i The thought of founding an associa
tion that would preserve the friend
ships and Memories of their common
trials and dangers among-the men who
fought for the Union during the Civil
AYar was conceived by the Rev. 'Will
iam -J. Rutledge, of Petersburg, 111.,
who, during the war, was chaplain of
the Fourteenth Illinois Infantry. Chap
lain Kutledge was the tentmate and
intimate friend of Dr. B. 1 Stephenson
after the latter joined the Fourteenth
Regiment in 1802. To him he suggest
ed his idea, and they agreed to work to
gether for the purpose of organizing
such an association after the close of
the war.
After peace had been restored both
were mustered out and returned to
their homes. They kept up a lively cor-l-espondence,
however, and in March,
1800, met, by appointment, in Spring
field, 111., to consider the draft of a rit
ual for the organization which they in
tended to found. Dr. Stephenson had
prepared such a draft and consulted
uiauy former officers of the Union army
in reference to it, among them Col. John
M. Suyder, Governor Oglesby's secre
tary; Dr. James Hamilton, Maj. Rob
ert M. Woods, Maj. Robert Allen, Col.
Martin Flood, Col. Daniel Grass, Col.
Edward Prince, and many others.
The ritual was finally adopted and
printed fu the office of the Decatur, 111.,
Tribune, which was owned by L W.
Coltrin and Joseph Pry or. Both men,
as well as nearly all their employes,
had been in the military service during
the war. They were all pledged to the
utmost secrecy. Capt. John S. Phelps
superintended the printing of the rit
ual. Maj. B. F. Stephenson was the mov
ing spirit of the movement, and de
voted himself to his task with great
energy and enthusiasm. His friends
succeeded in interesting many other
-officers and men of the Union army on
behalf of the proposed organization,
and it was finally formed in Springfield
in March, 1860.
The first post was founded In De
catur, III., through the efforts of Dr.
WOMEN WHO SELL PAPERS.
Comparatively Few of the Sex in the
Business in Chicago.
There are not many women in Chi
cago who follow the business of selling
newspapers on the street, but those who
do are not lacking in persistency, says
the Chronicle. They have several ad
vantages over boys, one being their
sex and age, which appeal to buyers of
papers; another is a commotion on the
street does not divert them from their
calling. Their memory of faces is re
markable. When a man buys a paper
twice of a woman he is looked upon as
a regular customer, -and if he does not
keep it up from day to day she puts on
the look of one who is injured". This"
little trick works well. Not a few men
will make it a point to defer purchas
ing until they reach her street corner.
Xot a few men regard the patronizing
of such persons as a sort of charity and
that makes them like to put themselves
out a little to do It.- All these charac
teristics of men the woman vender of
newspapers understands, and with ev
ery -sale there goes with the paper a
look and a smile which make the buyer
feel in his soul that he is ameliorating
the condition of the poor and he comes
again.
Nearly all women street venders of
newspapers in Chicago are consider-
WOMAN NKWSPAPF.B DEALER.
ably past middle age, and their make
up is one of genteel poverty of "1 have
seen belter days." Some who sew dur
ing the day spend an hour or two in the
later afternoon and early evening sell
ing papers, because they need the recre
ation and air, besides they make a lit
tle money out of it, which is a great
help to them in meeting expenses.
There are a few newspaper sellers
who fetch a child with them to the
street, which serves as a manufacturer
of sympathy. The child may belong to
the woman who has it, and it may be
borrowed for the occasion. The latter
becomes a pretty self-evident fact when
the child does not always put in its
appearance, and especially so when the
child bears no likeness of the woman
and they act one toward the other as if
there was no bond of relationship exist
ing between them. The child's part in
the play for sympathy and trade is a
conspicuous one. If it is not too large
it is carried in the woman's arms while
she stands and on her lap while she
sits, but in any event it is kept well
to the foreground as a childish appeal
for patronage. It is a good card, and
even men and women who believe it Is
all a play cannot always resist the
promptings of their sympathy. Such
women move from place to place. They
are on one street corner to-day, another
to-morrow, and somewhere else the
next day. They do not work for regu
lar customers that is, those who bor
row babies for the occasion.
