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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1897)
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : = MDNDAT , KOVElSrBEH 8 , 1807. Pulse of Western Progress. n fraJtelFffirnflir fi rr ffStrsra The discoveries of copper In the Paradox ( alley and also In the La Sal mountains re directing attention to a part of the country of which very llttlo Is known except by thd wrall number of person * who have been there , sa > s the Denver Republican. Gold discoveries also arc reported from the La Sal mountains , and that loads ono toibcllcvo that Bold will ultimately bo fouml In or near the 1'aradox valley , for the two localities seem to be closely and Intimately connected. The Paradox vnlley lies In the southwoctcrn part of the stnto near the Utah line , not many miles up the Dolores river from the point at which tliBt stream In Joined by the San Miguel , It ban Icon long known In connec tion with thu cattle ranges of that section , but It received until recently llttlo attention from miners nnd prospectors. TJio La Sol nitunlalns Ho something lll.o forty miles farther vest In Utah. They are not very far rcmcncd from the arand river , a short distance atovo Us junction with the Green. The region between these mountains and the Paradox valley la also In a largo iniiasure mountainous In Its character. The coi per leadi already discovered nre nald to be very large , nnd assays show n good percentage of pure copper. The dls- coverlw In the Paradox valley are of vaaf Importnnco If they nro like what they have 'been , represented to toe. Much the same sort of reports como from the La Sal mountains , with the addition that gold also bus been discovered there. The extreme western part of the state will have reason to rejoice It ono or more good mining camp ? are estab lished along the Colorado-Utah line In con sequence of these copper and gold discoveries. A favorite route to reach the La Sal country l from dm ml Junction over the Illo Grande Western to Cisco , thence by wagon road to Moab , n town on the Grand river , and thence across the country eastward to the Li Bat mountains. Another route from Grand Junction Is by way of the Unawceii canon , which starts from a place called White water , a short distance- south of Grand Junction on the Denver & Ulo Qrando nar row gauge line The Unawecp route takes one nearer to Paradox valley than to the I < a Sal mountains. Other routes to the Paradox valley are from Tollurldo an. < l other points along the western part of the San Juan country. IRRIGATION Tiin REMEDY. The recoids of the land olllce show that thcro In still a vast amount of lind In the far west belonging to the federal government. Tor Instance , In Colorado there IB estimated to bo over 40,000.000 In Montana ovpr 71,000 - 000 , In Idaho nearly 40,000,000 and In Oil Ifornla 43,900,000. These figures ahow that thcro la a largo part of the public domain open to settlement. iDut unfortumtcly only n small part of It Is susceptible of reclama tion by Irrigation , saja the Denver Repub lican.1iat may bo developed In connec tion wilt agriculture 'without Irrigation Is a problem for the future to solve but there sliould bo no hesitation In regard to 'the ' ipollcy that should bo pursued with refer ence to the reclamation of arid lands by Irrigation , These lands belong now to the federal government. As long as the title la In the federal government It cannot be c\peoted that the states will expend money for the rcc'amatlon of such lands. That would bo unreasonable , for the Income from salon woultl go not to the states which might make the land valuable , butte to the federal government holding the title. It follows that congress should transfer the title In such linds to the states us a step preliminary to their reclama tion Although It Is true that , In comparison to the totil area , there Is comparatively little land that may be reclaimed by Irrigation , the amount Is , nftor all , largo If considered apart from that relation. There Is room In Colorado rado , for Instance , for many thousands of people to engage In agriculture In addition to the present population connected with that pursuit. Under a system of Irrigation the tendency Is to divide lands Into email tracts and from that It foil cm a that a very dense population may bo maintained In an lirlfiated district. Thus thcro la not a valley In thla state which could not sustain twice as many people as It now contains and there are thousands of acres that have not 'been ' "brought " under cultivation , besides thousands more that , although susccptifblo ot Irrigation , are not yet under ditch. It Is Loped that the facts concerning agriculture In Irrigated regions will 'become ' generally Icniown In the east and the central west , for If that sliould bo the case It would lead to a largo initiation of Jiomeseekors to the river and mountain valleys of this state. SUGAR BEETS IN NEW MEXICO. Extraordinary attention lius boon given to sugar beet culture by the farmers of Now Mexico duilng the present year , says a cor respondent of the Globe-Democrat. The re sults obtained far surpass all expectations. From every valley In the territory samples of sugnr beets have lately been sent to the agricultural college at Las Cruces for analy sis , and Chemist Arthur Gosa is now preparing - paring an ofllclal bulletin containing statis tical Information on the subject of wide spread public Interest , not alone to the people plo of New Mexico , but to those also of southern Colorado. Texas nnd Arizona , whore the characteristics of the soil and climate ore practically Identical with the conditions governing In this territory. An analysis of twenty-four samples of sugar boots from the principal valleys of No v Mexico , according to Chemist Goss , sliovvs the beets each to average 1.61 pounds In weight and to con tain 13.18 per cent sugar. The best sugar returns were from beets grown In Cerro , Taos county. 