The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-04-12
double our population. The Montana boom
ia certainly coming


is certainly coming.
The papers along the Northern Pacific are
booming the s'Maginnis country in reck-
less way, and every town on the line of the
road from Bismarck west is claiming to be
the only reliable supply point and gateway
to the mines there is in existence.
7. Hauser ESQ, of Helena, recently
gave dinner at the Union League, in New
York, to D. G. Corb bin, j. K. s. Sherwood
and other Montanians. 1t was a sumptuous
and elaborate ''spread,' creditable to the
taste and liberality of Montanians.
The Northern Pacific has let the contract
for the Snake river bridge, on the Yellow
stone division. The piers are to be eight in
number and cost $500, 0,0OC. The entire super
structure is to be of the best quality of iron
and will cost not far from $500,000.
A dispatch recently received by General
Agent Stone at Helena, states that the North
ern Pacific will positively be completed to
Coulson by July 1st. This is good news for
Northern and Eastern Montana. Isn't it
about time to petition for direct mail route
from Benton to Coulson?
Creed Tarleton, a ranchman of Prickly
Pear valley, committed suicide by cutting his
throat with pen knife at the Sisters Hos
ptal, in Helena, on the 5th inst. He was
suffering with rheumatism and was taken to
the hospital for treatment He is supposed
to have been temporarily insane.
Dr.. Bynam, of the Upper Yellowstone,
died at his home on March 25th. He was an
old-timer in Montana-having been in Alder
Gulch in 1865. The doctor had host of
friends in Gallatin county and other parts of
Montana, who will learn with feelings of
deep sadness that his noble life is ended
G0Watin Neacs.
Col. Dodge informs US that the Northern
Pacific is now laying track upon the eastern
division at the rate of mile per day. The
track is now fifty miles west of Miles City
and has before 1t twenty five miles of smooth
ground which is already graded. The road
will be completed to the Big Horn by the
10Th Of May INDEPENDENT
HIS Bach, of Glendive, writes the Gov
ernor that five or six Indians have been killed
in the vicinity of that place this spring, and
suggests that such things should not be. The
reds are supposed to be Poplar River Sioux.
Mr. Bach thinks the agents should keep their
peacable wards at home and that all hostiles
should be driven across the line.
Mr.. Ell. Stone, General Land Agent of the
Montana Division of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company, has dispatched to the
field one of three parties of land examiners, the
remaining two to follow as soon as they can
be fitted out. These parties consist of six
men each, outftted with tents, instruments,
memoranda books, ETC., together with a
cook and cuisine. Every odd section of land
within the railroad belt is traversed method
ically and full record noted in the feld-book
of its character, soil, its different features of
topography, etc. The data thus collected is
voluminous and intended to be complete as
describing every forty acre tract within the
the railroad land office where it is re-copied
and made Of permanent record. AS fast as
the lands are examined they are thrown open
to purchase by actual settlers in parcels of
160 acre, at $3.50 per acre, cash, and decided
to the buyer. Time sales will be made on
basis of $3 per acre, onesiXth cash at time
cf purchase and balance in five annual pay
ments, at per cent. interest. The land ex-
aminers now out commenced work on town
ships 10 and II north, west, in the Prickly
Peer valley, and will work eastward to the
Gallatin valley The second party will prob
ably be outftted in time to take the field by
the latter part of next week, and the third d
| little later.-Her0gd.
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