The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-06-23
MONTANA NEWS.

Buffalo robes average $3.50 each nj
Benton.
Hay Bros. are slearin. 1900 sheep at
Shonkin grade.
Regular trains commenced runnin. 10
Helena Yesterday.
! Trains will commence running IL Helena
regularly early next week.
Fort Benton talks about putting draw
bridge Oh the Missouri.
| Livingston rejoice, in the prospect Of
| Congregational church.
Helena people now make the trip to st.
! Paul in two days and a half.
! The Tribune tells Of rich gold find
within thirty miles of Livingston.
There are 600 men and l75 teams in the
Winston outfit on the Park branch
Fifteen thousand cattle have already ar.
rived in the Yellowstone valley from the
states
4 Post Office has been established ut
Townsend, the station at the Crossing of
the Missouri
The Great Eastern lode claim in Elniyrant
Peak is being developed with excellent
prospects.
The wool clip of Beaverhead county last
year was about 100000 pounds. This year
it is expected to be at least Co., 900.
Ten persons, Chinese and whites, were
arrested at Livingston, lastiFriday, for yio-
lation of the law prohibiting opium smok-
ing.
High house rents absorb incomes sin
Butte and Helena. The tenants cry down
with the rents,' and the landlords reply
''dOwn with the dust
The Mining and Scientific Press soon
proposes to issue an edition Of that peri
odical devoted entirely to s description of
the mining districts of Montana
The sheriff of Dawson county offers 500
for the arrest of WinsIow Roberts Jasper
Hultx. and Jack Smith, who tried to run
Glendivc one night about two weeks ago.
The fre-prO"f warehouse in the rear of
w. {. Mathcson's store, in the old town.
Livingston, was burglarized, and cigars and
tobacco taken to the value Of at least $500
4 complete showing from Montana mines
is desirable at the Denver Exposition. J.
B. Read, commissioner from Montana to
the exposition will take charge Of speci-
mems sent him. Hi. address is Butte.
Paris Gibson says that as soon as the
graders complete the National Park branch
of the Northern Pacific they will be trans
ferrcd to the Benton branch which will be
built out to Bull mountains this fall.
Young cattle III large numbers continue
to be shipped from Iowa and Illinois to the
bunch-grass ranges of Montana. 1t is stated
that the Northern Pacific has transported
this year to this territory from the States
nearly Or quite 10000 head.
Judge H. y. Mcguire of Bozeman, j.
about to commence in earnest his promised
History of the Last Fields of the Sioux"
In its full scope it will embrace, carefully
compiled and we'll authenticated, all the
facts in regard to the first settlement of.
and the progress of civilization in Montana
Territory.
The Press says: l.. A. Whitney sold the
entire wool crop of his her,i of 1000 sheep
on the Tongue river near Miles CITY yester-
day. for 81 ,3l9, an average Of about Sl,3O
per head. The wool is of high grade and
if the herd had been composed of a larger
proportion of older stock, Mr.. Whitney
would doubtless have realized a larger
average profit. The purchaser was Mr.. NJ.
Calm.
grower Of Eastern Montana, estimates the
number Of sheep in the territory at &C.,
25O,OOO Of them being In
Choteau and Meashsr counties, and OF
these majority are high-bred Merinos.
Montana's clip in 1882 was s,00O,e0O
pounds. but as it is only ten years since the
first sheep was driven into Montana from
California, it is certain that Mr.. Gibson is
safe when he predicts that it will bs 80,
900, 900 pounds of wool per annuin in ten
years from now.
The purchase yesterday by our fellow
citizen, James Blake. Of the Ane band Of
American mares, fifteen in number, for
s., 500 was the talk of the town among
horse men as being one of the most inn
portant among the fine bargains in stock
obtained this year. The animals were all
we'll bred and there was not rough one in
the lot and some Of them very stylish. from
which he has picked span ofeorrels worth
$500. The purchase is of great Importance
to the fine stock of Montana, as Blake in
tends to breed them all with the best blood
;n tie Territory -lielena Herald.