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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-12
PrOduceMarkeJ Report.

BUTTE, NJ. T., Jan ~, 1884,
The following are the wholesale
prices paid by merchants and hotel
keepers for the commodities enumer-
ated, delivered from the wagons
Price list carefully corrected every
Saturday:
Flour Ruby Valley, xxx, $500
per cWt.
Mill Greek, xxx. $4.00
perc wt.
Kansas xxx $3.50.
Bakers, $3.50.
Mill Creek, New Process, $500.
Gallatin, $40 per cwt.
Union Mills, New Process, Cream
of the Valley, $500
Ruby Valley, (new process) $500.
Union Mills xxx Snow flake,
$3.50.
Utah Common, 1925
NUtah Choice, $780,:
@@Graham, $500.
Wheat per TO-, 2 cts.
Oats, 81. 75@1.S0.
Butter, per Ill.,, 5000 cts.
Eggs, per case, $12.50@11.00
Corn Meal, DC.
Beef, carcass, Sc.
HAY per ton. $24l9S26
Balled Hay, per ton, $22.@24.W
Cheese, 2O@2 cts5
Barley, $2.S5@2.50 per cwt...
Dried beans, Montana, 7 cts.
Mutton, 8 cts.
Pork, dressed, Ss@1Octs. per ID.
Veal, 123cts. per Id.
Sausage, Is cts. per h..
Venison carcass 8c@1Oc
Chickens, live, SO at $40 per dozen.
Wood, $6.00@$7.
Potatoes, $3.50 Rcwt.
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Reform Club Meeting.

The members Of the Reform Club
held a special meeting last night to
effect a more systematic organiza-
ton. Vice President VIM. Porter
presided, and after a full discussion
of the needs and capabilities of the
society a committee of three was ap-
pointed to draft a constitution and
bylaws, to be submitted for adoption
IN next Tuesday night. The meet
ing was very large and the greatest
earnestnes of purpose to sustain the
organization was manifested, and
the utmost harmony of feeling pre-
vailed.
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Advice to Mothers.


Are you disturbed at night and
broken of your rest by a sick child
suffering aud crying with pain of
cutting teeth ? If so send at once and
get a bottle of Mrs. Winslows' SOoth-
ing syrup for children teething. Its
value is incalculable. It will relieve
the poor little sufferer Immediately.
Depend upon it mothers, there is no
mistake about it. It cures dysantary
and diarrhoea, regulates the stomach
and bowels, reduces Inflammation
and gives tone and energy to the
whole sytem. Mrs. Winslows.
Soothing Syrup for children teeth
ing is pleasant to the taste and is the
prescription of one of the Oldest fe-
male physicians in the United States
and is for sale by all druggists
throughout the world. Price Is cents
per bottle 6-16-sw1y
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CGUR D'ALENE.
Don't Leave a Good Situation
to Join in the Rush,

A correspondent writing from
Portland, Or, to the Eureka Sentinel
has the following to say about the
new mines: 1--WE are on the eve of
q great mining excitement which
will equal, if it does not surpass, that
of Fraser River and Cariboo. The
C@ur d'Alene mines are the general
topic of conversation. A company is
building a boat to run on Lake Ceur
d'Alene. A portion of the boat is
already shipped to its destination.
This steamer will be used for trans
porting freight and passengers. They
propose to run a small steamer up
the creek to Eagle City within six
miles of the mines. There is now
building in this city an engine for a
saw and shingle mill, the former to
have a capacity of 20, 900 feet per day.
IF the emigration to this coun-
try proves to be as large as
is anticipated, there is going
to be trouble. The old mining la Tvs
of Idaho permit a miner to hold
twenty acres as q claim. If these
mines r as..rich as represented, and
$4,000 miners go there next spring. it
will be hard for one man to hold 50
much ground.
Notwithstanding that all the re-
ports that come from there are very
favorable, I would not advise any
one to leave q good business or a
good situation to go to these mines
until they are more fully developed.
Some say that 5000 people will go
there next summer, and I do not
doubt it in the least, from present ap-
pearances.
zone must make some allowances
for those fancy reports coming now.
The writer has been carried away by
more than one mining excitement,
and paid dearly for it, therefore he
would say to those who are doing
we'll, ponder over the matter a little
before going to an uncertainty"
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What Makes q Vag.'

