The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-02
NORTHWEST NOTES
The total value of Wyoming pro
ducts during 1907 was Sol ,92S,95S.

ing for the past year added S1S,375, 900
to the wealth of the state.
Something like $4,000 horses were
shipped from Wyoming during the
past year, returning approximately
s1,500,O00 to the growers.
Prairie fires started q disastrous
conflagration in Boulder, Colo, twelve
buildings being burned before the FIRE
was gotten under control.
The hog industry of Wyoming is
growing, and there We're marketed
during the year about 5000 swine, re-
turning to the state about $4,000.
Rings. watches, lockets and trinkets
to the value of $500 were stolen by
daring thief who broke the front
window of the Enterprise Jewelry
company's store in Denver.
The total of capital. surplus, depos-
its and undivided profits of the banks
of Reno, Nevada, amount to more
than $11, 100000, an increase of more
than 100 per cent in the past year
Starting with one buck and few
ewes in the early eighties, Wyoming
has rapidly increased her sheep hold
ings until now there are being grazed
In this state approximately 100000
sheep.
The population of Ely Nevada, has
doubled five times within the past
eighteen months. Its assessment roll
has more than doubled. 1t has been
by far the most prosperous year in
its history.
Surveying will start during Janu-
airy for the new Guggenheim road
from Ely to Tonopah and Goldfield,
The road will carry ore to the big
pleted at McGill, New
There are at the present time ap,
proximately 100000 cattle in the state
of Wyoming, valued at $20,000,000.
During 1907 the shipments of cattle
from this state were valued at APP
proximately 100000.
Ten miles of electric railroad have
been built in and around Reno, Ne
vada, during the past twelve months,
and surveys for 100 miles more were
completed. Work on these lines will
begin early next spring.
Hugh Fulton was shot and instant
ly killed by Ed. Johnson at Silver
Bow, a Nevada camp The cause of
the killing was over some mining
claims. Johnson was armed with a
rifle and Fulton with a siX-shooter.
Seventeen persons were injured,
none of them fatally, in a collision
between two trolley cars in Denver.
One of the cars should have taken a
siding, but failed to do so, and the
two cars crashed together head-on.
A passenger train was derailed near
Reno, Nevada, the engine, tender and
ten cars leaving the track. Two bag
gage cars overturned and the track
was torn up for half mile. Passen-
gers were badly shaken up, but none
seriously injured.
The reports of the assessor just in
shows total property valuation in
Reno, Nevada, of $5,432,S20, an in
crease of more than $3,000,000 in the
past five years. 1t is estimated that
the increase for the coming year will
be close to 100000.
The population of Wyoming at the
present time is estimated at $4,000.
The bonded Indebtedness of Wyom-
ing is $1S0,000, and this is being paid
off at the rate of $4,000 per year.
The annual income of the state gov
eminent is about 100000
Former Senator Thomas M. Patter-
son was assaulted by Fred G. Bonfils,
one of the editors of the Denver Post,
and Mr.. Patterson's nose was broken
to attacks made by each on the other
in their newspapers for several years.
G. B. Shaver. president of the FIRES.
no Flume and Irrigation company.
one of the largest numbering concerns
of the coast, died of diabetes at Fres.
no, Cal, on Christmas day, after an
illness of three weeks. Deceased, be-
fore coming to this country, was
manager of large numbering concern
In Michigan.
Charles E. Mcconnell, president of
the Smelter City bank of Durango,
Der, IT, has been placed under arrest.
The warrant upon which he was az.
rested was sworn to by Harry Jack
son, a depositor of the bank, who had
$4,000 on deposit when the institu.
ton closed its doors.
Out of work and respondent be
cause he could not buy Christmas
present for his daughter, Charles vii.
liam McReynolds, said to be the old
est telegraph operator west of the
Mississippi river, committed suicide
in Denver Christmas afternoon by
shooting himself in the head. Nc
Reynolds was 81 years old.
Colonel 7. G. WOODBURY., acting
commander of the Department of the
Columbia. U. S. A., in a statement
made at Seattle, said that the whole
Pacific coast would be helpless in
case the navy should prove unable to