The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-08-02
OfGeneral Interest.

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The fret shipments OF Montana beef
have brought the following prices:
Choteau Life Stock Co, 81 steers, ay-
eraging 1885 pounds at s4.40 per cwt.
Bear Paw pool, 142 steers, averaging
1 1,2so pounds, at s4.40; lab steers, aver
aging 1870 pounds, at s4.45; heifers, at
$3.50; COWS at $40
Pepin, 20 steers, averaging 1850
pounds, at S45O
VT Cattle Co., 43 steers, averag ing l.
$40 pounds, at $3.50
Col. John s. Cooper commenced sale
of 1900 western branded horses Friday,
saye the Chicago Drovers' Journal and
negotiated TOO head in car lots at a
range Of 1925 to s62. One ranchman
! from Montana closed out 400 head at
1925 for yearlings to $3.50 for to 6
year-olds. They we're trotting bred ahi-
mails of light bone and thin flesh. The
top sale was made for choice unbroken
lot ofs4 to year old draft t-bred horses,
weighing 1900 to 1850 pounds, which
were knocked down to speculator from
Ohio for S62 per head. Tne range of
prices is below the average obtained last
year. There was an immense crowd of
buyers and spectators attending the
sale, and every lot offered, with singl 9
exception, found an appreciative buyer.
F. w. Mettler, fosnerly court stenog-
rapher of the tenth judicial district, who
has spent the last twelve months in the
Cape Nome country, is giving his Fort
Benton friends some reliable informa-
ton about the much advertised mining
: district. Mr.. Mettler has several claims
} there that he considers valuable, and ex-
> presses the belief that the gold output
from Nome will reach large proportions
bat he says that altogether too many
people have gone there this season with
: high expectations that are sure to be
t disappointed II promises to be prof
: liable field for limited number of golC
= seekers, but the stampede has been over
!, done. Referring to the beach claims
about which so many aAaring storie
IL have been told, Mr.. Mettler says tha
c the pay streaks are very small and wide
ly separated and are soon worked out.
e Several OF the newcomers brought will
% them great assortment OF expensive
D machinery, expecting that all the beacl
:, sands were gold bearing, and when the.
found that the alleged riches were con
"a fined to occasional narrow streaks, the
:" were keenly disappointed. The best re
q suits on the beach claims have been OF
- tanned by experienced miners using rock
ers made from soap boxes or some sin
40 liar home made contrivance. Piles
ut useless but costly machinery are sea
ny tered along the beach, having been abaI
do1ed by their owners as soon as the
sized up the situation. The Cape Non
7u gold seekers have experienced a seaso
re of severe urouth anu there has been
ry lack of water for sluicing purposes.
M When Mr.. Mettler LETT the camp on Jul
is -,
weeks, a circumstance that will reduC
the expected gold output con5idera5
ar Tne northern Montana people now
ed Nome appear TO be doing well. Oh
Crane is in the employ of ohe N. A. L.
L Co.; John Tattan IS with johnson
49, Kearney, general merchants; s,. j. Here
otu is rupninU a mack train between Non
-ho and nearby mining camps; Chas. XII
Pc and family are at Dawson. Among OF
or Montanians at Nome are John Men
ly, E. G. Shelton, formerly of Hdvre, a
Frank Sample of the judith. Ri
eSe Press.