The Corvallis gazette., August 12, 1898, Image 4

WEALTH OF
Ten to Fifteen Millions of Dollars Will Be Cleaned Up This Year Dawson City,
With Ten Thousand People, Is the Greatest Mining Camp in the World
The Greatest Known Gravel Deposit What the Districts Show.
The ontpnt ot the mines of the Yu
kon district thia year, while it has
readied between $10,000,000 and 15,
000,000, has disappointed eeen the
nioro conservative estimates made last
fall, and based on the prospects then
existing. Three things hare contrib
uted to shorten this spring's clean np
The Canadian royalty, lack of men and
lack of strengthening food. 'One of the
most prominent civil engineers on the
Pacitic coast, who has spent this winter
in the mines, has said
"Considering the fact that less than
2,000 poorly fed men have gotten out
this winter almost $15,000,000, the
Klondike has made a showing that
entitles it to consideration as the
greatest gravel deposit in extent and
richness in the world. The placer
mines of California in early days are
its only rivals."
The great riches of claims on French.
Chief, Little and Big Skookum gulches
are the wonder of mining men in the
interior of Alaska. A claim owner on
French gulch offers a standing bet of
$20,000 that he can rock out of his
claim, single-handed, $5,000 on any
given day. The benches are old river
beds, which have been broken up by an
eruption of the earth. A continuation
of the old river bed has been found near
Hunker creek, and while little prospect
ing has been done, it is thought that it
will turn ont very well.
Eldorado and Bonanza creeks have
proven all that was expected of them.
Much more could be seen in aotuai re
sults if the clean-up had been completed
this spring. Bnt hope that the roy
alties may be called off, and the
early drying up of the watei which
oould be used in sluicing, has caused
many big claim owners to leave about a
third of the dirt taken out on the
dump. The wash-up has been com
pleted on very few claims, and on
fewer still can a statement be obtained
as to the real amount of the clean-up.
This makes it impossible to state posi
tively the output of the mines.
Of the less known streams, Dominion
creek is giving evidence of mineral de
posits which may make it known as the
richest strike yet made. The conflict
of claims, owing to the two discoveries
allowed, is about settled, and there is
nothing to interfere with the develop
ment of the mines.- Hunker oreek is
rich in placer, but, unlike the rest of
the country,- is spotted. Gold Bottom
is not turning out as well as expected.
Ajny other creeks which promise well
have not been sufficiently developed to
make an estimate of their wealth safe.
So many' are the disadvantages in
mining in the Northwest territory that
otturitiiiii la hairier nrn'it mnrA . 1 i r t -i I i I
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to mines on the American side. It is
believed that many surprises are in
tire in this direction. Forty-mile
creek has been relocated and many new
ciaiins recorded. Chicken creek, which
has been known for the last two years,
but not worked, will be developed this
year. Canyon, Nugget gulch and
f ranklin creeks and the Dais on orty
mile wiio word by the hydraulic
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and you '11 get your money's worth. The 10-cent piece of Battle Ax
is larger than the 10-cent piece of any other brand of the same high
quality, and is the largest piece of really good chewing tobacco that
is sold for 10 cents.
Remember the name
when you buy again
THE YUKON.
at the month of the river within two
years.
American creek, 40 miles down from
Forty-mile, is known as good; the
ground is high and well laid ont. Pans
are taken running from 60 cents to $5.
The Misson creek district has three
formations placer, quartz and coal.
At its mouth is Eagle City, in which
will be established the United States
barracks and the custom house.
Twenty miles below Eagle City is
Star City,, guarding the month of Seventy-mile
river. The bars of this rive
has been worked for many years. On
Barney creek, from three to six ounces
to the day has been taken for the last
three years. The other tributaries are
as good as Barney, but it is only now,
when people ate spreading ont, that
much work will be done. A number
of men are now at Star City getting
their outfits np to the mines.
From Seventy-mile to Circle City
has been prospected, and creeks are
found here and there which give good
indications. Coal and Sheep creeks
promise especially well, and also the
Charley river.
