The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-21
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In the Four New
States and Elsewhere.

Louis Silver c~otvcntion.
II. q. johnson has hss,n appointed post
master at Comet. Jefferson county. vice
j. I. partuinson. resigned.
John x. Tcsplc Of Anaconda, Louis
Schorn and Nathan J. L~cvcnRood Of Ana
cousla. Incorporated the Silver King Min
ing Go. Tuesday. The capital stock Is
&2j0,OuO.
There il talk of organizing n hoard OF
trade ut Astoria. DIRE. separate from the
of commerce, tn iG composed of
the cntorpri-iug young business men OF
the city.
Stiles NJ. Parks yesterday morning 20
ccived hi< commission as postmaster at
Livingston and tln office WAS turned over
tn him las, night 10y Carl +. Peterson.
LiriHgsfoa Esfc.yUfs~.
The Billings water power company have
put i'm "A steam plant. having found il i'm
possible tn supply power for electric lights
err maintain iir. protection during the
winter SEASON with tho power derived
from tho ditch.
John w. winwootl. Clayton B. Strong
and Florence q. Mct'arty have. incorTor-
ated the Spring Hill Gold and Silver Min
90 i'm 3O.uO shares of 81 each, with prin-
cipal place of tusinors at Helena. Mon
tana.
A change in the scirsiml. Of one of the
largest mail routes in Montana has been
made. so that hs.twtsu November I and
May I tim. mail between Grand Falls and
('hotcau. via the sun river. will leave the
terminal points in the mprning instead of
evening.
A wataslra. Minnesota. special says:
Albert Weston, formerly u resident here,
hut more recently of Montana. was ar
rested here M information from Fort
Benton that he was wanted there. an "a
charge of murder. He * now in Jail
awaiting orders from the Montana author
tiles.
Horace. Edward Gibbs. the murderer of
young Janlcc McDcvitt. after successfully
eluding the officers of tllc law for many
days., H. at last safely confined i'm ~ strong
cell in the county Jail AT Portland, where
lc will rssuaiu in all probability until his
ease has been disposed of. He was ar
rested in California.
The Montana and Real Estate and Mini
ing Exchange company have filed articles
of Incorporation with u capital stock of
x5O.0O in 2,OD shares Of SD each. The
offices of the company will In, in Helena.
The incorporatnrs are u. }. wc'ch, II. ~.
Snow. John j. Failon. +. T.. Ward and
christopher y. Connolly.
Edwin Simpson. Samuel ID. Stuart,
Thomas Stewart. Con Inglchar,. William
Wilson,. James w. pcngl;lsc, Owen Long,
Richard l.. Hornbrook and James w.
Rhoa,lcs have Incorporated the Silver
Crown Mining counptuy. to do business in
the pro Emo district, in Deer Lodge
county. with IL capital stock of S,oD.ODo in
5tU,OD shares of 81 each.
Extensive coal prospects have. been dis
covered in Curry county. Ore. some ID
miles up the Rogue river. II il now well
known that large fields Of both coal and
iron of the finest quality exists along and
in the vicinity of the Rogue river. i'm al
most unlimited quantities as well as cop
per. chrome. gold and silver lodges, and
il only needs capital and energy intclli-
gently applied to- develop the latent
wealth az that section. Valuable forests
cover the mineral ;ssca.
Surveys are being made pre- Taritory to
changing to- standard gtagc that part of
the Utah d Northern still remaining mar
row. from Ogden. Utah, north tai Pocatcl-
10, Idaho. lh.i miles. From ~ point beyond
Brigham, ~ miles north of Ogden, and
near tbs. Bear river. tlc survey leaves the
old ro,it. aud joins il again at Logan.
This avoids the long dctour via. Collision.
A second party of engineers is surveying
the line from Richmond, Utah. seventy
one miles north of Ogden. To Pocatello,
cighty-two miles.
A dispatch, from Ph~iIiipsinIrg says: The
Granite Mountain cnrnpiny's new water
works were opened Monday 10y turning
the water into the tanks. of which there
are two. with u capacity of 400 barrels.
General distribution through the town will
he deferred till spring. The water is sup
piled by three mountain springs, yielding
~ volurns, of water twenty inches wid,. and
two and "a half inches deep. The tanks
are cighteeu feet ia depth. The president
of the company. who has been here ON
business. has returned To 1T. Louis.
The largest block of granite ever quar-
ried i'm Montana was blasted out of the
Helena granite quarrics "a few days ago.
Ii was eleven feet square and thirteen feet
long. contained 1,513 cubic feet and
weighed 137 tons. Ii was blasted and
moved twenty inches with three pints of
common blasting powder. The value of
the block in "A granite market would be
about x4.sOO. The immense block has
been sawed into slabs and base blocks
and shipped tn different points and is not
yet used up. Much Of il has gone tn
Seattle.
One cause for the diversion of trade
from Seattle to Tacoma, as explained 10y
the Seattle TiU,rs, il that ''tlIe wharfage
charges are too high. Reasonable charges
are unknown. Extortion il the rule.
Shippers have been blcd until they refuse
tn be blcsl any longer. business men who
would otherwise trade with Seattle are
deferred from so doing. In eagcrness for
gain, the men who are Responsible tor
these charges are overreaching themselves
and hurting their own interests, as well
AS injuriug the CITY,"
Two more carloads of ore from the
Great Eastern at Castle were shipped "a
theC Chicago aud Aurora reduction works