The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-18
GAlLATlN COUNTY.
scheme of the Farmers to Combine In
terests-A New bridge.

terests-A New Bridge.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Bozeman, March thames johnson
returned home from Gebo on Monday
and confirmed the report of the pur-
chase of the Gebo coal fields by the
firm Of johnson Il Mccarthy. The pur-
chase price is not being made public.
but it amounted to well up in the six
figures. The number of acres bought
amounts to about 1900. James john
son Will return to Gebo this week and
will then make arrangements for the
construction of railroad II miles long
from Rocky Fork to the mines. The
mines will then be put in shape TO oper-
ate and extra machinery and other
necessary things will have to be pro-
cured before the firm will be able to
get out any coal for shipment and II
will be some monthes before the mines
will be worked.
Last summer the farmers of Gala
tin county met at Reese Creek and
other points i'm the valley for the pur-
pose Of discussing the ACCESSIBILITY OF
shipping their own grain to the Eastern
markets and thus avoid the profits OF
the grain buyers. The scheme did not
mature sufficiently to justify the ship
ment OF farm products by the farmers
themselves, owing TO the difficulty of
getting "a sufficient number TO join the
enterprise. and the fact that prices be
gan to rise in the home market. This
little movement on the part of the
grain producers gave rise to another
one which bids fair TO arrive at ma
turity in n short time. The scheme now
ON foot is to erect "A general merchan
disc store at Belgrade, where ma
chinery, groceries, buggies. in fact
everything that the heart of a farmer
can possibly desire, Will be sold at cost
price 20 the consumer, plus the freight.
The company or corporation Will be
controlled by a board of directors. or
trustees. who will govern the move
ments and actions of the manager.
Should this company become a reality
| and the store be erected at Belgrade,
| there is no doubt but that IL 1t is eff
| GENTLY managed Ii will be a success
and viii be paying institution for
| those interested. as well as a means of
| saving dollars and cents to the farmers,
! as the profits of the middlemen Will be
saved 10 the purchaser
The board of county commissioners
! concluded. during the session of the
| board last week and after comforting
! with the commissioners of Jefferson
! county. to pay half the cost Of the cree
! ton of n bridge over the Jef'erson
! river at Willow Creek. This bridge will
| cost probably somewhere in the neigh
! borhood of So 600 and viii be an iron
| structure of several spans. After do
| ing considerable routine business the
| commissioners adjourned the last Of
! the week.
The clerk and recorders office is now
! fitted up very completely with new fur
niture in the vault. The upper part of
the vault is htted with file holders for
papers, and so forth. and below are
| holders or shelves for books of large
| size, and then beneath are drawers OF
| all sizes to meet any emergency. The
/ filaS whole Htfino In nv
! the Office Speciality company of Roch-
| ester, n Y The files look very pretty,
! being of a lavender color with silver
| plated and steel furnishings, and
| around the top the work is finished oil
| with gilt beading. The new addition
to the county's furniture is not to be
| exceIled anywhere in the state for
| neatness. compactness and safety The
| cost of putting this safe furniture in
amounted TO somewhere about $1,000.
four-hu team belonging to +. L.
.Benepe of the Benepe. Owenhouse COM
pany. took fright at the Bozeman MIL
ing company's mill last Saturda y
| afternoon and ran away. They kept
everything right side up until they en-
countered a freight train at the East
Gallatin crossing. which they attempt
ed to run over with the result of one
of the horses breaking his back and the
others piling up In heap. There was
no one In the wagon. fortunately.
Lee Warren. Bozemans leading drug
gist is going TO be in the lead of th'
farmers of the valley In the way ot
raising chickens. He has already .,o
some of the finest pedigreed hens ani
roosters in the United States, and v
! daily expecting another consignmr lt
Lee Warren believes in stock tina has
] a pedigree. all his farm horses. his
dogs. his cats. in fact everything thai
has life that belongs TO him, can ira -
it's descent a number of generation
| back.