Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1908-08-25

AS AAoNiNl was at All 81
treated as joke by those who heard
these stories, but it is entirely too
practical joke for the men who have
lost stock to appreciate. Guy Nor
man, the heaviest loser, has offered a
reward Of twenty dollars for the
animal, dead or alive, but one has
any intention of bringing in Give
one" although several local gun men
are talking of going out, loaded for
lions.
A. 5. Wright, accompanied by Will
Clean, the surveyor, who will have
charge of the construction OF the
mill on the Gold Links property, left
for Lewistown Saturday. The gentle
men came out to look over the prop
erty, after the strike last week, Mr..
Wright said: "Last week our miners
broke through big vug, two sets of
timbers in depth. The loose rock
and also the solid formation in the
bottom is porous, vuggy ore, exact
ly like that in the Santiago, and on
the side Of the Barnes-King next to
us. While l do not consider that we
are in the ore body proper, we are
now in ore that carries values. We
are only down three hundred and
forty feet and we had not expected
to encounter any ore for another
fifty feet. We have changed our
plans for our mill and will build it
right at the mine 50 that we will
dump our ore over big grizzly di-
rectly into the mill. The mill will be
the same capacity, tonnage, etc, that
i stated some weeks ago. It will be
cheaper to build mill at the mine
and thus eliminate the expense Of
building tranway, which is no small
item. We will build large pipe line
down through the Stevens ranch, and
sluice our slums through that, just as
they do at the Homestake mines in
South Dakota. We have the eleva-
ton and that is what this survey Is
to determine
Last Monday the local aerie of
Eagles scared high when about thirty
new members tried their wings. and
were initiated into the mysteries Of
the order. 1t was big day for the
Kendall aerie in that this was the
largest class ever initiated into the
order. About twenty members of the
Lewistown aerie came in autom obiles
or on the stage, to join in the festivi-
ties. At l p. m, the Eagles, headed
by the K. P. band, paraded along
Mckinley avenue to the K. P. hall
over Jones' opera house, where the
Eagles meet. Here the initiates found
a goat awaiting them, but they wer.
all rough riders and came out with
flying colors. Late in the evening an
elaborate banquet was served and
the tables laden with good things
were soon relieved of their burden.
Mrs. T. w. Humphreys was present
to pour the coffee. T. w. Humphreys
was toastmaster and, while every
one was enjoying the aroma of good
cigars, many responded with toasts
appropriate to the occasion, and sew
eral selections were rendered by the
band. 1t was early morning before
the merrymakers left for their homes
after royal good time.
On Monday afternoon the North
Moccasin Gun Club held shoot at
the club grounds, near the Kendall.
The day was clear and fine, AMI the
members of the club in good trim,
and ran up some fine scores. The
Lewistown team was expected but
didn't come. This made it necessary
to cut out three of the events, the
Wilson and the Warren medals an
the team shoot. Lyman Wilson made
the highest score, breaking l45 birds
out Of a possible $50. J. H. W'cks
and Charles McLain weer even up,
with 1877 each. MCGOWAN next, with
127, and Paterson, 118. Matt Gallant
dropped out of the first event but
brought down lO6 out Of l4O. ]. H.
Wicks won the club button.