The west shore., February 01, 1881, Page 46, Image 16

THE WEST SHORE.
February, 1881.
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RAILROAD ITEMS.
Before very many daya now the other trane
continental lino will bo completed. The Achi
mi, Tnpeki and Pant Fe railroad, on the 13'.h
intt, advenotd their onpttruotion terminut 12
mile, which bringa them ditlant by roed only
12 milet (rum the Junction with the Houthero
I'aoifla. Large trtvU of oonntry will be opened
op by thii new line, anil towns ar already
springing up at different point. It ii mainly
through the influenoe of thii mad that to many
mluera art seeking naw grounili in Arlxona and
New Mexico. It i probable that a great
deal of or will b (hipped away for re
duction a anon at the meant of, trampoitition
are pmduoed.
At Kl I'aeo, or near there, wher the Juno
tiun of railrotdt it to be made, It la atated that
all the roadt oentering titer, three or four in
number, are to join and build huge depot
bouse. The Akhieon, Toieka and Santa Fe
baa 60 aorea there, and the arrangemeut for
work are going on aatiafaotorily.
Dispatches fn in Chicago atat that J. V,
Mora, (leneral I'aManger agent of the Union
l'aoiflo, haa juat returned from New York,
where he and other officials of the road have
been perfocllng arrangement fur the oonttruo
lion of a new line from (1 ranger, Utah, a ate
tiun on the Union 1'aeilio, to hiker City, Ore
gun, where a ronuootioo la mule with the Ore-
rn railway, now in onure uf oouatruotiou to
ortlaod and other pointe in Oregon. It it the
intention of the Union 1'aoillo to get ahead of
the Nintharn I'aoillo in reaching Ouyon pointi,
and provide a oompeling line that it ia claimed
will be .KM) nulot shorter to Portland, Oregon,
taking Chicago aa a oommnn (.unit, than the
Northern IVillo. The n w lnm will tlait from
Uranger atatioo, and ruu northwest to a con
nection with the Utah Northern, alto con
trolled by the Union Tactile. The Uuh North
ern might have been uted all the way from Og
den, but by building a new line from (i ranger
north oil, 7.V) milre in length, the route it
ahortened 160 milre. In the building of thit
connecting link, a tunnel 2,000 It, loug haa to
be ooittUuuted, and work on thia haa already
been oommeooed. Work on the new line will
be oouimenred at one, and ia expected to be
ready for bualnwa to lUker City in one year.
While the (wrtiea were in New York, arrange
menu wer alto ouniidcted for taking ooolrol
of the Kaneaa Central railroad. Thia road runt
from lavnworth weat to Onega, 1'olle
watomte ouunty, Kaneaa, The Union 1'aoillo
agree to aeeume the debt of the hue, and will
at oooe eiUud it to Clay Center, where a oon
aaotina it mail with the Junction City branuh
of the Kaneaa I'acilio. The pnnoiiJ olijcot of
the Union IVillo in getting ootttrol ol thia mad ia
to prevent It fiotn falliug into ttie bamla of
rival line, and to cover a territory hich bat
a yet no other railroad fanilitiea.
The Uuh and Northern railroad ia the
longeet narrow-gauge ia the country. Ite roll
in thrk fur Hut year will be not lea than
7i.1l oara and 3N IucouioUvm.
The railrue.lt throughout California hart
been of laU very much troubled, swing to
fluoda, weahuute, eaves, etc
lumtuK IVKLtm-Uy steak in a pod
diog-dioh with alica of onion, a few clove,
bole pepiier, aalt, a bay Uaf, a sprig of thyme,
oaeof Marjoram, and aome paraleyi add oil and
Urragna vinegar ia equal parte, juit to come up
to the eteak, and let It steep la thii foraboat 12
hour, taming it oecaaionallyi then either broil
it or fry it in butter, and aerv with mathed
potato. It tsar ales be fried in bolter, and
then a tewed wtlh bttU oommoa ttoca, and
tarred with piqeanl tauoa,
THE ALASKA MINES.
