Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-10
WESTERN plcklHes.
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! MONTANA.
Mai. F. D. Pease has made application L
the government to be allowed to take ,
number of Grow and Cheyenne chiefs to thu
Paris exposition. and Gen. Miles has en-
! dorsed the application.
All the men who used to follow hunting
t and trapping for a living on the Yellow
Il stone have eettlcd down to ranching Of
, mining, mostly the latter, and all the game
' that is killed now is only what is needed fol
the table.
John Goewey has purchased at the Grow
agency of Dawes & Russell about 10000
pounds of robes and peltries, which were
started for the head Of the steamboat naviga-
! ton on the Yellowstone, and will be ship
ped down that river.
A snow storm occurred the middle Of
May which lasted at intervals for about
three days. The amount Of precipitation
was general all over the country. On the
mountains it was snow, in the valleys rain,
or snow which melted as fast as it fell. 1t
is estimated that about two feet of snow
fell.
Helena Independent: Parties from the
Belt range country report that the Indian
scare is over. All the horses stolen were
recaptured as we'll as those belonging to the
Indians. They were so holly pursued by
Captain Cliiord's squad and a few citizens
that they sought refuge in the rocks and es-
capped.
Some parties prospecting towards the
head of Gallatin river have recently discow
cred a gold quartz ledge that appears to
prospect we'll on the surface. They intend
to sink on the lead, and confidently expect
to find something very rich. The same par
ties also report discovering rich outcrop-
pings Of both silver and copper ore, speci
mems Of which they brought to own the
o.her day.
Samples Of wool from the Edwards Bros.
t1ocks, taken to Boston by Gen'l L. S. Will.
son, of Bozeman, and submitted to wool
men for classification, were pronounced not
Montana wool, and on being assured that
the samples were from Montana hocks, they
were admitted as superior to anything they
had ever seen coming from the mountains
second only to the very highest class of
wool raised in the United States.
UTAH.
A company of eastern gentlemen are pre-.
pairing to put up a distillery at Ogden.
An Indian has recently been sentenced to
the Utah penitentiary for Is years for kill
ing a brother red man.
Seven hundred tens of freight have been
shipped from Ogden this spring to the gold
mines on the Salmon.
All is lite along this line of the Utah
Northern, and a great many new settlers are
taking up farming land and stock ranges ad
%jscent to the railroad.
Large numbers of Mormons are ARRIVING
in Utah this summer from the old country.
Nearly every train that arrives is we'll filled
with this class of persons.
A large body of very rich Manganese ore
has been discovered 10 Kane county. AS
Manganese can be put to a great many uses,
it is considered as a valuable acquisi tion to
Utah's ore wealth.
NEVADA.
The silver state tells of the biggest lead
mine in the world, in Churchill county, but
the carbonates are very low in silver.
There Isl dead lock between the furnace
men and coal men in Eureka. and the furn.
aces are fast reducing the present supply of
coal. The ultimatum of the coal men is 80
cents per bushel.
The Central Pacific people are going to
hurry up their freight trains to fifteen miles
an hour in order to compete with the mail
steamers. which now land freight from San
Francisco in New York as quickly as the
cars.
There were shipped in one day by the
Consolidated Virginia Mining company, 10
bars of bullion, worth $65, 800 81. The Cal
ifornia company shipped SO bars of bullion,
worth $142,6S3 "a, making a total of 43 bars,
worth S2o7, 900 81.
A start has at last been made toward the
cultivation and improvement of the sage
brush lands lying along the Carson river.
Wherever the sagebrush grows plentifully
is always found a soil that will produce
good crops, provided water can be obtained
for irrigation. On the Carson river, below
Dayton, quite a settlement is s%pringing up
that is called the New Jerusalem.
ARIZONA.
immigration to the territory is on the In.
crease.
Phoenix, in Salt river valley, expects to
have an agricultural fair this season.
The country about Wickenburg is infest-
ed by numerous small bands of Indian
tramps. Some of them are from the San
Carlos agency, and are saucy, bold and
hungry. Two prospectors counted forty
camp fires q few miles from town, and the
citizens have organized to protect them.
selves against q raid.
Two prospectors recently found a silver
vein about twenty miles from Prescott con-
tanning SO much pative silver that 280
pounds of the ore realized 10 pounds of
silver bullion.
A mountain of tin ore is reported as hav-
ing been found In the northern part of
Maricopa county. Thirteen locations have
been made and q town started.
Russia is not to be outdone by England.