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Show MONTANA NOTES. We cannot resist the temptation to again remark that the grasses on tho boundles ranges of northern Montana are worth more to her than all the tim-tier, tim-tier, of which western Montana so ex-nitinuly ex-nitinuly boasts, is worth to that favored section, says the Fort Benton Kiver Press. For instancu: There were shipped from northern Monlaua last year auo.Ouu mutton wethers, which brought net $;) per head, or it'.iOD.OUO; also to), Oi 10 head of beef cattle, net :!) per head, or 1,.(MI.(M)0; also 3, OIK). 000 pounds of wool, net is cents per pound, or $.'i4i).iioo, making a graud total of SJ, 'no, 0110 in one yt;ir from those three items. In addition to this there should bo added tho inereasa in sheep, cattle auiL horses, hnd tiiiito a number of the lattor sold of ivhich no account could be obtained. Ho'V buig will it take the timbered region on the west side of the monntain to gather iu S.'.liuO.OOO net at home, from the sale of its chief product, lumber? 'The larger per ceut of the value of that product is eaten up by labor and transportation charges, leaving leav-ing otily small margins ti, the producers. Not so with the herds of sheep, cattle and horse. The greater part of their value goes to tho producer, besides their increase from year to year, while tne ranges on which they livo will from season to season renew their crops of grasses for ages to come. But tho timber tim-ber once destroyed is not renewed for a " The Austin Advocate yys a nectarine nectar-ine tree in Judge Mayeubaum'syard at that place is heavily loaded with fruit which bids fair to mature. Tbo dairymen of Candelaria have engaged en-gaged in a milk war, and customers at that, place are supplied w. th the whilo iluid at the low price of 30 to Vi cents a gallon. Win. Mitchell, of .Smith creek, has just completed shearing over loOO head of sheep, from which the clip will amount to between I'o.OOO and liO.OOO pounds about seven pounds to the head. Mr. Mitchell has wool all baled and will aoou commence hauling it to this place for shipment. Ho expects to have it ail in by July J.st. From a band fif '.'o00 ewes Mr. Milhell has marketed the remarkably lame number of 0J0 ! bead of lambs. Elko Indepeudeut. |