Jamestown Weekly Alert, 1885-10-29, p.6

Jamestown Weekly Alert, Jamestown, 1885-10-29, p.6

Summary

A mining-news brief: Col. C. A. Broadwater of Helena asserts the Montana mines are "looking up," the success of the Butte mines in particular spurring more prospecting across the territory than ever before, with Montana's 1885 output estimated near $22,000,000 — "the output at Butte alone reaching $16,000,000." The optimistic counterpart to the 1886 "miners leaving Butte" brief in the same paper; together they bracket the boom.

In its time

Narrative

Col. C. A. Broadwater of Helena, Mont., reports that mines throughout the territory are looking up, with the success of the Butte mines prompting more prospecting elsewhere in Montana than ever before. He estimates the territory's output at roughly $22,000,000, of which Butte alone would account for $16,000,000. [transcription partial \u2014 one paragraph taken from a column of territorial news briefs]

“the success of the Butte mines in particular inducing more prospecting in other parts of the territory than has ever been known in the past”

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Also mentioned

Col. C. A. Broadwater · source_quoted
Helena, Montana businessman/financier; quoted on territorial mining prospects. Not family.

Places

Butte, Montana (subject)
Montana (subject)
Helena, Montana (secondary)
Jamestown, North Dakota (origin)
Dakota Territory / North Dakota (origin)

Themes

Story threads

Famine to emigration

Source type

news_item

Related sources

1886-01-14 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.5

Transcription

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# Transcription — Jamestown Weekly Alert, 1885-10-29, p.6 **Source**: Jamestown Weekly Alert (Jamestown, Dakota Territory), Thursday 29 October 1885, p.6 (page and date from the Newspapers.com caption on the clipping; the cut shows no folio or running head). **Status**: Complete (the Broadwater paragraph is whole; the clipping also catches the last line of the item above and the top of the first line of the item below, given in brackets). --- [...] be driven into the sea. Col. C. A. Broadwater of Helena, Mont., asserts that the mines throughout the territory are looking up, the success of the Butte mines in particular inducing more prospecting in other parts of the territory than has ever been known in the past. The output in Montana would approximate $22,000,000, he thought, the output at Butte alone reaching $16,000,000. [The special commissioners who took evi- ... (the next brief; only the upper halves of the letters of its first line show at the foot of the clipping)] --- [Editor's note: a paragraph from a column of territorial news briefs. The archive holds no full page for this issue.] *[Text checked against the clipping image (the archive has no page scan for this issue) at 1.8x, 21 Oct 2026; it agrees with the Claude-vision reading of 4 Oct 2026.]*

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