Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-26

y " appears lot n Few ualH Nko IN prospect
/ ing with a diamond drill some clean silver
came through the tube and on breaking
I through a body OF ore eight feet wide
which shows native all through. has been
uncovered and Il runs between 400 and 500
ounces.
WYOMING.
new streak Of rich ore has been found
In the Albion mine at Cooper Hill II as
says SIS In gold
The Warren Live Stock company has pur-
/ chased seventy-fve high grade merino rams
| from the famous Taylor herd at Casper and
has shipped them TO the company's ranges.
The Evanston city government Is remov-
! Ing an island which is just above the bridge
near the Chinatown, and Is using the dirt to
construct a leyee to prevent the annual
overflow on the Almy road.
a report has been received at Green
River from the two men who left some
time since on an exploring trip down the
! Green river. when heard from they we're
| in Blake Utah. having travelled sol miles,
In which distance they traversed 259 rapids
| and passed through four canyons from ten
to seventy miles in length. They will con
| tinue their Journey down the river to its
| junction with the Colorado.
report from the Jackson's Hole country
is to the effect that the Indians are killing
game. in violation OF the state law, and
that number of parties OF white men. non
residents of Wyoming, are also In the Hole
slaughtering antelope and deer indiscrimi-
nately. The law requires a license TO be
procured before game is killed and parties
Of four or five men from outside the state
go into the HOle, make a camp and then
one OF them will go to the nearest Justice
and procure license for himself and the
entire party proceed to roam the hills and
shoot game A gentleman. who recently
came from that country. says that the white
men are doing more to depOpulate the
county of game than the Indians.
OREGON.
1t is reported that the proposed telephone
line from Bandon south is now almost
assured fact
Eggs have been scarce in Marshdeld for
some time and have been selling at 80 cents
2 dozen there.
Tho John Day Touring mill in Grant
county is running sixteen hours daily and
is grinding 400 bushels of wheat 4 day.
A. Nichols who lives near Foster. in
Yamhill county, three years ago caught
| fawn and from its increase now has five
deer, all thoroughly tame.
Captain Nico's salmon cannery at Alsea
| bay is making a fine pack and nearly 10000
/ cases will be put up II there is no abatement
/ in the run before the season closes.
Uniontown will again be one OF the live
/ lest mining camps in southern Oregon, as
/ the Cameron mines will soon be put in
operation ON larger scale than ever
Near Lebanon the Davenport brothers have
| in successful operation a new Industry, in
| the shape OF frst-class sorghum mill a
! fine grade OF cane syrup is turned out.
In running a tunnel into the Black Re
| publican mine on Frozen creek. a tributary
/ OF Myrtle creek. the workmen have struck
very rich ore. bearing copper and gold.
! when T. ]. Buford was agent on the ST.
| LETT he procured two pairs OF China
pheasants and turned them loose there.
! These handsome game birds have multiplied
| until they are now quite numerous around
the agency and the upper and lower farms.
The Pendieton wooden mills have delv-
| cred TO customers the first lots OF blankets
and Indian robes that the mills have turned
/ out. The blankets have been inspected by
men who are experts in such matters and
are said to be the best OF their kind ever
| seen in Pendleton.
South Sea island ram has been inn
/ ported by the Baldwin Sheep and Land COM
pany and is now on the company's farm on
! Hay creek In Wasco county. The ram has
! as fine wool as any thoroughbred merinO.
| and the STAPLE is fully ten inches in length
| and Is as fine silk.
William Humbert, one Of the owners OF
| the Ashland wooden mills. went to Eureka
4 to confer in regard to transferring their
| wooden mill to that place. The proposition
| Is now under consideration by a committee
! Of citizens. and it is expected the Chamber
OF Commerce will take action.
Fred Williams Of Umatilla county reports
an exceptionally good run the past season
I with his threshing machine. In thlrty-nine
I days his machine turned out in good shape
| $3.50 sacks Of wheat, an average OF 9l2
/ sacks per day for the seasons run. This
was done with a 32-inch machine
Tons Of fish are going to waste on the
beaches in Uppertown and AlderbroOk, says
l the Historian. Within the past few days
millions OF sardines have been thrown up
I nv the high tides the shore along the
/ city front, and 1t has appeared 10 spectators
I that something should be done toward pack
! ing this magnificent article OF food. The
! fish are as fine in quality as any ever put
up in oil, and II would seem that new in
dustry OF remunerative and large proper
| tons only awaits the energy OF some practi-
cal man. says the Historian.
WASHINGTON.
Forty men are at work on a wagon road
to the new mining field at Deer creek, on
the Everett Monte Cristo railway.
Wild fowl are plentiful on Willapa harbor
and the run of slverside salmon ever there
has begun. All the traps and nets are hav-
ing fine catches.
The Yakima fair paid expenses and a few
hundred dollars over. All purses and pre-
miums have been paid, as also the employees
and most or the incidental expenses.
The mills for making oatmeal and -four
in Tacoma and Seattle are running night
and day and yet are behind in their orders
The demand for -four from the Orient has
been simply phenomenal and the rOlled-oat
trade cannot be supplied by the present
mills.
Mr.. Stevens of Ellensburg has a herd OF
twenty-sX Jersey COWS, twenty OF which
are thoroughbFeds. The average yield OF
butter was 374 pounds to the COW
last year, and Mr.. Stevens says the yield
this year will be better than that. The cash
returns were SCI so COW.
Mr.. Hoad caught a strange fish in his fish
trap, near South Bend, recently. No one
there has been able to name it. 1t appears
to be a species Of catfish, but its head is so
constructed that its mouth opens directly
upward 1t has no scales. but is a bright
silver color, except on the back where it is
dirty gray.
TIE Board OF County Commissioners of
Stevens county has granted license to j.
II. Saville to conduct a steel cable ferry at
China bend. point on the Spokane Falls &
Northern railway, about half way between
Marcus and Northport. About 1000 feet OF
cable will be employed to span the Column
bia river at this point, and the inducement
Tor putting in ferry is the accessibility OF
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