The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-27

West is raised, and will also give an
outlet for the big wheat country in the
Wallowa and also in Asotin county. The
completion of the surveys is noticed IN
the Lewiston Tribune as follows:
Engineer Cooper's party of o. r. &
n. surveyors, who have been engaged in
the work of surveying a line from Elgin
to Lewiston since Dec. s last, arrived
in the city yesterday. The line surveyed
parallels the Grande Ronde river The
work of the party was very difficult
while the winter prevailed. They COM
pleted the survey to the mouth OF the
Grande Ronde, when they met the sur
vey of the engineers who rad worked
from the Lewiston end. The exact dis
lance of the line as surveyed from Ell
gin to the mouth of the Grande Ronde
is "A miles, and from the Grande Ronde
to Lewiston Is miles, making total of
l02 miles from Elsin to Lewiston The
grade secured is an excellent one, the
engineers report"
There can be no installing the hearty
welcome accorded to Admiral SChley By
the people of the West. Though the trip
was taken for well deserved vacation,
it has been transformed into something
of a triumphal procession. Between
Washington and Chicago innumerable
delegations invited the gallant admiral
to stop off to visit their respective
towns, while nearly every city. village
and hamlet along the Burlington route
from Chicago to Denver requested the
pleasure of entertaining him. The only
place where he made visit of any du-
ration was at Omaha. There he re-
manned a week, the guest of Charles f.
Henderson. general solicitor of the Bur
lngton railroad. While in Omaha he
received marked attention, the public
and the private receptions given in his
honor being the greatest oVations wit
messed there since President Mckinley's
visit last year. May % was spent in
Denver, and the following day in Colo
RADIO Springs. Then the itinerary of the
party includes trip to Salt Lake City
over the Denver & Rio Grande road,
spending May % at the Utah capital
and returning from there to Omaha.
The Northern Pacitic's last crop bull
letin says of the outlook in Montana:
Wheat seeding has made good prog
ress, and another week should see it fin
ished. While the grain is coming up
with a strong, healthy appearance,
growth is slow and will continue slow
until the weather becomes warmer,
when the grain should grow very rap
idly in view of the prime condition of
the soil. Oats and barley are being
seeded in some places, but blowing is
not finished for the coarse grains.
Frosts are reported, but no material
damage.
THE weather Of the past week in the
Gallatin valleys has been cold and un-
favorable for seeding, and if weather
conditions do not improve soon there
will be falling off in acreage of barley
and oats. Some grain is UP which looks
well, but growth is slow. In the Bitter
Root valley seeding has been delayed
by heavy. cold rain, but should be COM
pleted soon. and with warm weather
crops win grow rapidly
s. w ECcles, general traffic manager
of the Oregon Short Line. who recently
returned from a trip Through the Snake
river cuur.gy to St. Anthony. Idaho,
stated that there is an enormous i'm
migra ton into that country. People
are tocking in from the surrounding
states and many are going in from the
East. . B
Mr. Eccles says that thousands of
acres of land will be cultivated this
year that have never been touched by
q pillow before, and that hundreds of
families will find homes there.
Announcement is made by the Rio