The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-25
Jim WILL PULL OUT
The Basin "Times" Bids Farewell Il
Unfortunate Cataract.
ANOTHER PAPER FOR BUTTE
In His Vaiediotory the Editor Says
He Is Loath to Part With JEFF
ferson County People, but
IL Is Best He should.

The Basin Times in it's issue to-day.
in a two-column editorial in which II
relates some of the great deeds II ac-
complished during its existence of two
years, announces its suspension as a
Basin paper and it's intention to re-
move to Butte. 1t says, among many
other things:
with this issue the Times will prob
ably suspend publication in Basin. II
will resume publication again in the
queen mining city of the world-Butte.
We have endeavored to be fearless in
the advocacy of what we considered
to be right ever since our advent to
Basin. Whenever we found a wrong
about to be perpetrated OF a wrong
that had been perpetrated, we were
never slow to condemn the wrong and
place the responsibility on the should
ers OF those who were responsible for
1T. The last form of The Times to be
locked in a chase condemns the man.
agement of the Hope company for the
style and system of mining they have
pursued ever since they commenced to
take a particle of ore from that mine.
The holocaust Of human lives that was
offered up in that death trap is but a
mournful monument to that system
which has been in vogue among the
mines of the Cataract ever since the
advent of Helena mining men into the
Cataract country, and ii is no surprise
that the sacrifice was not greater.
Were we to be silent. by lightly pass
ing over this catastrophe, we would
have failed in the performance of an
honorable duty pertaining to the con-
Quoting of fearless journalism.
THE Basin Times, for the two years
and over that IL has been published i'm
the Cataract country, has been the pet
of no corporation, nor has 1t worn the
collar or necktie of any corporate
body. We have been as persistent in
exposing the methods of the Silver
Bow mining men as we have the
gophering of the red-top and high
heel miners of Helena.
THE Times will be continued in the
same manner, adhering to past policies
and principles, never wavering from
what we believe to be the greatest good
to the greatest number. We will be of
the republican faith; instinct would
permit us to be of no other; but let he
who is derelict in the performance of
his duty, let him be of any political
faith, even a republican. The Times
will deem IL but a duty to put him in
mind Of the fact that affairs are not
as they should be, and we are not
afraid to say so IL the occasion should
demand It,
1--WE have Jared we'll at the hands of
loath to part with them. We would
not were the anticipations of what
we expected realized, when we first de-
cided to move to Basin and make this
county our home. We are free to ad-
init that the mines of this locality are
what is claimed for them. but misfor-
tune has overtaken those which had
reductive plants on them, and the two
producing mines being Invested of their
reduction works caused the population
TO decrease to such an extent that we.
too, have concluded to remove TO
Butte.
Basin. we predict, will yet be one
of the greatest bullion producing camps
in Montana, but not until the people
will have regalned confidence and know
that the i'll luck. which has so often
befell IL, has ceased. Then will pros
perity once more abound and the mines
belch forth their rich and hidden trea-
sure"