J. W. Booth and Capt. M. F. Kauan. of
that city. It was organized by Major
Stephenson and Captain Phelps on
April 0, 1800. The officers were mus
tered in by Major Stephenson, who
then declared the post duly organized
and ready for the transaction of any
and all business that might come be
fore it. At the regular meeting on
April 10, 1800. X. . Burns, Henry Gor
man, X. E. Winholtz, W. H. Andrews
and W. H. B. Rowe were mustered in
as new members of the post.
In the meantime Major Stephenson
and his comrades worked hard to per
fect the constitution, which was finally
accepted at a meeting in Springfield,
May 9, 1800. It was printed in Spring
field, and copies were sent to the Deca
tur Post Xo. 1 on May 15, followed
shortly after by copies of the revised
ritual. According to the constitution
the name of the national organization
was to be "The Grand Army of the Re
public," and precinct, county and State
organizations were provided for. Prior
io the formal institution of Post Xo. 2
at Springfield a departmental staff had
been agreed upon to prosecute the work
of organizing posts.
' The first State convention or encamp
ment to form the Department of Illi
nois was held at Springfield, 111., on
July 12, 1800. At that time there were
already thirty-nine Grand Army posts
in the State of Illinois that had re
ceived their charters. The call for the
convention was signed by many of the
most prominent former army officers In
the State. The convention was called
There are a few women who are in
the trade as a business. They are out
early and late, always on hand for the
first issue of the "Extra," and they
push themselves forward quite as ac
tively as the newsboys hustle. Such
women do not resort to subterfuge.
They do not play for sympathy, nor do
they claim any favors because of their
sex. They rely upon their push, en
ergy and perhaps love of the excite
ment. Anyway, they go about it like a
merchant who knows his goods have
merit and that it is his business to
proclaim that fact far and near.
There are a few quite old women In
the business of selling newspapers on
the street, and their age and feebleness
oblige them to have a-regular place to
sit down. They have regular customers
who buy of them out of honest sym
pathy because it is their chief if not
their only means of support, and rarely
ever is change asked when a nickel is
given. This class, as a rule, are neat
and clean in appearance and express
their gratitude with their eyes rather
than in words. It may be said that
there are no young women in the busi
ness of selling newspapers on the
streets In Chicago, but there are a num
ber of girls ranging in age from 8 to 12
years, and nearly all of them are bold,
persistent and always chewing gum.
They look untidy and seem to have no
ambition to better their condition.
BIRDS THAT DO NOT SING.
They Far Outnumber the Musicians of
the Feathered Family.
Singing is applied to birds In the same
sense that It Is to human beings the
utterance of musical notes. Every per
son makes vocal sounds of some kind,
but many persons never attempt to
sing. So it Is with birds. The eagle
screams, the owl hoots, the wild goose
bonks, the crow caws, but none of these
discordant sounds can be called sing
ing. With the poet, the singing of birds
means merry, light-hearted joyousness,
and most of us are poetic enough to
view it in the same way. Birds sing
most in the spring and the early sum
mer, those happiest seasons of the year,
while employed in nest-building and in
rearing their young. Many of our most
musical singers are silent all the rest
of the year; at least they utter only low
chirpings. It is natural, therefore, that
lovers of birds should regard their sing
ing as purely an expression of joy in
the returning spring, and in their happy
occupations.
Outside of what are properly classed
as song birds there are many species
that never pretend to sing; in fact, these
far outnumber the musicians. They in
clude the water birds of every kind, both
swimmers and waders, all the birds of
prey, eagles, hawks, owls and vultures;
and all the gallinaceous tribes, compris
ing pheasants, partridges, turkeys and
chickens. The gobble of the turkey
cock, the defiant crow of the "bob
white,'' are none of them true singing;
yet it is quite probable that all of these
sounds are uttered with precisely simi
lar motives to those that inspire the
sweet warbling of the song-sparrow,
the clear whistle of the robins or the
thrilling music of the wood-thrush.
But naturalists nave set apart a very
large group as song birds, and even
among these there are many species
that never sing at all. Birds are group
ed according to their anatomical char
acteristics, the structure of their bones,
bills, feet and wings. And thus we
have the songless song birds, looking at
to order by Major Stephenson aud Col.
Walter B. Scates, of Chicago, was elect
ed president. The Department of Illi
nois was formally organized.
