The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1890-07-05
COAST NEWS.

Many thousand dollars of Denver cap
ital are going into Utah and Wyoming to
boom their towns and develop their re-
sources Within a few days Denver men
have organized in Laramie the Laramie
Land and Investment Company. with a
capital of 100000, and the Laramie
Street Railway Company, with capital
of $4,000.
Mr.. Evans, who lives near Selma
Fresno county, had his barn, hay and a
set of harness destroyed by fire Sunday.
His son, lad of ! years, is deaf and
dumb, and is also afflicted with a pen.
chant for large fires, and set the building
on fire to see it burn.
The total amount of land taken up,
sold and patented in Idaho, outside of
mineral land, during the twelve fiscal
years ending June 30, 1889, is given at
9. 597, 1899 acres, of which total over
], 700, 900 have been disposed of in the
last half Of the period.
Parties who have recently visited Pull
man, Montana, announce that the recent
discovery Of seven.foot vein beneath that
town has caused great excitement, and
property values are rapidly advancing.
The work of developing the coal vein
will be commenced Immediately.
1t is found in California that the men
who make money and get rich out of hor.
ticultural pursuits are generally those
who do not attempt more than they can
look after personally. From ten to
eight acres are the sized tracts which
pay the highest per cent. of profit.
Until recently the Chinese have expe.
rienced no difficulty in crossing at Tia
Juana into San Diego, but since Collec
tor of Port Berry and Marshal Gard have
succeeded in capturing about forty Mon
Solians at that place, the route has been
abandoned.
The Warren Live Stock Company are
shearing their sheep at the Pale Creek
and Willow Springs ranches, Wyoming.
They will sheer over 60, 600 sheep, and
the fleeces averaging six pounds each ma
king total of over 800, 900 pounds
Land has been taken up on Indian
creek, Converse county, Wyoming, by
thirty two Norwegian families from
Nebraska. They have $50 children, and
make quite colony of desirable people.
A $500 nugget of gold, with about two
ounces Of quartz, was found by two min
ers two miles east Of Shasta few days
ago, in what is known as Pocket Diggings
Fifty five thousand young fish wers
sent from the hatchery in Laramie to
Cheyenne last week to be distributed IN
the waters of Laramie county.
Artesian wells are success in all parts
of Salt Lake City at depths between l5O
and 200 feet. This renders the citizen.
independent of water rates.
Edward w. Doane, Esq, formerl,
book. keeper of the Los Angeles Nationa
Bank, has been arrested on charge O.
ENLIGHTENMENT.
Harry Burke, freighter, lately rode
one horse from Rawlins to Lander, l3t
miles, in few minutes less than twenty
four hours.
The warehouse. men of Snager, Fresnl
county, encourage bull snakes to roam
about their grain stacks, as they kill &c
many rats and mice.
The heat was SO intense last Sunday ii
the back country Of San Diego county tina
it melted the honey in the hives.
A country Farmers Alliance is bein
. organized at Lusk, Wyoming.
5 Thirty.four newspapers are pnblishe
3 in Wyoming. Four are dailies.
A sea lion was captured in the street
of Suisun last Saturday.
q Homework is healthy, and many ply