Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-03-18
WILD WEST WAITS.

at Fargo that will begin operations at
an early date in the old Northern Pa
ciic cold storage building. Another new
enterprise is mattress factory.
arrangements are being made where
by water will be taken from the Snake
river to irrigate 1000 acres of Franklin
county, Or. land. 1t is expected that
the canal will be completed in time for
the ground to be seeded in the spring.
A company has been organized to
build Il railroad from Boise City to the
mines of Owyhee county. Nearly SO
600 has been subscribed and many Boise
City men will be stockholders. AS wood
for the mines costs 81 per cord, this
road has been very badly needed for
several years.
Contracts are now being let for the
construction of buildings at Laramie,
covering an area of S25S feet of ground
for a plant of the Standard Cement
Plaster company, concern lately organ
lied to make cement out OF the gypsum
found in large quantities on tracts OF
land adjoining.
Judge Thomas Smith of Roseourg,
Or has in his possession two gold COINS
called the Beaver" on account of the
beaver on the diverse side. These coins
were struck by firm at Oregon City in
1910. They are of gold and of the nomi-
nal value of So, but they could not be
purchased of the judge foS five times
their weight in gold.
"A silver-tip bear, the largest IF the
kind seen in many years, was shot and
killed a short distance above the mouth
of Grand ROnde river, says the AsOtin
(Wash.) Sentinel. 1t is learned from
hunters that the weather has been so
mild all winter in the lower mountains
along the Snake river that bear never
once went into winter quarters.
A Wyoming man has invented a new
corn-planter. His contrivance consists
of Il box attached to each fOreleg of
horse just above the fetlock and filed
with corn. A cord passes over pulley
connected with the saddle and again
down to the hind legs, SO that at every
step the lid of the box is lifted and the
corn drops out into the hole made by the
forefeet. while the ingenious planter
rides at bis ease.
oil of wonderful body has recently
been discovered near Douglas, Wyo. In
this neighborhood a tunnel is being con-
structed for the purpose of irrigation.
It penetrateS into the soil sand, which is
heavily saturated with fine lubricating
oil. Samples of this oil taken twenty
seven feet from the surface of the
ground have been analysed by the state
geologist, and also by the state chemist,
and were pronounced very fine lubri-
Gators.
The artesian wells in Brule county,
Oak, vary in depth from $50 to 1900
feet, but the average is less than 1000
feet. They are scattered all over the
country and it is now easy to estimate
within a foot almost at what depth a
flow will be struck The wells range in
cost from $1,000 TO $4,000, depending
upon size of bore. The cost is largely
determined by the labor and cost of
fuel SiX-inch wells capable of irrigat-
ing $40 acres of land have been put
down for $4,000.
"A curious mirage witnessed at Sun
dance, Wyo.. recently above the summit
of Grow peak, was the reflection of the
Big Horn mountains. $50 miles distant.
of the Second Methodist Episcopal
church in Tacoma recently. Besides, he
sang Il solo. 1t was Lord Bennett. who
married a Tacoma girl.
Andrew Wagner, a sheepherder, was
found dead at the base of q 40-foot cliff
twenty-five miles from Sweet Grass,
Mont. Scattered around the body were
thirty-fve dead sheep. 1t is supposed
the man and sheep went over the cliff
during the darkness of the night.
According to the De Lamar Ida
Nugget the completion of the great Bru-
neau canal has been the means of re-
claiming nearly 10000 acres of splendid
land which will be speedily turned into
productive farms and orchards.
The kaolin mines at Mosier, Or. bid
fair 20 become q source of cOnSidera BILE
wealth to NaScO county, says the Times
MOuntaineer, as there is apparently no
limit to the amount they are capable of
supplying. and the product is valued at
500 per ton at the mines.
"A coal mine has been located about
twenty-five miles from Idaho Falls. 1t
is a superior quality of coal, and can
be delivered at that place for $3.50 per
ton, one-half of the price of soft coal
at the present time.
Over 100000 head of sheep have
been registered for shearing at the vari-
Gus shearing pens near Casper, Wyo.,
during the coming season. The ind-
cations point to a larger wool clip for
this year than at any previous period.
The blizzard of three weeks ago,
says the ChOteau Montanian, caught
2600 sheep ranging on the upper Madi-
son. They We're all buried under the
snow and had to be dug out. Some were
covered from l to feet for three days.
but only forty were found to have died.
The year 1895 was the greatest cattle
year that Montana has had, SO far as the
total receipts are concerned. The re-
vised figures of the business done during
the year, prepared in the office of the
give the total receipts at $11, 902, $50
This exceeds the next highest year. 1894
by nearly 81 100000.
Greeley has suffered a vista ton of
the gold fever through the discovery OF
placer ground in the North park The
gravel runs 80 to IS cents per yard and
that shaft sunk eighty feet failed to
reach bedrock. The deposit is supposed
to arise from the wash of Owl mountain.
which seems TO be q mass of gravel ac
cumulated through glacial action.
While passenger train on the Ere
mont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley rail-
way stood at Grin Junction station re-
Gently water leaking from the tender
froze the wheels fast to the brake and
when the train started the wheels did
not turn. One of the wheels slid along
the rail until it had worn flat for a dis
lance of eight inches. The train was
compelled to return to Grin Junction and
was delayed five hours while a new
wheel was being put on.
Two miners named Schlund and
King, employed at Iron Mountain, near
Redding, Cal, started for a hunt in the
mountains back of the mine They had
gone but short distance when it be-
gan showing heavily King returned to