The Anaconda standard., 1899-01-06

Gallatin river at Sheds bridge and
runs parallel with the old ditch of the
company for some distance, and dur
ing it's course of rs miles opens up TO-
600 acres of the finest barley land in
the county, which land is capable of
raising SO bushels of wheat, 10 Of
barley and 100 bushels of oats to he
acre. The contractors of the canal
are now working on a 500foot tunnel
under a hill between Godfrey canyon
and Camp creek. The tunnel will save
the company six miles of grading and
quite a sum of money. This canal
will be finished next June in time for
the irrigation season, when the COM
pany will have about 10000 inches of
water, capable OF supplying an i'm
mense tract of land with sufficient
moisture TO enable the farmers to raise
the far-famed crops of the Gallatin.
The Story Milling company put in
about 1000 worth of improvements
on its mill this summer and fall .Ow
ing to the Inconvenience of having an
elevator situated at Belgrade and the
mill at Bozeman the addition of an
elevator sufficient to hold enough grain
to keep the mill going was deemed a
necessary expenditure, so an elevator
with a capacity of about 100000 bush
els was added, as were many other ad-
ditions, which make the mill one of the
finest flour making establishments in
the West. In spite of the changes to
its interior and exterior the mill was
rim for about nine months, and during
that time some 100000 bushels of wheat
were milled.
The Bozeman Milling company has
quite record this year, and has been
paying dividend for the first time
since it's organization. The mill ran
Il ~ ~
year. during which time about l75.000
bushels of wheat were milled into
flour. The company is intend
ing to follow the example
of the Story Milling company
and enlarge it's elevator capacity SO
as to handle 125,000 bushels of grain.
AT the last meeting of the directors
the sum of $500 was set aside for ger
eral repairs, and also a dividend of 10
per cent, on it's capital stock declared,
carrying over a handsome surplus to
undivided profits.
The barley straw of the better grades
is to be made into paper and pulp as
soon as the paper and pulp mill is
finished at Manhattan. This Paper
and Pulp Manufac turing company was
organized during the past summer by
Henry Altenbrand of New York, and
has behind it many prominent men of
of about 100000. The foundations for
this plant have already been commenc-
ed at Manhattan and the building will
probably be completed by the time
the barley is threshed next fall.
The beer of the brewery of Julius
Lehrkind is becoming to be well known
and appreciated throughout the state
as staple product and as the
years go by the output increases, and
n tn nf ha o,,I Iicn ncfr
fire, the brewery has been a paying
investment to its owner.
The farmers of the valley have gone
into the wholesale merchandise busi-
ness, and have built large store at
Belgrade. where everything a rancher
needs can be bought at a reasonable
price-another undertaking of the past
year
The foregoing are a few of the more
important improvements and advances
made during the year 1898 by the cit
izens and business men of the Gallatn
valley, but probably the best indica-
ton of the financial condition of the
people is the fact that there were but
$4,000 delinquent taxes on the list this
year, and since it was published quite
a sum has been paid off to lower the
amount Taking it all in all the old
year of 1898 has not been such a poor
one for those who reside in the Egypt
of the West.
The postOffice was moved from it's
former quarters in the Odd Fellows
building to the Featherston block, Le-
tween Saturday night and Sunday
morning last The new location is only
a few feet further east across the
street. The office is much warmer and
altogether is a great improvement
over the old one and the officials are
experiencing a delightful change.
The thermometer went down to near
ly so degrees below zero on Tuesday.
This was a colder snap than has been
experienced for some time past and
the most severe of the winter.