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Br Charles Edward Hogue.
iOPPER, mountains full of It; no
ice fields to cross, dangers of
pneumonia or fever to brave, and
right here In Oregon, at that Ly
ing on the banks of the Snake
river, en the eastern line or tne state, is
. the greatest undeveloped mining district
tin the world the Seven Devils.
' For years the mining men, prospect-
ors and operators, have known that vast
., beds of copper were buried In the hills
... i of the Seven .Devils country and a few
years ago a few of them rushed into the
f district and located claims. Of this few
still smaller number remained , to
- work the property they had staked out.
'i The rest returned to the outside world,
too Impatient to wait until rail ranspor
Jtation should make the territory the
greatest In the world.
, Those who remained have been oper
i. atlng their mines on a small scale, tak-
Sng put the ore and sorting it for the
highest grades, which were shipped by
v teams to the railroads. In this way the
,-country was opened up to a smull ex
ii tent, enough to reveal to those who were
C carious enough to Investigate that
v something wonderful had been dlscov
ered. It was not until this. year, how
ever, whst the Harrlroan lines an-
. nounced the railroad to be hullt from
Huntington into that district' was to be
commenced at once and then backed up
their announcement by the letting of
' contracts for construction, that people
iu.nl the state began to realise what was
lying within their grasp. Then there
was a mighty rush; people from all
parts of the state became interested and
prospectors flooded the district Btories
of wealth in the copper mines of east
,ern Oregon proved more than true and
Uhe efforts of the miners have shown
them to be far richer than was ever
dreamed of in the past.
Real Boom Commences.
Snow was off the Seven Devils coun
try about May 15, and then the. real
boom of the country commenced. Min
ing brokers throughout the west have
been Informed of the vast resources of
the country and the most extensive
preparations are under way to bring
the copper belt of eastern Oregon be
fore the whole world.
Since the assurance that the railroad
would open this country up has been
made by the Harrlman people, work
along the most extensive lines has been
pursued. Miners were taken into the
country by the lessees of the properties
and ore blocked out by the hundreds or
thousands. This ore Is growing richer
as the miners go deeper and the quan
tities in which it is found is a wonder
to the mining world. Prospectors go up
any cut In the whole district and knock
off a piece of rock, find mineral values
and put In a shot. With the explosion
of the powder a mass of mineral tum
bles to the earth exposing to view
veins of copper of high grade from one
to 100 feet In width.
There Is at least 800,000 tons of
copper ore of commercial value now In
the bins and stacks are on the dumps
of the. Peacock. Decorah. Alaska, White
Monument, Queen and King copper
mines In that district. All this work
heretofore has been done by lessees but
with transportation at hand the owners
will henceforth develop their own prop
erties. All of the -product of the mines so
far, which has been shipped, has been
sorted Into high-grade ore and hauled
30 miles to Council, Idaho, by wagon,
and then sent to the smelters at Salt
Lake and Sumpter. There are thou-
sanos of tons of approximately 7 per
cent copper ore now lying in the Seven
Devils awaiting shipment, which can
be sorted as high as 80 or 40 per cent.
There are huge lykes of copper pro
truding on the surface of this district
which will easily average 10 per cent
copper and much of it will run 40 to
60 per cent. As strange and as highly
colored as this may seem n is entirely
tru-: All alone the Snake river on both
sides coper Is very plentiful and with
a pick and shovel rich mines can be
opened most anywhere for a distance of
20 miles below the mouth of Pine creek,
where the famous Iron Dyke mine is
located-
The Iron Dyke at Homestead Is truly
a wonderful mine, employing now about
40 men and getting out timber prepar
atory to the construction of a 100-ton
concentrating plant, which will give em
ployment to 100 more men.
Cincinnati parties own a group of
claims near the Iron Dyke, which are
under the management of Mr. Moore,
that give every indication of making
a great mine.
There are also many prospects on
every side of Ballard's Landing, from
which point the Kllneschmidt wagon
road, which was constructed at a cost
Some of the Famous Mines.
The first camp below Ballard's Land
lng Is the famous McDqugall group,
which produces exceptionally high-grade
copper glance. Then comes the great
Klrby mine, which has a vein 20 feet
wide of bornlte of copper. These claims
are on the Oregon side.
