The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-03-14
DRY WOLF MINING COMPANY.

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Mine-A Valuable Property.
This company which is now coming
INTO prominence AS the owners of one of
the bonanzas of the Belt mountains, has
three patented claims on the Dry Fork of
Wolf creek, viz: The Gold Dust, Dry
Vol and Anything leads. They are
situated II miles from the railroad ter
minus at Barker, and there is a good
natural road between the two points
which will insure cheap transportation to
either the Barker smelter or the Montana
smelter at Great Falls over the Belt
mountain railroad.
This valuable group of mines was dis
covered as early as 1881 by Steve Pierse
and Charles Highly, and has always been
classed by mining experts as one of the
best mines of the Little Belt mountains.
Boulders of galena have been found
near the surface weighing hundreds of
pounds. There has been up to date
about $1,000 spent in the development of
these mines. This comprises two tun-
nels-the upper one 1872 feet long with a
Wine sum on five feet of ore % feet
deep: the lower tunnel being 1913 feet
long with Wine sunk go feet on the ore
body. The bottom of the last name d
Wine and at a total depth of 100 feet
from the surface is of silver bearing
galena and carbonate which has all ap-
pearances of being a bonanza deposit of
ore. Here is struck the contact of Dor
phyry and lime, and in this contact they
have cross-cut q feet of fine ore and how
much wider it is will take time to tell,
These workings show a continuous ore
body from the surface of the ground to
the depth of 100 feet and Of an average
width of two feet, and the beauty, of it
is that the largest and best showing is at
the bottom of the shaft and in the por-
phyry and lime contact.
There was a test run made on 1900
pounds of this ore In 1886, at the Barker
smelter, which assayed SO ounces of sill
silver and. 5912 per cent lead. The bull
lion sampled 100 ounces to the ton.
In 1888. 25 tons of this ore was hauled
by teams to the Great Falls smelter, s.,
miles, which after paying SIS per ton
freight, netted $50 per ton, and sampled
% ounces in silver and 60 per cent. lead,
IL tons of 1t going 73 per cent in lead.
In 1890 there was another shipment of
ore by wagons to the Montana smelter
which netted over $50 per ton after pay
ing enormous charges ~for:.hauling.
A mine with a showing like this will
surely be a dividend payer with a rail
road within ~ miles which insures cheap
transportation, MS there will be o differ
ence of at least $40 per ton in
the freight rates which is $40 added
to the value of the ore, or in
other words, ore which formerly netted
$50 per ton will now net $40, which will
make a great difference to the fortunate
stock holders IN dividends. The owners
of this stock comprises some of the best
men Of Neihart and Great Falls, among
whom are: VIM Ulm, Churchill and
Webster, ID. l.. Tracy. +. r. Clingan,
Steve Pierse, Phil Walsh and Duncan Nc.
D~Onald,a of whom are able and willing to
develop these mines and make them divi,
dend paying. A contract has Just been
let to sink so feet deeper in the lower
Wine, which will make a total depth of
$50 feet in the ore body; also,to run levels
of 100 feet at the bottom Of the Wine.
When this is done they expect to show
up a silver lead proposition second to
none in the country. The FREQ smelling
character of the ore renders 1t particular
ly valuable for smelters TO mix with the
baser ores which are so common in Mon
tana.
The strike made in the Dry Wolf form
erly the Highly l. Pierse) at the contact
of the prophyry and lime, is regarded as
the most important that has recently &C.
Cured in the Belt mountains and the
owners now fully expect to show up one
of the best mines IN that range.