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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
WESTERN GILSoNIrEB EDS.
They Exist In Utah and Colorado and Ar.
Nearly InexhausfihIa

Nearly Inexhaustible.
Under the title of bulletin No. /. the
Grand Junction board of trade is circu-
latlng through the Denver chamber Of
commerce an interesting publication. Its
principal feature is digest of the seven
teenth annual report of the United States
geological survey, containing a report on
the gilsonite beds in Utah and the I'm
compahgre reservation in Colorado, com
piled by George H. Eldridge.
The report gives the price of this ma
terlal in Chicago and st. Louis at from
S4O to $50 per ton, or gross value of
the seven veins at over $1,OOO,O0O, OOD.
The estimated cost of production at the
present time is $50 per ton, or a total of
S7l2,337 900 which would be distributed
for mining, hauling and transporting to
destination. This would leave a net
profit of about $46O,O0O 900 to be dis
tributed among the fortunate owners of
the deposits.
The immensely of these deposits is in
conceivable except by comparison. If
100 tons of gilsonite were mined each
to take out the product of the seven
veins.
If one train left Grand Junction each
working day, consisting of twelve cars
each, loaded with twelve tons of gilsouite.
it would require $50 years to haul the
product, or if five such trains left Grand
junction each day it would require l12
years to move the product; the deduction
arrived at is that the supply is practically
inexhaustible. The men and teams re.
quired to handle the product would in
themselves be sufficient to support a CITY
much larger than Grand Junction:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
1T is BOOMING ALONG.
Electric Transportation scheme for Rapid
Transit to klOndike.

Electric Transportation scheme for Rapid
Transit to KlOndike.
Travellers to the klondike mining re-.
gion who are contemplating a tedious
march over Chilkoot pass will be. re-
lieved OF, the necessity of walk across
the mountains if the plans of transport
tation company recently organized in
Portland. Or, do not miscarry, and there
is every reason to- believe that they will
not. An electric tramway line is planned
by this company to connect Dyea and
Lake Bennett, the trip between these two
points to be made in two days.
General Passenger Agent w. H. Hurl-
burg of the Oregon Railway and Naviga-
statement. He firmly believes that the
enterprise will go through swimmingly,
as there is almost unlimited capital be-
hind it. The scheme was originated only
short time ago. and when canvass
was started among the citizens of Port
land to raise $4,000 with which to COM
mence operations on the line. the COM
tons. Seventy-five thousand dollars was
raised in single week, and work was at
once begun.
Mr.. Hurlburt estimates that $4,000 per-
sons will take the trip to the Alaska gold
fields next spring. "They are coming
from ali parts or the world, SAID he,
"from Australia and Europe, to say moth
ing Of this country. just received an
unsolicited application for $4,000 circus
lars describing the transportation facili-
ties into the Klondike region, the circulars
to be sent to London.
'By means of this electric tramway line
the trip from Portland to Lake: Ben
nett will be reduced to six and q half
days, and the rest of the journey will
be easy. The line. will be running over
the worst part of the pass by February
Is, and will have it's entire line complet-
ed before May 1. This same company
is building docks at Dyea, allowing the
passengers to land direct from the vessels.
"Only a few of the people who go into
that district will make fortunes, and it is
nv opinion that thousands of them will
drift back into the mining regions of
Colorado, Utah, Montana, ETC., and that
the population of these states will be in
creased ten-fold by the emigration to
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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
TEXAS "BURNING ISLAND"
Peculiar Spot Where Objects Are Con-
sumel or Pcirifled.


sumed or PciriGeh.
A peculiar island has been discovered
in the Neches river, Texas-a veritable
bake-oven-which is the subject Of much
comment by the inha bitants of that Sec
ton of the state. Burning island" is the
name of small spot in the center of the
Neches river, about four miles from Emil
lee postotfice. It has acquired that name
in consequence of its transformation of
all vegetable and animal substances
placed upon it into either ashes or stone.
a fisherman who recently visited the
spot, after eating his MONDAY lunch,
carelessly threw down a bone. A few days
after he returned to the spot on the ISL
land and was surprised to discover the
bone charred as if it had been burned by
fire. Pieces of wood placed on the ISL
and would be reduced to ashes or petri-
fed in a few days time.
The generally accepted version of the
cause of these rapid and strangs trans
formations is the proba BILE uprising at
that particular point of some powerful
mineral, whose acid or alkali force has
the effect of consuming or petrifying such
substances as chance to come within it's
touch. An examinatio by mineralogists
is soon to be made for the purpose of de-
termining the cause of these wonderful
ira nsformations
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
Coneurare ono1.-,

