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VOL. 28. NO. 12. DILLON, MONTANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HON. LEE MANTLE,, OF BUTTE.

F, illlliipiiiiiliilp IIII It' : lf|f É p . WORKING ON THE IRON MOUNTAIN. STEAM LAUNDRY IN NEW HANDS. iS Ä -y Boosting for Increased ProsperityMessrs. Charles Birden and Otto Leach Butte-Argenta Company is Keeping Outlook Growing Brighter for Lease the Laundry from Steadily at It— Going Down 450 in the Beaverhead Valley J. F. Wikidal. Feet, then Crosscut. a Railroad Over Divide Into J. F. Wikidal, who has been owner Tony French was in Dillon from Ar- ...... J the Salmon Country. Will Begin Tomorrow. md proprietor of the Dillon Steam gerita the first of the week. He reports Laundry the past several years, on J that the Butte-Argenta Mining company Tuesday of this week closed a deal with I is carrying on work at the Iron Moun­ McCUTCHEON STILL INTERESTED EVERYONE WILL ATTEND MEETING Charles Birden and Otto Leach to lease tain mine steadily. The water-power his plant to these two gentlemen for a plant has been completed, the Pelton gear— probably longer. wheel installed and test shows that it develops 154 horsepower. Prominent Speakers and Well-posted Messrs. Birden and Leach will take Some Ranchers are Said to Ask Too The engine and boiler, which were men W ill be Here from charge of the laundry the first of next Much for Right of Way Thru formerly at the mouth of the tunnel at Other Parts. month. Mr. Birden will manage the « # 1 1 Their Land. outside business while Mr. Leach will the bottom of the hill, have been' taken superintend the work on the inside. Mr. m m m to the shaft up the hill and the skip has Wikidal’s failing health compells him to just been completed for handling the The Tribune has received informa­ The latest reports the Tribune has lay aside business duties for a time and ore and rock taken from the mine. been able to gather regarding the sugar The company intends putting in a tion from a reliable source that things he has not decided at this time where or are progressing very satisfactory with beet mfeetmg to be held in Dillon to­ how he will spend the next twelve dynamo in the spring or early summer morrow afternoon point toward a good with which to operate its pumps and the proposed railroad from Armstead, months. this county, over the range into the turnout of the farmers of the Beaver­ air compressors. The incline shaft is Charles Birden has, for a number of Salmon river country in Lemhi county, head valley. years, been employed with the firm of going down rapidly and when it is sunk The committee, composed of Senator Idaho. Eliel Bros., and has had charge of their down about 130 feet lower than at pres­ B. F. White, A. L. Stone and Theodore ent, the 450-foot level will have been Parties have been very busy the past carpet department. He has made several months across the Idaho line Nelson, has done everything possible to reached and the company will then many acquaintances and friends all over procuring the right of way from the interest the fanners in, at least, this Beaverhead county, is a good business crosscut and begin stoping out ore. The, preliminary meeting. Mr. White left man and will no doubt make a success shaft follows the foot wall along the landowners on that side of the divide, Dillon last Saturday for California, in his new venture. lead and at one place where the ore body through whose property the railroad Mr Leach is a laundry man of many where he was called on business matters broke into the shaft, an assay of the ore will pass, and also on this side of the years’ experience, understands the busi­ f ■' ...... ,*** V divide, up through Horse Prairie, par­ and the work of interesting the fanners ness from start to finish and no man in went 8 per cent copper. The company fell largely upon Messrs. Stone and Nel­ the country could better conduct the à i i ! villi is working fourteen men at present. ties have been busy interviewing the son and they have been untiring in inside operations of a big, first-class ranchers relative to a right of way steam laundry than Mr. Leach. The A. J. Bender shipped five cars of through their property. A number of their efforts to bring the meeting to the many patrons will continue to receive notice of the farmers. 16971318 sheep to Spokane, Wash., from the local contracts have already been made for the same satisfactory service in the Prominently mentioned as Montana’s / u stock yards the first of the week. Some prominent speakers are to be future that they have m the past. right of way through Horse Prairie present at the meeting and the sugar ranches and others will be closed within beet industry will be discussed in all its the next few weeks. details. Every person interested in the The company or capitalists promot­ industry, or who expects to be inter­ ing the road is not securing a right of ested in it, or who ever expects to profit way by making a contract and paying by it.directly or indirectly, should be a small percentage of the price agreed upon to the rancher, but is paying cash present. Bert Leo Goes to Extra Expense Gov. Edwin Norris came from Helena F. P. Birrer Begins Work on His H. F. Edwards, Mining Expert, Tells of the Wonderful Rich­ in full the price the contracts calls for. to be present and address the meeting. to Put on Greatest of Plays In some instances, wc are informed, T. J. Walsh, one of the well-posted men Contract-Race Track Has ness of Ores Taken from the "Golden Leaf” Group Years Ago. landowners have apparently been in­ on the