The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-15

ground for an Eastern syndicate. 1t Is
rumored that the ground will change
hands in a few weeks and that Mr..
Moore and his associates will receive
a good roun price for their property.
Cal Edwards, who Is mining i'm Biv-
ems gulch. was in town a few days
ago. He says that he and his partner
will have a pit ready to clean up in a
short time.
Andrew Anderson returned from
Helena Saturday, where he had been
with a Elton shipment of ore from the
Union mine in Georgia gulch. The ore
Melted him 1.209. Although he was
working on his lease for some four
months, Mr.. Anderson took out the
shipment in three weeks after he had
found the ore body. He has men at
work at present on the same ground
and they have just broken into a sim
liar chute of ore.
Although placer mining is as yet
hardly commenced in this section, our
county can boast of one good nugget.
Henry Halse. who is working in Biv-
ems gulch. a few weeks ago took out
a nugget Weighing IL ounces and val
ued at nearly $500. h nugget was
found lying on the edge of the rim
rock. Arrangements have been made
by which IL will be sent to the EXPOSE
ton at Omaha, where IL will form part
of Madison county's mineral exhibit.
Lawrence Cantwell was somewhat
severely injured Monday afternoon at
the Montana mine lear Leiterville by
falling down the shaft for a distance
of about Is feet. His right leg was
severely bruised by the fall. He was
brought to town the same evening for
medical treatment and is now resting
easy.
f.. Il. Day, while cutting brush Sat-
urday, caught the hand-axe which he
was using above his head and as ii
fell his left hand got under the axe.
cutting the third finger so badly that
it was necessary to amputate it at the
second joint.
Walter Sink, while working on the
Letter road Saturday. let his team run
away. The WACO was upset over the
grade. Sink falling all doubled up I'M
der the wagon. Two of the floating
ribs on his right side were broken by
the fall.
Ground was broken Monday for a
brick cottage which Abe Thurgood is
about to erect on Hamilton street.
H.. Sommers, superintendent of the
Rocky division of the Bell
Telephone company, was in town
Monday looking out a route for the
extension of the telephone line from
Butte to Sheridan. The line will leave
the Parrot line at a point on the Butte
h''e 10 1SaeA aAhtH eh'a 81
run by Iron Rod and Twin Bridges.
Mr.. Sommers says hat work will be-
gin By the end of the week me within
30 days will be completed to Sheridan.
From here ii will connect with the pri-
vate line to Virginia City. 1t is the
intention of the company TO eventually
include Dillon i'm their circuit by a
branch line from the Bridges.
Ira II. French, chief clerk in j. ALL
bright's clothing store at Virginia City,
was a Sheridan visitor Tuesday.
Ed East, Lou and Ed Planapp and
Harry Shaffer, who followed off Com
pany ID to Helena last week., returned
to Sheridan Monday night, not having
been able to enroll themselves as vol
unteers. Link Glen. who was with
them when they went over. managed
to scratch in. 1t was the intention to
give the Virginia City boys the first
chance. The first sergeant was away
from his desk for a minute. The mus
tering officer called for a man: Glenn
responded and he is now on his way TO
the Philippine islands to fight for
Uncle Sam. Theo. Haviland was the
only one rejected by the medical board
from this section.
In anticipation of a second call for
volunteers, a company of young men
of this place. about 30 in number. are
putting in the evenings drilling in
ooou itDIPlaiS huis ~ IL tbS a u .
made they will go to the mastering
point with some little knowledge of
military tactics. The G.. A. r. veterans
are drill masters.
Arbor Day was fittingIy observed by
the public schools of Sheridan. At the
school house Principal Mcintyre made
a short address on the benefits which
will arise from a general observance of
the day; a short programme of songs
and recitations was rendered by the
school children and the crowd then adj
journed to the school house yard,
where a row of trees was planted en-
comprising the entire lot. bitches
were then plowed so as to carry water
to every tree and the children depart |
ed to enjoy their holiday. with the
thought hat they had done a good
thing and done ii well.
Carlos Warfield of Butte was in town
Wednesday night, having been to Nir-
ginia City. where he leased the For
tune group of mines owned by Cook
Brothers. and situated in williams
gulch. The lease is for three months.
Mayor A. j. Bennett of Virginia City
was i'm town Wednesday on his way to
Helena. where he has gone to see Com
pany ID off on its long trip to the Phil
ippines. !
Oscar Sedman, who has spent the
past winter in the Hawaiian islands,
was in town a few days this week on
his return to Virginia City.
The concentration at Brandon has
been shut down this week on account
of a break in an irrigation ditch which
washed away a hume leading to the
water power of the concentration
s. d. Bollinger, who some years ago
was a superintendent of schools in
this county and at one time a resident
of this town, has again taken up his
residence here. For some years past
Mr.. Bollinger has been engaged in
newspaper work in various parts of the
West.
The continued dry weather is prov
ing a great drawback to the farmers
of this section. If a copious rainfall
does not occur within the next few
days irrigation will be necessary in or
der to bring up the crops.