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The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22
IN THE. HOTEL LoBB,Es.

Ralph Guthrie, deputy United States
revenue collector for Utah, was in the
city this morning on his way to Helena
to confer with Revenue Collector c. H.
Webster Of this district. Mr.. Guthrie
said that he expects to retire from office
at the time the collector for the Mon
tana district Mr.. Webster. hands over
the office to his recently appointed sue
cessor, E. H. Callister Of Salt Lake
City.
The deputy collector stated that al
though Mr. Webster and he had expect
ed new appointment would be made
for the office, they thought it would
hardly take place SO soon.
Mr.. Webster" said Mr.. Guthrie, 'hAd
given up the fight for the Office some
time ago, and don't YOU imagine for an
instant that we did not expect a change.
Those politicians IN Utah who stood
close to Senator kearns made the fight
of their lives for Mr.. Callister for the
place. No string was overlooked and
no plug left undriven until it was almost
certainty that the coliectorship had
been landed for the Utah man. There is
little doubt in my mind, however, bu;
that Mr. Webster will be well taken care
or by the administration. He is We'll
liked by the powers in Washington.
"Mr. Callister, the newly-elected col
lector, is a good man. He is very well
known and highly eVected by his
1rlends and acquaintance. No doubt he
Will make good official"
Mr.. Guthrie said that the collectorship
was worth $4,000 per year.
Sheriff rank Beley of Park Fcounty, is
in Butte, on his way home from Mis-
soula, where he had official business
lie, IN common with all other Park
county residents, wears dissatisfied
smile, over the business prospects of the
Gateway county
More building is being done in Liv-
lngstOn this summer than ever before"
said Sheriff Beley. 1.-The new additions
| to the railway shops will add greatly to
the monthly pay roll, and bring much
| business to the city. Crops are very
promising throughout the county. while
the ranges are luxuriant with the best
of feed. The recent mining activity bids
fair to make the county great mineral
headquarters
THE Bear Gulch mines, and all the
other less known but perhaps equally
rich districts, are being opened up as
| rapidly as possible. Altogether, thu.
future is bright enough to make any one
wish himself thhere with a quarter sec,
ton of valley land, to raise enough to
live on and furnish surplus for the
owner, while he took his pick and
shovel, or hired some cheap fellow to
go out into the hills and dig up a rich
mine on every peak.
Park county certainly has good pros
poets in the very near future
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22

HOTEL ARRIVALS.
At the Finlen-W. r. Jackson, Helena;
J. F.. Richardson, Great Falls; N. b.
Reeves, Denver; Mrs. e. j. Bradley, Elk
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22
SOCIAL NOTES.

Col and Mrs. Henry A. Root, who
have been stopping al the Thornton for
some time have gone up to Hor: to in
spect the coal mines belonging to them;
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Dougherty have gone
to the Buffalo exposition for month.
Superintendent Young will return
from a visit to the Bitter Root ranch
where Mrs. Young is now, stopping,
next week. They are entertaining a
number of Butte friends
Mrs James A. Murray has returned to
Butte after an absence of many months.
Miss Minnie Shore has gone to Great
Falls where she is the guest of Miss
Downing.
Miss Henriette Lissner, of Helena, is
visiting friends in this city.
Misses Dore and Helen Shively have
gone up to the Bitter Root to spend
few days on the Young ranch.
Mrs NJ. Silverman has returned from
visit to Great Falls.
Mrs c. NJ. Pam and little boy have
gone to Seattle to spend several months.
Mrs. A. J. Darch and family left this
week for Victoria, +. c., where they will
spend the summer.
Mrs. Charles Heibronner has gone
over to Helena to visit her mother for
few days.
Miss Mae PfOutS mas returned from an
extended visit in New York with Mrs
Culver and Mrs. Morris, daughters of
Senator Clark
Misses Winnie and Nina Foster left
today for Portland, Oregon, to remain
several months.
The Misses Mamie and Margaret
Driscoll of West Granite street have, to
the great delight of their friends, re-
turned from the Georgetown University,
washington. D. c. They will spend their
vacation in Butte. arr Z
Mrs. Vernon Edward Matlack and two
children have arrived in Butte TO join
Mr.. Matlack. They will reside at the
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22

