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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1895)
I _ - - - . - _ . - - _ . - , -i- - - - - - . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ' - -r F ! 1 , , TIlE 01\rAIIA DAILY nEE : ODNAY , JANUARY 21 , 1895. r - - - - - I PULSE OF WESTERN PROGRESS'r Remarkable Properties and SUDcnor Qual.Wh iy of Wyoming Oil. - REFINERY TO BE EUILT AT CASPER CrcIdo R R nolt Cntl-loloW Metnl ( it- \11 Htchor , 1rtth jIcnaRca- J.tkclhUUt of flu ! ruplol of Ut JIlLflIcr-01u3F11) ) " 'cscrn No' s , The long'hoped.for tmo has arrl'elwlt'n W'omlng ois are to he put to practical use : the lhln end at the wedge of development has been driven In , and trom now on we believe thaI our splendid country will gain the recognition II deserve from capitalists , liars the Douglas News , and thaI ) they will wake tip to the & tact thaI fabulous returns may Le realzoll tram conservative Im'est- ments In the resOUrces ot our wonderful state. The railroad ofcials who passed through town on the way to Casper the other day have made arrangements with the oil company - pany to build a refnery al Casper and to SUPPlY the Denver ) & Gul railroad system with lubricating oil , which means thaI the 'V'omlng Ilrolluel will bo used from Orin m Junction 1 the Gulf ot MexIco This Is n good beginning toward the development ot our magnificent oil fiElds , and should prove ot Immense benefl nol only to Casper and viciniy , but to the whole of central Wyo- ming. The natural oils found In these ( fields . are superior to any In the world , or any mnufacturell , for lubricatng purposes , and the powerful oppositIon of the Standard Oil trust has hitherto been the sole harrier 01 their dovelopment. When samples of this I oil were sent east for analysis , oi anal'sls experts re- tused to believe II was entirely natural and . thaI no animal oil had IJen blended with II. The Galena oil welis. from which the Stanl- ard trust obtains alt its heavy oil , must be llenllell ) wIth expensive sperm oil to make cylinder , spindle and all high grades of lu- bricatng ole These welts only produce about prollce 1G8 barrels of oil per day with which to supply . : ply the whole United States with lubrtcatIn , oil. The consequence Is thaI much : light illuminatIng oil must bo blended WI1 ! un1mal i oils to supply the demand. With Wyoming - crude oil a locomotive will run 100 miles to ; sixty miles whilst using manufactured oil , , and this can h verified by nlfltlarlts. The : Wyoming oils contain no naphtha or petroleum - leum and arc so heavy that they need only refining to become superior to any manutac- tured oil for cylinder and spindle I I , brlcators , The oIl hell stretches over an Immense ler- ritory and the proper development of this nllng. Industry means millions invested II Wo- GOLD IN cnEEDE OnES. For sOle weeIts past rumor has been busy with reports ot the Increased amount of . , gold In the Creele ores , showing a grallual I change In their valuel as depth was renched In the leading prollucers. In its review for 1891 I the Dachelor Seltnel maltes this matter - ter prominent , declaring thaI the Creede ot today Is n gold , lead. copper and sliver pro ducing camp All the additional metals are bere and In paying quantities. The year 1895 , therefore , promises to outrival those previous , and whie the sliver Industry : languishes attention will be given to the new S finds ot 1894. The gld values are helng found al depth In the ohler ' properties and In ii : new sections of the distrIct nol prospected , ovel : prior to 1894. The copper finds are In a * section Prospected BOttle fourteen years ago and researched last year. ' In the LIsl Chance , al the eIghth level I , (900 ( feel deep ) regular daily shipments are being made from a five-foot vein ot sulphide ore thaI not only returns from 200 to 400 sliver per ton , but also from two t' tour ounces In gold. In tile Amethyst next adjoining 1- joining on the north , from tIm lower workIngs - tugs Is being shipped a very high grade sil i- sl- ' t "er ore and also producing several ounces . : . gold to every ton. , il In the Happy Thought , one of the 5- propertes at the United Mines company , at a depth of 600 feet the depll returns showed over 100 ounces sliver und $8,20 In gold per toc . At the present workings , 700 feet deep , the ; returns are much higher In silver , two or three ounces In gold and 30 to 40 per cenl lead 10 the ton On Fischer mountain itI twelve mies In an air line south of Jim- town , the JUllson Tunnel company has opened up a genuine gold proposition . This company Was organize to operle a tunnel site and 1 crlseul the formation ot the mounlala wIth the purpose l cut a contact be1eved by eminent expert to exist thereon. Aftc r running through slide for 200 feet they encountered - countered porphyry carrying gold , and up to I date they have run 360 feet Into this porphyry and are nol through yet. Assays have run from $2 to $110 ! ell per ton and the entli ro body wi average $ per ton Such a entro tain ot gold ot course Is something curse somethlnl surprls- log to a company that was -p developing tor a silver proposition exclusively. RICH OnE AT LEADVILLE. All along the gold bell there Is the greate St activity noticeable. Ground thaI geatesl years lain Idle Is being located , says a Lea d. vie special to the Denver Times , and It Is doubtful I there Is a single fraction In the gold bell section that has nol been locate d. In the older gold propertIes work Is being . . pushed ahead a fast as possblo whlo ) nine --.r shaft holes are to be found on the ( recent bc a- tons. ! Amid the gold excItement , develo t gld exciement development - mont of Lice numerous sliver and lead nUlerous slver propc cr- ties Is nol lost sight ot , and work Is being pushed ahead on the same old standbys thaI added such a handsome quota to the yeac 's output. In fact , II Is the shiver mines thaI are al present employing the bulk ot the men and are turnhhlng employment to those ' who have to make their living here . In lhe gold bell the bulk of development worle has yet to he done , The S gold-ore chute lies at an - average depth ef 400 to 600 feet , and II v , lll .f require time and the expenditure ot much : . money for this preparatory work. The water ProPosition , a was epected , han been encountered In the flex , and al a depth of 250 feel II was found necessary anl to prepare to pump The fact that the dl Ia- . mend drill had encountere'j the ore body wa nol forgotten , hence a pumping plant was at once ordered all Is bell ! placed In positon , In addition to this shal these people ire sending down Rex No 2 shat which is located GO feet north ot No. 1 alcott , and Is being sent down as fast as posible. The lessees on the Double Decker propert ty are doIng very nicely. In drifting from the V1 100-fool level they have opened up a very geol ore body , amys from which run as hIgh as forty Dunces gold 'fhe vein Is a geol one and development work ironci sea very excellent results. A CALIFORNIA COAL MINE. S In nil Ilrohablly the coal deposIts which cave been known to exist . , . - In the Sherwood t- valley , on n southerly fork of Eel rIver v i11 wi be actively worlel before the close of 'I 1ie coming year , says the San Francisco Chronicle. About tour year ago J. B. Flood , having lBco\'orel a vein of coal commenced opera- tons on quite an extended scale. 'A sic aft was sunle and a tunnel Into the vein was en m. mencC ! , but , after spending soma 50C 00 , operatona ceased. Since then nothing ha I boon done until recently. A company ha I ' - ' ben formed wih the Intcnton of fully develOping . " ; : veloplng the mlno. Surveys for n rairoad frm the mine to 1rorl Bragg have been rn ado mao all a contract hn bfen let to build the ro ad. The Ilrelartons for breaking ground are aboul comllleto and iciatericils for build lug and rails for laying the ( neck have ben shipped to Fort . ' shlld Bralg. Everything beIng In readincu , no doubt operations will com- men e as soon as the rains cease. The vein I. from thirteen to fourteen feet S thick , so far as has been discovered , and I Is siuate\ about forty mies from Fort lragl In Sherwod valley , on a southerly fork : at Eel river IrLOHENCE'S OnEAT GAB WELl. , FollowIng close upon the recent opening ot an IllenBO gusher with a flow comparing In every respect ) with the typical l'ennsylva- nla oil well comes the news that a gas wel the wonder ot lice Florence oil field , wa struck by the United Oil company at ecU . No. 8f , three mlel south of thIs city sa wel ' . . , . Florence special to the Denver News , , 01 men say I f nol A Colorado well , or ' like those heretofore obtained here but mort C' like an ealtern gas well , a the quantity and pressure are so great. I I. claimed this well Is producing eum. dent gas to heat a city the size 01 I'uebl The raring or the gas when confined to I a threo-Inch l'lJ ' lay be heard a quarter ot a wlo from lice well . Ties dlaCver ) of tht well cacaos much for . , . S S : -S S. Florence l 1 t manufacturing city. The gas wi l be Piped to town and utilized . g FORTIIMES IN I3IACbC FOnTUNFS D.ACIC SAND The Jicalll mlnln camp II located on the north aide of the Jlcrln mountains , abut twelro miles from lice well known camp of White Oaks , New Iexlco. During the spring of 1894 1 new discovery WI made In lo Oulch and R placer deposit wa opened lp whIch ran about $2.60 to the ton , the deposit was from four to eight tel dee p and averaged rortY'lvo feet In width Afer this discovery the gulches which pros- pec ted gold were all located , ali Prosfish ably days , writes a correspondent of the Denver Mining Record , the population of the camp rose from fifty to nearly 100 men. all working placers The method employed In the extraction at gold Is by the use of sm all dry washer greatly resembling the tan ning mill In Use before the invention . or the threshing machlno. These machines each handle about two tons of dirt per day , and sao from 35 to 60 per cent of the gold , but lese