The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-10-19

Call at the RIVER PRESS Office and see tn
Paragraph binding, the neatest and bes
thing out for letter heads. bill heads, state
ments, etc. 1t is cheap, durable and con
v%enient, and.needs only to be seen to be ap
preciated BY business men.
Fl. P. Rolfe informs US that The Utah {
Northern engineers are making rapid pro
gress towards Benton and will be here in th'
course Of a few days. They have stolen s
march on the Northern Pacific surveyors
and will get in ahead Of them.
A company consisting of Lambert, Glen
| denim, Caruthers and Kane claim the site o.
Gold Run as placer mining ground and il
the opinion of able attorneys will succeed il
making good their claim. They are now
constructing u ditch to work their diggings.
We are pleased, to note that the business Of
the Martinsdale and Barker stage lines il
constantly on the increase. From the Springs
70 Martinsdale and Maginnis especially they
are always loaded down with freight and bu,
receltly were 1000 lbs. behind with freight
at Martinsdale.
Our farmers have been caught mapping,
SO to SPEAK, by the storm. The potatoes,
and in fact all root crops, are for the most
part inssthe ground yet, and some uneasiness
is felt as to their safety. If the snow goes
off soon and is NOT followed by hard frost
the damage will not be very great.
The report Of the First National Bank Of
this city will be found elsewhere in the RIv-
Err PRESS, and it is q showing in every re-
spect satisfactory. The facts furnished DEM
onstrate that this institution is in 9 prosper
Gus condition and growing constantly with
the business OF our town and country tribu-
tary.
Mr.. Fl. 2. Rolfe has lately received q new
transit with solar attachment, the best in
strument ever introduced into this country.
With the Gradienter, a newly patented at
tachment, distance and difference of level can
be ascertained much more accurately and
rapidly than by the old process Of claiming.
The instrument is q thing of beauty to the
engineers eye and will no doubt do fine
work. .
MI. Brady, who is here in the interest Of
Governor Allis, Of Wisconsin, Twill leave to-
morrow in company with Mr.. Max Water
man for the Barker District. He is a miner
O sslarge experience and expresses himself
very much pleased with the specimens of
Barker ore he has examined. If his report
upon the merits of the camp is favorable an
other smelter will be in operation in the
Barker District within q year.
Justus Fry, of Deadwood, is in the city
preparing to open 8 photograph gallery at
this place. He will probably occupy q build
ing belonging to MIR. Kelly, on upper Front
street, and will fit up the same in good style.
He will be ready for business in q few
weeks. The RIVER PRESS ad. fetched him,
and we will be very much surprised if a mil
liner does not put in an appearance before
the daises bud and bloom again.
Onr Barker subscribers have sent in nu-
merous complaints about not receiving the
RIVER PRESS, and state that two or three
times the Barker package did not show up
at all. Last week q package belonging to
another postofice was sent to the camp and
as q result some fifty or sixty of our sub
scribers did not receive their papers. AS we
put the papers in the postoflce regularly
n roa1y no MT ocronivn 1u1.of $ha
trouble is, unless the proverbial carelessness
of the Benton P. III.
Last evening the Choteau House was the
scene Of another conquest BY Hymen. The
parties caught in his moose this time are Mr..
P. Fl. Hughes, one Of the bonanza kings, Of
Barker, and Agnes V. Cartright, both well
and favorably known in Benton. Rev.
Mr.. Blackiston performed the ceremony in
the presence of q few friends, after which
hearty congratulations followed. MIR. and
Mrs. Hughes leave to-day for their home at
Hughes City, Barker district. The RIVER
Press unites with their friends in wishing
them all possible happiness.
r. w. Clifford came up from the Judith q
few days ago, and has been busy this week
counting out the one thousand head of ewes
purchased some time since by Clifford, Clary
& Moreson. He will start this band and also
the wether band Of Or. Parberry's, which he
has contracted to winter, in a few days for
their new home. This company had the mis-
fortune to get so tons of hay burned but
have $50 tons left. MFR. Clifford assures us
that If it had been necessary they could have
put up 500 tons. They 60 into the winter
with their flocks feeling perfectly secure
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