The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-09-20
OUR
The Mines in the Boulder Distra.s
The Quartz Prospect Good
The Montana Method Of
Reforming the Drunk
ard.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

EuIOf buUS Nlnef: .r.s. r
The mines in the immediate vicinity of.oST-
town are beginning to attract the attention Of
the outside world. Only recently Ar.-
Bow les, an old-tinler, sold 400 feet on the
Amazon lod situated in the upper end Of the
valley about three miles from town, ior the:
snug little sum of sixteen thousand dollars,
cash in hand. The purchasers are an Iowa
company, the Montana head being jacob
Nave, for three years past The Efficient man-~-
ager of the Lexington mine ana mill, recent
ly sold by your to nsluan, Judge A. J. Da-
Wis. Under the management of Mr.. Nave the
company have a force of men at work and j L
am cfedibly infol NEE the lead is turning. out r
a genuine bonanza, rich in gold, although
heretofore considered exclusively a silver
property in this mining district, and ara. corr
templating the erection of extensive WORKSHOP
the reduction of their ores, ...#.
MIR. Nowlan, of Cable mine fame, and ar
old expert and smelter of ores.in this district,
paid us a flying visit last week. and 'set a
force If men at work ON the we'll known Bis
marck mine. lie assured rs, and surely nu
''> u ''hh 'tt '"eoe AS TcIsi'
that there is fourteen feet Of pay ore exposetI
to view in the mine. Mr.. Nowlain worked
this mine a few years ago, selecting and
smelling successfully the argentiferons. .Sad
ores, but the free milling. ores accumulatipe
rapidly on the dump, and having. nc, ma
chlnery for working them, he suspended
work on the mine for a time, and only now
has resumed work since the suspension. The
Bismarck mine is destined to have a name
throughout Montana shat even the great Ger
man prince, whose name i; bears. will yet be.
proud of.
The "Rumley" mine, once famous in the
Territory, has been idle for several Years. NJ
used to ship tons and tons Of gray carbonate,
ore that would sample between 500 and $500,
to the ton. That was in the days when. ore,
had to be ha!lpd to Benton or Cor.nn IN
bull teams, and sent to New York or NreE-
burg for reduction. Recent developments has,
shown up another great ore body, proving to.
the initiated that the Rumley dis hot dead
but sleepeth."
But. as my time (and no doubt the SPACE
allotted to ne III your aper) is limited,I Will
not exhaust both,(which 1 might do> in tseats
ing of mines of the distric; but will switcl.s
of on to something else, and glge yop,tbe-
mining news from time to time in broken
doses.
THE MONTANA METHOD or EEE-
D~RUNKARD.
There lives in a village, hot a thous&nG@
miles from Boulder, a man who is a chronic.
drunkard. Although IA good carpenter, and.
really an industrious man, he is almost a4lse
to get drunk some hour ont Of the twenty
four. When in a sac in inebriety, lie ie a.
ways risky and noisy, and at times a h:sh,,-
interesting and original character, eli, lbs
entertains the BOYS, ell. Tells them. big,
stories, Ell! And uses big words, ell. A1Iix.
not at all particular whether they are exaet.y,
suited to the meaning or not. He deiigits,to
tell how he brought the dromedaries To Mon
tana, and how a dam'nd tool, ehTmist ,ol@
him for a moose, ell. and shot him dumn ii
his tracks, ell, He claims relationslig<:vi,l
Abe Lincoln, and q late Chief Justice of.tal-
%itornia, and says as low he was once G..a4.-.
Governor and Probate Judge.
This man had been making things .fseIr-.
in the village aforesaid, when D waesaE
in the neighDorhood took it into her los& to
reform him. She entered the town Gu nur
pony, gave him a little tafy. a&d led n IA!
away to the cu,:ntry. but alas. DUNG The,
night the Old mah fed, and the next n.Cr~ins:
he Was back to his old haunts in The rI.Iage.-
AS she wanted him to work, reform hin shs.
must, and as soon as he was missed she sad
died her pony and went after linz She