The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-01
NORTHWEST NEWS.


States and Elsewhere.
Tbs Northern PaciAc officer. state that
their line has only experienced one. seri-
ous blockade this winter, and that did mott
extend over n period OF two days.
Mr.. Charles Anceney, the most extern
sivc and successful .tock-GrOwer i'm esolla-
tin county, says the Boseman Courier. ne.
Gently sold 500 head of beef steers tn Hell
ena parties, and In now engaged I'm deliv-
ering them, rs they nre Esd making
TWO shipments each week. via tho North
..rn Pacific railroad.
We cannot understand, says the Boze-
man Courier, why our Montana stock
raisers, who yearly ship to eastern mar
kets hundreds of Montana horses, do not
raise u sufficient quantity and IL quality,
suitable for otir horse trade. q. w.
Wakefield has tseu compelled for sew
erul years pnst tn 20 east tn purchase
suitable horses for the National Park
Transportation business. For Mr.. Wake
field to purchase n car load of horses i'm
Montana would Ire more expensive for
him than to go east and purchase those
moro suitable.
A Northern Pacific freight train i'm
charge of GoGerty ran over u
cow near Big Springs Tuesday morning.
The engine and several cars were de-
rallied and ran On the ties ACROSS the
trcstlc near that place. Luckily. how
ever, no serious results followed. and
with the exception of the breaking of
several rods on tho cars. the train was
otherwise uninjured. Ii was a close call.
however, for had the engine gone of the
trcstIc, the train would have been corn-
plctcly wrecked.
A daily mail will bc he'd he
tween the Springs and Castle the LIST of
March. Several new general mcrchan-
disc stores will also bc opened i'm Castle
soon by superintendent Ash, Spencer
Mayne 4 Hitman and Anderson Bros.
Superintendent Ash ma that the
camp will furnish employment tn 800
men during the coming summer. Mr..
Tooley also states that the two -mcltcrs,
when i'm good running order, will have a
combined output of not less than three
carloads of bullion per day; also that
Smith Bros. arc taking out large guam
titles OF huxing ore from the Black Hawk
which shows hut 2ET per cent. silica.
4. ii. Tooley, one of the prosperous
business men of Castle, was u visitor I'm
livingston Tuesday. saws the Post. MIR.
Tooley states that u site has been sur
Scyed and the ground is now being
broken for IL now 20 ton smeltcr To In,
erected by tho Cumberland mining conn
pany. The sinciter will he completed by
the first of June or not later than the first
Of July. The ore which has formerly
been hauled tn the smcltcr will now he
carried through from the Cum
bcrlaud tn tho new smeltcr. Stockhold-
.rs in the Cumberland are refusing 81 per
share for their stock since the recent
strike of "a 30 foot vein at the 30 foot level.
The directors of this mine intend tn COLI
,inuc sinking until the 500 foot level L.
reached. The price of the Yellowstone
stock has also advanced owing f. "a rich
strike made in that mine during che past
week, and Spencer. Maync d Hitcmall
If White sulphur Springs have invested
heavily ina Yellowstone stocks.
Never i'm the history of Montana wool
growing were the reports from our hocks
more fiatterinR than at this writing. says
The Rocky Mountain H~pshaad",aa. There
has not been u single driving storm, such
AS would dennoralizc and render a flock oi
sheep unmanagablc. this winter. and
there have been but "a few days when II
has been too stormy tn send fiocks out to
srazc. Sheep arc generally in a thriving
condition and the loss everywhere. is re
ported as less than the average of thu
summer season. Some report "a loss q
only one or two out OF n Hook of 2,OU(
head; others a loss of Is or ~ out of sew
eral nocks OF three times the above mum
her. I'm but two ar three instances hav'
wc heard Of sheep dying and I'm thcs'
cases the number has been too small T.
he of consequence. Such bcinR the case
we may expect sheep to come out in tn
spring i'm ffnc fix and the increase will 10
large. for OH the condition of the ewes "a
iambinR time largely depends tho i'm
crcas. Everything. Ia say the least, look
Gathering at this writing.
On Saturday last-washington's birth
day annivcrsary-says the Boxeman Con
rier, we had the honor and pleasure OF
call from one of Montann's old pionec
citizens. George w. B~cckhorn. who haI
pcned, 81 years ago. by no very unusiia
coincidence, to he born on the 22nd ia
Of February. and was named after tn
'Father of his County," Mr.. Beckhor
is Z; thrifty farmer of Reese creek. thi
county,, where lac has resided for man
years. He camc to- Montana then Idaho
i'm isi3, locating ut and was, Z
- -.l rI.s as.