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The Hamilton
DRUG AND
JEWELRY
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THE WESTERN NEWS.
You Get the News
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western News
And get it Straight
Volume XI.
HAMILTON, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1900.
Number 10
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TODAY
Giving the Best and Biggest Bargains in
Clothing, Men's FurnishingGoods,
Hats and Caps, Men's, Ladies'
and Children's Shoes
Ever offered in Hamilton. The warm weather has left more
winter goods in our store than we want, consequently
we are rvaming very low prices on the whole
stock. You get a cut from 25 to 50 per
canton all goods. It will pay you
•to invest now, even if you
had to carry them over
to next winter.
plotting.
Suits that sold for $22 SO now.
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" " " 15 00 " .
$■5 oo
13 SO
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Underwear.
Uuderwear at.............................. $2 oo a suit that sold for $3 00
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Overcoats.
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Overcoats that sold for $20 00 now.
" " " 15 00 " .
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$13 50
10 00
7 50
The Choicest and Richest Bargains ever Offered in the Bitter Root Valley.
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Hamilton Laundry.
CHRIS SANDVEN, Proprietor.
All kinds of HITE GOODS done up in
the best possible manner. A spec
ialty of #
WOOLEN GOODS,
WE GUARANTEE THEM NOT TO SHRINK. GIVE THE HAMIL
TON LAUNDRY A CALL AND YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT.
Goods called for and delivered to any part of the city
Hamilton Heat flarket.
plfcv Edwards, Proprietor._
ALL KINDS OF
FRESH AND
ALT MEATS
Fish and Game
In. SeasonJ* J*
Buyers of Prime Fed Bitter Rcot Steers and
CtFer Sleek.
' VICTOR DRUG STORE
newly Startrd at Ulctor, montana,
Till* a Cong Telt Want.
It will not be any longer neces
sary for the people of Victor and
vicinity to make a long drive
when in need of medicine for the
sick ones. We keep everything
for the sick room.
Pure Drugs. |
GIVE US A CALL. I
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VICTOR DRUG I
STORE. I
Dr. T. H. HANBIDGE, Proprietor, j
Hamilton Cafe...
The Only First-Class
White Help Employed
Rates Reasonable.
DINNER FROM 1a to 4 P.
25 CENTS.
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Turnl$hed Rooms in Connection.
W. H. GORHAM, Proprietor.
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'CODNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
REGULAR REPORTS OF HAPPEN
INGS IN VALLEY TOWNS.
TERSELY TOI.D IN NEWSY LETTERS TO
THE COUNTY PAPER FROM THE WEST
ERN NEWS' CORPS OF ALERT CORRE
SPONDENTS.
VICTOR.
Special correspondence to the Western News.
Victor, Mont.. Jan. 9, 1900.— G. W.
Olds took in the county seat last
Thursday.
The feed mill is kept busy from
morning- until night these days.
Little Miss Smith, of Florence, has
been visiting her triend Maud Goudy
for several days.
Mrs. Appolonia returned from a
week's visit to Missoula,last Tuesday.
R. V. Jameson left for Plains Thurs
day morning.
Victor ranchers are busy hauling
and loading hay for shipping.
F. J. Cleary is visiting his brother,
J. P. Cleary.
Mrs. Goudy, of Helena, came over
Wednesday for a few days visit with
her cousin, D. H. Goudy and family.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Mysen left Curlew
Saturday for their home in Helena,
J. H. White has gone in partner
ship with A. L. Mowatt in the butcher
shop, and may now be found by his
friends on the delivery wagon,
The three year old child of C. M.
Older has scarlet fever in a mild form.
Mrs. Thompson and children, of
Butte, arrived Friday to remain with
jMrs. Thompson's brother, W. S.
Jones, until the smallpox scare is ov
er.
Mrs. Merrill Hinchman, of Granite,
came over Saturday'to visit with her
parents, John Van Dorn and wife.
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Williamson, of
the east side, were shopping in town
last Saturday.
G. W. Samuels, of Stevensville,
made a flying visit to Victor one day
law* week
Mrs. Mittower spent several days
last week in Missoula shopping.
J. M Price and wife drove over to
Stevensville last Saturday and back
home Sunday.
Rev. R. B. Swift filled his usual ap
pointment last Sunday. He preached
to a full house both morning and even
ing.
Following are the new officers of
Victor Camp No. 5696, M. W. A., who
were regularly installed last Saturday
evening: V. C., H. A. Briggs; W. A.,
S. M. Ault; clerk. M. M. Williams;
banker, W. S. Jones; escort, L. H.
Johnson; sentry, C. M. Older; watch
man, T. J. Patty.
