ADS GIVEN THE TRIBUNE, LARGEST CIRCULATION ONE VEAR ------------- $2.00 IN THE TRIBUNE. IN ADVANCE. 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.