Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-23
wAYsJDE NOTES.

WAYSJDE NOTES.
As Gathered by q 'sMiner'' Man In His
Rambles Through Mon
tana.
1 was compelled to double my route, not
all of it was Improbable though, for eight
miles below Hound sturdy Democrat in the
person OF lack Sowash. He is prepared to
entertain company at all times with meat
and drink OF all kinds. His better hall being
absent on my arrival I decided not to take
my chances ON Zack's culinary attachments
and drove down to the government station,
presided over by Mrs. McLennan, and there
spent the night.
The next day atnoon I reached Yancey's
place in Pleasant Valley and it ia. truly
we'll named. for after travelling on both ends
of the road that pleasant little valley is a
relief from the general roughness of the
country. and Yancey is the right man in
the right place to put you on good terms
with your stomach. He will place before
you nice mnuntain'trou or q fat piece Of
elk steak and who could remain in an ILL
humor at the bad roads nnder the circum-
Stances? On arriving al j. A. Clarke's at
the Hot Springs in time for a good supper
and then q nance to hold down a feather
bed for the night was almost too good luck.
Well, that is the way Clarke treats people
who come his way and l, for one, commend
the idea. From there ] drove to Gardner.
This place is Ut the junction of the Gardner
River with the Yellowstone, and is quite a
little burg, having two or three stores and
restaurants and q number of saloons.
Chas. johnson, formerly a Butte man, is
wholesale business, running q brewery
agency and b~ottling branch for the sur
rounding country.
C. B. Scott has also a fine bar, and is do
ing a nice trade. He is also engaged in
livery, feed and sale stable, n q general
transportation business through the park.
From there l retraced my steps down
the Yellowstone, meeting on the w8y a
man who advertises himself as the meanest
world as Yankee Jim. He will not only
charge a man a dollar for going through
q gate, but he will help himself to your
demijohn if it is convenient. He is proba-
bly, not to blame much for this, as he is
built that way, and is proprietor OF a toll
road, which will account for his highway
robbery.
We spent the night at Daily's ranch.
This gentleman has been residing on his
place continuously for over twenty years,
notwithstanding the many Indian scares
some years age, and has here bullt him a
fine comfortable, two-story house OF some
ten rooms, and has a large barn, and is alto
gether very comfortably fixed, and, in fact.
many of the farmers along the Yellowstone
have very comfortable houses. Twas much
surprised to see the improvements in many
places, as I did not suppose that the
Yellowstone Valley had passed the
old fashioned log cabin period,
as that usually covers a period OF ten or
fifteen years. From Days went down to
a ford on the river, and crossed over to
E~migrant Gnlch, but found but little doing
here; nothing in the placer mines. Some
five miles up the gulch there aretwo or three
arastras running, but l did not learn much
of their success.
I then Travelled on to Livingston, and
stopped at the Albermarle House, q very !
fine hotel for so small a town as Living
ston.
Taken on the whole the people of Living |
ston are very careless OF the feelings OF a
newspaper man for 1 utterly failed to make
an impression on them. l presume it is
another case of '~'enough is as good as a
FEAST" as every travelling newspaper man
IO III UlC1uO W III L CAl1 Ad6 a ldil
show at them audit probably gets monoto-
nous after d while. From there l returned
via Underline to Bozeman. In myformer
letter l forgot to note some fine improve
ments going up here and a fine business
house has been built for Frank L.. Benepe's
agricultural implement business, two sto-
ries high and built OF brick and stone.
Nelson Story is building himself a magnifi-
cent house here to cost about SIS 200.
This will be to Bozeman what Gov. Hau-
ser's mansion is to Helena, and is certainly
a handsome addition to the town-an ex-
ample that would be a desirable thing for
others of Bozeman's solid men to follow. |
and thus establish their naturally magnifi-
cent town site with beautiful and perma-
nent houses, and on the principle that
wealth attracts wealth. induce many OF the
large farmers Of the Gallatin Valley who
have gradually amassed a competence
there and also the many cattle kings who
count their herds by the thousands, to
come there and invest some of their
plethoric bank accounts in comfortable
houses.
All that is wanted to start a boom of this |
kind in Bozeman is a good starter, and the
wealth is in those valleys to back it up,
and sooner or later we will see Bozeman a
little inland city, full OF magnificent private
residences. From here we travel out
across the Madisont to Harrison and Lower
Willow Creek. There I found r. w. Har-
rood turning out ~five-pound potatoes in
plenty-al large and many of them reach
the above weight-tEis is no fish story. |
Quite a number of our old MINER subscrib-
ers were over on Boulder threshing, the
Lower Creek being already through. s. L..
Potter has removed to the Watkins farm,
seven miles below Ennis.
Up at Harrison I found H. c. Harrison
at his busiest time-threshing, and just
after noon time but found his good lady
well supplied with eatables, 9otwitbstand-
ing the fact that she had fed twenty-five or
thirty hungry threshers.
Close by was e. L. Bradford, running the |
Roberts mill and turning out a fine article
of -four. This is mostly used by their home
market, Pony and Red Bluff.
H. Warner is nextdoor, with his ranch in
pleased with the seasons output.
DR.. Stafford is q short distance above, |
IN Willow Creek, and has his farm in nice
shape.
Dad Allen is close by and says he will
have the regular sack of flour for The
MINER this year. Up neal Pony found
H. H. Wood rushing things in his usual
live manner digging his potatoe crop and
irrigating a rye crop. I have some fears
ludU ue 1uteuub u UuTQ "OOQSQln6r, OF Co |
say the least, it looks very suspicious.
w. w. Mckaskle. C. E. Church and w. s. |
Crews are still on deck in Pony and max
ing things lively in general.
From here we go to Red Bluff. Here a
grand change has been made. A. w. and
G. E.. Tanner a short time ago removed
here from Bozeman and purchased the
stone hotel, formerly occupied by L. B. |
Odds, and have built a large stone room
and fire proof cellar and are carrying a
large and well selected stock of dry goods |
and groceries and are doing a fine business,
strictly cash, from 500 to $3.50 per day,
and defies competitions broad assertion.
but as he very evidently means.
Joe Walbank is still supplying the boys
with liquid refreshments in his happy,
good.natured manner, to their general sat-
isfaction.
John Boyles has struck a fine body of ore
III the Tippecanoe mine, on the same hill
where the old Grub Stake mine is located, |
out of which he and his partners have ex-
tracted over 100000 since it's first dis