all the black sand ; the black sand runs ab out $60 to the ton , and Is about 1 per cent of the weight of the pay strealt. At the present ( line there Is a large com- pny located In the lower end of Ancho gu lch , and the representatIve of the company , Mr , F . MelOnle , Is businly engaged In erect- ) Ing buidings and developing the claims pre- p3ratory to the ( placing of I McKinley dry concentrator on the ground to handle the placer ground on a large scalchlndlng fifty tons of the dirt In ten hours al an average expense of 76 cents per yard. LOOKS I'Ol AN ImUPTION. Colonel l.'red O. Plummer has made ex- tonsh'o researches and collected data which shows beyond quoton that the big moun- tain peaks In the norlhwe8 have been vol- canoes In the memory of people yet living , nnd this Is why Colonel 1I11ner ' t111nlts that 1olnl Hsnler I lIkely to break out again al any time , nays lie Tacoma News , Among this mass of data Is the story of John Ilaton , - nn Indian now living , that he wltnessel an eruption of the mountain In the ear 1820. I was accompanied by fire , noise and earthquake. lie hal heard from older members of his tribe thaI thIs had happened many tmes , lie hal also seen fires from : Iounl alter , and a tradition of his race Is to the effect thaI this mountain was much higher and lint a tremendous eXllloslon threw down the entire south side , The presenl , shape and condition ot the mountain confirm lhls story. conlrm An old historian , nev. Samuel Parker tells S thaI h " ( ho Indians say they have oren Been fir es In the chasms of Mounl hood , Tlkl , the fir st chief 01 the Dales Indians , who Is a man of more than ordinary talents , said that he hal oren seen fire In the fissure of the rocks In the mountnlns. " Settlers of Whatcom county have oren seen 1ounl Btleer In a state ot erupton , In January , 1853 , persons living down the sound could dIstinctly see a long black streak on the southwest slope ot Mount Baker , which was variously estimated at from 1.000 to .OOO tel In whitli. I was several months before the mass of lava cooled so as to receIve the fallug snow. In 1861 , the people al Port Ludlow saw Mounl OympuB , In the Oympo ! range , In er uption. On Sunday June 27 , 1869 , at .bout 8:30 : . o' clock p. m. , quite a severe earthquake shocle wa fell at Seattle. Very little damage was done , although dishes were thrown from pantry shelves and many people were startled by the sharpness ot the shoele. slarled In the slimmer of 1893 Tacoma received n Devera shock which the motion of chande- lers h hung OD hooks showed came from the directon or Mount Hanler. Should there be a very violent eruption ot ' Mounl Hanler there would be no danger In T acoma. The mountaIn Is too tar away- torty-tour mies , PompeI and Herculaneum were almost ' al the tool ot Mount Vesuvius. WhITE METAL IN UTAH I Is very doubtful , says the Sail Lake Her- a id. I Utah's sliver production In ounces will I wi show any decrease from that of 1893. although , or course , there wl be a great reduction ot values. Some of the most conservative s melting and mining men of the terrItory place the toll considerably above terriory , , ( fao ounces. In thIs they are borne out by the t annual statement 01 the smelers , With lhe exception ot thaI ot the Pennsly'anla , these all show Increases In the production ot t the whIte metal , and while many of the I former producers have close . down , the regulars - lars l , whose outputs are nol included tn the smeler reports , have sent theIr productloz skyward. producton A. Hanauer , jr. , Is accepted as an author Iy i on the territorial production ot the metals , and that gentleman has fixed the 189f sl- ver output between the 6,000,000 And 6,600,000 ounce marks One at his reasons for placing the figures so high Is the Increase shown by : the smelers and the great Ontario , which Is I always given credit for producing In the neighborhood of one-sixth ot the entire Utah i output. These four statements give a total of 4.676.259.18 , fine ounces . the lanauer being credited with 723,650 ounces lho Ontario 1,385,828,18 ounces the Oermanla 1,358,37 4 ounces , and the PennsylvanIa 1,368,37 , , ounces , The other Independent shippers Wi Ii ' certainly turn out nol less than 1,600,000 ounces. ON Till ) UPPER COLUIIA , Mr. C. F. D. llaskell , who was sent out by Captain Symons , United States engineers , with I party to make a topographical survey ot the Upper Columbia from the mouth ot the Okanoan down to nock Island rapids lie LB complete the tasl and returned to work up ' hIs notes In Captain Symons' ohflce. lays the Portland Oregonian. The party has been oul three months , and although Its work was through a comparatively rough and uc iia selted country , Mr. laskel says II wa the mosL pleasant campIng trip he ever ha cI. The party hitched tents on I rafl 20x24 tel and gichiyhloated > down the broad Columbia , except on a few occasions when rapids were shol and Ice water swept over the raft and made things Interestng , The party took