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Show V MIMNli NOTES. lotices of locat on hare been filed by Levi CurtU an.l other, of th Thistle marble quarry in Spanish Fork canyon Parties from Douglas mountain report that the erection of the smelter at the Bromide is rapidly. The last of the m.tchinery is now on the road to the mines It is learned that the silver King company, operating in the Gold Mountain district, is making an effort to corral all of the stock of the company possible it h w hich to till the option given a short time ago to eastern people The ow in rs of the ltlue Hell mine have decided to refuse an offer of 820,000 spit cash for their property, offered a short time ago by halt Lake The mine is located In City parties the South end of t ache valley aod la a copper proKisitiou The Fly Mining and Milling coma pany is a receut corporattooT-Jcapital of 874. boo. The company U organired for the purpose of operating mining progierty in Robinson district. White Pine county, Nevada. Salt Lake City partu-- are at the head of the company. Laring Pros,' mill at Park City la proving a success, and the promoters are last getting back the money invested. Two shifts are being worked, nd an average of six tons of high grade ore concentrates every 24 honrs results. The mill will not run all winter., it eing y x pec ted that it w ill close about December 1. Speaking of the Stateline district, a prominent mining man of Provo eays it is one of the biggest and richest he has ever seen. Every thing is lively and booming. The prospective railroad is being pushed right along, over 100 men working on it daily. The ore veins at this camp are small, but the entire surface showing is rich. Mr. St. V. Le Sieur, the gilsonite king." hi in receipt of a eemmu-niea-tiofrom a New York syndicate which asks him if he can furnish in two separate lots of gilsonite. one lot of 500 tons and another of 1,000 tons, to be sent to Germany. This syndicate offers 845 a ton for it, and Mr. Le sieur is figuring upon accepting the offer. If he dies he will immediately put in a steam hoist at his mine, the Castle Peak, and Teg-i- work. He said he could furnish three times as much. Parties who have recently examined the Kellogg eoal mine back in the hills a short distance from Provo, states that In the uppjjr workings of the mine a four fool bryast of good anthracite coul has lie on uncovered. A lower tunnel is being driven for the coal measures and when the desired connection is made it is believed the owners will be able to supply the Salt Lake and local market with this character of black diamonds, which are rather scarce in this western coun- FARM MATTERS OF INTEREST AGRICULTURISTS. TO Tboroof Sugar from Milk. Svlltnr of Fro It. At a convention of potato growers held In Grand Rapids, Wts , A. C. Bennett read a paper in which, among other things, be said. An association was formed In New Jersey to sell their own cranberries, consisting of seventeen firms In New Jersey and one frdm Cape Cod. They employed a salesman at a salary of five thousand dollars tor the season of about six months. He both sold and collected and was to keep back five per cent, out of which to take his At the end of the season he pay. turned bsck to the association three and one-haper cent, leaving for cost of selling one and one-haper cent, while the ordinary commission man charges ten per cent, thus saving to thou-san- d the association over thirty-thredollars in one season. The price of the berries fixed every two weeks by a board of directors. Each grower received the price his berries per brought, less the one and one-ha- lf cent expense of selling. Each member eould sell his own berries tf he wished, but ffiust turn Into thessso-clatlo- n five per cent of such sales. In ones the association could not furnish berries fast enough to supply the demand the agent could sell tor outside parties, but on such sales should turn into the association seven per cent. The next year the association volun tartly raised his salary to seven thousand dollars a year and expenses and clerk hire. Then he turned back two and one-ha- lf per cent out of the five per cent, making cost of selling two 1 lf lf e s . A? f 4.WW, tf well-guard- Ofvmluiii 1 Poultry, Overproduction of poultry and eggs Is a possibility, but that such has at any time occurred is doubtful, says the Poultry Keeper. The fear that the market may be overstocked has deterred some from venturing largely in have never poultry, but such tear been realized. It Is not unusual tp. find the market full at all times, pot ouly of poultry and eggs, but 4 all kinds of produce; though them 1 a great difference