Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 3, 1895, Page 5

e : mearer t. PULSEOF WESTERN PROGRESS Rich Ore Bpecimens from tha Vi Eldorado, California. nity of CHUNKS RUNNING $200,000 TO THE TON More Rallroads to Penstrate Colorado Min- 10g Regions—A Line Connecting Pueblo with Silver CHff -News of the Northwest, County Physiclan Dr. Andrew C. Smith Aas some specimens of ore from his mine in Bldorado county, CaMfornia, at his office that, figuratively speaking, are setting the town afire, says the Portland (Ore.) Sun The ore is selected, and is so full of gold that it would run about $200,000 to the ton The few specimens that he has in a small wash basin are valued at some $1,200, and it fairly makes old miners' eyes water to look at them. It is by long odds pronounced the richest ore that has ever been seen in this eity, and [t Dr. Smith's mine contains much of the same material, and thero is every Indication that it does, he will some day be one of the richest men in the United States. From a ton of this ore recently taken from the mine as it came out, without any selec- tion whatever, a gold brick worth $500 was made. This brick Is at present in the vaults of the Hibernia Saviugs bank, and Cashier Barron is so solicitous of its safety that he will not even allow a man to take it around the corner to show it to a friend. As about $60 worth of gold was taken out of the ton milling, the general run of the ore appears to go_even higher t $800 to the ton, This mine Is located near the eity of Eldorado, in Eldorado county, Callfornia, and Dr. Smith worked it some years ago on a low-grade ledge. He had given the mine but little thought unitl about two months ago, when he received a lat- ter from some prospectors, who offered to bond the mine for $50,000. As Dr. Smith had never received any great returns from the prop- erty he concluded to accept the offer, and #o telegraphed the parties making thé bid. There was to be a cash consideration of $1,500 paid, but before the deal was con- summated, and the money was turned over, Dr. Smith roceived private advices to go glow. Fearing that something was wrong Dr. Smith went down to the mine, and, after some difficulty in abrogating the telegraphic contract on the ground of fraud, secured possession of tho property. He then learned that the men who had made him the offer had taken some $5,000 out of the mine with hand mortars, and that It was their pur- pose to buy his mine with his own money. All Dr. Smith could do, having no proof as to the quantity of gold taken out of the mine, was to get $900 out of the men. Hav- ing received this money and sent a ton of the ore to the mill, he returned to Portland. He now has a man watching the property. " Dr. Smith's claim is of the usual dimen- sions, 600x1150 feet. The gald-bearing quartz was struck in a three-foot ledge, at a depth of about twenty feet. TO BE BUILT AT ONCE. The preliminary organization of the Puoblo & Silver Clft Railroad company has been completed. Incorporation papers will Dbe filed at once, the company belng cap- italized at $500,000, and an air line will be bullt from Pueblo to Silver CIff as soon as the permanent arrangements can be made, says a Pueblo special to the Denver News. The company has an assurance of sufficient backing to make the road a sure go. The line will touch large coal flelds which can- not at present be reached by any railroad, and the largs lead ore mines in Custer county, which are also unavailable at pres- ent. On the line are a number of watering places which are not devoloped sufficiently to make them pay. As to the feasibility of an air line between the two prospective torminal points there is little question. A rough survey of this line was made some years since by J. C. Teller, and at that time he pronounced it a much better line than the one In use. The ided is to build almost directly west, touching at Red Creek Springs. In all sections where mineral or other resources abound at any distance from the direct line branches will be built unless they can be reached without any great jog in the line. This will be done rather than to bufld a branch. Among other places to be reached will be the mar- blo fields at Beulah. NEW OUTLET TO THE COAST. Mr. Thomas Taylor came to Salt Lake after a long tour through southern California in the interest of a big railroad scheme which contemplates the building of a system be- tween San Diego, Cal., and Salt Lake, says the Herald of the latter city. Mr. Taylor Is ® heavy investor in the iron and coal mines or Iton county and has been one of the most Indefatigable workera for the development of the mineral wealth of that section. The prospective railrcad will pass through the eart of that region of nexhaustible mineral doposits. Mr. Taylor is full of enthusiasm over the enterprise, and when Interviewer stated that everything was favorable to th early launching of the great enterprise. “Prospects,” he said, “are splendid for the new road, and prominent Californians exhibit strong Interost and a willingness to co-op- erato in making a success of the project. I talked publicly to the people of San Diego on meveral occasions, and was treated with the most uniform cordiality. A committee was appointed to investigate the matter, and they were thoroughly satisfied with the result of thelr inquiries. Before leaving their city, the committee promised me that if T would make satisfactory terms they would be ready to give everything I had asked them for. I have In my possession a written agreement to that effect, signed by the best know! capitalists and business men of San Diego. What advantages would your road have over one to San Francisco? “It would be superior,” saild Mr. Taylor emphatically, “In every respect. Passengers and freight from China, Japan and the Sandwich islands could be transferred through to Salt Lake City and the north- western states 500 miles nearer than by going via San Francisco. Then, too, when the Nicaraguan canal is opened, it will give us the op by going round by San Fr ecisco. The road will be pushed through as fast as possible, so that we may be ready to furnish supplies when the construction of the Nicaraguan canal commences. Utah #hould have the lion's share of this by fur- nishing meat, flour and other provisions. Coal and fron can then be placed in San Diego as cheap as in any other part of the world, ~ Thus Utah will be bencfited more than it could possibly be by a road going via San Francisco. Besides cereal supplies arc raised’ abundantly In the San Juaquin valley. On the other hand, wheat and beef caunot be ralsed to any extent in San Diego, end Utah would therefore be the natural source of supply.