The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-06-29
MINING MATTERS.

PLACER MINING.-A good deal of ex-
citement has taken pla~e with reference TO mining
ground which has hitherto remained unworked foI
reason of its being considered worthless. A sluics
has been started on what is known Broad street
bar in n corral 10 the Of the post Office hut
did not learn with what result Mr.. Oscar TOtter
lately sluiced SI2l 90 iu few hours from dir
dried 81 the 6at north Of Broad street and the
latest indications IN the drift decidedly prom
ising. In Hereford gulch quite AN excitement WAS
started, on Monday last, by some parties sinking
shan in the gulch and pauning out from thirty Ia
fifty ceuts to the pan bitches dug and sInices
were set, but yet thai is all thar it amounts to.
CHRIsTENoT Mill We hear of sale
Of furnace lead from the Argenta works. ten tons
for filling the rollers in the Chian mill at summit
The mill will save a larger percentage OF the god
per ton than any one in the Territory. The dill
Guilty has been in its capacity. The rollers are in.
tended q be filed with lead. and having been hiih
filed with rocks having the necessary
weight to do the work. IL is confidently believed
that the lead filing will bring the mill up To crush
ing capacity insuring profitable working. This is
the first operation of the manager, ordered
in an hour after he entered the mill and shows a
decisiveness and energy promising well for the com
psny.
ANOTHER BALLARAT.-From High
land we learn that Watson & Co have discovered
another quartz ledge near by and believed to eqnl
in extent and richness the famous Balarst. The
crevice has been developed thrty-eight feet, and
the wa-ruck is not Yet reached on either sde.-On
Mansfeld's claim drifts recently have yielded
opened in the main gulch has prospected four dol
lars to the PEN This latter. believe. is the first
claim opened up. in the main gulch.. The expense
attendant upon them and the uncertainty of their
yielding we'll has hitherto prevented Developments
but the yield will induce active operations in it.
NEED GULCH.-Mining is progressing
favorabiy IN this gulch. Three companies en-
gagged in constructing bed rock fumes. Patt Rock
John Shannon and Thos. Dunn have sixty twelve
foot boxes in and have reached pay gravel. They
will in few days be taking out big" pay. they
deserve the success they have attained for the
energy and perseverance, they have exhibited
der the most discouraging circumstances.
NEW AND RICH LEAD.-Considerabl
OF an excitement was o>casioned during the past
week by the discovery Of q new and rich quartz
lead near the head of Dry Gulch. Ii is some three
and half miles from this city, and is located on
Veder's Gulch near the mouth of Tucker. The
lead was found on the ground Of Reims e. Black
we'll which extends from the junction of Tucker
and Dry guches GOO feet up Veder. The lead was
found while ground sluicing their claim. The
lead is supposed 10 be the main feeder of Dry Gulch
show that this certain extent is the is that
no gold is found in Neder above where the lode
crosses The ledge al present Is seven feet wide
with no defined wall rock on either side. The pay
dirt found in the crevice pays good wages in run
ming through the sluice The quartz looks splendid
with considerable pyrtes Of iron and but little free
gold visible. 1t is very decomVosed and looks IL
it would be to work