The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-10-11
RICH M|SSOULA PLACERS
Good Reports From the Camps on
Cedar, Quartz and Trout
Creeks
Little Bear Miners Say the Season
Is tho Best In Ten
Years.
More Men Employed and the Reeursa
0reater Than In Any Year In
Other Gulohcs.

Special to Tho Independents.
MrssouLA, Oct. 1O.-L. j. Warner. . min
ing man Of this city. has recently returned
from q trip to the placer mining districts
on Cedar, Quartz. and Front creeks. He
was seen by a representative Of HE INDIE
pENpENr and 40 he has been operating IN
shat section for several years Was abs TO
give considerable information concerning
the mining operations during The PAST sea-
sop. On Quartz creek she Salt Lake oom-
pany under the management OF MI. Gross
bsck. 10 cleaning bedrock aud preparing to
continue operations this winter BY drifting
on the bedrock. where the pay streak
turned under q high bank of slide rock.
Geo, Ensign and his partners v
the adjoining claim above and
are also preparing 10 work their
property this winter by drifting. Charles
Montillions and brother will prosecute
work in the same manner on the claim
above. On the extreme head Of the Ruloh
Fred West has been mining the greater part
OF tho summer. ii is reported with very sat-
isfactory results. He has good drifting
diaeings and expects to make good wages
through the winter. On the high mount
0l0s near w D uedu ~ VIC Caoons ohh ~-'
coveries Of high grade gold quartz have
been recently made. A number Of claims
we're located but owing TO she lateness OK
tho season very little development could be
dome toward determining the extens OF the
ore bodies. The snow is already two feet
deep on the summit. forcing prospectoss to
the lower ranges.
Edward Perkins, on Little Boar Creek,
has finished cleaning bedrock on the ground
vo,ked this season. He says IL Is the best
summers work he has had in ten yeas.
He and tn, ee men have st tipped a block of
Q oupd about 500 feet long and about fifty
feet wide. Heretofore there has not been
much work lone in this guich and Mr..
Perkins has q large mount OF virgin
ground which promises profitable yields in
the future. The method adopted for work
ing the claim is that termed booming. A
large reservoir has been built In the guloh
above. A gate is SO arranged that when
the reservoir is full ii opens automatically
and a large volume cf water IS seLt down.
sweeping the loosened gravel and boulder
bare, O, nearly 80. The gold is caught in
the seams and ~crevices Of the bedrock,
which acts az q natural rifle.
A very promising quartz discovery is said
10 have been made on Lime gulch. a tribu-
tary OF Trout creek. The owners are
sawmill men. Two shifts of men are en-
ployed and development will be vigorously
prosecuted until winter drives them out.
Tho sweeney brothsrs. working on Wind
fall aulch. are drifting on bedrock and
making fair wages. They Expect to COLI
nue. through the winter.
In Prospect, Cement and Snovshee
Rulohes all the placer miners have cleaned
up. Most Of them report q profitable sea
son and many Of shsm have made extensive
preparations for next season. There has
been this summer' almost three times as
many men placer mining in this locality as
at any time during the past ten years owing
largely TO the depressed condition of silver
missing. Many abandoned claims have
been relocated and ground which the old
timers scarcely considered worthy Of attea-
zion has been taken w and found rich
enough to yield fair wages.