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THE LUMP CITY MINER: LUMP CITY, MONTANA. The Lump City Miner. Published Every Saturday Morning at Lump City, Montana. A. K. WILLIAMS ' THOS. T. LYON. Editore bed Publishers. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: >us Year (in advanee). SS 0 0 me Year (when not paid in advance) 2 50 Montha (in advance) ....... 1 00 Six Months (when not paid in advance).— 1 52 %isle Copies ............ ..... ....Five Omuta ADVERTISING RATES. Notioes on local page 15 cents per line for each insertion. Notices to be printed among strictly local reading matter 2» cents per line for each insertion. No advertisement of this clash taken for less than fifty cents. Space rates in the display advertising columns, h) the week, month or year, will be furnished up- on application. All ad'vertisers will he allowed a change of their advertisement once a month, if desired, without extra charge; but where changes are made oftener than once a month a charge for the time consumed is changing will be made. To insure prompt attention in changem of ad- vertisements copy mast be handed in not later than Thursday preceding day of publication. ALL A00017NTS PAYABLE MONTHLY. WILLIAnis a LYON, Publishers. Lc» Orrx, Azrousx 24, 1896. SPECIAL NOTICE. The LUMP GULCH' MilefER wants distinctive western articles from any part of the country, founded on fact, written in a semi -literary style, either concerning early day . western history, or live extra- ordinary events of the day, and from two to twenty inches in length. For all such articles that we accept we are Willing to pay liberally. No rejected manuscripts returned. Manuscripts may be submitted by anybody. Articles will be read and paid for as soon as received. Write on one aide of the paper only. This offer holds good until further uotice. The Old Parties and Free Silver. Senator John P. Jones, who is one of the original free silver men of the United States, and veho is not only an authority on the sub- ject of money, but is abreast of the times, and his position as a public man; enables him to forecast the probable action of the two old partjes regarding free silver, with an accuracy that will no doubt be verified during the coming cam- paign. In answer to a reporter of the San Francisco Call, who asked \how will the republican party stand on the subject of free coin- age\ he says: \Why they will straddle it, of course, and attempt to please us with word.. We will not be pleased with results, how- ever. In the democratic party there will be a terrible fight, as the leading democrats of the United States are lean- ing very strongly toward the silver arguments that are now being used in favor of it. A terrific pelitieul war is approaching, and the battle ground will be in a silver camp. It is therf that the struggle began, and until justice ia done the laboring classes there will be some lively fighting for rights.\ Concerning the question of parity of the two metals, which the goldbug is so solicitous about, he has this to say: _ sented by silver when there was a con- current use of silver and gold. It is also a fact that there must be a continuous fall in prices without any limit what- ever because of the insufficiency ot the gold supply of the world.\ Touching the question of the 50 cent silver dollar he gets in a knockout blow which every friend of silver would do well to read and then paste in his hat: \We are constantly informed that the silver dollar is worth 50 cents. Should you melt down a dollar its monetary value is gone and it then becomes a simple piece of silver without the stamp of the government; but you give lie free coinage, so that every 412 1 ¡ grains of silver when stamped becomes worth a dollar, the bullion in its crude state will be worth a dollar, and there will be an immediate demand for it. It is just the same as money and in eonsequence there would be a general reaching ont for it, wh?reas now its value is governed by the dernand in the arts. We would be able tokrive western Europe to bimetallism or destruction. We have a population of 70,000,000 waiting for some satisfac- tory settlement of the money question, and billions of products are ready to be exchanged for silver or gold.\ What the cause of free silver needs is more men like Senator John P. Jones. Men of sufficient honor, integrity and stamina to come out without any equivocation or- mental reservation and say, upon this rock I stand or fall, without regard to previous party ties or affiliation. This is no time for men who are in Parnestin their profession of faith, to say I am for fren silver, but withinparty limits. Both parties have been tried and found wanting. And there can possibly be no relief at the hands of either, unless an upheaval occurs and old leaders are overthrown and turned down. This is altogeth - er unlikely in the republican party. It is a possibility in the democratic party, and should it occur, the democratic party will receive the support of every individual whp has been honest in the advocacy of the restoration of silver, without regard to race, creed, color or