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Show WESTERN' NEWS XOTEs'. items (lathered froit Various Sonrccs. COLORADO. In Canon City, Longmont aud Durango Uie demand fur bouses b greater than the Fupply. Wheat Is reported as yielding thirty-five bushels per acre In Eagle River Valley about Gypsum. Recent floods have considerably clanged the course of the Big Sandy In the neighborhood of Itaniah. The season at Palmer Lake Is over ssd the campers are folding up their tents and returning home. The dally ruail service from New Castle to Meeker will be extended to include Axial after the eighth of this month. The Monle VUta Graphic esU-matesthat2000 esU-matesthat2000 acres of grain a day are now being cut in that part of the San Luis Valley. Tho Rocky Ford JjnUrjtrite reports re-ports that no less Uian seven steam threshing cutflts have been sold this season lu that section. There aro no idle miners who want to work to be found in Socorro, and more men are wanted. The mines at Kelly and Hardscrabble want men talso. This shows that the mining Interests are looking up. On Uie Saguache creek bottoms extensive fires Lurned the grass and sod last fall over a large area. L. D. Curtice put in 100 acres of this burnt land to tlnioUiy aud redtop by simply harrowing the ground. His grass stands three feet high asd will average a tqn and a half to the acre. A heavy storm visited Upper White River, in the vicinity of ilu-ford, ilu-ford, during last week, doing a considerable con-siderable among or damage to the crops. Mesars. Grcenstret-t, La-katnp, La-katnp, Steele and .Daunt suffered the heaviest losses. The Meeker A'ctri estimates the loss at about three-fourths of the entire grain crop of Uie above named ranches. Reports from tbeYampa (or Bear) River Valley are to tho effect U1.1t there will be thousands of tons of wild hay harvested In that section this season. The old hay, says the Meeker AVx, was all consumed during the recent hard winter, and consequently the new hay Is bringing bring-ing a LeUer price than It lias before for years at this season of the year. The poorest grade is selling readily at $10 n ton. Mr Thompson, a rospector trom Littleton, ltsa discovered a 25-foot vein or asphalt In Vermillion Canyon, Can-yon, in the western end of Uiis county. The asphalt vein is overlaid over-laid by a vein or coal 4 ) feet thick. An assay shows that the vt Invarrles 40 per cent of pure arphalt, and a load has been taken to Denver for a more thorough test Preparations are under way to thoroughly develop thu mlue. County Clerk Smith, of Arapahoe County, Is the financial head of Uie new company. (irand Junction Star. NEVADA. TheTruckeels reducing its volume vol-ume steadily, although It still is running more water than it did In June last year. All tho present State officers will seek renomlnatlon with the excep-Uon excep-Uon of Secretary of State, Dormer. Messrs. Kirman A Rickey, of Winnemucca. have purchased several sev-eral hundred head of cattle In Mono County. CallfornLv, at 313 per head, and will ship them to tl:U State. The Virginia JithrfJits reports the Comstcck lode In the mast distressing dis-tressing financial state that It has known fjr years. The present stiffening of the silver market Is exported ex-ported to even matters very shortly. A netf "Eureka" furnace is In operation at Ccrro Gordo and Is saW to be doing good work, although several men bare been badly burned while working about the apparatus slid to bo on account of defects In tho manufacture. drttfge W. Peltier lias returned from Eureka. He reports, boslnts Improving there, owing to the Increased In-creased price or silver and U10 reduced re-duced rates on ore to Salt Lake City which enables ore to be worked al a profit which hitherto has lain comparatively com-paratively worthless. AccorJIngto well authenticated reports thelcsseer ot the Wild Goose mine, nt Spring City have struck a rich body or ore. At last ncctunLs they had cut about three and a half feet into the lead, and n chunk or ore brought to town assays several huudred dollars r ton. The wild Goose Is owned by Uie Paradise Mining Company. On Wednesday S. G. Weston completed the sale or an Interest In the Cooper King mine at Lone Mountain to eastern capitalists, and the money was passed over to his credit at tire bank. This mine Is one of tho best in Elko county, and Mr. Weston will Immediately put a force of miners to work and continue con-tinue sinking the shaft, his Intention Inten-tion being to sink the shaft down to the 200-root mark and then drift on the ledge. We look fora good camp at Lone Mountain In the near future. The mines are there; It only needs capital to open Uient. Vtlbn Tribune. |
