The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-09-26
THEY ADJOURN TO THE LAND OF
SALT.
And Are Sailed Down In Grand Shape
They Dip in the Brine and Turn Up
Their Heels.
An Instructive Description Of the City
Of Salt With Its Many Odd Feat
ures Delightfully."- Portrayed.
If You Want to See Salt Lake City
Without Going There Read
This Letter.

Special corr. of the NEW DOMINION:
HELENA, Montana, Sept. 1S.-"A
large delegation of intelligent look
ing men accompanied by a still larger
delegation Of extremely good looking
ladies are in the city. They hail
from Montana and are the Montana
Press Association with their wives
sisters, daughters and sweethearts. u
The above appeared in the Sunday
issue of the Salt Lake Tribune Sept
9th.
As the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. r
N. Sutherlen of the Rocky Mountain
Husbandmaa l had the good fortune
to be counted in" as one of that
good looking delegation.
The place Of meeting was at Butte
where we became the guests of the
Butte Press Club. The Union Pa
cific Railroad rendered us an excur
sion from there to Salt Lake City
and return.
FEAST OF REASON AND FLOW OF SOUL
The night following our arrival a
sumptuous and elegant banquet was
rendered us by the Butte Press Club
to which about 200 persons sat down
at 10P. M. AT one o'clock A. NJ, the
ladies withdrew from the banquet
hall leaving the men to settle the af-
fairs of the nation over the brandy
and cigars. The handsomely APP
pointed tables fairly staggered under
their loads of fish, game, oysters, sal
ads, fruits, flowers, ices, nuts and
confectionery, and although the
finest wines flowed free as water, the
staggering was all confined to the
tables. The utmost propriety and
decorum prevailed throughout the
affair which was alike highly cred
itt BILE to those who rendered and
those who received such lavish hos
pitality.
THE OLD HAND PRESS"
There were 16 toasts which called
forth responses ranging from grave
to gay, from lively to severe. A
poem by J. NJ Quinn was highly APP
preciated and landed the author in
the Presidents chair at the meeting
of the Association the following
day.
The closing verse runs thus
"Oh memory, fair muse of time, unfold
the scene once more,
And let me sniff the breezes of the dear
old days of yore,
When life was in the budding, and hope
was in the bloom,
And Fancy wove her golden skein in
boyhood's laughing loom;
Yea bring back scenes of olden times
of butterflies and bees,
OF water melon patches, and soothing
whispering trees
The days of peace and jollity and loved
ones sweet "God Blessn
When / used to ink the roller on the old
hand press"
Senator Sanders and wife were
among the guests. Bob Ingersoll
was expected but failed to appear.
He had been in Butte for weeks past
as counsel in the famous millionaire
Davis will case on trial there.
THE BEAUTIES OF BUTTE.
Ingersoll said of Texas that if be
owned it and certain other place
not men tionable to ears polite and
was compelled to live in one place or
the other that he would sell Teras
| wonder what he would do with
Butte. Under the same circum-
stances l should certainly call for
bids on Butte.
Its streets are deep with dust, a
dense pail of smoke hangs contin-
ually over the city. No green thing
can grow there. Not blade of grass
not leaf, shrub, tree or flower is to
be seen ''anywhere, anywhere under
the sum-" but forgot there is no
sun, it is never seen through the
thick pea soup consistency of the
heavy dun colored atmosphere. The
water is very bad. 1t tastes like it
had something dead in it; in fact
only varied and various assortment
of something's could give it such a
taste. The Butte people have the
best excuse for not being Good Tenn
plars of any people on the globe, but
nevertheless Francis Murphy is
there now, engaged in a temperance
crusade. Butte is said to be the
wickedest city in America, but l
saw contingent of the Salvation
army parading the streets but /
must confess they looked discourag-
ed and did not sing in the loud tri-
umphant key they usually strike
elsewhere. Butte is the greatest
centre in the world. $500
miners are employed within radius
Of mile and a half Over 1000
mines are patented in that district.
Six smelters and six silver mills
run night and day reducing ores.
The largest and richest mines are
the Anaconda, St. Lawrence, Par
rotts, Blue Bird, Silver Bow, Alice,
Lexington, Moulton and many 9th
ers of less note. When the reduction
works at Anaconda Ga few miles
away were running one company
alone shipped to them 1000 tons DAT
y of silver and copper ore.
Butte's product of gold, silver and
copper for 1889 reached the vast sum
IF $21, 100000, and yet the industry
Is still in its infancy 1t is located
On the N. p. and Montana Union r.
Rs. and has steam and electric street
ear lines, is well lighted with gas
and electricity, and has many hand
some business blocks and very much
she air of a city. The population is
awards of27,000 Ittakes it's name
rom the vast number of tall
'ound detached buttes or mountains
which rise abruptly to great height
Ill round the vicinity. Almost ev-
Try one of them is crowned by vast
buildings containing expensive APP
oaratus Cor drilling, pumping, hoist
ng and smelling the precious metal
ying far down beneath the surface.