The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-11
MINOR ri
From Tuesdays Daily.l

The ~freighting season has fairy begun.
Main street was crowded with prairie schoon-
ers yesterday morning. ... "
The DAILY MINER will soon be enlarged
and otherwise improved. We are bound to
keep up even with our town, be it ever SO
progressive.
Eastern mining journals copy extensively
from the MINER, and are doing much towards
spreading reliable information concerning
Montana mines.
Mr.. D.. Todd, surgeon dentist, has opened
an office on west Granite street, across the
way from the premises occupied by Drs.
M%ussigbrod & Johnston.
The mining season i'll the placers about
Butte opened yesterday, when work was
started up on the hydraulic claims immedi-
ately south of town. AS yet operations are
confined to ground-sluicing, but piping will
begin in the ours of two or three DAYS.
Virginia City must be a nice place for a
quiet young man with matrimonial intentions
to select as a place of residence. According
to the Madisonian they treat a fellow to a
chararari concert over there just for going to
see his girl. Only that-and nothing more.
Last week Lieut.. Cook started from Bitter
Root valley with ten wagons loaded with sup
plies for Fort Shaw. The passage of the
Hellgate Canon was made without trouble,
but a greater obstacle was encountered in the
Flint Creek hills. Upon reaching that range
the train was obliged to turn back to Bear
mouth, the drifts in the gulches and ravines
throughout the range being still too deep for
loaded teams.
Mr.. Chauncey Barbour, ex editor of the
M%issoulian, and a gentleman widely known
throughout western and central Montana,
arrived in Butte last evening from San Fran
} cisco. Our readers will be pleased to learn
that Mr.. Barbour has already grown tired of
playing truant and that hereafter he intends
keeping his place in the ranks among those
who were his classmates in that rugged school
the pldcer-miEing era of Montana.
During a recent visit to the East, the owner of
the Stevens mine must have found something,
As a general thing Montanians on returning
from a tour to Pilgrim Land are more than
ever satisfied with their Mountain home, but
with Mr.. Stinson it is otherwise; yes rather.
T Last fall after continuous residence at Butte
of fourteen years he went East for the winter,
and returning he remains with us only a couple
ofweeks until he is off again, taking his de-
parture yesterday morning for the Buck Eye
State. Heretofore Mr.. S. has not only been
a member IN good standing, but has even
been looked upon as a pillar of strength in
the ancient and honorable Society Of Old
Bachelors, but now-well, we await develop
ments.
From Wednesdays Daily.)
The city water pipes were being repaired
yesterday.
dow, is a photograph.
Tie Utah & Northern surveying party were
engaged yesterday in making a trial survey
from Butte towards Helena riq the Park.
In Judge Barret's court yesterday a man
named Savage was tried on a charge of assault
and battery, and was fined $40 and costs.
Prospectors are leaving Butte almost daily
for the Boulder country. 1t is yet early in
tie season to camp out, but they believe i'll the
''early bird" theory, and propose to be first
on the ground.
Some fellow. a few nights ago, cnt tie rope
in IA we'll on upper Main street, letting the
bucket fall to the bottom. If lit 5 ecu, in
the act again, efforts will be made to induce
him to follow the bucket.
We beg to direct public attention to the
business card of Miss Maggie A. Bowling,
which appears IN another col mn. The lady
comes highly recommended, and will be found
all adept in the dressmaking line.
(From Thursdays Daily.)
The navigation OF the Missouri will shortly
be opened though at the present time the
water is quite low.
The Union Pacific Express Company Will
ship to day nineteen bars of Algonquin bull
lion valued at ST. ZOO.
One of the novelties of the season yester-
day was a man mailing up screen doors in Il
binding snow storm.
Butte is the only mining camp in the world
in which mines have to be shut Down for
lack Of milling facilities.
Grading for the new 4O-stamp Alice mill
continues to be actively prosecuted and the
work OF construction will begin at the earlies
practicable moment.
At the Colorado smelter yestel day teams
were loaded for the terminus with silver
conner matte. of which fuiIv Si25 600 worth
has accumulated during The past few months
1t is not considered likely that the criminal
docket Of The Second Distinct CONT will be