Jamestown Weekly Alert, 1883-03-23, p.3
Jamestown Weekly Alert, Jamestown, 1883-03-23, p.3
Summary
A short news brief reporting that "the Rawhide Butte copper mines employ 100 men, and [it] promises to be valuable," followed by an unrelated brief about a new church at White Lake. CAUTION / likely mislabel: the original filename ("Ad for Butte mine in Jamestown") implies Butte, Montana, but **Rawhide Butte** is a locality in eastern Wyoming (near Lusk), not Butte, Montana. Recorded so the surname-of-place confusion is captured and not re-investigated. Not an advertisement; a news brief.
Places
- Jamestown, North Dakota (origin)
- Dakota Territory / North Dakota (origin)
Themes
Tags
- context_setting
- red_herring
- fragment
Source type
news_item
Transcription
transcription: partial · confidence medium
[...] day.
The Rawhide Butte copper mines employ 100 men, and promises to be
valuable.
The new church at White Lake, Auro[ra ...]
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[Editor's note: PARTIAL — short news briefs only. "Rawhide Butte" is
almost certainly the Wyoming locality, not Butte, Montana (see
metadata note).]
Open questions
- Confirm "Rawhide Butte" = the Wyoming locality, not Butte MT. If so this carries no family/Butte-Montana relevance and can be treated as red_herring (kept only to log the mislabel).