Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-11-13
BARKER's WEALTH.
HIGH OPINIONS EXPRESSED OF THE
MINING CAMP.
vast Stores of Mineral That Will Soon be
Available for Smelling at Great
Falls-Interesting
Details.
Especial Correspondence Of the TR1BuNE.l


CLENDESIN, Nov. O.. The camp Of
Clendenin, or as commonly called Barker
is. since tile commencement Of the Belt
mountains railroad railroad receiving
more attention from mining men
and experts than perhaps any other camp
in the Belt mountains country. Neihart
being the intended terminus Of the rail
road brings it into prominence ahead Of
all the other camps But 50 far as min
ing experts, smelter men and eastern cap
italist, who have visited the different
camps, agree that Clendenin is destined
to bright future. Heretofore the camp
has been held up and depended entire
" upon the lamentations Of miners faith
and hope. Now its destiny is assured.
Mines have been developed which prove
that it is mining camp Of no small di. .
mensions and ore that will yet prove the
best discovered in the Belt mountains.
EARLY DIscovERrEs.
j Nine years ago Buck Barker, in com
H pany with Pat Hughes, left Yogo to pros
pect for placer mines On Dry Fork. The
first night out they pitched their camp on
the present sight Of Clendenin and began
prospecting for gold in the creek, in
which they we're unsuccessful, but instead
they discovered a large vein Of pure
galena ore crossing the creek bed, which
was located as the Barker mine.
After making several other locations
they spread the report and soon people
hocked in. The Barker mining district
was laid out and today contains on close
estimation $500 mining locations. Those
were days before the Northern Pacific or
Manitoba s. Montana railroads penetrated
the vast wilderness between them and a
market for their ores Fort Benton was
then the base Of supplies and shipping
point. Still under such circumstances
the Belt mountain camps held their own.
Today with railroad facilities at our door
we can surely do more than prosper.
CLENDEN1N's NATURAL ADVANTAGES.
The natural advantages Of Clendenin
are great. The first and most important
is its formation. Only one other camp
famous to all mining men) Glendale, has
the same formation as the Barker mining
district. The north and east portion Of
the district is lime and porphyry while
the west and south is granite and porphy-
ry through which are bodies of slate and
gneiss rock sand and bastard quartz all
of which in contact with each other are
the natural receptacles Of mineral.
Within the boundaries of the district
runs the main mineral belt Of the Belt
mountains. Another advantage Glen.
denim has is that all her ores are not only
high grade lead ores but are free from
zinc, antimony and other properties that
render ore base and hard to be worked.
FLUxEs ARE ABUNDANT.
Barker mining district has more high
grade free smelling ore than perhaps any
other mining campin Montana. The ores
not only furnish within themselves
their own fluxes but can be used as flu,
for the base ore. There are alst
iron-leads in the camps of extraordinar,
size and quality, SO that in working thu
ores Of the Belt mountains all OF tn
fuxes used by the smelters can and viii
be obtained at Clendenin.
The sale OF the Clendenin Smelte
company's property on the 9th OF thi
month will again open the work so lon
delayed by litigation on that valuabl
property. This will provide great des
A Of work and ensures an output OF vas
amount of mineral.
CLENDENiN NOTES.
~ Mr.. M. j. Nolan Of Kibbey has take
up his residence in Clendenin. saturda
night a snrnrise nartv was gotten up. A