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THE SUNDAY OBEGONIAN, PORTLAlsT), APRIL ,29, 1900.
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YIELD OF GOLD BELT
Estimate for Eastern Oregon
Put at Nearly $5,000,000.
NEW MACHINERY IS GOING IN
Mining Engineers Give Opinions ot
the Gold Zone and Copper Depos
its Process of Eight Month.
BAKER CITY. April 2S. According to
the latest' estimate of Secretary O. L.
Miller.. of .the Chamber of Commerce, the
output of 'the Eastern Oregon sold fields,
present and prospective. Is put at J4.9.0,
009 annually. The actual output Is &.
000. Of this amount, the regular produc
ers, representing 135 stamps, and the
North ' Pole cyanide plant, are credited
with $1,430,000. The Irregular producers
are given $175,000 a year. They Include
GoM Hill. Gold Ridge. Flagstaff, Virtue
Collateral, Imperial. Ohio, Sanger. Rob-blnS-Elkhorn,
and a large number of
mines which are In process of develop
ment, and which ship ore in Summer.
New minea with machinery represent S3
stamps and an estimated output of $1,200.
009. Mines which are putting In machin
ery are to have 110 stamps, and It Is es
timated that they will add $1,530,009 to
the annual' output of gold. The placers
are supposed to be good for $600,000 a year.
The Old Reliables.
The mines classed as regular producers,
their equipment, ore values and output
follow:
Caradtr. Value Annual
Name. stamps, of ore. output.
Bonanza 40 $12 00 $ 400,000
KM Boy 30 12 00 300.000
.Columbia 10 IS 00 100.(00
North Pole 10 10 00 100,000
GolconJa SO SO HO 100.000
Badger SO 15 00 100.000
Union Companion. .SO 12 00 110.000
BalslcyvElkhora ...SO 10 O0 1SO.000
Conner Creek 35 10 00 100.000
Total
.$1,450,000
Cj-atrfae.
The Xevr Mines.
The new mines with mills are:
. Capacity. Av. VsL Annual
Name. stamps, of ore. output.
Little Giant ....S0 $10 00 $ 3OO.0U0
Mar Queen 10 12 00 1GO.0O0
Mamolls 10 10 00 300.000
"ur 35 10 00 350.003
Hehner A Nlm...10 10 00 100.009
Sfarr & Etarter ...10 10 00 100.000
"Itetal
.$1,300,000
Estimated output.
Machinery Going In.
New mines soon to have machinery and
the amount of gold they are expected to
produce are:
... Capacity. Value Annual
Name. sumps, of ore. output.
Jan Anda so $10 00 $ 300.000
5?X ".V M S00l 300.000
Mammoth io n oo 150.000
? JO 13 00 150.000
?,l" JO 10 00 100.000
Tom Payne 10 15 00 1SO0O0
Pocahontas Bflle...l0 13 00 J5O0OT
EmPT 10 10 00 looiooo
Total ..
$1,630,000
The Pincers.
The placer output Is thus summarized:
The placer output is sold to local buy
ers, bankers and brokers, or shipped to
the assay office at San Francisco. Seattle
or Boise:
Local buyers buy per annum, arproxl-rS."t-:"C-"-"i--"""
,$100,000
m.tiTw- J annum, approxl-
mately
Amujt to away oflice 'by 'miners.'
iOO.OOO
100,000
Total
snmrmn
A large quantity Is not sold in this
way. but is converted Into Jewelry, souve-
niri, etc
Snmmnrj-.
&,aronpocesn,rr..'?..T.?t,on'"c
New mine, with mills estimaleu" 1 200 000
tS !" a to bve ml" i:
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3?,! ,fo"olns fact and" what follows
JP?.m I ncvr materU which Secre
tarj MlUer has prepared for the revised
edition of 'Commercial Report of the
Eastern Oregon Gold Fields." This pam
phlet was widely circulated In the United
States and England, and the demand
riirJi ' '""necessitated the new edition.
Opinions of the gold fields by prominent
engineers are an excellent feature. George
Gordon McNamara writes:
Gold-Benrlng Zones.
i',th0!i?h tfce m,nera country Imme
diately adjacent to Baker City has a great
variety of valuable metals and other
products besides gold and silver, namely,
rdckcl cobalt, chromium, copper, cinna
bar, and also sodium and phosphates (the
latter in the form of apaUte ore). I shall
however, confine my remarks to briefly
outlining the different gold-bearing zones
of this and adjacent districts.
