. While the excavating of the tunnel was still In progress it was estimated that one day out of every three was lost on account of the in-rush of water. It finally became necessary to run two parallel tunnels to relieve the pressure on the main tunnel. At one time the patient gang of miners forced their way through 1,200 feet of break or dislocation of country where the earth was so crushed that it was almost like coarse sand, These dificultes made the work slow and dangerous, and the sides and roof had to be thoroughly timbered and closely “lagged” to prevent the ground from running. In 1891 it measured one mile from its mouth below the enormous mill in the gulch and now at its completion it is more than three times that length. TO SUPPLANT WHEAT. Throughout this portion of the James river valley there is evidently an intention amang the farmers to decrease the wheat acreage considerably, and to increase the acreage sown to barley, flax, cats, millet and pota- toes, all of which paid much better than wheat last year, says a Jamestown, N. D. special to tho Minneapolts Tribune. Com mission men in the city have orders for b ley which it is impossible to fill in this county; in fact, seed barley will have to be shipped in. Flax is in demand also, espe- clally a high grade for seed, free from nox- fous week seed, Some of the Russian cactl, which has made its appearance In the county unex- pectedly, has been traced directly to foreign seed grain. It Is stated on good authority that offers to contract for the '95 flax crop at 90 cents per bushel have been made. The area sown to this crop, if what the farmers themselves say can be believed, will be con siderably increased over last year. Many have found buckwheat to be quite remun- erative, and are now arranging for addiional supplies of seed. What little there is of this grain in this county (Stutsman) will be wanted for seed on their own lands. The potato crop marketed here last fall sumed large proportions, and in the future, With remunerative prices, will be still fur- ther increased. The percentage of starch In the North Dakota raised Early Ohio makes that variety eagerly sought after aL faucy prices. Last year some lots went several cents above the market price, and the oecurrence was not in- uent. It is believed that this crop can raised profitably here at a very low price— 20 cents & bushel or less. BIG DEPOSITS OF GUANO. Gunnison island, in the Great Salt lake, lo- cated west of the promontory, has been lo- cated as a desert entry by a number of Salt Lake gentlemen. This on it face looks Innocent enough, says the Herald of that eity, but as a matter of fact the location is probably the beginning of a pretty contest between the Salt Lake locaters and a party of Ogden people who have also made loeation of the island, but under the mineral entry statutes. Although worthless from an agrleultural peint of view, the island is a very valuable plece of property, for upon it are deposits of guamo, the great fertilizing agent, worth in the neighborhood of $2,000,000, should the tests about to be made of the material give the anticipated returns. An investigation of the guano deposits on the istand by experts has demonstrated the fact that there are from six to twelve feet of the fertilizer covering the entire tract and it Is estimated that there will be fully 100,000 tons of the commercial guano in the deposits. In Philadelphia the material is worth $60 per ton, and on board cars at Syracuse it would be cheap at $15 per ton. Statistics show that something ke $20,000,- 000 worth of the guano was imported into this country during very recent years. Pro- vided the Gunnison island deposits will give returns of per cent ammonia, a Phila- delphla house will make advances for the en- tire tonnage. Tests are yet to be made, and until the returns are received it will never be known whether or not the peculiar, salt impregnated atmosphere surrounding the isl- and has had,the effect of destroying the val- ues of tho deposits. At any rate, the Salt Lake people are not losing any sleep on ac- count of the claims made by the Ogden lo- cators, for the simple reason that they are of the opinion that they have captured the prize and have it well in_hand, and the gen= cral opinion is that the bird droppings can- not be located as mineral, DON'T GO TO ALASKA. While men continue to crowd the steamers to Alaska, attracted by the low rates pro- duced by the rate war, says the Seattle P Intelligencer, warnings continue to come trom experienced men in that country against too great a rush of immigration. The latest of these Is contalned in a letter from Richard Willoughby of Juneaw to his old partner, Richard Cameron, in this city, dated Feb- ruary 15, and sums up the situation in the following words: “I am sorry to hear of such a large immi- gration coming to Alaska in the spring, for it will make times hard for some of them, for thero are lots of idle men here now, unless they como prepared to get along for a while without having to go to work. I don't think that over 1,000 men will get employment in this district this summer, and there are over that number here now. Several parties who cume up on the last boat have returned, and others would go if they were able. Men who aro coming to Alaska and depending on get- ting work here should not come before the 1st of May. Capital is what is needed here at present, for there s no doubt as to the riclies of this country in quartz, but it takes experienced and moneyed men to start the ball rolling. There is a time in_ the near future when thero will be thousands of men employed here, but it will not be this sum- mer, I am afraid; this summer is too early for laboring ‘men.” RUSTLERS CAUSING TROUBLE. From reports received from Nephi lively times may be expected In the vicinity of the Henry mountains very shortly, says the = Salt Lake Herald. For some days emall bands