, 1886-11-16
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.


Laramie is to have a new depot build
ing in the spring.
About 5000 head of beef cattle were
shipped from Douglas last week.
Scarlet fever is on the decrease at
Evanston, no new cases being reported.
The Sheridan Times thinks the pros
pect OF that own for a railroad is very
good.
a Hook and Ladder company has been
organized at Rawlins with a membership
of thirty-seven.
The military force recently sent to the
Cheyenne agency on Tongue river will re-
main until further orders.
Rev. Mr.. Bars has accepted an invita-
ton from the Presbyterian church to oc-
cupy its pulpit for another year.
Mrs. Ellen LAWN, wife of James LAWN,
was found dead at her W door in Raw
Inns last Thursday. Heart disease and
exposure.
Samuel w. Sheppard, Of Denver, has
been appointed deputy collector of inter-
nal revenue for Wyoming, vice ii. T..
Allen, resigned.
a large number of settlers are reported
to have located in the No Wood valley
this year, and several colonies will settle
there in the spring.
While County Surveyor Owen was in
Cheyenne yesterday he made probable
arrangements for the p%ostponing of the
recently ordered rcsurvey OF the Deer
creek or old Fort Fetterman hay reserva
ton, as the snow now lies there to Il
depth rendering correct work impractical
ILL.,, NJ n,ron ,r,Il La n,t,Eal h. tba -,
terror department within a day or two of
its intentions in the matter. -Boomc-
rang.
From a gentleman Just up from the
railroad camps south of Fort Steele, we
learn that there are nearly 1000 men
at work ON the first sixteen miles of
grade, all of which is being rapidly
constructed. There will be four bridges
across the Platte river in the first twelve
miles. besides considerable heavy rock
work which will probably be completed
during the winter as well as a large
amount of the bridge work, The graders
have almost caught up with the locating
engineers, which may for a short time re-
tard operations. -RawIiis Journal.
Mayor Trabing has, as everybody
knows, been experimenting on farming
the past ummer, Just across the river
west of the city. He has the crops pretty
much cleaned up now, and this week
furnishes us some figures to indicate the
result. He iarmed sixty acres of ground
and raised the following crops Oats,
800 bushels, wheat, 800 bushels, barley,
200 bushels; beans, 80 bushels; peas, so
bushels; potatoes, 10000 pounds. Be
sides the above, he raised a large amount
of garden vegetables, supplying his own
family and the employees on the farm dur
ing the whole season, and sharing lib
orally among friends and %neighbors. -
Laramie Sentinel.
The Rawlins Tribune reports that +. NJ.
Donahue has discovered the mother vein
of the placer diggings at llahn's peak.
The Tribune says: After locating what he
thought to be the vicinity of where the
lead ought to be, Mr.. Donahue set about
to clear off the surface earth. This he did
for a space of sixty feet in width, until he
at last uncovered what he rightly judged
to be the mineral bearing vein. lie col
lected a quantity of the surface rock and
sent it away for a mill run, - which re-
| suited in a product OF Sl3 to the ton,
partly silver. This was enough to en-
courage the patient miner, and he began
operations on a different plan. Starting
at a convenient distance from where he
Judged the vein to be located, he began to
e~xcavatc a tunnel, and after penetrating
the hill some eighty feet he struck the
vein seventy feet below the surface, the
lode being even richer than anticipated.
The vein Is sixty feet in width and runs
5000 to the ton. The ore is very free
milling, and is carried in calcspar gangut