The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-16
0NLY0NE BOOM IN TOWN
That Is In the RV9r and Is Securely
It'd.
HAMILTON IS DOING WELL
The Spring Gives Promise Of Great
Things for the Splendid Lit
tie City In the Bitter
Root alley.

HAMILTON, March 15.-There is no
boom in this town. except the Dig one in
the pond at the Bitter Root Development
company's mill, and nobody who is a
friend of the town wants to see one. The
people here who have the interests of the
town at heart have been busy all this
month denying that there is now or will
be any boom here. Hamilton is enjoying
an honest, healty growth, and there are
prospects that this development will con-
tinue. But the people here want no boom.
They simply want a lively, progressive
town, with plenty of business and om-
ployment for all the men who arc willing
TO work. That the town has always had
and has now. But there Is no boom here.
That is the last thing that the people
want to see. 1t is true that there have
been dodgers freely circulated in some
parts of the state that tend to create the
impression that n boom Is being inaugu-
rated. There is no authority back of
these circulars. They are issued by a
Spectator and have not for their purpose
the advancement of the interests of the
town. A boom is the very worst disease
that can seize upon town, and Hamil-
ton does not wish the impression to go
abroad that she is infected.
There is. as there always has boon, en-
ployment here at good wages for good
men during tho milling season. Tho
winter months furnish occupation for
loggers in the forests up the river. The
extensive planning mills of the Develop
ment company have been in operation
without interruption for two years and
have afforded employment for n small
army of skilled workmen. There is a
hum of industry and a business rustic
about the town all the time that is graft
flying TO the visitor and the resident alike.
But there are no evidences of a boom,
except in the mistaken notion which pos
sesses a few landowners who are quietly
doing some boom work to sell some of
their land at fancy figures. This method
does not meet with the approval of BUSH
ness men in the town and 1t is not likely
that it will succeed. There is good farm
ing land here-better than almost any
where else in the state-but it is worth
only what 1t will bring for farming pur.
poses. Nobody wants TO see Hamilton
plated from Riverside to the Skalkaho.
Hamilton is n business proposition.
The planning and joining machinery of
the Bitter Root Development company is
now in place in the new mills and this
splendid plant is working full blast.
There is lot of orders ahead for this de- |
partment of the mills and some big con- |
tracts are now being filled. The mills |
have recently turned out some of the |
finest interior finish work ever seen in |
this state and every contract that they fill |
is a standing advertisement of the excel
lence of their work. During the winter
extensive changes and improvements
have been made in tho saw mills, chiefly
in the way of more economical handling
of the lumber, and the capacity of each
mill has been considerably increased.
The weather permitting, tho mills will he
started Monday and then the long pro-
cession of lumber laden cars will begin
once more TO move down tho valley, not
10 stop until winter again locks the log
pond in ice.
Along with its transformation from n
lumber camp TO a thriving town, Hamil-