The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-02-15
BUTTDa ROOT NEWS.
Rich Mines, Good Water and Tim
ber, Beautiful Farming Ooun-
Try and 4 Stock Board.

SrEvExsvlLLE, Mont, Feb. 3, 1852.
Editor Butte Miner:
The mines Of this county MissOula'
are p owing to be very rich. Work will
be commenced on the Pleasant View.
Monday, by Messrs Bass ( Abesnethy.
Operations were shut down on the 3lst
Of Dec. last, and the mine was then ~
ported played out; the shaft, which Is
sixty-five feet deep, soon filled with wa
ter % no one could contradict the state
ment, and on Feb. 8, 1882, Nessrs Bass
L Abernethy bought the mine for sou.
Upon examination the vein was found
to be four and half feet wide and to
carry an ounce of silver to the pound Ut
ore, or s., 200 per. ton on an average.
The Bitter Root Prince is opening up
finely. The vein il small, only two feet
eight inches wide, but very rich, assaying
nearly s5,OoO per ton. 1t is very easily
worked. being free milling ore. There
are over two hundred locations at Sweat
House on which nothing Is being done.
and which can be bought at very small
price. Many of these are fully rs good
a. the claims now developed. The
quartz in the Bitter RUDt country is UNI
doubtetlly the richest and most product
i've with the least work that ever saw,
and am an experienced miner. We
are surrounded by quartz ON every side.
sweat House Is seven miles southwest
" here. Willow Creek, ten miles south
east; Wootlc:luck, ten miles northeast;
10 Lo, fifteen miles northwest, 50 you
see W. are in the center of al extensive
mining country and are now awaiting
farther developments. There arc over
2,5,D locations in those four districts.
Wootlchuck, rs far As developed. Is
shown to lie a mineral mountain, mostly
copper and silver. Specimens from the
Belle mine show up very finely. Float
has been found that carries 0O per cent.
peacock copper: also, specimens have
been found that carry l,5tW ounces Of
silver to the ten.
Woo.lchrwk is undoubtedly the rich
est camp here, but the Lo 10 Is very
nearly rs good, only not having so many
iMutiOns.
Butte is supposed to hc the finest min
ing camp III the United States, but the
Bitter Root mines, will, inside If two
years, lie the richest Of any mines in
Montana, and even more.
1t must be remembered that only ten
months ago the ':onl started here, and
furthermore, Wa nave the hest til,ll'ere,l
and watercd country in the world.
Woo! is plenty anywhere within .
quarter Of IA mile Of any Of the mines,
and water the same, and plenty If it.
All kinds Of building timber arc plenty.
Lumber is cheap-from 81 t" sl2 r.s
1905 feet.
This was always pronounced the hest
farming country in Montana, and it was
not misrrprcscntcl in the least. Fruit.
grow to perfection here, and oats turned
off ninety bushels to the acre, AMI every
thing else in perfection.
There was large emigration here
last year, which will Ike twenty times
greater this year. There are thousand.
; "f acres Of the t'st kind "f land here
waiting +" bc taken ul'. Parties wish
ing to visit this place can better satisfy
thensclvc. by coming than in any Other
way. \ Stock Board is heavily talked
! Of. with capital Of about $::.2!,M'.
Anon.