The first national encampmeut, in
which the national organization of the
Grand Army of the Republic was per
fected, was held at Indianapolis, lud.,
on Nov. 20, 1800. It was called to order
by Commander-in-Chief B. F. Stephen
son, and Gen. John M. Palmer was
elected permanent president of the
convention. The war Governor of In
diana, Oliver I. Morton, attended the
encampment and was received with
great enthusiasm.
The second national encampment of
the (J rand Army did not take place un
til Jan. 15-17, 1808, and was held at
Philadelphia. John A. Logan, of Illi
nois, was elected commander-in-chief.
He was re-elected at the following two
national encampmeutsatCincinnati and
Washington, D. C. The fifth national
encampment was held at Boston and
elected A. E. Burnside commander-in-chief.
During the first years of its exist
ence the growth of the Grand Army of
the Republic was comparatively slow,
and not until the latter part of the '70s
did its marvelous growth really begin.
In 1878 the Grand Army comprised but
31,010 members, while at the present
time it comprises 7,184 posts, with 2S0,
453 members. The greatest number of
members was reached in 1890, when
the national organization -eomprised
409.4S9 members in good standing.
After this it is expected that the num
ber will steadily decrease, owing to the
mortality among the veterans.
Following is a list showing the num
ber of members of the Grand Army
during the years from 1S78 to the pres
ent time:
1878
1879 . . .
1880 . . .
1881 ...
1882 . . .
1883 . . .
1SS4 ...
1885 . . .
1S80
1887 . . .
1888 . . .
18S9 . . .
31.010
44,752
00,t;34
85,850
134,701
215,440
273.10S
294,787
323,571
355,910
372,:KW
397,974
1S90
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1890
1897
1898
1S99
1900
409,483
407.781
399.880
307,223
309,083
357.039
340,010
319,450
305.003
287,308
280,453
the matter from the standpoint of the
classifying naturalist. Philadelphia
Times.
Starting in the Chicken Business.
There is a story told of a shrewd
Yankee who began in business without
any capital at all.
He borrowed a broody hen from one
neighbor and a setting of eggs from
another.
Having set the hen he soon had a
fine brood of chicks, but was now in a
dilemma as to how he could pay back
those eggs.
He finally solved the difficulty by
keeping the hen until she had laid the
required number of eggs, when he re
turned both the hen and the eggs, and
guessed he had as fine a lot of chick
.cs as anybody. And abo it as cheap,
too. There are men in western Ne
braska who claim a good start from a
borrowed cow, but the operation can
hardly have been as smooth as this.
Exchange.
Silencing the Boaster.
A certain man was very much given
to bragging about grand relations and
connections, though be was not al
ways quite convincing.'
On one occasion he was particularly
tiresome, holding forth about "Lady
Blank, whom I met yesterday, a con
nection of mine through Lord So-and-So
and the Earl of Nobody," and so on.
A Scotsman present said, quietly:
"That reminds me o' a man I knew,
who said he was a relation o' the Duke
o' Argyll, and explained it this way:
'The duke's piper's sister's wee laddie
has a wee doggie that's aln brither to
my aunt's wee laddie's doggie." "
The boaster was silent about his
grand relations for the rest of the even
ing. London Tit-Bits.
China to Outstrip Japan.
When the outside Interference which
is now inevitable shall have removed
or modified the existing bars to trade
China will leave Japan far behind from
the industrial standpoint. The Chinese
are as remarkable for their commer
cial morality as the Japanese are for
the opposite; they are more solid, better
balanced, take longer views, and are,
In short, more merchants and less ped
dlers than the same class In Japan, and
the natural resources of their immense
country are such as Japan cannot hope
to compete with, poor as she is in min
eral wealth and subject to the most
disastrous natural convulsions.
Boats to Run in Six Inches of Water.
Two distinct curiosities In American
shipbuilding have been recently com
pleted in San Francisco. They are
stem-wheel launches that, when load
ed, will draw but six inches of water.
They have met all tests so far success
fully, and with their light, compact
little engines, easily make seven knots
an hour in a six-inch water basin.
They are to be used in the Amoor
river, Liberia, a shallow stream of local
commercial importance.
Only Three Seminole Bands.
Tl.ere are to-day but three bands of
Seniinoles le,f t in Florida. So complete
ly have these people been disintegrated
that no tribal relations now exist be
tween them; they have no acknowledg
ed chief, and they recognize no man's
authority. They number about 600.
Next to a nagging wife Is a father
who is always reminding his childrei
of what they have cost him, and that
they ought to pay him back.
