THE OMAHA DAILY HEE : MONDAY. OCTOBER 0. 1893 K
RICHES OF CRIPPLE CREEK
Mining Pawlisa Covering Fifty Square Miles
df Gold Impregnated Rocr. !
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EIGHTY TIIREC , MINES ARE SHIPPING fjRE
Ilnjn H Illg I'orkpllnll-ICnnllii I > rnMtf | >
Wellington Urnpliltn It } ' Artrn'nn
rower IllIU I orcut Flrct
Sntt Ctcrk Orm.
1'cvr people comparatively have ns .vet
visited Color ido's greatest ffold unnp and
the mnjoritv will bo surpiised to know that
the district rover * an nnn altout eight miles
long.by idx broad and Includes fourteen
eopiirUo inniint ilm , all of which nro more or
less gold lie n Ing 1'hoi P 11 e something like
8.V ) ihifns | ( M nti-d In fact almost every yard"
of llktiy wound hit been pegged out In hopes
of Its containing. ! vein or deposit of some
kind , or pel Imps with the hope that some
cnstrin icndcrfnnt will come along andglvn
11,010 , or so fnr a hole In the giound
'ilia ' Victor mine Is perhaps the best
developed In this camp , being owned bv Mr
Moduli of Denver The ere produced
nvcnigp * about $000 a dav nnd in some
platen It . .iimv- * . high as f-J.OUO to life ton
Tlie Amicnrid i Is u largo pioportj nml Is
owned bv a < ntnp uiv with u nominal capital
of tf.lXHI.OOO but It Is only pionpeeted nt
present \\illiciiirc | a lot of money spent
on devcloDcmcnt woik before Itcau pay
Some idea of the vastness of the opera
tions now being cm nod on can ho gathctud
from the fact that there are todnj
eighty three mine * which are
regularly Hhipplm : 010 and paving SJ.1 a ton
to pet it shipped lo the smcllcis and licntcd.
Cripple Creek Is itic-.it todav , but will be Im
mense twelve months hence Its production
for lhl.l will reach tJf > 00 ( WO In cold This
result will oo ntt'ilned under very adverse
clromnsiances owing lo then ) bcliitr no rail
road iimi at present no method of ti calini ?
thu ores In the camp al a lent cost thnn { ' - ! !
n ton , which makes thousands of tons of ore
running nil the way fiom $1 to ! 0 a ton
uauless for thu piasent.
Will - > nlIlm frolilrni.
Ilotli these difnViiHIcs will , however , soon
tic oveicome , the first bv u railroad , which
Is alrcadv graded for ten miles out of the
twcntv six miles , from Divide , and which
will Imllnlshed by next Julv or August , nnd
the second by nn invcntlmi of Dr. Chillies .1
. ' 'mine ! who has been in the dlstiicl re
cently experimenting on all the ores In the
m-ighhoiliood , with Mr Inmost Hart of
Omnhii who [ 9 the mini Igor of the Faiiuel
Gold Kccoverv < ompan > which owns the
patent light lor the whole of Colorado and
will put up u plant at Ciipplo Creek caily in
the spring
Themes of the district are highly refrac
tory , < oiitalnmg n laige peiccnlago of sul
phurous mid arscuical pit ties Ibis makes
ID Impossible tos ivo unv of the gold bv the
ordlnaiy process of amalgamation vvith mer
cury after passing through n stump mill , as
the sulphur sickens the mercury Immudi-
iitnlv upon coming in contact with It. Ills
thcioforo neccssiry lo get rid of Iho
rufractorj poi lions of the ere Imfoio pissing
it over thu plalcs Dr. fauvcl has p itented
n pro-css which is in full opcintion In Lng-
Inml and Afiiui by which ho subjects tlieoio
ft to a bhistof oxjijen heated to l.aUO3. Thin
I ; lins the effect of volntlli/ing the sulphur and
nrscnic and leaves the oio perfectly sweet
nml pure Tun mo , whilst in a heated state ,
Is plunged Into cold water , winch has the
effect of bieiiking up each panicle into an
inipilpablo powder , .in which staleIt Is
pnssed over Iho copper plales in the usual
manner , and , from actual walking , results
nv-pr.iglng H not loturn Df 97 per cent of the
I ; assay valuoof the ere have been obtnlnod.
I ) The. whole cos * nC milling : iml tieating the
orn is onlj nboni v ! so that those who are
fouim ito iMKHu'h to obtain shares should
Kinke their fet tunes verj inpully , as the
mines are willing to sell thousinds ot Ions
of $13 ere for * > t per ton , so that the comp uiy
ebould c'carJT ' per ton , which , us each fur
nace treats 100 tons a day , means a voiy
large piollt
All the later iiiino owners at Cripple Clock
mo awaiting with inteicst the solutiou of
this great question , which Is to help Cripple
Cicok to become thegicatost mining camp In
the world
At tlicpiescnt time it is ono of tlio few
places in the states that is actu illy 1 lughliiK
nt the luon of there being haul times any-
whero. All the mines are being worked for
nil they nits vvoith , aim all that Is wanted is
more capital , a nulload and a good process
for treating the ores.
Mr-tick It Itlch.
Miss Mamie Coutnnt iccoivcd a lotleryes-
toiday from her mother , who is now ill
J owlston. sus the Che.vcmm Sun The
liberty of milking an extract from it was
einntca It would seem that Ihe Huir pi op-
city is going to do much -better than anyone
ever thought possible While It was gen
erally conceded that it was a verv ncli mine ,
nothing like the tuin out tli.it is notv appear
ing was picdictcd Lvei-iono in this city
will bo glad to learn that C O Countant bus
nt lust struck It i ich. 'I ho extract fiom the
loltci is : IH follow * ,
"Tlioy stiuck a pocliot on the nurr mines
jesti'iday that shows fico gold overiwhoio ,
nnd under four different
tests
save an aver-
iigo of ? l to the pound At a low estimate
they took out f.iO,000 jeslerilny , and the
jnliiuia aio ottering heavy bets tint tlio
pocket will yield $11)0,01)0 ) it shows no sign
of giving out.
