Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-01-09

LnaI Is DftHGeu, the CdbttC w w e"eiSAS
and counted in the spring.
f.. f. STRAuoRN's new book, "The Rock
ies,' is nearing completion. Fifty pages OF
the work will be devoted to Montana. The
author arrived in Helena a few days since
in search of additional data. Tn work is
to be forthcoming by the first of March and
is designed for gratuitous distribution
A BRIDGE over the Missouri river is much
needed and the canyon ferry is the best point
we know of for such a structure. There
are solid stone abutments on each side. ana
the channel is only about two hundred feet
in width. A suspension bridge might be
nut in at this point that would stand for
ages. MI.
THE Butte Miner's holiday number con-
tanned 6I colu INNS, and besides a complete
directory of the mines, mills and business OF
Butte. It contained several columns OF sta
tistical information OF Philipsburg and Glen
dale, the two next most promising mining
camps, all Of whichwas read with much
interest.
THE Western Farmers almanac for 1879
has been received. 1t is a neat volume OF
90 pages. and, besides giving much valua-
Die information about the eclipse and plan
cts of 1879, it treats upon farming sub
jects and stock raising in a very readable
manner. Acopy will be mailed to any add
dress by sending 10 cents to John F.. Nor
ton & Co.. Louisville, KY.
THE advertisement OF the Aultman &
Taylor Company Of Mansfield, Ohio, APP
pears elsewhere in this paper. Already q
number of threshing machines manufacture
ell by this company have been brought to
Montana, and as far as we have been able
to ascertain, have given general satisfaction.
The agents, Messrs. Bisel & McElroy,
whose address is Bozeman, M. T., will be
glad to secure orders for spring shipment.
THE holiday Herald is a mammoth sheet
of so columns, filed with interesting read
ing matter from the pen of number of
Montana's most prominent citizens, and is
all exhibition Of noteworthy enterprise on
the part of the publishers. A greater array
of original contributions has never before
been presented to the Montana public in
| one issue. lne CnllTG culllOH Vi lV,OOO COP-
4 les is, we learn, nearly all disposed of.
fIN crossing over the Missouri at Edmon-
: sons ferry last week Mr.. Cook, with his
band of sheep, came near breaking into the
. river. Before starting on the Ice he felt
a confident that it was strong enough to bear
o up, but on reaching the middle of the chan
5 mel the ice began to give down, and it was
!, with much difficulty that he succeeded in
crowding the sheep forward fast enough to
escape a drenching. The river at this point
!, is deep. and had the ice broken down il,
front Of the sheep it would nave been i'm
possible to save them.
$ THE following condensed meteorological
: report is furnished us by DR.. E. B. Newman,
Post Surgeon, Camp Baker, dated January
q 2, 1879:
1877.
! Rainfall. .16 $500 inches.
Highest temperature..............96o
!, Lowest " ..........36o
: 1873.
Rainfall. inches,
besides numerous inappreciable
SHOWS and showers.
Highest temperature,....91 Q July 81.
Lowest " ....36o, Dec. 81.
A POST OFFICE is very much needed at thu
coal bank on Belt river, iii the northern por
ton of Meagher county. There are from
n forty to fifty men employed at these mines
the year round, besides the region there
about is rapidly settling up with stock-me'
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