Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-06-27
No. 81

able auspices of quick transit for Montana
freight to and from the head of navigation
on the Missouri?
The grazing lands produce the peculiar
bunch grass, upon which subsist hundreds
of thousands of cattle, horses and sheep
without other food, in winter or summer,
and upon which they live the year rourd
without shelter or other care, except the
presence Of the shepherd.
! The timber lands produce the best OF
building lumber of yellow and white pine
and cedar, and poles for fencing. By
special act OF Congress no royalty is to be
paid the Government for wood and lum-
Der for domestic purposes.
The mineral lands yield gold, silver,
copper, lead and coal.
Helena, the capital aud commercial me-
tropolis, is eligibly situated in the midst
! of the largest mineral region in the world,
within twelve miles of the Missouri river,
overlooking the beautiful Prick)y Pear
valley, fifteen miles wide, prosperous in
agriculture and varied by scenery pictur-
esque and magnificent.
Within radius of sixty miles, with
Helena as a center, are embraced most OF
the richest gold and silver mines in Mon
tana, including those of Butte City and
Silver Bow and all those famous mines
of gold and silver quartz and placer now
working and producing, and designated as
Philipsburg, Cable, Indian creek, Lincoln,
Mcclellan, Virginia creek, North and
South Boulder, Blackfoot, Nevada creek,
Diamond, Duck creek, EldoradO bar,
spokane bar, Browns gulch, Grewe]rs
bar. Washington bar, Carpenters bar,
Norwegian. Cave, New York, Whites,
Magpie, Mitchell, Benton. Holmes,
Thompson, Tucker, Confederate and Av-
alanche gulches, American bar, Mings
bar. French bar, Keatingsville, Cedar
Plain, Deer Lodge and Dan Tucker.
The 120-mile radius contains other as
great mines, of both gold and silver
quartz and placer, designated as the
Broadway, Iron Rod, Green Campbell,
Victoria, Aurora, Quincy, Borealis, Ever
cit, Hudson. Ajax, Gold Rose, Pony,
Hi ghland. Hot Springs, Cherry creek,
Mill creek, Alder gulch, Bivens gulch,
Wisconsin creek, Bannack, Emigrant
gulch, Sun river, Pioneer, Yam Hill and
Flint creek.
| The head of steamboat navigation on
the Missouri river is within the 12O-mile
radius, at Fort Benton.
Drawing the distance from Helena ny
closer radius of twenty miles, within
which are found the renowned Penobscot,
which shows hundreds of thousands OF
dollars in gold in sight, and the other
mines in the same district of less celeb
rity, but all very rich, viz: the Belmont,
Black Hawk, Snowdrift, Viola, Grey Ea-
gle, Emma Miller, Green, WhippoWil,
Mount Pleasant, Blue Bird, Northern
Light, Griff, Hickey, Drum Loman, Hum
Bug, and Long Tong Tom, some of which
are extensions of the Penobscot. Also
there are the silver mines of the Consol-
idated Gregory, Comet, Rumley, Alta,
Bismarck, Won Arnim, Lexington. Man,
moth, Legal Tender, Australia, Emmet,
Virginia Bell and the galena mines OF the
! Red Mountain and Ten Mile districts.
The Montana Company's mills, concen-
traitor and smelling works, at Wycke's are
also within twenty miles, and the gold
mines of the National Ming Company and
the Columbia Company are at Unionville,
only three miles distant, which also en-
braces the gold placers of Nelson, the
Park and Scratch Gravel. The smelling
works of Midgeon & Farrell and the Last
| Chance gold mines are within the town
proper. .
Contributing as all these mines and in
lstries do to the business of the Metropo-
!, it is but reasonable to suppose that ere
ng it will be the city of the Mountains.
nd Helena now, with it's commodious
lurches, schools, academies, attractive resi-
'nces, public buildings and charities, quick
ed by the liberal and enterprising spirit of
# citizens, presents as favorable surround
gs as may be found elsewhere by the
ranger seeking home, or by those who
ith the star of empire take their westward
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