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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-10-12

In response to Commissioner Williamson's
call for a convention of surveyors general to
be held in this city, it is expected a large and
very general attendance of the surveyors gen.
eral of the different states and territories will
meet the commissioner. Already a number
of the gentlemen have arrived and are dumi-
ciled, chiefly at the Walker House. The
work of the convention will doubtless be pro-
ductive of some important results, and the
subject of our land and mining interests faith
fully canvassed. The convocation will be
notable in bringing together a body of men
representing nearly every state and territory
in the west, and who are known to be well
versed in the subjects which call them togeth-
er. Following are the names of those who,
with the exception of Leroy d.. Ball, of Tai
lahassee, Florida, are expected to be present
at tile conyocatlon:
Jacob II. Stewart, st. Paul, Minnesota;
Henry Esperson, Yankton, Dakota; Albert
johnson, Denver, Colorado; VIM. p. Chan
der, Boise City, idaho; Theo. Wagner, San
Francisco, California; E. S. Davis, Virginia
City, Nevada; Ii. NJ. Atkinson, Santa Fee,
New Mexico; James G.. Tolman, Portland,
Oregon; VIM. McMicken, Olympia, Washing
ton territory; George s. Smith, Plattsmotb,
Nebraska; X. III. Mason, Helena, Montana;
Fred. Solomon, Salt Lake. Utah; John Mas
son, Tucson, Arizona; o. H.. Brewster, New
Orleans, Louisiana; Edward c. David, Chey.
enne, Wy ming.--SaH Lake Tribune.
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HANCOCK WILL p

As will be seen by the press reports this
morning, General Hancock has not yet seen
fit to reply to the demagogic attack of ex-
President Grant, though he expresses his in
tcntion of framing an answer to be presented
to the people at a proper time. The demo-
cratic nominee is evidently in no wise discon-
certed by Grants low imputation of d~isloyal-
ty. He is only grieved that a brother officer,
the commander of the United States forces
in a memorable war, and a man for whom
until lately even his political enemies enter
tanned the deepest respect, should so demean
himself as to descend into the lowest depths
of partizan scurrility. But General Hancock
owes it to himself and to the country to re-
flute the insinuaJions of his former commander.
well understood thoughthey are by the masses
OF the people to be totally without foundation
and to have emanated from a mind diseased
by bitter political humiliation. But Han
cocks disloyalty is a straw which will never
hoat the drowning republican party to the
bank of the river Styx, in the middle of
which they are now louhdering In such hope
less confusion. Hancock's name is every
where a tower of st. ength among loyal citi-
zens, and we doubt really whether there is
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MeagheF County.
IHuSbandman.l

[Husbandman.1
We learn from William Luppold, who is
engaged in the roundup, that destructive
fires have occurred IN the region ofa Sixteen
Mile creek, and that much range has been de-
stroyed.
VIM. O'Neil arrived from the Baker min
ing district Sunday last. He reports things
rushing in the new Eldorado. A train from
Benton had arrived and 80 tons of ore were
being loaded. House building in the two
villages OF the camp was progressing lively
and new finds were being made nearly every
day.
Oscar Stevens this week sold his half inter-
est in the flock of 5000 wethers driven in this
summer, to Burt IL Klein at $3.50 per head,
and has formed a co-partnership with Phil
lips g. Cans, late of New York, for the pur-
pose of investing $4,000 in sheep this fall, in
Oregon or California for a drive up next sea-
son. Mr.. Stephens will start in a few days
to make the purchase.
A. J. Meyers, a cattle king of Bohemian,
who has been in the valley for some DAYS
purchasing beef cattle, made the springs a
brief call this week. He will drive out about
400 head. He pays $27 for four-year-olds,
$24 for threes and $40 for twos. His purchas.
es have been confined principally to four-yeal
olds.
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Maginnls i'm Meas her County.

