Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 January 1898 — Page 3

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COOK'S INLET RICHES (SOLD

DISCOVERIES SAID TO RIVAL THE KLONDIKE. 'if'.-

Marvels of the Extreme Northwestern Port of Our Continent Its Coal Beds, Soil, Climate, Fish and Game—A New El Dorado For the Argonaut.

[Special Correspondence.}

SEATTLE, Jan. 19. —The intense excitement into which the "sacred bungei for gold, "as the Latin poet calls it, has flamed with the wonderful discoveries in the Klondike country has turned

A MINING CAMP.

the eyes of the world to the extreme northwestern part of our continent. That hyperborean region, wrapped for a large part of the year in snow and ice, is today what California and Australia wejie in the not distant past. So the argonauts are swarming thither, defying the rigors of nature, the difficulties of getting there and the more serious difficulties of living there, once the pick and shovel are in hand.

It is an old story now, the wonders of the Klondike goldfields, the rich finds of the precious metal and the dramatic tales of suffering under the arctic pall of along aud dreadful winter. Indeed this personal element of human privation transforming the scramble for wealth into a tragedy is largely responsible for the intense interest of the world. It is t3»e sympathy with suffer ing which the exploitation of the newspaper writer finds so available, as woll as veracious accounts of glittering mil lions unearthed. This is the advantage, strange to say, which the inhospitable waste of British America have over tho Alaskan goldfields in fascinating the public attention. There is not much romance in gold gotting where it is pursued under conditions of comparative ease.

All the recent accounts of auriferous development in our so called arctic province, in groat measure indeed a misnomer, point to a future rivalry which will make pale the golden glitter gilding the other side of the line. The immense mineral resources of Alaska have been recognized in theory for many years, but it is only recently that they hqve been made tangible facts. I have been deeply^ interested in accounts brought bacli to us by travelers and explorers touching specially that immense region which depends on Cook's inlet as its souroe of supplies and itsoceun tort. To avoid diffuseness, I have not put the information given in tho form of an interviow, but have collated and condensed the facts.

Cook's inlet, about 700 miles west from Sitka, the Alaskan capital, is about 150 miles long and from 75 to 25 nylcs in width, presenting on one side mountainous and rugged bluffs and on the other tho plateaus and parklike ter races of tho Kenai peninsula. One ol the indentations of the mouth of the inlet, wbero the town of Homer has been located within the last two years, is the finest natural harbor on the coast. Par up the iulet the tidal base (for there is a rise of nearly 80 feet) presents difAcuities to navigation, though not insuperable. But nothing could be safer or moro convenient than the depth of water which in the harbor floats big steamships at the very edge of tho land at all times of tide. The region about Cook's inlet, famous since its discovery by the eminent English navigator as the paradise of Alaska, presents aspects of the most fascinating interest. Tho ensemble is ono of marvelous beauty, rising sometimes to the sublime. Nature's convulsions are here still active, even if they bo but the expiring throes of monstrous activities. The traveler sailing into Cook's inlet sees three volcanoes still fiercely spouting at times, with eternal pillars of smoke by day and of fire by night, Glnciers pour themselves into the sea, and not far in the interior may be seen hot springs and geysers almost as wonderful as those of Yellowstone park or of Iceland.

But tho awakened interest in this region does not arise from its wealth in the beauty and morvelousness of nature so much as in its wealth of mineral deposits. That Alaska as a wholo is one

HALF BREED NATIVES.

of the great gold bearing sections of North America is indubitable. That the Cook's inlet country is one of surpassing richness in the yellow metal is becoming every month more certain, though the rush to this region has as yet scarcely begun. Sagacious men, however, have made large investments and taken up extensive properties along both sides of the inlet and back from tide water on the small streams which rush down through the mountain pniwft. fed by eternal glaciers.