subject, will be here from Helena, at the Scenic Theatre. clined to hold up the company or cap­ as will also Lewis Pemvell, of Helena, Been Surveyed. italists for several times the amount that assayed $40 in gold aad some silver; through whose efforts the proposition II. F. Edwards, for many years the their damage amounts to, which, of expert in charge of the old silver amal­ also a ledge running between $8 and $10 course, is throwing cold water upon a has been boosted thus far. I. D. “ THE PASSION PLAY” NEXT WEEK. gamation mill on the “ Golden Leaf' and some silver. ' Donnell, of Billings, personally inter­ FARMERS BEGINNING TO PLAN project that will benefit them more than group at Bannack, but now a recognized Great Excelsior Mine. ested in the sugar beet culture, will anything else possibly could benefit authority in Butte’ on ore treatments . “ Excelsior quartz claim—-This claim talk upon the subject, Prof. Linfield, of Outlook Good for an Excellent County them. But some men arc built that is developed by a shaft and a number of The Beautiful Story of the Life of Christ the Agricultural college at Bozeman, has Fair the First and processes, has prepared a statement way. • of facts regarding the “ Goldeli Leaf” abandoned drifts on the lull, and stopcs Will be Beautifully Told With consented to be present and give infor­ Year. Several routes over the divide have above the tunnel level. The tunnel is Moving Pictures. mation bearing upon the subject, and group. Mr. Edwards knows the details been surveyed out. If the right about 400 feet long. From the end of George Austin, manager of the Each week shows greater strides be of this group better, perhaps, than any of way cannot be secured at reasonable the tunnel a shaft is sunk on an incline superintendents of the Utah-Idaho ing made toward the Beaverhead coun­ other living man, having had actual con­ figures on one route, the road will go the 350 feet deep. The bottom of the shaft Sugar company, will be sent here from ty fair. This week Frank P. Birrer, tact’ with the ores as they passed Everyone \yjll be pleased to learn that other way. That the railroad will be is below water level. The mine has pro­ Salt Lake City to answer any and all who secured the contract to move the through the mill during former opera­ Robert Hays, local manager of the built, is practically assured. It is esti­ duced about $400,000 in gold. The ore questions pertaining to the subject. Mr. buildings from the old fair grounds to tions, and having quite carefully exam­ Scenic theatre, received a telegram from mated that $100,000 have been spent at the deepest workings is as free milling , Austin is reputed to be the best posted the new grounds in the suburbs of Dil­ ined all exposed ore bodies which the Bert Leo, district manager of Scenic the past two years in surveying routes as it was at the surface. The last ore man on sugar beet culture and the sugar lon, began work on his contract and Butte-Knickerbocker Mining company theatres, yesterday, stating that ho had over the divide and several thousand intends to work as a low grade, free mill­ that was taken from the mine I milled beet industry in all its branches of any several loads of lumber, etc., may now succeeded in securing the films for the dollars have already been paid out to myself. There was approximately man in the whole United States. be seen on the new grounds. ing gold proposition. Mr. Edwards, in presentation of “ The Passion Play’’ at landowners for right of way through 6.000 tons in the lot, the average assay As those taking a leading part in the The contract for the grading of the part, says: the Scenic theatre in Dillon on Thurs­ their possessions. Geological Formation. ] of which was between $19 and $20. The proposition delve deeper into the in­ half-mile race track was let on Wednes­ day, Friday and Saturday, March 26, The general public is still at sea as to ore will save approximately 90.percent tricacies of the subject, the raising of day to George Ditty, of this city, and he "The ore bodies are contact ledges be­ 27 and 28. who is promoting the enterprise and on the plates and concentrates. The beets, the amount necessary to support will begin work on his contract just as tween lime and syenite or diorite and Mr. Leo goes to a much heavier ex­ who is furnishing all the cash. Some tailings^can be treated by cyanide if a factory, the steps necessary to be tak­ soon as the frost is out of the ground. when in place the lime is the foot wall. pense than usual in procuring the films insist that it is the Milwaukee, and that high enough to pay. There are two en before a factory will be built, etc., The half mile race track will lie paral­ The contact is in the form of an elongat­ for this great play and will probably the new road will be a connecting link other -chutes on this claim that have they find the undertaking a big one, yet lel with the Oregon Short Line tracks ed circle, approximately one mile in lose money on its presentation, but over the divide to the coast. never been prospected and one in the not so large that it isn’t within the reach and will be located on the west side of diameter in a northwesterly and south­ owing to the liberal patronage of, and It will be remembered that W. A. level that will mill $3.50 per ton. The of the people of Dillon and Beaverhead the grounds. The race track will be easterly direction, and three-fourths of the many requests from the Dillon pub­ McCutcheon, who is largely interested three chutes have every indication, county. It becomes more apparent, as fully 500 