"c934855b-4d6f-4329-afb5-a2a809e8d520"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "[The Miner]"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2015-11-30"@en . "1897-01-16"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/gfminer/items/1.0081708/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " THE GRAND FORKS MINER.\nFIRST YEAR.-NO 36.\nGRAND FORKS, BRITISH COLUMBIA. SATURDAY JANUA\n3vY -16, 1897\nW. J. ARMSTRONG & CO.\nANACONDA, B. 0.\nSteel ranges, Stoves, Silverware, Graniteware, Crockery-ware, Glassware,\nWoodsnware, Tinware, Toilet eetB\n-HARDWARE-\nOt All Kinds, Cutlery, Churns, Sewing rnachineB, Wringers, Washing machines, Window shades, Wagons and Trucks, Fururco Work, Steam and Pipe\n(\u00E2\u0096\u00A0^Fitting, Iron Pipe and Fittings, Etc., Etc.\nFirstclass Job Shop in Connection.\n'.: W.H.FISHER\"\nCarson Lodge I. O. O. F. No. 37.\nIn n p MBETS BVERY SATURDAY\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \Jt Ui li evening at B o'clock in their\nhall at Canon, B C. A ..cor.llal Invitation extended toallso|oumlng brethren.\nP. B. NELSON, R. 8.\nE Bfhaoobtt, N. 8. D. D. McHkbn, V. G.\nHas opened a new\nBUTCHER SHOP\nAnd Solicits a Fair Share of the Fublic Patronage.\nA Full Line of Groceries in Connection,\nVICTORIA HOTEL.\nGrand Forks, B. C.\nThe Mammoth Hotel of the Kettle River District.\nMRS. A. V. DAVIS, Proprietress.\nJJIGHT OLEEK ALWAYS ON HAND. KATES $1,50 AND $2.00 PEL DA>\nNow is the Time\nTo Invest\nChurch Notlc*.\nPRESBYTERIAN CHUltCH-Serviees every\nSaSbath in the churoh at II a. m. and 7:30\np' m. in tlie school room at Grand Forks. Bab-\nbath sohool 10:S0 a. m. in the schocl room.\nAt Carson weekly 3 p. in.\nRar. Tuos. Patok, Pastor.\nII. A, SHBAI1S. J. ADA\u00C2\u00A59.\nSHEADS & ADAHS,\n-ASSAYERS-\nGRAND FORKS, B. C.\nSAMPLESCIVEN PROMPT ANDCAREFULATTENTION\nT K. JOHNSON,\nLaw and Collecting Agency.\nCONVEYANCER, MINERAL CLAIMS BOUGHT\nANO SOLD. NOTARY PUBLIC.\nGRAND. FORKS, - BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nChas.de BlolsGreen C E P L d, F. Wollaston P L 6\nPREEN & WOLLASTON,\nProvincial Land Surveyors\nCivil Engineers, Etc.\nQRAND FORKS, B. C.\nOffice in VanNess' Addition with J.H. Feather-\n-ton, assayer.\nEXGELSIDR!!\nProgress Will Be the Watchword of |he New Owners\nof the'Grand Forks\nTownsite,\nPRICE FIVE CENTS.\"\nMR. OUMMINGS TALKS\nManager of the New Townsite Com-\npany Tells'u Miner Kepresent-\native What They Intend Doing,\na l. Mcdonald,\nContractor and Builder,\nGRAND FORKS, B. C.\nPlans and specifications drawn, estimates fur\nnshed on all kinds of building. Work strictu\nIrnt-class.\nU E. STACHE,\nBath Rooms,\nAND TONSORlAL PARLORS.\nUVKR9IDK,\nGRAND FORKS\nOne Hundred Dollars Invested NOW\nWill Buy as Much as a Thousand Next Spring.\nT H. FEATHERSTON, B. A. S. c.\nASSAYER.\nlad Mining Engineer. Member of (lichen Mill\ntngSociety. Mineral Claims Kiamined\nnnd Reported on.\nBRIDGE STREET, GRAND PORKS.\n-tRAND PORKS HOTEL\nBarber Shop.\n.'entrally Uioated. All Work Gaurantoed to be\nI'irst-Clsss In every Respect.\n'ETER A. I PARE,\nPROPRIETOR\nDJ-OHARD THERIEN,\nBLACKSMITH,\nGRAND FORKS, B. 0.\nBoes all kinds of kinds of repairing am'\nlorse shoeing, All work gaurantoed.\nIT H. HUFF.\nBLACKSMITH.\nGREENWOOD CITY, B. O.\nDoes all kinds of repairing and horseshoeing\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Vork strictly tlrstelass.\nINTENDING INVESTORS\nWo have now on sale the following good properties:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nGROUP OF j One-half milo from Grand Forks and adjoining the celebrated\nTWO CLAIMS. I BONETA mino. Will be sold as a group or singly.\nOne mile and a half from Grand Forks, quartz ledge, good\nAssays and an immense surface showing of ore.\nGROUP OF\nTWO CLAIMS.\nOVER TWENTY )\nGOOD PROPERIES \\nFor salt- cheap in the vicinity of the Great Volcanic\nMountain and So.tttlo mining properties.\nT P. MqLEOD.\nBarrister, Solicitor, Etc.\nANACONDA, B. C.\nThe Above\nProperties\nWe can honestly recommend bb good investments. We can ge\nyou good claims in any particular section at bed-rook prices.\nLIST YOUR (Mp WITH U8\nWe Offer to Prospectors and Mine-\nowners Special Facilities for Quick\nEeturns as We are in Constant Communication With Capitalists in all\nParts of the Country.\nBRIDGE STREET RESTAURAN'J\nBAKERY AND\n- Lunch Counter -\nMEALS AT ALL HOURS.\nlot Cakes and Coffee 10c\nWRIGHT * LUTHER.\nA C. SUTTON.\nBarrister at Law,\n' Notary Public, Etc.\nGRAND FORKS, B. C,\nSpokane, Wash., Jan. 13.-Mr. Chas.\nCumminge, manager of the Grand Forks\nTown Company arrived in Spokane\nMonday afternoon from Victoria and\nleft, accompanied by his wife, on Wednesday morning for Chicago, where he\n?oeBon several matters of businesB,proui.\ntnent among which will bo the endeavor\nto straighten out the affairs of the Olire\nMining Company with a view to having\nthat incorporation commence operations\nin the early spring.\nMr, Cuturnings has been in Victoria\ni'or tho past three weeks in companj\nwith Messrs. John and Al. Manly, in\nthe laudable work of placing before the\n,'overnmont officials the needB of the\nKettle river district and seemed to be\nvery much encouraged over the proe-\npects of procuring government assist-\nitce in the various needs of the section\nIn an interview with the Spokane\n.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2epreaontativo of the Miner Mr. Cum*\n.nings stated that they found tho gov-\neminent officials at Victoria laboring\nunder a misapprehension regarding the\n'leeds of the Kottle rivor country, based\nipon information furnj-jhed by parties\ninterested in other districts, and when\ndiown their error they expressed a will\niiignees to extend such aid as lay in\ni heir power to assist in relieving the\nimmediate need of tho denizens of tbis-\n.\ underfill mineral and agricultural\nlistrict. |\nContinuing, Mr. Cummings said:\n\"Am-.ig the different things asked\nI'or and granted are the building of a\nii'idge across Kettle rivor at Edward's\n'orry, tho removal of tho custom house\nto Grand Forks, the appointment of a\nitipendary magistrate, the location of\ni mining recorder's office aud the estab-\nishmeut of a bonded warehouse al\nirand Fork*,\n\"Of course we did not tjet everything\n.vo went after, but if wo secure one or\nwo of tho above mentioned concessions\nther pti. poses to the various towns in\nihe Vale disttict and to appropriate\n130,000 miner's inches of water from the\nKettle river for tho purpose of geuerat-\n' ing electricity for the supply of light,\nheat and power to the inhabitants, cities,\ntowns, mines, smelters and tramways\nwithin a radios of 40 miles from the\ntownsite of Grand Forks. Three different companies have made application\nfor g franehiso covering practically the\nsame territory which will naturally\ncomplicate matters. Several conferences were holu by the interested parties\nand as no agreement could be effected\nit soemed to bo the prevailing opinion\nthat the coming legislature would divide\nthe territory and givo each of tho different oorapanies a franchise for that\nportion tributary to tlio point from\nwhich they propose to operate.\n\"Work en the bridge at Edward's\nferry will bo commenced at an early\ndate and it is expected that it will be\ncompleted before high water comes\nwhich is generally the latter part of\nMarch or Hje n'rut of April.\n\"The appoiutment of a stipendary\nmagistrate and mining recorder has\nbeen practically settled and tho names\nof the fortunate parties will be made\npublic in about 20 days. As to the\nnames of the parties I am not at liberty\nto state at this time.\n\"In regard to the outlooit for a railroad tho coming year tho proBpects are\nvery encouraging. The board of trade\nand merchants of Victoria are bocom-\ning very much interested in tho building of tho Canadian Pacific into this\nsection and are alive to tho fact that\nwithout transportation facilities they\nhave but little hopes of securing the\njobbing trade which at present goeB\niltnost exclusively to Spokane and\nvliich is increasing with the dovolop-\nnent of the country. From the present\nmtlook and from what I learn from\nlareful enquiry I am of tho opinion that\n:le Columbia & Western will bo the\nirst to build into the Forks. The fact\nhat it is the general belief in railroad\ndrclos that Mr. Hejnzo has formed an\nillianco with the Canadian Pacilic stiui-\nilates the statement that as soon as the\nweuty mile section between Trail aud\ntobson is completed the work of build-\ntig iuto the Forks will be commenced\nmd pushed until completed.\n\"Tho poople of Victoria, and especially\nhe members of the coming legislative\ntssembly aro very much interested in,\nmd listen eagerly to any information\njoaring upon the resources of the Kot-\nle river and Boundary creok country,\niroataurprise is expressed at lho vast-\niess of its mineral resources and possibilities and it seoms to be the geniral\nielief that a largo amount of Canadian\nmd English capital will And its way\nnto this section the coming season.\"\nMr. Cummings will return from\nJhicago about the fitst of February, at\nvhich time he'expects to joiu tho .Messrs\nManly, who are now sojourning in California combining business with pleas*\nireju this city: Thoy will bo in the Forks\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 bcut the 10th of February, when act-\nve operations in building ono ot the\nurgest and most flourishing cities in\n-lie northwest will be commenced.\nMINE NEWS.\nInteresting Items Gathered From\nMany Sources.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Mining '\nNotes.\nDORBES M. KERBY,\nProvincial Laud Surveyor.\nAnd Civil Engineer.\nivrecs, MIDWAY, b. c. ~\nAssociate Member Canadlai\nSociety of Civil Engineer)\nCorrespondence Solicited.\nMcCarter, Johnson & McCarter,\nGrand Porks, B. C.\nOr F. H. ncCARTER,\nSpokane, Washington\nDAILY STAGE\nProm Grand Forks to Greenwood and\nreturn.\nStage Leaves Grand Forks 5 a< m*\nOn Saturdays, Tuesdays and\nThursdays, and on Monday\nWednesday and Piiday\nAt 7 0'olook a. m*\nMakes Carson, Greenwood, Anaconna,\nBoundary Falls and Midway.\nEMMERT&SPONG,\nProprietors\nK. DEWDNEY.\nCANADA.\nPROVINCE OF MRI'l'ISIl COLUMBIA.\nVICTORIA, hy tho Grace of Hod, of the I'lilte.\nKingdom \u00C2\u00ABf Great llritnin ami Ireluinl\nQUBEH, Defender of the Faith, eople of Out\nProvince of British Columbia,and to liave theii\nadvice In our Legislature:\nNOW KNOW YK, thai for divers causes and\nconsiderations, and taking'into consideration\n:ho ease and convenience of our lovtng subject!.\nA'e have thought lit, by anil Willi the advice (.1\nOurBxccutlveCouncilof the Province of British\nColumbia, to hereby convoke, and by these,\npresents enjoin you, and oaoh of you, that on\nMonday, the Eighth day of the month of Fob\nruasy, one thousand eight hundred am] ninety\nseven you meet Us in our said Legislature or\nParliament uf Our said Province, at Our Citv\nof Victoria, FOR THE DISPATCH OF HCSi\nNE.SS, to treat, do, act, and conclude up on\nihose tniugs which ln Our Legislature ol\nthe Province of British Columbia, by the Com*\nnion Oouuoil of Our said Province may, by the\ntavour of God, be ordained.\nIn Testimony wiikhkof. We have caused\nthese Our Letters to he made Patent, and\nthe Great seal of the said province to h \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nhereunto aiilied: Witness, the Honour\nable EnoAB Dbwdnby, Lieutenant-Governor of Our said Province of British\nColumbia, in Our Citv of Victoria, in Our\nsaid Province, this twenty-ninth day of\nDecember, in Uie year of our Lord otic\nthousand eight hundred aud ninety-six,\nand in the sixtieth year oi Our Reign.\nBy Command.\nJAMK8 BAKRR,\nCProvincial Secretary.;;,\nWILL BEAT ROSSLAND.\nOliver Bordeau of Rouland, aud who\na somiwhat extensively interested in\neal estate in Grand Forks and Ana-\n:onda, has been staying at the White\n'ouse for the past week. Mr. Bordeau\nia one of tlie earliest pioneers in Rossland\nmd was also what might be termed\n>ne of the lucky ones, having sold\n-everal properties for handsome aums.\ni a conversation with a Minor man, he\n.iid:\n\"I have watched the growth of vari-\nius mining camps for tho last 25 years\nitid especially that of RoBslaud, boing\n\u00C2\u00BBne of the oldest settlors in that camp\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 we havo bo much better surface\nihowings up tho North Fork, aud in\nhe various camps tributary to Grand\ni''orke. Indeed so strong is my fuith\n.ii tho Forks, that I intend to invest\noiisiderably in several moro town lots\n.vith the hrm belief that I will double\nmy money within the next six nionthe.\"\nThus we see that Rossland people as\nwall as others, consider our burg to\nlavo good prospects.\nOver indifferent proporties aro work-\ning this winter in Empire camp.\nSteve F Ffopworth has just returned\nfrom Pass creek, where he has beon\nworking on one of his claims in that\nsection.\nOliver Bordeau intends building\nsome business houses on the principal\nstreets, having already acquired several\nline building sites.\nMr. Mathieson, owner of tho No. 1\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0uoperty near the Seattle, was in town\nhi Wednesday aud reports everything\nprogressing on his property.\nA Rogers has purchased a two thirds\ninterest in the Home Run claim on\ntardy mountain, from Messrs. Hardy\nind Ring, the furmor owners.\nThe Cotustock is one of the richest\niopper propositions in this section and\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0s situated in Labour camp, some\n-even miles wast of Grand Forks.\nMews, Griffin, Derickson, Woodhead\nmd Anderson are now working on the\nlionania property in Knight's camp,\n\"he ore increasing in value as they sink.\nA Spokane company ie likely to ac-\nluire tho Midnight property on the\nreservation. The Midnight has con-\n-iderable work done, having a tunnel in\n'ver 80 feet.\nIt is reported that the Emma property\nin Summit camp is likely to change\nhands. Tho Parrot Mining Company,\n>f Butte Montana, who ate tho present\niwners have shown the property up wall.\nInsac Phar, une of tho owners of the\nLone Star, in Curlew camp, reports\nhat an assay recently made from the\nu-e at the workings, ran as high as\nMO all valuee, being rich in gold aud\nupper.\nMessrs. McDonald and McCallum\nvho own tho Lizrie property in Brown\nlamp, intend to sink on this claim at\nnee. The Lizzie ia a strong iron cap\nmd is close to the well known Elsie\n'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ay claim.