The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-04-23
THRIFTY MOUNTAIN CITY.
A COkiny Oven Plant Being Put in ut
ROZeMin.

Work has already been begun on the
coking plant to be put in here GA a large
scale by the Union Fic!fi,. coal =, Indicate.
Superintendent C!ar. of the company
has charge of the work III i"'rson. The
The company has stctif Il large ii jIl-
terests here just above III" city after
having tested the coal Tor coking puT-
poses and found it the finest west of
Pennsylvania. Tilry have large CON
tracts to fill lur the -uic.tcrs OF Butte and
Anaconda and other mines in Montana
and Idaho and heretofore have had to
ship from the far east at immense carry
in. cost 1t is understood that from
seventy-five to one hundred ovens will
be put up. the necessary outfit having
already been ordered amp shipped to its
destination The extension of the Utah
Northern to this point therefore, becomes
necessity. That this work will also be
done this season no one here doubts.
This will give this section great impe-
tIs.
Advices have been received here from
the Boston syndicate who purchased the
Story and Dickerson properties on the
west side that they not only contemplate
great improvements on their own prop
erty but will probably take measures to
secure first-class water supply for the
city. Mr.. Dilloway, the well known
lawyer who heads the syndicate and
through whom the deal was made, will
come ont in May with party of capital
lists. His nephew Charles. who was out
here with him last spring, contemplates
coming to Bozeman for permanent res
idence. He is the son of the president
Of the Mechanics Bank of Boston, and is
now getting his business training in the
bank. and is anxious to come west and
grow UP with the gem Of the Gallatin
valley. The Dillowav syndicate do bus
ines- on a big scale. They have large
interests in Mandan, and are improving
their property Among other improve
ments which Will be pushed forward this
year. is fifty thousand dollar mill and
sn elevator system, it is said. This is at
least the news Mandan party brings
here.
The farmers throughout this great val
ley are now seeding. Spring wheat is
sown in the valleys and winter wheat on
the foot hills The latter wintered well
and the ground is in prime condition for
the former. The acreage of both winter
and spring wheat this year will be one
third greater than last year, from the
present outlook, anda good crop season
is anticipated by all.
The demand for the products of the
soil is more active rs new emigration
comes in and as railway transportation is
furnished to guarantee market. Here
tofore the mills of the valley have ground
all the wheat grown in it. Story s two
hundred-barrcl mill. and Meadows as
well as also the other mills in the valley,
have found the business profitable and
others are among the projected enter
prises. Some farmers are inclined this
season to test the adaptibility of this soil
10 the production Of No. hard. 1t il be-
lieycd that it can be grown here as well
as in the Red River country. AS the
water supply is Il certainly here, ami the
soil richer and deeper than in the Red
River valley, it is thought that at least a
third more yield to the acre will attend
its cultivation here Forty to fifty BUSH
els per acre of the variety grown here is
the rule rather than the exception. Oats
are also luxuriant crop. with a market
for hundred miles east and west
Minneapolis Journal.