Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-03
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
The Mining Fever Breaks Out at
Medford, Oregon.
CRATER LAKE 4 SUMMER RESORT.
Mine Owners Of Northern Idaho Threaten
to Close Down on Account Of
High Freight Rates.


The ice In the Fraser river is breaking
up.
The Oregon Senate has paused free
coinage resolution.
A burglar In one night at Phenix, A.
T. entered four offices q bank and a
sttble, and was cap, urd on the follow
ing morning.
The Navajoes are assuming threaten
ing disposition. Bad whisky 10 thought
20 have much 10 do with the continued
troubles on the reservation.
Salt Lake has completed the raising OF
500 COO In money and 100 acres OF land
a. q bonus for the copper refinery pro-
posed TO be erected by Messrs. Posey &
Green.
The State and Southern California
Beck sepers' Association will petition the
legislature for an appropriation, to be
used for the publication oil convent on
proceedings and 70 issue bulletins OF In
formation TO honey-producors.
The Brxdstreet mercantile agency re-
ports sixteen failures In the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week. aa compared with fourteen for the
previous week and twelve Tor the corre-
spending week Of 1892.
The sensation NJ Los Angeles 10 the
resignation OF j. II. Crank, receiver Of
the Pacitic Cable Railroad Company.
Ramon couples the circumstance with
the probability OF q consolidation Of that
company with this Electric Railroad
Company.
An irrigation company proposes to
a 4 Aaatx ~ tAtA
where the river passes through granite
gorge l75 feet in height and not over 100
feet across 1T the widest point OF the
proposed dam. A lake will DO formed
nine miles long, three TO five miles Wide
and OF nm average depth oil thirty feet,
with sufficient water to irrigate $50, 900
acres OF government land, nov unoccu-
pied Tor the most part.
on tho UmatllIa reservation. The snow
IL reported to he three feet deep, and
the cayuses are unable TO roach the grass,
Their owners. true to indian tradition,
neglected TO provide last summer for a
possible cold winter. Many who we're
rich in ponies when the winter began
will come out in the spring on an equal
ity with their poorest neighbors, 80 lar
AZ wealth ID concerned.
Petitions are now being circulated In
all the LABOR esnters In Montana Tor the
enactment D bill, an important section
Of which ID as iollows, THAT II will be
unlawful for any officer OF the state OF
Montana or any officer Of any town or
city thereof to issue license TO engage
In any kind ot bisiness within this State
TO any person or persons not citizens or
not having declared their intentions TO
become citizens OF the United States. !"
This 10 sweeping blow at the Chinese
and will, II II becomes q law, shut up
every store, restaurant and laundry run
by Chinese In the State.
The mining fever has broken out In
Mediord, Or. and professional, business
and laboring men are looking toward the
hills and anxiously awaiting a settle
ment OF the weather with view OF taxi
Ing prospecting touf. New impetus IL
given TO the excitement each day by the
return of prospectors with specimens OF
rich gol1-heariDg quartz and glowing ac-
counts OF the disabilities OF the mineral
belt OF Southern Oregon. But all pre-
vions returns were totally eclpssd when
ID. III. Horn came to Town with peck
etFul OF quartz. Many Of the specimens
contained almost an equal amount OF
gold and quartz, some OF the PARTICLES OF
gold being ~ large rs pea. Five
ponnds OF this rock, whom pounded out
by hand mortar, produced over 400,
which would run the percentage up to
the modest sum Of $40,r % TO the ton.
II Ia reported from Central Point, a
station on the Southern Pacific four
miles west OF Mediofd, Or, that the
railroad company has entered into an
.l.t ~ H.
carry passengers between that point aud
Crater Lake in the Cascade Mountains.
The distance from the railroad 10 the
lake is eighty miles, and stage line is
10 he established between the two points.
Mr.. Fradenburgh says the railroad has
guaranteed him 1000 passengers at ~
each. lie has already purchased sufii-
cient stage coaches to accom- mo date this
number OF tourists, and IL Ia his purpose
10 erect q summer hotel at the lake. In
good weather the road 70 the lake Is all
right for driving. and the round trip can
he made In FIVE days without change
OF horses. II Ia thought that Crater
Lake will be q popular resort for tourists
and pleasure seekers this summer. The
possibility OF the reservation OF this land
by the government for q national park
probably accounts for the action taken
BY the railroad.
John Hayes Hammond, General Man
sger Of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan sill
yer mine at Wardner, Idaho, has re-
ceiyed word from Northern railroads
which has about convinced him that he
will Close down the mine. Nearly all OF
the other great mines will also cloee
down. For some months past Mr.. |
Hammond and others OF the Mine Own |
ere Association have been endeavoring |
20 get q reelection Of freights from the |
Northern Pacific and Union PaciHc rail- |
roads, which carry their ores and con |
cen rates to Tacoma, Denver and Omaha |
smelters. Nine owners have gone so far |
as 10 offar sliding scale Of compensation |
for carrying, 30 that when silver and |
lead come mp again the railroads will re- |
csive more than they did before. To |
these ovettures. however, the railroads |
have beeu deal, aud as (so Mr.. Ham |
mnnd tslls) Il 10 cost ng them nearly |
double 10 work their mines than IL does |
Dir. uagyin aud other mine owners at |
Butte and Anaconda, near nc hand, they |
cannot continue end must close down |
about March /. Mr.. Hammond said
az don't see any ether way to do. We
have either got 10 cut on the expenses
OF mining or in freights. We cannot, |
however. cut enough to enable us TO |
work Any cut then would not make |
enough difference II we got no reduction |
on q eight. The outlook 10 not encour-
aging ior silver mine owners and ii seems |
IN me the only thing for mining in geu-