Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-06-20
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.

A ranch at Fort Cloud, Can, is be-
ing stocked with cattle from Oregon.
The Davidson mine, on Missouri fat
Josephine county, Or, is digging out Il
rich pocket which pays 81 day to the
men.
The Phoebe, Utah, Record states that
large body of good gold ore has recently
been struck in the Yuba and is hnding its
way to market. Some very rich gold rock
has been found recently III the Montgom-
cry district also.
1t is reported that number of cattle
men and cowboys have organized at
Grand Junction. Col, to drive out the TO-
600 sheep on the range
William Hall, who is in business at
Port Townsend. is the owner of beauti-
full $1,000 residence in Tacoma, and be
proposes to remove the same bodily from
the City of Destiny" to the key City
by water
"A feature of the Sloan and Haskell
incidental cleanup in Grant county, Or.
last week was the product of large mug
gets Many have been picked up during
the cleanup, ranging from $40 to $50.
There was one nugget valued at 1924
and another worth $3.50.
The women of Chico, Cal, have
formed a society called the Ladies' Anti
Chinese league, and beginning June l
they ceased to patrOniZe Chinese for any
purpose. Already fully 500 families who
formerly purchased vegetables and fruit
of Monaghan peddlers are trading with
white men.
One day last week number of farm
ers of Anatone, AsOtin county, Wash,
Joined company and seeded to wheat
| tifty-tive acres of land belonging to Mrs
Percifull. a widow. Thirty-two men and
ninety-siX horses were employed in the
work, and the ground was plowed, sowed
! nd horroVpd
Butte had quite an acquisition to it's
| population the other day, when there ar
| rived from Michigan miners wife The
woman is only SO years of age, and is
| the mother of seventeen children, fifteen
of whom are living and were on the train
| with her, the eldest being girl of about
| IS years of age, and the youngest an in
| FAINT of IA months.
"A shipment of twenty-five tons of ore
| from Carr Fork, in Bingham, Utah, re-
| Gently made to Salt Lake City, assayed
| $50 in gold to the ton.
Money to the amount of 100000 is
said to be hidden away III jars and socks
| III Clatsop County. Or, waiting to be
banked or invested when confidence is re-
| stored.
A party that recently went to the Bo-
hernia mines country in Oregon to search
| for the bodies of the two men who per-
ished in that vicinity few months since,
has been unable to find them as the snow
| still lies on the ground from 10 to % feet
in depth.
-Mercur, Utah, reports an important
discovery in the Little Pittsburg group,
situated in the northern part of the dis
| trict Milling ore in Il vein twenty-five
! feet thick and no foot wall yet is the
| claim made by the operators, and those
who have visited the workings. Assays
show the value to be from So to 81 per
ton, and picked samples give returns as
| high as $23.
| George Austin, the Utah Sugar Com
panyS farmer. reports 1000 acres of
beets thinned out in Provo County, and
growing nicely. The beets have an ex-
! celent top and are about the size of
| ones thumb. There are besides the 1000
| acres. 1900 acres that contain fair
stand.
Pennington, Wash, is much agitated
over some promising nuggets brought
| down from the HoodOo diggings. The
nuggets range in size from a small shot
| up to as large as q kernel of corn.
"A shipment of eighty French merino
feeces from Mount Pleasant Utah, ag-
gregated 1896 pounds. or nearly 161h
pounds to the fleece. Four of the clips
| from two bucks and two wethers 50
pounds, a little over p pounds to the
| fleece.
"A gang of men has gone from Salt
| the Granite range of mountains north of
| Cornucopia, Or, where $500 acres of
| placer ground has been located on that
! stream and will be worked.
| Ore which assayed $50 in gold to the
| ton was recently brought to Salt Lake
City from Ashley, Utah. There is said
to be a strong vein of the ore.