The Rocky Mountain Husbandman, indie
pendent, speaks as follows of Major Magin-
MIS- expected arrival in Meagher county:
Hon. Martin Maginnis, Montana's most
worthy and efficient delegate in congress was
to have visited the Springs on Wednesday
night, but being compelled to 60 to press be-
fore that date we are unable to give a report
Of the OCCASION. But undoubtedly he will re-
ceive a most enthusiastic welcome, not only
at White Sulphur Springs, but all over
Meagher county, as we'll as the rest of Mon
tana, for while he has been faithful to Mon
tana he has been especially subservient to the
interests of Meagher county; and the people,
without regard to party, are proud to hail and
welcome the chief who has accomplished so
much for them. The grandest rally White
Sulphur Springs has ever known was anticl-
pated.
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Salmon River Notes.
Herald, Oct. 81

Herald, Oct. 81
Work is driving ahead on the Custer mill.
1t is expected that everything will be in run
ming order by the Goth of November.
A shipment of 1890 pounds of second
class ore was made from the Montana on
Wednesday last, per pack train, to the Bay
Horse reduction works.
A nugget weighing nearly three ounces
was taken from Morrison's placer ground up
Jordan, one day this week. The lessees are
making a good thing of it, and can work the
ground all winter.
Twenty tons of ore were knocked down at
one blast on the Custer mine one day last
week. Two pounds only of giant powder
were required to do the work. From so to
80 tons of high-grade ore were displaced by
four men in ten hours.
The new hosting works on the Montana
are nearly completed. The mine is now in
perfect shape for the easy and rapid extraction
Of ore. A new opening is being made on the
vein over 500 feet east of the present work
ings, showing a fine quality of quartz.
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The commercial convention in session at
Boston a few days ago adopted a resolution
recommending congress to revive the law of
1877 forbidding any foreign ship to bring any
cargo to the United States except from a port
of the country to which the ship belonged.
More protection.
The fame Of Christopher Columbus sinks
into ridiculous insignificance when compared
with that of the astute politician who has
discovered that "a years ago, as the dispatches
inform us, VIM. H. English was found guilty
of robbing his grandmother. This should be
termed the age of political mares nests.
Smoothbore Cannon has been renominated
by the Mormons for delegate to Congress.
The platform consists of eight words, and
demands "the largest liberty for all men and
women," which means license to violate the
constitutional avs of the land by the prac-
tice of that most abominable of all crimes
polygamy.
The Benton Record, in an artic lie on tn
Helena Herald, makes a few plain statements
which will furnish the proprietors Of the lat
te- journal with grounds for a very promising
suit for defamation of character-unless,e
indeed, they prefer to have it generally I'M
derstood that they have no character to be
DETAINED.
The imitation has been or is being very rap
idly taken out of the Leadville mines. The
Spectators have moved values both UP and
down, but there is for the present, at least,
but little chance for a movement either way.
The mines will now probably be worked tor
legitimate results, and any change in the prl-
ces OF stocks is likely to be, as a rule, for the
better.
Gen. Harris NJ. Plaisted, the recently-elect-
ed governor of Maine, was born in Jefferson,
N. H., Nov. 2, 1928. He graduated at the
Albany Law School in 1856, when he was ad-
mitted to the bar, and began the practice OF
law in Bangor in 1856. He served in the
Union army throughout the war as colonel OF
the 18th Maine Volunteers, and received at
its close the brevet of major-general.
The passengers by the steamer Leasing, on
her last trip to this country, about three days
before her arrival in New York, passed a tree
standing as erect in the ocean as 1t ever stood
on land. 1t was judged to be about 10 feet
out of the water, with stumps and branches
extending a foot or two from the trunk. Its
