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Can Be "a y Z, 81 H. 1.fyss Mis1,ta
s Z The Empire M 4 } so. cream ssepara-
'or purchased Of y yopr agent here ere Il
aHyop claim for .c,.iitt..,ft Gan separate
8 pail Of MIX II II 4 four minutes and
turns urn very easy !, and can. be. cleaned in
three minutes after using, have
nine cows and have made price Of
machine over and above what I got
before t purchased Lass the machine. +
nave nave had separator since April, j 1899.
PIX good coys will pay. for separator
in twelye MONTHS. 49,. =. - 4
WILLIAM ILL SLACK,
Oct. 4, 1899. : Rock Lake, Manitoba
For sale BY Townsend & Marshall.
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EpiscopaI-Maina and Sixth-sts Sunday
service 1880 a. m. Service Wednesday
evenings at 1880. g." "a, -,
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A O.U. W.-Sauk Centre Lodge, No. 182
n. Meets every Saturday night. In Barnun
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DEGREE OF HONOR Meets every first and
third Thursdays, in Workman Hall.
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Gospel HalI-Main-st,, Barnum, block
Sunday services 1880 a. M, 1880 p. m.
Sunday school IL m. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evenings at7:30. -,
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VALPARAIso-REBEKA LODGE, No. 90. Meet
the second and fourth Fridays, In Odd Fol
lows Block
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X A. R., B. r. Palmer Post, No. 40. Meets
", second and fourth Thursday evenings
in G.. A, r, Hall.
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Seventh-Day Administrators. Ser.
vices II M. 80 p. m. Sabbath school 10 az
q. M. Saturday.
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Observation-Disclosures LoDoE, No. q
Odd Fellows Block.
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t~' 80 = q
GTQ Rent.

III fl. Its, Rent .i,j IT., p. j, 4,
= 'As 1 have given up my business ct
dress-making in this: place; to remove;
to California, my, rooms are. for rent;
A fine location for 2 good dress-maker.
- . MRS RS, ADA ADA II l4,asssPE RAaUE,
,,s. ~. ,..,... r. u. -..a,.. 325 Main-st.
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st. Paul's Church German Catholic)-
a. M, high mass 10 80 a. M, vespers 500 D. m.
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7 90. F.-Sauk Centre Lodge No. "a, sub:
i ordinate. Meets every Saturday. In ODD
Fellows Block.
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Zoe. ,Ice, Toe.

! Ioe.ilcet ice.ssf::s 49,. F.,
Twill deliver ice for household .ppr-
poses TO anyplace in the city for fifty
cents a loads :. sssf@ ..-..~*s2--- .rs-->
Phone No. ~. i A,aL.sS4EMoNp.j J.,
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WoMEN's RELIEF CORPS. Meets first and
third Saturdays in G. A. r Hall, at p m
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-04-18

" Of P.-Fidelity Lodge. No. l2o. Meet
n every Monday night In the Scheldrul
building.
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NAOMI CHAPTER, @. E. S.-No. 81. Meets first
and third Tuesday evenings, in Masonic
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Lodges,

A F. and A. M.-Star in the West No. 60.
n. Meets the second and fourth Tuesdays
|n Masonic Hall.
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S 500
Churches.

BaptiSt-Maple-st. Sunday services 10 80 a.
m. 1880 p. m. Sunday school IL m. Young
Peoples meeting 6 30 p m. Weekly prayer
meeting Wednesday evening at 7;30.
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r. A. M.-Sauk Centre Chapter. No. 40. Meets
first and third Fridays, at Masonic Hall.
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y o. f. Meets frst and third Wednesday
u. evenings at F0resters' Hall.

