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Newspaper
Butte Miner
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1876
Page
2
In this fragmented column, Montana’s mining outlook and the Black Hills gold interests loom large. It discusses trade dollars, mint policy, political shifts, and a rush of mining ideas and literary speculation about mining towns, investors, and future wealth across California, Nevada, Colorado, and the Black Hills.
A Center News correspondent warns of decline around Caribou town and its famed mine. He cites former prosperity rivaling Comstock Virginia, blaming inept managers and absentee owners for capital losses, job losses, and idle machinery while urging American owners to restore activity and fair treatment.
A rear mounted apparatus on the Pennsylvania railroad’s middle division records track condition during a patrol. A 700 foot white paper roll encircles a cylinder and feeds at three feet per mile, driven by the car axle. A pencil marks track roughness, while a pendulum device emits bell like sounds on bad points. The oscillating iron piece and markers promise improved inspection reliability.
League dispatches discuss Crook aiming to renew actions at the Sioux upon wagon train arrival and infantry from Fort Fetterman. Merritt led eight Fifth Cavalry companies toward Fort Layamite while Terry pursues Cheyenne bands. Sioux and allied tribes may fight or move, with a Snake party scouting tonight and Ute and Bannock allies expected to join. The plan hinges on terrain, timing, and reliability of Indian allies as returns from the field are awaited.
Reports from the Missouri river agencies indicate Red Cloud’s group and Sitting Bull’s followers are moving toward peace talks. Whose chief has left Sitting Bull’s domain with a portion of his band to negotiate, while others express dissatisfaction with food rations and demand sugar coffee and tobacco as treaty terms. Disarming all Indians before returning to the agency remains a concern at camps Sheridan and Hebinson.
A West to East telegraph reports a Sioux massacre of Crook's command with 300 killed, but the Herald questions the tale as uncertain and circumstantial, noting the short interval before the supposed battle reached Sydney and doubting the disaster's credibility.
The London Enquirer reports a three ton fy wheel cast in one piece at the West Iartepoo cement works in England. Left on timber blocks, it fractured overnight after sun heated the rim and cold night caused rapid contraction. Ten workers touched it, noting the rim split in several places. Bank figures follow with July changes in specie deposits and reserves.
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