Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-13
OCCIDENTAL JorTIHGs.
COLORADO.

OCCIDENTAL JOTTl0GS.
COLORADO.
Work In the mines has now fair
~ commenced.
Travel is heavy on the mountain
division of the Colorado Central.
A bank with 500, 900 capital is
soon to be established at Canon
City.
The Arkansas river has been two
feet higher this season at Las Ami
mas than last season.
A Denver brewery shipped two
carloads of beer to Salt Lake Mon
day.
Trinidad claims to be the wool
and hide emporium Of Colorado and
New Mexico.
The identical table on which Kit
Carson used to write his letters is
now in possession of q citizen OF
Grenada, Bent county.
Lieutenant Perrine, Of the Sixth
cavalry, with q corps of engineers,
is relocating the southern boundary
line Of Colorado, under government
orders.
An adventuresome Mississippian
proposes to soon attempt the trip
from Pueblo to New Orleans down
the Arkansas and Mississippi in q
light canoe.
Work on the Denver and South
Park railroad is progressing very
satisfactorily. About four miles of
track have been laid from Denver,
and a force of fifty men are pushing
the work with all dispatch, laying
from one to one and a half miles
per day.
The out-croppings Of the Spotted
Tail mine in Mosquito Gulch, Fair
play district, assayed l,72O ounces
to the ton. AT a depth of eighty
feet the variegated narrative lOdehas
a crevice seven feet between walls
and carries thirty inches of mineral
that assays way up into the thou
sands. Ore from the Quail and 10.
Chaffee lodes, in the same locality,
sell for $500 to the ton.
Twenty a loads of ore are daily
hauled out of Brigham Canyon.
One of the Royal family of Brig
ham, has an outfit In the way of
horses, harness and carriage valued
at $1,000.
The Desert Horticultural Society
has been established at Salt Lake
for the purpose of encouraging the
culture of fruit and flowers,
DIR. Crane, of Salt Lake, has been
arrested for procuring an abortion.
The patient, a Mrs. Scott, died I'M
der his treatment. The accused re-
ceived S235 from his victim.
They have had a very rich strike
in the Chloride Point Mine, Ophir
District. Their vein is over six feet
wide, and it assays over $500 to the
ton.
Bullion from the Tintic mills is
arriving daily in Salt Lake. Last
season this district produced $780,
900 in bullion, and this year the
product will be nearly doubled.
The Iruckee Republican calls at
tention to the wonderful advantages
which the Truckee river affords for
manufacturing purposes. Its water
power Is unsurpassed by any river
of the same volume In the world.
1t has an unceasing flow of at least
ten thousand cubic feet, with an
average fall of forty feet to the mile
through a narrow channel for q dis
lance of fifty miles, It never freezes
and is so confined by natural bar
riers that 1t can never endanger
bridges, dams, buildings or property
any kind,
The Mormon priests threaten that
lit there is an attempt made to car
y out the Poland bill there won't
q Gentle left i'm Utah i'm ninety
Which causes the Salt Lake
to remark: "HOld your
hirts on, boys. When that bill be-
'Omes a law, you will conform
o its every provision, and if you
hOuld attempt to incite your dupes
o murder, there wouldn't be a
rease spot left of your vile carcass
The following statistics are from
Ort of general directory for the ter.
tory of Utah, just published The {,
in lS47 was 143. 1t is :
Ow $4,000, an increase one thous- f,
nd fold. In 1873 there We're no. ,
DO acres i'm grain and 1900 in root !
rops, $500 in fruit, and SO, 900 acres l
| meadow. Fish eulture-salmon, 4,
had and trout-has become a bust !
ess in parts Of the territory. There :
e 25l common schools, with an =
daily attendance of 1852 =
lpils. There are two hundred Z
WINS and settlements i'm Utah. !.
CALIFORNIA. /
The cement mills at Benecia, ,
I'VE recommended operations. :
The Missouri cinnabar mine. e.
AXE county, produces thirty TASKS a
quicksilver a month. OF
The MarysVille bog factory has a
ready sold over lOO, 900 grain u
cks for July and August delivery. II
Several Grass Valley people have D,
perimented successfully with silk n
'rms. The increase Of cocoons has in
EN- very great. "
Three thousand acres of cotton !"
Ii be raised in California this year.
estimated yield Is 400 pounds to
; acre. As an experiment, i ,2OO,- q.
} pounds is a pretty good test. -