These mines are mostly of the placer

character, though magnificent quartz propei ties have also been located for future work. All the placer diggings are extraordinarily rich in color and average from $1 to $20 in yield per cubic yard of gravel. The richness of the placers increases with the depth, which in any cases is estimated to be 60 feet down to bedrock. Most of the gold so far taken out seems to have been from the surface strata. In the few cases where bedrock has been reached the yield has been fabulously rich. An exhibit of such a yield was shown the writer, consisting of nuggets and coarse gold, and its contents ranged from the size of a baby's fist down to that of buckshot. This product came from the near vicinity of the town site of Homer. On the west side of the mouth of Cook's inlet is found a mineralogical phenomenon so remarkable as to call for the most curious interest. Gold generally runs through quartz in veins. But here is a mass

mineralized rock, 20 miles

long and 1,000 feet in height, where the gold appears to be diffused through all parts of the material. Assays taken at random have shown a yield ranging from $1 to $150 per ton, and the quantity of gold ore is literally inexhausti ble if the faets alleged by the mining experts are true. Of course quartz mining in this region at present gives place to the placer workings, as the latter can be conducted with success on far less costly scale. The placer ground now open extends for a radius of 50 miles from the upper end of Cook's inlet, and there is every reason to believe that it will be greatly extended with the rapid influx of adventurers. But with all the increasing circuit of operations the new town of Homer, located on a long sand spit which shoots out between Kachekmak and Chugachik bays at the mouth of Cook's inlet and blessed with a perfect harbor, must be the metropolis of the region. Indeed it seems likely to be the natural center of distribution and port of outlet for the whole locality.

This good fortune appears to be specially insured by the immense coal measures, which lie at tide water adja cent the town in great clifiiike hills This is the only coal deposit known on the Pacific coast north of Vancouver and, according to the United States government report, the coal is of a su perior quality of its kind, whioh is brown lignite of a semibituminous quality. The facilities of mining and shipment make,it a probable rival, even for the San Francisco and Hawaiian markets, of coal mines much farther south, besides rendering it an invalu: able factor in the prosperity of Alaska in general and more specifically of the adjacent region. The presence of petroleum oil in the vicinity has also been satisfactorily tested and promises a valuable industry in the early future.

Aside from the richness of the gold deposits, the conditions under which

LOW TIDE AT COOK'S INLET.

gold oan be obtained constitute a most important feature of the mining problem. In the Cook's inlet country men can work for seven months of the year instead of three, as in tho Klondike, for the climate is the most favorable known in subarctic latitudes, and the question of supplies is readily solved. Sojourners can go aud come with ease any month of the year. Last year there was a monthly visit of a steamer, and next year, it is expected, this will become weekly. The Japan current, sweeping near by, gives a great blandness to the olimato, which is yet free from the extraordinary dampness of the Sitka summer. There is a lush growth of grass on the Kenai peninsula, where garden vegetables and small fruits also flourish in their season.

The bays swarm with excellent food fish, notably the finest salmon on the Pacific coast, a fact which has developed a large and growing canning industry. Splendid big game shooting—bear of several varieties, including the grizzly moose, deer and the bighorn— invites the sportsman, as do also in* numerable flocks of geese, ducks, brants and swans. It is a saying in the region that no one need go hungry at any season who can pull a trigger, be he ever so poor a shot. On the whole, it appears to be quite sure that the mining adventurer can prosecute his toils here not only without the terrible hardships which attach to life in the Klondike country, but with no greater difficulties to meet than are inseparable from such enterprises in any part of the world. Next year there is a p*Aspect, too, that a company which has extensive interests in this region, and after whose ruling spirit the town of Homer has been christened, will arrange for numerous and conveniently situated storehouses of supplies, which will enable the Cook's inlet miner to satisfy his needs with the least possible friction. It is believed that not less than 1,000 men will seek their fortunes in this direction in the spring. This should be the beginning of a movement of great significance in the development of a magnificent mining field- JOSEPH TOBEY.„„

Forced Into It.

"I have cbaagtd my mind about b£' ing an old maid." "For what reason?"®

Well, 1 have to bear all the worries of my brothers and sisters, so I might as well marry and have worries at

own. "—Chicago Record.

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Life In a Channel I»lan

The land of Jersey is in the hands of a frugal and industrious people, worthy descendants of the rural populations of Normandy and Brittany. Not a square inch of ground that does not produce a potato or a cabbage Prosperity reigns on all sides. Not-one dilapidated house. In this beehive of an island everything speaks aloud of cleanliness, comfort and even of riches.to those who can understand that real wealth does not consist in the quantity of things we possess, but in those that we can do without if need ba Jersey is a kitchen garden of about 70 square miles, picturesque, healthy, fertile, strewed with cottages that are wrapped in roses, and when I have told you that the cultivation of the potato alone brings in from 12,000,000 to 14,000,000 francs annually—that is to say, about $3,000,000—I shall have no trouble in convincing you that poverty is practically unknown in Jersey. Happy Jersey!