of men from Arizona, New Mexico, and as far south as Texas, have been engaged In riding over the range stealing cattle, horses and mules and wantonly killing fine beef cattle. Fifty head of horses and mules are reported to have been taken from one range in a single night re- cently. The thieves apparently work in relays, the first driving the stock to the southern Utah lne, where they are taken by another crowd and hurried on. Inasmuch as all the stock in southern Utah is in prime condition, the country s a very desirable one for cattle stealing. A species of wanton slaughter is being in- dulged in which is reprehensible in the ex- treme. Fine stock is shot down, and after the loin and other fancy pieces are taken the carcass Is left to rot. It is eaid that dozens of head have been found which have been so treated. George C. Whitmore of Nephi s interested in ranches In that region, and together with other citizens of that vicinity and Mona, is organizing an armed band to go down and drive the desperadoes out. Serious trouble may result, as the men from the south are all bad characters, and may be on the shoot. The Utah people are equally determined, and will resist any en- croachments by the southern thieves. The raids are made periodically, and this is but a repetition of what has occurred sev- eral times before. This time, however, Vig- orous measures will be adopted. BONANZA IN BLACK SANDS. Work at the black sand mines near Ran- dolph, Ore., s now progressing in a very satisfactory manner, says the Coast Maii. After a prolonged series of expeirments and numerous modifications, the apparatus is working with every promise of success, and fifty pounds of the amalgam was cleaned up. The parties decline to state the results, but it is gathered from good authority that the re- sult it three times greater than the highest guess. Before the work commenced three of the men engaged made a guess as to what the amalgam would produce, and the result was about five times greater than the lowest guess, and three times greater than the high- est calculation. The results are better than the most sanguine calculations, and it is be- lieved by good judges that a process has at last been discovered which will take out all the gold in the sand. Only one machine is partly constructed, and it is now running out about three tons of concentrates per day. Several more machines are in process of con- struction, and will be put to work just as soon as they can be completed, The parties have been at work experimenting since last July and have just completed the design, which, it is believed, will fill the require- ments. There is said to be much more of the fine and invisible gold in the sand than was supposed, and the machine is sald to save all metallic substances in the sand. A sugar sack of the concentrate about half filled, weighs in the neighborhood of 250 pounds. The process saves all the metals In the ore, which consists of platinum, iron, ete. The owners are much elated over the prospects, and are sanguine that there are millions in the pro- ject of black sand mining. REGION OF TUNNELS. ‘The numerous tunnel enterprises on foot in this camp are a surprise to every visitor, says an Idaho Springs special to the Denver Ne They are not mere holes In the ground and run a few bundred feet to tap some vein, but Instead are gigantic enterprises with millions of dollars back of them. The schemes were not visionary, as the promoters had big in- ducements to offer the moneyed men to fur- nish funds for reaching the many actual pro- ducing mines. Bach ono of the tunnel undertakings tap a different part of the mining region, so there is no rivalry, and the companies are anxious to see every one of the propositions carried out. Idaho Springs has a vast area to draw from in any direction and find good producing mines. Thero is surely great activity shown on every hand, and the mineral output will greatly Increase over that of last year for many reasons. Among them is the proposed reduction of freight rates on ore, which Mr. ‘Prumbull, the receiver of the Gulf road, will probably put into effect within the next month, Another great- boon to the camp is In the Denver, Lakewood and Golden railroad, which undoubtedly will be built within the year. Sam Newhouse is now in England and has ralsed enough money to extend the read to Idaho Springs. He is doing good work for the camp, and those interested with him in the various undertakings realize the great value to be obtained. The Newhouse tunnel is a brilllant plan to tap many big mines at a great depth, furnishing them an outlet for ore, as well as a drainage for water. The tunnel is twelve feet high and the same in width, double track, with plenty of drainage be- tween and beneath the tracks, has a grade of five inches in each 100 feet, and will be in a perfect air line the entire distance of four miles. Nearly 1000 known veins will be cut, 100 of which are producing mines. Qne of the best properties to be cut is the Guunel, which bas produced $3,000,000. The Bureka, just north of the Guunel, will be reached, and as Mr. Newhouse has secured this property, it is probable that it will be the Gilpin county terminus as the eastern end of the mine lies within' the western corporate limits of Central City. Several unknown veins have already beeu cut, and it is safe to presume that by the middle of the year shipments of ore through the tunnel will be under way. The company has its plans for erecting mills at the mouth of the tunnel to treat the low grade ore. The tun- nel will be Hghted and the cars operated by electriclity. MAIN IOWA TUNNBL. The owners of the lowa mine, San Juan county, are to be congratulated upon thelr new and great discoveries. This property, says the Silverton Standard, has undergone a vast amount of development work the past year, and the owners will reap a big reward. The main tunnel is now completed