The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-07-16
LOCAL NOTES.

LOCAL NOTES..
From Wednesdays Daily.
Iohn Lepley arrived in the city last
| evening;
NoThe work of making brick at Great
Falls was commenced yesterday.
Miss Nellie Clark of Helena is in the
Z city visiting friends and relations.
Pant. Stewart is now running fine
q "a coaches between Calgary and Fort
Macleod.
Hugh Graham and q. Jenkins, ofNew
Mexico, are among yesterdays arrivals
in the city.
The Helena q Benton stage company
are prepared to sell through tickets TO all
points III the east.
. The surveyors to locate the Helena &
Fort Benton railroad route are expected
! 10 he III the field in d lew days.
Messrs. Richter & Hunt, of the Teton,
are IN the CITY and have all OF their big
wool Clip on the levee, ready tor ship
ment.
The Calgary Herald says that Mr.. De
Rrissy. &. E., has gone To Medicine Hat
~ superinlend The location OF the Fort
Macleod u Medicine Hat railroad.
The report of ID man having been
killed or seriously injured by his horse
falling on him, neal HighWood, seems
10 be without any foundation in TACT.
There is u big demand for moving
machines at this time, showing that the
having season Is at hand. In many
nlaces the hay crop will be pretty lighu
This year.
MI. 0. q. Cooper, the prominent wool
grower of Dupnyer. is likely to soon be-
come resident of Fort Benton, from
which point he will manage his large
wool interests.
The Dillon Tribune of the 9TH inst.
saws that but very little wool has been
delivered at that point, but thatthe clips
is OF superior quailty as compared with
that OF IOrmer years.
A Billings paper Just received, issued
july Sd, uoes not contain a single wool
item. That can hardly be a very active
wool market, else the said paper Is not
ii diligent news gathefefs
All the Barker bullion is now in and
piled w on the levee on the other side
Of the river. There are 1920 bars or
about 229, 900 pounds in all ready for
shipment down the Biz Mndy
Charles Atkins, by an order issued
from the Union Pacific headquarters at
Omaha, dated June 70, is appointed gen.
eral freight agent lor Montana ana
Idaho, with headquarters at Butte.
Moses Marks, "a merchant Of White
Sulphur Springs, and d We'll known
citizen of Meagher county, was seriously
hurt on the race course at the Springs
on the 4th. Further particulars not at
hand
The Bachelor is several days out from
Bismarck and ought to be soon heard OF
at the Coal Banks. The Benton Will
likely not make another trip to the head
of navigation, but the Helena is prob
ably on her fifth trip by this time.
Mr.. Ii. M. Martin expected to make a
trip to Clagett this week but found the
wool business SO lively that he conclud-
ed to remain here until the shipping
season is over. More than two-thirds Of
the wool shipped from this place will be
consigned to Harding, Martin u Caverly,
showing that Mr.. Ms visit to Fort Ben
ton has been a rather profitable one.
Tom C. Power Of Fort Benton, steam
boat owner, government contractor n
general manipulation, was a passenger
westward on last evenings train. Mr.
Power has been spoken of as the proba-
Die nominee of the republican party for
delegate to congress. In reply to q ques-
ton on the subject last evening he spoke
as if he would refuse to be a candidate
or have anything whatever to do with
politics. But such expressions very
often are reconsidered; certainly MI.
Power would be a strong candidate
Livingston Enterprise.
Yesterday the Merchants National
bank received one thousand ounces of
gold retort from the Homestake mine
on Virginia creek, which can be seen
today in the window of the Merchants
bank, a tempting batch Of golden fruit
labeled Montana turnips,n four in
number. The Homestake gold mine,
some twenty miles from Helena, is the
property of William Negus and Henry
Jacobs, which they probably work with
awe stamp mill. The thousand ounces
OF gold retort is the product of one hun
ored and fifty tons Of quartz, and are
worth S14, 000.-He aid, 9Th.
Ed. Smith has Just arrived from Nei-
part. He reports affairs pretty lively in
That camp and the prospects for the
future most encouraging. T. A. Wall
has got his saw mill started and the
hudson Mining company have a large
force at work cutting timber to be work
ed up for their own use. While the J,
conf qat VOC 40 Inn,.@ n xxyn ran6 him HI 4
is SO confident that he will secure the
freiphtinr nf fba rnanbinnrv for the