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BEDROCK DEMOCRAT, R A T E S OF A i. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, BY J. M. SHEPHERD. bedrock OFFICE IN THE DESIO C R A I B O I D I X G . T erms of S ubscription : VOL. One year.................................................... 4 00 -jix Months,............................................. 2 50 BAKER CITY, BAKER COUNTY, OREGON, APRIL 21, 1875. g gj a from all portions of Eastern Oregon is solici ted for the D emocrat . All communications, to receive attention, must be accompanied by a responsible name. Personal communications will be charged as special advertisements. C orrespondence S. M. PE TTE N G ILJL & CO., 10 S ta te Street, Boston, 37 Park Row, New Y ork, and 701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, are our Agents tor procuring advertisements for the B edruck D emocrat , in the above cities, and are authorized to contract for advertising 1 our lowest rates. n3-f JO B W O H .B L . We are now prepared to do all kinds of JOB WORK on short notice and at reasona ble rates. N. B.—All Job Work MUST BE PAID FOR ON DELIVERY. P R O F E S S IO N A L CARDS. L. O. STERNS, T. C. IIYDE, N o t a r y P u b l ic . N ew Drug Store. Corner Drug Store, B E D K O C K »K M O C K A Y . HU EU ttH’ K I H M E Y , J. I. W ISDOM , Proprietor, With two more numbers the fifth volume of the B k d h o c k ' D e m o c r a t closes, and with the commencement of the tíixth Volume wo intend to adopt the system of striking from our list all names of pei’sons who are more than one year in arrears, and as we do so we will place the ac counts of the delinquents in the hands of the proper onicers for col lection. We have time and again asked those in arrears to pay up and they have paid no attention to our requests, now we will see how they will ijke. to pay costs as weil as the honest debt tuey owe us. A man who can pay And wiil not must be made to pay. We have furnished you the puper for one, two and three years, and paid out money ior you every week, besides contributing our own labor, and now we intend to have the money due ns if it cau be made by law We do Lot wish to make cost on any one, but necessity compels us to foros payment. The books of a printing office are first- rate critenuns by wlncu to judge of a-man's responsibility and willing ness to pay bis liabilities; for a man that will not pay tbo printer the small amount uue hua, v ill not, as a general thing, pay his other honest debts if he can poseibiy avoid it, and if any business men vtisii to form an idea who is good pay and who is not they can at any tune examine our booiis, and see who pays the printer, and thereby judge who is good and who is not. As we strike names from our list we shall publish them, and the amount duo us. If delin quen is do nut wish their names to appear m this iist they must come forward and settle their accounts.— We mean business. All whose pa per is marked with an X , may know that we mean them. Corner o f Main Street and Valley Avenue, Corner Main Street and V alley Avenue Southwest Side, BAKER CITY, OREGON, B A K E R C IT Y , OREGON , W ould respectfully inform the public that lie has recently received a well se K e e ps con stan tly ' on h a n d lected and fresh ¡stock o f a Full Assortment o f all kinds of Drugs, Goods, consisting In part o f Chemicals, DRUGS, Faints, Oils, MEDICINES, Perfumeries, PAINTS and OILS, Patent Medicines, W INDOW GLASS, Soaps, VARNISHES, BRUSHES, and Wines, C o rd ia ls, For Medicinal purposes. Fam ily Medi cines carefully prepared. Prescrip tions accurately compounded, at ail hours o f the uay or n8 mailt. Give us a call. tf MILLINERY AHD FANGT GOODS Sterns & Hyde, A t t o r n e y s a n il C o u n s e lo r s A i-U atv, B A K E R CITY", OREGON. L . O. S terns will attend the Courts o f the Fifth Judicial District, and of Idaho and Washington Territories. Water Rights and Mining Litigation a S pecialty . Collections promptly attended to. Mine 18, 18V3.n6y ANDREW J. LAWRENCE, AT THE N EW W J. M. S H E P H E R D , A t t o r n e v a t 'X j a w , B A K E R CITY, OREGON. ¡id le s F a n c y sm d M illin e r y Goods in »tore, and Latest, otyiesreceiv L ou oy Express every Month, and for sale at most reasonable Prices. D r e s s AT ct k i n g (And Notary Public,) W E S T O NT, O R E G O N . 