* Mr. Taylor states that he is making ar- rangements to start a plant In Iron county for the manufacture of rafls for the pros- pective road. “Furnaces and rolling mills,” he went on, “will be started and will at once give em- ployment to 1,000 men. Besides this great irducemeat, there will be the saving of $20 per ton for 50,000 tons of rafls, making a sum total of $1,000,000, which instead of going to other pastures, will be retained in Utan.” OPIUM SMUGGLING WITH OXEN. A novel opluw smuggling scheme, It has ust heen discovered, is being worked on the order north of here, whereby the United States government s losing big money in duties, says & Devils Lake, N 1., dispatch to the Sloux Falls Argus-Leader, Parties buy old oxen for $5 or $10, roll oplum In lead or tin foil bails, force these down (he throats of the oxen and drive the loaded cattle mcross the line, valu- Ing the oxen at next to nothing. They drive on Ull the oxen give out, when they ecut their throats, extract the oplum balls and ship them it as merc Two old oxen alone are said to hav lad over enough oblum balls in this way to save the long- Beaded Luyers §2.500 in duty. The balls are laced wver the palate, and are thus swal- owed whule. When the paunch is after- ward cut open they come out perfectly sound. Two brothe: have made $40,000 in this business in a short time lately. A PROSPECTIVE RAILROAD. The prospects for the Denver, Lakewood & Golden road belug extended to Idaho Springs, aro very bright. The Holland capi- talists, accowpanied by Sawauel Newhouse, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: e visited the varlous mining propositions with a view of ertaining what the ship- pers of I1daho Springs are willing te do for the new company in case the line is extended to this place, says an Idaho Springs 0ld. 'These are being worked only on Fou Mile creek at the present time. Tge Four Mile Placer company s working a Consider- able force of men day and night. The ch1l | water supply of Four-Mile creek is limited, to the Denver Republican. Mr. Newhouse |and the company will only be able to work was not so emphatic fn his dec'arations that |about six weeks longer this season. It the party was not concerned In the eston- | Feports great satisfaction with its work thus slon of the road. It was necessary for the | far, having worked all of last year and this party to unbosom themselves to obtain | SPring. The material in Four-Mile creek needed information, and from their conver. | IS fine sand, no boulders and little gravel sation their visit has proved (hat the road | being present, which makes the deposit easily will be buflt at a very low wost, and that it | and cheaply handled. rtunity of bringing freight much | will be a paying one. The mining and mill mon bave given tha new company every encouragement, end promise that in case {he Lakewood peorl: build the line to Idaho Springs throw all of their frelght businsss to that company and will sign contracts to this |eftect. For over two hours the party were | in the underground workings of the Stanley mine and were enabled 1o see thy magnitude of the development work being carried on in that property. In ome of the livels the | elght feet of solid mineral was viewed vwith | wonder and surprise by uot alone the fir- eigners, but also by Mr. Newhouse. The other large producers were not inspected, for in this property one can sex cnough ore in reserve to recall the sight for many days, for it is sald five year's reserve of ore is blocked out. The visit to the Newhouse tunnel was another surpriss for the visit and the outlook for this as a fesde~ of tho new road is very bright, for both the tun- nel and the railroad are under one manaze- ment. 1f the remarks of the visitors can be taken for anything, the repor: to those putting up the money for the extension of the road will be most encouraginz. Tha vld survey of the road did not brinz It alongside the Colorado Central, but on the mountain south of Clear creek, coming over tha pass at Floyd hill, just below ldaho Springs. THE LAS ANIMAS PLACERS. Mr. 0. E. Adams, manager of the La Plata County Placer Mining company, has begun to make preparations for the resump- tion of work at the company's property, sixteen miles above Durango, on the Ani- mas river, says the Rocky Mountain Ne At this point, known as Baker's bridge, the eompany controls forty acres, including the canyon, the latter being 620 feet in length and the natural bed of tho river. At this season of the year the water begins to recede and will be low enough for placer operations by the middlo of July, when the company will resume pumping at the lower end of the canyon, for the pur- pose of working the ground in its bed. The Qirt will be hoisted by the use of the power employed for pumping and handled in a sys- tem of sluice boxes. This dirt is belleved to be rich, as the placer ground above the canyon last season ylelded $7.50 per day to the man, while below the canyon it is prac- tically barren. This gives rise to the idea that the bed of the canyon, with a natural dam at its mouth, contains a large quantity of gold, settled there for years by the action of the dam in arresting the flow of the lacer business on the Dolores, south of Rico, Is very prosperous,” says Mr. Adams. “The men working there this spring have struck it rich, and for twelve miles below Rico the ground is taken