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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-19
Fire at Anacortes.

ANAcoRrEs, April 1S.-[SpeciaI.] u. H..
Records house was burned yesterday :;
loss 81, 600, insurance 81 200. The cause of
the fire is unknown.
The council has refused to accept the
Ahrens fire engine because it did not come
up to the test. Those in charge claim the
engine had been soaped and crippled.
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A New Way to Kill Squirrels.

The following novel plan OF Kidding farms of
squirrels is being tried in parts of Asotiu
county. several burrows plowed in the
field nearest where the squirrels are thiekest,
and al distance Of about every thirty or forty
feet holes 10 the depth OF about twenty inches
are sunk with a post-hole digger The squirrels,
II is asserted, will take possession of the fur
rows asa play ground, and while running after
each other will tumble into these holes, from
which they cannot again emerge, but die. Sew
eral farmers who have tried it say it works ad-
mirahly
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LoSDoS, April ls,--French preparations
for war IN Dahomey have as their real OBJ
ject the capture of Dahomey. the capitol
OF Dahomey, where, it is reported. the sue
cessive kings for two centuries have been
burying 4 large amount of treasure in nits
under the palace. This treasure, says the
correspondent, allowing for exaggerations.
amounts to 800 900, 200, which the French
hone 10 capture.
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RIO JANEIRo. April lS.-An official dis
patch says the rising in the state of Matte
Crosse is of little Importance and cannot
disturb the general peace. The central
government has taken energetic measures
to suppress the movement. Guyaba, the
capital of Matte Crosse, remains loyal.
At Dorumbe, near the Paraguayan from
tier, number Of rebels have assembled,
led by recently transported rebels from the
Ann.i.nl
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For Numbering Her Daughter.

MOUNT HOLLY, April 1S.-Louisa Shock
ley was committed to Jail today on a
charge of numbering her 9-year-old daugh-
ter by strangling the child, in the presence
of two other children, with a rope.
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changed the date of its reunion to be held
on the battlefield of Chickamauga to
September 81 and %, in order not to inter-
fere with the annual encampment OF the
Grand Army of the Republic.
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The Red Flag Nav Dav.

BERLIN, April 1s.-It is expected that
workingmen will not be allowed to hold
professions anywhere in Germany on May
day. 1t may be that the anarchists will
attempt to parade in spite of the prohibit
ton that may be issued, but the authori-
ties have determined that there shall be
no repetition of the rioting in this city. 1t
is not believed that genuine workingmen
will cause any trouble.
ROME, April 1S.-Much anxiety is felt
throughout Italy as to the May day cele-
bration. The socialists. of whom there
are many in all the Italian cities, threaten
to show their strength. The authorities,
however, are fully alive to the demands of
the occasion. Any attempts to create dis
turbances will be severely repressed.
PARIS, April 1S.-In France the socialists
are preparing to hold professions every
where on May Day. 1t is expected that
two millions will be in line altogether
While disturbances are not looked tor. the
authorities are prepared to meet them in
case they occur. The demonstrations will
be chiefly in favor Of an eight-hour day.
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The War In Rurnah.

RASGooS, April ls-The British column
had continuous jungle fighting along the
kaukkive river. and six men were
wounded in carrying Ting Gram. Two
were killed and four wounded in a fight
with Dacoits
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.vr,cu,,n,., school for Ala.k..

WASHINGTON CRY. April Ex-senator
Allen has introduced bill to extend to
Alaska the benefit of the laws encouraging
instruction in agriculture and mechanical
n-ts
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At bicyclist meeting at Brighton, England.
Monday, Fowler. an English rider. In a half
mile scratch race, beat Zimmerman, OF the New
York Athletic Club. nine yards.
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THE CULTURE GF ASPARAGUS.

