The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-05-06
A Montana Mining Mans Opinion
OF the Outlook in the SLOGAN
Country.
The Rush This Year Will Be Ahead
Of tho Famous Colorado
Stampedes.
Forest OF Logs Fortified Into Copper Found
In New Mextco-In Jefferson
County.

T.. +. buy0an, INC Oastle 1uihiuk "au'
who is now in the Kaslo-Slocan mining
district, sends The INDEPENDENT an inter
sstine letter on that section. The letter Is
dated Kaslo. and says: The many news
paper and Geographic reports. spread
broadcast, being somewhat exaggerated at
times, / will conins myself &c facts a. l
found them 10 exist during my residence
here. Kaslo City, the natural in and out
let, as we'll as the general distributing
point of che famous KNslo-Slocan and
Lardo. Duncan countries, 10 situated on the
west bank OF tho beautiful Kootenay lake,
about $50 miles from Bonner's Ferry. Idaho.
and ia easily reached BY steamers in from
eight to twelve honrs from the latter place.
Although the city is but six months old. it
already boasts of ten two-story and ono
three story hotels, several lodging houses,
restaurants, etc., etc. In fact business OK
all kinds ia fairly we'll represented ana
business men oil report doing q good bust
ness at fair margina With all above
named accommodations in hotels and
lodging houses. many new corners are IN
able to 6nd beds, and. as living is compar-
atively high, in consequence. innumerable
cabins. shacks and tents are put up as tenn
pora.y abiding places. Real estate and
building 10 booming, with no sign of abate-
msnt, in expectancy Of the grand rush as
soon as the snow in the high mountains
goes off. At present there are three
boats plying between Kaslo and
Nelson, i. c., and Bonner's Ferry, Idaho.
and each boat brings in from fifty to 100
passengess, besides all the freight they can
handle. Fully 10000 people will be in hero
the coming summer. and the excitement OF
Leadville. Creede, n the San Juan. IN
Colorado, will not be in it. Many of the
newcomers end their way to new camps
and towns srrinRing up in the interior,
such az Watson, Seaton. Ihseeforks and
New Denver, in the SLOGAN, and Lardo City.
Argenta, Duncan and others in the Lardo-
Duncan countries. On account of the deep
SHOWS, work at the mines il not in full
blast, and only such mineS as are more
favorably located are mining and extract
ing ores. These arc the Freddie Lee. OAR
danelles Washington. Blue Bird. and
others. Others will begin operations as
soon as freights. ETC., arrive. The ore 10
brought here for shipment. and a thousand
tons of the richest and cleanest ore, assay
ing from 800 to $500 and upwards per ton
in silver and from GO to Is per cent in lead.
are now lying in the warehouses and on the
wharfs here awaiting shipment. Two boat
loads we're sent out this week that averaged
5000 per ton in value. In my seventeen
years experience in mines and mining, !
never saw tho like and, as the county is
new and only partly developed and pros-
pected, there is no telling what the coming
summer will unearth. Many properties
were bonded late last fall at figures rang
ing INTO the thousand and. although
development and the extracting and
shipment Of ores was attended
with much difficulty. sufficient wealth has
been taken out to indemnify them for all
expenses and the purchase price. Distant
about twenty-eight miles from Kuslo is a
dry ore belt, from which ores have been
taken that assay way up in the thousands
in gold and silver. Further to the north
from the Lardo-D Duncan gold country is
the famous McMurdo GOLD country. which
is attracting a great deal of attention, and
where some exceedingly rich ptoy critics
have recently been sold and Others bonded.
AS near as l can learn this country covers
length, by fifty miles in width.
Now that the field can soon be reached,
valuable opportunities can be gathered in.
and l am confident there is no field on the
American continent Offering such induce
ments to the investor as the fabulously itch
Kaslo-Slooan, Lardo- Duncan and McMurdo
regions. 10 the plospector l would say
not to come until the snow disappears. The
laws of the country are all right. and afford
as much protection to the alien who con-
forms with the laws as it does the British
subject, and, as regards title, even more
thar do the laws of the United States.