Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-15
Utah and Idaho.

Jonn Y. cannon, son of the missing
apostle George, has been hauled up again
for practising polygamy.
The product of the Utah mines for the
past nine months amounted to $i,2i6, 1913
of this the Ontario produced $l,273,96i
stones large enough to be sawed into
slabs and mantels, has been found in
Utah, near the Grand river.
The banks of Salt Lake city report the
receipt for the week ending the 9th INST.
inclusive, OF $50. .42S.s3 IN bullion and
SS5, ,5SS. Il in ore, II total of $l72 2O1254.
The metal shipments out from Salt
Lake City for the week ending Saturday,
October 8, inclusive, were eighteen cars
of bullion, 456, 1887 lbs. five cars of ore,
POS, 1000 lbs; ten cars copper ore, ga 700
lbs; total, thlrty-three cars, 900, ,437 lbs
The September yield of the Bellevue,
Idaho mines was: The Minnie Moore,
torty-four car loads of ore; the Queen
of the Hills, twentyfour; and the Over.
land, two. Averaging each car load
ut sixteen tons, and the value of ore at
500 per ton, this makes total of about
l,12O tons, valued mt $4,000.
Montana.
Deer Lodge is determined to have wa
terworks, and Il company with $25, 900 is
beng organized to see that she gets there.
The forest fires in the Yellowstone Ma
tional park have extended over the boun-
dary and reached the Clarke's Fork min
ing district.
The Knights of Labor have endeavored
to lease the coal mines of the Northern
Pacific coal company at Timbcrline, but
they have been unsuccessful.
The output of the Drum Lummon for
the month of Septe ember was S134, ,O7OS7.
In Nf H.. - ~
tons, and sixty stamps in the two mills
ran twenty seven days.
The Rocky Mountain Telegraph COM
pany has been incorporated to build and
operate lines IN various portions of the
territory and surrounding states and ter
ritories. Capital stock, $500,0O0
The big irrigating ditch now under
construction in the Miles City vicinity will
not be finished until next spring 1t will
be twelve feet wide, twenty-six miles
long, water $4,000 acres of land, and cost
100000
a stockman in an interview with tho
Miles City Journal says although the
grass in the open range is almost non est,
the broken country and bad lands are
plentifully supplied with good grazing,
In spots. The lack of water this summer
has in manner prevented cattle from
seeking these localities, thus leaving the
seasons growth virtually intact.
The Pacific Coast.
whale fishery station is to be cstab-
lished at the west end of Vancouver
Island.
Large deposits of oxide of antimony
and silver arc said to exist in Woodsde
canon Nevada.
Over 15,500,000 pounds of fruit have
been shipped over the Vaca Valley rail
road during the present season.
During September 5,3S5,OOO feet of
lumber was shipped from Puget Sound
ports, and 1853 tons of coal.
The passenger movement for Septem-
ber over the Pacific system of the South
ern Pacific company was us follows East.
bound, 1863; west bound, 4,307; total,
1916.
The feed on the live stock ranges of
eastern Nevada and western Utah is ex-
hausted, and cattle raisers are forced to
the alternative of either purchasing hay
to winter their bands or shipping them to
grass.
The rivals of the Standard Oil COM
pany IN the east have succeeded in estab-
fishing a market in California. Some
time ago the railroads gave the Standard
people such rates as to give them prac-
teal monopoly of the coast trade, but
the opposition oil men secured favor
able rate over the Canadian Pacific, and
now land oil IN San Francisco at less
cost than the Standard.
A strange fatality among fish in the
Truckee river has been puzzlng local
scientists of Reno for several months.
The flesh of the dead fish was found on
examination to be thoroughly cooked.
An investigation of the cause of this
phenomenon led to the discovery of a
spring of boiling hot water bubbling
from the center of the stream near Reno.
This discovery explained the strange
fatality. The fish in passing over that
portion of the river bed where the spring
is located are scalded and their flesh
cooked in the boiling water.