in quality. It has been said of butter that there was no intermediate kind, as butter waa'either good or bad. if not of lb best quality, it waa of no value; and tf but little inferior to the beat, there waa no place for it whatever. --Such may be said of eggs also, and it may be extended to poultry. Quality regulates the price. A difference of only one cent a pound on poultry or" a dozen eggs aeoma insignificant, but when a large business is conducted the difference is great. As long aa them am several price for the producta the market is overstocked with the lowest priced articles only. Tbe best will be In demand, and will sell for all that It la worth: but tbe term beet means a great deal, for it Includes everything pertaining to superiority. There is a large field opea for those who aim to supply the market with the beat; and every season they win find' that they hate room for improvement in order to excol. There la also much to lesrn in ortLr to know how to provide the market with the best; And the market will ae cept it readily at all times and without regard to tbo quantity of inferior grades that may have been offered for sale. There is something more to look after than feeding and caring for tbe fowls. To produce the best, the bens must be of the beat This demands the .use Of the, beat breeds. No farmer can afford to raise chicken for market from the common etock, for tho reason that no system of feeding will enable the inferior birds to equal their superiors. With the breeds for the purpose the market can be supplied with something choice, and there will be little or no competition. Overproducnot yet tion of tbe best is attained. It i anticipated by many, kjid as long as the farmers will not improve their flocks, the market will always dfmsnd mpre. Roulaa Thistle, We quote from the Nebraska mer . W-- . press report from Belvldere, Is ms!' says: Considerable Interest tested in this county In the attempt of F. W. Patrick to manufacture ugM', from milk The Fox and Rock river valleys already have a number of oc" cesBful industries In which ths milk product cf tbe farmers dairy district Is prepared for a wider field. Tbe condensing plants at Carpentersville, ths Anglo-Swis- s company at Dixon, and the DeKalb farm on which milk Is especially prepared for the ue of babies and invalids, are all doing a big business. and It la tbougbt that the new venture at Marengo may meet similar success in creating a demand for Its product. So far little is known as to what this demand will be. the sugar being subject to use for medicinal purposes only. The working product collected from fifteen counties in the neighborhood of Marengo. The roll Is separated from tbe cream, which s utilized In making butter. On the skimmed milk curd la allowed to form until it Is hard enough to handle. Then It Is put through s drying process and afterward ground aa fine as ordinary cornmeat. This product is sent to Obto, where It receives treatment, reducing it to s liquid used for glaxlng paper. The sugar product comes from the whey left In the vats after the curd Is removed. It is forced into Urge boilers, where It is allowed to boll tor some -- tlmer after whleb It U run Into evaporating pans, where the boiling continues until a thick syrup Is left. After standing a certain length of time It is again boiled, when the sugar forms. Ths sugar la worked over until thoroughly drained, after ,whkk,4.U packed Jo .barrels, foe the refinery. It now resembles ths ordinary coarse brown sugar of commerce. The process of refining la a secret, known to Mr. Patrick and one other man. When the- product Ftortcultun Tli d tbo-san- A Mints A bon I CnV IcAtU of lbs IUU nod Hortleuitttm I tUonltnm nad tltiioa proj-re-.-ii- ' these facts is costing us many dollars ever? year. GARDEN. AND Par- Tl s state of Nebraska, through Its legislature of 1895, enacted a law requiring that tbe citizens of the coun: ties, u herein this supposed obnoxious weed existed, sjiould immediately take step-- , to eradicate the pest from withlu Its borders This was found irr.pos-- e ble, and a later legislature repealed tbe enaumeiiib relating to the weed and its destruction. But now appear seier.i! r putable citizens of this countv whose o. atton Is farming and whost. hi nu1., lie bonth of Sutherland and H, rshu Who state that the value of the Russian thistle ts a hog feed, when m its gieeu state, U superior to alfalfa tine of these parties claims that hi gs will Rave tbe alfalfa and' go and remain upon the Russian j thistle patih by preference, and that it is a rapid flesh producing weed Others in the same vicinity, claim that bm cut green and yured. Russian