The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-01-06
|NEER MINES Of MONTANA,
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showing Of the Southwest
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} ack-Marysv1lle-H Horse
|Prairie-Blue Wing-Bald D.,
Mountain -Elkhorn
and Argenta ..' "
Districts.

Districts.
ed of These Mines From $8,O0O,0OO to $1,000
O-Prospect Of the Gpasshoppsr Diggings-
bid Quartz Around Bapnack-The Horse Prairie
acers-The Openings in the Blue Wing Silver
strct-The Bald Mountain Quartz - The Mill
d Mines in the Elkhorn Ditrict-The Galena
strict of Argenta- Of Many Mines Some Must
owe Good-A Peroration Prayer.
BANNAcK, MONTANA, Dec. 20, 1879.
or Butte MINER: ..
article descriptive, i'll part, of the paying
eer mines of Montana will he suitable for
e in the columns of the +" Holiday Edition"
e MINER. II the effort be not crowned with
plete success, be generous and charitable
gh TO accord to the writer thereof sincerity
brpose, and an object to do some good and
arm. If you acquiesce in the proposed par.
for all errors of omission and commission,
acquiescence will be ample and gratuitous
lensation to one who has written thou
S of columns for newspapers, and received
Ryment therefor nothing but stray mcsses of
Indifferent grub.
e long-lOoked for tidal wave of prosperity
Expansion is about to strike the Territory
years, Montanians have been Justify pray
or the coming of the railroad train. While
levout Methodist brethren have been pray
|er the coming of the '.sospei train,'' the
agt Northumberland in the develop
/ OF our mineral and agricultural resources
been necessarily sending up to the throne
dy &c Coming gs Of tho % iron train. s 1t ' is com. @
+cOmng round the bend OF Pleasant Valley
the gospel train"-the other one. Ere an
year has been shclved with the slain
hs OF the past the iron horse Will be SnOrting
IGN the productive valleys or the Beaver
and Jefferson. Thence onward to the con-
ing navigable waters of the Big Muddy.
certainly, will be inauguratsd the expand
mining boom" of Montana. Mines that
heretofeSs been rated as " low grade" will
ucp margins and dividends. With the rail-
will come capital, machinery and expert
men, and this combination will revolu-
|ze the camps of the Territory. This is one
be certainties of the near future. What rail
have done for Colorado, Utah and Neva-
mains to be accomplished for Montana. It
Tres no extended vision to see it.
HE BANNACK-MARYSvILL DISTRICT.
mining camp (speaking after the lingo en-
e 10 The mountains), can no more live on
aSt lepute Of its riches than man can on
dinner. 1t is not what II mining camp
'een. but what its prospects for the future
hat will tell in the approaching " boom" so
IDENTIFY anticipated by Sanguine prophets.
use is the" petcrcd " mining camp, for ii
emphaticaily. be likGned 10 an old suit of
ewed garmentS-rich and inagnifir once,
vhen worn out only monument OF better
brighter days.
!nnack and vicinity is entitled 10 the dis
Ion of being the pioneer camp Of the Ter
w. Here, In August. 1852, the first "ounce
PnSS were struck. iStapletous 5 bar, located
site the - ancient capital" was the iirst dig
worked in the Territory that yielded an
fe of gold per day to the man, and that, too,
[le slow and tedious process Of the hand
er. Here the famous Dacota lode was the
discovery of rich deposit OF gold-bearing
u; from the original discovery prospect
there was panned from So to $50 to the pan.
owing thee s.finds" were many others IN
neighborhOOd OF equal richness and eN-
ilhn the seventeen years that have passed
WASH Stapleton stripped the gravel off
first PIT on the bar that bears his name. IL
umated that $4,000, 600 to 81 ,0C0. .UOo worth of
precious metals have been dug out OF Ban
ana the districts located in the surround
gulches Il! Il mountains adjacent thereto.
estimate is based on data Obtained from Mr..
Roe, banker, who Is II '62-er, and who has
experience sufficient to justify the making
close approximate estimate OF the gross
j. Surely, this is a good record for the past.
mines hereabouts are not worked out On
contrary, some Of them are but feebly pros
u large scope OF the bed OF GrasshopPel
k-deep grOund-remains unprospected Iht
e.cle that has heretofore prevented the
ing OF the deep channel is its fiat condition
'ng drainage by the common method OF bed
drains next to impossible. This difiiculty
oe overcome by the introduction of large
pumps for drainage, and they will be intro
time. The low and high bars on botil
OF the stream, for many miles, have been
and, SO tar as mined, the deep channel has
en- good. Much Of the guich remains TO De
Aed, and the day is not distant when hun
OF th ousands of dollars in gold will be
,ttherefrom. This is no speculative propil-
The event only awaits the proper nppllGu-
OF powerful machinery, operated by the
y OIL persevering men.
aeer mining operations for the past summer
not as extensive in the Bannack district as
primer years. Still, all the water bitches were
Broiers worEed @ti epss hs alaeter dtsh and dig
and made money Shereat. The bar diggings
the Jerusalem canyon, were Workeu UNI
lroze up with the Madigan ditch, the VII
lch strikes were reported. the miners gener,
made money TO live on in an independent
risky manner. Messrs. Pat Dempsey, Cy
Key and /" Yank" Williams own patented
OF forty acres OF drifting diggings located II
Of Bannack, and embracing the greek
lnel ,ani Yankee Flat. The GOtche Bros
a lease, work portion, and are getting
ng prospects; as high as 500 o. TO me pan 60 o
~ ~ mining for the coming season Is not ma
illyldiminished, and from this source guam
(0me 49,. - .as .-.-.- = o., ..--..-'r
far greater importance in regard 10 a per
lent and prosperous future for this section
ohtana, III the gold and silver lOdes. on lii
and silver quartz and ores must rest th'
nee for wealth and prosperity in the un
days rolling around, for surface and placer
+lngs will play out. Messrs. Trask 4 Graves
chants and miners. have been successfully
prOfitabiy operating some OF their extensiv,
es within the closing year. Their workin,
fations have been confined, principally, Il