The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31
BUTTE NEWS.
BUTTE SHOWS UP WELL
In Comparison With Cities in
Her Glass.
THROUGHOUT THE UNION
Comes Very Near leading in Homlcides
and Arrests, but in Other Respects
Her Record Is an En-
viable One.
THROUGHOUT THE UNION

Mayor Mccarthy yesterday received
from Washington copy of pamphlet
isS,ed by the department of labor, con-
tanning statistics of cities. The book
contains information about 14O cities
= which have population Of 10000 or
more each. The population of Butte
is placed at $4,000. The statistics show
that the area of Butte is less than that
of any other city mentioned with the
exception of Hoboken, N. T., and New
port, Ky. Butte's area is 1850 acres.
Forty-two of the cities have within
10000 of the same population accorded
to Butte, and may therefore be COM
pared with Butte. Butte has AZ police
men; Is of the cities which have ap-
proximately the same population as
Butte have more than AZ policemen and
the rest have less. Butte has 140 Ii
censed saloons. OF the cities having
approximately the same population as
Butte, IA have more saloons than Butte
and one has just the same The ar
rests in Butte were 541 in 1898. Twen-
ty-four of the cities had greater num-
Der of arrests for drunkenness. Butte
had IA arrests for homicide. which is
e greater number than any Of the other
cities in Butte's class with two excep-
lions. The total arrests in Butte were
4,760. Only one city in Butte's class
had as many arrests. Only five cities
have as few firemen as Butte, namely
Is, and two of these cities have call
men, which really gives them a larger
force of firemen than Butte has.
Il,,%t rsc -~%x 1~<F-
1872 Although Butte's department is
small it is apparently as efficient as
any of them, for of the AZ cities In
Butte's class only two had smaller
property loss than Butte.
There were AGO deaths in Butte from
all causes in 1898. Only nine of the AZ
cities had fewer deaths than Butte.
Butte's percentage of deaths from con-
sumption was the smallest with three
exceptions. In the whole country, ac.
cording to this table, the only cities
having a smaller death rate than Butte
are Bay City, Mich; Canton, O.; Hous-
ton, Texas; Lincoln, Neb. Minneap-
oils, Omaha, Peoria, ILL.,; Portland,
Ore; Rockford, ILL.,; st. Joseph Mo-;
st. Paul, Salt Lake City, South Bend,
Ind; Tacoma and Toledo. Butte there
fore stands 18th in point of health
among the 40 cities of the United
States which have a population of
more than 10000 people. Not a city in
the whole 140 has as little paved streets
as Butte with the exception of Pueblo,
Colo, which has none at all.
There are seven citiess besides Butte
which have no public park. There will
be special interest in the public library
figures. They show there were more
books taken from the Butte library
than from the public libraries in any
city of Buttes size. Only 10 of the 14O
cities have a smaller indebtedness than
Butte; yet only 26 of the cities have a
greater tax rate than Butte, taking
state, county, city and all other taxes.
The table of per capita expenditures
for maintenance shows that "a cities
have greater per capita cost for main
tenance than Butte and So have less.