Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-14
FROM THE QUAKER CITY
1t Recognizes Butte as the
Great Commercial Center
of the Northwest.

COuubys moutAub- ACIAAUQAy JAG lO0tA
ing railroad, mining, financial and
commercial center of the Northwest, with
a population OF 81 1000, is to-day attract
ing more attention than any city OF itf
size on the continent. With a monthly
pay roll for labor Of nearly one million
dollars, with a tonnage aggregating one
million tons per annqm, with good society,
numerous churches, excellent schools, and
the only line of cable street cars in Mon
tana, Butte is keeping steps with all the
improvements OF the age. This promises
to be the greatest city Of the Northwest, as
she is now beyond comparison the greatest
city in Montana.
The assessable valuation OF Butte for the
year 1888 was $5,466. 5O4. The estimated
valuation is SIC, 900 900. The city has NO
debt of any description, and the record
shows that no obligation has ever been de-
faulted.
The city is well and economically man
aged and always has been. The streets,
alleys and sidewalks are in fine condition.
There is now being expended in the city for
the present years improvements; For
building sewers, sos, 900; for building side
walks and perfeeting street grades, $15,-
900; for enlargiDg and improving city hall,
$4,000.
The population in Montana in 1870 was
but 10000. but little more than half oil
Butte, it's chief city, in 1889. Silver Bow
comfy supports q population OF $4,000,
one-fith of the entire population OF N IL.
tana, and over 80. 900 of this number live
in Butte. Montana has resources to sup
port a population OF 8 200, 600, and Butte
will always be her metropolis. Montana
stands to-day at the head of the mineral
producing column of the states and terri.
tories. with an output last year OF $3s, ).
OO0, 900. Montana mines paid 81, 900
in dividends last year, and the mines OF
Butte alone will pay SIS, 600, 900 this year.
The chief difficulty Butte has had to
combat, j. e., the high price of coal, is now
removed. Within the next three months
every ton OF coal consumed in Montana
will be produced within the confines OF the
territory. The coal measures OF Gallatin,
Park and Cascade counties are developing
a truly wonderful capacity, and Sand
direct outlets into Butte, which will be
completed within thirty days, can and will
be sold here at 81 and SIS a ton.
There are seven church organizations
here, all OF them in q most prosperous
condition, with q large church attendance
and devoted interest on the part OF COM
munieants.
There is not a city OF the United States.
of the population of Butte, that is 80 we'll
governed and peaceable in respect to oh.
servance OF the law. Law is supreme here
and is respected, and all statements 20 the
contrary are simply the Inventions ofdime
novel writer's and sensational c]orrespon.
dents OF the eastern press.
| nbo ,oo-<L1u ~o-nolI, 1f Az Anaconda
Boston & Montana, Butte & Boston, Butte
Reduction works, Blue Bird and other
mining, smelling and railway com.
panies aggregate nearly $1,000, 900 every
month. These mines are in Butte, They
are not scattered over the whole of Mon.
tana ian area nearly as large as the Ger
man Empire). They are right here in Butte.
and with them O hundred smaller ones,
employing from ten to fifty men, all d.
rectly tributary to Butte.
The government ia in the hands of a
mayor aud a council of fourteen members,
representing seven wards. The police force
consists of twenty-five men, controlled by
the city marshal and chief of police. The
sheriff OF Silver Bow county and four depu.
ties are also in Butte.
Water is furnished to the city by the Sill
YER Bow Water company-pure. clear
spring water, which is brought a distance
OF fifteen miles. 1t comes from the noun
tain streams, whose source OF supply never
fails. and throughout the year, even in the
dryest season, the supply is ample. The
Silver Bow Water company has expended
over $500, 900 in perfecting it's plant, and
is busily engaged in extending it's system.
1t is one of the best lighted cities on the
continent, The city and suburbs are
lighted by the Butte Gas Light and Coke
company, and by the Brush and Edison
~incandescent light systems. The streets
are lighted by the Brush arc system, and |
the light service will compare favorably
with that OF any City in the DATED States. |
The city has ALREADY spent. Over $780, |
600 in grading the streets, and will this
year spend an additional $4,000 in i'm.
proving sewers and streets.
The city is well supplied with cable and |
motor lines, running through the streets
and connecting the city and surrounding |
suburbs. There are already ten miles OF
paying line in Butte, and five miles of OK.
tension are contemplated during the pres.
entyear.
The principal public soAool buildings are
the High school and Central school build
ings, handsome two-story brick structures, !
With Easements, containing eleven rooms
each. Besides these there are nine other
public school buildings in the city, and the
school authorities have buildings and
rooms rented in several OF the suburbs. A
superintendent and thirty-three teachers
are employed. The daily enrolment in
January was 1881, nearly double that Of
any city OF Montana, and the average daily |
last year was l sos. The school
are supplied with all the approved
appliances OF modern public schools. Pri-
yate schools consist of a business college, |
a classical school. two private schools and
kindergarten. |,
Butte is rapi ly becoming the railroad
center OF Montana, and is NOT becoming SO
by any forced booming process. The great
bulk OF the railroad business of the terri.
tory is here. and the railroads one by one
lind it to their interest to come in and en- {
Ter into competition for the great ship I
msnts cf ore, matte and coal, and for the
;sht it takes 10 supply a lively, On 'rgatic {
md busting community OF more than 80 I
200 peopls. The Onion Pacific was the
irst to come. then the Montana Union ,
vas formed to let in the Northern Pacific :
rom Garrison; next the Montana Central,
with the Manitoba a tr%anscotin-
line, came in to compete for freight =
hipments. The Northern Pacific has now =
q line from Laurel to the Il
Rocky Fork mines to furnish Butte with
oal, and is now building a cutoff line a
Gallatin City to Butte, which will 2
lace Butte on the main line OF the North. I
IN Pacific. The great magnet OF enormous
shipments draws the roads to Butte
by ONE, and these have made it
lready the commercial center OF Montana.
It is the leading mining camp OF Montana
nd OF the world. With it's outlying
amps, none of them more than two miles
way, and all directly tributary, it has a F,
opulation of upwards Of $4,000. and G
,rms a city twice as large as any in the IN
The outlying camps are Walker ~
lille. Centerville, Meaderyille, Rocker, i
outh Butte Burlington; ait uate = =
a the great mountain OF mineral 1;
hich composes Butte, and all within m
radius OF two miles from the cen. 20
n Of the city. They are connected, all of
lem, by cable and motor lines OF street -
NO runr;no dow and NIGHT. The minoa in -