Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 21, 1895, Page 11

LURISC TALES OF Oharacteristio Bits of Pacific Coast Mining History, DISCOVERERS OF THE THE One of th pw it ous Seven Luecky Miners Tells Huppe sterts HLost Cabin Up in Orexo “When old man Comstock, al famons Comstock lode was named, George Carter's Wwife for $500 and saddle and biidle in the fall of 18 thought of the developments that were soon to fc sald Jobn B. Clark, once familiarly known as “Ophir Jaek,” to the Sun Frauclsco Chronicle, “Wo then were taking out about a nail keg full of dust every weck, and naturally thought we had the biggest thing on top of ground, but that was nothing to speak of comparcd with the wo were soon to strike, that produced over $13,000 to the ton. Money was very easy with us at that time, and Comstock would doubtless have been willing to pay more for the only woman the camp had his first offer not been cepted. Carter, his wife, and her br came overland In a wagon, and when they struck our camp we offered him a job, and it was while he was carrying dirt out of the mine and keeping a judicious watch over b domestic establishment at the same time that Comstock sald ‘*‘Carter, what wite? ““What will you give?' replied Carter sime ply “‘Five hundred dollars’ “ It you will throw in your horse, saddle, and bridle, all right,’ and the bargain was concluded. v “Comstock wanted a bill of sale, and it was regularly drawn up, sizned, and wit- messed in Johnny Newman's saloon, New- man being one of the witnesszs. Carter went back to work and stayed around for a few dnys, and then took his horse and left. I never heard of him again. After Comstock 80ld his interest in the Ophir, he and Mrs. Carter went to Placerville, and there in a fow months they had a row and separated. “1 was one of the seven men who dls- covered the Comstock lode,” continued Mr, Clark. “Joe Winters and I were working near Forest City, making small returns, when I heard of placers over near Gold Hill, and I gave Joe money and told him to go there and buy a clalm. He bought an interest for $150. There were seven in the party—old man Comstock, Pat McLaughlin, Pcte Refll Emanuel Penrod, or ‘Manny,’ as we called him, ‘Kaintuck' Osborne, Joo Winters and myselt. We had no tents and slept in our blankets under a big spruce tree. We were making anywhere from $1 to $5 a day where we were working. Golng back and forward between the spruce tree and our rockers, we for a long time passed over what was after- ward the Ophir mine, without paying any at- tention to the bright sand at that point. One day Comstock, in passing, said: “ ‘Boys, this sand looks very bright,' and he picked up a double bandful and carried it to one of our rockers. “Just as soon as the water struck it we saw that what we had for weeks bean care- lessly walking over was the richest sand we had ever seen or heard of. You may be sure we were not long in changing the base of our operations. We constructed an ordinary V-shaped chute to carry water from the spring, about a quarter of a mile away, and went to work. The ‘bulge’ of soft, dis- integrated ore was about twelve feet across and nearly circuiar. Iis edges were clearly defined and went down with a slight dip to the east. The dirt was extraordinarily rich, some of it running as high at $6 an ounce. Our washings were measured almost lterally by the bucketful. We divided our wealth by weighing it on a common set of grocers' scales. It was not long before our rich strike became generally known, and miners came from all directions during the following winter, and the town of Virginia City, named after a drunken, worthless miner called ‘Virginny,' rapidly sprang into existence, ‘But no one found dirt like that we struck The great crowd skipped out as lively as it came when the Piutes went on the warpath in the spring of 1860. 1 feel like laughing every time I think of that event. Major Ormsby, who kept a store and the overland stage station, when he heard about the Indians, said: ‘Whenever they see me, boys, those Indians will quiet down.’ He got to- gether all the miners who had guns and pistols and marched for the seat of war. By the time they found the Indians the men had shot away all of the'r ammunition at rabbits and birds, and when the Piutes showed up the miners, instead of seeing the Indlans running, skipped themselves, and most of them didn't stop until they were ack In California. We were not disturbed, however, and soon afterward, at a depth of about nine feet, our mine ‘petered out.’ The soft, easily washed dirt and sand stopped short on a bed of hard, dark gray rock of ore, that we all thought was iron ore. Then the discovery of the real Comstock lode was made under somewhat extraordinary circumstances. It must be re- membered that in those days we did not know much about mining, and did not have any facilities at the camp for testing. We were not exactly down in the mouth about the mine running out, for we had each made a handsome stake, but, while we all thought we had run Into a bed of iron, we had sense enough to reflect that if it was iron ore, where did the pocket we had worked como from? I insisted that we had the stuff as- sa I hired a train of pack horses, and, after digging about 2,500 pounds of the rock, 1 placed it in charge of a man named ‘Judge’ Walsh, and gave him money to take the rock to San Franclsco and have it assayed. While he was gone ave did nothing. In about three weeks “Judge' returned, and in a very mat- ter-of-fact way confirmed our original opinion that we had struck iron ore “* “Thera's a little gold in it,’ he said, ‘and a little silver, but it don’t amount to anything and isn't worth working “The fact was, as we afterward learned, that the ore Walsh took with him assayed over $13,000 to the ton, and the 2,500 pounds produced a total of over $16,250. The men in *Frisco who heard about it were so astonished that they could scarcely believe the report. A scheme was concocted to depreciate the *find’ and get control of it. I never could dis- cover all of the details, but ‘Judge' Walsh was to report to us that our mine was of no account, and the others in the plot were to quietly ‘buy up the claim. The ore was stored in Davidson’s bank, and a suit In re- plevin had afterward to be brought to get it. “While we had no reason to doubt the truth of Walsh's report the fact that he brought no certificate of the assay with him caused some talk, but in those days we were careless. In a few days two mud wagon loads of men came, and they quietly began trying to buy our interest. Joe Winters and I had a sixth between us. In a short time Me- Laughlin sold his one-sixth for $5,000, and Comstock, Penrod and Osborne for about the same amount. They offered Rellly $10,000 for his ene-sixth and when he, after considera- tion, refused, they increased the offer to $2 000." He didn’t take that either, and I think he afterward got something like $40,000 in all. “Winters got rather nervous and wanted to sell, but I told him it looked very suspicious for those men to be so anxious to buy the mine £0 soon after ‘Judge’ Walsh had come back. We refused to sell. When they found they could not get our sixth they began de- velopments. Some one ecalled It the Ophir, and the mine ever after has gone by that name. It pald dividends from the very start The veln Was about six feet wide, and for 800 feet the ore continued to maintain Its almost unexampled richness. 1 notice by the last report that a total of $4,5614,240 in dividends has been patd. “Of the seven original discoverers of the Comstock only Joe Winters and myself are Tiving, so far as | know. It is possible that ‘Manny' Penrod still lives. He had a ranch on Clear creek and was once a member of the Nevada legislature. Theodore Winters, Joe's brother, acquired an interest in the Ophir, and now is well known, for, among other things, his race horses. Joe had great times while his money lasted. As a rule, he was soon broke after he received his dividend, which, of course, was a large sum overy month, as he had a twelfth interest. 1 have seen him sitting in & saloon playing seven-up for $100 a game, when he had no more chance of winning than I have of fiylng 3 “The discoverles afterward made resulted iu determining the exact limits of the Com- r whom the bought a low," ore in lier will you take for your [ time trying to find i after he had sold out. OPHIR | A man nu RICH FINDS | l 1 little | | buried dust is estimated to be worth at #tock lode. Only one clatm was located on it north of the Ophir, That was the Sferra Nevada. On the south the famous bonanza mincs—the conwolidated Virginia, Buliion, Helcher and Crown Polut—wers developed, [ t with & number of others. Then the lode broke right square off. Muny attempt huve been ade to re a it, but without tuccess. . Pete Rellly spent a great deal of ned Michael Reeso filled him up idea that spirits had told him where it was, and Reilly dug a tunnel $00 feet long near Clear Creck. The tunnel vas like a mole hole, only a few feet under the surface, and at a uniform depth OREGON'S LOST CABIN. The long “Lost Cabin of Mount Hood, Oregon, has been found, but its fabulous h still remains unearthed. The wealth consists of two sacks of gold dust hidden by 4 stage robber many years ago in the vicin- ity of the “Lost Cabin.” So many years have elapsed since it was stolen that it found vould be considered as treasure-trove nd would belong to the lucky finder. with the least 20,000 The ‘Lost Cabin” was bullt In the Cas- cades thirty-three years ago by four Oregon plonecrs while prospecting. They were Louts Paquet of Fast Portland, Captain Hedges and Colonel Caufleld of Oregon City, and Dr. McAfee of Salem. What recalled it to mind and induced Paquet to revisit the scene of bis early pioneer days was the published statement that the famous “Lost Cabin” had been found. Its location was minu: de- seribed, and he recognized it as the s &mr" he had helped to build With James Watkins and & Mr. Applegard, started for the Mehama, on the both Portland, Paquet mount They' went to Sant river, thence to Elkhorn, and then struck Gold creek, which is a tributary of the north branch of the Santlam. Just be fore reaching the cabin Paquet gave his com- panions an urate description of the stru ture, how it was constructed and the tunnel near it. When they came to the place it was found he had misstated nothing. The cabin had nearly all rotted down, but the tunuel was still there, some of the bank at the opening having fallen in. It was with peculiar sensations that the Oregon pioneer saw the spot he had not vis- Ited in thirty-three years. He said he