K.30.ihi,eaSt Cf Baker Clty- the cow
bearing belt commences almost at the city
limit, and extends to the north and east
for a distance of from 40 to 50 miles. In
this territory are located such producers
as the Virtue. Collateral, Flagstaff, Car
roll B.; and it also includes the copper
bearing belt known as the Copper Butte
District, which Is now giving promise
of rivaling the Lake Superior mines, the
ores being of the same nature and charac
ter. It Is true that many of three mines,
and also many valuable prospects, are
lying Idle, but they are only awaiting
capital and Intelligent management to bo
made valuable producers.
To the nest of this city He the mines
of the Elkhorn Range. The gold-bearing
belt commences about four miles from
Baker City, extending to the southeast
several miles, and to the northwest over
20 miles. This magnificent and pictur
esque range, with an altitude of over
10.000 feet above sea level, and some COOO
feet above the surrounding country. Is
creased and furrowed by Innumerable
gulches, many of which yielded richly In
placer gold to the pioneer of this ejctlon
of the country. Even now, the bars and
hillsides are being worked successfully by
hydraulics. The gold-bearing veins of
quartz commence near the valley paral
leling the mountain, and extend to the
summit and many miles bejond. The
Balsley-Elkhorn, which has probably pro
duced more money for Its owners than
any other mine In Oregon, Is located In
thef e mountains, as are also the Robblns
Elkhorn, the Balsley Gold Mining Com
pany's group, the Sherman group, and
many other valuable mines and pros
pects. "Near the crest of the mountain, and
eoroe five miles to the southwest from the
Balsley-Elkhorn, is the now famous
Cracker Creek District, in which are lo
cated the North Pole, Columbia. Eureka
and Excelsior. Golconda and many other
valuable properties. ecral of which are
palng handsome dividends to their own
ers. "The limited space you awarded me will
not permit my giving any detailed de
, scrlptlon of the mines near Sunpter,
Granite, Canyon City, Prairie City and
Susamlllc. where are located such dividend-payers
as the Bonanza, Red Boy.
Cougar. May Queen, Little Giant. Golden
Eagle and Magnolia, and such well-known
prospects as the Van Auda, Ibex. South
Cougar and Maiden's Dream, all of which
have been sufficiently developed to war
rant the Immediate erection of machinery,
and, are de&tlned to be classed among the
producers of this part of Eastern Ore
gon. "The general formation of, tbe above
described districts Is slate, porphyry and
granite; with occasional belts of lime'
fcchLst and phonollte. The ores, as a'rule.
are of the free-milling clacs, though In
many Instances they mergo Into sulphur
els as depth is obtained. However, In
most Instances, when this change takes
place, the gold value of the ore lncreaieu
very materially. In many cases there aro
associated with the quartz, stringers and
bunches of tellurium, sllvanlte and nagya
glte. These last-mentioned ores are In
every way similar to the Cripple Creek
deposits, and are generally amenable to
the cyanide treatment.
"I have found In my general conversa
tion with prospectors of the above dis
tricts, that, as a rule they are willing
to give a liberal part of their holdings to
parties having sufficient money to, de
velop their claims. The writer of this
article stands ready to answer any com
munications In regard to this last state
ment." Copper Deposits.
J. N. Esseltyn writes:
while the country tributary to Baker
City, and. In fact, the whole of Eastern
Oregon, has for years been locally recog
nized as a great mineral belt, yet It Is
only In the past few years that It has
attracted tbe attention of outside capi
tal; and as the result today we find pay
ing mines being operated In any direction
we may choose to go from Baker City.
While the "gold fields In the vicinity of
Baker City have attracted the greatest at
tention, yet w-e find very rich copper de
posita which 'are attracting more and mora
attention every day. The copper depos
its of the district are of two distinct
classes, namely, copper ores and native
. copper. Tne ores are principally the eul
I phldes and oxide of copper, varying some-
wnai in tneir percentages of copper. Some
of the most prominent of the copper ore
deposits are to be found to the east along
the Snake River) where largo veins of
high-grade copper ores have been opened;
also at Copper Butte, 3. miles ,to the
northeast of Baker City, and another
large deposit Is being 'developed about M
miles northwest of Baker City; while In
the main range of, the Blue Mountains
only five miles from Sumpter, a deposit
of copper ore has recently been discov
ered. Also at Copperopolls, south of the
Greenhorn Mountains, are many well-defined
ledges of copper ore. All of the
above ores are smelting ores, and In the
same districts are- found large deposits of
limestone, and Iron ore for fluxing these
ores; all of which points' to a very pros
perous future for the smelter.
