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The venanda could be extended around
the other side of the house II desired II
the view is best from this point or the de-
sign coald be built by just simply re-.
versing to obtain this desideratum. A
technical description of the design IS given
as follows:
General Dimensions: Extreme width.
50 #. in; depth, Including veranda. 80
feet
Heights of Stories: Frs, story. 10 seet;
second story. s #. 6 In.
Exterior Materials: Foundation: posts:
all walls and roofs, shingles
Interior Finish; No plaster, Partitions
are constructed Of and bed rooms cesled
with n c. pine Getting boards: in balance
of house. rafters and jolnsts are exposed.
planed smooth and vanished Yellow Pine
stairs Rough field stcne chimney, fire.
place and mantel
Colors: All wall shingles are left nat
ural, but finished with preservat.ve. Root.
stained green moss. All trim, veranda
floor rail- etc. buff. sashes. white.
Accommodations: The rooms and their
sizes. closets, etc. are shown by the foor
pans. Balcony in second story opens OF
of stair case landing. Ths stair case IL
broad and has an attractive seat in an
angle on first story. Box seat in living
room opposite staircase, with fancy grille
work in arch. This cottage has abundant
closet room, large pantry and extensive
veranda.
Cost: $1,000 This estimate Is 6sed On
New York prices for materials and labor.
In many sections Of the country the cost
should be less.
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the ledge was dug into, ore that as
sayed $4,000 was reached. In a week
or more the ore ran to $1,000 and even
$4,000 a ton. And there was much of it.
The mining world of the West went
crazy over such find. Thousands of
mineralogists and mining experts
flocked from all over Europe and
America to Virginia City purposely to
see that wonderful ledge of gold and
silver. Its richness is a subject which
stirs any reminiscent gold miner on
the Pacific coast to this day. Some Of
the rock even yielded $4,000 in gold
and silver to the ton. A wagon load
of the ore, sent as a sample to San
Francisco, contained $4,000 in gold and
$4,000 in silver. This extraordinary
ledge, known the world over as the
Bonanza of the Comstock, was uncov-
cred in May, 1874. The Big Four min
ing firm had been having for months
neat daily income of over $4,000, and
the Bonanza ledge jumped their net
profits to 1000 every day in the week.
Once on the witness stand James G.
Fair said his income in 1874 was over
$500, 900 from the California and Con-
solidated Virginia mines alone. But
besides, the firm of Mackay, Fair, Flood
& O'Brien had enormous deals in the
shares in other neighboring Comstock
properties. They knew things about
the deeper Lodges that no one else did.
Often they doubled the money they in
vested in shares in other mines. One
deal in Ophir stock yielded over $780,
600 profit in a week. At another time
the firm engineered big deal in Belch-
er stock, which rose from 500 to s215
share in ten days, and they made
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Shares in the California and Consol-
idated Virginia mines which Mackay
and Fair were developing rose from
SAT in February, 1872, to 81, 260 in May,
1875. The mining firm bought and sold
and rebought and resold the shares and
| always made great profits. All the
other twenty-five Comstock mines
doomed also. The deep mining devel-
opment prospered everywhere. San
Francisco, indeed, all California, be-
came vast hive of speculation in min
ing shares. People abandoned other
pursuits and became plungers at the
Mining Exchange. Everybody watch
ed for the first warning that the bub-
BILE might burst, so as to hastily I'M
load mining stocks on other and less
suspecting people. In June, 1875, TIE
feverish spectators began to hear
rumors as to the petering out of the
Bonanza ledge. A panic was narrowly
averted. In July reports came that
the Comstock would earn no more div
idends. Early in August the people
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of the Comstock lode at Virginia City.
Nevada, from January, 1872, to July.
1879. In 1852 James G. Fair was worth
about 5000; in 1858 he had $4,000. in
1871 he was worth $4,000, and in 1880
he had in cash and securities as good
as gold between $42, 1000, 900 and 45,o0O,-
coo.
Jim Fair and his old partner, Dan
Hooley, parted company in 1863. They
had sold the little Hopewell mine near
Grass Valley, Nevada county, Califor-
MIA, for several thousand dollars. Dan
felt as if he were rich for life, and went
down to Frisco to celebrate his good
luck. In a month, he says himself, he
was broke. Fair, with the first capital
he ever had, decided to stick to mining.
He first went over the range to his for
mer mining field in Calaveras county
and married Miss Jennie Rooney. The
miner had known his brides father,
Peter Rooney, in the mines of WEIGHS
Bar, and as the Rooneys, Fair and Dan
Hooley had all come originally from
the County Tyrone, in the north of Ire
land, friendship had sprung up among
them. Many an evening young Jim
Fair had spent at the Rooney cabin.
When Mrs. Rooney and her two bright
faced daughters opened little general
store for the miners at Douglas Flat,
Fair and Rooney used to drop in of an
afternoon and chat with the Rooney
sisters behind the pine counters. Miss
Jennie promised to marry Jim when
had made strike in the mines.
With his bride and a household outfit
Jim Fair started over the Red Dog and
Placerville trail for the Comstock
mines at Virginia City. For two years
he had been stamping restlessly to get
over there, where the miners were
making great money. Mrs. Fair was
equally anxious to go and try luck in
the new diggings in Nevada. So, away
they went in lumber wagon drawn by
two rented mules, from Douglas Flat
to the Comstock. They had their
sole possessions in the wagon with
them. There was an ancient cook
stove, feather bed tick, half bushel
of earthen dishes and lot of cooking
utensils, such as pans, pots and kettles.
jim had $4,000 in his leather belt.
The miner and his bride were a week in
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time in seven years and the Console
dated California stock went down 20
per cent in the summer OF 1871. The
San Francisco newspapers and mining
experts said again and. again that the
glories. of the Comstock were forever
gone and THAI the lower Lodges were
not worth the working.
Meanwhile Mackay, Fair, Flood &
O'Brien kept their partnership a Sc
cret, but each member of the firm was
busy. Shares in the California and the
Virginia mines were bought by Flood
and O'Brien for mere songs, compared
with their former selling values. Every
dollar the mining firm could get went
quietly into these stocks. 1t took some
S80, 600 to get control of the California
and Consolidated Virginia mines.
Three years before the same stock had
sold for over s1,40O,000.
When majority of the shares were
owned by Mackay, Fair, Flood & O'Bri-
en- their partnership was announced.
That was January /, 1872. The new
company went to work to find new and
rich Lodges at a depth of 1,400 feet
down in the lode. Scarcely miner in
Virginia City but thought they had
gone crazy. Hunting for ore at such
depth was absurd. All mining history
was contrary to it. For a year the
firm had to exercise every manoeuvre
in mining financiering to get money
and keep pushing laterals, drifts and
slopes through porphyry or worthless
rock. The outside miners said: 81 told
you So" 1t cost lot of money and
kept the firm devising new financial
schemes, but Mackay and Fair kept
their own counsels and worked with
their gang of laborers like fiends.
Then body of ore that yielded $115
a ton was reached. 1t gave the firm
new heart and fresh capital In three
months more another ledge of ore
worth $3.50 a ton was entered. Four
more lodges Of equal value were worked
in the course of the year.
But the greatest natural treasure
house of mineral wealth ever known
in the world was yet to be opened by
these four miners. On what is known
in the Virginia Mine as the 1.30O-foot
level a drift was entered into a ledge
that assayed $1,000 to the ton. When
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A $1,000 COTTAGE.
This Design Could Be Modified for a
Workingman's Home,
Hotel Annex, Gate Lodge, or
Small Club House for Golf, Ten
mis-, ETC.

