Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-04
JEFFERSON COUNTY.
Interesting Matters Concerning the Cen.
trail Portion of the County.


Regular Correspondence Of THE liner.
BASIN CITY, NJ. T., September 1.-Planted
in a mass of natures upheavals. whose
| peaks, decked with verdure, tower towards
heaven, this little camp of gold, silver, cop
| per and iron lies in quietude, but with such
resources held temptingiy out, that the
passer by stops in admiration and is filled
| with wonder.
| THE RIVER
| courses from the main summit of the Rocky
| Mountains in the Fourth of July district,
through Elk Park, enters the rugged can
yon twelve miles below, trends down the
main gap in the mountains which tower
upward hundreds of feet, decked with huge
masses OF p~orphyretic rock, castellated in
| az pearance, but all carrying sulphides, car.
Donates, chlorides, %sulphurets, pyrites oil
gold. silver and copper, but not in such
quantities, SO far as discovered, as will
justify their working.
Underneath these mountains OF crop
pings may lie untold millions of treasure,
only to be relieved from their confinement
by the hand OF the prospector or honest
miner.
On either side of the canyon the timber
growth is OF such immensely that two saw
uAil6 udNC DccA successfully Tuu ny Jel
Lavel, OF Butte, and T. +, Murray, OF
Boulder.
BOWLING DOWN THE ANYON
under the manipulation of ribbons, held
by Charley Cole, behind good stock, we
soon struck into a gold-bearing district,
where placer diggings predominate. From
Calvin's ranch 1.-THE stage station) upwards
the entire bottom is filled with gold dust,
hr,f 10 ton Anf ~ lA c,,o.On,f,1r ,,@-1~ol
The ground pans out from 81 to 50 per
day, and is only considered in the light OF
Chinese diggings.
Between Smiths ranch and Amos Cal
wins ranch, Mike ~Donoughue is running a
tunnel, which is in eighty feet. He is in on
bedrock and expects.to hit the main chan
mel at a distance OF 100 feet, at a depth OF
thirty-fve feet from the surface. The owner
has taken out considerable dust, but so
far is only opening up the face and working
on prospective rackets. In three weeks
work he has taken out several hundred
dollars.
Exit CARSON
This is IL mine of which mention a been
made before in THE MINER columns. It is
owned by Hauser, Hotter, Gibbons ct al.
The mine is bound to be one of the most
valuable properties in the whole belt which
extends over the entire Territory. The
shafts are down Is, 20, Is and 6 feet. trac-
ing the lead on the surface. The tunnel is in
$50 feet on the vein. At a distance of 200
feet in the tunnel a shaft forty feet deep
has been sunk on the ore-body. The vein
contains principally free milling gold and
silver ore. The strata averages six feet in
width with one foot of high grade. Some j
OF the pay crevice has assayed as high at |
s23, 900 in silver and 5000 in gold. The
asst shipment OF ore, amounting to forty
IONS, by battery assay at the Wickes |
works, went $1,000 per ton. The company
Ire at present making preparations to put
a large force of men.
CALvIN's RANCH.
Twenty-Five miles from Butte lies the
'anch owned by Amos Calvin, late Ser
'eant-at-Arms in the Council. He is carry
ng on the dairy business and manufactur-
ng hay. The country adjoining him is
prolific in it's nutritious bunch grasses.
every gulch is magnificent with scenic ef-
ects, which surpass those of foreign coun-
ries. The pencil of Bernstadt could not do
ustice to the sublime grandeur OF Natures
PICTURES which are here presented. Every
ulch is also productive, SO far as miner
Is go.
Taken all in all, j, fferson County PROM.
'es to be one of the richest mineral-pro-
ucing sections OF Montana, and, combined
18th it's vast agricultural resources, bids
air to be one n of the most prosperous
ounties in any Territory or State in the
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