The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-31
MONTANIANS ABROAD.

Mr.. A. Lambeth, Of Helena, Mont, was
registered at the Southern yesterday, says
the st. Louis Globe Democrat. He said:
"The banks of Helena have oil the money
they want, and general business IL in very
healthy condition. Helena is city, and q
rich one; but it does not owe any thanks to
railroads Or to any eastern help or anything
outside of the mines and stock interests Of
Montana. Helena was city before the
Northern Pacific came, and because the
people would not give the company half
the town the station was put about two
miles from the city. Jim Hill and his Great
Northern railroad sidetracked Helena.
That is what he called it, but he has since
had to build branch into the city in order
that he might obtain some of the business.
The people of Helena are as independent
as it is possible for any one to be. They
rely on themselves and in themselves, and
the consequence is that Helena is said to be
the richest city in proportion to its size in
the United States"
A pretty little dark-eyed woman was reg
istered Tuesday at the Fifth Avenue hotel
as Mrs. w. w. Dixon, of Butte, Mont, and
is the wife Of the congressman-elect from
that holly disputed state, says the New
York World. Mr.. Dixon 10 rather slen-
per, dark-eyed and serious man of medium
height, very quiet manners and well-trained
mind. As a lawyer in Butte's early heyday
AS the widest mining camp of its time and
the greatest bullion producer of its decade,
Mr.. Dixon was highly respected as man
and admired as a lawyer. He married into
An old st. Louis family Of French extrac-
ton, the Kenouards, and his women folk
are likely to make \ valued addition to
Washington social life.
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Mr.. d. p. Rankin, well-known mining
and stock man Of Montana, who has been
stopping at the Southern for few days,
told some of the secrets of the stock bust
ness last night while sitting in the Office Of
the hotel, says the Globe Democrat. "A
man should own his own land if he wants
to make success in the stock business now
adays. 1t is not as it was few years ago,
when all a man had to do was to buy herd,
brand his calves in the spring and ship q
train load of beef cattle in the fall. The
ranges have been SO overlooked and fed off
that four-year-old range steer of to-day
will not weigh as much beef as three-year-
old Of 1882. Bunch grass, when it gets
cropped too CLOSE never RECEIVERS its nutri-
tious qualities. l run my cattle on the
Yellowstone and on Shields rivers. My
home ranch is twenty miles from Living
ston. Mont. have had to begin to
wean my calves in the fall, so rs to save
both the COWS and calves. feed a great
deal during the winter, and keep riders who
work the range all winter, bring in the
weak stock wherever found. My mining
interests are in the Diamond creek quartz
district. not far from Helena, and next
spring am convinced that the camp will
create decided sensation in mining Cir
cles. have myself one or two properties
that are being rapidly developed, and
| which are showing up remarkably we'll.
The mines of Montana are as yet in their
veriest infancy. Butte. with her great cop
per mines, has monopolizsd the attention
of every one so far; but there are twenty
other camps in the state which cannot fail
to be great producers. The Great Northern
road is pushing westward, and already six
ty miles of road have been laid from Fort
Assinaboine west