Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-27
Gleanings from the South
ern end of the county

tACPl CSSutdASS VI Sh~ N''~A A~~'
Post visited many of the ranchmen in
the southern part of Rosebud county
the past week and has given somewhat
of detailed account in that paper of
his trip to the various homes, a part
of which follows:
Chas. Muller of Tongue river has
the record for one thing. He is the
father of twelve sons, and they are all
works.. Two of them Leo and Err
nest own good hay and stock ranches
on Badger creek, while several of the
boys are at home with their father, on
his 4O0-a farm. Mr.. NJ. has made
a success of rrigating by means of
large centrifugal pumping plant. He
raises the water IA feet, and irrigates
so acres of grain and hay, besides ten
acres of beans His pump is run by
means of wheel which is driven by
cut banks near Decker made it diff
cult to take water out of the river by
means of dams and bitches, and some
have adopted the pumping plants in.
stead.
J. J.. Bentley of the Bank of Com
unerce has dry ranch, which is used
as stage station, by ]. G. Parker,
who runs the Kirby and Birney lines.
Mr.. Parker and his son James. have a
dry horse ranch on the head of Badger
creek, where they keep about 100 ami
mails. The young Mr.. Parker has his
wife with them at the stage sta
tion.
Besides the ranches of Leo and Err
nest Muller and G. A. Evans, Rash
Burns, J. s. Kendrick and c. w.
Wulfjen and son, have stock ranches
on Badger creek, where they all put
UP considerable hay. Finding that
none of these men were upon their
ranches except Mr. Wulfjen, the Post
man did not take the time to visit the
place above the Evans ranch but
changed his course to the northwa ard,
again striking Tongue river at VIM.
Munson's ranch. Mr.. M. had just re.
turned from the roundup on the north
side of the river, with Captain Joe
to be in better condition than he had
seen them for ten years. Mr.. Munson
has 48O acres of ground, and expects
to take ditch out of Tongue river
soon. He has quite bunch of cattle
and horses.
Across the river from p. d. Cottor
his brother, T. A. Cotton, has 200
acres, lying on both sides of the state
line. Mr.. Cotton has been in the
country 25 years, but he has ''not dis
turbed nature, in the way of fostering
irrigation enterprises He raise.
plenty of hay on Tongue river bottoms
without the aid of it. Mr.. Cotton ha
the contract for carrying mail betwee,
Sheridan, Decker, ,Birney and Kirby
He runs the line between Sherida,
and Decker himself, and has suble
the Kirby and Birney lines to J. G
have three mails each week.
B. F. Shreve has lived on Tongu
river II years. He has a half sectio
of fine land which is nearly all undo
ditch and growing big crops of ha
and grain. Mr.. Shreve has goo
wife and eight bright children, with
hr, 70, ~ .
a brother of B. F., and has been in til
country p years. He has no family
but has half section of nice lane
with some stock. his year he ha
20 acres of rye, which is very heav,
Mr.. Shreve is close reader of currer
events, especially of the local papers
He says he finds much that is of val,
to him, particularly in land office ma
tiers and the proceedings of the coun,
commissioners. Like his neighbo,
Mr.. S. lives in Montana, but like mo
of the Tongue river ranchmen as fl
down as Birney, sixty miles fro
Sheridan, does his trading at tn
place.
The new school in the Decker di
trict is situated one and a half mil,
northeast of d. H. Willey's place.
as good building, and is kept by Nil
1nez Moore, who takes pride in kee,
ing the interior neat and attractiy
She formerly lived in Iowa, but h;
been west five years, long enough