"Native copper Is found about three
miles from Granite, along Clear Creek;
also about 18 mVes , northeast of Baker
City. This district to of a basaltic form
ation, with zones of amygdaloid, carrying
native copper. These amygdaloldal depos
its are the same as the amygdaloldal de
posits of the Lake Superior copper region,
upon which are located the Qulncy, Pe
wablc. Franklin. Arnold, Wslverlne. and
many other of the famous' copper-producing
mines of tbe Lake Superior country.
For the year lS39the Qulncy mln stamped
&59.1S4 tons of rock, from which It obtained
25.6 pounds of refined copper per ton of
rock, or 12.8 per cent. With this produc
tion, the Qulncy paid $950,000 in dividends
to Its stockholders, and spent over $400,
000 In the construction of a new stamp
mill and other Improvements.
"The amygdaloldal copper deposits of
Baker County will necessarily have to car
ry a larger percentage of metallic copper
than the Lake Superior mines In order
to make them a paying proposition, on ac
count of the higher prices of labor, fuel,
supplies, water supply, freight rates, etc
if the work which Is now being carried
on In this great copper belt In Baker
County will develop an ore body from
which can be extracted not lees than 1K8
tons per day,, and carrying 3 per cent
metallic copper, I believe It can be made
to pay large dividends, and Oregon will
soon be classed among the copper-producing
states of the country."
IVealth of the Gold belt.
The values which Secretary Miller gives
of products of the territory tributary to
Baker City show that the country Is not
dependent upon mines alone, though gold
Is the principal Item. The grand total of
production of all commodities. Including
the yield of mines which will soon begin
dropping stamps, to estimated at $6,631,
30 per annum. On the basis of a popu
lation of 13.000. this Is $300 for every man,
woman and child In the county. The
summary of all the products Is:
Total value of farm products $ 007.850
Total value or lumDer ............ 4zu,ikju
Total value of livestock 489,000
Total value of wool 100,000
Gold and other metals 4.875.000
Total $6,681,850
Agriculture, stockraising and lumbering
add $1,706,850 annually to the wealth of
the gold region. In detail the produc
tion is:
Quantity. Price. Value.
UTieat, bushels.... 310.000 $ 0.50 $ 105.000
Oats 150.000 .40 C0.000
Barley and rye.... 85 000 .50 4T.500
Potatoes 200.000 .09 120.00(1
Hay. tons 50.000 COO 300.000
Apples, pears, etc.. 100.000 .50 50.000
Butter, cheese, lbs. 100,000 .25 25.000
Lumber, feet JO. 000.000 14.00 4S0.O00
Wool, poimds 1,000.000 .10 100.000
Cattle, shipped,
slaughtered 12,250 35.00 423,750
Hoitf. shipped.
slaughtered 4.450 S.00 35,000
Horses, shipped ... 500 30.09 15,000
Total $1,708,864
Wages and Values.
Tillable land In Baker County. 333.490
acres. Number of horses and mules. JS,
360; cattle. 209.132; sheep. 65,500; hogs, 2DS0.
There are 97 miles of railroad, and 67
miles of telephone line In Baker County.
Lumber, wool, sheep, cattle, horses and
the products of tho gold and silver mines.
Butter, eggs, flour; cured meat, fresh
and canned fruit, vegetables, poultry,
hogs, cheese and canned goods.
All of the above-named articles are pro
duced of the choicest quality In the Ba
ker City gold fields, but the supply Is not
equal to (he demand, and hundreds of
carloads are annually Imported.
Common labor Is paid from $1 50 to $2 per
day, or from $25 to $40 and board per
month for farmhands and sheepherders.
Miners and mlllhands get from $2 59 to
$3 per day, and usually pay $1 per day for
board.
Stagcdrlvers and teamsters receive from
$30 to $69 and board per month.
