The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-15
OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBoRs.

AS the result of negotiations which
have been ON for some time past the
Blackfoot Cattle company has sold to
3. f. Saunders it's entire herd of
stock cattle, now ranging in the noun
5ainS south of Canab, Kane county.
The price agreed upon was 50 per
head which is considered a low fig
ure for such class Of stock. 1t is
estimated that there are $500 head
and probably more. The delivery is
TO take place in June and the ship
ment will be made from Milford.
Idaho ranges will get the cattle Mr..
Saunders having already found a
place for them. In addition to these
he has made purchases of several
thousand head of Utah and Idaho
steers for delivery during the next
three monrhs.-Montpelie Examiner
A new gold strike has been made
near this city and it is attracting
considerable attention. Samples have
been sent for assay and when these
are received we viii publish the re-
suit. The ore is fine looking rock and
st promises good returns to the dis
.coverers. The find is less than ten
miles from Montpelier.-Examiner.
The telephone line from this place
10 Paris is at last ITO be rebuilt. The
Bear Lake Telephone Company, COM
posed of Messrs John R. Brennan,
jeff Davis, NJ. D. Wells and w. n.
3. Shepherd, will begin Immediately
10 rebuild the line and they hope to
have it in operation within thirty
days. 1t will be gladly welcomed by
both towns.-Examiner.
Victor Keller, a resident of Canyon
n
over the 0. r. & n. road between
Baker City and Huntington the other
afternoon. When the train was pas
sing farm house. a lad standing near
the track hurled a stone about the
size of an egg at the passenger. The
stone struck the old gentleman in the
left eye, knocking him down and de-
etroying the sight Of the eye forever.
Ten bear skins were sold at The
Dalles, Or, the other day. 1t is not
generally known that a large trade
in furs is carried on there. The prin-
cipal source of supply is the Camas
prairie and Mount Adams sections of
Washington, though the mountains
yield quite an assortment. Bear skins
just now command prices varying
with their condition and running as
high as $50 for extra quality, size and
color.
Coroner Richards, of Butte, Mont,
VINO has the contract for burying the
county's pauper dead, has presented
a bill Of l cent TO the county commits
sioners for burying one corpse. The
contract price is 1 cent per body. Mr..
Richards thinks the bill will not be
cut down, but will be disalloved be-
cause he forgot to submit the proper
voucher with it.
George Muncaster, a sheep man OF
Boulder, Mont, reports the past win
ter the best one for stock that he has
ever seen in Montana. In October he
counted his sheep, which numbered
2.7S3 head. Last week he again count
ed them and found 1850. After de-
Quoting ten muttons from the short
age the loss was but thirteen for the
entire winter.
Rents for the Umatilla reservation
lands have materially decreased since
sast year. Prices per acre formerly
prevailing ranged from 81 to S1.5O
This year they are from so cents to 81
for The same lands. Many ranchers
have leased lands at a maximum Of
65 cents per acre.
Afissoula, Mont, is in a state Of re-
joicing upon the receipt Of authority
by Superintendent Crimson, Of the
Northern Pacific, from the receivers
of that line ITO spend $4,000 in the
erection of a new passenger station
at that point and a Encouragement Of |
the yards, separating the freight from |
the passenger traffic.
Mrs. Mary Phinney. of Seattle, Is
suing the Mutual Life Insurance COM