From statement on file in the general
land office, made by the Anaconda Min
ing company on November 30, 1891. it
appears that the wood and lumber con
sumed by that company in Butte and
Anaconda for the six months previous to
the shutting down of the mines and
works was $4,000 cords of wood and 49,
100000 feet of lumber; that the daily
consumption thereafter was 700 cords of
wood and 100000 feet Of lumber, and
that the consumption for 1892 was to be
255, 900 cords of wood and 10000, 900 feet
OF lumber. And it has probably never
been less since. Trustworthy informa-
ton shows that this company not only
supplies it's mines and smelters with tim
Der cut from the public lands, but has
also established lumber yards in different
towns, wherein it disposes of not less
than 50,0OO,OOO feet annually, exclusive
OF what it consumes in legitimate mining
operations. which equals as much more
as it sells in towns. Recently the govern
ment brought suit against the Bitter Root
Development company for $315,25O, the
value of 81 ,525. 900 feet of sawlogs. This
company. had for long time been sup
plying the Anaconda Mining company
with timber, and is, in fact, a ring inside
ring, the stockholders of the improve
ment company being for the most part
directors in the mining company.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
. The BIRDS pf Na.sreth.

& 5E&s & The Birds Of Naxar0th.,% ss
Along the garden dart the humming birds,
Glancing among the leaves and blossomy
With small, fa!nt chlrplugs, less like songs
They seem too dainty for this world Of
Formed for more gracious skies and livelier
flowers,
And gardens which the winter never
blanches. *."
story of the Christ Child's infancy,
Ignored by pious James wise translators,
Often In summer time comes back to me
With these fair creatures. Who can under
Why aught so sweet and harmless should
AS :implons by those grim old commenta-
tors?
The legend runs that when the Christ
In Nazareth, He seemed like any other
Fair, innocent and happy boy, who felt
His life Joy, and sported up and down
The streets and byways of the quaint old
Wherein He lived with Joseph and His
mother.
One morn group of children. in their play,
Found, where a potter piled his cunning
A treasure trove Of moist and plastic clay,
And pleased themselves, as children might
BY shaping it in many curious way,
Each striving to Guido his merry neigh
Dor.
And Jesus-did His playmates call Him
Taking some clay, sat down among the
And with deft fingers fluttering to and fro,
Fashioned some little birds, with wondrous
skill,
Shaping Si;,. the tiny FORMS head breast and
In marvellous likeness to their living
And when the flock was hnished-every bird
Perfect In semblance. wing and foot and
The Maker smiled, and then. with a word,
Raised them in His two hands and breathed
And 10! they lived! and .skyward, out Of
With joyful twittering few away to-.
gether.
And when the roses blossom white and red,
And breeze and bee and brook tell happy
stories,
And humming birds, with gold-green neck
And crimson throat and breast Of amethyst,
Sphered In their whirring wings trans
parent mist,
Drain the deep goblets of the morning
1t seems to me that these aerial things
So shy of human touch, however tender,
These vital gems-these living flowers with
wings
May be the same unscathed by age or
death.
Made by the gentle boy of Nazareth,
And tossed into the mornings sunny
splendor.
Not like the coarSer, ruder things Of earth.
Called into life's small round Of joy and
duty
BY the slow processes Of growth and birth,
But made at once, all perfect and complete,
BY sinless fingers innocent and sweet,
And breathed on by divlnest Love and
Beauty.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
The Christmas Spirit.

