The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-26
SEVEN DEVILS COUNTRY
Immense Undeveloped Riches
of the New District.
OCEANS OF ORE THERE
Leonard Says II VIII Be the Greatest
Mining District in the World as
Soon rs They Get a
Railroad In.

TT is the biggest country undevei-
oped on earth" said l.. o. Leonard.
travelling freight agent Of the Missouri
Pacific railway. He was speaking of
the Seven Devils mining country in
I Idaho and the fruit sections around
weiser. Mr. Leonard returned yester-
day from the Seven Devils country and
shipped a lot of horses. He brought
with him several samples Of ore from
the Seven Devils district which run
81 per cent. in copper and $40 in gold.
There are oceans Of that kind Of ore
there" he said. They haul IL by wag-
on IFS miles TO WCiser n ship il from
there TO Omaha, ana they make II pay
big even at that. They win soon have
a railroad into that country, and ii Will
then become the greatest mining dis
trict in the world. There were two
surveying parties out. one survey was
down the Snake river Owe a particu-
larry Inaccessible route. The other is
up the weissr valley 10 Council. a dis
lance of so miles. and from there TO the
Seven Devils, a distance of AZ miles.
The latter liz the route that was adopt
ed, L understand. There are many
Butte men In that country now pros
pecting. Lou Carey is interested In a
number of claims and has just come
into Butte with a lot of rich samples
for assay"
In speaking about the fruit section OF
Idaho Mr.. Leonard said there were $50
900 watermelons in fields that could
never be marketed. They sell for 8
and 10 cents and cantalopes at two for
5 cents and n peaches are as big as
your 1st."
A Seattle paper claims that when
President J.. j. Hill OF the Great North
ern was there recently he admitted To a
reporter that he had been compelled 10
refuse 90. 900 tons Of steel rails and IS
900 IONS of cotton for Asia, which he
might have got IL there had been a
suitable merchant marine on the Pa
cifc ocean. This report has gained
wide circulation and was sent out from
Chicago yesterday Whether NJ. Hill
made specifically this statement TO n
reporter makes little difference, says
the St Pau Pio~neer-Press because IL
is a fac that he has had to refuse ship
ments, or Is never offered shipments of
the sort designated. which he would
get IL the Pacific offered a suitable mer-
chant marine. The situation is that the
demands of Oriental trade already ex-
coed the opportunities, Mr.. Hill throws
the responsibility for this loss in con-
siderable part on the federal naviga-
ton laws. the vessels obtainable in
other countries being under the control
Of elements antagonistic to American
business.
a passenger rate war between Chica-
20 and the Atlantic seaboard Is low
deemed to be inevitable The decks ap-
pear TO be clearing for action. The
tension between the standard and DIFF
fsrentIai lines has been 50 great that 1t
is now thought nothing but Nj all
and restore things 10 normal conditions.
AS things are to-day rates are as badly
dsmoralizeG as If a war actually exist
ed. while the Canadian Pacific rate
war Is primarily responsible. the diff
%ferential problem enters so largely into
the issues that e must be dealt with
before peace can be restored.
The Northern Pacific emigration de-
partment has issued two excellent
books, which VIII attract considerable
attention. one Is entitled "GaIlatin Val
ley, Montana" and devoted TO the bar
ley section q tho world. The pictures
and maps are exceptionally fine. The
second book is devoted TO Morton, oil
yer. Mercer, Stark and Billings conn-
ties, North Dakota, and describes the
various industries of the territory be
tween the Missouri river and the weSt-
ern state line. A comprehensive table
shows the amount OF products shipped
by these counties, compared with that
- th. rect ~ Fhn Gtatn