The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1883-12-13
MONTANA NEWS.

of building a flour null at that point.
The man who rob ed Power & Co.,
of Benton, of $500 last week has not
vet been caught
The forthcoming history Of Montana
will consist OF two volumes of about
I 900 pages each.
The Trout creek trail to Cnur d
Alene is being worked, and it WI
likely become a toll roAd.-Missoula
Times.
Mr.. King informs us that last even
ing the drill in the aresian well had
attained a depth of $40 feet B li.ngs
Herald.
HAY is worth almost its weight in
gold N some sections Of the Ter itory.
In Bute prime loose is plenty at SIS.
Miner
Miles City has a saloon which
flourishes under the at ractve name
of the Dog Ranch. The concern is
supposed to deal in liquid hydroph-
obia.
Daniel Maxey recently sod his coal
mine near Bozeman for $4,000 to
lanes r. Maxwell of Delaware who
has accumulated a fortune IN the Penn
sylvania coal mines.
1t is said that there have been over
200 deer killed in the Dry range,
| Melgher county this fall. A number
of elk and bear have a'so been killed in
the same hunting ground.
The most startling thing that has
occu. red at Cook City recently, was
the birth of a child on the 18th inst,
the mother, Julia Foster, being but
eleven years and nine months old.
The sol d 'tv of banking interests in
Montana is shown by the Governors
report to the secretary of the interior
which shows the assets of Montana
national bank to be $7,2So,2s3.35.
Governor Crosby has refused to
, pardon George w. Wells. convic ed OF
burglary Of Henry Filings bank at
Virginia City in 1879. Wells is serving
out ten-year sentance for the offence.
The Emma Bell and Adolphus
q, mines. in Boulder District, owned by
Butte parties, have been bonded tc
Charles Moore, in the interest Of East
ern capital, for so, o,ooo.-Butte Miner
g The city is full of miners and pros
pectors who have come in to MAXI
= their winter quarters at the metropo
lis. Many of them will strike thu
Ce1r Il Alenes next spring.-Butt
Miner.
= The last train load of Montani
cattle delivered in Chicago averages
,264 pounds each, and they sold a
the top figures. The steers average,
, S6.75 per hundred pounds, and tn
others IS.
Helena is said to be so dull that
a man perperates a joke he has to hlr
somebody to laugh at 1t. The peopl
are too nearly scared to death to sc
the pont Of any kind of a pun.-Ber
!. ton Record.
= 1t is estimated that over 4,oc
hunters are engaged in slaughterin
deer and bufllo along the line of II
Northern Pacific between Mandan an
Livingston, Montana, and the game
= fast disappearing.
In ad 1ition to the rich placer di
gilgs in the CGur d Alenes, 4 thre
,r foot quartz lead has been struck whiC
= does not need assaying to determ:I
}. its value, as free gold is visible
through the rock.
The resources Of the National ban
EE of Montana Is 81, $50, 2S5.55, and Il
cap tai stock paid in amounts to s
III 900. The private banks OF 4
"a Territory have a capital of $500, 90
. and private deposits of 1900, 900.
d. H. Gilmore has returned fro
Marquette, Michigan, where he h
succeeded in interesting some of
wealthy m ming men Of that region
Montana m ming property. Tney pl
g pose coming out in the early spring
- look the ground over and commen
ac i've mining operations.-Independ'
Ed. Smith, the fre'ghter, is in
city. His teams have been kept b'
the past summer hauling bu on fr
10, Barker to Do.nix. on the Nor. h'