Two Easy Methods of Starting Beds In
the Spring.
When it is desired to start an asparagus
bed in the spring the easiest way is to
secure one-year-old plants of good stand
ard variety, such as Conoru's Colossal.
Give the cold shoulder to the old style OF
digging deep trenches and filling the whole
soil with manure to considerable depth,
as formerly practiced; 1t is waste of
labor and manure. As high'a authority
as Grener does not consider it necessary
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Cold and storms in Western Europe.

LONDON, April 1s.-The severe weather
which set in here last week continues.
Many places on the ground are covered
with snow a foos deep and regular biz
yards have occurred. There has been enor-
nous damage to fruit and vegetables. In
many places the river overfiowed the
banks and the adjacent country is flooded.
Crops have been destroyed. In some
places the situation is really serious. Snow
and sleet Frustrated the telegraph poles
and cut off telcgraphic communication.
So serious was the destruction to wires
that the ordinary force of linemen is I'M
able to cope with the difficulties and SOL
diers have been ordered to their assist
ance. Great damage has been done to
crops in the channel islands. A heavy
storm is raging today in the north of
Wales and Cheshire. Advlces say the
cold wave is beginning to be felt on the
Baltic. Dispatches from Paris and the
north of France say that hail and sleet is
falling and the weather is severely cold.
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A Noted Horsebreeder Dead.

YPsILANTI. Mich, April 1s.-George W.
Gale, breeder of noted horses, died this
morning of typhoid fever, aged IS years.
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To get relief from indigestion, b.lfousnsss
constipation or torpid liver without disturbing
ne stomsch % Rlrg.ng the bowels, take A few
please yea.
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Minis,er smirh Tir.a OF 81. reter.hurr