up. Mines around Sliverton are working full force, with scarcely n fdle man in the district. The town itself s rapidly improving.” The main work of the Denver company last season was the crection of a log dam at the head of the canyon for the purpose of turning the water. The dam was not suffi- ciently settled last year to prevent heavy seepage; and the latter, in the absence of a pumping plant, prevented the company from litting the placer dirt. The dam, which is considered a_good piece of work, cost in the neighborhood of $2,000. The company also constructed a ditch to carry the water of the rivergto the lower end of the canyon, where it is permitted to resume its place in the natural river bed. RICH TIN DEPOSITS. Considerable excitement fs being manifested over the discovery of a very rich tin mine near Badito, in Huerfano county, says a La Veta special to the Denver Times. It is claimed that the discovery was an accident. Judge Hayden, an old timer, has been pros- pecting in the Greenhorn range for a num- ber of years with Indifferent success. Some time last year he located a claim near Badito that he thought had indications of gold. A company of eastern capitalists was formed and about $5,000 put up for development work. The money was all spent and the gold was not forthcoming to any consider- able extent, The company concluded to send an expert to examine the property be- fore putting up any more money. The ex- pert pronounced it tin of exceeding richness, and now the company cannot put up the money fast enough. The whole country around is being staked by men in the employ of the company. The lead, or more properly speaking, the deposit, is sixty feet wide and of unknown extent, and is said to run 13 per cent tin. A shaft eighty feet deep has been sunk and a force of men is kept Steadily at work still sinking. Judge Hayden has helped develop the county, and all of his friends are rejolcing at his success. This may induce the Gulf road to continue on to Pueblo, as they could run a spur track to the mine at a very small cost, besides tapping a rich farming country. WORSE THAN SLAVERY. Samuel Clayburn, a negro about 26 years old, who comes orlginally from Tuscaioosa, Ala., arrived In El Paso from Mexico, ac- companled by his wife and two children, tells a sensational story, says the El Paso (Tex.) dispatch to the Cheyenne Tribune. He reports that a negro named Bill Ellis, who lives at San Antonfo, Tex. visited Georgia and Alabama last fall and induced some 800 negroes from those states to form a colony to follow him to Mexico and lacate in a valley on the borders of the states of Durango and Coahulla, about forty miles east of Mapimi, on the Mexlcan Central railroad. Clayburn says that Ellis told his people that they were going to a perfect par- adise; that the lands were fertile and homes would be given to every one who settled there free of charge, but when the poor negroes reached their destination they were put to work improving the land under Mex- ican overseers and were not paid for their work. They were fed on the vilest food and compelied to sleep on the ground. On May 9 Clayburn, his family and about forty others of the negroes made their escape and were pursued by armed Mexicans. Clayburn became separated from the other fugitives and succeeded in reaching Chihuahua. The others were captured and one of their num- ber, Antonfo Bones of Eutaw, Ala., who again made his escape and reached Chihua- hua, says the pursuers shot and killed all of his party except himself. The United States consul at Chihuahua is investigating the affair. A MINERAL WELL. ‘The report that a fine vein of coal has been found at our very doors has created no little talk, but the latest discovery lays that ilus- tration of the Gem City's resources in the shade, says the Laramie Republican. This 1s no less than the opening up of a mineral well about two miles from town, the quality of which puts the Manitou product com- pletely in the shade. Experts have not only tasted but analyzed It, and the conclusion reached s that for medicinal properties it cannot be surpassed. “Jake” Feln is the lucky individual to open up the well. He wasn't looking for fluld at the time, but for a true vein of co: In drilling through the strata his mining op- erations were brought to a sudden halt by the breaking out of a small stream of water, which soon covered the bottom of the shaft. Mr. Fein tasted the fluid and was certain that it was lmpregnated with iron and other mineral properties. His next step was to have it analyzed, and mow comes the report that its value in medicinal qualities can scarcely be estimated. THE FOUR-MILE PLACERS CANAL. large canal which was under consideration along the Wyoming and Colorado boundary for the working of the Four-Mile placers. The canal, says the Cheyenne Tribune, 18 to be constructed for a distance of thirty-eight miles and will carry 125 cubic feet of water per second. It taps Snake river just oppo- site the town of Dixon, in Carbon county. Providence, R. I, capitalists are building the canal. The object of construction is to wash placer ground in a dry ditch. The canal will supply water to placer workings owned by other partles along and below Four-Mile ereek, about fifteen miles from Dixon. The original plan was to build the ditch for mining purposes, but by the ad- vice of Mr. Mead they have enlarged the plan and will furnish water to irrigate 20,000 acres of excellent farming land lylng just Ib-l w the canal. Something over 5000 acres of this farning land will be in Wyo- ming. There (2 a stretch of country about forty by slxty miles that contains deposits of placer they w.ll | Prof. Mead was recently called upon to investigate the possibility of constructing a WILL MANUFACTURE SOAP. | Wyoming is to have a soap manufacturing plant, and one which will turn out the pro- | duct at less cost than soap was ever man- ufactured for before, says the Cheyenne | Sun. €. R. Smith of Bofse has gone to Cas- per to locate the plant and he has the back | Ing of