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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-07
REAL ssTArE FOR SALE.

100 ACRES close, 10 City limits south side.
suitable for subdivision, ohe-half In 9TH
err good property. Address T.. o. box
q. HtMlston, Texas. 80 &
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AGENf'S-s33 90 every week up to Christ
mas, giving away free Specially Soaps
as sample and Introduction and selling
Perfection Gaslight Burners; no chin
ney, no smoke, no wicss; makes kero-
sene lamps give brilliant, clear, gaslight:
sample free to workers. Perfection Mfg.
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HELP WANTED.

AGENTS making $40 to $50 a week; great
est agents seller ever invented: both
canvassfng and general agents needed ;
full particulars BY NAH. Monroe Mfg.
Co, y 1856, Lacrosse. Wis. 4
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE--Eegant full leather top
phaetons, with leather trimmings and
spring backs. worth 500, $50 Edw. Lar
street. IN
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statesmen for cigars 1925 month and
expenses; old firm. experience unneccs-
ssry. G. c. Bishop d Co.. st. Louis, Mo-
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/ TWO nfcely furnished rooms,
HIGHT housekeeping. No. l5la
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FOR SALE--Wheeler & Wilson Improved
Sewing Machine. has ball bearings and
rotary motion; best machine made Of
flee, els Travis street. o. A. Hommer-
sand dealer. 3
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ADMINISTRATORS goods; it's a cinch:
mums the word uno Mfg. Co., Gin
cinnati Ohio 7
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30

across desert and mountain for dis
lance of $50 to 300 miles. AS the null
titude jOurneyed on the report of the
richness of Hank Binford's fad gre "
until it seemed as if wagon loads of
rich GOLD ore awaited the travellers.
Merchants and professional men in
Maricopa and Tucson aud that part of
Southern Arizona became i'm bued with
the spirit of the miners, and, turning
their business over to others, Joined in
the movement on Rocky Belle. The
hardships that the fortune-seekers suf-
fered in the mountains will never be
fully known. y large number of men
coming out of the warm, balmy air of
the semi-tropic valleys lost their lives
amid the snow banks and ice in the
mountains, and many man was made
an invalid for life because of exposure
to the biting cold during the stampede.
AZ severe blizzard ragged in the noun
tains for several days while the miners
were slowly trudgirg through them.
In one party of over 100 men from New
Mexico four men were frozen to death
one morning, and it is thought that
fully twenty more died in the same
way in the mountains at that time.
To this day there are in California and
Arizona gray-headed miners who lack
a finger. toe or an ear lost in the
terrible cold of that stampede.
When at last the Rocky Belle dig
gings were reached it was soon seen
that there was 70 ore in the district
worth the digging except the claims
held by Hank Binford and his friends,
and that the reports of their find had
been exaggerated beyond all reasons.
Binford's own mine petered out year
or two later, and he got only a few
Thousand dollars from it. The speci-
mems of ore shown in Tucson and Los
Angeles were the very choicest from
the mine, and not hit or miss pick-ups,
as had been said of them.
Along in the summer of 1873 a miner
named Stevens wrote to friend in
Phoenix that be had found claim
that beat anything in mining this side
of the COmstock lode in Nevada, and
that with a common iron mortar and
pestle he had pounded out from so to
800 worth of gold dust day. The
claim was located 120 miles northwest
from Kingman, near the since famous
Harqua Hala mining region, and there
was chance, SO Stevens wrote, for
other men TO strike it rich UP there.
OF course, such news could not BE- kept
quiet. 1t travelled with miracu Gus
speed through every camp in the Salt
River Valley and over to Prescott. In
less than two weeks all that part of
Arizona was deeply stirred by the re-
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30
National Guard State of Texas.

