THB NORTHWEST'S Mi) , MINING : - . fH"ftr.?ri.'-W!.T' A : r r..'" .If - lit M ft IB IV I Fk'X I'f-? :, - cs. '' r.vJ 1 ' : i,JT"r!S&iji, jOllit BAKEB:couhT.v:oR&QOri: ' " I 4 Great industry That Is Rapidly Coming to the Front In States of This Section - t ; ; ; of re Country. the Lw!8ton SettlerisHome Baker County. ., Baker County and Baker City. are so . Inseparably- connected that It Is lmpns Kible to speak of tne one In any measure Of fuilness without referring . to the Other, . ' n After traveling over the state in its entirety, from the rich valleys r the BDUth, the treat plains of the west tioaEt,. the rich valley of the Willamette, , the vast whett llelds ...of the northeaBt .. end tne lntmenuo empii'e of grazing lands in the Interior, Baker County would he selected by the criterion, the land eni ure, t..e settler and' the citizen, as the .Jast, best sppt th? place where Natur rested and smiled when the great work Of creation wa completed. The wealth of Baker ..C.Uhty.....h9th . latent and developed, is unparalleled in the great Inland Empire a country wher rich counties are the rule- and not the exception. With a climate unsurpassed by any zouna on the continent.'-wtth agricultnrai y possibilities greater, perhaps, than are to be found elsewehere in the state and with the richest auriferous deposits west of Colorado In its borders, Haker County is indeed the County of Destiny and its , flourishing metropolis, the Queen City of Oregon. Baker County Is a county of perma nent settlers. Just as Hie clfy Is a city of homes and of churches. People who come here come to stay. , Baker County covers about 2,600 Square miles. This Is composed of ore- ribbed mountains, fertile plains and emerald vaney. Oold seams the moun tains and the lowlands, too, in gigantic veins. No romantist can imagine, the mount of gold' that is held lockeB in Baker's mountains. These rich hills have -been compared with the South African fields and the almowt fabulous Rand., This American Transvaal amid the rugged mountains of Eastern Ore gon, whose highest peaks rise 9.000 feet above the sea. has a gold-liearlng area In Baker County alone of 1.800 square The Dalles, a distance of 300 miles. The placers of Bumpier, Canyon City, Mor mon Basin and Hye Valley were dis covered by men from this camp solely. In 1864 practically all the -mining districts- of the Blue Mountains were known. In the next few years much capital and labor were devoted to the construc tion of ditches. In 1863 tne Auburn Canal, taking its water from Pine Creek and other gulches In the Elkhorn range. was completed. The Rye-Valley Ditch was constructed next year and at the same time a project was carried out supplying' the Malheur Ciy diggings from the headwaters of Burnt River. The Sparta ditch, carylng water from the head of Kagle Creek to the Town of Sparta, a distance of 22 miles, was com pleted In 1873. The Eldorado Ditc.i was completed In this year. Its total length is over 100 miles, About 1870 some of the richest placers . began to be exhausted and a gradual decline in the production began. The placer output has diminished something like $200,000 per year, but this produc tion is likely to incraese as low-grade A recent Issue of (Ida.) Tribune says: "Frank .Brown, , of the Jumbo mine, left yesterday for. the Buffalo Hump after a brief visit to Oils city. Mr. Brown has completed all arrangements for the Installation of a cyanldlng plant at the Jumbo, which will be cut in op eration at the earliest possible, dato. The cyanldlng plant will handle the second grade concentrate of the mine, which have been accumulating since the mill was first put in operation. These concentrates, it Is estimated, will run from $40 to $80 a ton. The mine will continue to ship the higher grade con centrates. Before leaving the city Mr. Brown placed upon exhibition at the mining bureau a sample of free-milling ore taken from the 517 foot level of the Jumbo, the level being the greatest depth yet reached In an Idaho County mine. "During the past few days a larger number of prospectors1 have left the city for the mining country, due to re ports that the snow la now rapidly dis appearing from the higher altitudes. The movement of the prospectors shows that more will enter the mountains this year than during any past season. This con dition lias resulted from the fine striked recently made In so many districts, which have been given wide publicity throughout the country. The increased prospecting work and mining operations will not be limited to one district, but will apply to all extending from the Pierce region through all the old Idaho County camps to the Snake River country. "During the past week the bullion shipments displayed in Lewlston here attracted much attention, ' and