The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-06-28
A Glance at the Great Mining Indus
tries Developed Around
Great Falls.
THEY ARE FULL OF PROMISE.
An Interesting Letter From a Cor
respondent Who Saw Whereof
He Atiirms.
An Intelligent Estimate of the Bright
Prospects of Great
Falls.

waiting at the depot of the Great North
ern railway for the conductor to shout
"all aboard for the tram going to Mon
arch, in the "Neihart," Barker" "Log-
ging Creek" and "Wolf Creek" mining
district in the Belt mountains, some sixty
or seventy miles to the south of the great
falls of the Missouri.
mn looking at the mountains with
their SUBMITS white with eternal snow,
and their sides dressed with perpetual
green.
What Il wonderful change has beer
wrought here in fourteen years!
Butte has come into existence, and de
veloped into what the world has never
seen before.
Helena has become the city where
more gold backs up its business transac.
tons per capita than any city or town on
earth.
The mining camps on Butte mountain
comprises an area of less than Our miles.
The Neihart, Barker and Wolf creek dis
trlcts comprises an area of 25 miles, and
the assays in ali the vast extent show IA
higher grade of free milling ore today
that Butte mines did 10 years ago. The
railway Is completed to Monarch in the
Belt creek canyon. The final survey is
made for the extension to Barker. II
miles to the southeast, and also to Mel.
hart 10 or II miles up the canyon in the
mountains to the south. More than 500
well defined leads or assures Of silver
bearing galena ore have been opened to II
greater Or less extent, many of which
have changed owners and more are like
ly to in the near future. When the legal
steps have been taken to hold the mine
the average prospector is like Wilkins
Micawber, apt to wait for something to
turn up"
The tendency here, as has been in
Butte, is and will be to mass the mining
interests in the hands of a few, as O as
the mining property develops a degree
of richness sufficient to warrant 1t, it vs.
bought up and foreign capital
predominates.
GENERAL NOTES.
At Barker, Sims Il Arlington, with
ID. G. Shopane of st. Paul are doing more
than all others. Their shaft is 200 feet
down and they have a large amount of
ore ready for shipment when the railroad
Is completed.
The Daisy, Maude, Maggie, Grouse
Hill, Pearl, Red Cloud, Scott, Jumbo,
Chamberlain and the Plymouth Rock
mines owned, and have been opened to
some extent, by the Belt Mountain min
ing company, incorporated with 1000
shares.
The property of this company is equiv
alent to so many million when the long
silence is once broken by the laundering
of the locomotive as it reverberates among
the mountains.
Dan Carpenter, formerly of Minnesota,
4of Blakely and Carpenters stage noto-
riety back in the s~ixties), is here, the
owner of six mines, which in point of
value are beyond competition; and he is
still a bachelor, domiciled IN "a min ers
cabin, built of logs in the shadow OF
Badly mountain, $500 feet high.
The Clendenin mining and smelling
company, of which Tlllinghast of Chicago
was president, put in machinery for
working the ore at, Barker some wears
ago. The president failed in a corner,
on some commodity n carried the com.
pany with him. The plant ,,.as rome into
the hands of the Fl.bs national bank of
Great Falls and will soon be running on
aiarger scale than formerly. Their hold.
,ngs are very rich in silver. bearing ga +.
lena ore. Paris Gibson is largely inter. ,
ested at Neihart, Barker and on the
tributaries of the Judith river. {
The Belt mountain branch of the Great
Northern railway is completed to Mon
arch. When the branches radiatinp from
here (the first surveys of which have been
made and the roads located) are com ]
they will run through and com. {
the traffic of a country sixty miles I
IN extent. richer in minerals than any.
thing on the continent of America, or in q
the world. q
Before the close of the season more Q
Than S4,OOO,OOO of cash capital will be in r
vested at Great Falls in smelters and an c
Tor handling the ores which will t
come from this vast mining camp TO en-. 8
rich and to craze the world. 7
IL COMING Il
What effect this will be on the money =
interest of the world | leave for those G.
M have IL more brilliant Imagination o
man the writer to predict. Certain it is, b
u VIII be decided one way or the other. c.
or great good, or for untold evil.
Every step taken in developing this
asst mining camp is one also in fastening
day when Great Falls will become 81
metropolis of the Rocky Mountain CT
|lstrlct. Here the great Missouri takes a 10
cap OF 200 feet into the Judith Basin -.
Vhich comprises Fergus county. %
enormous as the figures may appear to et
readers OF your paper there are in fo
his fertile valley at this time 10000 head NJ
u cattle, 10000 horses and 100000 sheep, h,
rom which 100000 pounds of wool are II
tipped this season, which will yield a nj
avenue to the ranchmen of $685. 900 from n,
ne sheep alone. f.
10 carry this vast amount of stock or
trough the winter of 1889 and 80 less h.
ian 2,oOO tons of hay was fed to them all ar
pa, and very little Or no grain, save to at
nlmais used for domestic purposes.
The net profit over and above the
ost OF producing il, from this fertile val 10
y alone, is more than the whole amount
eallZed from every acre of wheat land
Northern Dakota and Minnesota in ha
800.
The Missouri, with its rocky bed and
shores, is offering to the at
orld 100000 horse, power In a space o.
SIX miles.
The raw material is produced here, and r,
who walk the streets of Great Falls
years from today will see one If the
Est built cities and the greatest manu- ce
point of wooden goods in this
'untry, or perhaps IN the world. 49,,
Montana is richer in indigenous Ga
sources than any country on this
rth.
Lake Superior, with its geographical
'%rinters' fist" and index tinger,is saying,
the language of eternal silence, to the
an OF capital and brains, and brain
pital, $50 yonder u"
GEORGE C. WHITcoMB.
above interesting letter appeared l.
the Minneapolis Times. I
Mnnur.h Uiy., H. Ia