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a VOL. 2.—No. 3.—WholeNo. 55. OF GOOD, SUBSTANTIAL AND HONEST QUALITY, AND FOR PROMPT and INTELLIGENT SER ICE, go to A. M. HOLTER HARDWARE CO. 113 and 115 North Matin Street, + - ve 4 The Express is Quite an item—-—_—- Wife eA For Union Made Clothing, Interview Gans & Klein, HELENA, NEW YORK AND BUTTE, -HERBERT HUNTER, Dealer in General Merchandise, HAY AND GRAIN; Clancy, . . - . W. F. Miller, Hotel and Restaurant, FINE SAMPLE ROOM’IN CONNECTION. Montana. Montana. THE PEOPLE’S STORE. 513 and 515 Broadway, Helena, Mont. HEADQUARTERS FOR Groceries, Tinware and Notions, CHINAWARE, Hay, Grain and General Merchandise, CHEAPER THAN DIRT FOR SPOT CASH. CHARLES H. HENTON, Prop. CLARKE & CURTIN, HARDWARE AND STOVES. We are now offering our entire line of heating stoves for Coa) or Wood at Actual Cost of HOUSE FURNISHING PRICES LOW. 42 é¢ 44 5. Main St. - - Clancy, a - - Send us your orders for all -kinds GOODS. Helena, Mont. ARTHUR P. CURTIN, Furniture, Carpets, Wall Paper. Housefurnishing Goods, We carry the largest stock in every department in all Montana, Will Occupy our Mam- toth New Building, opposite Hote] Helena, November 15th. Grand Removal Sale now going on. Present Stock must be reduced. Pianos and Organs in Music Department. ARTHUR P. CURTIN, HELENA, MONTANA. J. SWITZER. Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Bar Glassware and Billiard Goods. 40 South Main Street, Helena, Montana, EM. J. NY EH, | Mannfactarer, Jobber and Dealer in SADDLERY, HARNESS AND SADDLERY HARDWARE. STOCK ; DDLES A SPECIALTY. HELENA, MONTANA. YTRST-CLASS HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS. RESTAURANT IN CONNECTION. World’s Fair Beer Garden and lodging House 0..G. FREDERICK, Proprietor. 100-102 South Main Street, - - - HAS THE FINEST BOWLING ALLEY LN THE WEST IN CONNROTION. When you visit the Capital and are looking for # friend you will be sure to find him at the most popular resort in Helena. Helena, Montana. The vhoicest wines, liquors and cigars and the best music can be heard at ‘the World’s Fair. i HELENA, MONTANA. Regular Weekly Clean-up from the Mines of the Lump and Clancy Guieh Districts, Mining Netes and Items of the Day of an Interesting Character. Bar silver, 6744. Lead, $3.00. Copper, $9.75. a 4 ORE SHIPMENTS IN CARS FOR THE WEEK. Liverpool 2. 205 ee. 1 TAG Nel. FR... Sie: Mao 1 COMIN ANOON ca tas. .:.. Poe. sek 2 HOME Faecys.. uaeee es cud oie 4 * ) * +« | THE WEIDMAN MILL. A Mr. Weidman has a new stamp mill in operation just below old Montana City, working on thé dump and tailings of the Bonanza Chief lode, which prop- erty has been a for the past eight or ten years. e mill is one of the Risdon Iron works mills, manufac- tured in San Francisco. and is known as the Bryan Roller quartz mill. The mill has just been started up, but is said to be doing good work. The soil about Mon ‘ana City has been ripped up very thor oughly by the placer miners in the early ‘60's and was made to; disgorge several millions in the yellow metal during ite |flush days, when there were more than 200 miners constantly employed there. In the immediate vicinity of Montana City about 300 acres of land was worked over on both sides of the creek, and | while the tenderfoot passenger who now rolis through the “diggings” in the smoking-room end of a Pullman palace car looks in vain for traces.of the “city” supposed to exist there, time was when it was one of the liveliest burghs in the northwest. After tne placer diggings were exhausted prospecting for quartz commenced, with the result that. the Bonanza Chief was discovered. This mine was worked for a number of years at an immense profit, waa finally stocked when the Trocatibhane got into the usual jangle and the property was closed down some years aga. The lower levels of the mine are full of water and HENRY ‘NV. HUNTER: KIELED. CLANOY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1896. Por Mining Supplies and Machinery) MINES AND MINING. district in which the Homestake is lo. cated, is probably the most promising undeveloped mineral district in the northwest to-day; the leads are all large and the surface showings @ll that could be desired, and when some of the owners of these prospects, who possess the bone and sinew, and can withstand poverty long enough to bring their properties into a state of development sufficient demonstrate their richness, capital which is always timid and waits for labor to open the way, will come, and when it comes fortune will be made and this district will be heard from in no‘ uncer- tain way. W. F.\Cobban of Butte has been over at the Homestake at Clancy for several days and will return to Butte to-day, The affairs of this company have been somewhat complicated for some time past, but they are all straightened out now and work on the mine will be re- sumed in earnest and the shaft sunk 100 feet. From that point a drift will be run to the ore chute. The vein has widened out from eight inches, where it was struck within six feet of the surface, to two feet at u depth of 30 feet. There is eyery warrantable indication that the vein is a true one and will widen and become richer as depth ie reached. Ex- perienced miners are free to say that the Homestake will develop into a big prop- erty.