20 3 per cept ; at Santa Fe , 17.8 per cent : at Socorro , 15 5 per cent ; at UBixwell City , 14.15 per cent. Prof. Goss re ports the best fho samples of beets analjzed at the college thus far this season * , taking two from northern Now Mexico , one from the central and two from the southern part , to show nn average of 18 per cent sugar In the Juice. Thtso results were obtained by Irrigation , from ordinary fields without extra fertilization , and are legarded as specially encouraging , since It must bo understood that the work Is entirely experimental. "Without doubt , " sajs Prof. Goss , "tho sam ples could bo greatly Improved by putting the sugar boot Industry on a business basis , and while the work has not been In progress u. sufllclent length of time to warrant the drawing of nny very definite conclusions , enough lias already been done to show that Now Mexico can produce beets exceptionally high In sugar. " In. Santa Fo valley deep popular Interest has boon taken by all clasaes of business men In tlioflo experiments , nnd the now well estab lished fact that the beets produced hero uveiwgo more tNin 3 % per cent higher in sugar than the Nebraska beets has set on foot an earnest effort to locate u sugar fac tory hero during the coming jear. Negotia tions to this end are now well under way. the attention of Chicago , Now York and London capital having been enlisted In the cotcTprise. Hero experiments with sugar licols have been carried on for four years , principally by M , J. Nagel , a former Mis souri farmer. On his ranch In the foothills near town beets planted May 30 and har vested October 20 , grown between rows of eoilcot trees , gave a return of 17 per cent sugar ; beets planted In the open , wheie thcro la no shade , he isajs , will heio readily yield 18 to 20 per cent sugar. Mr. Nagel re- cards the northern New Mexico valley as the Ideal homo of the sugar beet la the United States , and ho Is arranging to bring under Ir.lgatlon and cultivation a tract of eome 25.000 acres for the exclusive growing of bcotfi. Ho estimates tbit thcsu lands will annually produce from $10 to $60 worth of raw ; beets at on expenditure of not over $10 per jear ler ajro , The great corn and wheat states , with their heavy , black lands , wet fall seasons and lack of sunshine , says Mr. Nagel , can never hopa to make a suc cess of ralilug sugar beets In competition with tin-so vallcva of the couth west , since these experiments have demonstrated that the conditions here so generously provided Uy nature are peculiarly adapted to sugar beet culture , even to the maximum of sun shine , a most essential element. The eiuable , cool tenperaturo prevailing here Is of the highest Importance to success , und Jlr. Nugel predlcta that these favorable con ditions , when fully understood by capitalists and farmers , will eventually make these Itocky mountain valleys famous factors In tlio production of the world's sugar supply. COLORADO AN AGRICULTURAL STATE. It U a * ery common mistake , especially among people residing east , aajs the Denver JJoot Sugar Enterprlie , to regard Colorado as purely a mining state and not at all adapted to agriculture. This Is , Indeed , \ory grave error , which Is being fast cor rected In the minds of our eastern people , as they receive products of all kinds from dif ferent parts of this state and of the best quality. Apples from Canon City , peaches from Grand Junction , potatoes from Qrcclcy and many other points ; and last , but not least , melons from Rocky Ford and other points along the Arkansas river. The entire state Is an empire within Itself. Not only Is fruit of all kinds produced In abundance , but all kinds of small grain , wheat , oats , rye and barley , which yield abundantly and more pounds to the bushel than the law requires. The mineral wealth Is beyond es timate or calculation. While Colorado , by some , has been supposed to rely upon Its silver aa Its principal product , It now comes to the front and expects to take flrst place In gold production for the year 1897 , dis tancing Its formidable competitor , California , so long enjoying this position. Colorado's mineral wealth Is not confined alone to Us gold and silver , but In Iron , lead and coal It has an abundance and of 4he best. Its coal fields exist In almost all parts of the state , and much of It most excellent coking coal. The water supply Is from melted snows In the mountains pure , cool and refreshing. The climate In summer la tempered by 'the ' cool winds from the snow-topped peaks , and , as a consequence , excessive heat Is seldom known. Already wo have said enough ito convince an experienced stigar-bcot grower that Col orado Is an Ideal state for the promotion of tlio sugar-beet Industry. Ono , and only ono , "thing " icmalns to bo said , and the full list of known requirements have been enumer ated , and that Is , that sugar beets have been grown In different parts of the state for a series of jcars , and their analyses prove them to be both rich In sugar and high In co-efficient purity usually far above the general requirement of twelve nnd eighty. With water In abundance for Irrigation , Iho beets can bo started In the spring whenever - over the temperature of the soil warrants their -being planted , thus Insuring a good stand , and rapid growth , again Insuring a large tonnage , which Is allko desirable to the factory as well as the farmer. Indeed , the slzo of the beets , as well as the jlcld , can almost be regulated at will , wherever these cndltlons exist. The fine , sandy , al luvial 83oll , warmed by continuous sunshine , and Irrigation withheld , causes the beets to ripen and fill In sugar , not being subjected to rains that prove damaging to beets , caus ing a second growth. SPEAKS WELL FOR SEATTLE. On October 1C the Post-Intolllgencer pub lished nn article showing that the banks of Seattle had galnedi 02 per cent In de posits for the three months ending October 1 , 18D7 , over the corresponding period for 1S9C Since early In this year the dally bank clearances In Seattle have gained steadily day by day until , for the week ending Oc tober 30 a clear Increase of 132 per ccnl over the clearances for the same week In October. 