\nJohn Holmes, the owner of tiie\n..reen Mountain claim on Hardy tnoun*\nain, showed us eome lino specimens of\niopper ore, that wore recently taken\nfrom tha 25 foot cut that was run or.\n:his property.\nMr. Hughe of the Comstock mine,\nei LaFlour mountain, was in town and\nihowed a sample of oro from this fa\nnous pruperty, part of which assayed as\niigh ai 50 por cent copper, 20 ozs. in\nnlver and 9520.JO in gold.\n^ H. P. Toronto, of the English &\nFrench Gold Mining Company, was iu\ntown this woek and showed us a sample\n)f galena ore, taken from the workings\n>t the Bonanza claim. It appears that\nthe seam is now IS inches wide at a\nlepth of 12 feet, the seam widening as\nthey go down.\nMessrs, Gaffert and Anderson, who\niwu various properties in different sections, aro pushinic work at present on\nine of their claims on Hardy mountain,\n-mown as tho Gold-drop, which is a\nmammoth showing of iron capping, the\nvery croppings being rich in eoppor and\n-iseaying ae high as 812 in gold. The\n>wnera of this property intend to do 50\nfeet of tunnelling before spring, which\nwill most likely show the claim up\npretty well.\nHOME BEER NOW.\nThe tii'and Forks Brewiug Company\nhas received their required liceusa to\norew and the gentlemen who compose\nthis company, Messrs. Townend &\nHowitt are as busy as beavers getting\nthings in readiness to place their beor\nou the market by February 15th.\nThis brewery has a capacity of 20\nbarrels a day and bb they aro both professional brewers thore is no doubt but\nthat thoy will be able to place a good\narticle before their patrons, As this is\nthe only brewery in the Kettle River\nand Boundary districts, there ia no\ndoubt that they will get a large proportion of the local trade.\nANOTHER STAOE LINE.\nMessrs. Wright and Sehawsn have\nstarted a new stage line that will run\nbetween Grand Forks and Bossburg,\nI'hey mado their first trip on Thursday last. As there is now a railway\nlopot at Bossburg, and a customs officer\nit is expected that a large proportion of\nIhe travelling public will tako the stage\nat Bossburg, for the Kettle Rivor and\nBoundary districts, instead of nt Mas\nIUS, as formerly, as it is several miles\n-ihorter.\nThe now stage will make by-weekly\ntripe, leaving Grand Forks every Monday, and Thursday and will arrive on\nTuesday and Friday.\nIt is the intention of the new stage\nproprietors to leave tho Forks at 1\no'ciock P. M., und drive to within about\n10 miles of Bossburg, where good accommodation will.be provided foi the passengers for the night, and the next\nmorning the stage will proceed to Boss-\nburg, arriving in time to catch boiu pas*\nBenjfbr trains,\nIt is so arranged, that tho regular\nstage fare will cover all expenses at the\nstage house, as well as tho stage fare\nso that there ib no additional expense\nattachod to traveling by this line. Mr.\nWright, one of the owners of tho line,\nhas been engaged in freighting between\nMarctiB and the Forks, for the past two\nyears, and is consequently well acquainted with the route and there is no\ndoubt but that thoy will get their share\nof the public patronage. HE HAS LED THE WAY\nWHAT THE PIIOSPEOTOH HAS DONE\nIN DEVELOPING THE WEST.\nSketcll of thi' Mini Who Uoniiin tlio\niiiiu in Search or Goldeti\nWealth.\nTho following trihuto to the prospector,\nwhich appears in an exchange, is from\nHi.- pen of Dan De Quille:\nAlthough many a Kood, kind wont has\nbeen spoken of the prospector, yot full\ncredit luis seldom been given him for the\nImportant work he has performed In the\nway of Inducing the development uf the\nIndustry of mining the precious metals\nln the northwestern states. Not ;l few\nlook upon the prospector as a sort of\nshiftless, roving creature, who wanders\nabout the wilds of the mountains in a\nprofitless way. But the fact is thai tho\nprospector occupies an Important place\namong the members of the mining Industry. Hi* Is the pioneer and leads tin-\nway in the exploration of new mining\n(ields, BCOUtlng out Into the wilds far In\nadvance of towns and settlements. Before mines can be opened and worked\nby capital thoy must bo discovered, and\nIt is tho prospector who sallies forth and\ndoes tho necessary work.\nThe prospector may be said to have\nbeen born In tho days of \"forty-nine,\"\nwhon the harvest of gold of the California placers began. As soon as \"born\"\nthe prospector began scouting out into\nthe wilderness, and he has been at it\never since. \"One a prospector, always\na prospector.\" A working miner may\nat times do something In the way of\nprospecting, but the real prospector Is\none who is always dreaming of undiscovered veins of the precious metals in\nfar-away mountain regions, nnd whose\ngreatest delight Is to roam and camp in\nnew and unexplored Holds. The prospector has in his composition something\nof tho nature and disposition of the old\nhunter and trapper. He braves all manner of perils and endures a thousand\nhardships in pursuit of his favorite occupation.\nIn the opening up of tho mining regions of the Pacific coast the prospector\nhas everywhere been in advance\u00E2\u0080\u0094has led\nthe way. He it was at the front who first\nmet tho arrows of the rod men, battled\nwith tho wild beasts of the mountains,\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0and encountered tlie dangers of tho waterless wastes. First the mining field Is\ndiscovered, then the minors push forward and a camp Is established, wh-k-h\npresently grows up to be a town or city.\nIn Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Montana,\nWashington, Oregon and almost everywhere else, the prospector has been\nobliged to fight his way among savages,\nand ln several sections of the Pacific\ncoast mining regions he is still in the\nwarpath In rugged mountain wilds. Although the prospector is always, day and\nnight, dreaming of great wealth, he is\nseldom wealthy. He is a man of little\nmoans, ami when he finds a good mine\nhe generally sells at a price far below Its\nreal value.\nTh\u00C2\u00A9 genuine prospector Is not at all inclined to settle down to the hard everyday toil required in the development of a\nmine. There Is too much of the gypay, or\ntrapper, or hunter, in his nature to permit\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2of -his .permanently establishing himself In\nany particular spot. Ho has In his composition a romantic love of adventure, and\ndellgttlts Ln tho wild beauties of nature aB\nihe finds uhem In the far-away fiastnessee\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0of the mountains. Besides, he has dreams\nof wealth in many places. No -sooner has\nhe made a find and a little \"raise'' than\nhe Is off to explore some region of which\nho has long had golden visions.\nIf all do not find gold, every prospector\nfinds more or less pleasure in his chosen\npursuit, notwithstanding the 'hardships of\nthe life.\nTho prospector Is generally a lover of\nnature, and he enjoys tho wilds. Reposing\nupon tho bosom of mother earth at his\nenmp-iire, ho gazes into the starry heavens and takes pleasure In speculating in\nregard to what is in and upon the faraway twinkling and whirling worlds, Ho\nfinds music In the voice of uho wind iu the\nipines, and has an oar for all the night\nsounds of nature, tho Chin-1 of insects and\nthe twitter of night singing birds. Often,\ntoo, when the camp-lire has burned low,\nhis quick ear detects the footfalls of somo\nprowling wolf, fox or bear, or other wild\nanimal; but, with his trusty revolver under his pillow, he has no fear.\nWhen parties of prospectors meet and\ncamp together in the mountains thero is\nalways a feast of golden legends. There\nare stories of lost leads, of rich leads that\nno one has ever been able to find, of float\nrock filled with veins of gold, and of Immense nuggets picked up in various\nplaces. Every man has a. story, and It is\nseldom a dull one. The old prospector is\na man of a thousand adventures. He lias\nhad his Indian fights, his encounters with\nwild animals, and his escapes from death\nby starvation and thirst; but all is at once\nforgotten when the word Is that there is\ngold ill\",id. Then it Is: \"Pack tho burros\nand away!\"\nThe real old pros-pertor\u00E2\u0080\u0094the man of the\nmountains-is a man worth luiowing, and\ncommands tiho respect of mining men in\nall camps of tho northwesu As the old\nhunters and trappers woro the avant-eou-\nrlers of the westward advance of the Industry of agriculture from tho Atlantic\nseaboard to the Kooky mountains, so the\nprospector was the pioneer of civilization\nIn the industry of mining. He blazed the\ntrail to the mines; minors, maehlul.-us,\nmerchants and men of capital then followed, and soon tihe wilderness was conquered.\nTho old prospector now sees busy towns,\nstreet ears and electric, lights In a hundred places wiiere ln times past ho camped\nand grazed his burro, and finds railroad\ntrains rushing and roaring around mountains and through canyons where once he\npainfully toiled In trackless wilds. Where\nhe battled with hostile savages he i.ew\nsees peaceful settlements a.nd flourishing\nfarms, and the laughing voices of children are heard where once the wild IndUn\nraised his warwhoop. The old prospector\nmay have no great store of gold, hut he\nhas the satisfaction of seeing on all sides\nthe spreading and firm rooting of the civilization for whidh he blazed a way.\nNo monument is likely to be raised lo\nthe memory of the old prospector When he\ncrosses the dark river bo the camp on\nthe golden shore; but in every northwestern state will stand to (his credit the posts\nhe planted at the front. His old camps\nwill stand as monuments to mark his line\nof marcih a>nd the scenes of his exploits\nand struggles in the wilds.\nMONTANA CAPITOL COMMISSION*.\nA lion 4 I mm ue nn h Way Out of Financial DlftlealtleSs\nit was supposed whon the legislature\ntwo years ai;o appropriated $1,000,000 for a\nstate capital and provided for the Issuance of warrants on a building funa\nwhich Is backed by the lands granted\nMontana by the United States for public\nbuildings, that before another session\nthe work would be well under way, says\nthe Helena Independent The capital\nbuilding commissioners, however, were\nconfronted with difficulties that could not\nbe anticipated, and while much of the\npreliminary work has been accomplished\nIn the two years or less In which they\nhavo been organized, the work Is now\npractically at a standstill and cannot pro-\nceed unless the legislature which Is about\nto meet will come to tho rescue wi.- nee*\nessary legislation.\nInning the past year the capital building plans wen- commenced at the site\npreliminary to tho putting in the foundation. Nothing further can bo done until\nthe commission can secure funds, it has\nbeen demonstrated that tho warrant\nscheme Is not practicable. Tne bankers\nin the east and west will not take them,\nalthough the security is 180,000 acres of\nland In Montana. Tho commissioners\nthink the only remedy is ln a bond Insue,\nbacked by the same lands. Thoy say that\nbonds, having a definite time for payment,\nwill bo easily disposed of, while it Is Im-\nposlble to sell warrants. A bill will ho\nIntroduced ln the legislature authorizing the Issue of $l,Ui)U,U00 of bonds, hall\nof the amount as soon as possible and the\nbalance when needed. The bonds will impose no obligation upon the state. They\nwill bo backed by the lands belonging to\nthe public building grant, and while they\nwill bring the relief needed, they cannot,\nit Is said, involve the state, any more\nthan the warrants on tho building fund.\nWith necessary funds, the commission\nsays, the building can be completed in\nthree years.\nPICKING CHICKENS TO MUSIC.\nQueer Custom of the Itnllan Poultry\nDealers of Sun FrunclNCo.\nThe sailor has his musical shanty, to\nwhich ho keeps time as he trots about the\ncapstan until the anchor Is hoisted to the\npeak; tho farmer trills a lay to lighten his\nlabors as ho pitches hay into the wagon,\nand those songs are familiar to many.\nbut who over heard or saw a gang of\nItalian chicken-pickers sing and denude\nfowls to the tunc of the music? a-sks the\nSan Francisco Call.\nSuch a scene can be witnessed any Friday evening In season at the Clay stroot\nmarket, while the employes of the big\npoultry houses that have their places of\nbusiness there are preparing for sale the\nchickens that the housewife buys for tho\nSunday dinner.\nThe men seat themselves in a half circle\nand each takes a fowl. (Jno stroke of a\nsharp knife across the throat puts tho\nunfortunate squawking broiler out of ils\nmisery and then the foreman of the \u00C2\u00A3ung\nstarts his song. As they catch tho air\nand the time tho others chime In and in\nan instant tho plucking begins. With\nrhythmic motion the nimble fingers grasp\nthe feathers and pull thorn out during all\nthe time of tho song.\nFeathers fly in all directions, but the\nsong goes on until the last plnfoathers me\nremoved and the carcasses are tossed into a pile, r>ady for the man who puts\non the finishing touches and prepares\nthom for the Inspection of prospective\npurchasers.\nThe rapidity with which a chicken is\nstripped of its feathers is astonisliing to\nlho unit la ted who have tried It but a low\ntimes, and so adopt have these nun become that thoy finish their fowls almost\nsimultaneously and the process is repeated in unison. Throe dozen birds o.ro\nnot considered a heavy night's work for\nono man and when pressed for time they\nmanage to compass oven more than that.\nTho song they sing Is remarkably lively\nand sweet and much resembles the song\nof the fishermen as they row their boats,\nthough tho time Is much faster.\nCURES HIMSELF OF CONSUMPTION.\nProft'HMor I). I<. Ilinvd SIiown How Ho\nSaved lliH Life.\nProfessor Daniel L. Dowd, former claimant of the title of strongest man on earth,\nwho was declared Insane over a year ago\nbecause of his peculiar ideas on diet, has\nobtained affidavits from a number of\nphysicians to show that tne system he\nwas declared crazy for adopting really\nsaved his life, says a New fork dispatch.\nProfessor Dowd is now at liberty, with\nhis fate in the hands of Judge Pryor. if\ntho decision on a motion to recommit him\nis against him he will be legally crazy\nagain. About five years ago the seeds of\nconsumption were planted ln the professor's lungs.