Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-11-06

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foremost. This horse has done good SER
vice this season. He is proven to be rella-
BILE and his colts from good mares make eX-
cellent carriage horses. On the way to
town I made a visit to the home OF Joseph
Lodge. Mr.. L. was absent, having gone to
the Black Hills with a herd of beef cattle,
but his genial partner, Mr.. Notes.-The. was
found in charge of the premises. He was
making some substantial improvements.
The new barn was just completed and a
granary and root house was i'll course OF
erection. These gentlemen have a pretty
farm of several hundred acres enclosed.
DEER LODGE
seems to have recovered from its long Gull
standstill and is now going right ahead
again. Business houses appeared more
plentiful than East year, and am told there
is not a vacant dwelling Or storehouse in the
place. Considerable Improvement was no
tlceable about the town, of which l may
NOTE that of the McBurney house. This
house has lately been purchased by Messss.
Aylsworth & Mcfarland. 1t is a two-storv
brick and is we'll planned. The owners
were adding to its sleeping capacity. D..
Ell. Mills. of the New North Vest. has recent
ly bought a splendid corner location and is
preparing to erect an elegant residence
thereon. He is one of the owners of the
new marble mine, lately discovered, and it
is probable that his dwelling will be first to
receive marble in its construction. The
marble polishes we'll and looks as pretty as
any I have ever seen, and it will add much
to the beauty and finish of his fine struct-
ure, as we'll as many others to be built
there. and will doubtless be a valuable prop
erty to it's owners. The jail building is an
other Of the handsome structures being
built. 1t is of brick, two-stories high and
nearly as large as the court house, and
stands Immediately at its rear. 1t is a good
I building, and Deer Lodge is worthy of a
good one, for it has high aspirations, even
to the honors of the railroad metropolis,
and has a good country to back it up.
THE COUNTY OF DEF
probably has made a greater advance in the
gain of wealth and improvement than any
other county in the territory. kWas about
to say THAI its assessment would show a
greater gain than alb the other counties this
year, but this might be putting it too high.
I will say, however, that [ saw more evil
dences of its gain during my short visit
than is noticeable in any other part of the
territory. Up to October lst OF this year
there had been 4 100 acres OF Iand taken un-
der the pre-emption. AS homesteads $3.50
acres had been proved up of timber claims
900 acres. and Of desert land, 1920 acres
making 9,7l0 acres in the county that has
been bought of the government in the las
9 nine months. Besides this there have beer
!, 1866 acres settled upon which is in the
railroad limits. This is claimed by actua
settlers who have filed declarations of occu
pancy with the county recorder. So, taking
all together, the land taken aud improved
. in the county by the agricultural peopl'
cover a grand total of. 20,075. This lane
lies along the Deer Lodge river and com
! prises all the available land to be had in tn
country. This great advance and Improve
! ment was brought about by the valuabl
: mines Of Butte, Philipsburg, Bear g,llch an
: other points. AS a I pastoral country Dee
Lodge is we'll nigh spent, and in a few year
the fine, large remaining herds and flock
will have to be moved eastward to the fresl
h pastures, and the stock-growing interest
confined to dairy herds and breeding herd
of fine stock. At all events such is tn
present outlook. When | have gone throug
the valley and seen and noted their in
provements | may then have somethin
further to say. WILL.
THE Meas North Vest thinks ''the Hu'