horn; DIR. James Bradley, Ames, Iowa;
c. H. Alexander, New York; M. C.
Rowan, Omaha; H. T. Adams, New
York; E. B. Howell, Missoula; E. J.
Rnckell, Carson, New; H. w. Graham,
Anaconda; John Derrig, Great Falls; w.
N. Taylor, A. l.. Ward, Minneapolis; A.
r. Miller, Moscow, Russia; H. B. Segur,
Billings; F. E. Fitzgerald, Louisville. Ky.
At the Thornton-John Cast and wife.
Miss A. Stewart, Seattle; Mrs. B. Nick-
ele Philadelphia; Mrs. David G. Brow.le.
James T. Sanford, Great Falls; G. Il.
Wilkinson, c. T. King, w. E. Burgess,
w. F. Pope, Chicago; Walter Fletcher,
Jr, U. S. Army; G. S. Moran, st. Paul;
Phil Steinberg, Spokane; A. ]. VAN
strum, Minneapolis; II. F. Wilkinsonl
Missoula; Frank Bogart, Helena; c. w.
Tozer, San Francisco; j. c. Kippler, An-
aconda; Miss Marcourt, Paris, France;
c. l.. Parker, Rocker; E. L. Whitmore,
Scotland.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22

G. S. Batterman, superintendent of the
Boston & Montana company who was
at Reno, Nevada, for several days, look
ing after business interests there. re-
turned to Butte today. Mr.. Batterman
and associates of Butte have erected
smelter on mining property owned by
them near Reno.
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NOTICE TO BIDDERS.

Bids for the operation of the German
village, which will be located on the
Midway, will be received by the under
signed until Monday, June gath. For
further particulars apply to Butte Street
Fair Carnival. H. A. Holp. Secy.,
Thornton Hotel.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22

At the ButteT. b. Landers, Dillon: A.
Chambers, Indianapolis; w. H. Chap
man, Lincoln; r. j. Mapes, Warm
Springs; Melton George, Chicago; G. H..
Gist, Philadelphia; j. b. Hawley, Wash-
ing ton d. c.; William 0. Sullivan, E. l..
Boardman. Helena; G. Rubenstein, New
York; j. c. Fisk, ST. Louis; J. Chisholm,
Fay, New; X. FL. Harris, J. M. Einstein,
San Francisco; Mrs. McCauley, Helen
McCauley, Chicago: d. Curtin, st. Paul;
H. r. Collett, New York; Fred Si!ins,
Milwaukee; William Norton, Stuart; {.
p. Lesleman, Missoula; +. c. Foilctt,
New York.
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residence Of DIR. Donaldson, 500 Main
street.
Miss Agnes Mcguire of Ogden, Utah, is
visiting Mrs. Tude Mcguire of Butte.
Miss Mcguire will remain in Montana
with relatives month before returning
home.
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NV Cor. Broadway and Wyoming. Butte

Rates. ;s;s an" s. ss
rugs. brass be5stesas. 20 pound hair mat
,resses ON best box springs, not one dark
room. Fine outside rooms 50 a day:
rooms with private baths, S. to IS a day.
No charge for use of general bath rooms.
two on every floor. one for the ladies'. one
for gentlemen. Finest cafe west OF New
York.; prices no. h:gher thin any first
class cafe in Montana. as,iificent bar.
and spacious lobby Best sample rooms
west of St. Paul. Rooms reserved by
wire.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22

Judge J. ]. McHaton. wife and son
returned yesterday afternoon from an
extended visit in Salt Lake City,
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22
PERSONAL MENTION.