FALLACIOUS PROFITS.
Mistake of a Bookceper in a Yearly
Balance Sheet.
It Is doubtful If any modern promoter
has hit upon a simpler scheme to swell
the assets on his balance sheet than
that which has been employed by a
humble bookkeeper of this city while
the century was young..
The year 1801 had been a very pros
perous one for the merchants of New
York, and all looked forward with in
terest to the first mouth of the new
year, when they would be able to ascer
tain how much better off they were
then than at the same time twelve
mouths before. Notwithstanding his
high expectations, it was with a feeling
of grateful surprise that the frugal
Scotch bachelor, John Macintosh, re
ceived the news from his bookkeeper
that he was f 2,000 richer by the trans
actions of the year. That was a large
sum in those days, and Macintosh
thought the increase in his income war
ranted a change in his mode of living.
Accordingly he engaged more com
modious lodgings and invested in many
long-desired luxuries.
Still he could not make out how he
nad succeeded in accumulating such a
large surplus. -He ran over the figures
again and again to convince himself
that they must be right, and every time
checked his bookkeeper's totals. Yet
the doubt haunted him with a persist
ency as truly Scotch as himself.
He was about to retire one night In
early March, when he took out the bal
ance sheet, which he kept handy, and
once more endeavored to convince him
self of his good fortune. Without wait
lug to put on his hat, with balance
sheet in hand, he hurried to the lodg
ings of his bookkeeper. '
In those days all the good folk of the
town retired at the stroke of 9. But
Macintosh's pounding succeeded in
awakening the blissfully unconscious
clerk, who threw up the window and
demanded:
"Who's there?"
"Who's here, you dunderskull?" ex
claimed the irate merchant. "Do ye
ken what ye've doone? Ye've added
the year of our Laird to the credits!"
New York Mail and Express.
HOW CHINESE ARE ARMED.
They Have Great Faith in Lanterns,
Which They Carry Kvery where.
A large part of the success of Chi
nese armies in times past has been
due to their ability to strike terror to
the hearts of their enemies, so every
corps has its regiment of "terror strik
ers," dressed in the most preposterous
costumes and drilled in outlandish
poses, acrobatic feats and facial grim
aces. Another peculiar part of a Chinese
soldier's equipment Is his lantern. It
is not to be supposed that they could
see their way by night unless each car
ried a light, and in one of the recent
attacks on Tien-tsin the Chinese forces
advanced, each soldier carrying his
lantern. The allies waited until the
Chinese were within easy distance and
then opened on them with a rapid-fire
gun, whereupon the Chinese fled, leav
ing their lanterns on the field.
Still others of the Chinese forces are
armed with their ancient glngals, the
first of firearms invented, loaded with
powder aud shot aud touched off at the
vent with a stick of lighted Incense.
These old guns have been In use among
the Chinese for upward of 1,500 years.
But alongside of these same regi
ments are others using almost every
known kind of modern arms and drill
ed In the tactics of all the great mili
tary powers. Over fifteen makes of
modern rifles and muskets are known
to be in use in the Chinese armies, and
great demoralization has frequently
occurred by the dealing out of ammu
nition for one kind of gun to a regi
ment that used another. In the main,
however, the Chinese have been apt
pupils, and whether trained by Rus
sians, Germans, French or English of
ficers they have come to use their wea
pons with deadly effect. Leslie's
Weekly.
"She's My Mother.'
It was at the close of the Knights
Templar festivities in Denver, aud the
depot was crowded to its utmost capac
ity the platforms were packed with
humanity like sardines in a box. It
was impossible to move a foot In either
direction.
Suddenly a through train backed in,
and what a scramble and rush there
was. It resulted, of course, in a solid
wall of humanity.
At once a lane began to open up in
that almost impregnable wall, and the
wonder of those" there was how such
a seeming miracle was possible.
Looking to his right, the gentleman
who related the incident, told me that
he saw coming toward him a hand
some, rosy-cheeked, full-bearded young
fellow, at least 0 feet 2 in height, broad
chested and a giant of healthy young
manhood. In his arms, held close to
his heart, was a thin, gray-headed old
woman, In the last stages of the dread
monster consumption. As he came
along, he kept saying:
"She's my mother, boys; she's my
mother."
Caps were off; laughter stopped.
