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Show news oni TO. ich Nuggets Gathered From Various Points in Utah and the Neighboring Neigh-boring States. CLIPPED, REWRITTEN, CONDENSED Itoms of Interest and Notos of Current Continent Polished Up for the Times Roaders. ' A drunken man tried to break Into jail m t l'rovo tho other night. Resides being alllicted with Gypsies I. gan is to have a new paper. A. C. Hatch of Wasatch reports tho cattle in Uintah county in good condi-t condi-t on. The I'ayson Leader seems to be trying try-ing to stand in witii all tho political parties in Utah. Utah could produce enough wheat to ved at b ast 2, 'iiKI.UdO adults. This counts every aero as improved and working. The melting snow and heavy rains that have fallen throughout eastern Utah during the past week is starting the grass rapidly and soon there will be plenty of feed for stock. Some local parties located the alum lieils on the l'rovo river this week, lysis have been made and the product yields lilteen per cent alum. The beds are within tin eo hundred yards of the I'tah Central road and "located in K'khoru mining district. Uinta Pap-pnose. Pap-pnose. There was a water meeting held In F.phraiin a short time ago, and it was lesuivcd to tiring the control of all tho iviter of Kphraitn under the care of the city futhers. This seems as though it was the best thing that could bo done, as that body could manage the matter hi a more systematic and economical '"aimer Hum 'by letting Dick, Tom, and Harry fool with it ' On March l''th at Washington. Hah, David Thayno received fatal injuries from an axe" which was tied to the front part of the saddle on a horse which Mr. Tluiyno was riding. The horse stumbled stum-bled and fell and the unfortunate man received a deep cut on the inside of his thigh, severing an artery and causing him to bleed to death. Deceased was M years of age and unmarried. Mr. Amos Holdawcy has returned from Pole canyon, in Spanish Fork canyon, can-yon, where he has been for ten days at work on the Spanish Fork river channel. chan-nel. The cbaunel was built last year by the Rio Grand Western railway company but it was not largo enough to carry the water of the river and as a result the water ran back into the old bed. The channel is now being made much deeper and wider. l'rovo Enquirer. En-quirer. , Ofcden may as well set her face" to the music aud reali.e the fact that this city will not bo able, now that the Bear Lake canal is finished, the water works and sewerage nearly completed, to hold her present population unless there is employment found them by the forming and operations of companies for the manufacture of leather, soap, boots and shoes, iron, snd in fact everything every-thing that can be manufactured here. Ogden I'nion. The supply of sulphur is certainly on the increase. A prospector from the southern country tells of the discovery of a mountain of sulphur, and states that the boys down there claim that the mountain is visibly growing in size, while we learn that Prof. II. Hirsching of Salt Lake has found a fifteen foot vein of sulphur, 75 per cent pure, 200 miles north of Salt Lake. With Robin's Rob-in's saltpetre, Hirschiug's sulphur and our supply of charcoal timber, we should never bo short of powder during dur-ing war times. Messrs. William Ashworth of this city, and Mr. Kemp of Sanpete, are contracting agents for tho erection of roller flour mills made by the Barnard & Leas manufacturing company of Leavenworth, Kan. The gentlemen have just completed a SO-barrcl mill for the Snow Bros, at Washington, Utah; aud are now, it is said, about to erect one of large capacity iir Salt Lake county. Tho great success of tho Heaver roller flour mills has demonstrated demon-strated the superiority of that class of mill over all others" in the market. Heaver Utonian. Tho mining" excitement at Vernal still continues and prospecting parties are starting to the mountains daily. We have this to say for Ashley valley: If the people there would do a little rustling during the coming summer they would bo rewarded by a boom that would develop the resources of that section of the, country and make it one of the best portions of Utah. Of course ail of these things will come in time, but to wait to the end of time is a mistaken policy. That thero is pay ore in tho vicinity of Vernal Ver-nal is evidenced by the ore taken from the Dyer and Bassett mines. The people peo-ple of tho outside world do not know the resources of Uintah county and wi.l not until they are advertised a littie. The investment of a few dollars for this purpose would be a wise move and we would think tae business men of Vernal Ver-nal would take some steps in that direction di-rection before spring is too far advanced. ad-vanced. Eastern Utah Telegraph. |