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BUTTE MEETING HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL All rcix rts agree that the meeting of the Butto Jockey Club which will come to a close on Wednes ¬ day is one of the most successful ever conducted in Montana The Interest has been keen and con ¬ tinuous Unfavorable weather has had little effect on the patronage as compared with days when conditions were auspicious A Kentuckian writes of conditions attending the meeting as follows followsIt It is doubtful if there is a city of similar size in the United States today where so much money Is in circulation and times are so good The mines in and around tho city are running full twenty four hour shifts and distribute a pay roll every month of approximately 2000000 This of course is the principal reason why everything is so pros ¬ perous here and why the thirtydays race meeting is such an enormous success There are some 500 horses quartered at the track and almost every oue of them ready to run Each days entry list con ¬ tains nearly the limit 12 to a race and while there are no exceptionally good animals here the conditions of the races are so framed as to always hold the element of uncertainty well balanced fields contain Clerks especially sheet writers have been much in demand and the fifteen bookmakers have all they can possibly do to handle the money offered offeredOne One sees few of the oldtime bookmakers now ¬ adays Uut a counting of noses on the blocks here reveals Gus Blum of Chicago who for the past thirty years has been a devoted pencller Johnny Lewis Kddie Soule Billy Armstrong John Troy and Billy Engstrom are men once familiar in the east who are plying their craft here with more or less success Leslie Belt Edwin T Fryer and Jim Norvell are working in the ring Bob Sherwood and Frank Hlltman tried iwoking in the ring but found It more protltable to operate in the grandstand
