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

A wooden mill is to be erected at La
Grande, Oregon.
They are talking of building a street
railroad in Portland, Oregon,
The Mechanics Institute Fair at San
Francisco, closed on the I2th inst.
Considerable quantities of fruit are
being hauled from Walla WRlla valley
10 Idaho.
\ Congregational Church is being
erected at Walla Wala. The building
will be an ornament 10 the town.
On the 9th inst, all the prisoners in
the cOuDty Jail, at Central City, Color
ado. escaped, bat were all recaptured.
10000 tons of breadstuffs were shipped
from San Francisco to Australia for the
ten days ending August 21.
The city of Cheyenne periodically ar
rests ali its frail sisters and fines them
five dollars each aud costs
There is a good deal of trouble at the
White Pine District, Nevada. resulting
from the jumping of claims
Several forged money orders have re-
Gently been discovered at the Kansas
City Pos;ufIice.
4 wooden mill has been started at the
Dallcs. Oregon. Its expenditures tor
wool and labor will amount To $4,000
per annum.
The OTegOuiuns claim to have a quartz
ledge in Clackamas county, which assays
between three and four hundred dollars
20 the ton.
There are two dance houses a. Rawl
ings Springs, and other business in pro-
portion. That place is now ahead OF
Benton.
Indian drpredations TO fearful ex-
tent in Colorado. Hardly Il day passes
that white man is not killed 10y the red
fend
Green River City is very dull, no mon
ey in circulation and no Improvements
going on. Since the laying out OF Bryan
City business has been paralyzed.
The salary of the Marshal of Walia
Nalla has been reduced 10 SO per
month. Not much danger % 4 scramble
for that Office hereafter.
The inhabitants of Sitka celebrated
the Fourth of July by reading the Dec
laratIOn, canoe race, and a procession,
in which Russian girl represented the
Goddess of Liberty.
Letters from President Juarez 20
August Slh, received in San Francisco
By steamer, emphatically deny the re
port OF any negotiations for the sale OF
any part oi Sonora, or other Mexican
territory.
The Council Bluffs Noapuy5H says n
prisoner in the county Jail carved key
Ot wood. unlocked the door of his cell
and wal ked away without disturbing the
rest of the slumberins jailOr.
There are now ten first class Touring
mills in Southern Colorado. and all have
as much work as they can do the year
round upon grain raised in that coutry,
and five OF them are merchant mills.
The result of the last clean up of the
TOzeT mill in South Pass was $4,000
from the Cariso ledge. That mill is now
crushing rock from the Miners Delight.
which il is expected viii make greater
returns
GeucraI Sherman telegraphed to Gov.
Hunt, Of Colorado. that If the settlers
really desire 10 fight Indians, they can
have all of il they want. Now that the
Indians are clearly in the wrong, he
gives them permission to let loose.
California will this year send 70 mar
ket 30 GgOO 600 bushels of wheat. Oregon
will send S. 100000 more. Wheat sells at
Walla Walla a. fifty cents per bushel.i in
Southern Oregon at sixty cents. and at
Portland at si&ty-five and seventy cents.
Trains are now running on the C. p.
r. T. to- Winnemucca, :}24 miles east of
Sacramento. and 44S miles east OF San
Francisco. The total cost Of the road
20 point in the vicinity of Salt Lake,
will DE about SG5,000,000.
mammoth panorama giving views
OF the towns and scenery on the
line OF the L. p Il. r.. and G. p. R-R.. is
inpfocess of preparation. From ths iacE
that the strict lettering OF signs Is 20
be preserved in the views OF buildings
given, we Judge that it is to be some
thing Of an advertizing dodge.
Seven thousand six hundred troops,
saws the 81. Louis DeDiOcrat-moIe than
half as many as are stationed in all the
Southern States-are employed guarl-
ing the two branches of the Pacific
Railroad The cost of maintaining these
troops ut distant points on the plains is
quito double that of maintaining men
at the South. Yet the Democrats, and
especially the Conservatives of this
city. fret terribly about the enormous
expense OF maintaining standing army
at the South, but have not a word to say
about the equally enormous expense of
maintaining a standing army TO guard
private enterprises in which Conserva- =
tives have controlling interest. Just
think, tax payers of the enormous sums
paid 10 support this standing army of
1900 men, while guarding a private
railroad enterprise, and ask these dis
tiuouished Conservatives of St Louis
whether as Jealous and self-sacrificing
natriots, they could not afford TO repay
t,-i.s TO- sl,.of