Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-11-20
WIN. BUCHANAN has been appointed post
at the new mines.

at the new mines. I
THE roads are in excellent condition for
teaming, yet transportation is a third higher
than it was two months ago.
THE north line of Meagher county is four
miles thirty-seven chains and eighty-ive
links north OF the south line of township
nineteen.
The new school-house at White Sulphur
Springs is rapidly nearing completion, and
when finished will be the best school build
ing in Meagher county.
ONE of Murphy, Neel & Co.'s Ok trains,
with Joe Pickett in charge, passed through
town this week en- route to Helena from
Carroll, loaded with goods. Having lost
fifteen head of oxen by stampeding with
buffalo. and quite a number being foot-sore,
the train lightened up at White Sulphur
Springs.
SEVERAL parties have passed through
Diamond from the new mines the past
week. A Mr.. Mckay, of Butte, came in
and recorded several leads which he thinks
will prove very rich. He ~pronounces the
quartz IN the vicinity of the Judith good,
and proposes making a home at 1ago and
engaging in quartz mining.
j. j. DoNNELY, who has been engaged in
surveying the boundary line between
Meagher and Choteau counties, writes to
our County Clerk that the result is decided
ly in favor OF Meagher county that a large
~ &c t,r~skorry c,7nr,0cnI fn hnInnO To
Choteau lies in Meagher county. Mr.. Don
nelly ran as tar east as the Martinsdale and
Benton road, at which point he was forced
to abandon the work for the season for the
want of grass, the country east having been
swept by fire. The work is to be complet-
ed in the spring.
RUFUS PAYNE, of Fort Benton, who has
been at White Sulphur Springs for the past
five weeks receiving treatment for rheuma-
tism, left for home on Monday much i'm
! proved and highly pleased with the relief
obtained. Mr.. p. is one of the substantial
and influential tradesmen of Benton, doing
! an extensive blacksmithing business. Ill
) is thoroughly convinced of the benefits tx
! be derived by his town from the opening ul
l of a road into the Smith river country, ant
we have no doubt but that his visit will b.
s the means of much benefit to the Smltl
river and Benton people.
u T.. D. SMITH, just up from the judith
says in passing through the burnt distric
in that valley, he saw a herd of stock cattl
g numbering about thirty head. They wer
If wandering along a small creek, searchin
# for food which at that point was very scarce
d the whole country for many miles havin
i. been burned off. He undertook to ascel
tain the brands. but found them to be
- mixed lot seemingly Struggling from I'll
- = range. He is of the opinion that they b
long to the Musselshell herdsmen, an
= thinks from the direction they were goin!
: that there is danger of their starving shou
winter overtake them, since they We're fro
thirty to fifty miles from feed.
~ T.. D. SMITH, of Smith Bros, Crow cree
- passed over home from an extended visit
- the Judith country and new mines. lie
highly pleased with the country, and h
selected a location to which he proposes
move his flock of sheep next summer. t
Mt followed down the Judith from the min
ed as far as Big Spring creek, some seven
lin miles below the new town of Yago, a
as estimates that there are as many acres
fine tillable land in that valley as there is
he all Montana besides. On the north side
~ the judith, which had not been burnt,
in says the valley is one vast level plain GOV
ed with grass nearly knee high, the graz
he est meadow he ever beheld, and scarcely
D. acre but would yield two or three tons
om hay to the acre. At Reed & Bowls pli