The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-06-30
MONTANA NEWS.

mile in l4o
Nontana i, The oil. tc,titpr. nIiri. i
out Of debt
Potatoes are selling Tor ave cents a pour,,
in Mis>oula.
Montana has produced somUyy, 900 il
precious metals
The court hou> being erected il, Butte
will cost sSU.VDO
! The Presbyterian cIurcI, at Miles Git,
vas dedicated ON the l1til inst
I Never Bros, have just imported two ear,
loads ofbloodcd cattle from Scotland
fh. Western ',ion Iircu lin, /, now
completed to Helena. Tariff forty cents.
The Miner offers to bel 500 to $3.50 thai
1t has larger daily circulation than the
Inter- Mountain
The Husbandinan thinks the lady teach
era Of the territory should he paid higher
salaries. Correct
The Teachers institute lur Mcagher
county will be held on the Eth 18th and
18th Of July, at White Sulphur Springs.
The Northern Pacific Express coinuany
has reduced its rates from St Paul to bozc-
man and Helena. NJ. r.. from SD per 100 TO
Hans llauSciI, Il well known stock .ruw-
or, Of the Mus5clsl-li committed suicide
ii few days since. Temporary insanity wa.
the cause.
Grub>ta>e mine at Red Bluff were crushed.
and yielded 200 ounces Of gold rctort, worth
about sl5 per ounce.
Major Blaine on returning home from
his pay trip to Forts Maginnis and Ellis,
was nearly drowned while crossing the
Musselshell III an ambulance.
On the ith of July Helena will combine
the celebration of Independence day and
entry OF the Northern Pacific 4. &. Botkin
V.
The Montana mine AT Maiden is proving
to be a valuable piece of. property. The
little mill in operation Oh it is cleaning up
50. 900 per week. so says the Husband
man.
{. {. ThurstuL, whose contract with the
Northern Pacific calls for 1000. 900 brick
for the Helena depot, reports that his
men and machines are turning out 10000
daily.
One of Paris Gibson Il sons Deiainc
Mcrino rams this year sheared twenty-five
and one-lialf pounds of nice clean wool
One hundred Vermont ewes averaged uver
ten pounds each.
Q ). Hellerlin has put up a telephune
across the Yellowstone tu Junction City on
the opposite side Messages are transmit
ted at Is cents each.
sanhey the noted singer oI spiritual
>onss lls,et through Bozenan on his way
w
]. d. ; and son, New York He said he
wished to be incog
There is Il good openin. lor lumber |
yard in Cook City. Lumber is worth >l5o 7
per 1000 feet aud the demand is supplied by /
A saw mill is now OH the I
way to the mines.
The carpenters working on the Mam.uurh /
Springs hotel struck the other day on az (
count Of the small wages paid, $. per day.
The contractsor advanced the wages To
$. 30 and the men returned to work
An excellent deposit oi slate, which /
comes out in layers onc-iourth OF an inch !
in thickness, and varying in size. suitable !
for roofing and other Uses, has just been
discovered across the Jefferson county
line.
The River Press says that. the number
of sheep to be sheared at the sheds Oh the
a little more than a mile from
Benton, will reach at least $1,000 head.
Averaging the Yield at ii ponnd>. l0S.0O0
pounds will be sheared at. this place
alone.
An accident tappened To the Northern
Pacific railroad last week Ut Beaver creek,
/ 40 miles east of Spokane. caused by a !
heavy rain weakening the clay filling by
which about POO feet of trestling and $50
feet of the bridge with the track We're pre-
cipitated into the chasm below.
The Horny Willard Hydraulic Mining
to-day contracted to place $3.50
900 worth of it's stock with an English syn
ury OF the company, and be used As a
development fund for putting i'll the Mill
creek ditch. This places this : gigantic cor
po.ation on its financial feet, and ensures |
a large mining camp al Chico.
David Noble. who came in saturday
from Cooke City, has returned after having
purchased and shipped seven wagon loads
of goods to his store at that point. He
reports about i5O men in the camp work
on the Great Republic and
other mines, and that the smelter will start
up in a few days on ore from the Shoe
Fly, owned by Horn, Miller and Others.
The Eaton Smelter, saw mill, plancr and
shinsIe mill are at Livingston and will be
forwarded soon.-Courier.
L. w. Peck, secretary OF the Montana
wool growers association. arrived YES !
tcr,!;y from his ranch on Belt creek and
will probably remain some days i'll the
city on business connected with the as
>0ciation. He tells US that there will he
u big crop of wool this year. The average
yield will be much greater than last season !
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