The silver star., 1897-04-29
WESTERN NEWS NOTES.


The Standard fire brick works OF Pueblo
has received an order for $50 carloads OF
| IRE brtck to be delivered at Blosburg. New
| Mexico, for the Ration Coal Company.
Rishop Ethelbert Talbot. Of the Episcopal
diocese OF Wyoming and Idaho, has been
promised by a wealthy Eastern friend, $25
600 rs an endowment for st. Matthew's
| School, which Is conducted under the aus
| pices Of the church at Laramie. The bishop
expects a similar contribution for st. Mar
garets School for Girls at Boise. Idaho.
A number Of roughers and heaters have ar.
| rived at Cheyenne from Pittsburg. Pennsyl-
vanla. They will work in the Union Pacific
| rolling mill, which institution has recently
| received a big contract for the making of
| Iron for both the Oregon Short Line and the
Overland route. 1t will take several months
to fill the order, and aside from the skilled
labor imported, many men will be given
employment.
Major Wells. of the Eighth United States
Infantry at Fort RUSSELL while preparing
to remove to Detroit where he will be placed
| on the army retired list, found a casket con-
| taining valuable jewelry and diamonds sup
| posed to have been stolen from his house in
December last. He also found several sums
of money hidden under the carpets Of his
house. supposed TO have been stolen. The
jewery was found hidden in the bottom of
an old trunk
One OF Professor Carpenters correspond
ents In eastern Colorado. Charles Green, OF
Fleming. Logan county. writes: Last
month was the wettest March since 1891.
The ground is in better condition than It has
been In April since 1892, hut not quite so
good as 1t was then. 1t has been four years
drying and It will take good deal of water
yet to thoroughly soak 1t so that We can de-
pend on a crop of wheat without later rains.
Still l think there is good encouragement
now to sow grain quite largely"
Messrs- Horn and Taylor. of Trinidad.
and the Doss estate. joint owners OF the old
Fort Sumner reserve. comprising 1900
acres on the Pecos river. 100 miles south of
Las Vegas, have employed surveyors to SUBJ
divide the tract and apportion the property
to the individual owners. The extension of
the Pecos Valley Railroad from Roswell to
Amorilla will cross the tract, and 1t Is said
townsite project is brewing. 1t was in Pete
Maxwell's adobe house at this old fort that
Billy the Kid was killed in 1850.
Ranchmen near Carbon. Wyoming, under
the stimulus of the bounty law. are prepar-
Ing to capture wolves and coyotes in large
numbers by using Russian wolf hounds and
Siberian blood hounds. An Importation Of
these animals has been made by Ranchman
Quealey. and others will follow. The ST.
berian blood hound is the only dog that can
master gray wolf alone, and with their
sistance 1t is believed the packs of gray
wolves which constantly prey upon the
young stock of the country can be thinned
out. and. with the bounty, the sport will be
profitable.
Rsnchmen from the Pass creek country.
Wyoming, report the fall Of snow in that re-
eion TO be in excess Of any previous year
in its history. On the upper part Of the
creek the drifts are higher than the hay
stacks and houses The creek itself is COW
cred with from eight to fifteen feet Of SNOW.
and on the level ground the average depth
Of the snow is two feet. Stock Is being fed.
and when the snow will permit cattle will
have to be driven to the bluffs in order 10
find any range feed. The storms have driven
large numbers of wild animals from the
mountains and they are now prowling around
the ranches.
Farmers around Brighton are taking
lively interest in the sugar beet question,
and n large number OF them will grow sugar
beets this year. 1t is well known that the
soil around Brighton is peculiarly adapted
to them Five years ago a number of tests
were made OF beets grown there and they
were found to be unusually rich in saccha-
rlne. much SO that Mr.. oxnard of beet
suaar fame was about TO enter into a con
tact to erect an extensive plant here. but
the election of Grover Cleveland and his
well-known antago onism to the sugar bounty
caused him to stop all negotiations. since
which time the matter has lain dormant
but the recent agitation of the question and
the visit of Mr.. Searles to Colorado has
given the farmers new hope that an indus
try for which their lands are peculiarly
adapted may be opened up to them.-Rocky
Mountain News.
A special from Casper. Wyoming. 10 the
Denver Republican says: The Buckeye OIL
Company. composed of Ohio and Pennsylya-
MIA investors. Is shipping in carload of oil
drilling machinery and will commence drill
Ing on its Coal creek property near this
city. $. T. Mahaffy. an expert driller will
have charge of the work. The company will
drill on land within ten miles OF the rail-
road. where its agents have discovered good
oil indications. The Pennsylvania OIL Com
pany has secured all of the available teams
In this locality for the purpose OF hauling
oil from Its wells on Salt Creek to the re.
fnery at this place. 1t Is believed the com.
pany will lay n three-inch pipe from the
wells to the refinery during the present
year. Work will be resumed during the
coming season upon the wells of the wyo-
ming I.ubricating oil Company ON Salt
creek. and at the wells of the st. Joseph Oil
Company on Badger creek
Alfalfa will wlnter-kiii Farmers from
Utah tell us that after four or i've years
they re-seed their land. In Colorado a diff.
ferent method Is pursued where the crop
winter-kills and the plants left only In
spots We go over the land with disc
harrow and sow fesh seed by hand. being
careful 10 put plenty on the bare spots.
Some people re-sced In this way with or
chard grass. and this plan is probably as
good as any. II Is sometimes very difii
cult matter to induce new seedlings of the
alfalfa plant TO grow In the midst OF the
older stools. as the tendency is to crowd out
the weaker enes. giving them no show for
their lives. Orchard grass. on the other
hand. has n penchant for shade. and thrives
very well In the midst of the rankest alfalfa
growth.