''lf is a matter of pride to me-" says
Gen. Mabry, ''to' note the enthusiasm
and interest displayed by our state
troops. 1t is made more forcible by
the fact that nearly half of the com
panies of the L. V. G. in camp entered
the prize contests. This speaks
great deal for the citizen soldiery, es-
pecially when they failed.tO receive en-
cOuragement from the State. 1t shows
that the personnel is unequaled by any
state in the Union. All of the state
soldiers have pride of character that
causes them to edlist in the volunteer
guard and make it a success as far as
opportunity presents"
Booth-Tucker said that special in
ducements had been made them d,
various points, but expressed himself
greatly pleased with Las Cruces, and
said the Mesilla valley had been one OF
the points mentioned to him as mos,
favorable for the locating of a col.
ony. Said he hoped such inducements
would be offered them here as to decide
them to at once start q colony here
Republican,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30
Attractive Figures

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her face and figure show it. The pain
full disorders and diseases that afflic1
womenkind make themselves seen as
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Irregularities aud diseases peculiar to
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who is rundown" or overworked, it's
to remember that there's a
medicine that will help you.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30
MINING STAMPEDES.
"REMINISCENCES OF GREAT RUSH
Els IN THE SOUTHWEST.
The ProspectOr Always Ready for a
New Field-SOme Terrible EX-
periences on tie Desert and
in the Mountains.

All the mining men in California are
talking about the extraordinary stam-
pede of men and youths of all descrip-
tons from every part of the country
to the new mining fields in A aska.
In Intensity, spoutaneity and general.
| ity there has been nothing like it Si.ce
the days of 10. Naturally, the rush of
gold-hungry men TO the YUKON has
revived recolections of famous STAN
psdes to other mining fields. In every
| mining community these days remin-
iscences of the Tombstone, the Har-
qua Hala. Colorado river and Other eX-
elements because of the finding of
great wealth hidden in the rocks and
gravel are related every day. A host
of grizzled, ;. hardup, ever hopeful and
philosophic old fellows in this locality
have been in every rush for the rev
mining fields for generation. There
Is hardly d miner or prCSpectOr OF the
old school anywhere in this region who
has not joined in several stampedes
from Il play-out camp for the district
where the latest pay rock has been
found. The history of the Pacific coast |
and the territories, from the discovery
OF gold lie this state in 1913 to the pre- |
sent time, abOunds in stories of unreal |
lied expectations among miners, and |
of sufferingS and privationS endured i'll |
to reach distant mines, from
which reports of riches had gone out.
Probably the widest and greatest
stampede ever known in the southwest
was that to the Rocky Belle camp in
Northern Arizona, in the region of the
NIoqui Indian reservation, in Decem-
Der, 1874. The region is 5000 feet
above the SEA and lies among snow-clad |
1t was an unusually cold win
ter when the news went abroad that
Bank Binford and his companion had
) ruck whole mountain of gold rock
hat assayed over 5000 to the ton. The
'epOrt seemed incredible at first, but
when samples of the ore were seen by
miners in Tucson. Albuquerque aud
Los Angeles they proved sufficient to
atisfy the most skeptical. A week
more and over 1000 miners from every
part of Arizona and Southern Califor-
Tia were moving day and night, scarce I
y stopping for food and sleep, toward I
he Rocky Belle camp. Hundreds of :
nen travelled 700 and 800 miles on foot t
md with mules and donkeys to the e
ew diggings, and nearly all travelled Il
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30
Reasons Why Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and DiArrhOea Rem
edY is the Best

l. Because it affords almost instan,
relief in case of pain in the stomach
collie and cholera mOrbus.
2. Because it is the only remedy that
never fails in the most severe cases OF
dysentery and diarrhOea.
3. Because it is the only remedy that
will cure chronic diarrhoea.
4. Because it is the only remedy that
will prevent bilious collie.
3. Because 1t is the only remedy that
will cure epidemical dysentery
6. Because it is the only remedy that
can always be depended upon in cases
of cholera infantum.
I. Because it is the most prompt and
most reliable medicine in use for bowel
complaints.
8. Because it produces no bad results.
9. Because it is pleasant and safe to
take.
10. Because it has saved the lives OF
more people than any other medicine
in the world.
The 25c and 500 sizes for sale by all
DRUGGISTS.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30

