The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-10
From All Quarters.

A parry of prospectors from Eddy, n
NJ, are searching the Organ mountains
for gold.
The Y. NJ. c. A. of Colorado Springs en-
rolled seventy-five new members during
the month of February.
Albuquerque has an Old Hickory club in
which Ex-Governor Edmund G. Ross is
one of the moving spirits.
Arizona cattle ranges are in prime con-
dition and stock men are rejoicing over
plenty of feed and small losses.
]. J. Hagerman, of Colorado Springs,
has, drawn check of 81 600 IN favor of the
book fund OF the Colburn library.
Northern Arizona counties are rejoicing
over an unusually heavy snow fall which
assures an abundance of water.
Five double decked car loads of fine
rotwold sheep were shipped from the San
Luis valley to Kansas City last week.
J. W. Bell, a Rock Ford farmer, sold
pumpkins to the canning factory at the
rate of $50 pei acre. Evidently it was
paying crop.
Rocky Ford farmers do not regard
wheat as a llaying crop, and viii next
year will turn their attention more largely
to ether cearials.
Residents of La Plata City, in la Plata
county, are petit ioning for a postoffice and
have recommended ]. H. Sessions as post
master.
citizens of Delta are endeayorins to
raise money to grade the road to their
cemetery. There has been $40 subscribed
and as much more is needed.
Range cattle and sheep have wlntered
better IN New Mexico than Tor many any,
3 per cent. and, there are 100000 head of
cattle in the territory.
The Santa Fe New Mexican is urging
the merchants of that ancient city to
get move on themselves and make an
effort to capture the trade of the new
Cochiti mining district.
The railroad between Prescott and Phoe-
nix in Arizona, is being pressed as fast
4 / Eighteen
will soon be completed and trains run
from Prescott to end of track.
Justin A. Goodhue, of Salt Lake city,
has purchased half interest in a large
fruit farm on California mesa, near Delta,
and will plant 100 acres to large fruits
and S2,00t vines and small fruits.
The Union Pacific receivers have offered
to build a new stone depot, costing $4,000
or $4,000 at Laramie, Wyo, on condition
that tho citizens of that town donute the
stone. The stone will cost only $500.
The Calumet and Orient iron mines of
the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, are
being vigorously worked, and the men re-
ceived their pay last week. The mines
have recently been inspected by General
mer.
AS an indication of the hunger for in.
formation about Cripple Creek the Colo
RADIO Springs Telegraph states that an
scriptive Of the camp, issued by an enter
prlsing mining firm, was exhausted within
Il week.
Ramey brothers, near Grand Junction,
have set out a model fruit farm. On ten
acres they have 1,250 pear trees and 500
prune trees. During the past winter only
twenty-three trees have died. The same
parties propose setting out forty acres ;ld-
eitional principally in prune trees
The Las Animas Leader states that
during the big storm in February ibout
10 eco head of cattle drifted from the
northern ranges down to the Arkansas.
They were driver back on the Prairie and
scattered, and are belived to have worked
their way back to their home ranges.
At Carson, Ney., a man named Edward
Rea gan, has invented a. mercuriaI alarm
CLOCK which Will strike when the mercury
reaches any designated degree Of 5erlDer-
allure. The clock will be invaluabla to
those who desire to maintain a specified
degree of temperature in any apartr .ent.
Fruita, in the Grand valley, Colorado,
boasts Of q man who located there with
Is cents as his capital six years ago who
has Just cleared up $500 from the sale of
ninety acres of fruit land, which lie taok
up and planted In orchard. He has sup.
ported family While making this start
in life.
At New Castle, Colo, Superintendent
Hosscfeidt,. of the Vulcan coal naine is
making arrangements for building re-
frigeratiRg packing house and the manu-
facture of ice. 1t is inteslded to kill pork
and beef and freeze it all through the
summer months and ship the meat to
markets throughout the mining regDns
The Wyoming press is complaIpi.e.sss S-::S,e