The Anaconda standard., 1895-05-24

of Jones. and Robinson of Murray. too.
Ben Broodas. another old-timer of the
Murray neighborhood, went along.
Jones is safe in Spokane. The others
would like to be. Micky Mack was
swamping at Coolgardie when last
heard of. Ben Broodas was last seen
walking into Freemantle, Western Aus
tralia. Robinson had his leg broken
on the steamer Just out of Auckland,
N. H., and is laid up somewhere for re-
pairs. Skivington is somewhere be-
tween here and San Francisco, and
vaughn is strung out along the road,
no one seems to know exactly where.
Although a very rainy evening, all
Spokane turned out to hear General
A. j. Warner and Hon. ]. c. Sibley on
the silver question. The Auditorium
was packed to the doors with an en-
thusiastic audience in which all par
ties were represented. The meeting
did not break up until a very late
hour, when General Warner and Mr..
Sibley were presented each with n
chain containing 16 links of silver and
one of gold. OF the speeches made it
is useless for your correspondent to
write, as these gentlemen will be soon
heard i'm Montana, for which place they
left the city this morning.
Residents of Stevens county have
filed application for the appointment
by President Cleveland of a special
commissioner to examine the charac-
ter of Northern Pacific lands in seven
townships recently ordered advertised.
They allege that these lands are more
valuable for mineral than for agricul-
tural purposes, affirming that some of
them are not even good for grazing
lands, while new and valuable mineral
discoveries are being made which
promise TO rival the famous mines of
Idaho. Therefore they don't think the
railway company ought to have the
lands.
Councilman r. S. Oakley returned
last night from the Trail Creek coun-
try and brought with him some fine
specimens of ore from Gold Hill, seven
miles southeast of Rossland.
"The district promises to be a splen-
did one" said Mr.. Oakley. Andy ST.
mons, Captain Burbridge and T.. II.
Hughes. who are now up there, believe
il TO be the lost gold ledge which was
discovered by the boundary line sur
veyors in 1866, and which some of them
tried to find number of years after
wards but failed. Andy Simons pointed
out to me old blazes on the trees which
must have been put there years ago,
but are still quite distinct. He said
he discovered IL in 1891, and located a
claim. which he relocated last year
The surface rock resembles the Trail
Creek specimens.
along the entire length of the ledge.
So does every other claim up there.
II is concentrating ore, the surface rock
indicating that 20 tons of quartz can
be converted into one ton of conccn-
trates which, when shipped, will bring
from 5000 to s., 900 a ton"
The Boundary City, Wash, corre-
spondent of the Spokesman-ReView
says: The Kootenai Water Supply
company has so nearly completed it's
plant for hydraulicing it's placer fields
between the confluence of the Pend
dOreille and Columbia rivers and Eff
teen-Mile creek on the first named river.
as to be able to dispense with about
all of the unskilled labor employed on
construction. The heavy machinery
shipped from the East is expected at
an early date. and as soon as received
will be placed in position, when hy-
draulc work can commence and the
hills along the Pend d'Oreille and bars
made to disgorge the precious metal
SO long concealed from men. Besides
supplying power for Its own purposes,
the company will have ample to fur
nish other enterprises i'm The vicinity.
as Manager Goodhue estimates that
his plant will be fully 4.000-horse power
| continuously.
The steamer l[o1+cndi is carrying
| daily 80 tons Of Uossland ore IRON
| Trail landing 70 NorIhport, and the
| Lytton carries 90 tons or it's semi
weekly trips.