WOMEN's @. O. r. Meets second and fourth
Friday evenings, at Foresters Hall.
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Homer Beal OF. Westport, =, was ( 2 i. IL
the CITY On Wednesday.
) Ferd 5 Bergman camel in from Ash
Elev on Wednesday. The weather shut
off his seeding for time.
1 Miss Janet Perkins was given a very
pleasantsurprise party bv a score OF
her, oungfriends ON Tuesday evening.
Thsv all had good time. sgsEs
Ora Van Norman, has engaged W it'll
the. Donart barber shop as . eshine'
artist. He is anaexpert.
For photographs and Crayon en-
Engagements 80 to ". G, Bassett, Main ir
st. {: tal.jt ~ ,'1Af1&Nt IT,
Mrs. Louis Sell>has been entertaining
her father, q resident of Washington
county, WIS.,, during the past week
The old gentlemanis hale aud hearty.
G. E. and w. r. Hanev, two wide>
awake real estate men, were dn the CITY
this morning. with an eve to business.
:, G.. Hillerud s. Co are. selling the
Iowa Dairy separator, the easiest rum
ming cream separator made. None
more effective. Visit their store and
let them show you this remarkable
machine - o.. 70 d. @..~ 80
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II O. T. M.-Knights of tho Maccsbees
n. Tent No. @. Meets every Thursday,
Smith Block.
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BRA WEST HIvH, No. So--Meets nrss and
third Monday Of each month ct Maooabss
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LAB gee.ss.s
s.ars.l. 1In Kind ysu Have L!x.l. Bought
s'. |. Er&1ZESx
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M WA. Meets every Wednesday night,
Nl In Smith Block, second Aoof. Entsans>
@ rearsis,5s..s =. 4

RoYxxyNYt0HDons or AMHRicA, Roeewoo6
Camp No. aO71. Mepte dEpt ard third 8ue0s
7 days - AodeSA Wooe1As
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derived from the dividends received on
the stocks in it's treasury.
It is to be recalled that the advertise
ment offering 100000 of Amalgamated
stock to the public, did not state that the
company owned a controlling interest
in any of the stocks it had purchased.
Large interests were stated to have
been acquired, and up to the time that
the $50, 000, 900 was referred to in the re-
cent Jersey City proceedings. little was
actually known regarding this important
matter.
In another part of the affidavit the
statement is made that among the prin-
cipal assets of the Amalgamated COM
pany are a majority of the shares of the
capital stock of the said Anaconda and
Parrot companies" It is difficult to
harmonic this statement with the one
quoted above as the market value OF q
majority of naconda and Parrot amounts
to much more than $50, 000, 900.
Whether or not the expression Ito at
least $4,000, 0O0' includes the possibility
of the market value OF Amalgamated's
ownership in these two companies
amounting to a much larger sum, cer-
tain it is that these figures have given
rise to much thoughtful consideration.
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MINES AMI MINING The Search for Of
VIvlO FAvV yI1vvO Luck Of the Ppectm
Abandoned PldCerS of French GulCh to
Be Reclaimed by Modern Methods

French Gulch was once one of Mon
tana's greatest mining camps. OLD
timers who have not passed to the grea {
divide, still recall pleasant memories OF
the days when the old placer diggngs.
about 20 miles southwest of Anaconda,
fairly bristled with activity and which
brought fame to Montana because of
the richness of the gravel then washe
in the crude ways customary in those
days.
To find nugget worth from $25 to $50
was not an uncommon thing then and it
is said that no less than $4,000 900 was
taken out of the French Gulch bars
while the excitement lasted.
Gold was discovered in the gulch in
1864 when Indians frequently donned
their war paint and undertook to ex-
terminate the sturdy miners who had
braved all the dangers imaginable to
reach the new found bonanza.
Two Frenchemen We're the first ones
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to enter the gulch with their packs and
while prospecting found that the yellow
metal existed there in abundance. For
time they endeavored to keep the mat
ter secret, but in a short while the
news spread abroad the country and the
spring of 1865 witnessed a stampede.
A little later as many as 1000 people
Inhabited the town Of French Gulch
which sprung into existence.
Wages We're high, S. per day being the
minimum sum paid the miners, and own
ers Of claims made money very fast.
The camp continued prosperous for
about four years when people began to
leave, believing the ground had been
practically worked out and what was
left they concluded could not be worked
with the crude methods then in vogue.
In a short while the camp dwindled
down to nothing, the old town was in
time deserted and the few white men
and Cinnamon that remained eventually
burned up the houses that had been con-
structed for fuel, that being much easie.
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generally supposed, as at the recent
hearing at Jersey City in the Geer in
junction case, an affidavit of G. NJ. Hy-
ans was presented by the Amalgamated
attorneys which stated that 1.-The total
market value of the shares of said COM
panies (AnacOnda and Parrot) held by
the Amalgamated company is equal to at
least $50, 100000" This market value was
based on the then ruling quotations Of
81 for Anaconda and 81 Tor Parrot.
1t had been popularity supposed that
eAmalgamated owned al least 800 900
shares of Anaconda out of the total share
capital of 100000 shares and $780,
shares of Parrot out of that conpanys
100000 share capital. This superstition
must be erroneous as assuming that
lAmalgamated owns but bare control OF
Anaconda or 100000 shares, this amount
of stock at $51 per share would absorb
$50, SOC, 900 out of $50, 900 900 referred to in
the affidavit, leaving but 81, 400, 900 to rep
resent the ownership in Parrot, of 1000
shares at $57 per share.
! AS far as the public is concerned, the
holdings of Amalgamated in it's constit-
uent properties have always been An UNI
known quantity. 1t is nevertheless vi
tai question in endeavoring to arrive at
the parent company.s income. which is
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-01
FRANKLIN FARRELL, VINO MADE the
PARROT, WILL DEVELOP MCQUEEN PLACER

