Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1885-03-26

tanning, besides It's full quota of reading
matter, some fifty illustrations of the
principal business houses in st. Paul. We
consider this the best number of that excel.
lent journal we have ever seen. The sub.
seription price is only ~ per year. Send
for sample copy.
>. +. Stilnson, manager and PRINCIPAL
stakeholder Of the Northwest Cattle com.
pany, of the Northwest Territory, accom-.
panied by his genial forman, George Lane
arrived here last Sunday en- route to Hell.
ena and Butte. Lanes many friends and
ac1aintanccs here were glad to see him,
and learn of his evident prosperity in the
great northwest land.
Reports from the South Fork country.
say that Il couple Of Chicago dudes lately
visited that section in scuich of the $50.
700 cache made by the famous Plummer
gang OF outlaws few years since. This
purportcd cache. is evidently gaining II
reputation second only to that of Captain
kidd's buried treasure. While it is cvi.
IDENTITY true that such cache was made.
II is also probable that it has been un.
earthcd ere this, and even II it has not, it
would te like hunting for ,hc provcrbial
needle in laystack, 10 find it.
Mr. Davies, of the Northwest Territory,
VIII be remembered by many of our read
ers us the peculiar and eccentric English
man, who spent several weeks in this
place last summer and purchased n band
OF sheep from o. g. Cooper which he
took north. II is evident that Mr.. Davies
ecccntricitics will he the means of getting
him into serious trouble, If he don't watch
out. lie purported TO have unlimited
credit In England, and previous to the dc.
parture from his adopted home in the
Dominion for this Territory, disposed of II
draft on the doodle" in the mother
country. In the course of time the draft
was forwarded to England, and
came back dislionored, and the money
lender went after Davies with blood in
his left eye, but the bird had flown, and
has not been heard of since, despite the
many inquiries made after him by too
confiding friends. Ills band of sheep
were coniiscated by the government to
satisfy the duty on them and were offered
for sale, but we understand the gentleman
who advanced Davies the money on Ills
draft, has succeeded in getting possession
of the stock and will probably make good
his loss.
We hnd the pleasure of meeting S. +.
Stimson, manager Of the Northwest Cattle
company, during his recent visit to this
place. Mr.. Simson is gentleman thor.
onghly convcrsant with all matters per.
tanning to stock, and is one of the pio
neers in the business, his company being
ond of the first organized in that country.
HIS long experience and success in the
business is calculated TO impress one with
the truth Of the assertion, that the North
west Territory is the "Quccn cowland."
lie says nll range stock have suffered little
Or no loss othcrtlian natural during the past
winter, which has been exceptionally So.
we're, the temperature ranging away down
IN the forties. Mr.. Stmson SAYS what
losses have been experienced in that
country In the past few years which has
been the means of bringing the country
under suspicion WAS wholly caused by
management, and not that
,f the climate. lie says most of the
English companies now operating there,
when they first started, employed for
heir managers, men WHO had never seen
range steer, and as n sequence the less, IS
we're great; but now things have changed
md none but those who have n thorough
understanding of the business are en-.
lloyed as managers, and now the losses
re comparatively nothing. AS compli.
nent to this Territory, he says that the
1est and most thorough stockmcn in the
country are Montana men.