The Helena independent., 1894-09-08
THE MISSOULA PL ACERS.
More Gravel Worked This Season
Than Any Previous One
for Years
What a Marysvllle Correspondent
SAyS OF the Gold Belt OF
Montana
The Long DrawR ont Litigation Over the
MoaltOr Clalm Ia All Settled
at Last
snsclal 10 Tho IndepandenL

Special 60 Tho Independent
MrssouA. Sept. THE placer miners OF
Cedar. Quartz and Trout creeks have mos,
OF them quit ground aluiolng and aSo
cleaning up bedrock In the pi,s that have
been washed Out during the spring and
summer. Much more gravel has been
worked than in any previous saoson for
several yeaIs. SO far as results are known
the product in gold dust has been generally
satisfactory. The banner placer mine Of
the county 10 that OF the La Casse b. others
aud Barrett II has been worked exteu-
aiVelT this season and n partial cleanup a
week ago indicates that the yield
this year will exceed that Of last
year. which was something over $4,000
The mine in California Rulcb, which comes
into Cedar Rnlch q short distance above the
La Cssss diGgnRs, h owned aud operated
by three old-timo miners Wolf, Blaiadell
and Foster. They have lsbored uRder OK
eeptional difficulties in opening their claim.
having 10 work through q slide Of immense
rock, which made IL necessary TO employ
power to break the boulders. This has
been passed and a bed OF gravel something
over thirty feet thick has been uncovered.
The property promises 10 bo one OF the best
placer mines In the state.
Tho Trout creek draiE tunnel. which has
been worked for something like twenty
years. lie now being driven by night and
day shifts. The Salt Lake company. ope-
rating two large fumes al the mouth OF
Quartz creek. have handled large amount
of gravel during the season and are now
cleaning bedrock. Minera working In the
pit say shat the clean-up will be large.
The 81. Regis country is coming 20 the
front as an ore producer. Three weeks ago
the owners OF the Last Chance mine. To-
Gated on Packer creek. a tributary OF the
st. Regis. coming in near Slltsse, shipned
car load OF ore which nstted them s 400.
They now have another car load al the sta-
tion ready for shipment.
The Orc Fino Mining company. opsrat-
ing on Deer creek, have been working
force Of men all summer. Their property
is gold quartz proposition and they in
tend 20 put q mill In this fall. The Nine
Mile Mining company are dropping ten of
their twenty stamps at Martina. The prop
erty 10 understood TO be paying better than
At any previous time during It's history.
The mill OF the San Martina Mining COM
pany is now nearly completed and Will be
running by Sept. 2.
The owner of the Charcoal mine, near
Camas Prairie, Is getting good shipping ore
on two separate shoots and some good ore
Ia being taken from the Oamss Bell.
Nothing 10 being done ut present on tho
White Cloud mine. on Eight Mile. except to
keep out the water. Ben Tibbey, surorin-
tendent of the Parrott mine al Butte,
made an examipa alton of this property a
few days 8 noe. IL his report is favorable
IL is probable that work will be shortly re-
sumed on II.
The large increase Of ore shipments from
the Cpur d'Alene COUNTRY has induced
the Northern Pacific TO put on daily train
service instead of tri-weeklI al heretofore.
The Mammoth mine. al Burke. has re-
Gently started ur. The Granite mine is
10 now the only ons Of those having con-
contractor in the Canyon Creek section OF
the Coeur d'Aenes which Ia not working.