Broad guage railroads are said to be
failures. It is suggested that the only
sensible way to treat the Erie Rail
way is to lay down a new inside rail,
so as to make a narrow gauge road of
it, and to have all the new’ locomo
tives and carriages made to suit. The
old rolling stock can be used on the
wide track, and when it is used up the
•»ld third rail can be removed.
Colorado Items.
Frpm the
companies of the 10th Cavalry (col
ored), under Major Duncan, w’ere
hourly expected at Fort Lyon on
Monday last. A party of Indians,
supposed to be Kiowas and Cheyennes,
are daily menacing the settlements on
the lower Las Animas. They are con
tinually stealing stock and keeping
the neighborhood in constant terror.
A dozen to fifteen families are gather
ed at the house of Thomas Boggs,
Esq., for protection, and almost all
labor and business are suspended.
From the Tribune ; Mr. 8. Kel
logg received a letter from Granite
District yesterday, giving an account
of the yield of one cord of ore from the
Amizette lode, taken from a depth of
sixteen feet. The ore was crushed in
a stamp mill and yielded $582 gold
value. There are three mills in suc-
Bsful operation in that district, and
another will be put in operation soon.
The ores generally are running S4OO
and upwards per cord.
The Register reports the discovery
of some new lodes of very rich silver
ore on the Platte, five miles below the
forks on the South Park road.
The Central Herald says there was
about four inches of snow in that
place on Tuesday morning.
