The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1894-10-25
AMONG THE LEDCES
Granite County's Rich Min
ing Properties.
GOLD CREEK, ROYAL AND BOULDER
The Mail Correspondent Visits That
Wonderfully Rich Mineral Sec-
world an Idea OF What 1t
Has IN Gold and Silver.

PRINCETON, Mont, Oct. 18.-Your cor
respondent made another excursion from
his cabin and in-(up) -cursion into the
C@ur d'Alenes-"heart of the noun
tains" of Granite county last week: At
Smith & Forsell's Tiger mine and mill,
at Sullivan & Burrier's, the Royal, the
Bloomington, indeed, wherever he called
was hospitably received and made to feel
at home-this he always does among
bona fine miners.
One thousand dollars! !-one stamp only,
OF nearly one thousand pounds weight,
and an eight days run-that Is the last
record Of the Smith, Forsell and asso-
ciates Tiger mine and mill. Sullivan &
Burrier have between twenty and thirty
tons Of high grade gold ore out ready to
send down to the Tiger mill, and it would
not surprise those who know if it ran
over the plates at "speed" equal to one
hundred dollars to the ton, financially
speaking. In addition to this, Sullivan
& Burrier have numerous inquiries con-
corning their valuable property to cheer
them (were it necessary, but it isn't, for
they are always cheerful.
On his homeward tramp tramp" the
writer dropped in at the Royal just at
the right, the dinner time. In the
matter Of tialimprovements great
changes have taken place at this mine of
late. A one and one-half story bunk
house, double boarded, with heavy
building paper between the boards, and
divided into numerous separate rooms
12x14 feet for the accommodation OF
four men each is nearly completed. The
building will be provided with fire
escape ladders from the upper story at
each end and will house from fifty to
sixty men. Next in the line of improve
ments come dry houses at the mouths Of
tunnels two and three and frame shelters
for framing timbers at tho mouths of
tunnels one, two and three. Mcdonald
& Curry sawed all the timber used in
these buildings, besides years supply
ahead for the mine and town tor such it
ls) OF Royal, in their mill on Little Cold
creek. Like their employers, the Bennett
brothers, Mcdonald & Curry are active,
enterprising men.
From the Royal, your tramp tramp"
wended his weary way for by this time
he was getting tired) to the Blooming
ton, where the kindly greeting Of it's
lucky owners-Peter r. and John Scherr
and Charles Kadell-made him forget
for the time being that he had been afoot
all day. The Bloomington people have
their one 950-pound stamp mill and 35-
horsepower boiler in position and
comfortably housed, with room enough
to add ten stamps more later, which is
part of their programme
The Bloomington stamp will in all
likelihood be dropping by October Dist;
they have any amount of gold-bearing
quartz in sight. Like the Smith, For.
sell q Co.'s Tiger mill on Gold creek, so
the Bloomington, too, is Kendall spatent
an improved mill that will successfully
crush all kinds of quartz. At the time
Of my visit, Mr.. McSherry, of the Potosi
mine on Gold creek, had just about COM
pleted No. l job in setting the Bloom
lngton mill boiler. He will return to
his mine.
ROLAND T.. RoMBAUER.