built the cabin, and the old shack near by it for a sort of blacksmith shop. The latter had nearly disappeared, only a mound indicating where it stood, The story of the “Lost Cabin" current history In Idaho, Washington and Oregon for years. Its fabulous wealth and tho mystery of its last known occupant have induced many persons to search for it. There are two stories concerning the mysterious stranger who years ago inhabited the “Lost Cabin” ‘and buried in its immediate vicinity gold dust of great value. One of them is that some time in the '60s a miner conceived the idea of robbing the stage, which usually carried large quantities of gold dust from Boise City to Owyhee. He watched his op portunity when a large amount of treasure would be shipped by Wells, Fargo's express. Picketing his horses in a clump of bushes close to the ro.d, he lay fin wait at the mouth of a canyon, on the road between Boise and Owyhee. He “held up” the stagey seized the United States mail and the Wells Fargo strongbox, and, leaving the driver bound and gagged, made off to the moun- tains. 1In the box he found over 100 pounds of gold dust and a large sum in greanbacks The driver, when found, was half dead and delirious from starvation. From his story suspicion was fastened on the robber's part- who was, of course, innocent of the crime. However, he was arrested, tried, con- victed and sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary. Meantime the guilty man, fear- ing his own arrest, went into the mountains He found an unoccupied miner's cabin, where he determined to hide himself. He rarely left the cabin except to buy provisions in the nearest camp, The story goes that he buried his gold dust in a hole under the stump of a tree near his cabin. For several years he passed the life of a hermit, until his conscience began troubling him because he had permitted an innocent man to sufter for his crime. Finally he de- termined to go back to Idaho and surrender himself, Several years older than when he had loft, and changed by the rough life he had led, no one knew him when he reached Bolse, There his remorse made him miserable, and when, soon after, he was taken serfously sick and was about to die he wrote a full confession, in which he described the place where the dust was hidden. His partner was pardoned out and disappeared, The other story of the mysterious tressura has it that the existence of the “Lost Cabin” and mine was first known by the guards of the Washington penitentiary at Walla Walla about ten years ago. The prisoners had just been transterred from the old penitentiary at Seateo, and the usual search being made, on a criminal murderer, serving a life sentence, was found a piec of silver ore. When asked where he had obtalned it he refused to answer further than to say he had a brother, who, if he desired, could give the Information asked for. This brother, he sa'd, lived at the Casc des. A few year ago the murderer died and his name is now forgotten. Up to the last moment he re- fused to give any information concerning the mice. He constantly rep-ated: ““My brother shall have it; shall possess it." For several years it was thought that the secret had died with him. Yet this did not deter adventurous prospectors from hunting for the “Lost Cabin,” but the search in every case was fruitle Seven years ago there was no prospect of the Lost Cabin™ ever being discovered, but a few months later an old wanderer named Ross, no relative, by the way, of Cody's partner, gave a chart of the cabin and the mine and surrounding country to a resident of Latourelle, who had furnished him with a night's lodging and a meal. It was said that the murderer in his last moments had mentioned this chart. The owner of the chart did not care to g0 on a “‘wild goose chase,”” as he termed it, and gave it to a friend. It passed from one to another until it reached James Ross in 1857. Ho started for the mine several times, but his search ended in nothing. In 1889 he went hunting with friends and in the afternoon the party became separated Ross sighted an elk and started in pursuit, but the light limbed animal led him on a ten- mile chase and then disappeared down a ra vine. He followed, dismounted and pushed through the underbrush. In a thicket he saw the cabin and the tools of the murderer. He carved his name on a iog and then. rejoined his friends. The next year with Cody he tried to find the cabin again, but failed because provisions gave out. They made a secoud trip, this tima being well equipped with food and ani- and after a long and difficult journey they came upon the cabin, On tho ground were picks and shovels. The handles broke when they tried to lift the tools and the iron was covered with rust. Lying abaut were cooking utensils in the samo state, and pieces of silver ore. There was the tunnel which had been bored into the side of the mountain and from which ore had been extracted. Cody thinks the mine been descrted at least twenty-five years. He believes the murderer feared discovery and left it about 1868 and took up a claim further away from the village. Cody bases his belief upon the fact that the bark of a tree kad been cut away and Mitials carved upon the weod, but tho bark had grown over and almost eafirely obliterated the letters. e —— Speedy Justice in Oklahon “Whenever a man