feet from the railroad right of a mile in a southwesterly and northeast­ lic for the play, he finally succeeded in in the Gilmore, Idaho, mines, visited erly direction, with a syenite or diorite when developed, of being as rich as the the proposition is investigated, that way. getting the films for three evenings only, Dillon more than a year ago and ad­ one on which the work has been done. never in the history of the county has The , committee on buildings and core, and a lime circumference. In knowing that his efforts will be properly dressed the people of this section upon In the bottom of the winze, above water any proposition been promoted that grounds visited the, grounds Monday places the ore makes chutes off into the appreciated. the proposition of building a ‘railroad level, there is a body of ore two feet wide would as greatly benefit the valley and and located the sites for the buildings lime, similar to the spokes of a wheel, It requires one hour and fifty-five from this side of the divide into the that will assay $20 per ton. In the city as this proposition. Other com­ to be placed and erected thereon. The and, consequently, in places the ore minutes to present the play and two Salmon country. His investigations lower level, under water, where the last munities have gone after the same grandstand will be placed on the east body is apparently 600 to 700 feet wide, performances will be given each even­ had convinced him that the support work was done, there is a body of ore thing and landed it, and there is no side of the race track, 100 feet from the while the averagee width of the ore on ing— one beginning promptly at 7:15 from the country traversed would make two and a half feet wide in the bottom reason why this one should not do the north turn. The floral hall will be the contact is 20 to 60 feet. and the second promptly at 8:45. No it a paying venture. This paper can of the stope. The last assay I took same thing. Let everyone attend the about 100’ feet south of the grandstand “ The Pioneer quartz claim is devel­ more tickets will be sold for each per­ state at this time that Mr. McCutcheon, there was $140 to the ton. It is my meeting. It will be held in the court and about 50 feet from the track. oped by a shaft which is sunk about 40 formance than the house will accommo­ whose home is at Pittsburg, Pa., is still opinion that this is an entirely new room at the court house tomorrow after- The stables for the horses will be feet in the ore, and a winze 25 feet deep, date, therefore only a limited number interesting himself in the enterprise to making a total of about 65 feet in the chute of ore, as the ore is of a different no6n at 2:30 o’clock. built along the north side of the fair of tickets will be sold. Each ticket a greater or less extent and that he con­ character from that above water level, grounds and will consist of about 42 ore; a drift about 200 feet in length, all bought will admit the holder at the templates a business visit here within and also from the fact that the ore above Has Nine Incubators Going. box stalls, 10x12 feet. The cattle shed in ore, and three crosscuts to foot and hour designated on the ticket and at no the near future. water level has been continuous and Chris Snyder, proprietor of the will be built along the railroad right of hanging walls, showing an average width other time. The sale of tickets will be­ this ore body has no connection what­ Dillon Poultry Ranch, states that of way, beginning at the north end and of ore for the entire length of 50 feet in gin at the ticket window of the Scenic He Says Grow Beets. ever with the former ore body. he intends to turn out just as many will have 25 stalls, each 10x12 feet in sight. One thousand, five huridred feet theatre on next Tuesday at 12 o’clock, John W. Miller, a prominent business Million Tons in Sight. chickens at the ranch this year as can size. The sheep pens and hog pens will east of here, on apparently the same ore March 24. man of St. Anthony, Idaho, visited Dil­ "Golden Leaf claim—This mine is possibly be done with his present equip­ extend along the right of way of the rail­ body, in the Pioneer placer claim, when "The Passion Play,” as everyone un­ lon on business matters the first of tho developed by a number of. shafts and ment and that he thinks the output of road south of the cattle sheds and join they were drifting on bed rock for placer, derstands, is a story of the life of Christ, week. Mr. Miller became much inter­ open cuts on the surface, in the older the ranch will exceed 3,000 chickens. the same on the south. From the south they crosscut the same ledge and found from his birth to his ascension, realist­ ested in the subject when he learned, workings on the hill, and by a tunnel Five additional incubators have been end of the hog and sheep pens to the it to be 40 feet wide at that point. I ically told with moving pictures, true upon arrival here, that the sugar beet which taps the ore body 900 feet from added to his equipment recently. He south side of the grounds, a high board made a test run of 60 tons in the mill of to life— so true that one will almost feel industry is being boosted by the people the mouth of the tunnel; by a drift now has nine incubators in operation, fence will be built along the railroad this ore, which averaged $3.50 per ton. that he is living nineteen centuries ago of this section. He stated that our 2.000 feet on the vein; one crosscut 400 the total capacity of which is 2,300 eggs right of way. This arrangement will The ore can be mined ann milled