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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01

USED CAR RARGAINS-In Ford.
Chevrolet and Oakland cars. at Brad
street Motor Co. Hallowcll. Prices
low Tcl 725-W.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01

Mrs. r. @. Thurston Of Pittsneld
visited Friday at the home OF her
mother, Mrs. Alzada Thurston.
Miss Florence Pease. q student At
NJ. c. l.. visited over the weekend
with her parents Mr.. and Mrs. Went
worth pease, ---- - -----r-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01
Specials at the Stores

RATI \ E,-36- finch at sc per yd. Au-
gusta Remnant Store, 4 bowman st.
Tel. 1246-W. opposite city building.
= The new California
toy. He will stand on his head. sit
down. lie down, do all kinds of con-
tortionist stunts. 81 postage pre-
paid. Quinn's Drug store, Hallowell
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01

Lost something? Telephone a Lost
and Found" ad now for tomorrow
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01

Bargain hunting? Turn to the clas-
sified pages.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01
Household Goods
so

BABY CARRIAGE--In good condition;
reversible gear. 10 Summer St, Hal
lowell. Tel 1053-W.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01

Read or the Wants and offers of people
Section
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01

BRASS BEDS-Sturdily Constructed.
with Pinch filler. You can't buy new
beds anywhere that equal these at
my special of SIT. Wallace piplock,
As Bridge st. Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01

LIVE POULTRY-Will pay top price.
Don Campbell. 5 Patterson St. Tel
G12-Y, Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01

MATCHING EGGS-From heavy lay
crs. Barred Rocks, Il. I. Reds, 81 per
H. Day old chicks ready for dcliv-
cry first week in May. Don Campbell,
s Patterson St. Augusta. Tel. 672-Y.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01

Have you read the classified ads?
You'll have tuneful times at nome
sSificatiOn 90.
Want Ads will tell you where To secure
bargains listed under Specials at the
Stores" on the classified page.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01

OUSEkEEPER-At once between
80 and 45 years of age. nice home,
permanent position to right party,
no objection to one child. Call or ad-
dress w. r. Dawes, 113 Water St,
Halfowell. Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01
EMPLOYMENT
Help Wanted-Female

GIRLS TO TRAIN-For nurses at the
Augusta General hospital. After the
first month. an allowance of So the
first year, $40 the second year. and
sl2 the third. First uniforms fur
nished Apply to Superintendent of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01

ERRAND BOY-Wanted Immediately
at Kcnnebec Journal office.
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Whatever you're selling. MIR. Mer-
chant, classified ads will help you sell
more,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01

LIVE POULTRY-Hieh prices paid.
r. w. Longfellow. Tel 973W.
NEW MICH consolidated Han
son Bros, Coopers Mills. Nc
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01

COCPLE-Man gardener, mostly flow
crs, poultry. one COW. pony. small
vegetable garden. Wife. cooks Per-
manent place for satisfactory couple
on private estate. but must he cap
able, kind. neat and willing. SIS per
month and everything furnished. Ref
orences required. The Brown Farm,
Machiasport Nc.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01

WOMAN-t'or general houseworll.
Theodore F. Emery, 14S Dresden Ave,
Gardiner Tel. 5l-W.
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MERCHANDISE
Articles for Sale

BARRIERS CABINET - Ihree-chair,
black walnut. marble top. 211 Water
st, Gardiner Me
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01

Ii you cant Oring your want adj TO the
office. telephone 1t TO Want AC
Taker Ii costs no more.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01

There's more news in the Want Ad
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-02
emblem in the Northwest, and was
seen on the trails everywhere.
Great Diamond R Company

