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The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-12-18
HAMILTON MEETS
LIVINGSTON FRIDAY
FIRST HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE OF
SEASON WILL OCCUR AT LUCAS
OPERA HOUSE.

The first debate of the high school
series will take place at the Lucas
opera house Friday night, when the
Hamilton team will meet a team from
the Livingston High school in a
friendly contest. 1t was not definite
ly known until this week that the de-
bate would occur, bat Professor Owens
has received assurances that the Liv-
ingston team will be here for the
contest.
The Hamilton team now consists
of Misses Ina Abbey, Winifred Rom
ney and Elsie Hays, Lloyd Chaffin,
who was member of the team, with
drew and his place was taken by Miss
Hays.
1t is estimated that 800 viii be re-
quired to meet the expenses of the
visiting team, aud TO IN .ct this
charge of SO cent and 25 cents will be
made at the door. The debate will
open at 8 O'Clock Hamilton will have
the affirmative side of the question,
'Resolved, That Board of Arbitratlon
Should Be Established with Compul-
sorry Power to Settle disputes Between
Capital and Labor
The Hamilton team will meet Bout
der at Boulder Jan. 3, aud in this de-
bate a decision will be returned
Professor Owens expresses confidence
that the Hamilton school will develop
as strong team as the one it brought
out last year, which won all the honors
in the state.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-12-18
Call for Bids.

Notice is. hereby given that sealed
bids Will be received at the Office OF
the county clerk and recorder until
10 O'Clock a. m. Wednesday, January 8,
1908, for the re-plank,ng of the east
approach of the Stevensville bridge
Planks for said approach are to be
of fir, inches thick aud 16 feet long,
Bidder must furnish all plank need.
ed and also furnish so fl oor joist OF
the same size as those in said ap-
proach; bidder also to furnish all
nails necessary for mailing said
plank to joist. Bond in the amount
of bid will be required of the success
full bidder.
Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received at the Office of
the county clerk and recorder until 10
O'Clock a. M, January 8, 1908, for the
burial of the poor of Ravalli county
for the year 1908.
GEO. A. REESE,
9.44. Clerk of Board.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-12-18
TAKES RECESS
TILL TOMORROW
SEVERAL CASES ARE DISPOSED
OF IN SHORT ORDER AND
COURT TAKES RECESS.

Two cases in district court that
were set tor today having been set
tied, recess was ordered until to-
morrow morning at 9 O'Clock.
In the case of D. L. Cannon VS.. J.
D. Miser and D. J. Whaley, the plain
tiff was given Judgment for $14S, and
the case of Miser VS., Cannon was
dismissed.
The case of ]. J. I,aCasse VS.. w. c.
Fields and Pat Shannon, Involving a
promissory note, was dismissed as to
Shannon.
r. c. Carpenter was granted a di.
vorce on the ground of desertion.
The following trial jurors were
drawn on a special venire Monday:
Wilder BRYAN, G. w. Jones, Ike Wylie,
D. Mcclure, Brown Ferrell, C. F.
Cameron. A. Robertson, VIM. Griggs
]. w. Smith, Thos. Tarzwell, r. c.
! Carpenter and F. e. Gage
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-12-18
Incorporate Bitter
Root Railroad
Short Line from Lewiston to Butte
Is Proposed, but No Definite
Route Is Named.

