The Montana post., 1869-01-01
TIE WEST.


The debt of Arizona is $4,000, ma
tional currency.
Inferior lumber sells for 5000 per
thousand feet at White Pine.
A wooden railroad is projected from
Reno To Virginia, New
II. c. Thomas was hung by vigilantes
at Cheyenne ON the Sth of December.
Denver has an SO. 900 hotel: J. w.
Smith runs it and it's name is Metropoli-
tan.
An agricultural paper has been start
ell in Omaha
The wife of J. ID. Young local editor
Beriah Brown has dissolved his con-
nectiOn with the Portland Herald.
California has gained 10000 by immi-
grafton ihIs year.
A Lodge of Colorado Masons has been
organized at Denver, Colorado. by VIM.
ID. Mathews. u. NJ. of the q. l.. of Cols
ored Masons of Kansas.
The Central Pacific folks have just
completed for use on their road large
car. containing eating, sleeping and all
kinds of travelling conveniences. 1t is
quite a little hotel in itself.
w. p. C. Stebbins, of San Francisco.
has received the appoin tment from tue
Government of Superintendent of the
erection of the erection of the United
States Branch Mint building, which is
to be erected on Mission street, corner
of Fifth, San Francisco.
A teamster named William GAffney
was killed last Monday, in Santa Cruz
county, California, near Lexington, by n
load of lumber falling off the wagon
and striking him on the head, crushing
his skull in terrible manner, and Gauss
ing his death instantly.
Harper's Bazaar says: "The new
Bishop of Nevada, DR.. o. w. Whitta-
k.r, is "A native of New Salem Mass, a
graduate of Amherst. and for some four
or five years taught the High School at
North Brook field. Like several of the
newlyNelected Bishops of the Episcopal
Church, he was not chosen so much for
his powers of pulpit oratory as for prac-
tical good sense, industry, and general
Hdaptedness To the office.
A correspondent of the Salt lake Tele-
graph says Of the Bear River riot: "It is
now ascrrtained that eight men fell
dead in the streets. one was killed by a
sentry the next night, four died in the
packed off To the new grave yard in the
hills, and fifteen. mortally wounded,
died in the various grading camps.
making n total of forty of the rioters
now known to- be dead, while only one
citizen-Steve Stokes-was mortally
wounded"
A jovial correspondent of the Territo>
rial Enterprise who varies the monotony
of Bohemianism, in which he swings a
tacile pen, by driving OK team To
White Pine. makes the following Cham
pion run on billiards:
i am thinking of writing a poem ell
titled Bull Billiards; or. the Ok Drivers
Trip To White Pine" | got the cue to
this title from seeing fellow with
goad stick make "a run on his wheel
yoke. with several points on the Swing
cattle" and "carom" on the off leader.
He had TO English" n good deal in the
game, but he got to White Pine, and
that is where I'm coming to in this let
ter.
The Cheyenne Star of the 9th inst. La
mented thus:
Snow to the east of US; snow to the
west of us; snow in front of us; and snow
in the rear of us-one train showed in
at Sherman and the other at Hillsdale.
no mail and no news. Such is the woe
iul state of affairs.
A "Rev Mr.. Bentley. of OMAHA" has
been amusing the members of the Young
Mems Christian Association of St. Louis,
by the announcement that he was from
affair off and wicked land-a land of moral
darkness so dense that the light of
Christ's grace can glimmer there only
occasionally" which contains twenty
thousand Christ hating people, with
few exceptions"
The Enterprise says in regard to the
COmstock range: Sweetapple & Hirsch-
man are taking out considerable
amount of good milling ore from the
old upper levels of the Mexican mine.
The Belcher Company are taking out
from 20 to 30 tons per day of milling
ore per day, and expect soon TO do mnch
better. The body of ore found at the
the $40 foot level of the Alpha. some
time since, six feet in width, proves not
so good ms was at first supposed. Sink
ing 200 feet deeper is TO be prosecuted,
for something better. An incline is now
being sunk from the 1200-ieet level of
the Bullion mine, which will be put
down 200 teet-making a depth of 1 400
feet in all on the vein-before stopping
to drift. A DRIFT north from the 500
feet level of the Crown Point has de-
veloped very good body OF ore, but il
proves to be on the Kentuck ground.
The total depth of the Imperial. Empire
shaft is at present 1000 feet, and sink
ing is still being continued; the rock as
soft. and good progress is being made.