Round-Up | 1897-06-18 | Page 2 | Miners' Federation

beners federation helena mont june 14 at the cele bration of the western federation of miners joseph freethy and james davy of butte carried off first honors in drilling 15 minutes with 41 and 1516 15 16 inches to their credit coming within 9 18 10 of an inch of the state record made in butte the same team made a record of 49 inches at spokane a year ago wm win tallon and W P durham of butte made the second best record of 38 inches daly and tallon were the men who came within a fraction of an inch of carrying off the honors at tho the great contest in cripple creek in 1805 with 23 22 teams ente entered redina in a ten minute drill wm win bieber of lump gulch drilled 15 in ten minutes single handed wincing ain easily over 1000 miners from the surrounding camps attended tha th celebration