1S3C , Ib shown. The following table shows the gain In detail. Dustoicss and flnanchl men the world over regaid the dally statements of bank clearances as the pulse of the commercial world. They Indicate SB surely as any other ono thing could possibly do the ex tent and volume of business transacted In any given community. No better evidence ottho splendid progress that has been made by the business man of Seattle exists than that given In the above table. It will bo readily conceded that while the Alaska trade Is cer tainly a factor In Seattle's steady march In the van of commercial progress , yet no ono will believe that this business Is wholly re sponsible for the magnificent showing made. At this season of the year there Is little ibelng done In thd way of Alaska outfitting , for the plain , reason that the ordlnarj chan nels of navigation are closed by the Arctic winter. Hence , the gain of 132 per cent made In a week's bus'iness since October , 1S9C , Is duo not only to the Alaskan trade , but to the gradual and steady betterment of business conditions In all lines of com mercial activity. activity.THE THE DAKOTAS. The Deadwood chrjsanthemum show was n gratifying success In every sense It was a most acceptable Innovation to Deadwcod people ple and drew largo crowds. Ono hundred and twenty-seven carloads of wheat and flax , or about 75,000 bushels , were shipped from Eureka during forty-eight hours. TJio freight expenses approximated $10,000. The Two Bit district Is soon to bo the liveliest camp in the Hills and as it Is all Just outsldo the corporate llmlts\ the city , Doidwood merchants will reap the benefit of the large disbursements to be made for labor and supplies. It harf been decided by the Yonkton Street Railroad company to take up Its track on Douglas avenue and surrender Its charter , provided arrangements am be made with the city and county authorities relative to taxes assessed against the company. The big Dwlght farm In North Dakota 0,500 acrts In all a magnificent domain of ten square miles has teen broken \ip In lialf and quarter acc'tlona and Is being sold to practical farinere at $25 an acre This Is frcm ten to twenty times the orlglral cost to the owners , lut Is no more than the laud Is worth. Hlkton's building boom Is rather lite In making Its appearance this year , but it Is here. Kour large and very substantial resi dences and an extensive agricultural Imple ment 'warehousn are the principal Improve ments. The building throughout the farming community wus never equaled In any previ ous year. This shows either actual or ex pected financial Improvement. John IM , CSIanley of Sioux Tails and UPV. lAUher Helddeger of Vermilion , S. D. , have been at Hot Springs for a few days and have made arrangements whereby the Cath olics become owners of the large sanitarium at Cascade and a large amount of real rs- tate. They expect to open ono of the largest hospitals In. the northwest. Unlimited capital Is ( > ald to 'be behind the deal. The September call for taxes , like every other call of the Btuto this year , has shown that people are paying more rapidly than last jcar , says a I'lcrro dispatch. The receipts for the quarterly call were $08,822 , against $ C1,2M last year. This Is oven a greater dlf- fore 11:0 than would be Indicated on the fco of the figures alone , as tlio levy last year waa 47-10 mills , whllo for this year the levy Is 4 , Thu board of trustees of the- State Indus- < rUil school at Hllcmlale , N. ! ) . < luvo decided to tuhe advantage of the law passed at the session of the legislature allowing them to band the land of the Institution for funds suf ficient to begin the work of construction Tuo secretary lias opened correspondence with the land department to ascertain how much of the 40,000 acres of land appropriated for the In stitution has been selected. The board will sell bonds as It needs money. The school Is now an assured fact , and Just as soon as the board can complete plans work will com mence. The Great Northern and Great Eastern Mining comranlca In Two Ult will soon break ground and commence the erection of shaft houses and other Improvements on their properties. These companies , In con- nccllon With the Jlardln and Chicago and Two DH people , are figuring on pulling a 200-horBe power air compressor on. Iho Great Eastern properly , from which power will bo distributed to the four 'companies ' Interested as desired. Two Hit "property owners are clamoring for the Improvement of the two county roads connecting lhat ibustllng camp wlUi Deadwood. The hauling of lumber , mining machinery and materials has lately In creased to such an exten.1 that the number of "turnouts" will not admit of the passing of teams and accidents are barely averted. The county commissioners will to requested to widen the roads at various places to ac commodate the Incrcassd traffic. Eureka , the lltllo German lown slUntcd at the terminus of the Milwaukee road In Mcl'herson county , Is a marvel to outsiders. Thcro are In the neighborhood of forty-two greenhouses , each employing on , an average thrco men , and all at the present tlmo workIng - Ing night and day. There h vo been shipped this month 740 cars of wheat , sheep , cattle , hogs and flax , valued at over $420,000 , this being nil dlstrlbuled among the farmers tributary to this point. There were also several carloads of potatoes , butter , eggs , otc. otc.Tlio Elkhorn company lias started to Im prove the platforms and 'walks around Ills new depot at Deadwood. They mere -made of cinders as a foundation Ivvlth about four Inches of marble dust and 'cement ' on tdr > . It packed down hard and solid and In dry weather proved to bo a very fine pavement. In wet weather , however , It would roll up In perfect mud and the people were averse to walking on It. The walks are now bolng covered with a two Inch coating of Hme- atone chips which will be rolled down hard and solid. The rock Is a sort of flint and Is very hard. It Is thought that this will remedy the difficulty. WYOMING. G. S. Stewart , formerly of Edgemont , S. D. , will open a bank at Wheatland with a cash capital of $20,000. Over 100 lots have been filed on In < bo nev/ town at the Big Horn hot springs. Con- slderjblo building Is being planned for the near future and those who are Interested feel very much elated over the piospccts of the embryo city. It Is reported that an eastern syndicate Is trjlng to secure a lease on 240,000 acres