Because we cannot have the Yule log
and traditional roast pig, shall we refuse
the cheer of anthracite coal and boked
turkey? Or if even the open fire, the
mistletoe and the family gathering are
beyond us, must we disGain the home
making attempts of the steam radiator,
and find no comfort in the dainty e!abo-
rateness of Widespread table, catering
Suppose the misanthrope (for the rec!use
who lives only in an imaginary Christmas
is misanthrope) came out of his shell
and gathered the young people about him
to charm their eyes with tales of the old
ways of holiday-keeping when he was a
boy" Would not this be better than
grumbling out protests against the new
ways that have their own reasons for
being, and offer in turn their own meas
ure of enjoyment to willing spirits ?.
Genial old age is always a welcome pres
ence. and it never suggests any contrasts
that put us out of conceit with the pleas
ures that lie within our reach. But carp
ing, even if it proceeds from the patri-
arch. is an infliction severe enough to
blight any holiday.
In the nature Of things there must he
holidays. How poverty-stricken IS that
soul which does not recognize this Eeces-
sity and throw itself heartily into the
work OF helping forward the good time
youth and all unspoiled minds accept with
gratitude. There is no predeterminate
set of conditions for holiday-mak that
need tie adventurous hands. and if ira
dtitional customs belonging to Thanksgiv-
ing and Christmas are vanished beyond
recall. we can harmonic the day with
our present abilities.
My sympathy is with those who wish to
bring back upon Christmas day the sweet
old traditional observances. l love them
we'll. even those that are known to me
only by hearsay and were outgrown in
that shadowy period alluded to as ''be-
fore the war" But no one thing is Indis.
pensable to happiness with any of u.s. un-
less with children. and not even with
them If judicious substitute is made.
Whatever we have. or whatever we lack,
the quality that makes the occasion is the
spirit we bring to it. Goodwill never
fails to create good time 1t finds merit
in rain. lifts fog, and lights CHEEKY
blaze within that passes for the sunshine
in it's absence. And goodwill has not
passed away with chivalry, nor persisted
under the onrush of science. 1t lives and
breathes now. and is here at this moment
to light our Christmas fires and swing in
cense before our affairs ALI we need do
IS to recognize and adapt it.-Florepce
Hull Winterburn in Woman's Home
Companion
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Santa Claus WORLD all the summer and fall
Making the thousands Of comforts and
Needed the night before Christmas, when
Waited his eoihlbs-the good girls and
boys.
Santa Claus knows that last century things
Get little notice; the doll now must walk,
Cry when It's mother lullaby sings
Close both its eyes, and be able to talk.
Candles so hard and an apple or two.
Cake from the larder, ronsniy-made
Rouse only passion in fact will not do,
Art and machinery carry the day.
No place was left for himself; go he
strobe
One Of the reindeer He drove like shot
Visiting first evry country abode.
Large are the chimneys where woods used
for heat,
Hence he had little to cause him wait.
Coming at length to "A great city street,
How he was bothered Is strange to relate.
Bright lights electric turn'd night into day.
'Lectric alarms on each window and door,
Telegraph, telephone wires in the way,
More bolts and locks than he'd met with
before.
Ch1inneyS contracted by Tile TO consume
Natural gas-each attempt to attain
Space for his boot, to say naught OF the
room
Wanted for tree and for toys was in vain
do the good fathers and mothers forget
They once expected my visit: he said,
''OnIy few years have rOll'd by, and yet
Now they build houses as though l were
dead
Santa Claus worked all the night in great
fear
Wondering how he should empty his sled.
"Daylight is comng!' and the beads that
APPEAR
Froze in his whiskers, are tears that he
shed.
"people think costly things pleasures en-
nance.
That's not the standard that gelders most
good.
Suit children's tastes as in years they ad-
vance,
Then will they have all the pleasure they
should" Chicago Record.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
RejeCCe0 Trade Marie

The importance of registering trade
marks at the patent Office does not seem
to be sufficiently realized by manufacfnr-
ers and merchants in this country or
apf1 mbie met rs ADOPTING word phrase
manufacture, whether it be on dry goods.
groceries, food products or preparl tons
OF any kind. will derive more benefit hy
registering them than many seem to real
ne. Full informa tom as to the necessary
procedure to obtain trade mark protection
may be had by communicating with this
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
Children at Christ IN Aside.

