The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-09-08

In company with JAS Krippner and A.
NJ. Carter, of Chickory, your correspon-
dent left Livingston last Tuesday to see
the Mill Creek mining district, twenty
miles up the Yellowstone from the latter
town, for ramble through the noun
tains, and have been we'll repaid for all
the trouble in viwing the unknown in her
fancied seclusion of canyons and noun
tains.
By good wagon road one leaves the
Yellowstone Immediately opposite Chick
ory, over the foot hills and into the Mill
Creek bottom om-undoubtedly the best
farming land between the National Park
and Fort Buford, the mouth of
the Yellowstone, and the writer uses
the expression from personal observation
of the entire distance, on foot and horse
back. We reached that spct of Mill
Creek at the mouth of the right hand fork
or the stream about three o'clock in the
afternoon and camped in the Pealed Cab
in, picketed the animals and started for
the head Of Arastra creek, tributary of
the bright Hand Fork" reaching Kripp-
ner, new town mile down the Arastra
from its source footsore and tired. After
supper we were entertained by Daniel
Courtney, proprietor of the Krippner
house, the only hotel in the place. The
town is started on the western end of the
Montana Queen lode, with the Sadie and
Mamie on the south and a portion of the
Mary on the north. On the west and
southwest are the Mammoth and Wilma
lodes, being the only locations in the up
per end of the gulch. Below is the
Stella (Which has recently been incorpor
ated) and adjoining claims are the Legal
Tender on the west and Cliff on the east.
Further down are the y. Courtney and
some thirty other locations. The placer
claims commence at Kripprer and run
down the creek, being D. Courtney s
Geo. H. Wrights and Sam LeRoy's, the
Grace and Helen, and Jas. Krippner's.
Am not all expert but was shown reports
of assays and rock from the same leads
which looks well, and have exhibited
specimens to those who are not interested
in Or have ever seen that country, who
pronounce them good. The Mammoth,
Wilma and Mary are all side by side and
present the appearance of being under
the surface rock, solid mass of galena
ore, carrying gold and silver, iron, copper
and arscnical rock unite with it, but are
more clearly marked in the Cliff lode.
The Dandy Boy and Bull Dozen, are fine
grained galena veins and will run $50 to
the ton on either lode The Mill Creek
Mining Company have located from the
Pcaled Cabin the whole of the Right
Hand Fork as far and beyond the mouth
of Arastra creek. The whole of the
country is new-new to the prospector,
and perhaps while not assaying or pan
ming as much per ton or pan as other
localities, it has this advantage over a
great many and not excelled, perhaps by
any locality in the vast quantity of miner
| al deposits imbeddcd in the heartz and
seams of the vast mountains. It is there
pictueque America might not be claimed
as an actually discovered spot until he
who presents such a picture has passed
the Mill creek canyon and seen this ro-
mantle spot that does rival any of them,
steep walls that rise perpendicularly a
thousand feet, with narrow valley, heavily
timbered through which madly passes the
stream that gives the name to the dis
trict, and for two miles the tressp asser fol-
lows the game trail until the Lower Park
| is reached, spot half a mile wide and
extending four miles, divided from the
middle Park by the still more turbulent
Right Hand Fork. The Middle Park ex-
tending on up the main stream is lost in
the countless gulclles, and valleys of other
tributary streams. The points of interest
on Sentinel Rock, huge 20 foot boulder,
at the ford and broken bridge, Eagle Cliff
and the Apolinar's Springs on the north
and the densely timbered mountains on
the east side. Game is everywhere plen-
iful, elk, bear, deer, grouse, prairie chick
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