Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-07-24
SPRAY OF THE FALLS,

| SPRA I UFFGHE FALLS.
| From Saturdays Daily.J .5
Miss Oviatt and Miss Tabbutt returned
today from Kibbey.
Matt Furnell and family and VIM
Berkenbuel Of Sun river valley are in the
city today. """
| Assessor Gorham is going his rounds
AS usual he is doing his work we'll and
satisfactorily.
The water works are fast approaching
completion and by the first Of August will
be ready for business.
Wallace Taylor arrived from Choteau
last evening. He came to meet Mr.. Sands
and will take him to the ranch.
One Of the two wolves has escaped
from Wernecke's. It has collar on and
may soon be plowling over the prairie.
Sam Mitchell, one of Choteau county's
members OF the convention, came down
from the capital yesterday and will return
tomorrow. @"
Ben Atkins has gone to Big SANDY to
| do railroad office work. He is Il bright,
y
we'll there.
Mr.. Julius Sands of New York, Of the
Sands & Taylor Cattle Company, arrived
from Helena yesterday iu company with
Jesse r.. Taylor, enrout to the company's
ranch and range near Choteau.
Our large cattle owners are doing a
good deal Of figuring at present and are
quietly investigating the range question.
Some of the large herds will be moved
from their old ranges to better feed.
Andrew Pogreba Of Everest, Dakota, a
brother OF Roadmaster Pogreba of this
city has been making a visit of few days
to Great Falls and will return with very
favorable opinion of our city, which he
thinks is destined to be second Mime
apolls. PA
The Kibbey and Belt country will be
favored with good average crops this
year. The straw is not so long as usual,
but the grain is good and the Yields will
be very fine. 3. R. Clingan, who has
about 100 acres Of wheat, says he will
have an excellent crop.
Len Lewis returned Sunday last from
Great Falls, where he had been in attend
ance at the wool growers and wool buy
ers banquet He says the Falls did the
thing in grand style. The convention
was we'll represented and nearly all got
on their high horse before the festivities
ended.-R. M. Husbandman.
Mr.. Gibson has on exhibition at the
Townsite office a sample sheaf just taken
from his famous wheat field near town,
that is something IN the way of the mar
velous, considering the Unprecedented
drought Of this season. The heads are
very large and well filled with round
plump grain. This field Of wheat is now
nearly ready for the reaper, and the yield
is estimated at from rs to 80 bushels to
the acre.
From Judge Larkin we learn that the
surveyors on the Belt mountains branch
were at the bend above Mann's yesterday
morning. They had already run line
as far as Wallis, but finding they started
higher than necessary, returned to Mann's
and took fresh start yesterday morning.
The party is in charge Of Mr.. Ellison and
it is expected they will complete the work
laid out for them in ten days.
tits hoped that the Fort Benton nine,
which is recognized as the champion
team Of northern Montana, will not
ignore the challenge issued by Great Falls
on the 4th. The Assinniboine and Great
Falls clubs are DESTROYS of meeting the
champions on the diamond, and it is gen
orally suggested that our boys turn out
and defeat them, after which game may
be arranged with the Helenas or St. Pauls.
River Press
One Of the attractions at the banquet at
Great Falls Friday night was a sheaf OF
wheat raised by Paris Gibson on bench
land 400 feet higher than the Missouri
river, without irrigation. The land is
situated about one and a-half miles from
Great Falls, and Mr.. Gibson put in forty
acres of wheat last February on sod
ground to see what he could raise, and
the result was satisfactory. demon
strating that from twenty-five to thirty
bushels of wheat to the acre can be
raised on bench lands without irrigation.
The supposed valueless lard Of Montana
can be ed.-Independent.
Robert Frizzell of Neihart is in town,
and although he is 81 years of age he
saw for the first time today a railroad.
He stood on the platform as the splendid
Manitoba passenger train came in and
watched it with mingled feelings Of awe
and establishment. Not only had he
never before seen train of cars, but the
track and all the instruments and APP
planes of railroading were novel and
amazing to him. How did he keep out
Of the way of the locomotive? Well, Bob
left his old Kentucky home in 1847, going
to Mississippi and thence in 1851 be en-
igrated to California by way of Panama.
He remained in California until 1861,
going thence to Virginia City, Ney, and
in 1866 came to Montana. During the
past decade he has lived in Meagher
county, headquartering. at Nelhart for
some years past. This is the first time
he has been out of the mountains since
the railroad entered northern Montana,