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The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-02-27
IMPROVEMENTS IN SHREVEPORT.

iMfkUv tMGNlO IN cuhLVhj VAl'
what Has Been Done I'm the Last 8
Months.
Few people realize the number
81 the cost of houses that have
been erected in Shreveport during
the past twelve or eighteen months.
They are all over the city and sub
urbs, and range in cost from few
hundred to twenty-five thousand
dollars each.
No better evidence can possibly
be had of the condition of any city
than the extent of it's new build
ings. They are a reliable baro-
meter and indicate it's upward or
downward tendency.
Knowing this to be true, The
Progress detailed special repor-
ter to make thorough canvass of
the city and suburbs to note every
new house large or small; to in
terview the owner, OF architect or
contractor of every house, and to
report the result to this Office.
The following is his written re-
port:
To THE PROGRESS.
AS per instructions, l have made
the Investigations you ordered.
Herewith I submit a carefully pre-
pared and accurate list of all the
buildings that have cost above
1900. Almost all of them are
fully completed. A few are about
finished, and one or two have only
recently been begun-notably, the
Union depot.
could not but be impressed
with the fact that as rapidly as
tnese houses have been built they
nave been occupied. This is true
q them all-large and small.
There is yet great and constant
" increasing demand for small
residences. Those that have been
recently built have all been rented
before the roofs were on.
LIST OF HOUSES.
Asnsas City, Shreveport and Gulf
L1oad shops, roundhouse and
Nlacent buildings. .....$ $1,000
Cr.~s 1na9n Depot. Observation-Disclosures. 5000
nlrty three houses at West End
end ma West Shreveport. .. M.45o
R snSsnl4 4. Giuo mouse: ... 1900
TweIra LII lnlquer building. . $500
n Houses houses Iexarkana Annex 1850
Pete vo,'ylus residence. . 10000
Water residence. ..... $500
Err Pa acoos. ......... 1900
Mr. u eHrn91on. ......... $500
Phelps. 49,
0c;i.-. oi'aS Observation-Disclosures. 5OOC
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-02-27

our Reporter udS cAcfciscd Vic
utmost care in arriving at the fore
going facts and figures, and feels
safe in saying that they are con-
sentative. He has elected to
choose the lowest figures wherever
there were any conflicting esti-
mates, or any doubt or uncertainty.
In concluding this report it is
but just to state that the showing
is most creditable to Shreveport.
In fact it would indicate rapid
growth in a city of twice it's popu-
lation.
1t is also proper to state that the
architects and contractors assert
that many more buildings are pro-
jected or promised for the immedi-
ate future. The outlook is GER
tainly encouraging.
All of which is respectfully SUBJ
mitted.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-02-27

Office seeking is not peculiarly q
a Populistic pursuit.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-02-27

Ge' orr prices OH job work
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-02-27

The foregoing list does not
clude the Stave Factory, nor oil
mill across the river. Total num-
Der Of above houses, 11S.
A detailed list of the houses that
have cost less than $4,000, would
be too lengthy for publication. AS
to these the leading contractors,
consulted, and the concensus Of
opinion among them is as follows:
That within the specified period,
and excluding any and all the
houses in the foregoing list, there
have been built one hundred
houses and that they may be class
flied in this manner:
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-02-27

Mrs. Adger 5000
Coope- Bros. stable. ....... 2, 200
Cooper Bros, corner Texas and
Edwards ..................... 1900
Mrs. Simon, Common street. w $500
Mrs. Her residence. 2,OO0
DIR. Bogel residence. ...... 5000
Nj. T. Thompson. Observation-Disclosures. 1000
Mrs. Green latt 2, 900
r. J. M. Patterson Observation-Disclosures. 1000
Three houses, Tuxedo Park w 1880
Three houses, Henderson sub-di-
vision 2,4OO
Hotel, Henderson subdivision 1900
Two houses, Maloney subdivision 1900
Two houses, DR.. Gus Dickson So. $500
Two houses, John Sewen ~ 2,4O0
DIR. r. G. Campbell . 5000
Frank Curry .. " 5000
DR.. Roouemore Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Ralph Kahn, Travis street w g. 800
Ralph Kahn Jr, Texas street ... $500
Sam Hunter. ....... $500
Jake DeIlinger, Texas avenue 1000
Henderson Foundry and Shops. 1000
DR.. ohm Comegys residence $3.50
S. B. johnson residence 2,25O
J. II. Shepherd observation-disclosures. 5000
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-02-27

20 at an average cost of 81 500. 80. 8 80, 600
80 at an average cost of 200. 49, 5000
SO at an average cost of 600. $50. 5000
Total g sc, 900
Houses costing over 81 900. .... 400, 459
Grand Total Observation-Disclosures. S5o5, 45e
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-03-26
THE HEATHEN AND UNFORrU
NATE.