levels and measurements , Eoundlngs few ot water etc. , and made careful surveys al ill 11 points where II may be desirable 10 Improve the channel. The distance covered w. . as eighty miles. wa Al the mouth of the Otnogan ! Is siuated VIrginia City , but for some distance below tbo blur comes near the river and there arc but few selers , On the Mothow rIver there Is considerable avaiable land and some setUe- mets , but the chief industry of thaI secUon Is mining The next place ot any Imllrtanc Is Clieian situated on a lake a few miles back from the river and 300 tel above It At the EnUal rIver , twenty miles below the crossing or the Oreat Northern rairoad : , there Is quite a settlement. Wanatchee , the nexl place below Entiat . Is quite a ettl le- meat , there being over 200 Inhabitants In Inhabiants the lawn , From thIs down to Rock Island rapids , tea miles , lice country opens out and there are about 30,000 acres of avaiable land along the river 10,000 acres beIng talc on up and the remainder In the hands of\the government and the Northern PaelOo Ita ii- road company. nai. SOUnCES OF OnEGON There are singular thIngs In Oregon. The state has only just begun to be developed I and its cItizens tel many queer tales ot the t possibilitIes of the country James M. Ti er- ney one ot lle best known citizens of Portland - land , told a New York Sun reporter who visited thaI city early lasl tall thaI on more than one , occasion fishermen hall gene cUt tram Astoria and sailed oul 10 some Icberg thaI was gloating 110wn from Alasca and actually hal chopped frozen fish from Its I sides , which were afterward sold In the markets - kets The fish were found 10 be preson red ' . perfectly and brought goo prices , the expense i - penso ot freight from Alaska having ben ; saved. save Icir Turney added : "No one has any adequate idea of the I richness or Oregon. I has been proved thaI she distances both CalifornIa and Washington In the quality of her fruits. We are doing an enormous minIng business , and ice ( at ale fairly teems with gold and silver. Our lu m- her cannot be surpassed . and there are no more fertile valleys In the world than those which are only hal known even to ouraelv Os. When ice mouth of the ColumbIa river I becomes - comes improved WB shall b In a position to draw commerce away from San Irranclsco and the Puget sound , and. with our superior shIppIng faclUea : from Porland , we sic La to the front wtth great . shal cme wih rapidiy. Oregon - gen has no superior l a state The dim ; clmate and sol are unsurpassed , and the hard tin es have been felt less In our state thl p'robahly any ather. Our growth I steady and healthy , and we are bound to get our share . ot immlgralon , because there Is no more agreeable place In the world to live than In the state 01 Oregon " IO\VA. Mrs. Duval , who lived near Manson , ras killed al Delmond by the cars. 'as Cerr Gordo county Is consIdering the p rePOSition - , POSition to erect . now court house to est UOOOOO , 11rector 01 the Independence 'Driv hog cub Jave elected officers for the rear and . . dec ided to oler ' . ,000 In prizes It the August meetng , N ashville PStOfCD was robbed of thp mal and $00 $ worth ot gods taken from the atoro adJoining E : rick Anderson or Algona was killed by n fall ing pOle while watching a tree being pul led up near tha\ place. H. I V. Heed's store al 0001 was entered by burglars and a quantity of goods stolen Derl ! ulerleld has been arrested. Men and bars Ire openly violating the fsl law on the Coon river shooting acid spearing the fish In great quanttes , An 01 settler's reunion of the older residents - dents ot Hamion county Is t be hel on Washln ton's birthday at Webster City , Blackhawk county supervisors are dlcl ' - lag the advisability of issuing $100,000 woi tic ot bonds with which to build a new court house ali jai at 'Waterloo. Dr , Wake of the State Agricultural college mallo an examination ot some dairy cows al Charles City and found sixty out ot 125 to be Infecte with tuberculosis. All were kie The Jury In the case of the State of Iowa agalnl A. Ouegel on trIal al Carroll , re- turnell a verdict of assault with intent to commi manslnughter. Ito will sere ten yers In the penitentiary I at Anamosa Philip Kuntz , who was arrested al Ureen- lel some months since , on informatIon swor out hy a nel hbr. John Jones , who charged hIm with the burning of aha ) sta ck . was acquitted In the Adair county Ilstrlcl court. Mr. Jones , the prosecuting wines , swore on the stand thaI while the hay stacIe was smouldering he saW Kuntz fan the blaze with his hal 10 make II bur QUlclter , NEIIItASICA. I ndlanola has been troubled with an un- usual number of cases of petty thieving D. ! Sherwood and wife of Ponca wi eelth eb rate their golden wedding on February 10. Mrs. Adelaide Cross ot Omaha ts ellevor- Ing to arrange to organize a Woman's club al Cliatirouc Dy the overturning of a teapot the little son of 3. F' , Jaeger ot Chadron was badly scalded about the face and necle. Money