Eugene Carroll of the Butte City
Water company returned today from
the east where he had been on pleasure
and business combined. Mr.. Carroll was
accompanied by Mrs. Carroll.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22

H. L. Frank yesterday returned from
Spokane Falls where he had been look
ing into some mining interests.
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Duncan Cameron and wife of San
Francisco have taken apartments at the
The age-herald., 1901-02-24
WALKER COUNTY'S
 GREAT RAILROADS
A Net Work of Tracks Gives Her Splendid Shipping
 Facilities

The natural wealth of Walker county has magnetically drawn the tracks of great railroad systems into her borders, and few counties in the South possess such excellent shipping facilities as does Walker.
 The Southern Railway enters the coun- ty near its Southeast corner and runs almost due West through her rich beds of coal for about thirty-flve miles, with numerous branches and spurs running North and South from the main line.
 Upon the line of the Southern in Walk CT county are the prosperous and flour shing towns of Cordova, Parish, Oak man, Marietta, Corona and Patton.
 The Kansas City, Memphis and Bir- mingham road enters the county just a few miles above where the Southern does, anG runs through the heart of Wal kcr, and has numerous spur tracks to mines and mills
 Along this line are the growing towns of Horse Creek, Cordova, Jasper, Chick asaw, Pocahontas, Carbon Hill, Eldridge, Galloway and other smaller towns.
 The Northern Alabama commences at Parish on the Southern and runs in a northwesterly direction through the county for about thirty miles and on to the Tennessee River and Sheffield, to which point the said river is navigable.
 Upon this road are the towns of Parish, Jasper, Gamble Mines and Nauvoo, all growing rapidly.
 The Ensley Southern, now in course of construction, and to be finished by the first of May, begins at Parish on tho Southern Railway, and runs in southeasterly direction to Ensley, a dis tance of forty miles, through a section of country rich indeed in minerals and in timber. This road is now graded from Parish to the Big Warrior river. a dis tance of twelve miles, and from Ensley to the Little Warrior river, a distance of twenty miles. The eight mile gap be- tween the two rivers is yet to be located and graded, but 1t is confidently assert cd that the work can and will be quickly accomplished.
 It is a generally recognized fact that railroads are potent agencies for the de- volopment of natural resources. They are civilizers, builders educators and promoters of general wealth and ad Vancement. Hence Walker county feels the yivifying influence of her splendid growing railroad systems.
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cluding a pair of scales, are owned by the company
 The coal which is coked at this plant is brought from the West Pratt mines of the company and from other outside mines under contract, located along the lines of the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham railroad and the Southern railway within a fifty mile haul. The coke made goes principally to the compa- ny's furnaces at Sheffield.
 Sixteen tenement houses and an office good condition.
 The plant is we'll supplied with tools and other equipments, and is in first class condition, one of the batteries of ovens having recently been completely overhauled and rebuilt and put in opera tion, after lying idle many years. The capacity of the plant Is 425 tons daily.
 It is well known to most of the Age Herald readers that the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company distributes its output of coal and coke on a man. moth scale, supplying the trade with domestic, steam gas, blacksmith and cokfng coal, furnace and foundry coke. By far the largest proportion of its com mercial shipments is in steam coal. It supplies, either in whole or in part, prao- tically every railroad in the South with fuel While the railroads are its largest customers, the growing manufacturing interests in the South, such as cotton mills, oil mills, rice mills, cotton com presses, rolling mills, foundries, sugar re- flneries and plantations make a market for a large and increasing amount of output
 All the important points In the follow ing States are reached by the products of the coal mines of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company! Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Flor ida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas In addition to the home market, 1t handles a large and growing business for export and for ship bunkers. Steamships at Mobile, Pensacola, Brunswick, Savannah
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and New Orleans are coaled by this cont pany. A good coastwise trade is also en- joyed shipping to Galveston, Tex, alone 90, 900 tons annually for railroad and local consumption.
 The company's export coal trade has been chiefly with Mexico and Central American ports. At present the scarcity of coal abroad has made it cossible for the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad Company to send its coal to the conti- nent of Europe at remunerative prices.
 The cempanys commercial coke trade is with furnaces. smelters, sugar refiner-
 es and foundries. It Is a well-known fact that even in Alabama a great many furnace companies do not own coal lands, and consequently have to buy In the open market. With these the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company enjoys an excellent trade
 It Is well for the great county of Walk crit Is well for the great Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company-that I the two are closely allied, for each must add to the wealth and to the strength of the other.
 recital of the outputs of iron, coal coke, ores and stone of this company for one year is enough to show the great ness of the mammoth corporations Of | coal, e,a61 ,496 tons; pig iron, 651, ,145 tons; | coke, 1,182. 2S6 tons; ores, 100000 tons; | stone, BE, 600 tons; total, 7,s09927 tons. To haul this gigantic output of raw ] material and finished product would re- quire SO0,0OO railroad cars, making train over 1500 miles long.
 The company's product of pig iron in 1899 represented nearly per cent. of the output of pig iron in the United States, and 2-3 per cent. of the entire world.
 The company's coal output represent ed over 2 per cent. of the entire output of bituminous coal, and l 2-3 per cent. of the entire coal output of the United States in 1899.
 The output of the companys Alabama mines was AZ per cent of the total coal production in Alabama; and its Tennes- see mines produced 16 Der cent of the to- tai coal output of Tennessee. The companys coke output was about
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been the lack of suitable buildings in which to conduct the public school The old Male and Female Academy building, which had so well served under former conditions, the needs of the town, was seen from the beginning of the establish ment of a public school to be inadequate for the needs of the school. This difficult ty too, has been at last overcome, for the town is now empowered by legisla- tive enactment to issue bonds for the ac- uuirement of funds with which to erect and euuip a modern school building. In accordance with this act the city council has placed the bonds on the market, em- ployed an architect and selected a de- sign for a modern public school building a cut of which appears in this issue. This building. which is to be modern in construction and equipment, is to be ready for the opening of the next school year. The new building, together With the incorpora ton of so large a school population under one management, plaees Jesper at once in the front rank of Ala bama school towns. The increased state appropriation and the favorable dlspos'- ton of the people of the town to"aro local taxation for public schools lnsures to the future of the town the free school facilities so essential in these later times of American civic effort to the. normal development of municipal community.
 Three years ago Prof. Douglas Alien was placed at the head of Jasper pup lie schools Since that time the schools have enjoyed continuity of management and instruction, there having been made but two changes In the teaching force Tn a period of three years. The board Of ed- ueation. it is said, is wedding itself to the idea of continuity in school management. The school is now thoroughly graded, has an up-to-date and practical course or study. enjoys the respect and confidence of the people, and constitutes one of the institutions that Is the pride of the town.
 It should be mentioned in this connec- ton that Jasper Is In harmony with her environment educationally Walker Coun- ty Is developing her educational inter ests coordinate with her material devel- opment, The county has a special school tax of per cent, pays the county super intendent of edcuation a special salary of $250 in addition to the amount allowed by the State, and makes contracts for no public school for shorter time than five months. All of these things go to show how public sentiment is tending on the subject of popular education in Walk CT, and that the county is in line of de- velopment and progress toward the ideal community, in which freedom and pros perity are to be maintained by the safe guards of intelligence and morality.
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THE TOPOGRAPHY
 OF THE COUNTY
Continued From Seventeenth Page, )

