The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-24
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the Tloatie,' Indec, Published, at pre-.
sent. in Bear River City, Wyoming
Territory. We extract the following
items from the last nnmber--N -Noyem.
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BnKvILLE All accounts from
there corrobornte each other as to the
dull times and gloomy prospects, and
men who talked in favor of the place
to save their money invested in lots,
and vowed to stay there this winter.
have already moved to and invested
at Bear River City.
NOTICE. E.-Most of the cut-tbroat
gang ordered to leave have vamosed,
though there are several here yet who
have the mark of the beast in their
forehead, who had better make the
cap fit themselves before Saturday at
mid might, or climb telegraph pole.
This means business.
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.
The RAILRoAD.-By gentlemen
from the East side of Qnaking Asp
Mountain, we are informed that the
end of track is fully forty miles from
here, the way the grade winds. It is
showing in the mountains as we
write, and it is now generally conced-
ed, by all sensible men, that the cars
will barely run this far by Christ
mas. There is no place West of here
that can be made point for any
thing until we build on the shores of
Salt Lake next spring. We will ship
frame houses and everything by rail
road, then, and as the lumber is
worth more there than here, We will
make our winters rent clear.
WE'UNs POSTMASTER -Our bond
as postmaster required 81. 90 worth
OF revenue stamps. We found three
different kinds, amounting to seven
ty-six cents, and that being all in the
town, we authorized the third assist
ant postmaster general to affix the
remaining twenty-four cents. Good
joke on Gen. Skinner. Our salary il
$l2. 90 per year, and that won't pay
the Departments charges for regula-
tions, filling and stamping bonds, and
getting cussed into Office. Directly
after taking the iron-clad oath we
swallowed dose of epson salts, to
work it off. Grants term of Office
does not commence until March 4,
1869, so we entertain no fears of
being ousted during this winter, and
if we are it will only he Petroleum
V. Nasby's harpy realized. Which
would be as good a point for the
Frontier Lader to run on as we would
want. We have no Use for the Office
further than to know that it is run
properly for the benefit of the COM
munity, and that our own mails come
and go regularly. Our deputy, how
ever, Mr.. j. Tag Reynolds, is one of
Grants bushwhackers, and "trooly
loil."
Our BUSINESS PRospECTs. s.--An
average of 500 wagons pass through
and trade in our town every day.
400 of these are employed hauling
railroad ties, stone for bridge piers
and abutments, and in grading the
hills and valleys each side of u.s. The
remaining 100 are freight trains from
the East and others that como from
the West and outfit here. Thousands
of Mormons will do their marketing
here. Thousands of men in the tim
Der aud on the grade are supplied
from here. Col. A. j. Hopper alone
disburses about 5000 per month to
his gang of timber-cutte and haul
ers. AT least 5000 laborers, arti-
zans, mechanics, miners and men of
ell trades and professions are prepar-
ing to winter in this fastest of Ame-
rican cities. Times good with every
body, money plenty and prospects
never better on the face of the earth.
There is no other place for any one
to go to until the cars run into Salt
Lake Valley.
EUREKA River City, eighty
five miles each way from the Salt
Lake and Bryan. The point from
which mountain engines must start
East over the rim of the great basin,
and West over Echo Mountain. a
mountain of black hematite iron ore
that assays ninety per cent, bounds
the town on the North west, whilo
two other mountains of coal are being
developed on the North and East
suburbs, which, together with the
boundless beds Of pure fire clay, and
the ample water power of Sulphur
Creek, afford facilities for operating
rolling mills, such as are not to be
found anywhere else along the line of
the great national highway Oil wells