The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-11
EDITORIAL T

Silver is advancing in the London market.
Japan imports locomotives from Pittsburg
Tom Scott has resigned the presidency Of
the Penfbylvania Central Railroad. Cause,
i'll health. ~ %
Special interpreters are to be employed IN
taking the census of the Chinese in San
Francisco.
At the Yankee Fork mines -four and pota-
toes are worth $40 per hundred, and are very
scarce even at that.
For the fifteen months ending April |,
1880, the Leadville. mines produced bullion
to the value of SIG, 147, 131.
Illinois, with 1922 miles of track, is the
first railroad State in the Union. Next comes
Pennsylvania with 6,027 miles.
A Pennsylvania has invented a velocipede
to run on a railroad track. Thirteen miles
per hour is the average time made.
France and Mexico, which have not been
on friendly terms since the tfasco of poor
Msximilian's "empire,' are shortly to resume
diplomatic relations.
The New York Herald has committed
itself to the support of Sc cretary Sherman
for Tie Presidency. 1t opposes Blaine and
Grant with equal vigor.
The Maine Mining Journal is the title of a
new mining paper lately established at Ban
gor. 1t announces Itself as "devoted to the
mining interests of the State of Maine"
Philadelphia is to have ain elevated railway
in the heart Of the city. or from the Pennsyl-
vania Central depot, in West Philadelphia, to
the corner of Broad and Market streets.
In Ireland the worst seems to be over. The
spring has been favorable, and summer prom
Uses abundant crops for the Emerald Isle, in
Common with the man land of the Cont
nent.
The Skagit Ne,rs, is the name of the new
paper printed for the present at Seattle, W.
T., but which will be removed to the Skaglt
mines within a few weeks. The best way to
reach the new mines is cia Seattle.
The manner in which the arithmetic men
of several leading Republican papers calculate
the chances of their respective favorites in
the Presidential race, is a flat contradiction to
that ancient saw 'sfgures don't lie"
Up to the first inst. thirty county conven-
tions had been held IN Illinois with a result
to be summarized as follows: Whole num-
Der Of delegates elected, 215. Number
pledged to Blaine, lib; to Ora mt, 95 Wash
burne, 7.
SO great is the interest taken in New Yolk
State in fish culture, that the Erie line not
only carries free, fish intended for stocking
streams, but the trains even stop at the stream
crossings, to allow the living freight to be
discharged, without danger of accident at the
point where it is needed.
The First National Bank of Fort Benton
has been organized, says the Record, with a
capital of 100000. The officers Of the bank
are-President, W. G.. Conrad Vice-Presi-
dent, Jos. H. Hill Cashier, E. G.. Maclay-
gentlemen well known throughout the bust
ness and financial circles in the North-West .
According to the New York World the
Ohio adherents of Blaine and Sherman hate
one another SO cordially that either faction,
finding the success of its favorite impossible,
will be eager to vote for Grant for the sake of
defeating the candidate Of their rivals. This
~insures for Grant the support of one wing or
the other of the Ohio Republicans.
In Colorado parties of prospectors are in.
vading the Ute country, and Chief uray calls
for troops to prevent an outbreak. If the
Gunnison country fuitils its promises of min
eral wealth, Ouray, the troops, and all others
concerned, need give themselves no further
trouble about the matter. The irlepressible
prospectors will .'get there sooner or later
chances decidedly in favor Of "sooner.'' The
less effort made to check them the less treasure
and fewer lives wasted.
The steady increase of immigration at the
t port of New York continues. On Saturday
r the arrivals at Castle Garden numbered 3,342
: which made the months arrivals to date 33,
= S52. The largest months arrivals thus far in
, the history of the port was that for April
1878. It now appears certain that the tota
arrivals for this month will eclipse the recort
' of 1873. 1t is very evident that a tide of i'm
, migration has now fairly begun which il
bound to equal, If not surpass, the most san
guine expectations. The result will be tt
> place in a vivid light the governmental poll
, tics of the European states. The rates o
taxation necessary for the support of TIT
> enormous standing armies of the continen
cannot fail, when the wolk of depopulatiol
, shall have reached the maximum, to brin:
curses loud aid deep upon the heads of thos
who are Immediately responsible for tn
present condition of affairs.-Bradstreet,s