The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-29
AS OTHERS e Us.
Impressions Of a Lively, Busting
Montana Town by a Walla
Walla Correspondent.
Butte Ahead in Life, Energy and
Enterprise.

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recently, under date Sept. 18th,
writes his paper, the Walla Walla
Daily Statesman, as follows:
At the last spike" celebration 1
met many prominent citizens OF
Butte, who pressed me so hard to Wis
it their city that [ was feign to prom
ise; and 1 must say I am glad I came,
for q more genial, hespitable lot of
people I never before met. Butte is
farther ahead in life, energy and
business, than any other city 1 have
taken in OH the coast, except Port
land. The business men are true
representatives of American go-ahead
principles, and do an immense trade,
and there are few dry goods, grocery
and hardware houses in Portland
which carry larger stocks of goods.
One hardware house carries a quarter
of a million doll ars worth of stock,
and the firm of J. Caplice & Co., who
have branches all overthe territory do
a business of SIS 900 monthly. The
stores are large and handsome,
and there are plenty of
them. The city contains about 1000
inhabitants and depends entirely up
on the numerous mines and smelling
works which give employment to
thousands of men. To-day, armed
with letters of introduction from
MI. VIM. Clark, one of the principal
owners in the world-renowned Moul-
tor mine, and from u old time
Walla Walla citizen, Dan Welsh, to
the superintendent Of the no less re-
nowned Alice mine, I visited the
mines and mills which are situated
about one and a half miles from
Butte. Getting into the cage, or ele-
vator at the Moulton, ia a flash 1 was
landed on the 500 foot level, and un-
der the guidance of Patsy Clark, the
foreman of the mine, was conducted
through it. I found the pay rock to
consist ofa solid ledge of vein matter,
paying sulphuret ore, carry
ing all the way from 20 to
200 ounces of silver to the ton,
and averaging about 40 ounces,
which is worked by the dry process
and roasted. The mills are fine
and the Alice and Mouiton,
which adjoin. cover as much ground
as from our Main sire t bridge to
Fourth, and as this is only two out of
scores, some idea may be formed of
the extent and richness OF these
which are the richest and
most prosperous on the Pacific
or anywhere else, for that mat
ter. One of these mines is run by
by an engine Of $50 horse power, and
millions of dollars are invested in
machinery alone. The Lexington
mine is said to be the richest in the
and runs in its two mills 20
stamps, and the realized bullion pro-
duct for seven monts of 1883 was
STAG, 264. The Alice's two mills,
80 stamps, produces $685.
900 monthly. I saw them to-day,
hauling big slabs Of bullion out
Of the furnace, which was broken
up with sledges and loaded on cars,
to be taken to the smelters, to be cast
into silver bricks, which lie around
here like sacks of grain in a Waila
Walla harvest field. Last year The
product of the camp contributed by
twenty five other properties outside
Of the ten best mines vas $7,2hO,Ohh
But with all this wealth and popula-
ton it has only two daily and week.
ly newspapers, but they are we'll sup
Here, as in Helena and other
I find a great desire among
the business men to open a trade
with Walla Walla.
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Mr.. Parker continues at some
with an array of facts and
figures, showing the feasibility of our
produce, fruit aud vegetable market
being supplied by Walla Walla