The Dillon tribune., 1884-06-14
GLEANINGS FROM THE ROCKIES.


Leadville is scratching for chamber c
commerce.
Lari,ner county, Colo, is organizing
committee to operate against land Jumper.
The contract for grading the Boise branc
of the Oregon Short Line has been le
Work will begin soon.
Judge Spencer, Of San Jose, Gala. hold
concurs in the opinion.
Denver has failed to place 100000 q
her bonds in the Eastern markets, and he
credit is therefore considered. dead.
Several English phea>ants were turne,
out near Gilrov, Gala. few years ago, ant
now the birds are reported quite plentiful
All the streams about Gunnison, Colo
road bridges, in the country have gone out
The Trinidad (Colo) Cattle Compan,
has placed nine carloads of grade stool
upon their range at cost of fifteen thous
and dollars.
The Oakland (Cala) Times gives an &C
count OF seven year old child who swal
lowed piece Of a china doll and extracted
it from his spine.
Snake river is now about a foot higher
than at any time last year. When it is a
big river y ear the hig chest water is gener.
ally about July 4tt.
! The Denver news reporters are little
sweet on Langtrv, now on exhibition in the
capital of the Centennial State, and pro.
nounce her not only beauty but an act.
ress.
Work is progressing rapidly on the new
irrigating canal between Eagle Rock and
Blackfoot, Idaho, and when finished will
open up a strip of the finest country on the
map.
The Burnham arte<ian we'll, at the Den
yer court house, i* 500 feet deep. 1t has
struck FIVE flows Of water at the depths of
400, 426, $50, ego, and go feet to present
depth.
The Idaho Democrat saws this is one of
the best growing seasons ever known in
the Boise valley, and that fruit trees are al
ready bending under their super abundance
of fruit.
The Ouray (Colo.) Times has gone the
way of all pure and poverty stricken news
papers. II is only the wicked and wealthy
like the Multloon that can afford to live in
Ouray.
The colt crop Of Colorado will this wear
number hundred thousand. Those Of
thoroughbred will not exceed a thousand.
The larger number of this new crop will be
Of the native variety, and will develop sad
die horses on the range.
Remarks the Denver Republican: Not
withstanding the unfavorable outlook for
IS An II, al
and tire present scarcity Of such, now ex-
perienced by most Of the large establish
ments Of the. State, new plants of smelters
are in process Of erection.
A spotted seal, five feet six inches long,
which had been shot in the jaw, came
ashore at Santa Cruz. Gala the other day.
The species is a stranger to Monterey Bay,
and this one must have drifted out Of its
usual course in the Pacific Ocean, and was
shot BY some one on board OF a vessel.
Three new species Of fora are reported
to have been discovered by Rev. E. S.
Green, botanist of Santa Barbara, Gala. In
The middle of San Luis Obispo county, he
discovered new species Of gOO>eberrv
wholly unknown to science. Near Soledad
he came upon new species of olive tree,
peculiar to Califor MIA.
At the convention OF the Wool growers
in Denver a few weeks since, |
was appointed to confer with
he railroad corporations and obtain, if pos
,ible, better rates for carrying wool. Now |
he time for shearing has arrived ana many
lock owners are clamoring to know what
,as become of that committee. They have
made no report, and the suspicion is they
rave done nothing.
The Cheyenne S~n Of June End, says:
were received by the lan'i Of
icials in Cheyenne, yesterday, from the
Washington land office, calling upon them
o cancel ABOUT IS desert entries which
ave been made in Wyoming and on which
he fiIers have paid the Is cents per acre.
The three years time has expired, it is
tated, and as result the land is again
pen for entry. The IS entries embrace
'robably $1,000 acres.