, 1886-12-21
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.


No Huming has been done on the Mesa
lrrlgatlng canal as yet, but as soon as
spring opens the work will be vigorously
prosecuted. -Raici,as journal.
II the coal mined al the Dillon mine
Will make coke, you may confidently ex-
poet to see Bessemer steel works in Raw
Inns within a year. -Rdriias journal.
The tower OF the university is moving
upward. This is the last of the stone
work on the building, and the contractors
think 1t will be finished by the new year.
boomerang.
Passenger engines are now run through
from Cheyenne to Rawlins, merely stop
ping at Laramie to change crews. Rough
on Laramie this, making it a way station.
-RaioinS Journal.
One of the largest cattle companies in
johnson county lust naturally forgot. you
know, all about the taxes, and in conse
duence a penalty Of about 5000 had to be
added .-Bdr}oc'S Budget.
Two recruiting officers Tor the Mexican
hllbusterlng expedition struck Lusk a few
days ago. They found no one here who
desired to win glory and a grave among
tiit pIcdscTS. LUNh IIfINfN.
\ party from the Fast remarked We'd
nesday, that il he could photograph some
Of our beautiful warm sunshine and send
it Fast, Uncle Sam ranch in these parts
would o be small lust Heiaid.
Word comes from Browns park that
Charlie Grouse recently killed the Indian
known rs Lee, the hroncho buster. They
had some trouble and Leo drew his knife
on Grouse. The latter Immediately lulled
his gun and put four balls into the Indian.
lie went TO Ashly and gave himself np.
Rock Springs hudqendcak
On last Wednesday u sad accident ~
Cured IN the family of MIR. Tyne. who
lives over ON Old Woman. lie was build
ing Il log house, and his wife and child
Ii months OLD We're with him. when n log
rolled down crushing the child's head
The sympathies Of the entire community
90 out to the family in their affection ~
Lusk Hcraid.
A syndicate composed of +. f. Oakes.
}. NJ. Buckley, f.. W, Gilbert. W.. f..
Sanders and Others connected with the
Northern Pacific, has purchased of Frank
Stallabras - group Of mines in the Dun
kelberg district in Deer Lodge county.
The purchase price was 500 COG. 1t is
probable that II movement will shortly lie
made TO work ihem.-M onhraa Stock
Gdzefie.
The 1000 head OF stock cattle purchas-
ed recently near Sidney, Neb by the
Laramie Plains Land and Cattle company
to be fed during the winter ON their
Laramie ranches, arrived here last night
in forty ears, and tins morning was started
out to the ranches. The most of these
cattle will be fed on the company's Old
Fort Sanders ranch RoomcraDn.
The herd of beet cattle being fed by
Messrs. Marsh X Cooper ON their Lara
ME ranches is rapidly improving. These
cattle are all prime steers, and this makes
the second season some OF them have
been fed. They are iours and fives, and
the rich blue grass native hay they began
to eat with the first November storms is
already piling up the fat on their huge
frames. They will be fed until the early
spring, and will then be placed. in all
probability, upon the Denver market
Boomerang.
A party visited the Dillon coal mine the
first OF the week and report that the mine
will soon be in a condition to supply this
burg with a quality of fuel that has its
superior nowhere. Experts pronounce
the coal of a superior quality to that mined
at Rock Springs. The question will soon
be settled as to whether it will coke or
not, as experiments are to be made to de
termine the fact. At any rate the prob
lem of cheap fuel for Rawlins is solved.
as the mine is only three miles from town.
-IrrLgu (YyyyY -L.f4.yf