Show i AROUND ABOUT UTAH i Oregon Contractors Get Pinched on II I I Convict Lo ort or-t An Old District of Wyoming Coming I to the Front in Gold I A Butte Horse That Knows a Thing oV Two About Tumbling j I 1 iJolcl Excitement in Wyoming t A letter I received in Larame from a well j posted miner in Dexter district Carbon j j county says there is a big excitement uptime 3 up-time creek about five miles from the writers writ-ers camp and that nearly the entire population has gone to the scene The 1 correspondent is working his claims and thinks them good enough to stay by Messrs Cogswell and Miller are also at i work and say theirs are about 8 diggings 1 dig-gings The camp promises to be steady i and lasting and new prospects are being i discovered every day There arc five I strings of sluices in operation now Mr Perkins has three men at work up the gulch and is going to put in I an hydraulic at once as he is 1 well satisfied with the prospect Men who had been in the district and left il it discouraged are returningand taking 1 up such claims as arc left well satisfied j to have any share of the general good luck though censuring themselves for not locating the claims they could have easily secured when here before A good many quartz claims arc also being located lo-cated and a general feeling enthusiasm exists New discoveries nave been made on the head of Jackson creek where they art taking out nuggets of gold as 1argas beais Some of thisgold has been assaY as-saY d at the Denver mint and runs as high as 1927 to the ounce Laramic Boomerang I A Hoi rso flint Had Caught On I The Jtt ontana copper company owns a horse tin it made a wonderful record this I 1 morning says the Butte InterMountain of the 241 h In the concentrator building I build-ing the tra rnway running from the mine I has an ele ation of seventy feet from the I top of the jMg boxes the ore being unloaded un-loaded from the cars by means of chutes I As one of th e tramway horses was hauling haul-ing a load ov er the track this naming and at a point just above ono of the middle mid-dle jigs the animal missed its footing and fell onto the woodwork below a distance of seventy feet The workmen who saw the aw ful descent expected that the horse would smash the jigs and be imbedded out of sight in the ground but were surprised to see the animal slowly rise t D its feet loo k around in a dazed sort of manner and I calmly walk out of the bI ailding to the mine where it was hitcht < lon to anothi r car and resumed its regular trips over the tramway Mr Max J feyer to whom we are indebted for th s above infonna tion states that the horse was originally brought te this Ter ritorv from New York and that it was enabl sd to escape injury in its fall from the ti amway by havLng observed the way hi which people used to jump from the Brooklyn bridge into East river ASlccpiUtfCar Incident I Oi or old friend John Torre says rive I Eun kji Sentinel was telling us yesterday t of h is experience in the late smashup on t the Central Pacific He was in a sleeper fill id with tourists The suddennesa with which the cars yere brought to a stop car Bed a tremendous shock John thought Jor a moment that the lay of jntfgment had arriveu4 in the night Bat the whole thing was as quick as a flash In the upper oPpositL birth an old maid of th e tourist party Ws sleeping and perha psdrenming of goldeu opportunities opportu-nities lost tocatch on to aIn la kand a-In an instant propelled by the sv It la of the car she shot across lam mg squarely in Johns bunk This was tev I rible and for a moment there was musfc in the air bit t matters were finally explained ex-plained to the satisfaction of all concerned con-cerned Joh 1 being a man of blushes was of course greatly embarrassed by the incident Tobacco vroviiijr in Nevada The Reno Gazette Bays lion Jerry Schooling says hc inows all about tobacco tobac-co from the time of its planting until it is chewed lie tlunks Nevada is well adapted to it wet believes it would add greatly to our resources Three acres of good tobacco will support a family and any of the nooks along the Humboldt rruckee or Carson which arc so small that it i hardly pays to run a mowing machine to get the hay would make profitable tobacco patches The only thing he is afraid of is the heavy winds Dr Bishop has a lot of plants that look l fine The leaves are broad clean and heavy The tobacco can be cured well enough They use artificial heat in the South and sometimes a dryer Here it might be necessary to cure over tanks of water to give moisture but probably nothing of the port would be necessary Oregon Convicts Making Stove The employment of the convicts in the Oregon State Prison to manufacture stoves I has demoralized the market for those articles II ar-ticles There are 286 convicts in the prison pri-son of whom 160 are engaged in manufacturing manu-facturing stoves They have already I turned out 25000 to 28000 which are I i said to he of inferior quality The prison directors decided to require the contractors contract-ors of the convict labor to employ the W I whole force in the prison As the market mar-ket for this kind of stoves made in the I Oregon Penitentiary has been broken I I the contractors tried to avoid using anymore I any-more men on the ground that they did not have room enough in the prison But I the Governor at once ordered additions to I the foundry to be made I 1 Tic Live Camp of the North I Butte is by far the liveliest and most prosperous city I have seen in the west I says an enthusiastic Montana journalist Her people seem to have unbounded I confidence in the permanence of its mines The substantial character of some of the business blocks and of the I buildings now in course of construction I on the main thoroughfares indicate it I I I dont think their confidence is misplaced I The amount of the daily shipments of i ores and bullion froin your city was a I surprise to me until I came and saw your mines As far as one can judge who is I there almost inexhaustible not a mining expert are I i exhaustible reserves of ore in the mines of the place I predict a great future for I Butte I An Old District i Soon after the war says the Virginia I Enterprise Siegel Mining District about 25 miles from the Oomstock was organized organ-ized mostly by discharged soldiers who while stationed had clone some prospecting tioned at Fort Churchill 1 That section of I country had attracted considerable attention I atten-tion at the time but very little work was done in a comprehensive manner Laters ft however a few old remnants of the early prospectors remembering the returns they got from the rock are turning their attention to almost forgotten holes they dug twenty years ago in hopes of finding another Comstock I A Lightning Drop j j Last Saturday evening tbe cage in the j Lexington shaft Butte got the bulge 1 on the engineer in charge and dropped down about a hundred feet at almost lightning speed Five men were on the cage all of whom were more or less shaken up and bruised One of the men came off with sprained knee and another I an-other with a sprained ankle Minor Mention I The Montana Territorial Fair Association I Associa-tion offers upwards of 10000 in premiums I premi-ums this veal II I I i A couple was married by a Justice of the Peace in Paradise valley recently the lady thinking it all a joke She has since taken the husband with the joke and fa i happy Mrs John Williams is in jail at Layfa yette Oregon under 000 bonds to await the action of the grand jury on a charge of arson The complainant is her husband hus-band r Dan Morris Sullivans great Mirror of Ireland combination opens at the Butte Pavilion on Monday evening next The entertainment will be interspersed with music and skating The Union Pacific employes at Laramie Lara-mie state positively they will handle no more Wabash passengercars freight or rolling stock which may pass through Laramie pauL The Alameda acme near Virginia City Montana was recently sold to Mr J H Ramsey an Albany < eapitaltist for 30 000 by Messrs Thexton Deyarmon The Madisonian thinks die sale will result re-sult in the introduction eapital < into the camp for the development its mining industries |