The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-09-23
THE WEST.

The sutro Tunnel i. in 1916 s&
Kansas has cishty-si orga,iai oouu.
ties
Omaha is putting in the fire sarm telo.
graph.
Population of San Joaquin equity, Cal. .,
21,093.
The population of siskiyou ca, accord
ing to census, is $500. Il
The San Pascal Rancho as Los Angeles
has been sold for $17,5o0.
Alfred James Redfern died Suddenly at
Virginia City, Nevada, Sept. 9Th.
Brigham Young has twentylour MAJ
riageablc daughters on the mark4
The Cinnamon in Idaho mines re buying
and working many valuable claias.
"Uncle" Abe Curry is candidte for the
Lieutenant Govcrnorship of Ncada.
The population of stanislaus Ounty, CAL
Is estimated at 1850, double that of last
year.
J.W. Mills, of Monterey, Cal has been ap-
pointed Superintendent Of thu Tule River
Indian Reservation.
John A. Sutter, who first discovered gold
iu California, has had = grandson appointed
to West Point.
A Methodist minister in Lake county,
CAL, is building \ chureh with the assist.
ance of man to mix tie mortar.
Colonel Kclly's chances are good for the
Oregon Senatorship; after him, ex Senator
NcsMith. J. Hayden is announced for
Speaker of the House.
Eugene Howard, formerly Supcrintend-
ent of Hill Beechys stage line, in Idaho, died
few days ago, by taking an overdose Of
chloroform for neuralgia
Cheyenne is three years old, and for its
1900 inhabitants has Methodist, a Con-
gregational, an Episcopalian, Presbyterian
and Roman Catholic church.
The population of San Francisco which
the press of that city predicted would be
Ia, 900, is found to bc not far from 125, .
600, of which l0, 900 are Chinese.
The population of Oregon is about 1oo,-
600, an increase in ten years of 100 per cent.
The population of Washington Territory,
not includin. the Indians, will reach %, 900.
The North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Co.
CAL, whose works are located in Nevada
county, have spent the sum of $s50, 900 in
developing their mines and constructin g
bitches.
During tho month of August the Man
haitian 2O.stamp mill At Austin, Nevada,
produced $123, 900 worth of bullion. As
the mill docs not work on Sundays, this is
$500 per day.
Upon the bridge over the Platte, leading
out of Denver, Colorado, there was year
ago this inscription: mo vehicle drawn by
this bridge in opposite affections 4 lie same
time"
A Colorado dentist inflicted so much
pain upon an elderly maiden lady, while
operating upon her toeth, that she seized
cane and hammered him so numerically
that he jumped out through the window
into an open cistcrn.
The miners in Wagontown district. Owy
hee. Idaho, have laid over their claims
until July list, 1871. Three hundred Chi
namen arc at work in the creek below Wa
gontown, and quite number above there
Tom Walls sold his race track claims fol
$4,000.
James D. Fay, General Joseph Lane, cx'
Governor Whitaker, Jos. Teal, J. W. Mes
mith. B. F. Harding, Asabcl Bush, J. s.
Smith, Ben. Stark. Governor.clect Grover
cx. Governor Curry, and about for,y'nin'
..others" in the ''stccrage," are candidate:
for United States Senator from Oregon, t.
succeed Geo. II. Williams-so says an Ore
gon exchange.
From the Virginia City Enterprise, scpta
On ranch on the Carson river, eigh
miles below the mouth of Six.mile Canyon
and about seventeen miles east of this cit!
is to be seen herd of twenty.six camels
all but two of which were born and raisct
| in this State. But two of the old herd o.
nine or ten brought here some years ago ar,
now living. It would seem that the origi
| inal lot fell in the hands of Mexicans, VIII
treated them very badly, overloading ant
abusing them. The men who now hav'
them arc Frcnchmen, and men, it seems
who had formerly some difficulty in rearinI
them, aid can now show twcnty-four fin
healthy animals, all Of Washoc growth
The camels may now be said 70 be thorough
" acclimaicd in this State The owncs
of the herd lind It no moro diicult to bree,
and rear them than would be experieace
with the same number Of goats or donkey'
The ranch spsn which they are kept
sandy and sterile in the extreme, yet th
animals feast and grow fat on such prickl
shrubs and bitter weeds = no other snima
would touch. When left to themsclve
their great delight, after filing themselvt
with the coarse heritage IT the desert, II
lie and roll in the hot sand. They are use
| IN hacking salt to the mills on the riv,
4 from the marshes lying ID the deserts son
sixtv miles 10 the eastward. They hsy
animals that easily Pack eleven hundre