IN OUR OWN COUNTRY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3611, 18 January 1906, Page 4

IN OUR OWN COUNTRY.

The first of the states to hold an election in 1902 will be Oregon. The locust or grasshopper plagues of Kansas, Nebraska and .Minnesota occurred in the years 1873,1874 and 1875. The Boston Journal reports its discovery of 818 couples in New England still enjoying married life after 60 years or more of it. The city of Spokane, Wash., has paid

in recent years thousands of dollars * lor 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 state a thriving center.

ui.C-t'R.iU. The sensation among mining men in Hie soul hv. est is the discovi i j oi. rich anthracite coal in Arizona in inexhaustible quantities. This means the development of vast mineral beds heretofore practically useless for luck of fuel. For two or three years Pacific coast miners have been hearing wonderful etories of vast mineral wealth in the Siberian peninsula, extending into the Siberian sea and the Arctic ocean, GS,000 square miles. Word has just come that it is to be thrown open to the. public next April. Wonderful stories are now told on the Pacific coast by returning prospectors 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 are dragged 30 miles Tiy the miners who propose to winter there to build cabins.

A combination of the great copper mines of the United States similar in scope to the Morgan biliion-u-u

steel combine is now under’the 1

ership ot the Rothschilds, whom Semitor Clark is now visiting. So far tin Calumet and Ilecla, the greatest cm per company, in the world, refuses , come in, .

Until quite recently southern Crb fornia has been comparatively ui known, but a New England company now owning all previously unsold land north of the twenty-eighth degree of latitude is pushing sales of laud mostly for mining purposes. In the largest mines 3,000 Yaqui Indians are paid $41.00 a day. Copper and gold are abundant, and "workings” are appeal ing all over the peninsula. In parts are plateaus 4,500 feet high, walled in by mountains. Vast deposits of ab"nst pure sulphur are being opened up. There are turquoise mines and the largest turquoise found on the Americafi continent was found there.