The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-09
Minor Items.


~"S hioh liiCiiuS MIS- d.. 1 DIONH
will regret to learn that the lady is quite
seriously i'll. .r
People are already beginning to e%ntlluse
over the prospective advent of the railroad on
Montana soil.
Mr.. Y. NJ. Ca. Reynolds begs to announce
that the contribution boxes in which patrons
OF the library have agreed to depost % cents
monthly, will hold a reception to-day.
\ heathen named China Joe, arrested a few
days ago on a charge of selling opium, had a
hearing yesterday before Judge Warren.
Several witnesses were examined and the case
was continued until this morning.
[From Wednesdays Daily.)
Yesterdays storm resurrected the sleighing
season.
le honest miners are busy on the sur
rounding hills doing their assessment work,
and as soon as spring opens will begin the &C
tive development of their prospects.
Mr.. d. A.. Byers and B.. B. Tierney, who
arrived in Butte Monday from Philipsburg,
leave this morning for Fort Benton, whittier
they go to examine the prospects of the Yogo
country.
The telegraph wire betw cen Deer Lodge
and Helena was out Of repair yesterday, so
we received no dispatches. In all likelihood,
however, it will be up in time for the sound
OF the driving of the fiji st spike in Montana on
the Utah & Northern to be transmitted.
Professor Blake, who was recently in Butte
examining the Alice, made an address a few
days ago before the Bullion Club, of New
York, embracing an able and succinct review
OF the present prospects of the mining dis
tricts which the Professor described as most
encouraging. The Summit Valley district re-
ceived a proper share of attention.
(From Thursdays Daily)
Several mining strikes have been lately re-
ported.
Mr.. II. I. Brown, of the MINER, left Butte
yesterday for Glendale.
Owing to the condition of the roads the
Eastern mail did not arrive yesterday.
The District Court for Lewis & Clarke
county convened in Helena OH Monday.
The placer mines lying a short distance
from Butte, will be extensively worked dur
ing the coming summer.
The Weibbold Administrators sale con-
tiiiues active, and a great deal of general mer-
chandise is being daily disposed of.
1t is now stated that Gaftney will be the
next winter terminus of the Utah Il Northern,
though the information is not official.
A private theatrical entertainment will be
given in a few days, in which Mr.. d. Marks,
and D. r. Beck and other heavy tragedians
will appear.
Since the incorporation of the Alice, East
ern mining journals are copying extensively
from the Montana papers, and appear to have
taken a sudden interest in the Summit Valley
district.
Mr. Frank. Marsh is busy drawing up til
plans for the Sawtelle theatre soon to be
erected. Its seating capacity will be about
500, and the work of construction will begin
as soon as the frost leaves the ground.
The several freight agents now interviewing
our merchants on The summers freighting are
receiving heavier orders than eyer before, fol
Butte, besides being the largest and mos,
important town in the territory, is rapidly
gaining prominence as a distributing point.
The protest of our correspondent, /" Rust.
ler,' published a few days ago relative to the
ineXpediency of having two charity balls OF
the same night was not without effect. Al
will be seen by a notice in another column
the members of the Workingmen's Unior
have decided to postpone their party in tavo
of that given for the benefit of the Irish relic
fund.
A big strike was yesterday reported in til,
Moose mine, located a short distance south
east of the Magma Charta. About forty fee
east Of the incline shaft a perpendicular slaf
has lately been sunk to a depth of eighty feet
from the bottom of which a cross-cut wa.
about two weeks ago started west to tap thu
ledge. Within the past two days the ore ha:
been struck and proves to be of eXcellen
quality. The mine is under lease.
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