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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1896
Page
3
Madison County office of the Tribune is at Sheridan. Advertising rates furnished on application. B. F. Bowman, conductor.
Special correspondence surveys Madison County mining history from Alder Gulch to Easton and Williams gulch. It notes rich placer theaters, quartz booms, and key mines like the Everett and Leiter, with crews of up to fifty men, water limits, and transport challenges. It argues Madison County could become a leading state producer as districts like Tobacco Root and Rocheport area advance.
Readable items include visits to Dillon circus by Fred Ellinghouse and Billy Froman, Rev. Smith’s preaching schedule, mining boom reports in the Rockies, new post office at Monida, and assorted travels around Sheridan Laurin and Vicnie Springs. Several local residents hail hail damage and haying activity as well as minor court fines.
July 29 funeral at Twin Bridges for Mrs. O Pasley attended by many locals. Her husband mourned openly as children and grandmother from Ogden, Utah returned home. Burial at Twin Bridges cemetery officiated by Rev. E. A. Oliver.
J. C. Quilhorst of Twin Bridges married Ina Pollinger last Wednesday in Dillon by Judge Holden. Friends greeted the union with warm congratulations upon the couple’s return from Dillon as the groom’s county ties and the bride’s bright character were praised.
The Tribune special from Macparen P O dated August 3 reports persistent rain spoiling haying, with the last Mormon cattle shipped from Monida. About twelve thousand head were unloaded there for northern and eastern Montana. Stock inspector W F Smith of Beaverhead and Madison counties works to keep cattle within those counties. George Sands of Idaho Gulch bought 500 head from the saints.
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