The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-01-15
THE MINES OF EASTERN MON.
TANA.

HaJ spur OI tHe ROCky MouHtdIHS
which crosses the Missouri river at
the Gate of the mountains north of
Helena, so divides, that one branch
extends south through Meagher
county into Gallatin, forming the
Belt range, the Crazy and the Castle
mountains; and another branch
spreads out eastward through Mea-
CHER, Cascade and Fergus counties,
forming the Little Belt range, the
Big Snowy, the Judith and the
Highwood mountains
While these eastern developments
of the Rocky mountains which lie
between the Missouri and the Yel-
lowstone rivers, constitute but a
small portion of those mountains in
Montana, still they intersect and
give character to beautiful and
favored region as large as some of
our sister States. Though this por-
ton of the State has been but little
considered in summing up the
metallic wealth of Montana, still hum
dreds, yes, thousands of metallic veins
have been discovered in these noun
tains and many extensive coal beds
have been opened in nearly all the
intervening valleys and the surround
ing plains.
If one will take few months and
examine all the mines, placer and
quartz, in the Belt range from Cas-
cade on the north of Livingston on the
south, all the rich veins of gold and
silver, lead, iron and maganese at
Castle, the copperveinsa at Copperopo-
lis, the Spotted Horse and other
mines and numerous prospects in
and upon the Judith mountains and
around Maiden, the rich mines on
Dry Wolf, on Running Wolf and at
Yogo, the rich and wonderful veins
of silves and gold and lead and iron
at Barker and in the surrounding
mountains, and the numerous lodes
of precious ores which intersect the
lofty mountains about Neihart, after
such examination, without taking in
many other minor localities, he will
certainly be very strongly impressed
with the great mineral wealth of
this most favored region. If he
would satisfy himself that nature has
made ample provisions for working
and reducing these vast deposits of
ores, let him examin the coal beds
at Sand Coulee, those on the Smith
river, Willow creek and south to
Sixteen Mile creek, Bozeman and
Cokedale, thence east to Bull noun
tain and north to Roberts and Car
eless creeks and to the beds around
the Judith and Moccasin mountains,
on Sage and Wolf creeks and other
tributaries of the Judith river and
those on Otter and Belt creeks.
These numerous and extensive coal
fields, now but scarcely opened,
cannot fail to convince him there is,
in and around these mining centers
of eastern Montana, supply of good
coal sufficient for all mining purpos.
es for this and all future generations.
If one has any fears about sup
plies of timber and water for this
extensive mining region, an exami-
nation of the mountains above named
will show they are covered with tim
ber suitable for mining purposes;
and that they are full of springs
and streams which supply all the
waters of Belt and Arrow creeks and
Smith, Judith and Musselshell rivers
and many smaller tributaries of the
Missouri and Yellowstone.
The agricultural capacity of this
country is clearly shown by the
numerous herds and tlocks grown
and fattened upon its native grasses
alone, and by the productive farms
ON Smith, Belt and Judith rivers and
their many tributaries Mining Re-
view.