The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-06-24

Thu author, Mr.. L. W. Warner, favors us
with a copy of the above work. 1t contains
a sketch of Montana's early history; a Terri /
torial official directory list of post offices and
~notaries public; and articles describing the
public schools; the churches; the Stock
Growers and the NJ. A. NJ. q NJ. Associations;
the different societies such as the Masons,
Dad Fellows, etc., to be found in our Terri
tory. 1t also has a brief but tolerably accu-
rate history of the journalism in Montana.
Besides this it has a directory of every place
of any Importance in the Territory. There
is no general Territorial Directory, but in
stead a separate directory for each locality
all those minor directories taken together be-
ing considered as deserving of the title borne
by the olume. The lack of 4 general direc-
tory will be noticed only in case of searching
for information concerning a person whose
name is known, but not his residence. As
the Directory is arranged such a search would
involve the examination of each of the fifty
or more of its minor sections. Che plan of
the work is first to give a general description
of the Territory entire, and then of each of
the counties. Under the head of Galiatin
county, for instance, we are first presented
with a list of the county officials for the cur
rent year, then with an article describing the
agricultural and mining resources of the
county, its history, date of organization, ed
vocational facilities, tax levIes in recent years,
the climate, soil, snowfall, game, timber. etc.
JTnnn oil fhnca rnipis tl,a ufrl- nontoipS
much information OF interest and value, not
only to newcomers hut to old residents as
we'll. 1t is to be regretted that iii a work of
this kind something Of an effort was not
made to render its contents easily available
to the casual reader. Not only has it 10 in
dex, but the table of t~onten.s is arranged ac-
cording to pages, and not i'll alphabetical
order, so il is no InCOusideraUlc undertaking
: to hunt up amy required Information even
though it may be given in full. Besides
this the work is perhaps as remarkable for
what it omirs rs what il presents. The sub
iect may L.. nnc ia which we may take
most p..0t, ,ttli he progress Of a people
is shown fully as cleA,iy il lie treatment Of
criminals and the insane ., ~ Tie eXteI,t to
which they branch rouL IL cHurcl or school
building, but scarcely L Wulu on the matter
is to be found in the Directory, The peAi-
teltiary is dismissed in one line, whiic our
wel-lnauasel Territorial Insane Asylum is
only Indirectly referred ~. nothing is sad
about marNet prices Of field @. Garden pro-
duet; the price d! living and kindred sub
jeltS. The reader viii Oe panied to hear
HAT the "oIk is Metacei With the same old,
Old Illustrations which have bccil sprung on
lis again ana again, III the Rockies, Nelc- u est,
and we know not how many others. 1t also
contains the old spider-weh map, showing
Helena seated As the boss spider at home in
the center Of her circular web and ready 10
pouUce on some Of The poor little towns,
such us Butte, to be seen scattered somewhere
hear the tuteg periphery and revolving duti-
/ full. around the central hub. The reader
will noU fail To nOticn i'll almost nuntherless
typographical errors the evidences OF very
careless work on the part Of tile publisher
a variety uf English, wonderful to contenl-
plate, ,~i.&tfui to construe, will also be OBJ
served. We quote Il couple of SENTENCES.
Hero is the very first i'll the book, the open
ing sentence Of the predatory: "For the
purpose. of bringing together in a compact
form the many incidents, life and times OF
the earlier days of Montana, thus perpetual
ing its history, as also the collection OF and
compiling of statistical and other information
bearing 0 IL subjects of interest, and in con.
nection Herewith a general business direcs
tory, has been the aim of this work" And
again we find "The Arant Courier was the
immediate successor of the Pick and Pio,o,
and was established by Joseph Wright, and
first number issued September, 1871, who
was both editor and publisher" From this
last sentence it will be seen that the publish
er OF the Courier is one of the Montana jour.
nalists who did not write each his own puff.