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Newspaper
Butte Miner
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1877
Page
3
Last Monday night week crowds gathered from parts of town to the Rainbow House for a dance and house-warming. About 50 tickets sold as wagons and carriages left town toward the Hill, and all present praised the event, with hot coffee tea pies and confections served beyond midnight in a well attended celebration.
Several thousand ounces of 900 fine silver bars were sold to banks after ore from the Excelsior lode at Dewey's Flat yielded 1900 ounces. mill crusting claimed most of the 42 tons, with roads hindering delivery. Brannigan & Co plan to hire more miners as Jefferies reports on the Monre mill's good output and prospect of further bullion shipments.
A flurry of local notes from Butte covers press calls for fall roosters, crowding at the Park street bridge, and the Butte Band Association instruments. It notes Montana freight moving toward Ryan's Station and upcoming daily stage routes from Deer Lodge to Butte. Reports mention a new barber shop, building plans on Main street, and a rebuked trend of tool thefts at mines with vows to identify culprits. An antiquarian party at Lowber’s Opera House features an Indian maiden display with a dramatic rescue by Dellinger, restoring decorum after a staged tragedy.
The letter urges a Reading Room to provide a sober social space with newspapers chess and games for workers at fifty cents a month for 150 members. It argues the project would divert workers from saloons and hotels and offer self improvement and lasting city credit. Meanwhile Sigsbee and Burkett advance brick production, moulding over 20 000 bricks with plans to fire 75 000 to 100 000 within days.
Local accounts describe visitors from Helena Missoula Philipsburg and Deer Lodge inspecting Butte businesses and mines. Plans unfold for a butcher shop on Main Street and wagon road surveys while residents anticipate spring prospecting and improved surface activity in the mining camps.
J A Moss arrives from Cable with a 20 stamp mill from the old Welshfield mine to be repaired and readied for work, with expectations of revival in Cable and Deer Lodge quartz interests. The Rainbow Hotel near the mines opens with 30 boarders, offering substantial meals, and Catholic church plans are announced with drawings and bids invited.
Correspondece reports continued excavation at the Algonquin vein with western and eastern shafts revealing pay ore and wide ledges. Over 300 feet of well-limbered levels exist and at least 5,000 tons of ore are in sight as depth targets extend toward 250 feet.
The article notes Reduation works as a costly mechanical marvel in Helena with plans to save freight by purifying shipments. It reports Pittsburg freight at two cents per pound, the lowest rate between two points, and predicts wagon transport may beat railroad and wagon routes via the TL Pacific and Corinne.
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