The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-03-22
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OF Rscks and Twin Bridges.
POINT OF ROCKS, March s, 1881

POINT OF ROCKS, March s, 1881.
Editor Butte MINER:
Leaving Glendale by the Camp Creek road
l recrossed the river the morning of the 9Th
inst, and proceeded l~eisurely on my way to
Dillon via Brownies Bridge down the Big
Hole valley. Thousands Of acres of fertile,
arabic land, in this great depression have
been fenced in and used solely for pasturage,
that should and ought to be, now while i'm
migration is so rapidly moving westward, the
public domain and future home of hundreds
of small farmers. The soil, a sandy loan,
can be readily irrigated and wherever so
treated has invariably produced large crops of
wheat, oats and barley. The Big Hole river
has a volume of water running to waste sutfi-
cient to cultivate every foot of ground on the
| he of its water shed. The incoming set
tier will move on and down into sections
equally as good, though more remote from
the railroad and business centres and there
build the nucleus of our great cities of the
future. Passing Ben Chesters l was pleased
to learn that he was convalescing from the &C
cident which some time ago fractured one of
his legs. The road from here to the ermlnus
is one of the best l ever saw in the country,
being free from bad spots and very dry and
dusty all the way. Willis still keeps the
station below Brownies. He has a bonanza in
the new camp at Mccarthy mountain and
and lives the life of easy opulence with moth
ing to mar its pleasures but the occasional
advent of an lnqu!sitive commercial traveller.
At Dillon l again had the pleasure Of meet
ing H. T. Brown, Esq, whose entire time
during his short stay of "a hours seemed to be
taken up in bidding a temporary adieu to an
army of friends.
c. F. HawNes is the proprietor Of the Val
ley house, and within its parlors l found many
old Montanians going to or returning from
the east. His hotel lies directly opposite the
depot, is very complete in its appointments,
aud sets the best table to be found east of
Glendale. There is at present a depression
in business here, owing to the non-arrival of
Montana freights. The town is eligibly stu
ated in the broad lowlands on the right bank
of the Beaverhead river, has many good bus
mess houses and private residences, a we'll
patronized weekly newspaper of creditable
typographical appearance and large local Cir
culation, called the Dillon Tribune. Mr..
~Brundage, the editor, is assisted in the local
department by Frank Kline, formerly of the
Sheridan Messenger, a competent and indie
f,tipohla ro+Lorar ~ ore, ;+,,>, ,u
the principal houses the Kirkpatrick Bros,
Trask & Co. and MessIs. Sebree, Ferris &
White seem to be doing the most, all carrying
large and well-selected stocks of general mer-
chandise. Sim Estes runs a large livery STA
bic, and a Justices court in connection with
it. His Honor presides with great dignity,
noticeably so in the recent trial before him
wherein the territory of Montana was the
complainant against Mr.. and Mrs. A and B,
who, it appears, grievously assaulted one Doe.
This gentleman, with the refreshing innocence
OF youth, had, it appears, entered into a mat
rimonial arrangement with the lady defend
ant contingent upon herleaving her liege lord,
and, to make the contract binding, delivered
over into her possession much furniture and
other household appendage. but time rolled
around and no divorce came to gladden. the
lorn lover after another mans better half.
He ventured around to strengthen up matters
when, 10, the irrasible husband, hitherto in
the background, comes upon the scene and at
once opens a fusilade of small artillery upon
the would-be destroyer of his happiness. Fail
ing to kill in this way, he uses his weapon
with deadly effect on his victims head.
Here the court steps in to assert its majesty
the complexion of matters now change the
husband atfirms the whole thing is a conspir-
acy against the man he has so badly maltreat-
ed says he was afraid of his wife: declares
he was induced to do the act by another man
and exhibits the greatest penitence. Result:
Other man in Jail for conspiracy attachment
on furniture for court costs; the deceived and
his would-be murderer on terms ofthe closest
intimacy the lady defiant and outrageously
indignant lawyers plethoric of purse and
still willing to fight the case, strictly on its
merits, you know, while on and above all,
presides the genial Sim, who, for the life of
him, cannot see why people can't live neigh
borly.
Down the Beaverhead valley to Point of
Rocks, where l found everybody prosperous
and wisely preparing for spring planting
Mrs. Annie Martin keeps the station and gave
me a cordial welcome, as she does, in fact, tc
all representatives of the press. From here
to the Twin Bridges down between the river;
lie the great grain growing ranches of Madi
son county. Standing on the divide be-
low the point, the eye takes in {
section of country which, for beauty ant
fertility, has 10 equal in the west. The vel
low stubble sweeps back from the valley t.
the broad table lands of the interior unit