The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-21
BIG RAGING BETTING
BUTTE MAN SAYS THAT $2,2oO,oOO
CHANGED HANDS IN FIVE
WEEKS.
PROSPERITY Is RAMPANT.
MORE MONEY PAID IN WAGES
THERE THAN THERE ARE
ELSEWHERE.
GOSSIP OFF HOTEL CORRIDORS.
PROSPERITY is RAMPANT
GOSSIP OFF HOTEL CORRIDORS.
Personal Mention Cleaned I'm the
HOsteIries of the Capital City
Yesterday.

W.. Love, of the Anaconda Copper
Mining company, of, Butte, Montana,
arrived in the city yesterday on MS
way East. Mr.. Love is registered at
the Merchants hotel and expects to
continue his journey this evening.
The Anaconda company, which MI.
Love has been connected with for sew
eral years, has one of the largest
smelling plants in Montana. Their
mines cover many acres and are said
to have a daily silver output which
EQUALS that of all the other silver mines
in the state combined. The Anaconda
copper taken from these mines is mar
keted all over the world, the ore pelng
smelted near the mines saves the
freight on the crude material and thus
reduces the price of copper to the con-
sumner.
Mr.. Love talked interestingly to a
GIob e man last evening of the ad-
yantages offered in the state of Mon
tana to industries of all sorts. Butte
has been growing rapidly of late" sald
Mr. Love, land the past year has seen
a marked improvement in the financial
| situation there Butte now has some
thing over % 900 people and they are
of the pushing sort. Wages paid in
Butte, in fact all over Montana, are
in proportion to the cost of living, for
instance a day Iaborer gets three dol
lars a day and clerks get from ninety
to one hundred and twenty-five dollars
per month. Of course living is quite
expensive, but everything taken into
consideration, larger salaries are paid
than in the East, and money seems to
be easier Statistics show that more
money was paid for wages in Butte
than any other city in the United
States of like size. Of course the coun-
try being new it is rapidly becoming
populated, and it will be a few years
only until the city of Butte has doubled
it's population. New industries are
coming to Butte, a number of them
having been located recently, and 1
think no city in the West has a bright
er future than Butte.
Last year the Anaconda company
| shipped daily seVenty-fiVe cars Of cop
per ore taken from it's mines; this ore
was transported in the patent noun
tain ore cars, each car holding twenty
tons. Besides this, $4,000 of silver
were smelted every day in the I'M
menSe smelling plant.
POLITICALLY, Things are very quiet in
| Montana, as our state election was
+, held last fall when a full set of state
officers were elected. In Montana state
officers hold office for four years, and
| until next fall when a United States
senator will be elected things will be
| in a state of incubation. one thing
| which would benefit Montana greatly
would be the free and unlimited coin
| age of silver"
/ Butte without a doubt is the great
est racing town in the world. The
racing season Just closed lasted five
weeks, and during that time $2,220,OOO
passed through the boxes. There is no
book-making on the tracks, the bet
ting all beng done by the Paris
! Mutual scheme. These races attract
many people to the state annually
from distant parts of the United
| States, and the interest in the races
does not fag until the last race is run.
This year, as in previous years, the
races have consisted of trotting, pac-
ing and running races, but in the meet
to be held next season there will be
six weeks of continuous running races,
| as trotting and pacing matches have
ceased to be popular with the Mon
tana people. The G o b man then
asked Mr.. Love what he thought this
could be ascribed to and he said that
| trotting races were probably not fast
enough for the people of that state.
Samuel Boyd of Rolla, N. D., came
down yesterday and registered at the
Merchants. Mr.. Boyd brought down
two cars of cattle and took advantage
of the recent facilities offered by the
Swift company and marketed his stock
| 0f
direct to Chicago as heretofore.
A L. Smith, of Helena, Mont, ar
rived in the city yesterday and is
| guest Of DR.. Koon. Mr.. Smith is the
cashier of the Montana National bank,
of Helena, and is on one of his periodi-
cal visits to the Twin Cities.
A. D. Dodolsfer, of Cincinnati, is registered
| at the Merchants.
F. E. Click, of Boone, To-, is at the Wind
sor.
J: F; Morton, Of St. Joseph, is at the Mer-
c. R. Ainsworth, of Moline, is at the Mer-
! chants.
E. c. Weters, of Livingston Mont, is reg
| istered at the Ryan.
D. NJ. Collins, of Sioux City, arrived at the
E. T. Davidson, of st. Cloud, is at the
| Ryan.
S. l.. Rice, of West Superior is at the Mer-
| chants.
G. L. soloman Of Rochester, is stopping
| at the Ryan.
G. H. Ponsonby, of Melrose. is at the Mer-
chants.
A. E. Evison. of Farbault, is stopping at
the Merchants
NJ c. Woodward, of Tower, is at the Ryan.
Sidney Dreyfus, of Boston, is guest at the
Ryan.
J. H. Marcy of Minot is at the Mer-
chants
E. B. Chandler, of Hudson, stopped at the
Merchants yesterday.
O. G. Brice, of Duluth, is at the Mer-
chants.
John L. Griffith, of Boston, is a guest of
the Metropolitan.
w. S. Jones, of Chicago. is a guest of the
Metropolitan.
S. P. Critchen, of Adrian, Mich, is at the
Metropolitan
Houses artistically furnished, deco
rated and carpeted throughout-Rice's.
Gen. Ord Post No. 20 has accepted an invita-
ton by Gen Ord Woman's Relief corps to par
tieipate in g. trip to the soldiers home this
afternoon. All members of the post and their
ladies are expected to take advantage of the
present fine weather and make this trip.
Cars will leave at 2 o'clock p. IN. from in
front of the Ryan hotel
Only SIS to Chicago.