Across the river on the Idaho side 1
the famous River Queen mine, owned
by Haas Brothers of Weiser, Idaho,
which produces large quantities of na
tive copper. Then comes the Lime
Peak mine and the Fidelity, which pro
duced one piece of native copper weigh
ing 80 pounds. This specimen was sent
to the Lewis and Clark exposition at
Portland.
Further down the river comes Allison
creek and Kenney creek, which head In
the Seven Devils mountains. Three
creeks is next and Just below Is Sal
mon river, which skirts the rear of the
Idaho portion of the Seven Devils dis
trict, rich with copper and gold mines
and splendid ,tlmber. Then comes the
mouth of the Imnaha river, which runs
Into the Snake river out of Wallowa
county, Oregon, rich with high-grade
coper and gold mines and timber which
cannot be surpassed. A party of De
troit capitalists, who organized a com-
Fany and opened a gold mine up the
mnalia river and sold the stock at 10
cents a share, were glad to buy it back
at 75 cents. The mouth of this river
IN -THE 5EVEN-DEVILlf)UOTl5V.
and that of the Salmon can be reached
by steamboat from Lewlston.
Grain Lands on Plateau.
Below the Seven Devils on the Idaho
side there la a plateau of 12,000 or 15,000
acres of the finest grain land, now open
to location, and down on tfte river there
are about 5,000 acres which may be lo
cated. This land Is suitable for aweet
potatoes, grapes, peanuts, strawberries,
English walnuts, almonds and even to
bacco, one acre being worth 10 acres
of any other land In the world. All of
this country Is tributary to the new
railroad down Snake river.
This, taken Into consideration with
the vast mineral territory and the great
forests of fine timber, both In Oregon
and Idaho, means the Immediate devel
opment of the largest undeveloped ter
ritory, as well as the richest In natural
resources, In the United States.
The National Copper company of Port
land has It or 18 claims at Cuprum,
Idaho. There Is a 300-foot shaft on the
Blue Jacket mine and Ford and Selzer,
formerly of Cripple Creek. Colorado,
have a good mine near Cuprum with a
stamp mill and cyanide plant
Property along Indian creek on the
Idaho side, will produce hay, potatoes
and other farm producta which find
ready sale among the prospectors and
miners. This stream carries about 600
inches of water In August which could
be used for power If necessary. A. L.
Huntlev has a ranch on Indian creek
and has just completed a $5,000 resi
dence. He has many cattle and Is now
constructing a sawmill with a dally ca
pacity of 60,000 feet
The Portland Trading company has
daho, down to Homestead and one of
the finest stores In the district Is Mr.
Plerson's general merchandise establish
ment at Homestead. Homestead also
has a hotel.
Tunnel Through Oz Bow.
Manager Pierce of the Iron Dyke mine
is now putting on men for the construc
tion of a concentrating plant with a
dally capacity of 100 tons, and the rail
road company haa men strung all along
the country from the mouth of Powder
river to Huntington and has commenced
work between-the mouths of Pine creek
and Powder river.
The railroad tunnel through the Ox
Bow at the mouth of Pin creek en
Snake river will be 1,50 feet long and
will require all the men that can be put
to Work. - The Ox Bow Power company
la now employing about 100 men. con
structing a dam across Pine creek and
is cutting timbers for five miles up thla
stream. The company la also construct
ing a sawmill for the purpose of cut
ting between 3.000,000 and 4,000,000 feet
of lumber, which will be used in the
construction of a dam across Snake
river, to be S3 feet high and 1,000 feet
long, with a 760-foot overflow. Thla
dam will require 16.000 barrels of ee
rrient. 100,000 pounds Of ateel and 1,000,
000 set of lumber In construction, and
will require the services of about 1,30
men for two years, before completion.
This company la driving three tunnels
through the Ox Bow, through, .which the
?reat current of Snake river1 will run
or the purpose of generating 36,004
horsepower. These tunnels are K feet
wide and 8 feet high and 1.060 feet long.