'ill practice in the Courts of this Mate and Washington Torrit ry. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO LAND 5 Business, and Collections. nl3tt For Medicinal Purposes. TOILET ARTICLES Of Every Description. Prescriptions prepared at. all Hours. City and Country Trade Solicited. Best. Brands, o f FjiraG.v G ro ce rie s , T o b a c c o s , C ig a rs, s&e., constantly on Hand, at tho Lowest Prices. Baker City, Oct. 7, 1874.n221y J. B. GARDN ER, V, i-’Y- ¿-s . - 4 Done to Order, and at Short Notice by MRS. L. J. HUSTON. Baker City, April 18, l374.-n5im6 Western Hotel. MAIN STREET,................................BAKER CITY. REID & FLETCHER, P ropr. rip Ills HOUSE lias been enlarged and re- J. fitted, and is now tne best Hotel on the Umatilla and Idaho stage route. Stages leave tins House for above and be low, and also tor Oiark’s Creek Eldorado, Gem City and Sparta. Connected with tho Hotel will bo found a first class ¥„ KNOX ? Attorney at Law, STORE, First door above the Express Office. Attorney-at-Law, B A K E R C IT Y , OH EGON. IL L P R A C T IC E IN A LL COURTS of the State. Baker City, Sept. 1, 1873. ul7y. ,r a r a s & M Q u c K & s Brandies, Whiskies and SALOON! Liquors, Wines and Cigars of the best quality. Phelan's Improved Billiard Tables 0 WATCHMAKER AND JL \YELER, ESTABLISHED IN BAKER CITY IN 1867, Keeps constantly on hand a well assorted 1 Stock of WATCHES, CLOCKS JEWELRY, and is prepared to do all kinds of work in his line of business. Waltham and Elgin Watches at Factory n31 Prices [ tf. Oí P A P I Vs A&jsiiNG í IA, A' A ,A i. W a s h in g t o n , March 23t-h, 1875. A T lilrti T e rm S ecret S o c ie ty . W i I O I i E S A i Æ a m i HIST A l t . There is a secret society in Washington N. B .— Those indebted to either the Hotel DEALER IN which was organized soon after the com or Saloon are requested to appear at tne Gap tain’s office ana settle. no5v3tf. mencement o f Grant’s first term, lor the sote purpose- of keeping him in the presi dency as long as he chose to stay—which means, of course, as long as the p'eopie J O S E P H H. S H I N N , TOGETHER WITH A will stand it. The great strength o f this c£ o society lies in its secrecy—in the fact that Notary Public General Assortment not only the names o f its members, hut A N D Of all articles in his Dine, which he is selling even the existence«?the society, is*knpwu JOSEPH MAN ABBAS, P rop rietor, C o n v e y a n c e r , at L owest P rices , for tiie Beady Pay. to only two or three persons outside o f the B AK ER CITY, OREGON. ill attend to Conveyancing and making His house is located on Main ¡Street, nearly organization. It is not sufficient for a man ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. opposite the Bank Block, Baker City, Oregon. to be a thorough-going republican, with rRY2SE P R O P R IE T O R M A S B o n g lit an'Unimpeachable party record, for him Baker City, Sept. 11,1872. nlStf Baker City, Nov. 11, 1874.n27tf. IL the Hotel uestaurant, next door to to be admitted to membership* He must the Post Office, -formerly kept by PI cord & W hitcom b, and inis fitted the same up in be a Grant man—first, last, and ail tiie S. A. GAINES. GEO. J. BOWMAN. the best style -as a Hotel, on the French E. W. REYNOLDS, time. This society has exercised a power Restaurant style. He is-prepared to ac GAINES & BOWMAN, ful influence on politics from the first, and commodate the Public, and is determined N O T A BY P U B L I C to give entire satisfaction. still continues to do so. Whenever,for ex AND . The House is open from five o ’clock in ample, a congressman or other active the m orning until twelve at night, during JEPUTY U. tí. MARSHAL. AND member of the republican party gets bal which time customers will be supplied iice with John Brattain, lliree Doors with the best o f everything to be had in ky, or begins to get restive, and to evince the ¿OUtil OÍ* i^EDROOK JJEMCRA'P OíiiCü, a disposition to kick out of the traces in M ST S a L E • ? „ on siele of the fetreet». the event o f Grant’s re-nomination, sever A A R E GETTING OUR TIM B E R Baker City, July 4, lS74.