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Show THE CITY "UPSIDE DOWN. Tho sight-seer has a pleasant experience experi-ence at Helena, but to get a gllmpso of tho Infernal wonders of mining ho must now go to Butte. Perhaps nowhere elso can ho have such an experience. In a senso the world is upside down. To begin be-gin with, tho cily takes its water fro'm tho eastern side of tho continental divide, di-vide, and thus diverts it from tho Atlantic Atlan-tic to tho Pacific slope. Then, a largo part of its population Is always underground, under-ground, and Its underground alleys and streets (so to call them) are longer than thoso overground. All Its wealth comes from these depths. Nothing green can grow thcro. In general, nature la turned topsy-turvy. But it is rich very rich interestingly rich. Tho payrolls of tho mines and smelters smel-ters nro ?'J,000.(KO a month, or about ?20 for every man, woman and "child. Within a rndlua of a milo from tho courthouso there are 125 mines In operation, opera-tion, and thoy aro producing more than one-fourth of tho copper mined In tho world. From beneath the surface of this 1000 acres havo already been taken 1.7C0,-000 1.7C0,-000 tons of copper bullion, enough to make an ordinary trolley wire, I hey tell you. 1.000,000 miles long. If all the shafts, drifts and crosscuts in the hills around Butte and under It could bo put together Into ono straight tunnel, It would reach-so reach-so they assure you from Butto to the Pacific ocean. This wonderful place of mines nobody who has ever seen It can forget it is on the path that not many years ago Sitting Bull ranged with his braves. World's Work. |