The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-09-08
Inter Mountain: The Wickes tunnel


| ON the Montana Central is fast nearing
f completion and it IS expected that day
light will be let through the range at that
point and the great 6,300foot bore fin
t ished by the 18th of this month. This
f being done it Will be couple of weeks
more until the line will be opened fol
through business between Butte and St
Paul-probably by October 1st.
Argus: C. c. Skaggs, one of our sub
scribers, is growing a fine patch of tobacco
the plants have leaved out nicely. and
should the frost hold off quite late and
give it chance to mature, Mr.. Skagggs
will smoke Montana-raised tobacco this
winter HIS ranch is we'll up in the foot
hills Of the Judith mountains, where early
frosts are infrequent, and he has hopes OF
securing his crop. His experiment will
be watched with considerable interest.
/ Manager Magnire has already advertised
for bids to rebuild the Butte opera house
He will spare no efforts to have the re-
opening for Thanksgiving night. The old
incorporation is dissolved and the property
is now Maguire's alone. The new house
will be much finer than the one burned
and will be one story higher, having par
quette circle on the first floor, balcony
circle on the second floor and gallery
The original stockholders have assigned
to Mr.. Mcguire all their interest in the
ground and insurance. The site to-day
is one of the most valuable in the city.
Editor Becker of the Buffalo Sentinel
who has recently bought the Gazette pub
fishing Company's plant in Billings has
his farewell to his former patrons in Buff
falo in recent copy of the Sentinel, in it
he says that "the new owners of the Senti-
mel will be stock company composed of
several of Buffalo's leading business men,
with G. Fl. Parmelce as editor and man
ager, whose aim it will be to publish pa
per to please all and displease no one.
They secure the subscription books from
the old management and collect the ac
counts of the same. In short take up the
business where We left it,
A special to the Independent says that
Joseph Leighton died at his residence in
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illness of over two years, in the 41st year
of his age. Deceased might he aptly
termed the founder of Miles City, ever
foremost in public enterprises and factor
in all political movements. He was as
sociated with w. 3. Jordan in many COM
mercial enterprises, and was probably
worth at the time of his death in the
neighborhood of 100000. He leaves a
wife and two children, both boys aged 5
and respectively. The body was taken
for intermcnt to his old home at Ottumwa,
Iowa. So far as the business of Leighton
and Jordan is concerned, it Will continue
precisely as before.
Ahent three mnnths. ago the ,Gallatin
Canal company was formed Dy number
of Helena capitalist to build the Gallatin
canal from the mountain northcasterly II
distance of twenty five miles, but it was
not until last Saturday that the transfer Of
| the old canal was made to the new COM
pany, and the work commenced. J. D.
Mcintyre. the engineer who is building
the Sun River canal the Florence canal
and others, IS the originator of this com
pany. The principal stockholders are
Albert Kleinschmidt. Walter Granger of
St. Paul, w. H. Tracy and J. H. Nixon,
of Bozeman, and j. D. Mcintyre. The
canal is twenty feet wide and twenty five
miles long, and will water large proper
| ton of the best land in GallatJn valley,
and the people of Gallatin county are very
mach elated over the fact that it is to be
built. Fifty teams are on their way to
commence the work and their force will
he increased to 100 teams in few days.
A Butte special to the Independent
says, that next to the Smokehouse diff
Guilty, which is now Il thing Of the past,
Butte's great bone of contention is water
supply. Numerous have been the COM
plants of the present supply, not only as
to the impure quality, but also its inadc-
quacy for fire fighting purposes. The
vexed problem of how and where to get a
new supply has at last been solved, and
great is the rejoicing thercat A contract
has just been closed by the Silver Bow
Water company and B. F. Catching. for
bringing to this city an abundant supply
of good water from Basin creek to the
company's pumping station, distance of
about seven miles. The water is to be
conveyed in an underground boxed ditch,
capable OF carrying seventy five inches.
The agreement calls for its completion in
ninety days, but Mr.. Catching hopes to
complete the work in sixty days. A force
of TWENTY-FIVE men have been started in to
commence work.
Fergus county Argus: P. W. Meadow,
one of the original locators of the Spotted
Horse mine in the Maiden district, now
the sole property of his wife, IS proving
to the most skeptlcal that his faith was or
is by no means misplaced. In 1885 this
property was offered for sale for $4,000.
Failing to dispose of it, Mr. Meadow put
in little quartz mill of about three tons
capacity, and before the summer of 1887
had passed had taken out several thous-
and dollars, developed the property suffi-
ciently to he conveniently worked, and
exposed body of ore for quantity and
richness unsurpassed in the district. 1t
was patent that the little mill used was
by far too small, and this spring excava-
tion was made for the erection of first
class ten-stamp (drop) mill. which will be
completed snd put to work by the first Of
next month. This mill will cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000 and will reduce
from twenty four to thirty tons every
twenty four hours. AS the mill is started
the force in the mine will be increased
and Mr.. Meadow will then be paying out
from $4,000 to $4,000 per month in