8bc value English breakfast tea per pound
A fragment lists prices for English breakfast tea and Gunpowder Tea with odd OCR remnants. The readable items reference per pound pricing and a small shop context in unclear OCR.
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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1900
Page
8
A fragment lists prices for English breakfast tea and Gunpowder Tea with odd OCR remnants. The readable items reference per pound pricing and a small shop context in unclear OCR.
Fay Harrington and Butte capitalists bonded the Majestic mines near Pony and began development. Adjacent to the Boss Tweed and Clipper groups, a major strike at those properties led to a $500,000 bond to a Spokane syndicate. A tunnel is being driven toward the lode. prospects include timber and water abundance. Cummings, McDougall & Co claim a rich strike at Little Tycoon, with ore reportedly up to 60 percent copper. The Par nel mine shaft at Parnell broke, laying off miners until a replacement engine is fitted.
The Burrage party of Boston spent the day at the Highland Boy smelter, exhaustively inquired into as part of an upcoming enlargement plan. The plant, among the most modern of Burrage’s approved smelters, features labor-saving devices and likely will see orders for material upon Burrage’s return east to report to shareholders.
A Lewistown Eagle report from Fergus county notes the New Year mine employs 17 men and a recently bought road to the mine. a 70 ton daily mill will soon run at full capacity with an ore drier on order. Superintendent Purmort backs the project, ore in sight, and a mill is expected. Spotted Horse is preparing for a long-run mill under manager Arthur Bird. H Sutter is driving a tunnel to drain a coal mine low down, coal quality good, awaiting proper drainage. Purmort and his New Year surveyor visited Whisky Gulch Sunday, property looking better than expected, with more development and a mill planned.
Park County district court action by George O. Freeman as assignee to H. Bush of the Bush Consolidated Mining and Investment company seeks 13 602 29 from Bear Gulch Mining for money advanced for machinery wages and mine purchases. H J Miller represents the plaintiff. A new Chimney Rock mining district is noted with Constant ine filing locations for a mill site near Chimney Rock and other claims in Trail Creek country.
A. W. Tanner, owner of the Pole Creek placer mines, was in Madison Tuesday. The mines are bonded to a Montreal capitalists syndicate and operated on an extensive scale. Tanner secured many large and valuable garnets while working the claim and looks for further prospects.
An active season around Red Bluff is anticipated with more men employed than ever and many prospectors trekking into the hills seeking valuable finds. The forecast suggests strong mining activity, increased labor, and heightened effort to locate new deposits.
The leading lake copper producer is said ready for business at 16c while buyers have not fully replenished supplies. Prices have trended against consumers for months, with the market closing steady at 16c for lake copper. Large manufacturers are careful, preferring inside figures and rejecting any price above 16.5c. Export outflow near 12,000 tons since spring acts as a safety valve, though imports total about 3,700 tons this month. A Calumet sale at 17c included a price guarantee offering rebates if new purchases occur at 6c.
Boston News Bureau reports Standard Oil group holds over 11 000 of Boston and over 200 000 shares outstanding. Large stake explains stock inactivity for Both Boston and Amalgamated. Rumors of a Butte and Boston and Boston and Montana consolidation denied by negotiators.
W. J. Beager, vice president and manager of American Kootenai Mining, tours properties about 40 miles from Libby. A 10 stamp mill and plant to save all values, handling 30 tons daily, has been purchased and is on site. A sawmill linked to the mine will be installed. Water power will operate the mill, ready by July 1. A 2500 foot steel rope tramway will convey ore to the mill with eight buckets each carrying 1000 pounds, gravity driven and equipped with an automatic dump.
Work on the B. and M. concentrator building advances with roofing nearing completion and carpenters starting flooring. Delays persist as lumber supply to the Great Falls works remains limited, causing some lay-offs among workers.
E L Shafner of Cleveland formerly with the Gold Coin property near Anaconda examined the Lake Shore Mining company near Sheridan. He stated the company would erect a 20 stamp mill at the mine in the spring. The properties lie on Wisconsin Creek.
The trustees of the Montana Ore Purchasing Company declare a regular dividend of 1 per share totaling 90000 dollars. Payment date is February 15 with books closed February 6 and reopening February 15.
The Ruby Tent No 6 Knights of Maccabees shows off a new banner from the Supreme Tent to celebrate larger Delial membership in the state. Ruby Tent vows to keep it in Butte for over a year and work harder to recruit new members.
John J. Johnston known for peculiar liver eating dies January 22 at Santa Monica National Soldiers Home after coming from Montana in 1862. Born in New Jersey 76 years ago, he served in the Union Army, later under General Miles in Indian campaigns. News notes Montana labor ads and wintering geese context appear around his obituary.
Helen Kupfer sues J H Kupfer a druggist at 323 South Main for divorce alleging a marriage in Philadelphia on February 21 1897 a son about eighteen months old and marital abuse including long periods of silence. She cites joint savings and business assets valuing property at 1000 in Noyes and Upton addition 2500 in the drug store and 250 in household goods with the business earning 500 monthly. She seeks restoration of her maiden name Helen.
In a court filing HL Powell seeks a decree of diveres and temporary alimony of 20 a week, declares herself half owner of property, and appoints a revolver to handle drug business. An affidavit supports the complaint, and Clancy issues an order restraining removal of the boy and encumbrance of property. Kupfer must show cause next Saturday why alimony and counsel fees should not be paid. Rowing machines for rent by mouth offered by National Undertaking Company, 47 East Quarts.
William Bailey petitions the district court to probate James Bailey's will, naming Sophia Bailey as sole beneficiary. The estate totals $3,709,560 with real property in West Agate Street and Warren & Kingsbury addition, a share in the Oxford market, and cash. William Bailey seeks administration as no executor is named. heirs include brothers John, Charles, Harry, Thomas Bailey, and sisters Louisa and Emily Keast, with residences in Silverton, Cornwall, London, and this city.
Major Samuel B. Jones, now Boston quartermaster, recounts a Filipino native who adopted the American surname Jones. The man’s relatives struggled to pronounce the written name, realizing no two read it the same, as the tale highlights linguistic quirks under colonial era name adoption.
The Northern Pacific runs the only Pullman Standard sleeping cars from Anaconda to St Paul and St Louis with two sleepers on the night train from Anaconda and Butte. One travels via Billings and Burlington to St Louis, the other from Butte to St Paul. A $2600 reward is offered for information leading to the detection and conviction of trespassers removing ores under ground workings of the Michael Devitt lode claim within Montana courts.
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