one of the largest soap manufacturing companles in the country. The soap s to be made of mineral oil and natural soda, Mr. Smith having discovered a process by which this can be dome. The Kirk Soap company some time ago offered a large sum of money for a process of this kind, and with so much cash practically in sight, a number of ex- perts were induced to enter into the work of discovery. Mr. Smith expects to turn out, by using clarified oll, some excellent toilet soap, and as the cost of manufacture will be very small, he Is confident of securing a large market for the product. If this soap venture proves a success it will be a big thing for Casper and the state, as it will open a new field for two of Wyoming's largest products and give employment to many hands RICH PLACERS. The Inter Ocean Mining company, com- posed of Nebraska capitalists and James G Rankin of this city, says a Rawlins special to the Rocky Mountaln News, will at once begin operadions on its placer claims on Jack and Spring creeks, about forty miles southeast of this city, in the Sierra Madr: range. W. J. Crane of Arlington, Neb., president and general manager, will have im- mediate supervision of the active operations of the company. He Is to start with several teams, a force of men and a large supply of provisions, to begin the season’s work. Their principal work will be upon Spring creek, whero they own a large number of claims. The gravel is about fifteen feet to bed rock, and runs an average of 65 cents per cubic yard in_coarse gold, easily saved. Several thousand feet of bed rock flume will be put in at once, much of the lumber being already on the ground. But the gravel is essily worked, thera being but few boulders and no clay or sticky matter, and a large supply of water. SOUTH DAKOTA. A stampede of prospectors was caused at by the reported finding of ore assaying near the heal of Castle creek. The Pioneer cheese factory at Huron is doing a good business. The receipts of milk are from 4,000 to 5,000 pounds a day. The round-up in the vielnity of Edgemont is showing good results. Cattle are in fine condition and the early calf crop is a good one. The first active work on river improvement has begun on the dam at the head of Marion’s island, near Plerre. An effort is being made to get it in before the June rise. Work was begun June 1 on the water system at Fort Pierre. The supply will be from the river, with power for pumping from artesian wells, it being considered cheaper than steam. On June 11 and 12 the South Dakota Wool Growers' assoclation will hold its fourth an- nual meeting at Mitchell, and it promises to be one of the most interesting gatherings ever held by the assoclation. Filings continue to come in slowly on the Yankton reservation land. The rush that was looked for never came. Land office officlals say they hardly knew when the opening occurred and are at a loss to know why more land has not been taken, unless lack of funds to make the first payment of 50 cents per acre. South Dakota old soldiers and numerous Grand Army posts forwarded letters and resolutions to the committee in Chicago, protesting against the dedication on Me- morial day of a confederate monument in Oakwood cemetery. No word of objection would have been raised had the ceremonie been named for any other time than May 30 A sult which had its origin forty-three years ago will be tried at the next term of the civil court in Brown county. A man living In Canada loaned a friend in Califor- nta $200. They met here a year ago and the debtor pald $50 on the account, which renewed the debt, and the creditor sues for the balance after waiting nearly half a cen- tury. The latest rich find is reported from Crow Peak, where a prospecior went into an abandoned tunnel, cleaned it out and had only extended it two feet further in when he struck an ore body that exceeds in richness the Holy Terror or the famous Basin mine of Montana. The news reached Spearfish and created a regular stampede of able- bodied men, A well has been sunk at the Grizzly Bear mill, at Deadwood, which will increase the water supply sufficiently to enable the mill to be run day and night. A clean-up was made recently which produced a retort worth close to $1,000. Scarcity of water has re- tarded production, but with all these diffi- culties the mine has been a steady producer during the past year. Messrs. Bradey & Clossen of White Lake have got their artesian well outfit and have begun the first of a series of wells they in- tend putting down this season. They are down 200 feet with a well in Lake township. about three-quarters of a mile from the north end of the lake. They are locating the various wells on the highest grounds with the view of using the water for irri- gating purposes. ‘When the census was taken in 1890 the general government held out from the Da- kotas the amount of $3,200, which was claimed to be due on the old unpaid direct war tax which was levied against Dakota territory. As the war tax has since been re- funded to all states which did pay the Da- kotas have made a claim for and will as soon as the dates are settled receive the money due them on the old census. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha, Sioux City and Sioux Falls gamblers contemplating a harvest at Armour during the opening days of the reservation made the trip there, and never was there a more disappointed lot. The day before the opening of the land the state's attorney of Douglas bad the gambling houses closed and kept them shut. As a result, the sports in particular and other Armour people are kicking themselves for electing to the office of state's attorney a rank prohibitionist. It is said that the said attorney promised before the election that he would not trouble the saloons. He now says he never promised not to disturb a poker game or gambling in general. COLORADO. An average weekly output of 1,000 ounces in gold will be assured when the new mill is put in operation at Telluride. Sam Fulkeson has an elght-inch streak In the Edgardine at Idaho Springs which runs 12 per cent lead, four ounces gold and 317 ounces silver. In the southern part of Lincoln county it is reported that countless myriads of young grasshoppers have Latched out. No damage is reported. The hoppers are moving wesi- ward. The Cleveland Gold Mining company was incorporated with a_capital stock of $1,000,- 000, to operate in Lake county. The com- pany has discovered a rich vein in the Tri- umph, which is In the vicinity of the Little Johnny at Leadville, and will develop it. The cyanide works recently completed at Florence by the Metalllc Extraction company are running with clock-work regularity, grinding and treating successiuily ures from a half-dozen different mines from tho Trip- ple Creek gold district, and the first shucing done was also a success, The cost of producing an ounce of fine gold from the Independence mine at Cripple Creek for the five months of this year has been $1.25. From the Victor, for over two years, $5.87. From the Portiand mine, for ti® past pine months, $6, and for fourteen days in March last, from the Bogart claim, 96 cents. Another strike has been made In the Ling mine at Guynuella, bigger than any yet re- corded in this property, which has been a constant shipper for twelve years. A streak of ore which runs from $400 to $800 to the ton was opened in the upper tunnel thirty feet below the surface. The streak is a foot wide at the bottom of the tunnel and in- creases as depth is attained The shipment of a car load of ore from the Lucky Guss that it is thought will aver- age 3360 to the ton causes old-timers to think a little as to the ownership of the property. Many people in camp will remem- ber that it was one of an original group of seven claims on Bull hill that were put into a company known as the Wilson Creek 1 $: Mining company, the stockholders of which are practically all rpaidents of Buena Vist says the Cripple Urteek Times. Doing wessment work wad' bfbensive, there was no sale for stock, s0 the company patented only one of its properties—the Lucky Guss. Now, of course, they are red hot after the 1emainder of theit Effup, but the majority of it has been patested: by other people. WYOMIN Wyoming has the smallest female popula- tlon—21,292. R A bear was killed in the Big Horn basin a short time ago tHAY weighed 1,200 pounds. It was Killing cattls at the rate of three a day. a The money for jthe, building of the state line ditch, near Rawlins, $125000, has al- ready been paid over by the placer claim owners. ¢ It is reported that coal was found in & four-foot prospect hole near Fort where gophers had worked some bla monds to the top A large force of miners was put to work Sanders k dia- on the Hanna mine, which had been on fire a long while, and coal will be taken out again in the usual large quantities, Work has been commenced on putting in the system of water works for Sheridan. Thirteen miles of pipe will be laid and a fltoring system adopted, ensuring a pure water supply for the city A meeting of Cheyenne business men con- sidering th proposition of Pennsylvania firm to establish a steel and iron manufac- tory appointed a committee to visit McKees- port, Pa., and securs the necessary Informa- tion for consum! ting the matter, A Salt Lake company. with a capital of $50,000 has just made a contract for the nking of an oil well in the imnediate Green River City vicinity, Experts place Green River in the midst of the great Wyo- ming oil belt, and over 2.000 acres of oil land have lately been taken up near the town There are at present In the wool ware house at Rawlins 250,000 pounds of wool and 200,000 pounds have been shipped. Ex- Governor Oshorne 135,000 pounds stored, J. G. Edwards 66,000, and Robert Taylor 35,000. The total shipments from this point for the season will aggregate 2,000,000 pounds. R. S. Van Tassell of Cheyenne, who was commissioned to ship twenty-six bucking bronchos to “Duffalo Bill's” Wild West show, has received word that the consignment has reached Brooklyn and that the bucking pro- clivities of the animals are all that could be desired. One of the bronchos bucked so con- stantly that he could not be taken through the streets of New York. Mr. Van Tassell received an order from a Chicago firm of horse dealers for 500 head of Wyowing bronchos. They are to be trained for polo. OREGON, An_ Fcho warehouse has taken nounds of wool 8o far this season. The Brownsville woolen mill 120,000 pounds of the Oregon already. The sturdy diversified farmers of the Co quille are going in heavy for bees, and the hive factory is overwhelmed with orders. Colonel J. K. Meade of Meacham left Pen- dleton recently with a buckboard, a pair of mules and a camping outfit. He expects to drive the mules all the way to Florida An army of caterpillars has taken posses- sion of the country about Dufur, and the alders and willows along the creeks, as well as the orcharde, are covered with the pests. A bear has been galhering the Cloverdale, Linn county, strawbefries as fast as they ripen, to the dizcomfiture of their intended marketers, who think, bruin is ripe for gath ering, and will erdeavor to find him in the foothills. E. B. McKinney & Co. have purchased of the farmers in the yiclity of Kingston with- in the past few days more than 25,000 bushels of oats at 21 cents per bushel. They ar being shipped over the O. C. & E. at the rate of six or eight cars dally. The Warm Spring Indians of Wasco county. in 563,000 has laid raw in product who are members of the Woman's Christian \perance union; sent to the convention at burg a banner wrought with beads on tanned deerskin, with legendary symbols ex- pressive of native'ideas of temperance. They are “Pipe of peace,”, within the colls of a serpent, and a tomahawk. The Pendleton 'scoring mill reports total recetpts to date for this season 86 pounds; total by team; 224,819 pounds by rail, 88 pounds. Recelpts for past, 274,232 pounds; for week by team, pounds; for week by rail, 248,346 pounds The shipping book shows 33,626 pounds of scoured wool