\n\"My theory,\" he said today, \"is that the\ntubercular bacilli, being vegetable\ngrowths, are fed by the fermentation\nwithin the body. It Is clear, therefore,\nthat, if the fermentation ln the stomach\ncan be stopped there will be nothing to\nfeed or create bacilli, and they will pass\naway. Meat will not ferment, as does\nvegetable food. A meat diet exclusively\ngets monotonous, so three hours after\neating vegetables I washed out the fermenting food with a stomach pump. Although Dr. Hoi lister, examining physic-\nIan of Bellevue, said in 181)5 that .1 would\ndie within six months, I am still living\nand have cured myself. I think that a\nman who. by his own treatment, recovers from tubercular consumption should\nnot be adjudged Insane for using the\ntreatment.\"\nHETTY GREEN HELPING HER SON\nPlniis to Make Him One of the Most\nImportant Railway Managers.\nK. H. K. Orcen, president of the Texas\nMidland railway, will soon bo one of the\nmost important railway managers ln the\nsouthwest, says a Galveston dispatch. Mr.\nGreen's wealthy mother, Mrs. Hetty\nGreen of New York, Is engineering the\ndeal which will add to her son's power.\nTho Midland road, of which Mr. Green\nis president, runs from Knnis to Paris,\nand if the plans which Mrs, Green has\nunder way succeed a consolidation of\ninterests will be effected by which a new\ntrunk line between St. Louis and Galveston will be formed, and Mr. Green wilt\nbecome a most important factor in southwestern railroad affairs.\nMr. Green and a party of officials of the\nHouston & Texas Central and Galveston,\nHouston & Laporte roads are here today.\nMr. Green says that he Is hero to inspect\nthe Laporte's terminal facilities. If Mr.\nGreen gets control of It a combination will\nbe made between the St. Louis & San\nFrancisco, the Texas Midland, the Houston & Texas Central and the Laporte for\nthrough service, St. Louis to Galveston.\nHAS BURIED THOUSANDS\n\.\ INDIANA IXDUIITAKIIU'S WON'-\nDERFUL RECORD.\nSome Peovle 11** Huh Interred Tultsi\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Many of the Collins Mnilc* 1>>\nHimself.\nI laving burled over 13,000 human beings\nduring a oaroer of 60 years In the undertaking business, Louis A. Peltier, the oldest inhabitant of Allen eounty, Ind., and\nthe oldest undertaker ln the state and\nvery likely tlio oldest ln the United\nStates, would, if he were an every-day\nIloosler, conclude It was about time to\nlake a rest, says the Indianapolis Journal.\nInstead, however, ho still remains in business, and Is actively engaged every day\nin populating cemeteries and depopulating\nFort Wayne, his place of birth, which\noccurred at this point over S2 years ago.\nThis remarkably active and vigorous old\ngentleman lirst opened his eyes to the\nworld In the old military garrison at\nFort Wayne, at tho Junction of the St,\nMary and St. Joe rivers, which form the\n.Matimee. Not a white human being resided outside of its stockade within a\nradius of a hundred miles at that time.\nFierce Indians of the Miami tribe were\nabsolute masters of every foot of soil for\nmiles and miles surrounding this famous\nmilitary settlement. His birth marked\na new epoch in the history of the settlement, and surrounding country, Inasmuch\nas he was the first white child born in\nthis section of the commonwealth. There\nwas great joy in the old garrison when it\nwas announced that a son had been born\nto a French trader named Maloch Peltier,\nand his French bride, who had been Miss\nEmellne Chapteau. Friendly Indian scouts\nsoon carried the tidings outside of the\nstockades and there was a great demand\nby the friendly portion of the Mlamls to\nsee the \"white papoose.\"\nWhen Mr. Peltier was a youngster there\nwere no schools in this vicinity, so he was\nnot obliged to pass several years at study\nbefore going to work, but at an unusually\nearly age ho began to learn the carpenter's trade, and gradually picked up that\nof cabinet-maker. While engaged in this\noccupation he was frequently called on to\nmake coffins for some poor soldier or settler who had died. In a couple of years\nhe had the Held to himself, and found\nhimself the only undertaker ln this section of tho country. For a year or so his\nwork and services ln this direction were\ngiven gratis, and It was not until he was\na little past his majority that he made\nhis lirst charge and received his first pay.\nThis was for an Indian family which had\nlost a child. This fami'y resided on a government grant of land about 12 miles from\nFort Wayne, and the young undertaker\ndelivered his coffin via horseback, receiving a bear pelt for his pay. This coffin\nhe describes as having been made with\npoplar wood and stained with lampblack\nand bear's grease.\nSince then ho has served as undertaker\nfor and burled over 13,000 people, among\nthem being Hi Is own grandfather, mother\nand faithor, daughters and sons, and several grandchildren. This largo number\ndoes not include those whom ho burled\nthe second time, as was the case with several hundred whose remains he removed\nfrom one cemetery to another, as Uhe first\none was found to be too close to tiho city,\nwhich had grown very rapidly.\nMade Collins.\nSeveral thousand coffins for these he\nmade by hand himself, and, in fact, it lias\nonly been since the introduction of machinery-made coffins and caskets that he\nhas given up manufacturing them himself.\nDuring his GO years' career as an undertaker he has seen the plain poplar or bliek\nwalnut coffin, varnished and trimmed with\na fow castiron or silver-plated ornaments,\nevolve Into the superb casket of today,\nfashioned as if for an emperor, dra.ped in\nsilks, broadcloths and satins, and trimmed\nin solid sliver or gold. Thlrty-fivo years\nago Mr. Peltier made his own coffin. He\nselected a beautiful piece of black walnut\nfor It, and without assistance made it into\nan old-stylo coffin, without any ornaments. This he still keeps in his establishment, and, as he has always expressed a\nde-sire to be burled in it, this wishes will be\ncomplied witlh.\nAll of his playmates of four score years\nago, all of the \"old settlers and pioneers,\"\nall of the \"oldest imhabitants,\" have been\nlaid to rest by this venerable man. He has\nburied the flrst-boirn and the last-lxn'n,\nand the first of a family and and the last\not a family. In his own family he has\nburied members of four generations. During tiho cholera plague he burled human\nbeings at the rate of 20 a day. He lias\nburied those who 'have died from fearful\ncontagious diseases, yet 'he has never been\nill a day. He has buried those whom,\nafter ho did so, he would ohargo the expense of in the profit and loss account, as\nthere was no one left of relatives or family to pay tho bills. All nationalities, civilized and savage, -all colors, all creeds, all\nages, all stations of life,'have'had his services. From tho mansion to the hut all\nhave seen him, all know him. More than\n13,000 human beings! Verily, ho can talk\nof tho cities of the dead. To this day ho\nmounts his hearse and drives to a funeral\nwith tho same agility ho did 'half a century ago. In the hottest and coldest\nweather old man Peltier may be seon se-it-\nod on the hearse, taking some poor mortal\nto his last resting place. He attributes his\nexcellent ihealth to his regularity of habits\nand total abstinence from liquors and tobacco in any form. During his long business career he has never sued a person\nfor a bill. If you can't pay him, nil ris'it.\nIf you aro alble and won't\u00E2\u0080\u0094you may so to\nthe devil. That is tho way he puts it.\n6KELETON FOUND IN A TREE.\nOhio Wood Chopper MhIcon a Startling Discovery.\nIn cutting up a giant onk tree on a farm\nnetir Hirksvllle, Ohio, the other d.iy, a human\nskeleton was found imbedded In the tree, about\n30 feet from the base.\nTlie wood hiul grown around the bones, and\nthe timber had to be cnrefully hewn away.\nThe tree was solid and gave no appearanoe of\never having been hollow.\nIdle Money In India.\nAn authority computes that 91.860,000,000 Is\nthe amount of money lying idle ln India in the\nshupe of hoards or ornaments. In Amritsar. a\nPunjab city, there are jewels to the value\nof $10,000,000. A wealthy jewel merchant of\nBenares has. It is said, always a stock worth\nI...000,000 on hand.\nScience of Algrehrn. Stndcnts nt Harvard.\nThe science of algebra is said to have been ] Tho latest figures Bhow that the gain In\nthe; invention of Mohammed, of Buziana, about | the number of students nt Harvard university\n850 A. D. The aclenec waB Introduced into ' thin year over last hns been 77. This Is the\nSpain by the Moors. The first treatise on tha \ smallest gain since 18S8, an.l the university\nHUbjcot ln any European language, Is believed authorities attribute it to tho flnnncial rle-\nto have been that liy I.uca Paccoll, In HJ4. presslon.\nTHE SECRETS OF THE SHAFT.\nStrange TUnfl Noticed About the\nWashington Monument.\nSIXrY-FOURCENTSADAY\nThe distance at whicti the Washington\nmonument is visible has always been a\nmatter of debatable interest with Washington people, says the Star of -that city.\nNot a train approaches the city, nor a\nboat speeds up or down the Potomac, but\ncarries a group of people anxious to see\nat just what point they can last see the\nwhite marble against the sky as they depart or lirst And it as they return.\nProbably the greatest distance at which\nthe monument Is seen Is from the summit of the Blue Itidge, at Snicker's gap, a\ndistance of about tt miles in an air line.\nThe elevation there is 2000 feet above the\nl'oiomao. The mountaineers years ago,\nwith their keen eyes, trained to long and\nsharp sight In the mountains, detected the\nwhite spot gleaming on the horizon, and\nthey can always quickly determine Its\nplace on the horizon line. But to city folk,\nhowever, the location of the white shaft\nIs not an easy matter.\nThousands of \"Washington people every\nsummer Invade that region as summer\nboarders, to subsist on fresh milk and\nfried chicken, and Incidentally ln their excursions upon the mountain to get a sight\nof the monument, On clear days it is distinctly visible, especially lo those who are\nfamiliar with Its precise location. But it\nIs more easily seen at sunset than at any\nother hour, as the sharp rellectlon of the\nsun's rays brings out the white surface\nof the marble. The mountain people are\nonly too glad to point out the monument\nto their visitors, and usually tell them the\nsecret by which they can themselves locate it.\nOne of the most singular stories that\nmay be told about the Washington monument is hardly credible, yet It can be\nvouched for as perfectly true. There are\nhundreds of ladies In Washington who\nwear upon their hats u.e plumage or the\nentire skin of a bird which has lost its\nlife flying against the tall mass of marble\nin the dimness of twilight or daybreak.\nAnother queer thing to know about the\nmonument is that its height and width\nvary. It Is taller In summer than in winter, and In the latter season its width on\nthe south side is about an inch greater\nthan on the north, cast or west sides. This\nis duo to expansion under the heat of the\nsun's rays.\nIS WHAT PUXXMAH AVOULD PAY\nEIGHT liiMIIS.\nCALL IT THE ROGUE'S GALERY.\nPhot ou rn pliN nnd AutoKrnpliN of\nMembers of ('oiiriyns.\n\"This Is what we call our rogues' gallery,\" said Uncle Joe Cannon to a Washington Star representative, as he stood\nin the office of the sergeant-at-arms of\nthe house of representatives, indorsing a\nvoucher for his salary, \"and It contains\ntho photograph of every representative\nIn the Fifty-fourth congress. It was\ndeemed advisable to have this done to\nguard against any fraud or forgery upon\nUncle Sam at the capltol. Accordingly a\nbig frame capable of holding 300 cabinet\nslzo photographs was prepared, and as\nfast as the pictures could be made they\nworo assigned places In the frame. Many\nof the representatives put their autographs on the photographs, and thus gave\na double safeguard against fraudulent\npractices.\"\nUnder the system adopted by the ser-\ngoant-at-arms of the house, who in prao-\ntacally the banker for 3G0 representatives,\nwhose salary and. mileage accounts must\nrun the gauntlet of his assistants, it Is\nwell nigh impossible for any one to personate a congressman successfully. In\ncase of any doubt in the mind of the\npaying teller as to the identity of a congressman presenting a pay or mileage\nvoucher all ho has to do Is to look through\ntho wire netting and find the picture of\nthe congressman whose namo has been\nsigned to the voucher, or if somebody\nelse presents the voucher, a glance at\nthe autograph in the big frame is all the\nauthority necessary for making the desired payment.\n.Men Are Numbered Like PrlMonern\nIn the Si he rlii 11 MtiieM of\nItllN.sill.\nJohn W. Herman, a tinsmith employed\n| by the Pullman Palace Oar Company a'\nI Pullman, is on strike because of a redue-\nI tion of nearly 00 per cent ln his wages.\nj While he is not the only employe who\n| says he has had his wages cut more than\nhalf, he is the only one who has so far\nrevolted. Alter working 42 hours on two\ncars, for which he had always received 20\ncents or more an hour, lie learned that\nlie would only be paid a fraction over\neight cents an hour, lie immediately quit\nwork and was given a check for the\nmoney due him. This he refused. Today\nhe said he would protest to Mr. Pullman,\nand if he received no satisfaction he\nwould enter suit for the money.\nIn the Pullman shops, where the workmen are all tagged, Herman has been\nknown as No. 2509. lie is a German and\nis regarded as a lirst class workman. He\nlirst began work at the Pullman shops in\n1894. During his entire employment at\nPullman he claims he never earned less\nthan 20 cents an hour, except for tho lirst\ntwo weeks, when he earned only 19 cents\nan hour. He has a number of time books\nwhich ho submits aa proof of his statements. When the shops shut down he\nmoved away from Pullman, but returned\nto work November 17.\nOn November 2'i Herman and three fellow workmen completed placing tin root's\non two cars. It was very particular work\nand had to be done by good workmen.\nHis companions are known as Nos. 25(1,\n2507 and 2521. They had each worked a\ndifferent number of hours, but the total\nlooted up 145. For this they were to receive $12.70, divided as follows; No. 2571,\n45 hours, $3.94; No. 2567, 45 hou^s, $3.94; No.\n2524, 15 hours, $1.32; No. 2509, (Herman),\n$3.50. Herman had worked 40 hours. When\nhe learned the amount he was to receive\nhe protested.