"Al Daigcity , the mail contiai tor. who
runs the line fiom Swcotwaier biidgo to
Jvovvlston. Miners Delight , Atlantic and
Boiuh Pass , arrived in Lander lat > l nlgbl
lie comirms thu loports of IK h finds in the
} ! uirmino Ho said that lu had been In
the South 1'nss country binco the Hist
excitement waj back in tbu oO's and had
novcrsccii anv thing ns ilc.li an this Hud
llu s tvs that the miiiu is CM lulcd ni'-ht and
day and thoio Is no sign ol tlio ere plav Ing
out.
out."MIUo Crowley is also hero fiom I.ovviston
nnd b.ivs thu the news pnnioualv iccoived
fiom the Iluir initials substantially tiue
nnd th it they have ISi tuns In thu pocket
icndi for the mill , nnd that it will urn fiom
ffiOO to $ , " ) ( XX ) per ton The town hoio Is w lid
wllh exutemunt "
iiloruili ) ' * KiiDlIn Itoilii.
TheMnnuf.ictuieiii exchange of Denver
lina been for some lime past encaged in c-ni
lectlm ; dntii as to dcposui. of kaolin In c * 1-
or.ulu
U Is very iivldent th it thn kaolin depoilts
of ColoiadoaiOBUfllciunllv Impoi tanl to tss
tify a much moio thorough ai d practical In-
voHlliriillon than has Via talan pl.ue and
linvingieifud to the la. l tlmt In Ddivorand
thocouiurv uutuialli tiihut.iiy to ih's ' idHi
there Is sold nnnunllv about fl.5uo.0ix > vvoith
of nil guides of general jiottei y vv M o , sue HiK
us Is manufacluicd In
StaiToidshlie
, Kng-
land , besides , * IMIHXI vvoith of plinnbius' .
LMillienvvniu ; that iia .vot thoio Is not a
single vvhliu wato polteiy wostiif lite Mis-
Boutl river , and that the whole tiansmis
nouri matkct Is supplied practically fiom '
Otno. .Vcw Jerso.v and KUWO. It is to
tlnm that our Color.ulo kaolin ts
should receive inuu * uttonium fiom these
who ovvn'or control thimi In see
, older that ie-
liiiblo lufiifin itlon may bo collec.lcd and laid
boloie practUal iniiiiufnetuii-is vvith n vio'v
ol inducing tlunn to CbtablUh western pot
teries to supplv the westuiii market , utilu-
* liiK western raw. materials The Manufac
turers exchange will welcome co ope ration
In work so important to tbo upbuilding of
Colorado ,
A Kliul of ( ] ruplili .
A graphite mine Is something that Is '
mrely h nnl of outside of Cannda and '
Sibetia , yet one which possesses the nchcit
j > O3sille indications has oten dlscovcied in I
this state , savs the Tnconm Ledger. The ( |
nine claims Hied on the mine have been
bought In hv a company of which Jiidgu.1 ,
\V. liubiiison , nu.vor of OIvirpiu , ispicsl- |
dent. The uiinu is located almost en the
boundary line between 1'hurston aud l-owls
counties.
bpeaking to a I edger reporter about the
propcriy , JutlRrt'ltoblnson said. "At pioscnt
\vourestmplydolng our a.sst.bHinetit work ;
next \ear. honaver , we vlll open the iiiino
up in good shape.Vohavo scut out sam
ples of our graphite to largo fomidrtus inon
the coast , and have received letters from all
of them 3) in * that It is thu Jinest graphite
they have used. Wo
are now bending quan
tities to the largest fouiuli Ies lu the east ,
vvith n request to use and repot c.
"Different from moat Kraphlto mines , the
product of ouri comes out nearly puio anil
l treutluif. U U found lu great
chunks Whittle It down , and with H one
can write n < well n wllh n pencil I'ho ilo- |
IxnlU iiroextcriMvocaro confident that
wo have 11 bit : iliini ; nml th it unphltc min
ing will , iti time. Ixvimo uno of tlio great In-
itinliles of tlio stile
In addition to Irving > x eil for pencil * .
erJiphlto hmnnufncfiimt into steve poll h ,
l-tuspil for pin/Ing ships , unit U also uscJ In
alt foundries.
' A representative ) of the Faber Pencil and
Graph I to milk 4 , who w.n hero rc < cntlv , ex
amined some of our Dimples nnd pronounced
them the boat he over saw Since VTO have
cedar timber Ii > < uch larvo quintltlei , I be-
Hero that Ic.iOl pencils nu > bo ni.tnufacturod
out he'o before very IOIIR Mtcrvo liopo to
establish n plant to woik tip the arnphlto
Into manufactured pioduet * on n I.IFRO * calo.
Of conrio It will require capital to do this A
repriMcntillxo of the Dlxnn txjiul Pencil
wet < ' < > will ronio out here icon and wilt ox-
nnilno the Washington irratibltovo h.ivo
sent n KOOI ! i.implo of It to the state build *
IriKfxt Chicago "
llnniM-Ini- vVnll.
The nccc Mrv fixture1 * have born placed In
position at the big at U-slin well at Cliarn-
bctlaln , and the mill Is now running with the
power furnIshed bv the well 'I ho iiovver
was more than sufficient , and , accordIm'ly ,
lm& been led need The water power-gives
.tin Cliinitial-lain mill an advanUigo over the
other mills In this section , ns the evpenso of
cunning a mill by steam power is estimated
at about ? 1 per hour In hut a Itttlooverayear
the sa\Ing In coal will paj for the artesian
W'jll hero.when the power will Cost compira-
tlvely notlilng 'O U Jewell of Tort 1'lerro ,
one of the best posted civil engineers In the
stile , has been in the citj during the past
few days While hero ho became Interested
In the Immense How of the ai tcslin well , nnd
hlscurlosll > wasnalurall } aioustdas lolls
aUual capacltj After careful calculation
ho stales that iho How is 4,77 : ) gallons per
minute The Cliainhcrlaln well easily lakes
its place ai Iho he id of eight-Inch artesian
wells In tlio northwest
Twniil ) Mllllnti Dimmer * .