sent east, this being equal to about 130,000 grease pounds. One other car is being loaded for shipment. WASHINGTON. A shingle mill is to be crected at Getehell, Snohomish county. A number of farmers around Prosser in- tend to raise sorghum this year. It appears that the bullding of the Blaine, Lynden & Nooksack railroad can be se- cured if the localitles interested put up a subsidy of $15,000. The Satsop skimming station, in opera- tion only since the Ist of May, Is receiving upwards of 2,000 pounds of milk and the quantity is increasing every day. Tug Wilson of Bay Center wounded a bear, which made for him and knocked hin down. In the scufffe Wilson lost his gun and the bear chewed his leg and arm. Wilson, however, was gritty and choked the bear to death. Tom Meagher took $850 from his Swauk placer. The go!d was nuggets that had drifted into a pocket. This is the second good find that Mr. Meagher has made this season. Several days ago he took out $440 worth of gold in one day. A vicious fight, in which honors were about evenly divided, took place between a gray horse and a big boar, in a pasture near Skamokawa. The horse nearly trampled and bit the life out of the hog, and in return carries a wound in his right foreleg six inches long, inflicted by the boar's tusks. The Whisler brothers of Whitman county have invented and constructed a bean planting machine that they say works like a charm. They have twenty-five acres to plant, which they can plant in about two days. It plants two rows at a time, and another beautiful feature about the machine is that the driver can ride. Judge Moore has rendered a decision in the superior court at Spokane, In the case of Nelson against Nelson, that marriage in an- other state, Idaho, is null and void if con- summated by a divorced person before the expiration of six months after granting the decree, the time giyen by Washington laws for taking appeal. It is estimated that the acreage of potatoes planted in Whitman county this year will reach 6,000 acres. Counting on 200 bushels per acre. which in most sections is considered a small crop, there will be raised this year no less than 1,200,000 bushels, or 26,000 tons, of potatoes. Of these not more than 9,000 tons will be required for home consumption, and perhaps less thari 2,000 tons more for the markets in the immediate vicinity. MISCELLANEOUS. It is estimated that fully $150,000 1s due from mines in the yicinity of Amador City, Cal., to people thiera for wages and supplies. It the Southerp Pacific line from Santa Ana to Long Beach, is built the plan will be to run a loop;train from Los Angeles to the beach, andsback by way of Santa Ana, without change. A good body Bf antimony ore has been found within a 'few miles of Winchester, Cal., by one of {he old miners. The ore is very rich, it being glaimed that it will run as high as 66% per cent. Redwood City Is elated over the prospect of securing a large flow of oil from wells about to be sunk there. Indications of oil are sald by experts to be of the very best, and, with proper ‘work, hopes of a rich find are running high. its 607 total eek = The honey bees in the woods of the Sierra are multiplylng very rapidly, and there are thousands of trees in Butte county which con- tain a fine quality of honey. The bees begin working there in March and continue until June, storing great quantities of honey. Then, as most of the flowers are gone, they gather honey from fruit and from honey dew, and make limited quantities untl frost comes in the fall. Henry Gallagher agd Joseph Clark were brought from Bution Willow, Cal., to Bakers- fleld with frightfully swollen beads and faces and admitted to the hospital. They had been bitten by tarantulas while asleep in a camp near the station. They were horrible look- ing when brought in, their faces belng pur- ple and swelled to twice the natural while the epots where the bites were fiicted were almost black. MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1890, THE FIELD OF ELECTRICITY Developments in the Application of the Groat Mcdern Power, A MODEL ELEVATED ELECTRIC LINE The Intramural System Inaugurated Chicago—Cheap Telegrams and Tel ephones—1'rogress in Varlous Directions n Every visitor to the World's fair will re- member the Intramural railway, an elevated electric road which wound around the build ings on three sides of the grounds. It was a departure from the trolley system in that its power was drawn from a third rail by means of metal shoes attached to the trucks of the cars. The Metropolitan Elevated Raiiroad of Chicago, which will be opened in a few days, will be operated on a similar system, and the people who live in the houses contiguous to the track will be free from the many disadvantages inseparable from traction by steam. The Metropolitan Elevated lectric way occupies a unique po vated railroads. The track is carried upon an elevated structure of steel, and s built Rail- over land which the company has bought outright, with the exception, of course, of the public streets which it crosses. This has allowed it to construct the road in an exceptionally substantial manner, and frees the company from the disagreeable neces sity of contesting suits from damages to property, which have proved so embarrassing to elevated roads buflt along the public streets. The railway being built through the alleys in the center of the blocks behind the houses, does not disfigure the streets The road is divided into several divisions, branching out Into the triangular-shaped territory of the populous West Side, and at- taining” a_total length of about eighteen miles. The main or trunk line, which runs from Franklin street to Paulina street, has four tracks and is nearly two miles long, the branch lines have only two tracks. There will be forty-three passenger stations, all handsome brick structures built direc beneath the tracks, and having every con- venience for waiting passengers. ENGLAND'S CHEAP TELEGRAMS. To what extent governmental ownership of telegraphs has affected the service