thistle make a fin quality of ba wh.ih cattle readily seek Or and devour All of tbe men. however, assert that the plant. If allowed to grow up and blow about the fields. Is a nuisance and an Injury, but if confined ami properly attended to, It U a benefit rather than an Injury When wheat early allowed to atari with in the spring, the Russian thistle la pretty sure to get ahead of thle cereal; but rje is too early and vigorous a .grower and gets started before tbe tH latte In corn, tbe thistle does but. tittle harm This supposed pest might be of some benefit in the semt-art- d portion of this state. If properly handled. Again, it has value for fuel, if It could be baled and used for this There is no plant growing. purpose Which, when dried, that, weight for relgbv gives ..forth, greater degree of heat. Like the sweet clover, the thistle appears to run its course and die out In time. Both these plants art strong, vigorous growers. They endure drouth with great success. Both A. , - M J0 I f 2 , .... v y i-- i 21 'i'll Ci-tc- -.- j - -.I'- ' - v- r. a -- - - CHI C- .r- - veteran mining operator, P. S. Martin says he looks. for renewed activity in the camps of Heaver county this coming year, as the extension of the railroad from Milford south through Star district is having the effect of attracting more than usual attention to this and surrounding camps, while the fact that there are large deposits of cyaniding gold ore exposed in several of the mines of this district is leading to a more extended investigation into the possibilities of this richly mineralized section. An important strike has been made in the King .Solomon mine, about twelve miles north of Ogden. In the drift driven from face of an tunnel in the the breast of the 000-fomine, a strong ledge had heen disa disclosed which had been cross-cu- t tance of two feet, the indications being that the deposit Is all of eight or ten feet in width, tbe metallic values of which average in the neighborhood of 2 per cent lead, an ounce in silver and SO in gold t6 the ton. While the values' are npt large the supply seems practically Inexhaustible. Very satisfactory results are reported by partied drilling for coal on the divide between Peterbore and Box Elder. Mr. Willard Cummings one of the proprietors states that a depth Of 450 feet has been reached, and judging by the character of the formation which has been encountered, be thinks that the coal body, which be is satisfied exists there, will be reached inside of 15 feet, as they are nowin a black shale, which he believes to be tbe roof of "the coal deposit carries weight, as he is an experienced miner. During the drilling several good --si zed pieces of the finest coal were brought up, and this, together with the peculiar formation which has been gone through, makes Mr. Cunniug-- , bam and bis partners sangnins of sucA 108-fo- cess. ' There is plenty of jigging activity iir Woodside canyon. Park City district, and all the operators are praying that good weather will continue for many weeks. There are nine concen trating plants, on a small scale,- of course, between town and the Silver King mine, working on the tailings from the Weber A Kearns and Loring Bros, mills, and all of them are tnak-- v log good wages for the owners, . besides giving employment to two or three men at each place. This work, of course will cease when winter sets In. . and one-ha- lf per cent and yet leaving the agent seven thousand dollars net cash for six months service. Two more years have been added to the experience of this association and they are now handling over one hundred a thousand bushels of cranberries more to admit refuse any and year members. About two years later an association was formed on Cape Cod on a similar plan. They employed a Chicago man as salesman, and they shipon ped him car load after car load which they set so high a price he could not sell them and later In the season when the price hsd declined and many of thd berries became soft they were obliged to take them back and sell them as best they could. The result was a big loss, and I have never since. heard from the association These Illustration show clearly that succesa depends on the men who run the machine. In the case of the New Jersey association the selling agent had the confidence of the association, he being an eastern man and a prominent cranberry grower, and the board of directors took his advice in fixing prices, which enabled him to meet competition, while the Cape Cod growers thought they could set their own price and the people would have to pay It They would not trust any Chicago man, not even one of their own selecting. In tbe case of the Grape Growers Association of Brockton, New York, n very successful institution, the grapes are all Inspected hy an officer of tbe association before being shipad reped and the superior quality it make oT easy their grapes liability to secure an extra price for them much more than enough to pay all tbe expenses! 