A correspondent of the Mining and Scientific
Preu, writing from Sitka, Alaska, under date
of January iu relation to tuo miou In that
Territory, aayt: " I think it probable that aa
you have not heard for a long time from thii
part of the ooatt (Sitka), a few notei iu regard
to certain newspaper reporta may be of advan
tage to the retdera of the Mining and Scien
tific I'rett. During the paat tummer, feeling
confident of the mineral wealth of Alaska, I
fitted out teven different partiea to prospect,
each with aix montha' provitioni and equip
ment. I alto paid each party, which consisted
of five or aix men, regular wages; aa otherwise
I could not expect to have the prospecting of
the oountry done to my own eatiifaotion.
The laat of the aeven partiea returned in the
latter part of November, and brought here to
Sitka, on a canoe, about two tool of the rioheat
quart I ever aaw in any oountry. I went up
to thia new Kl Dorado, leaving here on the
25lh of November, and arrived there, on a
oanoe, on the 20th of the aame month.
The dittriot ia called after the diiooverer,
"llarrit dittriot." and ia situated on the main
land of Alatka, between the Takou and Chiloat
river, in 68' 28' north latitude and longitude
134 10', within four milea of Htepheneon'a
traita, oppoaita Douglat Itland,on the northern
end of Admiralty island.
The ditooveriea of the ledgeeand plaoera were
first made on Hold oreek, but tinoe traced and
found in Salmon creek and Glacier oreek.tive and
aeven milea north wett respectively, andinSheep
creek, three milea southeast. The aame ledges
and ore were found 30 milea southeast and in
Windham, Hprooe and Sehug oreekt, where, for
the last live yean, the plaoera have been paying
well to a until lot of men. In Gold oreek and
lit tributariee aome 00 claima are now already
taken up and etaked out, and on all very en
couraging proieota have been found. They
may be oalled $3 to $20 digging. Hut vory
little oan be done there before April or May, aa
the men are not prepared to work yot, and are
only getting ready and proeieotingtneir grounds.
Till LIIM1U.
The ledgna which made theae plaoera are at
the. head of the oreek, and oroea th oreek twioe
in a dittanoe of about two milea. There ia but
oue belt of them, whioh ia about 3,000 ft wide,
and in it the eix main ledgoa run parallel to
each other, beeidce a number of smaller veina,
but which are taken in by the main locations,
aa thnae are ouly about 300 to 500 ft apart, and
are from 6 to 30 ft in width. Theae lodes,
which (how bold cropping for over three inohee
(ao far aa I have been on them), hold very regu
lar in aite and dittanoe aart, and the whole
length ahow the riohatt kind of ore. The quart
ia imbedded in toft slate, and ia quite deoom
poted and brittle. The gold ia mostly fret in
the nuarta, but the rioheat ore ia in the galena,
which ia the only disadvantage of the ore, aa 1
eieot it will interfere with the amalgamation;
yet the gold ia quit ooaree and very heavy, ao
that it will reailily ooncentrate with the galena
to lie tmelted there, 1 have made upward of a
hundred aaeaya, both lire and wet and the loweet
aaaav out of the very pooreat piece of quart I
yielded 13 per ton, while the average of my aa-'
atva which might be alto oalled average of the
ledges, ar 283 per ton, and run from $100 to
$6,000 per tooi and then I have never yet
aaaayed any specimens.
Toe kdgea were retpectively oalled the
Jamettown. Takou, I'd, North Star, Montana.
California lode, and on each there are olaimed
alraaily aix locations of 1.600 ft eaoh, with
plenty of ore on all of them. In the oreeka lay
thousands of toot of the rioheat kind of ore,
every pieo of whioh thowt th gold plainly,
and a good many of th placer claima are valu
able for the quart which lie on them.
