The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-22
AMONG OUR
4 Grist of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.

NOrtnern montana Exchanges.
Chester Signal: Ira Brown and
wife of Gold Butte, were In town this
week on their way to Zortman, where
Mr.. Brown will make q careful in.
vestigation OF the methods in use at
that camp, believing that the mineral
formation is similar to that in the
Sweet Grass hills district.
Harlem News: Haying is getting
pretty we'll finished up in the valley
and baling crews are beginning to
loom up in the fields. Hay is holding
its " on the local market and it is
said by those who know, that it will
bring better price this year than it
brought for the past few years.
Conrad Observer: Olan Cox. who
is now employed at the Flying U
ranch, was in town last Friday. He
says that 1000 IONS of hay have been
put up and the work is still going on
at the rate of IS loads a day. 1t is the
intention to put up 5000 tons. A
crew OF . men are employed.
Havre Plaindealer: A Butte auto.
mobile party, composed of J.. c.
Strong, Charles Hussey, and Miss
May Dugdale, arrived last evening
from that place in MIR. Strong's car
and will leave this morning for the
north, on their way to Medicine Hat,
Mcleod and other Canadian points
where MIR. Strong has large livestock
interests.
Harlem News: The Harlem Ditch
company will begin Immediately erect.
ing a new dam in place OF the old q
which was practically demolished by
the heavy floods this spring. The
work will be under the direct superb.
sion OF Nj. L. Stone, one of the best
bridge and dam carpenters in the
state. The cost OF the new dam is es.
timated at about $1,000. Material is
expected every day and as 500 as
that arrives a large force of men will
be put to work.
Lewistown Argus: Lightning struck
Robert Schiller's house on Alaska
bench a few nights ago and the struc.
ture was burned to the ground. Wal
ter Cooper was alone in the house at
the time and was stunned by the bolt
and had an exceedingly close call for
III. 1tfo Vhor no nod ~o;~al onr-
seriousness, the fire had gained such
Roadway that be only saved himself
by crawling out OF a window. His ex.
perlence was a thrilling one and he
was very fortunate to come out OF it
a. we'll as he did.
Culbertson S~earchlight: r.. H.
Sublette. the locating engineer for the
500 line, who has been running pre-.
liminary lines across the country
north Of Culbertson between Medicine
Lake and the Canadian line, has been
called Oft and the survey stopped for
the present. The line is permanently
located to the Montana-D akota state
line and will cross about seven miles
south of the Canadian line. From
there they have run four different pre-
liminary lines west, the last being as
far south as the north shore OF Medi.
cine Lake.
Conrad Observer: Anybody who
wants to learn q trick or two about
farming should consult p. l.. Moran.
He has got the vineless potato scheme
beat a Mormon block and yesterday
produced the proof in about a half
dozen stocks of oats about =. feet high
with three potatoes at the roots. Two
Of the potatoes were larger than a
hens egg and the third was about half
a. large. Pete says he learnnd farm
ing in the old country, where they
have to wheel the dirt to cover the
potatoes on top Of the rocks and then
they seed the dirt with oats. We
don't know where Pete learned to
farm. bat We do know that those oats
must have fallen into q hill of pota.
toes and in growing the roots got a
fast hold on the potatoes. 1t was a
curiosity, anyway.