of oil land In the Salt creek country , to bo used for grazing purposes. No names were given out , as the local sheepmen would oppose the leasing of the land. Two bands of scabby sheep owned by Leo & Wllcox , which were being trailed to Van Tassel for shipment , were quarantined by the Converse county Inspector last week at Doug las and will be required to dip and eradi cate Uio scab before proceeding. The local sheep men are determined to shut out scabby sheep In the future. Evanston was the scene of a disastrous flro Monday night , vvhenl the Pacific hotel at that place was partially consumed. The flro started In the second floor of the three-story structure and sprpad so rapidly that the guests and employes narrowly escaped with their lives. The loss Is about $3,000 , fully covered by Insurance. A company has" been formed In south ern Johnson couuty which will establish a largo store at the famous KG ranch on Pow der river. A. W. Kennedy , late of Buffalo , Is to be the manager. The new company has $10,000 capital and will construct shear ing nnd dipping pens. The ranch Is about midway between Casper on the Fremont Elkhoin & Mlssoml Valley railroad , and Clearmont , on the D. & M. railroad. II. D. Honderson , state examiner , has made a report of the condition of the pri vate banks of the state of Wyoming , which , compired with that of last jcar , makes a very favorable showing. The total deposits at the present time are $753,140 23 , as against $574,883 29 last year. The loans and dis counts are $12,000 less than last year , show ing a not Increase to the people of ) the state of $229,000 The abstract of the condition of national banks In the state shows total resources o ! $ -1,066,736 ; loans and discounts , $1,827,242 ; deposits , $2,651,526 , and the aver age reserve held Is 42.83 per cent. COLORADO. The Plko's Peak railway , which -was snowed up for four days last week , now has Its tracks clear. In a great porphyry blowout a largo body of gold ore has been discovered In the Ophlr mining district. The ere can be quarried at a cent of 50 cents per ton and It runs from $20 to $00 per ton in gold. Prom twenty-five producing mines the camp of Ophlr In San ( Miguel county bas shipped 246 cars during the present year , an Increase over the total output of 1896. Ophlr Is a high-grade camp and the ore is gold and silver , with gold predominating Chaffeo county Is rapidly gaining pop ularity as a producer of the precious metals In paying quantities. The era of mcni pros pecting and the day of actual profitable mining hna dawned in the splendid young camp of Whltetrone , Cat gulch , Badger creek and others. D. E. Carmlchael and Will Hazeti , young men of Brighton , were out hunting about five miles east and were caught In the storm. They lay thlrty-alK hours unable to move. They finally had to abandon their wagon and outfit and arrived at Brighton completely exhausted , Three corrn of surveyors are In the field locating the right of way and setting grade siskin for the Canyon City & Cripple Greek railway. Graders will bo put to work shortly after election day. As an outgrowth of the railroad agitation new business firms tire entering the field , while old firms are securing new quarters and enlarging their capacity , and a building boom Is en at Can yon City. The famous Gold Coin mlno at Victor Is Installing one of the finest plants In the Cripple Creek district. It Is of the latest Improved ipattorn , combining economy with effectiveness This will Insure a largely In crease ! output from this property. The ore bcdlcs are constantly furnishing new sur prises , both to the owners and to mining men generally and the future record of the mlno can only bo conjectured. The pumps will soon bo at work on all of the down-town mines at Leadvllle. This will Insure the return of prosperity and tlio dawn of a brighter day for the great car bonate camp. Mere than 2,000 Idle men will bo put to work and the output of the camp will be doubled. The silver mine o\\nors are much encouraged at the hopeful signs of a rise In silver and are preparing for ex tensive work and heavy shipments. An cnterprlss of great magnitude Is now under way In the San Juan country. The Ore tunnel , located near the line of the Sll- WKDDIXO PIU5SI3NTS- Is there anything nicer than Gotham's stalling silver goods ? AVI thin the last ti'ii days wo have tocclvcd the Imndsom- est and most complete line of now ster ling silver goods In cases ever biought Into our store and wo are just waiting- ami anxious to show them to you and let you know how reasonable they are- lot us have the pleasure of showing you thu line 100 engraved visiting cards iftul copper eilgraved plate for $1.50 KM ) cards pi luted from your own plate , $1.00 wedding Invitations are our specialty- mall orders promptly attended to. C. S. Raymond Co , , Jewelers , 16th and Douglas Streets. vcrton branch of the DhlWor & Illo Grande railway , la being drlvon > t6icut tha rich ere bodies known to exist , In Deer Park , Ken dall , Sultan and Round muntalns. The veins will be cut at great flefith where the ere bodies , as a rule , are tbW best The veins to bo cut average ono , tftjovery fifty feet. Ommlson county comes to the front -with an extraordinary rich ntrlko In the Lead King mine , located at Crystal The strike was made In a lime cpnUct at a depth of seventeen feet In a flftyjcot drift. The vein Is seven feet -wide and the ere 1s 60 per cent lead and 20 per cerit ! copper. A full force of men has ibeonjpvit towork and the monthly output of the , mlno now amounts to 230 tons. It Is transported to iMarblo by Jack trains. - A iboranza mlno has suddenly developed from nn unassuming prospecP near Saglnavv City In Park county. The vein haa In creased from eighteen Itvches to three feet In width and the aluo has Jumped from a trace to twenty ounces of gold per ton. The rock Is seamed and flecked with frco gold. The mlno 5s owned by Mr. A. Alex ander and It Is located on the summit of Democrat mountain In a place at present almost Inaccessible. MONTANA. Ono of the furnaces of the Hecla smelter was started up last week , a sulllclent supply of lead ere having accumulated to warrant starling the fires ngalni L. S. Storrg , geologist for the Northern Pa cific railway , and P. .M. Gallagher , his ns- slstant , have completed an examination of the coal fields lying north of Mlssoula and gene cast with samples of Iho coal , which they will analyze and report on. The Montana Power company haa begun the work of constructing tbo pole line from the power dam at Divide to the clcctrlo sta tion In 'Anaconda. About twenty-flvo mon are employed In digging holes and distrib uting poles. Tlio line will bo twcuty-two mites in length. The Yellowstone Valley mills , whoso ca pacity has lately been doubled , started up again Sunday night and are expected to be kept In continuous operation until the first of the year. They are turning out 150 bar rels of superior flour every twenty-four hours. It crsts $ COO per day to feed the mills. Between 300 and 400 yelping und snarling dogs were passengers on a westbound freight and their noise attracted considerable atten tion while the train was standing In the Mls soula yards. Tho' dogs nre from Chicago and are en ro io to Alaska , where they will bo used for irelghtln ? purpotcs , and are ex pected to bring $50 uplccc. County Commissioner Hay brought Into Great FYills last week a strange black sub stance found In great quantities between Barker and Nelhart , and believed by all who have seen It to bo a pure quality of graphite. An assay will bo made In a few days , when Its value will be determined. Should U prjvo to bo as suspected , It will add greatly to the mineral rcaourccs of the state. The sample can bo cut with a knife and will mark on paper the same as a lead pencil. A Washington special to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat save : "The national banits of Montana report an average reserve of 43 86 per cent on October G , as compared with 38 CO on July 23. Loans and discounts Increased from $7,068,086 to $7,088,229 ; gold coin decreased from $091.780 to $667.617 ; total specie Increased from $793,995 to $839- 961 ; lawful money reserve Increased from $1,207,563 to $1.272,487 ; individual deposits Incicased from $9,963.477 to $10,539,236" , There are now In the. state twelve elders who are laboring with Apostle Smith and they are perfecting organisations In various towns. They will not flnd ( many members In northern Montana , but In tha portions of the state which wero'early settled there Is a host of Mormora. At IButto there are sev eral hundred ; at Anaconda. 125 ; at Lima. 100 , and a large number In Madison , Deer Lodge and Jefferson count6s. ! There are about forty In Fergus county'and ' an unknown num ber in Great Falls , many of whom are now In other churches. I IUTAH. ' UTAH. The enrollment of students at the univer sity Is gradually approaching the 600 mark. The number during the last week advanced from 571 to 585. , The expenses of Ogdan iCIty for the first six months of 1897 worej In round numbers , $68,000. Of this num. $17,000 was topay In terest and take up a 'bond , leaving $51,000 for the running expenses for six months. The merchants of Vernal have been re ceiving largo consignments of merchandise this week , and the stores begin to have a full appearance , for the first time In ueveral weeks. Trade Is brisk and the town pre sents a lively aspect. Between 14,000 and 15,000 bushels of grain were threshed In Coalvllle precinct this fall , consisting chiefly of wheat and oats , iwlbh a small quantity of barley and rjo , which , though a fair crop , Is not quite up to the average of the past few years. Word comes from Blnghim that an Im portant strike was made In the upper tunnel of the Redwing a few days ago , the mineral Toeing a high grade copper ore , carrying some sliver. It Is the Intention to push work In the extension of the tunnel and , for some tlmo , at least , mo sloping will bo done. Fish and Game Commissioner Sharp has delivered In Richfield a consignment of black bass for the Cove river , this county. The beauties were taken to fthe river last night by County Warden W. J. Bean. There arc 1,300 in all , 120 of them 4 years old and the balance graduating to yearlings. No fishing will bo allowed on this river for two years and a half. A largo outfit of teams are in from Lu- ccrn 'valley , on Henry's fork , after supplies. They report that country Is settling up very fast , fifty families having settled In Lucern valley thla summer. The most of these new settlers will have to depend upon Ash ley valley for seed , grain , flour , potatoes and other farm produce until they can raise their own supplies It was not long ago that work was begun In the development of the gold zone discov ered on the I'otro ground at Blnsham a few mjiUhs since , but It Is learned , that when the deposit had been gone down on for twenty-five or ithlrty foot the character of tha mineral changed and that now , In the bottom of the shaft pyrites of copper and Iron are coming In , which , however , may also carry good gold values. Charles and William Allen , two young farmers of Mapleton , killed a pair of moun tain lions one day last week near Sterling , a ranch In Spanish Fork canvon. It la sup posed that this Is the pair of lions that have been In that vicinity for two years , and It Is nald that they have killed over thirty head of colts In that time. The largest one of the lions measures eight feet from tip of nose to tip of tall , and the smaller cno measures seven loot. Some time ago was reported a mine In Blngham , Utah , where the sulpburota were on the surface and save way 'to ' free gold as depth was attained. Nocpmes \ a statement that In thn Socorro minp , eighty mllea .north west of Phoenix , Ariz , sqmples of galena ore , lead sulphides , carYy free gold. It maybe bo BO , Blnco BJld was foun l In coal In Utah , and In the bark of tiei's Washington | \ and hens' gizzards In Oregon , no statement la to bo accounted Incredible. " The canning factory of Ihe Utah Canning company closed Its season's operations last week with Its full q mplement of eighty bands. During the canning season of two months the company . has put up 18.000 cases or 36,000 dozen 'fjana of tomatoes. Be fore another season opens } ho company pro poses to expend at least $5,000 In now bulUV- Ings and machinery nd next