The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-02
BUTTE CITY.

The most social and novel event of
the season was the package ball given
by the Ladies' Catholic Benevolent as
sociation at Miners union hall 1t was
an event long to be remembered pE
those who participated in the merry
dance The packages caused mucn
amusement. as they contained every
thing from paper of pins to an auto
mobile. The young folks were loath
TO depart until they eXacted a promise
that the L. c. B. A. would give them
a like entertainment in the near future.
The ball was a financial success.
Mrs. Lulu Largey has returned from
Chicago. Her niece. Miss Bartlett, &C
companied her After three or four
weeks in Butte Mrs. Largely will leave
for New York to spend the winter
d 7. Hennessy will join Mrs. Hen
messy in Omaha. where she has been
visiting several weeks.
NJ w Kelly. a weil-known citizen of
Livingston, is calling on his business
friends.
Butte is not going to have union
depot lust now, but is going to have
depot lust the same, and fine one
Pacific Railroad company on the site
of the present Montana Union station
hut it will not be confined to the space
occupied by it.
Mrs. James Jerome Cotter AMI
daugter. Miss Mabel Cotter, Of Denver,
Colo. who are visiting friends at the
Thornton. spent few days during the
week at Pipestone Springs.
Mrs. Mary L. Kelley of Deer Lodge
has returned home. but she left her
daughter. Miss Florence. here under
the care of an oculist. Howard Kelley
accompanied his mother.
Pedestrians in the city have OF late
accustomed themselves to vending in
a zigzag path. through the public high
WAYS owing to the present boom IN
Rutte's building business. In certain
+boroughfares people find themselves
in the middle of the street quite as
much as upon the sidewalks. Wlth
every. passing windstorm the public eye
Is filed with sand, bricks and crumbled
mortar.
John Caplice of Butte, who recently
returned from Alaska, says he and
others have secured possession OF
600 acres of fine copper ground in the
Atlin district. about fifty miles inland.
He hos a number of samples Of the
ore. which carries % per cent copper
He saws the district looks just as Butte
did thirty-five years ago, and the CHAR
acter of the sulphide and peacock ore
is very much like that found in the
Michigan copper mines. John o Meara
of this city is interested with him. He
z1-nTlEinp and
meets by next June to make fine
showing on the property when he will
visit if again and take some people
With him TO see it. 81 wish | could
induce people who are sinking money
on the porphyry dyke in the southern
mart of Butte TO put their money IN
this property. I believe the greatest
copper mines ever known will be de-
veloped in that country
The main. feature of the mining in
dustrv in Butte this week is the TACT
that all of the big producers of the
Anaconda and Boston & Montana COM
raniee have suspended operations tenn
p~r~ril,- This morement il generally
understood to be in line with the con-
templated policy of the Amalgamated
company which controls about 80 per
cent of the output of this country. to
curtail production and not overload the
rnartet with conrer It is well known
that enormous stocks of copper are on
hand and il is desirable to dispoSe of
+h0 greater part Of this at the prevail
ing prices. rather than TO continue to
Good the market and, perhaps. be
Obliged to sell at a lower price.
At best the shutdown win only he
temporary. At the Anaconda works it