The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-06-22
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.


Montana is having more rain this spring
than during any season since 1878.
Houses and lots in Dillon are bringing
much better price than they did one year ago.
- Tribune.
Owing to reduced appropriations by Con-
-:ress, Forts Keogh and Missoula have been
ordered TO be discontinued.
Between 400 and 500 feet of heading yet re-
main TO be taken out before daylight will be |
let through the Mullan tunnel.
The Husbdndmdn says that it is believed
that the crop in the Judith valley will this
year be grown without irrigation.
The wool clip of Beaverhead county last
year was about 100000 pounds. This year it
is expected to reach at least GOO,00o
The commissioners of Lewis and Clarke
county decline the proposition of the Cover
nor to keep peniteutiary convicts in their
Jail.
Samuel Bond, a miner, was accidentally
killed in the Alice Thursday night, 14th, by
the discharge of an imperfect stick of giant
powder.
Philipsburg is having another boom; there
have been valuable developments on the
Granite Mountain in tunnel No. 2, which is
| 1000 feet long.
Benton has opened public library and
reading room, is about to purchase hand
fire engine, and talks of a draw-bridge over
the Missouri at that point.
The name Copperopolis, for the new town
in upper Deer Lodge valley, has been
changed to Anaconda; an improvement, but
it should be called Morgan.
One hundred carloads of rails, ties, and
other material are on the Helena sidetraeks
ready for the advance westward across the
main range of the Rockies.
The official returns rs announced by the
county commissioners of Jefferson county
show majority of seventy -four in favor of
Boulder for the county seat.
Sankey, the noted singer of spiritual songs,
passed through Bozeman on his way to the
Pacific coast. He registered there as !. ID. S.
and son, New York. He said he wished to
be lncog.
The Miners Union of Butte celebrated
its fifth anniversary on the 18th with grand
procession of 5S4 sturdy miners, with elo-
quent addresses in Renshaw Hall, and with
Il grand ball at the skating pavilion.
The wicked editor of the Livingston En-
terprise says: Grain, mud, and profanity
meet us everywhere, and more reformations
could be made by q few days sunshine than
all the ministers in Christendom."- Mddi
SOnidn.
One hundred laborers forwarded from st
Paul have arrived and been ordered to the
force ut work on the overhead line across
, the main range. Fifty more men left st
Paul to-day engaged for the same employ
, Herald, 10Th.
, On examination before Judge Gaibraith
: Hector MCLEAN, the robber of registered
letters ut Woodville, was bound over in The
sum of 81 900 on the first charge and 81, 00
i on the second to appear at the next term o
the United States District Court in Helena
In excavating for the Jail cellar ledg
was cut which shows ore that is reported u
assay 1J6 ounces. 1t is n small vein and ther
is no probable danger of the Jail being I'M
dermined to get at it, unless by some liberty
loving son of a gun who is regular boardel
Miner.
= The U. s. grand jury of the First Distric
II court at Bozeman found three indictment
u against Nathan s. Porter, Indian Agent 9
u Poplar river, on the Blackfoot reservation
v and two against his deputy, Woodbridge, fc
4, receiving and concealipg horses stolen by Oh
Indians from white settlers.
- The county commissioners at their recer
term decided to accept the proposition of IL
Governor % keep all Territorial convicts
the Custer county jail, provided not fewt
70 than four nor more than ten should be n
,r signed to this point. The rate is Sl.50 p'
of day apiece.-Miles City Press.
The HusJdadman is getting in its grow
about the new town in the Deer Lodge vale
ut being named Copperopolis, and greatly
of the amazement of people who have rea
IN Montana newspapers for the last doze
I'll years, says there is town of the same nan
he in Meagher county.-AUant Courier.
th The Bozeman coach, an old time honort
institution, is now thing of the past. I'll
ed last run was made on that route to-day. S
OF perintendent Howell is transferring the G
Ut mer s; Salisbury stock and coaches TO Nj
d. soula. The Bozeman and Gallatin mails n
cl- now carried by Northern Pacific cars.-Ht
rs aid, 18th.
20 The Courier says: All the light grading
the branch road to the Park is about col
-, pleted. Large forces are now employed
- =" rock work at Point of Rocks, Upper Ca1o
's' and Cinnabar Hills. Beyond the latter poi
=, but little has been done. A start has be-
- made from Gardiner, and the line will be Il
-. ished at an early date.
Arrangements are being made for celebr;
ing the driving of the last spike in t
Northern Pacific railroad some time in A
~, gust. A party of English and other prom
nent gentlemen have been invited especial
to be present, special palace car kavi
been provided for them from New York. T
vet round trip will cost the company some $50
to Billings Herald.
X Livingston is having newspaper boo
he The Tribune has been enlarged, the Da
ne. Enterprise, published by Wright & Hendl
er- has made its appearance, and the NatioJ
ill Park Pioneer, w. d. Knight, editor and pu
OOo Usher, will be issued soon. Our congratu
ire tons are mutual to the people of the ent
ng prising town and the newspaper men
Tx, Aunt Courier.
In eXcavating, preparatory to the erecti
,n' of the new bank building on the west side
80 Main street, ut the intersection of Broadw;
the workmen got down into the pay dirt Y
terday, and one shovelful PANIED out by
"a = Burns yielded twenty cents. The gravel "
= all be saved and washed. Mr.. Burns thin
~, it will yield $40 or $50 to the wagon load
Helena Herald, 14h.
the Prospects continue to be good and are ey
improving in the shafts of the Henry Win;
company, Emigrant gulch, near Bozem
Where the gravel Is very deep-and in so
places the depth is 100 feet and over-th
- are compact clay strata between the differ
,.on gravel strata, which take the place of S
= cessive bedrocks in holding the gold. j
~ rock proper has not yet been reached.
on Jacob Hoover, of the upper Judith vail
d Of is in the city, having brought in load
on robes and skins, a portion of his seasc
ing catch. Jake informs us that during the D
the fall and winter he has killed 800 deer, IA {
ity. IL bears, % mountain sheep, and mount
tint lions-all the victims of his unerring ri
any His hunting range Is along the foothills fir
J is the upper Judith to the Gap, and few me,
aH.zn IT,