(Centinued From Seventeenth Page, and has occasional holows and ravines of moderate depths along the branches, The surface is covered with a thick and luxuriant growth of ferns for cattle, The other large growth of the county, espe- cialy the oak gum and beech or the pot- toms, hollows and ravines often reach a diameter of five and six feet The wal nuts are few in number, but along the Black Warrior river in almost inaccessi- ble places except by water, there were seen several of these valuable trees which were at least five feet through
 Though this county as a whole is tol- erably well watered. still, In some DOT tions of 1t, off the main streams, during very droughty spells, water gets to be very scarce. It is commonly believed In the county, and experience has proven such to be the case in hundreds of in- stances, without any exceptions, that, whenever a thick seam of coal Is struck In a well plenty of lasting water is in- sured. This water, which accompanies the coal seams, thou0'- 't is frequently slightly impregnated with iron and oc- casionally with sulphurated hydrogen gas is usually cool and palatable. It is, therefore, a good drinking water, but it is not fit for washing or laundry pur- poses, as the sulphates held in solution render it's effects on soap similar to those of hard water.
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IMMENSE HOLDINGS OF
 THE TENNESSEE COMPANY Owns Thousands of Acres of Rich Coal Lands Which Are Prac tealy Undeveoped- Walker County Has Much to Ex-
 peCt from This Great Industrial Organization

