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Newspaper
Butte Miner
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1876
Page
3
Local mining voices urge building a sulphate of copper works near Bitter roots, arguing high ore value and cheap plant costs. Reports describe ore dumps, railroad delays, and regional operations at Boulder, Jefferson, and Helena with plans for a concentrator and new roads.
Local notes report Park avenue opening to traffic as grading and bridge work continues while St James Episcopal Church rector Rev M N Gilbert plans a Sunday service in Butte. Mines activity includes a large ore run at Stapleton and Saville Argenta furnace and new mill repairs at Dexter, with transport changes to Deer Lodge and plans for a public hall in town.
Reports indicate the Pomateaky Mind and Nowsitary Lode mines resume operations after a two week stoppage caused by a partnership dispute. Twenty nine tons of ore, sampling 38 to 40 percent copper, remain ready for shipment as Belin’s Mountain Lode mine plans energetic development with a fifty foot shaft and new housing.
The La Plata mine owners advance toward organized operations with thirteen men producing seven to nine tons of ore daily from eighty foot levels. A large overhead work shed is planned and winter work will continue. A new shaft to 450 feet shows high grade ore, while other ventures like Acquisitions Lods and Walker Bros. leads employ several miners and refresh ore output near Centennial.
Probate Judge O Bannon returned from Deer Lodge last Tuesday and has busy filings on deeds for town lots. He took proofs on about three hundred of the eight hundred eighty filings within sixty days and heard seven contested cases. Filings are handled at Deer Lodge pending the legality of pre empting town lots between sixty day notice and sale.
A fragmentary town column notes Butte social calls by Capt. T P Fuller and visits by Mr and Mrs John Paul from Jefferson Valley. It recounts a case of a sly youth named John Winslow from Poughkeepsie who left a parcel of cigars and a silk shirt with a coach driver, hinting at a misdeed and warning him not to return.
Our Philifergus letter reports the town mourning the loss of an elderly resident at 10 o clock on the seventh inst. Friends recall his years of work opening the Poor Man's Joy lode. Capt Plaisted oversees Trout hill hoisting works soon to be a notable local project.
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