Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-03
DILLON.
~,,,,ributing Center-Its Business
pwsn-Horse Farms - Hotels
County Officers, Etc.

Moi
County Officers, Etc.
MILLION is the busting county seat q
pu"rhevd County, 20 miles south OF tn
".orial metropolis, and is very cen
'Ir located. 1t is a distributing poin
r'n Itah Northern. All the freight TO
rms;o Laurin, Sheridan, and Twil
Vs .as on the East Side, and on the Yves
psov Ao%urishing camp OF Argenta, thu
p,ack, and Horse Prairie country, ane
p'a an westward to Salmon City, juno
cnrinp Mountain and Gibbonsvill,
~, niFdsho side of the range, are depend
y u. billion for their source of supplies
Ht ,h; Gives Dillon merchants a larg.
40 Sn Is, territory to draw their support
sope The different interests are about
honi; Il, d;vided between stock, agriculture
Nuani ming. that it makes a solid basis fol
ana ns IN build a trade upon, and enables
deaN 20 curry heavy stocks, and meet all
'nsi Iemauds of the market.
the ur Rennett e. Co. are the leading
Nor;al artists and are prospecting finely.
cIorlos Hirschman is running a station.
onaanwS depot and fruit store, and also q
e a rd room and bar next door.
Ol,naru g. Chaplin are also doing a good
Layne w tb,ir bar and billiard room
business Z. Rra;nard in the same line are pros
farh I'd come up smiling to meet The
MINER representative: ~
Mincrv trade in town and is headquart-
nl', .mr The ladies' to outfit themselves with
;mcrack feathers, etc.
Rem II. Dittmer, successor to Morrison
~ ia running the Salt Lake Brewery
a N,loon and chop house, that he is prosper
'n0 Is evident for he has just bought a
Usnch above town seven miles and has
soyod his family out in the country.
nick Halliday has Just bought out his
.'rtner in the wholesale liquor business
nd il carrying an unusually fine stock of
snuors and cigars and bar supplies in gen.
rsl His club rOom ARE the most home
No in the town and are in consequence
rl patronized.
Nessrs. Fyhrie & Co.. are also carrying
immense stock OF general merchandise
I'd are doing one OF the leading trades of
i, town. One OF the partners, Mr.. Harry
srrrins, is putting the finishing touches on
'fne two-story brick. When completed
.ril be one of the Coolest residences in
The place.
Rnb Boldly is doing the leading butcher
,rs;ness of the town and does not conine
ts talent or means to that one line for he
= dealing in stock of all kinds, having just
n'talv taken in a round lot of thorough
tS.sI PoIled Angus bulls. This is a rare
wood Of stock and well adapted to our
innate and his efforts to Improve the class
oItcattle will no doubt be appreciat ted by
.hs stock men of Beaverhead and Madison
counties.
The spiritual welfare of the Dillonites is
val nrovided for, as several different
oh,rch societies have houses of worship
here The Baptists are just finishing a
%heautiful little edifce on a corner, one
block from Main street.
The County Court House is our next
roint of attack. A wealthy county like
Reayerhead certainly needs a little pricking
m when they will continue using the old
shack they are now in. However, l pre-
sume that after election they will have
handsome building. In the clerks Office l
%und the genial Phil McGough, who is
aver ready to give n press representative a |
issrty shake and welcome him to the
tlrgh.
The Sheriff's Office is most efficiently |
1ed by T. Z. Jones. He is a terror to the |
|Tl.doers OF that section, but to the gen.
rsl public he is a genial and obliging Off
dal, and held in high estimation by both
mrties in the county, and there is no
1oubt of his reelection to the Sheriff's Of
fee. |
In the line of general improvement the
town has made fine progress during the
mast season. A numder of fine large bust
ness houses nave been built. T. w. Poin-
dexter, one OF the leading dealers in general
merchandise, has built himself a fine two
store brick and has it about ready to
move into. This will give him ample room
to display che immense stock he is COM
peled to carry to meet the necessities OF
bis trade. The firm of Sebin, Ferris &
White, under the supervision OF the genial
Dan Chapman, is floating along serenely
and doing a fine business in all the different
lines they are carrying.
To return to our subject-eifton. For
hotels it has the Corinne, on the wrongslde
dthe railroad, and kept by Joseph Met]in,
and the Eastman House. This house is in
The center OF the business portion OF the
town and for size is total lily inadequatet to fill
The demands made on it's popular proprle-
tss, Mrs. Eva NJ. Eastman. She is long
acustomed to the hotel business, and ma
ture has endowed her with those genial,
good natured ways of meeting the public
50 necessary to the hotel man Tor woman),
when the house is crammed full and room
needed for one more. Some enterprising
capitalist should build Dillon a large,
nomy hotel and lease it to Mrs. Eastman
on liberal terms. Don't all speak at once,
please.
Down below Dillon Mr.. Mauldin is in the
ams line and is beautifully located on the
main Beaverhead Valley with elegant i'm.
! wvements. He has about 800 head OF
HNblood horses, mostly C~1ydesdale, and l
sieve making this part OF the Territory
xdquarters for draft horses. Dill
his the nearest station to Raymond,s
| Hch, where he makes especially OF breed.
by fine trotters. His place is on the upper
Rlby Valley, wnere he has several hand
some head OF thoroughbred trotting stock.
PHI. P~oindexter is just completing a
palatial family residence on the Horn farm
a short distance from Dillon, 1t will cost
when completed over $4,000. All the
modern improvements are to be placed IN
Mr.. Poindexter's residence, and on the
whole it will be a pleasant home and a sub
stantial ornament to the surrounding
valley. Messrs. Poindexter IL Orr are the
proprietors OF the most extensive horse
ranch and breeding farm in the Territory.
They are combining Themselves to the spec
ialty Of breeding heavy draft horses and
have been remarkably successful SO lar.
They have on their range or Blacktall Greek
o m 1900 head OF Normans and FER
cherons. Their range extends Tor over
thirty miles up this creek and gives them
unlimited range for winter and
and the question as to whether it is prob
table or not does not enter into the writer
mind for the financial standing OF the urn
stoo well known to question the matter.
The town and county are supporting two
local papers. The Tribune is published 6y
an incorporated company, and Is hepuoii'
can in breed, while the Democratic party Is
ably represented by our live Butte man.
iormerlv of the Free Press. now OF the III
lon Examiner-Charlie Wright, n the
ry those fellows bang it to each other ID
Earning to all aspiring newspaper man.
and if the election is tided over without a
case Of "pistols and coffee for two it Will
be miracle. 1t is to be hoped that their
differences will be a parallel with tne oio
quotation:
THE devil was sick;
The devil a monk would be.
The devil was well;
The devil a monk was he.'