The Mcqueen placer. which adjoins
the Butte & Boston and Boston & Mon
tana properties. east of Meaderville,
covers an area Of ground mile long
and quarter of mile wide, the Iona
portion of it running north and south,
has been recently bought by Franklin
Farrell Of Ansonia, Conn. 1t is close to
Placer SSS, which was also purchased by
Mr. Farrell a short time ago. The entire
possession gives Mr.. Farrell an area Of
ground mile ana a quarter in length
and nearly mile in width. 1t is right
in line with the copper veins Of the large
properties short distance west. The
reason the property ives not bought by
some of the large companies long ago Is
because the opinion prevailed here for
many years that the veins of the Bos>
ton & Montana, Anaconda, Butte 4
Boston and other corporations pinched
out at the creek which separates the
east and west sides. A short time ago,
however, this belief was knocked sky
high by the discovery of large body
Of ore in the Butte & Boston placer,
which lies east of the Mcqueen placer.
The finding Of ore in this ground has
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-01

Frequent clean-ups are made and the
mats on the tables are taken off and
washed out into the save-all box once
every "a hours and from there the yellow
metal is saved by means Of an amalga-
matOr.
The hydraulic elevator is one of the
improvements in placer mining which
has done wonders since it's Introduction
in California and the machine recently
installed in French Gulch by Mr.. Allen
upon his own properties is the first eve:
set up in Montana. Mr.. Allen not long
ago acquired title to the ground upon
which the old town of French Gulch
once stood and early this spring he built
the apparatus in the gulch about a halt
mile above the location Of the dredgins
company's plant.
The object Of the hydraulic elevator
is to elevate tailings that heretofore
had TO be forked by, hand. in places
where the bar being worked is too low
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-01

1T is not known at this time whether
or not the terms for the exchange of
Boston Il Montana and Butte & Boston
for new Amalgamated stock will be off,
cially announced before the special meet
ing of Amalgamated stockholders on
June s.
Cash offers have already been made
through Messrs. Kidder. Peabody & Co.
for Boston & Montana at 1915 per share
and Butte & Boston at 1925 per share.
The amount Of cash required to purchase
the entire issue on this basis would be
as follows:
Boston & Nc ltana. 10000
shares at 1915 49,. 49,. :. 8 $3.50. 900
Butte & Boston. 200, 900 shares
at $9S50 49,. ..... lS.5OO.OvO
IOtu $50. 1890. l4.lo0,UUV
1t is, of course. to be presumed that the
terms announced. will be sufficiently at
tractive to induce an exchange on the
four 60 one basis for Boston & Montana
and the share to share basis for Butte 4
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resulted in two things-law suits to
quiet title to the property and the fact
that the veins Of the big mines at tho
west side Of the valley are continuous.
The Boston & Montana and the Rutte
4 Boston are at present sinking larry.
shafts in the foothills east OF the Nc.
Queen, where they expect to develop the
eastern extensions of their veins. Mr.,
Farrell Is sinking three large shafts on
his property, two of them being three
compartment and as true as any shaft
that has ever been sunk in Butte. He
will thoroughly explore the country and
should he encounter the ore bodies
therein, which he has reason to expect
he will. 1t would be the greatest addl-
ton to the mining industry Of this dis
trict the camp has ever had. 1t will
demonstrate the fact that the copper de-
posts are not confined to what Is known
as the Anaconda hill," but extend 10
the mountains east Of the city.
Mr.. Farrell was formerly president Of
the Parrot Silver and Copper Mining
company and has pretty good idea Of
the mineral formation and possibilities
Of this district.
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DREDGING coMPANY,s PLANT, FRENCH ou1cn.

