The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-12-30
From Thursdays Daily.

A hotel is going up at Meaderville.
Butte is greatly in need of another public
hall.
Not a house for rent in Butte suitable for a
small family.
The MINER wishes it's many readers a
merry Christmas.
evil you love me when Pm cold ?" is the
latest in the musical line.
The severity Of the present spell of weather
has temporarily delayed operations at Mea-
derville.
One week from to morrow will be Black
Friday" Well be down to tallow dips by
that time.
Walton & Bielenburg have lost 300 sheep
during the last week through the excessively
cold weather.
At the Colorado Smelter yesterday morning
the spirit thermometer registered ~ffty-fve de-
grees below zero.
Twenty-nine saloons, one theatre and two
hurdy houses will aid the Butteites in their
Christmas festivities.
Send in your orders now for the Holiday
MINER. Remember this is the very thing to
send to your friends in the East.
The telegraph wire which was broken sew
eral days ago between Deer Lodge and Helena
had not been repaired up to last night.
City taxes will be delinquent on the LIST of
January. Treasurer Venable can be found at
his Office previous to that day anxious to re-
ceipt for the amounts due.
The Reagan mining property, including
several promising claims, was disposed of
yesterday at an administrators sale. The
Gem brought $3.50 and the Mountain Spring
East, SIS.
A military telegraph office and repair sta
ton will be opened at Crow creek, within
one mile of Radersburg, on "Wednesday next.
A company is being formed TO open up tele-
graphic communication between Fort Ellis
and Bozeman.
We hear of two or three white women in
the upper part of town who are endeavoring
to earn an honorable living by taking in
washing and mending. Anti-Chinese advo
Gates should make a note of this, ana govern
themselves accordingly.
The building of Il forty-stamp mill to re-
duce the ore which abounds in the Alice
bonanza in such unmeasured abundance and
to treat which the present milling facilities
are totally inadequate, is now an assured fact
which we obtained yesterday from the highest
possible authority.
the mercury CONCEALED, causing great incon-
v%enience in the process of amalgamatlon.
At the Clipper mill everything froze up and
operations were entirely suspended. The
thermometer registered at those places forty
degrees below zero.
The Logan Leader says that a magnificent
snow pillow, built upon Il new and improved
plan, and powerful enough to batter dOwn a
stone wall of comparative thickness, has Just
been completed at Logan, for use on the U.
n. r. r. The one great point OF superior
ity in its construction is, that instead of
throwing the snow where it is again liable to
clog the track, it casts the obstruction to a
considerable distance.
When next the Helena Herald makes en-
tracts from the MINER, it will confer a favor
by copying our sentences entire instead of
only in part. In clipping several lines from
an editorial a few days ago, in relation to the
Desenhart case, that journal entirely misrep-
resented our utterances by clipping only one
half of a sentence and giving the impression
that the MINER implicitly relied upon the re-
ports received from Deer Lodge concerning |
that trial, whereas the Herald man well
knows that we did nothing of the kind.
Happy memories which had long ago faded
into The mists and togs Of things that were,
were wildly recalled when, upon invitation
from Mr.. Naddeau, we visited the Christmas
Tree which had been prepared tn gladden. the
hearts of the four little Naideaus who were
dreaming, probably, the visions OF all happy
children on 1ule Tide eve. A pretty display
OF the gilt and glitter of childish fancies, as
well as many presents more substantial, was
a tpye, we hope, of the scenes in all the hap
Ply homes in Butte and while We drink to
the health of our courtly hostess, we are led
to reflect hat while Butte has many dark
shadows, she also has the all redeeming light
in her happy little children. I