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The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-24
WILL WORK ALL WINTER,
Two Men Who Believe They Have Good
Property in the Selkirk.

A message from Libby to the Helena
Record says that Henry Hamilton and
John Rouse, who. in connection with
J. T. Clark, own the Selkirk group of
claims on Cedar creek, have gone to re-
main there until spring doing develop
ment work. There are three claims in
this group, and from them some OF the
finest high grade ore ever found in Libby
district has been obtained. The values
are ali in silver and the ore is very beau
tiful, being green and blue and other
bright colors and is very snowy in cabi-
nets Assays as high as 1900 ounces in
silver have been obtained.
The property is developed by an in
cline shaft about so feet deep and several
tunnels and crosscuts. the longest tunnel
being in about 45O feet. 1t was run
for the purpose of tapping the ledge at a
point under the incline shaft, in which
it is about three feet wide and the aver
age of the ore at that place is about $50
to the ton. On account of bad air work
in this tunnel has been suspended and on
account of water in the shaft the ore
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THINK THEY HAVE COPPER.
Three State Officials Developing a
Claim Near Neihart.

United States Senator Paris Gibson,
Attorney General James Donovan and
State Auditor ]. H. Calderhead are joint
ly interested in what promises to be a
valuable piece of mining property
in the Yogo country near Neihart,
known as the Blue Dick mine, says
the Helena Record. Mr.. Calderhead re-
Gently visited the property, where num-
Der of men are employed. Speaking of
the prospects. he says:
1--WE are sinking a shaft on the claim
and already a satisfactory showing in
copper has been made. We are prepar-
ing to run a crosscut which will serve to
develop the width of the vein. The lode,
from which they have already extracted
some valuable ore, runs north and south
and is on a contact between lime and
granite.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-24
ANEARLY DAY CHRISTMAS.
Thompson Campbell Tells How It Was
Celebrated in Phoebe.

"Christmas in Phoebe, New, in 1870 was
a warm number said Attorney Thomp-
son Campbell in the office of the clerk
of the federal court yesterday.
although Phoebe was quite town
then. there were no women in the place,
hut we had a Christmas celebration just
the same.
"A lot Of the boys got together and
without proper recognition would be a
gross violation Of the code Of public en-
tertainment: SO a couple Of days before
Christmas we sent down to Mormondom
and bought barrel of milk and enough
eggs to make it into eggnog. We did
not have to send out of town for whis-
ky-we had it on tap.
Well, on Christmas we secured a couple
of washtubs, took possession of the
courthouse and made them full of egg
nog. I made the beverage and you can
bet it was all right. Then we invited
everybody to join us in the celebration.
I'm the party was lawyer named
Sawyer. He was considerable of poet
and indited a few verses appropriate to
the occasion.
II remember one very distinctly which
Sawyer spoke as he held aloft a glass of
the nog. It was:
The God whose birth we celebrate would
not this drink decline;
For He with God-like charity turned
water into Wine.
ut was glorious Christmas all right"
continued Mr.. Campbell, land 1 believe
everybody in town got good and drunk
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KIPP'S HARD LUCK
OLD INDIAN TRADER BROKE AMI
IN A RAILROAD WRECK.
TRUE FRIEND OF THE RED MEN
Gives Them Credit for Flour and
Calico and Now He Makes an
Assignment for Benefit
Of Creditors.

