The Montana post., 1868-09-25
THE WEST.

at $50 per ton in Salt Lake.
The foundation of the new California
Theatre, in San Francisco, is complete.
A vein of stone coal has been discov-
cred near Oroville, Cal.
The city of Vallejo will, in a few
weeks, be lighted by gas.
Business at owyhee, Idaho, is good
beyond all precedent.
! Five thousand bushels of oysters were
received in San Francisco from Shoal-
water Bay, August 26.
Ned Buntline is delivering temperance
lectures to the people of Almeda county,
California, with considerable success.
A thirty stamp mill is about to be set
up by the Rising Star Mining Company
in Flint District, Owyhee.
One steamer recently took seventeen
tons of salmon down to San Francisco
in one day.
A destructive fire occurred at Horni-
tos. California, on the 9th ult. The loss
was about SOS, 900.
Work on the Cheyenne end of the
Denve. railroad was commenced on the
9TH inst.
! At the Mechanics Institute Fair, San
| Francisco, there was on exhibition an
/
The shipments of bullion from Den
yer during the month OF August aver
aged $47,500 per week.
No appointments of officials for Wy
oming will be made until Congress
again convenes.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'S coaches now con-
meet with the u. 2. r. K. at Black
Buttes City, 256 miles east of Salt Lake.
The !Sueetcator Mines has given up
the ghost, and its material has been
boxed up.
The Union copper mine at Copperopo-
lis has been sold under Sheriff S sale to
Gideon & Williams tor S121 ,257, and
$4,000 in gold.
Mr.. a. Butler, in digging the cellar for
his brewery, at Fort Scott, Kansas has
unearthed over 5000 bushels of good
coal.
Oregon is new State. but gentle
man who has lived in Tamhill county
has descendants 10 the number of III
! about his knees.
The Pacific slope intends to provide
itself with iron. San Francisco has
built rolling mill, and Oregon has sent
down 1000 tons of pig iron TO start
with.
There is man in California who has
not worn hat for twelve years. He
declared in 1856 that he would not cover
his head until Gen. Fremont was elect
ed President.
The Colorado Steam Navigation Com
pany is defunct, and the project of cons
Meeting San Francisco with Utah 10y way
of the Colorado river is for the present
abandoned.
I, l.. u,
Francisco, but now of Elizabeth, New
Jersey, has taken advantage of the
bankrupt act. His Indebtedness in Cali
ifornia is $240,O00.
The Chicago Evening Post says: God
made the Indians to be killed, oil He
would not have made them TO be killers;
hence we are for carrying out his inten-
tions.
A human skeleton has been found at "A
depth of so feet below the surface. near
the Antelope station, on the Union Pa
chic Railroad. /. was fourteen feet be-
low a stratum of rock six feet in thi ck-
ness,
When the Indians plundered freight
car, in Nebraska, they tied yards of call /
leo to tha tails of their ponies and went
careering over the plains with the long |
trains streaming behind.
They have soda water lands on Bear
Creek, near Denver. Five gallons of /
the water make one gallon of the crude |
bi-carbonate of soda. Smelling Co.'S are |
being furnished with this latter at forty |
dollars per ton.
The Builders Insurance Company of /
San Francisco on the 31st ult, filed a /
certificate of the increase of it's capital I
stock TO 100000. Amount of capital /
paid in, $4,000. Liabilities, $12 900.
In San Francisco, Aug. 26, the Com |
mittee OF Pioneers made a lengthy re-
port favorable to the adoption of the res !
olution admitting pioneers of 1850 TO !
membership.
A new weekly paper styled the I'm /
dercortter, and published in the insu- I
rance interest, made its appearance in |
San Francisco recently. 1t is printed |
by the Women's Cooperative Print
ing Union.
Madame Parepa Rosa, now performing
in San Francisco, was recently the re
cipient of a magnificent bracelet with
medallions cut in quartz, and her name
formed in letters made of diamonds, of
which there are eighty in number
1t is said that the newly arrived Nor
mons are compelled to work for Brig I
ham on the railroad in order to repay
their passage money, notwithstanding
the Salt Lake Saints contributed suffic.
lent sums to pay all their expenses.
Virginia City, Nevada, is caving in.
A gentleman went TO look for his board
ing house the other day, and, on return
ing, was asked his success. Well"
said he. IL found everything settled ex-
cept my bill" n
An engineering firm in San Francisco.
wishing TO discover the depth to which
a pile could be driven in the mud. which
once formed the bed of the bay, sank
one on top of another until the depth of
JOG feet was reached, when they stopped