—Butte Miner. , * * * MINING NOTES. Messrs. Redding & Sons have sold the King Solomon dump to Geo. Brock and Geo. Cockerell, who will commence work on-the same at once. There is no question but this dump contains a large amount of high grade ore, and by care- ful working can be made to pay hand- somely. Jos, Garneau has now gotten on two shifts and is running his concentrator day and night, and has added two cars of concentrates to the ore shipments this week. Given a little time, Joe will be riding down the gulch into Jefferson eounty’s metropolis, in a four-in-hand accompanied by a brass band. The best part of it all is, Joe deserves it. Struck by an Engine at the Great | the cost to reopen-the property would | now be considerable, though an effort is |to be made in this direction soon, we | understand. The success of Mr. Weid- |man demonstrates that there is yet | crude wealth in the old Bonanza Chief. that ever ocourred in this vicinity hap- We are also informed that all of the | pened at the crossing of the railway ground originally worked over in the vi- tracks and the county road at Hartford, cinity of Montana City was worked to al, mile below Clancy. Mr. Henry N. false bedrock and that operations look Hunter, of this city, was the victim. ing toward the*reopening of the dig- He had been engaged for three or four | sings is soon to be made by a syndicate days previous with Mr. Charles Chestnut, }of Helena capitalists, who now own who bad lately arrived in Clancy from most. of the ground in that vicinity, we Havre, and who had come here to look |understand. Shafts to prospect the up a locality so lies in business, and ground are now being sunk at intervale| Mr iunter w ‘showing the gentleman of 300 or 400 feet, and the results 4re | around the c4mps in this vicinity when said to be more thon satisfactory. ~The | the acciddnt occurred. bedrock at Montana City is what placer | In miners term “tough.” Itstands up edge- | acti wise, forming natural riffles, and while | Ci difficult to clean, is rich in gold, Northern Crossing at the Mouth of Lump Gulch. Last Monday evening, the 13th inet., one of the most—deplorable accidents urse of their business trans- 8 they had occasion to visit Lump ,amile up- Lump guleh from the ing at Hartford, and at about nine * . 4 o'clock in the evening were returning to THE FREE COINAGE. | Clancy, riding down with John Wallace, 2 | wi livery stable in Lump City The pump station on theFree Coinage | 90 TUn8 & 2 ; | is finished, and the pump will be lowered | meeting all trains with a light 2-seat | 48 soon as possible. Levels are now be- | S™7T°Y: ; ; {ing run from the 300 eadh way which | Mr. Chestnut occupied the front seat i . Wallace, Henry | have advanced about fifty feet. There|°! the surrey with Mr . ! | is from ten to twelve inches of good ore Hunter and Kay Reed the back seat. |in both levels. Stoping in the lower! After coming out of Lump guleh proper |levele has also commenced.. There are | © Toad crosses the Prickly Pear creek twenty men at work in the mine, and all | bottom for 9 distance of perhaps 300 the ore is sorted underground, Sinking | yards, which at this season of the year to the 400 has not yet commenced though | is somewhat rough, necessitating careful | it is thought that work will commence in a few days. - * + THE HOMESTAKE. The Homestake is rapidly coming to the front as one of the most promising prospects in this district. At the depth of 30 feet the ore has made a decided change in character, and increased in value. The change being a large in- crease in the percentage of copper, pea- cock and native copper appearing. in profusion. The ore chute is increasing in width with depth, and recent samples show a value of $80 to the ton. There is now about a car of ore on the dump faken fromthe shaft, and two or three cars in sight. Itis the intention of the owners to sink toa depth of 50 feet and do some drifting to test the ore chute, and then continue sinking until a depth of 100 feet’ is made before attempting to do any shipping. There is no doubt that the Homestake will make a mine, and the probabilities are that it will prove one of the most valuable in this section of the state. In this connec- tion it is only the truth to say that the driving. The party proceeded along this | road slowly, exchanging a few remarks | with acquaintances who were skating in | the field close by, until they reached the | bridge over the Prickly Pear. At this point the road again becomes good, but just beyond the bridge, ata distance of perhaps fifty feet, the Great Northern track orosses, and about 100 feet beyond, the track of the Northern Pacific also crosses the wagon road. Totally unconscious of an approach- ing engine and caboose Mr. Wallace