The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-10
Headquarters Pleasantly Located on Lynch
Creek,

Headquarters Pleasant ~ Locnted on Lynch
Creek.
Plains, Mont, Aug. S.--The camp of
the mineral land commission is now To-
Gated on Lynch creek, not far from
this town. The camp is well situated
and the commissioners have central
point for headquarters in the present
work of classification. The territory
that they are now examining lies be-
tween this valley and Thompson river,
and includes some of the best timber
land that lies within the land grant or
the railway company. Much of 1t is
of a mineral nature, moreover, and
this makes the work of examination
more difficult than some of the other
sections that the commissioners have
worked over. Considerable ground has
been covered this summer already, and
the board is making excellent progress
in its present examination. The work
requires some long and hard trips, but
the members of the commission seem
to be able to endure this sort of work
in excellent shape. They are none of
them losing any flesh in the work, and,
aside from the chills and ague that
Commissioner Garrett brought with
him from Arkansas, there has been no
illness in the camp this season.
The camp of the commission is what
would be expected with such veteran
campers as Messrs. Woodwork Hart
ley and Secretary Hathaway in the
party. The tents are pitched in very
pleasant place, and the arrangement
is such that the camp is one of the
most convenient that can be imagined.
There are pleasant sleeping quarters
for the members of the board, large
common tent for Office work and loung-
ing purposes and commodous kitch-
en- and dining tent. The larder of the
board is we'll supplied with trout and,
in a few weeks when the chickens get
good and the deer come down from the
high timber and become annoying, 1T
is safe to predict that there will be
a little wild meat in the camp. Com
missioner Hartley is too good a sports
man to do any shooting now. but he
cOnfesses that there have been a few
deer that have aggravated him not a
little this season. He has them located.
and as soon as the season opens there
will be venison hanging from the tree
back of the cook tent
The trips of the commissioners are
made on horseback. and some of the
riding that they have been obliged to
do this season has been rather hard.
The country is very rough and the dis
tances are long, but the work has to
be done, and the commissioners have
reported this season upon enough land
to show that they have not been losing
,
as the land that is in the district is
much of it away from trails and has
to be reached by climbing the hills.
The camp of the commissioners is
equipped with good bunch of saddle
horses, and Mr.. Woodwork has consid-
erately provided his friend Hartley
with a Shetland pony. II will be re-
membered that early in the season the
Standard mentioned the fact that there
had been considerable difficulty in Sc
curing a suitable steed for Mr.. Hart
ley. The Shetland pony was the cor
rect solution of the problem, and now
Mr.. Hartley rides all over the noun
tanS with the same ease that charac-
tarizes the movements of his more
slender companions. The strange part
Of it all is that the pony seems to
stand the strain in excellent shape.
When Standard man visited the camp
this week the pony looked as sleek as
the rest Of the herd. and did not seem
to have been at all broken down by the
weight that he has been packing for
So many weeks.