The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-01
AFFAIRS IN BOULDER.
Memorial Day Exercises-The Alta and
Comet Mines to Be Started

SOmeu mines to BE Started.
Special Correspondence of the Standard
Boulder. May 31.-Memorial day was
not observed in a public manner in
Boulder though many people visited
the cemetery and placed flowers on the
graves of departed relatives and friends
and the graves of the six old soldiers
who are buried here were not forgot
ten.
On Friday of this week the Boulder
public schools will close a very salts
factory years work. In the afternoon
at the school house exercises will be
held by the various departments APP
propriate to the occasion, and in the
evening at Simpkins' hall will occur
the graduating exercises. The class
this year is not large, and is composed
of Misses Carey, Concannon and Bum
by and George F. Cowan, jr Miss Ca
rey is valedictorian and all will pre-
sent essays. There will also be several
musical numbers, and much pleasure
is anticipated from an address to be
delivered by Colonel Sanders The
programme for the occasion is as fol-
lows: Music, La Veta Schottische,"
Mandolin and Guitar club; essay, THE
III. Bumby; essay, THE Uses of Educa-
tion'' Miss Alice E. Carey; vocal solo,
September Miss Clara Riedel; es
say What We Owe to Our Govern
ment," George F. Cowan, jr.; essay,
Our Sails Are Set, but Where's the
Shore?" Miss Alta Concannon; piano
solo, selected Mrs. D. Mcneil; vale
dictory Miss Alice E. Carey; vocal solo,
selected, Mrs. Nannita Bagley Sher
lock; commencement address, Col. Will
bur F. Sanders vocal solo, selected,
Miss Uretta Ryan; presentation of di-
plomas, chairman of trustees; music,
"Over the Waves Mandolin and Gui-
tar club.
The board of county commissioners
will meet in regular quarterly session
next Monday. Among business to be
transacted will be the letting of con-
tracts for jails at Basin, Whitehall
and Clancy, the repairing and calso-
mining of the court house and jail, and
the selection of a county surveyor to
take the place of Mr.. Mcneil, who re-
signed to accept position with the
Great Northern road.
The court house club from Butte
having beaten Boulder Sunday, it is
hoped here that another game may
be arranged to give Boulder another
chance to show how well our club can
play.
An unusual accident caused a delay
of trains here Monday. The Northern
Pacific is doing some bridge work on
this branch, and a pile driver being
needed, it was sent from Livingston.
The Northern Pacific is using the Great
Northern track through the Boulder
tunnel and was informed that it was
81 feet in the clear. 1t proved to be
less than that, however. and the pile
driver caught in the timbers of the
tunnel. 1t took nearly all day to eN-
tricate it and all traffic was delayed
in the meantime
Jefferson county people feel quite en-.
couraged over the report that tho Ara
and Comet mines are to be start
ed again, and it is hoped :Ect the s.;ip-
ment of Sam Hauser that :he Helena
and Livingston Smelling and Reduction
company, having sold the East Helena
smelter. has $4,000 laid aisle Ter the
opening of these mines, may p"ova to
be true. 1t is certain that there IS
good ore in the Comet, and it IS like
ly that with the better method of re-
ducing the Alta ores, as done by the
Peck Montana company, now operating
at Corbin, the ore which was worked
at a loss the last year the mine was
operated may now produce a profit.
That the last working of the mine in
1896 was in ore is indicated by the fact
that $50 men We're working at the time
work was ordered stopped, whereas,
if the ore bodies were playing out it
is likely that they would have been
laid off gradually.
A shipment of $50 head of cattle was
made here the first of the week to the
ranges in the northern part of the state,
being consigned to the Empire Cattle
company.