The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1896-07-10

SSSAS
The wool centers in eastern Montana
are thronged with buyers.
Col. Emmett Callahan delivered the
oration on the 4th at Butte.
The Belt Valley Times has entered
upon its third year. Good. luck
The Tacomas defeated the Missoula
base ball club on the 4th by a score of 10
to g.
The Lum? gulch district still contin.
ues to ship five or six carloads Of ore per
week.
The U. S. geological surveys will be
actively pushed during the summer in
Montana.
Capt. John 7. Smith, one Of the Oldest
pioneers of the state, died last week near
Bozeman.
The Anaconda Copper Mining COM
pany will hold a meeting tomorrow il
Anaconda
Paul A. Fusz will erect Cotton cons
centrator on the Bi-Metallic to be com4
pleted in 60 days.
Senator Alex Metzel is visiting at his
old home at York, Pennsylvania, and in
cidentally talking free silver.
Castle is booming in anticipation of the
completion Of the Montana Midland rails
road now approaching the town.
The Butte and Helena postoffices have
advanced from second to first class and
that OF Billings from third to second,
The rise in the London wool market
has not perceptbly affected the price in
America, giving suspicion of a combine.
Three prisoners escaped from the Boze-
man Jail last Thursday by digging
through a brick wall with stick Of cord
wood.
A cutting scrape occurred in Butte on
the 4th between John Nicholas and Jas.
Ayres. Ayres was slashed about the face
and neck.
The {. P. and Rio Grande Western
| roads have entered upon rate war, and
the fare from Salt Lake to Chicago is re-
duced to $29.
The Overland mine near Clancy, oper-s
ated by Essler and Stahl, is shipping ons
car load of ore per day to East Helena,
the lowest returns from which have been
$500 per car.
Charles King, a contractor on the gov
ernment road work in the National Park,
has skipped, leaving much worthless
paper behind in the form of checks on an
overdrawn bank account.
A new mining camp called Sylvanite
has been opened in the Kalispel country
and is very promising. The Goldf1int il
one Of the chief mines of the district, and
is very valuable property.
Prof. Harrison, principal Of the Basin
schools, was ssarrested last week on the
charge Of attempting to leave the state
with the purpose of defrauding his cred
itors. He was bound over.
duotdie ANlooeul, tut sulOOlu Ddu6 WUO
"worked" the Great Falls people out Of
money and diamonds while publishing
the Montana Illustrated, is in Jail in Great
Falls and will be tried for felony.
Our cabinet was added to this week BY
a choice specimen from the Angel and
Cougar mine in Deer Lodge county,
operated by Fl. L. Frank and Linneman
| & 6chmidt.-W Western Mining World. g
There were 43 entries in the bicycls
| race over the road between Butte and
Anaconda on the Fourth, and 20 started.
Geo. B. German arrived first, but B. TX 4
Bennett of Helena took the first prize for
the best time hour, "A minutes, IS
seconds.
When the different hoisting and other q
machinery now under contract has been
erected in this district. Butte can boast of
having the best equipped mines in the
world. 1t will not stop here, but other
plants will soon be ordered. Each con.
tract involves many Thousand dollars,
and competition will be keen.-W Western
Mining World.