to admit Of sufficient dump or failing
room and the fall Of water is SO slight
that sluices cannot be operated sue
cessfully.
With the machine put up by Mr.. Alien
the power is gained by $50 inches Of wa
ter which is brought over in bitches to
an elevation of 1856 feet above the ma :.
chine and is conveyed to the elevator
itself by means Of is inch pipe ana
passes through AZ inch nozzle. then
through a sls inch throat, thus creating
suction which lifts the sand and gravel
and about 400 inches Of water aside
from the water coming through two by
draulics which are used in driving tie
gravel and rocks to the machine Mellow
feet into a flume containing rifles which
catch any gold which might be forced
through with the tailings. The bulk,
head Of the flume is lined with heavy
iron rails to withstand the terrific
pounding it gets from the rocks A1s
gravel which comes tearing through n H.
machine, With this elevator a forc& III
seven or eight men can handle from IOoo
to l,SOO yards per day, the quantity de-
pending entirely on the character of ahe
ground worked. IL
The machine is proving a decided aaac
cess and much of the ground abandoaSsl
by the early day miners will be operated
very profitably.
About two miles up the gulch from Tie
spot where the elevator is located MI.
Allen is operating another placer camp
where he is working hydraulics in va4u-
able ground. The original owners worked
along In the crude way Of a shovel and
sluice boxes and made money until they
encountered trouble with immense boul-
ders which they were unable to remove.
For years the ground lay dormant, but
when Mr.. Allen came into possession of
1t he set up derrick to remove such OBJ
structions. which is operated by asslna Il
steam engine. With tne3 boulde abut
OF the way the bank is faSAye washed
down by water passing through 8 inch
nozzle. 81
With the ground included in the claims
IN his possession up the gulch Mr.. Allen
!! has enough to keep him busy for years
to come.
Last winter, while prospecting for a
quartz lead above this placer digging
some very fine ore was encountered and
before another year expires he expects
to have opened up a quartz mine tina.
| will insure activity in the camp during all
| seasons.
Several other outfits are working IN
| the gulch this year and the outlook for
] the old camp was never brighter since
| its palmy days.
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| manufacture of machinery. the camp
could again be made prosperous.
French Gulch was his birthplace and
he has been consequently conversant
| with conditions in the diggings from his
infancy. The old house in which he
first saw the light of day is one of The
few buildings which still remains stand
ing and considering the ravages of time
it is still in good state of preservation.
Mr. Allen was working for salary.
but like a good many others concluded
that to get rich in that manner was an
up hill job, SO, confident that he could
make winner of it concluded he could
better himself in the mountain ravire
in which he had spent his youth.
He sold his home and went into debt
besides, but he knew no such word as
fail and undertook the task he had set
out to do.
He was Instrumental in the formation
of the French Gulch Dredging company.
which concern last year finished the
erection of a large dredging boat which
was done at enormous cost. The com-
pany now owns about 500 acres Of ground
which extends up and down the valley
along the creek for a distance Of 3h
miles.
The dredge was built in the valley at
the mouth Of French Gulch Creek ana
it has proven to be great success SO fa,
as has been operated and handles from
1000 to 1880 yards per day. The ma
chine is Of the bucket type, 30 Of them
being attached to the revolving chain
or ladder as it is called which is 40 feet
in length.
h,,a1
and it would seem that their durability
would Withstand years of active service
Each one of these buckets has the ca.
pacity Of holding s12 cubic feet Of gravel
and fourteen of them are dumped every
minute into large grizzly or revolv-
ing screen, where the coarse gravel is
separated from the fine and the sifted
block sand and gold drops down into
a distributing box. From there it is
carried over a series of eight tables on
each side which are covered with co GOA