-n9tf akerCity, Sept. 3, 1873.ul7mt direct from St. Louis, Mo., and none al men, each representing a different- sec tion o f country from the othters, cail upon but the very best is Purchased, we are there fore prepared to Warrant all our work. the refractory cuss, or write to him —not We are now fully prepared to complete any as members ol the society, and in a body, but as private individuals, and one at a M. A. Queen’s University, I Canada, Buggies or Wagons time. The man thus preconcertedly oper AT THE OLD StAND OF M. d . Trinity University, J li»i. On short notice, and we can say we have the ated upon thinks, quite naturally, that he P h y sic ia n , S u rg e o n , & c . Bamberger & Frank, Very Best of Workmen in oar employ. is listening to the honest statements, by Every one wanting a Buggy or Wagon will men unknown to each other, o f public B A K E R . C IT Y , OREGON . O ffice and Residence, at A. H. Bi o a n - save time and money by giving us a call and sentiment in various parts of the country, former residence. _ nearly opposite the. Beo examining our work for themselves. F R E D . A. BOHN A rock Democrat Office. and he finally defers his own judgm ent to Baker City, Oregon, Nov.'lO, 1874.-V what he is led to believe to be the express T > esp e c tf*«!Iy in f o r m s ilia e itl- L L Zeus of Baker City and the Public Special attention is paid to Horse Shoeing. ed wish of an overwhelming majority ot p . jA jfT C T /O O d ., D. generally, that lie has purchased the inter Ail repair work done on short notice. We the party. He succumbs. The action of est ot Bob. McCord in the above are thankful for past Patronage, and still tiie republican nominating convention in ate of the College of Physicians and solicit a continuance. ’72 was largely shaped by this society*, and ns New York aim ot the Medical De S A L O O N , . GAINES & BOWMAN. it is working-now'for the single purpose o f nt ol the Willamette University,) Baker City, March 11, 1874.-n4.4tf securing Where will always be found tho very best iSIC IA N AND SURGEON, G ra n t’ s R e im m in a tio n in IS7G. W i n e s , L iq u o r s a n d C ig a r s . ns cash, or no patronage solicited. The fomentation of discontent, in the. ; one door north of City Drug StOie. AND A l s o , South, in the hope that it would culminate BAKERJHTY, OREGON. 111 in armed resistance to the United States One of the Finest and Best W A G O N M A K IN G , troops, the mission of-Sheridan to Louis f a A I3 t-iie V a r io u s B r a n d i e s iana, the imposition by force of arms of a J o l m F . O H o rd , L carried on by the Undersigned, at their To be found in the City. “ Fred” will he Governor upon the,people of that Stats, and pleased at all times to have his friends give onop, at- the Carpenter and-Joiner, the similar despotic and unconstitutional in him a call, Head o f Main Street, • ■ FRED. A. BOHNA. terferences in purely State matters in Ar B A K E R CITY", OREGON. Baker City, Jan. 20, 1875. n39tf kansas, Alabama and Mississippi, were all B A K E R CITY, O R E G O N . Designs and"Specificati ms Fnrnnhed. He will do as good work, at as reasonable pre-arranged by this society in order to get 3 Estimates Made. Terms Liberal, Prices, as any mner Shop in the Country. the country into such a fearful condition by laker City, Nov. 17, 1874. »■ n28y by the time a republican nominating con Di' vention meets, that the retention in the Manufactured to order. Presidency of Grant, the “ tried soldier of S. B. McCOBD. espeetiiilly In form the Cit the Union, and its preserver” &c. &c-, will Baker City, Feb. 10, 187-i.n40tf izens of Baker City and County, and Importer and Dealer In tne Public generally, that they have pur seem to be absolutely indispensibie to‘ the chased the Buy Y our Lumber at the integrity of the Union. The passage of the Civil liights Bill, the attempted passage of ZEL i A " W O Z d 17" i S - t h s Y f c s I . o