in England is brought out by a letter from Henry Martin, consular clerk at Southamp- ton. The letter is published in Consular Re- ports, No. 176, volume 47. The total cost of all the telegraph lines in the United Kingdom in 1870, the year that they were acquired, was $53,626,000. The government set about immediately to extend the wires to every village of any impor- tance, and to connect the cities and tovns already equipped. Before government pur- chase the telegraph lines were owned by numerous companies, whien strung their wires only in and between the eities from which they were practically sure of receiving profitable returns. To remedy this defect over 15,000 miles of wire were laid the first year that the government owned the lines. Since 1870 the telegraph has bscome com- mon in nearly all parts of the world; in no country is 1t used more in business and social intercourse than in England. Governmental ownership there has meant reduced tolls; tolls so cheap that an American opens his cyes when he learns that a telegram of tweive words may be sent to any part of the kingdom for 12 cents. For this 12 cents in Bngland the message is delivered within one mile of a head office or within the postal limits. Beyond the limits an additional charge of 12 cents is made. In England the telegraph s operated in connection with the mail service; that is one great reason why the service is made 50 cheap. The English government does not consider the telegraph service as a means of revenue for the treasury, however, but as a means of information for the whole country, giving facilities of all kinds for its use and extension in all classes, knowing that the treasury will benefit Indirectly from the augmentation of the general wealth. In 1870 the total messages transmitted did not reach 7,000,000, In 1893 the annual total was over 70,000,000 In 1869 the English newspapers sent 22,000,000 words by telegraph. The total today is over 600,000,000, Mr. Martin says that the service is performed with perfect punctuality. Seven to nine minutes are re- quired for the transmission of a message between two commercial cities, while in 1870 two or three hours were necessary. WHERE TELEPHONES ARE CHEAP, To have a telephone in Sweden does mot cost a fortune. The fee is only $10 a year. The Ericsson telephone is used., Through that telephone you can speak with your friends in nearly every city of the realm, and it you want it you cah even put yourself in communication ‘with the people of Norway and Denmark, these countries being con- nected with Sweden by telephone. For tele phoning in Stockholm and to places within a radius of fifty miles from that city the sub- scriber for an Bricsson telephone does not pay a cent over the annual fee, but for tele- phoning over a longer distance an extra fee is demanded. This fee is very moderate. For instance, a three-minute conversation be- tween the cities of Malmo and Sollefted—a distance about twice the distance between Detroit and Chicago—costs only 27 cents and 6 cents extra for every exceeding minute. Connections from the Stockholm General Telephone company's net to the Government telephone net and vice versa are made all over Sweden, for which a small charge of only 2% cents is demanded. At the close of the year 1893 the network of the State telephone intercommunication included 255 central and district stations, the combined length of the wires being more than 17,000 miles. The number of apparatus in use is about 14,000, of which 500 were at the stations and the balance used by the subscribers. ELECTRIC ROADS IN THE SOUTH. As an evidence of the material progress the new south is making and of the spirlt of enterpriss that has possession of the peo- ple, figures have been collected setting forth the extent of electrical raliroad construetion in the southern states. These show that there has already been invested in electric railroad and electric light companies in that section over $100,000,000. Up to January 1 last 296 electric power stations for motor and lighting purposes have been built in the south by companies whose aggregate cap- ital was §19,891,000. Since that time, and despite the prevalling depression, 166 addi- tional plants have been completed or are In course of construction, and the construc- tion of quite a large number of others is now under consideration. Sixty-two cities of the south are equipped with repid transit in the form of electric roads. In most of these tho systems adopted and the methods and manner of construction and operation are of the best. The quality of the rosdbeds and the style and finish of the equipment will compare favorably with that of any city In the eountry. TEMPERATURE ALARM. Among the late patents are many devices for giving warning electrically to any ap- pointed spot of an abnormal rise in tem- perature in any apartment wherz such de- vice is placed. Several of these appiianc are so effective that their general introduc- tion must result in limiting the number of to accidental fires of such magnitude as need the services of the fire brigade. In one of these alarms the maximum simplicity, promptitude of action and cheapness scem to have been reached. It hus a compart- ment which is divided {nto two unequal parts by means of & flexible division. Tk filled with two gases of different exy and if the temperature rises the cir closed and an alarm is given. This aia said to be extremely responsive to the alight- est change In temperature, and it can be ad Justed accurately to indicate any degree of heat. 1t is, in fact, so sensitive that it is only necessary to touch the compartme:nt with the palm of the hand or to breathe ou it in order to set the alarm beil in motion It would certainly seem that with & devi 80 effective and so little liablo to get out order as this a fire should have mo of making any beadway, esp:clally connection with the system of sprinklers can be established. There is an excellent fleld for such & contrivance in steamers or saiiing vessels with inflammable cargoes, and ‘t