erect position might have been due to the
cliRging of mussels or heavy shellfsh to its
roots-at all events it was a strange spectacle
in mid-ocoan. The tree had been strippe,
of its bark entirely, but the ends of various
branches remained still with the trunk. Ii is
possible that the strange and lonesome tray,
eier had been Sc. afioat by some of the WesI
India hurricanes of several weeks previous.
w. r.. Wood, of Beaverhead county, this
week purchased of Messrs. Story q Lee five
hundred head of horses. The pa,ties started
over to the Yellowstone on Tuesday TO select
the animals cut of the extensive herd.
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I~-S W
trouble himself to frame the proposed reply
to q SANDER originating with a man under
whose administration all the corruptions and
abuses of the past century reached their cul.
minating point. Yet we believe that General
Hancock is too proud of his unsullied record
ITO allow the republican calurnny against his
past conduct to go uncontradicted or to be
swallowed even by the most deluded and ig.
norant of his political foes, though well aware,
as he must be, that among the intelligence Of
neither party does he need any vindication,
From information published yesterday
in the New York Eveaing Express, concern
ing which a dispatch appears in another col
umn, the forthcoming reply of Hancock will
be greatly strengthened by a discovery re-
Gently made, and for the first time announced
in that journal. It is to the effect that before
General Grant was placed in command of the
Army of the Potomac, that exalted and re-
| sponsible position was first rendered to the
eminent soldier and tried patriot who is now
the democratic nominee for the presidency.
"W ,ll," says some crestfallen republican,
W hdO uoCo tu0V pioSCs ohu IL UCoiihS hdo
That circumstance on Hancock's action in
New Orleans" Simply this: 1t shows that
President Lincoln had more faith in the pop
ularity, patriotism, military skill and genius of
General Hancock than of General Grant ; that
he preferred to trust the destiny of the nation
in the hands of the Gettysburg hero rather
than in those of the man who is now engaged
In the attempt to defame and belittle his
achievements in the south when he was
known to be exerting all his energies to bring
order out of chaos at New Orleans and to
prepare the south for a recovery from the mis-
fortunes into which its errors had plunged it.
If the report concerning the martyred Pres
ident's preference for Hancock shall be sub
stantiated by the documentary evidence said
to be in existence; if it can be shown that
Lincoln held Hancock's military ability and
loyalty in higher esteem than he did those of
U. S. Grant, the late exhibition of the latter's
render the exhibitor more thar ever ridicu-
lous in the eyes of his fellow countrymen,
and he will have mournful occasion to wish
thai he had continued to deserve the name
of the "Silent Man. Lincoln holds too high
a place in the affections of the American peo-
pie for Grant to hope successfully to prove
that Lincoln's faith in Hancock, as shown in
the offer to him of the command of the army
on whose success the life of the nation de-
pended, was based on anything but the most
thorough investigation and correct estimate
of his character as a soldier and patriot.
Grants lately developed gabbiositv will yet
result in the ele ction of the democratic call-
didate for the presidency, and if he still cher
ishes the forlorn hope for 1884, he will find it
immensely to his advantage to start on anoth-
er tour around the world, without any fur
Their exhibition of his qualities as a fifth-rate
ward politician.
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In Meagher county the settlers of Smith
the Belt range have petitioned for a removal
Of the county seat from Diamond City to
white Sulphur Springs. As a couuter move
in opposition to this project the people of the
Missouri Valley are ready to petition the leg
islaLure in favor of attaching the western
half of Meagher to Jefferson county in case
the county seat be removed.
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d Market Repo,
BUTTE. Sent. "a

