THE MORNING- OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, 'AUGUST 22, 1900.
IS
FOR 40-FOOT CHANNEL
2SOOnr FOR THE COIATBEBIA. WILL
BB USED TOB XEW WOTtB
Wfc.ea Tbere Xs Teep "Water the Gov
ernment 'Will Kta.bllah. a Bry
ocl and Kara! StatloztT
"WASHINGTON, Auk. 17. The appro
priation made by the last sundry civil
Dili of 5250,000 lor the mouth of the Co
lumbia Hiver is being utilized by the
enclneers for the purpose of a plant and
for preparatlonB to carry on the Improve
ment decided upon by the Board of En
gineers -which made the last report. This
means that It is the Intention of the en
gineers to utilise the appropriation as the
beginning of the work to secure a 40-foot
channel at the mouth of the Columbia.
The Oregonian correspondent has been in
formed by those -who know that although
Congress did not make any direct ref
erence to the report of the board for the
40-foot channel, that-those who were In
strumental In securing the appropriation,
and especially members of the river and
harbor committee, expected that this
money would be used for Just the pur
poses for which the engineers are now
using It. In fact, the wording of the
appropriation Is such as to allow the en
gineers to use the money In this manner,
"While it starts out by saying, "for re
pairs at the mouth of the Columbia
Siver," it also gives authority for the
purchase of materials and a plant to
carry on the work as laid down in the
project prepared by the board. It Is also
said that the members of Congress inter
ested in getting the appropriation through
expect that the coming river and harbor
bill will authorize the engineers to go
ahead and make the Improvement for a
0-foot channel.
This means a great deal for the Co
lumbia River, not only for the navigation
and commercial interests, but that as
Boon as this 40-foot channel Is determined
upon definitely and Is in a fair way of
being completed, the Navy Department is
likely to authorize the selection of a Ate
and that Congress will no doubt provide
for a drydock, which means a naval sta
tion at some, point on the Columbia. For
3ears there has been a fight for this
drydock. It was known when the dry
dock was located at Port Orchard that
It was a bad selection, and a location
Which would .not be for the benefit of the
Navy, and very little for the commerce
of the country. How it came that two
eeparate boards of naval officers having
authority to locate a. dock somewhere in
the Pacific Northwest chose Port Orchard
has always been a mystery to those who
3cnow the commercial conditions and are
aware of the naval necessities of that
section.
It looks now as If the Government Is
likely to rectify the error it made, even
If it Is at great cost. That the Gov
ernment will rectify such errors Is shown
In the action taken In regard to the dry
dock at Port Royal. S. C. Senatorial in
fluence, that Is, Senator M. C Butler,
then a Senator from South Carolina, was
a member of the committee on naval at-
falrs. He worked In conjunction with a
member of the House who was Interested,
and secured the location of an enormous
drj-dock at Port Royal. Immense sums
of money have been expended upon It. It
Is large enough to accommodate all naval
vessels, but It has been useless, as the
dock at Port Orchard has been. It Is
more than likely that Senatorial Influence
cut considerable figure in securing the
favorable report for the Port Orchard
dock. Although the facts cannot be as
certained, it is more than probable that
this location was very much desired by
"Watson a Squire, who was then a Sen
ator from Washington. At all events, he
devoted a great deal of time and atten
tion to the matter, and possibly he" and
some others were able to secure the
necessary Influence which resulted in two
reports being made, and the nnal authori
zation of this Puget Sound dock. Now
the country Is In a fair way to secure
a dock where It will be of" some use.
and where practical naval officers think
it ought to be.
BRITISH TRANSPORTS.
A Tonnnsre of 1,738,138 and 320 Ves
neln lined in the African War.
The British Government has Issued a re
turn showing the name, tonnage and
speed of each vessel employed to convey
troops, etc, to South Africa since July 1
last year (Including ships sailing up to
March 31, 190D), the date and port of her
departure, etc. For the carrying of troops
and horses from the United Kingdom and
from the Mediterranean, in addition to
epaco in different vessels not wholly taken
up, 125 transports, of 730,971 tons gross,
were engaged, but as many of these
vessels made more than one Journey, the
total Is really equal to 191 vessels, of
L171.5G2 tons gross. In the conveyance
Of mules, 27 steamers, of 10S.214 tons gross.
were chartered, or which 6 steamers, of
JMf.10 tons gross, were taken up a sec
ond tinu For the transport of troops,
horses, etc., from India to the Cape, 29
steamers, aggregating 1S7.135 tons gross,
were employed, 8 of which mode two Jour
neys and 1 three, equal, therefore, to
O steamers. In carrying the Colonial
contingents to Cape Town. 27 vessels, to
taling I42.7i90 tons gross, were chartered
2 boats, of 9S07 tons, being taken up twice!
