The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-12-04
MONTANA NEWS.

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John James, a Deer Lodge tailor,
dropped from his bench dead man,
stricken by heart disease.
The Hecla Mining company, OF
Glendive, is increasing the capacity OF
its works to $50 tons per day.
Twelve Gallatin valley ranchmen
went east this morning to visit Mis-
souri,, Kentucky and North Carolina.
Phil. Rountree has let the contract
to run tunnel 100 feet on the clai m
recently purchased of the Howell
Bros, in Emigrant gulch.
Deer Lodge county has ITO firms
and residents who pay each over 800
county taxes. Five Of the number pay
from $l 900 to $4,000 each.
A pail of tho Russian carp fry were
obtained from the U. S. Fish Com
mission by Captain Mills and placed
in Irvine Lake, near Dear Lodge.
Butter sells at wholesale in Benton
at so cents per pound while eggs are
at the low price of 70 to 80 cents per
dozen, with the prospect of an early
rise.
The Niobrara Cattle company will
drive Is, 900 cattle into the territory
next year and add them to their herd
Of $4,000 now grazing on the Powder
aod Mozpah ranges.
A tabulated statement published in
the New York Mining Record gives
the total product of eleven Montana
mining companies for seven months
ending July 31st at "a. .0O3, 1886.
Mrs. John Heinrich, tie lady who
was accidentally shot in a Pullman
car near Little Missouri few weeks
ago, has so far recovered as to be able
to resume ner journey toward the Pa
cific coast.
William ourtenay sold sheep
ranch of 4.OO0 acres, sixty-6vo miles
up Tongue river, 2,2O0 sheep, twenty
seven head of cattle and eleven head
of horses. Consideration, about $12,-
O0O.-Journal.
The lato cold snap froze the water
in the fume that runs to the Collar
mill at Maiden and the mill was forced
to shut down, and will probably not
start up again until spring. Men win
be kept at work in the mine taking out
ore.
A great many promises to improve
the Northern Pacific mail service are
being made through the columns OF
newspapers along the line; but the
mails are arriving with disgusting ir-
regularity all the same. AS matters
now stand Salt Lake is forty-eight
hours nearer Virginia City than Hell.
ena iS.-MadlSOnlan.
Messrs. j. B. Lewis, T. Berry and
C. T. Gage, of Fargo. returned to
Bozeman Saturday after having looked
over the territory for mining property
without purchasing. They loft for
Fargo this morning and will return in
thirty days, expecting to purchase
property in the celebrated Clark's
Fork region.-Chronicle.
Colonel Jamison, Of the railway mail !
service. after a thorough examination
says he is convinced that the COM
plants recently made regarding the
inequality Of the force of road clerks
are we'll founded, He says the run
between Helena and Portland is too
long, and he will divide it at Spokane
Falls, with sufficient force added to
perform the work properly along the
route.
The Benton Record saws there will
,e much suffering among the Indians
iown the river this winter. They
rave been particularly unfortunate
With their hunting, the buffalo having
almost entirely left the country, and
he rations supplied at the agencies
re far from sufficient to keep them
rom want during the cold months to
,ome.
A successful amputation was per-
ormed yesterday at st. johns Hos
,ital upon the person Of D. ]. Snlli-
AN, who had both legs crushed BY an