The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-18

PRICE, FIVE CENTS
ried properties, ito cheap mining and ito
available means OF transportation, and the
present and prospective demand make this
one of the most valuable coal regions In the
great west"
,,@ FARMING.
The vast possibilities of agriculture In
Cascade county can hardly be appreciated
by one who has not given the subject thor
ough study. This county has an average
length from east to west Of sixty-six miles
and q breadth of thirty-five miles. It 10
nearly twice az large as the state Of
Rhode Island. The surface Comprises
h 'sssl bottom cotton land: lying along the rivers
mountains. The greater part of the area
i high rolling prairie, through which
flows numerous streams. These streama
are fed largely by springs, which are nu-
merous in nearly all parts of the county.
Northern Montana seems to be the home Of
the small grains. such as wheat, oats and
barley. The yield is not only ABUNDANT.
but the grain 10 of the first quality. Dako.
ia and Minnesota millers prefer the Mon
tana grown wheat and from it make the
best quality of -four.
county has few equals. Potasoes here crow
to very large size, and are noted for their
excellence, being superior to those grown in
the humid atmosphere of the east. The
cabbage and caulifower grow in their great
eat perfection. Beets, tuynips, onions and
With very little cultivation.
AS \ WOOL MARKET
Great Falls is now the most important
in the state. Last year sales were made
promptly and cash paid for the clips.
Az soon a. the wool was sold it was reduced
IN bu!k by the compressor whence it was
door for conveyance to some great EASTERN
market. The freight on wool from Great
Falls to either Boston, New York or Phila.
delphia was 81. 65 per hundred. The wool
was forwarded rapidly and was probably in
ne ne maj. hands in u days from
The wool trade Of Great Falls is tho
growth Of two years. In 1888 when wool
was brought there for the first time the re.
ceipts were about 100000 pounds. Last
e season 11o (lso9) the receipts were nearly a.
o eSly sreata pounds tS.n .,o1 being CONSIDER
place in Montana. The price paid last sea-
son ranged from q to "a cents per pound.
They we're the highest paid in the United
states for range wool. The clips were in
yariably of high quality and were readily
Dougnt py the eastern manufacturers "a
soon as they. were put on the market.
Great Falls intends to retain her leader.
ship in the Montana wool trade and invites
those producers who have not done business
here as yet to give this market
aoo, srlal; n.nn Inc city also asks
the inducements which she offers for the
ablishment Of factories within her limits.
In brief, there are abundance Of GOOD wood.
plenty OF pure water throughout the wear.
and the greatest water power in the United
States. >-' -
MINES NEAR GREAT FALLS.
The mineral resources of Cascade county
can be only briefly treated upon in this ar
ticle. The extent and richness Of the Barker
and Neihart districts is we'll known and the
present year will witness some startling de-
veloppents. Within the past month many
few days now the new railway that will
reach them will greatly add to the ACTIVITY
in those camps. The Barker district r. Ia
Gated In the northeast spurs Of the Little
Belt mountains. and the Barker mine was
Ia the hrst discovery made in it in 1879. Since
and many of them have been patented
This district includes wide area Of noun
talns and valleys, covered with dense
forests and watered with numer-
GUS never falllng SIRENS. In
riding over this favored region and seeing
the thousand prospect holes, shafts and
tunnels, one cannot fail to be Impressed
with the vast amount of work which ina
been done BY the miners of Barker during
the last ten years. The mines are in Grew
ice veins, contact veins, veins Of seoreoa-
tion and blanket veins. which are SO nu-
merous that prospeotors have found but
little difficulty in discovering new pros
poets every year since the first was opened.
These veins are filed with ores ofsiron.
manganese. copper and lead, all of which
carry gold or silver, or both. The most Of
them are smelling ores, which have enough
leao, iron and manganese to make them
good huxes to work with more refractory
have been go developed as to prove them
permanent and valuable mines: others
show such large bodies of rich ores az to
invite liberal Investments, and hundreds Of
others show prospects bright enough to in
duce further development.
Other promising mining districts trim.
tary to Great Falls are the Bigger district.
the Yogo district, the Running Wolf dis.
trict. the Williams camp, the DRY Wolf
district, the Neihart district and the Bar
ker district.
The Neihart District.
One rof the most important mining re-
gions in the Little Belt mountains is the
Montana district at Neihart. Neihart is a
well-built, substantial mining camp, located
where the deep rugged canyon widens out
to let in the sunshine and free air and give
q wider view of the celestial world MANN