The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-23
NEWS.
atlantis, March 14.1

..... SD b. e. lAtAantIs, NdTCal ISL
Numerous signs of b~loodspilling this week,
but none spilled. -..el ~. .
Sickness is prevailing to a considerable
extent throughout the country, and particu-
larry among children. ~.
Mr.. Frank Gig has been adding improve
ments to his bre very, until lie has the incest
the territory.
The warning given by the Atlantis last
week was not without effect. All suspicious
characters will be given due notice that they
are such, and that their departure will result
in the saving of rope. .
The Madisonian says Mr.. Freeman asserts
that the statement published in the Atldntis
some time ago, to the effect that Mr.. Freeman
had nothing whatever to do with this paper, is
a mistake. We say again that Mr.. Freeman,
further than receiving rental for the material
in this office, has nothing to do with this
paper.
Yellowstone Journal, March 6.l
Grass is looking green in all our valleys.
Most of the soldiers soon to be discharged
intend locating right here.
A number of bands of Indians are roaming
around the country. What the extent OF
their depredations will be is a matter of con-
lecture.
Our supply of soap has followed the lead of
coal oil and exhausted itself, washed itself
away. Hereafter, until more arrives, we will
be an unwashed community.
Most of the buffalo hunters have suspended
skinning operations and are now drying the
hides and saving the meat. They have plenty
OF clear grit, and we hope all will make a
lucrative clean up.
Postmaster Savage is getting together a fine
collection of animals heads which be proposes
to send to friends in the States. Yesterday
he succeeded in securing the largest mountain
sleeps head ever seen. The horns measured
eighteen inches at the base and over three
feet Oh the curve.
(Madisonian, March 49,
DR.. j. D. Head has resumed operations OH
the Elfida mine, near the city. The Elhida
promises to be one Of the best paying lodes
in the county, and the Doctor intends to
thoroughly develop its wealth.
The farmers along the valley are making
preparations for a big seasons work. 1t will
take lots of grub to supply the popl lation of
Montana next year, and they Intend 10 furnish
their share of it, d. V.
lie Roy Southmayd is making extensive adj
ditlons and alterations in the handsome prop
erty which he recently purchased from VIM.
Thompson. He will make it one of the finest
residences IN The city before he gets through
with his improvements.
On Wednesday night, or ea1ly Thursday
morning, some rascal broke a pane of glass
in the window of the New York store, and
stole theretrom a number of pistols, handker-
chiefs, etc, valued at about seventy dollars.
No clue has yet been obtained to the robbers.
1t is rumored in the city that a big strike
has been made in the Orc Cache lode at Sum-
nit. Many experienced quartz miners enter
tain the belief that this once famous lode
will yet prove to be one of the STANDARD
mines of Madison county. We hope the
rumor will turn out to be we'll founded.
The quartz boom will strike Alder gulch
and its neighborhood this summer. Already
mine-owners are pushing out to develop
property that has been lying dormant for
many years, and more work is being done in
quartz now than there has been for some
time. This is right. So long as c~laim-owners
allow their mines to remain undeveloped. so
long will they be unremunerative