A Int go force of ciipentors and helpers
are daily at wonr on the IJI.uk. Hills &
Port IMeiro rallroau , repiirlng and building
now bridges and trestles where they were
damaged or destroyed by the late forest
tires Mall and express for Loin and towns
along ttio line , which for several years has
ai rived over ibis louto. is now brought In
vn the r.lkhorn It will take several dijs
longer to repair the damaKO dono. In wan
dering over the hills it can bo seen that the
Jlres are still binning In places , but gradu
ally d > Ing out. It is impossible to estimate
the damage done by these lircs during the
past two or three \veoits Some , however ,
pl.u o the eslimato as high as JJO.OOO 000 At
Hist thought this w'ould seem vcrv high , but
when wo take into consideration that 20,000
acics were burned over , the damage lo
laige timber and the small limber dostiojdil ,
wllh Iho big loss of real and personal pron-
city , It Is not much too high Those iieoplo
who wcio injincd from burning by the tires
of last week are rapidly Impioving and
luckily there will bo no fatalities
1/liniis linrnliic Criulo Oil.
A common lamp filled with crude oil from
the Ponnsylvanli compmy's oil wells on Salt
cieok , and giviug out a clcir , white llamo ,
attracted a peed deal of comment at N. S
Ihistol & Co's this neck , siys the Wyoming
Dei rick. As Ihcro Is only 20 per ccnl of
Illuminating oil In the cruel u product , no onu
has thought of to ing It in a la-np bofoio.
Hut .luilgo McCalmot mndo up his mind lo
see if Iho oil would not work In an oil steve ,
and from this experiment ho was led to try
the lamp The crude oil was found to work
very well Indeed in an oil steve as well as a
lamp Tnciocan bo but ono oplanalion to
the success of these experiments , which Is ,
that although there Is hut a small percentage
of illuminating properties in the oil , the bal
ance of it is so pure and free fiom gum that
the illuminating part can all bo usua without
ilrsl subjccling iho crude product lo a refin
ing process. The success of this experiment
only adds another Droof to the oft-repeated
fact that Natrona county oil U the best crude
pioduct m thu known world.
Upturning ti > j\Vork.
Thoio Is joy all Ihrough Iho C < nur d'Alono
country. The miners aio to bo given much
needed euiDloiment nnd at fair wages.
Operations have been icsumod at the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan mines In the Cunir
d'Alenes under Itio lerms offeied bIho
couipiuy , $ .1 no per day for miiiets ai.d J.1 for
cannon and shovuleis Ono numlicd .men
wuio cmploved and Ino foico will bo in-
cicased to 400 The Ciem , Helena and Tusco
mines at , Gem will resume woric in a few
davs , emplo.v ing 'iOO men at Iho s.imo wages
All tlu ) other mines in the Coiur d'Alcnos
aio expected to resume under this arrange
ment , the Knights of Lxbor and the minors'
union hiv'ng ' sinctionccl the men loturnlmr
to work Within a week 1,003 men now idle
will Do at work.
Colnrniln.
Twelve moa broke Jill In Trinidad and are
still at largo
The Gray Ihglo mine. Loadvillo , Is ship
ping llfty tons of ere per day.
Ciccdocamp is not dead , but dozing. A
number of strikes are leported.
i'hu Vermont mine. Cripple Creek , is pro
ducing ere which j ields $257 to the ton.
At ono of Iho places west of Cripple Crook
Ills icporred that some of the men average
$10 per day
The beef company at Brush Is shipping
catllu by the train loads to Oinaha and
other Nebraska points.
Denver llrms nro shlppmcr large quantities
of mining m ichinerv to Arizona , Ciipplo
Creek and Glipin county.
The loturns fiom the lasl shipment of ere
fiom the Pike's Peak mine , 150 sicks , give
$1 , ' . " . 7 a Ion , netting * 3,000
Mineis are tlnding employment at the now
dlscoveiies In the IT Plata mountains in
vvhicli gold Is the leading item
Owncis of concentating ! machines will
Ilnd a good Hold In Ijinpiio , Cloir Creek
county The gold ores there are not all ft co
milling.
The Portland mine has bccomo ono of the
sine pin luceis of Cripple Cicok and the ere
is of sucn high giado that u car load
counts up.
Messrs Hcibm& 1'atrlo havt ) opened a
new vein of ntilhracito coal near La Vela ,
and ai o Dotting reidy lo ship. They have
orders for 100 carlo ids alteudy
The depot agent at Ilouiders iys ere trans-
feis fiom thu mountain camps to Ihe Denver
smelters have boon greater in the past
twentydajs thin for thico months piovious
The people of Grand Junction ate about
ontoiing upon an experiment for tlio pinposu
( > rascrtainmg whether oil or natural gas
exists in the vicinity of UiUr town A lest
vvoll will bu sunk to a depth ot ii.OJl ) feet If
necessiiiy
A second car load of ere from the Haginavv
mine. Dcmncrit mounialii , in I'.nlc count ) ,
has iiituincd at a Denver smeller $ lf > I In
gold nnd silvur per ton , of which $150 is In
gold The Haginavv Is ono of the nuw ills-
( .ovuiiot. In a comparatively nuw district.