The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, that greatest of all Southern corporations, owns seventy thousand C70,000) acres of these Walker County coal lands. These lands are situated in different parts of the county on the War rior river and upon the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham, the Southern and the Northern Alabama railroads.
 It must be borne in mind that the Ten nessee Coal. Iron and Railroad Company actually owns 42S,6iS acres of coal lands of which acreage 3166l4 acres lie in Ala bama, and of this latter 1S4,6sS acres con- Dtitute part of the Great Warrior coal field, and 10000 acres of the company's ceal lands is in the county of Walker.
 The Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company has made as yet only a partial development of it's coal interests in Walker, the Gamble mines being :ts principal point of present operations.
 The property consists of large bodies of mineral and timber lands, and is lo- cated six miles northwest of Jasper on the Northern Alabama railroad. Here two mines have been opened. The land is
 
 lease, a royalty being paid for the coal mined, these being the only mines of the company where the mineral rights do not absolutely belong to it. The coal at this place Is feet thick, with one 9-inch slate parting, which is easily removed in the mining, and yield of TOO tons per acre is easily obtained. The coal lies nearly flat, has a good roof and is free from gas. The output from both mines goes to the game tipple.
 No. mine was opened in 1SS6 and the main entry is some $500 feet from the mouth of the mine. The railroad tipple is located at this mine, and the location of the railroad above the coal level neces- sitates a slope from the tipple to the pit mouth. This tipple has been completely remodeled and rebuilt since the property passed into the companys hands in 1S99 The plant has a double Webster Camp i& Lane hoist 12x16; five fue boilers. six
The age-herald., 1901-02-24
THE CHURCHES AND CHURCH
 GOING PEOPLE OF JASPER
(By Rev. J. H. Longerier.)

(By Rev. J. H. Longerier)
 Jasper has four well organized churches for the white people, viz: The Metho- diest Baptist, Presbyterian and Chris tian.
 The Methodist organized about sixty years ago. They have 235 members, a good substantial brick building, preach ing every Sabbath, and a fiourishing Sab bath school. Their pastor Rev. J. s. Chadwick. lives in their midst. He is comparatively c young man, but has had good school and college advantages, and for the short time that he has been on the field is making good impression. The church also owns their pastors home. with the home of the presiding elder, whose headquarters are here. They have fairly good congregations at all of their services and unquestionably are doing much to mould the character of our people
 The Baptist organized in May 1878. They had twenty-four constituent mem- bers. They now number 1S7. Nine out of the twenty-four constituents are still members of the same church. They are occupying the Presbyterian house for the rresent, having under construction new home, which, when completed, will be one of the most handsome and costly buildings in this section of the country.
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inent position in the business, social and professional relations of life. Through the influence of this school Jasper has been noted for the number of students she has furnished to the various col leges of the State. No town of the size in the State has probably sent as large a body of students annually to college as has Jasper.
 The later and newer life of the little city, created by It's railroad facilities. It's mining and timber developments and the corresponding commercial activity de- Veloped g demand forw ider educational effort than merely a private school. The growing population of the community brought about the need of free schools This want came to be so strongly felt that it was made an issue in the election of Mayor and Aldermen as far back as 1893. In 1895 a law was passed by the Legislature making Jasper separte school district and creating a city board of education. The old building of the Jasper Male and Female Academy was leased by the city and a public school for the children of the town was opened During the interval following down to the present, the board of education has had several difficulties to contend with One was the admission of nonresident pupils. About one-third of the pupils who had been attending the Jasper Male and Female Academy were nonresident pupils, most of whom lived just with out the corporate limits of the town. These persons had of course, to pay tu- ition. This greatly interfered with the organization of the school, especially in grading it. But this difficulty has been removed by the incorporation, through legislative act of surrounding territory until the city limits now include four square miles of territory, containing a school population of 800 children. An- other difficulty to be contepded with has