The evening times., 1896-12-05
HA[F HOUR IN NORTHWEST
Senator Wilson Talks a Little
With Gen. Frank Jones.
MONEY AND MINING CAMPS
How the People of Far Washington
of Them Get Rich-FOrtunes Made
In Day-The Soft Chinook and It's
Blessings.

The empire State of the far Northwest
that bears the same name as this city, has
one representative who never allows IL
be forgotten the people from whom he comes
nor the land they live in. Few men have
| done SO many things in the past few years
by which they will be SO long remembered
| here.
1t was he who set the House in roar
| at the Cleveland following in the Fifty-third
| Congress by answering vehement speech
| OF one OF them with the familiar notes OF
| the parlor clock, "Cuck- oo, cuckoo" and
| the name has stuck ever since.
Senator Wilson met Assistant Postmaster
| General Jones in a company that was wait
| ing at committee meeting door Tor a
hearing the other day, ana they fell to
| talking Both came originally from the
! same region of the middle West, and breathe
the free air and carry the easy good-feilow-
ship OF the Wabash valley. Assistant Post
master General Maxwell was also present.
| As they talked Mr.. Wilson fell 10 telling
| the things they do in the land OF his adop
| ton since the time he was sent from his
| Indiana home by President Arthur to take
| care of the public moneys in Washington
| Territory. He has watched the Territory
| grow t. be State, and is justly proud OF
| ITS material strength and the pluck and
| energy of its citizens.
He first described how they get gold
| out OF the mountain rocks east and north
| of Spokane. giving in detail the Sneading
| OF the broken quartz with quicksilver, the
| roasting OF this in blacksmith's forge to
! drive out the baser metal, and the collec-
ton OF the yellow treasure. The quicksl-
| yer, he said, is then used over again to cx-
F, tract more gold from the rocks hole.
do You lose much that way?'' asked
Gel Jonps
About one one -hundredth OF per cent
was the reply.
FORTUNES MADE IN A DAY.
when went out to Spokane, in 1sS3,"
| continued Mr.. Wilson, lit was not thought
of as a mineral country at all. Since then
| ii has been developed, and now is the richest
gold, silver, and lead bearing region in
the world outside OF Colorado. We work
200 miles up into British Columbia, too.
/ remember three or four years ago John
a Fitch offered me so, 600 shares in i
mine up there at cents share.
If had taken it should be very rich
man on that alone for the rest Of my life.
| Turner, whom / defeated for Congress
| the first time, was just about broke when
We got through the race. He bought 10000
shares in the LIE Roy mine at 10 cents
share and gave his note. In six months it
was worth $50 share.
Il made tnp over into that country
this summer, and do think the Wahawa
prairie is the prettiest thing / ever land
eyes on. Is you go over those mountains
You strike benches along the streams where
p, 1t is level enough for cultivation, and
whenever You find one of these you see the
finest fruit farms in the world
The narrow river bottoms are a fertile
as any land in the world, and bring an
abundance OF every sort of grain, yege-
table, and fruit. The bills are fun or
gold and silver. The people over there
don't bother themselves about politics.
They don't care who is President and don't
trouble themselves for a minute about post
office appropriations.
II went last summer all the way over to
Mother Cleary's She is n widow who lives
at the limit of the white mans country.
up one OF the narrow valleys. She has two
sons and daughter, all grown, or nearly
SO, and not one OF them has ever seen a
steam car or a telegraph line. They know
of the telephone and electric light only from
The newspapers that stray in there oc-
caSionally. They make a little world to
themselves and are perfectly content An
old pensioner who is employed about the
place and has become like a member Of
the family told me he went into the val
ley in s62, after he had been crippled in
the army, and had never been out since"
LOOKING FOR 4 PLACE To FALL.
well, tell me-" said Mr. Jones You
know thereare coed many OF Us for whose
services our country viii not be calling
very emphatically in a little while now
would you think that good place for
man 10 20 who was looking for somcwher,.
to settle DOWN.
NO better place in the world for man
who wants plenty and quiet. Thereareluts
of chances TO get rich, just as / have told
you a little while ago. It's like lottery
about that. But everybody has plenty,
whether they get rich or not. I'm going to
try my luck there when III term expires 8"
"oh. you'll be reelected" said Mr
Maxwell.
Il don't think so. III tel you. When
we all went down TO Tacoma in SO, at
the time the State was admitted to the
Union, was the only candidate FOR any
office who was not in the ring; and they
paid Sc little attention to me that they
DIDN'T invite me TO share in their plans
Butt slipped up IN them, and had a rcsolu-
tiun adopted to have representative be-
fore they named governor. This gave
the whole CROWD back seat and / was
sent here by big majority.
THAT is only ten years ago, and what
has happened since shows Low ycliiicians
fade in our country. They xiii us off IN
short time. Everyone of those fellows
who were in control iii our State in 1889
is uut OF politics now. Not only is lie cut
OF national ana state politics, but he is
out of county and even precinct affairs.
They have simply disappeared from the
political field And every one of them
is laying for me, and tEey'n get me too.
l can hear their knives wetting as / go
through the State.''
FU'f N THE CAMPAIGN
"Well, the silver people rather got
your State, didn't they?'
Yes but We had barrel of fun with
them. Jones-excuse me, nothing per-
sOnal, just the generic Ioncs-got his chart
all ready, and went about showing how
silver and wheat kept company When
one went down the other went down. 1t
was all scheme TO keep up the price OF
gold and so on. But just about the time he
was in the miGdle of his song, the price
of wheat began sailing up, while silver
ven' ON down, and it Iroke his chart all to
pieces
but think the rrcttiest thing was
the way caught Judge Turner over at
Tacoma. He got up in speech one night
and told how the free coinage OF silver
was going to make times better. You know
that's what's the matter with our people.
Everybody is in debt and nobody is making