WATX IK TBI CRIRKa.
There ia aa abend too of water ia th oreeka aa
they ar ted from eternal now bank high up in
th mountain, and there ware on the 16th of
oember, all of 3,000 inches running, whioh it the
loweat water of the year. There ia nothbg to
prevent working theae mines the year around.
As so far aa thia (January 18th), in the season,
we have had only aix days of frost, and now
there is no snow aa far aa 1,000 it. above sea,
and it rains a good deal, of oonrae, in the high
mountains. It snows in the higher mountain.
The oountry is thickly timbered with red and
black spruce, blaok pine, hemlock, alder and
red birch, not so tremendously thick at on the
itland, at there is 100 more moisture on the
archipelago than on main-land.
The way to it ia very easy and any large
vestal can aail to the mouth of the oreeks and
auohor within 200 ft. of the shore. Already I
had a 150 ton steamer up there, taking up my
men and supplies, and by the middle of Febru
ary, I expeot to have the mail steamer Califor
nia, running np there with lumber and sup
plies. Outaide of this dittriot one of my partiea
found
A SILVKR OR! DISTRICT '
Between Lynn canal and Yoniatate and Hoonah
island. The ore they brought from there is
most encouraging. They brought some ohloride
and some bromide silver ore whioh is quite high
grade, and they olaim to have plenty of it.
They also bring samples of argentiferous galena,
from a whole mountain of the kind, whioh
yields 40 lead, and $25 to ISO per ton in
silver.
Another ledge they report quite large, the
samples yielding from $30 to $120 in silver and
$00 to $100 in gold. They report also and
bring fine samples of oopper-tilver glanoe, an
timouial silver, and sulphurate of copper, in
large quantities. This is oalled Morriaana dit
triot, and I shall visit it early in the apring in
the U. S. N. steam launohea. I must not for
get to give due oredit to Commander Qlaas and
the other offioers of the U. 8. ship Jamettown,
for their ready assistance to ua prospectors,
they having done everything in their power to
further our efforts. You will pleaae oontinne
to send me the Pro, and send me also a set of
back numbers from July laat."
SuoanrrioNS Conckrmnq Loho Lira, If any
one oould furniah the world with a medicine
whioh would insure a long life, there is no end
to the demand he wonld have for his drag. The
Herald cf health thinks be would need many
factories to make it, and many banks to hold the
money he would reoeive. Fortunately.thert if
no tuoh medicine, and so the world will have to ,
get along in aome other way. Some time ago '
the French government tent a oironlar letter to
all the districts of that oountry to oolleot infor
mational to those oonditionaof life whioh teemed
to favor longevity. The repliea were very in
tereeting, but on the whole rather monotonous ;
and the general result was that longevity ia pro
moted by great sobriety, regular labor, especially
in the open air, abort of exoessive fatigue, eaay
hours, a well-olf oondition, a philoeophioal mind
in meeting troublea, not too much intelleot, and
a domestic life. The value of marriage waa uni
veratlly admitted, and long-lived parent were
alto found an important factor. A healthy olimat
and good water were mentioned, AU thia agrees
with oommon tenia, unless the idea that the in
telleot is a hinderanoe to longevity be oonaidered
unreasonable, and we know that torn of tht
most intellectual men . have lived to great age.
Improved Cacstio It sometimes beoomea
neoeaaary to remove oertain morbid growths in
the throat and elsewhere, and for thia purpoee
a ttiok of fused nitrate of tilver eecured in a
quill it generally employed. Unfortunately it
not unfrequently happens that th oauatio
breaks oB and alips down the throat To pre
vent thia, a Ruasian surgeon melts together five
parte of nitrate of tilver and one part nitrate of
lead. Thia oompoeition doe not break easily,
and oan be aharpened like a lead pencil. It
ahould be fastened in a quill made of netallio
aluminum, which it not oorroded by the oauatio
aa metallio silver it.