is shot by an officer of the law in our country he is immediately de- scribed by the newspapers as a member of one of the several bands of desperadoes sup- Pposed to infest that section,” said Charles B Adams of Guthrie, OkL, to the Chicago Tribune. Mr. Adams was clerk of the federal court from the opening of the country until last July, and Is returning home from a trip to Washington on business comnected with that office. *As a matter of fact, criminals are apprehended, convicted amd punished in Oklahoma much quicker in proportion to the population tham in the older communities. Owing to the scattered and light settlement of the country it is easy to apprehend a criminal, and the border lawlessness that marks the opening of a mew country is fol- lowed by a strong determination to suppress and eradicate such a condition. There is no sentiment among those drawn together to try a criminal, and frequently a verdict is set aside, owing to its severity — FOR BRAIN WORKERS Horsford's Acld Phosphate, Dr. W. W. Willlams, Wichita, Kan., says *“Have used it in cases of mental exhaustion and nervousness, with good results.” ne has been no outsider The | GAIETIES OF WESTERN LIFE Foasts and Royal Functions During the Harvest Time, KING CORN AND HIS BODYGUARD Penches tatoes Goe The old-fashioned county fair is a thing of the past in the west. The prairie counties have discovered, the St. Louls Globe- Democrat, that it is almost an impossibility to make ft a success, and have substituted new and unique celebrations for the annual “pumpkin show.” Kansas will have fewer county fairs this fall than ever in its his- tory, but in their places, not alone in Kan- sus, but in other western commonwealths, are occurring interesting events, which at- tract larger crowds than the old-time fair and are in many ways more attractive. Colo- rado has set the pace for the modern exposi- tion in its days devoted to especially famous products, and Kansas is falling into line gracefully, with a series of carnivals that promise to be the liveliest of any celebrations known in the Sunflower state. CORN WILL BE KING Atchison has started the ball with the announcement of a corn carnival to occur this month—a perfod of hilarity, during which corn, the king of Kunsas cereals this year, shail reign supreme. It is proposed to make the two days devoted to the celebration a veritable time of license with the same ex- citing features which are notable at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, except that here corn shall dominate everything and be the ruling deity. Hundreds of bushels of shelled corn will be distributed through the city, and every man, woman and chill who goes on the street may expect to be pelted therewith Corn will be thrown in the theaters, from the street roofs, at the horse cars, at the people, and, indeed, be showered like rice on a newly married couple, upon all who can be attacked. Acres of corn will span the strcets, long stalks will decorate the store fronts, the street cars will be adorned with the growth of maize, while husks and silk will be woven in_the ladies’ wraps. It will be a veritable Parislan revelry with corn as its central feature, and thousands are expected to be present, attracted not only by the novelty of the celebration, but by the evening parades and speeches. The fact that eastern Kansas has the largest and best corn in the history of the state makes this kind of celebration par- ticularly appropriate, and littla doubt exists that the novel display will be a greal suc- cess. A number of smaller towns are ar- ranging for corn shows also, and the fashion is likely to become popular. The result will be to attract much attention to the product of which the state is most prodigal this year in a striking manner During the carnivals the restaurants are expected to serve corn dishes in every con- ceivable style to their patrons, and church stands will do likewise in the parks THOUSANDS OF WATERMELONS. However much attempt Is made, prob- ably no exhibit or display can be quite as popular as that inaugurated at Rocky Ford, a little town over the Colorado line. All the year the place is a qulet country vil- lage, but In September it awakes, and on the first Saturday of the month is water- melon day. The soil around Rocky Ford is_exceedingly well adepted to watermelon culture, It produces the rich, juicy Geor- gla melons that make one's mouth water and are a delight to every lover of the fruit. This year has been very favorable for the growth of melons, and hundreds of acres are practically covered with them. On the day before the celebration country teams come toiling across the prairie to deposit their loads of melons at the grove near the center of town. A permanent dumping ground has been built, surrounded by a wide counter, and in this from 20,000 to 30,000 melons, flanked by huge plles of canteloupes, are placed, heaped high, and making a display to be seen nowhere else on_earth. On the appointed day excursion trains come from Denver and Pueblo, loaded to the platforms with people. All the sur- rounding country sends its total population, and the town is filled with strangers Around the melons at the grove, watched With hungry eyes by the multitude, a score of helpers, each armed with a huge cleaver, take their places. When all is ready there