\n\"I went to Mr. Butcher, tho head bookkeeper, and told him 1 wanted an honest man's wages. He sent me to Assistant Manager Weil, and I asK^u the latter\nif eight cents an hour was the prosperity\nthat he had promised us after the election. He said that Joseph Frumfeller, the\nforeman of the tinning department, had\ninformed him that one man had earned 23\ncents an hour at the same work. I showea\nhim that was impossible and then he sent\nout for the books to prove it. He asked\nme to retire until he and Frumfeller made\nan investigation. They called me in In a\nfew minutes and told me the books showed that one man had earned 21 cents an\nhour and another 17. They did not let me\nsee the books. When 1 still protested\nthey held another star chamber session\nover the books and made the same claims\nRAVAGES OF TYPHOID FEVER.\nEuropean Cities Suffer Less Than\nThose In America.\nThe following table shows that, from a\nsanitary point of view, Europe Is far\nahead of the United States, says the Atlanta Constitution. For every 100,000 inhabitants the number of deaths resulting\nfrom typhoid fever In Europe Is as follows:\nBerlin BlChrlstlana 7\nMunich 3 Vienna C\nHamburg 9 Dresden !j\nThe Hague 4JBreslau 0\nnottei-dain 2| \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nStockholm 9| Average G\nWith respect to this country, howevci,\nthe showing is altogether different. The\nrecord for some of our leading American\ncities is as follows:\nChicago 32]\nCincinnati 30'\nCleveland 3G\nWashington 74'\nPittsburg 77\nJeraey City 71\nOne reason for th\nLouisville 7'\nIndianapolis 9'\nPhiladelphia 4i\nBuffalo 21\nAverage.\nr.tMt\ns difference between\nthe two countries lies in the fact that\nAmericans drink vitiated water. This is\nspecially true with reference to the cities,\nwhere well water is often contaminated\nby impurities, in Europe, however, only\npure water Is furnished the Inhabitants.\nThese facts should be considered by the\nhealth authorities ln our various cities.\nWith a climate as salubrious as that possessed by any nation on the globe, there\nIs no reason why this country should not\nat least rival Europe in its sanitary conditions.\nBELIEVES IN CONTINUAL PRAYER.\nMichigan Mini Churned With AVhlp-\niiiiiK' ii in Wife for Sooffinff.\nCharles Holman of New Haven township, Michigan, entertains some peculiar\nreligious views, and among others he regards It as his sacred duty to chastise\nhis wife If she neglects to pray whenever he commands her to do so.\nAbout one year ago Charles Informed\nhis wife that In his opinion she did not\nspend enough time in prayer, whereupon\nshe replied that If he spent more time in\nhustling for work and less time f.n praying his family would suffer less from\nhunger and cold. The insinuation was\nmore than the husband could stand, and\nhe severely chastised his wife and spent\n90 days In the Detroit house of correction. On his return he called on the prosecuting attorney and wanted to hold an\nafternoon prayer meeting in his oflice,\nbut as it happened to be the prosecutor's\nbusy day, Holmnn was kicked out.\nHis religious ardor was somewhat cooled, and he behaved fairly well until last\nSunday, when he beat his wife unmercifully because she refused to accept his\nInterpretation of the scriptures. He was\narrested and Is awaiting trial, Holman\nconducted a series of revival meetings\nln the county jail.\nwhen they called me in again. I refused\nto take the check offered me, as H% an\nhour is starvation wages. If they do nd~e\npay me just wages before tonight I wJ!i\ncall on Mr. Pullman tomorrow and^eii\nmy story, a he gives me no satisfaction\nI will sue the company.\n\"Just think of those wages. 1 had live\ndays' work a week. At 4 o'clock Monday\nmorning I left home and walked to the\nfoot of Randolph street in order to save\nstreet car fare. Of course 1 could not\nwalk to Pullman, and that cost me 15\ncents each way. I came home every Saturday and stayed over Sunday. No. 2571,\none of the workmen who suffered the\nsame reduction as myself, rents \u00C2\u00BBrom the\nPullman company. He pays $11.00 rent.\nHe is also paying $1 every pay day for\nrent accumulated during the big strike\nand owes $20.\"\nHerman showed by the book kept by*\nhimself that he had always earned 20\ncents or more an hour for the same work.\nFor putting a roof on the car Tangier,\nhe and three others, including No. 2507,\nreceived $19 for 90 urs' work. On the\nBremer, on which No. 2571 was also employed, ihey received $9.20 for less than\n45 hours' work.\n\"The other men live ln Pullman houses,\" continued Herman, \"and it is impossible for them to throw up their jobs. Of\ncourse, I will have to move to Pullman if\nI go back to work there, but I don't see\nhow I can.\n\"We are too poor to buy bread now, and\nIt would be a long time before 1 could\nsave enough out of 85 cents a day for\nmoving my family and household furniture to Pullman.\"\nThe Hermans live ln the basement of\na two-story cottage at 158 Hudson avenue.\nIn the kitchen was a small fire, around\nwhich their four children huddled to keep\nwarm. Although Herman has lost little\ntime, his wages have been so small that\nhe has found It difficult to make both ends\nmeet. After paying his board at Pullman\nfor five days and car fare both ways,\nthere was nothing left for his family. He\nfinished the interview by asking:\n\"Do you think any man should ask a\nskilled mechanic to work for 8% cents an\nhour?\"\nSpokane Falls & Northern,\nNelson & Fort Sheppard,\nRed Mountain Railways.\nTHE ONLY ALL RAIL ROUTE WITHOUT CHANGE OP CARS BETWEEN\nSPOKANE, ROSSLAND AND NELSON.\nDAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY.\nLeave. Arrive.\n7:00 a. m Spokane 7:00 p. m.\n10:30 a. m Rossland 3:25 p. m.\n9:00 a. m Nelson 5:20 p. m.\nClose connections at Nelson with steamers tor Kaslo and all Kootonay Lake\npoints.\nPassengers for Kettle River and Boundary Cre\u00C2\u00BBk connect at Marcus with stage\ndally.\nKettle River Stage Line.\nG. W. WILLIAMS, Manager.\n: : :FROM : : :\nMarcus to Grand Forks, Greenwood, Anaconda,\nBoundary Falls and Midway, B. C.,\nAnd all Points on the Reservation.\nStages Leave Marcus on ihe Arrival ot the Train.\nLeave Grand Forks 4:00 a. m.\nArrive Grand Forks 9:00 p. m.\nLeave Marcus 12 m.\nArrive Marcus 11:00 a.m.\nBoundary Hotel\nMIDWAY, KETTLE RIVLR.\nFirst Class Accommodation, Good Stabling, Terminus ot\nStage Line inin Marcus, Washington.\nMcAULEY & LUNDY, - - - - Proprietors\nSANS0M & H0LBR00K \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nFinancial, : Mining : and : Real : Estate : Agents,\nGREENWOOD CITY, B. C.\nDEALERS IN MINIES\nI\nInvestors Shown Claims hy\nan expeii.nced man.\nFARMING LANDS\nAND\nOTHER PROPERTIES\nAND\nTIMBER LANDS\nA Large List of Good Claims for Sale on Our Hands\nC. A. Jones,\n=Hf House and Carriage Painting,\n^ I I X INI ^ Plain and Decorative Paper\n \u00E2\u0080\u0094.\u00E2\u0080\u00941|| Hanging, Kalsomin ng, Etc.\nGrand Forks and Greenwood City, B. C.\nProspector's : Livery, : Feed : and : Sale : Stables\nGRAND FORKS, B. C,\nLivtry Teams, \u00C2\u00AB< s ,\nSaddle and Pack Horses, \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\nLadies Saddle Horses.\nHAY, GRAIN~AND WOOD\nFOR SALE.\nTeaming of all Kinds a Specialty. | I\n| Farm, Orchard and Range, f\nK8^ir--&*^*f>*e>&*o*^-\u00C2\u00AB*>-8-^-i^^\nState Experimental Station, Pullman, Wash., Jan. 5.\u00E2\u0080\u0094To the Editor\not The Spokesman-Review: The question\nof the milk supply in cities is one that\naffects almost every citizen, excepting\nonly the fortunate man who is the possessor of a specimen of the proverbial\ntown cow. It is highly Important that\nthe public generally should be well informed on this subject, for the reason that\nit is extremely easy to practice fraud In\nthe delivery of milk, and In those cities\nwhich pay no attention to their milk\nsupply fraud is so common that it is extremely dlliicult for a strictly honest dealer to do business. Not omy is there unlimited opportunity for fraud, but cows\nthat are kept in lllthy stables\nand fed tilthy slops, and cows\nthai are attended by ihose who have\nbeen exposed to contagious diseases, furnish a producl which is liable to carry\ndisease. Again, it is a very common practice with some milk men to add small\nquantities of boraclc acid or other poisons to milk, because the poisons prevent\nthe milk from souring.\nThese poisons often cause serious derangement of the digestive organs, especially of children and invalids. If the\nmilk your milk man delivers sours easily,\nyou may feel pretty sure that It has not\nbeen poisoned to prevent its souring,\ninvllrs Dishonesty.\nPeople who have lived In cities all their\nlives know very little concerning milk,\nand this fact of itself invites dishonesty. A friend of mine once started in\nthe milk business ln a city. He delivered\nonly pure, unskimmed milk. One customer refused the milk, because, he said,\nthe sample left the evening before had a\nnasty, greasy scum on it next morning.\nWhen told this was cream, he became\nan enthusiastic customer.\nCity people should know for their own\nprotection that pure, wholesome, unskimmed milk consists, on the average, of\nabout 87 parts water, four parts oil (butter fat), 2.7 parts casein (which curdles\nwhen the milk sours), 7 parts albumen\n(which rises as a scum on boiled milk),\n4.9 parts milk sugar and 7 parts mineral\nmatter in a hundred. All these materials\nare nutritious In the extreme, and very\ndigestible, so that milk Is one of the\ncheapest and best foods in the world.\nCream differs from milk only in containing more oil, or butter fat, as the oil in\nmilk Is called. The oil in milk is present\nin small round drops, which look very Interesting under the microscope. While\nmilk contains about 4 per cent of fat,\ncream contains from 12 to 30 per cent.\nFor making ice cream, about 18 per cent\ncream is best, richer cream churning to\nsome extent ln the process of making.\nThe amount of cream skimmed from milk\nvaries from one-fourth to one-seventh of\nthe whole quantity of the milk. Pure\nskimmed milk Is an excellent food, but It\nIs worth less than half as much as a food\nas whole milk.\nThe Rest Index-.\nThe best index we have to the nutritive\nvalue of milk Is the per cent of fat it\ncontains. Milk containing 6 per cent fat\nis worth twice as much as that containing 3 per cent. It ought, therefore, to\nbe sold according to Its fat contents. Milk\ncontaining less than 3 per cent of fat Is\nworth very little, hence our state law forbids its sale unless It is sold as skimmed\nmilk. Those who buy milk ought to insist on having at least 4 per cent of fat\nIn it. You can easily have the milk tested,\nto see if such is the case.\nTo do this, take the milk as delivered,\nshake It up thoroughly to mix the cream\nwith it, then immediately dip out about:\nan ounce of milk and put It in a two-\nounce vial. Send this to a creamery,\nwhere .you can probably get it tested for\nnot more than five cents. The state experiment station will test all such samples\nfree of charge. In this way city people,\nespecially the poor people, who can not\nafford to pay 5 to 10 cents a quart for water, can get good, nutritious milk. It\nwould be much easier for the honest\nmilk man to live where everyone demanded 4 per cent milk.\nThe question often comes up whether\nmilk containing only 2 per cent of fat has\nbeen adulterated. In answer It must be\nsaid that there are many cows that give\nmilk even poorer than this, but such\nmilk is worth little more man pure water as a food. The man who knowingly\nkeeps a cow that gives 2 per cent milk\nand sells this milk for the price of good,\nnutritious, 4 per cent milk is committing\na fraud just the same as he who owns a\ncow that gives 4 per cent milk and who\nadds a gallon of water to a gallon of milk,\nnnd sells the mixture for two gallons of\npure milk. They both give the same\nvalue for the money received. If the\nfraud consists in putting the water Into\nthe milk, the cow Is the fraud In the first\nInstance and the man in the second. Hut\nthe fraud consists, not in putting the water in the milk; it consists ln selling such\nmilk to unsuspecting persons as good\nmilk, which It is not.\nTesting the Milk.\nThe poor people in a city are practically\nhelpless against dishonesty ot milk dealers, when the city authorities permit\nsuch dishonesty. The result Is. they do\nnot buy milk, and are thus cut off from\none of the cheapest nnd best foods. If\nthe city would employ some one competent to operate the Bnbcoek lest and then\nInvito the public to send In samples of\nmilk delivered, havo the milk tested, and\nsimply publish the tests, no arrests would\nbe neeessnry. This would correct (he evil\nimmediately, because dealers delivering\nInferior milk would Immediately have to\nchange their methods or drop out of the\nrace. The premium would then be placed\non honesty, while It Is now on dishonesty.\nIn the case of men who own cows that\ngive 3 per cent milk, It would be perfectly right for them to sell milk, provided they asked only three-fifths as\nmuch per quart as the man who sells\n5 per cent milk; 5 per cent milk nt 10\ncents a quart and 3 per cent milk at C\ncents a quart are of equal cheapness.\nTho above hints are thrown out In the\nInterests of purchasers of milk and those\ndealers who are endeavoring to give full\nvalue for the money they receive.\nKeeping milk From Soaring.\nIn conclusion, I will state that there\nIs only one legitimate method of keeping\nmilk from souring. The souring is due\nto the growth of microscopic plants, most\nkinds of which are beneficial, especially\nto the butter and cheosemaker. To keep\nmilk from souring these llttlo plants must\nbe kept out as completely as possible,\nbut this can not be done entirely. Those\nthat do get ln can be kept from growing,\nIn several ways. They may be poisoned\nby adding borax, and other poisons, nil\nof which result In serious injury to people with delicate stomachs, who drink\nthe poisoned milk. The proper way is\nto keep the milk so cold that the little\nplants In It can not grow, or better still,\nheat the milk to 100 degrees Fahrenheit,\nfor 20 minutes, then cool immediately as\nlow as possible. This kills the plants,\nand tlie milk will keep sweet several days.\nEXPERIMENTING WITH ONIONS.\nCure Shonld He Taken Not to Set the\nPlants Too Deep.\nThe Utah exiH.