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Show DAILY JOURNAL. STATE UTAH AUGUST SATURDAY, 13. 19M. ! SPECIAL SPECIAL SALE REflEMBER this sale lasts li One Week Only We Will sell Jewel stoves and ranges, the best and cheapest range on the market; mtchel farm wagons and buggies, plows, disc harrows, grain drills, binding twine, etc. We still have a few $35 mowers left. We trust the farmers will take advantage of this great sale and save money. REriEflBER this sale lasts One Week Only f' ; ASK YOUR hrovES This Buggy NEIGHBORS are famous the world over as fuel 'savers, and it is the low fuel bills which makes Jewel Stoves and Ranges the cheapest on the mar- it j ket. k .THe AsH Pan Tells A This Week i the story of the wastefulness of the average i stove or range. ggA There Is no economy In buying a poor stove at any price. Look for this trade mark and, file name Detroit Stove Works," cast on every genuine JeweL Dont accept a substitute. Only I Jewels are sold and recommended by Hand Made Team Harness Included in Next Weeks Sale. Also Granite Ware and Stove Furniture. OGDEN IMPLEMENT COMPANY 2526. Washington Avenue the language against It In HISTORY OF THE CAMP BIRD MINE HOW THOMAS F. WAL8H ACQUIR- ED THE PROPERTY. Wat Purchased for a Song and Afterwards Disposed of for Soon Five Millions. 1 a lu K. R. Cusper has furnished to the Balt Luke Mining Review the following history of a noted mine, the Camp Bird, at Ouray, Col.: Nothing la more fascinating than the history of the discovery of famous mines and in many Instances accident has played an Important part In their location. Occasionally an animal la Instrumental in finding them, as was the case with tha strayed burro which kicked off the outcropping of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine In the Coeur d'AIenes which made Dutch Jake and Harry Baer rich beyond their dreams of wealth and bequeathed to the world one of the most famous mineral districts on the globe. The discovery of the great Silver In King mine in British Columbia 1890 waa due to some horses In the party, which had got lost and which two boys were hunting, after Hall's party, consisting of twelve men, had spent an unprofitable summer In prospecting In that then unknown country and were preparing to leave In the fall. While hunting for the horses the boys found some float" which led to the discovery of this bonansa." "Nick" Creede's dog, while trying to dig out a woodchuck, scratched out the wonderful rich galena which resulted In making a poor prospector, who had no money, no credit and no friends, a millionaire. It Is not often, though, that a man finds a mine already partially developed for him. purchases it from the owners for a song, just because they were too careless to find out what they had, and then sells It for several millions. Yet Thomas F. Walsh did this very thing with the now famous Camp Bird mine In Ouray, In what Is known as the San Juan country. Colorado. Walsh bad had quite a checkered career up to the time of this discovery. In 1880 he was one of the proprietors of the Grand hotel on Chestnut street. In Leadvllle. lie also tried mining and made and lost money In It, and found himself quite frequently, of the day, up FROM POVERTY Somehow a few years ago he drifted down to Ouray, where mln'n? liad been going on for more than a quarter of a century. While prospecting on the mountain side he came across some old workings and upon examining some ore on the dump which had Uld there until the elements had treated It. thought he discovered gold. Upon crushing and panning It he found sure enough that here waa a rich gold mine. It was not difficult to find the owners one of whom, strange to say, was e.n essayer, who had overlooked an lmK'itant bet when he failed to make the proper test of this ore. He secured s bond on the property, opened it no. shipped astonishingly rich ore from It, and then on the report of John Hays Hammond, sold It to a London company for 85,000,000. Walsh's career Is still fresh in the public mind. How he went to Parts and gave swell dinners and with the king of Belgium Is a mr.t-t- er of history. He is living at present In Washington, D. C., where he has Just completed a million dollar office building and a residence which cost half a million. He la enjoying his wealth and entertaining Washington's haut ton" In a dassling manner. The Camp Bird la a world-beate- r. A report dated May 24th, prepared by R. J. Frechville, C. E., Is worth glancing at. It shows that during the present year 24 per cent has been paid on the capital stock. It also states that the chief vein has a known thickness of 2,000 feet below the present lowest workings. In round figures, up to April 30, 1904, the mine has yielded 19,000,000 gross value. Adding to this the value of the reserves. It is shown that each 100 feet In depth above the third level contained $1,700.