Show I 1 HleX TAXA MATTERS egg I 1 placer mining near bannock political situation i editor enquirer BANNOCK mont june 20 here in in i montana the spring aprin a has been very cold but a nt at the present there is a good outlook for much hay bay and grass so the stockmen stoc kmen feel rather happy somehow there thera is not here as much foolishness over every mining prospect as there is is in ia atah county the people have outlived out lived the disease so BO they ibey do not lose all their senses over some i ne finding a diece of reek with a sign of rold or silver in ia it some thirty years ago the city of Bann bannock ocic was undoubtedly one of the liveliest mining camps in the Koc bies but bat at aret vret eat the principal industry in the surrounding country is farming and and it is ia comparatively sp speaking eaLing one of the most peaceable and law abiding communities in this great country of ours even though there is not much mining earned carried on oa at the present there thare are many fairly good mines minas in this boyhood bo which will as soon as batts relaxes her hold on the miners and bcd mine capitalists undoubtedly roopen ro open last year there was a large dredging boat built hero here as an experiment to see whether there was not gold in in the grasshopper creek to pay for gettin ting it out the boat is now in a fair working order she is run by electric ity aal cal called led the IF F L graves in honor of our gur genial aad enterprising merchant fielding L graves workmen have not been able to reach the bedrock as yet but the average pro r of eight hours run mn is a pound and a half of vure cure gold this has caused an ain other company to c construct 0 n enother boat this summer on a somewhat different plan and she is to be run by steam power instead of electricity and as there are no coar coal that is accessible in the neighborhood but plenty of r it will give employment to a goodly number of woodchoppers and haulers so far as I 1 can learn the majority or all of the leading republicans in county are for protect protection lep first and free silver of course is the their 1 i r second choice if they can vet set both it would suit euit them but if they cannot get but one let that be protection true there are several silver mines in this county that would be worked if there was a free and unlimited coinage of silver but bot there are not far from head of sheep beep in the county that average about 7 1 pounds of wool per head bead and a reasonable tariff would make each of these near half a million pounds of wool worth 8 cents morel more which would come to do about every year fear to the county as every pound 19 is shipped baat the opinion of the people regarding the sincerity of the democrats about the free coinage of silver is varied of course democrats are full of confidence on the other hand those of the republicans that have riven given the subject considerable thought and studied out the democratic practices and promises in the past are inclined to consider it EL a pure and simple do de schema this is not unlikely to be the fact when we consider that according to the democratic doctrine the men elected to the various offices are in no shape or form bound by the rules and demands laid down in the party platform |