-rime.nt station reports experiments with transplanted onions, from\nwhich the following is selected:\n\"in ihe experiments ihe principal object\nwas to compare the new method of onion\ngrowing with the old, and, incidentally, lo\nmake a test of varieties.\n\"For the benefit of those who arc noi f a-\nmillar with the new method, H is here\ngiven briefly: In the latter part of February, or ea-ly in March, tlie seeds are sown\nIn a hot-bed anil the plants allowed to remain there till the weather permits their\ntransplanting In the Held; this can be done\nnlmost as early as the seed can bo planted\nin the field, thus giving the transplanted\nonion a decided advantage. In uhe experiment hore, the seeds were sown March*.l2\nln a hot-bed, and the young onions were\ntransplanted in the field on April 23. When\ntransplanted, they ranged ln size from\nthe size of a knitting needle to nearly the\nsize of a slate panel' \"When they are\ntransplanted about one-half the tops\nshould bo cut off. Care should be taken\nnot to set the plants too deep. They should\nbe sot from three to four inches apart, excepting early onions, which should not be\nover two inches apart. The extra work\ncaused by transplanting is compensated\nby the smaller amount of seed required\nper acre, and by the greater ease of cultivation. Since the onions attain a fair size\nby tho time tho weeds start, early planting\nobviates almost entirely the necessity of\n'hand weeding; the laborious task of thinning is also done away with.\n\"Several varieties, both early and late,\nwere used in the experiment, in order that\nthe results might be more conclusive and\nhave a wider range of application. The\nearly varieties grown from transplanted\nonions were ready for market fully two\nweeks before the same variety grown direct from the seed ln the field, and commanded a much higher price. The yields\nmentioned refer to a row one rod long.\n\"Extra early red transplanted onions\nyielded 15% pounds per rod; onions from\nseed yielded 7 pounds. Giant Kocca transplanted onions yielded 1GV4 pounds per rod,\nand onions from seed yielded VP/\u00C2\u00B0 pounds.\nPrizetaker transplanted yielded 21 pounds\n5 ounces per rod, and from seed, IS pounds\n9 ounces. Yellow Dutch transplanted, 10M:\npounds per rod, and from seed, 0 pounds.\"\nIS A LARGE CHICKEN FARM.\nDAY NURSERY IN BOSTON\nAn Illinois Poultry Establishment\nThat In a lllr.l City.\nJust outside of Quincy, Hi., is a farm\nwhose fame is known to poultry fanciers\nall over the world. It is the largest of\nIts kind and is awonderful place, says\nthe New York Press.\nForty-eight acres of land and a number of fine brick buildings are devoted\nentirely to the raising of thousands of\nhigh-bred chickens, ducks and geese, of\nwhich 3200 were sold last year.\nThis farm for 17 years has been sending\nfowls for breeding purposes to all parts\nof the world. Only fancy breeds of\nfowls are dealt in. Many a poor family in\nthe crowded cities of the east would think\nthemselves well provided for if they were\none-half as well housed as some of the\npoultry raised on this farm.\nMore time and trouble is spent by the\nproprietors in getting proper food and\nwater for their feathered charges than\nIs spent by many a hend of a family\nwith half a dozen children to provide\nfor. Each particular breed of chickens,\nducks or geese has its own houses and\nyards. These latter are long runs, fenced\nln with wire screenings or neat pailings.\nBig trees afford shade on the feathered\npopulation of this town, and in that portion of the farm devoted to the\nweb-footed fowls large artificial ponds\nand winding brooks have been constructed, through which there Is flowing a\nconstant stream of water.\nEach yard or run has its own proper\nhouse so constructed that It can be\nheated by steam in winter and cooled\nby cold air ln summer, thus insuring\nan even temperature throughout all seasons. Large fields are each season\nplanted with wheat, barley and buckwheat, and through these the fowls can\nroam at all times, free to eat all they\nplease of the tender young green sprouts\nor of the fully developed grain.\nOne peculiar feature of this farm is\nthat all of the fowls are raised by artificial means. The incubator house Is a\nlong, low structure, excellently ventilated and lighted and kept at an ewn temperature throughout the jear. Down the\ncenter of the long narrow room are set\ntwo rows of what at lirst appear to be\nold-fashioned dressing tables. They are\nhardly that, however, but aro Instead\nthe most improved incubator, and each\none Is constantly filled with high grade\neggs ln a more or less advanced stage of\nincubation.\nAs soon as the tiny puff ball-like\nchicks emerge from the shells, be they\nducks or geese or chickens, they arc removed from the Incubator nnd placed in\nanother house. Here they are kept for a\nfew days until they familiarize themselves with the appearance of the world\noutside of nn egg und until there is no\ndoubt as to their health and strength.\nThen they are allowed outside in the\nruns if the season be warm, or if it Is\nwinter time they are kept in the house\nuntil spring time.\nEach year, between the 1st of December and January 15, competent judges\nvisit the farm and \"score\" all the stock.\nWhen this Is completed such birds as aro\nnot up to the standard or are disqualified\nby any little mark or imperfection are at\nonce crated and shipped to market. Although eggs can be hatched at any time\nof the year, most of the eggs are put into\nthe Incubator in February, March and\nApril.\nThere arc practically two farms in\none of these big ranches, what is known\nas farm No. 1 being devoted principally\nto the hatching of eggs and the raising\nof fancy poultry. Farm No. 2 is given\nup almost exclusively to the raising of\nPekin ducks and Toulouse geese. There\nare altogether between 8000 and 10,000\nfowls raised annually on this farm, and\nthey aro sent all over the earth. In the\npast season eggs and birds have been\nshipped to Glasgow, Scotland; Dublin,\nIreland; Hawaii, Mexico, Canada, Cuba,\nNordly on tlie Island of Fano, and even\nto China.\nHow tlie Institution In Conducted.\u00E2\u0080\u0094*\nits Influence.\nPeople who deplore'lhe wickedness prevailing in great cities, where a large class\nof neglected children are springing up to\nmake adult perverts in the time to come,\nought to rejoice in tlie knowledge that\nagencies are at work to surround these\nless fortunate little ones with good influences and to teach them moral and industrial characteristics and habits, says\nih.' Boston Transcript. That such\nagencies do exist, and aredolng good worK.\nliny will not have lo inquire long lor, before being brought face to lac; with\nthem.\nOne of these beneficent institutions in\nBoston, which has fur a number of year.-:\nbeen doing a Bplendid work, is the Day\nNursery. It was started In or 12 years\nago in St. Paul's church, and was known\nas iin- St. Paul's Nursery.\nDoubtless Un' principal motive influencing those who originated the day nursery Idea was to provide proper physical\ncare for a class uf forlorn childhood, and\niu enable the mother tu continue as a\nwage-earner and iu help in providing the\nnecessities of life for herself and her family. Hut the results uf this benevolence\nfrom a social standpoint are nut only immediate, but far-reaching. A .lay nursery, if rightly and systematically conducted, can become the center of an Impulse toward cleanliness, good temper,\nmorality, and even spirituality, whose circles shall continually widen and increase.\nIt comes, perhaps, into closer contact\nwith the very life of the people than dues\nany other agency now at work among the\npour. It needs for matron or superintendent, a woman Intelligent, cultivated, sympathetic, and, above all, in love with her\nwork; recognizing its possibilities, as well\nas her own opportunities. Such a woman,\nthe parents of the neighborhood learn to\ntrust, und they are glad to receive from\nher suggestions that tend to make themselves and their families better and happier. Many of the mothers are ignor.\nant, but they love their children as\nstrongly, perhaps, as more fortunate\nmothers, and they are eager to do whatever may contribute to their welfare\u00E2\u0080\u0094if\nonly they are shown how.\nAt the nursery children from three\nweeks old to seven years are received, ;t\nrespective of nationality or religion. The\nconditions of their admission are:\n\"Children shall be admitted when there is\nsickness at home which is not contagious; when parents (one or both) arc\nobliged to be absent at work; when In extreme poverty; when older children have\nto be kept from school to take care of\nyounger ones, and when the mother is in\ndelicate health.\" Of course, the nursery\nIs not open on Sundays or on holidays,\nwhen the parents are at home.\nThe limit is 30 children, but not more\nthan 11 of these can be less than a year\nand a half old. That is considered to be\nas many babies as one nurse can well care\nfor. They begin to eome at half past 7 in\nthe morning and may stay as late its 0\no'clock. Some of the older ones go to the\nkindergarten school and a few to the primary, and at noon a maid Is sent lor\nthem. As they come in, each child is expected to take off his own coat and hat II\nhe can, because \"everything they can be\ntaught tu do fur themselves is so much\ngain.\" They will have to learn this in the\nlives to which they are born, and it is\nwell that they should begin early.\nIn some nurseries the children are\nbathed and dressed throughout in fresh\nclothing every morning as soon as they\nare brought In; but ill the Tyler Street\nNursery they are provided with clean\npinafores only, \"to keep their dresses\nclean,\" and the mother is encouraged to\nbring her baby neatly and comfortably\ndressed. Most of them take considerable\npride in doing so. After the children\nhave been for a short time in this atmosphere of gentleness and affection, they\ncease to be irritable, and grow happy and\ngood natured. If they are permitted to\nhave these influences for a few years,\nmay it not be expected, remembering how\ndeep and lasting are the impressions of\nchildhood, that it will exert a sweetening\nand elevating influence over all their future?\nTHE ARGENTINA WHEAT\nSOUTH AMERICAN\nCOMPETING\nREPUBLIC\nFACTOR.\nSINGLE ARTICLE OF DIET.\nA Medlc.il Man Who Existed for\nThirty Days on Sweet Milk.\nA medical man expresses the belief that\na person could live for any length of time\nand take heavy exercise all the while on\nno other food than sweet milk. His conviction is the result of persona'! experiment, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.\nHe wanted to establish the fact that persons convalescing from sickness may grow\nstronger with no other -nutriment, than\nsweet milk, and that they are not obliged\nto take \"something solid\" to eat, as so\nmany people Imagine. He holds that miny\na convalescent has gone into the grave as\na result of overtaxing his weak stomach\nby putting \"solid\" food into It, and he\nmaintains that the old belief as to bread\nbeing the first essential of human life is\nshown by his experiment lo be erroneous.\nHis teat was to live 30 days with only\nsweet .milk as a nourishment, ln the whole\ntime he lost live and a half pounds In\nweight, hul no strength, lie even attributes the loss of weight lo the warmth uf\nthe weather and lo excessive exercise on\nlho bicycle, and the dally manipulation of\nlil-pound dumbbells and other heavy\nweights. He took more exercise lhan usual in order to lest the thing fairly. On the\nseventh day of the experiment he ran several fast races In a skillful manner, but\nwas beaten In each race.\nOn the 30th day he again pitted himself\nagainst the same runner and gol the best\nof his opponent, which certainly would\ntend to confirm his statement that he lost\nno strength during the 30 days' tesl. lie\ndrank four pints of milk daily for the last\nweek. He thinks a healthy person should\ntake about five pints of milk dally when\nno other food is being taken. His practice\nwas to drlng milk at intervals for '.wo\nhours during the day, commencing at 7\no'clock ln the morning and continuing until 10 at night. After that -he would lake\nno more until the next morning.\nPartners FUTored by Cheap\nLand, Fertile Soil mill\nFine Climate.\nSAYS THE LORD GAVE ORDERS.\nMary English Claims Divine Mission\nRegarding Parmer Lee's Sheep.\nElmore Lee and the hired man of Shel-\nbyvllle, Ind., went to the woods to look\nafter the former's sheep, when they\nfound a well dressed, good looking young\nwoman herding the animals. From her\nappearance she had been with them several days. The woman claimed the sheep\nas her own, and demanded that the men\nleave the promises. She was taken to tho\ncity and placed ln Jail. She would not\noffer any explanation for being found\nwith the sheep, except that she had been\nsent by the Lord to protect them. On\nbeing placed in jail she said that her\nname was Mary English, and that was\nall she would say.\nThe republic of Argentine, which fur\n12 years past has been a growing factor\nin competition with the United Stales in\nthe cereal markets of the world, Is making greater progress than our consular\nreports would lead students of the world's\ncommerce lo believe, and a truthful\nglance at the actual facts can be had\nby a perusal of Mr. William Goodwins\nbrochure on \"Wheat Growing In Argentine Republic.\" This scholarly gentleman,\nwho is a fellow ot the Royal Geographical Society, has been a resident of the\ngreat southern republic for many years,\n 1 has published his little book at\nBuenos Ayres. lie has gone exhaustively\ninto the system of wheat growing, tlie\nmethods uf transportation, tlie milling of\nflour, the inspection or grain and the\nseveral grades in quality of the cereal.\nMr. Goodwin's faels make it clear that\nthe farmers of the great northwest can\nnot hope successfully to compete for any\nnumber of years with the wheat growers of Argentine, says tho New York Mail\nand Express. Snow is unknown ln the\nwinter wheat lands, and fiost Is the only\nreal enemy to be feared in the spring of\nthe year. The splendid system of railroads operated by British capital brings\nthe product of the farmer nearer to the\nseaport facilities than our giant railroad\nsystem can for our farmers, because the\nWheat lands of Argentina are not so far\nwesterly from the coast. The climate in\nthree-fourths of the wheat-growing section can not well be Improved upon, and\nthose farmers who at lirst cultivated\nwheat lands where droughts or Hood\ncame to destroy the value of their crops\nhave taken up new lands, where the chief\nmenace at this time Is the periodical ravages of the locust. Tho fertility of the\nsoil gives to the growers a crop up to ibe\naverage of the best grown ln the northern\nrepublic, and, as the farmers live cheaply, and, indeed, with extreme frugality,\nMr. Goodwin figures out that they can\nsell fit ti profit where the farmers of the\nUnited States would grow at a loss. Splendid farming land can be had for $5 an\nacre, and there are modern facilities for\nthe gathering, bundling and transportation of the product.