Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1875-12-02
TIE RRITORIAL VS..

TERRITORIAL NEWS.
We take the following items from the
Deer Lodg correspondence of the Mdepen-
dent: "A furious chinook began blowing
Sunday night about 7 o'clock, and continues
with unabated power. The snow has dis
appeared rapidly, and in many places the
ground is hare. The streets are sloppy and
streams rising. The only changes noticed
in marketsare: Flour has advanced to SIS
@5.50, retail sugar, from Is to lSc; butter,
but little il market and selling at 40975c,
according to supply; oats, but little on
hand, undertaking at &c. Freighters have
rolled out on the Missoula road, and the
prospectnsw is that supplies Of flour and
oats will b. brought in at from II to 2 cents
per pound freight. Edwards & CoWan ar
rived from the railroad last night on their
way to MBsoula. They drove their cattle
to Evanston, wy. T., and sold out at rates
ranging fom $3.50 to 5000 per head.
They would no doubt, done better, could
they have secured stock cars in which to
ship. The regular rates per car, carrying
Is head, to Chicago are $3.50, but they
were unable to engage transportation with
in any reasonable time"
Charly Bucks pack train pulled out on re-
turn trip tor Walla Walla Saturday. 1t is a
trip that very few people want to attempt
at this season of the year. They will try the
Mullan road, and if they can not get through
will try the route by Pen d'Orelle lake.
Missouliau.
Mr.. John B. Wilson, of Blackfoot, was in
town thisweek, having finished up at Nevada
creek for the season. The yield this year
was only about SO, 0e0-much below the av-
erage, owing to the scarcity of water. Mr..
w. will next season put on 200 or 300 feet
p~ressureand better appliances. He still con-
templates desirously that 100-mile ditch from
the Blackfoot which would cost $200,0 DOC, but
enable lin to take out 100000 to 10000 a
year. lIr. w. is building a fine dwelling in
Blackfbt.-Nep North Vest.
The Prospectus of the "Rocky Mountain
Christian Advocate is out. The paper will
be published at Salt Lake City, in the inter-
est Of Hocky Mountain Methodislh and Evan
gelical christianity. It will be an e~ight-page
monthly journal. Rev. G. M. Pierce, is an
n~ouncel as editor and publisher, assisted by
all the Methodist ministers located in the
Territories of Utah, Montana, Idaho, and
Wyoming. The first number will
January 1st, 1876. Price, per year, LOO.
Rev. Mi. Ilif will receive subscriptions for
the new paper which will be issued at such a
low price that all interested in the dissemina-
ton of Christianity will be able to take it,
Madisd,aian.
Mr.. Henry Fulton, the best shot in the
American Team, whose Creedmoor tally
has never been equaled, in a recent letter to
Granville Stewart, Of Deer Lodge, recon-
mends the Remington as the best gun
made.
1t isreportedthat a mighty Nimrod, living
at Benton, while out hunting one day last
week killed 80 antelope inside of two hours.
He had one of Henry's breech-loaders.
"Epizoo'' has taken hold of numbers of
the stage horses South, and the mails are de-
layed in consequence. The same disease Sc
riously troubles the Idaho line, and IN Cali
fornia the horses fare no better.
The Masonic Hall of Harrisburg. Pa. has
been sold by the sheriff.