The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-02-02

IS will be added to the program.
crank Moshner and Jack Purr arriv-
in the city at noon yesterday with be
geen 800 and 900 pounds OF gold
J%ullion, valued at $4,000, from the
Gilt Edge mine. The Cascade bank
purchased the bullion and paid for it in
cash.
Parties in from the Blackfeet agency
state that the small pox quarantine has
been raised and that no cases now exist.
The epidemic, while not fatal to an
alarming extent, yet reduced the number
of Uucle Sans wards at that point dur
ing it's presence.
The Gilt Edge mine is one OF the best
gold properties in tie northwest, aDd
| when all the machinery is in place for
working the ore q large number, OF men
will be employed. A number of eastern
capitalists will soon be on the ground to
look over the property with a view to
purchasing.
The transcript of extract from the
final report made by Robert L. Nc:
| Cullogh, executor of the estate OF
Charles A. Broadwater, filed and approx
ed by the court of the first judicial dis
trict, of Lewis and Clarke county, Dec.
10, 1893, was filed in the recorders or
fee yesterday.
Yesterday morning a serious accident
occurred on the South side motor line
Sixth avenue south. A man jumped on
the front of the car in spite OF being
warned by the pilot moi to do 80. lie
missed bis footing and fell, the tender
alone saving him from being killed. He
sustained a broken shoulder besides
other severe bruises.
Reports from all sections of the west
eru part of the state show an exceed.
inply mild temperature for this time OF
the year. The Flathead valley is free
from snow and the farmers are blowing,
and at Spokane, Wash, wild flowers are
started to be in bloom. Cascade county
is not behind, either, as considerable
blowing and seeding has been done this
month.
Ira Myers is back from Neihart and
reports all kinds Of business prospecting
in that great camp. He says there are
more men on the pay rolls now than
ever before, and that the outlook for the
future is bright. Nearly every mine in
the camp is being worked and the out
put will be larger than ever and the
Great Falls silver smelter will be kept
running to its full capacity in smelling
the ores.
The committee appointed by Presi
t dent Harris of the Board of Trade to
t solicit membership to the board started
at work yesterday and secured quite a
number of names of citizens who had
not heretofore acted with the board.
, The membership should be at least 600.
Fifty cents a month from each member
; will give the board sufficient funds to
+ accomplish a II great deal for Great Falls
, this year.
T From information CLEANED from ar
rivals yesterday the extensive operations
! commenced at Belt by Mr.. Shields have
been an incentive to the other coal OPP
orators IN that section. Mr.. Lewis is
q employing quite a force Of men, as also
is Mr.. Clingan. 1t is also understood
that other properties will shortly be de
: veloped. There is now every prospect of
a lively burg at this point the coming
| summer.
Mrs. Potter Palmer. president of the
board of lady managers OF the worlds
fair, has written Mrs. Gov. Richards,
notifying her, and through her the
ladies of Montana, that there is still on
y hand for distribution a limited number
of the isabella souvenir coins, and
. suggesting that Montana send for some
r to be placed on sale in the cities and
r towns of the state. AS they are
. valuable souvenirs, would it not be well
9 for some of Great Falls banks or mer-
chants to send for a stock?
Barker Miner: The Warhorse on
Placer creek. a continent of Dry Wolf
e creek. near Big Badly is one of the most
promising properties in the Belt Mount
e aims. 1t is owned by A. Rasor and his
d brother. They have a tunnel in about
lG5 feet and have about fifty-tive feet
further to go to strike the lead which is
. four feet wide near the surface and rich
in copper. They have had a number of
, assays from samples taken out near the
surface, none of which went less than 81
u per cent copper. So in gold and 6 ounces
in silver. II it shows up as well with
S depth the boys surely have a bonanza.
A. Rasor says that they have gathered
an ore sack full of copper nuggets from
S the lead near the surface, and old-timers
e who have seen the property pronounce
it the best copper proposition they have
yet seen.
SUNDAYS DAILY.
j. c. Wells filed a placer location or
n twenty acres near Riceville yesterday.
" John r.. Campbell, a native of Can
ada. declared his intentions to become
a citizen of the United States yeeter
r day.
! Col. Root, special agent of the United
3 States land department is in the city in.
v~estigating an alleged offense of cutting
timber on mineral land.
The following marriage licenses were
issued yesterday by Clerk Cockrill;
Henry Wapshott, aged %, and Josephine
. Henry, aged -, both Of Great Falls.
Advices from the Judith basin state
that preparations are being made for
q placer mining oil an extensive scale this
coming season on the Judith river about
: twelve miles west Of Utica.
II A bill of sale was recorded yesterday
from Aron Bjornson to Aug. Eek and
Henry Ola for house on lot b. Sand
. Coulee. furniture and lease Of ground,
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