The Montana post., 1868-10-23
THE WEST.

Denver covers 3 3.340 acres.
Black Hawk. Colorado, has produced
a cabbage head weighing Al pounds.
Professor of the accumulstive art.
is the California term tor thief.
Over 5000 Cinnamon have arrived in
California during the past six months
California exported over $4,000, 900
worth of breadstuffs during September.
Snow is reported foot deep at the
Laramie gold diggings-
The San Francisco Gas Company pass
dividens Of one half of one per cent per
month.
The Branch Mint at San Francisco
coined last month 50, ,445, 900 in gold,
and $4,000 in silver.
The sales of real estate in San Fran
cisco, for the month of September.
amounted to $2,S05,395.
There is a great deal of small pCX
around Novato and Laguna, Marin
county. Cal.
Gilroy has now two huadred houses
and thirty more are in process OF CON
struction. -.
a farm within two miles of Denver
has yielded 316 bushels of corn To the
acre without irrigation.
The business men of Walla Walla
have determined to receive greenbacks
at San Francisco prices.
The Oregon City Enterprise says good
cattle are getting scarce there, on ac~
count of speculation over the mountains.
In the Enterprise office, on the 14th
ult., lamps had TO be lighted al p. NJ,
on account of the smoke.
Six hundred more Cinnamon are to be
put to work on the Oregon Central Rail-
road.
Navigation on the Upper Willamette
is perilous TO steamboat companies at
this season of the year.
The one-legged tight-rope walker has
given a successful performance at Port
land.
On the 18th inst. the steamer from
the Dalles landed 80 Cinnamon at
Umatilla.
a terrible fire occurred at San Andre
as. California. on the 26th ult. Sixty
houses we-e laid in ashes Loss $75,00O
The fremont House was destroyed by
FIRE at Folsom, on the 26th ult. Loss
$4,000.
The citizens have levied n tax of two
and half mills on the dollar on the
taxable property of the Dalles, to sup
port the free schools of the city.
Men are making So per day washing
gold from the black sand on the sea
shore at Chehalis Point, Washington
Territory.
The road from Linn county, Oregon,
To Ochoco valley is obstructed by fallen
timber. There have been tremendous
fires in the mountains in that direction.
In Colorado general travel and the
movement of trains is almost entirely
suspended on account of the danger
from Indians.
a correspondent of the ReUeiUe says
the Central Pacific Is letting up and
not more than a mile and half OF rails
per day is being laid.
Fifteen Chinese left jackson Co. Oga.,
recently for the Flowery Kingdom,
taking with them $50 600 in gold, the
product of the mines
The ArizoHn Miner says that at least
one hundred men could find employ
ment in Prescott, at from $50 TO 500
per month.
The Oreg0Ridn says an Indiana com
pany recently paid $225.0O0 for one
thousand feet of ground in the Yuba
district, and are erecting a fine mill
The district is pronounced Very rich.
The carnival ball at the Mechanics Z,
air Pavilion in San Francisco, on the |
29th ult.. was grand success. There ]
were 800 maskers on the floor and 300 |
spectators in the galleries.
Walsh and Stoddard recently ran a
two hundred mile race near San Fran /
cisco. Both parties changed horses as
often they liked, but Walsh won in /
eight hours aud twenty minutes. Stod- |
dard rode 1S6 miles In this time
Within the Ast month there have
been six cases of small pox in Petalu>
ma. Five of the patients were Mexi-
cans and one American. But one death /
has occurred.
They are raising water-melens that \
weigh thirty pounds, squashes that I
weigh one hundred pounds, and cab
bages that weigh sixty pounds. in Cars
son valley. Good for the sage brush
The assessment roll of the city an
county of San Francisco has lust bee n
and foots up as follows: Real
estate, $G3 3.576, ,179 personal property.
s41 s921 ,2O2 60; dog tax, s., ,096.
In Virginia, Nevada, the public schools
are visited by the doctors, and the chill
iren vaccinated by the wholesale. Sew
sral cases of smallpox are reported In
he city.
Truckee is said to be at present the
iveliest town on the Pacific coast. Gam
Dlers are plentiful, the hotels are crowd
ed. and everybody has money. The
,ailroad company disburses there some
100000 a month.
1t is the opinion of Western editor
hat wood goes further when left out
han when well housed. He says some
,f his went half a mile.
From two and one-half acres of gar
len fallowed land, in Diablo Valley.
Iontra Costa county Georre Matte bas ,