The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-09
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pressed tne# values on fheH OPEN 1markelS /
until the heavy stockholders mad 60
sacrifice their holdings To meet outside
obligations. Then law suits were instr
futed, and one thing followed another I'M
Raymond. from somewhere IN Ohio. was
the largest stockholders iii the Raymond
Ely mine and when that closed its shafts
he lost everything he had iii the world.
Inc mine has stood idle ever SINCE
The Phoebe district Il particularly rich
~ mining propositions there are about 5 g1s
claims that could be worked with profit
H we had railroad facilities. The noun
tains- are full Of minerals Of all kinds.
Two weeks ago "a made an examination or
the gold belt. situated at tine north end
OF Phoebe Mountain. I'll is three miles long
and two miles wide and contains plenty
Of fair grade ore the larger part of it IS
low--grades but it Isl high. enough ia pay
good profits. that Isl it would if we had
smelterss The Bristol district on the
north end Of the mountain about twenty
miles from Phoebe. Is full of lead and the
Silver King mine Is about eighteen miles
from that / am Interested iii the latter
and we are going I'd erect furnaces there
next spring. a company to operate it
eanitalisstion Is s2dc6.dsd al and $i5cao has
been paid in. / ann going down to Pioche
TO start IN the mines next week. Next
spring we Will employ about 100 men,"
The musical professor in need of a
shave was Willing away the time in the
lobby Of the Walker. For lack Of some
thing better To do he drffted into the
ternpestuous seas of grammatical con-
structions and dragged the hewildered
cussion waxed hot about the splitting of
intinltives, dangling propositions, and the
various changes that can be rung on the
moods, lenses, and SO forth. Quoth the
clerk: Professor. which is correct. /
was there, or, were there" Let us
a1aiSze the sentence" answered the
disciple Of learning. The rules Of
grammar state that a verb must agree
with its subject in person, number, and
case now let us apply it. / Is singular"
Hofd! gaspsd the clerk. we all know
that you are singular, very singular, and
If you continue to murder the English
Language in such a.. cold bl0oded way we
WIZ nave 70 admit that your mode of
expression is the most singular thing
about YOU But. - said the PROFESSOR. VI
No. said the clerk any man who
says | is when he should say 1 am,
needn't set himself UP for an object of
worship In these parts; clear out.
TN eastern Oregon, particularly in
Baker county, there is great activity"
said w. B. LAWYER. a mining operator
from Albany Ore, at the Cullen yes
terday At present there are a. great
many mining men at Sunpter. about fif
teen miles from Baker City. AS far as
developments have been made the veins
SHOW great promise and are attracting the
attention OF experienced mining men.
Both placer and quartz exist but the hope
Of the country is in the quartz Lodges.
On the western slope of the Cascade
range there is great timber wealth-for-
the Cascades to the California line and
beyond. 1t is from this region that the
best lumber and mining tinIbers on the
market are produced. A mill is in course
of construction near Albany by eastern
capital which will cut 10000 feet of lurn-
Der daily. This is at one Of many points
where extensive timber cutting plants
exist, and the output from each varies
from 10, 900 to 40. 600 feet per day The sup
ply is practically inexhaustible.
THE timber belt is from 50 to $50 miles
wide and a great deal of the wood is
Douglas fir known here as Oregon pine
Other classes of timber abound. From
some trees as much as 10000 feet have
been cut. Eastern capital is investing
heavily In the industry
Great areas are capable of cutting
million mill feet to the acre, the trees being
Uusually it is $50 to 800 feet to the first
limbs. | never saw finer timber. The
trees are so thick 1t is impossible to ride
through the forests. In these are beauti-
full streams trout and game and fine
water power.
I'm these timber belts mining districts
are commencing to organize. the first be-
| ing Red Rock about forty miles south of
Portland. Another district is a little
north of the fork of the Santiam river.
and is several miles in extent containing
COpQGT. gun GtIQ E4LFGIz ISSQfG NGEEIS- InGF2
! is a continuation of these veins and min
| eral belts Oh through to the main north
! fork hve or six miles away, and continu-
ing to the MIDDLE fork. where the Lawier
| gold mines are situated.
We have expended about S200000 in de-
! yelopment work. Here probably the
deepest and most extensive work has been
done in the lower tunnel cutting the
mountain at depth of loo feet. The
! mountain known as the White Bull is
opened by. seven tunnels from the north
side and four from the south aggregat-
ing. in vein work a couple of miles. The
| character of the ore is sulphides of anti
mony, zinc. lead and some cobalt. and
runs from S. to FS6 in gold. Farther north
! is the Blue River district, where they
! are putting in "a tem-Stanp mill, and the
next is the Bohemian district which is
being actively developed by Chicago cap
ital. two or three stamp mills being. in
| operation there. Tie ore is generally low
grade and in ssulphides"
| W. b. LAWYER owner of the LAWYER gold
mines in Oregon, drifted back to the old
| days last night as he recounted some of
| the things he had to put up with nigh
| ON to thirty years ago. at was in the
/ spring of 1871 that I left the old home
, stead and turned my face to the land Of
! the setting sun. Before departing / filled
| the house with echoes of promises to
] abstain from the things that ten1nt a lad
| from the straight and narrow path; with
| pledges to be a dutiful son, and write
| often. and be as good as my temperament
would allow. In addition / filed my fond
mothers eyes with tears. and she in
turn filled my grip with heavy teStaments
! hyrmnals and such like. 1t was the first
! time that /" had strayed beyond the con-
| fines of the farm. and j cut out for Utah
/ with my soul full of hope, my grip with
| the things that have just told you about,
and my body full of the old Harry. I
I landed in Salt Lake when it had the mud
diest streets Of any town in the country.
| fell in with Joe Davis, and we did odd
| jobs at. anything and everything, from
! bookkeeping to. watering horses. 1 was
| the most innocent unsQphiStfcated chap
/ in the world; but Joe was up to snuff, and
/ had a. busy time keeping me out of the
hands Of sharps and bunco steerers. He
| was as honest as the day was long, and
the bookkeeping job because they
: wouidn' pay me twice as much as was
! worth, and looked around for something
| new. u was sailing pretty close to the
! a sign i'm front of the intelligence office
l-operated by a man named Cameron. bear
| ing the inscriptions: SO month for
mowers. $50 a month for other farm
hands, ] went down to see about get
! ting hold Of that s75. which looked like a
| mountain of gold to me. Cameron said
| that he. would get me the job, and the fee
I would be So. ! paid it. and then sat
around and waited for Cameron to- act.
/ I'd be waiting vet If 1t hadn't been for
Joe Davis; he was smarter than / was,
| was. offered to him, The job didn't turn
up, and / couldn't find Cameron in his
office when called-=I guess he hid when
he saw me comings There was a slick.
for him and ! tackled him for the money
or the Job He said that he knew nothing
about it: that Cameron handled all the
cash and Kept II Locked up IN the safe E
demanded the money. threatening to wine
i up the mud In the streets with his car