Daily globe., 1883-11-03
ALONG THE N. P.
FOUR ASTONISHING SMALL CITIES
OF DAKOTA AND MONTANA.
Mandan. Sims, Miles City and Bozeman,
and Their Leading Business Men-A New
Town Where Fine Architecture Prevails
Irrigation, City Water Works, Etc.
Tspecial Correspondence to the Globe. |


most important points along the whole
length of the great Northern Pacific rail-
rDad are the cities of Bozeman, Miles and
Mandan. The first of these is one of the
Oldest in the whole territory of Montana
and owes nothing of Its growth to railroad
influences and booming. Indeed, instead
of the railroad affecting Bozeman advan-
tageously the citizens are unanimous in
their declaration that they would rather be
without the road; that before its advent
business was much brisker and profits were
much greater. Merchants contend that
now the road is open they have to reduce
prices without having corresponding re-
duction in freight; that il the good old
times of OK and mule trains they brought in
their stores twice year in large quantities
almost as cheap, if not quite, as the road
now carries them for; that prices we're
then higher and consequently they obtain
ed larger profits.
BOHEMIAN
is and always has been supported by the
large area of agricultural and grazing
ground surrounding it, and its trade is
therefore even and steady. There are in
Bozeman some fine stores doing very
large business, which go to the most dis
tant markets for their goods, even to the
two extreme cities of the continent-Nsw
York and San Francisco. A considerable
amount of their business, however, is
transacted in st. Paul, the
firms more particularly inter
ested being that of the n. P. Kelly mer-
camille company, Auerbach, Finch & Van
Slyck, Forepaugh & Terbox, Hacket, Strong
& Co., and think there are other firms Of
our city will state that the Bozeman mer-
chants are substantial and prompt.
Among the leading merchants of Boze-
man is W. n. Tracy, who made the
original claim upon which Bozsman is
principally built. He came from Denver
in 1862, and pre-empted 160 acres of land,
which ls now nearly all built upon. Mr..
Tracy carries on quite large business in
grain, -four, feed and agricultural pro-
duce. He is also wholesale liquor and
wine merchant. Sebree, Ferris & White
are hardware merchants, wholesale and re-
tail. 8. 81. Crockett-not related, he says,
to Dave Crockett-is in the harness bust
ness, and he states that it is astonishing
how particular and extravagant the COW
boys are in their outfit, paying often for
saddle, bride and complete trappings as
much as $500. Another advocate for the
virtue of leather is Martin Hooker, who
cares more for the human understanding
than he does for mule clothing, and he
says he cannot deal with a better house
than Gotzian & Co., of st. Paul, whose
boots and shoes give entire satisfaction to
his customers. The Lammes ere we'll
known merchants in Bozeman,
there being two irms-one in
dry goods the other in groceries and rough
clothing, both carrying heavy stocks and
doing large business, and both going to
st. Paul markets like sensible men as they
are. G. II. Becker has very handsome
dry goods store, stocked with goods pur-
chased at st. Paul. General Lester F.
Wilson's dry goods store is perhaps the
largest in 'Bozeman. He deals with Auer
bach, Finch d Van Slyck and other st.
Paul houses. The same gentleman is in
terested in the firm of Wilson & Lewis,
grocers, also dealing with the big houses
on Third street, St. Paul. Strasburger's
is another large house, carrying a heavy
stock of dry goods and clothing and also
doing business with st. Paul houses and in
lambert & Kennett. G. A. Moger gets
his large supply of hardware from Strong
& Hackett of ST. Paul.
A notice of Bozemah would
not be complete without a
reference to the brewery of Spieth g.
Krug, who brew that pure unadulter
ated beer SO much praised by the Willard
party and which they pronounced better
than any of the Milwaukee brands. In
this brewery nothing is used but malt
made of Bremen barley and hops. The
brewery has been in existence now sixteen
years. In 1867 Mr.. Spieth says it took
him three days to grind sufficient malt to
brew sixty gallons of beer and he ground
it in large coffee mill. Now the brewery
is fitted with every modern improvement
from the mailing house to the bottling de-
partment and it is needless to say after
the endorsement of the German, English
and other guests of the Willard party that
the Bozemen beer is most excellent bev-
erage.
MILES CITY
is comfortable, thriving little place, even
in spite of the cold neglect of
the railroad. When the Willard party
went over the road the trains were run
down to the freight depot before they
stopped-and they only stopped for few
minutes. From the cars little more than
the large hotel was seen, but Miles is quite
a place with large number of substantial
houses doing a good, healthy business.
These houses are supported by very
widely extended agricultural country and
large number of cattle and sheep ranch
es. To give some idea of the enormous
profits from cattle raising 1 will mention
transaction given me by N. Trewen, Esq,
a very wealthy young English stock raiser.
A stockman bought in 1880 herd of
5000 cattle for $4,000. In 1872 he
exported cattle to the amount of $4,000,
aid then sold his herd for 100000, thus
making in three years $4,000, or more
than $50 per cent. upon the original out
lay.
The stores of Miles sell greatly in bulk
to ranch men and consequently carry very
large stocks. Among the leading houses
is that of Miles & Strevill, hardware, stoves,
agricultural implements, house furnishing
goods, etc. They carry an immense stock
and are among the foremost in the dis
trics. They are sole agents for the Acorn
stove and range. Furst & Brady Nanufac-
turing company's goods, and the Domes-
tic Sewing Machine Co. ". Savage d
Sons, grocers, in bulk and retail, dry
r,oods oDI