the entire length of the claim, 1,500 feet, showing gold ore throughout. In drifting the 1,500 fee they have crossed three other veins that run high In_gold. On one of these they have drifted 700 feet, which has more than paid its way. The last discovery is perhaps the most important yet made. As they were nearing the end lines they encountered a vein crossing the Towa at an angle of about 45 degrees, and have drifted on the same about thirty feet, showing twenty-four inches of high grade gold are. This property will be one of the promi nent features of the camp, employing over 100 men, and will rank foremost as a heavy ship: per. WILD CAT GOLD FIBLDS. The new mining camp in the Wild Cat dis- trict is creating much excitement in this eity, says a Canon City special to the Denver Times. Prospectors are leaving at all times of the day for the new Eldorado. This morn- ing a party of surveyors left here en route for the gold flelds. Before departing they stated that they intended to make surveys for a townsite and at once place lots on sale. Two stage lines run regularly and are doing an excellent business. Up to the present time the many resources have not been very fully developed. A large piece of ore is ex- hibited in this city which is clalmed to have been taken from a prospect in the new dis- triet. Reliable and experienced mining men who have returned from the place, state they think it fs an extension of the Cripple Creek gold lead, so closely does the character of the ore resemble that extracted from the mines at that place. The final result of the camp cannot be conjectured, but at this writing there 1s much enthusiasm among the citizens of this city and vicinity GOLD AT RAWLINS. A certain Union Pacific clerk at Rawlins has recently been sitting up at all hours until it was noticed that in spite of his late hours he was thirty days behind in his worlk, upon discovery of which he was discharged. He found employment then in Cheyenne, says the Laramie Boomerang, and after ho bad worked there for a short time It was noticed that he was receiving a good many Western Union dispatches, and while this was strange they did not think much about it. One day he finally asked one of his superiors to go to the bank with him to identify him so that he could get the money on a draft for $600 or $700. A short time atterward he had to be identified again to receive $1,700 on a draft. When the truth recently became known it turned out that this money all came from the study of the young man at nights at Raw- lins over the red oxide of iron deposits, or what is known as the Rawlins paint. He had succeeded In getting tho Denver smelters to handle the material and was making §2 per ton from it. When the company officials asked him whether he knew that he was mining on com- pany property he told them it did not make any difference, as the law allowed him to mine anywhere. It is now understood that tho Denver smelters may contract with the gentleman for 50,000 tons. It is the finest fluxing material in the world, The gentleman has formed a company at Rawlins and. is secretary at a good salary. The gold in it is even more valuable, and some surmise that the smelters are making the purchase for the purpose of securing the gold. Six assays have been made of it and it runs from a trace to $10 per ton. DOUGLAS OIL FIELDS. There having been more or less talk about the discovery of oil by H. L. Brenning while boring his irrigating tunnel, and a few sam- ples having been brought into Douglas, our curiosity was aroused, and in company with another citizen of the county seat we made a trip to Brenning's ranch, says the Central Wyoming News. On arriving at the ranch Mr. Brenning kindly escorted up over to the tunnel, and lighting a couple of candles we proceeded to explore its gloomy depths. It is a fine plece of work and a man of average height can walk upright within. For about 500 feet the funnel went through gumbo and other soil, and then we experienced an over- powering smell of oil, and came upon the first stratum of oil sandrock. The rock pitches northward and down at a steep slope, and has the appearance of coarse brown sugar. We let the flame of the candle touch the rock in various places and the oil soon com- menced to boil out. The tunnel has been bored through forty to fifty feet of this oil sand, and it seems to gel richer in oil as they go in, the present end of the tunmel being still ‘solid oil rock. Each stratum of oil sand seems to be about five feet thick, and then comes a thin layer of white cement, soft to the touch, between it and the next stratum. Mr. Brenning showed us where ofl, to the quantity of at least a pint, ran out of a pocket in the rock Immediately after the last blast was let off. There is no doubt but that oil in great abundance exiats in that neighborhood of equal value to the famous lubricating oils of Salt creek, and of far greater value in their close proximity to the railroads. The Fremont, Elkhorn & Mis- souri Valley railroad is only about five miles away down grade, and the Denver & Gulf is not over three or four times that distance, THE JACKSON'S HOLE COUNTRY. The Jackson’s Hole country, situated in the northern part of Wyoming, is attracting con- siderablo attention” in the eastern part of Utah and adjoining states. A gentleman who recently returned from that section is most enthusiastic in his praise, says the Salt Lake Herald, claiming that during his explorations he came aeross sev- eral Mormon families who had settled in the southern part of the valley and who had prospered amazingly, although many miles from any nelghbors or friends. One wheat fleld was pointed out which yielded last sum. mer at the rate of sixty-elght bushels to the acre. ‘The mineral prospects are said to be ex- cellent, and of game and fish there is scarce an_end. The section Is isolated, and that is one of the reasons why is has not before