Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1878-09-12


able & Co. have finished their new bank
building are doing good business therein.
Henry Jacobs has moved his family and
entire stock ofclothing from Deer Lodge.
He is now building a neat brick residence
and proposes to make Butte his permanent
home DR.. Beal, ofthe Centennial Hotel,
has enlarged and improved his house, MAX
ING it a,much more desirable place to stop
at. Chas. Bynum has enlarged his store
and displays fine stock OF stationery, to-
bacco, cigars and fancy goods. His place is
the popular resort for the young men OF the
city. S. II. Hauser & Co. have,a new brick
banking house under course of.erection. /.
l. Lewis, of Clancey, has takena position in
this bank, and is doing large amount of
assaying, and purchasing OF ores. In the
suburbs of the town may mention the eIec-
ton of the M. E.. Church. 1t is a large
brick, and will add to the city-like appear
ance of the place. Mr.. Bowler, late of Hell
ena, who has opened business Oh Main
street, is building a neat brick residence. j.
w. Chapman has completed and moved in
to his dwelling. He is boss OF the city job
wagon business. J. w. Kelnper, late OF
Deep creek, is making improvements. His
location consists OF garden spot from
which he proposes to supply tle,toWn with
strawberries and tender plants. a. Ell. Guy
er, who is near by, is building "a boarding
house for the accommodation ct the work.
ing men at the LaPlatta mill, now under
course of erection. Henry Crittenden has
finished his dwelling and is building neat
residence for VIM. Jack, the hardware man.
more, and then fail to name all the improve
ments. for piles ot lumber, brick and stone
and new houses beginning and half COM
pleted, are to be seen in every direction.
Business men informed me that the pro-
gress OF improvement had been much re-
tarded by the late strike, and suspension of
work in the mines; but ut the time ot my
visit the strikers had their mills in opera
ton and new life seemed to be taking u
hold. The LaPlatta mill was nearing com
pletion, and there was a fair prospect OF the
Howe mill resuming operations, which, to-
gether, would almost double the yield Of
bullion and give employment to a consider
able number of men. The strikers, j said
were running their mills, for as [ under
stand the situation, there was only two
strikers in Butte. These weEe the Walker
Bros, owners Of the Rainbow mines and
mill, and A. j. Davis, owner of the Lexing-
ton anime and mill. These capitalists form
ed strikers ring and agreed to reduce
the wages OF their men. 10 this the work.
ing men objected, and work was suspended
for several weeks. There seems to have
been no grounds whatever for the reduction
OF wages. The mines We're yielding large
dividends weekly, and We're ,developing
richer and more extensive deposits of ore
every day the work progressed. There was,
lit is true, some idle men i'll the camp but III
the country there was demand for them,
and they were fast finding employment.
d'he working men employed i'll these mines,
formed union, in which they pledged to
keep wages up to the former rates. This
union was recognized by w. A. Clark, an
extensive miner and mill owner, and sever
al other mining companies AS being right.
The merchants and citizens, who suffered
MOSTLY the stoppage of the mines, also sig
nitiea their approval of the union, and the
Davis and Walker mills We're compelled to
resume operation. believe paying the wa
ges formerly established. The publication
OF few anonymous letters of threat pur-
porting to have been written by members
of the union, but whose author was a man