Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-12-20
NEWS OF The WEST.
SOm..lilB More About Tue Johannes
burg Gold Mines.
An INSURANCE AGENps SHORTAGE
Short aud piihy Items from Places
Around.-Decr In
Idaho.

Nevada il on the eve Of boom, says
tbs Denver AotOs
Fremont county, Wyoming, claims
10 have 10000 sheep on Ia ranges.
Butte city, MONTY street railway
has ceased operations. II did not Pay
expenses.
Garfield county, Colorado, ia 10
have a large pJuitry farm established
ueaf GlenNoOd.
In Arohuleta county, Colorado, the
buring for oil al Navajo Is pro- tcssiug
satisfactorily.
At Cheyenne, Wyo., last week
hunters were killing antelope within
iight Of the state capitol building.
In New Mexico farmers can raise
Egyptian corn without irrigation.
Cattle can be- fattened upon II.
Chavez county, New Mexico, tro.
duces fine sweet potatoes. One man
told bis crop at five cents pound.
Thirty thousand sheep still remain
10 be shipped 10 market from wyOm.
Ing over the Eikhorn Valley road.
Holtns, Mont, taxes this year were
S95O,00J. OF this amount 100000 has
teen collected, leaving only $4,000
delinquent
Mesa county, Colofaio, IL agitating
tue luiliing OF Wsgon road 10 con-
meet tho Plateau valley with Grand
Junction.
The Boulder mineral springs will
pass into the hands OF Denver part a.,
who propose 10 build \ hotel at the
syringe.
Nevada county, Nevada, ia having
an open winter without snow. There
IL plenty Of work anu miners are doing
we'll, says an exchange.
Hop-growing at Lovelock, New,
has been very successful, and mop
planting viii 10 extensively carried on
there hereafter.
Springer, n. NJ, viii hereafter csle.
bfato "POtato dRy,n and Thanksgiving
viii furnish tho date for the celebra.
lion.
Larlmer county, Colorado, sheep |
men promptly dip all sheep Ia disin- |
iectants rs soon A. they arrive within |
the county from Now Mexico or else.
where.
Governor Crounss Of Nebraska has
promised to have relief sent 10 the
starving colonists In Box Butte
county, ON the Wyoming line.
Lake City, Colo, papers advise Hins.
dale county miners TO stay nj home and
develop their own mines, instead OF
running here and there after fakes aud
b0Jma.
Near Roswell, n. NJ, are many |
natural reservoir sites, aud the people
propose 10 convert them 10 profitable
use by storing the surplus snow water
from the mountains.
Flat pea seed has been distributed
In New Mexico by Delegate Joseph.
IL Ia q new forage plant which with.
stands the drouth anu compares favor.
ably with alfalfa.
In Butte, Mont, the county com.
nissioners have purchased 400 cords of
wood anu n lot Of axes anu wood saws.
The unemployed arc now furnished
with work board and lodging
W. A. Richards, Of Cheyenne, wyo.,
better known M "Fatty, "hss departed.
He IN $500 short with Insurance COM
ianies TOT which he twas agent, aud
yves considerable money around town.
The "Whlte Wings Prayer" il hav.
ny an Immense run sAst, west, north
md south, and the Gunison, Colo
iTibuHe claims II II entitled to royalty
N tue 200, 900 extra papers sold con.
aiming the prayer.
u. s. Grant Jr. has purchased tho
iubbell house at San Diego, Cal, anu
will probably Ue the permanent home
{ the Grant family. The house cOst
o., 900 to build In boom times, but Mr..
irant paid much less than that for II.
A Mosca, Colo, farmer In the San
luis valley 10 hauling his wheat over
he Sangre de Cristo mountains into
lueriano county and realizing 81 10
er bushel. He haulS wood on the 10. :
urn trip and 20 makes his expenses.
The body Of the old man found dead
u tue river bank above Washington,
'olo county, Cal, last Saturday, has
cen disinteTreJ aud identified by the
eceased's two sons as that OF John
mith, Of San Pablo, Contra county. u
The Eddy, N. NJ, Argus says: All