Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-04
NOTES FROM THE NORTH.
What Is Being Done In the Great
Camps of Idaho and Montana.

Butte shipped $126,O4S for the week
ending August 1st-
There is rumor that the Northern Pa
cifc will soon extend its road from CARR
son to Butte
The Utah & Northern is now running
from Garrison to Butte on an average
fifty cars of freight daily each way.
Trout are dying IN the mountain streams
of Idaho. A parasite is destroying them.
Catch one, open its gills, and you see
clusters of minute white worms adherlng.
Travel to the Yellowstone National
Park this season has been very large,
and fully as great as was expected by the
passenger department of the Northern
Pacific.
There is hardly debtor in Idaho, says
the Wood River Times-and who is not
in debt, these hard times ?-but what
trembles ct the possibility which the at
tachment laws place in the hands of his
creditors, of running him irretrievably,
whenever they see fit.
When Bishop futile preached in
HALEY, Idaho, the other Sunday, he
talked of honest straightforwardness and
sincerity. AS he spoke he looked straight
at group of county officials-as if he
wished to impress his remarks upon them
more particularly than any one else.
Butte shipped nearly $40, 900 in silver
bullion through the Pacific Express Com
pany during the month ending July 31st.
This is principally the product of the
Alice, Lexington, Moulton and Silver
Bow mills, nothing from the copper
mines being included in the above ship
ments.-Town Talk.
The experiment OF shipping live beef
cattle from Washington Territory to Chi
cago is reported by Eastern agricultural
papers as being total failure. The
RurdI Home says they shrunk from 10 to
20 per cent and sold for 1920 per hun
dred pounds, when the shipper refused
So per hundred for them before putting
them in the cars.
The Orc Elmo district is described as
the best undeveloped district in America
This opinion is based upon the fact that
there are 800 to 400 leads in the district,
located in granite, having a general
width of from three to five feet, and many
of these opened yielding 60 to so ounces
of silver This is considered very rea-
sonable estimate. Assays have been
made all the way up to 1000 ounces to
the ton, but reference is had to the aver
age. The district is some fifteen to eigh-
teen miles from Deer Lodge and about
| the same distance from Butte
A correspondent of the Butte Inter-
Mountain writes of the Sweet Grass mines
To commence with, it is impossible to
get water in any quantity. There are a
few springs but no creeks, and water
would have to be brought from the Rocky
| mountains, distance of about 10 miles.
in fume about 600 feet high, to enable
placer mines to be worked at all. This
is only one of the obstacles More
over, there is special order of President
Cleveland in regard to prospecting on the
Piegan and Gros Ventres reservation,
and party of blue coats will probably be
on hand in the hills to welcome any in
vaders. AS far as the discovery of gold
and other metals is concerned, that is no
new thing. That has been known for the
last fifteen years. Not only are there
enormous gold bearing bars, but there is
probably the largest galena lode there in
the world. These mines would have
been worked long ago if the government
had permitted it.