year -will put up , not only tomatoes , but fruit of various kinds. It Is expected that next season's output will reach 100,000 casta of tomatoes and fruits , Already the company has con tracted for the product of 125 acres of to matoes for next year ami the amount used will ibo largely In excess of that product. A wagonload of largo potatoes waa brought Into Ncphl last week by William Noble , which had been grown Just out of Nophl , and for slzo and solidity cannot be beaten An average weight would bo ono and n half pounds. Some were picked out by a Kansas City traveler and will be shipped bick cast for exhibition. Two of them weighed ten pounds , one welshing cx ! pounds. Noble es timated , after having them weighed , that his crop went 600 bushels to the acre. In the hold of the 500-foot tunnel being driven at the Sovlcr mint ! . Gold mountain district , the workmen have broken Into A flnd body of gold ere Whoa first en countered the mineral wan found1 stratified through the porphyry , but aa work pro gresses the formation grows solid. It Is stated that this strike , GOO feet tbelow the surface , In one of the moot Important of the ecason , the ere being high smile and tending to prove that the values of Gold mountain go deep. Prof. Cedarstrom Is putting- largo force of men atwork on his onyx claims near Pelican Point at Lohl. He has sovcn claims and w'lll spend In the neighborhood of $700 In doing the necessary assessment work for 1817. A party of Salt Lake cap italists are Interested with the profrssor In these claims and have put up sufllclcnl funds to erect a largo windmill which will bo used In polishing tha atone after It Is quarried. Olr. Cedarstrom has some of the best onyx claims In. the country. NEVADA. Hay cells at $30 a ton In Pnnamlnt , Nov. , and grain from $45 to $50. Saturday VMS the thirty-third anniversary of Nevada's admission Into the union. Reno has voted to Issue bonds to the amount of $130,000 for water works and $20 000 for an electric light plant. Humboldt couuty won Us suit ngilnst Lander county for taxes collected by the litter countv on 235 miles of railroad track In 1893. Humboldt will now ask for the taxes collected on that pleco of track slnco 1895. 1895.Tho The Eureka Sentinel eajs the feed In Eureka anil nike counties Is very poor this season and that fully 75,000 more sheep will likely bo driven south Into Nye county this winter than usual. The cllmato In that sec tion Is much milder and the feed on the ranges Is moro aboundant. The supreme court Friday refused a ro- hearlng In the V. & T. railroad tax case. It will take Just $7,518.73 to settle with the county today. That Is $2,128.60 moro than It the railroad had paid Its Mxes without a contest. The caao Is a most Im portant ono , for It practically settles all the other similar suits now pending. A careful view of the site selected and measurements of the reservoir proposed to bo built In Condor canyon shows the labor and expense to be greater than has been considered , and this may icsult In throwing active work over until next spring , but by that time at the latest the work will be un dertaken , but probibly not In time to utilize the reservoir for the ' 98 season. John W. Mackay has returned from his Investigation of the Blair mines at Silver Peak and Is not enthusiastic over the out look. "Thcro seems to bo lots of quartz there , " bo said , "but It Is low grade iMid will require a large amount of money be fore anj thing can bo realized. The condi tions are all unfavorable for cheap mining and milling I cannot say whether tlio sale will bo made. " i _ Two military reservations In Nevada have been abandoned One Is Camp Hnllcck In Elko county and th ? other Tort MeDermlt in Humboldt county. Tort McDormlt was established In ise1. , when the Piutes were on the warpath. Camp Halleck wis estab lished to guard the overland stage road from the Indians , who amused themselves by scalping passengers and ttage drivers and stcallnc stage horses. Articles of Incorporation of the Relnhart company have been filed with the county clerk. Thn capital stork of the corporation Is placed at $40,000. The object of the com pany Is to carry on a general merchandise and llvo stock business. Elko Is named as the principal place of business and the flrst officers of the corporation are B Relnhart , president ; M. Relnhart , vlco president ; 13. Reinhart , secretary and manager ; Nevada bank of San Francisco , treasurer. Ono of the largest shipments of sheep that has been made from Reno for some time be- pan Saturday. Recently Messrs Hale and I'lnkston purchased 13,000 head of sheep In Paradise valley , 6,000 from A. Pasquale , 4,000 from Recanzono & Forgnono and 3,000 from William Stock. All of the sheep have been driven here and vlll bo shipped to Omaha , the flrst tralnload of eighteen cars leaving Saturday. The greater part of the sheep .iro lambs , for which $1.50 per head was paid. Cattle and sheep are being shipped out of Reno both east and west. The east is bid ding against the west for choice herds of Nevada beef and mutton and the beef pro ducers and flockmaeters of the state are reaping a well-deserved reward In the re vival of buslnefcs In their lino. Scarcity of cars makes shipments a little low , but still both beef and mutton are fllllnc the sham bles In Denver and other eastern markets , and , from the present outlook , San Fran cisco can no longer dictate terms to Nevada producers. The state Is practically cleaned up of cattle and but few are to bo had at any price. The many now discoveries of gold con stantly being made in Nevada should put It in the list of gold-producing states. Do Lamar , a camp compaiatlvely unknown until after 1891 , Is now ono of the lending gold producers of the Pacific coast. During the last jcar much capital has been Invested In the gold properties of White Pine and Elko counties. Important gold discoveries have recently been made in Washoo , the agricultural county. Douglas has rich placer mines , and so also has Lyon county , with promising copper veins besides , upon which dovolopement work lus Just begun. Esmcralda county Is lapldly becoming again a. rich producer , while gold Is bolng taken from Nye , Churchill