Poor old Joe Kipp Is having all kinds
of bad luck" said Henry Garvin, at the
Finlen, yesterday.
II see he got mixed up in that railroad
wreck in kalispell the other day, and
it's only a week ago since he went broke
and made an assignment. Well, that's
what the credit system means with In
dams as well as with whites.
Joe Kipp is a unique character among
the Blackfoot Indians. He has been
conducting store near the reservation
for many years, and has always stood
high in the councils of the tribe.
But that's what comes from being
friend, philosopher and guide for the
noble red man. 1t has been said that
no Indian has ever been refused a sack
of flour or yard of red calico at the
Kipp store, whether he had the money
or not. Now, you see the result; liabil-
tiles. $4,000; outstanding accounts, $1O,-
600; assets, horses, $50; personal prop
erty. $50.
You can judge for yourself how many
horses represent $50. Well, perhaps 1t
would take half a dozen of those glass
eyed. Roman-nosed cayuses with ques-
tionable dispositions and pedigrees to
reach that amount.
1.-THE personal property. doubtless. con-
sists of a couple of pairs of moccassins
a collection of buffalo horns and a
coyote hide or two.
1.-The outstanding accounts will run all
the way from $500. covered by a note
from old Slow-in-the-Pay. to 20 cents
due for a bottle of bay rum by young
Red-in- the Nose-no, not for his hair
for his stomach's sake.
but old Joe will start up again soon,
and Slow-in-the-Pay will write another
note and Red-in-the-Nose will acquire
another bay-rum intoxication. and both
will get their names on the books once
more.
80 you see, with it's manifold bless
ings, civilization has brought the creolt
system to gladden. the heart Of poor Lo.'
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''Is the country we'll staked. WE'LL yes.
do not believe there are many unstaket
feet or yards in the entire county; ~
least that portion Of 1t.
Vein Of Good Ore.
Thunder Mountain is not the only
place in Idaho visited" says he. Il
went over to Murray and found it quite
dead. Then broke over into the north
western part of Montana to see what was
going on. AS stepped from the train
at Troy on the line of the Great North
ern road, I met an old man who asked
me if l was looking for mines. SO many
prospectors nowadays think they have
something when they have not, or try
to make some one think there is no other
mine in the world except the one they
own. that at first I told him 1 was the
sheriff of Paw Paw county, Mo-, in
search of the man that struck Billy Pat
terson and passed on, but he trailed me
and by and by incidentally remarked
that if l We're in search of a mine he
thought he had one that would fill the
bill. I stopped and asked him if he
had any of the ore and he said he had.
Trot it out I replied. and let me see
it,
He went away. but in a few min
uteS returned with some of the finest
looking ore I have seen in a long time.
| became interested and asked him the
location of the ground. She is 80 miles
from here, he said.
The next day We got two horses and
started for the mine. l expected to find
little hole in the ground with streak
of ore in it when We arrived at our des-
ttnation. but instead of a hole I found
that tunnel had tapped at a depth of
400 feet a 10-foot vein of as fine copper
ore as l have ever seen. I secured
bond on the property and next spring
I expect to do something with it, as it
is a fine copper proposition"
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can not be followed at that point. It is
the intention of the owners to run an
other tunnel with the intention Of tap
ping the ledge at a point not 50 deep
as it was intended in running the first
tunnel. ISL
This group of claims Is about IS miles
southwest of Libby and a trail down Ce-
dar creek reaches the Great Northern
in about nine miles. In the event Of the
owners tapping the vein and the ore con-
tinues to be as rich as it shows at the
bottom Of the incline shaft, they will
at once begin making shipments. packing
the ore down the gulch to the railroad
until a wagon road can be constructed.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-24
WEST FISHER PROSPECTS.
Contracts Let for Winter Work-Mill
May Be Erected.

John H. Geiger has purchased the
Lakeview claim and water right on Lake
creek in the West Fisher mining district
for the Illinois & Montana Mining COM
pany, of which he is the manager, says
a Libby special to the Helena Record.
A contract for a 50-foot tunnel has just
been completed by Jack Burgoyne and
another contract for $1,000 worth Of labor
has been let by Senator Geiger to James
Ford and Frank Burgoyne, and these
men will take in their supplies in a few
days and continue work until the appro-
priation is exhausted.
1t is understood to be the intention Of
the company to make arrangements to
ship in the machinery for a 1O-stamp
mill this winter and that as soon as
spring opens the erection of the neces-
sary buildings will be commenced.
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ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the First National Bank OF Butte
will be held at the office of said bank In
Butte, Montana, on Tuesday, January
IA, 1902, between the hours of 10 a. m
and p. m. The object of the meeting is
the election of directors for the ensuing
year, and the transaction of any other
business which may properly come be-
fore the meeting.
E. B. WEIRICK.
Cashier.
Dated Butte. Montana, December Is,
1901.
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ORE NEAR SURFACE
LESSEE OF THE EDITH MAY
CATCHES VEIN Is FEET DOWN.
II ASSAYS WELL IN COPPER
Speculator Company Failed to Catch
It on the roo of Its Property
and Inrew Up the
Bono.

