The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-15
NORTHWEST NEWS.


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The output OF thu Granite Mountain for
the week ending December ~ was 81 bars
of bullion, containing 77,b00 ounces dne
silver and 17A.A ounces nne gold.
IL h stated hero on good authority that
ehe famous Dakota mine OF Nethart has
been bonded tn = ST. Louis company for
o120yO0O. The bond has been taken for
one year and he's company are 10 expend
o20,000 i'm development work.-Hssband-
WAN.
The Granite Mountain company paid
its taxes To CountyT Treasurer Coleman
last Monday. The amount il 81, 1858
The Anaconda company's taxes, assessed
in his county on it's improvements at
Anaconda and eight miles of fiuInc,
amount 10 81, 116.SO.-Northusst.
Away back i'm "a Sam Sterling was well
known I'm Rogue river valley rs the dis
coverer of the old Sterling mine. Sam
has Just struck n rich placer mine on the
headwaters of the Coquille, and no doubt,
he will soon be among his old friends with
. $4,000 smile and n light Oh IL.
-Oregonian,
A contract has been let to run a cross
cut of 200 feet on the Silver Chest, one Of
the claims now under the control of the
Clark syndicate. This action most Ger
tainly indicates that Mr.. Clark il well
pleased with the property, and a purchase
of the same '. al most likely follow i'm the
spring. Mr.. Clark departed for st. Louis
yesterday morniug.-Phiiipsburg Mail.
Artesian wells will he the means OF ir-
riRation i'm various sections of eastern Ore
Gon before many lays i'm the future. That
. flow can he obtained has been demon
strated i'm Baker City and there il 10 rea-
son why other localities cannot he favored
likewise. 1t il an experiment. that should
be tried and II successful will prove OF UNI
told value to the country.
Last week Lars Samuelson, a Scandi-
navian, living i'm the hills south of the
Middle Coquille, Ore, was found dead i'm
the woods beside a deer that he was car
rying home. He was missing two days
when his brother went i'm search of him
and found him. 1t is said he owned and
controlled most of the range i'm his part
and the others were Jealous Of him. For
this IL IL supposed some one killed him.
The Lewiston Teller says that w. ID.
Robbins Of Moscow, has received and ac-
cepted the appointments OF Indian agent
at the Nex Perez reservation. The Teller
also says that more than one-half of the
eligible Indians belonging to the Nex
Percc tribe have voluntarily agreed to
select the tract that they arc to live upon
and that the remainder of the Indians will
soon agree to sestle upon separate tracts
and abandon all the rest.
Mr.. Charles Allard, Of the Flathead In
dian reservation. Is in this city. He states
that he has at present - head Of buffalo
on his ranch including 10 young calves.
This il now the largest herd of buffalo i'm
che United States. Mr.. Allard says that
all are healthy and doing well, and that il
10 his intention tn keep the herd until 10 i'm
creases to a size many times larger than
Il il. Mr.. Allard's design in preserving n
herd OF these animals which have become
nearly extinct il surely commentaries. Al
IN early day his stock Of buffalo will be
worth "a good sized fortune.-Missouiian.
A Boulder special says: The late nc
QUESTION tn the county Jail In Miss Josie
Hopkins, the winsome leader of the demi-
-~-snv M To-. .s..
q war Of words with a miner, named
John Mcdonald, she threatened to shoot
shat parsonage. He turned his back and
requested the lady tn blaze away, which
she did with a 3s-caiibre double action
gun, the bullet taking effect i'm the left
leg above the knee, shatterinR the bone
and producing q very painful and per
haps serious wound. The shootist was
bound over for assault with q deadly
wcapo
A ST. Paul dispatch says: The proposed
extension Of the Illinois Central to the Pa
cifc coast will be $50 miles shorter than
the Northern Pacific. The road il to run
from Sioux Falls, Dak., to Butte, Mont,
going thence through the Lolo Pass OF the
Bitter Root mountains; thence down
Clearwater river to Lewiston, Idaho;
thence down Snake river to Pasco, cross
ing the Columbia river and going through
the Cispass pass i'm the Cascades, striking
the Northern Pacific on the line with Gem
tr0lln anu paralleItnQ IL tne rest OF the
distance to Tacoma. There are whole
mountains of naked copper i'm the Snake
river country, and other minerals almost
i'm proportion.
In speaking of the recent coal discovery
OH Beaver creek above Scio. Linn county,
Ore, the Press of that place says: Messrs.
Moorehead, Powell & Co.. have discovered
a coal vein, or possibly n series of veins,
apparently all leading to a great central
vein, in a canyon about twelve miles
southeast of Scio on Beaver Creek. Dine
of the veins or lodes was uncovered for a
distance of about fifty feet Jap the Rulch
before il dipped into the earth. While
uncovering this top lode another wal dis
covered, but it probably leads TO the head
center or mother lode. The lodes dis
covered varied i'm thickness from three u
six inches, Men are employed in ''goinG
down" and opening up the find, and I'm q
few days we shall probably know Ms e
the value of II. The coal looks well, and
10 pronounced first rate by Judges. 1t Il
believed that ga good thing" has beer
struck this time. Already there In talk al
a railroad from Scio to the mine, and II
the find proves TO be as valuable as ex
pected. the railroad will he built i'm shor
order.
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