The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-07-26
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fire last week. The fire was an acct.
dent. Loss about $500 with 10 insur.
ance.
Havre Plaindealer: Two cars of re.
cruits arrived from the asst Thursday
at Fort Assinniboine that were re.
cruited for the third cavalry. They
are filling up the regiment in prepare.
ton for removing the cavalry next
September to the Philippine islands.
H:nsdale Homestead: Sixty Ear.
loads OF range cattle belonging to
Mes>rs. Harris Il Browne, of Galata,
were unlOaded at this place and turned
on the range south Of town last Wed.
uesday. These cattle were shipped
here from the burned district of about
go miles west of here where the water
and grass have dried up.
Malta Enterprise: The crew that is
blowing the fireguards between Cut
Bank and Minot, arrived from the
west SATURDAY. They pillow six fur.
rows on each side Of the track, with
three double, or gang plows or a side.
Camp is moved with the work and on
one or W occasions, the teams worked
without water for 30 hours.
Glasgow News: Wool shipments
from Vandalia this year amounted to
thirty -.hree cars, or 5Sl, 500 pounds.
From Glasgow. t%hirty.two cars, or
649,6l1 pounds. The total amount
shipped from the two places would be
l.23l, 446 pounds. Placing a average
value OF % cents a pound on the wool
ia would make the neat sum of $780,
9lS. IL.
Lewistown Argus: L. H. Moses,
treasurer of the sheep shearers' union,
with headquarters at Butte, was ar.
rested here by Under Sheriff Martin
Tuesday night on q charge from Butte,
which sets out that Moses had collect.
ed something like $3.50 of ices without
Martin left for Butte with his prisoner
Wednesday morning.
Glasgow News: The government
contractors of the Yellowstone irriga.
ton project are getting busy. A spur
will be built from the railroad at Mon
dak to the Missouri river where the
material will be transferred to a
steamer and taken up the Yellowstone.
Eight hundred cars of cetnent are to
be used in the work. Since the begin
ming OF the ri land values have
jumped to s25 and $50 an acre.
Glasgow News: The strip Of coun-
try from Nashua to Blair, a distance
Of ll6 miles. is as fine q stock country
as lies out of doors and is practi.
cally going to waste. The few Indians
that occupy it are making no use oil
it and would be as we'll off on one.
tenth as much. If this is thrown open
for settlement it will be an addition to
Valley county much larger than some
of the eastern states.
Malta Enterprise: The Circle Dia.
mond received their second train of
young heifers from New Mexico Thurs.
day night. There are over o thous.
and head in the bunch and Manager
Survant got a move On the boys and
got the outfit branded by noon of the
following day, and headed them for
the Canadian ranch. The outfit will
start a trainload of beeves for Chicago
today. it being the first shipment OF
the season from this section.
Conrad Observer: Alex. Ynle, OF
Dupuyer, was in town last Friday, en.
route to Great Falls with a quantity
of rock found Is miles west of Dupuy.
err, which is said to bear the best indi.
cations of oil of any yet found in the
state. Mr.. Yule exhibited the oil
rock, which on being finely broken up
burns readily, emitting a strong petro-
leum odor. He says that this oil rock
is 10 sight, while other oil wells have
had to go over l,2lO feet in order TO
reach the same formation.
Harlem News: The harvesting OF
the hay crop has become general
throughout the valley during the past
week. For two weeks the farmers have
been engaged in cutting alfalfa and
grain hay, but not until this week did
the cutting of blue joint hay become
general, and haying will not be in full
swing for a week or two. Ia nearly
all parts of the valley the hay is re.
ported to be 10 excellent condition and
the yield is heavy. While irrigating
water has been scarce, owing to the
light snowfall in the mountains last
winter, rains have been unusually
abundant.
Homes for Homeless Children.