started to cross the Great Northern track when he suddenly discovered an engine within a few feet of him. All of the oc- cupants of the carriage discovered their perilous position at the same time, and as it was then too late to withdraw Wal- lace struck his horses with the whip and the carriage was safely “landed across the track just barely escaping the en- gine. Mr. Hunter, however, either jumped from the carriage or fell from it, the engine striking him and ‘dragging him along the ground for fifty feet or more, finally pitching him off into the brush at the side of the track nearest _ $2.00. A YEAR. crossing. The train was immediately stopped and the train men went to the rescue of the wounded man whowas ly- ing unconscious on the ground. He was placed in the caboose and taken into Helena, but died just as the train reached the Helena depot. The night was clear, cold and still, and the death-desling engine came gliding along the polished steel rails of the Great Northern track, with scarcely the use of steam, as it is a gentle down grade from Clancy to below Montana City at the mouth of McClellan gulch, No whistle sounded or bell rang, and with- out thought of danger the carriage with ite human freight was driven on to the track, when the sudden glare of the headlight struck terror to their hearts. A flash, an eternity of suspense, and the hideous black hulk slid noiselessly by, and in its going crushed out the life of Henry Hunter. Henry N. Hunter was born at Beau- port, in the province of Quebec, Canada, a few miles from the city of Quebec: He was 38 years of age and came~ to Montana ten years ago, living in Helena unti] about a year ago, when he came to Clancy and went to work for his brother, Herbert Hunter, as clerk in his grocery store. He afterwards kept books for Grobe, Henton & Co., during their ope- rations on the Hope mine last summer in Lump gulch. He was buried from St. Peter’s Episcopal church in Helena, last Wednesday afternoon. Coroner Pleasants impanneled a jury before whom the inquest is now being held. The inquest was commenced by the coroner last Wednesday and ad- journed to sit again Friday. The testi- mony of the occupants of the carriage was to the effect that the whistle Was not sounded or the bell rang when the crossing was approached by the train, though the engineer swears positively that he blew the whistle, and the fire- man says that he rang the bell all the way from Clancy to the crossing. In -the field close by the road was a skating party consisting of Frank Day, Thos. Hogan, Mrs. Bovee, Mrs. and Miss Jobns. From their position they saw the train approaching, and also saw the carriage drive by and hailed the ocou- pants. Theyare positive in their opin- ion that no warning camé from the en- giné as the crossing was approached. The heavy growth of willows along the creek bank completely hid the approach- ing train from the view of the oceupants of the carriage. It is also stated that when the engine crossed Clancy street, the main traveled road that crosses both the Great Northern and N. P. tracks in this city, no warning was given, and that the engine and caboose glided no lessly on down the track without otic or bell sounding to the lower crossing, where the accident occurred, STATE 8CHO , ; Jefferson County Gets, From the Sale of School Lands, ®2,072.20. State Treasurer Wright has received $50,000, the amount of money derived from the sale and lease of school lands in the state, which sum has been placed to the credit of the state school fund to be divided, on the per capita plan, at the rate of $1.30 per capita, among the different counties of the state. Heretofore all public schools have been maintained by a county tax levied by the action of the county commiss- ioners. There are in the state, accord- ing to the last census, 39,265 school chil- dren, of which number Jefferson county has 1,594, and will therefore receive $2,072.20 as hér proportion of the fund. Silver Bow county gets the largest slice, #7,888,40, and Valley county the smallest, $304.20. Lewis and Clarke county gets $5,107.70. On Thursday evening of this week, through the efforts of Mrs. McBachern assisted by Mart Mulvahill and Mr. Westgard, a farewell party was given Miss Anna Hynes, who departed for her home in St. Paulon Friday, accompan- ied by her sister Mrs. Barry. The dance was given in McCann’s hall, and was largely attended. At about one o’clook the party adjourned to Mrs. .McHach- ern’s hotel where a delightful Itinoheon was served, after which dancing was re- newed and continued until the early morning hours. Miss Hynes will be. greatly missed by her many friends, who will hope that she will again be a visitor to the gulch in the near future. The Mrver, formerly published at Lump City, has been moved to Clanoy, and is now known as the Ouancy Mrygr, We wish it success in its new field,— Meagher Co, News. ‘i plant to the growing town of Clandy, and _ has chan; the creek, and nearly 100 feet from the The Lump Crry Mover has moved ita ~
