The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-21

| foot level About $4,000 was paid fol-
| this mine during the year just passed
| A good wagon road was completed and
| machinery for a 100-ton concentration
placed on the ground. There will be
much activity at this point as soon as
the prevailing weather will permit.
The people of the West End have Pc
titioned the honorable board of county
| commissioners to purchase and repair
the old toll road leading from Thomp-
/ son Falls to Murray, Idaho. or that por-
| ton of IL leading to the summit. This
| is one of the most important wagon
roads in the state and should by all
means become a public wagon ROAD
1t connects with the best mining Sec
| ton in Northeastern and Western Mon
tana as well as the Occur d'Alenes OF
Idaho.
| F. O. Bacon exhibits some beautiful
! specimens of galena ore from a new
find on Quartz creek in the vicinity of
Eddy Mont. near this place, where sew
eral new and promising locations have
! been made.
Charles Ellison, Frank Blanzer. E. ].
! Thompson and Joseph c. Hartman are
| opening out some copper claims in the
vicinity of Belknap, the assays of
| which are very flattering. Frank Blan-
ger is so confident of the extent and
| richness of his find that a half million
dollars would not satisfy him at the
| present time.
Two saw mills in this vicinity are
| running at full capacity, the Cared
| mill at this place having been idle for
| the past year on account of heavy
| freight rates.
The farmers have formed a combine
and are strictly in the lumber business
themselves Realizing the Importance
that this point is commanding in the
mining world and the rapidly increas-
ing demands for farm produce they
have banded together for the purpose
of fully developing the agricultural re-
sources of this section. They are cut
ting their own logs and having them
sawed into lumber at the Grandchamp
mill for building and fencing. They do
not propose to raise wheat, but will
supply the demand as far as possible
with vegetables. fruits, poultry, butter,
pork and hay, giving the full field for
wheat to their neighbors of Horse
Plains, who will also find the benefits
of a ready home market.
Realizing the Importance which Old
Camp Thompson has at last command
ed by the development or her magnifi-
cent resources our farmers are taking
great pride in identifying their sur
roundings. Lumber and material has
been placed on the ground for six new
farm dwellings and more are to follow.
Many new orchards have been set out
during the past few years since IL has
been fully demonstrated that fruit will
grow in abundance in this delightful
climate. The young orchard of Good
& Ramsey of 40 acres is in fine condi-
ton. The trees are from three to five
years old and will bear a good crop
during the coming season. A. ". Cole
man, Godfrey Baer and others also have
orchards old enough to produce a good
crop. The shipping of apples from the
two Wallas and the boosted william
cite will soon be a thing of the past.
The public schools are in excellent
coalition under the management of Pro-
fessor A. r. Nippert and Mrs. Sweitzer
and pupils for a distance of some so
miles are in daily attendance. Eighty
three pupils in all are enrolled.
Owing to the prevailing open winter
the sanitary condition of this place has
not been the most fiattering, yet but
few cases have required medical at
tendance and no contagious diseases
have been reported. Bad colds, la
grippe and rheumatic effects have been
the results. All patients are GONZALES
cent at the present writing.
The snow in the valley has nearly all
disappeared except in shaded places.
The ice in the river at this point is
some Is inches thick in still water.
The Thompson hotel has just COM
pleted large cold storage refrigerator.
Among others who will tap the natural
cold air system this season are f. E.
Blakslee and Goodchild & Co. In this
way no ice is required TO maintain
temperature of one degree above freez-
ing
The masquerade ball of recent date
was one of the most brilliant affairs
that has ever occurred in the city. over
20 different characters were represent
ed.
mi rT~I- IT,
scribed literally to a proposition to
bring spring water to the city from
Coleman creek for supplying tank for
the Northern Pacific company and do
nestle use.
1t is generally understood that the
proposition has been accepted. and
work on the system will begin as soon
as the frost leaves the ground sufficient
ly for effective work.
The people of Thompson Falls take
great pride in maintaining the friend
ship of their neighbors in that most
beautiful and picturesque valley few
miles above them known as Horse
Plains. With population much
greater than ours at present, with her
magnificent resources of rich agricul-
turai lands, the herds of stock, her
beautiful homes, our people point to
her as the gem of the Rockies Having
at heart the best interest of this beauti-
full land, we fell profound interest in
her future welfare. Despite her large
and rapidly increasing population the
valley is almost entirely without edu-
cational facilities. An old log school
house about one mile below the beauti-
full city of Plains is the only accommo-
dation for her children. Now a propo-
sition to bond the district for $500 to
add TO this old shack is to be voted
on March 4. Should this proposition
carry the valley will still be without
school facilities. 1t is a most absurd
proposition. The district of Plains is
entirely too wide, too rich, too great, TO
enter into an agreement of that kind.
To add to an old shack one mile from
town, the growth and development of
which every man, woman and child in
the entire valley should have a person
al interest and pride, for in proportion
as the town improves so will the farms
improve in value, is a direct slap in
the face of the educational facilities of
the valley and a personal insult to the
advancement and prosperity of the