Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-08
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MskToh DAKOTA .
tuesday Evening, October 9, 1873
NORTHWESTERN NOTES.

qa4 ~ ~ COLORADO.
A!promeaads il to be constructed around
the summit Of Pixies Peak.
1Twenty~ons deaf mutes are in the Deaf
Mute College, ct ColoradoSprings
Thessstats fair, just closed, vas. by far the
most successful ont yet held in the state.
The workmen on Gov. Routt's mine have
struck q three. foot vein Of ore that runs
$500 to the ton.
The fat cattle business in Colorido this
year will foot up over $780, 900 beeves. most
Of which are shipped east.
Work on the mammoth irrig atine ditch
ct Collins IL being vigorously. prosecuted,
It is to be 81 miles long and rs feet wide
upon the bottom.
A number Of new companies organized in
the east to operate in Colorado, have lately
filed articles of incorporation with the secre.
tary of itate..
The Greeley mills are running day and
night to their full capacity. Orders for
seventeen car loads Of -four have been re-
celved within two weeks, besides letter, of
inquiry for eight or ten more.
On the 30th the Boston 4 Colorado works.
1t Central, shipped . gold brick weighing
10000 ounces, valued at SIC, 900; eighteen
silver bricks, worth $685. DOC, and Hanuiur-
ton d Co, shipped $1,000 OF gold in sma1l
lots.
The commissioners have selected y reser.
walton for the Utes on the headwaters of the
Navjo and Blanch rivers, Colorado, isola-
ted from white settlements, and accessible
to supplies. The Indians are satisied With
the arrangement and the government has
approved them.
WYOMING.
Freight in large quantities is leaving
Cheyenne daily for the Hills.
A lodge of the Knights of Pythias is o
to be organized in Laramie.
The Evanston p~ostofice issues money or
dsrs daily at the average rate of $3.50.
The quartz mills Of Douglas Creek are
running regularly and yieldisg satisfactorily.
Workmen at the Laramie rolling mills
have resumed the manufacture of narrow
guage raj, for the Utah & Northern.
The immense shipment of stock from
inherent points in the territory at present
going on furnishes the best evidence of the
value of Wyoming as a stock country.
The Wyoming republican territorial con.
vention will meet at Cheyenne on the l2tt
Of October. This will be the first time tina
Cheyenne has ever been favored with 4 ses
of that body.
On Tuesday the first instant, Ryan &
Lang commenced shipping 5000 head Of
stock from the Laramie yards. This i'm.
mense shipment will require about $50 cars
and the cattle will be loaded as fast as car
can be procured.
The government has a party under Col.
Adams, of the postofice department, hunt
ing road agents at SIS per day and q reward
OF $500 per head for each one captured OF
killed. Laramie county adds 5000 to this
making a premium Of $500 on the head Of
each road agent, beside the liberal reward
offered by the stage company.
MONTANA.
A$l0,000 Episcopal church is being bull,
in Helena.
Gen. Miles vas in Helena during the
week of the territorial fair.
The citizens of Benton subscribed $40 to
the yellow fever fund.
Several theatrical troups are in the ter.
ritory, and all playing to good houses.
By the new stage road, the distance from
Butte to Helena has been shortened to forty
Eve miles.
The total assessment for Gallatin county
this year is $l.40O. 600, an increase owe,
last year of 100000.
Gulch and placer mining is closing up 70,
the season, and those who have been en-.
gagged in surface mining are turning theil
attention to quartz.
As an evidence of the increasing business
of the mining camps, several new stage ane
express lines have recently been put in op
Grafton between Helena and the mountain
towns.
The Pipestone Sulphur springs, twenty
miles from Butte and six miles from tn,
Virginia and Helena stage road, are said te
be equal t. the celebrated Arkansas; springs
and are attracting many visitors by theil
wonderful healing powers.