In carrying horses and cobs from Aus
tralia and Argentina to South Africa. 20
steamers, of E5.M7 tons gross, were taken
up, 4 of the boats making two Journeys,
equal, therefore, to 24 steamers engaged.
Since March 31 n further large number
of vessels have been engaged, but are not
Included in the return. The names of
SI not previously chartered have from
time 1o time been reported. The follow
ing are tho totals for the different vov
ages: No. of Gross
- . . . steamers, tons.
For troops and horses from
u. tv. ana -Mediterranean.. 125
Second or third time 6G
Totals ipi
For mules ....... 27
Second time .". 6
Total S3
For troops, horses. etK."
from India 39
Second or third time 10
Total .9
For. colonial contingents 27
'Second time 2
Total D
For horses and cobs from
Australia and Argentina...
Second time 4
1S4.754
1S7.1?5
40.312
17.447
142 500
9S07
152,397
S3 907
16,071
Total
24
Grand total .., 326 1.73S.1SS
This total tonnage fL7SS,lSS tons) Is 55.19
per cent more than the entire steam ton
sage of France, and only 42L7S1 tons less
'than that of Germany.
TRANSPORT LENNOX ARRIVES.
Discharges Cargo in China and
Starts for the Coast.
J. P. Oberieuffer. writing to his brother
In Portland from Kobe. Japan, under date
of July 27. saj-s the animal transport Len
nox reached that port at 2:30 P. M. that
day. and sailed at 6 P. M. for China with
her cargo of animals for the Sixth Cav
alry. Mr. Oberteuffer says the horses
were in splendid condition. The wsather
had been excellent, and the animals stood
the trip better than could have been ex
pected. Mr. Oberteuffer. as purchasing
officer for the ship, was the only .person
allowed ashore, and he was on Japanese
eotl but an hour. A cablegram was ves
terday received from Nagasaki stating
that the Lennox had arrived there after
discharging her cargo In China, and was
ow mth-bound. She is probably com
ing to Portland. The cablegram was dat
ed Nagasaki, August 19.
Day Beacon in Sitka Sound.
A day beacon, located near the center
736.91
414 51
U71.562
10SM4
26, .10
of- the largest and southernmost of the
"Vltekart Rocks. Sitka Sound, is on the
bearings: Kullchkof Rock, east north
east, distant three and one-fourth miles';
Highest Peak; "Kruzof Island, west north
west nine-sixteenths west. The beacon is
a conical stone structure, 20 feet In
diameter at the base and four feet at
the top, from which projects a post five
feet higher, capped by a large stone
which reaches 41 feet above high water,
and should be visible from the deck of
an ordinary vessel, In clear weather, 11
miles.
Hollcc to Slarlnerc.
The Lighthouse Board gives notice of
the following changes made In the buoy
age of Alaskan waters. wh!ch affect the
list of beacons and buoys, Pacific Coast,
M900:
"Ward Cove, Tongass Narrows. Bolles
Ledge Buoy, iNo. 2. page 81, a red third
class nun, was established August 10 in
12 feet of water, about 10 feet to the west
ward of the ledge. Tangent on eastern
shore, near entrance to cove S. 1-8 "W.,
tangent on -western shore, near entrance
to cove SSW.-7-8 "W.. nearest point on
western shore "W. by N.
Tongass Narrows. California Rock
Buoy, page SI, a red and black horizon
tally striped second-class can, was
changed August 9 from a second-class nun
toxa second-class can, without change In
location.
Frederick Sound. Windham Bay Nar
rows Buoy No. 1, a black third-class can,
was established August 4, in -33 feet of
water, and marks the end of the ledge,
maiclng out E. 3-4 N. from the western
shore of ithe narrows of "Windham Bay.
Right tangent to eastern shore NE. 3-4 E.,
left tangent to nearest point on eastern
shore S. by "W., nearest point on western
shore, "W. 3-4 S., distant about 4S0 feet.
Lynn Canal, page S3. Katsehln River
Flats Buoy No. 2, a red first-class nun,
was changed July 31 from a second-cla3s
Ice to a first-class nun buoy, without
change In location.
Indian Rock Buoy, a red and Vack hori
zontally striped second-clsss can, was
changed July 31 from a secotfd-class nun
to a second-class can buoy, without
change in location.
Llshtahlp Ready for Hep Station.
The lightship Umatilla Reef, which has
been undergoing a general overhauling at
the "Wolff & Zwlcker Iron "Works, and
having her Illumination changed from
electricity to oil, Is now completed, and
will soon be taken to her station. The
transport Thyra, which is due here in a
day or two, is to have some extensive
alterations made In her to fit her for car
rying a number of horses and mules,
which will keep quite a number of car
penters and other artisans busy for some
time.
Inventiffatlne: nn Accident.
