Butte Miner (Newspaper) - February 12, 1878, Butte, Montana BUTTE VOLUME 2 THE BUTTE MINER MILLS BROWN 1 H 0 r It 1 E T O It 8 KVEK y Ono copy one 50 One copy six months It H 1 Jim copy twelve months 5 00 by 50 ets per month ble to ouch Advertising rates will be furnished on cation Surgeon Dentist BUTTE upstairs In the St J A NICHOLS Surgeon Dentist Main St Butte O IB E A- ML D- Physician and Surgeon at Residence KUTTE MONTANA Culls hi town and country promptly attended lo J Physician and Surgeon ill Male's Store MONTANA Will attend to professional in and JOHN F FOEBIS C 0 V Ar S ELL OH AT LAW Allen fled To Thornton AMD COUNSELLOR AT II y MONTANA W K 3 WASHINGTON D C lo td li La a id th J lor Ii a d 1 MONTANA ASSAYERS tab from a to made the liny Mine In rear of WMi Jl T M K MA S S A IE MONT bv the nil silver bullion WML horn a distance promptly s made the tiny iS T CO a General s Centennial Hotel y W A CLAKK Butte Mont banking on nil Hie principal nl ho world ho ami mineral of locality NKW YORK CO H road way W H Painting Graining PAPER Executed In tbo best manner loft tit re- prompt attention Copperopolis Restaurant HOTEL THE FAVORITE MEALS AT ALL DUEING THE per Single meals 50 A M fie Availing minis paid a reasonable BUTTE TUESDAY FE Come and get ti Square Meal JOS Butler's Restaurant PAKK THE BRIDGE 13 AM Transient patrons uiui regular boarders will and the tables well supplied with all the market A share of he public patronage is solicited J II Proprietor BUTTE RESTAURANT Pfaff Sherman PROPRIETORS east of Main Street T MEALS OR LUNCHES AI all hours of Hie Hay liou SO z M will and will be lo Hie place conic wl a lino I meal HOUSE FIK HO OF IS HICK City Montana Excellent GIRTON HOUSE BUTTE CITY MONT ROBERT GIRTON lood for Xu in near tlie Hosi nl i ifr week fld per Day i no 1 ay flu Thr public will rind this a their Is ROBT COSMOPOLITAN Nos 37 and 39 I S T OR E E T Helena Montana SCHWAB ZIMMERMAN PROPRIETORS INTERNATIONAL HOTEL HELENA Mont who have the in he Territory to be Hotel In better and Ibe bosl oi any lionse of U I ami C K7 A HOWE CENTENNIAL OLD TIKES IK Tie Copier Slices Excitement of and Butte City a W BEAL Corner Main and Granite Streets City Meat Markets F POTTING Silver Bow BEEF VEAL PORK MUTTON GAME ETC ALL CHOICE MEATS Having the above markets lor years and following it for an exclusive we aro to supply niy The M x til Prices Residents will do well to patronize the CITY JOUX F al o I General Variety Goods i i li if r-r CONFECTIONERY AND TOBACCOS AND Contrive Kent mills maUc alt and Union Letter for foreign lousiness ami all stylos colors prices I's a -id fluids otc als account and hooks U p all stylos of and paper and variety copy Iwoks to Him FINE J M B O W E S Insl received from the Runes u full assortment of Bureaus Dressing Oases Lounges Sofas Dining Tables Socking Chairs Bureaus Tables OFFICE CHAIRS and Sets ETO ETC ETC All these goods were to can be relied on us lo any In the and will he sold at reasonable prices Contractor the principal contracting and building in and having a force of ski I led mechanics I am enabled lo do the best work and do H Poisons lo buildings will find it lo in torus lo mo A did Always on fland A ic Collins on 01 loonier A Trimmings in sfore JOHN lit HOWES City Porter General Job Man Carpets Cleaned Delivered AND ALL KINDS OF WORK Pone on shout notice vc orders at Simpson's Burlier WALK Eli rjL LS FRANK CAREY PROPRIETOR The Rar with JW OLD K GIN BITTERS ETC And Hie bust Cigars lie This saloon is convenient room and pleasant und the proprietor courteous en Drop in when on the hill Shop divided accounts of firm of Newkirk A Co oil sums iucmc or they will bo placed Ir the Hands or nn attorney for collection OEO W BUTTE 11 was a great copper in California in IrGO and A knot of miners gathered one rainy day in a grocery antrone liad worked in the Luke Superior copper mines there was a tract of country about twenty miles west of which to him looked There was a certain dull red and yellow rotten rock scattered the tinged hero and there with blue and green stains This was or indication rock teige from which die eral in the form of had decomposed leaving only the earthy matter thus colored The miners who heard the Lake Superior man wore versed in gold digging Still they developed a languid sort regarding this made up a purse and sent the man oft to prospect lie wont down to Salt Spring Valley so called from certain salt and bitter springs whose waters on evaporating left the rocks covered with and yellow po dcr U is just on the edge of the Sierra Nevada foothills where they commence gradually to merge away to lower and lower undulation into the great plain of the San Juan valley In the mer afternoons the sea breeze from the blows strongly its chill tempered by passing over one hundred and fifty miles of heated land it is as