The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-09-03

on the railroads. Besides this, there are
lots more OF the Cinnamon; they have
swarmed out here on the road for hire anC
you can contract with them cheap"
After all this talk the old man took me
out to see his garden and hogs. II want t
show you what can be done in thiscountrS
on land that hasn' been irrigated" said he
His garden was onlya very tolerable one
poor one in the Ohio Vslley-but con
sidering that there has been no rain on II
since last May, 1t was worth looking At
His hogs were first Class-large black BerlE
shires-and he showed me SOW and pige
worth Sl00 of any mans money" said he
"I'm blessed, said he, ''ii that whole lot Of
hogs cost me 25 cents, I've raised them
entirely on the oifal of the house."
A COMMUNICATIVE DRIVER.
Alter taking another long pull out OF the
oyster can that hung at the well, We bade
old man Keene goodbye, and embarked
in private conveyance with man named
Ward from Deer Lodge, twenty miles dis
tant. We found Ward careful driver and
he was full Of information about the coun-
try. He bad not gone over mile before
be pulled up and said, "here's where the
stage wss robbed the other Uay."
Did the passengers otter no resistance?
we inquired. Not any, said Ward. They
all "held up"-(meaning that they all
held up their hands, when ordered, and
suffered their pockets to be rihad). It's
no use Of talking, said he, aboutresisauce
under such circumstances. There amt
one man In hundred but what will hold
up in the presence OF q couple of fellows
who have the drop on him.
The "drop" on man is great word
out in the far West. Getting the advsn-
tsge OF position in almost any particular
in a fight or a trade-is getting the drop.
In country where nearly every man you
meet is armed the Significance OF word
that means the first shot is well under
stood.
We found that Ward, our driver, came
to Montana from Kentucky. He came out
as trainer and groomsman for Il Blue
grass man, aud said that he could make
money handling stock on his own ocCount,
and therefore he remained and went into
the livery business. This Is good country
to make money in If you know how TO
manage, said be. He explained that by
management he meant that you must be
careful to see that while you are raking in
money with one hand you must not be
paying it out too freely with the other.
How can man help letting it 20 pretty
freely in high priced country like this,
we inquired. "Some can and some can't, !"
he replied. A man has got to look sharp
to his expenses ia this country or he will
be eat up."
Ward then went on to explain his idea
OF domestic economy. Said he, II pay my
three stable men $40 per month and board
them, but don't board them at home. l
can do better than that, with butter at so
or go cents a pound, and other things in
proportion. l pay dollar day apiece
for them at the hotel-table board-and
you see | make money by it in several
ways First, couldn't grub them, includ.
ing the cost Of hired help, for that. Sec.
ond, l save my wife the bother, and third,
l save the time they would waste at the
house before and after meals. You see the
meals are always ready on the car at the
hotel, aud they goand come quick. That's
the way I manage, and make money by
It."
SOME RICH MEN.
Are there any rich people around Deer
Lodge2 we inquired. Oh, yes, said he
several of them. Then be began counting
this man and that man who had struck it
rich in one way and another. He told US
about man OF wonderful energy named
Larrabe-a banker now-who used to be
clerk in shack for some men, and who
worked all day and rode the gulches at
night buying up gold dust aud selling it q
good profit. He got some capital ahead
which he turned at per cent a month,
and now be does big business, in reg
ular bank Of his ewn at 3per cent month.
Then, said he, there is E. i. Bowner who
keeps big dry goods and notion house,
and grocery annex, over at the Lodge.
He came out mere poor but he got in on
the inside in the railroad, in the way OF
supplying and contracting and he's well
heeIed to-day l tell you'
We had the pleasure OF making MIR.
Bowner's acquaintance after we reached
Deer Lodge, and called at his two large
stores and found Wards story strictly cor
rect He has got Iiph enough to leave the
country every winter in order to escape its
long spell OF cold weather, and return
again in the spring. He goes to New
York late in the fall and boards with his
ismily all winter at the Park Avenue hotel
and comes back for pleasant weather res
idence at Deer Lodge.
Deer Lodge is queer sort Of a place
has about 1900 people and is one of the
oldest settlements in the Territory. We
got TO the brow OF the valley in which it
lies snugly nestled about sun down, and
could see the town nine miles off. Ward
said it was nine miles although We could
not realize that it was over three. Yet We
Travelled and travelled over ruts and runs
f)r well on to two hours btfore We reached
It's precincts at dusk. We found good
inn at the McBurnie house, and after
making bargain with Ward to wake US
at four in the morning and carry US thirty
miles 10 Edwards ranch by 10 o'clock in
the forenoon, where We hoped TO get on a
construction train, We turned in for good
sleep. A.%c'
NATIONAL. FINANCES.