The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-21

A pair Of u. S. Standard scales, to be used
in weighing ore on wagons, has lately been
erected at the Dexter mill. !
Mr.. William Thompson expects to have his
saw mill running next week at its new site,
half a mile below Lion City.
The Dexter is just beginning a lot of ore
from the Stevens mine, with the probability
of working the whole pile of 800 tons now on
the dump.
How pleasant it is to read the congratula-
tory remarks of ones friends about being off
on vacation when fifteen hours per day office
work is what the vacation ~ amounts to.
At Glendale everything is reported stir and
activity about the Hecla works. The main
building of the smelter, replaced with a mere
shell a week or two after last summers fire,
will be erected in a few days. A coal shed
100 feet long has lately been built.
For several weeks to come Indian summer
may be expected to extend her hazy, volup-
tuous veil over the landscape rendering in
distinct the view of distant objects, and caus-
ing the evening sun to descend in a splendor
of fiery red. This will last for some weeks.
After that-ol, yes, after that
Mr.. John F. Forbis has let a contract for the
erection Of a dwelling house on West Granite
street, corner of Idaho, one of the best sites
in town for a residence. The house, when
completed, will be occupied by the mother
and sister of the proprietor, who will shortly
remove from Helena to Butte, to take up their
residence here.
The foot race between Hammond and
Rush, declared off a short time ago upon
Hammond's payment of forfeit, is "on"
again, it is said. We are informed that the
money is all up and that the race will come
off at Philipsburg next Sunday, the 10Th
instant. The race is 60 yards with 20 feet to
turn in. Purse, $500 a side.
Travellers coming over the Mullan road
lately say General Penrose has made a first
class military road from Frenchtown to the
summit of the Occur D'Alene, including the
! big grade this side of Cedar creek. On the
) other side of the range, in Idaho, it is de-
l scribed as a little worse than no road at all ;
but Gen. Penrose is not to blame, as his oper-
tions did not extend that far.
Yesterday a wholesale house at Butte ship
, ped seven thousand pounds of groceries and
other supplies to the order of Mr.. Geo. E..
Tarbell, who is about to open a hotel at Lion
= City. The folks of Lion may be showed in
occasionally, or covered up now and then in
the c~Oasting exercises of all avalanche, but
Mr.. Tarbell is determined that they need
take no chances on starving to death.
!, Speaking of the Rev. J. Armstrong; futile
attempt to secure an audience for his lecture
, at Bismarck, the Mddisonian says:
"Brother Armstrong; efforts to raise that
;, church debt do not appear to open very aus
u piciOusly. People East are doubtless too
s shrewd to take much stock in an alleged
Montanian on a begging expedition. He had
better come back and feed his hungering flock
with gospel FOOD
Jerry Fahey, who has spent several days in
Missoula this week, came dow recently from
-. Gibbonville. He informs us that camp has
given employment to some so men this sum-
mer, and the number will be increased to 100
this winter. Placer diggings have been found
q this season and satisfactory results obtained
theretrom. The new Bannack and Skalkaho
mail route will be advantageous to this camp.
1t is but two and a half days ride from Mis-
soula, but, under the old schedule. it took
from eleven to fourteen days to get Il letter
h through.-MissOulidn.
l. To-day is the forty-ninth day of the run
= now being made by the large smeltcr at Glen
II dale. Previous to the int oduction of the
II water jacket hearth, invented last year by
l. Mir. Armstrong, ex-Superintendent of the
h Eecla, such an exploit as a fifty days run
with q water jacket furnace was never heard
OF. Every ten or twelve days with the old
style hearth it was necessary to put out the
fires, let the stack cool down, and have a gen
eral cleaning out, an operation involving con-
o siderable expense besides the great loss OF
II time. With the water jacket hearth it is
s. thought a four-months' lun could be made, il
IS the manager so desired,
The st. Nicholas Hotel closed suddenly
ID yesterday morning, without any previous no
tice whatever. 1t is said the proprietor, Mr.
IL Willard +. Thompson, paid not a dollar tc
10 any of his employees for the period of three
weeks previous to shutting up shop. This
fact, coupled with the circumstance that the
house was kept open until the rush attending
Id the Masonic festivities was well over with
looks as if a job of bilking had been taken il
5 hand and well carried through with. Mr.
It's whereabouts is just now unknown, al
though several anxious creditors about Butte
are quite deeply interested in his movements
If From Wednesdays Daily
Mr.. John Black, whose health has for som,
years past been delicate, left last Sunday TO
~ Arka nsas, 10 pass IA few months ut the iamou
= mineral SnrinUS of that Stota