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efr .riijij LUMP CITY MINER: SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1895. The Linnp City Miner. Published Every Saturday Morning at Lump City, Montana. A. M. WILLIAMS ..... .,........ • Editor. WILLIAMS & SONS Publishers and Props. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year (in advanoe). 82 00 One Year (when not paid in advance) • 2 50 Six Months (in advance).......... . 1 00 Six Months (when not paid in advance) 1 25 Single Copies ............ . —Five Cents ADVERTISING RATES. Notices on local page 15 cents per line for each insertion. Notices to be printed among strictly local reading matter 20 cents pej line for each insertion. No advertisement of this class taken for less than fifty cents. Biome rates in the Shipley advertising columns, by the week, month or year. will be furnished up- on application. All advertisers will be allowed a change of their advertisement once a month, if desired. without extra charge ; but where changea are made oftener than once a month a charge for the time consumed in changing will be made. To insure prompt attention in changes of ad- vertisements copy must be handed in not later than Thursday preceding day of publication. ALL A00012INTS PAYABLE MONTHLY. WILLIAM; tt SONS, Publishers. Lt Cri li, MONT., JAN. 19, 1895. ANNEXATION TO LEWIS AND CLARKE CO. Everything considered, annexa- tion is probably the best. possible thing for this community, and in- deed, this end of Jefferson county, Lyieg so close to Helena is it does, within thirty minutes ride by two lines of railroad, and with -good natural roads for wagons numerous, the business naturally turns in that direction. We publish elsewhere in this is- sue the 'resolutions -adopted by the citizens of Lump City, Clancy and vicinity, which will serve to give an insight into the -feeling which exists here in regard to this propo- sition. It is in no sense a \grab/ scheme on the part of the citizefis of Lewis and Clarke county, indeed, we doubt. if at this moment the citaens of that county are aware of the existence of this movement, but had its inception in Winston and in Lump City, and is the out- growth, 1st, of the improved busi- ness and legal facilities which the carrying out of the scheme would give to this section ; and, 2nd, the growing opposition to the forma- tion of Broadwater county, which, if ever carried out, would place us under more serious troubles than than those we now suffer from, be- sides compelling us to. become cit- izens of a new county, be compelled to shoulder enormous debts, to erect new county buildings and support a complete set of county officers at Townsend with nothing to do but draw their salary. This end of Jefferson. eounty should be annexed to Lewis and Clarke county on natural lines—the watersheds. The business interests and the legal interests demand it. We would then be placed in a po- sition to transact our brininess of till kinds easily and with the least possible expense to the community at large, while at the same time it would prove no gerieue loss to Jef- ferson county as it now exists, cov- ering as it does an area larger than Some etates niight be named. — M 0 N TAN MINERAL LANDS. Thos. G. Merrill is now in Wash- ington, D. C7, where he went to at- tend a meeting of the executive committee of the Bi-Metall i League, and has sent the f(dli,wie g telegram to.tiovernor Rickards anti Senathr Power: \. \.Patente issued Dec. 31 for over 300, 000 iteree of Northern Pacific selections in Montana. Other, large Late are jlIst alant, reedy to patent. Can nothing be done to prevent To T. O . limb the Governor and Senator Power have promised to look the matter up—presumably as soon as they attend to some little private affairs of their own, looking towards their senatorial aripil - ations— - in the meantime a little matter like the dangerof loss to the people of the state of -each e ltemette section. of land for fiity miles on either side of the N rthern Pacific railroad, its entire length across the state, can wait. Mr. Merrill has long been an ac- tive work -or in the matter of saving the unsurveyed mineral lands of the state from the grasp of the Northern Pacific Corporation, and to him more than to any other one person is due the fact. that the is- suance of patents tó vast traCts of mineral bearing lands have been \hung up\ in congress awaitins in- vestigation. It seems that now, however, he ball has been set roll- ing again, and unless congress passes some sort of law, behind which it is impossible to go or evade, thousands of acres -of the unsurveyed mineral lands of this state are about to slip from the possibility of their being entered upon and prospee,t>for mines, be- cause Chere would be no use finding mines on patented ground. MANTLE AND CARTER. The above named gentlemen have len elected 14 the Montana Legislature, now in session at Helena, to represent. Montana in the Uniteetates Senate, Mr. Man- tle for the short term and Mr. Car- ter for the long term: All we ask of these gentlemen is that they willise true to Montana first, party or no party - but we fear that this outlines a task which will be a pretty big job for them. There is lots of work for them to do, work that honest men should