The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-02-20
LITTLE belt MOUNTAINS.
Their Rich Mines and Growing Camps
Good Words FOR Barker.

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Mining Review. Il: 1t is but little
more than ten years since the first mines
were discovered in the Little Belt
mountains. and now there are a dozen
prosperous mining camps with thou
sands of recorded mining claims and
hundreds of these have been SO dcvel-
oped as to prove them valuable mines.
Within an area Of fifty miles square. in
Guiding Neihart. Barker, Iogo, Bigger,
Dry Molf, Running Wolf. Williams,
Snow Creek. and other aiming camps.
there are more producing mines and
bright prospects than were ever disroY
cred in so short q time IN an equal area
of the world.
The central portions OF the Little Belt
mountains are literally intersrctrd with
thousands of strong veins OF iron. copper.
gold, silver, lead. zinc, autimOny and
tciluriuu. When We recall the history
OF other mining camps in h state,
which at the same age. did not show half
the cvidpnc" Of great mineral wealth,
and when We attempt to calculate on
the same basis of development the future
of those mountain camps, the evidences
of future growth becomes startling. It
is difficult to pictute the future OF the
Little Belt. when a thousand mines
are filled with electric roads, cicc-
trio drills and electric lights. to
guide the ten thousand hands in
taking out the ores for a hundred fur
naces. No prophetic eye can now
count the cars which will bring the coal
and coke from Sand Coulee and Belt,
Arlington, Deep creek, Birch creek,
Wolf creek and from the Judith river
beds to those furnaces and take the
bullion to eastern or the new western
markets. Prosperous villages will spring
, up in the narrow valleys and beautiful
homes will climb up the sides of these
grand old mountains. Some OF us, who
find it difficult to realize the growth Of
Butte. and Granite and Marysville will
| find it more difficult to follow the pro
gress of Neihart and Barker and other
prosperous camps in the Little Belt
mountains.
Barker has an abundant supply of pure
water and more good timber than any
mining district in Eastern Montana, and
is IN railroad connection with the great
| coal fields of Sand Coulee and Belt creek
and Otter creek, and probably will soon
| be with those Of the Judith basin. a
prosperous future is I'd awning upon this
favored district. Capital will be drawn
to it's rich mines and bright prospects,
| the pick and shovel will convert a hun
dred prospects into productive mines, anu
the miners, who have remained steadfast
| through the dark years nov come to q
close, will soon meet their reward IN
--. .o,l.,,l ,rI l,nnst labor rayynrInfl
MINING NOTES.
The following are the metal quotations
in the New York market: Bar silver.sI IS
copper. Slo.75; lead, $4.0j
The Block y. hoist is running night
and day. They have encountered good
ore in the shaft, which they are taking
out in sinking. Next week Il larger force
will be put on and STOPPING will be com,
menced.
The Enterprise Mining company has
lately been organized to work claims m
the Dry Wolf district. The capital
stock is 100000. the shares being 81
each. The ompany will operate the
Cleopatra. G.. W, Morning Star, Mount.
ain King. Sluggard, and Park View
claims. The officers are ID. n. tpton
president and treasurer; +. j. lAickie'
vice president and manager: Us. Shorp'
shire, secretary, all of Butte.
James Shields of EIliston has been
visiting the region about Belt III com
pany with his brother, p. }. Shields o.
the latter place. These gentleman are
Interested in some coal prospects neal
Belt of which they have great hopes.