The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1908-09-25
COUNTY NEWS
49,

l. T. Whistler of Whitefsh is filling
Agent Belfrey's position at the station
during the latter's absence-Eureka
Journal.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gillispie and little
daughter returned to the city from across
the mountains Sunday, where Joe has
had charge of some railroad work-Co-
lumbar.
The Farmers and Merchants State bank
has purchased the business of the First
Bank of Eureka, owned by A. d. Baker
& Co. The transaction was made last
Saturday.-Eureka Journal.
Charley Buckley, one of the old time
engineers Oh the Great Northern, was a
visitor to Kalispell the first of the week,
and was busily engaged greeting his
many friends. -Kalispell Journal.
William Reed, a boilermaker at the G.
N. shops in Troy, who has been a pa
tient at the N. w. hospital for the past
three weeks, was discharged as cured
Wednesday. He has been successfully
treated for dropsical ection.-Kalispell
Bee.
During September $50 buffaloes, the
remnant OF the famous Pablo herd, re-
Gently purchased by the Dominion gov
eminent, will be taken from Montana
and placed in the buffalo park on Battle
creek, 1000 miles northwest of Winni-
peg.
Heavy SHOWS in the winter make good
roads here, and especially in the timber,
where all who have teams may get steady
work hauling for the lumber companies.
In this, the Flathead has great advan-
tage over the eastern farmer who has
nothing to do in the winter to earn any
money.-Kalispell Journal.
The work on the Bad Rock canyon
road has progressed far enough SO that
teams can pass over it, although consid-
cradle surfacing still remains to be done.
The work on the bridge over the South
Fork is delayed waiting for material to
take the place of some that was washed
away by the June hood.-Daily Inter
Lake.
Henry Welty, Okey Hastings and W.
r. Schultz have purchased the Farrell
mill, formerly located on the branch
line west of Kalispell, and will set it up
on the Schultz claim at Tobacco siding,
6 miles above town. The plant arrived
last Saturday, and is now being put in
position. The capacity is about 25,O0(
feet a day.-Eureka Journal.
II. c. Howell is down from the mines
at Java. The tunnel that is being run OF
the copper claims is now in 600 feet, anC
it is confidently expected that the orr
bodies will be cut within the next hun
dred feet. Small amounts OF copper are
found in the tunnel now occasional y, bu
according to the calculations the mali
orc body will be reached at approximate
~ |UU lccl.-Ddlly llilcT lAakc.
Under the direction Of Supervisor
Haincs, of the Blackfeet forest, trail il
being cut from Nyack north to interccp
the old Cut Bank trail few miles nortl
of Nyack, and from there it will be con
tinued up Mud creek, or Nyack creek, a
it is named on the government maps
following the line of the Cut Bank trail
across Cut Bank pass, and down to Lu
bee on the east side of the range.-Dail
Inter Lake.
Threshing in the lower valley is abou
two-thirds finished, and three weeks o
favorable weather will see it all done
The yield is generally very good, man
fields of wheat going 40 bushels to tn
acre, and oats 80. There were som
yields larger than that, and of course
, good many smaller, though there wer
few that were poor. Northwest of tow
, something over half the grain is in tn
e bin. On the east side, where the graf
] ripens little later as a rule, there is
larger proportion still in the shock or til
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