Congregational Home and Foreign Mis-
sionary Societies of Michigan Consider
Ways to Help Them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11

there l slept. How long? 1 do not
know. No noise save the low. seductive
cadence of the cool wind which worked
its way through the mountain could be
heard. q
A CAVERN FILLED WITH LIGHT
The light which stole back down
there from the morning sun soon
awoke me, and limbered my stiffened
joints for another effort. Day might
have been we'll advanced outside It's
flood of light was breaking through
new cracks from above and some even
peeped up from below. Taking the line
OF the biggest ray, l chalked my course
through the dubious openings, up,
down. back and over. All of a sudden
a white sheet seemed to hang in front
of me. 1t proved to be a cavern filled
with light. A strange looking arrow
stood perpendicularly in it. This was
the first sign of wood. vegetation or
life. Leaping down through an open
ing six or eight feet, and then sliding
over a treacherous slab ten feet fur
Their to the floor l found myself in a
chamber about 20x40 feet and about 20
feet high. Thinking that the faultlessly
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11
MOST NoRTHER1y HOTEL IN THE WORLD.

The most northern hotel in the world
and probably the coolest resort to be
found anywhere during the summer
months. is situated on the inhospitable
and ice-bound shore of Advent bay,
where it washes the west coast of
Spitzbur gen. 1t is an odd looking
northwestern edifice. called in the YER
nacular, "Turist Hythen''-that is,
Tourist hotel. 1t has been opened for
its first season this year, a season
necessarily short in the Arctic regions,
extending from July 10 to Aug. is. Its
accommodations include 80 beds, and
it is now announced that the great in
crease of tourist travel TO the gate of
the Arctic regions has made the eseao-
lishment of a postoffice in the hotel a
necessary feature. The hotel is sit
uated in an approximate latitude of
rs degrees Is minutes y.
Persons who have made the cruise of
the Norwegian waters for the purpose
of delighting in the mysteries of the
midnight sun, and who have fondly
imagined that in the town of Hammer
fest, situated somewhat south of the
seVenty-first parallel of north latitude.
they met with the last stage of civil
ization, as far as civilization is repre-
scented by hotel life, Will now find that
they were not quite so far out of the
world as they thought they We're This
little hotel IS 500 miles farther north
than Hammerfest. Some idea of its
extreme northern situation can be
gained when it is stated that even the
quarters of the present Jackson
Harmsworth expedition in Franz
Josephland are hardly $50 miles nearer
to the pole. Compared with other high
northern points which have in one way
or another become prominent, the ones
which most forcibly suggest themselves
are those which have been associated
with the various Arctic expeditions.
Thus the hotel and postoffice occupy
nearly the same latitudinal position as
where, on the west coast of Greenland,
Kane lost the Advance in Rensselaer,
harbor: or where, at Cape Sabine, the
wreck of the Greedy expedition was
saved from a fate which had already
overtaken several members OF the par
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11

ty: "Redcliffe.' the winter home of the
Peary expedition OF 1912. was stu
ated on approximately latitude a de-
grees As minutes. and Anniversary
lodge. on Bowdcin bay. on very nearly
the same lines. and therefore some 40
miles south of the hotel and pOstoffice
Of Advent bay, SpitzDergen. 1t is diff
ficult 10 realize that an appointed hotel
should exist al a point the latitudinal
position of which is removed only 800
miles from the farthest point reached
by Nansen during his late remarkable
Arctic venture. Spitzbergen. like the
north of Greenland, still remains
NO Mans Land" but il is expected
that before long it Will become pos
session of Norway.
The hotel itself is not very preten-
tious, so far as looks are concerned.
1t is but ono and a half stories high
and has a diminutive porch at the
front 1t is built of wood. that being
the only substance as we'll as the
warmest to be obtained in the Arctic
regions. Its timbers are heavy. as they
must indeed be to Withstand the blind
ing storms of the winter season In
side it is roomy and generally con-
tains provisions enough 10 guard
against being showed up for long
time. The mail which goes to and
from the little pOstCffice is conveyed
by special messenger to the northern
terminus of the steamship service,
which connects with the Sofotes is
lands The intermediate passage Is not
as perilous, especially during the sum-
rner months. as might be imagined
In fact. in that region the ice breaks
and leaves the landscape comparatively
clear during July and August. so that
the effete summer tourist may make
an Arctic trip with little If any more
discomfort than he would have in go
ing TO Europe
Provisions are brought to the hotel
in the same way. and it may. for the
reason that there is always good sup
ply on hand. come to be viewed as a
haven of safety by future Arctic eX-
plorers who fail to make connections
with the pole At any rate it is unique
of its kind and certainly stands with
out parallel as an objective point for
tourists.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11

