Fergus County argus., 1902-01-29

contract sinking a shaft on o prom
lsiug mine in the mountains.
A. W, Paul W. L. Hubbard and W,
l.. Houser were here last week buy
ing some o. our fat sheep for the east.
cln market.
Recent returns show that ouT cop.
per properties are strictly in it, every
one OF them growing richer as devel-
opment goes on.
About the only thing you can hear
now is when the railroad comes"
/. is coming all right enough, and
when it does just keep your eye on
Stanford and watch it grow.
will be employed at both tunnels and
you will be able to see Stanford grow.
II. f. Thompson, who had charge
o! the Great Northern railroad bor-
ing outfit that has been working in
this vicinity all last summer and fall.
was ont last week with Mr.. Carl
Roseinger. II is understood that the
gentlemen were here looking after
coal lands. and many sales and new
nlinss may be expected in a short
time.
Ncls Jensen is now in about 200
icet ON his copper proposition and
sin has about l2o feet TO go before
str7King the mother lode. When this
is struCE there isn't a doubt but what
he will have one of the greatest cop
per producers that has ever been
struck in Montana, and he has so
planned the work that il will be
thoroughly developed property to
start in on. II is certainly a bonanza
and Ncls. deserves ii as a reward for
the years of labor he has put in on
these claims.
The weather in this locality has
been more like an old-fashioued In
dian summer until Thursday night.
when colder weather set in and the
thermometer dropped to seven below
zero with quite wind blowing at Z
n. IN. Friday. It was twenty below
with a wind blowing that froze your
whiskers, and at a. m. Saturday it
was 80 below and must have been at
least IS below during the night. At
. o'clocl, with the sun shining on the
alass II still registered 2S below and
the wind was cold enough to make
anyone mourn the loss Of this sum-
aer's WAGES.
Mr. l. S. P.Wcs kes, who is chief
civil engineer OF the Burlington sys-
ten, is here and win in a few days
take "trip over the line from here
10 Billings in order to become famil-
lar with the location OF the new road.
Many minor details of the survey will
be settled while he is on the ground
and II is generally understood on his
return that his report will be sub
mittcd to the board OF directors, who
will at once vote the necessary
amount for construction. After the
amount is once voted ii will only be
question practically of hours before
the dirt commences to ly. as money
once voted for improvements of this
kind is never allowed to lay idle any
length of time. The new line as it is
now located runs about thrce-quarters
ol mile north of town, which will
leave ample room for the building up
o. prosperous little village. In
few years from now Stanford will be
oae of the largest and best towns in
the Basin. All freight for Kendall
and the Moccasins viii leave the rail
road at this point. as we have the
shortest and best wagon road to these
camps and many freighters will of a
necessity make their headquarters
here. An immense amount of mer-
chandise and machinery will go into
the Moccasins and it will be far cheap
er to have it shipped in via Stanford
than by any other point. Our miners
are all hard at work getting out ore
in the hills and the dumps are grow
ing in size daily. Ore that was OF no
value in former years will freight at
z cent per pound and will net pro-
ft Of from IS to sl2 per ton in Great
Falls and IL will be but short time
after the completion OF the road be-
fore many claims will be developed
into steady and valuable producers.
Bench land farming will undoubtedly
prove as successful here as IL has In
Cascade county and it will be but q
short time now until every quarter
OF this land is supporting in plenty a
home of happy and contented people.
The survey party are now working
between Alkali coulee and Surprise
creek. Some of the heaviest work on
the line occurs near Stanford. There