The Bessemer indicator., 1894-04-21
Western News Notes.

Work on the state ditch at Canon
City has been resumed.
Rock Springs, Wyoming is about to
erect a 800, 900 city hall.
The State meeting of the Y. NJ. c.
A. was held at Colorado Springs on
the 18th.
A big eagle measuring eight feet
from tip to tip was kill ed near Lander
the other day.
An engine on the Rio Grande, over
the divide, struck a big deer few days
ago, killing him.
A lot of 100, 600 young trout will be
turned loose in the streams about Du-
range this season.
-Four hundred car loads Of fat cattle
and sheep will be shipped out of Lari-
mer county this spring.
1t is said that the Utah sheep men
intend to test in the courts their right
of driving sheep into Colorado.
Alfalfa has sold as high as $12 ton
in Grand Junction this spring, and the
farmers propose to plant more forage
crops.
President .Jeffery of the Rio Grande,
who has just returned from the East,
says that the financial outlook is en-
couraging.
The country east of the mountains
was blessed with receiving fine snow
storm on the 9TH. 1t will be of
great advantage to the farmers.
The cattlemen and ranchmen of De
Beque, Collbran and Mesa celebrated
the exclusion of Utah sheep with n
grand dance, a supper and speech max
ing.
Coke orders at Crested Butte are in
creasing and the Omaha-Grant smelter,
which has taken none for several
weeks, thas started in with an order of
21 car loads week
Judge Dundy has ordered the wages
Of the Union Pacific employees restored
to the old rate. This applies to all
the employees Of the Union Pacific
whose salaries were cut last Septem-
ber
In the United States Court of Pri-
vate Land Claims decision was hand
ed down declaring the Gervacio Nolan
grant in Mora county, New Mexico,
which claimed 900, acres, void.
Chief Justice Reed. Justices Murray
and Fuller concur, Justices Sluss and
Stone dissenting The opinion is by
Justice Murray.
Receiver Trumbull has filed in the
United States Circuit Court a report
of the earnings of the Union Pacific,
Denver & Gulf Railway Company for
March. The receipts for the month
were 1905, 400. 05 and the disburse-
ments were $l77, ,265. S3, leaving bal
ance of s459, ,375. 81 on hand April
On the 1st of March the cash on hand
was 1881, 1855. 35,
A gigantic scheme for the develop
ment of the new gold belt at Leadvillt
is under consideration. The plan con
templated is the extension Of the vel
known Silver Cord tunnel entirel,
through the hills to Big Evans gulch
Prominent mining men are at the heac
Of the enterprise. 1t is understood
800, 900 will be invested.
Manitou is beginning to fill up
Both the Barker and Cliff are doing
good business and the o her large no
tells will soon throw open their doors
The hotel men all feel that 1894 viii
be one of the best years in the histor,
Of the resort Notwithstanding the har,
times. More letters of inquiry abou
hotel rates are received and more sum
! mer cottages have been rented twic
over than last year at this time.
The Board of Trade of Kearney
:. Nebraska, writes to the Denver Cham
Der of Commerce asking that Kearne
be put on the line Of route of the pro
posed extension of the Julesbur
branch Of the Denver & Gulf railroa
from Julesburg northeast to a connet
tion with Jim Hills Great Norther
e railway and thence to Duluth, Siou
City and the markets Of Iowa an
C Minnesota. Kearney offers to assis
lin building the line. A line to g
tn is gap would be $50 miles long.
The total purchases Of gold at tn
C Denver mint for the first quarter {
a 1894 were 1870, ,926.1l, as again
: &2s2, 1856 % for the same time in 189;
t By months in 1893 we're: Januar,
$ 500, 325. 81; February, e71, 999 B;
c March, &111, ,532.22 For 1894: JaI
, uary, 1892, 423.10; February, t21S
31b.75; March, 800, 1925. By thes
figures it will be seen that the 6r
quarters purchase in 1894 exceede
o those Of the sane tips y 1873 !
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