A liuid of fiJJ held of huises anlvud at
Urush lasl evening over Ihe trail , wllh F. ita
1'ow as foi email 'I ho horses belong to a
company In Northern Cahfoinia and
wciu put upon ihn trail at that placu
.May 1 , their dcstinatiJii being casteui
Kaus is ,
A uuw t > ehem < > is nelng tiled on Ciipplo
C'rcok placer dirt , II Is bring Inuled to thu
siie.mi below Die Cyanide mill ana run
through sluice boxes and then onto a Walker
concentrator , built something after thu
fashion of a Cornish huddle circular In
form , feil from the outside and worked over
with cloth sweeps , the tailings discharged
thiough Iho ccnlei It is found that tlio
black sand , which causes so much trouble In
rockets and sluices , tuus handsomely in gold.
MMrrllunuoiif.
A Biff Horn basin ranchman has harvested
100 pounds of sweet potatoes and has , besides
this , n line crop of peanuts.
UinuuniULca hoasU of an Indian who has
left tno putsult of vvalchitiR his squaw
gather pmu nuts and gone into the burelar
A heavy strike tvas uiadu in the World's
Fair claim lu thu Kulso-Slocan district . six
feet of ore assaying 1.034 ounces la allvor.
A * , the present price of silver this ere will
nut about il,100 to thu too ,
The preliminary workon the Jottv nt San
Diego is rapidly nenring completion. The
machinery to bo used nt thubweuiwator
quaulos has arrived and Is In place , and la
spur track to tbo quarries has been laid.
The output of sugar at China. Cal , for the
vvcuk ending Thursday was 1.N7 ,7-1U iiounds.
Thu total output to date is 8lM7&tt pounds.
an amount equal to tha total for last season.
U is ostlmateu tbut about half the boot crop
is harvested ,
DoWitt' * L. ttio KurlyUUen. Small pills
afu pill , beat pill.
PROBLEM 1 ) ; ' OF IIRICATIOX
IntemotionM Congress ID Be II Ud at Los
Angeles , BednninT TiusJy.
HOW ARID UND3 ARE WOOED AND WON
IrrlcHliini In Cnlitiirnln I Ilo Ncit ( Ircnt
Uiilil Ciimti V MeKul Mliio.SnUI limit.
IIIJT Sitror Ore nt Kuotminy
Ocnoral WcKtorn News.
The following article on the "Cost and
Duty of Water In Southern California" has
boon propired by Pied L Altos , chairman of
the publication committee of the Interna
tional Irrigation congress to be held In lx > s
Angeles October 10 , lt > ' .M , and will bo found of
general Interest to nil the citucns ot the arid
states
Irrigation Is an art that must bo learned.
It has been brought to the highest perfco-
tlon In southern California by men of means ,
who have tried all known systems.
Water for litigation Is obtained from run
ning streams ; by stoilng water in reservoirs
constructed in the mountains or foothills ; by
tunneling Into the mountains , by building
underground dams to force the subtri rancan
How to the surface , and by boring artesian
wells Water U also occasionally pumped
from wells , on a small scale , by w Indmllls or
by steam engines.
Thai Irrigation sv , stems of southern Cali
fornia on u scale of Importance mav bo said
to date hick to Iho vicinity of about 1870
borne time piovious to that there were good
ditches m Ixis Angeles , San Gabriel , San
liorntirdlno and a few other points , but lit
al > out tli il lime iho systems at Anaheim ,
Hlversidc , Duarte , I'asadetia and so no ad-
Jiccnl places were slarlcd , and slnco ihen
iho growth has been very rapid Iho eaily
sisloms were nil co-operative , outside of Los
Angeles city , and the purelycommetcial idea
canto In later , possibly with the exception of
Hlvnrsido , which svstom was oitglmlly a
commercial one , but is now practically co
operative , the Hud owners being also the
shaieholders of Iho water company ,
burly
The first supplies of waler used for Irriga
tion wore duilved from lunnfng streams that
w ere e islly diverted. No expensive dams or
other works wore built , and economy In
handling Iho water was not deemed neces
sary Such streams were nol numerous in ihis
seclion , nnd over twenty-live jcnrs ago suc
cessful cxpurimonls were mndo in Iho seated
for artesian walor. Waler storage in
natutallakes or deptessions , or In reservoirs
built on diainago lines was next undertaken
This svstem , when the works nro Judiciously
construcled , Is Iho most reliable of all. Sev
eral streams of considerable si/o have been
developed by tunneling Into the mountains
Whoio streams huvolltlloor no flow in sum
mer , tranches have been sunk to Iho bedrock ,
across ihe sit earn , and a dam there con-
slructed which has forced Iho underground
flow lo the surface.
The San Diego tuimlamlTovvn compinv ,
owners of the Swcetwater dam , one of the
largest' water sjslems in southern Califor-
hia , sell a water right for * "iO .in aero , and
chin ge $3 M ) per acre per annum for tin acre
foot of water , this being ono inch to eight
acres Thooichards under tills svslom are
still comparatively joung , and have thus far
not required the amount of water allotted to
thorn. A portion of the land lius been used
lor market gardening. This is low alluvial
soil and requires about ono inch lo four acres
lo obtain good results.
VVutcr nml Soil.
The duty of water In southern California
naturally varies very greatly. The char
acter of the soil , the rate of transpiration ,
the kind of ireea to bo irrigated , Ihe rain
fall of the previous season , the noiriiess of
the surface water , Iho amount of cultiva
tion , all tend lo affect il. The law of
caplllirv nttiaction demonslrales that fro- :
qucnt and careful cultivation makes it
possible lo giovv a crop on and land oirn -
cralion , which was nol deemed possible some
years ago , when constant Hooding of Ihe .soil
was Iho custom. Light : ind poious soils 10-
qulio a very much larger volume ot walor
for irrigation thnn a heavy soil , although
the heavy soil requites a much longer pet ted
of flow. The light soil will also requite a
niULli moio rapid descent in the fuirons
than Ihe heavier soli , in order to get Iho
waler across the orchard On an almost ;
level soil , gravely or sandy in its nature , it ;
will bo found nearly impossible to irrigalo
more than ten to fifteen funows with a
head of 100 Inches of water , because lie |
slrcatn sinks so steadily , nut this amount of
water will ho found amply sufficient lo cover
100 furrows in iho oidinnry adobe which
obtains In some of the best sections.
