The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-07-01
HELENA
What a "Miner" Man Picked up In q
Days Ramble

Special to THE MINER.
HELENA. Montana, June 26, 1885.
Although many people have raised the
hue and cry that Helena is a dull place, a
few moments ramble through the main
streets is calculated to dispel this idea from
the fact that business activity is depicted
everywhere. What with the many internal
improvements such as q fine court house,
beautiful Masonic Temple, commodious
city hall, with numerous other two and
three-story brick business blocks, to say
nothing of the many nice buildings with less
%pretensions, one has to readily admit that
some people would grumble if they were
going to be hung. OF course that wild, blus-
tering goaheadativeness that SO character
ICES Butte is conspicuous for it's absence
here, but on the other hand the men with
means are 10th to venture too far solely
on speculation, from the simple reason
that what they nave acquired, as a general
thing, has been gained by years OF toll and
strict attention to business. and they do
not propose to let what they have got slip
like sand through their fingers. Yet Helena
is a ''solid Muldoon." Her business men
are
sHREwD, YET NOT v~ENTUREsOME.
It would seem, however, that they stand
in their own light when they refuse to aid
sufficiently to secure the erection OF a smell
ter, which it seems they have done. The
proposition was to raise $2OO,OOO, and as
only about one-fourth of this amount was
secured the scheme for the present was
dropped, except in a small way. Mr.. Eseler
has bought several acres OF ground from
Mr.. Kessler, on Ten Mile, and has erected a
small sample, and it is said that he is doing
a nice little business.
THE ARTESIAN WE'LL.
Messrs. Loomis & Litchfeld have taken
the contract to go down 1000 feet on the
artesian well, or get ~water-fiowing water.
To-day they are getting everything in
readiness to work. They have
had much experience in sinking oil wells IN
Pennsylvania, and have ome highly recon-
mended. They will sink a shaft three and
a half feet to bed rock, which they expect
to strike in about one hundred feet, n
then drill a five and One-eighth inch hole
the remainder of the distance. They an
ticipate no trouble in fulfilling their con-
tract to the entire satisfaction OF all in
about two months.
Sheriff Churchill will leave in the morn
ing for the Springs with a man named
Chris. Parrott, who is suffering from some
slight arrangement OF the mead. Inc onerll
will then visit Butte.
A Gregory OF Boston, a noted WOO agent,
passed a season in Helena interviewing the
wool men and contracting for thousands OF
pounds of that article.
The old Jumbo building is being rapidly
transformed into a irst-class hotel, and it
will be occupied the first OF the week.
The new Grand Central is doing a first
class business. Messrs. Reid & Kinda are
certainly popular landlords.
Harmonic Hall.has been transposed into
an auction house for the nonce and the
stock belonging to the Fair notion house
is being rapidly disposed OF to the highest
bidder, George Booker doing the 'going
going, gone" business. The things are
selling at good prices.
The weather is lovely, and everybody if
beginning to think that Helena is the comins
city. There is no doubt but that she is q
solid town.