The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-10-20
The Great West.
NEW crTY-INTEREsTING FROM THE
MINING COUNTRY.

We clip the following interesting
items from the Chicago Republican:
The city Of Cairo is rapidly pushing
the great work of its "internal improve
ment." The city, as is well known, is
built upon reclaimed land--a sort of
bayou. at the confluence Of the Ohio and
Mississippi, surrounded on all sides and
protected from overflow by an extensive
levee, while the land inside is at least
twenty feet below the level Of its bar.
rlers, thus preventing drainage. The
design Is to build all the streets to grade,
something after. our Chicagoplan. Com
mercial Avenue, the principal business
street, has already been completed, and
the contractors will now at once begin
ON Tenth street also. two feet mnst be
added to the grade of the street between
ONO levce and Commercial Avcnne.
Building lots, especially OH the Improved
streets, command nigh prices and many
buildings of a substaptial class are going
up, for which the demand is pressing at
good rents This youngest city of Hi.
nois is making long strides for the second :
place in the State. Datlngs its birth
from the completion os the Illinois Cen.
trail Railroad. il has now d busy popula-
ton of a: least $4,000. The CONNER
cial situation is decidedly in its favor.
With direct railroad to st. Louis, and
another to Vicennts. and with the cam
pletion Of the Cairo and Fulton Road
into Arkansas, Cairo will command
large inland and river trade, for which
no other city offers better facilities.
While st. Louis and Cincinnati are fro
zen up two or three months in the year,
navigation soutllward from Cairo is
always open.n
3 A Helena (Montana) letter of Sep.
tember 10 says: Mining operations,
stampedes. and excitements are very
brisk. One stampede is going on TO the
headwaters of,hc Salmon river, another
to Snake, and others to Wind river
the latest and most excited to Greene
river, or rather La Barge river, the lat.
ter emptying into the former, which
empties then into the Colorado. From
$50 to 800 to the pan are reported to
he found there, and undoubtedly before
winter sets in earnestly some big thing
will have been discovered. The lack of
water would make mining in places rath
or slow at present, owing to the advanc.
cd dry aud hot season we have had, but
even thatis prevented BY bringing wa
ter bitches into the. gulchts TO wash the
DIRT. One ditch ofl6 miles IN lengthy
atan cntlay Of $l60, 1000, is nearly COM
|ple,ed, which will bring water into Last
Chance tHelena) and dry Gulcees,
Yon may form an idea OF the mass of
people here from the fact that this town
is to day as crowded as two months ago,
although from 5000 to 5000 men left
tor the different excilements, States, or
Pacific coast. either our.ing the country.
or gone home loaded with yellow stHeS
or going to winter in more cohadssislt
climate to return next spring. ,QlartA
mining is going ahead finely, and before
six weeks about twelve miles will be fiif
successful operation in this ncig6bor-
hood. Produce is getting plenty and
lower. Ten thousand Mexican sheep
came in last week, and are selling at 50
per head by tho drove Larger herds
are on the way. Large 3roves Of Cali.
fornia and Mexican cattle nre on the way
here, the nearest estimate being 10000
head, aud byall appearances we won't
starve to death this winter, having be-.
sides about $4,000 sacks Of Salt sfake
-four stored in thistown alone.
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