The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-03-17
THE WEST.

playing in Cheyenne.
had been able to get good traces of silver
and slight trace of gold.
Salt Lake salt contains 07.61 pure salt
Turks Island contains 06.76.
The residence Of J. X. Smith, at SAINT.
Cruz, was burned March 1st.
James W. CoRorth, Of Sacramento, pur.
chased $10,0 900 residence in that city.
The hot springs of Santa Barbara, Cal.
are becoming favorite place of resort.
W. B. c. Brown, County Clerk of sacra.
mento, took in go, ,G44. 63 in fees in 1870.
San Francisco is said to hayc more street
railways than any other city in the country.
Five hundred men are at work grading
the new Lawrence and Pleasant Hill Rail.
road.
The New Almaden mine nov turns on,
from 1900 to 1900 TASKS of quicksilver per
month.
Fremont, Nebraska, is growing rapidly,
and is one of the most thriving towns in
Nebraska.
Samuel A. Knight, aged 81, was thrown
from buggy and killed near San Jose,
CAL, Feb. 20.
The morals of Canyon City, COL, must be
very good. There are only seventeen min
listers of tho gospels there!
The survey for the proposed narrow gauge
railroad between Reno and Virginia City,
was commenced Feb. 24th.
Fort Walla Walla is to he sold, says the
Walla Walla Union, probably for the ben.
fit Of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
During 1870 three hundred and three tons
of ore were taken from the Scaton lode, at
Idaho. 1t was worth $63, 500, coin value.
The cleanup at the Eureka Mill, Grass
Valley, for the two weeks crushing ending
on Saturday, F b. "a, yielded the sum of
$41,OO0 go.
Mr.. James Creighton, of Placcrville, Cal.,
has just completed and commenced work.
ing ten stamp gravel mill In Ell Dorado
county.
Governor Haight has pardoned George
X. Boiling. now serving out term in the
San Francisco County Jail for assault and
battery.
Fears arc entertained in Kansas of a gen.
cral outbreak of hostllitics on tho part of
tho Chcycnncs and Arrapahocs carly in
Spring.
Adam Ginners, the great bee dealer Of
Jefferson, Wis, has received IN order for
4O swarms Of bees, to bc shipped to Salt
Lake City. -..-..- .-.-
At Gallatin, Los Angeles county, CAL,
Feb. eth, Dick Sec killed William Dan
can. Adisputc at game of cards was the
origin Of the difficulty.
The Lcyden coal mine, near Golden City,
Colorado, is on fire. 1t was opened and
then allowed to remain unworked some
time, when it commenced to burn.
j. c. Edwards, convicted Of murder in
the second degree on the fourth trial. at
Visalia, Cal. was sentenced on the oath
ult., to one hundred years. imprisonment.
Thomas Coleman, stabbed on the night of
Wednesday, the .22d ult., at Piochc, New,
died on Tharsday at II O'Clock, A. N. Cole
man was well known throughout Nevada
and California.
The Willamette Farmer, in speaking of
the annexation of Walls Walla to Oregon,
says: 1--WE hope Congress will sccedc to
the request, as that district of country
properly belongs to Oregon"
A much larger quantity of snow has fallen
in New Mexico this winter than has fallen
for q number of years, giving great cncour.
agement to farmers and miners. The snow
is now about seven inches deep.
In the case Of the Ovcrman VS.. the Amer.
ican Mining Compsny, at Virginia. Nevada,
the jury found verdict for the defendants
In five minutes after going out. This gives
the American 40V feet of the 1900 formerly
claimed by the Ovcrman.
:. The Elko Indspendens says potato that
was carried in q gentlcman's pocket as a
cure for rhematism, until it was hard as 4
stone, was sent to an assayer with instruc-
tons to assay and send rcturns The re-
turn said the rock was not very rich, but he
'.You>must have lived here . long time"
said travelling EDxlishmsn to IN old Orc
gon pioneer. "Yes, cir, have. Do you
zee that mountain! Well, when I came
here that mountain was . hole in the
groundr' The Englishman opened his half.
Bhut eyes.
A dispatch dated Virgins, New. March
3D., says This morning J. P. Carroll. work.
Ing at the Piuts Mil, below Gold Bill. had
bis right hand very hand very severely In
(urcd by battery stem falling upon it A
A great many persons are leaving here for
Piochc and the eastern portion Of the State
The District Attorney OF Neyada county,
Cal, March LIT, commenced suit against
the Central Pacific Railroad for tJ,445 for
axes, and 3Si6 u District Attorneys fees.
The suit u brought for taxes unpaid, ~
Dessed upon the road, telegraph lines, aide
racks, turnouts, snow-sheds, ETC.. together