The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-09-23
They Are All Being Developed. and
Give Employment to Many
Workmen.
aood Field for a Custom Shelter
In tho Neihart Dis
trict.
what II Deine Done On the Properties In
That Seetion-Rutts b Boston
Mortgage.

A correspondent writing from Uspurn
gives . most flattsring account Of the min
ing outlook In hat section Of the Coeul
drAlsnes. He says . great deal of work hal
been done ON the Comet and Mascot Nos
and 2 on Spring creek. East of Sprinf
creek ID Rosebud guloh, on which 10 loeatad
the Nellie and Knicksrbooker claims. Al
the mouth Of the guloh lies the Montana
lode, owned by John A. Finch and Others.
About 400 feet comprises all the work done.
but more will b done this winter.
No more claims Of importance lie In this
rulch until the forks are reached. The
K~nicksrboeksr lies ON the West Fork and ID
owned BY John M. Burke, Of Idaho and
Col. John X. Wheat and o. D. Garrison, of
Spokane. Three tunnels have been run on
this, all over 500 feet long, and some very
nice ore has been taken out Tbs Daisy
adioins this claim and was located BY
Octave Quay, of KinRston. but now belongs
to the Kniokerbocke1 Mining company. II
is a very promising claim. On the East
Fork lies the Nellie minA from which ore 10
being shipped right along. contract tun-
mel is also being run on the Nellie-m feet
long. The contract was let to Benjamin
Hill. About forty men constitute the force
On the Nellie.
East Of Rosebud comes AcFarran gulch.
Between the two lies the P~lainvisw, located
in 1885 By william H. Payne and others.
Last spring IL was bonded to Clarence S.
JenninRs and Captain William J. Haynes,
and work has been kept up ever since with
1 force Of three men. A shaft has been
sunk to ! depth Of 400 feet and orosscuts to
the depth Of $50. Some very nice ore
adorns the dump.
On the west side of MoFarran is the
Shannon, owned by T. H. Mcintosh and
others, and ON which . good deal Of work
has been done. Prof. Liddy having just
struck the ledge a few days z at a dis
tanoe Of 200 foot. The next day q large
cave look place, which in not all cleared
away yet, and in all probability will not bs
until it caves to daylight.
On the east side, opposite the shannon,
ia she Emma, on which a great deal of work
has been done. the tunnel being in now 400
feet, with three ffty-foot e%rossouts and
about 200 tons of ore 10 piled on the dump.
The Emma was located in 1884 by George
Hammond and others. After his death it
fell into the hands of John II. Foss, who
st. Paul parties last fall for $10.O 600.
Below the Emma lies the Mineral Point
of which q great deal has been said, and on
which a lot Of work has been done The
lower tunnel 10 in 100 feet with Z fifty-foot
crossout, the ledge being struck Mt . depth
of thirty feet in the c%rosscut. Tbs ledge ia
about two feet wide with an eight inch vein
of good ore running high in silver. Seven
hundred feet above this tunnel is No. 2 in
a depth of 800 feet with two crosscuts of
about ssventy-ivs feet, from which some
very nice ore has been taken and shipped.
An assay by ". H. Farrsr went s73 H-100
ounces Of silver to the ton. Eight or ten
carloads of this ore has been shipped to
Tacoma and Helena. Two hundred feet
further up the hill tunnel No. 8 IL in = depth
of 175 feet with a sixty-foot shaft at tbs
mouth from which some very nice ore was
taken out and shipped by its first owners.
William Osburn and William Sewell. One
. depth OF sixty feet: Twenty men oonsti-
tute the force with Walter H. Muncy fore
man.
East Of McFafrsn comes Myers gulch on
which il located the Columbia, an extern
sion of the Mineral Point, owned by
Osburn, Sewill and MoNahon, and on
which only assessment work has been done,
bat enough of shat has been done to show
that q fine body Of ore il here. 1t is located
in the center of a fine tract of mining tim
Der. The tunnel is In a depth of 800 feet
and work in all probability will be kept up
all winter. On the east side is the st.
Elmo. belonging to Thomas Reynolds and
James Mcmahon. A unn 300 feet in
depth is all the work done on the claim.
but all indications go to show that they
will soon strike . fine body of ore.
East Of Myers lies Shields guIeh. The
only claim of any Importance on this creek
is the Monte Cristo. which a is owned by O.
c. Otterson, CT Wallace, and H. Harrington,
Adolph Cook and William Gebhart, of Os-
burn. 1t ia a very promising claim. Five
tunnels have been run at q depth of 1870
feet. the ledge being struck in three differ
ent places. Il runs in width from eighteen
to thirty inches. About sixty tons of eood
ore adorn the dump at the present writing,
chiefly composed of silver and gray copper
with some spathio iron, and Mr.. Harrington
informs your correspondent that ii will
run about $40 to the ton clear Of all ex-
penses.
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