Kiiarriolr Syatcmfl.
The reservoir systems of southern Califor
nia are nearly all man igcd on ; i commercial
basis , tonsti noted solely to sell water il.o
waiting buyers. The invatiablo lulo in the
uimugenicnlof these coi Derations is to sell
to land owners a certain number of shares ) 11f
slock for each ucio of land owned , which be
comes appurtenunl lo the land , nnd is known
us a "water right" In addition to this , a
given price Is usually fixed for the use of the
water , In some cases a fixed pt Ice per inch
for eich twenty-four houts , usually langimr
from 8 to 10 cents per Inch How , under a fout-
inch pressure , this being a "minei's inch , " tis
the term is conimonlj used In California , and
under this airangcmcnt oni.v such an amount
of water as is used is paid for. In other
ciscs a llxed chatgo per aero per jear is
agiced on , pijablo by all land owners ,
whether Iho waler Is used or nol , and pay
able also oven If the lands uio still in a vli-
gin state i1,1
' 1 lie duty of water In southern California
may bo put at an average of ono inch to
oigtit acics , and tlio cost of waici at a first
chaigo of $ ! " > to ? M ) an acre for the lighl , and
u. fuither cliiugu of $1 50 to ? J .10 per acre pi idT
annum for the water , whether used or not.
These two piopositions will be an average It.if
all die fifty to sixty waler companies of
southern Califotnla ata taken as u whole
liiigallon for grain is never resorted to In
southern Califouili , tbo "gloiions climate"
making It possible for the gram farmer to
plow in December , sow In January and har
vest In .Ma\ , the usual winter tains fiom De
cember to April being amply sufficient to
niako a first class crop of wheat or barley.
Yiiiktin Mill t.ulit l.fiul' .
Mr J. T. Loftus was selected by Denver
pat lien to make a icport on Yankee Hill , era
woik for which his training and experience
peculiaily lit him :
"II ttn or moio well defined , veins travers
ing an area of a few hundred acres , strong >
enough lo histiuwtho hillside with tons of
float , and ilUi enough to show gold in ovoiy
piece picked and crushed , if a body of ere
ivjng between walls In moio than 11 fly points
opened upacioss ttio cnlho hill , varying in
width liom fourteen Inches to four feet , |
.v Icldlng in mill tests gold valued from $ M tone
$ -10 , fie sjfu dnta to leckon fiom , then ono
feel safe in saying thai a now gold
Held has been discovered in Colorado , " was
the decided opinion of the oxpei I given to
the Uookj Mountain News ,
" 1 liavo established be.vond a icasiimblo
doubt that theru exist in Yankco
Hill true flssuro veins. Tlio alrilto
uf ttio veins holds a true course fnr throu
miles from northeast , to southwest. In
almost every case clean , well deduct ! walls
were found and u continuous ere body cush .
ioned by a gouge or matrix on cither side.
" 'Iho cbaiaoterof tbeoiu is free milling
gold quartz , yielding a mill value of < TiO to
HO lu gold. Hut tliis condition changes
almost completely at 11 depth of forty feet.
This seems to be thu limit of oxidation ami
an iron sulphide Ukes it placo. At a still
greater doplh. say zlxty or seventy feet , the '
sulphide becomes solid mlncial a smelling
010 Another notable feature Is the
strength of the veins , liom fourteen Indies
to four feet.
J'The whole is now Iti a body of ore la
depth of forty feet measuring eight feet be
tween the ' walls , giving u value of 2T > to $10.
ihEta is the Qai bara. the liia G rando
and the \\lro Gold , Ilelow them Is here
Lulla , showing n continuous vein of pa > ere
the entire length of its -00 feet o ( tunneling
'Ihen there is thu U > st Hopo.with the breast
of its tunnel 100 feet below the surface , mi-
nine on a 2 foovvcin of. flO gold oie , and the
isseon.tmt ! gives six to eight ounces of gohl
from a 3-foot oio body. Two mills are now
in course of construction for thu use of tha [
oiiup. Others are shoitly lo follow.
A Iller MluliiK Deal.
H was currently reported in this city , aa s
ttio Portland Ort-gonlan , that the famous >
nickel mines , located near Hlddlo's station. '
Domrlns LOtintv , h.ul bft'n sold to tno Anclo-
Aincrican Mining ciimuflof , ) I/omton and
Cl hvV ( J llrowi , the discoverer ,
an Mr Hiddle , npirt o\vnor Tlio fmrchase
prlco was not mentioned The companv , so
the rcioit | ran. linl , boon capitalized at
* l V10KK ( ) , and Intends cnttigo In the man-
ufacltnoof comolnntlon nickel-Iron armor
plate for battleships. An oxtrnsUo plant
Is to bo established at .somo place on the
const , and the pl.it * * . which exorlments |
have shown to be superlorTo any oilier , \ 4ll
bo manufactured , Uwtvsalso said that a
large smeller will be erected near the mines ,
antl operations ill bo begun on an exten
sive scale at the earliest possible moment.
The Orixiiii mine Isnid to beery rich.
Some place Its value at $3,000,000 , and others
'at a simller figure. It Is located tnree miles
west of Kiddle's station , Douglas county Its
single prototvpo Is the nlcklo mine In Now
Calcndonl.i , an island In the South Pacific
ocean The oie is of variable richness and
is supposed to n\craec B per cent In metallic
nickel. It is composed of a pcciilhr by-
dialed nlckcl-miigncsl i silicate called gar-
nil-rite ' , which Is sofl and amorphous , and of
a light apple green lolor It contains , when
InT a state-of uuriii'J4 percent of nickel.