have brought to public attention in an im pressive manner the merits and future of this extensive mining country. The Jumbo and Crackerjack lodes and the Moose Creek placers have supplied fine bullion exhibits during the week and In a few days the famous Wild Rose mine of the Pierce district will be represented with a tine bullion display at the bureau." Liberty BeU group is to have considera ble work done. The Wise Boji nill Is to start up soon. It was shut down In the winter because r of a sh6rt water supply. ( The Witter supply Is now suffi cient for all purposes; and the mill will be run "to its fullest capacity. There Is talk of an adequate mill for the 1)1 Buffalo's great 60-foot vein.' and i cy. anlde plant to handle the tailings.' With all the other work to be don by Indi viduals on less known properties Buf falo Hump Is going to be the busiest mining camp in Idaho this year.1 -..Mining Hotea. Word was received Wednesday' th ' uiu vi win jor ine tiunnrj Hump telephone line was ; at Stltes ready to be brought up. says the Orangevllle Standard. Rudolph Bortscti sent down teams, this morning to bring up the first Installment of wire, D. Patterson and Phil Ayofte", who have the contract for putting In the line, will begin at once to string the wire. . The material Is all new and first-class, and the work la to be done so as to .nake the line good In every ; respect The line might have been in operation before ' now, but for the long delay In getting the wire. It was lost In transit for several weeks, and the most diligent Inquiry failed to locate it. E. F. Gordon, the well known mining man who has spent the winter In Lew iston. left yesterday for his 'nlnln property at Oro Orande. SUMPTER MINE NEWS Daker City High School. gravels are beginning to be worked by miles, although practical ly every foot of modern processes of dredging, territory carries the yellow metal either With tl;e decline of the placer mines t the, grass roots or for hundreds of quartz mining began to be developed, teet below the surface. . Wuartz inines were worked at Susanville Gold-bearing veins Interlace the moun- and Mormon Basin in 1865. The first tains and lower lands for miles, and n,il1 ws built in 1869 and the process was pan amalgamation. The Virtue mine was discovered in 1862 and Connor Creek In 1S72. when the first prospect ing In the vicinity of Cable Cove was be gun and La Vellovlew and Monumental on horseback for several hundred miles, i-nder such conditions the development of quartz mining was necessarily slow. Its active development dates from 1SS.", when the country was made accessible, by the transcontinental railroad now .mKB.H,y.l...U)l. ..Would i traversing .U- About RS6 .ijiluablq dl- ("nunty to state- coverios were made in tne i-.ag:e reeK , these ledges, carrying both free and re f rectory ores, vary in width from a few Inches to 200 feet or more, the values carried being steady and of a good pny- . Ing quantity of metal. The aggregate Wealth held under ground In t!ie one inetal of gold alone, to the total ignoring f copper and other metals and minerals, - ach of which exist in largi amounts. Is beyond any question to sustain a delving .and milling industry for many years to veowe nd ..ojf. almost entitle Raker ) liood. This Is more apparent .wlien it - Is considered that one monster mother lode exists 13 mllea an.i that not 1 o per . cent of the goH-)..ariiig av-ii h,-.is been , properly prospected, ami with only a -. few hundred stamps .-t'woik there is known to bo ore awaiting n- crush of . thousands of stamps: that Willi barr ly a dosen quartz mills approaching In extent of operation and livrnber of employes ' the magnitude of modern gold mines. Baker County's yield of gold in 1 ! 0 0 was ,$4.000, 0U'.; last year it was Sfi.noo, "1)00. Two thhusmd miners and pros- heaved territory- where in the near v. future" 10.000 people will be engaged In the gold-mimng-Hndus try. While the gold fields- in the soutn westem part of-Oregon were discovered ' In 1852, those" of the B)ue 'Mountains re mained unknown until 10 years later. Jn. the fall of 1861 a prospector named ' Oriffln discovered Griffin-Gulch, a t rlbt'i , tary to Powder Rfvtsr,- a fewjmiles south-west of Baker, Cit.v. A that time the oirtv settlement itr the Blue Mountains .- was that pf tome cattle raisers in '".the - tirand .-Rohde Valley.' Early in the spring -of 1862 David LJttleneld and 'a - fatly f five men were prospecting rj the same neighborhood artd discovered - the. rieii placers of ..Auburn. . In very hor time miners came pouring 1n from all -directions and the Town of Auburn : whs laid out In June. 1862. It grew so ispldly that In less than a year it 'con tained .8,800 p&fp)e.