The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-08-06
A Big Lead Discovered in Whitta-
ker's Gulch Near
Monarch.
ANOTHER LARGE MINING DEAL,
Iron Ore Found Oh a Tributary of
Logging Creek-The Quantity
Unknown.
John McAssey Buys an Interest in
the Neihart TOwnsite- Many
Miners in Town.

from the various camps OF the Belt noun
tains and several important deals are on
hand. Work is being prosecuted earn
estly by all who have the means and
much good ore is being taken out, while
the prospectors are scattered through the
mountains in all directions and some
good finds are reported.
John Peterson has been prospecting
along the divide between Running Wolf
and Dry Wolf and reports some good
discoveries. In one claim he has a five
foot lead of galena mixed with iron car
Donates and along with this a vein OF
about is inches of gray copper. He has
a 20-foot tunnel run in on this lead all
the way and it seems to get better as
depth is attained. In another claim,
which shows gray copper, galena and
iron carbonates, he has run a 5O-foot tun-
mel and taken out several tons of ore.
Northam g. Waters have discovered a
new lead on Spring %coulee, about a halt
mile above Charley Martins mines. They
have only done a small amount of de
velopment work, but have a fine show
ing. Some of the ore taken out lear the
surface assayed 90 ounces of silver and
80 per cent of lead. The ore is a free
smelling, hard carbonate found between
granite and blue lime or slate.
Capt. Payne had six locations recorded
yesterday on a big lead discovered in
Whittaker's gulch near Monarch. The
best assay so far shows only 81 in silver
but there is an immense pile of this rock
on the surface, estimated by various
parties at from 10 to 10000 tons. A
number of parties have located on this
lead which is we'll defined and propose to
go down rs or 100 feet and see if it will
not grow richer. This is a new district
and has been named the Whitaker dis
trict. 1t extends from the mouth of
Logging creek up the east side OF Belt
creek to Monarch and from the creek
eastward to the bench lands.
Kid Merritt reports a new discovery of
iron on one of the tributaries of Logging
creek, but no definite estimate has been
made IS to the quality Of the ore or ex-
tent of the lead.
IMPORTANT SALES.
John McAssey bought OF Dune Nc
Donald yesterday an undivided one
twentieth interest in the Frisco lode
which has been plated as the Neihart
TOWNSHIP. Consideration, $500 cash.
Mr.. McAssey has several valuable prop
critics In the Neihart district and while
developing them will also take an inter-
est in the growth of the town.
Sixteen thousand dollars cash was paid
yesterday by E. g. Maclay and others to
C.. P. Downing, A. J. Hamilton, j. P. Nc
Sweeney and Dune Mcdonald for the
South Carolina No. 2. This mine is the
northern extension of the Moulton and is
a valuable property. The property is
developed with a 40 foot shaft and two
tunnels of 80 and 80 feet respectively.
The lead is known to be nine feet wide1
but it may be much wider as no foot
wall has been found. The ore is a rich
galena, some assays showing 100 ounces
of silver. The addition of this fraction
property gives this company ground
which ought to produce millions.
H. L. White lately sold his two-thirds
in the Hlllsdale lode, Castle dis
trict, to T. E. Collins for $4,000 cash.
This property is in a good location and
promises much, but will need develop
ment.
Louis Rotwitt, P. Fehrenbach and
Louis Hoffman, owners of the London
ode and others in the Neihart district, |,
Incorporated a comps ny under the
of the London Consolidated Min
ing company. They have ordered a hoist
and will go to work developing and TAX
ing out ore as soon as the machinery can
put in place.
In a general summing up of the condi-
Ion OF Neihart, n prominent miner said:
There are about rs miners steadily at ]
work underground. They are not max !
ng any blow about the matter or adyer- {
Using the camp, but the recent large I
ales OF property show that we have one ;
If the best mining camps in Montana" {