The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-01
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In tho -Four
New States and Elsewhere.

Last Tuesday the Helena city council
by q vote Of 10 to 4 adopted the remarka-
bic resolution: "That the mayor, the
city clerk, the city engineer, the street
commissioner and any alderman who
shall 90 elect shall have the privilege OF
buying q lot In the Montana Home ceme-
terry, OF In my other property that may he
acquired by the city for cemetery pur-
poses for one dollar"
There N now more sno In the Yosemite
and on the surrounding mountains than
has been the case since 1859. Last year
the stages were running into thev valley in
April, though the travel began I'm March.
This year Il Is expected stages will not be
able 20 get into the valley before May.
This will be the season of all seasons 70
visit the valley, rs the falis will be OF re-
markable volume.
In conversation with n resident Of up-
per Centennial valley this week we learned
that tho reported loss of stock In that VI
cinity the past winter was n one-sided
affair, says the Dillon Trituns. Several
parties have lost heavily. In some in-
anc fully GO per cent, but II was their
own fault. They drove their cattle into
the valley HAST fall and put up hay Tor
winter feed, but lad their hay scattered
over so much territory that they could not
move their stock to il when tue deep snow
came and IL died within a short distance
OF the stacks. Others sat by the stoves dur
ing the billiards. and allowed the stock to
rustic as best Il could. Those who live
there and did not try to winter more
than they could feed and handle havc not
lost over 8 per cen
Engineer Bundock and w. L. Kirby
went Up TO Paradise valley Wednesday
morning TO begin the work of locating and
surveying the irrigating canal for the
ranchmen of that section, says the Liv-
ingston Post. II is not known what dis
lance the water will be conveyed, hut IL Is
probable the canal will be from five TO six
miles in length. The water will be taken
from the Yellowstone and the capacity Of
the canal will be $500 inches. When
completed this enterprise will furnish an
abundant supply Of water for irrigating
the land under cultivation and will result
in retaining q large area that has hereto
fore remained idle for al of n water
supply : o Justify its cultivation. The work
upon the ditch will he commenced as soon
a. the survey IL completed, and il Is the
llttIhIOl W hNNS th ~
irrigating crops this season.
About q month ago n man claiming to
have formerly lived in Sun River says the
Bun, and having with him a good team OF
young horses, put up ut the Maud =.
livery stables. Soon after his arrival the
stranger traded his team with Mr.. Rimell,
receiving thereafter another team and
some boot, and then left town. Nothing
wns thought Of the matter until Thursday,
when the sheriff of Fergus county put in
an appearance and claimed the horses in
possession of Mr.. Rimcll as stolen prop
erty. Sheriff Hamilton, accompanied by
Mr.. Rimell, immediately vent in pursuit
of the thief, and captured him at Belt
Creek station and secured one of the
horses. The other horse is on the Teton
and will also he recovered. The thief was
brought to Great Falls and lodged in Jail,
where he will remain until he can be re-
moved to Lewiston where the theft was
committed.
An inspiring sight may be seen at the
Alkali springs, about eight miles out on
the line Of the Great Falls 4 Canadian
nilroad, says the Great Falls Leader. At
This point Is the deepest cut and heaviest
grade between Great Falls and Muddy
creek. Here the Grant Brothers have
twenty teams of flne horses, each horse
will weigh LOO pounds or better. These.
With their new harness glistening in the
sunlight, and the new plows and scrapers,
give the beholder the idea of power and
aCRressiveness. Within a few weeks the
Grants will have teams and men at work
On the whole line to Tho Canadian bound
arg, and will arrange it 80 that the entire
grading will he finished about the same
time. When track laying commences IL
wili he pushed through withoutdclay. The
carpenters now at work on the Belt
Mountain branch have been advised 10
finish their work with all possible expedi-
ton and get ready to do the carpenter
work on the road to Canada.
About sixteen miles north ef Deadwood
Basin rs pronounced by all who have seen
II the biggest bonanza without doubt IN
the territory, says The Idaho World. Sam
ucl Boorn. Harry Behr and William Rho
dee have been developing this mine the
post few years, aud they are now assured
by the showing the vein makes that they
will in the course OF time realize
handsomely from this big bonanza. The
vein is q little over two feet wide, all fine
pay orc, and they do not know what Is be-
tween this vein and the hanging wall, AS
they have not yet cross-cut To that wall.
Tho mine has been developed to a depth
sf 1871 feet aud they have a chute 10 feet
hong without u break, and how much
longer IL is they do not know positively,
but from surface ~ini.citions they think il
is nj least 200 feet. Ore was shipped 10
ketchuin a few a ago and worked,
yielding slS per ton, and a good deal of
the silver, in the form OF sulphurets, was
lost in packing, working through the
sacks. This ore was taken from the sur
face. The ore below is much richer.
This rs purely a silver mine.
Things are looking brighter for this sec-
ton of the foot-stool this spring, than
they have for some a past, says the
Yellowstone Journal. To begin with the
winter just past has thoroughly reas-
sured the stock interest. that disastrous
seasons'.a are a rare exception To the general
rules in eastern Montana, In consequence