CORVALLIS.
Special correspondence .otlie Western News,
Wm. Alford and family, living
north of Corvallis, arrived from Mis
souri last week, after a pleasant visit.
Mrs. Jim Robbins has been quite
sick at her home during the past week.
Mrs. Hedge returned from Anacon
da last week after spending a few
days with her daughter.
Rev. E. J. Stanley purchased J. D.
Watts' bat d of sheep last week, and
will take them to Whitehall in the
spring.
News has been received that a broth
er of Jitn Everly, who lived at Green
Co., Mo., died on Dec. 31, of typhoid
fever.
Rev. BIpcIc and family are expected
this week iront Canton, Missouri, to
fill the Christian church pastorate at
Hamilton and Corvallis.
A very interesting Christian En
deavor society meets each Sunday at
the Presbyterian church, conducted by
Mrs. Scott.
Mr. McDowell, who lives on the
Dougherty ranch returned from Ana
conda last Friday.
Rev. Mrs. Hope is visiting her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Romney.
Mr. Fayette Humble, ami Mr. and
Mrs. John Hay, went to Missoula one
day last week.
Miss Anna Sawyer was down from
Hamilton Sunday, visiting friends.
On New Year's day, about thirty
young guests were entertained at the
home of Geo. Dve. Games, a New
Year's tree and refreshments were
leading features of the day and all bid
the host and hostess a happy new
year and returned to their homes after
having a royal good time.
Miss Eva Helt and Myra Sherrill
were visiting friends in Corvallis dur
ing the holidays.
I Misses Rie Dougherty, Sarah Jones,
j Maggie Slack and May McKinney
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have gone to Missoula to continue
their school work.
Miss Rachel Stanley, daughter of
Rev. E. J. Stanley, is ill at her home.
Mrs. J. Hustead and daughter, Grace,
went to Butte Saturday morning.
Miss Smithy, a popular teacher of
Corvallis, entertained a number of
friends at her home New Year's day.
Among those present were Rev. Reav
is, Miss Reavis, Mr. and Mrs. Beebe,
Miss Krumniel and Miss Cummins of
Hamilton, and Miss Cramer and Miss
Josie Barr, of Corvallis.
DARBY.
Special Correspondence to the Western News.
Thos. Laird's young folks were given
a surprise party Sunday night.
Miss Eva Williamson is visiting
friends up the East Fork canyon.
Bert Tanner and Frank Cooper
spent part of last week at Medicine
Springs. They report a good time.
S. W. Smith has purchased the Mat
teson's race horse, Lazy Ned. The
price was $100.
The hills were dressed in white Mon
day morning, from new fallen snow.
Fred Edwards, of Ross Hole, passed
through town Saturday en route home
from Hamilton. There seems to be
quite an attraction at the county seat
this winter for Frederick.
Messrs. Donohue and Crutchfield
were up from Hamilton Saturday.
HE'S AGIN IT.
Don't Want a $20,000 Court House—
His Reasons.
The following communication
anent the court house matter was for
warded to the Western News for pub
lication by a responsible and respect
ed rancher of the upper valley. He
is not seeking notoriety but desires
to voice his honest and sincere views,
a right and privilege of which too
few good citizens avail themselves.
Darby, Mont., Jan. 6,1900.
Editor Western News.
Dear Sir:—Your views of a 120,000
court bouse does not agree with the
ranchers and stock raisers up thi s way
by a long shot. We aré taxpayers,
and that we are against expending
such an amount of money for a court
house, to help polish off the town of
Hamilton, will be shown by our al
most unanimous vote against it uext
February. I have lived in many parts
of the west, and have never yet had
to pay such au enormous tax rate as
last year's rate of Ravalli county,
Mont. $6,000 should build a good
court house and also buy a fair sized
lot to build it ou. In reading the
first issue of the Ravalli Couuty Dem
ocrat I notice that the heaviest tax
payers, the capitalists or those that
represent the capitalists are decidedly
in favor of building a high priced,
magnificent court house. A major
ity of them expressing themselves
that a $20,000 court house, even, is
not enough; and you, Mr. Romney,
say that w» do not want a shack for a
court house, but a building that we
cau be proud of—or words to that ef
fect. Such ideas as these, sir, bave
brought mauy persons to financial
ruin. The majority of the taxpayers
of this county are people that cannot
afford a $20,000 structure for a court
house. We are •struggling and work
ing to make a live of it and also to
accumulate something for old age,
aud such men as Judge Woody, W.
