Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-05-20
MONTANA ITEMS.

BIDS were opened recently at the
treasury for the construction of the
public building at Great Falls. The
bidders were J. H. Maxwell, Tacoma,
Wash, $t74,4O3; John Lonitzen, Fer
gus Falls, Mimi, $1s4,833; Lease &
Richards, Seattle, Wash, 1913, s76;
Gaynor & Co., Billings, Mont, $4,000;
Fl. Weise Smith, Omaha, $187, $50;
Charles H. Ellsworth, Chattanooga,
Tenn, $194,42O; King Lumber com
pany Charlottesville, Va, $19S,sOO
William A. Clark, former United
States senator, and the largest indi-
vidual copper producer in the world,
has closed deal by which he sells his
copper interests in the Butte camp to
the Amalgamated Copper company.
Before sailing for Europe Saturday
he said he had not retired from the
copper field, but had merely sold out
group of mines in Butte. He will
retain his zinc mines in Butte and his
United Verde company in Arizona. The
company which Clark has sold is the
Original Consolidated Mining company,
with a capital of $1O,OOO,OOO, shares
800 par Clark has also sold the
Butte Reduction Works.
Clark said he had sold for cash. but
he would not say how much he had
received. The Amalgamated now owns
all the mines in the Butte camp except
the North Butte property.
The crop prospects as viewed by the
officials of the Farmers alliance for
this year are the most promising ever
known in the Gallatin valley.
A recruiting station for the United
States marine corps has been opened
in Butte.
There is good prospects of the cree
ton at Belgrade of an alfalfa meal mill
in the near future.
After A years Of service in Montana
as a travelling missionary and parish
priest, Rev. Father De Ryckere has
gone back to Flanders, Belgium, to
spend the declining years of his life in
the town where he was born.
The Sack Bros ranch, nine miles
north of Geyser, has been taken over
for 100000 by the Merrimac Cattle
company, which has just fled articles
of Incorporation.
Stepping to the edge of the porch of
the upper fiat at GOA Colorado street, in
Butte, to get a breath of fresh air,
Mrs. Carrie Johnson, trained nurse,
As years of age, suddenly lost her bal
ance and fell headlong to the pavement.
receiving severe injuries.
R. E. Beall, a miner, 81 years of age,
unmarried, was injured by fall of
ground in the Leonard mine at Butte
and sustained fracture of the left
leg between the thigh and the knee.
The results obtained this year by the
Butte high school have been made mani
fest during the recent contests at Mis-
soula, where Alex Cotton was pro-
nounced the best declaimer in the state
and Walter Small was awarded the
medal and scholarship which falls to
the champion debater.
Judge Carl Rasch expects to open
court by June 1 at Helena.
Near East Helena the tooth of a pre-
historic mastadon was picked up recent
ly by Dan Reagan. 1t was six inches
long and three and half inches thick.
An additional segregation of state
land of 10000 acres for the Flatwillow
Carey land project has been made by
Walter G. Winnett of Lewistown, bring
ing the total segregation for this pro-
ject up to $4,000 acres. This latest ap-
plieation makes the project the largest
of it's kind in the state.