Clerks and bookkeepers are paid, ac
cording to the importance of their work,
from $39 to $100 per month.
A five-room house In Baker City rents
for from $10 to $15 per month. Beef,
mutton, pork and dressed chickens sell
for from 10 cents to 20 cents per pound.
Vegetables from 1 cent to 2 cents per
pound. Dry goods, etc, can be purchased
at from 10 per cent to 30 per cent higher
than In Middle or Eastern States.
Farm land, well situated, within 10 miles
of Baker, with good improvements, can
be purchased for from $25 to $40 per acre.
Unimproved land, without water right,
can be purchased for from $2 to $6 pet
acre. The value'of the land depends much
upon the water right for Irrigation.
Without a water right the land has little
or no value. There Is no T3overnme"nt land
for entry In Eastern Oregon, except arid
lands, much of which will have to await
the construction ,of large canals for Irri
gation. There are large areas of free pas
ture lands In the foothills.
Frogrcss In Eight Months.
In the preface to tr-e first edition of
the Commercial Report, published lart
August. Secretary Miller ventured this
conservative observation of conditions:
"Many mines have been mentioned by
namo only, eome not at all, while thou
sands of partially developed properties
have been grouped under the title of pros
pects. Space will not admit of greater
detail than is here given, but the author
believes sufficient has been stated to dem
onstrate the presence of great natural re
sources, a virgin sell and an ideal territory
alike for the prospector, the Investor, the
tradesman and the farmer, watered by
rivers flowing over strandti of gold, from
tho eternal snow1 of the .Blue .Mountains,
crossed by a transcontinental railway,
mountains covered with a forest of merch.
actable Umber, ribbed with ledges of gold
bearing quartz, foothills covered with pas.
turo for etock and yerdant valleys where
may'be seen In their season fields o'f wav
ing grain and grass and "orchards of lus
cious fruit It is not an Eden. It Is not a
Paradise, but It is a land where honest
I industry and Judicious Investment will reap
a fair reward."
This Is what the secretary has to say In
I his preface to the new edition:
I "Since writing tho above Introduction,
1 great progress has been made in all Unu
of Industry. Many properties have been
I developed, prospects have become mines
I and dividend paying mines have doubled
In number, while hundreds of new prop
erties have been developed past the pros
pective stage. And although mining has
received Its full share of attention, other
Industries- have not fallen behind. Tho
Sumpter Valley Railway Company has
purchased 16,000 acres of timber on the
headwaters of Burnt River and will ex
tend Its road Into thin flno belt of yel
low pine timber and Into the new mining
districts this season. Farming, fruitgrow
ing and stockratolnsT have kept pace with
the progress In other Mnes of Industry.
The Immigrants are not all miners, but
farmers, fruitgrowers and stockralsers are
coming; many new homes have been pur
chased, new farms opened, buildings con
structed, better breeds of stock Intro
duced and new orchards planted. The
growth of business at the centers of trade
and the building of new camps has sur
passed the most sanguine expectations.
Expansion has been the business man's
'watchword during the year Just past, and
'dig deep Is the muwnr motto. Gold
and copper, copper and gold, with fields
of golden grain and orchards of delicious
fruit, with forests of stately pines and a
thousand halls where roam herds of cattle
and -horses and droves of sheep, such are
tho Eastern' Oregon- gold fields."
FOR ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION
The Ship Which Will Be Dalit for
the Royal Geographical Society.
The "task of designing a ship for the
British expedition of 1901 was intrusted by
the Royal Geographical Society to a chief
constructor for the Admiralty, and the
work of building will be committed to a
Dundee company, which has achieved
great triumphs In the construction of whal
ers. She will be almost entirely of oak.
and the wood Is now being selected with
special care. Her sheathing will be of
greenheart. and, like the German vessel,
she will be still further strengthened by
.
Ship (or the British Antarctic Ex
pedition. Interior bracing, to withstand the pressure
of the Ice, which Is the most serious dif
ficulty to be anticipated. The ship will
be a trifle larger than that of the German
expedition. Her length Is to be 172 feet,
her beam 33, and her draught 16. She
will be bark rigged, and have engines of
450-horsepower. Many features of the
vessel will have special reference to the
exceptional work to be undertaken. A
powerful winch for operating the deep-sea
dredging apparatus will be provided. A
magnetic observatory, with no Iron or steel
within 30 feet of It, will be established on
board. There will be means for lifting the
rudder and propeller when the heavy Ice
is encountered, and ror replacing them
when the ship Is again free. An asbestos
cold-proof, lining for the deck and a huge
felt blanket big enough to encompass the
whole ship In case of wintering In the
Antarctic, are among the other novelties
contemplated.