mating and expanded metal rifles. The
RIFLES which catch what gold may find
waste sand and water is carried and
dumped off the rear end of the boat by
means of iron fumes which also have
its way over the tables. The rock and
heavy material is dumped into an ele-
sdtoI anu also carried OH to the rear OF
the boat and stacked up to height OF
10 feet.
The water furnished the boat is done
by centrifugal pump lifting 1000 gall
Ions per minute. Power for the opera
ton of the machinery is done by a 100
horse power boiler and go horse power
condencing engine. A double cylinder,
20 horse power engine is used in the
operation of the wenches and the lights
used during the night time are generated
by Westinghouse dynamo. In dimer>
sions the boat is 80 feet wide by 70 feet
long not including the failing stacker
Or ladder. In its construction 5000 feet
OF lumber was used and it bears a load
Of ITO tons of machinery.
1t Is claimed that 81 per cent of the
values contained in the gravel is saved.
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than going into the mountains to Gu:
timber. Not a few ranchers helped
themselves and moved them away to
their home places to be used again.
In its palmy days French Gulch was
a peaceful camp. Saloons and dance
houses We're numerous of course, but no
raids were made upon the place by orr
sanized bands of desperadoes as had
been the case in Virginia City. The
Plummer gang was pretty we'll broken
up when French Gulch became of i'm
portance. Several robberies were re-
ported on the road between the camp
and Deer Lodge and one day a Chinese
merchant of the latter place who regu-
larly went into camp to buy the gold
lieved of about $1,000.
No hangings ever occurred Will the
camp existed, however one was threat
ened. One night negro was caught in
the attempt of robbing a sluice box. He
was caught by several miners and strung
up and let down three times at the end
OF rope. The last time he was let
down he pretended he was dead. Tie
men knew he was playing possum and
conversed within his hearing wher.
they We're going to bury him. Presently
he slipped the moose off>his neck and
made run for the mountains and was
never after heard FROM
The old camp remained in a comatosa
ago when signs of a revival became ev;-
state until something like four years
dent. 1t occurred to William r. Allen.
whose father was the first man to drive
q team into the Gulch. that with the
improvements and progress made in the
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Boston. SO that it Is very improbable that
any considerable amount of Boston &
Montana and Butte & Boston will be sold
on the cash basis above referred to.
There continues to be talk of an ar
rangement whereby the minority stock
holders of the Anaconda company will
be taken into the Amalgamated COM
pany on the basis Of one share of ANAL
gamated for two Of Anaconda.
1t is very evident that the Amalgamat-
eds present ownership in the Anaconda
company is much smaller than has been
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Miners Union at Elkhorn.

A. L. Mercer was here from Elkhorn
yesterday and reports the camp to be
getting along all right, though there Is
some delay in obtaining machinery for
the Elkhorn Silver Mining company.
that is opening up the old mine, says
the Boulder Age. A miners union was
recently organized there with a pretty
good start for the size Of the camp, there
being about thirty members. Harvey
Davis Is president, Mr.. Mercer secretary
and H. Greseth treasurer.
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THE ANACONDA AND PARROT
Amalgamated Company Owns a Con
trolling Interest in Their
Shares, q

The Boston News Bureau, said to rep
resent the interests of F. A. HeinzeA in
the east, handed its readers the following
on May %:
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1901-12-05
OjCieC Newman
i jego wielcy doktorZy le-
CA dalej.
kuracya domowa.

Przez caiy rok ME mog1em p%racowat,
majac boil W krzyzach i boil gfowy. Me
mia9em apetytu i nawet chodzic ME mo-
GLEN. Brafem DUO medycyny ale wy
zdrowiet ME mogfem. Ojciec Newman
uleczy} mic W 7miu tygodniach i jestem
zdr6w i silny.
Rad jestem powiedziet kazdemu cho-
remu by sic udai do OLGA Newmana.
J0ZEF KUBISS,
St. Peter, MINI.