The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-08
BUDS ARE SWELLING
The Warm Spring Sunshine Getting in
lis Work.
IN THE BEAUTIFUL VALLEY
Hamilton Is a Beautiful Place This
Spring and the Outlook for
Season of Great Prosperity
Is Splendid.

HAMILTON, March The warm, spring
sunshine has started everything in the
valley into new life. Buds are swelling on
The trees, farmers are blowing. grain Is
sprouting, hens are laying. merchants arc
busy, colts and calves jump and frolic IN
tho pastures. building is active every
where and the Bitter Root girls are pref
tier and more winsome than ever. II. e NJ.
Sarsaparilla isn't in 1t as a spring med.-
cinc compared with a trip up the valley at
this season. Such journey is suro cure
Tor blues and spring fever. Nobody can
be blue where the peple are SO happy, and
laziness is something that is impossible i'm
the m DIST of the stirring activity that pre-
walls from ono end of the valley to tho
other. For a man who feels out of sorts,
no better prescription can be written than
advice TO take a ride up here to Hamilton.
1t will cure him beyond doubt. 1t will
impart new activity TO his liver and in
vigorate his whole system.
The tide of immigration which set in
last year from the cast and from other
parts of this state continues. Nearly
every rain that goes up the valley has on
board some man who has decided TO cast
his fortunes with the Bitter Root valley,
in which he sees n now land of promise
On this mornings train was family
from Georgia. who had been on the road
for six days. They left the train at Cor
wallis, near which place they will make
their home. On the train also was a car
load of household goods, farming ma
chinery and horses for J. S. Dougherty's
new ranch-the old Stanley place. This
load was also left at Corvallis. The bag
gage and express car is piled full of trunks
and boxes every day, until il is almost
impossible for the messenger to move
around. Everything has to be loaded in
the order in which il is to be left or il
would be impossible TO handle it at all.
When the train left Corvallis this MORN
ing, the platform was stacked so high
with trunks and boxes that the station
was barely visible
Spring farming is now i'm full blast in
the valley, and plows are busy all along
the river. On some of tho bench land the
crops are already in and the season is
early everywhere. Farmers predict a good
crop this year, and the oldest inhabitant
has added his opinion TO tho indications
of nature that spring has come to stay.
One who looks upon the fragrant freshly
turned fields and the dry streets of the
towns, is constrained to believe that the
oldest inhabitant has this year received n
straight tip.
On the DAILY ranch the flyers are now in
active training, the tracks being perfectly
dry and in splendid shape for work. Ben
Kinney and Bob Smith, the former with |
the joggers and the latter with the GALLON |
ers, are hard at work preparatory to the |
summer campaign. The horses that will |
carry the copper and green this SO lson |
are in fine form, and may be expec .ed to |
maintain the reputation OF the Bitter Root |
in point of speed. Ii is a forcip Die demon |
straiion of the merits of this valley as
horse breeding section that training can |
begin in March, while elsewhere in the |
state IL is not often that the track season |
opens earlier than April II. j. II. Nc
Evoy, who has been spending several days
with Ben Kinney, said to STANDARD re-
porter to-day: at is the greatest horse
country on earth"
The only disadvantage in having the
early spring that this season has brought
lies IN tho difficulties tn 4 il puts in
the way OF the loggers. The disappear
ance of the snow SO suddenly has left con-
siderable cut timber in the woods aNav
from the river, but there are 40, 600 900 feet
OF logs in the river and tho water will DO
high enough TO make the drive easy. KEN
dali brothers will probably start the drive
this year about April 10 and no difficulty
Is anticipated about making a successful
drive. There are 100000 feet now in the
log pond at the mill here and this will
much more than mako up for the logs
that have been left in the timber by rea-
son OF the lack of snow.
Hamilton is a busy place this sprinr
Everybody is busy and the merchants re-
port better season than they have ever
known before. The stocks that are being
laid in by the several dealers indicate that
they anticipate a prosperous summer.
The Ravaill County bank will open its
doors for business April /. The banking
rooms are now finished and are as pleas
ant and attractive as any IN the state.
They are well lighted and spleudidly ar
ranged Tor the business for which they are
intended. The second story OF the bank
building Is being finished in Offices, which
are pleasant and well arranged. There is
variation OF the original plan of the
building which contemplated lodge room
in the second story. The work of moving
The machinery into the new planning miIlof
the Bitter Root Development company is
well under tho direction az
Master Mechanic Halpin and the nov
plant will be in shape for work next week.
Robert O'Hara has purchased the two
story brick building opposite the Hami.-
ton hotel.
There are suckers ia the Bitter Root
country as there are everywhere else.
This Is evidenced by the fact that the
company of cure-all faklrs nov doing
business here arc PLAYING TO crowded
houses. Their vaudeville show attracts
hundreds of people and tho graphic de-
icripiion o! symptoms given b. the fluent
Medicine man induces many men TO buy
he nostrums who never knew sick mo-
nent IN their lives. Big, husky lumber
men are taking medicine for indigestion
and horsemen and clerks arc being
reated for ailments which they never
NEW and with which they were certainly
lever affected.
Eggs are becoming a profitable .rticf,