ports, which no one seemed to have
time to investig ate, of the richness OF
the mines that Stevens had found. A
! Thousand or more miners caught the
fever so bad that they started on foot
across the country for Stevens camp
without delay. 1t was a hot, dry sum-
mer, and the journey entailed several
weeks of severe physical labor, tortur
ing thirst, and the endurance of a tenn
perature that usually stood over ITO de-
| grees in the shade. A dozen men died
! from fever and in wild delirium under
that awful sky, and as many more min
ers never recovered from disorders
caused by the privations of that stam-
pede across the desert of Arizona.
Having arrived at the Stevens camp
the excited men realized that there
were claims worth working by about
100 men. Several hundred claims
were staked out in less than day af-
ter the excited miners got to the scene,
but in a fortnight the camp population
fell from 1900 to less than 400. In a
month more about 100 persons were
left to do all the mining. The camp
was abandoned entirely ten years ago.
With the possible exception of the
rush to the Leadville mining district |
in Colorado, there has been none any
where in forty years attended with eX-
that followed the news of the
finding of great deposits of gold and
silver in Tombstone in 1879. Miners
from every part of the Pacific coast
caught the fever for gold, and week
after week samples Of the Tombstone
rock were more widely circulated, and
rumors went forth concerning the for
tune this or that man or company was
out of the hills and mountains
about The new camp, thousands started (
for Tombstone Hundreds of young
men aud youths in the older states were
wild with zeal to hasten to the new Ell .
Dorado and started across the contin-
mt with little or no prepa" alton. In
ess than four months after Grid and 6
he Hawkinses began getting several
thousand dollars day from their !
mines there were over 5000 persons in t
he camp, and several months later t
Tom bstone had population Of over t
5000 men and 200 women. There e
.ever was another camp in the south c
vest like that at Tombstone in 1879 and t
$50. Indeed, there have been very 2
ew similar communities in the world. t
ror. over seven months the daily out
ut of precious metal averaged about p
80. OOO Over dozen men went there b
and came away worth over n
800, 600 in less than year, and six or C
even men struck it rich and sold out e
1r over S1,00O,0OO cash. Fully half b
be population walked hundred of miles d
, get there. No railroad ran through t.
outhern Arizona in those days, and Fl
ne awful Colorado and Mojave des- C
rts had to be crossed in wagons or on t;
,ot by the multitudes of fortune W
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30
Southern Pacific Excursions.

Commercial Agent Hunt, of the
! Southern Pacific, has received tele
graphic notice of a reduction in excur
sion rates to California points, i. e.,
Santa Monica, Long Beach San Pedro,
San Buena Ventura and Santa Barba-
!, ra. The first excursion to be run
Thursday June End, and each succeed
ing alternate Thursday during the
summer. Limit for return ninety days
from date of sale with privilege of
stop overs west of Cotton. Rate from
Ell Paso $45.
The Southern Pacific announce the
following excursions, round trip rates:
The Southern Pacific train leaves Ell
Paso at LOO p. m. daily, reaching New
Orleans Q195 miles, at 82O a. m. Sec
ond morning and by taking the close
ward at that point passengers reach
Chicago, Cincinnati and Nashville the
following morning and New York early
the second morning.
AL year round trip six months limit
tickets on sale to Los Angeles and San
Francisco for $50 and $50 respectively.
The Southern Pacific is the direct
line to California, no change of cars
being necessary. Train leaves Ell Paso
at 9:2O the following evening and San
Francisco at 6:15 p. M. the following
day.
The tickets will allow stop overs in
California both going and coming.
For further particulars, folders, ETC.,
call on:
T. E. HUNT, Com1. Agent.
HARRY TURNER, Ticket Agent.
Offices corner San Antonio and Oregon
streets and passenger depot, Ell Pa
SO, Texas.
G. W. BEIN, Traf. Mgr, Houston, Tex.
L. J. PARKS, Asst. Gen. Psgr. & Tkt.
Agt., Houston, Tex.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30

