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nu*i ima in n.mouth of the river is only govou mill's distant- from here.There ics ship load upon ship load of provisions and tools coming iu here to go out on this trail for the road builders, and it is being taken out- as fast tv the employees. Th_ town was nothing heretofore, hovo botjio tumbled down soldiers' barracks. The only decent looking building here is theil UIIlfourl stop? has •13ET1Mantorycustom house, and all others aro Indian p.nie]TtdereBeuiAjiriUhuts. Of course, 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, anti carpenters put up as fast us it conies from the saw—only $2c* per thousand. The j ?01“Jplace, altogethter.reminds mo of Qnig- ln * ley. excepting the location. This is on the side of a liill that juts right down into Hie bay, aud such a rough surface you poldoni see. It is solid slate rock, aud farther back toward the interior the rock surface is covered (o depth (if eight to ton iuc-hos with evergreen moss Two feet below this, the ground is frozen solid the year arcund. WhileiegaSaturnrcnutheD.wee’Canmonthere is plenty of snow hero, the! qthecideandtenweutivn* is not cold. Only yesterday it rained real hard for four or five hours, but- it had no effect ou the snow, only to sot tin it down. At present there is a population here of six hum.red Indians and eight hundred i A' whites. Of tl is eight hundred there ™,)( are only about seventy-five who are permanently located hero; others are only packers aud travelers. They are going up the Stickecn river by the drov-3, Aud it is rturprisirg there wru so many old-country folks, principally Englishmen, who are connected withotgOOlberVt i inSO S muithis railroad. i weei There are pleut-y of chances to get be! C .. i-V. ittl...rn 4 1 Ttia-li-iI.C -i
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The Philipsburg Mail
Philipsburg, Montana, US
Fri, Mar 25, 1898
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