LoNDoN. April ls.-rhe Times ST. Peters
burg correspondent states that Charles
Emery Smith, American minister, accom-
panied by his wife. has started for Amer
lea, and " i'll probably not return 10 Russia.
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The senate has passed bill granting to the
state of Cs.ifor7i per cent. OF the net pro-
eeets for cash sales o. public lands in the state
The amount involved (. s71o,0o
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The Army of the Cumberland
NASsiSSroS CRY, April Is.-The Society
OF the Army of the Cumberland h..
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Park, capital being the necessary means
to success. 1t is mistaken idea that all
the good ground in Park City
Is controlled by the large corporations,
as is evidenced by the fact that these same
corporations never miss an opportunity
to add on a claim or two when they can
purchase them. Park City offers to the
investor unexcelled opportunities. She
has no ''wild-cat'' schemes. Her doors
are open and she asks the man seeking a
good thing to come and partake OF her
wealth. The past year has been one of
unusual prosperity, but closes with the
poorest outlook of any year in the history
OF the town. Not because the ore bodies
are punching OUT for the opposite is
the case, there being a greater amount of
ore now Ill sight in the different mines
than ever before, but on account of the de-
preston in the silver market. With silver
at SIC. there is nothing to be made in its
production With no prospect OF favora
bic legislation upon the silver question,
the Park, like all other silver mining
camps, will enter the New Year with a
gloomy outlook before her. Taking the
Crescent company's output as an average,
the loss on every ton of ore produced here
this year, compared with 1891, on account
or the decrease IN the price of lead and sill
yer, has been S17.71. On the total pro-
duct the loss amounts to 81, $50, 1888. On
the ODtario's product of silver alone the
loss this year has been S30S, 536 and the
Ontario and Daily together S512, 500. Is it
any wonder that the mines are stopping
the payments OF dividends or making
heavy draughts in working forces?
No one can predict what the Park will
DO in 1898 without knowing the future OF
silver. With a fair price, though, this
camp would surprise the world, for it is
virtually only in its infancy as producer
as time will prove.
The town has grown rapidly in the past
few years, being now quite metropolitan
in ways and appearance. Large business
blocks, two banks, an opera house, and
numerous other establishments grace the
principal business street, Main street.
The Congregational, Catholic, Episcopal
denominations have churches and be-
sides four public schools, there is a
Catholic school. The municipal govern
ment is a model one. A water Service,
telephone exchange affording connec-
TONS with all the principal cities of Utah,
and an electric light service go long way
in making life pleasant. The altitude be-
ing 1900 feet, the health of the town is
unusually good. The Union Pacific and
Utah Central railroads give four trains a
day to and from Salt Lake and Ogden,
which are respectively thirty-five and
siXty-tive miles distant. The population
OF the Park is $500. Such is Park CITY
in general. Below is given review OF
the work done in the present year with
sketches of the different properties which
/ have together made the camp the greatest
/ in Utah, and are destined to make it the
greatest in the west.
The GLOWING table shows the output
of the different properties for the year
1892:
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that require concentration, and with
heavy expense attached to its transporta-
ton and Concentration, it is hardly pay
ing proposition with silver at SO and lead
at $40 Notwithstanding these facts
the mine has been operated constantly
during the year, though no shipments
have been made since early in September.
The output of the mine for the year, in
Guiding the upper workings operated by
j. NJ. Richardson, lessee, amounted to
$3.50 tons of ore and concen-
trates, the greater portion being concen-
trates. The actual output would be
greatly in excess of this, as 2.S3 tons of
crude ore were required to produce one
ton of concentrates. This product yielded
as follows:
Lead poun ds. -. Observation-Disclosures. 3,OoS.679
silver, OUNCES. ............--.. 90 49, q
Total value. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. -s1O5, 669 o.
The cessation of shipments in Septem-
Der has greatly reduced the output COM
pared with former years. The amount
received for the ore was also much less
than in former years, in proportion with
the product. According to the statement
Of Manager McGregor, made to the stock
holders at the annual meeting held in Oc-
tober, the company received this year
1873 less per ounce for silver and .316S
less per 100 pounds of lead than in the
previous year, making the average price
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drain tunnel was designed. This was
started in July, 1888, and is now in a dis
lance of 5000 feet. Its length to No. 2
shaft will be little over Is, 900 feet. 1t
was great undertaking. as it involved
an outlay of $500. 900 or over before it
would be of any value whatever. 1t was
expected that it would be completed in
and fire at the tunnel house, the work has
been retarded, and / doubt whether it will
be completed before 1894.
1.-THE Ontario ore is a blend and sui
phuretted ore. The strike of the vein is
east and west, with a dip to the north,
and it lies between quartzite walls with
an occasional intrusion of porphyry, and
at the western end an intrusion of lime
shale. Whether this lime is only local or
not has not yet been determined. The
vein varies in width from few inches to
twelve feet, the average width being three
feet, Some distance west of the No. 3
shaft spur makes off from the vein, runs
in a southwesterly course through a bed
of lime, which merges into quartzite, and
creates what is known as the south vein
in the Ontario group and the Daily vein in
the DAILY company's ground.
''The company owns q, 500 feet of work
ing ground on the main vein and from
200 to 1900 feet on the south vein.
L
you. Our production is well known. Up
to the time of the incorporation it was
about 5000, 900, which with that since that
time makes total of more than S27. 900.
900. And as to the future, we'll, there is
enough III sight at the present depth OF
the shaft to run the mill for three years,
and probably four. There is 800 feet of
virgin ground below the bottom level of
No. 8 shaft, extending westward to the
lrrl he hoe "A
of permanency on the !, 800 level, and if
anyone can tell from that the future OF
the mine, he may"
The recent fall in Ontario stock was
caused by the non payment of the No
vember dividend. This was caused by
the price of silver and was not due to any
decrease in production.
The drain tunnel is progressing slowly,
being now in about II, 600 feet. Great
trouble has been eXpesienced with water
and soft ground. The outflow at present
is 10, 600 gallons per minute.
THE DAILY
mine lies on the same lode as the Ontario.
1t is named for John j. Daily, who, for
himself and others, secured the ground
by location and purchase in 1888 and 1884.
In 1885 the DAILY company was organized
and prospecting commenced. Over 5000, :
OUO W0lS SESHC UC1CAC bHS NS4u Was us
covered or pound of ore extracted. The
mine is now connected with the Ontario
on different levels, and is operated with
two shafts, both fully equipped with the
most modern machinery. No. shaft is
800 feet in depth and No. 2 is 900 feet,
corresponding though with the 500 level
of No. l. The Marsac mill reduces the
Daily ore, the Russell lixivation process
being used. Having the same vein as the
n,,Ao in, oil o0ct
every respect, the description of the
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Year.
Total

