Evening star., 1899-03-10

Rico or great losses will be sustained.
Within the next year there will be erected
a magnificent hotel at san Juan for the
accommodation of American pleasure
seekers.
There is a fascination about the search
for gold and the gambling in mining stocks
! that few men can resist" said r. : How
ard the representative and part owner Of
mine In Oregon. In the frs place there
are no stocks which fiuctuate with the
violence and rapidity of mining shares
especially those Of the wildcat variety.
Great fortunes are often made in an hours
time on the rise In the shares Of some new
mining venture. and / have seen th. saw
/ ings OF years wiped out in as many minutes
on the exchanges of Denver, Carson city
and San Francisco. Experience In this line
has, l think. taught me wisdom and | am
generally pretty sure Of my bearings and
of my partners before launching in a new
venture nowadays.
1T will be remembered that shortly after
the discovery Of gold in Alaska and the
rush to the Klondike man named Isaac
Guker struck ore i'm Grant county. ore.
some eighty miles back in the mountains
from the railroad at Baker CITY. In six
months ne took out S2J.Hp in nuggets and
also found and staked q ledge Of yold-bear-
ness. | have investigated the country thor
oughly, and will state that. in my opinion,
n man who is seeking Il fortune In gold
Will stand better opportunity for finding
il and coming out alive if he prospects in
Grant county than if he tried his fortune
in the Klondike."
There are no people ii the world who
produce larger product per capita than do
the Inhabitants of the state of Montana"
said c. r. i. Scobey of the Fort Peck In
dian agency. Mon. at the Ebbitt Gold,
silver, copper and other minerals abound
while farmers and stockraisers are able TO
make money and pay their labor wages
that range anywhere from S3e to So per
month. including board. The Carter bin.
passed by Congress some years ago, grants
10 the states which wish to take advan-
tage of it 4 million acres of government
land for irrigation purposes Now. while
the whole state Of Montana lies in what
is known as the arid belt it is capable Of
being irrigated by waters brought down
from the mountain streams. This is being
done and the productivity of the state Is
increasing enormously.
Few people realize the wonderful effects
that good system OF irrigation has in pro-
ducing crops in the arid country The
natural rainfall does not compare with II
and an acre of irrigated land in Montana
will produce as much as two acres of land
watered by rainfall in the eastern states
When Montana is thoroughly irrigated. As
II will be in the near future il viii be
known more as an agricultural than as a
mining state.
Fifteen years work among the Indians
enables me 10 contrOvert popular impress
sion that exists throughout the country to
the effect that the req * dying on
This Is not true; on the contrary ne Is in
creaSinS in numbers. md thp younger In
diars are taking kindly to civilization. OF
course, you cannot expect the old bucks
who fought the government and hunted and
shot at their own free will TO acquire any
thing more than the outward senblance Of
civiliza ton, but the compulsory school sys-
TEN is gradually bringing the young mem
bers of the tribes around to the methods of
living of the white man"
''It is a fact that seems unexplainabie
that wild animals, notWithsta ading the
amount Of hunting being done. are on the
increase In the northwest" said D. f.
Jakeworths of Bay Horse, Idaho. at the
Howard House. 1t is true that the grizzly
bears are rapidly becoming extinct and the
buffaloes are practically exhausted. But
the mountain lions are INCREASING in num-
bers very rapidly. as are the timber wolves.
The black bears are also increasing in num-
bers They had been pretty well hunted
out in the vicinity of the Bay Horse mines,
three of four years ago. hut now wherever
you go in The woods i'm the spring Of the
year there are bear marks. The black bear
has a peculiar habit of making marks ON
the tFeesS that Is. the male bears have
They bite the trees high up as tley can.
standing upon their launches t. reich as
high as possible. This done 6hey SO a con-
siderable, distance. when they bite .nother
tree. In this way you can trace each mar
ticnlar male bear through the weeds. THE
only explanation the hunters have of thIs
habit is that the male bears do this in or
der to advertise their arrival to the female
bears. The epumas are becoming entireIv
too plentiful, as are the timber wolves"
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