The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-09-24
= MAN IN THE oCrnrpv
Ol''0nltes. - Personal Ma,+.-
Az sheridan.-Amone tho
Hanchers.-A Singular
Complaint, Etc.

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| Ranchers.-A Singular
Complaint, Etc.
""f correspondence ofthe M1NER.
On The ROAD, Sept. IS, 1891.
Aitnough my last epistle was dated
rom Dillon, I did, by no end
OF close my observations in and about
'nas neat little town with my letter
OF that date. Among those friends of
the MINER not previously mentioned
are j. N. Haislip and T. F. Porcn
Feter Wilson, another of the old.
timers, lives an independent life in
tne bosom OF a pleasant family. sup
plying the wants of Dillonites with
many Of the ~necessaries of life from
an adjoining ranch.
Mr.. Scar and B. Peacock "strike
the iron while tits hot" and stand
among the first in the Territory in
their calling. Their jovialty is in
Keeping with the excellent black
smith work they send out.
Dillon can boast rightfully ofmany
good things: of a good school, a neat
church. enterprising people and good,
law-abiding citizens. Within its
fold are found Methodists, Presby-
terians, Catholics, Baptists, Jews and
Gentiles; and while our Republican
friends are many, the Democracy is
certainly not in the descendancy, for
WI find young Democrats in the
cradle nursed by Democratic moth
ers. who promise that the baby boy
shall be taught to follow in the hon
orafle and desirable footsteps of the
family. Mrs. Al Lewis has just such
alittle offspring.
At the home of the Stodden broth
ers, about three miles from Dillon,
the stacking of grain is suddenly in
terrupted for the balance of the day
by a genuine miserable rain.
But a few miles above the latter
George Standaher is surrounded, in
addition to the necessaries, by many
of the luxuries of life. His harvest
ing is not finished. George and his
wife are among those who know how
and do enjoy life.
At Thomas Carman's we find won
derful changes for the better. His
heretofore commodious quarters are
being supplied by a new and substan-
tial structure, and the beauty of the
thing is that Tom is his own archi-
tect and mechanic. When finished
he anticipates q 'hOuse-warmiDg
party, when the invited and their
friends will shake the heel and toe
until the wee sma' hours.
At the Point of Rocks Charles
Hayes smilingly waits upon the Gus
toners who favor the house with
their patronage.
George w. Vernon, for many years
the tutor of some of Montana's rising
generation, resides peacefully among
his neighbors near this point. He is
the master mechanic of many a great
structure gone up, point by. point and
story by story o fmanhood. The mind
is given, but the character must be
moulded. The germ is not the tree,
the acorn not the oak, nor the mind
a character, and George has the
pleasing consolation that he has not
spent his labors in vain. or that they
have gone unlewarded, for he can
count among those who abided by
his rod many of the leading minds of
the country,
Harry Anderson's friendly grasp
at Twin Bridges brought us to real
ize the fact that We were wet, cold
and hungry; and Mort Lott, another
one OF We olden timers in the hotel
business at the Bridges, stood ready
to greet and to take the stranger in"
with a smiling countenance. AS a
humorist as we'll as a keeper of a good
hotel, Lot is q success.
Just about that time of "high
twelve" when the bell calls iron
labor to refreshment," our "Jay-Ey e-
Seen shifts the atmosphere of friend
Sarge Halls oat-bin, and we stop!
Sarge is busy blowing for next years
crop, while the weather prevents
work in the harvest field. The acre
age of grain upon his place is about
$50 of wheat and Is OF oats. Mr..
Hall is the owner of the famous Mill
Greek Mill, of which Mr.. Pietsch Is
the able superintendent.
Night, With its accustomed prompt
ness. finds me at the home Ut VIM.
Tiernan, about five miles from the
Bridges. He, like many Others
finds the weather an earnest barrier
to his labors, but sensible as he Is,
doesn't fret much about 1t. he
moves with the agility of an ante
lope, is fearless in protecting the
right, and is the proprietor OF con-
siderable stock and a profitable
ranch. A daughter Of the family Is
now on a visit to the Geysers, and Is
expected home in a few days.
At Sheridan things are booming
somewhat in the way of new bulid-
ings, among which is a residence 0
MI. Rossiter, of the firm OF Hall&
Rossiter. R. P. Baker, n of the
solid men of the neighborhood,
must be a pretty good one' tor con-
siderable of Mr.. Bakers time IS