Show NEVSFR M NEAKBY 1 CITIES AND TOWNS D IG RECEIPTS AT THE BOISE ASSAY I AS-SAY OFFICE Seven Devils Railroad War on Sheep Men Ciittlemcn Refuse to Pay Their Taxes The Vernal Country B < ali and Statehood Colonel George l Squires has secured a two year lease on the Chicago mine and has now a force of men working I on the same The Chicago at will be remembered the property in which 4 c the rich strike was made some months ago of which the Bulletin made mention men-tion at the time The parties then operating op-erating the property unfortunately had a large cave in which almost entirely filled up the workings where they were I taking out ore and a their lease was 10 near up for them to clean up the cave and take out more ore they quit work Colonel Squires intention is to clean up the cave at once and then pursue the work of taking out and shipping ship-ping ore of which there is quite a large body and i is a very desirable and marketable mineral even at the pres ent low pnces Bingham Bulletin J B Rawlings that used to tap the telegraphic key at the Union Pacific station in Oasis has been appointed mine inspoctor While Jim is an all round goodhearted fellow i is doubted doubt-ed if be could tell on sight whether apiece e tel piece of rock contained bromide of hope of the sulphur of disappointment Millard County Blade Gilt WESTERN NEIGHBORS The suffrage committee of the New York constitutional convention by a vote of 13 to 4 has decided to rep5rf ad veisely all the proposed woman suffrage suf-frage amendments That settles the proposition in New York until the next constitutional convention which maybe may-be held in twenty years or so and perhaps per-haps never be held at all The action of the committee will not receive general gen-eral pproval even among the anti suffragists I would have been perfectly per-fectly proper to submit a question which had commanded such attention io the votes of the people I not a ma lority at least a large and influential lass of citizens had by petition and itherwise indicated a desire for an ex sression on the subject by popular Jote Anaconda Standard Arizona New Mexico and Utah will dance at the statehood bal the same evening Democrat will lead the grand mare Blackfoot News Cage blindness is the western name for a peculiar affliction to which Men tana miners are subject After working work-ing in deep mines for a good many 3ears some miners when they come to the top to work imagine they see the basket suspended in the shaft ready to lower them down to the bottom The lllrsion is so absolutely perfect that the r y deluded man if alone is sure to try to step into the basket and he shoots through the shaft to an awful deth I Yesterday the receipts at the assay oflice amounted to 540000 With the exception of a few small deposits the receipts represented the cleanup of gold dust from the Leary placers bear Placerville The dust was brought from i Placerville to this city Thursday night the carriers of the precious load arriving ar-riving here early this morning Michael Mich-ael Leary one of the principal owners of these rich placers which for years have yielded their store of yellow gold came down with others with the dust Mr Leary says the cleanup the result of which was brought to the city on i Thursday night was the first of the I season and represented about four months work He did not know at the time he was talking to the reporter the exact amount of the cleanup as he had not yet received a report from the assay as-say office I represented nearly everything every-thing that was received at the assay office of-fice by Chief Clerk Robinson yesterday however Mr Leary thinks the placer season will be unusually long this year on account of the heavy snowfall last winter About twentyfive men are employed em-ployed at the Leary placers Boise Statesman The Weiser Signal says The source from whence King Solomon obtained his immense supply of gold and silver must have been right here in what is now Washington and Idaho counties Recent Re-cent developments in Warrens Meadows Mead-ows the Rapid River country and other localities would almost lead one to think so at least Sam Hey is now bringing to Weiser by pack train for i shipment by carloads ore that rivals anything yet discovered in the goldfields gold-fields of Colorado This ore which is obtained from a twofoot fissure vein averages 700 gold and 1300 ounces pf silver to the ton 1 The railroad party arrived in Salu bria on Monday on their way to the Seven Devils The party numbers over twenty including five ladles They expressed ex-pressed themselves a being well pleased e with what they had seen of the county and that i the upper country showed up as well