, 1886-07-07
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
Trees are dying in Rawlins for want Of
water.
Homegrown strawberries are plentiful
at Buffalo.
Laramie boasts the possession OF a black
prairie dog.
Carbon county total valuation il over
$4,000, 900.
Four large hotels have been opened in
the National park.
The range from Powder river to the
Plstte is reported in fine condition.
An Evanston justice has ruled that not
even an officer is allowed to carry fire.
arms.
The johnson county grand jury found
but seven indictments out of sixteen
cases. i
The equalized valuation of taxable
property in johnson county is s3,4O5,-
1861 s.
Oil City, sixty five miles from the
nearest the post Office, wants a mail route,
and wants it bad"
1t is o said Wyoming's big town
on the Northwestern will be near Sea.
rights ranch, in the heart OF the oil
country in Carbon county.
The Union Pacific branch railway from
Fort Steele to North Park by way of the
Platte valley will run through Carbon
county for seventy-six miles.
A man named Blevens, arrested at Eet-
terman and taken to Buffalo on a charge
Of grand larceny, has given away the
whole gang of horse thieves with which
he has been operating.
Settlers have been coming into the
Upper Platte valley very rapidly during
the last year. There are nearly 1000
people in the valley and nearly all the
available land has been occupied.
The Wyoming and the Northwestern
Stage companies are supposed to have
amicably arranged matters concerning the
mail contract between Rock Springs and
Junction; so thinks the Big Horn Senti-
mel.
1t is stated upon reliable authority,
hat Hon. j. NJ. Carey, our present dele
pate to congress, will be a candidate for
reelection, and that Mayor Reel, of Chey-
enne, will be the choice OF the Democrats
for that position. With these two gentle
men in the field. the territorial campaign
this fall is sure to be an interesting one,
as both the aspiring candidates are i'm
mensely popular throughout the territory.
Big Horn Sentinel.
The Lusk Herald reports recent discov-
cries of silver, mica and tin in Whalen
canyon, of which locality it says !:
Whalen canyon is in the range of hills
which extend southwest from Rawhide
for about twenty-five miles. 1t is some
ten miles from Musk rat canyon. The
whole range is rich in mineral and with
the advent Of the railroad, will become one
of the greatest mining boom centers in the
territory.
The party sen out by the Wyoming
Central to prospect for coal on the line OF
the proposed coal branch, have bored to a
depth of 200 feet. At fifty feet they
found a foot vein, and at $50 and 20C
feet, respectively, they found seven foot
veins, all of which prove to be first class
coal, having a solid roofing of slate. There
il also plenty of the black diamond crop
ping out at the surface. but as the quality
OF the deeper veins is much the best,
nothing will be done with surface stratas,
-Lusk Herald
The Buffalo Echo thus describes q
typical johnson county ranch. on French
creek: Bluffs on either side of two mile:
OF bottom land form natural barriers tC
trespass by the uncultured COW. South
and within two miles of his dwelling, The
Rocky mountains, with their pine-covereC
but surprisingly beautiful. Down tn,
valley to the north elimpses of the bat
lands way over in Crook county please thu
eye. Up on the bench. > watered by al
irrigating canal taken out of the noun
tains at an altitude of 10000 feet ar
acres Of growing oats. looking green ant
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