The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-24
SOUTH BUTTE.
Doings in and About the Dep0t-Facts
and FaRcles.

J. D.. Somers, the dispatcher at Silver
Bow, is up.
Conductor Eayrs brought in twenty pas
! sengers on time yesterday.
The freight crews OF the Utah & Northern
i are making all the overtime they want
these days.
Wednesday afternoon after paying on al
at the depot, the pay car started Tor Gar
| rison and Anaconda.
Ten new engines are being built Tor the
| Utah 4 Northern. OF these it is expected
six will come to Butte.
! Mrs. Mary E. Boland has purchased the
boarding house OF Mrs. j. b. Kent, and
will in future conduct it.
Thirty men are employed on the addition
to the round house, n it il expected 1t
! will be enclosed before cold weather sets in
A few days ago there were shipped from
| Red Rock ON the Utah & Northern, forty
car loads of beeves for Chicago, each steer
| weighing over 1900 pounds. 1t took two
engines to draw the train to Pocatello.
The company have determined to erect a
car repair shop, as at present all repairing
is done in the open air. This is another OF
the many contemplated improvements.
The Utah e. Northern railroad company
employs over one hundred and fifty men
who reside in the vicinity OF the depot and
who receive some twenty-five thousand dol
lars per month in wages.
Railroad Assembly Knights OF Labor
meets every Wednesday evening at Cobban
Hall, Master Workman Haggerty in the
chair. AL members of the K. OF L., in good
standing are invited to attend.
There is some talk of Incorporating the
town OF South Butte and dividing it into
MIL, onks~~ hos ovor y nm
inhabitants and over 81. OOO, 900 worth OF
taxable property. 1t is surely entitled TO
a branch ~postoffice.
The Firemen are .ell pleased With Bro.
M~cGarrahan's report of his doings at the
National Convention of Locomotive Fire
men recently held at Philadelphia. The
report shows hat the convention was a
great success, and that much good was &C.
complished,
The genial j. D. Spenceris a daily passen-
ger on the 9:35 train. He is the last to
board the train, but is sure to be the first
on the platform on the arrival OF the 1910
passenger. He only goes down to Silver
Bow in the interest OF the Transfer COM
pany. Mr.. Spencer understands the BUSH
ness for he always has the passengers sup
piled with bus tickets and fills that vehicle
both inside and outside on its trip to the
city.
South Butte boasts of having three no.
tells, five saloons, two barber shops, one
grocery store, one butcher shop, four Chi
nese laundries, one planning mill, three lum-
Der yards, ten or twelve large ware houses,
eight or ten boarding houses, a blacksmith
shop and livery stable, and lastly it has
the shops of the Utah & Northern, whose
employees all live there. South Butte is a
prosperous suburb of this city and no idlers
are allowed there.
Mr.. Eek. Foreman, of the building de-
partment of the Idaho division, was up
from Pocatello Wednesday,. He was ex-
amining the ground with a view of selecting
a site on which to erect a large salt ware
house that the company have determined
to construct. He selected a place nearly
opposite the depot and the work OF build
ing will tegin at an early day. When com
pleted it will have a storage capacity sui
ficient to keep all the mills in salt for twenty
days.