Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-01-18

sary TO reduce the tonnage rates 10 en-.
able these works 10 oOmpete with Eaaf.
ern plante has been narrowly averiaI.
Superintendent Robiugon stated That
ydhe WAGES paid here arc higher than
az uthet similar plants. He thiuta
they will agree TO the proposition he
will make them. The men who will
be Affected number over 300 and sev.
eral Of them declared thai they would
submit TO no reduction. The entire
100 men nre more or less excited over
the situation.
Com arative quiet rcigus on the
Snake river plans along Oh banks "
Rabbit creek. That portion o, the
world has nearly all been s;aked Oh
by diamond hunters, VINO appear now
10 he waiting Tor something 20 turn
up. Small parties are still going
there, but no new developments have
teen made. Reports from the opal
mines continue 10 be favorable. OpaI.
line " the name given 10 tbs future
grent mining city which hes boon
founded upon the unclassic borders
OF squsw creek. The opals nre
reality and gems OF considerable Bizs
and rare beauty arc an every DAY
production Of that eAmp.--De Lamar
tidahol Nugqet.
Haiiey (iddho) Times. Yesterday
Hat car loaded with machinery was
received at this place. Its load con.
sisted Of two lixlS inch air comprcss.
ore, pelton water wheel and couuec-
tons. II ia for the Red Cloud mining
company, and came direct from the
factory AT Eaglew0o1, Nj, but shipptd
M from New York, IN the remarkably
short time OF thirteen days. AZ soon
IA IL was shipped "traceT" was sent
after II. The machinery was made to
order aud is intended 70 supply water
power for all purposes-iOr the saw
mills, jiTging works, for holsting aud
pumping, etc, wherever about the
Red Cloud property motive power may
be needed. THIS cost OF the whole plant
IL $1,000. BY the use OF this machinery
the company will save $500 TO 5000
per month.
ID. II. Summers, who IL interested in
tine Enterprise,a very rich placer mine
about thirty-tive miles from Grange.
VILE, Idaho, was In town Saturday on
his way 10 Portland, says ths Lewis
ton (ldahol Tribune. MIR. Summers
wl.h his assoclntcs, own 600 hcrts IN
the Butlalo HUM county, through
which runs rwenty.miio creek. They
have had some twenty men construct
ing bedfoel, hume 1900 feet through
the hardest blue granite Mt an expense
Of $4,000. through which they will
run from 5000 to 5000 cubic yards OF
gravel per day, which will easily aver.
nge 10 centb Per yard. n 3O1-Oot
pressure Of water n run down from
the hills through an Iron pipe with De
inch nuzzle-making 800 minors |
Inches Of water and known rs Giant |
geographically the only one In the |
state, unless, perhaps, onv near Boise.
All Of the state papers, enys the !
Helena (Mont.) AidcLCHdcnt, contain !
glowing accounts oi the fine winter \
weather In Montana. There ~ very /
little snow on the plalns, and In the /
there IA an abundance 90 /
furnish water nozt spring and summer /
10 the placer miners aud fanohmeD.
Reports Indicate that the acreage Of |
crops will be greater uufiig the com
Ing season than last year. The winter
has boeu very favorable % fruit so far.
A pple trees Rre In iine condition and
promise a heavy yield next summer. A
ranchman at South Boulder has eight
acres Of M fine strawberry plants as
ever grew in any country. He says he
has them all mulched and they seem M
'reeh and green 40 though they were
glowing Ia n tropical climate There
II some fine sleiRhing In western
Montana and the weather is simply
glorious.
On Sunday morning DR.. q. II.
Kennedy, whose room IL In the Gel.
and block at Canon CITY, Col, awoke,
md, smelling something strange, aro
md, going Into the hallway, found the
'iilce Of &. w. Clellnnd, Justice OF the
leace, In mass OF flames. Ho sound.
ri the alarm, At about the same time
irant Gillette, who was sleeping with
ustice Cleliand, no being an invalid,
woke, and on opening the door lcau-
ny to the Office, was confronted with
. mass OF flames. He closed tho door
md, picking Mr.. Cieliand up, carried
lin QUITO the back porch ana ran back
or his clothes, barely having time 10 |
10 80. The Ere department WINS soon
N the ground, and by heroic III rita
the spreading OF the flames
arther than the one room, the con.
ents OF which were totally destroyed,
ausing damage to the amount OF $500,
nd it may DO that valuable palors
vogo destroyed, which will make tho
Dss much greater. Had the fire broken
ut two hours earlier nuthirE could
ave saved the entire block, ae the
Wind was blowing n hurricane, but
nd subsldnd nnd at the time OF the firo
II was still. No insurance was carried
n the office fixtures, but the building
J fully insured.