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Show FRONTIER NEWS. Tho propoaed telegraph line between be-tween Helena and Butte will cost S2.7G3. The bullion product of Clear Creek county, Col., for 1S77 will not fall short of two and a half millitEUB of dollars, while it may reach two and three-quarter millions. Hon. John Evans, Mr. George Tritch and Judge J, F. Welburn have: been appointed by citizens' Denver a meeting delegates to attend the I narrow-gauge railway connection at St. Louis this month, for the purpose of didcusaing the project of building a narrow-gauge road from St, Locub to the Rocky mountains. The Cheyenoe Leader, explaining, the demand of Messrs. Gould and' Dillon for a subsidy in consideration ' of Btarting the Black Hills road at Cheyenne and extending the Colorado Central to that point, says that the report of the company's engineer gave Pine Bmfls great advantage over Cheyenne as the objective point. The advantages were, on the northern road nearly fifty miles of railway building, and on the southern lino a saving of the cost of grading about forty miles of track. . These two points, reduced to dollars and cents, bad to be overcome by Cheyenne, and the sum total of the difference in tho cost f building the roads, and in the annual exponee of running the roada after being built, amounted to nearly a million dollars. Finally the railroad rail-road men came down in their figures i 41,- 4,i nn nnn . Tk,. to me fciuu,uuu agreed upon, log Denver News understands that the Colorado road extension ib to be completed com-pleted within ninety days. Bishop Tuttle and Rev. R. M. Kirby ot Salt Lake city have been at Deer Ledge in utlendance on the annual Episcopal convocation of the missionary district ot Montana, which elected deli-gats to the Episcopal Epis-copal convention at Boston in October, consisting of Rev. T. E. Dickey delegate and Rev. M. N. Gilbert ultimate, with W. P. Thompson Thomp-son and H. D. Huutoon of Boise, Idaho, as lay delegates. The ques-tiou ques-tiou of memorializing the national convention to disintegrate the present district of Mod tana came up and elicited discussion. Bishop Tuttle is : probably the hardest worked biBhop in America, his diocese extending over such an enormous scope ol country which he conscientiously visits every year. This, with the work in Utah, is too laboiious and he cannot probably long continue it. lio indisposition to take any step that might result in his withdrawal from Montana brought on the discussion. dis-cussion. It finally resulted in a resolution that in the judgment of the convocation the time has not yet arrived for Montana to be made an independent district. On the 19th inst., BUhop Tuttle laid the coruer stone ot the new Episcopal church at Deer Lodge, which is the first cornerstone ever laid by the bishop in Montana, |