CALL, THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1904. 39 AMADOR IS RICH IN MINES AND FARMS THE IONE AND EASTERN RAILROAD Gold-Producing District of the 'Mother A New Standard Gauge Line Lode Offers Fertile Land to Those Into Amador County. Who Would Grow Fruits or Grain Impetus Given to the Activities, and By Superior Judjrc R. C. Rust. mine and excellently equipped with largest in- county one of the power hoists the Resources of a Famous there Is no State and a fine forty-sta.mp mill. The in California more favored mill is not running at present owing by nature or more varied in to the closing of the mine for several Section of the State. years its than Amador during the litigation widh the resources, Kennedy that fa-, PERHAPSCounty. has been decided In vftr of the Argonaut. Operations were In making history, Beck, The situation among the foothills of resumed about one year ago and rock tba of railroads have E. San Francisco, Cal. The direc- the Sierra, where the is I* now being been a mighty, force toward diminishing tors are: Francis E. Beck. Henry P. elevation taken out and in a few \u25a0pace, eliminating Hoey. S. J. F. Burgin. Wil- too too low, makes crushing the Inconveniences of C. Scheeline neither high nor months willbe resumed. travel, reducing liam Pardy Sr., G. X. wendling and Jack- its grassy The famous Zeile, the cost of freight and climate most equable. Its in the town of above all, civilizing: son Dennis. plains and valleys, spring Jackson, which has been running stead- ' Early in'May of the present year. H. E. rich Cor and ily thirty-five In the foothills of Amador County Is winter grazing, and for years. or more, is re- C. Feusier. who knows the Sierras thor- its verdant moun- building its hoist and situated the town of lone, a terminus of oughly, was engaged a9 chief engineer. tain meadow lands for make a sixty-stamp survey summer mill operated by power. the Southern Pacific. From this point the The flr?t preliminary was made on stock raising an important and profit- electric This Iona and Eastern Railroad Company is the north side of Sutter Creek. But on ac- able industry. also is a splendid mine and one of tne of being right old properties building a standard gauge steam railroad count unable to secure of richer or more productive soil whose value deep oper- way, the surveying corps was called In can be ations have proven. It was closed to the towns of Jackson and Amador and nothing dona till July, when found in our State than the down for a years City, a of further bottom along the term of until dis- distance twenty miles. This the County Board of Supervisors granted lands Mokelumne coveries in the 1700 and 1900 foot railroad will serve, the population of th» a franchise and the right of way by Mar- and Cosumnes rivers, where the choic- Kennedy, lev- tell was company est fruits, els of the which it adjoins on tfcree towns above mentioned and will bought by the midway melons, berries and vege- the north, transport freight passengers between Jackson and' Sutter Creek, to tables every variety induced a company to re- the and for places of grow in rich open it with Creek, Plymouth. which the line will be extended. profusion, ready market for which is the results above men- the towns of Sutter The actual work of construction began tioned. Volcano, Mokelumne Hilland other points, August by Sup- found in the cities of Stockton, Sacra- carry In the Atlas Contract and and Francisco, The Central Eureka near the town and will the freight to and from ply Company, which afterward sublet to mento San and in the firm of & Petterson the con- tewns along the great mother lode; of Sutter Creek is another of the rich the great mines of the mother lode, in- the Kricksnn mines struction of first section from lone to while carload shipments are made to that has improved with depth, cluding the Zeila. Argonaut, Kennedy, the it is well equipped a Oneida, South Central Martell. the Eastern markets from the ranches with steam hoist Eureka. Eureka. way and terminals hav» been in lone Valley. and a forty-stamp mill run by elec- Wildman. Keystone, Bunker Hill and Fre- .Rlsrht of power. purchased and seventy-eight acrea, at Shenandoah Valley, tric mont mines. lone, bought from . in the northern lumber, oil, were the>Paciflc Im- part of the county, yields the finest The famous Keystone at Amador TRt. PROTON SCHOOL Of UnDUoTRY. The inbound freight willbe provpment Company for the yard3. depot grapes and peaches in the market, and City xs one of the oldest mines on the mining machinery, supplies and mer- and shops. its production in grains and other mother lode, having been in operation chandise. The- outgoing- freight will be The grtat part of the grading has been large. steadily for over fifty years. is ore. sulphurets. tailings, live stock and completed, most of which was rock work cereals is It lumber and marble. of amount In the higher altitudes the finest equipped with steam hoists and*a six- This school wa» opened July 1. 1S94, and structlon Is both Industrial and technical, rived from a course of instruction at th6 later on and necessitated the use large ty-stamp to the present time 640 boys have been en- and emphasis Is directed toward attaining Preston -The business of the company for the of powder. The three largest trestles qualities of winter apples and moun- mill and several Huntington School Is shown In the fact that first year after construction Is have been built and another Is under con- grow mills. It a splendid rolled." This year the number Is 15S as three distinct results in forming the char- no student leaves the Institution without estimated tain potatoes in abundance. has. record as a compared year. forty pupils, viz.; having as follows: 75,000 barrels of oil. 15,000.000 struction. gold producer. j to 104 last There are acter of the studlousness. a been secured employment, and of About five miles from Jackson and officers, employes. thorough comprehension feet of lumber. 20.000 tons general freight. The first track laying was done In Sep- The Hill, teachers and The an- of a trade and all the students so placed during the past in the higher foothills the Govern- Bunker near Amador City, nual expense including salaries and Im- the upbuilding of a good character. year only rwo have not retained their ment, through the medium of the Uni- is another mine that was closed down provements is $50,000. The class of in- A practical example of the benefits, de- places. versity of California at Berkeley, a number of years and then taken main- hold tained a Government experiment sta- of again, and is now one of the tion for twelve or fourteen years, dem- gold producers, and no longer a- ven- \u25a0 EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES A PROMINENT onstrating the fitness of climate and ture. . FINANCIER soil for horticulture and viticulture, as The same can be sajd of the Fre- -.' OF AMADOR COUNTY AND PROMOTER veil as agriculture, in all its branches. mont Consolidated near Drytown, be- ing TOWNS This experiment a THE station also demon- consolidation of the Gover and A Liberal Common School Education Amador's Lendinjr Exponent strated the mines. This of Pro- adaptability of the climate Fremont mine is splen- Within the Reach of Every gress. and soil of this section to the growth didly equipped and will add another " of the olive. A number of the ranch- page to the history of deep quartz Child. Jackson Dennis is one of the most pro- ers embarked in that industry and are mining in Amador County. The school census gives a population of OF AMADOR gressive and influential citizens of Ama- producing olive oil in quite large quan- Space will not permit of any men- 23S9 children between the ages of 5 and dor County, and ItIs due to his untiring tioning many efforts tities and of fine quality. This indus- of other properties along i 17 years. There are forty-three school that this section of the State has try bids fair to assume gTeat propor- the mother lode, some more or less districts In the county, so located that the Show a Substantial Popula- been brought into public notice of late. tions in the near future. Less than a developed, and others in their virgin advantages our common Mr. Dennis has been a resident of Sutter state, of liberal school month ago Isaw at the residence of but all of which in the future system brought easy access of • Creek for the' last twenty-five years and are within and Varied Enterprises during P. F. Allen at Forest Home, in the will add to th wealth and impor- every family. Sixty-three are tioii that time he has held numerous 1 teachers positions gained northwestern end of the county, navel tance of the mining industry in Ama- grammar primary of trust and the confi- oranges dor County. employed In the and ' Thriving dence all his and lemons growing and schools, average for in a Condition of fellow citizens. thriving in the air, an of one teacher Mr. Dennis has always been a promi- open the fruit be- There is a vast expanse of country every thirty-eight The figure ir.g of size and appearance. lying lode, census children. nent in the miningIndustries of his fine The east of the mother and in school term averages from, eight to" nine county. He was one of the original pro- date palms were the granite Jackson, seat, still too young to formation that is almost year. has two two- the county is the larg- moters of the South Eureka and pass judgment upon. virgin ground, imonths each Jackson population nearly formerly managed mine that contains veins of story houses; est town. It has a of the property to the The orchards vineyards quartz earning deposits brick school Sutter Creek 3000, great satisfaction of and at the rich of gold, and lone have also commodious brick and is admirably situated at the the other stockhold- experiment station were grown with- and which in my judgment "only, junction forks ers. The lone and Eastern Railroad is irrigation judicious need !school buildings. Last year there was of the three of Jackson another project