The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-12-09

Ton miles further on the-old and rich
mining cann Of Red Bluff is reached;
many ofltile mines in this camp are well
developed there are six quartz mills and
number Of arastas on Warm Spring
creek and vicinity. The ores are too
base, however to be worked by the ordin-
AIRY milling process and it is now cOnced-
ed that they can only be successfully
worked by smelling. There Is now up
wards ofone hundredthousard tons Of ore
on tie dumps without this district none
Of which would require moving over
three or four miles to be placed upon
the cars should road be built by this
route. There also have been taken
from these IIines end stored by tho
owners great mounts Of hiSh grade mp,
Pia2 ores ihI, vanid pas 10 ship u
Omaha for reduction. How rich the ore
must be will be seen when it is under
stood that the average cost Of mining is
about Sl.50 per ton, wagon transportation
to Bozeman SO ter ton, the railroad
freight from Bozeman to Omaha $3.50
per ton and the cost ofreduction at the
Omaha works $500 per ton making
total of S43.10 per ton expense. Still
there is considerable ore being shipped
and a good profit made even under
these unfavorable conditions but the low
grade ores must wait for cheap railroad
Transportation, the large mine owners, and
ore producers Of this camp says that it a
road was assured BY this route, that
one million tons of ore would be mined
and ready to move to cheap fuel before /
the road could each that camp. Eight !
miles futher the Richmond Flat and /
Meadow Creek mines are situated. In ,
this camp mining is carried on quite ex- I
tensively and some very rich shipping
ore produced. About six miles further
the camp Of Pony is reached, where
there are three quartz mill only one of
which is in operation
Large quantities of low garde ores are
stored for future shipments only the
high grade and free milling ores being
now workable b. the means at hand
Then comes fhe Willow Greek and South
Boulder mines with Abundance Of l.w
grade ores that can only b. made availa
BILE by the construction of railroad; the
road would also pass near the Silver Star
Irohdall, and Pipestone mines the dis
lance from Bozeman to Butte would be
ninety miles the route direct The road
bed would pass directly oyer for long
distance the largest iron deposit in the
whole territory. Commencing about fif-
teen miles from Bozeman it would also
pass near the Middle creek and West Gal
latin coal deposits and give Butte a new
source'of lumber supply from the abnn-
ance and inexhaustable forest of the
West Gallatin and Spanish Creek. This
line would not parallel the Northern
Pacific single mile, but would open up
new business and new industries from
beginning of the line to its end.
1t is generally conceded that no line of
road could be built within this territory
that would tap so many mining camps
and develop so much new business along
its line, distribute fuel at so many points
where it is so much needed and so uni
versally benefit the country at large by
increasing the volume of business in
every channel. II is we'll known that
the fuel supply at Butte is becoming each
year more uncertain. The timber on
the adjacent mountains is being rapidly
and wood for smelling purp-
oses will soon be out of the question. It
now costs from SIS to $3.50 per cord and
coal is shipped from FIVE to six hundred
miles over the Union Pacific and Utah
g. Northern and has to be transferred
from broad to a narrow gaurge costing
the smelters IS 70 SO Der ton. Her sup
ply Of coke comes from Pennsylvania and
cost the Butte men $40 to $24 pr r ION
Coal from the GalIatin and Rock Greek
coal fields could be furnished foi one
half the price now paid. and coke for less
than half frats class article Of which is
being made al tlle Bozemsn mines. At
.hese prices WOOD would be no LONGER
lsed and the coal and coke business for
Butte alone would amount to fully $780,
40 tons annually, the consumption of
soit wood the past year having been up