Local Inspectors of Hulls and Boilers
Edwards and Fuller yesterday held an
Investigation to ascertain the cause of the
wreck of the steamer Billings, which was
recently run on a rock In the Upper Co
lumbia, Just above Sumas Landing and
opposite the mouth of Rock Creek. The
captain, pilot, engineer and several of the
crew of the steamer appeared and testi
fied. A decision In the matter will be
rendered In a few days.
Londincr the Argyll.
"Work of loading the Argyll has already
"begun. Her acceptance by the Govern
ment as artransport was followed Imme
diately by arrangements for receiving a
cargo of hay and grain. The local Quar
termaster's department is putting aboard
the vessel at the Alaska dock the first
receipts of hay and grain under the 3000
ton contract recently let In this city.
Captain Henry Melntyre Dead.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 21. News has
been received by the Pacific Steam
Whaling Company, of the death and
burial of Captain Henry Melntyre, at
Orca, Alaska, who was in charge of the
company's station at that place. He was
one of the best-known shipmasters sail
ing Into' this port, and had a record of 33
voyages around the Horn.
Marine Notes.
British ship Cedarbank left down the
river yesterday.
British bark Bowman B. Law put to
sea from Astoria yesterday morning.
The Pacific-American Fisheries Com
pany has a force of men at work build
ing marine ways at Eliza Island, near
Falrhaven. Wash. The waya will be
extensive enough to take on large ocean
going tugs.
Domestic and Foreifirn Ports.
ASTORIA. Aug. 21. Condition of the
bar at 4:30 P. M., smooth; wind, north
west; weather, clear. Sailed at 10 A. M.
Steamer Columbia, for San Francisco; at
10:80 A. M., British ship Bowman B. Law,
for Queenstown. Left up at 5:30 P. M.
Italian ship Ellsa.
Freemantle. Arrived August 20 Ameri
can bark Chehalls, from Astoria.
San Pedro, Aug. 21. Arrived Jennie
Stella, from Gray's Harbor.
San Francisco, Aug. 21. Arrived
Steamer Wellington, from Chemalnus;
steamer Areata, from Coos Bay. Sailed
Steamer State of California, for Portland;
schooner John H. Bruce, for Chemainus;
schooner Lizzie Vance, for Gray's Harbor;
barkentlne Gardiner City, for Coos Bay;
steamer Empire, for Coos Bay; steamer
Victoria, for Chemainus.
Boulogne. Aug. 21. Sailed Cape Frio
(from Hamburg), for New York.
Yokohama. Sailed August 19 Mon
mouthshire (from Hong Kong), for Port
land, Or.
New York. Aug. 21. Sailed Seryia, for
Liverpool; Kalserlne Maria Theresa, for
Bremen, via Cherbourg and Southampton;
Cymric, for Liverpool.
Hong Kong. Aug. 21. Arrived Steamer
Empress of India, from Vancouver, via
Yokohama, etc.
Queenstown, Aug. 2L Arrived Ultonia,
from Boston, for Liverpool, and proceed
ed. Plymouth. Aug. 21. Arrived Graf Wal
dersee, from New York, for Hamburg, via
Cherbourg, an.d proceeded.
Sydney. Aug. 21. Arrived previously
Mlowera, from Vancouver Via Honolulu.
Antwerp. Arrived August 18 Kensing
ton, from New York.
Liverpool. Aug. 21. Arrived Numidian,
for Montreal.
Autralian Port, Aug. 21. Arrived pre
viously Parada, from San Francisco.
Port Hadlock. Arrived August 20
Schooner Fanny Dutard. from Port Town
send. Santa Rosalia. Arrived July 25 Barken
tlne Arago, from Gray's Harbor.
Neah Bay. Parsed August 20. British
steamer Oak Branch, from Japan.
Tacoma, Aug. 21, Arrived British
steamer Oak Branch, from Hankow
Seattle. Arrived August 20 Steamer
Queen, from Skhgway: British shlpjLin
llthgowshlre, from Antwerp. Sailed Au
gust 20 Barkentlne Quickstep, for Hong
Kong.
Vancouver. Cleared August 20 German
ship Marie, for London.
Lizard, Aug. 21. Passed St. Paul, from
New York for Southampton.
New York, Aug. 21. Arrived Spaarn
dam, from Rotterdam: Sardinian, from
Glasgow.
Klnsale, Aug. 21. Paesed43eorglan,
from New York for Liverpool". ,
Sagres, Aug. 21. Passed California,
for Marseilles, -Genoa, Leghorn, etc
New York. Aug. 2L Arrived Minne
haha, from London.
HlK Lost Raft From Pnsret Sound.
SEATTLE. Aug. 2L Another of the im
mense log rafts constructed by the Kotv.
ertson Company will leave West Seattle
tomorrow morning in tow of the tugs Ta
toosh and Rescue, bound for San Fran
cisco. Tho raft Is one of the largest
ever built, and contains about S00.030 feet
of piling.
Dr. Snnfortl'B Liter Invigrorntor.