When Joe Jefferson "Guyed.'
Success.
The Impression Is current in theatrical
circles that Mr. Jefferson never guys. He
Is a stickler for professional etiquette. It
Is true, and tries to mold his company
Into one harmonious picture. Into a per
fect machine. But there was one night
upon which he yielded to the temptation
to guy. It was during a performance of
"The Rivals," In which his matchless por
trayal of Bob Acres proceeded smoothly
until the scene Is reached In which Folk
land. Captain Absolute and Bob Acres have
a wordy altercation. At thin point the
actor playing Falkland ranted violently,
raised his voice to an unnecessary pitch,
and finally. In a burst of anger, slammed
a door as he made his exit. It Is part
of the business"-for Captain Absolute to
say at this Juncture. "Poor Falkland 1"
He did so. and Mr. Jefferson promptly re
plied. "The poorest I ever caw!"
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
THE POrtTLAND.
Wb F Jacobs. San Fr
T B McGottrn. N y
Adam S Collins. 8 F
Lewis Hall & wife,
Welser, Idaho
E Waldo Ward. N T
J M Gamble. N X
M J Grammant. Chgo
B B Hicks. Seattle
P J Tormey. San Fr
T J Beaumont. St Joe
W McMullen. Boston
IH L Uonhelmer. digs
it iieea, Cleveland
has Davis. New York.
A C Youmans, Buffalo
A n Jacobs, Oregn Cy
Geo L DUlman. do
It E Colby. Portland
G Norma. ToVlo. Japan
A W Brown. New Trk
L Kletn. San Fran
-pi vieo u jteuer, u
S N
Mrs J P Fleltz. Detroit
A M Grant. Denver
miss fieitz. Detroit
Geo L Fleltz. Detroit
Mr A Mrs II P Whit
airs a M Grant. Denvr
W Clarke. Chicago
II Fels. Chleazu
mors & child. Omaha
Philip 1 Fisher. San Fr
Mrs it A Fisher. S F
G H Stellg. Victoria
J II Morris, wf & 3 ch.
city
Miss Elliott, city
Edgar B lper & w, do
B G West. Chlcaro
a r-ranaenDurr, K r
Augustus Ehle & wf,
Chicago
Y S Native &. w. B F
J S Levr. San Fran
Ezra E Kirk. Tolrdo.O
Mrs M a uorr,nocc
ter. N Y
D W Conr. do
D McGarrlty. San Ft
J E Serve, New l'ork
II JI Western!!. Seattl
t N Ketchum. Chicago
Morris II Paige, do
F E liojd. San "ran
G Iloseneranta. hail Vr
W E Clark. New York
Airs iiums a child.
Spokane
Miss Wlnnlfred Qulg-
!ey. Chicago
J S Kloeber. Seattle
H Rort. San Fran
Max Lufddeman. An
telope. Or ,
Go Spaugenberg, Den
ver, coio
L II ridding N y
It II Thompson, Chgo
THE PEItKINS.
H J Russell. San Fr
Laura Nichols. Eagls
Cliff
W L Connelly. Chgo
J J Llston. Detrott
J B Wilson. Seattle
E S Gordon. San Joso
E S Moulton. do
O H Flthlan. Chicago
E V llomerer. Seattlo
P J Goodman. Astoria
Fred Bowler. Astoria
P Conn. 8lrterton. Or
Wm E Mourer. Seattle
a u I'atton. Salrm
J E Reeves. Cornelius
P F Halferty, Warren
ton. Or
E Kawllns. Seattle
Geo W Chapman, do
R C MacAlllster. do
J Issaes. San Fran
Mrs B Rosenthal. S F
E S Dickey, Kallspel.
