The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-03-28
around the heads of the Belt, Wolf and

around the heads OF the Bell, WOLF and
Judith rivers, high as It is possible to get
mines and with ore bodies running all
the way from 6 to 80 feet. The mines
generally are in a contact formation of
porphyry and lime. a fac-simile of the
famous Leadville camp. These forma-
tions are no "bastard" formation. but are
true mineral bearing leads, II of the
strongest arguments, because when such
formations exist capitalists are justified
to spend money to work such deposits, as
the case given IN Leadville, Colo, where
mining companies are known to have
spent several hundred thousand dollars
in preliminary work which was fully
justified. In such cases a mining man
does not expect to be cut off by some dyke
in faulty formation but knows he can eX-
pect returns for his money.
Our mountains are perfect as to con-
tour and the mining mans eye gladdens
when he looks up to see. She is as
| smooth as a sugar loaf. Tunneling can
be done at "a small cost, insuring cheap
mining. These are the secrets of sue
cessful mining and when you have those
with large ore bodies you can always
look for heavy producers and big divi-
dend payers. There is no question but
Yogo mines will be the Butte producers
of the Belt mountains. Other camps can
speak of the rich streaks and glory in u
thousand dollar streak TODAY and tomor-
row looking for the lead, but Yogo has
the ore bodies that will stay with her for
years. First look at Butte with her large
output and you can imagine what some of
YogO's will be in the next five years. She
can not a always excite a boom with her
specimen mines, but she will keep roll
ing up the mineral output that ere long
will make Montana reach her yearly
100000, 900 for output of metals.
There are seveaal companies interested
here, the principal one doing work is the
New England Belt Mountain Mining
company, which is principally a Boston
company. This will shortly speak for
itself.
Years ago in the first days of Neihart
and Barker float from this ground was
carried to Barker which created a Juror
of excitement and it was claimed to be
the best carbonate ore ever found in the
mountains. The mountain was claimed
to be a mountain of ore, but what was the
use VI Tying w w obNthihS -
those days-to try to freight it $50 miles?
Of course it was well known with money
spent on this mine it would be one of the
most valuable properties in the Belt
mountains. 1t has n of the strongest
leads in the whole camp, about twenty
five feet in width, and n of the finest
tunnel sites in the district. The company
has been working " shafts AL winter,
being in about 200 feet on the lead, and
have one of the finest showings for d big
mine in Montana. At present there is no
great amount of ore on the dump. but the
lead shows a permanency and life that
would delight the most skeptical. She
will be a bonanza in the true sense of the
word and will loudly speak for herself
before long. The management is the
best, thoroughly practical and wide
awake, honest and attentive, knowing
where every dollar goes to, and the
miners have perfect confidence in it.
The company will be a GROWING success
there is no doubt.
1t would be a great oversight to fail to
mention what a beautiful place for a
town Yogo has, one which nature was
deservedly very lavish, and it would be
safe to say that within year there will
probably be 500 people in its midst. Belt
Mountain Miner.