The statute defines q vagrant as
an idle and dissolute person who has
no visible means of support; who
has the physical ability to work and
who does not use due diligence to
obtain employment; also. one who
frequents gambling saloons and So
licits money or checks from the pro-
prietor, %bystander or players, and
who has no other means of living
than by money so obtained. He is
commonly called a check guerilla;
also. every lewd or dissolute male
person who lives in and about houses
of ill-fame and infests opium joints.
Have we any in Butte?
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The Causes Of Deteriorated Eye
sight.

The causes to which this deteriora-
ton of eyesight has been attributed
are alleged to be cross lights from op-
posite windows, light shining direct
1y upon the face, insufficient light,
small types, and to the position of
the desk, forcing the scholar to bend
over and bring the eyes too close to
the book, writing paper, etc.
But, were all these defects reme-
died, the integrity of the eye would
not be restored nor its deterioration
prevented. The chief causes of the
evil would still remain. These are
the colors of the paper and the ink.
White paper and black ink are ruin
ing the eyesight of reading nations.
1.-The rays of the sum-" says Lord
Bacon, "are reflected by a white
body, and are absorbed by a black
one" No one dissents from this
opinion; but, despite these indica-
tions of nature and of philosophy, we
print books and write our letters
in direct opposition to the sugges-
tions of optical science
When we read u book printed in
the existing mode we do not see the
letters, which, being black, are nom
reflective. The shapes reach the re-
tina, but they r not received by a
spontaneous, direct action of that or
gan. The white surface of the paper
is reflected, but the letters are detec-
ted only by a discriminating effort of
the optic nerve. This effort annoys
the nerve, and, when long continued
exhausts their susceptibility. The
human eye cannot long sustain the
broad glare of a white surface without
injury. The author of "Spanish Wis
tas" in Harper's Magazine, says of
Cartagena that ''blind people seem to
be numerous here, a fact which may
be owing to the excessive dazzle of
the sunlight and the absence of verdi
ure." Mr. Seward, in his tour around
the world, observed that sin Egypt
ophthalmia is universal" attributing
it to the same Excessive dazzle" of
the wide areas of white sand, and the
British soldiers, in the late campaign
in that country, exhibited symptoms
of the same disease. In the Smith
sonian report for 1877 it is stated, in
a paper or color blindness, that M.
Chevreul has produced l4,42O distin-
guishable tints of the elementary
colors. from which the paper manu-
facturers could select colors more
agreeable to the eye than the dazzle
ing white, so weakening and lacerat-
ing to the nerves of that delicate Or
gan.-Samuel Yerke at Lee, in Popu-
Tar Science Monthly.
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Prltchard's Gulch.

Virginia Chronicle: Pritchard's
guIch is 20 miles long, and from 200
to 500 yards wide, the stream falling
about two feet in 100. The slate
crosses the stream at nearly right
angles, and the jagged slate makes
natural rifles which have caught the
gold. There is some block slate like
that at hay Horse, on which, Of
course. there is no gold, there being
nothing to hold it in place. Most of
the gold is coarse, and many large
nuggets have been found. Only one
claim thus far shows need of quick
silver, but MI. Porter believes they
vii! all want it soon, as the QUART
which he saw there is all porous, in
dlcatlng that the gold has PASSED out
of 1t In particles.
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DENVER, Jan. 11.-President Love-
joy, of the Denver l. Rio Grande
road, says that the $5O,0OO.OOO mort
gage gwen to the Union Trust COM
pany yesterday covers all mortgages
heretofore given by the company.
Only two and a half millions cash
was obtained from the Trust com
pany on the bonds, which the presi-
dent says will be sufficient to meet
all present needs.
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The Railroad at W eiser City.

The locomotive made a loud noise
on this side of the Weiser bridge
yesterday morning. The first smoke
STACK ever seeen in this region pulled
its smoke within sight of town yes
terday, crossing the bridge, and
showing a ghard head to the West.
The railroad music is now playing on
this side of the bridge, and there is a
pleasant lot of gentlemen to set the
tune eiser Leader, jan. 5.
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AMALaAM.
As Found In Our Clean.UD Of the
Territorial Exchanges.

