The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-04
TWENTY MORE STAMPS
They Began Dropping at the BIZ
metallic Yesterday.
TOWN STILL IMPROVING
The Increased Output VIII Make Neces-
sary the Employment of Additional
Men-Many Of the Old Miners
Have Returned.

Philipsburg. Aug. 3-This town Is
still improving. The Bimetallic mill has
been running 30 stamps steadily since
June. and to-day 20 additional stamps
began to drop. Within a week the full
100 will be in operation and this will
necessitate a corresponding increase in
the output of the big mine on the hill.
There are now about 300 men at work
at the mines and in the mill, and the
increased output will make IL necessary
to add to the working force. Shipments
of bullion are being made with old time
regularity. and this mornings train
took out about a ton of the white met
al. The town is already feeling the
good effects of the revival in its chief
industry and another pay day vii!
straighten things into something like
their former activity. Merchants are
feeling encouraged n IL is believed
that though the price of silver does not
keep where the people here would like
TO see it. the operation of the plant VIII
he permanent.
The improvements that have been
made in the company's plant at the mill
have been extensive and the machinery
as complete as will be found anywhere
in the world. The consolidation of the
two big mining companies and the IN
PRODUCTION of new processes and devices
have made il possible for the plant to
be operated at a cost that Is said to be
much less than the figure that repre-
scented the expense of running the
! mines n mill under former conditions.
The change has resulted I'm bringing to
Philipsburg all of the business that was,
formerly divided between here n
Rumsey. where the mill of the Granite
Mountain was located. Everything is
p,uy hafnn hpnn1hf ~ tho innnTnNpn Ri
metallic mill. There is an unconnrmed
rumor current here that the Rumsey
mill will be operated this fall by l%easers,
who will be given leases in the upper
workings of the mine on the hill. II is
said that the company Will be willing
To lease portions of the levels above the
LOO. tina Fan be profitably worked.
This report. while not officially con-
firmed. is regarded as probable and
may be s~ubstantiated soon.
The town presents a quiet appearance
this month. except at night and morn
ing when the dinner bucket brigade
makes the streets active. All available
men who are not at work i'm mine or
mill are being impressed by the farmers
i'm the valley for their harvesting. which
is now well under way. The hay crop
is pifing up I'm immense stacks all
through the valley, and the grain crop
is maturing in fine shape. Ranchmen
have been complaining of a scarcity of
men and there is nobody here who AN
not get work If he wants il. The usual
throns of hoboes and hold-ups that in
tests Drummond has disappeared since
there has been so much work i'm sight
and for a time this part OF the valley
will be free from them.
The new train service IS giving gen
eral satisfaction, although there is a
movement being started in favor of pc
titioning the railway company for a
closer westbound connection at Drum
mond. The eastbound connection is
very satisfactory, hut the wait AT
Drummond is now "A little tedious for
w~estbound travellers. However, the
present service is SO much better than
the people have been getting that
there is no complaint here. In case the
business of the branch continues to in
crease 1t is not unlikely that the rail-
way company will be compelled to
make two round trips a day between
here and Drummond. This would make
IL possible To connect closely with both
east and "westbound trains.
Many of the old miners have returned
to Granite. Some of them have been
prospecting or working claims of their
w and others have had employment
in other mining camps. but these have
I'm many cases. preferred to return here
= y - ~ u ~" ' A''H ~
some of the old miners have found work
SO far away that To return is imprac.
ticable. one does not realize how mucI
difference the revival of business at the
mines has made until ne sees the line ot
men go home at night from their work
II is like old times and the sight is d
gratifying one.
Business is not yet So lively here tina
there is not some time found for recrc.
alton, and just at present 'freezeout'
seems to have the call as a popular
form of amusement. 1t is not the form
OF the game that is recognized else
where in places where this phase of tn,
great American game is played, but 4
is a style Of game that is peculiar &
Ph~ilipsburg alone. 1t cannot we'll IL
described. Ii must be seen To be appre
ciated n the stranger who goes NJ
against ii will get a raZzle-daZzle tina
will make his hair curl. IL is a grca
game.
Philipsburg has the camping fever II
a mild degree and there are seVera
pleasure camps in the mountains ives
OF here that are occupied by vacation
lists from this place. None of them hay
yet sent i'm for supplies. so il is pre-
sumed that all are catching some fish.
Conductor Ward will move his famil
back from Missoula this month and wi
take up his residence here once more.
Judge Durfee has been i'm Helena ia
a few DAYS on business.