The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-30
More About Recent Discoveries lii
the Much-Talked-Abou slo-
can District,
Great Results Are Predicted From
Several Camps III the Koote-
nal Country.
The sand Coulse Company ID Opsr-
ate Arlington Mines.

Among the late arrivals from Kootenai
who bring news OF new strikes Ia Mr.. "A. u
Bryan, the v%sll-known assayer Of Ains-
worth. b. o., says the Spokane Review. Hs
was for seven years assnysr for the Ana
caonda company il Butte City, SO that what
he had to say will doubtless prove sf gen
eral interest,". ### #
#..As some mon wore Of work putting in 9
wagon road TO Loon lake, about q mile and
a half back Of AinsWorth, they made Q new
strike on the Lady OF the Lake claim, which
belongs to Dan Clark and Jimmy Van
Hook. The old discovery hole was on the
northwest corner Of the claim and showed
d vein OF galena ore about IS inches in
width, which ran from 40 TO 6b ounces in
silver and about 70 per cent. lead. The
new strike has resulted in %uncoyetinR n
s~sven-foot vein Of galena ore, the assays
from which averaged 43 ounces il silver
and So per cent. lsad. This discovery was
made about w weeks ago and some par
ties representing the Canadian Pacific were
trying TO secure it when I left, 4 have no
doubt tile deal has been contaminated be-
fore this, although the boys asked q good
price for it. a #@
Regarding tbs SLOGAN country, I do not
think the discoveries have been exaggerated
there at all. / have made nearly all the a.
says from there that were made in the camp,
and it il safe to say that the Ka!so-Slocan
discoveries easily average ITO ounces in sill
Yer to the ton, with from go to S. per cent.
in lead. The lowest return ! ever got was
13l ounces and the highest 1900 ounces in
silver. THERE'S one camp up there, how
ever, about which very little ia now heard,
though I believe il ia rs good as anything
vet struck. T mean Jim BreDnan's camp.
II il on the north fork Of Kalso crack and
about twenty-five miles from Kalso city.
Jim Brennan and a man named PrinRle
have seven locations and other parties have
five or sir more. One ledge on which Bren-
nan ia located is of free milling silver ore
and il about eight feet wide, The average
this ledge would DO about 480 ounces and Of
course no load. There are several other
lodges three to four feet in width of wet
ores in the same group running about Id
ounces in silver and 80 TO 70 per cent. IN
lead. Brennan is now IN Colorado, where
he is we'll known, trying to get some OF his
old associates interested with him d |
Hear he In succeeding first rate.
a'a'Ihen there is another camp which has
been overlooked in tho SLOGAN excitement.
That il the II discovered ny -Jaok McDon-
aid on Schroeder creek, which comes into
Kootenai lake about four miles north OF
Kaslo$ City. The government has put :
good trail in there and in the spring will
extend IL over the divide to Barnnan's camp
$on$the north fork Of Kaslo creek. Iho best
claims here are Beaver, White Heather,
Silver Tip, Mountain Dew, Prince Edward
and British Lion, the last two aEs .
owned by Tacoma parties. Some where
between forty and fifty locations were made
in all, for this was tho strike which caused
the first excitement. ss
Jack Mcdonald i'd pegging away at de-
velorment work on the Beaver and Noun
tain. Dew, and on the first named Of these
two claims has a twelye-foot ledge OF ga
lena. carrying pyrites Of copper and car
Donates Of copper. The ore from the
Beaver and White Heather is exactly alike
aud averages about twenty--six ounces in
silver, TWENTY-FIVE per cent. in copper and
thirty per cent. lead. .8@
by the way, I have another item which
goes to show what the Kootenai country can
do. Mr. Irwin, the manager Of the Mon
treal and Kootenai Mining company, has
just made a shipment Of two carloads of
ore from the lam O'Shanter mine on
Kootenai lake opposite Ainsworth, to the
Tacoma smelter. which is pretty safe to run
l4O ounces in silver. The returns ought to
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