Add to this that, with the exception of wine and liqueurs, which pay alight duty, all kinds of merchandise enter Jersey untaxed that living is consequently very cheap that the income tax collector is unknown that a crowd of tourists visit the isle during four months of the year that activity reigns everywhere, not the feverish activity of the Americans, but the regular, uniform, intelligent activity of tiSe French that the soil is so fertile that flowers and fruits seem to spring from it as by enchantment that the landscape is most picturesque and varied thfct the climate is delicious, and you will conclude that Jersey is probably the El Dorado of the world and the Jersey folk, as I said before, the richest and happiest people on the surfaoe of the globe.—Max O'Bellin North American Review-

Women the Best Conveners.

Of one thing there oan be very little doubt, and that is the greater readiness in conversation of women than men. A woman can create conversation, whioh is a very useful thing and is frequently found a great social difficulty. If we give a man a subject on which he knows anything at all, unless he be a fool or morbidly reticent, he can talk about it so as to make himself fairly intelligible, and perhaps interesting, to those for whom the subject has any interest at all. Men, when their feeling of enthusiasm is excited, throw off the slowness and hesitation which frequently cramp their power in society, just as they throw off the physical infirmity of stuttering under the influence of some awakening theme or some strong sympathy.

But the power of conversation in some women, and not always those of remarkable ability, is the very art of making bricks without straw. They will talk to one by the hour about nothing—that is, on no particular subject and,with no particular object—and talk coherently and not foolishly and withal very pleasantly all the time. It would, we are free to confess, be rather difficult for the listener to carry away with him any mental notes of what has been said. He may not be conscious of haing gained any new ideas or of haviup had his old ones much enlarged, but he will rise and go his way, as one does after a ljght and wholesome meal, sensibly cheered and refreshed, but retaining no troublesome memories of the ingredients which have composed it.— New York Ledger.

.. The Glove Habit.

The wearing of gloves is a more ancient custom than it is generally thought to be. Homer speaks of gloves and tells of one who wore them to protect h:. hands while working in his garden The use of some coverings for the hands was known to the ancient Persians, and Old Testament writers also mention them. They were in such common use among the Romans that they were worn even in the wild country by tho Britous St. Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary, was, it has been said, a knitter and manufactured gloves, for which reason the glovemakers of France long ago made her their patron saint. At one time gloves had a certain meaning attached to them and were chosen to show the character or occupation of the wearer. There are records of gloves being ordered for "grave and spiritual men." About this time, the sixteenth century, gloves made of chicken skin were used by both men and women for whitening the hands and were worn at night.— New York Tribune.

A Mean Man.

Some Itime ago the proprfeioinof a traveling wild beast menagerie, well known in Italy, quarreled with his wife, and the pair separated. The wife soon afterward went into business on her own account in the wild beast line. Later on the husband's menagerie arr rived in Bologna, audit was followed two days later by that of his wife. The husband was equal to the occasion. He had the walls of the town placarded with the following ambiguous announcement, "In consequence of the arrival of my wife in this town my stock of wild beasts has been increased-"— London Standard.

£«Sal^KClBT«r Woman.

"There is no use trying to deny It," said one man to another. "Blims is badly married. I hate to say it, but it's sa" 11 "How do you know?" "By a talk I have just had with him." "Does he complain?" "No. That's the pathetic part of it He was telling me how good natured and clever his wife is because this morning she showed him how to fasten his braces to his trousers with a hairpin."—London Tit-Bits.

Thinking Mid Doing Rtgbt.

It is much easier to think right with* out doing right than to do right without thinking right Just thoughts may and woefully often do tail of producing just deeds, but just deeds are sure to beget just thoughts. —London Echo.

TEH LIB HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, JA^UABT 29, 1898.

Private John Allen In a Swell Tavern.

John Allen of Mississippi, the wit of the house, arrived at the Ponce de Leon, St. Augustine, registered and was as signed to a room. He had never seen apartments so extravagantly furnished. Expensive oil paintings hung on the walls. The bedstead was of mahogany and hand carved. Carpeting a half foot thick covered the flooring. There were vases filled with flowers, velvet covered chairs, lace curtains, beveled mirrors and all the other appliances of modern convenience and luxury.