attracted the attention of those people who are casting about for a new location. It is said to offer especial inducements to young men. Colo. rado and Wyoming people who paid the sec- tion a visit Tast fall are all loud in its praise. CATTLE RAISING IN IDAHO. John McGlinchey, who has been a resi- dent of Payette, Idaho, for ten years, said to a Salt Lake Tribune reporter recently that when he came here there were in this valley fully 30,000 cattle on the range in this locality. Then all of these cattle were in the hands of a few persons, who had so ex- tended a country for them to range over that the stock business was nearly all profit, especially when grass was good and the win- ters were not too severe, Then the settlers were few and far between. The lands have since been taken up by actual settlers and scme who filed on the land with the Inten- tion of making homes, until there fs but little of the public domain left, and this in effect has wiped out all big herds of range stock, while the lands are producing big crops of grain, roots and other cereals, while orchards are either bearing or being set out all over the valley. In counting up the number of cattle in Payette valley, says the Tribune, we find that Henry Erwin is feeding about 2,500 head of stock eattle; John McGlinchey, 30¢ General Stewart, 2,000; James Pattee, 500; all close to Payette; while Bogan Bros., near Emmett, are feeding 1,500, and in the Pay- ette valley, besides those named, there are enough to bring the total up to 10,000 stock cattle, where ten years ago there were 30,000, About 1,000 head of beef cattle were fattened and shipped during the fall and winter, and but few beef animals are left to market. This fattening beef and feeding stock cattle has about exhausted the hay of the district. Early in the season hay sold here at $3 to $3.50 per ton, but is now up to $5, and it will all be fed it winter continues a little longer. NEBRASKA. Nemaha's county fair will be held Septem- ber 24 to 27. Wheelmen at Norfolk are toward organization. The Dunbar Elevator company has swal- lowed up the Dunbar Alliance Elevator com- pany. Five wolves and a number of jack rabbits were killed during a recent hunt in Antelope county. Mrs. Isaac Swmith, whose husband's pa- thetic death from starvation in Frontier county has been told, and who was hersell seriously 11l at the time as the result of her taking steps T i et privations, has recovbtelfumctontty to teave for her parents' hom@ It Page county, lowa, with her two boys. «r 3 Beatrice will have,a yace meet under the ausplces of the Gentlemén's Driving assocla~ tlon on July 3 and 417 R. 8. Reynolds ot Glay Center has been ad- judged fnsane and will e taken to Lincoln. Whisky was the cause, The Lutheran churches of Dakota county have decided to retafy’ Rev. H. J. Hapeman as pastor for the comming: year. It is estimated that.5 per eent of the farm- ers of Adams county Wil need aid In the shape of seed and feéd tHis spring. Weeping Water watér works system pald for itselt and turned over.$450 Into the treas- ury of the city besides the past year. The old United States land office at 0'Nelll has been rented by the' officers of the Eplsco- pal church to be used for religious services. Editor C. C. Page of the Holdrege Progress has purchased the Bertrand Times, and will try the experiment of running two papers. Mary Burns of GoMen Springs in Burt county has been adjudged insane. She was once a patient at the Omaha Deaf and Dumb Institute. The interstate encampment of the Grand Army will meet at Superior May 15 to de- termine the place of holding the next inter- state reunion. Paul Anderson’s daughter, who had her hands frostbitten at Valparaiso, will lose all her finger nails but one. She is able to at- tend school again. A baby girl was born in a prairie schooner from Sterling, 111, a8 It was passing through Holbrook en’ route to Hitchcock county. Mother and child are reported well. Thieves at Clay Center stole some tools from Miles' shop and succeeded in drilling a hole into Station Agent Wallace's safe. They failed, however, to get the safe open. Phelps county’s summer school will open at Holdrege about June 24 and continue elght weeks. The first thing on the program is the Phelps county teachers' institute. About 200 acres will be contracted this year for-the purpose of raising beets in the vicinity of Wayne, providing $5 per ton is paid for the beets. Seventy-five acres have already been contracted. W. G. Black, J. S. Phillips, S. R. Smith, Ceorge W. Short and J. J. Lamborn have been elected directors of the Masonic Temple association at Indianola and work on the structurs will be begun shortly. A tramp at Holbrook feigned a fit for the purpose of securing whisky. He danced around in front of a drug store crying out, “I'm dying; give me a pint of whisky!" The plan failed to work and he moved along to another site for his game. J. M. Pummel, living out in Custer county, lost part of the roof of his house during the recent blizzard, and then had to drive cighteen miles to secure some coal to keep his children warm. In the meantime their faces and hands were badly frostbitten. A novel form of prairie schooner passed through Boone county, headed westward, re- cently. The front truck was a sulky plow with the plow removed, and the hind truck was a corn cultivator. The connecting bed was a blacksmith's bellows and the outfit was drawn by a couple of cows. Mayor Davis of York has suspended Chief of Police Draucher, He ordered him to shoot a dog which was lying on the sidewalk, and instead of doing so at once the chief en- deavored to entice the dog from the street in order that tho report of the gun might not scare teams that were tied near by. A vacant farm residence belonging to Jas- per Randolph, near Wisner, has been burned to the ground. It was occupied until recently by Ira Hill. Mr. Randolph had moved some of his own