has already been employed to good purpose in further supply of current s nucessary is taken from the accumulators. If a fire should occur in the a full supply of water 15 instantly a le. On the soundiog of the alarm, the attendant at the s‘atim starts | the electric pump and one compressor. The perfect success of this plan has beon proved on al occasions, and the inhabitants of the little town are proud of their compact and efficient plant, whoeh gives them good and cheap lighting, good drinking water, and | a sufficient supply of water for all the pur: poses of fire extinction. The station is oper- ated at a very low cost, but Ly employing automatie current regulators, automatic oilirg devices on all the moving parts of the st engine and on the dynamos avd | working of the plant is to be s0 s ition among ele- | factorles for giving warning in case of the heating of machinery, ete. LIGHT AND WATER. An ingenious combination of an electric lighting station and a eity water works Is operating successfully in & small German town. During the day, when the consump- tion of water is greatest, the station ac- cumulators are charged and the water sup- ply is worked by the steam pump. When the accumulators are charged, anl in the morning before the boilers are heated up, the electrically-driven pump is worked frem the accumulators, in case of a large d:mand for water. In the evening, when the lamps are turned on, the current fs taken d'tect from the dynamo, and at 11 o'cl when the street arc lamps are cut out, whatever that on2 ine driver and a stoker after the whole justitution, even when some proposed extensions are comple ELECTRICITY IN JARS Electricity, put up in storage batteries of all sizes, like milk in jars, is to be prepared for delivery at the doors of consumers in New York, just as milk is now has been formed for the purp: push the electric storage batt eral us Mr. Isaac L. A company und also to y into gen- Rich, one of the officers of the new company, who has done a great deal to perfect the electric storage battery, s ““There is no reason why electricity should not be perfeetly portable. There seems to be a general idea that in order to have current on tap one must have a dynamo and a steam engine to run it, and thus incur a large ex- penditure at the start. Nothing could be more erroneous. There are thousands of persons who would like to run sewing ma- chines or coffee grinders by eleotricity, or to burn one or two electric lights, but who have s no use for the current in large quantities. They can now be accommodated. Sto cells are now made in all sizes. The small- est weigh but four ounces, and furnish cur- rent enough for one lamp. We intend to sell electricity exactly as the milk man sells milk We first supply the cells. When the current is used up the maid will put the empty or exhausted cells in the hallway or beside the basement door, and our man, as he makes his morning rounds, will collect them and leave freshly charged ones in their place. The same célls, of course, are used over and over again a great many times." JOINING METAL TO EARTHENWARE. Plumbers have been helped out of one of the greatest difficulties of their calling by a new electrolytic method of joining metal to earthenware. The making of a true connec- tion between lead pipes and the earthen- ware of closet pans and lavatory basins has always been a source of trouble, but the new process is said to make a perfect and permanent junction of the surfa Tho earthenware should have an unglazed sur- face, but it otherwise, the glaze is removed, and the surface is coated with plumbago, and placed in an electrolytic bath, thus ob- taining a metallic coating. To this coating the lead pipe can be soldered in the ordinary way by means of a plumber's “wiped” joint. This process will probably entirely super sede the use of rubber sleeves, washers and putty, with which Imperfect joints are but too often associated. PRESERVING TELEGRAPH POLES, The wealc place in a telegraph pole is usually the ten or twelve inches below the surface of the ground. A French engineer propoies to make this part of the pole proof against both damp and wear and tear, even after the process of decay has set in, by clearing away the earth round the pole, removing from it all trace of soil or decayed wood, and glving it a coat of hot tar. The semi-cylindrical halves of a glazed earthenware sleeve are then closed in position around the part to be strengthened. The annular space between this sleeve and the pole is filied with a lib- eral waterproof layer of asphalt or some similar material. By this process the life of poles which would otherwise have to be con- demned can be greatly extended. TELEPHONES AND FIRE BRIGADES. Many city fire departments are now adding telephones to their brigade outfit, with the cffect of vastly increasing the efliciency of the department. When the engine arrives at the fire one of the firemen connects the telephone outfit, which weighs only a pound, with the firo alarm line. This gives a means of communicating instantly with headquar- ters. It is no slight advantage to be able to transmit a verbal report of the progress of the fire and order up additional engines where the occaslon does not justify cailing out an entire relay of apparatus, and thus uncovering additional territory. In point of fact, the use of the telephone transfers the active management of the whole fire department to the scene of the fire at which the department is at work. ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES. The amount of capital engaged in the elec- trical business, not including telegraphy, is estimated as follows: England, $100,000,000; France, $150,000,000; Germany, $200.000,000; Austrla, Italy, Spain and Switzerland, $180,- 000,000; Russfa, Sweden, Norway and Den- mark, $50,000,000; the United States, $450,- 000,000; Canada and other American coun- tries, $50,000,000, making a total of about $680,000,000 in Burops and $500,000,000 in America. 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