The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-08-08
Emigrant Still at the Front.


the last two months looking after his in
terests. During those two months he has
seen many changes for the better over last
year. Then the placer interests were the
only things looked after. Now quartz
and quartz mining predominates. For
over twenty years men have worked and
toiled in this gulch for gold. The placers
have yielded gold in large amounts con-
tinually and to-day are doing the same.
Some enterprising men think there must
be large bung hole somewhere and are
anxiously looking for the place where all
the gold came out of the rocks. They
think they will soon find 1t up the main
fork of Emigrant creek. Your cores
pondent visited the upper camp in the
gulch (known as the Sheep Mountain
camp short time ago and there saw
enough to convince the most skeptical
that gold exists in large and we'll defined
veins of quartz. Beginning with Nc
CURES claim on the south and running
north are good veins of gold-bearing
quartz. Mr.. Irving showed me a we'll de-
fined vein with a considerable amount of
work done, the quartz extending from wall
to wall dccomposed quartz easily
worked that all seemed to carry the pre-
cious metal. Following along the noun
tain side and walking on the top of the
vein we came to the Lexington mine own
ed by Riley Noel ct al. The location IS a
choice one and your correspondent saw
tunnels, shafts and cuts all in first class
ore that will, think, mill $40 per ton.
Following the vein to the north the next
location was Mr.. Connell's and others,
looking equally we'll. We then ascended
the mountain and saw the arastra in full
operation, running on Lexington ore. The
boys will certainly make good clean up
when they choose to. We were nicely
entertained by Messrs. Irving and Noel,
and after having dinner wended our way
to our camp at Geo. Dows place. Will
liam Grcy's Buena Vista lode looks we'll
and gives promise Of being great gold
and silver mine when developed. The
Little Mac and Gold Leaf arc two promis-
ing gold leads owned by Chas. Souls and
Mr.. Hotter. The North Star lode on the
extreme west of the belt, owned by Counts
and others, looks promising. Dow's Bos
ton lode has more development on it than
any other mine in the gulch think George
has got it sure. The Silver Cliff lode
owned by Hobbs and others shows some
very rich silver ore, mostly of carbonate
nature. They will soon sink shaft on
the vein where they will be apt to strike a
large body of rich ore. The Old Jim
lode on the branch known as Fridley
creek shows up an immense vein of galena
ore which Messrs Bucher, Babcock and
partners have improved much this sum-
mer by good substantial developments.
The placer interests are being worked as
steadily as ever. Mr.. Anderson still is
piping the auriferous gravel from long
sought but recently found old channel on
the west side of the creek. He and his
family have at present gone to Bozeman.
Everything in the Gulch indicates a year
of progress and the camp is destined at
no distant day to be one of the greatest
carbonate camps in the Rockies. Your
correspondent has seen more indications
of rich silver ore here than at any other
place in any of the many mining camps
he ever was in. Many mining men from
Butte have visited the Gulch this summer
and all went away we'll pleased with the
camp and with a desire to return soon.
Messrs. Hotter, Hauser and Bailey are ex-
pected here soon and we think soon the
toilers in the camp will hear the stamp
dropping ON good gold ores that will,
with the rich silver and placer mines,
make Emigrant Gulch star in the crown
of Montana. A SoJER.
How 1t Was Discovered.
Joseph Nimmo Jr., chief of the bureau
of statistics, is responsible for the follow
ing account of the discovery of the value
of the northwestern plains as stock
growing area: "Early in December, 1864,
a government trader, with wagon train
of supplies drawn by oxen, was on his
way to Camp Douglas, in the Territory of
Utah; but on being overtaken on the Lara
mie plains by an unusually severe snow
storm, he was compelled at once to 60 into
winter quarters. He turned his cattle
adrift expecting, as matter of course,
they would soon perish from exposure and
starvation. But they remained about the
camp, and, as the snow was blown off the
highlands, the dried grass afforded them
an abundance Of forage. When the spring
opened they were found to be in even bet
ter condition than when turned out to die
four months previously"
,Saddest of All.
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