Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-05-14
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There are in the n~eighborhood of 800 |
miners at work about Georgetown, New
Mexico.
Chinese business failures at Portland,
Oregon. of late have been frequent and
settlements small.
The Santa Rita, New Mexico, copper
mines between Silver City and George
town are not working st present.
The clerks of Portland, Oregon, have
begun 8 movement to hsve the stores
close at 6 P. n. during the Summer
months.
A lot OF Kentucky negroes have arrived
at Vacaville, CAL, to be substituted for
Cinnamon in the fruit orchards of that
vicinity.
The Parrot mine at Butte, Montana,
which has been shut Town for some three
months, has started up again. Between
$50 and 400 men are employed.
One hundred and swenty-four Iowa news
paper men will leave Council Bluff for the
Pacific on the 9Th of June. They will make
short visits 20 the leading towns on the
route.
Edward Eddy, Superintendent Of the
Grant Smelling WORKS q. Denver, now q
part of the O-Ahs WORKS. thinks Butte,
Montana. the greatest camp since the early
days Of Ls4dvil3s.
The northern cozaEss o. California are
still attracting q large number of miners
and prospscs0-ss Az3 lie indications are
that the regions s~hsraEtoats viii be pretty
well ~prospecssd during the Summer.
The Modesis. gCA1 Herald states that
very little money il made in Stsnislsus
county by growing wheat. The old resi-
dents who have got rich have done so
mostly BY specializing in land.
The large game in Southern Arizons Is
said to be fast dissprs ring. owing to the
indiscriminase manner in which is is being
killed for local markets by Mexicans and
Indians. A protective game Law is being
agitated.
The Brsdssrees Mercantile Agency re-
ports II failures in the Pacific Coast States
and Territories for the week ending last
Saturday, as compared with Is for the pre-
yious week and Il for the corresponding
week Of 1884.
Angus Cannon, Milton Musser and j.
c.. Watson, three Mormons. were all sem
fenced last Saturday at Salt Lake City for
unlawful cohsbitstion. Each received the
full extent of the Law, $500 fine and six
months imprisonment.
The officials Of the Union Pacific were
expected in Portland on Monday last,
when it was hoped that lower rates would
be secured. so as to enable Portland mer-
chants to compete with Omaha and Chi
| cago for the Idaho trade.
Considerable attention is just now being
turned 70 Southern Oregon by prospeo-
tors. The quartz interests Of that sec
ton have long been neglected. but the
probability now is that more prospecting
will be done and some OF the mines which
have been found will be developed.
The Umatilla Indians are protesting
against the sale Of their reservation to
Eastern Oregon. It embraces 22S, 900
acres Of the best land in Oregon. Settlers
have been in hopes that the land would be
thrown open 10 settlement this Summer,
but the reservation is not likely 10 be
opened for several years.
Several OF the Hawaiian Islands were re-
Gently visited with copious rains. On Hs-
waii the fall was heavier than had been
seen there for many years. The snow on
Mauna Kea extends lower down than for
several Winters. The country is thor
oughly soaked and insured against any
drought this coming Summer.
A real estate agent in San Diego, CAL,
named De Puy, recently prevailed upon an
Englishman, named Malpas, to exchange 8
vslusble farm near Azuss. for q Pueblo
lot, represented as being in the city of
San Diego and worth SO, 800. When NAL
pas came TO look at his lot he found that ID
WAS four miles from the inhabited part of
San Diego and vslueless. The British
Consul there commenced q suit against De
Puy for damages, and the latter adjusted
1t by exchanging back the deeds.
The conference recently held at Denver
between the railroad officials and business
men regarding the discrimination against
the mountain smelters. only partially &C
complished the object sought to be at
tanned. A conditional promise has been
made that the Leadville works should be
assisted n concessions made in the mat
ter Of bullion and coke rates that would
more nearly place them on an equal foot
ing with smelters in other portions OF
Colorado. and that rates on lead ore should
be adjusted to an extent that will make ID
impossible for the entire lead supply OF
Lesdville TO leave there.
If the grasshoppers in California continue
to increase in numbers along the line Of the
Central Pacific railroad there will have to |
be something invented In the form OF q
pillow or scraper TO clear them from the
rails. They are giving the railroad COM
pany considerable annoyance between Lin
coin and Roseville. and In the neighbor-
hood Of White Rock shey are becoming
very troublesome. The6train of cars con-
veying the Sunday school picnic party to
Cothrin's Grove last Tuesday had all il
could do to ascend the grade above White
Rock for . few miles, though drawn by
two engines.