Show METALS AND COYOTES PAROWAN iron co feb 12 1896 A mild lorm of mining excitement Is ie hold tug away hereabout caused by accounts of discoveries and strikes that float through the me ambient air and settle wherever a willing listener can be found while desert harings Hp rings som bome 0 sixty miles west claims the grea greatest tesi amount ot of attention and actual attend anoe ance it does not monopolize the situation by a great deal do de lamar alamar to la just juat now at a distance at least assuming the form and outlines of a nw new eldorado and despite the rigors of a trip thither at this bis time of the year we can hear bear of not a few making it and a good many more having it in contemplation today a story as well authenticated as such stories usually are reached here to the effect that some wood ca choppers uppers and haulers of washington county who were plying their vocation in the bills a short abort distance from do de lamar found some float which being tested was found to run high in eold they immediately went to prospecting and found the ledges ledge samples from assayed a ton why it is that one who brought the story in should stop atop at that point when another cypher or two would have cost no more to is not at present understood nine out of ton ten believe it and it way may be true but it sounds bounds so much like the same old story brushed up and smoothed out that bat a little bit of I 1 incredulity D credulity cre dulit y is D oot at at all an improper Indulge indulgence vee nature has stood guard over her treasures with unfailing vigilance and tolerable regularity from the beginning great caves of wealth I 1 it place with no barriers of stubborn flint and unyielding granite intervening occur as a rule only io in novels plays and the mindo ol of those thone who are a good ways from where practical mining to is carried on OB and it is a safe proposition that the richer the discovery the hagaer hari ier it is to get at or tise the less the quantity most fre both there are exception of course but these mese occur only about as often as democratic su supremacy in the national government there to is more substantial abiding wealth for the people at large jn ia the inexhaustible iron deposits a few miles west of cedar city than in all the gold that will ever be discovered die covered yet paradoxical as aa the expression may appear they are at present worth jew avid and will remain so till capital comes come along and places them in a position to be self sustaining they are ar greater so BO far as may be determined from developments made and anything which pennsylvania or ohio can of but who wants iron front W why by even silver is more thought of coming south mouth after crossing the range of bills which stretch at right angles from the main body of the wasatch range away out into the desert the characteristics acte of uie the landscape change boere is an occasional spring sometimes a cluster of them and these constitute veritable casee the habitations of man appear to an extent corresponding with the volume ol of water and the dirty gray or of the she sagebrush changes to the more delightsome and perennial green but elsewhere the same sterile monotony prevails the land being but little more than a coyote reservation speaking sneaking of the coyote reminds we me that considering the familiarity of the subject but very little seems to be known of it ane only description of this vagrant or 0 the plains outside of books of natural history is in mark kwains twains ns roughing it aud this like pretty much everything else which that erratic author handles is riddled with inaccuracies the coyote is not exactly the useless fhlug that mark and others put it up for it is a scavenger whose efficiency and completeness complete make it the equal of a whole flock of crow passing along from milford to recently behind an animal which caused us to reel off a mile every forty minutes and occasionally a yard or two more no lose less than three coyotes were observed two were pacing along the brush brusa with that soft fooled floied trot which is fully as deceptive be as twain represents it be the other was sizing us uppa up and per haps wondering why it was that its promised provender which was our present means of locomotion was still withheld coyotes live jive on rabbits chiefly so long as there are any rabbits to live on OD but the latter do not last long to in the presence of that inex yearning for victuals which like the worm dieth not until its possessor Is dead and even then Is transferred along with its tenement to the next of kin in the same family the coyote is the inc ir nation of appetite but it to is not true as alleged that all that it eats increases the appetite nothing could increase it and noab nothing ever diminishes it when chance throws a horse hors emula or cow in the way as is often the case the coyote lass has what to some other department of the wild animal kingdom would be a banquet but oot not so here for in this instance there is no DO cloying no founder log MO BO satiating and no other satisfaction than such euch as an comes ot of mechanical indulgence in a natural propensity the body of the critter P is never forsaken even for a moment so 0 o boog as there remain anything wat hat oan can be wallowed swallowed and the coyote la Is no tatter and no leaner sitter alter the job in IB completed whether it hats ban eaten nothing for a month or had bad a horse borse every day or so its ita avoirdupois remains fixed and unvarying to the nicety cicely of an assay assayers ace ayera evs scales the animal to ie always ready for a mea me albig big or little and doean it go whining around ai roundabout about the hard bard times and the ow low price ol of do domestic products it if it don dont donit it get one for an inde indefinite AnIte period Sho shooting otine at al a coyote with a revolver is a favorite favor lle pastime with trave travelers lort it pleases them and does the coyote no harm it is io in no more danger from pistol bullets than it a f from rom dyspepsia I 1 it t ata stands ads i in n exactly the ibe same position to the lupine family that the digger indian does to the human aud and this thin tells it all judge jude higgins opens the iron county branch ol of the fifth district court fur the winter term in this place tomorrow there is in some little business ol of importance and otherwise which will doubtless doubt leea all be disposed of thle week when the court and its ite retinue a will proceed to beaver and hold bold forth there till the ludi judicial cial bobbin for that part of the state to is wound up the gentleman spoken of is earning favorable ODio ions for himself for the dignity ability and promptness which characterize his bis occupancy ot or the benco bench it la is expected that he will soon have all the dockets in his big shoestring 11 1 1 district cleared sad keep business up to date hereafter the people here bere are erecting one cue ol of the finest amusement halls in the state it is of stone atone is 40 by 90 feet outside measurement the stage being 80 by 50 feet it is constructed in ac cordasco with architectural rules and when finished which will be in may next will be quite an imposing structure it will nold bold about a thousand people in the auditorium and fifteen sets eta can dance at one time the benery scenery will be obtained from chicago ard the total cost will be about 16 it ina is a creditable piece of work and has baa long been needed here OF ESSAY |