The Bessemer indicator., 1894-03-03
Western News Notes,
Park county, Colorado, reduced it
floating debt last year $1,000.

Park county, Colorado, reduced its
floating debt last year $1,000.
Castle Rock, Colorado, ranchmen
are going into hog raising extensively
this year.
Rio Grande county has defeated the
proposition to issue bonds to refund
it's Indebtedness.
Trinidad, Colorado, preachers hav-
ing succeeded in closing the gambling
houses are now engaged in a combined
religious crusade or revival.
Utah people are organizing Forestry
associations. 1t is good idea There
should be forestry protective organiza-
tions in every portion of the United
States.
The Denver g. Gulf road is creating
disturbance in railway circles by ar
ranging with the Mallory steamship
line for very low rate between New
York and Denver. There is likely to
be war.
A new railroad line between Casper
and Ogden will be commenced as soon
as the weather will permit. 1t is an
extension of the Chicago & Northwest
ern road, and work is to be commenced
at both ends of the new line.
Fort Hall Indian reservation is to be
opened to settlement soon. Around
Pocatello, Idaho, it is said that thou
sands of acres Of rich virgin soil will
invite settlement as soon as Congress
does its duty in that direction.
Cattle being driven by the soldiers
from the Shoshone reservation broke
through the ice on the Big Wind river
and nearly the whole herd were
drowned, The department has Or
dered Capt. Ray to desist driving out
stock until the weather moderates.
J. j. Mckinley, a farmer living
about ten miles north Of Fort Collins,
has struck 5-foot vein Of coal, equal,
it is said, to the famous Rock Springs.
Energetic work will at once commence,
and it is hoped genuine field Of coal
will soon be opened
Casper, Wyoming, will be busy
place during 1894. A new waterworks
and electric light system is to be built,
the new oil tanks will begin to dis.
charge oil into railroad cars through a
pipe line and Caspar will be the out.
fitting point for the South Pass gold
mining boom.
The Long Tom reservoir, near Noun
tain Home, Idaho, will be the largest
storage reservoir in the United States.
1t will be about thirty miles in circum.
ference.
A prominent Wyoming cattle mar
says that there are many dead cattle
on the range, and many more will die
before green grass comes, on account
of the scarcity of feed. The loss viii
be confined almost entirely to range
stock, however, as majority of tn,
ranchmen in the Saratoga valley hav,
enough feed to keep their cattle.
Two Mormon prophets have ap
peared at Manti, Utah, who announc,
that the Savior has appeared at Sal
Lake, and that az the saints Of tn,
church have become corrupt, all Nor
mons must be re-baptized SO as to NEE
the Lord. They claim that the &C
tions Of Wilford Woodruff, the pres
ent leader, are not pleasing to th'
Messiah. All association with gen
tiles has been ordered stopped.
German bondholders Of the 81. Loui
& San Francisco railroad have peti
toned for change in receiver, not be
ing satisfied with the Santa Fe receiv
ers.
i For the first time since the industria
depression ret in the Carnegie Stee
Works at Homestead worked last Sat
urday. 1t is claimed that the compau,
is receiving more satisfactory order
and the working schedule Of the plan
will be much improved. TIE Ameri
can iron works Of Jones 4 Laughlin
have resumed in alI dcpartn,apts 70