The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-16

say, If the lot isn't worth $500 a foot
it isn't worth a cent.
Next west of Mr.. Hamilton's lot. at
the corner of Main and Broadway,
stands the unsightly old building over
the permit for repairs to which there
was a bit of row some time ago-the
Judgment of some of the city authori-
ties being that it was too old and bat
tered to stand repairs. 1t is a fraction
too small for building of generous
proportions. The man floor. tumble
down as the building itself is, makes
handsome earnings. but in an import
ant sense. the building isn't worth any
thing, nor, as has been said, can a
good sized building find room on the lot,
which is % feet on Main with 81 feet
on Broadway A onrhalf interest in
this corner sold two years ago on the
basis of 1880 for the property--one
thousand dollars a front foot on Main
for lot 81 feet deep. NJ. Charpentier
owned this corner under the fourteen
dollar sale Years afterward, yet in
times when Butte real estate was not
up to recent valuations, Mr. Hamilton
paid $4,000 for 80 fee east of his orig
inal purchase on Broadway.
Humphrey Brothers owned under
what is commonly described the squat
ters' title-or the fourteen dollar rate
the opposite corner of Main and Broad.
store now has pleasant quarters. In
1876 these gentlemen offered to sell to
Joe Suprenant the corner. with a fairly
good blacksmith shop that then adorned
it thrown in, for the consideration of
81 400. Mr.. Supfenant halted a long
tme-finally he concluded not to buy,
and his shop was opened near the pres
ent site of the Butte hotel. w. A.
Clark purchased the corner where his
bank stands from the Hauswirths
whose title was one of the fourteen-dol-
| lar ones. At the outset the sumptuous
Hotel de Mineral graced that corner.
When Mr.. Clark started banking in
| Butte, his paraphernalia was a safe
| removed from Deer Lodge which occu-
pied space in the store diagonally OPP
posite the present Clark bank-that is
| to say, in the Charpentipr corner. Later
| on the Clark bank was at the Hight &
Fairfield corner, remaining there until
the transfer to its present quarters.
Better Than Mining.
The remaining corner at the four
corners is covered by the Moves block.
About the year 1881 shacks covered this
ground. Mr.. Noyes bought the site,
| with the shackS included. for $1,500.
The ttwo-story brick building that now
| covers the lot-which is not deep-is not
| worth much money. Probably the
Standard is not far out of the way if it
guesses that Mr.. Noyes would mark the
| price of the corner at, say, $4,000. BY
| the way, next east of the Moves prop
erty is what is known as the California
! brewery. Although not Of great depth
the lot has a generous frontage on
Originally it was the black
yard for the Noyes corner and for the
lot next south of Noyes, on Main. This
property, possibly GO feet front on
| Broadway. Fred Loeber bought for $14
| He owns it to-day.
Samples of Butte central property
might be multiplied. Take the O'Rourllt
corner. at Main and Granite, 20 feet by
100 w. j. Mcnamara took the town
site title for $40. Mcnamara sold tt
James Mathews, in 1882. for $500
| O'Rourke bought, with building, in 1885
for SIS 000-there never was an instan
when the corner was worth more mon
ey than it is this morning. Next ad
joining lis the lot occupied by the FRS
National bank. The townsite title Wen
ito Granville Stuart and R. Anderson
in 1876. They sold it to the First Ma
tional bank of Helena, in 1875, for 81, 500
1t is q feet bytl00. The Jonas property
directly opposite. sold several months
ago for $1,000 a foot front. This prop
erty was conveyed by the Helena banl