'thr association. Tbe "price Is made uniform wvl Is. s? emerges from the refinery it is snowy white. It is said that there are fewer than a dozen men in the United States who are in the secret of refining milk sugar. Tbe new factory has just been completed. It requires 6,000 pounds of milk to produce one barrel, of sugar. This sugar sells for 40 centJ a pound. There are waste substances which art utilized by farmers in feeding stock. have valuable properties when young and tender. The sweet clover as - a honey producer cannot be excelled.-While not advocating the culture .of either, may they not, when judiciously handled, become useful plants which will assist in solving the fodder question in our state? These statements. It any virtue Is proven for supposed objectionable plants, la hardly applicant to eastern Nebraska with its sufTaste ArtlSetelly Developed, ficiency of rainfall, which is not proAnother ductive of the proper development Of H, W. CoRngwood say curious thing that we find about the this Muscovite transplantation. flock is the fact that there are hereditary tendencies for certain foods. The rUto Field, Many of these hens have evidently the During grain harvest the. potato, been fed entirely upon corn. They field Is apt to be neglected, says Amereat meat and other grains largely un- ican der protest. Hens are much like men in theCultivator, Thle was bad enough when weeds were the only In this respect An of New enemiesdays to be feared. Since the poYork told me not long since that he tato beetle common there cannot get through the week without should neverhasa become day pass when some At least one square meal of corned one does not go through the field and beef and cabbage. Possibly there arc destroy all the larvae In sight It li persons who can tell in what country easy to see examining the leave that tendency was formed. A genuine whether., eggebyare numerous. If they Yankee cannot forget the baked beans are not, hand of beetles will picking and fish balls of his early life. Let suffice. A does of applied, dime feed a hen for the first three luted with water poisonrate the of a teaat months of her life, and I will largely spoonful of the to a pall of wapoison fix her feeding habits and also have ter will kill the larvae so soon aa they something to do with tbe food her get to Srork and prevent moat of the children crave. I think most poultry-me- n damage. It la very difficult to have have changed their methods of this done- - so promptly that part at feeding since the truth became gener- least of the hills will not be stripped ally known that meat in some form before the poison Is applied. But In gives by far the best material for a harvest time there are several hours hens muscle makers. Some of us who of daylight early in the when are millionaire In theory have been dew will prevent doingmorning, much In the taught sever lessons in economy dur- harvest field. If this makes too many ing the past few years 1 know, a hours work per day, take s longer man who. In 1890, did not think ft nooning. If tbe grain harvest and tbe cars of potatoes oafllot, most farmers possible for his family to live on roast wifi fcs wie ta giving th preference in ears to tbe crop that is most profitistxniomy ha farced bin to real!va , j iMoffacing st si ion ize the value is a pot roast or even a able, and It takee fialr JU several acre of grain There ia a great and useless I os- - to shin bone. It has been a profitable to equal In vain a large potato crop Chito In producers shipping produce surprise to such mea to realise that on one acra cago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Minnethe nerve and force in a pot rtoast Seed Potatoe.Tbe teste of (be apolis greatly in excess of. their imwill enable them to retain their standmediate demands and paying fre ght ing in church and state. In like man- Ohio Experiment Station Indicate there, and then paying these cities a ner we have been forced to hunt cheap- home grown sed ' potatoes will girt big commission to distribute this prod- er rations for our bins, and ws hava as good crops as any northern grown uce to other cities at ' our expense. found them in various forms of meat seed of tho same varieties, provided From this city of Grand Rapids, tc the Tbe introduction th seed potatoes are well kept, bat of the green-bon- e entire