THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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well known, and it will interest cmr read- 

 ers to learn that the Goodhue 13-foot 

 steel power mill is not only especially 

 adapted to irrigation, but will also do a 

 very large amount of work, running various 

 kinds of machinery, including grinding 

 mills for grinding feed, making fine meal 

 and graham flour, shelling corn, sawing 

 wood, and other work of this class. 



This power mill will do as much work 

 pumping as is done by ordinary piimping 

 mills of much larger size and during the 

 winter and at other times of the year when 

 not used for pumping it will do enough 

 work for grinding to soon pay the entire 

 cost of the outfit, thus doubling its value 

 at very little increased- cost. In durability 

 they surpass any other type of mill, and 

 are so simple in construction that anyone 

 can erect complete equipments perfectly. 

 These mills are made by the Appleton 

 Manufacturing Company, of Batavia, 111., 

 who manufacture a full line of windmills 

 for all kinds of work, and are the largest 

 makers of iron grinding mills in the world, 

 and also make an extensive line of other 

 machines that are used in preparing feed 

 for stock. 



MINING NEWS. 



The output of gold from Baker County, 

 Oregon, will this year reach $2,000,000. 



Numerous gold fields ar 3 being reported 

 from the state of Utah. From a mineral 

 standpoint this state is practically unex- 

 plored. Several of its silver mines have 

 had to suspend work owing to low silver, 

 and in the large silver producing states, 

 Colorado, Washington ^lontana and Idaho, 

 the silver output has declined owing to 

 the fall in price of that metal. Copper, 

 petroleum, gold and aluminum have in- 

 creased in product and in value. Accord- 

 ing to government figures lead shows a de- 

 cline but there is an increase in the total 

 amount mined. 



The gold product of Colorado this year 

 will exceed $20,000,000. 



One ounce of silver was worth a bushel 

 of wheat last year, now it takes two ounces 

 of silver. 



A valuable bed of white clay, contain- 

 ing almost 16 :5 per cent of pure alumi- 

 num was recently discovered at the north 

 end of Christina lake, in British Colum- 

 bia. The discovery was made quite ac- 

 cidentally by four men who were pros- 

 pecting for mineral veins. The bed has 

 been traced for a distance of 1 ,300 feet on 

 the surface and is about 12 feet in depth. 

 According to assays it will be equal to 

 $185 per ton in pure aluminum. 



The Western Mining World advises the 

 reopening of abandoned mines, claiming 

 that in many instances they were given 

 up without sufficient cause. This advice 

 was followed in the case of an old mine in 

 California, which was purchased for $400 

 and in two weeks yielded $42,000. 



Gold at Home. A Washington paper 

 is of the opinion that the people of that 

 state should turn their attention to boom- 

 ing the gold fields in their own vicinity 

 instead of giving so much newspaper com- 

 ment to Klondyke "fairy tales." Accord- 

 ing to the western press there is a vast 

 amount of gold right at home that can be 

 obtained without undergoing the danger 

 of cold and starvation which attend the 

 Klondyke gold fields. The Semi- Weekly 

 Standard of Ogden, Utah, of recent date, 

 reports the finding of gold in the streets 

 of Edgemont, S. D., while excavating for 

 a sewer. It is claimed a man can obtain 

 about $20 worth of gold a day from this. 

 Copper River is also said to be rich in 

 gold, while well authenticated reports 

 come from Loomis, Wash., of a gold-bear- 

 ing quartz ledge which has been struck in 

 Palmer Mountain tunnel, and which it is 

 confidentially hoped will make Loomis a 

 great mining camp. The first lot of 

 quartz brought down from this mine 

 and assayed showed $2.50 silver and 

 $187.70 gold. The upper peninsula also 

 claims to possess a large gold field. All 

 of which goes to prove that the Klondyke 

 is "not the only pebble on the beach. " 