they would probably build the road They are as sociable a s ° t of men as one would wish to meet They are from Minnesota Properly speaking they are not railroad men but lumber men They have built railroads in Minnesota where i was a wilderness and the resources were nothing to compare com-pare with ours Today in that same wilderness there are towns of from 2000 to 4000 inhabitants Should they build this road they propose to invest their money in other industries that wall road assist in creating traffic for the George A Williams superintendent of the Atlanta Consolidated GOld and Silver Mining company Limited arrived ar-rived yesterday from Atlanta He is now working twentyone men and says there are fifteen or twenty more already al-ready in that camp looking for work He advises no workingmen to go to Atlanta for they will be disappointed Mr Williams is clearing out a 1400 foot tunnel which has been lying unused o un-used for twelve years and which is badly caved at least as far as he has gone in i some 200 feet Hailey News Miner t 1inerOtR OUR EASTERN NEIGHBORS The Douglas Budget of this weeks week-s As we go to press meagre reports re-ports reach us from the upper La Preie I rountry to the effect that Mr Vedder If 1he sheepman en route into the park t with his flock was stopped by ranchmen ranch-men just above Spring canyon yesterday yester-day and requested to turn back which aie did The ranchmen then started over toward Downey park with the Intention in-tention to request Mr Marsch another I sheepman to pull down out of the mountains The party which waited on Mr Vedder comprised some twentyfive f or thirty settlers f Some of the stockmen who reside in i tTmta county but whose cattle range in Fremont county have refused to pay their taxes Treasurer Beason did not a propose to be beaten so he and Sheriff Stough secured a force of men and grounded up enough stock to indemnify Fremont county and brought them to IJI Lander to be sold f he cattleman propose pro-pose to test the case 1 J A Layton and D R Crosby returned 1 re-turned last evening from a trip to Vernal Ver-nal Utah and through the country containing the asphalt beds Mr Layton was not so very enthusiastic over the country and when asked 2 what kind of a country existed between be-tween this city and Vernal said it was a treeless trackless waterless waste of land containing few inhabitants J inhabi-tants and very little which could benefit bene-fit this city commercially outside of the development of the asphalt beds eJI found one beautiful oasis said Mr iLayton e U al the country whicji we sow and that va Ashley yallfey in t yialer the town of Vernal is the county r coun-ty seat This valley wc3 I iSed by t f v 0 i w3 Mormon people over twentyfive years ago and they have by hard work placed i in a high state of cultivation They have few newspapers and want few and are perfectly content with the life they are leading A little paper pa-per is printed in the town called the Vernal Express which publishes each week all the local news In talking with several of the county officers in 1 Vernal I ascertained the remarkable fact that not one mortgage 1 on the record in that county We did not penetrate into the reservations although al-though right on the border but from what we could see the country looked well watered with considerable timber tim-ber We Had several ludicrous disappointments disap-pointments My companion Mr Crosby Cros-by had taken his fishing tackle with him in order to do some fishing in Douglas creek but when we reached that stream it cdntatned anything but water and fish The town of Rangely is a myth except if youll class one lone log cabin which is store and post office as 1 village I is fully 165 miles to Vernal and only 120 miles from there to Price Regarding the commercial com-mercial advantage t be derived from the country to be included in the White river section I cannot see where it will come from From Mr Laytons conversation itcan be gleaned that he has not the best of opinions about the country from here to Vernal Grand Junction Star Times Utah will enter statehood under favorable fa-vorable auspices The inevitable bocjln that always accompanies the admission r admis-sion of a territory into the Union will start from the rock bottom of hard times and prosperity will find an ample field for development Utah by virtue vir-tue of its population resources and the fact that it has shaken off the curse of polygamy is fully entitled to state hood and will prove equal to the increased in-creased responsibilities thrust upon it Congress should follow up its good work by admitting the other territor terrior ies at the earliest possible moment Denver TimesSun |