-00- 0 gross value. Since May 1, 1902, the London-Den-vcompany has paid 81,459,704 In dividends. There are 820,000 shares on the market, with a par value of 85 each. The latest London quotation Is one pound, seven shillings and sixpence per share. In addition to the amount above mentioned as being In sight there are still unexplored portions of the Camp Bird vein, yet retained by Mr. Walsh, but under bond to the English company, estimated at from 85.000.000 to 810.000.000. The story seems almost Incredible and sounds more like a tale from the An-In- n Nights than a cold, solid fact demonstrated by the best engineering skill obtainable. hob-nobb- ed er RICHES IN DAVID TO A DAY BRIGGS FINDS NEAR HIS FARM. GLORY-HOL- E 8tory Startes From .Time .When .Ha Murdered the Assailant of His Daughter. To be exalted from comparative penury to riches in a day is the realisation of a dream that falls to the lot of few. But such was the lot of David Briggs and family, who, for many years, have labored and tolled on a small farm in southern Oregon. It all came about through the discovery of a glory-hol- e up In the Siskiyou mountains near the Briggs farm. A few days ago I mingled with this family for a short time, and learned the details of a story which, were It not for the fact of its absolute truth, would fill the pages of the most gilded fiction. Several years ago a worthless young fellow assaulted a daughter of David Briggs, and the father, In his anger, committed murder. He was tried In the Josephine county court and acquitted. Although acquitted before the bar of Justice, and in the eyes of his neighbors, the old tnan felt heavily the weight of an act done in a moment of passion and anger. He wanted most of all to be away from people. He wanted to be alone, and so settled on a farm In the solitudes of the Slsklyous. Here, by the aid of his boys, he has eked out a livelihood by hard toil Then one day. Ray Briggs, an son. went out hunting, as always some of the family did when there waa need of meat He struck a buck trail and followed the sign up Sucker creek. Half and hour he trailed, and was led over the divide to the head of Thompson. Here he came upon the game and fired. Did he get 'im? Well, no matter. That which concerns us is In the discovery the boy made when he clambered down the steep hillside at the head of Thompson. His boot struck a big atone that waa heavy and gave off a sound like lead. He picked it up and broke off a fragment The broken fragment glittered bright and yellow. The boy knew that the big atone waa full of gold. So waa discovered I 2526 Washington Buck that claim, the glory-ho- le yielded a fortune by mortar and dolly In a few days, and that has started a swarm of men up the Siskiyou trail. The Briggs family consists of the twin boys, Ray and Roy; an older married son, and the father and mother. Their camp Is near the discovery and the claim is worked a few hours daily. They are making no attempt to mine It, and all they have done In actual mining could be done in a day. Yet they have taken out some $15,000 they have mortared this much, and have as much more to mortar on the dump. About the camp are tin cans, fruit jars and pails, filled with gold. The owners of the glory-hol- e wisely agree that the proposition Is too rich to work. The gold Is far more secure in mother earth than carelessly piled or heaped about an unguarded camp. That Is why only a ahallow hole has been made, and why many who come miles to see It go away disappointed, because there Is "nothing to see. Undoubtedly nothing to equal this has ever been found on the vast domain of the mineral west. Here you, can take your and In five minutes' time dig out $50 worth of gold. I knew a newspaper man who waa allowed five minutes of this fascinating work. That It did not turn the newspaper man's head Is a mystery that will never be explained. A Think of It! whole month's wages whittled out with a In five brief minutes! A miner, with his pick, could do It In one single stroke. There Is an Inch of almost solid gold on the hanging wall of the vein. This jack-kni- fe Jack-kln- fe Is much oxidised, and can only be removed In chunks the slse of a man'a hand. Mr. Briggs says that were it possible to remove it from Its bed without breaking, this pay streak could be taken out In great slabs three or four feet square. What