Daily globe., 1883-11-03

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trades with the leading dry goods and no
ton houses of st. Paul. A. w. Sleeper |
carries stock of general merchandise |
covering $4,000. He does very large
business with ranch men and farmers. |
Sohn E. Kennady deals largely in groceries, |
Hour, fed and regular produce and also
obtains his goods of st. Paul houses.
Miles is quite a thriving
from its embryo state of frontier shanty
camp to we'll built, substantial and pros
porous city, and the late disastrous fire
will do much to hasten the Transformation
for the location, Park street, which should
be the handsomist part of the city, facing
as it does upon splendid park, was the
most dilapidated and squalid looking of
the entire town. It was in fact, nothing
but continued row of wooden shanties,
occupied by saloons and the demi monde
The town is supplied with excellent water
by ditch and aqueduct sixteea miles long
from the Tongue river, which runs into
reservoir Of $4,000 gallons capacity at an
elevation of thirty-two feet above the city.
Another ditch from the Yellowstone is in
course of construction which will irrigate
$4,000 acres of rich, tillable land. The
court house and Jail is handsome build
ing of brick and stone, cost $4,000. and
school house is being erected at cost Of
$4,000. Another institution of which the
Miles people are not SO proud
is the poor farm and buildings which cost
the county $4,000. The people say this
was rendered necessary because Of the
paupers the Northern Pacific left them.
In the Jail are incarcerated at the pres
ent time thirteen persons, among them be-
ing the three men who are held for mur-
derlrg Mr.. Willicome, the much respected
English stock raiser of Glendive. The
GLOBE representative interviewed these
men. Two of them are rather hard look
ing fellows, with a hangdog, bsetle-brow
expression. The third is good looking
and has an open countenance. The two
former say they are from Texas and refus-
ed to say anything about the murder.
The third is from Colorado, he says, and
stated that the fault was all on the side of
the sheriff and his posse. They simply
fired in self defense. He says that they
| were not called upon to surrender; that
the sheriff did not make himself known to
them; that the first they knew was party
OF men followed them and commenced
firing on them and they simply fired to
drive their assailants off. The sheriff, he
says was with them in a saloon drinking
and playing poker, and he was pretty
drunk and he should think the men with
him were drunk too. The opinion here is
that the men will not be convicted; that
the sheriff WAS entirely wrong in the mat
ter and now that the feeling of indignation
at the loss Of so popular man, and so
great benefactor to Glendive, has some
what subsided, popular opinion condemns
the sheriff severely.
1t Is stated that the Marquis de Mores
is about to establish an abettoir and meat
canning factory at Miles City. If he does
so it is thought that he will buy up ali
cattle sent to this point for shipment.
The next place of any great interest
east of Miles is the new and bright-look-
ing town of
camed after G. V. Sing, secretary of the
Northern Pacific railroad directorate.
Even from the cars the place is striking,
from the tasteful designs and costly ap-
pearance of the many villas and pictur-
esque cottages already bnilt. They are for
the most part of brick with tiled roofs.
What makes Sims important is the coal
field discovered by @. w. Thompson in
June, 1879, before the advent of the rail-
road. He found ''croppings" of coal and
followed it down. The first mine was
worked by Thompson & BLY,, WHO were
bought out by the Northera Pacific COM
pany for $4,000, who erected machinery
at cost of $4,000. The first seam Of
coal is only at depth of four feet from
the surface and is four feet thick. Sink
ing down some seventy feet below this an
other bed was found of harder coal and
not SO friable, which is also four feet thick,
and eight feet lower still is another seam
seven feet thick. Again seventy feet still
lower is another bed of four feet even of
better quality than any of the rest. The
coal can be raised and sold at the pits
mouth for 1925 per ton and is most ex-
cellent fuel.
Another important matter which must
insure the steady growth of Sims is the
splendid clay beds and banks, which yield
no less than twelve different kinds of clay,
all we'll adapted for the manufacture
of brick, tile, terra Gotta, fire brick and
pottery of every kind, even it is thought to
the finest porcelain. The terra Gotta
works and tile and brick yards now in
working give employment to some
$50 men. They are now supplying the
handsome orange colored brick, of which
the capitol at Bismarck is being made.
The works are supplied with an engine of
120 horse power which drives the crushers
and COMPRISING machines. The company
are in q position to place in St. Paul
compressed brick at $35 per thnusand,
much better and far more handsome than
the st. Louis or Philadelphia brick. They
have at present contract for the govern
ment buildings, the penitentiary, large
school house, and other buildings at Bis
marck.
The GLOBE representative was shown
some very handsome bricks of fine grain
and texture, from deep blood red to
creamy white; fire bricks IS hard as ada
mant and as heavy as iron; glazed bricks
in all colors from black to white; some
beautiful designs in terra Gotta and some
handsome mosaic tiles, all the production
of the Sims Terra Gotta works,
At Sims there is being erected three
story hotel to cost 5000; school house,
$1,000; church, a bank, drug store and
a row of very handsome cottages, for the
employees of the coal mines and the fac
tory. MIR. Dow ia the architect and, be-
lisve, the builder of the greater number of
the handsome residences and public
buildings of Sims, which are such
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