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Newspaper
Butte Miner
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1877
Page
4
A collage of lighthearted quips and blurred dialogue from various sources uses causal humor about picnics cars editors and social scenes. The piece cites lines from New York papers and a Philadelphia Herald style column, illustrating playful exchanges and social misreads with a stream of jests and anecdotes.
General Order No 4 summons 300 Montana volunteers under Gov Potts to defend against hostile Indians in the Big Belt region. Each man must ride, bring breech-loading arms, and report to Deer Lodge City with subsistence provided until disbandment. Volunteers swear allegiance to Montana and obey the Governor and militia authorities.
The Pittsburg and Fort Wayne Railroad Company raises wages to two dollars a day for strikebound workers. The piece argues that if the Pennsylvania Railroad yields, other lines will follow, citing economic strain and a massive fire in Pittsburg as consequences. It urges unity among workers against wealthy owners.
The Skeet elevator, also called Skip by miners, is a square water light box of wrought iron designed to replace cages and cars for hoisting ore and lowering workers. It lifts nearly five tons of rock or eight load units per trip, dumps contents from the surface, rights itself automatically, and matches conventional cage weight when empty. Isaac L. Requa introduced the concept at Challar Norcross Savage shaft. Yellow Jacket’s new shaft will be the second Comstock installation of this labor-saving contrivance.
A Stockton California Independent report describes a new mining machine at the Jicarilla placers about 150 miles southeast of Santa Fe. The device processes 30 to 40 tons of earth per day, extracts gold more efficiently than traditional methods, and could enable reworking gulches and foothill farms in California without tailings damage.
A Corinne Record reader recounts a curious incident in which several mice fall into a water-filled pail. One mouse struggles, others encourage from the rim, and a bold rescuer grasps a tail, hauling the swimmer to safety amid squeaks of delight.
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