Bismarck tri-weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1881, 1877-08-13

expenses, over thousand dollars day,
and it will take years to exhaust It. ].
B. Crooker, of Minneapolis, has just
purchased aquarter interest in the
FAIRHAyEN
mine for twelve thousand dollars. have
reason to believe that $4,000 would not
be accepted for either of the other three
quarter interests remaining. Don Steven
son, of Bismarck, was offered halt in
terest in this mine, little over year
ago, for one hundred dollars. The quartz
can be quarTied and reduced for two dol
lars and fifty cents per ton, or less, and it
has, SO far, yielded on an average, 5000
per ton. What seems to be 2 true vein
has now been struck which yields 500 to
the ton. Mr.. Croker leaves for the east
tomorrow to purchase 2o-stamp mil,
which will reduce twenty tons daily,
giving an income, even at the lower rate,
Of over $500 day to the owners of the
mine, but i < believe the result will be
more than three times this. Thus lead
was discovered by .#sf u s
CALIFORNIA JOE,
|who begged several Bismarck men to be-
come interested with him in its develop
ment, and finally sold it for $500, took
the money, went off on s'toot" ard was
killed by a comrade. ;.-E
THE GOLDEN STAR
was discovered about year ago, and its
discoverer, Smoky Jones, offered half
interest in it to Tom Winston and Ed
Donahue, of Bismarck, for fifteen hund-
red dollars. Smokey now receives $1,000
per month for the small interest he re-
tains and his associates have refused
three hundred thousand dollars for their
interest. The ore yields from forty-ive
dollars ton upward.
Two or three Minnesota boys who
"never amounted to much at home," the
old man said when he noticed their dis
like for hoeing potatoes, are the owners
of the
HOMESTAKE,
decidedly the best lead in the Hills so far
discovered. The hard working farmer
boys of a year ago now take rank among
the millionares.
THE FATHER DESMET
and the Woolsey lodes which have been
spoken of in these columns, are being
worked satisfactorially and are payiug
immensely. ....... ... d.
THE KEATS
is among the best paying mines and is
expending for the labor of machinery,
men and animals, not less than two thou
sand dollars a week. Two hundred
stamps will be at work on this mine with
in the next ninety days.
v THE PLACER MINES
are rich but unsatisfactory to the great
mass of gold seekers. The gold bearing
gulches are about 200 miles in extent, but
for various reasons but little ground is
being worked. The men at work keep
their own counsel if doing well, other
wise they get disguised and soon leave
for new scenes. It is well proven fact,
however, that other mines have yielded
more than the celebrated Wheeler claim,
which was bought for $15oo and paid for
out of the first days run, and was sold,
after yielding $50, 900 for few hundred,
but has yielded more to its present pur-
chaser than to the old, and large force
of men is still at work drifting here and
there, working over with profit the old
tailings.
At the banking Office of Stebbins,
Wood and Post, was shown one nugget
owned by J. H. Adams, of Minneapolis,
worth $12 81 and another taken from the
same claim worth $147, together with
many smaller ones. These were taken
from Bear Gulch.
DR.. BURLE1GH,
who has opened claim on Castle Creek,
using expensive machinery for pumping,
Is rewarded with coarse gold to the ex-
tent of sixty three cents to the pan.
The Doctor showed us vial of this gold
last evening. The scales were in size
about like shot crushed, ranging in size
from fine pigeon shot to coarse buckshot.
THE QUARTZ REGION
bearing gold is about two miles wide and
probably forty long. Adjoining this on
either side we have silver and lead, and
several discoveries of copper have re-
Gently been made. .s- -...
- CINNABAR e,
is found at many places in the Hills, and
a lead of it yielding pure quicksilver g
reported to have been opened,
but did not see it.
/. s-sf. II CUSTER WAS RIGHT .s-1 -
in speaking of platinum as. one of the
products Of the Hills. Many traces of it
have been found, but of the gold and sill
yer there can be no doubt. At -l
-s,s-.s GALESA
I saw hundreds of tons of galena dead
and silver combined) ready for shipment
to St. Louis, yielding over $500 to the
ton. Here two smelling works and sev-
eral quartz mills are being erected
E. R. COLLINS,
formerly of Bismarck, is interested in the
Red Jacket, rich silver lead, but is not
yet prepared to open it. y
THE Ell REFUGIO srs-a
shows up to the best advantage because
most has been done to develop it, but
there are dozen others in the vicinity,
perhaps hundreds, just as rich. The
mines paying most are at Central City,
because they are advanced most in devel-
but at Lead City, one and one