Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-09-05
EDITORIAL CORREsPONpENCE.
Sum River. - Pleasant Homes, etc. :
Thoroughbred Stock. Port BEN.
tom. - rhc Mcleod. Navfga.
ton OF the Missouri Riv.
er Above the Falls.

III er Above the Falls.
,re
ly, A decided improvement is noticeable
air the stage stations from Helena to Sun Ri
a er, and at Mann 4 Andersons', and St,
ne phen Spitzley's, the two eating stations
IT, we were served with meals that wei
OF worthy Of praise for the excellent mamie
mt in which they were prepared.
'st Sun River has grown considerably sine
De our last visit, over three years ago, an(
er- with fine brick hotel, large store,
y, brewery, several saloons, a blacksmith
lie shop, carpenter shop, Touring mill, an
II. two school houses, presents very mic
Il appearance.
q The farmers OF Sun River Valley vii
R; reap an abundant harvest this year, boil
n. in grains and vegetables, and they are con
k, sequently happy. In justice to them, W,
re must say they are the most thrifty of an!
community Of farmers we have had thu
it pleasure of visiting. Their yards are KEEP
i in clean. presentabe condition, as nice a.
If they were expecting company. They
t nearly all live in frame houses. nicely fin
st ished inside and out, with carpeted par
q Tors and bedrooms, which are kept both
L tidy and clean. We might be tempted to
it think some of the crusty old bachelors
y kept their houses and yards in their PIES
I, ent condition to charm the first young
n lady that comes along. On closer exalni-
, nation, we would not be surprised should
II she be willing to unite her fortune with
u some one of the bachelors, for she would
!. find that they live well, literally supply
e the table with the good things of life, and,
D strangest of all, have their wood sawed
: and piled up near the kitchen. But we
will not praise them too much, believing
that if their love for woman was strong
enough, they would rustic around and
, find them to share their pleasant homes and
abundant prosperity.
At the ranch of our friend. James G.
Adams, we found some nice thoroughbred
cattle brought from Missouri the present
season by Mr.. Buford Farris. They are
pure bred short-horns of the most FASH
ionably bred families in Kentucky. Among
the lot are Duke bred young Phylises,
Red Roses, Rosemarys, Daisys. and the
get of Loudon Duke 10th. the get Of the
Rose of Sharon, Bull Joe Johnston's
Airdre, Imported Robert Napier. Duke OF
Patisondale, the noted Rose Of Sharon.
Waterloo 294O, and the Booth Bull Water
man. Mr.. Farris intends to exhibit his
animals at the Territorial Fair, where our
stock-men will have an opportunity to in
spect and purchase them. They are all
short-horn record stock, and are splendid
looking animals.
From Sun River to Fort Benton it was
our pleasure to ride in company with
pilgrim, and the pleasure Of our trip was
greatly enhanced by observing how hard
he took everything. He never forgot to
bounce up in the air every time the coach
went into chuck hole, and when it was a !
deep one, he always emitted groan that
would excite sympathy in any human
breast save that of an ''old-timer." It is
said that ''misery loves company" and we t
are satisfied it does, for it affords the one a
that is less miserable the excellent oppor. c
tunity of becoming proportionately hap il
Ply on seeing how big 4 fool the other per- il
son makes of himself. Ii
Fort Benton has made wonderful adj f
in the past three years, and is t
now almost as large place as Bozemar. S
1t has several very large warehouses. some b
Of which are concrete buildings with iron G
roofs. At present there is only one brie!. c.
building in town, commodious school I
house, but VIM. G. Conrad is having the h
laid, and will soon commence in
he erection of the finest brick residence in ct
Montana. Business in Fort Benton the b,
'ast year has been better than for several I'll
ears past. W
Or the evening previous to our depart ne
re from Fort Benton the steamer Colonel sc
fcleod arrived direct from st. Louis. She til
ad on board 100 tons Of freight, and In
bout 30 passengers, and was only draw re-
's two feet. She is Us feet long, with a M
feet breadth Of beam. The boat is an Or
pen hold boat, is well built, has nice ag
bin, etc., and while she has proven toll co
ably successful so far, in our opinion she an
i'll never prove the success she would 10,
I'd she been from to feet wider. Be- !
g SD narrow, she wabbles, and thus loses do
'wcr, and the wheel does not have the De
wer it would could it grasp more water WI
tn its paddles. chi
We left Fort Benton on the coach in JET
mpany with ten other passengers, and ing
vas the good fortune Of Col. A. NJ. Ma
oolfolk, of Helena, and myself to be ban
ced on the hurricane deck; and. by the owI
y we must relate the object Of the Col lar
els visit to that section. True, he re- pos
ested MS to say nothing about it, but w.
, of the Territorial newspapers having due
oiished an unreliable report, in Justice dee
the Colonel and his party, we give a int
rect one. nice
'olonel Voolfolk, Prof. Marsh and two and
ployecs left Helena ostensibly on pied
isure and hunting excursion, but if $l,2
Y had been followed it would have he
,spired that they took a boat at the this
rest point to Helena on the Missouri livet
n, and proceeded to drift with the We
rent. AS they fioated along, they care conc
surveyed the river as to its main PI
mel, the distractions to successful abso
igafion- the swiftness Of the current. a SIN
the depth OF water. From the start refer
point tn the Falls no lack of water was arm,
AL. few places were found where of il
Ie rocks would have to be removed bors
n the channel, but as these are mostly .Ds
e, they can he taken out without much bert,
enses@ Isse party surveying the rir@rl '-'s1t7
confident that every nl,sAs.sictlOf can SafiI
less than $1,000. The char
nest current found was six and one who
miles an hour which is one-half mile and
hour less than the swiftest channel npoI
nd by Col. Roberts in his survey from wro
Three Forks to the Falls. Leaving the kne,
II short distance above the upper falls mos
oe''"u uown the river over of al
on tile south side to the mouth of an e1
creek, about four miles b.low tho in, !