The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-09-23
correspondence
Virginia Notes.


Virginia Notes.
If there be efficacy in prayer let an earnest,
united and feryent Invocation be sent up for
enough rain to lay this horrid dust.
The weather continues unusually warm
and dry, favorable to harvesters but hard on
hu%ll-whackers.
The great equalizing inquisition of the
county is in session. Some are assessed too
high, some too low, some give in all their
property and some don't. The latter class
have an aversion to having the world know
all about their business. For that reason
alone they don't make full returns. Calves
are assessed but colts are not. Sheep are re-
turned but lambs 90 scot free. Such is our
Assessors idea of the law. What a blessing
is the equalizing board.
Our county Jail has some IS or 20 boarders,
mostly at the expense of Uncle Sam. Next
term of court here will be a busy one.
Almost a serious accident to Mr.. j. B.
Laurin occurred yesterday. His team getting
the best of him threw him out of his buggy,
but his elastic rotundity saved him from
severe injury. Only a few bruises the result.
The busy and inevitable Addison S. is here
in the interest of the Independent ard North
West. He has just returned from a trip to
the Salmon River and Yankee Fork mines.
He says there are non more promising in
the West. .
1t is rumored that Mr.. Hiram Brundage
will start a newspaper at Sheridan in this
county this fall. Newspapers are so scarce
in Montana we need one or two more.
Noah Armstrong is here, returning from
his daughters nuptials at Glendale to his
mines OF the Yellowstone. He is a practical
quartz man, and has the means and knowledge
to insure success. He is a victim of that
malady known as 'quartz on the BRAIN"
Mr.. Weeks is also in town. His thoughts
by day and dreams by night are of quartz.
No known remedy will help his case. He is
at present Micawbering.
T.. }. Farrell has turned his thoughts from
bronchos and cayuses to the chlorides OF
Potosi district. H. imagination a Bonanza
King ; in reality well of. He views his rich
mines with pleasure, but often exclaims,
"Thou art so far and yet so near" His case
is hopeless.
James How, known as "~prospecting Jim,"
carries his pockets full of specimens. Just
name the kind of specimen you want and it
Immediately energies from his trail pocket.
He is industrious and has made many good
discoveries, but Ills liberality prompts him to
divide with his friends. Several years ago
we have known him as a millionaire without
a dollar, and in twenty years from now ex-
pect to see him exhibiting specimens from
some big "find."
s.. Il. Crockett Ono kin to Davy) finds time
from his thoroughly appointed saddlery and
harness shop to give a few profound thoughts
to quartz. His attention is attracted to the
big lead at Summit, and his vivid imagina-
ton pictures stores of wealth in waiting for
him.. His entire system is involved and
little hope Of recovery.
5. b. Rice, late Mayor, is perhaps the worst
afflicted of four quartz men. He is an enigma.
He never talks quartz but invariably gets his
fins into every new " find" He has immense
possessions in quartz patented and unpatent-
His imagination draws upon them as
you would upon a bank deposit, and he feels
as much satisfaction in contemplating his
wealth in that direction as Vanderbilt does
the consciousness of his immense pos
sessions.
Most Of these men are On the highway TO
fortune. That they may all realize their
fondest hopes is the wish of
BULLION,
VIRGINIA CITY, Sept. 16, 1879.