The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-22
WILD WEST WAITS.

California now has over 25,Oo0 acres
of almond orchards. representing an in-
vcstment of more than $1O,WN,OO0.
Farmers on and near the Umatlla
reservation are complaining of being al
most eaten Up by spotted rats.
"A California farmer recently sold
500 bushels of wheat ut u mill there for
so cents 4 bushel, clear of sacks.
A mountain lion weighing $50 pounds
was killed by Farmer Hart sin Glallam
county. Wash, with an old smoothbore.
Charles S,orwer. Nevada woodchop-,
per. is heir to Il large estate left him by
the death Of his father and mother in the
East. !
The sheep industry is one of the i'm,
rortant ones in Sonoma county. Cal. The
yearly crop Of wool ut one time reached
100000 pounds.
The highest vote ever cast in Nevada
was 1861 ut the presidential election in
1876. This year the total vote Of the
state was but 10,315.
j. n HolcoMh of Eagle valley, Or.,s
picked and marketed 1Ou,NO pounds of
apples last season. He has also set ont
1000 more fruit trees.
In the length of it's nnvigable waters
the Columbia is second only to the Mis-
Si<sippi Vessels drawing twenty eight
feet can now enter its mouth.
Sheep have Increased in selling value
80 cents per head in Carbon county.
Wyo during the past thirty days. Sheep
are wintering well and feed is fair.
Fired REIN of San Francisco, who re-
Gently fell heir to $2M0uO. has been
declared insane from the excessive use
of liquor. and has been committed to the
kiah insane asylum.
The I.usk tWyol Herald says that
during the cold weather of last week a
band of Wilson brothers sheep piled up
and that something over 100 head We're
slnothereu to death.
Raising honey in the John Day val
ley. Or, seems t." be very lucrative
and can readily dispose of the surplus
product at good figures.
-lseorge Patton, a baker at l.ovcland.
WASH. was awakened by the whining Of
his dog at 3 O'Clock. and discovered the
adjoining mercantile block to be on fire
The dogs intelligence saved the town
from serious loss.
Gypsum has been discovered in large
quantities in Big Horn county, near Cody
City. W'yo. and is being used by the set
tit rs for roofing their houses. Mixed into
Il thin mortar aud spread upon the roof
it soon becomes as hard as adamant and
makes 4 most excellent protection gninSt
the elements.
1T is safe to say that in Lander,
boldt counties, New. there are at least
calculation 5000 head of wild horses.
and it is sure that if some effort is not
made very soon to kill them off they
will soon have possession of some of the
best ranges III the state.
One firm Of raiSin packers in Han
ford. Cal. has di$bursed $4,000 in the
past month for raisins. There are eight
packing houses in Kings county. and as
all Of them have been busy packing and
shipping it is safe to state that collective
ly these houses have disbursed all of
$50O0OO within month.
While lcveling off the grounds about
the house on his Blind Slough ranch. in
Clatsop Martin Impo found buried two
feet in the earth an Indian stone weapon,
shaped like Il ships marlin spike, having
hole bored through the handle. which
had evidently been made by some stone
implement. says the Historian.
a doctor at Oakland. CAL. treated
man whose skull was injured and who
lost part of the brain that controls the
motive power Of the body. In searching
for Splinttrs of bone he put his finger two
inches into the brain and reached the
seat of leg control. for every time he
touched that point the mans leg rose up.
Another real live millionaire has been
added to the list in Butte. Mont. His
name is &. c. W. Evans, and he an,l his
relatives have just wen Il suit that prob
He is one OF twenty heirs to an estate in
WOCWo, which has been in litigation for