The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-12-28

vantage is that It can be worked at compare
lively small cost, owing to its favorable stu
alton. There are new on the dunno and az
the smelter four or five hundred tons of this
ore. Some three months ago the w. & E.
was stocked by the owners. The capital is
$1,000, 900, divided into 500, 900 shares, and
tor the purposes of development q limited
number of shares 600, 00O) are offered for
sale at fifty cents a share. The principal
stockholders are Hiram Z. Wright, Z. G..
Power 6 Bro, Jos. S. Hill, H. K. Edwards,
Z. E. Collins, J. j. Healy, Col. Donnelly,
John Hunsberger, Col. Clendennin and Joe.
Lessard. That the Wright 6 Edwards will in
time prove one Of the leading silver mines
Of Montana does not in our opinion admit Of
question.
MINES.
Of the other leads that have been develop
ed to some extent and give forth abundant
promise may be mentioned the Benton, Boss,
Palmetto, Pittsburg, Lynch s. Conway, Van
derbilt, Silver Belle, Queen of the Hills, An
| ma Parnell. and a host of others. Il the same
amount of work we're done on these that has
beef put on the Barker and w. s. e., the lat
ter might be out ranked. The leads men
toned and many others in the district are
fine prospects, and in all probability the time
is not far distant when some Of them will be
valued at hundreds Of thousands of dollars.
qoorkjng months have rolled by since the first
| discoveries were made at Barker, and no
vast amount Of development can be expected.
There are no great n5nes, but hundreds of
prospects as encouraging as ever seen in a
mining district.
THE SHELTER.
Until q mill has been erected for the re-
ductlon Of the ores but little progress can be
expected at a quartz mining camp, especially
when situated like Barker, at q great distance
from other reduction works and from any
shipping point. Barker's first smelter was
erected during the past summer, and but a
few weeks ago its belts were adjusted and
the work Of treating ore commenced. Up to
this time some two hundred tons of ore have
been crushed and roasted and by the 10Th OF
next month the blast furnace will be in oper-
alton, turning out the all-precious bullion.
There will be 800 tons of bullion ready for
shipment by the first of April, and several
freight trains will be kept busy during the
summer transporting the product OF the
smelter to Beuton. The enterprise deserves
more than a passing notice, and its project
ors merit the gratitude Of everybody interest
ed in Barker or Benton, To the efforts Of
COL GEORGE ~CLENDENTN, JR.,
more than any other one person, may be at
tributed the pleasing fact that one Of the best
smelters in the Territory is now in operation
ct Barker, and the further fact as Well-a
natural sequence-that the camp has made
ench ra did progress during the past year.
Laet winter, when no work of consequence.
had been done at the camp ; when few in
deed would have made the smallest invest
NEST there when everybody else was LAM
guild and Indifferent as 10 its development
Col. Clendenin went E tst and enlisted Bos-
ton and Chicago capitalists in the good
cause, succeeding in the organization of the
Clendenin Mining & Smelling Company.
Since then the company have erected q mag
~nificent smelter at tie camp, and are engag-
ed in the development of several of the
mines. Col. C1endenin has devoted his whole
energies to the work of furthering the enter.
prise, and is now a resident of Gold Run,
experimenting the extensive business of the
company. The RIVER Press trusts that the
Colonel and those interested with him will in
proper time reap the rich reward their ef-
forts merit.
EPROF. N. A. Foss.
The Mining and Smelling Co. were FORUM
ate in securing the services of Prof. N. A.
Foss, who built the smelter and is now oper-
ating the same. In the face Of innumerable
difficulties he has succeeded, il less than four
months, in completing the smelter and one
that will compare favorably, in every res
pect, with any in the Territory. When it is
remembered that he put up a saw mill and
cut his own lumber, burned bis oWn bricks,
built a dozen houses, made roads. and did
plenty Of other work, besides completing the
smelter, and all in four months, it will be
readily seen that Prof. Foss is not q man
who permits the grass to grow under his
feet. The most important consideration,
however, is that the smelter is a complete
success. tt has not been necessary to stop .
single moment for repairs since the start was
made, a month ago. This is something IN
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