Copyright, 1899, by Charles Willard
Leighton. Architect, n. Y. City)
This is the third in the series of ten
illustrated architectural articles run
ming in our Sunday edition. prepared
especially by the well-known architect,
Mr.. Charles Willard Leighton for the
Register.
While there are many crying evils
in the combinations formed recently in
manufacturing industries in this coun-
try, yet there are many benefits to the
laboring class in such Capitalization of
capital. One of the best features OF
combining large manufacturing indus
tries, which, perhaps, has not been no.
ted by economists, is the fact that
where few plants in large cities in
one particular line of manufacturing
are combined, generally to save taxes
or large rents, one or more of them,
or sometimes all, are closed up and a
piece of property taken in a nearby
suburb of a large city and good light
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of Broadway tn ndeo tn
there sang b keys which the bells
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crossing the Sierras and descending to
the mining camp of Virginia CITY
lhey cooked their meals along the
mountain road and they slept out of
doors Whenever the night overtool,
them. Many times after the miner and
MS bride had their millions of dollars
and could not begin to spend fraction
CT their enormous daily income. they
often said those simple, natural DAYS
when they had it all to look forward to
were by far their happiest
Arrived in Virginia City. Fair stud
led the sulphuret ores-then a novel
combination OF gold and silver-apd
soon became an authority in the camp.
Such millionaries as Lucky" Baldwin.
Sharon and Ralston were making
large fortunes there then, and hum
dreds OF miners were getting thousands
OF dollars out of the twenty-five mines
on the Comstock lode. BY 1866 Fair
was boss of gang of men employed
IN the Ophir mine there. Later he
was superintendent. He and an
other lrishman. John w. Mackey, be-
came close friends. Mackay was a
foreman in the Hale & Norcross mine.
The young Irishmen saved their cram
ings, while other miners spent theirs
in drink and gaming. They also ex-
changed secrets they had learned in
the depths of the mines as to the for
nation Of the richest lodges in the
Comstock lode. At the same time
there were two young men of Irish
birth, James c. Flood and William S.
OBrien, who ran a saloon in a little
one-story wooden building on Wash
ington st57set, in San Francisco. The
saloon keepers were popular with Cor
nish and Irish mining laborers who
went from the Comstock to San Fran
cisco to spend their money in sprees.
Flood and O'Brien had been told by
tlpSy ulueTS NdludUlS ldClS lOT HIVES
tors in Comstock shares, and the sa-
loon keepers had been putting all the
profits of their bar into mining stocks.
Naturally, Mackay, Fair, Flood and
O'Brien came together.
In the dingy little back room of the
Flood & O'Brien saloon the mining
company of Mackay, Fair, Flood G
O'Brien was secretly formed one day
in 1870. Mackay and Fair were the
practical rfiners at Virginia City;
Flood and O'Brien manipulated the
mining stock market in San Francisco.
In 1869 the Comstock mines began to
peter out. All sorts of discouraging
rumors were afloat in 1870. The stock
of all Comstock properties deprecated
month by month. The great Ophir
paid no dividends for half year; the
Hale & E,-aross closed for the first
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shipment of goods at as low rates as
could be obtained from the city itself
direct. This necessitates in almost all
cases some provision for the working
man: not only to save his time in
travel, but TO keep him under the good
his health from the unsanftary eondi-
ton Of crowded tenements of the large
cities. This has created a demand for
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ness for hunting for mineral wealth
came back. He and Hooley moved over
into Nevada county. There they found
an outcropping of gold-bearing quartz.
The hare recital of the facts in the
life of James G. Fair from that time in
1862 until 1880 is as marvellous as any
chapter in Arabian Nights. The vera
cious story of the way the immense
Fair fortune was achieved from roth
ing in practically thirteen years thrills
even the veteran Californians, familiar
as they are with the incidents Of the
story, whenever it is told, to this day.
Among all the wonderful stories of how
1.-THE famously great fortunes in the
world have been piled up, none equals
chat OF the $1s7. 100000 whichlthe four
bonanza kings dug from thS bowels
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REALLY COULDN'T, DON'T YOJ
KNOW!

