Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-09-16
MR.. INES RETURNS FROM
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lines and baby came from Spearfish
Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. lines will
spend a week or ten days ia Custer pack.
ing their household goods, and will then
return to Spearish where they expect
to reside during the coming winter.
In speaking of his recent auto trip tc
Montana with Prof John L. Hines, Mr.
lines said that be had very enjoyable
trip and felt that the time had been very
well spent.
From Ekalaka, Montana, they drove
to Baker where they met Mr.. George
Hitch's brother, who is an officer Of the
Oil company which is drilling for oil at
Baker. Mr.. Hitch took Messrs. Hines
and lines to the oil welE and explained
fully the work which had been done
and that which is contemplated. The
well at the time was 1900 feet deep, and
was giving forth very strong flow o
gas which had been piped, and at the
present time was allowed to burn two
hundred feet or more from the well
The blaze could be seen in the day time
for mile or more away. Mr. Hitch
said the flow Of gas was more than suf.
ficient to furnish the City of Baker with
all necessary for commercial and domes-
tic purpose and that franchise had re-
Gently been granted his company for
this purpose. The prospects for strik-
ing oil at Baker certainly look very en-
couraging.
From Baker Messrs. Hines and lines
drove to Beach, North Dakota, which j,
in the center Of a splendid wheat grow
ing section. Everything in and around
Baker indicated that the people were
prosperous and that those who were for
tunate enough to locate in that country
ten years ago had no reason to regret il.
Land has doubled and trebled in value
ia the last ten years and at the present
time averages from $4,000 to SIS 90 per
acre.
From Baker the route was to Glen.
dive, and thence to Sidney, a town on
the Yellowstone River which has grown
in the last ten years from a wheat field
to busy little city of about 1000 Mr.
K. G. Anderson, formerly of Custer, is
engaged in the drug business at Sidney,
and George Anderson has responsible
position with one of the three banks OF
the town.
From Sidney the Milwaukee and also
the Great Northern Railway company
are extending their lines west towards
Lewistown, aud at the same time are
building from Lewistown east.
From Sidney out the Milwaukee road
will be completed west AS far as Richie,
from Lewistown the road will be com
pleted as far as Winnett this fall The
distance between the two towns is APP
proximately two hundred miles. Messrs
lines and Hines travelled the route of
the proposed road and say that they saw
a lot of splendid farming land, IN this
completely settled but undeveloped
country.
From Lewstown their route was
through a portion of the Judith Basin
and thence to Great Falls. Three days
were spent in Great Falls with Mr..
Scovel Johnson, who is very enthusias-
tic booster for the city of approximately
10000 which is growing by leaps and
bounds at the present time.
From Great Falls the homeward trip
was made through Billings, Sheridan,
Buffalo, and thence along the Black and
Yellow trail to Spearfish A stop was
made at the Custer Battle Fields, and
this interesting historical spot carefully
inspected, particularly by Prof Hines,
and by Perry lines.
Mr.. lines states that it is his intention
to move TO the state of Montana next
spring, and in relating some of the dt fiji
culties and amusements of his trip says
that if any of Mr.. Hines friends desire
to hear a good story they should ask
him if be was ever hitched to Ford.
Mr.. lines is sure that if it had not been
for the Hines determination, and also
avoirdupois that their Ford would still
be in the breaks of the Musselshel
river