The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-24
From Saturdays Daily.I

working OH roasted rock from the Wake Up
Jim mine.
The Olive Branch lode, located ON the
point south of the Colorado smelter, is yield
ing high-gradc ore.
Butte will be enjoying the fullness of her
"boom" when places like Leadville, Col, ,
will have their boomerang.
ADJUSTMENTS in Butte at present are very
dull. A one-horse circus or " Niger show
would be a slight relief.
Strangers. visiting Butte, invariably have
something sarcastic or profane to say about /,
the jog-oGs in the sidewalks. i
1t will require the explosion of giant DOW :
der to remove the granite knobs sticking up !
in some Of the streets of the city.
Judging by the number of ladies noticed
to be diligently engaged in shopping, the
millinery and drygoods trade must be active. 7
Tho primaries are coming off, and we i
would remind candidates that the MINER Of
fe is prepared to print tickets at customary
rates. t
A gentleman just in from Philipsburg and
CaDle reports both camps 1ourishing, and says
there is a scarcity of miners and laborers at
both places. h
Montana cattle are commanding the high
est prices in the Chicago market. Steers /
driven to the slaughter pens around Butte are I
rolling fat. &
Jack Myers has shipped an infant black
Dear to Baltimore. The bear is tanned and
tutored to some extent. and is a fair specimen
of the brute bruin. i
Il. z. Bateman is erecting a concrete store-t
room Oh lower Montana street. The building
is 24x44 feet, and when completed will be used
as y grain, flour and grocery house. i
The regular Butte correspondent of the
Nen North West is a very creditable item
condenser, furnishing newsy paragraphs fort
that journal in a very passable, boi!ed-down
shape. I
A magnitc bird's-eye view OF Butte may
be obtained by the observer ascending the
wooded knoll east of Silver Bow creek. The
} appearance of the city from that point is
splendid.
Grouse, chickens and feathered creatures
are now ripe, and the prohibitory provisions
e of the game law are suspended. Some o
, our shotgun experts are taking advantage O
this, and are bagglng many of the featherd
tribe. .
:, The two furnace at the Colorado smeltet
are running with a capacity of reducing, each
stack, nine tons every twenty-four hours
e. trI,> x,,,.+;+. - k;e, lrlf;n,, nrojn,aI !,
satisfactory, and the Quality reported to b.
rich. !
Tn ruinor current in town for some day
that a prominent bachelor of Butte had lei
the city for the purpose of committing mat
, rimony proved unfoundcd. When the sal
bachelor returned home lie was closely que.
toned and stoutly asserted his innocence
but added that he wished 10 the Lord he VIZ
married. /
From Sundays Daily! ,
The large Cotton stack of the Hecla work
Glendale, was fired up Friday, 1t does i
y work well. +
Thu party Interested can learn somethii
90 to his advantage by reading tile ad. hesdt
"owner for trunks wanted" in to-day's papel
=, Suggestive p~lacards, posted up around tow
-. inform the honest miner, the hungry ranc
~. man, and the city g%ormandizer. where a ma
nificent Sunday dinner may be purchased ii
the moderate sum of four bits. /
Walkerville, as a lule, is a quiet town, b
W the other morning a couple of men deviati
nc from the established rule up there. Til
, went at it with fists and had . brief but Il
I" dec ded battle. Some claret flowed. and T.
fight ended in a draw.
n There is so much inquiry for men-minef
en laborcrs, and ranch hands-from all sectio'
ny of Montana that there is no excuse for m
III being hard up and lying around idle. :
u who are willing to work can find employing.
/" at fair wages, and without much eXertiOn. :
\ futtcr or commotion is caused amo
nc quartz sharps over reports from Fourth of }
" ly district. The district, in an air line, t,
f about SIN miles from Butte. Some rich OF
80 assaying high up, has been found. Quito
y number of miners and prcspectors have 90
Ny over to inspect the camp. !
+. NJ. Trask, Chairman Of the ltepublic
, Central Committee, issues a call for a Rep,
Icon County Convention for Beaverhead,
meet in the Court House, in Banuack, q
Monday, September 9th. Thirty-one de,
's gates are apportioncd to the different p
- cincts in that county for convention urpos
ley ,
les The Omaha Bee publishes Il railroad it,
,to stating that the winter terminus of the Ut
Northeru Railroad will be located at a pol
below Watson, OF the l'eaperhead river. J
ng ,