\nCost of Production.\nIt Is pointed out that the cost of wheat\ngrowing is made small and operated to\ntho best advantage, lirst, because Lhe\nsmall farms can be worked almost entirely by the family of the farmer with the\nassistance of peon labor at harvest time;\nsecond, because the Italian colonist who\ncontrol the farming districts have .in\nenergy and self-denial not characteristic of their race in other countries, and\nthird, because the ahunilar.ee of farm\nsupplies in the shape of cattle, sheep and\nbreadstuff's makes the cost of the necessaries of life far below the average of\nvalue in the United States. Many of the\nfarmers aro content to live in simple\nshelter houses, purchasing only what is\nactually necessary from the storekeepers\nand saving a large percentage of their\ncrops. Many of the Italians live on a\nsimple diet of cooked beans or Indian\ncorn, flavored with grease and having occasionally the carcass of a stick cow or\nbullock. The climate Is so temperate\nthat fires and heavy clothing aro not\nneeded, and as food Is ridiculously cheap,\nthese Italian emigrants can produce\nwheat and corn at a cost much less than\nthe farmer of the United States.\nThe tenant farmer rapidly acquires land\nin his own right. He will live in a simple\nmud house, and by giving tho landlord\n50 per cent of his lirst crop make a big\ninstalment upon the cost of his land.\nThe tenant farmers on an average become\nproprietors in three years, and it is a matter of record there that Scnor Puazzone,\nwho arrived from Italy with nothing but\nhealth and wits, has now 00,000 acres of\nowned or leased land. Those farmers also\nraise corn, oats, barley and potatoes.\nwhich helps develop their capacity. They\nhave very little interest in the progress\nof the country or In the upward flight of\ncivilization, and contribute nothing to the\ngrowth of the cities of Argentina. A fair\npercentage of the Italians, having earned a few thousand dollars from their\ncrops, sell their farms and return to Italy.\nHundreds of emigrants come yearly to\ntake their places, and many thousands of\nacres of new lands are put Into cultivation\nevery year. With a good average crop,\nArgentina, It Is estimated, would he able\nto export as much wheat as we do hy IS9S,\nand the prospect fur 111.' cultivation of\nmaize suggests that the southern republic will have equal success with that\ncereal.\nMure Whcnt Lands.\nThe states or, as they are called, provinces, devoted to wheat culture at present\nIncluding those of Santa Fe Buenos Ayres,\nEntre, Bios and Cordova. The area under\ncultivation Is equal to the combined areas\nof England and France. As there Is twice\nas much land not yet cultivated within\neasy distance of the railways already constructed, It will be readily scon that there\ncan be an extensive development in the\narea of Argentina's wheat lands. The\nsurface of the country Is almost completely level, free from stones and timber,\nhas a rich soil and a climate that averages 74 in summer and 57 ln winter. The\nrainfall is plentiful, and there are recurring night dews in the spring. The soil\nis mainly composed of a vegetable layer\nof black loam averaging 20 inches in\ndepth, nnd underneath this there is a\nsub-soil of sandy character, and still lower hard clay, which holds the rainfall\nand, unless there Is a long drought, nourishes the roots of the wheal; plants.\nIt Is believed that this fertile plain must\nhave been at one time the bed of the\nmighty Parana river, and that the rich\nsoli covering the land was formed by deposits carried down from the tropical forests of Brazil and the luxuriant slopes of\nthe Andes. Mr. Goodwin says the best\nwheat land is found within 100 miles of\nthe seaboard, or within the same distance\nfrom tlie River Parana, hut there is practically no land within 200 miles of tho\nriver that can not be properly cultivated.\nIt is his belief that no other country can\noffer so many advantages to the farmer\nwho desires to make a business of wheat\ngrowing and who Is content to live without any large degree of comfort.\nPluntiag the Cereal.\nWheat is usua y sown as the furrows\nare freshly tu i I by '.lie plower. The\nplanting in St. ita Fe and Entre Bios 's\nfrom early May till the middle of July,\nand in Buncos Ayres and Cordova the\nplanting is made as late as the middle\nof August. The large proportion of tic\nseed Is still hand-sown, broadcast, after\nune plowing only, and ;s covered with a\nharrow of the feeblest description. Deep\nplowing is unnecessary, and few plowers\niu the country turn the furrow mur.-\"than\nfour Inches deep. There arc few noxt-\nous weeds. The Italian docs not spare\nhimself and his family in bis hunt for\nwealth, but will plow by moonlight and by\nstarlight, resting only in the hot midday\nhours. His children are made in work\nwhen v.-i-y young, and buys of seven years\ncan ride a horse and perhaps drive a harrow or even a double plow with steady\nbullocks.\n-Mr. Goodwin says thai i! is not uncommon fur the Italian farmers to have as\nmany as 12, 10 and even Is children In a\nfamily, and be w.n remembers in une of\nhis earlier journeys a long procession of\nplows and harrows driven b> a family\nparty, the grandmother being in fronl ol\nthe procession and a Mule \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 hi in the rear.\nTin. man works 15 ami ID hours a day. and\nhis greatest extravagance is the purchase\nof small drinks of cheap spirits. As a\nrule, the Italian colonists are temperate\nIn their habits. Another advantage in\nArgentina is the fact that, favored by the\nseasons, the farmer can plow three times\nas much land as his competitor in the\nUnited States. One Important feature of\nfarm economy Is that horses and bullocks\ncan pasture all the year and do not require to be housed during the winter.\nThere are from 200 to 300 railway stations\nwhore wheat is shipped, and. while the\nrale of transportation is high, the produce\ngoes directly to the ocean ports by railway haulage, or through the 800 miles uf\nmagnificent waterway that penetrates inland. The average distance from station\nto seaboard is about 150 miles, as compared with 1000 miles in the United States,\nso that the Argentine farmer has a distinct advantage over his competitor in\nthis country.\nHalf the World's Supply.\nIt is admitted by the writer on \"Wheat\nGrowing in the Argentine Republic,\" that\nall statistics gathered there as to the output of wheat must be accepted with great\nreserve. Errors of 10 per cent in particular cargoes have frequently been established, The best figures, however, show\n7,500,000 acres under cultivation In 1894. Tlie\nexport crop in 1881 was figured at 396,000\ntons. In 1s:r2 the wheat export was 470,000\ntons. In ISO.'! the export late was in excess of 1,000,000 tons, in 18J4 it had reached\nthe enormous total of 1,608,000 tons, and\nthe export of flour had icached the respectable figure of 50.000 tons. There was\na falling off in 1S95 to 1)00,000 tons, but\nwholly because of a bad crop and a somewhat increasing consumption jf Hour in\nthe Argentine Republic.\nThe total area of the republic is in extreme length 2300 miles, and in width 500\nmiles, or a total of 729,000,000 of acre--.\nequal to the areas of Great Britain and\nIreland, France, Germany, Austria. Hungary, Italy, Portugal. Spain. Belgium,\nHolland and Greece. The flat level part\nIn the temperate zones Is estimated at\nS0H.000 square miles or 512.000,000 of acres.\nThe distinctly fertile region regarded as\nsuitable for the cultivation of the various\ncereals Is placed at 375,000 square miles. If\none-half of the supposed suitable Ian.I\nwere to be placed under cultivation, and\nthe low average of 10 bushels per acre\nshould he obtained, the result would be a\nsupply equal to half the estimated wdieat\nciop of the world. The unexampled development of Argentina's trade in wheat\nIs shown by the record of government\nstatistics for fourteen years. In 1881 Argentina imported 177,000 tons, while II\nyears later she exported 1,000,000 tons. No\nother country has any such record, and\nher development in Ihe exportation uf\nlinseed oil, frozen sheep, jerked beef, hides\nnnd skins, hemp, poultry, nnd other products can find no better Illustration than\nthe fact that while her population is less\nthan one-third ot Brazil's, her exports are\nwithin a few millions of the famous co\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nfee-growing country of the world.\nAMONG THE LABORERS\nEVENTS TRANSPIRING IN THE DOMAIN OF LAIIOR.\nTHE YEAR'S CRIMINAL RECORD.\nFewer Lynching*, lint More Murders\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Amount of Enlhcy./lemeiits.\nThere were 131 lynchlngs in this country\nIn 1896, 40 less than in IMC. (inly one ol\nthe victims was a woman. The record of\nmob murders is now attracting attention\nnot only of moral workers, but legislatures, or the lynchlngs, 122 occurred in\nthe south and nine in Ihe north. Of the\nvictims, SO were negroes and 51 whites.\nThe number of legal executions ill 1890\nwas 122. The sou ill had 88 uf the executions and the north 3(1; whiles executed, iU;\nnegroes, IS; Indians. 4.\nThere woro 052a suicides in the United\nSlates during 1890. of Hie suicides, 6078\nwere males and 1112 females.\nThe number of murders committed was\n10,052, as compared with 10,600 In 1895.\nThe amount of tho embezzlements, for.\ngerles ami bank wreckings In Mill was\n$9,405,921, as compared with $10,423,205 last\nyear.\nLOOKING FORWARD TO HARMONY.\nAnother Town oil the llclliiin.v plan\nto He Founded in Texas.\nThe Rev. I. N. Merryfleld, manager uf the\nCo-operative Commonwealth, has arrived at\nKansas City from Texas, where nt n point two\nmiles from the Sabine lake and three miles\nfrom Port Arthur he bus been engaged In\nfounding the town of Harmony, says the Star.\nThe Co-operative Commonwealth has purchased 3*HWl acres uf land near this point from the\nPort Arthur band Company. One section Is to\nhe used us the town site, where it is proposed\ntn start 11 HiiRur mill, cotton Kin, oil mill and\nether Industries. The remainder of the land\nis used fer the production of BUgar, rice, cotton and garden stuff. Mr. Men-Held Bays that\nIt is the Intention of the capitalists who own\nmost of the Block In the Co-operative Commonwealth that the new town shall Bom day\nmerge late Porl Arthur. The manager Bays\nthat all aide bodied men and women will Had\nemployment at the new town. About .'.a men\nare new nt work, hi' says, hulldlng shelter for\nnew arrivals.\nFIRST SALOON IN FIFTEEN YEARS.\nTopeklt, Kan., Is Greatly Excited\nDccansc tl Hum Shop In Open.\nFor the first time in 15 yours un open\nsaloon Is In full blast In this citadel of\nprohibition, says a Topekn. Kan., telegram. A negro hotel keeper, In defiance\nof the police, served drinks at a big hotel\nopening ami men and women caroused\nall night. Temperance ami church people will demand of Governor Morrill the\nremoval of the police board. One of them\nis n preacher and nnothor a class lender\ntn the Presbyterian church.\nIiilereatlng Item*, for Wngen-orker\nGathered From All Parti, of\nthe Country.\nThe A. 1'*. uf' I., has endorsed the boycott placed against the bicycle saddles\nmanufactured hy the pious fraud Garford\nof Elyria, Ohio, who preaches protection\nand tiays h.s employes ('bines., wages.\nOwing lo the activity of the labor press,\nlhe boycott has spread to England, and\nIt is only a question uf a little lime when\nthe brutal Garford will learn what other\narrogant capitalists have learned, viz..\nthat a boycott is a merciless engine of\nwarfare once it gets started. Don'l purchase bicycles Willi ....rford saddles.\nThree new .'ikciiis' uni.jiis were formed\nlately ai Battle Creek, Mich., and South\nBend and Logansport, Ind. ,\ referendum vote is now being taken un the\nquestion uf establishing a nation- headquarters and an organ, Tlie fraternal\ninsurance companies are likely, for business reasons, to assist in putting the\nscrews iu ttte Metropolitan Insurance\nCompany, which is being boycotted fur\ndisrupting agents' unions.\nDebs has gune on an organizing tour tu\nColorado ami Incidentally lo cheer up the\nsilver miners un strike. The militia is\nstill un duty at a cost uf $2000 a day, and\nsome of the papers are gravely discussing\nthe possibility of a bankrupt state owing\nlo the stubbornness of the mine owners,\nwho, it is claimed, are in sympathy with\nthe eastern goldbugs und desire to see the\nstate overburdened with taxation.\nOfficial summary: in Great i.utaiti in\nNovember strikes Increased 25 per cent;\n103,000 workers secured belter way.-.\naveraging 43 cents per week, while no reductions took place; pauperism Increased\nslightly, but unemployment and emigration decreased. Nel increase in labor nt-.\nganizatlon was quite fair. About all the\ncolonies reported a noticeable improvement in the Industrial situation,\nThe Kansas \"disturbers\" will never lei\nup, seemingly. They propose to send a\ntralnloud of food tu the 1 gry uf Now\nYork, and lints drive lhe iron into the\nsoul of the plutocrats who are unable to\ntreat the poor of New York fairly and\ndecently, and yet sneer-at the poverty of\nthe westerners, who w\u00E2\u0080\u0094 at least not see\npeople starve. Hut plutocrats are plutocrats.\nA significant result of the recent election iu the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, one ot the oldest and strongest\nunions in the world, with headquarters\nin London, was Hie elevation uf George\nN. Barnes as general secretary, receiving\n17,:;2n voles against 14,767 votes fur .ail\nother candidates. Barnes is a socialist,\nas arc several of the executive OttlcinlB.\nThere's an organization boom >>n m\nseveral Indiana towns. It is timely. Late\nstatistics show ih.ii pauperism is increasing al a fearful rate in the 1 lousier state.