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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1893
Page
3
Advertising rates show two cents per line for temporary insertions and zero cents after first insertion for business notices. Local items include trains, market notes, births, departures, ads for property, and society events. The page lists various people, places, and organizations such as Lima, Montana. Union Pacific. Grand Chapter A F and AM of Montana. Metropolitan restaurants. and the Bannack region news.
Montana described as the third largest state with vast land for homesteads and farming. It touts mineral wealth including gold silver copper, major mines, water power, and a strong agricultural sector. The piece highlights Great Falls as an industrial center, extensive river systems, and Montana as a healthful open-air paradise with abundant hunting and fishing.
Sam Word opens an office at Whitehall Buile Miner to direct preliminary work on Madana’s new railroad from Uerena to Virginia City. Only three men, Ward Helena Barlow Castle Road and Henry Nuog Virginia City banker, are interested. The Tatler will fund the larger share, with an estimated cost of fifty per mile and planned deep cuts along the line. Local public notices follow, including police actions and market reports, plus a warning about unsafe patent purifiers and a note on a power service outage.
A letter from W L Reeder of Butte reports his cousin C Y Reeder in Pretoria South Africa describes Johannesburg as a vast gold mining camp. The city hosts about 45 000 people with a large black labor force and wages ranging from five to fifteen shillings weekly for general labor and ten to thirteen shillings for mine and mill work.
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