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a distance) of 150 miles from here there I prolt; aro seven feet. | ItFort Wr an gel has turned out to bo starthe principal point, as all the supplies for the railroad that is to be built from Telegraph creek to Tcsliu lake, a dis-Thoharta cctauce of 150 milca. and the southernend of it to terminate 150 miles from here, is going up tbo Stic keen river, and this place is headquarters, as tbo month of the river is only seven miles distant from here.There is ship load npon ship load of provisions and tools comiug iu here to go out on this trail for the road builders, and it is being taken out as fast ty the employees. ThL* town wasnothing heretofore, navo somo tumbled down soldiers' barracks. The only decent; looking building here is theYinthisAlinnfouistophas131TMaitorscustom house, and all others aro Indian RDlJhuts. Of conree, there are plenty of new buildings going up, but not one of those are yet completed. There is one saw mill here and it is buzzing away at the lumber, and carpenters put i: up as fast us it conies from the saw—only $25 per thousand. The 1 ?ou; place, aitogethter.reminds me of Qnig- 1,1 ley, excepting the location. This is on the side of a liill that juts right down into Hie bay, and such a rough surfaceT den Boh A pi LTyou Foldom see. It is solid slate rock, and farther hack toward the interior the rock surface is covered to depth :if eight to ton iuclios with evergreen moss Two feet below this, the ground is frozen solid the year arciuul. Whilei eg S tur rcnthe1wetCmmoi. there is plenty of snow hero, the! ^f | weathor is not. cold. Only yostcrrtny it rnined real hard for four or fivethecidmutenhours, but it had no effect ou the snow, only to settle it down. At present there is n population here of six hundred Indians and eight hundred j J whites. Of t) is eight hundred there T^1 aro only about seventy-five who aro a permanently located hero; others are10only packers and travelers. They are going up the Stickeen river by the drovo, Aud it is nurprisirg there nro so many old-uountry folks, principally Englishmen, who are counseled with fl i this railroad. i we10 j TLcre are plenty of chances co get be liinv kind of a iob where I ho Indians, iotgotberJtinSO3111
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The Philipsburg Mail
Philipsburg, Montana, US
Fri, Mar 25, 1898
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