The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-07-04
Rich FLINT CREEK.
District In Deer Lodge County That
Has Yielded Twenty Million
Dollars
Strikes That do to Show There Is
stu Great Wealth In the
Hills.
1esre DEVELOPMENT IL Needed in tho SLOGAN
Csuatry Before Capital VIII Go In
Cuur d'Alone Trouble.

There ID not now and probably never ha'
been : mineral section OF Montana. or O
any other western state. giving such prom
iss OF continued prosperity as the Fun
creek district offers at the present time. i
must be conceded that for a district whose
mineral production in the past eight years
has reached an output Of nearly twenty mil
lion dollars. there has been comparatively
little said about il, yet the reason for such
marked quietude nay be attributed III a
measure to the fact that the big companies
Who have turned ont the greater portion OF
the enormou sum mentioned are made up
az foreign capitalists who have no desire to
see the district flourish, but have taken out
their millions to build up cities and homes
In foreign places. They have, neverthe-
Lea. realized that q time would come when
they would not be alone in the extraction
az wealth on a large scale in this section.
ana have been prudent enough to gam
claim 10 Ill the ground they could. Late
d~eyelopmeuts OF other companies have
shown. however. that the big bugs have not
! monopoly on this entire section. and they
may bs obliged to exert some energy TO
keep up their end in the future.
#5 Inc QlEC0v0Iy AcAc Az A.
north vein last week il considered conclu-
siys evidence Of the continuation of tho
Granite vein, and with this fact once essab-
lished there will be no end to the activity
hereafter.
The Bi-Metallio Extension company are
now almost confident of developing a mine
that will equal, if not excel, any other in
the district.
Since our last report on the operations OF
this ompany we learn that they have put a
track and turn-table in the north cross-cut,
and are now busy taking out ore from the
first vein for shipment. The cross-cut to
the main north vein is still in progress and
will be reached in n few days, and 1t Is
probable that they will ship enough o-e
from now on to offset all expense OF future
developments. At a recent meeting OF the
withdraw all treasury stock from the mar
ket after July 4, ~ in their opinion they
will not DO obliged to sell any more to keep
Mp the operations in the mine.
The ore deposits in the Salt Hill tunnel
are Of greater magnitude thar most people
imagine. and it is developing into greater
richness every day. The Salt Hill ledge is
by far the largest in this section of the
country and lies parallel to the great Gran
lite vein, says the Mail. Charles
Clark is the owner of this and many
other good prospects hereabouts,
and some day he will open up a mine that
will astonish Montanians. Mr.. Clark has
made an average expenditure Of $4,000 per
month in prospecting exploits in this dis
trict for three years past, and from all ap-
psarances he will soon be repaid for it all.
On the Puritan they are making an excel
lent showing in their mine, and are spend
ing lots of money in surface Improvements.
Powerful and expensive machinery has been
put in. and many fine buildings have been
erected. They are now preparing to equip
their plant with electricity. This property
lies parallel and to the east Of the Salt Hill.
We might mention many other very
promising prospects, such as the Gem mine,
The Norony tunnel. the Hawkeye. and a
dozen or more in the Trout Hill vicinity
that in due time will become valuable pro-
dncers. With such showing as is now being
made the greatest mining boom that Mon
tana has ever seen seems an inevitable re-
suit for the Flint creek district,