Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-08
TERR ITORIAL NEWS.
From the Helena Herald.

, NIL IL AAiehey brought into town Ito
ounces of gold %retort, INT is having the
same melted into a bar. It will go about
S15 to the ounce. This gold was taken from
the Northern Light mine, on the head. of
Silver creek.
Commissioner Beach left this morning for
Prickly Pear canyon to personally superin-
tend the building of bridges and repairs on
the road in that canyon.
Fourteen men, with cattle, plows, and all
necessary tools, will be at work in the cam
yon to-day, (3d inst. } and tomorrow morn
ing the force will be increased by ten men
from Helena. The Commissioners are of
opinion that twenty-four men will be as
large a force as can be worked to ADVANTAGE.
They hope to get the canyon in shape to
allow the passage of freight trains by Satur-
day next.
Caldwell Edwards and his brother Horace.
who have been identified for wears With
eastern Montana, will soon leave for the
States. They will be absent about four
months, and during that time they propose
to examine many sheep herds in northern
Iowa, southern Minnesota and Wisconsin.
with a view of purchasing about 200 Of the
choicest ewes to be found, and two blooded
rams. The Edwards Bros. will try to pur-
chase those that will shear about s lbs. and
will not bring to the country a head but
what is No. i. This is commendable. A
herd of good stock, of any description, is in
the long run, more to be desired than large
; numbers of an inferior kind. The Messrs.
Edwards will bring them by way of Benton,
and drive from there to the Gallatin.
From the Helena Independent.
A friend writes to the independent from
Sheridan, under date of May 80, that the
prospects are fine for a crop of wheat. Flour
is sold ct $500. Large lots of Mill creek
and Silver springs flour are held at $500 per
sack. The storm has not abated.
From Mr.. AL. Fisher, who arrived here
yesterday from the canyon, is obtained the
Information that last Thursday (June Il, the
Benton coach was carried away by the eur
rent of the Prickly Pear, near Kisselpaugh's,
the horses drowned and the coach wrecked.
Mr.. Corbin, division agent, had taken the
precaution to drive his tWo-horse buggy in
advance of the coach, but the buggy was
stlSO sNGpl away. IHG HORSES, however,
We're saved. Capt. d. w. Buck was the
only passenger on the coach, and he saved
himself by jumping off.
In an interview with Captain Buck, who
arrived later in the evening, the reporter
learns that the immediate cause of the ac-
cident was a caying bank. The current is
rapid and the stream high, but not to an
extent that would have precluded the safe
passage of the coach. But to ascertain with
certainty Mr.. Corbin preceded the coach in
his buggy. The rapid current swept it
away, and the coach pressing on, in attempt
ing to ascend the opposite bank, was hurled
back into the stream by a cave in the soil,
and the horses thrown back overturned the
coach, Which, with the struggling animals,
We're Whirled out into the stream. The
driver became entangled in his seat, and
with extreme difficulty extricated himself,
barely escaping with his life. AS previously
stated, the horses We're drowned, and the
mail sacks and treasure box washed out of
the coach and We're lost. Subsequently the
coach was got out of the river.
Ed. Corbin, who arrived from below Sat
urday night, reports the recovery of the
treasure box and Way-mail, lost in the flood
a few days ago.
From the Madisonian.
The upper S~tinkingwater round up result
Ell in gathering large bands and herds OF
cattle and other stock. OF the number
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