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Show THE TWO DAKOTAS. The railroad companies, under the new law, have paid in taxes to Turner county this year $0,038.33 to about li-'OOO last year under the gross earnings jaw. The Northwestern paid $3,332.25 and the Milwaukee $2,750.07. A gas well was recently struok on the farm of Q. S. Newton, near Bridge-water. Bridge-water. Water, sand and stones were thrown out with terrific force, accompanied accom-panied with considerable noise. A test was made which showed that the gas would burn readily. Hanson county has over thirty artesian arte-sian wells, ranging in depth from 100 to 300 feet. Some flow but a few barrels, bar-rels, others thousands of gallons per day. None have tapped the main artesian arte-sian basin, consequently there is no great pressure in any. There aro now three United States speoial timber agents out in the wood camp, near Deadwood, figuring the amount of timber that has been illegally cut aud taken away. They measure and count all the small stumps as they go along, and estimate in some way the whole number and the gross valuo. |