are some introductory speeches of welcome by lacal orators, replete with humorous refer- ences to the probable after-results of the feast, and then comes the signal to go to work. As with one motion the waiters lift twenty huge melons to the counter, and with one stroke each is severed lengthwise and the halves given out to forty eager visitors. Then twenty more, and so on, hour after hour, until the pile s gone, and until the earnest invitations of the walfers mest with no more responses. “Come “don’t be bashtul. is Rocky Ford's you to go home and Come on, come on! But no one comes. A few hundred melons remain, and these are loaded on the excur- sion trains and thrown to the street gamins of Denver on the return. POTATOES AND PEACHES. their efforts to hit upon a successful says stout-lunged chef, gat all you want. This treat and we don’t want ay that we were stingy. calls a In towns took up other attractive eatables. among the irrigated iunds ostat Peach day, which comes later Here are the great luscious peaches bending down the limbs of the trees, and on the day set for the feast there is the same over- whelming outpouring of the people from the surrounding country, while the rallroads, by means of harvest excursions, bring in every possible land buyer and muke an effort to mpress upon him the excelience of the sec- tion of land which can be so productive. Peaches are distributed free to all by the basketful, and if at some of the lunch tables cream and sugar are provided for the pretty girls it 1s only to make the fruit more delect- able, not necessarily to bribe.the feasters into more extravagant praise of the event. Perhaps the most unique, because the most unexpected, of the fall festivals is the potato carnival that occurs among the foothills of the Rockies, usually in Greeley or vicinity. Potatoes are not a very luxurious product. On the contrary, are plebelan and common. Thousands of car loads are shipped down to the plains every year to take the place of those the drouth-stricken flelds should have raised. To attract buyers and advertise the potato lands Is Potato day, and it, too, is by no means bereft. of visitors. The gifts of vegetables to the provision committee is not confined to potatoes, but, on the contrary, includes many a cholce selection from the other products of the farmer’s field. But the potatoes are treated in an ingenious manner. Of course, peaches and water- melons can be handied much easier. They can be eaten raw, as it were, while potatoes must be near the fire. Loug trenches aro dug in the sandy soil and fires are built early in the morning of the eventful day. When the wood in the trenches has burned down to coals the potatoes, washed and clean, are brought and placed alongeide the glowing embers to be cooked. So expert become the managers, the chefs of the occasion, that there is seldom a potato which is not baked to & crisp brown jacket and a delicious meali- ness. Then, when poured out on the big tables by the basketful, the aroma fs some- thing to make even the epicure’s mouth water. Steaming hot, they are seized and deftly broken open, to be spread with great, rich, generous slices of yellow country but- ter and sprinkled liberally with salt and pepper—a lunch fit for the gods. Even he of the most delicate stomach can enjoy Potato day in the Colorado autumn air, when there is a tonle in every breath, and hunger sauce makes welcome every meal. Potato day cannot much longer be confined to the foothill regions, for irrigation Is spread- ing eastward, and even this year, when it 15 just commencing, it has gone down across central Kansas and Nebraska. The first crop the irrigationist raises is potatoes, and the plains states may have potaio carnivals themselves soon. LIKE CHARIOTS OF OLD. While the feasting events are attractive to the general public, there (s mot in them the excitement which characterizes the contests in the cattle towns of the southwest. These are car:’‘vals, indeed. Nor i ft necessary to mention the newly instituted bull fights Cripple Creek, "f0f thess can have but short duration. The eowboys know other sports, and when (hey gather at the fall roundups their calebrations bave all the novelty and thrilling daring of Roman ri- valry of old. The chariot race fs one of the most popular of frontier contests, and it never fails to enthuse the crowd. Scattered through the prairie towns are low, wide-axled carts, like the old Roman chariots, and It s not diffieult to secure two or three for use. running horses are hitched to and at the word “Go” the drivers them into the maddest pace. Around and around the elipse they hurry, the drivers being In great luck if they can retain come trol of the animals. Frequently there is a runaway, the team leaves the track and kills somebody. This possibility, of course, adds to the keen interest of the occasion. The height of attractive power is reached wh the managers can sccure a frontier girl drive one of the teams. This is often ¢ and her team always wins if reckless driving can make it The cowboys have own at which a but poor work. One of these Jerking, which never fails to make all the surrounding ranchmen mttend, no matter what may be the matters on hand, Two of the expert cowboys with long rawhide lariats face each other on horseback at a distance of some hundred