Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-08-15
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SPRAY OF THE FALLS.
The beef roundup commences on the
goth inst.
A flag on the postofice was kept at half
mast Saturday.
BoRS-To Mr.. and Mrs. James Anthony,
of Sand Coulee, a girl.
The interior of Mr.. Hugs new build
ing is nearly completes.
The hay crop in this section is reported
to be unusually fine this year.
Several sports doing Great Falls left the
greater portion of their wealth here.
A number of M~inneapolians are expect
ed to visit Great Falls the coming fall.
Herman Wildekopf is erecting a dwell
ing house on his property in the east part
of town.
The machinery in Hotter Bros mill
has been started and is now running on
full time.
A cannon was fired every half hour at
Fort Shaw during the day that General
Grant was buried.
The material for the new paper at Che
teau is on the ground, and the enterprise
will soon be launched.
David Wilson, of Wilson Bros, informs
us that this season has been theb best for
stock raisers of any for years.
One of the delights of an editor is to
find gross typographical errors in his pa
per after all due diligence in detecting
and correcting them.
A large force of men are now engaged
at work extending the dam further out
into the river. When completed this dam
will be between 800 and 600 feet long.
The canal to convey the water from the
dam to the Cataract Flour Mill is com
pleted. 1t is six feet wide on the bottom
and is an average of five feet in depth.
F. W. Dahlgreen & Co. have 10000 poles
and posts at this place, recently tloated
down from the head of Deep creeE, which
they offer for sale. See advertisement.
The walls of Mckay Bros new brick
are up and the interior will shortly be
completed. This is a handsome building
and Great Falls should feel proud of it.
The gentlemen sent here from Mime
apolis, four in number, to place the ma
chinery in the Cataract Roller Mill arriv-
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quite a number of Tue II River peo-
pie are sojourning at the hot spring in the
mountains, at the head of the north fork
of Sun river. Among the party are Geo.
STEEL and family and Mr.. and Mrs. Jas.
n. Largent.
All the machinery for the Catara act Roll
er Mill has o arrived, and the corps of
machinists have it already distributed up
on the several floors in position, but 1t
will be some time yet before it is ready
for business-prohably three or four
weeks.
The timber to be used in extending the
dam further out in the river, arrived Sat
urday last. This in itself is quite an i'm
provement, and will necessitate the ex-
penditure of quite a sun of money, and
give employment to a large number of
laborers.
The Sweet Grass Hills excitement is
likely to develop into a yeritable STAN
pede, which will only have the effect of
causing more or less u~npleasantness, as
the government has issued positive orders
to the var department to remove all pros
pectors from Indian lands.
The festive humming bird, with an IN
erring eye and a poisonous probosis, who
has contrived to make the nights hideous
with his mechanism of torture for the
past six weeks, has almost entirely disap-
peared to where the binewood twineth.
We bid him farewell without any regrets.
w. .. Dexter means business, and will
shortly have his ferry in operation. Two
loads of timber to be used in the construc-
ton of the boat arrived this week. The
place selected for the ferry was evidently
planned by nature for the purpose. 1t
will require no grading, as the ground
naturally slopes down to the waters edge.
Take a slip Of paper and place thereon
in figures your age in years, dropping
months, weeks and days. Multiply the
sum by two and then add to the result OBJ
timed the figures ares; add two and then
divide by two. Subtract from the result
obtained the number of years on earth
and see if you will not obtain figures you
will not be likely to forget.
We understand work will be commenc-
ed shortly on the new road across to Eagle
Rock. This road is of considerable i'm