The Montana post., 1868-10-02
TRAVELLING CORREsPOrDENCE.
On the Road---Medicine Thief-Everett Greer
Campbell MiIl-Bannack.

On the Road:;;Medicine Thief-Evrett Green
Campbell MiIl-Bannack.
Per Smith & Graeter's thunder and
lightning six horse Bannack express
lett Helena and started for the oldest
town of Montana on my mission. A
short stop at Mr.. Freiler's, (Dominicks.)
on the Prickly Pear, a hasty glance at
his well regulated farm and immense
stores of Schlceitzer Kasc, samples of
which will speak for themselves at the
approaching Territorial Fair "A smile in
the house and away again upon the val
lev, over Prickly Pear divide down and
across the broad. fertile and thickly set
tied valley of the Big Boulder, and i
landed at one of the pleasantest stops
ping places on the Virginia road, the
Little Boulder Ranch, kept by Mr.. G.. A.
Douglass and lady, where the PosT is a
regular visitor the beds are clean and
the table groans under the very best the
country produces and steamers bring 10
market. But here, among the luxuries
OF every CLINE, it was my misfortune 10
find an ungrateful mortal, who, l have
reason to believe, halls from the county
seat of Madison county, entering our
peaceful circle, seemingly having not
one complaint but being possessed of all
the ills that flesh is heir to. He gaspingly
begged for some relief in the shape OF
something stronger than water; fortun-
ately / had a sample ofStickney & Ellis
best Bourbon, presented to me on the
eve of my departure from Helena, for
medical purposes, which gave him the
relief sought instantaneously; but the
migrate having no knowledge of meum
ct teUHl, nor fear of retribution, by hook
or crook, gobbled the viol and left me TO
bemoan its loss. Now, therefore, this is
to give him notice that fearful ret>
ribution will surely overtake him at
no distant day. Too far away to return
for newNsupply of medicine, / boldly
pushed on over Boulder divide, down
the sterile White Tail Deer valley, then
up the broad and beautiful Jefferson
bottom to Lower Silver Star District,
where now. in the vicinity of Eve
rett's mill a snug little town, as
yet without name, is being built. Two
saloons, a store, a commodious and we'll
built hotel, TO be run by Mr.. Geo. Harris,
a few residences and a blacksmith shop
complete this hamlet. But the main
feature in it is the mill of the Everett
Green Campbell Mining Company, which
bids fair to be one of the best and most
substantially erected in the Territory
Built in Chicago by Gates 4 Co, after
the most approved California patterns,
under the especial supervision of Mr..
Charles Everett, to whom my thanks
are due for favors, il will be an honor to
Mr.. Daniel Hutchinson, as millwright,
and l.. w. jackson, as machinist, when
completed. The main building is
frame 40 by AZ, erected on a solid stone
wall, on a well selected site. The boiler,
a AZ flue tubular one. The engine, with |
u 81 Il 4
calculated TO work up TO sixty-horse |
power, is n stationery one, and of the !
best pattern. The stamps, ten in num- |
Der, each $50 pounds, intended to have |
so drops per minute. are of the best i
chilled iron. On the amalgam tables |
some late improvements have been made |
by giving the pulp three falls ere it /
strikes the blankets. The latter are /
placed in a reversible sluice, which is \
novel idea in this Territory, obviating
the necessity of two hands washing /
blankets. Two arastras complete the |
The whole is one of the
neatest mills which have seen in the /
Territory. and should the riches
supposed to be contained in the
q reen Campbell lode be realized.
then brighter future is in store for lower
Silver Star and its nameless town. But
all ABOARD cries my cayu engineer, ana
away 1 roll through sage brush and light
sand, past upper Silver Star, where
Bates & Trivitt's mill runs on the Iron !
Rod, across the jefferson river on a sub
stantial Bridge and up the eastern side
of jefferson Valley. over Stinkingwater
and the Beaverh1ad, both tributaries of
the former river. up into the mountains.
A short rest on the banks OF the Rattle
snake in the comfortable house of friend
Stearns where nothing is missing but
the smoothing hand of woman, away
again in the dusk of evening through |
ArgeDta, which now is almost deserted,
up over the divide, ana down a grade
in the darkness OF night at n rattling 1