Butte, Dec. 14.-The Bitter Root
Railroad company has been incor-
porated for the purpose of building
railroad from Lapwai Junction on the
Northern Pacific, east of Lewiston,
Idaho, TO Butte. In Butte practically
nothing is known of the enterprise,
which was incorporated in Portland,
Ore, recently, but it is claimed that
the Oregon Railway & Navigation
company and the Oregon Short Line
are interested. If they are, it could
not be ascertained, and the first in
formation about the new road received
in Butte was when the promoters of it
asked Judge ]. L. Wines to act as
agent for the new company in Mon
tana. He consented to do so, and the
incorporation papers were received by
him yesterday and filed for record
with the county clerk of recorder. The
small capitalization of the company
has suggested the possibility that the
enterprise is to be an electric road.
stock was placed at only $275, 900,
which was later increased to $4OO, 900
at meeting of the stockholders. The
stock is held by H. F. Connor, G. G.
Sutherland and w. r. Fitzenherk, all
of Portland. Connor is said to be
we'll known capitalist of that city. He
is secretary of the Bitter Root Rail
| road company and Curtis G. Suther-
land is president.
According to the articles of incor-
poration, the route of the road is to be
from Lapwai Junction, on the Clear
| water river in Nez Perce coun-
ty, Idaho, in an easterly direction "by
some eligible route" along the val
leys of the Clearwater river and the
middle fork thereof, in generally
easterly direction across the head wa
ters of the Bitter Root river and the
Rocky mountains ION some eligible
route to the city of Butte" an estimat-
ed distance of $50 miles.
1t is evident that the plans are
rather indefinite, Judging by the de-
scription Of the route. and the capi-
tal,zation, $500. 900, will probably not
build very many miles of road through
the Bitter Root mountain country. 1t
was suggested in Butte yesterday that
the company may merely be a prelim-
| mary organization, either in the in
terest of the Oregon Railway & Navi-
cation company or the Northern Pa
cific, which companies are now build
ing joint line from Portland to Lew
iston, or Lapwai Junction. The ex-
tension to Butte would give the H ar
riman road a direct line to the coast
from this city. On the other hand the
Northern Pacific has a route surveyed
from Butte to the terminus of the
branch road southeast from Moscow
and Lapwai Junction, which, it il
claimed, will eventually be built. The
territory to be opened comprises one
of the finest timber countries in the
west.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-12-18
WOIfe.--C0wan.

Mr.. AID E. Wolfe and Mrs. Abigail
dents of Corvallis, were united in
marriage on Dec. IL at Girard, Kan
sas. Mrs. Cowan had been visiting
relatives there for several months,
and she was Joined by Mr.. Wolfe
about week ago. The news of the
wedding came as complete surprise
to their many friends here, no init
nation of the union having been given
out until the receipt of letter Mon
day by T. J. Hefiing, business agent
of the Cowan estate, announcing the
event. This paper extends hearty
congratulations.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-12-18

9.44.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-12-18
Good Showing for Bak er.

Clerk of the Court A. C. Baker has
filed his quarterly report. ending No
vember 80, which makes an excellent
showing. 1t is nothing out of the or
dinary, however, and he had no inten-
ton of making it public until he no.
ticed the published report of the Mis-
soula clerk of the district court. and
the comment that the receipts of the
last three months have been very
heavy. The Missoula report showed
the fees to amount to 1924, while the
fees of the Ravalli county clerk of the
district court amounts to 81 ,259 90.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-12-18
Real Estate Transfers.

Jos. w. Trip to Josie E. Goff, lot 5,
block 5, Corvallis; SIS.
w. J. Stephens to G. p. Jamison,
100 acres near Victor; $1,000.
II. d. Harrison to Bitter Root Dis
trict Irrigation Co.. $40 acres near
Florence; 81.
w. A. Defoe and wife to B. Il. D. j.
Co., 476 acres near Florence; ST..
c. M. Johnson and wife to B. r. D.
1. Co., $40 acres near Corvallis; 81
c. p. Mendel and wife to B. &. D. /.
Co. 149 acres near Victor; 81.
J.C. Brown and wife to Bayard e.
Harbert lot 3, block 80, Riverview; 81.
Abijah Pitney to Julius Ullrick of
Ontario, Calf, 100 acres, West Fork,
SIS.
A. N Mittower and wife to Arminda
K. Williams, 80 acres near Grants
dale; 81.
H. S. Lord and wife to B. r. ID. L.
Co., 80 acres near Florence; 81.
Robt. H. Marks and wife to w. H.
May, 100 acres near Victor; $3.50.
Official bond-T. J. Patty, justice of
Corvallis township; 5000. Sureties,
w. S. Jones and A. N. Mittower.
Bond for deed-A. L. johnston and
wife to John B. Mattheson, IL acres
near Hamilton; $1,000.
F. c. Webster, Judge, to Herman p.
Reuss, lots II and Is in block Is, Ste
vensville; $40.
Ferdinand Kennett and wife to Le-
ota A. Martin, lot IA in block is, Ste
vensville; 81.
c. B. Calkins to S. S. Corley, lots III
and IL, in block 10, Stevensvilie; $50.
Victor Townsite company to Charles
P. Mendel, lot 10 block 3, Victor; /.
Victor Townsite company to Mary
c. Cramer, 3-4 acres near Victor; 81.
Mrs. M. e. Lines and husband to
Charles M. Crutchfield, so acres near
Grantsdale; ST..
Frank M. Keim ct al to Theodore J..
Vance, 281 acres near Florence; 500.
George May and wife to Harry c.
Raymond, 8 acres adjoining Stevens
vile; $775.
Daytoh G. Lockridge to David e.
Lockridge, lots 1 to s, block 19, Stew
ensville; 81.
Thomas Deering and wife to Ida M
Porter, lot block %, Hamilton 81.
Official Bond-F. J. Morris, justice
of peace, Ward township. Amount
81 900. Sureties, F. H. Drinkenberg
and Fred Grill.
Joseph j. Murphy and wife Of
Globe, Ariz. to Chas. p. Lattiug, 80
acres near Stevensville; $l10O.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-12-18
Shipping Sugar at Billings.