previous condition of party servi- tude. Should the silver wing of democ- racy fail in its efforts to secure control gf the party, then the only hope' for the cause of silver is in the formation of a new party, and it will come. Born of necessity, representing the cause of the people, it will be of the people and for the people. And as such its success none can doubt. \The single -standard men say for us to get milver,on a parity. Why don't they get gold on a parity with something? Let them get it on a parity with lattor and the products of labor. It baa been growing upon a constant disparity for the last twenty years, and all the laws of equality have been defied. And continuing, he answers the erguncélit for \quality\ and not \quantity \ in the following terse manner: \We want quantity and we want the approval of the government on silver so that it will be on a just parity with gold. At present silver is a commodity and ia but one want. Stamp it and It is all wants. When stamped it purchases all things, secures everything for isle, everything for hire. Is it a good argu- ment to compare one want wth the value of a thing that represents all wants? Take a commodity, stamp it nnd alak. It a purchaser of all wants an.I at \now everybody wants it. There e a howl for more gold, but there is not nearly enough Increase in the production of gold, when counted up for a long time, to compensate for the destruotion of so much of the money as was repre- portions of the earth are often most plentiful in mineral treasure. How differently the feeling entertained in England toward mining from that which prevails ID a large part of the United States! In the - Atlantic states many have not yet ceased asking \is ruining a legitimate business?\ This, of course, refers to the min- ing of the precious metals; for as regards the milling of coal and iron the peopiÉ of the older states may be said to have accepted the situa- tion and become reconciled to that work It is mining for gold and Silver which many persons \down East\ look upon as a sort of reck- less pursuit, about on a par with that of the illicit distiller, smuggler or counterfeiter. The silver min- ing industry is not viewed as being one to be encouraged, but rather one to be preyed upon, and in this the govern nient itself is the chief offender; and the jackals -that growl between Washington and New York find good pickings. Not only is nothing done for the miner and his industry, but we see in the Eastern press constant little flings at both. The man who has habit- ually wronged another for years naturally comes at last to hate the sight of him; he fears constantly that the wronged person is about to demand to be righted. One would think, from the attitude of the Eastern press, financial sages of bank counting rooms, and pur- chased professors of political economy, that the silver miners of the West were engaged in some nefarious business threatening ruin to the nation, instead of bringing up from beneath the rocky ribs of the earth riches placed there by a kind Providence for the use of our people. The Greatest Source of Wealth. In an old English work entitled \The Popular Educator\ we find the following introductory to .a series of articles on the industry of mining, which embodies thoughts worthy of consideration of the statesmen and political economists of the United States. The work referred to says: \That which appears on the surface is not usually the most important; it is that which is demanded by the requirements of every day, and in this sense is valuable; bat that which is of rarer value lies below— hidden, deep buried, and must be sought and found with persever- ing labor. Corn grows for man, and grass for cattle on the soil, but the miner's wealth lies below; and hard -fisted labor guided by the light of science, must be employed before the riches of the vein will yield their_ store The mineral products of a country are the source of its greatest wealth. What, for example, would our own country be, deprived of coal and iron? After speaking of the great wealth England derivem from her mines of coal, iron, copper, lead and tin, ihe author proceeds to say: \The minerals are not dis- tributed on the earth according to climate, like animals and vege- tables, but, by the kindness of Piovidence, those which are post necessary to man are found in almost all countries, and others are more or less abundant, according to their importance. It is remark- able, also, that the most barren in abundance. There Mlle be inaugurated new methods in keep- ing with the vastness of our do. main, and the great increase of products of.,every kind. There Must be put foí•th among the people such a volu . me of money as will suffice to transact the business of the country in a proper manner, to put life into our hide -bound and constricted industries. To try to run this country after the plan of the gold contractionists, is to try to make auger holes with a gimlet. This is just what the Eastern money ring has been at for yuars. They have managed to make one big auger hole into the treasury of the United States, and. with their lips•glued to that, they feèl secure that no \nutriment\ in the shape of money can reach the people except through them.