Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-07-11

hors. noticed q variety of fruit trees
growing in their fields. Messers. Perkins,
Townsend and Foster are substantial farm
ers and have large, we'll advanced crops
growing. Of the advance i'll improvement
I may mention that nearly every farmer has
taken in new land since my visit last year,
and have good fences, which indicates pros
perity.. z. d. Foster has completed IA wa
ter power machine for boring fence posts
with a capacity to bore 100 per day. 10
this it is designed to connect saws for cut
ting wood laths and making shingles.
The Montana Wooden Mill is near Mr..
Fosters residence. The building which is
now completed is of stone one and one-half
stories high, 80 feet wide and SO feet long.
The work was done by A. Anderson, and
is a neat Job. The machinery is to be driv-
en- by overshot water power, Of sufficient
capacity TO run fifteen looms, but fora be-
ginning there will be only four looms. 1t
is designed to manufacture miners blankets
and %flannels of a quality that will be accept
able to the Montana trade, and to increase
the capacity and variety of goods as is war
ranted by the trade. George Bru1fey, a
merchant, farmer and the postmaster of
Fish creek post office, and now located on
the main road north of the river, was, | be-
lieve, the first protector of this factory, and
himself and the citizens ofthis section are
the principal stockholders, and their COM
bined capital is sufficient to all they
have undertaken; yet should the company
succeed in selling the ten or twelve shares
not yet taken, the order for machinery
would be doubled.
Two miles below Silver Star on the north
side Of the Jefferson w. M. Bell has a splen-
did location for the business of stock-grow-
ing and dairying, in which he is engaged.
His herd is led by fine thoroughbreds and
his brand Of butter No. /, and commands
the best prices in the Silver star quartz
mines.
Adjoining his premises Peter King, a
Well-to-do bachelor has an excellent loca-
ton for stock-raising. His farm which
stretches along the river bank for some dis
lance, ~encloses a fine field Of hay land.
Silver Star appeared to be. full of life. The
lO-stamp mill was humping away day and
night on broadway ore. The ~arastras To-
Gated along the stream near by We're busily
grinding golden grist from the several 9TH
er leads, and every person | met appeared
to have a smiling look.
In company with e. F. Johnson I made a
visit to the Broadway mine, which is the
principal mine yet developed. One-halt of
this mine is owned by w. f. Sanders, of
Helena, d. f. johnson, F. r. Merk, VIM.
Morris, of Virginia City, and the other half
is owned by Chas. Dahler and Pat. Largely.
of Virginia City. When the ore reaches the
dump it isidivided, Messrs. Dahler 81 Lar
gey hauling and crushing theirs in their 49,
stamp mill at Iron Rod, four miles distant,
while the other party crush theirs in their
Silver Star'mill. Reaching the main shaft,
which is on an elevation of about ], 800 feet
above the Jefferson river, and about a mile
and a half from Silver Star, we descended
by a ladder about 50vfeet, then followed a
tunnel some distance to the eastward where
we turned about and walked down the in
cline, following the lead several hundred
feet into the earth. The lead varies in width
from 10 to 80 feet, and from all appearances
extends into the earth many miles. | spent
nearly. an hour following Mr.. johnson
through tunnels, over great piles OF red ore,
and through long lanes Of trestle work,
which are in some places, three or four tiers
in height, bracing up the arched wall above.