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LITERARY NOTES.
The Mandan Pioneer is one of the leading dailies of
Dakota. In a recent issue its enterprise showed itself in
a number of fine illustrations of Mnndnn, with long
descriptive articles of that progressive city and its sur
roundings. Such a paper deserves well of the com
munity in which it is published.
The Workman, "a family journal of Christian ac
tivity," published at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and edited
by W. A. Passavant, D. D., has just entered its fourth
year. This is one of the most complete, entertaining and
instructive sectarian journals in the United States and is
specially devoted to the Lutheran denomination. The
subscription price is but $1.25 per year.
The March Century is one of unusual interest, both
in its engravings and the character of the contributed
articles. The two papers of most general interest are
"The Next Presidency," by Wayne MacVeneh, and
"Count Von Moltke," by Miss Helen Zimmermann.
Aside from those the magazine is filled witli essays,
fiction, poems and entertaining descriptions.
In SI. Nicholas for March, that charming writer for
the young folks, Louisa M. Aleott, has the third of her
"Spinning Wheel Stories," entitled, "Eli's Education."
Captain Mayne Koid's serial, "The Land of Tire,"
increases in interest There is also an abundance of
other stories, sketches, verses, etc., to please the young.
The engravings are superb. In every respect St. Nicholas
is the most interesting juvenile magazine published.
Arthur's Home Magazine is one of the best publica
tions that enter the family circle. It is exactly what its
name indicates, a "homo magazine," and should bo foum
by every fireside in America. It is from the homes into
which healthful magazine literature is admitted, to the
exclusion of all that is trashy and immoral, that spring
the men and women upon whom we must depend to bus-
tain and perpetuate our national institutions in their
original purity.
A crisp and sparkling literary weekly, the San Fran
ciscan, has made its appearance at ban i rancisco, and
has met with a cordial reception throughout the Pacific
Coast. The publishers are Joseph T. Goodwin, Arthur
McEwen and Thomas Flynn, who express a determina
tion to make the paper meet their idea of what an inde
pendent litorarv iournal should be. The contents ami
general appearance of the first number indicate that their
mental ideal is a good one.
ti0 p,.!.,,,.! R.inihni Welmme has entered its
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eleventh year in a most prosperous condition. It is
spicy weekly, well conducted, and enjoys a widespread
itnnnlnritv. Tim nublisher of The West Shohe ih
esneciallv oleased to notice the Welcome's prosperity, be
cause of the fact that he was one of the three originators
of the paper. From the time of its founding it has been
ioumnl rf mnMi influence in Portland, and especial;
under the able management of its present proprietors
has it become recognized as the leading weekly of Oregon.
NOTES OF THE NORTHWEST.
Professor J. E. Clayton, President of the Salt Lako
Mining Institute, in a prospectus of that institution
luces the mineral product of Utah since 1870 at the
grand total of $71,502,772. Of this. $2,150,000 were gold,
$15,790,272 silver, $2:1,220,000 load, and 8100,000 copper.
his is an average of $5,500,000 per year, but Professor
Clayton, than whom no man is better informed on the
ubjoct, Btates that there are mines enough in Utah to
roduce $20,000,000 annually. To accomplish this result
requires a largo investment of capital.
Julietta is a new town situated at the forks of 11 ig
and Little Potlatch creekH, in Nez Perce county, Idaho.
here are now on the town site a saw mill, hotel, saloon,
store and several residences. Machinery for n grist mill
will soon arrive. The Potlatch country, one of tho most
fertile and inviting in Idaho, has been described in Til R
West Siiouk. There are many miles of excellent prairie
and open to settlement, and numerous locations will no
oubt bo made tho coining season. The prospects for
Juliotta to becomo a triving town are good.
The Wallowa Valley, tho former homo of Chief
Joseph and his band of Nez Forces, is one of tho mtst
fertile and delightful suctions of Oregon, and lies m
Union county between the llluo Mountains anil Hnako
River. The threo towns which aro springing up in tho
valley, Joseph, Lostino and Alder, doubled their populn
tion in 18811, tho first named doing oven better besides
erecting a gxd flouring mill. Joseph is also to liavo a
aning mill and grist mill tho coming summer. W nllown
Valley is attracting many immigrants,' and tho most desir
able land is being rapidly taken up.
The iron mines of Pugot Hound aro being developed
by a stock company with ample capital, ond their success
ful working indicates equal success with other beds or
iron ore throughout Oregon and Washington. Tho oro
in Chimacum Valley, Jefferson county, wero tested in tho
spring of 1879, and tho test proving satisfactory, tho
Puget Sound Iron Company was organized, wlacli was
incorporated in March, 1880, with a capital stock of
$500,000. The company selected ft spot near tho mouth
of Chimacum Creek as tho site for tlieir furnaco and
reduction works, naming tho place Irondak Tho works,
although conducted largely in an exioriiiiontnl way,
owing to tho oro being somewhat different from any
worked elsewhere, pnxhicod pig iron ol n high grade ol
excellence. A mine of hard, magnetic oro at Toxndn, 11.
C, wos leased and bonded, and ore lias been transported
thence to mix witli tho brown hematite, or bog ore, of
Chimacum. Tho oro from Texnda is taken by vessel to
Irondale, where tho company 1ms on hand somo 2,000
tons, as well as 5100,000 bushels of charcoal. Tho site of
the works is In-autiful, well watered and inviting.
Harljor facilities aro the very best, and ocean steamers
of the deejiest draught easily take on cargoes nt tho com
nnnv's wharf extending out from the furnnco. Irondale
is becoming quite a busy community and a town of con
siderable size.