The Dillon tribune., 1882-07-22
GLEANINGs FROM THE ROCKIES.

GLEAN1NGS FROM THE ROCKIES.
The farmers Of Utah are suffering for
want Of laborers, the railroads having
employed all the floating help.
A gang Of seven sheep-shearers In Gar.
@ nela county, w. T., sheared 1880 sheep
this season, an average Of a,soo each.
The Union Pacific is reinforcing its
freight equipment with 400 box cars 20
feet long and having capacity of 41yooo
pounds.
The wife Of John Taylor, President of
the Mormon Church, died last Monday, at
her home at Salt I AXE City, aged nearly
66 years.
The product Of Leadville district for the
first six months Of 1882 shows an increase
over the corresponding periord Of last year
of $1,29S,6S2.
The coroner Of Leadville gets S. for
every inquest he holds, and his annual in.
come Is larger than that Of the President
Of the United States.
While England is whaling the Egyptian
polygamists, she is sending hundreds Of
women to Utah to fill the harems of the
lechers Of that Territory.
Cheyenne has contracted with Richard
Holmes to lay the pipes and place the hy-
drants for supplying that city with water.
The work will cost $o,1So.
The Pacific Express Company has Just
opened an office at Galena, at the head of
Wood River, and also at Sawtooth, to sup.
ply these places with express facilities.
The CHAMBERS is said to have appeared
among the horses in Sonoma county, CAL,
brought there from San Francisco. The
law requires all animals with the disease to
be killed.
Large droves of cattle continue to ,nove
past Boise City, I. T., to eastern markets.
The estimate thus far is 10000 head, near.
ly equally divided from Oregon, Washing
ton and Idaho.
In boring we'll at Cloverdale, CAL, the
auger, at a depth Of thirty feet passed
through a white pine log, and six inches
farther struck tree standing on end, and
had to cease operations.
The Union Pacific Railway Company
are organizing grand excursion to start
from Ogden on Tuesday, August nth, to
Omaha or Kansas City. Special round
trip tickets will be sold.
The Wyoming Press Association viii
hold its next meeting at Rawlins, ON the
first Monday in September next. An ex
cursion, perhaps to Butte City, is contem
plated after the meeting.
The Northern Pacific Company art
hauling Immigrants into Montana by tht
train load, and there appears to be no abate
rnent since the grea, rush to the Territor,
began in the early spring.
The new water works at Tombstone
Arizona, are completed, and the citizen
arc jubilant. Twenty-seven miles Of pip'
are laid and the company have facilities fo
furnishing 100000 gallons daily.
The Denver Rebmblicaw of Friday, 14tl,
says: The Exposition managers take pos
session Of the building to-day and begir
placing cases and assigning space. Every
thing will be ready for the opening OF
August 1st.
There Is a water war In Winnemucca
Nev., between the water company and tht
town authorities, in consequence Of which
the water has been turned off from thu
Courthouse, and the trees and grass on thu
lawn are withering for want Of water.
In the Manzanita hydraulic mine, nea
Nevada City, CAL, for several days TIN
heat from the sun was SO great that tn
employees could not work outside the lin'
of spray Of the monitors, and severa o
them who tried it were stricken down.
a convict, named Chambers, confined II
the Idaho penitentiarv on charge of rob
bing Wells, Fargo & Co.'s stage, at Soul
Rest, and who was tried at HALEY and sen
fenced to seven years in the pcniten:iar,
escaped on Thursday Of last week while a
work near the springs, under the charge
Newman.
A gold nugget weighing OK ounce
was found by two miners in Osceola, New
the other day. The Ward Hrhtx says
"In the nugget line Osceola distances an.
gold mining district on the continent
Some years ago nugget was found ir thes'
placer mines that was worth several thou
sand dollars"
Blackioot Register, 18TH: The iro1
bridge had a test Yesterday. a herd o
over 900 cattle were being crossed, ant
when we'll started part Of them turned bacl
filling the first span on the west side solit
full. 1t stood the strain in good shape, tn
arches springing down about an inch whe'
all the rods were frightened and not
tremble could he seen. 1t is estimated tina
not less than zoo head Of steers were OF
that span at ono time.
One Of the most interesting revelations O
the census of 1880 will be that in relation
to the growth of the Territory Of New
Mexico. The most reliable statistics a
hand place the population of this inmens
Territory, embracing an area OF 1:I'oc
square miles, at only 10000 people, q
which 10000 are Mexicans. :s,ooo indians
and $1,000 Americans. This was the cen
sus taken lust as the railroads entered tn
Territory. They have done wonders for II
The Great Glove Fight.
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