The Mineral argus., 1884-11-13
MONTANA NEWS.


crease OF $453,3o9 over last year
One pan of dirt from the Gillette
claim on Pritchard creek, one day last
week, resulted in yield of 81 ounces.
Paris Gibson is making arrange
ments to secure the establishment of
an oatmeal mill at Great Falls. with
every assurance of success. The
wonderful oats raised in Choteau coun
ty ought to make the best oatmeal in
the world.
One day last week, man who was
Journeylng over the Boulder divide
was ''held up" by two highwaymen.
and relieved of three dollars and half
and two apples. The robbers over
looked a nice little plum of fifteen
hundred dollars which the victim was
carrying in his boot. A party went in
pursuit OF the thleves-with what sue
cess we have not yet learned.-Mad-
isonian.
Stems & Arlington, of St. Paul.
purchased 1900 head of sheep from
the following parties: Hay Bros, of
Arrow creek, 5000. Belt Creek Sheep
Company, 5000. Turner & Cresup,
1000. They have also purchased the
ranches with all improvements and
rights of the Belt Creek Sheep Com
pany, and at one of them will be 10
Gated the ranch head quraters of the
firm. Most of the sheep will be let
out on shares.
Nelson Story sold about Goo steers
of an average weight of 1902 pounds
in Chicago last week at S.. Flowerre
& Lowry sold o5 head, I,421 average.
at S5.4o and I58 of I,4o6 pounds at
SIS. al. w. H. Martin, of Montana,
marketed $50 steers, 1910 to 1897
pounds, at $505.Io and 14o cows,
I,Io9 pounds, at $3.75. These fig
ures represent the general prices of
Montana cattle in Chicago last week.
Thus far this season Montana cattle
have been the best range stock on the
Chicago market.-Livingston Enter
prise.
Over all the ranges of Montana and
northern Wyoming wolves are increas
ing with such rapidity and making
such depredatious upon cattle that
stock growers are alarmed. The com
missioners of Johnson county, Wyom
ing, offer to furnish free strychnine to
wolf baiters, and even i'll this county
they are SO plentiful that stockmen are
putting out poison for the protection
of their herds. The wolves formerly
followed the buffalo herds, but as that
branch of industry is now out of their
reach, they take ravenously to range
cattle.-River Press.
Last night as locomotive s24 Zone
of the -wheelers) was starting down
this side of the mountain grade at
Muir, with no cars attached, the en-
gineer lost control of the ponderous
machine and she started off at wild
speed. By great fortune there was
nothing standing on the main track in
the yard at Livingston, and the wild
engine after having safely made the
descent of the mountain grade rushed
through town and down the track as
far as the bridge before she was
brought to stand still. The engineer
remained at his post during the excit-
ing ride.-Livingston Enterprise.
Mr.. G. M. Husen is constructing
for the Helena Mining and Reduction
Co.. what will be, when completed,
the longest tramway of its kind in the
world, over which will be transported
more than two hundred tons of the
precious metals every ten hours. at a
cost of not more than twenty five cents
per ton. When we come to take into con-
the fact that the present
cost for ore transportation now EN-
ployed by this Company is S2.9o per
ton, it will readily be seen that the
difference in cost will soon pay for the
The structure will be over
three miles in length.--Stock and
Mining Journal.
One of the largest and most enter
prising ranChmen now in the West is
the Marquis de Mores, who married
a daughter of Louis Won Hoffman, of
New York. In the short space of two
years he has made himself the master
of $4,000 acres of grazing land, on the
Little Missouri, Dakota, has built a
town, railway station, and hotel; |
has established freight line with the
Black Hills, and opened slaughter
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