Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-06-14
T ROOT LETTER.

IC IlDDIIi ldoS 40 VIZ W. St"'H
And the fields are brown and scrc.
In a large portion of our valley the hop
pers have Matched out more than we ex-
pected, and.are making, sad inroaas upon
the grain undergraduates. Some crops are
destroyed tentirely, while others are dain-
aoed but little or none at all. They seem
to trouble peas less than wheat, and very
luckily there are more peas soWn hereaDo'ts
this wear thar usual. As there seems to be
no 'hoppers in other portions OF the Terri
tory we have 40 fears Of a famine. even
should they take our crops entirely, winch
is not at all likely. But everyone is anX-
iously. awaiting their departure, and hope
they will take Grecley's advice and go
West TO the middle of the Pacific.
The prospects are that we Will not De all
winter threshing our grain this season, us
there are two new steam threshers ordered
fer this county, in addition to the ONE
steamer and several horse powers now here.
Messrs. Rardee d Nichols, of Corvallis
Grange. have ordered a steam threSiler ana
portable saw-mill. and intend making lum-
Der so cheap that no one can afford to live
in Il log house.
Corvallis Grange celebrated their third
anniversary on the 18th inst, and had a
good time, essays. speeches, a big dinner,
etc. Everyone present went home feeling
that it was good and wise to be a granger.
MANY of the members are sending East for
their goods. last years experience proving
it practicable and profitable. Worthy Mas
ter Tolburt left for Helena last week to at
tend the Territorial Grange. He is a good
granger and will work for the best interest
of the order.
Ft. Owen Grange has received its new Ii
brary, of which they are justly proud. If
the procuring of that library was the only
thing that they had ever accomplished OF
ever would, it is enough to warrant the as
sertion that the order was a benetit'to its
members and the neighbo.Aood, and was
worthy of support.
The surveys of the proposed new roads
to. Bannack and Philippsburg will be made
soon, and we will then know just What the
grades and distances will be and what they
will cost. The Bannack road will shorten
the wagon route over Il hundred miles, and
on the direct road to P%hilippsburg, Cable
and Butte, q saving of forty or fifty miles
will probably betmade. The clay" Of this
valley is such that we have to travel a very
roundabout way to reach our markets, and
these short cuts viii greatly benefit every
farmer and merchant here, as we'll as cheap
en- our produce to the
The many friends and patrons Of the MIS-
sopliaa in Bitter Root, are greatly surprised
and hurt at what they consider its attempts
to throw cold water upon the undertaking.
They think that they are entitled to its
hearty support in an enterprise that will
benefit so many, and will interfere with the
rights of none especially as they propose to
pay their own bills.
The Missoulian has done much good in
the past year or two in showing up the bad
management and condition of Missoula
county finances, and by suggesting ways
and means for lettering them. For this it
is entitled to and receives much credit. Its
occasional little fits of bad temper are at
tributed to dyspepsia, and are kindly over
looked. But then ''fools are not AL dead
yet" and we may be mistaken. SY.s.
Corvallis, NJ. H., May 20, 1877.
S--o-&
DEER LODGE AND VICINITY.
From Mr.. Geo. Johnson's farm where we
left our readers last week, we travelled east