The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-04-06
THE west.

~ NOeA mines nave been found near Sod
Spring, Idaho. ....r .r,. s.,
r Colorado expects to ship 1000, 900 liz. Q
wool this year. - ~ ..,. ...
. ffc emptors are plenty looking up land
around Corihnc. {, T. ''nr '", s.Fa
The antimony lead in Nevada has RI,
into gold bearing quartz. 2 ."-. ...
( Wild hogs are increasing in the woods an
swamps Of Umpqpa valley.
Two Yankton artists are on the way u
the Missouri TO photograph it, scenery. =,
Merchants IN the mining districts of east
ern Oregon expect . good trade this year.
There is farm near Boulder (Col.) con
tanning 500 peach trees, 200 plum, apple and
cherry trees. ..'i. Laa .,....l0
Kansas averaged 10 bushels of corn to the
acre in 1871, and the average price was Sc
cents per bushel. ,.....
A colony of Chinese will establish vege.
table gardens near Council Bluffs, Iowa,
during the present Spring.
The Lake Washington Coal Company, of
Seattle. will hereafter ship from that place
1000 tons Of coal Z month. .r g..
Citizens Of Corinne are receiving large
quantities Of California trees and shrubs. for
the ornamentation of their private grounds.
Parties who recently arrived at Seattle
from San Francisco have made arrangements
to build several ships there during the com.
ing summer.
The Texas Pacific Rxilsoad will be 1915
miles long. For ESQ miles It will be On air
linc,, and iu 6l5 miles there will only he six
bridges.
The Yellow Jacket shaft has attsined the
level of the Sutro Tunnel and is being sunk
still deeper. There 10 no water found al
that depth.
Iowa and Illinois are the only Western
States in which the post office revenue ex
cecds the expenses Of conveying and deliv.
ering the mails '' 5i .''H ..t z.
A man from Colorado recently went East
taking with him only small valise and one
blanket. and came back with I've large
trunks and wife.
A railroad company is organizing At Den.
YER for the purpose Of building railroad to
Salt Lake City by way Of Georgetown and
theNorth Park. J" ''r'~-'h "'' "vG: |
A Mr.. Timmons. of Kn!a:na, has gone to |
the Skeena river. British Columbia. with
the intention Of establishing q fishery and
putting up salmon. .''t |
~ Telegraphic communication with Victoria |
has been re-estsblished by the successful !
laying Of new cable in place of aud where !
sh- 80 LA~s.~...
Two years ago Oregon had not mile of
railroad. Now she has more miles of fin
isl,ed railroad in proportion to population
than any State in the Union.
The wool clip for Oregon for the year
ending June, 1870, - returned by the cen.
sus, was one million eighty thousand and
two hundred and sixty nine lbs.
Colorcd children, since the recent decision
Of the Supreme Court, are attending the
public school in Carson, and parents of
white children are taking them from the
school, %"''1 &'' e.. "'. f"
Sioux City, Iowa, in five years. expects to
become the most important railroad centre
10 the Northwest. The Journal figures out
'ea roads that are bound 10 80 there in that
lime. .s ,r..
T. Egerton Hogg, on behalf of himself
md son, English capitalists, purchased on
he 10th all the lands belonging to the Dalles
Road Company, amounting u about co.,. 1
700 acrca '.a... e. Il
Active operations are again commencing
N the railroad between Wallula and Wslla
Valla The company have secured depot
rounds At the first named place. A gang
t han ds are grading. Il .,-n
One thousand one hundred and sixty feet ,
rom the mouth, and about six hundred feet ,
rom the surface, the Marshal Tunnel. near !
Col, has cut vein of mineral
aluable for silver - well as lead.
Kansas il one of the youngest and largest :
'tates in the Union. T. 1t was admitted ~ =
tate January IL. 1861, with population
107, 900, which 10 now. estimated at 400,. '
90. and increasing very rapidly. 3
Now that tho Omahs bridge over the Mis-.
,uri Is complete, there II An unbrokcn line
Z rail from Oaklsnd. California, 70 Boston,
$50 miles, and even . further distance {
own in Maine, counting up In Ill probably o
OUO uiles. 'sFi Is ar5Aaa. .iea,.&su ~
Capt Eastman. Barnums animal catcher,
rived ct San Francisco I few days since :
D his way TO New York, with two alligs-J "
- weighing 1000 to 1900 lbs., i've smaller
nes, . young tiger. Mexican deer,s and I,
,me other animals. 10 lipi aJE a,lH#H "
Iaet week one day > portion Of freight 2
ain going East on the Central Psci6c |"
oks loose and rsn down ! grade st lively q
'eed. but was stopped BY some men jump, q
z on and putting down the brakes IN time q
save collision With passenger train. MI y
Seth Dean, . well known aichthyoloEiss. 8
- the large brown, silver trout Of the -
ruckes river and Lake Tahos. ere not = :.
out but : species Of the sebago or land. =. =.
cked salmon. One evidences thst they are - y
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