"Stand back, boys; stand back; it Is
his mother," passed from lip to lip.
That's what opened the lane for this
big boy and his mother, as he held her
to his breast, where in the years gone
by she had held him and nursed him
when he was as helpless as she was
now.
Maybe she's gone by this time, and if
she has, I'll wager that she's up there
near the gates of pearl, and when that
big, young fellow approaches It she'll
say:
"Lord, please let him in; he's my boy
and he didn't forget 'his mother."'
Denver Times.
Did She?
There are certain attractions for
which a kind-hearted persou would,
perhaps, rather not be responsible.
It Is said that some one remarked to
Count d'Orsay, concerning his wife:
"What a charming, pensive expres
sion Lady Harriet has!"
"She owes that to me," was the reply.
Golf and Profanity.
McJigger The lash- time I saw
Niblack he spoke of swearing off golf
again, but that looks like him going
over the links now.
Thingumbob Yes. There he is, off
wearing again. Philadelphia Press.
MINES OF THE NOR I HWEST
IRONDALE WORKS SOLD.
Pass Into the Hands of Mr. Hill, the
Great Northern Kins-
Port Townaend, Sept. 10. The an
nounced sale of the Irondale iron fur
nace to an agent of James J. Hill,
which is said to have taken place at
San Francisco, September 1, has. caused
no little comment here. Whether it
means the starting up of the plant
again, or whether the property has
been purchased merely for the water
frontage and other purposes is a ques
tion of debate.
For the past year negotiations for
the sale of the plant have gone for
ward. The deal was to have included
valuable iron deposits on Texada isl
and, B. C, but the owners of the lat
ter property, the Pnget Sound Iron
Company, which Is composed of the
stockholders of the Irondale property,
refused to dispose of the island iron,
mines, so the fnrnace machinery and a
la rye amount of land at and near Iron
dale was sold without the iron mines,
in British Columbia.
On the lands included In the deal,
but lying some miles from the fnrnace.
at Irondale, are valuable iron deposits'
and ore from the mines there vasjsed
in connection with Texada ore during,
the time the furnace was in operation.
The combining of the two ores made ex-j
cellent iron, and a large amount of iti
was used in the construction of the
crusier Charleston, built by the Union:
Iron Works.
There are other valuable deposits of
iron" in Jefferson county, in the Olym
pic mountains, bordering on Hood
canal, and easv of access to the Iron-
rittln works Thptsp irmi dmrinai r.s hnvA
been thorouehlv orosoected bv exoeits
during the past six years, who were
here in the interest of Mr. Hill, and
the belief here is that (he works at
Irondale will be put in operation again.
"The iron works, including machinery,
cost $750,000, but t present are not
'worth half that, and to put the furnace
in operation again would require an
expenditure of $200,000. The hot
oven is a wieck, the stack out of date,
the air compressor being about all the
machinery that could be utilized to ad
vantage. It is doubtful if the woiks
will be run again as a smelting plant,
but the purchase of the property may
be with a view of putting in a ship
building plant.
Dr. H. C. Willison, one of the
stockholders, who returned from San
Francisco a few days ago, when seen
about the sale of the property, said he
had not before beard of the deal being
closed, but admitted that agents were
negotiating for the works. He also
said one of the men representing Mr.
Hill passed through Seattle, August
24, on his way to San Francisco, and
the deal might have been consummated
September 1 as reported.
Some of the finest water frontage on
Port Townsend bay lies at Irondale.
It is securely sheltered from all storms,
and the water is of a depth of from
eight fathoms at the shore to 32
fathoms in the centei of the bay. The
place lies about seven miles np the bay
from this city.
VAN ANDA PROPERTY SOLD.
Attorney Bannon Now Has Practical
Control of It.
Baker City, Or., Sept. 10. Attorney
P. J- Bannon, formerly of Portland,
now as practical control of the Van
Anda property on Olive creek. At the
execution sale, held in Canyon City,
he bid in the property for $700 in the
interest of the judgment creditois. As
only four of the six claims constitut
ing the Van Anda group were levied
upon, the deficit of judgment, amount
ing to $400 will have to be met by the
sale of the remaining two claims.
William Turner, one of the original
owners of the Van Anda, has hopes of
raising the money necessary to redeem
the property before the time of redemp
tion expires. It is also understood he
will take up the building improve
ments, which were some time ago sold
as personal property on execution.