Old, Reliable the Force bill, the late endorsement by the Formerly kept by John Eppinger, and t hat _ NEW SPAPERS, they are prepared to furnish customers v ith Senate of Grant’s course in Louisiana, and RANKLIN BOOK-STORE AND SANTA CLAUS’ the best of E H A V E R E F I T T E D T H E the many changes made in important Fed Headquarters, Fire-proof Single or Double Turn-out?, Mill and make the best Lumber in eral offices in the South within a few weeks, O ck Building, 105 Front street, Portland, Either night or day, with or without drivers, the conn tv, at prices to suit the times. are all so many elements of the same pro Any bills left at our Mill receive as prompt gramme- But 7 Oregon. ' [tf it the verv lowest rates. I irst c.ass Saddle Ihtention in the future as in the past. We Horses on hand. Horses boarded and the saw everything from a Lath to tiie Heaviest T h e la te st p roject o f th e T h ir d T erm best o f care bestowed. We keep nothing bm M en Timbers. the best ot ¡Stock and Buggies. €lear and seasoned Lumber always on is the most important to be considered just Our stable is at the upper end ot Main hand. street, Baker City, Oregon. ^ B-lls left with J. W. Wisdom will receive now, because it can be easily squelched in J. W. C L E A V E R Come and see us, Every bouy, and tve wifi immediate attention. By strict attention to its infancy, if the independent press acta iaforms the Public that he is prepared to do do our best toI’l « ^ & pEKKINS. business, we iiope to receive our share ot patriotically and promptly. The scheme is til kind of work in the Undertaking Business public patronage. to procure to be published, far and wide, by on short notice and at rasonable prices. February 10, 1874.-n40tt Ai} uniiniiteU amount of Grain taken in Baker City, Oct. 1 , 1873.n21tf some tools of Grant, a call for a convention exenange ior Lumber. EL LIOTT & VAN PATTEN. in Chicago, a few months hence, of the gob S e w in g M a c h in e s — A «, revet March 1 1874.-u34tf. d|ers of the late Union army. Hitherto, the & Baker, »lid a Florence,, both new an, i very best—for sale. For particulars, en- several armies and army corps have had uire at tilts office. n50tf GRIER & KELLOGG. "W a n ted , each its separate convention, and to which, Having completed their New Stable, P o a m l s o f W h e a t . in many instances, only commissioned I>\E M T ISIiV C i: Ctlieap: good at tho B edrock D esio - officers were invited; but, to the projected have now the finest and best legulated Systematic.—Atl persons who content- ckat Office immediately, for which the high monster gathering, in Chicago, the surviv e making contracts with newspapers foi Livery Stable est Cash priée wiilbe allowed. nz6tf — insertion of advertisements, should sem ing non-commissioned officers and privates 5 cen ts to Geo. P. Bowel) & Co., 41 Par) of every regiment of the .late Union army I n E a s t e r n O r e g o n , ow, New York, for their PAMPHLET Book are to be specially invited. Of. course, the ' l seventh edition), containing lists of ver 100 newspapers an'd estimates, showing Where they will carry on the Livery Busi m* r\ C o r d o f W o o i l W a n t e d a t machine is to be run by Grant men, resolu e cost. Advertisements taken for leadit g ness in all its branches, O L / the B edrock D emocrat Office unme- tions already cut and dried are to be offered, apers in many States at a tremendous re Giateiy, for which the highest Cash price STOCK BOUGHT AND SOLD. and speeches now prepared and committ»^ action from publisher’? rates. G et the will be allowed. n26ti Baker City, Nov. 13, 187?. nl3tf k , p38y- wmm mm M tw sm Tobacco & Cigars, MOTEL JV R A N G D , IE S lacks mi tlis ¿L L J, ÎUlliüDO, M. A, H. L 3 3 2 Fred. A. Bohna’s 8 A L © © PI, Hannfaoinrsrs ef Banks & lagans. W IB la ck s mi thing Billiard Tables LIVERY S T A B P l o W S J M’CORMBCK R )to, Stationary, Toys, Insic AM Ebell’s Old Mill. W TJ ndei taker. LIVER YSTAB LE 30.000 "Wood Wanted. NO. 50. gSBBHaBMES to memory are to be extemporized by gush ing orators “ unexpectedly called upon.” Every art that cunning and fraud can devise is to