The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-16
ON THE WING.
Sabbath at Deer LodRe-Gradi
the N. p. Below Blackfo
Wages Of Laborers-But Fl
Mormons-A Good Sup.
gestion-Missoula Go.
and Quartz, Etc.


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From our Travelling Correspondent
Editor Butte Miner:
The trip from Butte to Miss ,ua
made via Gilmer q Salisbury's coache,
OF thirty hours, with four hours of sd
ed motion at the chief city of the
municipality of our infant county Of
Bow. The travelling accommodation.
veritable realization of the governmeu,
for the transmission of its mails-cet
security and celebrity. During the -four
stay at Deer Lodge the eentle dew Of
was dropping upon the place beneath Y
morning sound OF the church bells J
doubt lent an additional tendency
thoughts that wander through eterl
was the Sabbath, and holy meditatla
the silence of alteration were broodi1
a gentle spirit DER the still and pd
world. 1t would have been sacrilege |
invaded the ~sanctity of the occasion
investigation If the results Of we'd
activity besides the searcher after th
Of irrelevant truth would have gotten
wet at that time.
The advent to Misseula upon a seoul
is a reason perhaps why tie people w4
altogether IN SO gOdly a frame of mid
longtime slayer by the place remarka
he thought he would get action for bis ;
pretty soon unless he found himself
The promised and speedy completi0n
Northern Pacific would necessarily
Things break his way. The railroad !
miss Missoula by a half nile, unless
rectors of the enterprise should be ped
by such piausi ole arguments as the cap
AT the capita. are now using. that a It'd
hot really much more expensive than |
on level ground. The roadbed ina
will not certainly need ballasting as
a grade.
Speaking Of railroads. it may inteN4
pubic to know how the grading
Northern Pacific is pro crossing bes{
mouth OF Little Blackfoot. The grad
entirely completed, with the eXcepi]
little rock work, as far as the mouth
creek. Between that point and the ma
El.,t .raal- fhorn ara anCut l0D man Al.
The laborers get $1.7o and $500 per q
board. 1t is a mistake to suppose thaI
are all Mormons. The section bosses 1
prefer the other kind, not that a mad
ion makes any d ference with his
ability, but their coming over under
mon bishop, in an euiarant ship pacl
like sardines in a box, seems 20 sharp
head and dwarf the physical nattIe. \
ed from a stock that makes religion d
t%iousness tie Inherited qualities are u
leave no room for growth and rxpanst
this instance cheap brute labor is not
bic, and the fear that the Morm0ns nd
absorb and dominate this territory
founded.
1t is possible that the Northern PacI
pie may see The ACCESSIBILITY Of utililt
grade before it is Joined with the Ha|
II can be extended to Butte witholJ
expense and bring that timber using
in connection with the finest 'fores.
gr anary of Montana. The carrying
on that part of the road would be IN
even now. Or the grade might be coz
aud leased to the Utah and Northern
two or three years before it will ben
by the through line.
Missoula county is considerably eft
this time uponthe quartz question
no doubt some rich quartz, both go!d1
yer bearing, has been found and itl
ly remains to he seen whether ii 81
cient quantities and in permanent AN
defined lodges to justify the hope iN|
crease of wealth and population from
dustry. The various finds will be VlFI
the opinion of experts taken IN
thereto.
Missoula, Aug. 5, 1881.