The top of each tunnel will be four feet
under the crest of the dam. thus afford
ing great pressure.
jii'D Hre in src&i. uviauu in. lui ovwn
Devils country. There will be 1,304 em
ployed on the dam. many mora working
In the tunnels, while others will be em
ployed in the mines and on the con
struction of the new railway. Every
body has money, work la plenty and the
district la the moat proaperoua In the1.
west
One of the best features of this condi
tion Ilea in the fact that the penniless
frospector gets a show. A party of
our men can go Into the district two of
them find ready employment and earn
the money which will feed and clothe
their other two comrades who are doing
the field work.
There Is room for everybody. Thou
sands of good claims are yet to be lo
cated. Prospectors with pack horses are
going down the river as far aa there are
any trails and men are climbing over
cliffs where they cannot take animals,
searching for the precious red metal,
but still a vaat unlocated territory remains.
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All lLiirope Set Humming by This Waltz Refrain
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(By Hay den Church.)
ONDON Folk in America who can
not abide "musical craxes" will
do well to quit the country with
out loss of time. They must not
flee to Europe, however, foe to
do ao would be to encounter the precise
thing they will be wanting to avoid,
namely, a waltz a waltx which has
kept all the continent humming for the
fast twelvemonth, and which has Just
'cored a hit in this country such as has
ixtot been known for many years. It
Is certain sure to cross the Atlantic
feefore much time has passed, and then,
avell 1
une cannot put musical notes in a
letter, else the waits refrain in question
might be set down here. Neither can
one really describe- a melody In print
ao I must try to give you an idea of the
fascination of this waltx from "The
; Merry Widow" by going Into details a
bit regarding Its phenomenal success
iff;''V eg the continent and by chronicling its
i 5 electrical effect upon an audience at
UfWPi Daly's 'theatre, where the operetta con
f K '.:.; - taining it was given for the first time
: Jn England on Saturday evening last.
l:!?v;JvVJt Makes Operetta.
. .- jjut fJr8t to explain about the oper
, ', ' atta Itaelf, which Is known throughout
( F f i JJurope aa "Die Lustige witwe.' Com-'
; i ? V' posed by Franx Lehar, a Hungarian, it
waa first given in Vienna about a year
ago, and dot only is it "still running"
In the Austrian capital, but it has been
S reduced in. almost every other conti-
l:lntal cfty of the first rank; having
-. been performed. In fact, something Hku
,'i?f 7,004 tlmsal And the wonderful waltz
haa -don It I1 of that there is little
doubt, since, apart from It and perhaps
two of the aongs, 'The Merry Widow"
. Is only fairly i melodious and nothing
very specially regarded aa an entertain
ment But the melody of this dance
' and the dance Itself I Well, wherever
you go on the continent where there is
''m band you will find it playing "Bal
' slrenen," as the waits- Js called, and
- the composer's profits out of the sale
Of the music are saisu ,10 ; Jiav. Been
S300.000 already. '7-'V- :"4- : i -';
1 It la M,fflJ wyV-too, thatijroMbl!:
few more languorous, not to say sen
tfnous. things have been seen t on ;the
ie (baa Uib jraits, etas aa ,ta JU-
f'lo-Saxons dance It at Daly's theatre,
t is introduced, by the way, as a "Mar
sovian" dance, and I will not try to
describe the "business," as you are sure
to see it in America before long. One
may say, however, that It Is not hard
to understand the Bensatlons of Otto
Natherson, a leading Danish actor, wlrt.
after seeing his wife, Gorda Krum, do
this dance with another man some doz
ens of times, became so maddened by
Jealousy that he shot her dad on the
stage of the Aalborg theatre.
Lily Elsie Is Star.
At Daly's the dancers are "Joe" Coyne
of America and Lily Elsie, whom George
Ed ward es finally chose for "The Merry
Widow" after postponing the London
production of the Jjlece for months in
despair of finding anybody who could
fill the title part. His first choice, nat
urally, was the actress who created th
part in Vienna, but no terms coul.l
tempt her to come to London, and where
an English songstress could be found
"strong" enough for the role even Ed
wardes did not know. Ha induced Marie
Tempest to eo to Vienna and see "T.ie
Widow, but she asked to be excusod,
and the manager's oueet seemed more
hopeless than ever. He seems to have
done the right thing, though, in choos
ing Lily Elsie to play Honia, tor tnou,rn
she previously has had only small parts
she won in a canter on Saturday night
and can have the limelight from now n.
