Jamestown Weekly Alert, 1885-10-29, p.6
Jamestown Weekly Alert, Jamestown, 1885-10-29, p.6
Summary
A mining-news brief: Col. C. A. Broadwater of Helena asserts the Montana mines are "looking up," the success of the Butte mines in particular spurring more prospecting across the territory than ever before, with Montana's 1885 output estimated near $22,000,000 — "the output at Butte alone reaching $16,000,000." The optimistic counterpart to the 1886 "miners leaving Butte" brief in the same paper; together they bracket the boom.
Also mentioned
- Col. C. A. Broadwater · source_quoted
Helena, Montana businessman/financier; quoted on territorial mining prospects. Not family.
Places
- Butte, Montana (subject)
- Montana (subject)
- Helena, Montana (secondary)
- Jamestown, North Dakota (origin)
- Dakota Territory / North Dakota (origin)
Themes
Story threads
Tags
- context_setting
- color
Source type
news_item
Related sources
Transcription
transcription: partial · confidence high
[...] be driven into the sea.
Col. C. A. Broadwater of Helena, Mont., asserts that the mines
throughout the territory are looking up, the success of the Butte
mines in particular inducing more prospecting in other parts of the
territory than has ever been known in the past. The output in Montana
would approximate $22,000,000, he thought, the output at Butte alone
reaching $16,000,000.
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[Editor's note: PARTIAL — transcribed the Butte-mining paragraph from
a column of territorial news briefs. Adjacent briefs ("The Rawhide
Butte copper mines employ 100 men...", "The new church at White
Lake, Auro[ra]...") are not part of this excerpt.]
Open questions
- Clip is a column of mining/territory briefs (adjacent items mention "Rawhide Butte copper mines," "new church at White Lake"); only the Broadwater paragraph transcribed.