The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-01-18
MINOR ITEMS.
From TUESDAYS Daily,

During the year 1880 Montana, by river and
railroad, imported 81, ,215 pounds Of
freight.
The MINER extends congratulations to Mr..
and Mrs. Freyschlag on the birth of a lovely
girl on the Sth inst.
Cold weather prevails in the Judith coun- !
try, but feed is good and the sheep and cattle
are doing remarkably well.
The amount Of freight imported to Nom
tana via. the Missouri river during the year
1880 is 2s,O29, 610 pounds.
A change in the temperature at Benton of
SO degrees in "a hours IS recorded by the
River Press as evidence of what a Chinook
will do.
An order was made by the supreme court
on Thursday directing that a term of the sec
ond district court be held in Deer Lodge be-
ginning on the third Monday in February.
General G. G. Clements, a gentleman
quite heavily interested in the Moulton en-
terprise, arrived in Butte from New Castle,
Indiana. The gentleman is en- route to the
Cataract district to examine a mining prop
erty.
we learn that the loss of sheep in Burt &
Klein's focks foots up several hudred head.
Mr.. Burt is actively engaged in providing for
them. He is feeding hay to the lambs and
the weak, unacclimated sheep. The other
iocks are driven to the hills, roads being
plowed for Observation-Disclosures.
The Blackfoot Register says: There is
every reason to believe that there will be a
grand rush in he spring to- the mines OF the
Wood river and Yankee Fork countries. We
learn that thousands contemplate leaving Col
orado for these countries, and we would not
be in the least surprised to see $500 people in
the Wood river camps before July LIST.
The steamer Bachelor, which is now frozen
in the Missouri river above Fl. Buford, left
Bismarck late. last fall with government
freight which was delivered at the mouth of
the Muscleshell. The owners, however, con-
tracted for demurrage, should the boat be
frozen in and detained. The government has
just compromised the matter by paying them
S11.5O0, for which consideration they wave
all claims for detention and any damages that
may result from she breaking up of the ice
next spring.
TFrom Wednesdays Daily
The Moulton ssafl is down over 80 feet.
The shaft is a model of workmanship.
The fall of snow this winter in the Bitter
Root valley is not so deep as usual.
Excellent progress is being made towards
the completion of the blast furnace at the
. smelter of the Montana copper company.
There are more dogs to the square foot in
Butte than in any other town of the size on
the Pacific coast, ard a prayer is daily being
. offered to the city council to pass a dog law.
t 1t is reliably reported that Messrs. Wilson
& Mcmillan on or before March 1st will start
a stauuch republican paper. The prcprietors
Of the proposed venture are gentlemen of
experience and ability. and viii! undoubtedly
+ succeed in establishing a paper in which the
people have confidence. Several other papers
are talked of, which we hope will be started.
There is a magnificent field in Butte for half
+ a dozen first-class newspapers.
: From Thursdays DallyJ
: The Stephens never looked so well as it
does at the present time. Mr.. Stuart has
t just made a shipment of 60 tons of ore 10 the
Dexter mill. It assays $50.
independents: We learn that the house of
Mr.. Charles Pryse, in Mcclellan gulch, was
. burned on the morning of December Goth.
n Mr.. Pryse's loss is estimated at 81, POO.
The Dexter Mill Company has leased the
. P,r,a -l;,l tlo,r1 q, lou. 1,ola ,,,-n :,
one of the most productive properties in the
u camp. Al present only Is tons per diem will
be extracted.
The cause of Mr.. Geoarey Lavelle's abund-
ant good nature yesterday was not so much
on account of the rapid sale of Bell stock as
=, for a reason which will be found explained
among the birth Offices.
Gazzam Il. Lash and Miss Nellie McAllis-
ter were last evening married III the parlors
of the Grand Central hotel, Judge O'Meara
performing the ceremony. We wish the
blissful pair a long life of connublal felicity.
The Rirer Press contains an account of the
marriage at Fort Benton last week of Charles
Z. Conrad, a prominent and succesliull mer-
chant of that live town, sand Miss Alicia d.
Stanford, one ofthe bellies of the river metrop-
oils.
Many of our solid business men yesterday
invested heavily in Bell stock thus demonstrate
i ing their faith in what we confidently believe
4 will develop into one of the richest and
5 most productive mining properties on the Pa
! cific coast.
TIL Indcpendcnt says that in the council
are one miner. one druggist, one LAWYER. one