The partners stocked the Diam
ond r with the finest mule trains
and OK trains that money could
buy. Their wagons met steamers
at Fort Benton, Camp Cooke, at
the mouth of the Judith river (Fort
Claggett), and, after 1874, at Car
roll, and carried their cargoes to
every mining camp, town, army
post and Indian agency in the
Northwestern country. They con-
tracted with the government for
transporting supplies, not only to
military camps and posts, but also
with troops in the field. Carroll,
in person, took charge of the sup
ply trains of General Gibbon and
other commands during the Sioux
campaign of 1876, and was among
the first on the battlefield where
Custer and his command were wip-
ed out, the day after the battle. He
was with Colonel Baker when at
tackled by Sitting Bull at Bakers
battle ground, now occupied by
the town of Huntley.
1t was an immense and profitable
industry. The Diamond R com
pany was the largest single enter
prise in the Rocky mountain region
in the middle 70s.
The Diamond R partners firmly
believed Carroll would supplant
Fort Benton as the river traffic
terminal, and they expected a city
to grow there. Maclay, who be-
came we'll known in St. Louis,
Sioux City and other shipping
points down the river, spent part
of his time in those cities, %acquaint-
ing the shippers with the advant-
ages of Carroll as a receiving point,
and was most successful in direct
ing freight there. Fort Benton
suffered considerably from the
competition for a couple of years,
but due to the fact that the road
from Carroll to the gold camps in
western Montana led through the
Judith Basin, which was the heart
the hostile Indian country, and
he constant attacks on wagon
rains on that route, and bad roads,
he success of the town was grad
tally impaired, and toward the late
70s Carroll became less and less
important and finally was aband-
med entirely.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-02
Express Freight Line

When the Union and Pacific rail
roads were united at Ogden, a new
transportation route was opened in
to Montana. Corrine, Utah, be-
came the new base and the Diam
ond R, with other transportation
companies, began freighting from
there. Among other competitors
were many Mormon teams, which
broke in upon the larger compan-
les, and when winter came, com
m~unication ceased altogether.
The Diamond R put on a fast
freight line, to be run as a regular
express at all seasons of the year.
An extremely cold and snowy win
ter came on. Broadwater, Maclay
and Carroll took all kinds of
chances, facing billiards, shovel
ing snow-trying to keep the roads
open and get their wagon trains
through. But many teams we're
delayed or stopped in the drifts,
and cattle and mules died on the
trail. The company lost heavily
and only recouped after several
profitable years.
In the late 7O's the advent of the
Pacific and other rail-
road building broke up the freight
ng business and the partners dis
the Diamond R.
Life on the freight trails was
Tiled with hardships and freight
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-02
Freghting With Bull" and Mule Teams n the Early Days Of the West
Formed One Of Great and Picturesque Industries that Has Been Forgotten

year, July 3, 1860, that the first
two boats, the Chippewa and the
Key West, reached the fort, having
on board six companies of United
States infantry under command of
Colonel George H. Blake. They
were en- route to Fort Walla Walla,
Washington. At Fort Benton the
troops were met by Lieutenant
John Mullan, builder of the Mullan
road over the Occur d'Alene noun
tains.
Carroll used to give a vivid des-
cription of the arrival of the first
steamboats, at Fort Benton and the
grand celebration that accompan-
led the event. 1t took three days
for the officials and employees at
the fort to recover from the effects,
but he used to say that the occa-
sion was justified, as it marked an
epoch in the history of the fort.
Followed, as it was, almost imme-
diately by the discovery Of gold in
Montana and the consequent rush
of emigration, it changed the whole
order of things at the post. 1t vas
the beginning of that period of a
quarter of a century during which
Fort Benton was the most import
ant point between the Mississippi
and the Pacific coast on the nor
thern routes.
In 1868 Carroll, who had pros
in his business ventures, re
organized his firm to take over the
Diamond R Company, which had
been established three years pre-
viously by two Missouri river
steamboat captains, John J. Roe
and Nicholas Wall, to carry freight
between Fort Benton and the gold
camps of Montana and Idaho.
The new business soon assumed
enormous proportions and repres-
a heavy investment, for
freighting by contract and other
wise was engaged in between all
points in the Northwest, as well as
between Fort Benton and trading
posts in Canada and as far south
as Utah. At that time its brand,
consisting of a diamond with an R
IN the center, was the best known
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-02

