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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1899
Page
8
Market brief lists sugar at 17 pounds per dollar and fancy California grapes offered with tea as a bundled item. details are fragmentary and lack complete context or quantities. Readership is urged to check local shop boards for final pricing and availability.
Reports from the ceded strip indicate severe financial distress in the money markets and little copper stock trading. Early quotations show Anaconda at 45.40, Lipston & Mantua at 220, Butte & Boston at SH, and Utah Con at unspecified lows as speculators forecast further declines.
The Spotted Horse mine in Fergus county is tied to a sale to Salt Lake parties led by Arthur J Bird formerly of the Hope mine at Basin. Purchasers are alleged to be McCormick & Co of Salt Lake City. Bird will run the property. The price is not stated. The Spotted Horse is famed as a top Montana gold producer. Bud McAdow reportedly netted about a quarter of a million from a single operation. For years tailings from the old mill have produced small profits.
Reports from Butte and Helena indicate mining activity on the Blackfoot reservation ceded strip. A. M. Essler of Helena contrasts with Merbigat & Monten Copper about producing 1.06 tons of concentrating ore from tires. Crocker and Big Horn districts show sprint activity. The contract to Weocomneleted is set for three years.
The Twin Bridges smelter, erected earlier by Butte parties, is being revived amid renewed interest led by Osley. The operation aims to hire 40 to 30 men and process about 10 tons of ore per day if local supplies allow, signaling a cautious restart after a shutdown.
In London a Montana company meeting saw director Bayliss resign his post amid obligations to the Exploration Co. He will continue as a consulting engine for a nominal annual fee while reporting fifteen years of management. The previous board faced severe financial strain and restructuring.
The Montana mine, after periods of drought in ore and profit, regained vitality due to key discoveries and steadfast leadership. Shareholders welcomed Bayliss back with an ovation, praising his services while Dr. Wiglesworth’s cautious stance kept hopes in check. The board agreed Bayliss would remain as consulting engineer as management seeks renewed dividends.
Madame Tully’s representative Mrs Marie Cunningham at Parley 218 Butte hotel offers youth beauty treatments with every goods purchase. Justice Nichols joined Joseph H Davee and Clara Stubbs in marriage today.
A long roster lists guests and residents at various hotels including Butte, Spokane, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Helena, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and other locales. Names include Brownlee, Rogers, Hilton, Binydes, Burker, Moohr, Moahr, Flowerree, Mandell, Palmer, Mel Nulty, Boyer, Torrance, Jackson, Schenck, Sanders, Gnarheim, Conrad, Luckett, Norman, Wilson, Berry, Lovell, Hopper, Durfee, Moore, Panky, Cunningham, Hark, Clark, Young, and many others noted alongside cities like Chicago, Helena, St. Paul, Billings, Boulder, and Virginia City.
An advertisement claims dandruff is caused by a germ and promotes Newbro's Herpicide as the only permanent cure. It asserts that removing the germ stops both dandruff and hair loss, urging readers to buy $20 sets of teeth for $10 and mentioning Dr. Wis. TO KILL THE DANDRUPE GERMS.
Miss Graham a 17 year old schoolgirl from 708 North Wyoming street was found to have smallpox by Dr Johnson. The case led to quarantine of the Graham and nearby Chrystal households on West Quartz street and a second report to Alderman Medin. Vaccination status and exposure count remain uncertain as authorities assess further contacts and potential spread.
Quarantine officers are placed under the police chief. The quarantine force is being enlarged daily with eight special officers added this week and more likely. Chief of Police Davell seeks applicants or letters with names and addresses at the city hall. Pay matches other police positions.
At a joint session yesterday the city board of health and county commissioners discussed supplying provisions to quarantined persons. The city requested shared expense coverage, but the commissioners declined. A final report was signed by aldermen after adjournment.
Medin Bryant and Britt presented to President Alexander a majority board memo urging blocking rooms in quarantined blocks while fumigating other rooms and sterilizing inmates. Dr. Alexander and Father Batens dispute the plan, with clergy directing priest availability for affected Catholics amid the outbreak.
Invitations were sent to several residents of ute to attend a prize fight at the club rooms on upper Main Street as temporary members. Two weeks earlier two local pugilists held a sparring exhibition there. warrants were issued, but they fled the county before service. County attorney’s action led locals to think prize fights were finished in Butte.
An advertisement offers coal at four dollars for lump and four fifty for nut with delivery in the city and contact details for R J Johannes, agent. A separate corporate notice states the Washoe Copper Company has changed its principal place of business from Butte to Anaconda, Montana, following a stock capital action and a November 9 1899 trustees meeting.
Old and new veterans invited to Lincoln Post No 4G A Re Union in Silver Bow. Doors open for refreshments and a smoke at 7:30 p.m. Officers and citizens urged to attend. committee chair Alumn on reports arrangements.
An old advertisement touts Kemmer or Coat coal as the hottest and ashliest in the Butte market. J. Monroe & Co. sell this coal and other fuels and also dry wood. Also listed is a dental deal: 20 sets of teeth for $10 via Dr Wix at 47 East Broadway, phone 438.
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