Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-12-14

success, and only asks the public to call and
examine for themselves. He has a large
ranch situated in the midst of Beaverhead
valley, a few miles above the Point of Rocks,
and his stock consists of between six and
eight hundred head. Persons DESTROYS of
purchasing horses to do labor or for breed
ing purposes, will do we'll to address or Wis
it Mr.. Mauldin.
MEssRs. GRUBB s. WRINGER, who have
been making preparations to commence the
development of the Pine Tree Lode, sit,lat-
ed at the head of Montana gulch, are now
ready to ommenc work in earnest. They
have built a good residence and got every
thing in readiness for a long and earnest
siege. Last week they traced the lead by
sinking holes at short intervals from discov-
cry a considerable distance down the hill to
point where they will their tun-
mel which they will run in on the lead. The
lead at the main shaft, which is down 80
feet, is about Is inches in width, but at the
point where their tunnel will commence, it
is fully five feet. Some little time will be
lost making the survey to ascertain the dis
lance to be run to come under the shaft, and
the depth at that point beneath the surface !;
but in course Of a week the work will be
fairly under way. Not a citizen of Meagher
county but looks forward to the develop
ment of the quartz on this hill with greatin-
terest. All believe that it is rich beyond
question, and if properly developed, would
bring a season of prosperity to the county,
and to Diamond never before known.
Anew evenings since, feeling a thirst for
a little fresh air, we took a stroll over to
Boulder gulch, and made a brief call upon
our esteemed friend, w. III. Vance, whose
mining claim is situated upon Spruce bar,
on the south side of Boulder. The ground
is about forty feet from surface to the bed
rock, and is worked from q tunnel starting
on the rim of the gulch. The dirt is run
out on hand-cars to the point of the hill, a
short distance from the mouth ofthe tunnel,
and is dumped into an inclined chute which
conducts it down the steep hillside to a per-
p%endicular cliff, from which it leaps into a
long string Of sluices below, where it, is
washed. The dirt is run a distance of about
500 feet. The tunnel is large and of suf-
ficient height for a man to walk upright, ex-
cept at intervals where the ground has been
worked out on the sides where it lowers to
the usual height of a drift. There are a
number of cross drifts run at right angles to
the main tunnel, for the purpose of pros
pecting, but all the space from which the
dirt has been removed is filled with boul-
ders, which are piled back, leaving only
room enough to pass in and out with the
car. Mr.. Vance has been several years in
opening this ground, but he has, at length,
defined the pay streak which pays well, and
is believed to be the same which was found
on Boulder bar, and Poverty hill, and is
now proving so rich on the second bars
near Eldorado. Mr.. Vance has over 1900
feet of this ground, from which we think
he is sure to realize a handsome stake.
THE Rural Ne,D- Yorker now comes to us
with sixteen clean, neatly-printed pages,
embellished with fine illustrations and full
of scientific and practical Agriculture and
Literature. For the agriculturist and the
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