BUTTE, Sept. %.
The following are the wholesaI
paid by merchants and hotel keeper
commodities enumerated, delivered
wagon. Price list carefully correcte
Monday
Flour, Ruby Valley, xxx, $500
Mill Creek, XXXX, $500
Graham, $3.75.
Wheat, per h., 8 cents, fair demand
Oats, per h., "a cents, in demand,
Butter, per h., so cents.
Eggs, per dozen, SO cents.
Corn meal, s to 7 cents.
Beef, on foot, &C.
= "Beets, 8 cents. ~
Hay per ton, $22.5O; in demand, \
Fresh fish, 20 cents per pound.
Cheese, 10 to Is scents.
Barley, So SO to PTS per hundred
Dried beans, Montana, I cts.
Mutton, 6 cents per pound.
Pork, dressed, II cents per pound, |
Veal, 6 cents per pound.
Spring Chickens, $3.50 per dozen
Wood, 81 to 81 so per cord.
Rutabagas, &c.
Potatoes, 2ac.
Summer squash, 4 cts.
Tomatoes, 20 cents per pound.
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REPUB LICAN TICKET.

For Delegate to Congress,
WILBUR F. SANDERS.
Fer District Attorney,
F T MCBRIDE.
For Joint Councilmen,
CHARLES T MEADER,
HIRAM KNOWLES,
GEORGE M BROWN,
FRANK l. WORDEN,
Fol Representatives,
CHARLES s WARREN,
JOHN BELL,
GEORGE w IRVINE, II,
GEORGE w MORSE,
JAMES K PARDEE,
DAVID JOHNS,
For Sheriff,
DAVID N UPTON,
For Clerk and Recorder,
Al WITTER,
For Assessor,
GEORGE W JONES,
For Treasurer,
LEW COLEMAN,
Fer Probate Judge,
ORREN EMERSON,
Fer County Commissioner.
WILLIAM NJ JACK,
For County Surveyor,
KELLOGG,
For Superintendent of Public Instructit
L EsHoLMEs,
For Coroner,
M HAINEs,
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oUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
news Notes From h naslon.l Capital

Editor Butte MINER.
As the Ohio and Indiana elections approach
the campaign stories become more and more
exaggerated. One is to the effect that the
sum of S950,O00 is to be expended by one
party in those states before Oct. 1. Another
is that Garfield is to withdraw from the re-.
publican ticket and Grant succeed HIM, and
another that English is to be forced off the
democratic ticket. People of common sense
know all these stores are nonsense, and il
puzzles one to understand why they are Gin.
culated.
The trip of Sec. Evarts to New York for
the purpose of speaking on the political cues
ton is a notable event in the campaign. The
Secretary probably secures a better audience
when he speaks on political subjects than any
other American, partly because he never
speaks without having something to say, and
saying it well, and partly because he SO sell
dom takes part in campaigns. 1t is claimed
by democrats here that his speech of last
evening was not up to his usual standard, and
that he added no new ideas to the campaign.
l find the current belief here to be that In
diana will elect the democratic nominees In
October, and that Ohio will be republican,
and that in both cases the vste will be so close
as to leave a chance for contest over the pres
idential election in both states.
1t seems now that the valuables lately
found to have been stolen from the treasury,
to the amount of $1,000, were not the prop
erty of decease soldiers, but were parts of an
irregular fund, for which no official was legal
ly respons. bic, and Of which the ownership
was not known. The effects or property of
deceased soldiers, except such as have been
turned over, on application, to heirs, are safe
in the treasury.
A London newspaper of recent date says:
''There is something refreshingIy economical
about the management of the United States
consulate at St. Petersburg. The vi%ce.consul
general, Mr.. Hutton, is the head of the sew
ing machine firm of Hutton Il Co., one of
the largest business establishments of Rus
STA. The shop of this company serve s as the
consular establishment, and the shopmen as
consular officials. As regards consular affairs,
Consul-Gencral Hutton is at home in the
shop from II to 1; as regards the affairs of the
shop, he is ready to point out the virtues of
his excellent sewing machines from 9 in the
morning until 9 at night"
While Senator Bruce was delivering a
speech at a republican meeting in Indiana the
other day, one of the audience lnterrogated
with the question:
"What about Ben Butler?"
The Senator replied:
"Slr, I entertain only the klndest feelings
toward Gen. Butler. I am a republican of the
stalwart sort, but 1 cannot and will not abuse
Butler" WILLIS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 80.
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We were reliably informed yesterday, by an
officer stationed at Fort Missoula, that the re-
port recently circulated in Butte, to The effect
that Paymaster Blaine was robbed of govern.
ment money by four desperadoes, whotempo.
rarily made their escape into Idaho, where
they were captured, is totally without foun.
dation, and if not that MAJOR Blaine has no
knowledge ofthe circumstance.
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A New Gold Discovery.

