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Show ON Local Affairs Mountain cabins and dwellings when left unoccupied for any length of time seem to become public propertyat pro-pertyat least certain people interpret inter-pret thus, from the amount of depredations depre-dations reported by owners of properties. pro-perties. A case of vandalism is reported re-ported by John Madsenr who visited ' his mining property north of here Saturday and found that a dwelling, which he left about a year ago in good condition and fully furnished, had been entered, the furniture and fixtures removed, windows and doors broken and the place practically ruined. ruin-ed. Anyone aware of such depredation depreda-tion being done to property in out- "" of-the-way places, should report the ynmp fn nrnnp,- n iitl-inrihi PS and have v those responsible for the acts dealt ' with accordingly. : That the first ten million dollar appropriation ap-propriation for the Boulder dam will become a law before the week closes is a forgone conclusion. The deficiency defic-iency bill for this purpose successfully successful-ly passed through the hands of the committee, the senate passed the measure a few days ago, and now it is up to the house, which will pass the measure this week. That those on the "inside" have felt confident that the appropriation would be made is shown in the fact that Engineer Young, of Denver, is already at Lasj Vegas attending to the details of getting the gigantic proposition working. The money from the first appropriation will be used in preliminary prelim-inary work, such as the building of the railroad to the dam, the building of a town to house the thousands of workmen, and preliminary surveys. It is claimed that actual work will start at the dam site within sixty days. 1 .;. .;. A copy of the "Milford Times," published twenty-six years ago, has been resurrected from the archives -- of the Milford News. This paper was published by C. T. Harte, and contains con-tains many interesting items of the yearly days of Milford. Among the advertisers were I. V. Sawyer one of the leading general merchandise firms; J. T. Tanner operated a meat and green market; the Forgie Hotel was the leading hostelry and two saloons occupied prominent advertising advertis-ing space, "The Oxford" run by J. D. McAulay, and "The Majestic" con-dueled con-dueled by Mines & Co. Among the & "" news items wo note that the San Pedro railroad was rushing construction con-struction work, the rails having been laid as far ns Moapa and that road would be finished to Las Vegas by August. The new town of New-house New-house was on a boom; the building of a mill, hotel, school houBe and boarding house requiring the labor of a large number of men. Receivership Receiv-ership was instituted against the Majestic Ma-jestic Mining Co., and R. R. Tanner appointed receiver. Other news items it-ems stated that the Telluride company com-pany was ready to start work on a $400,000 plant In the Beaver canyon. |