\nIn some counties une person in eight is\naided l.y public charity, and the ratio ot\none ill 15 ul' 211 seems tu be the rule.\nThere's prosperity for yon:\nThe Boston street railway strike was\na bowling ('.'tree. The men went to pieces\nlike a stack of cards in a wind storm.\nThe San Francisco street railway employes are threatened with a. reduction\nof 50 cents a day. They are also unorganized.\nMaggie ('line, the actress, will bring\nsuit against a scab lirm of New Yuri;\ncigar makers fur using bet- name on a\nbrand of scab cigars. Maggie says she's\nno admirer of scabism.\nHamburg capitalists imported (10 Chinese coolies to lake ihe place of the striking dockers. When the Chinese found\nout what they were hired fur they quit\nand joined the strikers.\nAustralian seamen arc reporting an organization boom of large proportions. The\nlabor party representatives have also\nspread themselves owr the colonies to\ncarry ou organization work.\nDaily papers give it out that 70,000,000\ncigars less have been consumed than the\nyear previous. It is claimed that hard\ntimes ami the anti-smoking agitation arc\nthe cause, li not machinery something\nelse will surely uffect a trade.\nIl is thought thai every 'longshoreman\nand seafaring craftsman\nwill be organized before\nthreatened international\nbound 10 come.\nThe Brotherhood uf the Co-operative\nCommonwealth lias passed the firsl thousand in membership, and. according to the\nofficials, is nn the high road to success.\nA Chicago saloonkeeper was lined $125\nand costs for selling cigars from a box\nbearing a hocus label. Two other individuals Wvvv arrested for selling eullll-\nlerfeit labels.\nAnother unfair firm has gone down\nbefore the boycott. Tin- Excelsior snow\nCase works at Quincy, III., has been sold\nat sheriff's sale. The JQuinoy Show Case\nworks sill! holds out. Hil 'em hard.\nSocialists Issued a party charter ami\nfour union charters week before last, one\nuf which was Clgarmakers' union Nn. 1\nuf Chicago,\nTin' United German singers' societies\nof Philadelphia, was disrupted owing to\nthe fad thai priming was given lo a\nscab newspaper.\nKansas City unions arc protesting\nagainst the Introduction of military tactics In t he public schools.\nA determined effort will be made to\nabolish the contract system ln the Nebraska penitentiary.\nToledo unions forced an eight-hour ordinance through the city council.\nPrinters of Switzerland decided to create\nti national defense fund.\nA state label league is about to be organized in .Michigan.\nIron molders are mnklng strong efforts\nto abolish the piece system and have had\ngood success In eastern towns lately.\nHorseshoe!s will spend several thousand dollars to organize their craft.\nIn October the printing pressmen issued seven charters and now have 120\nlocal unions.\nCarpenters issued nine charters in October.\nButchers are organizing nationally.\nClgarmakers issued two more charters.\nat New v/ork\nspring. That\nstrike seems\nA False Alltrm.\nExcited Depositor\u00E2\u0080\u0094What does this mean?\nThe bank dosed nnd all the officials (rone!\nWe're lost!\nJanitor\u00E2\u0080\u0094No, you're not, sir. They're Just out\ntelling the depositors the bank's all right.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nClnolnnatl Commercial Tribune. (1RAND FORKS MINEh.\nU. McOaktkh it \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n. E. McC.uitru - \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n PR\nEditor and\nMANAGER.\nTin? Utvnt ii ptiMtehed on Saturday and will\nmallei! to Bubserib-tr on payment of Two\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2.'jUrh-* a yenr.\nDisplayed AilTcrtlfitumejHs 12 ivn Inch per\nmontn. A liberal dirounut allowod on long\n-on tracts.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Tran<:Uut AdTertlntnnoTiti 30 ositta a line first\ni:iierti;>n aud iu cant* a Una for each additional\nlaaerfton.\nLocal or reading matte; Mottoes'-in acntieaeli\nInsertion.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Job Printing q| Pair rates. All aordoms fo\n|ob work and odTerturogpa/MTra on Wiefinit of\n-jaoh month. F. n. (r^Uitr^ ft Hon.\nSATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 181)7.\nLOCAL NOTES.\nTry Knight's meals.\nThe Miner does all kincja of job aid\ncommercial printing.\nKnight's meals aro the host in town\nmd tho price is 25 ceqte,\nDr. Averill his purchased the paint\nshop and lot,lately owned hy 0. A. Jones.\nDon't forget to call and get a haoging\nlump for your wife at Manly's Hard\nware.\nSchool commenced on Monday last,\ntils averse\" attendance for this week\npast was 23,\nGeo. P, Mima left for Vernon on Sat\ninlay last and will likely return tonior\nrow evening.\nSeveral town lots were ejld tho pint\nweek the purchasers lining American\nbusiness men.\nWhen you aro hungry go to Fred\nKuight's restaurant and got tho bes-t\nmeal in th\" town.\nMr. Walker, owner of tlio Garnet\ntuine on Pass creek, is pushing work\non this property.\nDr. .lakes, of Greenwood, came over\nthe mountain on Thursday and remained a short time among tie.\nFred. Wollaston, P. 1. S\u00E2\u0080\u009E left on Mop\nday last for Greenwood where lie will\nh\u00C2\u00AB engaged for >-o'5e weeks surveying.\nJeff Davis returned from Portland on\nThursday evening stage, where ho hi-.\nbeen upending his Christmas holidays\nA. 0. Sutton was a passenger on Tues\nday's stage to Marcus, lie has gone\nto Rossland und will return in a few\ndays.\nA hud form of LaGrippe has struck\nour burg and in consequence, a general\nfooling of indisposition hae Beized\nsome of us.\nA small colony of lf> fumiliefl is ex\npected to arrire at the Forks aboul\nFebruary 15th, all of which intend t-\nsettle hero.\nKd. Driscoli, nun of Carson's rustling\nmerchants, was in town yesterday. He\nreports everything prosperious in his\nneighborhood.\nHardy mountain properties ure in\ndemand just now, several duals an\nponding for some of the well known\nclaims on this hill\nFred Wi Huston, 1'. L. S.. returned oi\nFriday evening last from Greenwood,\nhaving been called hack to attend to\nsome urgent surveying business,\nJames Fitzmaurico, of Dub in, Ire\nland, is in town and will remain a few\ndays, lie represents considerable Irish\ncapital and may invest during hh\nstay.\nWhon you fool like eatinir, call on\nFred. Knight and try his 25 cout merchants lunch. Fred has secured thi\nservices of tin expert cook, whose motto\nis excelsior.\nThe dances for the season are not over\nret. there is a mammoth sheet and\npillow-case dance, as well as u couple\nnf other ones to be disponed of b'fir.\nlent commences.\nMessrs, Gaffert and Anderson, win\nhad tli a contract of building U.K. Gilpin's new residence have completed theil\nwork and report that the house is now\nready for occupancy,\nMr. Hart, contractor, of Greenwo d.\nis in town. He has secured the contract frr building 1. A. Dinsmnre's pri\nvate residence at tie-west end ot town.\nHe will commcce work on Monday,\nThere is good skating now on tht-\nNorth Fork, near the bridge and lorere\n\"f'his healthful amusement should\ntake time by the forelock, as a cbinook\nwill pnatpor \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 iltip pleasure indefinitely.\nTho Miner extends congratulations\nto Mr. Charles Emmert, of this town\nwho on Thursday evening last became a\nhifppy father. Tho little Bt ranger is a\ngirl weighing s pounds, both mother\nand child are dointr well.\nThe Grand Forks Gold Mining Com.\npuny, which owns tho Indian Queen\ngroup, up the North Fork, arr* making\npreparations to continue work on the\nIndian Queen clnirn, about March 1st,\nwhen tuoy will keep men at work\ncontinuously.\nPetitions ure being circulated for sir*\nnatures; one protesting against granting\na charter to the i BBcade Water. Light\n& Power Company, tne other praying\nfor tlio incorporation of tlio town. A\nlarge number of signers have l> i m secured for both pptiticns.\nR. R. Gilpin, our popular customs\nnflicer accompanied by his wife and\nllttlo son left fer Spokane on Wednesday morning stage, where they have\ngone to purchase furniture etc, for their\nnew residence, which has been ' lately\ncompleted. They will return in a few\ndays. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nSome smart Alio during the past week\namused himself in applying spirits-of\nturpentiie to several dogs, in some\n. uses almost causing cabie's, 'from 't'lie\ntorture thus inflicted. This little,\njoke is regarded by our statutes as a\nscrioiiB otinnce and the local authoriflHs\nhave a good clew to the identity of the\nperpetrator of this cowardly trick,' it\nnAKINQ NINES.\nWork Rapidly Progressing on the\nVarious Properties Near the\nTown and More to Start\nOperations Soon.\nFINE SHOWING ON THE 430NETA.\nA \"fliner\" Representative Visits the\nnine -The drey Eagle Will\nBe Worked Immediately\n- Others to Resume.\nWork has been going on on the Bonel u\non Observation mountain for somo time\npast and on Tuesday u representative i\nthe Miner visited the mine in order t\nobtain u more perfect idea of the pre\ngross being made.\nConsiderable delay has boen cause\ni n tlio work of running the 100 foot tui.\nnel by tho failuro of the .blaclit-inithin\noutfit to arrive from Spokane, l,iil it i\nnow on the ground and work will g\nforward from this un without interup\ntion.\nWhon the MiNrit man visited tl.\nproperty Tuesday ho found tho tunni\nnicely started and already in well mini \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\ncalized rock.\nTho old workingB consisted of an opei\ncut on tlie vein. A splendid showin,\nwas mado here although no depth wa\ngained. In Blurting the tunnel th\nworkmen went down the hill about 5\n(net from the outcrop oT tho lodge an\nran in toward the footwall so as to strik\ntho vein tit a depth of somewhere net-;\n75 feet directly under thia open cut.\nThe work so far d insists of an ope\ncut of 12 or 15 foot and tho workmoi\naro about six feet under cor or, A goo\nShowing of iron and copper pyrites i\nbeing made although they have from li-\nto 50 foet yet to run before tapping th-\nvein.\nThe mineral bo far uncovered lies ii\nsmall figures and shutos apparently\nthrown off from the main vein and thi\nentire face of the tunnel ie iu roc!\nwhich very much resembles the letlg:\nmatter shown in the old workings.\nIt will require from two to three weeki\nwork to run the tunnel into tho ledgi\nbut every indication points to tho tiotiati\nbeing ono of tlie greatest properties ii\nthis section and a paying proposition ii\nevery way ua soon as tho ore body il\nactually reached.\ndrey Eagle Will Work.\nJudge Hpinks, who latxly purchased\ntho Grey Ragle and Grand Forks claim:\non Observation mountain near thi\nBonota, is expected to bo in the Forkf\nsome timo about tho lirst of March une\nit iB said that while hero he will let i\ncontract for a 40 foot tunnel and aim\nfor soma work on the Grand Forks.\nHe has lately suoceded in interesting\na number of prominent Canadian c*pi\ntalistB in these properties and if ih\nshowing mado by the work soon tn bo\ndone or, thorn iB any way favorable other\ncontracts will be let immediately am\nwork will he pushed contiuously on tin\nproperties until their value is fully\ndemonstrated,\nVolcanic to Start.\nIt is Btated on good authority thai\nthe Olive Gold Mining Company, wliicl\ni wna the Volcanic, [roncap, Wolverini\nand other properties up tho North Fork,\nwill put a largo force of men at work\non the Vo'canic on or about tho first ol\nMarch.\nWe understand that work will bo resumed in the tunnel ruubyR. A.Brown,\nthe Original owner of tlio Volcanic.\nThis tunnel is probably the most dis\netissod piece of mining engineering in\nthe Kettle riror or Boundary districts.\nInstead of starting a shaft on the im\nmense ore deposits of this claim when\nthoy crop out on the surface of the\nmountain Mr. Brown went down the\nmountain side and started a tunnel to\ntap tho ore body. Un ran in 350 feet\nwithout tapping tho ore, and then leased\nhis property to an American syndicate which confined its operations\nto prosp\u00C2\u00BBcting the property by meaus of\nnumerous shafts sunk at different points\non the vein croppings. ThiB prospecting show, the Volcanic to have\nundou btedly the greatest surfuou show-\ning in Ihe entire world.\nNow tho tunnel in to bo pushed forward and if as expected it laps tho ore\nbuly the production of oro will bo un-\nprecedent,- I ss a depth of between 8011\nand 1,500 iv-ll bo attained and the stop-\ning ground opened up will be practical1}' without limit.\nWork wid also be done on tho surface\nin the way of a abaft ou tha vein, but\nin all probability it is upon tho tunnel\nthat the Volcanic must dopond to make\nit a producing mine.\nAnd the Seattle Also.\n'.I he Seattle Mining & Smelting Company is also expected to roBUtno operations on thi- the Seattle mine about\nMarch 1. A shaft is to be sunk 200 foot\non the vein and then orosscutB wili be\nrun both ways across the ledge aud a\ndrift started to the south.\nThis property is one of the best known\nund one of the most promising in tho\nentire district.\nA number of the other tninoB up tho\nFork will start up ai soon as it is deli-\nw'ould be well for him to discontinue nitely known what is to be done upon\nis 1 .nd of sport, as a repetition of the\noffence will result in his being furnished with board and lodging, and a\nfull set of jewelry- -chair, bracelets,\netc\u00E2\u0080\u0094at the expense ot the Province.\nthe Volcanic and S\"\nbefore the end of t\npact to see a doz<\nthe near vicinity\nping ore.\nBonds of Electric, Steam\nor Horse Car Railways\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 PLACED AT 8H0BTEST H0TI0E\nPersono having mining or other Properties that wi'\nboar investigation, can have \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Company promoted, t:\nsell them, by addressing\t\nMANHATTAN INVESTORS & SECURITIES 00., Ltd\n17 and 10 Broadway. New York City. London offices:\u00E2\u0080\u0094OhiBwell House, No\n139 Fin::bury Pavement, London, E. C, England.\nRAILROAD RUMORS.\nCanadian Pacific to Build Through\nCrow's Nest Pass.\nIn',the Spoksmau-Review of tho 11th\ninst, we lind tho following:\n\"News lias been received bore from\nNelson that Robert Mnrpole, Superin\ntondent of tho Canadian Pacific Rail\nway, is here perfecting arrangements for\nthe immediate construction of a broad\nguago mad from Now Denver, on\nSlocan Lake, down the Slocan Bivet\nto Wards crossing, on tho Columbia\nand Root otay Railway.