The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-10-30
AROUND THE MOUNTAINS.


just . Glance at Old Scenes and New Ones.
| We got left by the foreman on the Yam
Hill divide last week while looking down Mt
the Sqraw Gulch mine, which Z. III. Irvine,
Jos. @. Steele, Arthur Hagan and Clark 81
Larabie have been working since 1873, and
from which $4,000 gold has been taken
1t Is said that mountains can be removed by
faith, but In this case, good believers rs they
are, the owners used water to accomplish the
purpose, aud have torn out q section of the
continent bigger than rifted by the Flood
Rock explosion.
A quick drive down the gulch landed us In
Pioneer. 1t is not the busy burg 1t was
twelve years ago, but there are yet 200 to $50
men in town and the country tributary
thereto, and despite the "big money" days
are gone, there is yet much money taken out.
Among those who have mined in the vicin-
ity the past year are Ballard & Co., Kelley,
Hagan & Irvine, Garsey & Co., Moore g.
Co., Tibbetts & Co., Caspar Gheerdts g. Co.,
O'Reilley & Co, Chas. wykoff, the Pixies
Peak Co, Bart. Glennon & Co, Sam Glib
bons & Co, and J. X. Uhl & Co. The yield
this year has not been very good on account
of many new openings. The famous Pioneer
Bar, once owned by James Glasgow, Jno. s.
Pemberton, Doc. Young, N. McNish and
r. 8. Kelley, has been worked this year by
Garsey & Co., but its yield is light compared
to the years when 1t was worked by 40 to GO
men and yielded 100000 during the season.
This reminds us that dozen or more years
ago, Ben Venor, who had been wintering
below, came up in the spring and hired out
| to the Pioneer Co. to shovel in. N. McNish.
| great-hearted old Scot, was foreman, and
as no walked up and down ne noticed that
Ben, whose hands were soft and blistered,
! was favoring himself little. McNish kept
his eyes on him pretty steadily. Pretty soon
Ben, who had buckled in as we'll as he could
and could stand 1t no longer, Strengthened up
and said: "Hello, Mac! II Pm working too
hard, you just say the word and I'll let up"
Nc. saw the point, laughed and let Ben's
back and hands get hardened up gradually.
We relate this as an indisputable case where
Scotchman got joke into his head with
out a surgical operation.
The business of the town Is done by A. G.
Wilhelm and NJ. w. Kelley, general mer-
ChdHbS, VINO sell d 1dTRc AMOUNT OI ROOuS
each year, and keep excellent stocks; Mr..
Lawson, who has succeeded Mrs. Clark in
the hotel; Casper Gheerdts, who sells good
meat on the block Mt reasonable prices; Mr.. |
Hollenback who Is the village blacksmith; |
Jack McClernan, who preseribes for the |
boys with throat troubles; and Billy Brent, |
who handles the U. s. mail, and is one of the |
most accommodating telephone agents on |
the West Side exchange.
Pioneer will be q better camp next year |
than this. The placers will be opened in |
better shape, and some of the quartz In the |
vicinity shows we'll Mr.. Ed. II. Irvine, who |
sold out this week, states his belief that the |
placer mines tributary to Pioneer have not |
yet yielded much over half their product, |
and that with systematic working by COM |
panies having plenty of capital, they will |
pay excellently. He predicts that Kohrs Il |
Bielenberg will take out $1,000 per week |
next summer from the ground he and Arthur |
Hagan sold them.
A pleasant spot in Pioneer is The garden of |
A. G. Wilhelm. With the good exposure,
plenty of water under pressure, the shelter |
Of buildings, bedrock close to the surface,
and a terraced garden of rich SOIL he raises /
fruit, shrubs and rare flowers of tenderer
varities than can be grown in Deer Lodge, |
and that were in healthy bloom during our
visit after Jack Frost had slaughtered like /
varieties here. Wilhelm is an enthusiastic /
florist and arboriculturist-it need hardly be /
added, a man after our own heart. Among
others Of his products this year was con-
siderable quantity OF vel. matured apples.
just west Of Pioneer is Gold Creek, where
Francois found gold IN 1852, the first prac-
teal find In the Territory and on Its banks,
where of old was only an open moor, is now
Phi. Blessinger's fertile ranch, with thick
stubble and fattenipg herds, suggesting
bucolic rest rather than the delirium Of
y "Gold,
Before whose shining image bow the vul-
gar great,
The vainly rich, the miserably proud;
The mob Of peasants, mobiles, priests, and
kings,
And with blind feelings reverence the power
That grinds them to the dust of misery.
1t Is pleasant prospect from the hill-tops,
with He'll Gate valley to the front and right.
In birdseye perspective, are the fine farms of
Benton Hoover, Geo. Beeber, Thos Stark,
s. Leonard, Thos. Morse, Frank M orse, Thos.
II. Griffith, Berry & Rider, and John Ed
wards; ahead on the New Chicago side are
those of VIM. Wallace, David Dunkleberg,
VIM. Periman, Prosser s. Franzman, and
Dingwall Bros.-all showing rich harvests
in their many stacks and ricks.
New Chicago has not grown as the enter
prise Of its citizens deserved. There are
thrifty, industrious and wealthy farmers In
all the valleys round, and somewhere In the
vicinity was 10 be a town. But New Chi
cago was not on the railroad line, and Drum
mond, its railroad rival, was located FIVE
miles away, and each, to some extent, draws
from the vitality Of the other. They are a
well-to-do people though, those New Chca-
goaus, and have substantial property. The
merchandising Is done by j. A. & J. b.
Featherman and Dingwall Bros. They have
fine stores and do good business. McPhail
Bros. keep the Valley House, a very CON-
Portable hotel. Prosser & Franzmau are the
blacksmiths; Featherman Bros. run the meat
market; Zeb Haynes has o pleasant place
vi icsoft ioT INC oOys, anu Juug6 ferguson /
keeps watch and ward, dispensing justice
impartially to all A pleasant feature of the
town Is the fine orchard and grove of J. A.
Featherman, containing many fruit and
ornamental trees and fine shrubs. Tributary
to this point is . large area Of very produc-
tive grain-growIng lands, but the large -four
ing mill Of Morse Il Co., now making two
grades Of flour, has capacity sufficien to con-
vert 1t all into marketable product. .saBsI'
West Of town are the ranches of McPhail
Bros, and Col. Morse, while further south
Willow creek empties into Flint On this
creek are the excellent farms, With extensive
grazing lands contiguous, of Louis ]. Hen.
Erickson, Joseph Henderson, Chas. Tinkle-
paugh, Thomas g. Jones, Thos. Buchanan,
M. Dooley, r. Dooley, Angus Mcdonald,
Gus. Pearson, Paul Pellitier, P. Ryan, Jack
Harrington, John Fahey, John Lehman,
Mrs. Magone and Mrs. Nierling.
Leaving New Chicago for Philipsb burg, one
passes alternately on the right and left the
farms Of John A. Featherman and that of p.
BroGan, bought from Oscar Gruwell and i'm
proved with an excellent house; Hi Thomas |.
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