$50 Cholly Vitevie is going to be
married?"
Yes
Sent in your congratulations?
mo. Fact is 1 don't know the girl,
so l can't congratulate him, and l do
know him, so can't congratulate her.
Deuced awkward"
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HOW FAIR MADE
HIS MILLIONS.
Amassed S4O,OOO,OOO In Six
teen Years.
His Mining Partners Story OF
His Streak of Luck = Reads
Like a Tale From Arabian
Nights.

Philadelphia Times
"Virginia Fair to become Mrs. Will
liam K. Vanderbilt, Jr., and the sister
in-law of the Duchess of Marlborough:
Whew! What wonderful changes gold
mining makes in some folks lives
The speaker was Daniel Hooley. a
veteran gold miner and prospector
among the Sierras. Forty years ago"
he continued, Jim Fair and l were Hv-
ing in little redwood cabin at Ho-
CAMS camp, in Calaveras county. We
were not worth more than 100000.
We were holding down a gold claim
which did not promise well, but we
had hopes that some day we might find
a ledge of pay ore that would sell for
a few hundred dollars, and then we
would be fixed. We slept together in
a bunk; we cooked our own meals of
boiled beans and fried bacon over fire
outside the cabin; We washed our own
overalls and jumpers at the creek, and
we wondered if we could ever get
enough together to marry two fine Irish
girls named Rooney, who lived over the
divide at Douglas Flat. But fortune
had some wonderful things in store for
my partner, Jim Fair. In just sixteen
years from that time he was worth
$40, O00, 600 land he and John w. Mack
nv were the richest miners alive. He
became a United States Senator, the
leading millionaire of California, and
now his daughter Virginia is to marry
William X. Vanderbilt, Jr. Well, it is
certainly surprising"
No more picturesque soldier OF Tor
tune than Dan Hooley can be found.
While some of his mining associates
long ago struck it rich, and then either
died poor or in affiuence, Dan Hooley
has chased the tickle goddess, Fortune,
from one mining camp to another all
the way from Chihauhau, Mexico, to
British Columbia through forty-fve
years. And he still has the proverbial
miners hopes.
He was the chum and partner of
James G. Fair in two mining camps for
eleven years. They shared the same
poverty and cheered each other when
season after season passed and they
never found any pay rock. Many a
time they were both disheartened at
their continued adversely. 1t seemed as
if luck never would come their way.
For months at a time Jim Fair and
Dan Hooley, shod with clumsy bro
gans, with soles studded with steel
pegs, begirt with leathern straps, and
clad in overalls, red flannel shirts and
greasy sombreros, went prospecting
over the Sierras. Their sole joint and
undivided possessions were a jackass
and a load on it's back, consisting of
smoke begrimed kettles, burned skill
lets, clanking, battered tin pals, TWO
rolls of sadly soiled blankets, and bag
or two of beans and chunks of salt pork.
Many old-time miners in California are
recalling those salad-days in the career
of Jim Fair, during the latter fifties,
now that his daughter is to become one
of the Vanderbilt aristocracy in New
York.
Once Jim Fair, discouraged, aban-
doned mining and walked to Sacrament
to to hire out as teamster. He was
then 81 years old. Luckily for him and
for the mining world, his natural fond
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IKE the blizzard and the snow:
like the spring when nature thrills:
l like the Easter bello4. but OH
do not like the Easter hillss
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AN ANTb.

