Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1878-04-12

News From the Agricultural Para.
disc ofAontana-Bidsa at Fort Gus
ter-The Crovs--Town site Spsou.
lators-:Gen. Busu's Work.
Proposals for furnishing hay, wood,
coal, oats, ETC., were opened At Ft. Gus.
ter, and the following were the offers:
- Hayden Myers, {, 900 tons, at $ls,.
40 per ton; 1000 tons at $22, ,80per ton.
J. X. Kline, 1000 at ST. 90 per ton.
Wood-Wm. &. Officer. all wood re-
quired at Fort Custer at $4.87 per cord.
Linchen, Crafts and Brown, All wood
required az Fort Custer at $5.87 per cord.
Ben Myers, all wood required at Fort
Custer at S.. 33I per cord. Fort Keogh
at $5.33l-3.
Oats-Ben Myers, 100000 lbs Monta-
ma oats at $3.50 per cwt.
Charcoal-M. =. Dutton, 1000 bush
els at IS cts per bushel.
B. +. Patt, 10000 bushels Cotton
woody at 80 cts per .bushel. 10000 lpitch
pine) at SO cts per bushel..
Grin L. Ring, 10000 bushels (green
pine) at - cts per bushel.
Some Of these figures ars low down and
fthey are materially underbid the con-
tractors will come out losers.
The Yellowstone a. lis date, March
u, is free from ice, but low; Mackinaws
loaded with produce from Bozeman are
away at Sherman and Miles City.
Gen. Buell., comm anding at Fort Gus
ter, at the request. of the citizens Of Sher-
man has stationed cavalry at that place
for the protection of settlers.
The point at which the government
freights for Fort Custer will be unloaded
on the Yellowstone is not yet definitely
settled. but it will be moved nearer to the
mouth of the Big Horn than it was last
year.
There is ''music in the AIR" among
Montana stage men,. Huntley &Co propose
to run opposition lines from Ft keogh to
Bozeman, from Bozeman to Helena from
Bezeman to Virginia City. Good for trav-
elers.
The Crows have consented to love
Uncle Samuel "for yet q. little longer"
and will come down the Yellowstone to
some point between the mouth of the Big
Horn river and the Rosebud.
A few town lot speculatsrs have made
their advent on the Yellowstone. but as
vet their bank accounts have not been
materially swelled.
Custer County is little exercised about
representation IN the next Montana leg
islature, and will ask congress to step in
and fix the matter up. 1t should be done
Boats will find plenty Of wood yards on
the Yellowstone this season, and wood al
Reasonable figures.
Gen. Buell. arrived on the ground where
Fort Custer now stands. on the 26th of
last Tune with 80 soldiers, 90 citizens and
mechanics. On the 9TH Of July the steam
er John G. Fletcher arrived with a saw
mill and 100 more mechanics. On the
1st day of August but 81 600 Of $1oo.ooe
that was at his disposal was left and nj
houses were up. On the 1sth of Novem'
Der the troops moved int their quarters
II companies of the I'd cavalry and oi
the nth infantry and all werecomfortabl<
with some OF the ST., 900 left. This simple
statement of facts needs no word Of eulo-
gy to prove the efficiency and ability ol
Gen. Buell..
The four companies Of the I'd cavalr,
that are now at Fort Ellis, M. T., have
been ordered to report at F't. Gutter, NJ
T.
Eight hundred tons of commissary
stores and building material were moved
from Terry's landing to Fort Custer last
season, ALLEN.