\"\nThe only way the above can be con\nstrued is that the Canadian Pacific\nRailway is heading for Kootenay with\null possihln dispatch. Nothing seems\nmore suitable than for tho Canadian\nPacific to' be tho lirst road into Kootenay, as it is a Canadian road it isei,-\ntitiled to the enormous tonnage thai\nwill with out doubt bo shipped from\nKootenay distrlot, within the noxt two\nyears,\nThe Victoria & Eastern Railway,\nwhich wiii apply for a charter at Ih.\nnoxt session of the local legislature,\nwill doubtless connect with the Crows\nnest Pass road, at or near the pass, and\nthus virtually make ouo huge lailv vy\nsystem, which will supply tho Kettli\nRiver and Boundary districts, witl\n(shipping facilities for the different ores.\na i well as provide a way for tho intro\nduction of coke into thee9 parts, whic)\nii indespensible as soon an the loca;\nsmelting process begins.\nThere i. now no doubt but that th'\nVictoria & Eastern Railway will be un\n(Iir construction this comiug spring\nand tha: within the next eighteen\nmonths it will be completed, when betides being a boon to the mining dis\ntricts, it will provide a means of transporting produce from tho rich farmi\n) the Okanogan country, to the mining camp-i in the Kettle Rivor am\nBoundary districts. Where \u00C2\u00BBt present\nit is extremely hard to obtain mauy af\nI io necessaries of life, owing to poor\nt anaportation facilities and the high\nduty that in imposed ou articles coming\nfrom acMsri the lino.\nKETTLE RIVER MINING DIVISION\n..'ccords of Mineral Locations for the\nWeek Ending Dec. 29.\n( EKTiriCATr.S OF WORK.\n1) comber 10\u00E2\u0080\u0094 St. Elmo, if.Graaf and F. MeMmm\nDjccmber 19\u00E2\u0080\u0094-Morrison, (leo. T, Crane.\nI.ast f'lma a-. Win. Austin, P. As|iiuwnll and\nT. L.: nvage.\nAlice, Sir (J. Ross.\nLexington. Q W. Rumberger, J. M. Taylor,\nM. Oppeubeimor and Thou. Kirk.\nDundee, .la*. Sutherland and it. Wood.\nDecember -J\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ruby, tract., Arthur Rondel!.\nDecember 23- Unite City, K. I'. Suydara.\nDecember28\u00E2\u0080\u0094Big Ledse.'D. ft. Uoll-rook.\nRuby, Geo. Cook nnd W. (1. McMynn.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'(\"'ember 29\u00E2\u0080\u0094Potter Palmer and Texas, E. 8,\nGraham.\nTRANSFERS.\nint.\necember 26*\u00E2\u0080\u0094Sansom, all int., D. Stewart to R.\nPatterson.\nIilfiek Hear. y2 int., A. Lundlow to A. JohnBon\nQueen of Spades, n'l Int., A. K. MoPhillins ti\nr.illlooQt, I*1. R. -& C. Mining cbmpauy.\nHalgary,',., int..T. A.Garland to M. T. Robinson\nCalgary, MS Int., M.T. Robinson loM. J. Kaley\nMaud 8 all int., ditto.\nGordon, '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0. int., ditto,\nWaterloo, % int.., .1. W. Youug to Lindsay\nAshe an I Fletcher.\nDeecmbor28\u00E2\u0080\u0094Silver Basin, int., P. I.nuntry to\n.1. K. Moor.\nDecember -'\u00E2\u0080\u0094Hanover, % int., J. P...Kelly to\nII M. Cam ibell.\nrigor, '.J lut, Jas. Fox tojr.o Pagsley.\nattic proporties and\n.< year we may ox-\nor more mines in\nGrand Forks ship-\nA NEW COMPANY.\nEzra Meeker of tlio Taeoiua Lo dger.\nwho was h 'fo on a visit some few weeks\na,'o, has. Unco his return to Tacoma,\nbion instrumental in organizing the international Mining & Investment Com.\npiny with a capitalization of $500,000,\nt 16 shares lo be placed ou the market\nat \u00C2\u00A31 oach.\nToo c dot object of the company is to\nbuy and so.: mining interests and claims\nin British Columbia.\nIt is incorporated uiidir tho laws of\nthe State of Washington and will bo\nduly registered in this Province.\nThe company proposes to have throe\nagencies in British Columbia: Ono in\nRossland ono iu Grand Forks and one\nin Greenwood, There iw no doubt but\nthat this wili be a paying enterprise for\ntho incorporator! as thoy are the first\noutside company to take dealing in mineral claim? as their main object and be-\nin.,' lirst in tho Held are sure of succoss.\nMOST PLEASANT AFFAIR.\nA Dumber of the congregation and\nfriends of R.iv. Thos. P.iton were very\npleasantly entertained at the Manso\nlust evening.\nA delightful evening was passed with\nmusic aud games and a daiuty suppor\nwas served by Mrs. Paton. Tho party\nbroke up at a late hour each guest feeling that he or had had a splendid time.\nRKLEASED AT LAST.\nMauriss O'Connor, son of Mrs\nO'Connor, of this town and who was\namong the early pro\u00C2\u00BBpectori of thi -\ncountry, has returned to the Forks,\naftor an absence of some 18 monthB.\nIt will bo remembered that a few\nmonths ago O'Connor got into a quarrel will) one Langtry, the result of\nwhich e*us that O'Connor was arrested\nod the (diarge ot manslaughter, ho having during the quarrel, inflicted a\ndangerous wound on Langtry's head\nwith at. axo, in consequence of which\nhe was duly tried at Rossland and ac*\nquitted by tho jury, his plea being non\ni.'ompuB nicutos. he wti however entrusted ti the custody of tho warden\nof the N\u00C2\u00ABw Wentminst'.-r Insane Asylum\nto be there held, waiting developments.\nIn tho meantime petitions had been\ncirculated, praying for his distniisa!\nfrom t\"8 asylum, and every moan.\navailable used in his behalf and it\nwas not until about 10 days ago that\nO'Connor received the good news that\nbe was onco moro u free man.\nHo wits gre-itly rejoicsd to meot hm\naged mother, and invalid sister once\nmore and apparently appears none the\nworse for wear after his experience.\nHOTI0E OP APPLICATION E0B PRIVATE BILL.\nTOWNSITE OF ORAND FORKS\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2MOIit.K 13 HEREBY GIVEN that application\nLi w.'U be made to the Logistlattve Assembly\n.f th* Province of British Oolumbia for an Act\nincorporating'the inhabitants of tlie towusite\nf Grand 1 crln, In tne Osoyoos division of Ihe\nlistrictof Vale, as a municipality, to define the\ni 111 Its of rial corporation, with such provisions\nnf the general municipal acts now iu force in\nhe Provinco, and such other provisions as ina\\nbe applicable,or necessary or expedient; aui:\nwit-b such further provision as will enable >\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\ntote to be taken, at tne timo fixed for the tirsl\ne ection, lo determine whether the altalrs of the\nI'orporatton shall, aubjeet to the provisions of\nthe Act of Incorporation, be managed by an ex-\n-ciitive of tloee commissioners or by a mayor\nand five aldermen. FRANK HIGGINS,\nSolicitor for Applicants,\nCERTIFICATE OF THE REGISTRATION OF A\nFOREIGN COMPANY.\n-Companies' Aot,\" Part IV, and amending Acts.\n\"The Ke-nt-ih Gold and Copper Mining\nCompany\" (Foreign.)\nRegistered the 25th day ol November, 1R96.\nT HEREBY CERTIFY Hint I have thia day reg-\nJ. istert'i.1 \"TheKeough <;oi'i aud Copper Mining\nCompany\" (Foreign), under the ''Companies\nAct.\" Purl i v., \"Registration of Foreign Com\npanleSi 'and amending Acts.\nThe head office of tlio said company li situat\nil at the City of Suit Lake, tsute of Utah,\n!J, S. A.\nThe objects for which tho Company Is established are:\u00E2\u0080\u0094To purchase, work, develop ami\nmanage the it-Bell lode mining claim, the\nUpenlode mining claim, the Dclamar lode\nmining claim and the Remington lode mining\nclaim, all situate in Yale Mining Distrlot, Brit-\nhIi Columbia, and to acquire mines, mills,\nreduction works nnd such proporty real and\nliersonal aBinaybe suitable or convenient for\ncarrying on a general mining and milling business; ami lo operate, boy, Bell or exchange,\nmines, mills, reduction works nnd all property\nnecessary or convenient to the business.\nTie capital stock of the nn id Company in two\nii und red thousand dollars, divided into two\nhundred thousand shares of tho par value of\none dollar each,\nGiven under my hand and senl or office af\nVictoria, Province of British Columba, this 25th\n-lay of November, lyyG.\n\L.k.\ S. y. WOOTTON,\nRegistrar of Joint Stock Companies.\nNOTICE OF APPLICATION P0R PRIVATE BILL.\nRAND FORKS TOWNSITE COMPANY, LIMITED LIABILITY.\nNOTTCK IH HERBBY GIVEN that application\nwill Ik- made to the Legistlattve Assembly\nof the Proviuce of British Columbia at its next\nnesBion for an Act to Incorporate the Grand\nPur lea Townsite Company, Limited Liability,\nwith power to appropriate, take, and une\nrrom thoNorth Fork (if Kettle Kiver, nnd Manh\ncreek, at points above tho townsite of Grand\nforks, Osoyoos Division of East Yale District .\nt>:> much of the water as may be necessary for.\nand to utilize tho water so diverted for, the fol-\ni -wiiii; purposes, namely; of generating\nelectricity und of supplying the same within\nthe district hereinafter mentioned either for\nelectrio lighting, motive power, telegraph, telephone or other works; of Supplying water to\nconsumers as ft motive power for hauling, pumping, liRhUnj;. Btnelting, drilling, or for any\nother purpose for which It may bo applied or\nacquired: of supplying water fordomesuo, min\ning, manufacturing, and other purposes to the\nminers, smelters, operators <>t tramways, and\ninhabitants of the townsito of Grand Forks and\n1 ' a strip uf territory not exceeding six miles Iu\nwidth on either aide of the South Fork of Kettle\nItlverand nut exceeding in length twenty-five\nmile* above ihe said townsite of Grand Fork\ntdong tlie line of tho North Fork of Kettle Kiver \u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\nmid with power to construct nnd maintain\nbuildings, erections, dams, ditches, flumes,\nraceways, or other works necessary for carrying\nout the above purposes, or any of them, or foi\nimproving or increasing the said waterprivl-\nU ges, and with power to enter aud expropriate\nmud for a \u00C2\u00ABite for power houses, and for dams,\nditches, raceways and reservoirs, and for carrying the electric enrrent underground or overhead and for such other works as may be\nuecesaary and for tho bidding thereon of mills,\nmanufactories, or any erection for the purpose\nof carrying on any industry; and With power to\nerect, lay, construct and maintain buildings,\npipea, poles, wires, appliances or conveniences\nnecessary or proper for the generating and\ntransmitting of electricity and power; and with\npower to oonstiuot, equip, operate and maintain tramways for tho punwae of catrylng\npassengers or freight in the district above mentioned; und with power to maintain and\noperate a telephone ayBtem In tho said distrlot;\nand with power to do all auch things as ar\u00C2\u00AB Incident or conducive to the attainment of the\nabove objects.\nDated at the City of Victoria thin 8th day of\nDecember, 1890. BUSTER & DUFF,\n,, Agents for Fulton & Ward,\nSolicitors for the applloanta.\nG. B. Stocking,\nEXPERT WATCHMAKER.^\nBeet Mainspring in the World.\nFully Warranted.\nWatoh Kepaiiing.it My Specialty.\n...... All Work Warrant\u00C2\u00BBd.\nCORNBB KIYBBBIDK AVE. AND BRIDGB SIS. OBAUD FORKS, B. ,0\nWILLIAM MADER\nWholesale nnd Retail\n:BUTCHER:\nAll Kinds of Fresh MeatB at Live and Let Live Prices,\nI ALSO HAVE SOME NIOE CORNED BEEF\nAND ALL KINDS OF SAUSAGES.\nSecond Street Grand Forks, B. C.\n\" H.W. RUSSELL\npmmmW&Rowe and Carriage Painter,\nsf Lm\lliO S an^ Kalsominer,\n^mmm m% glazing of all kinds\nOrders Promptly Attended to. Estimates Furnished on\nAll Kindslof Work. GEAflD FORKS, B. 0.\nBUILDERS\nShould carefully consider\nthe cost of material, and\nby figuring, rind out that\nall kinds of\nRough and Dressed Lumber\nshingles, Lath, Etc.\ncan be purchased at the\nGrand Forks\n5awmill\n(JHEAPER THAN\nANYWHEEE ELSE.\nFIREWOOD $1 PER LOAD.\nC. K, SIMPSON, Proprietor.\nHEPWORTH & CO.\nDruggists Etc.\nA Pull Stock of Toilet Articles\nAlways on Hand. Also a Well\nAssorted Supply of\nSTATIONERY\nAND WALL PAPER.\nSURGERY IN REAR\nOF DRUG STORE\t\nJANLY'S NEWBLOCK.\nQflAND FORKS- B. 0\nThe best wire spring in the world is\nnade in Grand Forks. I also do all\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2iinds of fine furniture and other\nREPAIRING.\nRUBBER STAMPS,\nuid SealB. Agent for the best makes of\nSowing machines. Also the Hummer\nliicycle.\nJ. W, JONES. GRAND FORKS, B. C\n^%\nCOUNTY COURT NOTICE.\nNotice in hereby --ivon that a sitting ol the\nCount; Court of Yale will bo held\nAT MIDWAY, ON MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1897;\nAT URAN1) FORKB, WK1) ., MAROII 17, 1807\nAttho hour of eleven o'clock In thrforonoon\nrespectively.\nHy command, W. G. McMYNN,\n'ioTernment Oflice, Midway, B. C. I D. R. C. 0.\nJan. \u00C2\u00ABh, 18D7.\nNOTICE.\nTENDERS WANTED.\nTenders will be rocdvod by the undersigned\nuntil January the loth lfi97 for the consruction\nof an irrigating ditch and flunio from Boundary\nreek to Midway flat.\nPlAns and Hpoolfloations can be seen at the\noflice of the Midway Company, Midway, B. 0.\nand the office of C. K. Coiterton, Vernon, B. C.\nThe lowest or any tender not nocessarlly m*\ncepted. A. K. 8TUABT,\nAgent Midway Company, Ltd.\nMidway, B. C, December B, 1896.\nThe time for receiving tenders is further extended until Jan. 81. 1SD7.\nJim . U, U97. ANGUS K. STUART.\nAll Roads Lead to Carson.\nED. DRISCOLL,\nDealer iu General\nMERCHANDISE,\nCarries a Complete Line of\nGroceries,\nDry Goods,\nClothing,\nBoots and Shoes,\nAlso a Full Line of\nEarness, Saddles, Bits, Spurs,\nEtc., Etc,\ni^\"REPA RING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO^l\nTHOMPSON'S\nSTAGE LINE,\n-FROM\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nOarson to Curlew. San Poil\nand Eureka CamDS.\nLeaves Carson nnrl Nelson on Tueseay and\nFriday. Returns Wednesday and Saturday\n(taking connection with Morrison's Stage Lino.\nEDWARD THOMPSON, Proprietor.\nWE HAVE\nLumber\nOF ALL KINDS.\nalways on Hand.\nFor Prices and Terms o\u00C2\u00ABU on or address,\nMANLY & AVERILL\nGrano. Forks, B, C.\nE\nTIIEL GERTRUDE DAHL,\nTeacher of\nVIOLIN, BANJO, MANDOLIN AND CUITAR.\nHtudont from the College of Music of Cincinnati!, and pupil of the distinguishtfl Master aud\nViolinist, Chas. Bacteus of tlie Brussels Franco*\nBelgian School of the Violin.\nOFFICE HOURS - Mondny, Wednesday,\nThursday, Friday and Saturday, 2 to 5 p. m.\nMAIN ST. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 GRAND FORKS, B. C.\nlWTRS. GID R. PROPPER,\nDRESS MAKER,\nGRAND FORKS, B. C.\n4 r'\nAND ALL KINDS OF.JOB WORK.\nQRAND FORKS^ MINER."@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Grand Forks (B.C.)"@en . "Grand Forks"@en . "Grand_Forks_Miner_1897-01-16"@en . "10.14288/1.0081708"@en . "English"@en . 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