The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-10-15
Tin Will be one of the Products of
This Rich Mining
District.
GENERAL NEWS OF The CAMP,
The Worlds Fair Directors Selecting
Plan for the Build.
ings.
Rca! Estate Transactions An Import
ant Deal on Central
Avenue.

For some reason the correspondents of
time. | suppose they have all been walt
Ing for the boom, it is like our mail, it
never comes, and we are waiting for the
railroad too. But some one has said,
"everything comes to him who waits"
If this proves true, what a glory Barker
will receive and what countless millions
her inhabitants will inherit. Barker
seems to be one of those great camps
that never has a boom but just naturally
grows and can't help it, for there is q
consolation that a place that don't boom
grows permanently and slowly, OF course
there is always something new. Among
the newest Is that a force of men have
Gegun work on the Barker mine with
James Leslie as foreman. Just what
kind OF development work will be done,
will depend on the future. To begin
with, a tunnel will be run and when a
proper distance is gained a shaft will be
sunk in the tunnel.
Wilson, Northam 81 Co. are nov work
ing on ore in the Wyandotte. In this
mine some $40 feet of tunneling has been
done without the best results, although
several pockets of rich galena and car
Donate ores have been taken out. This
summer the boys came back to within
100 feet of the mouth of the main tunnel
and sunk a shaft 40 feet deep and then
drifted off and struck the ore shute
which has been from IS inches to three
feet OF h~igh-grade galena and %carbonates.
This new strike places the Wyandotte
on an equal with any mine in the camp.
In a former letter the writer predicted
that some n would strike a tin mine in
this district at no distant day and the pre-
diction has been verified sooner thar ex-
pected. Billy Sticks, Billy Phillips and
Billy Reilly are the dlscoverers of a vein
of tin ore which they have cross-cut for
10 feet without finding the other wall.
Just how wide it is remains yet to deter
mine. The location is about three miles
south of town and about a half mile west
of the Eta mine, and is in m.camised
granite. The ore and formation both,
when compared, are identical to that of
the famous Eta tin mine of the Black
Hills. Assays have not yet been obtained,
but there is no doubt it will run as high,
il not higher thar the Eta specimens
which have been compared with it, and
| - ny,0u rr,, n o4rt Vf 1 ~, -, on
cording to surface indications one of the
largest tin mines in the world has been
struck in Barker. Like the Black Hills
tin mines, it carries a large per cent Of
tourmaline, which OF course, renders ii
base. The only thing that now depends
upon its being a tin mine Of value is to
determine its extent, which is about all
there is to be done to any tin mine ever
discovered west of the Mississippi river
for my tin ore that will yield 3 per cent
or more will pay. The tin mines OF
Cornwall pay but 2 per cent, and 100000
tons of ore now on the dump of the Har'
vey Polk tin mine averages 3 per cent
and the Eta ore, with which this has
been compared, averages 7 per cent. This
discovery | believe to be only the first Of
many yet to be made and at no distant
day tine Belt mountains will compare
equal in all mineral resources, with per
haps the exception of gold, with her twir
sister, the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Work has been begun and in a few
weeks the little smelter at Hughesvillt
will be in operation. The fire brick AM
+. machinery has already arrived, and sim
ultaneously with these new signs of lif'
Il preacher has come into our midst, thu
) first to break into this unknown region
of sin for about eight years.
r M, L, RITT,