The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-09-09
aSHE STILL LIVES.1
An observant Traveller Tells Some Facts About
Deer Lodge.

| VIII Sutheriia in Husbdndman.
| The division of Deer Lodge county seems
not to have affected the town of Deer Lodge.
1t is all there and little more, some inn
provements having been made, and is as
pretty rs ever-the most beautiful by far of
any town in these Rocky Mountains. A few
persons moved away, but others have taken
their place, as I am told that every dwelling
| is occupied. Business with the merchants is
about the same as 10 was two or three years
| ago. They carry large stocks and, though
| there seems to be no rush, business moves
| quietly along, and all appear contented and
| happy. 1t il feared by some citizens that the
| location of the Northern Pacific Railroad
over the Mullan Pass may cause the building
of a rival town at the mouth of Little Black
| foot creek nine miles below. Yet the people
| of this town appear to be less disturbed than
| is noticeable in Bozeman and other towns
along the route of that road Since the val
| ley has become thickly settled with farming
people, and the town derives its business
mainly from them, and since every product
| is in demand ut remunerative prices, all are
| therefore prosperous. More development of
philosophical enterprise Is perceptible in
Territory The building ofthree fine churches,
| several school houses, and the mammoth
Collegiate Institute building shows that Deer
Lodge has good share of citizens composed
| of the right kind of metal, and it Is curious
they have not gone on further, for there is
room. The valley Of Deer Lodge stands
greatly in need of first-class Touring mill,
and at Deer Lodge City would seem the most
convenient and appropriate point forts cree
tisn, all things considered. With mill
turning out first-class article of -four, Deer
Lodge will have made another step toward
permanency, which rival town would
hardly dare to over-match. The mill would
be an everlasting hitch on the agricultural
people, and the town could survive, whether
pierced by trunk line or branch railroad.
The day is not far distant when wooden mills
and other manufacturing machinery will be
operated with profit in Montana, aud the en-
terprise that would cause the building OF fine
churches, institute buildings, school houses
and Touring mills would locate wooden mills,
etc., finally clustering about the pleasant
city a wealth and population of which its
founders, builders and friends would ever be
proud.
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| enterprising hotel keepers in the Rocky
Mountai ns--M essrs. Ellsworth & Mcfarland,
proprietors of the McBurney House, and who
have branch house 1.-THE st. Nicholas) at
Butte City. Persons In the Silverado can en-
gage lodging in the Queen City before start
| ing on the journey, which Is now made by n
high tariff coach line in five hours, but then
one can stand little tough staging when he
knows he is to receive good treatment when
he gets there.
Sam Scott, proprietor of the Scott House, is
not less enterprising than the McBurney
| folks, and his commodious house Is kept In
| the same first-class manner for which il has
| long been noted
Deer Lodge is somewhat noted NJ being the
home of the owners Of more fine stock, es-
pecially fine horses, than any other town in
| the Territory. The most prominent of those
owning fine and fast horses are Sam Scott
Joseph Lodge, Sam Beaumont, Thos. Stuart
Ed. Larabie, Con. Kohrs and A. zozel.
|
Besides the horse-raisers above mentioned,
there are number Of Others living In the
neighborhood Of Deer Lodge who are en-
gagged in sheep and cattle raising. more es-
peeially sheep. OF these the names of Philip
Evans, John Napton and w. L. Irvine are
familiar. Naptons sheep wintered on the
Little Blackfoet, and came out with compar-
| alive light loss, In fact none worth naming
| Mr.. Evans flock wintered on the Big Hole,
where he had abundant hay provided, and
anne through with like success. In short, the
Deer Lodge woolgrowers Jared better this
| year than sheep men Of any other section.
| They came out of the winter with little loss
had good crops of lambs aud heavy clips of
wool, which they sold at the top figures of
the season.