the atmosphere of a ably heated parlor it tempts one to strip and bathe in it Exclusive of hoots will keep a man in clothes the whole year round The Lake Superior copper prospector duga few feet in the red rotten porous ledge of Suit Valley and came upon a great bed of copper ore There were green red oxides and a little lower down tons on tons of the glittering brassy ret So originated discovery of the great Union Vein Over it they built a town and called it Copperopolis Then arose the sient reign of copper The excitement spread ill over the State The whole talk was of copper and gouge rock miners rolled these mtd a score other cal and geological phrases from their tongues as glibly as born professors The clink of mortar and was heard in the still mer in every miner's cabin -is Im- pounded up indication rock preparatory lo testing il by acid This clinking from 800 miles south to was thrown in shade Gel a copper mine and die a said everybody They are everywhere Jer your feet man carried a gist's hummer for clipping oft his linger ends were yellowed and his clothes were burned from the careless use of ric acid A green stain of verdigris on rocks when found supposed to lie the certain of copper deposit underneath and it would set the swore and shot ut each other killed uninterested for the possession of these imaginary leads of Shooting was to outsiders in those mining camps Old of Sonora near ninety years of yet able to outwalk and any man of forty hud a reputation in the country as and by reason of a collection oi hones ami stones which he had gathered lie was less in the use of jargon which he discharged at every one so would hear him lie preached copper He gave out that every young should henceforth devote to tlu search and subsequent working of copper veins which undoubtedly lay hidden hill and Many young men took Dr advice They kept themselves hidden the light week after week after month They lived on bread bacon potatoes beans They expended and hard-earned capital in the purchase of powder drills and mining They denied themselves almost every pleasure lying in remote gulches and Their subterranean labors bent their backs humped their their joints and on premature old age Some fell down their own shafts and broke I heir necks Others by prematurely exploded were blown up their like result The survivors thus ing themselves to the search for copper one two and sometimes three years came out of their holes al last ragged pale worn sometimes with one eye times willi none and looked upon the result of this labor advised by old Dr profitless hole in the ground Sueil was still talking amid his dusty stones and bonus lie was enthusiastic over a discovery Everybody who would might be a plumbago millionaire while the was railing farmer miner merchant and tor took it alike The aim of all other ness was simply for making money to pay assessments on copper claims This California's fashion Consequent upon this copper excitement there came among the people strange men from abroad Their intellects were wholly cupriferous They talked only copper thought only copper knew nothing but copper jn the matter of copper they had all graduated in the same school First they visited the great Union Vein at They walked over picked up some fragments of rock and a few specimens of the ore Then after buying a compass a gist's hammer and a vial ol acid they away in every direction north south east and they went they found new copper veins These were always pronounced to be extensions of the Union Vein at Copperopolis They traced this tem of leads radiating from the Union like the spokes of a wheel for three hundred miles During the fever we never doubted these men judgement as to copper was lo us law and authority We fed them clothed them paid their hotel wills gave them ad- miring audiences every the camp barrooms as well as more or less of our choicest copper stock for we desired thai they should report favorably for our vein Francisco San Francisco was the abode of tin might of us buy shares and we always had shares to sell if shares should niu out we could lind another copper mine and maUe moro It was really like making money out ol nothing it was not until two or three years after tlie excitement was all and the mere word copper made the honest miner angry that we discovered who and what these men were and how they originated They had pre- been bartenders hook agents ami singing When the copper they took it prudently J hey saw how the lead could be worked They saw we simple living bred lo the mines demanded authority on copper and geological authority They I lie persons exactly filled lo constitute themselves subject We were anxious buy scientific knowledge They bad it to sell They it to us At the time were happy and ex- in being sold hope promises and of wealth are for a season almost equal