The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-04-26
From Wednesdays Daily

Company yesterday was valued at about
81 1850.
The city election is approaching, but the
event does not seem to be creating any I'M
usual connection.
Tue new water-works company will be
organized soon. There is active inquiry for
stock in the new organization
Telegraphic half-rste for night messages
applies only to messages for distant points
beyond Helena. -,
The three lines of coaches arriving in Butte
are crowded with passengers daily, and they
are carrying a large amount of express freight.
The contract for grading and widening the
street in Walkervllle was given to Mr.. Hum
phreys of that town for $3.50. Work has COM
nienced under the contract.
Jos. Fl. Harper has just completed a map,
correctly drawn, of all tie mineral locations
in Summit Valley district. The work is to
be Autographed and copies printed.
A gold nugget weighing nearly six ounces,
and valued at $l06, was picked up in Mon
tana Gulch, in Meaeher county, one day last
week.
The steamboat ECLIPSE" will probably be
the first boat up the river this season. She is
expected to arrive at Fort Benton the latter
part of this month.
Miles City, following in the wake of Boze-
man, refuses to build $4,000 school house.
Both burgs are striking for som ething bigger
$4,000 houses are what they want.
Some Of the residents of VAUDEVILLE are
complaining about the number of hogs run
ming at large in that place, anu steps are to be
taken to have the swine law enforced.
The tobacco and liquol store of Chris. 3.
Houser, on West Park street, has been retit-
ted and fixed up in handsome style. dcnoting
prosperity and enterprise.
Many industrious prospectors are engaged
digging in the hills north of Walkerville,
where, supposedly, many bonanzas remain
undiscovered.
The "toot' of the whistle of the Utah &
Northern locomotive, it is expected, will be
heard in Butte in July, as the work of track
laying is proceeding rapidly.
Official notice is published in another col
umn of to-day's MINER for a city election to
be held IN Butte, on Monday, May I'd, 1881,
for the purpose of electing a mayor and four
aldermen.
The Independent says that the Hotter mine
at Elkhorn mountain, together with a five
stamp quart mill, has been foreclosed and
sold. Hotter, Shober and Blacker paid $l3.0 900
for the property.
Mr.. LaMour has disposed of hisssix lots on
Washington street-three to Mr.. McCauley
and the remainder to DR.. Todd. We under
stand the parties intend erecting buildings on
these lots Immediately.
\ Methodist Episcopal church (south), is
to be erected at Stevensville, in Missoula
county. Sixteen hundred dollars have been
raised fJ' mat purpose, and the contract for
building the same will soon be let.
There is a general demand in most of the
valleys of Montana for farm hands, and there
is a complaint among the ranchmen that
they cannot obtain IaboroIS, and no man who
can do farm work need be idle in the terri
tory.
The price of lots situate in convenient To-
catious in this city, for the purpose of erecting
residences on, is very rapidly advancing.
Within the past week a large number OF lots
have changed hands at good figures. Inside
of eighteen months the purchasers will
double their money.
Gilmer, Salisbury IL Cos. new line of daily
coaches, between Butte and Fish Creek, are
well stocked with good horses. Yesterday
the first coaches arrived and departed. The
coach arrives daily at II O'Clock a. M, and
dap arts at l O'Clock p. IN.
THE YELLOWSTONE JOu,rtal says that all
along the line of the Northern Pacific railroad
from Dixon's Blr1f to Glendive, large forces
of men are at wol& OF the grade. \ force
of engineers are now camped near Dixon's
Bluffs, and the work of cutting through
them will soon be commenced.
Billy NJ. White, who " jumped this part
of the country some time since, between two
DAYS, leaving his creditors in mourning, was
very badly hurt at Salt Lake City recently.
Billy sustained a fracture of the right arm,
and three ribs. besides internal injuries of a
serious character. The moral to be deduced
from this accident is 50 apparent that We need
not point it out.
Prof. F. V. Hayden's opinion Of, Montana,
in brief, is this 81 believe that Montana is
rich in valuable mines, and that, when a rail-
road connection has been established between
it and the world at large, an impulse will
be given to the mining interests of the Terri
tory that will satisfy the most sanguine. The
world will then begin to appreciate the re-
sources of the Territory, which, so far as l