of Mr. thrift out and prospered, but, of handling to prove of great Creek. Main street— the business street- aggressiveness, Dennis* and course, berries and smaller fruits need value. The only mine belt of Iexpended In support of common schools he being one of its pro- in this i the sum of $3S,516— an average of $17 per Is substantially built of brick. Ithas six motors. The manufacturing interests of it. and this need can be supplied from country that has been thoroughly hotels, fourteen general merchandise and butter Creek have also come in for a good the system of and ditches of prospected is 'head of school children. share of Mr. Dennis' canals the Defender in the Pio- high, dry goods stores, three drug stores, three attention. He has the Blue Lakes Water Company, which neer district, above Volcano, We have one school located at taken attractive part In-the, development which is j lone, employing three teachers, the blacksmith shops, one machine shop, two and take water from Blue Lakes and yielding handsome returns to its for making advancement of several such pro- Mokelumne convey owners. , • support of which there was raised last saddle and harness establish- jects. River and it across ment?, two livery stables, two fraternal the eastern portion the upper In to quartz year $3366. This high school supplies the The residents of Amador Count/ have of foot- addition the mines in ! halls, halls general purposes, two always recognized In Mr. hills from Clinton on the south to this region are gravel no ilink between the common schools and the two for Dennis a citi- inines of weekly the Amador Ledger zen whom they could rely upon to boom Plymouth on the north. While this small value, and vast deposits gran- \u25a0 university. Graduates therefrom are ex- newspapers, their of and Amador Dispatch, one macaroni fac- county and attract men of means water supply is now chiefly used for ite and .marble awaiting the quar- !pected to be admitted to the Stat# Unl- and ability,within their midst. He never power and battery purposes ryman. 1 versity further examination. tory, one lumber yard,' three millinery es- loses a good at the These hitherto have remained without tablishments, chance to do a turn for his mines and mills along the mother lode practically idle, owing to the distance two bakeries and over community, and ItIs due in a large meas- and for generating electricity at the from the railroad, but this objection REMARKABLE CLAIM MADE twenty other business places. There are ure to his interests that the mining indus- plant four churches— Catholic. .Methodist Epis- try has been revived there within the immense electric of the Stand- is about to be overcome by the rail- BY A WEST VIRGINIAN' last few years. ard Electric Company at Electron, on road now being constructed from .he copal, Greek Orthodox and Episcopal. The River it can be bank of County is here, the Mokelumne taken terminal of the Southern Pacific at Amador located Japanese up again below the plant and used for lone, to the towns of j Jackson and Heirs of Commodore Watkins Assert and Is the only incorporated bank in the House Passes Budget. ~ irrigation in, the lower or-western side Sutter Creek, and on up the ridges to Ownership of Property in Phila- county.:- It has a capital of $30,000 and TOKIO. Dec. 17.—The House of of the county to great advantage, and the neighborhood rf these deposits by .'"„\u25a0. deposits amounting- to over $100,000. The Representatives to-day the present flow, water and delphia Worth $20,000,000., almost unan- of from the the lone Eastern Railroad Com- Jackson Gas Light Company has been in imously passed the budget as lakes can be largely increased and pany. PHILADELPHIA", Dec. 17.—Fredr years. Altogether revised existence about fifteen by the Budget Committee along used for irrigation . in the upper ;of Imight also mention that in gutter erick S. Malley of Weston, .W.-.Va., has Jackson Is in a thriving condition, and Is the portion of the county. lines already outlined in these dis- eastern Creek is located the large foundry retained a lawyer of this city to inves- steadily growing. Several buildings are patches. But as variod and important as and machine shops of Knight Co., in process of & tigate a claim against the construction at this writing, these interests are and as promising which makes the most of the ma- remajkable to meet the demand for.dwellings. House as the future seems to be from this chinery in use in the mines of this Government. Malley says he is one of rent is reasonable, a four or five roomed Albany Inventor Drops Dead. Ftandpoint Amador County, at the county, and at the farming town of a dozen great-great-grandchildren of house commanding $10 per month. -A ALBANY, Dec. present time, as mining flouring plentiful supply by 17.