Approximately four hundred men
are on the pay roll at the local facto, =
at the present time and the work is
progressing day and night without a
hitch. All of the beets have been de-
livered, and December Is, the last in
stallment of cash in payment for beets
to the growers will be distributed.
Something like $3.50, 900 will be put in
TO circulation on that date.
The money stringency, which has
affected almost every other portion of
the country, has scarcely been noticed
in Billings, which is dependent on a
farming community, a never failing
source of prosperity. 1t is estimated
by the officers in charge that fully one
hundred thousand tons of beets will
be sliced and converted into sugar
during the present season. This is
almost double the number of tons con-
sumed last year, the figures of the in.
itisl crop being about sixty thousand
tons.
Up to the present 10000 bags of
sugar, each containing one hundred
pounds of the best granulated, have
been turned out, and the work will
CONTINUE until some time during the
first part of February Billings Ga T
zette
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-12-18
Notice of Stockholders rIeetlnx.

A regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Victor Townsite
company will be held in the First
National Bank building, Missoula,
Montana, on Saturday, the eleventh
day Of January, 1908, at 4 O'Clock p.
M, for the transaction of such busi-
ness as may regularly come before
said stockholders for consideration.
Attest: WALTER B. WILES,
r. L. PECK, President.
Secretary. o-4t
Dated at Victor, Mont, Dec. IL, 1907
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-12-18
Stockholders Meeting.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Citizens State Bank
will be held at he banking house of
said bank at Hamilton, Montana, on
Monday, January e, 1908, at 4 O'Clock
p. m. for the purpose of electing a
board of directors for the ensuing year
and for the transaction of such other
business as may come before the
meeting. O. c. COOPER,
84t Cashier
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-12-18
Fifty Dollars Reward.

Notice is hereby given that a reward
of Fifty Dollars t$5O.O0s will be paid
upon presentation of evidence leading
to the conviction of any person or
persons guilty of selling intoxicating
liquors to minors within the confines
of Ravaili county.
By order of the Board of County
Commissioners, Ravalli county, Mon
tana. Aft
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-12-18
Call for RavaiIi County Warrants.

Ravalli county, Hamilton, Montana,
Dec. 1, 1907.
Notice is hereby given that the fol-
be paid upon presentation at the Office
of the county treasurer of the above
named county.
All outstanding road fund warrants
to Dec. 1st, 1907. No interest will be
paid on the above warrants after Dec.
10th, 1907. F. M. LOCKWOOD,
Treasurer of Ravalli, county, Mont. 81
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-12-18

A silver medal contest will be held
in the Presbyterian church in Corval-
lis, on Friday, evening, Jan. 3, 1908,
beginning at 7:3O o'clock. Ten cents
admission. GIT
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-06-22

this can be obtained. In fact, I already
received evidence which indicates this
to be the case. doubt. however,
whether quantity would lessen the
freight cost.
The charge for hauling ore from Won
der to the railroad point at Fallon, a
distance of about SIS miles, is SIS per
ton, and as the railroad haul from Fall
lon to Salt Lake City is 200 or 800 miles
shorter than from Goldheld, 1t may be
presumed that a product worth, say
$50 per ton. can be f~reighted. trans
ported and treated for about $50 per ton.
Because Fairview is 20 miles nearer to
Fallon thar Wonder, 1t is probable tina
the sum of $35 per ton would cover the
total cost of freighting. transporting
and treating of $50 ore: while in other
camps, which are nearer to railroad
and to Salt Lake City. such as Tenabo
for instance, the rates would be still
lower. thus making 1t possible to pro-
duce an ever lower grade of ore at a
profit. Owing to satisfactory railroad
connections between the Bullfrog dis
trict and Salt Lake City. conditions
there are even more advantageous. and a
minimum rate on say $40 ore of about
$12-50 per ton for freight and treat
ment can be depended upon. As the
Bullfrog district is more particularly a
camp Of large bodies of low grade ore.
this situation would appea to be most
advantageous for the camp. and make
of 1t an enormous producer of the yell
low metal. Camps like Searchlight and
Crescent. which are. practically on the
main line of the San Pedro and Los
Angeles road, which runs from Los An
geles to Salt Lake City. are therefore
especially favored in the matter Of
freight and treatment rates. From Ha-
zen the freight rates to the shelters
are $4.25 per ton on ores of a valuation
not over $25 per ton: s4.55 on $25 to
$50: $500 on $50 to 500 ore; and s7.45
on 800 20 5000 ore. Therefore while
we may complain that the railroads
and smelters are making enormous pro-
hts out of the mine operators in Nevada,
and there may be Justice in demanding
lower rates all along the line. still con-
ditions are not SO extraordinary as we
have imagined them to be. As I have
shown. It is, today. possible to produce
from many of these new Nevada camps
ore which has a value Of from SIS to
$50 per ton. while 1t Is safe to assert
that even in those farthest from rail-
road connection It IL now possible to
produce at . profit ores which nav .
considerably less value than 500 per
tom
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-06-22

