The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-07-12
PROF. MORTSON'S ORE SPECIMENS.

At the office of the townsite company
will be displayed today, for the special
delectation of the guests of our citizens,
specimens of gold, silver, copper, lead
and iron ores, taken from the Belt noun
tain mines by Prof. Morrison during the
past fifteen years.
We hazard nothing in stating that no
person living has enjoyed better ioppor-
tunities than Prof. Morrison for gathering
specimens from our mining districts. We
may also safely assert that no other per
son is better acquainted with the charac-
Ter and extent of the mineral-bearing belt
of this region.
For these reasons the display, which
the professor has by his own hands hasti-
| ly improvised for this occasion will pos
sess especial interest and value to our
visiting friends, all OF whom, doubtless,
are more or less conversant with Mon
tana's matchless mineral resources.
1t would be impossible for us to give
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his extensive mineral cabinet, to say
nothing of his fossil collections, which
are the most complete in the northwest.
We must therefore content ourselves with
the very briefest description of some of
his leading mineral specimens, arranged
under their respective districts;
| RUNNING WOLF MINING DISTRICT.
1-Silver and Lead ore, Higbee L. Pierce, Dry
Wolf creek; shows phosphate OF lead with cur
Donate.
9-Carbonate, assaylng $3.50 to the ton; from
Morrison and Woodhurst mine, owned by Messrs.
Vaughn l. Gibson.
17-Copper ore from the Red Oxide; owned by
Gibson Vaughn.
52-Silver Chloride and Sulphuret, assaying from
80 to 800 o. to the ton, free milling; Sir Walter
Scott Lode; owned by Paris Gibson.
65-Iron ore, from the Iron Crown mine, yielding
67 per ct. pure iron, it being specular hemitite
ore and very free.
i Yoao MINING DISTRICT
78-Sulphuret Of Iron and Gold assay value
from SO to $3.50 III gold per ton and 45 per cent
iron; Golden Chariot mine, owned by 7. E. Col
Inns of this city.
84-Sulphuret Of Gold, assaying from $40 to $N
per ton; I. c. Power mine, owned BY Tom Shelby
Of Yogo.
92-Magnetic Iron carrying Gold, assaying $lO
per ton IN gold; Burnham and Htna mine. owned
by Messrs Dickerman Il Co.
llO-ArgentiferOuS Gaena, aSSaying 20 or. silver
and A per ct. lead per -Schoppe and Bismarck
mines, owned by Mr.. schoppe.
/ DRY WOLF MINING DISTRICT
|
body Of carbonate ore in limestone formation,
promising excellent results-Ureka, Golddust
and Manitoba, owned by Cascade Mining and
ProspectingCo
160-Specular iron lead, assaying 81 per Ct pure
iron and carrying a trace Of g0ld-recently located
by parties from Butte.
BARKER MINING DISTRICT.
25-Essentially argentiferous gaena, assa,
value $50 silver and 60 per cent lead from Barker
mine, owned by parties In Great Falls.
S50-Free carbonate carrying galena, assaylns
into the hundreds Silver Belle, Pride OF til,
West, Silver King and other fine properties ownc;
by Messrs. Otey, May, Arlington l. Co.
475-Carbonates In limestone, carrying consider
: able copper, yielding high in silyer-from til;
: Boss, Belt Mountain, Oxide Moulton, Anna May
|. Belle Of Highwood, Welcome, Vista and 9th,
I valuable properties.
7O0-Carbonates and galena in granite form.
tion, assaying G5 or. silver and So per Ct. lead
Y from Queen OF the Hills, Grey Eagle Wright an,
]. Edwards, Emerald, Kalloch, Equator and otht
). claims
NEIHART MINING DISTRICT.
! 6M-Argentiferous galena, assaying on the SUI;
face $50 to the ton silyer-from the Huxley, 70
Van and other mines, owned by Messrs Neihari
J. Wilson l. Co.
e 9l0-Sulphurets at distance of only "A fe,
~ from the surface, assyng $500 to the ton and es
posing another immense body Of ore greatly s,,.
y passing the former In richness-from propert
n owned by Bnrghart Wilson d, Co.
II 980-Hgh grade sulphurets carrying matrict
Of wire silver assaytng from $50 to $3.50 per to-;
:, from London, Mountain Chief, M;ll,n and otht
IL good claims owned by Capt. d. b. Mcintosh ali
others.
II l0l2Crystalized silver sulphurets and wire 81
yer, specimens assHying as high us $4,000 p,
ton, from the Florence, owned by johnson, Hem
ID g. Wight.
)f l020-Suphurets Of silver, specimens Quee
70 OF the Hills. Neihart 4 Co. Very rich in silver
N 10G-ArgentifcrOns gaena--tiaIt mine--Mario
~ L. Co.-assay $40 to $500 in silver.
III IR7-Aigentiferous galeila Moulton lode
j. McCassy and Co. silictons carbonates.
n 1880 to l050-Silicions carbonates-Lizzie, Fri
co. 1ngersoll, etc.OwIIed by Hamilton, Neiha
GCo.
v l05l-Argentiferous galena- South Carolina N
2-Hamton & Co.
1852 to 1tsO-Montana Belle Miunehaha, Ma,
S., Hidden Treasure, st. Julian, &c.-Messr
Hill, BrOadWater, Chamberlain Il Co.
y The numbers given above correspon
8 with those of Prof. Mortson's collection
~ The collection is as complete as liftce
~ years study and prospecting can give au
u includes specimens from all the mimi
'e camps of the Belt mountains, showin
y the character of ore from each mine
~ far as ohtainable and demonstrating b
- yond all controversy that these minir
~ districts embrace, in extent and richnes
:" a mineral bearing region not surpasse
III in the northwest
er.
- THE PROGRAM.