The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-11-27
The Belt Mountain Mines.
Montana's Great Resources That Are
Yet Undeveloped.
The Land of the Buffalo is the Home
of the Settler.
Racy Notes From Our Friend i'll the
Ulm District.
Mining Facts of Interest.

We take the following extract from a
letter by Prof. Swallow in the Independ-
ent, which contains many mining facts of
interest:
A very large proportion of the mines
in the camps above named are smelling
ores carrying so much lead that cheap
transportation becomes an essential ele-
ment in working them successfully. A
few mines, however, like the Spotted
House, have milling ores SO rich, and the
bullion is of such high grade that trans
portation is but small per cent of the
cost of working Such mines are worked
with profit at distance from railroads.
The miners in these camps have conf
dence in their mines and are waiting
with patience for the whistle of the loco
motive to make them rich.
If one will take few months and ex-
anime all the mines, placer and quartz,
in the Belt range from Cascade on the
north to Livingston on thessouth, all the
rich veins of gold and silver and lead and
iron and manganese at Castle, the copper
veins at Copperopolis, the Spotted Horse
and other and numerous prospects in and
upon the Judith mountains around Maid
en-, the rich mines on Dry Wolf, and on
Running Wolf and at Yogo,. the rich and
wonderful veins of silver and gold and
lead and iron at Barker and in the sur
rounding mountains and the numerous
lodes of precious ores which intersect the
lofty mountains about Neihart, after such
an examination, without taking in many
other minor localities, he will certainly
be very strongly impressed with the great
mineral wealth of this most favored re-
gion.
If he would satisfy himself that nature
has made ample provision for working
and reducing these vast deposits of ores
let him examine the coal beds at Sand
Coulees those on Smith river, Willow
creek and south to Sixteen-Mile creek
Bozeman and Oakdale, thence east tt
Bull mountain. and north to Roberts anG
Careless creeks and to the beds arount
Judith and Moccasin mountains, on Sag
creek and other tributaries of the judith
river, and those on Otter and Belt creeks
These numerous and extensive coal field
now but scarcely opened, cannot fail tt
convince him there is in and around thes'
mining centres of East Montana a suppl,
of good coal sufficient for all mining pur
poses for this and all future generations
If one has any fears about supplies 0
timber and water for this extensive min
ing region an examination of the noun
tains above named will show they ar
covered with timber suitable for minin
purposes; and that they are full o
springs and streams,which supply all tn
waters of Belt and Arrow creeks an,
Smith, Judith andMusselshell rivers an
many small tributaries of the Missou1
and Yellowstone.
The agricultural capacity Of this coun
try is clearly shown Gy the numerou
herds and flocks grown and fattened ur
on it's native grass alone, and by the pre-
ductive farms on Smith, Belt and Judit
rivers and their many tributaries.
1t is a land rich in mines, rich in tree
and grasses, cooled in summer by re
freshing fountains and streams and warn
ed in winter by chinook winds from tn
warm waters of the Pacific.
The buffalo, the antelope, the deer, tn
elk, the bear, and above all the 1ndia1
f were slow to give up so fair a country