The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
MONTANA nEMs

MONTANA News.
Townsend is free from houses Of Ill
fame. the two that existed there have
closed up and their inmates departed.
Charles Howard, stock agent Of the
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha line
says that from 1900 to 10000 cattle
will be driven from Texas into Mon
tana this year, and a large number
from Colorado Billings Herald.
The body of a man named Joseph
Smith was found under the willows on
Mill creek, six miles from Anaconda,
recently. 1t is supposed that IN a
state of intoxication he fell into the
creek, and was frozen to death after
crawling out.
Commodore T. c. Power has been
appointed by Governor Crosby as
delegate to represent Montana at the
River Convention to be held at st.
Louis this month. In November next
the people will appoint Mr.. Power to
represent the territory in congress-
River Press.
AL. Phelps appeared before Judge
Matheson, on Monday, charged with
making a gun-play at Junction. The
complaint was made by John Camp
bell, bar keeper for Brown & Davis.
The Judge bound him W in the sum
of 5000, to appear at the district
court.-Billings Herald.
The Bozeman tunnel is SOTO feet
long, II feet wide, and FL feet high in
the centre. The mountain rises 236
feet above the roof of the tunnel, and
the floor is elevated in the highest
point 5,s6s feet above sea level, being
II feet higher than any other point
on the line of the Northern Pacific.
The tax levy of the several counties
Of Montana is as follows: Lewis and
Clarke, IL mills; Silver Bow, 10;
Beaverhead, 10; Gallatin, 10; Madison,
ID; Choteau, IS; Deer Lodge, 10;
Meagher, 10; Custer, 20; Missoula,
2o4; Dawson, III. The lowest is
Lewis and Clarke, with IL mills, and
the highest is Dawson, with I'll mills.
MI. Carl Kleinschmidt, now in this
city, is president of the recently organ
lied Blackfoot horse and cattle Com.
pany. The organization has bought
and taken up some 1000 acres Of
land on the north fork of the stream
from which it is named. Already
some 400 horses have been placed OF
this ranch, which is conceded to bt
well fitted for a fine stock range
River Press.
The Marquis de Mores, who ship
ped $4,000 head Of sheep from Wis
consin and Iowa last July to range
in Montana, reports that IS per cent
of them have died, the animals swell
ing up and bleeding at the nose befor'
death. A post norton examination
disclosed an extravescence of bloor
in the intestines and is iAcurable. TIL
disease was heretofore unknown.
The total amount of dividends pal,
by Montana mines in 1888 was $482.
$50, according to the Engineering an
Mining Journal, but our esteemed cor
temporary is away off. The allow
figures merely represent the dividend
paid by those companies whose stoc
is either on the market, or who's
management is not averse to the put
LEGATION of the amount of production
The profits of the Butte mining an
smelling company alone last yea
were not less than S2,ooo,ooo of tn
aggregate output Of over $o,ooo,occ
In the Engineering and Mining JouI
nal statement, no mention is made {
the profits of such immense concern
as the Montana, or Paraot, or Colorad
works, which are among the large:
and most successful enterprises of tn
kind in the United States.-Intel