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

officer. His re.appointment would give
general satisfaction. y @A9
E The wire has not forgotten its old habits of
failing us at the critical moment when a
question Of great public interest is about to be
decided. just as the delegates to the Chicago
convention are being selected, and when We
might expect news which might enable us to
forecast the choice to be made by that body,
comes the old report, "wires down. leaving
us to possess our souls in Impotence as best.
we may until the break is repaired. The line
worked yesterday for a few minutes then
went to grass somewhere betw cen Deer Lodge
and Helena. ... ..-.. 3,
Petitions TO Congress, protesting against the
square location law are being prepared and
will soon be circulated throughout Montana
fo- signatures. Square locations will do very
well for placers, or for quartz districts in
which the ore bodies are ~"amorphous;' or
where ore occurs in horizontal lodges. But
to attempt to introduce any such system into
a di strict like the Summit Valley, with its
almost countless lodes, all pitching at a greater
or less angle with the perpendicular, would
introduce dire confusion and cause endless
litigation. Every Montana miner should
make a point of signing the petition protest.
ing against the proposed innovation.
From Saturdays Daily.l
The Phillpsburg mail now comes through
or horseback.
Mr.. II. D'Acheul is putting up a handsome
residence pAap tho r q rray rnope;o,
The coach which left Helena for Butte on
Sunday via the Park did not arrive here until
Thursday night.
Our newsy and able contemporary, the Nec
North Vest, appears this week restored to its
former dimensions.
kemper Bros. yesterday brought to market
from their hot house the first garden veseta-
bles of the season. The radishes were partic-
ularly fine looking.
During the past winter Walton & Bielen-
berg, and ~Bielenberg & Dovenspeck lost 1000
sheep out Of a total of $4,000 feeding in the
Deer Lodge valley.
There are indications of an abundant lum-
Der supply during the coming season, as sew
eral new saw mills will be started to meet
the constantly increasing demand.
During the absence in the East of Mr.. Del.
linger, the hardware merchant, his business
will be managed by Mr.. Joseph A. Hyde,
until lately in partnership with Mr.. Dellinger.
The terminus has not yet been moved to
Red Rock, and at Beaver Canon it is said the
people are so hot about the delay that all the
snow has been melted off the hills for miles
around.
On Thursday two prisoners were sent to
Deer Lodge on commitment of Judge Barret.
One was found guilty of stealing a saw and
ak the ofiense of the other was assault and
battery.
Some enterprising eastern journal has
located the island of St. Helena in this Ter
ritory, and a paragraph credited to Tie "St.
Helena (Montana) Star,"is going the rounds
of the press.
That retrospective Old myth, " the oldest
inllabitant,' says that this is the longest win
ter on record and that in all probability the
Fourth Of July will not come until about
next Christmas.
Mr.. Addison Smith, in an interesting letter
to the Independent, terminates his connection
with that journal in n very fearful strain.
gentleman has made an excellent cores
pondent and our contemporary sustains quite
a loss in his embarkatIon in another bust
ness.
We were yesterday shown some very rich
specimens of silver ore taken from the Ansel-
mine, The shaft has now attained a
depth of eighty-siN feet, and a two-foot body
of ore is being extracted assaying very high.
The rock exhibited shows considerable native
and wire silver.
Seven men lett Butte yesterday to reinforce
the party in possession of the Trout mine.
are expected to arrive at the scene of
from Glendale and Jefferson val
lev, and it is likely that no fewer than sixty
men will be OH the ground within a few days
prepared to defend it with their lives.
In yesterdays account of the Philipsburg
trouble we inadvertently committed a blunder
in stating that Caplice & Co. was the firm
in difficulty with the miners con-
corning the possession of the Trout mine.
We should have said Caplice q Smith, the
Philipsburg firm, quite distinct from Caplice
& Go. of Butte.
Sunday the 10th inst. promises to be a gala
day among the sports. Besides the great fifty
mile contest, upon which already much money
has been wagered, there will be in all proba-
bility several other horse races, a foot race
two noted flyers, and if possible a
base ball match SO that the large crowd sure
10 be in attendance will be treated to a day of
amusement.