The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-27
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Topics Of General Interest In the Feur New
States and ElseWh IRE.

The first of the Seattle tide land cases
will come mp for hearing beforc the de-
partnscnt at Washington, DC, on Decem-
her II.
Foul air was generated in n large sewer
i'm Victoria. Ii. a., so freely last Friday. IN
to cause an explosion that ruined 500 feet
of pipe.
The sheep raisers of Ea stern Oregon
are selling OF their fiocks as fast as they
can, mors. than lOO.OOO head having been
disposed of this past summer and fall.
The Northern Pacific has made the fol-
lowing changes i'm the names OF stations
on it's Rocky Mountain division: Mullen
to Bio>sburg and BlossburR tn Clinton.
Mr.. George r. Frye, of Seattle, an
no,inccs that he will build u Handsome
opera house next spring. superior In every
respect to the one that was destroyed in
last summers fire.
The president has signed the commits
sion Of Mr.. John ID. Sloane of ~. Paul as
supervising Inspector al steam vessels for
the district embracing Minnesota, Wis
co,isin. Iowa. the Dakotas and Montana.
Captain j. NJ. weathcrwax. the ex-
tensive Aberdeen. Ore. mill man, is
putting In - ship yard AT that place and
"a new vessel will soon bc b'iilt there
with "a capacity of ovcr' ioo,OO feet of lun-
her.
George. C~osseboon. engaged until re-
ccntly as master mechanic Of the Granite
works, in with Lock McLcan,
departed Monday morning for Col
orado. On arriving Mr.. Cosseboom il
rendered the master mcchanicship at the
largest shaft i'm the state, situated at AS
pen. and Mr.. Mclean will also find cm-
pioymcnt ON the property. MIR. Mofiit, OF
Denver. has the SHAFT in charge and pro-
cce,ls at once to sink l,5yO fect.-Gruaite
Mo"afoia star.
Glen Owen came over from the Harvey
Greek mines sunday. He states that Inc
and Iii Parsons have ~ contract on the
Golconda lode of the Alps for
sinking "a shaft 100 feet deep. They have
advanced A. feet up tn date. working on
the hanging wall, which presents IL body
of ore ii feet m width. all Of which will
ASSAY ne less than SD per ton. They will
complete their contract in one month
Granite Mountain star.
The following articles of Incorporation
have been filed with the secretary Of
state: The Pioneer Mining of
Helena. Montaua; capital stock, SlOO,OOO.
incorporates. &. w. cannon, j. III. and
j. W. Russell, NJ. l.. Strcato and =. 1.
Stone. The American Silver and Copper
Mining. Milling and Reduction company
capital stock. SiOO.OOO. The incorporators
are: &. Cooper. James Ogden, Robert
Dixon aud A. Pritchard. The company
will operate on the upper Blackfoot.
Mr.. John Pickerin, who has lately come
tn Sand Coulce from over the line. reports
tttS itN vi Tssttt VI
semi-authracite coal on the road to Great
Falls. and about eighty miles north of this
place. MIR. pickerin has been prospecting
the past year for "a firm i'm Canada, and
succeeded in exposing thirty seams of an
thracite coal. He il not entirely familiar
with the geology of this section. but il
firmly convinced that anthracite exists i'm
our vicinity. We trust his prediction may
ie realized. GREAT Fails Ls,der.
Probably the tallest man in Lewis and
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cutter, who plies his trade In Helena and
* accounted "a first-class workman. Husc-
10y stands six feet six inches in height in
his stocking feet. wedges 2D pounds. and
though broad -houldcrsl and deep chcsted
does not look like IL heavily built man. lie
is IA scandinavian, born and reared on the
southern coast of Norway, and il 3S years
of age. There are taller men in the state
than Hugely, hut not in these immediate
parts. Amos thatIin of Bitter Root valley
measures six feet eight inches, and his
brother Albert or Alfrc,., we belicve,is the
narne-is about the same height. Not all
the giants were. of other days. There are
a few in Montana in these days and room
FOR more tn grow.-7hsH e,ufd.
John NJ. King has received returns
from "a lotion lot of ore from the u,
=. Grant mine. which he had shipped Ia
the Cnion Sampiing works. at Denver
Colorado. The gross proceeds were Sl1l
per ton. The net results after paying
cost OF extraction. sacking, shipment
etc.. was about ~ SD, ar within II small
fraction of Sl5D per ton. The ore was
taken from the discovery shaft of the
minc. which il located about tlircc-uuar
tiers of a mile from Virginia City. Tn,
mine * extensively developed, bcin,
opened 10y n tunnel 400 feet in length
which taps the vein 2io feet from the sur
face. where the ore il fully as rich as "a
the. upper workings. From actual work
ing- thc Grant has proven to he one q
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