furniture info the building and was about to occupy! it himself. The build- ing and contents were, insured for $473. The slingshot has been putting itself in evi- dence in a very seribus way during the last few days. One of Mose ‘Campbell’s boys at Q'Neill very nearly, lost, the sight of one of his eyes by a shof from a playmate's wea- pon, and it McCook ‘Geérge Pahl, aged 10 years, was struck in theeye and it is very doubtful it he will recoyer his sight. A Wayne county farmer entered a Winside bank and offered to' sell'a team, consisting of a dilapidated old horse and a lame mule, for $60. The cashier of the bank held a mortgage Yo' that amount on the team. He refused to glve up the ‘notes, but authorized the owner to sell the animals, which he promptly did, securing $1 apiece for the horse and mule. The purchaser immediately led the beasts to the slaughter, and the banlk_cashier is wondering how he managed to allow himself to be beaten on a simple mathematical problem by a farmer. A statement of the Kearney county relief commission shows that there were 528 fami- lies in tho county who received aid, and that of these 389 were farmers who in 1894 planted 24,269 acres to corn, 8,8491% acres to wheat, 5,501* acres to oats, 1,250% acres to har- ley, and 202 acres to _potatoes, from which they raised of corn, 7,655 bushels; wheat, 7,583 bushels; oats, 7,955 bushels; bar- ley, thirty-seven bushels, and potatoes, 1,006 bushels, of which they have on hand: Corn, 2457 bushels; wheat, 1,113 bushels; oats, 3,440 bushels; barley, forty-three bushels, and potatoes, 204 bushels. TOWA. Dubugue saloons paid over $0,000 into the city treasury last year. Webster City has taken the initiatory steps necessary for the establishment of a hos- pital. The republicans of Adams county organ- ized a Harsh club at Corning to boom Sen- ator Harsh for governor. Three candidates for the nomination for sherifft in Hardin county have been an- nounced from the republican party. Benton county is without a coroner and Mount Auburn without a, physician by the re- moval of Dr. G. M. Nesbit to La Porte. Joseph Fische of Dubugue went into con- vulsions and had to have the attention of a physician because of grief over the death of Mr. Enzler, a friend. The state railroad commission announces that the minimum shipment on which a car- load rate can be secured has been advanced from 20,000 to 24,000 pounds. Herbert H. McGowan, aged 22, who was shot and Killed recently while burglarizing tho residence of Samuel J. Swift, in Chicago, was formerly a resident of Monticello. Mason City's new Methodist church will be dedicated March 10. Rev. B. Q. Ives of Au- burn, N. Y., who has dedicated over 3,000 churches, will officiate at the first service, John Brownell, watchman on a stcamer in winter quarters at Muscatine, died from ex- posure Wednesday, He broke through the ice and remained several hours in the water before being rescued, - A delegation from Sioux City will attend the Grand Army reunion at Clinton with the mtention of inducing the old soldiers to de- cide on the Corn Palace city as the proper place to hold the meeting next year. The First Congregational, Second Presby- terlan and Main Street’Methodist churches of Dubuque have combined” and are holding a series of religious 'reyival meetings to be continued every everjng quring Lent. A Carson undertaker fs said to have re- cently sold a casket.and agreed to be at the house of the deceased with his hearse, but when the day arrived for the funeral neither casket nor wndertaker Appeared. He gave as an excuse that it-was-too cold. The Iowa Hospitaliferithe Insane at Clar- inda has issued its report for the month of February: Remaining at the end of the month, ‘584 persons; there was one death, and fifteen were discharged. The average a;x_:nber under care, dufing the month was 3 i Reports from all thelstations located on the Chicago & Northwestérn railroad in Iowa show & marked lnrr%u “In the freight traffic during the month of February as compared with the same montf agt year. The increase has been caused by tHy Heavy coal and stock shipmente, One of the prominent farmers near Towa Falls was losing his drove of fattened hogs by cholera, and all efforts to check the disease proved unavalling. He heard of a simple remedy, which was to stop feeding them, and within a few days the ravages of the disease ceased and many of the larger hogs were saved, although in a reduced con- dition. The refusal of the government to fssue a patent to Prof. Kent of Ames for the bed of Lake Cairo, in Hamilton eounty, places that gentleman in a peecliar condition, He bought the lake of the county, and has a quit dlaim deed. He expended about $4,000 in money and lots of time in draining the lake, intending the lake for a large celery farm. The government now refusing the patent lays the land open to ‘“‘squatters,” and it ean be pre-empted. Some lime 8go an attempt was made to draic Twin lakes, in Hancock county, that the volume of waler in BEF:_MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1895. the Towa river might be increased for milling purposes, but the objection of the surrounding residents caused the government to put a stop to the drainage. The Chicago Great Western rallway Is preparing to rebuild a large number of bridges and culverts on its line during the rear. Of this number thirty will be re placed by permanent stone and steel struc tures, forty-seven by stone and earthen- works, and twenty-five by wooden structures. The total cost will be about $100,000, and it 1s expected that contracts for this work will be signed in a fow days. Mrs. Will Duffey, whose home was form- erly at Waikon and who has heen married but about nine months, attempted sulcide at De- eorah by taking pofson, but her physicians give hope of recovery, although the unfortu- nate woman is 1ot completely out of danger. It is said that Mrs. Duffey gained evidence