that ( had been collected by the Con- gregatonal church al Crete for the 11urpose of relief was stolen from the church S W . W. I.lchty's store al Carleton was en- I tered by burglars and five dozen watch chains , five dozen gold ring and other art- ces taken . There I only one inmate of the Dixon county per house , and the Ionca Journal suggests thaI the building be transformed Into a tanning lactory. Wiiam Daclunan has taken a cofn all the way from Sl. Iaul Into luralo county for his mother. Ibis mother at last report was nol In need ot a cotn , WIllie Schoeneck ot Scribner is confined conlned to his bed by typhoid fever , and taking ad- vnlage of this fact somebody stole a stacIe ot about six tons of hay from him. Blair Odd Fellows have made a large shlp- lent of clothing and also about 40 pounds of lour and some corn meal to the destitute members ot their ord In the southwest part of thl state. Billy Drown of Schu'ler , Shonka Brothers'C tin ner , Is highly Indignant. le was accosted by three unknown men the other night , who stool him on his head In the ditch. lIe has , a wound on his nose. nev w. H. Sparlng announced to the conS gregaton at Wtnslde that a rector would be i senl to take charge ot the Episcopal church L before the second Sunday In February , and I thaI he would , therefore , nol visit the church L ag ain. Henry Harris broke Into the house of J. E. Colns , tour miles southwest of Odel , whlo C lho owner and his wife were away trom I ho me. He stole a quantity of clothing , bul t was speedily captured with the stolen goods ! In his possession. He pleaded guilty , and i was bound over 10 the dlslrlct courl. THE DAKOTAS. A comedy company has just been organize al Fort Mende Canton made $50,00 worth of Improve ment ! during 189t. The Burlington railroad Is shipping coal 1 tor thd needy Into Elkton and IUchland tree of trelghl. A car load of Dorsel horned sheep passed ' through Huron a few days ago , to be pu t o n the ranches along the Missouri river 'I Military authorities at Fort Meade hay placed a patrol or troops around the mitary r thieves eservation , to prevent depredations ot tmber There are nlneton wells now being used useh for irrigation purpose In Brute county , South D abcota , the average length ot the dllches f rom each wel beIng thirteen mies , C. M Del noW has one of the finest ar- teslnn wells In the state on his place near luron , I Is a three-Inch well , 800 teel , deep , with a flow ot about 30 glens pr' ' 'mlnuto and good pressure. The Arlington Sun says that old horses aceudomed to gaIn have nol this wlnler been able to stand life upon the prairie , but thaI young horses have been prosporlng nicely. Those who have pasture old horses are arranging either to bur them or to lake them home. Arrangements have been made for holdirid f armers' Institutes al the following time and places : January 10 and 11 , al Vermiion ; 1 an& 16 , at Howard ; 17 and 18 al Farn 5- worth ; 22 and 23 al Groton and Ilbank ; also al Turton and Wheaton on the 22d ; 24 , 26 and 26 , al Drlln ; 29 and 30. al Ashton ; ; February 1 , al Ipswlch ; 2 and 3 , al Eureka Since the opening or time holy Terror mu rio a t Keystone the town hA been getting ready 10 boom and ' O1 Is booming Keystone ; teay Is the liveliest camp hi the count .y , and resembles the palmy days ot ' 76 at Redwood , A thousand people are living at the camp , In houses , sheds , tent and barr and real estate and mining property Is on the boom. Lots which a few weeks ago were considered worthless are now aelng ; al $ ,000. The excitement has attracted men from nearby every part of the United Stntes , and thee indications are thaI the Soulhern equalled. 111115 are on a boom thaI never before wa WYOMIO , A claim on the Four Mile placers near nawlls was sold for $6,000. Twenty 11on have been leI out ' al the Evanston shops and sixteen al Rawlina. nanchmen In the Big Horn basin are now paying In the neighborho or $25 for every wol pelt brought A new mi Is to be put In on Bald mor In- tam ln , near SherIdan , In the spring by the I ortunatus Mining company. W S. Stratton , the Cripple Creek mine manager , has decided against Sunday wc irk hI any ot the properties under his control , Ore from the second level ot the Due Bird mine , Cripple Creek , I I yielding , ' inlets Olr lots , front seven to twelve ounces In gold per ton. A Bit horn Basin caleman diatribul Led this fall $80 worth of strychnine to all ranchmen who would apply , and II has been used for the purpose of Itllng wolves and coyotes A ranchman near Lush killed an antelope the other day and sprlnlted some strychnine on the body , 'The next morning ho wen I out 10 the body and found six large grey wolves dead near al hand. Copper Rock , Boulder county , hal had I rather a stormy experience with a co-i op. eratve mining compsny which knew nothing about mining , but was very expert al dodging Is bis , The experiment Is closed. The coal strike al Marshal has ended , The men were given an increase of 6 cents , makIng the