The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-02-01
ITEMS OF
INTEREST
Culled and Collected from
Reliable Sources,

Facts and Figures Concerning Gov
ernments and Their Progress
Last Years Gold Output Rural
Mail Delivery Experiment Great
Success.
According to a report recently is
sued by Wells, Fargo & Co., the to-
tai results of the gold output in the
states and territories west Of the Mis-
souri, river, including British Column
bia and the Yukon district, for the
year 1900, was $229,315,427, Of
which gold contributed 500, 1OO,733,
copper 500, 1884, silver $42, 402,-
SOP. This was the greatest output
Of the metals combined in the his
tory Of the world. The worlds pro-
duction of gold at $236,0O0,000
shows a decrease Of $68.00O,00O as
compared with 1899. Australian
mines produced $6,000,O00 less,
while the production in South At
RIGA fell off on account of the war.
The production in British North
American possessions increased &c.
100000, and the total for North
America about $3,000,000. Mon
tana leads with an aggregate produc-
ton Of metals SCI, 978,150, Colorado
ranks next with $47,916,230, Arizo-
ma follows with $21,2O6,O29, Cali
fornia with $1S,390,714. In British
Columbia and the Yukon district the
value of ores mined was $50, 297, 900.
Rural mail delivery is becoming
quite fixture in the United States
mail system at present, and the con-
tributions by congress has steadily
grown from year to year. First $780,
600 was appropriated, then $3.50, 900
was appropriated for the following
year, and, lastly, for the last fiscal
year $1,750,000 was appropriated,
and it is expected that for the pres
ent fiscal year at least $5,000,000
will be appropriated for this special
mail service. This rural mail deliv-
cry service is being operated in most
all OF the state Of the Union, and ex-
tends in many instances as far as
twenty-five miles from the postoffice.
Farmers living along the public
highways have mail boxes, as do the
government, and the carriers in their
driving carts take up the mails from
the government boxes and place the
farmers mail in their private boxes.
The carriers have also been furnish
ed with signal whistles to notify the
farmers living near the road, of mail
being placed in their boxes.
The Higgins Oil Co., with a cap
ital stock of 100000, which has
been filed in Austin, Texas, covers
the new oil fields recently discovered
at Beaumont, Texas. The discovery
OF oil in large quantities at Beau
mont has attracted thousands of per-
sons to that locality and Beaumont.
which few days ago was a small in
significant village, is now thriving
business center. Oil men from Penn
sylvania, Ohio and Indiana and ev-
erywhere else are rapidly focking
there and have pronounced it the
most wonderful oil field in the world.
Two lakes, known as the Twin
Lakes, situated in northern Indiana,
which cover twenty-five and forty
eight acres respectively, have now al
most disappeared, the same having
been filled up from time to time by
decaying vegetation. AT one time
the lakes contained large numbers Of
fish, but now only few smaller spe-
cieS are to be found, which are not
worth fishing for.
Wanamaker.
Countess Castellaine, the Youngest
daughter Of the famous Jay Gould, |
has been allowed 100000 per an i
mum by the courts for her mainten-
ance until the debts contracted bv
her husband have all be settled off.
Yakima county, Of the state of |
Washington, has a Dunkard colony |
consisting of sixty families, with a /,
probability Of the same being in
creased ten-fold during the present 4.
year.