James Cummings is working the A4dith
May under a lease and bond and says
he has struck a body OF copper ore about
Is feet from the surface mat Will assay
20 per cent in the red metal and very
fair percentage in silver.
The property is located a short dis
lance north of the Spectator and is
owned by George II. Casey. p. j. Brophy
and several other citizens of Butte. Some
time ago the Spectator company Sc
cured a lease and bond on it, but after
tapping what was supposed to be the
vein at a depth of 200 feet by means of
a crosscut from the Spectator work.
ings the company decided to throw up
the sponge. At that time Cummings was
not in the city. The fact that the bond
had been thrown up, however, soon
reached him and he returned to Butte
at once and lost no time in getting a
lease and bond on the property, as he
knew the locality of the paystreak.
He says he expects to begin shipping
ore in a few days. All of his hoistng
work at present is being done with a
windlass, but as soon as it is necessary
4 steam hoist will be installed.
Walked 800 Miles.
Mr.. Cummings only recently returned
from a tour OF luanO ana Other mining
sections of the Northwest and frankly
admits that after all Butte is the only
mining center. Among other places Wis
tied by him was the Thunder Mountain
section of Idaho county, Idaho. In or
der to get to the mines and then get
out again he says he walked 800 miles
and never saw so many men packing
their blankets out of or into a mining
district as he saw coming out of that
section while he was on the way there,
There is plenty of low grade ore in
the Thunder Mountain district" says
he, land some of the veins contain
streaks of very rich ore. These streaks,
though, are no wider than a finger
Colonel Dewey. who has spent consd-
rable money and time there, is the only
person so far who can conduct mining
operations that will pay. The ore is a
ine cyanlding proposition and I UNDER
Uand that the colonel intends to have
eachlnS plant along with his stamp
mill.
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COPPER PRODUCTION.
It Was Larger in This Country Last
Month Than During Nov. 1900.

New York, Dec. 23.-The figures of
production and exports of copper for the
month Of Novembe: are as follows:
Produced by United States reporting
mines 1928 TONS against 20,49S tons last
month and 1886 tons in November, 1900.
Produced by outside sources $500 tons,
against 5000 tons last month and 3400
tons in November, 1900. Produced by
foreign reporting mines SS46 tons.
against 1850 tons last month and 950S
tons in November, 1900. Figures are in
tons of 2240 pounds of fine copper.
Boston, Dec. 23-The export of copper
during the month Of November from
southern ports, amounted to 6567 tons;
total since January l, 1901. 3,7sS tons;
against same period in 1900 Of 141, 217
tons.
During the month Of November 1909
tons Of foreign matte and 56S tons Of
foreign copper We're shipped in transit
via New Orleans to Europe.
The arrivals of copper at the New
York port December is, amounted to
$3.50 tons.
The exports of copper from New York
December is, amounted to 29S tons.
The exports of copper from Atlantic
ports for the week ending December 13,
amounted to 2259 tons; previously re-
ported 1884 tons; total since December l
amounted to 1898 tons.
The imports of copper as compiled by
the New York Mail Exchange in tons of
2240 pounds, shows:
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FOR SALE.

10000 shares of the Butte Mine ExplOra-
ton Co., which is working the Pacific
Mine. at 20 cents per share. Address
w. SUTTON.
612 West Quartz Street, Butte.
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o0ys 6IVG lHe
best work .nat experience and strength
can give. Everything up-to-date. Cali.
l shall be glad to have a talk with you.
MADAME LA BELLE, 1888 Owsley
Block Butte.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-24

DIR. CHUNG'S celebrat.
ed Herb Sanitarium. Guar
antees to cure all diseases
by means Of his famous
Chinese medicines, never
before introduced into this
country. He has cured
thousands. and can cure
you. Advice free. 9 w.
Galena St.. Butte, Mont.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-24
One Hundred Dollars Cash Prizes

Order a ton of Kemmerer, Rock
Springs, Rocky Fork or Gebo coal from
us, and get guess on the weight Of the
large lump of coal in front of our Office,
free.
CITIZENS COAL CO.,
Phone 53S. No. E. Broadway.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-24

Solid gold lockets Of fine patterns, $3.50.
Legs, tn, Jewelc..
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COST OF PRODUCTION.
It Is Figured Out That It Averages 10
or IL Cents in Butte.

The New York Commercial prints the
following table showing the estimated
cost of producing copper by the Inn
portant mines of the country. The fg-
ures opposite the names of the copper
mining companies denote the approxi-
mate cost per pound at which they make
copper. They refer to normal conditions,
when the companies are not making
more than the average annual improve
ments and extensions.
Atlantic. (Mich NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. II
Anaconda, (Mont) Observation-Disclosures. II
Arizona Cop. Co.. (Ariz) ..............
Boston & Montana. (Mont.). .........7
Butte & Boston. (MontD ............. Is
Calumet & Hecla, (Mich.) ............9
Copper Queen. (Arz) OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. s
Detroit Cop. Co, (Ariz.). .............1 10
Mountain Copper Co, (Cal.). ......... 10
Montana Ore Pur. Co., (Mont).. IL
Osceola, (Mich.) NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. II
Parrot. (MontD Observation-Disclosures. 10
Quincy, (Mich) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 8
Tamarack. (Mich.) NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 9
United Verde, (Ariz.) .................. A
Utah Consolidated, (Utah) ............ 3
Wolverine (Mich.) NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 9
Nearly half of the copper produced in
this country comes from the Butte
Mountain, and costs an average of more
than 10c-probabiy lie during the pres
ent year. The extremely low cost MAIN
tanned by the Utah and United Verde
is due to the high values in gold and sill
YER found in the ores going a long way
toward paying operating expenses.
These two mines together produce only
about half as much copper as the Ana
conda or the Calumet & Hecla.
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diamond center, six pearls, brooch,
$11.00.
LES, the Jeweler.
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Dr.. HUE Poek
II Years In Butte