rate now G : cents per ton for mining. A promise of another advance was ale made when the railway switch Is built to the mines. The Dell Pine lode San Miguel county , belonging to the Ophlr company , has ben leased and bonded to Thomas T. Mahoney for the big sum ot $100,000 The duration of the leas 11 for one year , but the lessee hI the option of extending this to fifteen months , with Incased royaltes , The Cripple Creek Morning Times states that the latest bonanza discovered In the camp are locate on Bull ll , and nit have been found In the Ilhonolte 4Ilkes. The American Eagles , 1 and 2 , the Favorite , and several ether strikes of lesser note have been made In three dIkes since the first of ( lee year.A , A lasca Blanca miner just rrtumed from camp lisa brought wIth hll a quantity ot specimens from his mine In Arastra gulch Assays show the bed ore to run $400 In gold and $0 to $30 1 silver per too ; lie Is In forty feet , and th ore grows rIcher with every toot lie li an experienced mIner and a. Cool-heeded , practical wan , and predIcates . his faith In the nW 4inp on the good rem i luls actually obll cp lie hu explored I Bia nca thoroughly anclilcas Dlanc , ihl found abundant erhlenc of an Jmmpn' true fissure vein therun ning for miles through the range , which , wit h proper developm 1'1 , will yield millions ot both gold and al V" . I John Shaw of lart'le has In Ills pos- sNlslon A number Ofs pQlh ! specimens ot on yx. About 1 montl , Ago he made the tB$8 covery close to the Ulrli.le Iron belt , and trace It tour miles. I lies between the ImestoM and Inl1st o' under about 100 tot ot rocl Aboul cap twenty tons no cxad po sed. . pose. " M The Cburn , located on' the south slope of Minerai ll , has every Ippearanc of a mi ne. A wagon road Is' being bui to thIs lat est discovery A shar , has been sunk to n depth of thlrly.lvo feet ' In a big blow-out anl1 there Is ore 0" all , sides and In the bot6m of I. which averages . tram two to three ounces In geld , N.V. , Savage ot Durango has purchased n one-third interest lu the hull Domingo mine , located near La Plata city , for which he paid $3,000. The Bull Domingo has not had very much work performed on I , but the showIng Is excellent , and the owners consldlr II I valuable property th ore be- , Ing worth from $225 to $500 per ton ; The coal output for 1894 from this camp wi tall about 3,000 cars , or G6OOO tons short of 1893 , says the Hock Springs Miner. The only explanation Is that during last summer the demand for conunerclal coal was exceeIngly light , Besides this , the Utah and M Iontana smelters continued running on short ( li ne , owing to the low llrlce ot white letal , A bright outlook Is II view for the coming ) 'ear , however. The colony of Wheatand Is now abut nine months old , but already there are In the neighborhood of 200 ralles located lu the town and , 'aie ) The ( own Is a llros- po rous and growing community , with sub- st antial brick business blocks and dwellings. There are two hotels , two general lerchan- dlso stores , which carr large stocks , two hardware stores , many smaler establishments an,1 every evidence ot a lively and growIng we stern clt ) Uncle Sammy Martin , living up on State ereele , claims to be the champion petal raisr of Wyoming , and wlthoul any great exerton on his part either , say" the Green Iver Star. lie took out an Irrigation ditch las t spring , and having a few Reed potatoes ler over , ho though ho would drop I few alan ! the banks of lie ditch Ito neither culivatel nor irrigated his spuds , and , In fact , paid little attention to them. Iu lice fal l he puled UI a few ot the vines and was greatly surprIse to find attached the Inrgest and finest potatoes he hall lever ( se en. They were Emooth , uniorm In size and mealy , and Mr. Martin estmates thaI they would go about 1,000 bushels to the acro. OnEGON. A colony of Nebraska people has arrived al Independence , to settle on Polk county fa rms. S The Virtue mine's December output has ar rived In Baker Clt ) ' . It Is n big bal ot gold and weighed out about $17,000 George and Jmiles Curry ot Euchre creek , Curry county , have Idle seven bears , and hava saved twenty gallons of fine oil , which they are selling 01 a bit a pound. P. A. Stewarl's black sand mine , al Gold B each , has panned down untIl II Is In fine shape , and they are shoveling sand In a hu rry. The gold Is very coarse , and accumuf lates rapidly upon the plates The deeds for the new railroad subsidy have h been fed In lie county recorder's ofco al Astoria. There are 268 of thel , and the l estlcceated value of , the property trans- ferred reaches up into ' millions. The latest sensation al Astoria Is a sliding m ountaIn . which appears to bo traveling toward thee bay. Fqur Qr five houses have been moved a dIstance of from two to five bfe lve fe et . and In one instance I dwe1ng was topple over so that the slightest Jar will send II tumbling down . ' The Lakevlew Eximin r gives a account of rabbit drIves In lbit section . which re : suted In the slaughter ot 3,600 jack rab- b its. , The rodents had become so trouble- some In destroying ! crop ; and gardens that the residents formed a 'comblnaton to surround - > I round a large extent of country and drIve them Into a corral , where they were kied , Stock Inspector MilWrof Lone Rock In- llifr" 'forms the Conlon ' 0 lobe t t the number of I shcep In Oliam countyls 138,183 ; number of bands , slxty-elghl. There Is less disease among . sheep In the county Iln for years , I there t being one band affected with scab , and the sheep of thIs have been carefully dipped I and are almost cured. Mr. Mier says sheepmen generally are In better spirits tbls y ear - than last. The need for quiche and cheap communi- calon up and down the Oregon coast was , never better demonstrated than al present ! Wih a large output of wool In Curry county : , anl the shipping the past season of tram torty to fifty tons of wool , there Is a scarciy : of wool al the Dandon woolen mills , and Dandon Is now importing wool from Snn Francisco by schooner to enable the mill to run. Owing to lack ot communicatIon along the coast , southwestern Oregon cannot supply lbe wool market at Dandon , as It Is cask and cheaper to ship to San Francisco , 300 : miles away than 10 Dandon , whIch Is but a tew miles dIstant. Thus Curry county ships Is i wool product 1 San Francisco , and lIar don Imports I tram San FrancIsco instead of f tram Oregon ports direct W ASHNOTON , Spokane built 400 houses In 1894 , at a cost of something Iko $760,00. The Monte Crlsl mines will issue $60,000 ) In bonds for development work John Robin of Caste Rock cut 20,198,000 ( shIngles with his one sIngle-hand machine during the year 1894 Chebals county put out In 1894 about Si ; , - 000,000 feet of lumber a gaIn of 20,000,000 over 1893. The slllngle output will reach nearly 100.000,000. Doth values wIll aggre" gate 10000000. Tom Cannon and n couple of companions 1tled eighteen deer whlo on a two or three days' hunl up lIce Enlist recenty , Fou r- ten at Ice deal animals decorated \Vater- - yule butcher shop. During the month at 'December the E\'erett ' smelter shipped bullion to the amount ot $107,000 The product for the month Included 3,000 ounces or gold GOOOO ounces ot shy or anti 600,000 pounds ot lead A memoria ! prepared by the county coc i- mlsslonera of Okanogn , ha been sent to congress - gross , praying for an appropriation 01 $25,0 too for the cleaning ot the Okanogn rIver fro irn its confluence with the Columbia to Osooyoos lake , on the British Ino , At Eberton a contract for 60,000 tamarack railroad ties has been signed by the heal officials of the Oregon Railway & Navlgalon ompany with 0 E. Averill. 1 Is also roe ported thaI large amounts of lumber a ad i brIdge materials wIll be required. I Despite fourteen Inches of snow , se\'enty- five 1uyalup Indians turned out to center with the 1uyalUI ) Indian commissioners al 'acoma , regarding the sale ot the rosen , lon school rarm. Mosl 'of them came to the t meetng on horseback or In wagons The luyalup Indin Qmmlsslon , In sesBlon on the ( Sound , has annonced thallI will have a large Ilarl 01 the I uY/lup reservation ready for sale by spring. ' ( wel'o thousand. acres can be sold , after retlnlng a small homestead - stead for each 1ndtn , , ! The ( ethic ot pay- m eat will 0 onothlrd cash and the balance Ii I In five Annual Installments , bearing G per i cenL interest. Imery Ilogers has leased the boom ot the Ietnghnm Hay Boom compln ) ' , At the 10uth of the Nookslck rIver , and the river Is oren so steamers can reach l'cnllale , Mr Rogers has taken 250,000 feet of the logs out of the rh'er. The company claims \0 \ have pent $8 0,000 on ( hue bm. antI to ha"l done more to keep the rIver open than the government. There are In the state some thirty-five Oourlng mills that do custom grinding , all In adllton tlcro are a dozen or so small mills thaI confine themselves to local busIness , exchange - change and feed grinding. The daily ca- pa city of the state mills will reach about 7I0 barrels per day , or something over 200- 000 barrels Iler month. There Is nt Present ported nbout 50,000 barrels per month , which Is about 25 11r cent ot the capacity of the mills , and this amount could easily be doublCl I icroler carrying capacity were aVllable , As an evidence of what is looked for tn the way of eastern lumber business , I Is stated thaI the Iorl lakelo ) mi , which has heretofore - to tore cut excusive ! for the cargo traiI , ' ill enter the trade ns a conipetitor for eastern - ern business. In order to do this I will be ntcesslry to expend somcthln Ite $25.000 for tralurer facilities. This the PorI Iake- Ie ) peol10 are said to ho cheerful ) doing. The St. Paul & Tacoma mi his nn order thll Is sO\ewhat of a departure In Puget so und business , alt the flattering hart or the IleprlUre ts lint the order Is to go to Ice fr ' ast I Is for 100,000 of gutters ' , and caves , the cut being from clear fir. Tim sluI Is to g to Buffalo , Provlleuce