The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-16
AMAL0AM,
AS Found in Our Clean-Up of the
Territorial Exchanges.

Territorial Exchanges.
Glendive is to have a new weekly
Democratic paper.
Dillon Tribune: The money ordel
business Of the Dillon postoffice il
looming up. The posted assistant al
the post-shop says it now reaches
nearly 81. 900 per month.
Huab01etl7n0o, 10th: Several min.
ing men at the Springs have the
C@ur d'Alene fever. They propose
to 90 to the new diggings early in the
spring.
Husbandnaa,a, 10th: We are sorry
to learn that the effort to put the
Barker smelter in operation has
proved a failure, reports to the con-
trary Notwithstanding.
During the past year Montana ex-
ported. by way of the Missouri river,
LIPS, 900 pounds of wool, $50, 1000
pounds of bullion, and 500, 900 pounds
of hides, furs and peltrles.
Husbandman, 10th: Should the
u. & n. Railroad be extended to the
Bozeman coal mines next summer,
as is proposed, the towns of Bridge
Vile and Three Forks will have a
building boom.
Helena Herald: l.. P. William
son, who runs stage line through
a portion Of Texas, where the Do
minion Cattle Company is located,
says that "a 900 head Of steers, rang
ing from one to three years old, will
be driven next summer by that COM
pany to a range in Eastern Montana.
The drive will be the largest ever
made to the North.
Dillon Tribune: The Hon. Joe P.
Woolman, Territorial Auditor, wants
to put on bis specs when he complies
tables of Territorial statistics. In his
tabular statement he credits Beaver
head county with an assessment of
$2,O0O,OOO for '83, when it should be
So, ,2O0,0 900. The difference of $500, 900
in round numbers is quite sum, and
when the Hon. Joe revises his work
it is expected he will obtain the cor
rect figures.
The last twenty-five miles of track
the Northern Pacific will build III
some time is being examined this
week by three gentlemen who will
sign the report Gen. Anderson has
all drawn up in his valise. When
President Arthur appointed one of
these three commissioners last month
he said Jocularly: II hope you will
send in an unfavOrable report. It
will be the first ever received from
road. ."--Bozeman Ghron-
Gle Jan. 10.
Dillon Tribune: During the past
week it was discovered that the south
chimney of the court house was in an
insecure condition. The walls of the
chimney in several places were found
to be cracked open so widely that
volumes Of smoke were issuing there
from, and it's condition endangers
the burning of the building. Chair
man Wells, of the Board of Commis-
has been notified, and it
is probable he will Immediately Or
der the tearing down of the chimney
and the erection of a secure one in its
place.
Helena Herald: The attorneys for
Young, the condemned murderer
recently reprieved by order of the
President for sixty days. are asking
tor a continuance On the appealed
hearing in his case, on the ground
that the Supreme Court at its present
session is not represented by full
bench. We hear it stated that Gov
arnor Crosby will refuse to extend
the reprieve of Young, and it is
claimed that really the President !
has no authority to interfere in this |
where the criminal has been
tried and convicted IN a Territorial
Court under Territorial law.
The mining operations of the
will be at Emigrant Gulch,
heretofore referred to in. these col |
INNS, and is only four miles from
;he Park branch of the Northern Pa
,ific railway. From 25O,O0O cubic !
'eet Of earth the yield is $2O,O7. O9,
S2. Is to the cubic yard from grass
'oots to bed rock. Two years ago a
shaft was sunk ninety feet into this
BAR, seventy-fve feet above the |
liver bank with profit. The machin-
Try for working the mines will be
JuA CbOSCu az oACC Uuu lnC 4uCO1 pSl0>
ors promise that ninety days from
operations with hydraulic |
pressure, they will pay dividend of
70 per cent. on the original invest
lent; .e u,tc1 = They h; y, ,, believe they have
The above from the st. Paul Globe
s undoubtedly an explanation of MIR.
Jooper's trip East. The readers of |
hese columns are fully aware of the
'ichness of the company's develop !
nents and this action goes to help
well the improvements now on the !
apis for Bozeman's benefit. The en-
members of the Cone
are to be congratulated on
heir confidence and energy.--Boze-
nan Chronicle, Jan. 10.