The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-06

pearance again. 1t is reported that Glendale
is to be double-shotted with papers. tits not
within the possibilities for two papers to sub
sist under the "disbursing influences" of the
Glendale business men and mining compa-
MES. It is further reported that a paper is TO
be started at Salisbury and that a newspaper
is to be issued at Virginia City, in Alder
gulch. To protect the people the next Legs
lature will be called on to enact a law making
it a penitentialy of1ense for half-made printers
to issue " hobdominal" newspapers.
Quartz mining IN the Bannack district is
looking favorable. On Dacota No. 4, owned
by John Carhartt, Wilson, Wadams q Co. are
working a shoot OF rich gold rock. Trask Il
Graves are running drifts OIL No. 5 on the
Dacota, and a s~ide-tunnel is being driven
from No. 6 tunnel into the No. 7 claim. The
Excelsior tunnel of Phil. Shenon Is driven
ahead. day and night. Operations AZ the sill
YER mill in the Elkhorn district are suspend
ed, there being too much soft snow to conte nd
with in that high-up district.
DR.. E. D. Leavitt, of Glendale, yesterday
performed a successful and skillful operation
of amputation on Henry Smidt, the man who
was found i'll a badly frozen condition a
couple of weeks ago. Half of both feet were
amputated close to the instep, and one finger.
Smidt may recover without further amputa-
ton, but the chances are that more will have
to be cut off.
Mcintosh & Co. have bonded and sold their
coal mine, located OH Medicine Lodge Creek,
in this county, to Tate, Taylor & Co., for
$4,000. OF the price $1,000 was paid down.
the balance to be paid at a stated time. This
coal mine is within II miles of the Utah &
Northern Railroad, and is a fine vein as far as
opened.
The up-5ound coaches from the terminus
are daily packed with passengers. The agent
at the terminus uses a tamping bar to 'tamp
the people into the wagons. The passengers
submit, but enter loud and prOfane protests.
Ninteen passengers to a two-horse ierkey
beats the old omnibus y hole or two.
Bannack wants two professionals. We
want a resident physician, and a ''gospeI
sharp" to quote Mark Twain, is needed here
The one to cure the flesh, the other to point
} to the sinner that " narrow trail y That leads tc
llliluOItdllty. AHC dIIeLilloh VI unemployed
physicians and preachers is respectfully callee
= to this paragraph.
8 The Argenta saw mill, owned by Mr.. Mel
Trask, is to he remodeled and furnished witt
a complete outfit Of new machinery, and is t,
have a planning machine attached. This mil
will have a cutting capacity 10 furnish South
western Montana with lumber, and it now ha
OH hand 100000 feet in lumber and logs.
The reports of the condition of stock o.
II the Grasshopper, Horse Prairie, Beaverhea
and Rattlesnake ranges are good. Some cattl
- are dying, but horses and sheep are pullin
u through without serious loss. Young cattl
and calves are dying in their usual propol
TONS
e The winter term of our Bannac scbot
is about ended. The school, under til
charge of Mr.. Phil. McGough, has been col
Quoted in a very satisfactory manner. III
id advancement of the scholars has been grea
Id and the juvenile ideas have been taught
Or toot and shoot properly.
The MINER is rapidly gaining public fave
in this section. 1t is regarded as the pr
; motsr of the mining interests of Montan
ID and its modern style of "make-up" Is favo
ABLY commented on. J.. r. w.
oo RANyAcK. March 40. 1880.