eff there is one day in the year which
rightly belongs to the young it is Christ
mas day" writes Edward w. Box in the
Christmas Ladies' Home Journal. 1T
should be given over to them: therefore,
without stint or reservation And think
sometimes that parents do not always
understand this. 1t is right and all
essential that restrictions upon the
amusements of the young should prevail
in every home. But Christmas day is
the one day when these barriers ought to
be lifted. and the young given free play.
No wholesome liberty nor indulgence
should be withheld from a boy or girl on
that day. What of it, my dear, friend,
if such liberties do mean tear here, or
a broken chair there? Suppose the boy
is particularly noisy on Christmas. What
Of. 1t? : Tell me. if you can, a better
sign Of strong, young health than the
noise from boys lungs! Suppose he
does throw himself, or even jump or
stand, on your best lounge. aud soil or
rumple your pet tidy! Pass over it, don't
notice 1t, but let the boy have his Christ
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
Christmas Gifts of Money.

'If, after thinking for long time, you
cannot decide what she (my poor girl
Ashmore, in advising girls as to their
Christmas giving in the Ladies' Home
Journal, "and you know her well enough
to leave to her the choice of the gift, then
send her the money thai she may spend
it for herself. But make this money look
like a chosen gift, and less like that
which is so hardly earned by her; trouble
yourself to go to the bank and put it in
gold, or at least new banknote, and in
close it in a tiny little purse
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31

wall, having their switches and resistance
located IN the valve houses. These no
tors are vertical and drive direct ON the
shafts of the horizontal centrifugal
pumps placed in the bottom of the walls.
The pumping machinery is capable Of Eft
in two and one-half hours, which means;
that 70, 900 tons of water must pass
through the pumps before the process Of
lifting Is complete. The whole Of the
electrical machinery was supplied by
Scott & Mountain of Newcastle, Eng
land, and it includes a complete system
Of electric lighting throughout the dock
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31

DR.. E. ]. Puck, tt of Muncie. Ind. has
in his possession an apple that was
plucked by him thirty years ago. Before
the doctor went into the army he planted
an apple tree on the grave of his mother.
in the cemetery at Petersburg. Upton
county, this state. -Four years later, when
he returned home from the war, the tree
was bearing fruit. and he pulled off one.
of the apples and has preserved it ever
siace- Cincinnati Enquirer,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
A Christmas Morning at Antiocb.

Chrlstmas day was dawning over An
tloch 1900 years ago. The curtain of
night drew softly upward along the edge
Of the sky, and the ragged crestsof Mount
Silpius stood outlined with pale light. In
the darker vault of the central heaven
large stars still glimmered drowsily The
tudes of Christians, robed in white gar
ments, and bearing lighted torches in
their hands, were hurrying down the
dusky streets to the basiica of Constan-
tine, to keep the newly.appointed festival
of the church, the birthday Of the Christ.
Henry Van Dyke in Scribner's.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
NEW DRESSING SACQTE.
A Combination Of Flannel and Lin
en- that is Warranted to
Wash Well.

Very dainty women do not like dress
ing sacques that will not wash They
much prefer simpler fabrics tfiar do up
to soiIed silk and mils=ed-up velvet 1t
means a garment that protects the uutrr-
wear when the hair is coInlaL.
\ decidedly French dressing SattIue has
a yoke Of embroidered brown linen, upon
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
Perfumed Glycerine.

Glycerine possesses in a high degree the
property of extracting the fragrance from
flowers. Besides it has proved to be ex
cellent for the skin as we'll as for the
hair, so that it puts even the finest olive
oil in the shade. If we take a vessel of
best glycerine, putting into it lilacs, faded
hyacinths, narcissus. lilies of the valley,
mignonettes. violets, roses, lime flowers.
jasmine flowers, etc, and leave them in
it for three weeks, they will have given
off their whole fragrance to the glycerine
when taken out. In this manner hair
oil is obtained that cannot be surpassed
by any Partisan 'perfumeur" Since
glycerine can be mixed with water in any
proportion lin contradistinction to the fat
oils), a few drops may he poured into the
water used for washing, in order to per-
fume il .de1icate1y
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31

which plats of old rose flannel are at
tachcd as to form ii waist. These !,lai1~
are put on separately and are gathered il
under a crushed belt. Underneath there,
is a very dainty >unplateel lining of old
rose silk. This lining shows between thu.
paits. The sleeves are full and Their. arr.
wide turn-back cuffs of embroidered linen
that can be pulled to the shoulders.
The yoke can be trimmed with hands
of wash silk. if desired. to match tn" belt
An experienced laun,rc>s will .'set" he-
colors before washing the goods. just as
they do at the cieanerS
III pln,, (tr1t--
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
Uses for Salt,