ing was mans work in all seasons
A wagon boss had to be resource
full and of iron nerve, equal to any
emergency. From this class there
were developed some of the out.
standing business men of the west
ern states and territories.
On a %freighting trip there were
no Sundays or holidays. The boss
and the SINNERS worked day after
day, unless nature interfered and
they had to lie for days with a
swollen and unfordable stream in
front of them.
Breaking in a new steer, wild
from the ranges, broke the mono
tony of the mornings and moons,
and from the time the rope was on
him until he was being reluctantly
hauled along as n of the team,
the fun was fast and furious. Es-
pecially would this be the case if
he broke loose and with a heavy
yoke swinging around his neck,
would make the SINNERS crawl I'M
der the wagons until the key broke,
the yoke flew off at a tangent and
the business began afresh.
Some of the old-time bullwhack-
ers, once Indian fighters, to whom
an Indian was one degree lower
than a coyote, are still living, but
like the early day placer miners,
their ranks are thinning rapidly.
To many of these the bull train
stood for home, and they felt like
evicted tenants when the shrek of
the locomotive sounded the des-
truction of the bull camp.
For a time during the early
steamboating days, owing to the
limited means of transportation
compared with its needs, freighters
commanded their own prices and at
times received as high as ten cents
per pound for hauls of 100 miles
or less. This did not continue long,
however, for freighters soon be-
came plentiful. In M year, 1867,
it was estimated, Montana alone
paid 100000 in gold for freight
and the population num-
bered only a few thousands.
One of the picturesque freight
terminals of the 70's was Miles
which first was an army post,
then a railroad construction camp
and later a cow town. Describing
those days, Sam Gordon, a pioneer
editor of that place, wrote:
Speaking of freighters, it was
surely a sight when a Diamond R
oull-train pulled into Main street
route to Keogh from Glendive
Or Buford, loaded with government
freight. With from eight to twelve
Yoke of bulls to a team, hauling
wo and often three wagons loaded
the top and with a real bull
vhacker' walking along back by
he wheelers, a pageant was par
lded, to the life, of a phase of civ
lization that was just then passing !
IF the stage. Ranking with the |
Experts in any vocation, the profess :
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-02
BACK-TRAILING ON THE OLD FRONTIERS

sional bull-whacker in action was
a most satisfying sight, and the
pull up Main street was their
dress parade. With a whip, the
stock of which, about six feet long,
had been carefully fashioned out
of properly tough timber and with
a lash that would reach four or six
yokes ahead, and a pepper on the
end that would bite out a bunch
of hair wherever it landed, the
dirty, tousled pilots of the creak-
ing, swaying craft would wake the
town with their sonorous and melo-
dious warnings to their teams,
punctuated continually with the
sharp spit of the pepper as it
landed on some poor, patient
brute's hide and jumped away, res
ponsive to the backward swirl of
the lash, deity impaired by the ex-
pert twenty or thirty feet away.
There were old fellows in those
trains who had never done any
thing else but 'whack bulls all
their lives. They had started in
when the Union Pacific was build
ing across the continent just after
the war, freighting to points be-
yond, and when the railroad took
their job away they found it again
freighting from rail points into the
but finally the railroads had
beaten them back to this strip of
No Mans Land in the Yellow
stone valley; that the Indians had
held supreme control of until a
year or two before. Here the fad
ed glory of the 'bull-train' was for
time restored and here it vanish
ed for good and all. The mule
train, a companion picture, was
never as interesting or as pictur-
esque as the bull-train. The mule
skinner rode a wheeler and guild
cd his team with a jerk line. Any
loafer could do that, but it took
IN artist to pilot a string of bulls
a side-hill road with a top
heavy load and the trail wagon
dead against you. 1t was
dogs life as far as the comforts
md amenities went. The menu
-arely went beyond black coffee,
'our-dough bread and 'sow-belly'
in a skillet in its own grease
hickened with flour and of camp
.helter there was none for the men
we're too tired at night to arrange
nv but the most primitive protec-
ion and they pulled too early in
he morning to do any breaking
Summer was bad enough
out the slow and uncertain creep
If a bull-train on the road in win
er was an experience to be endur-
d only ono by anyone but a real
,ull-whacker. Why he endured it
lie probably could not explain but
here was possibly an element of
'ersonal pride and ambition in it
hat had its brief display IN the
occasions mentioned, when the
rain rolled into town and the fine
'oints of the profession were
hown. 1t was a fleeing glory,
.ough, for an hour after the train
ad been parked all hands were
DO drunk to tell their WI names
nd were swallowed up in the swirl
hat eddied around the Diamond
: corner and by pure centrifugal
orce were n by one thrown off
ITO the park there to lie and
Ieep off the overpowering effects
f the dope they had taken
board"
by Cheely -Raban syndicate.)
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-02

