Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-07-23

air and carried it some distance. At the
time there were two animals in the build
ing-a horse and a calf-which We're pick
ed up with the shed, but, strange to say,
escaped without a scratch. The calf was
thrown into the air six feet, apd landed
on terra firma right side up with care.
The horse was in Il box stall, which fact
probably accountsin a measure for its es~
cape from injury,
Some 10000 pounds of machinery for
the new Touring mill built at Great Falls
last winter, arrived at the Helena depot
yesterday and is now being loaded on
wagons for transportation to its destina-
ton. The present capacity of the mill
will be seventy-fve barrels a day, but the
foundation is laid for a mill having a
capacity of 100 barrels per day. The
mill race is already completed and the
machinery will he put in place ready to
grind the grain crop Of this season
dependent. 18th inst.
We made mention some time since that
the English syndicate who were prospect
ing for coal near the great falls had three
S-hour shifts of men working in the shaft.
1t seems the miners-who were brought
from Helena-did not like the work and
quit, and were in Great Falls last Sun
day. Tie men say that the company fail
ed to furnish suitable food for working
men to live on, and the company say that
the epicurean tastes of the men were ele-
waited above their stations, and that the
~rations were wholesome and plenty.
The machinery for the Cataract Flour
Mill is now en- route from Helena, and is
expected to arrive next week, and but for
the condition of the roads, would prob
ably arrive this week. The building has
been pushed forward rapidly blythe build
ers and will be completed and in readi-
ness 20 receive the plant when it arrives.
The lying rumor which has been circn-
lated concerning this mill will now have
the quietus put on it, and the cranks will
now have to resort to some other scheme
in their frantic, but utterly hopeless task
of injuring Great Falls. The simple fact
of Great Falls having the only Touring
mill in northern Montana will give the
place Il boost, and shows the enterprise of
her citizens to the outside world.
Col. VIM. T. Wheeler is in receipt of a
letter from Captain James B. Quinn, Us.
engineer in charge Of the river improve
ments at Fort Benton, advising him that
the members of the Missouri River Com
mission, in charge of Major Mackenzie,
[. s. Engineer, Of St. Paul, who is a
member of the commission, will arrive at
Helena about the 18th inst, and asking
him if he can bring them down the Mis-
souri, by boat. Colonel w. has q fine boat
already built that can carry the party.
This commission wasappoiated under the
law appropriating money for the improve
ment of the upper Missouri river, passed
by Congress- last winter, and will examine
all the work that has been done and re-
port upon what in their judgment is neces
sary to be done hereafter from the falls
down the riyer.-Independent.
W. 0. Dexter, the gentleman who will
put the ferry across the Missouri above
the mouth of Sun river, called at this office
one day this week and gave us a few
points concerning the enterprise. The
boat will be 16y12, and will be fitted up
in frst-class shape, and ready for business
inside of the next two months, and if ev-
erything moves satisfactorily, it will be
ready for operation in six weeks. If the
current is not swift enough to propel the
BOAT at all seasons, a small engine will be
put in to furnish the power. Mr.. Dexter
wishes us to state to the people Of the
upper country, particularly those on the
South Fork of Sun river, who contem-
plate bringing their grain here to be made
into flour, that he will be ready to convey
them across the Missouri, which will save
them one ferriage, and will also be a
much shorter and better route than by the
old road.
W. O. Dexter has nearly all the materi-
al on the ground for his ferry boat, and
work on its construction has commenced.
This matter has received attention in
tl1ese columns every weak since the first