Madison county assessments in
creased $500, 600 dnring the past year.
During the past year the sum of
$3.50, 800 has been expended in the
erection of buildings at Miles City.
Peter Brannigan is in Jail at Liv-
ingston on a charge of burglarizing
the ticket agents office and stealing
a 10OO-mile ticket.
The total amounts appropriated
for the Yellowstone river, covering
everything from time immemorial,
have been $4,000.
The Glendive people are having a
hot discussion Over the question
whether Dawson county has any
boundary lines.
It is understood that about $40, 900
is due W.. E. Tierney & Co., of Town
/ send (who recently made an assign
ment), from ranchmen in that Sec
ton.
Larry Burk, known as "bum,"
was found dead at Livingston Mon
day night. When found the officers
were looking for Larry, intending to
bring him to the poor farm.
Articles of incorporation of the
Yellowstone and Missouri River
| Navigation Company, with head
| quarters at Glendive, have been filed
| with the Secretary OF the Territory.
Thomas F. Coryell has been jump
| ing q number of claims in Emigrant
| gulch, among them the Gold Leaf,
recently sold by G. H. Sowl to A. NJ.
Hotter of Helena.
Rev. Mr.. Storrs, of Brookline,
| Mass, has presented his friend, Bish-
| Oh Brewer, of Montana, with a hand
| some organ for st. Paul's Episcopal
| church at Livingston.
A tract of 10000 acres of desert
land in Choteau county has been
| taken up by Messrs. Hauser, Hotter,
| and others. It will be irrigated by =
fifteen mile ditch from Sun River.
The Gregory Company's new con-
centratOr, now being constructed,
| will cost when finished about $50, 900.
Its daily capacity is seventy tive tons.
It is said t. be the model %concentra-
tor of the Northwest.
Last week W. III. Raymond, or
| Belmont Park, sold to Geo. Thextop,
jr, for $500, the fine bay stallion,
Excelle, who carried off the first
premium at the Helena Fair as the
best two year old stallion for general
purposes on exhibition.
The Northern Pacific land sales for
| the Montana District during the
month of December amounted to
1872 acres, for which vas received
st ,618, and four town lots for $3.50.
This makes the total sales for the
month 7O.Ol7 acres for 1922, l6S; town
lots, 1922.
The National Education COnven-
| ton to meet at Madison, Wisconsin,,
next July, has already applied to the
National Park Improvement compa-
ny for an estimate of the cost OF q
trip of an excursion party Of 2O per-
sons from Madison to and through
| the Park and return.
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FROM ARIZONA.
A Good Country or a Boss Liar.

A miner writing from Arizona to
to q California paper says: II have
struck four feet OF gold ore that will
go S 1000 to the ton. I took out $500
worth of gold with my pocket knife.
I have got two boxes full of gold dust
worth about So, 900. I have got mug
gets of gold, pure gold, as large as
BIRDS eggs. sunk nine feet on the
ledge and took out ten tons before I
noticed the gold, and therefore,
blasted away several thousand dol
lars. I have $4,000 in sight. The
country is crazy over it. There are
clusters of gold as big as dollars
sticking all through the ledge. There
has been a sale made of one mine
near me for $500, 600; another four
miles from me sold for $40, 900. I
declined $4,000 for mine."
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Wjuter POStNTNQe.

have 200 acres ofthe best winter pasturag &c in
Deer Lodge Valley, either for horses or cattle,
The ranch is newly fenced and is we'll supplied
with water which never freezes in winter,
Parties who wish stock hay-fed during severe
weather can be accommodated For terms and
further particulars address or apply to John K.
Eardlcy, Willow Glen Postotfice, on Warm
Spring Creek, four miles east Of Anaconda
Deer Lodge County. N31sw-N
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Worrying a Sick Baby.

Even though the patient is a babe
or a very young child-whom many
people enormously believe cannot be
injured by company because they do
not know what is said-never allow
conversation or unusual noises in its
hearing. The little nerves are often
more sensitive than in aduit:.life; and
every stir is a jar from which they
shrink. Many a mother has unwit-
tingly injured her child by permitting
a garruluOus neighbor to sit and chat
ter with her. while she sought in
vain to sooth the moaning babe
L0Ws OF Life.
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The Portals of the Head,

the lips, allow the escape of a foul
breath when the teeth are coated
with impurities OF falling into decay
through neglect. If you would not
well nigh nauseate your friends aid
inspire strangers with disgust,
rid your mouth OF such Augeau odors
by purifying your teeth with zozo-
don't, which, if they are not past re-
demption, will revive their pristine
whiteness, and reinforce the shaker
members of the dental family.
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Local News

