The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-01-04
HE CHANGE FROM FORMER
YEARS.
The Old Town Prospers Plenty.
of the Business and Bust
Men of Bannack.
5ars Hence, Bannack to be Found on the Map 81
Montana.
, The Editor of The Holiday MINER.

/, The Editor of The Holiday MINER.
The holiday number of the MINER affords
! opportunity of presenting the towns of
ontana to the reading public. During the
ar just closing, nc spasmodic boom has
uek Bannack, but a generous degree of
rift and prosperity has attended her people.
lille no decline in population is to be re-
Irted, the increase in wealth and substan-
improvements is quite noticeable, but
lev are of too local a character to be of gen.
al interest,
Peace, plenty and quiet, reign in the " an
Int capital" of Montana. How different
Nv from the pioneer days of Bannack, from
y days when Plummer's gang of desperadoes
lied ga man for breakfast" or a coach rob-
Try was a common, so to speak, every day
currence. Now, crime is comparatively
Elrce. Order and security prevail. Yearly
.vancing strides of civilization have sup
3lnted the terrors Of former years, which are
t fading away in the dire memories of the
|ad past. So be it.
While nc remarkable change is to be noted
mack continues in the even tenor of her
y, basking and prospecting under the mer-
4 ii eye of an all-seeing Providence. Quiet
acsuiescing in this state of things the aver
q Bannackite drinks his whiskey straight,
.nkful if he obtains his favorite fluid before
las been subjected to the deluging process
ditch-watering.
kfhe " court house circle" consisting of our
Gent corps of county officers, is doing well.
.er the late election it was conceded that
Dutch had got away with the spoils and
En- 1t is ~sardonically insinuated that an in
prefer is needed in order to transact bust
3 impure English. Probate Judge Graeter,
*,asurer S~hineberger and Sheriff Reinhart
emanate from German extraction. Never
less they are a hard team to pull against.
n writing a letter of local interest it is per-
ly proper to "take in" the business and
y mess men of a community. If there is
thing in the personal illusions or animad-
sions in the paragraphs following, your
respondent stands ready to apologize with
Il Up of hot coffee and a boiled sardine. Hav-
thus introduced the subject, it will be in
pr to say something of the business of
mack and the men engaged therein.
~tessrs. Trask & Graves, our old established
mess men, continue tc carry an immense
k of mercantile commodities, embracing
thing in the catalogue of goods. Mr..
e Mathews, salesman of their house, greets
omers with that same old broad, inviting
as in the days of yore. Messrs. Trask &
n yes have a house at Dillon erammed with
refully selected stock of merchandise.
he banking house of Isaac Roe & Bro,
er charge of Mr.. VIM. Roe, transacts a
sral collecting and banking business. 1t
oild in character and perfectly reliable in
sacting all business entrusted to it, always
ying a suficiency of capital to accommo-
- customers at current commercial rates of
blunt.
It Dempsey, merchant, on the corner of
q street and Central avenue, is a prince
ng the bloods of Beaverhead, besides be-
an active, attentive business sharp. Mr..
= ipsey, by studious application, has become
guist in many tongues. He talks Dutch,
nook, French and American with a flu
almost u%nequaled. He's a rare one all
s ght about through rigid cultivation.
F. Wright, postmaster and merchant, on
east side of court house square, keeps on
a stock to suit the boys and meet the
raj trade. Wright is invariably right
his selections and his store is fill
with everything from a pint of
uts to a broadcloth wedding suit. He
) with the people O the basis of mutual
,rocity and thereby retains the crowd.
20. w. Dart, artist in tin, and hardware
liant, trafics at low rates of profit, sup
ig an extended trade with wares of all
5. Mr. d. in addition to running his
smoothly, herds the money gathered from
purses Of the taxpayers and grangers of
erhead county in the capacity of county
urer.
Ior Watson's blacksmith shop is the
where King Vulcan presides and where
orts of iron work is hammered out in
manlike shape. Addedto blacksmithing
major is always found posted in political
5 from the days of the immortal General
son down to the counting in" of the
american fraud styled Rutherford Be-
Hayes.
]. Dunlap, druggist and apothecary, has
ye stock Of drugs, medicines, and herbs
|er shelves. Paragoric for babies and
lyes for old bachelors on hand, mixed to
he age Of applicants. Doctors prescrip-
carefully compounded, no matter if the
lSmeter stands at 100 above or 80 below
Bannack hotel is under the proprietor
< Mr. John C. Steger. This popular
= conducted in the best manner with
specsA with all . liberal market affords.
The weary traveller can find a comfort