TSk: beat Liver Medicine. A Vegetable Cure for
LU-er T1W. Blllou-mess. Indleeation. OnrwtipiitJon
HAS HOLD ON PEOPLE
daijT still nr ravoh. with the
MASSES IN MOXTAJCA.. -
How He Gained and Lost Control of
State Politics "Wonderful Suc
cess as Mine Promoter.
BUTTE, M,ont, Aug. 18. It is curious
what a marvelous hold Marcus Daly still
has on the minds of the people of Mon
tana. It is very hard to convince the mul
titude that Daly's day Is done as a star
actor in state politics. And yet Daly's
sun Is fast sinking, and Montana will
never again know him as a great and
powerful factor. If he ever visits Mon
tana again. It will be as a shadow of the
all-powerful leader that he once was.
Time and time again, his extraordinary
power has been closely studied, but with
out success. He made and unmade Con
gressmen, Senators, Judges and Governors.
In the accepted meaning of the word, Mar-'
cus Daly had no political principles. His
affiliations were with the Democratic par
ty, but he wrecked the fortunes of every
GALLERY OF NEW MEMBERS.
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D. M. WATSON, A REPRESENTATIVE FROM MULTNOMAH COUNTY.
D. M. Watson. Representative from Multnomah County, was born on his father's farm In
Monroe County. Iowa. October 3, 1S51. His family was amonc the pioneers of the Hawk
eye State. After remaining on the old homestead until he attained his majority, Mr. Wat
son embarked In coal mining In Southern Iowa, where he developed some of the best coal
lands west of Pennsylvania. But financial success did not satisfy the Inherited pioneer spirit
within him, and In 18SG he came to this coast. For the past six years he has been Inter
ested in the restaurant business in this city, but has nlso taken time to carry on contract
ing In heavy drilling for water for railroad and farm supply. Delias made a success of We,. .
and has assisted others to do the same. He has always been a large employer of labor, and
now has over 00 persons on the payroll of his restaurant. Mr. Watson Is a stanch Demo
crat,' and, as such, was just elected to the Legislature. He has sreat faith in the Pacific
Northwest, particularly the State of Oregon. He believes that Portland will become one
of the greatest seaports in the Union, and will surprise its own people with Its tremendous
business strides in the hoar future.
Democratic candidate who chanced to in
cur his ire.
Montana is essentially Democratic, yet,
during its 12 years of statehood, it has
been represented by Republicans in the
United States Senate. And Daly dldit.
In 1S93, Clark could have been easily ele
vated, but Daly controlled nine bolting
Democrats, and he secured the adjourn
ment of the Legislature without an elec
tion. Had Marcus Daly kept his hands
off, W. A. Clark could have been elected
In 1899 without any of the wild and ex
traordinary scenes that occurred in last
year's Legislature. AH this shows extra
ordinary power on Daly's part, though
not much principle.
The truth is, men love and fear him.
To oppose him means financial, as well
as political ruin. He has had a host of
enthusiastic followers, who served him
with the loyalty of Highland clansmen,
and without hope of reward.
W. A. Clark never had such a following.
Daly electrified his followers; Clark
chilled his. Daly pursued his foes with
relentless hate, while Clark slew the
fatted calf for every political enemy who
sought forgiveness for past treachery.
Clark never broke a promise In his life;
or voted against him, -but Daly has broken
a thousand nromlses. and mad. Montana
untenable for worklngmen who voted
contrary to his wishes. And yet Daly,
and not Clark, has been the real master
of Montana's destiny for 20 years.
Senator Clark is but an accident. Daly's
hatred of Clark put him where he is. He
has been a fortunate accident for the
State of Montana, and has done great and
good work.
Daly's political career is little short of
an enigma to men of strong convictions.
They cannot realize how Daly could play
fast and loose with principle and partv.
apd how he could stoop to brutal injustice.
and break a thousand promises, and still 1
truth is, Daly must be judged honorable 1
v..j.u-. ..i.3..,. ii. ,,,iicok nielli. inu
bv no ord'nnrv st.inrinrri TTo i r, ln-n.-'
dards. He is a law
unto himself. His virtues and his good I
aeeas ne niaes as careiuuy as ne displays
tne unlovable side of his nature. Daly ;
is really full of the widest sympathy. His
natural bent is overflowing kindness, and
he has done ten thousand generous acts
that the world never heard of. His life
is a contradiction, and yet only apparenty
so. for environment and circumstances
made him what he was.
Daly's Early Life.
