The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-08-19
Local News.
THE NEXT CHAPTER,
what it Will Tell for Butte and for MOI
t0Ma.

Those OF our readers WHO are in the habit
OF ind:lsins in the mild literary dissipation
of novel reading understand full well the
painfully intense interest in which they are
LETT when the serial story, after playing upon
their sympatl'les by appealing to their hero
ism or a~rousing their ang r, suddenly breaks
oil at the point where the DER true tale'is most
thrillingly exciting. Breathlcssly they have
followed the struggle of the imp" ssiblc hero
inc, whose wisdom and toltilu,le only iM-
crease US the occasion for the exercise Of
those qualities becomes more and more ur-
gent. Angrily they have watched the covert
proceedings Of the ~'villain Mowbray," whose
powerful hut evil mind is bent upon the ac-
complishment Of one oSject-the ruin OF the
said interesting heroine but at last, just lis
the villain is on the point Of concentrating
his fell designs, comes the aggravAting ITO be
continued" Informing the literary Tan,alus
that the wisled-fur draught cannot yet lie
reached by the parcleI, feverish lips. All
novel readers are familiar with the exper-
fence, but it may not occur to lis that just now
III real life We have reached the point in the
mining history If Montana where the story
III breaking of fur a little while possesses
more than the dramatic interest Ut the most
powerfully written novel. 1t breaks up in
the 'to be continued" style peculiar to the
novel, but with this difference, that whereas
wise and virtuous heroine is always certain
to come out victorious in the end, and that
the villain is always sure OF his merited pun
isllment in the end, or serial leave. us in
real doubt, in posi- i've unceltaimt, AS to " hat
the revelations in the next chapter are to be.
And we ourselves are the characters who are
to take part in the ensuing chapter. IL is our
fate that is staked on the denouemcnt.
The opening chapters Of the pleasantly en-
citing history OF Montana's mining develops
mcnt are told IN a thOusana tunnels, shafts
and levels, by which the most hidden recesses
of our treasure-bearing hills have been penc-
trated and their secrets revealed to the world.
Thus far the Investigations have been Of 50
superficial a nature Chat they may we'll be
compared to the introductory pages of his
tory, the real body of the work being yet to
follow. But we are now at the point where
the preface ends and the main work begins.
The first chapter OF deep mining in Montana
is about to BE- opened to the public. What
will be its contents? Time, a very short time
will tell. What will he their effect? Accord
ing to their nature the effect they will imne-
uiately exert will range on the one hand from
the rapid spriuging up of Montana into IA
great mining State. to q period OF uneXam-
| pied mining Encouragement and depression
or the other. One or the other will be the
tale told by our mining serial when the next
chapter opens with the cutting OF the Rain
bow lode, within a few weeks, 400 feet below
water line. Let the Rainbow be ound as
rich OF that level AS it has already been found
to he at 800 feet, and one, two, three, for GER
tain and we will not attempt to say how many
more lodes will Immediately be opened for
deep mining. Besides this it is generally I'M
Icrstood that at least two Of our large mines
" | forthwith be placed on the New York
market, Il proceeding that will not fail imme-
diately to draw the attention Of Eastern oper
ators to this point. On the other hand should
the Rainbow prove barren on the 800 foot
level we need not expect any other company
to undertake at an early day the costly work
of sinking deep below the water line. This
is what the developments Of the next few
weeks contain for Butte. Have we not rea.
son to look forward to them with even II
greater intensity of interest than that excited
by the most thrilling pages of fiction.
Pc rSOA0l Matter.