Damp salt will rub off the discolora-
tons left in cups by the sediment of tea
or coffee Salt will set the dyes of black
and, colored articles, if a little is added
Salt mixed with lemon juice, removes
the stains of ink, tar or paint from the
hands. Salt and water, applied to bas-
ket and straw work, and rubbed in with
a soft nailbrush, is a most efficient
cleansing agent. Brass ornaments may
be kept: bright: by rubbing them occa-
sionnally with salt and vinegar. Salt
thrown upon the CRATE viii soon put out
in proportion to whitewash, induces. the
latter to adhere more firmly to any sur
face to which it may. be applied.
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ChristNl0A GrAena.

The fashion of decking the house with
greens, as we. do at Christmas dat Is.
back into old Roman times, when a feo st
the temples Of the dwellings were tllressed
with green boughs. Possibly q remnant
Of that tree worship which, Sin itself. y
says Ruskin, - believe was always
healthy, when the flowers and trees are.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
Equipment Of the Havana Doct

An electric pumping installation has
been fixed in the floating dry dock at
Havana. 1t consists Of two generating
meeting cables. so that either can servo
the whole dock. Each plant liz complete
with boiler. engine and direct-coupled dy-
nan,o. The power is transmitted Il bv
cables to ten electric motors. FIVE 10 each.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31

Pleasant and Handy Paste.

A useful paste can be made Of sum
tragacanth and water. OF OF gum arabic
and water. 1t may he agrecahly scented,
and can be kept from souring by adding
a little ground cloves. An excellent paste
can be made by boiling rice powder in
water until it attains the proper consist
ency. 1t is clean paste TO work with,
and is largely used in scrap-pasting.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31

!: = Gossip for the Ladies II s


themselves heheld and beloved with ID
noble and healthful." %s% ~ s,'s
The plants most in demand for church
decoration at Christmas time in England.
as well as in this country, are holly, bay
and laurel. English holly is sometimes
imported, but the American holly, which
or the South, is u very good substitute
FOR 1t: The bay is the rarest plant of
the three in this country, but ground
laurel Is commonly sold and is one Of
the most effective of the Christmas
greens. ,.-.s5 L
In decorating room with Christmas
green's, il should be. remembered that a
with green, and that the most objection
able of all things is too profuse decora-
noh. christmas greens are usually kept
till after Twelfth Night, which occurs
on January 6, and they should certainly
be cleared away by the I'd of February,
or Candlemas day, or otherwise, as tradi-
ton says, a goblin will appear for every
nave been slovenly housewife who
would leave her Christmas green's up for
so many weeks, and COLLINS Of discomfort
and uncleanliness would be sure to in
wade such house.
Flowers for Churches.
In choosing flowers for church decora-
ton vick's magazine says it should al
ways be borne in mind that the majority
OF the congregation will view them at a
distance; for this reason choose rather
large, or medium-sized flowers of decided
color. small, delicately colored flowers,
and those whose beauty lie in their ex-
quisite markings and standings, will not
show to advantage. Green must be used
lavishly. and extreme care taken not to
crowd the flowers, for if petals are
crushed and flowers so crowded that they
lose their form, they lose more than half
their beauty: Probably every church
goer can recall huge punches of flowers
crowded mass of confused colors. The
writer has vivid remembrance Of about
half bushel of peonies, white, pink and
crimson, crowded into a compact bunch,
without spray of green; the good, gen
erous soul who donated them could not
bear to have single one removed, but
how much more beautiful three or four
OF them, loosely arranged, would have
been. In arranging flowers do not try
to have every one face the 'front.' like
regiment of soldiers; turn them so that
some show profile and others three
quarter view, and if some persist in
showing their backs, why let them, for
every part Of the flower is beautiful.