The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-14
THE BUILDING BOOM IN BASIN.
Several New Residences Going Up-The
stone Work for the New Smeiter
Nearly Completed-Ruby Mine.

Special Correspondence of the Standard
Basin, March 13-The building boom
has struck Basin and from three to
four cars of lumber are now being
shipped in here per week, and is util-
| lied about as fast as it arrives. Build
/ ings that have been erected during the
past few days are: A new office at the
Hope mine and two handsome resi-
dences by Messrs Charles Souden and
| Charles Vogel. Others that are now
in course of erection are: A brick
residence by A. c. Hollenbeck, a new
| blacksmith shop at the Hope, a large
| warehouse 40x75 feet by d. Driscoll &
Co. and several smaller residence
| buildings. j. Fl. Rule has the plans
drawn for a new brick business block.
and will commence work on it during
the coming week.
The New Smelter.
At the Katie works nearly all the
stone work for the new smelter lis now
completed, while around the site of
the new 500-ton concentration that is to
be built soon quite a number of men
are at work, and all is activity Tt is
expected that the actual construction
work of this plant will commence about
April 10. The work at present at this
point is that of clearing up the old
debris from the site for the foundation.
A large amount of work has also been
done by way of repairing and rebuild
ing some of the machinery that was
caught in the fire of 1895, and in equip
ping the machine and carpenter shops.
Then, too, much work is being done
to get everything in shape to COM
mence pumping out the vast volume of
water with which the mine is now
flooded.
Paid n Dividend.
The Ruby mine has paid dividend
of per cent, and this speaks we'll for
the property as big paying enter
prise, since it must be remembered that
since the 18th day of last August when
the operation of the mine was first
commenced. the owners have built a
mill, ore houses, boarding and lodging
houses, 10 miles of wagon road and
paid $4,000 for the property all out of
the proceeds derived from the sale of
it's ores. The property is in splendid
shape to-day, and larger and frequent
dividends may be looked for in the fu-
ture for long time to come
He Has Faith.
State Land Agent Henry Neill of
Helena is in town to-day. Mr. NeiH
has great faith in the Basin mining
district, and has recently obtained
some heavy interests here. He talks
with the enthusiasm of an old-tmer in |
the district and said TO the Standard
correspondent to-day that he believes
the Basin district to have the best in
dications for large, rich mineral pro-
ducing section to be found anywhere !
in the West.
To Incorporate the Town.
An effort is to be made soon TO in
corporate the town, and the citizens
are now quite generally discussing the |
proposition. There is not now an in !
corporated town in Jefferson county.
and it now looks as though Basin will /.
have the distinction of being the first /
one to have municipal government
Resumed Operations.
The Eva May mine has resumed op-
erations. This property, which was for
long time one of the mainstays of the /
Basin district, has been closed down /
since last August, but, however, con- /
siderable development work has been |
done during this time, and the prop
erty is said to be in splendid condition
now, and in shape for long and con-
tinuous run. Rumors have been out for |
the past two months that the property /
would resume operations on an extern /
sive scale, but no one here seemed to
know anything definite about the ar
rangements until President George r.
Best of Milwaukee arrived here Mon
day afternoon. Yesterday afternoon
word was sent to town, and a large
force of men were taken to the mine.
For the past three weeks the town has
been full of idle men. and the resump-
ton of operations at this mine has
greatly relieved the labor situation
About go men will be employed, but still
there will be considerable surplus of
miners and laborers left here.
At the Hope.
At the Hope the water has all been
pumped out of the mine and the COM
pany is now only waiting for the ar
rival of shipment of machinery from
Chicago to commence active mining.
The work of sinking the shaft will com
mence within very short time.
a New Road.
The agitation in favor of new road
up Basin creek seems to be bearing
good results. The county commission
ers now in session at Boulder came up
here Monday evening to talk with the
citizens and look the proposition over,
and it is confidently believed that they
will take favorable action in the mat
ter The petition for this road was
signed by all of the principal taxpayers
of this place and of Boulder. as the
people of the latter place appreciate
the necessity of this road and are also
taking an active interest in the matter.
Organizing Hive.
Mrs. Eudocia S. Moffat. deputy su-
preme commander of the Ladies of the
Maccabees for the Northwest. who or
ganized a hive of that order here last
week. is now endeavoring to organize
a hive in Boulder. and is being assisted
by a number of the Basin ladies. who
are quite enthusiastic in the work.
Over the Line.
F. +. Word, the new superintendent
for this division of the Great Northern.
has been down over this end of the line
during the week. looking after the af-
fairs of his company in his new capac-
ty and is expected to be here to-day or
tomorrow.
Collecting the Exhibit.
L. W. Curtis. assistant commissioner
of Montana for the Omaha exposition,
will be here tomorrow TO finish col
Iecting the mineral exhibit for the Ba-
lisfr.inf Curtis