The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-05-07
SPRAY OF THE FALLS.


From Tuesday 8 Daily.l
There are now about $50 men on the
pay roll at Sand Coulee.
John G. Lilly, one of the old-timers OF
Barker, is in town. He is not a little
elated % the recent developments in
that camp.
Eight new frame houses have been
built on Tenth avenue north within the
past six weeks. The town is spreading
in all directions.
Fourteen car loads of cars for the Great
Falls d Canada road arrived yesterday.
TWO of the narrow-guage cars are loaded
on one OF the wide-guage cars.
The new bank building at Sand Coulee
is nearly completed, G. I. Curtis will be
chashier and manager and he will soon
be ready to receive deposits or negotiate
a loan.
The Shonkin Stock association met at
Benton last Sunday evening and decided
to start on the roundup June LIST. They
will begin at the upper end of the range,
on Deep creek ana work down.
Oscar olinger and Horace Clark arriv-
ed from the Sweet Grass hills yesterday
Mr.. Olinger has discovered new copper
silver lead IN the east butte which, judg-
ing from the rock, appears 10 be immense
" rich.-River Press.
E. g. Maclay has returned from a bust
ness visit to Neihart. He found work
progressing favorably on the Moulton in
which a good body of rich ore has re-
Gently been shown up. The Compromise
is also looking well.
Nelson Brothers are making extensive
Improvements on their ranch north of the
town. They have dug an irrlgating ditch
two miles long, tapping one of the creeks
which feeds the Benton lakes. This will
furnish water to irrigate nearly 1000
acres of land.
An important sale was made by John
Fl. Conrad, at Ottawa, Canada, recently
The STV brand of cattle ranging in the
vicinity of Cypress hills, to the number
of 5000 head and owned by Mr.. Conrad
and s. g. Hunter, were transferred to the
Cochrane Ranching 20.
This morning Charles Wegner, of the
Hotter Lumber company, started an out
fit of 20 men out to the head waters of
Smith river to drive down a lot of logs
which have been cut in the mountains
there. The river is rising and this is a
favorable time for the drive.
Last week Peter Rivers of Sand Coulee
bought a team of horses of o man hailing
from Dakota. On taking them out the
livery barn would not allow them
to stay In their stables on account of dis
ease. Today he came in and with the
aid of Sheriff Hamilton had the money
returned and gave back the horses.
Henry Bratnober and A. Wertenweiler,
mining experts, returned last evening
from a hasty trip to Neihart. They went
out to examine the Broadwater group of
mines, but found they could not get into
them on account of caves and the pres
ence of ice in the different workings.
They will return at some future date to
inspect these properties. The gentlemen
left for Helena today.
C. G. Griffith has returned from Barker
and is enthusiastic ever the prospects of
that camp. The May & Edna he says is
a wonderful mine and will be a great ore
producer. Superintendent Mahoney OF
that mine says that even with present de
veiopment he could at a very low esti-
mate furnish so tons of ore a day from
the mine, and vastly more with further
development. The owners of the Liber-
ty and Wallace are congratulating them
solver on the showing they have, and
several other mines that are being open
ed are looking remarkably we'll. The
boys IN the camp were never in better
spirits.