Extension of the railroads, more
than 80 years ago, over the trade
routes of the west, and the evolu-
ton of the pioneer railway from
the arrow gauge, commonly
known as the turkey trail' into
the heavier and more substantial
standard gauge, marked the end
of the bull and mule trains of the
prairies and the passing of that
type of transportation, which had
SO much to do with the develop
ment of the west. Little has been
written of the freighting industry
of the west, and this phase of from
tier life has become almost com
pletely obscured by the passing
years.
An epic of the far west of half
a century ago might be written
around the "bull" train, which car
ried supplied of all sorts to the gold
camps, the frontier trading posts,
the military forts and the Indian
agencies of the great area lying be-
tween the Mississippi river and the
Rocky Mountains. Today that wild
and picturesque territory lives only
in the memories of a handful of
grizz1ed pioneers. The names of
towns that we're important as dis
tributing points have been forgot
ten and are remembered only as
ghost cities of the west. There
were many of these, but few
achieved in their day the import
ance of the town of Carroll, which
for two or three years made its bid
as a rival of Fort Benton, which
for two decades, between 1870 and
1890, was head of steamboat navi-
cation on the Missouri river.
Carroll, which had an existence
of only a few years, was establish
ed by Matt Carroll, after whom it
was named; E. G. Maclay, George
Steele and Colonel Charles A.
Broadwater, owners of the great
R Transportation Com
pany, in its day the greatest
freighting concern between the
Mississippi and the Pacific coast.
It represented the second effort to
found a successful rival to Fort
Benton as a freight debarking
point for Missouri river steamboats,
from St. Louis, Sioux City and
other down-river points.
The town of Carroll was built in
1874, at a time when river traffic
had assumed great proportions. In
1865, due to low water in the river,
steamboats, bound for Fort Benton
with supplies for the gold camps
had been unable to ascend farther
Up the river than the mouth of the
Yellowstone, and had unloaded at
trading post conducted by Major
D. Pease. Colonel Broadwater,
Who had charge of actual freight
ng operations for the Diamond R, {
'ook several trains of wagons and !
vent down to Pease's post, near |
Fort Union, to bring back the {
from the steamboats, to I
Helena. He located fords, built
up and down the river T
and built a road along the t
inc that the Great Northern fol- c
ows today 1t was while on this T
to the mouth of the Yellow t
tone with his wagon trains that
he idea of a road from some point
over down the river than Fort
'%enton, south across through the y
country, to the gold camps F
f Last Chance, Diamond City and a
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-02

Virginia City, first occurred to
Colonel Broadwater. He felt that
it would be an easier trail to travel
that the road from Fort Benton to
the gold camps, and would also be
shorter. Another great advantage
was that a debarking place lower
than Fort Benton could be reached
earlier in the season and later in
the fall by steamboats, than Fort
Benton. The arguments were ex-
act1y the same as those advanced
for the establishment of a town at
the mouth of the Musselshell. But
it was nine years before he and his
associates put his ideas into effect
and established Carroll.
Men Who Built Carroll
The three partners who were
most active in the operation Of the
great Diamond R company and
who established Carroll, were
among the outstanding men of
the Rocky Mountain region half
a century ago.
Matt CAROLS name has almost
passed into oblivion, although he
died at Helena only a dozen years
ago, at the age of II. He was a
native of Ireland, coming to Amer
lea in 1854 at the age of II. In
1855 he came tip the Missouri river
to Fort Pierre, Dakota, working as
a clerk in the suffers store. In
1859 he arrived at Fort Benton
with a stock of general merchan-
disc for the post traders. The trip
was made from Fort Stewart on a
large keel boat which had to be
cordelled, OF pulled, by a gang of
men 4on~the bank by means of a
rope and as it was found i'm
possible to drag the boat farther
than Fort Brule, above the mouth
of the Marias, the cargo was there
put ashore and packed the rest of
the way by land.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-02

Great Falls-Another test we'll on
the Little Muddy structure near the
town of Vaughn will be started by
the Keystone Oil syndicate soon.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-02
First Steamboats, Arrive

The American Fur company that
year tried to get steamboats, to
Fort Benton, but were unsuccessful
and it was not until the following
, 1922-04-08
Personals

