The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-02

$40 6ovCAA Ju6WSelVIS accord.
ingly.
Inc examination of j. j. Feely will take
place on next Saturday before Justice o.
sieara. The charge preferred is for stabbing
Andy Freeborn, the particulars of which
nave been published. The evidence will.
probably, show whether the case amounts to
much.
The merchant or business man cannot take
too much care in advertising. A welI-worded
advertisement, printed il a morning news
paper, which is bought for the news it con-
tains, will reach the eye of thousands of
people, and in a way to commend itself to
their attention.
Messrs. Blackburn u Sanburn's card in
this issue informs the public that they make
tomostones and monuments a speciality. As
1t Is getting quite fashionable no w-a-days to
write ones own epitaph and select a tomb
stone, a point may be made by calling on
Messrs. b. g. S. at their yard on West Park
street.
The MINER publishes all the reliable min.
ing Intelligence of this and adjoining camps,
and in SO doing carefully avoids any exagger-
alton or attempt to deceive. All that is nee
essary to say about the mines in this district
is the truth. 1t does not require a particle of
lying to sustain the reputation of the mines
of the Butte district.
The school bonds of Butte district, to the
amount of $12,0 900, have not been taken vet.
Parties are figuring on taking the bonds at
the rates stipulated by the law. Surely when
government bonds at low rates of interest
are freely taken, these school bonds, that
bear a good rate of interest, should not 60
begging for a purchaser.
From Thursdays Daily.l
Job Printing neatly executed at the MINER
office.
The Washington stables are offered for
rent. See ad.
. Very little freight is coming up from the
terminus now.
The knights of the paint pot are crowded
with work.
Charcoal-wagons are delivering coal in
large quantities.
A very square meal can be purchased in
Butte for four-bits.
The street sprinkler is doing good work in
keeping the dust down.
The Improvements at the Silver Bow mill
are nearing completion.
The general delivery at the Postofice
closes, sharp, at 7 O'Clock p. IA.
Additional placer claims have been located
within a short distance of Butte.
The bids for building the new Miners
Union Hall are under consideration.
The foundation for the new Miners Union
Hall will be on the rock of ages.
The Anselmo mine is producing about
twelve tons of high grade ore every day.
Butte Chapter of the Eastern Star will not
meet again until the first Saturday IN August.
Parties owning vacant lots are beginning
to cipher on the cost of two and three-story
brick buildings.
MIR. j. Fl. Harper, who has been confined to
his room for several days, by an attack of
sickness, is better.
Forty-six was the throw that won the
pictures of Niagara Falls last night. Frank
Beck did the throwing.
The rush continues at Sands & Boyce's, on
Main street. The daily sales at this house
are extraordinarily heavy.
Some men play billiards with precisely the
same grace and ease they would exhibit in
saving wood at a 81 a cord.
The Pacific Express Company shipped
yesterday six bars of Alice silver bullion,
weighing 729 pounds, and valued at S11 1854.
Work on the new shaft house Of the Orig
inal mine is going forward finely, aud the
building is being erected in the most substan-
tial manner.
The officers of the Northern Pacific Rail
way were eXamlr ing the mines, mills, and
smelters of the Butte district yesterday. The
gentlemen take their departure to-day.
The survey of the Utah and Northern rail
road crosses Silver Bow Creek about the
mouth of Whisky Gulch, and thence runs up
on the Butte side of the creek to the Parrot
Smelter.
The price of oats has very materially ad-
yarced in the Butte market. Within the
past few days oats have gone up fully Is to
20 per cent. Scarcity is reported to be the
cause of the advance.
The Butte district school bonds were sold
yesterday to Raymond, Harrington & Co.,
bankers, Virginia City, for 95 cents on the
dollar. Tho amount of the bonds was $12,-
900, and the sum realized was $1l 400.
Some drivers are in the habit of driving too