The Irish standard., 1903-08-01
observations of The Irish
Standard Representative
En- Route.
Butte, the Great Copper City,
Always an Interesting
Place.
Personal Mention Here and
There Throughout the
State
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After an absence of two years here
we are again at the metropolis of Mon
tana, the far-famed city of Butte, ''the
greatest mining camp in the world"
and it is no misnomer, for a person
sees more money i'll sight here i'll one
day than he could in one week in any
other town on the globe of the same
population. But of Butte we must
speak later on and start in where we
left off, as is our custom; for instance,
away back in eastern Montana we
stopped at Glendive, and there the
great wool growers daily meet now
adays when wool is soaring like it is
in price and the sheep man is happy.
Here w. Il. Jordan, our old Yellow
stone hotel man, is more than prosper
ing; lie has not only built one of the
best hotels in all Montana since we
last visited here, but he is now con-
structing Il more palatial residence Oh
the far-famed banks of the Yellow
stone river. We also met Tom IIagan,
Ed. O'Neill, w. L. Murn. Nj. Cain, NJ.
McDonough, ]. L. Butler, ]. NJ. Rapilge
and others, especially jim Morrison of
st. Paul, who is building JOrtlan's
mansion. The next big Montana town
we strike is Billings. Billings is evil
IDENTIFY there to stay, a solid city in
every respect, with its magnificent
library, line public buildings, fine shad
ed streets big hotels, banks and rich
men, and it and Great Falls the great
est wool markets in the western
world. Here we had the pleasure of
meeting Dan Lamey, the typical
western man, next Tom Hogan, who
showed us around, and Richard Shev
lin, Gerald pantOn, who says he will
take the Irish Standard whilst he lives
now, NJ. Flanagan, p. O'Neill and II. II.
Clarke.
Next is Red Lodge, the great mining
camp, and to all appearances within
gun shot of the National Park. You
can almost see Cooke City at the park,
only thirty-tive miles distant. Red
Lodge is receiving too many Finland
ers all at once for its own good. This
l got from the principal people of the
town and my own observations proved
it afterwards. However, there are a
few of us left, and shook hands
1pl,n nf al
friends, and all of his estimable family
formerly of ST Paul; L. Nj. Gibbons,
Thos. Feely, M. d. Flynn, Barney
Hart, Il. Il. SkelIy, Martin Golden,
Messrs. Larken and Flemming, Hugh
Smith, JAS. Gorrell, J. II. McAllister,
w. II. prentz, formerly of Wisconsin,
~. J. Dugan and the good resident
riest, Father Stack.
4, Next jump is Livingston, the real
gate city to the National Park. Here
you see another beautiful railroad de-
pot by the Northern Pacific, recently
built, and it is like Bismarck, n. d.,
a credit to that splendid railroads en-
terpriSe all over it's great domain.
Here is still anchored the great rail
road bridge man. John Graham, Al.
Livingston, VIM. Cummings, j. ii.
Ryan, Mrs. McIncrncy, Il. McClary and
many others who were out of town
and l did not meet this time
Next was Logan. and only stopped
here Il few minutes. | met Mrs Gill
hooly, Il. w. CrOnin and Tom Judge
and Hotel Flynn. And now for An
acondn before L mention Butte as Il
finale to this letter.
Anaconda. our readers may not
know. has now the highest smoke
stack in I'LL the world. and from its
base at the foot of the mountain to
its final summit cap is about Il half IL
mile. Just think of it! The chimney
alone is higher than Washington
monument. the highest spire in the
world, except the EilIrl tower, which
is only structural or temporary work.
Anaconda is dull now, but it cannot
remain long that way. 1t has the
greatest SlncllcfS on partll. cOStlrSt
and largest, so they must be kept go
ing and employ 5000 men at all times
in the future. Many Minneapolis and
st. Paul men are prospecting here. Mr.
Hurley of the CCC Company, James
White, Tom Kelly. II. OLeary, tho
Twoheys, Judge Murphy, who used tc
clerk for John G.. HOrrigan, is now
judge in Anaconda. Rev. J. Il. Pirna1
of st. Peters parish. j. =. Mcdonald
Ed. Deverey. John Creedon. Hugh
DAILY, Mr. Z. Dooly. VIM. Cannon. ]
Wegener, a. Barrett. Matt BoZega
Peter Burke, VIM. Calan, Ed. OBrcn
John Gartlin, J. Il. Mccarthy. VIM. NJ
OConnor. Denis Fee, Jas. Lapen p. ]
Monohan, John Lawler, j. b. Mccoy
Misses Bennett. DR.. Spelman, Burns 4
Mullvy, Shelton & Buchanan. Harring
ton 4 McKetricl, Kirby & Keenan,, P
j. Mulligan, Mike Cordich, Pat Nc
Hugh, Frank Flynn, Thos. Gavin
Frank Fitzpatrick, p. D. Moran, Pa
MCGEE and twice,as many more VIII,
we will mention If we can later whe,
we see them.
Again we are back to Butte! Butte
Butte! The Cathedral, as 1 always
ike to call 1t, is the mecca of this ter