The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-03-19

peted with for dispatch and comfort
in travelling and transportation on the
Missouri. Through bills of lading from
Chicago, st. Louis and the Canadas as
late as Sept. Is from those points"
Zine, Fast Boats
A rival steamship line was the I. G.
Baker Co. of Fort Benton. Agents of
| G. E. Conrad, Fort Mcleod, and w. G..
Conrad and j. H. Conrad of Fort Ben
ton. The Baker lines advertisement
reads: Finest and fastest boats on the
upper Missouri, the Red Cloud and the
Colonel Mcleod, will contact freight
from all eastern cities to all points /
Montana. Helena agent is S. c. Ashby,
| est rates paid for furs and robes" In
| addition to the above occupations,
Ashby advertised on another page that
he also sold insurance and was agent
for Mitchell farm and spring wagons.
Among the freighters advertised in
the directory were B.. F. White, who
also manufactured salt and offered to
| ship his celebrated Oneida salt to any
point in Montana or Idaho. H. F. Sal
ems stage and express line left for
Fort Benton daily at Z a. m. Murphy
Nein g. Co. operated a freight line
| connecting with the Utah and Montana
railroad. The trip by stage from Hell
ena to Fort Benton cost SIS and the
100-mile ride from Helena to Bozeman
cost $12.
Among the saloons advertised in the
| directory was the Belmont, in Helena,
which was represented by an advertise
ment announcing the opening of a
reading where the latest papers
and periodicals were available. And
as if to offset this ad there appears on
a nearby page the advertisement OF the
Helena Benevolent and Total Abstin-
ance Society, whose officers were Ter
McGinty, John Fagen, and James
| Murphy.
The Helena Rifle club, Granville
| Stuart, secretary, advertised itself
| rather fiercely as a Rod and Gun club,
the object of which was for the In
| crease and general protection of Mon
tana game land woe be unto h party
who comes within its clutch" Other
organizations represented in the di-
| Helena Literary and Social club, Pho
neer Dancing club, and the Helena Lii
brary association.
Among the other advantages of city
life offered to the public in the Mon
tana directory were ~stereoscope views
from the Trevis gallery, champagne
from Jurgus and Price, Fashionable
| boots made to order by Nick Miller,
! specially made croquet sets from San
Bros, the two best hotels west Of st.
Louis" a full line of collins at M. D.
| Chamber, Glandale, Montana, a Rus
| sian bath house, and French n Amer
lean mirrors from Clarke, Conrad &
Curtin.
Bank Directors Listed
The First National Bank of Helena
listed its directors and included in the
list were Granville Stuart, J. G. Curtin,
| A. j. Davis, J. H. Ming, A. M. Hotter,
R: S. Hamilton, S. T: Hauser, G; P:
Higgins, and T. H. K~lienschmidt. The
| bank offered to buy coin, gold dust,
| and bullion at the highest rates.
The historian of the Montana direc-
tory evidently had a dream OF Can
ada'S becoming n day q part OF the
United States, for he stated: "And
standing with her northern boundary
snug up to the 49th parallel, where Her
Majesty's subjects affiliate with the
progressive sons of America, she may
form the Hymenial Star, as it were,
before whose threshold the trousseaus
may be cast Of sisterhood come a-woo-
ing from Athabasca, Winnipeg, and
the countries about the Ukon and the
Great Slave Lake." The writer also
listed the high mountains of Mon
tana but failed to mention IL, 800-foot
Cra0lCe peak, now kIlOWu 10 DC tIle
highest mountain in the state.
Not the least interesting pages Of the
directory are those devoted to telling
the story of the first steamboats, on the
upper Missouri. The account says, in
part, Peter Choteau and other men,
bers of the American Fur Co. deter
mined to try q steamboat on the upper
Missouri, and for the purpose resolved
to build a new boat suitable to the
dangers of navigation. The boat was
built at Pittsburgh, and in the spring
Of 1881 left that port for st. Louis.
She wa christened The Yellowstone,
possessed timbers of unusual size, and
withal so solid and staunch that she
set very low in the water, drawing three
feet when loaded, seriously uniting
her to glide v numerous shoals in
her destined path. She was a side
wheeler with the cabin on the same
deck with the boiler, and her single
engine propelled the wheels by a single
shaft, necessitating the unshipping Of
one wheel when making abrupt turns
It was desired to revolve only the other.
She was commanded by Captain Ben