The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-06
WILD WEST WAITS.

he worth 81 900, 900.
An extensive deposit of valuable
marble has been discovered twelve miles
west of Fort Laramie.
Many fish have ncen killed in wy.
oming the present winter by the streams
freezing to the bottom.
California cattle are being shipped
to the Eastern markets, and Nevada cat
tie 10 the San Francisco market.
The various oil companies operating
near Casper Nyo., have engaged nearly
every freighting outfit in Casper and Vi
cinity to haul rigs and supplies to the
wells.
The olive industry is taking quite a
hoon in the Rear and San Pasqual val
lrys in California. From 10000 to 49,
600 trees will be planted in these valleys
this season.
"A band of Oregon horses, in transit
to Kentucky, a few days ago, says the
HALEY Times was taken from the cars
at Shoshone and the animals sold for 80
cents apiece.
1T is reported that Lucky" Baldwin
will put steamer on Lake Tahoe in OPP
position to the one that will be put on
by the Rli>ses and will also build 4 new
hotel near Ianks.
iii a Shanty and starved her little grand
child ami her horses. was arrested and
found to have nearly $1,000 buried I'M
der her wnodoile.
The sandstone Quarries ut Rawlins,
Wyo.. have been purchased at sheriff's
sale by NJ. W. Warren Of Boston and
will hr operated to their full capacity
the coming summer.
1t is estimated that since the new
bounty law was passed $4,000 wolves
and coyotes have been killed in Montana.
The proportion OF wolves to coyotes is
said to b. about one to eight.
TIL: Chino sugar factory has closed
fer this season. The sugar output of the
factory for this year was about 2O.W>0,-
Wh pounds Of refined sugar. almost
double last Year $ production.
The Indians from the Pine Ridge
agency have been hunting during No.
,"nhcr and December and it is e$ti-
mated that they killed nearly 1000 head
ni deer in the north and eastern sections
If Wyoming,
-"Tony," dog valued hy c. n Fuller
1T $1,000, was stolen from his residence,
says the Denver News. Tony is known
M the american Dollar dog, for his
ability TO distinguish Il real dollar from
Il counterfeit or any similar coin.
Experiments are being made in .Ari-
zuna in tn. establishment of carrier zig
con messenger service between remote
mining camps and the nearest towns Or
railway points. So far rs tried the sery-
ice has proved successful and very valu-
able.
"A large stream or creek that has
been flowing through Antelope valley for
over thirty years has entirely dried up
Mr.. Tolkill. who visited Carson. New,
thinks the disappearance is due to earth
quake shocks that visited that valley re-
GENTLY.
"A fellow ate thirteen tamales aud
drank a gallon IT mescal at Tombstone
.triz.. inside IF one hour. As he blew in
all his money for the tamales and booze.
it was necessary to pass round the nat
TO raise money enough to bury him the
next day.
-Forty-thrcc sticks Of giant powder
became ignited in the Mo!lic Gibson
mine ut Aspen and burned entirely to
ashes without an explosion. Had the
powder exploded five or six men working
in the immediate vicinity would have
been killed or seriously injured.
Two residents Of Miller. s. D.. while
hunting in Merritt's grove. fifteen miles
southeast of that place, killed three Wild
cats. the largest one weighing twenty
pounds and the others sixteen and if
teen pounds. \ week ago one was killed
there which weighed thirty pounds.
The chef of the hotel GIpnwood at
Glcnwood Springs, Col. made the re-
marka bic discovery Of Il gold nugget in
liz craw of turkey he prepared for
dinner: The nugget is about TIE size
of Il wheat grain. and the gravel found in
the rraw is of many colors and som" of
the rarest varieties.
An elk skin, from an animal weigh.
ing 1000 pounds, and measuring 8 feet
fr"m hose to tail. $ feet 9 inches from til
to tip Of horns across the forehead, ami
, fcet four inches between the eXtremi.
ties If the horn. has been presented by
W. Reser Of WaIla Walla to the Pull.
man agricultural college.
There lies in the money order depart
m"nt Of the Los Angeles pos,otficc the
sum Of 5000 in money orders of 500
each, awaiting the call Of the owner
The orders were made out in Wichita
and tn" place Of payment that city. Dis
trust Of the banks is presumed to he the
cause Of the novel and costly mode Of
remittance.
The merchants of Seattle have made
al offer to the Hawaiian planters They
are willing to furnish Il site for 4 sugar
refinery, remit state and county taxes
for a term Of ten years, and offer other
Inducements. The idea is to ship raw
sugar to Seattle and refine it there. The
vessels would return with merchandise
or freight.
The rulEors that the Mormons in
tended to depart from Mesa City, Ariz.,
have at last been set at rest by prepara-
tuns now being made for the erection in
that town of S3O.OOO tabernacle for
th" use of the communicates of the
Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day
Saints. Work is soon to be- begun on
the structure.
Deposits Of mineral paint have been
with oil that the stuff will burn. Otay
Mess; is six or eight miles long by three
wide and is several hundred feet above
tn" valley. biologists say that the sur
roundings and the character of the
ground give every indication of an
abundance Of oil at no great depth.
The iron and copper country in the
vicinity Of San lsidrO. Lower California.
has been found to be promising in oil
and the Woods Investment company of
Denver is said to be about to prospect
for it. The company has acquired the
largest copper mines on the peninsula
outside Of Santa Rosalia. and large
amount Of money is about to be ill.,
vested.
Farmers about the town of Oakley,
Ida, have had much trouble with rab-
bits this fall and n rabbit-drivc was in
nugurat"d. The farmers turned out to
q man, the wives and daughters spread
o grfat banquet 9 a and g9od s stretch Of
very successful. and 1925 rabbits were
reported rs counted. 1t is also said that
two coyotes were run in, as we'll as a
young lynx.
L. G. Young & Co. of Roscburg.
Or, recently sent q shipment of turkeys
TO San Francisco, and received this let
tor from the consignce: I'VE desire to
soy that 50 worth Of gold dust was taken
from the crop Of one Of your turkeys
sold to Mr.. Goldstone Of the Grand
Western mar ket. This is a good advcr-
tisement for Oregon turkeys, as it dem
onstratcs the fact that you not only give
buyers fat stock. but favor them with
gold nuggets
"A real Wild West carnival in the
heart Of what is left of the wild West
itself is planned to be held in Arizona
next February. 1t is to be in or near
Phoenix. Representatives of every In
dian tribe in Arizona and most Of the
tribes in the Southwest are to be pres
cnt, and, because Of the proximity of
the exhibition TO their native haunts.
they will be able to show almost the