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Show REALTY JLHD MUG. A Quiet Day Amcnl lha Real Estate vd. sqiTosEii Mumitns oniiM:ns. Pari City llrnn. Mr. SUIIttnu lie- turns. Jflnlug anl Utbcr ' SoteJ Today wai n qulstiMonhy In tho real estate quarters. There watsomo Inquiry, In-quiry, but ery little 'butlioja was trausaotoJ. The wiatliof was delightful, delight-ful, however, for showing" Intending pjrehasers about, ait J 'wat takou ad-vnutajoof. ad-vnutajoof. Tlio adv.incrTof iprleg Is giving Utlmclt7anJ Its liJburbi that beaJtlful nppeirancs that is a strong temptation to the luveslor luteal estate. es-tate. At tho Ileal Estate Exchange meeting meet-ing today there was u Interesting time to dealers lu tlio, way of discus--Ing business, and a number cf "vranu" und "oilers" came forward. There were, however, no transactions. W. C. 11. Allen aroused eurue Inter est by atklug for oilers from property cwuers In the northern part if the city, or in the vicinity of North Bait Like, for acreage for u uno hundred hun-dred thousand dollar nianufa ulurlng plant. High grouud, wit!) gntuwnler right, or within reach of the city water nnd available to the railways, wai asked for. Mr. Allen declined lo state what kind of business I: Was projo-i'd lo carry on there, so the cuiloslly of thoto desirous of fiodlngout who and what was coming went unsatisfied. The wee kly meeting of the exchange will bo held at 8 o'clock this evenlug, when It Is expected a numlercf com-mlttues com-mlttues will report and an Intuicitlug session be held, A CACIIK OV (II I.D. David Coughsuour found $3M In 20 cold ploces at Coutervlllu, Idaho, on Friday, while sluicing away thu ground w litre tho cabin stood lu which Ills brcthrr Daniel Ciuglnnour, decent de-cent d, had lived, says the llolse btatttman. Daniel Couzhanour died Very suddenly of heart disease at his cibui about two miles above Center-vlllo Center-vlllo last winter. He was living uIjco and no other person was reicnt at the lime of his death. His brother David Cuugbanour, who Is suporlutondeut uf tho Uold Hill Mining company, nt Quartsburg, was sure that Dsulel ha J a few hundrod dollars In cold coin lu his possession a snort time before, and, as none ,f this wss found upon his person nor about his cabin and no one knew of his having disposed of It lu onrWar, lti.was thought ho had burled It some plicr about the cabin, which method Is very often brought Into service by tome miners, temporarily, for the ssfa keeping keep-ing of valuables In their possession. In order to find this money, David Coughanour, a few days ago, got a head of water on Iho grouud where the cabin stood, turned the cablu down, and proceeded to sluice awsy thu ground. The first thing he found nt any luiportanco was a botlle of mercury, and Friday forenoon at the corner of the wood shed, nt a plsce marked by two little stakes, a baking powder can was uuearlhod which was round to contain twenty-six shining double eagles. Mr. Coughsuour says ha will use the money to put a monument monu-ment over his brother's grave. GUt'l-OSBO UUltDEl. Uf JIINEttS. A dispatch from Flagstaff, Arizona, says that about three months agu K. V. Kllbourne, C. D. Fields aud It. A. Ferguson left that pUco to prospect in the Han Juan country, Utah. Hlx weeks ago at lllulT Ulty the psrty divided. Kllbouruo and Fergusou started for the Llk mountains aud Fields left for Flsgstair. Kllbouruo and Ferguson recently relumed and they have anxiously awaited tho coming com-ing of Fields. It It now believed that Fields wns billed by thu Navojot, as friendly Plutes ssy that a prospector was killed by a baud of IN avajos about six weeks ago, forty miles from Tuba City, and the animals and nultlt they describe answer to those of Fields. Fields waa from Boston and tils relatives rela-tives live tliere. VAIUC "1IECOHD" WC1CINQS, The Ontario mill was closed down entirely Haturday morning and will not bo started up again for about teu days. The side that lias been running will bu thoroughly ri paired and when ready to run both sides will be started up together. Thu repairs this year will be quite extensive., and when the mill again starts It will bu In better shape for flrst-dsM work than for some years. Thu road to the Hilver King has been cleared of snow and ore hauling from that property began Friday morning. morn-ing. James lvers A Co. huve the contract con-tract and are hauling Willi six-horse teams and trail wagons. The King has much ore ahead and will begin hoi, ting regularly within a few days, the force of rueuhavlng been Increased durlug the present week. Thorn Is trouble ut the reservoirs again. The recent warm weather has started the snow to melt In good shape aud the Hume constructed by the reservoirs tu carry oil' the water corn-.g corn-.g from the Anchor mine Is not lsrgu enough to receive the iuoreased volume of water. The reault Is that Wednesday last the creek forced Us way into tho upper reservoir aud In a fuw hours all three were bank full, aud but for thu discovery nnd prompt attention of Marshal llonnett In Bhutting the creek out thu ohauces aro that the reiervolre weuld have given way under the strain aud rurrled death and destruction down Umpire canyon. Of course the water com-panyand com-panyand Its employes know nothing of the trouble and danger until alter the damage had been repaired. Thus the oausea of complaint are piling up agalntt thu water company and acting as au Incentive to the city councibaud It Is to be hoped that the evil will result In a new water supply and the laying of strong iron mains