The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-06-15
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TUESDAY, JUNE Is, 1880.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Ireland is calling for further relief.

Ireland is calling for further relief.
Lucy Larcom was once a Lowell factory
girl, and is not ashamed of it, either.
It ,oas George Eliot, the novelist, that mar
ried Cross, and not the legal widow of the
departed Lewes, as a second report had it.
The flood at Fort Benton was caused by an
unusually heavy rain, not by the overflow Of
the Missouri, as at first reported. The dam
age to property was slight.
The iron beak, or ram, of the Merrimac,
sunk In Hampton Roads in the memorable
contest with the Monitor, is one of lllo sights
at Baltimore, Md. A deep indentation shows
where a shot from the little cheese box "
took effect.
On the subject of "Quixotic Dreams of
Mining" a California paper, among other
impracticable theories and plans, mentions
the "sucker boats which were to navigate the
river and run their elephant-like sucker over
the bottom aud draw up the gold" "The
wrecks of these boats,' it adds, "line the
river for some distance below Oroville."
Sucker boats of this description have been
suggested for river mining in Montana, but
only sucker miners have ever taken the least
stock in the idea.
The danger pointed out by the MINER over
a month ago, and which must have been per-
ceived by everyone familiar with the peculi-
arities of our Montana climate, is now at
hand. As will be seen from the dispatch
published elsewhere, the Missouri has over
flowed its banks and Fort Benton is flooded.
Considering that last winters Snowfall was
at least twice the average in quantity, and
that the extraordinary backwardness of the
season was preventing this snow from melt
ing-was holding it back so that it must all
pass off in the jun rise, instead of the three
periods of high water experienced in ordina-
ry years, it was easy enough to see that a
spring food of extraordinary magnitude had
to be provided against. In pointing out the
danger we did what we could towards putting
our readers on their guard against it. The
fate of the river bridges from the upper cross
ing to Mlssoula will soon show whether or
not the warning was needed.
Where combination is possible, competition
is impolitic, the accepted maxim of railroad
magnatss, was exemplifed a few days ago.
when the control of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Line passed under the control of Jay
Gould and the party he represents. This line
of steamers, operating in connection with the
Panama Railroad, has all along been the only
c----.llD. .s-ns " Al, Observation-Disclosures
railway lines in which Gould has 80 largely
invested. Formerly offer of compromise
partaking something of the nature of a bride
the promise of a certain amount of freight
per month AID q royalty on each through
passenger on the L. P. and e. 2. lines
made the steamship line, but the agreements
thus entered into were never observed in good
faith. At last the railroad men decided that
the cheapest way to dispose of the opposition
would be to capture the Panama line, and this
they did by getting enough stock to give
them control of its management. The Pa.
cific coast will be apt to feel the effect of this
combination.
Seymour and Hendricks would make the
w - away "itu IN ItiLS ilcAI
November. Seymour would be sure to
carry Now York, while Hendricks, is entitled
to consider the vote of his State as his private
property, SO sure is it that it would be given
him Hendricks has been a soft money man,
it is true, but that sclism has had its day and
is no longer to be feared, while the idea of
ignoring the claims of a prominent man by
way Of punishing him for pat political
errors, will not always do 10 follow cut
strictly. Seymour AMI Hendricks E0lli
make a winning ticket, and victory, provided
it involves no sacrifice Of principle, is the
main consideration st now. At Cincinnati
if through guidance of wise c~ounsels the choice
should fall on Seymour for president and IIend
ricks for vice-president then our republican
friends at present in power, may is we'll follow
the example set them by Crockec!'s historic
coon. That sagacious animal, Insight of there
doubtable hunter, team" down righ' away
without causing any UNNECESSARY waste Of
ammunition.
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