The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-06-10
: 0UjTOF Town

49,. our OF TOWN. - =
|: 1t O'Clock y, q Noad.y, A,sx. Ral,soa ,urssd
the six-hoese team q Rains Coz. cosch toward ssa
down, and fhey 1t ont 1t . gallant paes over
.1ns DouxsouEa noAD
10 Pixies Peak. Dounhouss nads good work Of H.
year ago thsss was bat TRAIL impossible save for
horsemen. Now, II 10 one Of the best graded stage
roads In the Territory Several thousand dollars were
subscribed By the eitseus Of Dsss Lodge Pixies Peak
and Pioneer, to build IT, bat the actual cost Of con.
seructios excscdsd TIE amount collected some 1130
This amount We are told. was advanced by Mr.. D.,
who borrowed Ihe money for that purpose On CON-
plrtion Of the work. and pop-recompense to him, he
obtained permission to establish toll gate on IT, and
collect tolls until the elAO should Be made Up
This toll gate 10 At Rock Creek, eight miles from Der
Lodge and in charge Of Francis Richard. We asees.
tanned from him that the collections are very listlc
more than the expenses. Only sbout go over expen
ses have BEEN collected up to this date every dollar
which he says he's BEEN expended In repairs % tn
road The toll gate was established last October A.
this rate how soon win We have free r0sd7 I'VE d.
not expect to speak of the things OF eternity when
commenced this. but We run squarc into II With that
question The road should be free NJ. D should be
paid. But how can The dpne7 Those who subscribed
refuse to pay toll, and Il would DO askng good deal
II men that they should. Their example innaences
othssa train Of Cosinne freight wagons . day Or
Il and wants 70 resxn ssiu the bariesque VI eolIec
lions goss o. and there ~ much feeling - thqsgh
tho collections wese Stringent while only few god
natursd and essypaylns people respond 70 the demand
Who win suggest . practicable reaply los The evil
Dcyood Rock Greek, Willow CrseA, where AiAot -
getting good sanehs under fence In several psaecs
In the valleys and on the hills fencing and building 10
being done hes been done within the past year. and
probably these ltle well protected valleys, now COW
cred With luxariant grasses, and easily irrigated win
Be more fertile and ss liable to frost than the river
valley.
piss rEAK
Has changed IL base Of operations since last year.
Not house remains on the Old town Site and bar 10
rapidly forming '.whcre Rome once stood" Of the
tailngp coming down from Pilgrim aud Kpapps Bar.
To prevent . recurrence Of the cOmpue cory spring
moving the houses were removed arross the gulch
the old race track ground and the main street 10 now
grade nearly - heavy ~ that OF Louisville The
town 10 not brisk last year. but then the Pixies
Peak hive has just swarmed and Yamhlll the young
hive, 10 - large nearly a. the old. The Lone Tree
and Hardscrabc Bsrs. on the Pixies Peak eide OF the
guch, viii 10 opened ~ water can be spared
for them, and the "old town" on the Rulch may not
yet have it, bert days. although the new town
has made heavy draft on it. population and trade.
when II was just getting people and business enough
to make II brisk town.
riL0RIN Bah
10 the best placer mining camp In Nontans, and We
do not know ito equal In the mountains. In the eum
NJ nlo> u.n1nw a colue In Nho
gulch and In prospecting around on the bar shove,
struck coloss. and staked claim. NJ. J. II. Ho'eomb
Who was With Joe. Bell and VIM Newton, mining IN
rather poor ground In the gulch. pat In strin9 Of
slniees on what they called Wallace Bar-now Pil-
grim Baron the Wallace discovery and shortly after
tho Walker Company also started in. Water was
peocared from the Psouse Ditch until late In the cum
mcs. when II failed and the Rock Creek Lake Ditch,
carrying water 70 Fiooeer then dropped enough to
sappy the thsre companies the remainder Of the
son. The bar yielded Immensely, and In u.s. 80 and
20 was opened up and worked with an the water that
could b obtained from tho dis.hes leading upon IL.
The yse 81 the bar last year estimated 1t ESQ.,
100 One company. Catching, Kohn d Co., paid for
wsto' alone >lA0o0 and ono man, Jos. Catching In.
vestcd 33AO0 In the purch NE Ut gr0unl.
This has al been o. Pilgrim Bar. not exceeding In
extent, probably over 800 scseA Knapps bar. spur,
10 also being opened Ths sxsessea Of the channel
sesth. rsse into what i called Ood Hin and further
along Granite Bar In Ill Of which the same gravel
bed rock and big pay h being foand fast - opened
II 10 thought By some tho hca~ has been worked "a.
Of Pilgrim 6Ar. bat the yicsds this spsing have run
high ~ taV to the single pipe. and the upper bars
evidence - good pay and extent - tho lower The
following table will give an idss Of the amount Ut
work going On at present: