Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-23
WESTERN pickNes.

The Townsend house, at Salt Lake, vas
sold at auction last week for $23, SOC.
The public library of Central, Colorado,
contains 1000 volumes Of choice works.
Cattle thieves are infesting eastern Utah,
They drove off a band of 200 head recently.
%Sixty.nine cases of Pacific coast ores and
minerals are on their way to the Paris ex-
position.
Building improvements in Cheyenne will
be more numerous this season than for q
number of years past.
A treasure coach from the Hills brought
to Cheyenne parties the other day gold
dust to the value of f31 900.
The First National bank of Helena, Mon.
tana, shipped $4,000 worth of silver bul.
lion in forty-ive days.
The Miner, Butte City. Montana, is pre-.
pairing to issue daily, the rapid growth Of
the city demanding a daily journal.
The Utah Western railroad has changed
hands. The agent Of the bondholders, who
are eastern capitalists, has taken possession
Of the road.
The Winnemucca beef. packing company
are looking about Ogden, Utah, for a suit
able location for carrying on their business
at q more central stock point.
The travel to Montana is greater than
usual this time Of year. The stages from
Franklin carry fourteen passengers each,
and they are compelled to leave large num-
bers in waiting.
The first company of Mormon mission
aries will leave Salt Lake about the 7th of
May. Those destined for Europe, with
that party. expect 10 sail from New York
on the 14th Of May.
The bonanza mine, Lower California.
known as the Triunfo mine, now employ
about 500 men. The mine Yields on an
average $4,000 to 10000 per month, all
Of which is shipped to San Francisco.
The beautiful orange groves of Los An.
geles are in danger. A destructive red bug
has made its appearance on the trees, eating
the leaves away, to their damage, and il
may be, unless the ravages are stayed, to
their ultimate destruction.
The grading of the extension of the Den.
yer and Rio Grande in Colorado, has been
finished to Fort Garland. All Of the heavy
work between Garland and ALAMEDA is now
finished, and the grading will 60 on at the
rate of about one mile per day.
Recent rich developments in quartz
around Helena and Butte, Montana, have
inspired the Deer Lodgers with q love Of
quartz al.o, and a number Of promising dis
c~overies in silver and gold lodges within a
few miles Of the town have been the result.
Companies Fl and L, ID cavalry, Fort
Ellis, received marching orders, have left,
under command of Capt. Ball and Lieut..
Scho6eld, for the Lemhi Indian agency,
Idaho, to establish q summer camp there.
The command is composed of about eighty
men.
Therea are abouttwo hundred A%rrappahoes
camped. near the foot Of. the Rattlesnake
ran ze, about twelve miles north or SPLIT
Rock, Colorado. The Utes are still en-
camped on the Sweetwater, and seem very
anxious to make a peace treaty with the
Arrappahoes and Snakes, 20 that they can
remain in that country.
The name of the town near the mouth of
the Big Horn has been changed from
Etchetah to Sherman. in honor Of General
w. I. Sherman. The postofice name is
still Etchetah. but letters addressed either
way, with Custer county added, will arrive
At their proper destination.
Within sight Of Helena, Montana and
distant but one and = half miles, situated on
Mount Helena, is q recently discovered
lode. The assays show Sl60 to the ton.
$40 in silver and the remainder gold and
copper. Mount Helena bids fair TO be to
Helena what Gold Hill Ia to Virginia City,
Nevada. -
For a vision Of paradise on earth, the
visitor is respectfully recommended to the
San joaquin valley, Colorado, just At this
season Of the year. Such \ rank growth Of
grain, and such = prodigal wealth Of wild
and cultivated grsase. vss never .een. Go
which way you will. the came beautiful
picture Of inefIable lovelinexs pres-nts
itself.