sEBER ]. GRANT. President
WM r. PRESTON, Vice-PreAdent
HEBER II. WELLS Cashier
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11
STRANCEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORL D
Pile of CarCu Blocks Thousand Hgh0ny
Man Has Reached the Summit

A jumbled mass of granite blocks,
some Of them so feet square, all of them
carrying sharp edges and far surfaces,
as though done by the hand of some
Titan stone worker. and piled helter-
SHELTER in huge heap 1000 feet high
and four miles thick at the base. Gran
lite blocks of every conceivable shape
and size, and between them, as thew
rest unevenly upon one another, dark
caverns and passageways; chambers as
large as those of Luray or Mammoth
cave. Not a bush, not a tree in sight,
not even the trace of an animal 10 lend
at least The semblance of life. This, in
a few words. is the Black Trevetons of
Australia, by all odds the straneest,
most unexplainable mountains in the
world.
SECRET NEVER FATHOMED.
This wonderful pile Of granite is sit
uated 20 miles back of the coast range
of mountains that fringes the edge of
cape York peninsula The visitor to
CooktOWn would never suspect their
presence. The mariner far out on the
ocean cannot see their black caps. The
COoktOwn blacks deserted their aborig-
inal haunts about the Trevetons ages
ago, and rebuilt their villages high up
on the eastern slope of Mt Cook. No
amount of money or coaXing viii in
dUce them to go back to their old home.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11
Ancient and Honorabie warriors.

New York Sun: The Ancient and
Honorable Artillery company is 30
years old, while the Boston Lancers
have just celebrated the 60th anniver-
sary of their formation, and yet, in
the opinion OF many good judges. the
Lancers are as mighty men of war, as
we'll set up, as full of uniform and the
pomp of war as the heroes of the other
branch of the Massachusetts BRIDE
grooms of Bellona. Anybody who loves
old tapestries, the poetry of the trodb-
adours. noble craftsmanship, the nod
ding of plumes and the Jingle of spurs
and pocket pistols, would cheerfully
walk ten leagues TO get peep at tie
Lancers. Their spirited campaigns
against the Parker house and other
strategic points have been warmly ad-
mired by critics and historians of mill
tary affairs. There ought TO be a
"CornWallis," with the ancients on one
side and the Lancers on the other and
let the better men win, irrespective of
history.
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THE
STATE BANK OF UTAH
Capital, suny paid. 100000

cor. Main and South Temple streetA
SALT LAKE CITY, LIAh-
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straight spearshaped stem was the
weapon of an aborigine. l fancied all
sorts of queer things.
To my establishment. the assagai was
the live root of some tree or shrub from
the outside. blackened in here by the
decomposing oxide of iron. II came out
of the root, dropped in d perfectly
vertical portion, pierced the floor and
disappeared among the rocks below.
Leaving my kit. but taking my knotted
rope. ] chalked my way after it for at
least 100 yards. Then the hungry
thing disappeared through a small
aperture and was lost. Its size did not
diminish in the least from the 112-inch
diameter it measured in the cavern.
No shoots or suckers curled out from
it's stem, and no semblance of earth
fed its course. There was nothing save
little handfuls of sandy gravel which
had settled upon the level surface of
the hard rock.
A STRANGE PLOT.
Retracing my chalked course. and
taking my new discovery as a pilot to
lead me upward from this wilderness
of rock, 1 wendell in and out after its
winding course for an hour; losing.
then finding it. and finally losing 1t
for good. Where il came from is I'M
certain: where it went to is equally so.
After moping and creeping here and
there for two or three hours longer,
a big, gray pillow of light lay in the
yawning chasm beneath. 1t came from
somewhere. Getting down into it and
looking up. a silvery vista wound in
and out from above, like the rays of
great searchlight, seeking out the
darkness down there. Following il up
and veering 10 the right past an III
placed lot of jagged, overhanginS rock,
the hot air of the outer world warmed
nv face, and the monday sun swell
tered on the meridian above. Sentinel
rock lay fully half a mile back and 800
feet further up in the air, though IN
visible from the pinnacle on the first
tier. The ascent from my exit to the
apex. while wearying and hazardous
on the surface, required no more u the
perilous slides and climbing which ne
cessitated navigation within, and you
didn't have to go over by going under.
The sun beat down mercilessly- BY )
o'clock the top was reached, and the
rock there felt its first press of ,an's
foot. The climber preferred rest to
feelings of triumph.
WIND FROM ALL QUARTERS.
Deep down in the Black Trevetons
the wind comes from all quarters and
from below. Rock wallabys entering
either side have been seen to emerge
upon the other The inference is that
they went through. When the sun has
passed 10 the west and is low down be-
low the first tier, the light peeps in
from the western shafts and rents, and
the easterly and top holes darken. This
shows that the rays penetrate from the
west and from below the first tier, and
at a depth of 500 or 900 feet. through
that half mile Of piled stones. Assum-
ing that the remainder of the Black
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11

