Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-08
SILVER A N
TWIN MOUNTAIN GETTING TO THE
FRONT RAPIDLY.

IA Newsy Letter Giving Brief Descrip-
lions of the More Important Mines Of
the Canp-Although not yet q Year
Old the Camp Makes an Excellent
Showing.
TWIN MoUNTAIN, May 81, 1889.-[Editor
Miner.1-Thinking some information from
the carbonate camp OF Twin Mountain
would not come amiss, therefore / indite:
The camp is at the head oil Minnesota
gulch, q tributary oil German gulch, and
also the headWaters OF Jerry creek and
American gulch, the waters of the two flow
ing into the Big Hole, and distant from
Butte twenty-five miles and three from DR..
Beal's camp on German.
The district is, so far as mineral locations
now found, six miles by three. The count
ry rock is lime, cut by porphyry dikes and
in some places covered with granite.
The main Developments as yet, are by the
American Gulch Stock company, composed
| OF Otto Stallman, McFarlin, and others.
They are down 11S feet, have q within and
are sinking with good ore.
The Edwards Carbonate, owned by Ed
wards, Fletcher & Co.. has d tunnel in $40
feet, and shafts, wines and drifts to the
amount OF 600 feet. They have q fine
body OF ore and several carloads OF ship.
ping ore, and are packing out. The ore av-
erages 63 ozs. silver and 46 per cent. lead.
The O. P. Morton and President Harri-
son, owned by Walter Fish, show well with
ten tons on the dump.
The Casa Hawary, is owned by Linbuch,
Mcdonald & Mcintyre, and has forty tons
on the dump.
The Grey Eagle. owned by the same par
ties, shows well.
The Montana, owned by Toole & New
comb, is q very promising prospect.
The Black Eyed Susan, Yankee Girl and
Fletcher Boy, owned by Fletcher & Co., are
fine prospects.
The Old Fish claim, owned by Casey, Cat
lin & Gregson, shows well.
The Mad Anthony, owned by c. s. War
rem, is thought to be rich but not much de-
veloped as yet.
The New Orleans, belonging to Dun,
Strong and Miss Cora Edwards, shows
eighteen ounce ore.
The Gwinn, owned by Morgan Evans, is
thought to be fine.
The Linn, owned by Driscol euler & Co.,
shows forty tons on the dump Of forty
ounce ore and looks fine.
The Borneo, owned by Walter Beam,
shows good ore, likewise the Palmetto,
owned by the same parties.
The Grasshopper, Nellie F., and Rob
Roy, owned by Abel Fitz, have'good show
ings.
The Sumit has three shafts forty feet
deep and good ore, and the Nevada Frac.
fian oh0uS w1n Roth holDnu - kho
American Stock Co., as does also the Rich.
mond.
Hurley & Co., have fine galena and sand
three miles from Carbonate
Call Newcomb's claim, adjoining Hur.
is a contact between porphyry and
lime.
The Black Hawk, owned by Russell, King
q TO-, is thought good, as are also many
other locations, among which is one of
Skidmore q Co., two miles nCrthward,
showing the mineral belt to be fully six
miles in extent, and on the same lime belt as |
the Trapper, Vipond and Blue Eyed Nelly. /
There are sixty residents in the camp; |
one boarding house and saloon. Mrs. E.
B. Fairfield with daughters and Miss Ora
ham have the honor of being the irst
ladies in the camp.
george kesler keeps refreshments at
Beals camp, and the inner man can be |
supplied at the camp Of E. B. Fairfield.
From Beals it is a bride trail.
A petition for a road. which is much
needed, has gone to the county commission
ers. and also one with sixty signers for a
postofice, and by fall the new camp will
make it's mark.
The ore of the camp is lead and silver
with plenty OF iron for fuxing and is easily
treated. 1t also carries from 81 to So in
gold. ~-
Inc ean'"' - noI YET quite ono year oIu
1t still lacking 9 days to make it q yea
from the day when 'Old Man" Edwards