Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-07-27

hay farms belonging respectively to Messrs.
Parrott, Murphy, Evans, Philips, Thomas
and Jessen. Mr.. Philips has q band of SOC
cattle now running on the Big Hole. Mr.,
2. is the owner of Grey Eagle, a flyer OF
considerable note, having been in many con
tests, and on more than one occasion came
off victor on the West Side courses.
Crossing over the Deer Lodge, we came
to quite a nice little neighborhood of farm
ers and stock-growers. Principally among
these are Messrs. Hensley, Smith, Norton
& Dean, Bernard, Peters and Harry Evans.
Messrs. Norton & Dean are engaged in wool
growing. They have a flock of about 1000
head Of sheep; are most done shearing,
and they think their flock will average six
c~ommodations for man and beast, and with
him we found quarters for the night.
Saturday morning we crossed the river to
Mr.. w. W. Thomas ranch. Mr.. Il. is en-
gagged in dairying and stock-raising. Mr..
L. had just returned from Fort Benton, on
the plains Of which vicinity all, except his
dairy herd is running.
From here we turned towards Butte, stop
ping for dinner at the junction of the Over
land and Butte stage line. This station is
kept by Mr.. Allen Pierce, apolite and oblig-
ing landlord. A few miles further brought
us to the stock ranch Of MIR. Birdsell. and
then to Silver Bow. This place looks rather
dillapidated, but contains q store, saloon,
brewerey, hotel, blacksmith shop andbutcl-
er shop. Silver Bow creek is fiat and shall
low, and was once very rich, and is still be-
ing worked in spots, but mostly by China
men. The country around for miles is a re-
gion Of low, grassy, granite hills. Two
miles from Silver Bow we came to Rocker
town. We found this little place to be a
scene o fife and activity. Messrs Wolver-
ton & Carver's arastra is running regular
with entire satisfactory results. We saw
some Of. the pulp panned which prospected
well. 1t is running upon ore from the Rock
er lode. This lead has q shaft uponit totle
depth Of sixty feet. The crevice of paying
ore is from one-half to three feet in width.
Owing to water and bad air, this company
have abandoned hosting ores for a short
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They intend running a tunnel hat Willtap
the lead 100 below the surface. Meantime
they have leased their arastra to Capt. Tur-
ner and others, who will convertit into asil-
yer reduction works, on a plan of the much
talked-of Turner process. A portable en-
CINE for the manufacture of steam and other
material for this work is upon the ground.
-Four miles further brought us to Butte,
the new, but renowned quartz eldorad, of
the great Northwest. This is now the
most prosperous mining camp in Montana.
The hills around are checked with copper.
gold and silver-bearlng leads. The altitude
Of the country is great, but the hills are not
so rough and steep but what a wagonean
get to most Of the leads without builling
roads. The whole district so far as ros-
We know of no place where there ATE SO
many leads SO rich, well defined and faced
to such an extent.
Butte City is pleasantly situated upn a
granite hill side, which slopeing to the outh
upon Summit valley. The poplation
~variously estimated at from 400 I'd 500.
The business interests are well represented.
Our young friend and townsman, lavid
the spicy reporter for the Helen In
is doing q rafting good BUSINESS.
There are three first-class hotels, thd Cir
on House, Hotel de Mineral, and Centdnial
also, one first-class restaurant, lll of
which do a good business, and what iSnost
remarkable, a trancient man can st his