The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1891-08-07
are completed.

are completed.
The Ingcrsoll lies next on the up
ward course on Rock creek. The
works here are always busy pene-
trating the earth ut the rate of feet
per day. Thcp will soon strike their
ore body, if surface indications have
any force in deciding the matter.
We passed the Rochester, which
is bonded by the Ingersoll com pany
and which has good showing for the
amount of development done. The
Unity, Lizzie and Champion B. are
in full sight, all of which seems to
have o or less good work. Two
or three fraction lodes lie in the
valley Of Rock creek, which show
we'll defined leads and some of them
carry galcna at a very shallow
depth. The road brings us upward
to tho Dacotah tunnel. Her
the owners have a fine property.
We did not enter the tunnel, but
from the size of the dump and the
quantity of good looking ore and
quartz, We arc confident that the
Dacotah has something to work on
and that its future is assured. We
next reached the famous Fair Play
and Silver Belt, properties, Of J.L.
Neihart, Jno. McAsscy, and Duncan
Mcdonald. These are the embryo
of wonderful mines. They have
never been opened to a great extent,
but every place the leads have been
uncovered, they expose good galena
and %sulphurcts near the grass roots.
And the leads are held for 5000
linear feet, the two claims being as
full as any in camp. Just below these
lie the Grand Prize and the Enter
prise.
Near the head of Rock creek and
joining the Silver Belt, is the off,
mentioned Commonwealth. 1t is
developed by a tunnel 100 feet long
on which a contract is now being
filed by John Linn and Charles
Peterson. It will doubtless one day
be a heavy ore yiclder.
The rest of the way tho road is
The Commonwealth tunnel
is in the edge Of the slide rock, with
which the mountain is covered.
This broken and angular formation
appears from the town like gravel
on a drive, but is really made up
of rocks weighing from a few
to several tons.
When the Lord made the earth,
so the ancients say, he sent the devil
out to distribute the rock. The
devil grew tired at a point in West
ern Turkey and cmptied the whole
sack On Monte Negro. The an.
clients write a good story but they
saw old Badly.
These rocks are still sliding and
finding their way toward the valley.
Munroe was called to survey
some claims near the summit of this
hill and in many places where he set
his transit, he found that after a
little while without losing the level,
the instrument had shifted its posi-
ton two or three inches. 1t is a
glacier of rocks.
The artist took several views of
scenes on and near the summit, one
which shows the lively town of Mel,
hart and one which swept the Snow
creek valley. The day was unfavor-
able for distant observations, but
the Castle Mountains and Mt. Edith
with her snowy garments, queen of
of the Duck creek range, were
plainly visible. There was nothing
of interests in coming down, except
the vigorous barking of ground
hogs and the intense rays Of the
evening sun. Our party saw several
rock rabbit, high up the hill, said to
be the comics of Bible times. But
the most interesting thing which We
saw, is the number of claims all
over the mountains, which give evil
dence of yielding their riches to the