—Charles L. is classified a lone are the mills of A. Mc- Watkins, of water is furnished Dow, a county and one of the most promi- Creamery Commodore David who near- local water works from $1 to $2 per family well known inventor and man- Call and the lone owned by per nent in the State. '\u25a0%.. local capital. ly a hundred years ago owned, much month. For fire protection there is a ufacturer of agricultural' implements, great lode, or more These, volunteer fire company, two buildings for propped dead on the to-day. The mother cor- briefly, are the resources of west of the Schuylklll River housing the hose and and street rectly speaking, mineral belt, travers- County. Its property the of fire carts Amador opportunities are in Philadelphia. Upon part of this both connected with an electric fire alarm ing its entire breadth from south to practically unlimited. For here lies system which reaches every part the CALIFORNIA north, the deepest property is located the Schuylkill city of ANCHOR FENCE contains mines and ready to the hand of the seeker of - limits. COMPANY OF STOCKTON. oldest gold producers in the State. investment the many and various in- arsenal. v o •'• p The county buildings are the .Court- | MATERIALDEPOT OF IONE AND EASTERN RAILROAD. From south and north through the dustries Ihave set forth. The seeker About a year ago, Malley claims, he houee and /Hall of Records; both hand- The protection of the right of way or. county, along this lode the Zeile. Ar- after pure air and delightful climate feurid among the commodore's effects some brick structures two stories high, a railroad has grown in Importance each ponaut. Kennedy and Oneida mines can find enjoyable homes in pret- proved with basement in which the jail is lo- succeeding year. In order to the a paper which to be a lease cated. The two buildings cost over $60,000, secure the 18,000 tons of concentrates, 20.000 tons of tember, but on December the 8th an en- in and near the town of Jarkson: ty foothill towns, of Jackson, best protection along the • gine Eureka, the out by David Watkins to an Eng- and willcompare favorably any pub- line of the tailings 60,000 passengers, besides mall was secured, a track-laying force or- South Eureka and Central county seat, Creek, made with lone and Eastern the company ganized Creek; Sutter Amador syndicate, which was to make lic edifice of like character in any county Railroad and express. \ These estimates are based and earnest effort put forth to n*ar the town of Sutter the City, all on the mother lode, and the lish land of the State of equal population. after thorough investigation, selected the on the business now existing and carried complete the road to Ranlett and have Keystone, in the town of Amador valley town of lone; while those de- a formal return of the ground at the The County Hoppital |a located on the California Anchor Fence as more nearlv on by means of freight wagons and stages cars running to thi3 point by January. City; the Bunker Hill, near same air ninety-nine years. He of town. It comprises two meeting their requirements than any rates double those to be charged This alone will materially shorten the the siring mountain and the balmy expiration of outskirts the other on the market. Mr. at about heavy town, and the Fremont Consolidated, pines syndicate brick structures, of recent construction, ords, Edward Rec- by the railroad company. loads over muddy roads to mines breath of the can find what believed that this had in president of the Atlas Construc- and near Drytown. All these mines are they seek in the higher ground and provided with all modern conveni- tion Company, states It is fair to assume that the construc- towns above. It is the opinion of thft- altitude in turn leased the to the Gov- ences. From tlfty to sixty are "that the selection operation of me railroad will Chlef Engineer that the construction of now in active operation and producing. and about the mountain towns expressed stipu- maintained, inmates of the Anchor Fence was due to tion and the addition, of ernment, but with, the therein. strength and its cause a constant Increase of business and railroad will.be completed to Martell In there is a large number Volcano, Pine Grove and Olita, largest town, durability; thaflt required increasing by February. operation pres- whose lation belonged to Watkins and Sutter Creek is the second only half the number posts any assure a steadily revenue for of mines not in at the inhabitants seldom but live on to that it with a population of of year. author- At the present time the construction ent whose future is promising die. would have to be returned at the end estimated at 1500: It is other: that -it was most securely anchor- each succeeding Competent time and that ripe old age when their locks be- charmineiy situated on the banks of Sut- ed, and that the final ities state that the earnings per mile of force numbers two hundred and three whi<"h need only capital to develop of ninety-nine years. ter Creek, sheltered cost was not more exceed of men and a hundred and fifty-six horses. and come as severed as the lines of the Dy gently sloping probably less, than the ordinary type of this road will equal or those add them to the list of