and Humboldt counties , CALIFORNIA. A now electrical flro alaim system Is being constructed In Salinas. E. A. Day of Riverside has sold his ten- acre orange grove for $6,500. L'nda Vista , near Pasadena , sold $8,000 worth of dried fruit this season. Preparations are bolng made for the or ganization In Yumci of a ledge of Elks. A celery company recently located at Ar royo Grande has begun preliminary work. The women of Bakersfield have organized and will do battle for the cause of Incorpora tion. tion.Tho The Southern Pacific company Is building a big station at High Grove , In Rlveisldo county. A bridge 300 feet long and fifty feet high Is being built on the Slsquoc river 1m Santa Barbara county. The school trustees of National City have begun a crusade against the cigarette habit among the inalo pupils. The Bellefontalno , near Nevada City , Ne vada couuty , has a twenty-Inch ledge which This Is regular winter resort weather cool and chilly in the iVlornlng and warm dm Ing tlio day that Y eio the 1'rlnnm oil stove comes In haniijv-a regular com bination you can U30. it us a heater mornings and evenings , and It will heat any loom In your haute then at noon when a coal lire Is too hot to cook by- just take the heater off it's easily done then yon'vo the nicest little cook Btove you ever seen no smoke no odor with thin little blue flame wonder the pi ice ninge Is $0,00 , $800 and if 10.00 Our line of Jewell base burners for colder weather Is complete and will bear close liihpectlon. A. C. RAYMER J5U1LDERS' HARDWARE 1514 Parnam St. Yourdroccr Tills wm oivo YOU Silver-Plated TEASPOON every largo eliecnkeof White Cloud containing 20 yards of the best sewing silk with every small size cakcofWhHc Cloud Floating Soap. The cost of this spoon and spool of silk comes out of our pocket entirely it's one of our ways of advertising. We want you to get acquainted with the whitest floating soap on the market. by the MONOTUCK SILK co White Cloud is the only soap in the world made in Porcelalne Lined Kettles which is an absolute guarantee of purity. If your grocer can not supply you send us his name and address. V MADE ONLY BY JAS. S. KiRK&C © . , CHICAGO. 6 TlID UliGEST SOAP MANUIACTUKCHS IN THE WOULD. LSTAULISHLD 1S39. A Everybody can have soft water to wash with If they will use Kirk's P "Rainwater Maker. " It makes hard water soft. Try It. o runs from $25 to $50 , with a two-Inch sul- phurctlo streak on the footwall , which smelts ere running $252 per ton About 6,000 fruit trees arc fumigated nightly at Pomona under the direction of the horticulture commissioner The Alcatraz Asphalt company Is Invest ing $2,000,000 In Improvements and develop ment work la Santa Barbara county. Vlsalla has contracted to have her streets lighted by electricity and will piy $10 per month for each light , moonlight schedule. Some miscreant turned a fair of glandcrcd horses loose In Pasadena A few dajs ago , and the authorities arc up la arms about It. Thu beats still unharvested nt Chtao rep resent a value of $125.000. Growers are com. plaining at their treatment by the factories Colton la booming. Its marble quarries ami llino kilns are running full blast and turning out many carloads of valuable products Crossed electric wires caused the fire bell at Santa Monica to ring about 2 o'clock a few mornings ago and the people turned out to no purpose. The Plumas Imperial mine. Plunios county , Insn big gravel deposit which Is rich In gold and Is developing Into ono of the Important gravel properties of the stato. A Los Angeles outlining house has Issued a printed list of supples needed by one man for a j car's sojouin In Alaska , and It In- cludca only ono gallon of whisky. Some quartz ledges have been uncovered In the Golcr pMcor district , Kent county. The Hand company ha two mills running day and night on ere from Its mines. In Marlposa county thoMarlposa grant people ple arc getting things In slupc to start some Important mining enterprises They will first build a dam on tiio Merced river to furnish power for running machinery. The grant Is owned by the Rothschilds , John W. Mackaj , Senator John P. Jones and a few others. San rrwiclsco Is figuring on lilgh license. There aroJi,2BO saloons In the city and as the license Is now $84 a joar the total In come Is $275,000. At the $ COO rate. It Is pro posed to establish the same number of drlnk- Ing places would afford a revenue of $2,000- 000 , but fully half of the corner groceries would drop out and the Income , It Is ex pected , would , not at the outside reach more than $1,000,000 per oniium. The hjdraullc eoison In the northern and eastern parts of California , has not been sat isfactory. Although there was more rain than usual last winter , thcro wus less snow , and therefore there has been a scarcity of water nearly all through the scusou. The greatest depth reached In gold mining In this state Is In the Kennedy , at Jackson , Ainador county , where the shaft , perpendicular depth , Is sinking from the 2,100 to t io 2,300 foot level. The quartz at this depth Is net of such high grade as that from the 900 to the 1,500 foot level , but It Is of paying quality. OREGON. An Umpqua sportsman turned loose five pilr of wild turkeys on the headwaters of the Umpqua river the other day. A hunter the other day brought to the editor of the Oregon Poultry Journal , In Salem , a Mongolian pheasant , the tail of which measured twenty-one Inches. The sheepmen of Morrow county have made up a fund of $1,000 for the purpose of send ing detectives Into Grant county to ferret out End i rosecuto the persons who have been shooting sheep. The Inland Telephone and Telegraph com pany Intends to build a telephone line from Heppner to Arlington , a distance of fifty mile ? . The company expects to have the I'ne finished wlthli > thirty days. Seventy-five mortgages were released Itn Umatllla county , Oregon , during the month of September , and tlio Pendleton Tribune save that all the mortgages In the county will be satisfied during the next month , at that rate. Carload after carload of fine , large , sound , rod apples the kind that gave Orego'n Its enviable reputation for the production of the finest apples In the world are being shlppid