The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-15
AMONG OUR NEIGHB0Rs.
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana EXCHANGE.

n 1TISt OF items rom Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.
Joplin Independent: Tue hom..
steaders are fast preparing for the
spring rush. Many have already
made arrangements for their seed
grain, and the indications are that
things will be pretty busy in this
neighborhood before many days.
Chinook Opinion: The Chinook
electric light plant is to be in opera.
ton by the first of this mouth. The
dynamo and engine arrived last week
and the work of installing them com.
menced Monday, and is to be rushed
along. The line work is practically
completed and q good start has been
made 10 the work Of connecting the
buildings with the wires.
Hsvre Plaindealer: q. A. Marriott.
one Of the we'll known old.timers from
Oldham, was in the city Saturday.
Mr.. Marriott says the heavy fall of
snow and the long continuation of
the winter has caused the stockmeo to
look gloomily down the barrels of
their noses, but that the dry land
farmers are exuberan and looking
forward to a splendid season in farm.
ing.
Bear Paw Mountaineer: Henry
Hurd and Chas. Chantler of Boze.
man, arrived here Sunday with their
cars OF machinery and horses and
household goods, and are now per.
m%anently located on the prairie. Mr..
Hurd has for several years past been
located on irrigated land in the Boze.
country and has moved here be. |
cause, he says, dry land farming is
more successful and paying.
Chester Signal: Regardless of the
defeat of our plan to create the county
OF Marias, the district forges ahead
and in the next few years will be
heard from frequently. John Keith,
one of the old timers of the Alma
country is about to plat q townsi,e
there and will soon be Offering lots
for business and residence purposes.
The town will be in . splendid loca.
ton and will be surrounded by one of
the very best farming districts.
Valerian: R. H. Milhous will in.
troduce q new variety of fax into the
Waller country. He has received q
quantity of what he calls golden fax,
the kernel of which is large, plump
and OF q lighter color than the ordin-
airy fax seed. 1t contains q large
of oil and is quoted at SO
a bushel. The golden fax comes from
Denmark and was imported into this
country in small samples by the de-
partment OF agriculture.
Inverness Index: Many of the new
are looking for horses to take
the places of the ones that died during
the winter. They find horses scarce
and rather high In price, though there
are a few in the country that are for
sale at reasonable prices. 1t is no.
ticeable that most of the animals that
failed to survive the winter we're east.
ern horses and many of them that are
still alive are 80 thin and weak that
the owners will be able to get but lit.
tie work from them this spring.
Havre Promoter: A delegation OF
Chinook citizens came to Havre on
of this week to talk over
division mattere, the main
thing that seemed to be on their mind
being the line to be drawn east of
Havre. Nothing was done in the mat.
ter, however, as the Havre people
were not in q position to tell what
they intended to do until a copy of the
bill as passed is received. Those in
the Chinook deleg alton included Hon.
A. B.. Reser, Jas. Griffin, Herman
aermes.