W McCrackin, J. L. Humble, Mar
cus Daly's McGinty and others that
represent the capital of the county
aud which probably any one of them
alonecould pay for a court house with
out feeling the loss of the money are
giviug their views to the Ravalli Couu
ty Democrat to the effect that a $20,
OOObuildiug is not too much, iu fact,
hardly enough. If they want u grand,
showy, aristocratic building for a
court house let them pay for it. We,
—the small fry —the majority of the
voters do not want it, aud I bel eve
this high flying move will be vetoed
at the polls uext February. It is true
that the company controls many votes
and as a rule they are ou the winning
side election days, as capitalists gen
erally are, but this time they will lose.
Let all of us that are not iu the
of
of
clutches of the Ravalli county rich
see that they lose Be at the polls
aud vote en masse to defeat this $2l),- .
(XX) couit house proposition. [
Yours truly :
• A Happy New Year.
THERE ARE MILLIONS IN IT.
The Demand for Lumber Constantly
Increasing and It I« Be*
coming Scarce.
BITTER ROOT LOGGING CAMPS.
Admirably Equipped—Progress Being
Made—The Inimitable Lumbdir,
Jack—Is Socially Inclined—OtNer
Characteristics.
Few people realize the magnitude of
the lumber industry in Western Mon
tana. Just now it is probably at its
zenith. Within a few years it must
decline for the reason that the forests
are fast falling before the keen edge
of the all-devouring axe. The mines'
of the state are fast reaching cavern
ous depths and the demand for minifig
timber is constantly and enormously
increasing. À thousand years hence
huge deposits of coal will likely be ex
humed from whence these timbers axe
now being entombed, and Butte will
be transformed from the greatest cop
per camp on earth to the greatest coal
camp.
Timber is timber now-a-days and as
the years pass it must of necessity be
come more and more valuable. Mar
cus Daly was first among the capital
ists of the state to discern this and will
be one of the chief beneficiaries. Con
cerning his lumber interests the West
Lumberman of recent date says:
"Perhaps the biggest lumber manu
facturer in the world is Marcus Daly,
of Montana. In 1898, iu the mills con
trolled by him, there was manufactur
ed one hundred and eighty million'
feet of lumber. He now employs, in
logging and lumbering, seventeen
hundred men. During the past year
he has invested two million dollars in'
lumber and timber. His output for
1899 doubtless exceeded two hundred
million feet."
The Anaconda company's principal
saw mill plants are in Hamilton, at
Bonner and St. Regis. These mills
are the largest and best equipped be
tween St. Paul and the coast. The
big mill here is a model agd has often
been described in the press and most
of our local readers have visited it
while in operation. But few have vis
ited the woods. The Western New
reporter and a friend a few days ago
spent a few hours in the upper valley
camps and we will attempt to give ha
idea of what is going on.
Very few, indeed, have visited the.
primary scene of action and have be*
held the man behind the peevy, cross
cut saw and four-horse team at work.
IN THE WOODS.
The Anaconda comoany's logging
camps this season are located about
eight miles south of Hamilton, in the
woods west of Camas prairie. Here,
in the center of a tract of timber two
and one-quarter miles wide and eight
miles long, owned by the company,
located two of the best equipped camps
ever built in the Bitter Root. These. ■
camps were each designed to accom
modate a crew of 50 men and 32 horses
and consist of office, cook house, bunk
house, stables, granaries, blacksmith
shops, etc., solidly and substantially
built of unhewn logs. Two spurs from
the railway run along the east edge
of the forest and at intervals are land
ings where the logs are decked ready
to be loaded on the cars and delivered
upon the carriages in the big mill.
Over 1,000,000 feet of logs are already
decked at the landings and the expec
tation is that by March 1st, when the
big mill starts up, 10,000,000 feet will
be ready to load on the cars. Much,
however, depends upon the weather.
With good sleighing double the num
ber ot logs can be moved with one-half
the labor. Hence the pious lumber
jack is praying for snow.
Back from the landings the lofty
pines arc being mowed down as if by
a scythe. Nothing is left standing, for
every tree that will measure over six
inches in diameter is converted into
lumber. Good well-kept roads, smooth
as boulevards, radiate in many direc
tions and over these mammoth loada
are trucked by great four horse teams.
The nearby logs were "go-deviled"
and skidded. A "go-devil" is a sim
ple V shaped drag, upon which logs
are manipulated and is not at all de
moniacal in appearance. The logs
farther back on the steep mountain
side at present are shot down on trucks
steered by well-trained teams which in
turn are dexterously guided by dam
devil drivers, and which is a very alow
and dangerous method. The intention
is to deliver these logs through rhutes
in future, and one of which, thVw
q ua Vters of ä mile long, is already m
. operation and works like a charm.
[ It is conservatively estimated that
: this tract of timber contains not lew
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