Circle City has been practically de
serted since the rush to Dawson but the
riches of Mastodon, Independence,
Eagle, Dead wood and a dozen lesser
gnlohee in the Biroh creek district
will revive the town. A moderate
fortune can be made in that district
in two years of hard work. Miners are
returning to Birch oreek from Dawson.
They appreciate a district in which
there is no royalty, no wood and log
tax and no timber grants.
Across from Circle" City is Jefferson
oreek, which 1b now being prospected
for Its whole length. It will be cheap
ly worked, because of being bo readily
accessible to the Yukon river.
Further down is the Minook creek
district, which has been thoroughly
advertised this year. It has developed
some claims which have paid $27,000,
$25,000 and $15,000 for the winter's
work. The country is to a great extent
an unknown quantity. The discovery
of Idaho bar, from which men have
taken out $100 a day with a rocker, is a
great boom for the district, and the
prospects of the camp are extremely
bright.
A gieat country will be opened up
in the Kovukuk, It has been known
to miners for 10 years, and no pros
pector who went in there has failed
to bring out a good grubstake. The
territory to be worked is of a vast ex
tent, and offers many opportunities to
the new comer. Tnnana, Knskoquim
and Chandler rivers have all been
brought prominently to the notice of
mining men this year. All things con
sidered, the American side would seem
to be the place of the future.
As for Dawson City itself, it is un
questionably the greatest mining camp
la the world. Frank Canton, United
States deputy marshal in Circle City,
and in former years an officer of th
peace in many of the largest camps oi
the West, has said that nothing he has
ever seen approaches Dawson as a model
mining camp. Accustomed as he has
been to dealing with the roughest class
of criminals, his commendation of
Dawson, as a law-abiding town, has
great weight. The sidewalks are crowd
REMEMBER
you are dissatisfied with the size of piece or with the quality
the chewing tobacco you are using
get
ed with men and women from morning
to night. People are even forced to
walk in the middle of the streets to
make progress. It is a great jumble or
the good and the bad, and the only
pledge of respectability required is
regular attendance at church. Daw
son's population has grown until it is
now between 8,000 and 10.000.
Nine-tenths of the newcomers are not
in the country to work, and when they
find that success in the Klondike can
only be bought by hard labor, they will
be ready to come out. A great exodus
of unsuccessful men will take place
this fall, and the cities of the Pacific
coast, to which these people will go,
will be overrun with a rough, desperate
and altogether undesirable class. They
are now in Dawson as the advance
guard of the more substantial men to
follow. It is a repetition of the his
tory of Circle City. When the Birch
creek mines were discovered, two yeais
ago, double the usual invoice of people
went there, but soon left disgusted.
Had they remained, they would have
been in on thegiound floor in the Klon
dike discovery.
The Cuban Machete.
Much has been said of the terrible
machete, a deadly weapon indeed in
the hands of a desperate man, and
when used against a defenseless person.
The maohete was never intended for a
weapon of warfare; it is an instrument
of husbandry carried by the Cuban
peasant in times of pence, and is bis
one familiar daily companion. It cute
his fire wood, aids him in building his
hut, hews hie path through the mani
gqa, and performs many other offices.
The machette is a straight, heavy
blade about two feet long, with a
wooden or bone handle, having no
guard; consequently it is utterly un
suited as a weapon to be used in a con
flict with an armed man. The Cuban,
of course, by reason of his long famili
arity with the instrument, is an adept
in its use, and its effect upon a group
of unarmed workmen Is truly terrible.
It is in the foray against the defense
less and Unarmed that the most serious
work of the machete has been done in
the island of Cuba. "Cuba as Seen
from the Inside," by Osgood Welsh, in
the August Century.
For the Babies Who "Toe In."
The little tots who are inclined to
"toe In" when they begin to walk can
have this fault quickly rectified if at
tended to in time. The mother or
nnrse should rub (at least twice a day)
the outer side of the little legs with a
firm upward stroke.
This can be done regularly when put
ting baby to bed, and at such other
times as may be convenient. When
the little one climbs into your lap for a
"cuddle" or a story is a good time.
Hold the little foot in your hand in
the correct position. Recollect, do not
rub down, and not on the Inner side of
the leg. The object is to nurish and
strengthen the outer muscles, which
are proportionately weak.