that her husband was devoting a constderable portion of his attention to another married woman, and this, together with the fact that she was soon to become a mother, so preyed upon her mind that she resolved to end her troubles. Mrs. Duffey is a very estimable young woman. THE DAKOTAS A $20,000 loan has been negotiated for the purpose of erecting a Masonic temple at Deadwood A project 1s now in embryo for the con- struction of a $10,000 or $15,000 starch fac- tory at Jamestown, N. D., to utilize the large crops of potatoes which are now, and can be, raised in the adjacent territory. The sundry civil blll contains an appro- priation of $10,000 for protecting the banks of the Missouri river at Blk Point, S. D., and a provision for the establishment of a mili- tary post at Bismarck instead of the present one at Fort Yates, South Dakota's commissioner of school and public lands left for Washington to confer with the land commissioner with a view to selecting endowment and other school lands from different reservations either opened or about to be opened. A large body of free milling gold ore has been discovered by some Swedes, under S. R. Smith's residenco at Deadwood. The dis- covery was made in some old abandoned work- ings and has every indication of developing into another Homestake. The county board, in session at Redfield, S. D., estimated that about 20,000 bushels of wheat will be needed by certain farmers for seed. It was agreed to give each applicant fifty bushels of wheat and four bushels of corn. The grain will be secured by lien and chattels. Mrs. Danville, a Norwegian woman living on a farm near Yankton, has just given birth to the ninth set of triplels. She is still under 30 years, and her twenty-seven children are each under 13, all being boys, except three girls, who were born together. All the chil- drenare healthy. A Mr. Galliger, while diggme a well at the head of Poorman gulch, in the vicinity of Deadwood, struck a gravel bed at a depth of thirty feet, which pans very good in free sold. He is now going to abandon’ the in- tention of looking for water and work it for tha precious metal. The Lisbon, N. D., cheese factory will con- tinua business this season under more favorable auspices than heretofore. Five hun- dred cows will supply milk. Two cents per pound will be paid by the farmers for making and disposing of the cheese. This will net tho farmers § cents per pound. County commissioners, now in session, are loaning seed grain to the farmers of Lincoln county, South Dakota. The commissioners take a chattel mortgage, such mortgage being a first lien upon all crops raised from said seed, in payment for the grain. About $10,000 worth of grain has thus been loaned by the county. WYOMING. The erection of a flouring mill at Sundance is being agitated. Ot the 500 Chinamen in Rock Springs only about 150 are at work. Nineteen men are at work in the Copper Creek mines at Bald mountain, There is a good deal of interest all over the state over the organization of Big Horn county. There is an fmmense amount of snow in the upper Platte valley, which insures plenty of water for the coming year. W. L. Vaughon of Lander has decided to run a stage line from Rock Springs to Lander during the coming summer. Laramie plains ranchmen are commencing a brisk shipment of stock in consequence of the upward tendency of prices. The Lander-Rawlins stage coach was blown completely over by a zephyr the other day, but no serious damage was done. The report submitted to congress in refer- ence to the state militia, states that Wyo- ming has 460 men In the militia and 8,000 men available for service, Cattlemen are rejoicing at the manner in which their live stock has stood the rigors ot winter so far. Stock of all kinds has come through in fine shape. A Laramie attorney has raised the point that Wyoming has no law against bigamy or polygamy and asks the discharge of a client charged with the former offense. A correspondent from Tie Siding is enthust- astic over the outlook for that point. He de- clares that there is going to be a boom on account of the copper deposits there. The Pennsylvania company made another big strike in oil at Casner. Well No. 1 is finished and it is a good producer. The Saii creek wells ean now produce 100 barrels a day of the best lubricating oil. There is just now much activity in gold mining In the vicinity of Rawlins. Prospects that have been idle for years are recelving attention, notably in the Seminoe districts, thirty miles north of Rock Springs. How s this for a Wyoming potato? asks the Douglas News. A short while ago the Rull brothers cooked a potato that weighed four pounds and nine ounces, which was grown on W. W. Dubling's ranch, and four men made a good meal off it, and yet there was enough left for the pig. The new railroad seems to be a certainty, says the Laramie Boomerang, the contractor being in Green River now and arranging to let the contract for 100 miles of grading up the river, Parties have secured options on land around the town and will plat and put it on the market this spring. OREGON. enjoying the Corvallis s ladies' band. A movement is on foot at Dayton to have a flouring mill built at that place, The Newberg Milling company will rebuild its sawmill, with a capacity of 15,000 feet. The farmers of Morrow county are taking advantage of the fine weather to Ibegin seeding. Prof. Gleason, the celebrated horse tamer, subdued a large wild el at Portland the other day. The fruit growers of Salem and vicinity have formed an association to build and operate a cannery, Coos county Is to have a base ball league. A meeting for organization will be beld at Coquille City March 4. Ther> is a wmovement among the farmers about Myrtle Point to run the Clover Leaf creamery on the co-operative plan. An attempt was made at Glencoe to start a creamery on the co-operative plan, but it failed. The farmers would not