The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-07-26
OUR LETTER.
Boulder Building Boom Begun
BY -"

Regular Correspondence of the MINER.
The above expression was heard by your
correspondents he entered the town of Boul-
der the other day. He did not hear the last
word of the sentence ; ut may have been Bel
zebub) but enough was heard and quoted
above, to denote what the author had in his
mind at the time.
On looking around to see what cause there
was for the exclamation, he found, sure
enough, that there was great activity in build
ing at the present time, and that the people
are beginning to realize some of the advant-
ages of the situation of the place.
Many of the people, and especially the
travelling public, already know that the town
of Boulder is located at the head of Boulder
Valley, "a fertile valley some five or six miles
in width and about thirty miles in lengthy
at the junction OF the Butte and Helena roads
with the Overland road, leading down the
valley to G~allatin, Bozeman and to the Vel
lowstone valley. The town is thirty five
miles from Butte, thirty-three from Helena,
forty to Gallatin, and forty to Deer Lodge
City Via Dry Cottonwood Pass. There are
Tour mails arriveing and departing daily, viz:
Butte, Helena. Gallatin and theTerminus; also
one weekly mail to Poney, via Cold Springs
and Jefferson Island. No other community in
the Territory enjoys any better mail facilities
than Boulder.
Boulder is very happily situated, being the
geographical as we'll as the center of popula-
ton of Jefferson county and as the county
IS surrounded on the east, west, north and
south by all the populous counties of the Ter
ritory, the town is the center of population of
the Territory also. 1t is accessible from all
points of the compass by good roads at all
seasons of the year.
Besides being the center of population, it is
located in the center of one of the largest and
richest mining districts in the Territory.
The High Ore, Cataract and Basin mines are
contiguous to it on the west, the Comet,
Rumley, Australia and others on the north,
the Elk Horn on the east, and the extensive
placer and quartz mines of the Little Boulder
on the south. Fair roads lie; out from the
town to all of the mining CAMPS, and as new
mines are being discovered almost daily, and
many of the older locations are being devol-
oped, the trade of the tow is constantly in
c~reasing.
Among the b ildings in contemplation and
under constI uction is a Town Hall, to be
built by the Boulder Town Hall Company, a
company incorporated under the laws of the
Territory. P. B. Mills. s.. A. Douglass and
Capt. Cook constitute the Board of Trustees.
The building will be built Of granite and will
be 3Ox64 feet. A sufficient amount of stock
has been taken to warrant the Board in going
on with the building, and it is their intention
to have it completed this fall or winter.
Boulder Star lodge, 1. O.. G. T., have also
broken ground in the own and are building
. hall of granite, 2Ox4O in the clear. The
order is strong in the valley, and it is expect
ed to finish the building this winter.
In addition to the above, Bill Deascey is
building a handsome addition to his saloon,
and also to his dwelling Kleinschmidt &
Co., W. S. Davis and lack Thompson are
putting up neat dwelling houses, and Capt.
Cook is ornamenting anG improving his hotel
property and private residence. Mr.. John
Berkin has a handsome granite dwelling al
most completed, just south If the own limits
and MIR. Jake Evans has material on the
ground for another.
On the whole, there are lively times in
Boulder, and its citizens have great confidence
in the future of the embryo city. E.