Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-09
Hotel Gossip

Pat Early. who has some promising
claims in jefferson county, around Basin,
was reading the Inter Mountain in the
lobby Of tha McDermott last night when
approached by the reporter. Mr. Fairly
has prospected and worked3 in mines al
over the mountain country sHas game
to Montana in the early Tos. and has
experienced all the ups and Downs COIN
cident with life in the hills.
Pat Early's claims are in the neigh
borhood Of several of the best mines in
tn district about Easin. near Cataract
creek. He recalled one, the Eva May,
ana the reason he picked out this par
ticular mine to talk about is that in the
first place tn persons having the largest
amount of money invested in the PROPOSE
ton are Catholic priests in Ohio parishes.
For number OF years, the Eva May
was worked in a small way. Now it is
a mine 600 feet in depth. and alongside
is MILL At present, most of the ore
has already been brought to the surface.
and worked over in the mill. Three carF
loads of concentrates are shipped everH
week, and the work of sinking deepefI
has begun. About GO men are employedI
in and about the mine and mill. but just
now the mill runs only one shift.
George Best. of the family of Phil Best, ]
noted Milwaukee brewers. is president
of the Eva May company Father Mis-
ner. of Carey, O., is secretary and treas
urer.
TIL story Pat Early tells about old Alex
Axe sounds like romance. Alex is a man
over go years of age, and has prospected
and delved away between hope and STAR
walton around Cataract for twenty-fou
years. Not long ago he walked into
Basin, determined to take chances on
somebody stalking him. He found Tim
Downey behind the counter of one of the
stores of the town, and to him he pre-
scented proposition, of partnership in a
prospect which he felt sure would turn
| out a bonanza.
! 'How much money do you want me
asked.
No money at all; just a grubstake,"
| replied the old miner.
| So a bargain was made on the basis
! of a grubstake. Downey supplied his
! partner with provisions costing exactly
$3.50. The old man returned to the place
where he made his last location and in a
| short time, not even long enough for Axe
! TO eat up Downey's grubstake, the old
man had uncovered a ledge of the finest
| gray copper ore in the state of Montana
/ TAT Early says 1t runs very nlSn, anu
he has not seen it's equal anywhere. The
shaft is down but 20 feet. and Axe is
running tunnel to tap the continuous
| ledge.
The Heinzes have an option on the
| property for $3.50 900. The option expi ID
! Thursday of last week. and DoWney
Axes partner, has given them IL days
| more. +
Although Axe may live in clover the
rest Of his life, his lucky strike after 81
many years of hardship is no comparison
| to the luck of Downey, who, in the event
of the sale of the property, realizes molf
on an investment of S15.65 than a million
aire could pocket in any other chancs
| transaction. /
| A Nebraskan stopping at the Butte
tells story about Tom kearn's election
as United States senator from Utah
perhaps may surprise some people In
| Utah, who charged that Tom was land
ed through the connivance of Mormon
church officials.
Seventeen years ago." began the
Nebra skan. "Kearns left Holt county
in my state, with just enough money
to pay his way to Utah. Good fortune
the most erratic of DANES, chose him al
one of her favorites. and today he
counts his wealth by millions. After