We learn through Messrs. T. G. Power and
j.: ii. Mcknight that new placer and quartz
discoveries have recently been made in
Meagher county, about five or six miles from
Fort Maginnis. The new mines are located
in what is called Maiden gulch. The gentle
men named had some gold from the new dig
gings which assayed nearly 900 fine. Tie
extent of the mines, either as to the quartz or
placers, is not yet known, but the discovery
gives promise of being an important one
Independent.
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"The American Primary" an article APP
honored with a position in the political de-
partment of the "Industrial, Commercial
and Financial Index to Current Publica-
TONS" This index is regularly published by
Bullion, an ably edited New York journal,
devsied to mining and to the discussion of
such political questions as have a direct bear
ing on mining.
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Trying 4,

rmCAGO, Oct.
campaign in
Fser memorial.
llt IN these state
es The h of
\ nut the chars
have so far /
Soie evidence,
made AGAR
|iham and Fler
|cal trickery, an
fMselves match
81 by Filley, of
Fer and ConkI
N their aid to il
Fhe Fowler int
| Produced a vel
\ done much to
uncertain. voter
from Hancock
White House.
democracy whe.
setfulness OF hi
general and 1,
to serve
alsiana by the
re so laid bare
v that eyery5ot
ice, and Hanco
exposure and |
task Of All
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oo''lhs' wno' 1t viii be remembered, was
arrested some time ago for breaking into the
Banner chop house and stealing some pre-
visions and kitchen utensils, was dismissed,
as the owner of the stolen property could not
be identified. He was at once raarrsstod
charged with an attempt to break Jail in Deer
Lodge.
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GRllatiaC County.
BOzeman COurier.1

IBOZeman COurler.J
Fire Warden Clark is collecting funds from
our Main street business men for the purpose
of purchasing suitable ladders and buckets to
be used in case OF fires.
Mr.. Whetherel, engineer of the Rocky
Mountain division ofthe N. p. railroad, came
in on Sunday from a tour Of inspection
through the mountains of Sixteen-Mile, and
Bridger and Flathead passes. He started to
Shields river over the Bozeman pass on Tues
day.
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For the Council F. C. Ives.
For representative, H. Chambers.
For Joint Representative, VIM. d. Davis.
For Sheriff and Assessor, Joseph Marion.
For Treasurer. Thomas Williams.
For Probate Judge and Recorder, W. j. Ste
phens.
For County Commissioners. Moses Chambers
and III. Bell,
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For District Attorney, A. E. Mayhem.
For Councilman, Joseph A. Browne.
For Representative, J.E Rodgers.
For Joint Representative, VIM. ID. Davis.
For Sheriff and Assessor, Orville W.. w. Rote
For Clerk. Recorder and Probate Judge, A. E.
Graeter.
For County Treasurer and School Superinten-
dent, VIM. Shineberger.
Fer Count Commissioner, Philip Lowell.
For County Coroner, VIM. r. Wright.
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DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL TICKET.
or Delegate to Congress,
MARTIN MAGINNIS.

BEER LODGE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC TICKET
For the Council,
A H MITCHELL,
E ID AIKEN,
j A BROWNE,
F & Ives.
For District Attorney,
A E MAYHEM.
Fer the House,
STEPHEN DEWoLF,
CRIsTIAN B. HousER,
RICHARD s. JONES,
ROBERT G.. HUMBER,
STERET HIGGINS,
ISRAEL GLEN.
For County Commissioner,
RoLLA BUTCHER,
For Sheriff,
Lou P: SMITH.
Fol- Treasurer,
THOMAS H. IRVINE.
For Clerk and Recorder,
JAMES s. MCANDREws,
For Assessor,
JAMES B. McMAsTBR.
For Probate Judge,
CALEB E. IRVINE.
For Coroner,
THOMAS STRANG.
For Sup't. Of Public Instruction,
C.. Z. HARDENBROOK
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W. F. Wood, of Beaverlead county, this
week purchased of Messrs. Story & Lee five
hundred head OF horses. The pa,iies started
oyer TO the on Tuesday TO select
the animals cut of the extensive herd.
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LIST OF

vertised Oct. 8, 1880. nu''e' anu al
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Fresh Cranberl

The first shipment of the seaso
oc5 by LEE W.