The ramous waltz comes m tne second
act of "The Mer.ry Widow," and while
it was danced the audience sat spell
bound. That is not too strong a word
to use; we were entranced, Just as Euro
peans have been, by the haunting re
frain with its slow, dreamy swing, s
well as by the languoroua grace of the
dance itself.
Applause Is Thunderous. -
Then came thunderous applause, and
a repetition of the dance, during which
an almost solemn hush fell on the spec
tators. After this the curtain fell, and
as Herr Lehar, the composer, who was
conducting, turned to leave his seat he
received such an ovation as probably
seldom has been heard n a London
playhouse. Writing of tttls" scene on
of the London critics, whOv heads nls
article "Audience Maddened hv o
4WaBi-a:,s: "Those in the pit rose
to tneir leet ito cheer him nd hats and
cap wefe wvedat Jhltri as though at
a victorious ireneral hMoi- inn.
paiaTO," JVUica it no exaggeration.
Joseph Coyne, by the way, is extreme
ly good In "The Merry widow." He
was engaged by Ed wardes after his hit
in "Nelly Neil and has a, similar part
at Daly's to that which he, played in
the McLellan musical company, namely
a youthful "rdunder." He is not a great
singer, however, and many of the crit
ics have grumbled over his selection to
play Prince Danllo, for a song called
"I'm Off to Maxims," which made a fu
rore In Vienna, falls fiat as he gives it,
and he does not even attempt another
ditty allotted to the character. Still
Coyne scored hugely on the opening
night, as all the reviewers admit.
Coyne Is Immense.
He really is Immense. in the waltz
scene, as well as in a later on where he
tries to resist the appeal of the melody.
The story of "The Merry Widow" hard
ly is worth telling, yet, as Americans
may have heard, no less than two Brit
ish authors are claiming the credit of
telling or rather retejllng it. These
are Captain Basil Hood, who wrote
"Sweet and Twenty," and Edward Mor
ton, whose chief claim to fame as a
librettist rests on -the fact that he gave
us "San Toy."
On the first night programs, as well
as on the posters, Morton was named
fts the adapter of "Die Lustige Witwe,"
but lo! on the morning after the pro
duction at Daly's, Captain Hood claimed
to have done the work. The whole
thing Is something of a mystery, even
now; but as Morton's nara,e has been
taken off the program and the bills it
looks as if Hood had emerged victori
ous and the question is how the other
librettist came to be given the credit at
the outset. The controversy la the
newspapers has shed no light on this
interesting maner.
Plot Is Harmless.
To hark back to the plot of 'The
Merry Widow," however, this is harm
less aa well aa trifling enough. Sonla,
the heroine, has been wooed as a girl
by Prince, Danllo, but alaa the letter's
rich uncle would not give his consent,
the maiden being a farmer's daughter.
So Danllo broke It off, albeit reluctantly,
and Sonia married money in the person
of a tfabulousjy rich agriculturist, who
died within a few weeks of their wed
ding. A millionairess, then, as well as
beautiful, ahe comes to Paris, where
Danllo la now a secretary of legation,
and upon meeting they fall in love all
over again. But Danllo has "gone the
pace" at Maxims; moreover he dreads
to be branded as a fortune hunter, and
so It comes that the girl he had form
erly Jilted has to court him through
three acts of complications.
Is National Dance.
Their waltz the national dance of
their common country Marsovia is one
of ner machinations, which, of course,
are crowned with success. As I have
pointed out, thla alluring dance has led
to a tragedy inCreal life and it would
not be surprising If many romances had
been engendered by the melody which
accompanies it. Previous to the rising
of the curtain on the third act of "The
Merry Widow" the first night audi
ence hummed th'is waltz In chorus and
It has quickly spread throughout Lon
don. A gramophone company which haa
prepared thousands of records in antici
pation was sold out, it is said, two days
after "The Merry Widow", was pro
duced. Tne publishers of the music
scarcely can keep up with the demand.
"All England," says a writer In a news
paper before me, "will have to be pre
pared to hear It played by every band
and organ in the country from now
forward until goodness knows when.
