Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-14

rirht here in the city and not located
miles away. The money is produced with.
in rifle shot Of Main street. The growth Of
the city has been phenomenal. Ten
years ago. when the output OF Montana
was only seven millions, Hon. II. r. VOL
colt Of Denver visited Butte and said: ut
is the greatest mining camp in the west,
and viii yet beat the world.n At that
time Leadville was producing double the
amount that was produced in all Mon
tana, and the prediction seemed q little
bit wild, but time has since proven its
truth, and the progress Of the past is as
nothing compared with the future. The
careful observer will trace In Butte to-day
the causes which will bring here q popula.
ton OF Loo, 900 within five years.
No n should be misled by the word
camp" which il 30 dear to the heart OF
the old-timer, and to whom alone itcarries
significance. At one time q miners camp,
Butte has grown into q city OF fine proper
tions. Private residences OF the most
modern and elegant architecture adorn the
residence streets, which have cost their
owners in some cases as high as $15O,O0O.
Handsome brick business blocks, with
plate glass fronts, adorn the business
streets n attest that the word camp is
used only as q "Reminiscences, and with ref
erence to the great mineral output.
Butte is we'll provided with hotels and
all conveniences for the tourist and visitor.
Within a short time the new McDermott
hotel has been completed at q cost of $780,
600, and elegantly fitted up throughout
with every modern hotel appliance. Ser
vice can be had in this hotel as perfect as
in New York city, and any neexamingt the
great resources OF Butte will find a pleasant
~aoiourn here.
THE rr;n,. s.s1lo - .-~1A>.. Ill.
give employment to more men, at better
wages, than those OF any other mining
camp in the world. It is the pay.rolls Of
Butte that have made it SO great and pros.
porous. Half q million dollars a month
poured into the channels OF business has q
wonderful stimulating effect, and thegrowth
of Butte ceases to be q matter of surprise
after an Investigation of it's cause has been
made. Miners wages are $3.50 per day,
iaborers n top men receiving So, and
timbermen, engineers and other skilled
workmen from 81 to Sc. The average
wages paid by the mining companies, there
fore, is 500 per month.
As perfect titles can be given to real
estate in Butte as in any city in the world.
As has been the case in every mining camp
times past 10 regard to titles to real estate.
Such q state IF affairs is happily a thing
OF the past. The Smokehouse litis alton,
which hung over the business part of the
city like q cloud for years, was settled q
year ago, and the purchaser OF real estate
in Butte can now get as complete a title as
in the gift OF the government OF the United
States. As a result OF this settlement,
real estate has now begun to advance rap.
idly in value, The adjustment OF the title
conflicts was an additional evidence that
the mining camp period had gone by for
ever, and the appreciation in values of
property al sudden and marked. The
rise has just begun, aud property Ca. yet
be secured at figures which in a year or
two will be regarded as ridiculously low.
The chance for invastms mt is now.
The central LOCATION Of Butte, it's pres
emit connection With the NORTHERN Pacific,
Union Pacific and Montana Central raii.
roads, and its promised early connection
with three or four other railroads, the Ger.
tainty OF cheap fuel, and the proximity on
all sides OF vast deposits of lime and iron,
all point to Butte-and it's tributary, Ana
conda, as the natural smelling center OF
Montana-the Swansea OF the entire North.
west. Nature has worked wonders for
Butte. The city is situated on a great hill
which is scanned with valuable mineral de-
posts, the extent OF which is not yet fully
known. A grand destiny awaits the city,
and though the timidity of capital has
stayed it's earlier realization. it cannot
prevent it's ultimate fulfllment. The Ana.
eonda company is now constructing
the most complete smelling plant
in the world. The recent $1,000
900 fire has not stayed the deyelop-
ment Of its plans for a moment. It's plant
is even now one OF the greatest in the
world, and when completed, gold. silver,
lead, copper, anthony, zinc and tin ores,
and all their b%y-products, will here find a
market. And it may be safely asserted
that the mines Of Madison, Jefferson,
Reaverhead, Deer Lodge and Missoula
counties can supply more ore than all the
reduction plants of Butte, present and
prospective, can hope to treat for decades
to come. These counties comprise the
and most productive mineral region
in the world, and it is hut in the line OF a
plain business necessity that the plants to
be erected to reduce their output shall be To-
Gated In Butte, and be OF mighty capacity.
Butte Ia supplied with three banks, whose
credit is as solid as the granite hills on
which the city rests. They are the First
National, Clark & Larabie's and Hoge,
Brownlee & Co. Their capital is ample to
accommodate all the business even OF the
greatest mining camp or earth.
Morning and evening newspapers are
published in Butte every day OF the week,
which print the Associated Press reports,
and the news OF al the civilized world can
read in Butte bpt q few hours after it
happens.
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