Mont
J II Cook. Cooksburg.
iWm Itldpath. Spokane
ix j jvursiy, apoicane
R R Ervln. Hood Klver
D W Ward, M D.Sump-
ter. Or
Thos F Baylies. Omaha
S J Oliver. Omaha
A W Gunnison, San Fr
ra
T 11 Smith. Omaha
Geo B Lardner, Au- IT J Reagan. Seattle
burn. Cat
E T Eunhrat- San Fr
B C Qulgley. Seattle
F N Jones. DalltS
James M Berry, city
Dr A F Knowles,
Clatskanle
Mrs A F Knowles. do
B F Mulkey. Monmth
I! E McGowan, Puyal-
lup. Wash
II S Rowe. Norris &
Howe's Show
Miss Katie Borgsrdlnff,
Melrose,. Minn
Mrs C C Bchoener. do
J B McCann. Reedrllle
Airs ii h- aiuikey. us
M.F Hardcjty. AstortalJ W Karsteter, do
F Harter, Dalles
W F Carter. Yancoavrf
'M DIUIhorn. Oregoa C ,Dr F R Hays. BrldalVl
Ike Rosenblatt, ban Fr!
C M Owen. Astoria
wm Holder. Mora. Or
G Farley, wife & ry.
The Dalles
Mrs Geary. June City
Geo E Reynolds, Ta-
coma
W G Hoptins.Abcrdcn
C C Haynes, Forest Gr
D Hood, city
A E KIncald. Seattlo
C McDanlels, Chicago
THE IMPERIAL.
C W. Knotrles. Manager.
II M Cockerllnc, Eu- IH B Wallace, Baker C
gene. Or Mrs Wallace. do
L A McNary. city H C Judson. city
I L Weil, city iR S Willard, Demer
E B Sharp, SacramntojMrs Willard, Denver
B A McNaughton. Ch;. Grant Mays. Dalles
Mrs McNaughton. do I Fred Oerr. Salera
ti it ureen, Seattle j a Mt. San Fran
Mrs Green. Seattle
,w II Walters. Butte
P Hendricks. Seattle
B L Conror, Tacoma
Mrs Conror. Tacoma
C A Datu. Lewis Co.
Wash
Arthur C Lawrence.
city
W D Joiner. San Fni
uia nrro. uu.ia
W E Yates. Corvallls
B G Petschnlcoff.Sump-
ter
Mrs Petschnlcoff. do
H T McKlnlcy. LaCroes
W Bohm. W Superior
Mli" E Saltzman. Eu.
B T Babcock, Spokane
Mrs Baocock. do
E W Parks. Seattle
gene, ur
II Harklns. Seattle (Torn II Hojnn. Salem
II A Gaffrney. Pcndltn'H G Smith. Astoria
Mrs Gaffrney. do tMrs Smith. Astoria
H Logan. The Dalles A Lake, Astoria
E W Dacgett,ArllngtniD Marx. Astoria
Mrs Daggett. do 1L Glgnac, Astoria
F P Kendall. Astoria I
Hotel Donnelly, Tncoraa.
European plan: headquarters for com
mercial men. Chllberg's restaurant In
connection.
LAST OF FORT WARNER
WAS BUILT BY GENERAL CROOIC
YEARS AGO.
lie Occupied It a Few Years Before
Going to Vancouver An Old
Chimney Lett.
LAKEVIEW. Or.. April 26. Historic old
Fort 'Warner. In this county, about 40
miles north from Lakevlew, will soon De
no more. The Government Is preparing
t to move the bodies of tbe soldiers buried
J In the little cemetery on a hill overlooking
I the grounds, the parade grounds are being
made Into a garden by a rancher who has
homestcaded the property, the logs for
merly constituting the walls of tbe bun-lings
have been hauled away and only one
chimney remains standing to mark the
site of the old fort, and It happens to be
the chimney to the quarters once occu
pied by General Crook; all the other chim
neys have fallen down. This one will
soon fall, too, for the mortar has fallen
out from between the huge square
stones, and the chimney already shows
signs of toppling over.
Old Fort Warner was established 33
years ago. David R. Jones, now of Lake
view, was there, familiar with all of the
Incidents of the times, a personal friend
of General Crook, and knew every man
In the command.
