Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-12
West-side Mining Operations.

The Yakima mines are now pronounced
small China diggines. The Walla Wall;
Statesman has been Informed that the excite
ment was raised to draw people to the eoun
try, regardless OF truth ftl stat nents or con
sequences.
The contract for the rebuilding of the Bit
ter Root river bridge was authorized to b.
let at the last sitting of the commissioners O
Missoula county. It is the intention to have
It completed before the spring Hoods come
Several rich quartz discoveries have beer
made in this county during the mouth jus1
past. Deer Lodge county will yet be one oil
the leading quartz mining sections of the
Territory as 1t Low is tue richest. in yIacel
mines.
But little work Is now being don. in VI ash
ington s'ich. Some sixty men will winter
in the camp and vicinity. ~ inNch snsl
perhaps more mining wilt DO daoe nexs, a.
during last seasst,.
MIR. Aliens ditch carryi q the water from
the head of Gold creek 20 the Lcati uf french
gnlch is almost completed. It will furnish
water for two or three months in tn. spring
and enable miners 50 work much more ex-
tensively than ever before.
The Pioneer mines have yielded oves 500.
GOO in dust during the mining season just
closed. this estimate is E,aeie by !, business
man Of the camp. who has good napn.tnni-
ties for arriving at i, correct staiesscnt,of the
amount.
Mcssrs. Harrington e Rising are row Mt
work sinking on rfeh gold quartz Iosa- rear
the hea'l ~ Madison 1~.esz. vest from JefTer-
son. They are now down about so feet with
the main shaft and have two feet of ore
showing considerable FREQ gold. They all
ready have Al arastra up and expect to work
the ore next season.
water was t,,rnel out OF the Butte ditch
about the middle OF November, since which
time the miners picks and shoyels have been
laid up to dry. The mining season was
successful one, asld. some forty psrsons.will
remain 10 the camp during the winter to
make preparations for early operations in the
spring.
Mr. W. X. C1anton. just up from Cedar,
says that the prospectors on No. Is above
discovery, on Trout. have had to abandon
their works for the winter. They struck the
rim rock twenty-four feet fiona. tho surface.
and took out about $40 of coarse gold from
the bottom of the shaft. They then ran
iriit to the LETT about twenty feet from the
'haff. anti sunk down fonr feet deeper, OBJ
Iainel little gold in the gravel, bat not
enough to pay, though they were unable to
each bedrock in the channel. Work will |
DC resumed in the spring, and the deep chan
,el thoroughly tested. Independent,
THE MuscLEsHELL VxLLEY.-The Muscle |
hell Valley will be traversed during the next |
feighting season by two important wagon
oads-onc from Helena, by way Of Deep
reck, and the other direct hoaa Bezcman to |
he Missouri The latter vii! prove, BIZ many
niles. the shortest route. The people of |
salla.in have naYhgable waters, and. a.little
expenditure on their part would probably i
make It one of our principal frciglting routes.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company /
ave announced that they will next spring
eliYer Montana freight at the. Mouth of the /
iusc leshell at astonisIlingly low figures. IfF
ne promise should be fulfilled, considerable
merchandise may next year be brought into
dadison county ny way OF Bozeman and the
iusclesheH. The Mnscleshell Valley is re-
'orted 10, be Zine Agricultural district, and
arming settlements will probably be made
yer there the coming yaar Ma,,ya.,: