Show NOTES FROM TH NORTH I XVliat Is llciiig Done In tlc Great f Camps Idaho and Montana I Butte shipped 126048 for the weekending week-ending August 1st I There is a rumor that the Northern Pacific Pa-cific will soon extend its road from Garrison I Garri-son to Butte The Utah Northern is now running from Garrison to Butte on an average fifty cars of freight daily each way Trout are dying m the mountain streams of Idaho A parasite is destroying them Catch one open its gills and you see clusters of minute white worms adhering Travel to the Yellowstone National Park this season has been very large and fully as great as was expected by the < II passenger department of the Northern Pacific I There is hardly a debtor in Idaho says the Wood River Times and who is not in debt these hard timesbut what trembles at the possibility which the attachment at-tachment laws place in the hands of his creditors of ruining him irretrievably whenever they see fit When Bishop Tuttle preached in I Hailey Idaho the other Sunday he talked of honest straightforwardness and I sincerity As he spoke he looked straight at a group of county officials as if he wished to impress hi remarks upon them more particularly than any one else Butte shipued nearly 470000 in silver bullion through the Pacific Express Company I Com-pany during the month ending July 31st This is principally the product of the Alice Lexington Monlton and Silver Bow mills nothing from the copper mines being included in the above shipments ship-ments Town Talk The experiment of shipping live beef Battle from Washington Territory to Chicago Chi-cago is reported by Eastern agricultural papers as being a total failure The Rural Home says they shrunk from 15 to 20 per cent and sold for 420 per hundred hun-dred pounds when the shipper refused 5 per hundred for them before putting hem in the cars The Oro Fino district is described as the best undeveloped district in America This opinion is based upon the fact that there are 300 to 400 leads in the district located in granite having a general width of from three to five feet and many of these opened yielding GO to 80 ounces of silver This is considered a very reasonable rea-sonable estimate Assays have been made all the way up to 1600 ounces to he ton but reference is had to the average aver-age The district is some fifteen to eighteen eigh-teen miles from Deer Lodge and about the same distance from Butte A correspondent of the Butte InterMountain Inter-Mountain writes the Sweet Grass mines To commence with it is impossible to get water in any quantity There are a few springs but no creeks and water would have to be brought from the Rocky mountains a distance of about 110 miles in a flume about GOO feet high to enable placer mines to be worked at all This is only one of the obstacles More over there is a special order of President Cleveland in regard to prospecting on the Piegan ami Gros Ventres reservation and a party of blue coats will probably ben be-n hand in the hills to welcome aims invaders vader As far as the discover of gold and other metals is concerned that is no concerec new thing That has been known for theist the-ist fifteen years Not only are there enormous gold bearing bars but there is probably the largest galena lode there in the world These mines would have been worked long ago i the government I had permitted it |