! seekers from California. Desert sand
storms were encountered, and for days
travellers to Tombstone endured a
| temperature of over 13O degrees in the
! shade. Many a man died on the hot,
sandy plains. Miners on their way to
| the new camp from the east and south
| toiled across the Arizona alkali plains,
| throug h immense cactus areas, and
risked their lives in the then hostile
land of the Apache Indians. But hard
ship, pain, suffering and risk of life
were all secondary to an early arrival
in Tom bstOne and the location of a
mining claim. When Tombstone was
| reached there were new privations and
more physical distress for the greater
mum Der, especially for those who had
fastened from offices, stores, shops
clerkships and the PASTORS study. Over
One-thlrd of the men in camp had very
little money, or none at all, and knew
no way of earning it except by the
hardest kind of manual labor to which
they were unused. 1t cost 81 a night to
sleep in a dirty, rough pine bunk
Water sold at 20 cents gallon. a small
sh OF beans at 80 cents, tallow can
dies at two bits 20 cents, common
Overalls at So each, smoked hams at$I2
each, and cowhide boots were disposed
of as fast as they could be hauled to
camp across the desert from Los An
geleS and Yuma for $50 a pair. 1t was
d grounding case with these commod-
tiles for the first ten months of Tomb
stone-take them at the price asked or
go without. In 1881 all the Tom bstone
mines that paid well were in the hands
of a few perso and the population of
the place had gone down to 5000. In
1888 the mines, with two exceptions,
began to peter out, and the population
dropped to 5000. Since then it has
gone down slowly to less than 1000
souls.
In the last ten years there have been
four or five stampedes to mining camps
in the southwest. In the middle OF the
winter of 1890 California, as far north
as San Francisco, and Arizona, as far
east as Prescott and Phoenix, were
stirred As they had not been for several
years by the news that rich placer
mines rad been found by Mexicans in
Lower California. seventy miles south
of San Diego. That was one of the
most spontaneous stampedes known in
that region. Samples of the pay dirt
were sent to San Diego to he assayed
one Sunday afternoon. The assayer
found it would run over $40Q to the ton.
Somehow the secret got out, AMI was
telegraphed up the Pacific coast. The
telegraph operators in San Diego spent
the next two days and nights in sending
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30

the deluded miners to do when they
got to Harqua Hala but sit about camp
and watch their more lucky associates
dig out the rock. Prices for all kinds
of food went to the top mark with
rapidity. After few weeks idlenass
the mining population at Harqua Hala
dwindled away at the rate of 100 or
more day. A large part of them are
now searching among the noun tans,
through the canyons, on the desert,
and in the foothilli for prospects of
their own. A good, active miner will
locate half dozen mining claims in a
year, but less than 10 per cent of the se
are ever worked
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30
FOR SALE

HOUSE PA, South Campb street,
! five rooms, 81 800; part cash.
| CORNER OF CAMPBELL and Tex
ing east. Price low.
EIGHTY-SIX feet fronting North
Kansas street for 5000.
HOUSE NO. GA San Antonio street.
LARGE LOT on ST. Louis street
near Campbell ST.
HOUSE No. 21S Myrtle street with
lot extending through to San Antonio.
WARE HOUSE PROPERTY on Ell
Paso street below Ketelseh 81 Dege-
tau's. Very cheap. Reached by three
railroad tracks.
LARGE BRICK WAREHOUSE at
a bargain.
lands in the valley above and below Ell
Paso.
CORNER LOTS on San Antonio
street near residence of Waters Davis.
SIXTY FEET on West Overland
street near City Hall
TWO STORY HOUSE No. 311 Tex
in quarterly payments.
SATTERTHWAITE ADDITION
Corner of Oregon and Rio Grande
streets, seven lots cheap.
NORTH EAST corner, Block Alex
anders addition.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30