- In those days . the iUtte Mountains wete difficult of access. mountains near Cornucopia. A number I of mines in the Cracker Creek district were then for the first time considered ' worthy of exploitation and soon began j to add to the annual production. This ! quiet development continued until lSUii, when public attention was drawn to t!vj districts of Sumpter. Granite and Bo nanza. Next enr an influx of miner.! from all parts of t he West took pace and a ' boom'" was experienced. Haker County's topography is almost as varied as tier wonderful resources. In the western portion the mountains rise to an altitude of 10. 000 feet These mountains have forests of pine, fir and tamarack. East of Powder River moun tains to the county's border at the Snake river, which is the Idaho State line, the elevation Is 2,000 to 3,000 foet. Theri is little timber here, but 'the soil is very productive. The. valleys of Pow der river, approximating 20 by 30 miles, Sumpter and Burnt River are valuable a agricultural and stock raising sec tions and jeontain the bulk of the coun ty's inhabitants. The "climate is 'Varied, healthy, salu brtous and glorious. Being a county of hill's and valleys, el! shades of cii xnate abound, from along the Snake, where, shut in by "mountains, the low lafld? produce crops- of luscious fruits, equal in flavor to those of a hothouse. Jo the high mountains where the snow often falls to a; depth of ten feet or more. It ds' uniformly healthy and has the lowest death rate in the United States,."' The summers and falls are de lightful lit that they "are cool and re freshing. Mountain lakes, streams and forests abound In all their pristine wild ness and grandeur, affording many de lightful health resorts. The soil Is self fertilizing and it is practically Impossible to impoverish it by continued cultivation. Over a part of the county Irrigation in line with modern and scientific methods will some day make the entire nrrable prt f the county one vast garden of hay and grain fields, paradlse-ltke fruit orchards and vegetable beds. Baker County then will support a population of ten times Its present number. - Baker County is not a mining coun try alone by any manner of rr.'.-ans. Farming is a leading industry. It is a noticeable fact that all who have fol- lowed it In an intelligent manner have made a success of it. Actual measure ment of grain yields indicate indisputa bly the richness of the soil nnd the profitableness of farming by those whose knowledge is backed by practical labor. Wfieat yields 60 bushels to the acre; oats 6, bushels to the acre; barley over 2 00 bushels. Hay, grasses, all kinds of vegetables yield bountifully, and diversified farming in connection with stock raising and poultry, butter, cheese and egg production, always pay handsomely. The-stoek raising industry is second only to gold .prnrtBBn'lr-'ne''' 'arff-tir the county 15,000 horses, 50,000 cattl" and t lie wool clip this spring will reacli a million pounds. Pork, beef'nnd mut ton are furnished in -abundant. But fruit-growing is where Baker County shines. Apples, pears, peaches, prunes, plums, grapes and berries grow to a perfection seldom found elsewhere. The valleys of Snake. Burnt and Powder Rivers afford splendid fruit - orchards, and the wonderfully rich valleys of Eagle and Pine furnish the best apple and prune lands, probably. In the I'nlted States. Although Eagle Valley is 50 miles from a railroad at its nearest point, the average price of land Is $60 per acre. Thelands of the more re mote and larger Pine Valley are nearly as valuable and are just as productive. There are many square miles of uncut forests, and. the lumber cut is about 60,000.000 feet per year. Besides Baker City, the metropolis. Baker County boasts of a .number of other towns. The most important nnd the most ambitious of these Is Sump ter. It is a modern parallel of dav- built Rome. , The seed was planted in the middle sixties. Three Confederate sqldiers detached themselves from the left wing Of Price's army. They came, how, why and exactly when, no 'ISne knows, to Oregon. Where Sumpter now stands they built a log hut. The na tion had not recovered from the awful shock occasioned by the firing on Fort Sumpter. In memory of that historic oc casion the three pioneers named thplr cabin.' They draped the romance of war about It.. The years have built a city around, it. " - The story of Sumpter deals first with the Argonauts. It tells of those lusty men who came north from the Golden rGato in '61. They were gold miners. They sought coarse placer gold nug gets lying gleaming in the creek beds. They trailed the vision of these things up the Columbia along the fortuitous windings of the Crooked and John Day Rivers, through primeval -fastness of the Blue Mountains and . finally up the. slope of the . Greenhorns.