The Montana post., 1869-04-02
H1eH1ANp.-we had the satisfaction

of observing Professor SteitE melting into
single bar from three Jumps of retort which
weighed over 720 ounces, being the product
of fourteen tons of tailings from the Myers
& Thompson lode, which was run through
Professor Swallows mill some time ago. The
tailings were run through the pans second
time in the Professors mill and yielded as
richly as the above indicates. This is splen-
dId result as the yield from the hrst run paid
very handsomely.
BEWARE OF CoUNTERFEITs.- are
informed that there is a large quantity of
counterfeit money in circulation in the city,
among which are fifty dollar legal tender
notes. From Mr.. Aaron Hershheld, of l..
II. Hershfeld & Bro, we learn that the gen.
eral appearance of the fifty dollar note ex-
hibits paler shade than in the genuine, the
number and stamp being quite indistinct.
The profile of Hamilton's face Is sharp In the
counterfeit, while in the genuine 1t Is rounded
in contour and much softer In expression.
The buttons on the coat of the counterfeit
one cannot be seen, while In the genuine they
are very distinct. Our business men should
be on the watch for them, and any stranger
attempting to pass them be required to show
cause therefor. There are also variety of
counterfeit twos and fves on National Banks
In circulation.
SURIoUs ACCIDENT.-We regret to
learn that our we'll known and esteemed fell
low citizen, DR.. Nichols, met with a painful
accident yesterday afternoon. he was lead
ing his horse through the street, when the
animal being rather spirited reared violently
in the air, striking the Doctor in the, bresst,
throwing him to the ground, and while down
inficting upon him severe injuries. The DR..
was much easier last night and we trust will
be out in few days.
IMPRovEMENTs.-O young and en-
terprising citizen H. NJ. Bryant is thoroughly
renovating and rearTanging his store on Main
street. He has adorned its front with splen-
did and gaudy sign, and has a corps of work
men pulling down and building up in view of
the coming summer business, when completed
it will be one of the cosiest places In the city
STORAGE, SToRAGE.-Persons desiring
to secure cheap storage, can obtain it at the
o. K. warehouse, by applying to B. c. Kint-
King, Bridge street.
To BREwERs.-A large quantity of
rectifying and cold bone dust for sale by c. B.
Kintzing, Bridge street.
From Mondays Daily.
EDITOR MONTANA Posr Day after day our
people are leaving rs for the famed White
Pine region. They go singly and in crowds,
on horseback, wagon or by stage. 1t Is said
that certain foreign bird l)feeing from dan
ger, buries its head in the sand and leaving
its body exposed, deems itself secure so,
some of our business men, with their heads
enveloped in potato sacks and coal oil cans,
are oblivious of the change which this emf
grafton will produce In their ledgers. 10 sell
merchandise there must be demand, and If
our consumers transfer themselves to White
Piue, goods will be sold very cheap here.
Newspaper pufs nor exaggerated statements
Wi knpn the COnntFV As time
passes away our placer mines grow less and
less in value land some have already been
worked out) and the time Is not far distant
when our known gulches will be naught but
"Chinaman's diggings." Our agricultural
recources must be confined to supplying our
Territory and unless something Is done to
call emigration to us, and unless we open,
develop, and work our own quartz ledges, our
country will be literally "played out, al
though it holds "both bowers and the ace."
Many of our citizens have amaSsed wealth,
of a competence here, and Yet how few of
them have made permanent and sure invest
ments in the well defined Lodges of our coun-
try. There are many districts In our midst
where precious minerals are known to exist
in exhaustless profusion and the now passive
rocks but wait the advent of capital to open
wide and pour forth their glittering treasure.
knowing of the wealth around unconscious
that a judIcious expenditure of money will
return us an annual income of an hundred
per cent, yet we, having the means, although
limited, cry out to foreign capitalists to
come to our aid. We send them rich ores
and certificates of defined lodges with the
assays and results of milling processes. We
get down on our knees and beg "the bloated
bondholder," the Compliant capitalists and
lank bankers to 'just put down their green
backs and take up an hundred-fold Of bull
lion;" but they say, ''put down your money
first and thus show your own confidence in
the richness of your rock and then we too
will invest" 1t Is only by home capital and
by united effort and experienced enterprise
that the country can be kept in a prosperous
condition. Outside mining capital will not
cvme to Us by reason of our remote locality,
but will be centered at White Pine during
the ensuing season. To increase our wealth
and make trade lively we must prove by ac-
tual and continued milling process the supe>
riority of our mines, and this must be done
with our own capital and then the emigration
of both capital and people will come to us.
1 have written this especially for the benefit
of the business men of this city, and hope
that they will weigh hwell the suggestions
made and view clearly our resources, pros
poets and situation.
B. z. Ness.
helena, NJ. T., March 20, '69.
NEW DEvELoPMENrs.-It has been
generally supposed for long time that there
was an immense bank of pay gravel between
Last Chance and Dry Gulch, by prospecting
such has been determined TO be the case. We
learn that Messrs. Whitney d Mason have
been, during the past winter, at work pros
pecting upon this bar, for the purpose of
striking this bank OF deposit and testing its
richness. They have sunk Eve shafts on the
bar, varying from 20 to 40 feet in depth. in
each of which good prospects were found,
which extended from the surface to the bot
tom of the shaft. In some shafts they found
as high as s5 cents to the pan, but the average
prospect was from five to nine cents per pan,
this yield was uniform through the gravel.
They sunk one shaft 500 feet back and east
from Last Chance gulch, which is on an old
channel opposite Taylor, Thompson Co.'S
extensive claim, to the depth Of 100 feet, at
4 the bottom of which was found good psy.
All this ground which covers acre upon acre,
and extends from the cemetery over a mile be-
| low, can be easily worked BY means of hydrau-
] lics and hX means OF a hsd-Inck fume. Last