The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-29
AMONG OUR NEICHBORS.
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.

Harlem News: L. Minugh was this
week appointed health officer by the
county board OF health, which is in
with the new board of
health law. Mr.. Minugh's iurisdic.
ton is the entire country east Of Ia.
rich to the Valley county line.
Malta Enterprise: w. W. Jaycox,
Norvel Wallace and Tom Mcdonald
were holding a conclave here yester-
day regarding the cattle dipping prob.
lem. They do not expect to dip 1000
head per day under the presen. system
of counting time bu: will do the best
they can.
Conrad Observer: w. q. Scott
for the A. K. Prescott Sheep
was in town on Monday
and he said they we're having good
luck in Landing and had then $500
lambs from about 1900 ewes. He said
that in q band OF 1000 ewes he had SO
per cent. increase, not counting twins.
Malta Enterprise: John Survant is
doing some extensive farming on his
ranches in Chouteau county, some ten
miles west of here. Forty acres Of
potatoes. 100 acres of oats and acres
of other grains are among the crops
now in the ground. He has splendid
ranches and a big pumping irrigation
plant.
Chinook Opinion: A party con-
sisting of Messrs Miewald, Beaulieu,
McKibbin and Blackstone left Friday
morning for the Bear Paw mining dis
trict returning Sunday evening with
numerous fne specimens of copper
bearing rock taken from numerous
prospec. holes. Like all other recent
visitors they came home enthused over
the prospects Of the e copper dis.
tric,.
Chester Signal: J. NJ. Roush has
sold his homestead property, just
south of town, TO Lewis Mumper, for
q consideration Of 81, 100. Mr.. and
Mrs. Roush will settle up their aft airs
and in about q month leave for their
old home at Fort Scott, Kansas, where
they will make their home. We I'm.
derstand Mr.. Mumper will use his
newly acquired property as a horse
ranch.
Conrad Observer: Howard Doug.
las, OF the Banff national park, AL.
berta, passed through Shelby last
Saturday, enroute &c Roman, Mon.
tana, to load 400 head of alo
which the Canadian government
brought from Nj. Pablo of Flathead
reserve. They will be loaded about
the 25th and will be transferred from
the Great Northern main line to the
Montana & Great Northern at Shelby
and forwarded TO Strathcona, Alberta,
where the government has 10, 600 acres
fenced for them. About $50 head will
be shipped now and cows and calves
will be shipped in October. 1t is un-
derstOod that the Canadian govern.
ment paid 500, 600 for the buff alo.
Havre Herald: c. T. Prall, OF the
department of the reclamation service
which has the Milk river and St.
Mary's lake project in charge, spent
Monday in Havre. Mr.. Prall was re-
turning to headquarters at Browning
after a visit to points along the val.
ley where he went in an endeavor to
buy several horses which are wanted
on the work at the lakes. Mr.. Prall
informed the Herald representative
that they are pushing the work along
with all possible dispatch at the scene
Of operations at Bsbb. OF course the
seasons work ls just being started in
earnest now. Two steam shovele, or
rather the steam shovel and the steam
excav atOr are o in opera alton throw.
ing dirt out Of the "big' ditch, and
everything points to q successful sea.
sons work and q big showing being
made before snow flies.
Chinook Opinion: A, the meeting
Of the Commercial club Thursday
evening Of last week, the question OF
the sugar beet factory came up in a
new form. 1t was announced that
Mr.. Ziebarth had been corresponding
with a group OF Colorado capitalists,
who were considering entering this
field with a factory. They announced
that they would send a reliable expert
to visit the Chinook section if the
Commercial club would pay his ex-
penses. After spending abou, 3 month
here Investigating conditions he will
report to his company. If this report
is favorable as to the conditions here,
they would at 10 proceed with ar
engagements to build a factory at this
point. The club voted unanimously
to send for the company's representa-.
tive and the prospects look brighter
now for the installation OF this grea,
industry in Chinook within the mex,
year.
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