Fort Warner eat upon a small, rich
basin of land, entirely surrounded by
mountains. It can only be approached
after climbing mountains, and. In every
direction save one. It requires a steep
climb to get out of the basin. The fort
was In close gun range to the tops of
mountains on nearly every side. It looks
like the last place on earth tor a fort,
and Is so generally regarded by the
stranger, for It looks as if the Indians
could have combined and approached from
every direction and massacred the occu
pants of the fort with ease. But Mr. Jones
snis that General Crook was not afraid
of Indians. Tbe fort was doubtless locat
ed there for convenience to timber and
water, for a great spring bolls out of the
ground, and the mountains aro covered
with large pine trees.
Stone Bridge Across the Lake.
General Steele, who was in charge at
Vancouver, located the site of the fort
In 1SC3. The Piutes and Snake Indians
were on the warpath and playing havoc
with the whites In this country from
Harney Lake, in Lassen County, Califor
nia, to Snake River, fn Idaho. Lake Coun
ty was the center of their base. Two
companies, under Captain Collins, left
Boise, Idaho. In 1S66 and arrived on the
shores of Lake Warner, 25 miles from the
site selected for the fort. In the Spring
time. They could not cross the lake, and
moved back eight miles and went Into per
manent camp. That Winter Colonel Mar
shall. In command at Boise, was relieved
by General Crook, who Immediately set
out In person with two companies on a
scouting expedition In this country.
Wherever he found, Indians there was a
fight. If the Indians would stand. lis
reached Camp Warner early In 1S67, and,
finding that they had not gone to the place
selected for the fori, on account of the
lake, said he would find a way. He left
a small garrison at the camp and came
upon the shore of Lake Warner and fol
lowed It until he found a place only 300
yards wide. It was very deep, but here he
decided to cross. There was no timber,
but the desert was lined with rock. He
opened quarries and began hauling rock
and dumping them Into the lake. He man.
aged to get about half of his command
across the lake and they began dump
ing rock from the other side. Within
three months he had a fill acros this
narrow point sufficient to drive loaded
wagons across, and It Is used today as a
wagon road, and is known as "General
Crook's stone bridge."
The elte was reached and Fort Warner
established In July. 1S6T. Sawmills were
built, houses erected, and In ,a few
months Fort Warner was a well equipped
fort. La Grande, Or., was the base of
supplies, and, with 23 teams, consisting
of 222 oxen, and 23 drivers, two herders
and an escort, Mr. Jones brought the
first load of grain through from La
Grande, using 47 wagons and requiring six
weeks' time.
There were five companies of soldiers
and 60 private citizens employed at the
fort.
Bat One Serloas Fight.
During General Crook's command of
the fort, there was but one serious fight
with the Indians, a-t that settled the
trouble with them. He had two faithful
scout Archie Mcintosh and Donald Mc
Kay. These discovered the Indians camped
in the forks of the Dunder and BUtzen
River, near Stein's Mountain. General
Crook Immediately went to the point, sur
prised the Indians' and practically wiped
the band from the face of the earth, kill
ing and capturing what did not plunge Into
the turbid river to drown or escape, and
destroyed everything In camp.
The surrender of all the hostile Indians
followed In the Fall of the same year. It
was perfected In a peculiar manner. The
scout. Mcintosh, had married a squaw,
and he and his wife left the fort and went
among the Indians, and in a week's timo
arranged the terms of the surrender. In
two weeks' time the Indians came In and
laid down their guns, and General Crook
began feeding them and kept It up as
long as he was there. They 6tIU linger
about that country and Fort Bldwell,
where the numbers are decreasing yearly,
and they will soon be extinct.
When they came in they crossed the
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long stone bridge In single file, and Gen- I
eral Crook had Mr. Jopes kill some I
oxen, which the hungry Indians fell upon I
and devoured like beasts.
General Crook was soon called to Van- i
couver, on account of the death of Gen- I
eral Steele, and all of the soldiers, except I
a. sman garrison, leu we tort in 1873 ana
went to the seat of the Modoc War. In
the Spring of 1S74, the fort was aban
doned entirely. Hundreds of old stoves
and miscellaneous traps still mark the
quarters of the different departments, but
the chimney to the quarters of General
Crook only remains.
There were IS soldiers and one woman
buried In thu cemetery. The woman was
the wife of Captain Pollock. The fence
around her grave Is all that remains
standing. The wooden slabs put at th
heud of the soldiers' graves have all fallen
down and been moved about until no one
can tell where thev Ulnnv nni
names remain uneffaced on these slabs. A
Ud In tho r-nlrh mit r-n , ..!
there Is an old cabin with a dirt floor. In
the center Is a mound. This contains
the dUSt Of An nlrf tmnrw IT. V..1 V
requested by the soldiers to come Into the
l fort. H w.1 nnl ?.-. -. Tai .