ii Years In Butte
Generation doctor Of China from grand
father down. Born and schoold in the
profession. Treats all diseases, making
speciality of chronic troubles. Consult
me before you waste you. life away.
327 South rlain Sire
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Scores of
Ladies

Have found out
where they &c |
the best Face
and Body Mas
sage. Hair and
Scalp Treatment.
Bust Develop
ment, Manicur-
ing and Chirop-
~I
New-York tribune., 1901-07-03
HEAT FORCES THEM TO CLOSE.

Owing TO the intense heat Tiffany & Co.. Union
Square, WILL until further notice. close their estab-
lishment every day at p. m, except Saturday,
when they will close at
On account Of the excessive heat two thousand
men employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard were
given a half holiday yesterday. Rear-Admiral
Barker issued orders just before noon to close the
shops the yards and 10 suspend all work in the
hot wave. The affected by the order
employed in the various shops and foundries, and
they will not return work while the thermometer
is above 80 degrees They will all be paid for the
time lost.
Work was stopped several sections of the
rapid transit tunnel. and many factories in the
city and nearby towns and villages was stopped.
Paterson, N J.. July tSpeciaD.-All the mills
and factories in the city closed down to-day on ac-
OF the heat. At the Century Throwing Mil
In Vanhouten-st.. the foreman locked the door and
told the operatives that they would have to work
as he was very busy. The men and boys jumped
out Of the second story windows to escape from
the suffocating room. The girls threw their own
and hats out OF the windows. and SAID they
would follow the men, whereat the foreman opened
New-York tribune., 1901-07-03
ONE HUNDRED AND ONE IN THE SHADE.
TWO DEATHS AND FIVE PROsTRATIoNs IN
THE ORANGES

Orange n. j.. July (SpecaD.-The heat broke
the record here to-day. the mercury standing at
o M at 1Ol in the shade, and where there was no
reflected heat on IT. There have been two deaths
and five prostratons in the Oranges In the last
twenty-four hours. Floyd Stewart of No III Day
St committed suicide in West Orange while crazed
from the effects of the heat He stricken on
Saturday and since then had been acting strangely.
Last night he went to a hotel at Eagle ROCK and
took several drinks He asked for another drink,
hut was refused. He then asked for drink Of
water and when looking poured some
carboc acid into the glass and drank It. He fell
to the ground in agony and died before the am
bulance could be sent for. He leaves widow and
three small children.
Mrs Sarah Kinney. of No 20 Day-st.. was taken
I'll from the effects of the heat and at midnight
was sent the Memorial Hospital She died just as
she reached there. None OF the five prostrations
were fatal. and all in fair way 10 recover.
At the various hat factories II was Impossible for
the journeymen to do effective work and in most
OF them work was stopped early in the day All
OF the at work the Orange brewery.
on the Young Mems Christian Association building
and on the new Grace Church parish house We're
laid off to-day because of the intense heat num-
Der of horses dropped dead. Patrick Conroy. custo-
dian of the Military Common, stood all day with
a hose and wetted down all horses that needed It,
New-York tribune., 1901-07-03
STORM BREAKS HEAT GI
STORM BREAKS HEAT GRIP ON BOSTON.
SEVENTY DEATHS. DUE DIRECTLY TO IN
TENSE WEATHER. THE RECORD IN
NEW ENGLAND.

