Show OCR EASTERN NEIGHBORS I Grasshoppers are hatching out near Greeley and are quite lively for the season The Weld county farmers are preparing the bran and arsenic dope which was used so effectively last year At Casper Wyoming a steam sheep shearing plant was put in full operation opera-tion last Monday Steam shearers have been in operation in Australia for years The machines shear a better staple and do closer work than by hand General Manager Holdredge states that by June 1 the Burlington company com-pany will have 2000 men at work on the extension from Sheridan to Billings whexe a connection will be made with the Northern Pacific The work is to be completed in November A consignment of ninety horses from Nevada passed over the Union Pacific last week for the east These horses will be shipped from New York to Glasgow Glas-gow Scotland where they will be sold They are a fine lot of selected horses bred from native Western dams and sired by good horses There has not been a Democratic enactment enact-ment upon the United States statutes for thirty years McKinleyism and class legislation has bred Coxeys army You could not count thousands of millions mil-lions under Buchanan or even one under un-der Jeff Davis The system that puts a Vanderbilt at one end and a tramp at the other is purely and absolutely Republican Durango Democrat Walter Campbell today received the articles of agreement for his boxing contest with Whittaker of Cheyenne Regarding the contest the Sun says One or two local sports think that Whittaker will not have such an easy walkaway as he figures on There is considerable local interest in the scrap and the time and place have not yet been fully decided but those who want to go will be informed in time Boomerang David Hickey William Naismith J E Burke and Jack Richards today had I some rock assayed from their mines on the Bald Mountain near the head of Copper creek From one of the claims the rock showed a value of 112 to the ton in gold and from another 36 with silver in both The rock is pronounced as fine as has been seen in the city One of their claims is on the east side of the hill and the other on the westside west-side They are in the side of the hill drifting with the vein only sixteen feet on the 112 rock We will not boast any yet but simply say that it is wonderful won-derful rockBoomerang < There is a large district lying south of Ophir that includes Waterfall Basin and the entire southern slope of Yellow Mountain of which a great deal will be heard this coming summer The discoveries dis-coveries made by S E Osborne and others during the past year revealed the existence of gold bearing quartz veins of which nothing had previously been known and that as yet has been prospected pros-pected but a little The veins are large and strong from three feet to thirty feet wide and carry from 5 to 40 per ton in gold As soon as the ground is i bare of snow a large number of our own citizens will begin thoroughly prospecting prospect-ing the field with every indication that success will reward their efforts Telluride Tel-luride Republican There have been no new developments develop-ments in the dispute over the admission admis-sion of Clarkes herd of sheep An effort ef-fort is being made to secure a rate so I that he can ship his sheep back to Utah or to some range in Colorado not occupied by cattlemen Dr Gresswell and Inspector Mason will examine these sheep today for indications of scab before be-fore taking any decisive action Mr Colby who issued the bill of health under which these sheep entered the state contends that they are free from scab and that he could not avoid issu ing the certificate Word has just been received that Mr Clarke has found a suitable range for his herd on Tennessee Tennes-see Pass and the probabilities are that he will ship to Wolcott and drive from there to the place mentioned Grand Junction TimesStar |