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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1891
Page
2
The Helena paper laments non assessable mining stocks and urges stockholder assessments to sustain profitable mining, notes high costs on public school buildings and calls for a halt to extras spending. It reports court decisions reshaping whisky law, a murder arrest trio, and a controversial jury verdict interpretation.
Local owners and ranchmen petition the secretary of the interior to stop timber cutting by the Butte and Montana Company. They allege 100 mining locations rely on watershed timber for water and claim the activity harms mining and farming. An old man, Christenson, was robbed near Granite and Philipsburg. he fought back after handing over a twenty dollar gold piece.
George White's teams haul ore from Midnight to Hope will, with a 105 foot shaft and 100 foot drift, yielding an estimated seventy five ounces per ton. 300 tons of pay ore sit on the dump as about 25 tons are mined daily, with plans to sink deeper and reach richer leads.
A Montana chapter discusses a sale term “a reasonable amount” of gas used by a seller’s associate, with disputes echoing toward the supreme court. Other items note clemency petitions for Friar brothers, a loan craze in Lewistown, a beef-marketing deal, and Great Falls smelter shutdowns due to ore transport issues. County bonds planned to retire debt are described, followed by a hotel joke about a waitress.
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