feet. At the signal they ride forward, passing close to one another, and throwing the long loops of the lasso over the opponent's head. On go the ponies until the end of the rope s reached, when jerk comes the rawhide with a terrible force, which it seems will break man, saddle or horse, but does not do so It a rider can be yanked from his saddle to the ground he is beaten, and the nearest saloon furnishes a retreat for the washing away of memories of the unsuccessful con- test. BETTER CROWDS THIS YEAR. For several years the people of Kansas have apparently cared little whether they had any enjoyment or not. The indications are for better crowds at all public events this year. Already the entries at such races as are projected, the attendance at such fairs as have been held and the feeling among managers are such as to warrant this prophecy. The huge corn crop has bright- ened the farmers’ lives, and they feel that they can spend a few dollars without coming to the extreme need of it before next season. The sporting fraternity has been encour- aged to take advantage of this condition, and in dozens of small towns have besn or- ganized athletic associations which possess well arranged and successful athletic parks, in which many interesting events are called off. These have given an impetus to the so-called ‘“'sporting carnival” which is an- other new western device. A week fis o cupled with fts dizzy excitement, and all is under the auspices of some athletic club, One day each rely devoted to bicyclo races, base ball, foot ball, tennis, field day and novelties. By this means those sted In every form of amusement are attracted: These tournaments are being held with much su and fre indcative of an awakening on the prairies in the sports of the east. The difficulty with keeping in motion amusement enterprises which has confronted the prairie towns has bean the lack of ready money. With the revival of good crops and hetter times the attendance is made more liberal and the managers find it eacy to offer satisfactory prizes for achievements. The present season is demonstrating this, and the unique attracttions offered are of a kind to induce the largest possible attendance from farm and ra This is not the year of the political picnic—that will come next season, and then thé amusement tournament or carnival will be out of date. Now, how- ever, it flourishes, ———— When you want sparkling wine get Cook's Extra Dry Imperial Champagne. Its purity and delicious flavor commends it. — - WORTH BiG MONEY. each, other “tenderfoot orts of their would make is the lasso- Growth Iin Valne and S of New York Renl About a week ago, says the Sun, we spoke of the sale of a piece of property on Broad street, adjoining the Stock exchange, for between $150 and $160 a square foot. The purchaser was the Com- mercial Cable company, and the seller made a handsc ¢ profit on the price he pald for the property a few years before, though that was then regarded as hazardously great. Last Wednesday the Clearing House association sold the site it occupies, at the northwest corner of Pine and Nassau streets, for more than $2H a square foot. This plot of land is a little over thirty- 1 feet on N [, t by elunty e stree ng an area of about quare f d McKay Messrs. Vermily price pald is equivalent to more ‘han $610,- 000 for an ordinary city lot 23x1% fect.” ond so far as we remember, it is the highest yet obtalned for property in ihat 1. nbor- hood of great land values, Last December the Hanover bank was thought to nave id “an_extravagant pilce -vhen it gave $238 a square foot for the prop y diveetly opposite, on the southwest corner of the same streets. The owners of the property at the southwest corner of Liberty and Na sau streets thought they were well paid when near the same time they pot $147 a square foot for It. The clearing house site substantial five-story brown stone building, but practically the price pald for it was for the land on It is reported that Mr. McKay has bought it for the use, in part, of Messrs. Vermilye & Co., but undoubt edly It will eventually be torn down to giv place to a loftier structure. The Jquitable Jfe Assurance clety whese impasing buillding occuples so large a part of the block, was looked upon as the most prob- able purchase wing to that contiguity, and (s under te have coffered for it within a few thousand dollars of the price now paid by Mr. Mc It appears, therefor the increase of the v financlal center dur aple Prices Estate. New York of the bankin & Co, tor &, has wpon 1t a Yihat great as was lie of property in the g the ‘last year, the is still upward. Every 1 sale sites Is at a higher nr . Property sold at prices that st prised even the n hardly b bought before the »d higher offers for house bought the property Nassau and Pine streets about twenty vears ago from the receiver of the Bank of the Commonwealth, paying $215,000 for it. Durlog that period it has had the use of the building for its purposes, and nlso received from the Chase National bank a handsome rent for the first floor and base- ment. Accordingly the difference of mor than half a million dollars between the $215,- 000 it paid and the § it recelves is clear profit. The association i3 now ere. ing an extensive and very ing building in~ Cedar street, betw roadway and ssau street, Whieh will