for ap­ witnessing the tragic, sympathetic, fanners and the citizens of Dillon could feet long, all in ore; three 400 foot drifts as follows: Two of 160 eggs each: prevent the stock, particularly the race­ proximately $1 per ton. The average beautiful, sorrowful life of the “ Savior not possibly boost anything that would between the tunnel level and the water three? of 250 eggs each; two of 240 horses on the track, from getting fright­ value of the ore is between $3 and $6 of the World.” Doubtless no one in be so beneficial to the community if level, and by a number of raises and eggs each, and two of 200 eggs each. ened at the trains. per ton and is as free milling at the water Dillon, who is fortunate enough to se­ sugar beets can be successfully grown drifts above the tunnel. This mine has As stated in these columns last week, level as at the surface. cure a ticket, will miss seeing the great here. He resided in St. Anthony before Walter Wellman Coming. produced between $500,000 and $1,000,- the old grandstand, which is in excellent Washington Quartz Claim .• presentation of this wonderful story. the beet culture was taken up there and Walter Wellman, correspondent for 000, about equally divided between condition, will be covered with an en­ "The work on this claim has been done During each performance Mrs. C. W, he talked mostqnterestingly of the great gold and silver.. From where ore is ex­ the Chicago Record-Herald, who has an tirely new roof. The grandstand will by open cuts and shafts. The shaft was Scott will sing "The Holy City,” which things it has done for that place and posed in the tunnel to the furthest point engagement to fly to the north pole in have a seating capacity of at least one sunk in the early days, and apparently will be illustrated with beautifully col­ community. an airship being constructed at the ex­ where the ore shows on the surface is thousand persons. the ore body was teh feet wide. The ored pictures, and Miss Grace Graeter pense of that great paper and who has about 2,000 feet op the contact, with In Honor of Gov. and Mrs. Norris. The T ribune understands that quite shaft is supposed to be about 200 feet will be piano accompanist. backs ( raises) varying from 300 to 700 Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Anderson enter­ had much experience as an Arctic, ex­ a number of the ranchers are already deep, but is caved in. At the present plorer, will lecture at the Normal colleg feet, showing an average of say 500 tained a number of their friends at a planning upon bringing stock and farm time there are about 50 tons of sulphide assembly hall on Friday evening, March feet. The width varies from 10 to 600 C. K. Wyman, supervisor of the Big dinner last Friday evening at which products to the fair for exhibition pur­ ore on the dump that will average be­ 27. His lecture will be illustrated by feet. A conservative estimate would Hole national forest, states that he will Gov. and Mrs. Edwin Norris were the poses and the outlook for a very success­ tween $6 and $8 a ton in gold and will stereopticon views of the frozen north be 20 feet. On that basis there would hold an examination at his office on guests of honor. Covers were laid for ful fair this, the firtt fair, is very bright. save between 80 percent and 90 per be over 1,000,000 tons of ore that can April 23 and 24 for rangers. Mr. Wy­ ten. The decorations were white car­ and will, no doubt, prove one of the cent on the plates and concentrates.' most interesting lectures ever delivered be mined without sinking below the man says that the forest service all over nations and ferns and the dinner was It. and Mrs. James Duncan, of Sheri- Wadams Quartz Claim. in Dillon. tunnel. Most of the high grade ore is a country is very short on good men at served in five courses. Those present 1, visited their daughter, Miss Hazel, "Part of the ore has been taken from hard, flinty quartz, while the low grade present. Three guards are to be put to were: Gov. and Mrs. Norris, Dr. and Upon motion of County Attorney a is attending the Normal, the latter the surface workings and a shaft about ore that w.ould not pay to mill in a silver work in the Big Hole reserve this spring. Mrs. Swain, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Foote, Melton the case against the several t of last week They left for home 80 feet deep. I milled between100 and mill, is a soft porous quartz that will miff Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Geo. B. young fellows confined in the county Sunday. 200 tons from this mine which ran $15 infrom five to ten tons to the stamp. The Conway and Miss Delia Dorchester. Rev. E..L. Mills, presiding elder, will . jail and who were supposed to have been gold and three to four ounces in sliver, Golden Leaf and Junction ores will save preach in Dell March 23, and Redrock connected with the holdup of Henry Mrs. Thomas Porch and son returned with only about 30 per cent of the value on the plates, by concentration and Henry Langenschwadt, of the Ex­ March 24. Rev. Mills is the presiding Cahill week before last, was «dismissed to their home at StevensviHe, Monday, free.- The, balance can be saved by cÿaniding the tailings, over 90per cent periment Station at Bozeman, visited elder of the Butte district, Methodist with j . R. Scott at the Dillon Poultry and the young men were discharged after several weeks’ visit with Mr. and cyanide. In the bottom of the shaft Continued on Page Six Episcopal church. ranch last week. from custody. Mrs. William Smith. | they crosscut a ledge eight feet in width