- Before them (dst and north and west they be held things. , The Argonauts drifted away on the trail of the fleeting vision. .The China men bwarmed into their vacant places. They took gold that was left The heathen in his blindness found wealth his predecessors overlooked. Then primitive arastras gave way to modern stamp mills. Surface cuts were superseded by shafts. The China men gave way to white men with gi gantic placer dredging machines. In 18!S the flower bloomed. The till age and foliage of. 30 years bore" Its rich fruitage. It Is difficult to say wherein lay the one thing that drew the attention this way. Per.Uaps it was the Bonanza mine. ; The history of this property is an- Arabian Night's tale.' A German named Geiser loaned $1,000 to the Bouanza owners. A mill was erect ed." shortly afterward "Geiser was given the jnino and the mill In payment of this loan, lie and his sons assumed charge. A representative of the Stand ard Oil Company paid the mine a visit. He went away and came back." He brought with him $750,000. The Geiser boys took the morjcy .and the Standard Oil Company took the mine. Forty stamps at the Bonanza pound out $40,000 every month. Today there are 30 mills in the Sumpter district operating 600 k( nins. . ' 1 In 1898 the town Of Sumpter had In It 300 people. Today there are 6,000. To day it has a railroad and four-sawmills. It has an electric lighting plant. It has an opera house; it has "paved streets; it has two iSanks and three, newspapers; it has hotels, restaurants, churches and laundries; it has stores and lodging-hous.es; it has pretty homes. In other words, it has come to stay and is a live, up-to-date; modern city. Sumpter's future Is based on the fu ture of its mines. They stand unrivaled In the-West. The following -figures tell' their own story, and an eloquent tale it 1st.- . Mines and Mills. BO Golconda Badger' . Great Northern.. Little Giant 20 May Queen 20 Magnolia 20 Cougar 20 Pyx 13 La Bellevue 26 Phoenix 3 California . IS E. & E Golden Eagle ... f. Van Anda 18 Ibex 6 Mammoth 8 Kevstone 12 Chloride 10 20 20 10 20 10 10 85 5 10 f 10 10 3 20 20 10 10 10 20 15 10 10 12 16 10 10 16 20 20 10 20 10 100,000 120.000 100,000 300.000 150,000 200.000 360.000 60,000 10,000 10,000 60,000 50,000 10.000 300.000 20 300,000 12 lfiO.000 12 12 a .!. 0 1 Si f to 0 si "J' s a e Bonanza . . Red, Boy . . Colombia : North Pole .13 .20 . 6 .8 40 20 10 10 12. 12 15 10 $400,000 00.000 loo. 000 160,000 j 160.000 150.000 On a small, level valley girt round with Rage-clad hills. In the eastern part of the county, is Huntington, well known in railroad circles as the Junction be tween the O. R. & N. Railroad and the Oregon Short Line. The growth of Huntington has been slow, but steady and substantial. In 1S98 the Northwest Hallway Com pany, promoted by Isaac Blake, began operations to connect the Seven Devils with Huntington by a broad-gauge rail road. The company expended much money In developing the Iron Dyke con per mines, which belongs to It, land several hundred thousand dollars ' in grading tho road. But before these projects were carried to a successful Issue" tho promoters "became financially embarrassed nnd both the mine and the road wont Into the hands of a receiver. Last winter the affairs of tho company were satisfactorily settled and the project of building the road is being re vived. TUe company- has been reorgan ized and capitalized at $4,000,000. Al though the Seven Devils mine is Im mensely rich in copper, the ore Is of no value without transportation, ah4 the completion of this road would not only develop the mines, but would build up. Huntington. Huntington has a water system, good school buildings and churches and splendid residences. There are also in the county tho towns of North Powder, Haines, Pleasant "Val ley, Durkee, Richmond, Pine, Carson, cornucopia, jriagepori. Auburn, Mc Ewen, Whitney, Bourne and other smaller places, such as Hereford, tynity, Newbridge and Wingyllle. Baker City is the metropolis of East ern Oregon. It is the hub around which all the country In Oregon east of the Cascades revolves. It is the distributing point ior aii mis section, not only dn Baker County, but for the entire mining section of Eastern Oregon. Not only this, but Baker'City furnishes th vast grazing sections of Grant. Harney and Malheur Counties with supplies. Baker" City is a live, up-to-da'te; mod ern town. It has 10.000 permanent res!T dents. It has the finest water system of any city of its-size in the West. It has electric lights: ' It -has a fine' gas Service. It has thejflnest anil best thea tre in the state outside of Portland.