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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1900
Page
4
A collection of health and lifestyle items cites Mrs. Pinkham's remedies and letters praising her methods. Anecdotes reference public officials, medical claims, and varied advice from personal testimonials alongside other household remedies and garden notes.
Wallace Idaho August 27 The Flynn group of 22 claims on the big lead between Helena Friveo and Morning mines near Canyon creek has a two mile continuous lead and several patented claims. Montana capitalists plan bond financing and rapid development, with tunnels and exploration already extensive though not yet producing. The group spans an iron knoll summit and promises one of the Northwest’s largest ore bodies.
A large coal deposit 13 miles from the Grand Ronde mouth in Idaho is reported by the Lewiston Tribune to promise major railroad development in the Snake River region. The Oregon Railway and Navigation Company is evaluating coal prospects on the Columbia and Souke rivers to secure an adequate supply for its system, so a Grand Ronde discovery would be highly welcome.
The geological survey details Oregon coal regions west of the Cascade and north of Rogue River, noting four major fields in Columbia Clatsop Lincoln and Coos counties. It cites transportation as key to development and reports mining progress in British Columbia and Idaho including Kimberley tunnel, Valen copper prospects, and the Klondike and Oro Fine mines with substantial dividends and new mills planned.
H. G. Anderson reports rapid progress in the Monuot Baker gold fields as developers push tunnels at Red Mountain ledges including Anderson-Schrrmacher and Gold Basin. Assays from Gold Cuasin ore reach $40,000 per ton, with crews planning engines and fans to clear blast smoke while boundary doubts raise potential BC claims.
The Monte Cristo Mining Company in Monte Cristo Washington reports 60 workers on payroll and a mill operating at 70 tons per day. Repairs will boost capacity to 100 tons daily, with a dynamo soon starting and Burleigh drills to work. When raises finish, manpower may reach 200 to 250. A survey party works to bring more water to the mill and ore is claimed to support a decade of mining.
The Woman's Auxiliary of the Church Temperance Society funds two free ice water fountains in New York tenement districts from May to October. They have seen a steady stream of children, draymen, and others who benefit, especially as ice costs rise. Each fountain costs 200 dollars to erect, with plans to expand the system.
An exchange tells of a printer who withheld the amount he would have spent on drinking with his fellow workmen. After five years he counted his bank deposit to be 521.86 dollars and noted no ill health days. Three of his drinking companions became addicts and were discharged. The milk trade in New York feeds 140000 cows from several states. A diet tonic and a vaccination plan for lobsters are also mentioned.
An assortment of health remedies and advertisements appears, touting Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a cure for debility and nervous conditions, plus claims for liver ills and a pricey cure. Other items discuss German shipyards, ear health and catarrh remedies, Hall’s Catarrh Cure, and Harriman era discoveries in Alaska with quirky lines about a “count.”
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