The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-16
The GREAT NORTHWEST
Of General Interest In The -Four
New States and Elsewhere.
ORGANIZATION of a New Democratic
Club at Helena Effected A
New Wrinkle In the Cattle
Business.
MONTANA.

reed 1900.
Il is SAID that Big Timber is the largest
wool shipping point on the Northern Pa
cific this year.
Three hundred laborers could have
work at from 81 to $3.50 per day IL they
were only in town.-Gredt Falls Tribune.
A day and night shift are now running
on the artisan well at Chinook, which is
approaching the center of the earth at the
rate of 10 feet every "A hours.
Two hundred and ten thousand pounds
of wool started east over the Great
Northern Friday. Previous 10 this 10000
pounds had been sent east, making the
total shipments 1,l00,0OO pounds from
Great Falls.
The outlook for a rich harvest of hay
and grain along the Yellowstone and its
tributary valleys was never more avor-
able than at present. The abundant n
timely rains of the past three months have
rendered irrigation almost unnecessary
and ranchmen confidently expect a yield
p fully 80 per cent. better than that of last
year. Native grass is knee high on the
ranges, and along the river bottoms a
plentiful supply can be cut to last
through the coming winter, no matter
how severe il may be.
Sixty-five democrats met i'm Helena
Monday evening and organized the Hem
bricks Democratic club. The following
officers were elected: President, Robert
Is. Smith; first vice president, John L.
Murphy; second vice president, Daniel
! Hanley; recording secretary, C.. ID.
Curtis: corresponding secretary, Dud-
ley DuBoise; and treasurer W. j. Fuchs.
Fine quarters will be handsomely fur
nished and the club will become a per-
manent organization. Great enthusiasm
was shown together with a determination
TO win the coming fall election.
The st. Paul Daiiy Globe says: A new
wrinkle in the Montana cattle business,
or rather a larger purchasing of steers for
future delivery than has before beer at
tempted in that state, is receiving extern
sive notice from the Chicago stock papers,
although they have magnified the figures
greatly. claiming that the buyer for Nell
son Morris Of Chicago, made contracts for
I 10000 head Of cattle to he delivered at the
range shipping points. The Montana
men contracted to sell about 1900 head.
"A Miles City correspondent says, more or
less. The Joseph Scott outfit, credited
with 500 head, sold 1900 head. Henry
Tusler sold 5000 head, but the Montana
. men learned the situation and now mark
their figures considerably above the S370
40 per head. delivered aboard cars at
s%shipping points, on which the contracts
were based.m It's a half-a-million-dollar
deal for the new state, however, and
seems likely TO make tho profits OF the
cattlemen this season better than they ex.
pected a few weeks ago.
1t is gratifying to learn that many own.
ers of irrigating bitches have placed wire
screens at the entrance to the streams To
l prevent the destruction of the fish on the
land. 1t is earnestly hoped that all other
ditch owners will follow this example. and
thus preserve the stock of fishin this state
as long as possible. The giant powder
man needs looking after. He is killing
fish by the thousands, i'm various parts of
the state. One of the best Illustrations of
this wholesale destruction is in the case
of the Dempsey lakes, on Mount Powell,
about twenty miles west of Deer Lodge.
These beautiful lakes, some thirteen in
number. once formed one of the finest
fishing grounds in Montana. They were
plentifully stocked with mountain trout,
and n of the lakes contained "A very rare
and gamy species of land-locked salmon.
Any enthusiastic sportsman could visit
4 the lakes for a few days and catch all the
fish he wanted. Matters are now changed,
and il is difficult to FIND any really
good fishing oil the lakes. This is the
result of the giant powder man. They
kill all the fish possible, and use only
the largest ones, which they ship to Ana,
conda for market. While this is done in
indirect violation of a law which imposes
1 "A penalty, there seems to be no effective
way of stopping il. because there seems
to be no effective way of stopping il, be