The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-07-22
Mines and Miners.
Editor Of the Chronicle:

greatness with the steady developmel
of the resources of eastern Montan
realizing the grand future which avail
us, and hearing ON all sides comyuent
land the diversity Of opinion as to Boz
mans future, which, under the pressul
of present financial depression and du
times, leads many to form an erroneou
opinion. Icannot to highly commen
to all who desire to be enumerated i
the near future as stayers and can b
classed among those who accrued tn
benefits with compound interest adyant
ages and held on to what they had got
The history of all great mineral belt
and mining camps are the same, so IA
as the experiences of discovering, locat
ing, freezing Or buying out the poor maj
fand letting In the rich, Then comes thi
facilities for handling ores, smelling ant
/ mill site locations to be looked for, rail
road facilities, making # roads around
and about the network of mines, form.
ing of stock companies, interviewing
capitalists, getting them interested then
to go an look around; trickery and a
miners diplomacy to cornteract run.
ming down one mans mine TO sell his
own lying-oh, no! excuse me. Men
interested in mines, poor or rich, never
lie-the rch one, never. The capitalists
confidential agent, running down and
condemning the camp to make point,
in which there may be thousands at
stake, nay, millions-and he'll keep it
up lift takes him all winter and sum.
mer. MORTGAGES held on poor mems dis
coveries and mines, on which in the
meantime no development may be GO
ing on, and amongst which may be one
of the bonanzas of the camp to buy up
and wait for; high tide one dav with
new discovery; lowest ebb the next.
One miner holding out-he thinks he's
got it big; he knows it, holds on and
blocks the interests of whole combin-
alton for months, sometimes years.
Legislation to wait for right, of way for
railroads; railroads to build disappoint-
ment this year, disappointment the next.
Why don't she move? Capital amt
ready, Pshaw says some one, the
camp amt worth darn. Wait and see,
says another. / don't see what's going
to make times better and build up the
the town, says some one in place at a
point of commercial Importance in which
the shrewd eyes of capital have invested
At last, after all these incidental attend
ing influences of fear, doubt, hope, dis
appointment, anxiety, perseverance,
losses, gains and long waiting, the good
times come. Like train of cars pulling
out of railroad depot with all aboard
comes the change and era of prosperity
hopes run high. That's a picnic. says
one; sold out for fifty thousand, says
another Men who TOUCHED it for years
on bread and bacon now live in and own
residences. That point Aof
commercial Importance has now become
a city ofthirty or fifty thousand inhabit-
ants. An influx OF population; emf
grafton has settled in. every artery, of
'rade and commerce is thrown into new
life and activity every new discovery
md mine from, this time on has a price. |
No long waits !; new companies spring
nto existence the old one are booming. |
hen looking for mines, and finding them |
'ich where men never thought of look |
ng before. Less wire pulling. The con-
idential agent and condemner of the |
amp has got well paid and he seeksnew
ields.l Upward and onward is the order
# the day, The men who have stayed |
cad their advantages prosperity |
bounds. e
TheseEare some of our western expert
noes, and the inevitable vissiscitudes
nd changes of all new countries, de-
'endent on the development of vast
mineral resources. Have we these re-
I answer "yes,' backed not
My by capital already invested and
mines opened at Cooke City, Emigrant
iulch, MiH Greek and Bear Gulch, but
y little closer observation and study,
ract1cal and theatrical, which win
AIRY me out in the assertion that vast
idden wealth Of gold, silver and other
aluable ore bodies and deposits, undls-
overed to-day, lay ON deposit as callat-
raj in that great mountainous belt from
Henderson mountain, south of Cooke
aty. to the very coal formation at Boze-
ian, which covers in a direct line dis
ance of over one hundred miles. A
ollateral sufficient enough to build up
a the future an empire of wealth and
reatness. In the geological reports of
r. Hayden, on his extensive survey
18th his party Of scientists, made in
81, speaking oil this wonderful mineral |
cit and range. be says Standing on an
levated plateau above the lake in the
scond canon or Upper Yellowstone, the
ye took in at a glance one of the most
numerical and remarkable ranges Of
fountains have ever seenin the west
Gulch, q deep, narrow gorge
iercing the heart or eastern extremity
{ this great belt on the east fork of
Greek, has already. at this
arly day, yielded over $50, 1000 from its
lacers, with indications of vast amount
hidden undeveloped mineral wealth
quartz and placers above Emigrant
+ulch south. On the east side of the
'ellowstone river are several other
nlches, which only the hardy and dar-
lg miner has yentured to explore All
le gulches cut through the hasaIt, deep
ito the granitord nucleus, revealing the
lineral character as well as the future
istory Of this range. Time win tell
lore anon.
A MINER.