mine now began to pay and developments
were made on larger scale. In 1877,
the Ontario mill was built at a cost of
1926, 600 and in 1873 it became necessary
to sink the No, 2 shaft, the No. shaft
being too near the lode and too small for
deep working. The company was or
ganized in 1876 with a capital stock OF
SO, 900 1000. What followed after this IS
best told in Mr.. Chamber own words as
told to the writer.
ssIn 1881 we commenced the first drain
tunnel and the No. 3 shaft and works,
completing both in 1888. The tunnel was
a necessity as a small fortune was being
spent every month in pumping, 1877 tons
of coal being used every day The tunnel
runs from the mill to the No, 3 shaft,
6, 357 feet, south 500 feet, and thence west
2, 700 feet to the Daily line, making a
total OF 9 ,557 feet The No. 8 shalt and
hosting works cost the company more
than half a million dollars, and this i'm
mense outlay was projected, too, when 1t
was not known whether the vein eX-
tended into the ground that was to be
explored through the shaft or not. 1t
was risky proposition, but resulted
satisfactorily. This shaft is l,OOo 1eet
deep, and has not been sunk any in the
past six years. On the 1,00O-foot level
the ore bodies are large and have all the
necessary evidence that they continue as
deep as they do at the No. shaft; but as
there are such large reserves of ore above
the 600-foot level, which the drain tunnel
cuts, we have been working them out,
taking only such ore from below as was
necessary in prospecting or extending the
drifts. At the No. 3 works is located the
big Cornish pump, the largest and latest
improved pump in the west. The fly
wheel is thirty feet in diameter and
weighs sventy tons. The pumps are
twenty inches in diameter. with a ten
foot stroke, capable of throwing 800 gal
Ions of water per stroke. The pump rod
is 1850 feet long and sixteen inches
square, ofOregon pine. The different sec
tlons are held together by iron strapping
plates 1x1O and KIP inches and thirty feet
long. This pump lifts the water from the
1,O0O-foot level 10 the 600-foot level,
whence it is carried off by the drain tun-
mel. 1t lifts 1850 gallons per minute,
1853. 900 gallons per hour, and in day
$3.50, 400 gallons. This is expensive
work, and to do away with it the No. 2
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THE PLAcERs OF THE SAN JUAN.
Rich Discoveries Recently Made in South
eastern Utah.