Don't forget the soiree at Caplice
Hall tonight.
Snow is two feet deep in the streets
of Bingham, Utah.
Remember Leford's soiree at Cap
lice Hall tonight.
Mr.. Nick Connolly lies quite i'll at
the Sisters Hospital.
Fun at the Pavilion tonight. A
skating race with four entries.
Attention is called to a notice of
the Bullion Club in another column.
Coal agents along the line OF the
U. & N. have been instructed to re-
duce the price or coal.
The Holland Comedy Company is
billed to appear four nights at Hal
ley, beginning tonight.
Preparations r being made to
light the business houses and city
again with electric lights.
Governor Murray was rendered q
reception last evening by the Rocky
Mountain League at Salt Lake City.
Silver Bow county has 1901 school
census children, leading by q large
majority, any other county in the
Territory in children.
The Signal Service people have
blundered fearfully of late in fore
casting the weather. Indications do
not always indicate.
A chimney on the Donnell, Clark
& Larabie building was afire to-day,
but was extinguished without calling
out the aid of the Fire Department.
A gentlemen just up from Ana
conda reports business fair to good
in the promising town. Lively times
are expected as SOC as spring fairly
opens,
J. d. Smith, the crank, has shaken
the dust Of Butte from his feet and
gone towards che land of the Saints.
He will doubtless feel more at home
in Utah.
DR.. O. B. Whitford's blooded bull
died yesterday. In attempting to
jump a fence it became impailed on
the fence. DR.. Whitford valued the
animal very highly and refused
$500 for it short time ago.
Lewis and Clarke county lowers
her record three mills in her tax levy
this year, it being IL mills on the
dollar. This we believe is the lowest
tax levy ever made by any county in
the Territory. Silver Bow stands
next with IL mills on the dollar.
Frisco" the good looking. polite
and expert mixologist of the Mint,
received a fall late last night that
came near sending him up the gold
en- stair. After going down the steps
from the Virginia Chop House, he
slipped upon the icy coating of the
sidewalk and fell, striking his cheek
with great force upon the corner of
the lower stone step. The fall rem
dered him insensible tor a moment,
but he soon recovered with no other
damage than a badly lacerated cheek
and the prospect for a black eye. Had
he struck two or three inches higher
his temple would have received the
blow. with, probably, a fatal result.
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On Monday, the Dist Gay of January, 1884
will sell at public auction, at the residence of
the late Martha Rosenstehl, deceased, at Fish
Creek, all the personal property of the deceased
in Jefferson county, Montana, consisting of forty
horses, two set of harness, two wagons, set OF
blacksmith tools and other articles too gunner
to mention. All sales under fifty dollars are to
be cash in hand, otherwise on nine month
credit with approved security.
HARRISON JORDAN.
JACOB ROSENSTEHL,
1900 s-v4v Administrator,
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DEER LODGE IIEMS,
As Gathered by a Miner" Re-
porter.

Two of Thomas Stuart's children
were taken down with diphtheria
yesterday morning.
One of the most pleasant surprise
parties of the season occurred at the
residence of MI. C. P. II. Beilen-
berg night before last. About thirty
of the iun.loving citizens of the Val
Icy City YER present. Charley
treated them in princely style, and
the health and prosperity of the gen.
erous host and hostess was repeat
eddy drank in bumpers Of sparkling
champagne.
The Collegiate Institute will again
open next Monday. The public
schools will not be taken up until
the 21st.
Billy Mathews, formerly of Butte,
and who has been visiting the Pacific
coast during the past few weeks, re-
turned to Deer Lodge a few days
ago. He reports activity in business
circles there. He says MI. Trow-
bridge, of Butte, is doing a good bus
mess in Portland, but Is reduced to a
mere shadow of his former self. In
stead of being the portly gentleman
he was in Butte, he has the "lean
and hungry look" of Cassius of old.
He says he will 0 % return to the
Silver City and send a man to take
charge of his business in Portland.
Jim Shields is in the butchering
business and claims he is coming
money. His receipts for the past
month, he says, amounted to $4,000
There is great excitement in Port
land about the C@ur d. Alene mines
and the rush from there is unprece-
dented. The points on the railroad
nearest the mines are Gro yded with
anxious gold seekers but they can't
get there yet. Too much snow.
Mr.. G. w, Carleton, who was
caught in the recent cold wave,
while on trip to Eardly's. and was
badly frost bitten is getting along
finely. He will not lose his right
hand though it was a close call.
Miss Mamie Kelley, who has been
ill for some time with that dread
scourge - diphtheria - is conva-
lescing rapidly and will soon be able
to be around again.
Mrs. James McAndrews Is recov-
ering from a severe attack of pneu-
monia.
Deer Lodge county thinks she has
outgrown her old court house and
will ad ,rn herself with a new one.
1t Is thought $50, 900 or $4,000 will
build one which will answer all re-
quirements. The Commissioners
have ordered the County Clerk to
procure plans and estimates to be
submitted to the Board at an early
day. The present court house is
considered insecure, and it is thought
a new one a be built and paid for
in time without materially increasing
the tax levy.
The town is enjoying a fair measure
Of prosperity, the people are sociable
and hospitable, and as the MINER is
read by nearly all, they are intelli-
gent, contented and happy.
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MONTANA MINES.
Opinion Of an Expert.