The reason is awe imbedded in super
stition connected with the black pile.
No white man has ever been able TO
fathom the secret of this str 20 ~ ''7'
tain, 50 nnding that nc tribesmen, as
the legends go, has ever dared TO go 10
the top, and that no White man nad
ever assembled higher than the Pin
nScle'-less than half way up-the
writer determined TO explore the freak,
and to top the peak if it were possible
TO do so. The aboriginal guide over
the Cook ranges declined TO go TO the
foot of the Black Trevetons, even for
excessive pay. Finally, With the assist
ance of the intrepid mayor Of Cook
town, the guidance and companiCnship
of H. b Purcell, the noted Queensland
tribal linguist. explorer and daring
bushman, was secured. MIR. Purcell
had ventured TO the first tier, coo feet
up, a few years before. His expert
eLce in that fearful climb led him 20
decline the ascent even 10 the Pin
nacle,'' where stands a crude pole to
mark the achievement of man upon
that perilous pile of herbless, CRASHES,
grOundless, irregular rocks, which have
neither holds nor 1OOt-holds: with
sharp, Jagged points and Lodges await
ing the sliding, incautious climber.
A MOUNTAIN CUT IN HALF.
Finding that no one would attempt
the ascent Of 1000 feet or more l babe
camp adieu. shouldered my food kit.
put on my futed rubber bottom shoes.
into which bodnails had been well and
plentifully driven for protection, gave
instructions, in case OF failure to return
in three days, faced the sun and the
terrible mount before me and began the
ascent With an iron-noosed, knotted
rope as my only assistant.
The highest peak in this second tier
If Cf a hOlrr miles lon
and about four deep at the base. Just
before the tOpmOst peak is reached a
dyke cuts the mountain nearly in half.
The northern section is a rough wooded
Tockland with rlch underground and
plentiful soil, ike the side of any other
ordinary mountain in the world. Sud
denly this earth and botany stop. Some
great god has taken his knife and cut
right across the hills, cleaving the peak
in twain from east 10 west Begin
ming al this point, where the vegeta-
ton ceases, the peak rises a bit higher
drops into a low bed like the boulder
bottom of a large river, the waters of
which had sunk out of sight, carrying
all the sands and pebbles below and
leaving nothing but the horrible, ghast-
~ stones and their treacherously y7aWn-
ing cavities.
GRANITE PILE 1000 FEET HIGH.
The hill then takes an irregular sweep
up in tiers, until il rises 10 a height of
over 1000 feet. From the clear-cut
woodland, which bisects the north hill,
TO the furthelmost base of the high
southern peak. is fully four miles, and
the mountains measure three or four
miles through at their base. and are
fully two and a half miles thick al their
waist. 600 or 200 feet up. The founda-
zion is kind of coarse grained or peb-
bled blue granite, showing sculptor
crystals of tin. which, still clInging to
the crumbling outer rock, gives the
surface a very sharp and dangerous
face. To describe the physical make
no Of the Black Trevetons is difficult.
There is nothing analogous to them in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11
He Worked.

Cincinnati Enquirer: You are one of
those gentlemen who think me world
owes them a living, L take it, said the
sociological student.
Nary time, said Kelly, the con king.
II work for every cent l get. Brain
work When / git the notion the world
owes me a Twin I'll let you know. I
don't like to have that said about me.
when L never was in politics in my
life
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11
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Protected Against Fire.