NEW STRIKES AT SEARCHLIGH7

sacked and will go out as h initial
shipment. The find was made on the
35-foot level in the east drift.
On the Jumper mine, purchased two
weeks ago by A. X. Wright ore running
from $50 to $3.50 per ton is being taken
from a 26-foot shaft and stored for
shipment.
Adjoining these properties the Eldor-
ado Sphinx. is opening up a fine body of
milling ore. and has a two-foot streak
of shipping rock, averaging $9S per
ton.
Arrangements have been perfected to
establish a concentrating plant on the
Sphinx, tests of the property having
demonstrated that each table can be
made to net the company $500 per day
on an average of $35 rock. Water has
been developed on a millsite on the
Sphinx claim, within 100 yards Of the
tunnel entry. and the mill will be es-
tablished here. ores being 'chuted" into
the plant.
With these three properties beginning
shipping and the Mineral Farm group
to begin operations next week, Mob Hill
will be the scene of great activity and
will produce something like 500 tons Of
shipping ores per month from the pres
ent workings.
WYOMING sEA1CKLI0HT
Superintendent Ed Carleson has
tapped the vein at the 3O0-foot level
of the Wyoming ~Searchlight. This vein
was cut at 200 feet and is IL feet in
width all running pay ore. 1t has been
demonstrated hat 1t has increased in
width OF the 800 level and Mr.. Carleson
has gone east to confer with the direct
ors as to the ~advisability of Immediately
constructing a ten stamp mill. The ore
shows an average of $3S per ton.
sEA1CE.I01T TBEAsU1E
Another surface cropping has been
opened on the Searchlight Treasurer in
a we'll being unk near the Searchlight
Hotel. Ore that pans freely was en-
countered and some specimens show free
gold. This discovery is in the vicinity
of the vein uncovered last summer by
a cloudburst. and when his property
starts up in earnest, which will be
shortly, a drift will be started to tap
these veins. The ore is of the same
character as the surface ores of the
Duplex. and it is believed these veins
come from the Duplex property.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-06-22

S~earchlight, New, June 1s.-Sensa-
tional strikes mark the events of the
past week in and around S~earchlight,
and from the way new finds are being
made in developing mines as well as in
new prospects 1t is safe to predict that
the district is destined to rival in sem
sations even Goldfeld itself.
The most important strike is that at
the Duplex mine. which a few weeks ago
began taking out rich ore from the
Fraction claim. AS predicted by your
correspondent at hat time. the Duplex
has developed into a second Quartette.
and not only this but it has stepped
ahead of the big producer in richness
Of mineral. While working on the 400
foot level early this week workmen
broke into a body of free milling ore
that runs anywhere from $4,000 to
$685. 900 per ton. The streak lies on the
hanging wall N is six inches wide
The remainder of the vein is five feet
in width and carries average values of
$3.50 per tor.
Specimens from the find created a
when shown on the street, and
so rich is the mineral hat only most
trusted employees are allowed in the
workings. From one panning a button
running 1850 was made. and so rich
is the rock that ii Is not necessary to
pick II up to see the gold, which is lit
terally daubed into the quartz in mug
gets.
From Eldorado canyon comes the
news Of the great strike in the Black
hawk claim Of the Eldorado Empire
mine. At a depth of 65 feet in the east
drift a body of ore running $3.50 per ton
has been encountered. The entire drift
is in ore and while the specimen rock
is freely scattered throughout. 1t is not
bunchy and brings the average up into
the pictures. Not having crosscut the
ledge no estimate can be made by those
operating the property as to the extent
of the vein. but judging from the mon
ster veins in the Wall Street, a few hum
dred feet away and on the same ledge.
it should be anywhere from is to 25
feet in width.
At Mob Hill the. Silver Legion. which
has been operating but three weeks,
since resuming in it's shallow workings,
has encountered an 1S-inch streak Of
silver gold ore running $500 per ton.
TIC date so tons of this rock has been
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-06-22
LOW GRADE ORES CAN BE SHIPPED