Begin below the ankle and rub to
the knee, slowly and quickly, bnt not
too lightly. This treatment faithfully
persevered in will soon correct the
trouble.
Advices from Honolulu state that the
executive council of the island govern
ment has signed a contract with the
Schyniset Company to lay a cable from
the Amoiicnn coast to Honolulu and
Japan.
Hans Maka.rt's monument in the
Vienna oity park has just been un
veiled. The painter's son made a
speech on the occasion.
The Fad of Vegetarianism.
An article by Sir Henry Thompson,
entitled "Why Vegetarians?" in the
April number of the mnteenth Cen
tury, is an exhaustive treaties on the
subject of diet He demolishes the
theory of vegetarians that they are to
tal abstainers from flesh products, as in
their use of milk, butter, and cheese
they indulge in highly concentrated
protoid containing food of animal ori
gin, to say nothing of eggs, which con
tain the material ol the developed
chicken. There are few vegetarians
who confine their diet absolutely to
productions of the vegetable kingdom
To this practice Sir Henry Thompson
opposes the argument that no form ol
vegetablo nourishment has been discov
ered upon which it is possible to reai
the young mammal, in which man ii
included. He wishes to be informed
why an animal that is born into the
world by carnivorous patents, which ii
solely dependent for its existence upon
animal food milk should suddenly
adopt a vegetable diet, and at what age
such a change should be made. In the
matter of food Sir Henry Thompson de
nies that there is any reason for ex
clusive forms of diet. Considerations
of age, personal habits, occupation, cli
mate, and surroundings should be the
determining factors in governing a
choice of food. AH fads that ignores
this principle, whether they take the
form of exclusive adherence to a flesh
or vegetable diet, are not conducive to
the maintenance of health and physi
cal activity.
Few Remaining Buffaloes.
Lieutenant Lindsley, of the Fonrth
cavalry, on. duty at Yellowstone Park,
has submitted to the secretary of the
interor a report covering the condition
of the game in the park, says the Wash
ington Star. He says:
"There is no reason to suspect that
any buffalo have been killed since the
rendition of my last report on Novem
ber 4 last The scouts discovered dur
ing the winter between 80 and 40 head
in four different localities. They are
so wild that if they see or wind a man
they will run a long distance. So, to
prevent driving them from their winter
range, strict orders were given to all
stations and scouts not to pursue them
nor follow their trails with a view to
seeing the animals themselves. For
this reason no buffalo has been Been
this winter, but the trails show the
above number, and that in one bunch,
numbering 21, there were four or five
calves.
"Their protection is the most diffi
cult task intrusted to the superintend
ent of the park. Their natural range
is on the open plains of a much lower
altitude; they are now driven by fear
into the most inaccessible portions ol
this mountainous and timbered country.
Besides the danger from poachers, their
young must suffer from the ravages of
wild beasts and from the rigors of the
climate. They are said to be peculiarly
Susceptible to the bad effects of in
breeding and an eminent scientist
thinks that this cause alone will insure
their destruction in a few years more.
I oan think of nothing that has been
neglected which would tend to their
better preservation."
Mozart's note book of first draught of
compositions made when he was a boy
of 8, has been discovered in Berlin,
and will be published soon by the Ber
lin Mozart society.
Professor Miohelson, of the National
Academy of Scieooo, Washington, has
invented a new form of spectroscope,
made by building op steps of equal
thickness of optical glass.
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KANSAS SUPERSTITIONS.
Carry a potato in one's pocket to
oure rheumatism.
The skin of a black cat worn in one's
clothing will cure rheumatism.
Hold your hands above your head
and youj nose will cease1 bleeding.
Never let a chicken die in your hands
and yon will not have palsy.
Hold a silvor spoon against the back
of the neck to stop nosebleed.
Wear a rod string or ted beads
around the neck to prevent the nose
bleed. The skin of a snake worn aronnd the
one's hat crown will cure the headache.
Wear a string of gold beads around
your neck and your nose can not bleed.
Headache may be prevented by wear
ing in one's hat the rattles of a rattle
snake. Tho negro sometimes sleeps with a
young dog in order to transmit rheu
matism to the do.
