The Montana post., 1868-09-11
THE WEST.

A presbyterian Church Is ABOUT 10 De
established in Cheyenne.
The boundary line between Colorado
and New Mexico is now being run.
Mining matters are looking up in
Central City. Colorado.
On the Cd inst. zoo European Mormon
emigrants arrived at Salt Lake.
Thirteen deaths in Salt Lake during
the month of August.
Prof. Silliman, of Yale College. is ge-.
ologiZing in Colorado.
Chevenne has a public school capa-
bic OF seating two hundred pupils.
The estate of the late Col. Thomas
HAYES. of San Francisco. is appraised az
100000.
The Hon. L. L. Munson passed through
Salt Lake on the I'd last. on his way
home.
New grapes are on sale at San Fran
cisco at 81 80 per pound.
San Jose has public school building
that cost $4,000. The finest out OF
San Francisco.
The Internal Revenue collected in
San Francisco on manufacturers exceeds
So 100000 a year.
1t is shown by the Internal Revenue
returns that about 100000 cigars are
consumed IN San Francisco daily.
The rate of taxation in San Francisco
is So 0j on each 500. This includes
State, county and city taxes.
A BARRIERS shop of Cheyenne bears
this grandiloquent title: Magic City
OF the West Shaving Saloon"
Five men were killed by Indians on
the Smoky Hill route, in Colorado, two
or three weeks ago.
Ten six~driving wheel locomotives
are running between Cheyenne and
Laramie.
In the Willamette valley. income tax
is paid on $2,OO0,0O0.
| The match maker at Stockton ships
his wood from Puget Sound. and IL costs
at Stockton S45 per cord.
Fires. fifty miles in extent, are raging
| in the woods of Washington Terri
tory, near Olympia.
! 1t is understood that George Gibbs, of
/ Washington Territory, will be recon-
mended for Governor of Alaska.
/ Oregon is cuItivating flax with great
success. She recently shipped six tons
of seed to San Francisco.
A line of sailing vessels. connecting
! Portland, Oregon, directly with n W
York, has been established.
The gap between the Union Pacific
Railroad and the Central Pacific is only
about six hundred miles.
The Telegraph says that a magnifi-
cent mammoth hotel is wanted in Salt
/ Lake.
! IL is stated, this time positively, that
the Union Pacific Railroad will reach
Green river by October 1st.
! Tue Mormons claim that this year
there will be added to the band of Saints,
by emigration, six thousand persons
The Oregon State Fair commences at
Salem on the 2Sth of September. and
continues six days.
! The crops in Grand Ronde, Oregon,
have been very much damaged by the
! heat.
The Willamette Woolen Mandatory,
of Salem, consumes annually about four
hundred thousand pounds of wool
The last night of the star combination
between Mr.. Z. L. Davenport and Miss
Ince. at Salt Lake [ ;ty, was on the 9TH
! inst.
Cheyenne has abolished the offices of
Citv Attorney and City Surveyor. We
shall next expect to hear of the aboli-
ton of their entire city government.
The Walla Walla Statesman says the
fruit crop is light in that valley this
season. The apple crop. especially, is
very poor.
The Dalles MouAtdiHeer, of August
21st, reports that Wells, Fargo x Co.
have bought John Hailey's stage line
from that city TO Boise City.
The trade between San Francisco and
/ China Is within trihe of being as great
as the trade between that port and
Great Britain.
San Francisco pays one-sixteenth of
the whole whisky tax of the United
States. No wonder that the city went
Democratic at the last election.
1t is rumored that Brigham Young,
Jr., is not looked upon favorably by the
Mormon Church as its prospective lead
er and the successor of the Lion of the
Lord.
A twenty stamp mill is now on its
way to Sweetwater to be erected on the
Miners Delight Lode. A ten stamp mill
will soon be put up on the Atlantic
/ Lead. .l.. .Hs
The gold excitement concerning Bing-
ham Canyon, near Salt Lake, is over. 1t
is said that those who have worked
there during the summer have not
made, on an average, twenty-five cents
per day. ..,
Ellen N. Lynch sued Henry Saxthorp
for twenty thousand dollars, for breach
of promise of marriage. in San Fran>
cisco court, and the jury gave her five
hundred dollars. nl
The carrier of the Cheyenne Leader
says he sells great many extra copies
now by crying out. Another free lupch,
everybody invited. full particulars.''J
1t is stated that in Ruby Valley, 500
| miles Nzeaf of Salf LIZ. I