The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-06-28
SETTINGS.

DR.. Phillips has left Glasgow for
Butte.
Spring wheat looks we'll in the Flat
head country.
The Glasgow Herald has suspended
publication. No cause is given.
Andrew Burr, a merchant of junction,
q town 80 miles east of Billings, was
drowned Saturday while crossing a ferry.
Eight does, bucks and fawns have been
unlaWfully slaughtered at White Fish
lake, Missoula county.
In the Castle camp, the Cumberland
has struck ore in the 500 foot level. The
Yellowstone company's smelter is doing
we'll.
Leonard Lewissohn of the Butte a.
Boston and Boston a. Montana is now in
London trying to enlist English capital in
the Santa Fe and Butte " Boston mines.
A. s.. Bigelow. treasurer of the Boston
Il Montana copper company, in speaking
for the outlook of copper at Boston Il few
DAYS ago, said "This is 40 time to sell
copper stocks. l should not be surprised
to hear If copper went to 95 cents per
pound this year."
The Boston & Montana's copper and
silver product for the first seven days in
March, April, May and June was: March
"copper", 39O,415; silver, 1850 ounces.
Aprii-Copper, 311,U76; silver, 3,6l4
ounces. May-Copper, 373,OO7; silver,
2,511 ounces. June-Copper, 4l3,5O6;
silver, 1925 ounces.
At Boston the sale of the entire balance
, of tie syndicate holdings of copper is
, confirmed. This clears the field of all
the metal of this nature. One of the
; largest onsumer of copper in this coun-
? try is buying futures at 1871 cents. Min
s ing men are now predicting Is cents for
r lake copper, and II wager has been made
, that it will sell at 20 cents by January,
> 1891.
An Augusta telegram in the lndepsn-
dent says: "Parties are continually go
ing to the South Fork mines and are out
fitting at Augusta every day. Geo. Walk
= er, the county assessor, was up yesterday
and is much pleased with the looks Of
the mines. Ike GREENWOOD was here to
day and bonded ten leads for one million
1t is supposed he is representing thu
h Rothschilds, of Europe" This is evi
a" IDENTIFY a joke on Ike GREENWOOD or thu
% public.
A telegram from Lincoln, Nebraska
says: Col. Clough, of the Great North
ern, states that the road is to be EXTENDED
very soon from Helena to the Paciti
- coast. The money. $~1O,0OO,OOO, has bee
:. provided, and the only delay in CON
III mencing work is in determining which
ir the best of several surveyed lines. Thi
III decided, the work is to commence /
,u once and much Is to be accomplished
III 1890. 1t Is known there has been for
a long time some kind of bond of symp'
thy between the Great Northern an
de Burlington. At present the Burlingto
49, company is building nearly II
sr' miles of new road in Wyoming, towart
as the northwest. 1t will reach the Bl
ol- Horn mountains by November. TT
his truth is that the company has prospec
ing engineers at work in Montana lool
ing up lines and feasible routes, and
on seems quite probable, says a well-know
'ou railway man, that by the time the Gre
.,;- Northern touches the Pacific the Burlin
ton will have touched the southern DO
der of the National Park and effected
j, junction in Montana neal Helena, ~
two new great Pacific short-line ront
in will be opened to the public.