At Delphos. Kan., lives a young man
who gallantly procured his sweet
heart's warts by purchase.
A sty may be cuted by rubbing it
with a gold ring, a silver spoon, ot
one's finger moistened with saliva.
If yon see any one asleep In church
say to yourself: When you awake
take these warts."
Bore a hole in the. wall the height
of a child's head; when the child grows
above the hole it will be cured of
asthma.
In order to cure the toothache out
your finger nails on Friday. Another
sure cure Is to wash behind your ears
every morning.
Write on a stove with a pieco of
chalk the number of your warts. When
the number has burned off the stove
your warts will be gone.
Rub the wart with seven pebbles,
wrap the pebbles in a parcel and throw
them away; if the parcel is picked up
the wart will go away.
You may always prevent cramps in
the feet by turning your shoes upside
down every night beside your bed.
Gertrude C. Davenport, In the Jonrnal
Of American Folk-Lore.
Steal a dishcloth, rub the wart with
it, and then bury the cloth under the
eaves of the house. If you tell no one
and no one finds out your theft, your
wart will go away.
If yon have a wart and see a man
riding on horseback in the rain (or, as
another version runs, riding on a gray
borse), say: "Take these along;" rub
the wart and it will leave you.
Put into a red calico bag "hearts"
from grains of corn; "run down the
road;" throw away the bag, not look
ing where they fall; run home agan,
and If any one picks up the bag your
warts will go away.
Some of these cures, which were col
lected in Coffey county, were obtain
ed from colored people. The majority
of the superstitions, however, which
Were collected in Douglas county, were
obtained from people whodeolared they
knew no superstitions and believed
none; namely, students in attendance
at the Univeisity of Kansas. These
students came from nearly every
county in the state.
The depth to which tho sun's rays
penetrate water has been recently de
termined by the aid of photography.
It has been found that at a depth of
553 feet the darkness was to all intent
and purpose the same as that on a
clear and moonless night. Sensitive
plates exposed at this depth for a con
siderable length of time gave no evi
dence of light action.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The tiver Jordan makes the greatest
descent in the shortest distance ot al
most any stream.
The average height of the human
race is, men, five feet six inches; wo
men, five feet two , inches.
Pendulums are affected by variations
of density of the ait, as well as by
changing temperature.
According to Professor Oalton, a
few person see mentally in print every
word they hear uttered.
Water pipes are now often made of
glass and covered with asphaltum,
with highly satisfactory results.
The entire collection of coins and
medals in the British museum consists
of nearly 250,000 specimens.
Dartmoor is the largest tract of un
cultivated land in England; it occupies
one-fifth of the county of Devon.
Gen. Peter Tracy, of Memphis, en
joys the double distinction of being a
cousin of Dewey and the uncle of Hob
son. The bull ring of .Madrid stands a
mile or so outside the city. It was
built in 1874 at a cost, it is said, of
80,000.
Millions of pairs of doll shoes are
sold in this country annually, the great
part of which are imported from Ger
many. The youngest volunteer in the naval
reserve is Cadet Roland S. Gielow, a
bugler on the training ship New Hamp
shire. Fourteen children seven seta of
twins and all living is the record of
Mr. and Mta. Edward Harris, of Rich
mond, Mo.
It is computed that when marching
8oldiuis take 75 steps per minute, in
quick matching 108, and in charging
160 steps.
British trade with the Philippines
last year was $9,984,590; that of the
United States, $5,145,303, or about
half as much.
At its present rate of combustion it
is thought the sun will last from 7,000,
000 to 15,000,000 years before burning
Itself out.
The average duration of human life
in European countries Is greatest in
Sweden and Norway, and lowest in Italy
and Austria.
Barcelona is now the most populous
city of Spain, the result of the census
just taken showing 520,000 inhabit
ants, to Madrid's 507,000.
The St. Louis team of the National
Baseball league has been sold to Ed
ward Becker, a retited capitalist and
principal creditor of the club.
Alexander Gtegg Belleville, of St.
Louis, who recently buried his seventh
wife, has married again, this time to a
girl of 15. He is 57 years old.