be ready for its occupancy early next vear. The great and continuing inerease in the values of property In that neighborhood is easily explainable. The district is of small total area, and the business and the finan- clal Institutions centering there possess the great amount of capital which enables them to utilize it profitably by the erection of vast and costly structures bringing in large rents. The same is true generally of the whole of fhe southern end of Man- hattan island, from the Battery to the city hall, and more especinlly in the space ad- Jacent to Broadway and Naseau trect. It s a reglon only about half a mile in length, in the narrowest part of the island, where the greatest financial en- terprise of America, and to which is at- tracted a multitude ‘of the professions and activities which minister to the re- ments of cipital or depend upon its support. Land in that restricted area must Ko on Increasing in value as time lengthens and New York advances in financial and commercial importance. The space s small and for that reason it cannot be made suffi- clent for the great busioess population seek- ing it without improvements s costly that only large capital is able to undertake them. The Four Mile Plucer Flelds. Considerable attention bas beea directed lately to the Four Mile placer flelds, situated in Routt county, Coorado, and Carton county, Wyoming, about seventy-ive miles south of Rawlins, Wyo., which city is on the Uniou Pacific rallway. The area covered Is about forty miles in length and thirty miles in width, and is especially rich in mineral. Gold was first discovered there in 1891 and the following year several claims were lo- cated; not until the last year, however, has y considerable amount of capital or lalor been expended In order (0 prove the wealth of these flelds At tho present time the Rock Springs Placer company, the West Side Minng as- soclation, and several smaller companies are operating with splendid success. ‘Without doubt these flelds are the rich- est of the kind in the west and are worthy of attention, Information regarding same will be cheer- tully furnished on application to M: H. C. Davis, Rawlins, Wyo., or J. T. M. King ford, agent Unlon Pacific rallway, Rawlins, Wyo. e Ladies who value a refined complexion must use Pozzoni's Powder, It produces a soft and beautiful skin our swift | lash | has | TIME AND INVESTIGATION SHOW That Merits of the Surely With In these times of progress the Eent man knows no section when he cone siders the advantages his country offers him, except as to the chances he can find for prosperity, health and contentment This is especially demonstrated by the re- sults of the effort now belng made to show our people the great udvantages the Orchard Homes regions ofter to the| man ®f push and energy. When he finds} a country whose rich soll, perfect climate, kindly people, railroad factlities and beau- tiful land, give to him the best oppor- tunity he has ever had for bettering his | own condition, it Is no wonder that he is willing and anxious to investigate It, that he recognizes its merits, and in tho end by a purchase of to 40 acres identifies himself with ft. When you read the state- ments in the followlng letter, and have | seenthe Jand referred to, you will say the writer of that letter could have said a good deal more in favor of the Orchard | Homes reglon than he has done. Still, it is_better, we think, to have you the | land for’ yourself, and then vou will say with us, ‘not more than one-half of iis ave been told you. However, 1s the letter, you can write yourseli verify it EXECUTIVE ARTMENT, ~GOV- RNOR'S JACKSON, MISS. July 2 1617 Sii Are inteftt. DEP. OFFICE, W. Ames Neb.—De ith the land Hon, Street, Omah 1 am familiar ‘Orchard Homes,” now held 1 sale. These lands are admurabiy #tuated, being in the heart of the great fruit and vegetable growing reglon of central Mis sissippl, Immediately on the main’ line of the Hllinois ~ Central railroad, and well adapted to the successtul cultivation of all small fruits and vegetables, as well as other farm products I know of no body orge rnam known as you for of land more suitable for the purposes of fruit and truck farming than “Orchard Homes.” You can tell your people there is no doubt of the fertility of the soll, no fallures in crops, the number of crops denending on the energy of the farmer, climate unsurpassed, people social £ood Schools and churches, and health good. Chicago market can be reached in twenty-four _hours, New Orleans in six hours. So you see the advantages this place has. Very truly yours, J. J. COMAN, ernor’s Private Secretar) parties are leaving here for that desirable region, and it you wish to better your condition and find the spot where a small amount of money combined with energy and work will make you an independent man, you had better "foin one of the partics and for yourself see the land and whatever advantages it may have. You will then understand how it I8 that a man has a chance to make from $200.00 to $100.00 each year from acre that he properly cultivates at Orchard Homes. When find that you can raise peaches, pears, plums, apricots, apples, quinces, figs and all small fruits In profusion, and sell them at good prices, and in addition to this raise three to four crops of vezetables on the same land, it