John becam* alarmed. He figured it out that that room would cost as much per day as his salary as a congressman would amount to in half a week. He called a bellboy, gave him $2 and told him to quietly find out the tariff on that room. John didn't like to ask the clerk himself. He was a big man, and that would look little. The boy returned presently and informed the guest that the price was $50 per day. Allen went down stairs, laid down a dime and called for a cigar. They didn't sell anything but "two bit" cigars. He put down a nickel on the newsstand and picked up a New York paper. "Twenty cents more, please," said the clerk. He got a drink and tendered 15 cents. "Where you been stopping at the Windsor?" asked the barkeeper. "Drinks here area quarter." That settled it with Allen. He went to his room, gathered his grips and took them himself down stairs. Then he called for his bill. "Why, what is the matter, Mr. Allen? We thought that you were going to spend some time with us?" asked the olerk. "Very sorry," replied Mr. Allen, "but I have just received a telegram that calls me away. "5^,

The clerk reached out his hand to tell him good by. "But the bill?" inquired Allen "There isn't any bill. You are the guest of the manager, Mr. Seavy.''

But Allen had to make the bluff good, and he left on the evening train. —Chicago Times-Herald.

Claret Not French.

"It is curious, by the way, that the word 'claret' as applicable to red wine is unknown in France, having indeed no terser equivalent than the generic vin de bordeaux, and its origin is by no means certain. It has been supposed to be derived from the word clair, but the obvious objection is that it is anything but transparent, an adjective which would bo much more fitly associated with sauterne or champagne. Here it may be incidentally remarked that in England 'grave' is always assumed to be white wine, and even Littre's Dictionary gives 'Grave, a white wine from the environs of Grave, in the Bordeaux country.' This, like the well known definition of 'crab,' is a curious combination of blunders. In the first place, the vin de grave is as often red as white—indeed one of the four premiers crus of claret—viz, the Haut Brion—is a 'grave.' Secondly, there is no suoh village as Grave in the Gironde. Grave (more often written graves) is a special sort of sandy gravel, and the Vineyards which produce the wine known by that name extend along the left bank of the Garonne from just below Bordeaux to something like 20 miles southward." £^1

Skeat derives "claret" from "cleats" the original meaning being clarified wine, in old French claret, olairet. The word is obsolete in France, although, strangely enough, it is still used in this country.—Notes and Queries. fi&Wv

Taking the Hint.

••:--At home stations the private soldiers' washing is usually done by the married soldiers' wives, who are expected to sew on missing buttons and do repairs, for which a small sum is deducted from the private's pay.

Pat McGinnishad a good deal of trouble with his laundress. Sunday after Sunday had his shirt come back with the neck button off or felse hanging by a thread. He bad spoken to her on the subject, and she had promised to see to it, but still the button was not on properly.

He got out of patience one Sunday when the missing button had made him late for parade and exclaimed "Bother tho woman! I'll see if I can't give her a hint this time anyhow."

He then took the lid of a tin blacking box, about 8 inches in diameter, drilled two holes in it with a fork and sewed it on to the neck of the shirt that was next to be washed. When his washing came back, he found she had taken the hint. She' bad made a buttonhole to fit it!—Rival.

Go to Bed.

The best possible thing for a man to do when he feels too weak to carry anything through is to go to bed and sleep as long as he can, says The Medical Becord. This is the only recuperation of brain power, the only actual recuperation of brain force, because during sleep the brain is in a state of rest, in a condition to receive and appropriate particles of nutriment from the blood which take the place of those which have been consumed by previous labor, since the very act of thinking burns up solid particles, as every turn of the wheel or screw of the steamer is the result of consumption by fire of the fuel in the furnace.

Constipation

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In the Vljro Circuit court. In the matter of the estate of Daniel Roper, deceased. Lucius Lybrand, administrator.

Notice is hereby given that upon petition filed In said court- by the administrator of said estate, fsettins up the insufficiency of the estate of said decedent to pay the debts and liabilities thereof, the /udge of said court did on the 20th day of January, 1888, Und said estate to be probably Insolvent and ordered the same to be settled accordingly. The creditors of the said estate are therefore notified of such insolvency and required to file their claims against said estate for allowance.

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