The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-04-14
DEER LODGE CITY, FRIDAY, APRIL II
TIE CLARK'S FORK MINES.

We last week svowed inddelity in tn
too ,uuct, celebrated Ciarks Fork gol.
mises. We locked Faith, (which Is tn
evidence Of things not seem" therefore
we arc inAdel. As a theological virtue
Faith is good; As relates to placers, it is bu
. speculative pleasantly. The Pick ant
Plew IL therefore = practically humorou.
paper Of @olc than ordinary merit. Having
perhaps treated its nire months joke NOR
scriously thea VIC should have done, VI
propose now ~ state the facts in regard t
the ClMk's Fork gold mines, and what j.
really known of that region to the present
giyiug ~ our authority Messrs. Burt Hen
dsrson aud Thomas Pambrum, reliable and
we'll known mountaincers.
Burt Henderson is an old West. Slider, 9
good gold hunter, snd Que of our best
camps bears lis name. lie went 10 Gallati.l
in C7, aud each year has prospccted toward
Rosebud. Clark's Fork and Big Horn. He,
S.kc all other prospectors, has found some
''colors,' well down Oh all these streams
Clark's Fork appearing to indicate best
He. Yankee Jim" and man named Brown,
last year tried the upper waters of tina,
siream, como 800 miles from Bozcman.
They prospected a few days. They were
attacked by Indians. Brown was killed,
and all their stock taken. They returned to
the Yellowstone, where Henderson now is
and has been oil winter, near Twenty. Five
Yard Greek. Henderson was pleased will,
the ''prospcess' obtained, and will return in
June, which Is as carly as he can cross the
rsugc. 1t 10 believed by some that he has a
cure thing on mines, and 10 keeping shady
70 got his friends In before stampede. He
tells Psmbrum, his friend for years, that II
no has nothing else 10 do that pays, he
would like 10 have him along; that ii he 10
doing fairly here. hc had better stay. He
sends the same message to Capt. Plsisted
Henderson 10 favorably impressed with the
appearance Of the upper Clark's Fork coun-
Try. and has believed for years there would
10 mines found there. He obtained sncour-
aging prospects uchas struck no diCgings
- yet. Along tho Yellowstone, from the
canyon up to Bear Gulcl,, there are some
two hundred men, who propose going to.
ward Clark's Fork prospecting, Is soon Is
the mountains ore passable. jeff. Standifer
10 will, them, and will probably lead the
party. 1t will he recollccted he took Is
large party into That country in 'G6, but
no mines were found. There are also
numbcr of men about Bozcnan who con-
template going.
There never has been sluicc. box set on
Clark's Fork, and Henderson says to his
friends be has no positive knowledge that
mines exist there that will pay to work, nor
has he obtained prospects other than to en-.
courage him TO prospect more thoroughly.
This, rs We have it from men of integrity,
and, % We believe, 10 the truth Of the
CIs1k's Fork gold mines, as they arc known
Of to-day. II Is not improbable mines will
be found ticrc, bat 1t is to-day IN extreme
~ dangerous indian country, not prospect.
cd TO any considerable extent, scarce cx.
plorcd, considered inaccessible before June,
three hundred miles beyond Bozcman, and
over country In some portions 90 ruggcdly
mountainous that trails had to DO graded
for pack animals to get over.
The Pick and Ploc las had enough winter
sport now. 1t would do we'll to drop the
subjcct during tho working season, and
await Developments" this summer.