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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1899
Page
8
A wary warning addresses buyers about sharp sellers offering property with defective titles. The plan emphasizes never selling a lot without title perfection checks, promoting risk-free home building, easy payments, and free title investigations to avoid liens and related issues.
Classified rental list shows different properties including 1 room modern brick house, 4 room modern brick flat, 4 room frame house in South Butte, and a 4 room brick house in Centerville with quoted rents of 10 00 28 50 and 82 00 respectively, indicating monthly rates and property types.
Across Montana mining districts, idle Way properties are reopening with profitable results. The Big Blackfoot headwaters district shows vast surface copper with gold and silver values. Montana Copper Co. properties attract attention as ex governor Smiggs visits, while Butte silver districts rebound with high grade ore and potential extra dividends at Anaconda operations.
The copper market signals a pivotal week as producers buy to leverage scarce supply while prices hold firm. London and New York show gains, demand in Europe and the U S grows, and reports cite stronger lake copper and electrolytic activity. Electrification and street railway consolidations further boost copper use, sustaining the price uptrend.
The copper mining share market opened weak this morning with quotations including Anaconda at 64 dollars Boston and Montana at 364 dollars and Butte and Boston at 76 dollars bid indicating subdued trading for major producers amid a cautious market tone.
In Beaverhead county the Bloody Dick district shows promise of copper development. Roberts brothers, owner of valuable claims, begin development with a 25 percent copper yield and some gold and silver. John Ruffa of Butte owns adjoining claims and starts development this week.
Post office authorities have received no advice yet on civil service exam results. Temporary appointments announced include Clerks Horace A. Barton Ed W. Dickey and Nicholas J. Kent. Carriers F W O Hara W B Bretherton J B Wolf Paul Levinson James P Walsh. Sub Carriers Zina V Robins A D Hurlbut Don Gregory and J F Finlayson. Likely many will become permanent.
Professor Chris Nelson narrowly escaped serious injury after a balloon ascent yesterday. The parachute failed to deploy at first, the craft dropped about 100 feet before catching air and opening, and strong gusts buffeted the aeronaut during descent. Nelson landed atop air bins at the royal mine, then steadied himself to safety.
The board of county commissioners of Silver Bow county Montana will sit as a board of equalization from July 17 to August 14 1899. Citizens may appear to state grievances about tax assessments. J E Moran County Clerk.
A bustling scene centers on a gamin offering cheap shine to five men, promising to polish all for ten cents. The group declines, the boy presses with sly persistence, asking how he could lose himself, then wanders off amid their laughter and chatter.
The San Francisco Bulletin notes the limits of fame and gate receipts in public shows. It cites crowds and dollars for debates and concerts versus a boxing match at Coney Island where 80 000 dollars is said to have appeared in the box office. It concludes performers’ value rises with demand and risk.
The Butte railway trade club en route home from Salt Lake was delayed at Pocatello and remained in the city to late afternoon. The party, greeted warmly in Salt Lake, toured the city, attended a tabernacle recital, and held an executive session at the Knutsford before returning to Butte. The trip featured cartoons, a beach excursion to Saltair, a poker game lasting until 2:20 am, and a heavy provision stock arranged by local merchants.
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