The Montana post., 1868-09-04
TIE WEST.

Idaho il cursed with grasshoppers.
InexhaustibIe beds of good coal are
found on the line of the L. p. Il. X.
about forty miles west of Benton.
One hundred car loads OF ties and iron
are required 10 construct four miles of
the L. p. II. II.
A train of railroad iron which recent
ly passed over the L. p. Il. r., required
two ten wheel locomotives to haul it.
Soap root is extensively used by man
ufactories in San Francisco for stuffing
sofas, etc.
Parepa Rosa opened in California after
her measels. to n $500 (gold) house
What an opening was there. my coun.
trymen!
THE RTvOT PRoCEss.-The Nevada
Gdzstte of August 12th gives the fol-
lowing account of valuable process for
extracting the precious metals from sui
phureJs
TIE boys in the Miners Delight ledge,
near South Pass City, struck a chin
ney" from which they obtained one tun
of rock which yielded $4,000 They
are very much excited over it.
South Pass City, which few months
ago was crowded with busy population
and other buildings for trade of all kinds,
which cost thousands of dollars, are ten
antless aud left to decay.
The first Episcopal Church erected in
Cheyenne City was consecrated on Sun
day, the 23d inst, with appropriate GER
emonies, by The Right Rev. DR. Randall,
Bishop of Colorado; and is called St.
Marks.
A correspondent of the Idaho World,
speaks as follows of Green River City:
Ii is $50 miles South of South Pass City,
and is sustained by present population
of 6,000-railroad employees, mainly
and large transient traffic. 1t contains
thirtY-fve saloons. There are two hurdy
houses, of American girls, who have
monopoliZed the business and ran off the
German girls in that peculiar calling.
Gambling, pistol and rough and tumble
fighting. and all manner of wild, rough
turbulent life, prevails day and night.
Everything portable, goods, money, cloth
ing, provisions, &c, is stolen, if not con
stantly watched, and good order, per-
sonal safety, or law, are not known.
Contracts are being let for the fencing
out of the snow on the Z. p. r. r., along
the line of the cuts. The walls are to
be FIVE feet high, in double lines, the
outer wall to be one hundred and fifty
and the inner wall sixty-five feet from
the track. 1t is expected the major por-
tion OF the snow will fall between the
walls, and the remainder will be- lodged
between the inner wall and the track.
The present contracts will amount to at
least $50, 900. and it is thought others
will be made also.
We noted the fact, some months ago.
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remodeling the works at Canada Hill,
for the working of sulphurets by the
Rivot process. The works were first
erected in 1865, but the company failed
to extract the gold from sulphrlrets in
amount and at the rates anticipated. A
quantity of sulphurets consisting of sew
eral tons, of different kinds from differ
ent mines, was sent to Rivot, at Paris,
| for experimenting. He succeeded in
obtaining satisfactory results, claiming
to save both the gold and silver fully up
to the fire assay. The cost of labor. fu-
el, etc, being furnished him, Rivot esti
mated that the cost of reducing the sui
phurets in California would not exceed
ten or twelve dollars a ton. On the re-
turn OF the agent from Paris the COM
pany commenced remodeling and
making the necessary improvements in
the machinery. This being completed,
they have for some time been experi-
menting, under the SUPPLEMENTARY of
III. Mathey. and we are informed that
the results are entirely satisfactory.
One advantage OF the Rivot process is
that il saves all the silver. which is lost
by the chlorination process. In many
kinds OF sulphurets the silver amounts
TO considerable item. 1t is not the in
tention OF the company to do custom
work, but they will purchase all the sul-
phurets offered that viii pay for work.
! ing by tie process.