The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-01-06
From Thursdays Daiiy.l
BUTTE.
OF THE YEARS IMPROVE
MENTB.
the silver City Leads the Van Of
Mining Camps.
Success OF Every Enter.
prise.

PTlScs
! wear ago in our annual resume of the
b, progress and development of the
interests of Butte, we pointed with
| exuItation to what the year 1878 had
Ior us as a growing and thriving mining
and then ventured the prediction which
hy if not all our readers must have ap-
b e~xtravagant, that the year 1870 would
more for us than 1873 had done. To
who recall our words and who have
watched the growth Of our young city,
population only, but in actual, perma-
Improvements, and in the growth and
sion of its varied and diversified bust
Interests, the language which at the time
led very like buncombe, inspired by the
k~ialities of the season, becomes tame in
lrison with the actual results. One
kgo our population vas not over 5000,
I've have at least 1900 and this large
Sc would have been still greater had
vements kept pace with the accessions
we would have received but for want
ommodations.
arge number of new and substantial
stores have been built on Main street,
ling the temporary frame structures first
ID. Prominent among these may be
oned the large and %commodious store of
}. E. l.. Bonner & Co., the block of
5. Dellinger Il Hyde, the new store of
). II. Jacobs Il Co., and the two-story res
1t of Mr.. Bogk-all new and substantial
vements and such as do credit to the
nd the enterprising men who have put
money in them. No better evidence
be afforded of the prosperity of our
bss men than the erection of so many
lch substantial houses of business. In
ears from this time, if these improve
! continue-and they will-Main street,
Park to Quartz, will present an entire
Or stone front, rivaling if not surprising
OWN in the Territory in the number of
rec and commodious business houses.
however, yet lack greatly a substantial
Folnmodious hotel building, and if one
pre- of our enterprising citizens would
this want we have no doubt it would
for them a. profitable an investment as
ainly would be a convenient and desira-
be for the public. When a town has
Jed its growth, Or has entered On its de-
it is not uncommon to see new hotels
d which are no longer required, but
would have been desirable had they
built in season, whereas, when such
Elres are most wanted, they are generally
Fst that are supplied. We hope Butte
Drove an exception to tins rule and that
lear will see the erection of a hotel in
which in its proportions and accommo-
IS will be commensurate with the growth
equirements of the place.
Re turn from these evidences of pros
to that which is the cause of it
nining interests-we have still greater
for graduation at Il progress in the
nd elation for the future. In this re-
there has been nothing e%phemeral OF
ional in the growth of Butte. 1t has
fen pulled into notoriety. Probably less
zeel written about our mines, and less
made to give them notoriety abroad
all be said of any other mining CAM
country. Certainly this is so if the
or past production OF the mines be
cred. Slowly, steadily and by hard
and little aided by capital either al
or from abroad, our miners have gone
and developed our mines upon the re-
which they afforded. In this respect
lines of Butte and its vicinity are il
d contrast to those Of nearly every Other
Dr. Territory. On the famous Comstock
millions of dollars we're levied in the
assessments before any returns were
ed, and from a majority of the compa'
coated OH that lode no return has evcl
made to this day for the immense Treas
has swallowed up. Yet shares in the
mt companies are still bought up by
Spectators who continue to pay assess
after nearly twenty years of eXplora'
should have taught them the tutility o1
ny. In our neighboring Territory OF
large amount of both home and for
(apital has been enlisted in her mines
is. not going outside the truth to say
hose Investments have in IL majority o.
ces resulted disastrously.
history of Utah for the last few year:
wn almost as thickly with the wreck;
ping enterprises as it is with the viola
Of law and outrages on civilization
NINA, the Flagstaff, the Miller, the Jor
IRE only illustrations of what is wei
Proverbial in regard to such enterprises
fitl all these and many like examples
them, it was only recently that /
d company invested, 1t is said, nearly OF
5000, 600 in one of her mines
Der this speculation will add one more tt
bg list o~ffailures remains to be seen. Blu
pr 1t does or not, there can be no doub
fact, that II one-half the money hat
expended in the development Of the
around Butte that has been in the