northwest and at least sc far cutter has really, started a new In- tbs yield le materially lessened and tbe south as Kansas City, we have the and has doubled the cost of ripening retarded If tbe seed potatoes same freight rates aa Chicago. Under dustry bones In many local markets. There are allowed to' sprout and tbe sprouts tbo interstate commerce law we can was time when a ths faithful old horse, are broken off, as usually happens become a distributing point just as was hauled st off to the swamp when ths potatoes are kept In a dark death, well as Chicago, and aave all turn exNow his meat may be cut and ground cellar. Many potato growers keep tra freight and their commizsiou It their potatoes successfully by buryisg need to be different, we were once and dried into an excellent food for ths potatoes in . pits, covering to a Shalcompelled to use these cities ratals- the heps, low depth at first and adding Taytrs of t a man speaks without thinking straw and earth as the weather trlbutlng points, and It seem that thUf force of habit or lack of knowledge ", apt to esy wbat.be thjnks. or thr r, - rs " Conferences of the Young Mens Mutual Improvement Association wiD be held during .November aa follow. Manaasa, Colo., and Los, Wayne Co,, 1st; Vernal, Uintah Co., 12th; Thatcher, Ida., and West Portage, 13th and 13tb; Logan, 13th; Idaho Falls, Ida., and Grsntsvllle, 19th and ?oth; Salt Lake City and Ogden, 20th; Ssn Juan, 22nd; ; Rexburg, Ida., 26th and 27th; Provo,-27th28th. Paria, Ida., and Panguitch, The first annual meeting of the Sons and Daughter of Pioneer of 1,IaH was held at Provo, Saturday, October. s 29th, In the meeting house, commencing at 10 oclock. There were about 400 persons present, among whom were the following pioneer of 47: IlaomW NV KlmbalL- - Albera Walker, SVr, Ilabcock, Ilalma Smith, EH Ashcroft, Tbomaa Poulson Cloward, Lavina Fulmer Ashcroft, William J. Harris, Harriet Fairbanks Douglas, Eliza Clem metis Kendall, Diana Eldredgc Smoot, Myron Tanner, Julia Ann Turner Flemming, Jacob Font," Jane Park Jones, MidiaciW. Moien, Juthlau Geo. IL.MzUon, . James . Oakley, Mra David Fair bank, Susatt J. William II. Falrbank, William Farrer, Marina Park Vincent, Mr. Sarah Matson. A morning and even- lng eeaslon was held and a most enjoyable time waa bad. Letter of regret at not being able to be present and expressing good wishes towards the association were received from President Joseph FSmith BdOovernprVVells. The place for holding tbe next annual meeting waa left for a committee, to consist of one from each town where the association has a membership. 0 a vote taken It was declared the sense of the meeting that the next meeting should be held in Spanish Fork. Mating for Slsa. Mr E, Cobb, in the Feathered World at July 29, make the following remarks on mating for slse and shape "The male bird undoubtedly exercises a certain amount of Influence In regard to the size and shape of th offspring; but to attempt to remedy aa so many amateurs do the deficiency of else In their stock by tbe purchase of an extra large cock. .la. ths wrong wsy to go to work. Ths hen has tar more influence over both the lie and ehape of the progeny than the male baa Take a broad shoulder-tddeep chested cock and mate with narrow shouldered hens, deficient also in breast," andt.be' result of such"" in leu will be but little, if any. Improvement. Had, howexer, the tables teen turned, and the bene possessed he slse instead of the cock, far greater improvement would appear In th iffsprlng; but, as ws before remarked, ;h male bird does exercise a certain iufluenca It will be found that by breeding from large hens and a cock deficient In this respect the pullets produced show a far greater Improvement. than Is observable la th cockerels, and it is only by contlnuini the process of breeding from largi hens that tbe cockerels will far outdistance the original cock. There is no question hut what the beet plan la to have else and shape on both sides; but If a deficiency must occur on one side or the other, do not let it be oa that of tbe bens The above Is truth undented. Ws regret (hat a common practice among amateur fanciers' Is a tendency to breed from overgrown and abnormally large males Many n fine cockerel, because he happens to be undersized, albeit correct in shape, ,1s cast aside, and some big. coarse brute, because of his slzs 1 selected to mate with an - Mr. Cobb's average lot "of females. should be advice carefully considered and followed. American Fancier. , A SUFFOLK RAM TYPICAL OF THE BREED. try. The boy of the Utah batteries at Manila are publibhing a weekly njw. P&per ailed tbe American Soldiei The first two