The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-07-06
NOTES IN NEVADA VALLEY,
As Jotted Down by Our Travelling Cores
~p0Hdent.

HELMvILLE, June 80, 1888.-For five weeks
the showers have been SO frequent as to SUI
persede the necessity of irrigating. The
%ranchmen, for the most part, nave spent
their time in constructing new and repairing
old fences. Old residents say that grain
crops never looked more promising, while
the meadows and ranges are better than they
have been for several years. The 18th and
10Th, throughout the entire valley, the heavy
rains did much damage to the roads and
have initiated against sheep,shearing BY
turning the shearers into boarders.
Wm. Laherty's dairy has, perhaps, no par
allel in the County. He is a%bnndantly pro.
vided with ample water power for churning
and all modern Improvements for accelerat.
ing the m aking of good butter. Mrs. La
herty's vigilant supervision of the work Incl
dent to the manufacture of butter is remark.
able for a woman of her age. Her arduous
duties, however, are made much lighter by
the domestic virtues of her daughter Kate.
Their herd of 125 dairy COWS has recently re-
ceived an important addition of two tn or.
oughbred Durhams out of a car load shipped
to Montana from Danville, Kentucky, by
Marcum & Lennon. Sixteen head out of
this car load of Shorthorns will be sold in
this valley. Many here insist that this breed
of cattle is better for milk, as well as yield
better profits in the beef market.
The spirit of improvement is abroad in
this valley. Many new fences, new barns,
new milk houses, new ~corrals, new additions
to old houses, of recent date have been built.
A handsome Catholic church has been
..onAoI ~ Ho1unx;ll, TI,:o nt,rvnA, -@~lI H.
an ornament to a much: larger town.
On the 18th, the Bishop and several clergy.
men being present, the corner stone of the
Methodist church was laid. The exercises
on this occasion and the magnificent spread
of toothsome pastry, palatable fruits and
iced cakes of exquisite and curious design at
the festival hall will be long remembered by
all who were present. The contract for
building this church has been let, and Helm
Vile can boast of two fattering exponeuts
of progress. The beautiful site of the Meth.
odist church was q gift from the liberal hand
of j. C. More.
Marcum & Lennon are erecting a quartz
mill on the "Snow Flake" near the Big
Blackfoot. These gentlemen say the mill
will be ready for crushing ore in about four
weeks, and they are sanguine of favorable
results.
WIN. Delmeter is still on the Ogden Noun.
tain. and he reports the quartz looking well.
D.. W. Cortin is developing an encouraging
claim near his home.
The Nevada Creek Mining Company are
still at work, but will rave q short season
this year ON account of the small quantity of
snow in the mountains.
Mr.. E. Smith has been quite sick for the
past week from a pronounced heart disease
and the consequent dropsical accumulations
in his chest and lower e~xtremities. He is
now much better, and the attendant physi-
clan thinks his recovery will be speedy.
In this valley the growth of maple, silver
leaf poplar, Norway and white spruce, ash
and a great variety of hardy apple trees is no
longer problematical. With juiicious care
the problem has been solved by ]. C. Moore.
His orchard of $50 apple trees has survived
the frosts of two Sc vere winters and are now
growing with u luxuriance akin to the
tropics. Mr.. Moore says the growth of an
orchard in Nevada valley is not a question
of climate but one Of proper attention.
J.H M,