The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-12
The CGURD ALEhE MINES
The silver cliff Developing Into 3
Properly as Great as the fa-
nous Hunter.
-
raaiders say the Morning Mine
HAS Been Sold for q Fact
This Time.
rrasprctor,s Story OF n Great Gold
Hslt-Good News From the Grouse
Castle Mines.

MuIIAp, luHno, LEV y lSRS ~.
Won Like Mining company is stu pashih9
work on the lower tunnel OF tie You Lake
mine TO tap the ore body at a greater
denth. This company has ceased shipping
ara for the present, and will not commence
acain until spring. The Silver Cllt mine.
ownsd by Messrs. Young, Hochnedle ana
shannon. and situated near the Black Dia.
n,ond mine al tho Bitter Root summit, IS
improving daily, and very rich ore ~ Deln9
taken out. This property is undoubtedly
the Hunter-M Morning lead, as 1t - on tae
same direct linear course as they ana
when properly developed viii prove as great
4 mine as either of the others.
Work will be commenced on the Lucky
Friday mine at an early date, ana VIII oe
rnshed forward to u thorough developments
of that property. The Lucky Friday ore 10
/ ary ore and runs very high in silver. Inc
r~,roperty is easily worked and WILL, before
manv months, DO one OF the producers OF
Hunter district.
Cant. w. j.. Haynes, with his force OF
men. are still driving ahead on the Lucretla
mine. ON Chloride hill, and Will shortly
have that property in ship-shape order so
ylHA UU6 LuGICuln WAaA "s- ."@H
Of Mullan's ore producers.
Some men here, who seem to snow wnst
they are talking about. are offering 10 oe'
that the Morning mine is this time surely
sold and that all the depositors OF the hussy
banks will get their money before the loen
Of January. 1t is generally hoped That
these men will win their bets. 7
A short time after the completion OF the
Northern Pacific "cut off, to Missoula the
Missoulai.es reached out for the trade or
Ana Cmur d'Alenes, and, recognizing at
once that in order to get their share OF the
Occur d,Alene trade, they must, at least,
make promises to our people that they
would invest in mining properties here,
and it was understood that a sort OF recl-
procity would spring up between US and
The business men of the garden city. Our
merchants and others transferred q large
share Of their trade to Missoula, firm in the
belief that money could be had in Mis-
soula to develop some of our properties
into shipping and paying propositions
in doing this create a larger volume OF
but when excellent mining propositions
we're offered to the capital OF Mlssoula
the compact was broken and thus far not
one dollar Of Missoula money has been IN
vested in the mines of the Occur d'Aienes.
Large capital from Montana has been IN
vested in our mines here but 1t mas all come
from Helena and Butte. We have held out
our hands of welcome and RECIPROCITY 10
Missoula as our neighbors but we now lind
ourselves drawing our NANTES closer to
us and reciprocating with other cities where
We can find bargains that are not all one
sided,
John III. Foss. who recently bonded the
Emma mine at Osburn, to Col. l. N.
Nunov. informs your correspondent that
Yesterday a three-foot vein OF high grade
ore was encountered in that property. The
Emma In on the dry ore belt, on the south
side Of the Coeur d'Alene river, and is one
of q number of very rich mines in the vlcln-
ity Of Osburn.
A prospsctor, whose reputation for truth
and veracity is unquestioned, recently IN
formed your correspondent that he had,
during the fall, discovered a gold belt OF
immense proportions. lie gave the writer
several fine specimens of rich gold quartz,
and said that there was a mountain of the
same kind of rock, which he proposed to,
during early next summer, locate. The
new find is unknown to all except himself,
and he further says that it will remain 30
until he chooses TO make it known, as it is
in almost an inaccessible locality, and he
himself only discovered it by the merest
Of accidents.
The Grouse mine, owned by A.. G. Nc
Iaen, of Mullan, Peter Larson, of Helena,
and John Woods, of Minneapolis, is devel-
oping into one of the largest mines in Hun
ter district. Mr.. MoLaen says. "We have
Just as good a mine "a there is in the fJeur
d'Alenes, and next summer it will be as
great a producer rs any of Them" The
galena ore ia identically the same as that of
the Morning and Gold Hunter mines. The
writer has a specimen of coarse galena ore
from each Of these three properties, which
cannot be told one from the other.