Miss Eyale Echert who has been
a guest at the home of Mrs C. II.
Snyder, $50 South KimbaIl street,
for the past monts. is returning to
her home IN Oklahoma City, Okla.
Miss Echert is leaving many friends
here who wish her n pleasant
journey.
Nj. and Mrs. NJ. N. Wheeler re-
turned yesterday morning from
Denver where they have been spend
ing several weeks on a business and
pleasure visit
Mrs Charles Mckay, who has
been visiting at the home of Mr..
and Mrs W. M. Kleber on Cy ave-
nue., has returned to her home in
Lander.
Tim Mccoy who has been
spending q part Of the winter in
De- rer, rs hero enroute to his home
a. the dude ranch" above Their
mopohs in the Big Horns. Mrs.
Mccoy win remain in Denver for
some time longer.
Mr.. and Mrs Herman Manners
arrived this morning from Denver
and intend spending several days
here looking after business interests
, 1922-04-08
City

DR.. c. L Wills has recently become
associated with DR.. 1. N. Frost and
DIR. H A. Reichenbach in the practice
of medicine n surgery here. DR..
Wills spccializcs in the discusses OF
children and internal medicine. Their
offices in the os building have been
remodeled and redecorated and in
stalled with new equipment and fur
nishings. all Of which harmonic vury
pleasingly IN ~battleship gray.
E A Alley, assistant manager Of
no American Surety company Is in
tho city.
Roy Sample. founder OF the Iris the.
alter. is spending a few days in Cas-
per. HIS home for the winter Is In
California
Hugh Patten. United States marshal
has returned from Lander. where he
has been attending court He viii 80
to Cheyenne to resume his duties
there.
L. F. McMahon and George Fergu-
son officers OF the Gienrock on com
, 1922-04-08

All that b needed IN Wyoming IN
acreage enough and a knowledge Of
how to turn the trick acquired by
having learned to do e. elsewhere
Moreover. there arc men in wyo
ming today who have demonstrated
that II can be done by actually do
ing it One thing is sure and that n
that this state Is going to have TO
take care of its share of the in
creasing population of the United
States in tho future and is doing SO
at the present moment
Casper climbing the mountain Is n
certainty because OF the central To-
cation OF the city In the great valley
best adapted to agricultural develop
ncnt and the feeding of stock out Of
silos on forage produced on the
farm There win be irrigated farm
ing and there viii be dry farming
and much of the best brain and
Drawn Of tho middle west particu-
larry that part of IL west OF The Mis-
souri, where the same problems have
bean met and solved viii come to
wyoming and be a part OF Il.
Tho highway system of Inc state,
as well as the railway system. ma
turally centers at Casper for topo-
graphical resons. When world com
petition brings about n condition
when low cost of production Is tho
first condition of SUCCESS. near hero
Will be some of the worlds greatest
steel mills, where the iron ores
and the coal meet IN this state rs
they do hardly anywhere else on
earth Tho development OF III 9TH
Ell mineral resources of tho state.
richer than those of Pennsylvania.
win proceed at the same time. Soms.
perhaps most. OF these mills and
this development win be within a IA
dius of a hundred miles of Casper.
adding to the homo market for tho
products Of tho countrywide A hun
dred miles on paved roads viii be
less than twenty-five miles now.
, 1922-04-08

and visiting with friends and rein-
tives residing here.
Miss Nancy Chalmers Lot ycster-
day for Greybull where she win
visit with friends for he week.
Miss Chalmers vns formerly a resi-
dent Of Greybul but came here last
fan when her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs A c. Chalmers, moved THEN
Mrs T. A Williams is ~1ezvins
for the east where she viii visit
with her son and dauxhter4inlav
in Kansas City.
Mrs Roy Whitacher OF Moorc-oft, ,
whiting with her sister. Mrs Roseiis
Lennon OF the Mar1neiio Shop d,
Luxe
, 1922-04-08

Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. /
was in bed much of my timewith pains
and had TO have the doctor every
month One day l found a little
book in my yard in Guthrie, oklaho-
ma, and ! read It through and got tho
medicine-Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
ctable Compound land took eight
bottles snd used the Sanative WASH
/ atonce begant to get stronger. Ihave
got many women to take It Just by
telling them what II has done for me.
/ have a young sister whom it has
helped in the same wayit helped me.
/ want you to know that ! an o
friend indeed, for you were friend
inneed. ~ Mrs. GEORGE HARDEE,
1913 Byram St. Los Angeles. Cali
forria.