Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-11-20
AMONG THE FARMERS.


AMONG THE FARMERS.
UPON WARN Spring CREEK
there is some most excellent farm land, and
good farms skirt its shores. from far up the
mountains to the very mouth of the stream.
OF these [ may name that OF G. V. Jones,
John Stuckey. Saml. Dryden, Alex. Clio
yer, Chas. Bagg and John T. Thomas. The
first named gentleman has a splendid loca-
ton at the head Of the valley. He raises
fine crops and gives considerable attention
to stock-raising. Mr.. Stuokey is also a
farmer, and keeps hotel. 1t is the home
station of the Philipsburg and Butte stage
line. His house is roomy and well arranged
and travellers are given the best OF fare.
Samuel Dryden is next on the way. His is
a nice farm and we'll arranged for the dali
rying business. He is engaged with the
Moss Bros. at Butte in baling hay. They
have a derrick baler which presses 100
pounds of hay into a solid bale, p inches in
width and breadth, 3 feet long, tying it with
wire. MIR. Glover is next below and has a
pretty place. The hail damaged him last
wear, but this season he was favored with
good crops. / am pleased to note his pros
perity. Judge Bagg shows good advance
in improvement. He has in the few years
here accumulated a good lot of stock and
made a pleasant home, and none are more
deserving of such riches than he. Mr..
Thomas, whose place is near the Warm
Springs. is Also pleasantly situated. He is
probably the most extensive wool-grower
in the county. He has lately arrived with a
large flock from the Pacific coast.
VAR SPRINGS
is becoming quite a place OF resort tor health
and pleasure-seekers. New rooms have
been added till it is now capable of enter
tanning a large number of persons. The
bath houses are we'll fitted up, and every
thing about looks neat. Drs. Mitchell y
Musigbrod, the proprietors, have shown
more taste and taken more pains to make
the place attractive than has been done at
any other such resort, and they are deserv-
ing of a good patronage for it.
THE vALLE
above the Springs is now quite thickly set
tied. Upon a few Of the farms grain is
SAoN1l, DUO tuC inquiry = Aol'N oC"o
ow, and very fine. The farmers visited
were "A. Smith, John Norton, VIM. Evans,
Morgan Evans and Benjamin Philips. The
first is a farmer and blacksmith. He sells
yearly about 150 tons of: hay, and does a
good business at his trade. Mr.. Norton has
a fine hay farm and stock ranch. His hay
is a cash article, selling for SIP and $l5 per
ton In the stack. VIM. Evans farm is
mostly hay, yet he grows considerable
grain. He was one of the first to introduce
the Woods Self Binder. Morgan Evans is
the real estate king Of the valley. He cul-
tivates more acres and does a larger farm
ing business than any other. He was rum
ming two steam threshers and binning up
many thousand. bushels Of grain. lie will
attach steam power to his Touring mill this
winter and run it through the whole season.
1t is pleasing to, note his prosperity, and
with what degree of promptness he docs
his work on the farm. Mr.. Philips lives at
the head of the valley, and is one Of its cat
tie kings. His herds now range in Choteau
and Meagher counties. His residence con-
tains fourteen rooms and is elegantly de-
signed and beautifully finished. 1t is, in.
deed, a, model home, one that will do to
pattern after. WILL.
Accomplished locomotive engineers at.
tain marvellous precision. For a long time