The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-06-06
OURSELVES AND OUR NEIGHBoRs

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Boulder is to have a Baptist church.
Grasshoppers are devastating Colorad,
Virginia City, Montana. will celebrate tn
Fourth Of July.
The Montana woolgrowers have had a
excellent season.
The 'short change" game is being worke,
in Washington Territory.
The Enterprise says Boulder City is tn.
greatest stage center in Montana.
Thirteen cars Of emigrants on one traiI
arrived at Portland last week.
An anti Chinese club in Los Angeles il
making co nsiderable Roadway.
A salmon weighing fifty-two pounds was
caught near Portland last week.
Complaints are made of the treatment oil
prisoners in the Idaho Penitentiary.
Liquor licenses at Salt Lake have been re-
duced from $500 to $50 per quarter.
Boulder organized a post of the Grand
Army OF the Republic on Decoration Day.
A beet sugar company with a copital OF
$25O,OOO has been incorporated atSeattle.
Mormons in the southern part Of Nevada
are successfully growing cotton by the aid
OF irrigation.
Anaconda is soon to have a fire depart
ment worthy of SO enterprising and pros
porous a town.
Over 1 300. 600 acres of public lands were
entered in the land Offices of Washington
and Oregon last year.
Miners at Austin, New, have been notified
that after the 10th prox., their wages will
be cut down to So per day.
Hops are selling in Washington Territory
at 6 cents per pound, against 20 cents last
fall. Beer ought to come down.
The next meeting of the Montana Stock
growers Association will be held in Helena.
August 18th. There are la members.
Lynch Bros. of Horse Plains, Montana,
made an assignment for the benefit of their
creditors recently. The liabilities are about
$780, OO.
Ex-Congressman Budd stopped an attack
upon the Salvation Army, at Stockton, on
Saturday, by a speech, which was loudly
cheered.
A car OF cherries shipped from San Lo-
renze, has arrived in prime order at Chicago
and sold for good prices. Other shipments
will follow.
A railroad to run from Portland to a
junction with the Oregon Short Line, at
Huntington, has been organized with IA cap
ital Of $40, OOO.
AACAV 10 SOluDldl1llt dDOul Cut llfLIuer Ill
which Government lands on the Little
Humboldt river, New, have been taken up
in large tracts by stockmen.
A gold coin has been exhumed in Salt
Lake City which is not mentioned in the
numlsmatical work, n is suppose to be a
relic OF the prehistoric inhabitants of the
continent.
The Nevada State Agricultural Society
has issued an address to the people CT the
State setting forth the benefits of a State
fair and calling for funds to carry out such
an enterprise.
The Jefferson County Enterprise thinks
that Boulder is destined to be to Montana
what Carson City is to Nevada as a center
of solid wealth and distinguished for the
intelligence of it's citizens"
Milo Cartwright of Helena has bought
OF Stemple & Co., the rich gold Ophir lode,
situated a short distance east of Gloster,
$4,000. Mr.. Cartwright negotiated
the bond for an Eastern syndicate.
Bannack City, the ancient capital of
Montana is again showing evidence of new
life and of it's rich surroundings. The mines
are producing a larger quantity of high
Grade ore thar was ever known before. The
old citizens are awakening from their slum-
bers.
The remains OF Robert Vincent, a middle
aged Englishman, rancher, who disappeared
months ago, were found yesterday
a gulch back OF Portland, neal the trail
to Young's river. They were almost
over and around them. The body was /
Identified by a peculiar shaped hat, a demi- |
ohm and a bundle of papers with which he
eft Astoria, January 20, 1884. He is sup |
posed to have died from exposure and cold. |
A correspondent of the Livingston Enter
rise, just returned from the Neihart camp, |
ives the following particulars about the
Comp: There ere 400 men in the district
low, scattered through the gulches and
long the mountains in tents and cabins in
he most primitive style. OF these about
fly are at work for the Hudson
ompany and the syndicate who hold the
'onded mines. The business interests OF
are comprised in the list of one
mall general merchandise store, three sa-
oons, two livery stables, two laundries,
nd a restaurant. Prices Of necessaries
two or three times Livingston rates.
pencer, Mayn & Hoffman, of White Sui
hur Springs, are preparing to erect a large
in the camp, and as soon as the roads
improve and freights reduce there will be no
ok OF business houses in the camp. At
resent the roads leading into the district
re in a horrible condition. The Hudson
nelter, sawmill and othermachinery which
been EN- route from Townsend for
onths is scattered along the road from
Tree to ten miles from Neihart, and is max
g slow progress over the rough, snowy
'ads. Everyone seems very confident
the prospects of the district, though I
one is allowed to go into the mines that I
e being most extensively worked. But !
cd ore is being taken out, and the surface
are excellent. {