The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-27
WHAT THE PRESS Of MONTANA
FINDS TO TALK ABOUT

There is no section of the state of
Montana, famed as it is for its beauti-
full places, which can compare with
tlathead county in the inducements
held out to those seeking a place to
spend a few weeks or months away
from the cares of business and the hum
drum existence of city life. says the
l4lDby News. From one end of the
county to the other are found delight
ful trout streams. which have not been
polluted by the refuse of any mill and
the waters of which are teeming with
the most gamy fish in the world, the
mountain trout. Along these streams
naturally are found many convenient
and attractive camping places. and
few weeks spent in such places are pc
culiarly benefiting. Owing to the geo.
graphical location and the topography
of the country, many of these streams
have never been fished. and now afford
opportunities to the sportsman which,
in very few years, will probably be
greatly diminished. if they do not en-
ttrely disappear. Owing to the same
physical conditions which make this
county the finest fishing grounds prob
ably in the United States it is likewise
the grandest hunting grounds to be
found anywhere. So plentiful We're the
deer for instance. a few years ago,
that their hides We're used as medium
of exchange among the residents of the
western end of the county. the value of
hide being established by the price
quoted in the outside markets. Thou
sands upon thousands of hides were
shipped from the various stations along
the Great Northern. These animals are
equally plentiful at this time. only that
il Is now necessary to go some distance
from the railroad to find them A
hunter who returns after only one
day S hunt without deer is put down
as mighty poor mark with a gun. All
other kinds of game abound in the
mountains, including the mountain
goat, bear and caribou, and there is any
quantity of smaller varieties. Bird
shooting is likewise good. and all in
all there is no place in the state where
anywhere near the same opportunities
are afforded the sportsman.
Chance for Rosebud County.
If no hitch occurs in the proceedings
by which something over a million
acres of the Crow reservation are ceded
to the government. Rosebud county will
probably have very smooth sailing be-
fore the next legislature. says the Butte
Miner The part ceded is all that ly-
ing north of the Fort Custer military
reservation. The price paid is a little
over a dollar an acre. In some quarters
1t is claimed that the agreement be-
tween the Indians and the commission
must be ratified by congress. Others
think this will not be necessary. How
ever that may be there can be but little
doubt but that Montana's representa-
tives in congress will be able to have
the matter adjusted to the satisfaction
of everyone concerned The cession will
add a valuable lot of desirable terri
tory to the public domain in Montana.
The part west of the Big Horn river is
to become a portion of Yellowstone
county. That east of the Big Horn will
go to Custer county. Thus enriched,
Custer will no longer make the same OPP
position to losing what has been asked
for Rosebud county This is indicated
by the remarks of the Yellowstone
Journal, which has hitherto been
against the division of Custer county
The Journal says in this connection:
THE addition of 500, 900 acres to the
domain of Custer county, together with
the taxable wealth that will inevitably
attach itself to the newly acquired ter
ritory, presents the question of county
division in a new and more urgent at
titude. However, this is merely sug-
gested as one of the results of the mat
ter under discussion, which will, no
doubt, keep for a more proper season."