The Dillon tribune., 1883-08-18
GLEANINGS FROM THE ROCKIES.

Apaches are making more trouble i,
Arizona.
A big forest fire is raging in the noun
tains east of Fort Douglas, Utah.
Melons are so plentiful ip Utah that the,
only bring fifteen and twenty cents each.
Sam Curtis, once the biggest man on thu
Comstock, is said to in be San Francisco
''hat broke"
The May Lundy mine, Mono county
California, has been sold to English cap
italists for 9735yooo.
The vineyards of California are reported
to be attacked by new beetle, half an inch
long, jet black and hardshell.
An Engine on the Park railroad in Utah
jumped the track Monday, wrecking the
train and killing the fireman.
1t is estimated that the cost of the
Knights Templar Conclave at San Fran
cisco will be not less than $5,ooo,ooo, di
rectly aid indirectly.
There are 112 prisoners in the Nevada
State prison. 1t cost $3,37491 to run the
prison during July. The receipts during
that time were $1,S16.17.
Hon. Rollin NJ. Dagget, United State.
Minister to the Hawaiian Kingdom, has
arrived in San Francisco for the purpose
Of attending the conclave.
San Francisco expects Bonanza Mackey
to build house on Mob Hill. next year, tina,
will cost $5,ooo,ooo, and surpass Wander.
bilt's in interior decoration.
Denver bankers say that deposits are
larger than they ever were, and that the
rate of interest has not fallen. The demand
for money is not particularly active.
Laramie used to be one of the TOUCHES,
camps in the West. But the old timers are
nearly all killed off or wandered away, and
religious people are filling there places
They have Sunday school picnics there
now.
The Denver s. Rio Grande people expect
to be able to handle their usual AMOUNT OF
freight soon. The recent disaster to
their road has deprecated the stock of the,
company i n the Eastern markets So per
share.
1t is thought by many that as Willard
owns the North Pacific Coast railroad, op-
Grating in Sonoma County, California,
and other small systems in that state, he
proposes making connection with Oregon
by railroad of his own running down
the coast.
A ricl, discovery of gold bearing quartz
is reported from the mountains between
Joseph creek and Snake river, near the
mouth of the Grande Ronde, Washington
Territory. 1t is said to show free gold and
to assay rich.
Leland Staniord's wealth is estimated at
$125,ooo,ooo, Charley Crocker's at $780,
100000. Twenty years ago Stanford kept
a small oil and lamp store in Sacramento,
and Croker was doing moderate dry
goods business in the same city.
, A Colorado swindle is to buy lot of
"remnants" of Texas herds, mostly barren
COWS and bony steers have them "booked,"
compute the increase by ordinary rules
and after while sell the lot on the range,
of course without counting. 1t is said that
in this way herds of 1000 have been sold
and paid for as 10000.
A tarantula fight was one of the interes-
ting events the other day at Los Angeles
saloon. First scorpion and tarantula
were pitted, the latter killing the former.
but losing leg in the contest. The wind
up was between the victor and large black
in which the latter killed the
former.
Little Lost River, Wood River, Idaho,
has good outlook for several of its pros
poets. The Birmingham mine is situated
in the Blackburn district, sixty miles from
Camas station on the Utah & Northern. 1t
has vein of 4 4 feet Of galina and carbon
ates with some iron, making good smelt-
ing ore which averages 70 per cent lead and
II ounces silver, aud is owned by Anderson
Bros. and Casper s. Prior of Eagle Rock
1t is on the same range Of mountains and
sunrosed to be the same mineral ledge as
that of Pease g. Taylor's mine, at Spring
Mountain. The work of developing is 60
ing on. -.