The Montana post., 1866-09-29
NEWS ITEMS.


supper and ball, and says Lieut Gov
Sherman has gone to Fort Garland Sen
10Th '' VIZ
COLONEL Charles Fitz Simmons for
merly OF the 21st New York Cavalry is
about to establish a glass manufactorv
in Colorado Territory.
ALL the -four mills in Colorado .ro
now running night and day on the new
crop OF wheat, and are making an excel
lent quality of -four. There is very little
States -four in the market.
HAIL and rain are very constant vis.
ators at Meadow Lake and all along the
Sierras. The editor of the Sun saws
we have resided on this coast for sew.
enteen years, having lived in California
oregon and Nevada, but during all the
summers we have spent In the States
and Territories of the Pacific we have
not seen so much rain fall at the same
season as in the last two weeks at Mea.
dow Lake"
IHE Idaho Statesman Boise City, of
the llth says: We learn from parties
from Canyon city that the large nugget
OF gold lately reported as having been
Iound on Olive Creek, turns out to be a
good sized chunk of suiphate of iron.
Inc discovery of the trua material was
an astonisher to the finders, who had
ABOUT made up their minds to travel to
Europe, and cause to be exhibited the
lucky specimen which placed them above
the common herd of poor miners.
PROF. WooD, with party of several
others, has made scientific exploration
Of Mount Hood 1t stands unriyalled
among the mountains of North America.
Its height is 17,640 feet above the level
OF the sea. The mass of the mountain
rs volcanic lava and ashes. There is a
crater yet open and constantly emitting
sulphurous vapor. Glaciers are there
also, as on Mount Blanc, composed of
clear blue ice, gradually sliding down
the awful ravines. The Flora is exceed |
mgiy interesting, being almost purely
alpine. More than thirty species, pecu- |
lar 10 the mountains were gathered. |
many OF which are new to the science.
The total shipment of treasure from
Portland, Oregon, for eight months. |
closing withato-day, is as follows: Six
months ending June Both, S2.915 800
month OF July, 1856, 81, ,14s, 600; month
OF August, 1866, $1,109,000; total,
S., 1880
IHE San Francisco Bulletin says blast
are about to be erected in Ore
gon by the Oregon Iron Company. The
works are to be located on the Willamet y
rlVer, eight miles above Portland. Iron,
timber and water-power are plenty there.
They will be the first blast furnaces in
operation on the Pacific coast.
OREGON has reason to be proud of the
rapid advancement in the manufacture
Of woolen goods. At present there are
tour mills in operation in the State, two
Of them being the largest on the Pacific
coast.
THE Oregon Herald says: "We no
tieed on the wharf, yesterday, some cases
Of apple-butter, manufactured way up in
the Willamette Valley, and shipped to
San Francisco through the house of
Merrill & Co, in this city.
where it was purchased by an Idaho
irm, and has now arrived back on it's
way to the mountains. Our Idaho
friends prefer going below and pur-
'hasing goods in California, although
hey came from Web-foot, because of
'he name which California adds to the
Talue of the goods. We also noticed
'ome Oregon leather on the wharf, pur- !
;hased in San Francisco for use in Ore
evidence of What's in a s
lame3"
The failure of More & Fogus has
most damaging eject upon all kinds of :
business in Owyhee county. Numbers '
# men of small means lose so much as
o cripple or entirely ruin them, while =
very one feels it in greater or less de. :
,ree.
WE are told, says the Humboldt Reg s
Ster, Nevada, that at Mud Springs, a z
title over hundred miles from this n
lace, on the Honey Lake road, is large 3
Mound of what to all appearances seems o
o be pure isinglass. That substance is n
ute insensible to all influences of heat "
Why may it not be ground and made i,
Ito plaster, and then worked into the #
melting furnaces? The complaint is q
hat nothing can be found to answer in ii
lace of the English fire bricks, and they :"
re enormously expensive. Perhaps our f.
ative isinglass would serve as a substi- =;
ute. a,
In 1865 the paying mines on the Com to
tock lode, according to the Mercantile p
fasette, yielded $15,000,OOO, of which Il
nly $1,950,000 Were divided among fl
In the same year the as p,
on the non paying mines of vi
lat lode reached S1,950,000, being $50- B
10 more money expended than was re- N
Irned as profits The first six months h;
this year the same mines have yielded I'll
100000, but the aggregate dividends in
@ less than ten per cent. thereon. pc
hese figures are enough to set people pl
linking There must be leak some 'e
here; either in the management of the th
ines or that of the mills pr
Soon after the report in regard to the be
scovery of the Italian ledge, in Nevada, Ju
became circulated, lady, sa
hose house is located on the ledge, went In
work in her cellar, and after digging an
way two weeks found the lead The ag
ck presents an excellent appearance lol
ID will no doubt prove rich. For sew
al days the lady has had two men at