The Delaware City news. (Delaware City, Del.) 188?-18??, 1889-03-21
MORE GOLD FIELDS DISCOVERED
MINERS rLocKINe TO SWEET oRAs,

MINERS FLoCKiNG TO SWEET GRASP
HILLS IN MoNTANA-GOLD AND sII
YER IN PAYING QUANTITIES.
MINNEAPoLIs, MIMI, March Is -
A special to the Tribune from Big
Sandy Montana, says: This little town
is full of excitement over the develop
ment of gold mines in the Sweet Grass
Hills, 55 miles northwest of here.
People have Just arrived from the
hills reporting that miners In Eclipse
Gulch are making from $50 to $50 day.
The most of the gold is taken out in
the placer diggings. But blue ore
has been struck by several parties In
the hills, and the country IS full of
piospectors from Helena and other
mining districts. IT the present rush
continues Strengthened times must
inevitably result, as men from all parts
Of Montana and Dakota are flocking
here In great numbers without making
adequate provision for subsistence.
Frank stiles, of Chamberlain, South
Dakota, heads party of gold
seekers who arrived form st. Paul
yesterday. They will open mine
owned by Stiles, in East Butte, and
are all prepared to locate claims.
Beside the gold deposits, which are
the centre of interest, the amount of
silver in the rock at the hills has led to
the organization of three companies,
the Brown, Reid & Belle, the Detroit
and the Hazel. which are now opening
mines at East Butte in the hills Other
parties are prospecting for this ore
which exists in well defined leads all
through this region.
Actual work at the mines has
as yet only fairly begun, but
the results are very salts
factory to the parties working claims.
To Alfred IIilles, Butte miner, is
probably due the credit Of the discov.
cry Of gold in paying quantities in the
hills. He has been working quietly at
Middle Butte, and shows about $4,000
for his labors. About week ago,
however, a general rush commenced,
and now the country is overrun with
prospectors, some of whom have abso.
lutely nothing, and supplies cannot be
brought in fast enough to feed any
body. 1t looks as if temporary famine
was imminent.
The Sweent Grass Hills. in which
the gold has been discovered, are 90
miles by wagon road northwest Of Big
Sandy, and just south Of the interna-
tional boundary. The hills comprise
three buttes, varying In elevation from
1900 to S4U0 feet Water and timber
are abundant in East Butte, no timber
and water scarce in Middle Butte.
Between and around the buttes are
broad bottom lands with small reeks.
The richest placer diggings are at
Eclipse Gulch, In Middle Butte and
Hazel Lines Gulch in the East Butte.
Silver. copper, iron AMI fine
quality of marble have been
found, while coal Is abundant on Milk
river and Sage Rock, to the east. If
the present immigration continues
these mines will be developed in a
short time, and prices of food, now at
the top notch, will go up out of sight.
Scarcely man at the mines is getting
less than "a day, that being the
wages pail, but nearly every one
is prospecting for himself.
The one great obstacle here is
the distance from market. There
are but two lines of railroad here.
DIR. Barker, of Helena, and party OF
Ohio capitalists control valuable
property here, and have decided to
develop these mines next month, TAX
ing the products TO Benton or Great
Falls. Like every one else here. they
are enthusiastic on gold finding, and
nothing else can be heard around here
but the strike in the Sweet Grass Hills
and the development of the mines.