-It has wide, straight streets." lined - with beautiful shade "trees. ,it , has fine BUFFALO HUMP PROVEN Besides Jnmbo and Craokerjaok. Other Active Properties. The Grangeville Standard comments as follows regarding prominent "Buffalo Hump properties: "Jumba aUcJx..hjs..gQne. fram 40 cents to SO cents a share within five montus, sales having been made within the week at t lie latter figure. The company has withdrawn all Its treasury stock from the market, already having more than enough money on hand to build and equip the new mill. Twenty-fourstamps are to he put in. 14 being already on the ground. The ore from the race of the lower level is the finest yet takii from the mine. The oft repeated croak that 'the ledges won't go down' Is dls proved. The Jumbo is encouraging every other mine in the camp to go to work with renewed energy, for It has proved that the ledges go down, and hold up as rich or richer with every foot of depth. "Some astounding figures have been given out recently by men who have visited the Jumbo mine. The lower workings were recently surveyed. From tho data obtained by the survey it has been computed that if the .ore holds out the same width and richness to tho lowest possible level, 300 feet be low the present lowest workings, there is more than $:o,000,000 in the property. On and one-half millions in given as the value of the ore already shown up. The figures seem large, but the ore In slghl is a known reality,, and the other Is easily possible. The ore has Increased in value from the top to the bottom of the work now done, 600 feet, and this should be sufficient warrant for believ ing It should continue to at least hold its own. There are those who predict that the Jumbo will sell for not less than $5,000,000 within a year or "two if ft is sold at all. It would be a ba-rgain at that price; if the develop ment shows the ore to be in the mine as expected. That price would make fortunes for several Grangeville men. "Claude Flint came out from the Hump Sunday With $4500 from the Crackerjack mine. Work is progressing steadily on the lower cross cut, to catch the vein at a depth of 600 feet. It Is ex pected that the lead will be reached In about 30 days. If, when It Is reached. It proves to be as good as the upper working. Crackerjack stocK should quadruple In value In a single day. The Crackerjack has been handicapped by lack of funds, and by the raot or being a cross-cutting Instead of a drift ing proposition, a lot of dead work Is consequently necessary to open up the ore, whereas the Jumbo started to drift on ore from the very first foot. Tho Crackerjack has 20 feet of milling ore, enough to make a multi-millionaire mine if the ore body goes down. There has been a great rush for' Crackerjack stock within the past few days, as a gilt edeed money makor. The extra five stamps are expected here within a few days and are to. .bo rushed In to the mine. WTien the power company gets its tilant Into oueratlon, the cracner Jack will Install electric drills and de- velon the orooerty thoroughly. "The Buffalo Hump Gold Mining Company, formed in Seattle this winter to develop the Ironclad and Starlight mines, is preparing to do considerable work this year. The Atlas Is now put ting up a sawmill to saw lumber for rnhin and'mine ourposes. A hoist is to be" 'erected, the Atlas- being-' a- sinking proposition at present. It can bo worked later by a long cross cut tunnei, wnen the value of the property has been de termined by sinking oh the vein. The Atlas Is expected to do the most devel opment work of any of the new compan ies this year. The Lucky Lad property will also be extensively developed, 1 ne 1 (Journal Special Service.) SUMPTER, Or., June t. A number of Sumpter capitalists have organised a company that has for its object tl investigation of the coal deposits re cently found in the... valley of the John Day River. The company Is a co-past nershlp and Is composed of the follow ing persons: W. E. Saunders, Anthony Mohr. Louis Walker. C. 8. Miller.. J. M. McFee. Olive Sumpter and C. E. Pat terson, the last two being from Ta- coma. These coal veins are 75 miles from Canyon City, on the John Day River, near the Heppner field. The, company has had an analysts made and they claim that the coal has excellent coketng properties. The following Is the anal ysis of four samples taken, the first three being from surface coal, the,, fourth, troKL th?. same, vela a.th. second, except that it was from the in terior of a mine: Cpper vein Moisture, 6.45; volatile matter, 15.30; fixed carbon, 44.70; ash, 34.54. "- Middle vein 1Moteture, 12.05; volatile matter, 20.45; fixed carbon. 41.40; ash, 26..10. Lower vein Moisture, 3.80; volatile matter, 39.26; fixed carbon, 27.40; ash, 29.45. Fourth test Moisture, 4.24; volatile matter, 34.85; fixed carbon, 63. 