The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-03

SAJSfpIiSe SHOWN III Tue people OIL ILLS Will
derful city. Never in all the worlds his !
tory has any city grown to its proportions
in the same length of time and growth as
healthy and permanent as the staid old
town of the old world. Only few years
ago Butte-like all typical mining camps
was built up exclusively with rude tents
and cabins such as may be seen to day in
the smaller settlements, hastily constructed
where new mines are opened. To-day it
has buildings than which no city of twice
its population has any superior. Thrift
and energy are the predominating spirits
OF its people and it is conceded by all who
come here that Butte City is
THE GREATEST MINING TOWN
in the world. This is fact beyond the
peradventure of doubt as the greatest
producing mines in the world are located
here and its pay rolls reach nearly mil
lion dollars every month. This immense
amount of money is always in circulation,
as the people here seem to have little or no
regard for the value of the coin of the
realm. Day and night business continues
without cessation, and when rest is secured
as source of wonder, The example set
by the enterprising people of Butte could
well be copied by those in other places
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heart. They stand together on every pro
position that is for the general good and
with liberality displayed by no class of
| people in the world. Nothing seems to
dampen their ardor. During the winter,
when the great Anaconda mine closed
down, throwing several thousands of peo-
pie out of work, it was predicted that
Butte had seen its best days and would
then be like other towns had been, but
even that had no effect, for Butte con-
tinued to grow-its business was better
than ever, and it has proven that
nothing now can interfere with its
progress--Butte is destined to be the
only great transcontinental city between
ST. Paul and the coast. In the east there
is an erroneous impression that IN Butte
morality is at its lowest ebb. This is
wrong. The only criticism to make is that
in Butte the immoral class which inflicts
every community is permitted to fiaunt its
vice on the business streets, and this is
something which to large degree can be
remedied. The police regulations, which
are already good, can be greatly improved,
and the authorities can wipe out what to a
casual observer may appear like the supre
macy of vice. To be sure there is a popu-
lation of the
| RUGGED, ROUGH AND READY CLASS
and the dude is an almost unknown animal,
seen only when the wind Is blowing from
his lair and he is waited irresistably hither.
Butte is not mining camp-she is a min
Ing city, she is commercial metropolis
built upon the richest mountain in the
world and supported by country whose
resorces are beyond the widest dream of
the enthusiast. Her people are as intelli-
gent, as law-abiding, as self-respecting, as
patriotic and as god-fearing as ever wor-
shipped beneath the blue canopy of heaven /;
her churches whose spires are standing
refutation of the charge of moral indiffer-
ence are numerous, large and well attend
ed; her virtuous wemen and chivalrous
men making their uneXampled prosperity a
vehicle of christianity
The improvements now being made in
Butte-and they are legion-are bona tide
enterprises and every venture that is made
is on the present with no doubt or expert
ments as to the future; the most striking
difference between Butte and the other
cities is shown by the routes and business
OF the cable and meteor lines of street rail
way. In every western city outside OF
Butte the street car lines have been built
to boom real estate and as a rule the com
; pany building the road has owned suffici
ent real estate reaches by the line to repay
3 through the consequent boom for all eX
peDses. This is a history of all the street
railway enterprises in the west to which
Butte is striking exception. Her cable
and motor lines, which reach al
the outlying camps-W alkerville, Center
vile, Meaderville and South Butte-wert
constructed as necessity. The cars are
crowded early and late and are proving
veritable bonanza. The visitor who &c!
. the crowds of laboring men on the streets
during the day must not be delu6 int,
the belief that they are idle. This is cit.
where the great enterprise and hives Of
industry never stop Tor night, Sundays
wind or weather. They are operated ever,
minute of the year. save when stopped b,
accident or death. But the greatest facto
Of Butte Citys welfare IS
THE REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE.
and their influence will soon be Tel
throughout the land. The officers ar
Prest. j. E. Richards; Vice Prest j. Fl
Curtis; Treasurer E. II. Irvine; Secretar
b. Q. w. Evans; executive Board. f
Richards, j. H. Curtis, j. b. Sealey, G.
Warren, Nj. l.. Holland, G. Bradshaw ant
S. V. Kemper. A meeting of the leading
business men in the city was held recent
for the purpose of organizing board o
trade and it was the. largest meeting of it
character ever held in this city. The fol
lowing is list of the officers elected
!, James 3. Leahy, president; M. j. Con
c nell, 1st vice. president; Thomas M. Couch
\ I'd vice-president; j. E. Richards. treas
uTSF, anu IL. w. WY uut, StCTSlary.
. They are all representative men-me
|. who have managed their pei sonal affair
q with conspicuous success. which is perhap
the best evidence of their capability.
cable district Georgetown flats, the Re
Lion country, the Flint creek and Grant
mountain district The line will be pushe
Y 10 Puget sound and in Montana will hav
) connections with the Montana Union
g Anaconda and the Northern Pacific 9
o Phillipsburg. With the bright supshin
d has come the promise of the new Butt
e which all have predcted-in every dire
g ton and on every street are the evidence
4 of a new and better city. Business bioch
and private residences have begun an
they will be OF that substantial characte
that indicates the faith of the builders
! the permanency and growth of the city.
is estimated that the dwellings now
v course of construction and in immedia
n and certain contemplation will cost mil
= ion dollars, and that is a very low estimat
- The extent and character of
THE MINERAL RESOURCES
are no longer matter of reasonable ce
tainty, but they are in sight and centul
= cannot exhaust them. A number of Inc
:. have invested millions of dollars each
:. the mines CT this city and they have dol
so, not on the judgments of experts, not c
what the ground might reasonably be su
Is posed to contain, but upon what had iu
been exposed to view. Butte as the create
mining town the world has ever known
that the development of years has u
earthed what a century of mining cam
:, exhaust.
10 NOTES.
Il
Work on the Glengary is progressing
= satisfactory way, 100 tons of GRE havil
been shipped to the Parrot smelter with
the past week. The Slopes and levels a
oil II, fine condition manN tons of ora hoi,