The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-06
IN LIBBY.
A Hospital Is Being Erected - Great
Northern Business.

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Northern Business.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Libby, Mont, Aug. 3.-Dr. w. NJ.
Howsley, who has recently located
in Libby, having come from Deer
Lodge, has commenced the cree
ton of a hospital at this place, and
the carpenters are making good prog
ress. 1t will have all the conveniences
which it is possible to put in it in a
place of this Kind and the service will
be the best that can be given. DR..
Howsley has a contract with all the
mines in this vicinity and the sawmlll
for the care of the employees, and at
present he has a hospital tent which is
filling the bill pending the completion
of the hospital building. 1t will be
completed in about three weeks and
will cost in the neighborhood of $4,000.
The receipts at the Great Northern
depot in Libby for the month of July
were the largest in the history of the
place. amounting to $9,426.S9 The
agent at this place has just issued a
comparative statement for the fiscal
years ending on June 80, 1899 and 1898.
For the year 1899 the receipts were
$55 962 81, while for the year previous
they were but $29.27095. or a gain for
the year of over $4,000. This is a most
gratifying showing and places Libby
in the list as the best office on the line
of the Great Northern on the Kalispell
division save that of Kalispell.
Harry Hamilton who has the con-
tract for the construction of a county
Jail at this place, has a crew of car
penters at work and the building will
soon be completed. 1t is being pro-
vided with three cells and small jus
tice court room in front. 1t will cost
the county in the neighborhood of $780,
It is one of the best investments the
county commissioners have ever made,
as it will save an immense sum to the
county each year in the transportation
of witnesses and criminals in petty
cases from here to the county seat
which is SO miles away.
The bridge over Libby creek which
the commissioners recently allowed has
been completed and the county dads
took a trip to see the work the early
part of the week and pronounced it
having been done according to plans
and specifications and have received it.
1t cost $3.50.
Charles Ryder has a large building
which he intends using as a shooting
gallery and bowling alley well under
way and will soon commence to fit it
up with the alley and other conVen-
fences.
The Libby Lumber & Development
company which has a contract for
with $4,000 square ties, has the con-
tract about completed and has taken
off it's night crew. There will be a
small crew employed at night run
ming the planning machine, as there is
not power enough in the engine to run
both the machine and the saw at the
same time About As men have been
employed at this mill and the decision
TO let out the night crew will take off
about Is of them.
Arthur Winslow, general manager of
the Libby Creek Mining company, who
has his headquarters in Kansas City,
was in Libby last week looking over
the Buzz Saw mine, which his COM
pany has recently acquired in this dis
trict. He found everything in the very
best kind of shape and again left for
his home on Sunday. j. NJ. Dikeman,
one of the best known mill men in the
western states, is in charge of the
work on this property and everything
at the mill bears the earmarks of a
master mind