to wealth itself The most mon in lield were old and book agents The copper fever traveled to Indian Bar and thence along the river to Red Mountain Vast mines were discovered there by an ex- This one was a former singing master it was Indian liar's third anil last sensation There hart been two brilliant gold discoveries Both were worked out But the singing master's copper projector came He found lie it in his mortar dis- solved it in acid plunged his steel knife blade into the solution it was coated witli copper it was evident that a great mine un- Indian Bar Claims were taken up in every Now all the old residents of Indian Bar have long known how they had lost nia It was simply by not staying in San Francisco liad we remained there on landing and bought land when it was cheap the city would have grown up around us ami the steady rise in real estate would have made us millionaires Thousands and tens of thousands of disappointed miners saw ami grieved over their great lost chance Here was an opportunity to profit by sad experience Witli great copper veins under us there would of course come a new town perhaps a city So we took time and town by the forelock We laid out Indian Bar City We all the land on both sides of the river for three miles We secured a fi privilege at lied liar There was to be no wailing over lost chances this time Willi the keen eye of men quick to discern desirable routes for land carriage we recognised in Ked liar the only available road to Bar City Indian Bur City is laid out any other corpse Only squirrels owls and horned toads reside there the copper fever passed away Shareholders became very weary of always putting into claims and never taking any out They did gel one lump of ore from the lode It was a nine day's der Shares doubled trebled and quadrupled in value it lay on the counter in store and guarded with jealous care It rested us lo upon it after a hard day's work but they found no more They sunk deeper and deeper into the flinty rock The charges in the drill would blow straight out as from a gun barrel dislodging scarcely a hatful of look Keally there was no vein no well-defined lop and bottom wall with its easing of clay interposed between the vein and the wall Such is the ol any true vein This was only a blind a little concentration of iron and copper pyrites in the ledge Ten thousand such chums were worked and abandoned after tens of thousands of dollars bad been expended on them It took months and years to learn this So the pound lump of on counter gradually failed to excite awe wonder or what was better of wealth and the hard working miner remained too poor to alford a Sunday suit of When i lived dian after it had been ravaged bv of clothes in the camp H was a company suit One maa owned tiie boots another the ers another the vest and another the coat When any one wished lo attend a lawsuit a funeral or a convention at Sonora the county seat he would start from Ins own cabin out being much encumbered with clothes go to the boot ou the boots thenee to the trousers proprietor and draw ou the trousers thence to the vest owner put on the vest to the coal man put on the coat ami then he would walk away the only sed Indian Bar City Hundreds of cities the creations of the great copper fever of went the way of Indian bur City I passed through opolis in iSlU Us glory was gone Ten years before it liad boasted nearly About thirty remained On every side were barred doors up churches hotels and school houses The extensive works of the great Union Vein were and deserted the machinery rusted the deep shafts full of water Only one store doing business and that only half open tor in his shirt sleeves and keeping on hand Hour and whisky They were ling down one of the churches ami hauling it bv piecemeal to Stockton A large beer garden proprietor bought it intended con- it into a bowling alley Churches were cheap in Copperopolis So they were in sixteen miles distant in one could bny almost any sort of empty church in the palmier and more golden days twelve or fourteen years before every little society of Methodists rians Baptists and so on built its church and hired a pastor But as the town in population from thousands to dreds it was difficult to maintain all these churches The congregations poorer and poorer First they dismissed their Most ministers lo ing in the San Juan valley A place Forlorn Hope six milus from was full ot these dismissed ministers ively they seemed all to drift in one common direction One by one the church edifices were sold for taxes Men of the world in bought on speculation Mr Hall the principal Sonora merchant owned a church The district attorney owned two lie did u heavy business in second-hand churches Goats There is and and the little ones is a kid Wen a gote has been tot to wear a saddle and lie rode by a monkey the