The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-07-15

The dispute over the Regain Page record
will 90 before the committee having the
contest in charge. The men will either
divide third and fourth money with Myers
and Dryer. Of Leadville, or the two teams
will drill again for supremacy, provided
the committee accept the surveyors meas
urement of 311s inches for both holes in
stead of those made by the judges. The
prizes are as follows: Teams-First. 800;
second, &4OO; third. $500; fourth, $500.
Sinele-hsnded drilling-First, $3.50; second,
$500; third, $3.50; fourth, 500.
Last nights sport started with a team
drill by Jack Easton, of Deer Lodge. and
Charles Grove, oolored. of Helena. 1t
furnished amusement plenty for the crowd,
rs 1t was in the nature of a side show. Their
drills broke early, late and often. and they
vera packing steel most of the time instead
Of drilling rock. When their job was halt
over they had a hole about nine inches
deep. BY the time they flushed they had
added so many broken pieces Of steel to the
heap that the hole was only five inches
deep. when measured by the judges.
Charles Nordham, of Gem, Idaho. was
With them as a single hand
driller, and made 16 PIG inches.
Freethy and Mitchell. the Marysville team,
who came second. but they had bad luck
With drills and hammers, breaking many of
the former and one of the latter, and made
only 20 PIG inches. Freethy's stroke was
seventy-two to the minute at the start and
seventy at tho finish. John Trenary, of
Colorado. did good work with the single
hand drill, capturing third money with
u SIG inches.
j. Il. Murphy and D. r. Murphy, "the
cousins of Butte" we're the next team, and
William Shea. of Ba1endale quarry. the
single hand drdller. with them. 1t WAS the
most exciting time OF the night. and the
M V,NSnhu NC ovrnrAa1 e. riot a ~lonn in
the frst four, while Shea soon showed that
he was out to beat all records, which he
did. Dan Murphy struck eighty7six blows
to the minute and his cousin seventy-si1.
But for bad luck with their drills the team
would have pressed some of the leaders
very close. One drill broke in about the
sixth minute. a piece of steel fully half
Of an inch through, coming of
and sticking in the hole. This hindered
their work greatly, and during the thirteenth
minute one drill stuck 80 hard it had to be
drawn out and another dropped In. With
all these DISADVANTAGES they made 31I
inches. The attention of the crowd was
divided between the team and Shea. The
Baxendale man changed his drills every
minute except the last, and his steels must
have been of excellent quality. They went
in so deep toward the ends Of the minutes
That he hardly had a good hand hold. The
last drill he was compelled to use for the
fourteenth and fifteenth minutes. When
his record breaking % SIG was announced
the crowd hurrahed and yelled.
Nordham and Erickson, the Gem, Idaho,
team, were also in bad luck. their steels
were soft and broke off repeatedly, and at
the end they we're packing down two inches
of steel. They only made 90 9-16 inches.
Sam Manuel, of Colorado. made 10 7-16
inches single handed.
Ryan and Wegenstein, of Granite. made
Is 1916 inches. They broke a hammer and
severa! drills. Driscoll and McAulif, of
Butte, ended the contest with 311 inches.