Rich Discoveries Recently Made in South
eastern Utah.
Within about ten days some of the rich
est placer diggings ever discovered IN the
west have been found in the San
Juan country, in the southeast
ern part of Utah. 1t is. as
yet, too early to predict what the result
viii be but, at the present writing there is
every reason to believe that the placers
extend for many miles along the San Juan
river. There is water in plenty. and al
though the country is almost inaccessible,
stampede from all the surrounding
towns has already set in, and the latest
reports say the diggings are little less than
marvellous in their richness.
II Is SAID by Mr.. John Morgan, who
is we'll acquainted with that section OF
Utah, that the winter climate at the new
digcings is delightful, and that when the
prospectors are driven from the other
mining camps OF Utah by the deep snow
and low temperature, work can be carried
on along the San Juan with pleasure.
The San Juan country is on the banks
of the San Juan river and embraces part
Of the four corners of Utah, Colorado,
New Mexico and Arizona, these states
and territories cornering at this point.
The Navajo reservation takes in the
northwestern corner of Arizona, so that
the country open for the prospector lies
in southwestern Colorado and southeast
ern Utah.
HOW TO GET THERE.
II you want to get to San Juan and
reach the mining country IN southeastern
Utah that is now so much talked about,
take the Rio Grande Western to Grand
Junction, 29l miles from Salt Lake city.
Here you change cars and ride ninety
miles on the Denver & Rio Gran6e mar
row guage to Montrose, at which point
you take the Rio Grande Southern which
bears to the west, passing through Tellu-
ride and Rico. By getting off at Mancos
you are in the Colorado corner of the San
Juan country. From Mancos the pros
pector can easily work his way westward
into the Utah corner, there being a white
settlement of twenty-five families al
Bluff.
If you desire to save railroad fares you
can leave the Rio Grande Western al
Thompson Springs, 213 miles from this
city. and make the journey by wagon,
there being a good wagon road, except
where it crosses the Dolorus mountains
Crossing the Colorado and passing the
Blue mountains on the eastern slope you
viii strike the San Juan river little east
of the Utah line, after covering some 12i
miles.
The San Juan is big stream, close tc
the size of the Green river. 1t has beer
known for years that there was gold in
that vicinity, and the recent rich finds
only serve to convince those who are
acquainted with the territory that The
placers are rich and extensive.
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Bullion. Ore Sales Total.

Net tons ore p, IS Il 4s0 36,76l
Silver fine 81, 1928 S93 903. IS ia ,OS9. 46
Gold fine OF 81 80 9I3. "A ,e75 23
Lead lbs. . ...... -. 3, S27 80 :, 327, 756
Amt sold forS7o9, 95s 81 1891 o24 6O8 ,3O6, 1888. 10
Note-December and part OF November esti-
Dec 10. 1892
Most of the development work done this
year has been on the 500 aud 900 foot levels
west, and in the drift on the vein in the
1900 foot level. The usual force of 500 men
has been employed. No great improve
ments have been made in the surface
works The Ontario was discovered in
1871 by Herman Budden and partner, the
former accidentally discovering the only
outcropping the vein has ever shown on
the surface. about six inches in diameter.
In few days they had sunk on the dis
covery and uncovered fine looking
ledge. George Hearst happened along at
that time, being here to examine the Nc
Henry mine. He was pleased with the
showing of the Ontario and upon his re-
turn to Salt Lake arranged with r. c.
Chambers, the present Superintendent of
the mine, TO watch it for further develop
ment. Mr.. Chambers did so, and so sat
isfied was he with the prospect that he
purchased it for Hearst and others for
$50, OC0, Aug. "A, 1872. Prospecting was
at once commenced, the first ore being
shipped in November 1872. In the fol-
lowing season the No. 1 shaft was sunk
and 200 tons of ore was extracted. The
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THE CRESCENT.

The low price of lead and silver for a
number of months past has not been a
good thing for the Crescent company. It's
ore is principally Alow grade carbonates
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tario, the Daily, the Crescent, the Lead.
the Old Jordan and South Galena,
the Stewart, the Niagara, and half a
dozen mills and concentrators of more or
less Importance.
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The NJ JUNb
property, in Blue Ledge district, has
been worked almost constantly this
year. Early in the spring the owners
succeeded by means of pipe and blower
in getting the long tunnel ventilated.
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THE ONTARIO.
In reviewing the mining industry of
the Park, the Ontario comes first for it
stands first. With production of nearly
$50, 100000, it has few rivals in the world.
1t is famous the world over on account of
its great production, increasing richness
and permanency. The following is
statement of the output of the mine for
1892
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The Daily continues to keep up it's divi-
dends Notwithstanding the low price of
silver, and from all indication will not do
otherwise. The mine looks better than
ever before, and will BE- heard from dur
ing 1898 if given a chance.
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OUTPUT AND DIVIDENDS OF THE ONTARIO TO DATE.
Dividends.

a. s6 SO SIS 99s2s al, aa9 assls, 100 %