The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-05-18
MINING MATTERS.
honest

Under date of May IL, w" sends us
the following mining news from the eu-
phonious camp called Hoggin:
EDIToR PoST As have never seen no
tice of the thriving little village glorying
under the appellation of Hoggin, In your p2-
per, allow me to give you description of it
and the mines In its immediate vicinity, and
assure you that it is not the least nor last
place, although we have fears of being too
near Blackfoot City to ever amount TO much.
The site of Hoggin was located year ago by
a party of tender-feet miners, and took its
name from the manner in which they rooted
out their dust. The town of Hoggin 1--WE call
Is a town for the presently Is situated in Car
penter's Gulch, about one and half miles In
a south-easterly direction from Blackfoot
City, and on the main road from BlackfoOt to
Helena. 1t contains at present about 200
inhabitants, several families and children, two
stores, three saloons, one butcher shop, one
blacksmith shop, two bakeries, one hotel, one
boarding house, and abundance of timber
within one mile to bald more. The warm
weather of the past ten days has made a re-
markable change in our town. Old Mother
Nature, once more let lose from its icy fet-
tiers, is how clothed in living green, and the
waters go rolling on to the dark blue sea.
Everybody Is busy and ali wear smiling faces.
Prairie Bar is attracting considerable atten-
tion this spring. It Is found TO be very rich.
Ii Is situated between Carpenter and Eureka
Clutches, and one mile below Hoggin. 1t is
about two miles in length and from eight to
fifteen hundred feet in width. The pay dirt
is from FIVE to fifteen feet deep. From two
to fifteen cents to the pan can be had right
along IN the grass roots, and from ten TO fifty
cents in the gravel Several nuggets have
been found weighing from SIS Co $50. At
the lower end OF Prairie Bar, illiams Co.
have run cut up TO their claims, Nos. Is and
10 below discovery, and struck three channels
of gravel which prospects big. Greene & Co..
on No. l3 below discovery, have run a cut on
their claim and struck rich thing and they
are now busily engaged in erecting hydraulic
TO work their claim. Rednic & CO. at the
upper end of Prairie Bar, have been on good
pay since last fall. They are engaged in
erecting hydraulic and putting IN a bed rock
hume 1909 feet In length, Co work their claim.
and have a fair prospect of making "a handsome
stake this summer. Britten d Co. are on good
pay dirt. lhey are putting in a bed rock
fOme OF the mouth of Prairie Gulcb, a tribu-
tary OF Carpenters Gulch. The Ohio and IL
Zer Ditch Companies are extending their ditches
To- Prairie Bar, which will be completed l.,
about ten days, and then the boys will have a
chance TO replenish their purses Carpenters
Gnlch Il about six miles in length IL has
always been considered valuable, but nothing
definite was known until this spring. Ii l.,
beyond doubt, rich and extensive, and every
Claim yet opened prospects big.
grand enterprise l. being undertaken in
this place which Is looked upon by all With
great deal of interest. Pounds and Green, the
principal owners of the Ohio Ditch, have com
menced bed rock hume in Carpenter Gulch
starting at the mouth of Eureka Gulch and