The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-09

~" 81" "oio shippeu north by the |
Utah and Northern railway for the Butte
Hardware Company.
The last shipment of silver bullion nv the
Pacific Express Company consisted of four
bars OF Alice and four bars of Silver Bow.
The value of the bullion was $16, 600.
The demand for carpenters, brick lay-
ers and stone masons in Butte is increasing.
ana as more improvements are begun the
scarcity of hands will be more keenly felt.
John Caplice & Co., on Main street, are
carrying a very extensive stock of fine staples,
which will be largely increased by the adj
dltlon of an immense shipment, which will
arrive next week.
The sixth dividend of $40,OOO-aggregating
$4,000 in all-has been declared by the AL
ice Company, payable at the Farmers Loan
and Trust Company, in New York, on the
18th of this month.
There will be one sober man, at least, in
Butte for years to come. A Republican has
taken a solemn oath to drink no whisky I'M
til a Republican Mayor is elected in Butte.
He'll go thirsty for whisky a long time.
"A Helena man, cahvassing Butte for bust
ness in the tailoring line, says: 81 missed it
when did not come to Butte three wears
ago. If had come to Butte, | would, to-day,
be many thousands of dollars better off,
The members of the Butte Base Ball Clnb
request us To say that the statement pub
| liSlni in tho yJnr.lJ ,I.t IL, D-tl, Tl-l
was SECURING the country to secure players
is not true. The Butte Club will be conf
posed of Butte boys.
Friends and patrons of the MINER in all
the towns and mining camps throughout
Montana and Idaho will confer favors on us
by sending reliable items OF mining intelli-
gencG and local new from their respective
localities. Courtesies ofthis kind will be APP
precialed.
Laws, both city and general. are enacted
for the regulation of society and the preser-
vation of the rights of the people, and when
the laws majesty is enforced, at all times,
viduals alike the best interests of the people
at large will be protected.
A gentleman just over from Helena says
that the amount of local lying prcpetrated in
that town during the stay of the representa-.
tives of the Northern Pacific Railroad, was
simply fearful. Every man in the capital
from the corporation fiddler down to the ed
itor of the Daily Herald played a hand ir
disappearing the resources of Last Chance
GuIch.
From Sundays Daily
Ths hotels all continue to be crowded.
There are a great many strangers in Butte
Tealminy is a very active business in IT,
city at present.
, Many elegant private residences are uearl,
ready for occupancy.
A good deal of civil business Is TRANSACTED
daily at the sllerifi's Office.
: Charley Warren's poetry parody is-"l wis
/ had another Snow Flake"
The mortality of Butte is remarkably iigl
for a population of about 5000.
q The Public Administrator is offering som
q mining property for sale FOR cash.
r \ large number of our citizens enjoy bug
gy-riding in the cool of the evening.
The circulation of the DAILY MINER
increasing, and we like to note the fact.
The display of dry goods at the emporium
e of Z. L. Bonner & Co., is always attractive
The celebrated Mitchell wagons, buggit
and ph9tons are on sale at ID. n. Deliinger's
Rich specimens of gold-bearing quartz fro'
q German Gulch were exhibited in the cit
s. yesterday.
The Directors of the Amy-Silversmii
Company held a business meeting at Forbi
, law cfice las night.
n The five-column advertisement..of Sands
Boyce, printed in this mornings MINER,
1t not bad Sunday reading.
Six years ago Butte precinct polled thrice
votes. What was then Butte precinct woul
to-day, poll over 1000 votes.
y new, splirg express wagon has been pr
If on and will run between Butte and Wake
ia Vile. Fare, two bits each way.
Is is in order now to 90 %berrying. Berlit
- are said to be abunIllt in many Of the sl'
he Gulches III the mountain canyons.
l. IL a spin through WalkelVille many III
O' provementS were noticed. and the town pr
II seuted a thrifty, lively appearance.
- EAcavating for the lev Miners CniC
~ Hall is producing a big pile of granite tn
. will be used III erecting the new edifice.
The number of men on the payroll of II
Alice Company is go. On the payroll
the Moultou Company, the number is lS5.
The digging part of the Moulton wat
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