President of the Kited States and stamps its feet like it fide not lo be as bevy iis a and wen gotes is poked fun at they will but I seen a little feller wich was a his own fun with a gote by getting on his hands and knees and his head like the lied gote it it so behind him like it I aint a goin lor to have nothing lo do willi this But wen it got in the right place it let drive crewel wore the boy set Then the boy landed into a bouse a long way and the ole man come out and Inked all round and be has sent us a And the goto went up to the ed in wimmin fokes was a temlin the boy and shuke its head Jockler fashion the gote did like it Keep it rapt up in and give it plenty gotes milk I guess youl raise it if its full I want five cents worth of said a little girl to ti grocers clerk The clerk What do you want worth of starch Why for live cents of she answered And the clerk non- eluded to attend to his own business Somebody lakes a picKpocket to a crowd A man was taking aim at a hawk that was perched near his chicken coop when Nothing is so fatal to the romance of a as to have your girl at very of osculation If What Mr says is true we've been good all those long years tor nothing St Louli Journal An intelligent expressed his preference tor a quack I call him if mine cat vas deail A corset manufacturer puts his name ou each piece of goods Thus it is that advertising does now and then go to waist enjoy perpetual Then repair to the home of the farmer who brings spring Press There are beautiful warm soda springs in Colorado and people who go bathing in them at once A young lady was asked upon her return from church what the text was to which she unhesitatingly replied Blessed dressmakers If a young lady wishes a young gentleman to kiss her she mention No no but as man Times as you please You're a smart sneered a lawyer to a witness the other day in court I'd re- turn tile compliment if 1 wasn't under replied the witness After the This is probably not tin first you have received Mr perhaps the you have ever given Miss Smith The misery of the young man who courts fashionable belle and loses her is only excelled by the misery of the man who wins her A Montana Justice of the peace doesn't splurge any when he marries a couple He Grab Six dollars And tbat is all there is of it Mow does the new asked one man of another who lately chased a cow I really can't lie re- plied for I've never asked her a question tell met truthfully how often do you go to the Well sure tell yor the truth Faix I go as often as I can't avoid Don't show iry wrote a young gentleman to a young whom he adored Don't be was the answer I am just as much ashamed of them as yon are Science says that it took millions of years to evolve man from the clam observation shows that it takes less than a minute to transfer the clam into a Sentinel An inventor lawn grass off like a cow but it doesn't cost as ninch for provender and truth com- pels us to add that it doesn't give as much milk either his little girl aim papa let it go oft by accident Why so asked the father Cause every gun that oes off by accident always explained the child Mamma where do people go when they My dear I tell yon just where Cut don't you KUOW How can I know Mamma has never died Of uot but haven't It is noticed that when the tarantula builds its nest it closes the entrance to it a door hinges but the most careful scrutiny has failed to discover whether the male tarantula uses a night said a gentleman visitor in closing his address to an school Hie I trust you will all appreciate education and cherish and luve your lent teacher as I do Tableau with red fire furnished by the pretty stop pounding that boy I'll pound him if I want to you will will I will yon il Oh 1 And that's how the ter stands al Free There was an old duller named Who said I eternally swar By might and by right I'll Extinguish the title Of Hayes to the President's chair Blithe didn't e Nellie lias a sister Mary who Mattie Puzzled complained to mother that her shoes were hurting Why you've got them on and ready to cry she made will i do all the feet I've got Do you believe in the use of the rod my dear professor asked a lady dren were making life a burden to all the guests in the Hotel lu some eases madam but there are glancing al her bolling darlings where i the re- volver A lawyer meeting a client who being under foi grand larceny was about to run away said Don't bo hasty I'll get profit an industry thrown away that In was far more than pure lend of was percentage of lead and ths rules regulated its worth in silver Ore containing no lead was useless If the percentage of sliver was not enough to warrant its being shipped to Reno and the Utah miner sent Iris ores there knowing what kind of ores pay Thousands of over the Jump as waste that couldn't he shipped anywhere The smelters on the