The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-07-19
AMALdAM.
AS Found in Cur Clean-Up of the
Territorial Exchsnges.

Governor Crosby isexpectcdi home the latte
part of this week.
The Bozenan postofiice is now an interna
tiOnal money order office.
Fifty sacks of grasshoppers were among 1.-THE
viands prepared for Pacific Coast Indian feas,
| recently.
Salt Lake shopkeepers are losing heavily from
the operations Of a gang Of burglars who infest
| the city.
| The grasshoppers and cutwOrms are doing
great damage in some of the fields near New
| Chicago
| The Backfeet Indians charge toll for crossing
! their reservation. Ten cents each for horseS
! and two cents for sheep is the rate.
| r Morgan, Sun river stage driver, fell for
ward from his wagon and was very badly
kicked by a fractions colt he was driving
Moses Marks, who WAS hurt bya fall from a
horse at Diamond last week is still in very
critical connltio but hopes are now enter
tanned for his recovery
Hnsbandman The branding of the Mussel-
sh II roundup fal about one-thrd short 1t is
attributable it to the loss of calves during the
storms Ill early spring.
j. r. Craig, of the Oxley Rancho Company,
lately purchased of l. G. Baker 4 Co. 1000 head
of young cattle shipped by that firm from the
States.
There will be about 5000 tons of hay cut on
the Truckee meadows this sum ner About
10000 tons were carried over from the last years
crop, SO that there Will be about F),0OV tons OIL
hand for consumption and sale.
ketchum Keystone: Billy McWilliams turned
double somersaut over saddle horse OIL
Main street yesterday afternoon, without 4
spring board, and lit right side up. Tenderfeet
on the corners were remarking something about
the reckless western fashion of advance agents.
! and The way tney evidently had of advertising
their shows.
Three men stole ninety horses from the
vicinity Of Swift Current and Grove them i'll
the direction OF Rocky Point on the Missouri
river. squad of soldiers from Fort Assina
boine and some Indian Scouts were sent out to
catch the thieves. At latest reports no horses
and no horse thieves had been caught up
with.
Mssoula Times Several men packed up on
Monday morning and sttrted for the Bull River
gold dlgglngs 1t Is said Il man returned from
there few days ago AMI reported paying pros.
poets. 1t Is also reported that a number have
arted from Thomps N Falls for the diggingS,
some; hing of a stampede The Bull River
diggings are about 2S0 miles from MissOula
reached by tue kootenai trail.
The second annual meeting of the Montana
Wool Growers Association was held in Benton
las week with large attendance. Among
other work done was t. arrange for the publi-
cation al Benton OF a Wool Growers Journal.
to be issued quarterly under the editorial charge
about sheep and how to put his knowledge i'll
gorl language Such publication will be ii
valuable index Of the great industry of sheep
huSbandry.
j. Bent has lately obtained new series of
assays of ore taken from the Stella and other
leads in Mill creek in which he is interested.
One test made by the U. S. assay Office at Helena
shows over $500 in gold and silver mostly the
latter. A number of other assays run only
little lower The more Mill creek district is
prOspected and the more its leads are developed
the better is the showing. 1t is region of the
best promise and only needs the magic touch CT
capital to place it i'll the front rank.
There is some excitement in Boise valley over
the discovery of what is believed to be good
diggings in the old south channel of Boise river
which at some period ran through Di ixic slough.
Gold is found for distance of twelve miles in
the Old river bed. The character of the gold is
different from that Of Snake river. This is flat
scale gold while that of Snake river is fine -four
gold. A good many locations have been made.
Wood River Times: During the month ending
June 81, 1854. the aggregate shipments OF ore
and bullion from Haley, over tle Wood River
branch railway, weighed go tons and l,4oo
pounds. Allowing 10 tons to the carload this
would be 81 carloads, or about pa car loads per
day on the average And this, Notwithstanding
the country" roads are hardly open, and ore il
low in coming in.