The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-28
THE PASSING THRONG.

DR.. q. v. Calhoun, Republican candidate for
presidential e.ector anu one a the Worlds fair
commissioners returned yesterday from Chi
cago, where he went TO attend the dedication OF
the Worlds fair buildings. Notwithstanding
this was his first trip East in tweuty-seveu
years, the doctor only remained four days IN
Chicago Chicago is a pretty big city said
he, "but she was chock full OF people last
week. Being a member of the ex ecutive CON-
mittee of the Washington Worlds fair commits
sion, / attended the dedication exercises IN
company with T. H. Cavanaugh, of Olympia,
DR.. Il. B. Conover, OF Port Townsend. Dr. Bis
lock, president of the commission, was down
there ahead of Us. The crowd at the dedicatory
exercises the greatest 1 ever saw, and
the jam OF humanity on the streets was some
thing terrible. l was over two hours Try
ing to get across the street In the builu-
Ing where the exercises were held there
wss an audience of $4,000, and although was
very fevorably located, could only hear an oc-
casional word of the speeches There were two
OF the largest and finest bands in the country
in tho building, anu all we could hear OF their
playing were the drums and now and then
bugle note. There was also monster chorus,
and We could only catch high note now and
then, while the people at the further end OF the
building did not hear a sound OF the singing.
The first story of the Washington state building
is up and attracts the attention OF thousands.
1t is the only building on the grounds when Is
an exhibit IN itself, being constructed out OF
immense logs shipped from Puget sound. We
are trying TO get room on the grounds
to plant a great hollow cedar stump
which we know OF here, and locate our offices
in it. We can ship it in sections and set 1t up
on the grounds and have room inside about
fifteen feet in diameter 1t is very interesting
to note the astonishment of people from the
prairie states as they gaze at the great stick l27
feet long and which scales $1,000 feet of lum Der.
nj Oyrra a
has been greater than We anticipated. and the
cost has outruu our calculations. l wish we
had more money 20 devote TO the matter, be-
cause l think it would be good investment"
DR.. D. H. Pioneer, of walla walla, is In the city
on his way TO Port Angeles. He is interested
in the new mining district of Elk City, Idaho,
where eight claims have been located on Lodges
OF base ore which, the doctor says, assay all the
way from $50 to 5000 a ton. In talking OF the
district yesterday, DR.. Pioneer said: 1.-THE
Idaho Consolidated Mining Company, in which
l am interested, owns three camsthe Red
stone, with six foot ledge; the Pataha, FIVE and
half feet. and the Myrtle, four feet-each of
which has well defined walls. We have sunk
sixty to 10 feet of shaft on each claim and on
the Redstone have tunnel 700 feet long. We
have double steam stamp mill with a capacity
OF five tons day and are just getting ready TO
test the cyanide process. Some Denver parties
are going TO send men in to introduce 1t in the
spring and they guarantee to save everything
and work the ore down to within per cent of
its assay valuation. II 10 proves q success We
shall concentrate the ore on the ground and
ship only the concentrates. 1t is a very hard
country to get into. You leave the Northern
Pacific railroad at Lewiston and go by wagon
sixty-fve miles to Mount Idaho and eighteen
miles further in the same way, then lorty-fve
miles over pack trail through rough country
across Craig mountain. going quite distance
ohpua = ~, har LIVE To isv Thn tutn
legislature will certainly pass bill to build
wagon road TO the camp at the next session
and then we shall be able to pack the concen-
trates out in wagons to the railroad"
Francis l. McKenna, prominent capitalist of
Portland, is a guest of the Occidental, "Busi-
ness is quiet down our way, but even when il is
heavy We don't make any fuss about it The
real estate market is good. One thing which
goes long way to hold up values is the fact
that inside property cannot be bought think
it is q mistake for your people to suppose that
the people of Portland hostile to govern
nlent aid for your canal. We are not envious of
Seattle, and do not seek to thwsrt her enter
prises because think our business men recog-
nixe that there Is ample room tor two great
cities on the Northwest coast. and that each has
a vast field all her own. What We now want is
the building of the Mon Pacifc-Great North
line between Seattle and Portland"
A. q. Gibbs, cashier of the Oregon Improve.
ment Company. wears a Harrison badge which
was worn by his wlie's grandfather in the
Western Reserve OF Ohio In the clog cabin and
hard cider" campaign OF lS4o. and is proud of
it. 1t Is made of buff glass with a brass rim,
and has picture of the log cabin with the
coonskiu hanging on the wall and the barrel
of cider near the door. Above and below this
device are the words: Harrison and Reform"
c. C. Thornton, of Tulalip, the Duwamish In
dian agent, is registered at the Occidental He
says that affairs at the five agencies under his
charge are proceeding quietly. During the
smallpox scare 600 OF the natives were vac
cinated, and they required no urging to stay on
their reservations Mr.. Thornton is trying to
get an Indian boarding school located at Lum-
mi, near Nhatcom.
J. P. Lovett, OF Oregon City, Or, and until re-
Gently connected with the paper mills at that
place, was in the city yesterday and registered
at the Dller. He has been up to Lowell IN
speeding the wood pulp plant at that place, and
is on his ay TO the East.