Show DILLON Winter In the NorthRumored Mining Sale C r Reckless Usa Figures by Newspapers News-papers r 1 A Hotel Man who Talks Plainly About a Utah Editor I Correspondence of the HuuLD DILLON M T NOT 18 1880 Winter has been upon us here for some days and it is Etill here Whether we are to have a let up is not known However from indica cations I am inclinsd to t believe and to hope thai we will have a warmer spell after the frosty season experienced experi-enced since the month came in Nothing special has occurred here since my last missive The usual stream of incoming and outgoing travelera ii to be lean daily some going to warmer climes to winter and others returning from visits to the states and elsewhere Among them i I notice quite a number of Chinese most of whom are leaving whether for Rood or only for the winter I do not know It is rumored that the Hecla Mining Min-ing Company of Glendale has sold or is about to sell its valuable properties proper-ties to some French company Whether the report is true or not I am not advised nor whether the French company is the came which fell heir to tbe gopher holes in Bing bam after Professor Holden got through with them At all events its it-s to be hoped that the purchasers of the Heclia properties will have a better thing than the successors of Holden have found their property to I I be beWhat What a pity it is that yon newspaper news-paper men are so careless in your figures nothing personal where mining min-ing matters are concerned I noticed this morning in a Montana paper tbe following statement Tho pay roll of tho Alice Mining Company Com-pany tfulte for somA time past has had upon it the names of 175 employees drawing in the aggregate 50OOO per month Now I am not prepared to dispute the correctness of tbe above statement state-ment nor to find fault with the newspaper news-paper for uttering it but propose to simmer the thing down a little for luck The usual average rate of wages paid to miners will not I think exceed 4 per day at that rate 175 men would receive in a month of thirty days 21000 insteadof 50 000 as staled Or if the pggrega is as great as is reported the question arises where do the 29000 go to Thin is no business of mine as I am not EO fortunate as to own any of the shares of dock in the Alice Mining Company although it might be inter Citing to the stockholders to know where the money goes and indeed it is quite likely the books will show just bow it is and my only object in alluding to the matter is to illustrate the carelessness exbioited in the use of figures and to show what evils might result therefrom Before closing alow me to make a suggestion alto intended for the benefit of newspaper men There ia a hotel in Dillon known SB the Valley House and kept by a young man well known to everybody hereabouts as Charley Hawks There is a newspaper news-paper published aemioccasionally at Halt Lake City known as the Utah Commercial Now a commercial paper to be worth even SOc a year ought to be reliable in its statements Of this there can be no room to doubt and according to this rule Charley Hawks is of the opinion that the Utah Commercial is not only unreliable un-reliable but that it is liable to lie In a recent number of the above paper a wellwritten article appear m the editorial I column devoted to a description of a portion of Montana including Dillon City In the main perhaps its descriptions may be correct cor-rect but Mr Hawks finds fault with some statements in regard to tho Valley House In the first place be says that many of the statements are false as for instance the charge that be makes travelers DBV for siuinc in r chairs by hn stoves Although aithe time the writer of the article alluded to must have been here thu town was but three weeks old and liB the hotels are usually taken down at the old and removed to the new terminus the botel men always do all in thsir power to make their quests comfortable comfort-able while tearing down and building up and this I also know to be true It cannot be expected that under such circumstances travelers can be made at comfortable 1iI in old and permanent perma-nent towns All the beds and rooms are occupied and of course charged for but when they aro all full chairs and dining rooms and barrooms aro free to gaees wbo if supplied with blanket can and do occupy them fires being kept up if the wenthcr should be extremely cold The Utah Commercial editor says that he saw n gentleman charged a quarter for sitting in a chair some two hour that ho was charged a half dollar for I an hours anocze in a lough bunk with the proprietor Mr Hawks says the first statement is a lie and i that the editor of tbe Commercial has never stopped at his bouse consequently I conse-quently he could not have snoozed in his bunk which by the way is a very comfortable bed upon a good I bedstead and in a con for table room Persons who travel ougbt to be careful not to make ttatemenlB tttemeDta foreign to tbe truth nod more especially espe-cially such as are calculated to injure others and they ought I think to make allowance for the untoward circumstances attending a removal ol the terminus on this road Mr Hawks cannot conceive why any traveler should without cause avail himself of the editorial columns of the Commercial r strike an undeserved unde-served blow at his house by describing describ-ing it as a good place to avoid although admitting that the table is well enough H D J |