The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-02-03
THE BIC BOOM At BASIN.
jefferson County Camp That viii
Be the Livsliest in the State
This Year
Chas r. Grove Says His Company
IL Going TO Do a Lot OF
Work
Plans OF the Clark Rothschiid syndicAts
in silver How County-Crippls
Creeh Mines

Basin, 10 Jefferson county. will undoubi-
edlv be the most lively mining camp In
Montana this year. To Helena men be-
longs the credit OF opening up she camp 70
she point where she riehness OF she district
vas placed beyond all question. The pTin-
olpal mine. She Hops, is owned by J.. ID.
Edgertlon. Thos. II. Carter b. X. Young
and other Helena gentlemen. the only out
slider interested being A. n. Sprait. OF
Michigan, and his interest is represented
by Helena man. L. n. Fletcher. The
Hope lie now employing sixty men In the
mine and concentration. The shaft on the
Hope is down 100 feet with drifts both east
and west on the lead. 1he latter is twenty
feet wide with eighteen feet Of pay ore.
The Katie. adjoining the Hope on she east
10 also owned and being developed BY Hell
ena people. the Glass brothsTa The Katie
also has q shat, down 200. and body Of
ore exposed equal in rishness 10 that In She
Hope. There are two shafts on the Katie.
and in both OF them the lead has been
struck. In the spring ths owners Of the
Katie will put up concentration there
being enough ore on the dump now to JUS
tiff this taken out in DEVELOPMENT not
counting what is exposed In she mine.
Other properties are the Spectator re-
Gently bonded 80 James shields. the Mary
X. and the War Eagle. The latter is under
bond 20 an eastern company.
While Helena men have dOne all the work
and spent all the money In opening up the
Hope and the Katie. she two properties
that have given the camp It's reputation,
Butte mining aud business men are nov the
Al. Of haaHIIN HHIfr
properties and going into business. he
greater part Of the supplies. also, come from
Butte. This is doe TO tho fact that the
freight rates from Butte 20 Basin oro less
than frem Helena 10 Basin. Basin has ~
present q population OF hve hundred.
There are i've saloons tour Stores we
hotels. and the accommodations are such
that travellers have 20 be contsnt With sleep
ing on the floor Of ths public houses.
Buildings are being put up. though there
are at present two feet OF snow on tho
ground. Surveyors are out daily surveying
new claims, and jumping Is OF daily oeeur-
renee.
Ths conductors on the Montana Central
say they carry more people between Butte
and Basin than between any other stations
on the road. Col. Chas. A. Warren, OF Butte,
has opened real estato office In the camp.
and lots ere changing hsnds AZ good nguTes.
IL is understood that Col. warren Is going
20 start in the near future q wseklv paper
devoted to advancing the camp. Few Hell
sna people. save those iieotiy interested.
seem 10 be aware Of the growth Of the
Basin camp, and IL might pay some Of Hell
ena's merchants to look into she business
possibilities OF the camp. The prediction
IL made that the camp will have porula-
ton OF 5000 people in the summer. The
hills all around the Hope AMI Katie are
nlive with prospecicrs despits the snow
aud there Is little difficulty In bonding
prospects az good figures.