IN OUR OWN COUNTRY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3560, 15 August 1905, Page 2

IN OUR OWN COUNTRY.

The first of the states to hold aa election in 1902 will be Oregon. The locust or grasshopper plagues of Kansas, Nebraska am] Minnesota occurred in the years 1573,187-1 and 1875. The Boston Journal reporls its, discovery of 818 couples in New England still enjoying married life after 50 years or more of it.

The city of Spokane, Wash., has paid in. recent years thousands of dollars for damage suits resulting in injuries received on defective sidewalks.

The rush of farmers from the middle west to the Pacific northwest continues on a large scale. This emigration, is partly due to the dying out of the lumber industry in Michigan and Wisconsin. The impetus to settlement in the state of Washington has made that stata a thriving center.

' ■■-.'sstwrinA The sensation amrng mining men :in the southwest is the discovery of rich -anthracite coal in Arizona in inexhaustible quantities. This means the -■development of vast mineral beds heretofore practically; useless for lack offuoL For two or three years Pacific coast miners have been hearing wonderful stories of vast mineral wealth in the Siberian peninsula, extending into the Siberian sea and the Arctic ocean, OS,. 000 square miles. Word.has just come, that it ip, to be thrown open to th« public, next April, "Wonderful stories are now told on The, Pacific const, by returning prossectors from Candle Creek, Alaska, which they say is the world’s wonder. It is only ten feet wide, and men stand in it shoveling up rich gravel. Logs .arc dragged 20 miles; Hy the miners who propose to winter there to build cabins.

A combination of the great cupper inunes of the United States Similar in scope to the Morgan bfllion-dnliar steel combine is now under the lead«rship of the Rothschilds, whom Senator Clark is now visiting. So far the Calumet and Hecla, the greatest copper company in, the world, refuses to come in. ~

Until quite <Tccntly southern California keen comparatively unknown, b'lt a New England company now^ov; ni n g all previously unsold land of the twenty-eighth degree of latitude is pushing sales of land mostly , for mining purposes. In the largest mines 3,000 Yaqui Indians arc paid $41.00 a day. Copper and gold are abundant, and “workings” are appearing all over the peninsula. In some parts are plateaus 4,500 leet high, walled in by mountains. Vast deposits of almost pure sulphur are being opened up. There are turquoise mines and. the largest turquoise on the American continent was found there,