Boston Globe: In a Vermont town,
not far from the New HAMPSHIRE bcr-
der, there lives a farmer who a year
or two ago owned a nice farm and had
a pleasant home. He had built a large
barn a short distance from his house.
and prided himself as having The best
barn in the section.
Not long after this barn was erected
his house caught on fire and was burned
to the ground. He and mis- family sue
ceeded in saving the most Useful of the
household furnishings. These he moved
into the barn. the cause of The fire
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11
Badly SWindled.

Indianapolis Journal: I'll have the
law on Jobbins, if there is any way to
do So" said the senior partner.
What has Jobbins dOne?" asked the
placid partner.
The internal scoundrel has mixed so
much sand with that last lot Of clay
that we can't make mustard of it at
ALL
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11

Trevetons is similar to this huge sec
tion,- then a small dog, a kangaroo or
a larke hawk could work its way
through the whole mountain from east
TO west, or elsewhere. BY daring slides
down the face of great blocks. and Of
ten clearing 20-foot gaps below, land
ing on sharp points or other pieces,
found myself ragged wreck, walking
into camp at deep dusk-S o'clock
having descended in less than six hours
what it took me nearly a day and a
half to climb JOHN F. HOBBS.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-01-20
q =. = ? = = :. :. .
DAILY INDEPENDENT.
Observation-Disclosures 20 1897.
SALMAGtiNnI
Trib fulalls all. promises.
Fgh,S F

:; =. -. - F-sl
Trib fultllls all. promises.
Missouri has reelected Senator
Vest. s,
FqR sA1sii--4-hole cook stqye / in.
good condition. Inquire of L. Win.
termantel. 1w
Mr.. Nixon published! AM article in
the. Silver State gracefully .acsnowl-
edging his defeat.
For ONE week longer Cabinets 81
per Tdoz. at the Omega Feto. Co. q
gallery back Of the Episcopal church.
A lady who is q good nurse and
housekeepef, would like a position.
Mrs. Taylor, Commercial Hotel,' y
DR.. G. F. Moore, Dentist, Elko,
Crown and bFidGe;work: Teeth vita,
cut plates. Office at residence.
The INDEpENDENT: acknowledges
the receipt Of the reports of the. .ad-.
jutant-General and the State Teas
urer. '..' ,
Great ,bargairs. In boys suits, oyer
sosts, hats, caps, etc. for the next two
weeks at Alexander's .a'#
Senator Teller was almost unani-
mously reelected by the Colorado
legislat ure yesterday. He received
81 votes to Geo. w. Allen (Rep.)6
Your attention is called to the ad
of the dance TO be given on the even
ing Of Westinghouse birthday. All
who attend are sure Of good time.
Dave Casper has lust received a
new lot Of samples, of Fall and
Winter Clothing which will be made
TO order from sla,50 up. :
Those Excellent PLATING Foto's
made only at the Omega studio.
Judge Talbot writes from Phoebe
under Gate Of the 10Th that they were
having big snowstorm that COM
menced on the 18th.
The Omega Foto. Co. have decided
to continue their 81 rate ON Cabinets
one week longer.
The Way 70 CH:e cate.fn is to puf-
ify the blood, and the surcst, safest,
best way to purify the blood is by
taking Hoods Sarsaparilla, the On"
True Blood Purifier.
HOODS PILLS are prompt, eff
cient, always reliable, easy to take
easy to operate.
A Washington dispatch says Sec
rotary Carlisle, Attorney General
Harmon and Ex-Governor Boadley
are preparing papers in the Union
Pacific foreclosure proceedings. q
Heed not the man however glib, :
Who tells You 4iust Us good as Trib
Not true he tells.
And il he @better than Trib" tells you
Besure if he succeeds and sells You,
Tis you he ssells".
Sen ator Jones received 80 votes in
the carcus instead Of 45 as published
yesterday. Mr.. Nixon received only
the three votes Of the Humboldt dele.
cation.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-13

Center Church, Rev. Newman Smyth. pas
tor.-Morning service at 1880. Devotional
service at 400 p. m. If
Church of The Redeemer, Orange street,
corner Wall, Watson Lyman Phillips, d. D.,
pastor; Harry E. Peabody, assistant pas
tor.-Preaching at 1890 a m. and 1880 p IN.
Sunday school at IL m Young People
Society of Christian Endeavor, $50 p. m.