Marcus Daly grew up In a little village
of "County Cavan. Ireland. No American
can ever realize the intensity of the in
fluences that surround and shape the i
character and temperament- of the Irish- I
born youth. In the whole range of human' 1
annals there Is no parallel for conditions
in Ireland, and they were still worse
when Marcus Daly was a boy. Ireland's
verdant fields, her woodlands, rills and
hills form the loveliest landscape that
this world of ours affords. She is the
peerless Island of the sea ln frultfulness
and in beauty. And dotted over that
island are countless monuments of. a story
the most wonderful, the most glorious,
and yet the most sorrowfulv ln all the
wprld. There Is not an Ivied ruin, a riv
ulet or ford, a tower or ancient church
which is not redolent of romance, song
and story Intensely comic and tragic. In
the halcyon days- of Grecian civilization,
art and oratory, Ireland excelled Greeco
In music, rivaled her ln oratory, and
was her peer from point of refinement.
Ireland gave to Scotland art, religion,
music, and the Kings that ruled It for a
thousand years. Prior to the Crusades,
the Irish surpassed all other people In
the Influence they exercised on the civili
zation of the world. And. then a great
shadow came over the land. "The Norman
Kings of England wanted sway over Ire
land, Scotland and France. Bruce saved
Scotland, but the struggle In Ireland went
on and on till sas of blood were shed"
and oceans of hata accumulated. At last
there was left in Ireland nothing but
master and slave the oppressor and op
pressed. Marcus Daly knew all this and saw all
this when he was a boy. The Infamy of
the spoiler burned Into his soul. He left
Ireland with his heart full of rage ana
hate against the injustice and wrong
doing of might. He landed In New York
penniless, unskilled, uncouth. He had a
sister there, who cared for the young Im
migrant. She was hl3 guide and pilot,
and for 15 years Daly's story can be writ
ten among the short .and simple annals
of the poor. Then we find him a shift
boss working for James Fair in the mlnea
of Nevada. There is a tradition in the
West that Marcus Daly was Fair's mas
cot; that he was the real discoverer of
the bonanza lode. But in any case, Daly
and Fair fell out, and Daly left for
Utah, where he chanced to run across a
prospect called the Ontario.
Discovers Rich Anaconda. Mine.
While trying to get some one to put
up the money to buy the Ontario for $30,
000, he chanced to meet George Hearst.
Hearst at that time, less than 30 years
ago, was as poor as a church mouse, but
he had friends, . and the friends, J. B.
Haggln and Lloyd Tevls.put up the money
to buy the Ontario. Daly got a very small
interest, but that Interest proved tho
OF THE OREGON LEGISLATURE
foundation of his fortune,' for the On
tario paid some $15,000,000 in dividends.
Hearst, Haggin and Tevls became his
life-long friends. He had made them
all millions, arid a few years later, when
he chanced upon the Anaconda, they put
up millions to back him, and In the end
they grew fabulously rich from the
wealth of the great Anaconda.
The man who could have opened up and
developed the Anaconda mine, and ex
tended its operations as Marcus Daly
did, must be a man of extraordinary abil
ity. In fact, he has done the work of
a hundred men, and the miracle is that
mind and body and nerve did not fall
him long ago. In the end It became a"
vast octopus, and went beyond his con
trol, and it was fortunate for him that
J. B. Haggin compelled him to sell to the
Standard Oil people. They Immediately
resolved to put new blood into all its
departments, and to do so more easily
they put Daly aside. Daly is therefore
completely out of the Anaconda and the
great copper trust, though he still holds
a small amount of stock in it. With his
severance from the great copper Interests
that once were his, political power has
flown. He has a nrlncelv home, n vast
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nent' P.er n t.ne B"ter Root Valley.
contl-
ann"
from time to time Montana will probably
see something of its old idol. But he will
never again play the part of the star
actor his power is gone and his pride Is
wounded.
Attorney-General Nolan is responsible
for the statement that Daly has a provis
ion in his will for a fund to be used
against Carter's political ambitions. And
now that Senator Carter and the Stand
ard Oil Company have made an alliance
on the basis of a perpetual Senatorshlp
for Carter, and the .domination of the
judiciary, the executive and the Legisla
ture to go to the Standard Oil. the suc
cess of the alliance of Carter and the
naara un, .ualy knows, will pi
ace in
P0" ln Montana ine most corrui
power in .Montana the most corrupt and
venal element in the state. Daly hates
" --i.". ""-- u' "e iiuies uiaric.
a"u um "UL tue oui iorma ne would he
1 wiLii luu-k anu tne people in the fight
now being waged.
DAILY CITY STATISTICS.
Real Estate Transfers.
Daniel Gorman to Charles E. Steel
smith, lot 15, block 19, Central Al
tlna. August 21 ". $ J50
V. A. Avery to William Shindler. par
cel of land, Gideon Tibbetts' D. L.
C. August 21 14oo
Jacob F. Gilbert, trustee, and wife
to Fidelia Powell, S. of tract of
land beginning at SW. corner of
block i, Lents, containing IS acres,
July 10 '. soj
J. F. Gilbert, trustee, and wife to Fi
delia Powell, trustee, 5 acres Joshua
E. "Witt en and Nancy "Witten D. L.
C. July 10 .v. 750
S. A. Stafford et ux. to James McPh.
Bobinson. 10 acres section 1. T. 1 S..
