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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1903
Page
7
Store promotes cash buying with lower prices than credit shops. Special offers include Gloss starch per sack and washing powders such as Petre 1,76 and Rub No More with a free sample. Return policy promises full refund if not satisfied. Laundry soaps like Diamond Plymouth Rock White Rosebud Silk and others are advertised.
Advert says cleaned currants of Vostizza are superior in flavor and ready for baking. Offer: seven pounds for 1.00 with a trial pound pack age free on each 1.00 purchase, plus other grocery specials and single day deals. Limit one per customer.
A compact notice advertises imported sardines described as a fine bargain. It notes a dozen fish per tin and references a specific location and dates in a terse, period-voiced line.
Weekly meat bargains listed with shoulder mutton chops at four pounds and shoulder mutton roast as specials. Hamburg steak and corned beef offered per pound with various veal cuts and boiling beef options highlighted.
Hundreds of tons of machinery piled near Shaft No 2 with an improvised bin northeast of the shaft holding about twenty tons of copper ore. The enclosure buzzes with activity as workers advance mining and ore handling efforts in the field.
The Pittsburg and Montana Copper company expands near Butte with hundreds of tons of machinery to build a smelter close to its shaft. A 200 foot smokestack, boilers and automatic stoking gear rise as the plant foundation and a three story office building take shape. The enclosure will run nearly a mile and employ 260 to 300 workers, with ore from the 1000 foot level yielding mixed high and medium grade gold values.
The Montana Gold Mining Company in Granite county with its principal office in Butte restarted the Huntington mill last Monday after a three month shutdown. The shaft of the Sunday mine was sunk 120 feet and new levels were driven to secure a workable mine.
Alderman Thomas Stephens and partners run the Indian Queen on Birch Creek Beaverhead County. The smelter, recently completed, produces about 25 tons of copper matte per week. A carload sold to Montana Ore Purchasing, another due tomorrow. Options exist for 60 days from Butte investors. A vein was recently discovered and is under development.
Damours of Virginia City organizes the Damours Mining and Milling company under South Dakota law. Capital stock is 1,000,000 dollars with 150,000 subscribed. Officers include John B B Woodburn president treasurer Leon H Bearse vice president W C Bennett secretary C E Damours general manager. Directors include Elisha T Howes Bassett M Speight. Claims located at Summit eight miles south of Virginia City Montana. Damours visited Battle and brought J B McGinn of Lexington Kentucky to inspect the property.
The foundation of a cyanide plant and stamp mill for treating the ore of the U S Grant mine in Madison county is finished and construction will begin soon. Chicago capitalists plan the unique mill in the county and expect it to be a success, potentially prompting more mining ventures in the region.
Men in that district will likely pursue a similar course in the treatment of their ore. The tanks to be used in the cyaniding department are some that were shipped to the Hecla district some time ago. They are as good as new.
Martin Buckley oversees development at Cataract Copper company near Basin in Jefferson county as smelter is built to process ore from Bullion and other claims. Grunner brothers lease and bond Independent claim, plan a shipment to Butte within two weeks while sinking toward 70 feet on the vein.
Work to retimber the shaft at the Wild Bill mine will be finished late this week and then W. J. Naughton and M. L. Holland plans to develop ore bodies systematically. Located in the copper belt northeast of the city, the mine could become a profitable venture though current data does not prove its value. The shaft, only 40 feet deep, will be sunk deeper.
A report from Butte says the Ajax Mining Company, operating the Ajax and other mines in the Big Hole, struck a seven foot vein of ore not previously known to be in ground it owns. The vein reportedly contains gold and lead with a rock assay valued at 18 dollars in gold and a percentage of lead. The vein is said to run parallel to the large vein, while Superintendent Standfield reportedly sends out growing reports of increased values and widening veins in tunnels where most development work is underway.
Ore is good for fluxing in a proposed Butte smelter. The Gold and Murray Nos 1 2 3 firms near Elkhorn Jefferson county are owned by Charles B Jacquemin M L Jacquemin of Helena and John Rothfus of Elkhorn. The ore reportedly has value only as flux.
Butte religious groups press church building with new houses of worship planned or underway. Father Callahan eyes completion of Sacred Heart church this winter, while Father Englishs Nort Wyoming parish nears finish and eases St Patrick's overflow. South Butte parish plans a new church, Baptists stage a new house, and a Jewish synagogue foundation advances to become one of the state’s finest.
Charles A. Gurwell sues Estella Van Arsdale for 3090 stating he was enticed by rosy profits to invest 3000 in the Billion Dollar Queen Mining Company. He alleges the mine existed only on paper and seeks damages for fraud and misrepresentation. The Kentucky native resides mainly at the Great Northern hotel in Chicago.
In Pony district the Leonard group including Union claims shows widening vein to 18 inches on the Union ore channel. Galena and yellow iron rock yields about 150 dollars in gold per ton. a carload has been shipped. The Union adjoins the Oregon where Charles Weidman has built toward a million dollar bank.
Grace Tharp of Columbus Ohio drunk carbolic acid in her home to rebuke her father who sought to have her and her sisters arrested. She died soon after at St Anthony's hospital. A sister was left unconscious and seriously ill. James Tharp faced long family troubles and prior incidents of violence.
All members of Division No 1 A H are urged to gather at 613 North Alaska street on Monday August 3 at 1 30 p m to attend the funeral. J J Lynch president D D SHBA secretary.
Albert Weizmann a giant blacksmith in Indianapolis swore off drinking but weeks later he collapsed mentally and physically. Police Surgeon Garstang said the struggle against the habit was too much yet his determination carried him to utter collapse. He is a nervous wreck unable to hold a cup or spoon and feared to die or be taken to hospital.
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