The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-15
BOHEMIAN BUDGET.
Distinguished Visitors and Their
Views Of Montana.
Monied Men Looking to the North
west for Investment.
Public improvements in 1.-THE
Beautiful City,"
An Advantageous Exodus.

BOHEMIAN, M. r. Aug. 9, '83.
Bozeman is hot and dusty, but not
dull. Merchants report a satisfactory
business, and the arrival of numerous
home seekers from the East has had
a tendency to stimulate the demand
for real estate, which has hitherto
been Oh the wane. Principal among
the noted arrivals during the past
week was Roscoe Conkling. In a
brief interview with your correspond
ent he expressed himself as greatly
surprised and pleased with Montana
in general and Bozeman in partieu-
lar. He predicts a heavy emigration
next year as a result from the wide
spread advertising the Territory
will receive from the hosts of tourists
now visiting the National Park.
Hon. Martin L. Townsend, r. M.
Townsend and Tracy G. Drake, of
Troy, New York, made a short halt
in our city while en- route to the
Park. They were enthusiastic in
their praises of the Northern Pacific
Railroad and the famous Yellowstone
Valley which it %traverses. One of
their party, who represents a syndi-
cate Of Eastern capitalists, will re-
turn this fall with a view to making
some heavy investments in mines,
providing his Investigations confirm
his already favorable opinion.
Arthur Driscoll, son of DR.. Dris-
coll, one of the proprietors of the PiO-
neer Press, is in town looking after a
desirable stock range. He intends
going into the cattle business on quite
an extensive scale.
A. J. eeligman, Sol of the famous
New York banker of that name, was
in the city Monday. He was bound
for the mecca of pilgrims, the Nation
al Park. He reports business of all
kinds verv dull through the eastern
states and says the recent failures
in Boston, if followed by many more
of a like character: will precipitate u
panic. He says mOnied men are be.
ginning to look to the Northwestern
Territories for safe and pr, ftable
places of investment, and he thinks
Montana will reap the benefit of this
move even more than Dakota, as We
have more varied resources.
The event of the season will be the
Beecher lecture. 1t is to be held in
the roller skating rink building, a
large one story frame structure capa-
BILE of seating a thousand people.
The Bessie Louise King Opera troupe
will be here about the same time, SO
the entertainment loving citizens
will have a rare treat.
The periodical howl about building
a new hotel has begun and while all
oI~o:% <l,n ~ ccSor no00dSlfW na nnA
comes to the front with the required
ducats.
A very fine school building costing
SIS, 600 is being built in the eastern
part of town. When completed it
will be n of the handsomest school
buildings in the Territory. Main
street is being beautified by the erec-
ton of several fine brick business
blocks, The Episcopalians are build
ing a pretty little parsonage tor their
popular preacher and the Pfesbyte-
rians will shortly follow suit for their
new dominic, who is winning golden
opinions from a rapidly increasing
congregation. There are over a hum
bred new buildings in the course of
erection, many of which will cost up
in the thousands. Farmers through
out the valley appear we'll pleased
with the crop outlook. They say the
has been dry, bnt close atten-
ton to irrigation, has in a great meas
ure remedied this difficulty, and they
confidently expect the regular aver
age of 40 bushels to the acre.
The machinery of our city govern
ment recently inaugurated, seems to
be running smoothly. The licenses
will furnish al ample fund
to meet current expenses.
New sidewalks are being built in
every district. Property owners
grumble and lumbermen laugh and
grow fat. 49,.
. The sporting fraternity which
heretofore has graced u streets and
hotels appears to have fallen off in
numbers, and the remaining ones
look as though they are in the sere
and yellow leaf. Smiths $4,000
Palace Saloon which all winter was
thronged, is now nearly deserted,
and the Italian band that discoursed
sweet music, like the last rose of sum-
me1 has faded and gone. Our worthy
chief of police says the ladies of the
denai monde persuasion have followed
in this general exodus, and only
nine are left in the city.
Old timers shake their heads ON
and say the increased num-
Der of bullwhackers and gamblers
was a thermometer by which they
marked the rise in trade. Is.