pledge milk enough to make the venture profitable, The bonus for a beet sugar faetory in Grand Ronde valley has not been completed, and notice has been served that the factory will not come unless the full amount is raised. At Athena an artesian well struck water at 250 feet that rose to within six feet of the surface. A pump was rigged over it to test it, and the well was pumped dry in a few minutes. Beach sand miners at Gold Beach lost their avocation during the fine weather, the black sand being covered up by the gray sands. The recent storm, however, has raised the surf and will sluice the beaches down again and give an abundance of water. An unusuil and pecullar disease is spread- ing among the Indian ponies on the Umatilla reservation and which is causing much uneas. iness to white settlers in the vicinity. The horses afilicted reel and stagger, hair drops off and sores break out all over the body. A number of miners at the Virtue, working in the deep #haft, have struck for $3.50 per day instead of $3.25. complaint is that the shaft Is very damp and that they are wet from head to foot during the entire eight- hour shift. The places of the strikers have been filled, however. oggers op the Nehalem for fully seventy- five miles from its mouth are preparing to open up new camps when the mills at Ne- halem City commence operations. It is sald by mill owners that logs can easily be floated for ninety miles down the Nebalem river, and logs from the fincst timber belt on the coast | luxury of a are directly alongside ream. The statement published that the flour mill at Dixte, Polk county, belonging to McDaniel & White, had failed and closed down, was an error. The mill fs still in operatton, and there is no trouble in its business affairs. The mill, however, was recently sold to Joshua McDaniel. COLORADO. Some very fine ore is being shown on the Wilson lode, at Ophir The Guston mine at Guston, San county, will increase its force by fifty. The matte mow belng turned out by the Silverton smelter averages over 40 per cent copper. The Dives-Pelican at Silver Plume, fs in great ore now, some of the streaks being five to six feet wide. The Alaska fever has broken out in Bagle county, where mgny of the mines have been closed since the drop in silver. The Strong shaft, Cripple Creek, has at- talned a depth of nearly 300 feet, The average ore mined has a value of $300 per ton. Silverton is canvassing an electric system of transportation from the mines to that cen- ter. It is estimated that ores could be de- livered at from 50 cents to $1.50 per ton. The Blizzard mine, Idaho Springs, is turn- Ing out ore which assays four ounces in gold nd five ounces in silver to the ton. The vein carries a streak of smelting ore about four Inches wide. The location of the great gold belt be- tween Leadville and Cripple Creek, and the similarity of formation and ores, promise to make of Balfour an exceedingly inter- esting camp for the coming year. Charles Bonnell has a group of claims which he recently located on Silver creel known as the Mountain Lion group. Ass made in Denver from the Anna B, one of the group, gave a value of $162.32 per ton, principally in gold. It is reported at Cripple Creek that sev- eral men with the cash are quietly picking up mines which produce low grade refrac- tory ore running from $10 to per ton. A new and cheap chemical process s said to have been discovered which will treat ore of this character at a big profit. The Monte Cristo at Granite has now 100 feot of drifts on the vein at a depth of 120 feet from the surface, and the drifts are in ore the entire length. The best ore is in the bottom of the drifts. The ore is rich. Free gold Is visible without the aid of a glass, Some of It will assay from thirty to fifty ounces in gold per ton. The ore also carries considerable platinum, a metal the smelters have as yet failed to pay for. WASHINGTON. A Tacoma man has applied for a divorce be- cause his wife called him a fraud. Lambert Bros., from Tllinois, are ting in a brick plant at Cosmopolis. A committes has been appointed at Elma to solicit stock subscriptions of a creamery. Thomas Windsor will build a large saw- mill, shingle mill and sash and door factory at Ballard. A barrel and tub factory will be estab- lished at Snohomish, to use the cedar timber so plentiful there. The second week of the Farmers' school at Pullman opened with more than 200 names on the roll. A New Whatcom mill has contracted to furnish a Chicago firm 600,000 feet of fir wagon-tongue plank. Wolves have been killing horses In the Anhtanum valley, and the ranchers have de- clared war against them. The establishment of a creamery and sugar beet factory are the questions now interesting the citizens of Palouse. Two thousand cattle are being fed for market in the vicinity .of oNrth Yakami and ev-Governor Moody is having 3,000 sheep fed in Cowychec valley. A Spokane undertaker has contracted to bury paupers at 25 cents each, though It is admitted that the actual cost is $9, but it is one of the tricks of the trade. J. W. Edgecomb is building a saw mill two miles east of Machias, and the S. L. S. & E. road will run a spur to the mill. Fir, cedar, spruce and hemlock will be cut. Congress having provided for the establish- ment of a military post on Puget sound, Tacoma and Seattle have become rivals for its possession, while other cities are not al- together hopeless. There is great alarm along the Idaho bor- der about a disease resembling blackleg that has broken out among the cattle near Latah, Idaho. A Spokane veterinarian has gone to investigate the matter. A cheese factory has been added to the other industries at the thriving town of Frances. It is operated by the Behleman Bros.,, who are experts in the business, and will undoubtedly make it a success. For some years the Port Discovery mill has stood idle, the mill and machinery decaying. It is now reported