2t; ash. 7.66. These coal deposits are located some distance from the river and are about 700 feet above Bea level. The formation shows that the coal was brought to the surface through an upheaval. There are four veins ranging from 8 to 10 inches to 6 to 8 feet. Those familiar with the territory think other outcr&p pings will be found. Should this field prove as extensive as the promoters think It will be a great boom for Eastern Oregon. At present all coal must be shipped Into the district from Wyoming and costs so much that its. use la almost prohibited. . Dr. E. W. Muller, manager of the new smelter, has gone to Portland, where he will be married on Sunday' to Miss May Caroline Frlck, a well-known and popu lar young lady. Dr. Muller Is one of the prominent citizens of . Sumpter;- being- -a. bank di rector and owning large mining inter ests.. There is . quite a romance connected with the marriage. The doctor met the young lady when he was president of the "Wesleyan University of Kansas, she being a student. They will make their future home In Sumpter. F. T. Kill, manag'er of the Hidden Treasure Company, operating the I. X. I group, states that their new mill has been Bhlpped and that he will put two crews of men at work on the property at once. J. T. Grayson of Portland, manager of the Alpine group, is in the vlcnity look ing over his properties. Richard Ad doms has resigned the superintendence of these mines and has been succeeded by A. W. Nelson of San Francisco. The company has ordered a 20-sjnnp mill complete, for amalgamation and con centration. It -will have eiKht concen trators. The properties are in the Cove district, and this will be the second mill installed. VOTES. C. L. Dorer of Bellalro, Ohio; Charles H. Taney and J. H. Riley, of Wheeling, W. Va., and A. B. Patterson of Baker City have purchased what is known as the Crown Point claim In the Elkhorn district, and will begin developing it next year. Ore from this claim assays from $5 to $12 per ton, and is very uni form In its production of values. The Red Boy mine has.rcacied the Congo vcip. The ore body Is between five and six feet in Width and shows some - very high values. The- -tunnel - : 300 feet in depth. This vein is one of four that can be reached from this lovel. . A recent cross-cut .tunnel oh the Pu laski shows values ranging from $1.20 to $3.10. This is considered a very cood sign, as the. cross-cut is 150 feet dis- churches, all the denominations repre sented in this country, having eainces. Raker Cltv has tho largest and most complete stores of any city of this size in the West. It has tno nnest ana oesi hotels. It has the largest brewery, it has wide cement sidewalks and a nata torluni trappHed with a large stream of hot watet. Baker city nas two national banks. Its postoffiee does the largest business in the state, except tne ron- land office. The schools of the city are not surpassed by any In the state. It has "a large hospital and within the year will have a splendid park. The Baker City Rapid Transit com pany is nlreadyngtrwork securing mate rial for two miles' of electric street rail way, which will bo built and operated before cold weather. .The city Is lor cated in the beautiful Powder River Val ley, on the main line of the Oregon Rail way & Navigation Company's road, and at tho eastern teffnlnus of' the Bunjptcr Valley Railroad. ' "" Tho Oregon & Idaho Central Railroad is being surveyed and" will connect Ba ker City with the riplh valleys of, "Eagle and Pine, the wonderful Comucoula and Seven Devils mining country.- There is a strong probability that this road will be built. An elqctrlo lme Is now In course of construction between Whitney, the terminus of . the Sumpter Valley roafl, affd Canyon City, which will bring all that country Into closer touch' with Baker City. With the completion of these lines Baker City will rank next to Portland as a railroad center. v, Baker City i.i 440 foet above the sea level, and no other city in the West has more grandly inspiring scenic . sur roundings. Like the crowns of god desses. In tho peerless emeralds of for ests and the purity of the everlasting snow rise to the west the titanic bul warks of the Powder River .Mountains. while to the eastward, towering 10,000 feet, are the ' granite ramparts of the Eagle range. Spreading northward for 30 miles Is the fcrtilo Powder River the heart of the city la tho swift moun tain stream of Powder River,; spanned by five bridges. . It is doubtful IfNany city oMO.000 woe- pie In the West is as well'suDDlied with churches and schools as is Baker 'City. Tho school system is one of the, most perfect ln the country, and- tho High 8chool exhibit toolt several first Drizea at the "recent Omaha Exposition. ,1 liauer city is, Indeed, th 'city of des tiny,, and it Is declined to be greet, x. i rf. W. HEADBN. , , V ----tT I u