"W. H." in New North. West Of
9th inst: 1t was during the middle
of last December that Prof. Regis
Chauvenent, superintendent of the
State School of res, Golden City,
Colorado, was sent to the Granite
mine, Near P%hilipsburg, arrived at
the latter place in two and q half
days travelling time, including the
journey from Warm Springs station
and Cable road, forty miles, in open
conveyance. His report not having
been made public, it is Interesting to
know from one 80 we'll qualified to
judge, that the Granite mine was all
that it had been represented to be, and
that the professor had not expected
to see such a mine. Two specimens
of ore that he broke off the lead
showed native and ruby silver he
thought would go nine thousand dol
lars per ton, and which he took home
with evident pride, as he knew they
would delight the eyes of Colorado
ms
When asked for his opinion about
the Butte mines, he thought they
promised permanency, and said "We
have no three mines in Leadviile
like the Alice, Lexington and Ana
conda."
About thirty men are employed in
the Granite mine this winter, in three
tunnels, with compressed air for
driving the Burleigh drills. A dia-
mond drill is also sinking on the
lead, which makes ten thousand
revolutions in going down one inch,
and penetrates a foot in from six to
ten minutes. In going through the
mine one notices, when about 800 feet
in the tunnel, the lead pinches out to
a mere seam, which continues about
fifteen feet and then reopens again
richer than before; and but for this
discovery it might have remained
hidden for ages, for as Mr. Perkins,
the superintendent, was on his way
to communicate the fact to his COM
pany in. st. Louis, he received
a telegram to close down the
mine but when informed that
they had struck it, the order was
countermanded. Siuce that time two
runs have been made on the ore in
the Algonquin mill that yielded two
hundred and fifteen thousand dollars,
which changed the aspect of affairs,
and has given new impetus to the
camp.
MI. Kellogg has lately surveyed
6O62 feet, to a diverging point, for an
elevated, endless-wire tramway. He
has also surveyed a ditch from the
top of Flint creek falls, and ere two
months have passed away, the lower
tunnel is expected to reach the point
underneath the richer deposits found
above.
Mr.. Kellogg is now surveying on
Clear Creek or Boulder for the Lex
ington Company, Butte, three mill
sites and seven mining claims, on
the Princeton lead, and the work Of
development will be resumed in
April-Mr. J. K. Pardee having been
appointed superintendent.
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Week of Prayer.

The Union Prayer Meeting will lie
held in the Congregational Church
this evening. The topic is Prayer
for Home and Foreign Mission-For
missionaries, that they may be sus>
tanned in trials and prove efficient in
labors for heather and Mohamme-
dams that they may be won to Christ.
The meetings have been well at
tended every night thus far and are
Interesting.
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The very latest styles of bangle
bracelets, in gold and silver, at Ley
son & Trucks.
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For Sale.

A saloon on Main street; good To-
cation and fine run of trade. Apply
at the MINER office for particulars.
16-d-tf
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SHILOH'S COUGH and Con-
sumption Cure is sold by us on q
guarantee. It cures consumption.
Sold by Newton Bros.
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CATARRH CURED, health and
sweet breath secured by Shilohs'
Catarrh Remedy. Price SO cents.
Nasal Injector free. Sold by Newton
Bros.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-12

The finest line of gold and silver
watches, especially selected for the
holidays, at Leyson b Turck's.
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SHILOH'S VITALIZER is what
you need for Constipation, Loss OF
Appetite, Dizziness and all symptoms
of Dyspepsia. Price 10 and % cents
per bottle. Sold by Newton Bros.
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They are now at work laying track
in the Bozeman tunnel,