This mineral forms stains and inllltr.ilions
in thuhialn body of the rock , nnd Is occas-
ionallj ' found In masses of several pounds
weight.
"Simkluc Oro. "
Henry Lytton , an old-time miner and
prospector of Hreckenrldgc , has Just re
turned from the much ail voiUsed silver lead
district : in Utitish Ameriei , known as the
Kootenay The country Is described ns well
watered and timbered , with long winters
nnd plenty of snow Most of thu mines nro
reached by tough trails , over which the high
grr.de ore is "snaked" in rawbldo sicks by a
horse or mule to the steamboat and thence
taken lo Sealtlo or Tacoma nichriwhldo
cat rlcs from 1.000 10 1 , " > 00 pounds of ore The
ore averages 100 to 12fl ounces in silver and
40 to 80 per cent in lo id The tariff is about
50 per ton , which , with the low price of
silver , has caused the mines to suspend
shipments. Around Hiker City the gold
placers are showing well
The l > : > lntn .
Chamberlain , S. D. , Is pestered with
horse thieves.
Insurance rates In the business portion of
Grand Folks , N. D , have been doubled.
It is stated thai iho Chllds-Tajlor cyanide
planl at Deadwood will bo in operation by
October 15.
Tbo atlcndanco at the state normal at
Madison this term is , r > 0 per cent larger thane
ntr this seison lasl joir.
The Western Union is constiuctlng a tol-
cgiaph line for Iho Cleat Noithoin railway
between Yiinklon and blou\ Rills
Seven mining claims , known as Iho May
flower group , were bonded last week to pu-
tics from Cleveland , O. The pionerty Is
slluated four miles wesi of Cuslcr Clly.
The stncK shipping season nt Pieiro has
commenced and all cad v , 5,000 head have
gonelomaikel Ills estimated Ihat liom
15,000 lo i0,000 ! head will be shipped Ihis
seasou.
Marlln Shlclcl , a Sioux , was arrested and
brought lo Chanibeilalu charged with steal
ing agency cattle ftom a govetnmenl coiial.
Ilo was unusuilly bold In his opetallons , and
has been held lo Iho United Scales grand
Jury.
Report comes ft'om Jamestown , N. D , Ihat
wolves weio never so"plenllful in that coun
try since its settlement as at pioscnt Thov
run In packs fiom five to eight , and are per
sistent in their attacks upon sheep , oven in
bio id lUj light
The cattle shipments from Brennan sta- <
tlon this i ear so far number 1,400 head , ic-
quiring " 10 cars to h lul the stock to market.
As the .shipping- season is only half over It
is predicted Ihat Iho shipments from Ihis
section will exceed 500 cars.
The people of Mirshall county. South Da
kota , nro alive to the benefits to be derived
from artlllclll rain. It Is proposed to raise
the necessiry money this fall and be ready
lo have experimental rams in the spring. If
thu tests aiu successful the county will buy
the right aud inaico rain to Older.
The Blaclc Hills & Fort Pleno company
broke Ihe rocoid for cajhoad building in tno
I Hlaik Hills In seven and u half days Iho
force laid ten miles of tr.ick. both tiej and
steel , land built twenty-four bridges vvith
tresllo wotk , nvoiaging seventy-live foot
each , and all this without any previous
preparation.
The icport that the completed Sioux : Falls
& Yankton was to bo turned over to the
Great Northern is a lilllo promaluro , says
Iho Sioux Falls Argus A contract was >
made some time ago to transfer this prop-
city to the Oieat Northern , but the founal
transfer will not bq made until a meeting of
the directors can bo' h id.
The international coutsing meet opened at
Huion under the must favorably conditions
Incoming liains brought large numbers of
visitors , nnd Iho dogs and hundteds of people
ple u en t to the giounds to witness Iho open
ing conlests Sovcniy cntt ies wore made for
the first prizes before the departure of the
crowd for the grounds ,
Luther Vim Meier of Pierre. S. D , and
Miss Madeline V. Warren of While Hirth
were married at White Earth Wednesday.
Tito bride U n granddaughter of the late re
nowned chieftain , Hole-in-the Day , and of
the late William Wai ion , the historian. The
young man Is nn intelligent mixed-Sioux
blood , and bears a good reputation.
The coal spouting artesian well continues
to bo a great attiaUion at Kimball. A piccu
of coal thtovvn out of the well last week is
now on exhibition in town It Is fourteen
inches long anil seven and ono fourth inches
the olher way. In appearance it resembles
Iowa coal , but is not so lie ivy. The well is
.KM ) foot deep and eight inches In diameter.
r. W. Walto of Modfoid lias been Hauling
flour to Waldo for some time , vv died goes lethe
the Happy Camp mines The last of the
100 pound contract was dclhoied Filday
L'lom Waldo the flour has to bo packed
twenti-thico miles fuither into Iho moun
tains and forti-slx pack animals are used for
transportation fiom Iheio AboulDOOmineis
are at work around Happy Camp.
II. M. McDonald of Nevy York City , secro-
lary of iho Midland Pacific Hailioid com-
jinny , n projecled line fiom Siou\ Tails
Ih rough Piorie lo the Pacific coast , was fsu
Plot ro not long ago on business connected (
vvith iho toad. Tlio line has already been
sniveled and Mr Mi Donald is confident It
is only n matter of u tUiott time until work
will bo commenced on its construction.