producers. hang expired hills on either side. Itis noted for beau- wire any steam railroad in the State of Cali- There are twenty-eight men and one en- clouds that between the highest The lease last June and Mal- well-kept barbeff fence." The California An- gine engaged laying The Kennedy mine is. Ibelieve, the peaks of the Sierra and says tiful and homos. Inaddition to chor Fence Company Is located at fornia. With the above data as a "work- in track with a bal- the heavens ley about that time the Govern- the ordinary business houses Cal., Stock- force.", promoters of the road are last gang following. Thirty-one cars of deepest gold quartz mine in the United above. $16,000,000 enumerated ton. and has built up a splendid Ing the BtMep. bring: fept in ment offered the heirs in for Jackson, and which are in about the business, owing to the merit arti- sanguine of. the most favorable results to steel have been received and all the lum- 2*>W dentil. Itis And it is not unreasonable or i population of Its county ber and operated through shafts, im- settlement of the claim of the Watkins same ratio to in this and all cle. Mr. R. E. Wilholt Is president. Mr. the citizens of the and to the in- timbers for the trestles is on tha three al- probable to picture among oppor- other centers of tiade throughout Thompson ground. though the principal operations the es-tate, but that the offer was declined . the 13. H. secretary, and Mr. G vestors. are tunities of Amador County in the not countv, Suttor Creek has one weekly Cunningham general manager. The president of the company is Francis The road opens great possibilities for conducted throuph the new perpen- far distant future the rolling plains because the heirs believed the tract is newspaper, the Amador Record, also a the filler of the sotl. The climatic con- dicular shaft, called the East shaft, that mark the dividing line between worth $20,000,000. private bank, conducted by Jackson Den- ditions are favorable for the culture of and upon which there is the largest Amador and the other nis. Knight's foundry and machine shop pears prunes, peaches, apples, cherries counties of. San has a reputation throughout and berries. There are openings for BU-am hoist in the «tate. Adjoining Jcaquin and Sacramento .and join the the Pacific creameries. this shaft the company has slope. It is appointed for -turning and erected a valley lands to where the foothills be- fattening castings offclarge size, and doing every Clay beds are found from which ship- new 100-Ftamp mill, driven by elec- gin. portion over with cattle. Her foot- A is within Arroyo Seco is covered over with.or- description of Iron and mill work. The ments are made to the potteries around tric power, and supplied with modern Rancho divided into small farms hill section of firm, Knight. the bay. improvements. wat- chards and vineyards and a broad belt head the S..N. Is a ma- ered* by a system of irrigation from across chinist and inventor of national fame. He The Argonaut, which adjoins of territory from south to north the Knight water The the the Blue Lakes Water Company's sup- country a invented wheel. CONTRACTORS. Kennedy on '*•«» south, is also a rich ply, green the marked with line of establishment gives employment to about TT^E with verdure and dotted smokestacks shows the course of the thirty,men. _ Mother Lode, whose many quartz All these towns are along the mother Something of the Men Who Con- tirelessly grinding the lode and depend largely upon mining Ry. ADVERTISEMENTS mills are out Industry. the structed the lone ami Eastern precious gold that forms the money The firm of Erickson & Peterson te one standard of our Government, thus pro- Volcano. SCO Inhabitants. Oleta and Pine Grove 150 each, are In the eastern sec- of the oldest and most substantial on the viding investments for the capitalists, tion. Pacific Coast. Charles agriculturist The smaller mines of this section, ErUkson, th» homes for the industrious together with wood and timber interests senior member of the firm, has been en- and employment for the deserving la- above, contribute to their support gaged by Railroad, lone, trade center the Southern Pacific borer. the of the valley that in its Improvements for the bears Its name. > Is the, garden town of various past EXCHANGE Amador. Ithas a population of 1000. The sixteen years. Where there was a tun- THE• AMERICAN extensive agricultural and pastoral nel, or grading, or masonry AND THE SUTTER Inter- work needed HOTELS ests of the valley region insure stability he has taken his part In the construction and steady growth. merchants a Among those who are closely, 4identified The do and has built- some of the most difflcul: large business in handling the products sections the line, with the interest's of Amador County. M. farming on such as the Chats- of lands. It is the terminus worth some time the D. Nixon, proprietor of the American of the only railroad that v taps the coun- Tunnel. 