This mine at one time ranked as a val
table property, and this it may be yet.
vbout $1,200 worth of development
work has been done and about $1,000
has been spent on buildings. The
mine is located on Quebec mountain,
and is surrounded by a number of other
promising properties.
DREDGING THE GOLD.
Big Operations on the Fraser River in
British Columbia.
Kamloops, B. C, Sept. 10. The big
gold dredge on the Fraser river near
Lyttou, B C, has been in operation
for the past month aud the owner is
more than satisfied with the results
attained. The dredge is in operation
every hour of the 24, the men working
three shifts. Every 24 hours 1,500
cubic yards of gravel is taken from the
bottom of the stream and passed over
the treating tables. This may not ap
pear to be a large amount at first sight,
but when it is understood that this
means in the neighborhood of 2,000
tons dead weight, and that during the
day over 10,000 tons of water are used
in the washing process, it will be evi
dent to anyone the workings of the
dredge is an undertaikng of great mag
nitude. Big Sale of Mining; Stock.
Portland, Sept. 10. The stock of
Che Muick Mining & Milling Com
pany, one of the best-known properties
in the Bohemia district, was placed on
sale at the Oregon Mining Exchange
and 123,450 shares were sold during
the first call, at 10 cents per share.
The Musick is a good producer, nearly
$150,000 having been taken from that
property. A stamp mill is in operation
at the Musick.
BIG
SUIT IN
IDAHO.
Valuable
Minn Is Wanted by
Different
Aljcged Owners.
Weiser, Idaho, Sept. 10, A suit for
partition and seven-sixteenths of the
Peacock, Helena and White Monument
mines in the Seven Devils, valued at
$800,000, has been commenced at
Weiser. The remaining nine-sixteenths
of the property is nnder bond
foi $1,500,000, and the payments on
it have been made regularly for some
time. It is one of the most important
mining suits ever begun in Idaho and
some of the most valuable property iu
the Seven Devils is involved.
' SPOKANE MAN FEELS RICH.
Claims
Hi Mine In Jackson County,
Or.. Is a Wonder.
Spokane, Sept. 10. H. B. Nye, an
old Spokane prospector, has come
home, bringing with him a sackful of
fabulously rich ore that was taken from
his claim, the Bill Nye, in Jackson
county, Oregon. The ore assays $40,
000 in gold to the ton. In speaking of
the rich strike, Mr. Nye said:
"The great pay chute is ten inches
wide and the native gold is visible all
through it. On July 25 I bonded the
claim for $600 and by Angust 6 I had
taken out $12,000 in gold ore.
DIADEM GOLD
ORE.
Good Showing Made at the Baker City
Sampling; Works,
Baker City, Or., Sept. 10. Returns
from the Baker City sampling works,
for the last carload shipment made by
the Diadem Gold Mining Company,
show a net value of $1,018.94. Tht
report gives 6.20 ounces of gold, nine
ounces of silver and $115.80 value to
the ton. The company's property is
located in the Greenhorn district, about
five miles from . Robinsville, and the
owners are Montana capitalists. The
previous shipment ran $130.50 to the
ton and netted $800.24.
Samples of ore from the copper
ledges on Goose creek, near the Dolly
Yarden. are on display in Baker City.
They show rich deposits of the red
metal, and those who have visited
there say the district shows a won
derful surface indication, and it is the
opinion of those who are making the
investigation that the district will be a
'! reat Plucej of copper whenever cap
ital and practical mining are employed.
GOLD KEEPS COMING.
Klondike Shipments to Seattle Do Not
Vail Ott Much.
I Seattle, Sept. 10. In ronnd figures
$700,000 worth of Klondike gold was
("brought to this city bv the steamer
fCity of Seattle from Skagway. Tin
shipment included a single consign
merit of $539,760 by the Canadian
Bank of Commerce of Dawson to the
Seattle government assay office. A
steel box containing-$43,200 is shipped
out by James Brown, who was not,
however, a passenger on the vessel.
Nearly $20,000 worth of Klondike
treasure was received by the steamer
Aberdeen from Skagway. The bulk of
this wealth was owned by three men,
Frank E. Skagerlind, H. Carlson and
William Pricharl.
CAPACITY OF FIFTY DRILLS.
Standard Mine at Wallace Is Putting
in a Big Plant.
