Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-27
OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS.
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Many tourists are visiting Estes
Park this season.
Crops in the vicinity of Greeley
are reported as looking well.
There are All retail liquor dealers
i'm Colorado, Is breweries, and SO
wholesale liquor dealers.
Fifty-two Federal and Confeder-
ate soldiers have agreed to parade
at Golden On the Fourth of July.
The mines of Clear Creek county
are being extensively worked, and
generally yield rich returns.
1t costs twenty-seven dollars to
run a bronco or train of pack dom
keys through the streets of George
town.
Gold and silver have again been
discovered in the river near Greeley,
but the discOverer is discreetly reti-
cent as to the exact locality.
The United States grand jury at
Pueblo has found a hundred and
fifty indictments, most of them
against citizens of Denver who are
implicated in the Las Animas land
grab.
The Colorado Central Company
employ several men to travel back
and forth through Clear creek canon
and look out for rocks that are liable
to roll down and obstruct the track.
The crevasse i'm the Rio Grande
river at AtriscO, which threatened
to inundate the most thickly settled
portion Of the valley, has been re-
paired, and the water is again o
fined to its channel.
One Green, late of Iowa, is NOV
ing into Bakers Park, San Juan re-
gion, with three smelters, a saw
mill, and a stock of goods. He will
receive a bonus offered by the miners
of Bakers Park for the erection Of
the first smelling works.
Trinidad is to have an accession
of immigrants from the lately SUBJ
merged pol uon of the Mississippi
valley: They say they don't believe
in irrigation one hundred miles wide
and r going to try the Colorado
system awhile.
The last institution secured by the
e~nterprising town of Colorado
Springs is the Colorado Springs
Wool. Securing and Wool Fabric
Manufacturing Company. The
capital stock is $4,000.
The prospects for a prosperous
season i'm Southern Colorado are re-
ported Us good. The grass is luxu-
rant, the cattle are healthy and
fattening fast, and with a good de-
mand for beef next fall, money will
be plenty and the people happy.
ID. J. Moffatt, Jr., and Messrs.
Stanton and Cook, recently of the
Pueblo Land Office, e indicted
for both subordination of per-
jury ami conspiracy; for the latter
offence eight indictments We're found
against Mr.. Moffatt, and six against
each of the others.
A dig vein of mineral has just
been struck i'm the Burleigh tunnel
near Georgetown. How rich the
ore may be is not known, as no as
say has yet been made. The CON-
pany engaged in constructing this
Lave 80 far eylended SOFA
900 On it. This is the second lode
they have crossed. The first one
struck, the Mendoza, was not very
rich. The tunnel is in 1000 feet,
and is at a depth of l,4OO to 1900
feet below the surface.
No person has thoroughly made
the tour of Colorado who has omit
ted Georgetown. 1t is q place of
interest al the center of the oldest
and richest silver mining district
in Colorado, and also presents
many attractions to the admirer of
the grand and beautiful in nature,
encircled as it is by lofty mountains.
Anu the tourist will find in the
of the town the best and
accommodations.
Farming in the Foothills is being
engaged in to a large extent. The
Denver Tribune says: The valleys
q soil of great fertility.
of the fields on the hill-sides
produce as high IS one hundred