'For firm Exchange and the Sutter hotels. Is prom- ty, andis therefore the, most Important has been engaged on the Central Pacific inent. The American Hotel is a three- distributing point. It has' a flour milli reconstruction between Ogden, Utah, and story structure, conveniently arranged, a weekly newspaper, the Tone Echo; a Reno, Nevada. „ elegantly fitted and furnished. The pro- creamery, a bank, owned by J. W. Sur- face & Sons. The high Gu? Peterson has been associated with prietor Is a popular host and gives close school supported Mr. Erickson a number of years attention toward making the service ac- by the union of nearly all the school for. and ceptable and pleasant. Every Improve- districts of the valley, is located here. superintended the construction of the ment for the betterment of condition? is The Preston School of Industry— a State Chatsworth Park. Tunnel the longest tun- care given traveling Institution for the. moral reformation and is thoroughly added and is that the training juvenile nel in California. He in- public and may industrial ( of ' commercial salesmen commanding offenders- formed in railroad construction. II. A. have perfect rest at night and Joy at occupies a position close to Brandon, meals, town. employs thirty who has been assistant engineer therefore It is evident why Mr. the It between and for the past Nixon has "cornered" the hotel business forty officers and instructors, and has Southern Pacific for the three from 125 to '150 pupils.. year* on the reconstruction in Nevada in Sutter Creek. . and Utah. Is the engineer for the firm of Lancha Plana. once a bustling /mining Erickson & Peterson. Knight Company. camp, is in the southwestern portion, sup- and ported by farming and copper mining of . The firm has the contract for the con- Many are not aware 1 that a machine that vicinity...... structlpn of the lone and Eastern Rail- shop and foundry in Sutter Creek, twelve road, from lone to MartelSs, with the pro- railroad one viso "for the construction of the exten- miles from and hundred and POPULATION .OF sion?. fifty-twomiles from water transportation; AMADOR COUNTY This firm also has a contract for the manufactures machinery which is shipped construction of three miles of the cut* throughout the world. Yet, it Is true and fills on the south end of Bay Knight's wheel, Material Increase in beeinning. midwaythe- that water ' electrically Numbers Is Shore Cut-Off between The Bank driven pumps • and hoists compete with Shown in the'Last McDonald and Visitation Pcint to the Dennis present Jackson metropolitan connection with the the same line made in shops. constructed SUTTER CREEK, CALIFORNIA The plant was erected in 1S73, and has Census. -.' . line about two and one-half rr.tles- north ' gradually assumed its present volume of • census of 190O : or Sar. Bruno. This work consists of very — The credited Amador heavy rook cutting will business. S.-N. Knight, the mem- population which necessitate senior County with. a. of 11,116, show- months of work with steam shovels, Capital $xn;rinti='' ber of trJ* firm, was born In:Brunswick, Ing gain over, small inherited a. the census of 1890 of 796. locon*otlves for hauling their vara and Maine, and a Yankee Ingenuity population is distributed as for mechanical devices. -.-'... . . This follows:- considerable grading with teams. After This company manufactures its own Township one'-...... I..'; 3550 tills cut-off is built, instead of the -heavy General Banking Business Transacted tools, which turn out the machinery that - Township two :."....;;. ; .1772 grades now existing through the Mission, • ...... has given it a .world-wide reputation." Township three ...... 1592 .-•\u25a0 there will not exceed on the line any- Township ...... thing over fifteen feet to the P. DABOVICH, Cashier Mr. Knight la an' authority ".on water four .'.'...... 2647" mile. To wheel power on the Pacific Coast, .and in- Township five .1453 make plain to tne lay mind, one engine vented the Bucket .Wheel, which is a ' •will be able to do the work of three and All business treated as strictly confidential. All favors consistent with model for other wheels of similar con- Total ...j...... v.11.116 in half the time. struction. finra$tiH4nMBM«g«gi This is lef.s !than twenty persons 'Several new projects are on foot which safe banking granted. \u25a0 to willbe A general collecting department. Drafts drawn The company has installed ma- mile. Two- ihe this firm 13 figuring on In this vicinity their square- . thirds of the popula- and elsewhere, and from the large on allprincipal cities of the world.-. FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE. chinery in the Pioneer. Electric .Power tion? Is -concentrated .'the towns and nlant Company, Offden, Utah,' White River, along the SIXTIY-FOOT TRESTLE OF* ICMu;am u iSASTEKM KAiLKOaU. that It has. it Is evident that there Is . mines mother.- lode.v Outside of nothing In the way of railroad Oregon, and Hadley, British Columbia. : ; construc- this belt' the"land is but sparsely settled. tion but what Itis capable of handling.