The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-29

Chinook.
Messrs. Theodore Gibson and J. p.
Lewis have just sold to James Monroe
of Helena fifty feet front on the north
side of First avenue south, between Sec
ond street and Park drive, on which
stands a n story brick building. The
consideration was $4,000 cash.
John Sinclair, j. Il. Arlington and
II. +. Collett were a party who visited
the Carter recently. Mr.. Sinclair is now
showing some remarkably fine specimens
of ore from this mine. He says that the
miners are now working in a solid bed
of ore. Barker, he thinks, is and will be
one of Montana's greatest camps.
Parties returning from Neihart report
that the grade to Neihart is completed,
with the exception of about four miles.
Wages have been raised from 50 to 1926
per day and it is thought there will be
no trouble in retaining labor. The
camp is growing with astonishing
rapidity. A handsome addition is being
built to the Frisco. Seven storerooms
will soon be ready for their occupants
and j. G. Kenmuth says that before long
he will start his new $4,000 hotel.
Dempsey's brick yard has been furnish
ing the camp with all needed material
for its many buildings, having turned
out no less than half a million brick this
season.
The American Wool and Cotton Re.
porter quotes Montana wool in the Bos-
ION market at from 10 to "a cents. The
same paper says: ''rhc most fashiona-
bic woods are the free and long staple
territory descriptions, and of these the
most desirable of all are the Montanas,
shOrn from sheep which are better
hloodrd than in some of the other terri
tories, and are fed upon grasses as good
as those of Ohio. The secured basis of
the best fine territory wool is GOMG3
cents, fine medium 5SmGO cents, and
medium 5JM57 cents. In the grease.
Montana has been selling within the
range of our quotations in the above
table, For last week sales are reported
of 215,OOO pounds fine Montana and of
100000 fine medium Montana.
President r. S. Ford of the Great
Falls National bank spent Sunday on
his Sun river ranch. He says that the
valley is looking fine. From about ten
miles up, where in the main, the ranches
lie, there has been no damage by hail.
The principal crop is oats and this is
standing as high as a mans head, a
great many of the fields being yellow and
ready to cut. Some cutting has been
lone already. Mort Strong, who at one
time succeeded in raising n~inety-four
bushels to the acre on a selected piece Of
Sun river earth. reports that he 10Y has
the finest crop he has ever raised. a
great deal of Norway oats has been
planted by the ranchers, but these are
somewhat slow to ripen and will not be
ready for the mower until they have sew
eral weeks more of sun. Wheat is look
ing nicely and quite a great deal has
been planted. Mr.. Ford spoke also Of Il
drive to Fort Shaw, saying that the Old
post is looking sadly deserted.
Col. and Mrs. e. S. Nettlcton left yes
terday afternoon for Benton. where the
colonel expects to make Il further exam
ination of the Missouri. He observed
the big spring in the river, near the
Giant spring. and seemed to think that
at this point or below some of the waters
of the ri ger might lose themselves in the
sandstone. 1t will be remembered that
the theory on which he is working is
that a great deal of the water which sup
| Dies inc lIdhbtd buSllI ! N''o
wells comes from the Missouri at this
point. In answer to a question as to
whether artesian wells could be secured
in this neighborhOod, he said that If the
water of the river had an uninterrupted
flow from this point eastward they prob
ably could not, but if anywhere in the
underground channel there was an OBJ
struction to its progress or a basin IL
which it settled they could. This an eX
|, perimtn mt would be needed to determine
Early last evening the sign was huns
out at the Park theatre, "Standing room
only" 1t was a good crowd and founc
as it deserved a good show. 1t is with
out exception the best troupe that eve
) struck Great Falls. The performers il
: their different vacations are all artists
save the handsome many, who arr
a~rtistes. Encores were the rule and thu
great dance, performed by the big four
/, who by the way looked very swell, fairl.
|, set the audience wild. 1t was a tin'
F. dramatic exhibition and scored as it de
r serves a perfect success. There was no
e. a hitch in the performance, each being
; perfect in his part. Lack of space pre-
t vents AN extended comment on eacl
/, artist but it is no eXaggeration to sd,
{ that from the time the curtain ros,
o. until graceful Eva Fonda, llk'
|, Aphrodite of old arising from
the foam. by her artistic beaut.
and graceful posing of the human form
! the divine. charmed the sense Of thu
; beautiful. innate in every man, the grea
! audience was pleased beyond measure.
The Manhattan.