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Show I OPENING NEW TOWN. Eclle rourche Irrigation Projects Gives Large Opportunities. OMAHA. July 3. The passenger department de-partment of the Chicago & Northwestern Northwest-ern railway was advised today thai, the government reclamation service expects to turn -wafer into the irrigation works .ii. Belle Fourche, S. D., in the Black Hills district, .Inly Townsites have been selected by the government" representatives and the Belle Fourche valley expects great de-eJomnent de-eJomnent under the service which the jrr'-'nnon jro;jcot now being completed iv ill provitie. 1 1 first passenger train over the new extension of the Northwestern line into the Koscbud country reached Gregory a few days ago. The new town is very s. live and settlers are coming into the new country and taking up homesteads ii; large numbers. Railroad Notes. Tno Chinese Minister to America ivijl p&.-:s through Ogden on Friday on Ins way to San Francisco, where he will cMbark for Pckin .1. P. Quigley. brother of C. A. Quip's;-, who represents the Rock Island at .loliet, III., left for home Wednesday Wednes-day ITc has been in Zion visiting his mother, who' is indisposed. F, A. Waun, traffic manager of the Salt Lake Route, passed through Salt liake Wednesday on his way from Los Angeles to Denver. He stated that Tuesday was the hottest day it. has be , in Lo3 Angeles for years. J. A. Irvine, (he engineer who was injured in the Bingham -wreck Tuesday, Tues-day, is making satisfactory progress toward to-ward recovery. Chambers and Growen, the two other injured men, are recovering. recov-ering. The line has not yet. been cleared and passengers arc being, taken over the sk' line. v |