The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-06-30
OUR COLLECTORS ACCOUNT.
Some Notes at Sight on Patrons.

/ made thirty-seven calls on the subscribers
of the NEW NORTHWEST in upper Deer
Lodge valley, principally among the ranch
ers, in two days and half last week.
The first was upon p. Hoyt, postmaster at
Race Track, where fonnd everything, from
store to stable, in the best order. Hoyt has
one Of the best stopping places on the Butte
road, and treats the wayfaring man in the
best manner.
Ed. Magone was hard at work mending
his ways in the Race Track lane.
j. G. wissell is genial landlord, and has
the great summer resort of the valley.
j. w. Jones has one of the best ranches on
the road. He was at work on a new seven
mile ditch from Race Track, and has a new
forty acres just north of his house enclosed
and under cultivation.
r. G. Terrell has large crop and a good
one, an interesting family, and is one of the
industrious men of the valley.
Jos. Remington has enclosed new ranch
on Modesty Creek and is building q new
house.
Victor Hory is fitting up larger house,
which looks as though 1t was intended Tor
tpo.
George Jacques was found shearing sheep,
but he sent the collector son his way re-
joicing."
1 reached the ranch of Porter and Mallory
about shutdown. Everything seemed to be in
good shape, II 20. K" Is in Oregon and Por-
ter in California.
Frank Stephens has a very pleasant resi-
dence on the foothills, where we are always
welcomed and treated with the most approved
hospitality. Ispent two nights there, visit
ing the school on the intervening day. Mrs.
Vestal Is teaching one of the best schools in
the county, on Lost Creek. Ispent the entire
day Thursday in the school, and was very
much pleased with her method of teaching
U. S. History, Geography, and so forth, by
outlines, and with her method of iustructing
the youngest pupils in reading and numbers.
There were twenty-five pupils in attendance,
and i heard, beside classes in the common
school branches, classes in Algebra, Political
States. Mrs. Vestal is a teacher of large ex-
perience and quite an acquisition to the
corps of Deer Lodge teachers.
Early on Friday morning dismounted at
the snug house of James Dingle, nnder the
hill. He has good ranch in good cultiva-
tlon.
passed the scene of the Warm Springs
riot" without a flag of truce, but did not find
g, G. Vineyard at home.
Near the mouth of Mill Creek canon is a
new house built by w. N. Allen, of French
Gulch, where his family spends the winters.
One and half miles farther up Is the hay
ranch of Thomas Parker, lately enclosed,
which will bring good returns this year.
About noon dropped in upon B. j. Phil
lips, who was enjoying his after dinner pipe
and his pretty grandchild, and thinking Of
his band of cattle in the Judith Basiu.
Soon after b. Parrot, at the fine ranch of
Parrot and Notes.-The, gave me as good a
dinner as a tired and hungry collector wants,
and Frank came in in time to smoke cigar
with me and add to the hospitality OF the oc-
casion. These men are among the most
thrifty of the ranchmen in the upper valley.
G. FL. Adams has built a very comfortable
new house in front of his old one and is do
ing well;
the U. & n. Il. r. at the upper end of Deer
Lodge canon.
w Wright is call right" His place,
crops and all, looks we'll.
At Silver Bow Junction introduced my
self to a man whom everybody knows-B. L.
White. He is an appreciative reader of "the
best weekly paper in Montana" and intro
duced me to Mr.. Jsslyn, the gentlemanly
manager of the business of John w. Lowell.
There was not much stir at the Junction
Most of the business houses are only tempo
rary, and the freight handled there is mostly
for Deer Lodge, Missoula, and intermediate
points.
1 spent Friday night with AL Pierse, at
the Hump. He knows how to take care of
man and beast and how to play croquet.
On the ride down the next morning, the
new house of j. r. Perdee greeted my vision
for the first time il il, as well as the resi-
dences of VIM. Norton and A. A. Smith, an
ornament to the valley.
failed to find Peter Peters or John Phifer
or w. L. Beal at home, but took lunch with
the latter's family very pleasantly. @.