The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-09-09
Minor Items.
(FrOm Wednesdays Daily.)

AbV 0iAo y VlO ulNCIVlIlC UIICh SCLUOl
house are up full height.
Assessor Murphy has appointed Patrick
Talent Deputy Assessor for Butte and
vicinity.
DR.. Turnbull has removed his office to his
new building next door to Dunn's paint shop,
West Granite street.
The weather could not have been better if
If had been made to order especially for the
Butte races. Was it?
So many strangers in town that we must
fl the nonce omit our Personal column.
Welcome, welcome most cordial to all.
The Rev. Z. O. Tillotson, lately appointed
to the pas'arate of st. Johns Parish, arrived
at Butte the day before yesterday, coming by
way of Helena.
County Assessor Murphy saws the assess
mens valuation Of Butte property this year
will be somewhere in the close neighborhuod
of a million and a half.
Mr.. Buffers express between Butte and
Walkerville, is already found to be q great
convenience Like the newborn journal it
I" ills a !ong-fclt want"
The furniture needed for the new rooms of
the graded school was ordered through Mr..
L. d. Reynolds. who has secured the Mon
taia agency of an Eastern furniture house.
The Missoulion has changed hands. Mr..
Chauacey Barbour, late editor and publisher,
having sold out to Mr.. Duane j. Armstrong,
foreman in the pless-room for the past two
years. Mr.. Barbour, it is said, will go to Cal
~ifornia.
In the fire at Bowler's store the telephone
and call-bell of the Butte and Walkerville
line we're destroyed. Other Instruments to
replace them having been procured the Butte
office was ~re-opened yesterday at the store of
L.. W. Foster & Co. The line is again in
complete working order.
We have received a copy Of Strahorn's
Nep Vest, special Black Hills edition, a
paperin all respects similar to the Montana
edition, with which our people are by this
time tolerably familiar. The New Vest can
be had by RENTING ten cents for each copy
ordered, to r. E. Strahorn Omaha, Nebraska.
Nj. VIM. NcKeown, from Jefferson island,
gives an interesting description Of a bed OF
singular petrifactions recently discovered
near his place. The petrifactions are found
along the bed of a small stream flowing fionl
a warm spring in the marsh and consist o
bull PUSHES and other aquatic plants, and
even the delicate wire grass turned to solit
stone. The stalks of the rushcs are hollow
and have precisely the grain and fibre of the
living plants close by.
The contract for the Broadway culvert was
let to Daniel Dwyer who began work on i
yesterday. The culvert is to be the full
width of the street, so feet, and of stone in
stead of brick as at first intended, stone bein!
is to be withstood. In cutting for the foun
dation yesterday bedrock was reached at TIN
depth of three feet below the creek bed
From the rock to the level of the creek tn
walls will be rs inches thick, from there t.
the base of the arch, "a inches, and the arc'
itaoil IS inches.
[FrOm Thursdays Daiiy.l
William Woodward has re-opcned his Va
riety Store on East Broadway, first door fror
f Main street.
Two trains loaded with mill and foundr
) supplies for A. J. Davis, got in yesterday
Bills of loading Of ten more have been re
ceived.
John Hauswirth has opened a new saloo
) in the building formerly known as the Hote
+ de Moneral, himself being proprietor i
} charge.
y. }. Davis is putting up a 34x3S fran
building, intended for a warehouse and rt
!. pairing room. 1t stands only a few feet Yves
of his machine shop.
A.. j. Davis is building another resnrvoi
, below the old one, to catch the tailings froI
the Lexington mill. This reservoir will fac
along the northern side of Park street.
Mr.. A. g. Mathcs. of Mathes, Good
S%chulmier. merchant t%silors, St. Paul, Mimi
is in Butte taking the measures of those VIII
wish to order stylish clothing Of tashionabl
} cut.
Street cleaning was the order of the Ola
, yesterday on Main street. Each bushes
house had its street front, to the middle
the street, swept and cleaned, the sweeping
being collected into heaps which were n
moved at the city's expense.
A little good generally accompanies ever
misfortune, no matter how severe. Owing t
the Main street fire we are to have nice he
sidewalks, twelve feet wide, along the we:
side OF the street, where there has scarcel
been room heretofore for two to walk abreas
Yesterday the school trustees effected Il
insurance in the Liverpool and London an
Globe Company, on the Graded School buil(
ing, valued at $500. The school ~furnitur,
. valued at $500, was also insured. Owing t
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