Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1880-04-29


aased his farm to Henry Tins.
HUGH WALKER came up from the lower
nd of the valley this week.
THERE is a trong probability that the
larry product this summer will fall farther
hort of supplying the demand than ever
'etore.
MEAGHER county is receiving its first in
lux of quartz prospectors this Spring, and
nay expect some developments in quartz
he coming Summer, as well as placers.
MIR. CHARLES WILLIAMS arrived on last
Sunday with his thoroughbred stallion Car
boo. Admirers of handsome horses should
lot fail to call around and take a look at
lim.
A MOST excellent opportunity is offered to
any one desiring to invest in woolgrowing.
One thousand thoroughly acclimated sheep
are offered for sale, either before or after
See card in our local column.
AT the Administrators sale of the late !
stephen Watson's mining property in Con-
fedarate gulch last week, a claim embracing
eight acres was knocked off at $150-less |
than the cost of the survey for the patent.
The travel to Yogo has at length set in
via Diamond and White Sulphur Springs.
This is the direct route from Helena and
Butte and now that the roads are getting
in good condition will be the principal trav-
eled route.
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CAPTAIN WALTER CLIFFORD writes that
since arriving from his winter campaign
against the Utes; he has been confined to his
bed with sickness. This accounts for our
readers not seeing more of his interesting
account of the winter march of the army.
The Seiben Bros. and several other stock
raisers of Chestnut valley, have sold their
their three and four year old steers to the
Tingley Bres, of Fort Benton. The prices
obtained, we learn, were $26 for three year
olds and $27.50 for four year olds.
CHARLES TAYLOR, an energetic young
man, is making preparations to 60 into the
lime business here. He has had experience
in lime burning, and assures us that he will
be able to furnish lime in quantities to suit
purchasers at Helena prices. Those who
contemplate building may calculate on get.
ting material by the middle Of summer at a
reasonable figure.
D. L. MCFARLAND passed on Tuesday last
with his surveying party of nine men and
two wagons loaded with supplies and camp
couippage. He will begin work at the
Judith gap and work north and west. This
will give settlers near Yogo an opportunity
to locate their lands properly. Yogo miners
Will also have an opportunity Of having theil
mining claims surveyed that they may OBJ
tain government title to the same.
THE principal evidence of the prosper
ity of our country is the progress beine
made annually by our merchants and manu-
features. Every year some firm puts on (
new dress and enters into the arena of trade
more extensively. Of the firms of Montan;
few are keeping abreast of the times bettel
than George P. Reeves & Co. This firm ha
a large building and has opened fine stocl
of jewelry and goods of that description
The manufacture of jewelry, cutting o
stones, repairing of Watches etc, is done il
first-class shape. Geo. Z. Reeves has an es
tablished reputation as an efficient jewele
and repairer of watches and clocks, ant
Jehn Steinmetz, though but few years in tn
Territory, is we'll known as stone cutie
and manufacturer Of jewelry, Our reader
desiring anything in their line will do wei
to give them call. The advertisement Q
the new firm appears in this issue.
Mosr of our readers have in stories Q
frontier life read of the wondrous beauty G
some dusky maiden of the forests, noun
tains, or plains; yet there is scarcely Mor
tanian, we will venture, but has yet to Sc
his first beauty of this race. In our expcr
ence we have never met more than thre
Indian girls that atwould come anywhere nea
to the novelist's ideal, and these were eve
lacking in many particulars. But it no'
transpires that there is a girl among the hal
breed colony on American Fork OF tn
MusseIshall who excals even the finest moe