The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-16

ant cattle shipping points in the west,
reports the condition of cattle on the
ranges quite satisfactory.
Pagosa Springs, Colo, is happy over
the discovery near there of So ton
gold ore in unlimited quantities. Ar
chuleta county will boom next spring.
Fort Morgan, Colo, announces the
starting up of it's new creamery dur
| ing the present week. 1t will make
cash more plentiful in Morgan county.
Marble city, Colo, desires incorpora-
ton so as to retain the $500 a year
paid to the county for saloon licenses,
which would go to the town treasury
| if incorporated.
| N. NJ, Denver parties are preparing
to develop a ledge Of low grade ore
sevnty feet wide which can be mined
| for SO cents a ton.
Marble city, Colo, quarries are be-
| ing worked all winter A large guam
tity of Colorado marble will be used
next spring, much Of it being shipped
to eastern states.
Colorado ranchmen join in the uni
versal report that an abundance of
snow assures increased crop acreage.
Preparations for getting in large crops
are reported all over the stae
tract for the construction of reservoir
and water pipes and hydrants for
$50. 900 in per cent bonds. The work
begins at once and thus Casper starts
on its 1894 boom.
Fort Morgan, Colo, is considering
very advanta geous proposition to OBJ
tain flowing artesian water at a mere
nominal cost. With flowing artesian
wells Fort Morgan would double its
population in a. year.
Platteville. Colo, announces that,
moisture, it challenges the entire state
to produce better crops than the peo-
pie of the south end of Weld will
wheel" to market next season.
La Plata city. Colo. only few
weeks old. has two Stores, two saloons,
blacksmith shop. a newspaper, a res
taurant lodging house, daily
stage line to Hesperus and thirty ac-
tual residents within the townsite.
The Santa Fe railroad surveyors are
starting out to survey a branch line
between Hillsboro and Lake Valley, N.
NJ This is to develop the newly dis
covered gold fields in that region. The
road will be built at once.
The LIE Garde, Wyo., gold placer dig
gings are attracting a large number
snow shoes from the Laramie trail.
The snow is from two to five feet deep
but claim stalking still goes on.
Surveys have been made for an i'm
mense ditch on the lower portion of
the North Platte river near Julesburg,
Colo. This ditch, the Oshkosh, will
bring many thousands of acres of, rich
land under immediate cultivation.
RAISE more barley" is the cry
among the Archuleta county farmers.
The experience of L. NJ. Underwood
of the Navajo valley has convinced
them that CALIFORNIA; favorite crop is
the best paying crop for Colorado arid
lands.
wyoming is said to have about
81, 900 900 in sheep and $25, 100000 in
cattle. In the irrepressible conflict
now on between sheep and cattle in
terests the survival of the 1ittest will
determine the contest. Cattle cannot
live where sheep range.
Laramie city, Wyo. is excited over
the discovery that sick and crippled
hogs and cattle are sold from over
land cattle trains and dealt out by
butchers to the consumers, Diseased
pork is poisonous and pork eaters III
Laramie are alarmed over the disgust
ing discovery. 8ts
The Pagosa News reminds its read
ers that ten years ago this week a
snow blockade commenced on the
Conejos range which continued seven
ty-two days. and four and three years
ago a months blockade was not un-
usual. Since the advent of the rotary
plow the snow has not blocked the
railroad more than two days at a time