Show walkerville WAL KERVILLE MONTANA COMING BACK according to the anaconda standard walkerville Wal kerville montana is 11 coming back the city that on a hill is making fair strides to justify the faith of the old timer every western mining camp that has risen and fallen has always had some loyal souls among the prospector element who felt sure that granite would come into its own again or that bodie so darn dead as people think the war with the consequent heavy demand tor for silver has borne out the predictions of the prospectors in more than a dozen instances during the past eighteen months and as a result the old fellows are merry over the fulfillment of prosperity predictions of twenty five years ago walkerville Wal kerville was a live town when butte was a line of straggling shacks along a few gold bearing gulches the alice was a big producing mine before the anaconda was thought of realty values in butte were regulated by the strikes in the alice old timers tell of john noyes lying in wait for marcus daly who was handling the alice to learn from him what were the underground prospects daly in fun shook his head dolefully when noyes questioned him and john hurried back to butte and sold the southeast corner of main and broadway for he would have sold more but get any buyers the next day the report came out that a big strike had been made in the alice and noyes speak to daly for a year walkerville Wal kerville had the first arc lights in silver bow county the first night they were turned on all butte walked to the centerville Cent erville hill to witness the glorious s sight 1 g h t at the lexington mine it was nothing uncommon for miners to bring up candle boxes full of wire silver the sherman act had put a value of on silver and that spelled good wages substantial dividends and general prosperity for the silver camps they had the the ore and the market and the price was enough then came of silver and the camp rat and the coyote romped and scampered amid scenes that had but lately been alive with throbbing humanity all that were left were those who get away and those whose faith knew no wavering many of the old silver camps of colorado and montana have renewed their youth recently big companies are organizing to resume work on mines abandoned since 93 at walkerville Wal kerville the moulton the alice and the goldsmith are again resounding to the thud of the pick and the rat tat tat of the machine drill the leasers leaders back of walkerville Wal kerville are busy as bees digging out the white metal walkerville Wal kerville mines have an additional asset as compared with the old days in addition to silver they have zinc a most important item real estate and business transfers are beginning to show the effect since january 1 more than worth of property has changed hands As the conviction grows that the market for silver is permanent and the price stable it is predicted the old town will begin to blossom out and once more try tor for its former position as the first town in the summit valley mining district |