, 1886-08-14
r~ERRiro.I,L TOPICS.

An athletic sosIety lis about to be organ
lied at Rock Springs.
A force of Firms has been set to work
in the Rock Springs mines.
The Union Pacific authorities are grad.
uaHy replacing their Chinese help in the
coal mines with white labor.
Both Rawlins and Laramie expect here
after to obtain the greater part OF their
coal supply from local mines.
1t is estimated that before the season
CLOSES more than 100000 mere cattle will
pass through Wyoming TO Montana and
other Northwestern points.
laramie physicians continue to repor.
new cases of sickness, supposed to be the
result Of drinking the city water during
the few days before the pipes were
cleaned.
Douglas is now all nicely graded and
the steel has been laid on the Northwest
ern rs far az Shawnee. about twenty two
miles east of the town. The era iers are
at work west of Douglas. but it is not ex-
pected that the'track will be laid any fur
Their than that point this season. 1t is
generally believed that a big town will be
built up eventually at Deer creek, where
the natural advantages for a city are very
great.-Ldramie boomerang.
A special to the Omaha Bee gives the
following rs the opinion Of John N. Simp-
son, president of the Live Stock Associa-
ton of Texas, who has recently travelled
over the cattle country from the coast to
Wyoming: my observation in Wyoming
was ttat there was good fair range and
that the cattle were fat and looking well
There is plenty of grass now, but it will
be short there next winter. A revolution
is going on in the beef Business. There
will be a change from shipment of live
stock to a shipment of dressed beef, and,
in my opinion, it will come from the Mis-
souri, river points-Kansas City and
Omaha and also St Paul. Eventually
meat will be dressed there and shipped
East, and the stock wards business OF Chi
cago will be affected very much
Maj. Wilkes, just in from a siege of
several months surveying in Wyoming,
gives in eresting notes of his work. He
has located a railroad line from Fort Fet-
terman west 10 the Wasatch range. through
nearly the whole length of Wyoming on
easy grade. the maximum being ffty.tw
feet to the mile and with three degrees
curvatures. The country is so favorable
that he believes the read can be graded FOL
the whole distance for 81, 500 per mile.
He reports that the Chicago L. North
western will complete its track to a point
six miles east Of Fetterman On the 9th OF
the present month. He reports iron and
coal in abundance, and some mineral oil
al ing the line of his survey. When asked
if the line he had laid out would be at
once placed under construction, he an
swered that his instructions only went ~
the extent of locating the line, and hat
part he had attended to. He has no data
from which TO tell what any company il
going to do, but believes that no company
could long postpone building over his
grades if it knew how beautiful a road it
would make. He estimates the entire
length Of a railroad line from Fetterman
to the Utah line at 800 miles. That is. he
knows exactly the distance to the Wasatch
range, and estimates the rest. He says
with the line completed. a speed of fifty
miles per hour can be maintained from one
end to the other with perfect safety
Salt Lake Tribune.