R. S E., August S 975
Perrv Johnson and wife to Elwlra
Hall, lot 6, block 40, Fulton Park,
Augustl6 i 100
BnildinET Permit.
Elizabeth Wood two-story dwelling,
Tenth street between Hall and Harrison;
$2300.
Marriage Licenses.
Lee Tou, aged 21, Kim Qui, aged 20;
Herman J. Harris, 25, Helen Wise, 21;
C B. Glover, 46, Mrs. Jennie Barnes, 41;
George Grodt, 33, Christina Eeed, 27;
George H. W.. Smith, 22, Anna MPelton,
21; G. A. Lewis Winters, 31, Bertha E.
Bohle, 36.
Births.
August 20, girl to the wife of W. H.
Price, corner First and Market streets.
August 19, girl to the wife of F. H.
Brinke. 72 East Tenth.
FIVE PLACER CREEKS
AM. HEAD OS ONE aiOCTTTAEf AICD
HAVE YIELDED FORTUNES.
Several Hundred Men Now Malce
Their Living: There Date From .
Early Times.
GALICB Or., Aug. 2a Between Rogue
River and one of Its tributaries, the Illi
nois River, five good-sized streams head,
on one mountain ridge Galice, Taylor,
Pickett, Brlggs and Sliver Creeks and
run ln as many directions, all of them
good gold-producers. From the bed and
banks of each (excepting, perhaps, Tay
lor), many fortunes have been wrested,
and few failures known. To be sure,
many a hard-working miner has become
discouraged and abandoned diggings
where an adequate investment of capital
would have made a good-paying mine,
and again men imbued with the idea that
"where the money 13 laid down, there
must tho mine be," have sold their hold
ings for -a song because of their exalted
notions of dividends armchairs and ease
which the mine could not afford. Sev
eral hundred men are today making
their living and a majority of them more,
from the quartz and placer mines on
these creeks and the adjacent hills.
Galice, the most Important, richest and
busiest of the creeks, was discovered ln
18G1 by a Frenchman named Galice, who
later was followed by kindred spirits,
crossing tho mountains from Jackson
ville or Crescent City, with their blank
ets and a scant supply of provisions on
their backs, to make a stake and get
out before being starved or murdered by
the Indians. Now there is a wagon road
from Merlin, on the Southern Pacific, a
dally stago and mall service, and a Jus
tice of tho Peace, who has little to do
with crime or bloodshed. Thousands of
dollars ln gold dust was taken from tho
bed of this,, creek In early days, before
ground-slulclng commenced on the bars
and In tributary gulches.
Running parallel with the creek and
about 700 feet up the side of the moun
tain, is a great bench, at one time the
bed of a large river. This old channel
has been traced clear through Josephine
County Into California, with a general di
rection of southwest and northeast. Al
together in this section there is about
1000 acres of rich auriferous deposit on
this bench, cut right in two by the right
hand fork, of Galice, and breaks off into
Rogue River it the lower end. The
lower section o this old channel has been
worked on a large scale for 40 years by
different parties and companies, acres
of ground have been dumped into tho
creek and Rpgue River, which is estimat
ed to have yielded about 310,000 per acre.
Twenty miles of ditches and flumes con
duct the water of creek and gulches to
this property, giving at the mine a pres
sure of 450 feet. From 10 to 25 men are
constantly employed at this one mine.
The question naturally arises, Where
does all the gold come from to supply
these placer mines? It certainly camo
from above, for gold doer, not lose the
slightest opportunity for settling. Wheth
er from a solid ledge washed away ages
ago rotten porphyry streaks or from
chimneys, prospectors have been unsuc
cessfully endeavoring to determine.
Gigantic quartz ledges run through tho
country above and below this channel,
and the creek bars, from which encour
aging assays have been made. Near
the apex of the mountain, 2000 feet above
the creek, two men have a hydraulic
mine, where they have taken out well-
washed nuggets weighing 510 to ?40. Be
low them, at the Lost Flat quartz mine,
rich pockets have been uncovered, rot
ten porphyry seamed with gold, and all
along the ridge dividing these creeks
ledges crop out bearing gold in greater
or lesser quantities, but the mother lode
remains undiscovered.
Nearly the same conditions exist on Sil
ver Creek, where the gold is even of a
coarser nature. Bars abandoned for
years have lately yielded nuggets weigh
ing $200, and at present energetic men
are actively engaged in drifting, ground,
sluicing and piping on the placers, and
running tunnels and sinking shafts on
the quartz. At one place a man hard
to discourage has for two years been
vainly trying to reach bedrock, and has
spent $2000 in money, prospecting a basin
that will make a grand mine if the pros
pects Justify opening It up.