and receiving messages about the new
diggings. Before Thursday morning
5000 or I, 900 men and youths were on
their way by cars, wagons, horses,
coasting vessels and foot to San Diego
and Lower California. The hardware
stores in Los Angeles and San Diego
and in every village for 100 miles
around sold every pickaX, shovel, tin
dripping pan, washdish aud milk and
brt ad pan they bad on hand to persons
| who equipped themselves for placer
mining and started in a day for the
| mines. For a week little but the dis
cOvery of gold in Lower California and
the prospect of another 1919 gold boom
on the Pacific coast was talked of in
good part of California. Then, when
the week was over, and the first per-
sons who had been down to the mines
returned to San Diego, declaring the
stories of wealth there to be lies and
the excitement over the discover les to
have been manufactured for a purpose,
the old miners went home and philoso-
phically said, 81 might have told you
SO all the time"
Thousands of people will never for !
get the rush for the Harqua Hala dig |
gingS in the spring of 1892. The mines
were found in the north W estern part of |
Arizona, close to the Colorado river |
and the boundary lines between Ari- !,
IONA, California and Nevada. For
several months in the winter of 1912
there came almost every week news of
the big prospects that half dozen
miners, who bad been moving from
one camp to another in the territories
and in Mexico for nearly generation, J
had at last come across at Harqua
Hala. Along in March and April
quantities of gold dust and nuggets
from the mines came into the hands of
bankers in San Bernardino ard Los {
Angeles. The newspapers published {
reports as to the prospects at Harqua
Hala, and in week or two there was
another general rush for the diggings. +
The railroads id land office business t
or several weeks in carrying Ren as
ar as the Colorado river. From there t
he travellers to Harqua Hala packed |
to little river steam boats at
rates of travel. Hundreds !
IT miners who had hardly a dollar /
amped over the mountains $50 and q
100 miles to the mines. Some men in a
heir anxiety to get to Harqua Hala I
With their camp outfits and q
'ersOnal belongings packed them in
'arrels and rolled the barrels over 100
niles to the camp. Even schoolboys
aught the infections from either C
lders, and ran away from school and
ome. Several persons starved to
cath in the stampede. In forty days {
be population of Harqua Hala from
fly over 1000. AS is generally the
ase, the few good mines there were {
aiken up before the news of the find [
-ent abroad and there was nothing forj
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30

The western roads have agreed to &C
back to the original plan of handling
excursion business at the rate of one
fare plus 81. When this plan was first
adopted, some of the railroads collected
the So at the time of the sale of the
ticket, and others at the time of the
execution of the ticket for return pas
sage. This has, in many instances
given rise to charges of rate mauipula.
ton, and to do away with all this
trouble. it has been decided that all OF
the roads shall collect the 81 at the
time of the sale of the ticket.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30
Placers in Mexico.

1t is predicted that when the gold
placer mining is developed in the state
of Guerrero more gold will be taken
out than in the klondyke region. Some
placer mining is being done with ex-
cellent results and labor is cheap and
water abundant, even in the dry sea-
son One miner, an old Californ an,
reports taking out $24 600 gold in May
and his average is S15. 900 per month.
The Indians in Sonora who work in a
crude way in the local gold placers,
only operating when in pressing ned
of money, get large returns for very
little labor, and an explorer who has
recently been through the remoter re-
giCns states that Sonora will equal
California in its palmy days as a gold
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30

A robin recently caught in Medina,
n. Y, by a school boy had tied to its
leg paper asking: ."Where will this
robin build its nestthe coming spring.
and signed, without date, N. Jules
Ferdinand, Box 415, Tampa. Fla. The
school boy wrote to Tampa, giving the
information asked for.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30

It is said on good authority that
l 900, 900 New Mexico lambs have been
contracted for, TO be taken to Colorado.
They will be shipped to Larimer and
Weld counties aud to the Arkansas val
ley,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30

Holden's ositive Pile Cure.
Sufferers use it. Belief will be
speedy and cure positive and perma-
nent II directions are strictly fol-
lowed. For sale by Kelly & Pollard,
1-lppista
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-30
For Rent
Geo. King residence, furnished; N
700 Stanton street.

Geo. King residence, furnished; No
7OO Stanton street.
Store No. 100 Ell Paso street.
When completed, two stores opposite
plaza.
FURNISHED house, 400 Ochoa St.,
6 rooms, $50.
TWO stores in new Mills building,
opposite 'aza.
THREE room brick house on Sonora
street, SO.
ON July 25 house 600 Oregon street,
rooms, S35.
FIVE room house, PA S. Campbell
street, S1S.
OFFICES & STORES in Sheldon
Block. Best Office building in Texas.
FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT INSUR-
ANCE in leading companies, at lowest
rates.
Property placed in my hands exclus-
lively, will be advertised free of cost to
owner.
Horace B. Stevens,
Real Estate and Insur-
ance Agent.