Boston, July "A gale accompanied by a beau
tiful electrical display great banks OF black
clouds and here and there deluges OF rain, tempo
rarily broke up the heat wave throughout New
England late this afternoon The in most
sections gathered in about half an hour and
spent force in a few minutes leaving consider
able ruin to mark the visit. Then. after the rain
the sun on the western horizan caused a peculiar
glow which seemed to turn the sky a greenlsh
yellow Cool air with the dusk. but the mer-
weatherwise opportunity to say there is more
heat in store.
The storm ended the sixth day and. practically.
quite numerous other
animals succumbed more readily and infantile
diseases Increased to an alarming extent. Last
night the most oppressive this season.
In the six days of intense heat about seventy
deaths from the heat directly were reported in
New-England. of which a in Boston.
Drowning claimed the next largest number mostly
among boys. and there a general increase in
deaths by violence.
Boston rejoiced in relief from the great heat for
a while during the day. breeze, hardly notice
able at first grew steadily until by IL o'clock it
blowing at six miles hour As the wind in
creased the thermometer fell, and at IL was
rs Although the heat not great, seven
prostrations reported up to In Boston.
Four OF the victims We're overcome while in po-
sitions which caused heavy falls and in one case
serious internal injuries resulted. In the three
others fractured skulls were sustained. All four
probably will die. The wind changed from east to
south at o'clock Within fifteen minutes the
SWeter again
New-York tribune., 1901-07-03
/. eighty yeas old. Of No. 1lo Canal

,,y711IA Ermine. eighty old. of No. no Canal
81, Newark.
.nFrI. Thomas sixty-two years old, OF No 1913
"a 0rsnge-st.. Newark
ovuzRs W. j. OF No. 1855 MuIberry-.. Newark
s0T1ss Leopold fifty years old. of No. PIT Camden-,.
Newark
u1NrFRED Carolan thirty-one years old of No. II
Towning st, Newark
zrPF. Leopold, fifty years old. OF No. 5s7 Ferryst.
- Newark
,-,known man. died in vacant lot, Newark
,,,rnown man. died in ST. MichaeTs Hospital Newark
uyILLA Patrick. hftysix years DID, OF No 4sl Main
~ St Paterson, y. J.
DE YOUNG. Tce. twentysix years old OF No 4s, Ess.
- twenty -fourth-st-, Paterson. ~
7oNNEILY Mrs. Sarah. of Hawthorne
yosBERG. Mrs Emma. seventy-six years old Of Eas.
Front-st.. Plainield.
STATEN ISLAND
FLYNN J.. sixty years old, Of Mount Loretto
HORN Sophie seventytwo years old, of No 1s3 Rich
" morG Road. Stapleton. ~
sPINDLER. Mrs Alice seventy-two years old Of romn
kins-sj.. Stapleton imp
WESTCHESTER
HOWE Mrs Herman, of No. 92s Second st PesLskiu
KRFIBLER. A NJ. died hospital at New-Rocb.Ile
NEWMAN Jacob hfty-fve years old of Peekskir
New-York tribune., 1901-07-03
WASHINGTON GETS RELIEF.

RAPID FALL IN TEMPERATURES CAUSED BY
Washington July 2.-Strong gusts of cooling
wind and the presence of black clouds tndcat-
ing the prevalence of thunder storms in this
neishborhood caused decided break In the hot
spell late this afternoon The mercury, which
had reached almost 100 at noon, fell steadily
throughout the afternoon and evening, so that at
9 o'clock tonight the record at the Weather
Bureau was only 76 degrees. The relief was
most welcome but promises are held out of a
continuance of comfortable weather There were
a dozen heat prostratons and five deaths up to
9 o'clock tonight.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-03
HARD ON PRODUCE MARKET MEN.
STUFF Is RECEIVED IN BAD SHAPE AND
QUICKLY SPOILS

The produce sellers IN the big city markets are
worrying more than most people over the way the
not weather Is hurting their business. Their prod
comes TO them in bad condition, a rule, and
II is next TO impossible 10 keep It.
At Washington Market yesterday the keeper Of
of the largest produce stands said that the
heat making the crops-those he wanted. at
least-grow quickly and go to seed. whereas they
ought to develop slowly. IN order to head Caul-
flower, peas and all kinds OF salad stuff cost
ing far than they would ordinarily. Just
take the OF peas" he said; I'm selling them
now at 35 cents half peck II this were ordinary
July weather they'd be selling % cents. Next
week If this keeps UP. I'll have to charge so 60
cents for them. Just peas pretty good
but they costing more because I have to send
further north for them all the time"
Another dealer in the same market said:
If there isn't change soon. won't be selling
anything. People want muskmelons now. for ex-
ample. Well, 10 be good, muskmelons ought to be
picked when they nearly ripe. But we've
simply got to pick them green. Take the Of
berries. They come in nearly rotten, and they
won't keep all. Neither will spinach. II shoots
right out of the ground in very hot weather and
consequently hasn't much body, and it's no good
an hour after get II.