The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-09-28
MINING MATTERS.
BEARToWN.

DEAR Posr: This little mining camp holds |
its own remarkably well, if it can be judged
by the number of business houses open and the
crowds of miners jostling one another on Sat
urday evening and during Sunday, either lay
ing in their next weeks supply of groceries,
paying off the past weeks bills, or fitting
themselves to new cheap clothing at the nu-
merous shops. Others are less profitably en-
ployed In patronizing the host of bar-rooms,
whence emanates babel of voices, now and
then interlarded with " "rough-and-tumble."
As a whole, Beartown, If Helena and Virginia
are excepted, is the liveliest camp of the Ter
ritory. The town consists of but one street,
is built on q fat at the junction of Deep gulch
with Bear, and lays no claim to architectural
beauty or regularity of streets. huge pile
of headings and tailings on each side of a
string of slulces runs up and down the centre
of the main street. The richest part of Bear
gulch is in this fat, and not nearly worked
out yet, paying from $500 TO $4O0 per day to
the sluice. The depth of pay necessitates
drifting and the bed rock lies A feet deep.
Iti wass on this fat one of the early set
tiers of Madison county, w. W. Bullard,
made his pile, got smitten with the ripe
charms of a gay and dashing widow from
Flint, and left few weeks ago, happy in her
possession, and the satisfaction of having
plenty of dust to winter in Hoosierdom.
The lower part of Bear, which, last spring,
was entirely inundated and the miners driven
out therefrom, has been re-opened in many
claims and pays well. The upper part, being
above the town, with all its stributaries-First
Chance, Melhorn, Grizzly and others-gives
employment to about 800 miners.
BEARTowN JUSTICE.
| The general topic of conversation about
this time is the following queer instance of
| Justice as administered here. Names of course
must be omitted. A sprig of the law in i'm
pecuneous circumstances but sorely in need of
| he wherewith 80 cover his back, applies In
his hour of need to an Israelitish friend. He
was accommo odated, but forgot that day of
| reckoning should come. Finally, the cloth
ing man wants TO leave the country the man
of law has not the cash merchant ageees to
take fifty cents on the dollar, and still the
law man s.don't see it, In his extremity,
the clothier threatens to denounce the man OF
law in public print. Now comes In the joke.
The law man has the man of clothes arrested
for TRYING To PROCURE MONEY BY THREATS
The Judge duly issued the warrant, had tn,
jury impanneled in John Pyne's saloon OF
Sunday evening, and was ready to proceed tC
business, when he was informed of the exist
ence of a Sabbath day, whereupon he adjourn
ed till Monday morning. 1t came, but moi
the clothing man-and justice in Beartow1
was cheated (?).
s DEEP GULcH
is still paying well for two miles up from it
junction with Bear, thence this verv dee,
; gulch narrows to a mountain gorge, in whici
the pay either lies too deep to be taken ou
, with profit OF is so covered up with hug
, mountain slides as not to be got at. The up
per part of this gulch pays we'll. In passin.
, down Deep from Elk, yesterday, the smoulder
y ing embers of many stately trees were Inin.
d the trail, and the formerly noble forest of tai
e slender trees Is converted into few blackene,
| trunks by one of those mountain fires whicl
ragged here for two months, destroying severa
. miners cabins, and for few days prevente
all communication between Bear and Eli
!, This IRE Is said TO have been started by som
Ill disposed person or persons. The hoatInl
r population of this as well as of many othe
camps have taken up their line of march to