take pride in doing, and it remains to be seen how well they will do it. It is not necessary for ne to point out some of this work; there is plenty of it .iwafght, chief among which may be mentioned the sav- ing of the Montana mineral • )ands and standing up for silver. If either of our senators elect want to come down to . posterity, land - marked by monuments which will make the Ada Behan statue of the World's Fair blush, let them stand square -toed on the two propositions above mentioned, and a grateful people can then rise up and call them blessed. The German Government shows a disposition to submit the case of theintporjation of American cat- tle to expertswhich will probably result ssatisfautorially and again make wide the ways of the emi- grating transatlantic steer The trade in live stock of this sort with Germany has not hitherto been overwhelmingly large, only 17,331 having been sent thither during five years beginning with 1890. But it is likely to increase if things go well and no occasion arieee in our tariff legislation te trump '`up a case against us under cover of which it reprisal may be instituted. The tax on sugar levied by the last Congress affected one of the largest exports to this country, that of sugar, winch in the years named exceeded $100,000,000. At the same tithe our exports of meat products weree19,000,000, of which $37,000,000 were for the single ar- ticle of lard, and of lirriadstuffs $27,000,00t t. In comparison with these commodities, the steer trade is rather light, but it is worth look mg after and protecting, and will very likely be re establieheil soon on its; own footing. Speaker Siiett is presumably of the same occupation as his pre- decessor in the chair, but it is hardly probable that he will kesp up such \ 'igh\ pressure as did Speaker Matthews. He has a bet- ter safety -valve and governor, in the presence of Mrs. Swett.— Boul- der Age. A San Francisco capitalist has established a hennequen planta- tion near Ensenada in Lower Cali- fornia and he hopes to be in a po- sition to ship 2,500 tons of fibre at the commencement of the year. The experiments made so far have been entirely successful anil de- monstrated that the Yucatan pen- insula is not the only place where the hennequen plant can be advim- tageously cultivated. From all sources it is learned that the mining outlook in Mon- tana is fifty per cent. more en- couraging now than before election. Mines and mills are.resum ing oper- ations now that never would have started unless from some change or encouragement in the mining industry. There are about 30,000 Moruions in Idaho, more than one-fourth of the entire population of the state. Most of them have, settled in the southeastern counties, adjoining Utah and Wyoming. They are the most prosperous citizens of the state. The amount or silver coin, much of which is represented by silver certificates said to be in circula- tion among the people, is $455,795,- 018. The entire amount in the country is placed at $419,332,450 in dollars and $77,415,123 in small- er coins. The total amount of sil- ver dollars coined since 1792 is $427,363,688. If Congress has the power to' make a law to pay the gold miner $20 an ounce f4 gold, ont of whic to make money, why should it tot, make a similar law and pay the sil- ver miner $1.29 for silver. New York sets apart about five million acres for the _production of her hay crop, and raises each year from five to six million tons, having a home value of from $60,- 000,000 to $80,000,000, In her production of potatoes she exceeds all other states, and raises about one -sixth of the entire potato crop of the Union. Her yearly ‚crop 'often exceeds thirty million bushels, and the value rune from $12,000,000 to $18,000,000. Growth of the Great West. The Mississippi river has 600 effluents whose courses are marked upon the map, and a drainage area of 1,257,545 square miles. The traveler embarking upon a steamboat can sail from Pittenurg, 4,300 miles, to Fort Renton, Mont., anti from Minneapolis, 2,200 miles, to choose to ex- tend his voyage to the head of naviga- tion upon its 45 navigable tributaries, his out ward journey won exceed 16,000 miles, through 23 states and territories of the Union, says the Industrial World. This temper - 141.mo water sytiteni Is equi- valent te a land locked harbor, an es- tuary f.r arm of the sea, penetrating into the North American eentinent farther than from New York to Liverpool, with a coast line of 32,000 miles, having 'hun- dreds of populous towns anti cities, and innumerable ports and haven, from which the agrieulturid and mantifee tured prisitieta of one thin! of the arable eurfeee of the United States can be iihipped to all parts of the globe. The territory which it drains is oonsider ably larger than ventral Europe. Lying wholly In the temperate lotie, equally re moved from the lengoura of the tropics and the rigors of the pole, its climate favorable to health and longevity, cal- careous moll rolaidoil to evoty variety of agriculture, it. is the region whore the elcinPuts of prosperity are nu abun- dant and stable, and the conditions happiness moist permanent and secure among the habitations of men. One hundred years ago the pioneers from New England, the advance guard of the great column