Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-06-22

&C at Buford. II station on The l.ac OF
the UrlGn Pacific railroad about ~
miles west OF cheyenne. Tic ,ilscOy-
cry was made May l by the O'Neilly
brothers of Buford, who have since
that time been sinking Il prospecting
shaft on the Gre boiy. They i.-c now
down rs feet. where tlIcy have cut n
vein from which the ore ugsays over
500 per ton In geld. a number OF
residents of Cheyenne have s,al;cd out
claims adjoining the Oitclily property.
Two prisoners escaped from 'he pen
itcntiary mt Cacon CITY the other after
noon. They We're William Lewis. No.
HOS. and Fred Price, No. 422i Their
Instituted new ruling since he took
charge by which III" whole town "
aroused whr; there is IN escape. The
signal, which liz n pr0lnrccd blast from
the steam whistle, sounded at 4 o'clock
ana within fifteen minutes 100 men
and boys were in pursuit of tic rcfu-
gees. At : o'clock the c0nv!cts were
back In the pen. having been captured
by Chaplain Rhudo!ph and two boys.
VIII Hann!gnn ana Paul Fo!1iey. The
captors had 500 divided between
them. tiils being TIE amour: o!Ierct! by
the warden. The men were only four
We're captured. having taken refuge in
an old adobe house. The men were
wording on the limestone luarI'ies and
quietly walked away while the guard
was not looking In their direction.
4 dispatch from Crested Butte on the
18Th said: For the past eighteen hours
Crested Butte has been inundated with
!iOw Of water. The excessively warm
hai .f II.
caused the snow In the high basins to
melt very rapidly with the result that
nll the streams In this vic!nage have
been swcllcd TO high degree. Coal
Greek. which runs through the town
III diagonal course. has been swollen
to an abnormal degree and has gone on
II rampage through the principal
streets. filling them with debris wash
I'M; away culverts and sidewalk foun-
datlons and flooding "a number of
houses. The s:ierts are practically
impnssablc and the slopot uIapprnacli-
able. y force of men has been work
Ing FOR the last week In. an effort to
stem the tide of tho water, but their
efforts were unavniling to any great
extent. Every team In town and
large force or men are now mt work,
but the waite: will lie higher tonight
than ever.
The Miners Pani; O. Creole closed
Its doors at 2:lI O'clock Wednesday,.
Later II WAS announced that the banks
at Monte Vista and Hooper, operated
under the same management, Ind also
closed. Whether til" failures are due
to the threatened business conditions
caused by the srlrlter strike is not
known, but that IL commonly ne
80 m t,f.t
are under the mann gcIirn. of d. !.
Maben. who Is president OF each CON
corn. He is absent IN Drnye-, and for
this reason II IL announced 20 figures
can now lie made public as 20 the aa-
sets and liabilities %! the Savrri.i in
stitUtions. Great excitement prevailed
in Crecdc. as the Miners was the only
bank In that place. and l.any iucr-
chants and mining companies I!ad de-
posits there. The cashier would give
no Information Other tiian to Stntr TINT
the doors were closed on orders from
President Maben from pcaY.r Prcsl-
dent ID. J. Mabcn was at t.c Albany
yesterday and left on last evenings
early train for Crcedr, ia response, hc
said. to Il telegram. Later the news
of the three banks closing vas made
public in Denver.
In response to protest son. 20 ihr
secretary of agriculture hy ,iuln Clay.
Jr. OF Cheyenne in connection with
the orders issued by the Department OF
the Interior. prohibiting the grazing; on
government forest reservations, and
particularly the order rclltlI,g TO graz
ing on TIE tiutaE reservation, which
had been used by sheep owners
Of Wyoming. Colorado nul Utah. t;Ic
al Irs ..
rptary of The interior. Hon. E.A. Hitch
cock: THE U!ntah forest reserve en-
braces both slopes Of tho Ilintnh
mountains in northern Utah ana the
northern slope only Of the western part
of this range. These mountains are
covered with valuable forests OF
spruce that protect the saU.gn nB of Scv-
eral large streams whi"!4 eventually
discharge into Green river. hosc flow
Ing EorthwarI from the range hein;;
already utilized for irrigation. There
Is a large agricultural population i'm.
mctiatcly adjacent 10 thr g-scryc who
find II their only local ti',uer supply
and the chief source of water supply
for irrigation purposes. Both OF these
supplies would he eIdanGcr,I by sheep
grazing. which the experience Of The
department shows Is one nf the most
fires being often started iy Ihn shop
herds in autumn to clear she grounil
In the autumn and Improve !ir growth
of forage plants the following year. or
by their carclcSsncss in not rEiinyuish-
Ing camp fires. Sheep grazing hats aIsp
been found Injurious TO the l1rcst Gov
er, pOlluting the source Of water sup
ply, and therefore Of serious couSn-
quence In regions where he rainfall
Is limited. The point mHdn TINT the
sheep men should have had timely no
ticc Is without force IN view of the
fact that this order wns issued two
years ago. practically. and yyng given
wide publication and circuI. ion IN the
papers mt that time. The department
Is being flooded with applications 10
pasture sheep in forest :yaerYations.
but as yet no departure has iecn made
from the regulations csta .iisiIcu in
1907. which were given careful copsid-
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