be resorted to, to impress upon the mind of the unsuspecting ex-soldiers of the Union that the war is not yet over, that the Southern people are only waiting for an op portunity to renew it, that tho election of a Democratic President wculd afford them the coveted, opportunity; and that it would be unsafe to tiust the country, under existing circumstances, even to the most pronoun ed Republican statesman, of however much ability, if be were not known also to be a man of pluck, nerve, and military capacity, education and experience. But Tiie m ost H eliisR Game o f AH is this. It is hoped by the Grant men that the assembling of the ex Union soldiers in convention, ten years after the close of the war, w.ll irritate the more hot-h a led of tiie leading Southerners iuto calling a similar convention of ex-Confederate soldiers. If, however, no such course is spontaneously adopted by the South, irritants and stimu lants are to be administered by Grant’s em issaries in the guise of ‘friendsof the South;’ and no available means is to be left untried to procure ’ the call for such a convention, a large attendance, and the passage of blool- and-tliundey i esolutions teeming with vin dictiveness to the North and threatening the integrity o f the Uni n. Virtually, the sur vivors of the two late opposing armies are to be induced, if possible, to rake up old sores, to abuse and threaten each other, and to be made believe that tbo danger of an other civil war is imminent. It' tiie i*iot succeeds, Grant will have no difficulty in getting a re- nornination; but it is to be hoped tliat the press of the country, irrespective oipast par ty affiliations, will advise the late soldiers of the Union army not to leave their work, these hard times, ana use money needed by their families in traveling to Chicago to for ward the selfish, unpatriotic schemes of Grant and his parasites. The best men of the Republican party, will, of course, refuse to countenance this ill-timed convention by their presence; but they should go beyond that. They should declare positively against it. A. II, ¡Stephens, Gordon, Lamar, Beck, John Young Brown and other leading ¡south erners can not begin too soon to warn their people to beware of being entrapped either by the violence in language or action of then- avowed enemies, or by the seductive influ ences of pretended friends, into committing any act which may bo perverted by Grant’s myrmidons into an indication of latent hos tility to the Union. Above all, let there be no convention of ex-Confederate soldiers. Ct. ii. McCiii-tee, Superintendent of the Bureau o f Engraving and Printing ol the Treasury Department, has just received a compliment seldom pay ed to a public officer in these times. It had no sooner got abroad that be had tendered his resignation then a number of Senators and members of both political parties, with out any concert ol action, called upon Secre- ,ary Bristow, rand requested him not to ac cept Mr. McCartee’s resignation until they should have seen him, and endeavored to dissuade him from retiring from the public service. These gentlemen found Seeretai-y Bristow as’ much alive as they were to the importance of retaining a man of McCar tee’s integrity and ability in the important bureau of which he has so long been the Chief, and promised to cooporate with them to induce him to reconsider his determina tion to retire. The result was that Ms Car- tee withdrew his resignation, very mucli to the chagrin of seveal agents of the Bank Note Companies, who were on here to en deavor to influence the appointment of a suc cessor who would favor their schemes. A. F. B. O U R SIIPFEii C IT Y ¡JETTER. One square or less, one insert.. Each additional insertion _____ . . . . One square three , months,.................... v Business Advertisements by the month— Quarter colu m n ................................... SG 00 Half colum n,...........................................10 00 One column,............................. Ten per cent, additional on advertisements to which a special position is guaranteed. [C^Tlie space of one Inch, up and down tlio column, constitutes a square. N. B.—All debts due this office arc payable ill Coin, unless otherwise expressly agreed. b.e without it if it were possible to have it alt any price. Mr. Platt Burr the able and well known Superintendant of ihe Tele graph Company is here, and is making every effort imaginable to build the pro posed lino from here to W alla W alla via. Baker City, and we all wish him success in this noble’ work. We are in direct telegraph com m unica tion wilh South Mountain gpid wo hear from there every hour o f the day. W ork otull kind is being pushed with vigor and success,'.\nd in a short time the smelting furnaces will be going in full blast, and we promise to produce more bullion to thé ton from tho South Mountain minc3 than any other camp on the coast per ra tio. Buildings arid properly o f all kinds an worth 20 per cent, more at South Moun tain at present than it w v. last fall. We look for this cam p to bo the best in the Territory this com ing stjir; .nor. I f this should meet with approbation I wiil drop a iiu,o occasionally. BOURGEOIS. T 2ÏE « Î J A X G E 8 A Y R T A X A T IO N . Tho Salem Mercury says: "N o man has ever yet discovered the way to make something out o f nothing. Wherever debts have been created a certain amount o f labor—expenditure o f (lie brain or mus cle—is necessary to create the capital or money to pay these debts. T h e w e a l t h of a S t a t e l ; t h e l a b o r of the S t a t e , and without labor there is mi wealth. The mines o f California, the rich alluvium o the Nile, the gardens of France, the vine yards on the lihine, the rich' pastures of England, ami tiie diamond districts o f Brazil, amount to nothing without labor; and, strange as it inaj appear, this labor in the aggregate is only sufficient to feed, to clothe, and to support the human fam i ly, when taken in a series o f years or a generation. The surplus over and Above their requirements does not more than ex ceed tiie decay or loss incident to tiie prop er distribution o f this vast amount, o f la bor. It is true a large portion o f ta. hu man family do very little manual labor--, but to balance this another large mass o f mankind are overworked and tasked be yond a reasonable expenditure o f mental and muscular force. “ Now, unfortunately for mankind, those v* ho perform the greatest amour.: o f labor in the grand distribution ofcapital v. aully g e t ’ lie smallest shares; and oiip of the great machinations to produce tins result is the action of the Governments "In ch tiie people create for tiie vain purpose o f e q u a l l y distributing rights and privileg es among themselves, and to protect tiie weaker members against the encroach ments of the stronger. “ These Governments are immense ma chines for good or evil, and when pervert ed become at once tyranm r if ¡]ie most unreasonable and despotic kind. “ Their heaviest oppression usually arise from tiie creation o f monopolies by thp ac tion o f law and o f oppressive taxation.— Mankind for centuries have been frying to remedy these evils with but partial suc cess, as wiil become evident to any person who will lor a moment examine the tax list o f any modern nation, or the m onopo lies that now disgrace the statute books o f the most favored nations ow earth. “ Take, if you please, on the subject of tax ation, the United States, and look at tho un just distribution of taxes upon the industries and labors of the country and see by what rule the Government is supported, and tho debt paid. “ The immerse wealth of the bondholders (every bond being a ; representation of so much labor), at Joastone-fifth of the wealth of tho nation is entirely exempt from all taxes and burdens, not to mention the heavy incomes of the rich from year to year, and the millions which are screened frem taxa tion by partial of local legislation. “ Now, ai we said in the b ginning, noman ’ can make somefhi ig oat of nothing. These millions atid billions thus exempted co 3 t as much to the Government prorata as the farm or horse of the poor tsx payer, n” d tho owners are infinitely better able to p, their- just