Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-04-13
A COLONY OF sLAvoNIANs.

A COLONY OF sLAvoNIANS.
1t is Being Located on an Immense Tract
in California
Rev. Father Peter Joseph Jcram.
president of the California Slavonic col
ony, Eden Valley. Mendocino county, ac-
companied by 1O2 people, has arrived,
says the San Francisco Call The colo
! nists came from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Hill
/ nois, Wisconsin and other states. Three
were from Rock Springs, Wyo.
All are bound to Eden valley, where
/ $4,000 acres of land have been purchased
and where bond has been obtained on
as much more. The colonists will con-
| duct their business on the cooperative
plan. They are practical growers of
live stock, and this will be their speciality
in Eden valley. They will raise cattle,
| hogs and fowls, and, as Father Jeram
states, when a go per cent. duty is placed
on wool they will raise sheep.
This is only the beginning of our
colony enterprise" said Father Jeram.
''All the arrangements have been made
for it to become gigantic success. That
valley up there is to be a fatherland to
the colonists. We have got $4,000 acres
there now and have arranged to take
great deal more. There will be many
thousand colonists before we complete
our work. Fully 5000 will be in the val
ley before the end of the year,
The colony is incorporated on the basis
of 100000. The land lies between the
north and middle forks of the Eel river,
forty-seven miles north of Ukiah CAL
It was only recently thrown open to
colonization.
Gas Explosions in Steam Boilers.
Everyone who has much to do with
boiler management is familiar with the
| fact that from time to time explosions
| occur in the combustion chamber, and
not infrequently they cause more or
less serious damage. An instance is re-
called where an explosion occurred in the
| furnace of return-tubular boiler, which
was so violent that the brick wall at
the rear of the setting was completely
/ demolished. Explosions having sufficient
! force to blow open the fredOOr are quite
| common, and instances are reported
/ where the fame which follows such an
occurrence burns the fireman who hap
pens to be standing in front of the door.
! Another instance might be mentioned
where the accumulation of gas in the
! space surrounding a fue heater explod-
| ed and blew down the whole side wall
| in which the heater was set. We draw
| attention to this subject to relate the cir
cumstances attending a case where ex-
| plosions occurred several times every day,
which produce them, and how they were
remedied in this particular instance.
| There were two vertical boilers, in
| which the draft was produced by CHM
ney at some distance away, and the con-
Meeting fue after leaving the uptakes,
| descended for a distance of some twelve
feet. The quantity of work which the
boilers were doing was much below their
/ capacity, and it was necessary to fire.
/ quently check the draft This was done
! by closing the ashpit doors, and when
/ the steam pressure began to fall the
| doors were opened again Meanwhile
| the hampers in the t1ueS close to the
| boilers were kept wide open, and the reg
| ulation of the draft was effected entirely
| III the manner noted. Under these cir
| cumstanceS there were frequent gas ex-
| blossoms, though not often with serious
results, the only effect being. to blow
| open the tiredoors. The remedy applied
was simply to keep the lower doors open
and regulate the draft by the hampers.
| 1t is evident that with the system first
! ,practiced the dosing of the ashpit doors
cut off the supply Of air to the fuel, and
it converted the furnace into sort of
gas producer. The gas evolved from the
| coal by the high temperature received
an insufficient quantity of air to effect
| proper combustion. When the unburned
| gas had accumulated sufficiently it took
| fire in q body and caused the explosion.
| Changing the moCnOQ OF cOnCrOlIlnS the
| draft accomplished the object without
cutting down the supply Of air, and en-
| tirely overcame the trouble.
Silver Dollars for Snowballs.
Three years ago this spring Peter Will
borg left his home in California for
Cook Inlet, Alaska. For nearly three
years he worked increasingly in the gold
regions. Last November he came back
to the states ON a visit, bringing with
him $4,000 in gold dust and nuggets
After banking $35, 1000 in San Francis
co he started out to have good time
on the remaining $4,000. He spent
four months in the Eastern and South
ern cities, spending the larger part of his
pocket money. Today he left here on the
steamer City of Topeka on his return to
the Alaska gold fields. While the steam
err was lying at the wharf at Port Town
send he amused himself by throwing
double handfuls of silver dollars at the
boys on the wharf. Every boy who
could hit the eccentric Alaskan miner
with a SNOWFALL would get a handful of
coin thrown at him in return. Wilborg
appeared to enjoy the sport and of course
the boys did. AS the boat pulled out
from the wharf he pelted the boys with
money as long as he was within throw
ing distance. During Wilborg's three
years of exile his only companion was a
dog. On his return he had two dogs.
which he will take to his lonely retreat