The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1880-12-29

quite q loss IN the shape Ol TWO pSo hoeeo'
Judge Tattan will continue to practise law
in connection with his county offices; bis law
Office will hereafter be in the county clerks
Office.
Pres. Lewis and Dave Brown, started Tor
Highwood this morning with their teams,
where they will turn out and make their Win
ter quarters.
AS an instance Of the rapid change q Chi
nook in Montana makes in the temperature,
we will state that in tWenty-four hours after
the thermometer marked 81 below zero, it
had risen to 35 above. ~~~~--~-
4 During the late cold snap, it being reported
to Col. Moale that some families in town who
had 40 men folk to look after them were
without fuel, and actually suffering from the
cold, he, with a promptness which did credit
to his humanity, Immediately sent wood to
them and took steps to ascertain If there were
any more whose condition he could relieve.
We have heard that considerable feeling
was manifested by some parties at our re-
marks last week about the house Of l. q.
Baker 6 Co. refusing us the statement OF
the shipments of the Baker line of steamers.
The showing was made in justice to our
selves. Many persons had asked Us why we
had Disseminated between the Benton ? Line
and the Baker Line in publishing the ship
ments Of the one and not the other, and it
was necessary to let the public know that the
discrimination was on their part, and not on
ours. The RIVER PRESS aims ito make no
discrimination in q business point Of view be-
tween any Of the houses here, but to do all
in its power to enhance the interest Of Ben
ton in a commercial sense. This is a plain
statement of the facts, and on this we are
willing to rest our case.
for not coming out on time this week, but
1--we proposed and Providence interposed by
sending the storm king to pay us a visit on
the evening before publication day. With
1.-Two stoves going at a red heat we were un-
able to do a stroke Of work, and printers will
understand the state of affairs when we tell
them that the type on the stones was frozen
so solid that an effort to move it only resulted
in breaking it clean off above the leads. The
only way it could be moved was with a NAL
let, and hot water poured on it froZe on the
face Of the type before it could be lifted. On
the bed Of the press lay q sheet Of frost, and
the ink was SITTER than-"molasses in Janu-
ary." Under these circumstances, we were
compelled to suspend work entirely for over
two days, thus making it Saturday before we
are able TO lay the paper before our subscrib-
enterprise, by the reproduction Of the two
column misstatement Of the shipping interest,
the doubling up Of q few advertisement and
the publication Of a ''dead" mineral notice,
got out only one day behind.
Mr.. L. T. Marshall has kindly allowed us
to give the following extract from a letter re-
ceiYed by him from a brother at St. Albert,
in the Saskatchewan country, which may he
Of interest to some Of our readers: eve
have had a very wet and cold summer; the
grain crops have been considerably damaged
by the early frosts. There are plenty of root
vegetables that will help the farmers out a
little. 1t is very hard to get farming tools
here, and when we can get them we have to
pay $45 and $50 for breaking-plows, and
everything else in propoItion-5O cents per
fpound for harrow teeth. I wish you would
try and find out what the latest patent mowers
and rakes can be delivered at Fort Macleod
for. There are several men here who want
to buy mowers, and also single reapers the
combined mower and reaper is too heavy for
this country. Il We could get them cheaper
from Benton than from Red River the people
here would have them brought from the first
named place. There are only three or four
reapers in this country, and it is hard to get
with a scythe this hummer. There is another
great drawback TO this country-the scarcity
OF work horses. When ON one brings in a
span or two they ask from $3.50 to $500 per
span, and that very few farmers can afford to
pay. If some party would bring in band
Of broke horses that would weigh between
900 and ! 1000 pounds and could sell them for
800 or 1926 each, they could sell a good
many. think q man might be able to buy
them in Montana SO that be could sell them
here at those prices. There is more money
to be made in this country in horses and cat
tle than in anything else
--mv t-sSa~p,,9E-
mAnofasr- Leefnres---
a man named Martin Daily, who kept a lit