North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-06-12


depredatios into the perpetraton of the following
Io, the poor Indian whose inscriptions mind,
Steals our best OK nor leaves hoss behind;
| Oh, no! lis soul was never taught to stray
lnts our corral at the close or break of day.
Upon that cloud-topped hill all day he lies
| At night he steals what in the day he spies;
Then hurries off his tillicuns to meet,
| Eating rs they kill, killing they eat;
They more their squaws behold
Enjoy connubial bliss, thirst for gold.
To steal is not half their natural desire,
'Tis their delight to set a house Oh fire,
! And shoot the inmates who attemp to flee
Old Beelzebub bears them company.
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From the Monroe (Wis) Sentinel.
Montana Correspondence. .
TRINITY GgLcu, EDGERroN Co., MI,
March oath, 1867. !
Editors Sentinel We'll, dinner is over,
my shirt washed and on the line, my hair
combcd, and the Sunday "chores" gene
rally done, and will sit down and smoke
cigarette with you.
This is the first day that has seemed
anything like spring. For three long,
as tight in his grasp as a vice, and March
has been the worst month of the three !;
most of the time for the last three weeks
the thermometer ranging from Is to 35
degrees below zero. But we are in hopes
our cold snap is over, and that the man
who rules the weather this side of the
equator will do the "fair thing by us
poor miners.
believe nothing very stirring or cxcit-
ing has taken place since my last. Every
thing seems to be progressing slowly but
surely in the mineral as well as in other
branches of business. With merchants,
great preparations are being made for the
spring and summer trade. Owing to ma
king room for new goods and the report of
some 60 steamers loading ut St. Louis for
this country, dry goods and groceries have
not taken the rise usual in the mines at
this season of the year. There is yet at
least one years supplies on hand. Flour
is selling in Helena at from 81 to SO a
sack; bacon 4Oc, sugar 45c, coffee 45 to
soc, tea 50, everything, in fact, being low
er than ever before known here. There
has been considerable flour made in the
CALLAHAN Valley the past winter from Mon
tana wheat and it is of such an excellent
quality that it is taken in preference to St.
Louis -four, that being the kind hereto
fore used by the bakers This does away
with the shipment of flour from the States,
which has been carried to great extent.
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past winter at from 80 to 50 per bushel,
and is equal to the celebrated California
and Oregon wheat now being so extensive
ly shipped to New York. Some of the
farmers had in last season as high as one
hundred acres, and it is calculated that the
crop the coming season will equal if not
exceed all the previous crops in the Terri
tory. This speaks well for Montana as a
farming country, and ere long the people
Of the States will be surprised to see re.
turning boats loaded with the finest quail.
ty of wheat, raised ut the foot of the
Rocky Mountains. The rich valleys are
adjacent to the mines, and last summer
saw fields of golden grain within sight OF
Helena.
Notwithstanding the severe weather
there is the usual amount of stampedins
and running to new mines, and we hear
talk of this new gulch and that new bar
of big silver lodes and fabulously rich gold
lodges, and men continue to traverse the
country in all directions, on foot and or
horseback, hurryins as though they had
been summoned to the death-bed of rich
old relative; but the cry of "Salmon Riv
err" rises high above the noise from out
side guiches; and every man and woman
who has 'nothing sure" elsewhere, il
looking forward to that region with a.
much anxiety as though they knew Their
fortunes were there waiting for them. AL
though many have gone this winter, thu
great rush will not be made till mex
J month. The news continues good from
that quarter, h"t it will no doubt be over
done. The mines at Nish,Nod Gulch arc
promising well, and it will be the best new
camp this side the ' Range the comm.
summer. Considerable mining has beer
done, and "runs" of thousand dollar
day have been made. Many lodges bear
ing gold and silver have also been fount
during the winter.
The great success of the "St. Loui
and Montana Mining Company's" work.
at Argenta, (of which spoke in my last
has become an old story and matter-of
fact affair, and creates but little excitement
The superintendent of the company ha.
published his report, which more thar
corroborates the rumors in circulation tina
they could turn out silver bullion by tn,
ton. With the ono furnace, by making O
blast every other day, calculating the or,
at its present richness, which is low, rs i
is near the surface and increases in wealth
in depth) they can turn out 100000 ;
year, with at least two-thirds profits. II,
expense of getting the ore out is but tri
fling, as the veins are wide and easil,
worked. One can form faint idea of tn,
) product of these mines in five years from
now when he learns that there are man,
lOdcs in that immediate vicinity as rich a
the ones from which these large yield
have been made, and that thousands O
tons of such mineral have already been ia
ben out, and is now waiting for furnaces
to convert into bullion. This may sount
"biS" to folks down in "Amcrica,n wher
the sight of a silver sixpence creates sur
prise, but it is nevertheless true. A com
pany recently offered $40, 900 for the u.s.
of the furnace and it's managers for thirt,
days, in order to smelt some ore whicl
$ had been taken out some length of time
but they could not afford to lose the use o
! their smelter for that time for so small
sum.
The steamers are bringing up grea
deal of machinery for both gold and silve
quartz mining, and if the yield of the pre-
cious metals is but one fourth as great a
the experimenting and essaying indicate
it would not be extravagant to say that in
side of five years the enormous wealth o
this country will so to the mint by tn
cargo.
The quartz mills near Helena continu,
to pound away with Just as good result
as ever. The yield from the "White
latch is from $1,000 to $40, 900 a week
running most of the time two ten-staml
mills. Whitelatch has gone to New Yorl
with some Of his golden bricks, and from
thence to the Paris Exposition to expos
to the gaze of the world a few Of tn
fruits of Montana Jim ia nuit