and other eastern clte.MISCEI.l.ANEOUS. MISCEI.l.ANEOUS. Utah's silver product for 18H Is given as 6,000,000 fIne ounces The Barren will CRse now on trial al Sn Jose , Cal . involves $2,000,000. On the first of the month eighty men were discharged front the railroad shops nl Ioctelo , Cause , nothing for them to 110. Miller , lice Nevada cattle king , drove 800 heal1 of steers into Mason valley to reel last wetk , There are 1,200 more to be driven In later , The largest copper smeling plant In the worh Is al AIIColla , About. . ali they gel every ounce of their ore out of the Butte Iln0 owned by thaI compan During No'ember the total Income of lice Do Lamar llnlng company , Idaho , reached $ i8,200 , while Ice expenses were $3i ,013 , leaving the estimated profit al H,18i I Is stated on reliable authority that the lec09 Valley railroad wi commence work In a short tme and run their line from n0 w ell to Albuquerque , passing through Jlcar- ia dlstrlcl. The gngleharll1 Gold Extraction company of Denver has decided to bull a twent-ton Pl ant near Prescott , Ariz. Mr. Englehardt has h just returned from a survey ot the slua- lon at thaI point The Drum I.ummon mine or Montana Is rate as lIce richest gold ! maine In that state The new smelnl plant nl Silver City , N. M" , I being pushed toward completon as rapidly as possible The bIg cut In the wages of the emplo'es of the Southern Pacific company went Into elecl on the 1st. I was the heaviest and mosl m general cut ever put Into effect b ) the Souther Pacifc com pan ) Montamict's mineral product for 1894 Is as folows : Gold , H. OOOOO : silver , $11,000,000 ; copper , $16.500,000 ; lead , $1,000.000 ; total , $ ,000.000. . This Is a splendid showing , es- pecialy In the copper Industry. Among lontana mlnlnl men I Is supposed thaI copper mining will receive an additional boom thIs year , because ot the copper com- blno now being formed , which II Is believed wi advance the prIce of this metal. J. I Schultz has recently finished a 21h-lnch artesIan webb on hIs farm near Washington , N. D. , thaI flows 12,402 bar- rls of water per day. Several other wells wi be put down before spring for Irrigation . purposes. The mineral production of Idaho for 1894 Is h given as follows : Gold , $8i9.000 ; silver , $2.359.000 , and lead $3,606,000 ; nn aggregate of $6,844,000. In this calculation silver Is figured al 60 cents an ounce and lead al 3 cents a pound. There are In the neighborhood of 300 stamps hung up on account ot the low price of sliver . yet the daIly product Is 4,500 tons out of Butte mInes , not counting the custom - tom supply from other sources The Ana : conda company leads by about 2,00 tons For 189t New Mexico's mineral outpul bas nol yet been omclaly figured up but the most relable data shows gold , $1.600,000 ; silver , 250.000 ounce ; copper , $50,000. In the mIning of Iron , coal , turquoise , opals and mica there has bon a healthy in - crease during the year. During eleven mouths of the present year ! Welts , Fargo & Co. transported from King man , Ariz. , In gold bullion $11,660 and $47 , i 650 In silver bullion. The AtlantIc and Pa- cilc transported 350 cars of gold and alIve ere to eastern smelels , the aggregate value being In the neighborhood of $1,008,000. California Is soon to try an Industry thaI bs hllhCto been confined In this country : to New York Ciy-that ot whalebone-cul- ting. While much of the world's supply of whalebone Is landed In Sa Francisco from the whaling ships , II has hitherto all been : sent to New York and London to be cuI for use The question ot confirming the sale of the Oregon Pacific road Is before the court The purchase price was only $100,00. whie there are claims for labor materials and rocelvers' certificates aggreatng over $1,000,000 against the road The holders of the receivers' certificates strongly 01100 lhe confirmation. Word comes from San Bernardino ranch In i iIt the mountains near Tombstone , Arlz" , thaI a number of Apache Indians are In the vIcinity , camping along Sycamore creek , about fifteen mies from lice ranclu ro. Now thaI Fort Bowlo has been abandoned and settlers are no longer afforded protection from that source , the savages : are becoming bolI , and ranchers are alarme Campfires are seen nightly , and the redskins do nol lieu ! - tate about showIng themselves : ; Negotiations for the transfer of coal mini al flock SprIngs , Wyo. , to Chicago capitalsts have culminated In the acquirement ly II. F I , Lawrence representing a syndicate , at 940 acres ot coal land aced Its other property from the Hock Springs Coal company for $150,000. The Sweetwaler Coal company has also trail - ferred its mine to Mr. Lawrence , but the transfer has nol yet been recorded. Negta- tons are closed for the Vanlylt mines and the deal will probably be consummated abul the frll of tide year The three transfers rep- resent a transaclon ot moro than 30000. A gentleman who Is familiar wIth the plans ot the D. & M. 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