proportion of taxes, which would re duce the burdens nearly one-half upon tho real laborers or workingmen of the country. “ Now no.thinking, j ust man can agree’tliai these unequal burdens should remain o n 5 the workingmen of the conn fry. Every thing in the State, or the U ; / : U States, should be taxed equally. All the burdens o f Government should be borne by ifio labor, that is the property, of the country accord ing to a just standard of valuations; for whenever any exemption is made the poor working mail is forded, to pay that much more, and foot the bill which these cxemp tions cast upon him. •-it was a knowledge of these things and a - determination to remedy them which in a ■great measure, has brought tin. Patrons of husbandry into existence, fun n. w they have grown so powerful and 1; , sueii a vol ume of brain, muscle and power in their or ganization it behooves them to at rend to these. Each member in his individual ca pacity as a citizen, should see that such abuses are no longer forced upon the groat labor tig men of the nation. “ We hope and trust that tho Patrons of Husbandry everywhere will educate all the members of their subordinate Granges to look squarely at these outrageous evils in flicted upon us by the Government, and that they wiil determine, by one universal will, to know their rights, and knowing will dare defend them.” S il v e r C i t y , I..T ., April 10th, 1875. E d ito r D e m o c r a t :—N ever havin g seen or heard o f any person writing from this place to your valuable paper I thought a tew- lines from here m ight he o f som e in terest to your readers, therefore I will try and give you a few brief item s, and endea vor to give the p u b lic op in ion , as I hear it expressed, in regard to the prospects o f Sil ver City and our mines. Owing to the rough weather o f late and the snow it lias k e p t back everything, for the roads at present are in a bad co n d i tion and in fact are so bad that they ca n not go to tiie m ines with sleighs or wag ons to haul the quartz to the m ills, conse quently thv m ills are at a stand still, and but lit’ !« doing at present o f anything, but should we co n tin u o to be blessed with as fine weather as we have been for the last two d a y s,th e y will soon have the snow re m oved from the roads, and then quartz hauling will com m ence, and by t he 1st or m iddle o f May we look for every quartz m ill in the cam p to be in m otion and tur ning out bullion . A t present there is also a drawback to the m ines. The seepage water is becoming troublesom e, caused by the snow m eltin g very rapidly, but this w ill n ot last lon g, and when they do start in they intend to work and develope the mines, and prove by the shipm ents o fb u l- Uon that Silver City has som e as good, if not the best m ines in Idaho Territory. Scarcity o f lum ber h is always been a A G ood S ewing M achine is a housoliold detrim ent to our cam p, but, o w in g to the treasure that no family can afford to do with deep snow, it is alm ost im possible to get out. If you want ihe best, the Wilson .Shut» saw m ills in operation until the 1st or m id tie should be your.choice. It combines, in dle o f M a y; lum ber is not to be had at the most perfect manner, all the requisites o f durability, -simplicity, case of operating present at any price, and fir lum ber sells and perfection of work,.and is sold at a less at $65. per thousand. * price than any other first-class machine. Machines will be delivered at a-v Rail I see by the last issue o f the D emocrat road Station in this county free of transpor that the people o f .Eastern Oregon are tation charges, if ordered through the Com m akin g an efiout to develope their m ines, pany’s Branch House a: 327 & 329, Superior and com e in direct com m unication with St.,"Cleveland, Ohio. They send an elegant catalogue and chro- the m in in g interest, and that is “ Tele graph I w ill venture to say there is no; mo circulars, free on application. This Company want a few more good a person livin g, w ho has lived in acountry where there was a telegraph, who would agents. 15 00