Dr Lewis , president of the Oiegon hoitl-
cullural exhibit ul thu World's fair , olTeied
? 2 50 for nn apple tnat incasutod more ihan
fourteen Inches in clrcumfcieiiLU , tlio limit
i cached by Iho fruit from Arkansis. Sonio
clti/ons of Union county increased tills
amount to ft , and now Mr E. Schanno has
sent to Dr. Lew Is at Chicago , by expresu. )
fiom The Dalles , a box of apples several of
which measuied mete than font lecn inches
In alrcunifcrcnco and pne fifteen and tbrcu- :
fourlh niLhes. Ihcso. npplcn weio grown U311
the farm of McDonald -liios , on Chcnowoth
creek.
Str.iwben ics nro rlpo again at Corvnliis.
Klver. pliates are operating extensively
around Kainlor.
A > > a Tunnicllirs dog was stung to death by i
bees at Corvallls.
Hillsboro's new lire bell id In place. It
weighs SOD pounds
Hey City's now mill , will have a capacity of
100,000 feet per day.
The Harney county Juiy crop for this year
Is estimated at 50,000 tons
A live-stamp mill is to be put In the Yh lue
mining district for custom work ,
A 700-pound sturgeon has been breaking
nets in Willamette slo'itkh about Si Helen's ,
Goals have Hilled lOCTacrcs of grubs forJ ,
K. Gultryof YarahllUqunty Iho pastthiee
yen
Hungarian prunes three Inches long grew
on Samuel Daw's tiees four miles wcsl of
Hnlsoy.
The Albany woolen mills have received an
order from Washington for 4,000 annv
blankets
Ttio roads about Inde | > ondeiico are being
VTorued with a steam plow , which docs the
work of six teams.
It xis estimated that the grain yield of
drand Itonde and adjacent valleys will this
year bo l.tVXI.UX ) bushels.
ABapt Alexton of Coqulllo City extracted
a uo dlofium his left breast the other d'iy
ho thinks ho swallowed three j ears ago.
The camel backed salmon aio very plen
tiful in the waters of the Columbia at Tlio
Dalles , and this is about tbu only species
now being caught.
According to a local paper , "Sandy'1
Tuompso i , one of the Watlona county stool.- '
me i w no iraJo the recent sh puient of cattle
lo Oinaha , will immediately make arrange
ments for the shipment of twenty car loads
more , as ho was well satisfied wllh the
market
lftab cattle buyers have driven between
TOD and SOO beef cattle from Grant county
ranges In the last few dajs , pnjlng about
S.M to $ ftl per head
George Hall of BallsJon picked thirty-six
bushels of Dartlett pears from ontf tree. At
the pilco they have been selling nt , that
tree's fruit was worth ? 13.
Black woodpeckers are said to bo a great
pest In Josephine county They descend
upon the orchards In swarms and destroy
Inrpo quantities of both fall and winter ap
plesA
A sample of gold brought Into Coqullto
City from the Salmon mountain section by
G. V Mldd.iugh n few clajs niro weighed
nbotit sK ounces , nnd was wotlh n lltllo
ovcrflOO.
HIUPC.V count.v has contracted with O W
Kellogg of Silt Like City for an artesian
well from 500 to 1,500 feet , according to ttio
court's order , and at ) 75 per lineal foot , In
cluding tdo casing
Two car loads ( HO bales ) of 10 C Merrill's
hops , np.ir Indi'punilcnco , were purchased by
J S Cootor | nnd shipped They sold for 18
cents a pound nnd brought Mr Men III nearly
$ , ° > ,000 , and are oitiv about one-third of his
cropMore
More salmon nro coming Into the
Sluslaw since the rains lately fallen Uach
day bolh canncilos report an Increased
amount canned , nml If this stile of affairs
continues , day and night shifts will bo ro-
quiied to CMU the catch
A four htnso team came over the Wilson
loid inio Tillamook with a load of JI.OOO
pounds of phut powder for the lighthouse
reid At one place n In idee gave way
under the load , but theio was no explosion ,
nnd the wagon was taken out all light.
, t n. Titus of Aillngtou has Just tclurned
homo from Chicago , w hero ho disposed of
oiglilecii good hcav.v lunsoa al an average
of $ . ) 47 per head ovet expei ses and got back
with just Jiu5mot profit llosija a num
ber of others mcl wllh oven worse success ,
several of ihcm coming oul in debt.
Lev I Smith will go out from Miirshlleld
wltlilho machineiy for Ihe Dlvelhiss inino
ibis week. Tno icsi of iho machlncty ar-
lived on the Aiago nml will have to be
hauled on wagons and sleds from Mjrtlu
Point over the mountains to the mine , n dls
tancoof about thirty-live miles , which Is n
big uiuluttakiiig.
William Nois has finished picking his hop
yaid abovcvSpiingflold. Off ot his twontv
eight acre yaid ho obtained 7.1,001 pounds , or
an nvoiago "yield of ! 3,07b' < j pounds per acre ,
which J , nt Iho latest prices pild for hops ,
would bring the sum of ? I-T > ! 1' ' ) per acie.
The yard was carefully worked and sprayed ,
nnd shows what proper attention will biing
Iho grower
A sheepman fiom the summit of iho Blue
mountains infoimcd the Atheni Ucpublicnn
Ihni he woke up one uioinini * last week nnd
found lhat his tent , covered with fourteen
im lies of snow , hail lallon upon him Ho
and his p-ii tnur had a cold time of it dress
ing and driving their : i,7bO slice ] ) fifteen
miles lo Ihe snow linn. Snow tins fallen In
the mountains 10 a depth ot eight inches
within a day's ride from Alhena
Attoinoy Van Wjck has loft Corvnllis for
Sin Tiaticlsco , armed with iransctlpts of
proceedings leading up to the sale of the
S41NOOO vvoitd of stool tails that once be
longed to the Oiegon Pnciflo to Colonel T.
ngonton Hogg. Tito rails wcio , aflcr Iho
sale , Iraiisfcncd to the Anglo banlc , San
riancisLO Receiver Iladley now sues for
Dosscssion of the rails , and Van Wyck's
mission dm- been to secure evidence ot the
validiti of Hogg's claims lo Iho rails.
