The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-02-20
AMONG OUR NEICHBORS,
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.

Malta Enterprise: Badly Smith
was in from the mountains this week
and reports that Zortman is getting
shy on q number of staple articles in
the grocery line. The snow is all
gone from the mountains and from q
wide belt surrounding them. The
coulees are all bank full OF water, and
In crossing At one place it rsn over
the backs Of the horses.
Chester Signal: Parties coming in
from the Sweet Grass hills report tn at
the country between Coutts and the
Cypress hills is still buried under
more than two feet OF crusted snow
and that the loss of horses and cattle
will be very heavy. One mar making
the trip from the Cypress hills to near
Whitlash claims to have counted
more than a thousand head Of cattle
that had perished.
Glasgow News: 1t has been learned
that WIN. Wofford was at the ranch
of ''Old Sarge" Caldwell, south Of
the Missouri river, opposite Kintyre.
Under Sheriff Rutter accompanied by
Constables Newton and Burlington,
went down and found that he had
headed south with q saddle horse
Monday morning. An attempt was
made to trail him. but this was i'm.
possible. 1t is supposed that he has
headed for the Northern Pacific and
40 attempt will be made to head him
off over there.
Havre P~laindealer: The foods Of
Bull Hook creek this week carried out
the dams aud reservoirs OF Ritz.
Stringfellow and Joe Valadon,' east OF
the city. In the case of the former al.
most his entire ranch, saving his resi-.
dence buildings that were on an en-
i%nence, we're submerged. The water
over his land was from two to four
feet deep. 1t was necessary to build q
dixie to protect the barn. No damage
was done by the water at the Valadon
ranch and the flooding of the land
will insure a good hay crop.
Glasgow News: Harry Cosner is
back from a trip to the Missouri river
country in the vicinity Of Rocky Point.
He estimates that there will be almost
q total loss among unprotected range
stock in that section. The snow is so
deep that it is almost impossible to
move q team. It is over two months
since the mail has got into Leedy. In
the immediate vicinity of Zortman the
chinooks have taken off most of the
snow but after you get ten miles from
that place, it Is up to your neck. Old
timers out there expect very high
water this spring.
Chinook Opinion: The stockmen
have been happy the past week. The
break in the weather and the contin.
ued warmth since then have been an
Unreasonable blessing to them. The
range has been opened up consider
able, stock q be moved to feed cup.
plies and the stock weakened from the
long struggle from the cold and wind
and snow have a chance to recuperate.
The losses have not been heavy
around here but the continuance of
the cold weather weakened the animals
even where there was feed and the
losses would have rapidly increased
If the break In the weather had not
&c ne.
Havre Herald: This has been the
most expensive winter in the history
of the roundhouse and machine shops
of the Great Northern road in Havre,
and the amour of money paid out by
the disbursing Office is considerable.
The payroll during the months of
January and February carries 45O
employees. Aoaut 24O engines are
handled monthly at the Havre round
house under ordinary conditions AID
in case of q severe WATER like the
present one, engines are coming and
going all the time. This point being
. utilized as q hospital for locomotives
injured in bucking show and making
difficult trips in the section west.
Harlem News: Secretary Vennum,
of the Milk River Irrigation associa-
ton, has written a letter to Acting
Director Rizer, of the reclamation SER
vice in Washington requesting that a
permit be granted to the farmers OF
the Milk river valley 20 commence
work on the various diversion bitches
that have been surveyed by the recla.
nation engineers and which have to
be constructed before water can be put
on the land in the valley. Farmers
are getting impatient with the slow
progress made on this project and are
ready to go to work and do all they
possibly car under the supervision OF
government engineers.
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