The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-15

Trinidad's new wool securing works
are rapidly nearing completion.
The Florence and cripple Creek rail-
road is said to be laying a mile of
track daily.
Lander, wy, reports from 10 to 80
degrees below zero at that place every
night for several weeks past. The
snow is unusually deep there.
Florence, Colo, jubilantly claims to
be the third shipping point in the
state. The Oil Refner does not desig-
nate the two largest shipping points.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron company
at Pueblo is said to be negotiating So
100000 worth of bonds with view to
largely increasing their manufacture
ing capacity.
Humbolt valley, New, farmers will
next spring turn their attention to SUI
gar beets, with a view to shipping
their root crops to the sugar manufac-
tory at Lehi Utah.
Contractors on the Cripple Creek
railroad from Florence commence on
the north end of the road on Monday,
and assert that the road will he graded
through before May l.
An old man at Catskill, near Trini-
dad, cut his throat a few days ago
because Of his arrest for stealing q hog.
To be known as a hog thief was too
much for the old man.
Wet Mountain valley has received it's
usual proportion Of snow for this sea-
son and the Tribune predicts plenty
of water to make the valley ranchmen
prosperous next summer.
Copper mining in Churchill county,
Nevada, is carried on with good pro-
fits all winter. The White Cloud and
Rock Cabin mines are turning out
large quantities of conner
In the Jicarilla, N. M, mines men
are working the gold placers all win
ter. A reduction plant is much needed
there, as there is an abundance of
rich gold ore ready for the working.
Trinidad, Colo, is threatened with
variety theatre, and special me g
Of the city council has been calie> r
the purpose of imposing a prohibitory
license on the proposed dive.
Carbon and Saratoga, Wyo., people
are interesting Colorado capitalists in
the Gold Hill mining regions near Sar-
atoga- At least four gold mines will
be operated there during the approa CHI
ing season.
The tunnel on the new railroad from
Florence to Cripple Creek has been half
finished and by the end of next keek
the grade will he in condition for
twenty miles Of track laying without
interruption.
Rocky Ford, Colo, the greatest water
melon garden in the world, is agitating
the question of creamery. With
abundance of strawberries and cream
and plenty of butter to spread upon
SLICED melons Rocky Ford people will
be happy indeed.
Kaolin company at Silver Cliff. Colo,
has contracted TO ship fifty tons of
kaolin to Denver every month A
thirty feet wide cut has been made
into the kaolin bank and a building
erected for dry storage and work is
progressing.
Olney, near Rocky Ford. Colo, will
have a big creamery in full blast next
summer if the farmers around Olney
will guarantee a sufficient number of
cows during the season to keep the
valley is the boss alfalfa range of the
state.
Sensational revelations are being
corning brutal cruelty to prisoners in
the Las Animas county, Colorado, jail
The prisoners are kept without fire
and are frozen, while some die a miser-
able, lingering death from the bitter
cold of winter.
Cattle men of FL Paso, Park, Doug
las and Jefferson counties, Colorado.
met at Buffalo creek and organized
a protective association to put a stop
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to cattle stealing. Henry Johns, of Ell
Paso, H. p. Corbin, of Jefferson, Chas
Snyder, of Park and George K. Flem-
ing, of Douglas county, were appointed
inspectors.