Is no wonder you are content with the prospects Orchard Homes offers you. Kor all information as to timc of starting, cost of trip and further data ag to_the country, write or call upon Geo. W. Ames, General Agent, 1617 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb. SRR, You cannot be well unless your blood e pure. Therefore purify your blood with the best blood purifier, Hood's Sarsaparil! Go Orchard Hom. every few d Homeseekery' Excursions. On_August 29, September 10 and 24, 1895, the Unfon Pacific _system will sell tickets from Council Blufts and Omaha to points south and west in Nebraska and Kansas, also to Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho, east of Weiser and south of Beaver Canon, ceedingly low rates. For full information as to rates and limits apply to A C. DUNN, City Ticket Agent, 1302 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. New Through Line to St. Paul On Sunday, the 15tb, the Rock Island will inaugurate a new line to St. Paul and Min- neapolis. Through sleeper dally will leave Omaha un‘on depot at 4:40 p. m., arriving at Minneapolis at 8:30 a. m., St. Paul 9 a. m Trains run via Des Moines, Ia., and suppe served In Rock Island dining cars. Ko tickets, sleeping car reservations, e at Rock Island ticket office, 1602 Farnam St. Orowned With Sucesos. 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A Jewel Stove costs no0 more than many stoves of a much inferior quality. Our trade-mark on every stove is an absolute guarantee of perfection. Ask for a Jewel; take no other. You will never regret your purchase. . LYLE DICKEY & CO., Omaha. P A. C. RAYMER, South Omaha e s s esdesseseese — e - soeses s ool T e seee0oee e e et i e e ORGHARD HOMES NO PLACE ON EARTH Offers greater advantages to the intelligent settler. One-half the work you now do here will give four times the resuits in this wonderfully pro- ductive country. Twenty to forty acres in this land of pleny s ¢nough 0 work and s gure to make you money. Do the work and the results are ecured; there is no such thing as failure. The people are friendly; schools, charches newepapers, are plenty; rallroad facllities fine and a ol whose richpess is unsurpassed, all invite the enterprising man who wants to bets ter his own condition and that of his family. S 9900000000000 Two and Three Crops Can be Successfully Grown the ame Year * Timber 1s abundant—Tumber 18 cheap—TFuel costs nothing—Cattle are easily raised and fattensd—Grazing is fine all the year. CLIMATE Is healthy and delightful; land and sea breezes and cool nights. temperature Is 42 to 66 degrees. The avera extreme of heat or cold; sufiicient rain for all The mean fo, Lainfall is 66 inches. No cropa, 20 TO 40 ACRES properly worked makes you more money and makes It easler than the hest 100-acro farm in the west. Garden products aro a wonderful yleld and all bring big prices. Btrawberrics, peaches, pluims, apricow grapes, bears, figs, early apples, In fact all small frults, are sure and profitabie crcpa. NO DROUTHS, NO FLOOD, NO HOT WINDS, NO HEATED TERMS, NO BLIZZARDS, NO CULD SNAPS, NO LONG COLD WINTERS., NO CROP FAILURES. The great fruit growing and vegetable ralsing district of the South, A soil that raises anything that grows and a location from which you reach the markets of the whole country. Your fraite and garden truck sold on the ground and placed in Chicago, St. Louls and New Orleans markets in 13 to 24 hours.—In this gerden spot of America. The Most Equable Climate in America. Orchard Homes The most carefully selected lands in the best frult and mow offer in tracts of ten to forty acres at reasonable those who uy now a rden sections wo and terms to vish 1o avail themselves of tho wonderful resources of the coune tracting the great tide of immigration, 20 TO 40 ACRES in that marvelous reglon with its perfect climate and rich soll It properely worked will make you more money and make it faster and ensier thun the best 160-acre farm n the west. CGarden products are an imum vield and bring big prices all the year round. Btrawberries, apricots, plums, peaches pears, early apples, flgs, oranges—all small frults—uis an early and very profitable crop. GO SOUTH. GO SOUTH The people are friendly; schools efficlent; news- This 18 your opportunity. apers progressive; churches liberal. The enterprising man who wanty to Belier the condition of himself and hig family, should investigate this mate ter and he will be conyineed. Carefully selected fruit growing and garden Jands in tracts of 10 to 20 acres we now offer on lloeral terms and reasobable prices, Correspondence solicited. GEO. W. AMES, Geiuiai Adent 1617 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. A Few Advantage Offered by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. P aul Rallway, the sh i “hicago. clean traln made up and started from Oma ¥ e Shors. Une. 4 uigss: ha. foi Baggage checked from residence (o des (nation. egant train service and cours lamps in teous employes. ire train lighted by ele ctricity,” with electric reading every berth. Finest dining car service in { he west, Wilk meals served a 1a carte, ors in other words, order what you want and pay for what you get. Flyer leaves unios dee pot dally at & m., arriving at Chicago a t 9 a. m. City Ticket Office, 1504 Farnam Street. C. 8. CARRIER, City Ticket Agent.