It Is an epoch-making waltz, though
simple. Whistling will once more be
come general and street organs that
play the' waltz are expected to be al
lowed to stay as long as they like In
even the most exclusive streets!" ,
Meanwhile Daly's will not begin' to
accommodate the folk who want to see '
the actual dance in "The Marry Widow." I
and an authority has declared that the
opera will run here for three years,
But Just you wait till the waltz refrain
reaches the United States! "Hiawatha"
will be nothing to it. -
Eagle Kite Foole.1 Kingfishers.
From the Rochester Herald.
Seven boys entered their miniature
airships for the annual kite flying con
test open to children of the public and
parochial schools, which took place yes
terday afternoon In Genesee Valley
park.
Interest was lent to the contest by
an odd incident, showing that the birds
of the air may be fooled by the clever
ness of man. Allng Brown had a kite
made in Imitation of an American eagle,
and when It spread its wings to the
breeze and rode away Into the air It
looked Ilka a real "king of the air.' -
French Priest Who Is a Motor Car E-xpert
fARIS. Should any of the motor
I 3 cars engaged In the great speed
r contest to take place In July on
the circuit of the Seine Inferleure
chance to break down while go
ing through the little commune of
Gralncourt, It Is probable that Its cure,
the Abbe Furst, will be called on to
help patch them up. The sturdy, white
bearded priest Is quite a celebrity In his
way, for he has charge not noly of the
spiritual needs of his flock, but of the
bicycles and motor cars of the whole
countryside Into the bargain.
Abbe Furst is really a remarkable
man. Many years ago he used to em
ploy his leisure momenta In amateur
engineering. When bicycles came, into
fashion he was able to manufacture
one for himself and then, still keeping
aureus i oi ine times, ne actually made
his own motor car.
Indispensable to District.
i
For the last 15 years he has been
doubly Indispensable to the district. If
a postman's bicycle breaks down or the
squire's automobile or the doctor's mo
tocylette refuse to go, it is monsler le
cure who Is at once sent for. Times are
hard, especially now, for a country par
son In France and the abbe eees no
harm in turning an honest penny aa a
mechanic after confession or adminis
tering the sacrament or saying mass.
In addition - to his motor car, Abbe
Furst has a 2-horsepower ' moto-
cyclette which he haa improved Into a
3-horsepower. The' core's "garage" and
workshop are in -tno vicarage court
yard and hard by among the trees Is the
old church. In one or the otHer you
will not fail to -find -the Cure de Grain
court if you have need of his services.
Circuit Is Fatal.
The department through which the
great race is to be ruu contains the im
portant towns of Havre. Rouen and
Vfl " 121 Jf
The Cure of Gralncourt Mends Bicycles, Motor-Bicycles and Motor Cars,
and Has Even Built a Small Car for His Own Use.
Dieppe. It waa near this latter place
that young Albert Clement, son of the
head of the great Clement automobile
firm, was killed the other day whllei
trying the new car that waa to take
part in the race. So the "circuit" has
been already fatal to one of the com
petitors before the groat event has come
off.
The scenery , through which the cir
cuit leads Is one of smiling Norman
orchards and pastures, with low-roofed,
gabled farmsteads embowered at thia
season of the yet- In clouds of fairy
like apple blossoms. The apple tre9
will, it is true, have long since shlti,
KiuiD b'hd wucii me motor
cars rusn Dy, out tneir occupants will
mvu im ivi Liie ueautiea vL
nature.
Indeed, ao perfect waa the imitation
that aa the beautiful kite soared over
one of the trees in the park in rising,
two large kingfishers saw the strange
fowl, and, uttering their shrill cry of
battle, left the tree and followed the
kite high into the air. They wheeled
and circled around their new enemy,
but such was their awe of the majestic
bird they did not venture to push hastlt-
Litles to the actual point of contact The
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Odd Place for Bird's Nest.
From the London Evening Standard.
A thrush has built her nest at the
back of the neck of the aculptored angel
on the memorial to William Thomas
Kime. the author, in ' fit Margaret's
churchyard, Keddington, near Louth
The memorial is protected by a wire
cage through which the bird managed
to find Its way. The cage also pro
tects the birds, for no boys can possibly
get-at the nest, which now shelters tha
mother bird and five little thrushes, -