The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-10
OUR EASTERN NEIGHBoRs.

One thousand head of sheep were pur-
chased at Hugo last week and shipped
to Clarkson, Neb.
A shipment of 5000 strawberry plants
was made from Fort Collins to Fort
Morgan gardeners last week.
Ground has been broken for the new
boiler house and electric light plant at
the deaf and blind institute at Colorado
Springs.
The rainfall of this year shows d ten
dency to an increase over last year, but
IS still below the normal. The records
OF the state agricultural college at Fort
Collins show a fall TO April l of 152
inches this year. while last year there
was but 10 inches. The average is a
little over 2 inches. While February
was very cold month, March has been
Slightly above the average.
Yesterday afternoon some young peo-
pie while strolling in Cheyenne canyon
found a pair of Shoes. evidently the
property of some woman 1t is thought
they may have belonged TO Emma
Thornbald. the missing girl, as they cor
responded to those worn by her Mar
shall Dana will send a man out 10 the
canyon today and have them examined
and if possible identified They were
left where found.-Colorado Springs
Gazette.
Work on the Saguache reservoir site.
says the Crescent, is being pushed rap
idly forward by Contractor Dodge.
Nineteen teams with scrapers are con-
tinually at work. The trench in which
| the discharge pipes are to be laid are
being dug; this trench will be filed
with concrete, which will enclose the
heavy iron outlet pipes. The stones for
the mason work are being dressed for
the walls. The rock used strongly re-
sembles granite and is taken from thA
mountain side at the southwestern end
of the dam.
The. Alamosa Courier gives the fol-
| lowing as the largest yields of crops
ever recorded in the San Luis valley:
Wheat raised by Ed. Stewart on the
Excelsior farm in 1891 reached 89li
bushels on a picked acre, accurately
measured. Oats yielded 112 bushels on
a picked acre in a field on W. o. Cyle's
| farm, eight miles west of Alamosa in
| 1891. Potatoes reached the highest
notch on an acre of r. A. Chisholm's
: patch, near Del Norte, which became
famous by winning $500 prize offered
| by the American Agriculturist. The
acre yielded 847 bushels. and was the
best in the United States.
| Captain George W. Carnes, Of Ores
| ton, Iowa, immigration agent of the
| Burlington, operating in northern WSe~
/ ming, where he is sending settlers. WaA
at the Burlington headquarters yesterZ
day, says the Omaha Bee The captain
is enthusiastic over the outlook in
Wyoming and predicts that 10000 peo-
pie will move into that state in the
next twelve months. Renters of farms
/ in Iowa and Illinois have at last
realized how much cheaper land is in
| the northwest than the east and they
are making an effort TO reach the new
colorado. Three families from Bloom
| field Iowa, with their household effects
| passed through yesterday and other
families are to come.-Cheyenne Sun
During the shipping season the Union
| Pacific will run special trains to be
known as the Union Pacific wool special
service. Those trains are a new de-
parture in the way of handling the
wool traffic. but the officials have had
the matter under consideration for some
| time. According to the plan now
mapped out the service will consist Of
two solid wool trains each week. They
will be sent through TO Boston direct,
and the saving in the matter OF hand
ling the consignment will be great in
ducements to shippers. The trains Will
| be made up at Green River, with cars
brought in from Utah and Idaho points.
| -Cheyenne Sun.