Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-12-04

OUNIA
The late cold snap choked the Missouri
river ferries, but the mild weather since has '
unlocked them again. 9
GEO. CL@ENpENS1NG is making additions
to his dwelling at Martinsdale. He was up :
last week with several teams for lumber.
MRS. A. j. STEPHENS was on a Visit 70
the Springs this week. She was much
pleased with the beauty of our embryo
city.
MARKS, PATTERSON & LLOYD will have
their saw-mill running on the Missouri val
lev again soon. The demand for lumber is
very great.
SGME of the Missouri valley herds have
escaped the black-leg remarkably well.
Mark Shelly, who has one of the largest
herds upon the upper valley, reports a loss
of only four or five head.
THOMAS CooNEY and j. V. Stafford have
been the heaviest losers on the Missouri
valley from backlog. MIR. Cooney has lost
oyer $50 calves and yearlings, and Mr.. Stat
ford lost about eighty per cent.
WIN. LAMoTT, Helena, who was robbed a
few weeks ago of his horses and money at
the Judith gap, passed this week. lie re-
covered two of his horses on the Yellow
stone.
WE learn that Messrs: Wetzel & CO., Of
Benton. have examined the timber on the
head of the Judith near the new mines and
will move over a saw-mill as soon as the
season will admit. With the new road via
Moore's trail, lumber could be delivered
here about as reasonably as from any other
point.
ONE COLD, windy night last week caused
considerable loss among some fiocks kept
: in open corrals. The new firm of Lewis &
Co. lost thirty head, and Burt, Cans q Klein
lost about $50, by piling up. The wind
caused them to pile up against the fences
! until they tell over, Many of those on the
e bottom of course suffocated.
?. CARR, q sprightly young man from ST
Louis, Mo-, was a passenger on the eastern
! bound coach a few days since for Martins
dale. He goes to the lately established
stock ranch of Leonberger, Sanford q ROst
on the Sweet Grass, where he proposes t
- spend the winter, and in the event that III
likes the stock business, will invest in tn
. spring. He comes we'll recommended an
we are pleased to extend to him a cordia
welcome to our mountain home.
CHRISTMAS at Diamond City promises
be as interesting as ever. Mr.. John Smith
a of the Diamond City hotel, announces
Of grand ball to take place OIL the evening {
the 25th. Some of the most pleasant gail
erings we have ever participated in were
;. Diamond, and we have no doubt but tn;
:, the ball announced will be equal to the bes
= Mr.. Smith is an excellent hotel manage
and knows how to make guests feel at HON
Let all who would have an evening OF e
ioyment make up their minds to attend Il
*. Christmas ball at Diamond.
INF THERE is some complaint among the su
scribers of the H~UsBANDMAN about the ma
nerin which the mail is treated in some
a our country offices. III. Rosenbaum. of t
Missouri valley, discontinued his paper
'ep few days since on account of the manner
re. which it was mussed up and thrown arou
is at the Canton office. We regret to be l
der the necessity of speaking of such m
ing tiers, but when it effects our purse it is a {
ate tv we owe to ourselves as well as our 81
no. scribers. This is the first time we have b
is occasion to refer to the matter, and
will trust it may be the last.