, 1866-05-25
RLAcKFooT ITEMS.
From the Montana Post, of May 9Th, we con-
dense the following items;
BEAR CREEK.

| From the Montana FoSti VI H"J ''Di w ~
dense the following items;
BEAR CREEK.
Bear Greek and the numerous side Tor triou-
| taryl eulches are being extensively prospectedi
with almost uniform good results. Credible re,
| ports of big runs are constantly being received
| by us, We shall shortly send one of our regu'
| lar correspondeuts to that favored locality, who
will furnish US with complete digest of all the
reliable news from the new Eldorado.
SILVER BOW GULcH.
| O. @. Dorwin, of Silver Bow City, our ener-
getic agent writes to US that Jacob Rover oil
| that ilk, took from his claim, on the 3Oth oi
| April, a nugget of nearly pure gold weighing
| Si95. He asks if that will do for Silver Bow. 10
our conscientious opinion it Will, and more OF the
same sort would do splendidly. We know the
stuff - is there, and that the right kind of men
will soon be taking it ont
PRIcKLY PEAR.
Operations have again commenced on Prickly
Pear creek. Two companies are engaged in sink
ing shafts Messrs. Nicholson L Co., are at
| work on the old shaft of Seahorn L Co., and are
| putting in an eight-foot overshot wheel. VIM.
| Alexander l. Co., are at work one fourth of mile
| below, and bringing water form Mcclellan
gulch. From the arrangements they are making
and the well-known energy of these gentlemen, J.,
the fact will be demonstrated beyond doubt as
1
New lodes are being found here nearly every
day. The Clifford lode, discovered by Messrs.
| Clifford and Robinson, of Helena, is attracting a
good deal of attention. 1t has a shaft sunk on it
about twenty FIVE feet in depth, and shows a
crevice of seven feet width. 1t is silver lole and
native silyeT can ue seen in nearly all of it. 1t
is situated about one and a half mile west of
this place. Numbers have been trying to strike
an extension, and an enterprising individual,
noted for stalking every ledge of rocks in this
county, has staked, as an extension, quartz
boulder lying in a dry gulch, which has evident
ly washed there. The Saggitarius, which is
thought to be the same lode is also rich in sill
yer. By assay of Professor Eaton, who holds
half interest, it shows 5000 per ton, at depth
of eighteen feet.
The placer mines of Indian creek, on the Mis-
souri,, about twenty miles east of Prickly Pear,
re said by those just in from there, to be good.
4 Big Indian Sky high and others about the head
of Holiness and Dry gnlch. are also yielding
we'll.
NEW DISCOVERY.
News have been received during thepast week
| of the discovery of very good diggings just be-
| yond Medicine Rock on the Little Prickly Pear
! 1t is but few feet to the ed-rock prospects
vary from ten cents to three dollars to the pan
aud nugget weighing nearly forty dollars has
been found. Now, friends, don't get stam-
pede, for Rocker gulch, the discovery
has been called, contains only tweIty claims,
| and of course these taken. 1t is very prob
able, however, that good diggns may be discov-
cred all around that locality, for a more - hck-
clty-cuss - looking country nerefrexsted. Good
pay has been struck in the spall gulch just south
of Dry gulch, near Helena. A rocker only can
be used. On the road to Mrs. Durgan's ranchc
a place has been recently staked for a mile or
more, and from three to FIVE cents to the pan is
reported as the prospect. There are FIVE feet OF
4 l,..,,
that this place alone would give employment to
five hundred men. After all the new e&citrments
are played" aud the crazy ones come to their
senses, a " last chance }" for the dead broke pen
itents can still be found in Helena.
BULLION.
The largest brick yet run in this Territory.
may be seen at Allen & Millard's Bank 1t weighs
ZIG or ID dwTs. l8 grS., 81, 100, 3D. at Sls per
OF. rms brick = the result or ave days - o.
SIX stamp mill on the Kearsage lode, at Sum.
nit 1t is quite exhildrAting to hold it out in
ones hand.
QUARTZ.
Every quartz miner that halls from Nevada or
! California, has the same story to tell us of the
indications of the wealth with wirh our land
abounds. They say .hey eau pick up on the way
side, as they journey along, just fine indca-
tons OF quartz rs they ever saw at home, aud
the sight Of our gold bearing specimens opens
al
actually behold and handle.
ANOTHER VENTURE.
We see that number of our citizens who
went to California last winter, are returning TO
the mines AS fast as the state of the Iosds will
permit. Robert LusA of Helena, formerly OF NJ
vada, has brought in trian OF eleven wagons
from Los Angeles, which he left February 10th.
The ladipg consists of general groceries, mining
tools, ETC., chiefly for Wholesale, and will Ge
nearly if not duite the first through train from
Southern California.
THE RIVER TRAFFIC.
Our latest accounts by dispatch and er-
change informs US that the greater part of the
Montana fleet has passed Omaha, and, as the
water is good, we may expect the arrival of the
Steamers some four or five weeks in advance
of last years dates for spring arrivals. Prcpar.
ations being busily made, both here and at
Helena, for trains to meet the packets at various
points on the river.
CALIFORNIA SUPPLY TRADE.
The claims of California to our snppIy trade
may be considered as settled. Actual expert
ment has demonstrated that goods are rather
dearer in gold, In California, than they are in
greeubacks in St. Louis. The freight from Los
Angeles to San Francisco is about one cent per
pound while from San Francisco to virginia
CITY, or Helena, the cost of transport is abou,
thirty cents per pound. As freight can be laid
down from St. Louis at fifteen cents or, all ex.
Penses told, at about eighteen to twenty cent?,
at the outside, the original cost being higher,
and the freight one-third greater the Golden
State must back out, or try another plan. Teas
and clothing will, possibly, still maintain the
reputation Of California, owing to the direct
transport of the first to San Francisco from
China OF Japan, and the usually superior auali.y
Of the latter, which is generally admitted 10 ali
mining camps These articles being left out of
consideration, st. Louis must trium ph in freight
ing, both by the river and by the Bozeman
route When the North Pacific is in running or
der. we may look for Chicago and Buffalo com.
petlng most iormidably, they having an advan-
tage of position not enioyed by 81 Honis Tbo
most dangerous part Of the river ia also heIow
where their dePots would be placed.