Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-12-14


with the petroleum and In larger
quantities than formerly .--Denver
Aews.
The cost Of maintaining the prison.
ere at the Idaho yenitentlary for the
year ending December Let, 1892, says
the Idaho daily Stlt,nmdn, amounted
~ the sum oil s2g, 525 46. An this was
di.burHcd In the city OF Boise, and the
profits divided among our merchants.
The farmers, too, felt the benefit, Tor
Hour, potatoes onions ant other vege-
tables were furnished 10y them. A
little item that gives one eome Idea Of
the prisoner'a appetite and slsD oi the
cost of the products OF this valley, IL
10000 pounds Of potatoes, purchased at
h21 cents n hundred. IL IL estinn ed
these will last ak months. There
were iucatcerstrd during the year lust
closed l8l prisonera, vi which ninety
four are stiil serving out their sentence.
There were ga visitors during the year
and from this source SiSJ were added
to the library iund.
There IL no abatement In tho now
gold fever which h. spfeai ull over
Arizona territory, and which II roach-
Ing into adjoining states. The new
placer fields rival those VI the palmie-t
Days OF California, ami are siluatei In
Coconlna county, on the san Juan
river, n ANAL branch Of the Rio Colo
rado Chiqulto. They extend over into
Utah. The railroad men on the At
lantic anu Pacific are leaving their
work, and the telegraph operators even
are dropping their keys and Joining
| the grand rush u the mines. Rumors
| Of the richness OF the new find are
constantly being received, and many
Of those who have ~ mode Vt conve
ance are leaving the northern towns
and trampiug across the mountains -
Special 10 NE San FrdloisoD thront.
oio.
Magnolia ia an old gold mining
camp In Colorado. The tow has about
twenty-five or thirty houses. The
camp has taken n new start aud VIII
come 10 the front M one of the best
gold mining camps inColorado. Among
tile rich gold miues are the Besgar,
American Eigle, senator Hili AMI
other rich mines. All are free gold
miucs, employ iargc 'orce OF men and
make large shipmtns Of ore. 1ht
|
being developed Ivy Hawk M and
Whittier and carfie8 free gold. tn,
vein u from QUO 10 three lctt Wide,
Seventy thousand dollar ia gold W.,
taken out Of tbs Senator Hill lode IN
one pocket at two feet rom the surincr
The mine runs from $500 10 $4,000 pei
tn IN gold. There ute plenty Ol vacan
claims 10 be located on Magnolia hill
The country n but li,tic pfosl ected yet
~ the Leadviilo excitement took mos
Of the miners away. --DcHUcr NstOs.
Florence, Colorado, Ia somewha
excited again over the McCOutt mininl
district, located thirteen miles n0ftl
nr this point. Peter biCCOuri, ate
whom the district hHs been named ant
who has IA force OF men driving
tunnel into hill which lei voritnbi
quartz mountain, brought ia a sack o
rock In which the yellow metal !
plainly visible. This district ha
heretofore produced nothing tina
showed gold % the naked eye, allh0ugl
there have been assays running d
, high IA SIS 10 the ton. Tho belief "a
isis among millng men that there "a
high grade ore somewhere In IN
district. The McCourt Mining CON
pauy determined last summer q cree
n small stamp mill IN tho district, nu'
YOUR correspondent was inOrme
yesterday that machinery for q
stamp mill had been ordered come TIM
ago and was now en- route from tl
East A large min OF 100 stamps wi
be erected Mt this poiut upon tho con
: plelion Of the Florence, Cripple Gree
d State Line railroad, which will d
carly In the spring.