The Montana post., 1866-09-22

HELENA, September 18th, 1853.
r OUR QUARTZ MILLS.

HELENA, September 18th, 1855.
., -na OUR QUARTz MILLS.
EDITOR PosT There is ravine near
us which bears the Inappropriate name
of Grizzly Gulch. Let any one, however,
set out on one of our beautiful September
mornings, and walk or ride up it, and he
will experience pleasure. Verdure-clad
hills rise on the right hand and on the
left, and the woodman's axe has spared
just enough of the largest pines, TO make
the scenery enchanting. A good noun
tain road for about five miles, brings you
to the head of the gulch, where there is
beautiful open field, called q park.
Turning to the left, and following the
sound of noisy machinery, you come TO
the unpretentious building which con-
tains the quartz mill of Judge Thornley,.
Every thing is packed into the smallest
possible space, for though not more than
35x20 feet the little building has all the
machinery of a ten stamp mill. This
mill has now been running nearly year.
working upon rock taken from the park
near by, and though attended by the
usual disadvantages and imperfections
of stamp mills everywhere, is doing
paying business, and will continue to run
during the winter.
Crossing the park to the West, and
passing through grove of fine old ce-
dars. you come to Nelson gulch, and soon
upon very large new quartz mill, the
property of the East Bannack Company.
This mill has butsrecently gone into op-
GRAFTON, and has experienced the vexa-
tions incident to the working of new
machinery. The day on which visited
it, an accident had happened to the
crusher, and the mill was, consequently,
not running. They have been working
on some of the finest rock in the Terri
tory, giving, as it does, after thorough
prospecting, dollar to the pound of
rock, or $4,000 to the toni | see by the
Posi- that Mr.. Coggeshell has been ex-
exhibiting some specimens which sur
pass even this, bu. if he can equal it,
| ton for ton, he need desire nothing better.
A few hundred yards beyond the Ban
mack, and up retired and lonely looking
! ravine, stands another fine building OF
equal size, in which is being put up the
machinery of the Bullion Company of
New York. Some strange delays have
| attended the transportation of this COM
pany's machinery, but it has arrived at
length, and the mill will soon be in run
ming trim.
Jim Whitlatch, the energetic, busy
Jim, who is everywhere at once, is about
having a large "a stamp mill put up on
his property in Gro Fino, close by the
site of Prof. Hodges new mill. So you
see that the quartz interest hereabouts
is being attended to as it should be, and
as it must be, if Montana is to go onward
and upward, as we believe she will.
| HARD TIMES
1t is useless to deny the fact that hard
times are here knocking at the door, il
there is any door to knock at There
are more people here out of money, out
of employment, and out of spirits than
in any place of equal population in the
country. Prospecting and gulch mining
with imprudeuce and recklessness, have
brought many q one to his bottom dollar
and many more there are, who have
saved just enough to take them to the
States. With the long, cold winter in
prospect, God help the poor
IN COURT,
During the week, fair amount of
business has been done In one case the
jury rendered verdict of $500 in favor
of the plaintiff in an action for an assault
and battery. s. s rIr
i A case of considerable Importance was
disposed of this morning, viz Pancoast
VS.. Hermann and others. This action
was brought to determine the title to zoe
feet on the Geneva lode, on the Pipe
stone. The defendants failed to appear
and the jury found for the plaintiff, as
sessing his damages at $1,000. Judge
Munson is preparing 70 leave for the
East next Monday, and is clearing the
court calendar rapidly 81.
THE GAMBLING MANIA
Is increasing, and one can see at the
, faro table men whom he would hardly
suspect of this failing, trying to make
the ten dollars, fifty, possibly for the pur
pose of paying their way to the States
The ten dice game is languishing, as the
, public are becoming posted, and the pro
prietors and "cappers have it chief,
: all to themselves. All the harm / wisf
them is, that they may become as poo
as they have made many good fello"
' during the summer
| POLITICAL.
. There will be vacancy in the Terri
torial Legislature, caused by the resigna
ton of Mr.. Maxwell. who was elected u
/ to the assembly from this county. Thi
! will be the occasion of a special election
q There is some talk of the man for thi
Place which need not now be made pub
i lie; but we hope to be able to send t.
= Virginia from Edgerton county, at leas
pne good Union man, and perhaps 1
seif-riser" at that. HAL.
MASONIC ACTION OF THE KING ol
lPRUssIA.-The New York Masons held