Show MONTANA NOTES twenty pound cauliflowers and thirty pound cabuag ea have been brought to deer lodge coal of superior eu perlor quality has hns been discovered a few miles from the mouth of gold creek the avant courier says mr a german lusane insane hung himself sept 13 at white tall tail deer creek verdict accordingly the railroad surveyors Burve have found the dog creek route impracticable they are now surveying a route up peterson paterson creek to the head of boulder the deer lodge independent says the lightest wheat crop in that section will average 25 bushels to the acre and the heaviest 75 or 80 bushels crops in the bitter root boot and missoula valleys never were better annd anid farm era have been busy harvesting for be several V weeks the impression seems to prevail that the supply of grain this year will be greater than this thes demand and that prices of farmers products will be correspondingly low on the ath of october the tua directors dir actors of of f the eastern montana agricultural mineral and mechanical association will hold their first annual ealr eair the managers are making every tutors to have un exhibition of produce prot tuce luce stock etc that shall be a credit to that region montana rye eye we have in our office a splendid specimen of montana rye from the crop of that cereal raised on the ranch of J H harper the oham cham plon pion farmer of gallatin valley about a mile and a half from bozeman three grains of which would make a good square meal meat for any man of ordin ordinary dry appetite gallatin can beat the world for grain bozeman avant courier we were shown the other day some very fine specimens of domestic white currants cur rants ranta which were raised this thia summer on H N maguires ranch about five miles south of bozeman they were large ripe and luscious equal in fact to any we ever baw saw mack nas has engaged extensively in the bu business sineas of fruit culture and we are pleased to hear that his experiments in this line have proved successful he has haa also some very fine tame gooseberries goose berries on the ranch as well sa apt about twenty of the choicest varieties of strawberries all of which are looking flue niue and ere long he will have one of the finest fruit gardens in the territory this thih vicinity Is id becoming celebrated for the excellence and variety of fruit produced and we would suggest to pur our people that they add a fruit garden to the attractions of their homesteads it will pay bozeman JB ozeman auant avant courier an explanation needed inasmuch as the north pacific railroad failed to accomplish its object in the late attempted survey purvey of a proper route down the valley of the yellowstone it has become a subject of considerable surprise and regret to the citizens of this thib territory as well as aa to all others interested iu in the early completion of this important enterprise that an expedition so well supplied and so accompanied by an apparently ample military force s should only have been able to have made surveys but about a score acore of miles beyond the point reached last year would seem to the distant observer that some one in authority must be at fault in the matter that thib this virtual retreat of the expeditionary corps will delay the completion of the road and encourage the savages in further farther efforts to forcibly stay its progress there can be no doubt besides cause large expense to both the railroad company and the government in fitting out another expedition next year to accomplish that which the present one failed to do grave reports of official errors and incompetency in connection with the skirmish with the inmane indians and the subsequent retreat are in circulation and the public iss lff anxiously awaiting for a reliable explanation of the reason and causes which led to t the h 8 1 I 1 retrograde etro letro rade grade rude movement of t ho lle expedit expedition I 1 on 1 holena helena gazette sept 22 21 |