Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-03
the NORTHWEST.

THE NORTHWEST.
COLORADO.
The bank Of Lesdville will open for bust
ness on the LIST Of October.
A sixteen year old horse thief.in the Dem
YER Jail is elk feet and three inches in
height.
The freight and ore hauling tusin.ss of
Leadville gives employment to 400 six-mule
teams.
The wind blew thirty.six miles per hour,
Tuesday afternoon, at ten minutes past three
ct Denver.
The outlook at Central bids fair for a
greater supply of stamp ore the coming
winter than formerly.
Chicago cattle buyers are in Weld and
Larimer counties, offering 1913 to 500 per
head for good steers.
There is an increased demand for good
miners On Silver mountain and in the out.
lying mining districts.
Colorado has a sweet singer that beats the
sweet singer Of Michigan. She gets $500
for one campaign song.
Mining operations are more active in all
parts of the state at present than at any
time since the first discovery Of the mines.
Wagons have come to the aid of the stages
in conveying passengers in Park country.
The travel in that direction is immense.
The survey for the Colorado Springs and
Manitou railway has been completed, and
the work of construction will be commenced
at once.
The stockholders of the Ouray and Lake
Fork Wagon Road company have decided
to increase the capital etock from $4,000 to
SIS, 000.
A number of leading West Denver people
are talking of petitioning the Legislature to
declare that side of Cherry creek a separate
corporation
Wolves are reported TO be numerous down
the Platte toward llatteville. Both black
and gray wolves abound, and they are doing
great damage by killing young calves.
The mountain potato crop is an immense
one, and the tubers are of size.
The acreage planted is ten times greater
than ever before. The valley crop is very
light.
The new railroad bridge of the Kansas
Pacific over Kiowa was completed on Satur-
day, and the first train since May 23d-the
day of the washout-passed over the bridge
Sunday.
L%ot,jumping is a Leadville pastime. A
house was recently torn down one night,
leaving the occupants, who were in bed, and
refused to bulge, no covering except their
bed clothes and the twinkling stars.
The construction Of the Leadville branch
Of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail-
road will be begun at once, the order hav-
ing been issued from headquarters for the
letting of the contracts. The directors have
decided to build q broad guage through to
the carbonate camp.
WYOMING.
Cheyenne ia having som sewers built.
More new buildings are going up at Raw
Inns.
Medicine Butte has put on its winter
night cap.
Business in Cheyenne is good, and the
city is making many substantial improve
ments.
The entire track of the Union Pacific
from Ogden to Green River will soon be
laid with steel rails.
James =. johnson alias Lengthy" one
of a band Of road agents, was captured at
Camp Robinson a few days ago.
A large herd of fine beef cattle from
Montana is being grazed neal Laramie City
preparatory to shipment to Chicago.
A rich strike has been made on the Carri-
bou mine, Sweetwater county, the vein
showing two and one-half feet wide of $40
quartz.
George Mckay has just made a cleaning
up of sixty ounces, a three days run on the
Young American mine, in Sweetwater
county.
The shipments Of cattle now daily being
made from Wyoming along the line of the
Union Pacific are larger than ever before
known.
A party of carpenters left Cheyenne on
the 23d to go to Wounded Knee Creek to
erect the government buildings at the new
Indian agency.
The returning Cheyennes are anxiously
watched for all along the line. Bloody
hands and hospital graves await them at
every turn Of the road.
The engine and boiler for the Florence
mins, Douglas creek, is in position, and the
owners expect. to have their ten-stamp mill
in operation ut an early day.
Wyoming is fully as prosperous as any
of the western states and territories. Her
diversified resources are rapidly coming into
the knowledge of the outside world.
MONTANA.
Helena has q new theatre nearly COM
pleted.
The Deer Lodge Collegiate Institute is
ready to receive students.
Business is reviving, and the prospects, for
a good fall trade is very fattering.
William Reed, of Prickly Pear Valley
threaded $500 bushels of oats from fifty
acres. =
About So, 900 silver bullion was received
at the Fret National Of Helena last week.
8. s. Huntley & Co. have en- route from
the railroad 22o Merino rams, and altogeth-