The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-11-26
Upper Yellowstone Mining.

uItclY uiOI0 cAGtItSlS0 WOlA WDtCH l
presages. And if (which seems al
most a certainty the two heavy smelt
ers contemplated by that company are
erected. they will form but a porticr
of the extensive mining operations il
prospect for the Upper Yellowstone
region next summer.
! Aylesworth & Van Tassel announce
their intention of erecting concentrat.
ing works upon their property, the
Great Eastern lode, in Emigrant
gulch. and if the present arrangements
are carried out at least one other ore
working mill will be put in motion in
the same district next season.
In Bear guich, owners Of quartz
claims are devoting their energies and
money to the development of their
properties with the hope of inducing
or comprising by some means the
erection of machinery there at an
early date. The district is certainly a
rich one and will make for itself a
| brilliant record as soon as its ore is
worked,
Mil Greek and Six Mile districts do
not figure as prominently in prospec.
tive quartz developments, but will un-
doubtedly come to the font as soon as
the investment of capital in that re-
gion is fairly begun.
In placer mining, which has SO long
been prosecuted in those districts, a
new era is beginning to dawn-the era
of hydraulic mining, A company
possessing abundant capital has se-
cured control of a large tract of rich
placer ground in Bear gulch and is pre-
parlng to mine it ''fOr all it is worth
next summer. In Mill Creek DR.. New
comb is the owner of One-half inter-
est in placer ground which he himself
says he will work by hydraulic pro-
cess next spring.
In Emigrant gulch, to which placer
mining has been mainly confined since
the days Of the first camp in 1868, the
most extensive, developments are in
prospect for another year. Glidden &
Schaeffer, who have mined there long
and successfully, are preparing for
operations ON larger scale than ever
before. A young man named Brown,
a late arrival, has taken up claim
and will begin Immediately and work
throughout the winter, drifting on
bedrock. ready to take out the gold in
the spring. Beside these are the min
ers who have been sluicing during the
last and former seasons, and who are
said to have cleaned up from $6 to 81
per day. They will prosecute their
work in the future and, it is not i'm
probable, with improved appliances.
The Henry Willard company and the |
much talked of association Of Balti-
more capitalists may develop into
more than mere names by
the beginning of the mining season
and add their important quota to the
aggregate of Upper Yellowstone oper.
ationS.
A gentleman whose interests are
1
equally divided between the two dis
Bricts lately offered us his opinion that
5he country between Livingston and
the Park would ultimately develop
rreater wealth than the Clark's Fork
.egion. This is broad cc..atement and
me that we are at present hardly pre-
,ared to accept, though it would not
)e surprising if its truth should yet
,ecome apparent. Lodes have been
discovered which equal if not surpass
ny in Clark's Fork in richness, but
t is very doubtful if there is as great
body Of ore in the upper Yellow
tone districts as in Clark s Fork, or
{ they would average as great value
er ton. In one respect, however, the
iver districts have the advantage.
from their situation near the railroad
nd convenient base Of supplies at
and from the fact that |
bundant fuel exists in practically in i
xhaustlble quantities in the immedi- G
late vicinity, ore may be mined and 4
'orked in the Emigrant Gulch and 4
djoining districts at a much less cost s
lan in HlarK's Fork, where at present lu
must be freighted to and {