| Show net new yet REGION 37 3 7 uhe THE SPOT tet ANEW new mining district has been discovered in colorado it is called the grand island district and is situated about 20 miles from central city between the north and south boulders very near to the snowy range the excitement over this new district is said to be nothing short of wonder wonderful fuit fult people are rushing there from the surrounding country in large numbers and the min mining camps in that locality which a few weeks wee a ago were in a very flourishing condition now have the appearance of deserted towns old prospectors and miners from white pine and the other districts in nevada are aro said to be on the tho ground round we do not know whether cottonwood has sent any representatives senta tives or not but sweetwater furnishes some miners and numbers have turned in there who were on oft their way to the new diggings in arizona it is said that the discoverers cover ers ors are now wealthy men they have found the the tho richest mining regions ever over known old white biners say that there is more silver and the ore is more valuable than anything known in nevada we WO should judge from the report which comes from there that it is a leette ahead of cottonwood tonao ton wood od in this his county for wealth of mineral e ra id deposits 0 0 i G grand ran island la ua district et possesses one characteristic act hete ristle common to mines generally the miners aro are not getting mu much c h mineral at present but they expect to get got lots of it by th the spring each one who tells the story of the discovery indulges a little in exaggeration till the rich richness ness bess of the region is so magnified that a listen r would suppose that all ail the labor necessary to secure the precious metal w m be to pick it up and carry it away but a view of the tho rough mountains where the silver deposits are vala lala said isaid to begoon dissipates dissipate 4 such ideas there will doubtless be a great deal deai of suffering in that quarter before spring for people in I 1 their eagerness for wealth tush rush in there without making proper provis provisions lons for the approaching r oae in g winter nver it 1 is the old tale oft add ard told over av warn e r asan agan 1 1 hundreds n d re d 3 and thousands of men wandering n S as V vagabonds bonds from place ce to place spending their time in prospecting and whenever they hea hear hoar 0 of f 1 a discovery of new diggings rushing dp t to 1 them with the insane hope that they will catch the phantom which they have been pursuing for years year s A writer in the chicago tribune speaking 0 of the condition of affairs there says amany many a poor fellow may be met leading his little pack mule on whose back are all his bis worldly goods whose pockets could not stand the rapacious grasp of stage staze companies but whose heart is cheered ad and encouraged on the way by the brightest visions of rich silver lodes lodea and future wealth how many will go away with disappointed hopes sore hearts and poorer fortunes than brought them here sometimes as one looks upon the motley crowd composed of every variety of men representing nearly every nation from the the great broad whiskered adventurer who has seen the he ups and downs of mining life lifo a dozen times used either to success or adversity to the beardless youth whose brain is full of glistening castles in the air whose experience in this rough life is just beginning and to whom success means everything it is very hard to repress the feeling of sadness that will come into the heart and make vou you wish many were not here who are 1 A WRITER in the christian CA ristian union says that ministers make a great mista mistake ke in spending so much time upon their sermons and so little on their people the men who move audiences by their eloquence grow less in number he thinks as education grows more universal oratory under such circumstances is less potent laymen JL aymen he says generally like their ministers better than they do their sermons A minister should know his people aud it Is necessary for tor them to know him and this gives the preacher moral power the fact is they want more of the power of god and less confidence in mans wisdom vloe VICE president announcement of his purpose to retire from public life upon the expiration of his present term ok of office is declared by the new york herald tobe to be all gammon of course president lincoln it says manetho made tho same announcement no apparently to have active appon opponents 9 ants count without him in their operations it asks Is this the point with Colfax ho he certainly cannot stand for the presidency for the next nest term grant leaves no opportunity and it may be that colfax believes that four years of retirement would give him hima a good strategic position sheia the presidency is discussed in 1876 11 BURNING THE MEAD MEADOWS ws we notice th the esmoke smoke from another large fire in the hay land below the city persons who set fire to the grass down there may mean well bv it and think they are doing good by burning off the grass but it would be well for them to learn that in many places not only the grass is burned but also the tho turf or sod often to the depth of a foot and the grass entirely killed it is so long iong since we have had any rain to wet the ground that the sod burns vary very vary readily and the grass ought not to be tired until we have had sufficient rain to wet the ground so that only the grass will burn |