that the owners will ex- pend about §100,000 in repairs and will put the mill in operation at its full capacity, 300,000 feet per day. The commissioners of Clallam county have employed an expert at $800 to examine de- faulting Treasurer Clump's accounts, and an attorney at $1,500 to settle with his bond- holders. An injunction will be asked by cit- izens who do not think it good business to - 2300 to recover $2,000, the amount of the shortage. The Parrott Aerial the banks of this up Juan put- Navigation company has been incorporated. The capital is $250,- 000, consisting of 500 shares worth $100. The headquarters of the company will be at Goldendale. The material for the trial ma- chine is now on the way. Mr. Parrott thinks the first one will be completed in three months, A South Dend paper says: “The penin- sulas new railroad scheme has fallen through. The Oregon Rallway and Naviga« tion company wanted a $10,000 subsidy, terminal grounds, right of way, eto. The peninsula peopls will give no such subsidy as long as the Tlwaco Rallway and Naviga- tlon service Is as excellent and accommodat- ing as at prosent.” The three men sent out from Duluth to ine spect the lands selected at Acmo in the Nook= sack valley for the Rapperswyle colony, have decided to return and report favorably. The colonists are Germans, Swiss and Poles. A half section has been reserved for a town site, and the remainder is divided into tem-acre tracts. They will engage In dairying, fruit growing, stock ralsing and lumbering. A _blg cougar, or mountain lon, was shot at Woodlawn, ‘on Lake Whatcom, by Mr. Wahlstrand and Mr. Nolan. 1t measured six feot four inches from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail, and weighed 116 pounds. The animal had Killed three sheep within a day or two, and had dragged them a consid- erable distance into the forest. When shot, it was crouching on a limb of a tree about forty feet above the ground. A report Is in circulation men that the famous E creek, in the Cascado range, has been bonded to a coast syndicate for $100,000. The Eureka s the remarkable ledge of rotton quartz from which it is claimed $12,000 in golden nuggets was taken by its discoverers last fall before the snow came. If it is any- thing more than a big pocket the general idea 1s that $100,000 Is & beggarly sum to offer for it. among mining claim on Slata MISCELLA The De Lamar Tdaho, cleared January. San Francisco shipped $1,1 durtng the month of January. China took $864,643, The Anaconda company month the erection of a refinery, ete, at Great Falls, Mont., to cost $2,000,000. A novel feature of a damage sult at San Jose was a complete human skeleton, which was used to explain some point to the jury. Farmers at Lovelock, Nev., are curing cnough bacon for home consumption and will shortly have a flouring mill in optra= ton. A church at Doise gave a “living pleture” entertainment, but it probably differed from the theatrical exhibitions Known by that name, One of the Salvation army soldiers at Ne- vada City has become demented. His mania is to be jealous of his wife's popularity In the army. Two migratory foot racers struck Carson, Nev., recently, and when they took their de- parture about $1,500 of good Carson money. went with them. The territorial census, fust completed, shows that on January 1 Salt Lake City had a population of 47,980. This fs an Increase of 3,137 compared with the federal census of 1890 The large British ship Olive Bank, 2,600 tons, now at Port Townsend, has been char- tered to load lumber for South Africa. She will take away the largest cargo ever loaded at Van Couver, B. C. Quite a curiosity was found a few days ago in the bitumen quarry near Chino, Cal., in the shape of a rib and part of the skele- ton of an_animal solidly imbedded in tho bitumen. The rib was about two feet long. Caliente, Cal., has a newspaper. It is con- Qucted by a charming young lady, Miss Maud Ripley, who Is editor, reporter, mall clerk, devil, ‘etc. It comes out regularly twice a month and is written entirely with a type- writer on foolscap paper. A deed that was made in 1865 was filed for record a fow days ago at Red Bluff. It trans- fers the title to several hundred acres of an island in the Sacramento river below Red Bluft and was filed at this time In order to bring suit against several persons who have jumped the land. A Utah man, who has just returned from a visit to England, says that sheep may be shipped alive to that country at a good profit. The freight charges would be $2 a head, while the animals would bring at least’ $7 each in the British market, The experiment will probably be tried. The Alameda, Cal., Sugar company has se- cured the right of way for a railway from the Alvarado crossing, between Haywards and Decoto, to the mill at Alvarado. It will be about two miles 16ng. All beets ralsed at Pleasanton this year will be delivered direct to the mill. Work will be commenced at once, The map of the town of Athlone, Merced county, Cal., which has been missing for the last fourteen years, was found by the county surveyor lying among some old papers In his office, The map bears the date of filing in 1874, but in some manner disappeared from the recorder’s office, and was not again seen until the other day. Surveyors are at work on the San Joaquin river, twenty-five miles from Fresno, and it is believed that they are preparing plans and estimates for putting in a dam by which tq irrigate a large area in Madera county, and also to furnish water power for an electric plant to light Fresno and provide power for mills and street railways. The Panama Steamship company’s steamer Saturn sailed from San Francisco with one of the largest shipments of wine ever taken out of this port. There were 115,000 gallons of wine and 8,000 gallons of brandy for New: York. Six thousand gallons of wine were for Germany. 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