—The Min- ing Industry and Review. President Cleveland will be able to say, when he goes out of office, \I leave the country in a blamed sight worse shape than when I found it.\ If the silver men will work to- gether the next president of the U. S. will be a silver man. This country is to -day the great- est producer in the world of gold, silver, copper, lead - and several other useful and valuable metals, and that .ivre are not the most prosperous nation on the face of the earth is because we have neither among our government officials, nor outside of them, financiers esufficiently expansive brain to rise to a full comprehen- sion of the vastness of the products of the country and grasp and wield them for the benefit of the w d hole people. Instead they are trying to reduce and compress these products to fit their own marrow-gauge notions. Sitting in their oounting rooms in the East and ignoring all outside, they ask that all the products of the country shall be so 'reduced that they can comprehend and handle them as of yore. Instead, of expanding their ideas with the growth and increas- ed productiveness of the country, they and their organs cry out that too much wheat, too much silver, too much of everything is being produced, as though the farmer could cease the cultivation of half his lands, the miner work only three months in the year, and all the other industries cut short their products to bring them clown to the capacity of those who have under- taken to engineer the financial affairs of the nation. So long as these men see money in Wall Street they consider the country safe. Property is falling every- where throughout the country, and as no one desires to buy when everything is going down, money very naturally piles up in the financial centers. Then the finan- cial bulletins joyously announce \Money easy in Wall Street!\ During the war there was in circulation everywhere a picture of a graveyard on the banks of a river, with here and there a tomb- stone gleaming amid the general gloom. Below thie picture we read \All quiet on the Potomac.\ We never see the announcement \Noney easy on Wall Street\ but we think of that old picture, \All quiet on the Potomac,\ anil all quiet in business, with tombstones James Twiford, Furniture, Bar Fi‘tures and Stoves, Ore Sacks and Tents, HARNESS, ETC. Ten Thousand Second Hand Articles of Every Description to be sold at one-half their ac- tual value. 235 N. Main St., HELENA. ALHAMBRA SPRINGS HOTEL. A. P. PEAD, - - Lessee, L. S. MOSES, Manager. This popular resort has been leased tó me for a term of years, and has been thoroughly re- fitted throughout and is now open for the accomodation of guests. Largest plunge in the West. Finest accomoda- tions. Alhambra Hot Springs, - Montana. ARLINGTON HOTEL, MAIN STREET, 1.1111 lloNT. Mrs. LENA JOHNS, - Proprietress. Transient Rates s2.0e per day Rates by the Week on Application. FIRST CLASS IN EVERY PARTICULAR. Large Sunny Rooms. Good -Table Board. The Patronage of the traveling public solicited. Ours is the Only Line Builineon Houle - -THE- Chicago Liquor Store —FOR— Lexington Club Whiskey. whoee . trains pans in full view of Custer Battlefield. That is one advantage. There are others—LOTS OF THEM. Ask the nearest ticket agont, what they are and why (nnl line is the PRE- FERRED ROUTE to Omaha St,. Jo/mph, KSIISRA City, at. Louis and Chines°. li. le. RI GER. 'T.P.&F.A., Helena, Mont. W. W. JOHNSTON. Agt., Billings, Montana. —AEI , Kessler's Beer on Draught. T. W. JON4S, Prop. SPECIAL PRICE LIST OF - Boots AND Shoes L. ARNOLD'S HI South Main St., HELENA MONTANA Men's Bed R,rock, lace Men's Bed Rock, congress Old Men's Comfort, congress, Old Men's Comfort, lace Miners' One Buckle, double sole.. Beet Miners' Lace, two soles and tap Mens's Hip Rubber Bouts, leather sole, nailed Mens' Miners' Boots, nailed Men's Miners Boots, best nailed . Men's Hip Rubber Boots Men's Short Rubber Boot, •• 03 00 .300 290 290 125 2 (X) 600 250 3 75 425 2 50 All goods warranted as represented Mail orders prompt attention. 110V le,1\ 8t BICKEL, Civil ad Enineers. U. S. Patents Secured. Merchants National Hank Helena„ Mont. L t UMPCITY MeaMarket LOUIS STOLL, Prop. All kinds of Fresh and Salt Meats; Sausage, Etc., constant- ly on hand. Free Delivery to all parts of the Gulch. C. C. - STUBBS, Dealer in General Merchandise I carry everything needed by the Miner and Prospector. FINLEY & HOLMES Dealers in a General Aseortrisant of Confection' ry FRUITS, CIGARS AND TOBACCO, LUMP CITY, - MONTANA. FRANK L. CURRIE, MINING ENGINEER. Titles Examined and Perfected. Abstracts Fur- nished. Surveys made. Properties Ex- amined and Reported on. NOTARY PUBLIO. ) '1'c 1 'I' HE C( Sa10011 FOR THE Brunette Cigar. Brook , à rrahonl. Props. LUMP CITY. MONT. Utah Assay Office CHEMIST AND ASSAYER Corroot Aarays mad,' 1nr and Metals Natrinles by mail or 1 , 1. prrtglaWi II rOl'elvepn , r111 , t and ttareful at tention. Silver 75 ht. Go'd Fold el 1.‘ Main St.. - Helena. Montana FOOT OF BROADWAY