Wallace, Idaho, Sept. 10. The
Standard Mining Company is putting
in a new air compressor and electric
plant at the mine. The foundation is
completed and some o f the machinery
is on the ground. The new compressor
will have a capacity of 50 drills, the
present being only of 15 drills. Jn
putting it in the company is looking
far into the future. The 15-drill com
pressor is nearly large enough at pres
ent, and the company does not desire
to work over 20 drills if they had ever
so much power, but to put in such a
compressor .would only mean the addi
tion of still another new plant a'most
before this one would be running, so
it was decided while the change was
being made to get a machine that
would be large enough to do the work
for years to come.
STEVENS PEAK PROPERTY
Bonded fox" 940,000 and Development
Work Begins at Once.
Wallace, Idaho, Sept. 10. A deal
has been made by which William
Williams and John W. Perglase, of
Milwaukee, undertake to develop the
Wonderful group on Stevens peak, se
curing a working bond from the own
ers for $40,000. This is the group on
which 16 feet of galena was struck a
few weeks ago, when ground sluicing
hunting for the location of the ledg
where it crossed a creek. Since the
ore has also been found in another lo
cation. The group includes three
claims, the Wonderful, Oro Fino . and
Aguinaldo. Work begins at once in
cutting a trail from the Northern Pa
cific to the property, and is to be pur
sued continuously during the year for
which agreement runs.
To Develop the White Cross..
Moscow, Idaho, Sept. 10. An offer
is said to have been made by a Spokane
man to drive 535 feet of tunnel and
shaft on the White Cross for a half in
terest in the property. He proposed
to sink 200 feet. The White Cross is
located in the Moscow mountains, six
miles from Moscow, and has of late
been showing some good surface indica
tions. Dr. Withycombe, vice-director of the
Cor val lis, Or., agricultural college ex
periment station, has departed, for Sac
ramento, where he is to act as one of
the judges of the fine stock display at
the California state fair. Shortly after
his return to Oregon he will leave for
the East, for a two months' absence,
during which he will visit the princi
pal stations of the country.
Good Dividend for Small Mine.
Nelson, B. C, Sept. 10. The Ath
basca mine near this place will declare
a dividend of $25,000, which is 5 per
cent on the new capitalization.
Wood promises to be wood in La
i Grande, Or., this winter, says the
i Journal. The market is begging al
i ready, and one man who ought to
know estimates, that there are not 80
: cords in all the acres of timber within
! a radius of 10 miles. Large loads are
! now being hauled "from Summerville.
Bishop Mine Will Soon Ship Ore.
Palonse, Wash., Sept. 10. The
Bishop claim, on Jerome creek, about
20 miles from Palouse, will begin to
ship soon. A rate of $5 per ton to Ta
! coma or Everett has been secured.
Only lack of capital prevented the
mine form shipping earlier in the sea
son, for there are several hundred tons
of ore on the dump.
j The Douglas county board of equal-
ization reduced the assessment of rail
road rolling stock from $608 to $500 a
mile. Few material changes were
made in the rolls.
WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW.
Labor Conditions A meeting Business in
the East.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of
trade says:
The volume of business does not ma
terially enlarge at the East, and there
is only moderati improvement at the
West and South, but if expectations of
greater activity when politics cease to
disturb are realized, current operations
will be found to have laid a substantial
foundation. The most important event
of the week in the industrial world was
the agreement on the tin plate wage
scale with the amalgamated associa
tion, granting about 8 per cent advance
to 35,000 hands long idle.
Prices of grain are little altered,
good crop reports coming in freely, but
the effect is being neutralized by tlie
foreign estimate of a world's., crop be
low requirements.
Business in iron and steel products
steadily increased, and mills are more
actively employed. October 1 is men
tioned as the probable date of a general
resumption.
Railroads have lefused to make re
ductions in freight rates, which it was
hoped would increase exports.
Last week's shipments of boots and
shoes from Boston were only 70,345
cases, against 71,277 in the previous
week, and for the year thus far the de
crease, compared with 1899, has
amounted to 254,315 cases.
Sales of wool at the three chief East
ern markets declined to 2,833,000
p unds, against 4,234,700 pounds in
the previous week; 9,245,200 last year.
In the woolen market there is a
rather deceptive appearance of greater
activity. Bulk of business in new
lines recently put out a substitute for
standard goo .Is and a lower price.