of Anglo•Saxon mi- gration that has during the interval marched to the Panifie, abolishing the frontier and conquering the desert, de- scended the western slopes of the Alle- ghenies into the valley of the Ohio and disappeared in the solitudes. Chicago, Cincinnati anti St Iuis were outposts of civilization, exposed to the brand of the tomahawk. A few log huts, trading stations and mission houses were scat- tered along the crumbling banks of the rivers and in the profound depths of the forests. There were neither highways nor public conveyances, commerce, agri- culture nor manufactures, no schools, 'churches nor society, nothing but na- ture and its vicissitudes, the savage and hie prey. From that unsurveyed wilderness, in less, than a century, 21. states have since been admitted into the Union, having an area of 800,000,000 acres, a population of more than 35,000,- 000, and a wealth beyond measurement or computation. Sparcely inhabited, with rude and unscientific methods, its resources hardly touched, the states of the Mississippi valley last year produced more than three-quarters of the sugar, coal, corri, iron, oa'e, wheat, cotton, tobac- co, lead, hay, lumber, wool, pork, beef, horses and mules of the entire country, together with its large fraction of gold and silver. Their internal commerce is already greater than all the foreign com- merce of the combined nations of the earth. China supports 400,000,000 people up- on an area smaller and less fertile. The civ i I i zation of Egypt, whose monuments have for forty centuries excited the awe and admiration of mankind, was nour- ished by the cultivation of less than 10,- 000 square miles, in the narrow valley and delta of the Nile. The delta of the Rhine, and the adjacent lands reclaimed trom the Zuyder Zee, lees than 15,000 square miles, have long sustained the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and given to a dense population wealth, comfort and contentment.? The delta of the Mississippi, below iM junction of the Ohio, richer than the Nile or Rhine, exceeds the combined area of Holland or Egypt, and is destined, under the stimulus of free labor and the incentives of eelt-ollsernment, to build a fabric of soqiet more opulent and enduring. Ad. • this the inexhaustible alluvium o the streams above, and the fertile aines from which they descend, and the arithmetic of the past has no loga- rithms with which to compute the prob- lems of economic and commercial future of the West. It will predominate in the development, not of this country alone, but of the hemisphere, anti will give di- rections to the destinies of the human race. When the first furrow was broken on the praries of Illinois, there was not an iron plowshare in the world. Men are yet living who might have seen the first steam boat on western waters, on her trial trip from Pittsburg, in 1811, and who were in active life when the first passenger rode in a railway train. and the first telegraph dispatch was sent. The early settlers of Missouri had to de- pend on flint and tinder for tire. Most of the inventions in machinery, nearly all the appliances for comfort and con- venience, were unknown to the pioneers of the West. Their victories were won with few of the devices ndw regarded as indesi risible in even the humblest walks of life. When its agricultural, mining and manufacturing resources are fully developed by steam and electricity, the Mississippi valley will support and enrich, without crowding, 500,000,000 people, and be not dnly the grainery but the workshop of the planet. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, Though gorgeous their plumage and re- gal ; But instead of an eriole,,robin or thrush, Let that bird be a bright, golden eagle. WANTED—Itids for Fifty Cords of Wood. Apply at the Little Al- ma mine. Cram & Knopp, Job and Transfer )Ngi PAN Y. Are at all times iirepared to move heavy machinery, furni- ture, etc., on short notice, and reasonable rates. Leave Orders at Miner Offlee. I Y DRUG STORE Eugene Meyer & Co., Prop. Nielephoste VIM _ Meter!* * Montana. MANUFACTURING PHARMACIST Wholesale and Retail -DRUGGISTS. We carry a fall line of Drags which we sell at eastern prima. Mall orders solicited and prompt- ly attended to. 120 Souilt Main St. LUMP CITY Meat Market -. LOUIS sToLL, Prop. All kinds of Fresh and Salt Meats, Sausage, Etc., constant- ly on hand. Free Delivery to all parts of the Gulch. Daily Hack Line, TO AND FROM A1.1. TRAIN\. I will run a closed Hack meeting all train.. stopping either la Ilartf..rd or (limey, to convey passengers to und from I.11.111p ALEX. S. CAMERON. MINER'S Restaurant, Lump City. If you want a Porterhouse Steak or an Oyster Stew, drop .6 in and see us. C. C. lITRBs, Dealer General Merchandise I carry everything needed by the Miner and Prospector. FINLEY ti HOLMES Dealers in a General Atisertment of onfectioiry FRUITS, CIGARS AN!) TOBACCO, Lump CITY, - MONTANA. FRANK L. CURRIE, MINING ENGINEER. Titles Examined and Perfected. Abotrnete Fur- nished. Surveys made Properties Ex- amined and Reported on. NOT , ,RY Prowl. GO '12() THE \ iltialgeltirs Saloon FOR THE Brunette 11 Cigar. Brooks & Graham, Props. LtYstr CITY, • MUNI . KAY RE14 1 i1), Wines, Liquors and Clears, Main St., Lump City. , s tiet ee l> 1 • +on, t