Coli said the engineer as tho boiler
blew up and started h3m in like direc-.
ton. Col darn this sudden expansion.
sayr-Indianapolis Journal.
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OTHERS NOT so SLOW.

Jack-Am the first man you ever
kissed?
Ethel-You are the first man who ever
waited for me to do the kissing. New
York Evening Journal.
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husband While here Mrs. Runcie has
proven herself perfect lady and leaves
many warm friends who wish her well.
G. w. Wing is in town today from
his home at Wamic He says every
thing is doing especially well in the
Wamic district this season.
Mrs. H. W. French went to Hood
River on the boat this morning to join
Mrs Russells Sewall. She was accom-
panied by Rosemary Baldwin.
Frank Mcfarland, an old:t time Dalles
"boy," was in town today visiting rela-
tives and meeting old friends. He re-
turns to Portland this afternoon.
De Huff, is in the city from Eugene
visiting his aunt. He has recently re-
turned from Manila on account OF i'll
health.
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Not much attention is often paid to the
first symptoms OF Eczema, but it is not long
before the little redness begins to itch and
burn. This is but the beginning, and will
lead to suffering and torture almost unen-
durable. It is common mistake to regard
a roughness and redness of the skin as
merely a local irritation ; it is but an indica-
fiOn of q hiInor in the hlOod-nf ferrihIa
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strayed or stolen.

Two gray horses, light and dark tor
dappled.) The light gray is branded
thus Z on left shoulder; the dark one
branded on left hip.
Ten dollars reward will be given to
any one for Information as,to their where
abouts, or delivering them to US at
Endersby. kern Bros.
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PERSONAL nIENTIor.

Col. Nye, OF PriuevIlle, is in the city
today.
Ben snipes is in the city from
Yakimas
Rev. j. \. speer c,me in from Warm
Springs yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex McLennan are in
the city from Antelope.
J. P. Abbott, prominent eheepman
of Waplnltia, is in town.
E, Jacobsen returned today from a
trip into Sherman county.
Ben Allen, Prineville's banker, is
registered at the Umatila.
DIR. Belle Rinehart returned last even
ing from short trip to Portland.
Miss Alma Masters, of Goldenda!e,
came over from that place yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. R. Barrett left this
morning on the boat for the Cascade
Locks.
Ben Southwel is in from his farm near
Smile aid called at the CHRONICLE
Office today.
Helen Lytle came up from Portland
last night and is visiting at the home Of
Mrs. j. B. Crossen.
Mrs. B. T. Collins, who has spent the
past week in Portland, returned home
on the boat last evening.
Fred Young, wife and family came in
from Ridgeway today and left ON the
afternoon train for Portland.
Miss Louise Ruch will leave on this
evenings train for Spokane, where she
will Welt her sister, Mrs. James Suther.
land.
Mrs. T. c. Runcie, who has been in
the city engaged in putting On the lady
minstrels, Will leave tins evening for
Walia Walia, where she will JOIN her
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
LAND OFFICE AT THE DALLEs, OREGON

LAND OFFICE AT THE DALI.Es, OREGONl
June 10, 1899
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
that s1id proof will be made before the register
and receiver at The Dalles, Oregon, on Saturday,
July 20, 1899, viz:
Paula Grimaud,
widow of Pierre Grim aud, deceased, of The
Dalles; H Z. No. 5076, for the E15 SE11 Sec. 81,
To north, e II E, w NJ.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of saic land, viz;
Chas. A. Schultz, Rock Cary, Louis Sandoz,
Andrew Uruuhart, all of The Dalles, Oregon.
junI4-u JAY P. LUCAS, Register.
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NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
has filed his final account executor of the es-
tate of Sarah MeAtee with the clerk of the
county court of the state of Oregon, for Wssco
county, and that Thursday, he 18th day of July,
1899, at the hour of 10 O'Clock a. m. has been
fixed as the time and the county C iurt room in
Dalles City the p for the hearing of OBJ
jectiOns to said final account and settlement of
said estate.
Dated July 13, 1899. THCS. NORVAL.
jun Hi Executor.
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