The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1865-09-23
Letter from Mill Creek.
MILL CREEK, Madison Co., M. T., }
a September 18th. 1865. 4r,

EDITOR POsT From time to time. when
perusing your paper, have seen accounts
OF the richness of different valleys in our
Territory. Yet from some unknown cause
Stinkingwater valley, and more especially
Mill Creek, has been passed by, and now /
propose to show your many readers that
although we come last we are not the least.
when compared with the rest of the agricul-
tural portion of Montana. A few energetic
men made trial here last season, and be-
came fully convinced that this was Just the
place for vegetables and small grain. Their
labors, and the fine prospect afforded there
| by, soon brought men in here, until at this
time, Mill Creek resounds with the voice of
| the hushandman. Messrs. Cowan & Hall
have taken the lead on the Creek-and two
more honest and hard working men cannot
be found in the limits of this Territory.
They are the foremost and the best farmers
on the Creek, as well as the most enterpris-
ing. They have in, at present, forty acres of
wheat, twenty-eight acres of barley, eight
acres OF oats and six acres of potatoes. be-
sides some garden stuff. The yield of the
grain on the creek will range from twenty
five to forty bushels to the acre. The rea-
sons for so wide a range, are late sowing,
and the small amount of seed sown per acre.
We challenge no one, nor do we stand second
best to any valley; and if any one doubts it
let him spend day in this vicinity, and
am sure he will confess that the time was
well spent, and he will be fully convinced of
the truth of what is here stated.
When the ditch, for which Messrs. Cowan
Hall have charter, is completed, large
amount of valuable land will be brought un-
der cultivation, commencing at or near
brundy's Mill, and running along the eastern
slope of the Stinkingwater valley to Mill
Creek. This aqueduct will irrigate num-
Der of farms which will be very valuable,
being so near good market. 1t will not be
long ere We can challenge the Territory.
There is also at present a twelve stamp
quartz mill, nearly completed, at Brandon !;
and report says there are more on the road
for the same place. Some of the enterpris-
ing men that own the rich lodes, of which
Mill Creek can lawfully boast, will soon be
prepared to prove to the people at large that
there is no humbug in the statements that
have been made of the goodness of our
quartz, and that Brandon will soon be city
In spite of the 'spowers that be-" 1t still
remains to be seen whether there are not
good gulch diggings, there never having been
any prospected to the bed rock. Several
have'found colors below here in digging post
holes, some four or five miles from the
mouth of the canon.
There is quite large amount of potatoes
raised here this season, and small grain
enough for seed for large breadth of land
for another year. Many of US are new be-
ginners this year, let one more season pass
round and this valley will speak loudly in
the way of small grain.
trust that this letter may find some cor
ner in the PosT, for by inserting it YOU will
oblige. 4 FARMER.