Failures for the week were 145 in
the United States, against 132 last
year, and 24 in Canada, against 10 last
year.
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Seattle Markets.
Onions, new, lJic.
Lettuce, hot house, $1 per crate.
Potatoes, new. $15.
Beets, per sack, 85c $1.
Turnips, per sack, 75c.
Squash 4c.
Carrots, per sack, $1.00
Parsnips, per sack, $1.25.
Cauliflower, native, 75c.
Cucu m bers 10 20c.
Cabbage, native and California,
2c per pounds.
Tomatoes 40 60".
Butter Creamery, 2Gc; Eastern 22c;
dairy, 16 19c; ranch, 14c pound.
Eggs 25c.
Cheese 12c.
Poultry 12c; dressed, 14c; spring,
1315c.
Hay Puget SouAl timothy, $11.00
12.00; choice Eastern Washington
timothy, $16.00.
Corn Whole, $23.00; cracked, $25;
feed meal, $25.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$20.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.50;
blended straights, $3.25; California,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra
ham, per barrel, $3.00; whole wheat
flour, $3.25; rye flour, $3.804.00.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $12.00;
shorts, per ton, $14.00.
Feed Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton;
middlings, per ton, $20; oil cake meal,
per ton, $30.00.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef
steers, price 7ac; cows, 7c; inuttont
7f4; pork, 8c; trimmed, 9c; veal, 9
11c.
Hams Large, 13c; small, '3Hi
breakfast bacon, 12c; dry salt sides.
8 i3c.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla. 5656,'e'c;
Valley, 57 J2C; Bluestein.OOc per bushel'
Flour Best grades, $3.10; graham,
$2.50.
Oats Choice white, 42c; choice
gray, 40c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $15. 00 15.50;
brewing, $17.00 per ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $13.00 ton; mid
dlings, $20; shorts, $15; chop, $15 per
ton. Hay Timothy, $1 1 12; clover,$7
7.-50; Oregon wild hay, $6 (it 7 pertou
Butter Fancy creamery, 4550c;
store, 27 Jjc.
Eggs 19c. per dozen.
Cheese Oregon full creana, I5c;
Young America, 14c; new cbese li&e
per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $5.00
4.00 per dozfeu; hens, $4.50; springs,
$2.003.00; geese, $6,.0O7.00 per
ducks, $3.004.00 per dozen; turkeys,
live. 14 16c per pound. J
Potatoes 40 50c per sack; sweety,
2214C per pounu.
Vegetables Beets, $1; turnips, $1;
per sack; garlic, 7c per pound; cab
bage, 2c per -pound; parsnips, $1;
onions, 1 c per pound; carrots, $1.
Hops 28c per pound.
Wool Valley, 15 16c per pound;
Eastern. Oregon, 15 16c; mohair, 25
per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
ami ewes, 3c; dressed mutton, 7
720 per pound; lambs, 6)20.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $5.00;
light and feeders, $4.50; dressed,.
$5.006.50 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $4.00(34.50;:
cows, $8.504.00; dressed beef, 6)2 .
7?e per pound.
Veal Large, 6)st7)2c; small, 8
Ss4c per pound.
Ban Francisco Market.
Wool Spring Nevada, 1 1 I80- per
pound; Eastern Oregon, 1014o; Val
ley, 16 18c; Northern, 9 10c.
Hops 1899 crop, 8213e; new
crop, 1900, 10123-ae.
Butter Fancy creamery 23c;
do seconds, 21 22c; fancy dairy,
20V2C; do seconds, 19c per pound.
Eggs Store, 17c; fancy ranch,
22c.
Millstuffs Middlings, $17.00
20.00; bran, $12.50 13.50.
Hay AV heat $8 12; wheat and
oat $8.0010.50; best barley $8.50
alfalfa, $6.00 7.50 per ton; straw,
2 5 3 7 2 c per bale.
Potatoes Early Rose, 30 75c; Ore
ion Burbanks, 90c$l: river Bur
banks, 35 65c; new. Ha 2c.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia,.
$2. 75 3. 25; Mexican limes, $4.00
5.00; California lemons 75c$1.50i
do choice $1.752.00 per box.
Tropical Fruits Bananas, $1.50
2.50 per bunch; pineapples, nom
inal; Persian dates, 66'8c per
pound.