Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1884-02-14

tho other day for Joe Howard's gold
mine, discovered q cave near the SUM-
NIT Of Priests Butte, containing many
fossil remains, some Of which will be
sent to the Smithsonian Institute fo,
identification.
The sale Of tho effects Of the Grant
estate will take place hero shortly
! Vim. ". Lyon, Of Lyon Bros, loft
for tho stitcs yesterday. II is re.
| ,nored he will no como hack alenc
In you coiIcs2ondont's opinion the
one thing o,r town needs now il for
some OF our cs.imahle young men TO
start the marriage boom" They ure
however nll rather difiidcnt. It might
enhance the reputation of your paper
if you offered q years subscription
free to the first couple married ut
Choteau. A colony OF say fifty good
Woodworking, accomplished Boston
girls might do we'll here. We arc
surc nearly all Of our wcll-to-do cattle
men would "looscn up" much moro
for good wife than did the early SGT.
tiers Of Virginia.
But We digrcss. Adjoining the
townsitc arc tho ranches Of our bach
elor friends Frank Farmer and DIR.
Smith, (the lntter will soon have IN
addition to tho townsite surveyed and
across tho river Sam 9. Burd, our fu-
ture mayor, and A. Fcllcrs have well
improved ranches. Three miles north
Of Choteau is the Old Agency place,
now occupied by Sam Mitchell, Of
Higgins 4 Mitchell, which parties, to-
gethcr with o. q. Cooper, lately pur-
chased the Old Agency reserve of 6iO
acres. In the vicinity Of this place
arc the homes Of I'd. Dennis, Frank
Truchot, JAS. Hughes, Nat. Collins
and Trod. Sewers. Tho county sur
veyor, John Marsh, has also homo
stead here.
Crossing the Teton aud going up
the valley five miles We come to John
A. Kcnncly's place. Mr.. Kennedy
raised tinc crop Of outs hero last
year. He informs us that one kernel
of tho White Russian vnyiety in
creased seven hundred fold. A mile
further on is the dairy ranch Of Hunt
q Cram, who supply the valley with
butter. Next wc como to Emerson
Bros sheep ranch, and then to
Stccll's, the lust ranch this side the
mountains. Across the river from the
last named place, in what is known as
tho Soup" arc the ranches of j. w.
Armstrong, VIM. X. Ra!ston and Goo
L. Harvey.
About the middle Of April Bnrnet
Il Wren will move their saw mill from
the mountains to n point Oh tho rivor
about a mile this side Of tho canyon,
and will then commence saving to
supply the demands at Chotcau. They
hayc now logs enough cut for 100000
feet of lumber. In the mountains
Dan Mckay has fifteen men chopping
cordwood which they will float down
to Benton when tho river opens.
AT the crossing Of tho Muddy
twelve miles north OF here, on the reg
ular mail road, S. Bynum he, built u
commodions stopping place, whore
the best OF entertainment for man and
beast can always be found. Mr..
Bynum and SONS havo taken up
several fine ranches here Above Mr..
Bynums place at the junction OF
Muddy and Blacklcaf creeks Smiley
a. Cowell have two ranches, with OK
tensivc corrals and sheds, where they
keep 1900 of o. q. Coopcrs sheep on
shares. Close by, on the Muddy,
Austin & Black have 27O0 sheep in
charge of Mr.. Black. -Four miles
above, on tho Blackleaf, Elliot. Nc
Master & Bannatyne have taken ranch
es. They have 1000 sheep and raised
last year good crops of oats, potatoes
end other vegetables. Five mile,
further up tho Blackleaf VIM. Fargo
has m excellent ranch. lie has rc-i,
ded hero for the pnst six years, and
raises wheat, oats and barley and nl-
most every species Of vegetables with
the greatest success. Holland Bros,
Joe Arnold and Geo. Fry have also
taken up ranches in this neighbor-
hood.
Last fall the Eldorado Ditch com
pany took a ditch out of the Teton to
irrigate tho immense strotch of bench
lands lying between tho Muddy and
Teton. Large tracts Of land have
already been taken up along tho course
of the ditch by Helena parties, and
scheme is on foot to settle u colony
from Wisconsin along the ditch. |
Better wheat land is hard to find any
where Other ditch schemes are also
in progress in the vicinity of Choteau,
and n will MOI H., 1,n.. laf..a . t.