Judge John S. Candler, of Atlanta,
who has been appointed colonel of the
Third Georgia volunteers, lost both his
feet in a railroad accident in 1881.
Mrs. I. N. Barber, principal of the
St Paul school of fine art, committed
suicide at Mendota, Minn., where she
was in charge of the summer art
school.
Owing to the extreme drought placer
mining in the northern counties of Cali
fornia has been suspended. It is
thought that operations will not be re
sumed until next spring.
King Malietoa, the Samoan monarch,
is a unique figure in royalty. He gets
$150 a month, and that munificent
budget is usually in arrears. Though
his sartorial needs are few, he is con
tiually behind with his tailors.
Strategic Value of Porto Kica.
Mr. Frederick A. Ober writes an
article fot the August Century on "The
Island of Porto Rico." Mr. Ober says:
Until it was 'discovered that Porto
Rico possessed great value as a "strategic
center" of naval operations, the fair
isle slumbered undisturbed, merely a
link, and no important one, in the em
erald chain that separates the Atlantic
and the Caribbean. Suddenly naval
folks became aware of its importance;
they saw that while it borders on tire
Caribbean sea, yet it broasts the rough
Atlantic waters; that it is equadis
tant, or about 1,000 miles, from Key
West and Colon; fiom New York
1,500 miles, which is half the distance
from Cadiz; 1,800 from Nowport News,
which is half the distance to the Canar
ies. It lies, in fact, at the very point
that we should have selected for
a coaling station, had we unrestricted
choice ol location. All the arguments
that have been advanced for the acquisi
tion of tbe island of St. Thomas, HO
miles distant, and for which at one
time we were almost ready to pay seven
million dollars, apply with tenfold
force to Porto Rico, with its six good
harbors to the one of St. Thomas, and,
its commercial as well as strategical
potentialities.
.LOST HIS LIFE SAVING OTHERS.
A country boy visiting New York stopped
a frantic runaway team that was about to
dash on the sidewalk where there were hun
dreds of women and children, lie saved their
Uvea, but lost hlB own. Hundreds of llv-sarc
saved every year by Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters. People who arc fast f?olng to their
graves with disorders of stomach, liver,
bowels and blood are brought back to good
health by it. All the sick should try it.
It has been found in Germany that
lightning rods do not protect high fur
naces, tbe electric disoharge preferring
to pass to the earth by the column of
heated smoke, which of course is rich
in carbon, a conductor ot electricity.
It is partly for this reason that so many
smoking chimneys are struck by light
ning and that to sit near a fireplace is
dangerous.
Gov. McCord has received indefinite
leave of absence from his duties as the
exeoutive of Arizona, and will take
command as colonel of the regiment of
infantry now being recruited in the
four territories.
TRY ALLEN'S FOOT-BASH.
A powder to be shaken into the shoes.
At this season your feet feel swollen, ner
vous, and hot, and get tired easily. If you
have smarting feet or tight shoes, try
Allen's Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and
makes walking easy. Cures swollen and
Sweating feet, blisters and callous spots,
telieves corns and bunions of all pain and
fives rest and comfort. Ten thousand tes
irnonials of cures. Try it today. Sold by
all druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Sent
by mail for 23c in stamps. Trial package
FKEB. Address Allen 8. Olmsted,
Boy, New York.
M. Phisaiix announced to the Acad
emic des Sciences, Pat is, some time ago
that eholesterine injected into the
blood of animals made them resist the
venom of vipers.
WAGONS IHFKOVED.
The new improved Stonghton wagons
stand the racket. Three more car loads are
ou the wav. It pavs to have the best.
Write for free catalogue. JOHN POOLE,
sole agent, foot of Morrison street, Port
land, Or.
Microbes are so minute that 250,
000,000 can be comfortably accommo
dated on a penny postage stamp.
According to a Geiman authority the
human brain is composed of 800,000,
000 nerve cells.
A on'e-logged knife-giinder in Phila
delphia has taught a Newfoundland dog
to tuna his giindstone.
Railway building in Africa is pro
ceeding with wondetful rapidity con
sidering the difficulty and expensive-
ness ol most of the enterprises.
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