" - w .a.u v. iuuuqs. trns
morning they found him, near his cabin,
scalped. They buried him under his own
roof.
DAILY CITY STATISTICS.
Real Estate Transfers.
He:
ji T,-. " -ft " ". ana M, Oracle
hS, Fulton Park; April IT.:.... S
Isabella Klrkman to Fulton Park
77"$ PP-J01 7 9. 10. U, 12, 13,
H block 82. Fulton Pari; Aliril a
i I; palne to same, lots 2, Ci. 6.
f. block 83, lots 5. 6, 7, 8, , btock
io Fulton Park; April 25....'....
o. it. Lombard to same, blocks 78.
8L S3. 86. 90. M. S2; lots 7 to 13' i
SuslJe;. bJ?clt raL "Hso Part ol
block IOC, Fulton Park; April 17
Southwest Portland Real Estate Co"
to H. L. PIttock. block 84. and
ftJ' J- " J0- ". U IS and ul
block 85; October 6, 1M7
,,W;,IJJPa.tt u J- Edwards, lots
13, 11, block 8. Proebstel's subdi
vision; April 27
-. J- Smlthson to Nancy Smlthson.
lot 2, block 9, North Albina; April
ZSse... .
M. E. Smlthson to Nancy "'SmiuU
son. N. block 2, and N. of
lots L 2, block 4. subdivision of
TJv.eSJ,ew" Adala: April 26
Lydte Buckman to Laura Buckman,
.. . uiock ii. i,yaia UUCK
man's Addition; also 0x100 East
Flanders and East Nineteenth
streets; April 19 2.500
JuUa D. Church and Charles P.
Church to Walter B. Preston, N.
10x110 feet at NW. corner of Mont
gomery and Sixteenth streets; April
19 300
Albert A. Krumrey and wife to Fin
ley C. Malcolm, lots 17. 18. 19, 20.
block 6, Peninsular Addition No.
2; April 27 M
Clara V. Kummer and husband to
D. W. IJams. lots 18. 19, 20. block
4S. University Park; April 20 5
Amelia Zimmerman and husband to
James L. Tlndall and Maggie Tin
dall, lots 7, 8, 13. 14, block U, Ports
mouth Park; subsequently lots 13,
14. 15. 16. 25, 26. 27. block U. Col
lege riace; April ii 70a
Jung Sam to D. P. Thompson, un
divided V, of lots 4. E. 7. and the
S. Vt of lot 6. block 12L Couch Ad
dition; April 24 1,533
Sheriff for H. A. Hogue et aL to
Wm. M. Ladd et al., blocks 9. 10.
and S. block 25. East Portland;
also adjoining land 30x230; also
water rights; April 24 43,189
Title Guarantee & Trust Co. to Ful
ton Park Land Co., blocks 87, SS,
S3. Fulton Park; April 19 1
Portland Traction Co. to Portland
Railway Co.. block L Market
Street Addition, with power-house,
machinery, etc; also all railway
track (about 7 miles described)
formerly belonging to Portland Ca
ble Railway Co.; rolling stock, etc.;
April IS 10
Balldlng Permit.
Estate of M. W. Fechhelmer, for ex
cavation of the corner at Seventh and
Washington streets, 82000 preparatory to
building.
Contagions Diseases.
Cora Mellon, age 1 year, 273 North Six
teenth street, measles.
Frank Fields, Good Samaritan Hospital,
typhoid fever.
r Marrlsffs T.feens.s. .
7:Albert J. Gratton, aged 22. Sarah C
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Deaths.
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enemy of the people's best interests, and
to win they must unite under one banner.
This Is being done all over the state and
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March "Knlirh!i Tem-nlar" AhM
J Danse a la Turque "The Sultan"
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Waltzes "Doux Teux" Wadsworth
Selection "Jaclnta" Robyn,
Caprice "Shadow Ballet" Bendlx
March "The Man Behind the Gun".Sousa,
Overture "Oberon" Von Weber
"Patronlllo Enfantme" Gillet
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Scenes from "L'Africalne" Meyerbeer
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