The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-09-09
HOrOl0xlcal Review In Favor Of swiss
Watches.
Extracts from Authority

EXTRACTS from Authority.]
In the early days people were satisfied with
watches that fairly approximated to correct
time, and that did not have to be wound up
more than three or four times a day. But as
business grew and became complicated,
close division of time was necessary, and en-
gagements became import. Correspondingly
grew the necessity that time pieces should be
exact, that men might apportion their business
time closely and with due regard for relations
which they hold toward their fellows.
While other countries have practiced
matchmaking as an art, and haze to some ex-
tent a reputation in certain .aches OF the
manufacture, while Franco ana England have
vancement OF watch construction; and Amer
lea, by the application of machinery, is able to
turn out vast quantities of the ordinary grades
Of watches, 1t is Switzerland, the fountain
head of this industry that we nextlosook tfor that
wonderful scientific progress which has re-
deemed the watch from the condition of \ toy
to that of an "i~nstrunent of precision"
In Geneva we find factories with long lines of
machinery OF the choicest kind, some running
with power derived from immense water wheels
machines are wonderful Specimens of Ingenuity.
American watch companies they would at once
tell the world about their wonders, and also
make q point of displaying them at universal
Bnt in Switzerland no display is made of them.
They are allowed to do their work silently and
VslAA NhuSA 4VA NsAIlAOA W. UAC yin VllNl
products. Heretofore there has never been any
occasion for telling the people of Montana, the
United States or any other country, anything
about the superior quality of these products.
Geneva Is the centre Of the swiss watch industry
and that city, with the cantons OF Neuchatel,
Bernie and Vaud, employ 81, 600 workmen and
produce annually 500. 900 watches. the entire
manufacture being estimated at u valuation of
1000, 900 annually.
Nor can Geneva alone boast of her elaborate
machinery and other facilities for watch max
OF the mountain districts you will find watch
factories furnished with the most improved ma
chinery and running by steam power.
Labor is cheaper, and matches are made for tess
money than in america. Hence they can be sold
cheaper.
In the beginning ofthe manufacture of watches
of precision they were looked upon as Injuries,
only attainable by persons of liberal means. It
was soon discovered, however,, that In place of
being u luxury, such u watch Is an absolute
necessity to very large ana increasing class.
itively essential and necessary to guide their
skilled labor by absolutely exact watches. Such
is the SUiSS Ndtch.
] think these facts should infuse the minds OF
persons aspiring to the possession of q watch
that . Swiss watch is the watch To purchase in
all cases, either in o cheap or costly one. l have
in stock, however,, for the invincibles, Ameri-
can watches and will sell ut prices to compare
with the lowest.
graphs, Sterling silver ware, Meriden plated
ware and clocks.
My goods are the best that can be bought, and
my prices will suit the taste and purse of all.
C. A. h. H~ALVERSON,
MAIN STREET, BUTTE.