Fergus County argus., 1888-10-11
MONTANA NEWS.

Great Falls has voted in favor of incor-
poration.
Missoula is soon to have incandescent
electric lights.
The Hearst hotel. in Anaconda, will he
four stories high.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of odd Eel
lows was in session at Helena last week.
The Alice mine of Cooke has been bonded
to II. q. Kaiser and NJ. l.. Powers for S2s,-
100
| The coal miners at Sand Coulce receive
$3.50 per day. Outside hands are paid
S2.5o. Board costs them from 81 to SS
I per week.
! The new mill being erected by the Granite
Mountain Mining company will cost $780,
900. II is expected that it will be in oper-
alton by the ist Of January.
On the 25th Of September the Honest AXE
Mining company Of this territory paid its
l22d dividend (20cents per share) amount
ing 10 S25 ZOO. Mining Review.
Two large political demonst rations were
held in Helena last week. The Democrats
held forth ON Thursday evening and the
Republicans ON Saturday evening.
The largest cattle train that ever passed
over the Manitoba road went east last
evening. IL was loaded at points west of
Benton, and was drawn by two engines
River Press.
The iiiteen-stamp quartz mill at Butte,
h.
recently. 1t was owned by Dennis Driscoll'
and i. O'Donnell, and cost 5000. In.
sured for SlS.OOO.
William Flannery has just finished har-
vesting his large crop of grain-i5O acres,
principally oats. Mr.. Flanmery ought to
own an elevator. as he will probably thresh
about 81, 900 bushels Of grain. Courier.
Many Montanians will lie glad to learn
of the return Of Henry Bratnober, general
superintendent Of the Drum Lummon mine,
mining properties in South America and
elsew here Mining Review.
j. q. Rex, well known in Montana and
especially in Helena, having been sentenced
to a three years term from that place for
obtaining money under false pretenses, is in
trouble again, being under arrest at Seattle
for embezzlement at Spokane Falls.
At IA meeting Of the trustees of the Gran
ite Mountain Mining company. held at st.
Louis a few days since, the regular monthly
was declared. The total dividend since
April, 1855. amounts to $:5.2'm.WO
Henry Willard is making n tour of the
Northern Pacific line. lie is accompan MED
by Prof. won Esmarch of Berlin and wife.
Princess won Scheswig- Holstein, aunt Of
the empress of Germany; also by ex-t;ov.
Ila,,ser of Montana and I. +. Oakes.
Sam Fowler, whose excellent farm lies
about one and one-half miles south of the
city, threshed his grain ON Monday last.
lie had five acres Of wheat which yielded
goo bushels, averaging 40 bushels per acre,
and l25 acres of oats which yielded $500
bushels, an average of II bushels per acre
and "a few bushels over for good measure
Courier.
The ranch Of Il. 4. Power on sun river is
an extensive enclosure Of 5000 acres, all
under wire fence. which measures thirty
miles ia all. On this farm MIR. Power has
200 head Of Polled Angus cattle, all regis
tered; $50 head of Norman and grade
horses, beside other stock. lie cuts a wide
breadth of hay, and raises all the grain re-
quire,i for feeding. lie has just eompletel
u two-story stone barn that will accommo-
date eighty head Of animals and stow away
forty to fifty tons Of hay, and is building
another. 30xI2J feet, also two stories, |
specially designed for the comfort and
training of his blooted horses. His cattle
captured the highest premiums at the late
territorial fair-Herald