from Coos county , says the Myrtle Point Enterprise. It was reported In Salem Friday that the surveying party mow out In the Cascade mountains , back of the Santlam country , op erating under State Senator Alonza Gcaner of Marlon county , had made a rich find of gold- boirlng quartz. Three families of Norwegians arrived In Coquille a few days ago , adding to the pop ulation somewhat. One family brought nlno children with them , -while the two others reported twenty-four children the grand total for the three families being thirty- thrco children. The warehouses In nigln are getting M full of grata that a night force has to be used to pllo each day's receipts up higher , so as to malto room for the ne\t day's business. Unless more shipping Is done soon , It will bo necessary to lalse the roofs The buoy off the mouth of Alaca bay broke away from Its fastenings during the storm of Friday night , October 22 , and waa driven on to the beach at the mouth of Heaver creek. On the 2Gth ult. the llfc- sav Ing crow moved It to a place of safety. On every hand there are signs of regained pros erlty In Gllllam county , sa > s the Kossll Journal. Looil merchants are rolling moro goods than usual , the school attcudanco li much larger than In former jcars , and old subscribers are pajlng up better than usual. Halt dollar pieces , of the 1S97 coin , and from first hands , are quite plentiful In Go- qulllc , duo In most part to the Coquille Ualrjmen'fl union , that recently settled with the patrons for the September product , all In such money. Over $2,600 constituted the pay roll for the month mentioned Returns have been received from the ex periment station at Corvallls of the second shipment of sugar beets sent from Wash ington county for iimlvsls by Prof. Shaw. The sugar per cent and purity of this quan tity ran higher than that of the lot sent prior , which Is accounted for by the greater maturity of the later ibccts Hoth lots were cultlvitcd In the same ininncr and grown from the same lot of &eeil This fact re- \cas ! the Importance of allowing supir beelo In this climate to nnturo fully before being pulled The syndicate which has under consider ation the building of a railroad from Uureka. Cal , to southern Oregon , has submitted a proposition to the citizens of Joscphlno county for the construction of the road to Grant's Para. They want the people to guarantee bonds to the amount of $7,500 for each mile constructed In that county. At the completion of each ten miles the company will draw the sunj pledged , and turn over bonds in a like amount. The flrst-niortgago bonds will be limited to $20,000 to the mlle , which Is 'the ' estimated cost of building and equipping. WASHINGTON. Tlio Adams County ( bank paid out $80,000 for wheat last week. Yaklma orthardlsts < ire offered SO cents a box for aprlea this > ear. Spangle la to have n. newspaper , no the Rltzvlllc Times Is Informed. Pujallup shipped this year to Montana and mining regions tributary to Spaluno over $12,000 woith of fresh berries. The evaporating plant at Puyallup Is at work on potatoes and onions. The product Is being stored for the tprlng trado. In Sprague 5,000 bushels of wheat are be ing marketed dally. The Sprague roller mills do a business of $300,000 annually and the businessmen - want a bank. The Northern Pacific Railway company paid to the Cowlitz 'county ' treasurer last Saturday $2,10392 , whlVh wan one-half of the company's personal taxes for 1897. The Mo\co company In Yaklma county U trying a sagcpuller that requires four horses and two men to operate It , but the macMno clears easily six or more acrca a day. The total collections made by the treas urer of Chchalls county for the quarter eliding September 30 amounted to $13,409.15 and the disbursements were $43,592.12. In the treasury was the sum of $15,955. Twenty men are at work on the state fish hatchery on the Chehnlls river. Luark cieek runs through It. The Chchalls river flows along Its northwestern border and the county road runs along the lda of the tmct. The town of Guy , In Whitman county , Ute to have a flouring mill. The Guy Milling company lias been Incorporated , with a cap ital stock of $8,000 , by W. H. Thomas , John R. Cunningham and C. J. Langdon , all of Palouse , for the purpose of operating a flrt-t- class ( louring mill at that point. The curfew boll Is rung an hour earlier 4J than formerly In Walli Walla. Tlio arrangement - * ' rangement JH that the bell shall bo rung , between April 1 and September 1 , at 8 o'clock , and the remainder of the year at 7 o'clock. Hoys and girls wlm como within the limits of the law will therefore have an hour less to ream the streets until next April. TO GURU A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Droino Quinine Tablets. AH druggists refund the money If It falls U cure. 25c. Drox li. Sliomnu Is nntmally bashful and It kcops him busy getting behind the olllce jailing so that ( he ladlus won't heis him * > o many ladies coming to our Htore now they just como In lloclca to wo our new ? 2.K ( ) Hhoo for It'rt the host value In n ladles' whoo ever shown in this city thuy'io made In tlio coin and in/or too hist and has a style Unit In eveiy way will compute with the $ : t,00 and $1.00 shoes and as to service It will outwear most ? I00 ! shoos offcted yon theie's no reason why wo should sell so good a shoo for ! j > 2.00 except Unit we always have and always intend to give our cus- tomi'i.s inoie value for their money than they can get elsewhere. Drexel Shoe Co. , 119 FAKNAAI STREET New fall catalogue now icady ; mailed for the asking. A word about plcturo frames and the way we innko them well , UIIMG'H no piollt In It at our prices but there's this in It for us the satisfaction of hav ing you pleased and being nblu to fur nish you a frame that anywheie else would cost you twice what wo ask wo'vo alawys had u big line of mould ings but wo ruled to It lately until wo don't bellcr-o there's such another as sortment west of Chicago all tlio frames are made nt our Izard street factoiy by competent woikmen and wo only keep samples of the moulding at the Douglas street store but that's where you want to leave your order , A. HOSPE , BIG On ] All 1513 Douglas