numbers have reached tbelr friends in Utah. The follow lug elders who have beer laboring ia Great Britain hare bees released to sail from Glasgow on thU bomeword journey on Noveinbcl 5th, Mark Austin, Vm. J. Pan ter, Tbos Lei shin an ahfV. H. Toons The first two named are accompanied by their wivea Merabi Filter. We cannot but believe that much every way would be gained if in all of our poultry house .th "fixings" were movable. The roosts especially should be so constructed that tkey may be easily taken down and cleaned. This will also make It eaay to clean out the henhouse. It takes but a few minute to do th work when the roost and other obstacles have been taken out of doors. W have movable roosts constructed In tho following ynanner; Two long, low "horse; are fixed' with Blits in tbe' top of th cross pieces. Into which the roosts can be dropped. Each horse is ten feet long. If w want the roosts two feet apart -this wilt glve us five roosts. Th at the ends, so as to roosts ars square fall easily Into th square groove, Each roost 1 twelve' feet long.Thls makes sitting room for a. large Bock of fowls.-- th Potatoes. While Sprouting sprouting of potatoes under ordinary conditions Is very objectionable, they be so sprouted as to materially oiy advance their earlines. This ia done by placing tLem, stem eaiL.down.in single layers in shallow trays on tbo floor. In a light and moderately warm room. Thus placed they will send out short, stubby, green sprouts which will remain In that condition for week Such potatoes, planted without break lng tko sprouts, will grow Immediately and produce am early crop. Tbe kitchen garden Is" not usually appreciated tor the reason "that the tamer does not keep an account of, Its returns. Ll , . -- Av-ere- tt. Hoe-cha- , The services at the tabernacle Sunday, October 30, were conducted by Elder Joseph E.Taylor ; of the stat presidency. The choir aang O God, Our Hope, and prayer was offered by Elder. Arthur; Winters, The second anthem waa "Jesus, Once a II amble' Birth.' Elder John II. Paul, who rs AucimkI inm bGieaJJriteJn ary field last week, waa the first speaker, having been called upon to report briefly his mission. Elder Paul stated tha he had been well received in Brit- aln, and that although the Saint are few In member and poor as regards worldly wealth, there waa a great hospitality shown to him on every hand. Elder Henry W. NaUbet, who with Elders Platt G. Lyman and James leaves this week to asaume the presidency of tbe European mission, was the second speaker. Elder Nais. ' ' bet expressed his satisfaction at receiving bis call to the European mission, and testified to tbe manifold blesslnga he received during the 2S year be officiated la the same position. He spoke of th progress f the church and believed God's light shines brighter than ever upon his people. In closing, he Invoked the blessings of the Lord Saints, and asked upon the Latter-dathe faith and prayers of his brethren during hts absence, President George Q. Cannon added a few , remarks to tho of the previous speakers. He said he had often asked himself tf It waa not a waste of time to send so many into the field,. Invariable hie conclusion had been that It was not, because tbe missionaries rejoice in th work, are greatly benefitted thereby, and upon returning their good ia ts felt in the community. We believe, further, that the gospel must be taught to every kindred and tongue. Those who say it is a good doctrine; but do not join the church, shall com Into the fold later, when their tJar. rounding circumstances are diffe jfrent. So we aee that all work is prod' jiotirt f good. President Cannon then jgpo. of his first mission to the BaiVdwich islands, and of the Intelligence that ' the heard had JGIe ihatlve. people. some of 3fem natural orator!, preach the gospel ae well as our ,knogt advanced elders. It ia a perl.shlng nation, but their joy, when no longer they can teach their people on earth, will be In preaching to their ( ancestor tbe everlasting doctrines, the choir and congregation sang "GodJ moves in" a mysterious way etc., aler which benediction waa offere-- , by Elder Joseph E. Taylor. Daring the last few weiks some and .rjntnns timls have prevailed in Bristol, Englaml in connection with tbe preaching the elder. The brethren have been greatly disr turbed in their medlUngs, and made on Oct. 6th, a violent attack upon them at their place of wtoship, when it required the service oK several policemen to preserve th eiders from injury. As it was. Brother G. was severely kicked aad two others bad their coat nearly torn off their backa The mob numbered about 300. . y flu-cn- ly I oat-doo- - r |