The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-09-07
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vey of any township unless petition
from at least three settlers in such
= townships is on file, it is important that
: those settlers desiring surveys should
! petition at once, if they have not already
done so. Blanks for such petitions will
be furnished on application.
f A 100000 Exhibit of Gold and Silver.
, Herald: The Montana National bank
was crowded all Friday morning by peo-
, pie who came to see their magnificent
exhibit Of Montana gold and silver,
which they will soon place on exhibition
at the Minneapolis exposition. A small
glass show case and a parlor table in the
lobby of the bank hold the precious ex-
hibit, which contains gold and silver to
the money value of over 100000. In
the show case are nuggets, placer gold,
quartz and silver concentrates, forming
a collection of the native minerals that
we have never seen equalled, while on
the table aye bars of bullion from the
Spotted Horse, Jay Gould, Drum Lum-
mon and other Montana mines. The
largest bar is of almost pure gold and
comes from the Spotted Horse mine,
near Maiden. 1t weighs about 20
pOuANto iIlO IUS value Is sCO,CE.tC. LILO
whole exhibit is owned by the Montana
National bank and represents the col
lections of of six years. It will be placed
on exhibition at Minneapolis as a sample
OF Montanas products in the precious
metals.
/ An Ancient Mortgage.
Recent agitation about building a new
and more expensive presidential mansion
has brought to the surface an old mort
gage on the White house that has been
forgotten or lost sight of for long time.
nj. b. Harlow, secretary and treasurer Of
the Mount Vernon Avenue association,
brings forward the claim. In an inter
view about the proposed new executive
mansion, he says: II am glad to see the
subject agitated, and l hope it will be
| taken up and pushed by congress.
When it is our association, to whom the
! Virginia Legislature has transferred its
claim against the government for money
borrowed by Gen. Washington to build
the present structure, will present that
claim and ask for payment for the old
before it commences the new. The
claim, which is for S12O,OOO, has never
been denied by the government, nor can
it be. for we have the promise Of the
government, made through Washington,
to pay the money back to Virginia
should it ever be able to do SO. We will
not, perhaps ask that the claim be paid
in money, but will probably suggest that
congress defray the expenses Of building
the proposed national highway to Mount
Vernon. If they agree we will transfer
the Virginia mortgage on the White
house as her contribution to the pro-
iect"
Loss to the Cattlemen.
Washington Special: The repu blican
national committee has not been idle
about the campaign in the new states.
A circular has just been printed for cir
culation in Montana which is designed
to aid the party in that state. 1t bears
the words Endorsed by the republican
national committee" and advocates the
restoration of the duty on hides It
shows that in 1870, before the duty was
taken off hides, the importation amount
ed to S1O,OOO,OOO, while in 1888 the i'm
portation amounted to s23,OOO,OOO. It
also shows that the decrease in the price
of hides has fallen from twelve and one
half cents to six cents in the same time.
The circular states that one-fourth the
price of steer is the hide, and that the
reduction in the price of cattle on the
hoof is due to the removal Of the tariff
on hides, bearing the stamp and pledge
of the republican national committee to
do all in its power to restore the tariff
on this particular production. It can
have no other effect than to increase the
republican ma jorities in the COW coun-
ties of Montana. With republican
congress and republican president there
is good prospect of carrying out the
proposed restoration. The new state is
to be flooded with this literature. This
is just the beginning of a campaign
which promises to be vigorously carried
out by the republican national COM
mttee.
Big Timber Letter.
L. Goughnour has commenced the
erection of twc-story residence imme-
dia;ely above the school house.
w. D. Ellis arrived from New York on
Monday.
Reports from the placer camp are to
the effect that the boys have struck pay
dirt. It runs from 40 to so cents to the
pan.
j. B. Hooper has contracted for mill
for the Boulder camp and it will be
transported there in the course of
week.
Prof. Thompson, in charge of the geo.
logical survey, was in town on Sunday.
Business on Saturday, Sunday and
Monday was very good.
n. E. Fowler, accompanied by three
young men, was in town and registered
on Monday. The rarties from that Sec
tion of the country don't object to the
registration law.
There are three or four half grown
boys in this town whose parents have
apparently abandoned them. They GER
tainly will amount to nothing when they
arrive at years of discretion if nothing
worse happens them. The parents Of
those kids are to blame, they being
abundantly able to support them
Quite number of Big Timber people
attended the dance at Melville on Friday
night.
A boy came to town few days ago.
He was stranger. A town boy meet
ing him casually remarked, "They all
live on our side of the street." "Who
do?" from the stranger. Don't YOU
call me hoodo," and the new boy had
to defend himself at once.
A meeting for the purpose of nomi-
mating township officers will be held at
the school house Saturday evening.
There were Ill names registered
Wednesday evening.
Joe Bailey and N. Budd interviewed
the county central committee on We'd
nesday.
G. 4. Wilson, the owner Of large,
herd Of cattle in the Musselshell coun-
try, was in town last week Mr.. Wilson
is seriously thinking of building hotel
IN town.