The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-09-10
Fort Benton. Montana. Wednesday, September
there is plenty of good pay ground to be
found in that vicinity

there is plenty of good pay ground to be
found in that vicinity.
LITTLE ROCKY NUGGETS.
q. A, Parsons will load a mackinaw
with 10000 pounds of vegetables for
Rocky Point, this week
Joe. Gauvreau is expected from the
mines tomorrow, when we shalt have
additional confirmatosy reports from
that region.
Never, since the days of Alder and
Confederate gulches, has there been
prospects SO fattering for rich diggings
as at the Little Rockies.
What better evidence do we want that
there is gold in the Little Rookie than
the specimens brought in by Frank
Aldrich, and his reports of the amount
taken out.
"Too good to be true" says chap
who has not done any work for four
years, guess will stay where I am"
So he would, unless he could pick up
nuggets as big as his fist in the street,
even the effort would nearly paralyze
him.
The faith of Fort Benton people in
the mines has never wavered. When
the news came that gold had been found
in paying quantities, old-timers smiled
and said, II told you SOL" The belief
has always been prevalent that good
diggings existed in that locality, the
finding of which has not astonished the
old prospectors, as the stampede of old
time citizens from Fort Benton will tes
tify.
The best way of getting to the mines
is by river to Rocky Point. By this
means any interference by the military
will be avoided. From Rocky Point
the distance to the mines is only fifteen
to eighteen miles over good road. The
road overland, said to be the best, is
that to the crossing of Cow creek, 100
miles, thence under the mountains to the
camp, 35 miles. A look at the map will
convince any one that this is the short
est route, as the road via Assinaboine
and Belknap is at least sixty miles far
ther.
jake Odenwald, Herman Brinkman,
Ben Short, John Smith and Mike Hen
derson left yesterday. Wilton & Coombs
will send out Gus Okerman and Jack
Faucet to-day to represent them. Hig-
gins & Ayres will send a four-horse ex-
press on Thursday, prepared to carry
freight and passengers. w. 5. Stocking
left on Sunday. Mike Lynch sent out
an outfit yesterday and will follow them
to-day on horseback. Edmund Inger-
soil and George Westevelt are booked to
leave to-day. Scores Of others are on
the way Or preparing to go.
The most skeptical man in Fort Ben
ton cannot now doubt the existence of
gold in paying quantities in the Little
Rockies. The reports received from
Frank Aldrich, the sample of the pre-
cious metal brought in by him, and the
kilograms from Aspling and Halpin, re-
move all doubts heretofore existing, and
has created genuine enthusiasm seldom
equaled in Fort Benton. Cool-headed
men are taking the fever and quietly
slipping out of town. All the old pros
pectors have gone; in fact, the general
impression is that every one except
those whose business interests will de-
tain them in town will go. Horses
worth $50 a week ago are held at $50
now. We may soon expect the rush
from above of men who have joined in
every stampede since 1S49, and the re-
ports which will cause the stampede to
the Little Rockies has the genuine ring,
aud the disappointment attending the
rush to the Cour d'Alenes will not be
repeated in this instance.
The Little Rocky Mines.