Jamestown Weekly Alert, 1883-03-23, p.3

Jamestown Weekly Alert, Jamestown, 1883-03-23, p.3

Summary

A short news brief reporting that "the Rawhide Butte copper mines employ 100 men, and [it] promises to be valuable," followed by an unrelated brief about a new church at White Lake. CAUTION / likely mislabel: the original filename ("Ad for Butte mine in Jamestown") implies Butte, Montana, but **Rawhide Butte** is a locality in eastern Wyoming (near Lusk), not Butte, Montana. Recorded so the surname-of-place confusion is captured and not re-investigated. Not an advertisement; a news brief.

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Narrative

Among short territorial briefs: the Rawhide Butte copper mines are working 100 men and are said to promise well, and a new church is noted at White Lake, Aurora. [transcription partial \u2014 brief items only, surrounding text missing]

“The Rawhide Butte copper mines employ 100 men, and promises to be valuable.”

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Places

Jamestown, North Dakota (origin)
Dakota Territory / North Dakota (origin)

Themes

Source type

news_item

Transcription

transcription: complete · confidence high

# Transcription — Jamestown Weekly Alert, 1883-03-23, p.3 **Source**: Jamestown Weekly Alert (Jamestown, Dakota Territory), Friday 23 March 1883, p.3 (page and date from the Newspapers.com caption on the clipping; the cut shows no folio or running head). **Status**: Complete (the item is one sentence; the clipping also catches the foot of the item above and the first line of the item below, given in brackets). --- [...] day. The Rawhide Butte copper mines employ 100 men, and promises to be valuable. [The new church at White Lake, Auro- ... (the next item; the clipping ends at this line)] --- [Editor's note: "Rawhide Butte" is almost certainly the Wyoming locality, not Butte, Montana (see metadata note). The archive holds no full page for this issue; the text is read from the clipping image only.] *[Text checked against the clipping image (the archive has no page scan for this issue) at 2x, 21 Oct 2026; it agrees with the Claude-vision reading of 4 Oct 2026.]*

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