for 1U dls-trlbullen. dls-trlbullen. M&looni Mattton, an employe of the Daly mloe, met with an accident on Friday that will lay htm up for several weeks with a broken shoulder to nurse. Himself and two other parties were working In tbo samo slope, and when Icady (o tlio the two men working In Hits inck ml of tho ebipo "spit" their boles nud got out, telling Maltion lo hurry as tuoro was one short fu-e. Mtttsonliad Juitailtonu of lilt fccle.i and was propnrlug to do likewise with another w bin the shot In tbo rear if the slope oirrylnj thu short fu.e exploded ex-ploded and put out his light. Fearing that ho did not liavo time to relight Ills eandlo Malison stalled to leave tho slope In the daik, and while crossing n lalf;ru, covering n slopu below, the uuforlunato mausterpsd Into ti bale and fell forward with great forcu. Ha threw out Ills left arm to vatoh himself him-self aud It struck agalctt one of the walls of tho ledge, dislocating his shoulder, so Mattton thought. Drs. Uresor nnd WIIs-u ntlcuded the Injured In-jured mau aud ou closo ix.itnln.tlon found Mr. Mattson's lelt shoulder badly bad-ly broken; In fact, Dr, Wilson saa thu brcuklsn very bad one nnd will require re-quire much time aud careful attention to cauio thu broken bones to knit pro'ierly, urn pn amii 1-usr.Y at un.Nvr.il. Denver A'cur. Already an Im-iortaut Im-iortaut ptlut fur tlio treatment of ores, on account of lis near-nru near-nru to coal and extenslvo mints, Durango Is about to huve Us Im- ortaiico enhanced by the erection ol what will be practically n now smelt-log smelt-log plant, and auother bidder furores carrying lead. Mi sirs Posey and Uruin, representing tho Hlandard smelting company, are In the cltj. Part ol yesterday was stent III making arrnngcineuls fur two 40-lou stacks for smelting ou a lead basis. Th-so will Landded to the present copper plant, 13 that when thu new furnaces are completed the company will bo lu themarket for both dry and wet ores. The additional stacks will It'cresse the capacity of the smaller eighty tons per day, making It a formidable factur lu thu ore buying market. In thu Sllve r-ton r-ton district lead oies nru sulllug Si ier ton higher, ou like percentage, tlisn nt this time last year. The starting start-ing uf additional leu J furnaces at Durante will not decreaso this advantage advan-tage to Ibo miners, who llnd In thu uppri-clallon of lead some eumponaa-tlou eumponaa-tlou for the low price of silver. The gentlemen luteresled 111 tbeHtaudard works at Durangu aro also Interested 111 thu great copier reduction works now In puces if construction at Hal I Lake City, and which are txpeclod to stimulate uiiiluisln that territory. KOTKa. A strike lo the Houerlne mlno at Htocktou last wiek Is reported. Tho oru assays thirty lumea sliver and fifty per cent lead. HaLsen and Cummerford, who are oporatlug Ihe Pe tenglll mine near Albion, Idaho, will ship a car cf ore to Bait Lake In a few days. The miners nt Mineral, Idaho, who wentoutoustilkoiast week, have re-lured re-lured to work at the reduced scale of wages 3 per day, 'Two thousand acres of land la the eaitarn part of llox L'lJer county,-east county,-east of the Hear river, Is now being1 oObred fjr salo lo Intending settlers, at an average price of $3 to JI2 per aero. V. M. Gibson, local roprosontattve nt Price, Kmery couuty, of tho Utaherllo Asphsltum company of this city, has commenced tho shipment of asphalt from the company's mines. I'll ce Tclcirapli Johnny Mclntlre returned from the Henry Mountains Tuiaday and exhibits a small vlat of yellow metal as a reward for nn hour's panning on a placer claim belonging to llllll. OttoBlallman returned from the east on Haturday night, liavlog completed tho oontraota for machinery, etc., which lie tot out to make. Tho work on Iho copper refinery will now be pushed forward as rapidly ru poetllle. Charles Koskl was Instantly killed, John Poison had his rlba crushed to, Martin llezekhal his legs broken by a cave-In of rock at the Caledonia mine near Deadweud, at Bouth Dakota, Da-kota, on Friday. Thu men wore all miners aud wero preparing n blast when the blast exploded. Koskl's body was terribly mangled. Martin McIIugh, a station tender at the Mculton mine at Neharl, Mont., was killed on Friday, Ha waa occupied occu-pied at the 30J foot tlatlou, nud had rung the call to hoist thu cage, on whloh was a car of ore u hlch ho had forgotten lo tag. He reached over the cage to do this wlieu thu engineer answered the call, and Mcltugli was caught and killed. Another Irrigation and water storage stor-age enterprise Is being surveyed on IhuUlls, twelve miles above Yuma, Arizona, by (leorgu Norton. The proposition is to I ut a slxly.foot dam ou the river at a point where It Is crossed by a natural ledge, T'he river lias n fall of enly three feet a mlle.aud It will consequently baok the water twenty miles. Thu canal will run east uf Yuma and Into Mexico. HALT LAKH OLKAIUNU HOUSE. Today's clearing house ixchangea amounted to JSb'J.MS. TUDAY'd QUOTATIONS. New York Hilver, 821 c; lead, 13.75, UHH AND IIULLIOM. Wells, Fargo &. Co. received today: Mingo bullion, $11,600, McCornlck e. Co. received today: Blivtrand lead ores, (5200; Hanaucr bullion, $9100. Total, 11),SU0. T, 11. Jones &. Co. rucelved todsyi llulllou, $3100; ore, $1)00. Tutut, $13,200. W.A.Hodges ha I In today for assay 13 tons of Ulsh ore, SS tons of Jlulllou-lleck, Jlulllou-lleck, 120 tons ot Horn Hilver, aud six other controls, J, W, Currlohad In for assay today twu lots of Horn Hilver ore, 131 tons, and one lot of Anchor ore, 101 tons. |