Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-02-03
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
From the Ayant Courier.

from the ASant Courier
From present indications it is pretty Ger
tain that all the winter wheat crops in Gal
latin are killed. This seems to be the opin-
ion of farmers with whom we have cen
versed.
This winter has been very fine on cattle
and other stock, farmers not having to feed
any SO far. Cattle are in fine condition.
Schools are iii operation in nearly every
district in the county, and the young people
are being educated. This is as it should
be.
The Yellowstone regions just now attract
ing a good deal of attention, and settlements
are being made. There appears to be more
money in circulation oye- there than in the
Gallatin Valley. The Yellowstone bows
that come over to Bozeman to trade. all an
pear well heeled. In a very short period a
large amount Of land will be taken up. and
that section will be filled with an Industrious.
enterprising population. We wish these har-
dy settlers abundant success.
From the Montanian.
There is said to be three feet of snow all the
way fir ON Pleasant Valley to Franklin.
Some ofthe citizens of the lower Passamari
valley have been circulating a remonstrance
against the funding bill.
The new school at Brandon was opened on
last Monday morning, with Amos Purdum
as the village pedagogue. There are between
twenty and thirty scholars IN the district.
Mining matters at Broad Gauge City are
1T1nn1nO in Crnnl chp>n (oo1an O. ~ -. Ir
is running all the time and increasing the
currency with periodical additions of bull
lion.
A meeting Of the residents ofSheridan and
Vicinity was called last evening at that place
for the purpose of discussing the railroad
question.
There is considerable activity in the min s
in the vicinity of Sheridan. The leads on
Mill creek and Wisconsin creek are being
worked continuously, and the district bids
fair to make agood showing during the Cen
tennial year.
A petition for acharter to organize a lodge
of the Independent Order of Good Templars
has been circulated in town during the past
week, and has been signed by a number OF
citizens and cltlZenesSes.
y The material is all in place for the new
quartz mill of Messrs. Beardsley & Fray, of
Mill creek, and the stamps will commence
hammering out the bullion forthwith.
From the New North-West.
The Blackfoot school has emulated its
best rivals and appropriated $50 for appa-
ratus.
The Hope mill at Philipsburg, has been
running steadily and satisfactorily for the
past ten days. When first started up the
boilers would not make sufficient steam.
The Machinist reset the boilers and all the
parts work well. They have a large guam
tity of ore out and the Hope mine looks well.
1t is believed that the mill will run con-
tinuously and the bullion produce be large.
At the North West Company's mill in Phil
ipsburg the Bruckner Cylinders burn four
cords of wood per ten tons of ore roasted.
The Reverberatory Furnace in the old Pill
of the company used to burn | cor1s pc.
ton, or Is cords per ten tons. In the ole
mill six men tended furnace using ore tina,
five stamps brushes. In the ne,c mill two
men easily roast all the ore mat ten stamp,
crush and could use all tat twenty stamps
would furnish. We are told of a cylinde,
mill inCoIcrado Were W men roasted as
much. ore in q hours as requires Sc men in
2. reverberatory mill, near by lin the same
5 time. 1t is also claimed that the ore being
t stirred mechanically instead Of by hand
is much more evenly treated and mixed ant
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