On Brlggs Creek there are acre3 and
acres of gravel bars awaiting capital to
develop them. A magnificent canyon
of placers and quartz mines, farms and
stock ranges. Both Silver and Brlggs
Creeks empty Into the Illinois River.
Pickett .Creek empties into Rogue River
six miles below the mouth of Applegate.
At the mouth and along Rogue River
are several fine farms, and peach and
prune orchards. Here some of tho finest
peaches in Oregon are raised. Gold in
dust form and nuggets have been and are
being taken out of the bars along both
Big and Little Pickett. Coarse, heavv
gold is washed out way up the gulches
near the Taylor Creek divide. Several
hydraulic mines are in operation, and
more are projected.
Taylor Creek never had much of a
boom, although nuggets weighing several
dollars were mined out, and a few men
are ground-sluicing at the forks with
Indifferent success. High benches of
fine-looking gravel exist here, as well,
but somehow Taylor Creek seemed to
hayd been slighted by the power that
so generously 3prinkled the other creeks
with the metal for which men have
fought, starved and died.
The climate in this section I3 all that
could be desired. Miners work every
day in the year, If they want to. Where
no wagon roads exist, pack trains sup
ply the needed transportation of pro
visions and mining machinery. On al
most any claim a man can raise a boun
teous garden, set out fruit trees and live
like a nabob. Magnificent firs and state,
ly sugar pine trees cover the hills and
valleys, timber that will some day be
rafted down Rogue River or hauled out
by railroad.
COAL AND PETROLEUM.
Said to Ha-re Been Discovered Near
Astoria Land Syndicate.
ASTORIA, Or., Aug. 21. Several promi
nent Astoria' business men have secured
control of 6500 acres of land at Knappa,
near Astoria, and tonight disclosed the
fact 'that experts have declared it a very
valuable coal and 'petroleum field. Tha
company has been formed and work will
begin immediately.
Mining: Stock Quotations
Listed Mines Bid.
Adams Mountain $0 05
Buffalo - 1
Copperopolis 5
Gpld Hill '& Bohemia 5
Goldstone Consolidated
Helena 31
Helena No. 2 7
Lost Horse s
May Queen 2
Mountain View 2
Oregon-Colorado M. M. & D. , 5
Riverside" 2i
TJmpqua, 3'
Unlisted Mines-
Asked.
$0 05V4
314
Gh
4
32
"Y
3,i
27i
2
10
3tf
CM
2jJ
Rockefeller
3H
1
Sumpter Free Gold
SATRS
Adams Mountain 2000 shares at 5
Copperopolis 1000 at 5
Gold Hill &. r.ohemla 2000 at
Helena 4000at31T6
3000 at 32
4000 at 3191
, . M0OO at 31
Helena-o. 2 4500 at GJ
. 6500 at 7
Lost Horse 2000 at 3
500 at 3V.
May Queen 10000 at 2
4000 at 2U.
Mountain View 4000at 2sJ
OreRon-Colorado M. M. & D 1000 at 5'
Umpqua 2000at 3
Ex dividend.
SPOKANE, Aus. 21. The closing bids for
mining stocks today were1:
BTackta.il $0 12Vt Princess Maud. .$0 01
Butte & Boston. lPalmer Mt. Tun. 16
Deer Trail Con. 44 Rambler Cariboo 22
GoldPi Harvest. Vnepubllc 71'4
impieSj oiaclctieac!sf l
PREVENTED BY
TyjTILLIONS of Women Use CUTICURA SOAP, cxdu&vdrl
ANJL for preserving;, purifying and frcautifytngf tnc skin, fof
cleansing; the scalp of cr usts, scales, and dandruff, and the stoppings
of falling; hair, for softening;, -whitening', and healing red, tough,
and sore hands, in the form of Baths for annoying irritations,
inflammations, and chafings, or too free or offensive perspiration,
in the form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and many sanative
antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves lo women
and mothers, and for all the purposes of the toilet, hath, and
nursery. No amount of persuasion can induce those who have
once used it to use any other, especially for preserving and puri
fying the skin, scalp, and hair of infants and children. CUTI
CURA SOAP comhines delicate emollient properties derived from
CUTICURA, the great skin cure, with the purest of cleansing?
Ingredients and the most refreshing: of flower odors. No other
medicated soap ever compounded is to be compared with it
for preserving-, purifying-, and beautifying: the skin, scalp, hair,
and hands. No other foreign or domestic toilet soap, however
expensive, is to be compared with it for all the purposes of the
toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it combines in ONE SOAP at
ONE PRICE, viu, TWENTY-FIVE CENTS, the BEST skin
and complexion soap, and the BEST toilet and BEST baby soap
in the world.
wnwm Complete External and Internal Treatment for Eiary Humor,
t) uM.A l consisting of Cuticuba Soaf (25c), to cleansa the Mn of mU and
scale and soften the thickened cuticle, Ccticcra Oixtxsmt (40c.)
tThe Set. $1.25 hen!, and CcTicrnu. Rzsolvent (50c), to cool and cleanse the Wood.