marvelous slabs those would be for table covers! With all their riches, heaped upon them In an hour, this family, which has always been poor, Is the least excited and concerned of the many who have entered the new Eldorado. Although happy In their good fortune, they pass no time In castle building. They dream not of trips across the sea, or travels to other lands. They think not of palaces or fine carriages or glittering raiment the "Wounded DENNIS H. STOVALL. rica for Avenue the hope of buying 25,000 at the outside, In the jevd but It became his property he had before to hut over no less than 110,000. The petri is the largest and most perfect la the world. The shah is owner of a pearl veined 100.000; and another, worth la In the casket cf a Ruiilu princess. The Countess Henckd hu many lovely jewels, but the gem of them all is a triple necklace of petrti for which 50,000 waa paid. One of the necklaces waa purchased from a Spanish gentleman for 12,000; MONARCHS WHO 8ET EXAMPLES at OF EXTRAVAGANCE. Louis XIV Had One Hundred and Sixty-two "Bouttonnieres Set With Five Diamonds Each. Four thousand pounds for a drop- 2,000 for a shaped pearl scarf pin, 980 for a coat fastener pearl atud, formed of a wklte bouton pearl with 170 for seven buttons en gold, bar, 155 for a pair of brilliant suite, and sleeve links these are a few of the prices realised at the recent sale of a noble marqul's jewelry, and they come as a revelation to the average man who has to work twenty years for the s. price of a scarf pin, aays London 0, once adorned the neck of the queen of Naples; and the third, vawas part of the lued at 20,000, state Jewelry of the Empress Eugenia. The late Empress Frederick of Germany used to wear a pearl necklace worth at least, according to expert 50,000; .and a few years ago another necklace, composed of eight row 412 pearls, the property of the late ducheas of Montrose, was sold at au- for 11,820. aome But, enormously valuable aa pal But, after all, everything la compar- pearls are, they must yield the ative, and the marqul's gems, rare and of costliness to dlamonda For one of costly though they are, would have his many brilliants the rajah of been quite eclipsed by Louis XIVs once refused an offer of I1M personal jewelry. The grand two warships fully equipped and had many erases, but for but- large quantity of ammunition; the tons he had a positive mania. In a Hope diamond, an exquisite the single year, 1885, he squandered gem, Is worth at least Orioa 120,000 on them, and some of his Empress Catherine paid Count Is 'tn0rB purchases are well worth glancing at. 100,000 for the stone which dU On August 1, 1885, he bought two diaby his name; and the Florentine 8v a sold by mond buttons for 67,886 francs, and mond, which was once on the diamond buttons for seventy-fiv- e pikeman, who had found it franca The buttons for a single tlefleld of Granson, for a few coppw value vest cost Louis 40,000. Of the three Is worth 120,000; while the hundred and fifty-fo"boutonnieres other historic stones, the Bragan, and so on. " conused, one hundred and alxty-tw- o Regent, tained five diamonds each, while the up to a million pounds sterling. remainder were single dlamonda In 8,000 has been As much as the 11, the monarch la to said "great for an engagement ring millions'" have spent a round million pounds given to Miss Fair by her fiancee. And a wonderful ring sterling on buttons alone. Few things are more astonishing to with its single diamond so large those who cannot afford such extrava- Its owner has to have a hole gances as costly jewels than the enor- the finger of her glove when she mous sums paid for pearla, The It Mrs. Celia Wallace ! th PT. duchess of Marlborough has among owner of . a necklace of btadI . her countless Jewels a string, two monds, the fruit of eighteen yards long, of perfectly matched, and collection In all parts of th at the same time almost matchless, The necklace Is composed of pearls, once the property of Catherine pendants, hung on a fln gu . Some of the pearls,' for chain. Each pendant hae a of Russia. which the whole world waa ransack- mond center eet around with ed, are half an Inch In diameter, and ateel white dlamonda the value of the necklace la estimated pair of pendante le a single w More astonishing still llant "hanging like 200,000. at was the price paid some time ago by drop, while directly over M. Tavernier for a single pearl which pendant la a was the property of an Arab mer- diamond for which alone chant M. Tavernier traveled to Af lace- paid 1,200. Tit-Bit- ction Mat-ta- mon-arq- ue 1 586,-7- 02 ur Koh-I-No- or . nine-car- at n |