The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-07
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
Beaver COunty's Great Need
of a Railroad.
EXPORTING HER DRIED FRUIT
The Christy Fire-The Courthouse to
be Rebuilt-Notes from
Kamas


| Kemas.
BEAVER, Utah, November s. Cor
respondence of The HERALD Not
withstsnding the drouth and cinch
bugs with which the farmers of this
southern section of the Territory have
had to contend with, to a greater or
less extent during the past season, the
crop of cereals. especially wheat and
oats, appears to be somewhat in excess
of previous years. Whether this ap-
parent increase is, however, to be at
tributed to greater productivsness or to
| an increased acreage is a debstsble
! question. Potatoes and other root crops
are also large, and as a consequence
very low in price. The great need
of rail transportation to Arizona and
Southern California for our m marketable
potatoes and grain is more apparent
now than ever, and it is certainly to be
hoped that some of the railroads said
to be heading for q tab en- route to the
coast can be induced to continue on
through this section of country and
thereby give US chance to find q mar
ket for the produce of southern Utah.
The amount of dried fruit, especially
"peeled peaches" that is being shipped
this fall from the southern counties to
Salt Lake is
BEYOND ALL PRECEDENT,
at least as far as quantity is concerned,
in the history of this section of the Ter
ritory. AS many as fourteen heavily
laden two-horse teams having arrived in
Milford in one day, there to tranship
their loads of fruit by rail to Salt Lake,
and owing to the scarcity of sacks have
been compelled to load the fruit into
box cars in bulk, and these shipments
have been going on for oyer month
past.
The silver and lead mining outlook
of the south is unchanged and regret to
say is not of the best, the recent fall in
the price OF lead having caused prac-
tical cessation in the output of several
company now operating in Copper
Gulch, some four or five miles west of
Frisco, are erecting an improved copper
smelling plant which the company has
recently brought on from the east.
Mons. S1bolet is the practical superin-
tendent of the concern. In view of the
erection of this new smelter other cop
per mines in Copper Gulch, in what is
known Rocky district, the ore of some
of which contains over 80 per cent,
pure copper, are being worked. Silver
Reef is about as usual, not very
brisk. The Christy Mining Company
met with a serious loss there one day
last week, in the total destruction by
fire of the steam-hoisting works on top
of their California mine. In addition
to the hosting works, the timber casirg
of the main shaft of the mine was con-
sumed by fire down to the 250-foot
level, thereby causing a serious caVing
in of the sides of the shaft.
Report has it that several of the towns
in the western end Of Sewer County,
have been seriously afflicted with that
town known as Joseph City has been
about the worst sufferer, and as conse-
quence, has been
ALMOST WHOLLY GUARANTEED
from the outside world. The disease
has now, however, abated.
Beaver has also had an affection,
but of minor degree, the trouble
in this case being typhoid fever.
The mortality has thus far. however, |
been rather light compared with the |
number reported as suffering from the |
disease. Several have entirely reco vered |
but George A. Olcott succumbed to the |
disease last Tuesday, and his body was |
inferred the following day. Mr.. Olcott |
was man of about "a years of age and |
leaves wife and five children in quite |
destitute circumstances. He was
barber, the only one of that profession
in the town, and was highly respected.
Saturday the second victim passed to
her final rest, in the person of Mrs.
Matilda Bakes BlackneT, the beloved
wife of Leonard Blackner. Mrs.
Blackner was handsome young lady
of less than 25 years of age, and leaves
two children besides host of relatives
and friends to mourn her loss.
Several other persons are also sick
with typhoid fever. and in two or
deaths door. Beaver has always been
proud of Its comparative healthfulness,
but Sexton Ash reports q mortality
this year of twenty-six persons, four
teen of whom were adults, and that,
too, out of a population of less thsn
1900 souls. Yesterday we were favored
with the first snowstorm of the season,
and It is to be hoped that it will have
cleared the atmosphere and brought
about more healthy condition of
affairs.
The walls of the county court house
still stand gaunt and blackened from
the effects of the recent contiagration.
Kletting, of Salt Lake, is said to have
been selected as the architect for the
new construction and it is rumored
that we are going to have a finer
building than eyer. THE sooner the
better" "CLEAN."
Notes From Kamas.