There has Jusl been filed lor iccord In
Minion county a United Slalrs pilont boar
ing the signature of President .lames
Buchanan and dated Juno 3 , 1S.V.I It was
given to Lew Is W. Cannon nnd his wife ,
Mnry , for a donation claim of C.3.7.1 ! acres
located In township 8 south , tango 'J west.
Land patents many years old me fiequcnlly
Hied for tecord , but not oflen Is ono received
anledaling Lincoln's administration. This
claim is Ihe ono on which the lown of Turner
Is now localcd.
iViiMiliictoti.
An Englishman namoa Gray lost $2,100 at
a brace faro game in Tacoma.
Fall sown wheat in the Geneseo neighbor
hood is averaging between forty and fifty
bushels an acre.
Snow is reporled a fool deep on the sum
mit of the Blue mountains , earlier by a
month than last jear
A grndoi's ouliil , consisling of Icn horses
and hnincss , tour wagons , a buggv , oighi
wheel sci.vpeis , shovels , picks , etc , vvoith
about 4,000 , we-o sold by the sheiilT fet $ l > 00
at North Yakimn.
Nurcisso Ponler was nwaidcd $ J1COO ,
damages fiom iho Norlhcrn PaciHc by a
Spokano'Jury. He had sued the compiny for
Si'i.OOO He was injutcd on the head In a
collision in Idaho about a jear ago , and the
claim was sot up that ho had piacticallv lost
his reason.
T W. Lowe sijs Ihero is room behind Iho
Oljmplc rnngo in weslern Washlnglon for
8,000 domrsteaders In addition to the 4,000 or
5,000 already settled there. As jot the
country is cut oil from the outside wet Id , Is
sparsely settled and is as much a wildeincss
as Kentucky was In the dav. s of Daniel Hoono.
Maitin Gcoige of Oitmg sa\s ho has a
two-acio Held of tobacco of as line a quallly
as ho over saw frown on Ihe O'lio ' liver , his
foimer home. Ho has been offered 11 cenls
a pound for his crop "The best piico over
oblamcd in Ivcnlucky and Ohio , " conllnuod
Mr. Geoigo , "is liom 21 to 23 cents , nnd It is
usually 12 to 15 cents "
It Is reported at bealtle that smallpox has
biokon out among tha Indians picking hops
on the Big Stioiialmio ( | hop laneli , wbeie
suvetal hnnaieit Indians ate picking Iho
compatii' 'iOO acicsof hops It is sniil that
six Indiaiib have tlio disease , and have been
quaiantlucd on the faun to pievcnt It from
spieadlnir. 'Ihe big f aim is located a mile
east ol bnoqualmiu Falls
In the iiPishboiliood of Hostile , Whitman
counly , theio aio iwclvo sioam liui-shers
aud ono horse-power and ono combined
header and llucsher , aveiaging ubiml t,000 !
bushels per day. and , \et theio is giain
enough in the vicinity to keep all these
machines running fnr two months stcadilv
So far , scvcial of the machines have had to
slop for want of sucks to hold the giain.
Col fax hoodlums rolled a Hatcar oft a
switch and down an embankment , pulled the
foundation stones fiom beneath the citv
pumping house , overturned several piles of
luinhci , and broke into u Hauling mill , carry
ing avvnv HX ) sacks of Hour , which they hid
under a culvert near by. The police caught
six of iho bo.vs , They range In ago fiom I'J
lo 18 , and nearly all aie HOIIS of piomlncnt
clti/.ens.
Accoidlng to Martin Hanson , who his just
loluined fiom thu Slocan country to the
Co'ur d'Alenes. Kaslo is desci ted and Ihure
is nothing al that point to suslain n popula
tion of 100 people. The piospccts on the
Duncan river aie all low gudu , and the
same Is true of iho Laido itgion. Hausen
sa > silicic is nothing bovond thu Amci lean
line to got oxcilcd over Tlio great piospects
only consist of colors , and nol a single
prominent discovery bus been made.
licit Knrd of Lime Spur bus been In the
city dm lug the past few days , sajs the
Ilutto Miner. Ho is Interested In thu new
di edging pi ocess for scooping up gold fiom
the o irs of Die Jefferson , and is umlidcnt of
Ihe ultlmale suui > ss of the undertaking
U he i ompiny bus now been oper.Ulnir the
machine about a jear and has demonsti.ited
Ihe practicability of thisel.issof mining
It Cuict Coldt , Coufhi Sort Throat , Croup , Influ
enza , Whooping Couf h , Bronchitu and Aitbma.
A certain curt for Coniumption in flrit itagei ,
and a turn rtlltf la advanced itagea. U at one * ,
You will § the excellent ttfect after taking the ,
or t dot * . Sold ky dealcri e trywh e. Large
kettles 60 cecli and SI.00.
For washing1 Dishes ,
there's nothing Kkc Pearlinc ,
Why lun t you begin the
of it in thnt way , if
're on ; ; of the timid
s who still think that
earlinc " eats the
u ? " Then ou can
year or two. ntu test t n
everj' way , until you become convinced that Pcarline can't
do any harm. But it won't cat your dishes , that's sure , It
won't clog up the sink pipes , cither , as soap does. And
that cloudy effect that you've probably noticed on cut glass
and china when it's washed with so.ip that won't be there if
you wash it with Pcarline. >
Ccki A rcdillen and ome unscrupulous Riocers will tell you " this is M good as"
Ocntl. or "the simc M Pcarline. " IT'S FALSE I'citlinc it nc\cr peddled ,
. ,
- * and if sends - In I'nrhne ,
I- your itroccr you -inmelking jiluce ol ho
14 BaCK honeil-Wi/Air * . < 12 JA.W.S PYLF , .Vr Yo.k.
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