The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-11

affair it should have been stated that Caplice
q GO. claim to have unk IN the Trout prop
erty $4,000 and taken out $4,000. They
are therefore out $4,000 invested in explora-
tions of the mine, besides the $4,000 pre-
viously due, making a total of $4,000.
The Park road is said to be almost imoass-
able the snow being yet several feet deep.
During the past few days, however, attempts
have been made to break the track with
wagons as the wheels pack the snow better
than sleigh runners. Three trips with wagons
have been made so far and it is believed that
within a few days regular stage tire will be
made.
The Capital says that a clerk employed in
one OF the drug stores gave a dose of sulphuric
acid to a man who asked for something TO
settle his nerves. For \ time the customer
thought it was a fair sample of Helena whisky
but when the smoke began to issue from his
mouth he concluded that he was burning up.
and finally went to a physician who extin-
guished him with an antidote.
From Sundays Daily.I
The post office at Sterling, Madison Co.. has
been discontinued.
Ihe Dexter mill is making a very success
full run on Burnett and Nettie ore.
How many "prongs" does a gulch usually
have? Answers from the Helena Ldepend-
ent are in order.
.InHul Enlbpoitl 1oa -.
OF a great deal of criminal business during
the past two weeks.
Butte will be pleased to hear of DR.. Oel's
conviction for which credit is due District
Attorney Mayhem.
DIR. Todd's dental rooms are on west Granite
street, opposite the office of Drs. Mussigbrod
q Johnston. mav9tf
There will not be a very great stampede
this spring from Butte to Yogo. The miners
of this bonanza camp are well satisfied with
the outlook at home.
Preparations for placer mining nave been
active for the past week on Mr.. A. w. Bar
nard's ground in Missoula gulch and to-mor-
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The mines of the Summit Valley district
never looked so well as they 90 at the present
time and with scarcely an exception they are
improving with every stroke of the pick.
The Colorado smelteri is undergoing material
improvements as the present reducing facili-
ties are found to be inadequate to treat the
Woct p,,v - D"o ,-I..1. A..
required to handle.
Captain r. E. Fisk, of the Herald, has
started east to attend the National Republic
can Convention. The Captain is taking an
early start,-bound to be ain at the death of
his f~avorite, Blaine.
The Herald describes the building industry
OF Helena as furnishing in the highest de-
gree. Glad to note so certain an indication of
prosperity in our wide awake progressive
East Side neighbor.
The pipe head at the different hydraulic
Is becoming lighter day by day, owing
the surprisingly cold weather. At present
almost looks as if the placer mining season
were about to close again.
Can a straight lire enclose a space %
Mathematicians have usually answered this
question in the negative, but this answer the
seems to think needs revision.
oome joker lately sent that journal a partial
account of the proceedings of the miners
meeting lately held at Cataract in which, as
he boundaries of the district, he gives one
and distance. The Independent
seems in doubt as to whether a mining dis
riot could be bounded by one straight line;
out avoids committing itself by declaring the
proceedings as published to be apparently
imperfect But then that prong" is per-
laps circular. Like some of the smoothly
editorials appearing in our esteemed
md scholarly contemporary, it may possibly
come to an end at the point of beginning.
Who knows?