Jordan and were masters of the situation as far as lead ores were concerned and the ruled silver Eight or nine months ago Sir camo to Professor Hid den and told him be liad plan to work the grade ores of the Telegraph ing outfit at the mine helped him with a tle money and when pounds ore Wiis successfully treated Gregg got a contract tii work Old Telegraph ore SS per ton He needed help and Mr who was then boot and shoe shop in ham City CHUB to his assistance Men ed at tile idea of and put up for a poor foolish maker Alter a while John Gamble bought into the firm and it became as it is now Gregg bushing Gamble Gregg picked out the old a deserted begin his work in and he reason the works at present cost about is that the place was not adapted to my business but a hash house ami the About ounces of leached silver has been ing had to be almost torn down and fixed to suit the whims of the experimenter shipped from works lately on- ore Tom the Old mine In order to kenp our readers posted we sent our reporter to Brigham to inspect the works and the following is the The process of leaching is done in a wooden tank For reasons best to the tor nothing but red wood is used in the of these tanks Tins tank is filled witli ore crushed passed through a So 30 serene The liquid is then poured on and in about hours drawn beneath into what are called tanks When the liquid is all drawn off the silver that was in the ore passes off with it in solution When the precipitating tank is full a cal is put in which the silver in shape of black sulphides This is then put into flannel sacks and another chemical added carry off the base strained and put into an oven and dried then iulo and made into a matte when it is ready for the the market Tlie leaching works of Cuslung and can turn out 75 tons i The ore worked there at present about IS of silver and six per cent Ninety-five per cent of the silver is saved and the lead lost Any mine owner in tory can easily calculate what the of V this will be if introduced V extensive mining We that in the Cottonwoods Alta Ophir Dry ami are dumps that contain wealth in the low grade silver ores than their owners ever their first-class The cost of leaching a ton of ore after gets to the works is less than The chemicals used are good for all the time as they are pumped up into the tanks after the sulphides have been precipitated Mining men should call at this office and see samples of the ore sulphides matte and pure silver as they were taken out of the works ami they can then understand the revolution this invention is about to create in on this coast and particularly in Luke Tribune Jan Bret Horta's York Cur Cincinnati There has a good deal of gossip the absence Harte from Boston was a matter of no surprise to those know the history of his early connection the When Bret Haite first came California and all society was running wild after him and he was able to dictate his own terms to the suppliant publishers the tic Monthly a contract with him for right to the products of his pen for one year The 000 Of course no stipulation was made as to what amount he would produce because no author in advance what extent lie will or whether he Will f be briliant at all The Atlantic got article from Harte during the year One of his best friends once told me that great trouble lay iu the fact that he was devoid of a conscience If his woman had by long fnl industry he would borrow it without the slightest intention of repaying it or without a single twinge of conscience over his action Indeed Harte has closed up mosl ues about him in a way that Dick The New York Times which once stay of proceedings for you But some stories of his spoke of him my proceedings slaved replied the client 1 want lo proceed ova ol thu country as fast as possible The ministers of this city re- member that the columns of Gazette are always open for the announcement of Divine service Although we publish a high-toned moral and strictly political newspaper yet the clergy can always rely upon us in aiding them to bring the people to church Rock Gazelle lie was so drunk he not walk could move and only partially articulate A friend of his came up and upbraided him If 1 wire in your said the friend I'd go out in the woods and hang myself If hie von were in my huw hie the deuce would you set to the woods was the squelching inquiry editorially some time ago in a way that was the next thing iov calling him a There is an old story about Boston with a sheriff's on of the platform behind get the money for the in was lecturing and there are stories able about his personal debts and of the stinis he has received from publishers in without furnishing them with the equivalent in manuscript The is where the money goes for Is a great of it and lie is liot known gambling babits are erected at an expense of NEWSPAPER
