The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-31
TRAIL CREEK COAL CAMP
A Prosperous Future Prophesied
for the Place.
A RAILROAD EXTENSION
Properties Can Be Worked at a Spleen
did Prof1t-Splendid Prospects
for Excellent Crops in
Park County.


Livingston, July 29.-Joseph Stanley
came down Friday from Trail creek,
where he has been making preparations
to open a place of business. Mr.. STAN
ley says that Trail creek is destined to
be great coal camp and is of the opin-
ion that the Byam mine is the finest
piece of coal property to be found any
where. Not only is the coal of excel
lent quality and the vein of unusual
width, but the development of the mine
has been carried on in a manner which
shows that those who are in charge of
the work are masters of the situation.
The entry and slope are the finest to be
found in any coal mine in the state,
says Mr.. Stanley, and the timbering
is excellent. Mr.. Stanley was employed
in the mine II years ago and says it
was always his opinion that no better
coal proposition could be found in the
state. The camp will be in FUN blast
by the first of the month if all goes
well and proper shipping facilities are
provided by the extension of the rail-
road, which is now building from Chest
nut. There are two mines on this
branch-the Hoffman or Mountain
House mine and the Byam mine, lower
down Both of these properties can be
worked to splendid profit, especially
the Byam, where the cost per ton for
getting out the coal will be less than
any mine in this part of the state.
The farming industries of Park coun-
ty are looking better this year than
ever before and those who are en-
gagged in the work of tilfing the soil are
ccngratulating themselves on the
splendid prospects for an excellent crop
in all the various lines of farming in
which they are engaged. Wheat, oats,
barley and tame and wild hay are all
thriving and very heavy crop of al
falfa will be harvested. The yield of
the grain will not be known definitely
until the harvesting is over, but the
prospects are such as to cause the
ranchers to rejoice.
y Peter Hansen was arraigned Before
Judge Bender Thursday morning for
drunk which was far from plain. It
was ornamental in the strictest sense
of the word and the court assessed a
fine which made a suitable trimming
for his checkered spree. Twenty and
costs was what Peter paid for singing
and dancing on the sidewalk with a
glass of foaming lager in his hand.
Hansen has a job on the streets this
week.
friday evening the volunteer fire de-
partment made practice run on Park
street which showed that the Living
ston fire department was far from slow.
1ae run made was 800 feet, 125 feet of
hose was strung and water turned ON in
So seconds. Penny and Walsh We're at
the hydrant, While Judge Bender and
G. w. Chamberlain handled the nozzle.
The time was made only three seconds
slower than the fastest record and the
boys are to be congratulated on the eX-
cellence of their work. 1t is doubtful IL
any firemen in the state can beat the
Il Nj sxrt.
ston should be proud of its volunteer
fire department, which is "a credit to the
city.
The county superintendent of schools,
Miss Alma Evans. will hold a teachers
examination in the court room Aug Is
and 10. The first day will be devoted
ITO examination for third grade certifi-
Gates, while the second will be for those
who try for second, third and profess
sional certificates. This week Miss
Evans sent out copies of the school
laws for SO to the officers of the several
districts and mailed the blanks for the
enumeration of the school census.
A. f. owen and family. who had been
on trip to the eastern part of Sweet
Grass and Carbon counties, returned
Thursday evening. Mr.. Owen was in
search of a location for ranohing, but
could find no place which he considered
better than Park county, the scene of
L. D. Glenn, the efficient school teach
er at Chimney Rock, was in the city
Saturday.
j. II. Leighton was in the city Satur-
day from his dairy ranch in Paradise
valley.
County Commissioner NanDyck made
a trip to his place of business at Horn
the latter part of the week.
Miss Florence Lasson is visiting with
her uncle. County Commissioner Ebert.
Miss Lasson is from Wisconsin and
will make a trip to Yellowstone park
before returning home.
Mrs. Anna Curtis of Manhattan, Gal
latin county, arrived in the city Thurs
day to visit her father, A. Cole, who is
seriously ill at the home of his daugh-
ter. Mrs. Frank Bender.
Jerome Cobb of the Upper Yellow
stone received new steam threshing
outfit from an eastern factory during
the week.
Miss Mabel Mortimer, who has been
seriously ill during the past week, is re-
covering.