A Sixgu Set is of ten sufficient to cure the most tortnrln jr. dUBgaring.
and humiliating skin, scalp, and blood humors, -with loss of hair, when all else falls. Pottbb
D. Ann C. Corp., Sole Props., Boston. " How to Cure Face Htfinori and all other Humor," free.
I. X. Z.
Lone Pine Surp.
Morning Glory..
10 lRossIand Giant..
0 Sullivan
3 Waterloo
1
13
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21. Official closing
quotations for mining stocks:
Alta
50 03
Justice 90 03
Alpha Con ......
Andes
Belcher ,
Best & Belcher..
Bullion
Caledonia ,
Challenge Con ...
7
8
13
17
3
53
261
Mexican
23
H
C3
8
22
10
Oculdental Con
Ophir
Overman ......
Potosl
Savage
Spst. Belcher ...
unonar
15
Sierra Nevada ,
37
49
4 15
21
81
Confidence- 81J Sliver Hill
Con. Cal. & Va... 1 35
Standard
Crown Point .... 14
Gould & Curry... 16
Union Con ....
Utah Con
Tellow Jacket
Hole & Norcross.. 201
NEW YORK. Aug. 21. Mining stocks today
closed as follows:
Chollar .....SO 14
Crown Point .... 14
Ontario S3 SO
Ophtr o2
Con. Cal. & Va... 1 25
Plymouth ........ 10
Quicksilver 1 00
do prf 6 00
Sierra Nevada ... 35
Standard 3 25
Deadwood 40
Gould & Curry... 14
Hale & Norcros3.. 18
Homestake 00 00
Iron Silver 51
ITJnlon Con t8
Mexican 25 Yellow Jacket ... 31
BOSTON, Aug. 21. Closing quotations:
Adventure S 2 COtHumboIdt S 25 00
Allouez M. Co.. 1 12Osceola 67 75
Amal. Copper.. 88 SOjParrott 42 00
Atlantic 23 OOIQulncy 140 00
Boston & Mont. 323 00. Santa Fe Cop... 4
Butte & Bost.. 62 00
Cal. & Hecla... 760 001
Tamarack .208 00
Utah Mlnlnu.... 31 25
Centennial .... 17 00
Franklin 117 00
Winona 3 00
Wolverines 40 CO
Bird Laws Are Effective.
Boston Advertiser.
From many parts of New England this
Summer comes the news that the song
birds 3eem to be more ln evidence than
they have been for many years. An eld
Rangely guide said recently that it wa3
hardly within his recollection of the past
Have you been watching the quotations on The Ore
gon Mining Stock Exchange? Another stock listed:
THE ISABELLA
"Will be offered at opening call this morning at 1c a snare. $10.00 buys
1000 shares of this stock. An Eastern Oregon company owning tbxea
full claims. Watch, the market and see it- go up.
Another good buy: THE UMPQUA Sold yesterday at 3c
DON'T FORGET THAT
DAVIDSON, WARD & CO.
406-408 Chamber of Commerce Building
Gave you these tips. Listed Etocks bought and sold on commission. Oct
clients have made money.
Orepron Phone Clay 833. Columbia Phone B50
: 0 o gp J
20 years that the birds had been bo abun
dant or of so many species as they may
be seen this year. In the want oC any
other reason to account for tho welcome
change. It seems fair to assume that the
New England laws for the protection of
Insectivorous birds are beginning to have
some effect.
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
At tho regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Helena Mining
Company, held at their office. No. 112
Sherlock building, Portland, Or., on the
18th day of August, 1900, dividend No. 5,
of c per share on the capital stock of
the company was declared, payable Au
gust 25, 1900. The transfer books of the
company close August 24 and reopen Au
gust 28, 1900. R. J. Jenninga, Secretary of
Helena Mining Company.
Repartee. Observing the manager of the
drug department, the woman accosted him. in
a spirit of badinage. "I have kleptomania,"
she said. "What would you advls me to
take?" "The elevator, by all means' said
the manager wittily. "And not something Just
as good?" exclaimed the woman, affecting
prpat surprise. Detroit Journal.
The Oregon Mining
Stock Exchange
Auditorium. Chamber of Commerce Bldg..
V. O. box 070. Portland, Or.
Open call every day at 10:30 A. M.
Phone Main 310. Oregon. Columbia Main 230.
J. E. Haseltine. Pres.: David Goodseil.
Treas.; F. J. Hard. Sec. '
Directors L. G. Clarke, J. E. Haseltine. Da.
vld Goodsell. P. J. Jennings. X. O. Davidson.
J. L. Hartman. E. A. Clem.
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