The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-09-10
OUR Man IN THE ooUNTRY
A Lonesome Road.-Intelllgent
Familiee.-A House-raislDg-
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BANNACK, Sept 3,-I6S4.
EDITOR MINER :-Leaving Glen
dale late in the afternoon of Sept. LIST
my route led me over q long an(
lonely road, up hill and down hill
and up again, continuously, for abou,
eight miles. At sunset I drew reinl
at the well-kepts stock ranch of JOSEPH
A. Browne, one Of Montana's soliG
men. The premises, upon first ap-
preaching them, present the appear
ance of . small fort. The building,
are white, the grounds scrupulously
clean, the fences many and the gates
very high. 1t is certainly a model
stock farm. MI. Browne was absent
having left on the Sunday previous
with his daughter, Miss Mary, on
trip to Salt Lake, to leave the Latter
at school.
The morning of the I'd inst. found
me on the road in good season. The
country for several miles is settled
few and far between. It is not
very desirable locality for an ex.
FOUNDER of Democratic faiths, mas.
much a. the majority of them arr
Republicans. Father along the
route I ran into the settlements
families with intelligence beamina
in their eyes; broad. high foreheads
and sunshine in their faces, but the
heads of the families are not at home.
They have gone to a house-raising,
What that means some of the old.
timers know bitter than I can de-
scribe. Making a circuit of several
miles, the locality of the house.
raising was finally reached. Oul
Arabian leaned against a weather.
beaten hay-stack, wishing, no doubt,
for the days of his colthood, while !
took in, the situation at glance.
Among those who tugged and pulled
on the huge logs to put them into
the proper places, were J. E.. Phillips,
q regular six-footer, H. A. Carson
and w. E. Lukinbeal, who managed
ohold their end fully level with the
rest. The building is being put up
under the supervision of MI. Lukin-
beal, on the old King ranch, on
Birch creek, for N. Axe. 1 also find
that William L. Russell. a well-to-do
rancher, has just recovered from a
long siege of sickness, and is able to
be about again.
L. P. Phillips is presiding at the
helm of a self-binder, busily engaged
wrestling vito about ifty-fvs acres
of good grain.
A little farther up the creek, E.. B.
Halning, an honest rancher, drives
away dull care, at times, by follow
ing in the footsteps of st. Crispin.
He is now a whole-soled fellow.
Among those who enjoy an occa-
sional relaxation from the hum of
business, Ed Paxson must be mem
toned. Ed and family are enjoying
themselves at the ranch of a brother,
and spend much time in hunting and
fishing. Ed is an artist at the easel
and a success with the rod and gun.
George Mosher, we'll and favorably
known az a former resident of Butte,
is happily located on a sheep ranch
near Argenta. George has a large
band of fine sheep and Is prospecting;
and we'll he might, for with him,
side by side, he has a helr-meet in
the person of his wife, equalled by
few and excelled by none. Aside
from keeping her home neat and
tidy, she has managed to rake all of
the hay and break the broncho for
that business. Success will always
be with such people.
In Argenta things are quietly 60
ing the even tenor of their way,
while at Bannack many Of those Of
'62 and GA bask in the sunshine OF
former prosperity. The weather,
heretofore hot and sultry, has taken
an abrupt turn, and at this writing it
is raining slowly but surely, and
many is the anecdote related and the
yarn spun by the veterans Of the
pick, pan and shovel. IT'S here
where James Hardy attends to the
wants of the thirsty, RECALLING his
friends with the choicest of wines,
LIQUORS, cigars and fruits. In secret
seclusion a barrel of o. X. Bourbon
is kept for the past nine years by
James, to be tapped on. the occasion
OF the first quartz sale in the camp.
His face beams with pleasure and his
Y sparkles as he recounts the adj
ventures and episodes of pioneer life,
when such men as Col. Mclean, +.
d. Leavitt, E. s. Ball, John Merry,
w, A. Simpson, Adam Fink, Jos.
H. Browne and others were among
their number. Provisions were ex
tremely scarce. and the meals would
often have been very scanty but for
the energy of Wash Stapleton and
his powerful spy-glass. In those days
it was, at times, necessary to con-
vince the most skeptical by means
of this peculiarly contracted
instrument, that at least some meat
was concealed in the soup. He also
states, upon oath, that Jerry Sulli-
van was the time-keeper of the season,
and that he carried the sun time
all the way with him from st. Louis.
As a genius in his profession, Hardy
claims that Jerry has no equal, for
a,sooporod oven in that remote