Critic in the Colorado Springs Mining
Investor of June II, in an extended dis
sertation on the profitable ores of Ne
vada argues that the time has passed
when only high grade" can be mined
with profit and says:
l have before me a schedule of freight
rates on ores from Goldfeld to Bing-
ham Junction which is the smelter point
at Salt Lake City. 1t is as follows:
Valuation not to exceed $50 per ton.
$40 per ton.
Valuation not to exceed $40 per ton.
$3.50 per tor.
Valuation not to exceed $50 per ton.
1905 per ton.
Valuation not to exceed $50 per ton.
sr1.55 per ton.
Valuation not to exceed $40 per ton,
1890 per ton.
Valuation not to exceed $50 per ton.
$14.25 per ton.
Valuation not to exceed $50 per ton.
1850 per on
Valuation not to exceed 500 per ton.
s17.15 per ton.
Valuation not to exceed $3.50 per ton.
$1S.O5 per ton.
Valuation not to exceed 5000 per ton,
$1s.s5 per ton.
Valuation not to exceed $3.50 per ton.
1890 per ton.
Valuation not to exceed $500 per ton.
5000 per on.
A little figuring on the above will
show that the average cost of freighting
ore would be slightly in excess of $14
per ton. or about the cost at which the
$50 product is now scheduled. Were this
average of $14 per ton charged on all
ores 1t will be readily seen that very
much of the low grade product would be
cut off. A difference of 81 per ton in
the cost of freighting and treatment
would probably reduce the precious
metal ore tonnage of the mining states
by fully so per cent.
While I commend this method of clas-
sifying freight charges according to the
value of the ore. I am not prepared
to say that the basis of these rates
is just or fair. My impression is that
the rates are too high all along the
line, and this includes the cost of treat
ing the ore. which the American Smelt-
ing & Refining company charges for on
the basis Of s11 per ton. while h Uni
ted States Smelling. Refining n Min
ing company beats this rate by 81. max
ing 1t 50 per ton. II IL quite possible
Of course II ore IL contracted for In
large quantities, that q lower rate than
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-06-22

xAup1B
The Grand Victor group. adjoining
the Gold Quartz company's property has
been purchased by a party OF Salt Lake
capitalists. The new owners have
started a new shaft and will prosecute
development work vigorously.
The Uncle Sam group of four claims
has been sold to Fred E. Bowan of Den
yer for $4,000 cash. The group adj
joins the Bridal Wreath on which a SEN
strike was made recently. r. F.
Smythe of Salt Lake has taken a ten
day option on the Bridal Wreath.
The Greyhound and Truckee claims.
lying south of the Little Gem and be-
tween that property and the Gold
gomery and associates of Colorado
Springs. and by them transferred to the
Atlantic-Nevada Mines company. A
shaft IL nov being sunk
Two carloads of ore are being shipped
every week from the Little Gem. which
is the largest producer in the district.
Regular shipments are also made from
the Giant, the Phoenix, the Jumbo. the
Utah and the Grey Eagle. The Bridal
Wreath. the Two widows, the Dutch
man. the Anaconda. the Standard, the
Lovey and the Moose. are also sacking
ore for shipment.
An important strike was recently
made on the Anaconda and st. Law
renee claims. being worked under bono
and lease by Charles Scheile. repre-
senting the Lander-Tenabo Mining COM
pany. The vein parallels the big vein
on the Phoenix. about $50 feet to the
north. The values however are entirely
in gold. while those in the Phoenix run
largely in silver and copper. The same
vein has been opened up on a lease on
the Standard claim, by Mr.. Scheile. and
also further south on a lease being
worked by A.. c. Hickman. and still fur
Their south on the Dexter claim. being
worked by John Toombs. for parties in
Pocatello, Idaho.
BxX0
The Observation-Disclosures Mines COM